Fucking Bullshit

Probably the biggest story in the West today is that Tony Blair has stepped down as Prime Minister, and Gordon Brown has taken over. Gordon Brown used to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the money guy in the British government, like the Secretary of the Treasury in America), but now he is the Prime Minister. Tony Blair stepped down because the British people hate the Iraq War and resent Tony Blair's having led their country into it. Sixty-one percent of the British public wants the troops out of Iraq NOW, as in today. Blair was seen as the puppet of George Bush, who is viewed in the world exactly the way you might suspect he is viewed: like a Hitler manque.

So that's the biggest story in the world today, but there are other important stories. The American Supreme Court in a recent batch of rulings sided against private citizens (and humanity) and sided with corporations and churches. In Morse vs. Frederick, the Supreme Court ruled that a school principal may "consistent with the First Amendment" curtail free speech if that free speech promotes drug use. I think this is obviously bullshit. Any choking of free speech is inconsistent with the First Amendment. In Wilkie v. Robbins, the Supreme Court found that you can't sue the government when they try to extort a piece of your property from you. In Hein vs. Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Supreme Court found that citizens cannot sue the government for promoting religion through the President's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, basically on the grounds that if they allowed that, then everyone could sue for anything they wanted and it would make too much work for the courts. Moreover, the Court ruled that the President's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives does not constitute a violation of the Establishment Clause in the Bill of Rights (which says that the government cannot establish religion). This stuff just seems prima facie and in toto wrong to me.

Dick Cheney has ludicrously argued that he should not have to comply with federal filing regulations which would require him to disclose his business to the National Archives. He says that his office is a part of the legislature, not a part of the executive. Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) has responded to this by introducing legislation that basically says "Not in the executive, Cheney? Fine. Then you won't get the money anymore that you used to get for being in the executive!" If you don't have contempt for the Vice President of the United States by now, you're an asshole. Go kill yourself. You're the reason that America is perceived as a hateful stupid jingoistic compassionless fat Nazi state. I'm not kidding. If you're one of the twenty-six percent that still believes that Dick Cheney is doing a good job, then I am honestly advocating that you commit suicide. I don't care how you do it; try not to take anyone else out while you're killing yourself unless they also believe that Cheney is doing a good job. You ruin the world, you hateful pieces of greedy, ugly-capitalist, baby-killing, class-warring shit.

Also, I don't think the war in Iraq is over yet. [A pause while I check.] Nope. The war in Iraq hasn't ended yet.

So, with all this going on in the world, what did CNN decide to feature on its Website?

This. This is what they decided to feature as the top story on their website. Some fucking wrestler, whose life is not the shadow of a shadow of a shadow of any of these other things I've mentioned, killed his wife and then himself. Oh, he killed his kid too, and put a Bible next to the kid's body (you know, because of Jesus... I fucking guess. Who knows what's on the addled minds of murderous theists?). And now, " 'roid rage" questions are raised. Well, I for one sigh and say "Thank fucking God," because those are the hard, serious questions that CNN should be raising. Like all informed, intelligent people, I want to know absolutely as much as possible about the wasted life of some fucking wrestling dipshit, and I want to know that stuff at the expense of my knowing what else is going on in the world. I'm glad that CNN is out there, getting the important information to me. Thank Jesus Christ for the precious gift of CNN's serious and incisive journalism.