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If ever there were a reason to limit a President to two terms, George W. Bush is that reason. In case you missed it, Bush 43 is gutting the Endangered Species Act by eliminating the requirement that scientists at two federal agencies review the effects that federal projects have on imperiled plants and animals. Specifically, climate change cannot be a factor for consideration when approving any federal project. Perfect! The parting shot from the most cynical, uncaring, and dismally failed presidency in history, will be to help rid the planet of endangered plants and wild life. Jesus, George! Why don't you just pardon a few of the felons in your own administration and be done with it?
Didn't the White House get the message when the entire Republican party ran screaming away from their titular head? Didn't you notice that book publishers who wouldn't pay five cents for your life story were sending six million to the Governor of Alaska? Ouch! I guess when you're already a pariah it hardly matters what harm you inflict on the way out.
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And on the subject of "The Life and Times of Sarah Palin", could someone please tell me what would compel anyone with an IQ over two digits to put aside "Pride and Prejudice" or "Cold Mountain" to dive into the life of Madam Up-do?
In general, autobiographies of living celebrities have always left me wondering. I mean, whose story is so compelling that it's worth 300 or so pages? Nelson Mandela maybe. Or Katherine Graham. Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx's was the best. Possibly even John McCain, but he's 73 and spent several years in the almost-future-presidential suite at the Hanoi Holiday Inn. Most autobiographies are filled with "why I'm so misunderstood" and "how I overcame adversity to become the person you all love and admire". Boring! Anyone who buys a book supposedly written by Sarah Palin should be denied the right to vote...forever. (Unless the book comes with a $50 gift certificate from Neiman's.)
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Back to George.
President six-guns has just signed an executive order approving the execution of the first soldier
killed by the federal government since 1961. Pvt. Ronald Gray stands convicted of multiple offenses including two murders so we won't be holding any prayer vigils for this creep any time soon. The issue isn't whether Pvt. Gray has worn out his welcome here on earth. George W. Bush has left a trail of corpses from Austin to Washington to Baghdad. He has gotten 4,100 U.S. soldiers and marines killed, suborned the execution of Saddam Hussein and is responsible for every death at Guantanamo. The Bush government has adopted a cavalier attitude regarding the taking of human life that makes a mockery of his stand on abortion. In the world according to George Bush, you're a lot safer as a fetus than a soldier or a Muslim.
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And just in case you thought we missed it, our friends in the Roman Catholic Church are at it again. The Reverend Jay Scott Newman of Columbia, South Carolina (no surprise there) has decreed that Catholics who voted for Barak Obama should not receive communion at the risk of imperiling their immortal souls. In that President-elect Obama (I love writing that) is a supporter of a woman's right to chose, anyone sinful enough to vote for him is in league with the devil.
Oddly enough, no such dire pronouncement was issued to Fatrher Jay's parishioners at St. Mary's in Greenville if they voted for John McCain, who is a proponent of capital punishment. Pope Benedict XVI has condemned state-sponsored executions as nothing more than legalized murder. So why the double standard? Ask Father Newman. He has apparently discerned a pecking order for what killings Catholics can condone and which ones are forbidden. Why was Father Newman silent when his senators and congressmen voted to send soldiers to kill Muslims in an unprovoked war in Iraq?
Still, you have to admire the power of a priest who can look into the hearts of his parishioners and determine who has sinned. My understanding is that such vision is above his pay grade.
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