Sunday, September 28, 2008

Clear Message My Eye

Obfuscation is a high art in the disgraceful realm of political machinations.  The ongoing financial shenanigans are not an exception.

Here is a slight excerpt from a piece purporting to report on an alleged “deal,” conceived by the country’s professional jobholders, which will supposedly miraculously solve the financial difficulties currently afflicting financial markets.

Top U.S. policymakers emerged from hours of tense negotiations with a clear message just after midnight on Sunday morning:...

And what is this “clear message?”

A deal to bail out U.S. financial markets has been agreed on and all that remains to be done is to commit the legislation to paper.

This is not a clear mesage in any way, shape or form.  Until such a “deal” has been put down on paper, with i’s dotted and t’s crossed, it remains simply verbal spewings meant to soothe, and is hearsay.

Lawmakers Reach Tentative Bailout Deal

Posted by John Venlet on 09/28 at 10:22 AM
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Nuanced View, I Guess

Though I consider both sex offenders, as defined by the law, and sheep sodimizers as equally reprehensible, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a sheep sodimizer is not a sex offender.

A Calhoun County man who sodomized a sheep will not have to register as a sex offender because the sheep cannot be considered a victim of sexual assault under Michigan law, a court ruled this week.

The sheep sodimizer, one Jeffrey Scott Haynes, I presume, is grateful not to be labeled as a sex offender and to be free of the onerous registration requirements of a sex offender.  Presumably, Mr. Haynes does not feel encumbered by being labeled as a sheep sodimizer.

Go figure.

Judges: Sheep sex doesn’t make man a sex offender

Posted by John Venlet on 09/28 at 08:39 AM
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