Uncooperative Crickets

Warning: News and Politics

Bush wants us to continue to his tax break. The best part is his justification of it:

"If the people have their way who want this tax relief to expire, the American people will be hit with $2.4 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade. It would be handed over to government — that's where the money would go. It would be taken out of the economy and given to people here in Washington, D.C., to spend."

"Like...me. Who would probably just spend it on wars and such. So don't end the tax relief, because you will just give the money to me, and I am incompetent."

Moussaoui avoids the death penalty. This should be agreed to be a good thing all around. Certainly I am against the death penalty, so I already like it. However, if we executed Moussaoui, wouldn't he achieve martyr status? Does that do us any good? I think not. The jury made a wise choice, at the very least because it was a practical one.

I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, so says George "W" Bush. Right? Any patriotic American would insist on singing our national anthem only in our official national language,* right? Anyone who sings it in a different language must be a terrorist trying to undermine the American way.

Well, Bush invited such a non-patriot to his inauguration: Jon "Just Another Day" Secada sang the anthem in both Spanish and English at the inauguration.

But, wait - Secada is all "Hollywood," and therefore cannot be trusted, right? Well, the U.S. government commissioned a Spanish lyriced "Star Spangled Banner" in 1919.

But that was a crazy year, right? I mean, that government was wacko. Congress even went so far as to pass an amendment allowing women to vote that year - crazy! The government today must be more rational, right?

No. Our current government currently has a website featuring four different Spanish versions of the "Star Spangled Banner."

I guess that leaves Bush as the one sane person in our government, fighting to ensure that the "Star Spangled Banner" is only sung in English. But...even he sang it in Spanish whilst campaigning.

I...I can't make sense of all of this.

* - America doesn't have an official national language.

"I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English, and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English."

posted by Dirk Awesome @ 6:43 PM