JABbering Stooge

I’m closing up shop for the holidays. I’ll be back on Sunday with reaction to the fake anthrax mailer who turned out to be a fan of Michelle MalKKKin and the two incidents of police brutality that occurred in the last week or so (UCLA cops repeatedly tasering Iranian-American student for no reason, and the use of police to engage in class warfare against striking janitors in Houston).

Until then, be sure to think of what you are thankful for this year.

Happy holidays, everyone.

For some reason that I can’t quite fathom, this Mallard Fillmore cartoon that appeared shortly after Chris Wallace’s ambush interview of President Clinton really irked me:

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What do you do when you’re the head of a company that has reluctantly admitted to a $136 million loss in the last fiscal year (and over the last two fiscal years posted total losses of $334 million), lost over 92% of your stock price (down to $4 a share - about the point where the stock exchange starts considering the wisdom of delisting you) - only recently pulling back up to a rather anemic $10.20 a share while engaged in an Enron-style accounting scandal that is still under investigation by the SEC (and settling a class action lawsuit for $75 million)? Oh, and BTW, while all of this is going on, two major markets (namely, Chicago and New York) are considering banning the component that makes your product ohhh so tasty, yet ohhh so artery-clogging.

So what is a corrupt, accountability-hating CEO to do? If you answered “hire former tobacco execs to spin lie about the harm your product does to people’s health,” you win! That is exactly what Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. has done. Let’s see how well that works out for you guys. They’ve got such a good track record so far…

I believe I said that I owed a few posts or so. I would like to make a brief segue to my previous post by noting that I cast my vote the very first day that early voting began here in Texas - if I recall correctly, a couple of weeks ago, or thereabouts.

So to begin this series, I would like to add a few of my own comments to Keith Olbermann’s most excellent series of special comments, from his blasting of Donald Rumsfeld back in late August to the special comment last night about today’s election.
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I know I should be writing my catchup posts, but procrastination has gotten the better of me. I don’t have enough time to get started on them now, since I have to help open the store in a few hours. However, the instant I get off, I will whip out the half-dozen posts I’ve owed the two people who read this blog for the past couple of months (or more). If I get done in time, I may go help out at the polls before deciding which Election Night event to attend: Drinking Liberally, or Mark Strama…

In just over four hours (Central Time, YMMV), the polls will open around the country and voters will decide whether we get two more years of rubber stamping every insane idea that The Most Holy George W. Christ gets in his dictatorial little head, or if we change the course and get this country back on the right track.

If you care one wit about this country’s future - GET OFF YOUR FAT @$$ AND VOTE. Ignore the GOP’s voter suppression efforts - the infinite loop robocalls, the calls lying about the legality of you voting where you’re registered if you’re African-American (or lying about where you’re supposed to vote). JUST VOTE. If you need to find out where to vote you can go here, or look up the information on your local state/county elections web site. If you need to report any problems, glitches, evidence of at-the-polls GOP thuggery, Steve Gilliard over at The News Blog has a handy list of vote integrity resources available.

So, my next catchup post was supposed to be about Rummy’s demonization of administration critics from behind the skirts of a group known to lob terrorist threats at anti-war protestors. I have instead decided to turn it into a post adding my comments to Keith Olbermann’s series of special comments. I’ll have that up later today because I have to go to work in a few hours. (Incidentally, that means that I’ll miss out on Stephanie Miller today. I so wanted to hear her reaction to Olbermann’s mention of the death threat against her, since he’s on her “Future Husbands” list.)
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