Oddities: Britain, Mexico, and Blago

Oddities: Britain, Mexico, and Blago

For at least two years, America has been living those “interesting times” referred to in the ancient Chinese proverb-curse and, if anything, those times are getting more “interesting” almost by the day. It makes one wonder what the blazes is going on.

For example, what are we and our long-time, closest ally Great Britain to make of reports that, “The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty.” That information comes from WikiLeaks and is being reported only by Britain’s The Telegraph since Obama’s MSM is ignoring it as per custom.

The Brit tabloid reports further that, “Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week,” http://tiny.cc/jslt4, which gives rise to questions as to whose side is our president on and whether that “special relationship” between America and the Brits is still special to Obama.

But the news gets better, or worse, depending on your perspective.

The United States of America is the pre-eminent world power, the only superpower left standing after the U.S.S.R. crumbled thanks in large part to Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II even if libs hate to admit their invaluable assistance. To our south is the land of Estados Unidos Mexicanos, aka Mexico, a borderline Third World nation which tends to value siestas, tamales, and tortillas as highly as its oil reserves.

So, why are American citizens in our southwest begging Mexico for electrical power? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3604)

Blago and Spitzo, Part Two

Blago and Spitzo, Part Two

Whether Rod Blagojevich beats the multiple raps filed against him or not, (see “Blago and Spitzo, Part One,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1645), he will still go down as one of the most entertaining and even charismatic of disgraced politicians of the last fifty years.

Lies, subterfuges, hubris, obnoxiousness, illegalities, contemptuousness, and potty mouth aside, he’s still a likable fellow. On the other hand, his fellow disgraced Dem, former Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York, can also lay claim to most of those negatives–except maybe the potty mouth–without the somewhat redeeming trait of likability.

Charisma is another characteristic with which Spitzo has never had to contend; he compensated by being a lying, sneaky, hubristic, criminal, contemptuous bulldog.

As contrasted with Blago, Spitzo hailed from a wealthy background and all the best schools–Princeton, Harvard Law–and made his name by helping to bring down organized crime’s Gambino family before effectively buying the job as New York Attorney General with the help of a multi-million dollar “loan” from his tycoon father.

If his hubris, his sense of over-weening pride, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1647)

Blago and Spitzo, Part One

Blago and Spitzo, Part One

Okay, agreed, they’re both dirty and sleazy but there are different degrees of dirt and sleaze, as any washerwoman and political reporter knows. I refer to Blago and Spitzo who are not 2 long lost Marx brothers or the 4th and 5th stooges.

I refer to the latest duo of disgraced Democrat governors: Milorad R. “Rod” Blagojevich of Illinois and Eliot Laurence Spitzer of New York. Blagojevich, affectionately known as Blago, and Spitzer, not affectionately known by anyone, are both back in the news again.

You may recall Blago, he of the Donald Trump hairdo but darker and fuller, and his bride, the former Patricia Mell, both captured on reams of audio tape using language that would embarrass Joe Biden. The specifics of those tapes were sufficient for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to pull a raid on the home of the Illinois governor and his family in December, 2008.

Accused of stealing all but the kitchen sink, Blago was subsequently removed from office by the Illinois legislature and has been anything but the obsequious criminal ever since. He’s appeared on various television shows, including Letterman, always preaching the same story, that he was framed, yada, yada, yada, and that the truth will out come his trial which is scheduled to begin on June 3rd. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1645)