THE FLUB-A-DUB AWARD
Repeat winners
November. Man, this month
went by in a hurry. November 16 brought our first snow and cold temperatures.
Gee, isnÕt life just great.
Thanksgiving. I like
Thanksgiving. I like any holiday that features food. I think there should be at
least ten other holidays where the main object is to eat enough to make
yourself so miserable that you canÕt do anything but sit on the couch and watch
football.
The snow wasnÕt the only
thing flying in November. The Flubs were everywhere. IÕm still wondering why
everyone in the world wants to open a shopping center in Galesburg? Maybe the
unemployment checks are higher than I think. I canÕt believe some of the stores
being talked about. Menard's, Best Buy, Pier I Imports, Kohl's. I tell you, I
canÕt wait. To hell with the people at Lincolnshire. I didnÕt hear them
complaining about the shopping center proposed on Seminary Street. In fact, I
think the whole works should go over to Lincolnshire. The Lincolnshire Shopping
Centre. And IÕm still thinking about opening up a hip-boot manufacturing centre
across the street at the old Jack's building, cause the bull just continues to
get deeper and deeper.
And how about that FEMA?
You talk about efficiency. IÕve heard of about a dozen contractors who have
made millions of dollars already. Trailers sold that are still sitting in
parking lots; $2500 dollar tarps put on roofs; $100 an hour labor charges; and
shysters buying up property for less than a quarter of the market value. Now
they are about to kick people out of their temporary housing, which has
probably been a major ripoff by the motel chains. It is said that there are
groups of people living on cruise ships. Hopefully, that is just some of the
lore developing. The incompetence shown by FEMA is probably going to reach
biblical proportions. This fiasco will be way beyond Flubbing. It will be
gargantuan.
Alas, NovemberÕs Flub once
again goes to President Bush and VP Cheney. Here are two guys with such
inflated egos that they canÕt distinguish reality from their make-believe
kingdoms. Bush loudly, and as usual, with five-word sentences, defends himself
and his administration, after being caught in outright lies about his reason
for attacking Iraq, who, as it turns out, had nothing to do with 9/11 and had
no weapons of mass destruction. This appears to be some Karl Rove strategy:
Just yell loud enough that you are being wronged by liberals, and your
right-wing friends will blindly rally to support you. Then he rushes off to
China and scolds them for not being more like Taiwan. ThereÕs a smooth
diplomatic move. Of course, they just laugh and tell him to go away, which more
and more of the world seems to be catching onto. And VP Cheney scolds Democrats
for attempting to spoil his world conquest campaign. He calls war critics
ÒdishonestÓ and Òreprehensible.Ó IÕm not surprised he knows such words, I
suspect heÕs heard them often enough. This guy is nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake,
and more evil than The Exorcist. He is clearly the ringleader in the Bush administration's
push to use torture as a weapon against terrorists. Giving these boobs The
Flub-A-Dub Award is the least I can do. They deserve to be branded the world's
most notorious terrorists. If this is the type of leadership we are to get in
the new millennium, weÕre screwed.