HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GEORGE THE BRAIN


Couple of quickies that SJ wanted on a blog. One
is from the NYT, the other I'm not sure. As you
know Nancy's House of Reps are pushing a bill to
erase tax breaks & subsidies that Exxon & its oil
sisters receive from the U.S. Government at the
taxpayers expense.

Exxon showed a profit of 36 billion in 2005 (can
you imagine how much they really made?) & they
awarded the retiring CEO a 400 million dollar
severence check.

That is a bit much, wouldn't you say?

The Brain will even things up, however. He has
given the oilers the o.k. to drill in one of the great
fishing habitats Bristol Bay in Alaska. You have to
read what damage a minor oil leak could cause.
It's a head shaker.

Here is another lulu caused by By ol' George the
Brain. His new ground commander in Iraq said
it will take 2 or 3 years to gain the advantage of
the war even with the "surge". Lt. Gen. Ray T.
Odiemo said: "If the American people feel we are
making progress they will have the patience" It
is easy to make a prediction after reading that.
There will be a plethora of great news about killing
thousands of Iraqi militia-men with never a civil-
ian casualty. Once or twice a week we will be told
that a high ranking insurgent, protege of Saddam,
or an al Qaida chieftain, trained in Afghanistan &
bosom buddy of Osama in Tora Bora, have been
bumped off leaving humongous gaps in their re-
spective hierarchys.

It seems Ted Kennedy's ideas are ever so much
more palatable than The Brains'.