In Santiago, heads are rolling because someone couldn’t spell Chile on a recently issued coin…
It’s the sort of thing that really should happen more often, most especially in the Land Of Helicopter Ben!
Gorilla says: “Alas, the coin of our realm is very base metal indeed!”
Summarizing the MI5 chief’s rationale:
So, we looked the other way, but we don’t collude in torture, but we don’t torture, but we did try to cover it up, but now it’s come out, but the courts are in league with al-Qaeda, but the Yanks might not let us know we’re about to be attacked, but we could have moved faster, but we don’t, but we don’t encourage these things, but we do…
Gorilla says: “Put aside Hannah Arendt, let’s talk about the banality of confusion!”
If some insurance premiums in California will rise by 25% or more, isn’t it about time for single payer?
No, it’s time for more endless bullshitting from our leaders in Washington, who are shocked, shocked to find that insurance companies engage in cherry picking the healthy and those who are less successful at it (only $2.7 billion in profits last quarter!) pass the costs of the sick onto (wait for it!) the sick!!!
Gorilla thinks: “Chronic leadership failure disease starts with anti-trust exemptions, develops more full blown as PAC donations increase, and continues along its merry way to bankrupting the country!”
But I guess that’s not what matters in a “jobs bill”!
Bipartisanship doesn’t matter either, since it doesn’t exist.
So, what’s left is piffling.
Unemployment will stay above 9% for the forseeable future, and President Obama looks like a one-term President.
Gorilla says: “When Democrats decide they want to govern, at least somebody will be working!”
