Why I favor a "flat tax"

I know, I know, it makes me sound nuts. No, wait. Let me explain.

We, the taxpayers, are bailing a bunch of corporations out of the mess they have made for themselves. I propose that we levy a strict flat tax on the compensation and benefits for all of the corporate heads of any corporation we are bailing out. If the CEO walks away with a golden parachute valued at $53 million, why, just let that CEO deposit 90% of that with the Treasury Department.

That's all.

Pretty wise, huh?

Sarah Palin and Lindsay Lohan

Who would have thought that it would take Lindsay Lohan to do what we've been waiting for the media to do - put Sarah Palin into proper perspective?

Lindsay has her blog on Myspace - Lindsay posted yesterday:

Is our country so divided that the Republicans best hope is a narrow
minded, media obsessed homophobe?

She also asked rhetorically:

Is it a sin to be gay?

Or to use birth control?

Or to have sex before marriage?

Now, I don't know about you but I suspect I know the answer to the latter question. And, I am not talking about her 17 year old pregnant daughter.

No, this weekend some of the cable channels ran a profile on Palin - one of the things they pointed out was that Palin gave birth to her son 8 months after she got married.

Hmmm. Now, I don't profess to be a math whiz or anything but isn't there a missing month in there somewhere?

Maybe she only thinks it's a sin if you or I have sex before marriage.

John McCain and Google

I have to give credit where it is due. Craig Ferguson pointed this out the other night.

It seems that John McCain has finally figured out how to conduct a google search on the computer.

The first thing he found on the internet was a Veep candidate.

I guess that's what we get for goading him about not knowing anything about computers.

Who God Supports in November

Well, they're at it again. Stuart Shepard of James Dobson's Focus on the Family asked people to pray for rain on August 28, 2008 so Barack Obama's speech would be rained out. Well, you will recall that Barack had incredible weather and gave an inspirational speech. So much for Dobson, et al.

Guess what happened as the Repugs began gathering for their convention? God sent a hurricane to blow them out of their entire convention. In fact, not just Hurricane Gustav, but also Hurricane Hanna due to hit land around Charleston, SC later this week and Hurricane Ike due to scrape the entire east coast of Florida by the end of the week. Yes, God sent three hurricanes - in one week - to get his message through to the religious right. Wonder if they'll get it?

Can you imagine how pissed the people in the Twin Cities are? All of those stores that went out and stocked up counting on the Repugs showing up for a wild and crazy convention with all of their money to spend (since they are the only ones who have benefited from the Repug economic policies.) Then, instead of spending all of that money they all went home so they don't look insensitive to hurricane victims. (The only place up there getting the tourist traffic they anticipated is the airport restroom made famous by Larry Craig.)

In other news, let's talk about the latest from the Repug's nominee for VEEP, Governor Sarah Palin. She's supposed to appeal to the religious right, gun lovers, anti-environmentalists, anti-abortionists and is hailed as a champion of fighting corruption in government.

BREAKING NEWS: As I write this, Governor Sarah Palin just hired a lawyer to defend her in the investigation going on for her alleged ethics violations in Alaska.

Anyway, she still appeals to the religious right, doesn't she?

Palin's seventeen year old high school senior daughter is a bit promiscuous - she is 5 months pregnant!

Oops!

Now, really, that's not much different from stuff that a lot of families across the nation face every year, too. It's just that Governor Palin is supposed to stand for so-called "faith and values."

On the more positive side of this story, at least Governor and Mr. Palin said they are proud of their daughter. Well, actually, they said they are proud of her because she's going to have the baby. And they look forward to becoming grandparents.

Just think - that baby will have an uncle only 8 months older than it is. That is exciting.

I wonder how all of that news might be playing for the two younger sisters of the gravid eldest daughter:

"Hm-m-m-m. Mom and Dad are proud of Sis for getting knocked up. I want Mom and Dad to be proud of me. I think I need to get busy and get pregnant so Mom and Dad will be proud of me, too."

Oh, lordy, lordy. I think Jerry Falwell must be rolling over in his grave.

Now, it's also reported that John McCain knew about the pregnancy before selecting Sarah Palin. He was not bothered by that fact. I wonder how the far right will take that news?

They shouldn't be surprised. I mean, talking about family values, remember when John McCain came back from Vietnam? While he was held prisoner, his former beauty contestant wife was involved in a horrendous accident and sustained serious injuries - as a result of which she was no longer her former svelte self. So, in the ensuing years after coming home McCain engaged in quite a number of affairs. Real family values, there.

He also dated his current wife while he was still living with his first wife. And he lied about it.

And he filed an application for a marriage license to his current wife before he was even divorced from his first wife. And he lied about that.

When asked about those two lies, he said it was 30 years ago and he just doesn't remember.

This really has the makings for a fun campaign.