We're all so fucking honorable!

A seventeen year old out for a night with his buddies runs into a 7-11 and runs back out with a 1/2 case of Coors. He knows that he may get caught and, if so, punished. But, hey, it's just 12 cans of beer. A bit further up the ladder, in the mall parking lot while you're inside shopping at Sears, a car parks next to yours. In a matter of a minute or two it takes to remove it, your catalytic converter containing a bit of precious metal is gone. These exhaust system surgeons--if good--know there is less chance of being caught than the beer runners. Yet they realize the risk they run if they are.

Mrs. Dada has made a career in education so, if anything, she feels she knows something about children. And she believes deep in her heart that despite the fact adults don't think kids pay much attention to what's going on "in the real world," kids are very much aware. And that's why I'm not optimistic for this country. Because our kids, who live under the "fine" examples being set for them in the adult world, see the crimes being committed by their role models of that world. Sadly the difference, however, is a catalytic converter can get you hard time incarceration while dismantling the United States and killing over half a million innocent folks and dispossessing a couple million more in Iraq is so obscenely over-the-edge it goes unpunished!

Anyone still reading this and planning to become a secretary has to know the proper forms of addressing correspondence to our publicly elected government officials. In brief, all elected officials save for the president and vice president are addressed as "honorable" as in: "The Honorable Duke Cunningham, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C." This goes for former presidents of the U.S. but never a standing president or his veep who are simply addressed as "The President" or "The Vice President."

I never understood why that was. But back to those kids on a Saturday night beer run: If you steal a six-pack or two, odds are good you'll do some lock down time. Otherwise, the best way to avoid that is if YOU sign the fucking laws that can send your ass to prison for stealing beer but YOU scribble a statement in the margins of that law exempting YOU from it. Or if you are the "Big Dick" cheney, you could just refuse to turn your papers over to the National Archives (which as we are reminded by William Rivers Pitt are the American people's fucking papers and it's the god damned law cheney do so!) by proclaiming yourself outside the Executive Branch, hence, above the law. (Maybe that helps explain when sending correspondence to Bush or Big Dick cheney, you never ever address them as "honorable"?)

It's time we returned to being a nation of laws. Big Dick's latest and most blatant extra-legal affair ought to have us witnessing his physical removal from office, dragged off to prison in chains. But that's not going to happen, just as we were told repeatedly by our "honorable" house speaker Nancy Pelosi impeachment is off the table, thus enabling Bush and Cheney to make all the beer runs and catalytic converter thefts they damn well please because "we aren't gonna do a fuckin' thing to you."

We are no longer a nation of laws.

I don't give a rat's ass if our congress doesn't have the numbers to successfully convict these leeches through an impeachment process. To not at least uphold the law and impeach the bastards as law necessitates is to concede the nation to criminals. I curiously await the judgment of history upon these honorable people who have ceded the nation to Bush and Big Dick.

Finally, we are now hearing rumors Big Dick's health may be an easy way out for him; to resign this summer because of his heart (I know, I know, I was surprised to learn he has one too) or a potentially dangerous blood clot buried deep in his leg. But so far as I know, while it may not be Bethesda or Walter Reed, they still offer medical care for prison inmates.

But that, of course, assumes we're a nation of laws, doesn't it?