Short attention span musing...

...First and foremost, my sympathies and best wishes go out to Elizabeth and John Edwards and their children. The weeks and months (and years, I hope!) ahead of them will call upon all of the strength and fortitude that they have.

If you want to send along your best wishes, and maybe add to their strength, you can do so here.

Now back to our regularly scheduled snarkiness. :)


...The Fife-ster strikes again, or reason # 275 why Bill Clinton never should have pardoned his thieving a$$ - he's a freakin' loon.

From the AZRep -

"Now a pastry chef and business consultant, [former Arizona Governor Fife] Symington is keying in on the anniversary of the sighting of the so-called "Phoenix lights" by reversing course, saying the lights were really extraterrestrial and that he saw a UFO himself.

"I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies," Symington said Thursday. "It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don't know why people would ridicule it." "

Just a reminder for everyone - this guy supports John McCain for President.


...In a ruling that surprised no one, federal judge Raner Collins ruled that the plan that last year's legislature approved to adequately fund programs and classes for English-language learners is inadequate and violates federal law. He's given the lege until the end of the session to come up with an acceptable plan. The AZRep article is here. An AZ Rep timeline of the whole matter is here.

House speaker Jim Weiers has pledged to continue fighting the court order.

From the AZ Daily Star -

"We're going to continue to fight this to make sure that the people of Arizona are served correctly and that one judge, because of his opinion, is not going to step in the way of common sense and what's right," Weiers said.

I can sympathize with Weiers - he is just protecting the turf of the Republicans in the legislature. After all, who can do a better job of stepping "in the way of common sense and what's right" than the people elected by the Republican Party to do just that??

:)

If the judge wanted the Republican leadership in the lege to take him seriously, he would, very publicly, order the U.S. Marshals Service to find an empty lot in downtown Phoenix (there's plenty of them!) and to build a holding cell for 90 on it.

Think "Tent City" with suits and ties instead of pink boxers.

THAT would make the lege think twice about continuing to treat students, and the court, with shameless contempt.

Plus, if that didn't work, and incarceration became necessary, a couple of days spent in the sweltering June heat, and a couple of nights spent downwind from the banks of porta-potties would have the added benefit of convincing the Reps in the lege that maybe a Democrat in the Speaker's chair isn't such a bad idea. :)


...While it seems like that the White House is going to make Attorney General Alberto Gonzales the fall guy for their ham-handed attempts to interfere with ongoing corruption investigations by firing the U.S. Attorneys heading the investigations, they really should understand that no one's buying it.

At this point, *impeachment* isn't the worst thing that could happen to Bush and his presidency;
Indictment is.

One of the talking points of the Administration and its supporters has been to cite the fact that the various U.S. Attorneys "serve at the pleasure of the President." That may be true, but that phrase doesn't protect him when he obstructs justice.

'Nuff said.

Later!