Random thoughts.

GratisNet: "Some random thoughts while coping with a medical emergency this past week.

Why is the congress holding hearings about steroid use in baseball? Please don't get me wrong, I believe that such use is wrong and is the only reason so many records, especially those relating to hitting, have been set over the past 20 years, but really. We have a regime that inserts faux journalists, and I am not referring to those employed by FOX News, working for faux news organizations into White House press conferences on a daily basis without doing even the most cursory background check. Why isn't the congress investigating this?

We have an ongoing debacle in Iraq, the result of going to war on a lie, on a plethora of lies. Why isn't the congress investigating this? We have the Coalition Provisional Authority, no it's not a purveyor of fine foods but the money squandering organization that was headed up by Paul Bremer (remember him?), having no clue as to the disposition of some $9 billion, yes that's nine BILLION dollars. Why isn't the congress investigating that? We have the obvious vote counting irregularities in Florida (2000), Georgia (2002) and Florida, Ohio, etc. (2004). Why isn't the congress investigating that, especially considering that the same irregularities occurring in Ukraine caused a great hue and cry in the self same congress over the 'integrity' of the vote, with calls for a new election?

We have the example of the Bush gang paying columnists and reporters (under the table, of course) to push their agenda in any number of areas. Why isn't the congress investigating this? We have the Bush gang using faux reporters (I'm not a reporter but I play one on TV), in faux news spots (which in another time and place would be called propaganda) to create infomercials in support of their dubious efforts to dismantle the positive changes of the 20th century, disguised as news that are distributed to local media the length and breadth of America, a practice that is in direct violation of US law. Why isn't the congress investigating this?

Why is the congress wasting our time and money with baseball and steroid use when each of the items noted above have several orders of magnitude more concern and impact upon America and its people? Why indeed. It is crystal clear that republicans cannot be trusted to put country above party. In that respect they are soul brothers to the apparatchiki of the old USSR and while it took some 70 years for the communist government to collapse and destroy the USSR (and nearly destroy Russia and the other republics in the process), republicans are on track to bring down democracy and totally destroy America as we have known it in a far shorter time frame."