Here’s Hoping 2006 Will Be Better Than 2005
January 1st, 2006
by Glynn Wilson
Editor and Publisher
LocustFork.Net
There will be no fireworks in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve. A strange and massive fog rolled up the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico from the general direction of Texas and cancelled the show - except for a huge bowl of gumbo lowered into the crowd in the French Quarter.
It is not a good sign, but at least no dirty nuclear bomb went off in New York or Washington.
Big Easy Parties Again to Send Off 2005
The onset of 2006 brought no respite to the violence in Iraq, and there is very little hope 2006 will bring the world any closer to peace in that part of the world.
New Year Brings No Respite From Violence in Iraq
Meanwhile back at the ranch, President George W. Bush hid out from the press and protestors in Crawford, Texas, not even making a traditional stop at the Coffee Station, Crawford’s only restaurant. According to the official White House press release, the president is ostensibly “reflecting” on the past year and “looking forward” into the new year.
Maybe he should re-watch the most hilarious Web cartoon of 2005, the JibJab.Com online video that pokes some biting fun at our dick-tater in chief.
JibJab.Com Video: Bush Hopes 2006 Will Be Better Than 2005
Meanwhile, the Washington Post planned to run a special section on Sunday, Jan. 1., 2006, highlighting the out of control population situation. Imagine this country with 363 million people or more. You think they will all still be driving SUV’s? We seriously doubt it.
U.S. Population 2030: 363 Million?
Maybe now someone will take seriously our crusade to make condoms fun. It beats the heck out of spending U.S. tax dollars on faith-based abstenence programs that do nothing to address the population problem or the AIDs problem or the suburban sprawl problem, etc.
And why should we be rewarding people’s opinions anyway who refuse to pay any more taxes to fund a host of useful government programs such as education to make Americans more competitive in a global economy? Then what about some health insurance for the 45 million plus Americans who suffer unnecessarily without it?
The people who won’t even vote for a lottery to fund education are the very same people who want the federal government to give money to churches to tell people they should never have sex unless they are heterosexual and married. These are the very same people who want the government to spend money teaching creationism disguised as “intelligent design” in science classes in public schools funded by state and federal tax dollars.
Rather than watching the fireworks on this transition from the one of the most disastrous years in American history to the potentially ominous 2006, perhaps we should be coming up with a theory of “intelligent design” for how to make government of the people work for the people once again.
That is our wish. For these reasons, we refuse to toast with champagne this New Year’s Eve. But we will hoist a bottle of Yuengling to the goddess and take a few puffs off a gift cigar soaked in courvoisier.
Cheers and let’s hope 2006 brings a shift in power in Congress and a serious and massive grassroots movement for Articles of Impeachment against King George IIb…
The other GW
