DuhNooz rides agin!
Headline: Fired USDA official receives apologies from White House, Vilsack (WP)
Ain’t it fun t’watch people eat crow? Specially them puffed up fokes in the gummint whut spends s’much time with CYA? An the puffed ups at talk about’em on whut passes fer news on TV? One day everbody jist falls in line an’ joins in with some blogger who’s railroadin’ at nice lady, Shirley Sherrod frum the agriculture department. Next day, crow gobblin’ time. Duhh.
Quote frum NYT: “The Library of Congress recently announced that it will be acquiring — and permanently storing — the entire archive of public Twitter posts since 2006.” Now ain’t we all jist s’proud uf our liberry uf congress? An don’t we all look forward t’our children an our children’s children bein’ able t’go t’the liberry an read all at Twitterin? An’ don’t we all jist enjoy hearin about our tax money bein’ spen so wisely? Could we git a double Duhh? DUHH-H-H!
Headline: Facebook Tops 500 Million Users
Now wait jist a minute. Didn some pollin’ outfit jist say Facebook wuz voted most hated? An wouldn’ at mean 500 million fokes love t’love whut thay hate? An’ could all ‘em fokes spendin’ s’much time doodlin’ on Facebook have sumpm’ t’do with s’many people bein’ outta work? Duhh.
Three of every four oil and gas lobbyists worked for federal government (WP) Whut!? Fokes at use’ta work for the gummint are now pullin down big salaries workin’ fer big oil, gittin’ gummint favors fer’em? Well, I never! Who would’a thunk it? Ye don’t spose thairs any former gummint fokes lobbyin’ fer big pharma or big ag (them big cumpnies at passes fer farmers) do ye? Does at mean the smartest people git outta gummint? An if so, whut kind uv gummint workers would be left t’dream up more paperwork fer us t’fill out? Duhh!
We jist hafta git back t’that ole boy Thomas Paine on this’un. ‘Member he said back air in 1792, when fathers wuz first bein promoted t’forefathers, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)