Guest guest Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 S Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:13:22 -0700 (PDT) JUST IN: Arabian Horse Show Guy, Replaced at FEMA by DUCT TAPE CZAR You just couldn't make this stuff up. Bushies strike again. Please give me a hand here, folks, I'm hurting myself on various unfriendly corners of my office, trying convulsively, spasmodically even, to avoid sharp objects and other hazards as I herniate myself with hysterical wheezing at the latest news. You just can not BUY comedy like this. Not since Jonathan Swift or Voltaire have we had, even, mere high IQ type fantasies so savagely, well, " funny. " Granted, those who are " ...Down in the Delta, Three Thousand Miles from Home... " ~to quote a great Satchmo song~ hardly have the leisure to savor it, but if they should survive, after running, or swimming, from alligators, they'll one day have the time and/or breath to share their lung space again with mere laughter; and the moment they do, even THEY will be hard pressed not to find this funny. But seriously, folks, even late night comedy at its finest could not come up with stuff like this, not even with a hundred monkeys at a hundred typewriters for a hundred years, and, and......well, just check this out: The fellow who resigned as overseer for the International Arabian Horse Show judges, due to certain shortcomings, and who was kicked upstairs a couple years ago to be director of perhaps the most important and experience-required job in the country ( the pResidency is clearly no longer that job ) as head of FEMA, has now resigned from that as well. And the sad part is, he probably did a better job there than as IAHA director in charge of Hazardous Road Apples, or whatever it was he did there for eleven years as horse show head guy, before being found too incompetent for any job but Head of FEMA. But wait! I'm just getting warmed up here: So..... who do they get to take over for him, in this Ringling Brothers Redux of the clowns coming out of the exits to play firemen, chasing some burning vehicle or other, front row center ring at the Big Top, and hand carrying buckets of water, only to light their oversized shoes, and hair dos, on fire? Well, of course: the guy Bush appointed in the wake of 9.11 to head the United States Fire Administration, David Paulison, a guy perhaps best known to those agencies, if not the public, as the thoughtful character who proposed DUCT TAPE and SARAN WRAP as the one two punch of security weaponry to protect citizens from terrorist attacks. (On a more somber note, such leadership may go far to explain why more firemen have not come forward to voice their doubts, testimony, about the official Nine Eleven coverups.) His FEMA short biography is at the link below, connecting you to that page. We, hopeful types that we are, never considered that replacing " Brownie " might bring us someone actually even more laughable. Who would guess that the ONLY kind of person Bush can now promote is of the stock that Bill Maher describes, when speaking of Bush in recent weeks, as " a disaster that walks like a man. " So, savor it as comedy, since you'll overcook this fine cuisine if you salt it with your tears..... Peace: JE PS As a deathless comedian once said, his " famous last words: " " Dying is easy, comedy is hard. " The whole world must be wondering just what price must be anted up, to support comic efforts so wholly out of this world, wholly. Perhaps, the same as said comedian? http://www.fema.gov/about/bios/paulison.shtm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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