My Katrina

a) Rationality test
President Obama had a rough press conference yesterday on the oil spill. Hommina... hommina... hommina... dop.

This does, however, provide an opportunity for a simple rationality test for people of either political persuasion. Pick either the leftie or rightie question (or both if you're confused) and answer yes or no:

• Leftie test: If W were President, the Gulf oil spill would be reported in the same way it is currently for President Obama.
  
• Rightie test: Eventually the media will really latch onto this story and it will become President Obama's "Katrina".
  

If you answered "yes" to either question, then you need to turn off your TV or take "moveon.org" out of your faves list or something, so that you can rejoin rational, thinking society.

If W were President, this would be his Katrina. He he.

And no, the press is not going to suddenly whomp up on Obama or his administration about this or any other topic. I remind my rightie brothers of recent history: As President, Bill Clinton:

• hoisted a 20-something aide onto his desk in the Oval office,
  
• diddled around with her with his cigar (literally and figuratively),
  
• came all over her nice blue dress,
  
• wagged his finger at the nation that he didn't do it,
• and then lied under oath about it

And this didn't impact the media's reporting or opinion of the Clinton presidency one bit. So don't pretend that an oil spill is going to impact anything about the Obama term. So instead, let's think about being rational. Or not. Whatever.

b) My IL rep writes back
I wrote a (nice) email to my IL state rep, Darlene Senger, about the school choice bill in IL that she supported. I talked about it here: The Illinois School Choice Program.

Here's her (nice) reply:

May 17, 2010

Thanks for your supportive words Bill. I really appreciate it. Just
trying to do what I think is the best for our children and the future
of education.

Have a good evening.

-Darlene

Thanks, Darlene.
Good job.

c) One last quiz
Miss USA 2010 is a Muslim girl from Michigan. There she is all smoking hot over there to the right. YOW!
Americans don't care if your Muslim or Jewish or black or one-legged or whatever... as long as you're a hot chick.

That was a couple weeks ago. Now, there's some background noise of building a mosque near "ground zero" at the World Trade Center (link).

One last quiz: No way they build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attack on America by Islamic terrorists that murdered 3,000 innocent people. Right?

Right.
rational is good... yow, bill

PS - Interesting how, even for an oil spill, the feds answer is a tax hike (link). Bah, rational is over-rated... as long as the money keeps pouring in.