Wednesday, November 30, 2005

President to decide NASCAR race schedule

Can anyone put their finger on the phrase or clause in the US Constitution that would make Philadelphia Eagles receiver, narcissist, and all round dope Terrell Owens’ four game suspension and subsequent paid deactivation a federal case? Well Arlen Specter (RepublicRAT, PA) has used the Senate’s secret Constitutional divining rod to find a way to inject himself into this high-profile case. Yes, yes this is the same Arlen Specter that introduced the Scottish law principle of “not proven” into the Senate trial of disgraced president Slick Willie. The same Arlen Specter that postponed Judge Alito’s Judiciary Committee hearing because he was just too busy to get it done before the first of the year. To get Alito a hearing would have required Senators to up their work load from three hours a day, two days a week; to four hours a day, three days a week. Oh the humanity! Well somehow the “too busy” Arly has found time to get involved the Owens case claiming that an NFL team disciplining a loud mouth, corrosive figure somehow violates antitrust laws. Arly “The Just” also called Eagles handling of the Owens mess "vindictive and inappropriate".

First off, I think Owens is creep and any team that picks this doofus up ought to be made to keep him and play him in every game for five years, no matter how disruptive to the team he becomes. Since he and “go to hell” Art Model are made of the same moral fiber, I think Arly should order Owens to the Baltimore Ravens thereby ensuring the further decline of that franchise well into the next decade.

All that said, who the hell is Arly Spectator to tell anyone how to run their business. GM just laid off 30,000 workers, 29,999 of which are better people than Terrell Owens. If the Senate were to ride to anybody’s rescue, you’d think it’d be GM workers who actually work and produce something useful at the end of each day. The fact is, Arly ought to keep quite. He’s has no more business in this matter than the Supreme Court had in injecting itself into the Casey Martin case in golf. Martin you might recall was the disabled golfer that wanted to ride a cart on the PGA circuit though the rules didn’t allow for one. The Supreme Court of these United States went about telling the PGA how to make rules for golf. Huh? So we’ve got the Senate arbitrating spoiled NFL players’ contracts and the Supreme Court deciding the rules for golf. What’s next the president deciding what tracks get which races in NASCAR’s Race for the Cup.

While the Senate and Supreme Court concern themselves with such weighty issues, our borders remain unsecured, the national Ponzy scheme called Social Security is about to collapse, government spending is running out of control, we have no national energy strategy, RATs are lying about the president lying about Iraq, Syria and Iran are openly trying to destabilize a fledgling Democracy in the Middle East, North Korea and Iran are in nuclear arms talks, China is dumping nationally subsidized goods manufactured by prison labor all over the world and using the profits to further its space and missile programs, OOoooOOoooo better stop, this is too depressing. Anyway Arly and the rest of the Washington know nothings ought to stick with what the people send them there to do. In my case, since they seem to screw up everything they touch, that is as little as possible.

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