Fries With That?

Roberts Confirmed
John Roberts was confirmed, and is now the chief justice of Supreme Court. Originally nominated to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor, Roberts was renominated to chief justice after William Rehnquist's death.

No one is absolutely positive how Roberts will rule on different issues – Roberts doesn't have a long paper trail showing how he'll probably vote. Because of this, a good deal of democrats couldn't really complain with him as a nominee. Some still did though.

"At the end of the day, I have too many unanswered questions about the nominee to justify confirming him to this lifetime seat," said Harry Reid, Senate Democratic leader of Nevada. Stinks to be him.

More Confirmation
Well, O'Connor still wants to retire – can you believe it? President Bush nominated Harriet Miers. She also has no outstanding paper trail pointing to how she'll vote. It seems this tactic by Bush has caused some concern among Republicans – whether or not they can trust their President to nominate someone conservative.

Approval’s Nice
President Bush's approval rating jumped from 40% to 45% between the two hurricanes, apparently because of the way he handled Rita. No doubt in my mind that the media still controls much of this country.

Even with a few years left in his term, I give Bush my overall approval of his presidency. Why? Not because I agree with him on everything, not because I'm a republican block voter, not because he is the lesser of two evils.

This president has been through quite a bit so far. 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, several major hurricanes with unprecedented flooding, the remains of 8 years of Mao Clinton, and much more. Perfect? No. Reaganesque? Not quite. Pretty good for a moderate republican? Absolutely - in our society right now, with our media, he has done quite well.

And with 45% of the vote, he has enough "mandate" as Clinton had to get elected.

Not Quite Balanced
Ya know, 40,000 people died in Pakistan last week and I didn't hear anything about it till today. A few weeks ago I couldn't stop hearing about so many people being killed in the superdome. For the news media “many people” means six people. Four died of natural causes, one committed suicide, and the last one was actually killed. It was an abortion.

Three's a crowd
The Netherlands was one of the first places homosexual unions were allowed. They aren't stopping at that however. Victor and Bianca were happily married. That is, until they met Mirjam, who was also happily married. That is, until she met Victor and Bianca. Or maybe it was just Bianca. Hmm. Anyway, Victor decided to marry Mirjam (after she got divorced) and Bianca (again). Bianca also married Mirjam (after her divorce and for the first time)

None of them would let a fourth member into their union. They're too “committed” for that.

DeLayed Inditement
Tom DeLay, Republican speaker of the house (kinda – he stepped down for a bit), was indited, unindited, then reindited. Sorta. He was indited for, well, that's the problem. He was just indited. After people realized he wasn't indited for any actual crime, the fair, balanced, impartial, politically unbiased, morally upstanding, prosecutor with an untarnished reputation of upholding and honoring truth, justice, and the American way, miraculously, with absolutely no connection to the fallacy of the first inditement found apparently unknown, previously undiscovered, vastly incriminating evidence to again indite Tom DeLay. And this time, for a crime.

Money Laundering.

I for one, am not worried for Mr. DeLay. I'm sure it'll all come out in the wash.