“BY TODAY’S STANDARDS …”
|| By FITSNEWS || Let’s face it: America has scandal fatigue. There are just too many elected and appointed officials at too many levels of government doing too many naughty things – making it impossible to uncover even half of the naughtiness. And the bad behavior which is uncovered is routinely swept under the rug … or explained away … or glossed over … or, more likely, forgotten.
Americans are simply too consumed with trying to make ends meet to consume themselves with political scandals … which, ironically, makes it harder for them to make ends meet (seeing as most of the scandals involve the theft of their tax dollars).
“Supplies of outrage are running low. Indignation is in short supply. Fury is almost exhausted,” wrote The (U.K.) Guardian – five years ago.
They were referring to Great Britain, obviously, but no matter which side of the pond you’re on … chances are you aren’t as angry as you should be.
“We now seem too fatigued to stir as we should when faced with cases of wrongdoing and official mismanagement,” the Guardian wrote.
Indeed … yet the costs of our fatigue are steadily mounting.
Anyway … we were reminded of this when one of our most Meerkattishly observant sources, the eternally elusive “platonic compadre,” snapped a pic of a bumper sticker in downtown Columbia, S.C.
Take a look …
(Click to enlarge)
(Pic: The PC)
Yup …
That’s former U.S. president Richard M. Nixon speaking to all of us from the great beyond.
It turned out Nixon wasn’t a crook, either – he got pardoned for his political persecutions. Will U.S. president Barack Obama get pardoned for his?
Don’t be silly … Obama will never be charged, let alone prosecuted or convicted for anything. Especially not with “Republicans” rolling over for his lawlessness …
And speaking of “Republicans,” what about S.C. governor Nikki Haley? Will she ever be held accountable for her violations of the public trust?
Again … don’t be silly.
And don’t be upset … not that there was any chance of that happening.
32 comments
Richard M. Nixon —- the MAN!
The Israel-hating RINO Man!!!!
Does that make Obama the Israel-hating radical Muslim?
None of that was my concern…..
Transcript – “And last night, it was a tough day you know, those Jews in Israel refusing to admit they have the bomb, and then they agreed to a ceasefire and broke it on purpose. Well I went to the private quarters, and damned Pat had burned the french fries. Again! So I told here ‘one more time, just one more time, and bam! right to the moon Pat, Right to the moon.'”
In Alan Greenspans book, he describes Nixon as highly intelligent, but not so much tolerant.
Here’s some Nixon and Rumsfeld follies about Jews and Blacks: http://youtu.be/dbFzpq343s8
About as tolerant and ignorant as Tango’s parents birth control options.
LOL – I can’t disagree with you!
White Democrats and black race hustlers keep blacks on the plantation of the perpetual welfare system…all about votes…
Obama hates whites…hates Jews and Christians and loves him some radical Islam because he is one…ever heard the quotes from Biden and Reid about Obama and other minorities?
Only reason we had that faux Camelot with JFK is the Dims stole votes in Cook County and El Paso…
Shouldn’t you rednecks be watching Fox News or something? It’s getting really hard to stoop to your level…it must be Monday.
Don’t ya just hate it when Republican’s show their ugly asses?
My guess is you don’t have to use birth control…???
How long did you have to mull over it to come up with such a witty response?
I told em John Boy.
He loved to hear good jokes — he just couldn’t tell them in a way that would make folks laugh.
I’m not sure if we are more crooked now. Tammany Hall, Chicago Politics with Mayor Daley (the dad), Ben Tillman and his Gun clubs and Red Shirts, Teapot Dome.
It does look bad sending teachers in Atlanta to prison, but no one hardly from Wall Street.
I am surprised we haven’t read more that on FITSNEWS. I am a strong advocate of the $ follows the child, but not in the way the FG wants to implement that.
In the book Freakeconomics (sp?) it talked about how teachers were cheating and algorithms that were being developed to find those cheaters. I guess they missed the memo. I don’t condone what the teachers did, but at the same time, I feel the penalty was a bit stiff to say the least.
Might give some insight into why SC ranks low? If we are cheating, we have a state full of dummies who don’t even know how to cheat properly ;)
Lets make room for those teachers AND Wall Street crooks. Those teachers didn’t just steal bonus money from the system, they stole credibility from every Atlanta student that could pass the tests because now their diplomas might as well be printed on Charmin.
The “platonic compadre” hahahahaha
Nixon remains the only president named an “unindicted co-conspirator” by a federal prosecutor.
America’s dominance is on the way out. It’s been happening for a couple decades now…probably since Vietnam.
It happens to all great empires. It’s our turn now…and I recommend everyone brush up on their Chinese.
I recommend everyone brush up on their Chinese.
Sum Ting Wong?
A Chinese couple’s in bed. The husband says, “I want a sixty-nine.” His wife says, “Why you want beef and broccoli now?”
(Silvio silently hopes for TBG’s and Shifty Henry’s approval)
The Chinese couple was in the nursery looking at their newborn, surprisingly round-eyed baby.
The husband turned to the wife and snarled:
“TWO WONGS DON”T MAKE A WHITE!!”
A new strain of the Chinese Flu disease is hitting
the US. The biggest symptom is that you wake up
in the morning with the urge to manufacture a new
smart phone with a silent smoke alarm. When it detects
smoke it sends you a text, tweets your friends, and posts a picture of the fire on Facebook.
A young Chinese couple gets married. She’s a virgin. Truth be told, he is a virgin too, but she doesn’t know that.
On their wedding night, she cowers naked under the sheets as her husband undresses in the darkness.
He climbs into bed next to her and tries to be reassuring.
”My darring”, he whispers, “I know dis you firss time and you berry flighten, I promise you, I give you anything you want, I do anything, juss anything you
want. You juss ask”.
‘Whatchu want? ” he says, trying to sound experienced and worldly, which he hopes will
impress her.
A thoughtful silence follows and he waits patiently and eagerly for her request.
She eventually shyly whisper back ” I want to try something I have heard about from odda girls……..Numbaa 69 ”
More thoughtful silence, this time from him eventually, in a puzzled tone
He ask her ” You want……..Garlic Chicken wiff Snow Peas ?”
Thanks, I saved this one for use in bars where everyone has a short attention span like this — “A skeleton goes into a bar and says, “Give me a beer – and a mop.”
Awesome, got more than I bargained for from you guys and the jokes helped prevent a late afternoon slowdown at work.
I enjoy sharing jokes and humor, and I collect some from here for my files. When I can work them in, I’ll post some suitable for youngsters for folks to take home. This site also keeps my mind sharp along with my eye and hand coordination, and sometimes I even learn something new! When I end up in the old folks home I imagine myself sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch with some cute, old ladies saying, “Just hold that one, Henry, while I get you some iced tea and banana pudding.”
On a business trip to Hilton Head Island I ate dinner in a
new Chinese restaurant. It was still early and I was wondering what I could do after dinner.
When I opened my fortune cookie I read: “This evening you will meet a gorgeous young woman and you will give her money. She has long, shiny black hair, sensuous ruby lips, long slender legs, and big breasts. Her name is Soo Loong and she
is our cashier.”
I’m a concerned citizen what time is Southern Charm on?
LMAO – Never watched it, but I too am a concerned citizen. Time and place is important ;)