licentious radio

Sunday, August 25, 2002
[10:46:33 PM]

Bad Bin Laden! Gassing puppies. Naughty!

Why could CNN get the puppy-gassing tapes, when the CIA didn't? How about because the Bush propaganda team made and planted the tapes? They seem perfectly timed -- connecting Bin Laden with Saddam via dastardly gassing. Can't get more dastardly than gassing puppies.

So how is a citizen supposed to know that these tapes were really from Bin Laden, and not made up by one of Bushie's wag-the-dog team? Bushie's team has motive, means, and opportunity.

All a citizen can do is hope the government wouldn't be sick enough to do that kind of thing. This is the government that exposed soldiers to radiation in the 50s, and sailors to bio-warfare agents in the 60s. The only reason we don't know about the 70s, 80s, and 90s is that the files haven't been declassified.

It's just that if you can't trust them, you can't trust them. And that means it's time to clean house.

[10:38:11 PM]
"It's your money. And you better have somebody who understands that, and knows how to take it from you. Bill Simon is a proven businessman who can get that done."

[10:33:15 PM]
The most obvious thing is that having greedy business people in politics is a bad thing. You don't want politicians with so much money that they are no longer accountable to laws. You don't want politicians who will profit from policies they promote. The Bushes are the best example of this.

Licentious Radio calls for a clean sweep: anybody with more than a few million dollars, anybody who's family appears to profit from policy and doesn't immediately divest -- throw the bums out. Better yet, freeze their assets, and reserve jail space.

Politicians' job is to represent voters, not use back-room deals to get rich.

[2:09:14 PM]
Fixed two bugs in the cgi text buffer script I linked to a few days ago. The previous version wouldn't delete the previous contents of the text buffer. The new version also uses the correct hostname variable. The update is at the same url:

text_buf.pl

Please contact me if you find bugs.