Our Presidents at Work

If you'd like to see just how ridiculous politics can get, please take a look at these:

First, is the list of 23 "executive actions" [by the way, what are these?] Obama has just put in place to solve the gun problem. These are all for prime time, people, all for political show. There's not one truly actionable and effective thing proposed in his list.


[Thanks to Wikipedia for the image.]

Our second example is from France. President Hollande has decided to deal personally with a recent kerfuffle initiated by Brigitte Bardot. She threatened to take off for Russia, a la Depardieu, if the Lyon zoo went ahead with its plans to euthanize two tubercular elephants.

Well, Monsieur Hollande hopped right up on his horse and carried a letter to Mademoiselle Bardot. The operational phrases are, in translation:

"I have asked the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Stephane Le Foll, to look into the diagnosis regarding the sanitary status of the animals and into the available treatments should they be suffering from tuberculosis, on the basis of information that your Foundation will communicate to him....

"[Written in his own hand] I am paying close attention to this matter and I will keep your Foundation informed."

Good grief. The silliness speaks for itself.

Down The Road Again

I tried to record myself singing this to Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again," but the key was too low for my melodious voice. So you'll just have to do it yourself.

Find the Karaoke music on Youtube, and off you go. Here are the new lyrics, in honor of our wonderful political class:

Down the road again
That tin can's goin' down the road again
Though we sent them there to fix the friggin' debt
That old can's goin' down the road again

Down the road again
Over hill and dale and 'round the bend
Down a cliff and right back up that cliff again
That old can's goin' down the road again

Down the road again
Like a band of gypsies they go down the highway
They're the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning their way
And their way's

On the road again
That tin can's goin' down the road again
Though we sent them there to fix the friggin' debt
That old can's goin' down the road again

[14 measures of music]

Down the road again
Like a band of gypsies they go down the highway
They're the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning their way
And their way's

On the road again
That tin can's goin' down the road again
Though we sent them there to fix the friggin' debt
That old can's goin' down the road again.

That old can's goin' down the road again.