THE WHITE HOUSE HALLOWEEN: GEORGE'S HOUSE OF HORRORS

Halloween has now come and gone. I live in a big city , I live urban. My nice old art deco building is full of college students. That means no little trick or treaters, but interesting noises til all hours, and awaking to vomitous carpet and beer stenched hallways. I miss the little trick or treaters.I miss the the smell of burnt candles and singed pumpkins and scattered Skittles.

Halloween is full of memories that fade over time. I admit the Watergate Years have been on my mind alot this fall. So my mind travels back to those years. I had one of those Bah-hum-bug moms she gave out Shaklee Protein Bars and Sugarless gum. ( Yes, we were the house that everyone avoided, or TP'd). She just was not into Halloween. She said if we wanted to go trick or treating we had to make our own costumes. When I was eleven she said she wasn't spending more than my allowance for the costume- since I got paid $1.00/ week. That pretty much garranteed a crappy costume. So smartass that I was I made myself a Giant Dollar Bill Costume. ( I stood in the center of a green paneled forged dollar frame I made, dressed as George Washington). As I knocked on doors I would say " The Buck Stops Here". So the Watergate Year I dressed as a Basket of Dirty laundry, complete with wearing a bent old plastic laundry basket with holes for legs and arms, and swaddled in old towels, and a box of Tide. I got more candy that year then any other year....Yup, Dirty Laundry was so Welcome at everyone's front door.

Now about Dirty Laundry, Isn't it something that the Whitehouse's Dirty Laundry is indeed now falling out the windows and doors across the lawns and into our homes. And the harder the GOP and the WhiteHouse trys to refocus us, That Dirty Laundry is still front and foremost in our minds....
King George is trying to be all uptight and white and gee- ain't I a good Christian and so he goes out finds the most conservative-crisp-yet-manly-whitest judge he can lay eyes upon. ( I am sure Mr Chertoff also happened to give his opinion and blessings as well). And gee holy crap I guess I should be grateful that it wasn't Ashcroft or Alberto. This man is scary, he has made some rulings about womens rights and workers rights that have an almost Taliban Hide the Goat flavor. So WHO is Bush trying to please? Dobson? Ann Coulter? Pat Robertson ? Bill O"Reilly ? Rush ? Gee, Any other religous wingnut get consulted last weekend ? Did he call Anita Bryant to make sure he made a selection that was homophobic enough for her ? And CNN sure got on the damn band wagon fast enough, I was shocked they didn't call Bill O"Reilly or Rush last friday. ( They interviewed Ann Coulter three times in an hour??!!). Meanwhile poor little Harriet is probally at home polishing her little gold cross collection and wondering why-oh-why the Boys didn't want her in their Crony-Whitebread-Club ??...

What is Bush's thinking, that if he picks people that look Squeaky Clean that the stench that has invaded the White House will be washed away ?

And then today we were all susposed to be focused on Cock-A-Doodle-Dooooo Bird Flue....because the Mr.Bush gave a speech on it. Geez, Give me a break. I am a nurse. Are you worried about the Flu- bird flu ? well gee, then don't pick Chiron to make your next batch of vaccines- they only can screw up 20 million at a time. And gee , let's appoint an ex-governor to be head of Health and Human Services because he has NO MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OR EXPERTISE. Oh, Yeah Let's FEMA-nize it..
Gee it has been nothing but Four years of "Be Very scared there are BAD Bugs out there- anthrax, smallpox, monkeypox, and now yup- Chicken Little Flu." In Asia and many foriegn countries they teach hendwashing and they encourage face masks during flu season. And they also encourage altering Communion practices during flu outbreaks. All commonsense, and good hygiene. There is not panic and hourly updates on the Scare of the moment.

The Only People that have Died from Bird Flu- worked with the birds, and were in direct contact, day to day contact. And I am sorry to say this, yeah, the Fowl industry in Asia and SE Asia has some hygeine issues and problems. It is an area of the world that can be rather lacking in even the proper equipment such as gloves, proper cleansing supplies, and even boots.And some interesting practices regarding the care of the birds and the disposal of the dead birds. That doesn't mean that the whole world is bedoomed and about to be suffering Bird Flu. HAs anyone aked how many years the government has been humping the West Nile Will Kill You Virus ? ( FIVE- if you want to know, five long aren't-you-scared-yet-years).

Mr.Bush needs to learn that people are not about to be scared away from the Truth or the Dirty Laundry. He can wish it, he can Pray on it , but the Dirty Laundry is still strewn across his front lawn. And the Dirty Lawn is Blood Stained, 2024 as of today.....