Every Little Bit Helps

 "What do I look like, the President?"

He was a moron. A friendly-enough-seeming guy with fantastically devious puppeteers and a name enough dumb people recognized to sweep him into the highest office in the land by a whopping...oh, by a questionable margin, actually; perhaps even a negative one. Twice.

Bonus Trivia:
The 2000 US Presidential contest was the closest in US history since Rutherford B. Hayes up and stole that shit in 1876. Huh. Same old shit...

This being the case--especially once you throw in everything else that transpired from 2000-2008 and consider that I am a man with blood coursing through my veins--I always enjoy hearing tell of every. single. slight. to His Idiocy George W. Bush, no matter how trivial.

These small gems certainly don't make up for what should happen to W--Navy SEALS should hold him on the bronze knee of the Lincoln Memorial while everybody in the world gets three whacks on his bottom with a weapon of their choice--but they are gratifying nonetheless and life is about the simple pleasures, right?

Mommy, Why Are Bankers Never Punished?

In a "striking admission," the Swiss bank UBS has confessed to "[participating] in a scheme to defraud the United States" of almost two billion dollars in tax revenue over the last 6 years.

The penalty? A $780 million fine and the naming of names of a few hundred of their 19,000 illicit offshore American clients (not the most important ones, I'm guessing...).

What is so wrong with imprisoning white-collar criminals guilty of ridiculously malicious fraud schemes? Why are they above the law, yet Wesley Snipes has to flee the country over $12 million?

“It’s a conspiracy against the IRS, basically to harass the IRS, from doing its lawful job in term of collection of taxes,” U.S. Attorney Paul I. Perez said at a news conference (regarding the prosecution of Snipes).

Oh. NOW I understand the difference...

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