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Some unrelated items in the news...

The Republicans in the House of Representatives suddenly got religion. They met to change the rules about whether House leaders could retain their office if they were indicted. In November they had voted to let House party leaders remain in power even if they were charged with a crime. The idea was to protect House Republican leader Tom DeLay who may be indicted in a spreading corruption scandal in The Lone Star state. The meeting on Monday was supposed to extend the immunity to official House posts. But instead of expanding protection for the man they call The Hammer, they pulled back. They said it was the right thing to do. The Democrats said they’d been scared off. The Republicans admitted that they’d heard from a lot of people that they were disgusted with the shameless power play. Apparently it was loud enough not only to stop them but to push them back a step.

That the American public, especially active Republicans, made themselves heard on the House shenanigans has got aobe giving the White House some concerns as they try to gift Wall Street with the privatization of Social Security. Apparently a massive media campaign is planned to sell the snake oil. But two-thirds of us don’t think it’s a good idea, nor do the true conservatives in Congress. It’s going to be a tough sell but hey, they sold a war on a stack of lies.

Fox Television, which seems to bent on plumbing ever deeper into the gutter, got some lousy press but plenty of viewers for its latest depravity. A young woman, who was put up for adoption as an infant, was offered $100,000 if she could pick out her real father from among eight strangers. He got the money if he fools her. The Fox affiliate in Raleigh refused to air the episode. The head of the Fox affiliate in Louisville ran the show but commented, "I think it's just another one in a long line of tasteless Fox shows How do you differentiate one from another anymore?"

The woman who had an affair with the Modesto fertilizer salesman who killed his pregnant wife and then worked with the police to trap him, sort of, has written a book that features lustful photos of her. She describes being charmed by the killer into his bed, saying, he "would always be a wolf in sheep's clothing." It ain’t literature, it’s just cashing in by the single-mother bimbette who put her ex-boyfriend on death row.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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