Poly-Ticks
Donald Trump is forming what’s called an exploratory committee. Ostensibly, it is designed to explore the candidate’s options, that is, can he raise enough money — well, duh! — and could he possibly win. No way, phew. But Trump’s version of an exploratory committee is to put together a group of people who will tell him what he wants to hear. If Trump decides that he wants to run, then the group will read from their script, "Mr. Trump, we think the country needs you." Don’t look for this committee to show up on another assignment.
Politics can be a moose, though. Just ask the governor of Alabama. Don Siegelman was hoping that his plan for a state lottery would be ratified by the people so that he might do something for their school system, which is a disaster. According to recent polls, the people of Alabama were pretty much on the fence about a lottery, concerned that their state government wasn’t honest enough to run in right. They were on to something.
Just days before the vote on the lottery, the Associated Press came up with a story about fixing tickets. It has mushroomed into a full-fledged ‘Bama scandal. The head of the state police was forced to resign, along with a handful of top gubernatorial aides, but that’s just the beginning. The head cop, by the way, was also super-bodyguard for the head football coach at the University of Alabama for more than a decade. Turns out one of his football players got a ticket, and the coach ordered the top cop to quash the ticket. Which he did. Hey, football is bigger than church, or at least is taken more religiously down there.
So now every public official is being asked by that darn media if they ever had a ticket fixed. Said one state senator who refused to answer, asking someone if they were involved in fixing a ticket is "like asking if you’ve ever stepped out on your wife". Really, that’s what passes for morality in Alabama? I wish he sounded dumber than most politicians but we’re seeing this kind of deep thinking at a federal level, too. Stupid, unaware, and loud about it.
Speaking of political effluvium, it looks like Rush Limbaugh missed a forecast again. Ole Hillary is planning to file papers to run for the United States Senate from New York. We can hope that New Yorkers may rise to the occasion and humiliate her at the polls. If only Rudy Guiliani has the smarts to be his own man and to ignore her.
In a related item, a note on the Internet said Halloween and Thanksgiving are being canceled...since the witch is moving to New York, and she's taking the turkey with her.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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