Don't go down the basement

Friday Double Feature

Jennifer Wilbanks should win the Shadows and Fog award for her performance in the smokescreen of the year. For what seemed like forever, we had to hear about the “runaway Bride” and how she lied, all to the exclusion of a lot of really important news. In case you were too busy with reality to have noticed, Jennifer was the woman who created a Bogus cover story to explain her failure to show up at her wedding and who was the number one story in the Republican Controlled Media – for ages. So we had to listen to her cover story ad nauseam while Bush’s cover story was stashed in the basement.

I wonder how long the time seemed to our troops and how many of them never got to hear the whole runaway bride story – assuming that they had any interest of course. I can forgive them for not having time to be in touch with our culture of life back here in freedom-land, being up to their ears in blood, guts and death because of the cover story George Bush and Tony Blair cooked up to explain the latest imperialist crusade. Don’t go down the basement.

CNN ran a picture of her just the other day, working off her sentence by mowing lawns and washing cars. Now she does owe a debt since she cost the taxpayers over $40,000 to pay for the search she precipitated and it’s only fair. It’s only justice.

Now how many acres do you think George needs to mow to pay back the families of the dead, the wounded, the maimed and even those who have lost years of their lives? That’s why he spends so much time down there in Crawford, clearing brush. It’s not a vacation, it’s community service.