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   From dictionary.com… juryrig   1. (Nautical) a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc. 2. any makeshift arrangement of machinery or the like.    Shifting districts, originally meant to compensate for a shifting populace that grew larger, moved in and out of cities and different regions of the country, has become little more than a way to neuter voters one would rather not vote. Both of the major parties, when they’re in power, have been doing it for a long time. Maybe because people think it’s a great thing when the other guy’s ox gets gored and then served up on a platter of political convenience. When the political apple gets stuffed in their ”mouth,”  they complain, complain, complain.    There’s a way to make them shut the hell up: stop all the complaining, and stop some of them from trying to screw the other side when it comes to gerrymandering, and the other side turning around and screwing them when it’s their turn. A temporary fix: juryrig it, if you wish, in the best sense of the word…

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Ever since the CIA was started it has been a political football. The worst games ever were during Bush II when Cheney, and his shills, went over there to “straighten things out.” They ended up “straightening out” those who warned us in advance of 9/11. They “straightened out” those who told us there were no “massive amounts of WMD.” And perhaps the most famous case; “straightened out” the wife of a man who had told the truth: the truth being those infamous aluminum tubes could not be used for in the service of producing nuclear weapons. You know, if you apply just a little logic: something lacking these days, the idea that Saddam would ever actually use a nuke is a little thin. It would be a tad like New Hampshire striking Vermont. Depending on winds and such, a bit like dog eats self tail first, eh? Or if the Falklands had attempted to use their one nuke on the United States for not siding with them. Mister Rogers asks, “Can you say, boys and girls, ‘what Falklands?’” Part of the millions who died due to all this were scientists and others who helped Valerie, therefore the United States. Don’t…

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I firmly believe we have become so enamored with our own beliefs these days, and our own sources for those beliefs, that honest election analysis has become damn near impossible to find. So I waited to hear all the nonsense from the usual suspects before I wrote this column. I wanted to provide an analysis somewhat free of BS I expected to hear, and did hear, from FOX, MSNBC, or any of the mainstream media. So… what happened last Tuesday?

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I thought that a rewrite of an old column: one of my favs, would be a good day after election day choice. Just for chuckles and giggles I rewrote this a few days pre-Election Day, as somewhat of a break from partisan politics, unless you want more. Nah? But like all Inspection columns, there will be a political edge to it, mostly inferred in this case. I know, if you’re hearing the news of the election for the first time, maybe you feel a bit “run over” now, like I did latter that day after my own “beautiful morning.” Or maybe you feel like I did early that morning because your candidate won. And while I’m gambling the election will be settled by the time you read this, that might not be the case. Maybe we feel a tad like I did latter that day. 1968. The old time radio we had bought from the church auction was playing The Rascals, “It’s a Beautiful Morning,” when I woke that Saturday in April. As the song seeped into my soul: filling me with a feeling of wonder, I realized how lucky I was. I looked down, looked at my hands, my…

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Halloween, and if they took it serious this would scare those little religious Right and neocon spooks sheetless. Of course they haven’t got the brains, or the reasoning power, or the ability to comprehend anything but their own blatherings. And barely understand what they’ve just said, sometimes. You’d never heard Barack say we should have one. Indeed he’s never really done an “apology tour,” despite that bunk filled talking point Barack should have countered during the debate. Too politically incorrect to address, or not in his nature to challenge it? You decide. But let’s edit out the false partisan bickering, the phony accusatory, from the comment. Now let’s ask it as a question. Do we need to go on an “apology tour,” America? In some cases I say, “Hell, yes.” Let’s start with the obvious…

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