Voter ID goes to court--What would Freud do?

"Voter ID law heads to Supreme Court" reads a headline on the Associated Press website. The Supreme Court may also want to deal with Voter and candidate Ego and Superego too, a Re Lie Able Source told us. Maybe their ids are what they applied to Bush v. Gore--it sure wasn't precedent. But perhaps the Supreme Court of the US could help out the Kenyans who seem to have a tie and a lot of voting irregularities. They could apply that obscure Kenyan law "Whoever counts the votes wins."

Oh Rats!

The New York Times today points out there is a problem in New York City with rats climbing into car engines to keep warm in winter. The problem is becoming endemic in the city, and the rats do not discriminate between new Bentleys and old Kias.
The Republicans immediately blamed the rats in cars problem on Bill Clinton because--well, because they blame everything on Bill Clinton. Except for Huckabee, who found out they were Norwegian rats, and blamed it on the lack of a fence with Mexico. He might have quoted Robert Frost to the effect that good fences make good neighbors, except the quote doesn't come from the Bible so it's unlikely he knows it.
UPDATE--Over the weekend it was reported that Robert Frost's home was vandalized by a pack of drunken teenagers. Something there is that does love a National Historical Monument.

Prophet to Profit from Prophesies

The Re Lie Able Source has spared no expense to hire the distinguished contemporary prophet Cosa Nostradamus to make some predictions for 2008. We asked him first about the Knicks and what their Coach Isiah Thomas can say to his players. "Your silver has become dross; your wine is diluted with water" is what he replied. Then we pointed out that he cribbed the words from another Prophet--Isiah in the Book of Isiah. Cosa pointed out that the copyright has long since expired, so it's in the public domain.

Keeping up With the Ghandis?

It has just been announced that Benazir Bhutto's son will be leading her party now. Up to now there have only been two generations of Bhuttos who lost their lives in politics. In India there were three generations of Ghandis assassinated, and you know how competitive the Indians and Pakistanis are. It's just another case of keeping up worth the Ghandis.

Coup?

This week none of the usual news anchors are on the network evening news shows. Have there been bloodless coups we haven't heard about? ..What if there is a tie in Iowa? Will the candidates go to court? "In case of a tie the decision of the judges will be final. The entry with the earliest postmark will win."

Con Test

Many people do not know the second or third verse of the national anthem "Thine Alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears") What are the second and third verses of Happy Birthday To You"? Answer on New Year's Day here).

Toasting the New Year Before it's Toast (Revised and Reposted)

THEY’RE RIOTING IN AFRICA

I guess I did not remember very well the tune of this song sung by the Kingston Trio in my youth (--which is actually called "The Merry Minuet" and was written by Sheldon Harnick). Like everything else the original words are available on the web.
New correct version--
(To be sung to that tune–with apologies to all involved).


They’re rioting in Africa.
In Kenya they’re mad.
There’s temples bombed in India.
Afghanistan’s sad.
Al Quaeda is in Iraq
With tactics absurd.
The Shiites hate the Sunnis,
The Sunnis hate the Kurds.
Hez-bollah hates Israel,
And Israel hates Hamas.
And I don't like the outrageous price of gas.

But we can be happy and sappy you see,
In HD on big screens there's reality.
And we can be certain come e-lection day
The prevailing candidate
Will solve all of it right away.

They're rioting in Pakistan
There's strife in Iraq.
But as the coming year unfolds
You'll want to have the old year back.