Flood the Zone Fridays
Well – it’s been fun taking a little time off to spend with my baby. Thanks to all for the wonderful wishes sent her way! I've been, um, having a frelling wonderful time relaxing for a bit.
But it looks like things might be heating up again. The Rush Limbaugh transcription project has been malingering long enough. It feels like it’s time to get back into the zone over there soon. And there is excitement and more infotainment than you can shake a stick at coming on your horizon in the near future, gang. It’s almost time to let another cat out of the bag.
And almost time for me to get my order of chickenhawk cards – so I can hand them out to all my Blogathon contestant winners, and a few of my fellow bloggers.
Yes, it has been quite an interesting summer here at the Funny Farm. We begin another regular feature over here with our first letter to the editor in conjunction with Not Geniuses and the rest of the Fashionable Left Bank of BlogistanTM who are engaged in our first Flood the Zone Friday. A toast of the frosty mug from us to the rest of you!
Now, here’s my first contribution, about the Fiscal Irresponsibility of the Current Administration:
It has come to my attention that the mainstream media has glossed over and/or ignored the fiscal irresponsibility of the current administration. You should be informing your readers about a number of facts concerning the fiscal disaster currently in progress: The current budget deficit (which does not include the costs of the war in Iraq) is by far the largest in the history of this country, and among the top 5 in percentage of GDP as well. The 'Tax Cuts' which are the sole responsibility of the Republican House, the Republican Senate, and the Republican Administration, have not done anything to help the situation. A side effect of this piece of fiscal irresponsibility has been to rob the federal government of the ability to help ease the financial distress of individual states. Which are themselves going through unprecedented fiscal crises' of their own. Unemployment rates have also gone to heights not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930's. The United States has lost almost 70,000 jobs during every month of the current administration. When you also hear that the U.S. Republican Party has outsourced their fund raising campaign to a foreign country, this drain on our nation's economy becomes particularly galling. How can the party that claims to be concerned with it’s constituents' woes hand over their jobs to foreigners? You should devote more of your resources towards bringing vital information of this nature to the people. Isn't that what responsible journalism is all about? Regards, (: Tom :) The Funny Farm |
BTW, that is a pseudonym, and not the signature on the letter. If it appears in any of the papers I sent it to, you will have a chance to find out my real name. Next time, I’ll try and post my letter a little earlier in the day, so as to provide a little more inspiration when it is needed. And I do hope to get better at this. Some others seem to be quite prolific and inspirational from our perspective.
Speaking of which - I would love to feature Marc Parkel’s letters to the editor, but I see that he is doing it himself on his blog right now. So I suppose I should point out that he is now over in the Links Zone twice, once for his main site, and once for his blog. I suggest you visit there from time to time. You never know what you might find!
And there's some new Brew and some new CrimQuips and a new Mad Kane parody and Atrios is a fantastic source of information as always and all is well with the world! I'm so happy sometimes, I can't even stand myself...
Random guerilla blogging from various undisclosed locations in the North American Midwest may take place in the near future. Come here for the blog updates, but stay until you've worked your way through the links zone. You'll be glad you did!
