"Winners never lose and ...

losers never win." That's one of the lines from a song ("Let the Suns Shine In")that they (I don't sing that kind of bullshit) sang in church this morning. It struck me because we had just heard a sermon about Jesus being for the losers of his, and our, world but of course nobody really pays any attentionto a sermon. They come to church to be "Uplifted" (more bullshit) and so they sing crap that "uplifts" them. Boy George "uplifts" people (at least he used to) with his Bullshit, that's why he's president -- and somebody who is more competent and more honest than he is (that's not hard to be) isn't.





(Back to the life story of BG)

Someone once said that George Bush is not Dumb, but he is ignorant." I think that goes a long way to explain BG's journey in politics. Other's say he's just "lucky." I think other people (some he wasn't even aware of) made things happen that to other people seemed lucky.

When people started thinking about BG's future (after baseball) they decided he might just be a good front man for their political ambitions. He might have been convinced that they wanted him in politics because he was so damn smart but they knew better, what they liked about him was his name. If his name had been George Brush he'd still be screwing up oil companies, but his name was Bullshit, I mean Bush.

So they decided to pool their money, to hire the sleaziest political con men they could find, and to let them run his campaign for governor of the State of Dumbass (akaTexas). Now I lived in Texas (I was stationed there) for 10 months (I had to ship over to get transferred) so I know a little about that place.

Somebody once said that all the smart Texans live in Arkansas because that was as far away as they could get on a tank of gas. So I guess the dumb ones just wanted a governor who was as dumb as the rest of them.

Through no fault,nor any thoughts, of his won BG was elected. In reality,Karl Rove (Bush's Brain) was hired to get BG elected and he made it happen. The first thing Karl did, was send BG out to buy a "ranch" to show some easily fooled Texans that he was, after alll, just one of the 'good ol' boys.' (Now BG has probably the only ranch in Texas on which horses aren't allowed because, it turns out, BG is scared to death of horses!) Ahh, the magic of a professional hit man. BG thought it was because he'd earned it, Karl new better.

Daddy Bush had two boys running for Governor that year (1994), the so-called smart one (Jeb) lost and the dumb one won, proving Texans are even dumber than Floridians. From the beginning of his first term as Gov, Karl's (and BG's) eyes were on the presidency. Texas be damned!

More later.

OWHN

Have you ever wondered

what it's like to live in George Bush's world? I don't know where that world is or how many people live there (though I understand the population is decreasing). I do, though, know a little bit about what life is like in Boy George's world because I see it a lot on TV and a lot of people in TV land also seem to live there.


IN BG's (that's GB backwards ) world everything is black and white, unless, of course, you are very rich -- because then the world is rose colored. BG's life has been filled with failures, but in his world failure doesn't have the same meaning as it does for other folks. Failure in BG's world just means somebody else fixing it.



As a kid he went to a private school for very rich kids but he couldn't get good enough grades to get into an Ivy League School where rich kids go so his daddy got him into one. And then when he didn't get good enough grades in college to get into a prestigious grad school (also Ivy League) his daddy fixed it again.



Then, possessing an MBAwh (without honors) from Harvard and a ton of money from his mommy and daddy he set about starting an oil company in Texas. Even with all that money he failed spectacularly so his daddy's friends bailed him out (and gave him another job -- and a new company). Using the lessons learned from his first effort BG he lost their money too.



But not to worry, daddy's friends again came to the rescue by giving him a job in the management of a baseball team (a losing team of course). In fact daddy's friends were so thrilled with his job skills they gave him part ownership of the team -- and sent him around town giving speechs to local Lions Clubs and Chambers of Commerce groups. This was probably the only job he ever had at which he didn't fail, and because he didn't fail the citizens of Dallas (Arlington) Texas are still paying for a losing team but now the team is playing in a big fancy stadium that the taxpayers are and will be paying for for many years to come.



And because of his great selling job he was paid an extra several million dollars and encouraged to run for governor. Daddy was very proud!



(to be continued)



Before I get to "the rest of the story" (in future entries) let me warn you that, as for the rest of us who don't live in BG's world, this story has a good ending.



OWHN