Go read John Howard. He's got it all figured out.
What the…?
I have no idea what to make of this:
A British armored vehicle escorted by a tank crashed into a detention center Monday in Basra and rescued two undercover troops held by police, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official told CNN.What the hell kind of “special security task” obliges hiding one’s identity and firing on civilians?
British Defense Ministry Secretary John Reid confirmed two British military personnel were "released," but he gave no details on how they were freed.
In a statement released in London, Reid did not say why the two had been taken into custody. But the Iraqi official, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, said their arrests stemmed from an incident earlier in the day.
The official said two unknown gunmen in full Arabic dress began firing on civilians in central Basra, wounding several, including a traffic police officer. There were no fatalities, the official said.
The two gunmen fled the scene but were captured and taken in for questioning, admitting they were British marines carrying out a "special security task," the official said.
Pope Goes Haywire (and then, so do I)
First, via Raw Story, we learn that the Pope wants immunity from a pending lawsuit in Texas alleging that he was complicit in the cover-up of the sexual abuse of three boys by a seminarian. Then, via Pam, we learn that he has allegedly approved a ban on gay seminarians.
The long-anticipated document, prepared at the request of the late Pope John Paul II, reportedly calls on bishops to bar even chaste homosexuals from seminaries because their orientation is rooted in a personality disorder that may undermine their capacity to minister, according to Catholic World News.Okay, I don’t know about anyone else, but this liberal tends to see the roots of the scandal in the church’s insistence that the problem is gay men as opposed to pedophiles. Its insistence on protecting pedophiles, which makes the priesthood an ever more desirable profession for men who want access to children, an occupational status conferring trust with children, and protection from prosecution, is frankly secondary to the problem that the church refuses to correctly identify the real culprits, which doesn’t require a gay witch hunt but a bloody mirror. If they stopped protecting pedophiles, pedophiles wouldn’t continue to infiltrate the priesthood and would instead hang around schoolyards until they’re arrested and thrown in jail to be repeatedly raped by cellmate Bubba where they belong.
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Since the recent priest sex abuse scandal, the issue of gay priests has gone from taboo to one of the most hotly debated aspects of the crisis. Noting that the overwhelming majority of victims were teenage boys, powerful members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy have framed the problem as homosexual priests unable to live chastely. Liberals tend to see the roots of the scandal in a culture of clerical secrecy and the church's mandatory celibacy requirement.
The great irony of all this “overwhelming majority of victims were teenage boys” rubbish that’s used as a justification to ban gay men from the priesthood is that it was the church’s own sexism that created the demographics of the victims. When this shit started, how many altar girls were there? Oh yeah, none, because the church wouldn’t allow it. And it’s also due to cultural sexism, which leads parents to send their young sons on overnight camping trips and church retreats etc. with adult men—something they would never do with their daughters. Is a 13-year-old boy better at defending himself against unwanted sexual advances from a trusted adult than a 13-year-old girl? No. But still off go the Boy Scouts and the altar boys, with their parents’ permission. If you wouldn’t send your daughter, don’t send your son. Pedophiles are overwhelmingly male and are predators of opportunity; the majority of them don’t give a shit whether they’ve got a boy or a girl in their clutches, but because of the double standards that we apply to children, we give them access to boys in larger numbers.
Not that the church cares about any of this, apparently. Just get rid of the gay priests; that’ll solve everything. Bastards.
Question of the Day
What's your favorite nickname for President Bush?
There are so many—Dumbya, awol (TM Skippy), Shrub, Preznit Stupid, President Sideshow, etc. Name your favorite, or come up with something new, like, oh I don't know ... Drinky McCokenose.
And for anyone who feels offended by such mockery, feel free to come up with a sassy moniker for me instead. I am, as always, an equal opportunity offender.
RIP Simon Wiesenthal
I heard on the radio this morning that Mr. Wiesenthal had died. He was 96. Good innings. And what an amazing life he led. Reuters has a nice obit here.
Hacktacular
Even though Bush’s catastrophically unqualified FEMA chief, Mr. Arabian Horseman, had to resign in disgrace after the nation saw his deadly incompetence revealed for exactly what it was, Bush evidently remains determined to staff his entire administration with hacks. The WaPo reports that the most pertinent qualifications his nominee to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency seems to have are being the niece and daughter-in-law of two other administration hacks.
After working as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., for two years, [Julie Myers] held a variety of jobs over the past four years at the White House and at the departments of Commerce, Justice and Treasury, though none involved managing a large bureaucracy. Myers worked briefly as chief of staff to Michael Chertoff when he led the Justice Department's criminal division before he became Homeland Security secretary.And guess what? She’s probably going to be appointed, because Liebertwat’s the ranking Dem on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and he thought Brownie had “particularly useful experience” and was “glad” he had been nominated.
Myers also was an associate under independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr for about 16 months and has most recently served as a special assistant to President Bush handling personnel issues.
Her uncle is Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the departing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She married Chertoff's current chief of staff, John F. Wood, on Saturday.
With Dems like these, who needs Republicans?
(Thanks for the tip, Ace.)
Blog Power
Peter Daou has written a really interesting and thought-provoking essay called The Triangle: Limits of Blog Power. I was all set to write something about it, but then I saw that Pam has already done a bang-up job, upon which I couldn’t improve. (And for the record, I intended to link even before I saw her nice comment about me, lol.)
Echidne’s done a great analysis, too, from a different perspective.
Check out the essay, and share your thoughts. I’m interested to see what other people think, too, including and perhaps especially those who are blog-readers but not bloggers themselves.
Uh Oh
The administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, which handles procurement policy for the White House's Office of Management and Budget, has been arrested on a three-count indictment. David Hossein Safavian has been charged with making false statements to a GSA ethics officer and the GSA-OIG, along with obstruction of a GSA-OIG investigation. Josh at Talking Points Memo has the scoop.
UPDATE: Atrios has some more fun facts...
[Safavian is] also, well, another hack with no experience in his field.Yowza.
Mr. Safavian's wife? Oh, that's Jennifer Safavian. Her job? Chief counsel on oversight and investigations on the House Government Reform Committee.
Their latest job? Heading up the sham Katrina investigation...
Unappeal Sessions
One of the shiteating wingnut GOP Senators who doesn’t nearly get enough attention for his hackery, ideological opportunism, and unique brand of wanton racism is Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Though lacking the involuntary shudder-inducing creepiness of Santorum or the teeth-grindingly infuriating willful ignorance of Bill Frist, Sessions is, in his own inimitable way, just as hideous as the rest of his cohorts, and maybe…just maybe…even worse. I’m not sure whether his recent performance at Roberts’ confirmation hearing or his attempts to exploit Katrina’s death toll to generate support for repeal of the estate tax is worse, so I guess we’ll just visit each for a moment.
During the time allotted to what should have been his questioning of Roberts, Sessions instead took the opportunity to cajole Roberts into saying he’d overturn Roe and to educate himself, apparently, on the inner workings of the SCOTUS. Ezra described watching Sessions
…berating Roberts for being too forthcoming, begging him to promise he's not yet decided how he'd rule on Roe … referencing polling data saying that Roe lacks widespread support and should be overturned … citing law articles and periodicals saying Roe is bad precedent ... trying to convince Roberts to overturn Roe, and begging him not to assume that's it's ‘settled law.’Ez also noted that “Sessions, incidentally, strikes me as an idiot. I don't mean ideologically objectionable (though he is that), I mean dumb.” He wasn’t alone in making that observation. After watching the same thing, Wonkette questioned whether there should be an IQ test to be in the Senate.
Alabama's Jeff Sessions is asking Roberts the most basic questions about Supreme Court procedures: "I understand that friends of the court can also participate..." "You have an hour to give a presentation, is that right?" "And do the justices then meet in conference?"Yeah, Sessions certainly seems like a moron (and having Bush-esque quotes like “I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest” attributed to him doesn’t improve such opinions, no doubt), and maybe he is one, but if so, he’s adapted like a shark—tiny wee brain capable of nothing but that which is necessary for survival. To wit:
He's treating Roberts like the guy who talks to the class on Career Day. Better pay attention, Jeff -- the teacher assigned a Supreme Court diorama as homework!
Federal troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky, co-author of Sessions' legislation repealing the federal estate tax, which was encountering sudden resistance on the Hill. Sessions had an idea to revitalize their cause, which he left on Apolinsky's voice mail: "[Arizona Sen.] Jon Kyl and I were talking about the estate tax. If we knew anybody that owned a business that lost life in the storm, that would be something we could push back with."There was a lot of shit that made me really angry about the GOP’s attitudes about Katrina and its victims, but this one has to rank right up there at the top of the list somewhere. What a shit. What a scumbag. What a douche.
If legislative ambulance chasing looks like a desperate measure, for the backers of repealing the estate tax, these are desperate times. Just three weeks ago, their long-sought goal of repeal seemed within reach, but Katrina dashed their hopes when Republican leaders put off an expected vote. After hearing from Sessions, Apolinsky, an estate tax lawyer who says his firm includes three multi-billionaires among its clients, mobilized the American Family Business Institute, a Washington-based group devoted to estate tax repeal. They reached out to members along the Gulf Coast to hunt for the dead.
We’d better keep our eye on old Jeff Sessions. He’s so thoroughly odious, and so clearly incapable of sustaining an independent thought outside party dogma, that the GOP is likely to run him for president in no time.
Cokehead Kate
This is from an AP story today, titled Kate Moss Acknowledges Drug Use:
Supermodel Kate Moss acknowledged to the Hennes & Mauritz clothing chain that tabloid allegations she recently used cocaine are true, an H&M spokeswoman said.Blah blah blah.
Moss, who is to model one of H&M's upcoming clothing lines, apologized for her drug use and promised in writing to abide by a company policy that models be "healthy, wholesome and sound," spokeswoman Liv Asarnoj said.
Now here’s the thing. This is the cover of the Daily Mirror last week:
The image is a still from a video that apparently shows her doing 5 lines of blow in 40 minutes. Cripes.
I could write an entire post on how this story is sadly indicative of the fading sense of responsibility anyone seems to have toward owning up to their mistakes unless they get busted so hardcore it’s impossible to deny, but I think anyone who swings this way is clever enough to discern the roots of my disgust without any further exposition.
Bush the Unpopular and His Idiot Core
A new Survey USA tracking poll suggests a "can't win" dynamic is unfolding for President Bush as he struggles to deal with the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.Which just further reinforces my belief that the key attribute shared by Bush’s core supporters, be they anti-taxers, social conservatives, blood-lusting warmongers, or some ugly combination thereof, is a complete lack of understanding about what government is meant to do. And not just America’s government, or even just democratic governments, but all governments, each of which has a responsibility to protect and provide for its people. Every government defines those goals differently and meets them with varying degrees of success, and even within a nation’s population, we see different interpretations; in the US, conservatives tend to construe “protect” with heavy defense and individual property rights overtones, whereas liberals tend to lean toward allied relationships/diplomacy and social safety net considerations. Nevertheless, when an entire metropolis is lost, the government’s responsibility to protect and provide must kick into action.
"The number of Americans who now approve of the President's response to Hurricane Katrina is down: 40% today compared to 42% before he announced the Gulf Opportunity Zone" in a speech last week. "The number of Americans who disapprove of the President's response to Katrina is up: 56% today compared to 52% before the speech."
Key point: "The more cash President Bush throws on the fire, as compensation for what some see as an inadequate initial response, the more it antagonizes his core supporters."
People on either side should be able to agree that the Gulf Coast can’t just be left the way it is, and that it’s going to cost money that we have to spend. Many liberals feel that money should have been spent on preventative measures rather than chopped out of a budget to help pay for tax cuts, but either way, NOLA needed and needs help, so it was a pay then or pay later (or pay a little more then, a little less later) scenario. Bush’s core supporters, of course, seem to want a don’t pay then, don’t pay later, don’t pay ever, and keep giving us tax cuts kind of program, which is patently absurd. Just how absurd? If we left such decisions up to them, the trapped victims they’re so fond of blaming for not evacuating would have been joined by the rest of the population of New Orleans, since it’s pretty hard to leave if there are no roads. And hey—those evacuees wouldn’t have had so many problems if they’d only gotten a better education, although that would have been pretty hard for everyone if there were no schools. Etc.
Of course The-Government-Never-Gave-Me-Shit Brigade doesn’t understand government, and gets mad at President Sideshow for giving money toward the Gulf Coast’s reconstruction. Only someone who doesn’t understand the first thing about government could claim that they’ve never benefited from its obligation to protect and provide, or could suggest that no one else should.
Gutpunch
I guess someone's getting a little sick of having to clean up Junior's mess.
Clinton launches withering attack on Bush on Iraq, Katrina, Budget
This is a little surprising, because as the article says, it's kind of a "tradition" that former Presidents don't badmouth their successors. But, you know, if I spent eight years at an important job that I loved and the guy after me came in and sloppily ruined everything as quickly as he could, I'd be pretty damn pissed, myself.
The body blows come quick and fast.
Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq "virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction."
The Iraq war diverted US attention from the war on terrorism "and undermined the support that we might have had," Bush said in an interview with an ABC's "This Week" programme.
Biff!
On Hurricane Katrina, Clinton faulted the authorities' failure to evacuate New Orleans ahead of the storm's strike on August 29.
People with cars were able to heed the evacuation order, but many of those who were poor, disabled or elderly were left behind.
"If we really wanted to do it right, we would have had lots of buses lined up to take them out," Clinton.
He agreed that some responsibility for this lay with the local and state authorities, but pointed the finger, without naming him, at the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Bokk! And a Whudd! for Brownie!
On the US budget, Clinton warned that the federal deficit may be coming untenable, driven by foreign wars, the post-hurricane recovery programme and tax cuts that benefitted just the richest one percent of the US population, himself included.
"What Americans need to understand is that ... every single day of the year, our government goes into the market and borrows money from other countries to finance Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, and our tax cuts," he said.
"We have never done this before. Never in the history of our republic have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money from somewhere else."
Oooof!!!
And then, the subject I'm hearing more and more from the wealthy that still have a brain in their skulls and haven't been completely enveloped by greed:
Clinton added: "We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense."
BOKKO! Tax cuts for the wealthy are harming our country, and even the wealthy are admitting this. This is also helping dispel the myth that Bush's tax cuts are for "working people," instead of the richest people in the country. I don't think, deep down, even the most ignorant Bush supporters believe that his tax cuts are helping anyone but the rich, but when Bush says "working Americans," they fall right in line.
I saw a commercial last night asking for donations for the victims of Katrina. In it were Poppy Bush and Clinton. (I was pretty shocked that Junior didn't appear... wouldn't that be a good Rove PR move? And don't even try to tell me that he was too busy.) Poppy was doing his usual grin, looking creepier than ever now that his age has started to catch up with him.
Clinton looked tired, harried and pissed off.
It wouldn't surprise me if we start hearing a lot more of this from Clinton. He got savagely attacked during his entire Presidency for the most inane reasons, and although some criticism was deserved, the guy couldn't sneeze without some wingnut screeching "Treason!" Although I didn't agree with everything he did, I have to say that we were sitting pretty nicely as a country when he left office. Now, a short time later, I'm hearing more and more the phrase: "I'm ashamed to be an American." And not just from hardcore liberals, either. Clinton spent eight years being mercilessly attacked on all sides, and he still did a great job. The people still loved him. Now we have an incompetent in office that couldn't find his ass with both hands and a map, and although his popularity ratings are in the toilet, he's still essentially getting a free ride.
I think we'll be seeing more statements like this from Clinton and others in the not-too-distant future. No one likes seeing a hack destroy their life's work.
Update: As Nitpicker points out, Clinton may be "breaking with tradition" by criticising his successor, but he's hardly the first to do it.
(We'll send him cheesy cross-posts, the worst we can find... (La la la))
PowerLine Smackdown
Jesse rules. Although I can’t decide if it’s more for titling his post taking down the PowerLine spunkstains “Stupid Shits,” so blunt and accurate, yet humorous, or for the introduction to the post:
PowerLine may be the dumbest sacks in the history of dumb sackdom. It's not just that they're dumb sacks, it's that they're dumb sacks the threads of whose existence are drawn from high-dumbass worms found in rare and near-impassable mountains, spun by monks of shitheadery trained by years of watching nothing but Power Rangers reruns and old episodes of Hannity and Colmes. It is a rare and rich brand of stupidity that must be both scorned and admired, lest it fall into the annals of history, its true face unrecognized.Sheer brilliance. And his conclusion is just as spot-on. A definite must-read.
Carter-Baker Commission Urges Voter Reform
At least someone is paying attention to the half-assed fiasco that American elections have become:
Warning that public confidence in the nation's election system is flagging, a commission headed by former president Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James A. Baker III today will call for significant changes in how Americans vote, including photo IDs for all voters, verifiable paper trails for electronic voting machines and impartial administration of elections.There’s some controversy about the proposed ID requirement, but considering that Congress has already approved legislation to “standardize driver’s licenses in all 50 states” (read: compel national ID cards), I don’t know that it makes a hell of a lot of difference. Except, perhaps, delaying those barcodes on our plebeian foreheads for another couple of years, which has to be a good thing, right?
The report concludes that, despite changes required under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, far more must be done to restore integrity to an election system that suffers from sloppy management, treats voters differently not only from state to state but also within states, and that too often frustrates rather than encourages voters' efforts to participate in what is considered a basic American right.
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Commission leaders say the goal of the panel's 87 recommendations -- at an estimated cost of $1.35 billion -- is to make participation easier while also enhancing ballot integrity, a careful balancing of the long-standing argument between Democrats and Republicans in the administration of elections.
I certainly hope we can find $1.35 billion in our budget to make this happen. Ahem.
Good News
North Korea has agreed to halt its nuclear program in exchange for economic and energy aid, an with security assurances.
Kim Jung-Il is, of course, batshit insane, so this could change tomorrow, but for the moment, it looks promising.
The Sanctity of Insanity
You know, it’s really unbelievable that the Catholic Church continues to insist that gay priests are its biggest problem, even though there are priests who are crazier than shithouse rats doing all sorts of weird and evil crap, like molesting and raping kids and, in a recent bizarre incident in Texas, exposing them to disease (hat tip Pam):
Words were not enough for the Rev. Arthur Michalka to impress upon his parishioners the pain Jesus suffered during crucifixion. So on Wednesday, during evening Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Corn Hill, he called about 15 children to come forward so he could prick their palms with an unsterilized pin.What the…?! The Vatican would clearly be better served going after pedophiles and picarists instead of gays.
"What I was trying to teach them is that suffering is a part of life," said Michalka, 78, on Friday.
But the Catholic Diocese of Austin and the parents of one child who was pricked did not think it a prudent lesson. The diocese is conducting an investigation into the incident, though doctors say the risk of exposure to disease is probably low.
"What were you thinking?" said Debbie Sybert, a Jarrell resident whose 11-year-old daughter, Amanda, was pricked during Mass. "Apparently our father has lost his mind."
...Helen Osman, communications director for the Austin diocese, said workers at the Williamson County and Cities Health District will conduct confidential interviews with the Mass attendees to find out whether they have any communicable diseases and whether skin was broken. Then, officials will determine whether the children might be at risk for exposure to diseases such as HIV or hepatitis and whether a blood test is needed."
Two Good Lines
Bill Maher, on Friday Night’s Real Time (Crooks and Liars has the video here):
If you think stopping gays from "doing it" is more important than the ice caps melting, the boogey man is you.(Mr. Shakes and I generally really like Bill Maher, but that line absolutely made us cheer.)
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (whole article here):
I swear, if Bush blew up the White House, they'd praise him for creating construction jobs.(Hat tip to The Green Knight.)
Why Russ Could Win
Over at Ezra's place, Neil did a post on Why Hillary Will Lose. I agree whole-heartedly with his assessment of Hillary, and his conclusions. Americans on the Left and the Right, any who aren’t blind ideologues, have a natural distaste for disingenuous rhetoric clearly designed to appeal to a crowd they haven’t previously; it’s the worst kind of artificial politicking, that which helps no one but (ostensibly) the person who’s doing it. If you need any evidence, try to find anyone who enthusiastically supported Hillary’s devolution into culture vulturism to take on the makers of Grand Theft Auto.
That said, I’m not sure that Russ Feingold’s liberalism will have as limited appeal as it might seem at first blush. It’s true that Feingold is now ranked the most liberal Senator (tied with Boxer) in the Senate, which would likely be, under typical circumstances, a liability. But with the opportunity having presented itself to hold accountable not just the Bush administration, but the conservative agenda, for many of the massive government failures we’ve seen lately, the game has changed a bit. Whether the Dems will exploit that opportunity in the same way the Lefty blogosphere managed to do quite effectively is, of course, a another story altogether, but if they can, the time for being brave enough to juxtapose the conservative agenda with a clear liberal alternative might have come.
It’s also useful to consider what the big referendum issues are likely to be in 2008 (which I will preface with the caveat that things might change; one never knows). But if, as we can at this point rightly expect, the Iraq War, the GWOT, and associated legislation to be key issues, Feingold’s going to have a lot less semantic gymnastics to do than some of his likely competitors. He voted against the war, and in a twist on the thorn in Kerry’s side, voted for the $87 billion once the war was underway; something tells me he’ll have an easier time explaining why he didn’t support the war, but did support the troops once they were there, than Kerry had trying to justify his votes in reverse. As support for the war wanes, someone who never supported it in the first place may find himself nicely positioned in 2008.
Feingold was also the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act, another increasingly unpopular bit of Bush administration crapola, and suddenly a vote that might once have simply looked “liberal,” might instead be seen as having integrity—something that “unprincipled opportunists” who fight for the muddy middle will toil to counter.
During the spate of confirmation hearings directly after Bush’s inauguration, Feingold was criticized (and rightly so) for voting for Rice, even after giving a statement questioning her credentials. It was probably a bad vote, but by 2008, I doubt it will be much of an issue, and his only conceivable challengers who could claim otherwise are Kerry, who won’t be redeemed from other troubles by a no-vote on Condi, and Evan Bayh, who has a centrism problem similar to Hillary’s. (Feingold did vote no on Gonzales, for whatever it’s worth, and I think, again, by 2008, it won’t be worth much at all.)
Feingold may have other problems, in areas that shouldn’t matter, but might nonetheless. He’s twice-divorced (or will finalize his second divorce soon), and so when 2008 rolls around, he’ll either be thrice-married or a bachelor, either of which, if history accurately informs, are likely to be exploited by a GOP opponent who knows s/he can’t win on issues. He’s also Jewish, and I’ve no firm feeling about whether that would make a dime’s worth of difference to anyone besides bigoted dicks who would never vote for him, anyway, but it’s an unknown similar to that which would face a female or black candidate, or anyone who would be the first of anything—the question mark of American bigotry that hums beneath the surface in things that go unsaid. Neither of these potential issues have anything to do with whether he’d make a good president, which of course makes them perfect fodder for GOP-machine campaign tactics.
Leaving that aside, I’m unconvinced Feingold’s liberalism itself will be a liability in 2008. When one of the loudest complaints about Dems is that it’s unclear where they stand on things, a candidate with a firm vision (who’s a good speaker to boot) may answer that complaint quite handily. Liberalism isn’t a dirty word, and it needs no apology, which the Dems seem to have forgotten, but perhaps they’re willing to change course, unlike some other politicians I could mention.
(Crossposted at Ezra's juke joint.)
Achy-Breaky Heart
The following conversation just took place in the Shakes household…
Mr. Shakes: Did you ’ear that Zellweger’s marriage is already oover?
Shakes: Uh huh. Fraud? What’s up with that?
Mr. Shakes: He was proobably gay.
Shakes: Oh! You think?
Mr. Shakes: Too’ally. Doon’t you fink ‘fraud’ soonds like a coode word withoot really saying what it was? It’s better than saying ’e woodn’t fook me.
Shakes: I never even thought of that.
Mr. Shakes: I canny believe you didn’t fink of that one.
Shakes: ‘Gay’ and ‘She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy’ just can’t exist in the same sentence in my brain.
