Mr. Brunser has been identified as a very senior CIA official and someone with great knowledge of the inner working of the thoroughly corrupt Bush Administration. His column has become very popular with our many readers. It has obviously become equally unpopular with not only Porter Goss’ band of  Trained Dwarves but the White House as well. Many enemies, much honor. We do not always agree with Mr. Brunser’s views but his articles are very through and informative. Ed.

The Whore of the Week

A FRIEND IN BED IS A FRIEND INDEED:

Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum Impersonates Dostoyevsky's "Idiot."

The United States Congress is known for idiotic proposals about trivial matters, as if the country isnot teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, our armed forces are not bleeding to death in Iraq, the cost of energy is not heading for orbit......

No, indeed, Republican Senator Rick Santorum ofPennsylvania has decided that none of this is asimportant as the weather: namely, "reforming" the National Weather Service, so that some sleazy businesspeople who passed him mucho moolah (known in any other English-speaking country except the United States as a "bribe") can rip off even more loot from the taxpayer, and hopefully share some of it with dear Senator Ricky.

The good Senator may find himself cozily tucked up in bed with those special interests, but, as usual, it is the American public whom he proposes to anally penetrate, whether they like it or not. In polite circles, this activity is known as anal rape. In less polite language, Senator Santorum is trying to butt-f**k the taxpayer AGAIN. Here is the whole sordid story.

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Santorum Wants to Privatize Weather Forecast

April 29, 2005
by David Rossie
Press &Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York)

A reader who chose to remain anonymous sent along a copy of a story that ran last week in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, about the ongoing adventures of Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania's junior Republican U.S. Senator.

What with being a leading proponent of the Cheney/Bush administration's scheme to divert Social Security funds to Wall Street, overturning Roe v Wade, and preventing homosexuals from undermining the very foundations of this great land, you'd think Ricky would have enough on his plate.

But no. Now he has, in a way, taken up Charles Dudley Warner's 108-year-old challenge: "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Ricky doesn't propose to actually do anything about the weather, but he is determined to make sure that only certain people talk about it.

As things now stand, weather information – current and coming soon to your neighborhood -- is available from the National Weather Service, via its Web site, or over one of those little battery-operated gizmos, like the one I keep in my kitchen, that broadcasts up-to-the-minute information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOOA).

According to the Tribune-Review, The National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005, introduced by Ricky on April 14, would, if passed, "bar the National Weather Service from providing any service that competes with the private sector."

In other words, American taxpayers, whose dollars support the NWS, would not, if this wacky legislation were to become law, be able to obtain weather information from that source, because the same or similar service is provided by private weather forecasting companies such as AccuWeather, and the Weather Channel.

(SO, NEXT TIME YOU DROWN ON A FISHING TRIP BECAUSE ACCUWEATHER DID NOT REPORT THAT LIL' OLE STORM, YOU MAY THANK REPUBLICAN SENATOR RICKY SANTORUM, AS THE SHARKS CHEW ON YOUR TOES - ED.)

And here the plot thickens. The Tribune-Review notes that Joel and Barry Myers, founders and executives of AccuWeather, which has its headquarters at State College, Pa., have "donated to Ricky's election campaigns."

WELL, IMAGINE THAT. WHAT A SURPRISE