Watching TV so you don’t have to!
There’s a post about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ wedding over at Keris Stainton’s blog which includes the Scientologist’s wedding vows which apparently includes the question: “Now, Tom, girls need clothes, and food and tender happiness and frills. A pan, a comb, perhaps a cat. All caprice, if you will. But still they need them. Do you then provide? Do you?”.
Quizmania, the best program ever or a secret government conspiracy to melt our brains? Watch the clips and decide.
I decided to take a quick break from my usual habit of watching inane reality TV programmes and tuned into the press conference that George Bush gave yesterday after the thumping that the Republican party received at the hands of the Democrats. Dubya as eloquent as ever came out with the following corker about the sacking resignation of Donald Rumsfeld.
Question: Thank you, Mr. President. Last week you told us that Secretary Rumsfeld will be staying on. Why is the timing right now for this, and how much does it have to do with the election results?
Dubya: Right. No, you and Hunt and Keil came in the Oval Office, and Hunt asked me the question one week before the campaign, and basically it was, are you going to do something about Rumsfeld and the Vice President? And my answer was, they’re going to stay on. And the reason why is I didn’t want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign. And so the only way to answer that question and to get you on to another question was to give you that answer.
In other words, Dubya admitted that he lied to get out of answering a tricky question. So I guess it’s official, politicians tell lies. Unfortunately, none of the assembled hacks there came out with the obvious follow up question:
If you are willing to tell a bare faced lie in order to get through an interview, why should we (or anyone else for that matter) believe anything you say to us now?
I guess that would have just been too rude.
Some important news from the US, Pop star Britney Spears has filed for divorce from husband Kevin Federline citing “irreconcilable differences“. I wonder if that makes Britney a Fed-Ex?
And almost as important, there were some midterm elections there too. The Democrats gained twenty seven seats in The House of Congress giving them overall control plus five seats in the Senate (with two independants, they have overall control there as well) and six governorships. Hurrah, probably! And the best news is that Donald Rumsfield, the person most responsible for the fiasco in Iraq, has resigned.
So will anything change? Well, I think Donald Rumsfeld summed it up best.
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
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