Jim DeMint is retiring from the Senate to work for a right wing think tank and make tons of money. He says he is continuing to fight the good fight on a different front, but that is just as bogus as Sarah Palin retiring as Governor of Alaska halfway through her term just because it’s easier to screech and rant when you have no actual responsibilities and besides, she was facing a whole bunch of criminal charges if she stayed on.
One down…Oh, so many to go
Maybe DeMint is, too. Or maybe there was some sexual affair that was about to come out. There had to be something. Nobody resigns from a Senate seat 2 years into a 6 year term just because “they found a better job.”
So, it’s fun to speculate and it’s a good day for the left because DeMint is gone, but the political difference will be minimal. The governor of South Carolina is Republican and teabagger Nikki Haley, so the seat will be passed on, automatically, to somebody else who is nuttier than a fruitcake, but there will be a period of confusion and disorientation on the right, which is a good thing.
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Marijuana is now officially legal in Washington State. Hooray! Apparently, this was celebrated with a big public pot party at the space needle where everybody counted down to midnight like it was New Year’s Eve and then sparked up in unison. I wish I could have been there. Perhaps not as momentous as the fall of the Berlin Wall, but a big step forward on the path to a more rational, mellower world.
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The story that I found a bit unbelievable was this one. It begins “Serbia’s ambassador to NATO was chatting and joking with colleagues in a multistory parking garage at Brussels Airport when he suddenly strolled to a barrier, climbed over and flung himself to the ground below.” Doesn’t sound like your typical suicide to me. Doesn’t fit the profile.
Sure, he was surrounded by witnesses, but they were witnesses who may have very well had a motive for wanting him to be dead.
Reading through the comments section, I saw that I was not the only one who had suspicions. I also noticed that a lot of people, almost undoubtedly Americans, don’t know the difference between Serbia and Syria.
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