Yesterday, it was reported that Russia had sent attack helicopters to Syria, in defiance of international condemnation of the brutal Assad government. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is indignant. Syrian civilians are being slaughtered and Russia--far from being a responsible world citizen--enables the regime, supplying it with powerful weapons, caring little if anything for fundamental human rights in its heartless, unconscionable worship of Mammom, selling high-tech attack helicopters how could they do this those bastards!!!!
Today, we find out that the Russians weren't exactly selling helicopters to the Syrians so much as they were performing maintenance on helicopters that had been sold several years ago. Confronted with this information, Secretary Clinton responded, "Well, you know, that's still bad. I mean, OK, maybe I exaggerated a little, but. . . .You know. . . ATTACK HELICOPTERS! It's not like we're talking about a previously-owned Hyundai,here! You can do a lot of damage with a used helicopter!"
As Gilda Radner might have said, Never mind.
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In other news, the Catholic Church is waging aggressive legal battles in jursidictions across the country to defeat efforts to extend or eliminate the statute of limitations on child molestation cases. Church representatives feel it is unfair to penalize clergy who have successfully run out the clock on their susceptibility to prosecution for raping children (I might be paraphrasing). To think, if the Vatican and its flunkies had devoted half as much energy to preventing and punishing child molesters in their ranks as they have expended on attempts to thwart legislative responses to the issue, they wouldn't be in this situation in this first place.
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