I Can't Make This Shit Up

Ladies and gentleman, this woman wants to run for President:

Michele Bachmann thinks America blew it by extending a safety net to millions of Americans under President Johnson’s “Great Society.” Her solution? Model the economy after communist China.

“The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state,” she said. “If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…They don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.”

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Though there's pretty much no chance she'll win the Republican nomination at this point, the simple fact she's even in consideration for the nomination speaks volumes as to the state of politics in this country. If you have to have it spelled out for you why China is not the sort of country you want your ostensibly democratic country to emulate, you really shouldn't be allowed anywhere near any sort of government building. Period.

I swear one day we're going to discover Michelle Bachman is a creation of the creators/writers behind The Daily Show, and that she's a prank that went horribly, horribly wrong.

Yes, more about Sandusky.

My mother often reminds me of something her father, my grandfather, used to say about what he learned working as a city magistrate/judge in my hometown. He said there were two kinds of laws: the ones that applied to the poor and the ones that applied to the rich. It's that little nugget of family history that I thought about when I learned the possible reasons behind why Jerry Sandusky went free on bail despite prosecutors' desires.

The judge who released former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky on bail has had ties to his charity.

After Sandusky was charged this month with 40 counts of sexually abusing children, Judge Leslie Dutchcot freed him on $100,000 bail, against the wishes of prosecutors.

A biography of Dutchcot posted on the website of the law firm Goodall & Yurchak lists her as a volunteer for The Second Mile, a program for troubled youths that Sandusky founded.

Quelle surprise. Anyone who has lived in a small town knows having connections to people in power can let you get away with murder (not quite literally, but sometimes...). Guess what Sandusky has by virtue of having ties to Penn State's football team and being the head of a charity organization? Connections. Lots of them.

In this report it's also noted that Sandusky can see an elementary school playground from his backyard. Yeah, totally okay to have him walking around on bail.