I just got the following spam comment:

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At first I felt guilty zapping the spam until I read it closer, which makes me think that the money obtained from spam will be used to feed the children [of] ugand to hungry people. Farookin’ cannibals.

Sheesh.

Before Eric and Mrs. SWG left for Europe, he asked if I would mind checking in on his place to be sure everything remains in order. Given that I provided the same service last year, I agreed to do it again this year.

… mercy …

Damn, I just saw some kind of kitty litter commercial on TV, and the starring cat looked just like Junior, only Junior is way better looking.

I think I need a Kitty Agent.

Unlike the scuzzoids recently arrested in Jersey, this one is a BIG ENCHILADA.

As I suspect many of you already know, today the F.B.I. arrested 11 state and local politicians (and one non-politician who was the bagman for a politician) for various charges, all centering on bribery in exchange for granting government contracts.

The twelve were arrested as a result of an F.B.I. undercover operation, which began in June 2006 when it appeared that things were really rotten in the Pleasantville School District, which is east of Atlantic City and is one of the poorest districts in the state. Indeed, it was so rotten that in July a state monitor was assigned to keep an eye on its finances.

Posing as insurance brokers, undercover agents, with the help of cooperating witnesses one of whom had been in the roofing business, offered cash bribes in exchange for steering municipal contracts in their direction. The Jersey pols eagerly scarfed up the cash, which was often delivered in parked cars. Wanting their fellow politico-cruds to take advantage of the ready cash, the South Jersey crooks pointed federal agents north.

That resulted in the snaring of Samuel Rivera, the Mayor of Passaic, who is also a former cop and professional wrestler (I kid you not). In addition, Mims Hackett Jr., the mayor of Orange and Assemblyman Alfred Steele, who is the Deputy Speaker of the State Assembly, a Baptist Minister and the undersheriff of Passaic County were also arrested, as was Keith Reid, the chief of staff to Newark City Council President Mildred Crump, and Marcellus Jackson, a councilman from Passaic.

Rivera allegedly said, when offered the cash in exchange for contracts with the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, “We can get you that, easy, easy.”

Marcellus Jackson, the Passaic Councilman, allegedly was grateful and optimistic as he took the cash from undercover agents, when he reportedly said, “I appreciate it, baby. … Good things is gonna happen.”

Perhaps the “Dumb as a Bag of Rocks” award goes to former Pleasantville Board of Education member Maurice “Pete” Callaway, who is the brother of former Atlantic City Councilman Craig Callaway. “Pete” allegedly took the bribes all the while knowing that his brother Craig is currently in prison for taking bribes from an undercover FBI agent.

As it happens, all but one of those arrested is a democrat. Now, before we republicans get all self righteous, remember that most politicians in Jersey are democrats, which means that, simply playing the odds will net more crooked democrats than republicans.

I do not give the state’s republican politicians a pass on this. They are part of the rotten system that has allowed this national embarrassment to continue. When was the last time you heard of a republican turning in a fellow politician for being on the take? Let me answer that for you — never.

Still, the Sheeple in New Jersey continue to elect these rogues and thieves. It boggles the mind.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Here is a simple rule for the next election:

If a candidate for any state, county or municipal office is currently in office, vote him or her out, regardless of party affiliation. Our only hope is a goddamned clean sweep.

Of course, it is more likely that I will stick a feather in my ass and fly to Pittsburgh than it is that New Jersey voters will wake the hell up.

Note: Links relating to the foregoing are here, here and here.

PRS Operatives have been following the campaigns of the democrat presidential candidates and have come upon a copy of Former Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards’ To-Do List. We thought it would be of some interest to PRS Readers, so without further ado, here it is:

1. Sell the goddamned embarrassing SUVs, and fire the sonofabitch who allowed them to be photographed.

2. Spend more time in sun. That café au lait look works wonders for that Johnny-Come-Lately, rat bastard Obama.

3. Spend less time fantasizing about addressing Hillary as, “You filthy, lying, criminal bitch” at the next debate.

4. Call tailor to have him make suits that look more pedestrian.

5. Develop talking point to explain how it is that hedge funds really don’t exclude the Other America.

6. Hire a voice coach to teach me how to speak with one of those cool black accents like Hillary does.

7. Send a dead rat to John Kerry.

8. Ditto Ann Coulter.

9. Send flowers to Arianna Huffington.

10. Practice swallowing collard greens without gagging.

11. Call that Kos guy to tell him that the Secretary of Defense job is in the bag.

12. Call Jimbo for hair care product advice.

Two of my “pals” from Montana must have raced to see which one of them could send me this story first.

Hint: It deals with an Ohio jackass and his interesting choice of pets and how one of his pets surprised one of his neighbors.

Thanks, guys … NOT.

Ralph Peters writes in the New York Post, “If you’re sleeping safely in your own bed tonight, thank those Marines from ‘Joisey.’”

I salute them. Thanks, guys.

Via Right, Wing-Nut!

I continue to break my ass trying to avoid labor of any kind today. I’m off to a bad start, because I got to experience the absolute joy of cleaning behind the clothes dryer, including cleaning the inside of that slinky-looking thing that vents the dryer to the outside. Have you ever seen what accumulates in there? Ack!

I suspect that I’ll be sneezing that crap for a few days.

Now my immediate plan now is to bust my ass with a cup o’ coffee and a page-turner.

Later.

Alas, I was only partially able to avoid labor today, having been drafted for a couple hours into moving stuff from one place to another as part of the dreaded “Clean the Basement” Project. More on that at another time.

Abruptly switching topics, let me say that I think that Elisson is a seriously smart guy — scary smart, sometimes, maybe even the stuff of genius going on there. The thing is that “genius” often manifests itself in very strange ways.

Yeef!