Yesterday was Presidents' Day, which meant an extra day off, which meant mini golf, trying to get a little blue ball into a door on a pretend neuschwansteinisch castle, followed by further victories at air hockey and donkey kong junior (you never lose the touch); I would have attempted the swanky mariokart machine, to see how it fared against the original (of which i'm the master, lord of the green shell), but I'd wasted my last tokens on a single disastrous podracing lap on tatooine - I blame anakin's engineering, mate. Good fun in the february sun. President's Day though - it's really just an amalgamation of Lincoln and Washington's birthdays (and mine, I tell people; it's close enough) (actually Ronald Reagan's is the day before mine), but now celebrates all Presidents, bad and good. Even Him. Well, King George is the patron of all days off, especially those that involve playing a bit of golf (and let's face it, he plays mini-golf, not real golf; there are Golf/Gulf jokes brewing about how he went into Iraq saying "this one's for pa", but I'm not going to say them). He did do some work last week though, giving his valentine's press conference (or 'prez conference' as he prefers to call it, "heh-heh, 'cos ah'm the, ah'm the prez, yeh" ). He let slip a phrase that seems to have gone unnoticed, and although I think he was attempting to use this phrase to put down countries who don't want to impose sanctions on any country the Bush regime is trying to start a war with, it is a phrase that excellently sums up the attitude of the Decider and his band of Administraitors: money trumps peace. Money trumps peace. It's brilliant, isn't it? He says it so succinctly. Money, yeah, trumps peace. It trumps it. Doesn't even come close. Oh yeah. Peace...money? Sorry, money trumps peace. Ever played scissors paper stone? (and really, why would you though) It's like that, but there's just money and there's just peace. Well, money trumps just about everything anyway. That should be the catchphrase of his legacy: money trumps peace. Hang on though, is he accusing the rest of the world now of just being greedy money-grabbing bastards who prefer war to peace? Insert cliche about pots, kettles and racial insults here. But yeah, money trumps peace. Keep saying it. It's probably the most important thing he's said since "bring 'em on".
day of the prez
21.2.07 08:03
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