I am shedding some "lyte" on resurrections. Michael Jackson is now officially dead and we can now go back to our regularly scheduled lives. News of the pop star's demise dominated the headlines for the last two weeks, but sooner or later, the world moves on. Rats!
Iranians are still angry. A group of protesters were fired upon by government forces. The protesters, numbering around 200 to 300, were commemorating the revolution in 1979. Isn't it ironic that the government that was put in power by a revolution is so put out when they are the target of revolt?
And apparently, Nancy Pelosi wasn't scamming us when she said that the CIA withheld information from her and other members of Congress. CIA Director Leon Panetta admitted as much to group of Democratic lawmakers. A letter was released today. Of course the Republicans are claiming it is all political cover up. But I am not surprised that an agency whose sole purpose is to sneak around and pretend, did not come clean to a notoriously leaky Congress.
If Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada thought his little ole affair was going to be forgotten, he's got another thing coming. The cuckolded husband released Ensign's farewell letter to his paramour to the Las Vegas Sun. Ouch! It looks like Ensign may have committed a felony when he paid his mistress a $25,000 severance when the affair ended. There are also rumors that Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn urged Ensign to pay the couple "millions of dollars" to pay off their home and get out of Dodge, I mean Nevada. So it looks like there is more to come on this story as well.
Oh, the halcyon days of summer. I, for one, am happy to welcome back world unrest, political infighting and steamy affairs. But I bet some wish that the mourning period for Michael's death was unending.
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