Randi Rhodes: Shame & Crazy

It’s Friday, ya bastids!

Well, the Wisconsin Assembly pushed through Scott Walker’s union-busting bill in the wee hours of this morning, when nobody is awake, except possibly Charlie Sheen. OK, definitely Charlie Sheen. More on that later.

Nationwide protests tomorrow!

Meanwhile, Wisconsin Governor Walker’s budget cuts could mean school budget reductions as much as $500 per student. Glenn Beck is going to have more of a budget for chalk and chalkboards than most schools in Wisconsin will have. They’re going to end up with classes so big that they’ll exceed the number of people that the fire code allows in the classroom. It’s a good thing there won’t be anybody to enforce the fire code either.

Overseas, Muammar Gadhafi is going more and more daffy. (Say it out loud.) He made a bizarre and rambling phone call to Libyan state television. Libyan television needs call screeners to weed out the real nut cases. As soon as someone says that they are Muammar Gadhafi, you know it’s either someone pretending to be Gadhafi, in which case they’re probably crazy, or it really is Gadhafi, in which case they’re definitely crazy. Gadhafi said that Al Qaeda was giving young people hallucinatory drugs. Wow. There’s one that even the conservatives in the US didn’t think of—linking Islamic terrorism with the hippies and their LSD! Hardcore Islamists want to turn the US into a caliphate, and they’re going to do it with Phish concerts! Gadhafi literally said “they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.” OK… so what we thought was a political uprising is really just the Electric Nescafe Acid Test.

In news of crazy people who aren’t running states or countries, Charlie Sheen called an LA radio show, and proceeded to vent in an 18 minute rambling screed that really can probably only be translated by Gadhafi himself. All he needed was Nightranger’s “Sister Christian” playing in the background while a Filipino guy lights firecrackers. Wow. There’s “drunk dialing.” I think what we have here is a case of “half-the-cocoa-crop-of-Bolivia-dialing.” Or else it sounds like somebody has been drinking too much of the Nescafe.

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Wisconsin Assembly Democrats erupted and shouted “Shame!” at exiting Republicans after they rammed through the anti-union bill at 1:00am this morning…