Caution: Blair/Bush Press Conference Creating Integrity Vacuum in D.C.

[shereads]

11:33 am EST. A virtual black-hole of pandering has just formed in the East Room of the White House.

Tie yourselves to the mast.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Ah, com'on!

The integrity to be found in Washington could be snorted up by some piker with a two-dollar cocaine habit.

 

[Guest]

Ah, com'on!

The integrity to be found in Washington could be snorted up by some piker with a two-dollar cocaine habit.

What exactly is a piker?

Ooops! There goes the thread in off direction.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

pik·er n. (Slang) 1. A cautious gambler. 2. A person regarded as petty or stingy.

[Possibly from Piker, a poor migrant to California, after Pike County in eastern Missouri.]


The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition



black hole (science-astronomy) An object whose gravity is so dense that not even light can escape from it.

www.pgd.hawaii.edu/eschool/glossary.htm

 

[Songcatcher]

11:33 am EST. A virtual black-hole of pandering has just formed in the East Room of the White House.

Tie yourselves to the mast.

How does one say go away without the fricative bump in the middle?

 

[Somme]

11:33 am EST. A virtual black-hole of pandering has just formed in the East Room of the White House.

Tie yourselves to the mast.

http://www.poguetry.com/images/medusa.gif

"The architects of our doom
Around their tables sit
And in their thrones of power
Condemn those they've cast adrift..."

 

[Somme]

...oh, s**t...