Not a good weekend for news, unless your primary interest is in celebrities. You know it’s bad when 80% of the stories on Fox News are about a dead child molester who is being MOURNED by millions.

With all of the news of celebrity deaths in the past week, the death of the most decorated aviator in the history of the US Marine Corps was overlooked. Colonel Kenneth L. Reusser passed from this life on June 20th. He was a veteran of WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, and was shot down in all three wars. His decorations included 2 Navy Crosses, 2 Legions of Merit, and 4 times became a member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. Rest in peace, Colonel.

The Democrats have now officially bought every bit of the upcoming DEPRESSION, thanks to their passage of the massive energy tax called cap-and-trade, despite Americans flooding the Crapitol switchboard with calls at a 10 against to 1 for ratio. During the miniscule amount of debate allowed, they admitted that not a single copy of the whole bill was available in the House chamber. The bill was over 1200 pages long, with a final 300 pages of amendments being added at 3:09AM on Friday. Whatever happened to the promise of having the bills available to the public for FIVE DAYS before any votes? (You mean Obama lied to us, AGAIN?)  These people are no longer “representatives” as they have become agents of Obama and P-Lousy. Here are the turncoat supposed-Republicans who voted for this bill, with links to their websites: (in a break from my norm, these links are in pink for pansy liberals instead of olive green) Mary Bono-Mack (California), Mike Castle (Delaware), Mark Kirk (Illinois), Leonard Lance (New Jersey), Frank LoBiondo (New Jersey), John McHugh (New York), Dave Reichert (Washington), and Chris Smith (New Jersey). Each and every one of them needs to be defeated in the primaries of 2010.

One of those traitors, Mike Castle of Delaware, might not run for the House next year. The idiots of the Republican Party are pushing him to run for the Senate! Just what we need, another Senator who believes in raising taxes and sending American jobs overseas. The Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs.

How much does the Democratic Party hate our nation? Well, since they have lost control of the State Senate in Noo Yawk, they refuse to even stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I can only imagine what Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy is gonna do when the GOP takes back the US House. She’ll throw the hissy fit of the ages!

Friday afternoon, Mrs. Crawfish and I heard the 9-1-1 call from Michael Jackson’s residence. We both immediately recognized a bit of obvious medical malpractice in the description of what was going on. You see, Mrs. Crawfish and I are both long-time CPR instructors. The caller said that the victim (Jackson) was with his personal doctor who had been performing CPR, but also said that the victim was “He’s on the bed, sir. He’s on the bed.” CPR is NOT performed on a soft surface! You cannot perform proper chest compressions if the victim is on a soft, padded surface! The 9-1-1 operator even told the caller to get the victim onto the floor before starting CPR. I sent notice of this to Sean Hannity at Fox News, and sure enough saw it being mentioned on Fox News Saturday morning.

The Supreme Court made the only possible ruling in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano, by ruling in favor of the firefighters who actually studied for the test instead of relying upon the color of their skin for promotion purposes. Of course, the four liberal SCOTUS Justices sided with the Affirmative Action SCOTUS nominee, with the ACLU’s own Ruth Bader Ginsburg leading the anti-Constitutionalists charge with her dissent, which in part stated “Congress endeavored to promote equal opportunity in fact, and not simply in form.. .The damage today’s decision does to that objective is untold.” Did the black firefighters have the same OPPORTUNITY to study for the promotion exam? Yes, they did. There already was equal OPPORTUNITY, but that doesn’t guarantee equal RESULT!

Corruption and sleaze run in the family when the family happens to be made up of Democrat politicians. The Kennedy family has always been world renown crooks, rum-runners during Prohibition, buying Congressional seats, and getting away with rape and manslaughter, if not murder. Well, now we have the Conyers family, made up of long-time Congresscritter John (a union thug tool) and his wife Monica, who has now plead guilty to federal bribery charges and faces up to five years in prison. How long until the Obama-Holder team wipes away the conviction or pardons her?

The Democrats and their union thug bosses keep saying that there would be no intimidation tactics used against people who would be otherwise opposed to voting in favor of unionization of workplaces. Well, here’s what actually happened to someone who opposed a corrupt union in her workplace. Hat tip to Townhall commenter “beachmom.”

The Speaker of the Californication Assembly, in an interview published over the weekend, said that conservative talk radio is made up of terrorists who threaten Republicans into voting the way they do. Yep, standing up for the state or national constitutions is terrorism.

The folks in charge of the Iranian elections supposedly recounted a “random” 10% of the ballots and declared that the results were validated. Of course, they really hand-picked the 10%, and probably didn’t even count them.

Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his $30,000,000,000.00+ swindling scheme, although the next higher court will probably reduce the sentence to somewhere around 30-40 years. The Crawfish isn’t sure how many people he defrauded, but the number is in the hundreds. I would have used the following formula to figure out his sentence: 3 months for each victim. If the rumored number of victims is correct, then I believe the sentence would have ended up around 125 years anyway.

President Obama has announced even more regulations that intrude upon your daily life. Where does He get off telling Americans what kind of light bulbs they can buy?

The President of Honduras illegally tried to change his nation’s constitution, with the assistance of Hugo Chavez. The nation’s military and Supreme Court said “NO!” When he tried to fire the head of the military, the courts again said “NO!” The military was ordered to remove him and sent him packing. A few folks are calling for his reinstatement, and they are all of similar political stripes: Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, the OAS, Hillary!, and The Chosen One.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
– Thomas Jefferson