Moderate my ass!! Instead of holding the feet of the people in California government (read Republicans) to the fire and slashing their pay to minimum wage, what did he do? He slashed the pay and fired 22,,000 of the people of California WHO ACTUALLY DO THE WORK AND NEED THE MONEY to the federal minimum wage which is a dollar and a half less than what Californians used to get.
The alternative is to force the Democrats to cut every single program except the ones the less than one third of Republicans who pretend they are legislators, want. Just to make him happy. It's the lousy two thirds majority vote to approve the budget that the Rethugs have been using against the people of California for years. If he thinks he's going to be elected to replace Barbara Boxer, he is sadly mistaken. His next position is going to be on the unemployment line. With all the people he just shafted for political gain. We won't vote again for a backstabbing, cigar smoking asshole who only takes care of his buddies. How are all the innocent people supposed to pay their rent, buy gas and/or make a car payment? How will they get to work since he has slashed public transportation to the bone? Why were the people of California so stupid as to replace Gray Davis with this numbskull?
In return for his stupidity there should be a complete work stoppage. Nothing in any government office gets done until pay is restored. Period. When a person is hired to do a job, they are offered a certain salary and told what the requirements are to earn it. Why in the world would someone want to do a job that they are going to get paid so little money for that they can't afford to live in the state?
We have the highest rate of foreclosures in the nation and I don't see that changing any time soon. Maybe it's time for a recall of the dumbest governor since the lamppost.
Arnold needs to go. Preferably to H E double hockey sticks. It's obvious that all the steroids shrunk what little brains he had.
BBB
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Oops, Needed A Title
You can always tell when I'm disgusted with politics as usual, I play with the blog design. I went back to the Neo configuration, with a few mods on my part. The mods took me most of yesterday and part of this morning, so I gave up on adding the header picture for the moment. It just wasn't coming out right. It's amazing how much you forget about playing with coding and RGBs when computing isn't your profession.
The best part about Neo, the template not the hero, is that the whole blog doesn't have to reload (only the top post, much faster for those in a hurry) if you click on one of the post links on the left hand side, which is currently set for the last 20 posts. I realized that I had accidentally destroyed the posting function and hopefully it will nowwork for somebody besides me. Let me know if it does or doesn't.
I also went back to the dark template because it's easier on my eyes. I'm getting older and less functional as the days go by.
The best part about Neo, the template not the hero, is that the whole blog doesn't have to reload (only the top post, much faster for those in a hurry) if you click on one of the post links on the left hand side, which is currently set for the last 20 posts. I realized that I had accidentally destroyed the posting function and hopefully it will nowwork for somebody besides me. Let me know if it does or doesn't.
I also went back to the dark template because it's easier on my eyes. I'm getting older and less functional as the days go by.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
One More Instance Of GOP Hypocrisy
Support the troops! Unless you're a member of the GOP and think that 25 million is too much to spend on paralyzed veterans. A bridge to nowhere is okay, helping people who can't walk or pee without assistance is not. And then to add insult to injury the GOP tries to use the issue to accuse the Demowienies of avoiding dealing with high gas prices. Otherwise known as offshore drilling for their corporate buddies.
The best part? Tom Coburn has the nerve to consider himself a doctor. Unlike recently departed Randy Pasuch, not the kind that helps people.
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Republicans blasted the bill as an attempt to bait them and distract from measures to deal with high gas prices.Let's recap the GOP support of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bad armor, insufficiently armored vehicles, no plan other than shock and awe, multiple tours, poor medical care if they get back to the United States in less than pristine condition, ignoring the emotional costs of war in veterans, closing brain injury units as the incidences of brain injuries in the troops was increasing due to the IEDs that nobody "could have foreseen", obstruction of the GI Bill and now willing to let injured veterans be forever hostage to other people for help.
"They're using every trick to get us away from dealing with high gas prices," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
The best part? Tom Coburn has the nerve to consider himself a doctor. Unlike recently departed Randy Pasuch, not the kind that helps people.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
What A Crock!
Only because they aren't looking in the right places. This is just like when they redefined hunger as food insecurity. In less than half a mile on Seventh Street in San Jose there are currently 11 motor homes or 5th wheels currently parked and being lived in. Then there are the side streets with one or two vehicles that are also occupied. In the Bush economy it is possible to have a job and not have a home or a drug problem.
I just want to be your stepping stone. So much for the myth of serving the public. It's always about the benjamins, isn't it?
Major tactical error. He should have gone to see the troops by himself, they deserved it. But then you would have to have spent some lonely time in a hospital bed to understand that. CNN gets interviews and soundbites all the time, these guys are still suffering the initial shock of being wounded.
Great, just great. 275 minutes a week.
Why aren't Republicans looking for another candidate? Melanoma of the head and face are the most fatal of skin cancers and McCain has had more than one occurrence. Between this and his encroaching senility, the odds of him finishing his term as Senator, much less President, is seriously in doubt.
The Food Network, the one that used to show you how to cook but now mainly shows you people eating at places you can't get to, has replaced the disgraced Robert Irvine with the Giggler on Dinner Impossible. Instead of letting the ripped off John Besh handle the duties, they are forcing Michael Symon down our throats. Well, I'm not swallowing. And I'm not watching either. Bring back Robert Irvine or let Besh do it. Who cares if Irvine stretched his resume, he did the job he was hired to do. If Symon is the Iron Chef for the week, I skip it and now it looks like Dinner Impossible has become Dinner Unwatchable. The giggle and the soul patch are just the tip of the iceberg. I miss the old Food Network, the one that gave me ideas for dinner, not dining out.
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“It affirms the very significant change in policy shift that took place over the in the last six years,” said Mr. Culhane, who studies homelessness trends and policy, of the decline in the numbers of chronically homeless. “We’re moving in the right direction, without a doubt.”I'll just bet everything is going according to plan. The plan to transfer everything of value from the have nots to the have mores.
I just want to be your stepping stone. So much for the myth of serving the public. It's always about the benjamins, isn't it?
Major tactical error. He should have gone to see the troops by himself, they deserved it. But then you would have to have spent some lonely time in a hospital bed to understand that. CNN gets interviews and soundbites all the time, these guys are still suffering the initial shock of being wounded.
Great, just great. 275 minutes a week.
Why aren't Republicans looking for another candidate? Melanoma of the head and face are the most fatal of skin cancers and McCain has had more than one occurrence. Between this and his encroaching senility, the odds of him finishing his term as Senator, much less President, is seriously in doubt.
The Food Network, the one that used to show you how to cook but now mainly shows you people eating at places you can't get to, has replaced the disgraced Robert Irvine with the Giggler on Dinner Impossible. Instead of letting the ripped off John Besh handle the duties, they are forcing Michael Symon down our throats. Well, I'm not swallowing. And I'm not watching either. Bring back Robert Irvine or let Besh do it. Who cares if Irvine stretched his resume, he did the job he was hired to do. If Symon is the Iron Chef for the week, I skip it and now it looks like Dinner Impossible has become Dinner Unwatchable. The giggle and the soul patch are just the tip of the iceberg. I miss the old Food Network, the one that gave me ideas for dinner, not dining out.
BBB
Monday, July 28, 2008
From Sea To Shining Sea
After almost three and a half years of blogging, these last few days I have been finding it difficult to care. I've always had varied interests, but since 2004 they have been limited to politics, cooking and a few other assorted hobbies, but mainly politics.
Through the years, many of the blogs I enjoyed reading caught Ted Barlow disease and disappeared. The latest were Mixter's Mix and Ponzo (I guess I'm not an invited reader). I doubt if I'll quit, but my energy is low and readers are few. I am a first-born and will always have an opinion about everything (just ask me!), but I'm tired of being irritated and disappointed in my country and my government. That isn't going to change because I stop writing about it constantly, but the world needs more positivity and right now the only thing I'm positive about is that we are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
In the last four years it has become sadly apparent to me that most Americans are of the sit and wait variety. They are willing to sit and wait, hoping that things will change for the better and are content to focus on their own lives and the lives of troubled stars, pregnant stars and "reality" shows that have nothing to do with real life. Anything but paying attention to how the country has changed around them.
What really brought it home to me was this season of Jeopardy! One of the things I noticed about the contestants was that they knew stuff about movies and obscure musical groups and very little about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Revolutionary War or how and why this country was founded, but they could name some specialized mammal that I, nor anyone I know, has ever heard of. Now, that's depressing.
The election isn't going to change things by much since our freedoms have been whittled down to almost nothing and there wasn't a peep from the general populace during the process and I don't expect a majority will demand them back. Using the excuse that it won't get worse is just sad. Our media hasn't done its job and the people haven't asked it to, people are too busy pretending that life is a reality show and everyone will get a do-over. And besides, it won't affect them, it only affects the bad people. Until it's too late and their homes and jobs are gone.
When I was a little girl and we were stationed on Air Force bases throughout the world, unlike today we had no choice about radio or televisions stations. It was Armed Forces Radio and Television Service and the government spin on world happenings, or it was learn a new language. No such thing as cable or the internet. I'll never forget going to see the original Batman movie and having Burt Ward's voice blow us out of the seats. We had been watching the tv show on a Puerto Rican station (because tv didn't start until the news came on at five and went off again at ten) and Robin had a boy's voice, so the change was pretty noticeable. AFRTS eventually showed Star Trek a year behind the States and we were really surprised to see that black girl on the bridge. But I digress.
I loved going to the movies, except for one thing. The Star Spangled Banner was played before every movie and it was required that you stand and put your hand over your heart. I hated it. When we got back to the States and moved to California we still had to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning at the beginning of classes. I hated that also. Only seniors were allowed to not stand and recite and when I became one, my butt never left the chair. Not once did I feel guilty or unpatriotic. Otherwise I wouldn't have joined the Army two days after graduating high school.
Why did I hate doing those things so much? Well first of all, they forced us to do it. Since it was by rote and not intention, it was just like reciting the ABCs and had less impact. Ask anybody you know to recite the Pledge or the Anthem slowly and sound out the words and you'll realize that 98% of the people have not a clue as to what they are saying. If, and it's a big one, they can do it without the singsong repetition. It's amazing how many words aren't correct.
Secondly, America The Beautiful should be our anthem not some old Enlgish drinking song. We really do have a purple majesty, they are called the Rockies and they don't try to usurp power for themselves or their cronies.
I want my country back even though I know that it's impossible. The one from the late sixties and seventies that had hope, that just knew things were going to get better and wasn't afraid to stand up and demand that justice be served to those who deserved it. Not even a President was immune. Not the country that currently exists in its place and demands that someone who lied about taking steroids be forced to spend years in jail while one who outed a CIA spy has his sentence commuted and people are begging for him to be pardoned. My how the priorities have changed.
And not in a good way.
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Through the years, many of the blogs I enjoyed reading caught Ted Barlow disease and disappeared. The latest were Mixter's Mix and Ponzo (I guess I'm not an invited reader). I doubt if I'll quit, but my energy is low and readers are few. I am a first-born and will always have an opinion about everything (just ask me!), but I'm tired of being irritated and disappointed in my country and my government. That isn't going to change because I stop writing about it constantly, but the world needs more positivity and right now the only thing I'm positive about is that we are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
In the last four years it has become sadly apparent to me that most Americans are of the sit and wait variety. They are willing to sit and wait, hoping that things will change for the better and are content to focus on their own lives and the lives of troubled stars, pregnant stars and "reality" shows that have nothing to do with real life. Anything but paying attention to how the country has changed around them.
What really brought it home to me was this season of Jeopardy! One of the things I noticed about the contestants was that they knew stuff about movies and obscure musical groups and very little about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Revolutionary War or how and why this country was founded, but they could name some specialized mammal that I, nor anyone I know, has ever heard of. Now, that's depressing.
The election isn't going to change things by much since our freedoms have been whittled down to almost nothing and there wasn't a peep from the general populace during the process and I don't expect a majority will demand them back. Using the excuse that it won't get worse is just sad. Our media hasn't done its job and the people haven't asked it to, people are too busy pretending that life is a reality show and everyone will get a do-over. And besides, it won't affect them, it only affects the bad people. Until it's too late and their homes and jobs are gone.
When I was a little girl and we were stationed on Air Force bases throughout the world, unlike today we had no choice about radio or televisions stations. It was Armed Forces Radio and Television Service and the government spin on world happenings, or it was learn a new language. No such thing as cable or the internet. I'll never forget going to see the original Batman movie and having Burt Ward's voice blow us out of the seats. We had been watching the tv show on a Puerto Rican station (because tv didn't start until the news came on at five and went off again at ten) and Robin had a boy's voice, so the change was pretty noticeable. AFRTS eventually showed Star Trek a year behind the States and we were really surprised to see that black girl on the bridge. But I digress.
I loved going to the movies, except for one thing. The Star Spangled Banner was played before every movie and it was required that you stand and put your hand over your heart. I hated it. When we got back to the States and moved to California we still had to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning at the beginning of classes. I hated that also. Only seniors were allowed to not stand and recite and when I became one, my butt never left the chair. Not once did I feel guilty or unpatriotic. Otherwise I wouldn't have joined the Army two days after graduating high school.
Why did I hate doing those things so much? Well first of all, they forced us to do it. Since it was by rote and not intention, it was just like reciting the ABCs and had less impact. Ask anybody you know to recite the Pledge or the Anthem slowly and sound out the words and you'll realize that 98% of the people have not a clue as to what they are saying. If, and it's a big one, they can do it without the singsong repetition. It's amazing how many words aren't correct.
Secondly, America The Beautiful should be our anthem not some old Enlgish drinking song. We really do have a purple majesty, they are called the Rockies and they don't try to usurp power for themselves or their cronies.
I want my country back even though I know that it's impossible. The one from the late sixties and seventies that had hope, that just knew things were going to get better and wasn't afraid to stand up and demand that justice be served to those who deserved it. Not even a President was immune. Not the country that currently exists in its place and demands that someone who lied about taking steroids be forced to spend years in jail while one who outed a CIA spy has his sentence commuted and people are begging for him to be pardoned. My how the priorities have changed.
And not in a good way.
3bs
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Sunday Morning Quickie
Favorite blog post title of the week. Deflator Mouse Pops The Obama Balloon. The post was excellent as usual, but the title made me snicker for hours.
If you like Jeopardy! and who doesn't, this site is for you. They have archives of clues and questions and it's current. Trivia heaven.
From the you have got to be kidding department and coming to your email inbox shortly, we have the Obama Death List. The hardly ever right wing is so desperate to belive anything but the truth that they have concocted a list that attributes a murder to Obama at the grand old age of nine using the excuse that it was an initiation ritual because Islamists must spill the blood of another before age ten in order to prove their loyalty to Allah. Really? He cut a kid's head off at the age of nine? Most of the people on the list don't even exist. While there is no proof whatsoever that Obama attended a madrassa and killed someone, there is proof that the current First Lady caused the death of a classmate in 1963. I'm not even voting for Obama and this is so over the top, that I just might.
BBB
If you like Jeopardy! and who doesn't, this site is for you. They have archives of clues and questions and it's current. Trivia heaven.
From the you have got to be kidding department and coming to your email inbox shortly, we have the Obama Death List. The hardly ever right wing is so desperate to belive anything but the truth that they have concocted a list that attributes a murder to Obama at the grand old age of nine using the excuse that it was an initiation ritual because Islamists must spill the blood of another before age ten in order to prove their loyalty to Allah. Really? He cut a kid's head off at the age of nine? Most of the people on the list don't even exist. While there is no proof whatsoever that Obama attended a madrassa and killed someone, there is proof that the current First Lady caused the death of a classmate in 1963. I'm not even voting for Obama and this is so over the top, that I just might.
BBB
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tortoise Vs. Felines
A little light hearted entertainment.
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Determined little guy, wasn't he?
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Determined little guy, wasn't he?
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Who Knew?
Every soldier that has died in Iraq could have been used to quell the Taliban in Afghanistan and catch Osama bin Laden. Years ago. After almost seven years of constant war and not much has been accomplished except spreading the pain of loss to more of our military families. So much for making the instigators pay for 9/11. Bin Laden looks like the winner in this contest. One man holding out against the might of the United States for seven years. There is something just not kosher about this situation.
Ferengi Rule #269. Trying to please an enemy makes you the loser every time. Too bad the Demowienies haven't learned that. They seem more comfortable operating by Ferengi Rule #28. What's in it for me?
Living on the poor side of town is about to get slightly easier since Macy's, Wal-Mart and a British grocery chain discovered that there is money in those neighborhoods.
Officer Nugent sounds like a person who must have put his fingers in the electric sockets many times if he believed that a man could survive six 50,000 volt taser shocks in three minutes. And then three more a few minutes later. He sounds like the kind of person who laughed every time he watched don't tase me bro.
Absolutely unconscionable. Raising the price of a drug that needs to be used as soon as possible in order to prevent mental retardation in affected infants from $1,800 a dose to $23,000 smacks of a "let's make money mentality" as opposed to a "let's use this drug to help children", especially since they didn't have to do research and development on it. Shameful. On the bright side, Hopkins proved that there was a $15 alternative that worked equally well. The universe can work in mysterious ways.
Search engines can be another indicator of an economy that isn't doing so well. Searches for pizza (Dominos by 980%) are up and sit-down restauraants are declining. U-Haul and Motel 6 are popular again while Macy's has dropped almost out of the top 50.
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Ferengi Rule #269. Trying to please an enemy makes you the loser every time. Too bad the Demowienies haven't learned that. They seem more comfortable operating by Ferengi Rule #28. What's in it for me?
Living on the poor side of town is about to get slightly easier since Macy's, Wal-Mart and a British grocery chain discovered that there is money in those neighborhoods.
Officer Nugent sounds like a person who must have put his fingers in the electric sockets many times if he believed that a man could survive six 50,000 volt taser shocks in three minutes. And then three more a few minutes later. He sounds like the kind of person who laughed every time he watched don't tase me bro.
Absolutely unconscionable. Raising the price of a drug that needs to be used as soon as possible in order to prevent mental retardation in affected infants from $1,800 a dose to $23,000 smacks of a "let's make money mentality" as opposed to a "let's use this drug to help children", especially since they didn't have to do research and development on it. Shameful. On the bright side, Hopkins proved that there was a $15 alternative that worked equally well. The universe can work in mysterious ways.
Search engines can be another indicator of an economy that isn't doing so well. Searches for pizza (Dominos by 980%) are up and sit-down restauraants are declining. U-Haul and Motel 6 are popular again while Macy's has dropped almost out of the top 50.
BBB
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Exercises In Futility
Priceless. My favorite quote of the week comes from Spencer Ackerman in Sam Stein's article about why Obama is more popular with Jewish people than Joe Lieberman and Republicans in general. I love how he sums it up in a nutshell. And these are numbers that rarely get mentioned on television.
Unless you have money, you aren't "in" the party. Therefore the powers that be only pay attention when they need your vote. That is how the older generation has always treated the younger generation.
Sounds like a Lee Iacocca moment. More symbolic than helpful and the people on the bottom who need the help are still ignored.
Of course they are. Haven't you seen them sweating? Arms and legs moving all the time and some drummers even sing. It's the partying after performing that seems to kill them.
And it won't be worth a dime when the big one hits. Some people really do have too much money.
One can only hope. That they catch more war criminals. Especially ones that can only speak English, mangled though it may be, and think they are above the law.
I have two and after fourteen years, I'm still very happy with them. But then I waited twenty years after I decided I wanted one so I knew I wasn't going to regret my decision. Plus, I'm not really prone to peer pressure.
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"Seventy-four percent of us view Bush unfavorably and 83 percent of us disapprove of his job performance," Ackerman wrote. "While 76 percent of the country as a whole says the U.S. is on the wrong track, an astonishing 90 percent of American Jews say the same. Only 21 percent of us approve of the Iraq war and only 29 percent think Bush is good for Israel, and those are clearly the shmucks that kissed ass in Hebrew school and snitched when the rest of us used the synagogue phone booth and cloakroom to make out."Somebody isn't going to be in the will. Stories like this happen all the time, it's just that when you belong to Hollywood, you have no privacy.
Unless you have money, you aren't "in" the party. Therefore the powers that be only pay attention when they need your vote. That is how the older generation has always treated the younger generation.
Sounds like a Lee Iacocca moment. More symbolic than helpful and the people on the bottom who need the help are still ignored.
Of course they are. Haven't you seen them sweating? Arms and legs moving all the time and some drummers even sing. It's the partying after performing that seems to kill them.
And it won't be worth a dime when the big one hits. Some people really do have too much money.
One can only hope. That they catch more war criminals. Especially ones that can only speak English, mangled though it may be, and think they are above the law.
I have two and after fourteen years, I'm still very happy with them. But then I waited twenty years after I decided I wanted one so I knew I wasn't going to regret my decision. Plus, I'm not really prone to peer pressure.
BBB
Monday, July 21, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Integrity, What's That?
How did we go from being known as the land of the free, home of the brave, a shining beacon of light and hope to a nation that our staunchest allies believes can't be trusted to tell the truth?
When did it become okay to lie to people and then blame them for the results of listening to the sweet nothings whispered in their ears?
Racism supposedly isn't a problem in this country and anybody that thinks there is, is supposed to get over it. That sounds all well and good unless you live in a part of the country where it's obvious that racism is alive and well.
Why did iTunes play Lunatic Fringe and Brain Damage while I was writing the above?
Sheesh! I've always known my opinion was irrelevant, life has made that all too apparent, but thank you Glenn for pointing that nobody else's is either.
It's 10:55 Sunday morning in California as I'm writing this and I haven't decided whether or not to spend the last of my cash on going to see the Dark Knight and they already know the movie made $155.34 million for the weekend. How is that possible?
No wonder the populace keeps losing elections. Who knew the Netroots Nation had rules. One of them being that you had to be nice to Speaker Pelosi, even though she hasn't done a thing that the Democrats elected her to accomplish. Glad I didn't waste my money.
The Destroyer speaks. Doesn't he know that everyone is at the convention and will get around to doing his bidding when they get back?
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When did it become okay to lie to people and then blame them for the results of listening to the sweet nothings whispered in their ears?
Racism supposedly isn't a problem in this country and anybody that thinks there is, is supposed to get over it. That sounds all well and good unless you live in a part of the country where it's obvious that racism is alive and well.
Why did iTunes play Lunatic Fringe and Brain Damage while I was writing the above?
Sheesh! I've always known my opinion was irrelevant, life has made that all too apparent, but thank you Glenn for pointing that nobody else's is either.
It's 10:55 Sunday morning in California as I'm writing this and I haven't decided whether or not to spend the last of my cash on going to see the Dark Knight and they already know the movie made $155.34 million for the weekend. How is that possible?
No wonder the populace keeps losing elections. Who knew the Netroots Nation had rules. One of them being that you had to be nice to Speaker Pelosi, even though she hasn't done a thing that the Democrats elected her to accomplish. Glad I didn't waste my money.
The Destroyer speaks. Doesn't he know that everyone is at the convention and will get around to doing his bidding when they get back?
3Bs
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Six For Saturday
This morning I woke up on a different planet. It seems that either hell froze over last night or invasion of the body snatchers isn't just a movie. Deborah Howell of the Washington Post thinks that there should be more substantive coverage of the candidates instead of the current media focus on soundbites. She even made sense, seemed to think biographies and how they react to situations is important. Weird.
Wheeeee! Straight to the bottom. Unless you happen to own one of the multimillion dollar estates.
Cracking me up. "Netroots Nation" has been planned for a year and Obama picks this week to travel outside the country. He'd rather go to a war zone than face the people who helped him get where he is. This generation of optimists doesn't seem to have any experience with a one night stand.
I know I'm growing my own this season, but the tomato growers have lost over $100 million since the government (which couldn't find a hole in the ground with directions and a flashlight) manufactured a crisis it couldn't solve. The ownership society is fading fast. Unless you mean ownership by a big corporation that controls your every move.
We're toast. Whatever he says, the opposite is true. Bush needs to get off this false shtick of his that opening up the Outer Continental Shelf will solve the economic crisis of everyday Americans. The only people that OCS will help are his friends in the oil companies who need to find another way to gouge the American people since they didn't anticipate that people would quit buying. Everything.
The last episode of Dr. Horrible's sing a long blog is up. It has been a real hoot and hard to tell who's more over the top, Neil Patrick Harris or Nathan Fillion. Or is it Dr. Horrible's heretofore unknown to him video sidekick?
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Wheeeee! Straight to the bottom. Unless you happen to own one of the multimillion dollar estates.
Cracking me up. "Netroots Nation" has been planned for a year and Obama picks this week to travel outside the country. He'd rather go to a war zone than face the people who helped him get where he is. This generation of optimists doesn't seem to have any experience with a one night stand.
I know I'm growing my own this season, but the tomato growers have lost over $100 million since the government (which couldn't find a hole in the ground with directions and a flashlight) manufactured a crisis it couldn't solve. The ownership society is fading fast. Unless you mean ownership by a big corporation that controls your every move.
We're toast. Whatever he says, the opposite is true. Bush needs to get off this false shtick of his that opening up the Outer Continental Shelf will solve the economic crisis of everyday Americans. The only people that OCS will help are his friends in the oil companies who need to find another way to gouge the American people since they didn't anticipate that people would quit buying. Everything.
The last episode of Dr. Horrible's sing a long blog is up. It has been a real hoot and hard to tell who's more over the top, Neil Patrick Harris or Nathan Fillion. Or is it Dr. Horrible's heretofore unknown to him video sidekick?
BBB
Friday, July 18, 2008
Education, Energy, Healthcare And Honoring The Troops
I admit it, I'm confused. What exactly did she do wrong? This isn't the Bible belt and mentioning a German study that finds a link between maternal stress and homosexuality falls into the category of proper discussion in a Biology class. Doesn't it?
For years Cuba has been made out to be a backward country, but if I get breast or bum cancer that's where I'm going to wish I was. Did you know that the food is pretty tasty there too?
Pat Tillman wasn't a friendly fire death, it was deliberate murder and the government is doing its best to cover it up. And being shot by the people on your side isn't friendly, it's gross negligence.
Unlike the crew without a clue and their military advisers, the troops knew they were probably going to die onHamburger Hill their mission in Wanat, Afghanistan. If only our leaders had the courage that our overworked, overburdened and underprotected troops have. If they aren't being shot or blown up, they're being electrocuted back at the base. Meanwhile, the brass thinks the powers that be deserve to travel in style. Why is it that Reserves, National Guard and regular troops are considered so expendable?
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The controversy centers on an incident in June 2007, when Sheldon was asked by a student in a human heredity class about heredity's impact on "homosexual behavior in males and females." Among other references, Sheldon noted a German study demonstrating some link between maternal stress and homosexual behavior in males, according to the lawsuit.Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) speaks some common sense on energy policy, how very few people are thrilled with the current candidates and Phil Gramm's disconnect with the average American.
Peterson: Well, Phil Gramm is a very smart guy and he knows the economy well, but Phil Gramm doesn’t know the people I know. Phil Gramm must be insulated from the working poor. If he was around the working poor, he would have never said it. The working poor are struggling. This is not a recession in their mind. This is a difficult time where they are struggling to pay their bills. ... He thinks that’s not going on out in America; he just hasn’t been out there. He must come from a pretty affluent neighborhood and a pretty affluent family. ...And I thought the ABC commenters were lacking in intellectual ability. They have nothing on the Politico commenters. Heaven forbid that they should actually discuss the points of the article on energy, they're too busy getting lost on the nuances of whether the press is too liberal and giving Obama a pass and some guy defending Cheney by saying he was only in the oil business for five years. Absolutely fascinating how the 28%s are determined to stay in fantasyland. At the expense of the country.
Sometimes the people who whine have more and are just angry they have to spend more. The whiners I know aren’t poor.
For years Cuba has been made out to be a backward country, but if I get breast or bum cancer that's where I'm going to wish I was. Did you know that the food is pretty tasty there too?
Pat Tillman wasn't a friendly fire death, it was deliberate murder and the government is doing its best to cover it up. And being shot by the people on your side isn't friendly, it's gross negligence.
Unlike the crew without a clue and their military advisers, the troops knew they were probably going to die on
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Entertainment, Education And Life In America
Somebody is going to be so happy. And they are. G.W.Bailey should have been nominated for something, like in the best supporting actor in a comedy even though The Closer is a a drama. Other than that, I have no complaints or interest. Except for Michael C. Hall for Dexter, loved him. My friend Linda will be happy about Bryan Cranston's nomination for Breaking Bad. She just got the first season on DVD and wants to have a Breaking Bad party. Now I have another reason to go.
Planet smashing and our earth has the scars to prove it.
That would be 25%, wouldn't it? When I was in school very few people dropped out, now it seems the norm. Do you think the educational system has something to do with it? Maybe they should go back to teaching instead of testing. Music and art classes might help those who aren't cut out to do math and science, but that's just too easy of a solution, isn't it?
Says it all, doesn't it? Our wonderful culture of life, isn't.
I don't care how pretty it is, I'm not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Do you have any idea how many Valiums I would have to take just to get on the plane? I certainly wouldn't do it just so I could see some scenery from the air while hoping my chute would open. A thrill queen I am not.
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Planet smashing and our earth has the scars to prove it.
That would be 25%, wouldn't it? When I was in school very few people dropped out, now it seems the norm. Do you think the educational system has something to do with it? Maybe they should go back to teaching instead of testing. Music and art classes might help those who aren't cut out to do math and science, but that's just too easy of a solution, isn't it?
Says it all, doesn't it? Our wonderful culture of life, isn't.
Despite spending $230m (£115m) an hour on healthcare, Americans live shorter lives than citizens of almost every other developed country. And while it has the second-highest income per head in the world, the United States ranks 42nd in terms of life expectancy.skip
Japanese, for example, can expect to outlive Americans, on average, by more than four years. In fact, citizens of Israel, Greece, Singapore, Costa Rica, South Korea and every western European and Nordic country save one can expect to live longer than Americans.The housing scam is being revealed in all its glory. Everybody was out to make a buck and didn't care who got hurt in the process. Now it's coming back to bite us in the ass. Remember years ago when we dragged our heels to bail out New York City but we did bailed out Chrysler with no problem? That was the beginning of the blatant in your face we don't care about people, we care about corporations thinking that runs this country now. Into the ground, I might add.
There are also wider differences, the report shows. The average Asian woman, for example, lives for almost 89 years, while African-American women live until 76. For men of the same groups, the difference is 14 years.
One of the main problems faced by the US, says the report, is that one in six Americans, or about 47 million people, are not covered by health insurance and so have limited access to healthcare.
As a result, the US is ranked 42nd in global life expectancy and 34th in terms of infants surviving to age one. The US infant mortality rate is on a par with that of Croatia, Cuba, Estonia and Poland. If the US could match top-ranked Sweden, about 20,000 more American babies a year would live to their first birthday.
I don't care how pretty it is, I'm not jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Do you have any idea how many Valiums I would have to take just to get on the plane? I certainly wouldn't do it just so I could see some scenery from the air while hoping my chute would open. A thrill queen I am not.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Is The Week Over Yet?
When I have money, I shop for groceries and every week I've noticed that prices are up. Not by a nickel or a dime, but by 30 to 50 cents. Per item. My income is fixed, which means I only have a certain amount to spend on food and it is forcing me to compromise on the quality of food that I serve my mother. Fortunately my garden is growing. So, how do you know when the Green Zebras are ripe?
The serranos are coming along nicely, the Early Girls are ripening beautifully and I finally have a few green beans.
Talk about emboldening your enemies. Leaving Iraq is considered to be cutting and running, but this isn't? Afghanistan is blowing up in our faces, just like the 60 Minutes report from a few months ago that those on the hardly ever right labeled as lies and bashing the troops. I'll be really glad when the mission is accomplished. Whatever that mission is, because it certainly isn't about capturing Osama been Forgotten or eliminating al-Qaeda influence
Sometimes it seems like the bastion of hope and freedom that was called the United States is just a dwindling light in the rear view mirror.
The American people don't seem to learn from their mistakes. With approval of Congress at an all time low what did the Democrats of Georgia do? They reelected every one of their incumbents. The people who have consistently voted against their constituents interests are free to do damage for another two years. America isn't interested in change, it's interested in maintaining the status quo so it won't have to think. Reminds me of the Distinguished Gentleman.
Not that the media here in the US would report it fairly, so the BBC has a handy list of some of the McCain/Obama flip-flops.
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The serranos are coming along nicely, the Early Girls are ripening beautifully and I finally have a few green beans.
Talk about emboldening your enemies. Leaving Iraq is considered to be cutting and running, but this isn't? Afghanistan is blowing up in our faces, just like the 60 Minutes report from a few months ago that those on the hardly ever right labeled as lies and bashing the troops. I'll be really glad when the mission is accomplished. Whatever that mission is, because it certainly isn't about capturing Osama been Forgotten or eliminating al-Qaeda influence
Sometimes it seems like the bastion of hope and freedom that was called the United States is just a dwindling light in the rear view mirror.
The American people don't seem to learn from their mistakes. With approval of Congress at an all time low what did the Democrats of Georgia do? They reelected every one of their incumbents. The people who have consistently voted against their constituents interests are free to do damage for another two years. America isn't interested in change, it's interested in maintaining the status quo so it won't have to think. Reminds me of the Distinguished Gentleman.
Not that the media here in the US would report it fairly, so the BBC has a handy list of some of the McCain/Obama flip-flops.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Sinking Like A Stone
For now is the operative phrase since this is probably the tip of the iceberg. More banks are going to fail, we're already starting to print more money and the crew without a clue has bailed out everyone except the little people who were encouraged to buy the homes they couldn't afford and those who had their money in the failing banks. Begging is about to become an honorable profession.
Disgusting. And for fifty years. Wow, remind me to never go to Zanesville, Ohio. The city can appeal all they want, but when a white neighbor has running water with a hot tub and his black neighbors have to buy water from a treatment plant and have it delivered or collect rainwater to do laundry even though they live next to the municipal water pipes, that's discrimination. By anyone's standards. Or at least normal people's standards.
You don't say.
The United States is lagging behind in science graduates. Gee, I wonder why. Could it be because after many years of rigorous schooling they discover that they will earn less today than they did yesterday? Bush and the magic veto pen strike again. Pretty soon even the rich won't want to be doctors, they won't be able to adjust to a lower class of living. Besides the hassle of trying to learn science while school districts start teaching the not-so-intelligent design theory and refusing to allow independent thought, there are very few models that have both fame and fortune. Geeks are popular today, but that doesn't mean that everyone wants to be one.
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Disgusting. And for fifty years. Wow, remind me to never go to Zanesville, Ohio. The city can appeal all they want, but when a white neighbor has running water with a hot tub and his black neighbors have to buy water from a treatment plant and have it delivered or collect rainwater to do laundry even though they live next to the municipal water pipes, that's discrimination. By anyone's standards. Or at least normal people's standards.
You don't say.
"It's a pain in the neck, and significantly interferes with my travel arrangements," said Robinson, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division during the Clinton administration. He believes his name matches that of someone who was put on the list in early 2005, and is routinely delayed while flying — despite having his own government top-secret security clearances renewed last year. "I suppose if I were convinced that America is a safer place because I get hassled at the airport, I might put up with it," Robinson said. "But I doubt it."
Bush could be flat-lined and the Demowienies would still roll over and play dead.
He added: "I expect my story is similar to hundreds of thousands of people who are on this list who find themselves inconvenienced."
The United States is lagging behind in science graduates. Gee, I wonder why. Could it be because after many years of rigorous schooling they discover that they will earn less today than they did yesterday? Bush and the magic veto pen strike again. Pretty soon even the rich won't want to be doctors, they won't be able to adjust to a lower class of living. Besides the hassle of trying to learn science while school districts start teaching the not-so-intelligent design theory and refusing to allow independent thought, there are very few models that have both fame and fortune. Geeks are popular today, but that doesn't mean that everyone wants to be one.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
It's Monday
Dolly Madison would have been my choice. Besides being the wife of the fourth President and hostess for Thomas Jefferson during his White House years, she was a personality in her own right. Most people remember that she saved the portrait of George Washington when the British invaded Washington D.C and burnt the White House, I remember her for saving the original draft of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. It's amazing what people think is important.
20 healthy foods for under a dollar. Unless you live in California, then they are a little more expensive.
Hello? This is what happens when you are wasting your military in a differnt country that had nothing to do with September 11 and everything to do with oil and daddy issues. Nothing like having others pay for your mistakes. Why did we think we would be the ones who could successfully invade Afghanistan when nobody else has managed this feat?
20 healthy foods for under a dollar. Unless you live in California, then they are a little more expensive.
Hello? This is what happens when you are wasting your military in a differnt country that had nothing to do with September 11 and everything to do with oil and daddy issues. Nothing like having others pay for your mistakes. Why did we think we would be the ones who could successfully invade Afghanistan when nobody else has managed this feat?
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Spending The Morning With Kenny
Wayne Shepherd, that is.
Why, yes I was, why do you ask? Followed by what seems to be the story of my life.
Please.
Why, yes I was, why do you ask? Followed by what seems to be the story of my life.
Please.
Conspiracy Sunday
Fatigue? Wouldn't they have to have done something first? And by the way, Katrina didn't trigger mass evacuations. Days after the original damage was done, the government took the opportunity to divide families and prevent return of the people by use of the diaspora technique. The Big Easy is growing again, just not with the people who gave the city its uniqueness. But that was probably the plan all along, n'est-ce pas?
Jimmy Carter said it many years ago in his race against Ronald Reagan, it's taken almost thirty years but the job is almost done. North against South, rich against poor, old against young, black against white, white against everybody, coasts against flyover country, men against women, etc. Next thing you know only those living in protected enclaves will be allowed a say in government since the rest of us will be considered savages by those who have everything.
Everything is going according to plan. Nothing to see here, move along. Especially if the goal was to increase the size of the underclass. Without good paying jobs throughout a neighborhood, people won't be able to save up for down payments again and if they are working part time jobs they are credit risks and their ability to get a loan is reduced. Or as JollyRoger likes to put it, welcome to the Shruburbs.
Egg rolls with ranch dressing? An no one thought to test this woman for being drunk? The thin blue line in San Jose is sustaining another hit. Courteous? I don't think so. Covering up for a former coworker because they went little too fast is one thing, covering up an alcohol induced car accident where innocent people are hurt is not cool. It's also illegal and at the rate that this story is growing, someone besides the drunk driver is going to pay. With their job.
I've been doing my best to keep mom out of any type of care facility and her doctor and I are going to have a discussion about why he hasn't prescribed any meds for the early onset of Alzheimer's but expects me to keep her blood pressure in check. She wanders around bewildered most of the time, having no clue that what she is doing isn't the right thing, and if she could recover even a little mental function, I would be able to get another part time job to supplement our income. Waiting until she won't be able to feed herself is foolish and extremely tiring for me. And I'm not the only one who has notice the misplaced priorities of the healthcare system. Unfortunately, compared to England we have no system at all.
Who cares if we already can't live on what we make now, much less save half our income for retirement? Living on 30% less as we get older shouldn't be too much of a strain on us. It isn't as if we worked our whole lives and contributed to making the United States one of the greatest nations in the world. Now when you get old you are considered to be a drain on society. Off to the Soylent Green factory. See what happens to a generation that didn't want to trust anyone over 30? Now that they're 60 they can't trust anyone. Even though it was the conservatives they themselves voted in during the '80s that set us up to have a destitute future with no way out except a lingering death. The generations that got us through the first Depression, the Second World War and produced the children who became the computer generation, are being treated like so much toilet tissue. And used at that.
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Jimmy Carter said it many years ago in his race against Ronald Reagan, it's taken almost thirty years but the job is almost done. North against South, rich against poor, old against young, black against white, white against everybody, coasts against flyover country, men against women, etc. Next thing you know only those living in protected enclaves will be allowed a say in government since the rest of us will be considered savages by those who have everything.
Everything is going according to plan. Nothing to see here, move along. Especially if the goal was to increase the size of the underclass. Without good paying jobs throughout a neighborhood, people won't be able to save up for down payments again and if they are working part time jobs they are credit risks and their ability to get a loan is reduced. Or as JollyRoger likes to put it, welcome to the Shruburbs.
Egg rolls with ranch dressing? An no one thought to test this woman for being drunk? The thin blue line in San Jose is sustaining another hit. Courteous? I don't think so. Covering up for a former coworker because they went little too fast is one thing, covering up an alcohol induced car accident where innocent people are hurt is not cool. It's also illegal and at the rate that this story is growing, someone besides the drunk driver is going to pay. With their job.
I've been doing my best to keep mom out of any type of care facility and her doctor and I are going to have a discussion about why he hasn't prescribed any meds for the early onset of Alzheimer's but expects me to keep her blood pressure in check. She wanders around bewildered most of the time, having no clue that what she is doing isn't the right thing, and if she could recover even a little mental function, I would be able to get another part time job to supplement our income. Waiting until she won't be able to feed herself is foolish and extremely tiring for me. And I'm not the only one who has notice the misplaced priorities of the healthcare system. Unfortunately, compared to England we have no system at all.
Who cares if we already can't live on what we make now, much less save half our income for retirement? Living on 30% less as we get older shouldn't be too much of a strain on us. It isn't as if we worked our whole lives and contributed to making the United States one of the greatest nations in the world. Now when you get old you are considered to be a drain on society. Off to the Soylent Green factory. See what happens to a generation that didn't want to trust anyone over 30? Now that they're 60 they can't trust anyone. Even though it was the conservatives they themselves voted in during the '80s that set us up to have a destitute future with no way out except a lingering death. The generations that got us through the first Depression, the Second World War and produced the children who became the computer generation, are being treated like so much toilet tissue. And used at that.
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
Drama, Trauma And Stupidity At Its Finest
You don't say. It isn't just now, they've been going through the motions for years. Pretending to represent their constituents when all what they are really representing are themselves and the corporations who give them the best bang for their buck. I long for the old days when the Yankees were the best team that money could buy. Not that I liked the Yankees, since I was a Reds fan.
Oh good grief, another commercial to speed through on a DVD. It's so bad now that the running time of the movie is nowhere near the running time on the DVD. At least the schedule for the theater lets you know that the movie doesn't start until 10-15 minutes after the scheduled showtime.
Umm, everything?
Cracking me up. Even Scientific American people are determined to believe that civilization didn't start in Africa. Remember, if you have one drop of black blood, that makes you one of them thar tar babies and that mustn't be allowed to happen. Absolutely fascinating.
Due to a mental recession and the lost because of bureaucratic nonsense, my paycheck for the last three months was never mailed (It took 10 days for the new time card to arrive and I was so desperate that I drove it to the office instead of mailing it like they asked. As if I could afford the gas. I hear tell I might get paid by this upcoming Friday, or maybe not.), so my inability to pay my Netflix (automatic withdrawal I couldn't change in time, thank goodness I have food in the freezer and Shadow is leaving me some parts of the garden to eat) bill is all in my mind and I'm imagining that B of A didn't charge me $35 for not paying it. I really should take up a career of writing fiction, then I could work for the Washington Post or whatever else is passing for a news outlet nowadays.
Even working, albeit part time, isn't helping me out of this mess.
Update: I was referring to the commenters at SciAm, not the authors of the article.
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Oh good grief, another commercial to speed through on a DVD. It's so bad now that the running time of the movie is nowhere near the running time on the DVD. At least the schedule for the theater lets you know that the movie doesn't start until 10-15 minutes after the scheduled showtime.
Umm, everything?
Cracking me up. Even Scientific American people are determined to believe that civilization didn't start in Africa. Remember, if you have one drop of black blood, that makes you one of them thar tar babies and that mustn't be allowed to happen. Absolutely fascinating.
Due to a mental recession and the lost because of bureaucratic nonsense, my paycheck for the last three months was never mailed (It took 10 days for the new time card to arrive and I was so desperate that I drove it to the office instead of mailing it like they asked. As if I could afford the gas. I hear tell I might get paid by this upcoming Friday, or maybe not.), so my inability to pay my Netflix (automatic withdrawal I couldn't change in time, thank goodness I have food in the freezer and Shadow is leaving me some parts of the garden to eat) bill is all in my mind and I'm imagining that B of A didn't charge me $35 for not paying it. I really should take up a career of writing fiction, then I could work for the Washington Post or whatever else is passing for a news outlet nowadays.
Even working, albeit part time, isn't helping me out of this mess.
Update: I was referring to the commenters at SciAm, not the authors of the article.
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Rest In Peace Edition
Rocky Aoki is gone. I started eating at the Benihana in Encino back when you had to point to what you wanted because nobody but the patrons spoke English very well. And the chefs really put on a display, using knives and other implements. Now, at least in San Jose, most chefs speak Spanish and bang the salt and pepper shakers a few times. Whatever, it was a favorite restaurant for Mom and I and I hope that Rocky rests in peace.
As should Michael DeBakey. His innovations have saved millions of people and he deserved every one of the 99 years that I hope he enjoyed. Some people honestly do give more than they take.
Since he's no longer here to defend himself, all I can say is. Tony Snow, rest in peace. One of my patients when I worked a shift at the San Diego Hospice died of colon cancer and it was the worst thing I'd ever seen in my life. Incredibley painful and nobody deserves that. We don't let animals suffer.
On a slightly lighter note, no more Fake Steve, Ever since he was outed last year he hadn't been as funny, but I'll still miss him. I hope Real Dan is enjoying himself.
As should Michael DeBakey. His innovations have saved millions of people and he deserved every one of the 99 years that I hope he enjoyed. Some people honestly do give more than they take.
Since he's no longer here to defend himself, all I can say is. Tony Snow, rest in peace. One of my patients when I worked a shift at the San Diego Hospice died of colon cancer and it was the worst thing I'd ever seen in my life. Incredibley painful and nobody deserves that. We don't let animals suffer.
On a slightly lighter note, no more Fake Steve, Ever since he was outed last year he hadn't been as funny, but I'll still miss him. I hope Real Dan is enjoying himself.
Friday, July 11, 2008
My, How He's Changed His Tune
What a load of hooey. Years ago when I worked at Universal Pictures in the Trailer department (we made all the movie, radio and tv spots for upcoming movies) Spike Lee was escorted to our department to see one of the upcoming ads for Do The Right Thing. My friend Lisa and I were the only black people working in the department at the time and when he was introduced to us he turned his back and walked off without even saying hello.
Lisa, who was quite a looker and half black like me, stood there dumbfounded. One of the editors, Mike I believe his name was, came over and told us not to take it personally, but that Spike was a racist and didn't consider us black enough to acknowledge. He then went on to tell us a story about Spike and how angy he was when his own father married a white woman and now she was his stepmom. I didn't care becuase a racist is a racist, it doesn't matter the race. We all bleed red, can interbreed (obviously) and if the earth were invaded from outer space tomorrow the aliens probably would probably treat us all equally.
It's amazing how people change when they smell an advantage, isn't it?
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Lisa, who was quite a looker and half black like me, stood there dumbfounded. One of the editors, Mike I believe his name was, came over and told us not to take it personally, but that Spike was a racist and didn't consider us black enough to acknowledge. He then went on to tell us a story about Spike and how angy he was when his own father married a white woman and now she was his stepmom. I didn't care becuase a racist is a racist, it doesn't matter the race. We all bleed red, can interbreed (obviously) and if the earth were invaded from outer space tomorrow the aliens probably would probably treat us all equally.
It's amazing how people change when they smell an advantage, isn't it?
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Presidential Requirements
Does being in the military make you qualified to be President? Yes, if you accomplish something, like your job. Being a POW for a long period of time is more of an indicator of mental trauma than it is of leadership. Ask the guys at Gitmo.
Being a politician should automatically disqualify you from being president. It should be an honor to serve your country, not a requirement that your country serve and obey you. It's funny (peculiar, not haha) how that's changed in the last forty years. There's more to being President than getting elected, just like there's more to being a parent than the ability to reproduce.
Running for one office while not having completed a third of the office you are currently holding tends to show that you either have a problem keeping the same job for any length of time or that you are in it for the power, fame and fortune. Fortune used not be part of the equation, but that has certainly changed since the invention of the speechwriter. And cronyism.
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Being a politician should automatically disqualify you from being president. It should be an honor to serve your country, not a requirement that your country serve and obey you. It's funny (peculiar, not haha) how that's changed in the last forty years. There's more to being President than getting elected, just like there's more to being a parent than the ability to reproduce.
Running for one office while not having completed a third of the office you are currently holding tends to show that you either have a problem keeping the same job for any length of time or that you are in it for the power, fame and fortune. Fortune used not be part of the equation, but that has certainly changed since the invention of the speechwriter. And cronyism.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Trials, Tribulations and Flat Out Bull Excrement
The only other thing I have to say about the FISA frakking is that everyone who voted for it should be replaced by whatever challenger they're facing in the next election. Whether they are Humpty Dumpty or Freddy Krueger, they have to be a better representative of the people than the bought and paid for "representatives" we have now. That is if we ever have another election, they might decide we don't need those either. And the really sad part of the current crop of of highly paid deceivers on the public dole is that more than a few of them are lawyers and have no excuse for the way they voted except that they don't care about the American people or the Constitution. What they seem to care about is not looking weak on whatever issue they are confronted with. Instead of standing up for themselves and their country, they represent the interests of the corporations that donate to them in lieu of the people who voted for them and have proved they aren't fit to lead a horse to water. Or, as my dad used to put it, if your friends jump off a cliff are you going to jump to? The Congressional response was "hell yeah!" But they did manage to pass these important resolutions.
How...white of them.
The great scam continues. Foreclosures are up 53% over a year ago, rivaling the Great Depression. And bank seizures have tripled. The much vaunted home ownership society continues to destroy the lives of innocent people. People who bought into the dream that obscured reality. Unfortunately reality will follow these people for the rest of their lives, continually holding them and their children back. On the other hand, it makes for a ready made supply of indentured servants. Just like in days of yore. Under the last King George.
Cops covering for one another, say it isn't so. Good thing she didn't kill anybody.
Snicker.
With what? Our good looks?
I'm pretty sure that the economy will take care of this problem, most people will have no choice except to work until they either die or become so feeble that they are put on the street to die. That and the fact that the younger generation have had individuality and independent thought trained out of them.
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How...white of them.
The great scam continues. Foreclosures are up 53% over a year ago, rivaling the Great Depression. And bank seizures have tripled. The much vaunted home ownership society continues to destroy the lives of innocent people. People who bought into the dream that obscured reality. Unfortunately reality will follow these people for the rest of their lives, continually holding them and their children back. On the other hand, it makes for a ready made supply of indentured servants. Just like in days of yore. Under the last King George.
Cops covering for one another, say it isn't so. Good thing she didn't kill anybody.
Snicker.
With what? Our good looks?
I'm pretty sure that the economy will take care of this problem, most people will have no choice except to work until they either die or become so feeble that they are put on the street to die. That and the fact that the younger generation have had individuality and independent thought trained out of them.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
When Choice Is No Choice At All
It's so sad watching the happy lights go out of Obama supporters eyes. It's never good watching people whose hopes and dreams are being shattered. After all the rhetoric, the nasty comments directed at people (one of which was me) who didn't believe what he said about hope and change, they are waking up this morning to a candidate who cannot be distinguished from any other politician running for office. Oh, they were s proud of themselves when they vanquished Clinton, made Edwards out to be too pretty to be effective and gloated unceremoniously when their candidate was anointed the winner by the same people who have been bought off by the telecom companies. Now they are beginning to realize that what they got was a wolf dressed up in Little Red Riding Hood's clothes on the way to Grandma's house. My, what big teeth he has.
In return for this uncritical devotion, their candidate didn't just move to the center, he hightailed it for the right so fast that even Regan MacNeil (I hear Bobby Jindal wants to be VP and he will fit right in with this current course of action) wouldn't be able to keep up with his changing positions. Obama has abandoned his original base as fast as he could while telling them that he would compromise. Yes, the former head of the Harvard Law Review is going to vote to eviscerate the Fourth Amendment, a subject I have ranted on before, and seal our republic's death so we can be a ruled by a dictator with no checks or balances and Buy n Large will control our every move. Power corrupts. Absolutely.
Last night I was talking with a friend and her sister and mentioned Obama's recent comments on late term abortion and that the psychological health of the mother wasn't a good reason. Turns out the sister had lived in Texas at one time, had an abusive husband who beat her so badly that the baby died in utero and she was forced to carry it for ten more weeks until it was born. Dead. Needless to say, he will not be getting her or any member of her family's vote. She was willing to forgive Obama everything until she heard that. Makes you wonder what other positions he is going to reveal now that he feels that he has the power of inevitability.
Once again the Demowienies have picked a candidate on his "electability". The only problem with that strategy is that you end up with a candidate that people are forced to vote for only because they dislike the other guy even more. This is not an effective way to run a country that is supposed to be for, by and of the people.
I can't vote for either candidate because I believe they are both dangerous, they both stretch the truth to the point of unbelievability and neither one is going to make my country or my life better. Or safer. What they are going to do is finish destroying a Constitution that stood for over 200 years, right up until the current reign of error.
I always remember where I was on August 9th, mainly because it's mom's birthday, but 1974 was notable for several reasons. I was leaving basic training at Ft. Jackson and rode a bus through Georgia before arriving at Redstone Arsenal, AL to learn how to repair guidance systems. In that amount of time one President resigned for lying about his involvement in a cover up to bug the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and another arrived in office never having been elected to any office by more than a few thousand people. At least it was for 28 years.
This year I hope to spend it with mom and hoping that the results from the Strangebedfellows moneybomb has an impact. It isn't as if we had an independent media who reported instead of trying to make the news or that we were marching in the streets like we were in the '60s and '70s to let our representatives know that we were serious. Nope, today we send money via the internet a month after the damage has been done.
3b's
In return for this uncritical devotion, their candidate didn't just move to the center, he hightailed it for the right so fast that even Regan MacNeil (I hear Bobby Jindal wants to be VP and he will fit right in with this current course of action) wouldn't be able to keep up with his changing positions. Obama has abandoned his original base as fast as he could while telling them that he would compromise. Yes, the former head of the Harvard Law Review is going to vote to eviscerate the Fourth Amendment, a subject I have ranted on before, and seal our republic's death so we can be a ruled by a dictator with no checks or balances and Buy n Large will control our every move. Power corrupts. Absolutely.
Last night I was talking with a friend and her sister and mentioned Obama's recent comments on late term abortion and that the psychological health of the mother wasn't a good reason. Turns out the sister had lived in Texas at one time, had an abusive husband who beat her so badly that the baby died in utero and she was forced to carry it for ten more weeks until it was born. Dead. Needless to say, he will not be getting her or any member of her family's vote. She was willing to forgive Obama everything until she heard that. Makes you wonder what other positions he is going to reveal now that he feels that he has the power of inevitability.
Once again the Demowienies have picked a candidate on his "electability". The only problem with that strategy is that you end up with a candidate that people are forced to vote for only because they dislike the other guy even more. This is not an effective way to run a country that is supposed to be for, by and of the people.
I can't vote for either candidate because I believe they are both dangerous, they both stretch the truth to the point of unbelievability and neither one is going to make my country or my life better. Or safer. What they are going to do is finish destroying a Constitution that stood for over 200 years, right up until the current reign of error.
I always remember where I was on August 9th, mainly because it's mom's birthday, but 1974 was notable for several reasons. I was leaving basic training at Ft. Jackson and rode a bus through Georgia before arriving at Redstone Arsenal, AL to learn how to repair guidance systems. In that amount of time one President resigned for lying about his involvement in a cover up to bug the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and another arrived in office never having been elected to any office by more than a few thousand people. At least it was for 28 years.
This year I hope to spend it with mom and hoping that the results from the Strangebedfellows moneybomb has an impact. It isn't as if we had an independent media who reported instead of trying to make the news or that we were marching in the streets like we were in the '60s and '70s to let our representatives know that we were serious. Nope, today we send money via the internet a month after the damage has been done.
3b's
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Bankruptcy, Drugs And Idiots
At least breathing while black didn't get him killed, but the UK police aren't quite as trigger happy as a US cops. Yet. At this rate the world will become one great police state, united in the fear of others that don't look like them and in subjugation to whichever multinational corporation runs their government.
Sammy Hagar may not be able to drive 55, but the rest of us should. Mom and I took a trip and I set the cruise control at 64 mph. I passed one car in 150 miles, everyone else passed me. Trucks and SUVs were whipping past me so fast it looked I like I was standing still, but my gas mileage was much improved. If it wasn't so dangerous I would go 55 mph but it's against the law to go more than 5 mph less than the speed limit and I'm likely to get rear ended by someone not paying attention.
The current bankruptcy law definitely needs to be repealed, and not just for those harmed by repeated involutary tours to Iraq and Afghanistan or those who had the misfortune to become ill in a country that let's people die in the emergency room while waiting for help. What about people who have had to lower their standard of living to the poverty level in order to take care of an aging parent? I'm having to take (and pay for) classes to teach me how to handle money I don't have. What a crock or crap that is. And the filing fee has taken months to save up for from a budget that already doesn't pay my bills. Meanwhile Capital One took a bill that was only $600 and turned it into $2160 and is taking me to court to get a judgment even though I'm in the midst of declaring bankruptcy. If they had debtors prison like they did under King George III, I'd be in it and my mom would be living on the street with no way to take care of herself.
My dad used to say that as soon as they found a way to tax it, it would be legal. With state budgets being what they are, more states should follow suit.
Free speech my ass. If a parent burned a cross into their kid's arm, they would go to jail for child abuse. If he had kissed his students he would be out of a job, why is chemically burning a cross into an eighth graders arm not considered a crime?
What a novel idea. Locking the barn door after the horse has escaped. It's nice to know that the crew without a clue haven't changed how they operate.
Oh boy, the pot calling the kettle black. Every time Bush meets other leaders he gives the people of the world new opportunities to be embarrassed for the American people.
Sammy Hagar may not be able to drive 55, but the rest of us should. Mom and I took a trip and I set the cruise control at 64 mph. I passed one car in 150 miles, everyone else passed me. Trucks and SUVs were whipping past me so fast it looked I like I was standing still, but my gas mileage was much improved. If it wasn't so dangerous I would go 55 mph but it's against the law to go more than 5 mph less than the speed limit and I'm likely to get rear ended by someone not paying attention.
The current bankruptcy law definitely needs to be repealed, and not just for those harmed by repeated involutary tours to Iraq and Afghanistan or those who had the misfortune to become ill in a country that let's people die in the emergency room while waiting for help. What about people who have had to lower their standard of living to the poverty level in order to take care of an aging parent? I'm having to take (and pay for) classes to teach me how to handle money I don't have. What a crock or crap that is. And the filing fee has taken months to save up for from a budget that already doesn't pay my bills. Meanwhile Capital One took a bill that was only $600 and turned it into $2160 and is taking me to court to get a judgment even though I'm in the midst of declaring bankruptcy. If they had debtors prison like they did under King George III, I'd be in it and my mom would be living on the street with no way to take care of herself.
My dad used to say that as soon as they found a way to tax it, it would be legal. With state budgets being what they are, more states should follow suit.
Free speech my ass. If a parent burned a cross into their kid's arm, they would go to jail for child abuse. If he had kissed his students he would be out of a job, why is chemically burning a cross into an eighth graders arm not considered a crime?
What a novel idea. Locking the barn door after the horse has escaped. It's nice to know that the crew without a clue haven't changed how they operate.
Oh boy, the pot calling the kettle black. Every time Bush meets other leaders he gives the people of the world new opportunities to be embarrassed for the American people.
Monday, July 07, 2008
In The Garden
My garden isn't fancy and it isn't even in the ground (too many toxic chemicals), but it is growing despite the fact that Shadow is constantly digging in either the Jetsetter tomato pot or digging up my peas and green beans.
Facing away from the beans and peas are the tomatoes. The right side has the Early Girls, Purple Cherokee and Ace. The Girls are starting to ripen, as is the Cherokee.
On the left, under the bougainvillea the landlord won't let me trim, are the Jetsetter, Green Zebra and Brandwine. None of them are ripe because they aren't getting enough sunlight and I can't move them because the trellis is supporting them as they grow.
Then there are the serranos, of which I have flowers but no peppers.
Last and certainly not least, are the herbs, beets and chard. I've let the cilantro go and now it's producing coriander seeds. And you can't really see the out of control chives behind the basil that isn't doing as well as I would like. The empty spot is where Shadow has dug up whatever she felt like chewing on. Like the dead green bean plant on the side of the trellis.
I can hardly wait until I have enough ripe tomatoes of all sorts so I can make the Heirloom Tomato Tart. I admit I cheat and use frozen pie dough that I add lots of cracked pepper to before blind baking it and I substituted goat cheese for the mozzarella. It rocks!
BBB
Facing away from the beans and peas are the tomatoes. The right side has the Early Girls, Purple Cherokee and Ace. The Girls are starting to ripen, as is the Cherokee.
On the left, under the bougainvillea the landlord won't let me trim, are the Jetsetter, Green Zebra and Brandwine. None of them are ripe because they aren't getting enough sunlight and I can't move them because the trellis is supporting them as they grow.
Then there are the serranos, of which I have flowers but no peppers.
Last and certainly not least, are the herbs, beets and chard. I've let the cilantro go and now it's producing coriander seeds. And you can't really see the out of control chives behind the basil that isn't doing as well as I would like. The empty spot is where Shadow has dug up whatever she felt like chewing on. Like the dead green bean plant on the side of the trellis.
I can hardly wait until I have enough ripe tomatoes of all sorts so I can make the Heirloom Tomato Tart. I admit I cheat and use frozen pie dough that I add lots of cracked pepper to before blind baking it and I substituted goat cheese for the mozzarella. It rocks!
BBB
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Are You Getting Enough Vegetables?
The first one is familiar and the rest are a hoot.
Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it...don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.
Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable slop.
Q: Is beer or wine bad for me?
A: Look, it goes to the earlier point about fruits and vegetables. As we all know, scientists divide everything in the world into three categories: animal, mineral, and vegetable. We all know that beer and wine are not animal, and they are not on the periodic table of elements, so that only leaves one thing, right? My advice: Have a burger and a beer and enjoy your liquid vegetables.
Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have a body, and you have body fat, your ratio is 1:1. If you have two bodies, your ratio is 2:1, etc.
Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?
A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain....Good.
Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: You're not listening. Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?
Q: What's the secret to healthy eating?
A: Thicker gravy.
Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.
Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy? HELLO ..... Cocoa beans ... another vegetable!!!
Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets.
Have a cookie ... flour is a veggie!
One more thing...When life hands you lemons, ask for a bottle of tequila and some salt.
3Bs
Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it...don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.
Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable slop.
Q: Is beer or wine bad for me?
A: Look, it goes to the earlier point about fruits and vegetables. As we all know, scientists divide everything in the world into three categories: animal, mineral, and vegetable. We all know that beer and wine are not animal, and they are not on the periodic table of elements, so that only leaves one thing, right? My advice: Have a burger and a beer and enjoy your liquid vegetables.
Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have a body, and you have body fat, your ratio is 1:1. If you have two bodies, your ratio is 2:1, etc.
Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?
A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain....Good.
Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: You're not listening. Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?
Q: What's the secret to healthy eating?
A: Thicker gravy.
Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.
Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy? HELLO ..... Cocoa beans ... another vegetable!!!
Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets.
Have a cookie ... flour is a veggie!
One more thing...When life hands you lemons, ask for a bottle of tequila and some salt.
3Bs
Are We There Yet?
Just like girls wanna have fun, politicians want to be elected. And we've already had the chimp.
Man, that song is old.
Man, that song is old.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
I Have Two Brothers
One is an Obamatron, the other is a self-centered effing douchebag. The Obamatron asked me to send him some links regarding Obama's reversal on the Fourth Amendment and I'll deal with that right after this message to the most selfish, disrespecting flipping idiot I currently know. Other than the current occupant of the White House.
Baby bro, your mother has been trying to call you for the last month, but it seems that you have disconnected the number you have had for over 15 years and left no forwarding number. She has no way of contacting you and time is getting short. Mom had another little stroke during our heat wave a few weeks ago and now has serious balance problems as well as the ongoing deterioration of her mental processes. Some of this deterioration could be slowed if she had a little more contact from the baby of the family. She's depressed, yet she always cheers up when she hears your voice. Call collect if you need to.
K, do her and yourself a favor and pull your head out of your ass. It's dark and depressing in there and prevents you from seeing the light. In less than a month you will be 47 years old and it's time to act like a grownup and accept responsiblity for your actions and quit blaming your dad, your brother, me and anyone else that doesn't worship at your feet and tremor at the glory of your voice. As your older sister and the firstborn of the family, I have mollycoddled you your whole life because I felt that you were too emotionally fragile to hear the truth about yourself. Your feelings no longer concern me and any respect or admiration I had for your talents has evaporated since all you do is talk and you have wasted ALL the advantages you have had since the day you were born. And you had a lot of them.
While you obsess over slights, real and imagined, you never acknowledge the benefits of being the last child. You always had new bikes, clothes and toys, and if you didn't like those, the parents would give you the ones that I or your brother had. Which you would break immediately. Other than kindergarten, you were in the same school system until you graduated. I attended six. You were groomed from the age of twelve to be a computer programmer, your brother was actively ignored by the system yet still has an MBA, and I was denied entry to automotive and science classes because my duty was to get married and have babies and that type of knowledge was something that wouldn't be needed. Come talk with me sometime and we can trade instances of who got screwed and when. I bet that any objective observer will agree that it was me who was disadvantaged and discarded and that you need to spend some time reassessing your extremely distorted version of past events.
And by the way, the reason your father was gone so often was because the Air Force needed his skills to listen in on our enemies and he chose to go to Korea instead of Vietnam because he had a wife and three children and didn't want to die in a war that we weren't going to win. He was right, but you are so wrapped up in feeling sorry for yourself that it probably never occurred to you that we always moved or dad was sent away on my birthday. Specifically my second, sixth, eighth, twelfth, thirteenth and fifteenth. After a little research I discovered it was the anniversary date of his graduating from basic training and that's when his orders were effective. It wasn't his fault and I refuse to keep blaming him for something he had no control over. And N, the reason dad went to Arizona the year before he retired was because I was in eleventh grade and refused to go a different high school. I told him I was tired of trying to make new friends and that I would just drop out and he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Dad felt that even the restricted education I was getting was more important than forcing us to move to another state where we didn't know anyone. So. Get. Over. It.
On a lighter note, N, here are some people who have commented on Obama's arrogant dismissal of the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment.
Baby bro, your mother has been trying to call you for the last month, but it seems that you have disconnected the number you have had for over 15 years and left no forwarding number. She has no way of contacting you and time is getting short. Mom had another little stroke during our heat wave a few weeks ago and now has serious balance problems as well as the ongoing deterioration of her mental processes. Some of this deterioration could be slowed if she had a little more contact from the baby of the family. She's depressed, yet she always cheers up when she hears your voice. Call collect if you need to.
K, do her and yourself a favor and pull your head out of your ass. It's dark and depressing in there and prevents you from seeing the light. In less than a month you will be 47 years old and it's time to act like a grownup and accept responsiblity for your actions and quit blaming your dad, your brother, me and anyone else that doesn't worship at your feet and tremor at the glory of your voice. As your older sister and the firstborn of the family, I have mollycoddled you your whole life because I felt that you were too emotionally fragile to hear the truth about yourself. Your feelings no longer concern me and any respect or admiration I had for your talents has evaporated since all you do is talk and you have wasted ALL the advantages you have had since the day you were born. And you had a lot of them.
While you obsess over slights, real and imagined, you never acknowledge the benefits of being the last child. You always had new bikes, clothes and toys, and if you didn't like those, the parents would give you the ones that I or your brother had. Which you would break immediately. Other than kindergarten, you were in the same school system until you graduated. I attended six. You were groomed from the age of twelve to be a computer programmer, your brother was actively ignored by the system yet still has an MBA, and I was denied entry to automotive and science classes because my duty was to get married and have babies and that type of knowledge was something that wouldn't be needed. Come talk with me sometime and we can trade instances of who got screwed and when. I bet that any objective observer will agree that it was me who was disadvantaged and discarded and that you need to spend some time reassessing your extremely distorted version of past events.
And by the way, the reason your father was gone so often was because the Air Force needed his skills to listen in on our enemies and he chose to go to Korea instead of Vietnam because he had a wife and three children and didn't want to die in a war that we weren't going to win. He was right, but you are so wrapped up in feeling sorry for yourself that it probably never occurred to you that we always moved or dad was sent away on my birthday. Specifically my second, sixth, eighth, twelfth, thirteenth and fifteenth. After a little research I discovered it was the anniversary date of his graduating from basic training and that's when his orders were effective. It wasn't his fault and I refuse to keep blaming him for something he had no control over. And N, the reason dad went to Arizona the year before he retired was because I was in eleventh grade and refused to go a different high school. I told him I was tired of trying to make new friends and that I would just drop out and he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Dad felt that even the restricted education I was getting was more important than forcing us to move to another state where we didn't know anyone. So. Get. Over. It.
On a lighter note, N, here are some people who have commented on Obama's arrogant dismissal of the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.I've ranted on the subject, Glenn Greenwald wrote an excellent assessment, the Dark Wraith explained it from a historical perspective in plain language, that guy Kos who I won't link to, has vowed not to send another dime, Talking Points Memo has an extremely useful timeline of Obama statemnents in the last year and I'm pretty sure the Google has more links than I want to read or list. More than one paper believes that Obama has either made a move towards the center or that he was always there and the list could go on. And on.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Obama Ranks Ninth
At least in this post. I wonder if it will get me locked out of my Blogger account like others who didn't show the proper appreciation of the new boy wonder.
Yippee! 100 members of the California National Guard return to San Jose from a yearlong tour in Iraq. Unfortunately they won't be able to enjoy their time at home because there are so many fires that firefighters are having to let some fires rage in an effort to save communities. So they can flood if we get any rain this coming winter.
He could be looking for Larry and Curly or he could be looking for a member of the opposite sex.
When I was a teenager one of my chores was to take the cars to the gas station and wait in line to fill them up. Both of our cars had odd numbered plates and I would waste a whole afternoon filling up the '63 Galaxy 500 and then the '69 Mustang. I'd take a book, crank up the AM radio and off to wait in line I went. I didn't mind because it gave me a real excuse to be out of the house and Dad didn't know how long the lines were. Or weren't. At no time did I have to dodge bullets or push my car towards a station I couldn't see and then when I got there find out it wasn't working because there wasn't any electricity. For the Iraqis it's like the old saying, "water, water everywhere, nor a drop to drink."
I'm so happy that troop deaths are down in Iraq. Too bad the same can't be said for Afghanistan.
Coming soon to a home near you. And if you complain about the government, it will probably be sooner rather than later.
We don't take care of our own veterans, we certainly aren't going to take care of Iraq's. Out of sight and out of mind. Just the way America likes all of its problems. That way we can pretend we had nothing to do with destroying their lives.
Meryl Streep is not the reason I want to see Mamma Mia! Nor is it Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skaarsgard or Colin Firth and it's definitely not the ABBA music. My reason is Amanda Seyfried, who's character's untimely death was the reason for Veronica Mars first season.
This reminds me of In The Year 2525 except the that we won't have to wait until the year 6565 to pick our kids from the bottom of a long glass tube.
Last, and most certainly not least, Obama wants to not only continue a Bush plan, he wants to expand it. Even if it doesn't work and encourages religious discrimination. He will do anything and say anything to get elected. Next thing you know, he'll be encouraging the citizenry to believe we want to stay in Iraq and bomb Iran. Politicians may look different, but they all want the same thing. Power, fame and fortune. And they don't care who they have to step on to get it.
Yippee! 100 members of the California National Guard return to San Jose from a yearlong tour in Iraq. Unfortunately they won't be able to enjoy their time at home because there are so many fires that firefighters are having to let some fires rage in an effort to save communities. So they can flood if we get any rain this coming winter.
He could be looking for Larry and Curly or he could be looking for a member of the opposite sex.
When I was a teenager one of my chores was to take the cars to the gas station and wait in line to fill them up. Both of our cars had odd numbered plates and I would waste a whole afternoon filling up the '63 Galaxy 500 and then the '69 Mustang. I'd take a book, crank up the AM radio and off to wait in line I went. I didn't mind because it gave me a real excuse to be out of the house and Dad didn't know how long the lines were. Or weren't. At no time did I have to dodge bullets or push my car towards a station I couldn't see and then when I got there find out it wasn't working because there wasn't any electricity. For the Iraqis it's like the old saying, "water, water everywhere, nor a drop to drink."
I'm so happy that troop deaths are down in Iraq. Too bad the same can't be said for Afghanistan.
Coming soon to a home near you. And if you complain about the government, it will probably be sooner rather than later.
We don't take care of our own veterans, we certainly aren't going to take care of Iraq's. Out of sight and out of mind. Just the way America likes all of its problems. That way we can pretend we had nothing to do with destroying their lives.
Meryl Streep is not the reason I want to see Mamma Mia! Nor is it Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skaarsgard or Colin Firth and it's definitely not the ABBA music. My reason is Amanda Seyfried, who's character's untimely death was the reason for Veronica Mars first season.
This reminds me of In The Year 2525 except the that we won't have to wait until the year 6565 to pick our kids from the bottom of a long glass tube.
Last, and most certainly not least, Obama wants to not only continue a Bush plan, he wants to expand it. Even if it doesn't work and encourages religious discrimination. He will do anything and say anything to get elected. Next thing you know, he'll be encouraging the citizenry to believe we want to stay in Iraq and bomb Iran. Politicians may look different, but they all want the same thing. Power, fame and fortune. And they don't care who they have to step on to get it.
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