Thursday, May 31. 2007
The NRA Song
Guns are neat, Guns are sweet
Guns the tool, what makes you cool.
Guns are fine, Guns are mine
Guns are things, that Jesus brings!
Guns for loonies, Guns for cons
Guns for Moonies, Guns for moms!
Guns are fun for everyone,
buy them up by the ton.
Guns for me, Guns for you,
Guns for nuts and children too!
Guns at home, Guns at work,
Guns at play, Guns berserk!
Tons and tons of great big Guns,
Are tons and tons of great big fun!
I’ve got Guns up my nose
‘tween my ears and by my toes.
I’m no fool, I’m so cool,
I take Guns to my school.
I take Guns to my car,
to the store and to the bar.
I got Guns in a drawer,
in my pocket and on the floor.
I got Guns on the wall,
behind the toilet and in the hall.
I got guns in my bed,
one is growing from my head!
Get a Gun and get it fast,
Gun-Gun shoot-shoot is a blast!
Thursday, May 31. 2007
 How much Amercian hypocrisy can be fit into one paragraph?
Nine soldiers are dead as the result of a CH-47 Chinook being shot down in Afganistan recently. It is believed it was caused by Taliban insurgents with a standard RPG rocket launcher. Not long ago the United States refused to attend the Moscow Olympics because the Russians were fighting a war against the Taliban in Afganistan. Wow hey. It was said the 10 year war was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. The Russians pulled out after the United States made hand held surface to air missles available to Osama Bin Laden and his Al Queda/Taliban "freedom fighters", who were then able to shoot down Russian helicopters at will.
Thursday, May 31. 2007
Down here in Dumbass our state legislature meets only every other year, and then only for a few months. This saves all Texans money which could be better spend on ammo. The present session is important as our education system is one of the worst in the land because Bubba doesn’t want to pay for it through either state income taxes or property taxes. Leaving... Well... I don't know. Texas comes in 50th out of 50 in those who have high school diplomas. So the Texas Legislature met to fix the problem once and for all. Of course like every other session, they ended up accomplishing nothing regarding education, but happily after months of hard work and debate they did accomplish a few things of a more tantamount nature.
They overruled Governor Perry’s Bill for mandatory inoculations of 12 year old girls so young Texas girls would have as much right to get ovarian cancer as girls anywhere else.
They are presently debating the finer points of making Bible Study a mandatory elective in high school.
They passed a bill so gun-owner's can shoot any intruder on their property even if the intruder turns out not to be armed. This is a good one, you don’t like someone? Lure them on to your property and shoot them in the back! Or shoot them in the face if you have a thing about thing about shooting people in the back.
They are in heavy debate to allow blind hunters to use laser sighted rifles so blind people can also enjoy blowing the crap out of unarmed animals. I am not sure if this applies to unarmed people on their property, but it probably does.
They are waiting the Governor’s signature on a new law that allows employees to keep their assault rifles and machine pistols out in their cars on company owned parking lots. This means that if a boss or coworker is annoying, they don’t have to drive all the way home to get their guns to shoot those so in need of shooting.
And of course the one that gained recent national attention, allowing guns in schools, courthouses, bars and churches. Well, needing guns in churches down here goes without saying, but bars? In closing I would like to quote our Texas Land Commissioner, Jerry Patterson who really nailed the main concern in this debate of bellying up to the bar for the shot contest with gun in hand:
"Firearms maybe aren't the best thing there, when you're drunk, your aim is not so good."
Thursday, May 31. 2007
Wednesday, May 30. 2007
 Sheehan gave a son, and more in return, she got death threats, called all manner of obscene names from the upright and "patriotic", and lost her husband to divorce. Prompted by the death of her son Casey, who died in Iraq on April 4, 2004, she met with the President, who evaded all mention of her son. I presume it's easier to send people to war if you don't put faces and names with the numbers. Failing that, she launched a campaign few could have missed. Some agreed with her, others still continue to criticize her even after she has thrown in the towel.
I wish she could feel that she'd made a difference, that she'd moved people to speak out, for the newly elected Democrats to change things, but it seems her protest ends with a sad and discouraged farewell. I cannot say it better than she did.
"I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither. The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing...Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Replicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and that Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most."
Wednesday, May 30. 2007
Republicans only invoke Jesus of the Shinning City when it is convenient.
If you watched the Fox News presidential debate a few weeks ago you are aware that moderators Chris Wallace and Britt Hume poisoned the questions to get the candidates to advocate war, torture and the largest mass round up and deportation in history. Not to mention building the biggest, baddest, highest and longest wall in 2500 years. This of course is all central to conservative ideology, but the most over used questions were not about what Jesus would do, but what Ronald Reagan would do -- the same thing to Republicans. Fareed Zakaria in a recent piece in Newsweek pretty much nailed this issue, follows a few quotes from the Gipper himself lifted from that article.
"It makes one wonder about the illegal-alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal-alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do. One thing is certain in this hungry world: no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the fields for lack of harvesters." Ronald Reagan as Governor of California 1977
In fact, it was Ronald Reagan, the now perceived God of Gop who pushed and signed the 1986 Immigration Bill which gave amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants.
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life," he said, "but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here." Ronald Reagan in his farewell address in 1989.
Even front runner Rudi Giuliani has recently changed his tune to become more acceptable to the fear and loathing that drives the conservative electorate.
"The anti-immigration issue that's now sweeping the country in my view is no different than the movements that swept the country in the past," he said. "You look back at the Chinese Exclusionary Act, or the Know-Nothing movement—these were movements that encouraged Americans to fear foreigners, to fear something that is different, and to stop immigration." Rudi Giuliani in 1996
Where does this yet another historic attack on ethnic minorities come from you ask? The real numbers show that there is no national issue regarding these workers causing unemployment, using more services than they subsidize, are responsible for more crime, or even the terrorist infiltration. Rather this all began with Conservative writer Tom Clancy’s 2003 novel, The Teeth of the Tiger, where a gang of Islamofacists swim the Rio Grande to go on murdering sprees across the malls of America. Rush Limbaugh and the rest of Hate Talk Radio crowd pushed his crap 24/7 for months and are still at it now years later. The bottom line is this is just another case of Conservatives basing their arguments upon fiction rather than reality. Or to be more magnanimous, Conservatives do not know that novels are fiction.
Tuesday, May 29. 2007
 I reluctantly walked back into the bookstore that Friday afternoon, wishing I were anywhere else. It had been a hellish week, full of idiotic customers, inane corporate directives and backstabbing co-workers. I glanced at the man perusing the books on the bestseller table and for the first time in my life, my jaw literally dropped. I ran to the back of the store on feet crippled by bone spurs, to grab the only other person I was sure would recognize him. She assumed I was fucking with her as I dragged her to the table. We stood about twenty foot away and whispered back and forth loudly enough for our voices to be heard in submarines half a world away from our small Texas town.
“It’s him!” I hissed.
“It looks like him but why would he be here?” she hissed back.
“I read somewhere he owned property in this county. I didn’t want to believe it,” I replied, still sotto voce.
A regular customer and another employee walked up to us.
Our regular asked, “Why are y’all hissing?”
We pointed and explained. Both newcomers agreed it looked like him. The employees seemed to feel the best option under these strange circumstances would be to continue debating, but our regular believed in the direct approach. The man had moved away from the table and was walking past us. Our regular went up to him and asked the question everyone but me was dying to know. I knew it was him.
The man gave an unconvincing chuckle and said, “No, but I get that all the time.”
In triumph, our regular joined our huddle and announced, “It’s not him.”
“What else would he say?” asked my employee.
“He lies,” I muttered darkly.
The hissing argument continued with everyone else wavering. I knew I was right. I could tell by the way my skin crawled when he was standing two feet from me. A woman appeared and asked where the history section was, thereby taking me out of the huddle and giving me no chance to convince the skeptical. I turned the corner and there he was.
The woman was his wife and they followed me all the way back up the aisle. A voice in my head, which I can only hope was mine, was shrieking,
“He’s looking at my butt!”
I stopped at the huddle, which now consisted of three people trying not to look guilty. The man and his wife continued to the cash register where he paid for his book with a credit card and left the store. But not before my employee had sent the regular out to the parking lot to get his license plate number so she could run it through some computer program she had on her computer. There was no need for that as we all raced to the startled and confused woman at the register and demanded she pull out her credit card slips. My sense of vindication was dampened by my need for an immediate shower and some good drugs.
Karl Rove had been looking at my butt.
Tuesday, May 29. 2007
Just a few passing thoughts from a Vietnam Veteran the day after Memorial Day.
Most Americans don’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day.
I am amazed at the patriotism of politicians who don’t have sons or daughters in Iraq and Iran. I wonder how they’d feel if they had a kid or husband over there.
Seeing George Bush at Arlington Cemetery gives me the creeps.
Does anyone understand the reason Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address?
I can’t figure out which holiday, Memorial Day or President’s Day, has the best mattress sale.
Tuesday, May 29. 2007
STURTEVANT - Two brothers serving time in prison together were charged Thursday with incest. A prison guard found Brian and Jeremy Threlkeld, both of Kenosha, engaged in sexual activity in their prison cell at the Racine Correctional Institution on March 31, according to a criminal complaint. The brothers had shared a cell for about two months. In an interview with police, both Threlkelds said they had sex three to four times per week while sharing a cell. Both said the sex was consensual. Both brothers are serving time in prison for the sexual assault of a child. Brian, 25, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2000. Jeremy, 21, was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2004. If convicted of incest, each brother could be sentenced to an additional 18 1/2 years in prison.
Tuesday, May 29. 2007
 Gov Mike Huckabee is trying to burst out to the pack of Republican candidates. He is one of the three who believes that God invented the world 6000 years ago and put down billions of older fossils and facts because God gave his only begotten son to confuse scientists.
On Huckabee’s big day on Fox News Sunday he dusted off old Dickass Armey’s flat tax plan; the elimination of all progressive taxation replaced with a regressive 30% federal sales tax on all things. He is right that it benefits the poor because they can only afford shine and crank which are both sold under the table and not taxed (perhaps I have been watching to much COPS). But his plan sure does give corporations and the wealthy the nicety of paying just about no taxes at all, which of course is what Jesus would do.
Speaking of Jesus, Mike is also the one who is most loved by God and the most adamant about denying women their reproductive rights. After about five minutes of comparing abortion to slavery, he arrived at the conclusion that all things morally wrong must be made illegal. That’s not so bad, it means he is for the end of capital punishment, preemptive wars, boxing and whacking kids around. Oops, I misspoke, he is for making only what he personally finds morally wrong illegal. So please disregard the above listing of moral institutions and replace them with adultery, sex education, rubbers, homosexuality, and of course what keeps so many men from going postal, the hummer.
I am going out a limb here to conclude that Cho, Klebold, Harris and that complete list of asocial male gunloons shooting up schools, workplaces and restaurants all had one thing in common, they were all Hummerless Humans. Which I also suspect is the case concerning Osama Bin Laden and that entire gang terrorists. Perchance have I, sitting here on my ass in Texas, fumbled upon the answer to eliminate humanities propensity to violence?
Monday, May 28. 2007
Sunday, May 27. 2007
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Strange (funebrity.com) Mom drives them everywhere, soccer practice, karate, even vandalizing. The fate of the four thirteen year olds, and three twelve year old girls is yet to be decided. Dear Ol' Mum got a ticket. I was hoping for a spaying. I can only assume that she was outraged by little Tiffany's English grade, and did what any concerned, loving mother would do. Over the weekend, she piled her daughter and friends into the family vehicle to give the girls an example of how to handle these matters, setting an example as any good mother would do. She drove them to the home of the obviously clueless educator, and "decorated" the seventh grade English teacher's home, trees, and driveway with an assortment of goodies including - of course, that stand-by toilet paper, dishwashing soap, eggs, tape, and syrup. In my day..well never mind, I'll spare you beyond how we trudged to school each day, in the snow, uphill - both ways. Let's just say that one's parent was the last person you wanted to catch you whilst festooning a home. An undisclosed message was left in the teacher's driveway. At the very least, I hope it was spelled correctly. No wonder kids are chubbier than in years past (From AP and Lincoln Journal Star)
Saturday, May 26. 2007
Let us hope it is equally appreciated in the good ol' US of A, though I'm not holding my breath, judging by the reaction of his previous but equally prophetic looks at things all of which could be changed for far less than the cost of the war in Iraq. For the millions of Americans without health care, there is a smaller but vocal group who are quick to yell that this will be the death of us, not least among them the very large and often corrupt health care providers who are exposed to a great extent in this film.
Several nations with a good system have proven to have much better care all around, and a healthier population. The naysayers seem to have but one refrain: "if they had a decent job, they'd HAVE health care, just like me!" I'm certain the millions who do NOT have a decent job with benefits would love to join that vocal, fat, dumb, and happy club. Somehow, national health care is viewed as a left wing pinko commie plot, which will deprive them of their coverage, and bring them down to the level of all, rather than save lives, and ensure a decent quality of life for the majority. Let's hope this film opens some eyes before it's too late. After all, Moore has proven himself right, far too many years later in some of his other films which were met with scorn and contempt by many at the time. The tragedy of Bowling for Columbine, Roger And Me, and Farenheit 9/11 are now seen as truthful, if uncomfortable warning. Michael Moore lauded in Cannes (Times Argus)
Saturday, May 26. 2007
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - A nude car wash offering an X-rated sideshow and topless cleaning in Australia's tropical Queensland state has been given the all-clear after police and officials said they were powerless to scrub it. The Bubbles 'n' Babes car wash in Brisbane prompted a flood of complaints with a topless car wash for A$55 ($45) and a nude car wash with X-rated lap-dance service for A $100. "If it was approved for a car wash then I can't imagine how we can stop them," Lord Mayor Campbell Newman told a council meeting with worried local lawmakers. Professional car washes have boomed in most cities with drought-stricken Australians banned from washing their own cars due to tough water restrictions. Queensland police denied any cover-up in a state where their image has been dented by past accusations of police corruption and involvement with organized crime. The raunchy wash, set up by a strip club owner, was screened from the public and used recycled water to avoid breaching water use restrictions, they said. "We don't want any traffic accidents caused by people looking at the girls instead of looking at the road," Superintendent Colin Campbell told local media.
X-rated nude car wash gets police all-clear
Saturday, May 26. 2007
 “In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.” Ambrose Bierce
There are two Sacred Cows in America, Religious faith and Patriotism. To disparage either under any condition will not be tolerated in this country. There are two better unmentioned conservatively incorrect words for both, dogma and jingo.
Let me begin by giving the military a roundhouse upside the head. I was in the military for three long years (which I subtract from my age), one year as an enlisted man and two as an Officer and Gentleman which I believe gives me a modicum of credibility in this matter.
What in the Hell is this crap with the military taking the moral high ground on social issues, or concerning the Bill Clinton years? My God man, their main entertainment is getting drunk and going to whore houses. They have a much higher domestic violence (wife beating) and divorce rate than the general public, and contrary to public opinion they are not there to die for the flag, but to either escape the real world or gather an array of benefits for when they get out. Intellectually? Hey, all 14 people killed by soda machines falling on them while trying to steal a coke were military personal. The military is as close to a totalitarian communist organization as there is in this country. And this delusion about them dying for Old Glory, to halt communism, or to insure freedom and liberty for some group of indigenous peons a half a world away is crap, they honorably give their lives for each other rather than some pile of political jingoism.
Neither can religious faith be questioned in America. Oh sure, the media can go after a religious figure, a cult, or question religion in politics, but to in anyway disparage or question a belief that angels play harps on little white clouds in the sky will not be published, aired or tolerated by either politicians, the mainstream media or in the public square.
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.” Luis Bunue
Friday, May 25. 2007
 Talking Heads on TV make this issue far more complicated than it is. It is really quite simple. In the early Fall of 2006 the GOP realized they could lose control of both the House and the Senate causing their last six years of corrupt political hacking to be investigated resulting in an even worse defeat in 2008. So from a few Senators, Representatives and Karl Rove came the political plan to use bogus voter fraud indictments against Democrats to knock them out of key races. When a few Republican US Attorneys balked at issuing indictments without evidence they were fired for putting democracy and the Rule of Law above right-wing political ideology.
Last week we heard the story from James Comey of Alberto Gonzales -- as Bush’s White House Counsel -- going to the hospital where Attorney General Ashcroft lay drugged and fighting for his life to get his shaky signature to sign up for Bush’s unconstitutional warrant less wire tapping law. The only good thing Wingnut John Ashcroft ever did in his life was to show Mr. Gonzales the door.
This week we watched Monica Goodling -- the one who actually did the firings for the White House – show us that indeed, she and the rest of the hundred graduates from Pat Roberton’s God-Law School in this administration really are as dim as we knew they would be. After being given immunity for her testimony, her understanding of even that simple legal concept was lost upon her as she invoked the 5 Amendment.
This is about putting political ideology above not only democracy, the constitution and the Rule of Law, but common decency as well. For the next 18 months these same kind of “Karl” stories will be played out until the President’s ratings fall so low that only Brit Hume and Beazley will be licking his hand.
Thursday, May 24. 2007
Dems deliver on promise (From Yahoo News)
Indeed they did! It's good news for the 479,000 people who have been living on the minimum wage of $5.15 per hour, and the millions who receive just one dollar more. All of these happy campers living in the nation of plenty are below poverty level if they work 40 hours a week, and have a family of three. This is the first increase since 1997 when Clinton and a Republican congress raised the minimum from $4.75 to the $5.15 we've been living it up on low these past ten years. Don't rush out to "Tarjay" to buy baby those new shoes just yet. It will take over two years to reach the new minimum of $7.25 per hard earned dollar. Call me an ingrate, a cynic, or whatever you wish, but the bloom fades from this rose of plenty when you realize that it had to be included in another bill which the president wanted, else he vowed to veto it. He just wants a few lil' things really, one of which was one hundred BILLION to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't believe there was a two year phase in period for those funds.
The final insult to injury? Just one of the nifty ways of raising revenue to fund this staggering increase for us,
is that you will be subject to increased penalties should you be so impoverished that your IRS check bounces. Invest wisely. I'm thinking canned goods, and "futures" in garden seed perhaps?
Thursday, May 24. 2007
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry. In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays the same standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below- market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. He is happy to see his father, who is now retired.
His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys through out his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
Thursday, May 24. 2007
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(OKMULGEE, Okla.) May 14 - The pre-kindergarten student at Okmulgee Primary School ingested a amount of `hand sanitizer` right before lunch. The school says a teacher put some on the child's hands to clean them, but instead of rubbing it on her hands, the girl ate it. The girl had to be rushed to the hospital when she acted intoxicated. You expect hand sanitizer to keep your kids safe but one of the main ingredients in the stuff is actually alcohol. If you turn it over and look at the label it shows 62-percent alcohol that’s enough to make adults and many kids drunk or sick.
Four-year-old Halle Butler is doing much better but just a few days ago it was a much different story.
Halle`s mom says, "I’ll never forget the look in her eyes when she looked at me... It was... nuh uh." "I walked in and she's leaning up against the wall and her eyes are just kinda...doing whatever...they were not focused on anything, she tried to get up and can't walk?" Halle`s dad recalls. Halle`s parents eventually learned their daughter had eaten, rather than rubbed on her hands, a small amount of hand sanitizer. Doctors say the alcohol inside made her intoxicated.
The incident scared everyone including school officials. The very next day the school banned hand sanitizer.
The school’s principal says, "it was a surprise, kinda unbelievable. We were killing the germs before they go to lunch so they wouldn’t be eating the germs...and then we find out later...we’re doing as much harm as we are doing good."
Halle`s mom says, "it was horrible...I think my heart stayed up in my throat the majority of the day."
Halle's mom now wants other parents to be aware of what can happen... so no one else goes through what they have.
So after an incident like this many parents may be wondering...is hand sanitizer safe? Well the makers of hand sanitizer say, "yes it is as long as it’s used as directed. That means kids need to put it on their hands and use it on their hands. They should never put hand sanitizer in their mouths."
Poison control experts say drinking hand sanitizer can be fatal in both children and adults.
The reason is that sanitizer contains 62-percent alcohol...while most hard liquor contains 40-percent. Beer in Oklahoma meanwhile contains 3.2 percent.
Thursday, May 24. 2007
 I’ve been meaning to do an article on Sean Hannity for quite awhile, the problem is it's such a chore listening to someone so damn stupid it makes your skin crawl. There is also the problem of not being able to find enough disparaging adjectives in my Thesaurus.
Hannity is not only about 90% of the Hannity & Combs show on Fox News, but his radio show following morphine addict Rush Limbaugh is going to surpass Rush in the ratings in the next few months. Rush is clever, witty and smart while Sean Hannity is a humorless, dull witted buffoon, which plays well to conservative audiences around America. He competes for the same intellectual crowd as evening talk show host Michael Reagan, the only difference being Reagan’s audiences are mostly from hollers, swamps and militia compounds while Hannity appeals mostly to those staggering around VFWs on free beer night.
I write this as Mr. Hannity is about to go on stage with his road show down the street here a piece. One thing about conservative speeches, they can always be reviewed before they are made. Loud country music about flags and eagles will set the stage. Hannity will come out to raucous standing ovations and spend half the show defining liberals as the Brethren of Beelzebub. Then onto the only topic conservatives have these days. The creation of a special homeland police force to round up 12 million people based upon ethnicity and putting them in detention camps for later deportation. Of course this has no relation to anything the real Brethren of Beelzebub did in Germany in the 30’s because it falls under the auspices of The Rule of Law.
Oops, I forgot, Germany had passed laws before they did in the Jews so they too were only righteously invoking The Rule of Law too. Remember the last time these crazyass conservatives were all screeching about The Rule of Law? The BJ! Let me tell you something, every time you hear these creepy crawlers invoke The Rule of Law, it is only semantic cover for their abject bigotry, wholesale intolerance or both. And That’s A Fact (ADAF).
Wednesday, May 23. 2007
Bush address causes double take It should have, if anyone was paying attention at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.where none other but the Commander in Chief gave the commencement address. No ordinary commencement address, here we learned of previously classified information on Bin Laden, and the reasons why we must maintain a strong stand in Bin Laden's stronghold, Iraq. It is the "key to the global fight against terrorism." It seems Bin Laden is making it a sanctuary for al-Qaeda. What's the big deal? Well, you may remember that in previous speeches, we were told that Bin Laden was no longer a threat, perhaps not even alive..in any case, one thing the prez was certain of, was that "Bin Laden is a person who has now been marginalized." Quite a comeback! Bush 'spains it all in great detail in the linked article. One thing is for sure,
wherever he actually is - Bin Laden has always been in just the right place to promote the current plans of the administration.
Wednesday, May 23. 2007
An all-female law firm is turning heads in Chicago with a new billboard and a blunt message:
"Life's Short. Get a Divorce.''
The billboard features the six-pack abs of a headless male torso and tanned female cleavage heaving forth from a black lace bra. The ad is the brainchild of Corri Fetman, who told ABC News' Law & Justice Unit, "Law firm advertising is boring…Everything's always the same. It's lawyers in libraries with a suit on and the law books behind them. They don't say anything. What, I should hire you because you have a law degree? C'mon. So we wanted to try something different."
Get a divorce' billboard gets dumped (CNN News)
Wednesday, May 23. 2007
 Oh, what a star!
RESUME: George W. Bush
The White House, USA
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT: I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my
driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
MILITARY: I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
COLLEGE: I graduated from YaleUniversity. I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
I ran for US Congress and lost.
I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected Governor of Texas.
Wednesday, May 23. 2007
 Ron Paul quit Congress in the late 80’s because he thought Republicans were far too liberal to become the presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party. What was there for Libertarains not to like in a over the top conservative, rabid pro-Life Libertarian (strange as that may seem to those not schooled in LP irrationality) and all around Right-wing bigot?
Ron Paul has said many really crazyass things over his career, but topping the list was his accusation that President Clinton was a “cocaine addict ” which he says “explains a lot about him.” That kind of radio talkshow libel only explains what Ron Paul is not what Bill Clinton is. Here are a few of this Libertarian’s views on race:
“If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”
“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e., support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”
“Politically sensible blacks are outnumbered as decent people... I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city [Washington] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
“We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”
“By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.”
When Paul didn’t get 1% of the vote for President, he worked himself back into the GOP in his old district down here two stupids lower than we are in Dumbass.
Wednesday, May 23. 2007
Back when we called them Jesus Freaks they referred to their evangelical fundamentalist religion as The Word. Somewhere along the line that was changed to The Truth. Religions may be a lot of fine and wonderful things, but The Truth is not one of them. In fact religion has nothing to do with truth. It’s truthless, the anti-truth, the non-truth, and of course the grandest lie ever perpetrated in human history. So how does it happen that so many can so corrupt the truth of things? You know the answer, it's the bane of reason, we are only going to believe what we wish to believe.
This issue reared its unreasonable head in another venue, the Crazyass Fox News Republican Presidential debate. When moderators and candidates got done singing the praises of torture (other than John McCain) Ron Paul blurted out The Truth. He said that U.S. foreign policy is what has spurred Islamic terrorism, the undeniable truth of the matter.
The entire crazyass gang on stage jumped on crazyass Paul with Rudy Giuliani getting in the last word by saying it was the most “absurd statement he ever heard.” Later, Eric Dondero, a former aid to Ron Paul now running against him for his congressional seat down here in Dumbass said his statement was “treacherous and treasonous!” Truth is a very strange thing.
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