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Saturday, June 30. 2007Mitt Romney Cool Under Crisis Or Sadistic Hoser?
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Elizabeth Edwards takes on the Bitch Slut Ann Coulter for saying she wished terrorists had killed John Edwards, that he was a "faggot" and for making fun of the death of their teenage son. |
A recent poll by the Progessive Institute for the Squalid, a liberal think tank located in Hortense, South Carolina announced its findings on youth attitudes Sunday last.
“There is a significant trend toward American youth developing a greater respect for both adults and authority,” declared D. Rawlings Lister, Co-chair of the committee to discover respect in youth.
On hand was Teddy Stemple, 15, one of the adolescents polled in the survey. Stemple pointed out that he has “ a deep and abiding respect for members of the Bush administration that consistently break the law and violate the constitution and get away with it.”
Stemple also listed ‘Major League Baseball players on steroids, NBA stars that take drugs and beat women, and the NFL players who get high and fight,” as not only adults worthy of respect, but also true positive role models.
| Samantha Bee on the Daily Show explains the mathamatics of Vice President Dick Cheney's place on the Supreme Court. |
Top story at the New York Times is not only how much more liberal the 18 to 29 demographic is, but how their propensity to vote is growing substantially. The poll showed they are far less racist, bigoted, homophobic, and accepting of immigration and national health care than old farts. Americans at large proclaim themselves 32% conservative and 20% liberal while those between 18 and 29 it is even up.
Is it just serendipity that the number in the polls defining the young stop at 29 years old which is also the basis of the classic Sci-Fi movie Logan’s Run? The movie used 30 years old as the age in which those reaching that age were required to join hands around the red pit floating up to oblivion for the well being of the rest of mankind. Too radical a solution for even me. So considering all the racist, bigoted, homophobic old farts I know down here in Dumbass, perhaps the requirement for self oblivion should be upped to 65. Young Americans Are Leaning Left
| Dick Cheney is not part of the Executive or Legislative branch of government, rather he as an Avatar, a Highlander, perhaps even the Son of God... |
This may well be the test of how much power and influence the guy in the tall pointy hat still has. In case your rosary beads are in mothballs, or you don’t get the news from the Vatican, His Holiness issued the Ten Commandments for Driving. I must say this is probably the one and only directive with which I’ve even remotely been in agreement He seems to be saying we should be nice to one another, even in our cars! I do remember what happened to a historic figure 2,000 years ago who attempted telling people to play nicely. It ended badly for him.
I too have witnessed this decline in civility first hand. It was culture shock when I moved from a small community to a larger, and much more aggressive one ,where a car full of church ladies nearly ran me off of the road on my way into town. I became accustomed to exchanging friendly finger gestures with other drivers on every outing. I also learned that you’re best to avoid catching up with anyone who feels that you “cut them off. Even if you did not intentionally do this, you’ll know. Often they’re screaming, with that big blood vessel in the forehead and neck clearly pulsing in extreme anger, as they reach around in their glove box - I assume it’s not for a tissue, though the first time it happened to me I could have used one. My knees were knocking for an hour after the encounter. Usually people have to know me to get that angry with me.
Next, I learned that you will be honked and blasphemed if you do not “shift, and accelerate to the point where your neck visibly snaps back in anticipation of a green light.” This quote was imparted to me in a serious and helpful demeanor by a soft spoken nurse as she took my vital signs after a fender bender. The most recent incident occurred to one of our own merry crew here at Kick. Petite, and widely known as a kind hearted soul, her blood turned to ice when she saw a sour faced old bat shove a shopping cart with great velocity directly at her brand new car. There may have been some um..eh..er..WORDS exchanged. Our friend flew into action, neglecting the state of her back, by placing her body between the cart and the car. That’s when the other woman made the mistake of shoving her. Our heroine punched her in the face to the wild cheers of onlookers at the supermarket. You know it’s reached crisis point when even this even tempered and polite woman can be provoked, and risk her own well being. I wish his Popeness great good luck on this one, but cynic that I am, I fear that if anyone takes it seriously, those who are rusty might be even more distracted as they try to remember what comes next in their rosary beads.
Beads which will be included in the other items on board such as a cell phone, a latte’, fiddling with the radio, maybe dropping a ciggie now and then, oh – and the steering wheel and shifter. I think I’ll let my bobble headed Jesus do the worrying for me and see how it all works out. drive nicely - msnbc
It’s always heart warming to hear of young couples just starting out. In fact, the father of the bride, who lives in the Sudan has a new son in law and a dowry the equivalent of $50. US dollars. What’s not to celebrate, I ask you!
Houston Chronicle columnist Cragg Hines, a moderate Republican whose editorials have caused millions of Texans to claim this conservative daily a liberal rag, wrote a column last week suggesting a little word of national apology for America’s centuries of slavery.
Hines notes that the angry letters began pouring in the middle of the night before the ink was dry on the OUTLOOK page.
This week Hines talks about the response to his rather moderate request. He passes over the hard core racists and dwells in the standard Southern White Conservative angst regarding the issue.
Black Americans should consider themselves lucky they are here rather than there. We did them a favor.
African Blacks rounded themselves up for shipment, it’s their own fault.
Muslims profited from the slave trade, it’s their fault.
Britain and America ended slavery, English speaking countries should be saluted.
I did not own slaves. It’s not my fault
My family did not own slaves, it’s not their fault.
Only wealthy plantation owners owned slaves, its not our fault.
There was slavery in the North, its not the South’s fault.
An apology would cause not only Blacks, but Indians and the Irish to sue our government out of existence.
Sounds much like the famous Simpson’s episode where Bart became famous for saying “I didn’t do it!” A cartoon mentality. Like it or not, our historic endemic racism is why America has no national health care plan. We will not be forced to PAY IN to PAY OUT to people unlike us, Blacks.
Cragg Hines closes with one of the few positive responses he received. Must have been a visitor from Maine.
Slavery is the original sin of the U.S. An apology will not change past events but it will help the nation to heal open wounds. The gripe when topic is slavery
Introducing the Turner Broadcasting BAMZU website - for when you're in front of a computer monitor all day long and can't get to your tv screen to watch those informercials on TBS, TNT and the rest of the Ted Turner television stations.
The Bamzu site apparently breaks things down into four categories: Kitchen stuff you don't really gotta have, kids life insurance policies you really don't gotta have, inspirational reading material the announcers seem to think you gotta have, and awful music -- that at 3 in the morning -- you know you gotta have.
A little known secret is all this $19.95 stuff (plus eight dollars for shipping and handling) is being marketed politically. All you have to ask yourself is whether the product is 40 years old or if it came out in the current Century.
The "Fifty Most Loved Hymns" is obviously Republican fare, while the "Bible on DVD" is for the Democrats. But wait, there's more! The "Better Crocker Bake and Fill" is for the Conservative Crowd while "Blendy Pens" go over well with Progressives.
For children the original Kidz Bop music CD could go either way, although "Kidz Bop volume 12" is definitely the domain of Conservatives who always take everything bland to the extreme.
For the older crowd it isn't too hard to figure out which party affiliation is buying all those Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka albums (a recent poll of 18-54 year olds show an overwhelming majority believe they are the same person)
But as they say in television business, crap is the great equalizer. So call in the next 15 minutes and Bamzu.com will throw in "TWeeeze" for every John McCain supporter so they can lose unwanted ear and nose hair and at least look like a Progressive.
Not funny in any context. This is standard fair 2000 years later in Iran (our enemy) and Saudi Arabia (our fiend and ally). Stoning is the penatly for adultery. Women only.
As you watch this example of state religion in action keep in mind that one of the central tennets of the Republican Party and John McCain is to tear down the Separation of Church and State clause in our First Amendment.
I don’t know about you all, but it makes my stomach do flip flops to see Bush and his cronies sucking up to every known church denomination in an effort to gain votes. If he’s talking to the Pope, then yes indeed we’re against abortion, sex education, and stem cell research. When kickin’ it with the fundies he might even pick up a snake and dance around a little. Despite observers stating that he and his prayer circle secretly chuckle about the fundamentalist base, they remain stalwart and large in numbers.Church groups have been encouraged to take over school boards, thus influencing what your child will be exposed to in science and <gasp> reproduction.
One of the largest indicators that the division between church and state is way out of hand were the recent presidential candidate debates which included questioning about the candidates religious faith, and belief in evolution. It would have been political suicide to say one was an atheist or agnostic. Obama laid it down in a speech given at a convention at the United Church of Christ last Saturday. He stated his views on the divisive nature of religion. Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ. In 1972 they ordained a gay minister, and endorses same sex marriage. He believes it should be a state issue, not determined by a Constitutional amendment. One paragraph from his speech sets the tone of the message.
Faith got hi-jacked partly because of the so-called Christian Leaders all too eager to exploit what divides us,” the Illinois Senator said. “At every opportunity they’ve told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion, school prayer, and intelligent design.” Obamaspainsitall - AP wirestory
Every year in Texas, the Houston newspaper (there used to be two) puts out their list of the highest paid executives for the dozens of Fortune 500 and other large public companies in the area.
Instead of focusing on the best of the best from those rankings, it is more interesting to look at the oil executive names who barely squeaked in with a measly quarter of a million dollars per year. That's hardly a thousand bucks per day, and we all know $250 grand isn't what it used to be.
At Houston-based US Physical Therapy, wayyyy at the bottom of the list, Lawrance McAfee and Christopher Reading received compensation in the amount of $414,788 and $414,193 respectively. Wonder whose ass Larry kissed to get that extra six hundred dollars last year?
At Pioneer Cos we find that Kent Stephenson and Jerry Bradley both received approximately $315K for their efforts, although Mr. Stephenson got about $10 a day more which probably really pisses of Mr. Bradley since he's still with the company, unlike Stevo.
Omega Protein's Thomas Wittmann fell $314 short of the quarter million mark which most likely bothers his spouse to no end. Probably when they docked Thom those 2 hours for that "late lunch" last August. Over at Mexican Restaurants (ticker CASA) Senor Lo, Senor Dennis and Senor Andrew didn't do too shabby either, although I don't believe those monikers are on the usual list of Hispanic names.
Likewise, at Integrated Electrical -- Curt, David, Robert and Richard fared well in the compensation department -- although those first names aren't exactly integrated.
No listing of capitalist reward systems would be complete without a search for possible errors. At Bois D'Arc there appears to be a mistake where Wayne Laufer and Gary Blackie both got paid the same amount for their efforts. It's a good bet that Wayne is really pissed at Blackie.
Finally at Friedman Corp an anomaly where Ben Harper and Thomas Thompson both received $250,011 needs further study. Either socialism is well and alive at this Friedman place, or "Ben" needs to think about going by the more formal Benjamin like that Thomas guy does.
To end things we can look at the bottom of the bottom. Let's hear it for Flotek for having a female name on the very last page of Houston executive pay. After all, it wasn't until right near the 150th place that ANY female appeared on the Top-500 Houston Chronicle annual list of those people who've made it to the top of the heap.
Often when someone asks, we merely answer “fine”, knowing that if we truly gave them the rundown their eyes would glaze over, and they wouldn’t make that mistake again. As promised, Moore does want to know! On the heels of the critically acclaimed “SICKO”, Michael Moore has not forgotten another often overlooked group of Americans who are being screwed by the government and the medical profession. Chances are that you either belong to this group, or know someone who does, it is the 75,000 known people who suffer from chronic pain. You can find resources, chat, forums, pain info, politics, forums, polls, at his website listed at the bottom. He’s also inviting those with chronic pain to write letters or better yet, send him a video of yourself telling your horror story, and they are growing all of the time, as the government jails doctors, and others simply refuse to treat pain.Here is but one example of a letter sent in to his site, I’ve left out the name of the writer – but she explains the basic obstacles to getting pain relief in this country, and why doctors who aren’t just plain ignorant about pain, are afraid for their very livelihood and freedom for treating these patients. I’ve taken the liberty of editing merely for brevity.
“Both Political Parties Should Be Charged With Crimes Against Humanity”
I have endured pain for more than forty years. Doctors have told me to “tough it out” because there’s nothing they can do to “cure” the problem. Usually the doctor would give me 20 half grain codeine pills and as many N S A I D S as I wanted. (Fun Fact: 17.000 people die each YEAR from severe internal bleeding caused by anti-inflammatory meds taken, as directed by their doctors, this is many times over the number who die partying with opiates.) I felt I could not endure the pain anymore! Thanks to a doctor in a pain clinic, I was sent to a doctor who treated me with Opiates and other medications which helped block the hellish pain I was going through, I still had pain, but it was minimal! I began to enjoy life! About four years later my doctor was arrested for the crimes of compassion and adherence to the oath! Today he is in a FEDERAL PRISON. I found another doctor who kept me on the same regimen of drugs. Two weeks ago my doctor stopped treating all chronic pain patients. He had a family to look after. I’m trying to find a new doctor and it isn’t easy. What makes people in the government so cold to human suffering?
Excellent question, and why are they in our medical management in the first place? Moore’s site is filled with helpful information for those who suffer, and those who try to help as well. It’s one of the best I’ve seen. I have great hopes that his video campaign to point out the idiocy of the federal government making our medical decisions,will help change this crisis! Moorechronicpainmission
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John Stewart and Newsweek reporter and columnist Fareed Zakaria nail the whole Middle East to the board. It's a keg party with the added excitement of party crashing suicide bombers!
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I am somehow certain that when Mitt Romney relayed this story to the Boston Globe, he was thinking this would show his cool and efficient crisis management abilities. Instead, this touching tale of a family vacation may well lose votes for him. The article last week certainly got people talking. Unfortunately for him, and for his Irish Setter Seamus, it was negative, and deservedly so in my personal opinion and in the opinion of animal rights activists, news agencies, and bloggers everywhere.
Did you ever suspect the guy in the white coat with the pointy tools was a dimwit and a crook? I’ll bet you tried to banish those thoughts from your mind, being in a rather vulnerable position.
Not long ago we were getting all day cable news on the search for a cop killer in Central Florida. Well, they got the guy, they really really got the guy. The news was that he had popped up out of the brush only a few feet away from the swat team, and though he raised one hand, he had the dead officer’s .45 in his other. He was shot and killed on the spot. 
Great gourmet cook that I am, (pause for anyone who knows me to snicker), I feel it my duty to see this country first hand, then share what I’ve experienced with you upon my return. Since a quick check of the sofa cushions didn’t reveal plane fare, I’ll just share what I’ve discovered via the news. I’m guessing I’m not the only one anxious to travel since learning of some of the other perks of this lovely country... Yes, it’s always been a beautiful destination. Still, I believe that when word gets out about their hospitality, fine food, and exotic herbs, they’ll experience a tourist surge.
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