No matter what opinions you may have formed or heard about Green Peace, this is an impressive video, exciting both due to live video, but the heavy metal music of the New Radicals.
"You know, it's those people who really really want guns who are the ones who really really shouldn't be allowed to have them." Rack Jite
I was reading the Houston Chronicle this morning when I came across a full half page advertisement for .45 caliber Thompson machine guns. You remember, the ones with the big circular 50 round drum underneath, used by Machine Gun Kelly and so many other Prohibition gangsters. Mexican drug lords and the Crips will really like these! This of course is only the semi automatic version so buyers can only squeeze off one round per trigger pull which means they can only kill about 50 students or McDonald's patrons every 15 seconds or so. An auto switch for this or any assault rifle are easy to find by whispering at gun shows. I know newspapers are in advertising revenue trouble, but this seems to be going a bit too far.
I then turned the page to this story that found me concluding that it is not our politicians or leaders who are the problem, but the intelligent voting public (my ass) and their addiction to violent solutions. No matter it be this kind of popular gungoonery, blind support of premptive wars, the pragmatic need for collateral damage, the utter joy of executions, the need for torture and even the fun of slapping children around, it's what we are. Lucky we have all the guns we do because we are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, let me tell you...
Oklahoma City druggist Jerome Ersland foiled a robbery attempt by shooting one of the assailants in the head and chasing the other out the door. Missing the accomplice he returned to the unconscious, unarmed 16 year old bleeding on the floor and pumped 5 more rounds into him. He is now free on $100,000 bail. Oklahoma Hero Pumps 5 rounds into Unconcious 16 year old.
Much like the Joe Horn story here in Houston - Horn shot and killed 2 unarmed burglars who were running away(from ten feet away with a 12 gauge shotgun) - it is not so much about the shooting as the public response. Joe Horn was not even taken into custody or indicted here in Texas because of the uproar in his defense. In Texas a hero is someone who shoots unarmed Negros in the back. The response in Oklahoma is much the same. The calls and letters and voices on the radio are in full support of their local hero pumping rounds into unarmed unconscious Negro robbers. Another American NRA Hero, this one from Oklahoma. The Joe Horn Story
The NRA is on a high as never before with Democrats more afraid of the them than they are of Iran, North Korea or Osama bin Laden. Americans will come out from under their rocks, their hollers, trailers and swamps to vote anyone who has anything negative to say about guns.
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Craig T Nelson sometimes actor, grumbling about the bail-outs, doesn't even realize that he's contradicted himself and royally!
I believe they've heard everything now in New Zealand, after hearing that a man had to report that a colorful feathered thief stole his passport and flew to parts unknown.
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Two of the most unlikely people in the world to discuss or agree upon anything are on air radio shock jock ManCow Muller and Keith Olbermann. Despite this, ManCow was back for the second time in a week. Mancow had agreed to be waterboarded on air to prove once and for all that it wasn't torture, but after six seconds, said then, and maintains now that it most assuredly was genuine and torture!
This time he's back to debunk a conspiracy theory being circulated by a gossip blog and irate members of the right stating it was all a hoax. Muller's theory is that they wanted the radio stunt to prove that waterboarding wasn't torture as much as he did. He claims the "Right" is mad at him for not lying and sticking with the party line. I was no fan of ManCow, but I have newfound respect for his honesty and integrity in this "stunt" which has become an example of how far some will go to back their beliefs even when they're proven wrong. After watching this interview, you'll see why ManCow remarks, "How bout the truth" he demands. "I play pranks all the time, that's the irony here."
Golden Misogynist Award: This is a true "Don't Miss!" In a knuckle dragging rant on his radio show about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, G. Gordon Liddy went beyond what would get you instantly fired and sued in the workplace, and provided us with a further glimpse of his ignorance, racism, and malice. Misogynistic much? Watch with disbelief as he goes where no one with half a brain has, in public. After the standard racial connections being bandied about,it's touching for this
convicted felon to be concerned about Judge Sotomayor's menstrual cycle and how it will now, after all of these years start to affect her professionalism.
Silver: They know what they don't want, even if they don't know
how to spell it on signs! "Call your senator to say NO to same
sex Marrage, Marraijg, Margerine? They may not know how to
spell it, but they feel passionate about taking the right about
from others.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of NYC optimistic about economic
recovery. That's all you're going to know. He came, he stated,
squelched one on target question, and left. I guess it's none of
our business?
I came across an old Gingrich campaign ad on the net the other day.
Newt won election to the House in 1978 running against Virginia
Shapard, a married mother of two. His ad ran,
“Newt will take his
family to Washington and keep them together; Virginia will go to
Washington and leave her husband and children in the care of a nanny!”
What did Newt do a few months later after he had won?
He did not take
his family to Washington, rather, he surprised his wife with divorce
papers while she was in the hospital recovering from a cancer
operation. Neither did he support her or his children with a nanny or any
damn thing at all. In fact, his church had to support his family while he was
busy porking bimbos inside the Beltway. All while he ran his political
campaigns on the theme of family values. Newt Gingrich is a peach of
human shit.
Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich now share the FACE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Which makes Alaska Airhead Sarah Palin look real good!
Though the vote was a unanimous 19 Republicans in support and 11 Democrats to reject, the Democrats had enough votes to get by the 2/3 needed to oust Texas Taliban State Board of Education chairman Don McLeroy. McLeroy is not only a staunch supporter of creationism and the 6000 year old Earth, but his Christian Fundamentalism also puts the nix on global warming, climate change, and of course multiculturalism which teaches Texas Students about other people and places. He and his Taliban Clan on the Board are trying to get their religious views into our text books which will be decided next year. The text books are used for 10 year periods. Texas textbooks also are purchased by many other states due to the buying power of the Texas population.
Though a blow for Texas secessionist Governor Rick Perry - who has recently gone off the deep end placating the Texas Republican Base to beat Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson in the primaries next year, - it is expected that he will retaliate by moving board member Cynthia Dunbar up to the chair position. Dunbar is an even crazier Texas Taliban nitwit than McLeroy. Texas Taliban Cynthia Dunbar
One time matchbox preacher, right-wing radio talk show host and owner of the 24/7 Houston Right-wing radio station Dan Patrick who sold it all to become a state legislator understands the politics at hand. Democrats voting McLeroy down have feigned it as a lack of leadership rather than the religious ignorance and an embarrassment to Texas it actually is.
"If this isn’t about evolution, if this isn’t about what the Bible teaches, what is it all about? asked Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, referring to opposition to McLeroy.
A recent Zogby Poll found that 80% of Americans want the "weaknesses of evolution" taught in public schools. That phrase is now the replacement for "creationism" since "Intelligent Design" took a big legal hit in Dover, Pennsylvania a few years back. Dan Patrick knows full well that if 80% of Americans are that stupid - and Texans are known to be twice as stupid as everyone else - that 160% of Texans are against evolution. And every one of them votes, some twice, once for themselves and once for Jezus.
Former Minnesota Governor and Navy Seal who has experienced waterboarding, talks about more effective and legal tactics. It is inexcusable for a country which claims moral superiority to conduct torture for the sake of cruelty, as it
cannot be used in a court of law as evidence.
Though some will sneer, it's hard to dispute the experience of the FBI agent speaking in the Time magazine story of his experience with Bin Laden's bodyguard, shortly after 9-11, when a sugar-free cookie gained valuable information.
Tito Vasquez was late for his own funeral, but it wasn't his fault. His friends and family gathered at Campos de Cristo cemetery in Bogota, Columbia at the appointed time, waiting for the guest of honor to arrive for the ceremony. They waited a very, very long time. When the unthinkable became apparent - that his body was not going to arrive, police were called for an unusual missing persons report.
There are many jobs where you can get by with slipping out for a few tall cool ones without notice, but a hearse driver on the way to the cemetery is not one of them. Eventually police spotted the glaringly out of place hearse in the parking lot of a motel close by. It seems that the drivers' urge for a beer overcame his sense of duty, and once ensconced in the bar, forgot about Vasquez who had places to go!
Columbian Hearse Driver Stops For a Beer on Way to Funeral
Hear ye! Hear Ye! The town crier/fool Limbaugh and some of the very Republicans who know better are spreading the word that President Obama and those crafty Democrats are out to destroy all Chrysler dealers because the majority contributed to the GOP. Those dastardly Dems! What's even more intriguing is the truth. The Republicans,including Rep.Vern Buchanan of Florida who is one of the perpetrators of this fairy tale, voted to close them all - yes, every single one of them, in
December! See the very upbeat ending this tale of disaster truly has, and why you won't hear it from the usual suspects.
Gold: Just yesterday National Review Online's Mark Krikorian made it to the World's Worst Person list for what I thought was one of the most racist and idiotic remarks I'd heard. He'd stated that Judge Sonia Sotomayor should change her name to something easy to pronounce, but he's topped it in what he thought was a justification for the remark. Lest we think him to be racist, today he explains that it's due to a lack of Anglo-conformity. Anglo-conformity? Watch him
explain. It's akin to watching him sink into verbal quicksand.
Silver: Dennis Miller treated the Fox "News" audience to an example of the wit that launched him right out of comedy with his "Sonjia joke."
Bronze: Third place, a poor showing for the Coultergeist. Known for lack of fact checking in her literary efforts then defending them doggedly, she confused a SNL skit with the real Keith Olbermann. The pre-election SNL skits of Hillary
Clinton and Sarah Palin must have had her in a world of confusion.
The climb up the Temple of the Sun was wearying, and hot. The Chiapas
sun had finally burned through the hanging mist on the East side of the
mountain leaving the Runias de Palenque speckled with the bright
clothing of visitors from the world over. They dotted the stairways and
promenades contrasting pleasingly with the dull gray walls of a
millennium past.
“Well, let’s get down and have a refresco, hey Butch?”
“Cut out my heart and throw me down Rack, save me the walk.”
The Gringos worked themselves around the back of the temple and
descended through the thick jungle, taking the shade by following a
stream a few hundred meters through the deep green foliage. They soon
arrived at a small pallapa and sat at one of the standard metal card
tables emblazoned with “Superior” and the inevitable red and white
checker board. They savored their Fantas beneath the thatched roof,
watching the staked out alligators in the clear stream below.
“Chiapas garbage disposal,” Rack commented, watching the beasts slop
down mounds of orange rinds and egg shells. A gaggle of turkeys entered
the wall-less building begging for God knew what. “What do turkeys eat,
Butch?”
“Same as everything else around here...” he replied, “...Orange peels
and egg shells!” they giggled and gobbled in unison.
They noticed a pair of middle-aged Touristas winding down the seemingly
endless waterfalls to the small soda stand. At their approach Rack
reverted to Spanish while Butch put an “O” on the end of everything.
They wanted to sound foreign so as not to have to guide more of the
endless stream of nitwits to all the right places. But soon the rain
forest ambiance was shattered by the pair of angry, shouting Americans.
Rack watched them berate a small ten year old Mayan girl who
possessively clutched two bottles of Coke to her breast, shaking her
head negatively.
“You Hippies speak Spanish?” The man boomed at Rack.
“No intiendo.”
“You guys look White.”
“OK, OK, what’s the problem?” Rack replied.
“See, Herb, I told you they were Americans. We are from Ohio, where are you from?” the wife asked.
“Florida.” Rack answered the sunburned aliens.
“This little Spic here won’t take our damn money, that’s what’s the
matter!” The angry man shouted. “And she doesn’t even speak English!”
Mrs. Buckeye added.
Rack had witnessed this scene all too often, “You speak Spanish in Ohio
do you?” They of course, being typical parochial Americans, had no idea
what Rack was getting at.
“Que is problema?” he asked the frightened girl.
“Malo dinero.” she shyly replied.
“What y’all giving the kid here Herb? Let’s see... These are US fifty
cent pieces, she never saw one of these before. You got any pesos?”
Rack wondered himself when he had last seen a fifty cent piece.
Mr. Buckeye scowled, “Hell no! Me with Mex money, no way! I got checks,
I got a VISA, and these here.” He said flipping one of the strange
coins in the air.
“Well why don’t you give her the VISA and she can go down to the water
and wrestle the card machine out of the gator. They eat them you know.”
Rack was getting annoyed.
“Really?” Mrs.Buckeye asked, eyeing the large Caymans and stepping back.
“No, el kidding-O.” Butch replied, bouncing a turkey on his lap. The
rest of the dozen or so fowl had made a close semicircle around him.
“Gobble-gobble-gobble.” Butch cooed. “Gobble-gobble-gobble.” The
turkeys replied in chorus.
“OK, OK, Butch, alto with the turkeys.” Butch quit turkeying. He could
see Rack had just about had it with this new round of ugly Americans.
Rack turned to the girl and handed her a handful of pesos and told her
to keep the change. She released the sodas to the couple with a sigh of
relief.
“Gracias.” she said to Rack with a smile that was well worth the quarter tip.
“You tip these Spics?” Mr. Buckeye asked pocketing his coins.
“Ya know Herb, as I have heard them say so well down here, why don’t
you go pound pinto beans up your ass.” Rack said turning away.
The couple waddled back up the path toward their air-conditioned
Winnebago and ultimately back to Ohio to tell their friends how they
had seen Mexico. Quaint, but too dirty, no one spoke English, and
filled with American undesirables. As the Buckeyes entered the large
van with the sodas the undesirables had bought them and the returnable
bottles they had stolen from the Spic, Mrs. Buckeye asked Herb, “Have
you ever met such rude people in your life?” More True Stories From Kick!
Speaking of appointing a Supreme Court Justice, Obama said he values empathy as an essential ingredient. The GOP went psycho! Did you know that empathy is a code word for social engineering, or an activist judge? Heaven help them in the likely event that they come before the Supreme Court, because "Justice is not about empathy!" You won't believe that it gets more outlandish, and worked up to a fevered pitch. Watch their moment of selective amnesia as George WH Bush introduces Clarence Thomas, who while not as qualified as Judge Sotomayor, is touted as having among other things....empathy, which surprisingly, wasn't his downfall.
By now, we've all heard how the 66-yr old soldier on his way to pick up his psychiatric medication intervened during the tense 5 hours when a younger man weighed whether to jump from the bridge span or not. Here is the complete video of the sneaky deed! His nimble scamper up the bridge, hand extended in friendship, then - over the bridge, decision made! Fortunately no one was harmed. The soldier still has his moves, but we hope he doesn't run out of medication again!
Jacksonville, Florida has it's own special problems. After a torrential rainstorm, the owners of Clark's Fish Camp in Jacksonville,Florida found some flood damage in their restaurant and an alligator in their bathroom behind the commode. I'm not certain, but I believe that's a health code violation.
Hmmm..does the Social Democrat Party sound familar? Someone had better alert the Republicans who are seeking to re-name the Democratic party that the name is taken. Seen here speaking in advance of the European parliamentary elections, or attempting to speak while dodging eggs, is the Chairman of the Social Democrat Party in Prague, Czech Republic. What enraged the crowd so much? While Prime
Minister, he'd backed police four years ago in breaking up a techno party. The youth vote has a long memory and seems to be very passionate about politics.. To think, the worst President Bush had to dodge in eight years was one shoe!
Gold Plated #$%^ Award: A well-deserved one goes to Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies. After this, we may wish to look into just what Kriorian does at the Center for Immigration Studies. This blithering twit felt the need to share on the National Review Online that it is unfair to ask the rest of the country to pronounce Judge Sonia Sotomayor's name correctly. Maybe this should be a WTF?!? too. He's not exactly named Smith or Jones.
Silver Stupidity: Bill Hemmer of Fox News has a hot scoop on Judge Sonia Sotomayor! After much digging and diligent research they've come up with a link to socialism which is on par with the game Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Spoiler
alert: It's a quote in her Princeton yearbook, Hot stuff! We have a Commie on our hands for sure.
Bronze Scary Guy: Colonel Ralph Peters on Fox of course. Speaking of Gitmo, he has the ultimate solution for the quandry of the monsters and terrorists there. As the rabid and nutty Peters says, "We're pretty good at figuring out who's right and wrong." Not on MY jury!
Law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University shares his view of Judge Sotomayor, and her past legal judgements. Those who feel she has a liberal bias, or is being considered as a hispanic woman will be surprised. She quite simply is an excellent choice for the position. She does not make knee jerk judgements, even on issues she feels personally about such as abortion rights. Turley relates other cases where she has followed the letter of the law. Though
she is moderate, her experience and intelliigence have earned her high praise from liberals and some conservatives for the Supreme Court Seat.
ManCow went live all the better to laugh off waterboarding as a big joke. I
give him credit for telling everyone exactly what he experienced, and continued to experience physically for two days afterward. When you watch this video, and his raw reaction to it, the fear he felt cannot be mistaken . As an interesting side note, he is friends with Hannity who phoned to inform him that it's still not torture. Perhaps he should make good on his bet and find out for himself?
Gold: Laura Ingraham, with the theory that torture isn't a crime if it's only done three times, as the Bushies absurdly claimed it had been done. Keith explores whether these acts have made us safer, and if Ingraham who is a lawyer, would excuse a thief invading her home if he'd only been there twice.
Silver: Pete Hegseth chairman of Vets for Freedom and contributor to the National Review Online. It's not difficult to see where his sentiments lie when he states that "It's hard to argue with 8 1/2 years of safety after 9-11." You could tack up a sign such is found in industrial sites stating "Over 200 years since our last revolution."
David Zurawik, TV blogger for the Baltimore Sun is on a roll. I expect political bloggers to have a bias, but the TV blogger? Beware of Olbermann and "the nicer one" Maddow, with her snide smiles. Once again, we have fascism he warns the
public holding their remotes, "just like Europe in the thirties!"
Today is the last day of the get-to-gether over in Austin, Texas. Every other year Texans send their state representatives to the capital to do as little as possible. That is why it lasts less than half a year every two years. Texans had it right in 1836 and if it aint broke it don't need fixin'.
It is down to the wire for passing the Guns on Campus bill which would not allow Texas state universities to keep concealed weapons off their campuses. This is one is of course wildly popular issues down here in Dumbutt. After all, no one wants party crashers horning in on their keg parties without paying their fair share, i.e. socialism. And of course a few teachers - mostly those against these very kind of well thought out and fair minded gun laws - could use a few bullets flying over their heads to scare them back to New York where the came from.
But the big issue today is that the Senate Democrats have enough votes to oust State Board of Education chairman Dentist Don McLeroy who is - to put it kindly - a moron. Who BTW, also looks like a moron. McLeroy is an old school creationist who believes the world was created in one fell swoop 6005 years ago and wishes to control the textbooks to reflect that believe. To question not only science but anything that smacks of teaching our 4 million Texas Students much of anything from the outside world. Mainly to keep our children from respecting for other people and other religions from outside Texas. More on Don McLeroy
It all sounds like something intelligent is coming out of Austin rather than more guns and less Mexicans but for ...
In his primary race to beat Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson for the upcoming Governor's race, Governor Rick Perry has let it be known that if the Democrats do manage to oust Mr. McLeroy, he will immediately appoint Cynthia Dunbar to take his place as chairwoman of the State Board of Education. Ms. Dunbar - is even more of a moron that Mr. McLeroy. More on Cynthia Dunbar.
Governor Perry knows instinctively that Texas Republicans want proven and verifiable morons responsible for the education of our children down here in Dumbutt, after all, that is why he got the votes to become Governor. More on the State Board of Education Houston Chronicle.
I was reading the Houston Chronicle this morning when I came across a full half page advertisement for .45 caliber Thompson machine guns. You remember, the ones with the big circular 50 round drum underneath, used by Machine Gun Kelly and so many other Prohibition gangsters. Mexican drug lords and the Crips will really like these! This of course is only the semi automatic version so buyers can only squeeze off one round per trigger pull which means they can only kill about 50 students or McDonald's patrons every 15 seconds or so. An auto switch for this or any assault rifle are easy to find by whispering at gun shows. I know newspapers are in advertising revenue trouble, but this seems to be going a bit too far. 
I then turned the page to this story that found me concluding that it is not our politicians or leaders who are the problem, but the intelligent voting public (my ass) and their addiction to violent solutions. No matter it be this kind of popular gungoonery, blind support of premptive wars, the pragmatic need for collateral damage, the utter joy of executions, the need for torture and even the fun of slapping children around, it's what we are. Lucky we have all the guns we do because we are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, let me tell you... 
I came across an old Gingrich campaign ad on the net the other day.
Newt won election to the House in 1978 running against Virginia
Shapard, a married mother of two. His ad ran,
Though the vote was a unanimous 19 Republicans in support and 11 Democrats to reject, the Democrats had enough votes to get by the 2/3 needed to oust Texas Taliban State Board of Education chairman Don McLeroy. McLeroy is not only a staunch supporter of creationism and the 6000 year old Earth, but his Christian Fundamentalism also puts the nix on global warming, climate change, and of course multiculturalism which teaches Texas Students about other people and places. He and his Taliban Clan on the Board are trying to get their religious views into our text books which will be decided next year. The text books are used for 10 year periods. Texas textbooks also are purchased by many other states due to the buying power of the Texas population. 
One time matchbox preacher, right-wing radio talk show host and owner of the 24/7 Houston Right-wing radio station Dan Patrick who sold it all to become a state legislator understands the politics at hand. Democrats voting McLeroy down have feigned it as a lack of leadership rather than the religious ignorance and an embarrassment to Texas it actually is.
The climb up the Temple of the Sun was wearying, and hot. The Chiapas
sun had finally burned through the hanging mist on the East side of the
mountain leaving the Runias de Palenque speckled with the bright
clothing of visitors from the world over. They dotted the stairways and
promenades contrasting pleasingly with the dull gray walls of a
millennium past. 
Today is the last day of the get-to-gether over in Austin, Texas. Every other year Texans send their state representatives to the capital to do as little as possible. That is why it lasts less than half a year every two years. Texans had it right in 1836 and if it aint broke it don't need fixin'.
But the big issue today is that the Senate Democrats have enough votes to oust State Board of Education chairman Dentist Don McLeroy who is - to put it kindly - a moron. Who BTW, also looks like a moron. McLeroy is an old school creationist who believes the world was created in one fell swoop 6005 years ago and wishes to control the textbooks to reflect that believe. To question not only science but anything that smacks of teaching our 4 million Texas Students much of anything from the outside world. Mainly to keep our children from respecting for other people and other religions from outside Texas.
In his primary race to beat Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson for the upcoming Governor's race, Governor Rick Perry has let it be known that if the Democrats do manage to oust Mr. McLeroy, he will immediately appoint Cynthia Dunbar to take his place as chairwoman of the State Board of Education. Ms. Dunbar - is even more of a moron that Mr. McLeroy. 
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