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Topics
7/1/08 - Olbermann's goldmine?
6/25/08 - Freedom for religion
6/23/08 - Seven Dirty Paragraphs...
6/20/08 - Eavesdropping in the blogosphere
6/17/08 - Two cents worth of VP opinions
5/28/08 - Three who earn the moniker...
5/13/08 - Comments from the Inside...
5/9/08 - Getting the name of this website shouted at you
4/25/08 - The next time someone talks to you about supporting the troops...
4/23/08 - You can't even make this shit up...
4/22/08 - Temper Macbeth, Temper
4/18/08 - Here, have some money.
3/26/08 - Words of the Maverick
3/25/08 - Tales from a Parallel Universe
3/21/08 - Typical White Person
3/5/08 - Obama wins Texas/McCain legally cannot become President
A bonus post - Santa Claus is Stupid!!
2/22/08 - Liars. Liars, and more damned liars!!!! And Oscar predictions
2/21/08 - Is is for Republicans
2/19/08 - Na na na na... na na na na...
2/8/08 - And then there were...
1/30/08 - Goodbye, Frank Lloyd Wright
1/23/08 - When hate is the only option
1/18/08 - In their own words...
1/11/08 - With apologies to Bill in Portland Maine
1/10/08 - It never even occurred to me
1/9/08 - They just seem a little weird
12/28/07 - Final thought for 2007
12/27/07 - I hope they didn't just kill Archduke Ferdinand
12/26/07 - If you're worried about... you might be...
12/21/07 - Before the break...
12/20/07 - Putting Nancy on Notice
12/18/07 - And away with the emo...
12/12/07 - Just fucking sick of it
12/11/07 - Love is two one way streets?
11/27/07 - Listen to the sounds...
11/15/07 - A Grab Bag of topics
11/13/07 - Abut being full of crap
11/9/07 - They're not all deep
11/2/07 - A little bit about me and why I've been absent
10/24/07 - Finding the proper outrage
10/18/07 - Chris Dodd for President
10/17/07 - Eloquence so grand it's painful
10/12/07 - And the winner is...
10/9/07 - Republicans are Pedophiles
10/5/07 - I have a headache - light post
10/2/07 - Get back to work you idiots
9/24/07 - How sweeeeeet, to be an idiot....
9/20/07 - aren't you sick of it yet?
9/18/07 - The Wheel of Time...
9/17/07 - Well I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'...
9/14/07 - Just Cheap Shots (and gin)
9/12/07 - I only noticed this for the first time....
9/11/07 - 6 years and counting
9/5/07 - The Absence explained
Rants of June 2007 (Including the first post)
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7/1/08 – Did Olbermann find a goldmine?
I’ve been making my observations at this site for over a year now. Sometimes the contradictions from day to day are hilarious. The world evolves while we look at it and try to make sense of it all. Sometimes, the contradictions are frightening.
Last week Keith Olbermann tried to hit one out of the park and grounded out to first, by supporting Obama’s stance on the FISA bill. He was dead wrong and many of us pointed it out to him. He took umbrage especially with Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com and the two of them got into a bit of a pissing match over it. Now, I love Olbermann’s work, but he was dead wrong on this one.
Last night he redeemed himself in my eyes, without really changing his stance. It’s a hindsight is 20/20 sort of thing, but he lucked out and he’s taking advantage of it. In his own words, Sometimes it is better to be lucky.
He is now telling Obama to vote against the bill, but everyone seems to have come to the conclusion that it’s going to pass anyway, giving retroactive immunity to just about everyone. They want to strip this from the bill, but that’s probably not going to happen – even though I remain optimistic. I also took a bump to the head over the weekend.
But what Olbermann claims that his legal team has discovered is that the bill does not contain a single word that gives any form of immunity whatsoever against criminal prosecutions. The protections are against civil suits only. Woah… this kind of changes things.
Don’t get me wrong – this is a bad bill. A completely unnecessary bill. Any form of retroactive immunity is a bad thing. But if this bill becomes law the door is open to bring criminal complaints against everyone ever involved in these illegal wiretaps – which started in February 2001. Think about that date for a moment. The implication will come to you.
So now the real question is what will Obama, if elected President, do about the crimes of his predecessor? You don’t want to set a prescient of going on a witch hunt over the previous administration – that could bog down getting any real governing done. At the same time, you don’t want anyone to get away with a crime, be they a phone company, a cabinet official, or the President himself. So how serious would he be about fixing this mess and showing the world that we can punish the misdeeds of the current administration?
Cheap Shots:
There is no Gas/Oil Crisis. The prices are going up for other reasons so stop blaming the middle-east for this shit. How do I know? Where are the gas lines?
What does the religious right have against the 100-meter dash? This one will make you laugh.
What do right-wing bloggers have against Ronald Reagan?
From “The Usual Suspects” to this?
Did McCain consider being a Lame-Duck even before he ran?
Giving Olbermann some love again, how is it exactly that McCain is considered a straight-talker? Does McCain not know that YouTube exists?
Question: Did General Wesley Clark lie about anything? But one of McCain’s surrogate-attacking surrogates did.
And Obama came back and got General Clark’s back – he didn’t throw him under the bus after all but had been misquoted. That sort of thing happens.
Darcy Burner had a nice home.
Thrice denied = guilty? Francis Biddle Weeps.
And because I love you, Toto. From their final tour.
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Hello my fellow snickerdoodles. I have no idea why I called all of you that. Perhaps it’s the mood I’m in today. It’s non-sequitor Friday, because of a number of odd things I’ve noticed in the past few days.
A lot of talk has gone down about FISA and the Democrats cave-in on the issue. There are people smarter than I am who have said just about everything there is to say. However, I discovered in the fine-print of the FISA bill a bizarre thing. I’m not the only person to notice (mcjoan over at kos did a quick write-up on this as well but did not really elaborate) but this little section is as bad as the rest of the bill combined. I quote mcjoan’s quote of the .pdf file of the bill here:
SEC. 110. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
(4) WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION.—Such section 101 is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
‘‘(p) ‘Weapon of mass destruction’ means—
‘‘(1) any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas device that is designed,
intended, or has the capability to cause a mass casualty incident;
‘‘(2) any weapon that is designed, intended, or has the capability to cause
death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of persons through the
release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their
precursors;
‘‘(3) any weapon involving a biological agent, toxin, or vector (as such terms
are defined in section 178 of title 18, United States Code) that is designed,
intended, or has the capability to cause death, illness, or serious bodily
injury to a significant number of persons; or
‘‘(4) any weapon that is designed, intended, or has the capability to release
radiation or radioactivity causing death, illness, or serious bodily injury to a
significant number of persons.’’.
Aside from the fact that this is a none-too-subtle redefinition of warfare, this little section lets President Drunken Chimp and the whole gang of motherfuckers off the hook for their whole rationale for starting the war. By this definition, IEDs are now Weapons of Mass Destruction and hey, those fuckers have been found. Suicide bombs are now WMDs.
Now don’t get me wrong, these things are awful, but they are not WMDs. IEDs and Suicide bombs are aimed at individuals or groups of individuals. WMDs are aimed at countries and political bodies. Because that language is missing the rules of the game can be changed. The planes that hit the World Trade Center were WMDs. The weapons that Saddam Hussein used on Iran and dismantled after the first Gulf War were WMDs. Bombs put together and left by the side of the road or thrown into a supermarket – bad as they are – are NOT WMDs, even though they can cause massive casualties. Just ask an Iraqi policeman.
For those of you who read this and think I’m out of my mind, please keep one thing in perspective – this bill is retroactive. The entire purpose of the bill is to shield people and companies from the crimes that have been committed all in the name of Protecting the Fatherland. For this little subsection alone the bill deserves to be thrown in the trash and burned to a crisp.
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Cheap Shots:
John McCain is superstitious. Very much so.
Of all the dumb-assed excuses.
Blowing up a nuclear power plant for peace. For real. A marvelous analysis of the whole thing by dday over at Digby’s site.
Olbermann, you blew it on this one.
Hugh Hewitt, you seriously need an asshole-ectomy. Your head needs removal. Besides, I’d bet on USC, and my favorite teams are UCLA and whomever is playing USC.
Joe Cocker, translated.
Rebutting Big Bad John.
Next time I travel outside the U.S. with a computer, I’m going to upload the entire freakin’ hard drive to a storage site on the net.
And now a message from the department of energy.
I am really pissed that this other guy mocked this other guy's rant about the other guy's commentary.
And because I love you, Stevie Wonder. Couldn’t resist. And then there’s this – wow.
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6/25/08 – Freedom for religion
I wasn’t going to rant today. I have lots to do in my own life. But then comes Ted Haggard, and I find myself in the weird position of defending him.
Ted was one of those wack-job preachers. He railed against gays and just about anything else, all the while maintaining a secret homosexual lover in a condo in Colorado Springs. He got caught. He was exiled from the very church he founded. He went into seclusion, and then entered a special “Spiritual Rejuvenation Program” to find his moral center again. He got out today.
All fine and dandy. Just desserts as far as I’m concerned. But as I was reading this article, I suddenly realized that Ted has had his rights brutally stripped from him – by his former church. Allow me to quote (suck it, AP):
Under a severance deal that Ted Haggard reached with the church in 2006, he agreed to leave Colorado Springs and not talk about the scandal publicly. The deal expired at the end of 2007. New pastor Brady Boyd said Haggard was now free to live where he wanted and has returned to Colorado Springs.
And:
Haggard and church officials clashed last summer after Haggard sent an e-mail to a Colorado Springs television station outlining his plans to work as a counselor at a Christian-run halfway house in Phoenix. The e-mail also solicited financial support. A four-pastor team of overseers said that those plans were unacceptable and that Haggard would seek secular employment instead.
So for having not broken any laws as stated by the state of Colorado and the United States, he was run out of town for a while. Oh, and he can’t return to the line of work he has done for most of his life. Because his former church says so.
Now I love the fact that this hypocrite was exposed. He deserved it and opened himself up to it. But he broke no laws that I can see – he just exhibited a lifestyle that a group of people objected to that isn’t illegal, not even in Colorado Springs. Sorry gang, this was more than he deserved. He was run out of town and told he can’t work in his chosen profession be people who actually hold no real power over him – other than the power he might have granted himself.
This is unacceptable. This is un-American you dickheads. I don’t like the man, but he has rights that should be unassailable. The situation has gone from funny to sad. Please, just leave Brittney alone!
Cheap Shots:
Remember back early on I supported Chris Dodd for President? Here’s why.
Running for President makes McCain miss more work than a brain hemorrhage.
What is it about the movie Predator that makes actors become politicians? Here’s Number Five!
I have to ask, how do the elevators work?
Remember 1969 when you vote.
Ralph Nader: Unsafe at his current speed.
Is this man an idiot, or does he think the people he wants to represent are? Answer me Obi-wan!
God won’t allow Venus and Serena Williams to vote for Obama (or anyone else).
And because I love you, Spandau Ballet.
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06/24/08 – What’s really meant by $2.99 for a gallon of gas…
I’m sure you’ve seen the ads by now; buy a GMC vehicle and they will guarantee that you will only pay $2.99 for a gallon of gas for the next three years. I’ve noticed that this offer tends to come for the gas guzzlers – sales must be hurting for some reason.
I wonder about that and the Iraq war. Do our military men get such deals? Let’s go to al-Asad out in the western desert of Iraq.
Did you click the link? If you didn’t I’m going to spoil the surprise. Not that there is a Burger King and a Pizza Hut on the premises. After all, a soldier’s gotta eat and MRE’s and Creamed Chip Beef on Toast isn’t always going to cut it. I get that – honestly. But a car dealership?
A freakin’ car dealership? Are you kidding me? I guess they do want us there a long time. Permanent bases and all that. And it’s been there a couple of years already! Did you know that? I didn’t until this morning.
Tell me something – where the hell are you going to park that new car of yours while you’re in al-Asad, Iraq? Are you planning on taking it home? Do you have a summer place out there in the desert, like some Bedouin caravan traveler with a bullet-proof vest and night-vision goggles? Are you planning on riding up alongside Viggo Mortenson and yelling sardonically, “phhbbt! 300 horses!”
Who the hell buys a car in the middle of a fucking war zone? Apparently people do, because the dealership is still there! I can see the sales pitch now: “It gets 20 mpg city, 30 desert & highway, and somewhat less when you throw in the IED factor, but hey - we throw in undercarriage rust protection and isn’t it a beautiful shade of red?” Whoever is the top car salesman there, give him his gold-plated fuller brush and let him retire – he can sell anything. Maybe even $2.99 gas. After all, it should be less expensive there shouldn’t’ it?
And how many of the buyers have simply driven the hell out of there?
Cheap Shots:
In trying to describe Obama, didn’t Karl Rove actually describe George W. Bush?
Feds: “You don’t need no steenkin’ flood insurance.” People: “Blub blub blub”
The ORLY Factor in 1 minute. You now need never watch it again.
And because I love you, ABC, using the same video trick that U2 would make famous a decade later.
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6/23/08 – Seven Dirty Paragraphs…
Because Crooks and Liars are not AP, I am going to quote an entire post (considering that I am never original on a Monday) minus their video links so that you can see what a tool Chris Wallace is. Also, I have to give them credit – I can’t watch Fox “News” without getting angry and that’s just not healthy. Chris, your dad is a great newsman. You suck:
In a segment ending with the disclosure that “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace is brought to you by “The People of America’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry” and immediately followed by the American Petroleum Institute (API) front group’s misleading ad, the Fox News host seized on one of John McCain’s more recent flip-flops siding with President Bush’s recent call to rescind the ban on offshore oil drilling and asked over and over why McCain won’t cave all the way to big oil and also allow for oil exploration in the Alaskan Arctic Wildlife Refuge, ANWR.
In the process of spewing talking points on behalf of his show’s sponsor, Wallace brings Obama into the discussion by joining the growing list of conservative dittoheads in the media who have been repeating this same false claim made by McCain last Tues. about oil spills and Hurricane Katrina:
Wallace: Obama talks about environmental damage from drilling offshore but the fact is the moratorium was put into effect in 1981. There’s been a lot of technological advances since then. We had Hurricane Katrina go through the heart of the Gulf of Mexico and ravage these oil rigs and there were almost no oil spills, so what’s he talking about?”
As ThinkProgress points out, that’s not true at all. The truth is that Hurricane Katrina caused oil spillage so significant it was clearly visible from space. It also wreaked environmental havoc near the scale of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. …
As Sen Reid correctly pointed out, this recent push by George Bush & John McBush represents “nothing more than a cynical campaign ploy that will do nothing to lower energy prices, and represents another big giveaway to oil companies already making billions in profits.” and the NYT went further to note that “the only real beneficiaries will be the oil companies that are trying to lock up every last acre of public land before their friends in power — Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney — exit the political stage.“
In fact, the oil industry has yet drilled in just 19 percent of the more than 40 million acres they already can that are not covered by the current ban — 40 million acres that represent 79 percent of America’s technically recoverable offshore oil reserves. Using generous estimates from the latest analysis from Bush’s own Department of Energy, allowing for unlimited drilling both offshore and in ANWR “would lower the price at the pump by less than 6 cents by 2025.”
How much do you reckon a gallon of gas will be in 2025, with or without the hypothetical $0.06 a gal. savings?
Cheap Shots:
So long George Carlin. You showed us all that the truth is funny.
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6/20/08 – Eavesdropping in the blogoshpere…
There’s an awful lot of noise out there right now about the fucking criminally insane wire-tapping bill that passed through the House of Representatives this morning. Most of the finer points have been covered over at dailykos, wonkette, crooks and liars, salon and other such sites so there really isn’t much for me to say on the topic. But I have to wonder something about the Republicans who so want this power. Would they have agreed to it if Bill Clinton were still President? Will they like it as much if Barak Obama becomes President?
Or will they be two-faced opportunists once they realize that they’ve given this power to their opposition?
Place your bets people, place your bets.
Cheap Shots (hey, it’s gin and tonic Friday!):
By the way, where the hell is Obama right now? I haven’t heard a peep since this came up. He could shut this whole thing down with a single word. Update: Disappointing. I got this e-mail too. Digby had a great response about it.
And here begins the push-back.
Does “Maverick” mean going against the wishes of the Governor of Iowa?
You know, it only just hit me – isn’t this what Jerry Brown was trying to do back in 1992? Was he a visionary?
Is the congressman insinuating that it would be better if (very distant) Cousin Scott were dead?
Um… kids, you done fucked up. This is the result of abstinence only teaching? Wow.
You knew it was coming… iPr0n.
If President Drunken Chimp praises you, you’ve probably done something wrong.
Authenticity Contest? Ms. Sidoti, I wonder if you can get McCain to say “Doh!”
Senator I ain’t got time to bleed? Love the new hair, by the way.
George Bush doesn’t care about White People! It’s a few minutes into the episode for June 19th. The whole episode is pretty good.
And because I love you, two great videos by Fatboy Slim and Radiohead.
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The McCain campaign is getting upset because a number of people are “speaking in code”. Whenever they criticize McCain they mention words like “confused” or “lost”, which is an obvious substitute for “old”. Yeah, McCain would be the oldest President in history, a title currently held by Ronald Reagan. McCain makes no bones about it, talks about it, and when it gets under his skin he trots out his very vibrant mother – a woman in her 90s.
So it must be ageism.
Funny how they don’t see every time they use “young” (Obama would not be the youngest President – he’d be the 4th youngest behind Teddy Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Bill Clinton) or “I have the greatest respect but…” that those can be seen as code words for “black”. So that must be racism.
One of the biggest problems with ageism and racism is that many people who use those “tools” (and yes, you’re a tool to use them) simply don’t even recognize that they’re doing it. It’s a big reason that its such a huge problem in our society. I do think that both campaigns have a point. Neither Obama can stop being black nor McCain stop being old. But it’s what they do with it that matters.
What’s the side effect of Obama being black? There are always going to be people who don’t like people who aren’t within their own ethnic group – like Jesus said, “there will be poor always” and similar logic applies here. Hell – the KKK uses that very phrase as motivation to keep blacks down. But Obama transcends the stereotypes that non-blacks generally see about blacks, and you don’t need me to point them out to you. Come on, you thought it – and it was racist.
What’s the side effect of McCain being old? For me it’s kind of weird to think of him as old as he’s only a year older than my own mother. But funny enough, my mom is retired (although still a generally more capable person than me). McCain is running for the toughest job in the world – a job that in theory he would hold until he is 80 years of age. Nothing wrong with that, but you need to transcend the stereotypes of age and that’s where McCain fails. He has flipped on positions, stated facts incorrectly, looked for people in his audience he was told weren’t there, confused Sunnis and Shiites multiple times (something I would probably do too but it’s not a job requirement for me), and admits to being technologically illiterate.
So a note to the McCain campaign – if you want to prove ageism, your candidate needs to transcend the stereotype. Otherwise shut the fuck up and fish.
This is going to be an ugly one, my friends.
Cheap shots:
Generally you want to stay away from spouses and families during a campaign, but they brought this one on themselves. Cindy McCain is the Hamburgler!
It seems to me that part of being a hero is not wanting to be one.
I’ve been gone from Los Angeles for a long time, but I never would have thought that the Lakers would suck this bad. The Celtics were the better team.
Good, they denounced it. And boy do I wish I had thought of this: NAMBLA, the North American McCain Bush Love Association. Kudos, Wonkette.
Obama on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Notice how little they discuss politics.
To quote Jon Stewart, it’s like we’re comparing the Bush administration to the Gambino family. Get the small fish to flip.
McCain is a Cylon. But he’s not an Admiral.
Meet one of the Prominent Democrats that has joined Lieberman in supporting McCain.
Darrell Issa is a wanker, but I bet you knew that. Here’s a top 10 list of why.
And because I love you, Dire Straits.
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6/17/08 – Two cents is worth exactly that…
A lot of people have weighed in on who Obama will pick as his running mate. I’ve mentioned previously that picking Clinton would be an error so I won’t go into that again. But I think I’ve got the early scoop. I could be wrong – hell, I backed Chris Dodd initially. But does anyone else notice the amount of time Obama has been spending in Michigan? I think the front runner for the job is Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.
She’s a Democratic Governor in a Republican state, with a lot of support from the blue collar workers of the state of Michigan. Last night she destroyed every single talking point that McCain has ever made on economics. She’d be a good fit, and bring Michigan aboard, where Obama didn’t even campaign during the primary season.
That’s kind of the point. Michigan has a lot of electoral votes, and the state went heavily for Clinton. Obama could easily shore up this state and its electoral votes, and she’s obviously a woman who could represent his views well. She’s a strong debater and is good with a turn of the phrase – I love how she uses the words “trickle down” to describe the failures of the last 8 years, and isn’t afraid to compare Michigan’s unemployment to similar numbers in Louisiana after Katrina.
And, dare I say it, she’s a woman! W. O. M-A-N! Do I have to spell that one out for you? (It wasn’t until nearly an hour after I wrote that that I realized that I did spell that out – everyone is allowed one moment per day to be a moron and there went mine - okay, do I have to spell out the significance of that for you?) Clinton came awfully close to breaking that glass ceiling. Perhaps Ms. Granholm could take those cracks and burst it wide open.
Cheap Shots:
Chicago finally pushed the Stone of Sisyphus over that hill! Congrats!
You tell me; did the world just change?
Gotta dance! Gotta dance! Gotta dance gotta dance gotta dance gotta dance gotta… dance! Bye Cyd.
Apparently being against police surveillance cameras makes you a member of a hate group.
Is this the Republican flag pin? Available at the Texas Republican Convention – I shit you not. Disavow that racist motherfucker.
The Mooslims took our ice cream!
And because I love you, the first single from Coldplay’s new album, and no, it’s not that iTunes commercial. This is much better.
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6/13/08 – Gone too long… a look back…
Sorry I’ve been away for so long. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, but my personal life has kept me busy. My son graduated Jr. High, my daughter was in a play, my wife and I are planning a vacation, working on the new album. Excuses, excuses. Yeah, let’s get to the ranting.
I’m a native Californian. I was born here, raised here, and live here now. In fact, I’ve lived in all 3 Californias: Southern – where I was born, went to college, and met my lovely wife; Northern – where I live now and have raised a family for over 15 years; and Central – where I was raised and what I refer to sarcastically as Kansas. And it’s actually the town where I grew up that receives and deserves the brunt of my wrath today.
If you want to get married in Kern County at a civic ceremony – Go up to the courthouse in Bakersfield and get ‘er done - today is the last day you can do it. After today Kern County will not be performing marriages of any kind. That’s because as of next week they would have to marry gay couples as well as straight ones thanks to the ruling by the California Supremes, and the person in charge of this refuses to do so. So rather than discriminate she has decided to stop the practice altogether.
Kern County Clerk Ann Barnett made this decision unilaterally, claiming that it’s actually a budget issue, but it’s no secret that she has been rabidly against same-sex marriage from the get go. Her position would be a common one in that part of the state – Bakersfield is a right-wing bastion of incivility that I am happy to have escaped. A good friend of mine from high school who was gay kept himself so far in the closet that he actually married a woman he cared nothing for to keep his own secret. When I was 15 a man followed a gay couple home to their ranch after a night of drinking and shot them dead – and was found not guilty by a jury of his peers because he said he felt “threatened” by them.
My childhood, while full of love at home, is filled with stories that would give many nightmares. Book burnings. exorcisms, a confederate flag as a school symbol – things that might make the progressives out there cringe. The book “Grapes of Wrath” was banned at my high school. And it’s normal there. (For the record, every member of my family has since left that part of the state).
Ms. Barnett will probably become a rallying point over the next few days as the idiot old guard makes their stand against a decision that most people, including the residents of Kern County, deem as fair and socially just. Kern County is geographically huge – it is larger than several U.S. States. And while the population isn’t as big as all that there are two major cities (Bakersfield and Fresno) that have large business and agricultural communities that speak loud and strong and have for decades. This could very well be the place from where the people who are against this change make their stand.
I am encouraged by one thing – when I was a kid growing up there, one of my close friends (who was black) started dating a white girl. Parents were in an uproar – but all of us in the next generation down had no problems with it, not even in one of the most redneck places in the country. Perhaps the next generation from there will be the ones to finally shut up the old guard. But for now, Kern County is as homophobic as it ever was.
Sad, but not unexpected.
Cheap Shots:
It seems to me that calling Senator Obama’s wife the Obama Baby Momma under other circumstances would get your teeth kicked in. That’s why I’d never make a good President.
Okay, I did not see this coming. I don’t think anyone did. Holy shit.
A rumor went out earlier this week that Obama wasn’t a natural born citizen – so he produced his birth certificate. Here is McCain’s.
And because I love you, the amazing Victor Wooten.
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6/3/08 – Wow, nearly a year now
I’ve had this site up nearly a year now, and it’s a butt-ugly as the day it was born. Sweet. I’ll have to neaten it up at some point. I’m going to be gone for a couple of days – I hadn’t planned that, but it’s Lakers vs. Celtics and that always distracts me. (Actually, I’m traveling for work, but let’s stick with the original meme, shall we?)
So, is it over? AP seems to think so. Obama seems to think so. Clinton… well, there seems to be some message confusion going on over there. Terry McAuliffe (probably spelled wrong – aren’t you impressed by the research this site does) and others at her campaign have a recent tendency to say one thing, go home, and then say something completely contradictory and mean both comments with equal fervor – a very Bush-like talent.
I’m voting late today but voted for Obama long ago since our Presidential Primary was back in February. For Obama to declare victory today he’s going to need super delegate help, because he’s 35 or so shy and he’s going to get probably about 18 to 20 out of the elections today. By the time this gets posted tonight that probably will have already happened. We’ll see. As of a bit before 4pm my time it’s looking like he’s going to have it. So who is going to win the lottery on which network claims Obama’s victory first? My guess is CBS. Katy Couric needs the boost.
You have to give Clinton her due. She’s the first woman to ever win a major primary for either party. Obama doesn’t get to claim first black – Jessie Jackson gets that honor. I think that this means that a woman president is possible, and possibly in our lifetimes. It just won’t be her. Ask Jesse.
And because Clinton slugged it out to the last vote, the Democratic base in energized in all 50 states, which hasn’t happened in my lifetime. I have been saying for a long time now that this fight is a good thing, and I think I‘ll be proven right. Of course, then again, Bush thinks that about Iraq so this may be a grand delusion. I think everything now depends upon how gracious a loser Clinton can be. Remember, this is the first time EVER that she’s lost an election. We don’t know how she’s going to take it.
Whether or not we win in November could depend upon how good a loser she is. But man, I hope not.
And because I love you and because there’s sadness in my heart, Bo Diddley. Rock and Roll wouldn’t exist without him.
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I’ve gone on record before as saying that I’m voting for Obama. But today at a fund-raiser in Colorado he said something that warms the heart. In his first 100 days he and his Attorney General will review every single Executive Order given by President Drunken Chimp and rescind all of the ones that violate the Constitution. If Obama follows through with this particular campaign promise this will be astonishing.
That’s nearly every single goddamned one. The whole list is here.
Among the orders that would be rescinded: Torturing prisoners. Military tribunals for non-combatants. Guantanamo Bay. Spying on Civilians. Faith-based initiatives. 9 separate orders about the succession of officers in Cabinet departments issues at the end of 2001. Confiscation of Iraqi property. The Ocean Policy Committee. An order modifying the rights to take private property for government use. The update to the Courts-martial manual in 2007. About a dozen unequal pay grade changes. And a bunch of other shit you probably haven’t even heard of.
If you look through the list of executive orders you will find that many reference other orders and many don’t even have indexes or titles, making the maze of them difficult to get through.
Now then, Senator Obama, one more thing and you will be my perfect candidate. How about rescinding and making ineffective all of those damned Signing Statements?
Cheap Shots:
This has to be my favorite comment of the whole Democratic Primary season – Barack Obama is more electable in November because his name will actually be on the ballot.
Ooooooooo-klahoma where the right wing goes totally insane.
Um, wow. I have no opinion here, but I’m glad to see she’s getting on with life.
Livin’ La Vida Clinton.
There’s a chance that Scott McClellan isn’t doing it for the money.
And because I love you and it’s Danny Elfman’s birthday, have some Oingo Boingo. And let’s give you a rare one as well (video unsanctioned).
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05/28/08 – I’m back! Did you miss me?
It was a busy week while I took time off to work on my new album. So many people to give my standard question to. I’ll highlight a couple today starting with a distant (but not distant enough) relative.
Scott McClellan was an early press secretary under President Drunken Chimp. On my father’s side of the family, he’s a cousin removed about 6 times (I’m not exactly clear how far removed, but it’s distant enough that we could get married – ewww must scrub that image from my mind). He’s written a book slamming his former bosses and co-workers about the lies they (and he) told about running up the war on Iraq.
Scott, what the fuck is wrong with you? You personally had information that could have changed the world. Impeached a President and a Vice-President. Saved our country from this bloody nightmare. You would have been a hero – much like the Civil War General your side of the family takes its name from. But no, you waited a few years and are just trying to make yourself rich instead. General McClellan’s kids founded Tammany Hall. Wrong part of the family to take your lead from.
A nice little fun aside – Scott talks at some length in the book about Karl Rove and meetings he had that may have had something to do with the cover-up about the outing of CIA Agent Valerie Plame. Karl Rove on Fox “News” yesterday refuted his facts, saying Scott obviously got his facts wrong. Of course, Karl Rove called him “Tim”, so take that as you will.
And now, Brian Kilmeade. I’d never heard of this fucking retard before this morning, but then again I don’t watch Fox “News” because they’re the unfunny fake news program. You can see the full details in the link, but basically the argument is that we do not need to provide a full education to our veterans because they’re a volunteer force, as opposed to a conscripted one.
Brian, what the fuck is wrong with you? Getting a good education is the primary reason people join the military. Haven’t you been watching the recruiting ads? I’m going to take a wild stab at this, but I’m guessing that you never served yourself. In all fairness, neither have I. You don’t shit on our veterans. Period. You give them all the financial aid and help they should want and need. They’re good for it – we’ve taken years from their lives as collateral. And besides – the promise of a good education should lead to more recruits.
Michelle Malkin, what the fuck is wrong with you? Is there some sort of medication you stopped taking some years back? Calling Rachael Ray a terrorist? I’ve seen Malkin do her weird rants before; she’s Ann Coulter with rabies. She once stalked a 12-year old boy. But Rachael Ray? All because she wore a scarf? I mean, I’m no fan of Dunkin’ Donuts either but it’s a fucking scarf! A fucking scarf! Look at the goddamned picture. It’s not a religious symbol. It’s not Yassar Arafat’s headdress. It’s a fringed scarf! A piece of cloth, nothing more. Michelle, you may be a sensitive woman and all, but if we ever meet face to face you’re getting a punch in the mouth. And shame on Dunkin’ Donuts for bowing to this lunatic.
Cheap Shots:
Raise your hands if you would have said Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald. I never heard of Buchenwald until I was in college – Auschwitz was the word for gas chambers when I learned about WWII.
Ignorance is bliss – but it’s also ignorance.
I’ve been getting my U.S. News from BBC America for a while now. Here’s why.
Doggone it, a statistical tie is good enough for my self-esteem. Oooh, how many of you won’t get that joke?
Damn.
Defining honor.
There may be better women for the VP slot than Hillary. Here is some information about three, including the governor of Arizona.
This is no real shock to me. Go San Francisco values!
Oh dear God, Barak Obama is black! Hide the white wimmen and liquor!
You want to run against John Kerry in Massachusetts and you make this mistake? Oh yeah, they’re gonna vote for ya.
Okay, you’ve got 300 years to go see it.
The Hillary Clinton effect, 30 years from now.
And because I love you, Donnie Iris. And how about some Jay Ferguson too!
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