Happy 4th of July! I've already seen my fireworks show - after the Dodger/Rockies game on Tuesday nite - sitting in the outfield grass at Dodger Stadium, right in the spot where Dodger right-fielder Andre Ethier prowls. Dodgers lost 3-0 but the fireworks show made up for it - spectacular. Here's the grand finale.
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Saturday, July 04, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
Sarah, Sarah, Au Contraire . . . .
If this woman could be any more mind-numbingly confusing . . . people would simply start dying of instant brain-death everytime they listened to her speak.
Speaking of confusion -- I watched the entire news conference clip of her resignation announcement and I still don't fucking know exactly why she's throwing in the towel!!! Lol.
Ok -- some mean ol' Democrats said some mean ol' things about her, and politics sucks, and the people of Alaska deserve better, and she's not "wired that way", and something about "dead fish" . . . blabbity, blabbity, blah, blah -- ad nauseum. C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N.
Also -- what's up with quitting before your term is even officially over? What's that all about? Maybe another scandal in the wings? Todd got caught fucking the barmaid at the local Moose Lodge? Bristol is preggers again? Lol.
And this is the individual that the GOP wanted to have one heartbeat away from the Presidency? Oh my.
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Speaking of confusion -- I watched the entire news conference clip of her resignation announcement and I still don't fucking know exactly why she's throwing in the towel!!! Lol.
Ok -- some mean ol' Democrats said some mean ol' things about her, and politics sucks, and the people of Alaska deserve better, and she's not "wired that way", and something about "dead fish" . . . blabbity, blabbity, blah, blah -- ad nauseum. C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N.
Also -- what's up with quitting before your term is even officially over? What's that all about? Maybe another scandal in the wings? Todd got caught fucking the barmaid at the local Moose Lodge? Bristol is preggers again? Lol.
And this is the individual that the GOP wanted to have one heartbeat away from the Presidency? Oh my.
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The Horses Ass Gift that keeps on giving . . .
Jon Stewart gets some additional snark mileage out of GOP Governor Mark Sanford's inability to stop talking about his steamy Harlequin Romance experience. ROFLMAO!
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Practicing what they preach ... against
On the heels of the recent sex scandals involving GOP heavyweights, Nevada Senator John Ensign and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, it comes as no surprise (at least to this interested observer anyhow) that an enterprising reporter somewhere would do a little background research on the subject of "moral values" and uncover that which those of us who've been paying attention to matters like this have known for some time -- namely that the more conservative areas of the country appear also to be the more "sinful" ones.
Separate studies have found that:
* States that went Republican in November accounted for 8 of the 10 states with the highest divorce rates in 2006.
* States that went Republican in November accounted for 8 of the 10 states with the highest teenage birthrates.
* Subscriptions to online pornography sites were “more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender roles, and sexuality” and in states where “more people agree that ‘I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage.’ ”
Now -- personally, I don't give a flying shit what people do in their private lives as it relates to personal relationships, sex or porn. Simply ain't none of my bidness (I've actually looked up the definition of the word 'private').
However, since there is one political party (GOP) and political persuasion (religious conservatives) who have presented themselves to all of humanity as being the self-appointed arbiters of all issues regarding morality and spiritual purity and are constantly saturating the media with their holier-than-thou pronouncements warning us heathens of certain damnation of hellfire and brimstone if we don't ascribe to their beliefs and teachings -- one thing is certain. It absolutely is not only fair, but urgently necessary, that when any one of their pious mouthpieces commits sins for which they and their followers incessantly harangue the rest of us about, they are ripe pickings for the most savage pillorying of all.
I have a very, very good memory about what went down with the Bill Clinton impeachment. That farcical political witchhunt was presided over by a couple of philandering Republican pigs named Henry Hyde and Bob Livingston. Pseudo Republican moralizers like John Ensign, Mark Sanford, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, David Vitter, Newt Gingrich, etc... (the list is too long to cite here) actually had the fucking nerve to cast votes and/or sit in pontifical judgement of Clinton. While Clinton's personal peccadilloes certainly was not behavior to be applauded or entirely ignored, it in no way, shape or form met the established criteria for high crimes and misdemeanors which the founding fathers had in mind for events requiring the forced removal of the nation's top elected leader. Nevertheless, one result of the GOP's sex obsession has become clear -- they set the Gold standard for what must be done when one of their own is caught with their pants down -- and by god they better be ready to meet the saintly obligations of that standard when it occurs.
As for the rest of conservative America --- clean up the fucking messes in your own back yards before you wag your sanctimonious fingers about the untidiness in other people's yards. Adopt that as the new golden rule and maybe we can all start getting along just a little better.
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Jon Stewart Agrees with krazee . . . w00t!
Jon Stewart adds his two -- er -- three (he's a celebrity) cents worth on the subject of a post I put up yesterday.
Stewart's level of HOLY FUCK! shock and disgust at that Glenn Beck video clip is pretty much on par with mine needless to say.
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Stewart's level of HOLY FUCK! shock and disgust at that Glenn Beck video clip is pretty much on par with mine needless to say.
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Stephen Colbert -- Master of Illusion
Stephen Colbert skewers the hypocrisy and idiocy of conservatives better than I could ever fantasize about doing.
The funniest part about all of this though is that a recent Ohio State University study shows conservatives actually believe that Stephen Colbert is one of them and on their side - ROFLMAO. That speaks volumes doesn't it?
Watch this and see if you can tell who is the butt of the joke:
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The funniest part about all of this though is that a recent Ohio State University study shows conservatives actually believe that Stephen Colbert is one of them and on their side - ROFLMAO. That speaks volumes doesn't it?
Watch this and see if you can tell who is the butt of the joke:
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
He's Good Enough, He's Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Him! IMAO !!
Honestly -- I have no clue whether Al Franken will be a good and effective Senator or not (I'm betting he will, but that's another discussion). For all I know he may turn out to be an atrocious turncoat in the Joe Lieberman mold. Only time will tell.
The more important (and fun) aspect of this story though is that now that the Minnesota State Supreme Court has validated Franken's victory, the right-wing nuts have revved up their collective fire-breathing, bawling, teeth-gnashing, end of the world tantrum throwing machine - lol.
That spectacle alone is worth any price to be paid of seeing Franken seated as the newest Senator from the state of Minnesota. Anything that bunches up the panties of the ass clowns on FOX and the Limpballs, Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage, Coulter crowd is A-O-K in my book. Hehe.
Here's a sampling of the teeth-gnashing and tantrum throwing that's already been done since the Franken victory announcement yesterday. Fricking hilarious.
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The more important (and fun) aspect of this story though is that now that the Minnesota State Supreme Court has validated Franken's victory, the right-wing nuts have revved up their collective fire-breathing, bawling, teeth-gnashing, end of the world tantrum throwing machine - lol.
That spectacle alone is worth any price to be paid of seeing Franken seated as the newest Senator from the state of Minnesota. Anything that bunches up the panties of the ass clowns on FOX and the Limpballs, Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage, Coulter crowd is A-O-K in my book. Hehe.
Here's a sampling of the teeth-gnashing and tantrum throwing that's already been done since the Franken victory announcement yesterday. Fricking hilarious.
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Soul Man redux . . . .
Hmmm ... I wonder if George W. Bush saw this coming when he gazed deeply into Vladimir Putin's eyes and got "a sense of his soul?"
Lol.
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Limbaugh: Barack Obama Killed Michael Jackson!
El Rushbo (the defacto "leader" of the Republican party) is in dire need of a mental health intervention.
Lol.
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Lol.
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Unbelievable as it seems -- there's hope yet
By CURT ANDERSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer Curt Anderson, Ap Legal Affairs Writer – Tue Jun 30, 5:39 pm ET
MIAMI – Swiss bank UBS AG "systematically and deliberately" violated U.S. law by dispatching private bankers to recruit wealthy Americans interested in evading taxes and must be forced to reveal the identities of 52,000 of those clients, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday.
This is good news.
Considering the amount of personal misery and economic suffering the wealthy elites and their spiderweb of corrupt, multinational banking enterprises have caused around the globe, a little bit of criminal justice is long overdue. Bernie Madoff's sacrificial lamb prison sentence of 150 years hasn't even come close to whetting my appetite for retribution.
Me personally? I want to know the names, business connections, political affiliations and what financial institutes they funneled their illicit funds through of every one of the 52,000 racketeers on that list. I want that information published on the front page of every newspaper in the U.S. for a week straight. I want it to be the lead story of every newscast in every major and minor television market. I want all of the current credit card offers, mortgage refinance offers, loan offers and other financial con artist scam offers that pile up in my mailbox every day to be replaced with the complete list of personal information about every last one of these sons of bitches.
And if there were a God, I'd personally be invited to assist in divvying up the seized assets and illegally earned interest from those assets of all of these swindlers and see that money put to truly good use helping the least fortunate and worst off in our currently fucked-over society.
And if anyone wants to call me a socialist for those views -- that's fine by me. Sure as fuck beats siding with thieves and amoral monsters who'd piss on the emaciated soul, broken spirit and good will of a fellow American just to make another buck for themselves. It's been said you know - that a person is known by the company they keep (and defend I might add).
Anyhow - Bill Maher had it right in a February monologue on the subject of how to deal with the greed-mongers in our midst:
I'm all for Maher's idea .. but to make it last, make it law -- every year, 2 randomly selected crooked bankers (don't worry, there'll be plenty of candidates) get their name pulled out of a hat and are sacrificed on the hangman's altar of justice. Sure it's perverted justice, but until the message is willfully recognized by the people who need to recognize it, it's a perversion we'll just have to live with.
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None Dare Call It Treason . . . . . Except Me.
You know - during my completely unspectacular 5 year blogging career I have made some blisteringly harsh statements about present day conservatives and their movement. To this day I've rejected the thought of taking any of those words back -- not without substantiated, chronicled reasons in my view.
And every now and again, a little piece of unambiguous, documented media evidence (see accompanying video below) comes along, which if viewed in the context of why I despise these people and what it is about their ideology that infuriates me, validates every vitriolic word I've ever typed about them.
Where else but Rupert Murdoch's insane asylum FOX News can you find a major talking head cable star engaged in a matter-of-fact, perfunctory conversation as to why the prospect of terrorists detonating a major (nuclear?) weapon in the U.S. and causing loss of life and destruction on a mass scale articulating that such an attack would be the best thing to happen to the country right now? Honestly - where?
You know I remember when the Iraq invasion started, people like me were told to "watch what you say - watch what you do" and labeled "terrorist sympathizers", "America haters" "unpatriotic", and of course, the dreaded 'T' words (traitor/treason) for daring to think for ourselves and ask questions as to the decisions being made by George W. Bush.
I've looked up the words 'traitor' and 'treason' in the dictionary and read and reread all of the varying definitions and meanings. Somehow I have been unable to reconcile the definition of treason as it was applied to people like myself who questioned the wisdom of invading a sovereign nation based on manufactured evidence and outright lies (Iraq) compared to what Rupert Murdoch does on a daily basis in his media outlets (such as the video clip shown here.)
If someone, preferably one of my respected conservative friends, could help unravel this labyrinthine conundrum for me, I'd be most grateful.
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And every now and again, a little piece of unambiguous, documented media evidence (see accompanying video below) comes along, which if viewed in the context of why I despise these people and what it is about their ideology that infuriates me, validates every vitriolic word I've ever typed about them.
Where else but Rupert Murdoch's insane asylum FOX News can you find a major talking head cable star engaged in a matter-of-fact, perfunctory conversation as to why the prospect of terrorists detonating a major (nuclear?) weapon in the U.S. and causing loss of life and destruction on a mass scale articulating that such an attack would be the best thing to happen to the country right now? Honestly - where?
You know I remember when the Iraq invasion started, people like me were told to "watch what you say - watch what you do" and labeled "terrorist sympathizers", "America haters" "unpatriotic", and of course, the dreaded 'T' words (traitor/treason) for daring to think for ourselves and ask questions as to the decisions being made by George W. Bush.
I've looked up the words 'traitor' and 'treason' in the dictionary and read and reread all of the varying definitions and meanings. Somehow I have been unable to reconcile the definition of treason as it was applied to people like myself who questioned the wisdom of invading a sovereign nation based on manufactured evidence and outright lies (Iraq) compared to what Rupert Murdoch does on a daily basis in his media outlets (such as the video clip shown here.)
If someone, preferably one of my respected conservative friends, could help unravel this labyrinthine conundrum for me, I'd be most grateful.
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