A Big krazee Bear Hug and Shout Out to Scott & Lisa -- This One's For You Guys!

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One by One . . .

Oops! Looks like one of the right-wing darlings has strayed off the reservation (ala Colin Powell). Queue the spastic howls of outrage and charges of traitor!! Lol.

PETRAEUS: What I would ask is, does that not take away from our enemies a tool, which again they have beaten us around the head and shoulders in the court of public opinion? When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Convention, we rightly have been criticized. And so as we move forward, I think it is important to again live our values to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those.

I mean really -- who's left supporting the pro-torture viewpoint except the most insane media clowns like Limpballs, Coulter, Savage and the entire Fox Disinformation Network? Quite the crowd to brag about being of like mind with.

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Kangaroo Court: Conservative Marsupials on the Rampage!

I haven't posted any viewpoints on President Obama's choice to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter with Sonia Sotomayor who currently is a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to Souter's announcement of retiring I had never heard of Sonia Sotomayor. The first tidbit of information that I learned about her was that she had been nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H. W. Bush in 1991 and confirmed in 1992 and subsequently nominated by Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where she was confirmed and joined the court in 1998.

Frankly, I've not formed much of anything resembling an opinion on Judge Sotomayor to this point simply because I knew nothing of her prior to Obama's announcement and since that event was just 3 days ago and not a single hearing has been held, where her views and judicial credentials can be aired, I've still not learned very much about her since (and I refuse to get any of my information on her from our useless whore mainstream media.) However, one thing I absolutely have learned this week is that Sotomayor's nomination has triggered an avalanche of banshee screeching emanating from the rightwing nut-o-sphere, which, as anyone who knows my political views might surmise, leads me into the crux of this post.

As previously stated, it has only been 3 days since the Sotomayor nomination announcement. However, in that short span, I've already seen the hard-core conservative asshats throw around a multitude of crude accusations about this judge -- so many that you would think they knew months ahead of time that Obama was going to pick her and therefore they had already compiled a damning arsenal of information on her judicial and personal background which in their eyes almost certainly justifies her disqualification for the open SCOTUS position.

Amazing isn't it?

Of course when a sane, reasonable-minded individual takes a closer look at the conservative's accusations a familiar pattern emerges. Words cavalierly tossed around about Judge Sotomayor include "racist", "bigot", "radical", "affirmative action", "dumb", "combative", "argumentative", "liberal activist", "emotional", "Latina woman racist", and the most recent observation by a conservative spokesperson who states, "Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then." I guess all that's left is the "closet dyke" charge (give them time - believe me.)

You really have to admire the modern day Republican party in the sense that one admires someone who threatens to commit suicide in a most gruesome manner -- then actually follows through on it. First they allow the Taliban-like religious right to hitch their boxcar to the conservative locomotive eventually allowing them to become the locomotive's engineer. Then for 8 years they threw their lot in with an intellectually-challenged, blue-blood frat boy who had failed at every business venture he'd been involved in and who's only qualifications for the Presidency appeared to be the length of his daddy's coattails. But the frat boy mouthed lofty fundamentalist religious platitudes, and with a wink and a nod, aww-shucksed (and electorally tampered) his way into power. The Repubs then surrounded said frat boy with recycled, corrupt GOP political hacks from the Nixon era (Cheney, Rumsfeld) and along with former Oil Industry operatives (Cheney, Rice) and Texas cronies (Gonzalez, Miers, etc.) the horrid "Bush era" was spawned from hell.

The slow motion, national train-wreck that followed was predicted by many who knew better, including yours truly. Many others jumped ship once they belatedly realized the folly of their on-going support of such a colossally incompetent and corrupt freak show. And now, with this weeks antics, the Republicans appear to be fiercely intent upon further alienating women, independent and Hispanic voters with their disgusting public attacks on Judge Sotomayor without even a single confirmation hearing having been held. I say go for it you fucking morons!! As far as I'm concerned, the more people the GOP pisses off and sends over to the other side, the quicker their political party epitaph can be written.

But honestly -- try as I might to find so much as a kernel of good will and contemplative thoughtfulness in this bastard strain of conservatives, they always -- ALWAYS -- find a way to dash the meager hope of doing so with their rank stupidity, bile and hatred.

As just a a sliver of evidence of what I'm referring to, take a look at this compendium of hideous t.v. clips just from the past couple of days. Gee -- you think these assholes project much? Lol.

The Sins of the Fathers (literally taken) . . .

Exodus 20:5 - “You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.”

Sigh . . . here's reason 13,683 as to why krazee not only is not a Christian, but heartily rejects all forms of religious dogma.

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Fun, Fun, Fun . . . .

Apparently unbeknownst to me, my gall bladder has been busily creating salt stones and one of them got loose last week and blocked the bile duct to my tummy. The result was this:

Laparoscopic Gall Bladder Removal
by evilpunk1333

So -- how was your week?

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The News Ain't News Anymore . . .

When I think of the U.S. media these days, this is kind of the impression I have of all of them -- doesn't matter, Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTimes, LATimes, blah, blah, blah.

Pretty sad if one cares to think deeply enough about it.


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A Voice From the Great Beyond . . .

June 22 is almost 2 months away. What significance does that date have? For most people -- none whatsoever. For me, it's the day the voice of sanity, honesty, and general in your face prickishness died. I speak of George Carlin. Goddamn man we miss your insight and dedication to un-pulling the wool over people's eyes.

RIP pal.

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Sunday M-Vloggin

When it comes to rock music, the term "power ballad" is quite dependent upon the definitions of "power" and "ballad" that the person speaking of such term has.

When I hear the term "power ballad" one song comes to mind instantly and without question -- The Scorpions "Still Loving You".

Perform this simple exercise -- separate the two words "power" and "ballad", look up the definition of each word in the dictionary, then listen to this song -- you'll not have to ponder the meaning of the term ever again.

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If Irony Were a Sledge Hammer . . .

George W. Bush's daddy was interviewed by some USA Today reporter this week and one of the questions asked of him was his opinion of Obama.

Mr. Thousand Points of Light responded thusly:

On President Obama:

“Right now Obama’s getting a pretty good ride, don’t you think, in the media?” Asked if the coverage of Obama is fair, he said, “Nice try.”

Gee #41, I realize at your age the memory starts to falter, your staring your own mortality in the maw, Babs ain't the lay she used to be, or, maybe you're just pissed and bitter that you couldn't have carpet-bombed a few more third-world countries with brown people in them in the loyal service of your oil industry and military industrial complex masters. Then again, maybe you're just a heartless, soulless, cranky old prick who's just an all-around rotten human being, but truly pops, did it ever occur to you that there are just simply some very basic and legitimate reasons the media has yet to sink it's greasy, bloodthirsty claws into Obama's hide?

Here -- I'll help you --- first -- he's only been in office 100 days. More importantly though, unlike your colossally incompetent, dim-witted son:

> Obama has yet to allow a major terrorist attack on the country on his watch

> Obama has yet to sit by on his ass doing nothing while watching a major American city drown

> Obama has yet to fill critical cabinet and government posts with rich campaign donors and family (oil industry) cronies

> Obama has yet to lie America into a catastrophic, idiotic war of choice

> Obama has yet to trash America's image around the world by endorsing state sponsored torture of prisoners

> Obama has yet to alienate long-standing allies and increase the global level of hatred of America by opposing all efforts to limit the impact of global climate change

> Obama has yet to allow some of his personal hacks to out and destroy the career of a valued CIA asset solely for political revenge

> Obama has yet to politicize with hacks and friends what should be the least political entity within the government, the Justice Department

> Obama has yet to employ warrantless wiretapping and spying on a mass scale of all American's private phone, mail and e-mail communications

> Obama has yet to preside over the wholesale deregulation of the finance industry, allowing greedy Wall Street hucksters to sell America down the river and financially ruin the nation

> Obama has yet to repress sound science as it relates to public welfare and social policies in favor of superstitious "faith based" religious pandering that has done incalculable damage to America's spiritual and social fabric

> Obama has yet to fuck up the entire world

So Poppy Bush -- do America and humanity a favor -- take your oil industry earnings and your entire dysfunctional, criminal family and your treasonous groupies, cronies, leeches, etc. -- and go buy yourselves a little island somewhere where you can all rat-fuck each other for eternity -- and leave the rest of us the fuck alone to get on with the important business of restoring America's prestige and honor in the world!

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Lies and the Lying Liars . . . Fox News - Your One-stop Shop for all the Lies That are Fit to be Told

Fox News and it's All-Star lineup of repugnant right-wing goons is the gift that keeps on giving to Democrats and liberals.

There isn't a day that goes by where you can switch on the Fox News channel and not hear one of their low-brow, Murdoch piss bucket boy hacks spewing lies about their political and ideological opponents. Yes I said it - lying. I'm no longer going to use the words mislead or misleading to define what it is the freaks on Fox do for a living. It's lying -- telling lies -- and they do it a lot and they do it well.

Glenn Beck, the self anointed pied-piper of the tea-bagger brigades was on the air other night (video below) regaling (oops there I go again), ummm, lying his lying ass off about the Air Force One flyover photo op that scared the beejeesus out of some New Yorkers earlier this week. To hear Beck tell it, you'd think President Obama got bored sitting around the Oval Office twiddling his thumbs so he himself ordered up the flight and was personally at the cockpit controls, laughing maniacally, as the big plane lumbered past the Manhattan skyline escorted by a couple of Air Force fighter jets. I even waited with abated breath to hear Beck exclaim that Michael Moore and Sean Penn were in the passenger seats of the escorting F-16's for a Hollywood ride-along -- but I suppose even congenital liars like Beck employ a certain measure of constraint of their craft (lying) on occasion.

Ultimately though, and as I've noted in a multitude of previous blog posts, this video is just another volume in the ever growing library of documented proof of how Fox News employs lies and professional liars to advance and promote the conservative agenda. It's getting to the point where it's not even hip any more to highlight the constant stream of lies emanating from the Fox lie machine. I'm thoroughly convinced that the only people still being fooled by Murdoch and his minions are the 19% Bush lovers along with your average, gun waving, flag waving, bible thumping conservative rube, indistinguishable as they are.

Oh well, as painful as it is, I'll continue to watch Fox and document their atrocities against the truth. If anything to save those of you with weaker stomachs from having to endure the nausea inducing task yourselves.

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**UPDATE: In this video not only does Glenn Beck have a major problem with the truth as it relates to the unfortunate Manhattan flyby incident, but he also re-peddles the previously debunked right-wing myth (er, lie) that Sarah Palin "winged" her Republican National Convention speech after her teleprompter broke in mid-speech. And with that my friends, I give you the classic definition of the term "congenital liar."

GOP Staring Into The Abyss of Permanent Minority Party Status . . .

With the defection of perennial Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter into the Democratic ranks and with moderate GOP Maine Senator Olympia Snowe actively sounding the warning bells (see video in this post) to the RNC poobahs about the imminent immolation of the Republican party, all I can say is --- I fucking told you so.

I've been saying it for 5 years -- and my conservative friends & detractors know it. What I've been saying to anyone who would listen is that the GOP hierarchy and party infrastructure has been hijacked, lock, stock and barrel, by a narrow-minded, predominantly white, predominantly southern and predominantly hard-core Christian base which has painstakingly done everything in it's power to alienate moderate, sane Republicans and independents within their own party and in the process of doing so hand political power over to the more inclusive Democrats on a silver platter.

The fact that Olympia Snowe is finally coming out and stating as much in a major media venue that which has been obvious to even amateur political watchers such as myself for several years is a significant event.

I'm not gloating about this (too much anyway) -- I'm firmly of the belief that we need a strong opposition party to the Democrats (don't confuse strong with psychotic) if anything to keep the lefty loons (yes - there are some) from having too much influence over the party and their policy making. Fortunately for the Dems, they haven't allowed the more insane elements of their liberal base to overtake the party apparatus, which is in a nutshell what the GOP has done.

Basically what needs to happen is the traditional conservative Republicans need to serve divorce papers to the hateful right wing crowd. Tell Hannity, Limpballs, O'Reilly, Beck, Coulter, Savage and all the rest of those loathsome assholes to fuck off. Sure, it'll be messy, painful and not without some serious bloodletting, but in the end if the GOP and traditional conservatism is to survive, they have to do this. Let the wingnuts start their own 3rd political party --- see how quickly they become marginalized just like other reactionary political groups have been.

The world is changing and the wingnuts are wanting to recreate American life as they perceive it was in the Leave It To Beaver 1950's. Most of sane America (fortunately still a majority) has moved or is moving forward. The rest of the world is moving forward. The only fools still obstinately standing still and trying to impede human progress are the howling right-wing chest beaters. Leave 'em behind I say! Perhaps a decade or so of entrenched irrelevancy will wake them up to the reality of their situation.

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Friday M-Vloggin' . . . With The Kinks!

I really hate having favorite lists of anything. And especially so when it comes to music. There are so many bands and songs that have left lasting impressions on me in my 46 years on this planet it wouldn't be fair to single any one of them out for special recognition. But if I were forced to to do so, I would definitely include this 1970 song by The Kinks - 'Lola'. I think I probably heard it the first time around 1974, 1975 just coming into my teen years. Being that young and ignorant about the wonders and weirdness of the world beyond my midwest upbringing, I really didn't quite understand the lyrical content of this song initially. All I knew was I loved the rock tempo of the song and the great guitar riffs in it. It was only a few years later that I found out it was all about some guy's unwitting, drunken misadventures with a transvestite - lol. While semi-shocking to my senses, the latent discovery of that little tidbit of information didn't put a damper on my love of the song, as a matter of fact I think it actually endeared it even more to me (and no -- I've never had a drunken encounter with a transvestite -lol- best I can recall anyway) . Regardless, it's still a kick-ass tune and The Kinks are still one of the best bands to ever prowl a stage and practice the life-affirming art of music.

Enjoy.

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