me: Did you know there are more than 2 million battered women in America?
him: No kidding? I’ve been eating them plain all these years.
I’m really really sorry. I couldn’t help it.
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Category Archives: General
May 3, 2009
Too late to switch parties, Dole running mate Jack Kemp dies at 73 rather than remain a Republican. As a vice presidential candidate, he was a good quarterback at Buffalo.
May Day, 2009
shut up, he explained
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
There’s a guy named Eric Erikson who runs a website called Red State who is to the “conservative” blogosphere what Rush Limbaugh is to talk radio. His reaction to Justice Souter’s announcement that he’s leaving the Supreme Court is to call the man a “goat f***ing child molester.” Justice Souter is, of course, a nominee of George H.W. Bush, and if memory serves me was a Republican. Then, of course, Republicans don’t have to make sense. There was a wing of the “pure” conservatives who told Arlen Specter “don’t let the door hit ya!”. See, for example, Michele Malkin, and no I’m not going to link to the bitch and add to her audience. Congressional Republicans, especially in the U.S. Senate, are talking about “payback” for Obama’s treatment of Justice Alito and are looking for Judiciary Committee leadership for the inevitable filibuster attempt, no matter who the nominee. Add the teabaggers and torture advocates (and it turns out that Jesus just facepalmed when he found out the most likely American voters to favor torture are white evangelicals) to such always wrong spokespersons as William Kristol and Michael Steele and I have to begin to wonder when we can start calling the Republican Party “fringe”.
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April 29, 2009
THE OFFICIAL OKLAHOMA STATE ROCK SONG
28April09: Ode to MCARP
April 28, 2009 newsflash
Pa. GOP Sen. Arlen Specter joins Dem Party. With Franken from MN, Dems would have filibuster proof majority in Sen. of 60 votes. Will Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins be next?
April 28, 2009
shut up, he explained
Just a thought … but what would happen tomorrow if President Obama came to the microphone and announced:
“My fellow Americans, I have come to my senses and I want to stand here and apologize to my Republican friends from the former administration for any implication there may have been from the White House that they were in any way wrong about using the CIA to torture people in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. I just don’t know what I was thinking, you know? OF COURSE I want the power to make people disappear and then hurt them until they say anything I want. Why wouldn’t a president want to be able to listen in to the conversations and read the email of, oh, I don’t know, political enemies who threaten the national security some how and all hush hush and state secrets and suspended habeas corpus and all that lawyer double talk? I mean, what president wouldn’t want to look across the table and be able to say “how would you like to visit Cuba? ‘Cause that’s where you’re going if you don’t sign off on this.”? I mean, it’s just too good. I mean, if you wanted a national show trial of, I don’t know, say, a former Secretary of Defense or Secretary of State or maybe even an elected official that isn’t really either judicial, legislative or executive, you know, I mean, it would be better if the show trial could include a nice videotaped confession, you know.
So, as to the press conference, the first amendment no longer applies to the president since we’re at war and all and you guys can buzz off and if you don’t like it, just remember Abu Grahib and Baghram have plenty of room for dissenters.
Good night, America. Sleep tight. I got it covered. Out.”
I don’t think the right wing realizes that they are, in essence, arguing that all presidents have the power that Bush arrogated to himself. Have they considered an Obama presidency with those powers and the willingness to use them that Dick Cheney displayed?
Do conservatives, or at least what passes for those that use that word, really want a president with that much power? I can’t believe iit. I can’t believe they don’t know what they are saying. I just can’t believe an American political party can be so far off the beam as to really be arguing in favor of a permanent despotic presidency.
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later, April 27, 2009 (updated)
In the immortal words of Shep Smith, “I don’t give a rat’s ass. This is AMERICA! We don’t fucking torture.”
FROM THE ‘YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP’ DEPT:
Los Angeles Times – Fox Broadcasting is taking a pass on President Obama’s Wednesday news conference, opting instead to run a new episode of its crime drama “Lie to Me”.
So, which is it? A press conference, Lie to Me, all same same, right?
Fox is SO fair and balanced.
April 27, 2009
The azaleas in my front yard began budding right before Easter
Beat up a little by the wind and storms, they bloomed beautifully
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
When all is said and done, there’s more said than done
Anon
April 26, 2009
Chairman of the Bored
SINATRA SPEAKS!
Hold me down and pour water on my face? Hell yeah that’s torture! Only a stupid human could think otherwise. If you try that on me, you’d best get ready for a good clawing and some poo in your shoes. Just sayin’.
It’s been a pretty good spring for me so far. He’s opened all the windows and doors a few days and I can run in and out to get a bite to eat or to show him the latest prize I’ve caught and that seems just grand to me. It’s the way things ought to be all the time as far as I’m concerned. I do find it a bit confusing that I can sometimes smell things too far away to chase.
I usually like to sleep on his left hip at night, but he’s been turning on a wind machine at night that I don’t particularly like, so I’m sleeping right in his face on the other side. Except for the night he left his dark blue suit on the chair and I guarded it like the dickens all night long and when he woke up and saw all the hair left on the suit in my struggles, he blamed ME?!? Not my fault the suit isn’t the same color as my shedding.
Stupid human. No wonder cats rule the world.