May 13, 2009

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If you dump a girlfriend, you’ve burned your bridges with one woman, but if you get married, you’ve burned your bridges with 3.5 billion women. Not that I am ever going to have a chance with Ilsa, the billionaire supermodel with the Ph.D., but I’m just sayin’ that the numbers are the numbers.

May 8, 2009

Happy BDay Sis

Happy BDay Sis

Happy birthday, Sis!
This sister ate spiders and led riots as a child, which explains a lot.

I don’t claim to be any big time economist or politician or anything like that, but I think that if I were trying to get unemployment to go down and re-energize the country, I’d do the following three things:
1. Standard work week of 32 hours, overtime afterwards;
2. Four weeks standard vacation for everyone; and,
3. Apply child labor laws to fast food chains, requiring their employees to be at least 18 years of age.
Since the 40 hour week was instituted, American workers have become many many times more productive, but haven’t shared in the cash — at least give them liesure and it will create some new jobs. Not only that, but think of all the poor schmucks who already have 32 hour part time jobs that will instantly be eligible for the benefits of health insurance, etc., that they’ve deserved all along.
The French — most Europeans — have the month of August off. The Russians have a month off. We work more hours per week and more weeks per year than all the other industrialized nations.
Fast food joints would be required to pay better if they hired only adults, among other reasons.
How much would this cost the taxpayer? I’ll get back to you, but I’m not sure it would cost a nickle.
When you have no social life, you think about these things.
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I Apologize for the following

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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May Day, 2009

shut up, he explained

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 28, 2009

shut up, he explained

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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