Tuesday, July 31, 2007

It isn’t paranoia if they really ARE out to get you

I love this site.

Case in point:

I wish I’d have been the one to catch this…..

.....but Dean Barnett did.

One word:  Heh.

Another one.....nice.

Is it just me

Or is anyone else having trouble getting G-mail to come up?

I just can’t get it to finish loading, even to tell me that I need to log in to check my mail.

Hints? Suggestions?

Monday, July 30, 2007

Andy’s at it again.

...saying now that Pat Tillman was murdered by his fellow soldiers because he was an atheist.....and he infers that it was Bush’s doing:

“This makes some sense to me, although we shouldn’t dismiss the chance he was murdered. Tillman was a star and might have aroused jealousy or resentment. He also opposed the Iraq war and was a proud atheist. In Bush’s increasingly sectarian military, that might have stirred hostility. I don’t know. But I know enough to want a deeper investigation.”

Folks, this is Bush Derangement Syndrome at it’s highest.  This is vitriol from a man who hates the religious, who is angry and bitter because people hold his sexual orientation to be morally questionable, and who has tried to cloak himself in conservatism and open-mindedness, but is actually angry, neurotic, bigoted, and contemptuous.  He is willing to go anywhere to pin something...ANYTHING...negative on George Bush because Bush does not support gay marriage. 

As for Pat Tillman....he died from friendly fire, the Army tried to cover it up, and they got caught and burned for it.  They need to take the heat for it.  However, this debased verbal fecal material from Sullivan is not even worth the electrons in this monitor. 

What a loser.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Funny ‘cause it’s twooooo

I just heard some comedian on a late-night chat show give probably the greatest description of our nation.

“America is like a cross between the Jolly Green Giant - ho, ho, ho! - and the Incredible Hulk - you won’t like me when I’m angry!”

I’m still chuckling…

Bush blamed for torture

Seems the British newsrag, the Al-Gardeeyan, is choosing the same position as the rest of the BDS sufferers out there - that it is the fault of the Bush Administration that we don’t have bin Laden in custody.

Seems that the Brits would have been ready to capture him and hand him over, but the CIA refused to give assurances that bin Laden wouldn’t be subject to the “extraordinary rendition” believed so popular by the blood-thirsty President who only wants to see brown-skinned people scream.

One minor problem, though. Since when is the Governor of Texas - which is the office Bush was holding in 1998 - responsible for what the President or DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) do?

The report criticises the Bush administration’s approval of practices which would be illegal if carried out by British agents. It shows that in 1998, the year Bin Laden was indicted in the US, Britain insisted that the policy of treating prisoners humanely should include him. But the CIA never gave the assurances.

So, which President was in office in 1998? Which President is the one actually responsible for starting the practice of ”extraordinary renditions”?

The practice of transferring a detainee from US custody to the custody of a foreign state is usually called “extraordinary rendition” in the USA, and appears to have been carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since 1995.

Who was President in 1995? In 1998?

Come on, you Bush-haters, let’s see if you can remember History as it actually happened.

But what the hell, let’s impeach Bush! He was Governor of Texas during all this, after all, and that’s all the evidence we need…

h/t AOSHQ

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Radio Hawaii

A station for the masses.

Sometimes you need to sound it out before you spell it out.

THE call letters KUNT have landed at a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuku, Maui.

Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, the call letters were among a 15-page list of new call letters issued by the Federal Communications Commission and released this week.

The same station owner also received KWTF for a station in Arizona.

From Skokie, Ill., comes a sincere apology “to anyone that was offended,” said Kevin Bae, vice president of KM Communications Inc., who requested and received KUNT and KWTF. It is “extremely embarrassing for me and my company and we will file to change those call letters immediately.”

I’d just keep using it and tell people that it was all part of the plan, and you can’t beat the KUNT.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Well…maybe I’m dumb for this….

....but I’ve jumped back into the torture debate at RTFLC.  Again, it has to do with Bush, permissions and/or prohibitions on torture, and the like. 

Take a read, look at all the entries, and post your commentary on what I said, and what was said to me. 

UPDATE:  If you all want to keep score, please do so.  Be honest.....points for presentation, facts, and delivery.  Don’t be crass about Lee....respect the man, debate his opinion. 

Update #2:  Lee’s working in the other threads.  His prerogative....however, it’s making this post at the Rant’s look a wee bit lame....

Update #3:  What a dud...no response to my posting over there.  Sorry, guys and gals.  It’s all moved here, where I’m debating Iraq with some nice people.

Update #4:  Did I exhaust them?  Or is it suppertime on the West Coast?  I vote for suppertime. 

Update #5:  One Natural Ice later, it’s 10:50 EST., and I have to be up at 5:50 AM.  Time for bed.  Thanks for the support, and look for a post on something this weekend. 

Rush rocked

It was a good concert, but because of some medium-sized projects going on at work (not to mention needing to get pskouson’s prize), I was a little cash-shy, so I only got a program and 2 T-shirts (one white, one black).

It was a great concert, and well worth the 2-hour trip through traffic to get there.

It was quicker coming back, but at 11pm, there aren’t many cars on the road, and I STILL didn’t make it home before 1am.

Much fun was had.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Come out, come out, wherever you are…

Okay, I guess it’s “official”. Loyal Reader pskouson came close enough with his entry to garner a “without objection, so ordered” win on the “Who Snuffs It?” contest.

Next question is: “What do you want for your prize?”

As I mentioned, I’m going to the Rush “Snakes and Arrows” concert tomorrow night, and can pick you up a souvenir if you enjoy that sort of thing (I do) but you can also have a four-pack of movie tickets (if you tell me what movie chains they have where you are), or something else of comparable value - I’m not stuffy about it.

Of course, since it was the other loyal readers who voted for you to win, maybe I should let them suggest the prize you get.

What say you all?

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Oh, yeah…

Sorry about that.  

Seems there was a contest I had, but I only got three entries. However, none of the three made a correct guess.

Loyal Reader pskouson is correct in pointing out that his entry came closest (in predicting that Harry and Voldemort would be fighting and Harry would die), but I honestly have to rule against it, because while he had one of the elements correct for each of the two scenes that could fit, there are problems.

He predicted that Harry would be fighting Voldemort and would die in the effort of killing him.

Spoiler below the fold, folks. You have been warned…

Ron Paul: Still A Barking Moonbat

More hate mail from the Ron Paul supporters en route...

Ah, I just can get enough of this whacko that is better known as Ron Paul. He’s like the Kucinich of the right. Every time he opens his mouth, it’s an open invite to post something on this blog. Here are his latest exploits.

A feature piece in this coming Sunday’s New York Times Magazine on Republican candidate for president, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, portrays his followers as including a wild mix of “wackos” on both ends of the political spectrum. Paul, a libertarian, has been gaining media and public attention of late.

The cover line reads: “A Genuine Radical for President.” The headline inside: “The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement-Administration, Anti-medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul.”

The article closes with the author, Christopher Caldwell, attending a Ron Paul Meetup in Pasadena. The co-host, Connie Ruffley of United Republicans of California, admits she once was a member of the radical right John Birch Society and when she asks for a show of hands “quite a few” attendees reveal that they were or are members, too. She refers to Sen. Dianne Feinstein as “Fine-Swine” and attacks Israel, pleasing some while others “walked out.”

Caldwell notes that the head of the Pasadena Meetup Group, Bill Dumas, sent a desperate letter to Paul headquarters: “We’re in a difficult position of working on a campaign that draws supporters from laterally opposing points of view, and we have the added bonus of attracting every wacko fringe group in the country....We absolutely must focus on Ron’s message only and put aside all other agendas, which anyone can save for the next ‘Star Trek’ convention or whatever.”

Asked about the John Birch Society Society by the author, Paul responds, “Is that BAD? I have a lot of friends in the John Birch Society. They’re generally well-educated and they understand the Constitution. I don’t know how many positions they would have that I don’t agree with.”

The writer concludes that the “antigovernment activists of the right and the antiwar activists of the left” may have “irreconciable” differences. But “their numbers—and anger—are of considerable magnitude. Ron Paul will not be the next president of the United States. But his candidacy gives us a good hint about the country the next president is going to have to knit back together.”

Among many other things, we learn from the article that Paul had never heard of “The Daily Show” until he was a guest and referred to the magazine GQ as “GTU.” It also notes that he was the only congress member to vote against the Financial Antiterrorism Act and a medal to honor Rosa Parks, among many others tallies, based on principle, not politics. He also is praised by liberal Rep. Barney Frnak as “one of the easiest” members to work with because “he bases his positions on the merits of issues.”

I really wish they would stop referring to this guy as the “Republican candidate” for president. Seriously, throw us a bone over here.

Next week - we’ll talk about how the Ron Paul supporters bring up the word “Constitution” at least once every sentence.

How To Be A Liberal

Part one of an ongoing series.

Want to be a liberal? Feel like being hypocritical and claiming peace while supporting violence? Take a few tips from these people.

On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage.

So he parked the seven-foot-tall behemoth on the street in front of his house and smiled politely when his eco-friendly neighbors looked on in disapproval at his “dream car.”

It lasted five days on the street before two masked men took a bat to every window, a knife to each 38-inch tire and scratched into the body: “FOR THE ENVIRON.”

“The thought of somebody vandalizing it never crossed my mind,” said Gareth Groves, 32, who lives with his mother in a three-story home in the 4300 block of Brandywine Street NW in American University Park. “I’ve kind of been in shock.”

Now, as Groves ponders what to do with the remains of his $38,000 SUV, he has been the target of a number of people who have driven by the crime scene in his upscale neighborhood and glared at him in smug satisfaction.

“I’d say one in five people who come by have that ‘you-got-what-you-deserve’ look,” said his friend Andy Sexton, 27, who is visiting from Arkansas and has been helping Groves deal with fallout from the crime.

Neighbor Lucille Liem, 37, who owns a Prius hybrid, said that a common sentiment in the neighborhood is that large vehicles are impractical and a strain on the Earth—and Hummers in particular are a symbol of consumer excess.

“The neighborhood in general is very concerned with the environment,” said Liem, whose Prius gets about 48 miles a gallon compared with the Hummer’s 14 miles a gallon. “It’s more liberal leaning. It’s ridiculous to be driving a Hummer.”

Liem added quickly that she does not condone violence.

There’s nothing like a steaming pot of liberalism to get your day going. Imagine spending some good coin on your dream car, only to wake up and find it trashed in your driveway? I’d be spending every night on my porch with a shotgun and an AR-15.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Time to See a Shrink

It really is a cynical nation.

It’s safe to say that Barry nails it.

And so it ends, not with a bang but a whimper. A federal judge has dismissed Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against the Bush Administration. And why not? I dismissed the entire Plame melodrama as a non-issue ages ago.

Plame’s civil suit was clarifying in a way that Fitzgerald’s criminal investigation was not, in that it cut right to the core of the supposed root cause of the non-crime: an imaginary conspiracy to deliberately “punish” Plame and Wilson by wantonly blowing her cover for no other reason than petty revenge for an Op-Ed they didn’t like.

The fact that there was no evidence whatsoever for this conspiracy didn’t prevent the nutroots from accepting it as established fact—almost as an article of faith. That’s why they were so disappointed on Fitzmas morning when there was nothing in their stocking other than a peripherally related perjury charge by a bit player. They seethed because “the bastards got away with it,” sprung on a technicality of the IIPA act, while the underlying conspiracy remained unpunished.

But the underlying conspiracy was all in their heads, and that’s why conservatives understand that Bush Derangement Syndrome is a serious problem. It’s not because we’re unquestioningly adoring of the 43rd president, but rather because we’re nervous about living in a society in which a significant percentage of the population throws all logic out the window on matters related to this administration.

Go and read the entire thing. Barry summarizes the exact way that I feel. I’m not the biggest fan of President Bush. I disagree with him more these days than I agree with him, but he’s only in office for a little over year, so it’s no big deal. The world isn’t going to crumble in that time period. The thing that bugs me is how everything is blamed on President Bush. Bad weather? Bush’s fault. Your house isn’t selling as fast as you would like? Bush’s fault. Flat beer? Bush’s fault. There isn’t a thing in the world that cannot be connected to the president via BDS.

I guess it’s a good way to assign blame if that’s your thing, but personally, I’d rather just shrug it off and find a way to make it work.

Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000

For the first time in history.

Obviously, the worst economy Evah.

I blame Bush.

Let’s impeach the bastard!

(Think that’ll get me back in Lee’s good graces? )