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And Now For More of the Same

08 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Sherry in Brain Vacuuming, Budget, Diego, Drugs, GOP, Humor, Life in the Foothills, Mitt Romney, Satire, teabaggers

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Diego, fiscal cliff, GOP, Humor, life in the foothills, marijuana, Politics, Romney, teabaggers

2012-08-16_09-00-06_694Diego here. Just a moment of your time. Momsie wants to show you cartoons which may be interesting to humans, I don’t know, but I am so excited I just had to interrupt (which she says I do too much, but gosh I can’t help it) to tell you this!

I’s taught my human momsie a new trick!

As you know, I takes my momsie on a walk every morning. Well, she has a tendency to wander off and get herself lost in the desert. So, I’s taught her to whistle!

You know how to whistle doncha? Just put your lips together and blow? HAHA, I learned that from a movie my popsie was watching one day.

So when my momsie gets herself all lost, she whistles, and I come a runnin’ to find her and gets her back on track. Pretty nifty huh? So if any of you doggies are readin’, e-mail me at “whistlin’inthedark.doggiechannel and I’ll give ya the spifics so your momsie or popsie won’t get lost too. Okay?

Diego signing off.

Holiday-Fiscal-Cliff Are you gettin’ ‘er done? The shopping that is?

Are you spending a fortune to impress everyone with your largess?

Nobody in Washington seems very interesting in impressing us with their brains.

I guess when you don’t have many of those it’s pretty hard to fake it.

DeMint is leaving the Senate. I’m not sure anyone will notice. Stupid seems a rampant disease in the Capital.

Forget it and go buy me a present. I like largess expressly meant for me.

Boehner-Christmas-OrnamentThis seems to be the sticking point.

Why is beyond me.

Ever notice that the business types are the one’s screaming? It’s the teabaggers who are but the working class. They ain’t ever gonna be rich, so I don’t know why they want to protect those who are.

I guess they believe that the could be.

If it weren’t for all us moochers.

I guess their grandma on social security and medicare ain’t a moocher though. Moocher is a very vague kinda word and is hard to define precisely. Everybody has their own definition that avoids their “earned” benefits and only relates to the freebies your lazy ass sits back and enjoys. Funny word huh?

Romey-in-Oval-OfficeDoncha just wish you coulda been there?

Oh I bet it was priceless.

I bet little Willard just sweat bullets.

I bet it was his first time ever in that room.

I know it will be his last.

I hear Ann cries in her room every day. Before she gets on her jodhpurs and saddles up Rafalca and goes riding around in the air-conditioned ring at the snooty-patootie riding club for the disgustingly wealthy. It almost makes you want to feel sorry for her. . . .almost I said.

High-Over-ColoradoMeanwhile a couple of states in the union were pretty darn happy.

The election results seem to energize them.

Everybody is happy.

Except the rightie-tighties.

They never are happy unless everyone is as miserable as they are. Then they are happy.

And then they repent and look for more things to dislike that feel good, taste good, or look good.  Did they forget that when God created the world he said, “IT WAS GOOD!” ?

It’s all in how you interpret. Ya know what I mean?

teabaggerconundrum

Nothing much changes in the great dizzy land of teabagging.

After all, rationality is not a word then subscribe too. It’s too bourgeois.

The conundrum. What to do, what to do.

You ask them: What exactly has this President done that is so awful?

The answer: “he’s a Democrat, ‘enuf said.”

Is that enough?

Ted Nugent says people on assistance shouldn’t be allowed to vote. I say people without brains shouldn’t be allowed to vote. I doubt we are talking about the same people.

GOPReally got to feel sorry for the GOP.

Just a little.

I mean it must be tough standing there in front of microphones and acting like you are important brokers of the common good.

When you are pretty much laughingstocks. Mere shells of political might.

I mean look at Lindsay Graham. Can you listen to him without laughing?

I mean really, can you?

And McCain? Don’t you want to just offer him a diaper change?

And Mitch? A chin? And Boehner the Orange: you know he goes home and cries his eyes out. Heading up a bunch of clown college rejects.

disabiitiesThis was just plain unconscionable.

Santorum was delighted.

Santorum is one of those who ain’t happy unless everyone else is miserable.

How can you explain this?

You cannot.

No one can.

Except to say that the GOP is still so afraid of the crazies that they will risk public humiliation again and again rather than lance the boil. Disgusting is too good a word for them.

It's nice to get along

It’s nice to get along

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War–What is it Good For? Just Ask Fox

03 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Sherry in Crap I Learned, Drugs, Essays, Gay Rights, Humor, poverty, Reproductive Rights, Satire, Sociology, terrorism

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Humor, satire, War

warLest you be whistling a happy tune as you prepare for the big present day followed by another binge food extravaganza, well stop that.

We are a country at war.

We like war.

If we don’t have real wars, we make some up.

It makes us feel securely tied to reality to know that we have amassed our troops and are marching to fight the enemy. Them, us,–we like that ying yangy thing. If there is peace popping out somewhere, well stomp it down with a war!

There is no better place to find your fair share of hate mongering animosity than at Fox, that station of the nation with room for one more war if you can’t find one that suits you.

We got your war on Christmas and we make that a very religiousy one. See, there really isn’t a war on Christmas at all. Everybody gets to buy their tree and their trimmings and spend more than they should on crap nobody much needs but likes to have for show and tell–“he went to Jareds!” which means he LOVES me. See how that goes? Nobody is stopping anybody from doing that.

But those who claim exclusive rights to being really really Christian, which kinda means they like the words but not the actions of being a real one, well they want God spread all over everything, so it doesn’t look so dang Pagan to them, which it was before the Christian followers usurped the day for themselves. Got that? so you can put a crèche in your yard or on your mantle, but it doesn’t count unless it’s at the County courthouse, so that PROVES the government is all Christian and not *gasp* something else, or non-committal, or even *shhh* atheistically inclined.

After the holidays, we pack that baby away and don’t bring it out again until next year.

We got your war on drugs. This war has been going on for decades now.

This war has stopped nobody from buying drugs or selling drugs.

It provides a job for a whole bunch of cops and attorneys and judges and court personnel, to say nothing of prisons. It gives most of them their reason for being.

Fox thought that it would be a good idea to announce a war on men. It seemed to fall right in line with the fact that the GOP (grey old POOPS) who are mostly white men, got a really bad kick in the prostate in November. So why not just make men across the board the victims? And non-other than Phyllis Schafley’s niece decided she could (on behalf of white dudes) carry the banner of wicked women and their jaunty breasts who had beaten down the delicate sensibilities of the male animal.

That was more of a laugh than a fact, but Fox don’t ever care no nothin’ about no facts. Never has and never will. It makes a good story and everybody knows that those radical women are really just lezzies anyway. The double-wide boys really like this kind of victim status and their big hair wives and girly friends do too. I’ll drink to that!

Now, if you want are ready for that, you are probably ready to buy that there is a war on Christianity itself. Not just old Christmas time Christianity, but the whole enchilada as we say here in New Mexico. Ya see, it is not nearly enough to be by far the majority in the country. The mean old minority (mostly atheists) keeps secularizing the country against its collective will.

Again, nobody is being stopped from going to church, or teaching your kids that God hates homosexuals and feminists. Nobody is stopping your from standing on the corner and shouting that hell and damnation are coming your way unless you repent. Nobody is bothering you at all if you are Christian, but because after all, part of being Christian is the right and god-given duty to shove your version of it down every throat you come across, you feel rejected when nobody wants to be like you want them to be. Got that?

So, you see HOLLYWOOD and LEFTISTS, and all that entails (which is socialism, fascism, or communism–your choice), is to blame because they don’t live as SOME Christians feel life should be lived.

There is then the war on terror. Which is a heck of a thing, since I have yet to see a rifle take out an idea at 200 yards. Terror being an IDEA rather than a person (unless you are the above stated Christian of a certain type, then Terror is anything Muslim).

We fight the war on terror mostly with drones, instead of with shovels and bulldozers. We don’t engage in IDEA sharing, we threaten annihilation to those who we perceive believe the wrong things.

The war on terror will continue for the foreseeable future. We will never win it, because that would mean we wouldn’t have any place to spend our money which is now devoted to military hardware, and of course the necessary spy business.

The is a war on poverty, but everybody gave up on that a long time ago. In fact the religious right smugly reminds us that Jesus said that a little bit of poverty is the norm, and we should let good Christians prove they are good Christians by allowing the poor to be “helped” now and again by these good Christians. But poverty should never be taken care of by the government because that is cheating, and unfair. And after all, survival goes to the fittest! but not the point that I came from no monkey. Now, that is tooo far.

There is a war of class, which is perpetrated by the leftist commies in this country who want to take everything I have so they can have it instead. They are just lazy. One side wants to end this war by making everyone have an equal chance at success and guaranteeing a minimum standard for every human. The other side wants to fight in this war to preserve their right to be declared “better than you at least.”

There is a war against women, which isn’t really a war at all according to Fox, but only the natural caring loving nurturing need of men to care for their women folk who are a bit too soft in the head to care for themselves. They are prone to sleepin’ around if not controlled, and a man needs to know that his kids are well, HIS. So we gotta control women when they aren’t in eye-shot.

There is a war on marriage, which everyone knows is soo damn successful that everyone is doing it multiple times. And everyone knows that if more people do it, in the wrong combinations of genders, then, well heck, it’s a worthless thing. You do understand THAT surely.

There are lots more wars, but I’m in need of some R & R about now, before I return to the front lines.

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When Nobody Loves Ya

09 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by Sherry in Corporate America, Drugs, Economy, Election 2012, Humor, Medicine, Mitt Romney, Satire, Voting, What's Up?

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Adam West, elections, electoral college, Humor, marijuana, Mitt Romney, satire, social security, the 1%, what's happening today

One of the funniest things in this election cycle, is the admitted lukewarm embrace by fellow Redumplicans of their main man–the Willard. I mean they shrug and, for maybe the first time in their lives, speak the truth.

Rubio, Latin wonder of Florida said this: “There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for president — but they didn’t.”

Former NRCC chairman, Tom Davis said this: “He may not be Mr. Personality. You know, he’s the guy who gives the fireside chat and the fire goes out.”

And now, John Boehner has said this: “Listen, we’re just politicians. I wasn’t elected to play God. The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.” And then he said this: “some people” will want to vote for Romney — specifically, Romney’s “friends, relatives and fellow Mormons” — but everyone else who backs Romney will be doing so, not because they think he’ll be a good president, but because they hate President Obama.”

I mean really, they don’t even like the guy, or frankly trust him much I suspect.

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I understand these are available for purchase. I kinda like them don’t you?

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Our favorite Tom of the month, disgraced Col. Alan West of Florida, advises that those who receive social security are participating in a form of “modern day slavery”. This windbag of crap insults tens of millions of Americans by suggesting that they too are just lazy no-good welfare recipients who would do better to get off their retirements and disabilities and get a job.  What a piece of pooh.

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Ya know I know that smoking that weed causes the munchies, but folks this is ridiculous doncha think? I mean, leave that stuff alone:

Authorities now suggest that the dude that was killed because he wouldn’t stop eating the face of a poor guy in Miami, was not whacked on bath salts which had been previously thought. Turns out the only thing they could find in his system was cannabis, which to those of you not in the drug-know is POT.

So, hey, if your friends insist on smoking the dope around ya, I’d advise you wear a locked hockey goalie helmet at all times.

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Squatlo has a great little video about Willard that you should not miss. You know the Dos Equis guy? The “most interesting man in the world” ads? Well go and meet the “least interesting man in the world–Mitt.” I mean it is seriously funny.

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Now, I am not a rich person. I admit that. I didn’t go to any fancy finishing school or private one for that matter. I did not go to the more prestigious of our universities. But I managed to get pretty darn ejukated, if I do say so for myself. But ya see, I’m told now that I’m not at all book-learned up, and for that reason, and perhaps because I don’t drive the BMW or summer in the Hamptons, I’m missin’ just how awful THAT darkie in the White House is screwin’ up some folkses Merika.

So says, a social elite, interviewed on her way into the big do’ins thrown by the Koch’s for their mouthpiece-Willard:

“I don’t think the common person is getting it,” she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. “Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.

“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”

Another high muckity muck chimed in:

“It’s not helping the economy to pit the people who are the engine of the economy against the people who rely on that engine, . . .”

Ya see, the Republicans are really doing us a favor by trying to make it hard for us to vote. We just aren’t smart enough to make a good decision. We should just leave it to them–ya know, the one’s who were driving blind to the cliff. Over we go, and kiss your sweet butt goodbye!

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What this country needs is a good old-fashioned discussion about the Electoral College.

Now before you start to snooze, listen.

Really, I mean it.

There is a good article written at 3quarksdaily and you ought to read it. You might surprise yourself.

 

 

 

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Can’t We All Just Try to Get Along?

17 Friday Jun 2011

Posted by Sherry in Drugs, Editorials, War/Military

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My views on war are well-known. War, any war, merely sets the stage for its offspring, another war. No doubt many will argue that WWII was a war of necessity, but arguably Stalin committed crimes as heinous as those of Hitler, and no one lifted a finger to stop him.

 I suspect one has to look deeper into causation to discern the “real” reasons for our entrance into conflict. I seem to recall that there was plenty of evidence of the German genocide of the Jewish population long before we found it “necessary” to enter the war theatre.

Even if you claim that we “won” wars I and II, much of the messiness that spilled over into the Middle East no doubt planted the seeds for todays troubles. And lets not forget Korea, which ended in a stalemate and the accursed Vietnam, which was a pure loss.

Iraq on no account can be considered a success, and we could have saved a bucket load of money and blood had we merely talked to the Russians before our foray into Afghanistan.

Going back into history, we find so many wars on the European continent that we have a hard time teasing them apart from each other. The same no doubt can be said of wars around the globe. Revenge is as often the motive of war as any economic goal.

Many of course will argue that we had two “successful” wars–our war of Independence and later the Civil War. I suppose the first is arguable, but this was never a full-scale war in the manner of Napoleon’s assault on Russia and the deadly retreat that followed. And we can just as justifiably claim that the after effects of the Civil War still remain with us, and foster a North-South split that is still real in the minds of many.

Given this rather dubious history, it’s questionable that we still like to term our efforts to eradicate ills in society, as “wars” on. . . . We have wars on poverty, wars on drugs, wars on obesity. One in particular is, the war on drugs is now 40 years old. According to statistics, not only have we not made a dent in drug trafficking or usage, it’s actually much worse than it was.

The cost in human life is appalling, just look to the drug wars going on in Mexico over control of a very lucrative drug trafficking. Afghanistan, in part, can never be tamed of its tribal limitations, because of the money-making proclivities of the poppy.

This is to say nothing of course to the costs of incarceration of drug users and peddlers, which constitute a ever-growing majority of prison populations. Add to that the costs of man-power expended to bring these mostly nonviolent offenders to justice. Police, courts, attorney’s fees, institutions, parole and probation personnel, and on and on.

And, for all our efforts, the problem only gets worse. We don’t address the reasons for drug usage, we merely try to control the bodies of some few users who we catch.

It is probably true that the civil rights movement in this country would not have been successful (at least not when it was) if it had not been for the genius of Martin Luther King Jr, and his insistence on non-violent protest. It is just as likely that Gandhi would not have successfully pushed the British from his country had it not been for that same approach.

Making war on things simply creates a violent mind-set, that makes all those who you are trying to change the “enemy”. As any good warrior will tell you, the most effective soldier is one who has learned to “hate” his opponent. As Patton allegedly said, “I’m not asking you to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his.”

The enemy must be evil, without redeeming value, utterly wrong. And of course, nothing is ever than black and white. And for every piece of evidence that suggests that drugs are the satan of all substances, there are plenty of contrary examples where drugs are not so evil. Medical marijuana anyone?

As in war, when you hate your enemy, you dehumanize him, and he dehumanizes you. This plants the seeds for the next conflict, where losers seek revenge and retribution, and winners live in the demented atmosphere of righteousness that is not remotely true.

Our only hope, it seems to me is to find common ground with drugs. We must turn our efforts from interdiction and punishment to education, treatment, and yes, even the recognition that moderate usage of some drugs may be tolerable. At least no worse than moderate usage of alcohol.

It is, I believe, why the Global Commission on Drug Policy‘s newest guidelines make so much sense. President Jimmy Carter, long a peace advocate, makes the case here, and I think he is right.

What do you think?

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It’s the Caffeination, Stupid!

24 Thursday Sep 2009

Posted by Sherry in Casseroles, Drugs, Entertainment, Essays, Gay Rights, GOP, Humor, Iowa, Meats, Music, Recipes

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60's, cabbage, caffeine, Casseroles, divorce, Entertainment, gay marriage, incest, Mackenzie Phillips, Mamas and Papas, Music, Recipes, sausage, slow cooker, Steven King

cafeination“Boy, you sure made the coffee strong this morning, dear.” This as I yawn and peer through lidded eyes at GMA. “I don’t know that it’s any different that usual,” the great one replies.

“Well it was falling out of the grinder when I lifted off the top, so I knew it was gonna be strong,” smiling weakly. I saw a look of “oops” fall across his face. “Ummm, perhaps that was mine.” Mine being the caffeinated stuff, which I have long since abandoned as making me too wired, and upsetting my delicate digestive mechanism.

An hour later, I have completed my walk in record time, and am deeply ensconced in Genesis, trying to see the myriad differences between creation story one and creation story two. My mind is flying, reeling really among the possibilities, and now, I’m really not sure at all what “made in the image of” means.

I have the urge to write, yet know, I’m not nearly ready to tackle THAT topic. I start in the Google reader, skimming the stories, vaguely aware that I am looking for a few in particular, stories I want to consider. I make the mistake to visit Randal’s L’ennui melodieux. Not knowing French, I still have no idea what that means, though the word l-ennui is vaguely familiar. In any case, I don’t recommend that site when in a full-blown caffeine mania. I actually understood his post “Naked in front of the Computer.”

You see, I almost never understand Randal’s posts, which takes nothing away from the fact that mostly they are brilliant. He is writing as art personified. Like Justice Black, I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.

With that post, I realized that my mind, going off in several directions at the same time, could not focus on one issue long enough to write a post about. Thus you get the hodgepodge of trivial and snappy snapshots of reality. At least my reality. The human brain is exceptional in it’s ability to hold, simultaneously, several thoughts at once, some of them in direct and obvious logical opposition (witness the fundamentalist mind –if you can call it that–which is required to do that 24/7–but no we are NOT going there again. I’m looking for a treatment for THAT addiction as well.)

stevekingjpgMoving right along, switching gears, about facing, and other metaphors that come to mind. I always obsess happily about our utterly infamous and undoubted resident wing nut Stephen King, R-IA, (may God forgive us our sins). He is always good for a profoundly stupid remark. Yesterday he was quoted as saying that the best vote he ever made in the House was his nearly singular opposition to Katrina aid. Imagine that. Today he is quoted as saying that gays marriage is a “purely socialist concept.” No even, I with my high-speed brain cells this morning, don’t care to get into the ugly morass of a mind that could concoct such bull-crap. Be my guest. Read more here.

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cabbage-apple-sausageMeanwhile, spinning on a dime, and managing quite well, thank you, not to fall. . . over, I present a recipe. This time of year one’s thoughts turn to slow cookers and comfort food, and this is definitely that.

One can imagine doing all sorts of outdoorsy things, like planting fall mums, raking leaves, (yeah right) and coming inside for cocoa (yeah right) and taking in the wafts of yummy meaty goodness slowly melding together in the crock pot.

If such thoughts are yours too, and no doubt they are, then let your fingers do the walking over to Baking Delights and pick up the recipe for Slow Cooker Red Cabbage and Sausage.

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gay-marriage-cake-male1With all due and I do mean due, respect to our tinfoily friends on the extreeeemmmme right, one of their oft cited, but never explained objections to gay marriage is that it will “destroy the sanctity of marriage.”

Well, yes, but, exactly what do that mean Mable? Nothing much it seems, but dang it sounds good. Words can, it seems, be put together in nice sounding ways that appear to point to deep thought, when in fact they bespeak no sense at all.

In other words, ya can’t destroy what don’t exist! And according to recent statistics,Die vorce is alive and well and on the climb and not, repeat NOT in the states that allow same sexers to marry.

Of deeper concern, since I live here, is a recent poll, (saw it I swear but have dumped the site already) in Iowa, that showed that something like 92% of Iowans don’t feel,  so far, threatened in their marriage because of Iowa’s new marriage decree that allows same sex wedding bliss. I can testify as well, that so far, I’ve not been hounded by lesbians wanted to “hook up” nor has the Contrarian been solicited by hoards of men wanting to cuddle behind the tractor. Nope, hasn’t happened. Course this will do nothing to stem the gasps and horror among the “bible told me so” folk.

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mamasandpapaspapasandmamas6sdAnd the winner in the category “gag me with a spoon” is. . . . Mackenzie Phillips and her revelations that “Dad and me were lovers!”

Now, it’s hard to know who to blame for all this. I’m inclined to blame the druggin’, which I understand was beyond the pale, over and above, topped out, even the Stones can’t come close to these folks in over indulgence.

The Contrarian recalls reading where Cass showed up in the Caribbean somewhere with a quart jar of acid one vacation time. These are seriously f**ked up people.

One could of course simply blame dad for all this, but really, Mack admits she was nineteen, yes you heard that right, at the time of the first incestuous meeting, and AND it continued for a record ELEVEN years. I’d say she is somewhat complicit? This doesn’t make any of it other than sordid, wrong, abusive, and a host of other things, but lordly, it sure taints any desire to hear “California Dreamin’ ” any time soon don’t it?

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Yeah, I know, you wish I would go on and never stop, but hey, I can’t feed your addiction all day long ya know. I hear one of the big pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer perhaps is working on a drug to wean ya off me. If I can get a cut of the that action, I’ll gladly add my opposition to the Democratic health care reform movement. Greed does trump the common good. I can be bought! But you knew that already. Blessings, and well, I’m off to rain caffeine craziness upon the rest of my household.

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Monday Montage of Musings

30 Monday Jun 2008

Posted by Sherry in Barack Obama, Bible, Drugs, Election 2008, Energy, Environment, fundamentalism, Gay Rights, GOP, Health care, Individual Rights, Iowa, Iraq, John McCain, Women's issues

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Barack Obama, bible, drugs, Election 2008, environment, fundamentalism, gay rights, GOP, Health care, Individual Rights, Inhofe, Iowa, Iraq, John McCain, Women's issues

Louis Faurer captured this image called “Bowing for the Collection, French Vogue” in 1973. These vaguely art deco images never fail to capture my attention. The elegance so reminiscent of the era is simply lovely, to me at least.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. It was somewhat chilly here, and overcast. We got some rain, but not enough to be bothered about. I made an apple pie which is being devoured by the Contrarian and myself. The chicken salad was wonderful Saturday and oh, that chipotle-cheese spread was utterly delicious on the burgers Friday. I put about two good tablespoons in the meatloaf mixture today. I slurried it down with a bit of worcheshire sauce and some of the meat juices so it would blend thoroughly. It’s in the fridge firming up for baking later today.

My walks have been lovely. I have a chair at the top of the hill so I can sit and admire the fields for a couple of minutes. I’m now up to 1/2 mile, and may be at the road for the full mile by the end of the week. It amazes me how quickly the body responds. I hardly breathe hard in less than a week climbing the hill. The first day, I had to stop half way to catch my breath. The Contrarian cut a nice sapling today and debarked it and trimmed it nicely. It’s now drying in the sun. It will make a fine walking stick for me. At my age, broken or sprained ankles are not desired. And the ground is quite uneven in places, and certainly any walk through the grasses is torturous, given the mole dens and whatnot.

The Contrarian is making the final weeding of the garden. Soon it will be my responsibility as he turns to wood. He desperately doesn’t want to get caught like we did last winter with snows too deep to get to the wood pile. What started out as a little tree trimming of a branch or two, finally ended in cutting down an entire tree a few yards from the house. The good news was that he quickly discovered that it was dying, so there was no real loss. Given we have hundreds of trees it was not a big deal, although the size of it still made me feel a pang of regret at its loss. It opens an amazing vista to the west that we never had before I will say.

Well, off to the news of the day

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I worked in the drug business for years. I represented drug dealers, users, and all the other alleged criminals whose crimes are connected in one way or another to the drug business. I can honestly say, that the “war” on drugs has been a failure. We merely make a dent in the business at best. It creates and fosters its own criminal enterprises. It is the root cause of many other crimes, especially property crimes, but also a lot of personal assault crimes. Drug rehabs work to the same degree that alcohol rehabs work, not at all until the person is totally motivated to change. Is it time to decriminalize the usage of drugs? Read this story from Alternet and see what you think.

John McCain thinks the surge is a roaring successand justifies everything he continues to claim about his take on war. What has all this 5 years meant to Iraqi citizens? Read Tom Engelhardt’s report today. He calls it an obscenity, and frankly I agree. I doubt many Iraqis feel the price has been worth it.

We saw Bill Moyers Journallast friday night, and this report was very informative. Barbara Boxer leads the fight for the cap and trade billin the senate. This is the Lieberman-Warner Bill that has garnered a great deal of support but of course is objected to by the oil interests. I think with some work, you can get to the full transcript of the show and see the ridiculous behavior of  the self-styled evangelical senator from Oklahoma, Inhofe, who treated Al Gore like some kid, in the senate hearings and had to be publically reminded that he was no longer the chairman. It’s a vitally important issue if our kids and their kids are expected to breathe in upcoming years.

Wes Clark has weighed in on John McCain and his “qualifications” to be president. Clark suggests that McBush never had any command responsibilities and thus his actual service is not really any kind of recommendation at all. This issue would not be one, were it not for the fact that McShame can’t stop telling us in funny or serious asides that he was a POW, every single chance he gets. Yes he was, yes he was brave. Enough already. Blue Girl Red Statebrings a fairly lengthy review of the McLiar’s claims alongside the real truth on this issue.

We reported that the technique of choice for Repubiboobs this years is going to be fear. Scare the beejesus out of everyone, and maybe they will vote for McBu$h. Got it? Well, seems that turncoat Lieberman is the ideal puppy to promote their new agenda. He claims that we are going to face a terrorist attack in 2009. Prescient? Wishful thinking? Joe is crude, rude and way out of line. This is all about Israel first, middle and last for him at least and he’s become the willing stooge for McMac for this reason. 

Of course Obama is using the perfect stategy against McBush. He is tying the aged behemoth to the idiot boy Prez, Bushie. Easy enough to do, since that is exactly what Mac is, another Bush, and more of a war monger than Georgie ever thought of being. The real puzzler is that the Senile Sensation has chosen to fight back by trying to relate Obama to Jimmy Carter. Read the Britannica Blog‘s analysis of this strange policy and why it gets the old guy nowheresville.

A very interesting book on the GOP is out. Called Grand Old Partyand written by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, it suggests that polling of self-identified Republicans say that most are for most domestic programs favored by Democrats. The real problem is that the power Republicans don’t care about this agenda, being totally tied to big money, big business interests. Of course many of us have been scratching our heads at this for some time. How the elitists are able to confuse so many middle and working class people into doing their bidding when they have zero interests in their needs is phenomenally bizarre to say the least. Ezra Klein reports.

Reality hits us dead in the face once again, as we spend a day with Hussein in Baghdad on “vacation” for a week from his duties as a reporter. This is what life has become for Iraqis due to our lust for oil. After you have finished, check the link at the top to “sovereignty” and read how Iraqis feel about our behavior. We are so completely and totally out of tune with the culture of Iraq that we inevitably make more enemies than friends. Inside Iraq is aptly named as the writers there give us a truthful look at Iraq with each post.

Rep Steven King (R. IA) is a wingnut. Although it appears to be a serious article, Iowa Independentlays out the legislative genius we have here in the man. Did I say he’s a Repubicoot wingnut? Read of his brilliant legislative history in Congress and his patently pandering behavior regarding Sioux City and think seriously about whether you want to pay this do-nothing for another two years. Throw the bum out, I say. If you think I’m going a bit overboard read this little gem, wherein the doofus claims that a Democrat has incited a terrorist attack on our very own Dick (the oily man) Cheney’s chief aide. Too funny, and the man is a joke. Did I say wingnut? I must have.

I am quite proud to report that Senator Obama has come out against the gay marriage ban proposal on the California ballotcome this November. I was unsure how he would decide on this issue. I’m just simply one of those people that things everyone should be treated fairly and gay relationships deserve the same protections in the courts as other more “traditional” ones. Further. I leave it to God to decide the rest. I’m not going to presume I know His wishes on this. Governor Schwarzenegger also opposes the ban. The “Straight”talking McCain is of course on the wrong side of the issue, same as he was in his own home state of Arizona. He lost there too. MyDD has the story for you.

Spaceship taking off for the outer regions of your mind. Fair warning, we are entering the spooky world of the National Review, and your brains may be fried if unprotected! It seems, there is good reason why women make less then men.It’s the jobs we choose, and therefore we should not, as Mr. Obama does, support the important fair pay legislation now in Congress. It’s totally unfair to those employers who have discriminated against women employees and paid them less, because dang, if you can hide it longer than 180 days from your employee, you oughta win, and not have to pay them the same as the good old boys. Is it required to write for the NRO that you forget important facts, like the fact that the woman in question had to sue late because the employer purposefully hid it from her that similarly situated men got paid more? Is it required that you have no brain to write for NRO? These important questions will be on a test, so I’d suggest you study.

As Repubelitists tell us that we don’t need it, and it’s half way to communism if we do, 59 MILLION people in America last year avoided medical care because they could not afford it. Yes, 59 MILLION. That is up from 36 million just five years ago. This utterly tragic and senseless situation is unconscionable on its face. No amount of arguing that we need anything other than a total and complete overhaul of our health care system will do. No amount of nasty conservative, “most are too lazy to work and buy their own” diatribe can be tolerated. This is a national disgrace, one the rest of the world looks at in utter amazement and disgust. The NYTimes  has the story. And by the way, folks, this includes people with insurance, who are under insured.

Kevin Drum for the Washington Monthly, reports that “sob,sob” the neo-con machine of slash and burn the opponent seems quiet these days. They just can’t seem to work up the slathering enthusiasm for going after Obama. They can’t find a “swift boat” issue, and don’t want to waste all that money they sleep in every night for nothing. I’m sad too, so sad I may bake a cake. But I don’t count out the masters of sleaze. McPhool, proves again and again, that he likes to hire the very dirtiest of the tricksters as his new bosom buddies.

Wee doggies, some folks can get positively apoplectic on the subject of Johnny McCain and the mislabel of maverick. I mean, goodness, a whole post citing all his reprehensible flipping and flopping. I especially liked the one about the only congressman in history to actively campaign against two of his own pieces of legislation. Now that is down home flopping! It’s called Full Metal McCain, and to all of you out there who detest him as I do, a grand read, and plenty of ammo for your next political discussion with family and friends. Give ’em hell.  As Drum says, whoa, sure glad I am not likely to get in the cross hairs of Matt Taibbi. And in the final analysis, it’s a damned fine read.

These stories just defy common sense. I know that oil and gas interests are against any concept of global warming. That would be self-evident. They care about profits, and the future, well hell, we all have to die. But how any human being can buy into that is beyond me. We are no longer in an if global warming is true, IT IS DAMN IT.  Now my life is going to be aggravated no doubt, but I’m  not going to outlive the real problems. Our kids are going to have to, and their kids may not survive at all. Seriously there was a time in my life when I wondered whether it was ethical to bring children into the world. And that was about Vietnam. That was nothing compared to this. This is planet killing. The stooge Inhofe from Oklahoma, is simply a shameful excuse for a human being hawking for the oil companies. If hell exists, God has a wonderful corner for him no doubt. The Salon has this very important story of how Congressional fronts for Oil and Gas are giving your children’s lives away.

I know I keep harping on Iraq and not being the security delight that Bush/McBush urge us to believe. And I think I am right. More evidence is produced at the Washington Independent. It seems that private security contractors (NOT Blackwater) don’t see any real change at all. Indicators are that violence measured in trajectory rather than in mere numbers suggest it is steadily on the rise. Read the report, look and the charts and decide for yourself. One can but hope that Obama who will be traveling there soon, will get the correct picture. McStupid by pushing Obama to Iraq may wish he hadn’t after all. The big lie is being exposed.

I just threw this one in for the joke factor. It has no chance of moving through Congress at all, and is the kind of thing that politicians do to look good on the homefront. But pulleeeeezzzzzz. There is a bill lately introduced that would (you know the drill) make marriage illegal but for a man and a woman. Okay. Big deal you say. Well, you gotta look at whose names are on the dang thing to get the joke. None other than (drum roll please) Larry (I have a wide stance) Craig, and David (oooh how much do you charge for an around the world?) Vitters! Two of our stalwart Republinuts who are hardly poster boys for Christian virtue. Read on when you stop laughing.

Okay, so you see there is this Baptist scholar. And well, he says, well, that women, get what they deserve. Yeah, violence against women is because dumb women don’t get it that men are the boss, and men get mad when women don’t get that men are the boss, and they sometimes hit things, and those things could be women, and that’s how women get hurt. They ask for it. Scholar of what may I ask? Much thanks for Think Progressfor this one. Oh by the by, this all started with Eve and her sin, which is now all women’s sin, that we can’t give in to our husband’s control. Wingnut biblical analysis like this is beyond absurd, it’s perverted. Follow the links within the article to get the full views of Bruce Ware brain dead though he is.

And on that squirrelly note, let’s call it a day!

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“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.” Frank Herbert

“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.” Lewis Thomas

“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.” Anonymous

“Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.” Ronald Reagan

“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”  Herbert Hoover

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A Chinese investment fund manager paid $2.1 million to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay. If he’s hoping for an investment tip, Buffett will probably tell him not to waste money bidding on stuff on eBay. Paul Seaburn

The Texas supreme court has ruled church exorcisms are constitutional. Such a religious ritural is a very complicated procedure. The devil is in the details. – Alan Ray, Stockton, Calif.

So President Bush has removed North Korea from the list of countries that support terrorism and has moved it to the list of countries we are gonna invade just for the fun of it.

When Bill Gates left Microsoft the other day, his staff gave him a gold watch from Switzerland in appreciation. And Gates was apparently so moved by the gesture he reciprocated by giving them Switzerland.
– Marc Ragovin, New York

According to a recent European study, rising temperatures due to climate change are forcing many plants to move to higher elevations to survive. Unfortunately for men, this doesn’t mean your chest and back hair will seek higher ground on your head. Paul Seaburn

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