Kicking the Can

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atheist blogging, blogging, financial meltdown, gay marriage, Greece, immigration reform, Iowa, Jindal, John McCain, Lousiana, Merlin Bartz, Obama, oil spill, teabaggers

It’s Friday (shivery all over if you are a workin’ stiff, but I’m not so it’s no big deal), and typically for reasons that are beyond comprehension, tons of my readers are BUSY. Like getting ready for the barbecue tonight, or the concert, or well, any number of THINGS. So readership always goes down. And stays down until Monday rolls around.

Sometimes I figure, I’m read by mostly bored automatons sitting in cubicles across Merika, hoping the boss don’t waltz by while they are surfin’.

Anyway, it means it’s a good day to just dump all the odds and ends cramping my head space. Which is not to say that what follows isn’t R E A D A B L E , cuz it most certainly is. But I’m a tad lazy, and its rainy, and more importantly COLD and like your average amphibian, I’m  S L O W.
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Okay, so the teabaggers are all in a huff cuz they claim that Obama has violated his place nice directive by using the term “teabagger” which everyone now knows refers to some sexual behavior that we will not even describe here, let alone picture! But that’s a lie. Turns out the silly teabaggers themselves actually coined the phrase.

Yep, before, undoubtedly they knew the actual meaning. They had placards that said “tea bag the Dems before they tea bag you.” Enough said, move on please.

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Jindal, as in Louisiana Jindal is demanding federal funds to war against the oil coming ashore. I don’t mind that, but wasn’t he the same fella that was harping that he was not gonna take stimulus money because he was not in favor of the feds messin’ in his state? Seems a lot of Repooplicans suffer from dry rot of the brain in not REMEMBERING what they said last week! Just sayin’.

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Got our own brand of wacko wizardry here in Iowa. Some nut, Merlin Bartz (R-Grafton, IA) and state senator is calling for a law banning gay married couples from being declared “families” for purposes of getting a tent site at state camp grounds. Don’t that beat all? He says that the gay marriage ruling is gonna effect all kinds of terrible changes in Iowa. And course, he intends to manufacture just as many of them as he can.

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I know that I have barely had this “theme” up a month, but I’m changing it again. WordPress has gone bonkers on making new themes, like four in the last two weeks, and I just fell in love with one. So, you will be seeing it sometime today, or so. Lots of little tweaking to do, and I love that sort of thing when I have the time. I spend more time with the theme than you do, so I get bored with it faster.

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I read a couple of days ago that Obama had indicated that he wanted to open immigration reform before the end of this year. It’s gonna be a sticky wicket for both parties, but more so for the Restuplicans. I have a different take. Now, McCain lost the election and Obama trusted I suppose that the Mav would return to his senses and be a Mav again. Not so, the crotchety old fart decided to moan and groan forever, and has become a farcical right wing nut case in an attempt to hold onto his smelly seat.

So, I figure, Obama thinks, what a way to pay back old John. This will hurt the old geezer as much as possible. Something like, “John, how bout you resurrect your fine bill you wanted to introduce back before the election?” That should get the elder unprincipled one to just about choke on his spittle. Yeah, I’m likin’ the scenario a lot.

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Plenty of folks would agree that the beginning of Western Civilization started in Greece. Funny if it all ended there too. Just sayin’.

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Oh I’ve been having a private little war with John Loftus over at Debunking Christianity. John doesn’t post my comments, which are usually critical of his manner, claiming they aren’t “on point” with the post. That’s a crock, but I really can’t recommend his blog any longer. He’s spends about 90 percent of his blogging time,  touting  a book he edited (and wrote a couple of chapters in), and vilifying unfavorable reviews, (one of which he took down, after calling the reviewer an idiot and worse) all the while whining for his followers to tell him he’s really right. Take a break from blogging John, and work on those self-esteem issues a bit why doncha?

Which all raises a point about atheist bloggers in general, but that’s another post at some time when I can bother with their blather. Not all mind you, some are actually very good and raise some good points, but most are just pretenders. They attack all of Christianity, when their only real target is the fundie.

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nuf said.