| Living in a van down by the river... |
[Oct. 5th, 2006|10:59 am] |
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| | One Ring Zero - Natty Man Blues | ] |
"We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea," Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill told the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University Wednesday. So, um, do we all have to collectively slash our wrists or is America just going to figuratively slash her wrists by making some sort of boneheaded suicidal move on the matter? And is that going to be a literal suicidal move or a figurative one where we just further destroy any hope of being considered a respectable nation again?
"Youse folks was talkin' bads abouts dem firemens!" Frankly, I don't want to live in a world where idiot Texans work to get their school district to ban a book about the evils of banning books. Unlike our country, however, I will not be slashing my wrists over the matter.
Finding it hard to keep track of what's going on with Foleygate 2006? Olbermann provided a pretty good timeline of events, as they were known at the time of broadcast. This timeline may already have been altered in the interim, but it covers the bases.
And really, thank goodness for Foleygate. Otherwise people might remember such pesky issues as the NIE that made claims that terrorism is a bigger threat due to our time in Iraq or that Bush is trying to pardon himself before he leaves office in 08 as well as doing away with habeas corpus. If it weren't for Foley, you'd be focused on the real issues instead of hoping that Dennis Hastert resigns as the Speaker because he didn't boot the potential child predator out of The House. |
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[Sep. 18th, 2006|09:17 pm] |
Crooks And Liars has a video up of today's final comments on Olbermann's show. He takes a moment to look at Dubya's Rose Garden speech last Friday and some of the implications of what George had to say. Pretty inciteful piece. Lousy pun intended. |
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| Life is most valuable when it's white and republican |
[Jul. 24th, 2006|06:16 pm] |
Snowflake Kids are trotted out to meet the press
A thousand people a day dying at the hands of terrorists
Whether we recognize them as such or not
Corrupt men in expensive suits fight over potential lives
Ignoring those that are lost or destroyed every day by The Glorious Leader
Medicating ourselves with summer movie releases while His Glorious War goes on
Fretting over Blastocyst-Americans that'll be tossed into the trash
Corrupt men in expensive suits presenting popsicle children
Future Republicans
Confusing science and religion, embracing insanity for votes
Pray, little people
Pray that Jesus will come and take you all home
Pray that The Glorious Leader will protect you
Pray that your rich will get another tax break,
that you'll have the right to adopt a clean unborn child and not some dirty half-breed,
that you'll be able to ignore all the neglected children out there,
that the liberal media will quit showing you the dead and dying in the Middle East,
that The Glorious Leader will wiretap your phone to discover how Patriotic you are,
that Jesus will help you win the lotto so you don't have to take out a third mortgage.
Priorities people. It's all about priorities. |
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| What shall we do now? |
[Jul. 18th, 2006|02:31 pm] |
Appropriate Military/Political Responses for the 21st Century:
invade foreign nations to hunt for terrorists
destroy infrastructure of a nation to hunt for terrorists
diplomacy
fire bomb civilian areas because terrorists MIGHT be hiding there
send low-ranking soldiers to police people whose language they don't speak
pay contractors to do any illegal jobs that you need done
lie/cheat/steal
lie/cheat/steal some more
pay corporations 10x the going rate for everything
fire bomb a wedding, a funeral, maybe an orphanage or a school
good-will ambassadors to promote diplomacy
deny the media or anyone else the ability to disagree or question you
lie/cheat/steal
use american political propaganda tactics to win hearts and minds
step on hearts and minds
fire bomb some more
never stop. never ever ever stop. if you stop, the terrorists have won.
diplomacy? |
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| RU-486? |
[Jun. 22nd, 2006|02:59 pm] |
Witness, if you will, the only time Republicans will claim that pulling out is not the way to go. I'm sure, if they had their way, they'd advocate some sort of Plan B solution to the problem.
Really, I just couldn't resist the joke. Of course there is some level of irony to be found in their desire to kill kill kill as long as it isn't a potential voter/taxpayer that might theoretically hypothetically possibly be born. |
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| I hate asking "What does it all mean?" |
[Jul. 18th, 2005|11:26 am] |
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| | The New Amsterdams - Wears So Thin | ] |
We put jokers like this into Congress? When you're an elected official of any sort, you need to learn how to hold your tongue. Suggesting that we could NUKE MECCA as a feasible retaliation attack on the radio qualifies as one of those "it'd be better to hold your tongue" moments. Sadly, I'm sure he'll be reelected.
"God was showing his strength." I'm not sure how to take that. Is that to say that he felt God was showing off to his family that He is mighty and can strike you down if He so desires? Or did he mean that God was showing him that he showed restraint by not killing all of the family? I hate it when people make vague and ambiguous statements where they attribute some event to God but aren't clear as to how they're attributing it to Him.
iTunes breaks 500 million downloads, however I've yet to see any press on the class action lawsuit regarding older models of the iPod. The only reason I know about it is I saw a small link to it at the bottom of Apple's webpage. |
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| I think it's strange you never knew... |
[Jun. 9th, 2005|01:05 pm] |
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| | Reanimator - Socially Responsible (Reprise) | ] |
Amber Tamblyn's picks on this playlist (link opens up iTunes, is not viewable without iTunes) gives me some hope that all indie/underground hiphop is starting to break through to the mainstream.
Think Dean might be a little crazy about the whole "The GOP is all about white christians" thing? Do some research and then rethink your decision. I'm not saying that the man isn't overbearing at times, but I can't disagree with him on the issue of the priorities of the majority of the GOP and it's influential donors.
I wish I knew someone who might sell me their tickets to the Serenity screening on June 23rd. Although I didn't watch the series at all while it was on TV (mostly due to too much life going on to enjoy TV outside of 24), I quickly got hooked when I went back and watched the series from an alternative source earlier this year. Maybe it's the fact that the show is in the style of a western, only set in space, that attracts me. Maybe it's the characters. Maybe Joss Whedon is just a brilliant writer/director/ideaman. I really don't want to wait until September to see the movie with the rest of the world, but it appears that I will have to. C'est la vie.
Also, MoveOn PAC petition info for your review:
( Downing Street Memo and Dubya ) |
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| Shame on you America... |
[Mar. 21st, 2005|11:31 am] |
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| | Counting Crows - A Murder Of One | ] |
Congress has decided that 1500+ deaths of our own soldiers in Iraq isn't nearly as important of an issue as feeding a vegetable in Florida. WTF? Have we managed to find a solution to our health care issues? To our social security issues? To taxation issues? To getting our butts out of Iraq? Apparently so if we can call special sessions of Congress to make sure that a woman who has been in a vegetative coma for 15 years has a chance to continue to lay in a vegetative state for another 15 years. Tom DeLay, in an attempt to prove once again that he's a gas bag and a waste of oxygen, has been touting Terry Schiavo like her doctors and husband and even members of the judicial system are terrorists out to destory our country one person at a time.''It is now 1 o'clock on the East Coast, the time preordained by a Florida state judge to allow for denial of food and water to Terri Schiavo,'' the Texas Republican declared. ``That act of barbarism can be and must be prevented.'' She's not the World Trade Center and she's not someone who is being held captive against her will. She's a woman who has so little chance of recovering that doctors have decided it is not prudent to leave her on life support. It happens every day. Someone gets into a tragic accident and they end up on life support machines, barely clinging to this world. States have passed Futile Care laws to ensure that these individuals aren't being kept alive when there is no hope of them recovering. Don't let good old Georgie boy fool you with all of his grandstanding over Terry's right to live, he signed off on a Futile Care law while he was Goobernor of Tejas and seems to be able to sleep well at night. That law was recently used to take Sun Hudson off of life support. Where was Tom DeLay to protect that child, someone from his own state?
Why are our politicians working so furvently to help keep one person alive when they ought to be working furvently to keep thousands of other people alive? Soldiers? Terminally ill people whose lives could be saved through stem cell research? The homeless? Veterans? People who can't afford the health care that they need? A black child whose mom can't afford to pay to keep him alive? BAH!!! |
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| How did OUR oil get in THEIR sand? |
[Nov. 28th, 2004|06:19 pm] |
Once upon a time, The Grimace came to White Trash Town and brought them scissors with which to cut the noose. The Hamburglar ratted him out to Mayor McCheese in hopes of being let off the hook for his vampiric addiction to the greasy veins of Middle America. Now The Grimace pays penance every day, tied to a rock high atop the corpse of the American Dream, his liver eaten from his body by machinery that reprocesses the meat. Every night, while haunted by the terrible visage of Ronald McDaterapist, his liver regrows, only to be eaten again and again and again. Every day, that machinery is there to pump out more Big Macs to feed the Hamburglar's habit and keep everyone blind to the terror wreaked in the name of Justice by McCheese and his gang of Fry Guys. Forget about all that and have yourself a warm Apple McPie. |
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| "Why, if God is good, is there evil in the world?" He replied, "to thicken the plot." |
[Nov. 3rd, 2004|09:46 pm] |
Dear America,
It's a good thing people are only writing these letters to you in their personal space and they aren't actually mailing them to a central address. I can only imagine how many of these letters will be written today, much less over the next four years. I, for one, would like to apologize to you for all that's gone on in your name over the last four years and all that will go on in your name for the next four years. Some people might interpret that to mean "Dubya is gonna kill us all" because I'm a raging Democrat, but that's not it. What I mean to say is that I'm sorry that Democrats every where are going to be soiling your name as a way of combatting Republicans and that Republicans every where are going to be wiping the blood from their hands with your flag in the name of protecting us from terrorists and Liberal bleeding hearts. I'm sorry that the people of this great land have become so polarized that we have become a black or white land. I'm sorry that yesterday was merely a charade, an exercise in futility for everyone involved, both Democrat and Republican, because all it did was further prove how disparate we are as a people.
As I write this, Republicans all over this country are patting one another on the back and laughing about how "those damn dirty Liberals" are whining and complaining too much. "Their guy lost, they need to get over it!" All over the country, Democrats are shaking their heads, saddened by the slim margin by which Bush won and by the visions they have of what's to come. Republicans are plotting out the glorious America that can be once we defeat the terrorists and the liberal media. Democrats are scrambling to avoid the phantom threat they perceive of a White House bent on taking away all their rights and throwing the citizenship into Concentration Camps in the name of National Security. The gap between both parties is growing, with those in the middle becoming increasingly restless because no one truly sides with them. The hate and anger the left and the right share is only surpassed by their ignorance, or worse, their feigned ignorance and their heavy push to keep as many other people as ignorant as they can.
When I was a kid, I loved history classes. In high school, American Government and American History were my favorite classes of all. We learned about a country where anyone can become the President of the United States. We learned that everyone has the right to stand up and have their voice heard. We learned about the power of the vote and that if our politicians are not doing right by the people, the people will vote them out of office. We learned that religion and government are kept seperate (while we ignored that our lunch money praised god). We learned that the job of government is to regulate taxes, services, our military, foreign affairs, education, and a host of other things, in such a fashion as to benefit the American people as a whole. We learned that politicians are supposed to enact laws that are beneficial to the public at large, even if they aren't popular amongst some of the populace, for the good of the people.
High school taught me a lot of things that turned out to be bullshit when you viewed things with a skeptical and inquisitive eye. The lesson I learned was to beware false prophets that come to you in sheep's clothing, for getting your hopes up only leaves you vulnerable and open to pain and failure. A simple majority of our nation has gained further control over our nation, while a major minority amongst us trembles in fear of what it all means. The America I was taught to love has been hijacked by our own stagnation and ignorance. The people of this nation have become complacent, comfortable living in a society fueled by media fearmongering. The Republicats and Democrans didn't bring this upon us, we brought it upon ourselves.
I'm sorry America. I'm sorry that you'll be dragged through the mud by people on both sides of the aisle. I'm sorry that we'll continue killing innocent people overseas and supporting brutal dictators in the land of the living dead while waving your banner. It's the story of your life, I guess. One day you'll live up to your own hype.
Sincerely,
A secret admirer |
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[Oct. 26th, 2004|08:20 pm] |
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Everyone has an issue they are really concerned about that they are using as a "litmus test" for which candidate they're choosing. One of mine that no one has addressed, to my knowledge, is the fate of the West Memphis Three. They've been put away for 11 years now for being outcast kids, even when evidence has shown that it's most likely that the father of one of the dead children committed the crime. I'd like to see one of the first things done by whoever wins is for these guys to be set free. Fat chance. |
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