The little brown girl speaks her mind

Obama turns the other cheek....

2008-10-19T16:33:00.000-07:00

The election of Senator Obama will never change the minds of those who think that the color of a person's skin is a reflection of their worth. It will never convince some that by supporting Republicans, they are voting against their own best wishes and it will never convince others that FOX News and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the like are nothing more than well paid propagandists who care not one whit for the common man. Obama's hoped for election will never do all that, but it will START the change because Senator Obama turns the other cheek.

Politico reports a story today of a visit Barack Obama made to a predominantly white diner in Fayetteville, North Carolina. As he entered, a woman began shouting, "Socialist! Socialist!" and yelled at him to get out.

Obama arrived at the barbecue joint around 12:30 p.m., where an older and majority white clientele of several dozen were eating lunch after church services. Many patrons applauded as he walked into the diner, but Diane Fanning, 54, began yelling, "Socialist, socialist, socialist-get out of here!"

But Senator Obama didn't leave. Instead he later went over to the woman's table and....

He held out his hand to her and asked, "how are you, ma'am?" but she declined to shake his hand.

He will never change old thought patterns...

But some of the other older white diners looked surprised and slightly uncomfortable as Obama stopped at their tables to shake hands. "

But a President Obama will be a start.

2008-10-19T16:31:00.000-07:00

Truth? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Truth….

2008-09-08T11:14:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning with a sinking feeling in my stomach and now I know why; two national polls are showing that the McCain/Palin ticket is ahead. I’m beyond disappointed beyond disbelief. I’m in that horrible state of resignation. Sort of what I imagine it must be like to find yourself stuck in quicksand. You fight for a while and then stop because you reach a point where you know it’s over. So, you stop fighting and allow yourself to slowly sink out of sight. I’m sinking. We’re all sinking.
See, it doesn’t matter that we keep pointing out that Palin is a liar or that McCain is a liar. It doesn’t matter because no one is listening. They’ve bought the new, improved Republican product and it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work. Truth is boring. It requires actual time and attention to understand and people today don’t have time. It’s easier to just assume that everything is going to be okay. Easier to believe that, “it can’t happen here,” it being fascism. Well folks, I hate to tell you but it is happening here. Surprise!
I hope I’m wrong. I hope I stop resigning myself to slowly sinking deeper into quicksand. I don’t want to go under, I want to scream for help but how can that help if no one is listening? Sigh. Sorry for the downer thoughts but it’s what I’m feeling right now. We’re screaming for help and no one is listening.

The Uh-Oh Moment

2008-09-01T12:07:00.000-07:00

The Uh-Oh Moment

Back in 1999, when I first heard George W. Bush had decided to run for President, my first reaction was, “Uh oh.” Didn’t matter that he was a knucklehead. As a Texan, I’d seen him win the Governorship in Texas using lies and dirty tricks so as soon as I heard the news, I knew we were sunk. Enter Sarah Palin. My first reaction when I heard the news of her candidacy was “Uh oh.”

It’s George W. Bush all over again. I smell a Rovian rat. Take an unqualified but sellable personality, and create a candidate. Doesn’t matter that Palin thinks the Pledge of Allegiance was created by our Founding Fathers! What do facts and knowledge have to do with running the country? She’s not going to be making any decisions on her own because she’s there to do as she’s told. Besides, most people don’t know that the Pledge of Allegiance was created in the 20th century and it’s precisely this lack of knowledge that makes it so easy for Rove and those like him to sell the people a wolf in a sheep’s clothing. Already, the news today of Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy, instead of torpedoing her candidacy, is already being spun as a wonderful story of parental support for a child in need. These people know how to turn crap into gold.

We’re in trouble. Obama and Biden are the real deal but up against the propaganda masters, their message will be lost because we’re up against theatrics here, folks. Palin as a candidate is all about image and nothing about qualifications. She can be sold. Mass marketed to a willing public who want nothing more than cheap goods that aren’t made to last, only to look good.

We’ve got to fight it by exposing the wolf underneath. We’ve got to pull off the sheep’s skin and expose them for the liars they are! But how? The media is not on our side and unfortunately, a lot of voters are ready, willing and able to buy the lies because a large number still operate under the delusion that those in authority would never lie to us. How do we fix this? How?

Do Not Underestimate the Bun

2008-08-30T13:38:00.000-07:00

In terms of needed Vice-Presidential experience and capabilities, Sarah Palin is a featherweight, but in terms of what the Neo-Republican Party needs to scheme, bully and lie their way into the White House, Sarah Palin, with her sexy librarian glasses and hair loosely gathered in a bun, is the Featherweight Champion of the Year.

The fundamentalist base that was in threat of being lost to McCain is back in the fold. They love her! She is a fervid evangelical and a mother of five. The youngest, her son Trig, was born with Down syndrome, which she and husband were aware of before the child was born. Talk about an anti-abortion heroine! Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council says she’s a “pro-family, pro life champion.”

It doesn’t matter that she doesn’t have the gravitas needed for the vice-presidency; all that matters is that she will carry their message. It doesn’t matter that she was elected Governor of Alaska less than two years ago with less than 200,000, it only matters that her state is sitting on the largest oil reserves in the country and she wants to drill. Damn the environment and the polar bears, which she refused to put on the endangered species list; we want that oil! It doesn’t matter that she may have abused her power as Governor when she tried to get her brother-in-law fired and then unable to do so, fired the man who refused follow her orders, it only matters that she’s willing to defend her family and willing to abuse her power! It doesn’t matter that she’s anti-abortion and wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade, it only matters that she’s a woman!

From a political marketing viewpoint, she’s a Rovian dream! She’s the mother of 5 children! She’s young and attractive. Imagine the photo ops! But best of all, in Rove’s world, she’s a water bearer. She doesn’t question the Right’s agenda because she learned long ago to shoot first and ask questions later, if at all. She doesn’t have to know about anything because she is there to be programmed and she knows that. But she’s not dumb. I’ve heard her speak and despite an unattractive shrillness to her vocal tone, she’s intelligent, confident, and very telegenic. In other words, she’s the Democratic Party’s nightmare.

Let us not forget that, the other side is a master of propaganda and they have the mass media on their side. Last night I switched from the gushings of Hannity, to Beck and to the other Republican lapdogs and they all said the same thing, “She’s terrific!”

We need to be on our toes. Despite the power our party displayed during our convention; we cannot rest on our laurels. It doesn’t matter that we’re in the right, it only matters that we win. So though she may look harmless enough, do not underestimate her loosely secured, bun; it’s stronger than it looks.

We ain't so dumb anymore....

2008-08-06T09:56:00.000-07:00

The "journalists" of today are experiencing a rude awakening. In the past 8 years, the "press" has been staffed with sub-standard, sub-intelligent reporters. The equivalent of the Bob Jones University graduates that made up Bush's Department of Justice, (knuckleheads) sit at the news desks of all the major networks. The intelligent and sensible questions of a Bill Moyers has been replaced with the ridiculous innuendos of Katie Couric. These networks have been very successful at passing off their "news" programs as "intelligent journalism," but now, faced with Barack Obama, they're finding out that their junior high school level of journalism is no match for an intelligent, rational and telegenic Democrat.
Watch as this FOX wannabe tries to do the old, "I'm going to ask stupid questions to try and trip you up and then the network will notice me and hire me and I'll be bigger than Bill O'Reilly!" question route. It is to laugh.

19-inch Fall

2008-06-10T20:06:00.001-07:00

When I was a little girl, maybe 10 or 11, I got it into my head that when I grew up I was going to turn into a white woman, with blonde hair and blue eyes. After all, that’s what I saw on TV. (The year was 1970.) So, to hurry up the inevitable, one Christmas, I ordered myself a blonde wig out of the Sears Catalog. The wig was $6.88 but then I saw another wig for only $3.44, so I ordered that one. On Christmas morning, I excitedly opened my presents looking for that blonde wig. Finally, I opened a box and saw the beautiful, long blonde strands of hair I longed for. I took out the wig but when I started to put it on my head, I noticed that what I’d bought wasn’t a full wig, but a fall; a partial wig designed to make short hair look longer.

I looked in the mirror and as I looked at myself, a little brown girl with black hair peeking out from under fake blonde hair; I realized. I wasn’t going to have blue eyes. My skin wasn’t going to fade from brown to white and my hair wasn’t going to be long or blonde. My skin was brown. My hair was black and my eyes were a dark, dark brown. That’s how it was and that was how it was going to be. I took off the hair and never wore it again.

Har-de-Har-Har!

2008-05-08T13:12:00.000-07:00

Once again, the mask falls off one of these pompous, self-righteous hypocrites. I love it! Fathered a child out-of-wedlock! Caught driving drunk! Ha! His girlfriend was the one that picked him up after his arrest! Man! Conservative Republican my ass! !

Don't Piss Down My Leg and Tell Me it's Raining...

2008-05-06T19:43:00.000-07:00

When Hillary Clinton speaks of her "from behind" victory in Indiana, she once again shows us she is an accomplished graduate of the Karl Rove School of Crap. She was never "behind" in Indiana. She was always expected to win. But she was expected to win by much more than she did. That fact she conveniently left out of her ridiculous, "on to the White House!" victory speech.

They lie to our faces and they get away with it because:
1. We're sheep.
2. We're innocent and trusting.
3. We've been programmed to trust those in authority (or on TV).
4. We're sheep.

If elected, she will continue to lie to our faces and the duplicitous media will continue to cover it as fact.
Just don't tell me it's raining.

Let me tell you what's wrong with LIFE....

2007-10-25T09:44:00.000-07:00

So I've been watching this new NBC show, Life, on Wednesday nights. Now, truth be told, it has more to do with the lead actor, and the fact that Alan Arkin is part of the cast, but there you are; I watch it. It's the story of a former policeman who was framed and sentenced to life for a crime he didn't commit and then, after 12 years in prison, is found innocent and awarded $50 million in an wrongful imprisonment suit and been reinstated on the police force. He's back on the force because he wants to find out who framed him and why. The premise, I thought, was that his experience had given him a new found way of looking at "life" helped him to solve crimes using unconventional methods.
The first show was good. It didn't give us too much information, just enough to intrigue and keep the audience coming back. I did. But now, after 4 shows, I'm beginning to think the original character has been lost along the way. Charlie Crews is supposed to have found some sort of Zen-like peace in prison and is now this changed person. He has a lot of money but doesn't care about it. He lives in an empty mansion with his ex-con friend, Arkin. The mansion is empty because, like I said, the money doesn't mean anything to him. Or at least, because he's found this inner peace, he doesn't want to money to mean anything to him. But lately he just seems detached and almost bored and lazy.
The guy struts around like a Miami Vice wanna-be. He poses while wearing expensive suits, expensive watches, expensive shoes and expensive sunglasses. Which doesn't make sense to me. If the guy was an ordinary police detective and then in prison for 12 years, where did he suddenly develop this killer style? Did he read a lot of GQ in the slammer? Supposedly, he didn't even know cell phones had cameras but he knows the difference between a tailored suit or one bought off the rack? No. No. That doesn't ring true.
Also, the crime he was convicted of was the murder of a family. A brutal, bloody slaughter. Why would anyone think he did this? Why would everyone he knew, his partner, his wife, his fellow officers, be convinced that he would be capable of such a serial killer like crime? This has never been explained and it needs to be.
And another thing, in the first couple of episodes, he solved crimes because he saw things differently. He was like a hyper aware detective. He used his new found inner peace, to ask questions the other detectives didn't think to ask or to notice things no one else would. But lately, he just seems to be along for the ride. He and his partner stumble across clues or "get lucky." Boring. And about his partner, she was really engaging in the pilot. She's a a recovering addict being given another chance. It was also implied that she's also expected to keep an eye on Crews and report back on him, if he does anything wrong. There are people on the force that would rather he not be there. But this angle has been dropped on recent shows.
Anyway, in the pilot, there was this scene where they break into some suspects house and she gets covered in cocaine powder. She freaks and jumps in the shower and washes it off while her new partner, Charlie, watches in surprise. It was a great scene which said a lot about the character and her addiction problems. Unfortunately, we haven't really visited this subject much in recent shows. At least, not with that intensity and depth.
Now about last night's show and why I don't know if I can keep watching LIFE. The show starts with a woman, wearing angel wings, falling out of a window and hitting the roof of a car. When they get to the scene, it's pretty obvious which window she came out of,but they never discuss the fact that the woman didn't scream as she fell. Was she drugged? Was it a suicide? No, immediately they assume murder. The way they discover the identity of the woman is ridiculous. First, in Los Angeles, where I live, if a woman fell from the sky wearing angel wings, I doubt the police station would be full of weirdos claiming to know the woman. But, in this episode, their offices are full of people, all claiming to know the woman. Crews notices one meek guy allowing everyone to cut in front of him in line and of course, he's the woman's husband. What develops is a connection with the Russian Mob and the introduction of a Russian bad guy, who can't be arrested because he's an informant for our government. The Russian bad guy was the best thing in the show.
But the breaking point for me was when they were trying to get some information from a friend of the deceased Russian angel. They put this huge picture of the deceased, that they'd found in a suspect's home, on a chair directly in front of the friend. Then they left the room and monitored her reaction from the camera in the room. This woman, who was not chained to the table, just sat there staring at this picture. For hours, as the detectives just watched and waited for her to crack. Which of course, she finally did. She started crying. RIDICULOUS!!! The woman could have just turned the picture around, but no, she sits there and faces it. STUPID. STUPID. Why didn't Crews use his new Zen insight to get the information he needed that way. Instead we are forced to watch a scene where a woman stares a picture and the detectives stare at a woman staring at a picture. BORING.
At the end of the show, the Russian Mob guy calls Crewes and for some reason, gives him a clue that leads to his former partner. Gee. How convenient. Wouldn't it have been better if Crewes, because he sees things differently now, would has noticed things about his former partner that he never noticed before. And that these things would have led him to discover the clue himself? Isn't he a detective?
That's all I have to say about that. Oh, except I'll keep watching because of my aforementioned fascination with the lead actor, who by the way, is English pretending to be American. His American accent isn't very good. It sounds like he's from "Joisey." But I can put up with that. It's the bad writing and confusing characterizations that will drive me away.

How old is an "underage male?"

2007-10-19T11:39:00.000-07:00

More on Mrs. Lindsay Roberts, the wife of Richard Roberts, Oral Robert's son. The most interesting part of this account is:

"The more detailed account alleges Richard Roberts' wife, Lindsay, spent the night in the ORU guest house with an underage male "on nine separate occasions," and was photographed 29 times with an underage male in her sports car, among other allegations.

She likes young men, but how young? "Underage," I'm assuming, is under 18.

Nothing these self-righteous types do surprises me anymore but their arrogance always does. Allegedly, this woman thought nothing of using OSU property for her trysts and felt perfectly comfortable driving around with these young men. The thought in her mind must have been, "I'm entitled to this."

Fascinating.

One less thing to worry about...

2007-10-10T17:48:00.000-07:00

"...the Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, John Tanner, contends that while it's "a shame" that elderly voters may be disenfranchised by new Photo ID restrictions at the polls because many don't have driver's licenses, minorities don't have to worry quite as much. Why? Because "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do. They die first

As a brown person, I am concerned to find out that we minorities don't last long. I'll have to let my 85 year old Mother know she's a freak of nature.

"Mrs Roberts, are you trying to seduce me?"

2007-10-08T15:10:00.000-07:00

My only hope is that this story leads to the destruction of the dishonest business built by Oral Roberts on the backs of little old ladies handing over their last two dollars. Oral's son, Richard, is proving himself a chip off the old block, though not as slick as his father. It seems Richard is facing a lawsuit alleging misuse of Oral Roberts University funds. But it wasn't only Richard misusing funds, it seems his wife was busy spending money on "extracurricular activities."

She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males."
- A longtime maintenance employee was fired so that an underage male friend of Mrs. Roberts could have his position.
- Mrs. Roberts - who is a member of the board of regents and is referred to as ORU's "first lady" on the university's Web site - frequently had cell-phone bills of more than $800 per month, with hundreds of text messages sent between 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. to "underage males who had been provided phones at university expense."

Underage males? Hmmm. Was she counseling troubled boys struggling with their budding sexualities? Perhaps she was saving them from the evils of "homosexuality?" More things Mrs. Roberts and her husband are accused of....

- Mrs. Roberts spent more than $39,000 at one Chico's clothing store alone in less than a year, and had other accounts in Texas and California. She also repeatedly said, "As long as I wear it once on TV, we can charge it off." The document cites inconsistencies in clothing purchases and actual usage on TV.
- Mrs. Roberts was given a white Lexus SUV and a red Mercedes convertible by ministry donors.
- University and ministry employees are regularly summoned to the Roberts' home to do the daughters' homework.
- The university and ministry maintain a stable of horses for exclusive use by the Roberts' children.
- The Roberts' home has been remodeled 11 times in the past 14 years.

Tsk. Tsk. Oral Roberts claimed that Jesus spoke to him and told him to build the university. Richard Roberts now claims to receive messages from Jesus.

As Max Von Sydow said in Woody Allen's "Hannah and her Sisters,"....
"If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in His name, He'd never stop throwing up."

Of Cowards and Betrayers....

2007-10-07T09:35:00.000-07:00

The current Democrats in Congress are dishonorable. They are worse than Republicans. Republicans may pretend to be a lot of things (straight) but for all of their venal weaknesses and illegalities, they're not very good at hiding their motives. The Democrats, on the other hand, portray themselves as the shining knights of protection but confronted with true danger, they fold up like a damaged accordion.

I you ask me, it's a far bigger betrayal when the good guy turns out to be a coward than when the bad guy turns out to be a bad guy.

Don't Mess with Brown Texans.

2007-10-02T18:11:00.001-07:00

Michael Chertoff, a particularly scary-looking individual, opened his big mouth and said that the borders are dirty because, basically, Mexicans are dirty.
"Illegal migrants really degrade the environment. I've seen pictures of human waste, garbage, discarded bottles and other human artifact in pristine areas," Chertoff said in a telephone interview. "And believe me, that is the worst thing you can do to the environment."

What does he think these people are doing out in the deserts? Having a picnic? They're risking their lives, pendejo! Sorry they didn't have time to properly dispose of the plastic bottle that held their last drop of water before they died of thirst out in the middle of nowhere!

Well, some border town Mayors in Texas, which are predominantly Mexican-American, are paying him back.

I'm not saying it's related but it should be.

You're bothering me, I say, you're bothering me boy....

2007-10-01T14:57:00.000-07:00

Rush Limbaugh, after calling the troops who protest the war, "phony soldiers,", is now denying he ever said it. (That's what bullys do, once caught, they deny, deny, deny. "I didn't do it.") He says,

"He has prepared a letter to be sent to the CEO of the company that syndicates this program, and that letter he asked as many senators as possible to sign, offering them the opportunity to demand of my syndicator that I be condemned for something that I did not say, which Harry Reid knows I did not say."

In a blustering, bombastic bravado tone, rivaling only that of the legendary Foghorn Leghorn, he protested.....

"It is unconscionable for an esteemed United States senator to launch an all-out assault on a private citizen, which is a lie from front to back, in order to cover your own actions and words, which have been the true demoralization of the US military -- and if anybody owes the military of this country an apology, Senator Reid, it is you. It is Jack Murtha. It is Dick Durbin. It is any and all who have joined your effort to secure defeat of the United States and the United States military in not only Iraq, but the war on terror. Sir, have you no decency left? Have you no shame whatsoever?"

Then he said "hurumph" and scurried off in his high heels. At least Foghorn was funny. And not real.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.....

2007-10-01T10:35:00.001-07:00

All I'm saying is, this neo-con Republican party, which is running the country into the ground, seems to be made up of a lot of people who are so full of hate and self-loathing that they dump it on others in an attempt to somehow "redeem" themselves. I think the picture of Ms. Cagan speaks for itself.

Today is a bad, disheartening and hopeless day....

2007-09-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

Okay, so on this 26th day of the month of September, 2007,

*The Democratically controlled House of Representatives joined the weenie Senate and voted to "condemn MoveOn.org's controversial "General Betray Us" ad that ran 16 days ago." The vote? 341-79. This Democratic House won't move towards impeaching the biggest bunch of criminals to occupy the White House but they will condemn an independent group for exercising their right to free speech. WTF?

*The Senate passed, by a large margin, 76-22, the Lieberman-Kyl's Iran amendment which basically says, "Iran bad and our next target." Geez! Even Jim Webb didn't vote for it! Hilary did, though, Republican that she is.

*The Democrats agreed to spend even more money on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. $190 Billion more. They could have said, "no more." but that takes a real desire to end the madness. Obviously, they are complicit in the plan to destroy the country.

*Senator Larry Craig, he of the "wide stance, " somehow managed to hang on to his Senate seat for another day. He may actually be able to withdraw his guilty plea. That cruising in the men's room? Never happened.

*Katie Couric spoke at the National Press Club last night. She spoke out AGAINST the war. She was acting all tough and stuff, you know, pretending to be a real journalist. She said she would, "feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television." Another WTF! Oh, so she can't say that now, cause it's not "required" of her to speak the truth, but if her bosses came to her and said, "Katie, it's okay. Tell the American people the truth about this war." Then she would gladly tell us? WTF!WTF!WTF! I thought it was a journalist's job to report the truth! Obviously, she's the kind of reporter who tells the truth ONLY when her bosses require it of her!
Blogger Kagro X at THE DAILY KOS, has an excellent diary on this topic.

So today was a bad day. The Democrats broke my heart today. They broke my faith. Hopefully, I will feel differently tomorrow so I can go out there and kick some Democratic butts.

I'm beside myself with glee!

2007-09-18T18:13:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite Republican morons is under investigation. Rachel Paulose, she of the elaborate swearing in ceremony wherein she had not only a color guard and a professional photographer but a choir singing presumably to God in gratitude for her existence, (watch the video!)is under investigation for possible mishandling of classified information. Apparently she kept secret files out in the open in her office and threatened to fire a fellow attorney who pointed out to her that maybe that wasn't such a good idea. They're also investigating mistreatment towards her employees and the usage of racist terms against an African American worker. (The woman herself is Indian-American.)
She's just another example of the self-hating Republican. Be they ashamed of their sexuality (Larry Craig) or ashamed of the color of their skin (Alberto Gonzalez, Condi, Ms Paulose) they hide behind their American flag lapel pins and shouts of "hallelujah Lord!" hoping that somehow they can repress whatever it is about themselves that they hate. They treat others as beneath them as seat themselves atop flimsy pedestals. What a bunch of "maroons", as Bugs Bunny would say.

My week in front of the TV

2007-09-15T16:32:00.001-07:00

Let's see....
MONDAY: I watched HGTVs HOUSE HUNTERS and DESIGNED TO SELL. I watch these shows everyday when I get home from work. Why? I don't know. I guess it's something about having choices and taking action but I'll leave that to my shrink to figure out. Then I watched the season finale of THE CLOSER. Pretty good show. Pretty good finale. No cliff hangers, which was unusual. I tried to watch the Holly Hunter show that comes on afterwards, SAVING GRACE, but I just cannot get into it. I love Holly Hunter but I just don't like Grace. What makes her so special that God sends her an angel? What about me! If I develop a drinking and sleeping with married men problem will God send an angel to help me, too?
The last straw with this show, was a scene I caught a couple of weeks ago. This actor, don't know his name but you'd recognize him if you saw him, in face he's in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 as the manager of the resort. (I didn't watch the whole thing;it's unbearable. I only watched enough to acquaint myself with a popular culture phenomenon, but I saw this actor in it.) Anyway, this actor is playing some friend of Grace's who's has to put his beloved cat to sleep. He shows up at Grace's drunk and depressed about his cat. Grace wants to comfort him but the only way she knows how is to strip naked, straddle and seduce him on her living room floor. It was an uncomfortable scene to watch, especially since this guy always plays the nerdy dad or neighbor and I'd just seen him in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, for God's sake! And now I see his paunchy white gut naked, while he rolls around on the floor with an equally naked Holly Hunter? No thanks.

TUESDAY:I watched SCI FI's, EUREKA. It was pretty good last season, but this season has been uneven. They're trying to develop a continuing storyline but it's been very unsatisfying. Last season's finale suggested things that would happen in the future but this season seems to be ignoring all of those events. And where is Matt Frewer? He was a big part of last season and he's only been in one episode this season and then he disappeared. Weren't he and Jo supposed to continue their tentative romance? Instead they've paired Jo with a generic good looking actor who's BORING and a bad actor. And where's Deborah Farentino? She's the evil spy but she's disappeared too, though she turns up in flashbacks. She's part of the this "developing storyline" yet she's gone. What? They couldn't afford her? She didn't like Canada? STOOPID and yet I watch.

WEDNESDAY: Speaking of stoopid, Wednesday is more SCI FI Channel and GHOSTHUNTERS. The most aggravating show on TV. They never find anything! Well, I take that back, on a couple of shows, they've found "something," but mainly it's nothing but a lot of "did you hear that?" and "did you see that?" and "Dude, I swear, I saw a shadow, or something, overthere." There are usually some EVP's, paranormal voice recordings. These can be creepy sounding but it always bugs me because what I hear as breaths and grunts they always turn into ominous words. "I think it's saying, "Get out!" And they say this to the homeowner or whoever has asked them to come investigate their spooky sounds! Don't tell a person who thinks their house is haunted that you recorded a creepy voice telling them to 'GET OUT!' Nuts!
The lead investigators are Grant and Jason, the good cop, bad cop of the ectoplasmic world. I don't like Jason. He never smiles and is a hard ass and he's always the one who "interprets" what he thinks the EVP is saying. What is he, a sadist? Grant always goes along with whatever Jason says. The two of them always hint at why they became interested in the paranormal. They've both had "significant" encounters but they don't tell us what they are. Why not? Did the ghost tell you not to? After watching reruns of GHOSTHUNTERS, I realized I'd forgotten to watch RESCUE ME. Luckily, FX repeats it a lot, so I'll catch it later.

THURSDAY: I flipped through channels and didn't find anything interesting to watch.

FRIDAY:Usually, I watch TLC's, WHAT NOT TO WEAR, but it was a rerun, so I watched VH1's, ROCK OF LOVE. I hate this show but I can't look away. Bret Michaels constantly wears a kerchief around his head cause it's his "signature look." But I think it's cause of, "thinning hair."
In this episode, Bret Michaels narrows the list of ladies, or "ladies" down to three. They go to Vegas and two of them get fall down drunk, then Bret spends two different nights with two different girls. I don't get it? Did he have sex with them? Is that in the contract they sign to be on the show? STOOPID but highly entertaining. Next week we meet the parents of the girls and the previews looked "white trashy" good!

Global Warming? I'll get to that later.

2007-09-12T17:53:00.000-07:00

You'd think that comparing the growing problem of global warming to a nuclear war would have everyone running out to buy fluorescent lightbulbs and trading their cars in for hybrids, but no, it's just another story that people see and say, "oh my." and then return to their lives. Why are we not worried? See this sentence from the story:

"Overall, it said 65 countries were likely to lose over 15 percent of their agricultural output by 2100 at a time when the world's population was expected to head from six billion now to nine billion people."

WHAT YEAR? 2100? OH, WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF TIME. HELL, I'LL BE DEAD BY THEN, WHY WORRY ABOUT IT NOW?

All of us reading this story are going to be dead by 2100. The year 2100 is too far into the future for us to worry about. That's how people are, we procrastinate. Don't tell us it's not going to effect us until 2100, tell us about how it's effecting us now! That's the only way you're going to get our attention! Remember, a great number of people on this planet can barely see through to next month much less the year 2100. Break it down into bite size pieces. 2007-2010-2015...

Since when do Facts Matter?

2007-09-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

Following the M.O. of the Republican party, Thompson is shouting out untruths hoping no one will notice. Unfortunately, it works every time. Regardless of the physical proof provided by video, audio and print, the facts remain hidden by the loud assertions of dishonest cretins. Down the memory hole it goes.

Where's that Karmic reward when you need it?

2007-09-07T12:33:00.001-07:00

After making a fool of himself to an international audience (again), Bush took off from the podium, in the wrong direction. (again. Remember China?)

"Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out—the wrong way. He strode away from the lectern on a path that would have sent him over a steep drop. Howard and others redirected the president to center stage, where there were steps leading down to the floor of the theater."

A "steep drop" indeed.

Big Bloated Blowhards

2007-09-07T10:40:00.000-07:00

I have had it with Fred Thompson! I've had it with all of the ass kissing Republicans and their propanganda that seeks to destroy this country! They don't like dissent because it threatens them! They don't like people to have their freedom because it threatens them!
In this article, Freddie, as he was known before his father-in-law at the time told him he had to change his name if he wanted to go into politics, this was the father of his high school girlfriend whom he got pregnant and married when he was seventeen....anyway, in this article, Freddie, "repeatedly warned against the perils of a "weak and divided" nation, raised the specter of unspecified terrorists with suitcase bombs, and expressed a willingness to employ nuclear weapons against Iran."
Same old M.O. Scare the sheep and they will do anything you tell them to and damn them if it doesn't work. When did we become this nation of wussies?

Republican Karma?

2007-09-05T11:55:00.000-07:00

Republicans seem to be experiencing mercury in retrograde.

Bush Diddles while the World burns...

2007-09-05T11:00:00.000-07:00

This report from the Associated press has got me riled up. Apparently, it's perfectly acceptable in this year of 2007 for the President of the United States to refer to his female Secretary of State as his "date."

"She can be my date," the president said, reaching out his left hand to touch Rice's arm as they stood before the cameras at a dinner hosted by Prime Minister John Howard and his wife Janette at their residence, Kirribilli House .

I'M HIS "DATE!" HE'S SO CUTE! TEE HEE! "DEAR DIARY, GEORGE CALLED ME HIS "DATE." TONIGHT. THEN HE TOUCHED MY HAND! SWOON! I HOPE IT MEANS HE LIKES ME."

More from the same story.......

"First lady Laura Bush had stayed back in Washington, saying a pinched nerve prevented her from taking long flights."

RIGHT! LAURA HAS A "PINCHED NERVE!" IS THAT WHAT THEY CALL THE INABILITY TO SIT NEXT TO AN IDIOT, TO WHOM YOU ARE UNFORTUNATELY MARRIED, FOR OVER 16 HOURS AS YOU FLY TO AUSTRALIA?

"Bush rode across Sydney Habor in a luxury cruiser flanked by police boats and police on jet skis. Photographers called it a boater-cade. Helicopters watched from overhead as a spitting rain fell from a darkening sky."

GOD SPITS DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS.

"Arriving at Kirribilli House, Bush found Howard waiting expectantly in the doorway. Fruit bats swooped overhead. Bush came well prepared. He told the prime minister and his wife that he was eager to see pictures of their new grandchild."

THE FRUIT BATS TRY TO SHIT DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS.

"Parts of Sydney resemble a besieged camp, with police erecting a 10-feet-tall security fence, dubbed by local media the Great Wall of APEC near the summit site....When a reporter started to ask him about security, Bush interrupted him.
"I hope you feel safe," the president said.
"I feel ...," the reporter started.
"You feel inconvenienced, obviously," Bush said.
"But to the extent I've caused this, I apologize," he continued. "Look, I don't want to come to a community and say, you know, what a pain it is to have the American president. Unfortunately, however, this is what the authorities thought was necessary to protect people."

"...WHAT A PAIN IT IS TO HAVE THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT."? NO, KNUCKLEHEAD, IT'S A PAIN TO HAVE YOU AS THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT. WHEN CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT, MEN AND WOMEN THREW CANDY AND KISSES TO HIM AS HE PASSED, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

"The reporter was finally able to get in another word.
"Well, I wasn't going to blame you personally, sir," the reporter said. "But anyway --"
Bush interrupted again. "I guess I must be feeling guilty, you know what I'm saying?"

FEELING GUILTY? FINALLY.

"Bush did not let security issues or diplomacy get in the way of his exercise.
After lunch, Bush headed back to his hotel to change into biking gear."

NOTHING GETS IN THE WAY OF HIS KEEPING HIS GIRLISH FIGURE. MORON.

President Gore

2007-08-30T10:04:00.001-07:00

Found this story on Daily Kos. Yes, this is the man we elected President and in a perfect world, he would be our President.

Me thinks they doth protest too much...

2007-08-29T12:00:00.000-07:00

Why was Tucker SO upset by the proposition in the bathroom? So upset he went back with help and beat up the guy who'd bothered him. Could he have been trying to beat down some inclination in himself? Perhaps a tendency to prefer bow ties, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Beware the sign of the beast!

2007-08-28T17:00:00.000-07:00

Always look askance at those who wear an American flag in their lapel. They are most certainly hiding something.
Hey Larry, you're not being singled out because you're gay. And it's not because you have a tendency to pick up men in bathrooms for anonymous sex. It's not even because you're a Republican. It's because you're a liar and a hypocrite and a self-hating person. I don't care what your preference is but for God's sake, be honest about it. Don't pontificate against and persecute those that are like you and stop hiding behind the flag!

The Man who Should be President

2007-08-23T18:51:00.000-07:00

Today's USA Today reports John Edwards saying, "We cannot replace a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats, just swapping the Washington insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of the other,"
Hallelujah! The truth has been spoken! That is why I don't endorse Hillary or Obama for Prez. They are too beholden to those that "brung them to the party."

Hmmm. Whatever could be wrong?

2007-08-23T15:10:00.000-07:00

So Mark "thank heaven for little boys" Foley, won't turn over his computers so that law enforcement can see exactly what he was talking about with those pages. Gee, I wonder why?

Uh, we're going to "reschedule."

2007-08-23T12:10:00.000-07:00

Aww! None of the Democratic candidates wanted to show up to the debate FOX and the Congressional Black Caucus were having so FOX has decided to "reschedule."
Ha! "Reschedule!" That's funny! Sort of like "rescheduling" a birthday party because everyone you invited decided they didn't want to go! Boo Hoo! Gotta love the way FOX knows how to manipulate the language. Goebbels is so proud of his pupils!

Condi au naturel?

2007-08-23T11:41:00.000-07:00

Forbes Magazine lists Condi Rice as bachelorette #6. Aside from the ridiculousness of that thought, what wrong with this picture of Condi? What is she covered in, snake skin? Was the picture taken before she could employ her mind control shape shifter power?

Oooh, you make me so mad!

2007-08-20T16:30:00.000-07:00

Ooh, Mr. Bush-boy, I'm gonna pinch you! You make me so mad! Oooh!

No wonder Cheney told Leahy to go @#%& himself. No guts, no glory.

Run for the Hills!

2007-08-20T11:11:00.000-07:00

There are days when I just want to give up. Give up on everything. Today is one of those days. Everything is making me sad. Christian conservative are rewriting our American History and we are sitting back, powerless to stop it.
Over in Russia, Putin is busy re-writing his Country's history.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2878775.ece
And forget finding any truth at Wikipedia! The history there is constantly being rewritten.
Sigh! Most days I fear for my country, for my world, other days, I reason that all will be well; right will persevere.
Today, I don't feel like that. I feel like a town cryer, moving through the cobble stone streets of his town, tolling his bell and yelling, "bring out your dead!"

Why I can’t scratch my ass and binge on potato chips anymore

2007-08-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

Yet another infringement of my civil rights that will be ignored by the media and the powers that be. Great, now I have to worry that a satellite is broadcasting me everytime I sit my fat ass in front of the TV and get ready to stuff my face with Lay's Limon potato chips! Hey, Michael Chertoff, enjoy the show!

Turd Blossom Speaks in Turds

2007-08-15T15:16:00.000-07:00

From THINK PROGRESS comes this excellent quote from Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove.
Rove claims that those that criticize Bush are "sort of elite, effete snobs who can't hold a candle to this guy. What they don't like about him is that he is common sense, that he is Middle America."
"Middle America?" Really? Wow! I had no idea Middle America grew up the son of a privileged son in a privileged family. I've posted some pictures of our "Middle American" president. (yes, I know president is supposed to be capitalized but he doesn't warrant the courtesy.)

Chris Matthews thinks it's 1974

2007-08-14T15:48:00.000-07:00

I'm old enough to remember the old Sears Catalogs and lately I've noticed a resemblance between some of the models and uber pin-head pundit, Chris Matthews. The resemblance goes beyond the physical when taken in conjunction with Matthew's latest remark; a throwback to what I'm sure he remembers as, "the good old 70's," when chauvinistic remarks were exchanged with ease and men patted "broad's" behinds with aplomb.

Bush's Washington Post OP_ED First Draft

2007-01-04T10:18:00.000-08:00

I am the decider! What I say goes! You can all kiss my ass!
Can I go now?

What America Do You Live In?

2006-09-07T12:02:00.000-07:00

They Think We're Stupid and So Far They're Right.

2006-02-21T16:21:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I'm still blogging...

2006-01-20T11:21:00.000-08:00

It's been awhile since I last wrote. I let the hopelessness of this Country's condition get to me. I have good days and bad. Today's a bad.

I keep thinking about this rich kid I went to grade school with. Even at 6 years old, she walked around with an air of privilege. She got away with murder. She destroyed school property for kicks. She picked on the poor kids until they cried. She was mean. When she'd get caught, she'd say, "I didn't do it." And because her father was a big donater to the school, (Catholic school. They need money.) she always got away with it. Me and the other poor and middle-class kids learned to steer clear of her and when she'd hurt us, we'd say, "that's okay."

She's a mess now. Three marriages, lots of plastic surgery, lots of alcohol going down her throat. She doesn't seem happy. I suppose her karma caught up with her.

Karma. I believe in karma. I have to believe in karma. I have to believe this administration's karma will catch up with them. But every day, as the Democratic party takes their lumps and says, "that's okay," it gets harder and harder to believe in.

Boy, are they gonna be surprised

2005-11-11T15:26:00.000-08:00

When Pat Robertson kicks the bucket, he and his kind are in for a rude surprise when they find heaven is not the exclusive millionaires club they imagined but a place that doesn't allow him and his kind past its pearly gates. "Pardon me?" Pat will say, "doesn't he know who I am?" Yeah, he does, that's why you're not getting in.
Har-de-har-har! The look on their faces will be priceless

Senseless

2005-10-04T11:20:00.000-07:00

Don't want to see it. Don't want to hear it. Don't want to believe it. These are the words that are guiding our country now. Gone is "home of the brave,” or "for liberty and justice for all." When did we become a country so afraid that we would rather believe the promise of an alcoholic, AWOL asshole, (love alliteration) than to believe what we see and hear?

Today's presidential press conference was a joke, as usual, but when discussing the possibility of an avian flu outbreak, Bush brought up something, so matter of factly, that it didn't raise the eyebrows it should have. He said that in the event of such a flu epidemic, the military might be called on to control the situation, as in overseeing the quarantine of infected individuals. WHAT? We should know from experience that if you give this administration an inch they hit you over the head and take the whole highway! Giving the power of enforcing quarantine is just another way of saying, "MARTIAL LAW!" And no, I'm not a conspiracy buff, I'm just using my common sense based on what I see, what I hear and what I believe.

This administration has too much power to let it go. Have you ever seen a dog protecting a juicy meat bone? That's what we've got here. On my bad days, I feel we are fighting a losing battle, that in the real world, evil will conquer good. On my good days, I think, maybe today will be the day the tide will turn and I wait for it to do so. Today is a bad day.

I need a pick-me-up.

2005-09-20T14:47:00.000-07:00

Yeah, another day filled with nothing but bad news and worse bad news. Another hurricane is on the way and another member of the Bush Administration has been arrested. They're doing something about the hurricane and absolutely nothing about the arrest. The Bush team just gets deeper and deeper in doo doo and they keep coming out smelling like roses! So posted something that always brings me a smile and a chuckle. I hope you like it too.

Today's List

2005-09-16T11:38:00.000-07:00

What’s bugging me today? Let’s see….

• My job
• Rita Cosby’s voice (oh my god! How can anyone listen to her?)
• My body’s inability to translate my reduction in calories into weight loss.
• My ever-expanding ass! (See above)
• My job, again
• But mainly what’s bugging me today is…
THE EVIL AND SELFISH CORPORATISTS WHO HAVE TAKEN OVER OUR COUNTRY AND CONTINUE TO REMAIN IN POWER! WHEN WILL THIS NIGHTMARE END?

It may be time to gather up our torches, picks and axes and storm the White House!

Karl Rove is going to be in charge of the rebuilding of New Orleans. Does no one see a problem with that? He will rebuild it all right. It will be whiter, richer and nothing like it was. We have paid mercenaries patrolling the streets taking guns away from licensed owner. Now, I’m not gun person, (I think weapons are the root of all evil--one root anyway,) but I am a bill of rights and amendments person and this is a violation of those.

Everyday I wake, hoping that today will be the day that this administration’s evil will be exposed and removed. Everyday I wake and find that nothing has changed. And the evils are exposed; they’re right there out in the open and yet this administration remains in power. The smiling idiot, who stole two presidential elections and is leading our country and our world into damnation, is still there.

The frustrating thing is, we are the ones in charge. We the people. We have the power and they know we have the power that’s why they lie to us. That’s why propaganda is necessary.

Fundamentalist religions keep their women subjugated because the men know it’s the women who have the power. The only way to control them is to keep them uneducated and in birkas. That’s what this administration is doing to “we the people.” They’ve put us into a birka and we’re allowing it

Family Values

2005-09-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

This picture shows why this Administration is a master at propaganda. Look at them! Doesn't it just remind you of the days of Camelot? Of Jack and Jacqueline? Isn't that little girl adorable with the bow in her hair? So what if no little girl has worn a bow on her head in that way since the 1940's? How can anyone think John Roberts would be bad for this country? Look at him with his children! So what if he wants to limit the rights of women, minorities and the poor in this country? Aren't they just the cutest family? So clean and wholesome and white.

Me and My Big Mouth

2005-09-02T18:16:00.000-07:00

So I'm over at the Raw Story website getting the latest news and I notice this ad. Now maybe I was in a bad mood to begin with but this struck me as rather bad taste. So, because I was already in a mood, I clicked on the ad and contacted him via email. He wrote me back! At first, I felt awful. This man lost his brother in 9/11!. I'd only watched the horror on TV, he'd been directly affected. But I've thought about it, discussed it with a few friends and now I still feel chagrined but I also still feel the ad is kinda tacky.

Here's the correspondence:
This is what I wrote to him:

Subject: Information Inquiry

You seem to be very qualified to run for office and I'm very glad you
are a Democrat, but I would hope you would reconsider the ad you are
posting on such sites as Raw Story. Identifying yourself as a "9/11
family member" in your ads reminds me of the way this Administration
repeatedly uses 9/11 whenever they need to bend us to their will.
Voters should vote on a candidate's abilities. Please don't use a
national tragedy as a qualifier.
Thank you,

This is Mr. Rice's reply:

Thanks for your opinion. You are correct that it is a sensitive message to
highlight how I was impacted by 9/11 in a political ad, although I do not
agree that it is "inappropriate", and I strongly disagree that it is even
remotely akin to how the Bush Administration has exploited the event that
killed my brother. I must say that I am offended that you compare this to
how they have dramatically exploited the deaths of 9/11, deaths they failed
to prevent.

It is highlighted in the blog ad. for 2 reasons:

1)- we made the ad the way we did to attract progressives from outside of
Oklahoma to be interested in a local race here, not unlike why people all
over the country we're interested in Paul Hackett's race in Ohio last month.
If it were just "Andrew Rice running for State Senate in Oklahoma" there
would be little to no interest. But to many progressives, 9/11 changed
politics and policy in this country, and they understandably would be
interested in a normal person affected by 9/11 who is reacting to it in a
way that is intended to better the system...similar to how people are pulled
toward Cindy Sheehan.

I do have some exposure to people outside of Oklahoma because of the work
I've been involved in around 9/11 national issues, particularly as a board
member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
(www.peacefultomorrows.org)

Why is it ok for us Peaceful Tomorrows members to do advocacy work as 9/11
victims and not ok for me to run for office as a family member?

And

2)- my personal response to 9/11 and the political/policy impact it has had
on my life is a direct and personal reason why I now find myself running for
political office. The page on my site that we link to should make that
clear. It is very relevant to why I am running.

I am not a politician, I am a normal person who has been offended by how
this government has used 9/11 to dismantle constitutional rights and
disparage our reputation around the world. And that is the central reason I
am running. There is a congresswoman on Long Island who successfully ran for
Congress after he husband was shot to death on the Long Island Railroad
massacre in the 1990s, on a platform of gun control.....was she exploiting
gun control? Or her husband's death?

Andrew Rice
Democratic Candidate, Oklahoma State Senate
District 46

www.andrewforoklahoma.com

tel. 405.823.5264

Hello? Have you had enough yet?

2005-09-01T16:15:00.000-07:00

With the arrogant ease of the frat rat he is, this Bush a-hole is acting as though he had absolutely nothing to do with this disaster. Our Country is falling apart. We are witnessing the truth behind the curtain. Our infrastructure has been robbed. We have been robbed and I would hope now that all those idiots who voted for this privileged pig because he seemed like, "a good guy you could have a beer with," will realize that this guy would walk on your dying body to avoid getting his shoes dirty.

This article says, "it's time for symbolic gestures..." and propaganda is the strong suit of this White House, but this time I don't think sticking American Flags on your car and on suit lapels is going to cut it. Arrogance may prove to be the Achilles heel of this Administration. Bush is still strutting around waiting for the maids to clean up his mess, but not this time. If this doesn't wake up this Country, I will lose heart, but I will never lose hope.

Boo Hoo!

2005-08-30T11:31:00.000-07:00

Poor Bush. Just when he was gonna spend his last days of vacation kickin' back, a big hurricane, an outta control war and a growing anti-war movement had to go and ruin his plans. Now he's gotta go back to work two days early! Boy, I hope he got enough rest.

Another Frat Rat speaks

2005-08-29T16:38:00.000-07:00

As Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, towers high above we mere citizens, I need to inform him that the reason “liberals” use the term “chicken hawks” when we speak of this administration is to point out the hypocrisy of a situation where people who have never been to war, repeatedly ignore the advice of those who have, and send troops to war. It’s not a simple case of “name calling,” as Mr. Lowry glibly writes. And I would remind him, the Republicans are much more apt to stoop to “name calling.” Anyone remember, “flip-flopper?”

But aside from that, what really angered me about this article was the last paragraph. Mr. Lowry writes, “The Iraq war was arrived at through the democratic deliberation of the American public…” Oh really? How exactly did we make a “democratic deliberation” if the information we were given was a pack of lies? This war was arrived at through a series of lies and manipulations and some very powerful media propaganda.

We in the anti-war movement are not playing “dress-up” when we stand at corners with signs and candles just like the soldiers aren’t playing “war” when they die.

They actually pay this woman to write!

2005-08-29T16:36:00.000-07:00

Hey, can I have Sally Jenkins job? If all it takes is coming up with a ridiculous topic and spinning it into a lot of words that add up to a pile of steaming you know what, I'm you're gal.
Come on! Am I suppose to seriously consider an argument for intelligent design based on athletes innate abilities? Gee, I'm sure the Third Reich thought the same thing about their "master race" theory.

Sally asks, "Crackpot speculation?" Let's see. No scientific evidence, in fact, no scientific anything, just a feeling of something too unknowable to know. Based on that I'd say, Yes, Sally, It is "crackpot speculation."

I believe ID (idiotic design) IS a form of sly creationism, a set of ideas that discourage thought!
Yes, the universe is more than we mere mortals can ever understand but that doesn't mean we should stop using our god given minds to keep trying.

Vote for God!

2005-08-23T16:27:00.000-07:00

Today’s Los Angeles Times had an article titled, “Grooming Politicians for Christ.” What the article fails to point out is that the evangelicals’ dream of a country where leaders ask themselves, “What would Jesus do,” before every decision is no different from the method of government the Taliban practiced in Afghanistan. Once religion enters the political arena, all hopes of working towards a common goal goes right out the window. Each religion will believe they have the truth and until the higher power itself descends from wherever and sets the record straight, once and all, there will never be a consensus among humankind as to who is God is. Ever. Witness Israel and Palestine.
Our founding fathers specifically left religion out of politics because they knew it was the only way a country made up of individuals, each with their own ideas and beliefs, could ever succeed. Leaders and politicians are beholden to their constituents and have been elected to represent their physical needs not their spiritual needs.
It’s ironic this article should come out on the same day that the Iraqis finally finished their constitution. Article 2 of said constitution reads, “Islam is the main source for legislation.” That doesn’t sound like a democracy to me, it sounds like an Islamic country where religion comes first and country second. The problems are already starting before the ink is even dry, after all, not everyone in Iraq is Islamic.
I see no difference between an American Christian zealot like Eric Rudolph who blows up abortion clinics in the name of Jesus and the Islamic fundamentalist zealots who hijack planes and fly them into buildings in the name of Allah.
This article didn’t just piss me off it also filled me with horror and dread at the coming American jihad.

Drip, drip, drip

2005-08-22T15:21:00.000-07:00

The permafrost is melting in Alaska. It hasn’t budged since the last ice age ended over 10,000 years ago. Of course, it’s only happening if you believe in evolution and global warming, if you don’t believe in evolution, everything in your world is just peachy keen.

Not so in my world. In my world, not only is the permafrost melting, but we are still in Iraq. In fact, the Army just released plans for remaining in Iraq for the next four years. Meanwhile, the vacationing Presidential thief is once again evoking September 11th as the reason we are mired in this horrible war in Iraq and the reason we will remain there.

The world goes on, spinning madly is our universe as the permafrost melts in Alaska and the war rages on and on.

What debate?

2005-08-22T15:16:00.000-07:00

There was a story in the Los Angeles Times this Sunday, 8/21/05 about how attitudes towards the Iraq war are changing. There was one line in the story that absolutely pissed me off. The line was, “…the debate over whether Saddam Hussein’s regime had any link to the Sept. 11 attacks.” DEBATE? What debate? There is no debate! The FACT is Saddam Hussein had absolutely nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks.
The President said so himself.
“We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September 11th.” (White House Briefing, Sept 17, 2003)
There are human lives at stake, please stop spreading the lies that started this God-forsaken war.

At Least Nixon Tried...

2005-08-17T14:59:00.000-07:00

RE: Conservative Compassion by Edmund Morris,The New York Times 8/17/05

If the point of Mr. Morris’ article is to explain that conservatives don’t wear their emotions on their sleeves and that Mrs. Sheehan should back off and stop demanding something from this president that he supposedly possesses but chooses not to show, all I can say is, BULLSHIT!
Mrs. Sheehan has repeatedly said she is not in Crawford looking for Bush to offer her a shoulder to cry on, or to have him say, “Mr. President, feel my pain!” as Mr. Morris so rudely claims. Mrs. Sheehan is standing under the hot, Texas sun because she wants an answer to her question: What is the noble cause her son died for? What is the real reason we are at war in Iraq? And she’s not the only one wanting an answer; over 60% of the country is asking these questions.
In an attempt to justify Mr. Bush’s apparent lack of feeling, Mr. Morris describes President Reagan as a benign emoter. Yet, as Mr. Morris says himself, who is he to know? Who is he to know whether Reagan really even understood what was going on around him as he was already showing signs of Alzheimer’s in his second term? It could be the reason Reagan was able to go on after his photo op with the blind state trooper was because he’d already forgotten about it. (My father is suffering from Alzheimer’s and he doesn’t remember the things he did five minutes earlier.)
Mr. Morris says Bill Clinton only cried when the cameras were running. That may be, but at least he looked genuine doing it. And Carter may have had a glass wall around him, but he still appeared sincere. And if Nixon was awkward at displaying emotion, at least he tried.
I do not believe, as Mr. Morris does, that Bush walks like Teddy Roosevelt and feels like Reagan. I think he swaggers like the privileged frat rat he is and feels only those things that interrupt his swagger, and then, he feels only inconvenience. I find it as hard to believe George W. Bush feels Mrs. Sheehan’s’ pain and the pain of all who have sacrificed family for his false war as much as I find it hard to believe he’s really reading the books this summer the White House claims he’s reading.
Oh, and Mr. Morris, by the way, there already is a historical document which reveals what President Bush feels about his own “honored dead,” it’s called The Downing Street Memo.

Little White Crosses

2005-08-15T16:14:00.000-07:00

A man, using a pick up truck, ran over the crosses erected by Cindy Sheehan and her supporters. Ran over the crosses bearing the names of the over 1800 men and women who have been killed since the war started. He thinks he did a good thing. That man, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem with America.
This administration would be thrilled if we all thought as this man does; thinking with blinders on, able to see only one side of an issue. One dimensional thinking will destroy this Country. Being unable to see things from anothers point of view will bring us down. Why do you think this administration has consistently undercut the education of the citizens of this country, from the elementary level to college levels? Because ill-educated people tend to believe those in authority because they can only think one dimensionally and because ill-educated people are easily controlled.
If we don't fight for this country by ripping the blinders off these cross destroying yahoos, we are in the truck with him.
Read everything. Examine everything, Question everything. It's what our Founding Fathers would expect us to do. It's what they're counting on us to do. I, for one, will not let them down.

We don't need no stinking timetable!

2005-06-29T15:07:00.000-07:00

In 1999, a then candidate Bush criticized President Clinton for not having a timetable for removing our troops in Kosovo, yet now, timetables are dangerous things. Yesterday, an American helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan by the Taliban, but didn’t Bush and Condi tell us that they gotten rid of the Taliban?
I saw the President’s speech last night and all I heard were lies, lies and more lies. I watched him effortlessly spew those lies and I thought of the schoolyard bully, who after pushing another child to the ground, adamantly insists, “I didn’t do it!” and then, “You can’t talk to me like that, don’t you know who my Daddy is?”
America needs to realize we have a spoiled child and his corrupt parents running this country. We have the power to punish them and send them to their room. We have the power to impeach them and send them to their cell.

Runaway Bride

2005-05-04T15:08:00.000-07:00

5/4/05

Whatever happened to compassion? Jennifer Wilbanks, AKA The Runaway Bride, resides in a very Christian community. Her fiancé was quoted as praying to God for her return. It's been reported that they have both abstained from pre-marital sex, as keeping with their religious beliefs. 600 people were invited to the wedding. A big wedding for a small town so I'm assuming most people in that town and on that wedding list share some if not all of Ms. Wilbanks and her fiancé's Christian beliefs. So why is it these people offer no compassion only retribution? They seem to cling too closely to the Old Testament tales of revenge and retribution and not enough to the New Testament and Jesus' tales of forgiveness.
Jennifer Wilbanks was scared to death. She fled from those who love her rather than turn to them for help. I have a feeling she knew there wouldn't be much support for what she wanted, why else do you run from your family?
Poor thing, she had no one to turn to. She did it alone. No friends to support her. Either that or she's a little loopy.
Either way, she's crying out for help. I'm a lapsed Catholic, which, last time I checked, was still considered Christian, and even I can see the woman needs help. So quit blaming her and demanding apologies. Stop threatening to charge her with ridiculous fees. Instead, exercise your Christian beliefs and treat her with compassion and let her recover in privacy from this very public cry for help.
Isn't that what the zealous Christian Right is always saying we on the left lack?

This morning, The LA Times had an article about a Holocaust survivor and an another article about the rise of Neo-Nazi groups in Germany. I couldn't fail but see the irony in the two stories being in the same newspaper. One story dealt with the rise of the NPD, the National Democratic Party, a right winged political group. The group is gaining in popularity among large number of citizens in Germany who are unemployed, lacking in social support and ill educated. They will listen because they are depressed, hopeless and angry and desperate for help, they don't care who it hurts. Desperation does this to people.
The other story was about a Holocaust survivor who after sixty years was reunited with the friend he'd made in the camps. There was a picture of this man's arm with his tattooed number ID. The man's son told how his father never spoke of his experiences until a trip they took back to Auschwitz in the 90's. There his father calmly pointed out landmarks and narrated to them the memories they brought back. There is the spot, "… where there would be shootings," That's where,…"they hanged six mothers who's sons had escaped." This man had lost his entire family. Of the 973 Slovakian Jews on his train, he, "guesses maybe five…made it to the war's end." Yet, after all of this unbelievable horror and the pains we take to make sure it is never forgotten the seeds of Nazism are beginning to bloom.
If this can happen in Germany, a country that should know better than to allow the ground to be laid for another repeat, what would keep it from happening here? Will troops of Brown Shirted soldiers be patrolling us, picking on those who are different from them? It's already happening, only our brown shirts wear American Flags on their lapels and claim to talk to God. Want some proof? In this same LA Times issue is the story of an investigation taking place within the U.S. Air Force Academy looking into charges of religious intolerance. Evangelical Christians, no doubt in a hurry to save their fellow students from "the fires of hell", have been harassing those students who don't agree with their religious philosophies. Christian values my ass.
In America as in Germany, as in any country on this planet, unemployment, slashed social services and a poor education leads to a depressed, desperate and misinformed populous. Differences between people become reasons for hatred; differences between incomes become methods of control. Countries become enemies, wars are created and lives ruined in tragic ways.
The sight of my America flag fills my heart with pride and loyalty but beware
those who wear the mark of the beast upon their lapel. They're the bad guys.