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

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!

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

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.

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?

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?

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

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?

Republicans seem to be experiencing mercury in retrograde.

Bush Diddles while the World burns...

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.