All the pics in this series came from Catfish.
At least it's not steroids.
Knowing that I was pissed, Jesse sent me the following pic that he saw here.
Disclaimer: I was a little bit pissed when I wrote this post, so there will be some strong language in it.
So one of my readers really took offense at my Homeless BBQ Grill post. I mean she went totally mental. Obviously she didn't read what this site is all about. At this time may I refer all of you to what is written at the top of the left sidebar.
Pushing the boundaries of bad taste and political incorrectness.
That means nothing is sacred. Nada! Zilch. I make fun of everything, including myself.
Anyway, this particular reader went completely mental, I mean totally psychotic, on me. She ripped off this e-mail to me. I have deleted the personal information she put in the e-mail.
So you've worked your ass off all your life, and worked harder after your accident? Good for you! Here's your trophy. And here's your sign, too. SANCTIMONIOUS FUCKING ASSHOLE.
Personal shit deleted but it was essentially Whine. Whine. Wallow in self pity. Poor old miserable me. Life really sucks. Yada Yada Yada
I'm just a mere mortal and you're sitting there in your ivory tower, so I doubt you could ever possibly relate. (Try back surgery - GOC) It *is* all about choices, right?There, now you know something about me. I hope you'll keep it to yourself.
Now why don't you go back to your tomato plants, your longwinded bullshit posts about how the liberals are fucking everything up, and posting fake tits. You can't relate to my life or anyone else's that isn't exactly like yours, so don't even try.
Y'see, Sweetie, I don't believe in self pity. You think you have it rough? Drop in on a rehab hospital sometime. One of my contemporaries at Shepherd Center was Peter (I think) French. He chased some kids out of his yard. He turned to go back inside when one of them threw a brick at him that hit him in the neck and paralyzed him from the neck down. He could not breathe and had to be on a ventilator. His lungs would periodically get clogged up and would have to be suctioned out. So you think you had it rough. Don't invite me to your pity party. Peter would have traded places with you in a heartbeat. He was totally helpless. What many people don't realize is that spinal cord injured people don't have control of their bodily functions. He had to have a suppository inserted in his butt to crap and a catheter in his penis to pee. He's dead now. So, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna attend your pity party.
You are alive. You can walk, use your arms, pee, and crap.
Yeah give me a fucking medal, because I don't wallow in self pity. What happened to me sucked, but I saw people a lot worse off than I was. It's hard to feel sorry for yourself when you see people who cannot even take care of themselves. I saw a girl last week learning to drive a powerchair by puffing and sipping on tubes. She couldn't move her arms. So excuse me if I don't give a rats ass about what happened to you. Excuse the fuck out of me if I cannot relate to you. I'm too busy relating to people who make what happened to you seem like a picnic. Peddle your pity party someplace else. I rehabbed with people who were never gonna get better. I was one of the lucky ones. I was incomplete so I was not totally paralyzed. I got better. But I never wallowed in self-pity. It's hard to do that when you live for two months with people who are worse off.
What's important is what happens after. I have three words for you: Get. Over. It. I did. Some people see the glass as half empty, some see it as half full. You don't even have a fucking glass. Get the fuck over it. You have a choice now. You can overcome what happened to you, like I did, and be a winnner like me or you can be a fucking loser. I think I know what your choice will be. "I'll take door number 2, Monte, the one that has Loser written on it."
It's obvious that this person is a liberal, because she sends me an e-mail attempting to insult me, gives me personal information about herself, and then hopes I'll keep it to myself. How fucking dumb is that? I am keeping it to myself. It's none of my business. She was just trying to make me feel guilty. Sorry sweetie. Guilt doesn't work with me. I had nothing to do with what happened to you.
So yeah I'll go back to my longwinded posts about my tomato plants (It's been a real wierd year. All the 'maters are small.), how the liberals are fucking everything up (They are.), and posting fake tits (Actually most of 'em are real.). And she's right. I can't relate to her life. I can't relate to losers.
Since it is a nice lazy Sunday afternoon I decided to make some changes to my Blogroll. I added a new listing called BlOGGERS I HAVE MET IN PERSON (AND PARTIED WITH). These are all primo people, smart, outspoken and fun to be around. Click on the links to get acquainted with them.
I have now been to five Blog Meets. Four of them were with conservative bloggers and the other one was half liberal and half conservative. I sat next to Greg Greene (who alas, has quit blogging) possibly the most liberal of the group and we got along just fine. No fights broke out. A few of us, including Greg, went out for a drink after the meetup. I thoroughly enjoyed Greg and the rest of the group. It was a fun night.
If you have been to a Blog Meet with me and your name is not on the Blogroll, please don't feel slighted. Since lots of drinking is usually involved, and I'm usually picking and grinning on the guitar with Pumpman and Jim from Joisey, I may not have talked to you or met you.
Introduce yourself to me at the next Blog Meet and your name will go on the Blogroll. If you haven't attended a Blog Meet and you're a blogger, what's stopping you? The people are great and we have a lot of fun.
Dammit! I tried to keep it secret but somehow Frank J. found out. Now you know why I want Dick Cheney to run and win. I mean, the honeymoon wasn't too bad except when the bag fell off her head. After that, I started putting a bag on my head in case the bag fell off her head.
The two bagger and me.
This blog is about me and I had to endure some insults from my buddy Ralph Gizzip that since my sister got all the looks and all the brains, that didn't leave too much for me. He's right. My sister is/was better looking and she's also smarter. Here's a picture of me taken in 1985 about the time I started working at the Atlanta IBM Education Center. I was 38 back then. As you can tell by my shit eating grin, I loved my job. Teaching was fun!
Holy crap! A three piece suit! A white shirt! And a tie! Look! You can see part of my ID badge. Yep! An offical IBM picture.
My mother always got a big kick out me being a technical instructor since I flunked out of college twice. And I was a pretty damned good instructor too (he says as he dislocates his arm patting himself on the back). Then around 1989, I discovered systems programming. I switched back and forth between teaching (which included writing courses) and programming and often did both until 1999 when I became a full time sysprog. That's how I finished up.
Catfish sent me this old joke about a priest and a nun enjoying a round of golf.
A Catholic priest and a nun were
taking a rare afternoon off and
enjoying a round of golf. The priest
stepped up to the first tee and took a
mighty swing. He missed the ball
entirely and said "Shit, I missed."
The good Sister told him to watch
his language.
On his next swing, he missed again.
"Shit, I missed."
"Father, I'm not going to play with
you if you keep swearing," the
nun said tartly.
The priest promised to do better
and the round continued. On the
4th tee, he misses again. The usual
comment followed.
Sister is really mad now and says,
"Father John, God is going to
strike you dead if you keep swearing
like that."
On the next tee, Father John
swings and misses again. "Shit, I
missed."
A terrible rumble is heard and a
gigantic bolt of lightning comes out
of the sky and strikes Sister Marie
dead in her tracks.
And from the sky comes a booming voice .......
"Shit, I missed
The same gushing adoring fan who called me a SANCTIMONIOUS FUCKING ASSHOLE also accused me of posting fake tits. I would venture to say that over 50% of the boobage I post is real. I think the ones below belong in that category.
A documentary about crips in wheelchairs who play rugby has just been released. It is called Murderball and the title is very descriptive. These dudes have some brass balls. I have skied with one guy who plays this sport and SCUBA dived with another. I am too much of a pussy to even think about attempting this shit.
The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation reviewed it.
Mark Zupan, the muscled wheelchair poster boy for the headbanging documentary "Murderball," is frank about talking smack to nonhandicapped guys."I go, 'What? You're not gonna hit a kid in a chair?' " the former Georgia Tech student says. " '[Expletive] hit me! I'll hit you back.' "
Zupan is dead serious. As serious with fighting words as he is crashing into an opponent in a rowdy game of wheelchair rugby.
Do. Not. Fuck. With. These Dudes.
That's what "Murderball" is about. Just because guys have unfortunate accidents or are born with disabilities and become dependent upon wheelchairs, it doesn't mean their testosterone is low.
Like I said. They have brass balls.
These grown men play full-contact rugby in custom-built, "Road Warrior"-style wheelchairs. Their game is ugly, raucously verbal, overtly physical and, as displayed in "Murderball's" rapid-pace editing, a heck of a lot of fun to watch.
It's not all action.
While "Murderball" is fast and furious in its depiction of games, the documentary also takes time to delve into the off-court lives of the players.They talk openly and perceptively about how they feel they are mistreated by the nonhandicapped public. (One Paralympics player mentions how a well-meaning relative, when she realized what his success meant, announced he had made the "Special Olympics.")
Yeah. I bet that really pissed him off.
Some readily admit that their injuries have made them "chick magnets."
WTF? I've been a crip for seventeen years and I never realized I was supposed to be a chick magnet. I must really be an asshole!
And the film offers up footage from an instructional video to partially show how these guys have sex.
Probably needles and pumps. Where there's a will, there's a way.
"Murderball" may make many people rethink how they view the handicapped.These guys don't want pity. They want to compete and they want to win. They want nothing short of a gold medal.
Guess I'll have to see this one.
I got a piece of gushing fanmail today from an adoring fan who called me a "SANCTIMONIOUS FUCKING ASSHOLE". (No, I'm not gonna identify the adoring fan because I don't think the rest of the web needs to know how much this person loves and idolizes me.) Now that kind of shit really pisses me off because I'm not just a SANCTIMONIOUS FUCKING ASSHOLE, I'm a COMPLETE ASSHOLE. When I do sumpin' I give 100%, none of these half measures for me.
And now you too, my faithful readers, can become a COMPLETE ASSHOLE and have the diploma to prove it. Simply download the signed diploma, fill in your name and the date, and you will have proof that you are a COMPLETE ASSHOLE.
Don't worry. This ain't Saturday Boobage. That's still to come.
This is indecent. Before clicking on the link, ask yourself if you really want to see some really ugly boobage. No way would any of these make it to Saturday Boobage. Think of my Republican Women Versus Dimocrat Women post. These are the Dimocrat Women. Think of Andrea Dworkin naked. Make sure you have a barfbag handy.
You also have a fine example of irony: The ugly woman with the awful breasts holding up a sign that says War is Indecent. The Left has really lost it!
Link stolen from Little Green Footballs.
Charlieb sent me this.
Click on picture for larger image.
In my case it was the CDSM® who was the idiot. By and large, the instructors I supported (with a few exceptions) and my co-workers were pretty cool and fun to be around. Shizgirl, looks like it's a good thing you quit.
In my previous post I went off on a rant about why I hate Dimocrats. Took me about ten minutes to write. Now I'm gonna talk about what I believe. Do I support all of Bush's policies? Hell no! I voted for him for one reason and one reason only. I thought he would be better at fighting the War On Terror than Flipper.
Here are some of my beliefs:
I believe in the Bill of Rights.
That means McCain-Feingold has to go. A pox on John McCain for helping to write it. A pox on Bush for signing it. The only campaign finance law I want to see is full disclosure. I want to know who's buying our politicans and how much they are paying. For example, how much did China give to Bill Clinton for our rocket guidance technology. Fuck you Dimocrats for giving us this traitor.
No assault weapons ban. As I said in my previous post I don't want an AK-47 to kill Bambi, I want it to protect myself.
People are saying we need to pass laws to protect private property in light of the Supreme Court's decision on eminent domain. Bullshit! We already have a law. It is the Fifth Amendment. The same court that ruled McCain-Feingold constitutional is the same court that ruled against the Fifth Amendment. We need justices who will uphold the Constitution. We need more justices like Scalia and Thomas. And fuck you assholes who use abortion as a litmus test. Howza 'bout the Constitution as a litmus test. Fuck you, Chuck "the Schmuck" Schumar. Al D'Amato was right when he called you a putzhead. How does it feel to have seniority and still be the junior senator from New York?
Stop this insane political correctness at the airport. Grandma and Grandpa are not the ones that are gonna hijack the planes. Ahmed and Mohammed are. I don't give a fuck if it is racial profiling. The most likely hijackers are gonna be Middle Eastern men. Single those fuckers out. If they don't like it, tough shit! If you assholes would police your religion we would not have to.
End all farm subsidies. One of the policies the Republican Revolution in 1994 started was weaning farmers off the public tit. Unfortunately, once Bush was elected, farm subsidies went through the roof. I didn't vote for Republicans to raise domestic spending.
I am against tariffs. History has shown that free trade economies are the most prosperous. Remember Japan was gonna bury us. They embraced protectionism. For the most part, we don't. Whose economy is in the best shape? I was against the steel tariff. I am for NAFTA and CAFTA.
Socialism doesn't work. France and Germany 10% unemployment. Ours is 5%. Our economy is growing at twice their rate of growth. Any questions?
Same with socialized medicine. Why do Canadians come here for medical procedures? Because the farking waiting list for common procedures is too long in Canada.
End the insane War on Drugs. Drug addiction is not a crime. It is a disease. More of our rights are being violated in the insane War on Drugs than in the War on Terror. Remember Prohibition? Great success. Legalize and tax the shit out of them. Use the revenue to finance treatment centers. At the least, legalize marijuana. No way do pot smokers belong in jail.
Adopt the fair tax and abolish the IRS. Any tax system where the average citizen cannot figger out his own taxes is a disgrace. With the IRS, you are guilty until proven innocent. I know. I went through an audit. They change the rules on the fly and if you protest, they tell you to take them to court. Assholes!
Abolish withholding. Make people write a check to the gummint for Social Security, Meidicare and income taxes. The tax system would be fixed in one election cycle.
Private Social Security accounts. I've been giving this a lot of thought. Half of the people in this country are too fucking stupid to manage money. These are the people who vote for Dimocrats. My latest thought is investing the private accounts in TIPS. It will beat inflation. It's guaranteed by the gummint. And it keeps the money out of the hands of unscrupulous Wall Street types.
Term limits. Congresscritters, six years, Senators, two terms.
Non-partison drawing of congressional districts. Ahnold is dead right on this one. Let's make the House of Representatives truly representative.
Arrest Jane Fonda, try her for treason, and hang her.
All the Hollywood dickheads who promised to leave the country, leave already. I have enough readers who will kick in the money for airline tickets.
I want a smaller gummint. Abolish the Department of Education. Abolish the Commerce Department.
Any law that is passed has to state what part of the Constitution allows that law. We have too many laws on the books.
Instead of passing new laws, why not enforce the laws we already have?
Reading through what I have written, you can see that I more closely resemble a Libertarian than I do a Republican or (shudder!) a Dimocrat. Our gummint has become a monster with professional politicians. The Founders envisioned a citizen gummint not a gummint ruling class which is what we have now.
I would like to see public spirited citizens who give no more than a few years of their lives to gummint and then return to private life. We do not need any more Ted Kennedys and Robert Byrds. Or, on the Republican side, Strom Thurmonds. Strom was in the Senate much too long. Teddy should have spent a few years in jail.
So all of you dipshits who think I'm a diehard Republican, think again. Bush and the Republicans piss me off a lot. They just don't piss me off as much as Dimocrats. Republicans don't want to lose the War on Terror. Dimocrats do.
I've had some comments lately by booger eatin' moh-rons who have read only one of my posts and decided that I advocated one party rule and I was a blind supporter of all Republican policies. Obviously these people have not read very much of my writing. I am a small L libertarian. I usually find myself voting Republican since I hate Dimocrats. I do desire a two party system since one party rule is a bad thing. Unfortunately, I do not want the Dimocrat Party to be one of those parties.
Why do I hate Dimocrats so much? Let me list some of the reasons.
I hate Dimocrats because they have been taken over by the left wing socialist blame American first crowd.
I hate Dimocrats because they idolize Ted Swimmer Kennedy, an old alcohlic bloviating blowhard murderer. Why do you people in Taxachusetts keep electing this asshole?
I hate Dimocrats because they lionize Robert Sheets Byrd who was once a member of the KKK. Had he not been a Dimocrat when he used the word nigger on national television there would have been an outcry for him to resign.
I hate Dimocrats because they defended a lying, serial sexual harrassing bastard like Bill Clinton. The same people who went after Clarence Thomas for talking dirty excused Clinton for his sexual misconduct. Can you say double standard?
I hate Dimocrats because they hate the military. They can't get enough of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.
I hate Dimocrats because of Dick Turban Durbin. See above.
I hate Dimocrats because they support the fake feminist Hillary Rodent Clinton.
I hate Dimocrats for what they have done to the public education system in this country.
I hate Dimocrats for supporting bilingual education which is actually an impediment to learning and assimilation. Ditto for Ebonics.
I hate Dimocrats for multiculturism.
I hate Dimocrats for what they have done to the black family. Thanks to Lyndon Johnson's Great Fucking Society, the illegitimacy rate for blacks is close to 80%. Their social programs have created a black underclass mired in poverty and dependent upon the gummint. If the KKK had tried to destroy blacks they could not have done a better job than the Great Fucking Society.
I hate Dimocrats because they castigated Lawrence Summers for daring to suggest that there are actual genetic differences between men and women while at the same time condoned hate speech from Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill.
I hate Dimocrats because they are against the Second Amendment. I don't want an assault weapon to shoot Bambi. I want it to protect myself.
I hate Dimocrats because they lionize Michael Moore.
I hate Dimocrats for Jimmy Carter.
I hate Dimocrats because they support infanticide partial birth abortion.
I hate Dimocrats because they are more concerned with regaining power than with the defense of this country.
I hate Dimocrats because they want to raise my taxes.
I hate Dimocrats for giving us Cynthia McKinney.
I hate Dimocrats because they give legitimacy to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, a couple of RWPP's (Race Warlord Poverty Pimps), who have become rich while supporting policies to keep blacks poor and dependent upon gummint.
I should hate Dimocrats for giving us Howard Dean, but he is just so farking funny that I should thank them. He just blamed the Supreme Court decision on eminent domain on the Republicans when it was the liberals on the Supreme Court who are at fault.
I hate Dimocrats because the same dipshits who kept saying during the Clinton scandals that we should "just move on" are the same people who keep bringing up slavery©. Ain't it time we just move on from that? It was over 140 years ago. Get the fuck over it! I'm sick of it!
I hate Dimocrats for Jane Fonda.
I hate Dimocrats for John Flipper Kerry. By the way Flipper, when are you gonna release all of your records like you promised to do on Meet the Press? Lying sack of shit!
The Dimocrats used to have some honorable members of their party. Maybe they still do but they're few and far between. They have been taken over by the left wing. These are the people who want the rest of the world to love us. They believe if we just give the terrorists what they want we can all gather around a fire and sing Kumbaya and they will leave us alone. They cannot get it through their thick skulls that the terrorists hate the West and all it represents. They hate Hollywood. All the liberal movie stars would be lined up and killed by stoning because to the Islamic nutjobs they are all adulterers.
These "progressives" want policies that make them feel good, not policies that actually work. Good intentions. That's all that matter. Let's shield our children from failure by not keeping score in games. Let's not use red ink to correct tests. Let's build up their self esteem.
The real world does not give a flying fuck about self esteem. In the real world good intentions do not matter. Only results do.
I hate Dimocrats because they do not live in the real world.
REPORTER VOWS TO 'KILL SELF' IF CHENEY RUNS FOR PRESIDENT
Thu Jul 28 2005 15:32:13 ET
Veteran wire reporter Helen Thomas is vowing to 'kill herself' if Dick Cheney announces he is running for president.
The newspaper HILL first reported the startling claim on Thursday.
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"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told the HILL. "All we need is one more liar."
Thomas added, "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
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Yeah! I bet she'd break her word just like all the Hollywood nitwits who are always threatening to leave the country.
Charlieb sent me these rules that cats must obey.
1. DOORS
Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get a door opened, stand on hind legs & scratch the frame. You may also reach under the door & pulling clothing towards you; silks get the quickest reaction. once door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. After you have ordered an "outside" door opened, stand halfway in & out and think about several things. this is particularly important during very cold weather, when it's raining or snowing, or during the height of the mosquito season. Swinging doors must be avoided at all costs.
2. CHAIRS & RUGS
If you have to urp, get to an overstuffed chair quickly. if you can't manage this in time, get to an oriental rug. if there are no oriental rugs, shag is a good substitute. When urping on shag be sure you project; it is a must that it stretch for as long as human's bare foot.
3. BATHROOMS
Always accompany guests to the bathroom. (see rule 1) it is not necessary to do anything - just sit & stare.
4. HELPING
If one of your humans is engaged in some semi-closed activity & the other is idle, stay with the busy one. This is called "helping":
When supervising cooking, sit just behind the left heel of the cook. You can't be seen & thereby stand a better chance of being stepped on & then picked up & comforted.
For book readers, get in close under the chin, between eyes & book, unless you can lie across the book itself.
For knitting projects or paperwork, lie on the work in the most appropriate manner so as to obscure as much of the work or at least the most important part. Pretend to doze, but every so often reach out & slap the pencil or knitting needles. The worker may try to distract you; ignore it. Remember that the aim is to hamper work. Embroidery & needlepoint projects make great hammocks in spite of what the human may tell you.
For people paying bills (monthly activity) or working on income taxes or Christmas cards (annual activity) keep in mind the aim - to help! First, sit on the paper being worked on. When dislodged, watch sadly from the side of the table. When activity proceeds nicely, roll around on the papers, scattering them to the best of your ability. After being removed for the second time, push pens, pencils, and erasers off the table, one at a time.
When a human is holding the newspaper in front of him/her, be sure to jump on the back of the paper. They love it when you jump.
5. WALKING
As often as possible, dart quickly and as close as possible in front of the human. Especially effective places to strike are:
on stairs, when they have something in their arms
in the dark
when they first get up in the morning. This exercise helps with improving their coordination skills.
6. BED TIME
Always sleep on the human at night. If there are two (or more) of you, book end the human putting off the greatest heat. They will try & squirm but your sheer numbers & inert bodies will effectively keep them pinned.
7. COMPUTERS
Only show interest in computers that are turned ON, the operator will need your help. Monitors are bad for human eyes. It might ruin your owner's sight & cause them to buy less cat food. Always get in between the monitor and the person operating the computer. For best results, stand as close to the monitor as possible. If you are removed, go & sulk in a corner for a minute, then repeat. Look as innocent as possible.
Keyboards are great to lie down on. Make yourself as comfortable as possible. Marching over the keyboard several times is fun too. Practice aiming at alt-F4, N, and ctrl-alt-del.
Always chase the mouse, your owner can't blame you for this, since it's your feline instinct to chase mice.
Holy Crap! Did I ever have a good time today oppressing the masses. It was a joyous day for a capitalist like myself.
I had a 10:00 AM appointment at my periodontist. The poor peasant dental hygienist that I oppressed by making her clean my teeth is doing so poorly that she just bought a house. I'm sure that her boss, whom I opressed by giving him business ain't doing so well since he raised his prices yet again.
After I left his office it was off to the bank where I oppressed a loan officer by signing a bunch of forms to get myself an home equity line of credit to the tune of $80,000. That loan officer was really sweating. This opression shit is lots of fun.
I got home and started surfing the net looking for new people to oppress. Damned if I wasn't able to piss of my good buddy, Shizgirl. I commented on this this post about her white trash neighbors that she should buy a house. (Please do not post rude comments on her site. Believe it or not, she is a friend.) She told me to lend her some money to buy a house and then laughed at me for still being on dialup. Crap! I'm a stupid capitalist, but I am rich! BWAHAHAHAHA!
About this time, my cleaning lady arrived. Holy shit! Here's someone else to oppress. I always make sure there is Diet Coke in the fridge and Snickers in the freezer. Crap! I was out of Snickers and since I was partying over the weekend in Nawlins with all the elite conservative bloggers who hate the poor and want to see them starve I didn't go to the store to replenish my supply of Snickers. Suffer bitch! I did let her go out to my garden and pick my tomatoes. I even gave her some of them.
So, while she was slaving and cleaning my house, I drove down to Shepherd Center to work out. I took my Nissan pickup. Who knows how many people were oppressed assembling this vehicle.
So I got to the weight room. Oh boy. Here's a chance to oppress some more peasants. After all, I pay good money to support the employees. Peasants! Crap! I couldn't figger out anything for them to do to help me. Wasn't able to oppress them. Major league downer. On second thought, there is Tennille, whom I would love to oppress. What a freaking babe!
The only way I was able to restore my spirits was by thinking about what I was gonna use my line of credit for. I was gonna be able to oppress a bunch of Mexicans. Y'see, the first project I have in mind is having a bunch of carpet ripped up and having hardwood floors installed. This is manual labor (Or is it Manuel labor?) which will entail oppressing a whole shitload of Mexicans. No construction work is done in Atlanta without Mexicans.
The next project is having tile installed in the master bath. Then, I'm having hardwood ripped up in the kitchen and having tile installed. The last project is having my patio behind the house extended and having stone borders installed around all of my beds. We're talking a good two years of oppressing Mexicans. Christ! I'm getting an erection just imagining all of this shit.
Tonight for dinner, I had some pasta. But, before I ate, I drank some Stoli on the rocks with a couple of Spanish olives. How good does that make me feel? I oppressed some Russkis by drinking the Vodka they had to produce and some Spaniards by eating the olives they had to pick. And to oppress some more Spaniards, I drank a Spanish wine with dinner. Pick them grapes! Smash them grapes! Make them into wine!
I just love being a rich and oppressive capitalist. In a later post I will tell y'all how to be rich like me.
Until then, fuck the poor! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Tina says this is a sign in an Oklahoma driving test station. I wouldn't be surprised to see it in Georgia.
Somehow I got on MoveOn.org's mailing list. I just got an e-mail from them today to take a survey.
Here are the questions with my responses.
Q: How would you describe MoveOn.org?
A: A collection of far left anti-American booger eatin' moh-rons.
Q: What is the most important thing MoveOn does?
A: Energize support for conservatives due to its wacky far left anti-American agenda.
Q: What is the thing that MoveOn does that you like the least?
A: Its anti-Americanism.
I also have a survey from the Dimocrat Party. I've been trying to decide if I should take it as a libertarian (note the small l), which I am, or have fun and take it as someone who belongs to MoveOn.
Decisions. Decisions.
But first, the Feisty One sent me this link. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Scott sent me a link to this article.
Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.
Thus giving an entire new generation of American military folks to hate her farking guts.
“I can’t go into any detail except to say that it’s going to be pretty exciting,” she said.
Treason does that to Hanoi Jane y'know. I guess now she will be known as Hussein Jane.
Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on “vegetable oil.”
Vegetable oil? WTF? Are they gonna fill up at McDonalds?
Prompted by a question from the audience, Fonda said war veterans that she has met on a nationwide book tour have encouraged her to break her silence on the Iraq war.
Which war veterans? Viet Nam War veterans like John Kerry?
“I’ve decided I’m coming out,” she said.
She's gotta do sumpin' to help her book sales. Not doin' too well are they Janie?
Hundreds of people in the audience cheered loudly when Fonda announced her intentions to join the anti-Iraq war movement.
I guess Santa Fe must be pretty liberal, huh?
“I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam,” she said. “I carry a lot of baggage from that.”
No shit! Have I ever told you how much I hate Jane Fonda? I despise the bitch. Here she is trying to live down her treason, (That's right, treason, she should have been given a fair trial and then lined up against a wall and shot.), even semi-apologizing for her antics during Viet Nam, and now this vacuous airhead, this walking piece of anti-American excrement is gonna go and do it again. Maybe she'll go to Iraq and pose with a bomb belt. That would be one picture I would like to see. Make it a live bomb belt with a remote detonator. I'd pay money to see that. Pieces of Jane Fonda all over Iraq. Beautiful!
Remember this picture?
That's when she made her infamous trip to North Viet Nam and posed on an anti-aircraft gun and made propaganda broadcasts to our troops to aid and abet our enemies. Farking bitch! No amount of apologies can ever atone for her actions. May she rot in Hell!
Yeah. I feel pretty strongly about this. Treason does that to me. Another thing that pisses me off is that she now lives in Atlanta. Why can't she be one fo those celebrities who promise to leave the country? Nope. She has to stay her and foul up this country.
God how I hate that treasonous bitch!
Sent to me by Tina and others.
So someone named Len left a comment on my post comparing Republican women to Dimocrat women. He said:
How about a post comparing the accomplishments of the women pictured on the top to those pictured on the bottom?
Your wish is my command.
Len: Are you trying to say that the bottom women are more accomplished than the top?
Barbra Streisand - blessed with a voice but no brain.
Helen Thomas - Washed up liberal reporter. Never was any good in the first place. Is called the Dean of White House reporters due to her longevity. Have you ever read any of her shit? Arrggghhh! Liberal bullshit.
Hillary Clinton - Used a man to get ahead. Stood by and did nothing when her husband humiliated her and her daughter in front of the entire world. Parlayed victimhood into a Senate seat. The antithesis of feminism.
Teresa Kerry - Got rich by marrying one man. Used that man's money to finance the political career of another man. Was a liability to her current husband's last campaign.
Madeleine Albright - One of the most incompetent Secretary's of State this country has ever had. Best known for waddling after Yasser Arafat as he was walking away from the best deal the Palestinians are ever gonna get.
Janet Reno - Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Elian Gonzales. 'Nuff said.
Andrea Dworkin - Man hating feminist.
Nancy Pelosi - Rich husband. Limousine liberal.
Susan Estrich - Managed Dukakis campaign. We all saw how that turned out.
Let's look at the Republican women.
Bo Derek - Owes her success to her husband and killer looks and bod but is smart enough to be a conservative.
Janine Turner - Blessed with looks and acting ability. Smart enough to be a conservative.
Laura Bush - Never wanted to get into politics. Never wanted to make campaign speeches. She did it for her husband. Is not a hypocrite like Hillary. She is genuine.
OK. The first three female Republicans are no great shakes as far as intellectual accomplishments altho' Laura Bush does have a very good education. They are smart enough not to be liberals. Let's examine the rest.
Peggy Noonan - Great writer. Wrote speeches for Bush pere. Was responsible for "1000 points of light". I would match her intellect against any of the Dimocrat women below. By the way, she used to be a Dimocrat. Like Reagan, the Dimocrat Party left her.
Laura Ingraham - A lawyer. Very quick on her feet. She was a guest on the McLaughlin Group once and told Eleanor Clift to shut up. Eleanor always interrupts others but gets pissed when people interrupt her. Laura was the first person to put Eleanor in her place. About time. She is also a successful talk show host.
Michelle Malkin - A successful columnist. A brilliant writer. Has her own blog.
Ann Coulter - A lawyer. A successful writer with many best selling books. Ann Coulter, along with Laura Ingraham, appeared many times on Bill Maher's old show Polically Incorrect (which wasn't). She, along with Laura, was always the lone conservative on the panel. She, like Laura, always gave better than she got. She and Laura are smart, able to think on their feet, and always more than a match for the liberals they debate.
Monica Crowley - She holds two Masters degrees and a Ph.D. in international affairs from Columbia University. That ain't chopped liver. Compare that to any of the Dimocrat hags in the bottom picture. Does Babs have a degree? We know she can't spell worth a shit as evidenced by her fax to Dick Gepheardt which was the inspiration for my Faxes From Babs series.
Debbie Schlussel - Holds both Law and MBA Degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Attacked as "Enemy #1" by Ms. Magazine. Schlussel ran for the Michigan House of Representatives from the suburban Detroit area and lost by just one vote, the closest election in Michigan political history. Wonder how many dead people voted in that election?
So Len, how's that? I'll match the accomplishments of the Republican babes over that of the Dimocrat hags any time. I just love to see beauty and brains together.
By the way, in her younger days, my sister was a babe and is a damn sight smarter than I am. Liberal commenter Jimmy got temporarily banned for saying what he would like to do to her after I posted a picture of her. She's a Republican. Here is what she looked like at 24. Bet she didn't know I still had this picture.
She won a four year scholarship to Washington University in St, Louis. She spent over 30 years as a computer programmer at Lockheed Missiles and Space. Wrote some of the code for the Hubble space telescope. She is probably the smartest woman I know. Did I mention that she is a Republican?
I rest my case.
Today's Monday Pun is from Dr. John.
On the farm lived a chicken and a horse, both of whom loved to play
together. One day the two were playing, when the horse fell into a
bog and began to sink. Scared for his life, the horse whinnied for
the chicken to go get the farmer for help!
Off the chicken ran, back to the farm. Arriving at the farm, he
searched and searched for the farmer, but to no avail, for he had
gone to town with the only tractor.
Running around, the chicken spied the farmer's new Harley.
Finding the keys in the ignition, the chicken sped off with a length
of rope hoping he still had time to save his friend's life.
Back at the bog, the horse was surprised, but happy, to see the chicken arrive on the shiny Harley, and he managed to get a hold of the loop of rope the chicken tossed to him. After tying the other end to the rear bumper of the farmer's bike, the chicken then drove slowly forward and, with the aid of the powerful bike, rescued the horse!
Happy and proud, the chicken rode the Harley back to the farmhouse,
and the farmer was none the wiser when he returned. The friendship
between the two animals was cemented: Best Buddies, Best
Pals.
A few weeks later, the chicken fell into a mud pit, and soon, he too,
began to sink and cried out to the horse to save his life! The horse
thought a moment, walked over, and straddled the large puddle.
Looking underneath, he told the chicken to grab his hangy-down thing
and he would then lift him out of the pit. The chicken got a good
grip, and the horse pulled him up and out, saving his life.
The moral of the story? (Yep, there's a moral!)
"When You're Hung Like A Horse, You Don't Need A Harley To Pick Up
Chicks!"
I'm back from the Brawlin's in Nawlins. For those of my foreign readers who cannot find Nawlins on a map of the United States, the proper name is New Orleans, but Southerners call it Nawlins.
The drive down was uneventful. I didn't even speed all that much. I got to Nawlins around 3:00, but it took me another hour to get to the hotel. People drive in the French Quarter just like they drive in Paris and the streets in the French Quarter are as narrow as they are in Paris.
I found a parking place in front of the hotel which was located on Royal Street a few blocks away from Bourbon Street. After checking in, Tyrone, the helpful bellhop, hopped in my car and we drove up a few levels in the parking garage until we found a crip space in front of the elevator. I was on the 19th floor, so we had to take the elevator to the 18th flooor, get off and get on another elevator to the 19th floor. He got me to my room, I tipped him, and he left.
Christina said that she and Zonker were gonna be at Margaritaville at 5:00. I had checked out where it was and knew that it would be too far to walk so I called her cell to make sure she was really gonna be there. Got her farking voicemail. So I went down and got a cab.
I think the cab driver took me on a roundabout trip, but it was only $5 and I was on vacation. Fuck it!
I got to Margaritaville and walked in and looked around as if I was lost. This caused one of the ladies in front to ask if I was Denny. How could she tell? It turns out Sam had told the ladies to keep an eye out for a crippled dude who looked like he was lost. Everyone was up on the second floor, but there was an elevator and one of the nice ladies escorted me up to where everyone else was. Got a nice hug from Sam's wife Barbie. Also got hugs from Kelley, Key, and Christina.
Note to Pumpman who didn't come because he thought Christina would be too bossy: Dude, you missed a good time and Christina was not a bit bossy. And to Catfish: Susan was there.
I did not get a hug from V-Man and that is a good thing. I also got the pleasure of meeting Dash who also didn't hug me.
After a few drinks at Margaritaville some of us hopped a cab and went to a real nice restaurant that Christina "bossed" us into going to. The food was incredible! I'll take that kind of bossing any day. We went back to the hotel and Dash picked up my guitar from my room and we went to Sam and Barbie's room. I was the only picker there so I had to play solo. We called up Jim and gave him grief about not showing up and bringing his guitar down. He had some lame excuse about work or sumpin' like it.
We talked a little politics (we are bloggers, after all) and Barbie went to sleep only to wake up now and then and call bullshit on sumpin' I said. We stayed up until 2:00 AM drinking and partying. Anyone who thinks conservatives can't party never hung out with this crowd.
Next day we met at 10:00 for breakfast. I had pastry and coffee. We were sitting out on the patio at this cafe and V-Man started talking to a bum who decided to come in and try to hit us up for some cash. We left. I went back to the hotel. Kelley, Key, and Shoe went out partying. I caught up with them around 4:30 and they were really into it. We had another nice dinner and stopped in another bar to hear some live music. Everyone said the band they had on Friday was awesome and the guitar player was hitting on Kelley. We got there and it was a different band. No one in the band hit on Kelley. I went back to the hotel and Key was nice enough to walk me back.
Let me just say how much fun it was hanging out with these guys. I needed to cab a few places since I was not up to walking the distances and there was always someone to share a cab with me. These people really knew how to take care of a grouchy old cripple.
Got up around 8:00 this morning and after Tyrone took my luggage down to my car and I checked out, I was on my way. Of course, checkout was fun. The person in front of me was with two other people, so when it came time to pay, part of the bill had to be on one credit card, another was on a different card, and the third guy paid cash. Unfortunately, the other two guys were fucking with their luggage, so I had to wait while first one dipshit, and then the other made it to the front desk to pay his part of the bill. Thanks, assholes!
Drove back a different route, which was actually shorter. I also drove a little faster (lots of speeders and I kept up with a few of them at various times) and made it back in less than seven hours.
I had a great time and I'm hoping this becomes an annual event.
Disclaimer: Any pictures of me in compromising positions and situations that you may see on other blogs have all been Photoshopped.
I'm off to Nawlins for a blogmeet that Feisty Christina set up so there won't be any Saturday Boobage this week. There won't be any posting at all until Sunday night. So, what I'm gonna do is post a picture and description of the perfect woman that Jim sent me.
Picture stolen from Rodger.
Hey Dimocrats! That's what Karl thinks of your lame atempts to get him.
I'm just loving watching the liberal media eat their own. The Lamestream Media demanded an investigation and as a result, Judith Miller, a liberal, is in jail for refusing to identify her source. Who is Judith Miller protecting? It certainly isn't Rove since she'd give him up in a New York minute. Rove signed a waiver allowing Miller and Mat Cooper to divulge any info he might have given them.
And what about Valerie Plame? It seems that all her neighbors knew she worked for the CIA. It must have been that vanity license plate that said CIAMOM.
Needless to say the Dims are going apoplectic. Barney Frank has now uttered the dreaded impeachment word. Hey Barney! Look at Rove. He's laughing at you. There's nothing there. Besides that, you guys are in the minority. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Mad Conyers wants to hold another tea party fake committee hearing. BWAHAHAHAHA!
I was discussing the all Rove all the time feeding frenzy with my friend Michael and he thinks that it is a tempest in a teapot (a good reson for the Dims to have a tea party) and would not be getting the play if it wasn't the summer and the silly season in DC. I'm not so sure. The LSM and the Dimocrats are trying to find anything on which to destroy Republicans and the president. Rove did knock DeLay off the news. I guess it's because he's closer to the president and is the evil genius behind Bush Chimpy McHitler.
Speaking of funny names did you hear that they captured someone in Pakistan called Aswat? "Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. Beavis. It sounds like asshat. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm."
You would think that the upcoming fight getting John Roberts confirmed would trump the Karl Konspiracy Kaper, but nope, yesterday there was that shining intellectual light of the Senate, Barbara Boxer and her sidekick Jane Harman of the House demanding that Bush punish Karl Rove. C'mon ladies. How can he do that? Rove uses the dark side of the Force to control Bush. He is powerless against the evil Darth Rove. The only person who can stand up to Darth Rove is the equally powerful Darth Cheney. Bush is putty in their evil hands. Where's your Luke Skywalker? Barney Frank? John Conyers? Ted Kennedy? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Rove ain't going anywhere. Why don't you Dims try to think up some issues? Oh that's right. You have no ideas. You're intellectually bankrupt. Keep on acting like spoiled babies.
Karl is laughing at you. I am too.
It was like a flashback and channeling weekend. My sister and her husband came down for the weekend. This was a good thing since I usually get some work out of them.
My brother-in-law, Ryan, hung a picture they had given me. He also moved the pictures from where I wanted the new picture to go. He replaced the mantles in my gas light. Then, to bleed off excess energy, he did some weeding on my berm. All of this work cost me a steak dinner and some fresh tomatoes that they took back to South Carolina with them. Hell of a deal. My sister had a cut finger so I didn't get any work out of her.
My friend Cindy was gonna have us over for dinner on Saturday night, but she came down with some sort of stomach virus so she had her husband Michael bring the food over to our house. Besides bruschetta
we had tomatoes topped with mozzarella cheese and fresh basil. Guess where the tomatoes came from. Then we had eggplant lasagna. We had parmigiano reggiano for a cheese course and a homemade blueberry pie that my sister had baked for dessert. She picked the blueberries herself in South Carolina. Of course, we had three bottles of wine.
Sometime during the dinner the subject of the Sommelier Guild of Atlanta came up. I remarked that the majority of members had a net worth of over a million dollars. Michael disagreed. The conversation was remarkable similar to What have the Romans ever done for us from The Life of Brian.
Me: There's member A.
Michael: OK.
Me: And Member B.
Michael: Well, OK.
Me: And Member C.
Michael: Yeah.
Me: And Member D.
Michael: Of course. Member D. That goes without saying.
By this time, Ryan was trying to keep a straight face because it sounded just like The Life of Brian.
But on Monday, things got even wierder. If there is one thing my sister likes to do, it is throw things out. I take after my father's side of the family. I am a packrat. I had accumulated some trash in my garage. My sister thought that Monday would be a good time to take it to the dump, especially since I had bought some new pillows and had some old pillows to throw away. Somehow, Alice's Restaurant started running through my head.
Sunday night, we had a Thanksgiving steak dinner that couldn't be beat. The next morning. we loaded the garbage trash from the church garage into the back of a red VW microbus Nissan Frontier pickup and headed off to the dump. We did not have shovels and rakes and other implements of destruction.
When Ryan and I got to the DeKalb County dump we discovered that it was closed had moved somewhere to the wilds of south DeKalb County. This was prime Cynthia McKinney country. The person at the old dump had given us a map, so with tears in our eyes, Ryan and I headed off to south DeKalb County to find the new dump. Unfortunately, we did not have my sister along to navigate.
I admit that there were times that I was looking for a place along the side of a side road to dump the garbage trash, but the last thing I wanted was for the DeKalb County police to have to take twenty-seven eight by ten glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one to be used as evidence against us.
With only one wrong turn, Ryan and I made our way to the Seminole Landfill and we were able to successfully dispose of our trash. Ryan tried to call my sister to let her know why it was taking us so long, but my sister had her cellphone turned off, which is the usual mode of operation. I could have suggested that Ryan call my phone number and leave a message since my answering machine is a speaker phone, but I'm an asshole and wanted to listen to them fight. I always arrive early at Michael and Cindy's so I can watch their pre-dinner party fight. They consider me part of the family and have no qualms about fighting in front of me.
Ryan and I returned OK. He and Sherry exchanged words, ate lunch and headed back to South Carolina.
In other news, I was elected president of the Sommelier Guild of Atlanta on Monday night. Yeah. I'm thrilled! That means I have to find the restaurants for our monthly tastings and negotiate with them. It's a thankless job. Now I know why so many restaurants go out of business. Geez! I talk to someone who says that he/she will call me back and he/she never does. Don't they want the business of people who are affluent (lots of millionaires) and eat out a lot?
I think I have the venue for our September tasting, but there is a problem with the menu. I have to have that firmed up so the wine commitee can match the wines to the courses. Arrrgggghhhh! I get to do this for the next two to three years. On the upside, the Guild does pay for the board of directors to sample the restaurants for our annual banquet and the Champagne tasting.
Now if only I can keep my sanity. It's a good thing we found the new dump so I did not get thrown in jail for littering.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant...
I report. You decide.
What timing! Catfish sent me Kennedy's plan to leave Iraq.
It worked once.
I was the 1000 visitor to this guy's site. He sent me an e-mail to tell me and said some nice things about me. Let's give him another 500 hits.
Here we go again. Another plan to keep blacks dumb and on the Dimocrat plantation. What am I talking about? The San Bernadino school district planning on teaching blacks in the stupid made up language called Ebonics. I read about it here. I thought we fixed this idea a few years back when the Oakland school district decided to do this but backed off after the outrage and ridicule the stupid idea engendered. Or did they?
A school district in Southern California approved the "affirmation and recognition" of Ebonics into its curriculum as a way to help black students improve academic performance.
Yeah. Let's keep them from learning how to read and write standard American English. That's really gonna help them get a high paying job.
"Well Keyshawn, why do you want this job."
"Yo yo bro', I need the bling bling to hep pay for mah crib."
Sorry that's the best I can do since I don't speak Ebonics. What do you think Keyshawn's chances are?
The San Bernardino Board of Education says a pilot of the policy, known as the Students Accumulating New Knowledge Optimizing Future Accomplishment Initiative, has been implemented at two city schools, according to the daily San Bernardino Sun.
I can hardly wait to see the achievement scores for these poor students. They are so fucked!
Ebonics, a dialect of American English spoken by many blacks, was recognized as a separate language by the Oakland, Calif., school board in 1996.
It. Is. Not. A. Farking. Foreign. Language!!!!! It is American black slang. It is about as much of a foreign language as pig Latin. Jesus H. Christ! What is wrong with these fucking booger eatin' moh-rons. Why do they want to sentence these poor students to low paying jobs and poverty? White racists everywhere are laughing about this stupid idea. Robert Kleagle Byrd is laughing his ass off. Future RWPPs (Race Warlord Poverty Pimps) are licking their chops. As long as blacks are prevented from succeeding future Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons will get rich off of black failure. Gotta make things ripe for the next generation of RWPP's.
Mary Texeira, a sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino, believes the program will be beneficial to students."Ebonics is a different language, it's not slang as many believe,' Texeira told the Sun. "For many of these students Ebonics is their language, and it should be considered a foreign language. These students should be taught like other students who speak a foreign language."
Mary, you ignorant slut. This program, just like bilingual education, will harm those that it is attempting to help. What the fuck is wrong with you? What do you have against black people? One of my three simple steps to avoid poverty is education and part of that education is learning how to read, write, and speak standard American English. The sooner studednts learn that, and that includes all students in the American gummint schools, the sooner they will have a chance to succeed.
Texeira acknowledged there are African Americans who disagree with her.
Yep! Those that know the value of an education and want all blacks to succeed. People like Bill Cosby, Walter Williams, and Thomas Sowell.
"They say that [black students] are lazy and that they need to learn to talk," she said.
They are not necessarily lazy, unfortunately there is a culture in the black community that doing well in school, and that includes learning how to read, write, and speak standard American English is "acting white". That is what the education establishment, and black leaders should be addressing. Bill Cosby is right.
The program, which will be implemented gradually, begins this fall when teachers receive training on black culture and customs. The district curriculum will include information on the historical, cultural and social impact of blacks in society.
And how to make excuses for low achievement test scores of black students. Soon we'll be hearing that low test scores are because the tests are culturally biased. Wait a minute! We hear that now. We'll be hearing even more of it with Ebonics based education. What's next? Having an SAT test in Ebonics?
Len Cooper, coordinator of the pilot program at the two city schools, said Ebonics won't actually be incorporated into the program, because of its "stigma."
Yeah. The stigma of failure.
"We are affirming and recognizing Ebonics through supplemental reading books for students," he explained.Although the program is aimed at black students, other students can choose to participate, the Sun reported.
White kids who want to talk like rappers can sign up. There will probably be a long waiting list to get into that program.
Board member Danny Tillman told the paper he pushed for the policy because he hoped it would increase the number of black students going to college and participating in advanced courses.
Huh? Learning to talk like a rapper is gonna help someone get into college. What the fark is this guy smoking?
But Teresa Parra, board vice president, worries other minority groups, including Hispanics, will want their own programs.
Yeah, they want to lessen their chances of going to college and getting ahead. Why do the blacks get the chance to fuck up? The Hispanics want that too. Soon we'll have Hispanic Jesse Jacksons screaming about racism. I can hardly wait.
"I've always thought that we should provide students support based on their needs and not on their race," she said.
No shit!
Ratibu Jacocks, a member of a coalition of black activists – the Westside Action Group – said they are working with the district to ensure the policy is implemented appropriately.
The sooner we can fuck up minority education the better.
"This isn't a feel-good policy. This is the real thing," said Jacocks.
Yep. We're training the next generation of welfare recipients. Plus they'll all vote for Dimocrats.
He welcomes the idea of other ethnic groups lobbying for their own program.
Equal opportunity. Why should it just be the blacks who get fucked? Let's screw the Hispanics too. Unfortunately Asian parents won't put up with this bullshit. That's why their children perform the best scholastically. Cause meet effect.
"When you are doing what's right, others will follow,' Jacocks said. "We have led the way before the civil-rights movement opened the door for women's rights and other movements."
And now they're taking a big step backwards by refusing to give students the tools they need to succeed. I guess someone has to pick up the garbage and mow lawns (and vote for Dimocrats).
What is wrong with these booger eatin' moh-rons?
How many people remember this person?
Here are some hints sent to me by Judy.
Remember these images the next time that alcoholic, murdering, pompous asshole, Ted Kennedy talks about being morally outraged about anything.
" Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law?
Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty? "
~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
We certainly know the answer to that question.
Here's a link to more info.
The accident happened either the night of July 18 or the morning of July 19 depending on how many times Ted's story changed.
This one comes from this guy.
A fellow experiencing dental discomfort went to see his dentist who
found that two of his teeth needed crowns. And having the crowns put
in really took care of his pain.
But after about six months he started having the pains again so he
went back to the dentist.
The dentist examined him and told him, "One of the crowns is doing
nicely but the other one seems to be significantly eroded. And as you
know -
- uneasy lies the crown that wears ahead."
Other than rooting for the Yankees, Pumpman has to love this cat.
Update: Oooops! Marcel was right. It is the Mets. No pinstripes. That's just as bad since I probably hate the Mets more than the Yankees. Dumb cat!
Some booger eatin' moh-ron threw this lady's cat off a roof. Bastard! She's run up $5000 worth of medical bills. I know. What animal is worh $5000? Howza 'bout an animal you love? My black cat Doofus ran up about $2000 worth of medical bills before I had to put him to sleep. The vet finally had to tell me I had to let go.
Go over to her site and help her out.
It was Shizgirl who told me about this. See, even though she suffers from BDS (Bush Derangemnt Syndrome) it doesn't make her a bad person.
My sis' former neighbor sent me a link to this really neat game. My score the first time I played was 2500.
1. Yes = No
2. No = Yes
3. Maybe = No
4. We need = I want...
5. I am sorry = You'll be sorry
6. We need to talk = You're in trouble.
7. Sure, go ahead = You'd better not.
8. Do what you want = You will pay for this later.
9. I am not upset = Of course I am upset, you moron!
10. You're certainly attentive tonight = Is sex all you ever think about?
I can see clearly now. From Mark.
Find the big truck in this picture.
Sent to me by Jack. I think Catfish sent it also. I'm sorry, when they're that big they just turn me off.
Sent to me by Catfish
CALIFORNIA 1850
Do you know what happened back in 1850?
California became a state.
The state had no electricity.
The state had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.
So basically, it was just like California today except the women had real boobs.
Gotta post this before Rodger does.
Sent to me by both Catfish and Ron.
Whadya mean your gonna use me as a doorstop?
To: Joe Bidet Senate Judge
From: Barbra Streisand
Dear Jim
Now that Sandy O'Connell is retiring from the Supreme Court you need to demand that Jeb Busch appoint someone more in the mainstream. We all know that she was very conservative and as Edwin Kennedy said wants to take us back to the days of back alley abortions and starving children and old people.
I'm really fed up with these mean-spirited fascist Republicans. These nazis are always calling us names. Why can't these hateful, uncaring Republicans be more civil like our leaders Harald Deane and Helen Clinton. He was right when he said they are a bunch of lazy people who have never worked a day in their lives. She was right when she compared Bush to Albert E. Newman. What a moron! We need to be more civilized in our debates, but these evil, spiteful, and hate filled Republicans insist on engaging in childish name calling.
But back to the subject of this fax. We need a judge who is more in tune with the American people. After all the country is primarily Democrat. If not for massive election fraud by the sneaky cheating Republicans our party would be running the government. We just needed a few more recounts in Iowa and Jim Carey would have been elected President instead of that stupid clown George Busch. We know there was massive voting machine fraud by the Dybold company. Had the cheating sneaky Republicans not stolen the election, Christoper Reeves would still be alive and would be walking. Jim Edwards was right.
You need to make sure you, Senator Leaky and all the other Democrats on that judge committee keep any right wing, nazi, fascist Republican extremists off the Supreme Court. You and Charles Schuman need to lead a filibluster against any extremist nominees that those dirty rotten Republicans try to push through the Senate. The future of our country is at stake.
Remember, even though we do not have a majority in Congress, the majority of the people are for us. Edgar Kennedy said so in a speech that is reproduced on my website that he made on June 13.
We as Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans. If we summon the courage and determination to take our stand and state it clearly, I'm convinced the battles that lie ahead will yield our greatest victories.
We just need to convince those stupid people in the red states who voted for those evil barbarous Republicans to vote for us, since we are the civilized party and we really care. We also need to impeach Carl Rove.
Love ya,
Babs
I TiVO (or whatever Dish Network calls it) Saturday Night Live and watch the epidodes at a later date. Old farts like me have to go to bed early. Plus, by the time SNL comes on, I'm usually shitfaced out my ass from vodka, wine and Grappa (or Lemoncello or Cognac). I watched one of my recorded episodes the other night and Green Day was the musical group. I've always wondered how they got so popular. Their drummer is OK and they have a decent bass player but their guitarist is a glorified rhythm guitarist. He can't play any lead. Yeah, I know, they're punk rock, but I'm really getting sick of talentless bands. How hard is it to find a lead guitartist?
Anyway, since Green Day sucks I am firmly behind this guy's program to send Green Day CD's to Palestinian children. The GDCD4PCP. He's already raised $3. Open up your hearts and wallets. Let them listen to Green Day before they put on their bomb belts and go out and explode. It will be just one more reason for life as an Arab to suck.
Now that's one huge pussy. Looks kinda like the one Reiggin sent me a while back.
Please send your condolences to Kim.
I know how hard it is to say goodbye to a four legged friend.
Jeremy posted the following on my Just Like Christianity post.
As an atheist, how do you justify you moral position? If there is no God, no great law giver, what makes your opinion any better than Tara's? What makes the actions of the Muslims wrong if there is no God? If all we are is mutated pond scum, there is no basis for any form of morality, and the only law is survival of the strongest. I agree with most of what you post by the way, and in no way am attempting to disagree with you on your positions.
Now that is a very good question. What is my basis for morality? Wow! I could write an incredibly long essay about that and about the influence of religion on Western philosophy.
Not really. I've knocked back two Stolys on the rocks and a half bottle of wine (Oh God! Dan is gonna accuse me of having a drinking problem.) so I'll have to give an abbreviated version.
Religion has always fascinated me. What's amazing is that the three major monotheistic religions all came from the Middle East and were created by Semites. What? You didn't know that the Arabs are Semites? Yep! They are the same race as the Jews. Their laws are similar. Neither are supposed to eat pork. They both practice circumcision. Of course Judaism has mellowed. They don't stone people for adultry. Plus, Jewish women have rights and are not property.
So did God create man or did man create God? Reading the Bible we see the early God as a warlike being, very stern. That's because the early Hebrews were a nomadic people and life was harsh. As one works his way through the Bible, God mellows out. The Hebrews settled in cities and life became less harsh as did God.
The Allah of Islam is a harsh God because the Arabs were a desert, nomadic people and life was harsh in the desert. Unfortunately, Islam, at least the Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, which just happens to be the center of Islamic thought (What is one of the five pillars of Islam? The Haj. All the Muslims have to go to Mecca at least once in their life.), is the harsh version. Women have no rights. If you commit adultry you get stoned. The EUnichs are quick to condemn the United States for capital punishment. What about Saudi Arabia where they practice beheading and stoning? And we're the bad guys?
But back to morality. Do I need an all powerful being looking over my shoulder to make me do right? Nope. I don't.
One of the definitions of character is what you do when no one is looking. We all have learned about Bill Clinton's character. And what about Al Gore? As he was castigating Republicans for not caring, we found out that he gave less to charity than my mother who was living on Social Security and some modest investments. After having to make his tax returns public, he upped his charitable contributions.
My morality comes from my upbringing and common sense. I have a conscience. I don't need a father figure looking over my shoulder because, for all of my father's weaknesses (He was an alcoholic.), he and my mother did instill in me a sense of right and wrong.
I do not need an all powerful being looking over my shoulder to tell me that murder is wrong. Likewise, boinking my neighbor's wife is taboo. Same with stealing.
I was married once. I did not cheat on my wife even tho' I had countless opportunities. I was in the Navy and the prostitutes in the WestPac ports would give married men a discount or do it for free. They considered married men a challenge. Too bad my wife did not have the same morality that I did. My one regret after the divorce was that I did not keep my wedding ring.
One does not need a God to decide what is right or wrong. That is what civilization is all about. In early civilizations, religion was required to determine what was right or wrong. But the Greeks and Romans had gods they worshipped, but they were a nation of laws. Reading their mythology, you certainly did not want to emulate their gods. Jupiter/Zeus was the Bill Clinton of the Roman/Greek pantheon. He was always sneaking around on Juno/Hera/Hillary.
Yeah, religion was a good basis for morality, but it is not required. We are a nation that was founded on Judeo-Christian concepts, but we are not a theocracy, and I fervently hope that we never become one. We are a nation of laws.
One does not need religion to determine right from wrong. Look at all the people who have been killed in the name of religion. I am not trying to denigrate religion, except the virulent forms of religion (and this includes both Christianity and Islam) that thinks it is OK to kill because their particular deity has, in the words of their leaders, said that this is what their deity has commanded. I cannot comprehend of a deity who loves humanity who would tell his followers to kill other people just because they didn't worship him. What kind of being would want that from his followers? What kind of religion would teach that?
I once asked a Christian the following question. I'm sure I could have posed the same question to a Muslim and got a similar answer.
Suppose we have two people. One is a paragon of virtue. He is kind to others. He is charitable. He does not believe in God, but has obeyed all his laws, with the exception of the religious stuff. We have another person who is not a very nice guy. He has committed adultry. He has been a thief. But, at the end of his life he has repented and has found Christ (or Mohammed). Which person deserves to go to heaven. My Christian friend said that the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ. I'm sure a Muslim would have a similar answer.
Y'see, I don't believe in God, but at the same time I cannot comprehend of a god that would be so petty as to refuse to allow a really good person to enter heaven just because he didn't believe in Him.
And that's my morality.
Image shamelessly stolen from Rich Galen.
Now let me get this straight. This is the woman whose husband has cheated on her during their entire marriage. This is the woman who was shocked (Shocked I say!) to find out that Bill was cavorting in the Oral Office with a chubby airhead intern. This is a woman who allowed her husband to humiliate her and her daughter in front of the entire world. I even heard Bill Clinton is boinking one of his neighbors now. In spite of all of this she stayed with the bastard, which is the antithesis of what a real feminist would do. Remember, Hillary is the "smartest woman in the world" according to the Lamestream Media, and this woman, this professional victim who wants to be president accuses Bush of a "What, Me Worry?" attitude? Mindboggling.
If she does become president is she gonna let the rest of the world shit on her as she has allowed her husband to do? That's all we need as a president: A farking victim.
Judy sent me a link to a site that has lots of cute cat pictures that Pumpman will enjoy. Have at it Rob.
All right! That's what I like to see. Lots of discussion on my essay on Islam. Some good. Some total bullshit, like Tara. Someone has a big chip on her shoulder and sees racism everywhere. I promise, I will address her incredibly stupid comments in the future. In the meantime Tara, here's a clue: Professor Plum, in the library, with the lead pipe. Does that help? I doubt it.
I thank the Muslims who politely commented. I do not want to tar you with the brush of the nutsoids, but, unfortunately I do have to stand behind most of my words. A few months back American "moderate Muslims" tried to stage an anti-terrorism demonstration. I think it was in the New York area. Guess how many Muslims showed up? About 50.
I've been to Turkey. Hagia Sophia, which was converted to a mosque after the fall of Constantinople, is now a Christian church again. Christianity is allowed in Turkey, unlike in places like Saudi Arabia. Plus, you can get booze in Turkey. So, Islam can exist in a secular state.
As I said last night, I am an atheist and I have problems with many organized religions. Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson are idiots as are most of the tele-evangelists. Buncha con artists.
Too many people have been killed in the name of God. The Irish Catholics and Protestants are still fighting. And of course we have the Middle East which P. J. O'Rourke has labeled God's monkey house.
Back in the Dark Ages Christianity was responsible for many deaths, but with the Reformation, came reform. It still took another 200 hundred years to get most of the brutality out.
I posited on another site that it took 1700-1800 years for Christianity to clean house. Since Islam has only been around for about 1350 years, I guess that means it will take another 350 to 450 years for Islam to clean up its act. Where is the Islamic Martin Luther? I hope he shows up before the Islamic fkwit terrorists get a nuke and decide to take out New York City or Washington D. C.
In light of people killing in God's name, here's my very favorite religious joke.
The Pope was sitting in his apartments in the Vatican when the phone rang. He answered it.
"Hello Pope? This is God."
"How are you."
"I'm fine. I got some good news and I got some bad news. Which do you want first?"
"Gimme the good news."
"I'm sick of all of this killing in my name. It's disgusting. Muslims are blowing themselves up to kill Jews and others. By the way, all of those bastards are going straight to Hell. They'll find Yasser Arafat and the Ayatollah Khoemeini roasting over coals for killing people in my name. The Protestants and Catholics are fighting in Ireland. I'm sick of it! I decree that there is only gonna be one world religion.
"That's fantastic news! So what's the bad news?"
"I'm calling you from Salt Lake City."
Go here. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Someone is probably gonna issue a fatwa against this guy.
Thanks to Bobby for putting this link in the comments.
Hey Rob. Mike sent me this link for a site that has a special screen cleaner. Since you're a pussy hound I think you will love it.
Someone posted a comment on my post about Peter the booger eatin' moh-ron and it contained this excerpt:
Islam is not the problem - nuts who kill in the name of God (Allah) is. There are a lot of people who forget that Islam is a religion like christianity.
I am not trying to make fun of this person. That is not why I posted this excerpt. I just wanted to point out a dangerous mindset that exists in this country and among other nations. Islam is not a religion like Christianity. Islam is a nihilist religion of hatred. Let's examine some recent history.
Salman Rushdie wrote a book that Muslims considered blasphemous. That evil old nutcase Khomeini issued a fatwah that Rashdie must be killed. Muslims, of course, obeyed and Rushdie has to spend the rest of his life in hiding.
As an aside here, let me state once again that I am an atheist so I do not have a pro-Christian bias. Let me also state that I hope that I am wrong and that there is a God, and a heaven and a hell so that evil old bastard Khoneini is frying in hell (along with all the Christians who have murdered in God's name). Can't you just see that asshole trying to explain to God how he killed and tortured all those people in His name and God replying, "Fuck you you evil asshole! You are gonna burn for killing all those people in my name!"
Let's look at a comparable episode in the recent history of Christianity. Some dickhead stuck a crucifix into a bottle of urine and called it art. Somehow I missed the Pope's fatwah that the artist should be killed.
Another fkwit drew a picture of the Virgin Mary and covered it with elephant dung and called it art. Once again, there was not a fatwah issued by the Pope. What is wrong with him? Shouldn't blasphemy be punished by death? Yep! If you're a Muslim.
I stole the following cartoon from Rodger which illustrates my point.
Yep! The silence is deafening. All the Muslims are worried about is a backlash from people taking out their frustrations on Muslims. Listen up, dickheads! Police your own farking religion! Don't make us do it!
Want some more examples? Howza 'bout Koran desecration? When the barbarians heard that some Korans at Gitmo may have been desecrated there were riots. Remember the Palestinians who took refuge in the Church of the Nativity? Besides stealing stuff they also destroyed a few Bibles. Funny, I don't recall any Christian riots. Civilized people don't riot. Barbarians and animals do.
Y'know, I'm thinking of going out and buying a Koran so I can tear out the pages and wipe my ass. Go ahead and issue a fatwah against me goat boinkers! I have a gun and it is loaded.
Just like Christianity? Hardly. To Christians, suicide is a sin. Muslims will say for them it is a sin also, unless, of course, you can kill innocent Jews, or Americans, or British when you commit suicide. Then you are a fucking martyr and get 72 white raisins.
Christianity gave us turn the other cheek, the meek shall inherit the earth, and love thy neighbor. Islam gave us "Kill the infidels!"
But, I hear you say, this is just a minority of nutcases. Bullshit! "All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." That is the case with Islam today. The "moderate Muslims" (if there are any, and I'm beginning to doubt it) are doing nothing. Let me repeat, the "moderate Muslims" are doing absiolutely nothing to excise this cancer in their midst. By their silence they aqree with and are offering tacit approval of the terrorist tactics.
Remember 9/11? The Palestinians were dancing in the streets because innocent Americans were killed. There were Arabs dancing in the streets in America, too. Funny, there were virtually no attacks on mosques and Muslims in the United States. Contrast that with all the synagogue desecrations in France by "moderate Muslims". Just like Christians? Maybe 12th Century Christians.
Islam is just like Christianity? Don't make me puke. Islam, or at least the face Islam is presenting to the civilized world is a 7th Century death cult. "Death to America! Death to the Jews!" Look at their faces as they are screaming their slogans of hate. Look at the faces of evil. Look at the faces of hatred. This is a religion just like Christianity?
I dated a girl a while back who was a total bitch! When I pointed this out to her she stated that she was not like that at all and I didn't know the person she really was. My reply was that I only knew the person she presented to me, and that person was a bitch.
That is a perfect example of Islam. We only know the religion that is presented to us and that is a religion of hatred. It is certainly not a religion of peace.
C'mon Rob, even you have to admit that this is cute.
This Monday Pun is from Leslie. I've seen it before, but I don't remember If I have ever posted it.
A man went to his dentist because he felt something wrong in his mouth. The dentist examined him and said,"That new upper plate that I put in six months ago is eroding. What have you been eating?"
The man replied, "All I can think of is that about four months ago, my wife made some asparagus and put some stuff on it that was delicious... hollandaise sauce. I loved it so much I now put it on everything...meat, toast, fish, vegetables, everything."
"Well," said the dentist, "That 's probably the problem. Hollandaise sauce is made with lots of lemon juice, which is highly corrosive. It's eating away at you upper plate. I'll make you a new plate, and this time I'll use chrome."
"Why chrome?" asked the patient.
The dentist replied, "It's simple. Everyone knows ...
... that there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise!"
There was a comment posted on my latest Molly Ivins fisk by some booger eatin' moh-ron named Peter. It was so inane that I decided to share it with all of my readers. There are times that I think I should give out an award just for dickheads like Peter. Mabybe I could name it the Maroon Award. Or perhaps name it the Booger Eatin' Moh-ron Award.
Peter is not a native English speaker and as such there will be grammatical and spelling errors. I don't hold that against him. I admire him for being able to communicate in more than one language. The sad thing is that he doesn't have anything worth communicating.
So, without further ado, here's Peter's comment with commentary by me.
Well well, you should watch Star Wars 3, maybe you would learn why hate only creates hate, how all of you are frightened by mass media to make you agree with the war for "the republic".
First off, we are not fighting a war for "the republic". We are fighting a war against dirtbag Islamic sheetheads who are members of a religion mired in the 7th Century. We had two pussy presidents, Carter and Clinton, who appeared weak to Osama bin Laden. Carter was totally inept in the Iranian hostage crisis and so was the "international community". That's one reason we cannot depend upon the "international community" to help us fight terrorism. Clinton was more interested in getting blowjobs than in being commander-in-chief. I will also fault Reagan for cutting and running after the Marine barracks was blown up in Beirut.
Hate breeds hate? Of course it does, but you cannot appease these fanatical bastards. The only way you can deal with them is to use deadly force and kill them and that is what we are doing. We're not pussies like the French and Germans (I think Peter is German, BTW).
That is the way fashist came to power in germany.
Since I think Peter is German I guess he should know. Listen up Peter, you ignorant EUnuch! The United States is not a fascist state. It is nowhere near to being a fascist state. It remains one of the most free countries in the world. Do you think our Lamestream Media could be so anti-Bush if we were a fascist state? Use your fucking brain!
The only difference between Bush and Palpatine is that Bush is too stupid to be that evil, but hopefully his familly is here to help him.
Yet somehow, this stupid guy, Bush, won two elections (The Dimocrats claim he stole both elections which must mean that they were outsmarted by an idiot.). It also turned out that his grades at Yale were higher than Kerry's. He is the first American president with an MBA. He successfully overthrew two gummints. We need more idiots like this running the country. He has been underestimated throughout his political career. He was underestimated by the Dimocrats. He was underestimated by Osama bin Laden. He thought he was dealing with a wimp like Clinton. He was underestimateed by Saddam Hussein. My big gripe against Bush is that he has allowed domestic spending to go through the roof.
Several studies were made about the media, and your media are the more subjective among developped countries according to several studies and even some amricans.
Yep! Holy crap! Peter was right about sumpin'. Even a blind squirrel can sometimes find an acorn. Our media is very subjective but it is not pro-Bush. The LSM is the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party. The only counter balance to ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNNNPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the L. A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, (insert your home town newspaper here), and the rest of the LSM is Fox News, the Washington Times, and the Blogosphere. When you come to Atlanta you will get to see that for yourself.
Do you know that in Europe we can hear several times a week how America killed civilians or dropped unfortunatly a bomb on an hospital, or killed several hundreds of inocent child and women knowing what they were doing?
Do you know that I don't give a flying fuck what you hear or think? Did you know that we are fighting a war, a war that was declared on us by a bunch of Islamic, nutjob, sheetheads? We didn't start the war, but as long as we don't elect another Carter or Clinton we will finish it. You fuck with the USA at your own peril.
We hear that you don't care about environnement,
Fucking right! Fuck the environment. We pour all the pollutants we can into the air. It's funny because when I'm in a large European city I find their pollution is much worse than ours.
you kill the planet,
Yep! Keep on believing that Peter.
that you use black and hispanic poors'children for your experiments,
Where is he reading this shit? We can't keep the Hispanics out of this country. I guess they want to be experimented on. And Peter, you may be surprised to discover that most of our large cities are run by blacks. Atlanta is one of them. Washington D. C. is another.
that 90% of capital punishments are against black people,
I call bullshit! I will admit that capital punishment is higher among blacks, but it it not 90%. But maybe it is higher because blacks commit more crimes. That's a result of the liberals in this country who created the welfare system that has created a black dependent underclass. It was the liberals, not the right wing nutjobs, who did that.
that you use god to justify a weapon !!!
Jesus H. Christ! Where do you get your news from Peter? We have a secular gummint. We don't even call Christmas a holiday when we let schools out. It is now called winter break. You have an awful lot to learn about this country, bucko.
You have no understanding, no pity, only money drives america, no love, only wars.
We are the most generous nation in the history of this planet. We used our military for tsunami relief. Remember that? We give away more money than any country on this planet. Our people are very generous. Non-gummint charities gave a ton of money for tsunami relief. We have charities that feed the poor in Africa and Asia. Everytime there is a natural disaster Americans open their hearts and their wallets. I will match American generosity with any country on this planet.
Do you know why Bush attacked Irac knowing there were no mass destruction weapons?
I know exactly why Bush attacked Iraq. It is obvious that you don't have a clue. The only way to stop Islamic terrorism is to remove the states that sponsor it. Iraq was a good place to start. D'ya know what I would do? I would tell the Islamic world to turn over Osama bin Laden and the rest of the terrorists or I start nuking cities. My first city would be Medina and my second would be Mecca. If these asshats want a war, I'd give them one. Bush is a hell of a lot nicer than I am.
Well not only for gaz, but also for the weapon industry and to make you forget about his cheats during the election (why did you let this pass???).
Didja know that all the recounts that the Dimocrats requested in Florida were done after the election by the LSM? Ya know what? He won all of 'em. That's why we let it pass. And in 2004, despite what you have read from your obviously leftest news outlets, Bush won a clear majority. Get your facts straight, maroon.
Why didn't America attack the North Korea : they are building an NUCLEAR WEAPON and they hate america.(I know: too big, too dangerous, no gaz : Bush=coward ...!)
Because it was too late to take on North Korea. They already had nukes thanks to Clinton and the deal worked out with the North Koreans by Jimmah Carter. The deal that they reneged on immediately. Iraq, on the other hand, was working on nukes. So was Libya, but when Daffy Qadaffi saw what happened to Saddam he abandoned his WMD programs. The Syrians are leaving Lebanon. Another result of the Iraqi war.
Do you know that the evil empire for the rest of the world is the super powerfull nation that uses even murders, and war for its economy, that doesn't respect the planet and wants everybody to agree with its values.
Do you even know what an empire is? Let me help you out.
Empire - A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
Let's see, we went into Afghanistan, overturned the Taliban gummint and now Afghanistan has a democratically elected gummint. It is not a province of our "empire". Same with Iraq. Also, a real empire collects tribute from its provinces. If only. We are putting money in Iraq, just like we poured money into Europe after WWII. Something called the Marshall Plan. Remember that? Another example of American generosity. I doubt that with your limited knowledge of history and world affairs you even know about the Marshall Plan. We don't have this empire shit down too well.
Bush cooperated with Sadam AND Oussama, and nothing happened to him for that , why ???
Maybe because it didn't happen? Your knowledge of history is really pathetic. Reagan cooperated with Saddam, but that was when he was fighting Iran. Remember Iran? That's when the Iranians violated international law by taking American diplomats hostage and the rest of the world did nothing. Let me repeat, the rest of the world did absolutely fucking nothing. You're damned right we supported Saddam against Iran. I'd do it again. And I guess your contention about Bush supporting Osama must be referring to our support for the resistance in Afghanistan when they were fighting the Soviets, who happened to be our enemies at the time. Bush had nothing to do with this (he wasn't even in politics then) and bin Laden was not in Afghanistan at the time. Geez, you sound just like a liberal Dimocrat. You have all the loony leftest talking points down pat. I bet you saw Farenheit 9/11 and believed everything that was in that movie.
You have a very powerfull army that attacks small countries to steal their gaz, so don't you think Bush is a coward after all that ???
Dammit! I wish we could steal the gas, but unfortunately we ain't doing it. We're pouring a damn sight more money into Iraq than we're getting out of it. If we really wanted to steal gas, why should we go all the way to Iraq? Why didn't we just attack Canada? They're our biggest oil supplier. Howza 'bout Mexico? We could conquer them and steal their gas.
Try to see what is hidden in your media, because in europe, media often speak about things your governement did, and you don't even know it even when it's awfull.
Wait until you come to Atlanta and read the Urinal and Constipation and look at the network news. They are all anti-Bush and anti-Republican. You'll feel right at home. BTW, the LSM went absolutely wild about Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. All we hear from Iraq from our media is bad news. Believe me if your media publishes sumpin' bad about us, our media will make sure we hear about it.
and this is very bad for you and your economy (which is going more and more down by the way)
You wanna match economies with us? Germany and France 10% unemployment. United States 5.2% unemployment. Our economy is growing faster than yours is you incredibly stupid asshat!
I really appreciate american people but only because I know american people, because I talked to them.
From everything you have written previously you have demonstrated that you know next to nothing about America and American people.
However I understand that people that only know you, and what your big compganies and governement do, through media, I understand they hate you.
Y'know, I don't really care if the rest of the world hates us. In fact, I wish they would hate us so much that they wouldn't want to come here. We have too many people who want to move here. Why they want to come to a country they hate is beyond me but we can't keep up with our illegal immigration.
you should pay more attention to what your governement do with foreign politics,
I do. That's why I vote against Dimocrats.
I'm gonna go to georgiatech institue at the end of the year, and I hope I won't be deceived, last time I had a great time.
You're too stupid to go to Georgia Tech.
The thing you do the best is having fun that's true.
Yep! We do like to have fun. I had a lot of fun doing this post. Stop by any time and provide some more entertainment for my readers.
Well that was just to inform you how the rest of the world see you, don't take this has an attack it is not against civilans but against a system.
A system that works. That is why we are the richest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen.
Cower in fear from terrorists little EUnuch. We had to save the world from fascism and communism in the 20th Century. Now we have to save it from Islamic sheetheads. It would be nice to have a little help. We know who our real friends are. Two of our best friends are England and Australia.
The French and the Germans are pussies.
I haven't catbombed Pumpman for a long time. I think he's due for some cute cat pictures in his honor. Pumpman loves cats! What's even better is all these pictures were sent to me by his good buddy Catfish. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Catifsh sent me this joke and I'm posting it for all the people who didn't see it on Kelley's site.
About seven or eight years ago I went to Savannah with my family. We took a bus tour around the old section and our guide was this nice old Savannah lady. She said the people of Savannah call the bridge across the Savannah River The Big Bridge. The politicians in Atlanta named it and the people in Savannah didn't like the name. I can imagine her as being the lady in this joke.
A very gentle Southern lady was driving across the Savannah River
Bridge in Georgia one day. As she neared the top of the bridge, she noticed a young man fixing (ready) to jump.
She stopped her car, rolled down the window and said, "Please don't
jump, Think of your dear mother and father."
He replied, "Mom and Dad are both dead; I'm going to jump."
She said, "Well, think of your wife and children."
He replied, "I'm not married and I don't have any kids."
She said, "Well, think of Robert E. Lee."
He replied, "Who the hell is Robert E. Lee?"
She replied, ''Well bless your heart, just go ahead and jump, you dumbass Yankee."
Dangerous boobage from Catfish.
I can hear my mom now: "Don't play with those; you'll put somebody's eye out!"
I wonder if anyone ever tells her it is not polite to point.
Are y'all fed up with those internet news sites that require registration for you to read their articles? You know, of course, about BugMeNot, but if you are a Mozilla user, you can get BugMeNot as a plugin. Go here to download it.
You're welcome.
It's been a long time since I've fisked a Molly Ivins column. One reason is that the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, in a rare case of common sense, quit carrying her column so I never see them anymore. Now if they would only quit carrying Richard Cohen but I guess that that is too much to ask. Anyway, I came across a link to this column and it was just so hilarious that I had to share. What's funny is the column that appears in the Star Telegram is a little different than the column in its original state. It seems that the Dallas newspaper edited out some of her more idiotic sentences.
The first thing I ever learned about politics was never to let anyone else define what you believe, or what you are for or against. I think for myself.
And after reading a few of her columns we know that must be true because not too many people would admit to thinking for her.
I am not "you liberals" or "you people on the left who always ..." My name is Molly Ivins, and I can speak for myself, thank you. I don't need Rush Limbaugh or Karl Rove to tell me what I believe.
Since what you believe is mostly unbelievable maybe you should give it a try.
Setting up a straw man, calling it liberal and then knocking it down has become a favorite form of "argument" for those on the right. Make some ridiculous claim about what "liberals" think, and then demonstrate how silly it is.
But we don't have to make some ridiculous claim about what liberals think. We only have to quote them. They share all of their silly thoughts with us. Molly will provide a sample later in this column.
If I had a nickel for every idiotic thing I've ever heard those on the right claim "liberals" believe, I'd be richer than Bill Gates.
The same game would work with what Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Molly Ivins think conservatives believe. They want to starve the poor, oppress minorities, blah blah blah.
The latest and most idiotic statement yet comes from Karl Rove,
Ya see, to Molly, if you dare to tell the truth about liberals it must be an idiotic statement.
who is not, actually, an objective observer. He is George Bush's hatchet man. Last week, Rove, in an address to the Conservative Party of New York, made the following claim: "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9-11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9-11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." "
Sounds like a fair assessment to me.
This seemed to the editorial writers at the San Diego Union-Tribune such a reasonable summary of the liberal position they couldn't figure out why Democrats were "hyperventilating" and getting "bent out of shape."
Me neither. I guess the truth hurts.
"What is harder to understand is how Democrats can think they can have it both ways," they wrote. "Even as they beat their chests and profess support for military action, they can't help but criticize the military and do everything they can to undermine the war effort."
I quess Molly must have missed that whole Turban Durbin flap.
On Sept. 14, 2001, Congress approved a resolution authorizing the president to take military action. The vote in the Senate was 98-0; the vote in the House was 420-1. The lone dissenter was Democrat Barbara Lee of California, who expressed qualms about an open-ended war without a clear target.Find me the offer for therapy and understanding in that vote.
Any politician who would have voted against that resolution would have been totally out of touch with the rest of the country. Let us not forget that Barbara Lee represents Berkeley and as such Barbara Lee would be against any war.
But Rove wasn't talking about politicians. He was talking about liberals like Michael Moore, the Koz Kidz, the wackos at the DU and our friends at Moveon.org. I remember reading right after 9/11 how the liberal intellectuals were shocked at the outpouring of patriotism and alarmed by the displays of American flags. Those are the liberals Rove was talking about and they have been joined by more and more Dimocrat politicians like Patty Murray who talked about Osama bin Laden building schools, hospitals and daycare centers. I'm trying to envision the Osama bin Laden Daycare Center. But let's not let facts get in the way of the beliefs held in Mollyland.
Anyone remember what actually happened after 9-11? Unprecedented unity, support across the board, joint statements by Democratic and Republican political leaders. The whole world was with us. The most important newspaper in France headlined, "We Are All Americans Now," and all our allies sent troops and money to help. That is what Bush has thrown away with his war in Iraq.
It wasn't Iraq that changed opinions, it was Afghanistan. In fact, before we even went in to Afghanistan liberals were claiming it was gonna be a disaster and a quagmire. The left just cannot get enough of the word quagmire. They love it.
The liberals said that we were gonna fail in Afghanistan because both the British and the Soviets did. The last successful conquest was by Alexander the Great. Much to their dismay, we toppled the gummint. So they had to fall back on "where's bin Laden?" I'll tell you where he is: hiding out in a cave.
Just 13 months later, in October 2002, the vote on invading Iraq was 77-23 in the Senate and 296-133 in the House.By that time, some liberals did question the wisdom of invasion because (a.) Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, and (b.) it looked increasingly unlikely that Iraq actually had great stores of weapons of mass destruction, given that the U.N. inspectors, who were on the ground, couldn't find any sign of them -- even though Donald Rumsfeld claimed that we knew exactly where they were.
Ah yes. No WMD's. We can't even find a girl on a small island like Aruba. Finding WMD's in a country the size of Iraq has to be harder. Saddam had a long time to hide them after he kicked the UN inspectors out the first time. He also had plenty of time to ship them out of the country to Syria in the runup to the war. We knew he had them after he kicked the inspectors out. Where did they go?
Since my name is Molly Ivins and I speak for myself, I'll tell you exactly why I opposed invading Iraq:
This oughta be good.
because I thought it would be bad for this country, our country, my country. I opposed the invasion out of patriotism, and that is the reason I continue to oppose it today -- I think it is bad for us. I think it has done nothing but harm to the United States of America. I think we have created more terrorists than we faced to start with and that our good name has been sullied all over the world. I think we have alienated our allies and have killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did.
Killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did? WTF? This sentence was edited out of the column as it appeared in the Dallas paper. Wonder why? And she accuses the evil Dark Lord Karl Rove of making an idiotic statement?
On the rest of the drivel, it amazes me when I read simplistic bullshit like this. Cleaning out a country that was a center of terrorism is wrong because it creates more terrorists. So we do what? Nothing? Now when you ask the Michael Moores and Mollys of the world what we should be doing they say we should be asking why they hate us. Karl Rove, how dare you point that out!
Saddam financed terrorists. Ask the Israelis. He paid families of suicide bombers. Blow yourself up, get a check. And look what happened as a result of Iraq. Libya gave up its quest for WMD's. Syria is leaving Lebanon. I'd like to say that things are looking up on the Israel/Palestine front, but I don't have much confidence there.
Molly and her ilk are the same people who were against Reagan and didn't want to fight the Cold War so they are reverting to type. Molly is about as patriotic as Michael Moore.
It is one thing for a political knife-fighter like Karl Rove to impugn the patriotism of people who disagree with him: We have seen this same crappy tactic before, just as we have seen administration officials use 9-11 for political purposes again and again. But how many times are the media going to let them get away with it?
In Molly's world she thinks the media is aiding and abetting Karl Rove. Quite the contrary. The problem is that the Lamestream Media having failed with bogus anti-Bush stories has no credibility with the American people. We've seen the crocodile tears on the left trying to make a big thing about Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. All the LSM feeds us is bad news from Iraq. When you talk to returning soldiers it's a different story.
To you, any war waged by a Republican president is wrong. If Clinton took us into Iraq you would probably be for it. Here's the difference. I despised Bill Clinton, but if he were president and invaded Iraq I would have backed him.
Quite frankly Molly, you and the rest of your ilk are strawmen who don't have the stomach to fight the War on Islamic Terror. If anything Rove was too easy on you assholes.
Warning! Object in mirror is twice as dumb as it looks!
Shamelessly stolen from here.
Let me tell you that I wouldn't nail Paris Hilton with Pumpman's dick. I don't have a grudge against my pecker even though I have been known to beat him once in a while.
Shizgirl, here's a nonpolitical post for ya.
And before I begin, let me apologize. One of my readers went to her site and left an asshole commment. Listen up! She is a friend of mine. Yes, we hold different political beliefs, but that doesn't mean you can go to her site and be a butthead. If you want to be a butthead on my site, bring it on. I give first crack at all the trolls to Addison, Addison the other one, Marcel, and my other stellar commenters. By the way, what ever happened to Grognard and xCavTrooper? Almost forgot, my brother-in-law, Ryan does a pretty good job of bitchslapping too.
Now, back to my post.
One of the best things about Amazon is being able to find books and CDs not readily available at stores. Recently, I was able to purchase a two CD set of Cactus, my favorite boogie blues band from the 70's. Most of the songs (the ones from a live concert in Memphis Tennessee in 1971 and was the last gig the original band played) had never been released.
Cactus was made up of two members of the 60's band Vanilla Fudge, Tim Bogert (bass) and Carmine Appice (drums). The lead guitar player was Jim McCarty who played with Mitch Ryder in the 60's. The singer was Rusty Day. He also played harmonica.
I only saw Cactus live one time. My girlfriend at the time, Diane, (Yep! I've had girlfriends. I wasn't always a grouchy old cripple.) had invited me to go to a Rod Stewart concert. This is right after he had released A Wink Is as Good as a Nod to a Blind Horse with The Faces. His big hit at the time was Maggie May, which I have always hated. To this day, I change the station every time it comes on.
When two of my stoner buddies, Bob and Steve, found out I was going they told me I would be in for a pleasant surprise since the warmup act was gonna be Cactus. They had seen them a few months back at the Granary, a small venue site in St. Charles, Missouri that featured up and coming bands. They told me I would love 'em. They were right.
Diane and I got there in plenty of time and found our seats. The lights went down, I produced a joint, and we fired that mother up. Cactus came out and Rusty Day said, "Listen up people, we're gonna kick your ass", which they proceeded to do. I liked them better than Rod Stewart. The only song Rod Stewart performed that I liked was Stay With Me. The rest of his show sucked and you can guess which song he performed for an encore.
The only song Cactus ever recorded that got any airplay was their cover of Long Tall Sally, from their second album, One Way or Another, which has just been released on CD. That's my favorite album. I had an 8 track copy that I wore out.
They started out their set that night with Long Tall Sally. They also played Oleo in which Tim Bogert performed a bass solo. That was the very first time I had ever seen a bass solo at a rock concert.
These guys were arrogant and good. They were lots better than Rod Stewart. They were worth the price of admisson. Rod Stewart sucked.
There was only one other concert I ever attended where the warmup act kicked the main band's ass and that was when I saw Sammy Haggar warming up for Ted Nugent.
Back to Cactus.
The original band recorded three albums. McCarty and Day left and three new members joined: Peter French (vocals - a Brit), Duane Hitchings (keyboards), and Werner Fritzchings (guitar). This incarnation released one album, 'Ot and Sweaty. Side one was a live recording made in Puerto Rico. They cooked! Side two was studio work. The band broke up again. Appice and Bogert recorded an album with Jeff Beck.
Fritzchings was technically a better guitarist than McCarty and the live stuff from Puerto Rico was really good, but I much preferred the original band.
It really pissed me off that you had four really talented people who, due to egos, couldn't get along. Supposedly, the original group fought all the time.
Rusty Day died in a drug deal gone bad. McCarty played with other bands but never achieved the success of Cactus.
After doing some more research I found out that Bogert and Appice originally tried to team up with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart to form a super group. Beck got into a wreck and Rod Stewart joined The Faces so they formed Cactus with McCarty and Day.
In 1995, Cactology was released which contained most of the good stuff Cactus has recorded and included Parchman Farm from the Memphis concert.
I checked on Amazon the other day and found out that One Way or Another has been released on CD. That's my next purchase since it has Feel So Bad on it.
On the Live Gigs album, Big Mama Boogie Part 2, you heard a band at the top of their game really kicking ass.
I went to a concert sometime in the 70's to see a band that called itself Cactus. It had none of the original members. It was bass, drums and keyboards and sucked.
I always hated it when that happened.
Now we know where Larry the Cable Guy goes to church.
From Woody.
Lucia, the incredibly stupid troll over at Daily Pundit needs to follow this guy who's sending half his alllowance.
In honor of the steller success of Live 8 which will no doubt (not the band) be totaly squashed by Bush band of imperialistic colonialist blood seakers who want to keep Africa poor I am chosen to donate 50% of my total alowance to reduce the starfing children in Africa and reduce there debt also.
I asked Lucia, in one of the comments on Bill's site, how much of her allowance she was sending, but she didn't reply.
I'd love to see him wear this shirt.
Sent to me by Duncan.
Remember after the tsunami when the UN diplomat accused us of not giving our fair share to the relief effort? We're stingy Americans after all, right? Of course, the booger eatin' moh-ron socialist asshole didn't count the cost of sending in the Navy to help. Also, he didn't take into account the amount of money ordinary Americans donated to the relief effort. This is above and beyond what our gummint gave.
Now it turns out that Americans are not as stingy as the world thinks.
PRIVATE American citizens donated almost 15 times more to the developing world than their European counterparts, research reveals this weekend ahead of the G8 summit. Private US donors also handed over far more aid than the federal government in Washington, revealing that America is much more generous to Africa and poor countries than is claimed by the Make Poverty History and Live 8 campaigns.Church collections, philanthropists and company-giving amounted to $22bn a year, according to a study by the Hudson Institute think-tank, easily more than the $16.3bn in overseas development sent by the US government. American churches, synagogues and mosques alone gave $7.5bn in 2003 - a figure which exceeds the government totals for France ($7.2bn) and Britain ($6.3bn) - according to numbers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development which deal a blow to those who claim moral superiority over the US on aid.
We're the most generous people on this planet.
Dear empty headed rock stars (Madonna, Bono, Geldorf - you know who you are): Fuck you! Start donating your own fucking money.
Even after giving all this money to the developing world, it is still a cesspool. What the developing world needs is an education in economics and civics. How did the United States get so rich? Could it be because, compared to the rest of the world, we have both political and economic freedom?
"Holy shit!", I say, slapping myself aside the head, "Asking Third World gummints to behave responibly is as politically incorrect as asking poor people to behave responsibly. Telling poor people to not have children they cannot afford is a no no. Taking responsibility for their actions? Nah! Lost my head for a minute."
As I have said many times before, giving money to poor people will not solve poverty. Giving money to developing countries will not improve poverty. That takes gummint and economic reform. Without that, giving money to poor countries just subsidizes the behavior that keeps them poor.
But that won't stop us. Since we Americans are generous, we will continue to open our hearts and wallets to the rest of the world.
Bill Clinton also weighed in and stated that we weren't generous enough.
On the eve of the G-8 Summit, ex-president Bill Clinton is telling European audiences that the U.S. is stingy with its foreign aid dollars - and that Americans think they contribute more than they actually do.
Dear Bill: We give a lot more than we should. How much of your money have you given to charity lately? Quit lecturing us you sanctimonious hypocrite. Go away and STFU!
I don't really give a flying fark about the Third farking World. Use the United States as a model and you can get rich too. I think we should start being as stingy as the rest of the world thinks we are.
W. C. Fields said it best in a story that may be apocryphal. He was asked on his deathbed by his secretary what he was gonna do with all of his money.
"Ya know all those starving people in Chinaaah?"
"Yes", she replied.
"Fuck 'emmmmm!"
My sentiments exactly.
I forgot to put up a Monday Pun so here are some groaners that Richard sent me.
Deja moo: the feeling that you've heard this bull before.
I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn't
find any.
I went to a seafood disco last week, and pulled a mussel.
What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
Whom am I talking about? Africa, of course.
I guess all those rich rock stars feel real good about themselves giving those concerts to heighten Africa awareness. I'm aware enough of Africa, thank you. It is a canker sore on the planet. So now, to solve the problem, we're supposed to throw even more money into this sewer. Yeah. That will fix it.
Note to Bono and Geldorf: You don't solve poverty by giving poor nations (or poor people) money. All you do by giving corrupt regimes money is subsidize the corruption. Africa is riddled with corrupt thugocracies and all the money goes into the head thugs' bank accounts.
We have a prime example of what is wrong with Africa in Zimbabwe. Mugabe decided to implement his idea of Afro-socialism. He took a nation that was one of the richest countries in Africa, a net exporter of food, and turned it into a basket case that now must buy food from other countries. Yeah. Let's give Zimbabwe money.
What about forgiving the debts? Great. If we do that we should not loan them any more money because then we'll have to forgive those debts in the future.
You wanna know what will fix Africa? Colonialism. Yeah. Like that is gonna happen. So that's off the table. What else?
Dear Africa: Take a look at our Declaration of Independence (it is our birthday today) and our Constitution. Don't forget The Bill of Rights.
Compare our Constitution to that monstrosity that the EUnuchs wrote. Ours is relatively short and to the point. Our Bill of Rights guarantees certain freedoms (that assholes in Congress on both sides of the aisle and the Supreme Court are slowly trying to take away).
When raising children do we try to explain the value of money before giving them any. My parents did. I was given an allowance. To supplement my allowance I did work like mowing lawns, raking leaves, shovelling snow, cleaning gutters, and babysitting. I had to live within my means.
Dependent states (and dependent people) are just like children. They need to be taught. Poor people need to be taught personal responsibility rather than dependence on gummint. Dimocrats love dependent people because they vote for Dimocrats. Dimocrats don't believe in personal responsibility.
As an aside, where is the most poverty and dependence on gummint located? In the big cities. Where is the worst crime? In the big cities. Where are the worst schools? In the big cities. Who runs the big cities? Dimocrats. I rest my case.
Money given to dependent states must have strings attached. Before we give them any money the gummints must reform. They need not only economic freedom, but also political freedom. Once again, Zimbabwe is a classic example of what not to do. It is my opinion that South Africa will be the next Zimbabwe.
But Bono and Geldorf can quit feeling guilty about their wealth if they can talk a bunch of countries into giving money to Africa. We'll throw more money, with no strings attached, down that shithole known as Africa, but Bono, Geldorf, and the other rich rock stars won't feel as quilty about all their riches. They'll feel good about themselves and Africa will continue to be a sewer.
Count on it.
Seeing sumpin' like this makes my day.
Back in 1776 some brave men signed the Declaration of Independence. Some of these men lost their fortunes and died in poverty. They risked everything for an idea and a dream. How many Americans alive today would do the same? Not many, I bet. Certainly no one in the Dimocrat Party and damned few Republicans.
One of the reasons for independence from England was taxes. If the signers of the Declaration of Independence were alive today, they would be aghast at the taxes we pay. What they protested was a pittance compared to our taxes today.
We went from "no taxation without representation" to massive taxation with representation. After all, we have the best politicans that money can buy.
The Founders would certainly be amazed at the size and the scope of the federal gummint. I can just see James Madison scratching his head and asking himself where he failed. This certainly wasn't the gummint called for in the Constitution. Wha' happened?
Now we have members of the LSM (Lamestream Media - I gotta get that acronym plugin installed) like that booger eatin' moh-ron Brian Williams equating the insurgents in Iraq with our revolutionaries. Yeah, members of al Qaeda are just like Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, and the rest of the gang. How many Brits did Patrick Henry behead?
Just when was it that the LSM decided to join our enemies? Was it Viet Nam or did it occur earlier? Why do some citizens of this country hate it so much?
Anyway, as you go to your barbeques and watch your fireworks displays thank those brave men who risked everything to form this country.
We are the greatest country on the face of the planet and I am proud to be an American.
Happy Birthday USA!
So you take your boy to a ball game.
Good father and son stuff right?
Male bonding right?
You buy him hot dogs.
He sees a homer.
Will he remember the time spent with you?
Will he remember the taste of the hot dogs?
Will he often think of the boomer home run?
NAH..............
What will he remember?
Sent to me by Catfish.
Thursday night I attended a of the board of the Sommelier Guild. The memebers of the board meet at a restaurant. We each bring at least one bottle of wine. We eat, drink, and discuss business. It's rough!
I slept late today. When I did get up, I read the paper and checked out my websites. I just didn't really have anything to write about so I took the day off.
