Many of my readers pointed this out to me.
WASHINGTON - Federal agents searching the Alaska home of Republican Sen. Ted Stevens appeared particularly interested in cases of wine stored in the senator’s house, an attorney briefed on the raid said.
Yep! It's the Associated Press. Ya notice that his party is right there in the first paragraph.
Rooters does it too.
So here I am at a Drury Inn in Lafayette Louisiana. Wireless connection! I was gonna go through Dallas, but there was a schedule conflict with the person I wanted to meet, so I decided to take the Southern route and meet up with a Blown-Eye in Kerrville tomorrow.
The drive was uneventful. When I left Atlanta, it was cloudy. When I stopped for gas and coffee the clouds were gone, so down came the top. That was OK until I got to southern Alabama and the rains came. Up went the top.
It rained off and on for the next 150 miles. Top up the rest of the way.
I scored the last room at the hotel and it is a crip room.
I listened to talk radio most of the way. It's hard to pick up a decent station in Alabama so I missed most of Boortz. Maybe he covered this story that I heard on an Atlanta radio station as I was leaving town. Thanks to Woody for the link.
(APN) ATLANTA – Former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has sued the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper for libel, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.The lawsuit was filed on July 26, 2007, in State Court of Fulton County, according to a copy of the court filing obtained by Atlanta Progressive News.
How neat is this? The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation versus Cynthia McCommie. This is one of those lawsuits that you want both sides to lose. It's Cynthia versus Cynthia.
The lawsuit focuses on what McKinney argues to be false claims in a July 30, 2006, Editorial written by the AJC’s Editorial Page Editor, Cynthia Tucker. Tucker received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of columns that year including that one.
Tucker is a liberal, so naturally, anything she writes is suspect, but what specifically is McCommie pissed off about?
While a news item in the AJC about the lawsuit yesterday mentions only one substantive claim relating to Tucker’s column, there are actually five "false and defamatory statements" listed in the suit.First, the suit says that Tucker wrote, "She slugged him with her cell phone," to describe McKinney’s response to the police officer that day. "This false and libelous allegation is not supported by any witness or other evidence."
Then she better start suing a bunch of other media outlets as the AJC was not the only news organization that stated that she slugged the guard with her phone.
The rest of the article just documents the other alleged falsehoods written by Tucker and the AJC.
This should be a fun lawsuit to watch unfold. Like I said, I want both sides to lose. McCommie can't play the race card because Tucker is a black liberal. Sweet!
On the Michael Vick front, I see one of his buddies is pleading guilty and has already stated that Vick financed the entire dog fighting operation. Maybe the prison that Vick is gonna wind up in has a football team. We can have a real life version of The Longest Yard.
Buh-bye Michael.
From Richard.
A piece of string walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him and says, "We don't serve string here." The string tries to order a drink, but the bartender pulls a pair of scissors. The string leaves, and tries several other bars. Each time, he gets the same response. The piece of string is so frustrated, his ends are fraying. Finally, he decides to try one last bar. When he walks in, the bartender asks him, "Are you a piece of string?" The string replies,
"No, I'm a frayed knot."
Tomorrow, I'm hopping in my little blue Z3 and heading out west. I'm gonna be stopping in Texas on Tuesday to see a friend. I was heading for Tucson, but my friend there is not gonna be in town, so I won't go down that far south. He's in Missouri where I'll be in two weeks or so. I plan to hit the coast of California north of LA and take Highway 1 all the way up to Oregon. Then it's up the Columbia River Gorge. From there, it's Mt. Rushmore. Then I'll go to St. Louis and see some friends and relatives. This schedule is etched in Jello so I may make some changes on the fly. I've already made two changes and I haven't even started yet.
The good news is I now have a laptop and I can blog while traveling. And, I've got the old digital camera my brother-in-law gave me. I had to get a serial to USB port adapter. The camera is so old that it doesn't have a USB connector. It hooks up to the laptop OK so there may even be pictures.
Fear not! There will still be Saturday Boobage.
Today's blonde joke is a visual joke sent to me by many readers.
It's still summer and we're still at the beach.
The Swimmer beat this guy out last week, but I knew this guy would still be an asshole this week. Who is it?
Got it from Darrell. And this from Melissa.
Here in Atlanta, it's all Vick, all the time. We even have demonstrations at the Falcons' training camp. Those booger eatin' moh-rons from PETA have shown up. Fortunately, no one from Breasts not Bombs are here. Of course, there are multiple Vick stories and columns every day in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
What is it with this dude? He cannot stay out of trouble. Of course part of it is the people he hangs out with. He says that he grew up with these guys and he's not gonna quit hanging out with them. So what if one of these guys stole a Rolex watch while traveling with Vick. Hey! It could happen to anyone.
And let's not forget the water bottle incident.
A few years back, he was sued by a girlfriend who claimed he gave her genital herpes. He got himself tested and used the name Ron Mexico. Anyway, the case was settled out of court and there is a confidentiality agreement so we don't know how much he had to pay the girl.
Now we have the dogfighting allegations. Once again, it's his friends or family doing it and he knows nothing about it or so he says. Maybe if this would have been the first time he fucked up it wouldn't be so bad, but we see a pattern here.
Michael Vick is a multimillionaire. He's a superstar. He's also an asshole. I predict that when Michael Vick is 45 he'll be broke. Some black athletes have successfully left their thug roots behind. Michael Vick is not one of them. In his case you can take the dude out of the ghetto but you cannot take the ghetto out of the dude. He has been given numerous chances and he still continues to fuck up.
Congrats Michael. I think this time you have really bit the big one. It's gonna be hard to get a Superbowl ring when you're serving time for dogfighting. But cheer up! You do get the AOTW award. Here it is.
Nope! This isn't the real one, just some asshole at Walmart.
I got in the express lane and there was a guy ahead of me with only three items. First, he told the checkout lady that this was two orders. After the first two items were rung up, he paid for them in cash. So far, so good. For the third item he had to write a check. He didn't even have his checkbook out. He got it, and then took forever to write the freaking check. Then the checkout lady needed to see his driver's license. He didn't have that out and ready either.
What an asshole! The only way he could have pissed me off more would have been him talking on a cellphone. He doesn't get the AOTW award, he gets the Pain in the Ass Award.
As Don Suber sez: "So easy, even a caveman can play." He'd have to know how to read. Anyway, I found not one, but two stories where the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation neglected to name the scubag's party. Wonder why?
The first instance was about an Atlanta city councilman who is under investigation about a charity that he runs.
For the past five years, Atlanta City Councilman H. Lamar Willis has solicited donors for a foundation he says he created to give scholarships to Atlanta students. The H. Lamar Willis Foundation has told major corporations —- which have contributed tens of thousands of dollars —- that donations are tax-deductible because it is a federally approved nonprofit.But it's not, and it never has been.
The Internal Revenue Service says it has no record of the organization registering as a nonprofit or submitting required annual reports showing how it has raised and spent its money. The Georgia Secretary of State's Office also has no record of the foundation ever registering as a charity or a nonprofit corporation, as required by state law.
Willis, an attorney, has refused to provide The Atlanta Journal-Constitution with a list of donors or recipients of the money. Of the donors mentioned on the foundation Web site, many are companies doing business at the airport, which Willis helps oversee as a member of the City Council's transportation committee. Companies include Coca-Cola, Comcast, AirTran, Target and Turner Construction, among others.
That's the first four paragraphs and we still do not know which party this scumbag belongs to. There are 43 paragraphs remaining and the AJC doesn't see fit to name this guy's party, even when giving personal information.
Henry Lamar Willis, councilman-at-largeAge: 36
Hometown: Born and raised in Atlanta.
Education: Graduate of Northside High School and Morehouse College. Master's in public administration from Carnegie Mellon University, 1995; graduated from Boston College law school, 1999.
Career: After practicing law briefly in Florida, Willis worked for a series of Atlanta law firms from 2002-06, though not as an attorney because he had not passed the Georgia bar. He passed the bar last year and is now a sole practitioner focused on personal injury, tenant-landlord disputes and DUI litigation.
In politics: Won Atlanta City Council seat in 2001. Won second term unopposed in 2005. Current committee assignments: Community Development/Human Resources; Public Safety (former chairman); Transportation (former chair).
Here's what the AJC left out. He's black and therefore he's a Dimocrat.
Here's the second instance.
Durham, N.C. —- Disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong acknowledged Thursday there is "no credible evidence" that three Duke lacrosse players committed any of the crimes he accused them of more than a year ago, offering for the first time a complete and unqualified apology."We all need to heal," Nifong said. "It is my hope we can start this process today."
Nifong's apology came as a judge began considering whether to hold the former Durham County district attorney in criminal contempt of court for his handling of the case.
Of course we all know that Nifong is a Dimocrat, but if he had been a Republican, it would have been in the first paragraph. Once again, not only is this scumbag's party not mentioned in the first paragraph, it's not even mentioned at all.
"So easy, even a caveman can play.
Some people wanted to know which brand of laptop I bought. I bought this one and added 256M of RAM.
Vision also has great tech support. 24/7 and almost no wait time. When my DSL quit working on my desktop, Bellsouth (now AT&T) was no help. Two minutes on the phone and 20 minutes doing what tech support suggested and I was up and running.
Got me a new laptop yesterday and I decided to setup a wireless network. Hooked up the router and followed all the instructions. My desktop worked but not my laptop. Ryan and Sherry stopped in on their way back home from Missouri where Sherry had been doing genealogy research. Ryan had set one up at his house. Turns out the problem with the laptop was an ID ten T problem. Wireless up and running. I can now blog while traveling. I can blog from anywhere in the house. Kewl!
Speaking of cleavage, the Clinton campaign opened up their new headquarters in San Francisco on Monday. Code Pink And Breasts not bombs were there. Pictures here. I am not responsible for any bad dreams you might have.
Patrick sent me this. Do not look if you have a weak stomach.
I warned ya!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Stole it from SondraK.
Every day the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation publishes sumpin' known as The Vent, where readers can call in and voice their thoughts. As you can imagine, there are some real nuggets of intellect on display, like in today's Vent. Here's the second entry.
"Losers" is a pejorative adopted by the privileged to mock those who didn't grow up wealthy.
Whaddya wanna bet that this "loser" votes Dimocrat?
Here's the deal, loser. I use loser as a pejorative (Such a big word. Did you look that up in the dictionary?) to mock people like you who didn't take advantage of all the opportunities offered in this country and then blame your failures on other people. You're like Dick Gephardt talking about people winning life's lottery.
I didn't grow up wealthy. Far from it. I grew up poor as did my sister. We both worked hard and now both of us are retired and we're both SRF©'s. It had nothing to do with winning life's lottery. Life's lottery wasn't too great for me in 1988 when I broke my back. Did I quit? Did I blame others? No. I took responsibility for my actions and when I went back to work, I outworked all of my peers.
I use loser to mock those booger eatin' moh-rons who cannot succeed in this country and then expect others to take care of them. Yannow, like those gummint parasites in Nawlins who had depended on the gummint to take care of them for so long, they were helpless when the gummint they elected, city and state, fucked up. Fortunately, Mayor Asshole and Governor Useless were able to blame Bush for their failures.
Losers!
I use loser to mock those who drop out of school and then wonder why they can't get a good paying job.
Losers!
I use loser to mock teens having children they cannot afford and then forcing me to pay for their poor choices.
Losers!
And I use loser to mock all those people in Taxachusetts who keep relecting a murderer like Swimmer year after year.
Losers!
And yeah, doofus, I'm mocking you. You are a loser!
Thanks to David.
Have I posted this before? If I have, tough shit! I should post it every month.
Yep! It's time once again to play Don Surber's Name That Party game and once again we catch the Associated Press. Thanks to DWD5100 for alerting me to this.
Former N.J. mayor pleads not guilty By JANET FRANKSTON LORIN Associated Press Writer
Janet Frankston Lorin has written other articles about Mayor Sharpe like this one that we could also use for this game.
NEWARK, N.J. -- Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James pleaded not guilty Monday to federal corruption charges stemming from the last few years of his two decades running city hall.James, 71, faces multiple fraud counts accusing him of using city-issued credit cards to pay for $58,000 worth of personal trips and expenses. He's also accused of engineering the sale of city-owned properties at a cut rate to Tamika Riley, described by prosecutors as his companion on many of his trips.
Hmmmm. No party affiliation mentioned yet. Wonder what party he belongs to?
Riley, 38, was indicted along with James and also pleaded not guilty Monday. She is charged with fraud, stemming from what authorities say was a scheme to profit from the resale of the land, and with tax evasion.
We now know his age, and his companion's age, but we still don't know if he's a Republican or a Dimocrat. Here's a clue straight from the AP's style book. If he's a Republican it will be mentioned in the first paragraph. If he's a Dimocrat it will be way down in the story if it is even mentioned.
Let us continue. Here's the rest of the story.
Neither answered reporters' questions before or after the 30-minute hearing.The FBI opened its investigation into James about three years ago. He ran the city from 1986 to 2006.
Prosecutors said their evidence included approximately 8,000 documents, the hard drives from four computers, including Riley's, two search warrants and a tape recording. They said they expected a 12-week trial with 60 witnesses.
U.S. District Judge William J. Martini set a Feb. 4 trial date, but defense attorneys said they wanted more time to prepare.
One of James' four attorneys, Raymond M. Brown, said the indictment mentions 40 alleged trips taken by the mayor, including some overseas, and said the defense team will need more time to interview witnesses at the different locales.
James is also a state senator, but he said he won't seek another term.
Riley, a former Newark publicist, now manages a clothing store in Jersey City, according to her lawyer.
James could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the most serious counts.
No party affiliation mentioned. Same as in the other linked story. Media bias? Nah!
This game is just too easy, but it is a lot of fun.
Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning!
If you have a weak stomach, read no further.
So there I was this morning, reading the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation and I came across the following story.
COMMENTARY: Clinton's classy clandestine cleavage Appearance thereof says she's evolved.
Evolved? You mean she has become human?
There was cleavage on display last week on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
And I had just finished breakfast. The only time I would like to read cleavage and Hillary Clinton in the same sentence would be sumpin' like this:
Hillary Clinton appeared at her sentencing hearing for blackmail, perjury, obstruction of justice and campaign finance violations in one of her signature pantsuits with her blouse unbuttoned to show cleavage.
But no. We have this:
She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary. There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable.
If C-SPAN is gonna broadcast stuff like this, they should put up a warning notice.
It was startling to see that small acknowledgment of sexuality and femininity peeking out of the conservative —- aesthetically speaking —- environment of Congress.
The only time I expect to see sexuality, femininity, and Hillary Clinton in the same paragraph is if the author mentions her total lack of sexuality and femininity.
After all, it wasn't until the early '90s that women were even allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor.
Fortunately for both us and Hillary since Her Thighness has horrible legs (and boobs).
It was even more surprising to note that it was coming from Clinton, someone who has been so publicly ambivalent about style, image and the burdens of both.
Right! Hillary doesn't care about her public image. Like that's her real hair color. She probably spends as much on her hair as John Edwards does on his. Why do you think she waddles around in pantsuits? Because she looks like crap in a dress or a skirt. She looks like crap in a pantsuit as well, but not as bad as when she shows her legs.
The cleavage, however, is an exceptional kind of flourish. After all, it's not a matter of what she's wearing but rather what's being revealed.
Aieeee! My eyes! Although Ted Kennedy was probably sizing her up.
It's tempting to say the cleavage stirs the same kind of discomfort that might be churned up after spotting Rudy Giuliani with his shirt unbuttoned just a smidge too far. No one wants to see that. But really, it was more like catching a man with his fly unzipped. Just look away!
You don't have to tell me that!
Myabe Hillary is worried that John Edwards is being more feminine than she is so she's showing some cleavage to prove that she's got boobs and Edwards doesn't.
She's got boobs (but I don't want to see them). John Edwards is a boob.
There was a peddler who sold wool blankets and sweaters. Every day, he would pull his cart a few miles from his home to the village marketplace. He passed a small lake that was on the property of a local banker. On a particularly cold winter's day, he noticed that the lake was frozen over. He realized that he could shave a mile or so off his trip by pulling his cart over the lake. When he got halfway across the lake, the banker raced from his house, yelling,
"Nobody's going to pull the wool over my ice!"ť
The president had a colonoscopy on Saturday so I may as well post the following that I received from Catfish.
Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite humorous..... A physician claimed that the following are actual comments made by his patients (predominately male) while he was performing their colonoscopies:
1. "Take it easy, Doc. You're boldly going where no man has gone before!
2. "Find Amelia Earhart yet?"
3. "Can you hear me NOW?"
4. "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
5.. "You know, in Arkansas , we're now legally married."
6. "Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?"
7. "You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out..."
8. "Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!"
9. "If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit!
10. "Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity."
11. "You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?"
12. "God, now I know why I am not gay."
And the best one of all..
13. "Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is not up there?"
Normally this guy plays a double neck guitar.
He also makes funny faces.
Here it is on the piano.
I can (or used to be able to) play some Bach on the piano. His stuff is fun to play.
This one is from Mo K, who happens to be a blonde with a sense of humor. I originally heard this joke from Justin Wilson, the Cookin' Cajun, who made it a Cajun joke.
Bob, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar at 9:58 PM. He sat down
next to a blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV.
The 10:00 PM news was coming on. The news crew was covering a story of a
man on a ledge of a large building preparing to jump.
The blonde looked at Bob and said, "Do you think he'll jump?"
Bob says, "You know, I bet he'll jump."
The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't."
Bob placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, "You're on!"
Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy on the ledge
did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death.
The blonde was very upset, but willingly handed her $20 to Bob, saying,
"Fair's fair. Here's your money."
Bob replied, "I can't take your money, I saw this earlier on the 5 PM
news and so I knew he would jump."
The blond replied, "I did too, but I didn't think he'd do it again."
Bob took the money......
Staying with the beach theme.
Those are perfection!
I have been remiss. I forgot an important anniversary this week. While the Senate was holding its slumber party, it was an important date for that bloviating blowhard, that disgusting mass of blubber, Ted Kennedy. Yep! 38 years ago, on July 18, 1969, the Swimmer left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown.
How much time did Ted serve in prison for murdering Mary Jo? The left is outraged that Scooter Libby is not going to serve any time yet it doesn't bother them that the Swimmer didn't have to go to jail. In fact the good people of Taxachusetts reward this worthless buttmunch by reelecting him to the Senate. He's one of the "elder statesmen" of the Dimocrat Party along with the racist Kleagle of the KKK, Robert Byrd. If he were a Republican his political career would have ended in 1969. Republican scumbags resign. Dimocrat scumbags get reelected. I hope you people in Taxachusetts are proud of the buffoon you reelect every six years. As for me, he's the Asshole of the Week. He even beats out Michael Vick.
"What the American people have seen is this incredible disparity in which those people who had cars and money got out and those people who were impoverished drowned."
-- Senator Ted Kennedy, on Hurricane Katrina
"Ditto!"
-- Mary Jo Kopechne
Woody sent me this article.
Something that many people secretly believed has been confirmed: You don't actually need a brain to work in a tax office. A French civil servant has been found to have a huge cavity filled with fluid in his head -- yet lives a completely normal life.
This is France, after all.
The commonly spouted wisdom that people only use 10 percent of their brain power may have been dismissed as a myth, but one French man seems to be managing fine with just a small fraction of his actual brain.
WTF?
In fact the man, who works as a civil servant in southern France, has succeeded in living an entirely normal life despite a huge fluid-filled cavity taking up most of the space where his brain should be.
Actually I expect gummint workers all over the world to be afflicted by this condition.
They describe how the 44-year-old man went to the hospital in 2003 because he felt a mild weakness in his left leg. When the doctors went to look at his brain to see if the problem lay there, they found, well, pretty much nothing but a great black hole.
In the United States we'd call this guy a Dimocrat voter.
"Time is going by really, really, really, really slow."
Dude! That's the way it works. That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Here's the full call.
Thanks to CharlieB.
Or to be more precise 14,000.41. That's what the Dow closed at today. Now if there was a Dimocrat president this would be shouted from the rooftops. I'm sure the Dimocrats in Congress would like to take credit for this, but since they are in the process of trying to pass tax increases and doing everything in their power to cripple the economy, they can't.
It also doesn't look like there is a recession looming either.
Washington —- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday that the economy has emerged from its anemic spell, but that overall growth for the year will be lower than expected. Inflation remains the chief concern, he said.
Bad news for Dimocrats since they want us to lose in Iraq and have a recession in 2008.
Delivering a midyear Fed economic report to Capitol Hill, Bernanke struck a somewhat cautious tone. He suggested that the economy appears likely to expand "at a moderate pace" over the second half.
An expanding economy and a record stock market based on sound fundamentals rather than the dot com, house of cards market during the latter Clinton years. What does that mean? More tax receipts and a shrinking deficit. More bad news for Dimocrats. Good news for a SRF© like me.
From the same article we have this from Barney Frank.
In Frank's view, the biggest problem is the growing gap between low-wage and high-wage workers. Democrats have accused the Bush administration of not doing enough to narrow that gap.
Because that is not the gummint's job! Only a fucking socialist would spout bullshit like that. Ya wanna close the gap between high-wage workers and low-wage workers? Here's two things to do right off the top of my head.
1. Close the fucking border and enforce immigration laws. Illegals are willing to work for lower wages and employers are willing to hire illegals for that reason.
2. Fix the public school system so we have educated Americans to fill those high-wage jobs.
Of course the Dims are against 1 and 2. The Republicans are against 1. The American people are for both 1 and 2. Too bad we don't have representatives who will do what the American people want and the American people are stupid enough to send these worthless, overpaid bastards to Washington DC year after year.
So V-Man came to town and a bunch of us decided to get together at the Mellow Mushroom in Brookhaven.
Elisson was out of town Sunday so missed out on Breakfast with Bou but he was able to make this one.
The people who don't blog or have cut back were there, namely Kelley, Key, and Zonker.
Richard drove in from East Jeebus, Georgia.
And, we had a newbie, John Cox. we're trying to talk him into coming to Blogtoberfest 2007.
A great time was had by all. Our waitress loved the fact that we didn't have her separate out the bill. We just kept throwing money into a pile until we had enough for the bill and the tip. Blown-Eyes are like that.
It was a beautiful night. I drove the Z3 with the top down. On the way down Peachtree Industrial some asshole honked at me and when I looked in the rearview mirror I saw it was Zonker chatting on his cellphone. He was pissed when we got there because, since I'm a crip, I scored a primo parking space.
Lookie what I got! It's an Islamic Rage Boy Coffee Mug.
Got if from this guy. He sells IRB gear at his site.
Mea culpa: He gave it to me for giving him some linkage. I'm such a whore! I can be bought. Unfortunately, not too many people want to buy me. In five years of blogging I have received three freebies: a book, a coffee mug,and some fresh smoked salmon, but I ain't complaining. All freebies are welcome.
SSG Dave sent me a video dedicated to Islamic Rage Boy.
I love the line "and millions upon millions of emotional baboons just like him". Take that Ibrahim Hooper and CAIR. You defend all of those mindless idiots.
I got up this morning and took a stupid pill. How else to explain the day so far?
I had a 1:00 PM appointment with an orthopedic surgeon about my elbow and my bursitis. I printed off a map and headed out at 12:30. I immediately got lost in Duluth Georgia. Streets change names a lot and that's why I got lost. For example, I used to live in Acworth Georgia. I could leave my subdivision and turn left on Georgia 92 and drive all the way to I85. Without making any turns, I could be on Highway 92, Old Alabama Highway, Crossville, Holcom Bridge, and Jimmah Carter and those are just the names I remember. There were a few others. Yes, we have a road named after Jimmah Carter. We also have one named after Cynthia McCommie and her daddy, Billy McCommie.
Anyway, I took a long detour and finally arrived at 1:30 only to find out that I was at the wrong office! Just freaking great! I got lost going to the wrong office.
Now in my defense, the doctor I was seeing is at that office once a week. I swear that scheduling told me to go to that office.
I got another appointment next Tuesday. At least I know where the office is now. I just gotta remember to throw away the stupid pills.
Don Surber has pictures. I guess it's also time to repost my Republican Women versus Dimocrat Women.
Potfry got to debate that CAIR asshole, Ibrahim Hooper on the BBC earlier this week about Islamic Rage Boy. Audio here. Of course, Hooper outright lied when he said there was nothing in the Koran about killing infidels. That's to be expected from that terrorist loving and supporting dipshit.
Oh no! This is horrible!
DETROIT, MI - The final resting place of the recently buried 'n-word' was desecrated by vandals overnight, according to police reports. The 'n-word' was buried during a ceremony by the National African-American Coalition of People at their recent convention, in a symbolic effort to end the slur's use. The derogatory term's coffin was a simple pine box, covered with black roses, and pulled to the cemetery by a team of white horses.
Who could have performed such a despicable act?
Detectives assigned to the case insist that no lead will be ignored in the investigation, scheduled to begin next month. "We already have some ideas where to start." said Kevin McKillery, special agent for the Department of Law Enforcement. "Of course the white supremacists top our list, but we're also interesting in talking to members of the hip-hop industry, who were curiously absent from the funeral. They may have some financial stake in a resurrection such as this."
Thanks to Woody for alerting me to this.
Back when Pumpman was still alive, I used to like to post cat pictures just to piss him off. I'd run a series of cat pictures that I called Cute Cats For Pumpman. He's always say that I should be dragged off and shot. I've been overdue for some cuteness so I'm gonna post a series of cute pictures Mo K sent me. Here's the first one.
It's official! V-man hath decreed it. It's the 4th Annual Blogtoberfest where the Blown-Eyed Blodgers descend on the Chalet Kristy (that for some unknown reason allows us to return every year), in beautiful Helen Georgia for two days of nonstop partying. This is where it all began for the Blown-Eyes.
See V-man terrorize tubers on the 'Hooch.
Drink Chatham Artillery Punch.
See Georgia demonstrate her bullwhip skills.
Eat at the Troll, on the banks of the 'Hooch.
Listen to the awesome guitar playing and singing of the Elderly Brothers (if Jimbo comes, otherwise it's just me).
Watch me try to get down the steps of a cabin after massive quantities of Chatham Artillery Punch.
Enjoy watching a game of half rubber.
Watch drunks push a cripple in a wheelchair.
When is this wondrous event you may ask? Why it is smack dab in the middle of Octoberfest, October 12 and 13 in beautiful Helen Georgia, a faux German town in the North Georgia Mountains. The air will be crisp and the leaves will be turning.
We will be staying at the Chalet Kristy, right on the banks of the 'Hooch. V-Man has already reserved two cabins and four rooms. I made my reservation today. Call the Kristy at 1-877-464-3536. This is smack dab in the middle of Octoberfest and rooms fill up quickly.
Heard at previous meets:
"Who is that asshole with the 'do rag standing in the middle of the river with the broom handle?" - Someone tubing the 'Hooch
"I can make it down those stairs by myself. Ooops! WTF?" - A drunken cripple.
"WTF are you and Dax doing in my room and where is my wife" - Some redheaded dude from Tennessee.
"Here Denny, have some more vodka." - The same redheaded dude, three hours earlier.
"WTF is this tree doing in the bathtub?" - Me.
"Who called the cops and where the fuck did everyone go?" - Some dude from North Carolina who was shooting off fireworks last year.
This is the chance to see Blown-Eyes in their natural element. If the Kristy runs out of rooms, there are other motels nearby. Join us! It's a blast!
I see another site has decided to play Name That Party.
Woody sent me this.
This is the French version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The question in English would be "What revolves around the Earth".
The answers are as follows:
a. The Moon
b. The Sun
c. Mars
d. Venus
The poor dipstick doesn't have a clue. Notice in the video they have a survey of how the audience would respond. 56% picked the Sun! Remember this the next time a French person calls Americans stupid.
One of the really neat things about blogging is the incredible people I have met since I started blogging. Getting together with other blodgers is really awesome as most of the people I have met have been fantastic to hang with. So it was really worth getting up early Sunday morning to have breakfast with some great people.
Every year, the beauteous Boudicca and her brood of three boys come to Atlanta to see her sister the also beauteous (former) Maid Morrigan. She's also ventured into Tennessee to see Eric who knows great places to take young boys, like rivers and creeks where they can catch crawdads and tadpoles and beg their mother to allow them to take them home.
When Bou is in Atlanta, we try to get together at least once. Lucky, lucky me as I adore Bou, her boys, and her sister.
This time, we met up for breakfast at a place near my house. Besides Bou and her brood, we also had in attendance, the aforementioned (former) Maid Morrigan (She doesn't become a matron until she has her first kid.) Others in attendance were Zonker, Richard and his wife Holder and their two young girls.
We put the five kids in a booth and outside of the straw cover shooting the gap from the booth to our table, we hardly knew they were there. The three boys and two girls were quieter than the adults. Hey, we're Blown-Eyed Blodgers. We gotta make some noise.
The time went all too quickly, as it always does, when I get together with other blodgers, especially Blown-Eyes.
I got this gem from Richard.
Archeologists were digging at an ancient site in Norway. They found a statue of the Norse thunder god. The statue had two huge rubies for eyes. When the two leading archeologists saw the statue, they began to squabble. Each wanted to claim the discovery as his own. The arguing went on for hours, with the rest of the team watching. Finally, they gave up and decided to share the credit for the discovery. As the crowd dispersed, one of the archeology assistants said to another,
“Boy, was that a fight for Thor eyes.”
Toldja it was a gem.
Poland builds its first commercial airplane.
Don't blame me. I got it from that old redneck Catfish.
With the bulls, that is.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This one is from Daryl.
A blonde, wanting to earn some money, decided to hire herself out as a
handyman-type and started canvassing a wealthy neighborhood. She went to the
front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had any jobs for her
to do.
"Well, you can paint my porch. How much will you charge?"
The blonde said, "How about 50 dollars?" The man agreed and told her that
the paint and ladders that she might need were in the garage.
The man's wife, inside the house, heard the conversation and said to her husband,
"Does she realize that the porch goes all the way around the house?"
The man replied, "She should. She was standing on the porch."
A short time later, the blonde came to the door to collect her money.
"You're finished already?" he asked.
"Yes," the blonde answered, "and I had
paint left over, so I gave it two coats."
Impressed, the man reached in his
pocket for the $50.
"And by the way," the blonde added, "that's not a Porch,
it's a Ferrari."
Saying with the beach pictures.
The winner of the coveted award this week goes to Carl Gordon who posted some unintellible bullshit on my Spy Squirrels post. Bullshit and off topic to boot.
So in terms of the otherness of Bush's actions and public personality, what would you expect:That he wear a hair shirt.
Huh? WTF?
He could sit on a pointed stick.
Maybe Carl should sit on a pointed stick.
But the problem with the hair shirt is that after a while, you get used to it, it becomes comfortable.
I wouldn't know.
Even a pointed stick...
If you say so, Carl.
We dwellers of base reality
After reading this far into Carl's manifesto, I don't think he has a clue as to what base (or any other kind of) reality is.
know that there's one prime technique in the real world (that is, not influenced by Tryptophans)
Carl, you're either taking too many Tryptophans or not enough.
for dealing with that disconentedness - keeping yourself alert so that if the information flys by, you're there with it.
If some information flies by, let me know.
I suppose another one is shock, but the difficulty with that is... if there's no shocks, maybe you sleep on.
What does this have to do with Spy Squirrels again?
If you become reliant on external shocks anyway, you lose your own powers of initiative.
Or powers of comprehension.
Another other one is to build in shocks to your own system, like a challange where you regularly set yourself some particular challenge which requires of you that you go beyond what you're able to reasonably respond to, like self-imollation.
Or perhaps rational thought processes. Carl loves them Tryptophans! Cantcha tell?
Q: If we talk about being in Bush's reality construct as being in the presence of something other, it's reasonable to assume that there's ways to be able to make yourself 'available' to noise like you'd be able to make yourself 'available' to Bush.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste Carl. Get help.
The books I've read on the pathology of sociopaths and persons suffering from Aspereger's Syndrome that they never quite get to the subtly that people typically are interested in.
Just like this comment is not what people are really interested in, but it is amazing to read the rantings of someone who is just not really all there.
The qualitative aspect of their logic is raw, as if chapped from over-abuse, which ironically is just the opposite.
If Carl ever displays any logic, I hope someone will point it out.
In a sense, their delusion is the cup that holds the wine of silence and deep troubled thoughts.
So Carl's delusion is the wine of silence? Sounds more like the whine of silence.
Normally, we fill it with the Coca Cola or popular opinion, or something equally as palatable yet unassuming.
Or, in Carl's case, total unpalatable and unassuming bullshit, 2007 vintage.
With Bush it's the bitter piss of a miserable childhood and more than likely, chronic bed-wetting and masturbation.
Carl, let me acquaint you with a term known as projection (definition - the tendency to ascribe to another person feelings, thoughts, or attitudes present in oneself, or to regard external reality as embodying such feelings, thoughts, etc., in some way.)
So you always have this conjunction between the real and the uncoordinated, quality and decay, the ineffable and the base and odorous.
Sounds like Carl's thought processes: "ineffable and odorous".
But one can train oneself to be in a position when the wind blows, you respond to it. Perhaps.
I do not have the slightest idea what Carl is talking about. Maybe I should have had Dan S. translate it for me. This guy's Bush Derangement Syndrome is even worse than Dan's.
For posting a comment that has no grounds in reality and has nothing to do with the original post, I am making you, Carl Gordon, the Asshole of the Week. Here's your prize.
Long time commenter Poulson now has his own blog. I promised a link. Here it is.
Why didn't I think of this?
Woody sent it to me.
What a great time to be a SRF©! The Dow and S&P 500 have set new records!
Larry Kudlow calls today's economy "The Greatest Story Never Told".
It appears that the Phillips Curve that I was taught in Econ 101 doesn't work. We have low unemployment, low inflation, and good economic growth.
The only downside is high energy prices. But that's Bush's fault, right? And the Dims will fix that by taxing the oil companies and enacting price controls. Yannow, the policies that worked so well back in the '70's. BTW, gas prices have gone up 90 cents since the Dims have taken over Congress.
Just imagine how the LSM would be covering today's economy if a Dimocrat were in the White House. Why it would be trumpeted as the greatest economic boom in over 50 years!
Dow and S&P 500 hit record highs!
No inflation in sight!
Unemployment remains at record lows!
Deficit dropping!
Steve talks about the LSM's coverage of the economy and jobs.
• 2001-2: The economy isn't growing.
• 2003-4: ...okay, it's growing, but it's a jobless recovery.
• 2005-6: ...okay, it's growing and creating jobs, but only the rich are benefiting.
• 2006-7: ...okay, it's growing, creating jobs, and wage growth is beating inflation, but we're still beleaguered by the dreaded deficit.
• 2007: ...okay, it's growing, creating jobs, creating higher wages, and the deficit is disappearing, but, uh, we still need to raise taxes because, uh, let's see... yeah, that's right: because there are still too many rich, and because the oil companies are making too much profit. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Yep! Let's go after all those eeeevil rich people and those eeeevil oil companies. Like I said earlier, that worked real well back in the '70's didn't it?
But the rich are getting richer (because they keep doing the things that make them rich - saving and investing) and the poor are getting poorer (because they keep doing the things that make them poor - dropping out of school and having kids they cannot afford - but there are always lottery tickets).
Yep! It's a great time to be a SRF©
I was gonna do a Name That Party quiz on the Meeks family but Don Surber beat me to it. Fair's fair. It is his game, after all.
But Woody sent me another Name That Party story.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An unsuccessful candidate in an Alabama House race and a nursing home worker were arrested and charged Thursday with multiple counts of voter fraud.
Voter fraud? Must be Republicans. Everyone knows that Dims are never involved in voter fraud. Take Chicago, for example. All the elections are clean and honest.
obile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. announced charges against Darren Lee Flott, 42, who ran in a 2006 race in House District 98, and Angie Corine Green, 49, also known as Angela Green.
No party affiliation mentioned yet.
he indictment lists 53 felony counts in a scheme to cast false absentee ballots bearing the names of Eight Mile Nursing Home patients described by authorities as comatose or incompetent.
"comatose or incompetent" They sound like primo Dimocrat voters to me. Still no party affiliation mentioned.
Flott of Eight Mile opposed James Gordon of Prichard in last year's Democratic primary, and again in a July runoff for the seat vacated by former Rep. Bill Clark, D-Prichard.
Holy crap! These felons were Dimocrats? Whoda thunk it? At least in Chicago they wait until the people are dead before they fake their votes.
Didja hear about the funeral?
A horse-drawn carriage pulled a pine casket with a black wreath on top through the streets of Detroit this morning.
Holy crap! Who died? It couldn't have been Rosa Parks. She bought it a few years back. So who was it?
Inside the casket: the N-word.
WTF?
Thousands of people gathered in Hart Plaza on the city’s riverfront for the symbolic funeral of the derogatory word. The burial was part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s national convention being held in downtown Detroit this week.
Can the NAACP get any wackier than this? Who else was there to take part in this useless ceremony?
Gov. Jennifer Granholm joined Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond to celebrate the word’s hoped-for demise.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Burying the word nigger is really gonna stop its usage.
“Good riddance to this vestige of slavery and racism, and say hello to a new country that invests in all its people,” Granholm said. She said she was proud the event was taking place in Michigan.
"invests in all its people" is liberal speak for gummint handouts, just like "contributions" is liberal speak for taxes.
During the service, Kilpatrick urged black men to stand tall and stop disrespecting themselves and black women.
Good luck with that Kwame!
“You can’t just bury the N-word. You have to bury all the nonsense that comes with it,” Kilpatrick said. “Good riddance. Die N-word. We don’t want to see you around here no more."
Speaking of nonsense, this bullshit of burying the word nigger is one of the most nonsensical things I have ever heard. Can the NAACP become even more irrelevant than it already is?
The N-word has been used as a slur against black people for more than a century. It remains a symbol of racism, but also is used by some blacks when referring to other blacks, especially in comedy routines and rap and hip-hop music.
I wonder if they told Chris Rock and Chris Tucker about this? Or what about the hip hop community? The most extensive use of the word nigger is now from the black community. Even my bigoted Uncle Pump, in the last few years of his life, quit using "nigger".
It's too bad this burial is just another example of how the NAACP has turned into an organization of symbolism and no substance. Rather than concentrate on real problems in the black community they have racist assholes like Julian Bond who blames everything on whites and a leadership that engages in symbolic gestures like burying a fucking word.
What a bunch of booger eatin' moh-rons participating in a colossal waste of time. No wonder they vote for Dimocrats.
Norman sent me pics of the finalist for the Greatest Ass contest.
Miss Minnesota.
Miss California.
Miz New York.
Alton sent me the following link.
HOUSTON — A state lawmaker who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force pulled a gun and shot a man he says was trying to steal copper wiring from a construction site, police said Monday.
Quick! Without reading any further, tell me the political party this hypocrite belongs to. Keep in mind that Diane Feinstein, a big gun control nut, has a license to carry a gun.
Rep. Borris Miles told police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the Houston house he's building Sunday night when he heard a noise downstairs and saw two men trying to steal the copper. After Miles confronted the pair, one of the men threw a pocketknife at him, Houston Police spokesman Victor Senties.
Silly dipshit! He brings a knife to a gunfight.
Miles, a former law enforcement officer, shot the man in the left leg, police said. The wounded suspect was being treated at a Houston hospital. Police were trying to identify the other suspect.Charges of aggravated robbery are pending against the wounded suspect, Senties said.
Police said Miles, who is in his freshman term, is licensed to carry a concealed weapon. No charges have been filed against Miles, Senties said.
Still no mention of the hypocrite's party.
Miles, a Democrat, voted against a bill that gives Texans stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, vehicles, and workplaces. The so-called "castle doctrine," passed by the Legislature this year, states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force. The law goes into effect Sept. 1.
Yep! He voted against a law that would allow him to do what he just did. And what a shock! He's a Dimocrat.
Hal, who sent me this, wanted to know if that were me. Close. During my last few years at IBM, I provided tech support for Japanese instructors on my systems.
Rodger's a fucking genius! Make sure you watch the entire video.
I'm posting this just for Eric because it is about spy squirrels.
According to IRNA, the official Islamic Republic news agency, the national Police chief has implicitly verified the news about the confiscation of a number of squirrels, equipped with eavesdropping devices, on the Iranian borders. He has declined to give any more details, but, reportedly, when asked about the confiscation of 14 spy squirrels, he stated, “I have heard about it, but I do not have precise information”. IRNA adds, “These squirrels were equipped by foreign intelligence services, but were captured two weeks ago by the Police”.
Dude! Look out! They're coming to get you!
Image shamelessly stolen from Gateway Pundit.
Here's an inconvenient truth: The dead earth concerts that were staged over the weekend probably wasted more power than they will inspire to save.
How many of the bands got to the events on private jets?
How much gas was used by the trucks carting all the equipment or the buses carrying the bands?
How much power had to be generated to provide for the stage lighting and the amplifiers for all of the rock concerts?
How much litter and waste were created by the attendees?
Let's see, we had concerts to save the earth organized by the Pope of Global Warming, Algore I, who, in just one of his mansions, uses more energy in a month than the average family does in a year. I imagine he is just as profligate in his other mansions as well.
We had other asshat celebrities, like Leo Di Crappio, calling on us to save the earth, while they also live in energy wasting mansions and travel everywhere on private jets.
We commoners are supposed to make all of the sacrifices while Al. Leo, Madonna and all of the other buttwipe celebrities continue their profligate ways.
At least one band realizes what a waste of time and energy these concerts are.
Rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists."It's a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world," said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore's charity concerts.
"Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical," he told AFP in an interview before a concert in Paris.
Bass player Nick O'Malley chimes in: "And we're always jetting off on aeroplanes!"
Of course we've all heard about how the organizers of these concerts were gonna buy carbon offsets to make these events carbon neutral. They'll probably buy them from Pope Algore I's company. This peterhead has to be laughing all the way to the bank! What a steaming crock of shit. The hypocrisy of these people alone makes me want to puke except I'm too busy laughing at all of this asshatery.
Given a choice of going to a dead earth concert or the UFO Convention in Roswell, New Mexico, I would have chosen the latter. I would have liked to have had the tinfoil hat concession for either event.
I would have made a financial killing!
This is a real bad one from Gene.
The Three Little Pigs
Once upon a time there were three little pigs. The straw pig, the
stick pig and the brick pig.
One day this nasty old wolf came up to the straw pig's house and
said, "I'm gonna huff and puff and blow your house down." And he
did !!!
So the straw pig went running over to the stick pig's house and
said, "Please let me in, the wolf just blew down my house." So the
stick Pig let the straw pig in.
Just then the wolf showed up and said, "I'm gonna huff and puff
and blow your house down." And he did !!!
So the straw pig and the stick pig went running over to the brick
pig's house and said, "Let us in, let us in, the big bad wolf just
blew our houses down!"
So the brick pig let them in just as the wolf showed up The wolf
said, "I'm gonna huff and puff and blow your house down." The
straw pig and the stick pig were so scared! But the brick pig
picked up the phone and made a call.
A few minutes passed and a big, black Caddy pulls up.
Out step two massive pigs in pin striped suits and fedora hats.
These pigs come over to the wolf, grab him by the neck and beat
the living shit out of him, then one of them pulled out a gun,
stuck it in his mouth and fired, killing the wolf, then they tied
cement blocks around his feet threw his sorry ass into the creek
then they got back into their Caddy and drove off.
The straw pig and stick pig were amazed!!! "Who the hell were
those guys?" they asked.
"Those were my cousins...
...the Guinea Pigs.
An old one from Rick.
A woman wants the inside of her house painted and she calls a contractor in to help her. They wander around the house, and she points out the colors she wants. She says, "Now, in the living room, I'd like to have a neutral beige, very soft and warm."
The contractor nods, pulls out his pad of paper and writes on it. Then he goes to the window, leans out and yells, "Green side up!"
The woman is most perplexed but she lets it slide. They wander into the next room. She says, "In the dining room I'd like a light white, not stark, but very bright and airy."
The contractor nods, pulls out his pad of paper and writes on it. Then he goes to the window, leans out, and yells "Green side up." The woman is even more perplexed but still lets it slide.
They wander further into the next room. She says, "In the bedroom, I'd like blue. Restful, peaceful, cool blue."
The contractor nods, pulls out his pad of paper and writes on it. Then once more he goes to the window, leans out and yells "Green side up"!
This is too much. The woman has to ask. So she says, "Every time I tell you a color, you write it down, but then you yell out the window "Green side up." What on earth does that mean?"
The contractor shakes his head and says, "I have four blondes laying sod across the street."
This weeks winner of the coveted award is none other than Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer. This guy is one of the most annoying assholes on the planet. And someone ruined a perfect prick when they put ears on him.
So now we have all this faux outrage on the left, led by Chuckie and his fellow Dimocrats. Let's see. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to a grand jury. Schumer's outraged. Bill Clinton did the same thing. That's OK.
Fuck you Dimocrat Rage Boy. I wish Bush had pardoned Libby.
Speaking of Dimocrat Rage Boy, I asked Mashby, the Photoshop wizard at Stark Raving Mad, to come up with Schumer as Dimocrat Rage Boy and he came through. Here he is in all his glory, Dimocrat Rage Boy.
Here's your award Dimocrat Rage Boy.
To: Nicholas Zarkov President of France
From Barbra Streisand
Dear Nicky,
Can I call you Nicky? I'm sure I can. Since you kissed me when I received that Legion Medal. I want to thank you for both the medal and the kiss. French guys really know how to kiss. You could teach my husband a thing or to.
I still cannot believe that you are a conservative! You remind me more of our famous liberals John Kennedy and Bill Clinton. You are just as charming as both of them.
Most Americans are more like the French. If Busch hadn't stolen the last election you would get to deal with John Kerrey who actually speaks French. As I'm sure you're aware, our current presdient hardly speaks Engilsh.
Fortunately, we will have a new president and this time it will be a Democrat. Then Fraqnce and the Untied States can be friends again.
I almost moved to France back in the early 90's. If Bill Clinton had lost his first election I would have left the country and moved to France. I admire the way the French government takse care of everyone. We could use theat in our country where he have rampant poverty and unemployment because of those evil Republicns. I hate them!
Anyway, thanks for the wonderful medal and the kiss. It is nice to know that the French people think as highly of me as they do Jerry Lewis.
Luv ya,
Babs
Here it is. Got the link from Don Surber.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
His reflections on the 4th of July.
What a great American!
I'm just surprised that this was on ABC!
Thanks Cal for sending this to me.
I've got a lot to reflect on today.
I can think of memories of my youth. If the 4th were around a weekend, we'd go camping at Lake of the Ozarks with the Eberharts.
Sometimes on the 4th we would go to my Great-Uncle Fred's lake house at Lake Montowese. I remember my late cousin, Russell his son, would take us on a motorboat ride around the lake or over to the beach so we could swim.
But let's reflect on the brave men who signed the Declaration of Independence. They risked everything and many of them were ruined by the Revolutionary War. Compare them to Americans today who don't want to risk anything and have the gummint take care of them from the cradle to the grave. Look at what that attitude did to the residents of Nawlins. When disaster struck they didn't know what to do but rely on the gummint which failed them at the city, state, and national level. Everyone blames FEMA and Bush but gives Mayor Asshole (whom the idiots in Nawlins reelected) and Governor Useless a pass. Had those two incompetent boobs done their jobs we wouldn't have heard so much about FEMA's failures. Funny that Mississippi, which was hard hit, managed to survive.
But I digress.
One of the things we revolted about were the taxes we had to pay to England. One of the slogans was "No taxation without representation!" What do you think the founding fathers would think of the way we tax ourselves with representation today?
Which brings me to today's Dimocrat party: the part of Jefferson and Jackson. Neither of those dudes would recognize today's Dimocrat Party. What do you think Jefferson (who believed in a small central gummint with most of the power to be held by the states) and Jackson would think of today's Dimocrats. Ted Kennedy? He would be dragged off and shot. Nancy Pelosi? Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer? They would be kicked out of the Dimocrat Party. Jefferson or Jackson would laugh at moonbats like Kucinich.
I can hear today's Dims now if they lived back in 1776.
"Jefferson lied, people died."
"This war is unwinnable."
"Franklin is a moron."
One of the things Dimocrats do best, other than being rat bastard, treasonous, commie assholes is raising taxes. Didja catch the panderfest in the Dimocrat debate last week? Out came the Dimocrat mantra that the rich don't pay their fair share. What is their fair share? The richest one percent earn seventeen percent of the income and pay thirty-four percent of the taxes. That's not enough?
Here's an idea. Let's have Hillary, Breck Boy, the Hollywood lefists, and all of the other rich Dimocrats who think "the rich" don't pay their fair share set an example and sit down and write a check for the difference between the taxes they actually pay and the taxes they think they should pay. I wonder how much money that would be?
Bill Clinton has said that every year he smiles when he writes the check to the gummint because he loves to pay taxes. It's bad enough that he spouts that bullshit (this from a man whose wife took a deduction for the used underwear he gave to charity), but there are people who actually believe it!
These rich leftists who rant on about "the rich" not paying their fair share have tax accountants that make sure they pay the least amount of taxes they possibly can.
That's why Bill Clinton smiles when he writes that check.
Happy 4th of July!
Don Surber has another Name That Party post up.
Hoy crap! Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer is spitting mad.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer late Monday expressed angry opposition to President George W. Bush's commutation of 'Scooter' Libby's prison sentence.
But it was perfectly OK for Clinton to pardon Puerto Rican terrorists. Or what about all these people?
"I’m outraged,” blasts Schumer in a flurry of e-mails being shotgunned across the nation by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! But he wasn't outraged at Sandy Burgler's plea bargain which was even more of an outrage. Burgler stole documents from the gummint archives and destroyed them. Did he get any jail time? Nope. But he's a Dimocrat. Rules are different for them.
"George Bush has commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby and wiped away two and a half years of prison time with the stroke of his pen. President Bush is willfully ignoring Libby’s felony conviction, ignoring the jury’s guilty verdict, and ignoring the rule of law. Our nation deserves better.
Since when is Chuckie concerned with the rule of law? He sure wasn't during the eight years of the Clinton administration.
"We expect more from our president,” laments the senator. "We expect honor and integrity, we expect moral leadership. We expect our president and his staff to be held to a higher standard.”
Honor and integrity? Don't make me laugh. The Clinton administration was the most corrupt administration in my lifetime. Moral leadership? When did Bill Clinton display any moral leadership? Unless getting blowjobs from a chubby intern or groping a widow is what Chuckie considers moral leadership. Wait a minute! He's a Dimocrat. That probably qualifies as moral leadership to a Dimocrat.
I really liked it when Hillary said when she got elected she was gonna lift up the carpets in the Oval Office and see what she could find. I can tell her what she would find: dried semen stains from her husband.
Rage on Chuckie. It just makes you look more like a hypocrite. Anyone got a Chuckie Rageboy Photoshopped yet?
My garden has started producing. This is what I had for supper last night.
Fresh cucumbers and tomatoes from the garden. Add red onion, black olives, and Italian dressing and it made for a nice summer meal.
I got an e-mail the other day from the proprietor of this site.
Denny: Need your help. As you may have noticed, Islamic Rage Boy is quite popular lately on the internet. We're having some trouble reminding people that this character is our original creation (OK, we didn't make the guy in India who's screaming, but we had him illustrated, created a character around him, and have invested money and time into making him funny and a parody of Islamic Rage). If you have some time and space to remind people that Islamic Rage Boy was the original creation of The Nose On Your Face, I'd appreciate it. The original post featuring him is here.Anyway, this sounds whiny, and I apologize for that. But as a blog that's looking to break through to the next level, we're a bit worried about maintaining ownership of our ideas.
Consider it done. Just remember that when your site gets more popular than mine, which will happen sooner rather than later, I expect a few links from you.
I stole this from SondraK
And after her speech, she hopped on her broom and flew home.
Yep! here we have another success story (scroll down) for socialism in today's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
Zimbabwe enforces price-cuts mandateInspectors and police raided stores in Zimbabwe on Sunday to enforce sweeping price cuts imposed to curb soaring inflation. At least 20 business executives were arrested over the weekend for hoarding goods and violating the government's order last week to slash prices of most products by half. Gasoline prices were ordered reduced by 70 percent, and stations quickly ran dry. Zimbabwe has the world's highest inflation, with an official rate of 4,500 percent —- but independent financial institutions calculate real rate is closer to 9,000 percent.
Whoda thunk it? You put an artificially low price on gas and you run out. I've seen this movie before. We tried price controls during the administrations of Nixon, Ford, and Carter and guess what? They didn't work! They never do!
You cannot repeal the Law of Supply and Demand, although socialists throughout the brief history of socialism never seem to let that fact penetrate their mushy brains. Price controls do not work. They're discovering that in Iran. Maybe if they pray long enough to their moon god Allan he can figger out a way to get around that pesky economic law.
As an aside, I think we should launch a cruise missile and take out Iran's lone oil refinery. Then, they would have to import all of their gasoline. If Aramalamadingdong thinks the rioting over gas shortages is bad now, it would really get bad then.
It won't be too much longer until Hugo Chavez competely destroys Venezuela's economy. But it won't be his fault. He'll just blame it on Jorge Bush.
But back to Zimbabwe. I'm not shedding a tear. Let 'em starve. Mugabe was a known socialist. He was elected in free and fair elections. Just ask Jimmah Carter. Mugabe took over a rich country and bankrupted it. A country that used to be a bread basket that exported food is now a starving basket case that has to import food. He can thank his land "reforms" for that. Confiscate successful farms from whites and give them to illiterate peasants. How's that working out, Bob?
Yannow what? South Africa is considering implementing those same "reforms". The ANC is a socialist party. They're running South Africa. I wonder how long it will be before they destoy that country?
I'm not shedding any tears for Zimbabwe. When Venezuela and South Africa go down the shitter I won't shed any tears for them either.
Socialists never learn.
Both PDB and Unix-Jedi think that the booger eatin' moh-rons who lined up to buy the new iPhone are losers and idiots. I agree.
Why not buy a jPhone instead? I wonder if Elisson has one.
Got this from Norman.
This one is from my friend Richard who just "retired" from IBM. They must be having another "resource action" or "skills redeployment". What a crock! Richard is one hell of a sysprog and is incredibly smart. He also has an offbeat sense of humor and is fun to hang with. I get "booger eatin' moh-ron" from him.
I met him when he helped us out on an education project. After that, I gave him access to my systems when I was doing system test on the early ship program and he returned the favor by providing me with many of the tools he had written. I learned one hell of a lot of stuff from him. IBM is shitcanning one hell of a resource.
Anyway, here's the pun.
King Arthur's castle was under attack by a fearsome dragon. He called for his best knight to slay the dragon. But all of the horses were frightened. The best mount they could find was an arthritic, one-eyed Great Dane. King Arthur looked at the dog and said, I'll kill the dragon myself. "I wouldn't ...
send a knight out on a dog like this."
It was about this time last year that a bunch of us Blown-Eyed Blodgers went down to Savannah Georgia for Rob Smith's (aka Pumpman - my name for him - aka Acidman - everyone else's name) funeral. We have shared a few memories and stories about the funeral at Blown-Eyed Blodger meets. We got two Catfish stories out of it.
At the wake, Pumpman's brother, Dave, and a bunch of his friends gathered on the back porch of Pumpman's parents' house and did some pickin' and a grinnin'. Eric captured one of the songs on video. Here it is. Dave is doing the singing. I'm in the vidoe every now and then. I'm the guy on the right in the white shirt.
From Rob.
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Hunting Flies" He responded.
"Oh, killing any?" She asked.
"Yep, 3 males and 2 Females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked: "How can you tell them apart?"
He responded, "Three were on a beer can, and two were on the phone".
