This is the very first Led Zeppelin song I ever heard. I was at Treasure Island in October 1969 mustering out of the Navy and I was in the enlisted mens club and this came on the jukebox. Who the heck are these guys?
Led Zep might not be metal, but they sure influenced a lot of metal bands.
I was shopping with Cindy today and she said there were people who were ridiculing Palin for her choice of shoes at the announcement. Now who is the best Shoe Person on the web? Why it's Fausta.
What did Fausta say?
Red shoes for the acceptance speech. Perfect.
Sarah Palin isn’t allowed to wield the gavel at the convention because they’re afraid she’ll use it to kill liberals.
More here.
Does the Jug Hussein Ears campaign really want to make a comment about Palin, with her inexperience, being a heartbeat away from the presidency? Bring it on guys! My reply: I would rather have someone inexperienced a heartbeat away from the presidency that someone with even less experience in the presidency.
Palin has more executive experience than Jug Husein Ears and Senator Hair Plugs combined. She's been a mayor. Yeah it was a small town but it's more executive experience than JHE and HP have combined.
She is the governor of the largest state in the Union. That's more executive experience that JHE and HP have combined.
While JHE has spent most of his time in the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate campaigning and making speeches, Palin has actually been governing and she's been a successful mayor and governor. Her resume looks much better than JHE.
JHE bases his foreign policy experience on going to Iraq twice and giving a speech in Germany.
Palin has been to the Middle East the same number of times as JHE has.
She's been to Germany as well but she didn't make a speech. Unlike JHE, she visited the wounded soldiers at Landstuhl. Despite his stated concern for our wounded soldiers in his acceptance speech, he chose to workout rather than visiting the troops he's so concerned about.
I'll bet she even has a thicker skin than JHE. I'll also bet her husband has been proud of his country for most of his life, unlike Mrs. JHE.
So yeah. Go ahead and play the inexperienced card. Bring. It. On.
Yet another from MoK about a smart blonde.
There was a blonde who found herself sitting next to a lawyer on an airplane. The lawyer just kept bugging the blonde wanting her to play a game of intelligence. Finally, the lawyer offered her 10 to 1 odds, and said every time the blonde could not answer one of his questions, she owed him $5, but every time he could not answer hers, he'd give her $50.00. The lawyer figured he could not lose, and the blonde reluctantly accepted.
The lawyer first asked, "What is the distance between the Earth and the nearest star?"
Without saying a word the blonde handed him $5. Then the blonde asked, "What goes up a hill with 3 legs and comes back down the hill with 4 legs?"
Well, the lawyer looked puzzled. He took several hours, looking up everything he could on his laptop and even placing numerous air-to-ground phone calls trying to find the answer. Finally, angry and frustrated, he gave up and paid the blonde $50.00
The blonde put the $50 into her purse without comment, but the lawyer insisted, "What is the answer to your question?"
Without saying a word, the blonde handed him $5.
Model sues plastic surgeon in Mexico for not making her nipples even after a breast implant. The doctor said, "They looked good to me!"
From Pres. OK. Here are some nice ones.
Well I could have picked Jimmah Carter (who keeps getting more and more deranged) for accusing McRINO of milking his POW experience. Funny. I didn't hear him complain about Flipper milking his Viet Nam experience and claiming to be a war hero. Oh yeah. He was Swiftboated. That's another Dimocrat euphemism for your opponent telling the truth about you. Flipper could have put all that to a stop if he had only released his military records. Why didn't he? He promised to and as yet he still hasn't. Wonder what he's trying to hide?
But no, Jimmah is just too easy of a target. Instead I'll go after this guy. Thanks to Darrell for the link.
People who fall for so-called "Nigerian scams" aren't victims at all—in fact, they're greedy and should be jailed, according to Nigerian high commissioner Sunday Olu Agbi. He said today that Nigeria has gained a bad reputation because of the scams perpetrated by a minuscule number of people, and that those who find themselves involved with the scams are equally as guilty as those running them.
Yeah. Throw my old brain damaged buddy Jimmy in jail for falling for a Nigerian scam. Listen up you booger eatin' moh-ron! These guys prey on old people and mentally bewildered people and Dimocrats. Ooops! Redundant. They're crooks and you are an asshole for justifying their existence. GFY!
Although this kind of fraud originates from all over the world, it seems to have an unusually high concentration in Africa and, specifically, Nigeria. This has, unsurprisingly, cast Nigeria in a negative light. Olu Agbi said that Nigeria's reputation for being involved with the scams has even hurt the country's ability to land business deals. "[T]hose who want to transact business with us are always very suspicious," he told the newspaper.
Then clean up your country! Until then, I'm giving you a gift and it ain't no scam. You are the AOTW.
From teqjack in the comments I got the link and stole it from here.
Geez. She's sure no PIAP like Thunder Rodent Thighs. She wears skirts and has nice legs and I know I'm a pig for saying this, but she's got a pretty nice rack as well.
Is it just me or do a lot of you want to see Tina Fey make an appearance on SNL as Palin?
This oughta be good. McRINO chose Sarah Palin as his VP. Adrian sent me the following e-mail:
Why is it if you say you're not going to vote for Obama because he's black you're called a racist? I've heard a lot of people (mostly black folk) say that the main reason they are going to vote for him is because he's black. Shouldn't those people be called racist as well? I guess only white people can be racist anymore.
Well, duh. Didn't you get the memo? Of course only white people can be racists.
So let's examine this election.
If you don't vote for Obama and Biden you're a racist and you hate hair plugs.
If you don't vote for McRINO and Palin, you're an ageist and a sexist.
Hey all of you PUMAs. Thunder Rodent Thighs isn't on the ticket, but the Republicans put a woman on theirs. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Just think, if McRINO wins and only serves one term it might wind up to be Palin versus Thunder Rodent Thighs in 2012. And let's see, maybe Bobby Jindal as VP if he doesn't turn into the typical Louisiana politician.
I'm glad to see that McRINO picked a conservative. From what I read she is a good governor as well. There's hope for his campaign now. The conservative base should like this pick.
Well what do you know? They did have Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW speak last night. I only caught part of his speech, but if the rest of it was as full of bullshit as the part I saw, I didn't miss much. The Pope compared Jug Hussein Ears to Lincoln! Lincoln? WTF? So now the Obamessiah is a Republican?
Ann Coulter once stated that both Dimocrats and Republicans run as conservatives, Republicans sometimes doublecross the voters but Dimocrats always do. Just remember that if Jug Hussein Ears gets elected.
Before Jug Hussein Ears spoke we had to endure one of those smarmy bio videos. This one was just as bad as the one for Thunder Rodent Thighs.
Then, the moment we had all been waiting for with bated breath was upon us. The Obamessiah, the One(!), who is gonna heal the planet and lower the oceans (and "heal the sick, even raise the dead, and make you little girls talk out of your head"...Willie Dixon), walked out upon the stage.
Yes. I watched the entire speech. I gotta admit, he's a good speaker. Not up to the level of BJ, but not many people are.
The first fifteen minutes were nothing but platitudes, soaring rhetoric that said absolutely nothing. And of course there was the requisite Bush bashing and the tying of McCain to Bush.
I liked when he said he was willing to debate McCain as to his readiness to be commander in chief. Really? Then why has he backed out of all those town hall meetings he said he was willing to do?
He promised a tax cut to 95% of the taxpayers. I remember the last Dimocrat who promised a middle class tax cut. It was BJ in 1992. Then after he was elected, he raised taxes saying it was the hardest thing he had ever done. I always maintain that siring Chelsea was the hardest thing he had ever done.
Yannow, maybe I'm wrong here. BJ seems to be willing to nail any old skank. Paula Jones comes to mind. Here's sumpin' I have always wondered about. BJ's idol JFK nailed Marilyn Monroe. BJ was the most powerful man in the world and the best he could do was Monica Lewinski? I can flat out guarantee that if I were the most powerful man in the world I could do a lot better than that. BJ was adored by a lot of Hollywood dingbats. He coulda nailed a lot of them. JFK would have. BJ settled for Monica.
And where were the Clintons last night? You would think that in the name of the party unity they called for they would be there to cheer Jug Hussein Ears on. Didn't they mean what they said in their speeches? What? Clintons lying? I'm shocked!
He said we would be independent of foreign oil in ten years. How are we gonna do that? Poof! PFM!
Outside of that and tire gauges he said it would be achieved by more fuel efficient cars, solar, windmills and biofuels (which will somehow generate 5 million new jobs), and natural gas. I guess he doesn't realize that we have to drill for natural gas as well and many of the the places that we would need to drill are off limits.
Change. Blah. Blah. Blah. Hope. Blah Blah Blah. Bush sucks. Blah. Blah. Blah.
He said he would go through the budget line by line and eliminate useless programs. Yeah. Like that's gonna happen. The only useless program to a Dimocrat is any program connected with national security. That's why whenever Dimocrats are elected, they cut the budgets of the military and the intelligence agencies.
He would restore our standing abroad. The best way to do that is to keep Dims like Jimmah Carter, Nancy Blinky Pelosi, and Flipper from going overseas and criticizing our foreign policy. There was once a time when politics ended at the waters' edge but sadly today's Dimocrat Party is full of rat bastard commies who hate George Bush so much they will do anything to see him fail, even undermine national security. Remember, these are the people who wanted us to lose in Iraq, but whatever you do, don't question their patriotism.
Let's see. What else did he promise? He's gonna fix education. How's he gonna do that? He's gonna throw more money at it. He claims he's gonna demand accountability. Yeah. Like that's gonna happen. Do you think the teachers unions are gonna stand for that? Yeah. When monkeys fly outa my ass.
More liberal pap.
He's gonna keep businesses from moving jobs overseas. Maybe if he repealed a lot of the gummint regulations imposed on American businesses he could do that. A good start is cutting corporate income taxes. Oh no! Can't do that! Business is eeeevil. Here's the deal. If you create a pro-business environment, which Dimocrats are not prone to do (Michigan anyone?), you'll attract business. Why have foreign auto companies built plants in the South rather than Detroit? The South gives them tax breaks and a non-union labor force. We have created a pro-business environment.
He's gonna cut capital gains taxes on small business? WTF? What kind of capital gains do small businesses incur?
More soaring rhetoric. More liberal pap. More campaign promises that he'll break as soon as he's elected.
It was a good speech. It was also mostly bullshit.
Elisson made this for me.
Kinda goes along with his speech last night.
Ron sat down and wrote a parody. Never particularly liked Cher, hence no embed.
The video
The parody.
I was raised in the fiction of a politics show
My mama used to lie for the money they’d throw
Papa would grin and promise them things
He knew he couldn’t give ‘em, knowin they were only naïve dingalings.
Liars, knaves, and thieves
We heard it from the people of the land
They’d call us liars, knaves, and thieves
But every time a new election was at hand
They stood at our command
Found us a boy up in South Chicago
Thought it was time for a black face in the show
Hyped him all up like a hip-hop star
Though he was a rookie
Guilt and black allegiance oughta take him pretty far
Felons, cheats, and scum
We heard it from the people of the towns
They’d call us felons, cheats, and scum
But every time an election came around
They threw their money down
He never managed nothin but he talked real well
With his smooth, Harvard style
One year later he’s the party’s choice
And it looks like he could win, uh huh
Sure looks like he could win, uh huh
Fakers, crooks, and cons
We heard it from the average citizen
They’d call us fakers, crooks, and cons
But they were sick of the way that things had been
And white-faced rich old men
He was trained as a lawyer in a government job
The media accepted him as their new heart throb
Hasn’t got a clue how to make things work
But it doesn’t matter, liberals will vote for any anti-Bush jerk.
Liars, trash, and thieves . . . . .
I wonder how much they paid BJ to make that speech?
He gave a really good pro-Jug Hussein Ears speech. of course it wouldn't be a good Clinton campaign speech without a little hyperbole and outright lying. Do you remember back in 1992 when he kept saying that we were in the worst economy in 50 years? Not true. In fact, we were just starting a recovery, but neither Clinton ever lets the facts get in the way of a good argument. He stated that we are currently experiencing the biggest inequality between rich and poor since the 1920s. I call bullshit.
As he was basking in his applause I'll bet he was saying to himself, "I betcha you rubes wish that I could run again. In the last 28 years, I'm the only Dimocrat who has ever defeated the Republicans not once, but twice, and I did it without receiving the majority of votes both times."
In 1992, Clinton won with less than 43% of the popular vote. Dukakis did better and he lost to Bush Pere in a landslide. Too bad Dukakis didn't have Ross Perot running as a third party candidate. Of course, BJ and Thunder Rodent Thighs did figger out how to give the Republican's control of both houses of Congress for the first time in over 40 years and the Dimocrats loved them for it. Now there are some real good political skills there.
So Clinton warmed up the crowd for Biden. If I were gonna make a speech I for damn sure wouldn't want to follow Clinton. It's like the warm up act at a rock concert being better than the main attraction. Shortly after Sammy Hagar started his solo career, he was the warm up act at a Ted Nugent concert. He kicked ass. I like Ted Nugent but on that night, Sammy Hagar was better. He had more energy and put on a better show.
Biden was introduced by his son. What's wrong? No smarmy video like the one for Thunder Rodent Thighs? (BTW TRT, how's that campaign debt going?) Biden came out and he tried to give a barnburner of a speech but all I heard was "Bush was bad. Blah Blah Blah", and then ZZZZZZZ. Holy crap! I fell asleep. Fortunately, he was rescued at the end when Jug Hussein Ears came out and mouthed a few platitudes.
Yannow, I remember the conventions from long, long ago when they were actually interesting to watch. There was suspense because in most cases you didn't know who the candidate was gonna be. The roll call was in prime time and it was exciting to watch, especially if no one was elected on the first ballot. I can remember the Republican convention of 1976 when Ford narrowly defeated Reagan and the Dimocrat convention of 1976 when Jimmah defeated the Floater.
It's gotta really suck when your best speaker is an impeached former president who is a slimy rapist and a serial sexual harasser.
I wonder how much they paid BJ to make that speech?
Coming tonight. The Obamessiah. I wonder if he'll heal any sick or raise any dead? After all, he is "The One". He should really get Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW to give the invocation tonight. I have heard a lot of global warming bullshit during this convention.
Back when I was a CE with IBM we had some control units for the 32xx displays and printers. I cannot remember exactly which controller it was (this was over 20 years ago), but I can remember one of the senior CEs telling me that if you worked on the control unit for two hours and you still had the original bug, you were making progress. I felt that way recently.
I've been having problems with my electronics lately. last week my computer display finally gave up the ghost. My UPS wasn't UPSing anymore either. Replaced them both.
Saturday night, my satellite quit working. All of my other components worked OK. It was just the satellite that failed. I had the dreaded "blue screen" on my TV. Being slightly hammered at the time (which was actually what caused the problem), and since it was about time to crash, I performed the action which fixes it 99.99% of the time. Unplug it for 30 seconds and then plug it back in. At IBM we called this the Poughkeepsie Reset. Yep! We fixed some computer equipment the same way people fix stuff now. Every now and then you gotta reboot those microprocessors.
Sunday, I decided to see what I could do. When you call the techno-bozos, or in my case, do a live chat (I could not find a support number), I knew the first thing they would have me do is a Poughkeepsie Reset. Done. The next thing would be check the connections. I started pulling components out, and naturally, some connections came undone. Before long, the VCR wouldn't work. Yeah. I have a VCR. I have some things on tape, like old home movies. Crapola! I've made things worse. So, before I messed things up even more, I walked away from the bug. I could still watch TV in my bedroom and since all that were on my viewing plans were the Dim Convention, I really didn't need HD. Like I wanted to see Thunder Rodent Thighs in HD.
Speaking of TRT, she really had those botox injections going last night didn't she? My friend Cindy thinks she has had surgery as well. When TRT smiles she looks just like a little chipmunk. She reminds me of Tammy Faye Bakker (who is no longer with us). She just doesn't wear as much makeup. Who did? Mix in Margaret Carlson and you could have a screaming horde of chipmunks. A little Blown-Eyed Blodger humor there.
I put off the troubleshooting until today. I needed to shine a little more light on the problem so I got out my trouble light. Anyone who has worked on cars knows that you almost always have to replace the lightbulb before using a trouble light. This case was no exception.
After about ten minutes of fiddling, I finally got everything connected properly. Now the VCR worked again. But the satellite didn't. But, I had figgered out why I got the dreaded "blue screen". I was in VCR mode when I attempted to change the channel. What that did was change the channel on the VCR tuner which needed to remain on 2. Did I mention I was a little hammered when the failure happened?
Had I thought this through before starting, I could have saved myself a lot of grief. Yannow, I used to do stuff like this for a living. I was a lot better at it back then. Getting old sucks!
I never received this from BMW. Jon was nice enough to send it to me.
Put down your drink and go here.
Got it from MoK who said she is waiting for the curmudgeon model to come out. That's the model that I want.
Yep. I would much rather have the third Bush administration than the second Carter administration.
First, to placate DanS here are a few words about Mrs. Jug Hussein Ears.
The speech she made Monday night was the speech she should have made on the stump, rather than talking about how mean this country was and how this was the first time she was proud of this country, the country that made it possible for her to get an Ivy League education; the country that made it possible for her to get a $300K per year job and to live in a $1 million mansion; the country that made it possible for her to give her daughters dance lessons and to send them off to summer camp, and then she bitched about how hard it was to afford all that. And you think McCain is out of touch?
I'm very proud of my country. As I've recounted many times, my sister and I grew up poor, but we both lived the American Dream. We worked hard and got an education. We applied ourselves and we both became wealthy. Damn right I'm proud of a country that enabled me to do that! But maybe if I were as wealthy as Mr. And Mrs. Jug Hussein Ears were, I would not be proud of my country. I don't know. Fix me up with a crook like Tony Rezko who gave me a deal on that mansion and I might be.
On to Day 2.
Mark Warner, the governor of Virginia spoke. Here's a summary of his speech.
The future. Blah. Blah. Blah. Bush bad. Blah. Blah. Blah. The future. Blah Blah Blah. McCain Bad. Blah. Blah. Blah. The future. Blah. Blah. Blah. One million hybrid plugin cars in seven years. Blah. Blah. Blah. The future. Blah. Blah. Blah. I was a good governor. Blah. Blah. Blah. The future. Blah. Blah. Blah. It doesn't matter if an idea has a D or an R after it. Blah. Blah. Blah. The future. Blah. Blah. Blah. Oh yeah. Vote for Obama.
I think I got everything right on this. I didn't take notes, but I'll bet he said "The future:" at least twenty times. He messed up in a few places. He didn't mention Cheney or the Dark Lord, Darth Rove. And in sumpin' that should send him back to the re-education camp, the line about it not mattering whether an idea had a D or an R after it was blasphemy.
I saw an interview with Mitt Romney. Didja ever get a song stuck in your head that wouldn't go away. I have a similar thing with Romney. Cindy told me that Romney reminds Michael and her of Max Headroom. OMFG! Now every time I see him, I visualize Max Headroom.
Before Hillary's speech the governor of Montana was out warming up the crowd. He got off on this "Four more years" riff as in we can't have another Republican administration for Four! More! Years! Dude! You don't want the crowd chanting "Four! More! Years!" It makes it sound like you want the Republicans to govern for Four! More! Years!
Then we had to have this smarmy video narrated by Chelsea Clinton about how wonderful her mom, Saint Thunder Rodent Thighs, was. It was so saccharin it made me want to puke. TRT cares! Yeah. TRT cares about herself.
Then, THE SPEECH that everyone was breathlessly waiting for. I should have turned on MSNBC to see if Chris Matthews got a tingle down his leg. I think only JHO can make that happen. Cindy told me that Matthews and Olberman had a little spat early on.
So after the smarmy video, Chelsea introduced TRT and she waddled onto the stage. She basked in the adoration of the crowd. I can hear her thinking: They love me. They really love me! They don't realize what a cold hearted cutthroat bitch I am.
And speaking of cutthroat bitches, I'm really pissed off that the writers on House killed off Amber. Finally, they had an enemy of House that I really liked, plus, I think that Anne Dudek is really hot. Those long legs are awesome!
THE SPEECH
Blah. Blah. Blah. Fictional people that she claimed she met on the campaign trail and how she wants to help them. This from a person who doesn't tip waitresses. Blah. Blah. Blah. The 90's were great. Blah. Blah. Blah. I ran a great campaign. Blah. Blah. Blah.
This is pretty much the speech she gave when she was campaigning.
Blah. Blah. Blah. Bush bad. Blah. Blah. Blah. So is McCain. Blah. Blah. Blah. WTF is wrong with you people? You should have nominated me. That's not what she said, but what she meant.
And it wouldn't be a good Clinton speech without some props. Sitting with BJ were the widow of the head of the Arkansas Dimocrat Party. I wonder if BJ was hitting on her? It wouldn't be the first widow he hit on. Kathleen Willey comes to mind. And according to Gloria Steinem, he does get one free grope.
BJ was mouthing the words, "I love you." while TRT was speaking. He was prolly talking to himself, because BJ does not love anyone more than himself.
Blah. Blah. Blah. One million hybrid plugin cars. Where are we gonna get the electricity for them? Windmills. Blah. Blah. Blah.
Are they gonna be like the windmills at Altamont Pass in California where less than half are actually turning?
Oh yeah. Vote for Jug Hussein Ears.
I have to admit, I didn't watch all of the speech. Partway through I switched over to the soft porn stuff they were showing on Cinemax. BJ would understand. He would prolly prefer that to listening to TRT drown on with her bullshit platitudes.
I wonder if TRT will be in the audience mouthing, "I love you." when BJ gives his speech tonight?
Take him away from a TelePrompTer and this is what you get.
As I was driving home last night I caught part of Mrs. Jug Hussein Ears' speech. I didn't hear the entire thing because I didn't turn it on when I got home to hear the rest. At least she didn't sound bitter.
How didja like the 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling line? I wouldn't touch that line with a ten foot pole.
I hear that Nancy Pelosi told the Hillary supporters to "avoid victim politics". Huh? WTF? That's what the entire Dimocrat primary was about. Do we elect a woman to turn those 18 million cracks in the ceiling into a hole that a woman can climb through or do we elect a black man to make up for slavery? The Dimocrat Party is all about "victim politics".
Too bad I missed the worst president of the 20th Century with his recorded remarks. I also missed the Dims paying tribute to the murderer, that bloviating blowhard Ted Kennedy. Just curious. How many houses does he own? Is he out of touch?
I just love the consistency of the Dims. McRINO marries an heiress and that's bad and puts him out of touch. Flipper married Teresa (How many homes does she have?) but somehow it's OK for that elitist bastard to own multiple homes. And he's in touch with the common man because...?
I'll see how long I can watch the convention tonight. Here's a preview of Thunder Rodent Thighs' speech.
As we were leaving the restaurant last night Elisson couldn't locate my car. That's because I was dring my BMW 325 rather than my Z3. Elisson hadn't seen my new 325 yet. I told him that I really needed to get a bumper sticker to put on each car that said "My other car is a BMW. Behold! He made one for me.
I'm gonna miss the start of the Dimocrat Convention because I have to attend a
Sommelier Guild of Atlanta Chardonnay tasting at The Tasting Room.
Here's the menu:
Peekytoe crab cake with grapefruit
beurre blanc and micro pea shoots
3 Chardonnays tasted blind
Pan roasted branzino (Mediterranean sea bass)
with fava beans and Silver Queen corn, lemon
oil and hazelnut creme
3 Chardonnays tasted blind
Rosemary roasted Ashley Farms organic
chicken with foie gras gastrique
3 Chardonnays tasted blind.
Some of the Chardonnays will be from Patz & Hall, Mer Soleil, Cakebread, Chalk Hill, and Angelo Gaja. These wines range at retail from $30.00 to $60.
Woe is me! Poor Elisson has to attend as well.
He also posted some bullshit like we actually enjoy having to
attend these events. It's torture I tell you! Pure torture!
Maybe I'll make it home in time to see Mrs. Jug Hussein Ears
give her speech. I'll certainly be in a condition able to
handle the idiocy of it.
Ampman88 sent me a bunch of Jug Hussein Ears cartoons so since the Dimocrat Convention is starting today these seem appropriate.
I got the following from Tiger.
Is this just a coincidence?
Obama Biden
Osama Binladen
My friend Phil sent me a bumper sticker that said: The only difference between Osama and Obama is BS.
Of course the left believes in freedom of speech.
Thanks to Erica
I just love the way Fox News makes these booger eatin' moh-rons' heads explode. Didja ever notice that when liberals speak on college campuses, the conservative people in the audience are usually respectful? But when a conservative speaks we have leftist dipshits standing up and turning their backs on the speaker. Dudes! Why do you even come to the speech? Oh yeah. You come to disrupt it like throwing pies at Ann Coulter. Or unfurling signs and yelling obscenities. You assholes on the left are nothing but spoiled little children. You believe in freedom of speech but only for people who agree with you. Everyone else gets shouted down by your meaningless slogans.
I like how the reporter tries to get people to explain what's on their T-Shirts and signs. It's much easier to shout a slogan than it is to explain it.
Here's more.
I love it. "Fuck Fox News!" How creative. Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan, and Ward Churchill are there. A convergence of Moonbats. TDHO would fit in real well with this group. He actually got one guy to say sumpin other than "Fuck Fox News!" As Erica said, "What a bunch of dooshbags!"
This is a fine example of the "tolerant" left. One more thing. Don't question their patriotism.
This stuff is so entertaining. I'm sorry I'm gonna miss the convention tonight. Miss Jug Hussein Ears is gonna speak. I'll be out drinking wine.
Got this one from Richard and it just seems to fit the start of a political party convention.
A man went to a Caribbean island on vacation. He soon learned that the island was home to Norman, a marauding hedgehog. Together with a giant shark named Celeste, he terrorized the island. One day, the man went to the beach to surf or jog. He noticed a palm tree that was almost completely devoured. He asked a native if it was Norman's or Celeste's work. The native asked why it mattered. The man replied,
"If Norman ate it, I will not run. If Celeste did, I will not surf."
Every year Challenge Aspen runs a winter sports clinic for disabled veterans. I'm disabled and I'm a veteran so I qualify. The VA picks up the tab for the camp. So, I needed to get into the VA system. Last month I went down to the VA and enrolled. Not too bad. I had to take my DD-214, fill out some paperwork, and get my picture taken. Got my ID card a week later. That was fast. They also sent me an appointment time to see the enrollment doctor. I went last Friday.
When I went to the VA previously, the parking spaces were at a premium. What I didn't know was that there was valet parking! At the VA! This time I used it.
I had already filled out my paperwork before the exam. I explained to the doctor that the only reason I was enrolling in the system was to get the VA to send me to the Winter Sports Clinic. So she made a few calls for me since she didn't know about it. She really went the extra mile and finally found the person who knew sumpin' about it.
She entered everything on my questionnaire into the computer. She also gave me a physical exam and asked additional questions. Since my primary care people hadn't done a PSA test this year, she put me in for that and Hepatitis C screening.
Then it was off to the lab. The tech was a real good stick. I got good veins.
Minimal wait times. Helpful people. Valet parking. What's going on here? This is the gummint I'm dealing with.
I love this one from Sandy, but then I roared at the quad pole dancer on SNL. So did Michael and Cindy and they both felt guilty about it. I didn't. I know. I'm sick.
Three disabled men (a blind man, an amputee, and a man in a
wheelchair) are flying back with the USA team from the Paralympic
games in the Middle East when their plane crashes in the Sahara
Desert. The three disabled men, the only survivors, are now stranded
and wait for someone to rescue them, but no one shows.
They start to get real thirsty, so they decide to seek out water. The
amputee leads the way, with the blind man pushing the man in the
wheelchair;. Eventually they find an oasis. The amputee leader goes
into the water first, cools himself down, drinks a load of water,
walks out the other side and lo and behold, he has a NEW LEG! He gets
excited and encourages his friends to do the same.
The blind man offers to push the guy in the wheelchair, but he is
refused. The man in the chair is skeptical and insists the blind man
goes ahead first. So he goes into the water, cools himself down,
drinks a load of water, walks out the other side and lo and behold,
he can SEE!
Now the man in the wheelchair is getting really excited and starts
pushing with all his might. He goes into the water, cools himself
down, drinks a load of water, and wheels out the other side. Lo and
behold ... NEW TIRES!!!
I was gonna link to John Callahan's site, who is a quad cartoonist who makes me look politically correct, but it doesn't appear to be working anymore.
Inspired by Don Surber who did parody of this song.
So the Blogosphere is really buzzing about Jug Hussein Ears' pick for VP. We all know that the only reason he was picked was because he said that Jug Hussein Ears was "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy".
Evidently the McRINO camp was prepared for the pick as they already had the following ad ready to go. Talk about rapid response.
Thunder Rodent Thighs wasn't even vetted. Vet a Clinton? With all of her baggage and shady deals? What's to vet? She's a crook. This is gonna piss off the women who wanted faux feminist Thunder Rodent Thighs as the VP.
This has been the most fun campaign to watch in my lifetime. It's such a shame that we have two Dimocrats running for prez. At least one of them wants to defend the country. Wonder if McRINO is gonna pick another Dimocrat like Lieberman and make it two Dimocrats running for VP?
Doug Ross weighs in on his pick of Neil Kinnock. So now we have two Dimocrat candidates who have been caught plagiarizing.
Here is the Prelude to Bach's Cello Suite #1 on a weird instrument. I've posted this on guitar here (my first Saturday Bach). I prefer the guitar transcription since you can get a little counterpoint going in it.
I got this from Dan.
Another from MoK.
A blonde has just gotten a new sports car. She cuts out in front of a semi, and almost causes it to drive over a cliff. The driver furiously motions for her to pull over, and she does.
The driver gets out and draws a circle and tells her to stand in it. Then he gets out his knife and cuts up her leather seats. He turns around and sees she's smiling. So he goes to his truck, takes out a baseball bat, and starts busting her windows and beating her car. He looks back to see that she's laughing. He's really mad now, so he takes his knife and slices her tires. He turns around and she's laughing so hard, she's about to fall down. He demands, "What's so funny?"
She says, "Every time you weren't looking, I stepped out of the circle!"
Since I don't believe in discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, I feel perfectly comfortable in declaring this bitch as the AOTW. Got the link from Don Surber.
DURHAM (WTVD) -- Since three former Duke Lacrosse players were declared innocent of rape and assault charges, the alleged victim in the highly publicized Duke Lacrosse case has remained out of public view until now.
The "alleged victim" who falsely accused the three former Duke Lacross players.
In a press release, Crystal Mangum's manager has announced plans to release a tell-all memoir entitled "The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story."According to the book's co-author Vincent Clark, the book will be released in October.
"It is "the only definitive account of the life and struggles of the woman at the center of the Duke Lacrosse case, the alleged accuser," said Clark in a press release. " Were it not for the Duke Lacrosse Case, she likely would be described as a bright, young woman from Durham, North Carolina, who has had a difficult life."
Maybe she should have thought of that before she falsely accused the three former Duke Lacrosse players.
Mangum plans to donate $1 from each book sold to help battered women.
That will prolly be about $10. Hope the publisher didn't give her a very big advance. But she does get this award.
Sent to me by many readers. They left out ABC, NPR, and PBS.
Stole this one from here.
We better hope he leaves us some change.
Jug Hussein Ears made the covers of two magazines this week.
Thanks to Woody for the link.
Dontcha just love those letters to the editor where the mindless dipshits regurgitate the rat bastard commie Dimocrat talking points? We have a fine example in today's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation fromn Steve Reilly of Norcross.
GOP wants to fool voters on fuelApparently congressional Republicans think off-shore and Alaska oil drilling is a winning election issue (“Oil debate energizes GOP,” Metro, Aug. 14).
That's because it is. Americans want lower gas prices.
That’s because after almost eight years of failed Republican governance in Washington, Republicans cannot win on any real issues.
And oil prices are not a "real issue"? Tell that to the truckers who have to pay over $4 a gallon for diesel fuel. Tell that to the soccer moms who have to shovel out a lot of money to gas up their SUVs.
Now Republicans intend to try to fool voters into believing that American dependence on foreign oil can be eliminated if we simply engage in more drilling offshore and in Alaska.
No. They're telling us that we can lessen our dependence on foreign oil if we produce more domestically. This is more realistic than the Obamessiah telling us that we can eliminate our dependency on foreign oil if we just inflate our tires. Maybe if we inflated them as much as his inflated ego we could finally get those flying cars we were supposed to have by now. It's 2008 fer chrissakes. Where are the flying cars?
As economists tell us, however, the problem is that increased domestic drilling would not yield enough oil to significantly reduce crude oil prices, nor would the additional oil be available for market for seven to 10 years.
This seven to ten years bullshit really pisses me off every time some booger eatin' moh-ron brings it up. So will we not need any additional oil in seven to ten years? Our demand is gonna remain the same? Just think, if we had opened up ANWR and the outer continental shelf seven to ten years ago, we would now have that oil flowing.
One of my commenters pointed out that we may as well quit doing research on diseases because we wouldn't find the cures in seven to ten years.
I guess we should quit the research on solar power and other alternative energy sources because they will not be viable for another seven to ten years. Jesus H. Christ! What do these libtards use for brains?
Nonetheless, Republican leaders are hoping that if they spin their message often enough and repeat it loud enough, voters will believe it.
And it's working. By a two to one margin, Americans now support offshore drilling. Where are Socialist Sally and TDHO on this? They're the ones who are always citing polls (In Sally's case most of her numbers were made up.) and saying we should do what the American people want.
Republicans hope that voters will then blame Democrats for gasoline prices.
Since the Diomocrats have opposed offshore drilling and opening up ANWR all the way back to BJ's presidency, I think it's fitting to blame Dimocrats. They have consistently opposed opening up new domestic oil fields. I remember them opposing the Alaska pipeline because of the poor caribou. Note to ecotards: The caribou love the pipeline. It's warm. The caribou are thriving.
Even in today’s cynical political climate, that’s a bit of a reach.
Not really. The Republicans want more oil production. The Dimocrats want us to solve our supply problems by inflating our tires. They want us to drive electric cars but they are against building new coal or nuclear plants to provide the electricity it will require to charge all of these cars. The Dimocrats want to rely on alternate energy which is years away. Prolly seven to ten or more years away. They want Poof! PFM.
If you loved the rolling blackouts in California and the blackout in the Northeast a few years back, you'll love the Dimocrats' energy plans.
From MoK here is the Mooslime version of Adam and Eve.
I'll be back to rantings shortly. I'm still thinking about my family.
A few years before her death, my mom had all of our home movies transferred to video tape. I brought them back to Atlanta with me after her death but I never looked at them until last Monday. Every adult in them is now gone.
One of the little things I noted was almost everyone smoked. My grandfather smoked a pipe. My Uncle Fred smoked cigars. I saw my Aunt Helen and my Aunt Ginny smoking cigarettes. Both my mom and dad were smokers.
My grandmother and her sister, my Aunt Ella, were both really fat. My grandfather and my Uncle Fred were not.
The early movies were before my sister and I came along. Rosemary was young and pretty. I cannot believe how young Russell was.
There was one really old lady that I don't know. She was either Grandma Weber or Grandma Breitschuh. My sister would know.
My father was a handsome man. I was a really cute baby. So was my sister. What happened?
Everyone dressed up to go to holiday gatherings. The men wore ties. The women wore funny hats. The children dressed up as well but didn't have to wear ties. When my generation came along, Mom made us dress up as well. This pissed me off since my cousins didn't have to. They could wear jeans. Mom told us it was a sign of respect to look nice when having family dinners and being a guest in other homes.
There is a Christmas movie where I got a tricycle. Later I rode that tricycle to Goodall elementary school and back. It was a mile away. My mom was frantic. I don't remember this, but my mother did and told me about it over the years. I don't know if I got in trouble for that or not. This started my propensity for doing stupid things.
I was surprised at everyone who was there. My Uncle Pump was there with his wife and two children. He lived in Oklahoma City and usually only came for weddings and funerals. My Aunt Hallie and Uncle Bill were there as well. Hallie was my father's half sister and very seldom came to family gatherings. How did we get them all in our dinky little house?
Speaking of the dinky little house, there was a movie right after we moved in to the house. They were just getting ready to build houses across the street. They took a shot of Sherry running up the hill.
Everyone was soooooo young.
For some reason we quit taking family movies. The last one was Mom, Dad, Sherry, and I at Lake of the Ozarks.
Memories. So many memories.
Stolen from Surber.
As one of my correspondents noted: “The Democrats have suddenly developed a keen sense of morality. John Edwards has been banned from making a speech at the democratic convention for having an affair and lying about it. Bill Clinton will be speaking in his place.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
We finally found a place where Dimocrats want to drill.
As promised, here is my cousin Gary's Eulogy that he delivered at Rosemary's funeral. He made it almost all the through it before choking up at the end. Very well written. Very well delivered.
I don't know much about Rosemary's early life because by the time I came along she was already 32 years old. I remember her talking about growing up in places I didn't recognize amongst people I never met. I do know that she grew up with our father as her little brother, so she had to develop the virtue of patience early in life.
My earliest recollections are framed around idyllic weekends at Lake Montowese. I remember Rosemary placing me and Nancy and Rick in the hammock under the trees down by the lake, rocking and singing us to sleep. I remember swimming and playing at the beach while Mom and Aunt Rosemary watched over us. She liked to take walks around the lake, so we all went, and brought along Rugged, the dog. He was Dad's dog but somehow had ended up with Rosemary. She always had candy to put out for us after supper; candy corn, circus peanuts and those soft white mints with the chewy green stuff in the middle. She loved candy. She ate more candy than everybody else I know put together.
(I remember the candy corn and circus peanuts from when we would go to the lake...GOC)
As I grew older and discovered how to operate the telephone I used to call her up at work where she operated the switchboard and she would answer with "Dick X-ray." She would listen while I babbled on about nothing in particular and always seemed glad to hear from me.
Christmas and birthdays were always exciting around our house, and you knew that if Santa Claus didn't bring you that special toy, you had a second chance to get it when Aunt Rosemary came over later. In return we gave her cheap plastic jewelry and bottles of bubble bath and hand lotion. She always received them like they were the best presents she had ever got, just because they were from us.
Sometimes when Mom and Dad had to go somewhere Aunt Rosemary would come over and babysit us. I'm afraid we sometimes took advantage of the situation because we knew she definitely wouldn't spank us if we had been misbehaving.
After Grandpa died Aunt Rosemary took over caring for Grandma. So that she could go out with Charlie on Friday nights I got to go over and sit with Grandma. Aunt Rosemary would have a supply of goodies for me to eat, and I got paid for it as well.
Rosemary had to learn to drive and after a couple of years of driving Grandpa's Pontiac she bought a '67 Chevy II. Several times over the succeeding years she let me borrow that car, which I thought was very generous, and every place I went I had guys begging me to buy that car. So did she, but she held onto it until she couldn't drive anymore.
I got older and moved away to Springfield to go to college. I discovered that if I wrote Grandma a letter I would get one back with five dollars in it from Grandma and a couple more from Aunt Rosemary. Those letters were like manna from heaven and kept me eating all the way through college. Of course it was Aunt Rosemary who read my letters to Grandma and also wrote the replies.
Rosemary retired and took care of Grandma full time. She did all the cooking, cleaning, shopping, ran Grandma to the doctor, bathed and dressed her. Such devotion of daughter to mother is extraordinary. And Grandma was a hand full.
(Aunt Ella's nickname was Queeny because of how well her husband and children treated her...GOC)
Not too long after Mary and I were married Grandma passed away and Rosemary and Charlie were free to get married. Grandma didn't approve of Charlie because he was divorced, but after dating for like 25 years they finally did get married.
What a match! Charlie quiet and studious, either reading or building his model trains. Rosemary outgoing and fun loving, always wanting to go out and do things, but Charlie never did. Somehow they made it work.
Rosemary had a kindred spirit in her cousin Peachie Wilson. Together they would go to the Fox or the Muny or the Botanical Gardens or traveling. They were the best of buddies.
(Peachie was my mother. As a litle girl she had rosy cheeks and a happy disposition. Hence, the name Peachie. To her dying day, no one in the family called her anything else. Gary's father Russell used to joke that Mom and Rosemary could spend the entire day together and then talk on the phone for hours that evening. Get my sister, mother, and Rosemary together and they could all talk at the same time and somehow understand what everyone was saying...GOC)
Rosemary was diagnosed with breast cancer and went in for surgery. The doctor said he thought the disease would kill her, but it didn't. He attributed her miraculous recovery to her positive attitude.
After twenty years of marriage Charley went into decline, but Rosemary was still her same energetic self. When Charley passed away Rosemary seemed to take it pretty well. Then her buddy Peachie died and Rosemary started having health problems of her own and had to move out of her house. I don't think I ever heard her laugh again. They say going blind separates a person from things, but going deaf is more cruel because it separates you from people. Such was the case with Rosemary. She would nod and smile when you spoke to her, but you knew she couldn't understand what you were saying. As her health continued to fail she bore up well, never complaining, she didn't want to be a bother.
To the end she remained a city girl from South St. Louis who came of age in the thirties and forties. Kind, generous, loving. I'm glad to have known her. I'll miss her a lot.
I'll be the first to admit that I am not one of the Big Dogs. I've been plodding away at this blog since April of 2002. I got one Instalanche and that was in May of 2002. So I'm happy to announce that earlier today I went over three million hits. This calls for a celebration. I should have a Stoly on the rocks and a steak dinner with a nice bottle of wine. Wait! I've already done that which is why I logged on too late to see where hit number three million came from.
At this time, I would like to thank all of my readers. I would also like to thank all of the Blown-Eyed Blodgers who have made our blodgemeets so much fun. You peeps know who you are. It's amazing that I'm still alive trying to keep up with youse guys.
I'm gonna have a glass of grappa and toast all of my readers and all of the friends that I have mads since starting this blog.
My cousin Rosemary died last week. Some background.
My St. Louis family is descended from two sisters, Dora and Ella Weber. Dora was my mom's mother. She and her husband had three children, Robert (my Uncle Pump, now deceased) Virginia, and Mom. Robert moved to Oklahoma City and adopted two children, Patty and Bobby. The only time I would see them was when they would come up for weddings and funerals or when we would take a vacation out West and would stop in Oklahoma City. My Aunt Virginia, who was also my godmother, died in the early 70's. That signaled our break with that part of the family. Her husband remarried a lush (after my mother had turned down his marriage proposal) and she, my mother, and I got in a big fight (she was drunk) at a holiday dinner. After that we were persona non grata.
Ella married Fred Strohmeyer and they had two children Russell and Rosemary. Russell was my godfather and he died last year. I was unable to attend the funeral because I was SCUBA diving down in Little Cayman when he died. When I got back, the funeral had already happened. My cousin Steve gave a very good eulogy that really captured the essence of Russ.
Russ had seven children. Rosemary had seven as well. They were all Russell's but they may as well have been Rosemary's. As my cousin Gary said, "Rosemary was a second mom." Russ was my godfather. Rosemary was my sister's godmother.
Before my Aunt Virginia's children got married and had kids, the descendants of Dora and Ella would always get together for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. The hosting would alternate amongst our house, Virginia's house and Russell's house. Eventually the family got too big and we split off and just got together with Viginia's family. As I said, that came to an end after Virginia died. We then started getting together with the Strohmeyer's again. They were more fun anyway.
I always referred to Rosemary as Rosemary the Saint. She was a very dutiful daughter. She lived with her parents. She dated a man named Charlie for many years but wouldn't marry him because he was divorced and the Catholic Church would not allow it. She was a very devout Catholic. After her father died, she quit her job to take care of her mother full time. She would go out with Charlie on Friday nights, and one of Russell's kids would babysit their grandmother. My cousin Gary did it until he went off to college and then the duty passed on to his sister Nancy.
After Rosemary's mother died, she petitioned the church for a dispensation to marry Charlie. They allowed it and she and Charlie got married. They were both in their 60's. The family joke was that the marriage wouldn't last because they hadn't dated long enough. This was also when I knew there was no God since Charlie and I were both atheists and in the same church together and lightning didn't strike.
Rosemary and Charlie were as different as night and day. He was an atheist and she was a devout Catholic. He was a grouchy old bastard (which made him one of my favorite relatives) and she was a cheerful outgoing person. Everyone loved Rosemary. She was that type of person.
She and Mom were best friends. After her mother died and she married Charlie, she and Mom started traveling together. They also hung out a lot. Mom got her to go line dancing with Shirley and her. After Charlie's health started declining she quit traveling with Mom because she needed to stay home and take care of Charlie. After Charlie died, Mom wouldn't let her mope around, but once again got her to go traveling with her.
She sold her house and moved into an old folks facility but she didn't like that place and eventually moved out to Valley Park and into the same complex that Russell and Shirley moved into when they sold their house.
When my mom died was when Rosemary's health started to decline. She quit doing a lot of the things that she and Mom used to do. She just seemed to lose the will to live. She was mostly deaf and seemed to withdraw into her own little world. I knew she was in bad shape when I quit getting birthday and Christmas cards from her. She never forgot my birthday. When I was a boy she always sent me Easter and Halloween cards with money in them with a note telling me to buy candy with the money.
She loved her candy. It really pissed off Mom that she could eat all that candy and never get fat. She always gave up candy at Lent and made up for it on Easter by gorging herself on candy. She loved Peeps (little marshmallow chickens) and would buy them before Easter so they would be nice and stale (like she liked them) by Easter.
She and Russ were the ones who found Mom dead. Mom and I always talked on Sundays and when I didn't hear from her (it was her turn to call me) I called her and got her answering machine. I called Rosemary and asked her to check on Mom when Russ picked her up to go to dinner (which he did every Sunday). They were the ones who found her.
My sister had seen Rosemary last year and told me how bad she was. She would look at you when you tried to talk to her but wouldn't respond. That's why we didn't visit her when we were in St. Louis in May.
The last time I saw her was when my sister and I went on the Roots 2001 Tour. I had just got my 2001 BMW Z3 and wanted to go on a road trip and my sister asked it she could fly out (she lived in California at that time) and come with me and do some genealogy research. We stopped in St. Louis for a few days and went out to eat with the Strohmeyers who still lived there. Rosemary was very un-Rosemary like. She was acting old and hardly said a word and that was definitely not Rosemary.
When Mom had to put Dad's half sister into a nursing home, Rosemary would always accompany Mom when she went to visit her. Rosemary would even go on her own if Mom was out of town. Did I mention that Rosemary was a saint? Rosemary loved old people and they all loved her. When she lived in St. Louis Hills it seemed everyone knew Rosemary. She would walk to St. Gabreil's church everyday, weather permitting, and would always stop to talk to people on the way. She knew all her neighbors. Just like Russ, she never met a stranger.
After Russ died, Shirley took care of Rosemary, just like Mom took care of her sister-in-law. Rosemary was like a sister to Shirley. Shirley has seven children and seventeen grandchildren. Almost everyone was at the funeral. Number 7 child, Tom, couldn't make it. He lives in Guam and the last minute airfare was around $4K so Shirley told him not to come. Rosemary would have approved as she never wanted anyone to spend any money on her, while at the same time she was generous to everyone else. She had a 1967 Chevy that all the neighborhood kids wanted to buy and she sold it for a song because it was "so old". I'm sure she sold her house in St. Louis Hills (a primo section of the city) for less than it was worth because it would be "too much money". This seems to be a Strohmeyer trait since she and Russ sold their parents' lake house at Lake Montewese for less than it was worth.
I hate funerals. I remember as a child seeing my Grandfather, Grandmother, Uncle Fred, and Aunt Ella dead and laying in their coffins. When I go to funerals now, I never go to the coffin and look at the dead person. I want to remember them as living, not as a corpse. I did not go up to view Rosemary in her coffin.
Bill Cosby did a routine on funerals and what people say like, "He looks so good." or "He looks just like when he was alive." He said he was going to have a recording that said, "Don't I look good? Don't I look like myself?"
I realize that funerals are for the living and not for the dead. They are to celebrate a person's life. Rosemary lived a long life and was remembered by her relatives. We will never forget her. She was a wonderful person.
I forgot to ask Gary to send me a copy of the eulogy he delivered. If he does, I will post it. He captured Rosemary's essence just as his brother Steve did with Russ's.
There was a baseball pitcher named Mel Famey who was a relief pitcher on his team. Near the end of one game the main pitcher was doing so good that Mel decided that he wasn't going to be needed so Mel started to drink some beers that he had snuck into the dugout. Well after Mel drank 5-6 beers, the main pitcher threw out his shoulder. The manager called on Mel to go out and finish the game. Mel was so loaded that he walked the other team to victory. As the winning team headed to the showers they went by Mel's team's dugout and saw the pile of beer cans that Mel had left. "Look...", said one of the players,
"there's the beer that made Mel Famey walk us".
From Greg, along with this news which will help those of you who have never heard of Schlitz understand the joke.
I'm back from St. Louis. Made it to and from safely, in spite of my brother-in-law dozing off on the way up. He hadn't had much sleep the night before. He and Sherry picked me up in Atlanta around 10:00. A little over halfway to St. Louis, he dozed off and was awakened by the rumble strip on the shoulder. I took over driving and it immediately started to rain. I think he faked the falling asleep at the wheel so he wouldn't have to drive in the rain. That's OK. I got back at him by letting him negotiate the crossing of the Mississippi River on the Poplar Street Bridge and getting onto I-44 in Friday traffic. This interchange is a design marvel created by the Missouri DOT.
The last time I was in a Catholic church they had altar boys. When did they start having altar girls? I guess it keeps the priests from abusing altar boys. (Remember that the description of this blog is pushing the boundaries of bad taste and political incorrectness.)
The last time I wore a suit was when my mother died nine years ago. It took me about seven tries to get my tie tied correctly. First I had to remember how to tie a Windsor knot. Then I had to figger out how to get the ends the correct length. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH! I used to be able to do this in my sleep.
My cousin Gary gave a very good eulogy. He made it almost to the end before he choked up. He did a far better job than I could have.
More tomorrow.
From resident blonde, MoK.
A blonde and a brunette were taking the elevator to the lobby from the 25th floor.
On the 23rd floor, a very handsome looking man with great hair but obvious dandruff gets into the elevator.
The women exchange a look acknowledging just how good looking this man is.
The man gets off the elevator on the 12th floor.
The women watch him exit the elevator. Then the brunette turns to the blonde and says, 'God was he good looking, but someone ought to give him some Head & Shoulders.'
To which the blonde replies, 'How do you give Shoulders?'
Indian-American. WTF? Courtesy of Fausta who nominated Hugo Chavez as this week's winner. This from Hugo who has decided to change the name of Latin America to Indian America:
Because us, more than Latin America, what name is that? Latin was imposed on us. That’s from out there in Europe. We’re Indian America…and when we say Indoamerica we’re incorporating the blackness of Africa and the European whiteness, we’re not excluding, Indoamerica’s diverse, it’s multiracial, pluricultural, diverse, just like the dance, the colors, the coloring represents an ancestral culture.
And by the time Hugo finishes wrecking the Venezuelan economy that diversity ain't gonna mean jack squat. Indians? Yeah, there will be Indians. Stone Age Indians. What a putz. He gets the coveted award.
There has been a death in the family so I'm heading off to St. Louis for the funeral.
I'm voting Dimocrat because...
From George.
Sent to me by many readers. This is an actual letter written to the Richmond Times Dispatch and yes, I did check it out on Snopes.
Editor
Times-Dispatch
Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30, I celebrate my independence day and on July 4, I celebrate America 's. This year is special because it marks the 40th anniversary of my independence.
On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba and a few months later, I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in Rich mond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.
I've thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The election-year rhetoric has made me think a lot about Cuba and what transpired there. In the late 1950's, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they were right. So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.
When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said "Praise the Lord." And when the young leader said, "I will be for change and I'll bring you change, everyone yelled, "Viva Fidel!"
But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent, the people's guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education, it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented, Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to Third-World status. By the time the change was over, more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes. You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world most fortunate Cubans. And now I'm back to the beginning of my story.
Luckily, we would never fall in America for a left-leaning young leader who promises change without asking, "What change? How will you carry it out? What will it cost America ?"
Would we?
Manuel Alvarez, Jr.
Of course, Jug Hussein Ears would not implement a police state, but he will take this country far to the left, especially with a Congress run by rat bastard commies like Nancy "Drilling is a hoax" Pelosi.
Jug Hussein Ears says he is for a "middle class tax cut". Just remember the last Dimocrat who campaigned on a "middle class tax cut". It was BJ who, a year later, went before the American people and announced a middle class tax increase saying it was "the hardest thing he had ever done". He lied about the "middle class tax cut" and he lied about it being "the hardest thing he had ever done". The hardest thing he had ever done was to sire Chelsea. Can you imagine boinking Thunder Rodent Thighs? Even in her younger days, especially when she looked and dressed like a hippie, she was a major league barker.
Beware of change for change's sake. We won't get Castro, but we will get a rat bastard commie who will make Jimmah Carter look good by comparison. By the way, besides being endorsed by terrorist groups like Hamas, Jug Hussein Ears just got the coveted endorsement of the Communist Party USA.
SuperGurl is back at her old home and is blodging about our progeny, our very own criplets. (Thanks for naming them Erica.) SuperGurl and I are both proud parents. Somehow I expected a little more in the birth process as SuperGurl and I have never even slept together.
I realize the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation is a rag, but I'm one of those guys who likes to hold dead trees in his hands when he reads the news, even if it's slanted. In all my years as an adult in St. Louis, I read the Post Dispatch which ranks right down there with the AJC. Neither of them have reached the depths of the San Francisco Chronicle or the New York Slimes. Anyway, there is always such great blogging fodder in the AJC.
Up first is stuff from here.
Mayor cited again of violating bondA Michigan prosecutor accused Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of violating his bond again by spending time over the weekend with his sister, one of 11 witnesses in an assault case against him. Kilpatrick and Ayanna Kilpatrick were together at their mother's house Saturday, a day after he was released from jail for violating bond in a separate perjury case. An attorney for Kilpatrick said, however, that a magistrate had ruled Friday that Kilpatrick could have contact with his sister. A hearing on the matter is set today.
I wonder what party Kwame Dickhead is a member of?
Katrina aid group raided by fedsFederal agents have descended on a nonprofit organization the city of New Orleans hired to run a home cleanup program after Hurricane Katrina. FBI spokeswoman Sheila Thorne said FBI and IRS agents, among others, went to the offices of the New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corp. on Monday. Some were photographed wheeling boxes from the building. The corporation was hired to run a program to assist poor and elderly hurricane victims. Local media reports have scrutinized ties between its former director and several contractors and questioned whether some of the work it billed to the city was actually performed.
Corruption in Louisiana? I'm shocked!
Then there's always The Vent. Some good stuff; some bad stuff.
John Edwards says that there are two Americas. Now America is discovering there are two John Edwards.
Good one.
I was never so glad to be in the northeast Georgia mountains as when I read in the paper that Russia had attacked Georgia.
I was thinking of heading for the mountains as well.
Isn't it just a little "tricky" trying to tell Russia not to invade another country?
Some snark from a liberal, but well done.
Just keep in mind, folks: Change for the sake of change can be a big mistake. Remember Coca-Cola II, aka "New Coke"?
Some snark from someone who sees through "Hope and Change".
Why can't the oil companies fully explore the already-leased lands and ocean floor before we give them any more leases? Any Republicans have a good answer for that?
I do! I do! Pick me! Pick me Mr Parroting Liberal Talking Points Person. If there was oil there, the oil companies would be drilling. Maybe they are.
When it comes to the price of oil and Democrats' opposition to obtaining more oil, when did they start believing that the law of supply and demand was repealed?
I know the answer for that one as well. They're rat bastard commmies and don't believe in the law of supply and demand.
Waiting for the oil companies to come up with an alternate fuel is as bizarre as waiting for the Cattleman's Association to come up with a vegetarian cookbook.
Dude! They're oil companies. They are not "alternate fuel" companies.
This pretty much is how Georgia sees the rest of the country as well, altho' we would prolly describe West (By God) Virginia as the place where everyone has one leg shorter than the other from walking all those mountains.
The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation is continuing to downsize the print edition.
The newspaper industry is experiencing what many are calling the "perfect storm" —- rising fuel and paper costs, declining advertising budgets, competition from the Internet. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is working hard to transform itself to meet those challenges.
But fear not. They will not change their liberal views and they will continue to shed readers just like the New York Slimes.
With time-starved readers demanding a simplified and more easily navigable newspaper —- and with newsprint costs soaring —- we have decided to discontinue the Sunday @issue section.
Just like they discontinued Monday's Business section and no longer print the stock market tables.
Most of its popular features, however, will continue to appear in other parts of the newspaper. AJC columnists Cynthia Tucker and Jim Wooten will still run on Sundays, as will syndicated writers such as George Will and Thomas Friedman.
Not to mention the liberal editorials.
The Sunday opinion pages will be redesigned, with an emphasis on the in-depth exploration of important issues and a diversity of views across the ideological spectrum.
I guess that means that they will have columns by Wooten and Will. Pretty much the rest of Sunday opinion is overwhelmingly liberal.
The daily opinion pages will be redesigned, as well, offering two pages of commentary daily —- the norm across the newspaper industry. You'll find many familiar AJC columnists on those pages, as well as popular syndicated voices such as Leonard Pitts and Charles Krauthammer. You will also continue to see well-informed and thoughtful institutional editorials on critical issues.
Nice that they pointed out that they print Krauthammer. Makes you think that the AJC is balanced.
As always, the AJC's opinion pages will foster a lively but civil debate on topics important to residents of metro Atlanta, respecting the broad array of voices across the political spectrum. Whether you post your thoughts online or write traditional letters to the editor, we want to hear from you. Take a look at the new pages and let us know what you think.
I think that you're hemorrhaging readers and losing money so you're shrinking the newspaper. Too bad it isn't gonna help. People are getting tired of propaganda masquerading as news.
From Greg in comments.
USA! USA! USA!
Update: The buttheads at YouTube pulled the video. But you can go here to see it. Thanks Greg.
From Richard.
A fairy princess dreamed of becoming a ballerina. One day, she read an announcement that the Royal Ballet would audition dancers. The auditions were in a nearby town. So, on the morning of the auditions, she tied 100 white pigeons to her chariot. The director noticed her dramatic entrance. He immediately told her to go home.
"Why?" cried the princess.
"We have enough pigeon-towed dancers already."
Holy crap! I just heard that Russia has invaded Georgia. I wonder how far they are from Atlanta? Should I load up my guns and head to the North Georgia mountains and go all Red Dawn on them? From a wheelchair?
What? It's not this Georgia? It's some Georgia over by Russia?
That's different. <EmilyLitella>Never mind!</EmilyLitella>
Metal in Moscow.
CD sent me sumpin' from AC/DC but this is better.
Here are the Romeros playing the third movement of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto transcribed for guitar. The original quartet was Celedonio and his three sons Celin, Pepe, and Angel. I saw them back in the early 80's.
Celedonio is dead and Angel left the group, but two men from the third generation have taken their place. I'm not sure which of the Romeros are playing on this piece. I think it's Celin, Pepe, Celino, and Lito.
So the LSM finally picked up on the Breck Boy sex scandal. The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation actually had story about it in this morning's rag. It wasn't until the fourth paragraph that they mentioned his party.
I really got a kick out of this part of the story:
David Bonior, Edwards' campaign manager for his 2008 presidential bid, said he was disappointed and angry at Friday's news."Thousands of friends of the senator's and his supporters have put their faith and confidence in him, and he's let them down," said Bonior. "They've been betrayed by his action."
Asked whether the affair would damage Edwards' future aspirations in public service, Bonior replied: "You can't lie in politics and expect to have people's confidence."
But Dave, it was a lie about sex. As we found out during the Clinton years it's OK to lie about sex. Pshaw! Everyone does it. As for lying in politics, both BJ and Thunder Rodent Thighs lie constantly and look how many Dimocrats trust and admire them.
And my sister sent me this item.
The Duke and Duchess of Edwards. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Got these from my buddy Pres.
From DBolsman.
The blonde reported for her University final examination which consists of "yes/no" type questions. She took her seat in the examination hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, and then in a fit of inspiration took her purse out, removed a coin and started tossing the coin and marking the answer sheet - Yes for Heads and No for Tails.
Within half an hour she is all done whereas the rest of the class was sweating it out.
During the last few minutes, she was seen desperately throwing the coin, swearing and sweating.
The moderator, alarmed, approached her and asked what was going on.
"I finished the exam in half an hour. But," she said, "I am rechecking my answers."
Holy crap! It's an asshole rich environment out there this week.
My HOA Nazi has resurfaced and has sent me a couple of courtesy reminders. One of them was about my trash can being visible from the road. I hope so. It's like that every Monday and Thursday when the trash pickup happens.
We have the mayor of Detroit, Kwame Dickhead, he of no party affiliation, leaving the country when he was out on bail.
And there's more, but I feel like piling on and naming John Edwards, the Breck Boy, who is doing his share in alleviating poverty by giving his mistress $15K per month to support his daughter.
You remember John Edwards dontcha? He's the guy whose wife is dying of cancer and he is easing his sorrow by having sex with another woman. Two Americas. One with his dying wife. One with his mistress. Way to go there John.
It's pretty bad when the National Enquirer has to do the work of the LSM. Just think of the coverage if Breck Boy had been a Republican. Wall to wall!
Here's your award sleazeball. You are the epitome of a slimy lawyer.
From Woody.
Which ties into this article.
Fed up with his students' complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept "variant spellings" as legitimate.Rather than grammarians getting in a huff about "argument" being spelled "arguement" or "opportunity" as "opertunity," why not accept anything that's phonetically (fonetickly anyone?) correct as long as it can be understood?
I guess this is the Brits' version of our stupid idea to teach in Ebonics. I shure kan spel gud.
"Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I've got a better idea," Ken Smith, a criminology lecturer at Bucks New University, wrote in the Times Higher Education Supplement."University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell."
Yeah. That's the ticket. Rather than teaching, let's just dumb down education. It's sure working in the United States isn't it?
"University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell."
Yeah. Don't bother to try to correct the fuckups of public school teachers. Just pass semi-literate people through the system.
The rhyme "i before e except after c" may be on the lips of every schoolchild in Britain, but that doesn't mean they remember the rule by the time they get to university.
I'm 61 years old and I remember that. I also remember the differences between "to", "too", and "two". Also "there", "their", and "they're". That's because they were pounded into my head by my teachers in elementary school. By the time I hit high school, they were second nature. Do you realize that it is usually home schooled kids who win spelling bees? Wonder why.
When I was in elementary school one of our teachers used a tactic to get us to look up words in the dictionary. If we asked her how to spell a word, she would give us the first two or three letters and tell us to look it up in the dictionary. I have a dictionary in my library and I have an online dictionary bookmarked.
Now if the Brits do want to change some spelling I'm up with them changing the "our" ending in words like "colour" or "favour" to "or" like we in the Colonies have done.
I can not even comment on this bullshit without laughing at it. Why are Bob Dole and Howard Baker connected with this?
Thanks to Woody for this morning's funny video.
As always, I'm tired of Jug Hussein Ears and the rest of the rat bastard commies in the Dimocrat Party talking about how "the rich" do not pay their fair share of the tax burden. The IRS recently released their summary of the tax data from 2006. I found a nice summary here. Let's look at some of the data.
The top 1% of the taxpayers whose share of total AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) is 22%, pay 39.89% of the total taxes. So that's roughly 1/5 of the income, 2/5 of the taxes.
The top 5% of the taxpayers, whose share of total AGI is 36.66%, pay 60.14 % of the taxes.
The top 10% of taxpayers, whose share of total AGI is 47.32%, pay 70.79% of the taxes.
I don't know about you, but I would classify that as the rich paying more than their "fair share" of the taxes. But I'm not a rat bastard commie.
The bottom 50% whose share of total AGI is 12.51%, pay 2.99% of the taxes.
The above figure is why I'm all in favor of the lottery and cigarette taxes. I consider those to be taxes on the stupid and letting "the poor" pay their "fair share" of the taxes. You stand a better chance of getting hit by lightning than winning the lottery. I love the fact that the Georgia Lottery finances the Hope Scholarship program which provides college scholarships to mostly middle class Georgians, so we essentially tax the poor via the lottery to provide a college education for the middle class. How neat is that?
I know that it pisses off rat bastard commies and that's a good thing.
Yannow, if "the poor" would take all the money they spend on cigarettes and lottery tickets every month and put that money in an index mutual fund, they could have a nice tidy little sum in 20 years.
As I always say, the rich get richer because they continue to do the things that make them rich. It's worked for me. The majority of the poor remain poor because they continue doing the things that made them poor.
An economics lesson from Alvin Lee.
My cousin Steve sent me a link to this article on "windfall profits". It should be required reading for all Americans (as should Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Free to Choose by Milton Friedman).
The "windfall profits" tax is back, with Barack Obama stumping again to apply it to a handful of big oil companies. Which raises a few questions: What is a "windfall" profit anyway? How does it differ from your everyday, run of the mill profit? Is it some absolute number, a matter of return on equity or sales -- or does it merely depend on who earns it?
I can answer that. It is a large monetary amount so politicians can demagogue it in front of economically ignorant Americans who do not know the difference between a profit and a profit margin. Economically ignorant Americans would describe the majority of Americans.
Enquiring entrepreneurs want to know. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama's "emergency" plan, announced on Friday, doesn't offer any clarity. To pay for "stimulus" checks of $1,000 for families and $500 for individuals, the Senator says government would take "a reasonable share" of oil company profits.
Well that's right out of the rat bastard commie manifesto. Gummint gets to decide what a "reasonable profit" and a "reasonable share" of that profit is.
Mr. Obama didn't bother to define "reasonable," and neither did Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, when he recently declared that "The oil companies need to know that there is a limit on how much profit they can take in this economy." Really? This extraordinary redefinition of free-market success could use some parsing.
What do you expect? They're both rat bastard commies. Illinois must be full of them to elect these two beauzeaus.
Take Exxon Mobil, which on Thursday reported the highest quarterly profit ever and is the main target of any "windfall" tax surcharge. Yet if its profits are at record highs, its tax bills are already at record highs too. Between 2003 and 2007, Exxon paid $64.7 billion in U.S. taxes, exceeding its after-tax U.S. earnings by more than $19 billion. That sounds like a government windfall to us, but perhaps we're missing some Obama-Durbin business subtlety.
Sounds like the gummint is already levying a windfall profits tax on Exxon Mobil but to rat bastard commies like Jug Hussein Ears that's still not enough.
Maybe they have in mind profit margins as a percentage of sales. Yet by that standard Exxon's profits don't seem so large. Exxon's profit margin stood at 10% for 2007, which is hardly out of line with the oil and gas industry average of 8.3%, or the 8.9% for U.S. manufacturing (excluding the sputtering auto makers).
But as I stated earlier, the majority of Americans don't know the difference between a profit and a profit margin. I'm really expecting TDHO to comment on this post and demonstrate her economic ignorance and her abject stupidity.
If that's what constitutes windfall profits, most of corporate America would qualify. Take aerospace or machinery -- both 8.2% in 2007. Chemicals had an average margin of 12.7%. Computers: 13.7%. Electronics and appliances: 14.5%. Pharmaceuticals (18.4%) and beverages and tobacco (19.1%) round out the Census Bureau's industry rankings. The latter two double the returns of Big Oil, though of course government has already became a tacit shareholder in Big Tobacco through the various legal settlements that guarantee a revenue stream for years to come.
So Big Oil's profit margins are less than computer companies but let's not educate the American public on this because then the rat bastard commies couldn't confiscate more money from Big Oil.
In a tax bill on oil earlier this summer, no fewer than 51 Senators voted to impose a 25% windfall tax on a U.S.-based oil company whose profits grew by more than 10% in a single year and wasn't investing enough in "renewable" energy. This suggests that a windfall is defined by profits growing too fast. No one knows where that 10% came from, besides political convenience. But if 10% is the new standard, the tech industry is going to have to rethink its growth arc. So will LG, the electronics company, which saw its profits grow by 505% in 2007. Abbott Laboratories hit 110%.
That's OK. After the rat bastard commies destroy American oil companies they'll go after the drug companies. It's only a matter of time.
If Senator Obama is as exercised about "outrageous" profits as he says he is, he might also have to turn on a few liberal darlings. Oh, say, Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett's outfit pulled in $11 billion last year, up 29% from 2006. Its profit margin -- if that's the relevant figure -- was 11.47%, which beats out the American oil majors.Or consider Google, which earned a mere $4.2 billion but at a whopping 25.3% margin. Google earns far more from each of its sales dollars than does Exxon, but why doesn't Mr. Obama consider its advertising-search windfall worthy of special taxation?
Dude! Don't give him any ideas!
The fun part about this game is anyone can play. Jim Johnson, formerly of Fannie Mae and formerly a political fixer for Mr. Obama, reaped a windfall before Fannie's multibillion-dollar accounting scandal. Bill Clinton took down as much as $15 million working as a rainmaker for billionaire financier Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Companies. This may be the very definition of "windfall."
Back in May, I advocated a windfall profits tax on the Clintons.
General Electric profits by investing in the alternative energy technology that Mr. Obama says Congress should subsidize even more heavily than it already does. GE's profit margin in 2007 was 10.3%, about the same as profiteering Exxon's. Private-equity shops like Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, which recently hired Al Gore, also invest in alternative energy start-ups, though they keep their margins to themselves. We can safely assume their profits are lofty, much like those of George Soros's investment funds.The point isn't that these folks (other than Mr. Clinton) have something to apologize for, or that these firms are somehow more "deserving" of windfall tax extortion than Big Oil. The point is that what constitutes an abnormal profit is entirely arbitrary. It is in the eye of the political beholder, who is usually looking to soak some unpopular business. In other words, a windfall is nothing more than a profit earned by a business that some politician dislikes. And a tax on that profit is merely a form of politically motivated expropriation.
It's what politicians do in Venezuela, not in a free country.
And Venezuela is run by a rat bastard commie.
Just remember, Jug Hussein Ears will usher in the second Jimmah Carter administration. Set the Wayback Machine for 1976 Sherman. The Dims levied a windfall profits tax on the oil companies. It caused the price of gas to go up and we imported more foreign oil. The same thing will happen again. Just remember, rat bastard commies believe that the only reason socialism has never worked is because the right people haven't been in charge.
And here's something interesting.
In 2004, for example, a gallon of gasoline retailed for about $2.00 while a barrel of oil sold for about $33. Today, oil’s price is higher by 275 percent while gasoline’s price is higher by only 100 percent.
From Mo K, who got it from a Hillary supporter who's pissed off at the Dims. I love it when "victim groups" like blacks and feminists fight.
Any day now, I'm expecting Jesse Jackson to come up with a slogan for the Obamessiah to use for this policy. "Don't drill, fill."
I'm glad BJ let us know he's not a racist.
Well, former President Bill Clinton may sound as if he didn’t want to make any new headlines, but it was inevitable that he would.Interviewed by ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia while on his world AIDS tour with his foundation, Mr. Clinton talked a bit about the role he played in the failed presidential bid of his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. And he still seemed to be smoldering about his portrayal by the media and others.
Poor poor BJ. He's smoldering.
Asked whether he had any regrets about his often controversial stump style that often knocked the senator’s campaign off-message, he basically first said he didn’t want to rehash anything because everyone needed to concentrate on getting a Democrat elected. He then defended himself against widely held perceptions — especially among some prominent African-Americans — that he had unfairly attacked his wife’s opponent, Senator Barack Obama.
The same tactics were fine as long as they were used against a Republican but they were not to be used against the Anointed One.
Pressed about whether he had any personal regrets, he said: “Yes, but not the ones you think. And it would be counterproductive for me to talk about.”
He regretted that playing the race card didn't work. After all, who better to play the race card than our first black president?
“But I am not a racist,” he continued. “I’ve never made a racist comment and I never attacked him personally.”
And "I never had sexual relations with that woman...". Ah you all know how it goes. After all, BJ wouldn't lie to us would he?
Mo K sent this along with this comment: "I thawt they was deliverun' a package to his ass..."
Skip Caray died Sunday.
I knew Skip before he moved to Atlanta. I lived across the street from his family (Harry Caray's first wife) in Webster Groves. His younger brother Chris (who I didn't know had died) was my age and we went to school together.
When I was in high school, his mother worked as a cashier in the cafeteria and she got me a job working there. Last I heard, his mom was living with his sister Pat here in Atlanta.
Last time I saw him in person was on a Delta fight to Cincinnati. I was traveling all over the country for IBM back then and racking up frequent flyer miles and using them to upgrade to 1st class. On this particular flight, I sat right next to Don Sutton. Not being impressed by celebrities, I left him alone. I waited until we landed to tell Skip that I used to live across the street from him. Of course he didn't remember me. This was before I became an internet god.
This year he was only broadcasting home games. I heard him last week and he sounded like crap.
I used to think 69 was old. I'm gonna be 62 in October. He was only 7 years older than I.
There are a lot of Braves fans all over the country who will miss him.
Has Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW been in Peru?
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, has made an emergency shipment of 36.800 doses of antiparasitic medicines and antibiotics to save 18.000 alpacas in the district of Pilpichaca in the highland department of Huancavelica, one of Peru’s poorest regions.“Pastures have been covered in snow which has frozen over, making grazing impossible,” Marc Vandersmissen, FAO’s Emergency Coordinator in Peru, said Thursday. “Unable to find adequate food, the alpacas have become weak and susceptible to disease.”
Global warming?
This year, the cold arrived early in Peru’s highlands –in April instead of June– and more than 92,000 hectares of land have been affected by frost, crops have failed, livestock perished, and thousands of people are suffering from respiratory diseases.
But...but...but...I thought it was getting warmer. That's what Pope Albert keeps telling us.
On June 19, President Alan Garcia enacted a legislative decree to declare a 60-day state of emergency in 11 of Peru’s 24 departments as temperatures in the Andean highlands continued to drop dramatically.According to Vandersmissen, the cold spell phenomenon, known locally as a ‘friaje’, “involves a combination of unseasonable low temperatures, frosts, snow and hail that damages crops and the high-altitude pastures on which alpacas graze.”
It sounds like they need to fire up some SUVs in Peru.
These were all sent by Michelle.
I was talking to Jim SOTW last week. He called to tell me he was moving into his new house. I said I'd be glad to help him move if I lived nearby but I wouldn't be much help since I could only carry stuff on my lap in my wheelchair. He came up with this pun.
What do you say to GOC when he's helping you move by carrying stuff on his lap while in his wheelchair?
Hello Dolly!
I got their DVD Rising in the East last week. It was recorded live at Budokan back in 2005. This is the opening of the concert. All the heavy metal wannabes need to listen to this band. They play actual notes. There are lead riffs. Both of their guitarists can play lead.
Glen Tipton (the guy on the right) plays most of the lead. He and I share the same birthday. I'm one year older than he is. He didn't start playing guitar until he was 21 but was taught piano at an early age by his mother. Listen to his lead riffs and you can see that he knows his scales. He also picked up tapping and uses it in his lead riff in this video.
K. K. Downing (the guy on the left) plays the coolest looking guitars like the Gibson Flying V's. He likes to use the whammy bar and on some of the earlier stuff used the wah-wah pedal. He used the wah-wah pedal on his solo on Judas Is Rising (my first Sunday Metal).
When this was recorded everyone was in their 50's except for their drummer who was in his 40's. The drummer is American. He's 10 years younger than everyone except Tipton.
Halford looks like crap. Check put the early Priest stuff and Halford actually moves around. I saw Judas Priest back in the early 80's at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Halford came on stage cracking a bullwhip. Shades of Georgia (Blown-Eyed Blodgers know what I'm talking about. Come to Blogtoberfest at Helen Georgia in October and you will too.)
Judas Priest can still kick ass! This is what heavy metal should sound like.
A video one.
From MoK. It even has a pun at the end.
Just what I want with my morning coffee.
I was wondering whom to give the coveted AOTW award to this week. I was thinking of giving it to Rep. James Clymer (Dipshit SC) for his climate change is racist drivel. Or maybe Nancy "I want to save the planet" Pelosi but she's already received one this year.
But then Liz sent me this story.
TEHRAN, July 22 (UPI) -- A University of Illinois law professor says he has offered to represent Iran if it decides to sue the United States over threatened nuclear program sanctions.
Who the heck is this turdhead?
Iran's Press TV reported Tuesday that Francis Boyle, an international law expert, is urging Iranian leaders to sue Israel and the United States through the International Court of Justice in The Hague (OTCBB:HGUE) over their ultimatum that Iran freeze its nuclear enrichment program in a matter of weeks or face further sanctions.
Oh goody! When we get Iran to court can we counter sue them for their violation of international law when they seized our embassy and held our diplomats hostage for 444 days? Will they reimburse us for the damages done to our embassy? Will they turn over those responsible? I think Aramalamadingdong was one of them.
If Iran decides to sue, he told the broadcaster, he would represent the country.
I can never understand why booger eatin' moh-rons like this dickhead hate the United States so much. Furthermore, if they hate this country so much why are they still living here?
"My proposal was that Iran should sue these states immediately, convene an emergency hearing by the World Court, and ask the court to indicate provisional measures of protection on behalf of Iran against the United States, Israel and the EU-3 -- basically a temporary restraining order," Boyle said.
Bring it on lawyer man. My proposal is that you should drink a big ol' cup of STFU. Like a restraining order is gonna stop the most powerful military in the history of this planet. If we or Israel decide to take out Iranian nuclear sites, the World Court can do nothing about it.
He told Press TV such a lawsuit would discourage a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and prevent the imposition of new sanctions by the U.N. Security Council.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Like a lawsuit is gonna stop us. Dream on. Why don't you go volunteer to be a human shield? You can take your award with you.
Fresh off of this moronic bullshit,
(Did you hear the titters in the audience? They knew it was bullshit as well.) he now comes up with this idiotic plan.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday pushed for a windfall profits tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs, a counter to Republican rival John McCain's call for more offshore drilling in coastal states like Florida.
This is wrong on so many levels that I just don't know where to begin. First off, I thought the windfall profits tax was gonna go to fund alternative energy boondoggles. Has he checked with Queen "I want to protect the earth" Nancy about this plan? Silly me. He's already president. He doesn't have to check with Nancy or Harry.
And why even bother? Just mandate that everyone inflate their tires. According to him we'll save enough gas that we'll bring down prices. He can even create a Department of Tire Inflation to ensure that we all do that.
And who does he think will pay the windfall profits tax? It won't be the oil companies. They'll just pass the tax on to the consumers. So this $1000 "rebate" he's talking about will simply be eaten up by higher prices at the pump.
What did the windfall profits tax do the last time it was implemented? It actually led to increased oil imports.
Stealing a page from Reagan.
In linking McCain to the unpopular President Bush, Obama struck a theme from Ronald Reagan's successful 1980 campaign against President Jimmy Carter by asking a town-hall audience in St. Petersburg: "Do you think you are better off than you were four years ago or eight years ago? If you aren't better off, can you afford another four years?"
Why yes, I am better off than I was eight years ago. I'm also better off than I was four years ago. It's only since the Dims took over Congress that my investments have slowed. Over the past two years my growth has only been what it was yearly during the first six years of the Bush Administration. Also, when the Dims took over Congress, gas was at a little over $2 per gallon. Now it's close to $4 and I shudder to think what a windfall profits tax would do. It didn't work in the '70's and it won't work now. I'm sorry Jug Hussein Ears, I can't afford four more years of Jimmah Carter.
Quoth the Obamessiah:
"This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months," Obama said during a two-day campaign swing in Florida. "It will be enough to cover the entire increase in your heating bills. Or you could use the rebate for any of your other bills, or even to pay down your own debt."
Or see it eaten up by increasing gas prices and even more dependence on foreign oil. That's what happened during the first Carter administration. We don't need to return to the Carter years by electing the black version of Jimmah Carter.
Another stupid idea by an empty suit.
Ron is back in action with his latest parody.
The video.
If you want dishonesty
It isn’t hard to find
Listen to my song of hope and change.
But if you want integrity
You must have lost your mind
‘Cause that’s a concept I find really strange.
Honesty is such a funky creed,
Something that I just don’t get.
Slippery is closer to my speed
Nothing has stuck to me yet.
I am skilled at rhetoric
And reading from a script
To tell you things I know you want to hear.
That’s what it takes in politics
When you are unequipped
So I’ll say what will make you clap and cheer.
Memory is trouble for my type,
Always bringing up the past.
Fantasy is easier to hype
On a prime-time telecast.
I don’t need my preacher.
I don’t need my gram.
I don’t need those redneck white-trash states.
I’ve had the best teacher
In the beauty of Islam
Now I can sit back and just race bait.
Rhapsody, feel-good empty words.
That’s how I will win the votes.
Misery is what I’ll feed the nerds,
More of that brown stuff that floats.
When Michelle is next to me
In that big White House bed,
Time for Africa will have arrived.
We’ll get even, you will see
For all those blacks who bled
So Whitey could exploit us and deprive.
Harmony is all I need to win.
White guilt and black loyalty.
Ornery can wait until I’m in.
Dig those crowds in Germany.
Honesty is in your dreams.
(fade to black)
