30 September 2007
Stewart, Colbert and the "Bushisms of the Day" guy on Slate were chortling about Presidential Moron's slip of the tongue last week where he added an 's' to the word children. Again.
I think it's another example of how brain-damaged he is, due to booze, blow and whatever. Jeb kicking him in the head every night at bedtime, maybe.
His brain should start leaking out his ears any day now.
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30 September 2007
Presidential caucus plan unveiled
30 September 2007
I figured it out! Nevada, Florida and a bunch of other states are breaking GOP and Demo rules left, right and center in a scramble to be the first to vote in presidential caucuses.
Why?
W. is now so despised by everybody on the North American continent that grassroots and professional pols want the presidential election to be held sooner than constitutionally mandated. If this were Britain or India or France, Bush's farce of a government would fall and he'd be replaced. But, the U.S. mandates full terms even for war criminals like Bush and Cheney.
It's led to the subconscious drive to move the entire election process earlier and earlier. The newly elected president can move into the White House, staff the West Wing and start running things, while Bush plays with his toy soldiers.
I'm staying registered non-partisan, but it's nice to know some of the GOP is ready to dump W.
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I figured it out! Nevada, Florida and a bunch of other states are breaking GOP and Demo rules left, right and center in a scramble to be the first to vote in presidential caucuses.
Why?
W. is now so despised by everybody on the North American continent that grassroots and professional pols want the presidential election to be held sooner than constitutionally mandated. If this were Britain or India or France, Bush's farce of a government would fall and he'd be replaced. But, the U.S. mandates full terms even for war criminals like Bush and Cheney.
It's led to the subconscious drive to move the entire election process earlier and earlier. The newly elected president can move into the White House, staff the West Wing and start running things, while Bush plays with his toy soldiers.
I'm staying registered non-partisan, but it's nice to know some of the GOP is ready to dump W.
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27 September 2007
Bill vs. sanity
27 September 2007
So, Keith Olbermann thinks Bill O'Reilly's mentally ill? Nah ... intense hatred of the parts of the world that doen't kiss your ass is not mental illness. Assholeism, perhaps. But not kookie in the head.
On the other hand ... hey, Keith! Keep pushing and prodding and questioning and being a general irritant. O'Reilly will go postal at some point, just from his delusions of grandeur. The sooner, the better for the smell of public discourse in the United States.
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So, Keith Olbermann thinks Bill O'Reilly's mentally ill? Nah ... intense hatred of the parts of the world that doen't kiss your ass is not mental illness. Assholeism, perhaps. But not kookie in the head.
On the other hand ... hey, Keith! Keep pushing and prodding and questioning and being a general irritant. O'Reilly will go postal at some point, just from his delusions of grandeur. The sooner, the better for the smell of public discourse in the United States.
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25 September 2007
What evil lurks at Area 51 ...
25 September 2007
I wish I knew how to start rumors on the Internet. We've got Steve Fossett lost in the High Sierra. We've got that Iranian guy with the multiphasic name hanging out in NYC.
Rumor is: Fossett and Mahmoud are meeting with Bill Gates, secretly, at Groom Lake to do a deal for storing Iranian nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. It's going to be transported from Iran to Nevada by hot-air high-altitude balloons. Microsquish will write the software for the auto-pilots.
Naaa ...
High-roller Mahmoud wants to open a casino in Tehran; IGT will supply the slot machines and Fossett will be the Pit Boss.
Naaa ...
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I wish I knew how to start rumors on the Internet. We've got Steve Fossett lost in the High Sierra. We've got that Iranian guy with the multiphasic name hanging out in NYC.
Rumor is: Fossett and Mahmoud are meeting with Bill Gates, secretly, at Groom Lake to do a deal for storing Iranian nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. It's going to be transported from Iran to Nevada by hot-air high-altitude balloons. Microsquish will write the software for the auto-pilots.
Naaa ...
High-roller Mahmoud wants to open a casino in Tehran; IGT will supply the slot machines and Fossett will be the Pit Boss.
Naaa ...
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12 September 2007
Scientific literacy
12 September 2007
I've always thought of the magazine Scientific American as an honorable publication, exploring facts and labeling opinion, but the rag's marketing department seems to be ethically challenged.
Today's mail brought an 8 inch by 12 inch envelope that says "Please Accept a FREE Issue."
OK so far. Magazines gotta have subscribers.
The orange-y brown envelope has a triangle-pattern in black around all four edges, with "priority delivery" in the triangles. It was mailed, however, at mass-mail rates. Still OK; fancy pattern, eyecatching.
But, at bottom, center left, of the envelope, it says:
"Sparks Postmaster:
The enclosed documents are intended solely
for the addressee listed and should be opened
by the aforementioned only."
Anybody who swallows that sheep dip is too dumb to read Scientific American.
Even my grandmother, Sparks Postmaster in the 1940s, would sneer at the stupidity of that message.
And, if you don't get my point, sod off, lamebrain.
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I've always thought of the magazine Scientific American as an honorable publication, exploring facts and labeling opinion, but the rag's marketing department seems to be ethically challenged.
Today's mail brought an 8 inch by 12 inch envelope that says "Please Accept a FREE Issue."
OK so far. Magazines gotta have subscribers.
The orange-y brown envelope has a triangle-pattern in black around all four edges, with "priority delivery" in the triangles. It was mailed, however, at mass-mail rates. Still OK; fancy pattern, eyecatching.
But, at bottom, center left, of the envelope, it says:
"Sparks Postmaster:
The enclosed documents are intended solely
for the addressee listed and should be opened
by the aforementioned only."
Anybody who swallows that sheep dip is too dumb to read Scientific American.
Even my grandmother, Sparks Postmaster in the 1940s, would sneer at the stupidity of that message.
And, if you don't get my point, sod off, lamebrain.
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06 September 2007
All news is ... news
6 September 2007
Surreal moment while channel-surfing last night: CNN was covering the search for missing zillionaire daredevil Steve Fossett, while on CNN Headline News, pandering witch Nancy Grace and her minions were foaming at the mouth over the prick who left his infant child in a car in 95-degree heat while he got his rocks off in a brothel.
Sex, child abuse, and vanishing rich guys ... not what the tourism mavens want as publicity for Nevada.
I kept surfing.
Surreal moment while channel-surfing last night: CNN was covering the search for missing zillionaire daredevil Steve Fossett, while on CNN Headline News, pandering witch Nancy Grace and her minions were foaming at the mouth over the prick who left his infant child in a car in 95-degree heat while he got his rocks off in a brothel.
Sex, child abuse, and vanishing rich guys ... not what the tourism mavens want as publicity for Nevada.
I kept surfing.
03 September 2007
Drink up, sidewalk
3 September 2007
The difference between April 1 and Sept. 1:
I started the yard-watering season with great care, using two different sprinkler heads for the lawn, setting them carefully so they wouldn't water the walkways. I dutifully moved them in a fixed pattern with fixed timing, letting patches soak up the sky-juice, wetting the corners ... Twice a week, obeying the drought/save water laws.
Tonight, as I hauled the hose from the bushes to the lawn I realized that for the last couple of weeks, I've put the biggest sprinkler head on, positioned it in the middle of the grass-patch and turned it up high, watering sidewalk, driveway and other non-vegetable matter. What's more, I no longer care about the water waste.
I want back all the time I spent this summer hauling the hose.
I want watering and mowing season over.
Enough already.
The difference between April 1 and Sept. 1:
I started the yard-watering season with great care, using two different sprinkler heads for the lawn, setting them carefully so they wouldn't water the walkways. I dutifully moved them in a fixed pattern with fixed timing, letting patches soak up the sky-juice, wetting the corners ... Twice a week, obeying the drought/save water laws.
Tonight, as I hauled the hose from the bushes to the lawn I realized that for the last couple of weeks, I've put the biggest sprinkler head on, positioned it in the middle of the grass-patch and turned it up high, watering sidewalk, driveway and other non-vegetable matter. What's more, I no longer care about the water waste.
I want back all the time I spent this summer hauling the hose.
I want watering and mowing season over.
Enough already.
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