So the big bad radio slug likes the name Barack Hussein Obama ... and it's all he can say, like a 4-year-old's sing-song rendition of "Old MacDonald." Over and over and over.
Laughter is the best weapon against bullies, including McCain's warm-up doofus, B.O., Rushbaugh, Coulterisis.
When Hillary laughs, she looks like mama Shirley Partridge. When Barack laughs, he looks like my eighth-grade crush.
Laugh it up, gal and guy! Bullies can dish it out, and take it too ... twisting it against you.
Change the game.
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A 2-year-old enduring potty training: "Look, Mommie! I made a coulterisis!"
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29 February 2008
18 February 2008
Tired? I'll show you tired
Today's Reno Gazette-Journal noted the need of the Nevada basketball team to "recharge batteries" after playing five games in 10 days. A TV station called the team "weary."
Oh, please.
Nevada's performing twerps are treated better than any of the dogs in the recent Westminister show. They feed from the university trough, live on scholarships, get helped through classes.
Awhile back, some national educational group criticized the fact that most UNR students take at least five years to graduate. Since most UNR students take full-time classes and hold down full-time jobs, yeah it takes five years or more.
But the worn-out basketball team? They don't have a clue what real student life is.
The university is facing budget cuts in state funding — it's the economy, don't ya know. If I were in charge, the athletic department would be unemployed, the teams' gyms would be open to every student and the teams' restaurant would cater to the homeless. Budget crunch fixed.
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Oh, please.
Nevada's performing twerps are treated better than any of the dogs in the recent Westminister show. They feed from the university trough, live on scholarships, get helped through classes.
Awhile back, some national educational group criticized the fact that most UNR students take at least five years to graduate. Since most UNR students take full-time classes and hold down full-time jobs, yeah it takes five years or more.
But the worn-out basketball team? They don't have a clue what real student life is.
The university is facing budget cuts in state funding — it's the economy, don't ya know. If I were in charge, the athletic department would be unemployed, the teams' gyms would be open to every student and the teams' restaurant would cater to the homeless. Budget crunch fixed.
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Crocodile tears
I’m not cold-hearted, but what’s with the hundreds of people in Reno rending their garments and wailing aloud over the death of Brianna Denison?
They’re building a Princess Diana-sized pile of stuff where her body was found: ribbons, flowers, balloons, teddy bears, etc.
Blue ribbons — after the fashion of AIDS ribbons, breast-cancer ribbons and a dozen other ribbons — are sprouting all over the valley.
A homeless man was hauled out of the Truckee River a couple weeks ago, drowned and frozen. No wailing then for a death just as tragic.
Are these people so enamored of grief that they have to horn in on the death of somebody they never knew? What chemically induced void makes them want to feel so bad?
It’s like hormone-soaked high school; when I was in 11th grade, a classmate was killed in a car wreck. Big school, but you’d think every student was his very best friend. Girls who didn’t even know what he looked like cried in class, daily, for a week. Boys stood silently in groups, gobsmacked. The day of his funeral, the school was nearly paralyzed with weeping.
Mourning the death of a famous person I can understand, from JFK to Princess Di. But Reno never even heard of Bri before that sicko bastard abducted her.
People don’t have enough emotional drama in their own lives? They have to steal it from the Denison family?
Her death is tragic, yes. And when the bastard is caught, I’ll gladly push the plunger that pumps poison into his arm. But I’m not wearing a Bri ribbon.
My sympathy to the Denison family, but no hysterics in an attempt to take over the spotlight.
ooo ooo ooo
A vigil was held a few days after Bri was abducted, with prayers and so on, and reassurances that she'd come home, somehow. How much better the world would be if people took action that helped, instead of fooling themselves into believing prayer will solve a problem. They don't actually do anything, but feel better performing a useless act. Raises self-esteem, fixes nothing in the real world.
ooo ooo ooo
A friend in Seattle found herself “Obamawhacked” the day that HRC and BO visited for a debate.
The turn-away crowd from an Obama speech descended on the Internet café where Mel was using the wi-fi, pinning her in her chair for an hour while they knoshed.
“Obamawhacked” … how can I get that into Wikipedia?
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They’re building a Princess Diana-sized pile of stuff where her body was found: ribbons, flowers, balloons, teddy bears, etc.
Blue ribbons — after the fashion of AIDS ribbons, breast-cancer ribbons and a dozen other ribbons — are sprouting all over the valley.
A homeless man was hauled out of the Truckee River a couple weeks ago, drowned and frozen. No wailing then for a death just as tragic.
Are these people so enamored of grief that they have to horn in on the death of somebody they never knew? What chemically induced void makes them want to feel so bad?
It’s like hormone-soaked high school; when I was in 11th grade, a classmate was killed in a car wreck. Big school, but you’d think every student was his very best friend. Girls who didn’t even know what he looked like cried in class, daily, for a week. Boys stood silently in groups, gobsmacked. The day of his funeral, the school was nearly paralyzed with weeping.
Mourning the death of a famous person I can understand, from JFK to Princess Di. But Reno never even heard of Bri before that sicko bastard abducted her.
People don’t have enough emotional drama in their own lives? They have to steal it from the Denison family?
Her death is tragic, yes. And when the bastard is caught, I’ll gladly push the plunger that pumps poison into his arm. But I’m not wearing a Bri ribbon.
My sympathy to the Denison family, but no hysterics in an attempt to take over the spotlight.
ooo ooo ooo
A vigil was held a few days after Bri was abducted, with prayers and so on, and reassurances that she'd come home, somehow. How much better the world would be if people took action that helped, instead of fooling themselves into believing prayer will solve a problem. They don't actually do anything, but feel better performing a useless act. Raises self-esteem, fixes nothing in the real world.
ooo ooo ooo
A friend in Seattle found herself “Obamawhacked” the day that HRC and BO visited for a debate.
The turn-away crowd from an Obama speech descended on the Internet café where Mel was using the wi-fi, pinning her in her chair for an hour while they knoshed.
“Obamawhacked” … how can I get that into Wikipedia?
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10 February 2008
Deterrent ... what deterrent?
Countries controlled by the great religion of Islam have criminals? What a (typing sarcastically) surprise!
Daily Kos today reports that "Iran's ambassador to Spain has compared chopping off the hands of thieves to a 'surgeon amputating a limb to prevent the spread of gangrene.'" Seyed Davoud Salehi also argued that the death penalty was necessary "to preserve the health of society as a whole."
"Our laws allow for the amputation of the hand that steals. This is not accepted by the West, but the field of human rights should take into account the customs, traditions, religion and economic development," he said in comments reported by the newspaper El Mundo.
Fair enough. What makes me laugh is that, with the chance of losing a hand, people in Iran still steal. And do whatever earns them the death penalty. Assuming that Iran executes more than just political activists.
Off goes a hand, or a head ... Iranian criminals must be as deep-down stupid as U.S. criminals. "I'll never get caught," is the apparent thought.
If I were running a medical company, I'd hire lobbyists to promote hand-chopping penalties in the U.S., just so I could sell more prosthetics.
Viva Mammon!
ooo ooo ooo
Pardon me while I Wiki the reference to Mammon. OK. Got it right on the first try.
Which brings me to a delightful story broadcast by NPR the other day. Mike Huckabee's stump speeches are full of biblical references, which fly right over the heads of non-fundamentalist listeners.
Your average Joe-on-the-Street doesn't get the point of The Rev's preaching.
Stephen Prothero, author of "Religious Literacy," was quoted about America's prodigious ignorance of things religious, including the Christians' Bible. History, economy, statistics, science, religion ... a goodly percentage of Americans are significantly dumber than Beavis and Butt-head.
Ignorance can be fixed; Stupid is forever.
ooo ooo ooo
House-cleaning last night, I found two bumper stickers I bought during the last presidential election, not for my bumper but for my sanity:
I Love My Country
But Fear My Government
People never lie so much as
after fishing, during a war,
or before an election
They're from www.northernsun.com, assuming it's still in business.
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Daily Kos today reports that "Iran's ambassador to Spain has compared chopping off the hands of thieves to a 'surgeon amputating a limb to prevent the spread of gangrene.'" Seyed Davoud Salehi also argued that the death penalty was necessary "to preserve the health of society as a whole."
"Our laws allow for the amputation of the hand that steals. This is not accepted by the West, but the field of human rights should take into account the customs, traditions, religion and economic development," he said in comments reported by the newspaper El Mundo.
Fair enough. What makes me laugh is that, with the chance of losing a hand, people in Iran still steal. And do whatever earns them the death penalty. Assuming that Iran executes more than just political activists.
Off goes a hand, or a head ... Iranian criminals must be as deep-down stupid as U.S. criminals. "I'll never get caught," is the apparent thought.
If I were running a medical company, I'd hire lobbyists to promote hand-chopping penalties in the U.S., just so I could sell more prosthetics.
Viva Mammon!
ooo ooo ooo
Pardon me while I Wiki the reference to Mammon. OK. Got it right on the first try.
Which brings me to a delightful story broadcast by NPR the other day. Mike Huckabee's stump speeches are full of biblical references, which fly right over the heads of non-fundamentalist listeners.
Your average Joe-on-the-Street doesn't get the point of The Rev's preaching.
Stephen Prothero, author of "Religious Literacy," was quoted about America's prodigious ignorance of things religious, including the Christians' Bible. History, economy, statistics, science, religion ... a goodly percentage of Americans are significantly dumber than Beavis and Butt-head.
Ignorance can be fixed; Stupid is forever.
ooo ooo ooo
House-cleaning last night, I found two bumper stickers I bought during the last presidential election, not for my bumper but for my sanity:
I Love My Country
But Fear My Government
People never lie so much as
after fishing, during a war,
or before an election
They're from www.northernsun.com, assuming it's still in business.
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09 February 2008
Annoying governmental theater
In Reno this week:
The family of murder victim Charla Mack took the court-sponsored opportunity to display their grief publicly while scolding a stone-cold sociopath for slicing their loved one to pieces.
A basic reason for laws, in this country at least, is to waylay revenge. Everybody is equal before the Law, and convicted killers are sentenced according to that Law.
I’m all for victim’s rights, but letting Charla’s grieving family have the spotlight, at taxpayer expense, to demonstrate their love and devotion, is over the line. Yes, the judge and jury need to keep the victim in mind. Yes, the prosecutors have to convince the jury that a living, breathing human being was harmed, and that the killer must be punished.
If the judge, lawyers for and against, jury and everybody else does their job, justice will be served. But putting the egos of the victim’s family on parade accomplishes nothing … Charla’s still dead. Her family still grieves. The public spotlight is soaked in tears.
Funerals are for the living. Trials are for Justice, not showboating. Charla's family isn't the first on the public stage and it won't be the last. But it should be the last.
In the Middle East, they know how to publicly grieve. U.S. Protestant and Catholic funeral rites are bloodless in comparison, which I'm sure stifles much emotion. However, when mourners vent, they should do it on their own time, not on taxpayer-funded court time.
ooo ooo ooo
In the wake of another probable murder, Northern Nevada citizens and foundations this week pledged or forked over $165,000 to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office to fund the DNA laboratory, which has a huge backlog of tests.
Somewhere in the backlog, maybe, is evidence that will lead the cops to the scumsucker who abducted college student Brianna Denison on Jan. 20.
This is how we fund law enforcement now?
The government should budget adequate money to cover the work the Sheriff’s Office is expected to do.
Sheriff Mike Haley said the office was hit with an unfunded mandate to take DNA samples from sex offenders … about 350 a month.
How about a ballot initiative forbidding unfunded mandates? You make a law, you pay for it. At every level of government.
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The family of murder victim Charla Mack took the court-sponsored opportunity to display their grief publicly while scolding a stone-cold sociopath for slicing their loved one to pieces.
A basic reason for laws, in this country at least, is to waylay revenge. Everybody is equal before the Law, and convicted killers are sentenced according to that Law.
I’m all for victim’s rights, but letting Charla’s grieving family have the spotlight, at taxpayer expense, to demonstrate their love and devotion, is over the line. Yes, the judge and jury need to keep the victim in mind. Yes, the prosecutors have to convince the jury that a living, breathing human being was harmed, and that the killer must be punished.
If the judge, lawyers for and against, jury and everybody else does their job, justice will be served. But putting the egos of the victim’s family on parade accomplishes nothing … Charla’s still dead. Her family still grieves. The public spotlight is soaked in tears.
Funerals are for the living. Trials are for Justice, not showboating. Charla's family isn't the first on the public stage and it won't be the last. But it should be the last.
In the Middle East, they know how to publicly grieve. U.S. Protestant and Catholic funeral rites are bloodless in comparison, which I'm sure stifles much emotion. However, when mourners vent, they should do it on their own time, not on taxpayer-funded court time.
ooo ooo ooo
In the wake of another probable murder, Northern Nevada citizens and foundations this week pledged or forked over $165,000 to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office to fund the DNA laboratory, which has a huge backlog of tests.
Somewhere in the backlog, maybe, is evidence that will lead the cops to the scumsucker who abducted college student Brianna Denison on Jan. 20.
This is how we fund law enforcement now?
The government should budget adequate money to cover the work the Sheriff’s Office is expected to do.
Sheriff Mike Haley said the office was hit with an unfunded mandate to take DNA samples from sex offenders … about 350 a month.
How about a ballot initiative forbidding unfunded mandates? You make a law, you pay for it. At every level of government.
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05 February 2008
Fighting the terrorists on U.S. shores
Yet another reason to celebrate the impending departure of W. from the White House: Even his warnings about war — aimed at terrifying Americans into letting him do anything he wants — are unoriginal.
Paraphrasing W.: We must fight terrorists over there so that we don't have to fight them over here.
Writer Michael B. Oren, in his 2007 book, "Power, Faith and Fantasy, America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present," discusses the Barbary pirates, their attacks on American ships in the Mediterranean and the "tribute" (money, guns, ships and more) paid to the bosses of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other powers.
He quotes businessman Fisher Ames of Massachusetts: "Our commerce is on the point of being annihilated, and, unless an armament is fitted out, we may very soon expect the Algerines on the coast of America."
Oren goes on to report that President Thomas Jefferson was working on a way to start a war with Barbary without Constitution-mandated approval by Congress when Tripoli solved his problem — the U.S. Consulate was attacked and its flagpole cut down ... Tripoli's traditional declaration of war.
The World Trade Center towers had flagpoles and flags ... maybe W. can twist that into a declaration of war by Osama.
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Paraphrasing W.: We must fight terrorists over there so that we don't have to fight them over here.
Writer Michael B. Oren, in his 2007 book, "Power, Faith and Fantasy, America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present," discusses the Barbary pirates, their attacks on American ships in the Mediterranean and the "tribute" (money, guns, ships and more) paid to the bosses of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other powers.
He quotes businessman Fisher Ames of Massachusetts: "Our commerce is on the point of being annihilated, and, unless an armament is fitted out, we may very soon expect the Algerines on the coast of America."
Oren goes on to report that President Thomas Jefferson was working on a way to start a war with Barbary without Constitution-mandated approval by Congress when Tripoli solved his problem — the U.S. Consulate was attacked and its flagpole cut down ... Tripoli's traditional declaration of war.
The World Trade Center towers had flagpoles and flags ... maybe W. can twist that into a declaration of war by Osama.
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