John McCain has much more experience than Obama, an independent voter just opined on NPR, so she probably will vote McCain.
Hannibal Lector has much more experience than I do as a gourmet chef, but you'd enjoy my cooking more, because you know the meat chunks in the stew are not made from that loud-mouth guy up the block.
McCain's salted decades of fibs ... Obama's got a clean chef's apron.
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27 May 2008
Surrender, Dorothy
The Associated Press quotes John McCain on Barack Obama: "He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time," the Arizona senator added. "If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn't had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly."
"Surrender" ... When U.S. troops finally leave Iraq, who will there be to accept the general's sword, a la Appomattox? A radical cleric? Al-Qaida? There's nobody to surrender to, in this desert bowl of Bush-Cheney war crimes.
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"Surrender" ... When U.S. troops finally leave Iraq, who will there be to accept the general's sword, a la Appomattox? A radical cleric? Al-Qaida? There's nobody to surrender to, in this desert bowl of Bush-Cheney war crimes.
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Rising to the thought
TV commercial for Viagra advises, "Ask your doctor if you are healthy enough for sex."
If you have to ask, the answer is probably "no."
TV commercial for "male enhancement" says millions have benefitted. No, millions have paid the low, low fee for the starter kit, experienced no enlargement and hid their shame at having been bilked.
After all the "feminine hygiene" products of the '60s and '70s that had my mother all worried about her body's natural odors — she bathed daily, slathered her armpits and had no offending body odor — it's good to see snake-oil salesmen screwing over their fellow men, at last.
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If you have to ask, the answer is probably "no."
TV commercial for "male enhancement" says millions have benefitted. No, millions have paid the low, low fee for the starter kit, experienced no enlargement and hid their shame at having been bilked.
After all the "feminine hygiene" products of the '60s and '70s that had my mother all worried about her body's natural odors — she bathed daily, slathered her armpits and had no offending body odor — it's good to see snake-oil salesmen screwing over their fellow men, at last.
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22 May 2008
Everything old is new again
John McCain's pet preacher, John Hagee, calls the Roman Catholic Church "the great whore," and U.S. "news" media throw a snit.
Americans' usual ignorance is showing ... the English church started calling Rome "the great whore" somewhere around the time that King Henry VIII needed to dump his first wife because she failed to produce a surviving male heir. Katherine's sin: She was a human, not a cow.
By the time the Protestant movement revved up, it was a standard insult, although I doubt pious monk Martin Luther himself could utter the word "whore."
Hagee's using unimaginative, old-hat terminology.
Get over it, media. Rome did.
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Americans' usual ignorance is showing ... the English church started calling Rome "the great whore" somewhere around the time that King Henry VIII needed to dump his first wife because she failed to produce a surviving male heir. Katherine's sin: She was a human, not a cow.
By the time the Protestant movement revved up, it was a standard insult, although I doubt pious monk Martin Luther himself could utter the word "whore."
Hagee's using unimaginative, old-hat terminology.
Get over it, media. Rome did.
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20 May 2008
This is entertainment?
It's enough to make me seek happy pills ... the season finales of the TV shows I routinely watch are, so far, a total bummer.
"CSI:" Warrick murdered by a cop, in a cover-up of dirty dealings.
"CSI Miami:" Caine shot and dying, betrayed by team member Wolf.
"House:" Amber, the first person who was Greg's mental match, dies of prescription-drug poisoning. And what's this pseudoscience nonsense about hypnosis helping House access his trauma-wiped memory?
"Bones:" Sweet young uber-geek Zach revealed as the apprentice to a cannibalistic serial killer.
"NCIS:" Haven't yet seen it, but somebody's going to be killed ...
Oh, how I miss Gene Autry.
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"CSI:" Warrick murdered by a cop, in a cover-up of dirty dealings.
"CSI Miami:" Caine shot and dying, betrayed by team member Wolf.
"House:" Amber, the first person who was Greg's mental match, dies of prescription-drug poisoning. And what's this pseudoscience nonsense about hypnosis helping House access his trauma-wiped memory?
"Bones:" Sweet young uber-geek Zach revealed as the apprentice to a cannibalistic serial killer.
"NCIS:" Haven't yet seen it, but somebody's going to be killed ...
Oh, how I miss Gene Autry.
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Cabinet post ahead?
Nev. Gov. Jim Gibbons, a Republican, has hied off to Iraq, to visit Nevada's soldiers, leaving his eventually ex-wife in command of the Governor's Mansion.
Gibbons has plenty of war experience, courtesy of Vietnam and the Gulf War, and his predecessor, Kenny Guinn, also a Republican, visited Iraq in 2006 with other governors.
What's different this time? A presidential election in progress.
Secretary of Defense Jim Gibbons. How does that sound?
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Gibbons has plenty of war experience, courtesy of Vietnam and the Gulf War, and his predecessor, Kenny Guinn, also a Republican, visited Iraq in 2006 with other governors.
What's different this time? A presidential election in progress.
Secretary of Defense Jim Gibbons. How does that sound?
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06 May 2008
Shut up already
An interview by a news-media type of another news-media type is like a doctor operating on only other doctors … a chef cooking only for other chefs … a musician playing only for other musicians.
Barbara Walters being interviewed on NPR is a waste of air time. (May 7, I think the promo said.)
Same with talk-show hosts appearing on other people’s talk shows. Sean Hannity on Bill O’Reilly’s show, for example. Chris Matthews on Jon Stewart's show.
If I were a booker or a producer, I could certainly find fresh faces for my show, not the same old potato-heads.
Baba Wawa I’ve seen, again and again and again. Show me somebody different!
Truth in blogging: I rather liked B.W., until I bought and read a book she wrote, 25 years ago or so. Her ego was so oppressively, massively worthless that I wanted my money back. Since then, I avoid her like the plague.
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Barbara Walters being interviewed on NPR is a waste of air time. (May 7, I think the promo said.)
Same with talk-show hosts appearing on other people’s talk shows. Sean Hannity on Bill O’Reilly’s show, for example. Chris Matthews on Jon Stewart's show.
If I were a booker or a producer, I could certainly find fresh faces for my show, not the same old potato-heads.
Baba Wawa I’ve seen, again and again and again. Show me somebody different!
Truth in blogging: I rather liked B.W., until I bought and read a book she wrote, 25 years ago or so. Her ego was so oppressively, massively worthless that I wanted my money back. Since then, I avoid her like the plague.
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Sprechen sie freedom?
So now, Oklahoma’s passing an English-only law, which will be a problem not only for Hispanics but for Oklahoma’s many American Indians with their own languages.
How do we convince these terrified, terrorized yahoos that you can’t control something like the language somebody thinks in?
The Christian patriarchy is so trapped in the delusion that force will make people stop making or selling drugs, stop desperate people from crossing the Rio Grande ... And they get off on pretending it’s a “war.” A war they don’t fight. Neither do their children.
Force does not make a person follow orders. Force gives that person a reason to bid his time, and use force, too, when the time is right.
Laws have to be enforced. Maybe the CIA's black ops have finally bred mind-readers.
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How do we convince these terrified, terrorized yahoos that you can’t control something like the language somebody thinks in?
The Christian patriarchy is so trapped in the delusion that force will make people stop making or selling drugs, stop desperate people from crossing the Rio Grande ... And they get off on pretending it’s a “war.” A war they don’t fight. Neither do their children.
Force does not make a person follow orders. Force gives that person a reason to bid his time, and use force, too, when the time is right.
Laws have to be enforced. Maybe the CIA's black ops have finally bred mind-readers.
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