There's an app for that ...

This is what we need, not some new-fangled GPS bullshit. Our good buddy 'Nucks:

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Jeeze, these fucking things can be annoying. People calling me and shit, waking my ass up and generally pissing me off.

Speaking of which, the mother fucker just went off again!
Holy Fuck!
Ok , here's the deal.
I want a great big FUCK YOU button on the front of this damn thing.
All I want is to have to push this one damn button and it automatically sends that brief message to who ever is fucking trying to call me.
Fuck you or Fuck off, either one would work.
It all ready tells me who is calling most of the time.

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You betcha, bro! I'd buy that. Heh ...

Why is it ...

That when I'm passed out under the bar it's "disgusting", but when the puppy's comatose in the same place it's "cute"?



Heh ...

Goin' Ridin'

I'm gonna go today and ride this event put on by this outfit at their property about 20 miles from here. See yas tomorrow.

Barack Obama's Facebook Feed

Just go...

Mitt Romney created the group I Love Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney likes this.

Christine O'Donnell
You know that makes you go blind, right?

For Zappatistas

Spirit of Frank Zappa returns to Baltimore

Quote of the Day

Our pal Montag:

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Every time I read a new accusation regarding Prince and his hired guns, I keep thinking that when cowboys from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood rode into town these were the gangs they cleaned up.

Mocking them ...

Several of the weasels running this country felt they were being mocked by Stephen Colbert at his testimony. Know what? They're right. And they should be mocked continuously until they straighten up and fly right.

This is another edition of What Digby Said:

Oh dear. It appears that Stephen Colbert offended the delicate sensibilities of the Beltway Quilting Bee and Ladies Pearl Clutching Society:

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Update:

Via Res Ipsa, more 'Contempt of Colbert':

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But Steve King, who, as we mentioned earlier, had never heard of Colbert until a couple of days ago and has been studying his old tapes ever since to develop an attack strategy, goes even further, calling Colbert a liar who "staged" his 10-hour workday with migrant laborers, which he can prove based on the way a corn truck was driving.

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King actually broached this subject of deception while questioning Colbert, who responded, beautifully, "I was packing corn. I was a corn packer and I know that term is offensive to some people, for corn packing is a derogatory term for a Gay Iowan."

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"Corn packer", heh ... Gotta try that one out on my niece, who's doing her Masters program at the University of Iowa.

How to wash your helicopter and wreck your career at the same time!

I've seen helos go in the drink and emerge with the crew chief wet up to his knees, but never this deep!

The naval pilots of these helicopters got in trouble for these splashdowns, but how else were they supposed to pick up chicks at Lake Tahoe?

The trouble they're in with the Navy is as nothing compared to the trouble they're in with the California Department Of Boating and Waterways for not getting their rigs inspected for Quagga and Zebra mussels before putting them in Lake Tahoe! I wouldn't wanta be in their soggy shoes!

Thanks to BreakFunnyvideos.

Saturday Emmyrou Brogging

Country Gold At ASO ASPECTA Oct 20 1991 kumamoto JAPAN

For Hear, This Concert Of Witch It Comes To Japan
Only once Is That Time

Thanks to jacksontvtv, Japan.

Quote of the Day

From El Rude-o's Random Observations About the House GOP's "Pledge to America":

[...] But, fuck it. Why bother to really try Obama's agenda when we can just go back to the one that ass-fucked us in the first place? Kudos, Tea Party.

Cheeb vs. Stupid Oil

David Sirota via The Florida Times-Union:

Here’s a fact that even drug policy reform advocates can acknowledge: California’s 2010 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana does, indeed, pose a real threat, as conservative culture warriors insist.

But not to public health, as those conservatives claim.

So this ballot measure is no public health threat. If anything, it would give the millions of citizens who want to use inebriating substances a safer alternative to alcohol. Which, of course, gets to what this ballot initiative really endangers: alcohol industry profits.

That truth is underscored by news this week that the California Beer and Beverage Distributors is financing the campaign against the legalization initiative. This is the same group that bankrolled opposition to a 2008 ballot measure, which would have reduced penalties for marijuana possession.

We are asked to believe that people drinking a daily six-pack for a quarter-century is not a lamentable sign of a health crisis, but instead a “lifestyle” triumph worthy of flag-colored celebration -- and we are expected to think that legalizing a safer alternative to this “lifestyle” is dangerous.

Likewise, as laws obstruct veterans from obtaining doctor-prescribed marijuana for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, we are asked to believe that shotgunning cans of lager is the real way to “support our troops.”

These are the delusions that a liquor-drenched culture prevents us from reconsidering.

Mr. Sirota is right about this as far as he goes, and it's understandable that since he concentrated on only this aspect, he did not discuss the even larger reasons why legalized marijuana scares the crap outta the establishment/ruling elite - marijuana prohibition is both a tool of oppression and power and a grand way of fueling the Prison Industrial Complex (see this).

The War On Some Drugs will suffer from legal weed as well. See "oppression and power".

I won't even bother with the bluenose anti-fun puritanical attitude we suffer under from people who want you to have all the freedom you can handle as long as it's the freedom they tell you you can have.

Yes On 19. Hey, California led the nation on surf music and lakes pipes, let's show 'em the way on our No. 1 cash crop too!

Susie takes it outta our ear and sticks it in Axelrod's

The Plum Line

Top Obama adviser David Axelrod got an earful of the liberal blogosphere's anger at the White House moments ago, when a blogger on a conference call directly called out Axelrod over White House criticism of the left, accusing the administration of "hippie punching."

"We're the girl you'll take under the bleachers but you won't be seen with in the light of day," (my em) the blogger, Susan Madrak of Crooks and Liars, pointedly told Axelrod on the call, which was organzied for liberal bloggers and progressive media.

And then you'll tell all your buddies, "I got what I wanted off that pig. She wanted it too! Took it in the ass and screamed for more! To hell with her. Until we need her at election time, that is."

Thanks, Susie, for giving him an earful. The White House has been stickin' it in our ear for two years. They'll keep doing it if we let 'em.

Downhill With the G.O.P.

Paul Krugman nails it in a 'recommended read':

Once upon a time, a Latin American political party promised to help motorists save money on gasoline. How? By building highways that ran only downhill.

I’ve always liked that story, but the truth is that the party received hardly any votes. And that means that the joke is really on us. For these days one of America’s two great political parties routinely makes equally nonsensical promises. Never mind the war on terror, the party’s main concern seems to be the war on arithmetic. And this party has a better than even chance of retaking at least one house of Congress this November.

Banana republic, here we come.

I hate bananas. I ate one in 1948 and was sick for days and haven't eaten one since. If the Repugs get their way I'll be lucky to get one.

On the way to the post office

Yesterday I took the scenic route to the post office, which is usually a mile from my house. A little 25-mile detour to get some footage for music videos. A bike ride in the mountains on a sunny autumn afternoon is damn dirty work, I tells ya, but someone's gotta do it. You'll be seeing some of it in dribs and drabs over time. Here's a short vid from my turn-around point. Fullscreen it for max blurry.

Martis Peak Lookout is a fire lookout in the Tahoe National Forest a little southeast of Truckee CA. Elevation is about 8650'.

Sorry I didn't have more time to spend there.

I was a little dazzled that they paved the road to it. It's been longer since I've been up there than I would have thought. The CalFire man there said they did it nine years ago. Tempus fugits!

Also, Mt. Lassen is 114 miles away, not 150 like I said in the video.

The Monsters ...

It's Friday, finally, and the pups have kept me laughing all morning. They're adjusting well, though they're both into mischief. Not many casualties over the past week, 2 plants (Chooch knocked over one on a stand and they killed the other playing King of the Hill in the big pot), and a brand new roll of paper towels that Chooch got off the kitchen counter and the two of them proceeded to shred. Don't know if it'll become a Friday habit posting pics of the varmints, but looking at a couple dogs gotta be better than dealing with all the bad news.

Da Chooch (using me for interference) taking her morning nap under my desk, hoping to get away from the crazy puppy for a while. Heh ...



Zivatude! Typical Cattle Dog puppy attitude. "What do you got, dad, and can I attack it?"



Heh ... It's fun around here to say the least.

Another asshole with a badge

Raw Story

WWII vet’s neck breaking defended: 84-year-olds ‘can kill’ cops, too

A 84-year-old veteran is recovering from surgery to repair damaged vertebrae after an Orlando police officer reportedly flipped him onto his face and broke his neck.

On Saturday, "Police say Daniel J. Daley, 84, of Orlando was transported to Florida Hospital Orlando after he 'struck' an officer and the officer subdued him outside the Ivanhoe Grocery at 1820 North Orange Avenue about 11 p.m," reports the Orlando Sentinel.

Real tough guy, aintcha, copper? We know you're a badass with 84-year-olds, I hope we get the chance to see you up against some 24-year-old Marine just back from Afghanistan, asshole.

Tea Party Sexual Perversity: From Sex with a Horse to a Ban on Masturbation

Marc Perkel for BuzzFlash

I'm confused about where the new tea Party stands on sexual issues. On one hand Tea Party backed Republican candidate for Governor of New York, Carl Paladino, sent a pornographic email with a video of a woman having sex with a horse. On the other hand Tea Party backed Republican candidate for Senator of Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, has taken the opposite position. She believes that masturbation is adultery and she is against stem cell research because "American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals".

So on one hand Carl is distributing porn so that his friends can masturbate to women having sex with horses, which also raises the question of what his position is on cross breeding between humans and animals. On the other hand Christine believes masturbation is wrong especially when a horse is trying to crossbreed with a human woman. So as a voter I don't understand what the Tea Party is for or against.

The teabaggers don't know what they're for or against either. For themselves and against reality, which includes everybody else, I guess.

Just as an aside, I served in the Marine Corps with a guy who had worked on a stud farm and jacked off horses for a living, although his actual job description was a little more highfalutin' than that, something like "reproductive harvesting". Much more efficient to send just the semen all over the world than the whole horse. He did it with a rubber donut on a handle in one hand and a bottle in the other. He said they liked it and were glad to see him when he showed up to work. I think he was from Upstate New York. I wonder what ever happened to him? Maybe he's a political consultant now...

Sick Bastards of the Right

William Rivers Pitt in the wake of the Value Voters Summit this past weekend. A 'recommended read':

This past weekend, an event called the Values Voters Summit was held in Washington DC. It's a kind of big-tent showcase for the fundamentalist far-right base of the Republican Party, sponsored by such leading conservative lights as the Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Some of the featured speakers included Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Insane), Gary Bauer, Bill Bennett, the wildly fertile Duggar family, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, anti-masturbation candidate and occasional dabbler in witchcraft Christine O'Donnell, Phyllis Schlafly, Mitt Romney, and of course, Sarah Palin.

You can imagine the sort of demented gibberish that came from the podium over the weekend, and frankly, most of it was too mind-numbing to repeat in any detail. Newt Gingrich did his little song and dance about how Islam is coming to eat your children. Christine O'Donnell reprised the nonsense about "death panels." One fellow, a senior aide to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), argued that all pornography is by nature homosexual, and therefore watching any form of pornography will make the viewer instantly gay. Gay people in general, a woman's right to choose and all things Obama took it in the chops, with plenty of birth certificate speculation to go around.

So, yeah, it was pretty standard stuff, given the roster of speakers who made the scene. But at one point during the event, new ground was broken in truly astonishing fashion. One becomes accustomed to cruel, insensitive, hate-filled rhetoric from the kind of people who dwell in this particular region of politics, but when Mike Huckabee took the stage, a whole new standard was set.

When Republicans attack health care reform, Democrats like to counter by accusing Republicans of wanting to repeal a law that requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. According to Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, that's exactly right. People with pre-existing conditions, he explains, are like houses that have already burned down.

"It sounds so good, and it's such a warm message to say we're not gonna deny anyone from a preexisting condition," Huckabee explained at the Value Voters Summit today. "Look, I think that sounds terrific, but I want to ask you something from a common sense perspective. Suppose we applied that principle [to] our property insurance. And you can call your insurance agent and say, "I'd like to buy some insurance for my house." He'd say, "Tell me about your house." "Well sir, it burned down yesterday, but I'd like to insure it today." And he'll say, "I'm sorry, but we can't insure it after it's already burned." Well, no pre-existing conditions."

Mr. Pitt gives some facts and figures on how about one-third of Americans have pre-existing conditions and are thus not suffered to live in Huckabee's Amerikkka.

All of them, every single one of them, are like a house that has already burned down, according to Mike Huckabee and the sick bastards who cheered his comments. All of them, every single one of them, are not worthy of health insurance because they had the misfortune of getting sick before they got insurance. All of them, every single one of them, therefore, are not worthy of health care in any real form, unless, of course, they are wealthy and able to afford the staggering cost of ill health in America.

If this kind of talk isn't enough to convince Republicans that the fringe of their party is to be avoided at all costs, then nothing in the world will. There have to be at least a few unwell Republicans in the country, right? There have to be some Republicans with heart trouble, cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's or MS, right? If so, those people had better start digging that grave for themselves, especially if they are stupid enough to support Mike Huckabee or anyone else who agrees with him.

Be polite to these people if that's your nature. It is not in mine, especially after the display this past weekend. These people are the sick ones, the ones with pre-existing conditions, and they should be barred from holding public office by the voters because of it. They are all sick bastards, and I have no interest in being nice about it. Do you know anyone with heart trouble, cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, MS, or some other illness like these? Maybe Alzheimer's? If so, you shouldn't be nice, either. Someday, it may be you on the wrong end of such a diagnosis, and if people like Huckabee and his ilk have their way, dig a grave and lie down in it. You're a burned-down house, and your country has no use for you.

Is it any wonder I hate those motherfuckers?

Moore to receive Steinbeck

From Michael Moore.com

SAN JOSE, CA (Sept 21, 2010) — Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author, Michael Moore, has been named the recipient of the Steinbeck Award by the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. Moore will formally receive the "In the Souls of the People" award on Thursday, October 14, at 7pm.

The Steinbeck award is given to writers and artists whose work captures the spirit of Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of people who by circumstance are pushed to the fringes.

“Courage is 75% of art,” states Thomas Steinbeck, noted author and the son of John Steinbeck. “Michael Moore is a courageous man and a great selection for the John Steinbeck Award. My father would have loved him; my father was the Michael Moore of his time.”

Noted as the “who’s who of disturbers,” previous recipients include Bruce Springsteen, Arthur Miller, John Sayles, Jackson Browne, Garrison Keillor, Joan Baez, and Sean Penn.

Steinbeck is a folk hero for his work, particularly so to those of us Californios with a sense of our state's history. An award in his name is a high honor.

Congrats, Mike. Keep disturbin' 'em.

Texas Ed-yoo-cay-shun-al TV

Following up on Fixer's post just below, this might help esplain. As near as I can tell, this historical documentary is required viewing in Texas. They're still smarting from this and the jackrabbits are still there. Since the Texans were the "muslims" in this incident, they know that the difference between a "Crusader" and an "invader" depends on which side you're on, thus the entirely rational (in Texas) fear of the "pro-muslim" bias of textbooks:

Jay Ward's Crusader Rabbit - Crusade 1 / Episode 1.

Episode is entitled, I swear to God, "Crusader vs. the State of Texas". 1st of 15 chapters in Crusade 1. For at least a few of the other 14, start here. Good luck.

Thanks to candolex.