Sunday, June 28, 2009
Obervations ...
Having been on the PTSD rollercoaster for 5 years of my life, I can spot the signs. It's time to get Michael Ware out of Iraq and find him some help. I love the guy and the job he's done over there, but for the last few months it's been obvious (to me anyway) he's losing his grip. I'd hate to see such a capable, talented journalist (there are so few of them as it is) completely come apart at the seams.
There's a reason ...
Scientology is illegal in Germany; thought of at the same level as Nazism. Via Digby, a 3-part report on the inner workings of the cult. Should be illegal here too.
Too stupid to be real ...
I realize your average, run-of-the-mill, man-on-the-street wingnut is generally a moron (the smart ones don't believe their own bullshit and are just in it for the money) but this hate letter to Kos seems too dumb.
Do you believe it's real or a lefty doing a parody? Vote.
This is my favorite line: "remember global warming? no proof, just science and that makes it true for you liberals". Heh ...
This is my second: "... OR RUSSIA WOULD STILL EXIST AND THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE LOST THE COLD WAR ..." I don't know about Russia being gone. I'll let you all know when I get to St. Petersburg next year.
[all emphases mine]
dear socialist fuckstick,
i am well awear of the fact that liberals are immune to logic and reason, but allow me to try to prove to you that you are communist scum thrugh something called the scientific method:
1 a) FACT: you suck obamas cock every chance youget. you defend everythign he does and says and you are nothing more than an apologist. this makes you complicit in obamas actions.
1 b) FACT: obama is a well known socialist. this is evident his policies and his love of SELFDESCRIBED COMMUNISTS LIKE BILL AYERS!!!! so dont thinkthat he can hide his true nature for much longer. he will eventully be exposed and impeached. SOCIALISM CANNOT WORK OR RUSSIA WOULD STILL EXIST AND THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE LOST THE COLD WAR TO REAGAN!!! retard.
1 c) you are thusly a pro forma socialist; whether you like it or not. logic dictates this.
(2) FACT: you, sir, are a illegal immigrant. i dont give two shits whether you are an american citizen or not: you came here on taxpayer expense and you continue to drain our limited resources. you should be ashamed and go back to guatemala or whatever fucking middleeastern asshole you came from and try to sell yor leftwing bullshit there.
(3) FACT: you are also OBJECTIVELY ANTIAMERICAN!!!!!!!! dont even try to deny this for there is ample prof: in 2004 you openly supported the murder of four brave american soldiers in falluja. you tryed to weasel out of your responsiblity, but you cant hide the fact that you hate america and american soldiers and you love al queda and other muslim terrorists who have killed THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS!!!! and will never stop unless they are killed. and whose going to kill them? you? LOL you dont even own a gun because you leftofascists want to repel the second amendent.
(4) FACT: it is clear that you are a socialist illegal immigrant america hater. there is prima facies proof as above. and if logic and science says you are scum then you are scum (remember global warming? no proof, just science and that makes it true for you liberals) no matter what you think. however, i dont think you are a homo, just a homo enabler.
this doesnt mean that we cant have common ground. if you stop publishing antiamerican communist screeds, then i will stop hating you. fair?
sincerely yours
glenn
Do you believe it's real or a lefty doing a parody? Vote.
This is my favorite line: "remember global warming? no proof, just science and that makes it true for you liberals". Heh ...
This is my second: "... OR RUSSIA WOULD STILL EXIST AND THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE LOST THE COLD WAR ..." I don't know about Russia being gone. I'll let you all know when I get to St. Petersburg next year.
[all emphases mine]
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Saturday Afternoon Genre-Bendin' Music Blogging
In my never-ending and always-fun attempt to reconcile Fixer's and my widely disparate musical tastes even just a little bit, I proudly present:
Or their YouTube channel. This is about as heavy metal as it gets, though.
I think the lead singer on this one has a little Janis vibe goin' on.
The Lovell Sisters perform at Bonnaroo 2009 on "This Tent" Stage!! Song: Bleeding Heart (written by Jimi Hendrix) | For more information about The Lovell Sisters, visit: www.lovellsistersband.com
Or their YouTube channel. This is about as heavy metal as it gets, though.
I think the lead singer on this one has a little Janis vibe goin' on.
Thank you, Lovell Sisters.
The stimulus is working!
Around here anyway. Backstory: Mrs. G needed a new washing machine to replace her 25-year-old Kenmore. Serendipitously, as Social Security recipients we received a one-time (so far) federal stimulus of $250 each last payday, which is the 4th Wednesday of every month. So, half a large of returned tax money in hand, a-shopping we did go.
We wanted to spend the money locally as opposed to going to a chain store in Nevada, so first we went to the only long-time independent appliance dealer in town. They had a machine Mrs. G liked, but then they wanted to charge us $75 to deliver it one mile, along with $25 to haul the old one away and properly dispose of it. That was the deal breaker. I told the salesman he'd just scared us off and we left. Those guys were the only game in town for forty years and it shows in their attitude: pay what we want or drive for an hour. I'm not the only one displeased by it. Read their review at the Sears link below. Heh.
We were all dejected about probably having to go out of town to get a machine, and we made it all of a block before the light went on in my head: our town has a pretty new Sears Hometown Store! We'd never been there before, but, gee, I think Sears sells appliances...
It ain't yer father's Sears. It's not a big department store like Sears stores used to be, maybe still are, I don't know. Pretty small, but well stocked with home appliances and yard stuff, no clothes or hand tools, but you can order those.
We got about two steps into the store and a young salesman was on us like white on rice. I pointed at Mrs. G and away they went. He showed her every washing machine in the joint and she decided on one and the deal was done. They had other brands, but she chose our third Kenmore. I guess we're in a rut. It was the one that had all the features she wanted and was 'energy star' qualified.
Speaking of 'energy star', this thing is so much more efficient than our last one that our power company is going to send me money! The trade-off is that, just like TV sets, the new appliances don't last as long as the old ones. That's progress for you.
They wanted $50 to deliver it and the standard $25 haul-it-away fee, but they were to be refundable from Sears corporate. It was delivered a few days later exactly 5 minutes before they said they'd be there.
Just as an aside, the delivery guys didn't wheel it up to my house on a dolly. Since they had to walk about 100 feet through the forest clearing that passes for my back yard, they put straps under it and walked it all the way up from the street. They said that's pretty normal around here. The head (driver and paperwork guy) delivery man's assistant turned out to be a Mexican-American biker dude about my age from Bakersfield. We shot the shit and let the white kid do all the installation work. Heh.
The thing works fine and all is well. For the technically curious, it's a Kenmore 2982.
I wrote a check for $648.76, which breaks down as follows:
$526.99 - Cost of the machine, on sale at $80+ off list
. 46.77 - Sales tax @ 8.875%. Fuck you Ah-nold. No, no, no, fuck you Gor-don
. 75.00 - Delivery and get-that-fuckin'-load-outta-my-sight fee
$648.76
-100.00 - Power company rebate for 'energy star'. Actual money, not a credit on my bill.
- 75.00 - Delivery fee refund 'gift card' from Sears, just like money
$473.76 - Actual cost, said and done
Leaving me with $ 26.24 to fritter away as I please! Thank you, Barry.
Went back to Sears yesterday and frittered ten bucks of it away on one of these (roll over the picture. Wow.). First one, always used analog. Half-price sale.
We spent our stimulus responsibly as we were supposed to, and we spent it locally for something we needed and we have enough left over for a down payment on a pizza. We're so proud of ourselves we could just shit.
And our Sears store has a coupla satisfied new customers.
We wanted to spend the money locally as opposed to going to a chain store in Nevada, so first we went to the only long-time independent appliance dealer in town. They had a machine Mrs. G liked, but then they wanted to charge us $75 to deliver it one mile, along with $25 to haul the old one away and properly dispose of it. That was the deal breaker. I told the salesman he'd just scared us off and we left. Those guys were the only game in town for forty years and it shows in their attitude: pay what we want or drive for an hour. I'm not the only one displeased by it. Read their review at the Sears link below. Heh.
We were all dejected about probably having to go out of town to get a machine, and we made it all of a block before the light went on in my head: our town has a pretty new Sears Hometown Store! We'd never been there before, but, gee, I think Sears sells appliances...
It ain't yer father's Sears. It's not a big department store like Sears stores used to be, maybe still are, I don't know. Pretty small, but well stocked with home appliances and yard stuff, no clothes or hand tools, but you can order those.
We got about two steps into the store and a young salesman was on us like white on rice. I pointed at Mrs. G and away they went. He showed her every washing machine in the joint and she decided on one and the deal was done. They had other brands, but she chose our third Kenmore. I guess we're in a rut. It was the one that had all the features she wanted and was 'energy star' qualified.
Speaking of 'energy star', this thing is so much more efficient than our last one that our power company is going to send me money! The trade-off is that, just like TV sets, the new appliances don't last as long as the old ones. That's progress for you.
They wanted $50 to deliver it and the standard $25 haul-it-away fee, but they were to be refundable from Sears corporate. It was delivered a few days later exactly 5 minutes before they said they'd be there.
Just as an aside, the delivery guys didn't wheel it up to my house on a dolly. Since they had to walk about 100 feet through the forest clearing that passes for my back yard, they put straps under it and walked it all the way up from the street. They said that's pretty normal around here. The head (driver and paperwork guy) delivery man's assistant turned out to be a Mexican-American biker dude about my age from Bakersfield. We shot the shit and let the white kid do all the installation work. Heh.
The thing works fine and all is well. For the technically curious, it's a Kenmore 2982.
I wrote a check for $648.76, which breaks down as follows:
$526.99 - Cost of the machine, on sale at $80+ off list
. 46.77 - Sales tax @ 8.875%. Fuck you Ah-nold. No, no, no, fuck you Gor-don
. 75.00 - Delivery and get-that-fuckin'-load-outta-my-sight fee
$648.76
-100.00 - Power company rebate for 'energy star'. Actual money, not a credit on my bill.
- 75.00 - Delivery fee refund 'gift card' from Sears, just like money
$473.76 - Actual cost, said and done
Leaving me with $ 26.24 to fritter away as I please! Thank you, Barry.
Went back to Sears yesterday and frittered ten bucks of it away on one of these (roll over the picture. Wow.). First one, always used analog. Half-price sale.
We spent our stimulus responsibly as we were supposed to, and we spent it locally for something we needed and we have enough left over for a down payment on a pizza. We're so proud of ourselves we could just shit.
And our Sears store has a coupla satisfied new customers.
For Limbaugh, it's the net
P.M. Carpenter
In other words, it's all Obama's fault. Oy.
It's $40,000,000 a year nuts, Carp. The dittostooges eat it up. The more way out ludicrous his spew, the more his audience nods its head and drools and buys the Zicam.
I don't blame them for wanting to lose their sense of smell either. Bullshit's a lot more appetizing when you are willingly force-fed it if it you don't have to smell it. I want them to spray it on their reproductive organs.
Heeeeeere's Stephen!:
Note: The video had a broken tag deep within its bowels and I fixed it all by myself! Thank you Blogger for pointing at it and thank you Fixer for teaching me about tags. It's amazing what a little / and > can do.
And here, from this week, is an example of how Rush is faring. In sorting out the why's and wherefore's of "this [Gov. Mark] Sanford business," Limbaugh said, he actually said:
This is almost like: I don't give a damn! Country's going to hell in a handbasket. I just want out of here! He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn't want any part of it. He lost the battle and said, "What the hell? The Federal government is taking over! I want to enjoy life!"
In other words, it's all Obama's fault. Oy.
Yes, it's one for the psychiatric record-books, folks: In Rush Limbaugh's increasingly dark, desperate and distorted mind, a $787 billion economic stimulus package is believable-enough stimulation to send a perfectly proper, right-thinking Southern governor into a follow-up exploration of Argentina's forbidden bush country.
So I put this to you: That's beyond strategic broadcasting; that's just plain nuts. And it just may be that Rush has been acting the lunatic for so long -- stridently bashing the left and absolving the right for ever-greater fun and profit -- he has finally become a genuine, certifiable one.
It's $40,000,000 a year nuts, Carp. The dittostooges eat it up. The more way out ludicrous his spew, the more his audience nods its head and drools and buys the Zicam.
I don't blame them for wanting to lose their sense of smell either. Bullshit's a lot more appetizing when you are willingly force-fed it if it you don't have to smell it. I want them to spray it on their reproductive organs.
Heeeeeere's Stephen!:
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Note: The video had a broken tag deep within its bowels and I fixed it all by myself! Thank you Blogger for pointing at it and thank you Fixer for teaching me about tags. It's amazing what a little / and > can do.
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
Emmylou Harris, Luscious Jackson, Indigo Girls, Rebecca ~ Midnight Train To Georgia
Thanks to 1000Magicians, UK.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thought on the second full day of Jackson coverage
You pundits get an intern to work on the Friday afternoon document dump. Your utter distraction and preoccupation with The Croaked One the last day or so has been so blitheringly obvious that they mighta slipped some important shit in there that they're sure you'll miss.
Things ya don't wanta see at yer next door neighbor's house a few minutes ago
Click to embiggen
I got this from a house painter friend of my neighbor who was the only human being in the vicinity after all the commotion died down. Those guys breathe a lotta fumes so take it with a cup of kosher salt. My next door neighbor got bellowing drunk and fell down and hit her head. Another well-meaning neighbor saw it and called 911. The cops were there in number because the EMTs couldn't find her. I know the gal, and she probably hid out so she wouldn't get in any more trouble over alcohol. Didn't work. The cops found her and the medics hauled her away. I saw 'em loadin' her up and she didn't look too damaged. She'll get outta the ER with yet another court date in her pocket.
This kinda shit ain't happened around here since I quit drinking.
You gotta be shittin' me ...
I'm not naive, not by a long shot, but it's still hard to wrap my head around the fact there are people like these in 21st Century America:
How do you bring yourself to intrude on people's lives after they've suffered such a tragic loss to compound their grief because of a last name?
WASHINGTON - The family of a woman killed Monday is dealing with more than just grief in the aftermath of Metro's deadliest accident in history.
The family of Ana Fernandez says they have been getting hate-filled telephone messages about whether or not Fernandez, a mother of six, was a legal immigrant.
...
How do you bring yourself to intrude on people's lives after they've suffered such a tragic loss to compound their grief because of a last name?
Link thanks to Jill.
Michael Jackson vs. the news
Mark Morford, obviously a regular reader of the Brain and probably sore that the F-Man beat him to it, expands on Fixer's post:
Well, I guess who ya jacked off to is your business...
There musta been millions of you young, er, squirts doin' it simultaneously. The rest of us are lucky ya didn't bounce the Earth off its axis!
[...] Pop culture just died. Didn't you hear?
First, it was the beauty. How many countless millions of feverish boyhood fantasies were spawned by 1970's Farrah Fawcett? How many of our admittedly vapid and slightly sexist, yet somehow also wondrous and utterly divine ideas of lust and desire and perfect all-American prettiness were inspired by her uncomplicated sparkle, that Barbie-doll hair?
I am unashamed to say, I had that poster on my wall. Most every male I know of that generation had that poster on his wall. It was some sort of boyhood law, a requirement, a key to the Kingdom of Testosterone. Chances are you don't even need to click that link to know which poster I'm talking about. Chances are you can close your eyes and see it in a split second, and sigh. Sex and beauty and Americana and teeth and sex and hope and hairdryers and carefree love and bathing suits and shimmer and sex. Farrah made it all possible.
But even that glorious, soft-focus icon is no match for the King of Pop. There is no contest.
Well, I guess who ya jacked off to is your business...
There musta been millions of you young, er, squirts doin' it simultaneously. The rest of us are lucky ya didn't bounce the Earth off its axis!
Iraq Declares Victory Over U.S.
Good. Now we can leave. Maybe Iraq will come up with a Marshall Plan for us?
NYTimes
Too bad they couldn'ta held off a few days. Iraq and the U.S. coulda shared Independence Days.
You want disaster? We'll show you disaster. We fucked your country over goin' in, we fuck it over while we're there, we fuck it over goin' out. You ignorant little brown people weren't properly grateful for your liberation by white imperialists, which is to say that you didn't give us all your oil even though we spent our military and all our money. Woulda been cheaper just to buy the shit, but Bush wasn't that smart. Disaster? The neocons invented it. Join the club.
Sorry, lady. God The Dick told Bush to invade your ass in the first place. You see how that worked out. Maybe you'll have better luck.
In related news:
Ah, fuck. Big Oil is about to have interests that need defending again. We ain't goin' nowhere. Army and Marine 'reserves', prepare to be 'accessed' for forty more years.
NYTimes
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has taken to calling the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq’s cities by next Tuesday a “great victory,” a repulsion of foreign occupiers he compares to the rebellion against British troops in 1920.
The day itself has been declared a national holiday, though it is not yet clear whether Iraq will hold the “feast and festivals” he recently promised.
Too bad they couldn'ta held off a few days. Iraq and the U.S. coulda shared Independence Days.
More than 150 American bases or outposts have been closed in Iraqi cities this year — 85 percent of the total, an Iraqi official said — including some that commanders considered crucial.
The Americans asked to keep open an outpost in Sadr City, the Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad that once served as the base of Shiite militias, only to be rebuffed.
“This is one we wanted,” Brig. Gen. John M. Murray said. “The Iraqi government said ‘no,’ so now we are leaving.”
Far from a celebration, the deadline has provoked uncertainty and even dread among average Iraqis, underscoring the potential problems that Mr. Maliki could face if bloodshed intensifies.
Even some Iraqi officers are worried. Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Muhsen, a commander with the First Division of the Iraqi National Police, grimly predicted that sectarian violence could return. He warned that control of Iraq’s borders remained ineffective, allowing more foreign fighters to enter.
“They are taking away all the equipment that the Americans provide,” he said, “and with the agenda of countries neighboring Iraq, it is a recipe for disaster.”
You want disaster? We'll show you disaster. We fucked your country over goin' in, we fuck it over while we're there, we fuck it over goin' out. You ignorant little brown people weren't properly grateful for your liberation by white imperialists, which is to say that you didn't give us all your oil even though we spent our military and all our money. Woulda been cheaper just to buy the shit, but Bush wasn't that smart. Disaster? The neocons invented it. Join the club.
“When the Americans get out of city centers, a big war will start,” a woman who identified herself as Um Hussan said amid the wreckage of a bombing on Monday outside her house in the Ur neighborhood of Baghdad. It has been months, she added, since she last saw American forces there.
“We ask God to help us for what is coming,” she said
Sorry, lady. God The Dick told Bush to invade your ass in the first place. You see how that worked out. Maybe you'll have better luck.
In related news:
Iraq opens fields; Exxon, Shell seek foothold
“Iraq is the big prize in the region,” said Raja Kiwan, a Dubai-based analyst at consultants PFC Energy. “It is one of the only remaining areas that provide the level of upside for companies who want to access reserves.”
Ah, fuck. Big Oil is about to have interests that need defending again. We ain't goin' nowhere. Army and Marine 'reserves', prepare to be 'accessed' for forty more years.
Since there's no other news ...
Fez:
Sorry, Gord. It ain't gonna stop until they've milked it for everything it's worth.
And just a question: Don't any of these people have lives? Jobs? Responsibilities? Obligations?
Me? Not so much.
I'm gonna be 47 years old in a couple months and, for the life of me, I don't get how an entertainer (or someone else famous) these people never met (and know only through their art or profession) can fill so much of their lives that they have to drop everything to "be there". But then, I still don't get the whole Elvis/cult/thing either.
And an observation: The happiest guy in the world today is South Carolina Governor Mark "I Cry For Me, Argentina" Sanford.
I guess we'll have to put up with one long, one-week media circus bukkakke of freakishness about Michael Jackson ...
Sorry, Gord. It ain't gonna stop until they've milked it for everything it's worth.
And just a question: Don't any of these people have lives? Jobs? Responsibilities? Obligations?
...
"We were just lucky to be here today," said Kyle Joyce of Sacramento, who came to the hospital after hearing the news while walking on Venice Beach. "We just wanted to see it with our own eyes."
...
Me? Not so much.
I'm gonna be 47 years old in a couple months and, for the life of me, I don't get how an entertainer (or someone else famous) these people never met (and know only through their art or profession) can fill so much of their lives that they have to drop everything to "be there". But then, I still don't get the whole Elvis/cult/thing either.
And an observation: The happiest guy in the world today is South Carolina Governor Mark "I Cry For Me, Argentina" Sanford.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Thoughts on the non-stop coverage since Michael Jackson croaked
Whatever he did or didn't do, whatever he was or wasn't, he's DEAD. Nothing about him affects my life. He was not important living or dead in any way, shape, or form.
MAKE IT STOP!
Quote of the Day
Maru on the Governor Sanford mess:
Waitin' for them to catch Lindsey with a little brown boy on one of Rush's "Dominican vacations".
...
But its about to get even worse for this 'fiscal conservative' as news of his financial flimflammery starts spurting out like Lindsey Graham's freedom-juice at a Cub Scout jamboree.
...
Waitin' for them to catch Lindsey with a little brown boy on one of Rush's "Dominican vacations".
Let's just say ...
I "came of age" with this poster taped to the wall at the foot of my bed.
Happy trails, baby. Glad you're not suffering anymore.
Happy trails, baby. Glad you're not suffering anymore.
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