So long boss, don't worry 'bout a thing...

It has become a tradition to send Fixer off on his cruises by playing one of my favorite songs by way of wishing him bon voyage.

Have a good time, pard.

Jimmy Buffett ~ Gypsies In The Palace

Thanks to Kinja98, Netherlands Antilles.

Ugh ...

Getting the last minute packing done. By rights, we shouldn'ta gone to dinner with friends last night. Shoulda stayed home and got to bed early but noooooo, that would have been too easy. Had a great time but boy am I hungover.

The car comes in 3 hours and I'll see yas once we get aboard and figger out the technical stuff (never been on Veendam before). That's if my head doesn't explode first. Come on aspirin!

Just imagine...

BuzzFlash

Just Imagine How the Right Wing and Corporate Media Would React if the Tea Partiers, NRA Handgun Toters, and Limbaugh Incendiary Types Were Black. Think About That and Read This Commentary About It.

Whitey'd kill 'em all.

Saturday Crazy Mexican Redneck Music Blogging

Puro Conjunto

Mingo Saldivar ~ Folsom Prison Blues

Thanks to tremendov, Mexico.

F U AZ

This one's for you, Arizona. I hope you see the irony of more big government interference in your delusional pathetic little right wing parallel universe now that your appointed governor signed the racist bill SB (betcha it doesn't stand for ¡Sí Bueno!) 1070. I guess that kind of big government is OK with you as long as it's only brown people that get fucked with. Assholes.

Seeing as how it's a requirement and not an option, I hope every Diné and Yavapai and Fugawe blanketass local cop in AZ gets into the spirit of this law and stops every goddam white person they see and asks them for zere papers because they all look like illegal immigrants. Payback's a motherfucker.

A music video featuring Tom Russell singing his song, "Who's Gonna Build Your Wall" and the photography of David Burckhalter.

Thanks to johntaine.

So tell me ...

Anybody have an external hard drive go south on 'em and if they did, is there a way to get data off it? Mine died yesterday. Problem is, my entire life is on it (manuscripts, legal documents, and about 20 years worth of vacation pics). We're leaving for Bermuda in the morning so I'll have to deal with it when I get back (no time today, dropping off Shayna with Dr. Grove and packing), but I'd like a little peace of mind while I'm on vacation. If I bring it to my local geek will he be able to retrieve my lost info?

Chicken Music For Political Rallies

Set your drink down and just go...

Just as an aside, Mrs. G's oral surgeon's wife traded some oral surgery to a used car dealer for a Smart car. That's a lotta chickens.

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

Live at The Groove Record Store East Nashville Tennesee Filmed by John Collins, 17-4-2010

Emmylou Harris ~ Jupiter Rising

Thanks to arthurfromholland, Netherlands.

Who would have thought ...

There'd be a position for "Mop Boy" anywhere other than a peep show?

The Party of Fiscal Conservancy at work:

WASHINGTON — Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.

The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The memo says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2 1/2 years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.

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That's great. A big spoogefest as the economy went tits up. What the fuck is it with Republicans and sex? It's like they're a buncha little, repressed hornsters who gotta touch themselves all day long.

Great thanks to Ol' Fez for the link.

Headline of the Day

Gotta go, but I wanted to get this in about misleading or selective media interpretation of polls on the legalization of mary-ju-wanna.

Widely publicized 4/20 poll actually shows majority support for drug reforms

See yas.

Quote of the Shopping Day

Slate on Boehner's 'monstrous doozie':

The financial reform bill would be "a government takeover of the entire private sector"?

I'm not going to call him Boner any more after that one. He's now officially a Limp Dick.

Over the mountain and through the woods to the government takeovered Costco we must go today. Maybe we'll get a government takeovered take-and-bake pizza from Papa Murphy's. I got a government takeovered coupon for free Cheesy Bread.

What a dork Boehner is. Yeesh.

Tea-bagged Geico man fires back

Political Carnival

Yesterday, Paddy posted about the Geico spokesman who got fired over an insulting telephone message he left for the Tea Baggers' little astroturf extended family, FreedomWorks.

FreedomWorks' Matt Kibbe then posted Douglas' cell number on biggovernment.com, which caused Douglas to get harassed and ultimately sacked.

None of this hubbub prevented Douglas from making light of the situation in his own riveting little video...

Su. Perb:

Thanks to lancebaxter.

Computer problems ...

Back after work. Go surf the blogroll until Gordon wakes up. TGIF!

FDL 'Name That Pot Campaign'

Following up on yesterday's post:

Jane Hamsher, be still my heart!

Last night we had the first night of our contest to name FDL’s marijuana campaign. We were going to have the semifinal voting tonight, but I changed my mind.

I’m having too much fun being back at Late Nite again, and Mike Whitney decided he wanted to expand the contest to everyone on our email list, so we’re continuing the contest for a second inspired night.

...we have a SPECIAL PRIZE FOR EVERYONE just for playing…co-author of Marijuana is Safer, Steve Fox of the Marijuana Policy Project, emailed me say that they’re offering a FREE DOWNLOAD of the book to everyone until midnight tonight in honor of the contest!
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Since we’re going to be doing a lot more around pot in the coming months, take advantage of this great opportunity, say thanks to Steve for this incredibly generous offer, and download away.

Much, much more and a list of the entries so far. Enjoy. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

If the Beverly Hillbillies Had Invested in a Fraudulent CDO

I'm sort of a Beverly Hillbilly in reverse, so I liked this.

Guess who!

Mr. Drysdale knew he wouldn't make it through the night. Cowering, sweating, and pissing himself in the panic room of his mansion, he watched on the monitors as what seemed like every Clampett under the redneck sun, if not the entire town of Bug Tussle, looted and wrecked his mansion where he had lived, if not quite peacefully, then at least continuously next to the proud hillbillies. Now, he wept as he saw Jethro Bodine stare straight into one of the security cameras and say, "When I find you, Mr. Drysdale, I'm gonna fuck ya like a mule." Drysdale clutched at the packet of cyanide capsules, his last resort should he face fire or fucking. Across the room, the corpse of Miss Hathaway mocked him, its slit throat like a cruel second smile.

[...] On her deathbed, Granny told Jed, "Don't you listen to that bastard. He's a-gonna steal your money like a backwoods whiskey runner."

It was that goddamn Ellie Mae, Drysdale thought, as he saw Jed use his shotgun to destroy a vase. Ellie Mae and Jane Hathaway fell in love and wanted to get married, but Drysdale had donated money to support Proposition 8, making their dreams fall apart. That was the final straw. They worked together to go to the SEC with everything they knew from their jobs at Commerce. When they told Jed about what really happened, there were only two parts of it that the Clampett patriarch understood: that Drysdale had outright lied to him and that he was making money off people losing their houses. Jed looked at Jethro and said, "Call up the kinfolk and get some buckshot for the guns. Let's show this city shithead how we treat liars and thieves back in the mountains."

Y'all'r gonna hafta ta go read ta see how this hyar yarn turns out. Cue the banjo music...

Chickens for prostate exams?

Sue Lowden's plan to solve the problem of skyrocketing health care costs? Go back to the barter system!

So Doc, I have one box of cereal and one '95 Ford Taurus with 150,000 miles (though trust me it runs great), how much of my broken leg can I get fixed?

For non-chicken related Nevada news visit http://www.ProgressNowNevada.org

Thanks to ProgressNowNevada.

And this looneytoon is ahead of Reid in the polls? Yeesh.

I'm no stranger to the barter system. I've traded motorcycle work for stuff I needed, like firewood and getting my house painted, for decades, and I can tell you this:

If I took a chicken to pay my doctor she would give me a rectal exam with it. I'd be fartin' feathers for a week.

In case you missed it

Jon apologizes for criticizing Bernie Goldberg and Fox News, but it's only because they're a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Bernie Goldberg Fires Back
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

Must be nice to be an officer ...

Because if I'da pulled some shit like this, my ass woulda been in Leavenworth so quick, my shadow wouldn't be able to catch up:

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One week ago, the military announced that Lakin is under investigation after he refused to report for a second tour in Afghanistan. Lakin believes that President Obama may not be a natural-born citizen, and therefore that military orders are invalid..."

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There should be a blindfold, a cigarette, a wall, and a bullet with this guy's name on them.

It might not play all over ...

But to 'city boys' like me, this hits the spot:



More here.

Great, great thanks to my homie Watertiger for the link.

Headline of the Day

Religious Right vs. the Tea Parties — Can the GOP Exploit Both at the Same Time?

The Repugs have just about used up the fundies and they're concentrating on the teabaggers, but I'm sure they'll try.

Best case scenario: The teabaggers and the christofascists go to war with one another and take each other out and the GOP along with 'em. Ah, to dream...