Boing! Feds say Magic Power coffee contains Viagra drug
Hmmmmm, maybe a cuppa 'boner joe' before bedtime wouldn't keep me awake in the bad way...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Headline of the Day
Hmmmmm, maybe a cuppa 'boner joe' before bedtime wouldn't keep me awake in the bad way...
Quote of the Day
From Juanita Jean's, "The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon:, Inc."
She's just getting started. I'm glad Juanita ain't mad at me!
“Haley Barbour is cross eyed, buck toothed, loud mouthed son of a motherless goat, dammit,”
She's just getting started. I'm glad Juanita ain't mad at me!
"The Halliburton Loophole"
In case you missed it.
Josh Fox talks about the toxic materials from hydraulic fracturing that are turning up in people's water supplies. (07:50)
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The next MacArthur ...
In my day, Gen. McChrystal would have "retired"* by now.
Yet he remains in charge of our longest war. A war which is probably unwinnable, no matter who is running the show, regardless of what the definition du jour of "win" is. Just ask Alexander the Great, the British "The Sun Doesn't Set On Us" Empire, and the Soviet Union, among others.
A corollary to the above by Cdr. Huber.
The top U.S. war commander in Afghanistan apologized Tuesday for an interview in which he said he felt betrayed by the man the White House chose to be his diplomatic partner, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry.
The article in this week's issue of Rolling Stone depicts Gen. Stanley McChrystal as a lone wolf on the outs with many important figures in the Obama administration and unable to convince even some of his own soldiers that his strategy can win the war.
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Yet he remains in charge of our longest war. A war which is probably unwinnable, no matter who is running the show, regardless of what the definition du jour of "win" is. Just ask Alexander the Great, the British "The Sun Doesn't Set On Us" Empire, and the Soviet Union, among others.
A corollary to the above by Cdr. Huber.
As Renaissance political scientist Niccolo Machiavelli noted, the fall of Rome came about when its military elite, known as the Praetorian Guard, gained control over the emperor and the Senate. Had irony survived the Bush Jr. administration, it would relish that America’s empire is crumbling under the undue influence of its military elite, the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
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*Thanks to Oliver Willis for the link.
I've wondered about that ...
Many times. How people can make that leap, how they can put their morality aside in favor of ideology or money or both. Aside from the BP shills who are obviously paid to support the company line, there are those who find a bright spot in all this, even the worst case scenario.
Athenae goes off while sitting in for Tbogg:
I believe that to be a conservative, not just an uninformed, FOX "news"-watching prole but part of the Machine, you have to abdicate any right you have to a soul.
Athenae goes off while sitting in for Tbogg:
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WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? I mean it, what is that, you fucking moral dyslexic? You’re basically cheering on the possible implosion of an entire ocean because it will remedy "infantile optimism" of "post-JFK America?" What the fuck does that even mean? I just … I’m … What in the blue hell has to happen inside your brain that makes writing that okay?
What kind of insulated, sheltered, non-reality reality do you have to be swimming around in that you can sit there and say that the killing of an ENTIRE OCEAN and the destruction of an ENTIRE THIRD OF THE DAMN COUNTRY’S ECONOMY would be okay because hey, then everybody will realize that Nixon was right and fuck Cambodia anyway and hippies smell?
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I believe that to be a conservative, not just an uninformed, FOX "news"-watching prole but part of the Machine, you have to abdicate any right you have to a soul.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Bootstraps ...
[A big welcome to Jim's readers over at Skippy's - F]
You know, I'd better not hear anybody from the Gulf states saying shit like "poor people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps" or that "they don't really want to work" or some other conservative horseshit. I hope now they realize that shit happens to regular folks every day that puts them in a bad way, whether it's a disaster (natural or man made), or unemployment, or a sickness, or a hundred other reasons.
Maybe they'll realize, now, that they've been voting against their own interests and think about what really matters to them. Their way of life, their children's health, and making sure their job ain't outsourced or destroyed in an effort to make rich people richer. I hope they'll realize, now, that there are people standing in line for checks through no fault of their own.
You know, I'd better not hear anybody from the Gulf states saying shit like "poor people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps" or that "they don't really want to work" or some other conservative horseshit. I hope now they realize that shit happens to regular folks every day that puts them in a bad way, whether it's a disaster (natural or man made), or unemployment, or a sickness, or a hundred other reasons.
Maybe they'll realize, now, that they've been voting against their own interests and think about what really matters to them. Their way of life, their children's health, and making sure their job ain't outsourced or destroyed in an effort to make rich people richer. I hope they'll realize, now, that there are people standing in line for checks through no fault of their own.
Quote of the Day
From Will Durst on BP CEO Hayward's farce-fest with Congress:
Congressional hearings are to hypocrisy what green felt is to pool tables.
Yes, it is all about ideology
The Rude Pundit hadn't paid much attention to the Sunday blabfests yesterday because, even if it has its charms when you're participating, a circle jerk is just weird and depressing to watch, especially on a weekly basis. But then, in one of her standard blurps of incoherency, Sarah Palin tweeted from "her" Blackberry, "RahmEmanuel= as shallow/narrowminded/political/irresponsible as they come,to falsely claim Barton's BP comment is 'GOP philosophy'Rahm,u lie". The Rude Pundit's first reaction, after breaking out the decoder ring and setting it on "fucktard" (it's right after "Enigma"), was "Vicodin's a helluva drug." But then he wondered what President Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the subject of such recent disdain out here in the hinterlands of Left Blogsylvania, had said.
Apparently, an unfed Rahm Emanuel is a worthless and/or destructive being (as in his unending willingness to compromise during the health care debate). However, you give him the raw meat of campaign mode, and that motherfucker becomes the nasty wolverine you want on your side. To those paying attention (like the aforementioned former demi-Governor of Alaska), on This Week with Placeholder Jake Tapper, Emanuel offered more for Democrats to battle for than any administration official has in months.
So Sarah Palin's thong was already twisted when Emanuel started offering up pieces of the GOP for devouring, as when he said, "The approach here expressed and supported by other voices in the Republican Party, sees the aggrieved party as BP, not the American -- not the fishermen and the communities down there affected. And that would the governing philosophy. And I think what Joe Barton did is remind the American people, in case they've forgotten, this is how the Republicans would govern."
And, as if to prove Emanuel right (and contrary to the desperate backtracking that Palin and Mitch McConnell and other craven Republicans are doing on Barton), here's crying California Rep. Darrell "Are the cameras on?" Issa on what he'd do with subpoena power in a House of Representatives run by Republicans: "I won't use it to have corporate America live in fear that we're going to subpoena everything. I will use it to get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing." You got that? Issa's saying that the White House is the enemy that needs to be attacked, not corporations that pollute and steal and kill.
Emanuel is testing a strategy here, laying out a case that ideology matters. If this is the battle line for the midterms, it's got possibilities. It ain't politicizing the oil spill - it's politicizing the Republicans' response to it. Not bad at all. When that snarling bastard Emanuel gets his teeth in something, he's gonna take chunks out of it.
Rahmbo has his place and attack dog is it. That wasn't on MSNBC. People besides us pinkos actually watch the Sunday political talk shows. Good on ya, Rahm. Sic 'em.
Oh, the irony...
Ironic Times
My eyes! Aggghhhh...
Too much or too little of the wrong information is what the teabaggers are all about and pisses the rest of us off.
England: Thong Awareness Day Observed
With special discounts for seniors.
My eyes! Aggghhhh...
World Cup Ball Universally Disliked
Everyone agrees it favors their opponent.
Kepler Telescope Spots Planet With Density of Styrofoam
Probably a fake, say astronomers.
Too Much, Too Little Sleep Can Shorten Life
Too much, too little information can kill you.
Too much or too little of the wrong information is what the teabaggers are all about and pisses the rest of us off.
I don't know ...
Thanks to a lot of whitewashing and cover-up, we will likely never know the real circumstances of, and leading up to, the terror attack of 11 September 2001. I'd rather not believe that our government would actually sacrifice the lives of 3000 innocent Americans in order to achieve some crazy ideological goal.
That said, via the Existentialist Cowboy's Facebook page, a few items to make you think. After 8 years of Bush/Cheney, and all the illegal crap they've done, it falls into the realm of probability.
It just makes we wonder why none of our elected representatives want to "look back" at anything the previous administration has done.
That said, via the Existentialist Cowboy's Facebook page, a few items to make you think. After 8 years of Bush/Cheney, and all the illegal crap they've done, it falls into the realm of probability.
...9. "President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11..." ..."Tuesday's discussion followed a rare call to Daschle from Vice President Dick Cheney last Friday to make the same request."
10. The Project For a New American Century, which wrote of the need for a "catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor," had members throughout the top of the government on 9/11 including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, Armitage, Abrams, Wurmser, as well as Bush's brother, the governor of Florida, Jeb.
11. Four days before 9/11, Jeb Bush activated the Florida National Guard, "Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port." (Executive Order 01-261).
12. On 9/11 Jeb Bush declared a "State of Emergency" in Florida (E.O. 01-262). "I hereby delegate to the Department of Law Enforcement the operational authority to coordinate and direct the law enforcement resources and other resources of any and all state, regional and local governmental agencies..." And by 2am on 9/12/01, Jeb Bush was reported to have confiscated the police records in Venice, FL related to the Huffman Aviation flight school. Two rental trucks full of these records drove onto a C-130 military aircraft at Sarasota Airport and flew out with Jeb Bush aboard.
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It just makes we wonder why none of our elected representatives want to "look back" at anything the previous administration has done.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
California Gal Music Blogging
When ya think of 'California girls', sometimes ya gotta forget the blond hair and store-bought chachabingoes of song and legend and pop culture bullshit and just go with talent. This is Kathy Kallick (website) and her band performing in Denmark, I presume. I just got her new CD, "Between the Hollow (pronounced 'holler' - G) and the High Rise" in the mail the other day.
Kathy's been around a while. Check out her discography. I've only been a fan for about 30 years and I'm glad her stuff is showing up more and more on YouTube.
Sometimes I'm appalled by the sound quality on these videos and sometimes I'm amazed at how well the tiny mics on the vidcams work. This is one of those times.
The song is "You Took Me Away" I think.
Kathy's been around a while. Check out her discography. I've only been a fan for about 30 years and I'm glad her stuff is showing up more and more on YouTube.
Sometimes I'm appalled by the sound quality on these videos and sometimes I'm amazed at how well the tiny mics on the vidcams work. This is one of those times.
The song is "You Took Me Away" I think.
The Kathy Kallick Band
Thanks to ngifoto, Denmark.
Stop the presses! California university will allow media at Sarah Palin event!
The Political Carnival
As a mechanic, I'm used to things being "out of whack". I keep refill cans of "whack" in stock in pints, quarts, and gallons. For the "press" and the 1st Amendment I may have to special order the 50-gallon drum.
After months of requests from reporters, a California university has agreed to allow members of the media to attend a fundraiser next week featuring Sarah Palin. [...]
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How out of whack are we if reporting that a public figure with an inappropriate amount of influence is “allowing” us to find out what she’s saying at a fundraiser?
As a mechanic, I'm used to things being "out of whack". I keep refill cans of "whack" in stock in pints, quarts, and gallons. For the "press" and the 1st Amendment I may have to special order the 50-gallon drum.
Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock
Here's the last coupla ¶ of Daddy Frank's column today:
Always remember the First Law Of Bar Fights: Ya gotta bring some ta get some.
The Second Law jumps around that: The sucker punch is yer best friend. The Repugs are sucker punchin' themselves. Heh. Another draft an' some popcorn please, barkeep!
When Joe Barton, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revived Rand Paul’s defense of BP last week by apologizing on camera to Hayward for the “tragedy” of the White House’s “$20 billion shakedown,” the G.O.P. establishment had to shut him down because he was revealing the party’s true loyalties, not because it disagreed with him (my em). Barton was merely echoing Michele Bachmann, who labeled the $20 billion for gulf victims a “redistribution-of-wealth fund,” and the 100-plus other House members whose Republican Study Committee had labeled the $20 billion a “Chicago-style shakedown” only a day before Barton did.
These tribunes of the antigovernment right and their Tea Party auxiliaries are clamoring for a new revolution to “take back America” — after which, we now can see, they would hand over America to the likes of BP. Let Deepwater Horizon be ground zero for a 9/11 showdown over the role of government. There couldn’t be a riper moment for Obama, as a man once said, to bring it on.
Always remember the First Law Of Bar Fights: Ya gotta bring some ta get some.
The Second Law jumps around that: The sucker punch is yer best friend. The Repugs are sucker punchin' themselves. Heh. Another draft an' some popcorn please, barkeep!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Sorta like "Clean Coal" ...
Chris:
These are your "Guardians of the Gulf". Something like the "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Forests" of the Bush administration.
And when they claim to be "pro-environment" they mean it in a BP drill, baby, drill kind of way. The group is funded by BP, Transocean, Shell, ConocoPhilips and other well known environmentalists.
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These are your "Guardians of the Gulf". Something like the "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Forests" of the Bush administration.
Great apologies in History ...
Comrade Misfit in great form:
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The nations of Poland, Holland, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium, Norway, Greece, Finland and the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union would like to apologize to Germany for not being hospitable to large German tour groups from 1939 through 1945.
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More on Greene v DeMint
Lawrence O'Donnell, guest host at Countdown and obviously a regular reader of the Brain, picks up on my idea about South Carolina Senate candidate Alvin Greene:
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A 2d Amendment Remedy
I hope I didn't start something yesterday, but I gotta run with this one:
One less teabag...
Comments:
A tip o' the Brain to David Aquarius.
Man accidentally shoots self in testicles
One less teabag...
Comments:
Aw nuts!!!!!!!!! Cleanup in lumber.
Now he really does have lead in his pencil.
A tip o' the Brain to David Aquarius.
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