and I didn't speak out because I didn't drive the 405.
Then they closed the Golden State,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't drive the Golden State.
Then they closed the 101,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't drive the 101.
Then they closed Fairfax and there was no one left to speak out for me. notdecraw 23 hours ago 97
After Hitler's suicide, the freeway was divided: East 405 (under Latino supervision) and West 405, (controlled by Peoples Republic of Santa Monica). Drivers soon took other routes. Thus began the Cold(water Canyon) War. tashload 23 hours ago 79
An article about Moosebreath that's actually worth reading in The Atlantic.
Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County ...
"Why aren't you seeing Harry Potter?" an usher said to the reporter sitting alone in the audience
Here's how bad she misreads her tiny-brained subjects: even in one of the most rabidly right-wing counties in the U.S., old scared white people don't go out at midnight, even for her. The flick will probably do better at the matinee. If there's a senior discount.
Buh-bye, Sarah. You lasted longer than I thought you would, but you're almost over.
I wish I could say that I'm surprised about any of this, but I'm not. Warships take a lot of TLC to keep in good condition. A decade ago, the Navy went to a concept called "optimal manning", which was a bureaucratic way of saying "not enough sailors to keep the ships up." From what I've read, a Burke class DDG had a complement of 290, yet the Navy sent those ships to see with the the crew size of a Knox class FF (or a Perry class FFG). Those two frigate classes displaced 4,100 tons, but a Burke class DDG displace between 8,300 and 9,500 tons.*
The Burkes are much larger ships. Those who thought that the Navy could send them to sea with the crew size of a smaller ship and not eventually pay a price had to have been drinking the Ft. Fumble Kool-Aid. The practice of not sending enough sailors to ships to properly man the ships was a factor in the grounding of the USS Port Royal.
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You can't fix a rotting ship if it isn't staffed properly. Bush/Cheney thought they could go to war on the cheap and this is where we've ended up 10 years later. Maybe, instead of buying the military new toys all the time, we might want to fix the old ones before they fall out from under our people.
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I was informed that the new shed "looks naked" out there in the yard so we were at Home Depot this morning at 6. Me and the girls are headed out now to plant 6 new shrubs around it. Heh ...
Sadly, however, our God Culture isn't limited to just the political game, but also allows some of those clever cats, professional athletes, to get in on the action.
I must admit to finding it rather amusing - as in completely ridiculous - whenever an overpaid ballplayer hits a three-point shot or bashes a fastball over the center field wall, only to respond by pointing up to the Heavens as if it were Divinely ordained. Because we all know any Higher Power has nothing better to do - like ending conflict in the Sudan or curing cancer - than taking in some sport and using his/her powers to ensure Arsenal wins the FA Cup.
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The Gunners went out early in FA Cup competition this year. Heh ...
It's about time one of the top management joins the 200 hard working people from News of the World on the unemployment line. However, she should be sharing the dock in Old Bailey with Murdoch and his son.
Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, has resigned, the company has confirmed.
Her departure follows days of increasing pressure to step down as the phone hacking crisis grew.
In a statement, she said she felt a "deep responsibility for the people we have hurt".
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She feels a deep responsibility to keep herself out of jail.
The Mrs. asked me yesterday: "Is it too much to hope for that there will be no Fox News here in the future?"
Short answer: Yes.
I think, in America, Murdoch has the testicles of too many Republicans in his hand to get run out of town. AG Holder is no crusader for justice either.
This follows a pattern for most right-wingers, who do much of their posturing and politicking primarily in conservative media outlets. To wit:
'Wit' is not the word I would have used without 'half' as a prefix, but RP doesn't need editing from me. He lists a few examples from the more odious Repug STDs*.
*Scary Talkin' Doofusfucks
We can only hope that Obama's supposed declaration of "I've reached my limit. This may bring my presidency down, but I will not yield on this" is true. We can only hope that it's the start of some new path for him, some utter abandonment of the bipartisan snipe hunt he's been on. Perhaps it's too late. Perhaps he's too far into the woods to find his way home.
But stupid optimism is what makes us American. And it's that stupidity that made so many Americans elect this actually dangerous group of people. There is no Forrest Gump-wisdom in the dimwitted. There's only the horrible consequences of their actions.
From the 'dangerous' link:
The more we find out about the House Republican caucus, the more obvious it becomes that they're not just trying to maximize their leverage by pretending to be crazy. They're crazy.
Does that mean we can tranq 'em and lock 'em away? Gitmo's still open...
If I were you, I'd be on my way back to Jersey. Montag (in toto):
It may be known as the land of 10,000 lakes but there will be 39 fewer brands of beer on sale in the state soon. This is the result of Miller-Coors failure to renew their licenses to sell beer in the state prior to the Republican caused shutdown of the government. Some may dismiss those brands as small beer and peewater but it is still an unnecessary cruelty to deny a man his brand just to protect millionaires and corporations from a much deserved tax hike.
Not being able to buy beer? That's where I draw the line. Heh ...
Raw Story. Usual nice photo from Fixer's back yard, but that may change now that he has his spiffy new "equipment" shed. For all the hydroponic equipment no doubt. Heh.
Just days after the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) insisted that there is no medical value to marijuana, the White House appeared to contradict the position, saying in a report that there may actually be "some" medical value to "individual components of the cannabis plant" after all.
Here's the money shot:
Critics are likely to see the passage as offering a bit of wiggle room for major pharmesutical producers looking to grow marijuana to extract its psychoactive ingredient, THC, or other cannabinoid compounds that have been demonstrated to help abate symptoms of some chronic diseases, like wasting syndrome in AIDS patients or nausea in cancer patients.
In 2007, GW Pharmaceuticals announced that it partnered with Otsuka to bring "Sativex" -- or liquefied marijuana -- to the U.S. [...]
Reinventing the wheel in the process. Ahmed and his fucking camel used to partner to, besides the part involving a milk crate, bring hash oil to the U.S. One stripe of that down the side of a fatty and ZOWIE!
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has warned just as much, claiming that federal authorities may be looking to shift policy slightly, if only to legalize marijuana-based medicines for Big Pharma only, which could step in and potentially eradicate the medical marijuana market.
There ya have it - if it can't be to Big Pharma's profit, it can't be legal.
An ABC News poll found last year that eight in 10 Americans favor legalizing medical marijuana.
Since when did that matter to the Big Money or their pols?
Don't have sex. Gays are evil. Repress your urges. Close your legs. Quit asking questions.
Jesus loves Coors Light and large-caliber handguns. Iraq is packed like a Bieber concert with squealing nuclear warheads aimed straight at the Utah public school system. The homosexual agenda is alive and very, very real, and it wants to indoctrinate your children, steal your semen and organize your underwear drawer far, far too perfectly. Also, God is judging you. Right. This. Second.
Follow-up to Fixer's post yesterday. This isn't settled by a long shot, but it appears to me, because I wish it to be so (why is my other hand filling up so much more quickly...?), that my Stealth Ninja Jedi Prez is pulling off a rope-a-dope worthy of Cassius Clay. The Repugs (and a lot of us) expected him to cave because that's what he's been doing all along. Perhaps he will fool us this time. It's more important that he fool the Repugs into doing what he wanted all along.
I don't like a lot of the stuff he's done or the way he's done them either, but it's all above my pay grade. I'm still down wid him.
Lawrence explains how President Obama continues to outsmart, out-strategize and out-talk the Republicans, in the debt ceiling standoff. Plus, Howard Dean joins The Last Word with more analysis.
There's myriad ways to look at Mitch McConnell's Deal o' Last Resort that he proffered yesterday. All of them involve the phrase "Fuck it." There's "Fuck it. If Obama loves the debt ceiling so much, he can marry it." And there's "Fuck it. These crazy Tea Party motherfuckers aren't gonna be happy until we're all living in heavily-armed bomb shelters." And there's "Fuck it. I'm sick of negotiating." And on and on, all variations on "Just fuck it."
McConnell announced the plan after taking to the Senate floor to say, "Democrats suck monkey balls." He also said a bunch of nonsense about what he thinks "the American people" want without mentioning that one of the things we want, by a huge majority, is higher taxes on people making far more than most of us.
The Rude Pundit sees this as part and parcel of how McConnell and Boehner have governed. They take themselves out of the battle and merely stand on the sidelines, hurling Molotov cocktails while saying that their pathetic pyromania is leadership.
One other thing: because this doesn't just raise the debt ceiling $2.5 trillion in one fell swoop, it requires a certain amount of trust in the Republicans by the Obama administration. If they dick the President over, then we plunge once again into crisis. Those fuckers aren't worthy of that kind of trust. Why would you let the arsonists guard the gas stove?
The arsonists can guard the gas stove as long as it's in their house and not ours. I hope they set their house alight and stand around arguing if it's really on fire and whether they should call the fire department..
Kody Brown is a proud polygamist, and a relatively famous one. Now Mr. Brown, his four wives and 16 children and stepchildren are going to court to keep from being punished for it.
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Hey, if you want 4 women telling you what to do and 16 children screaming through your house, god bless ya. Me? 1 wife and 2 dogs are more than enough.
Seriously, most of these polygamist marriages appear, to me, to be reminiscent of Sultanates and Sheikdoms. A dominant man with women and children being more property than partners. I wonder if a woman wanted to take 4 husbands, if the men would be so gung-ho about trying to make it legal. Seems to me the "bylaws" of these folks' belief system gives all the rights to the men and few, if any, to the women. There is too much room for abuse and that's where my beef comes in. If it worked both ways, I'd say let the masochists have at it.
*Before anybody gets pissed, I'm being funny here. As regulars know, I am a strident supporter of gay marriage and I'm not equivocating the right for two people in love to marry with polygamy, a true lifestyle choice and an emotionally abusive situation on its best day.
Human Rights Watch has called on Barack Obama, the current US president, to order a criminal investigation into alleged detainee abuse by his predecessor, George W Bush, and senior figures from his administration.
"There are solid grounds to investigate Bush, [former vice president Dick] Cheney, [former secretary of defence Donald] Rumsfeld, and [former CIA director George] Tenet for authorising torture and war crimes," Kenneth Roth, HRW's executive director, said.
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"The US is right to call for justice when serious international crimes are committed in places like Darfur, Libya, and Sri Lanka, but there should be no double standards," Roth said.
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American exceptionalism at its best. If we want the rest of the world to start taking us seriously again, a good start would be dropping these clowns at the Hague; at the least, putting them on trial ourselves.
