go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them

Monday, September 29, 2008 | Labels: |
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The House voted against rescuing the economy - albeit with a crappy bill.

Interestingly, the Democrats produced more "aye" votes then they had promised.
The GOP, against a Bush and McCain pushed bill, couldn't muster the votes. That's leadership!

Their excuse? House Speaker Pelosi made a speech critiquing the policies which got us to this point.

So the GOP voted against a rescue.

Wow.

So, was making such a speech a mistake by Pelosi? I guess if she knew what a bunch of thin-skinned wimps she was talking to, then maybe so.

But I think Barney Frank (LOVE him!) put it best today:

"There's a terrible crisis affecting the American economy. We have come together to alleviate the crisis. And because somebody hurt their feelings, they decide to punish the country."



"Give me those 12 people's names [who were going to vote for the bill but then voted against it] and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are and maybe they'll now think about the country."



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The Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun

Friday, September 26, 2008 | Labels: , , , , |
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I popped this up on Daily Kos as well...


I know this is just light fare in the face of the insanity we're all seeing.

But it's funny and damn pertinent... and I've taken the liberty of transcribing the lyrics below the fold.

Julie Brown just updated her song "Homecoming Queen Has Got a Gun".

The new one is: The Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun.
It's about our favorite Caribou Barbie!

She premiered it on the Stephanie Miller show yesterday.

Take a listen, it's worth it, IMO.



This is straight from the radio show.
Looks like you can buy the song from Julie Brown's site or from iTunes.

My attempt at the lyrics follows:

The Ex-Beauty Queen Has Got a Gun
By: Julie Brown

Lyrics:

It was election year in the USA.
John McCain chose Sarah to save the day.
We were real excited,
what a maverick choice!
her only flaw
was that annoying voice.

Sarah Palin (SP): "Oh Hi! I'm Sarah Pain!"

She looked so cool,
with glasses and a gun.
just like a nasty
librarian.
she brought her kids
for all of us to see.
They even licked each other on TV.

It's a little gross but totally adorable!

The crowd was cheering.
everyone was stoked.
It was like the whole convention
was totally coked!

(except for Joe Lieberman... douche!)

But when she talked,
I saw the country go to Hell.

And all of a sudden
somebody yelled:

"Look Out! The girl VP's got a gun!!"

Everybody run!
The ex-beauty queen's got a gun!
Everybody run!
The ex-beauty queen has got a gun!

"Is this really happening??
I don't believe it!!"

Sarah's smiling
and waving her gun,
sucking in Republicans
one-by-one!

Does the GOP stand for
gullible old party?
Can't they see
she's just Alaskan Barbie?

And poor pregnant Bristol!
I think I heard her shriek,
"Stop it Mom!
You're such a freak!
Why do you think
I have a bun in the oven?
Do you blame me for getting some
hockey player lovin'?"


Everybody run!
The girl VP's got a gun!
Everybody run!
The ex-beauty queen has got a gun!

Stop Sarah, I'm so afraid!
Don't turn back Roe versus Wade!

She always get's excited
when someone mentions drilling,
except the kind that gays do
then she's really chilling.

SP: "Sex is just for guys and gals
the Bible clearly states
if you would just pray harder
God would make you straight!"

Some guy: "I swear I'm gonna slap that lipstick OFF that pig!"

How could people think
she's the answer to their prayers?
She wants to pop a cap
in all the polar bears!
And what's with all this talk
of her shooting caribou?
How could McNoBrain pick her?
Is he sniffing glue?

Everybody run!
The girl VP's got a gun!
Everybody run!
The ex-beauty queen has got a gun!

You're not that hot, I hate to be rude.
OK you're better than Dick Cheney nude.

Last night I had a dream
that she became Commander-in-Chief!
McLame had choked to death
on a piece of un-chewed beef!

Then someone pissed her off.
was it Iraq or maybe Spain?
She said, "let's nuke 'em all
'cause all ferriners are the same!"

Then she started bombing
France and Mexico and China!

OH MY GOD
She's like Hitler with a vagina!

So then they started bombing back
and I crawled into the oval office
and I found Sarah under a desk...

(which is probably how she got the
nomination in the first place)

...and I whispered in her face

"Sarah, why'd you do it?"

She lifted her singed beehive
smiled and said,

"Oh gosh. I guess I did it for the children."

"The children?
The children?!?
What do you mean you did it for the children? There are no children!! You killed them all, they're dead!!! You didn't do it for the children!!!!!"


Then I woke up.

And I thought,

oh God! This is like that story, that Christmas Carol, where the ghost of Christmas future was going to amputate Tiny Tim's leg.

But we can still vote for Barack and Joe
and we'll all be saved!

YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

Unless we elect Barbie
and Grampy McSame!

OH GOD No!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!



Everybody run!
The girl VP's got a gun!

RUN!

Everybody run!
The ex-beauty queen has got a gun!

(gunshots)

Run, Polar Bears, Run!

(gunshots)

Go, Gay Guys!
Get those assless chaps into gear!!

(gunshots)

Run knocked-up teens,
you're running for two!!!

She's INSANE!

RUN FOR YOU'RE LIVES!!!!!

(gunshots)

SP: "Oh I think I got one."

SP: "Oh look, I winged a homo."

(gunshots)

(gunshots)

SP: "Ooh, this is fun!"

(gunshots)

SP: "I got that one in the butt!"

(gunshots)

SP: "Whoo! Ye-HAAA! WhooHooHooHOO!!"

(gunshots)



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Sunday, September 21, 2008 | Labels: |
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I know, I know.

Talk about being disengaged with everyone, huh?


Pretty sad, I know. What a waste.


I've just descended into nothingness.


I know.


I'm basically lost.


I don't know what to say any more.


I'm in a bad way.

Kinda. Sorta.

But I don't know why.


Not precisely, anyway.


Yeah...

I know.

I need happy pills.

Or stability.


One or the other.

I'd rather have stability.



I'm hurting.



Not to sound whiny... but...
Well, but there it is.

Whiny - annoying - insufferable - whatever you want to call me.

But it's the truth.


I keep wondering who will be there, who will be the guy that will give me the excuse to finally grab my life by the reins and run with it.

I really would like that guy around.

but until then...
or maybe instead of then...

Maybe...
Just maybe...

That guy is me.

Except I don't know how to be that guy.

Guess I should just learn, right?


Yeah.

I know.



There's also the no sex thing. That doesn't help.

Maybe that's why I'm so ready to bite peoples' heads off.

Or maybe I'm just angry that I'm 40 (ish) and this is my life.

Of nothingness. Of no purpose.

Kinda a waste.



Some guy in P-town, back last month, said, "hey I've totally seen you around Boston at the bars. You're always smiling, always so happy. You make people smile when you're smiling."

And all I could think was, "Who? Me? Do I smile?"

I smile when I'm out, especially with people I know. And I kinda mean it, too.

But that also explains why I'm "out" so little these days.

If I can't smile, I don't walk out the door.



Unfortunately that's most of the time these days.


And... unlike a year or two ago, where I was all calling the waaaaambulance about being all broke up and shit... well, now I don't know- not precisely - what the problem is.


It's a lot of things.

Or maybe one grand unifying thing.

But, fuck, even physics hasn't figured out the grand unifying thing yet. No worries that I can't do it, either, right?


Dunno.




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I'm Tired of the Phoniness

Friday, September 19, 2008 | Labels: , , |
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Spread it.

Here be the direct video link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4459225n

Here be the embed code:

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That's called a staff meeting

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Spread it.

Here be the direct video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DpPGu1OSw

Here be the embed code:

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Full speech is at this link here.



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Shared Responsibility

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I'm not sure why it's not clear. I'm in a period of blahs, unfocusedness, unclarity, and unsettledness (four non-existent words!)and the one thing I've learned is that me talking about it here is just viewed as whining. So I'd rather either put nothing up or at least something about which I care.

I care about this.

No doubt some will take offense at these posts. I'm not sure I care anymore. I've been too polite to some. To restricted in my public views. No doubt I'll express them, but this blog isn't the place - no one wants that from a personal blog.

Somewhere else, perhaps...

Anyways...

Shared Responsibility (2 minute ad airing in battleground states):




Spread it.

Here be the direct video link:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1799203760

Here be the embed code:

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Fundamentally wrong

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 | Labels: , , |
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I bet you can tell I'm probably not going to be doing this blog for a whole lot longer. There's a bunch of dumb reasons for that - I'm unsettled and unfocused in certain areas - but (for those who are interested) I can get into that at another time.

For now, I'll just keep doing my tiny part...


Fundamentally wrong:



Spread it.

Here be the direct video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reQLzgywzk

Here be the embed code:

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Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Disaster

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Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Disaster



Spread it.

Here be the direct video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3Y1KPzW9k

Here be the embed code:


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Viral sneezes...

Saturday, September 13, 2008 | Labels: , , |
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O Ho Ho Ho!

You get the title?

Is double meaning because I also have head cold!

O Ho Ho Ho, is so funny
!


Anyways, since I'm not doing anything else of use here these days...


A quickie: Is McCain for child predators?


Here be the direct video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0kiLoMY1hg

Here be the embed code:

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A 3 minute overview: Endless Lies?



Here be the direct video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk


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This is bad...

Monday, September 08, 2008 | Labels: |
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Yup, these days I'm more prone to not saying or writing a word. Either that, or I'd let lose some floodgates and go on for pages. But I don't really feel like it and doubt it would be anything for me but a whine. So, frak it...


However... This... is... bad...



We are well and truly frakked if she comes to power.

Realize, the feelings are now high that she is connected via her church to something called Joel's Army, which is claimed by it's founders as:

an Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian "dominion" on non-believers.

"An end-time army has one common purpose -- to aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, the Dread Champion," [Joel's Army founder, Todd] Bentley declares on the website for his ministry school in British Columbia, Canada. "The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel's Army. ... Many are now ready to be mobilized to establish and advance God's kingdom on earth."

Joel's Army followers, many of them teenagers and young adults who believe they're members of the final generation to come of age before the end of the world, are breaking away in droves from mainline Pentecostal churches. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they base their beliefs on an esoteric reading of the second chapter of the Old Testament Book of Joel, in which an avenging swarm of locusts attacks Israel. In their view, the locusts are a metaphor for Joel's Army.

(emphases mine)

Y'all vote for this, and that's what you're gonna get, I'll wager.

And I'll say this. Pretty much anyone who's eyes are reading my words will be early targets for their "physical" and "aggressive" imposition of the  selectively decided laws of a small group of elites.

You know what bugs me the most - not what scares me, but just bugs me - these folks, I'll bet ya, have never really read much of the Bible. Just one-liners.

As someone who's read a chunk of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (no, not all - YOU try reading the whole dang thing!) and pretty much all of the New at one time or another, I feel it's safe to say they don't even know what the frak they're talking about.

Simplest case-in-point, one that always bugged me: anyone who thinks "speaking in tongues" in the book of Acts means making sounds of that no one can understand, appear as if they never actually read the book. It's a very simple concept, really: in the section of the book, the evangelizers spoke and, as the story goes, everyone else heard the words in their own native language.

It's really quite simple - it's like everyone got a Babel Fish.

But if they didn't know this, if they didn't read the book of Acts (it's, you know, kinda an important story in the New Testament), then I doubt they've read anything else, either.

But, I suppose that's a personal quibble.

Being killed by power mad thugs however, is not.

It's frakking serious.



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