I'm also watching Gamera vs. Zigra, mistied, multi-tasking if you will. Crappy movies are so much more entertaining that way.

The back door is open and the weather is so liveable; I am running about the house barefoot in shirt sleeves. The cats are playing outside and I just finished watering my plants, which are weathering over on the back porch.

Reading Tom Cahill, "How the Irish Saved Civilization". It's entrancing and just as Cahill says, it fills a void in history; between Rome and the Renaissance; how civilization survived. Also, I anticipate it must speak to a great love of books. We shall see.

Swiped this from a friend.



Anger Management

When you occasionally have a really bad day and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know.

I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I had forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it.
A man answered, saying, "Hello."
I politely said, "This is Fred Hanifin. Could I please speak with Robin Carter?" Suddenly, the phone was slammed down on me.

I couldn't believe that anyone could be so rude. I tracked down Robin's correct number and called her. I had transposed the last two digits of her phone number. After hanging up with her, I decided to call the 'wrong' number again. When the same guy answered the phone, I yelled, "You're an a**hole!" and hung up.

I wrote his number down with the word 'a**hole' next to it, and put it in my desk drawer. Every couple of weeks, when I was paying bills or had a really bad day, I'd call him up and yell, "You're an a**hole!" It always cheered me up.

When Caller ID came to our area, I thought my therapeutic 'a**hole' calling would have to stop. So, I called his number and said, "Hi, this is John Smith from the Telephone Company. I'm just calling to see if you're familiar with the Caller ID program?"
He yelled, "NO!"and slammed the phone down.
I quickly called him back and said, "That's because you're an a**hole!"

One day I was at the store, getting ready to pull into parking spot. Some guy in a black BMW cut me off and pulled into the spot I had patiently waited for. I hit the horn and yelled that I had been waiting for the spot. The idiot ignored me. I noticed a "For Sale" sign in his car window ...so, I wrote down his number.

A couple of days later, right after calling the first a**hole, (I had his number on speed dial), I thought I had better call the BMW a**hole, too.
I said, "Is this the man with the black BMW for sale?"
"Yes, it is."
"Can you tell me where I can see it?"
"Yes, I live at 1802 West 34th Street. It's a yellow house, and the car's parked right out in front."
"What's your name?" I asked.
"My name is Don Hansen," he said.
"When's a good time to catch you, Don?"
"I'm home every evening after five."
"Listen, Don, can I tell you something?"
"Yes?"
"Don, you're an a**hole."
Then I hung up, and added his number to my speed dial, too.

Now, when I had a problem, I had two a**holes to call. But after several months of calling them, it wasn't as enjoyable as it used to be. So, I came up with an idea.
I called A**hole #1 "Hello." "You're an a**hole!" (But I didn't hang up.)
"Are you still there?" he asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"Stop calling me," he screamed.
"Make me," I said.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"My name is Don Hansen."
"Yeah? Where do you live?"
"A**hole, I live at 1802 West 34th Street, a yellow house, with my black Beamer parked in front."
He said, "I'm coming over right now, Don. And you had better start saying your prayers."
I said, "Yeah, like I'm really scared, a**hole."

Then I called A**hole #2.
Hello?" he said.
"Hello, a**hole," I said! .He yelled, "If I ever find out who you are?"
"You'll what?" I said.
"I'll kick your a**," he exclaimed.
I answered, "Well, a**hole, here's your chance. I'm coming over right now.

Then I hung up and immediately called the police, saying that I lived at 1802 West 34th Street and that I was on my way over there to kill my gay lover. Then I called Channel 13 News about the gang war going down on West 34th Street. I quickly got into my car and headed over to 34th Street. There I saw two a**holes beating the crap out of each other in front of six squad cars, a police helicopter, and news crew.

NOW, I feel so much better.

I really cannot get excited about the Black Crowes. It must be a southern thing.

Well, been a bit shy lately. Although it doesn't reflect in the blog, it's been a thought provoking few days. Everything seems spiritual and supercharged. I don't know why, but I will attribute it to one of the GOOD things about the holiday season, and about getting new music.

I am enjoying the new KGSR Broadcasts Volume 11. Right now, my favorites are: Honey and the Moon by Joseph Arthur, How Good it Can Get by the Wallflowers, and Alexi Murdoch's Orange Sky. The Wallflowers tune had me literally cocooned, it did not leave my head for the last three days. Finally, my skull quieted down. Pretty tune. Others will follow, I am sure.

The President and First Lady lit the giant Xmas tree tonight, with a swell set by rocker Brian Setzer and his band.

Well, actually it was Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing. (MY POTUS AND FLOTUS). And it was Rockefeller Center and not the White House. But it almost felt like we had leadership for a moment.

We'll warm up the globe just as much as we want.
If you don't like it, go live in Vermont.
Or find a new planet, like Venus or Mars.
Earth is for us and our 20-ton cars.
We're all Republicans,
All Republicans,
We're all Republicans now.

We're all Republicans now We've all come around somehow We turned away From French Chardonnay We're all Republicans now Cut taxes and deregulate And down with the welfare state. We're building new nations in the Mideast We stand for democracy, progress and peace, And we've got a piece, a piece of Iraq Thanks to a thousand shares of Halliburton stock We're all Republicans, All Republicans, We're all Republicans now!

http://search.publicradio.org/phc/query.html?col=mpr&qc=mpr&qp=site%3Awww.prairiehome.org&qt=%22we%27re+all+republicans+now%22

...one of Keillor's "We're all Republicans now" segments. It's f'ing hilarious.

on edit: This is streaming audio. Only click if you have Realplayer installed:

http://www.prairiehome.org/play/audio_segment.php?media=/030927/030927_phc&start=00:01:12:00.0&end=00:01:19:06.0

The guy who wrote this is brilliant and doesn't have a blog yet. I do, and I'm too tired to write. boom. this is excellent


Here's the screwed up GOP attack mode...LONG but worth it"
Edited on Sun Nov-30-03 10:27 PM by [pending approval]

This is from The Weekly Standard....I'll put the link to the original article at the bottom. It's the lamest defense of Clinton hating and attack on Bush hating ever printed. Of course, it will be the "intellectual" basis for the pure morons like Handingmylittlemanhoodity and O'Really to quote like it's respectable.

In essence, this clown admits that he and his shithead friends were way over the line in hating Clinton. He calls him a liar, but never shows what, apart from getting blowjobs. But we must be Bush-Haters because we call him a liar.

"SOMETIMES without straining I can remember the long-ago 1990s, when a number of people, including many of my friends--well, including me, to tell the truth--succumbed to what some of us came to call "Billy Bob Gasket Disease."

This creepling's point is that Clinton was such a good liar, he drove his opponents insane, so reporters wrote them off as loonies. He never mentions, of course, what lies those might be. He IS a right-wing scumbag, so that should not surprise me.



Haha, ambition means lying, to this right-wing sewage bag. Gasket, who is probably one of Clinton's many opponents for governor, who all lost, is probably the "disappointed office seeker" we all know from assassinations past.

Now we reach the crux. Of the intro, anyway. They didn't hate Clinton because of any reasonable dislike. They hated him because of his LOOKS.

"those who caught the disease didn't just dislike Clinton, as, say, they might have disliked Jimmy Carter. The crux of Gasket Disease was not contempt but unendurable frustration. They could not fathom why everyone else didn't grasp his essential, transparent fraudulence: the phoniness of the lower-lip-bite, the moist insincerity of the smile, the vanity in every tilt of the carefully coifed head. As with syphilis, so with Gasket Disease: Some Republicans recovered, others were driven mad."

So evidently, we are as crazy as the right wing for hating Bush. We MUST hate him for his looks, not his policies, this punk says. Why, "the nuthouse lately vacated by the Clinton-haters has suddenly filled with Bush-haters," he says, admitting he's a nuthouse resident.

Here's where he gets clever. He sort of cops to being a lunatic hatemonger, then admits that Ann Coulter and that crazed auntie-in-the-attic Amrose Evans-Pritchard and, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Terry Reed and so on are completely nuts, he calls the latest batch of anti-Bush books, by Ivins, Franken, Krugman and so on are the equivalent of those hate-filled screeds.

He particularly hates Krugman and Ivins. See, Princeton economists and journalists with 40 years of experience are comparable to uneducated street punks (Hannity), stupid cumdumptsters (Coulter), and legitimately insane hatemongers (Savage). This is a common Republican trick, which I spent hours emailing and calling NPR about. They USED to have a discussion with a college Polisci prof on one side, and Max Boot, the aptly named nazi, on the other. The right wing is only interested in polluting the argument, never in making one.

Skipping his "literary" criticism of Krugman's book, which basically comes down to running a few years of columns tends to become repetitive (duh, read a Dave Barry book, moron), and that 750-word columns tend to be skimpy on back-up, this guy goes after him for hating Bush. Then he goes after Ivins. And Franken. And Hightower. And others. See, HE was insane for hating Clinton, so EVERYONE ELSE is insane for hating Bush. This is, of course, a false analogy. It is equivalent to comparing the Dime-Refusing Roosevelt haters of the 50s with the Hitler-haters of every age since 1933. He already admitted that they hated Clinton for no real reason other than thinking he was a phony. (and just to point out, Clinton came from poverty, raised himself up by his own effort, and for some reason didn't pull up the gangplank after him...BAD BAD BILL CLINTON.)

Let's see what he says about Krugman. " What happens is mayhem. Krugman sees a country in which free speech is disappearing, the poor are paying more taxes than the rich, and religious superstition is supplanting evolution in grade-school curriculums. That none of these things is actually taking place does not dampen his eagerness to spread the word."

Notice the denier? None of these things are taking place. Andrew, you make good money. So you might be excused for being a moron. Start adding up sales tax, which is a regressive tax for necessities, and the payroll tax, and the cap on SS contributions, look at the Free Speech zones the unelected Punk set up the second he got unelected, look at the people slammed into jail for protesting his illegal war, look at the soldiers who were arrested for criticizing the war, look at the ban on photographs of coffins returning home, just keep looking Andrew, you punk.

Notice he offers no proof for anything he says? The people he attacks do offer proof.

Now, the moron goes after the word "lies." He claims Bush never lies and then goes into a long history, courtesy of Joe Conason, about how other presidents have lied. To this punk, the SOLE lies are his denial of drunk-driving charges, his draft-dodging/AWOL episode and stealing the Arlington Stadium to make $16 million on a (borrowed) $600K investment. How about Weapons of Mass Destruction, Andrew? Remember he said there were drone aircrafts with bio weapons ready to cruise over the U.S. killing us all? Remember the rockets ready to launch in 45 minutes? Remember the huge stashes of ricin and other chemical weapons, and WE KNEW WHERE THEY WERE? Remember the nukes they were ready to produce? Remember the fack that they were working with Al Qaida? Yeah, numbo, you remember. You don't want to , but you do.

Now, of course, he has to lie blatantly. "As James Carville's ghostwriter cleverly puts it in "Had Enough?", "Democrats lied about something we really like: sex. Republicans lie about something they really like: war and money." Calling Bush a liar is a twofer. It at once underscores the gravity of the present president's misconduct, and it condemns the frivolousness of the previous president's accusers."

Want to prove his book was written by a ghostwriter, punk? C'mon, BRING IT ON, PUNK. You have an affadavit, of course. Oh, you don't? Oh, damn. You are SO SCREWED. Oh, who ghost-wrote YOUR stupid article?

Now, let's look at your latest piece of sophistry.

"The problem for polemicists in attacking a relatively popular president is that the People are implicated as well: Maybe they like him because they're as depraved as he is. Which is unthinkable. (For if the People are evil, what of their Tribune?) Conservatives struggled with this difficulty in the 1990s, when Clinton, despite their well-orchestrated abuse, maintained his popularity through both his terms. "

HAHAHA, Relatively popular. Like 50%. Clinton was in the 60s. In fact, the Unelected Punk's father was way over this at the same time in his sole term. So, Andrew, stop lying.

OK, time to stop going point-by-point. He attacks Molly Ivins and moans and bitches about us mean democrats. Read the whole piece and see why I didn't bother. It's like punching kittens.

Now, his next point, and this idiot gets paid by the word, no doubt, is that the Smirking Moron is a LIBERAL. This adds totally new meaning to the word disingenuous. What he means is that Bush has spent more money than any president in history, so us liberals should be delighted. He never mentions of course, that most of the spending goes to the rich, corporate donors and various other constituencies like ranchers and anti-environment activists. His Clear Skies motion, for instance, will cost tons of money, by allowing coal burners to pollute everything in sight, which will have to be cleaned up. He signed an education bill, then didn't fund it. He signed an Aids In Africa bill, promising $15 billion, then wrote the funding for it out of his budget. But according to dear Andrew, Smirk is a caring liberal who is spending HIS precious taxes. He even dares to bring up the Medicare prescription bill, which is unfunded (22% TOPS) and is basically a tax giveaway to HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and rural states. Of course, Andrew doesn't want to bring up any evidence; he likes to sling mud without ANY proof.

This goes on and on. He quotes Corn's book with some inconsequential lies, leaving out the BIGGIES. Like, "we will have a humble foreign policy," "this will be the education presidency" and of course all those lies in front of the U.N. and in his state of the union speech.

Heh, then he does a neat trick. He says the critics, "always excepting foreign policy" attack the IdiotBoy. In fact, most of these books were written before the Iraqi war. And in fact, all of them attack Smirk over his foreign policy, apart from Ivins, who was concerned with his Texas career. What Andrew means is this: They didn't attack him for his war plans a year before the war, so they must agree with heroic, sexy, smart, intelligent, handsome, sexy, smart, lovely, wonderful, brave, sexy, smart, wonderful, smart-as-all-getout, hot as hell, really, really handsome, jeez-I-gotta-get-into-his-pants, man-did-you-see-that-HUGE-bulge-when-he-flew-that-plane-onto-the-aircraft-carrier, preznit.

At the end, he does THIS.

"At the end of "Bushwhacked," Molly Ivins speaks for all Bush-haters when, with typical artlessness, she sums up our present state of affairs: "There is something creepy about what is happening here." But they can't quite put their finger on what it is." He also mentions that we can't make up our minds if he's a moron or a genius.

Andrew, you moron, let's break it down. Stop talking for liberals. Smirk IS a moron. He ADMITS he doesn't read the newspapers or watch news on TV. He is an incurious, spoiled, stupid, dull little boy. A punk. He has some semi-bright, and I accentuate the SEMI here, because anyone who thinks Wolfowitz, Rice, Negroponte, Reich, Perle, Cheney, Rove and Card are deep thinkers is probably working for the...Weekly Standard. Remember, Andrew, these were some of the people who came up with the Nuns With Guns argument for Reagan. Remember the lay sisters in El Salvador who were kidnapped, forced to dig their own graves, anally rapped, the executed? Nah, YOU FORGOT. Remember Negroponte writing the speech for Reagan about "they might have been smuggling guns?" HAHAHA, of course you don't.

You know what? Intellectual dishonesty like this SHOULD have the death penalty attached. You are a whore much worse than the average Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. You are obviously educated. You KNOW better. Rush was out picking up gay hookers and Sean was out shooting bathtub speed when you were in college.

You, sir, have no such excuse for your lies.

Pete Hisey
Chicago






http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/437txvzt.asp

I have an enormous turkey to cook. 23 lbs. I think I'll use this beer brine recipe.

Brine:
.5 gal apple cider
2 c. packed dark brown sugar. yum
2 c. kosher salt
.25 c. peppercorns
4 bay leaves
2 cinnamon sticks
1 t. whole cloves
12 pk. dark beer (use 11)
juniper berries if you've got them.

combine in plastic bucket. drink one beer while assembling. immerse turkey. marinate cold for 24 hrs.

24 hours later
drain and pat dry turkey. brush with butter. roast according to the Turk-u-lator at Better Homes and Gardens. Hahah you laugh. that turkey calculator rocks

htttp://bhg.com

This totally merits mentioning.

My younger sister has always been a genius with Hollandaise sauce, which is nice on asparagus and eggs and well, my fingers. Anyway, she has formulated from her kitchen laboratory, healthy Hollandaise, pretty much. And easy.


Easy Hollandaise Sauce

Whisk in microwave safe bowl:
1 egg yolk
largish dollop of Smart Balance Buttery Spread
then, whisk in
juice of 1 fresh squeezed lemon, no seeds.

Microwave mixture for 5 seconds then whisk.

Repeat this no more than twice. Mixture will turn into good Hollandaise Sauce.Yum.

http://www.mycathatesyou.com/

Funniest damn cat pictures ever.

Triumph, Terry Gross and NPR bend Bill the Shill O'Reilly over and give him the bone. If you don't know Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, he is one of the most offensive puppets out there, and among the funniest.


http://freshair.npr.org

It's even funnier when you listen to it...linked above.

Terry: Do you feel like you've been sexist or condescending in your treatment of female dogs?

Triumph: Holy Christ! Listen to this! Let me ask you something? I feel like I'm being bombarded here.

I know what's happening here! I know what's happening here! Did you ask the same questions to Kermit the Frog? Did you do this?

Terry: Kermit didn't do our show.

Triumph: All right, well Ok, how about when Beethoven did your show? Did you challenge him the way you're challenging me?

Terry: It was a different kind of interview. It was a different kind of interview. Beethoven was funny.

Triumph: Oh, is that right? It's satire what Beethoven does! I'm just... you know I can't believe the government is paying for this interview. That's what I can't believe , you know.

My money that that could go be going to Pekinese hookers is instead going to this, you know, public radio show that is obviously more slanted than my BEEP after I BEEP a Saint Bernard. That's what we're talking about.

Terry: Triumph, I don't think you're being fair I think if you gave public radio a chance you wouldn't feel this way. I think public radio has always been fair to the dog world.

Triumph: I'm trying to give it a chance, but you keep bombarding me. You keep bombarding me. I'm evaluating this interview very closely. That's what I'm doing.

You know, this is 10 minutes of defamations; 70 minutes in dog-years!

You think it's fair Terri? You need to go into another business! That's right!

No, good, this is going to be fodder for Harpers Magazine, for Dog Fancy magazine which I know is liberally... its, the liberal publishers of Dog Fancy.. I mean, that thing is like gay porn anyway.

Terry: Well, Triumph I really don't think you're being fair, I'm going to change the subject.

Triumph: Good because I'm not going to walk out of this interview.

Terry: No, good...

Triumph: No, I'm not going to do that, I'm better than that. But I'm going to take a poop right now. I'm going to poop in this studio right now.

Terry: I think that's fair, I think you should control yourself.

Triumph: Well it's already happening. It's already happening.

Mmm. My house smells like fresh baking wheat bread. Delish. Bread machines are the greatest.

The Vietnam II Preflight Check


By: Author Unknown (but if you know or are the original author please come forward and take a bow! )

1. Cabal of oldsters who won't listen to outside advice? Check.
2. No understanding of ethnicity's of the many locals? Check.
3. National boundaries drawn in Europe, not by the locals? Check.
4. Unshakable faith in our superior technology? Check.
5. France secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check.
6. Russia secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check.
7. China secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check.
8. Enemy supply lines unknown? Check.
9. Sec of Def pushing a conflict the Joint Chiefs never wanted? Check.
10. Fear we'll look bad if we back down now? Check.
11. Corrupt corporate Texan in the White House? Check.
12. Land war in Asia? Check.
13. Right-wing unhappy with outcome of previous war? Check.
14. Enemy easily moves in/out of neighboring countries? Check.
15. Soldiers about to be exposed to our own chemicals? Check.
16. Daily guerrilla attacks that cannot be stopped? Check.
17. Anti-Americanism up sharply in Europe? Check.
18. B-52 bombers? Check.
19. Helicopters that clog up on the local dust? Check.
20. Infighting among the branches of the military? Check.
21. Locals that cheer us by day, hate us by night? Check.
22. Local experts ignored? Check.
23. Local politicians ignored? Check.
24. Local conflicts since before the USA has been a country? Check.
25. Much confusion over who and where the enemy is? Check.
26. Against advice, Prez won't use taxes to pay for war? Check.
27. Blue water navy ships operating in brown water? Check.
28. Use of nukes hinted at if things don't go our way? Check.
29. War unpopular at home? Check.
30. No plan in place to end involvement? Check.

Vietnam II, you are cleared to taxi.

George W. Bush resume

Unsure whether these facts are true? Look them up on your own. They are
factual!


Past Work Experience

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.

I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; the company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

With my father's help and name, I was elected Governor of Texas.


Accomplishments as Governor

I changed pollution laws in favor of the power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America.

I cut taxes and bankrupted Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American history.

I became U.S. President after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes with the help of major Enron money and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.


Accomplishments as President

I attacked and overtook two countries.

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.

My record for environmental issues is the least of my concerns.

I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period.

After taking-off the entire month of August, I then presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

I am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD.

I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of Saddam's procurement of Yellow Cake Nuke WMD components, then blaming the lie on our British friends.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.

In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.

I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in U.S. history.

I set the record for least number of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring the Constitution than any president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use national reserves as past presidents have done.

I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.

I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history.

My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.

I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" (detainees) and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.

I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.

I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most resented country in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in World history.

I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

I am the first president in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

I am the first U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.

I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.

I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at t he U.S. Capitol Building. Even after 18 months I have no leads and no credible suspects.

In the past 18 months following the World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any president in U.S. history.

In a little over two years, I created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided since the Civil War.

I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two years.


Records and References:

I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas driving record has been erased and is not available.

I was AWOL from the National Guard.

I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm

Gorgeous views of worlds beyond ours. The Hubble is my favorite gadget of all time.

Creating irresistable demand for a global atmosphere upgrade. -- Bruce Sterling, the Viridian Movement.

The concept is to design green gear and green devices to be commercially appealing and slinky. To make green behavior and therefore it's acoutrements hep and desirable. I think it's working. Sterling is a brilliant science fiction writer and a nice guy.


http://www.viridiandesign.org/

http://www.stkfoundation.org/Home/

The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation is a private non-profit organization that promotes strengthening and supporting communities and draws upon the values and spirituality of the founders. The Foundation has a special interest in organizations and people who have less recourse to usual channels of resources, focusing on community-based initiatives, especially in the State of Maine.


http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Tabitha_King.htm

Tabitha is a lovely person, and a good friend of Democracy.

Now THIS is a good blog; Orcinus.
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_11_16_dneiwert_archive.html#106917957369064571

Do all blogs suck at first? I mean, this IS sort of an exercise in vanity.

Heh. Not that I don't have my exhibitionist tendencies. Ask me about that later.

http://bushflash.com/ma.html

This flash bit is so sad, so effective. You MUST check it out. I watch it and think, wouldn't it have been a swell party, all those people together? Not in Iraq, but in a backyard, with barbecue and beer and pie and music.

To the victims of Bush's oil war... I am so sorry I didn't protest harder and more violently back in the winter of 2000.

http://www.bravozulu.com/cat/

Cat Bowling. Good for hours of evil amusement.

HAHAH check out this site. It's an energy producer's discussion website. A harrowing trip into the energy merchant's brain.

http://pub38.ezboard.com/fdownstreamventurespetroleummarkets


Appropo of nothing, there used to be a ride at Six Flags over Texas called Spelunker's Cavern. You traveled in cars afloat on nastily opaque turquoise waters, through a maze of dayglo rock formations populated by these creepy alien hybrid looking entities. Very thrilling to the teenager of the 70s. I doubt that ride is still in operation... it would be a large yawner to the jaded kids of today.

I don't know what calls those Six Flags mutants to mind. I guess they were invoked by my passing speculation as to the interior of the mind of a gooper. I hope those freaky little pink bastards have been serving Rush Limbaugh his naked lunch. heh. THAT would make me happy.

About a year ago today, my life changed for the better. You know who you are, you crazy lieberal catalyst, you. Thank you, thank you. I will always love you.

Inspiration. There's precious little of that in government these days. You gotta recognize the good sources of inspiration when you see them.

I'm wading into the blogpool directly as a result of Scoobie Davis' example, http://www.scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/ and that of Take Back the Media's Stranger and Symbolman. http://www.takebackthemedia.com/radio.shtml They managed by their ongoing efforts, to trip that switch in my head, the switch that starts an action.

If nothing else is said here at this site, I will urge any reader of these words to jump in there, and do whatever it is you love to do, to further the goals that you long for. You only really fail when you don't try at all.

In my particular instance, I dig politics and love to bitch. Heh. We shall see where this leads us.

And what I want is my America back. We are occupied by mercenaries and thugs and our Constitution is usurped by the dictates of lunatic Reconstructionist dogma. I want it out of my face, and out of our lives.