Pollywogs!

Remember that little story about Republican manipulation of the US Attorneys?

“There is still talk about the US Attorney purge being “political”. And even though that is, on the most basic level, true – it goes way way beyond that. To describe it as mere politics is to justify it as sleazy but legal. However, to describe it as it is blatant and concerted actions to promote those who helped and punish those who hindered efforts to suppress minority votes or influence the election in favor of republicans is more powerful, more truthful – and more scary.

The evidence is mounting at a furious pace. We have someone (Von Spakovsky) who is linked to voter suppression efforts within the republican party not only put in a position as a civil rights lawyer at the Justice Department, but on the goddamn Federal Elections Commission.

You have Robert Popper – an attorney with a notorious and detailed history of bringing (many times baseless) lawsuits in order to target minority voters and districts as the Voting Rights Section’s Special Litigation Counsel. You have little to no cases or investigations into voter suppression since 2001, yet numerous suits and investigations into voter rolls that weren’t properly purged.

You have Tim Griffin, a man who was responsible at the Republican National Committee for “caging” activities that suppressed minority voters who were stationed in Iraq, which he is currently under investigation for, promoted (at Karl Rove’s request and hidden from Congressional investigations) to US Attorney.

You have not one, not two, not three but at least four US attorneys OTHER THAN GRIFFIN whose jobs depended on whether they brought charges of voter fraud or charges in general against Democrats close to Election Day 2006.”

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I don’t get it. We KNOW the Republicans are soulless fucks who would whore their mother to a biker gang for some spending cash, but what is up with the Democrats?

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WTC7 was admitted to have been demolished on purpose :

‘Larry Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish WTC 7 late in the afternoon of 9/11. In the documentary “America Rebuilds“, aired September 2002, Silverstein makes the following statement;”I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, ‘We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.’ And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.”‘

Not quite what the official report states happened, eh?

The first two, however, are a different story. Or are they? Doubt is a terrible thing…just look at WTC7 as an example of a person stating “Where the fuck is the line between the lies and reality???”

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This a corker:

“The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the police can break into your home, rouse you from sleep, hold you naked at gunpoint, and—even if you’re completely innocent—you have no recourse, so long as the warrant was valid.

It was an 8-1 decision.

“Valid warrants will issue to search the innocent and people like Rettele and Sadler unfortunately bear the cost,” the justices said in the unsigned opinion. “The resulting frustration, embarrassment and humiliation may be real, as was true here. When officers execute a valid warrant and act in a reasonable manner to protect themselves from harm, however, the 4th Amendment is not violated,” the court concluded.

The police apparently didn’t know that the suspects they were after no longer lived at the residence, and didn’t bother to check to see that the house had been recently purchased by new owners several months earlier. The new owners were white. The suspects the police were looking for were black. And they were wanted not on charges related to violent crime, but for identity fraud.”

Boy…if someone busted into my house in the middle of the night with no warning, I’m afraid someone would end up dying. As the other party is probably armed and has the jump on me, it would probably be me…

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A water balloon. A slow motion video. One of those commonplace things that looks so amazing with a new perspective.

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The slow self-destruction of the United States, it starts early. Oh wait, this IS a joke right? Between the ‘fight’ over evolution, I.D. being taught in schools, etc etc, I can’t tell anymore…

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It is in my nature to be something of a bastard sometimes. This shirt will help me in my quest.

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In case you were wondering what lolcats were…

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It is a shame these retarded fucks didn’t pay more attention in school (see above regarding Kansas I guess)…America the Christian nation? PLEASE GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK. Anti-american? PLEASE GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK.

I realized driving today that the song “Like a Rock” is very apropos for Ford to use in their advertising: it is the story of a man looking back on the prime of his youth…much like Ford looks back now towards their glorious past from their current decrepit state…

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Buddhism by any other name…

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Market forces will prevail. Ronald Reagan was our greatest president. Republicans are your friends…

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Go Pennsylvania! Help throw those rotten fucks into the gulag!

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This is an interesting viewpoint. Well, we already know that The Man doesn’t give a fuck about The Proles…I guess this is just another way to rob us blind…

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Catalysts are interesting things. This catalyst is ‘used up’ (wouldn’t that make it a component of the ‘fuel’?) but it still allows water to be turned into fuel. Imagine when they finally devise the catalyst that doesn’t get used up and doesn’t mind having regular old tap water and whatever gunk is in it pumped into the old fuel tank. Technology…

So we were at the Tiadaghton having dinner with family and someone visited the bathroom…

…they returned with a small package of toilet paper, whispering about this thing they found…we gather round and wonder what kind of pipe it is, for the object secreted out of the bathroom is obviously some kind of home-made pipe, fashioned out of aluminum foil…One person sniffs it and thinks ‘that sure isn’t marijuana!’, and another concurs..

Who’s could it be? Wouldn’t a customer not ’stash it’? So, it is probably some of the help…

We wonder what to do: tell someone? Write ‘gotchya’ on the napkin and leave it on the table? Throw it away? Put it back?

We discuss our feelings. How do we feel about this? Is it any of our concern? Is it affecting our service?

I raise the possibility that the person who found it either has a habit of throughly searching bathrooms for contraband, or is attempting to cry for help…

We wonder who could call this pipe ‘mine’. We don’t quite place bets on which one is the social crack whore (the social part resulted from the fact that they were still functional…as in, “I’m just smoking crack socially”). We end up basing our decision on the ‘kempt-ness’ of the staff’s hair, combined with the fullness of their buttocks (as in, a crack whore has scraggly hair and a bony ass…).

In the end, the pipe was returned, slightly smooshed from the handling, back to the ledge whence it came…our first encounter with a crack pipe!

That is what I told myself, and if I can’t keep my own promises to myself…

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Children of Men, not only a good movie, but coming to a small town near you!

Related: Speaking of illegal immigrants…

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I liked the one with the paint brush…

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Held for 13 hours…christ, cops don’t like it when they look like dumbasses…note to self, never make a cop feel like a dumbass…assholes with guns and power-crazed egos aren’t the type to piss off…

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Vermont is bad-ass…a whole town, and only one cock-starved prude and a shamed pedophile Reverend speak out against public nudity…

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Fuck(ed by) the man. Or, is SAP coming as quickly as they promise?

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Oh, you take a region filled with people who hate each other and have no loyalties to any greater concept, and (illegally) remove the brutal dictator who was putting on a good show of stability…and something bad happens? Not to mention the pile of mistakes that were (purposefully?) made which contributed to the inevitable collapse (hello, disbanding the army and firing anyone with a dissenting opinion)…

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Oh yea, that book I figured would be cool by Al Gore? Turns out it is cool:

“Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: “This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing. We stand passively mute in the United States Senate.”

Why was the Senate silent?

In describing the empty chamber the way he did, Byrd invited a specific version of the same general question millions of us have been asking: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?” The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.”

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Location, location, location. Or, a house doesn’t HAVE to face the road. It could take advantage of the local microclimate to enormous effect…

Speaking of taking cars off the road…no, that will have to wait for another time…

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Tellin it like it is:

“I don’t trust our government, and I don’t like the war in Iraq, and guess what? I still support the troops, I’m still smart, and I’m still a patriot, whether you like it or not.”

I hate to say to someone who doesn’t know me that I am a ‘liberal’ because I do not fit inside a small tidy labeled box. It takes more than fifteen seconds to explain my political viewpoint:

“Saying something like, “I support the troops, but not the war” takes too long to explain in a climate where you only ever have fifteen seconds to speak, and where a thousand pundits are poised to scream “traitor!” the moment you deviate from their way of thinking. Or to scream “socialist!” the moment you suggest that perhaps a capitalist country could have a national health care plan and a free market at the same time.”

The entire article is well worth the time to read. FWIT, I wrote this about four months ago on Reddit:

“The damnedest thing with labels is people expect concepts to rest neatly inside that tidy box…

I like to think of myself first as independent Libertarian, followed by a casual Buddhist, then next as slightly Liberal, then probably as a member of the Green Party (have you ever read their platform? talk about common sense!), followed by Conservative, and finally as an agnostic who in a practical sense is an atheist….how can I be all of those things at the same time? Because NONE OF THOSE LABELS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH REALITY. You can’t simply paint gigantic swaths of existence with a simple little label like ‘Conservative’ and then expect everything to remain neatly classified…

By claiming that ALL Libertarians are shitheads because there are a couple nutjobs who get exposure is like saying all Republicans/Conservatives are nutjobs because of Rush and Ann, or all Liberals are nutjobs because of Wesley Clark (not that I think he is or is not a nutjob, Google presented him as the first result for liberal nutjob).

Fucking Libertarians are/are not inclusive because of the people who consider themselves to be so. If close minded assholes take over a given label, the label is associated with close minded assholes. I’m hoping more and more people come out and say ‘You know, some of the things I think are right are part of the Libertarian party platform, I’m glad that other people feel the same way I do…’.”

Ezekiel 23:20…

Oh my…oh my…

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 http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=650

Yea, it is a shame there is no hell for that asshole to fester in…

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This is long, but interesting.  I’ve tried dampening traffic waves, and in heavy traffic I like to find someone going a decent speed and follow them.