I will Seriously Consider Nader in 2008

At least Nader has stated that he will try to deal with the 20 million plus invaders to the country.

Can he make any bigger mess of the rest than our Dems and Repubs?  Really?

It would be the true change that neither batch of elitest cronies and lobbyists want.

I call on Michael Savage to give him at least some air time in his discussions if not an outright interview.

Savage, you are the independent conservative.  At least mention that he’s on the ballot in 45 states and let his name be heard.

http://www.votenader.org/index.html

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McCain Picks Palin as Running Mate

Not Michael Palin from Monty Python…  Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Savage was convinced on Friday that McCain and/or his handlers were trying to throw the election.   One bad move after another.  Her lack of experience was cited as making the “electablity” of this ticket weak.

Others have cited her stands on other issues as a plus.   We will see…

More to come as this unfolds.

***  Now the 17 year old daughter is unmarried and 5 months pregnant, but is gonna marry the boy.  Drama?

You just know she is gonna be on The View at some point.  The word “vetting” keeps coming up and with any more “unknown” information or oops…  Then we are back to McCain’s judgement.

But, please…that was lost when he wouldn’t make a commitment to even try to return the invaders… even the incarcerated ones…

So, this will end up as some “who is least liberal?” race.

And NONE of the media… (Not even Savage) is giving Nader a fair shake.   Please, this is a race FULL of novices now.

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Obama Hussein Guevera Gets A on Speech… D on What’s Gonna Count

It felt kinda like watching how gracefully the Chinese executed the Olympics.   The pageantry was superb.   Unfortunately, you have to look no further than Nancy Pelosi’s “Fairness Act”, the “marriages” in San Fran, the 20 plus million invaders to the country that will still be here after the speech… prolly with better health care than me… what?

And still wondering where Jesse Jackson and Sharpton are… and when newly reprogrammed mommy will emerge.

Where did they do with Al Gore? haha   O yeah…  And then there’s Jimmy Carter that referred to Obama as… that boy?  What?

Still don’t wanna live in China or in that America… and hopefully straight Mex McCain will dump Carly Fiorina and grow some conservative values… yeah right.

Will seriously watch what Nader can put together this time….

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Ms. Clinton…It’s Time to Sit Down Now…

On Saturday, June 7, 2008, Hillary Clinton will finally be done…we hope.

Let’s see how that goes…

More as we know it…

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What Could You Do With $42 Million Dollars?…

The IRS just spent it to send you a letter stating what you VERY likely already know in announcing that your stimulus is on the way and that you have to file an income tax return.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_go_ot/dear_taxpayer

Just to throw out some ideas on productive uses of such a chunk of change.

– Could that “announcement money” be used to help in cities that have high populations of poor and homeless?

– Could that “announcement money” be used to help in cities that still have significant damage from natural disasters?

Frankly, it’s a lot of money, but not enough to make any dent in the infrastructure issues that came to mind. But humanitarian aide as cited above seemed to be the most likely better use.

Looks like Linda Stiff is serving as acting Commissioner at the IRS and that Henry Paulson is head at the Department of Treasury that the IRS is under. It’s not clear who/what group was immediately responsible for this spending decision.

Perhaps you’d like to contact your senator or house representative for your state to let them know how you appreciated the use of this public tax money.

Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
General Information: (202) 622-2000
Fax: (202) 622-6415

For contacting your state’s representative:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

Im not even gonna ask how much is being spent to run that commercial about TV’s not working without a converter box or replacement after Feb 2009. And how could we better use that money?

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Job Ad Tip-off…

that THIS job would suck.

“There are two paid 10-minute breaks and one unpaid 18-minute lunch break”

Yes, that’s 18 stop watch minutes..

Any moron would have the decency to call it a 20 min lunch.

Let’s see $4.20 gas in California, this jewel of an employer and Hil or Mex McCain…. Good Times….

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The Meat’s on the Pole and Not on the Plate….

Per Johnny Diablo… After a stint with a Pirate themed vegan restaurant,,,, now he’s helping a few girls earn their way through Law school…..

http://www.kptv.com/video/15269884/index.html

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Now When 3D pics of the Nearest Porta Pottie Appear…

then you’ll have something.

Now it’s just doing the 3D on major landmarks. I don’t think the Triumphal arch will elude me like the toilet in a strange city….

Cool posting though. See the new flavor of gps for cell called Carmenta.

http://symbianwebblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/carmenta-mobile-the-future-of-mobile-maps/

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Huckabee, Paul and McCain…

I continue to be MORE than annoyed as our worthless biased media tries yet again to freeze out Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

Mitt Romney has taken his hat out of the ring…

Romney supporters will likely go to Huckabee and some to Paul MUCH to the chagrin of the media…

We DONT want straight Mex McCain…. or Hill

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Coach Knight Retires…

The General will truly be missed. Coach Knight added color, passion and the ocassional controversy to Men’s Division I basketball.

I personally think he got a raw deal with his termination at IU.

But he came right back and performed well for seven more seasons with Texas Tech. Take that IU. Now he will turn over the reins at Tech to his son Pat.

Just in thinking as I write this…., Bob Knight is an American icon and certainly not a politician. A true breath of fresh air especially at a time when all we hear is how bad everything is and the spew of BS from all the political machine…..

Thanks so much and best wishes to Coach Knight and his family.

Here is a list of the top winningest coaches in Div I featured in the newsday article linked below.

1. Bob Knight, Texas Tech 902
2. Dean Smith, North Carolina 879
3. Adolph Rupp, Kentucky 876
4. Jim Phelan, Mt. St. Mary’s, Md. 830
5. x-Eddie Sutton, San Francisco 800
6. x-Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 794
7. Lefty Driesell, Georgia State 786
8. x-Lute Olson, Arizona 780
9. Lou Henson, New Mexico State 779
10. x-Jim Boeheim, Syracuse 766
x-Jim Calhoun, Connecticut 766

See the article with m0re details at
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/ny-spknight055565074feb05,0,6063946.story

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Ole Straight Mex McCain…

12 Million people invaded the US … he thinks they can stay…

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Our Crooked Ass Political System…

First the democrats in SC just decided that Stephen Colbert couldnt run because they said so…

Now the media and the debate promoters are trying to freeze out Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul from the Republican nominee process…

Knock it the F off!!!!

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The State of the Union…

The Democrats did a lot of up and down, standing and clapping for Bush,,, that seemed odd…

Then…. there was Darth and Nancy… Nancy Pelosi had her head down quite a lot… reading the commencement flier?…looking like a whipped pup. She stood and clapped right along with the other Dems…

although…her timing to get up and down always had an annoying delay like the “Applause” sign for the audience was broken.

… then there was President Bush. He kept smirking and seemed just way too giddy.

… In recent speeches, especially the angry Bush ones from the Rose Garden, I keep thinking Bush is gonna bust out,,,
…”Live form New York,,,It’s Saturday Night!!!!!”

One dude in the audience… was Mr. Jowls.

I don’t recall any boos this time. Matter of fact I kept hearing what sounded like drunken frat boys going ….”Hey!!!!!……Ho…
…”Hey!!!!!……Ho……… Hip Hip,,Hoorey,,,,Ho….Hey …. Ho…..

… and then as Bush left, he signed like every person theres lil commencement flier…. He gave out more autographs than LaBron James…. and to mostly Democrats… so these are going on Ebay?

and the Democrat Response from Governor Kathleen Sebelius… Started out nice and calm and stayed so with…
Mr. President… Let’s all get to work… and then just turned into random words from the Thesaurus

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No Stimulus for You!… and others wait til May

Sadly, if you made less than $3000 in 2007, you will NOT get a dime under the current Stimulus package. These people are too poor to spend this on necessities?

Unemployment benefits that ran out…will stay run out.

Looks like the current version will give a tax Rebate of taxes paid up to $600 for singles now…..but you wont even get stimulated til May or June.

$50 billion in incentives for businesses to buy new equipment… (No, …..you have to put the equipment in a business still located in the US…yeah)

I keep hoping that I misread something on this….
Now it has to go through the House and Senate… Perhaps, some help for those making less than $3000 or with their unemployment depleted…

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/460097.html

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Scientists Close to Creating Artificial Life…

Unfortunately it’s got a real high probability of looking like that dude in the picture on the left.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080125/ts_alt_afp/sciencebiotechusresearch_080125001832

No, no….that’s the doc.

Dr. Venter’s work on gray hair?… and male pattern baldness?… …Not so much.

It’s supposedly about making a biofuel. However, it’s turning out that the economics arent even gonna support the corn and grass ethanol….so…we will see

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Why is there a Downturn/Recession on the Doorstep?

Umm cause the US has lost an assload of high and mid wage jobs, thanks to Democrat (think Clinton) and Republican (think Bushes) support for NAFTA and CAFTA. And both parties sat idly by while 12 million (or more) people invaded the country.

Trade a (up to $300 $600) one time, already paid, tax rebate (for a single person) for a $40,000 or more full time job? Buehler?…Anyone?

It’s a rebate btw…What if you were unemployed some or all of 2007? It will rebate up to $300 $600 of the tax you had withheld.

AND…if you are eligible, …..you wont get it til May AFTER youve already had to file your return.

Anyway, FYI, here is an interesting blog posting. I wont vouch for accuracy, but it’s thought provoking especially in these times.

http://berrystreetbeacon.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/the-nafta-superhighway-the-road-to-a-north-american-union/

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The Right Tool For the Job…HDTV

HDTV or even SDTV (standard definition..ie less dots to make up a image on the screen).

I don’t have either. Why do I continue to watch a perfectly nice old 13″ analog set? I used to have cable btw…and frankly I watched a lot of Comedy Central and the Weather Channel with the occasional Dennis Miller HBO show or movie thrown in.

And I concluded after a year that it wasn’t worth the extra money…which quickly adds up…to have that tiny bit of additional content to vegetate in front of.

So, to me the want (notice I didn’t say need) of HD or even SD television is related to the content you plan to view.

It’s all about content which is subpar at this time.

–Movies would be cool although I can count on a few hands the movies that I’d really have to have HD to enjoy any more than on a regular set.

–Sports, especially football and NASCAR and Indy racing would be good examples for HD.

–Animal, nature, science and world travel type programming would be cool in HD

-But In reality, I mostly watch parts of:
Late Night Talk Shows (Letterman, Leno, OBrien, Ferguson, Feresten

Local news

Nightline

Charlie Rose

Saturday Night Live

PBS stuff…This Old House, etc

So… for an additional $700 plus, I can see every zit and blimish on David Letterman or Infomercial bonehead Kevin Trudeau? Umm no.

But, but what about the fact that our stupid greedy government has decided to screw us yet again and sell lots of the broadcast spectrum which forces television stations to stop sending my perfectly fine old analog signal in February 2009?

What will a person like me do? There will be a converter box that will take the digital version of the same signal and convert it back to the analog and most likely I will watch that 13″ analog TV til it caputs. After that, perhaps the various technolgies of LCD, plasma, OLED and DLP projection will have had the survival of the fittest and true dark black and screen life and other issues will be closer to sorting themselves out.

Then there’s regular DVD and VCR for SDTV and can still be watched on HD..btw.

And then the current two flavors of HD DVD…ie BluRay and HD-DVD. As of this posting it looks like BluRay has a lead on movie studios and content providers that (once again plan more content) for BluRay

Leo Laporte noted that cable channels now have some channels in HD, but….may not look as impressive as expected due to video compression.   Leo’s podcasts, especially “The Tech Guy” is a good resource for thoughts on HD and more.
http://twit.tv

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Oprah to Get Her OWN Channel…

There’s a waste of bandwidth…

Has she even got her private school scandal resolved yet?

Sorry Harpo.

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FDA approves Sales and No Special Labeling of Cloned Animal Meat

Yikes! While they claim their research shows no material difference….I don’t want to be the balance of the real world research…And as of now, we don’t have the right to disclosure if a restaurant or food product for sale has this content…

Umm…sorry..I don’t want to eat that shiz.

Once again the crack media didn’t sound the alarm on this til it was a done deal… Nice. I guess Britney, Paris and Lindsey were doing something more important that week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080115/us_nm/cloning_food_dc

Perhaps you may want to let these folks know how you feel about being the next phase of the testing. And that you want full disclosure in food labeling.

Phone: 1-800-216-7331

Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, Maryland 20857

Here is a link that says it takes comment on Clone meat labelling til January 28, 2008

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=SubmitComment&o=090000648039b84e

Looks like you have to select “Federal” and “Food and Drug Administration” and fill out the form and your comment.

Docket ID	AMS-LS-07-0131
Docket Title	United States Standards for Livestock and Meat Marketing Claims, Naturally Raised Claim for Livestock and the Meat and Meat Products Derived from Such Livestock
Document ID	AMS-LS-07-0131-0230
Document Title	Comment on FR Doc # N/A

Andrew Von Eschenbach is the current head of the FDA.

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Just Got a Chill From Seeing……

Obama hugging John Kerry….

O dear…

I’m thinkin…you do NOT want to become known as a John Kerry Democrat….

That’s almost as good as the paid amnesty path for illegal invaders that ole Straight Mex McCain has got himself hitched to.

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The Next Time You Feel Cold…

…look around and see if some A-hole is sucking all the heat out of your room….

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080109/ap_on_fe_st/sweden_body_heat

The water is probably already warmer than any heat they will suck out of the air in Sweden.

If there’s a physics guru out there, send me a comment convincing me I wanna spend my hard earned euros on this.

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Have You Been Watching Chuck Norris Lately?

One day I woke up and Jesse Ventura was Governor of Minnesota. It even caught Garrison Keillor off guard.

Then I woke up and the Terminator was the Governor of California.

The other night I awakened to see Chuck Norris onTV smiling…and giddy like a school girl. Is Chuck Norris Vice President?

I think there are lots of CH-evys headed for the border already.

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Some Late Night Talk Shows Back…

Letterman, that was able to negotiate a deal with the Writers Guild union, quipped…something like….”Well it’s been two monthes and Im glad to be out of rehab”

The Foster Brooks-esque beard was in keeping with Conan O’brien…also sporting winter regalia.

Letterman later quipped…”I look like a lost hiker” haha

Robin Williams was on with Letterman and related his USO experiences in performing for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan,,,and several one night stands…..

Jimmy Kimmel, Conan and Leno were all on..sans writers.

Leno had Huckabee. Kimmel had Andy Dick

Kimmel had a deal where they played some old clips so the writers would get some residuals.

There was quite a bit from all shows as far as kissing butt to the writers. That got old pretty quick. But better than pure reruns anyway.

On Thursday night, Craig Ferguson matched wits with Huckabee. The Huck continuing to jump picket lines…interesting…
Ferguson quipped with Huckabee..something about Caucausing was something done behind closed doors…
It was a pretty good interview actually.

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No Child Left Behind…The Digital Gap/Divide…

I’ve heard the hype about the OLPC (One laptop per child) that Negraponte is heading up. There are others working on low cost laptops allegedly for third world countries and perhaps in the states too… To address the alleged digital gap… O no…

Firstly….
The OLPC looks good in the pics. Fine..
So….the one that the child in the alleged third world country gets ….( I can only speak from experience in rural Peru and Chile….but there’s…umm most of those countries without rural electricity…and sharing a high speed internet link?…you would be lucky in most places even in a city to find a dialup …so..the net sharing thing…like a nancy pelosi idea gone terribly impractical. Hmmm And maybe clean water and sewage trump playing (i mean learning) online?

Secondly…
I’ve have been chewing on the “digital gap/divide” a lot lately though as I see more and more of the US high tech folks on the sidelines working in “service” jobs… and the supposed advanced learning and skills….

To be honest, most of those kids, if they are lucky enough to get a job at all, will need the 3R’s, a clean shower and decent breakfast. The UI on the cash register or kiosk is aimed at the lowest common denominator. There will be a VERY small percentage that will actually end up being techs. In case you all havent noticed…more and more of thats in India or where the lowest cost is…

And just like in the states, if there aren’t many or any good, high paying jobs at the end of this skill building and this kid is still shoveling llama dung….or growing coca plants….Umm yeah.

At that point, they can become bloggers, play WOW and check out some PRON…in a desolate village? Nice.

More on this as I get a chance.

It Was Sobering and Sickening to See…

It was more than sobering to see a Sheriff’s Commissioner’s Sale notice on a house in my neighborhood today. In all my years I’d never seen one on a property near me. (and yes there certainly have been those sales throughout the years)

I’m not sure if it was a case where this person got sucked into one of those horrible ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) or if there was a job loss, bad decisions or bad health… The property was evidently financed by Citigroup Financial. But, I don’t any of the particulars of this situation.

It was however a sharp kick in the stomach to remind me just how bad things are for what used to be a middle class in the United States.

It does sicken me to see the media just spin a lot of the bad situations as a mortgage crisis. It’s just not that simple. And certainly I know how bad the job market is and has been for at least the last 10 to 15 years.

And certainly when 12 million of anyone invades the country and further loads down an economy that already was predicting that the next generations won’t have medicare, pension or retirement… …. that I see an elderly parent and relatives count on for survival….

Then to further have to listen to someone like Bill Clinton and Bill Gates and others blather on about what they are “giving back”…. except it’s in some other country….(not usually the one that raised them up…by the way)

Yeah the whole evil mess just leaves me with a pit in my stomach…. and my prayers go out to that family…

This is no longer politics.

More Gestapo Government from the Democrats…

In Massachusetts, there is more big government legislation in the works… this time to make spanking a child illegal…

Now, I’m obviously NOT condoning actual child abuse.

But, I’m absolutely against the ever growing government meddling in the daily personal lives of people. And I witness on a daily basis, kids that receive less and less supervision and discipline which absolutely includes the occasional spanking.

The government rules and regulations will eventually have everyone in jail or in court EXCEPT the hard core criminals….

Please, knock it off.

Take all this government energy and round up the illegal invaders 10 at a time and send them home. That should keep you busy for several years…

More to come on this as I get time…

Relieved that Marie Osmond did not win Dancing with the..err Stars..

Was it just me?

Steve Fossett…Umm Let’s Declare Him Dead

This is an odd one.  This multimillionaire disappeared in early September on a solo plane trip and no one seems to have found even wreckage and now his wife is ready to move on and get to the estate settling.

Hmmm. Is it just me?  Or wouldn’t there usually be an endless search and media stir til they found at least something?  No cell phone? No nothing?  Really?

It feels like there will be a “rest of the story” on this one eventually…

Malaysia to Make and Export…”Islamic” Cars

Sometimes news items just leap on the wordpress all by themselves… I guess the other cars of the world just didn’t have enough “bang” for the Buck ….. anymore.

I’m guessing they are using that Pinto design that was ahead of its time.

Looks like they will call this model…the “Proton”.. As names like..
“the Surge”,
“Boom”,
“Bam”,
“Terrorist” and
“Jihad”
were already taken by other car makers…

The features include (and as Dave Barry would say… I swear Im not making this up…)

Proposed by Iran, the collaboration would include installing features in automobiles such as a compass to determine the direction of Mecca for prayers, and compartments for storing the Quran and headscarves.
First link expired…
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071111/malaysia_islamic_cars.html?.v=1

This one should talk about it too. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Malaysian_car_maker_unveils_’Islamic_car’

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Ahmed al-Janabi, a 45-year-old father of three…

This whole Iraq war is ugly, but this sickened me even more than usual tonight.

Ahmed al-Janabi, a 45-year-old father of three was shot multiple times in his eyes, and killed for what was on his ID cards. He was a teacher and father of three children. A Sunni.

I expect hellish amounts of public denouncement in outrage from all muslim countries over this, but especially the shiite ones.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Frankly, every arab muslim leader should pledge to stop the violence in memory of this innocent teacher.

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Jenna’s New Book…is Free Promotion…and NOT News

I call on the media (and the free loading author) to be taxed for providing/receiving free promotion. For the most part (except for say a Harry Potter book), other authors competing in the marketplace are put at a competitive disadvantage with this free promotion (I mean news).

I’ve been hearing and seeing blurbs for the past few days about Jenna Bush’s new book.

This is NOT news and it should stop being allowed to masquerade as news. If it was taxed and it caused the media outlets and the author financial accountability, maybe it would stop. At least a slightly more level playing field could be achieved.

Actually, am I looking for more nutty taxes to pay? No. The real point is free promotion being allowed to masquerade as news.

More to come on this as I get a chance…

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Demographic of the Patrons In One Business

Know your audience…Marketing101 meets Main St.

This one may vary depending on your location but this is the audience I saw in a particular business establishment.

– The elderly (various ethnicities)

– Latino immigrants (Central America and Mexico mostly)

– Wandering unsupervised teens and pre-teens (various ethnicities)

– Meth People (digital cameras always need litium batteries and oddly enough security cameras.

– People that want to return things without receipt and certainly without packaging and after 30 days. Uh no!

– Criminals – they actually just came in to steal (various ethnicities)

– Thuglike people that just look like they came to steal (various ethnicities)

– People that are off their meds, bipolar and other various mental health issues.

– Occassionally the homeless and vagrants

– Repeat customers (various ages and ethnicities) with money that are ready to buy

– People passing through that are from like Florida or Arizona and truck drivers that stopped at Walmart

It would be interesting to see this real world info in a company’s business plan. Instead, you always see the idealistic stuff of upper middle class and 18 to 35…kinda stuff.

In this case, the elderly, the latino, the travelers/truck drivers and repeat customers with money in hand kept this business thriving. Speaking some amount of spanish was very helpful.

As far as weird stuff:
One guy came in with a tattoo…on the side of his neck…that read (and I can’t make stuff up this good)…
“100% Honky”

…I rest my case.

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Something Else That Made Me Giggle…Who is the other senator from Idaho again?

Due to recent media coverage, EVERYONE knows one of the senators from Idaho. Yeah, we now know Larry Craig from the Minneapolis airport men’s room.

But do you know who the other senator is?

Saw this on autone’s angelino blog when I was checking up on the recent re-try on making citizens out of the invaders.

http://autone.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/kill-the-latest-amnesty-bill-for-illegal-aliens/

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“Phone them by contacting the Senate switchboard at 800-862-5530 or 202-224-3121.

Alaska: Murkowski, Stevens
Arkansas: Pryor
Idaho: Crapo ….<- How do you pronounce that again?
Indiana: Bayh
Iowa: Grassley, Harkin
Kansas: Brownback
Louisiana: Landrieu”

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More Weird Stuff Involving the MiddleEast

Item#1
Iran president Ahmadinejad is visiting the US. Per the news, he was declined to lay a wreath at the Ground Zero site. This is the guy that supposedly didn’t believe that the halocaust happened. Weird and interesting guy. Dennis Miller referred to him as “AquaVelvaJad”

Item#2
First Dubai and now Qatar are buying significant stakes in our US and European stock markets. Ummm. Maybe that needs to be checked on?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_bi_ge/sweden_dubai_nasdaq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_bi_ge/britain_qatar_lse_1

Item#3
GE Plastics that made Lexan, a super tough clear plastic that is capable of stopping bullets was recently purchased by a Saudi Arabian company called SABIC. Umm. Maybe that should be checked on too.

Just raising a Spock’s eyebrow at this point…

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Ok, One More Time…What Happened That Was Illegal?

Senator Larry Craig of Idaho has gotten a more than generous coverage in the media this week….as Paris Hilton, Nicole Richey and Lindsay Lowhan breathe a collective sigh of relief.

Did I miss it? What did he actually do that was illegal? He pled guilty to a disorderly conduct charge? Allegedly he had solicited sex in an airport men’s room in Minneapolis? The “solicitation” amounted to patting his foot and putting his hand just over the sacred stall divider demarcation line on the floor? And this was supposed to be some kind of gay gang sign of wink wink nudge nudge,,,,know what I mean…say no more? that the officer in the next stall received and said…Oh no you didnt…Come with me!

So, suddenly I’m assessing a bad Monty Python sketch from the 1970’s?

In the cnn.com article, reporter Dan Popkey was quoted as saying about the event…., “We have no hard evidence.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/29/craig.arrest/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

That was one of several double entendre phrases that made me giggle this week. I think we are all glad about not having hard evidence…great….another Youtube video.

And in the next article, the officer has arrested about a dozen men for making this undescribed (tape said his hand was palm up, k) “hand gesture” since joining the airport police force in 2000. Really? Aren’t there bigger fish to fry after 911? Aren’t there sinister looking people or items left unattended or people parked in a fire lane for the airport police to be checking on? No, this dude is hanging out in the men’s room watching for undescribed illegal hand gestures?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070830/ap_on_go_co/craig_arrest

… and the officer makes a comment that he expected this from people in the hood… Really? The next article from KTVB news had the text …

“I just, I just, I guess, I guess I’m gonna say I’m just disappointed in you sir,” Karsnia said. “I’m just really am. I expect this from the guy that we get out of the hood. I mean, people vote for you.”

…Really? Why is that again?

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-aug3007-craig_transcript.8638610a.html

And let me get this straight, if Senator Craig were to actually confess to being gay now, then we’d be tripping over ourselves to give equality to his life style, not to offend him and his guilt would be in not keeping his lifestyle at home?

And is the Minneapolis airport men’s restroom some famous place for a hook up? Aren’t there like 10 or 20 mens rooms in a major airport? How would you even know which one? Look for guys patting their feet as you pass stalls? So now, when I’m trying to take a much needed dump and I hear what sounds like a foot tapping or worse yet some hand crossing the demarcation line….Dude, I’m just trying to take a crap…Please.

By the way, what a great few months to work at the Minneapolis tourism bureau. “Come for our bridges…and stay for the restrooms….”

I can’t wait for the George Carlin and David Letterman comedy bits on this one.

More to come on this one…

This reminded me of a sketch on TalkShow with Spike Feresten.

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