ABSURD DUBYA QUOTE OF THE DAY

ah, fantasies...


"I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging"

--- at the dedication of his portrait; Austin, Texas;
January 4, 2002


On the same tedious subject...

ABSURD DUBYA QUOTE OF THE DAY

"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."

--- Los Angeles; March 3, 2004

ABSURD DUBYA QUOTE OF THE DAY

"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like."

--- Washington, D.C.; December 11, 2002

We need to all hit the streets to express our displeasure at this guy and to get him and his sycophants out of Washington!

The main reason I haven't done much blogging lately...*sigh*...

Happy 4th of July, folks (not really).

Moving Forward, maybe.

A brave woman.

Heh. Heh.

Maybe you have to take the Viagra, then indulge in some self-gratification...lol...

THE AVERAGE PEOPLE AND THE WORKING POOR GET SCREWED ONCE AGAIN...

I haven't posted anything here in a while (mainly because my time is being taken up by a hot new relationship ;o) ), but I was at work today and heard a report on the top-of-the-hour news that made me wanna run out of the room screaming.

You know, all this crap that the oligarchy and the globalistas are dishing out just isn't going to end without the working class of the world joining together and saying we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!!
Maybe we're too beaten down, I don't know, maybe we're not mad enough yet, or we're too tired.

People, it's not primarily about race anymore; it's about class. Our rulers in Washington laugh their asses off when they see us fighting among ourselves all the time; it solidifies their power because we can't organize. If we all joined together and said to them ENOUGH!, and kicked them out of their posh offices and luxurious condos to experience what we've been experiencing our whole lives, they might once again be responsive to those that supposedly voted them in office.

Aw, hell, who am I kidding, this system of ours is broke.

When I heard that the Supreme Court decided that economic development is enough of an excuse to seize someone's personal property under 'eminent domain' , I saw red. This decision isn't going to affect the rich, it's going to hit the poor and working class the hardest, as usual. Isn't it bad enough that our social safety net is being dismantled? Isn't it bad enough that out jobs, blue- and white- collar are being sent overseas? That we're in a Vietnam-style, illegal, immoral war in Iraq?

Now the State has the power to seize our hard-earned personal property.

How much more are we going to take?

Like old TV show theme songs?


I stumbled across this site this morning while drinking my much-needed cup of coffee, and thought it was exceedingly cool. Although I would rank some of those in the 75-100 range MUCH higher!

Dad

My dad passed away suddenly on April 25; he was a good man who loved us, his family. We had our ups and downs like all of us. These pictures tell a little story of his life...







In the lower right picture, Dad is second from the left.
Thanks, Dad, for being a terrific role model, showing, by your actions, how to live a good life.

The Olduvai Theory (Back to the Ancient Future)

Another Fiasco of a News Conference

Photo courtesy of a TRUE pro-democracy website.

Support the filibuster...

NOTE: LINK WAS NO LONGER FUNCTIONAL AND WAS REMOVED.

I found out about this website while watching Washington Journal on Cspan this morning, and it looks pretty cool, and useful. Check it out and sign the petition!

I hate to be a Party Pooper, but...

Seriously, people, we need to wake up. Most folks can't see the forest for the trees, and the evidence is all around us. Shoot, on my 11 mile drive to work every day, I can see it! I've been in this location on the East Coast of the U.S. for 10 years now, and I can see the degradation in my surroundings occuring just in that time period. Not to mention the drastic changes in climate and weather in the last 45 years.

People act as if they are entitled to use and abuse the planet that they depend on for life, but Mother Earth can only take so much. I hate to sound like a Doom-and-Gloomer, but the evidence is there, and I refuse to rationalize humanity's total disrespect for the planet it lives on!

Start locally. Refuse to have any children (I have), or to have any more. If you smoke, use the ashtray; don't just toss your used butts out your vehicle window. Keep a trash bag in your car and throw stuff away there. Use less gas, less water, less food. Sounds radical, but it will help. Countries like China and India are now following our lead, but here in the U.S. we are the original overconsumers. And we will pay for it, eventually, and probably sooner than we think.THE EARTH IS NOT OUR PERSONAL TRASH CAN!!!

One case in point, bees, a small and often ignored part of our ecosystem, are just about all gone, the wild ones anyway. And this is just a tiny fraction of the changes going on all over our planet while we go about our daily lives-working, playing, begetting children. We are like the proverbial frog that is put into a pot of water with the heat being turned on-it doesn't realize it's being boiled alive until it's too late.

Dear Terri...

...so the vigil for your final hours has begun in earnest-I can't believe no one beside your family and those keeping watch in Florida have truly spoken for you. Food and water are basic human rights, not 'medical treatment', so depriving you of nutrition and hydration is truly appalling, and nothing but torture and murder. I am a person who believes in the right of a woman to control what happens to her own body, I support the validity of written living wills and advance directives, and I even think it's a person's right to decide when it's time to leave this world, as long as he/she doesn't take anyone else with him. Michael Schiavo's actions through the years of his wife's incapacitation stink to high heaven.

Rest in peace, Terri.

Peace Be to Terri Schiavo

Maybe I'm watching too much news, but all the crap that's going on in the world is really bugging me right now. Terri Schiavo is being murdered, and people with some sense are trying to help her, it seems right now to no avail. Normally, I am in agreement with those that have written living wills, preventing them from receiving extraordinary care keeping them alive, when they don't want that. Terri doesn't have that, but what her husband is having done to her is being done through something he says that Terri told him. I think he has ulterior motives, whether they be money or whatever, my opinion is that he may be trying to cover something up. Possibility of abuse, perhaps?

I just don't understand, really, all the cruelty visited upon people, by other people. Are we getting like rats that are so overcrowded that they start turning on each other? I think so, sometimes. Tonight, the news was busy covering the school massacre in Minnesota-"Death! Mayhem! Violence!. The creator of that violence, a 16 year old boy Jeff Weise,is being vilified by the media. Of course, he caused much suffering, and the needless deaths of a number of innocent people. But we, as a country, need to take a deeper look at what's behind such horrific actions. One of the news reports stated that Jeff's dad had committed suicide four years ago, and that his mother was long in a nursing home with injuries sustained in an automobile accident. I'm not being an apologist for Jeff, but my God, didn't anyone see what he was dealing with, and try to help? Obviously not. So many people suffering, especially our children, and we are still too busy chasing the almight dollar or trying to keep a roof over our heads and food in our stomachs, to pay the needed attention to the young people who, in their own often misguided way, are screaming out for our help.

Giuliana Sgrena

Yet another occurence in Iraq that is blowing up in this administration's face. Who knows if it is true that Sgrena and her entourage were targeted, but enough is known about the screw-ups of the folks in charge in Washington that it does give one pause to think it may be true. As is usually true, the truth is somwhere in between the Bushies' claim of a 'tragic accident' and others' opinions that it was a targeted assassination. In either case, it was something that never should have happened.

When are we going to realize that our presence in Iraq (and other places in the world) is not wanted, or appreciated, and that the best thing our country could do right now is to back off and let other countries take care of themselves? Then maybe we here in the U.S. can concentrate on making this country better for ALL of its citizens, not just the wealthy few?

Excuse me?!?

While visiting Google News, I read a short article that sent a chill down my spine. The U.S. seems to just keep heading toward a more and more repressive way of doing things. Blogs have become a whole new way of getting news of all types out, news one would not normally see on any mainstream 'news' site.


Now, this. I think bloggers SHOULD have the very same rights (and responsibilities) as professional journalists. This situation just illustrates how far we as a country have gotten from our original intentions as a place where people can live, work, worship, and express themselves as they see fit, within reason.


If all we have to refer to as 'news' are the mainstream organizations we have here now, we'll never really know what's going on, or what is truth or lies. What with the GOP paying off journalists and radio personalities to sell their high-risk schemes being the norm, where do we really stand, as a country?


I'm afraid to ask.

A Short Joke

John was having computer problems, and was trying everything he knew to fix the thing, to no avail. So finally he took it to a computer shop to let a professional take care of it. When he got it back, repaired, the invoice from the computer shop had the notation 'ID ten T error'. Curiosity piqued, John asked the technician what kind of error 'ID ten T' was, so he could be familiar with the problem if it happened again. The tech said, 'You don't know what a ID ten T error is? Just get a piece of paper and write the phrase down, and it'll explain itself'.





ID ten T?



ID 10 T?



IDIOT!


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