Category: Everyday Stories
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Why can I never remember Karl Rove’s face?
I never can remember Karl Rove’s face. Rumsfeld is easy. When I think Rumsfeld I think Wes Craven’s “Hellraiser”. Rumsfeld has always, always been “Hellraiser” to me. But Rove? Nothing. A suit with a zero for a head. Continuing. My son can draw like crazy. This is not one of his drawings-drawings. This is my…
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The Disinfoholics
With a nod to Tild, the Queen of trash book cover rehauls.
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This is a children’s crusade
The following article is on how Rep. Obey’s wanting examined allegations of Christian proselytizing and religious intolerance in the US Air Force Academy, was the trigger for Hostettler to go off on how Democrats are demonizing Christians and that they want to erase every vestige of Xtianity from Amerika. I was thinking about doing a…
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Authentic bull
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The Geneva Green Room
BUSH: Hey, Tony, look at this. BLAIR: Damn it all, what do you want now? BUSH: If you take the letters DSM and turn the M upside down and put it in front of the D you get WDS. Isn’t that somethin’? BLAIR: What’s WDS? BUSH: Y’know, Weapons of mass DeStruction. BLAIR: That’s WMD, you…
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Shining a light on the blind spots that aid hate groups
“Mainstream Malice” at Jay Taber’s blog, “Skookum”, begins: My significant other was listening to Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman interview a former undercover FBI agent on our community radio two days ago, who made the assertion that field agents (like he was before resigning over disagreements with mid-level management) are generally conscientious folks, but that bureaucratic…
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Pie fight!
Ok, I know the pie fight talk has been around for a week already, but… Yeah, I’m slow, but I eventually get there. For reading, go to Shakespeare’s Sister who has the links. As for the crowd that dares not shave its legs, I don’t get why this is an iusult because I haven’t shaved…
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Saturday with the Sisters of Mercy
Yesterday was a beautiful morning. For no reason at all, since we live in the area, we got lost getting on the Interstate going North to visit some relatives. We went South and pulled off into downtown and began circling back to where we live to get it right this time. And so doing we…
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Just for the hell of it, who’s who on Kimberly-Clark’s BOD
First, going through Kotex ads, it occurred to me that the keywords are security and protection. How appropo for Patriot Act and Real ID man Sensenbrenner. (The original ad for the above Moretex spoof is below.)
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All the news that’s fit not to drift back
Via Raw Story is the news that PSYOPS is being outsourced.
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Sensenbrenner walks off with the gavel
It’s Sensenbrenner’s gavel. All his. So, Sensenbrenner challenged Tom Delay’s “Silver Hammer” title on Friday, declaring every concern about the Patriot Act to be irrelevant, indeed everyone in the room who wasn’t Republican was irrelevant, he slammed his gavel down and then picked it up and walked off the scene of the crime bearing what…
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Write supporting the Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act
In my email: Proposed Legislation Would Put an End to the Slaughter of Buffalo Crossing Yellowstone’s Borders In a bold effort to end the senseless slaughter of America’s last wild and genetically pure buffalo, U.S. Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Charles Bass (R-NH) introduced legislation on May 18th to protect the Yellowstone herd. The Yellowstone…