Memorial Day - 2009

It's The Kid's Birthday

The best thing about having a kid is that someday you become friends & can drink gin & tonics in New Orleans in the warm rain with them. Today is The Kids' 31st birthday. Hope The Babies & Dada made every meal a breakfast in bed. I, for one, love you. Thanks, kiddo.

Sam Maloof R.I.P.

Obit here.

Another Great Victory Over Islamic Terrorists!

Well, as usual, not really. I don't know about y'all, but this sort of thing is getting really old. It sure makes our police & judicial system look very rinky-dink, not to mention them being great fabricators.

...the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur.
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Preying on these losers, none of whom were apparently actual Muslims, the "confidential informant" orchestrated the acquisition of a disabled Stinger missile to shoot down military planes and cooked up a wild scheme about attacking a Jewish center in the Bronx.
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But it seems that the informant whipped up their violent tendencies and their hatred of Jews, cooked up the plot, incited them, arranged their purchase of weapons, and then had them busted.

Hate Milk?

When things like this happen in a consistent manner, you bet I hate milk.

"...Music, Sweet Music...."

ReThugs dropping fast. Harold Myerson has the documentation. Tidbits from the piece:

...Americans who answer to the name Republican is down to 22 percent....
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Cheney has become the GOP's Banquo's ghost -- a constant reminder (and, unlike poor Banquo, defender) of past crimes who just won't leave the dinner party.
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They offer no solutions for the nation's problems but are chock-full of solutions for issues (such as the lack of concealed weapons in Yellowstone) that aren't problems.

I Could Never Understand The Game

My mother played every week. The results were interesting in that the gossip quotient went up or down given who was sitting in as a replacement. While I'm sure keeping track of the cards, bids, dummy, etc., has a positive effect on the brain, I also wonder whether the social activity, the social language used, the after the game sitting with relatives snark, also had a positive effect on not becoming demented?

It's True! It's True!

Sen. Vitter (ReThug Asshat Diaper-boy) apparently has some real competition. Rememeber, you heard it here first.

ReThugs Having Trouble In Their Home (Only) Territory

Here are some numbers for you to chew on, this Wednesday night. It's my 60th birthday night, bitches, & I'm going to, well, stay home & change the bandage on my appendix incision - a pretty ugly hole in my stomach. It's a hole because the damn organ/non-organ ruptured as it was being removed & therefore it has to heal from the inside out. OK, I'll continue with the metaphor & state the the ridiculous, dangerous ReThug Party is an ugly hole in the belly of America.

The Party That Could Shoot Straight

Via RLK, we find out that the ReThugs, the party of guns, hatred, & money, are lousy shooters. This is only somewhat surprising since Democrats believe in practice & study in order to earn ability to shoot well. ReThugs, on the other hand, believe that they deserve it because they usually can just buy it, or, they accuse the Democrats of being Commie sharpshooters trained by Al-Queda in Somalia, thus tainting the Democrats clear victory. The Democrats then bend over & mumble, rather than standing up & laughing at the ReThugs, or, at least, giving them the finger.

About Time

Via The Kid, we get an article in the Strib that is about 70 years late. I don't know about you, but the North Dakota Fighting Flickertails has a nice ring to it, no? They wouldn't have to invent a new tradition with this name, they just have to reclaim an old tradition. Racism must die in this world & this will be one more small step toward that goal.

Spineless

Come on Harry Reid, do your fucking job. Why does the Democratic leadership always fail on the really important matters? I guess it's just one big club in Washington, values are apparently, passè.

Accountability

Those pesky "left wing advocacy groups", can't they just follow the lead of Congress & shut up? Instead of doing what Congress or the Justice Dept. should be doing, these organizations are working hard for accountability. I wish they were working hard for people's health, welfare, mortgages, you name it.

Your Daily Science

Rain beetles, California style.

Creepy?

I suppose, but why is anyone surprised by this? The good news (pun completely intended) is that this brings us much closer to a truth-letting. & here's an added tidbit from the link.

In a highly unusual reversal, the Defense Department’s inspector general’s office has withdrawn a report it issued in January exonerating a Pentagon public relations program that made extensive use of retired officers who worked as military analysts for television and radio networks.

Donald M. Horstman, the Pentagon’s deputy inspector general for policy and oversight, said in a memorandum released on Tuesday that the report was so riddled with flaws and inaccuracies that none of its conclusions could be relied upon. In addition to repudiating its own report, the inspector general’s office took the additional step of removing the report from its Web site.