It's Coming On Stronger, People

Without being a drama queen, this drone is leading us into a society where we all become drones to the Bu$hCo/Cheneys of America.

Z

While in school at Madison, way back in the day when the politicos of Wisco actually valued post high school education for all, or at least all in the top 75% of a graduating class, I was quite inspired by the movie Z. It played at an off the square theater somewhere on the far east side of Madison. I had taken one semester of French, sadly ...you know, but this movie was so good that it seemed that I didn't need to read the subtitles. I have also been envious of how quickly the youth of Greece can mobilize on any given issue. It appears that the recent murder of a 15 year old by the police has ignited a huge protest against the Greek government. I know that it's unpopular & a sign of not being serious, but I would hope that someday the young in America, along with their geezer allies, would act this fast & this fiercely. I like the incredibly awful writing of this paragraph in the story:

The youths regularly clash with the police, whom they view as symbols of the establishment. In most cases, the confrontations are relatively contained and end at the gates of universities with the young people holding off the police with gasoline bombs, rocks and slingshots.

I haven't heard the word establishment used in this context in, oh, let's say 48 years. Looks like a certain NYTs reporter needs to get out a bit more.

It's All About Freedom

So shut your pie-hole, traitor. Oh, & you're a Moooslim.

24 - 21

The refs were rotten & so were the Packers. Thanks again Ted Thompson & Mike McCarty. Thanks for getting rid of the heart & soul of this franchise - Brett Favre.

Good teams find ways to win games. Bad teams find ways to lose them.

While I Didn't Shoot At A Deer Today, I Did Shoot At A Stump Just Off The Grass In The Front Yard, These Muzzle Loaders Require A Person To Fire It When You're Done Hunting Since There Isn't A Way To Unload It Once You've Put The Powder In, The Bullet In, & The Primer In, Yes, Yes, I Bought An Inline

Finally I have something to really smile about. This is President-Elect Obama's finest appointment, so far, IMHO. I've been less than excited, to say the least, about his team so far. Let's hope this is the beginning of a recognition of just how many liberals supported him in a really big way. Many of us stuck with him, even through the FISA vote, which he ought to regret. I'm glad for Gen. Shinseki, now he can do what Rumsfeld, Bu$hCo, Paul Wolfowitz & true tool Douglas Feith failed to do - understand that they were & are stupid, especially about Iraq. Has there been anything this idiot boy-president hasn't fucked up?

"If Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and [former undersecretary for defense Douglas J.] Feith had listened to Shinseki, there wouldn't be as many wounded veterans to take care of," Cole said. "I think this is a way of saying, 'Here was a career officer who had valuable insights who was shunted aside by arrogant civilians, and we're not going to make the same kind of mistakes.' "

My emphasis.

Yes, I'm A No Kinda Guy

When it comes to oil refining in northern Wisco, right at the headwaters of the Lake Superior drainage. It's a very bad idea. Murphy Oil would be the refiner & this graf ought to be enough to kill the deal, enough, of course, for thinking people.

Murphy, which has a checkered environmental record in Wisconsin, wants to boost its refining capacity in Superior nearly sevenfold - from 35,000 barrels daily to 235,000. That's almost 10 million gallons a day.

My emphasis.

H.M., R.I.P.

Obit here.

Henry Gustav Molaison, born on Feb. 26, 1926, left no survivors. He left a legacy in science that cannot be erased.

Time Out

Via First Draft, we get the video, & please click the following link: Jones' Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage - & read a bit. I particularly enjoyed the description of a job as a "...street Pharmaceutical Sales Rep...."

O.J. Sentenced To At Least 8 Years In Jail

I'm watching a replay of the sentencing on ESPN.  As others more intelligent than I have pointed out, our long national nightmare may be over.

Double Good

This is apropos the previous post. I guess, what with the dead doe hanging in the barn & the new muzzle loader leaning against the chair, I have guns on my mind. Plus that particular chief of police is also a bad role model for those obese youth who need to lose weight for their health.

About Time, No Thanks To The Worthless NRA

A report from the ATF concerning guns & crime was finally released. I hope the execrable Rep. Todd Tiahrt is happy about the results of this study. People like Tiahrt, a pentecostal(no surprise here), must think god has left for the coast. Another good thing about Sen. Obama's election is that the NRA will lose some of its hold on the political machinery of government. & none too soon, since IMHO, the NRA has set back the country in ways that even it didn't imagine. These fascists need to be put out to pasture, a pasture full of milkweed. Not that I want anyone to get hurt, mind you. The amount of gun violence in this country is astounding, & to have this praised as some sort of crime prevention is beyond the pale. No matter how hard they try, handguns are not made for deer hunting (or any other big game animal, for that matter).

ATF is allowed under federal law to inspect federally licensed gun dealers once a year, but agency officials said inspections are done at an actual rate of about one every 17 years.

"The federal laws are written to the advantage of the gun dealers," said Daniel Webster, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore. "It's difficult for [officials] to act decisively to suspend or revoke a license."

To increase oversight of gun dealers, nearly two dozen states, including Maryland and Virginia, as well as the District, allow or require state inspections. In those that do not, crime guns are exported at a rate 50 percent higher than in states that allow or mandate inspections.

"Leaving it up to federal law and ATF is insufficient to really hold gun dealers accountable," Webster said.

My emphasis.

$tephen Harper Is Canada's George Bu$h

What a fascist disaster for democracy in Canada. Looks like Harper is much like Bu$hCo, lies & raw power to keep his position. If the Canadian people don't do something tomorrow, things will get even worse. People like $tephen Harper & Bu$hCo believe so strongly in their own ideas that those ideas need to be put into practice no matter what the ELECTED representatives of the people decide to do. This is a huge embarrassment for any one's freedom agenda. Come on Canada, don't let thus tin horn dictator run your democracy into the ground.

Headlines, Headlines

Since I've got nothing right now, I've been putting a scope on my brand new never been fired muzzle loader, a gun I can use, well, as of Tuesday, that would be last Tuesday, the day before yesterday, but given that I couldn't get the last payment organized until yesterday, I will be happy to hunt by tomorrow afternoon. Lucky I have one deer hanging in the pole barn. So, given my general laziness today, here are the headlines of the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel online edition for today, December 4, 2008:

Auto executives beg lawmakers for quick action

Losses at state pension fund deepen in November

No crime, just incompetence

Coach asserts he has confidence in Rodgers

439 To 147

I can even figure this math out, & math is my worst subject. Soon, we'll be returning to the conservative's dreamtime, only the white, the handsome, the beautiful, the children of privlege will be able to afford a college education. The rest of us will make useful serfs for the ruling class. Another piece of Bu$hCo's awful legacy.

Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, adjusted for inflation, while median family income rose 147 percent. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade, and students from lower-income families, on average, get smaller grants from the colleges they attend than students from more affluent families.

My emphasis.

Odetta, R.I.P.

Obit here. Oh boy, what a loss this is. The last time I saw her was at NOLA's Jazz Fest in 2004. At that venue, it's possible to get a front row seat without hassle or price. It was one wonderful performance, as all of hers were. She ended her set by letting the audience in on a couple of truths, one was that tonight they better use condoms & that in the fall they had better NOT vote for George Bush. Too bad.

More here.



Interview on video here.