all i’ve been writing are depressing angry political posts, so I’m going to write something else.

i don’t feel funny today. I don’t feel all that healthy either. I feel kind of like…a squishy apple. like, you can still make delicious apfelpfannkuchen out of me, but you couldn’t just take a bite.

In apple-related news, Apple computer released new iMacs with Intel processors, and the worst-named Apple laptop of all time, the fucking MacBook Pro.

I don’t know why, but that name fucking pisses me off so bad. It’s supposedly a pretty good laptop. It’s the first portable with the Intel “dual core” processors. They say it’s four times faster than the same clock speed PowerPC laptops, which makes me wonder why they claimed the PowerPC laptops were faster than the Pentiums.
Hm.
Are you a bottom or a top?

Gotta love it.

Number One story no one wants to talk about: Medicare is fucking killing people thanks to Bush. His half-assed attempts to add money to the pockets of Big Pharma, hell anyone you can add a “Big” in front of (with the exception of Big Labor), have resulted in a cockup of enormous proportions. Though I can’t find news of anyone dying because of it, it’s not working how they said it would. People are not eligible, in some cases, for drugs they’ve received for years. It’s pissing people off, too. This can be a major issue to wake people up about the crapfactory they’ve allowed to be built in Washington. The “I vote GOP because I always have” mentality might just take a blast in the face, here, because this is ALL GOP.

Abramoff will hopefully add more fuel to the already-large “GOP Corruption” fire burning. Don’t forget “Duke”! He’s up for sentencing soon. Gotta keep his ugly bribe-taking mug in the news.

God these fucking corrupt pricks fill me with rage. Hmm…something funny. Shit. I can’t think of anything. sigh

Bush sez: “I was elected to protect the American people from harm.”

What a load of horsehit. Of course, in this context he’s justifying warrantless, unaccountable spying on civilians. Basically spying by executive order, ergo, dictatorship. Not far up the slope from “disappearing” dissidents, or mass graves in the desert.

Of course it’s a violation of the law, and of course, one-party Republican strokers are falling all over themselves explaining how Dear Leader has every right to spy on whomever he chooses, regardless of the situation, because it’s a “national security” issue. Talk about originalists. These people are original totalitarians.

But back to the “I was elected to protect the American people from harm” comment. As a matter of fact, no. No you were not. Here’s the oath he swore:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Note he’s defending the fucking Constitution, as befits the Chief Executive of the United States. It’s good of them to do their utmost to protect us as well, but I’d feel more secure if the President was protecting the Constitution, as his job description states. We have institutions to protect us, institutions that work best when pestered by citizens. Frankly, I don’t think Bush has time to protect me and do the rest of his work, right? He’d be following me everywhere. That would get annoying too. I’m betting there’d be an assload of Secret Service guys and reporters too. Then there’s the other 300 million people who need protecting. He’d be stretched pretty thin.

Thus, I’ll lean on the police for basic deterrence, and my own wits and feet for the rest of it. I expect a lot of you do the same.

Digby, as usual, has an excellent post explaining some hilarious parts of the macho GOP’s complicity in granting Emperor Bush complete power…here’s the end of it:

Very moving, no? All those fine words about the rule of law safeguarding our liberties, the arbitrary exercise of power and Bunker Hill, Lexington and Normandy went right out the window on 9/11. That was when Henry and the rest of his stalwart defenders of the rule of law promptly wet their pants and then let their president use the constitution to clean up the puddle.

Go read digby, and give him money, he’s worth every penny.

last post of the year

I’ve been doing this webpage for a while huh?

This was a tough year, wannit…on a large scale, more Bush, more lies, more death, more dissolution, more rancor and division. Less patriotism and more nationalism. Less sympathy and more warmongering. More dead soldiers and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and dead everywhere in Africa and Asia. Death for oil continues seemingly unabated.

Hurricanes, tsunami, earthquakes, floods, tornados, avalanches, heatwaves, and other disasters have tested everyone’s mettle, and cost us precious lives.

We’ve sent folks abroad to be tortured, we’ve lost battles, we’ve lost some of the essential characteristics of American-ness that keep us going.

In a lot of ways it’s depressing.

But we’ve won some battles too, and seen heartening developments. The outpouring of support for victims of disasters was unprecedented…in the billions of dollars and millions upon millions of hours of work and aid given by individuals, corporations and government.

The press seems to be painfully awakening from it’s long dormancy, pointing out the fables and lies of the most corrupt administration in our nation’s brief history.

Labor is slowly advancing, the behemoth structures of the AFL-CIO and others adapting in the face of probable doom…of course, the strength of labor is under the workmen’s cap, not the boardroom table, so all those powdered faces at the top are pretty superfluous to begin with. That in a nutshell describes what Labor will have to deal with in the coming years.

Science, under relentless attack from the forces of complete idiocy (intelligent design, anti-global warming, women’s “health” morons) is responding, in it’s own way, from broadsides and judicial victories against the stpuidity of ID to the constant efforts of environmental scientists.

Maybe there’s hope yet. Hang tight, we’ll see if the bus heads off the cliff or veers back to safety…

felt like posting. i sent some money to Digby. Great blog, great insight.

Liberal means free. some people think “Liberals are destroying america!” I think Liberals created America, and continue to perfect it. it’s the “conservatives” that hunker down in caves and attack anything, no matter how far the remove from themselves, that they don’t like or understand, or even more importantly, that cuts into their profit margin.

my back hurts.

remember that the same Rightwingers who screamed bloody murder during Clinton’s presidency are the first ones to roll over and offer excuses when Bush admits to illegally monitoring American citizens. John Aravosis has an interesting theory as to why he’d allow it.

washington post calls “lies” “prevarications”. The lengths the press will go to not level a direct line at the white house are stunning.

We’re still killing the planet, in case anyone forgot

lordy lord i was stuck on dialup for almost a whole week. it made me feel like both of my balls were gone entirely. i wanted to weep watching pages slowly fill. you don’t know, truly know, how much you love something til it’s gone.

so it’s back now and i’m back up to lightspeed and damn it feels good. go post me a note in my forums. bastards. especially you tolek, how come you don’t talk to me anymore? tyler doesn’t return calls either. it is to weep like woman.

i was fucking around with the settings in blogger and it made my site break. i guess it’s cuz i had that comment mod on it that made new forum posts generate automatically. stupid tempermental shit.

if you had a forums account, re-sign-up. i have admin approval required now so we won’t get as much spam, though it was very little to begin with. i’m going to continue fucking with the forums though, a photo album might be cool…who would use it?

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(1) Lobster god… 8 inches long… Creator of the universe and all powerfull deity… lots of spikes, if seen please call 303-555-1212

Some stores are better than others.

This is so fucking awesome.

“Duke” Cunningham pleads GUILTY to charges of fraud, mail fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to commit fraud. Not “not guilty” or “no plea” but GUILTY. Guilty as fuck. I am so fucking stoked to see this scumbag go down. Ten years in jail possible, but unlikely. Rot in fucking hell Duke.

God this is giving me chills. Fucking front page news all over the country. God damn straight. GOP corruption on the front page, where it should be. These evil fuckers lie, cheat and steal, and at least one is getting his comeuppance.