Seems like Bush’s Crazy Base doesn’t like his choice for the Supreme Court, even after she basically yelled that she’d vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. Pretty weird…I actually agree with the kooks.

Miers has made claims of constitutional knowledge that experienced analysts say are basically made-up crap. Her only redeeming feature seems to be unbending loyalty to W, which is a little gross.

So she doesn’t know a damn thing about constitutional law, she spent thirty years defending corporations, and the rest of it holding onto W’s belt loop. What is it we’re supposed to like about this woman? Sounds exactly like every other nominee.

And what’s up with Bush getting all these critical nominations? Two Supremes, and the Fed. He’s basically got one criteria, it seems…loyalty. If they’re loyal to him, they get all sorts of protection. It’s like the Mafia. Cosa Busha.

Ah well. I think we’re fucked anyways. Might as well see how it plays out.

Lobster God doesn’t like Tom DeLay. His chitin is full of hatred.

Check out mc chris’ site. World tour, bitches.

No new Venture Brothers til next year. That’s really disappointing.

You are the insult master!

This show is really fucked up. And you all know I like fucked up shows. I think this one’s a little too fucked up.

I’m starting to think that the whole liberal/conservative line is a mug’s game.

Read Howard Zinn and John Kenneth Galbraith.

May the blessing of the mighty Lobster be upon thee. For verily, if there be crap on the seafloor to eat, thou shalt have it delivered unto thee to eat; and yo, be there something to drink in the fridge, mightily parched be I. Werd.

Too true. Bush uses federal offices that you and I depend on to reward political allies. Never forget that.

They’ve found an effective cervical cancer vaccine.
The religious right is saying “It’ll make girls into sluts if they’re not afraid of catching an STD!”. Of course, I’d rather have a non-infected, cancer-free slut than a prematurely dead woman, virtue intact. Additionally, they don’t mention that they themselves are full of every kind of shit imaginable.
This is a great, great thing. Half a million new cases of HPV related cancer every year, especially in the third world, could be prevented.

Let’s get behind this.

UNDER SECRETARY HUGHES: I haven’t really heard a lot of that. I had one person at one lunch raise the issue of the President mentioning God in his speeches. And I asked whether he was aware that previous American presidents have also cited God, and that our Constitution cites “one nation under God.” He said “well, never mind” and went on to something else. So he sort of was trying to equate that with the terrorists’ (inaudible). So I explained that I didn’t really think that was something you could equate. And he sort of dropped it and moved on. He was one of the opposition leaders in Egypt.

The constitution doesn’t mention the word “God” anywhere at all. Not once.

This not only the most corrupt and immoral administration ever, it’s the stupidest as well. When you give everything over to partisan gain, what else is going to happen?

Whenever these creeps bring up the Constitution, I always think of Bush violating it in his drive to privatize (read: Destroy) Social Security. Specifically this part:

Amendment XIV, Section 4.: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Bush of course yammered and yelled about how the Social Security trust fund was “nothing but a file cabinet full of IOU’s”. Those “IOU’s”, of course, being fucking U.S. Guaranteed public fucking debt, the fucking motor that runs half the fucking world’s economy. But whatever. This president violated the tenets of the Constitution in clear, unvarnished tones, meaning to score cheap points in a dog-and-pony show. Whatever. A democrat probably would have done the same shit.

But you know what? A democrat would have done something that you’d have to think to figure out. He or she would do something devious and richly detailed. For Bush, and his cronies like Karen Hughes (former speechwriter, by the way), its just crass money grubbing for the already fabulously wealthy.

That’s their game. I mean, think about it…if you had to pick between being good for poor people, who would give you shit all the time, and being evil for entirely fucking wealthy people, who would give you free stuff all the time, what would YOU pick? Of course, all of this is relying on there being no god, which I think we all know the answer to.

Anyways, it’s Friday. I hope I catch some lobster tonight. You know why? I wanna eat lobster. I like it. I don’t like paying 50 semolians at the restaurant for lobsters though. So lets all say a quiet little prayer to the Lobster God for his beneficience. May he rest his kindly barnacle-encrusted razor-sharp claw upon our supplicating brow and deliver unto us the flesh of his children. Amen.

Not exactly this one, but close:

Mine needs some work, but it was 2800 with 124K miles, not bad for a 15-year-old car.
Runs good, AC is wore out. a few minor dings and scrapes. I had it for less than 24 hours before I spilled most of an espresso mocha on the front seat. NICE.

(Note: I replaced the car picture with the 20 dollar timing belt I could have replaced.)

the world seems to be getting weirder. I’m feeling off, tilted, muddy

i keep hearing sirens at all hours, and tires screeching at night. i’m not sure what is happening. my thoughts turn to fresh water and canned goods and LED flashlights and hand-cranked radios. candles. lots of candles. and then i wonder, why do i bother? do i want to live through whatever’s coming?

i think about my kiddo and i want her to live, she deserves to make her own mind up. i think about the various women in my life, mom, fiancee, daughter and i want them alive. my brother and his wife and daughter and son, they should live…it pulls me through when i believe that it will be a mushroom cloud, or an earthquake, or an invasion

i realize a lot of the thoughts are crazy, but why not. maybe i’m crazy. i’m cool with that

i hurt a lot. my back hurts and my neck, they’ve been hurting like this for over a month now. my doctor said to come back when i had something real wrong with me. it still hurts. he was the one with the unsecured windows machine in his examination room who got mouthy with me when i said he shouldn’t have explorer running unsecured on his network. whatever. he also jammed a metal swab in my pee hole. that hurts. he did warn me, it wasn’t like he just attacked randomly. imagine how complicated that would be to mug someone with a swab.

i’m becoming more disillusioned with electoral politics, at least as practiced now. i don’t think that focusing on the ballot box will change much. we need to change the systems and machines. voting new people into a corrupt and corrupting system will only produce more corrupt people, which we have a surplus of now, thanks

i want to get a cat, or a little dog, but i can’t even keep my plants alive. how would i care for a dog? am i still patient enough to deal with something as uniquely stupid/smart as a dog? will i toss the bastard into traffic the fiftieth time it craps all over my shoes or eats a hole in the screen door?

i’m worried i’m a weakling, that i’ve got heart disease. i worry i’ll get bird flu.

someone left a copy of adbusters on the check-out rack at major market, which has never sold adbusters, and i bought it. i wonder how they’ll reconcile that in their inventory. probably easily. what a lame thing to think about. how did i get so lame? i wish i had a gigantic duck i could ride around on like a flying horse. imagnine the racket.

my car is still crushed all to hell, and i have no replacement, just the new champion of shitty rental cars, the chevy classic. i wonder if my LDW covers driving it over a cliff into the ocean? i’m still bummed i left a cd in the bimmer

i hope all those poor fuckers in texas and lousiana are safe. what a kick in the balls. increases in extreme weather events are a hallmark of global climate change, predicted for 20 years, you know.

it’ll all be okay

This is quite how i feel right now.

Wednesday is getting me down. I was so close to calling in sick, but shit, I can’t miss work. I mean, physically, it’s maddening to me if I miss work. I get queasy. When did I turn into that guy? I remember being a total fuckup in younger days. Now I’m all responsible and shit (so responsible I’m writing blog posts on the job…but I’m here dammit).

We watched Donnie Darko the other day, and it was cool, I’d never seen it. Anyone have a good solid summary of the plot? I believe it was something like, time anomaly, donnie’s the guide, or whatever mullet lady called it, he has to die so the universe is not destroyed.

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