Come Sweet Oblivion

May the Higgs Bosun be with you
personal note : What a crock of shit.

Wild Wild Key West
personal note: Be Kinder to your employees

Jewish marathoners conflicted by diet options
personal note: Today's national tragedy brought to you by: Matzo's

Historians agree: Worst Prez ever.
personal note: And he's not even done yet...

Rachel Maddow
personal note: Yes, I like her, but does she have to cultivate the appearance of a right wing chicken hawk male, down to the hair part? All she needs now is a bow tie.

Alternet Asks can Feminism and Porn co-exist? An article so stupid, I won't bother linking... But it's an easy opening for a smartass answer: Only if it's girl on girl.

It's always darkest before dawn. Betmo offers this glimmer of hope

Fairlane has this interesting take on dealing with wingnuts

I link, therefore I am

Tracking a Marine lost at home

Letter from Venezuela

The alternating Relevance of those who make the simple truth look so easy to understand

Bob ponders not voting for Obama...

My response:

To me, actions speak louder than words. Hillary or Obama, in my crystal ball, will ACT much the same in office. Like you, John Edwards was my choice. Hillary has dropped the ball in three ways recently, though: failing to vote on the FISA matter, when Obama did. That's an action that had a consequence with this voter. Then cozying up to the worst of the worst of Republican hacks: Rush and Scaife. Finally, I believe I've watched this race with a neutral eye for some time. And again and again, I see the Clinton campaign using Rethug tactics to smear her Democratic opponent and actually Cheer on the Republican candidate. So, I am for Obama. Even so, Bob, I'd happily vote for Hillary over McCain. Because I can tell the difference between McCain and Hillary. And if Obama becomes the candidate, I surely hope you (and other HRC supporters) can find it in your heart to see the difference between Obama and McCain.

Why did you become a Democrat?

Anything but fkn Politics

A prominent Feminist blog posts about the joys of Competitive Cheerleading.



No, it's not a joke. It's like important, and stuff. A girl, raised by veggies and yoga instructors, with a blue streak in her hair even, like wrote it. YAY Feminism! Gimme an F!

(and just so you know, I hate ALL teenage sports equally. I don't even want my son to play football, but his mom is convinced that he's going pro... I'd rather him study and learn than roll around in the dirt and glorify such inconsequential bullshit)

The Adrenaline post in honor of my upcoming nuptials...






I am soooo addicted to this song. 'Tube didn't have the Radiohead cover of Rhinestone cowboy. Too bad...




A poem for 5 years of hell

Life
They bruised my soul with a proverb,
They bruised my back with a rod,
And they bade me bow to my elders,
For that was the word of God.

They pent up my soul and bound me
Till life was a living death,
They struck the wine from my fingers,
The passion from my breath.

I reached my hands to living,
They hurled me back into school,
And they said, "Go learn your lessons,"
You innocent young fool."

They yowled till they woke the trumpets --
And the sword blade rent the plow,
And they said, "It is your duty"
"To die for your elders now.

"They cowered far from the battle
As I went into the strife,
And I spilled my guts in the trenches
In the red dawn of my life.

And the elders named me hero,
But more than their words and ire
Was the scent of a strange wild flower
There where I died in the mire.

Robert E. Howard


This one's for Angry-



okay, maybe a little politics... Neocons in Star Wars? of course they would be living on a planet that they made into a wasteland ...

God aborts the child of a sinner - Old skool God wasn't Pro-life.

And What's a Good Friday without a Pagan fertility rite? Procreate, Fornicate, Multiply. Do it with love. or at least a modicum of enthusiasm.

...and all I got was this lousy youtube...

Freida Bee has the intertube of the week - (below the Johnny Cash)

Shatner, Seventies, Scifi Awards show

Opinions you should have

From the Dept. of What goes around, comes around:
Spitz, Don't swallow the bullshit

From the Dept. of Vortex of Unchanging Violence:
Blood in,Blood out

From the Dept. of It's about M-F-ing time:
A Judge with Balls

From the Dept. of Popular Amerka Sports Deities:

I'm a lot like you, Dad

From the Dept. of God's people doeth the funniest things:

Bathroom Art critics and Let there be light!

Burnt outtie

The past two weeks have been wild, politically. I usually would be drinking myself through the harder bits. "Hillary said what? Obama did not just go there! Quick I need a bottle of rotgut whiskey before I lose faith in mankind!"

But, since I promised my health nut fiancee' that I would go on a diet until I get my abs back, I am no longer allowed my food group of choice- Anheuser Busch. So while I am "enjoying" the first week of workouts and sobriety, I probably will be too depressed to blog in my normal good spirits.

Anyway, while I take the week off, take a spin through my Bad Influences and warp yourselves further.

and here's a few of my Favorite blogs that you need to add to your Blogroll NOW!

The Doctor is in

My Favorite Antisocial Socialite

A Distant Ocean

Da Guys - and check out their individual blogs as well

Moon of Alabama - still miss the Whiskey bar...

Enjoy your weekend-

I'll still be haunting your blog comments, I'm sure -see you around

Random Shiite

Be an Ornery Bastard
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Enhance your verbal repartee - I imagine this site will keep me busy for a long time...

Wallstreetfighter-humor-links-tuesday.html Traders are evil people, with evil senses of humor

LMFAO= Airing your personal life online - I promise I'll never dump you on my website, really, I won't...
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Blue Herald's News Roundup

Moses on Hallucinogens -explains-so-much...
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Good News - Evil Stifler's Mom radio show gets the ax
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Bad News - Rape in the Military

and finally, Video Brilliance. I've got to download a video editor and start mashing shit up, because you know, I'm just not fucking off enough...

All the news thats fit to blog

Frederick lets us know what Edwards is up to

CJ lets us know lets us know what Diebold is up to

Buck at Blue Herald lets us know what Bush Thurston Howell III is up to

George Washington lets us know what our friends our trying to tell us (Hat tip : Liberality)

PZ lets us know about the Encyclopedia of Life

Tomdispatch lets us know who the world's most wanted really are

Truthdig lets us know lets us know that Anonymous is not only fighting Scientology, but Ralph Nader too

Mr. Fish lets us know how the Republican party looks to the American public:

More About Mr. Fish

VD and link love

Happy VD! Valentine's day, that is-

The Grinch who shanked Cupid (Batocchio) lets us know how he really feels about the manufactured moment that is Valentine's...

Here's a little love for some bloggers I recently rediscovered. I think Blogtopia (SKIPPY owns the copyright on that term) is a lot like living in a small town- sooner or later you run into everyone you may have lost track of ... I love my fellow blogtopians, so if I haven't got you linked or you've gotten kicked off the blogroll during my frequent brawls with blogger layouts, let me know-

Here are a few bloggers who I ran back into recently-



Bob at Mad in the Middle



CJ of Current Jam





And I don't link thepoetryman of A Poetic Justice (who I'll always think of as MP from back in the day) as much as I should- but surfing randomly around his blog is never wasted time...

So, enjoy your manufactured moments today!

Schnell und wütend

If you come to a fork in the road, take it!

Interesting side trips:

Terrorism and Radicalization- What Not to Do, What to Do - Comprehensive presentation on the WHYS of terrorism that was presented to the U.S. State Department by Scott Atran

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When Scientists flip-flop - Scientists discuss the matters that they have changed their minds about...

I, myself, am on the cusp of changing my mind about a personal scientific theory I've held for years. I've always believed that insects were evolved from plants. But, with each new year of experience and wisdom I am beginning to feel that my heartfelt theorem of Botanical Phytoplankton Insect evolution may have been merely a self-delusion. It's hard to let go of this gut scientific knowledge. ;)

The World's Greatest Rubbish Dump -100 million tons of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean
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Healthcare is NOT an issue in the greater scheme of things - There are bigger things afoot. If we cannot become more self-sufficient on a statewide basis, this country will fail in a big way. Our state governments need to worry less about the federal tit and more about building a localized system of energy, food production, and healthcare. If the oil crunch came today, we would collapse as a nation.

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The Poison Tree truth about Guantanamo Bay - Chris Floyd explains that America's Gulag is just about domination. Innocence or Guilt need not be a factor.

My Love for you is like a truck...

Support your local Blogger AND receive a beautiful memento of 8 years of Pure Fucking Hell.
From Actor212 at Simply Left Behind $2 Wotta Bargain!



Buy Now before Bush declares Martial law

And remember kids, I wouldn't sell anything on my blog If I wasn't willing to blow cash on it myself-

Lurking at Five New Blogs

(like a big ole puppy dog...)


Or these blogs are new to me, Anyway...

Blue Girl

Blind in Texas

One Good Thing and a moving post from Flea's blog from awhile back...

Distant Ocean has a breakdown on Cheney's Evolutionary cycle (Hat tip to Ice Station Tango )

The Fifth Estate 5th has a post concerning Tony Snow's book on how to Defeat Cancer. I haven't seen it in the bookstores yet, but here's what I imagine a rough draft looks like:

Tony Snow Cancer Help Rough draft:
Preface: Good American Healthcare Plan
First things first= Have you gotten yourself some good government healthcare prior to finding out you have cancer? You haven't? Well. Get Religion.Skip to Chapter 10.

Chapter 1: Bring it on, Cancer!
Everyone knows you defeat cancer just like you defeat Al Quaeda- you invade an organ near the cancer, nuke the entire system until the cancer dies (and hopefully not the organ or the whole system with it).

Chapter 2-6: How Republican conservatism prepared me to face cancer.
Tell everyone God and Bush has saved you from the cancerous threat.

Chapter 6: Waiting game
If the procedure actually works, its a triumph for democracy / medical science. If not,just when the bodies got no chance left- you surge in, cut away everything you can for one last ditch effort. If good cells are removed with bad, its just the price you pay.

Chapter 7-9: No one can predict the future
Don't listen to doctors or pay attention to their fancy-shmancy punditry. You'll know in your gut (especially if you have gut cancer) if the cancer is defeated.

Chapter 10: Thank you, George Bush
If god loves you and you aren't a freeloading liberal, the cancer's gone, just like Mine! Yay!

I link therefore I am

Gore Vidal on Dennis Kucinich

Naomi Wolf on The End of America

More on the Morons

Hill Country Gal invites everyone to Smoke's...

well, sorta... ;)

Highway of Blogginess

Targa's Internet Tube has been officially appointed the Highway of Bloginess

Go forth in faith.

Is it friday? Why does it feel like fricking Friday already? Damn Holiduhs crisscrossing my wires.

Common sense held hostage

CNBC is full of shit
... but you know this.

Forced to watch this shit in my office, day in, day out, I have decoded almost every nuance of their doublespeak and mass marketing manipulation - from the ridiculously transparent- closet Nambla member Larry Kudlow- to the few who actually sound like they know something at times. And don't even get me started on that mental midget Kramer.... sheesh.

And this week, the morons on CNBC have reached a true depression of market commentary. I found this gem about CNBC's spin doctors by Kevin Duffy via Financial Sense.com...

Beam me up

Kevin pretty much nails it. What the CNBC audience of amateur investors doesn't know is that the market, by and large, isn't moved by every fricking news item that pops up hour by hour, the way that the CNBC cheerleaders portray it. But oh well, got to keep the rubes throwing their money into the market so the bigtime money managers can lap it up.

Another good article is there - an interview with Ron Paul. You wouldn't know it from reading liberal blogs (like this one? ha!) but Ron Paul is, in my opinion, the most knowledgeable of all the candidates concerning economics. That said, my vote is going to John Edwards. PERIOD. Ron Paul shares some of Edwards' viewpoints, but Ron Paul's drawback can be summed up as the drawback of all the Republicans, as Markos put in his Newsweek column recently:

In his first Inaugural Address, Ronald Reagan remarked that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." While the quip has provided Republicans with a cheap slogan for two decades, the philosophy behind it is beginning to box them in. If they govern effectively, they invalidate their own antigovernment ideology. And when you elect people who believe that government won't work, you shouldn't be surprised when government stops working.

I want someone who believes that Goverment CAN FUNCTION and can do a better job of its governance, and this is NOT accomplished by giving corporations even more free rein over American life. This is not accomplished by dismantling OSHA and EPA. We in the financial field know this as an absolute truth:

IF THERE WAS NO REGULATION TO THE STOCK MARKET, CONSUMERS AND AMATEURS WOULD BE BROKE IN 24 HOURS.

Regulation and Governance is what made America successful for so long. Free Market, my ass! Without proper regulation and governance, America is doomed. And prime Example #1 is the past seven years and this clown:



The interview with Ron Paul is a good one. Anyone who does any actual background on him can see that he has a very impressive record. In a better country, losers like Guliani and Huckabee would be laughed out of the race. Hillary wouldn't stand a chance as the liberal candidate with her poor voting record and Edwards would be leading, followed closely by Gravel and Kuc.

But we live in a country where our wits, our courage, and our common sense are being held hostage by terrorists (and no, I don't mean the turban wearing kind).

I Link, therefore I am:
Viet Not
Told ya so

TOO GOOD TO MISS : "It's a Blunderful life!"

Operation Mindcrime

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I Remember Now

Anarchy-X

Revolution Calling

Operation: Mindcrime I. Mindcrime II: Bush-Plame smoking gun?

Speak

Spreading the Disease

The Mission Knowledge Directed Revolution

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Suite Sister Mary Christianity from people who actually follow the teachings of Jesus

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The Needle Lies There are anti-liberal bushbots, and there are the Liberal anti-bushbots, and then there are the anti-liberal, anti-bushbot christbots... Ah, sweet diversity. This person tells us why Tucker Carlson is anti-bush. When you catch your breath and stop laughing, feel free to be astounded by the unintentional hilarity of this blog.

Electric Requiem The final word on torture, from a Brigadier General

Breaking the Silence

I Don't Believe In Love :

"I used to think

That only America's way was right

But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives

Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies"

My Empty Room The slow strangling of free market "capitalism"

Eyes of a Stranger The high price of American Gullibility

Alternet- Best of the Week

Best of the Week NewsletterOctober 27th, 2007

Is a Presidential Coup Under Way? By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
The Constitution is being trampled and nothing less than American democracy itself is endangered -- a presidential coup is taking place. Where is Congress? Read more ?

White House Leak: Cheney's Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike By Gregor Peter Schmitz, Cordula Meyer, Der Spiegel
High-ranking military experts say an attack would lead to world economic chaos, or even what Bush calls 'World War III.' Read more ?

11 Things We Can Learn from the Rest of the World Ode
Eleven lessons the West can learn that would improve our lives and create a better future for all humanity. Read more ?

Bush's Response to 9/11 Was Deadlier Than the Attacks Themselves By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com
A look at how and why the U.S. gravely failed in its response to 9/11. Read more ?

I'll Have My Cosmetics With a Side of Infertility, Please By Heather Gehlert, AlterNet
Author Stacy Malkan reveals the dangerous truth about everyday products we put in our hair and on our skin. Read more ?

What Women Aren't Told About Childbirth By Manda Aufochs Gillespie, Mariya Strauss, AlterNet
A new survey of mothers reveals some disturbing things about hospital maternity care that may make pregnant women want to take a closer look at their options. Read more ?


Where Does the Right-Wing End and the Media Begin? By Rory O'Connor, AlterNet
Economist Paul Krugman on how the right-wing media machine is destroying social progress. Read more ?

Curveball: The Iraqi Defector the Bush Team Used to Sell the War By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
An interview with the author of a new book on the Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," whose made-up intelligence on Saddam's WMD programs was central to the Bush Administration's case for invasion. Read more ?

Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom, Even If You Have Nothing To Hide By John Dean, FindLaw.com
The case against expanding surveillance powers for a White House that's already out of control. Read more ?

It's Aww Fuck It!-Friday, kids!

Drink. Stupor. Repeat.


A poem from the Rev. Korda at the Church of Euthanasia

Prayer for a Good Death
by Rev. Chris Korda

Great Spirit, I am unworthy;
My species has disgraced itself.
Of all the species that live, or have ever lived,
Mine is the lowliest.
Lower than the flowers who fill the air with sweet pollen,
Lower than the trees who encircle the Earth with their roots,
Lower than the insects,
rulers of Earth

Since the beginning of time,
Lower than the darting fish,
Lower than the soaring birds,
Lower than the four-legged creatures,
Who are the beating heart of the living Earth.
Great Spirit, my shame is as deep as the ocean,
And my sadness is unbearable.
I pray for enlightenment,
But fear that my prayer is too late.
Great Spirit, if this be so, then I pray for extinction.
Let my species become extinct, and vanish from the Earth.
Let my loins be barren,
Let my seed not sprout,
Let the race of men fall like leaves.
Let my fields grow wild,
Let my fences crumble,
Let my cities turn to dust, and become forests.
Let the grass drink my blood;
Let my body be food for worms.
Great Spirit, let me die, that the Earth may live.