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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 6:07 PM PDT

2010/11/03 · 18:07

Kentucky Wisdom-
(Overheard at redneck (you know who you are) family gathering just before the election of Aqua Buddha Rand Paul - Kentucky Senator)

"Sheeut!----used to be you could tell a nigger joke and everbody laughed, (everybody laughs) - an' then there was that damn p'litical krectness thang where you had to watch out fer who you told them jokes in front of. Damn, them jokes is so funny. Now they went too far an' you got a black nigger in the white house; git it? Black White. Perty soon you won't even git to tell a joke about dumb blondes. Ah'm avotin fer that whut's he's name? Oh yeah, Ru Paul, er wuz it Randy or sumthin' They sed thet he sed a rest'rant should be allowed to put up a sign asayin' "NO COLOREDS!" Now that's my kinda man! Ah'm avotin fer Randy Paul an' you' better do the same if you wanna keep them niggers an' beaners from takin' over."

Article 1 Of Constitution Declared Partisan!

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Monday November 12, 2007 · 10:39 PM PST

2007/11/12 · 22:39

Kentucky Democrats are proud tonight of our freshman Congressman John Yarmuth KY3 (Louisville) who wore and distributed buttons among willing colleagues saying simply 'Article 1'. This was to express the Constitutional fact that Congress is the boss, not a 'unitary' exective. Yarmuth was immediately slapped down by the 'official parlimentarian' John Sullivan R-OK1, saying that the pins violate House Rules prohibiting the 'wearing of badges by members to communicate a message'. Yarmuth responded with a letter of multiple questions, foremost a demand to define the difference between wearing a symbol of the First Article of the Constitution and wearing a flag pin.

You can read the sordid details at WaPo and at Rep Yarmuth's website.

Compromise was reached at a prohibition whenever a Congressman is speaking, (who'da guessed that CSPAN cameras are so feared?). Anyhow, I hope that Rep Yarmuth and his pin-wearing colleagues will make a conspicuous ritual of removing their pins each time they speak and replacing them when yielding the floor.

Rant after fold:

Roadrage

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Tuesday November 06, 2007 · 11:22 PM PST

2007/11/06 · 23:22

Imagine all the people at a huge Anti-WAR rally singing the sweet Peace and Patriotic songs we all know, in perfect unison and on key. Songs like 'Give Peace a Chance', 'We Shall Overcome', 'Imagine', 'Yesterday', 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'This Land Is My Land', Brother Can You Spare A Dime', 'God Bless America' and 'America The Beautiful'. Did I miss any? You can think of others that bring tears, especially in these tragic times and especially if well-sung by a chorus of thousands. Please give me titles or links.

I'm sure you're thinking, 'How are you going to keep it from sounding like your typical 'Happy Birthday' at Farrells Ice Cream Parlor or even worse, the drunken concert and soccer game sing-alongs?...Out-of-sync and way off-key?

Well I'll tell you how below the fold:

Roadrage

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Wednesday October 03, 2007 · 2:09 PM PDT

2007/10/03 · 14:09

I just wrote a note to my Congressman Chandler and Senators McConnel & Bunning. I want them to overturn Bush's cruel veto of the children's health insurance program, SCHIP:
My note:
"C'mon now. Even if you believe in your dog-eat-dog world, where absolutely every product and service is a market commodity, you must admit that all governments have a high-yield long-term interest in the raising of healthy citizens. Please don't play your power politics at the expense of American childrens' health. Otherwise we'll know you're just Dead-Beat-Dads, off on your own adventures."
You can write your own reps a message too. This website makes it easy.

A little more downwind:

Roadrage

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 10:48 PM PST

2005/12/19 · 22:48

Newsflash!...Since last night's news reports from stations in the far-east saying that emergency phone centers were being overwhelmed with missing persons alerts, the phenomenon has swept wesward overnight, evidently following the rising sun. England, by then already anticipating, was struck soon after midnight EST and Africa, according to widespread though rudimentary cell-phone emergency services, has also experienced the advancing phenomenon. Read More

Synchronized Gift Buying - Bah Humbug!

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Wednesday December 14, 2005 · 4:17 PM PST

2005/12/14 · 16:17

All this annual gift exchange is just silly and wasteful. How many of your last year's gifts was something you liked in itself or even remember? And the pleasure of buying such painfully ill-suited gifts for others? Right up there with doing your taxes. Don't get me wrong; I love the festivity of Christmas, it's just all the crappy gifts. For kids and couples who are still-in-love, it's another thing. Shower kids and your lover with as many gifts as their character can withstand.

Back to adults: How does one break the imaginary chain?
Here's how we did it in my extended family: Read More

Fuck the Constitution!

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Monday December 12, 2005 · 2:09 PM PST

2005/12/12 · 14:09

Abraham Lincoln challenged the South's seccession based upon his solemn inaugural oath to defend the Constitution, and the bloodletting of the Civil War cemented the primacy of the Constitution above all other ideologies. Yet many Southerners, conservatives and religious fundamentalists refuse to regard the Constitution as sacrosanct, a heresy that liberals disbelieve at their peril. The Constitution has internal enemies! Conservatives regard the ACLU as anti-American-and-worse 'though its credo and acts are solely to defend the Bill of Rights no matter if you are Madelyn Murray O'Hare or Rush Limbaugh. More.... Read More

The Ghosts of Christmases Past

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Wednesday December 07, 2005 · 3:42 PM PST

2005/12/07 · 15:42

These people are fucking dangerous! First they appropriate from the Pagans that bribing, impish deity, Kris Kringle, as a children's indoctrinating surrogate for God. Then they fall for the capitalist lie that the ability to prosper and to buy is a sign of God's blessing. And now on late November's Black Friday, 7:00AM door-busters trample the faces of the less agile to buy the sure-to-be-sold-out X-box 360 whose most popular games among their spoiled and unatheletic spawn are 'Grand Theft Auto' and 'Mortal Combat'. More anger below the fold.... Read More

The Most Practical Tactic for 2006 - Using Only Your Computer

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Sunday November 27, 2005 · 11:45 AM PST

2005/11/27 · 11:45

We talk a lot online about what we (but mostly others) should do to win back congress in 2006 but these ideas quickly scroll off the page and into oblivion. Except for the rare political god, elections are won by the organization of intense 'though grubby on-the-ground doorknocking, phonebanking and such. The principal flaw in this approach is that local registered voterfile data is based upon voter's original registration. Consequently, phone#s & addresses are deplorably out-of-date. You can ammend this deficiency from the comfort of the chair in which you now sit...... Read More

Intelligent Design and The Origin of Life

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Monday November 14, 2005 · 2:30 PM PST

2005/11/14 · 14:30

'The Theory of Intelligent Design' is not a theory since it posits no verifiable hypotheses; it is rather a partisan attack upon natural history by embittered religious creationists who have exhausted all judicial appeals to teach biblical inerrancy to our most vulnerable subjects in public schools and whose logic is based solely upon argument from personal incredulity. Unlike the 'hard sciences' such as physics and chemistry which seek universal principles through exhaustively cross-checked experimental interrogations of nature, natural history is more like forensics: the investigation of events which cannot be repeated, and is therefore more vulnerable to criticism from both within and without that truly demanding and venerable discipline. I shall deal here with the very origin of life, which will hopefully illuminate not only the moment of 'creation' but also the evolution of unique species during the aeons to follow. Below the fold.....Onward!
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Preaching to The Choir - Losing 2006

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Saturday September 17, 2005 · 9:59 PM PDT

2005/09/17 · 21:59

For 2.5 years now I've been coming first to dKos for my daily dose of anger; then to Eschaton, then Billmon, Smirking Chimp, Hullabaloo, Information Clearinghouse, etc., etc. As with the interminable meetings of our local Council for Peace & Justice, I came to realize that it's all one big circle-jerk; nothing really accomplished other than mutual masturbation. So, I returned to the Fayette County Democratic Women's Network for whom I had walked to register Democrats last year. Their new project is to walk all precincts before 2006 to update the county registered voter list which, like all voter lists, is deplorably out-of-date. Read More

Republican Brand Name

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 2:58 PM PDT

2005/08/24 · 14:58

Republicans still deeply abhor the 1960s because they were in much the same position we Democrats find ourselves today. Democrats owned the Administration and Congress; the courts and media were relatively liberal; the population was sympathetic to civil rights and progress; and we even had a misbegotten insergent WAR. And we had a popularly nasty term for the right-wing, comparable to their assiduously now-corrupted term 'liberal'; and that nasty term was 'radical conservative'. We had other terms of 'endearment' like 'McCarthyite' and 'John Bircher', terms as equally poisonous as 'Communist' and 'Red' as applied to liberals but those homegrown examples of repression were less hyperbolic and therefore more believable.

But the term'radical conservative' won't suffice today since Republicans have co-opted both 'liberal' and 'radical' to apply exclusively to the left. We need a brand name for Republicans and I think that name is... Read More

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My Old Kentucky Home

Article 1 Of Constitution Declared Partisan!

You may say I'm a dreamer, but....

Bush - Deadbeat-Dad

When the rapture comes do we get a free orgasm?

Synchronized Gift Buying - Bah Humbug!

Fuck the Constitution!

The Ghosts of Christmases Past

The Most Practical Tactic for 2006 - Using Only Your Computer

Intelligent Design and The Origin of Life

Preaching to The Choir - Losing 2006

Republican Brand Name