Good sparkin' grief, I am detecting a definite theme because I'm "enjoying" yet another truly $hitacular day. So, advanced apologies if I come off overly - sensitive or *itchy tonight. I am STILL WAITING for that San Francisco sugar daddy (or momma!) to come to my rescue!
With all the primaries & run - offs & other news of the day, this diary & comments therein will probably be all over the place, so let me begin the "merry" mash - up!
It's been 50 days since the explosion & sinking of the Deepwater Horizon off - shore oil facility in the Gulf of Mexico. 50...stinkin'...days... In another pretty darn good zinger from President Obama, he said that if Tony Hayward worked for him, the "honorable" Tony "I Want My Life Back" would HAVE his life because because his sorry arse would've been sacked. And, sometimes, when I think of people getting sacked, I come back to this; DO NOT let it be said I don't "know my audience!"
50's also a running theme of sorts - at least in my mucked up little mind today. The stand - off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco lasted 50 days. We don't need a reminder of how THAT turned out, do we? Some notables that have or will turn 50 years old this year include Bono, Sarah Brightman, and Sean Penn. In a depressing side note, John F. Kennedy, Jr. would've turned 50 on November 25th of this year.
We also have 50 states in our country; check local listings for secessionists in your neck of the woods. 12 of these states are having primaries and/or run - off elections today. Some of these states include Georgia...
South Carolina...
Iowa (teh gayz can get married there, ya' know!)...California (teh gayz should be getting married there except for the efforts of out - of - state "interests" swooping in & telling citizens of another state how to live their lives)... and Arkansas (hoping praying supplicating the citizens of that state to let me give my pinning in my Blanche Lincoln voodoo a permanent retirement!). In a totally non - primary vein, the next trial of the century is beginning in one of my neighboring states - Illinois; let the games begin! ;D
I'll note just a few "this day in history" items. On June 8, 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. On this date in 1987, Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents. In a sad WTF vein, on this date in 1998, the National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston its president. I cannot nor never will be able to fathom how a guy goes from marching with Dr. King, voting for JFK, and opposing the Vietnam War to the mother sparkin' NRA!
Finally (I promise!), here's a Nancy Sinatra birthday shout - out message to Blanchie Lincoln - I HOPE!
Let's Countdown; HEY! There's a crescent in South Carolina's state flag - MUSLIM HEATHENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!