Hey y'all! I'm back!
Did ya' miss me? I sure missed being here. I'm still mentally getting my way back in the world so advanced apologies of some of tonight's diary is worded uh...gee...not goodest. ;D
So, I'm home sorting through the mail after my weekend of attempted enlightenment still in the after glow of seeing that Hubby had cleaned the kitchen while I was away, and I see some sort of form donation letter from {insert drum roll here} SHARRON ANGLE. The letter claims that "someone" had told the campaign I was a GOBPer, and she really REALLY needed my money to help defeat the agenda of Senator Harry Reid & President Obama. Now, I'm in a bit of a quandry as to how to respond. Do I send it back with a post - it saying that even if I had all the money in the world, and even if she was the only other person in the world, she would not get a penny from me, or do I send it back with a note suggesting that she stick said form letter in a body orifice of her choice because she's bat$hit dangerous, or do I simply rip the sucker up & put it in "file 13"? Your advice on this issue would be much appreciated! ;D
Today's "this day in history" list is pretty light. On Sept. 20, 1878, Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle and passionate crusader for social reform, was born. Have y'all read The Jungle? Oye'!
On this date in 1998 After playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles sat out a game against the New York Yankees. He set the record without "performance enhancers," HGH, not being a boil on the butt of humanity, or nothin'! He is truly a dying breed in MLB!
Finally, Sophia Loren turns 76 years old today! And, y'all know to what she attributes her lasting beauty & perpetual hotness, yes?! PASTA, BABY!!
Let's Countdown!
Um...yea...uh...Keith, the next time you feel the need to do an imitation of ‘ol Blue Eyes at the beginning of the show, DON’T! ;D So Keith, did ya’ miss me (like he’ll pop in to say he did or didn’t)?! ;D
#5 "The Chronicles of Christine" AKA "DE – Witched" - It sure sounds like Christine O’Donnell’s had a few interesting days while I was away – "values" voters, witchcraft, AND saying thanks but no thanks to previously scheduled visits to the Sunday morning yammer fests – golly! CREW filed a complaint against the Wicked Witch of the East wanna be to the DE election commission & the federal election folks for campaign finance fraud. She might have used campaign coin to buy gas, food, etc. Hell, I’ll take money from people for that stuff; I won’t even say I’m running for office! ;D Ya’ know, we better sic this preacher man onto Christine post haste!
According to $t. $arah from Wasilla, he does good work. How ‘bout that Bill Maher?! On a brief side note, I get free HBO for 3 months as part of our new television machine cable company deal, so I won’t be stuck with YouTubes of Bill for awhile! YAHOO!! So, since Christine ditched FAUX News Sunday, her biggest fan, TurdBlossom, filled in for her. HEY! Keith stole the video I posted! Oh well...it’s worth seeing more than once just to remind everyone of the bat$hit factor invading the GOBP. Homosexuality is an identity problem, huh? Well, what’s her excuse? She has interesting ideas about condoms & AIDS prevention, too. And, the GOBP in DE voted for this "woman." I don’t know whether to be sickened or grateful. OK, if scientists have created mice with human brains, logic would dictate that Christine O’Donnell is a "human" with a mouse brain. Huh? HUH?! Am I right, or am I right???!!! ;D Lucky Alex Wagner gets to chat up the "lovely" lady. Ms. O’Donnell could actually be in the legal soup! Senator Jim "Waterloo" DeMint’s cohort is giving her $250K? If she’s convicted of anything, will he be charged with aiding or abetting or anything fun like that? They could share a cell! Lonesome Rhodes called Christine’s witchcraft dabbling creepy?! OK, she’s toast. The Apple Daily folks have even jumped into the "having sex with someone you love" fray!
#4 "Tempest in a Tea Party" AKA "Split Tea Soup" AKA "Pure as Driving Out Snowe" - Some GOBP "moderates" (is there such a monster anymore?) have rather weakly tried to wrestle the GOBP from the vile tea baggers. Senator Jim "Waterloo" DeMint would rather have a tea bagger minority in Congress than a GOBP majority with "standard" GOBPers. Ya’ know, I’m pretty sure there’s tea bagging in Congress already. ;D
In Alaska, Senator Lisa Murkowski’s decision to go the write – in route might split the bat$hit vote up there, and wouldn’t THAT be a damn DAMN shame. Some tea bagging candidates even want to get back into culture war type issues again like anti – homosexuality & theocracies & that kind of stuff. YIPPEE! *&^%$#@! Hm...OK...so, in a midterm election where the economy is foremost in people’s minds, these "people" are going to insist on going back into people’s private lives & bedrooms again. Okee – dokee! David Weigel gets to continue the bat$hit discussion. Some of the GOBP in the Senate are apparently not thrilled with Senator Waterloo’s vetting process. Vetting process? They don’t need no stinkin’ vetting process; just ask Senator McCentury! Senators Snowe & Collins might be feeling the tea bagger heat, too.
** A bunch of waiters are racing in France. A driver in MI just loved hitting a cop car! There’s some underwater cycling & skiing in Russia. And, we wonder why communism failed! **
#3 "The Great Recession: 2007 – 2009" AKA "Is the Dream Dead?" - The recession officially ended in June 2009. OK, so, we’re supposed to party heartily on that news? Well, if we do party, we’ve still got plenty of lazy unemployed workers to invite because getting unemployment checks are SO MUCH BETTER than having a job – at least Senator Kyl, Sharron Angle, and a whole host of others have said. Colin Powell said President Obama tried to do too much & dropped the ball on economic issues. President Obama took issue with that in a town hall meeting today. Can y’all imagine GWB taking questions like President Obama did today? Never mind...don’t bother answering. AND, HAPPY RETURN TO THE COUNTDOWN DIARY TO ME because here’s Richard Wolffe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Governing after economically terlet times is damn tough. Some Dems are trying to play from GWB’s playbook in 2004. When times are in the $hitter for you, demonize the other side. GWB did it with John Kerry; the Dems are doing that with the GOBP. Well, I’m not sure that’s an apt analogy. First, John Kerry wasn’t exactly a faboo candidate. And, there was a whole mess of MONEY behind that effort to demonize John Kerry; there’s not a bunch of coin behind demonizing the bat$hit nature of the GOBP. As a matter of fact, money is DRIVING the bat$hit nature of the GOBP! "My guy" made a great point; this administration needs to begin telling stories of people who’ve been helped in this first nearly 2 years! That might be a little cold comfort to those still hurting, but I think it would help people begin to think of the alternative should they vote GOBP or stay home on Election Day. High unemployment will be around for a long damn time, and it’s going to take a damn long time to get out of the economic terlet we find ourselves in.
WPITW – America’s Mayor is going to an event in a place called Total Tool; insert your favorite tool joke here. ;D Carl Paladino REALLY wants to debate Andrew Cuomo but clearly did not take my Basic Writing class before writing to Mr. Cuomo! Gov. Jan Brewer is still pushing the undocumented workers are drug carriers & misremembers her apology timing for the headless torsos in the desert thing.
#1 "DADT" AKA "Maine Attraction" - Lady Gaga was in ME to talk repealing DADT. Apparently, Senator Snowe & Collins have the jelly spine when it comes to making their feelings known on the issue. The defense authorization bill which includes the Dream Act & repealing DADT is heading to the Senate floor tomorrow where it will die a slow & painful death because of the homophobic xenophobes in the Senate. There are currently not enough votes to even begin debate. Senator Snowe wants more time – until after the midterm election. Here’s Richard Socarides to talk Senate strateegery; he thinks that just 1 more vote is needed to begin debate on the bill. OK, so the "original" DADT was supposed to let gay military personnel still serve as long as they kept their sexuality private while on the job? So, then, how did we get from there to dishonorably discharging skilled & desperately needed folks? Nearly 80% of the American people support repealing DADT. The "top brass" are all for appealing; those directly underneath them aren’t & are willing to bide their time some more. If the vote doesn’t happen tomorrow, this bill will probably go away until after November. And, Mr. Socarides repeated a point I’ve made here often; President Obama has had the power since January 21, 2009 to end military discharges on the basis of DADT & hasn’t done so. It’ll be interesting to see President Obama’s response.