Lonely vigil: my 39 years on Waikiki [reposted]

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Tuesday September 23, 2014 · 2:20 PM PDT

2014/09/23 · 14:20

[A repost from 2007, inspired by Scott Brown, because stopping them Over There clearly requires a pickup truck and bqhatevwr]

It gets lonely out here, but I don’t mind it so much. Early in the morning, the lifeguards wave hi to me – they all know me. I’m pretty sure they think I’m crazy, but I don’t care. Stupid kids. They have no idea. And actually I’m pretty happy about that – I don’t want them to have to worry about what I worry about. That’s why I’m here, to keep them safe so they can sleep at night without a care in the world.

I know what I’m doing is important to the security of our country, although I’m probably the only one who remembers. I’m probably the only one old enough and with enough sense to understand that Lyndon Johnson knew what he was talking about all those years ago, about our enemies and about how badly they want to hurt the United States and its way of life.

Sometimes I find myself drifting off, lulled into dreamless sleep by the soft murmur of the gently splashing waves at high tide, in the very wee hours of the morning, after all the tourists have gone back to their hotel rooms and the luaus are over.

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Tuesday October 08, 2013 · 12:44 PM PDT

2013/10/08 · 12:44

no image description available — No one will ever accuse him of refusing to negotiate. And history promises to be kind.

"Like, OMG, I just got the best deal signed - I got this crazy guy to agree to stop doing the crazy things he's been doing. Everybody can relax now!"

No one will ever accuse him of refusing to negotiate. And history promises to be kind.

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Wednesday January 30, 2013 · 9:32 AM PST

2013/01/30 · 09:32

Offered without comment:

Richard Feldman, former NRA regional political director and author of Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist, said this while being interviewed in his home for the 2011 HBO documentary, "Gun Fight":

I always keep a few guns around - there's a gun in my bedroom as well. And yes, they're loaded, because when I'm home, they're in use. Doesn't happen very often, but somebody drives up the driveway - it's almost always someone properly here - but if I don't know who they are, I'm gonna greet 'em with a gun in my hand. [interviewer interjects] Well, if I don't know who they are and I'm not expecting somebody, I'm not walking out to the front door without the means to protect myself. I don't know who they are - so I bring my friends: Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.

I'd embed the video if I knew how; suffice to say the above quote appears between 21:58 and 22:31 in the film. Read More

Republicans at fiscal cliff? Let's jump!

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Thursday November 29, 2012 · 12:20 PM PST

2012/11/29 · 12:20

The thought for this came to me last night, but as I Googled for the link to the video below, I found that I was hardly the first to make this connection: h/t Notes from a Boy @ The Window - o.h.

With respect to the rightwing's hilarious "fiscal cliff" framing of the current budget negotiations, President Obama and Congressional Democrats should take a cue from Mel Gibson's Det. Riggs in the original Lethal Weapon:

Det. Riggs: You know you're not the first guy to think of this, ya know. A lot of people've got problems especially during the silly season like now.
Suicidal jumper: You know shit.

Det. Riggs: No, you're wrong, pal, you're wrong.

Suicidal jumper: You don't know nothin’! Don't touch me!
. . .

Det. Riggs: [showing him a cigarette] Here, you want a cigarette? Come on, let's smoke, OK?

Suicidal jumper: Yeah.

Det. Riggs: Go on, take it - yeah. If we take our time we'll both die of cancer. [lights his own cigarette]

Det. Riggs: Here. [shows him the lighter but tricks him and cuffs the two of them together] Hate for ya to leave without me.

Suicidal jumper: Hey, what are you doing!?

Det. Riggs: See this key? Bye-bye. [tosses key off the ledge]

Suicidal jumper: You're crazy!

Det. Riggs: Now you can jump if you want to, but you'll be taking me with you and that makes you a murderer, okay?

Suicidal jumper: You bastard!

Det. Riggs: Yeah, you'd be killin' a cop -

Suicidal jumper: Yeah, I'd be killin' a psycho nut job!

Det. Riggs: Yeah, a psycho, but I'm still a cop. You comin' in? C'mon, I'm goin' in.

Suicidal jumper: Fuck you! I'm jumpin'!

Det. Riggs: [grabs the jumper, stares him crazily in the eyes] Do you really wanna jump? Do ya wanna? Well, then that's fine with me! C'mon, let's do it, asshole, let's do it! I wanna do it!

Suicidal jumper: Wait a minute - whaddaya mean -

[Riggs jumps, taking the jumper with him]

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Friday November 09, 2012 · 10:47 AM PST

2012/11/09 · 10:47

Here's what Karl Rove had to say in 2002:

[Rove] said that guys like [the reporter, Ron Suskind] were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

Huh.

Well.

And -

- speaking of "creating our own reality," oddly enough - here's what Karl Rove had to say Tuesday night:

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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 11:27 AM PST

2012/11/07 · 11:27

Surely President Obama, by George Bush's calculations, earned a lot of political capital last night in what the New York Times will surely term "a decisive win."

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Wednesday September 19, 2012 · 12:15 PM PDT

2012/09/19 · 12:15

Seriously, bubbie? This Obama n0ob? All of a sudden he's the great maven of "redistribution"??

Nicene, please.

Oy - G*d has been in business a lot longer than this Obama pisher - true, He never paid any taxes (and thus never took personal responsibility) or held a private-sector job (and thus never had to Make The Tough Decisions®) but the community He was organizing was - vey's mir, such a headache I get when I have to explain this - pretty much the BIGGEST COMMUNITY EVER -

- so He knows a little sumpn sumpn 'bout running a universe.

Whaddaya think, He's made with a finger??

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 3:36 PM PDT

2012/09/18 · 15:36

At this point, I'm looking at Mitt Romney flailing out there, clearly about to go under, in WAY over his head, and I'm thinking: I don't want to throw this guy an anchor.

NO! Somebody's gotta try and rescue this guy!

All Republicans - in the water!!

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Monday August 13, 2012 · 12:18 PM PDT

2012/08/13 · 12:18

My Photoshop/iMovie skilz are sorely wanting, so I'll leave this to more capable hands (Dood? Vor??)

Anyway, here goes:

The print version looks something like this:

Headline:

Ryan's plan for Medicare

Just below that, a split panel:

Photo on the left: Smiling granny

Photo on the right: Urn on top of the mantel (think "Meet the Parents"), ornately labeled, "Granny."

Type below the photos:

Same name, different package

I think this ad would be HUGE in Florida, for some reason.

You're welcome.

Romney's tax returns: "you people," omertà and this thing of ours

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Monday July 23, 2012 · 12:14 PM PDT

2012/07/23 · 12:14

"This is an impressive crowd: the haves, and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base."
-- George W. Bush

Mitt Romney has no intention of ever being another Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Not just because Roosevelt was one of the greatest presidents ever - which Romney never will be.

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Thursday July 12, 2012 · 11:32 AM PDT

2012/07/12 · 11:32

So I'm driving into work this morning, listening on the Stephanie Miller show to clips of Romney telling the NAACP that he will repeal "Obamacare," when it hits me:

The Republicans are well and truly f#*ked. They HAVE TO repeal "Obamacare."

Here's why: Read More

ON THE SIXTH DAY GOD GRANTED VISTIATION RITES TO SPOUSES

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Thursday May 10, 2012 · 11:02 AM PDT

2012/05/10 · 11:02

YOU LIBRULS DONT UNDERSTAND WHY CONSERVATIVES ARE AGANST GAYE MARRAGE.

ITS SIMPLE

GOD SAID ITS A SIN FOR F@GGOTS TO VISIT THERE F@GGOT HUSBANDS IN THE HOSPITLE

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Gays can't visit their partners in intensive care

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Gay partners can't receive military and veterans' benefits for spouses

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Gay partners can't file for joint adoption of children

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Gays can't take family leave to care for an ailing partner

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Gay partners can't file joint income tax returns

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Gay partners can't claim marital communication privilege during court proceedings

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Are you kidding? Jesus would invite Teh Gheighs in, offer them pie and ask for color suggestions

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