“I Don’t Think About You At All”
3 hours ago
Friday, November 16, 2007
Guiliani Fundraiser Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
That would be James Ortenzio, the former chairman of the New York County (Manhattan") Republican Committee. He failed to disclose $180,000 in income.
GITMO; again
The United States of America had a written policy of "disappearing" prisoners by denying access to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Either you get it or you don't.
Either you understand that the prison at Guantanamo Bay has badly stained the honor and reputation of our country or you do not.
Either you comprehend that the Bush Administration has turned itself into a cabal of war criminals and the Department of Defense has willingly gone along with that or you do not.
Either you are a "good little German" or you are not.
Either you get it or you don't.
Either you understand that the prison at Guantanamo Bay has badly stained the honor and reputation of our country or you do not.
Either you comprehend that the Bush Administration has turned itself into a cabal of war criminals and the Department of Defense has willingly gone along with that or you do not.
Either you are a "good little German" or you are not.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
What Were They Thinking....
... when they made "Lions for Lambs?"
First off, at 26% on the Tomatometer, it's a lousy movie.
Second, in the first week, it kind of bombed at the box office.
Third, and this is my beef with this movie and "Rendition" and "In the Valley of Elah" and the upcoming release of "Redacted" and all the rest: Who the fuck wants to drop ten bucks or so on a movie about the Iraq War? You can see all the depressing shit you want on the evening news or on cable or on the Internet for nothing. You can pick up any newspaper (other than those printed by theReich News Corp.) and read about this stuff.
Why the hell would anybody in their right mind go pay good money to see that stuff on the Iraq War?
You might recall that during the last bloody quagmire, there weren't any commercially successful movies about the Vietnam War (that I know of, at any rate). John Wayne's movie "the Green Berets" was a fucking joke at the time. About the only popular war movie at the time was "MASH" and that was about the Korean War. "Apocalypse Now" and "the Deer Hunter" came out in the late `70s, after the end of the war.
So why is Hollywood so stupid this time around?
First off, at 26% on the Tomatometer, it's a lousy movie.
Second, in the first week, it kind of bombed at the box office.
Third, and this is my beef with this movie and "Rendition" and "In the Valley of Elah" and the upcoming release of "Redacted" and all the rest: Who the fuck wants to drop ten bucks or so on a movie about the Iraq War? You can see all the depressing shit you want on the evening news or on cable or on the Internet for nothing. You can pick up any newspaper (other than those printed by the
Why the hell would anybody in their right mind go pay good money to see that stuff on the Iraq War?
You might recall that during the last bloody quagmire, there weren't any commercially successful movies about the Vietnam War (that I know of, at any rate). John Wayne's movie "the Green Berets" was a fucking joke at the time. About the only popular war movie at the time was "MASH" and that was about the Korean War. "Apocalypse Now" and "the Deer Hunter" came out in the late `70s, after the end of the war.
So why is Hollywood so stupid this time around?
Standing in Moral Quicksand
Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, saying the Democratic Party has been persistently hostile to opponents of abortion rights, asserted yesterday that the support of many Catholics for Democratic candidates "borders on scandal."-- Boston Globe
I'm sorry. A national church that, in essence, elevated pedophilia to an art form has no foundation from which to broadcast any sort of moral outrage. The American Catholic Church colluded with the pedophiles within its midst and did nothing about it until it was forced to by the victims who sued and by the belated reaction of law enforcement.
The Boston Archdiocese paid over $21 million to settle claims before the most recent scandal broke. Then they had to pay another $85 million and that was after they sought to drag all of the plaintiffs through the mud.
But the Boston Archdiocese was a bunch of pikers compared to the Los Angeles Archdiocese, which agreed to pay over $600 million.
From one end of the country to the other, the dioceses have transferred or sheltered or covered up child abuse by priests. If it wasn't for the sheer weight of the evidence and the persistence of the victims, they'd still be covering it up and transferring their child-raping perverts around the country.
And these clowns feel they have a moral basis on which to preach about anything?
Give me a fucking break.
I'm sorry. A national church that, in essence, elevated pedophilia to an art form has no foundation from which to broadcast any sort of moral outrage. The American Catholic Church colluded with the pedophiles within its midst and did nothing about it until it was forced to by the victims who sued and by the belated reaction of law enforcement.
The Boston Archdiocese paid over $21 million to settle claims before the most recent scandal broke. Then they had to pay another $85 million and that was after they sought to drag all of the plaintiffs through the mud.
But the Boston Archdiocese was a bunch of pikers compared to the Los Angeles Archdiocese, which agreed to pay over $600 million.
From one end of the country to the other, the dioceses have transferred or sheltered or covered up child abuse by priests. If it wasn't for the sheer weight of the evidence and the persistence of the victims, they'd still be covering it up and transferring their child-raping perverts around the country.
And these clowns feel they have a moral basis on which to preach about anything?
Give me a fucking break.
Let's See the Wingnuts Rally For Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds has been indicted for lying under oath and obstruction of justice. Bonds faces four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Neo-cons and the various Wingnuts to come flocking to Bonds's defense. They should, though, for Bonds has not been charged with any underlying crime. Aand they should spout off how the charges will ruin his reputation and tarnish his home run record, and they should be talking to Bush about commuting Bonds's sentence if he gets convicted and maybe pardoning him.
But they won't, because Bonds is not, just as Martha Stewart was not, one of Dick Cheney's asshole minions who knows all of the dirty little secrets of Dick Voldemort Cheney's fiefdom in the White House.
Unlike Scooter Libby.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Neo-cons and the various Wingnuts to come flocking to Bonds's defense. They should, though, for Bonds has not been charged with any underlying crime. Aand they should spout off how the charges will ruin his reputation and tarnish his home run record, and they should be talking to Bush about commuting Bonds's sentence if he gets convicted and maybe pardoning him.
But they won't, because Bonds is not, just as Martha Stewart was not, one of Dick Cheney's asshole minions who knows all of the dirty little secrets of Dick Voldemort Cheney's fiefdom in the White House.
Unlike Scooter Libby.
For Jean Shepard Fans
Ho, ho, ho! You'll shoot your eye out, kid!
Spacebar pumps up the rifle, use the mouse to aim and fire.
Spacebar pumps up the rifle, use the mouse to aim and fire.
Arrr, Me Hearties!! Heave To And Prepare To Be Slaughtered!! Arrr!!
My pirate name is:
Black Ethel Bonney
Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
Since, as they say, the difference between being a pirate and being a chimperor is just a matter of scale...
Differences Between the USA and Bush (a Primer for Morons)
Just go look at it.
I am so blogrolling this guy! The entry he posted on Matthew Dowd, the latest Bushie to gag on the Kool-Aid, is worth quoting in full:
I'll leave it to you to read this profile [see the original entry- EBM] of former-Bushie Matthew Dowd, but the best I can say for it is that it is a profile in squishy self-serving courage, and a precursor of many more to come, as members of this misbegotten administration will be busy trying to wash the blood from their hands and the stink from their bodies before the last body drops. Each one will be an admission that it took years of closely working with George Bush before they recognized that, although he is good-hearted, at the end of the day he is still an incompetent boob; something that most people recognize after ten minutes of watching him in a press conference.
It's not the Nuremberg defense, but it's close enough for government work.
I am so blogrolling this guy! The entry he posted on Matthew Dowd, the latest Bushie to gag on the Kool-Aid, is worth quoting in full:
I'll leave it to you to read this profile [see the original entry- EBM] of former-Bushie Matthew Dowd, but the best I can say for it is that it is a profile in squishy self-serving courage, and a precursor of many more to come, as members of this misbegotten administration will be busy trying to wash the blood from their hands and the stink from their bodies before the last body drops. Each one will be an admission that it took years of closely working with George Bush before they recognized that, although he is good-hearted, at the end of the day he is still an incompetent boob; something that most people recognize after ten minutes of watching him in a press conference.
It's not the Nuremberg defense, but it's close enough for government work.
Buried P-38
This one is not part of the Ghost Squadron, but one that crash-landed on a beach and then was buried.
I don't know as the structure is going to be all that sound, what with being buried in salt water sands for 65 years.
If you had $1,350 (or less) in 1946, you could buy a P-38 from the War Assets Administration. That's about $15,000 in today's money. A flyable P-38 is nearly priceless, I doubt if one would sell for under $2 million. Maybe over $3 million.
(H/T to the Ornery Bastard)
I don't know as the structure is going to be all that sound, what with being buried in salt water sands for 65 years.
If you had $1,350 (or less) in 1946, you could buy a P-38 from the War Assets Administration. That's about $15,000 in today's money. A flyable P-38 is nearly priceless, I doubt if one would sell for under $2 million. Maybe over $3 million.
(H/T to the Ornery Bastard)
A Really Meaningless Number
10,000 hits, at least since I enabled a statistics app.
#10,000 was from IP 67.151.241.98 in Lincoln, MA.
The number is meaningless because a lot of hits are from folks looking for pictures, which the Google-bots find and index. Then there are hits from anyone who is using my blogroll as a way to avoid cluttering their browser with bookmarks (there are a few blogs that I bookmark for that reason, because they have really neat blogrolls). And then there are the oodles of hits I generate every time I post or edit a previous blog entry.
So while the number of hits might mean *something*, it has about as much relationship to reality as does whatever metric du jour that Stupie Mcfuckwit is using to proclaim: "No shit, we really are making progress in Iraq, I'm not kidding this time, honest injun!!!"
#10,000 was from IP 67.151.241.98 in Lincoln, MA.
The number is meaningless because a lot of hits are from folks looking for pictures, which the Google-bots find and index. Then there are hits from anyone who is using my blogroll as a way to avoid cluttering their browser with bookmarks (there are a few blogs that I bookmark for that reason, because they have really neat blogrolls). And then there are the oodles of hits I generate every time I post or edit a previous blog entry.
So while the number of hits might mean *something*, it has about as much relationship to reality as does whatever metric du jour that Stupie Mcfuckwit is using to proclaim: "No shit, we really are making progress in Iraq, I'm not kidding this time, honest injun!!!"
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