Don't You Get It, I Don't Want it!

Hmmm...

Bush warns Iraqis that patience has limits (headline from Reuters)

Bush starts a war to force the Iraqi people into democracy. They quite obviously were, and are not interested, but Bush wants to "stay the course." Now he is getting pissed at them(stupid freedom haters!)because they are not treating his big favor with due regard?

Did your parents ever buy you something that you really didn't want but they thought would give you responsibility? Let's say, a goldfish when you really wanted a dog or a super cool Gila monster. Your dad kept telling you that you better take things seriously and that goldfish had better not die. It was, after all, your responsibility.

"Screw that friggin' goldfish! Nobody asked me what I wanted."

When the goldfish started getting sick and swimming on its side your dad began to beat you about the head and neck telling you that if you ever wanted to be an adult you were going to have to step up and be responsible. That goldfish was expensive and you were supposed to treat it with respect.

"Screw that friggin GOLDFISH!!"

Valuing Non-Minority Families

In news related to the previous post how about this asshole, David C Schultheis.

Another Republican trying to make illegal immigration a cornerstone of his agenda, wrote a letter to the Greeley CO newspaper to question the immigration status of several members of an Hispanic family that died after a car accident last week.
The family is here legally, and all of the victims were American citizens. The driver was licensed (although inexperienced and only 17) and was insured through the state of Colorado. But, because they have a last name that sounds "Mexican" this dickhead assumes they are here illegally and are going to be a burden on our healthcare system. So, he writes a letter to the newspaper calling for an investigation into their status. Now, when it is found out that the grieving family is legal, he refuses to apologize saying the question he raised was "legitimate."

Excuse me? Legitimate!??? How is calling for an investigation into the legal status of a family that just lost three children legitimate? Is that what Republican officials are passing off as family values these days. When it comes to valuing life I guess we know who gets the greater value.

If you feel the need:
David C Schultheis
PO Box 49282
Colorado Springs, CO
80949-0282
Current: Colorado State Rep. district 14
Candidate: Colorado State Senate District 9
dave@daveschultheis.com
719-532-0546

...Cake and Eat Me too!

I know there are plenty of idiots to go around but why does Colorado seem to have its lion share of them in elected office?

Tom Tancredo more than just looks the part of a clown, he is one. This jackass is offended because he says it isn't fair to English speaking children that non-English speaking children are put in an extra half day of school before kindergarten to help get them up to speed on the language he says should be mandatory for all of them to speak. I'll slow it down a bit.

A. This anal probe (Tancredo) wants to make English the official language in the US.

B. Said probe wants no funding to help people that don't speak English learn how to speak English.

C. Mr Probe further thinks it is unfair to spend any time at all to help those students because it takes away time from the students he thinks need it more… English speaking kids.

I happen to know my ABCs as do jerks like Tancredo, Rick O'Donnell, Marilyn Musgrave and Bob Beauprez but they want to use the ABCs as a gate to filter out people that don't know the English ABCs while simultaneous restricting those people's ability to learn them at all. These rich jerk wads (and they all happen to be white English speakers) run our country and tell us that if we try hard enough we can all succeed just like their daddies' did; but then they pass laws that restrict the people's ability to try.

A Bite on the Ass

There was this bully in school that sold a little pot now and then. He wasn't the crazy kid that was bringing in the heroin and meth though. The crazy one was the sadistic dude in the corner that used to say random shit that nobody quite knew what to do with. He drew pictures of bodies without heads and had rabbits' feet -real ones with half the leg still attached- in his locker. He was weird and freaky so everyone left him alone. The bully was a pain in the ass, no doubt, but that crazy one. . . The bully was kinda friends with the crazy kid. They used each other. The crazy kid wasn't very big and the bully wasn't very smart so they played off of each other. The bully got pot every once in a while from the crazy kid and the crazy kid had someone to run interference for him.

The principal of the school was a bit of a bully himself so he figured the best way to nip the drug problem in the bud would be to suspend the bully. He would use the most noticeable kid as an example. So, the principal planted a few joints in the bully's locker. Low and behold a surprise drug search landed the principal in front of the bully's locker and the bully got suspended.

Meanwhile a few people found out that the principal had planted the drugs and as he vigorously defended his actions, as a way to stop the drug problem before it got worse, the crazy kid built a meth lab in the basement of the school. The principal was so busy making up new and creative lies and distractions to cover up his initial actions that the meth lab went largely ignored. It wasn't that the principal didn't know that the lab was being built it was just that if he brought it up he would have looked like the fool and so it was easier to ignore it and deal with the problem when nobody was looking. Maybe it would just go away. The crazy kid would have to graduate eventually, right?

One day the crazy kid got a bit anxious to make a profit and turned up the production. In his rush he overcooked some chemicals and blew the school all to hell. The entire school went up in smoke killing almost 2% of the student body and destroying the building. But that principal, he stuck by his guns; defending his actions even as bits of the school rained down on innocent bystanders. He should have been looking at the real threat but instead he made a bigger problem by fabricating something rather than going after what really mattered.

Equal Judgement?

On June 27, 2005 Newt was on NPR saying the following:

"I believe that the world is inherently a very dangerous place, and that things that are now very good can go bad very quickly. . . and I am reminded that it is the quality of leaders, the ability to solve problems that enables us to continue until our children and our grandchildren have this freedom, this safety. . . I realized the gap between our civilization, our prosperity, our freedoms is the quality of our leaders, [and their] willingness to face facts."

It is amazing to me to hear him say now that the republican leadership knew about Foley's proclivities but couldn't do anything about it for fear of "gay bashing" (Oct. 1, 2006, edition of "FOX News Sunday). Now that is some quality leadership there.

Lets see, first of all Gingrich ties pedophiles with homosexuals. Wow good leap there and a common conservative tactic that is a non-sequitur if not a bold face lie. As I recall there has been no less than 5 separate cases of teachers having sex with underage students across the US in the last year. None were homosexual in nature. The majority of sexually predators on the Internet are heterosexual. . . So, how would reprimanding Foley have been gay bashing? Secondly, and really most importantly, why in the world would you protect anybody, gay, straight or mindfully ambiguous of an obvious offense of this nature?

Where is that quality leadership that good 'ol Newt talked about just a few months prior? This is the man that vigorously pursued the impeachment of Clinton for a sex act with an adult, but he calls for "prudence" when talking about disciplining someone enticing minors to have sex!?

"Ahhh, it's good to be the king!"

Motes and beams

GOP Congressman Mark Foley resigned yesterday after being caught with his pants down. Although he was the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children he was carrying on sexually explicit IM conversations with an underage page.

Mr. Foley was a vocal advocate for legislation to convict sexual Internet predators. Me thinks he did protest too much. Oops!

Comcastic!

I don't know who the marketing genius is that set up the cable TV programming here but, uh, WOW!

I was skimming the channels the other morning and there was a pretty disturbing hunting program on one of the 20 stations we get with basic cable. Now, I grew up hunting and I am not averse to it, but to have a station devoted to slow motion replays of deer getting shot or birds being transformed into a daffy duck joke, replete with gently floating feathers, just seems wrong. So, as I am drifting in and out of consciousness, recovering from the graveyard shift I work on the weekends, I kept seeing various hunting shows on the same channel.

I was amused enough to regale Jenn with my finding when she got home. However, despite my best efforts I couldn't find the station. She lightly accused me of hallucinating but the next morning I saw it again. I swear to F'n Gawd. I saw an advertisement for an illuminated arrow that promised to help people track "that trophy buck" they just impaled.

This time I made a careful effort to remember which station it was on. When Jenn got home I sat her down to take a look at the absurdity I had discovered. Here's the conversation:

Jenn: "what?"
Dirt: "wait for it"
Jenn: "uh, huh. Sweetie, I am really busy. I have to grade thirty six papers by Wednesday."
Dirt: "wait for it. . ."
Jenn: "what am I waiting for? It's a tampon commercial."
Dirt: "well, yeah but in a minute you are going to see some crazy shit that even Ted Nuggent would blush at."
- - -commercial ends and a movie starts- - -
Jenn: "seriously honey, it's the Birdcage have you never seen the Birdcage?"
Dirt: "well, no, but I swear this is the hunting channel I was telling you about."
Jenn: "It's Bravo, sweetie."

Sure enough it was Bravo. Here is where the marketing genius comes into play. Apparently there isn't enough programming available to make Bravo a 24 hour channel this close to Colorado Springs and Focus on the Family so they split air time with the testosterone channel. Twelve hours of killing Bambi and then twelve hours of Killer fashion tips. Talk about your bizarro worlds. How did they sell that one to their boss?

The Devil in the White House

Hugo Chavez called Geedub "the Devil." Is it true you might ask? Could the president of this here United States actually be ol' Scratch; Beelzebub; Satan; Lucifer himself? Let's take a look.

The Bible often refers to people as Satan or the Devil.
The enemies of King Solomon were called Satan
King David was described as the "Satan" of the Philistines
Jesus called Peter "Satan" when Peter contradicted him
Jesus called Judas "Devil" before Judas betrayed him
Paul warns people reading his epistles not to be "Devils" or slanderers.

The Bible says the Devil:

Is a deceiver: GW has no problem deceiving the American people on any number of issues from his alcohol and cocaine abuse in his "youth" (mid 40's and early 50's) to illegal wire-taps and torture facilities. This Administration fabricated evidence that led American's to belive that a war was necessary.
Deceiver? - Check

Is the eroder of nations: Despite his talk, Afghanistan, Iraq, and even the United States is weaker as a result of his perpetual warmongering.
Eroder? - Check

Is violent: Jesus was quoted as saying "The kingdom. . . suffers violence, and the violent take it by force." Bush's 1% policy and pre-emptive strikes against any country that could possible pose a threat at any time in any conceivable future is pretty forceful.
Violent? - Check

Is an Accuser and Slanderer: Geedub and this administration, are consistently accusing anyone that doesn't agree with them as being "supporters of terrorism," or "freedom haters," or "enemies of democracy."
Accuser/Slanderer? - Check



So was Hugo Chavez right? Did he, in fact, smell sulphur after Bush's speech?







-The preceding was brought to you by countless wasted hours in vacation bible school and church services in my youth. Definitely not what the preachers hoped I would be using scripture to do, I'm sure.-

Allah VS. Jesus; The Grudge Match

I've noticed that when people say I am violent, if I punch them in the throat then they tend to change their opinion.

The best way to prove that abortion is murder is to kill the doctors.

The best way to prove the Pope wrong is to react violently; burn churches, call out a few more fatwas to destroy Western cultures, threaten to kill all infidels. That will definitely convince people that you are civilized.

Stop the Mexicans at the Border

I am with all the patriots and Minute Men on this one.

The Mexicans come into MY COUNTRY and steal all of the good dishwashing, housecleaning, and fruit picking jobs from able body Americans looking to make a great livable wage of $5.15 and hour. Now I find out that they are trying to steal our thunder by having the first known writing in the Western Hemisphere!!?

When will it stop? These peoples South of the border are troublesome. Mr Bush? Mr Cheney? Why, oh why, won't you make a real concerted effort to stop these people before they strike again? Just a couple of suggestions here:

-Maybe we could lower the minimum to something less appealing. That would disincentize them from coming here and stealing our good jobs.

-Maybe we could bomb the hell out of them and destroy these "historical artifacts," that would keep any more of these embarrassing discoveries from popping up.

I'm just looking out for the interests of all real Americans.

Nevermind the Hand... or the Cookie Jar!

IAEA protests "erroneous" U.S. report on Iran

Is Iran attempting to produce nuclear weapons? I don't know but neither does the Bush administration. They say they do know but, let's look at the track record of this administration in the Middle East. Anybody else hear the cries of "wolf?"

Unfortunately its just way too easy to look at life and politics as mere sound bites. Why else did half the US population vote for the failed son of a failed President, not once but twice (yes, I know that the elections are disputable but get over it. At this point it is a done deal).

The methods politicians use are simple, scare Americans shitless about some unforeseen threat and you can get them worked into an irrational frenzy willing to overlook any trace of common sense. The Russians, the Iranians, the Afghanis. . .

Look Geedub, If you are truly concerned over America's "addiction" to oil doesn't it make sense to free up some of the oil and research some alternatives? Nuclear energy is a viable alternative. Besides, what do you care? If Iran develops nuclear weapons (most experts agree that at a good clip it would still be 15-20 years off) Iran is a Shia country and they would probably just kill off all the Sunni's anyway. Hell half your "mission" would really be accomplished at that point.