An Experiment in Adjusting an Alcohol-based Reality Filter.
The more beer you drink, the more the world seems to make sense. I'm not sure if this is the beer's fault, or the world's. Experiments proceed.
For pigeonholing purposes, I consider myself a South Park Conservative: I believe in Loose Women and Tight Borders but I'm getting anime porn and legally mandated lounges for day laborers...further adjustment to the model may be needed.
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Just days after he checked himself out of detox... rumors in Hollywood have him shopping a script with Mel Gibson and Lindsay Lohan... a former icon continues his sad decline. Close associates say they saw it coming, confirming reports that the star had been running around pantsless in public since the early 1930's...
I do not like Meg "Zsa Zsa" Whitman. I didn't like her spendthrift campaign, her scorning of her own party, her past associations. I was probably going to wind up voting for her, but I didn't see her as being a whole lot better than Brown would have been.
But if Jerry Brown is taking money from THESE scum:
Then fuck Jerry Brown too. Compared to him, Meg Whtiman is the miraculous love child of Margaret Thatcher and Mother Teresa.
Howard Berman, the 28-year Congressman who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, deigned to return to his district for a meeting with the Sherman Oaks Homeowner's Association.
He stood there in the corner schmoozing while the Association board talked about the squatter problem in Sherman Oaks: so many houses have been foreclosed south of Ventura Boulevard that a large squatter community has sprung up, moving into and in many cases even running businesses out of the foreclosed homes.
Sherman Oaks is one of the more upscale communities at this end of the San Fernando Valley, and south of Ventura is its more upscale end. To have a squatter situation like that, with the accompanying increases in crime and squalor, in such a neighborhood is a telling indictment of this Administration's handling of the current economic meltdown.
Yet when Berman took the podium to speak, he seemed never to have heard a word they said. After applauding his own vote on Obamacare, to tepid applause, he praised his own vote for the stimulus bill... the one that has done nothing to help the people of Sherman Oaks. He repeated Obama's debunked claim of 2.8 million jobs created, while boasting of all the jobs the bill was bringing to his district through the government programs it funded... while ignoring the fact those jobs were going to exisiting state and city empoloyees who didn't live in his district.
He didn't seem to be able to pick up on the connection between the trouble people were having getting loans and the Administration's demand that the lenders start keeping larger cash reserves against what Geithner has called "a future government intervention."
He knew nothing about the judicially imposed economic and ecological disaster in the Central Valley, where hundreds of miles of farms have been destroyed by having their water turned off, and didn't seem to see why having no farms might not be a good thing for California. He suggested that he'd heard the water had been turned on again, which is not correct, in fact, further cuts are imminent.
He thought Ahmedinijad getting the Bomb might be a bad thing, but didn't know what to do about it.
He supported the Ground Zero mosque.
He did agree to debate his GOP opponent, Merlin Froyd, which is a change from a week ago when his didn't know he had an opponent. Berman has done virtually no campaigning in the District he has come to view as his private fief.
He supported repealing the Bush tax cuts for the upper income brackets, ignoring the fact that the people listening to him were IN the upper income brackets.
There was no sense of urgency in the man, and damned little, in my opinion, of any real interest in the concerns of his constituents. He had nothing to say to squatters but was all over carbon credits, loves 'em.
Now for someone who treats the interests of the people with genuine passion, consider his opponent, Merlin Froyd...
Did my Rule 5 in real life yesterday, so belated Humpday post.
Went to my favorite coffee shop for lunch. They have a new smoothie, a banana/milk combo. Tasty, plenty of potassium, D and calcium.
The shop owner is working the counter with the regular gal. I order the banana smoothie, she tells the regular gal. Then she asks me if I want whipped cream, sure I do.
She turns around and tells the regular gal, "Whip his banana."
Silence, as Terry Pratchett wrote, except for the sound of several people thinking very fast. At least two necks turn red. Owner lady turns back around.
"Okay," I said, "at least four off-color comments just went through my mind."
... according to sources involved with Chase, the feds are instructing the banks to freeze all mortgage apps and refis under the current guidelines and programs pending a major change...
STATMENT THAT WILL APPEAR IN THE CALIFORNIA SAMPLE BALLOT
"It’s time to reject the Washington DC style of representation in the 27th District. "As a lifelong San Fernando Valley resident, I pledge to represent you in Washington DC.” Mark Reed, a descendant of the Mohawk and Apache with mixed European heritage. He is an entrepreneur, successful actor and advocate. At age 26 Mark purchased his first company, at age 28 opened a retail store and at age 32 began his third company. "Mark served on the Screen Actor’s Guild Board of Directors, currently sits on the KCET Community Advisory Board, and is National Chairman for American Indians in Film and Television. A tireless advocate for veterans, Mark works to save the VA Sepulveda and West Los Angeles medical centers from encroachment by private sector developers. "Mark is a fiscal conservative in favor of limited government. He will represent every member of the 27th District, regardless of political affiliation, bringing jobs, security and opportunity to the San Fernando Valley . Mark pledges to bring accountability, honesty and integrity back to Congress and will read every bill before casting your vote. "Mark encourages every constituent to research his platform and campaign at www.markreedforcongress.com. Every voter should consider the facts. Don’t be taken in by campaign rhetoric and attack ads. "When evaluated by his strength of character, his commitment to the district, and his position on the issues, Mark Reed is the best and only choice for a better 27th District and a better United States of America.
If true, this represents a return to past troubling patterns of behavior for the beloved entertainer whose show biz success has been equaled only by his turbulent private life...
It Isn’t Watergate, but It Is Nixonian
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At WSJ:
WASHINGTON–Veteran journalist Bob Woodward accused Obama administration
officials of invoking the worst instincts of former President Richard Ni...
Gov. Christie's Lap Band
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People's Blog *Gov. Christie's Lap Band*
This just in, new evidence of Gov. Christie's lap band.
[image: gov christie lap band 256.jpg]
*read more ...* *S...
How High Does the IRS Scandal Go?
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Not long ago on his radio show Mike Huckabee said Benghazi would bring down
President Obama. “When a president lies to the American people and is part
of a...
Veganism and Socialism in Texas
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In an effort to lead a healthier life, I decided to go vegan 3 weeks ago.
I’ve ended my long-lasting affair with ice-cream, meats and cheeses. It
hasn’t ...
Obama Finally Admits He’s A Socialist
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With all of the coverage of the Obama administration’s scandals last week
you might have missed how President Obama let slip how he’d really like to
go all...
UNDERCARD OVERACHIEVERS
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If you’ve ever been to an Anthony Mundine fight, you’ll know that the best
entertainment comes from unknowns in the support bouts. Those scrappy
combatants…
If You Like Your Dancer, You Can Keep Your Dancer
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Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s sex trial is in full swing, and this
week’s testimony revealed some rather disturbing news. The nightclub dancer
at t...
WEEKEND PROJECT
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*The wind blew my willow tree into the shape of a question mark. This is
what I did about it - S.L.*
The letter "L" in Keyword *S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L* stands for...
Science! Inside Psychiatry’s DSM-5
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If you have the time, go read Carol Tavris's excellent essay on
psychiatry's latest diagnostic manual, the DSM-5. [T]he DSM has grown too
powerful to ignor...
Sunday funnies
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Probably the strangest headline I’ve read this week: “Bieber to lose monkey
to Germany at midnight”.
Just-as-good substitute products from Paco Enterprises...
Weekend Movie Night -- Miracle Mile (1988)
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A love story, a pre-apocalyptic story and a story near my Couch pad --
Miracle Mile was a movie I always rented from the Video Store in Forest
Hills on 108...
The TCOTS Six Days Of Cheesecake: Saturday
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All good things must come to an end — that is a fact of life [and,
therefore, a conservative truth] and so we must end the week-long
celebration of the Fif...
Air Traffic Control for Witches
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Witchcraft is taken seriously in Swaziland where many people believe in the
power of black magic. Swaziland is cracking down on high-flying witches by
bann...
Under the Fedora IRS Orioles and it ain’t over
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Ok NOW I understand why so many business’ that seemed to sympathize with
what my blog and Radio Show were hesitant to advertise in 2011 & 2012. This
week r...
Rhetorical Limitations
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President Obama is often lauded as the greatest rhetorician alive—when he’s
not being worshipped as a messiah—even by pundits who …
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Anzac Day
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Business brought Mine Host to the big smoke late in the afternoon on Anzac
Day. This brought one of life's new experiences; how Anzac Day is
finished of...
TeaMZ Exclusive: JayZ and Beyonce Cuban Vacation
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Conservative Gossip Mag TeaMZ has come out with a new Exclusive of JayZ and
Beyonce's Cuban Vacation! Just kidding, it's another kickass video from me
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Government Can't Change What Marriage Means
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*You are hoping by its force and might, by fiat, that government will change
what marriage means. But government can’t change the state of marriage
fundam...
On ‘Being Gay at CPAC’ at National Review Online
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Friday afternoon at CPAC I had a pleasant conversation with National Review
Online fellow, Betsy Woodruff, who was trying to, as the headline says,
sort ou...
Vote for Blogress Diva!
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I would actually suggest that you vote for one of the women who’s writing
on a semi-regular basis, rather than me: I think I’m only there based on my
past ...
An Unclever Man
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via publiousforum.com
*ef·fete*
[ i ft ]
1. decadent: characterized by decadence, overrefinement, or
overindulgence
2. weak: lacking the str...
On Battle and Courage and Men
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One of my very favorite quotes is the following. Battle is the most
magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out
all that is b...
"Sticking it out may not be for everyone..."
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*"**'Hillary Rodham Clinton* *says husband Bill often brings her romantic
gifts: a giant wooden giraffe from an African trip, for example, and a
Chanel w...