Thursday, April 15, 2010
Lazer-like Focus
on all the wrong things
This man is running for Governor of the 7th 8th 9th largest economic entity in the world - the State of California. He is currently the Attorney General. [despite the fact that he was not eligible as he’d allowed his law license to expire. But, then, rules are for other people.]
So is he busy investigating the Air Resources Board who created regulations demanding new diesel engines in every piece of diesel equipment in the state [from trucks to heavy equipment to family farm equipment]? These regulations might be worthy of investigation since, on one hand, they’ve already cost countless millions of dollars of loss to small businesses and over 40,000 jobs lost in the LA basin alone and, on the other hand, they were based on a bogus research paper by some dork who bought his “degree” from some online huckster then lied on his resumé. Also worthy of some attention is the head of CARB who, when publicly presented with the facts behind her beloved diesel “research” study, allowed as to how she would commission a “re-study” of the situation: to be conducted by the same people who overlooked the flaws in the first place. Of course they’ll be paid again for their “work.” 40,000 jobless drivers and heavy equipment workers were unavailable for comment.
No? No investigation? So maybe our experienced AG is investigating the common state practice of honoring the “Furlough Friday”—while asking their cubicle hamsters employees to come in and complete the work on Saturdays, at time-and-a-half.
No? Not interested?
So what is our worthy AG interested in?
Jerry Brown… announced last night that he has launched a “broad investigation” to find out how much a California State University foundation intends to pay Sarah Palin when the ex-Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate speaks at a campus benefit in June.
...Brown insisted his investigation has nothing to do with politics. “This is not about Sarah Palin,” he said. Rather, he said, he’s concerned about maintaining “prudent fiscal management” of the state university foundation’s funds. “We are taking this action to make sure that the money raised goes toward the intended educational purposes,” Brown said.
Well isn’t that just the last straw?
Jerry Brown - he wasn’t even relevant then.
NB: Cal State Stanislaus is firmly in the red heartland of California’s agricultural Central Valley; about 15 miles from Modesto [unemployment about 40% tks smelt!, and about 80 miles from Fresno, described by VDH the other day.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
srsly?!?!?
this is the kind of crappola that the non-transparent “transparency” engenders
In exchange for being given unprecedented access to Barack Obama, reporters would promise not to report ‘certain matters’ they may discover while covering the President.
Read on, follow the links and you’re off into the deep weeds. Deep weeds.
The worst stuff that came out about Chimpy McBusHitler was the Rather memos [FAIL] [unless you count the “Booosh is an alien from the planet ZorgNazi” crowd. whatever.] And Boooosh put all his records out there.
o’Bambi - despite being Teh Winnah - did not. And refuses to. And the “press” that could find out in minutes who what Tiger had for breakfast can’t be bothered to do the research. Or is reluctant for some other reason.
And now we’ve got stories about how oBambi was a CIA operative [∅∅won] so powerful to have parlayed his spybotin’ into a Harvard scholarship, a ChiTown placement and a POTUSery?!?
Uh Huh. And he is —in actuality—a 6’8” Swedish grandmother: he’s just that good.
This does not promote the “General Welfare” in the US.
Irresponsible. Amateurish. Self-involved. Crap.
ToDaZeD Non Sequitur
from what perspective did this make sense to anyone?
[In] honoring Women’s History Month[,] Maude Wilkins Elementary School in Maple Shade, N.J. planned to show how women’s fashion had changed through the years with a fashion show this Friday.
All students—girls and boys—were told to wear [women’s] outfits from a particular time period and were expected to clearly explain it’s historical significance.
Expecting boys to cross-dress? Oh, no. Nothing of the sort!
"If your child is a young man, he does not have to wear a dress or skirt, as there are many time periods where women wore jeans, pants and trousers,” a letter to parents said.
Like from 1943-6ish and 1968-ish to now. Lots of choices, there. ‘Course there’s always the whole animal skin thing from pre-history—that could be interesting. Or the Chinese/Middle Eastern/India pajama pants thingie. Lotsa history [and no stigma] there, right?
So, let’s recap: for Women’s History Month we’ll have a fashion show, cuz that’s what the gals are all about, ain’t it? Then, let’s not only make the girls come up with historical fashions and wear ‘em, but let’s make the boys dress up like women throughout history, too!
Was *someone* experiencing Day 2 when she came up with this gem?
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
This will end well...
a plague of ‘tards
“I admit: I didn’t come to this naturally," [rly?!?!?] Gibbs added about his strategic chops during a recent interview. “How you approach every day tactically doesn’t necessarily determine who wins either a campaign, a nomination, an election or a legislative battle."
wha? [oh, nevermiiind; I’m just a raacist, ideologically stubborn moron. of course I don’geddit.]
"Robert is far more of a strategist and plays more of a strategic role than people realize,” said Anita Dunn, the Obama administration’s former communications director [and Mao-loverdevoteé] . “He is one of the very few people who can sit in on anything he wants to sit in on."
Robert Gibbs does not seem particularly attached to his office. ... The office doesn’t looked lived-in because the occupant is only half-occupied these days with his official duties.
Well, that much is obvious. But I thought it was considered a feature, not a bug. ...or that dumbhalf-assed was his style.
Gibbs serves two roles in the White House. He is the public face and mouthpiece of the administration, but he is also the consummate presidential confidant—the Obama traveling buddy during the campaign and ever-trusted Oval Office adviser.
yeesh.
[Gibbs] is considered, along with Obama’s presidential campaign manager, David Plouffe, a top candidate to take the place of senior strategist David Axelrod when the Washington-weary keeper of the Obama message leaves to focus on the 2012 reelection.
Oh yeah—the Pillsbury Dough Spokes-hole is a Master Strategist. That’s how he got stuck with this job—his masterly strategy at political in-fighting.
Actually, this might be good nooz.
ToDaZeD Raaaacist Exercise
reachin’ for it
Canada, eh?
Sumo suits... are racist and dehumanizing instruments of oppression, according to the student government of Queen’s University.
...from the “apology letter:” Warning: don hip-waders
Asking students to wear these suits and partake in the activity appropriates an aspect of Japanese culture. This is wrong because it turns a racial identity into a costume; the process of putting-on and taking-off a racial identity is problematic because it dehumanizes those who share that identity and fails to capture the deeply imbedded histories of violent and subversive oppression that a group has faced. The event also devalues an ancient and respected Japanese sport, which is rich in history and cultural tradition.
Queen’s University sounds like a fun place.
Last year, in a story that made national headlines, the Queen’s administration appointed six “dialogue facilitators” to promote discussion of social justice, partly by intervening in conversations when they overhear offensive speech.
...In a report last week on racism in Ontario universities by the Canadian Federation of Students, one Queen’s student reported that "white privilege” permeates the “walls, books, classrooms and everything that makes Queen’s what it is."
Oh yeah—the horrifying event these raaaaacists planned? A Fundraiser for a Food Bank
Monday, April 12, 2010
On The Distances
and the perspectives they bring
... So I am as worried about the elite upscale yuppie as the poor illegal alien. The former have lost almost all connection with physical labor, the physical world, or the ordeal that civilization endures to elevate us from the savagery of nature.
While many were fit, and seem to work out, bike, ski, and hike, none understood the mechanics that lie beneath the veneer of the good life — the chain-sawing, hammering, drain-unplugging, tractor-driving, irrigating, and welding that allows a pleasant afternoon Greek salad and cappuccino on University Avenue — the disconnect between those Pennsylvania “clingers” and Obama’s arugula-eating crowd.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Tiger: Mastered
*giggle*eww*snork*
Second planned message:
“SEX ADDICT? YEAH. RIGHT. SURE. ME TOO!”
Buh Bye
aaadios
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) ... plans to announce Friday that he will not run for reelection
John Paul Stevens ... said Friday he will step down when the court finishes its work for the summer in late June or early July...
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Who's Ma Dadi?!?
shoes on fire… walkin’ down teh road
... Qatari diplomat who sparked a bomb scare after sneaking a smoke in an airplane bathroom was traveling for a consular visit to see an imprisoned al Qaeda sleeper agent. [ Ali Al-Marri...in prison in Colorado]
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
ToDaZeD Tech Minute
oPad/oShiite
OR *clicky*clicky*
Sunday, April 04, 2010
*heavy sigh*
how do ya fight it?!?
This guy describes what I’ve experienced lately. Too much.
...What bewilders me is that the signals that are exchanged (and on the right they would be: “the elitists and freeloaders on the left,” rah-rah Rush, and something about Obama’s leanings toward treachery and tyranny; I have close friends who reach out to me with those signals, and I can’t return them, either) are the crudest and most stereotyped and involve the least thought. They are knee-jerk, groupthink slogans precisely because their function is tribal identification in an era when the old identifiers like class and religion have become muted and muddled....
Thing is, sometimes it’s from folks I have no trouble setting right. And sometimes it comes from folks I enjoy, respect and—other than politically—respect and admire.
I don’t know how to handle it.
It makes me angry—very angry—that things have devolved to this.
... The divisions are real, but those who exacerbate them for sport or profit, on both sides, will deserve the blame for what’s to come. ...
ToDaZeD Super Idea, Binky!
think Teh iWon will fall for it?
Chavez said Moscow and Caracas would strengthen security ties to “continue increasing Venezuela’s defense capability” and move ahead with cooperation on nuclear energy.
...Venezuela, South America’s top oil exporter and a major U.S. supplier, has expanded military ties with Russia under Chavez, who says the United States could attack Venezuela for its oil reserves.
...Putin’s first visit to Venezuela is seen as part of an effort by Moscow to help Russian firms expand abroad and own oil assets all over the world.
...Chavez hopes Russian cooperation will reach as far as the space industry. “We could even install a satellite launcher,” he said on Thursday.
Wonder if Hugo looked into Pooty-Poot’s eyes…
ToDaZeD Raaaaacist Post
"In a struggle for power, first seize the language"
When the language has been stolen from you, steal it back.
Since we can’t seem to escape the term “racist,” I suggest that we embrace the term, and let other Americans understand what a conservative racist is:
I’m a racist because I believe that blacks are fully capable human beings who are perpetually demeaned by the liberal theory holding that blacks cannot function without handouts from condescending, rich white people.
RTWT.
Friday, April 02, 2010
ToDaZeD ...wow
bravery
Wearing a black burkha, mother-of-four Hissa Hilal delivered a blistering poem against Muslim preachers ‘who sit in the position of power’ but are ‘frightening’ people with their fatwas, or religious edicts, and ‘preying like a wolf’ on those seeking peace. ...described hard-line clerics as ‘vicious in voice, barbaric, angry and blind, wearing death as a robe cinched with a belt,’
... ‘My poetry has always been provocative,’ she said. ‘It’s a way to express myself and give voice to Arab women, silenced by those who have hijacked our culture and our religion.’ ...
Her poem got loud cheers from the audience last week and won her a place in the competition’s final on April 7.
It also brought her death threats, posted on several Islamic militant websites.
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