Damn..its a long test but I enjoyed it.

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Benevolent Inventor

Several People have this one up on their sites, so I do not remember whom I got it from..sorry.
Its very interesting and not one of those cheapie ones that just asks a couple of questions..its very detailed and took me about 20 minutes as I recall, I did it a couple days ago. So, if you have the time and your bored to death..do it and post your DNA..please.

You click on the title which in this case is the Benevolent Inventor line. If you hover over the colored blocks it shows you different parts of my personality...as it will yours. Try it! I just don't understand how I can have high masculinity and high femininity..confusing..but maybe that is moi..a confusing jumble of traits.

HNT shadows and sunsets.

It's the ball and chain..aka my husband. This was taken a few years ago at our favorite RV spot on the Cali coast, Hobson Beach. Its located in Ventura county. Its a very small, secluded spot with only about 20 RV spots..cool eh?I do not camp..my idea of camping is a "fully stocked" Winnebago, which we have. The great thing about this spot is that you can "rough" it and park right up against the edge of the ocean sans any of the extra's like electricity or cable or plumbing..OR..you can park back from the edge and have the above mentioned items..which is where WE park it..god forbid I don't get to watch any baseball LOL.The view you see is what we see from our RV..its awesome ain't it? When the tide is high, the waves come over the rocks and slap against the RV's in the front row..not hard mind you, just barely touching, caressing the front of your camper with spray from the waves.I love this place and its cheap..about 30 bucks a night..which isn't bad when you consider what you get for that money..the sound of the ocean, a beautiful sunset each night and of course..all those extras. Nothing like camping and being able to watch ESPN or HBO..thats MY idea of a great camping trip..sorry..thats my story and I am sticking to it :)

Edit: I also have a submission for the HNT@theRogue, the San Joaquin Valleys very own performance festival..its not attached to this profile..so if you want to take a gander at it, head on over to here.

To dream the Impossible Dream

Shelly let me steal this from her this morning. Its old but its always good for a smile don't ya know? Shes a good read but warning, will robinson, warning...she's political, but funny as hell too. I love her post title regarding the UAE fiasco: Going Once, going twice, Sold! Port Security to the lowest bidder!

Frank Thomas, the Big Hurt, gets bitch slapped.

Why is it that when athletes leave a team after a long stay, they bad-mouth their former team. Why can't they act like they have a little class? Perhaps they fall into the traps set for them by some of those nasty media types looking for a story. Teams never talk shit about players they don't re-sign or trade for a bag of balls.

The Chi-Sox GM really stuck it to Frank when asked about some public whining the Big Hurt had done after his contract was bought out in the off season for a paltry..cough..3.5 million. Kenny Williams called Frank an "Idiot" and also mentioned that the owner of the Sox, Jerry Reinsdorf loaned Frank some cash at one point during his career when he was making decent coin. He really let it fly when he mentioned that not one player or employee in Chi-town missed ol Frank.

The GM also said Frank should be a man and call him if he had "issues"..I agree.

So Frank called him yesterday. He said they got some things straightened out but wouldn't elaborate....he also said they wouldn't be on each others Christmas card list. Then Frank changed the subject and for once kept his yap shut.

How did that crow taste Frank?

Fat Tuesday

Today is the big day in Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday. They are holding Mardi Gras you know..whether its right or wrong to do so is a big question being debated by some.

There are still residents of New Orleans without places to live. There are people rebuilding but not elevating their homes. Scientists state unequivocably that the hurricane season is getting longer and more intense each year thanks to global warming.

The city and parish still have not given residents any guidelines for rebuilding. The building codes haven't changed to reflect the weakness in the levees. This of course means it will all happen again, the flooding and destruction.

Its incredibly expense to raise your house. Sure, many of the poor residents can't afford to rebuild, let alone put their homes on stilts. But some people that CAN afford to raise their homes aren't either. They are building bigger or nicer homes, instead of spending the money on insuring their home will survive the next big hurricane.

And it will happen again. Take it to the bank sportsfans.

An email sent to me by my sister-in-law.

I think its a dig at my leftwing beliefs, my sister-in-law is a card carrying member of the religious right..what do you think?

Here's a quote from a government employee who witnessed a recent interaction between an elderly woman and an antiwar protester in a Metro station in DC:
"There were protesters on the train platform handing out pamphlets on the evils of America. I politely declined to take one.
"An elderly woman was behind me getting off the escalator and a young (20ish) female protester offered her a pamphlet, which she politely declined.
"The young protester put her hand on the old woman's shoulder as a gesture of friendship and in a very soft voice said, 'Lady, don't you care about the children of Iraq?'
"The old woman looked up at her and said, ' Honey, my father died in France during World War II, I lost my husband in Korea, and a son in Vietnam.
All three died so you could have the right to stand here and bad mouth our country. If you touch me again. I'll stick this umbrella up your ass and open it.' "
~God Bless America~

My reply was: No one died in Vietnam for my right to free speech, but they did die for something..it was called Presidential Ego and "war is good for big business and the ecomony".

Gee, she didnt reply to that one.

Korn rocks Bakersfrigginfield...and other items of interest.

Korn, a bunch of local gents who made it big, opened their tour here in town tonight..gee, I missed it.

But Bob Dylan is coming to town in April.I want to see him, its been over 20 years since I last saw Bob...wonder if he's changed much(i say with a straight face).

Axl freaking Rose is finally going to unleash "Chinese Democracy" on the world according to the latest rumors..I will believe it when I can buy a copy...yes I will buy it..I loved GnR...I know this isn't the real GnR but hey..its worth a shot.

The shit is hitting the fan in Iraq..seriously..I knew it would happen just didn't know when. When religion runs a country it always falls apart if there is more than one religion in the region.

Tricky Dick hasn't shot anyone this week but Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor for PlameGate, just got a shitload of new emails that incriminate the hell out of Cheney. Bet Dick has a few beers now..just dont get behind the wheel Dick..ok? A third DUI just wouldn't look good at this point in time.

Sheryl Crow had surgery for breast cancer. Good thing she has Lance, he will be great at helping her work through it...cancer, it doesn't discriminate does it?

And on the baseball front..Manny Ramirez shows up late for spring training..jeez, thats a surprize. Alfonso Soriano is still being an ass about changing positions...wotta jerk, be a team player Alfonso..

Piazza is still a Padre..my heart is breaking..how could they pick up that dipshit, over-the-friggin-hill sumbitch? Do they always have to shop at Kmart for gods sake?

Don't spend two months in your own fucking little world and then come back here and fuck up mine.

I have become used to being alone...in my house..although there IS another adult present at all times. The ball and chain very seldom leaves the couch, hell he doesnt leave the house but maybe every other day.

I tell him he's depressed, he needs some meds and therapy...seriously.,..its prozac time sportsfans.

He's going to the doctor on average three FUCKING times a week...so if THEY haven't noticed he's friggin depressed wtf are they doing?

I cook more than normal for him. He has almost stopped eating, unless I make it. He tells me what he weighs at least once a week..they weigh him at the docs..one of em does. He is seeing two or three of those overpaid hacks, I forget exactly...he hasn't seen his feet in years so this is a good thing, technically.

I ask him if I can get him anything every time I go thru the living room aka his bedroom...usually he takes me up on it..fucker. He had the nads to ask me to turn on the light the other evening. I SO wanted to jump square on his ass..with both feet...and scream "You Lazy sumbitch"...but I dont...cuz he's sick..but I think he's pushing the envelope with me. I am not his nanny and/or butler and he isn't handicapped for christs sake.

But when he comes back into MY space and starts playing "fifty questions" then I get a tad nasty on him. Like telling him to get his ass back up front if he's gonna bust my chops. He accuses me of "chatting" with my boyfriend...LMAO...B doesn't chat..right honey? B isn't my boyfriend..he's my soulmate..poor fucker.

Back to the ball and chain. I understand he has an annoying ring in his ears. I sympathize with him genuinely...but tinnitus is not curable. And everyone that has it, learns to live w/it...they don't have a choice. His isn't painful, so he's lucky in that respect.And its not constant..thats a plus right? They have ruled out all the really horrible things it could be like a blocked artery or an aneurism..so it must be tinnitus. I compare the ringing in his ears to the jets that fly very LOW over Ocean Beach, CA when they take off and land at Lindberg Field..which is like every 20 minutes during certain times of the day I might add. You can't hear people sitting next to you talk, you can't hear the tv or music if its playing, you cant HEAR SHIT except for the drone of those fucking jet engines as they pass overhead.

And I got used to the jets. I never thought I would..but I did. Just like everyone else does that lives in OB for any length of time.

I really want to scream the title of this post at him... But I wont. It wouldnt be nice...he's learning to cope with something horrible. I get that.

I just don't know how long I should let his pity party continue...and I don't understand why the doctors aren't doling out the prozac as depressed as he is around the house.

He could be just jerking MY chain.

But it felt good to write those words in the title..even if I can't say them to him...yet.

Brian and Baby for HNT.

Brian is my son. I already told you about Baby in a january HNT here. Both these souls moved into my home within months of each other a couple years back.

Brian came home because his life was on the skids..literally. He tried to commit suicide right before Thanksgiving two years ago. He was living in AZ with a couple of roomies. The roomies had ALOT of disposable income, Brian did not. But, he tried nonetheless to keep up w/the jones, becoming quite the party animal. He lost his job and couldn't pay his rent. Instead of telling his roomies, or calling me for a loan..he pretended to go to work everyday for a couple weeks, looking vainly for a job, any job to pay his bills.




He didnt find one. The roomies were busting his chops about his bills. He slit his wrists one day while they were all at work. Its gotta be tough to be a 23 year old that thinks life is over because you cant pay your rent and for some reason you can't tell anyone whats going on.

I drove to AZ on Thanksgiving day, after his roomies called and told me what had happened. I went straight to his room to see it, I dont know why but I did. Brian was hospitalized in the local pysch ward for his attempt and being a former psych major in college I figured seeing his room would give me a clue to what was going on in his sad little mind. It did..

It was a stark room, void of any personal effects or mementos. The only thing that personalized the room was a huge poster over the bed. It was a poster of a gigantic mushroom cloud in the desert and in the foreground a tiny lone figure facing his impending demise. That said volumes about my only child to me. I laid on his bed and cried.

Fast forward to the present. I brought Brian back to Cali when he got out of the psych ward after a week of counseling and therapy, I knew he wasn't "fixed" yet, but I felt coming home with me would help him to get his shit together again. My husband got him a job in new home construction plumbing. Brian now has a trade he loves and has been working non-stop for over two years. He moved out on his own finally about six months ago. He is doing great and once again loves life. He doesn't drink anymore and is his old self, happy and funny. He thinks of Baby as his dog and wanted to take her when he moved out but couldnt. I wouldnt let him take her anyway..but dont tell him that.

Blog, Blogger, Blogging

Seems alot of folks are growing bored with blogging. I dunno why, I enjoy the hell out of it. Some folks I read on a regular basis havent posted in weeks, some over a month..even others have deleted their blogs entirely. Its not real life..a blog..but it IS about real life in most instances.

I never run out of shit to blog about..never. I might occasionally be really tired and just not feel like spending half an hour or more writing something..but believe me when I say..I got tons o shit to write...which in the long run is why most people blog..to be heard, or in reality..to be read.

Some folks are always funny, some always sad, some angry and even others are just themselves..good on some days, pissy on others. Blogging is a way to connect, on whatever level your little heart desires.

I like getting it out of my head and onto paper..er..computer screen. It flows from my head to my hands. Hell, I have TWO friggin blogs. I NEVER run out of stuff for the political blog..thats a fact jack...and as far as this one is concerned I usually have more than one topic I want to spout off about. I find blogging to be a medicene for me, theraputic as it were.

Real life has been full of shit and shinola lately and I find myself very tired at the end of the day. My mind is racing now about shit I could write, but I just dont have the mental fortitude to organize it all for you my dear reader. I think you probably understand and have been there yourself.

Lecram blogs every day..or almost. He wrote today about needing to be motivated to write. Hell I can write something at the drop of a hat. If I had to write a specific something..I might have the same problem he does..I dunno. He is trying to write a play..that needs to be finished like yesterday..I have faith he will get it done, and I love that he blogs about doing it..the process of creating his play so to speak.

But I need to be up early tomorrow and I have wasted my time tonight on the general subject of blogging.

Oh well, suck it up and deal LOL..ya read it didn't ya?

Ricky Williams blows 4th drug test.

This guy just can't pull it off. Its so sad, he's very talented. Two unidentified sources for the Miami Herald comfirm the story that he has once again violated the leagues drug policy by either not showing up for a test or testing positive. The link is here. A Denver TV station broke the story, evidently Miami was in trade negotiations for Ricky. This means its a year suspension..thats gotta be the end of his career, at least that seems obvious at this point.

The bright side of my day was San Diego, CA native Jimmie Johnson winning the Daytona..if Tony couldn't get it done, Jimmie's winning it was fine w/me since I was born and raised in San Diego.

So the company asked me to do a "how we doing" survey..

My jaw dropped when I saw it in my Inbox. An invitation to participate in a survey about the "company". What I liked was the word "anonymous". Of course I really don't care if its anonymous. I would love to have someone from the home office in Chicago call me and ask me how its going.

I have been with the "company" for a year this month. It started as just a part time gig..to pay those pesky credit card bills the ball and chain isn't aware of, to pay for my shoe addiction.

I soon became the only field service rep here in the southend of the San Joaquin Valley. I capitalize that phrase because I think this is a fine part of the United States, an important part of the food chain...but I digress. My part-time job became full time. This is not a good thing. Then when I asked about a "raise" appearing on my paycheck sometime soon, my superior who lives in San fucking Jose said: What raise?

I said its typical and expected that at least once a year you get a raise, no matter how small and insignificant it might be. I don't get health insurance, I am afterall, a part-time employee...as are the rest of the employees at my level of employment. I also LOST money after Jan 1st because the bastards at the home office deceided that when I drive for an hour or two or even three sometimes to complete a task that I should only be compensated at two thirds of my normal pay rate. Guess you aren't really working in "their" eyes while your driving..evidently it doesn't dawn on them that I would probably love to be doing something other than driving a four hour round trip for them to complete some stupid fucking task that some bimbo in New York City at..oh lets say..Frito-fucking-Lay cooked up one day in order to plan their next "campaign" to sell you all some fucking potato chips or dips.

Anyway..back to that email in my inbox...

I got a ever-so-slight buzz and clicked on the link in the email...I didn't have to log in or identify myself. The survey started immediately. It was in sections, and it asked generalized questions about how I viewed my trainor, my training, my job in general..that kind of crap. I was harsh to say the least. I was eager to get through it hoping at the end I would get to add my two cents..

I did.

It felt very good to tell them exactly what I thought of the "company" and the fools running it. I enjoyed the hell out bitching about my laptop which is still using Windows 98, and breaks down every other fucking day. I smiled when I typed very professionally I might add, that morale has got to suck ass really bad when you lose money, instead of being rewarded for hard work and covering an entire territory that is supposed to have THREE fucking reps instead of one. I really got my rocks off when I regaled them with my views that sometimes it feels like I work for the mob because I have no fucking clue of anyones names, address or fucking phone number at the "home" office to contact when I have a problem with my Field Manager who screens her fucking calls and returns them days later when its of little help.

Now, bear in mind that I am speaking plainly with you my dear reader. I was above board and professional at all times when I bit the hand that pays me. I did not cuss or use slang. I did all my bitching in such a way as to embarrass the living hell out of them but it was obvious that I,the employee, was educated and highly pissed off at being utilized as little more than a piece of meat..a very cheap cut of meat I might add.

My last comment was this, verbatim: I have never, in the 35 plus years I have been in the workforce, worked for a company that thought so little of its employees and treated them as nothing more than a bunch of packmules to be ignored,exploited and expected to perform on a moments notice for next to nothing in monetary consideration with regards to lowering my pay when driving to a job hours away.

At least it made me feel better..

It's not toxic..really..its not.

A Bio-deisel manufacturing somekindoffrigginplace went up in flamage today..big,thick,black clouds blowing towards Bakersfrigginfield..its on the outskirts south of town.

They had the nads to say it wasn't "toxic"..I of course LMAO over this comment from the nimrods that started the fire. Somehow I feel that smoke so black you can not see through it..is toxic in some form..it has to have a shitload of particulate matter in it..to be so black and not transparent.

The fire dept spokesman said..its not "really" toxic..but stay in your homes, keep the windows closed tight and do not use your airconditioning or heater.

HUH?

Add to this lovely chemical fire..its rained here today and its very cloudy. It rains oh..maybe 12 friggin times a year..and it had to rain today. SO that means the toxic..well it is..smoke cloud will hang low in the atmosphere..nice. Our idea of rain is like one thousandth of an inch..

I of course went outside..I wanted to smell the air..yes, it did smell funny so I went back inside.

Later on they said it would burn for 2 days..great..I am really looking forward to this weekend now. Plus, its supposed to rain(translation:drizzle)all weekend. Means it will be cloudy all weekend.

I got a headache. Its not from the toxic cloud..its from worrying about the toxic cloud. I gotta find something new to worry about..something that doesn't give me a headache.

Perhaps the Padres..they are always worth worrying about..bonehead trades and pickups they make.

Dick Cheney and his pink tie..on Fox the other night talking about the"accident"..nah..thats not worth worrying about. Dick is always gonna be a dick.

Whether Tony Stewart will win the Daytona..thats a goodie..I will go with that one.

If I dont blog monday..send the troops in to look for me..tell em to wear masks...someone lied about that damn "cloud".

Baseball and other important things.

The Boston RedSox owner, John Henry is quite upset. He is none to happy with turning over his largesse to teams less fortunate than his. Over on Sportsline.com, there is an article wherein ol' John bitches about the "tax" that keeps him and Yankee's owner George Steinbrenner constantly filling the coffers of poorer, smaller marktet teams. I see his point, really I do...but I still have to say that until a better mousetrap is built, this is the only one baseball has.

Pitchers and catchers have or are reporting now to all clubs. The position players all report between Feb 19th and the 24th. Of course the guys playing in the first annual World Baseball Classic will be leaving camp to play for their respective homelands..which in the baseball world is quite a few countries dont ya know.. The WBC will be played between March 3rd-20th. Steinbrenner bitched about it already..so what's new you might ask..I didn't however. Its a true baseball kinda day when Georgie has something to complain about.

The WBC will be played all over the place. They will be holding the finals at my beloved PetFood Park in San Diego. For a schedule of who's playing whom where..the link is here.

The grass in my backyard is already up to my shins..you can lose a small dog in that shit. Just means spring is around the corner and so is baseball.

Albert Belle, that stellar, standup guy...has been arrested for stalking his ex-girlfriend..what a guy!

Wayne Gretsky and his lovely bride Janet are off the hook..Rick Tocchet isn't however.

Don't it make your brown eyes blue..

C'est moi.

Damn that flash was bright.

Its all I got..been a long day.

Hope Blogger let's me upload it, sometimes she's a bitch.

What used to be known as the "twin 125's" will be run tomorrow. This makes the ball and chain happy. I enjoy them as well...marks the start of racing season. This eye will be firmly focused on the TV for a couple hours tomorrow.
Did I mention baseball starts up real soon?Well, I did now.:)

See ya's next week.

Knight School

Espn is going to have another reality show..this time featuring none other than..drumroll please..Bobby Knight. Yes, THAT Bobby Knight..the former basketball coach from Indiana who now coaches Texas Tech. Its called "Knight School"..cute.

Cold Pizza interviewed him this morning about his new show. He refused to call it a reality show..mumbling something about it being anything but a reality show. They had Dana interview him and he was his usual charming self, telling her he would love to have her cook him some breakfast. The show will be about some poor kids trying to make the team as a walkon.

Then she made the mistake of asking him about Mike Davis, the current coach for IU..not a good idea. He told her he would not discuss Mike or IU. Dana persisted and Bobby promptly took his ear piece out and left the studio..guess he told her huh?

His ego is the size of Texas..but thats nothing new. I will watch the first installment of his "show" and report back to you, the sportsfan.

Tricky Dick Cheney has some 'splainin to do.

This gem is from Princess Sparkle Pony's blog. I heart this writer and photoshop master bar none.

If Cheney is holding one of these..

Be afraid.be very afraid.

Cool site for Music lovers of any genre.

Its called Pandora..as in,I presume, pandora's box. It's a child of the Music Genome Project. To pull some info from the MGP site: "On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
Over the past 5 years, we've carefully listened to the songs of over 10,000 different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world. "

Anywho..on Pandora you can create playlists.This is not new of course, but the music it matches to your tastes can be. I heard music from folks that I liked and had never listened to. I will of course buy some of it now. It gives you the opportunity to yea or nea what they choose for you to listen to..the computer ever diligent on finding something to please you based on all the factors listed above. You can make several types of playlists, easy listening, heavy duty or whatever turns YOU on..I would toss in a Joe Bonamass and then AC/DC..just to change it up...then something slow and harmonic like..James Taylor.

You gotta register, its simple and I dont think they sell your email addy's. I read an article on Slate.com about the MGP and their not a big fan of it, stating its a simple process..but I am easily amused so wtf..check it out if your bored.

For those in need of a lil help from above..

From the "WTF" department: Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky is in trouble..and his lovely wife is in deep shit. Evidently they have ALOT of disposable income. Jesus, to be in their shoes, but I digress...Janet Gretsky has spent roughly Half A MILLION LARGE in the last two months on sports betting. And they weren't doing it thru Vegas which begs the question..why not? its legal there for gods sake. They were using some bookie out of Jersey..(LMAO)and his partner a Jersey police officer. Wayne of course feels bad for Janet but has told anyone that will listen, including the feds who were wiretapping his phone that he was NOT involved and NO she didn't place bets for him.

I dont know if she did or didn't place bets for Wayne and I really don't care if she blew her wad of shopping coin on a Timberwolves game..but its gonna get ugly, you can bet your collection plate on that fact. The Coyotes asst head coach Rick Tocchett is also in this up to his eyeballs and has taken a leave of absence from the team..no..really?

No one bet on hockey..right..and Pete Rose didn't bet on baseball. Whatever..

If your bored, a link to one of the many stories is here...and here..oh and heres another one from Waynes homeland of Canada.

P.S..the NEW quote in my header is for all those friggin Muslims that can't take a fucking joke.

My HNT guest

Its my favortie bartender in the whole world..Rob at the Malibu Inn. He's tattoo'd up. He's a sweet person and a fantastic bartender. I was not friendly with him at first, he scared me to be honest. Looks a little hard core, dont ya think?

But he's sweet and very easy to talk to when you relax. Isn't that what you want in a good bartender? Someone to talk to and they make one helluva drink? Thats Robbie to a tee.

If your ever in Malibu, CA..stop by the Malibu Inn. Its easy to spot Rob..tell him Dusty sent ya.

Who authorized this field trip?..

I ripped this off from John Q's blog today..bad girl I know..but hey..when its good its good right? I gave him credit for finding it. He's over-worked and has some back-stabbing bitch tossing him under the bus at work..but I love his post today.

I am busy and gotta run..have a good day sportsfans..or try to..humpday and all.

What one of the leaders of the western world was doing on Superbowl Sunday

Got this from foxtick.com..I think..

From the Felony-dumb department..

Smoking Gun has a nice story and mug shot today about a dipshit coke dealer in Florida..who offered a cop SITTING IN A SQUAD CAR, a 2 gram bag of coke for his purchase..Either the dealer is looking for a room for the next 5-10 years..or he has the IQ of a dandelion. The link is here.

Steel Curtain hangs tough.

Great friggin game..awesome plays and momentum-changing miscues, it held my attention all four quarters. Steelers hung in there and won 21-10. This makes me happy and my wallet even happier, they beat the spread...gotta pay for all those shoes from ebay ya know ;)

The Bus retired..right on TV after the game and the trophy presentation. Go out on top, smart, classy man Jerome..

Polamalu was all over the field, his hair flowing like the Steelers "D". Even Benny's two interception's didnt scare me, well, one did result in a TD. The Steelers are now tied with the Niners and the Cowboys for 5 SB wins..most in the 40 year history of the game.

The Rolling Stones at half time weren't too bad..Mick seemed to be lip-syncing..not sure. No wardrobe problems this year..ah shucks. Bill Cowher, the longest tenured Coach in the NFL finally won the big one in his 14th season. I loved the hell out of Randle-El's 40 yard pass for that TD to Hines Ward! He was a High School or College QB i think they said.

Did I mention it was a great game?

Betty Friedan passes...

This post is also up on my political blog..so if the ONE person that reads that blog is here first..dont bother going over today..LOL.

She was 85 and a small woman..had a very big mouth however as I recall. She came into prominence during the hectic 60's and 70's..MY time too..I loved her spirit and her dedication..I subscribed to the NOW magazine for years and took all their ideals to heart.

Her first book "The Feminine Mystique" set it all ablaze..woman who were tired of just being the chief cook and bottle washer..who wanted something more and fulfilling in their lives...BETTY started it..blame her lol.

She would go on to become quite the lecturer and writer..the woman's movement would clash with her in her later years, stating she concentrated on white middle-class females to the detriment of lesbians and women of color..but ladies..and I use that term loosely....Ms. Friedan put on paper what intellgent woman of that time were thinking..fuck the housework, I want to do something that matters to me..to the world at large and I want to make a difference! Toss your vacuum's aside ladies and come out and protest or do whatever the hell makes YOU happy and complete.

She was the start of it all..and I salute her. She took a helluvalot of shit for that first book..it couldn't of been an easy road for the little jewish woman from Smith College. She started the National Organization for Women, NARAL, and the National Woman's Political Caucus. She was a central figure in the Pro-Choice movement.

She was small in stature but big in my heart..and I thank her for that first book which I read from cover to cover in one sitting as I recall.TruthOut has a NY Times writeup about her..the link is here

So..in closing, what I am trying to say..with grace and aplomb is..Young women of today take for granted that they can do what they want, when they want to..it wasn't that way until Betty opened up her yap and put pen to paper. Thank her for that..YOU owe her that much.

Eugene O'Neill was da bomb..

And the sumbitch died in 1953 for gods sake.. He was an American Playwright who also won a Nobel Prize in '36 for Literature. He was father-in-law of Charlie Chaplin.

His work although twisted..characters as gritty as they come, was a great study in dysfunctional-families..or relationships.

His play" Long Days Journey Into Night" is a classic and he is thought by many I might add,to be the father of modern Theater. I acted in that play, a local group in San Diego, during the 80's..I won't tell you what role I played..you tell me.

One of my favorites is: A Moon for the Misbegotten, which was produced for TV in the middle 70's and starred Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards..see it if you can.

All this because.....the ball and chain was watching a friggin western that had Jason Robards in it...sorry..

What is Facism?

"Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism'. I'm afraid, based on my own long experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."
Sen. Huey Long


Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."(Jack Abramoff and Lobbyists in general)
Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy


"The next step in a fascist government is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
Bertrand Russell


"Without exhaustive debate, even heated debate, of ideas and programs, free government would weaken and wither. But if we allow ourselves to be persuaded that every individual or party that takes issue with our own convictions is necessarily wicked or treasonous then, indeed, we are approaching the end of freedom's road."(The Shrubs pointing fingers at all that disagree with him)
Dwight D. Eisenhower(A repube btw)

Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine -- a journal of humanist thought. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The article is titled 'Fascism Anyone?', by Lawrence Britt, appears in Free Inquiry's Spring 2003 issue on page 20.

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

It was a pain but I finally uploaded an HNT pic

Its a leg..a tired leg.

A leg that I spent over five hours walking on yesterday...five hours straight! Thats my job..walking..walking the miles of aisles checking where products are displayed for all those food and beverage manufacturers..they know who they are..fuckers..With the Super Bowl this week I had extra tasks..like telling FritoLay,Pepsi and a couple others if their shit was front and center so all you folks will buy their products..hurry up..times awaistin'..go buy some chips and soda and BEER, lots and lots of Beer please..keep me employed LOL.

Sports and the State of the Union.

First off..the SOTU address was a game for my son and myself. We took a shot of B&B (benedictine and brandy)every time those assholes gave the Shrub a standing Ovation...when only one side stood up (the Repubes) we only did half a shot..when both sides of the hall stood up we did a whole shot..this game is the only thing that kept me from shooting out the TV with the ball and chains cap gun..aka his teeny lil pistol.. I have no idea what caliber that damn thing is..but its the smallest friggin handgun I have ever seen, you can palm the sucker..

Football...ah yes..the Superbowl Xtra Large..actually its something I am looking forward to,seriously sportsfans..its gonna be a goodie I think..I hope anyway. I am rooting for the AFC of course, being an AFC kinda girl.So that means I am putting all my cashola on the Steelers..god help me if they lose..I lost my ass on ND's final game of the college season..so lets hope I don't do the same on the SBXL..one of the Steelers mouthy guys is a Bakersfieldian..Joey Porter..lol..no kidding..hes from Bakersfield..I love a guy that is dumb as a rock and runs his mouth like a friggin moron that took the short bus to school...which he could of done very easily here..I have never seen so many "handicapped" parking spots in my entire life..and they ALL are full at any given time during the day or night..Walmart has like 30..I shit you not..and they are always..ALWAYS..full up..no vacancies folks..whats that tell ya about Bakersfield? San Diego doesnt have half the spots for "sick, lame or lazy" folks that Bakersfield has..as a shopoholic I can swear to this fact.

OH..T.O is still in the news..Donovan McNabb has called T.O's rants and ravings tantamount to a "black on black"crime..I just call T.O's rants a felony-dumb A'hole's POV. We should all love "ourselves" as much as T.O. loves hisself..if you want to read McNabbs latest..its here.

A couple of the fired coaches have found jobs.Tice will be working for Jack DelRio's Jag's as an assistant..and Mike Martz will be the Offensive Coordinator for..lord..the Detroit franchise..he must really need a freaking job to take THAT one..

This just in to the newscenter..Lynn Swann has locked up the Repube nomination for Penn's governor..hey..I cant say a thing..we got Ahnold for gods sake, who has as much experience as Swannie at running a state...or anything for that matter. God help those folks in Pennsylvania if he's elected.

The NFL has stated it will give $20 Million to fix up the Superdome..as long as its in time for the Saints to play next season..I wouldnt hold my breath on THAT happening..they still haven't cleared the ruins from the residential 'hoods yet. If you want to read that story..the link is here. The estimated cost to repair the Superdome is roughly...drumroll please..$140 Million large..for some reason FEMA is expected to pay a portion of that..why I dont know.FEMA cant even get the residents back to their homes..but I digress..

On the Baseball front..the Astro's filed an insurance claim on what is owed to Jeff Bagwell for next season..a paltry $17 MILLION... Bags had surgury last season on his torn up shoulder and according to the GM for the 'Stros, Bags is no where near ready to play ball, and MIGHT never be..Its gonna get ugly sportsfans..mark my words..Bags says he's showing up to spring training and two doctors have said he is not able to play, his shoulder is still hosed up and probably will be forever. The 'Stros can write off 15 Mil of whats due Bags if the Insurance company coughs up the cash..stay tuned..this is far from over and could get ugly..His contract is ...ahem.. GUARANTEED..hence the sprint to the insurance company by the 'Stros.

And from the "I can't believe this shit" department..the Padres have hired the recently fired Phillies GM Ed Wade as a scout..umm...correct me if I am wrong but...the man couldnt find his ass w/both hands with regard to talent in Philly..why the hell would he be worth the gunpowder to blow him to hell for the Padres? Are the Padres like the Salvation Army of baseball for gods sake? I mean really..first Piazza, now a shitty GM as a talent scout..spare me the pain and agony John Moores' and Kevin "fucknut" Towers...please..pretty please with a 40-homer slugger on top..wtf is Sandy Alderson doing...sitting on his fucking hands or playing pocket pool?

I am done..have a good Thursday..or try anyway..

Your quote for the day.

Ben Franklin said: The Good particular Men may do separately...is small compared to what they can do collectively.

Evidently the Democrats and progressive representatives weren't familiar with this quote from Benny when they voted Monday regarding the confirmation of Alito.

BASE jumping..what a friggin rush.

I love the idea of BASE jumping. You need at least 200 airplane parachute jumps to even attempt a BASE jump. Base is the acronym for the elements jumped "from":
Buildings(you name a tall one, someones jumped from it believe me)
Antennas (as in tall metal structures that arent really made anymore)
Span (as in a bridge span)
Earth (as in Terra Firma, tall mountains, canyons,deep wells or mining pits, etc)

You don't execute your parachute until seconds before you smack the earth...seriously. Some folks have been known to wait a tad too long..you can figure the results I am sure. These parachutes are nothing like the ones used traditionally when you jump from a perfectly good airplane, they allow you to manuver exceptionally well. This is important in alot of BASE jumps since they are landing in small spaces like a busy parking lot, narrow canyons, etc.

There is a very cool video on IFILM about the basics of BASE jumping..shows alot of jump footage. Its only 6 minutes long, go check it out here.

I would do it..in a heartbeat. Would you dear reader?

Meme from IT-Chick.

Please note, these are not in any particular order...
Seven things to do before I die:
1. Watch the sunset from the bank of the Seine.
2. Capture and get Jackie the one-eyed, illusive feral cat spayed, I can not adopt any more of her friggin kittens.
3. Go to Graceland.
4. Run for public office.
5. See a game in every single Major League Baseball Park during the season.
6. Pay my respect at Dale Earnhardts grave.
7. Lose some weight and look damn good in a pair of skin-tight jeans again.

Seven things I cannot do :
1. Sing on key.
2. Be quiet.
3. Touch my nose with my tongue.
4. Hold my breath and float in the air.
5. Watch a person or an animal suffer.
6. Drive the speed limit.
7. Lose some weight and look damn good in a pair of skin-tight jeans again.

Seven things that attract me to blogging:
1. Intelligent, interesting people.
2. Connecting with people from all over the world.
3. No one can tell me to shut the fuck up.
4. I can finally get all those strange thoughts out of my head and on to paper..well..kinda.
5. The Power of the written word.
6. It beats watching my baseball team get their ass handed to them by the Dodgers.
7. Raw emotion.

Seven things I say most often:
1. Your on my last nerve.
2. Where are my fucking car keys.
3. Did you feed the animals yet?
4. Get down from there Bobbie or I will kick your scrawny little ass into next week.(Bobbie is a cat,relax)
5. Can't I take a leak without 7 pairs of eyes staring at me?
6. Kiss my ass moron.
7. I love you.

Seven books that I love:
1. Anything by Steve Martini
2. Anything by John Steinbeck.
3. Soul on Ice
4. Anything by John Gresham
5. Anything by Mark Twain
6. Anything by Tennesse Williams(I know, he's a playwright..so sue me)
7. To Kill a Mockingbird.


Seven movies that I can watch over and over again:
1. The Breakfast Club.
2. The Natural
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Bull Durham
6. Home for the Holidays, the 1995 version directed by Jodie Foster.
7. Tin Cup

Piazza is a Padre..can it get any worse?

37 year old Mike Piazza is now a Padre..why, I dont know. He hasn't got a pair of knees that merit $1.75 Million Large for one year(plus that infamous incentive cash too)...I swear to god he doesn't. His numbers have steadily gone downward for the last eight years..last year was disgusting..113 games with a .251 avg and a whopping 19 homers.

Must be the fact that none of the AL teams offered him anything decent..jeez..would you? He should be finishing out his career as a DH in Kansas City...I ain't kidding. But the padres, who pinch pennies worse than the ball and chain offered him a great deal for an old, broken-down catcher..guess ya can't blame him for taking it.

On the positive side..lol..he will bring experience to a young pitching staff..well, Trevor isn't young by any stretch of the imagination, and either is Woody Williams..but the rest are pretty green..His calls behind the plate could help the staff as a whole. Plus he can still hit the occasional homer. Course Pet-food Park is spacious and hard to hit it out past the fences..but Mikie has done it before..he holds the record for homers for a catcher I think.. He used to be a career .3oo hitter..before his knees went south.

Did I mention I never liked Piazza? When he was a Dodger? WTF are they gonna do w/Doug Mirabelli, whom they got from Boston when they traded my beloved Mark Loretta.

Kevin Towers is an overly tanned, fathead,brain dead GM...in my opinion.

20 years ago

In roughly 20 minutes it will be the exact time. I woke up with a jolt about half a hour ago. I looked at the clock..yes, I said to myself, yes it is almost time. The hair on the back of my neck is still standing up. Its a date and a time I will never forget. I can still see the offices..our little cubicles..everyone standing up looking over the tops of them at each other...asking wtf went so wrong...

I was working in Germantown MD..for Fairchild Space Systems. I was the program manager for several Shuttle-based satellites. My life and the lives of everyone in aerospace changed forever. The Challenger blew into smithereens shortly after takeoff this day in 1986. We had gotten so blase' about shuttle launches, we didn't even watch them in the office anymore. But this one was so horribly different, exploding 73 seconds after launch.

I did not know any of the astronauts. Yes, we had a payload on the shuttle but that really didnt matter. What mattered was that human life ended because of complacency in the workplace. Our jobs would end shortly before Thanksgiving that same year, the government put an end to all launches for what seemed an eternity. Half the company would be laid off, the same thing happening to hundreds of other companies within the circle of aerospace manufacturing.

I moved back to California in March of '87, unable to find a job in my profession on the east coast. I didnt try to get back into aerospace here in Cali. I started a business which was really a good move for me, my son was at an age when being home when he got out from school was a good thing, and I was a single parent.

I never achieved that same level of monetary comfort in my life again...but I also didn't have to take tranquilizers and stress 24/7 about my job either. My son no longer had to have a live-in nanny because mommy worked alot and slept in the office 3 nights out of 7, I no longer got called into the plant at 1 AM because a unit that was due to ship in a week went down in test. I never had to deal with government beaurocracy again and folks thats a good thing if you have never had to deal with alcoholic QA guys. Hell, I think back and realize I most likely was an alcoholic back then, drinking to relieve the daily stress of a job that seemed insurmountable all the time, building things that no one knew would even work properly out there in outer space since they had never been built before. One of the major reasons I got divorced was that damn job and its hours, its demands on my life..The price you pay sometimes is not worth it to some people.

The price we all paid that day wasn't worth it. ok...I can stop now..its 11:40 am on the east coast..20 years ago to the day, hour and minute..my life changed forever.

Back from Reno

It was a hairy 7 hour ride to make alone. The ball and chain couldn't go. He has something going on medically lately and even though I detest his ass..I had to go for Lisa. She's his daughter and I care about her regardless of her parentage.

They have snow up there..and its cold. Needless to say I didn't drive around much.

And I will most likely have to drive back up again soon. I helped her emotionally cope with things and even did the dishes..I mostly just listened to her talk..and held her alot. I am a touchy feely kinda person and she needed it..its amazing what human touch will do for someone that is suffering emotionally..

I tried to tell her about what she will go through..the feelings she will experience. I am so weird about that shit..being a psych major in college does that do ya..you want to make people feel secure that they arent losing their minds or feeling some emotion that isn't normal..its ALL normal when you experience a major loss in your life. I tried to tell her that when everyone leaves and its just her and the kid and her invalid mom..when there is silence finally, she will then really feel the loss of Harold. I told her to come spend time here in Bakersfrigginfield.. her dad would make her laugh with his goofy bullshit, I would rail against the establishment and she could slowly get used to being alone before going home to a house without Harold in it. Lisa owns a bar with her oldest friend Terry..crazy Terry from Delano.

When the ball and chain can travel, we will have to go back up. He's getting an MRI early next week and the doctor told him he couldnt travel over the Sierra Nevada Mt. range since they aren't sure what the hell is wrong with him. They have bandied about the following words: aneurism, arterial blockage or maybe just plain ole tinnitus. He's such a pain in my ass about pain..nice play on words there dont you think?

There is an old wives tale that bad things come in threes..thats what bothers me ..whats the third thing?

Hope it wont be too bad..I dont think I have alot of room left for dealing with bad things.

Unless of course its Bush getting Impeached..I really could handle that...wait..that would make Dick Cheney the Prez..maybe I couldnt handle that..aw hell, he's gonna be indicted for Plame-gate..

so that means...ah nevermind..lets wait to see what happens.

Oprah kicks James Frey in the nads..on national TV.

James Frey wrote a book called "A Million Little Pieces" which chronicled his addiction to drugs and his attempts to get clean. He called it a "memoir"..usually that means its truthful and accurate. This one wasn't. Oprah jumped squarely in ol James' shit yesterday and called him a liar. She devoted a whole show to this guy..because she was one of those that didn't believe the Smoking Gun's story about how all the interesting stuff in the book was a crock. Oprah is not a show I watch on a regular basis..but when I saw he was going to be on..I tuned in.

It was worth it to watch him and his editor from Doubleday squirm. They made a ton of money off this book which was taunted as a "true life story". Nothing could be farther from the truth.

If you missed the show..the NY Times has a write up about it here. Oprah's only reason for having this show was that she looks like a fool now. She was warned that the book was too good to be true. She helped Frey and his publishers make millions off this book by making it one of her"book of the month" additions. She called into Larry Kings show to defend Frey after the Smoking Gun story broke.

Hey, we all get duped on occasion..just look at the reasons we attacked Iraq.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future--Leonard Bernstein

Which one do you like best..kickback or dumbfuck mountain(two posts below)..lets vote shall we?

7 years ago today..the massive snowstorm in Bakersfrigginfield.

The pictures are from the picture gallery at our local newspaper the Bakersfield Californian.

Gotta go to Reno.

I keep spinning that Johnny Cash song thru my head..I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

Only I didnt shoot Harold, he had a massive heart attack this morning..He's only 40..he was only 40. He's gone..leaving a wife and 7 year old daughter.

He was just bitching about his wife on the phone last week. Now he's gone...Its hard to handle ya know?

I am dragging the laptop of course..If I can't sleep I will blog..its a long drive, 6-8 hours depending on the weather up that way..but that is the least of my worries..

How to comfort someone is what I worry about..how do you make them feel better? what do you say to a woman that just lost her husband and a child that lost her father?

Gotta pack..say a prayer for Lisa..she is a good woman that is now alone in this mean ol world.

I have seen this on several sites..so I don't remember where I filched it from..but i love it.

Superbowl set..and the prodigal son returns to Boston.

I cant quit thinking that somehow the Steelers will win it all..its the Bus' last year and it seems right to me. Cowher is the longest tenured coach in the NFL and the Steelers haven't won a superbowl since before Terry Bradshaw started yammering on the Fox NFL show.

Baseball..Theo "the wunderkid" Epstein returned to the Red Sox..wtf? Yes, he came back to work for them..god knows why perhaps..but I dont. BoSox still dont have a replacement for Damon or Renteria..better get a move on Theo..times a'waisting. I have a countdown clock at the bottom of my blog for when the "Season" starts...actually when pitchers and catchers report.

Barroid Bonds is pissed that his team wants him to bat second in the lineup..WHO GIVES A SHIT BARRY? Your ego is bigger than your talent buddy..call Wheel of Fortune and buy a clue. Your steroid-taking ass is in the twilight of your career..be happy you got a job and try keeping your pie-hole shut and just playing dude. Thats what they are paying you for..to play baseball, not bitch, whine and complain. Two words..Terrell Owens.

The Cincinnati Reds, baseball's oldest professional franchise was sold to a guy who made his money in lettuce and squash..yeah, he knows his fruits and veggies..but does he know his team..HE PROMISED a Championship to the fans..excuse me while I wipe coffee off my laptop screen and bite a hole in my lip to keep from laughing.

And finally..the Federal Government has allowed Cuba to play in the World Baseball Classic. Praise Jesus, its about time you bunch of assholes..afterall..its called the WORLD Baseball Classic for a reason..they want the whole WORLD to participate...duh!!

Have a good monday..if at all possible.

The Bus is going to Detroit.

The Steelers beat those clowns the Broncos..at Mile High to boot.

Art Rooney bought his beloved franchise the Pittsburgh Steelers for a whopping 2500 bucks..thats it sportsfans.

My money is on em..they had to beat the top three teams in the AFC to get to the Superbowl.

Now for the second half of the equation...gotta go.

The 'hawks got in..its gonna be the Steelers I can feel it in my bones..and my wallet..

Gil Scott Heron said it best..The Revolution will not be televised.

This song by aforementioned Gill Scott Heron has been running through my head since all the shit broke about the eavesdropping by the Shrub. His site is here. It was written during the Nixon area..need I say more? I just wanted to make it more timely..my additions are in red.

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Halliburton
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Bush
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by Dick Cheney, The NSA and Karl Rove to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
FOX News and will not star Bill O'Reilly and Condoleeza Rice or Pat Robertson.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Aunt Mary
talking on the phone and saying the words "bomb" and "Al Queda" in the same sentence thus getting the Pentagon listening to your every convo for two weeks straight.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of the FBI raiding your house and taking your computer with them to see who and what you have been up to simply because you google'd the words "pipe bomb".
There will be no pictures of Valerie Plame's life being forever wrecked because her husband told the truth when Bush didnt about nuclear yellow cake moving into Iraq.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Cindy Sheehan sitting in a ditch waiting to talk to the President about why her son had to go to Iraq and die for no good reason.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Pissed off people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Alito's wife crying and blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Tracy Lawrence, or any other country artists that haven't got a clue about whats going on in their country, they just always badmouth the Left.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

For those tatoo-lovin folks among us..

Found this site devoted to body art. They are REALLY into tat's. Check out this page with men showing their entire body of work..literally their entire bodies..

There are pics of 100 year old grannies getting piercings and a story about a 75 yr old woman getting a belly button ring..i shit you not sportsfans!

Speaking of tat-loving people..our fair maiden Alice has written a political post over on her blog. Knock me over with a feather! Just shows ya even non-political types have something to say about the Bush administrations bullshit moves.

Baby and I watch TV

Hey, I didn't name her. Actually she's snoring...LOUD. But I love her. She's the sweetest girl around, I swear. She hates loud noises and shakes for hours when a car backfires. She has the biggest brown eyes you have ever seen and you have to just love a dog that smiles..Baby smiles. She gets along with every one and every animal.

Why someone would throw away a dog like Baby just blows my fucking mind. But...I am glad they did..cuz I got her. She was cowering underneath my house around my birthday four years ago. When we found her owners they said we could keep her, which we were gonna do anyway since they were crackheads. They wanted a full pit..Baby is half lab/pitt...they wanted something mean.

Shes old..and I only wish I had known her sooner...shes so sweet, my Baby.
Baby and moi

A Case Study..how Conservatives argue.

This wonderful bit of frivolity comes to us from the Daily Kos a beautiful site devoted to busting Bush's chops and exposing his lies and corruption. My beloved John Q. Public turned me on to this particular post this morning. Its from the wonderful ellinton, who writes for them and whom I worship from afar.


Fri Jan 13, 2006 at 12:14:48 PM PDT
Liberal: The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: No, it doesn’t.
Liberal: Yes, it does. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: What about Guam? What about that Guam, huh? Or the Virgin Islands?
Liberal: Those are territories, not states. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: Oh, so you’re saying those don’t count?
Liberal: Yes.
Conservative: Oh, so the people there don’t count? They’re not good enough, huh? I thought you liberals wanted everybody to be counted.
Liberal: No, I said the territories don’t count as states. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: You’re really something, you know that? You liberals are always going on about how all of us conservatives are racists, how we don’t care about anybody but people who look like us. But you don’t even want to count the blacks who live in Guam as Americans.
there's more...

Liberal: First of all, I never said all conservatives are racists.
Conservative: Yes, you did.
Liberal: No, I didn’t.
Conservative: Michael Moore says it.
Liberal: I’ve never heard him say that.
Conservative: Yes, he does! He most definitely does!
Liberal: Look, I don’t know what he says. That’s beside the point. And the people in Guam “count,” whatever that means. I don’t even know who lives in Guam; I don’t know the first thing about Guam. I’m just saying Guam isn’t a state – it’s a territory. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: What about Puerto Rico?
Liberal: What?
Conservative: What about Puerto Rico, huh? You love all those Mexicans coming across the border stealing our jobs – you must LOVE Puerto Rico, right?
Liberal: I’ve never been to Puerto Rico.
Conservative: Well, I have, and those kind of people would be pretty offended to hear liberals like you saying they aren’t real Americans!
Liberal: I didn’t say that!
Conservative: You said they didn’t count!
Liberal: I didn’t say that either! No, wait, just wait… (takes deep breath). I only said the USA has fifty states. Puerto Rico isn’t a state – it’s a commonwealth.
Conservative: And they don’t speak English!
Liberal: Well, many Puerto Ricans do.
Conservative: How do you know that? I’ve been there – you haven’t!
Liberal: All right, OK, fine, whatever. But the USA has fifty states.
Conservative: Well, I say Puerto Rico counts.
Liberal: Fine, but not as a state.
Conservative: Well, that’s YOUR opinion.
Liberal: It’s not my opinion – it’s a fact.
Conservative: Says you!
Liberal: No, not just “says me.” It’s a fact. Look it up.
Conservative: I don’t have time.
Liberal: You don’t have time to find out if the USA has fifty states?
Conservative: Listen, you may have time to sit around all day surfing on your liberal websites, downloading Michael Moore, but I’ve got things to do.
Liberal: Like reading about blacks in Guam and Mexicans in Puerto Rico?
Conservative: See, that’s why you guys always lose. I’m trying to have a nice conversation, and you just keep up with the insults!
Liberal: Listen, I didn’t mean to insult you.
Conservative: Oh, yes you did!
Liberal: No, look, I’m sorry, OK? I didn’t mean to insult you. Honestly. It’s just that… well, the USA has fifty states. That’s a fact. And I’m just trying to state a fact, and you’re getting very defensive, and…
Conservative: Oh, so now I’m defensive.
Liberal: Well…
Conservative: You just said you weren’t going to insult me!
Liberal: Look, I’m just trying to say the USA has fifty states!
Conservative: According to YOUR sources!
Liberal: MY sources?! What are you talking about? Look it up!
Conservative: I told you, I don’t have time to spend all day cruising the internet, looking up geography questions! Maybe if you were busier at your job, trying to live the American Dream, you wouldn’t have time for all this hate!
Liberal: I work hard at my job!
Conservative: Then why are you spending all day downloading Michael Moore?
Liberal: I don’t spend all day downloading Michael Moore! I don’t even know what you mean by that! All I’m saying is that the USA has fifty states!
Conservative: Again, according to YOU!
Liberal: Not just me! Here, here’s the World Book Encyclopedia. Look it up – it’s fifty states!
Conservative: Oh, sure, the World Book! Yeah, like I’m going to believe the World Book!
Liberal: What?
Conservative: Come on, it’s a liberal rag!
Liberal: (Long, teeth-gnashing pause) Look, just look up “United States of America.” Ten bucks it says, “the USA has fifty states.”
Conservative: Ten bucks, huh?
Liberal: Yeah, ten bucks. (pause) Wait, that’s the “M” volume.
Conservative: I know.
Liberal: You need to look under “U” for “United States.”
Conservative: I’m not looking for “United States.” I’m looking for “Moore, Michael.”
Liberal: What?!
Conservative: And when I find a big glowing article about him, you’re going to owe me ten bucks!
Liberal: Why would I owe you ten bucks?!
Conservative: You bet me ten bucks that the World Book Encyclopedia isn’t liberal.
Liberal: No I didn’t!
Conservative: Yes, you did! You bet me ten bucks that I couldn’t find a liberal article in the World Book. So when I find Michael Moore’s picture, you owe me ten bucks!
Liberal: Oh, my lord…
Conservative: AHA!
Liberal: Listen, you idiot, just because you found Michael Moore’s picture in the World Book doesn’t mean that I owe you ten bucks! It doesn’t mean the World Book is a liberal encyclopedia! And it certainly doesn’t mean the USA doesn’t have fifty states!!
Conservative: Oh, no? Look at this!
Liberal: (pause) “Massachusetts”?
Conservative: Bingo!
Liberal: What the hell does Massachusetts have to do with anything?
Conservative: The COMMONWEALTH of Massachusetts!
Liberal: So?
Conservative: So you said Puerto Rico is a commonwealth!
Liberal: Oh, no…
Conservative: You ADMITTED Puerto Rico was a commonwealth! Admit it, you said it!
Liberal: Oh, man…
Conservative: So if Massachusetts is a commonwealth, and Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, then they BOTH must be states! HA!
Liberal: OK, look…
Conservative: You owe me twenty bucks!
Liberal: What?
Conservative: Come one, pay up! Twenty bucks, let’s go!
Liberal: I don’t owe you twenty bucks!
Conservative: And I’m not even counting Pennsylvania!
Liberal: Pennsylvania?
Conservative: That’s a commonwealth, too!
Liberal: It’s a commonwealth, but…
Conservative: And Washington!
Liberal: All right, look, I lived in Seattle – Washington is NOT a commonwealth!
Conservative: Seattle’s not even a state – it’s a city!
Liberal: Yes, it’s a city, in Washington State! Washington’s a state!
Conservative: I’m talking about Washington D.C.
Liberal: What?
Conservative: Washington D.C. It’s a city.
Liberal: I know what it is!
Conservative: Well, you liberals are always going on about “Statehood for Washington!” Which, you admit, is already a state!
Liberal: Washington D.C. is not a state!
Conservative: Washington State is!
Liberal: You just said Washington D.C.!
Conservative: And you said it should be a state!
Liberal: I never said that! I mean, it should be… but I never…look…
Conservative: Should Washington be a state?
Liberal: Well…
Conservative: Simple question.
Liberal: Washington State?
Conservative: Yes or No?
Liberal: Washington State or Washington D.C.?
Conservative: Right.
(Long pause)
Conservative: He snorts cocaine.
(Long, painful pause)
Liberal: (slowly) This is Washington D.C. you’re talking about.
Conservative: Yeah. The mayor snorts cocaine.
Liberal: Actually, he’s no longer the mayor…
Conservative: I don’t think a state should have a governor who’s used drugs.
Liberal: He’s not the governor; Washington’s not a…
Conservative: Except maybe California.
Liberal: OK, OK, stop for a moment…
Conservative: I mean, that was a long time ago…
Liberal: Listen, listen…
Conservative: I don’t see Michael Moore making any movies about cocaine in Washington State, do you?
Liberal: Please, STOP!
(pause)
Liberal: Look, I’m just trying to make a simple point here…
Conservative: What about…
Liberal: STOP!!!
(long pause)
Liberal: I’m just trying to make a SIMPLE point here. It’s not a big deal – it’s just a fact. The USA has fifty states. That’s all! Yes, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, but it isn’t counted among the fifty states. Yes, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are commonwealths too. So are Virginia and, I think, Kentucky. I don’t know about Kentucky for sure, and you know what – it doesn’t matter! They’re considered states, OK? They’re states. Washington D.C. isn’t one, even though I wish it was. Guam isn’t one. There are only fifty. Fifty states. Fifty stars on the flag – fifty states. That’s all. Fifty.
(long pause)
Conservative: Rush is so right about you people.
Liberal: Huh?
Conservative: Rush. He gets it. You people are the worst.
Liberal: I don’t…
Conservative: Here I am, trying to have an honest political discussion, and all you can do is bring up this liberal claptrap! You call people like Rush racists, but you don’t want to count Mexicans as Americans. You insult the Governor of California every chance you get. You get all your information from encyclopedias and Michael Moore. You want free cocaine in Washington, and you want Seattle to become a commonwealth, and you won’t pay me my fifty dollars even after I proved that blacks run Guam! And then, worst of all, you insult our flag and our troops!!! You disgust me!
Liberal: Good-bye.
Conservative: See, there you liberals go again! Sneaking off to download porn from Kentucky! I’m not forgetting you owe me 100 dollars!
(pause)
Conservative: That’s it, cut and run!
(long pause)
Conservative: Why do you hate America?

Bum calls, bookies taking it in the shorts..

The officials working this weekends NFL games werent the sharpest knives in the drawer in some instances..the Pittsburgh game comes to mind. A completed pass...to the OTHER team? huh?Isnt that an interception?

The 'hawks beat the spread by ONE point and Indy was favored over Pitt..methinks some bookies aren't very happy with some of the outcomes this weekend...heh heh.

Neither Indy or the Pats are gonna be playing next weekend. Golf maybe but not football. The Seahawks did it without their numero uno guy and League MVP, Shaun Alexander.

Steelers and Seahawks..sounds good to moi.

The Superbowl has lost its roman numerals..does anyone care?

Probably not. It was determined that the "younger" audience, those in their early twenties and younger, had no clue about roman numerals. They did not know how to read them or convert them. Sad ain't it? They were saying" Superbowl Extra Large?" when they saw the roman numerals for this years big show.

Don't they teach em anymore in school?

Anyone download and play with Yahoo's "widgets" yet? I am hooked on several of them.

Its cold and rainy today. My bones are hating it..so is the heating bill police aka the ball and chain..

Gotta go watch some Football..amf's.

I cant take it anymore.

I gotta post about baseball..that wonderful american pastime that is in hiatus and its driving me mad.

It all comes down to pitching..EVERYONE needs a pitcher or two..or three. All three types...starters, middle relievers and of course a decent closer. Three of the five "top" free agent starters have signed..why bring them up now, they found a job...fuckers. Padres didnt get a one of em. This doesn't surprize me however. Lima is still out there and Jeff Weaver and The Rocket can't sign with the Astro's till right before the season starts, so he's fair game too.

The Bosox swear on everything holy they are still trying to move Manny...pardon me whilst I LMAO. Right, they are trying..and I had great sex with a famous rock star.

The gents that elect the Hall of Fame players are really getting on my last nerve. Those fucktards are making life miserable for players that should be in no sweat..Jim Rice, Goose Gossage for gods sake! I mean, really..how can those two NOT be in the HOF.

Ok, I feel better now..i got it off my chest. We will now resume our regularly scheduled bullshit.

HNT offering for the week.

I know Feetman wants a shot of my new shoes, but its early and I gotta go to work..so..

we get the newest feral kitten and my arm encased in my pajama top..cami and all.

This is Fuzzy. He is one of two ferals to survive out of the litter of five. He was extremely sick. The odds of him surviving were very very slim, the vet said. He was touch and go for two weeks. He has the softest fur of any cat I have ever seen. Fuzz might be a girl, we aren't sure yet. But he/she is a cutie and very happy to be part of our home. Notice the remote laying next to me..YES, I sleep w/it,under my pillow. You can never have the tv remote too close ya know?

I think I found the culprit that was causing Popups for Firefox users..

It seems to have disappeared since I removed webstats4u.com..bastards..

if anyone still gets popups, please let me know..

If the glass is half full or half empty I have just one question..

What happened to the rest of the drink? Did some asshole drink half my drink whilst I wasn't looking, cuz I will kick their friggin ass...

Football is coming closer to being over for this season..this depresses me greatly since that means the black hole of sports will soon be upon me. I will be forced to watch round ball and hockey..neither of which excite me like football or baseball.

Baseball...I am jonesing like a crackhead for a fix. At least a crackhead can make his own or find a new dealer if he gets desperate enough. I however do not have either of those options.

If I wake up to one more foggy morning I am going postal..well, not really but it gives you an idea of how much I fucking hate fog and the lack of sunshine around these parts during the winter months.

Ebay rocks..but this is not a good thing for moi. I am now on a first name basis with the local UPS guy, and I know when to expect him.

At 11am today the Baseball Hall of Fame nominees will be announced..or not..its a weak bunch of guys this year according to those that nominate them. I say "they" are full of shit and Jim Rice, Goose Gossage and Bruce Sutter deserve a place in the Hall of Fame.
Edit: Bruce Sutter got in, Rice and Goose did not..its a travesity I tell you!

The Colts might go all the way this year and win the Super Bowl..at least Robert Irsay wont be around to see it..his pennace for taking them out of Baltimore in the dead of night many moons ago.

Aw nuts..I have been tagged..

One of my favorite bloggers and a fellow Californian MJ has tagged moi. Its a rather interesting one however so I really dont mind doing this one.

What were you doing 10 years ago?
I had just moved back to Cali from Georgia. I had lived there only two months when my wonderful son took off,literally. He stole my car, cleaned out my bank account ...and since he took off in the middle of the night in a driving rainstorm, he promptly totaled my car by running headlong into a large cement abuttment of some sort. I took all this as a sign from above and moved back from whence I came. The kid however did not make the return trip. He was AWOL for at least three months as I remember and when the police finally caught up with him..I gave him some tough love and told the cops to keep him, which they did. Boy was HE pissed LOL. But it was the best move I ever made on his part. He is now a fine upstanding person whom I love very much.

What were you doing 1 year ago?
I was living miserably here in Bakersfield, looking for a job locally of some type so I could get out of my depression. I also started blogging a year ago this week. I was going to San Diego at least two weeks out of every month. I working for Best Buy reviewing their customer service for all stores in the southern Cali I-15 corridor. Being on the road constantly had its ups and downs. The upside was getting out of Bakersfield, the downside was being alone all the time till I got to San Diego and then it was PARTY TIME! Since I am from SD I had lots of friends and family which made the trip worth it each and every month.

Five snacks I enjoy:
1. Necco's Thin Mints
2. Necco's Thin Mints
3. Rolo's
4. Moose Tracks Ice Cream, vanilla version.
5. PB&J sandwiches ( I am with you on this MJ, it IS a snack)

Five songs to which I know all the lyrics: Only five? Get a grip :)
1.Rosalita by Bruce Springsteen
2. ALL recorded music by Joe Bonamassa (Bruce..you knew this was gonna be in here didnt ya?)
3. ALL of Eric Clapton's recorded music
4. ALL of AC/DC's recorded music
5. All the songs on "Slang" an album by Def Leppard

Five things I would do if I were a millionaire: Only a million..geez
1. Buy a little place on the coast of Cali. It would have to be little, coastal property is friggin expensive here!
2. Build a huge cattery for all the feral cats I feed and love.
3. Buy a ragtop Chevy..circa 1970's
4. Take a 6 month roadtrip thru the US and spend some quality time in Budapest and Paris
5. Give what ever was left to MoveOn.Org to fight the good fight against Bush and his cronies.

Five bad habits:
1.Smoking cigs
2. Eating Junk Food aka Jack-in-the-box
3. Picking up after myself.
4. Putting off going to work until the last few hours remain in the day. I make my own schedule and thats not a good thing for someone like moi.
5. Cussing like a trucker.

Five things I like doing:
1. Singing in the car real loud.
2. Listening to the blues on my Ipod
3. Sitting at my favorite bar in Ocean Beach, CA watching the sunset and talking to old friends.
4. Blogging, both types..serious as in my political blog and funny&eclectic as in this one.
5. Road trips..short ones, long ones..dont matter, I love to drive.

Five things I would never wear, buy or get new again:
1. I will never wear a bathing suit again.
2. I will never buy another pet, I seem to acquire them when I least expect them.(abused or abandoned ones seem to find me, the count is up to 10!)
3. I will never buy another desktop PC again..new or otherwise..laptops rock!
4. Spandex..nuff said.
5. Gold Jewelry..what it does to the enviornment to remove gold from the ground is atrocious and disgusting.

Five favorite toys:
1. My laptop
2. My seven cats.
3. My three dogs.
4. My Ipod.
5. My DVR

Ok...that's it! Now comes the fun part: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot.

a la carter
afrindiemum
waitress dreams
Friday Fishwrap
Moments in Time

NOW...the folks I am tagging for this lovely exercise..do not blow it off..there will be hell to pay if you do..I pick you folks because I find you interesting and want to know more about you :)

Bruce
Fantastic Alice
Tiny
IT-Chick
Joel

Alrighty then..have at it..we all look forward to YOUR lists dear friends and fellow bloggers :)

HNT Pic for the week.

I have a nasty cold and feel like tossing my laptop against a wall.. I am sick and coughing and who had to bust my chops about HNT.....Daisy of all people..the woman who hasnt been around in weeks and DID NOT post a pic last week..but I did:) I love you Daisy..i will be over to look at YOUR pic soon.

Since I just got up and am sick as a proverbial dog..i took a pic whilst laying in bed..its my fuzzy slippers.If you look closely at my right shin you can see a dime-sized scar where I had gangrene removed as a kid.

I have to do my best "Jack Abramoff" routine and go to court today to plead guilty to my speeding ticket and throw myself on the mercy of the court..actually I just gotta request traffic school..but I am very sick, and this is all your getting this week. Sorry.

Texas shocks USC..41-38

Most folks were rooting for Texas but few figured that they could pull it off..fuckers did!

With the BCS title and the game on the line..and only 19 seconds to go the Longhorns QB Vince Young ran it into the endzone untouched..His Michael Vick-like performance winning the game for the Texans. Young tossed for over 200 yards and RAN for 200 yards and 3 TD's his own self.

Reggie Bush who beat Young out for the Heisman this year was held to 82 rushing yards and one TD. Matt Leinart had a hard time dealing with the loss. He said USC was still the "best" team on the field and during the season in the post-game press conference. Leinart even had the nads to refer to Young as a "freak"athlete". Um...Matt? ya lost sweetie..shut up and deal with it son. Young looked awed as he stood on the sideline after the win, his arms held high in a sea of confetti. He hugged the MVP crystal football trophy like a little kid stating he was carrying it all the way back to Austin.

Pete Carroll can kiss my ass. Vince Young might of lost the Heisman to Reggie Bush but he came out on top where it really counted..the championship game. The BCS title games are not usually this good as witnessed by OK's ass-beating at the hands of USC last year. This one at the Rose Bowl, which is basically the home turf of USC, was thrilling from beginning to end.

Why couldn't I have put all my money on this game instead of the friggin Notre Dame game..

NFL's Black Monday continues into Tuesday.

Norv Turner was shown the door today by the Raiders..he joins Mike Martz, Mike Sherman, Dom Capers, Jim Haslett, Mike Tice and the newly retired Dick Vermeil as unemployed head coaches. Tice was fired minutes after the Vikes final game with the others getting the axe on Monday...guess Oakland didnt want to share the spotlight and waited till today to shit-can Norv..Detroit dumped Mariucci early in the season so that brings the total of NFL coaching vacancies to..hell....8 teams lining up to hire a new coach.

This just in...

Jack Abramoff plead guilty today to 3 counts of various slimy no-no's...he will be eligible for a nice 30 year sentence at his favorite federal pen unless he gives up a boatload of info on the crooked Repubs on Capitol Hill..yes..repubs were his main targets. Tom Delay used to call Jackie A his best friend..wonder how he feels now...

Edit: An article here at Slate states that the ONLY Democrat under suspicion is North Dakota's Sen. Byron Dorgan, although Abramoff did contribute to both Dems and Repubs.

The Bag is back..

Our beloved Col.Dr. is back blogging..he is on the edge as per his usual..which is always eclectic and deep... and since its election time in Canuck-land, his posts are quite interesting..I will put him over on the sidebar but you can also find him here.