Belligerently Stupid
I am truly embarrassed for the state of this city when I see the kinds of racist idiots who've showed up tonight for this forum.
And there's a good question. What about those parents who know that their kids are sacks of drug-selling and drug-using shit, but don't do anything to correct their behavior? Do these [communities] know what their role in a healthy society is? It's not to turn out big litters and suck on El Hefe's joint to keep them fed; rather, it's their responsibility to raise their kids to know good from bad and to do unto others as they would have done unto themselves.
These people are fucking dolts. Rude, ill-informed, and belligerently stupid dolts.
Bigots
The out and out racism of these speakers is amazing. But it's okay, kids: it's just Mexicans threatening the Dominant White Power Structure. Mexicans can threaten the editors and reporters of both English and Spanish newspapers with the charges of racial disloyalty because that's showing a sense of "community." Jesus Christ! Keep it real somewhere else!
See, in a renters' community, you don't have to worry about declining property values due to drug and gang activity because your sorry transient asses don't have to be around when it's time to sell. And you expect these good-for-nothing punks to do what they do because the Dominant White Power Structure won't hand them enough jobs or cash. It's always The Man's fault that these vermin ride around dealing crack and heroin and dope: they're being forced to do it!
Policemen on Parade
News 8 Austin is carrying live the Austin Police Department's presentation of their preliminary investigation into the recent fatal shooting of Daniel Rocha. It's a real embarrassment. These jackasses refuse to shut up and let the speakers make their points. A typical crowd of ill-mannered and terminally-ignorant dopes.
Shut the fuck up!
This stupid cow wants a cop to drag her out of there so that she can feel vindicated.
Pneumonia Mood: suave
I'm sick with pneumonia. Can you believe that?! Thank goodness for anti-biotics and that very pleasant cough syrup they've prescribed me, though.
Still Defending Zuniga
In one of the most notorious remarks in the relatively young life of the blogosphere, Leftist blogger Markos Zuniga passed judgement on the lives of four American contractors murdered in Fallujah last year, saying on 1 April 2004:
Let the people see what war is like. This isn't an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush's folly.
That said, I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
It was a huge mistake, of course, and helped to seal the public's opinion of the liberal Democrats as backstabbers in a time of war and elections.
Zuniga's remarks have also proved to be very useful for people like me who wish to remind their correspondents of what's at stake. Thus, when I raised Zuniga's remarks again this afternoon at a well-known online Leftist klavern, this is the response I got from some wanker calling himself Woody Guthrie's Guitar:
i have absolutely no sympathy for dead mercenaries, of any nationality, race, creed, or gender.
they have sold their humanity. thus they deserve no tears, no tributes, no compassion.
a dead merc is just one fewer inhumane, murderous, soulless, mutherfocker that we have to worry about...
Yep. This is what became of the hippies: they went psychopathic.
"Akbar" Now Playing: "They're Hanging Me Tonight" by Marty Robbins
Just watched Christiane Amanpour's live interview with "Akbar" Hashemi Rafsanjani on CNN. The once and probably future President of Iran denied that his country is harboring al-Qaeda terrorists, instead insisting that these people are a creation of the United States and are actually terrorizing Iran. Huh!
Who knew that Rafsanjani was such a close reader of The Daily Kos and Eschaton?
Sick Mood: don't ask
I've been home sick today with some sort of flu-like problem and just heard the verdict in the Michael Jackson trial.
What a disgusting bunch of nonsense.
Jackson is a degenerate piece of shit. There can be no question about that. He uses his great wealth and celebrity to do things that no normal man would even think of doing or getting away with. He is above the law because that's where some people have put him.
Thus, from where I stand, the greatest crime Jackson has committed is nothing he's personally done as a child-molesting faggot ---and I do not use that term lightly--- but what he does to move others. He is the cause of immoral and degenerate behavior in those who unashamedly worship him. They excuse his disgusting behavior because they are mindless turds, bobbing up and down in the kiddie pool of this celebrity culture. Jackson is their demiurge ---and they are content to be ruled by him in a perpetual state of irresponsible adolescence.
Incohere! Mood: chillin' Now Playing: "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins
With thanks to Pejmanesque for the link, here's a shiv between the ribs from Patrick Ruffini on the subject of Howard Dean's negative influence on the Democratic Party:
It's safe to say that Howard Dean's first four months as chairman of the Democratic National Committee have not gone exactly according to plan. After a Presidential season in which small donors eclipsed the power of the bundlers, Dean was supposed to keep the spigot of Internet money flowing, and perhaps even juice it up some more after the departure of the reviled McAuliffe. The selection of this unconventional politician was supposed to have morphed the DNC from a shadowy, inside-the-Beltway cabal into a populist grassroots machine, with a little bit of the same pop, sizzle, and spontaneity that characterized Dean's rise to the top of the Democratic field. In my parochial area of concern, online politics, Mr. Internet Candidate was supposed to be running laps around the Republicans, attracting hundreds of thousands of quirky, devoted online followers.
Instead, the DNC was outraised by the RNC $34 million to $16.7 million in the first quarter – following the 2004 cycle where the DNC actually raised more. Big donors are leaving in droves. The antics (helpful anthology here) that seemed refreshing and out-of-the-ordinary on the campaign trail are now grating and uncouth. And the DNC's web site still sucks, its blog has remained essentially unchanged since the election; gone is the excitement of Blog for America, in is the quaint charm of a major party weblog with 1, 3, and 7 comments respectively on its last three substantive posts. So much for the Internet Candidate™.
And how do the morons at Eschaton respond to my criticisms of Dean in their comment threads? By declaring ---with too much emphasis and generosity to actually be true--- that they're off to donate ever more money to the DNC. Got that? As a [rebuke] to me for my sensible remarks, these partisan bottom-dwellers ---who wallow in the mud of hatred for yuppies and Rethuglikkkan $cum--- can only think to send money to the Democratic Party. For what? More money would equal more approval of Dean's chairmanship? That's certainly interesting! All that more money is going to do is pay for the extra toppings on the pizzas the envelope-lickers will be ordering. You know: from their five-figure-a-month office space in a downtown near you where their coat-and-tied hippy bosses strategize on how to appear grassroots enough to fool you yet again.
Nader's still right about the two-party machine, even if you dumbasses still hate him for 2000.
A 360 on the 180 Now Playing: "Obsession" by Animotion
The Chicago Sun-Times' Thomas Lipscomb has some doubts about whether John Kerry has, in fact, released all of his military service records:
A front page story in the Boston Globe claimed that: "Senator John F. Kerry, ending at least two years of refusal, has waived privacy restrictions and authorized the release of his full military and medical records." In another Globe story Kerry had promised "The truth in its entirety will come out." But did it?
Kerry's election hopes faltered last summer and fall as accusations of fraudulent and incomplete military records were aired. The fact that Kerry repeatedly refused to sign a single-page military form called the Standard Form 180, that would have released all his military records to the public, was taken as proof he had something to hide.
Whether you think harping on this is chickenshit or irrelevant or anything else, you must agree that there is no other rational explanation for why John Kerry refused to release those files. None. He must have had something to hide ---and it's not (as Steve Soto speculates)--- "vanity" over having the world see that he did worse than Bush in school.
Care to take a guess as to what the real embarrassment was?
"Protecting the Left from Itself" Now Playing: "Two Hearts" by The Jayhawks Here's an interesting column from Brent Bozell about how Big Media is ---in the words of Paul Mirengoff--- "protecting the Left from itself." In this case, Bozell points out that the liberal media has got a pretty tight embargo on the crap that recently-elected DNC Chairman Howard Dean's been spewing:
The rule has been a blackout at the Big Three since the weekend Mr. Dean was elected. CBS hasn't mentioned the words "Howard Dean" since Feb. 20. ABC and NBC both ignored Mr. Dean for two months until they found his critical comments useful during the mid-April controversy over Terri Schiavo's death. But Mr. Dean's gaffes were nowhere to be found. They also ignored Mr. Dean for the rest of April, and then May.
But weren't Dean's high profile and red meat style some of the reasons why the Democrats wanted him for the job? Weren't they looking to put a celebrity politician and a would-be Presidential nominee in the role of sticking it to the Chimperor week after week? Just think on that one. Why don't the big networks run with Dean's gibberish more often?
Because it reflects poorly on their liberal agenda.
Since he was elected to the top party spot on Feb. 12, Democrats have hidden [Dean] like the Clinton staff hid mistresses.
They've received a lot of help from a national media blackout. As Mr. Dean traveled the country dispensing gaffe after gaffe, the national networks ignored him almost entirely. On Thursday, June 2, he cracked at a left-wing convention that many Republicans "have never made an honest living in their lives." ABC, CBS and NBC ignored him for three days, until the Sunday morning interview programs, which have about a quarter to half the ratings of the evening news.
It's not quite hate speech yet, but the potential for such is obviously there. Big Media, for now, can look away. But, soon, Dean is going to lose his shit and there won't be any choice left.
I Didn't Know That! Mood: a-ok Now Playing: "Milk It" by Nirvana
I just watched the lovely and talented Alanis Morissette sing our national anthem in the pre-game show of Game One of the Finals ---having heard from the announcer that she has recently become an American citizen. I didn't know that! What a hoot. I dig her a dozen different ways. She is deliciosity itself.
Meltdown
As Charles Johnson notes, DNC chairman Howard Dean is in a full-on meltdown. During a recent speech in San Francisco, Dean said that Republicans are
"a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."
What does this even mean? Isn't Dean himself supposedly a "white Christian"?
There can be nothing more nauseating in politics than this sort of pandering. To take it upon oneself to castigate the opposition in terms that may as well be applied to oneself is almost incredibly inept.
How are you Leftist wankers enjoying your consolation prize? Is there any major Democrat who hasn't taken a dump on this guy in the past couple weeks? Frank, Biden, Edwards, Pelosi ---the list of remorseful buyers is growing, folks. Dean is pumping out soundbites for the 2006 Republican campaign machine at an astonishing rate.
The Fireflies
My back yard is full of fireflies ---and I am quite delighted.
But fuck a loud dog, though. Why do people keep animals around who hate everything and cause hatred in those around them? It's psychotic. I think a certain class of people need that kind of strife in their midst as a kind of validation of their own existence. Lots of barking and bedlam and nonsense all the time to drown out the essential silence of their mindless lives.
Home Sweet Home
Well, I'm back in the blogging saddle. I didn't really miss it too much, although I did miss having access to the Internets (as the President once referred to it. Or them.).
Plus, I am now in my new home ---my first house. It's a pretty amazing feeling, but one that hasn't fully sunk in yet. It's a lot of responsibility, but one that I needed to accept, being the old man I am.
This is going to be a really hot and nasty summer. I can feel it already.
Gettin' down to the Nut Cuttin' Now Playing: Bernadette Peters' horn solo from "Tonight You Belong to Me" (from The Jerk)
Game on, beeyotch. A walk-through and then The Great Stack of Papers. Jesus! Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!
suave
don't ask
chillin'
(Thanks ---if that's the word--- to the Boston Globe for 
a-ok