Risking It
After a double dose of horrid movie picks (A Prairie Home Companion and some movie about a kid's Bar Mitzvah called 'Keeping Up With the Steins' or some shit) I am risking a third disaster that I hope will turn out okay.
Saturday night, I'm going to go see "The Devil Wears Prada."
The idea that Meryl Streep stars as the movie version of Vogue's bitch-in-chief Anna Wintour is tempting, but then again she played the hayseed singer trying to woo Garrison Keillor in the aforementioned piece o' crap, so there's no telling.
Anne Hathaway plays her assistant. Her, I love. She played the wife of Jack in Brokeback Mountain, and she has that pouty lipped sassiness that has gotten me into lots of trouble in my spotty history of real life woman chasing.
So, wish me luck. I'll report back soon.
P.S. Bush and that Japanese lame duck at Graceland. What a couple of dorks. Elvis would have loved Bush- two dope addicts disguised as law abiding citizens. Yeecch.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Lame Duck with Lemons?
Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Trials
Decision Marks Setback for Bush Administration
WASHINGTON (June 29) - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying in a strong rebuke that the trials were illegal under U.S. and international law..."
Good. I love a strong rebuke to Bush from the Supremes.
And as far as recent decisions go, it seems the Supremes are taking some strong measures to restore their credibility, while they reign in the naked little emperor and his sycophants.
Could this be the beginning of the last phase of Bush's petty tyranny?
Maybe something as common as enforcing the laws of the land might do to him what the media has failed to do: expose him and declaw him.
Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Trials
Decision Marks Setback for Bush Administration
WASHINGTON (June 29) - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying in a strong rebuke that the trials were illegal under U.S. and international law..."
Good. I love a strong rebuke to Bush from the Supremes.
And as far as recent decisions go, it seems the Supremes are taking some strong measures to restore their credibility, while they reign in the naked little emperor and his sycophants.
Could this be the beginning of the last phase of Bush's petty tyranny?
Maybe something as common as enforcing the laws of the land might do to him what the media has failed to do: expose him and declaw him.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
All This Partisan Bitching
Everyone knows by now that Bush, Cheney and a handful of their goofy GOP legislative co-conspirators are up in arms over recent stories published in the NY and LA Times about BushCo's spying into bank records.
"Treason!" they claim. "The stories harm our national security," they continued.
Trouble is, while the BushCo crybabies whine about the liberal, left-wing mainstream media harpooning their so-called security measures, they totally left out their pet right-wing rag, The Wall Street Journal.
Yep, the WSJ printed basically the same story, yet they escaped the wrath of the swiftboating right-wing. Why? You know why.
Listen here, friends.
You can tell when the NY Times and other major print media are finally doing their jobs:
BushCo starts to bitch.
Everyone knows by now that Bush, Cheney and a handful of their goofy GOP legislative co-conspirators are up in arms over recent stories published in the NY and LA Times about BushCo's spying into bank records.
"Treason!" they claim. "The stories harm our national security," they continued.
Trouble is, while the BushCo crybabies whine about the liberal, left-wing mainstream media harpooning their so-called security measures, they totally left out their pet right-wing rag, The Wall Street Journal.
Yep, the WSJ printed basically the same story, yet they escaped the wrath of the swiftboating right-wing. Why? You know why.
Listen here, friends.
You can tell when the NY Times and other major print media are finally doing their jobs:
BushCo starts to bitch.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
A Prairie Home Companion
You'd think with Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsey Lohan, Garrison Keillor and more, the movie would have been sensational.
Well, I picked it out last night and my most frequent movie viewing companion has stripped me of my movie choosing rights.
It was a pointless snore. The music was corny, the plot was thin, the cinematography was dark and the comedy was nonexistent.
Save your money.
No, really.
You'd think with Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsey Lohan, Garrison Keillor and more, the movie would have been sensational.
Well, I picked it out last night and my most frequent movie viewing companion has stripped me of my movie choosing rights.
It was a pointless snore. The music was corny, the plot was thin, the cinematography was dark and the comedy was nonexistent.
Save your money.
No, really.
Sweet n' Sour
Sweet:
Rush Limbaugh, the OxyContin gulping male version of Ann Coulter, was detained for three hours Monday at the Palm Beach airport because he possessed a bottle of Viagra that was not prescribed to him.
What's wrong, Rush? Are you so gross that even your own dick is turned off?
Sour:
Just because Bush's Keystone Kops FEMA screwed up their initial reaction to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, does that mean they forever get a pass on the whole thing?
You'd think Bush and HLS "director" Chertoff would want to correct their initial misdeeds with a superior follow-up effort, but news report say more than $2 billion in taxpayer money has been wasted on fraudulent claims, bogus reconstruction contractors and so on.
They can't get it right at any stage, but I guess they figured once they were branded as incompetents at the start, what the hell, may as well screw up the whole thing to the finish.
Sweet:
Rush Limbaugh, the OxyContin gulping male version of Ann Coulter, was detained for three hours Monday at the Palm Beach airport because he possessed a bottle of Viagra that was not prescribed to him.
What's wrong, Rush? Are you so gross that even your own dick is turned off?
Sour:
Just because Bush's Keystone Kops FEMA screwed up their initial reaction to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, does that mean they forever get a pass on the whole thing?
You'd think Bush and HLS "director" Chertoff would want to correct their initial misdeeds with a superior follow-up effort, but news report say more than $2 billion in taxpayer money has been wasted on fraudulent claims, bogus reconstruction contractors and so on.
They can't get it right at any stage, but I guess they figured once they were branded as incompetents at the start, what the hell, may as well screw up the whole thing to the finish.
Monday, June 26, 2006
I Read the News Today, Hoo Boy
I used to love to read the weekly, sometimes daily news accounts of Bushian malfeasance.
Now it's just a chore.
I read about the latest scandal: the Bush government snooping into ordinary citizens' banking records, and I realized nothing will be done about it.
The tepid, left-wing NY Times mentioned it, then of course some right-wing Senator called for a treason charge against them.
There's no real news being reported anymore, unless you count the Daily Show. It's a pretty abysmal outlook when the only news outlet that even hints at the truth comes from Comedy Central.
Now I hear a college radio station somewhere in Texas has sold out to a Christian broadcasting network. Brahms will be replaced by 'Jesus is awesome' music.
From what little I know about Jesus, my guess is he wouldn't approve of the majority of hate mongers and judgmental fanatics who claim to represent his point of view.
Everything is upside down in the world today.
Peace is perceived as cowardice and war is perceived as a religious quest.
The news today makes me question the reality of karma.
If karma is real, why haven't Bush and his evil friends been struck between the eyes with bolts of lightning?
I used to love to read the weekly, sometimes daily news accounts of Bushian malfeasance.
Now it's just a chore.
I read about the latest scandal: the Bush government snooping into ordinary citizens' banking records, and I realized nothing will be done about it.
The tepid, left-wing NY Times mentioned it, then of course some right-wing Senator called for a treason charge against them.
There's no real news being reported anymore, unless you count the Daily Show. It's a pretty abysmal outlook when the only news outlet that even hints at the truth comes from Comedy Central.
Now I hear a college radio station somewhere in Texas has sold out to a Christian broadcasting network. Brahms will be replaced by 'Jesus is awesome' music.
From what little I know about Jesus, my guess is he wouldn't approve of the majority of hate mongers and judgmental fanatics who claim to represent his point of view.
Everything is upside down in the world today.
Peace is perceived as cowardice and war is perceived as a religious quest.
The news today makes me question the reality of karma.
If karma is real, why haven't Bush and his evil friends been struck between the eyes with bolts of lightning?
Saturday, June 24, 2006
From Tim Grieve at Salon.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Lawsuits are coming over 2004
In an interview with PRWeek, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he'll follow up on his Rolling Stone story about the 2004 presidential election by bringing lawsuits against as-yet undisclosed defendants.
In his Rolling Stone piece, Kennedy said that he has "become convinced that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004." Now he says he's meeting with lawyers to devise a "litigation strategy" to address the problems raised in his article. "And I would say very soon we'll be announcing lawsuits against some of the individuals and companies involved," Kennedy tells PRWeek.
Kennedy declined to identify possible defendants, but he notes that many of the "same people" involved in suspicious activities in 2004 are "up to the same shenanigans" with respect to upcoming elections.
If Kennedy files suit over the 2004 election, he won't be the first: The Democratic Party of Ohio, among many others, has engaged in litigation over the voting in that state. But a lawsuit from Kennedy -- even if it didn't reverse the results of the last presidential election, which seems beyond unlikely at this point -- would bring renewed public attention to what happened in 2004 and could make it harder for Republicans like Kenneth Blackwell to continue with the voter-suppression tactics they're already employing for 2006 and 2008.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Lawsuits are coming over 2004
In an interview with PRWeek, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he'll follow up on his Rolling Stone story about the 2004 presidential election by bringing lawsuits against as-yet undisclosed defendants.
In his Rolling Stone piece, Kennedy said that he has "become convinced that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004." Now he says he's meeting with lawyers to devise a "litigation strategy" to address the problems raised in his article. "And I would say very soon we'll be announcing lawsuits against some of the individuals and companies involved," Kennedy tells PRWeek.
Kennedy declined to identify possible defendants, but he notes that many of the "same people" involved in suspicious activities in 2004 are "up to the same shenanigans" with respect to upcoming elections.
If Kennedy files suit over the 2004 election, he won't be the first: The Democratic Party of Ohio, among many others, has engaged in litigation over the voting in that state. But a lawsuit from Kennedy -- even if it didn't reverse the results of the last presidential election, which seems beyond unlikely at this point -- would bring renewed public attention to what happened in 2004 and could make it harder for Republicans like Kenneth Blackwell to continue with the voter-suppression tactics they're already employing for 2006 and 2008.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Back in Black
Last night, my best friend Anna took me to see "The Daily Show" Commentator Lewis Black in concert at the Majestic Theater here in San Antonio.
He really was magnificent in his comedic timing and righteous indignation.
My favorite line of the show was when he said how the next president should be chosen.
He said, "The next winner of American Idol should be blindfolded and face a map of the United States. Then they should throw a dart and wherever it lands, we should send a plane carrying a monkey with a parachute, drop him over the site and the first person who touches his hand is it."
Made sense to me.
Chances are, whomever it is would be smarter than this dumb son of a bitch we have now.
He also mentioned Bush was born in Connecticut and educated at Yale. He said we Texans got suckered in by voting for a Yankee to begin with.
Well, not ALL of us...
Last night, my best friend Anna took me to see "The Daily Show" Commentator Lewis Black in concert at the Majestic Theater here in San Antonio.
He really was magnificent in his comedic timing and righteous indignation.
My favorite line of the show was when he said how the next president should be chosen.
He said, "The next winner of American Idol should be blindfolded and face a map of the United States. Then they should throw a dart and wherever it lands, we should send a plane carrying a monkey with a parachute, drop him over the site and the first person who touches his hand is it."
Made sense to me.
Chances are, whomever it is would be smarter than this dumb son of a bitch we have now.
He also mentioned Bush was born in Connecticut and educated at Yale. He said we Texans got suckered in by voting for a Yankee to begin with.
Well, not ALL of us...
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Friedman Makes November Governor Ballot in Texas
Yahoo!Texas voters have made history by placing independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman on the November ballot, the state announced today.
Friedman, the author-singer-humorist making his first try for state office, had submitted 169,574 signatures. His campaign said today that more than 137,000 signatures were certified.
Voters will see their widest field of hopefuls for governor since Democratic Gov. Dolph Briscoe won a second term by trouncing GOP nominee Jim Granberry. La Raza Unida, American and Socialist Party candidates trailed.
The Texas record for candidates on the gubernatorial ballot is six, last reached in 1932 when Miriam "Ma" Ferguson won her second term as the state's first female governor..
Robert Marbut, a lecturer in political science at Texas State University and the University of Texas-San Antonio, said he could not recall previous instances in American politics of two major-party candidates for governor facing high-profile independent or third-party opponents.
"This is going to be a very weird election," Marbut said. "This is going to be probably the most interesting election in Texas history and maybe the most interesting governor's race in the history of the United States."
GO KINKY!
Check out http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/index.html and send the guy five bucks.
You may not be from Texas, but you know damn good and well you'd vote for him if you were.
Help a Texas Jewboy out.
It's our way of telling the world we're sorry about sending you George W. Bush.
Yahoo!Texas voters have made history by placing independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman on the November ballot, the state announced today.
Friedman, the author-singer-humorist making his first try for state office, had submitted 169,574 signatures. His campaign said today that more than 137,000 signatures were certified.
Voters will see their widest field of hopefuls for governor since Democratic Gov. Dolph Briscoe won a second term by trouncing GOP nominee Jim Granberry. La Raza Unida, American and Socialist Party candidates trailed.
The Texas record for candidates on the gubernatorial ballot is six, last reached in 1932 when Miriam "Ma" Ferguson won her second term as the state's first female governor..
Robert Marbut, a lecturer in political science at Texas State University and the University of Texas-San Antonio, said he could not recall previous instances in American politics of two major-party candidates for governor facing high-profile independent or third-party opponents.
"This is going to be a very weird election," Marbut said. "This is going to be probably the most interesting election in Texas history and maybe the most interesting governor's race in the history of the United States."
GO KINKY!
Check out http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/index.html and send the guy five bucks.
You may not be from Texas, but you know damn good and well you'd vote for him if you were.
Help a Texas Jewboy out.
It's our way of telling the world we're sorry about sending you George W. Bush.
Ugh.
I am starting to really hate politics and politicians.
I wish we could just turn back time to the year 2000, install Al Gore in his rightful place as President, then move forward.
In other news, the Massachusetts legislature is debating the wisdom of school cafeterias serving fluffernutter sandwiches to students. That's a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich to you.
Why don't they just deep fry the damn things, then roll them in confectioner's sugar? Then they could coat them in butter and syrup and serve them up like French toast.
I am starting to really hate politics and politicians.
I wish we could just turn back time to the year 2000, install Al Gore in his rightful place as President, then move forward.
In other news, the Massachusetts legislature is debating the wisdom of school cafeterias serving fluffernutter sandwiches to students. That's a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich to you.
Why don't they just deep fry the damn things, then roll them in confectioner's sugar? Then they could coat them in butter and syrup and serve them up like French toast.
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