Sunday, February 29, 2004
Fish Stories
Nonetheless, the biography of Bush on the US State Department's website credits him with almost six years in the F-102's cockpit -- two years on active duty flying the plane and nearly four more years of part-time service as an F-102 pilot. The websites of at least five American embassies -- those in Germany, Italy, Pakistan, Vietnam, and South Korea -- use the identical language, even though Bush spent barely two years flying the airplane. - Boston Globe
Saturday, February 28, 2004
It's election year, break out the bigotry.
If Resident Bush really wanted to protect the sanctity of the biblical definition of marriage, why not just outlaw divorce? Oh, wait, that would be fucking with, you know, freedom or something.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Kicking & Screaming
Learned about this one via Jack Bog's Blog. Two Oregon legislators (one Republican, one Democrat) are refusing to resign despite moving out of the districts they serve, in total violation of the Oregon state constitution. Best of all neither the Republican or the Democratic parties have a problem with this.
Jim Edmunson, the state Democratic Party chairman, doesn't plan to challenge Kruse's violation in court. He said, "Obviously the rule of law applies to all, and so it really wouldn't be fair to complain about a Republican violating the constitution if we didn't hold ourselves to the same standard."
Spokeswoman Dawn Phillips said the state Republican Party will stay out of the matter.
"We weren't going to weigh in on Kruse," she said, "and we're not going to comment on Deborah." - Oregonian
Excuse me while I lose my lunch. These fucks need to march their butts right out of office, today. And people wonder why people are so disgusted with the political process these days.
Monday, February 23, 2004
13 Years
I just got through reading an intense article on the Rodney King beating in Scary Monsters & Super Freaks by Mike Sager. Nine days from now 03.03.04 will be the 13th anniversary of the beating. 13 years! Seems like yesterday. Anyway, it reminded me of a song.
Don't Pray On Me by Bad Religion
A grizzly scene on my electron beam
Told a story about human rights
So all of Kings horses
And all of Kings men had a riot for two days and nights
Well, the city exploded
But the gates wouldn't open
So the company asked him to quit
Now everybody's equal
Just don't measure it
Well Hanson did it Hester
And Mark David did it to John
And maybe Jack did it to Marilyn
But he did it to South Vietnam
For beauty and glory
For money, love and country
Everybody's doing it, Don't do that to me
I don't know what stopped Jesus Christ
From turning every hungry stone into bread
And I don't remember hearing how Moses reacted
When the innocent first born sons lay dead
Well I guess God was a lot more demonstrative
Back when he flamboyantly parted the sea
Now everybody's praying
Don't prey on me
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Rest easy Washington County
A stressed out public exhaled a collective sigh of relief with the news that Kimberly Rae Baker-Bundy, the notorious Gnome Bandit, had finally been caught. Communities are once again free to litter their lawns with ceramics. Sleep tight you princes of Beaverton, you kings of outside decorating, the bad lady is behind bars.
Great Quote
"Yes. Lying is a serious matter. And calling the President of the United States a liar is not something I say with any relish or self-satisfaction. I wish with all my heart that our President wasn't a liar, or if he were, that he was more like President Clinton." - Al Franken from Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Activist Residents
"I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I am troubled by activist judges who are defining marriage," he said. - Yahoo
Something tells me the resident should just stick with daffynitions.
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Kermit goes Disney
Disney and Henson declined to talk about the financial terms of the deal for the Muppets, but people familiar with the matter said it included a payment of between $40 million to $60 million plus a share of future Muppets profits. - CNN
I have a dream
I keep having this dream that Bill Clinton steps out of the shower to announce to the world it was all just a dream. Things could go back to how they were before the invasion of the Bushmen. There's no place like home, there's no place like home.
Monday, February 16, 2004
Stupid human tricks
KEIZER, Ore. - Nine-year-old Keizer resident Morgan Kepford's unusual skill may have earned her a spot on the "Late Show with David Letterman."
For the past two weeks, Morgan has practiced shoving a balloon up her nose, holding it in place with her toes and blowing, something she hopes to perform on Letterman's "Stupid Human Tricks" segment of his show. - Yahoo
Root, root, root for the home team.
Sunday, February 15, 2004
Extreme Ways - Moby
Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I'd owned
I threw it out the windows, came along
Extreme ways I know move apart
The colors of my sea
Perfect color me
Extreme ways that that help me
Help me out at night
Extreme places I had gone
But never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it planned
I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does
Extreme songs that told me
They helped me down every night
I didn't have much to sayI didn't get above the ligh
tI closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never opened
Up to anything
That could get me along
I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things to cover me
Too much can make me blind
I've seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
So many dirty things
You couldn't believe
I would stand in line for this
It's always good in life for this
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does
Thursday, February 12, 2004
St. Johns Uber Alles
Thanks to Jack Bog's Blog, I now know I live in the pimple on Portland's backside-at least according to Renee Mitchell of the Oregonian. Mitchell quickly retracted the statement after being bombarded by irate pimple denizens. Personally I like St. Johns, ass acne and all. From where I sit I can see the St. John's Bridge, arguably the coolest bridge in P-town. After 10 years in NW Portland (which must be the lower back or elbow of Portland according to Mitchell's anatomy, the colon polyps according to mine) the change of pace is nice. I've traded scenery from yuppie fucks and boutiques to dilapidated buildings and an eclectic mix of Portlander's on the lower end of the ever-sliding economic scale. From annoying to ambience in one easy step. A pimple? Maybe. Just keep your Clearasil away from my neighborhood.
Road to Redemption
Since Friday, the world's largest automaker has recalled about 2.5 million vehicles, a situation that dims its much-publicized message of improved quality. - Yahoo
Not content to destroy the lives of auto workers, General Motors Road to Redemption apparently involves risking the lives of 2.5 million of their suckers customers. I used to work for Sitel an outsourcer for General Motor's customer service during which I fielded dozens of calls a day from frightened customers related to the safety of GM vehicles. Do you know how depressing it is listen to people literally sobbing on the phone because they believe they may actually die in their vehicle? These are people that thought they were doing the right thing by purchasing an "American" car. People that are too afraid to get inside their car much less drive it. It's sad and utterly depressing. You won't catch me dead in an American car built after the 1970's, unfortunately 2.5 million people may not be able to say the same thing.
Think you've got an American car? Learn to read your VIN. Better yet, take a look under your hood.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Losing your job is good for you.
"Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade," said N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, which prepared the report. "More things are tradable than were tradable in the past. And that's a good thing."
Last year's Economic Report of the President predicted that 1.7 million jobs would be created in 2003. Instead, the nation lost 53,000 jobs. In Bush's three years in office, 2.2 million jobs have disappeared.
Since the Great Depression, it has never taken this long for the economy to begin creating jobs after emerging from a recession. After the last recession ended in 1991, it took 14 months for employment to begin expanding. Current problems with the economy have gone on nearly twice as long, 26 months. - Common Dreams
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Straight from the chimp.
I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind. - George Bush via MSNBC
Saturday, February 07, 2004
Wake up, time to die.
From 1991 to 2002, 4,994 people killed themselves in Nevada. Of those, about 11 percent, or 547, were from out of state. Most suicides take place in southern Nevada's populous Clark County, home to the Strip and its decadence and debauchery.
"Vegas is a canvas for American neurosis" UNLV history professor Hal Rothman said. "It's a place where we paint our hopes, dreams, fears and apprehensions. It's the city of excess. What could be more of an excess than killing yourself?" - Reno Gazette-Journal
Friday, February 06, 2004
Art is dangerous
HAVANA - Cuban musicians invited to attend this weekend's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles have been denied U.S. visas needed to attend the ceremony, a Culture Ministry official said Thursday.
The letters cited Section 212f of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Law, which states that the American president can deny U.S. entry to foreigners when their coming to the country is deemed "detrimental to the interests of the United States." - Yahoo
Remember kids, importing music - bad, exporting bombs - good.
And the ass sued the tit.
The suit fails to specify what injuries Carlin suffered when she saw Timberlake rip off part of Jackson's costume, exposing her breast, saying only that: "As a direct and proximate result of the broadcast of the acts, [Carlin] and millions of others saw the acts and were caused to suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury." - Faux News
We live in a world where there are people dying everyday via starvation, disease, war and more. There is a multitude of things out there to be outraged about, a woman's breast is not one of them. Get pissed at the boobs running the country, or better yet pry your uptight ass off the couch and turn OFF the boob tube. People really frighten me these days.
Whole Lotta Fat People
Total sales at McDonald's restaurants jumped 19 percent last month, or 11 percent factoring out favorable currency effects.
Sales at restaurants open more than a year, a key figure of industry health, climbed 10 percent worldwide and 13.4 percent in the United States. -Yahoo
What great news, now they can pay us all back.
McDonald's, which in 1996 earned a profit of $2.6 billion dollars (59 percent from foreign operations), accepted $1.6 million dollars from the federal government to promote its products in Europe. - Free Market.net
Monday, February 02, 2004
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing a record $521 billion deficit, President Bush proposed a $2.4 trillion election-year budget on Monday that will cut dozens of domestic programs and set deficit-reduction goals that even fellow Republicans are skeptical he can meet.
Defense contractors including Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co., Northrop Grumman Corp., Raytheon Co. and General Dynamics Corp. stand to benefit as Bush's $401.7 billion military budget increases spending on missile defense and on modernizing the Army.
In a tacit acknowledgment that deficits are here to stay, Bush set the goal of bringing this year's record $521 billion shortfall down to $364 billion in fiscal 2005, to $241 billion in 2007 and then to $237 billion in 2009. There is no talk of surpluses in the foreseeable future. - Yahoo
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Multnomah County Library Facts
The number of books checked out each year averages 24 for each man, woman and child in Multnomah County.
More than 6,500 people visit the library's 17 locations each day.
Librarians and other staff provide personal help an average of 93,000 times each week.
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