Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 3:31PM In a letter I sent out earlier today, I promissed to update this blog with some information on the California budget crisis. I am working on that blog entry and an update for the site's homepage and will have them both up as soon as possible.
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 6:04PM Unless I miss my guess, we will now have to listen to several days of Fox News and Republican politicians crowing about the success of yesterday's tax day tea parties. The posturing politician and the Fox News parasitic lickspittles will moan about how President Obama and the Democrats in congress are not listening to the will of the people. And thank God they are not, at least not to these people.
Monday, April 13, 2009 at 7:25PM Far from a simple protest of "Taxation with representation" (which is doubtless what most of us remember), the Boston Tea party had very complex roots and was partly supported by tea smugglers who found the price for their tea undercut by legal English Tea upon which the taxes had been reduced. Still it stands as an icon moment in American history.
In contrast the tea parties of 2009 stand as an idiotic moment in American history. The Boston tea party was a genuine grass roots movement that led between 30 and 130 men to board three British vessels and dump 342 chests of tea overboard. In the 2009 tea parties is a publicity stunt orchestrated by national political interests (and Fox News) leading thousands of citizens are wasting their own tea
Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 5:00PM "Did you hear about the guy in Sacramento who pushed the lady from the drive through lane at McDonalds into traffic?" Brown shirt asked me.
"Gave the fat ass what she deserved," Hunting jacket said.
"Fat ass?" Wayne said and continued to stare into his beer.
"Had to be," said hunting jacket. "you know the type, fat ass woman, gets her order and drives half way down the drive thru and stops to check her order. Heaven forbid she didn't get enough fries. She sits there stuffing her pie hole and checking her receipt while you're waiting to get off and get going. Lard ass like that ought a get out and go inside. The exercise would be good for her." Jake, the pianist, started an instrumental version of "Asshole" by Denis Leary.
Monday, April 6, 2009 at 11:31AM Saturday night the waste line from my garbage disposer jammed; sufficient pressure built up behind the jam to push all of the drainpipes out of position; and I (who was trying to fix the problem) got soaked with freshly ground garbage. I felt like Obama working on the economy.
I wasn't responsible for the jam, and who was remains a contested issue. Like Republicans, some who work at my sink seem to have forgotten what they flushed through the system, and have suggested that somehow it is Obama's fault (any factual underpinnings for that claim seem to be lacking, but when has that bothered a Republican.)