Barack Obama is the Devil

Many other of Pastor Manning's insightful sermons are available on youtube.

A Spiritual

Furriners

Sarah Palin's big insight into the Gulf of Mexico oil slick is that it's BPs fault and "you can't trust foreigners".

 What a woman.  Eskimo Todd worked for BP for twenty Years. They're huge up in Alaska. Since BP merged with Standard Oil of Indiana, they are pretty much officially one of the Seven Sisters and as American as apple pie.

People like an illegal alien for President.

If you ask people the right questions, you find out some amazing things.  About 20% of Americans believe Barry O may not have been born in this country, although they admit there is no proof of their suspicion. A third of those, about 7% of the population, thinks he's doing a fine job and like him anyway.

Kentucky Fire Drill

The Republican GOP in Kentucky had their candidate for the Senate seat there all lined up for the primary vote. A guy named Trey Greyson. They thought he was just about perfect. Ivy League but heavy into Mom, apple pie, scapegoat the Gays and jail the abortion doctors until they come to Jesus.

Then a funny thing happened. The voters didn't like him. Instead, they like Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, who the Republican establishment for years have been trying to paint as out on the fringe and unstable kooks because of their libertarian outlook on social issues and extreme fiscal conservatism.

It has become clear that Rand is going to win the primary. It's also clear that Paul has the potential to attract socially moderate and even liberal leaning independents in the November general election, not that Kentucky is in danger of electing any Democratic senators anytime soon. In the last week, would be Republican king makers are tripping all over themselves offering their endorsements to the younger Paul. Sarah Palin, James Dobson and Jim DeMent so far and likely more to come. You can't get any better than that if you want the votes of the Republican base.

Poor Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, who also happens to be the senior senator from Kentucky, has already gone all in for Trey and can't back out now or can he? Maybe Trey can be made to realize he needs to devote more time to his family.

Brownie Speaks

I saw Michael Brown interviewed this afternoon by Anderson Cooper. The reason that he was interviewed is that he intimated on his Right Wing radio talk show, that Barry and his administration had so far bungled the federal handling of the Louisiana oil spill and more than that, desire for the oil spill to do as much ecological damage as possible to the American coastline, in order to stop offshore drilling forever and vilify big oil.

Cooper repeatedly quoted from Brown's radio show transcript and asked what basis he had to imply these things. Mr Brown was unable to respond in any substantive manner.

Mr Brown as you will recall, was Ws FEMA director during the early days of Hurricane Katrina. He was most successful previous to that, in a position promoting the husbandry and exhibition of registered Arabian horses.

I really admire Arabian horses, small, sturdy, intelligent equines that excel in almost every way. American mustangs, descended from mounts brought by the Spanish conquistadors, have a lot of Arabian lineage. I'm sure they would have done OK without Brownie's help.

Elmer Gantry took it in the ass.

Here's a great story. The guy who partnered with James Dobson to found his evangelical fundamentalist Christian empire, recently hired a young Gay prostitute to accompany him on a sunny vacation trip abroad. They shared a room. The guy doesn't deny it. Whats to deny, it happened.

I think most of these fundamentalist, evangelical Christian leaders are Gay. The job calls out for the same kind of sensitive, artsy showmanship that is required for interior decoration, hairstyling, high fashion design or Broadway musical choreography. Effective evangelical preaching is almost a universal stereotype crying out for a a Gay personality.

Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Robert Schuller, Oral Roberts, Paul Crouch, Benny Hinn, Bishop Fulton Sheen, name one, they're all Gay. In public they puff up, wave their gaudily ring and Rolex adorned hands about, smooth out their bouffant hairstyles, swish around in shiny, Italian designer suits and lisp loudly about the sin of homosexuality. In private, they long for a quiet, soft skinned, sensitive young man with white teeth and a big penis.

What a crack up.

I'm a Rambler. I'm a Gambler.

I grew up in a pretty typical church going American family. Pretty fundamentalist too, by today's standards. No card playing or dancing allowed. No shopping on Sundays.

Gambling was considered a major vice and completely unacceptable, not quite as bad as drinking, worse than smoking.

All of us kids played marbles. A kid took his bag of marbles everywhere. I would often forgo candy in order to buy marbles. There were high stakes games and low stakes games. In low stakes games only the pedestrian cats eye marbles were used. As the stakes went up the marbles became larger, more exotic and wonderful. The crown jewels of the marble world were agates. If there were some agates in the game, the stakes were high indeed and you had to ante up some to be let in the game. There was always a lot of controversy over whether steelies should be allowed as shooters.

A couple of bad games and a kid could be left marble poor, distraught and unable to sleep at night. It was cut throat gambling of the highest order. Nobodies parents minded it.

I Look Longingly At New Mac Pros

The computer I use is a first generation Apple G5 Power PC, of the type first released seven years ago in 2003. At the time, Apple charged over $2000 dollars for it and touted it as the most revolutionary and powerful personal computer ever. That didn't last long. I bought mine, in almost new condition, three years ago for just a few hundred bucks.

My computer has about the same power and capabilities as last years cheapest model net book. It's a lot less portable.

The good thing is that most people do their computer tasks and surf the web on these little net books with no problem. My seven year old behemoth works just about as well.

I figure it will be at least 2 or 3 years before I need to get a new computer. $400 for a computer you can use successfully for 5-6 years is a pretty good deal.

Tea Party on, Garth

Forty years ago today, the Kent State massacre happened. After that, hundreds of colleges and universities around the country shut down, many for the rest of the school year. This was a culmination of the movement that had started with Mario Savio and the free speech movement of the early 60s. It was a continuation of the protests that disrupted the Democratic National Convention in Chicago a few years before. It changed the way the right to free speech and assembly was regarded in this society forever.

The Tea Partiers are direct descendants of the campus protesters of the late 60s and early 70s. I hope they acknowledge the debt that they owe those young people of a half century ago.

Sarah Palin is the new Abbie Hoffman.

Power to the People, Right On!

Who are they fighting against?

The Wing nuts think abortion is some kind of deep philosophical divide in this country between upright, Christian fundamentalists, who believe in the revealed word of the crucified Sky God and effete, liberal secular relativists. It's a crock. Here's a quote from Business Week magazine.

"The Guttmacher Institute focuses on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. The study, based on an analysis of a nationally representative survey of women obtaining abortions in the United States, also found that in 2008: 58 percent of all abortion patients were in their 20s; 45 percent were never married and not living with a partner; 61 percent were already mothers; 42 percent were living below the federal poverty line; 36 percent were white; 59 percent had at least some college education; and 73 percent had some religious affiliation."

The women getting abortions aren't liberal relativists. They are young women, of modest means. They already have children. It seems to me that the decision to have a child or abort mostly comes down to economics. They can't afford another child. To have one would strain already fragile economic resources and make employment for these women more difficult. Most of them, even if they are married or in a stable domestic relationship do not have the option of being stay at home mothers. They already have at least one child. They know what the experience of having another child will be like. Sounds like an informed decision to me.

Liberal relativists are mostly too old to have children. Those that are not, take adequate birth control measures. I bet the abortion rates are much higher for the young adult girl children of Wing Nut Fundamentalist Christians than for those of secular humanist relativist couples. When the Wing Nut "Prayer Warriors" jump out of the bushes in front of abortion clinics, screaming murderer and shaking large color pictures of dead fetuses at the young women entering, who exactly is it that they are fighting against?

Poor, young women, often members of a racial or cultural minority, already hard up against it and looking at more of the same. Nice.

Is this the way they really want to expand and energize their political base? I think in the end, it will be a poor choice.

Bow Your Head With Great Respect And Genuflect, Genuflect, Genuflect

Thursday is the National Day of Prayer. I'm not religious but I'm not one of those people that has a problem with it. Occasions of public prayer have been going on all of my life. I'm not fond of them but I'm used to it. Public prayer has always reinforced my beliefs that the religious are boorish, stupid and oppressive louts. They don't even consider that others might not jump at the chance to grovel with them in obeisance to their Sky God. Over the years, public prayer has done a lot to strengthen my atheism.

During public prayers I do not bow my head and pretend to pray along. I stand up straight and look around.  A lot of other people do the same. We smile, wave and wink at each other. What Larks, Pip.

I don't mind public prayer.

That Franklin Graham guy is getting a lot of press over this issue now. He was on Morning Joe last night. Joe was having a hard time making him look good. I had never heard him speak before. The guy is a completely ignorant goon. His father, Billy is a very smart guy, for all that he is a big drinker, wife beater, fornicator and ethnocentric racist, among many other things. Franklin may share traits with his famous father, most sons do. Intelligence is not one of them.

Socialist

The great American fortunes, shipping, steel and railroads in the 19th century, Autos, rubber, oil in the 20th, electronics and attendant software today and grasping, greedy bankers all along the way, were made by graft, corruption, political patronage and the ruthless suppression of legitimate competition. This isn't lying liberal propaganda, just the sad truth about a supposedly free enterprise society.

We're hearing a lot about how Barry O is a socialist maniac, out to redistribute the precious, hard earned wealth of honest Americans. What the fuck does that mean. I worked hard for a long time. Whenever there was an opening, I worked hard to get promoted and often was. Maybe I didn't make a lot but it was more than a lot of people did. I saved almost every penny I ever made. I don't really have very much. Given inflationary trends in a lot less time than it took me to save it, I will have nothing, whether I spend it or not.

I hope Barry redistributes the hell out of the wealth. The people that have most of it either stole it or inherited it and never worked a day in their lives. I'm not stupid enough to think I would get any of the redistributed wealth. I might even be one who gets what wealth he has redistributed. I don't care. It would be worth it just to see.

Christian Nation

I think it's interesting that there is a growing debate in this country over whether or not we are a Christian nation, whatever that means. I don't think this is the kind of debate where there can be a winner or loser.

What is really interesting is that we are having a debate over it at all. Forty or fifty years ago nobody, even the most devout atheist, would argue that America was not a Christian nation. We are certainly still a nation that promotes Christian virtues and ideals. Whether that will remain the case is a good question for debate.

Nobody is arguing that Christians don't have every right to practice their faith or even evangelize, as long as they don't impose upon the rights of others to believe differently. It is the right to force Christianity on everyone and discriminate against those that refuse it, that the Wing Nuts are afraid of losing. It is a well grounded fear. Without institutionalized Christian dominance, nobody will go along with the shit they are shoveling. It might be different if their beliefs had anything to do with the real teachings of Jesus but they don't.

The Razor's Edge

This is my favorite news story in awhile.

You gotta love Hindu India.

Let's all become breatharians. It isn't so hard to believe. My Grandpa hasn't had anything to eat or drink since 1984.  He's almost a hundred and twenty years old. In this culture we call it dead. Semantics is all it is.

Fritz Maytag Cashes In His Chips

I read that Fritz Maytag is selling his San Francisco brewery. He's owned it for 45 years. He was a rich kid that didn't want to go into the family business making washing machines. His Anchor Steam Beer brand always gets a mention in articles documenting the development of the West Coast craft brewing movement and they are usually pretty kind to him.  From what I could tell, he never really wanted to develop a superior beer but to maintain the original taste of what they were producing for blue collar San Franciscans in the 19th Century. I guess he met his goal.

I never could figure out why it got good press. You could taste the malt and the hops alright but it had a lot of nasty wood ester tastes too. It never got easier to drink as you got a buzz on, a highlight of good beer. If you drank too much, too fast, you'd start to feel nauseous and if you didn't back off quick after that, you'd soon be vomiting. Hell of a hangover the next morning. You'd be better off with Miller High Life at half the price, even less if they were running a promo. If you were really strapped for cash, you might be inclined to go with Lucky Lager or Burgermeister, mostly just called Burgie by its hangdog legions of fans. They were never too fastidious about production quality with these brews. If they had cleaned out the feed pipes not long after putting the batch you bought into containers, there could be considerable amounts of caustic in the product. You'd wake up the next day with a really sore throat. It would eat into your guts too and you'd shit out blood and shreds of destroyed intestinal lining for a day or two. Oh, to be young again.

I don't drink much anymore but from what  can tell, all the cheap beers now taste exactly the same. No malt, no hops, sour and thin.  One completely indistinguishable from another.You gotta pay extra to get something decent. Anchor Steam Beer meets the pay extra criteria but not the decent part.

Maybe the new guys will make a better product. It wouldn't be hard.

Light Her Up!

The oil slick from that uncontained well a mile deep and 49 miles South of the Louisiana coast will soon wash ashore, to the detriment of local fisheries and wetlands.

They have a plan to contain it though. They're going to light it up and burn it off. How will they put it out? That well is leaking 45,000 barrels of crude a day. At least that's what they're reporting.

Thailand for Dummies

Do you know what's going on in Thailand?

It's been a couple of years since the military dissolved  the Parliament and exiled the Prime Minister, both of whom they didn't like.

Thailand has a King. The Thais are pretty nationalistic and proud of their history. They all love their King.

Thailand also has a hereditary aristocratic class who are educated and privileged. They run the military, big business, the judiciary and police. They have some support within the greater masses of Thais but only in and around the environs of Bangkok, which has benefited from the modernization of this one Thai metropolis in the last few decades. They are called the Yellow Shirts.

The majority of the provincial Thai populace, who have not benefited and who wish to begin to share in the new found Thai prosperity, mostly supported the government that the military has overthrown. They are called the Red Shirts.

The South of Thailand is Islamic. These people are ethnically and culturally different from everybody else. They are kind of a mixture between piratical sea Dyaks and the wild men of Borneo and are generally some of the most bloodthirsty killers that ever roamed the South China Sea. Open warfare against everybody that is not them is their natural state, unless there is nobody else around, when they war against each other. They want autonomy. At least that's the excuse they use for the current state of mayhem in the South.

The aristos and their minions are not strong enough to suppress majority and maintain even a sham democracy. They have the resources to do it by wholesale slaughter but then the rest of the World would not see Thailand as a good place to do business. That would be like killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The Yellow shirts know this and don't have much to lose except their lives anyway, so they persist in trying to force a reinstatement of a legitimate government and  new elections, which both sides know they will win. Until the country is unified, nobody can control the Dyaks in the South.

The King is trying to make peace. It's worked before but he's just about the oldest man in the country, sick and will die soon. He's been the King since he was a little boy and nobody believes that his successor will command any allegiance from anyone that matters. Neither side is willing to make any concessions.

Things are deteriorating in Thailand. They are our only real ally left in South East Asia.

Bummer.

Cost of Government

You want to talk about uncontrolled government spending, here's the biggest problem. Remember, virtually all of these people retire young, often at nearly full pay and with generous health care benefits.

Will The Government Tackle Immigration?

Are we ready to talk about illegal immigration in this country yet? It will be a bigger issue in California than any place else. It is not only a Latino problem here. There are huge numbers of illegals from Europe here. Irish, Eastern and Southern Europeans in droves, middle Easterners, Asians and Africans. For example, I do a lot of shopping at a huge local Asian superstore. It used to be a Kmart, tells you how big it is. Most of the check out girls are young Vietnamese. Some of them are still growing like weeds, now that they are on an American, high protein diet. They have bad teeth, are thin as rails and speak almost no English. It's obvious they didn't grow up here and if they had, they'd be aceing their SATs and heading for pre med at UCLA.

Immigrants from all over the World come to SoCal because they have established family ties and jobs waiting for them here. The established immigrant communities here subsidize illegal immigration because they need cheap labor and trust those from their own countries of origin more than others.

Arizona is a big white flight State. A lot of the kids I went to high school with 40+ years ago live there now. They are going to try and choke down illegal immigrants there. Given the kind of White people that live there, I'm sure they will do their best. Multiply the kind of problems they have by about ten and that's what it will be like in California and nobody here really gives a shit about immigrants. Without them, the economy would really tank. Well established White families have been moving out of California for a long time. Along with Arizona, a lot have gone to other Western States, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The thing that makes California different from places in the rust belt, is that the Whites have been replaced by foreign immigrants and the economy has kept chugging along. It has also become an even lower crime area than before and is a very nice place to live. You can't say that about Detroit or Cleveland. Did you know that Beverly Hills is now mostly Iranian? Not a suicide bomber among them. All their children want to keep up with the Kardashians.

I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago and I guarantee you, the immigrant numbers are even greater there, especially in the Chinese community.

You're not going to be able to bus all these people back to Tijuana and consider the job done, nor are their countries of origin going to passively accept them back.

Advice For Dim Witted Tomato Growers

Today it is three weeks since I got my two tomato plants, re potted them and put them out on my little back patio. Mostly they only get indirect sunlight back there but it doesn't seem to be a big problem. They are about three times as tall now, are blooming profusely and have put on a lot of foliage. About a week ago I gave them a little shot of plant food. I have been watering them every other day

Yesterday, they were looking good but the potting soil was a little dryish, so I drenched them down. A couple hours later, I was out there and looked at them and something seemed wrong. All of the foliage was drooping badly. It took me a few minutes to figure out what the problem was. The plants had pumped so much water up into the leaves, so quickly, that the weight of them was making it hard for the still thin and pliable, green stems to hold them up.

I had been worrying about over watering, when I had been under watering them.

I guess I will water them every day from now on. Once they really get going, I probably will have to water morning and evening. I can do that.

Photosynthesis is a wonderful thing.

General Motors Is Back

GM says it has paid back all of the government bailout money, with interest and is now profitable. It's a lie. Maybe the big drug cartels are laundering their money through GMs credit arm.

I don't know a single person that has bought a GM vehicle in years, do you? We have an auto dealership strip on the main highway that goes through our town. All the GM lots except Chevy are closed and Chevy doesn't look all that profitable. I expect Hyundai and Subaru to snap up a couple of those lots now derelict. The spaces they currently hold are woefully inadequate.

I didn't buy bank stocks a year and a half ago and I should have. I'm not going to buy GM stock now. Chrysler either. My father owns some Ford. I think maybe he's senile but I'm often wrong. You can buy GM stock cheap. Buy a block and if the company comes back you'll be set for life, maybe in only a few months time. Are you tempted?

Getting Paid By The State To Download Porn. Duh.

I worked at a large, state run health care facility several years ago.  It was part of a large system that ran several facilities throughout the State. Most of the patient documentation, supply functions, inter departmental and inter facility communication functions were computerized. Previous to that, computers were used for an even more broad spectrum of functions but the system had been modified to block Internet access. The reason this was done was because it was discovered that a huge amount of total computer time was devoted to accessing and down loading hard core pornography. A large portion of this computer usage was identified as originating within the facility police department. A lot of people were disciplined. Too many were involved and at too high a level, for dismissal to be an option.

I don't know why anyone is surprised that people spend a lot of time at work accessing pornography if the ability to do so exists. It's human nature. I'm not saying it should be allowed. I'm not saying steps shouldn't be taken to stop it. I'm just saying what is.

The Pope in Rome downloads porn.

Prince Charles in England is totally addicted to it.

I'm sure Barry O takes an occasional peek at the bookmarked sites left behind by W, now and then, before moving on to heterosexual sites.

My favorite quote on the subject was by the Who's Peter Townsend. When questioned by the authorities about a hard drive he possessed full of Kiddie Porn, he stated that he needed to familiarize himself with it before stepping up to lead the fight against this evil, which he was totally committed to. Hey, I believe him. Don't you?

Drill Baby Drill

You've read about the big deep water oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded, burned and then sank with considerable loss of life last week. Bad accident. Nobody knows exactly how it happened.

The Coast Guard assures us that the deep water well, beneath the rig, is not leaking oil, at least not much,  not now.

Whew, what a relief. I feel so much better. Don't you?

What's New With You? I'm Fine.

It's an unusual April here in SoCal. Still cool, with periodic rain, some snow in the local mountains. Hard to argue with, the hills are green, everything is blossoming.

Usually it's a lot warmer by now although warm is a relative thing. My tomato plants are growing like topsy. I have high hopes for a pleasant Summer.

Next Fall, my old Submarine crew is having a reunion in Branson, Missouri. It will be over the Columbus Day weekend. They have been having them on the West Coast. I went to one in Reno maybe seven years ago.  That's not a bad drive for me. I went the back way through Victorville up 395. That was a mistake. I got a cheap gambler's special room, $12 promo rate through the Cal-Neva casino downtown and that was over the weekend. Great deal. The last couple were in the Seattle area. Too expensive there in the Summer. Maybe this will attract some from areas that haven't been previously so easily accessible to them.

I've decided to go.  Who wouldn't want to spend a long weekend drinking with broken down old Lifers at America's favorite family vacation venue? Maybe, once I'm tanked up, the Donny and Marie Show will seem like fun. I don't drink anymore but I'm not one of those white knuckler, Ray Milland type guys either. I like that AA motto, "One Day at a Time". If you skip a few days every once in awhile, no harm done.

I got a cheap rate on a nice motel room a mile from the reunion facility, on Priceline, I could hoof it easy in 15-20 minutes, unless it turns out to be uphill both ways. Only $20 bucks a night, double occupancy, two queen beds. Free breakfast featuring fresh fruit, hot waffles, biscuits and gravy. Pretty good, huh? The cheapest rack rate I could find for anything comparable is $59. It has good reviews on Trip Adviser. I couldn't believe they accepted my first bid. I should probably have bid even cheaper but I can live with $20 bucks a night for four nights. When was the last time you got a nice room in a big tourist trap, that didn't have gambling, for $20 bucks? You wanna go to Branson in October? That's the high season there. They thaw Andy Williams out of his cryogenic chamber for a few weeks, he sings a few old chestnuts for the crowds and then he and Claudine Longet give complimentary blowjobs to all comers. Free Viagra in the lobby before the show. Who wouldn't want to be there for that? I always wanted to meet Claudine. I'll split the room with ya. Probably could even get you into the reunion, it's only 20 bucks registration fee. Nobody will know you're not a submarine sailor. We'll tell them you were a Yeoman. We could tell them you were the wardroom steward but then they'd want sex. It's OK if you don't want to go. There will be a least one other old sailor there stag, that doesn't want to spend $100 a night on a convention center room. A sawbuck a night, with free biscuits and gravy will surely be a deal he can't refuse.

Now I have to find a cheap way to get there. Branson is about 1600 miles from my house. Long, expensive drive, at least 100 gallons of gas and a couple of motel stays long, there and back. I was thinking of taking a little motorcycle ride there on the side roads but I'm not going to do it alone and I've got no one to go with me. I'm hoping to snag a cheap flight booking over the Summer. The cheapest place to fly into is KC and it's 200 miles away. Springfield is more expensive and it's still 60 miles. I'm an easy rider, I wouldn't rule out the 'Hound if I can get a cheap promo rate and they often offer them late in the Summer.  I could ride right into Branson. Take two days, maybe three each way given that they are always behind schedule and then you miss connections and have to wait. I don't mind, what else do I have to do? You always meet some memorable characters ridin' the 'Hound. Short dog and a serape, you're all set.

I'd hitch but nobody has picked up hitch hikers much since the mid '70s, especially old guys like I am now. The only times I ever hopped freights was on the Great Northern Line. You had to dress warm going over the Divide, even in the Summer but it was easy and a straight shot across the continent, both ways. I think I'm too old and fat for that anymore and the Great Northern isn't anywhere near my house or Branson. Anybody got any good advice how to get from LA to Missouri cheap? I could afford to fly, even to stay at the convention center where they are holding the reunion but that's not my way.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

The Tea Party is a Fraud

Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Glen Beck and many other leaders of America's new Tea Party movement, say that America is a "Christian" nation. They scoff at the idea that church and state should be separated. They believe that Islam is an evil religion because it fosters aggression and violence against the Christian West. Never mind that the real opposition to the "Christian" West by Islam is unrelated to it's Christianity and centers on the West's support for the creation of the Zionist state of Israel, on land historically controlled and legally owned by Islamic peoples. They point to terrorist activity by Islamic fundamentalist extremists as examples of aggression that we in the West, although in practice almost exclusively America, must punish.  They are happy with the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as the instrument of this punishment. It doesn't matter to them that these wars bankrupt our country. It doesn't matter that they are seen in the Islamic World as continuations of the Crusades and will cause hatred between us for another thousand years. It doesn't matter to them that the degree of death, displacement and destruction caused by these wars, in these countries, is far out of proportion to any of the same caused by the Islamic fundamentalist terrorism that these wars are supposedly in response to. It doesn't even matter that the government or people of Iraq did not, strictly speaking, qualify as supporters of the kind of Wahhabi inspired fundamentalist terrorism that we were responding to and that neither did the Afghans, mostly poor ignorant devils who have never had a functioning indigenous government at any time in their long, scantily recorded history. Just kill some sand niggers, that should be a good enough reason to go to war, is the extent of their reasoning.

I don't recognize any difference between fundamentalist Islam and fundamentalist Christianity. Neither are up to any good.

On the home front, the Tea Partiers want Christianity recognized as the sanctioned American religion of past and present. They see liberals as ancient adversaries, servants of Satan out to destroy America and its true Christian citizens. Liberals include welfare recipients, homos, unions, atheists, Planned Parenthood, the liberal, intellectual elite that supposedly control America's educational establishment and scientists of every stripe, all of whom work tirelessly to destroy our Christian nation and heritage. It's probably not more than a few percent of the population. They turn a blind eye to the bloated, governmental bureaucracy, that we could never afford in the first place, that grants generous salaries and out sized lifetime benefits to it's uncountable millions of denizens, resulting in military, political and so called public safety employees that garner fat pensions, often after only a few years of employment and all the others after not much longer.  They applaud the wholesale giveaway of our national resources to corporate interests and beat the drum endlessly for lower taxes, not control of the entitlements or cushy jobs that they themselves are eager to partake of.

When somebody does stand up, Ron Paul and his followers for example and agitates actively against the real threat of excessive government spending and the unrestricted printing of money that debases the hard earned savings of frugal, hard working Americans, they are ignored and dismissed as lunatics.

The Tea Party will never accomplish anything good. Unfortunately, we will probably just have to wait until the whole shebang collapses under its own weight of fiscal impossibility. Then it will be really bad for awhile. The smart money is busy looking for ways to survive that. The smart money may not include many that are categorized as liberals but surely even fewer Tea Partiers.

Buy guns. Grow a garden. Keep chickens, goats and pigs. Build a still. Make good friends. Keep your head down.

Quayle Season in Arizona

What did you think of Dan Quayle. I was damn glad he was never President. I always liked his wife Marilyn. She was a hard core holy roller but seemed smart, sensible and willing to get along with everybody. That may not be true. I may have just thought she was sexy. Men project things on pretty girls.

Dan and Marilyn have a son, Ben who is going to run for Congress in Arizona. He was the youngest of their two sons. I remember the oldest one. His name was Tucker. He always seemed like a pretty nice kid. I don't have any clear memories of Ben. He's a lawyer and a venture capitalist like his father. I went on his campaign website. He's real wiry and tousled, like a young Kennedy and he's got an equally slim, tanned, attractive wife. Other than that, it's hard to tell anything about him except he's not a fan of the present government.

I think they should have run Tucker. He speaks Chinese, lived there for a few years and married a girl from Shanghai. A kid like that could run the tables for the GOP.

Kids are the same as always or are they?

I've noticed something about kids today. Some things remain the same. It's the loudmouthed, dimwitted, dickwads who want to be bigshots and run things when they grow up. You know what, they probably will be. That's the way it's always been.

The really smart kids. The ones who get straight As and ace their SATs, you know what they want? It's funny, they want to be things like pharmacists, veterinarians, science teachers, things where the paycheck is steady and you are your own boss. Low key, low stress, low maintenance. Maybe it's always been that way too.

Why Make Fun Of Earth Day?

I'm not that big of an Earth day celebrant but I don't belittle those that are or begrudge their efforts. Everybody thinks that Californians are big ecology and nature nuts, Nothing could be further from the truth. The rape of the environment is one of the main pastimes of Californians  and of our local commercial and industrial communities. We fished the Sardines and salmon out in the 1920s, the tuna after that and everything else after that. It's only been the last decade or so that commercial fishing has been somewhat curtailed and that's only because there isn't anything much left to catch. Squid is very popular right now because they thrive in warm, oxygen starved, polluted, marine environments and we have plenty of that.

Agribusiness operates most of the farming and ranching in the State. They over fertilize and over irrigate, washing large amounts of heavy metal salts into the ground water and wetlands. They don't allow habitat or freedom of movement for native wildlife. As soon as the land they own becomes profitable to develop by builders, they sell it. Most of our forests have been clear cut at least once. Those that have not only survived because the technology didn't exist to get the lumber out. We don't have enough big rivers in this State to float all the logs down to mills. They can take the old growth out with helicopters now. They're working on it. Ronald Reagan's famous quote about the redwoods was that you only needed to preserve a couple of hundred yards on either side of the main roads, that's all anybody cares about, proved to be correct.

There hasn't been a grizzly bear or wolf in this State in over a hundred years. The giant condors are all hatched from eggs laid in captivity. They try to get them to survive in protected habitats but they all die. Monarch butterflies used to migrate up and down the California Coast. It wasn't uncommon to see hundreds of thousands of them settle en mass on a grove of trees in the late afternoon. You see a few around now, here and there. There just isn't any habitat left for a lot of the species of plants and animals that used to live here.

California's a funny place. A lot of people get the wrong idea about it. There's not a lot of old hippies lounging about here, unless they already have a lot of money. You want to live decent here, you need to be making $150,000 a year at least and you won't be saving anything for your retirement or to pass along to your grandchildren. There's not much welfare here. I guess some people still get food stamps. You want to live here you gotta work. Nobody minds if the environment gets degraded. They never did and if you look around that's pretty obvious.

I don't mind if people want to celebrate Earth day. What harm does it do?

Presidential or Too Fat?

Do you think that Haley Barbour could be the leader that the Republicans are looking for in 2012? I think he could be. He's believable, unpretentious and comes across as a modest, self effacing guy but you can tell he's pretty smart and well informed. That's pretty much the opposite of all the current Republican bright lights. It's hard to believe he has any worse skeletons in his closet that the others do. Good old boys from the South send all kinds of subliminal messages to the Republican base. You just can't get any more subliminal than Mississippi.

He stands out in the crowd.

A Truly Horrifying Prospect.

I have recently come to a personal peace with religion. I can't even remember a time when I harbored any serious religious beliefs. Because of that I have always wondered if I suffered from some serious deficit in lieu of the fact that so many others, many of whom seem thoughtful and intelligent did.

I think that most people don't believe. They either pretend to, for some kind of personal benefit or are so desperate to believe that they lie to themselves. In any case I believe that religion is all based on lies, from top to bottom.

So, here is what may well be my last blog post about religion. No great loss. My religious posts have never been wildly popular anyway. You may just want to quit reading now, because this is pretty terrible.

One of the most popular and well publicized religious tenants of recent times is that God rewards faithful warriors of Islam with a large number of virgins when they arrive in Paradise after dying in the cause of the Faith. I can never remember how many but it is an ample number although who can say what an ample number is, given the length of eternity.

Where does God get all these virgins? I mean really, how many people, male or female could possibly have ever made it to Heaven while still in the virginal state? I'm not saying that virgins wouldn't make it to Heaven. I'm sure they could, maybe even most of them but really how many could there be. Based on my knowledge and experience, past a certain age, there just aren't that many virgins. Even if a person is more than normally repellent to prospective sexual partners and doesn't hardly ever get laid, that doesn't make them a virgin.

Then it dawned on me. What about all the preborn souls of the millions of aborted fetuses that we have been churning out? They would certainly go a long way to solving God's virgin shortage. Could this be part of God's great plan?

What do it all mean, Mr Natural?

I warned you not to read this.

Supreme Roulette

The Supreme Court is going to hear a case that will decide whether a school sanctioned group can discriminate against granting membership to homosexuals. I don't care how they rule. If they rule against, then it is a blow to conservatives who believe they have a coalition on the Court. If they rule for, then other student groups could also discriminate against admitting fundamentalist Christians and that could be fun.

I just want to see how they will rule. I don't think Roberts was to smart taking this one.

Who Speaks?

I just have one question about the Tea Party movement. There are no official leaders . The events themselves seem to have no agendas other than that brought by the participants although sometimes there are speakers contracted.

There are three people who have been allowed to act as spokespeople for the Tea Party movement. Nobody ever appointed or elected them but nobody is contradicting their right to do it either.

Sarah Palin, Glen Beck and Michelle Bachman. How does that work?

Invigorating

I woke up this morning to a cold shower. Bad thermocouple on the water heater. Got it from Home Depot. In the long run, you pay extra for the cheap shit they sell, in cold showers and short circuits.

We're back in business now. I didn't mind not having hot water when I was young. Different story now. Being old is definitely more tolerable with hot water.

He's like the Joey Buttafuoco of Movie Stars

This is the best entertainment sex story since Richard Gere's gerbils. There may prove to be several exciting installments. I can hardly wait.

Man oh Man. Who doesn't like a good Steven Seagal action adventure story, with an exciting climax or maybe even more than one.

Jindal Staffer and Boyfriend Beaten Savagely.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's campaign fundraiser and her boyfriend, were severely beaten about a week ago after exiting a swank restaurant in New Orleans. This lady's leg was broken in four places and the boyfriend suffered a concussion, a broken jaw and nose.

I'm not making light of the injuries that this young couple suffered. They are terrible and will take many months and substantial therapy to recover from.  They will bear the scars and perhaps residual deficits for life.

I hope that the NOPD are able to identify the attackers, arrest and put them away. It won't help if they spend their time looking for violent Left Wing fanatics. That is the word that swept across the Wing Nut Web. They are either ultra violent Gay commandos, you know, the real butch ones or SEIU thugs laying in wait  to do the Union's dirty business. They may be the same guys that torched Sarah's Church last year in Wasilla. Everyone knows that those Lefties are blood thirsty killers intent on targeting heterosexual, Christian, White people and setting off an internal war of racial/religious/sexual preference, that will end up with all the straight, Christian, White people in relocation centers bound for the Obama's gas chambers.

How do they know that the attack on these two fine young people was politically motivated? It's obvious, they were wearing their Palin buttons.

After you finish reading the Freeper post that the link at the top of this post will take you to, don't forget to hit the link on that page to the Hayride. Those folks have a slightly different take on the  origins of the violence. They believe that it was perpetrated by a violent radical group that runs a collective lending library. When you're talking murderous Lefties, everyone knows it's the readers who are the most dangerous. These Hayride guys are not wrapped up in blind Obama hate though, they explore all the possibilities of possible origins of the evil doers, including the possibility that they were just a pack of rogue anarcho-commies left over from another era, who were just passing by and sent into an uncontrollable rage at the sight of Young Republicans in love.

What about Mad Men?

Who watches Mad Men on AMC? I liked it the first season. The Don Draper character was enigmatic and mysterious. The melodrama was laced with black comedy.  The aspects of the culture at that time that we now consider politically or culturally incorrect were emphasized in a manner arch and mundane at the same time.

I don't like it so well now but I still watch it or will, whenever the next season of seven or eight episodes appear.

I am sorry that the Drapers are apparently getting a divorce but only because it may mean that there won't be as much screen time for their daughter Sally. I think that she has turned out for me, to be the most interesting character on the show.  She would have been 3 or 4 years younger than me at the time that the series depicts. Close enough. Her circumstances and experiences weren't so similar to mine but I knew a lot of kids like her and there are enough similarities to my own life to make it interesting.

Sally isn't  a little match girl growing up with any kind of material want. She doesn't even have any other children to be envious of in terms of familial affluence but her life seems sterile and lacking in expression of genuine affection or concern, especially from her Mother, Betts. It is obvious to her from early on, the values that her parents try to teach her have nothing to do with what is really right, fair or  likely to bring any real satisfaction into her life. She struggles through life, trying to make up her own rules and goals by trial and error. She does bad things but not out of any kind of evil intent. Sometimes it's to get attention and sometimes it's just existential experiment. You can almost see the lessons she is learning and the implications they will have on her development. She's turning into a much different person than her parents expect. Isn't that the way it was for all of us that passed through the late Fifties and early Sixties, on the excruciatingly long road to puberty?

There are a lot of girls like Sally today, women too but it's different now that they are a common part of the culture. Now the little girls teach each other to be that way. It's not the same as working it out yourself, even if you end up at the same place.

Pope Blocks Mothers From Conceiving Healthy, Happy Children

When an egg is fertilized by a sperm, the genetic material of each combine to form an embryo, which becomes a new, genetically complete organism.

The egg also contains mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on intact to the embryo. Mitochondrial DNA is responsible for facilitating cellular "housekeeping" activities that keep the individual cells functioning and healthy. If the mitochondrial DNA sequence becomes broken, the cells may not be able to function satisfactorily and females passing on defective mitochondrial DNA will not be able to conceive viable children. Scientists have now been able to replace damaged mitochondrial DNA with healthy DNA from another woman's egg, so that women who previously were unable to conceive a healthy child are now able to do so.

This is a good thing, right?

Wrong. The Catholic Church believes that this procedure constitutes an abomination against God and has proscribed it.

The Church used to be a repository for human knowledge and the cradle of science. Man, what happened with that?

I think maybe the Catholic Church could use a little new mitochondrial DNA of its own, don't you?

I feel so used

This is going to be a stupid post. I don't care. About 40 years ago this TV show came on called Family. It was a very appealing show and so were the characters. The two daughters on the show were played by Meredith Baxter and Kristy McNichol. I thought they were both very cute. Kristy McNichol was maybe 5 years younger than I was and Meredith Baxter was maybe 5 years older. I didn't consider Kristy age appropriate at that time so I didn't lust after her but I went ahead and lusted after Meredith Baxter. Since then, she has always been one of my favorite actresses and I've always thought she was very sexy.

Now, there was never really much chance that I would even ever be in the same County as Miss Baxter, much less get a chance to fuck her but lust is lust. A boy has to have something to fill his empty hours.

So several months ago Meredith Baxter announces she's a lesbian. Since then, whenever I think of her I feel ashamed and unclean, like I did something wrong. You know, lusting after a lesbian. I feel like I should have known, somehow. Kristy McNichol announced she was a lesbian many years ago. That has never bothered me, because even though I found her, if anything, even more attractive than Meredith, I had chosen never to lust after her.

Man, we really fuck ourselves up over the stupidest things, don't we. At least I do. I guess I can get over it.

I wonder if Sada Thompson was Gay?

Update: I received a comment challenging whether Kristy McNichol had ever come out as a lesbian. I could find no documentation that she had. I was wrong. Sorry. It's not the first time for me on that count. I honestly thought I remembered her doing it. I won't blame it on getting old. I've never been one of those eidetic memory guys. My brain paints with a pretty broad brush and always has.

If Kristy ever reads this blog, I would like to take this opportunity to beg her forgiveness, even though I doubt it will ever be required. She's not a regular visitor.

The National Pastime

At ball parks all over America it's opening day. When I was a kid, baseball was the national pastime. Everybody played baseball, whether they were any good or not. Geeks and feebs played, even if it meant they were jeered and catcalled. I know this from personal experience. One armed guys played. Old men that smoked 5 packs a day played, until they had to be carried off the field. When we weren't playing, we went to watch others play. Little League, Pony League, Legion ball, neighborhood men formed sand lot teams, every town that could support one had a minor league team of some kind. Kids chewed bubble gum just so they could collect and trade baseball cards. Baseball cards were like money for little boys. We used to gamble with them. You could trade them for stuff you wanted that another kid had. Baseball cards had the players stats on them and we memorized the stats, as well as the players names and who they played for. Some places football was popular, some places basketball, even hockey if it got cold enough where you lived. If your dad dressed up in a white shirt and tie and drove a nice car to work, maybe you watched some golf or tennis.  We even had time to watch phony sports on TV, like roller derby and wrestling but baseball was the main game. The World Series was the most sacred week in America. The games were tuned in on the radio at every place of employment. I had teachers that would tune in while we were in class, of course, they were men teachers. Nobody questioned the rightness of this.

Baseball has fallen far. A lot of neighborhoods, soccer is more important than baseball. We had heard of soccer but we didn't know the rules or positions. We never played it. Nobody did. Jesus Christ.

I don't know why baseball isn't big any more but things have sure changed.

Prop 8 will stand in in 2010

It's official, an initiative to overturn Proposition 8, will not be on the ballot in California next Fall. It's OK with me. It can wait until 2012. The homophobe club is one of the last really good ones that we have left to beat on the conservatives with. I'd hate to lose it before we absolutely have to.

It's kind of like amnesty for illegal aliens. As soon as it happens, you know that most of them will immediately become Republicans. They are about the only ones left in this country that realize the value of hard work, at whatever kind of shitty job you can get, in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and making a better life for yourself. I wouldn't mind seeing it happen but I'm not in any great rush for that either.

If conservatives were smart they would embrace the cause of groups like Gays and illegal aliens but it's fine with me if they don't. I may have to send a little money to Sarah Palin to make sure they stay on that straight and narrow path.

Nah, Sarah has plenty of dough. Twelve million bucks and counting, from what I hear.

Cilantro? That's the least of it

Here's an article about cilantro. The gist of it is that it tastes rank to some people. I agree that it tastes a little foul but I love the stuff. It's in a lot of Latin, South Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes, so I guess I'm blessed by the God of foul tasting food.

When you think about it, a lot of foods have what might be characterized as off or rotten smells and tastes. I like a lot of those too. Ripe cheeses and other dairy products like buttermilk and yogurt qualify. How about salted anchovies and other various pickled seafood? Kalamata olives fit right in there. Do you like kim che? Nobody can deny it's pretty foul. Have you ever tried durian fruit from South East Asia? Wow! Can't forget to mention balut, from the Philippines. How about beer. Remember the first time you tried beer? Most people don't like it. I was hooked from the first quaff. I like all that stuff. I probably would like foul tasting foods I haven't even had yet. Bring on the Mongolian fermented mare's milk. Perhaps people like me have an extra set of taste buds that let us enjoy these types of foods. Shit eating dogs probably have the same thing.

I guess I'm just a lucky guy.

So Far So Good

I didn't get any responses when I wrote about my tomato plants last week. That's OK. I'm going to write more about them anyway. I really like my tomato plants.

Both of them are doing well. The Celebrity is growing more vigorously than the Better Boy but both look good.  It's too early for worms and bugs yet but the snails got right on the job, so I'm vigorously baiting them and so far, have them at bay.

Both are already blooming. A lot of the advice literature recommends pinching off the early blossoms, until a lush foliage is achieved but I'm not. I want the fruit to set as soon as possible. I'm too old for any more delayed gratification.

If they don't get generous watering every other day, they start to get droopy. I'm right on it. I'm sure as the plants get bigger,  the weather gets warmer and the fruit sets on, it will be required every day. I can do that.

I'm beginning to think that if I meet with success in my initial tomato growing efforts, I will get a few more plants in late May or early June, then when the first plants taper off at the end of the Summer, I'll have two more to continue fruiting into the Fall months, maybe through November.

Bushitler

Here's an article that reports on a deposition filed in a US Court, by the Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a man holding the rank of Colonel in the US Army, that President Bush and many of his top Cabinet members knew, from the start, that most of those held at Guantanamo were guilty of nothing,  had no valuable intelligence worth gathering and posed no more danger to US national security than any other random citizen of their respective countries of origin.

What do you think about that? Doesn't surprise me at all. What, did you think it would?

Ape Man Loses Job

Here's an interesting article about a well respected Old Testament Biblical scholar who lost his job teaching at an established non denominational Reformed Christian seminary in Florida because he endorsed the theory of evolution.

I've always thought of Reformed Protestants as fairly prickly but never thought of them as particularly wing nut creationists or Young Earthers. I guess I was wrong.

So far, I think the theory of evolution has held up pretty well. I'm willing to go along with it, at least until something more believable comes along.

Do you believe that God created the Earth and every living thing on it in six days, four thousand years ago? Let me know because I've always had a pretty hard time with it.

Home Grown Tomaters?

I've never been a big gardener. I'm not the type. Still, who doesn't like home grown tomatoes? The local nursery had a real good deal on some tomato plants that were getting too big for their starter pots. I picked up a Celebrity and a Better Boy for only a few bucks apiece. They are green, bushy and beautiful. I put them in five gallon pots with a good vegetable potting soil mix. It's been a week now and they are doing really well.

I am committed to keeping them watered, fertilized and picking off the worms daily. From what I read, I could easily get twenty or thirty pounds of tomatoes from each one, maybe even more than that.

Hope springs eternal.

If I was smart, I'd have planted a few good quality marijuana seeds. Probably make a few thousand bucks, off the books. The way things are in California now, the Cops wouldn't even probably care.

Big Polish Plane Crash

The President of Poland, his predecessor and much of the country's military leadership died yesterday in a plane crash in Russia.

A terrible tragedy, to be sure. The truth is, though, there are no slavering wolves at Poland's door. Maybe they can get a fresh start. That wouldn't be a bad thing.

It wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it happened in a lot of countries. I wonder how many of our top political and military leaders would fit into one plane? Not enough. There are a lot of the fuckers.

Electile Dysfunction?

A couple of Bill Clinton's smart boys have suggested that the Republicans have peaked too early and won't make the big gains they are counting on in the Fall elections.

I'm not sure that's true. You can always build on a successful strategy. There's no "too early" in politics.

The Republicans have done two things. They have focused on eliminating big government and have allowed the social conservatives free reign to expand their themes of super patriotism, coupled with fundamentalist religion and a return to what they see as the comforting, strict traditional moral codes of the past.

Eliminating big government is a winner, the problem is that they do not identify where they want to cut. They do not say they want to curb the tremendously expensive Medicare and Social Security entitlements. They do not say they want to scale back excessive government pension benefits. They do not want to target the black hole of military spending. They certainly do not suggest increasing taxes to balance the already huge government deficits that accumulated in the Bush administration after the balanced budgets of the Clinton years. Any future Republican administration would just be more of the same that we already have, not less.

The social conservative stuff does not expand their base, it simply panders in an effort to keep the wing nuts that they already have by default. These people are certainly vocal and politically active but they in no way constitute a viable majority of the voters. The population is becoming more liberal socially, not less. People are becoming more accepting of openly Gay relationships, of people adopting non traditional lifestyles, of those who do not affiliate with an organized religious group. Most people may feel that abortion is not a choice that is right for them but that is a different stance than denying others to make that choice for themselves. In the end, social conservatism is seen as oppressive and un American.

I wouldn't want to prognosticate the electoral outcomes of 2010 but I don't think the Republicans will be big winners any more than the Democrats. I also do not yet see a strong move to support any third party, although I think independents may do very well regionally and that may be a very healthy trend.

Mitt For Justice

John Paul Stevens gave his retirement notice today. There will be a Senate fight over the next nominee before the November elections.

Republicans hated Stevens. Like the also hated Earl Warren, Stevens is a life long Republican from a Republican Family. He is probably the smartest guy to ever sit on the Supreme Court. He was one of FDR's boy genius code breakers in World War II.

Nobody wants a Supreme Court, Senate confirmation fight before the elections but we're going to have one anyway. I think Barry should nominate somebody who would drive the Republicans crazy. Mitt Romney would be a good choice. There has never been a Mormon Justice. If he was nominated the Republicans would climb the walls, chew the carpets, rend their garments and foam at the mouth.

The Real Meaning Of Easter Is That Jesus Isn't Convincing Enough And Never Was

Jesus' disciples hung around him all the time. Some of them had been hanging around him for years before he got crucified. They heard him speak his wisdom. They saw him perform miracles. They were witness to his selfless and sinless life. Then, after they saw him crucified they saw him rise from the dead and walk among them before ascending bodily to Heaven. They stuck their fingers in his wounds and wiggled them around in there.

You would think that experiencing all of these things as the close companion and confident of the one and only begotten son of God would have impressed upon them the nature of Jesus' Godhead. It did not. Instead they lost their faith and sank into despair.

It was sometime later that all the disciples were together and the Holy Spirit descended upon them and entered into each of them. They experienced fiery tongues of flame all around them but were not consumed by it. When the Spirit entered into them they writhed around on the floor and spoke and understood all of the different languages of mankind. When this experience was over, each of them were forever changed and only then did they go out into the World to spread the word of God. This entering of the Spirit of the Lord into all of the disciples at the same time, after the death of Jesus, was completely involuntary on their part and is known as the Pentecost.

If actually living with Jesus and being a witness to his life and times was not enough to make believers out of his own disciples, why would anyone today want to become a Christian based on the ministerial efforts of the pathetic charlatans that pass for Christian leaders. Charismatic Christians believe that in order to become a Christian, you must experience a Pentecost of your very own. This makes perfect sense to me. There is no other way that a rational person could believe in God.

I haven't ever had an experience even remotely like this although I have been with others when they claimed that they did. It's not the same as having it yourself.

No abortion for raped 10 year old Mayan girl

This is the first I've seen of this case but we'll probably be seeing more as it unravels in public scrutiny. The Catholic Church has done it's best to restrict access to abortion in Mexico although there is little popular support for the prohibition. Mexico is not a popular democracy and that's exactly the way the Catholic Church likes it.

The biggest mistake the Mexicans made with the filthy black robed scum was not killing them all when they had the chance because now they're back and worse than ever. The Legionaries of Christ are especially strong in Mexico. The priests that make up this order are every one, degenerates, perverts and rapists, preying on the poorest and weakest members of society and aiding the wealthy to do likewise..

Somebody Likes The Ladies

The RNC paid out a little more than $2000 for a night out at a lesbian bondage night club in West Hollywood. Those lesbians always run a nice honest business. No clip joints. You always get your money's worth.

$2000. Somebody had a real good time. I'm sure it was nothing perverted or anything like that.

Brain Dead in Cancun

The intimation in this story is that Mexicans smashed this kids skull in while he was sleeping in the pool area of a luxury Cancun Hotel. This is very unlikely. Mexicans might kill you, under a lot of different circumstances, for any number of reasons. This scenario is highly unlikely. They wouldn't do it in the courtyard of a high end tourist hotel. They never would have left the kid alive to potentially recover and tell his story.

This kid was involved in some terrible mishap involving other vacationing American kids. It may or may not have been with malicious intent. It probably was an unfortunate and unforeseen alcohol related calamity, that none of the others involved in wanted to own up to.

German Bishop Accused Of Beating Orphan Girls

My favorite Catholic news story of the day. You can't even make up stuff this good.

The Washington Times

When I was a boy, there were some real conservative newspapers. We had one locally called the Santa Ana Register. A lot of areas in the country had conservative newspapers that could be subscribed to. There aren't too many really conservative newspapers in business any more.  Ours is now called the Orange County Register and it's pretty mainstream.

The most often cited source of conservative journalism, nationally, is the Washington Times. This small D.C. newspaper was going under, decades ago, when it was bought by Sun Myung Moon, later day Jesus clone and leader of the World Unification Church. I was never sure why he bought the paper and transformed it into the premier organ for Wing Nut news in America but he did. It's lost hundreds of millions of dollars over the years but it is a solid source of far right wing news and editorial content.

Sun Myung Moon is old and about to die. His family do not want to continue the expense of supporting his messianic religion. They have no interest in owning America's most conservative daily paper. I'm sure the family would like to sell the paper and at least recoup some of their investment but I can't imagine any group who would be willing to buy such a grossly money losing venture. The family has in the last few years instituted draconian budgetary cuts and wholesale staff layoffs. They will rid themselves of the enterprise itself eventually. It's only a matter of time.

Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal several years ago and it, while always fairly conservative, has taken a hard jog to the right. It doesn't have the staff to churn out the mass of content that the Washington Times does but I guess it will have to do because the Washington Times is on the way out.

Easter Chicks

When I was a little boy, during Easter week, they would sell a lot of baby chicks, ducklings and bunnies. A lot of places gave them away as a promotional item. A lot of times they would dye them pink or blue. We used to gather up the chicks after Easter around the neighborhood and keep them in our back yard. If you fed them, a lot of them would survive. They would get big and eventually we would eat them. We didn't want the bunnies or ducklings. Too much trouble.

You don't see that so much any more, at least around where I live. I think it's probably illegal. It's certainly a bad idea, unless you eat them like we did.

Did you have chicks, bunnies and ducks at Easter when you were little? What happened to them? Did you eat them?

Did you turn off your lights for Earth Hour?

I read about Earth Hour during the few weeks before it happened. Mostly I read about it on Right Wing web sites. I don't know anybody who participated.

Earth Day has been around for decades.  I used to know a lot of people that participated in Earth day activities. People would get together at parks for rallies. In the beginning it was a big thing to line highways, hold hands and people would supposedly be linked by hand all across America. Nobody does much any more for Earth day.

I don't think anybody anywhere is really very interested in ecology, pollution, reduced energy usage or any of that kind of stuff any more. Ditto for Global Warming or the acidification of the biosphere. It's not that it's not happening because it is, just nobody cares. Maybe eventually they will but I don't see it happening any time soon. For now, people with a few extra bucks buy a Prius. That makes them feel good about themselves.

Mostly, Earth Hour was just for the Wing Nuts to have something to hate on and scoff at, like they do with Barry O. Whatever gets them through the day. It's OK with Me.

Hoppin' Down The Bunny Trail

It's Palm Sunday, the beginning of an important week in Christian mythology. According to legend, it was on this Sunday of the year when Jesus made his triumphant entrance to Jerusalem. By the following Sunday, he had been condemned, tortured, executed,  dead two days and on the third day risen and in so doing, brought salvation and eternal life from God to anyone who becomes a Christian. Nifty.

I don't believe any of that stuff. Even if it turns out to be true, I don't believe that those who claim to be the contemporary purveyors of Christianity have valid claim. Those that I can identify are universally foul. If I find myself at some point facing the judgment of God, I would rather do so on my own, on the basis of my own thoughts, words and deeds in life, than allied with criminal scum like that.

What about you? How do you want to face God? By yourself or hand in hand with your chosen Christian leader?

Here Come De Judge

The most intriguing development in the national health care culture war, is now the stated Republican goal of challenging the constitutionality of Obama Care in the Supreme Court.

I would very much like to see that, wouldn't you?

God May Not Be Dead In Ireland But On Good Friday, He Will Be Drunk

This is the biggest blow to Catholicism in Ireland in a hundred years. Football and beer, Hurrah!

Republicans Believe

Most Republicans believe Barack Obama is an illegal alien, they believe he is a Muslim, they believe he is a Communist. Many believe he is the Anti Christ.

This must be a very stressful time for them.

Joe Lets Loose With The Explicatives

Does anybody mind if Joe Biden uses the word fuck as an adjective? I don't. Then again, I use it all the time myself.

It's not like he told Barney Frank to go fuck himself, which they have Dick Cheney on tape doing. I don't even mind that very much. Dick probably was a little grumpy at the time but I don't think there was any malicious intent. It probably wasn't a slur against Frank's homosexuality. Cheney himself is at least as Gay as Barney Frank. I suppose you could make technical argument that this is not true, since his penis hasn't been functional since the early Seventies but it seems like kind of a thin argument.

I say let Joe turn loose with the blue talk. It probably helps make him feel young and hip and I think that's important to him. People seem to understand.

I wish my house had a zip wire

I'm not a big fan of safety, in any form. Life entails risk. Anything you do. The important thing is to evaluate the risks, get your mind right and go for it.

I don't think seat belts for anybody or car seats for small children should be mandated. When parents ensure that their children are strictly supervised and accompanied every moment of the day, I think they do their children a grave disservice.

Man, I love this. These people have been doing it every day for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. It can't help but have had a beneficial effect on the gene pool.

If I was that little boy, riding in my sister's gunny sack, I'd be looking for my own forked stick. How hard can it be?

Chuck Noris Says Obamacare Is Not Healthy

Chuck Norris says that Obamacare is really an evil Communist weapon to destroy our patriotic culture of country flea markets, stock car racing, extreme fighting leagues and wholesome country two step road houses. He says the real patriots will be fading away from the public eye now for awhile because Barack's secret Commie Negro army of World domination is out to get them. It's going to be like the second Valley Forge, really.

He wants to remind you, if you are going to join the other patriots in underground seclusion, remember to take plenty of his picture filled books and multi media material along. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to take some of his exercise equipment and nutritional supplements as well. You don't want to get flabby or lose bone mass before the final war for American freedom gets started.

I don't think Chuck has to say any more abut this. I believe him and I'm getting ready to go. I wonder why he isn't coming with us?

Secret Minions

The last couple of days I've been reading that ACORN's broke, closing down all their offices and will soon be defunct.

It seems like just last year ACORN was Barack Obama's secret Communist army of Negro prostitutes and crackheads, that he was going to empower through his Presidency and use to enslave righteous White America. I remember they were building concentration camps to ship us all to, with gas chambers and sterilization clinics.

I guess I must have got that wrong.

John McCain's mental status stabilized

Senator John McCain said this morning that by passing the Health Care bill, the Democrats in Congress had poisoned the well of bipartisanship and that they should not expect much further cooperation from Republicans in the future.

This leads me to believe that the rotting process that has previously been taking place in his brain is now complete and the residue has now dried and shriveled and is resting on the bottom of his brain pan, like a petrified dog turd.

Babykiller Caller

The search is on to identify the Republican Congressman who shouted Babykiller at Bart Stupak on the House floor when he announced he would support the reconciled Health care bill for passage.

I don't care who it was. The important thing is that everyone sees he doesn't have the courage to admit it. If it never comes out who it was, it's even better, since most of the Republican side know who it was and all will be tarred with the same brush for aiding and abetting the act of cowardice. What could be better?

These old Republican guys are better than the stage villains in old timey melodramas. Maybe they will spit on some more old Black men, continue to point out the wife of the President's resemblance to a gorilla. I hope against hope for the day they refer to his daughters as watermelon munching, shuffle dancing, pick-a-ninnies. That would probably get him elected to a third term and his birthday made into a National holiday.

Not With A Bang

Even though there are headlines in every newspaper in America proclaiming last nights passage of the reconciled universal health care coverage bill in the House of Representatives and it is receiving ample coverage on television and the Internet, I am surprised at how restrained the reception of it is on all sides of the issue.

Those in favor seem unaware of how huge a victory it is. Those opposed are downplaying it's importance. I have even read some reaction on the Right indicating that this legislation can not stand, going so far as to posit that the American public will reject universal health care coverage and that it will be the issue that tips the balance of political power back to the Right in next November's elections.

The lack of affordable health care is a huge issue with the American public. It is something they will not refuse. The inclusion, sooner rather than later, of a low cost public option into the program is inevitable. Attempts to turn back the clock on this very enticing national entitlement will be the political kiss of death to anyone who tries. I'm not being partisan in any way here. I'm just saying what is.

This is the brass ring that politicians have been grasping at greedily for three quarters of a century, that eluded even the wily Clintons and this morning, the Kenyan mud boy is sitting in front of his kraal on the Potomac, holding it in his hot little hand.

This will secure his place in the history books. A second Obama term is all but assured.

This is no small thing. No mixed blessing.

Health Care Passes Congress

After more than a year in office, the closest any Republican politician has come to accepting the legitimacy of the Obama presidency is the occasional grudging admission that there is no actual proof available that Barry is an illegal alien.

The Democratic health care initiative passed Congress this weekend. Whether you like it or not, it's one of the major pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in the last hundred years. It will change the way health care is delivered in America forever. Not a single Republican voted for it.

Democratic Congressman and Civil Rights folk hero John Lewis, was spit on and called Nigger by Tea Party protesters against the health care initiative on the Washington Mall, Saturday. The same protesters jeered Congressman Barney Frank and called him Faggot. Shortly before the initiative passed, Sunday evening, a Republican Congressman called out "Baby Killer" at Congressman Bart Stupak, because of his support of the bill. There is not a stronger pro life, anti abortion voice in the United States Congress than Stupak.

Republicans maintain that Obama and the Democrats are in big trouble and will lose at the elections next November.

We're all in big trouble. We're all going to lose. More than just at the elections next November.

Nailed

It'll be Easter soon. I'm not too big, personally, on religious observance. I don't begrudge it to others. There are places in the Philippines where the men beat themselves with barbed wire flails, drag crosses through villages, then nail themselves up and hang on them to commemorate Easter.

A lot of tourists go to the PI to see this at Easter time. I've never been but I'd like to.

Big Weekend

It looks to me like this weekend will bring the culmination of President Obama's first major political initiative, win or lose, on national health care.

I have no idea how it will go. Do you?

On one hand, I believe that everyone should have access to health care, both routine and catastrophic, that is affordable. On the other hand, I'm not sure it's the government's job to provide it. I'm not sure the government should be doing a lot of things it does.

I don't like a big military and constant war. I don't like a welfare state, corporate or socialist.

The thing that worries me about health care the most is the seeming inability of the system to distinguish between legitimate care that allows someone to go on with a satisfying and productive life and hugely expensive care that preserves life in name only and to no real purpose. Who wants to take on the role of God and make the necessary codification of who gets to live and who doesn't?

Trailer Trash Babylon

I don't know if anybody is feeling sorry for Sandra Bullock over her current domestic problems. They shouldn't.

It is very common for women who have little personal insight, as well as extreme vanity and self absorption, to not be satisfied to simply establish sexual and emotional relationships with members of the opposite sex offering sincere, honest, genuinely caring interaction. Instead they need to flatter themselves that their alluring charms are sufficient to hold even the most hardcore carousing degenerate in thrall to them, even within a lifestyle that includes long periods of domestic separation. It says something about just how fucked up Sandra is that she picks a guy like Jesse James to try and work this trick on. They don't come any more impossible than Jesse. The guy is a total sexual sociopath.

It'll make good tabloid journalism. These kind of people aren't really vulnerable in the normal sense. Their careers are likely to be enhanced by the sensationalism. Hey, everybdy had a good time, got a few nice tattoos. No harm done.

Revealed

Anybody in the market for a religion should check this one out. It's very exclusive. It doesn't require any great intellectual gifts or leaps of faith.

You do have to drink toxic snail mucous. If they heated it up enough it might denature the protein and make it less poisonous.

Wild Immorality

"Free Love" was part of early Feminist and Women's Sufferage movement rhetoric. The thrust of it was to free women from the obligation to marry according contractual arrangement made by fathers of young women, without consent. It didn't even mean that parents couldn't decide who a woman would marry, just that she had to consent first.

The term "Free Love" was used by conservative religious and political factions for decades, as a taunt that feminists were immoral and sexually libertine. If you have ever tried to fuck a Feminist, you know this is not generally the case.

Catholic Pain Continues

The Catholic Church continues to have a lot of sex problems. That whole gay pedophile priest thing just won't go away.

It's not good to be a Gay Catholic. You can't have sex at all, unless you can make do with heterosexual sex but only if you're married and only to have children but if you're Gay, you're not supposed to have children because you might make them Gay too. You're not allowed to live with another homosexual, even if you don't have sex and must never, under any circumstances raise children, whether they're yours or not. Catholic homos used to be able to become priests and nuns but they're discouraging that now, at least they say they are.

It's not that great being a heterosexual Catholic either.

The Catholic Church used to make a lot of castratos because they sing nice. It always seemed cruel to me but ya know what? If you're going to try and be a Catholic, castrato might be the best way to go.

Dead In His Favorite Chair

I got a call from a friend of mine's daughter the other day. She was going through his stuff and found my name and number. He died a while ago. Big heart attack. She found him in his favorite chair, in front of the TV one morning and realized he was dead after trying to rouse him to go to work.

He was a college dorm roommate. We were as close as brothers for a few years. I really liked him. We were never so close after college. That's the way it goes sometimes. Life gets in the way of friendship. He went through three wives in quick succession and had a couple of kids. The third wife, the one that stayed around longest, didn't like me much. When she left him, we became friends again but it had been over twenty five years and it really didn't take.

I used to go over to his house and sit with him in the evening every once and awhile. Drink a beer. Watch a game on TV. Talk. Maybe twelve times in fifteen years. It's been a couple of years since I've done that. I remember thinking to myself, the last couple of times I saw him that he didn't look good. Kind of gray. Classic cardiac. I thought he might die soon. I take no pleasure in being right.

He's the first one of my friends, that I liked, to die of more or less natural causes at the end of what could at least nominally be considered a full life. He wasn't going to be able to retire. He was too deeply in dept and had too many obligations. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing.

Bye Bye George. You were a great friend. We had good times.

It's Important To Respect The Faith Traditions Of Others

Faith traditions differ greatly, geographically as well as among those with different cultural, social and economic status.

I thought it was interesting that Sir Elton John believes that Jesus was a very handsome and charismatic Gay man. You can see how that concept would be very popular with the kind of affluent, well traveled, celebrity crowd he hangs out with. It might even be pivotal as to whether they accept Christianity or not. I don't see any harm in it, do you?

In the rural regions of Australia, there is a lot of resistance to idea that Jesus was a homo. It has generated a lot of public anger against Elton John. You can see how this could happen. They have a different concept of what Jesus was like and aren't a sophisticated bunch. The Australians would be very surprised themselves, to learn there are places in the World where people don't believe Jesus fucked sheep.

Americans Less Prejudiced. Still Hate The Godless.

Here's a graph I found on the Secular Right site. It's a very good site. It purports to show American willingness to vote for members of common minority groups as President. Americans are more willing than ever to support people in high public office who are different from themselves.

They still distrust atheists though. I'm hurt.

Mormons are the only group that people show a increasing distrust toward. I wonder what that's about? I like Mormons a lot more than I used to. I'm an Atheist though, so it probably doesn't mean much.

A Lost Man

In 1950 I wasn't born yet. In 1960, a census taker came to my parents house. I remember him asking questions and recording the answers on a notebook. In 1970, I was living in a college dormitory. In 1980, I moved out of an apartment in Garden Grove where I had lived for a few years and into a condo I bought in Santa Ana. In 1990 and 2000 I was at the same address where I live today. I've never seen a census taker or received anything in the mail from the Census in my adult life.

Who the fuck are they counting? Not me, that's for sure. I'm not hiding.

Goin' HD

I said to my wife at Christmas that in the Spring, we would get an HDTV. I don't really yearn for one but I think she'd like it. Everybody else has one now. I think it was worth the wait, prices are lower now than they have ever been. Quite a bit lower than Christmas.

There seem to be two choices. Either get something at the very top of the line or a Walmart no name brand, that looks decent in the showroom.

The argument in favor of the top of the line is that it's not that much more expensive than mid range and that bottom line, I can afford it.

The argument in favor of Walmart is that it will probably be OK for a year or two and then I can buy something probably much better than is available now at any price, cheaper than almost anything now.

There is a third option. SONY CRT HDTVs still have the best HDTV picture available, especially in rooms with good natural light. People in Newport Beach, one town over from me, bought a lot of those a few years ago and I can find one used over there, probably for only a few hundred dollars. One of them will probably last for years. The problem with the SONY CRTs is that they weigh about two hundred pounds and have special purpose stands to hold them that weigh almost as much. A lot of work to haul it home and set it up. I can probably borrow a pickup or van and a furniture dolly from somebody but it will be just as much of a hassle when I get rid of it. Like having the Statue of Liberty in the living room.

Anybody got any suggestions? What TV do you like? What's no good?

More Tarzan, Less Cheeta

The big problem with Barry Obama is that he does not want to push through his agenda until he has substantial support from the Right Wing of American politics.

Who knows, maybe he will bring them around yet but it doesn't seem that way to me.

The Right Wing has never been shy about bulldozing through legislation that is opposed by and detrimental to the majority of the people.

Progressives have not been traditionally shy about going in for the kill when they have the advantage. If that had been the case, women would not vote, America would be racially segregated, Divorce, contraception and abortion would be illegal, there would be no employee protection in the workplace, raw sewage and industrial wastes would still be dumped in the nearest river or bog.

Barry should just start cramming it down their throats. Let them filibuster. They don't have the balls to make it stick or the votes to stop it.

You're cleared for landing

One of the big stories in the news is about a little boy that went to work one day last month with his air traffic controller father, at JFK International Airport. Daddy let him talk to some planes. The Father's supervisor and coworkers were there. They thought it was cute. So did the pilots the little boy talked to.

There's going to be a big investigation now and probably a whole lot of new rules and regulations. The father will probably lose his job and likely never work as an air traffic controller again.

I don't see the problem here. I used to go with my Father and Grandfather to work and all sorts of other places. I did things under their supervision that a little child would never be allowed to do on his own. How many little kids sat on their fathers lap in the driver's seat of the car on a long family road trip and drove? I did. I think it was pretty common. You'd never see anybody doing that with their little kids today.

It wasn't that long ago that little boys no older or not much older, were participating fully in the life of society. They worked full time in mines, factories, farms and businesses.

I knew this old guy once, he's dead now. He lived on his own for as long as he could remember. As a small child, he lived in the main branch of The Bank of Italy, in San Francisco, slept on a little pallet in a utility closet. There was a toilet and sink available. The bank executives gave him small change. What more did a boy need? He never spent a day in school. He was never even sure of his real name.

When the big earthquake in '06 hit, he stayed with the rubble of the bank and protected the records and assets as best he could. Where was he going to go? It was the only home he knew. The Giannini brothers took notice of him after that and he became a trusted employee. When the bank reopened, he wasn't tall enough to stand at a teller's window, so they put him to researching and verifying loan applications. It soon became evident that he didn't make many bad loans. By the time he was twelve he was acting as a senior financial officer and investing on his own. He often traveled independently for the bank, while still in his teens, representing them in sensitive negotiations all over the country. He never had a high profile job with what would soon become the Bank of America but when he retired, he was one of the highest paid and had a very high net worth. Even after 65 years of service, they tried to entice him to stay on. Just a stupid little boy.

You May Say I'm A Dreamer But I'm Not The Only One

The Luddites want to deny that science has any validity. They want to deny that the observable is real.

There is no global warming. Pollution is not a problem. The fact that most of the World's vertebrate biomass is human has no negative implications for the future.

When I was born, the human population of the World was a little less than 4 billion. A hundred and fifty years before I was born, the population was still a little under 1 billion. Currently, six decades after my birth, the population is fast approaching 7 billion. These are facts. The documented rate of population increase has real implications for the future of human society.

According to the Luddites, the problem is that the birth rate is not high enough. According to some reactionary political and religious authorities, contraception and abortion should be outlawed. Women should stay home and have at least 7 children apiece and a lot more if they can. What's interesting is that a lot of people think that it's a fine idea. They think that the World is still vastly under populated. They must have listened to too much John Lennon music when they were young.

Drink Up Barry

Wing nuts are pouncing on Barry O's Doctor recommendation that he engage in moderate alcohol intake as proof that he is a big drunk. I don't think there is any indication that he is or has ever been a big drinker. I'm sure he has a few cocktails from time to time. If you want to be hip in African American culture and I'm sure he does, that's the way you have to go.

Even if he was a big drinker, he's only in his late 40s and healthy. Even if he whoops it up big time, he won't be in any trouble until way after he's out of the Presidency and who cares about that.

The biggest drinker we had in the White House in recent times was Nixon. LBJ went off the wagon after he was through with the Presidency and pretty much drank himself to death. I hear he liked to smoke quite a bit of Marijuana too. George Bush was a big drunk at one time and I saw video of him and Laura at the Beijing Olympics where he was totally fucked up. He looked like he was having a good time. A guy as rich as he is can't be any stranger to cocaine.

I don't know of too many successful politicians who are teatotalers, in real life. They all hit it pretty hard.

Christian

America is called by many a Christian nation. What is a Christian?

I don't really believe in God, at least not an activist, sentient God like many do. I don't think that Jesus, if he really existed, was any more the "Son of God" than any of the rest of us. I don't think that Mary was a virgin although I guess it could have been a case of parthenogenesis but then Jesus would have been a girl.

I think a lot of what Jesus said was good but not all of it. I'm not sure if Jesus really said or did all the things he is credited with. I don't believe in the miracles. I don't believe he rose from the dead. I don't believe he's in Heaven or that I will ever meet him there after I die. I was raised a Christian and try to follow many of the tenants. Does that make me a Christian? I have some doubts about that.

I think everybody wherever they are or how they were raised knows right from wrong and which one they are doing in any given situation. Does this mean that God communicates with us? Sometimes I think maybe it does. Does that make me religious?

I don't like a lot of people that call themselves Christians. I am uncomfortable with them. I don't like being in their churches. I prefer not to be known as a Christian.

Smart

There is a new study out that purports to show that liberals are smarter, more likely to not believe in God and less likely to cheat on their wives than conservatives.

I wonder how they decided what a liberal and conservative are? I have no idea. I must not be very smart.

Liberals are more likely than conservatives to believe that they are smarter. I believe that. Liberals are always spouting off about how smart they are. Conservatives rarely say they are smart, only that they are right.

I don't think smart means much in politics anyway. Jimmy Carter was the smartest guy to be President in my lifetime. He was and is very religious and would never cheat on his wife. Nobody much liked him. One of the few positive things you could say about Nixon was that he was smart. That never did him any good. Ronald Reagan was never smart and by the time he got to be President was Alzhammered. I don't think he was very religious. He was Gay, so it's hard to say if he cheated on his wife. Everybody loved him. Then there was Bubba. He was a real smart guy, claimed to be religious but would cheat on his wife in a flash. A lot of people liked him, despite everything and still do. Go figure.

Iraqi Christians Persecuted

When Bush/Cheney invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq, ignorant Christer scum in America cheered them on. They cheered as the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban was thrown out of power in Afghanistan. They cheered when we first enlisted the aide of the Shiia to kill the Sunnis and then the Sunnis to kill the Shiia in Iraq.

Hundreds of thousands died. Millions were displaced and made homeless. Ignorant, Christer, pig fuckers kept on cheering.

So after several years of carnage, destruction and genocide, the inhabitants of Iraq have begun to take out their rage and frustration on the Christian population in their midst. They are being killed and driven out of their homes.

The fat, ignorant, pig fucking, Christer, Bush/Cheney loving scum, here in the US, don't understand how those Sandniggers over there, can be so cruel and heartless.