Prop (h)8 is complex legal stuff

The Core Issues in the Proposition 8 Case Before the California Supreme Court: Was Proposition 8 a Valid Amendment, or an Invalid Revision, to the California Constitution? And Should the Court - Or Governor Schwarzenegger - Make the Decision?
By VIKRAM DAVID AMAR and ALAN BROWNSTEIN
Friday, Dec. 05, 2008
This is the second in a multi-part series on the California Supreme Court's recent decision to address the validity of Proposition 8, the voter-enacted alteration to the California constitution foreclosing same-sex marriage, approved by state voters in November. Readers may wish to refer to Part I of the series for more background. - Ed.

Oh boy, now my head is really spinning.

This isn't stunning to me
--Fuck Snottsdale


Tonight PBS NOW (web link works, but it wasn't on tv)
Our Pakistan Problem

And here's why I hate football, and why Raiders fans consistently leave a bad taste in my mouth. You know how many birthdays I've had ruined by football games? A bunch, lemmee tell ya.

Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People

Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008
Thursday December 4th 10/9c

I'm blogging instead of watching her and Limbaugh. I got to where he said he WAS worth 38 million a year and I wanted to yank his cochlear implant out of his head with my bare hands and stuff it down his throat. That or beat it with an aluminium baseball bat, he oughta love that sound about as much as I love listening to his overpaid corporate whore ass.

Before she covered PustuleButt Limbaugh she covered Michael Phelps. Frankly, anyone who thinks that swimmers are fascinating doesn't know shit about the sport, although Phelps' accomplishments are an anomaly, like his physique. It's the most tedious fucking sport on the planet. It never bothered me because I have a great imagination. I ended up with bruises in weird places (Achilles tendons can get bruised, did you know that?) from not paying attention on turns, but oh well, I love the water. It also got me out of the house for 5-6 hours a day depending on traffic.

Update 11pm
Yes, Barack Obama is the most fascinating person of 2008.

Mexico Drug Cartels Send A Message of Chaos, Death

By William Booth
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 4, 2008; Page A01

A Mexican soldier escorts a drug suspect arrested this week in Tijuana. Cartels and their cells are fighting police, the army and one another. (By Guillermo Arias -- Associated Press)

When someone rolled five heads onto the dance floor in a cantina in Michoacan state two years ago, even the most hardened Mexicans were shocked. Now ritual mutilations are routine. In the border city of Tijuana, 37 people were slain over the weekend, including four children. Nine of the adults were decapitated, including three police officers whose badges were stuffed in their mouths....

Even I'm appalled with this and I can't help but wonder if it is an attempt by the Bush Administration to change the way things are done in Mexico.

Mordida no mas?

Yeah right. Another one of Stupie McFuckwits delusions that if you throw enough money at a country you can change the culture.

Remember that ObamaMessiah crap?

How about let's not expcet miracles, or to expect the man to walk on water, eh?

Tomgram: Robert Dreyfuss, Is Iran Policy Still Up for Grabs?

posted December 02, 2008 5:02 pm

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…

After all, that massive U.S. air attack on Iran that anti-imperial critics long expected to arrive, that Seymour Hersh wrote about, that so many feared, never happened and, with Barack Obama's election, should certainly have been put to rest in a deep grave for all eternity. But don't underestimate the neocons, or their ability to reconfigure themselves for a Democratic administration.