I love Grey's Anatomy

but I absolutely loathe the actress Caterina Scorsone. She sucks, but not in a way that you can just pass off and hope she will go away. She sucks and she just keeps popping up. Now she's on two of the three shows I WAS willing to suffer through the advertisements to watch on a regular basis. I think I just decided to give those shows up. I detest her THAT much. She's like the girl on the cheerleading squad that I wanted to slap the shit out of in order to shut off the inane, babbling, bitchy, annoying noise. You know, the kind of bitch who is either too dumb or too arrogant to know when to take it down a notch?

California voter's registration deadline

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finished reading Dismantling the Empire

(buy) By Chalmers Johnson.

(blogger just dumped what I wrote and I'm not rewriting it, so here are a couple of quotes from the book)


p 74
"From its inception the CA has labored under two contradictory conceptions of what it was supposed to be doing, and no president has ever succeeded in correcting or resolving this situation. Espionage and intelligence analysis seek to know the world as it is; covert action seeks to change the world, whether it understands it or not. The best CIA exemplar of the intelligence -collecting function was Richard Helms director of central intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973 (who died in 2002). The great protagonist of cloak-and-dagger work was Frank Wisner, the CIA's director of operations from 1948 until the late 1950s, when he went insane and , in 1965, committed suicide. Wisner never had any patience for espionage and other forms of intelligence collecting.

Weiner quotes William Colby, a future DCI (1973-1976) on this subject. The separation of the scholars of the research and analysis division from the sips of the clandestine service reared two cultures within the intelligence profession, he said, "separate, unequal, and contemptuous of each other." That critique remained true throughout the CIA's first sixty years.

[As I read this I thought and noted to myself "Turf wars are endemic in situations where law enforcement and public safety organizations overlap. Endemic because it is inevitable. Inevitable because testosterone = turf wars."]

p 165
It is hard to imagine any sector of the American economy more driven by ideology, delusion and propaganda than the armed services. Many people believe that our military is the largest, best equipped, and most invincible among the world's armed forces. none of these things is true, but our military is, without a doubt the most expensive to maintain. Each year, we Americans account for nearly half of all global spending, an amount larger than the next forty-five nations together spend on their militaries annually.

And Johnson goes on to prove this statement. I was surprised at how many books Johnson noted that I have read.

Boo-gate?

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Indecision 2010 - Taliban Dan & Boo-Gate
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity

How perfectly lovely, just in time for Halloween. So all you holloweenies want to git all dolled up like yer heroine Molly McMooseturd? Lovely in the flaming turd costume don't you think?


Dude. I'm so punny today.

News Corp Gives $1 Million to U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Source: Politico.com, September 30, 2010

News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, has donated $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a powerful business lobbying group that was recently accused of tax fraud and money laundering by two national watchdog groups. News Corp's big-dollar donation is the second it has made to Republican interests in recent months. In June, 2010 News Corp gave another $1 million to the Republican Governors Association. The Chamber plans to spend $75 million to influence the 2010 election, making it the the top spender on congressional races of any interest group. The parent companies of other media outlets, like General Electric (which owns NBC) and Disney (which owns ABC), have also made political donations, but in lesser amounts more evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. News Corp's recent huge gifts to Republican interests raise questions about whether the company has crossed an ethical line.

Ballot research today

Blech, I hate this part. Some of it is easy peasy for me. Boxer, Brown and Bower are no brainers, I love them. Prop 19, another no brainer, big yes, for me in order to put a crimp in the profits and a damper on the murderous activities of the Mexican drugs cartels. Oh, and fuck the former DEA administrators. 20 I need to look at realistically. Read cynically only 38% of the people eligible to vote here actually voted last time, and a prop that might have made a difference in buying political power was soundly defeated.

San Diego County Primary Election Analysis
Editors Roundtable transcript | Friday, June 11, 2010


Ok, off to find out more.