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The Killing Hands by P.D. Martin.

Fun little romp, but not in a chick flick, gooey romance kind of way. More fun than political news because it's fiction. Nice little escape from the heat when I turn off the computer because it's hot, I don't have air conditioning and I don't want it to overheat when it's 97 (F) fucking degrees outside.

I have noticed something about Aussie actors, and now writers. I don't care how good an Australian actor's American accent is, they obviously feel the need to sneak in the fact that they are from Oz by using Australian idioms. From a native Californian's perspective, it's jarring, discordant, distracting and frankly, a bit arrogant.

And that comes from someone who actually likes Aussies, Scots and the Irish, but tends to bristle around the English, Afrikaners, and at times, upper caste Indians.

Dudette. Little miss P.D. Martin, here's a little tip for you; a character from California (and increasingly, all over the US) is much more likely to use a Spanish, French or Italian phrase than they are something like "early days." I know it's common amongst Brits and Aussies, but umm... yeah, could be why I got your book for free, and it wudn't from the library.

This is one reason why I think marijuana should be legalized

Legalization of Pot in California Could Hurt Mexican Cartels
by SOURCE on JULY 17, 2010
in CIVIL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES, CULTURE, ECONOMY

"...Estimates vary, but analysts say pot accounts for somewhere in the range of 20 to 50 percent of the cartels’ profits..."

Only Republicans like Sarah Palin

and stupid ones at that. (any excuse to use Molly McMooseturd's image, man I love that flaming turd costume. She is the flaming turd queen, isn't she?)

"..The numbers from Gallup tell the story. Palin has a whopping 76 percent favorability rating among Republicans; only 20 percent don't like her. That's significantly higher than the other GOP 2012 hopefuls....

Dayum there are a lot of stupid Republicans.

Anybody else heard about this?

US Military Surge in Costa Rica May Fan Regional Tensions

With the “War on Drugs” as Pretext, 46 Warships and 7,000 Troops Reported to Be Heading to Central American Country and Coast

By Jamie Way
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
July 14, 2010

It's already 91degrees fahrenheit

and I'm making vegetable lasagna. WTF is wrong with me? I don't have air conditioning. Well, it's done, cooling and the oven is open to dissipate some of the heat. Hope it's edible, I kind of went a little crazy with the garlic in the sauce I cooked all night in the crock pot.

I watched "The Lone Gunmen" pilot episode last night because I had read somewhere that the episode dealt with an airplane attack on the World Trade Center and thought the timing strange. The debut of the show was in March 2001 and the episode dealt with a government conspiracy behind the attack.

I couldn't help but wonder if Dick Cheney saw that episode as one line in the movie totally creeped me out. Someone was explaining why the government might be behind the attack and the reason was that the arms market was flat because the US had no enemies to fight since the break up of the USSR.

I think that some in government think we are stupid. The military can't solve problems anymore, it's the economy stupid. Anybody that separates national security from politics and economics is stupid, ignorant and apathetic, or too damn brainwashed to believe that anyone in our government would do anything to harm it's citizens. More accurately, a few rogue elements in high places who let the arms industries lead them around by their dicks. Or by a Dick. Or with a Dick, or...something.

Fuck the DEA

Raid Legal Marijuana Farm, Destroy Crops
Agents descended on the property of Joy Greenfield with guns drawn, tore out the plants and took Greenfield's computer and cash.

Goddamned asinine cowboy asshole fuckheads. I swear there are some people in law enforcement who are seriously fucked in the head. And lazy. And stupid. And cowardly.

Comcast and NBC Universal

Gawd, I've been a bad politicky blogger lately.


FCC Requests Input On Comcast, NBC Universal Deal listen

Showdown in Chicago over the Comcast-NBCU deal
Posted on Mon, Jul. 12, 2010
By Bob Fernandez
Inquirer Staff Writer
The activist group Free Press published a full-page "wanted" poster in a Chicago alternative weekly for no-show Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and has been blasting out e-mail alerts about Tuesday's public hearing on Comcast Corp.'s proposed deal to acquire control of NBC Universal Inc.

The event in Chicago, hosted by the FCC, promises lively political theater over media consolidation issues with five hours of testimony from supporters and opponents of the $30 billion Comcast-NBCU deal and two hours of "open microphone" public comment.

Senator Al Franken doesn't like it.

"Franken has become the lead voice opposing the merger of NBC and Comcast, a position Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are only happy to cede him given his first-hand experience in the entertainment industry and as a former NBC employee."

Economic worries cast a cloud at media conference
By ANDREW VANACORE (AP) – 3 days ag0
"In past years, the ground work for some major deals has been laid here, including the pending takeover of NBC Universal by cable TV provider Comcast Corp."

Comcast knows how to play the pork game:

"Perhaps you recall $40 million to Philly-based Comcast in Ed's first term. He's paid by Comcast as a football analyst. His forever adviser David L. Cohen is a Comcast vice president. And we're asked to believe that the monster cable company (it bought NBC last December for $13.7 billion in cash and assets) would leave its hometown starving if it didn't get a slice of the public pie."

My friend just told me about this English girl

who spends time filming old 78s spinning and uploading the videos to YouTube.

Kinda fun, her YouTube channel:

78s4FR's Channel

Great way to avoid grocery shopping, eh? Man, I just don't want to go, even though I am sick of frozen foods.

So I guess the 70's didn't totally suck

I'm not goo-goo for Gaga. Many of the electronically filtered voices, synth beats, and tedious lyrics just don't do it for me. In fact, they irritate the crap out of me.

Hey kids, hate to tell you this, but the shock factor of "Lady" Gaga been done before. She was called Madonna and it didn't take her 3 minutes to start the dance-schlock-synth-pop bullshit. Ho hum. Wow, did you kids know that before MTV and YouTube videos that musicians actually had to do more than look interesting? Whoa, what a concept. Some really good songs came from people who didn't look good?

OH. MY. GOD.

Oh lovely, is this what the Brits think of us Californians?

Crapola. I have a now local friend who helped put men on the moon, not helped moon men.

Seriously, my friend was an Apollo test engineer. I've never heard of the yearly ritual of mooning Amtrak before. I have lived my whole life in in Southern California and I have been goofing around online since 1995 and had to find out from the BBC about this ritual and the website Moon Amtrak. org

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

Watch here at PBS Frontline if you've the stomach for it. I found it disturbing (like nauseating) as I would hope any mother would. The last few years while we have been in Afghanistan things that the Taliban banned have returned, and not good ones. This thing they call bacha bazi is a revolting practice.

I hate Wordpress

Can't set your username or password. It's a fucking pain in the ass. Wordpress users, hope you don't give a shit whether I ever comment again. Fuck Wordpress.

BP Makes Me Sick

I finally got around to reading my email this morning. I opened this

Is the web editor at BBC amused?

I sure was when I saw both of these article titles on the same page within centimeters of each other:

Cameroon denies homosexuals harassed

Black hole blows huge gas bubble

Legalization could slash the price of pot 80%

I'm hoping that it might make it so that Mexican people don't have to teach their children things like this in school. The monetary amount is secondary. The cost in ruined lives over a drug that is much less harmful than alcohol is the toll that bothers me. I can't dig up statistics right now but I would venture to say that yes, because most of the drugs coming over the border are NOT cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, or even fake prescription stuff that this might put a big dent in the cartel profits and slow down the murders. So what if it puts some useless rich kid pot dealers out of business?

At least I backed up my music correctly

Jeez, I did something right with the backup on the PC, the iTunes. I did not want to spend umpteen million hours feeding in my music CDs one at a time. I'm old dang it, I have everything from classical to punk to world to rock to country to funk to jazz to elevator schmaltz. I even like some of my kid's stuff, but by default kids hate their parents music unless it's old school that they discover on their own, lol.

I have never had a set up so painless and uh.... fun!

Well, except for the earthquake we just had, my husband and I both thought "Oh this thing better not get any worse we just spent some money on that 'puter."

Wow, this thing is awesome

I did it. This machine is far too beautiful for me. I was so excited that when my friend asked me what I was doing my response baffled her. She asked me what a maa was? Dude. It's an iMac. I'm terrified I'm going to mess up the really expensive mouse, but oh what fun!

My husband asked where it was (the computer) and I replied "It's in the screen." He's happy, he got my 20" monitor that I was using on the PC that I just killed. I'll be off to visit my buds as soon as I figure out this baby and get my music back on. I like my music and I got a free iTouch so I don't have to recharge my kid's old mini iPod after 4 songs worth of listening.

Happy belated 4th?

Still haven't made the trip to the Apple store. Will soon. Let's see what's happening today...

Hmm, can't seem to get away from the Apple store site even though my back is aching from using the laptop on the coffee table and my eyes are bleeding from reading tech specs that only make me more dangerous to a computer's health.

BadTux pointed me in the right direction to start looking, I think. As much as I like the Apple LED displays they are $900 and I already have a monitor that I like. I dunno what it's going to look like after the dvi adapter, but I've been watching Netflix via dsl with the VGA cable so I'm not exactly fussy. My brother made some crack about Chip and Dale creating noise on the line so I don't think paying the phone company any more money will speed it up anyway...

Hmmm, as much as I like the price on the mac mini, I'm not sure it's the one for me. Husband says ok to whatever I want (he bought me my first reliable car and I've had it for almost ten years now) so I might as well get what I want, huh? The kid's gonna inherit it anyway and her macbook was a worthwhile investment.

I hope Macs are harder to fuck up

Because I've had it up to here with screwing around with the PCs. Now if I can just get over the initial sticker price shock I have a feeling I will be much happier. I like my kid's Macbook and I watched a couple of documentaries on Netflix on Macs.

Gah. I'm disgusted.

Leave it to the Brookings Institute to put out this pile of self-congratulatory poo.

Man you know this fucker's all thinkin, voters schmoters, fuck it we got the Soooopreme Court to do the bidding of big bidness. Arms is big bidness in this country.

You know, I'm starting to get why people don't bother to vote.

Former agent: Only bad spies get caught

By Peter Wilkinson, CNN
June 29, 2010 -- Updated 1846 GMT (0246 HKT)

Oh nonsense. Well connected ones don't get caught either.

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A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite


P 226
"Carter's administration was plagued by an unusual problem. He lived up to a campaign promise to turn his back on the Washington Bureaucracy. To carry it out, he imported his advisers from Georgia. In most cases, they were perfectly fine people. They just weren't tutored in how to get things done in Washington. They learned the hard way that you don't succeed in the labyrinth of Capitol politics without making a lot of compromises with the entrenched apparatus."

Why is everyone so hard on Obama? Hell, I knew that even though he gave great speech in '04 at the Democratic Convention and he was a promise of hope for the people that would hit that nasty wall called the "entrenched apparatus" that exists in the sewer called Washington DC.

Anyway, I love Cronkite's book. The man had a lot of class.

Dare I hope?

After 41 Years, a Belated Victory for Butter
Posted on Jun 25, 2010
By David Sirota

California welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million at casino ATMs over eight months

Whoa, what a state I live in. *sigh*

Man, I was on welfare, I never had an extra nickel to play the slots. My kid's favorite food to this day is boxed mac-n-cheese with tuna and frozen vegetables . That tell ya anything? I was really happy when I could work at some clothing warehouse sale that gave me first dibs on what I spent all day hanging on hangers. You think most able bodied people don't work when on welfare for their check? Pfffft.

Friday, June 25, 2010 India to try to extradite ex-Union Carbide head

NEW DELHI (AP) - India's Cabinet has approved pushing for the former head of Union Carbide to be extradited over the toxic gas leak in 1984 that killed an estimated 15,000 people.

We live in a democracy

bwaaaah hahahahahahaha

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Judge who nixed drilling ban has oil investments By CURT ANDERSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Writers

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He's also a new member of a secret national security court...


Impeach the Oil-Investing Judge Who Declared Deep Sea Drilling Ban Void
Submitted by Lisa Graves on June 23, 2010 - 1:12p

Righty-O, no connection heeeeeeeere

U.S. military criticized for purchase of Russian copters for Afghan air corps
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 19, 2010


Election-year deficit fears stall Obama stimulus plan
By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Obama traveled on Friday to Columbus, Ohio, the first of more than two dozen stops on the "Recovery Summer" tour. (Charles Dharapak/associated Press)



Buy military copters from Russia for Afghanistan? Bueno.

Give stimulous checks to Social Security recipients? Mal.

¡Claro que si!

Toyota to restart US auto plant, draws UAW ire

Friday, June 18, 2010
By DAN STRUMPF and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers

"...But Toyota's decision to build Corollas there comes just weeks after announcing the sale of a California plant that also built the compact sedans.

To the United Auto Workers Union, the key difference was the California plant was unionized, while the Mississippi plant - like the rest of Toyota's U.S. factories - isn't...

"...Toyota has been working to patch up its reputation in the U.S. following its recalls of more than 8 million vehicles over reports of unintended acceleration...."

My friend was mentioning today as a matter of fact, that American car manufacturers have gotten better at making cars. After the recent fuck ups by Toyota, it's worth looking into anyway.

Consumer Reports Car reviews

Love Jon Stewart

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Ore on Terror
www.thedailyshow.com
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Have been uninspired to post

But EB has fabulous news.

Arresting the Banksters.

Ok, back to Netflix. I dunno what I'm gonna do when I run out of X-Files shows to watch. It's nice to see the good guys survive, even if they don't win every time.

ps, the eartquake made my heart beat faster for about 3 minutes and since there was no damage close to here, I relaxed.

The One Percent

The One Percent Wikipedia page
(click on title bar to buy DVD )

part 1

Oh Joy, Cody Franchetti makes another appearance, in all his affected arrogance, like in "Born Rich" .

Also, Milton Friedman, yippee skippy, who was one of my favorite hypocrites. A lot of his early work was paid for by taxpayers, and he helped invent the witholding tax. So much for all his "free market" yammerin' after the fact.

I wonder how long the return to feudalism was planned by the rich? Was it even a return, or just a continuance with hope of getting rich in America propagandizing those eager to believe the lie in the public school system?

I see a need for the "One Percent" to heed the warning in Jaime's documentaries. I don't see his work benefitting the poor, they know the truth. They know they pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than the rich do.

Why can't the rich see that feudalism can not be what it was before?

That there are just too many poor?


Queen - Khashoggi's Ship (Lyrics) from The Miracle (C) 1989