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Saturday, November 03, 2012

I'm tired

I'm not even paying attention to the news, let alone the political news.  My friend shocked me out of my stupor a bit when thye were concerned that a stupid greedy fuck might  end up as our next president.  I sent my ballot in and my friend made sure I got hers in before she died also.  So we did what we could do to make sure it wasn't our fault if that asshole Romney gets in.

Thursday, November 01, 2012

My friend died today

Dia De Los Muertos 2012
Fitting since she loved this border town even though she was from the southeastern part of the US, eh?

I haven't lost it yet, but dang it, I want a smoke. Soft foods suck and I wish I could do more for the family right now, but the dang antibiotics are giving me hell and I can't stray too far from the bathroom. I'm right aroumd the corner from them because she was my neighbor, if they need anything. I feel very lucky that I got to joke around with her while she was a bit lucid, even though we were both loopy from pain meds. We lived in the same building for 13 1/2 years.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

If Isee one more NO on 37 ad I'm going to puke

Mostly because stupid, uninformed voters will be influenced by the ads and it probably won't pass. Idiots.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Seriously man, wtf is this?

Is this a report on whether or not my little blog is a threat to the oil industry?

so I did a few posts on OIL, so what?

Friday, October 26, 2012

My friend is dying.

And she's in pain and hospitals suck.  Even nice hospitals suck. Some local news lady was in the gift shop (cause you know chocolate fixes everything right?) and saying how her mom was so much better and thanks for asking and it sucked.  It's not that she was anything other than nice but I just found out that my friend is dying and to top it off,   my friend didn't recognize me.   And since she's dying of cancer and she ate a lot of processed foods the lobbyists who fight to de-regulate the poisons in processed foods for their corporate masters suck too.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Iron Lady

The Iron Lady (2011)
105 min - Biography | Drama | History - 13 January 2012 (USA)

My early adulthood years were dominated by Reagan, who totatlly fucked up my first career choice and his buddy Thatcher, , both elected by a bunch of hypocritical assholes like my parents. I didn't even vote till 20 years later.

The only reason I'm watching this is because Meryl Street is the most amazing human chameleon I've ever seen.

So far I'm seeing a loathesome creature so convinced of her own correct actions that she probably never had a clue that she was only a tool of the rich, as are most politicians. It's just bit more blatant amongst "conservatives."

Billionaires and Ballot Bandits

Billionaires and Ballot Bandits
by Greg Palast.

Hijole. Between that and THRIVE: What on Earth Will It Take, which I watched last night, I'm avoiding the screaming meemees over at HuffPo. There are so many mentally retarded right-wingers over there that I just can't stand it.  The moderators over there used to let some really funny comments slide in under the radar, but no more. So anyway, I didn't come across a whole lot of new information watching the movie, but the first thing that blew my mind in the book was in the first chapter of the book. I won't quote, but it basically says that 6 million votes that were probably going to be democratic votes were systematically weeded out by assholes like Karl Rove.

I've been waiting for this for years. Somehow I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime.


My friend is in the hospital and it's not looking good. The cancer is back. I talked her into voting in the 2008 election via absentee ballot and she's continued to vote so she has an absentee ballot waiting here. Strangely enough her daughter said she kept mentioning it even though she is in incredible pain and had to be moved  back into a regular hospital.

I am not a pet owner, but somebody brought in a maltipoo to visit one of the residents in the nursing home and I fell in love. When I was a kid we had a pomeranian/poodle mix that I loved. And seriously, how could you not love this face?
The dog we had growing up had coloring more common to maltipoos, but the dog that came to visit had coloring similar to the one pictured here.


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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Monday Is Last Day To Register To Vote in San Diego

Friday, October 19, 2012 By City News Service 

Working on my sample ballot, but I just send in my ballot.  It's easeir.   It ticks me off that the polling station for my tiny litte enclave ( I have old and poor neighbors) of probable democratic voters have to drive three miles instead of walking across the street to the closest polling station. Fucking Republicans.

I'm undecided on some, and holding my nose a lot on the local candidates.  In San Diego there are basically degrees of Republicanism in candidates. True progressive candidates are rare here.
KPBS election 2012 See what I mean?  Did you catch that first article on the page?
(San Diego Law Enforcement Defends Deat Penalty)  Yeah there was Robert Alton Harris, executed in 1992 for murders comitted in 1978 in San Diego.  The death penalty is on hold and pretty fucking useless in CA anyway so fuck you Bonnie Dumanis.

About the only place to find out anything out about your ballot and the candidates on it is Smart Voter

I use cheat sheets for the statewide ballot initiatives.
Courage Campaign


San Diego Free Press

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Watching debate.

I hate Mitt Romney...

Why isn't anybody talking about the Republican filibusters?

Oh my god.  Labeling China as a  currency manipulator?   Ooooh China scared now. Tarrifs?  Making the US friendly for small employers and bringing back manufacturing doesn't work Romney.

Ok, now Obama's idealism is showing.  It's Americans we're talking about here buddy.  They stooopid, not all capable of becoming rocket scientists.

Ha, Obama socked Romney with the 47% video.   About fucking time.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Shane Brennan is an idiot

Who needs to stop using Australian slang.  It's waaaaay fucking irritating when he  allows it to be written into dialogue between LA based characters.  People born and raised in S. CA don't use "do a runner" unless they are advocating having sex with someone who runs for exercise or in competition.  Run away.   And another thing, he pretty much sucks at military jargon also.  And Aspergers.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

I was outraged 10 years ago

Why You Should Be Outraged About The Ruling To Keep The NDAA Indefinite Detention Clause In Effect
Michael Kelley | Oct. 3, 2012, 9:52 AM | 16,306 | 33

Yup, when I realized that the rich will get the president that they want even if they have to cheat to get it I was outraged. Yup, when I realized what a stupid, selfish asshole the dumbass rich people wanted to do their bidding I was outraged. Yup, when I realized that some law enforcement agent can make me look guilty when I didn't do anything immoral, let alone illegal I was outraged. Yup, when I realized that my country's goverment can stomp all over the world looking for one American citizen when literally billions of other human beings don't matter to it I was outraged.

I'm too fucking tired to waste energy on outrage these days. I'm just disgusted.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

watching VP debate now



The explosion of private militaries and mercenaries, post-Iraq
by Faiza Patel
25 September 2012...

Iran
Ryan, Biden Strain Truth Over Iran, Taxes: Reality Check
By Bloomberg News - 2012-10-12T20:01:17Z

Ryan and Biden: No Difference On Iran
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 12, 2012

Home • Articles • Veep Debate Violations
Veep Debate Violations
Ryan, Biden rough up the facts in their one and only meeting.
Posted on October 12, 2012

Oh fuck me runnng, Ryan says 44% is too high for taxes on small businesses is too high. Does this idiot have any idea that when our ridiculously unstustainable infrastructure was growing at the fastest rates that the rich paid up to 90% in taxes? Beside  Ryan is counting giant hedge funds and thousands of other multimillion-dollar enterprises as “small” businesses....

Tired of the debate over Afghanistan, we never should have been there. We could have researched the Russian clusterfucks in Afghanistan beforehand. ...


Syria. Shit. These guys are never going to admit that the CIA is fucking arond there.

Is It Time to Revisit Compulsory Voting?
posted on Oct 13, 2012
Theresa Thompson (CC BY 2.0)

Yes. Then maybe the debates wouldn't suck so bad. I am so sick of the bullshit about military spending. Our military spending is so much higher than the rest of the world as to be ridiculous. Even those on this chart indicatiing spending as % of GDP is sillly because most of those countries who spend a higher % than we do are coerced by the US to buy US military crap.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Africa facing intensified 'food crisis'

Africa facing intensified 'food crisis'
New report suggests that numerous African and Middle East countries are at a high or extreme risk of a food crisis.
Last Modified: 10 Oct 2012 19:21

Jebus, no shit, 11% up on the commodity food price index from last year. Remember the riots from '08? Do you wonder as I do if the biggest investment banks in the world should be dicking around in the commodities markets?

Sunday, October 07, 2012

Food MythBusters Take on Big Ag's Worst Lies

Food MythBusters Take on Big Ag's Worst Lies
For those who are tired of the ad campaigns, the trade-group public relations machines, the lobbying, the front groups and the myth-making from Big Ag and Big Food.
October 3, 2012




YouTube Removes Undercover Video Showing Whole Foods GMO Misinformation
Published: Sunday 7 October 2012

I noticed as I was watching tv shows on IMDB that I kept getting blasted with an ad against prop 37. Blasted by the same ad so often that it made me wonder who had that much advertising money? And very interested in the video I linked that YouTube yanked.

Prop 37 Funding
Total Contributions, by Donor

Friday, October 05, 2012

watching prez debate on youTube



And Mitt Romney is a lying sack of shit



















And a fucking dickhead who lives, eats, breathes the bottom line. 


Make no mistake, that's what Lurch is all about.

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Extreme Energy Means an Extreme Planet

October 4, 2012
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Extreme Energy Means an Extreme Planet

If you want a particularly hard-headed assessment of how successfully Barack Obama, the most vulnerable president in memory, is pursuing his reelection campaign, don’t bother to check the polls; just read “Bibi” Netanyahu’s U.N. speech of last week.  The Israeli Prime Minister had, until then, all but campaigned for Mitt Romney, his old Boston Consulting Group pal, who claims Obama has thrown Israel “under the bus.” 

Oh Jebus.  Can I puke now?  Is Romney campaigning for Prime Minister of Israel or President of the United States?  
Fuck Israel.  

There.  I said it.  Except for providing the best spies and mercenaries on the planet they are a nothing but a major pain in the ass.  The victims have become victimizers.


That was just part of the intro for this article;


The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t
Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities
By Michael T. Klare

Monday, October 01, 2012

On Prez campaigns

"...For these crucial roles, they must both become card-carrying deficit-slashers, tax cutters, retarders of government growth, job creators, preservers of Medicare, national-security funders par excellence, fierce defenders of Israel, and men ready to do whatever must be done to prevent Iran from going nuclear. They must, that is, become perfect fictions. And though the debates are still upcoming, both presidential candidates recently had an out-of-town preview on “60 Minutes,” where, interviewed separately, each confirmed one crucial thing: that it’s possible to spend a great deal of time on TV and tell an audience almost nothing..."


Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, A Recipe for American Decline That No One Will Be Debating



Gee, I wonder why my teevee is just a sittin' there collectin' dust?

Friday, September 28, 2012

Scandal

Scandal (2012)TV Series - 43 min - Drama

I love this show. Even more than the West Wing, which may be heresy to some, but hey, Scandal was created by Shonda Rhimes and I'm a Grey's Anatomy fan. And, West Wing already had a following when I had little to no interest in politics. I was relatively apolitical until a couple of years after 9/11.

*sigh*

I just told the stepmonster that  we don't talk politics because I don't argue with brick walls, they make my head hurt.

Not surprisingly, there was no indication that she understood what I was saying.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

GA Shooting Range's Liquor License Approved

GA Shooting Range's Liquor License Approved

By Andrew Lu on September 26, 2012 5:46 AM

YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAWWWW

I'm kind of hooked on "The Walking Dead (2010)", even though true to the horror genre in general, the stupid needs to be  slapped out of some of the bitches on the show, Rick's wife in particular. Hilarious that I should spot this article at this time because I know that the story not only takes place in GA, the show is filmed there. I'm getting through the 2nd season so don't blow the surprise for me, eh?  My mother lived in GA for a short time in the late 60's, I'll tell you a hilarious story if I ever remember to ask her if I can blog it.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Emmys

The no good, very bad Emmys.

So, ok, I watch a lot of TV now that I don't have to tolerate the advertising because I watch on Netflix.  I sat through 10 minutes of the Emmys, 5 of which was advertising and the tv went off.  It probably will be off for a month or so barring some national or local emergency, but I will probably watch the election returns even though this city's politics veer revolting to the right and it shows in "local" coverage.  I do watch some tv online through Imdb/Hulu, but the ads are getting bad there also, and to ask people to watch the SAME ad 7 or 8 times inside of 45 minutes is an awful lot to ask. To much, if you ask me.

 So anyway, I wasn't surprised that shows that I've never seen (or even heard of) won awards and I was even less surprised that shows that I've tried to watch and absolutely loathed won (Modern Family, Dancing with the Stars, Mad Men).  I hate dude's wife on Breaking Bad , but I like the show and thought the kid deserved some recognition for how well he plays Jesse.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

This election aint even a horserace any more

Romney Schmomney.  The only way that entitled piece of crap is going to win is if people don't fucking vote.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Mitt Romney is a fucking dickhead

Leaked videos show Romney dismissing Obama supporters as feeling entitled to handouts


Wow, that's rich coming from a prep school asshole . Mitt Romney is a spoiled little dick. He seems to think that the 47% who can't afford to pay taxes are leeches, meanwhile, investing other people's money is hard work I tell ya!

6/20/13
The spammers are attacking this particular post with a vengeance. I'm not bothering to remove them.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Libyan Consulate Attack: Who's to Blame?


Looks like maybe we got duped.



Who is 'Sam Bacile'?

September 13, 2012, 4:30 p.m. ET WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443524904577649891086383820.html
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Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi

Mr Blowback rising in Benghazi
By Pepe Escobar


"In September 2012, for the first time in three months, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, aka The Surgeon, released a 42-minute video special to "celebrate" the 11th anniversary of 9/11, finally admitting the snuffing out of his number two.

His number two was none other than Abu Yahya al-Libi - targeted by one of US President Barack Obama's cherished drones in Waziristan on June 4...

Asia Times Online has been warning for over a year about blowback in Libya - and potentially in Syria..."


Make of this what you will, but I hate the sound of Arabic, about the same as I hate the sound of Hebrew when I've just watched an alQueda video, or seen a news report of unrest or violence.  A native English speaking Muslim told me that I was wrong for hating the sound of the call to prayer in Arabic and that the sound of church bells bothered him. Ok, I didn't expect him to apologize for his feelings, why should I?  Maybe if my noticing the sound of the language hadn't happened after 9/11 I would feel differently. Maybe if I had grown up hearing the call to prayer more it wouldn't make my gut churn, because I'm not a hateful person and I love the fact that I hear many languages in my region, and I don't believe religion is a bad thing in moderation for people firmly planted in reality. I won't apologize for the way I FEEL when I hear it. Do I react that way when I hear people conversing in Arabic? Why no, I don't. Maybe it's just that it would drive me batshit crazy to have some asshole on a loudspeaker hollering at the whole town that it's time to go pray 5 fucking times a day. I don't need to pray with a herd, or a flock or whatever you want to call it. I can pray any time I want to, and anywhere I want to.

Monopolizing War? What America Knows How to Do Best


Mr. Engelhardt,



I do appreciate your writings because I like being informed. I just get a little depressed when I find out how many pies my government has it's sticky little fingers in. *sigh*
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