Filthy People

Keep drinkin' dat Kool-Ade

Yesterday was a good day for we who are compiling political ad material for the Fall elections.  First we had  Alec Baldwin using the "chicken-shit Democrats in the Senate" word to describe Donks who voted for Alito, and saying, of Sen Zell Miller, "I loathe and despise him on a daily basis."  So much for the vaunted, but mythical, ''big tent.''      Then we had  the nation's Number One Colored Guy, in a speech that garners all of four hits using Google's vaunted News Search - ( but the Grouchy Cripple has it - see Julian Bond is a Racist Asshole!),  use the ''Republicans are the Nazi Party and  Republican Blacks like Condi Rice are house niggers'' analogy  so popular with Democrat Party leaders.      And finally, CIA Chief Porter Goss told a congressional committee that leaks by the New York Times have done ''very severe damage'' to the United States.  So, what has changed since several level headed Democrats proclaimed  ''it's not safe to elect Democrats right now?''   Nothing.  This is going to be a long film I'm making.

Okay, I cleaned the garage. Sheesh.

The tortiliera

Today's stuff that works.

Last week at Food Lion I found this tortilla maker in the specialty food section -- $7.95.    I didn't get it to make tortilla, but for perogi.  Mother Superior and Lulu Mae love them, but what a pain in the ass to make.  I have a pasta machine - pain in the ass.  I've used a rolling pin - pain in the ass.  I've used won tom wrappers ... don't taste the same.  This looked like it might work.  It did.  Last night I made a flour-egg-water dough in 3 minutes,  plopped  a glob on the tortiliera, added a plunk of the filling  (cottage cheese.chives), folded, sealed, and put in lightly boiling water.  When they float to the top,  put it in the fry pan.  Total time from  decision to table, about 20 minutes.  Were they good?  Holy crap, yes.  USA! USA! Today I decided to make actual tortillas since I was out of them, but had a  chirozo/bean filling that I've had a two month hankering for. In a concession to healthy eating  I made a whole wheat dough. Not a good idea, as it turned out.  The whole wheat dough may have worked out had I kneaded it longer than 10 seconds, or let it rest, but I didn't.  Still, you can see the process.  Plop and squeeze. This ''tortilla'' was much thicker than I would have liked, but what the hell.  I fried it quickly in a little olive oil. After filling it with my chirozo mixture, and topping it with some cheese and chilpolte sauce I ate it.  Way yummy, but in the future I'll use white flour ... no I won't.  In the future I'll use store bought flour tortillas, because I like them.  But here's what I discovered.  This fried whole wheat bread, which is what it was, makes an excellent bread/roll substitute for dinners.  If you were served a basket of them in a restaurant, you'd probably rave.  Very quick to make (flour, baking powder, salt, olive oil, water.    Such a deal.

Rush is Right

You want miasma, here. Here's your miasma.

Addicted to Polls Wall Street Journal February 2, 2006; Page A10 President Bush has seen the energy future, and he has two words of advice: wood chips. Somewhere in his cardigan sweater next to a fireplace, Jimmy Carter is smiling. That gets to the uncomfortable heart of Mr. Bush's startling turn on energy policy Tuesday night. An Administration that once promoted drilling in Alaska and other ways to expand domestic oil and gas supplies is now lecturing the nation that it's "addicted to oil" and extolling the merits of cellulosic biomass, a k a wood chips. This may not be as bad as 1970s-style price controls, but it's also a long way from a sensible energy policy. I'm not going to continue.  I'm going to start my own country, and you're not invited, but you are.  You know who's who.  I feel about this nation right now about the same way I do my garage.  There's a lot of good stuff out there, but I just don't see a way to straighten it out.  I think a fire would be best, and rebuild from the beginning.

Meat Good

Gun Boy's Dilemma

I was looking for something at du Toit's site and found this, from December.  I had no idea.  Because he had closed his site, it was awhile before I discovered the new one. I am actually sick at heart that this happened to them. Just sick.  I want to do something, but don't know what.  I think Kim and his wife are some of the best people on earth.  I need to find out more.  We need to do something.

Sheehan, spawned out of hatred

Cindy Ass-flap

This is Beverly Young, the wife of Rep. Rep. C.W. Bill Young of Florida, who was also kicked out of the SOTU speech for wearing a sloganed shirt.  We know about Cindy Sheehan.  There is a huge difference, and everybody knows what it is.  Sheehan was put up to her anti-war shenanigans by people who wanted to embarrass the President of the United States.  Mrs. Young's motivation was purely patriotic.  One grounded in hatred, the other with love.  If you don't know the difference,  you're not someone I to see at my Annual Easter Booze Hunt, so don't come.

American Idol

Sing Melancholy Baby

I have never watched more than two running minutes of American Idol, until this week. What changed is my continuing disinterest in television.  WTF?  Let me explain.  From 6:00-8:00 my television is tuned to Channel 5 (FOX), where the programming runs 1)Seinfeld, 2) The Simpsons, 3) The Simpsons, 4) Seinfeld.  In the past  I changed channels at 8:00 to the Hitler Channel, and surfed from there.  Now, I'm generally unaware of programming changes (the disinterest), and stay focused on staring at the ceiling (the Bourbon), so when  Idol follows that last Seinfeld re-run, I let it go.  Holy Crap! Most wannabe idols are truly B-A-D singers, but seem genuinely conviced otherwise.  I'm a bit taken back by the lack of civility this guy whats-his-name shows (''you make me want to vomit'') while dismissing them.  But, I'm even more surprised over the reaction many of them display ("You are totally wrong, I am great singer, so go to Hell!").  I mentioned this to Mother Superior, who was in the TIVO room watching garden shows, and she pegged it.  "That's because nobody wants to hurt anybody's feelings anymore, starting in kindergarten, so nobody is aware of their shortcomings." She's right.  In America, everybody wins at Musical Chairs, until they start playing Life.  Oh, the heartache.  Oh, the humanity. Sort of explains John Kerry.

Kerry is an Idiot

Sen. Kerry's statement this morning, that ''53% of America's children do not graduate from high school," is so ludicrous I have to wonder if it's a hoax? He was neck-and-neck with Al Gore in the 'Dumbest Bastard Ever' contest, but it's over. Kerry wins the Carter Cup.

Michigan's biggest poop

I am not making this up.

Michigan is home to the largest poop in history. And the accompanying text: “In February 1995, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I adopted a super fiber-rich diet which allowed me to successfully produce a single extruded excrement the exact length of my colon: 26 feet. I documented the extrusion at the Cranbrook-Kingswood High School Bowling Alley, Bloomfield Hills, MI, which offered a length of floor suitable for the process and measuring the results. The cathartic diet was supplemented by a high intake of Metamucil fiber substance. The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions.” --World Record #4: Peristaltic Action

The Museum of Hoaxes

I thought the waterrmelon picture was real ...

Mystery Picture

You Guess

(Winning answer - ''Customs inspectors boarding a vessel'')

LMAO!

Her Filthiness gifts the universe with a new image that, I suspect, will be reproduced in about a billion forthcoming blog attacks. USA! USA! NEW!  The Professional Hillary Hater starter gallery! Thanks Joyce, for the heads-up.

''We are in a media race for . . . hearts and minds. ...The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam--and how they ran and left their agents--is noteworthy.'' - al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, 10/2005

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''Here's an example that illustrates both the media's antiwar attitude and their powerlessness: In October the Baltimore Sun ran a story under the headline, "Little Outcry Raised on Iraq." The subhead read: "Md. deaths push toll near 2,000, but public is distracted, experts say." ''Consider what this headline tells you about the assumptions that prevail in the newsroom. "Little Outcry Raised on Iraq." Why is the absence of an outcry a story? News consists of the unexpected--man bites dog, not dog bites man. "Little Outcry Raised on Iraq" means that, in the view of the Baltimore Sun, an outcry is to be expected when the country is at war. If there isn't much of one, it means something is wrong: "Public is distracted, experts say." The so-called mainstream media are following the Vietnam script, according to which a war is supposed to become a quagmire, which provokes opposition and leads to American withdrawal.'' - OpinionJournal - Bad News Bearers

Take Me ...

Loserboys

PFAW Hails ''Moral Victory''

Ohio Sheriff bills Homeland Security for illegal immigrant reimbursement

Ahem

''I'm a conservative Republican, and I love President Bush and think he's doing a great job overall, but I give him a F- on immigration.'' - Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones (on FNC this morning)

Today's Dummy - Lynn Woolsey

"It stunned me because I didn't know in America you could be arrested for wearing a T-shirt with a slogan on it,'' Woolsey said. "That's especially so in the Capitol and in the House of Representatives, which is the people's House.'' - Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma Lynn Woolsey is another politically tone deaf  Democrat.  When  even the leftist media are showing signs of nervousness over Cindy's virulently anti-American message [Sheehan went too far with the T-word] , a smart pol ought to know when to STFU.  Besides, as this flashback posted on FreeRepublic shows,  Sheehan received equal opportunity handcuffs. ''Cindy Sheehan, the drama queen who was removed from the House gallery last night before the State of the Union address for wearing a t-shirt with a political message, is not the first person to be tossed from a Congressional gallery at a high-profile event for wearing a political t-shirt. ''In the early days of the Senate's impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in January 1999, a Pennsylvania man named Dave Delp was removed by the Capitol police from the Senate gallery for wearing a t-shirt that said, "Clinton doesn't inhale, he sucks."  Free Republic Post

Tone Deaf

Applauding Failure

''Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security ...''  -- (applause) Democrats will hope I'm wrong, but this was the signal moment during the SOTU address last night.  Bush had earlier asked for ''a civil tone,''  to return during the national debate. '' To confront the great issues before us, we must act in a spirit of goodwill and respect for one another -- and I will do my part.''  This sarcastic democrat response, over Congress' failure to address Social Security entitlements (that will one day doom the Union), can only reinforce their image as the Party of sneering disrespect, and hate.  IMO.

Cindy Sheehan arrested

The face of today's Democratic Party

I was going to ignore Sheehan's arrest tonight at the SITU address, but this (photo shopped) picture on The Spunky Texan's web site was just too delicious to pass up.  Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., gave her the ticket.  Smart move Lynn baby, it's not at  all apparent that Sheehan is a psychopathic hater, is it?  Well, maybe not if you're one yourself, then she'd be normal, wouldn't she?

postpartum depression

Today's health tip from Murry the plumber.

Here's today's health tip.  If you know someone suffering from  postpartum depression,  traditional anti-depressants won't do squat until the hormonal  imbalance is corrected.  Of course you'll want to check with a physician, but maybe not the same one who prescribed Zoloft, but ignored the root cause.  That'll be $29.97.  Thank you.

Back stabbing democrats, and WGAF?

Blah-blah- blah

Sunday, after watching Howie Dean say that any democrat with ties to Jack Abranoff  was in  ''big trouble,'' I  noted that it appeard he was stabbing Harry Reid in his black heart.  It looks like that's the case [see "HOWIE AND HARRY"] ''According to knowledgeable DNC sources, Dean about ten days ago was shown opposition research documents generated by the Republican National Committee more than three years ago, which laid out facts regarding Reid and his family's lobbying and ethical conflicts. ''Dean, according to the sources, was fascinated by the details, and asked that his staff research and independently confirm everything on the documents. "Basically he oppo'd a member of his own party," says a DNC source loyal to Dean. ''"Basically, we were looking at three- or four-page documents that made Jack Abramoff's lobbying work look like that of a rank amateur," says the DNC source. "Between the minority leader's past in Nevada and here in Washington, and the activities of his sons and son-in-law, there probably isn't anyone in this town with more conflicts. The Reid family is the symbol of what's wrong with Washington; it's their behavior that enabled the culture that spawned people like Abramoff." <snip> ''According to Democrat Party watchers and DNC staff, Dean has grown increasingly frustrated at how he is treated by the likes of Reid, Sen. Dick Durbin, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who leads the House Democrat candidate recruitment effort. "They treat him like a lackey, not as an equal," Frankly, I fail to see what all the fuss over Abramoff is about?  Don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of politicians selling  their vote, but it's not like this is a new thing.  In 1990 a democrat staffer named John L. Jackley wrote Hill Rat, a book that exposed the  cavalier attitude most law makers have about ethics.  Using terms like "The Favor Factory," and "The House of Lord s," Jackley revealed how whenever members of John Dingell's Energy Committee needed campaign cash, Dingell would simply hold hearings on legislation -- any legislation, it didn't matter -- which resulted in lobbyist money pouring in  -- from both the pro and con camps!  And, did we just live through the Clinton Administration, for god's sake?  Anything, and everything was for sale, from White House furniture to Top Secret encryption codes. Name one official who lost  a job during that era of anything goes?  What a bunch of crap all this is.

Swapping Google for Yahoo

Yahooooooo

I'm not going to inconvenience myself, but where I can I'm replacing Google. I don't use it, but when I heard on Fox & Friends,  this morning, that Google keeps every piece of mail sent through their G-Mail service .. forever - that cut it.  Steve Doocy said ''I'm going with Yahoo,'' and me too.  Unless I don't like it.

Lip Piercing

''See? You almost shot your eye out. ''

Hold Me Panda

Today's redeeming quality

Michael O'Donoghue National Lampoon art

Teddy - The gift that keeps on giving

PBF

Claim that asbestos is killing thousands of veterans ...

Crap!

''We fought for our country, now it's time for congress [you] to fight for us."   Alright Ernie!  What can we do for you? ''Today many veterans are sick because they were exposed to asbestos ...'' How is that Ernie?  Was it the asbestos in bombs you dropped on them Viet Congs (or were you shoveling shit in Arkansas) ?? '' and the legal system isn't helping ... '' Dagnabbit, Ernie, it sounds to me like you're shilling for greedy, lying bastard ATLA.  What? Did the  Peter Angelos  ilk not distribute their winnings?  Does Angelos  need another sports franchise?  Are Maryland lawmakers demanding too much ''lunch money'' from him?  You do know that  90% of the ''asbestos'' argument was manufactured, don't you Ernie?  Still, I want to know why the hell you're playing the "Purple Heart'' card for tort boys [trust me, trial lawyers are the engine running this thing]?  Did we drop "Agent A" on Asian jungles? Are you a professional shill?  '' ... the trust fund is payed for by companies, no taxpayer dollars.'' You idiot.  I'm calling the Senate to demand tort reform limiting lawyer awards to $6. And I want your medals back Ernie.

Out chopping the dog

Today's asshole

Jon Stewart

We, all of us - except for the really well balanced - have had occasion to meet someone you just want to bitch slap at first glance.  One of mine is Jon Stewart, the smarmy liberal ass-licking host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show.  Today the Daily News ponders Stewart's appeal ... ''It's during these moments, when I'm missing Stewart's appeal, that I realize I'm not alone. A lot of people are feeling the same way. ''Take a look at the Nielsen figures for the show, and the numbers are startling. This supposedly terrific program, with its high hipness factor - people actually say they get their only news from "The Daily Show" - is averaging 1.3 million viewers in January, most of them men between the ages of 18 and 49. During November, the political high season in which Stewart and his cohorts supposedly thrive, the show averaged 1.45 million viewers. ''For comparison, Nielsen estimates there are 218 million people over the age of 18 in the nation's 112 million homes with televisions. ''That's a lot of people not getting Stewart's comedy. ''Now, before the legions of Stewartites start bellyaching that the show airs on Comedy Central, so the numbers are going to be smaller, stop. Comedy Central is in 88 million homes, so it's well-distributed.'' This pretty much coincides with Harry Stein's treatment in last year's article for The City Journal, where he considered Stewart's appeal among some really horrible people. ... “When future historians come to write the political story of our times,” intoned Bill Moyers on his recently ended PBS show, “they will first have to review hundreds of hours of a cable television program called The Daily Show. You simply can’t understand American politics in the new millennium without The Daily Show.” “Mr. Stewart has turned his parodistic TV news show into a cultural force significantly larger than any mere satire of media idiocies,” chimed in the New York Times’s Frank Rich in a column entitled ''jon stewart’s perfect pitch ... .'' ''While all this is certainly heady for Stewart and his fans, what does it mean? After all, the fair-minded viewer might find the half-hour show intermittently humorous, but he won’t detect anything “fearless” or even especially original in it. In truth, Stewart’s elevation to near-iconic status says more about those doing the elevating than about the comedian himself. His “bravery” and much-vaunted grasp of political nuance consists mostly of his embrace of every reflexive assumption shared by every litmus-tested liberal holding forth at every chic Manhattan dinner party.'' I liked these articles so much that I bought the companies, so to speak.  You can read, and save, both articles in one stop at the Jon Stewart Pissatorium.  You're welcome

Demorats and Gummint

Cluck-cluck; Oink oink

What do New Orleans and Washington D.C. have in common?  They  are in thrall of Democrat politicians, with nary a hint of American influence.  Here's the stuff we have grown to expect from a D.C. gummint that openly admits to using hundreds of ticket cameras as revenue producers. In 2002 Erika Brown purchased a a dilapidated building from the city, in a tax sale, for about $82,000. She obtained financing to fix it up While she was at Expo looking  at kitchen counter tops the city demolished the building. Skip to 2006 The District gummint sent Ms. Brown a bill for $98,000  to cover demolition charges of  $59,522 and $38,391 in interest as of last month.  On the other hand, I'll bet money that Erika Brown has voted for democrat council members, so the case can be made that her chickens have merely roosted. Or, pigs styed.    [We knock it down and then we come to collect $98,000]

Ethics & Warlords

Stop Geezer sex with young girls

Wait a minute .. how young is young, and how old is old?

''Commander in Chief" Pulled

President Geena Rodham Impeached

Wednesday.

Bremer, and the other nincompoops

I also need help proving that putting pieces of paper down the disposal doesn't ruin it.

Liberal racism is real

Get off my bus, Shankar Vedantam

''Another study presented at the conference, which was in Palm Springs, Calif., explored relationships between racial bias and political affiliation by analyzing self-reported beliefs, voting patterns and the results of psychological tests that measure implicit attitudes -- subtle stereotypes people hold about various groups. ''That study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did. "What automatic biases reveal is that while we have the feeling we are living up to our values, that feeling may not be right," said University of Virginia psychologist Brian Nosek, who helped conduct the race analysis. "We are not aware of everything that causes our behavior, even things in our own lives."  -- Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases Thanks to Tim Graham for finding this piece of  liberal tripe for me.  Let me axe you something, Shankar, you rat worshipping  towel head.   Stuff like what I just said is not racism; it's anger induced invective.  When some jerk cuts me off on 95, I don't yell, ''you stupid red car!," I holler ''get off the street you Chink bastard"  Would I ever refuse to hire, entertain, or socialize with a Chinese extracted individual?  Hell no.  I do not  assume, one way or another, anything about Blacks, Chinese, women,  or Indians based on their appearance, or nationality. Never have, and I bet you could say the same.   Once you open your mouth, all bets are off though. I do judge based on performace.  So does Shankar. Let's compare that with Liberals, shall we?  Who is it that assumes whole bodies of people are incapable of achieving,   unless given special protection, opportunity, and help?  Hmmmm?   Who attacks Black Republicans, using any slur  that  comes to mind, because they are Black, and off the liberal plantation?  Hmmmm?   You racist bastards.

Betty Butterfield tries the Methodist Church, and finds it lacking

Tom Cruise .. Betty Butterfield needs you

Don't put knives in the dishwasher!

Proof!

I was glomming through a Consumer Reports magazine in the dentist office when I came across this tid-bit in a review on Kitchen Knives (Best Buy = Chicago Cutlery).  I post this for .. you know who you are.

Who was that car bomber?

Term Paper Help

I'm going nuts here.  Back in the late 60's a black radical, in the mold of H. Rap Brown, was killed when the car he was driving blew up.  Evidence suggested that he was on the way to car bomb the Harford County courthouse, in Bel Air (MD, when the bomb accidentally detonated.  You'd think that, with these particulars, I'd be able to find the details, but I can't.  Anybody remember who it was?

That Rodger is a mean spirited bastard, ain't he?

Bad me

Forgive my cynicism, but my first thought upon hearing that ABC News Anchor Bob Woodruff  was nearly blown to pieces in Iraq, was that  he ''screwed the pooch,''  and detonated  too soon.  My second thought  was that our guys did the fragging(God, I'm sorry for that).  Hey, you couldn't blame them, Woodruff is part of the media cabal who disinform about the Iraq war  [and most everything else]  to discredit  a president they abhor.  However, I'll say a Novena for  you Bob, because that's the way I am.