Divine Mercy Chaplet

Catharsis "each according to the dictates of his own conscience"   This is very much a niche market post; a story that JMcD sent me.  EWTN has replaced RFD-TV as my escape television channel.  When I have trouble sleeping I'll often turn it on.  What I did not know is that Mother Angelica founded EWTN in Birmingham in 1981 as the world’s first Catholic cable outlet, and hosted several of its programs.  If you need help saying the rosary, or want to watch Bishop Sheen, this is the spot.  Ahem.   How about them Bears! (October 8, 2010) As seen Recently I went back to this haunt for the same reason ... looking for some comfort.   Throughout  my 2-3 years of  absence,  I would occasionally be  haunted by this "chant," by what looked like a family*.  I forgot the tune, but the faces stuck in my mind.  After rummaging through EWTN's archives, I found it - HERE (skip the opening three minutes). Look at the faces.  They remind me of a living Norman Rockwell painting (rollover).  I watch it daily Yes, it is a religious "chantling," of sorts, but then so too was George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord," (Hindu), and I fancied that. * It is the Vinny Flynn family.  I fancy the one in red (he said avuncularly)

An Easy Fix

FIXED! Easy and Fun It be the Obama Way Click here for AffordableCare Coming Next- "The Emperors New Clothes" cuzzin ricky

10 Word Challenge (BUMPED)

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Reclining Trying to relax There's mom 'n dad Lethal Injection! ur turn

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u r in my pwr

You are getting sleepy .. so very sleepy ...

Transitions

“ HOOP STORIES Roll Over Content Read Full 1927 Magazine! Most Terps coaches opposed Big Ten move It would be nice if we could play OSU with our point guard, but we can't so we'll make do. My only hope in switching conferences is for consistent refs, something no team gets when playing North Carolina teams, especially Dook and Carolina.   Football is now in the Big Ten; Hoops will be after this season.  I won't miss the ACC. I'm surprised that I have no feeling of loss in this switch.  I think this is why. ACC  I  Grew Up With ACC Today Clemson  Duke Maryland North Carolina NC State South Carolina   Virginia Wake Forest                  Boston College Clemson Tigers Duke Blue Devils Florida State Seminoles Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Louisville Cardinals Miami Hurricanes NC State Wolfpack North Carolina Tar Heels Notre Dame Fighting Irish Pittsburgh Panthers Syracuse Orange Virginia Cavaliers Virginia Tech Hokies Wake Forest Demon Deacons I still don't accept Florida State or Georgia Tech as belonging, and they joined in 1992!  So, while tradition is a meaningful and salutary attribute for any society, we have Obama as president, so there are no traditions left.  I'll go with the flow.  ”

MSNBC ALL-STAR BASHIR'd

MSNBC All-Stars                                   Where a picture is worth 1000 tears “ How Martin Bashir's sick Palin remarks damage NBC News The Baltimore Sun?  Horry Clap. Besides calling her “America’s resident dunce” and claiming she has a “deceased mind,” Bashir suggested that someone should defecate in her mouth and urinate in her eyes  [VID] If you don't know by now about the truly sick comments MSNBC host Martin Bashir made about Sarah Palin, you need to see this video. And then, you might want to ask yourself how it is that Bashir is still on the air. And why aren't folks like Tom Brokaw and Chuck Todd, who claim to speak for NBC News, not speaking out about this?  [Baltimore Sun] Okay, Baltimore Sun columnist David Zurawik pretty much lifted his article from Newsbusters articles, but the fact is that Baltimore readers will today stumble across a defense of Sarah Palin- a first for many of them. But, this?  "... why aren't folks [employed by NBC] like Tom Brokaw and Chuck Todd ... not speaking about this?" Huh? Puh-leeeze.  MSNBC is a stain on even today's bankrupt news culture.  Can you name even one headliner who has not embarrassed the parent organization with outlandish behavior? A primo example: MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat The hosts were Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.  Removed mid-stream while covering the GOP convention in 2008.   But were they fired?  No (Olbermann kept his job until 2011; Matthews is still at it!)  And get this, even the just fired himself by MSNBC, skitzoid Alec Baldwin,  complains, "Martin Bashir's on the air, and he made his comment on the air!"   Can MSNBC (and NBC by inference) be more toxic? While we're at it - Does the Left Owe Palin an Apology? [A parade of massive liars attacking her "Death Panel" accusation in 2009] ”

Whom do you trust?

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Trusting Sicilians? GOOGLE-SLAYER SETS SIGHTS ON NSA A Stanford graduate student who has already stung Google for nearly $40 million over privacy violations is now targeting the National Security Agency, or NSA, to find out just how much the feds know about you. The MetaPhone project asks volunteers to install an Android app that sends the researchers copies of a device’s call logs – much like the information collected by the NSA – and basic data from a person’s Facebook account. “In the course of the study, your mobile phone will transmit device logs and social network information to researchers at Stanford University. Device data will include records about your recent calls and text messages. Social network data will include your profile, connections and recent activity. The data will be stored and analyzed at Stanford, then deleted at the end of the study. [Full] To paraphrase somebody. maybe me, people are wont to lose their freedom to government, and thank them each step of the way.  The question is, can we be sure that the Stanford student is a friend?  Well. there's two vials set before us.  One is filled with poison; the other ... ?  Cue Vizzini Here's two more from smart people A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy. Ronald Reagan, 1964 “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” ― Thomas Jefferson You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! ... Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Ha ha ha-- plunk Vizzini:

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Texting Mom

The Original (2011) Text from daughter to mom: · "Hello mom, I need your advice. I have some of my boyfriend's cum stuck in my hair. How do I get it out? Will I have to cut it out?"   Text from mom to daughter: · "It’s nice you can send me such a frank text. No, you won't have to cut it out. I've had loads of cum in my hair over the years and it will just wash out." · Daughter back to mom: · "Oh my God, mom.......... sorry, I meant to spell gum." Ron Metzger CRAP

"Who's been sleeping in my bed," cried baby bear?

A Class Act                                                    Breaking: Obama NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit Enemies   RUH ROH  "Obama is just the classiest guy ever," said Pootie Bear

Been there; Done that

Hmmm

New prosthetic devices allow patients to perform by merely thinking about action... Begs the question, "Do women have wet dreams?"

Pipe Dreams of Obama Father

LIARS and Other Democrats                   "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell.  TRKOF&S Violent Communist Ayers Admits For Third Time He Wrote Obama's Memoir “ As seen in my dream Ayers preface Rollover INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Trust: We know ObamaCare was sold on a lie, but what about the Obama presidency itself? Rumors that Obama's violent leftist pal Bill Ayers ghostwrote the memoir that launched his political career may actually be true. Obama has always claimed authorship of his bestselling "Dreams From My Father." But Ayers is telling a different story. In promoting his new book, "Public Enemy," Ayers' publisher, Beacon Press, has written a blurb on Amazon.com that says Ayers "finally 'confesses' that he did write 'Dreams From My Father.'" The boast appears in other promotions for the book as well. For instance, a Baltimore bookstore — Red Emma's — last week posted a similar claim that Ayers penned Obama's memoir as part of an announcement for a book-signing event at the leftist coffeehouse. The reprehensible former terrorist twice before laid claim to Obama's book — once during a post-election interview and again during a speech two years ago. In October 2009, Ayers told an interviewer at Reagan National Airport in Washington that he wrote "Dreams From My Father." Asked if he meant he "heavily edited" the book for his friend, Ayers insisted, "I wrote it." [Full] I predict that most of us will live to hear an admission about Obama's phony birth certificates as well.  The human mind however will allow his supporters, enablers and apologists to rationalize their way out of an honorable suicide, by way of an apology, that would be too late any way.  ”

My morning with Verizon

Outrage Upon Which I Will No Longer Put                                     Just for the record Chat Subject:Forgot User Id & Password Your Question: I have so many Verizon PWs that I can't keep track A Verizon Representative will be with you shortly. Thank you. Agent Mary has joined. (08:57:14) Mary : Chat ID for this session is 112xxxxx. (08:57:14) Mary(08:57:19): Thank you for choosing Verizon and visiting our chat service. I would be happy to help you. For quality and security purposes, your session is recorded and may be monitored or reviewed. May I help you with your online registration, online bill pay or user id and password? R CUSTOMER(08:58:11): I have so many Verizon PWs that I can't keep track. and cannot sign in Mary(08:59:22): I apologize that you are having an issue accessing your online account, I will be happy to help you. Can I have your Verizon Home telephone number please? R CUSTOMER(08:59:45): 999 999 9999 Mary(09:02:15): Thank you. Can I also have your first and last name please? R CUSTOMER(09:02:43):  (NAME) Mary(09:03:13): Thank you Mr. Royal Highness, one moment please while I pull up the account. Mary(09:05:29): I was able to pull up the account and I do need to ask a couple of questions to verify. There is a secret question on file which is: What is the name of your first pet? R CUSTOMER(09:05:52): bowzer Mary(09:06:37): I apologize, but that is not the answer I show here. Is there any other pet name you can think of that might be listed there? R CUSTOMER(09:07:11): spud Mary(09:08:01): I am sorry, but that is not the answer I show either. Is there any other pet name you can think of that might be listed on the account? R CUSTOMER(09:09:59): ??? does capitalization matter? Our first pet was Bowzer. my first dog was Spud, or maybe Klyde Mary(09:12:09): Capitalization does not matter. I am sorry, but that is not the pet name I show here either. Without that answer I would need to send you a temporary PIN to verify the account. I can send the PIN via an automated call to 999 999 9999 and you would get the call in 2-3 minutes. Are you at that number now? R CUSTOMER(09:13:24): I want a telephone number I can call on My PHONE and talk with a live person ... this is why I am fed up with Verizom. Thank you. Mary(09:14:35): I apologize for the frustration. If you would prefer to speak with an agent on the phone you can call 1 866 326 7937. I will tell you they will ask you the same questions I am and will have to follow the same procedures to verify the account without that secret answer. Mary(09:16:45): I have not heard from you for a few moments. Would you like to continue this chat session? R CUSTOMER(09:16:47): Am I to understand that calling you on my Verizon phone will cause me to verify that I am calling on my phone and answer ID questions that you have clearly screwed up? Who elese would be calling from MY home phone?? R CUSTOMER(09:18:13): Try the Pet name SLASHER Mary(09:19:58): That is not the answer I show here, and because we did not confirm that within 3 attempts I do have to send the PIN to verify the account. I apologize for the frustration, I can tell you that without the answer to that question we can either send you a temporary PIN number to verify the account or if you prefer to speak with an agent over the phone the agent could call back the 999 999 9999 number to verify the account. R CUSTOMER(09:20:29): Try Pet name SLASHER Mary(09:22:14): That is not the name I show here. I am sorry. I do have to send a PIN in order to verify the account. If you are at the Home number now I can send that PIN and you would get the call in 2-3 minutes. If you will tell me the PIN it will verify the account so I can further assist you. Are you at that number now? R CUSTOMER(09:23:24): send the pin number then - what user name will I use with it? Mary(09:24:29): Once you get the PIN if you will tell me that number it will verify the account so I can help you with your log in information. R CUSTOMER(09:24:46): okay Mary(09:25:01): I did submit the request and you should receive that call in the next few minutes. (PHONE RINGS ) R CUSTOMER(09:27:20): temp pin is 1599 Mary(09:28:50): I apologize, but that is not the PIN number that I show here. I will be happy to submit the request again so you will be able to get that number. R CUSTOMER(09:30:06): I'm going nuts try it again than Mary(09:32:06): I apologize for the frustration, but that call should arrive in the next few minutes. (PHONE RINGS AGAIN) R CUSTOMER(09:35:01): its 1599 and I recorded that message Mary(09:36:56): I apologize Mr. Royal Highness, but that is not the PIN number I show on file here. Please allow me a moment to check on some information to make sure we can get you the correct PIN and help you access your account. This session will automatically timeout in one minute. Please respond. R CUSTOMER(09:44:28): hello? I'm waiting for your response Mary(09:46:08): I apologize for the wait Mr. Royal Highness. I am going to have the call with the PIN made by a live person to make sure you are able to get that number. R CUSTOMER(09:46:25): do it Mary(09:50:06): Thank you for your patience. R CUSTOMER(09:50:25): You're welcome (PHONE RINGS AGAIN) Your session is now closed. Welcome to Verizon Live Chat That last phone call was Mary herself.  I was taken aback because here was a  very sweet American voice when I had expected Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.  When I again suggested that Verizon was a mess, and that I had recorded the conversation where I was given the PW 1599, she responded: "But you typed 9599."  "I recorded it. Want to listen?   And I'm looking at the live transcript that shows 1599" I wish I'd asked what I typed for the  "Pet name,"  she prolly got  "wowzer." So there you have what it's like dealing with Verizon - and this was my third attempt at this  problem. The last two times ended with me giving up and hoping that I could rely on Calvin Coolidge's  direction* (which is my life philosophy) would prevail, and solve itself.  Alas, no.   I have four more problems with Verizon, including my FIOS bill that increases monthly as my available channels shrink.  Yesterday during Thanksgiving Dinner (which was maybe the most enjoyable in my lifetime) the girls were all discussing how they have to call Verizon every two months to bitch-slap their rates back to where they belong.  I'm way too, what's the  word, insane, that's the word.  I get way too insane dealing with entities who knowingly try to perp me (like our government). But I do love my Internet.  Someday soon there will be countless services that provide broadband fiber service, and then I will be able to get rid of FIOS completely, and go to ala carte services like NetFlix and Hulu and Ooma. *If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. - Calvin Coolidge

Turkey Jihad

Happy Thanksgiving

Open Thread

Ye Old Dishwasher Turkey Recipe

HOLIDAY FOOD TIP Believe it or not, people have been cooking all kinds of savory meats in their dish washers since the 1970's. Renowned chef, David Burke, says that can even include the star of your holiday feast! Sealing the bird tightly in a number of Tupperware containers and running it for a few cycles will apparently do the trick. It probably isn't the best way to get that classic golden sheen, but it will definitely be a conversation starter around the dinner table!  Click here for the full recipe. ViaThe Daily What

Who will rid us of ...

ISLAMO FASCISTS  MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO PICKET THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE IN NYC

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According to an internal, captured document entered into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial in Texas, the stated goal of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US is "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions." A top leader of EADHR Hany Saqr has been quoted in the Arabic press recently as a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader in the United States. EADHR co-founder Akram Elzand also has ties to group sympathetic to the Brotherhood. And now they're coming to the Thanksgiving Day Parade to picket on behalf of the Brotherhood regime in Egypt that the free people of Egypt threw out. This is the world Obama has given us. Yeah, ruin Thanksgiving for us - a delicious, completely American non-dominational  holiday celebrating our good fortune to live in this country. Of course Islamic supremacists intend to crap all over it. It's what they do. Pro-Morsi Egyptians to Picket Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 26, 2013 [Pam Geller- Full] When will it end?  When Americans finally have enough, which ought be yesterday, alas.

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Downton Four

At The Cinema                            Downton Abbey SEASON Four - COMPLETE I made arrangements through my M5 connections for you to watch the new Downton Abbey series (all 8 episodes) that will debut in January. Ahem.  One caveat, however.  The file is linked to U.S. voter records; nobody who voted for Obama will get access.  It's your reward for being good people. You're welcome, and Happy Thanksgiving. rejuoy

Tech and Fancy

Gizmos    Two Three Fun Things.  But Onetwo are impractical Who the hell needs a Nip Cozy?

The "CAT COM" Solution

What I See                       “ Project Cat-Com (catalog commies ... a.k.a. Obama voters) NJ Proposal Bans Snacking, Smoking Behind the Wheel That cuts it! First thought: "Hey assholes, you're the enablers; you voted for these people."  But hell, I live in Maryland.  Prolly half the people in the state hate our government, but we're at the mercy of a few counties, and Baltimore City, that have the machine, and the concentrated numbers to stay in power.  New Jerseyiers have the same problem. So what are you going to do?  Kill  them all?  Of course not.  What's left then?  Vote with your feet by moving to another state?  The problem there is this.  States who have conservative governments have the lowest crime rates, best economies and lowest taxes. They are, in fact,  manifestations of the American Dream.  We know what happens next then, don't we?  New Hampshire, as a fer-instance, found out when  Massachusetts Liberals fled to avoid the mess they created.  In just a few years they managed to turn New Hampshire  into a Minnie-Masshole.  Fortunately, I think there may be a solution. Project Cat-Com. We have the technology to identify people with face scans.  You're way ahead of me aren't you?  That's right.  We begin to catalog every Liberal, Obama voter, and straight Dem ticket voter we know.  They're so easy to find.  The samples above are from the  Sorry Everybody (that we elected Bush) web site.  Google Obama Rally, or SEIU,  or ACORN Activist for more; it's so easy, and you get them all. Google have done much of the spade work for us.  Your phone cam will get the rest. Next, I'll use  money I got from selling my Pisssatorium to Sargento (they culture cheese in the vats) for seed money to begin a national registry. (My Pay Pal will be sort of a  "Save the Whales Americans Fund, " so use it generously.) Then, when you move from New Mexico to Texas, your face scan will be run through Cat-Com.  If you're in there, you'll be turned away as a known freedom predator (after some state legislation).  Go back where you came from, or try California! Still not convinced?  Why?  Worried that the big bad DOJ and Eric Holder will threaten you?  Then you go on the list;  we don't wancher kind.  Just make it work.  I'm the idea man, and can't be bothered with nit-picky crap.  Hoo-Rah! And, you're welcome! Gobble gobble. ”

Emperors

Hoosier Daddy?

As seen

Hitachi-San Art

art is everywhere I don't need no stinking art gallery HYSTERICAL LITERATURE: THE ORGASM AS ART “ When I tell Clayton’s lovely assistant for the evening that I’ve never experienced the Hitachi, her eyes light up. I’ve obviously gotten myself into the most fun kind of trouble. Lights get set and everyone assumes their positions. My underwear lays on the floor out of frame. As I start reading, my disbelief is suspended. I forget what is about to happen. The first touch on my thigh sends all available blood to my vulva. I continue to enunciate properly, focusing on the text. I’ve broken a sweat. If this goes on for much longer my hair will be plastered to my head with perspiration as though I’ve been working out or engaging in acrobatic man/woman penetrative fucking. I stumble over a word, my concentration breaks as I go back to pronounce it correctly. Neither the Hitachi or the woman wielding it will be denied, but in the interests of art (and because this feels so beautifully filthy I don’t want it to stop yet) I hold out as long as I can. This section of the world that I’m inhabiting slows down, zooms in. Like a stretched rubber band it suddenly contracts, and I am lovingly punched with an orgasm. And Clayton Cubitt talks to Salon about the project.   Tommy Lee Smith (more) ”

Then Force the Sumbitch Model

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The Candidate After Retired Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely called for the “forced resignations” of President Obama and congressional leaders in response to multiple grievances, including the alleged political purge of hundreds of senior military officers, two retired U.S. generals are creating a citizens’ commission to scrutinize Obama administration actions on national security and economic issues. Vallely, formerly the deputy commanding general of Pacific Command, said the current crop of leaders must be forced to resign by the “demand resignation” process, which he explained requires massive grass-roots protests and social networking. As an example, he cited the public and media pressure that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Impeachment, Vallely said, is not a viable option because of “partisan politics.” Vallely reminds Americans that the Declaration of Independence itself states that whenever “any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem more likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.” Vallely said the nation he long defended is self-destructing “before our very eyes,” because of “our inept and incompetent leadership in Washington.” “The battle is on,” he added, “and we shall not retreat.” (here and here) I'm generally happy about, and supportive of this.  There is this caveat however; be wary of any proposition to  change the face of government that's fronted by the military.  I said wary, not dismissive.  I had never thought of  "forced resignation" as an option, and Valley's Nixon example seems flawed. Nixon was forced into resignation, in the end, but only  after he was falsely informed by a cadre of trusted GOP leaders that there were sufficient Senate votes to convict.  There were not. But things only reached this point after a relentless campaign by the WaPost created a climate of inevitability. That sort of media firestorm would  never occur against a Democrat president (witness Clinton); unless.  Unless the American people followed up with massive demonstrations that Democrats saw as threatening their party, long term.  They would throw their own children down a mine shaft in that event.

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Marwencol, Skin and some crap

At The Cinema                            Two Movies + a - Watch Action and Adventure! Romance and Redemption! on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. This is a truly amazing deal. - From PBS (full movie HERE): "On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside a bar in Kingston, New York, by five men who beat him literally to death. Revived by paramedics, Mark had suffered brain damage and physical injuries so severe even his own mother didn’t recognize him. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with little memory of his previous life. Unable to afford therapy, Mark decided to create his own. In his backyard, he built Marwencol, a 1/6th scale World War II-era town that he populated with dolls representing his friends, family, and even his attackers. He used the small dolls and props to redevelop his hand-eye coordination, while he dealt with the psychological trauma from his attack through the town’s many battles and dramas." Here's anothr film I watched over the weekend. First, it has good looking lesbian (aren't they always) schoolgirl sex.  That's one thing.  The second thing is the acting is  pretty damned good.  The third thing, and the real reason I'm even talking about it, is that Paulie, the spurned party of this affair, goes off the deep end.  Totally psycho.  There are at least three times you will expect that parents will be called, and Paulie expelled.  But, oh-no.  This is a statement about compassionate   Liberalism.  The adults in charge are oh-so progressive, loving, understanding, well meaning, and just darned nice.  The people who wrote the screenplay,  backed it financially, and promoted it  are comfortable with all of it. It's in their comfort zone; it's  what they know, and see as good.  I'd have sued the shit out of them if I was Mr. Paulie. .  Oh. wait.  I nearly forgot.  Because I viewed Lost and Delirious, Netflix recommended Sacred (not  Scared, or Scary; but Sacred) Love-Making (I will not link this crap).  I watched two minutes.  Here's the best review you will find anywhere. Sacred Love Making?  Sacred?  This is the worst film ever made in someone's basement for $200 and a gram of cocaine for the stars—whom I will guess couldn't find work in a proper porn movie.  The thoroughly unctuous guy with the long curly hair?  I wanted to unscrew his head and throw it down an old well. Yes, all this in two minutes.  Could have done it in 30 seconds, but it was like watching an accident; I lingered. . O

Obama. Kerry. Iran . Arghhhhhhhhh!

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KERRY, OBAMA, BROKER NUKE DEAL WITH IRAN More historic than Jimmy Carter's snookering of Kim il-Jong If Obama and Kerry were men of good character, which they are demonstratively not,  then this could be chalked up to more Liberal, Chamberlaineaque, naivety.  Instead it is one of two things, and since we here seem to be of the same mindset, we all know what they are. Obama and Kerry are incredibly stupid men, who have no record of performing a single selfless act, and whose careers are nowhere if not for the protection and promotion of a hard Liberal and sycophantic media. I mean, puh-leeeze.  Kerry. who lied under oath to congress about what  he observed in Vietnam, and who later headed a group that voted on whether to assassinate United States Senators!?  And Obama—who supposedly wrote and had published two books  before he had served two years  in Congress?  There is no second thing.  Both are performers in a play that is about, in Obama's own words,  Reclaiming Rewriting the American Dream so that it suits them and their sponsors. —

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The right amount of excitement

Catharsis Tommy Lee Smith

Too Much Excitement  Not me up there.  Not ever again I suppose.  Sigh; the dream is dead.  Thursday— went late to the treadmill.  Working my way up after years of indolence, was scheduled for 6/10 mile run. Turned on the view screen, and lo! the second half of the 2002 NCAA BB  tourney game.  MD-U Conn battle for Final Four berth.   Way exciting.  Lonnie Baxter, Juan Dixon, Eric Hayes— Oh Yeah. I knew who won, but hate U Conn  and wanted to watch them lose again.  They did,  but JFC,  I had by then run 2.5 miles.  Heart beat into 170s, and sopping wet. No muscle machines this day, maybe never.  Went home and slept 4 hours.  JFC. Knees still ache.  Last night I watched the Terps play Marist whilst reclined in the Lounge-O-Matic with beer and  pretzels, the way god wants it. Feeling good here boss.

Shooting Tom Jefferson in the Face

The Color of War "... the most important and most dangerous restructuring of Senate rules since Thomas Jefferson wrote them at the beginning of our country,” “ “This is the most important and most dangerous restructuring of Senate rules since Thomas Jefferson wrote them at the beginning of our country,” declared Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee. “It’s another raw exercise of political power to permit the majority to do whatever it wants whenever it wants to do it.” ADA's president is Lynn Woolsey. Its vice presidents include such notables as Elijah Cummings, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Jan Schakowsky. And among its honorary presidents are Barney Frank, John Lewis, Jim McDermott, George McGovern, and Charles Rangel. The organization's national director is Michael Wilson, a former official with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. (Discover The Networks) The decision to press the button on the so-called nuclear option was no doubt cathartic for a Democratic majority driven to distraction by Republican obstructionism. President Obama had predicted his re-election would break the partisan fever gripping Washington, especially since the Tea Party movement swept Republicans to control of the House. It did not. “Doing nothing was no longer an option,” said Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, one of a new breed of Democrats who have pressed to reform Senate rules. "... one of the new breed of Democrats who have pressed to reform Senate rules...," says the New York Times,  after sticking their heads out of the cloistered confines of brick wall Liberalism,  and blinded by light.   The Americans For Democratic Action combined average score for Senate Democrats in 2012 was 90% (Republican-12%), much the same as the 2010 chart above.  The numbers spiked upward, from 70% to 90%,  during the the Clinton era. New breed, indeed. You will be very hard pressed to find any disagreement between the ADA and  Communist Party USA (CPUSA) since the late 80's,  when Democrats began ratcheting leftward in a big way.  It is, or should be, the "DUH" of the year to say that Communism is inimical to the American Way of Life we all claim to love, even as Liberals throw great chunks of it down the sewer on a regular basis.  By any standard then, this is the picture of today's two party system, no hyperbole intended,  The only difference is that Democrats have succeeded where the Red armies could not.  'Nuff said.  ”