The Sirens Chronicles

Chimpy never seems to tire of conflict, even though his love of conflict has gutted our ground capabilities and emptied our Treasury. Take as a perfect example the moronic monkey’s recent rush to recognize Kosovo, which was sure to inflame Serbia and Russia both. Why couldn’t the Clinton-era policy of an unofficial Kosovo be kept? You know why, don’t you?Today, we get another example of the stupidity of Chimpy. Allowing Ukraine into NATO would do damn all for the security of either Europe or the United States. As a matter of fact, it may well ave the effect of further inflaming Russia and setting off a brand-new Cold War. Maybe even a hot one. For what? What on Earth would we gain from willingly spilling more blood and treasure to defend Ukraine?

Ukraine has always been in Russia’s sphere of influence, and they should handle Russia in their own way. Their best hope for a peaceful co-existence with Russia is to practice their own form of detente with Russia. Their best chance of conflict with Russia lies in NATO membership, which Russia would rightly see as an encirclement. Why create a conflict where none needs to exist? The Ukrainian people know this all too well, but they appear to be loaded down with stupid at the top just like we are.

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The Lives of Others

This one won an Oscar for best foreign language film in 2006, with a highly nuanced and intelligent script this political yet very human film grabs you and does not let go. I cannot say enough about these actors, not a bad one in the bunch .Yet Ulrich Muhe, who plays the STASI Captain Gerd Wiesler is to be singled out. An actor, who can allow you to enter his mind with just his facial expression, is a great actor.

The plot line has you following the captain as he does what he does best, listen to others, and find enemies of the state. You slowly watch this finely tuned machine of a man, who begins to feel and become demoralized, warp into a good man. The GDR and the STASI has full power over the lives of others and his own Wielser finds out. There are twists and turns here, like any good political thriller, which one does not expect. The ending will lift your heart.

In an interesting real life twist one learns that only some 10% of west Germans have gone to the archives to see who their informants were during this period. We learn that Ulrich Muhe did exactly that only to find his wife and the mother of his child was one of his informants~ perhaps that is why he excels in this role. To understand the motivation of ones family to inform, one would have to understand those they reported to. Clearly Mr. Muhe understood. I highly recommend this film.

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Two…count them two stories today on political corruption.

First, the Supreme Court has allowed to stand a lower court ruling on the searching of William Jefferson’s Congressional office. The no-no was rifling through his congressional papers. This ruling does NOT get Willie off the hook for all that hard cold cash they found in his freezer.

Next, we have another Bushie resignation. I should say I expected this one after all the things I have been reading over at TPM muckrakers about Housing Secretary Alphonso R. Jackson. A real piece of work Jackson is. He decided to fuck with the Housing Authority head in Philly simply because he refused to sell a piece of city property to a friend of Alphonso’s. Now, he will be spending quality time with his family..which is code for hot-footing it out of DC before he gets charged with something.

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this particular article was eye opening to me. first- as a woman, and second as a lefty. wow. the article is about dating- and this person interviewed conservative women only- and while i think dating is pretty much dating (and i am mega glad i have been out of circulation for so long but i never, ever had the issues these women speak of) the misconceptions towards the left is staggering. probably it’s true to some degree on the left side too- but i was astounded. people actually believe the right wing propaganda and the talking heads. why on earth this should surprise me so is also beyond me. i just don’t know what to say. take a peek if you want- here’s a preview:

“Have you dated liberals before? If so, any difference you can tell between liberal and conservative guys?

Absolutely. It’s kind of like night and day. I have always had a policy of not dating liberals, but once, after a bad break-up, I dated a couple of liberal guys…

First of all, they don’t have the same values and I find that to be a fundamental problem. I know a lot of people are willing to accept that, but I’m not. Their whole world view is different from someone who has conservative values and traditional values as a way of life.

Being focused on yourself, and your rights, and materialism, and no ultimate sense of morality — because I guess when you believe in a more secular way of life, a more liberal viewpoint, it’s all about what you can do for yourself and how you can be happy…and you don’t have any belief in absolute truth or religious principles to guide how you live. You get guys who are selfish and into themselves and don’t care so much about humanity, other people, or me — that just leads to a lot of problems. I also have a problem with guys who are into things like getting completely trashed and doing drugs…”

yeah. divided as we are on gender, race, and obviously ideology- is it any wonder this country is falling?

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H/T to Tom over at Bring It On! for finding this beauty

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It’s Monday and it’s April Fool’s Eve.  I am currently planning what minor prank I shall play on my children.  I’m also steeling myself for whatever pranks might be planned for me…

Rest assured, Uncle Jay has a run-down of the political hi-jinx of the past week: Uncle Jay Explains the News - March 31, 2008

Let’s take a gander at the hi-jinx in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:

1: If this is the free-market conservatives preach about, I’d say they’d got it all wrong…

Countrywide executives showered with even more money–AMERICAblog

2: Could we be on the verge of another “Big Bang”? Apparently, some scientists want to try out a new gizmo that creates black holes. Somehow, I think Mother Nature might have a problem with that…

Uh…maybe sometimes “Because we can” isn’t enough of a reason to do something–Brilliant at Breakfast

3: Keep your opinions to yourself if you encounter other shoppers at Best Buy…

Best Buy calls copper on unsatisfied shopper–Channel Register

4: Now, if only GWB and his minions could honestly get choked up about the things that hurt the rest of America and not just themselves…

Michael Mukasey’s Tears of a Clown–Crooks and Liars

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 he hits the nail squarely on the head

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We were shaking in our boots today. This was the day we were going to have the talk with Mom about selling the house. Mom has been very clear that she wanted to stay in her house *forever*, and she began making that proclamation about 25 years ago, when there were no issues on the table. Fast forward to March 2007, when she had a mild stroke, that seemed to trigger first severe memory loss, which subsided to intermittent bouts of not being in the here & now. With a long list of chronics, it was clear that it was no longer wise to live at home alone, and the Doctor would ONLY release her to a care facility. Mom snapped into a lucidity I’d never seen before when she spent that day trying to fight that order to a care facility. We even tried playing the “this is what we need to do for now” card– Mom said- oh no– people go into those places, and do not get out. She knew.

Fast forward to a year later. We had let the house sit empty for a year, just to wait and see how things went, and because, frankly, no one wanted to rock her boat. She’d had enough trauma.

The cash flow situation demanded we sell her place, and it’s not good for a house to sit empty.

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Back as far as 2004, plenty of stories came out about the millions of weapons that went missing in Iraq. Check out the crazy bastard in the photo..I think his boys are well-armed at this point in time.

So, I do believe those weapons have been found. They are in the hands of the…cough..insurgency taking place in Iraq and of course that batshit crazy sumbitch Al-Sadr and his wingnuts known as the Mahdi Army. Although we were told that nothing big was missing back then..that appears to be bullshit my dear reader as the Green Zone is currently under siege. Rockets are blasting away at American zones like the Embassy there. From the Salon link:

Reuters reported that a giant column of black smoke could be seen near the U.S. Embassy after what was believed to be a mortar strike on a former palace of Saddam that is being used as a headquarters for American civilian and military personnel. However, an embassy spokeswoman said there had been no serious injuries or deaths as a result of the attack. Four people, including two U.S. civilians, were wounded by mortar attacks in the Green Zone Wednesday.

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I LEARNED A LOT
By PraetorOne

I learned a lot this morning.Under normal circumstances any morning on which I don’t have to listen to Megyn Kelli spew her usual right wing drivel while she goes unchallenged by her typically Reich wing guests is usually a bod morning, but today I learned a lot about our glowing economy and how we have nothing to worry about. And Megyn Kelly wasn’t even on had to moderate the panel of guests with hr usual blend of half truths, distortions, and outright prevarications. No, this morning the economy took front and center as the far right tried to both, blame the victims on one hand and deny there was a problem on the other. Of course the fact that they were claiming there wasn’t a problem while they blamed victims for their own situations was a study in self contradiction, but when you have an audience that is as dense, and obtuse, and as glaringly delusional as the Fox News audience, little things like consistency just don’t seem to matter.

This morning the message couldn’t have been more imbecilic. We shouldn’t do anything to help anyone who is suffering as a results of the deflating housing bubble. Instead we should sit back and let more people suffer, let more people lose their homes while the federal government twiddles its thumbs and watches on. In other words, they have adopted a Socially Darwinistic point of view which says that drowning victims should be allowed to sink. Worse yet. the Unfair and Unbalanced people at Fox News have come to the moronic conclusion that the people who are currently drowning in a sea of inflated prices and rising mortgage rates are to blame for their own dilemmas. Translated into modern English this means that the American people are to be penalized for wanting what has been sold to them as a positive for generation after generation: a piece of the American dream. According to the right wing, upper class cronies at Fox News we should blame the American people for wanting a nice home; for using equity in their homes to purchase nice things. Nope, we wouldn’t want to help the suffering American people after they’ve dared to move up in the world.

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GOD STEPS OUT OF CLOSET:
STUNS FUNDAMENTALISTS OF ALL FAITHS

From the Not So Anal Retentive Press

By SweetPea and PraetorOne

CHAPEL HILL–Religious leaders across the world were shocked and horrified when the Lord God admitted that he is a practicing homosexual. Speaking during a live interview on the March 24, 2008 broadcast of the 700 Club, the Lord God, AKA Jehovah, stunned the monotheistic world when he officially came out of the closet during the now controversial Christmas Eve interview.

According to the Lord God, age undetermined, he began to experience “homo erotic thoughts” in the Garden of Eden only moments after the creation of Adam and Eve.”I always wondered why I created a male first,” God told Robertson. “I could have created a woman, but for some odd reason I just wasn’t interested in the female gender Now I understand. Now I know why.”

In God’s official revision of the Old Testament mythology, Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise in a fit of jealousy because Adam took took a sexual interest in Eve, not because Adam and Eve picked and tasted the forbidden fruit as often repeated in monotheistic fairy tales.

“I did everything for him, ” God complained, his voice raw with emotion. “I molded him out of clay, I breathed air into his lungs, I gave him a soul. And then he didn’t even write. He didn’t even call. He didn’t even send flowers! I feel so cheated! I feel so used!”

Considering God’s most recent confession, much of the Old Testament insanity against gay relationships must be considered in a new light. In a similar vein, those writings which delegate women to second class ciizenship or even property must be viewed in the proper context, that context being the Lord’s envious nature. According to psychiatric literature, many of the most rabid homophobes are those individuals who are either uncomfortable with, or trying to deny their own homosexual inclinations. As a result of the Lord God’s emergence from the closet we now have a more thorough understanding of the incidents in Sodom and Gomorrah.

“Dad was in classic denial, and it made him a little flamboyant.” said Jesus, the Prince of Piece. “He couldn’t exactly cross dress–that would never have gone over well with the Celestial Choir. But times have changed and now that he has discovered his true self we should be able to enact a true policy of love and forgiveness.”

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I don’t pray anymore. It was a shock to realize this, but just as the fact of prayer had become, after deliberate practice, an automatic behavior, the fact of not praying has become automatic and I am back where I started with this praying thing over 27 years ago.

It was not a habit I took up lightly. My early introduction to Alcoholics Anonymous did not go smoothly, in large part because of my rebellion against the idea of religion. That wasn’t what AA was about, but it was what I heard when they said godasyouunderstandgod and I heard God, capital G, bold, religious Lutheran God.

Alcohol can kick some ass, though, and it kicked mine hard, into the gutter. Into a flophouse, actually, where I resided with a few dozen other down on their luck women, each of us angry and hostile and bitter, hating that place, hating each other, ourselves. Mrs. Niven’s rooming house was an institution among female addicts and alcoholics in this town and a steady stream of her hard luck residents populated the AA clubhouse around the corner. They were welcomed there by goodhearted AA members, but also by a kind of man also common to AA clubhouses, the kind of man who welcomes a fresh supply of vulnerable young women, no matter how roughed up they are by life, by chemicals.

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This seems like a nice item for cross-posting, because I want to reach as many of my “friends” with this message as I can.

One thing is for certain-if I offend you, your level of offense is going to go way up in the months ahead. Allow me to decline to apologize for that in advance.

I was recently “dressed down” by a commenter at another blog I frequent, Hanlon’s Razor. The commenter objected to my use of the terms “Republiklan” and “Klanservative,” and had this to say about it.

That whole thing you just said? Really not helping. It’s a lot easier (and actually possible) to open up a dialogue when you don’t pull cutesey crap like “Klanservatives” and “Republiklans.” No matter how much you might disagree with someone, disagree with their actions eloquently, not with some ridiculous, warped label that renders them dehumanized.

First of all, I don’t consider my terms to be “cutesey.” There is nothing cute about the term “Klanservative,” which I coined while groping for some way to identify the “family values” types who so gleefully engaged in the persecution of gay American citizens. “Klanservative” is a term I came up with after seeing the term “Republiklan” on a message board one day, and it’s a perfect one-word descriptor of the “values” of the “values” set. Don’t take my word for it though; poke around the Internets just a little bit, and you’ll uncover all the proof you need to satisfy you.
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This bitch is traveling to Boston today for the WAM! Conference.

Bags?

Check!

Sister Girl MacBook?

Check!

Bitchitude?

Check!

Looks like everything is in order (wink).

Toodles till we land…

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spadoman has returned from the longest walk as he has a bad case of bronchitis, but he is on the mend and posted over at his place today. he will be sharing some of his experiences along but i jumped the gun and decided to post his latest here today. welcome back my friend! betmo

I’ll start at the beginning. The trip itself is over for now. I am home. I had to come home. I got sick with bronchitis and wasn’t having any luck healing while working and on the road. I guess that’s the end, not the beginning, but when I left Ashland on January 27th, I didn’t have any idea of what was about to happen on The Longest Walk.

The trip itself had a few segments. When I left I traveled South towards New Mexico and Arizona across the midsection of America. I pulled into Flagstaff Arizona a day after a 17 inch snowfall. I went a little further South to Sedona where I stopped in at my brother’s place. My brother and his wife were gone on a cruise. My sister was staying with my Mother at my brother’s place. I stayed a few days and visited with Mom.

On February 4th, a Sunday, I took off and headed West. I was going to veer to the Northwest and Tahatchapi pass, but weather had moved in and the reports said that the pass was closed due to snow. I went straight West into the Northern edge of Los Angeles and took The Grapevine North on I-5.

I thought it strange that there was no traffic going South and there was no cars or other traffic behind me. I was the last car headed North. they had closed the pass behind me. I passed a long line of semi trucks that were slowly creeping across the San Gabriel Mountains and pulled into a rest area for a snooze.

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the cats let me sleep a bit this morning- which was nice of them since they are hungry pigs in reality. the sun is shining today- and i plan on going for a walk today when the temperature gets above freezing. i am having my morning cuppa and not really thinking about too much. other than relationships. it is a thought that i was actually thinking about last night. i don’t really like people as a whole. lumping everyone together- patterns usually emerge with the group think and folks behave stupidly. that’s how stereotypes are born as most know. but i like a few folks on an individual level- so i guess i am not yet completely antisocial as you can probably tell, there isn’t any pattern to this narrative- but on we go… thoughts travel quicker than i can write so you’ll have to bear with. or not.

i actually started thinking about people this week because i had to interact with the public at large more. i took sister and her cat to the vet’s office- and since i drive the invisible car (although it’s candy apple red) it’s taking one’s life- in this case 3 lives- into your own hands. getting cut off; people on cell phones; not stopping at stop signs- par for the course. i sigh and flip people off under the dashboard. they don’t know it but i feel better. i don’t want to come off as a snob- because honestly- i try to find common ground with folks but there are some where you could be living in a yurt with one pot and pan- and you would still be richer than the crass folks in our culture. i expect to have folks strike up conversations in waiting places- grocery lines, laundromats, waiting rooms- but what i do not expect when talking to a complete stranger is that he will sit and scratch and play- with himself. who are these people who think that’s ok?  it must be an ignorant guy thing- because i have yet to have a conversation with a woman scratching herself.  and the spitting on the sidewalk….  i won’t even get started.

i have spoken about the neighbors before- how i don’t go to block parties anymore because i won’t be a party to their gossiping and bigoted views- so that is really the culmination of me thinking about people in general, american culture, and running away to live in a yurt in the woods.  and then i thought of all of the decent folks i have gotten to know over the past 2+ years i have been online- and a bit of my hope was renewed.  there are people out there with whom you can have a decent conversation; share ideas; debate with and so on- and if they are scratching- i don’t have to know about it.  you can seek these folks out and even though you know that there is the flip side out there- at least it’s a temporary restoration of faith in humankind.  so to all of my blog buddies and email pals- a hearty thank the stars for you!!!!  hope the sun shines for you today too.

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Bankers’ Spouses Deprived Of Luxury Items During Downturn - Business on The Huffington Post

Rich people finally forced to tighten their belts and watch their expenditures:

Milton Pedraza, CEO of research firm Luxury Institute, said he had heard of people putting summer homes on sale right after the Bear Stearns news broke.

But spending on yachts, jets, watches and luxury apparel had been weak for a while, with bankers reluctant to open their wallets in fear of more layoffs and reduced expense accounts, Pedraza said.

This belt-tightening will lead to lost revenue for interior decorator’s and high-end nightclubs and restaurants. Caterers will also feel the pinch.

On an up-note, Luxury car dealers are not seeing their business decline.

Of course, this makes perfect sense. If these rich folks ever lose their McMansions, there is always plenty of room to camp out in their Hummers!

(cross-posted: Hypocrisy.com)

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thought folks might like to know a couple of the folks that mrs. clinton breakfasted with at her regular capital hill prayer breakfasts:

rick santorum- so devout that he and his wife brought their dead son home to show the other six kids before burial.

‘The fabric of democracy lies in religion, said U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum in his presentation at St. Paul’s Seminary in Crafton this week. The “great gift of America” is that “we are free to espouse that faith in the public square,” he was quoted as saying in a report published in the Tribune-Review. The pro-life senator spoke as part of the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s lecture series, “Faithful Citizenship.”

“If we divorce public life from faith, freedom itself will fail,” he was quoted as saying.

He told the crowd that he views his political life through the lens of his Catholic faith and he spoke of the general public’s inaccurate presumption that politicians who don’t bring faith into the public forum are neutral, reported the newspaper.’

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Three Mile Island occurred today. Just something for you all to ponder as I head to UCLA for a surgery consult on my nasty back. Wish me luck and no nuclear power until they know how to dispose of it and really control it. OK?

It could of very easily been our Chernobyl…

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thanks to fran for getting that song stuck in my head fran talked about the circle of life in her last post about talking with her mom about letting go of her past life- her home- and how her mom had done that for her grandma. as you can see- it got me thinking. i do that often these days- there is much to think about and try and process. and i have been trying to find some inner peace because part of me is a fighter- and stubborn at that (yes, really) and the other part of me isn’t- and there’s inner conflict. my rational self usually comes out on top- but not always. and so- here i am. life has a way of coming around full circle too. fran talks about the turnabout of caring for a mother who was always so independent and took care of them- and i have a similar situation with my mom. there are so many adjustments to make and emotions to work through- and the circle turns.

i feel kind of the same way about global events. not that we don’t have control over some of them- but that if humans go extinct- perhaps that’s part of the circle. we are born- we live- we die. now, the religious among us believe that we end up in either heaven, hell or purgatory (i can’t remember but i think the pope may have done away with that on some level)- and so our soul lives forever. perhaps. there’s really only one way to find out- and then we can’t share ;) i am not a buddhist but i do try to find peace in the buddhist tenets- and i have to say that out of any religion i have looked at- the buddhists have something here. in full disclosure- i am a recovering christian.

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I write with a heavy heart today. Having visited my Mom and witness the changes that happened in 5 months time, since I was last here, have taken me by surprise. My Mom is 83, and she is in the beginning throes of dementia. Mom was a strong, vibrant, fiercely independent woman who had a kind heart, but was always at the steering wheel of her life. To see both the aging process, and this awful disease & how it steal’s your life away, bit by bit is very upsetting to say the least.

After a year in a care facility, we have to let go of her house, and that is what I am in the midst of @ this time. I had an incredible wave of sadness on day one of the house project. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. We are having to dismantle her space, and she is still with us, but not entirely. I hate the disease, and how unmerciful it is.

I know what we are doing is a labor of love, and that Mom needs 24 hour care. She is in exactly the correct place she needs to be in. She would rather live at home, but that would be neglectful. Seeing the major changes solidifies her need for care, more clearly than ever before.
We are in complete role reversal, where the kids are now the parents. I have always had a close relationship with my Mom, so it’s heartbreaking to watch her fade & go through these changes.

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Come on, Dean, do your stuff. I know I’m tired of this, and I think we’ve shredded ourselves enough for one cycle. Harry Reid, speaking on 3/24 to the Las Vegas Journal:

Q: Do you still think the Democratic race can be resolved before the convention?

Reid: Easy.

Q: How is that?

Reid: It will be done.

Q: It just will?

Reid: Yep.

Q: Magically?

Reid: No, it will be done. I had a conversation with Governor Dean (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) today. Things are being done.

I hope so. We’ve gone from fielding a deep, accomplished and intelligent slate of candidates to high level infighting. I’m ready to send the whole lot of them to bed without supper. Let’s move on.

Hat Tip to Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire

Crossposted at Bring It On! 

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C-Money and this bitch have been watching John Adams on HBO. So far so good, but a bitch is a fan of revolution (wink) and my ass has been known to watch the same episode of The Revolution on The History Channel multiple times without getting bored.

Some people watch American Idol…a bitch watches reenactments of the American Revolution.

Blink.

Anyhoo…

This bitch has been known to go off on a rant over patriotism in a heartbeat. Nothing gets me more fired up than ig’nant as hell accusations that questioning our government and speaking out about governmental bullshit is unpatriotic. Well, that shit has reared up again and I am beyond tired of hearing it!

Pause…crack knuckles…continue.

This government is still of a bitch, by a bitch and for a bitch…so this bitch has revised my Patriot Rant a wee bit…

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Just so you know, I am very grateful for being able to write this round-up, after having gotten myself stuck in my basement (longish story)!

After screaming and wailing for about fifteen minutes, my “MacGyver” instincts kicked in and I was able to create a contraption to extricate myself before I was overcome by cobwebs and hairballs.

As soon as I freed myself, I swore by the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I would get this round-up to you, if it was the last thing I did.

After washing my hair, painting my toenails, redecorating my living room and consulting a fortune cookie for my weekly lottery numbers, I was finally able to sit down and write this round-up.  Since I’ll be bedding down, after this, I guess you could say this is the last thing I am doing.

I’m in a jazzy, bluesy, kind of mood, so I’ll let “Lady Day” sing some blues for you: Billie Holiday “One for my Baby (and one more for the road)”

Wonder who’s singin’ the blues in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:

1: Spooky: When an internet prank based on your work finally gets to you…

Rick Astley Gets Rick Rolled–BuzzFeed

2: Typical: Bush appointee who oversees consumer product protection leaving FTC to work for largest consumer products company…

How Things Work: FTC Chair to Join Procter & Gamble–The Huffington Post

3: Stupid Laws: Want to sell a book with sexually explicit material in the Hoosier state, pay up and register with the secretary of state…

Sexual content law irks booksellers–The Indianapolis Star

4: Peculiar: Nobody thought of this before now?…

Is Beef Jerky Safe?–LiveScience.com

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They got a $300 Mil contract to supply munitions. Some of them are..cough..40-fucking-years old. From the link:

But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

With the award last January of a federal contract worth as much as nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach, became the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces.
Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.

In purchasing munitions, the contractor has also worked with middlemen and a shell company on a federal list of entities suspected of illegal arms trafficking

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Jaysus-friggin-Christ. Don’t they check these bastards out at all? Read the article..I only listed part of the bullshit they are pulling.

Crossposted at Its My Right to be Left of the Center

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Is there anybody this Ho won’t schlep with? I don’t know about you, but when somebody has it in for my family, does everything in their considerable power to destroy everything we’ve worked to achieve, does it publically and does it dirty, I would NOT be pals. I would not forget, and I damn sure wouldn’t pander.

Of course, I’m not Hillary Clinton. The picture is priceless.

That’s Richard Mellon Scaife! Yesterday! Jeebus, I need a shower after looking at that. For those with short memories, Scaife was THE MAN orchestrating the Clinton attacks. From Salon, 4/7/1998:

The man whom Time magazine, in its latest issue, calls “the ultimate patron” of the Clinton haters has been identified by Salon and the New York Observer as a key funder of the $2.4 million Arkansas Project, a four-year effort organized through the American Spectator magazine to discredit the president. Scaife foundation money, as Salon has reported, has also allegedly been used to pay key Whitewater witness David Hale and to help bankroll Paula Jones’ sexual harassment case against Clinton. - Salon

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My husband asked me what was up in the news, today. I told him, “same schtick, different day” (or words to that effect). I continue to stand by that assessment.

I think this youtube expresses my mood: The Right Life - Seal

Some folks in today’s Ten Post Round-Up are most definitely NOT “living the right life”:

1: They say that being an Army wife is the toughest job in the Army, but some folks don’t understand just how accurate that saying is…

For Iraq Vets and Their Families, Trauma Can Be Contagious–AlterNet

2: There is definitely a problem in this country when it’s “nothin’ but a thang” to bail-out some Wall Street millionaires but letting children and their families go hungry is “character-building”…

1 in 10 Ohioans receiving food stamps–AMERICAblog

3: This guy has one of the sweetest jobs in the world…

‘Maple cop’ helps maintain Vt. syrup’s reputation–Burlington Free Press

4: The Greens are havin’ a party and Nader ain’t invited…

It’s Easy Being Green, Unless You’re Nader–Colorado Confidential

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