Hee hee hee! That Helen Thomas is such a gem….

Are they beginning to see the Emperor has no clothes??

It isn’t the affair — it’s the misuse of taxpayer money.

Ok, here is where I stand on the Stanford mess.

It isn’t about his tryst, anymore than Clinton’s mess was about Monica. It’s about the misuse of public funds, and in this case, abandoning his position. These are the things that end up destroying the career of people, the lies, trying to hide things.

I am the absolutely LAST person who would be lecturing anyone on fidelity. It’s no secret that I’ve been married more than one time. I don’t tend to hang my old laundry out for the world to see, even on this kinda-sorta anonymous blog. I’ve been cheated on and I’ve cheated, if that’s what you would call a “you do yours, I’ll do mine” arrangment during the tail end of a relationship.

I can even relate to his border-run freak-out. Although, I only ran to Cleveland to get away from the simmering cauldron I’d created, not to the arms of a lover in another country. When your personal relationship is in a shambles, every step you take is the wrong one, and people all around are talking bad about you and giving you “the look” you start feeling claustrophobic. The fight/flight thing sets in and you just panic.

Had he just let his LT Gov know he was going out of town he could have avoided this publicity. It wouldn’t have helped much as far as his marriage. He may still have ended up in trouble with his voters, but I suspect it wouldn’t have been as bad. He might have survived it. But now, I don’t know.

When you are invoved with two people like this. When you believe you love someone else, but your gut is rotting because you don’t want to hurt someone you’ve build a life with, it consumes your mind. It eats away with you until you don’t know why you were put on the earth. It’s a form of tourcher that makes waterboarding look like time-out.

Stanford’s gonna have hell to pay, in more than one way. His misuse of the public monies and abandoning his position will cost him, and it should. Just remember, it isn’t about the sex. Leave his personal life out of the discussion and focus on his abuse of responsibilities to his constituents.

Ruling kills blogger anonymity

Hmmmm. This story is interesting to me. Was the ruling because the blogger was an insider, and violating the rules? Or, was the ruling applicable to us all?

Thousands of bloggers who operate behind the cloak of anonymity have no right to keep their identities secret, the High Court ruled today

In a landmark decision, Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an order to protect the anonymity of a police officer who is the author of a blog called NightJack.

TOTUS

I’m really not that technically inclined, although I can manage a lot of things.  Don’t know what I was doing wrong, but I couldn’t embed the clip here.  So, I linked it HERE.

Either way — This is a good clip showing the Big O’s dependency on the tele-prompter.  MSNBC goes on about it, but they don’t note how Big O never really looks his audience in the eye.  He can’t.  He’s reading.  He’s as fake as those male enhancement drug commercial guarentees. 

 

Oh — you have to suffer through a 30 second commercial.

Paul & Spike

Just Do It!

The Paul And Spike Show episode 113: Original Radio Six International broadcast, Friday June 5th, 2009

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Another Painful Post

Ahhh Thanks guys for the well wishes. Right now I’m listening to the Paul & Spike show, watching Futurama, and drinking Jim Beam.

I appreciate anyone who hopes I feel better. But I’m going through flairs. So, I kinda won’t really be “better”, I’ll just have spells of not feeling bad.

I’ve pretty much accepted it. Although I do get flustered when I flair. I know what’s going on and I know I really can’t do much about it. Drinking alcohol really isn’t helping, but as a Pisces, I like to pretend. LOL

I never really learned to like beer. Doesn’t matter what brand, it all tasts awful. I like whiskey, or mixed drinks. I fluctuate between Jack Daniels and Jim Beam. I think Beam is a little smoother, but both are good.

I used to drink Kaluha & Cream/ White Russians. I cut back on those because of the heavy 1/2 & 1/2. But, a good White Russian will trump Jack or Jim any day. MMmmmm

I like to blame my achyness on the weather, from time to time. I know research doesn’t support the idea of approaching storms causing joint or muscle pain. At one time people claimed the swing in barometric pressure was what affected people with bursitis, arthritis, fibromyalgia, an other joint pain causing diseases. My soreness coinsides with some strong storm systems coming though. The reason I (and others) like to blame the weather is because it is out of our control and gives us something to blame for something we don’t completely understand or accept.

But, this too will pass.Thanks for stopping by!

Just a Winey Little Post

This is just a quick little post because I feel crappy.

Every joint in my body, my spine, and my hands is aching. I suspect it’s a combination of the fibro and a trip I took over the weekend. I love to travel, but it’s really hard on my old bones.

Some days I feel as spry as a 30 something. Today, not so much. Right now I’ve got my glass of wine and Futurama on the telly. I would be listening to Paul & Spike, but Odeo won’t let me.

But, I did have a nice compliment today. A cat that works on my floor actually told me I was “smokin hot.” I almost wet myself laughing so hard. Bless his heart, he has bad eye-sight.

Hey — Evil Twin’s Wife gets a lot of compliments and blog traffic when she shows off the girls. Wonder if I could do the same if I show my ass? It’s pretty substantial.

Well, I’m going to get back to my wine/whine.

Ramblings

Ok, so I thought I’d just drop a few ramblings because I’m home, alone, with Jim — Beam.  I’ve skipped through several of the blogs listed on my blog roll on the right.  Some of you people drive me insane.

First – Jedi, update your freaking posts.  Lord man.  I go for a few weeks without posting, but you haven’t posted anyting since February.  I love ya, darlin.  But, get your head out of your rear.

Bayer explosion – Yep, it was an “f’d” up situation.  Damn dangerous and people DIED.  But what the hell you gonna do? You want to send all the chemical companies packing?  Shut down the industry? I’d like to think that we have some concerned citizens working at these places.  But, people get lazy.  They take short-cuts and when they get away with them they do it again.  I live just a few yards off a major railroad track.  If one of the chemical cars leak or derails, I’m f’n dead.  Facts are, the railroad and the chemical companies were here before me.  The people working at that plant live here.  They have families here. If they were REALLY concerned that things were not safe why wasn’t there a whistleblower? You wanna blame management or the “mean old nasty chemical company”, I say blame the men who didn’t expose their “brothers” who were taking shortcuts.

Gretta Van Sustren — what the hell is wrong with her mouth?  It gets worse everytime I see her.  I don’t usually watch Fox this time of the night, but honest to the gods there isn’t a damn thing on worth watching. Plus, I really haven’t been paying attention.

Shawn Hanity — Ok, even though I am a Conservative, I’m not a fan of Hanity.  All he does is name call and argue.  His hand gestures are so rehearsed I can almost tell you exactly which ones will happen next. He’s interviewing some guy who is a nephew of Warren Jeff, that poligamist.  This guy is coming across so fake to me.  I should probably be ashamed, but I’m drinking.

Gay marriage — I believe “marriage” is a religious term.  I don’t think it should be co-opted for same-sex contracts.  If two people of the same sex want to shack up, I don’t care.  If they want to leave what they have to each other, fine.  If I have a contract of co-habitation with someone I should be able to pay for their healthcare.  It’s my money.  But, I think “marriage” belongs to religion. 

Waterboarding — Scaring the dog piss out of some sorry bastard who’s hell bent on killing my people is fine with me.  Ask Daniel Pearl about it.  No, wait.  You can’t.  His head was sawed off his body — while he was alive.

Severe economic crisis — give me a damn break.  Things are hard right now. And the blame can not be placed on any one person.  It’s been the perfect storm.  I can tell you how the banks caused it because they lent money to people who couldn’t pay it back, I can tell you how it’s the consumer’s fault for wasting all their money with credit cards.  I can go on and on.  Fact is, there is plenty of blame to go around.  But times have been much worse.

Unemployment is around 10%.  During the Depression, unemployment made it to 24%. So, 90 out of 100 people, today, are working right now.  Consumer credit card debt was running aboutn $7k per person in 2007.  That’s just stupid.  Have I been there, yep. But I’ve paid off my credit cards, taking big swipes at it with my tax returns instead of using it for a TV. It’s all been a matter of choices.

And, right now, I choose to end rather clumsily.  I’ve had enough to drink.  Now I’m hungry and sleepy.

The Paul & Spike Show

Are you old enough to remember when AM radio was fun?  Do you remember when “The Morning Brew” was a hoot and not just a redneck version of Headline News for radio?

Well, I am.

I am Tickled Pink to share with you the Paul & Spike Show is back!  The fellas have teamed up with Radio Six International to  produce a weekly show.  I LOVE IT!!  Spike posts the recordings here within a few days of the broadcast. 

Not quite dead yet.

Nothing is sacred between them. I heard a rumor that The Film Geek will be a guest soon.  Poor fella.  He’ll never be the same.

Dial them up, load them down. Check them out. And when you send your fan mail to theusualaddress [dot] gmail.com, tell them the Muze was upon you to stop by.

Not just for breakfast anymore!

You Like Me! You REALLY Like Me!

Gods love his twisted heart.

Here I am, minding my own business, and I get awarded.  Spike, that guy from Scotland who came to WV with the dream of becoming the Bizzaro Limbaugh, done dropped an award on me.

Not just for good girls anymore!

This is too funny.  Like I know 15 blogs to drop this on.  lol  Here are the rules:

“The Bella Rules:

1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award”

So, I can look at my blogroll and see a few that Spike didn’t nominate.  Here they are:

1. A Sourapple Tree.
2. Carp You Some Diem
3. The old Holy Writer at his new address.
4. Mr. Chinchilla, the furry bugger.
5. Another polar opposite in many respects, Mt. Laurel.

Now, for the remaining 10 – Pick yourself, link to me, and let me know you’ve accepted.  I’ll add you to my blogroll.  Many of those on my current list have already been awarded, such as the Evil Twin’s Wife.

But, I do appreciate Spike calling me out.