Somehow, the image of Dylan wandering around, looking at decay and deterioration really sums up what we do as we get older. I'm utterly pissed off at birthers, deathers, and the various inbreds, ingrates, liars and thieves infesting out society. However, I'm busy -- so busy. It seems like everyone at work has a plan 2 -- call the AXE, he'll unfuck it! And, being that kind of guy, I try. But shitstorms get interesting into the second act, and Obama needs to take his game up several notches. The American people want action, not reason. The Dems have been reasonable; now it's time to go it alone. The whole Chuck Grassley -- Be Afraid! Be very Afraid! Runaway!!!The death committees are coming to get you! -- nonsense indicates why we really need to have a cleansing fire.
I find the complaints about Health Care Reform from folks on Medicare almost as funny as complaints about it from people, like myself, who are on Tricare. We have socialized medicine in this country, and it works. The VA and the Military systems are HMOs although there are PPO aspects of Tricare. Yeah, I also have employer based healthcare and my wife is now in something called Tricare for Life that ties her Tricare to the Medicare system, supplemented by my insurance from Ginormous. Still, I listen to military retirees blather a lot about the cost of health care reform.
Cost is a problem of course. IT"S A PROBLEM FOR EVERYGODDAMN THING!!! There's some right-wingnut bitching about Clinton going to Korea, that it cost too much. Yeah, that's right. War would have been better...or, better yet, let the North Koreans in effect kidnap and hold Americans at hard labor in something like the Chicom camp Bruce Wayne meets Raz Alguhl in, only without the martial arts training for the Americans, and with a nice ration of soupy weeds and grass instead of rice for the prisoners. Absurd? Hell, yes...and that is the level of argument we're reduced to.
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Fortunately, I've found some other amusements. I'm watching Bones reruns in the evening instead of Obermann and Maddow; although the best USA shows are on hiatus and they're showing reruns of Top Gear, Scfy has Eureka back and Warehouse 13 is a winner. There are interesting things going on in music; there are some interesting books coming out, and I have a fast car to go back and forth in. Life could be worse, and probably will be. But for today, things are ok.
Anway, the police in that Joisy Township and Newt Gingrich are the winners of the Second Periodic Tits on a Wheelbarrow Award for basic uselessness. No Dylan, and the world would be different. Granted, he looks like Phil Spector on a good hair day, but the guy has looked like that pretty much since John Wesley Harding. As for Gingrich, why would anyone listen to him? He's not just a malicious intellectual whore, he's an incompetent malicious intellectual whore! Was it that great political theorist Christian Finnegan or Chris Soliza who pointed out this week on the few minutes of Obermann and Maddow that I watched that there really is no scenario imaginable where Sarah Palin becomes President of the United States. TOAW! And, the announcement that the "Death Committees" have been withdrawn is enough to make the Grassley/Gingrich/Palins almost retire the award. Grassley voted for it in the Medicare reform bill currently in law, and two Republican legislators introduced it into this healthcare bill. It's still in one of the versions in the house, and I think Nancy Pelosi and Harry the Horse ought to form a cabal and make certain that it's in the act, calling it the Palin-Gingrich-Grassely provision for empowering Grandma.
Another thing that popped up this week was the realization that the Militia Movement is alive and well...Now, I have to wonder where those who realized it had been hiding? Did they not watch the McCain Palin campaign? Who did they think those people were? The whole "I can't trust Obama because he's an Arab-Jew-Kenyan-college professor-lawyer guy" schtick is one small step from General Jack D Ripper and his precious body fluids. We had a vice presidential candidate who had been a member of a secessionist party, and whose husband still is! I'm pretty sure the gang at the Southern Poverty Law Center who broke the story weren't surprised by it...they were wondering where the fuck the rest of us were! Oblivious? Buying Hybrid cars? Shopping at Aeropostale? Fixated on the wrong enemy? Well, Lucifer L. Lucifer has a different persepctive. Here's three responses from their site, in a dogshit hue identified as Nutmeg!!!...
Sorry I am not a hillbilly racist nazi, just a legal non-violent gun owner that knows your demonizing gun owners is completely evil propaganda… We know who the fall guys are…and as a American who believes in Liberty and Freedom for all can see the same old game the SPLC plays…and I am one of millions waking up to the evil lies that are written by .org’s as this one. You should cringe because your game is so transparent. (AXE comment: I'm a legal non-violent gun owner who wonders when people like this dude start writing threats, although the actual threat isn't so much made as implied. I cringe when I read crap like this, because the paranoia and blithering idiocy is so real.
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LUCIFER L LUCIFER
999 HELL STREET
HELL
GA
24652
United States
1-999-999-9999
U/R DIRTY SHIT EATING COMMIE SLIME MAGGOTS, HATCHED FROM A KARL MARX TURD.
I’M WAITING FOR U DOWN HERE, GET READY, MAGGOTS (AXE comment: Illiterate teenage masturbatory nonsense. Of course, this time of year the heat and humidity make Georgia a pretty close approximation of hell for those of us not snakes...)
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I heard your representative Mr. Potok, what a friggin duetch-bag. He voted for Obama. …
You group is a fraud and chasing Americans and calling them terrorists is the reason why they are going to shoot you in the ass, you fraud….
Your screwing up the country. (AXE comment: Class acts all the way...)
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