Monday, June 1, 2009

Despite CNN's liberal slant, I normally like to read CNN's Political Ticker, a decent blog overall. But on occasion, it leaves me scraching my head.


The subject of this Ticker blog entry from today is the fact that Sotomayor's former law clerks are overwelmingly "enthusiastic and wholehearted" in their support of Sotomayor's nomination and have sent a letter to Senate leadership proclaiming same. And an item like this is worthy of a highly read national political blog, how precisely? So let me get this straight: Former law clerks whom Sotomayor (1) hired out of law school for very prestigious federal appellate court clerkships, (2) employed in that capacity at a nice salary for the first year or two of their legal careers, and (3) then almost assuredly helped to land their first post-clerkship job in the legal business -- Those people are overwelmingly supportive of Sotomayor's nomination? NOOOO! Stop the presses!!! Who the hell would'a thunk!
I'm not saying this is some earth-shattering misstep by Ticker over which I'm all riled up -- because I'm not. Rather, it just struck me as a bit disappointing, because it appears to be little more than the typical slant of CNN bleeding over into the Ticker's selection of which items it includes. In other words, here's an item that might to an average person at first blush garner a reaction like, "wow, look at all these folks who unanimously support Sotomayor," when in fact taking just a slight look at what's really being claimed here is hardly overly newsworthy or important. As result, the inclusion of this item in the Ticker looks like advocacy to me, which is intolerable for a blog that holds itself out as a journalistic reporter of political news. Still, it seems like I see examples of this same sort of thing nearly every day from the national media, much to the extent that it seems to have lost most of its shock value a long time ago, at least in my eyes.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Harkening back to my World Full of Slimeballs post, Here's a story about Slimeball # 10,626,999, w/ a nice spot saved in Hell when he finally dies

http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2009/05/people-who-know-me-wonder-im-little.html

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1225275.html

The perpetrator of this one can really, doubly, trebly and every other way truly go **** himself, because if I had been around when this shit was going down, I would stuck his head in a pile of dog shit first, followed closely thereby with a nice little (well actually, pretty forceful) boot to the head (and a corresponding self defense story for the authorities). Slimeball.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Don't let it be said I don't call it both ways & as I see it. I've poked some major fun at Fathead (aka Robert Gibbs) this week but I applaud him 2day

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0509/gibbs_vs_uk_press_affd77a0-da39-4f9c-af46-e7c5a5bddbe6.html
...Taking on the Brits for the reports that they are publishing that torture and rape are contained within the so-called detainee abuse photographs that the New York Times and ACLU (and numerous far left liberal Americans) desperately want released. His Majesty's administration has taken the position that it would not be in the best interests of our troops abroad for these photos to be made public, a position with which I agree. Obviously, there is detainee abuse in these photos, but rape and outright torture? Who the hells knows, but does it matter? His Majesty's administration has taken the position that these photos will only further endanger our troops overseas, and such rationale (the correct one, by the way) only gains in correctness if rape and torture are in fact involved. Which gets me back to my reason for applauding Fathead (or actually, applauding His Majesty on this one, because obviously Gibbs only spouts talking points that he is instructed to say): Good for them for not trying to play both sides of the fence on this one (as they have with the gay marriage issue) -- here they have taken a position, and they are actually acting consistent with that position. I applaud that. It's good to see for once.

What gives with His Majesty and burger joints?



http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/In_which_the_president_discovers_an_American_intelligence_agency_at_Five_Guys.html



Not good for the arteries.

(Disclaimer: As noted previously in this space, I enjoy partaking in a good cheeseburger myself from time to time -- such as White Castle when I'm in St. Louis or Whataburger when I'm in Texas -- but we're talking maybe once a year at most. Damn, those things'll kill ya!)

Another observation tonight: How the republican party continues to let itself get buried by the Slimebaughs, Newts, Dicks & Karls of its ilk.

It's almost as if those 4 slimeballs are completely oblivious to how every time they open up their archaic-assed mouths, the left wing media has a new target for that day, much to His Majesty's benefit. I'm sorry, as far as I'm concerned, the repub party is DEAD, and now we need a new party to rise from the ashes. Where are the leaders? A majority of this country is just waiting for you. Sorry, I'm not the leader, just the messenger. Where are you?

This struck me as an intriguing column today, about His Majesty's alleged successful effort so far to marginalize and bury his top dem rival, Hillary.

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/the-incredible-shrinking-clintons-2009-05-26.html

Now, I won't profess to yet have an informed opinion on Dick Morris' credibility, because he's a turncoat (my position on such folks has been made very clear on this space), and he always just strikes me as a big fat bloated guy who really needs to reign in his saturated fat, not to mention that he talks out of the side of his mouth and reminds me too much of Dick Cheney in that regard. But regardless, his column was extremely interesting, and I have no basis to dispute any of it.

Friday, May 29, 2009

I may call myself Big Daddy, but THIS is the Real Big Daddy!


The banner says this Tennessee man, age 29, fathered 21 kids by 11 different women in a span of around 10 years. The funniest part of the whole story: "Many Knoxville residents are calling for him to be castrated."
Myself, I'm a big proponent of the punishment fitting the crime. I'd sentence this man to 1 year straight of being forced to care for all 21 kids at the same time. But alas, I think I'd run afoul there of our 8th Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause. Besides, I'm sure the Real Big Daddy would gladly accept castration over my punishment in a heartbeat.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

For a little comic relief in these crazy times and world, you should read this story (AND this post).


A number of observations here:
1. Can someone explain to me how in the heck this story is the headline of Drudge Report? Please. Drudge Report is starting to rub me the wrong way on a consistent basis almost as much as these left-slanted "journalistic" outlets like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, etc.
2. I didn't realize the Catholic Church has suddenly done an about-face after centuries and centuries of only allowing males to be priests! (For the record, they should allow women to be priests, but that's irrelevant to the current point -- the only relevant fact is that the Catholic Church has not changed positions on this, and sadly likely won't anytime soon.) The FUNNIEST part of this story is how this lady ("Brenda Lee") claimed to be a "Catholic priestess" from LA. SAY WHAT?
3. This lady is apparently quite the globetrotter, moonlighting as a "Catholic priestess" in LA while somehow managing to find the time somewhere to be a writer for the Georgia Informer (whatever that is) in Macon, GA. I couldn't do that? Could you do that? (Wink to Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid).
4. Somehow I think that if Ms. Lee had been given a third opportunity to identify herself, we would have learned that she was previously Brenda Lee, the famous country-and-western singer, but also that she's undergone radical plastic surgery in recent years in order to contemporarize her entire look and image.
5. Why is Ms. Lee trying to hand a letter to His Majesty telling him to take a stand on traditional marriage? Hasn't he already done that? I thought that was already cleared up: His Majesty has very clearly taken the position (never retracted) that he opposes same-sex marriages (leaving aside his White House trying at the same time to walk both sides of the fence, e.g. basically referring to Miss California as a human being existing on the level of a canine). And BTW: Drew Barrymore ranting and raving today about the Cali Supremes' decision this week on gay marriage: Hey Drew, you were hot back in the day (and still largely are) in Poison Ivy and such, but where's the venom from people like you when it comes to the man you voted for for President (whom, I REPEAT, has taken the clear position -- never retracted -- that he opposes gay marriage)?
6. But I digress. I close with this observation: How in the heck was Ms. Brenda Lee ever granted White House press credentials in the first place? Was it due to her prominent place as a staff member of the Georgia Informer, or did it owe to her being a Catholic priestess from LA? Hell, methinks I need to apply for some White House press credentials -- after all I'm a graduate (cum laude, if I do say so myself) of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism (the best J-School in the country, to this day, by the way) -- so I've got the credentials to get the "credentials", right? Damn, I'd love to walk into one of those White House daily briefings and start firing off some of the questions that I have! But somehow, I don't think such a spectacle would ever be permitted. Maybe if I was a Catholic priestess, though.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

For a little bit of Independent Inspiration tonight, I thought I'd recite one of my all-time favorite quotes...


"In this world, some people are leaders, and some people are followers. And then there's me."
That's one of my favorite quotes because I just invented it about 10 minutes ago. (Although, if that just streamed through some level of my subconscious and some other ***hole said it first, I'm sure you'll let me know). It's rather quickly become one of my favorite quotes because I think it pretty well summarizes where I'm coming from in this thing.

Is White House press secretary Robert Gibbs merely a thin-skinned little male clone of Janet Napolitano? I guess I better be "careful" over here!




Here goes His Majesty's administration again with the pointed comments about the kinds of words and language we should be using and the kinds of thoughts we should be expressing. Almost as quick as you can say Terrorist or Swine Flu, Gibbs is in on the act today with this outlandish statement concerning those who may try to criticize His Majesty's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor:
“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation."
My follow-up question to Gibbs is simple: OR WHAT? What's going to happen to me if I'm not "exceedingly careful" (in your book) in any criticisms I might have of Sotomayor? Obviously, nothing's gonna happen. (See United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, First Amendment therein). That's why there is neither any rhyme nor reason to such an absurd assertion -- Rather it's just another mindless, overbearing directive from His Majesty's administration. Well, Your Majesty, that's some real good advice there. I hope you don't mind too much if I don't follow it. (Wink on the last line to that classic 70's western, Alias Smith & Jones).

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Daily Notes: Cali gay marriage, Supreme Court nominee, and North Korea. So what do I think about the Cali Supremes upholding the CA gay marriage ban?

Well, here's precisely what I think: I couldn't give a rat's ass. It's an issue I care little about in the abstract, and moreover, I DON'T LIVE IN CALIFORNIA.

http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2009/05/groups-on-far-left-far-right-who-try-to.html
http://independentrage.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

2. Obama's USSC nominee: Since I'd never heard of her before today (except perhaps a few mentions on the Sunday morning political shows two days ago), I have no informed opinion at this point. I have read her now infamous quote (“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life"), and frankly find it hard to ponder a more asinine comment coming from allegedly educated human being (let alone someone nominated to our nation's highest court) -- not to mention the outright impossibility of any caucasian republican USSC nominee making a similar comment and ever surviving the nomination process. But is it disqualifying? I'm not going to say that. Not as a person who has said myriad dumb, regrettable things in my time. No, I don't yet have any freakin' clue what this lady stands for or her judicial record, and so I'm going to reserve judgment until becoming more informed in the days to come and through the confirmation process. If you expected me to rush to judgment and start ranting and raving one way or the other, then you don't me very well and you can go **** yourself.

3. North Korea: I really do hate the national sports media's much-cliched line, "That's just Manny being Manny," which by the way the Kansas City media has transformed into a new stupid cliche ("That's just Zach being Zach", in response to your typical Greinke interview), but perhaps I will now lose all ability to ever have my stomach turned by such a line ever again, because here goes: This is just North Korea being North Korea. What the hell is supposed to happen in response? Sure, you'd hope that the US will work hard on the diplomatic front to garner a quick and sharp rebuke from the UN security council (something we were not able to accomplish after the recent missile test -- errrrrrrrrrrr "satellite launch" into space -- from North Korea). At least one thing I don't have to worry about: As much as many of His Majesty's views, policies and actions very much concern me, at least I know with him that there is no danger of us launching some ill-advised, moronic Neo-Con offensive at North Korea. AT LEAST I can sleep a tiny bit easier there.

Out.

Monday, May 25, 2009

On this Memorial Day, just wanted to take one second to express my extreme respect and gratitude to all our fallen servicepeople from all of our wars


Groups on far left & far right who try to affect elections in other states are the slime of the earth.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/25/conservative-group-takes-aim-at-reid/

And I call it both ways. The above link is about some far right group from outside Nevada trying to affect the next election involving Harry Reid as they previously did regarding Daschle. I say the same things when I see liberals from California and elsewhere like Tom Hanks pouring money into the Minnesota sentatorial campaign of Al Franken. And I say the same things when I see non-California Mormons rallying to defeat ballot measures in California. Worry about affecting politics in your OWN state OR, if you really want to affect elections in some other state or on a national level, then (1) MOVE to that other state or (2) run (or become involved in a campaign) for national office. Otherwise, shut the **** up already. I would call these people and groups carpetbaggers, but that would be an insult to carpetbaggers everywhere, since at least carpetbaggers have the sack to actually MOVE to the state they are trying to screw up.

The Top 10 Movies of Independence now (finally) have a #8!

Dances With Wolves (1990).

I've been slow in continuing this top 10 list, but to recap: #10, Field of Dreams; #9, Night of the Living Dead; and also-rans which did not quite make the cut: #11, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid; #12, Godfather Part II; #13, Rocky (part I); #14, The Sting; and #15, The Outlaw Josey Wales.

But back to Dances With Wolves: In addition to the wonderfully magnetic cast, orchestral soundtrack (which is God-awesome), scenery, and cinematography -- to me, the most significant and overarching (and yet simple) message of this film was as follows: Don't buy too much into the stereotypes of groups of people whom society says are "different" from you because they come from a different culture and way of thinking, and don't embrace the too-often resulting viewpoint that you should be fearful, hateful and warwongering towards "different" people. Instead, before you do too much of anything, go try to get to know and talk to those people. You just might find that the stereotype bares no resemblance whatsoever to the truth.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Colin Powell continues to pi$$ away the former respect I had for him.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22902.html

Geez Colin, how about at least taking a decisive stand for one of first times in the political aspect of your career. At least I could have an ounce of respect for that. But you don't vote for Obama, then make proclamations about how most Americans "want" more and more taxes and more government in their lives, and then claim to be a republican! Talk about trying to walk both sides of the fence, which is something I can't stand. In my view, you're basically a liberal democrat these days, so why not embrace it? Or, if you truly do have views that are both on the left and right, then start calling yourself an Independent. But own up to whom you are (whomever that might truly be) and stop it with the incessant fence-straddling and turncoating which has very much become your calling card. It's getting very old, man.

My goodness, this is a crazy, hate-filled world. Want some peace? My suggestion would be to go to your local Best Buy and pick up Lennon Legend.

That's the greatest hits compilation CD of John Lennon from his solo career after the Beatles. If you can't listen to those songs and find a tiny bit of peace, then you have a screw loose.

BTW, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9.

Another thought tonight: My goal is not to make you change your mind. Because if your mind's made up I won't change it. My goal is for you to hear me

Because I'm just expressing $hit that the mainstream of America largely believes. So if you're on the far right or far left, I know I'm not gonna change your mind, but if you hear enough folks like me and rest of the majority speaking out, we will at least change your way of acting (if not of thinking).

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Here's why the Far Right's portrait of Ahmadinejad as some kind of new AntiChrist figure has always been so laughable to me.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521481,00.html?test=latestnews


This dude is like a complete cartoon character -- a dufus, a flunkey, a lackey, a sidekick, much like Danny Stinkscale to #1 D-Bag KEITZ! on 810 radio in KC -- he takes his orders from the Ayatollah. Did anyone notice in the last month (I don't have a link readily at hand, sorry) when Ahmadinejad got dressed down by the Ayatollah for firing some bureacrat whom the Ayatollah didn't want fired? I mean, Persia is a completely backward state, with several centers of power, and I would be surprised to ever see them act together in any kind of decisive fashion to suddenly pose a serious world threat. Not to mention, there is a very strong "moderate" influence in Iran that is a constant check on the radicals. We were told 'round 2003 that they are a part of this "Axis of Evil", along with Iraq and North Korea, and I have to say that's when "W!" totally lost me (I didn't vote for him (or Gore) in 2000), but I at least was willing to give him a chance). I can recall thinking, WTF are you thinking about with that speech, "W!" -- it was very clear right at that moment and from the pundits afterward that we were going to invade Iraq for any good or bad reason that we could find. Bad memories.

People who know me wonder I'm a little militant. A little angry. A little loud. A little out there. I'll tell you why.

http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1212521.html

Because I live in a world of slimeballs. People who abuse animals. People who kidnap and rape children. People who hack off other human beings' heads. People who bully around others who aren't as physically strong as them. People driven to kill as many innocent Americans as possible, with a far left that immediately thereafter tells me that I'm to blame. People on both extremes who tell me I would never any place in their party since I'm not an extremist just like them. People third in line for the presidency who say "I was never briefed" but later are forced to admit that they were informed. People who lie to us about the pretense to invade a sovereign country in order to further some highly misplaced dream that it's our country's destiny to impose our way of thinking and governance (as wonderful as it may be, admittedly) upon the entire world. People who state or imply that I'm something less than them or am some kind of an extremist since I have the nerve to vote for third party candidates and to hale from a town of 9000. People who call themselves journalists but are no more than advocates for a cause. People (Jack Harry) who pick KU to win the north before the season and then disingenuously slam on Pinkel in November that he deserves no credit for anything except accomplishing what he was expected to accomplish. Allright, obviously I could keep up with such theme and rant all night, but the point being -- it's a slimeball world, and frankly these are fairly dangerous times. The rage and the anger is just a response to that. These days, we all need to keep an edge in one way or the other just to tolerate all the slimeballs. Laughing more is good way too. Just laugh at 'em when that's possible. Because the slimeballs aren't going anywhere (there are more of them every day). But either are we.

Moronic Far Left/Far Right Debate # 832,649.

http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/1210607.html

The BIG ISSUE? Whether or not a majority of the country is "pro-life". And then there's the corollary issue of whether recent opinion polls on the abortion question have been biased, corrupted and/or just plain fraudulent. Big yawn. I'm going to go out on a limb here and venture a guess that the country is somewhere around 50-50 on this issue, one way or the other. So there you have it. Can we move on now? I can think of many much more compelling things to think about this Memorial Day weekend, like where I'm going to pick up my lunch and whether the local zoning rules will permit me to construct a $hithouse in an apartment complex common area -- both of which I view about as seriously as whether 49%, 50% or 51% of the country is "pro-life".

Friday, May 22, 2009

Geez! Drudge Report doing its best to drive down the stock market?

DOLLAR PLUNGE; FEAR OVER DEBT
GM revamp under attack; Feds to cancel debts, inject aid...
FIAT already concerned for 'deteriorating' CHRYSLER...
Lawmakers want Obama to slow down on autos...

The above are the top 4 headlines on Drudge tonight and are very similar to what's been there all day long. I realize that Drudge slants to the right (just like the so-called mainstream media incessantly slants to the left), but this is a little over the top, and as a dude who just calls it like I "sees" it, and who absolutely hates the journalistic bias he sees all around him on a daily basis, I have to say on this night that Drudge should be ashamed of itself (or is it, himself? I have no idea how much Matt Drudge even has any editorial involvement in that site anymore). Last time I noticed earlier today, the Dow Jones was actually up, and now I see that it closed today at a WHOPPIN' FOURTEEN POINTS DOWN! Stop the Presses! To read Drudge all day, you'd think the sky was falling. As Lennon once said (paraphrasing), all most of us are just looking for is some truth. Too bad we can NEVER look to any of our media outlets or popular websites for the same.

Obama just keeps on rachetin' up the spending & troop levels in Afghanistan. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

All without any articulated plan for what the **** we are doing there. MORE OF THE SAME, METHINKS!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/21/senate-approves-billion-war-spending/

And Karl Rove really needs to join Cheney in that bunker somewhere and just go the **** away as well.

Meghan McCain has that $h** all correct -- Dude Rove is a really creepy guy, and I wish he would just go the **** away too.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124286200693341141.html

Thursday, May 21, 2009

OK, Dick Cheney really just needs to go the **** away!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22804.html

I'm get tired of listening to him. Hey Cheney, you say we all need to stop "looking backward"? Then why in the hell do you keep pasting your fat, bloated, slimey mug all over the television and internet? As many issues as I have with the current regime and the far left base they are in bed with, I must say dude -- It's not your proper place anymore to take them on. Your times are over! Over! And you've got to get that through your head! (wink to Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and American Graffitti for a classic mixed line right there) . You and your brother in arms, "W!", committed about the worst political atrocity that I've witnessed in 38 years on this planet -- outright lying to us about the pretense for invading Iraq. And I've lived through slimeballs like Nixon and Clinton, so my last statement is really saying something. I'm serious, you slimey dishonest piece of crap -- just get the **** out of here! Don't go away mad, just go the **** away, already!!!