The Victorious Opposition

I’m starting a new category with this post because this guy looks like Ryan Phillippe, who btw has “kick me in the balls” written on his forehead.

First off, why is this jerk off vacuuming his hard wood floors, why does he not have bottles of booze on his bar where he phony medical degrees are posted? and,no,he would not go through this every month in your place like he said, who would fall for such crap?

I think the ad world makes a big mistake by injecting sex appeal into the most personal of problems. When I think of things like jock itch, athletes foot or (hush) PME, I want guys like John Madden or Carl Weathers telling me what to buy, they have obviously been there before. Some things are best left between us guys, the same for women and their special needs. Rosie O’Donnell or Star Jones are much more qualified then this prissy boy in giving advise in this area.

Oh, and this guy is not as domesticated as he puts on, check out those dated cactus in his living room, cactus , where are the ficus, dracaena’s, or the philodendron’s? amateur.

Being a general all around pacifist, I always felt that guys should not get their ass kicked unless they really deserve it. Trevor, watch your back.

And Dak, you are welcome.

So, I suppose you’ve heard that Levi Johnston is going to run for mayor of Wasilla, AK as part of a “reality” show:

Levi Johnston is setting his sights on the dysfunctional family business.

Johnston will run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska—yes, the same job that propelled Sarah Palin to governor of that state (and later, the vice presidential nomination)—in a new reality project being pitched by Stone and Co.

“Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office” will center on Johnston’s newfound fame as the baby daddy to Palin’s grandson, Tripp.

Johnston will trade on that notoriety to make his run for Wasilla City Hall—when he’s not pursuing a career in Hollywood, of course.

The current mayor of Wasilla lays the smackdown on Levi:

“Well, it is a little early to declare,” Mayor Verne Rupright told “Entertainment Tonight.” “Usually, most wait until the year the seat is up.”

“But since I am nearly old enough to be Levi’s grandfather, I think it would be wise for him to get a high school diploma and keep his clothes on. The voters like that!” he added about the former Playgirl cover model.

“The voters like that”

O. M. G.

Would you like some cream for those burns?

Not to be left out, Bristol Palin took a swing:

“I never knew he had political aspirations,” Palin, 19, told Us Weekly. “I’m glad that Levi has not given up on completing his education and is looking for steady employment.”

(I’ll skip the obvious “well you had a baby with him, dumbass” that I’m sure we’re all thinking)

Good luck with your new venture, Levi…

Ticks and congress critters have one thing in common,once they find a home, they bury themselves deep, to the determent of the host, making their extraction a real chore.

I found this little exchange over at hotair:

The point being not so much this woman’s argument (more on that in a bit), but the general all around disdain and contempt Stark has, both for his constituents that have a brain and for the whole “town hall” process in general, where he actually has to, you know, meet and answer to “the people”, how insulting. His parting comment of ,“Well, I’m sure glad you are here to save it” is evidence that he really does know better than you. Stark’s ability to retrieve witty bon mots is peppered all over youtube. To be fair to these guys, I’m sure it is no fun being put out there in front of angry folks who think that you are doing a sucky job (as if they did not know all ready, with the lowest congressional approval ratings in history) but being a public servant demands accountability and a certain amount of criticism, if those you represent deem that criticism worthy or appropriate. I really can’t imagine a newly elected representative displaying this type of behavior or rhetoric, but when you are dug in deep, like a tick, this is all so much wasted noise.

I have seen some clips of town hall meetings where the crowd really was surly, restless, and in no mood for any explanations at all, just there to foment and agitate, but this event was not like those,and when the representative feels put out or inconvenienced by “meeting the folks”, could there be a better time to reintroduce the push for term limits? Isn’t representing the people a privilege, a duty to be taken seriously, and with it a certain amount of palm pressing and reporting? Pete Stark needs to be put out to pasture. Give him his gold watch and his pension (Oops, I did it that time) but lets usher in some new blood, someone who understands “we the people” and “constitutional constraints”.

The woman makes a somewhat lucid argument for the unconstitutionality of Obamacare. They will not be able to hide behind the premise that requiring individuals to buy health insurance is an exercise of Congress’ taxing authority, although isn’t it interesting that in defending Obamacare it was preached to the rafters that this would not be a tax, until after passage when they finally admitted that yeah, it really is a tax, so sorry for the confusion.

  When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

  And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.

  Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.

But even the tax premise is murky. Tax receipts generally go to the US Treasury, for the purpose of funding and maintaining the federal government, these monies will go to private companies (heathcare prividers).

And when Obamacare makes it to the SCOTUS, guess who will be sitting there with a deciding vote, that same Solicitor General who counciled and advised the Administration on strategy and procedure for fighting the original States’ challenge to the law, no conflict of interest there.

But back to Pete Stark, one more highlight in his illustrious career, “Get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement”. Liberties like this comment are taken only when you feel safe and secure, no people’s representative should ever ever feel safe and secure.

Res ipsa loquitur….........except for a few casual observations.

OK, raise your hands, who has been in an office building, standing in front of an elevator along with several other people that you have seen push the elevator button, and everyone there has seen the button being pushed, yet, invariably, there is always one jack wagon who has to push the button a few more times, just in case? You would think that after shaking the doors the first time and not seeing anyone scurry over and unlock it, that it would be unnecessary to keep shaking it, nope, you never know when the door pixie is nearby ready to assist.

We get a nice view of entry way, no one is by the door so who is he talking to? Who is “putting him through this?” Why is his nose 3 millimeters from the door (trying to get a whiff of the cinnabon store?)

There is clearly people inside, maybe it was not “bring your crazy uncle to the mall” day, but why are some people allowed to shop?

I don’t think the poor guy realizes that those two kids by the glass are just winding him up. And check out his hippie tee shirt.

This looks like something right in the wheel house of the ACLU, shopping discrimination,plain and simple. OK, Santino, defend your peep.

Boy do I have a fresh California outrage.

California drivers may soon come bumper to bumper with the latest product of the digital age: ad-blaring license plates.

State lawmakers are considering a bill allowing the state to begin researching the use of electronic license plates for vehicles.

The device would mimic a standard license plate when the vehicle is moving but would switch to digital messages when it is stopped for more than four seconds in traffic or at a red light.

In emergencies, the plates could be used to broadcast Amber Alerts or traffic information.

I have a few issues already with this idea, just as initial thoughts. First, there’s no real information on this, but I did read that the proposal passed with little opposition . This seems to be another one of those things that the public isn’t really going to get a chance to fight back on, a piece of legislation rammed through without any consideration about how comfortable people are with it. This is already being called one of the many new measures proposed for the state to generate revenue. The premise being as you’re stopped in traffic for more than four seconds, the car in front of you will remind you that an Egg McMuffin ad will pop up followed by a reminder to buckle up.

Secondly, I have a major idea that this (amongst everything else declared) will be bundled into the ubiquitous logic of “privilege to drive”, meaning you can protest the idea of becoming free advertising space for the state by giving up the “privilege” to drive-easy as that. I say this because my opinion of how it might be justified is that you’re free to not do it, because your only “free” choice is to not drive if you have a problem with it. I don’t have a problem with the idea of voluntarily allowing yourself to advertise product on your vehicle (many people allow their cars to become vinyl ad cars and let advertisers pick up the tab for your car payment). However, this is a voluntary action, and the state might now be in competition with your decision making.

Third, it sounds dangerous. Certainly your eyes should be focused on safely driving from point a to point b, not drooling over a Starbucks ad in front of you. For the government to be so totalitarian on what you can handle while driving, to now be opposition-less about a needless distraction in the interest of making paper is reason for pause. I can’t imagine these digital license plates not causing some initial pile ups (at the very least confusing brake lights and banner ads that might conflict with them).

Lastly, what about opposition to what’s being advertised. How does the state vet what a majority of Californians deem acceptable advertising? The hippies up North would most definitely oppose having a fast food chain advertise on their Prius; you can also scratch BP adverts and political ads would be contentious to say the least. The key factor here being you would be given no choice in what you advertise except for the idea that your probably subsidizing all of it with your tax dollars.

I’m also at odds with what each of these units will cost, and how it will be paid for. While the idea of pot dispensaries glomming onto the idea and advertising the way to your best medicinal strain is amusing, it doesn’t strike me as incredibly fair for the person in the car its on to be haplessly the victim advertising it. And when does it turn off? Is the implication that my battery runs this thing, and it’s off when I turn my car off? Or is it running on its own, and my driveway is now billboard space all night for Club Rhino’s stripper of the week?

Yes, a lot of questions need to be answered, and this thing is just being passed without opposition. If someone were to champion it as the “budget buster”, meaning it would erase all financial woes, eliminate the need for higher taxes, and set us back on track to fiscal clarity it would be considerable. However, there’s no mention of rolling back any of the other draconian increases to the government shake down, just an additional loss of freedom that’s a drop in the bucket for a 20 billion dollar gap.

It’s amazing that the knuckle heads in California government can deliver a “Ball Sack of the Week” so early on a Monday morning. 

Ah yes, the ability to be offended knows no bounds. As we have seen over and over, the most innocent innocuous and sterile comments can, with the right amount of motivation and ignorance and the right size chip on your shoulder, be misconstrued and misapplied to connote the most vile evil and bigotry. Think I’m kidding?

That poor Hallmark CEO, trying to point out the obvious to a group with hardly two synapses collectively to rub together, that if they had bothered to actually read the card they would of found out that it was discussing the solar system, and yeah, black holes are present in the solar system. But clearly, they missed the mark.I wonder why they did not take offense at the two characters on the card, Hoops and Yoyo, talk about racist. Hoops is obviously a pejorative for basketball players, most of which are black, and Yoyo, isn’t this just a surreptitious word play Ho ho, ho’s…......whore’s, nice try Hallmark but you can’t fool the NAACP.

Hallmark is catching flack for pulling the cards, I can’t fault them for this. They are in the business of making money not pointing out idiocy and the last thing they need is Jackson or Sharpton picketing in front of their corporate office. Yes, dumbing yourself (and your products) down to the lowest common denominator is all part of the business model, but we can still laugh at these asshats.

And who needs a greeting card the size of a Winnebago? Are the new graduates so blind that they need printing 2 feet high?

How about this, NAACP? You want a place at the table? Don’t be stupid, otherwise you go back to the kid’s table where you can blow milk out of your nose with the rest of the juveniles.

It’s been nearly a decade since I lived in Sweden, but I make it a point to keep up with the news there. Mostly, I do this to brush up on Swedish and get a moderate glimpse on the European perspective on issues. For the most part, much like me writing about the UK going overboard for banning knife sales (while we in California won’t even sell spray paint to anyone under 18), most things are sensational reactions on borrowed research. As I peruse most of that news, comparing it to our American perspective of events, I generally toss them as not worthy of making a connection.

It’s not that I think we’re so divided we can’t make a connection, it’s just that after entertaining both sides of the argument, I don’t think I could adequately explain the point of view of the other side. So, while reading through the daily events in Sweden I stumbled across this article. I was astounded at how much sense it makes.

As Swedish activists return from Israel and stride towards the waiting microphones and television cameras, it’s important to take a look behind the events which took place off Gaza and perhaps revaluate the way Swedish activists engage in one of the most complicated regions on earth. 

It’s worth saying at the very outset that the nine people who died on the Mavi Marmara didn’t deserve to die. This is true whether they acted violently or peacefully, whether they were terrorist sympathizers or not, whether one agrees with their politics or not. The whole affair was handled badly by Israel, to say the least, and there are many questions about the legality and reasonableness of Israel’s actions.

Beyond that, however, there is a bigger picture.

Who actually profited from what happened? Well, most analysts agree that the biggest beneficiaries are the radical Islamists of the Middle East, notably Hamas, the terrorist organization which currently rules Gaza. Hamas won a major PR victory and gained valuable international legitimacy at the expense of moderate Palestinians and the Fatah leadership of the West Bank. Politically this is a boost for those Palestinians who object to peace negotiations with Israel, and prefer the more violent path of jihad, the so-called holy war against Israel and the non-Muslim world.

In Turkey, Islamist extremists are milking the incident to win easy points against secular and modernising forces. Iran is delighted that the world’s attention is being diverted away from its nuclear programme and arms deals with Hezbollah and Syria. As so often before in the Middle-East, the rhetoric of peace and freedom becomes a tool to strengthen despotic, terror-sponsoring regimes which scoff at both. This happened largely because, as Israeli author David Grossman put it, Israel acted like a puppet on strings pulled by a small fanatical Turkish organization.

It’s hard to tell if this is what the Swedish activists on the flotilla were hoping to achieve. If it wasn’t, and their only aim was to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and protest against Israel’s blockade, they must be extremely naïve if they call the flotilla a success. Assuming their intentions were good, they might want to consider a few changes next time they embark on Middle East mission.

First, it’s always good to know who your partners are. In this case, the IHH, the Turkish movement behind the Mavi Marmara, has proven links to terrorist organizations and global Jihad. It is now obvious that their aim wasn’t only humanitarian aid: they have boasted that they were looking for violent confrontation and sadly Israel gave them more than they needed to make their point. Now they have their martyrs.

As the story has developed, I have to say that this has has been egg on the face of all peace activists involved. I also liked this point in the article, which rakes something out of the brush that these activists embarked on which would call for the Hague by stogy if a conservative had “dern” it: (damn it, stogy, fight me)

In reality, the flotilla was an unfortunate alliance of idealistic peace activists and hard-core Islamic extremists. Swedes genuinely wanting to help Palestinian refugees would do far better to act with bodies like the UN or the many local Palestinian or Israeli humanitarian organizations, which have been getting aid to Gaza and the West Bank for years.

That Ole’ “work with the UN” meme is a sword that cuts both ways. What I hope we see here is Europe’s(and I realize that it’s not all technically Europe, but aspirationally Europe) total abandonment of the terrorists in favor of radical action. Europe has touted itself as the level headed partner in this game, but one or more of her states are rogue, and is approaching the situation with a partner that might be the KKK of cultural negotiations; Meaning radical Islamists. Be honest liberals, you were miffed at the lack of international collaboration under Bush. I would have never imagined a day wherein that argument encompassed boarding a boat with known terrorists.

No, I am not saying that lightly. Anyone who knows me, or has read what I’ve been writing for years might now that I’m not one of these Law&Order types. I come from the law of common sense. Common Sense would compel me to ask a few questions before embarking on the high seas. I’ve been on a boat that went from San Diego to the Sea of Cortes, and you do get to know the people next to you. On a fishing boat, I got to know and drink with the people I was going to fish with before we even set off. How do you not know anything about the people around you?

All this aside, I hope you all can read the entire article. It’s got it’s little jabs, but I do think this is a very compelling endorsement of Israel from a country that seemed beyond any reconciliation when I lived there.

Does all this sound familiar? If it does, it’s because these words describe the Palestinian condition too. It’s a tough situation and it won’t be resolved without help from the outside. Surely Sweden, with its long and rich record of diplomacy and moderation, could support moderates on both sides, resist provocations and promote the only realistic answer – a two state solution. Surely Sweden could do better than the Mavi Marmara.

Quibble points aside, I like how this dovetails into what dwex wrote a little while back. The line I appreciate the most is the idea that Swedes could do better than the Mavi. Yes, they can. They could also do more to condemn terrorists in the region. Americans can also do better.

Manwhore and I have both written about the case Salazar v. Buono, in which a 70+ year old cross in the Mojave national park has been at the center of an Establishment Clause debate. A couple weeks back, the SCOTUS ruled for the government, sending the case back to the District court for review on a decision that almost certainly means the cross remains. Or not:

The 76-year-old Mojave Cross war memorial in San Bernardino County’s High Desert has been torn down by vandals, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the religious symbol could remain—at least temporarily—on public land.

Sometime Sunday night, the cross was taken down from its perch atop Sunrise Rock in the Mojave National Preserve, according to Liberty Institute, a group that represented veterans groups and caretakers of the cross in the recent Supreme Court Case.

“This is an outrage, akin to desecrating people’s graves,” said institute president Kelly Shackelford. “It’s a disgraceful attack on the selfless sacrifice of our veterans. We will not rest until this memorial is re-installed.”

I cannot express my condemnation of this action forcefully enough. The folks who did this are criminals, and should have the book thrown at them. Our side lost at the SCOTUS. Life goes on. Fight another fight. Most especially, if your argument is that this cross is a religious symbol and not a war memorial (the basis of the Establishment Clause case), you have taken a debatable Establishment Clause question and turned it into an unequivocal Free Expression Clause violation (yes, that’s somewhat hyperbolic, but you get my point). But however you choose to look at this memorial, this behavior is unjustifiable, and unacceptable.

For shame.

H/T: Right Wing Watch (who simply reported it, rather than condemning it, as they should have)

I meant to post this on Tuesday when I saw it, but the site was freaking out and I forgot until a Facebook friend noted it yesterday. It is truly astonishing how many Religious Right anti-gay zealots are self-loathing closeted gays. This is one of the best. George Rekers, who co-founded the Family Resource Council (FRC) in 1983, along with James Dobson, is a mostly behind-the-scenes anti-gay activist. He was the state of Florida’s expert witness in their failed attempt to maintain their anti-gay-adoption law. And it appears he likes a little “boys on the side”:

The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his “smooth, sweet, tight ass” and “perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)” and explains he is “sensual,” “wild,” and “up for anything” — as long you ask first. And as long as you pay.

On April 13, the “rent boy” (whom we’ll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.

That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy’s client and, as it happens, one of America’s most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.

Now, Rekers has a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this:

Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. “I had surgery,” Rekers said, “and I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.” (Medical problems didn’t stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)

Yeah, but…

Yet Rekers wouldn’t deny he met his slender, blond escort at Rentboy.com — which features homepage images of men in bondage and grainy videos of crotch-rubbing twinks — and Lucien confirmed it.

Things get even more graphic:

There is no doubt about it, a growing percentage of people in this great land of ours .........have….....lost…....their…....minds!!!

For those that really believe that freedom of speech is inviolate in America, I give you the Geico guy:

Veteran voice-over artist and bit actor D.C. Douglas got canned this week from one of his most profitable gigs—being an announcer on some Geico Insurance ads—after the dulcet-toned Californian phoned in an insult to FreedomWorks, the Washington activist group that organizes many “tea party” events, back during the health-care debates. Offended at the racist and homophobic insults attributed to protesters during that debate, Douglas left a voice mail asking how many “mentally retarded” people worked for them and how they would spin it “when one of your members does actually kill somebody.”

Then he left a stage name he often works under and his home phone number.

First off, Douglas is the consummate douchebag, right up there with the grand wizard of douchery Jason Levin, he has bought off on that total nonsense that most tea baggers are dangerous and are bereft of any social mechanisms that would preclude an act of murder. And, that total non starter that it must be racism if anybody anywhere does not just adore our president.

But you should be allowed to tattoo “douche” on your forehead and show the world what a mental lilliputian you really are without fear of termination from your primary avocation. The president of Freedomworks decided to one up Douglas in classlessness, rile up the citizenry (don’t know if he instigated this or just let the anger percolate to the top), and post personal information of the malcontent, which then led to a mass phone attack complaining to Geico. So Douglas gets canned, revealing even more classlessness from the Geico people, it’s like a snowball effect.

I got two video’s I would like to present.

This one was done by Douglas himself after the firing, no doubt made to vent some steam:

Yes, you are a douchebag.

And check out this one from Freedomworks:

Whoa, we got some angry people in our midst. I understand people get passionate about stuff like this but I wonder what could motivate someone to leave messages that not only include gross disgusting profanity, but actual threats and hopes of painful demises to leaders of the opposition. Freedomworks would like to paint the left as the party of hate, and given the tone of complaints voiced on both video’s, it is clear (at least with the examples provided)that the nastier people were definitely those on the left, but when it comes to the presence of actual nutjobs capable of some truly nasty behavior possibly leading to criminal activity, no side has a monopoly.

It’s down right scary to think that the number of Joseph stacks out there is probably larger than I envisioned. And what’s up with all these pussies out there (from both sides) that think it is OK to get someone fired just because he says stuff you don’t agree with? There are so many bad guys in this story, but the sense of despair that people feel, with the economy, the debt, the increasing governmental influence in our lives, it is making people surly and on edge.

I’ve decided to add to the VO a little bit, starting with topics. I’ve just reached out to someone from ‘Da Bottum’ (meaning Florida) that I have known since we were children. He’s a professional skateboarder, and someone I use to skate with a little bit when I was younger. This one should be a trip, we were not casual friends, and he is pretty well known in the pro skateboarding scene. I’ve got a couple of other friends I’ll be reaching out to that some of us might know, and I’m going to call it ‘Da Bottum’ in honor of where all my peeps come from.

I’m also adding a topic to make a distinction about the cops called “Where’s the Justice?” I plan to file all of these “sweeping generalization” files into it. There’s no problem in asking cops to be held to the same measuring stick for punishment as the regular public, right? That’s a question, because I’ve holstered a month’s worth of stories to cover it. Since I’m such a prick for ever challenging the idea that the authority is always right (getting very popular here with the fogies). The times they are ‘a changin’ and this brave new world has no place for obscolescence. So, we need a topic outside the comfort zone of what is “right” to discuss the issue of “equal treatment” which most of us younger folks seem to be missing from the equation of “rights” “law” and “equality”.

I’ll address “equality” as I see it here, but I think I have seen enough bullshit here in Los Angeles to warrant an offensive. The day I decided that the “California’s Gold” threads should be created was my fault. It was 1.0 of the program. It should have been more directed at “government abuse”.

Let’s see how the new programs evolve. hopefully better than the last.

Normally I like to pepper my posts with video’s and/or pictures, can’t do it on this one, for reasons that will soon become clear.

Everyone should have a dream, a goal, a mission statement, some calling where you are moving forward towards an objective. Whether it’s as simple as getting your work done today so you can party tonight, whatever, some motivation that puts a spring in your step and makes you proud of yourself. Meet Donna Simpson.

An obese mother in the US is trying to put on weight in order to become the world’s fattest woman.

Donna Simpson, from New Jersey, weighs 273kg but told the Daily Mail newspaper she had her heart set on reaching her goal weight of 1000lb (450kg) in two years.

The 42-year-old already holds the title of the world’s fattest mother after giving birth to her daughter in 2007 when she weighed 241kg.

I know you could not help yourself so for those that were not instantly struck blind after looking at her picture, just remember, this is when she was “thin”.

Donna is now 600lbs (putting it in kilos makes her look smaller, in Stone, even smaller than that) and has 400 more to go. Aside from the health risks, the expense of buying the food, and the physical discomfort of displacing her massive tonnage from point A to point B,what could possibly motivate anyone to gravitate to this dubious distinction? Given the restrictions involved and the actual pain, why not try pole sitting instead?

And I’m not sure why she thinks 1000lbs would be considered any type of record, unless she is talking about people still living (the fact that these types usually die early and their last years are not pleasant does not seem to have dissuaded her from here 15 minutes of fame).

In the article she talks about having a daughter, how scarred is this poor kid going to be? and nobody can convince me that she is not an unfit mother who should be removed from any parental responsibilities. She talks about running after her daughter, yeah, right, I’m not convinced she could even get off the couch without help. If her daughter say fell out of a tree, was attacked by a neighbor’s dog, or trapped herself in a clothes drier, how responsive could mom possibly be?

And here is the stomach turner, that which puts the universe out of it’s axis, and places man’s depravity, making him unfit to survive, in the spotlight:

In order to pay for the enormous amounts of food she is eating — her weekly grocery bill is $815 — Ms Simpson makes money by running a website where men pay to watch her consume fast food.

Are you frickin’ kidding me?

“To fund the massive $750 weekly food shop, she runs a website where men pay her to watch her die eat fast food.” Uhhh WTF? What kind of sick bastards want to watch a fat chick eat? GROSS..

That’s it, I am checking out of the human race immediately.

I wish she would just put a bullet in her head, the results would be the same, minus the 100’s of thousands of dollars that the medical system will end up spending on her right to eat herself to death. Very noble lady.

And yes, she does qualify for this category, anatomical considerations not withstanding.

Ain’t this a real beeyotch.

SACRAMENTO - Consider it yet another victim of California’s ongoing fiscal mess: The state Senate has indefinitely postponed action on a do-gooder resolution that would encourage Californians to give up swearing temporarily.
The resolution, which establishes an annual statewide “Cuss Free Week,” passed the Assembly on Thursday. If the Senate had approved it, the measure would have taken effect this week.

Instead, the Senate rerouted the resolution to the Senate Rules Committee until lawmakers address the state’s $20 billion budget deficit.

This is a welcome development, I was really hoping that I could continue to express my f*cking feelings, and leave society to condemn my gutter mouth. It’s a real tea bag that things are in such a state of disarray, that feel good little initiatives like this are getting flushed down the toilet. This was an unnecessary piece of legislation to begin with, if society is doing its job and upholding civility of communications.

Hatch said he sees a link between foul-mouthed incivility and other forms of problem behavior, such as drug use and bullying.

This could be true, but I also see a link between well placed swearing and hilarity. I also see a link between anger at the budgetary crisis here in California, and swearing.

“This is a ceremonial resolution, and the spirit of it, I think, has taken hold,” he said Tuesday.

Well, thank you. Can you now get back to work fixing the budget, please?

As my candidate for Rich’s latest post category, I give Senator John Kerry:

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) raised the rhetorical stakes in the Senate climate and energy fight Thursday.

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“And people are going to have to decide whether they are going to vote for America or against it,” he concluded.

What a douchebag. You don’t get to question someone’s patriotism because they disagree with you. We just went through how many years of that nonsense? It was ugly nonsense when the right did it to anyone who disagreed about the war. It is just as ugly nonsense when you do it about your petty political pet of the month.

I’m starting a new category, long overdue, but I think we can have some fun with it. The thought had crossed my mind in the past, given the amount of ammo we routinely get from those MSNBC clowns, but I’ve resisted giving them any bandwidth, mostly because you can’t blame the pig for living in mud, that is what they do. Besides, the old “tree falling in the forest” saying applies, no one is watching them anyway. So some standards needed to be set early on. Applicants for this category need a certain amount of cache’, some relevancy.

Leading off this week is that pasty white faced neophyte to Foxnews, most in need of a “Deliverance” moment. I know dwex is a big fan of Glenn Beck but I have always been nonplussed as to any real appeal. Many people have bought his books, but conservatives always buy books so calling him the second coming of Ann Coulter falls flat.

Beck is getting heat for being, well, stupid. He was creeped out by Downtown Scotty Brown’s attempt at a little humor during his acceptance speech the other night.

First off, wrong Indiana Jones movie, you halfwit. He admits that his wife keeps certain pieces of his body in a drawer, oh, so that is where is brain his. And he brings up the Cosmo spread. The only “guy” that would fault Brown for this is one possessing looks and a body deserving of a spread in “4H Monthly”. The chastity belt comment was weak, but the dead intern bit, what a ball sack.

For anybody that actually saw the speech, the places Beck went is what is creepy, and reveals moral gaps in Beck’s character, not Brown’s. The “normalcy” and love that radiated on that stage was pretty clear, for anyone.

Here is what Mark Levin had to say.

  You know, the really ignorant thing about criticizing Brown is that in kidding around with his girls, it actually shows he is a good family man. Ask any guy who is a father of girls: doing something deliberately to provoke the “oh daddy!” squirm of embarrassment from the teenage daughters is something only a father with a good, comfortable relationship does (and he never misses a chance to do so).

  If smearing Brown was a joke, I don’t think it was very funny. It’s very weird.

And how offended was Ayla, really?

The one thing I noticed about that Beck clip was that he has little simian supplicants, enablers, in the background fawning on his every words. Isn’t that what got Imus in trouble? A bad joke that should of died a gruesome death brought on by chirping crickets, but his minions yucked it up so Imus ran with it, right into a brick wall?

I’m going to bet that a shit storm of complaints is coming his way like a tidal wave and he will do some weasily mea culpa on his show real soon.  The Olber midgets might of gotten away with crap like this, but people actually watch Foxnews, a reckoning is due.

And speaking of Ayla, didn’t her dad say she was off to Syracuse medical school? lets see, she plays hoops for Boston College, can sing like the dickens, and will be curing cancer in a few years. What’s next? The Olympics, astronaut school, The Nobel Prize? Enjoy:

Holy Cow!!!

Update(dwex): I hope Rich doesn’t mind me sticking this in here, but the CNN camera had a great angle during that bit, and the absolute best part of it is his wife’s reaction - the look on her face is priceless.