about the huckabee pardon

do you hear that?
that sizzling sound?
it's mike huckabee and he's cooked completely through (or at least his goose anyway).
all because he followed his christian valued instincts and pardoned a convicted felon from prison nine years ago.
a real dukakis moment by any stretch for the then gov of arkansas.

and it's a shame really.
i don't hold the righty mike responsible for this slaughter in seattle any more than i held the lefty mike responsible for willie horton's despicable post pardon crimes.
yet, i can hear the forks being stuck into mike by whitehouse wannabes while he still sizzles.

i may disagree with just about everything pastor mike may say but he is a decent man who would make a formidable and respectful presidential candidate in 2012.
and now it's over.
because of this.

and it's almost laughable when i hear neo-con nudnicks like o'reilly support his pardon while socio-lib lards like huffington bludgeon his decision.
a real reversal of fortunes from the dukakis days.
yet that's what they do.
they twist and spin everything until it no longer resembles truth.
both sides of the partisan dmz!

oh well, i always thought mike was too good for all this anyway!

about glenn beck's new book, "arguing with idiots"

i look forward to mr. beck's new book coming out soon, "arguing with idiots".
finally, he will explain how it is he, hannity and limbaugh construct their thoughts and opinions.
kind of an inside look into how their brains process information and develop ideas so that normal folk might develop an understanding of how to reason with them.
that is, how to reason with idiot brains.
i mean, given the title, what else could it be about?

and i suspect it will be a quick read too.
nice.

Just In! Newsweek changes image and name!

sarah palin's, "going rogue" (original title: "going rogue from facts")

it goes without saying i won't be buying sarah palin's book "going rogue" (written and read by someone other than sarah palin) anytime soon, or anytime later for that matter.
why would i?
why would anyone?
well i guess i understand sean, rush and glenn buying it, but they don't count really.
i mean, let's be brutally frank.
sarah has a thing for ... um ... well ... for facts for a lack of any better term.
her latest suggestion that the new presidential coins (with the words "in god we trust" moved from the face to the edge) are just the next step in obama's godless, socialist agenda, leaves me scratching my head.
these coins she is so worried about were approved back in 2005 by a republican owned congress and republican president.

holy cow!
that's beyond "oops"!
i don't think there is a word for it on earth yet.

how could she get it so wrong?
for starters, she's plain tired of this notion about learning.
that's for elitists.
mouthing off mumbe jumbo is what real americans are hungry for.
her motto, "shoot from the hip first, spin the facts later".
her back up motto. "when in doubt, it's probably part of the socialist agenda."

it all leaves me to believe that "going rogue" is her pblisher's title.
"going rogue from facts" was her original.
what else could it have been?

oh well, it's not all bad.
i do have to give her some props.
she's growing trite at an alarming rate.
policymaker, no.
jealous katie couric sneaky bitch monger, yes.
world problem solver, no.
fox network's reality show "survivor, wasilla alaska" winner, yes.

and if that's what burps your birther in 2012, by all means sign her up, because as a slightly center of left independent, i'm begging you to run her.
it will be post goldwater all over again.
and maybe with any luck the party of "no" will become the party of "nowhere to be found" so we can get some things fixed around this joint.

the new and improved dithering idiot!

dick cheney gives new meaning to the phrase "dithering idiot".
but why should i be surprised?
i guess to an ideologue of any flavor thoughtful examination is dithering.
instead ideologues prefer to do the decidering for us and simply propagandize us into their decideration, whether it be a war of choice or a healthcare bill of legos.
but when they start in on the rest of us about the dubious value of our pensive collaboration so that we might get things right rather than get things my way, then they have all proved themselves idiots of the dither.

2009 elections were about one thing: voter fatigue

as the political strategists and party leaders scurry to spin the 2009 elections, i have to smile.
the results are not about the rejection of ideological conservatism, as extrapolated from the nonsense in n.y. district 23 or the rejection of obama, as republican senate and house leadership are crowing about from the fiasco in new jersey.
it was about voter fatigue.
only those of us who carry a chip on our shoulder or indulge in self punishment were up to the task to vote.
i am one of them, and i have yet to hear one political analyst explain why at the very last moment i voted for corzine.
i will not here because who cares really.
and that is exactly the point.
who cares?

in 2008, new jersey turnout was 3,910,00, and in 2009, a whopping 2,325,000.
translation: 1,585,000 voters stayed home, enough to elect me by a 400,000 vote margin over winner christie.
that is voter fatigue.
with the childish bickering going on in washington about every step barack takes and the partisan punditry issuing creative facts from their radio and cable news entertainment shows while people are scrambling to house, feed and care for their families, it's no wonder more than a third of the voters stayed at work or home.

that's the message!
but when you are paid big bucks to do nothing more than opine a couple of hours a day, you have to say something.
even if you have to make stuff up.
and that the know-it-alls are certainly doing.

boy, this is just tiring, isn't it.

nobel peace prize while we bomb the moon?

it took us forty years from our first steps on the moon to bomb it.
and what a better way to acknowledge the feat than for our president to win the nobel peace prize.
if this isn't the death of intelligent design, i'm not sure what is.

beck, limbaugh and hannity have something in common

i found it interesting that glenn beck, sean hannity and rush limbaugh share a couple of important life decisions.
none of them decided to get a college education, and none of them decided to serve in the military.
i guess the boys figured out that it's education that puts the "e" in elitism, and they were not about to have any of that.
but what about enlistism?
what was the deal there?
boy ... the coincidence is striking.
if i didn't know any better, i'd say there is a highfalutin psychological profile there for the studying.
just a couple of high school graduates with a lot of patriotism on their minds and no place to go, not that there is anything wrong with that.

and to think they have become the voices of "let feardom ring".

as tempted as i am, in the spirit of civility i'm not going to say what i think.
just suffice it to say, acquiring critical thinking skills and intellectual curiosity apparently only gets in the way when all you're trying to do is bring a little dread into ordinary lives.

much too little way too late

we are in the midst of civil erosion and if we don't do something soon, civility will be as scarred as the high desert plains by the grand canyon.
the action taken by the house to "rebuke" Joe Wilson, poster child of fox spews and those still fighting the civil war, as wrist slapping as it might have been, had to be done.
but i worry it is much too little way too late.

thank you maureen dowd!

i'm a fan of maureen dowd.
not so much for her opinions, although i agree with her more than i disagree, but for her voice.
she has a way with words.
anyway, i haven't been able to let this joe wilson episode pass and for the life of me i hadn't a clue as to why.
that is, until i read her column today.

thanks mo!

boy, oh, boy! by maureen dowd

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