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New Year Rhymes for a New Depression

Should auld expenses be forgot
An' never brought tae mind?
Should former bailouts be forgot
An' chits the bankers signed?
(Chorus)
For auld lang syne, my dear,
It's oot o' sight an' mind,
Let's aw' forget tha' massive debt
An' ignore tha' bottom line.

When came tha' day they said they'd pay,
They formed a lengthie line,
Where each did joke that 'e was broke
An' needed much more time.

Our leaders, daft, will issue drafts
When 'ere a rich man whines,
While you, poor sot, will pay the lot
Until the end o' time.
(Robert 'Third Degree' Burns)

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I have wondered whether this nation's economic model will collapse,
to the point where our money is just paper, and trade becomes so sporadic that maybe you just -can't- get certain previously-ubiquitious items in certain areas, anymore. Like maybe no pineapples in Minnesota in Winter.

Sometimes, I even wonder whether that would be best for us. Better that than the US economy continuing, but the US politically becoming something so repressive and destructive that our best aspects are extinct.

Then along comes some Russian phony predicting the end of the USA by 2010.

As I read the article, I didn't want to be on the same side as him.

Halfway through, it became clear that he's just cashing-in on anti-American sentiment in Russia.

And by the time I got to the map at the end-- his diagram of the borders of the new countries which will replace the USA-- I was laughing at anyone who takes him seriously.

The one thing I do believe, is that Russians have become childish and cranky about blaming America for all their woes. And this carries-over into an increasingly crappy attitude toward individual Americans from individual Russians. I've observed this myself.

Bush mass for sahut ins is on the air!

LIVE FROM THE ST GEORGE THE BLESSED CATHERDRAL IN CRAWFORD TEXAS ITS BUSH MASS FOR SHUT INS!

Good morning Bush worshippers, those who are ill and those who it's just best not to mix with society. May Lord God Bush bless you all for coming. For it is he who brought us life and everything else. He is a thousand points of light! He makes the sun rise in the morning, puts the frost on our flakes and puts the fruit on the trees. All praise the glory of Lord God Bush. Today we celebrate the birth of the baby George the Blessed.

BIRTH OF BABY GEORGE THE BLESSED CELEBRATION

Sixty two years ago today, God in his infinite wisdom sent his second son George down to save us from all that is evil. Those who believe in Lord God Bush are spared from bad things for they only happen to those who do not believe. Thus, spreading the holy word of Gerge is more important than everm to save the most we can.

SING PRAISE TO LORD GOD BUSH

There once was a note, pure and easy,
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by.
The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me,
Forever we blend it, forever we die.

I listened and I heard music in a word,
And words when you played your guitar,
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering,
And a child flew past me riding in a star.

As people assemble,
Civilization is trying to find a new way to die,
But killing is really merely scene changer,
All men are bored with other men's lies.

I listened and I heard music in a word,
And words when you played your guitar,
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering,
And a child flew past me riding in a star.

Gas on the hillside, oil in the teacup,
Watch all the chords of life lose their joy,
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness,
The note that began all can also destroy.

We all know success when we all find our own dreams,
And our love is enough to knock down any walls,
And the future's been seen as men try to realize,
The simple secret of the note in us all.

I listened and I heard music in a word,
And words when you played your guitar,
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering,
And a child flew past me riding in a star.

There once was a note, pure and easy,
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by.

There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CHENEY

And the savior was born to the holy mother Barbara and the holy father George and he shall be called George so things would not be confusing.

What is it that the Profit Cheney is trying to teach us? It is that the holy name George was chosen for our benefit so we would not have to suffer confusion. This is the word of George.

Bush mass is over

Your attendance has been recorded and will be sent to the proper authorities. Go in arrogance, may the Lord God George W Bush be with you. Now for your listening enjoyment, once again we have the wonderful Bushmas Carolers here to sing you a Bushmas carol. Enjoy.

MERRY BUSHMAS

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord George laid down his sweet head.
The stars in the sky looked down where he lay,
The little Lord George asleep in the hay.

The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,
But little Lord George no crying he makes.
I love Thee, Lord George, look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle til morning is nigh.

Be near me, Lord George, I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in thy tender care,
And take us to heaven, to live with Thee there.

Wisconsin passed a law which says hospitals cannot refuse aid to rape victims who want emergency contraceptives.

The Bush administration issued a new rule today, over-riding the state law.

Normally if you get "whistled" by the traffic police here, for not having a helmet on, plus no license, no insurance, no registration, you give them about $3.50, and you say "Thank you."
The S. Korean young man who I teach English to (the one who does a little Christian missionary work on the side), told me that on the night before Lao Independence Day, he got pulled over for riding 3 on a motorbike, and no helmet. Then the next thing, of course, is that he didn't have a driver's license either.
Instead of paying the $3.50 and getting no receipt, he bravely decided to argue back against the "authoritarian dictatorship" as personified in this "corrupt" traffic cop.
The policeman then gave him a written ticket for "no helmet", "three on a motorbike", and "no drivers' license". The ticket was for a little over $20.
The Korean kid then got angry, and pointed at a specific bike riding by with 3 riders, and no one with helmets. "Why don't you pull THEM over??"
The policeman said, "Well, I know THEM."
Then the Korean kid got REALLY pissed off at this "blatant corruption", swore at the policeman in Korean, and demanded his name and phone number.
The policeman gave him his name, plus his mobile phone number. Both of the other Koreans immediately called that number, and no one heard any phone ringing.
So then my student demanded to talk to the policeman's boss. The policeman protested at first, but finally called his boss.
My student explained the problem in his broken Lao, and then handed the phone to the traffic policeman.
The traffic policeman evidently took a little verbal abuse from "his boss", and then hung up the phone.
"My boss says you're right, and I'm wrong. He told me to fine you $6, to tear up the ticket, and to never pull you over again."
My student told me that it took him about 1 1/2 hours to "win the argument".
Jeeesus!
He's lucky he didn't get tasered, eh?

Anne Davidow posts a good column at Buzzflash about the republics' and the MSM's automatic association with Blago, Obama, and corruption. She also touches on the republics' dredging up Marc Rich and Elian Gonzales with the nomination of Eric Holder for Attorney General. File under, "They'll Do It Every Time":

The doctrine of equivalence about matters that are in no way equivalent seems to suit certain factions that derive a little temporary political heft they hope will serve their partisan agenda. It's a popular gambit Republicans think will work for them with respect to the Rod Blagojevich mess in Illinois and Obama's nomination of Eric Holder for Attorney General.

The false analogy postulates that Illinois Governor Blagojevich, who offered to sell Obama's former Senate seat to the highest bidder, is from all appearances a corrupt politician, and since Obama comes from Illinois and both he and Blagojevich are Democrats it follows that Obama must be also be corrupt. Such is the tortured logic that prevails in the minds of Republican opponents so angst-ridden they can't even wait until the President-Elect takes office. They seem to have the same mind-set that informed Bush when he invaded Iraq - - in this case to initiate a kind of preemptive impeachment.

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Bush mass for shut ins is on the air!

LIVE FROM THE ST GEORGE THE BLESSED CATHERDRAL IN CRAWFORD TEXAS ITS BUSH MASS FOR SHUT INS!

Good morning Bush worshippers, those who are ill and those who it's just best not to mix with society. May Lord God Bush bless you all for coming. For it is he who brought us life and everything else. He is a thousand points of light! He makes the sun rise in the morning, puts the frost on our flakes and puts the fruit on the trees. All praise the glory of Lord God Bush. Today we celebrate auto maker bailout.

AUTO MAKER BAILOUT CELEBRATION

This week, Lord God Bush in his infinite wisdom decided to save the auto makers of this holy land. He bravely faced the liberal opposition who was opposed because they want to destroy America and George the Brave vanquished them. So now we can continue to buy cars that the holy gasoline goes into and is used.

SING PRAISE TO LORD GOD BUSH

Nobody gonna take my car
Im gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
Its gonna break the speed of sound
Oooh its a killing machine
Its got everything
Like a driving power big fat tyres
And everything

I love it and I need it
I bleed it yeah its a wild hurricane
Alright hold tight
Im a highway star

Nobody gonna take my girl
Im gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
She stays close on every bend
Oooh shes a killing machine
Shes got everything
Like a moving mouth body control
And everything

I love her I need her
I seed her
Yeah she turns me on
Alright hold on tight
Im a highway star

Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that Im on the road again
Oooh Im in heaven again Ive got everything
Like a moving ground an open road
And everything

I love it and I need it
I seed it
Eight cylinders all mine
Alright hold on tight
Im a highway star

Nobody gonna take my car
Im gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
Its gonna break the speed of sound
Oooh its a killing machine
Its got everything
Like a driving power big
Fat tyres and everything

I love it and I need it
I bleed it
Yeah its a wild hurricane
Alright hold on tight
Im a highway star
Im a highway star
Im a highway star

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CHENEY

Then Lord God Bush looked down upon the people and spoke. `The auto makers are now saved so Americans can continue to use holy oil. Those who oppose this hate America`

What is it that the Profit Cheney is trying to teach us? It is that the automakers are now saved and we can continue to use oil and anyone who opposes this hates America. This is the word of George.

Bush mass is over

Your attendance has been recorded and will be sent to the United States Department of Holiness. Go in arrogance, may the Lord God George W Bush be with you. Now once again, the lovely Bushmas carolers will sing a wonderful Bushmas carol. Enjoy.

MERRY BUSHMAS

Bushmas time is here
Edginess and fear
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year

Evildoers in the air
Death is everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of hate and nightmares to share

Evildoers in the air
Ugly everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And forgetful memories there

Bushmas time is here
Threats to what we hold dear
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year...

I attended a mandatory employment-counseling appointment, as part of my unemployment benefits.

Instead of the dingy, bulky 'welfare line' govt building I expected, it was a crisp white-collar environment on the 7th floor of an expensive-looking commercial high rise. (Although that location may be a grim sign of office-space vacancy rates in the city.)

The office wasn't technically part of 'unemployment'. It was some other 'workforce' program. The video projectors were new and the power-point presentation was corporate. Some of the employees had the old civil servant slouch, and some seemed like hapless geriatric volunteers. But others were corporate consultant types.

They offer lots of seminars. Private consultants called The Five O'Clock Club offered a speaker after the mandatory meeting, and a slick woman urged us to attend-- admitting that she was afraid the intended audience would stay home due to the snow. When she said their speaker was from the Financial Services Industry, I almost laughed out loud. Out of 50 unemployed attendees, only one guy volunteered to go see the speaker. The volunteer was in immaculate business suit, with freshly-trimmed silver hair. He looked like he thought the mandatory appointment was a big interview. Or else he looked desperate.

One of the forms I filled-out asked the minimum wage I'd be willing to accept. I considered writing $5,000/hour. Or $2/hour.

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Gene Lyons skewers the MSM over the latter's gratuitous coverage of Blago.

Although you'll never see celebrity journalists discussing it on TV, one reason the country's in such terrible shape is the media's substitution of political "infotainment" for news.

It's cheaper and easier to feature chatter by Washington insider pundits than, say, to keep a functioning news bureau working in Baghdad or Beijing.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest for allegedly trying to auction off President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat started a veritable avalanche of idle gossip, witless speculation and downright character assassination such as we haven't seen in this country since-well, since Whitewater, actually, the most elaborate shaggy-dog story in U.S. history. On cable TV, they were partying like it was 1998.

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Just when you think you've heard it all when it comes to ridiculous, outrageous statements by Bush, think again. Like the other day an interviewer called his bluff on his comment that the US invaded Iraq because Al QaaQaa was there, when the fact of the matter is that the group wasn't there until we invaded, and he responded "So what?", these statements are mind-boggling...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from "collapse."

"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."

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I am guessing everyone has seen that Obama's Stimulus ideas include up to $50 billion in health care spending...so much for debating the subject, let's just ram it in in the panic-driven spending frenzy we are consumed with.

A good chunk of the health care spending will go towards "modernization" of the industry....installation and upgrading of computer systems and Health Care IT (HIT). But is this money well spent and going to save lives, or will it create more health care concerns? The best available data says the later may prevail...

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In light of more-recent events, namely the Wall Street bail-out and the auto industry's plea for a bail-out, it is now possible to apply hindsight and see that the telephone companies were beneficiaries of a huge no-strings-attached bailout, earlier this year.

I am referring to the Telecom Amnesty provision, which passed into law with Bush and Obama's support.

The bottom line is that some companies aided in a massive, unconstitutional domestic spying campaign. And some companies refused to spy on Americans. The spying companies would have faced huge financial liability, had their victims been allowed to sue in civil court. Those companies might have been destroyed, and the more-ethical companies would have grown to take their place. The free market would have worked great.

Instead, the crooks were bailed-out. And it was the worst-kind of bail-out. The kind where bad, risky, illegal, stupid corporate decision-making was rewarded with zero consequences. The beneficiaries of the bail-out were not required to disavow their behavior. No one was fired. They were not required to provide any service or compensation to the public who spared their guilty necks. They weren't even required to apologize.

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Gov. Sarah Palin’s home church was badly damaged by arson, leading Ms. Palin to apologize if the fire was connected to “undeserved negative attention” the church received during her campaign as the Republican vice-presidential nominee.

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Bush mass for shut ins is on the air!

LIVE FROM THE ST GEORGE THE BLESSED CATHERDRAL IN CRAWFORD TEXAS ITS BUSH MASS FOR SHUT INS!

Good morning Bush worshippers, those who are ill and those who it's just best not to mix with society. May Lord God Bush bless you all for coming. For it is he who brought us life and everything else. He is a thousand points of light! He makes the sun rise in the morning, puts the frost on our flakes and puts the fruit on the trees. All praise the glory of Lord God Bush. Today we celebrate positive attitude.

POSITIVE ATTITUDE CELEBRATION

Positive attitude is something that we must have when reviewing the holy record of republican politicians. When the evil democrats shout things like `he's going to jail` or `he committed treason` we must look at it in a positive way and say they did those deeds for freedom and liberty.

SING PRAISE TO LORD GOD BUSH

Day after day I'm more confused
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame

Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Day after day I'm more confused
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame

Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CHENEY

Then Lord God Bush looked down upon the people and spoke. `They are true patriots. They did it for freedom and liberty.`

What is it that the Profit Cheney is trying to teach us? It is that if we say the holy words freedom and liberty enough times, things will magically disappear. This is the word of George.

Bush mass is over

Your attendance has been recorded and will be sent to the United States Department of Holiness. Go in arrogance, may the Lord God George W Bush be with you. Now once again, the lovely Bushmas carolers will sing a wonderful Bushmas carol. Enjoy.

MERRY BUSHMAS

On the first day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
The last Cut American tree.
On the second day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the third day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the fourth day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.On the fifth day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the sixth day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Six insiders cashing,Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the seventh day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Seven investors jumping, Six insiders cashing, Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves
On the eighth day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Eight cronies a milking, Seven investors jumping, Six insiders cashing, Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the ninth day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Nine detainees interrogated, Eight cronies a milking, Seven investors jumping, Six insiders cashing, Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the tenth day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Ten Pundits shouting, Nine detainees interrogated, Eight cronies a milking, Seven investors jumping, Six insiders cashing, Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the eleventh day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Eleven Recommenders recommending, Ten Pundits shouting, Nine detainees interrogated, Eight cronies a milking, Seven investors jumping, Six insiders cashing, Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.
On the twelfth day of Bushmas my true love sent to me:
Twelve War Drums Pounding, Eleven Recommenders recommending, Ten Pundits shouting, Nine detainees interrogated, Eight cronies a milking, Seven investors jumping, Six insiders cashing, Five golden parachutes, four flipping birds, three French insults, two dead doves and the last Cut American tree.

She only managed to get in about 5 months of work last year on the books, so she can't collect unemployment. The second-to-the-last job was sanding, priming and painting 40-foot-high ski-lift poles at Spirit Mountain, a Duluth ski resort for those who've still got enough money to go skiing.
I just got an email from my dad telling me that right now she's on a bus headed for Newark, NJ, to work for the same company, painting amusement park rides in the South. I guess they're like 100 feet up there.
There's absolutely no painting work to be found in Duluth. She got a couple of weeks in, then had to go to St. Cloud (about 150 miles away) for another week, then a bitch of a supervisor got her fired. The workplace is even more dog-eat-dog than it ever was, I suppose.
At least it sounds as though she's traveling between two bad snowstorms -- one's predicted to hit Duluth today, but she's heading away from that one, and the one farther east is waning.
She's 33 years old, but I can't help but worry a little bit.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ unclimatewarmingcoral/ print

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ bush_endangered_species/ print

The landlord took us to court tonight.

Then he tried to get an adjournment to a later date, claiming neither of his attorneys could make it; and that he wanted "someone from the Synagogue" to be there. Good idea, since the Synagogue is the plaintiff.

Representing myself, I moved for a dismissal. The court didn't like that. But as the facts of the case emerged, the clerk-- then the judge's attorney-- and then Judge Joan-- warmed to my arguements.

Then it was great. Like TV. The judge threatened the landlord with contempt of court, hinted the landlord could lose his state licenses, said she 'didn't believe him' 'for one single minute', urged him to order a transcript of the proceding and review it carefully, and she said he should re-think the entire course of his life, and finally she declared: "Dismissed, WITH PREJUDICE!"

He couldn't shut himself up. He menacingly asked whether her name would be included in the transcript. She spelled it aloud for him. She suggested that his higher-up partners had pushed him into the "line of fire". He replied that it was an "asassination". By me? By the judge? I don't like the violent imagery. Let's keep the rhetoric peaceable, lest he start to get ideas-- about how to deal with me.

What next? I have to decide whether I prefer to keep this whipping boy as my opponent; or whether I should demand that his partners send somebody with more sense, in the future. They might send somebody who is more skilled at screwing me over. Then again, this guy is too dumb to cut his loses, cry uncle, and just frickin' throw money at me to leave.

It was a good night. Afterward we snuck beers into the dog run and called friends with the good news.

In an investigative report published Monday by a state-owned newspaper, public security officials in the city of Xintai in Shandong Province were said to have been institutionalizing residents who persist in their personal campaigns to expose corruption or the unfair seizure of their property. Some people said they were committed for up to two years, and several of those interviewed said they were forcibly medicated.

................

Although China is not known for the kind of systematic abuse of psychiatry that occurred in the Soviet Union, human rights advocates say forced institutionalizations are not uncommon in smaller cities. Robin Munro, the research director of China Labor Bulletin, a rights organization in Hong Kong, said such “an kang” wards — Chinese for peace and health — were a convenient and effective means of dealing with pesky dissidents.

North Korea. The former Soviet Union. Now China.
Never in the United States, though. Psychiatry is only used correctly, there, and no one is forcibly medicated.

LOL, Obama and his Hopenchange Admin isn't getting off to a great start...turning "right wing" with his appointments, gonna keep his war on, and now this IL gov thing...

"Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wanted President-elect Barack Obama "to put something together…something big" in exchange for going along with Obama's choice to fill his vacant US Senate seat, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed following the Governor's stunning arrest.

"I've got this thing and it's f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f***in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there," Blagojevich said in a phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on November 5, the day after the election, according to the affidavit. "

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The Attack of the Invisible Hand of the Free Market!!!!!

Starring The Shrill One and Tom Tomorrow.

Bush mass for shut ins is on the air!

LIVE FROM THE ST GEORGE THE BLESSED CATHERDRAL IN CRAWFORD TEXAS ITS BUSH MASS FOR SHUT INS!

Good morning Bush worshippers, those who are ill and those who it's just best not to mix with society. May Lord God Bush bless you all for coming. For it is he who brought us life and everything else. He is a thousand points of light! He makes the sun rise in the morning, puts the frost on our flakes and puts the fruit on the trees. All praise the glory of Lord God Bush. Today we celebrate Employee Emancipation.

EMPLOYEE EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION

Employee emancipation is a good holy thing, it allows them to start their own business like selling apples or roadside window cleaning. If someone states this is a bad thing, they must be accused of hating America.

SING PRAISE TO LORD GOD BUSH

I think I'd like to go back home
And take it easy
There's a woman that I'd like to get to know
Living there

Everybody seems to wonder
What it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere.

Everybody, everybody knows
Everybody knows.

Every time I think about back home
It's cool and breezy
I wish that I could be there right now
Just passing time.

Everybody seems to wonder
What it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere.

Everybody, everybody knows
Everybody knows.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CHENEY

And George the Blessed looked down upon the people and spoke `People today are experiencing freedom in ways not experienced in a long time. Freedon is a good thing. Those who question this hate America.`

What is it that the Profit Cheney is trying to teach us? It is that we all must believe people losing their jobs is a good thing or we hate America. This is the word of George.

Bush mass is over

Your attendance has been recorded and will be sent to the proper authorities. Go in arrogance, may the Lord God George W Bush be with you. Now the Bushmas carolers will sing a holiday carol for you.

MERRY BUSHMAS, GO SHOPPING

o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ay
it's Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft and Powell
now listen my children and you shall hear
a story so fantastic, in no way is queer
it's all about cheney and his helpers three
there's Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft and Powell
now Rumsfelds the driver and he's near his sleigh
Ashcroft reads maps and he shows him the way
thould old merry Cheney has no need for Powell
he takes him cause he loves him so
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ay
donner and blitzen away away
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo
i'm Rumsfeld, i'm Ashcroft, i'm Powell
and Cheney is busy filling his heavy sack
he trusts his drivers and never looks back
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo
i'm Rumsfeld, i'm Ashcroft, i'm Powell
now go to bed early this christmas eve
i have no way of knowing just how you'll be decieved
but you'll hear their laughter, that much i do know
there'll be Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Powell
the three little men only 2 feet high
singing to Cheney way up in the sky
laughing and shouting at the sleighbells ring
it's Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft and Powell
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ay
donner and blitzen away away
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo
i'm Rumsfeld, i'm Ashcroft, i'm Powell
and Cheney is busy filling his heavy sack
he trusts his drivers and never looks back
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo
it's Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft and Powell
oh Cheney with a tug and lets out his pack
and Rumsfeld will hold the reindeer till santa comes back
if you hear a giggle as he turns to go
it's Ashcroft a snowball at Powell
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ay
donner and blitzen away away
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo
it's Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft and Powell
and Cheney is busy filling his heavy sack
he trusts his drivers and never looks back
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo
it's Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft and Powell
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo
it's Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft and Powell
o lee o lay dee o lay dee i ayo

I went to parking court today, to pay a few tickets and fight a couple more.

The judge left his office to check my ID, and returned enraged.
He called me a scofflaw.

As he picked-up momentum, his eyes fell on his computer screen and he began to recite the dates and crimes I had committed.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- New regulations will let people carry concealed weapons in some national parks.

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Got a letter from the unemployment office today. Apparently I'm eligible for an optional small-business program, called Taking Care Of Business. No further description included, except:

The workshops "may not be close to where you live".

"Once accepted into the program, you will not be able to use the TEL-SERVICE phone system or the web to claim weekly benefits."

"you do not receive start-up funds from the Department of Labor."

"You cannot participate in the fulltime training program" and TCB.

"once accepted into the program, you are not entitled to any extra or extended benefits, including benefits under the current Temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation Law."

"The program requires you to take a minimum of 20 hours of entreprenurial training, which you find on your own, and meet at least twice with an approved business counselor, in addition to completing several progress reports."

"You must know exactly what type of business you want to start before you apply to the program."

"If you wish to participate in this Self Employment Assistance Program, you must first attend a regional workshop to learn the risks and responsibilities."

"YOU CANNOT START YOUR BUSINESS UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE ATTENDED THIS WORKSHOP AND BEEN OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED INTO THE PROGRAM."

"The workshop does not explore specific business ideas."

Plaintive question from Time Magazine: Why Do the Mentally Ill Die Younger?

Cynthia Scott is your average health-conscious 56-year-old. She watches what she eats, drinks lots of water and takes a multivitamin every morning. She goes for frequent walks and visits her doctor regularly for checkups, including cholesterol and diabetes screenings.
Scott also has schizoaffective bipolar disorder, a mental illness she keeps in check with a low dose of Zyprexa. If you were to ask Scott, she would say she is a healthy person overall. So she was shocked when the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) published a study two years ago called Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness. The report analyzed data from 16 states and found that, on average, people with severe mental illness die 25 years earlier than the general population. "Hearing that made me so sad," says Scott.

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I bought a pencil sharpener today. I was getting so tired of using a knife, and busting the damned lead over and over again, sometimes going through 2/3 of a pencil in one sharpening session, and throwing the worthless stub into the weeds with a curse. I'm not too swift with a knife.
Brand new, Made in China, and it's pink with a kitty face on the front of it. The plainer looking ones were $1.75 more, and this thing already cost me 2 hours' wages, so I thought to hell with the "conservative" look. "Give me the cheap one."
It has this spring loaded thingie that you pull out, and it clamps the pencil. Then, as you crank, the springs contract, and pull the pencil in as it sharpens. You don't have to push the pencil in. Though actually, it seems a bit harder than pushing the pencil in, instead of easier.
My brand new pencil sharpener even came with an owner's manual, printed in reasonably understandable Chinglish.
I've never had a brand new pencil sharpener in my entire life. Just the old ones from the 1940's or '50's that we picked up at rummage sales for 50 cents, or whatever. And I had to figure out how to use those by myself. The owner's manuals had been long lost.
I feel so tickled!

Wally George, host of 'Hot Seat', was the TV talking-head precursor to Morton Downey Jr., Jerry Springer, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, and Stephen Colbert.

Wally's set was decorated with portraits of Nixon and John Wayne. His audience was a booing, chanting, peroxide-blonde mob, who literally waved bibles and little American flags.

Wally's interview style consisted of grade school insults and feigned disgust. His guest-list was a parade of attention-seeking punk rockers, drug-culture freaks, strippers, and neo-nazis.

And in this cooooorner...

'El Duce' was the singer for The Mentors-- flabby shirtless metalheads in executioner masks who sang about getting the clap from saggy, drugged-out truckstop hookers. The Mentors rose to national fame during Tipper Gore's PMRC witchhunt against free speech in pop music, when their childish lyrics were read before Congress, gems such as "Come on smell my anal vapor!/ use your face for toilet paper!"

Wally vs. Duce was a perfect match. Wally's interview style was that of a pro-wrestling interviewer; and El Duce was glad to play the heel. Wally 'unmasked' Duce; and the interview ended with Duce being 'escorted' off-stage by erstatz California Highway Patrolmen. (Another Wally George interview ended in a pie fight. In later years, he was a rollerderby commentator.)

Much like the movie "Idiocracy", Wally's show was an over-the-top parody of America's public carnival. Like the movie "Network", the worst aspects of Wally's schtick became the all-too-serious blueprint for Fox News. Likewise, The Mentors' goofy antics were denounced as "the worst of the worst" in Congressional testimony. IF ONLY!

IF ONLY The Mentors and Wally George were As Bad As It Gets!

Watch the low-budget youtube clip above, and see how those stunts are NOW big budget mainstream corporate media control methods. Fear! Spectacle! Boogeymen! Sex! Bile!

The 400 oz. bar of gold bullion is available at Kitco.com for $315,880.00

(many smaller portions are out of stock due to high demand in recent weeks)