So, nearly 10 hours since I heard the news about Andrew Breitbart passing, My attitude has not changed. I know Mama Blue didn't raise Ole Blue to be callous about death. She would rather I was respectful and rightfully somber. I can not get that feeling for this deceased person. In fact Blue is reminded of an old "Moms" Mabley quote that I will paraphrase right here "Now I was told to always speak good of the dead...Breitbart's dead....GOOD".
Perhaps if I got a chance to have met the man and gathered nuances about him perhaps I could have liked him but chided him about his wholly wrong views. Blue does have some red friends in fact many of my childhood friends and relatives have conservative leanings. Most of us bloggers particularly those of us that are polarizing like the Breitbarts, Wonkette, Blue have no knowledge of each other except if we get wind of stuff we write which is sure to excite our prospective sides and anger the opposite side.
Time Magazine is noted as having Breitbart say he would prefer to be hated than liked. Well, mission accomplished dude. Between you and your partner in crime in "Bratty" O'Keefe you destroyed a good non profit organization in ACORN, You without your pal destroyed a persons career in Shirley Sherrod, you took advantage of a lax media to get a bulldog out of office and in death you made it a point to call Senator Kennedy everything but a man. Now we on the left are aware that Sen. Kennedy wasn't perfect, but you sir took a glee in calling him human excrement. He too had family, he too had people that would love and miss him...and you sir took a giant shit on that...for funsies. Clearly you had no idea that 18-20 months later you would be on the verge of creating effluvium. Perhaps you may have had a little heart, or maybe it would have made you nastier.
Now with your passing and me likely never going to be interviewed by Current, MSNBC, Fox or CNN, we will never meet nor on the whole be considered equals. But we're similar creatures Breitbart. I try to agitate the right, I preach to my choir on the left...I think the main difference between us is/was I believe in my country and I never have to or WOULD have to create shit to make my country appear more dysfunctional than it is.
I hope the decisions you made in your life made you happy, I hope Hell's not TOO uncomfortable and on the whole, your family may be saddened, but your death did a great service to our country
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
I Come Not to Praise Joe Paterno, But to Bury Him
Thanks to the handy paraphrasing from William Shakespeare.
This is going to be a controversial blog. It's something I must deviate from my new schedule of Tuesday/ Thursday blog notes to bring up the now old report that legendary Penn State football coach, Joe Paterno has died after a two month struggle with lung cancer. Now, I know that lung cancer is a rough way to pass and I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy. That being said, perhaps there is a merciful God that wished to spare Joe Pa of the damning allegations that are sure to come out from the massive cover-up of children being sexually abused, alledgedly, by his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. The surface things that have been made aware of since late October aren't flattering to Paterno. He heard something went on, he went to the school president Graham Spanier, then went about and enjoyed the perks of being the man in charge. No follow up though Sandusky still enjoyed emeritus status at Penn State.
It was said that maybe Mike McQueary, who caught Sandusky raping a child in the shower did not give Paterno the full details of what he witnessed..if that's the case he lied to the grand jury but that is another matter. For a person who spent the majority of their life instilling values and accountability into young men and along the way becoming. arguably, the most powerful person in all of sports; to have not taken the concerns beyond the school president was reprehensible. When he still sees Sandusky roaming the offices of Beaver Stadium as if he owned the place and not at least ask "What the hell, Graham?" shows an alarming lack of care.
according to ABCnews.com he didn't know how to handle the accusations: http://abcnews.go.com/US/joe-paterno-admits-handle-sex-allegation/story?id=15362562#.Txxrd29SQbI at the very best perhaps at 84 when he says he never heard of men raping men, he was out of touch with people he should be leading and of course at the worst he was lying. Either way, the man should have been gone well before this time.
For anyone who may say "should we let one lapse of judgment, no matter how grave, mark the man" I bring up Orenthal James Simpson. O.J. as most of us know him by, did you know that twice he broke the single game rushing record? Do you remember he was the first running back to rush for over 2000 yards? Do you know that he was the elite player in the NFL? Do we remember he was very charitable in his NFL career? He was on his way to becoming a good football commentator and was pitching cars for Hertz. He developed a nice comic touch and was instrumental in making the "Naked Gun" movies the franchise they were. Every bit as important as Priscilla Presley and George Kennedy...OR, do you remember a white bronco chase and "If it doesn't fit you must acquit". Sadly, Joe Paterno will be remembered as an enabler. What's even more sad about it is that he knew he should have been what he preached.
This is going to be a controversial blog. It's something I must deviate from my new schedule of Tuesday/ Thursday blog notes to bring up the now old report that legendary Penn State football coach, Joe Paterno has died after a two month struggle with lung cancer. Now, I know that lung cancer is a rough way to pass and I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy. That being said, perhaps there is a merciful God that wished to spare Joe Pa of the damning allegations that are sure to come out from the massive cover-up of children being sexually abused, alledgedly, by his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. The surface things that have been made aware of since late October aren't flattering to Paterno. He heard something went on, he went to the school president Graham Spanier, then went about and enjoyed the perks of being the man in charge. No follow up though Sandusky still enjoyed emeritus status at Penn State.
It was said that maybe Mike McQueary, who caught Sandusky raping a child in the shower did not give Paterno the full details of what he witnessed..if that's the case he lied to the grand jury but that is another matter. For a person who spent the majority of their life instilling values and accountability into young men and along the way becoming. arguably, the most powerful person in all of sports; to have not taken the concerns beyond the school president was reprehensible. When he still sees Sandusky roaming the offices of Beaver Stadium as if he owned the place and not at least ask "What the hell, Graham?" shows an alarming lack of care.
according to ABCnews.com he didn't know how to handle the accusations: http://abcnews.go.com/US/joe-paterno-admits-handle-sex-allegation/story?id=15362562#.Txxrd29SQbI at the very best perhaps at 84 when he says he never heard of men raping men, he was out of touch with people he should be leading and of course at the worst he was lying. Either way, the man should have been gone well before this time.
For anyone who may say "should we let one lapse of judgment, no matter how grave, mark the man" I bring up Orenthal James Simpson. O.J. as most of us know him by, did you know that twice he broke the single game rushing record? Do you remember he was the first running back to rush for over 2000 yards? Do you know that he was the elite player in the NFL? Do we remember he was very charitable in his NFL career? He was on his way to becoming a good football commentator and was pitching cars for Hertz. He developed a nice comic touch and was instrumental in making the "Naked Gun" movies the franchise they were. Every bit as important as Priscilla Presley and George Kennedy...OR, do you remember a white bronco chase and "If it doesn't fit you must acquit". Sadly, Joe Paterno will be remembered as an enabler. What's even more sad about it is that he knew he should have been what he preached.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Search for Tomorrow: a SOPA opera
Let's get one thing off the bat right now, I don't necessarily disagree with protecting ones intellectual property. The person that came up with the idea richly deserves the spoils for their hard work. That's the one thing about the conservative ideal I do agree with. A great turn of a phrase, a wonderful movement in a opera or great line in our favorite song belongs to the creator of that speech, opera or song. A great idea in business belongs to that person. I think we get the gist here.
I write under the nom de plume "A_Blues_Clue". Clearly I took that from the kids show "Blue's Clues". I have taken great strides to differentiate between the left wing, blue state rantings of a frustrated American and the cute way for children to put two and two together. Now my blog and nom de plume have never been given that dreadful cease and desist order from the creators so I believe that I have not lifted intellectual property but rather covered my bases so there is no confusion between this http://www.dvddisk.net/media/import/img_disk/blues-clues-coloring-pages.jpg and my little ego boost.
While I believe that intellectual property does belong to the creator, there is a dual responsibility in this. We don't need Representative Lamar S. Smith or Senator Marco Rubio to curtail internet rights and trample on the Constitutional issues of free speech. The creator of the great idea they have has every opportunity to copywrite, patent, market whatever his or her idea so that the world sees this idea is theirs!
I know as a college student I can't even say "looking out for love, big, big love" without giving a shout out to Lindsey Buckingham or write under "A_Blues_Clue" without either acknowledging or citing my sources. If we remember the lessons of high school and cite our sources and become more forthcoming then there is no need for censorship. There is no need to be up in arms over what we can and can not see.
I am aware this is about much more than "citations" and "confusion" but this is one time Ole Blue will play along and give people the benefit of the doubt...
I write under the nom de plume "A_Blues_Clue". Clearly I took that from the kids show "Blue's Clues". I have taken great strides to differentiate between the left wing, blue state rantings of a frustrated American and the cute way for children to put two and two together. Now my blog and nom de plume have never been given that dreadful cease and desist order from the creators so I believe that I have not lifted intellectual property but rather covered my bases so there is no confusion between this http://www.dvddisk.net/media/import/img_disk/blues-clues-coloring-pages.jpg and my little ego boost.
While I believe that intellectual property does belong to the creator, there is a dual responsibility in this. We don't need Representative Lamar S. Smith or Senator Marco Rubio to curtail internet rights and trample on the Constitutional issues of free speech. The creator of the great idea they have has every opportunity to copywrite, patent, market whatever his or her idea so that the world sees this idea is theirs!
I know as a college student I can't even say "looking out for love, big, big love" without giving a shout out to Lindsey Buckingham or write under "A_Blues_Clue" without either acknowledging or citing my sources. If we remember the lessons of high school and cite our sources and become more forthcoming then there is no need for censorship. There is no need to be up in arms over what we can and can not see.
I am aware this is about much more than "citations" and "confusion" but this is one time Ole Blue will play along and give people the benefit of the doubt...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Living in America...
well, ole Blue disappeared for a while. I do apologize for that. Personal life has a way of doing that. I am preparing for a wedding, I took my first failure in school and the holidays made for a hectic time in the blue blogosphere. But I have noticed things. NDAA, candidates tying dogs to roofs of cars, the blatant racism thrown the way of PBHO. Yes, Blue has noticed.
Now I have also noticed an old KKK slogan being foist forward as a catchy little phrase for one Mitt Romney. "America For Americans." Let's think about that for a second shall we? America for Americans. Appropriated by Willard "Mitt" Romney...the phrase "America for Americans" has been around sine the 1920's and it was used for the KKK to recruit volunteers. Don't believe Blue? It's okay, I am partisan, so to show you how vulgar this is, I actually went to the KKK site...http://originalknightsofamerica.webs.com/newsletter.htm...You're welcomed to look at it. Then in 1950 we have this bit of love from the whitest assholes you know https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuX7e9mcQo3GpvoFkczmCEsH3Ee6nz-NYsikb1FaOasb_o9QMvCnX6p0fECj4XHdzdtNY4ZPGOe_ClMZdyPvFgV9C1jiMOeydd9LF7IL1GA81kP9A9tW9g0cPVt4ez6OKie5oYTApHA/s1600/kkk+kaa+jpg.jpg . Again, look at it if you have any doubts as to what I am saying.
Now to look that up was all of 35 seconds of my time. To verify it took all of a minute. I'm just a line cook and a community college student. I made the correlation between KKK, Racism, and Romney and didn't even break a sweat. IF we are to believe that Mitt made a simple mistake, then the man is clearly too stupid to run a country if a middle aged community college student found this information out and has more than the two sites that are being shown to back up his ascertation. If he truly did not know, that candidate treads a line of comical and dangerous not seen since the Shrub. I'm going out on a limb here, he knows. If he is not consciously or willingly racist, the son of a bitch is pandering to that vote. We have to be above that. We as a people have to notice that a day after we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King, celebrate the 70th birthday of Muhammad Ali, that this kind of divisive, race baiting tactic can not continue to be accepted as "just politics." We have to be aware of our history, we have to know what the Constitution says. If not, we just believe that its all about guns and states...but that will be fine because you won't have the right to think anything but that if YOU as an uninformed voter continue to vote against your best interest because Mittens has a catchy phrase. stop taking your news in cute soundbites investigate, garner a fucking clue or else...I won't speculate, I will let you think of your own worse case scenario. and if it comes back to "Obama is a communist,fascist, socialist, Nazi"...then I guess you get the country you deserve and the abhorrence of REAL Americans
Now I have also noticed an old KKK slogan being foist forward as a catchy little phrase for one Mitt Romney. "America For Americans." Let's think about that for a second shall we? America for Americans. Appropriated by Willard "Mitt" Romney...the phrase "America for Americans" has been around sine the 1920's and it was used for the KKK to recruit volunteers. Don't believe Blue? It's okay, I am partisan, so to show you how vulgar this is, I actually went to the KKK site...http://originalknightsofamerica.webs.com/newsletter.htm...You're welcomed to look at it. Then in 1950 we have this bit of love from the whitest assholes you know https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOuX7e9mcQo3GpvoFkczmCEsH3Ee6nz-NYsikb1FaOasb_o9QMvCnX6p0fECj4XHdzdtNY4ZPGOe_ClMZdyPvFgV9C1jiMOeydd9LF7IL1GA81kP9A9tW9g0cPVt4ez6OKie5oYTApHA/s1600/kkk+kaa+jpg.jpg . Again, look at it if you have any doubts as to what I am saying.
Now to look that up was all of 35 seconds of my time. To verify it took all of a minute. I'm just a line cook and a community college student. I made the correlation between KKK, Racism, and Romney and didn't even break a sweat. IF we are to believe that Mitt made a simple mistake, then the man is clearly too stupid to run a country if a middle aged community college student found this information out and has more than the two sites that are being shown to back up his ascertation. If he truly did not know, that candidate treads a line of comical and dangerous not seen since the Shrub. I'm going out on a limb here, he knows. If he is not consciously or willingly racist, the son of a bitch is pandering to that vote. We have to be above that. We as a people have to notice that a day after we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King, celebrate the 70th birthday of Muhammad Ali, that this kind of divisive, race baiting tactic can not continue to be accepted as "just politics." We have to be aware of our history, we have to know what the Constitution says. If not, we just believe that its all about guns and states...but that will be fine because you won't have the right to think anything but that if YOU as an uninformed voter continue to vote against your best interest because Mittens has a catchy phrase. stop taking your news in cute soundbites investigate, garner a fucking clue or else...I won't speculate, I will let you think of your own worse case scenario. and if it comes back to "Obama is a communist,fascist, socialist, Nazi"...then I guess you get the country you deserve and the abhorrence of REAL Americans
Friday, October 7, 2011
First amendment for real now!
So Hank Williams, Jr. is important for a lot of reasons this week. One reason is to let us know that talent really does skip a generation but the other is that he was fired from his cushy gig at Monday Night Football by indicating on Fox News that "Obama and Boehner playing golf together is the equivilant to Hitler golfing with Netanyahu." First rule of internet argument is 'One who brings up Hitler, automatically loses." Now the beauty of the first amendment is that Ole dumb Hank, Jr. can believe that all he wants. He can make that statement and though it is offensive, crude and stereotypically redneck ignernt, he is entitled to said opinion.
I like many liberals in 2003 got upset over the Dixie Chicks being ostracized for their inflammatory comments of then President Bush. Fox news (not so ironically) led the uproar of how they lacked being patriotic at a time when the country needed them. I thought that people were moronic in their hyperbole. Then my brother in law brought up a point "they have that right to say that, and people have the right to not buy their albums.
That being said, Hank, Jr. can spout off his "New Confederacy" bullshit all he wants, he can spout off that "Obama, Biden....the Three Stooges" are the 'enemy' to his heartless content, and ESPN and Monday Night Football have every right to protect their brand. We DO have free speech, but if I walk into work and say "everything on this menu is garbage I wouldn't feed to a maggot", then my boss has every right to thank me for my time working there and find a place where the menu isn't maggot worthy. ie to break it down, I can say anything I want (within certain limits) and it will have no ramification on me going to school, raising kids, preparing my marriage. I won't go to jail. I won't get stoned by the masses (at least literally); I may, however, lose my job, a certain standing I may have and depending on how vehement I am, a certain respect of my peers.
On another note, Blue is rattled by the loss of another liberal voice. Melissa Hayes, AKA 'Ginger Snaps' was killed in a tragic accident in Nebraska. I did not know Melissa that well. In fact I only friended her about 3 weeks before her passing but she held a standard of debate that is sorely lacking in this day and age. A nuanced liberal with tolerance that Blue here has lost over 30 years of Right Wing lies. If I take any lesson from her, it is to continue to listen to the republican viewpoint fully instead of jumping in with my (usually correct view) and to have a bit more class in my rebuttal. You will be missed Melissa
I like many liberals in 2003 got upset over the Dixie Chicks being ostracized for their inflammatory comments of then President Bush. Fox news (not so ironically) led the uproar of how they lacked being patriotic at a time when the country needed them. I thought that people were moronic in their hyperbole. Then my brother in law brought up a point "they have that right to say that, and people have the right to not buy their albums.
That being said, Hank, Jr. can spout off his "New Confederacy" bullshit all he wants, he can spout off that "Obama, Biden....the Three Stooges" are the 'enemy' to his heartless content, and ESPN and Monday Night Football have every right to protect their brand. We DO have free speech, but if I walk into work and say "everything on this menu is garbage I wouldn't feed to a maggot", then my boss has every right to thank me for my time working there and find a place where the menu isn't maggot worthy. ie to break it down, I can say anything I want (within certain limits) and it will have no ramification on me going to school, raising kids, preparing my marriage. I won't go to jail. I won't get stoned by the masses (at least literally); I may, however, lose my job, a certain standing I may have and depending on how vehement I am, a certain respect of my peers.
On another note, Blue is rattled by the loss of another liberal voice. Melissa Hayes, AKA 'Ginger Snaps' was killed in a tragic accident in Nebraska. I did not know Melissa that well. In fact I only friended her about 3 weeks before her passing but she held a standard of debate that is sorely lacking in this day and age. A nuanced liberal with tolerance that Blue here has lost over 30 years of Right Wing lies. If I take any lesson from her, it is to continue to listen to the republican viewpoint fully instead of jumping in with my (usually correct view) and to have a bit more class in my rebuttal. You will be missed Melissa
Monday, September 26, 2011
Wedding Cakes, Drama Class and H.L. Mencken
In my neck of the woods, I see it's overcast. But it is a good day my governor hasn't screwed things up irreparably today, Governor Goodhair hasn't stuck his foot in his mouth yet today, and BHO is still running the country. My sports team all won and sweetie and me got our cake situation sort of straightened out...all in all a good day for Blue.
It's a day to treasure. I am not foaming at the mouth at my computer...maybe because I haven't dove to deeply in yet but no one has said anything that caused my head to do that thing it does in the movie Scanners or caused my blood pressure to shoot to 235/197...YET. I enjoy these days. I can't lie. It's part of what lead Blue to becoming a bit lazy over the last 48 days. A wonderful vacation in Paradise....(literally) an engagement to the sweetest gal in the world, strong reviews in my job, classes starting to roll...Then I realized as much as I need to vent I owe it to my passionate...fans, followers, devotees....whatever conceit i allow me to continue. To be the spleen venter. To try to find sense in a nation of 5 year old children. We got plenty of them on both sides blue and red.
It was H.L. Mencken whom I paraphrase- "It is the job of this blog to bring comfort to the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable". I have to do that. It's a compulsion of over 40 years to be the one that points out that sometimes the emporer IS wearing no clothes. I have taken that baton and ran with it and I see no reason to stop now...at the same time however, sometimes battles have to be chosen as opposed to ranting at every injustice.
That is why I enjoy the "nothing" days. Today is shaping up beautifully and maybe between my subway sandwich and drama class i can find something that will cause me to have a metaphorical apoplexy. Til then I leave one more Bon Mot from Mr. Mencken- "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken_4.html#ixzz1Z4Ugea00
It's a day to treasure. I am not foaming at the mouth at my computer...maybe because I haven't dove to deeply in yet but no one has said anything that caused my head to do that thing it does in the movie Scanners or caused my blood pressure to shoot to 235/197...YET. I enjoy these days. I can't lie. It's part of what lead Blue to becoming a bit lazy over the last 48 days. A wonderful vacation in Paradise....(literally) an engagement to the sweetest gal in the world, strong reviews in my job, classes starting to roll...Then I realized as much as I need to vent I owe it to my passionate...fans, followers, devotees....whatever conceit i allow me to continue. To be the spleen venter. To try to find sense in a nation of 5 year old children. We got plenty of them on both sides blue and red.
It was H.L. Mencken whom I paraphrase- "It is the job of this blog to bring comfort to the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable". I have to do that. It's a compulsion of over 40 years to be the one that points out that sometimes the emporer IS wearing no clothes. I have taken that baton and ran with it and I see no reason to stop now...at the same time however, sometimes battles have to be chosen as opposed to ranting at every injustice.
That is why I enjoy the "nothing" days. Today is shaping up beautifully and maybe between my subway sandwich and drama class i can find something that will cause me to have a metaphorical apoplexy. Til then I leave one more Bon Mot from Mr. Mencken- "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken_4.html#ixzz1Z4Ugea00
Sunday, September 25, 2011
some say a man ain't happy 'less a man truly dies, oh why, sign o' the times...
what can I say. I think that 2012 may be one of the most important presidential elections in our 235 years of being a country. This is not mere hyperbole, this is a seriously wicked crossroad that we are at. When you have 300 people keeping millions out of work to put one good man out of a job, when this rendition of the "supreme" court has said corporations are people, when DADT being repealed as the equivilant of the rise of the third reich, when health care reform is less appealing than losing warS, when reasonable doubt is pissed away to put another notch on a belt when the man is African-American then a viable argument when the man is white...my country I love has lost it's way.
it is likely that within four years that our country will need a new appointment to the "supreme" court with 4 of the justices, including the liberal lioness Ruth Bader Ginsburg in their 70's, we can not have "President(s)" Perry, Bachmann, or Romney making these decisions. It was surely no mistake that John Roberts was tapped by the shrub to be the Chief Justice at the tender age of 51. If he lives as long as Rehnquist and is as stubborn, he will be Chief Justice almost as long as John Marshall. That thought is beyond terrifying to me. Unless we get idealistic liberals that know the power and the word of The Constitution, then Thomas, Alito, Roberts and the other band of thugs, will have no checks OR balances and they will continue to run roughshod over The Constitution.
The historical implications of running a primary against the sitting president has been disaster for the incumbent. Ask Jerry Ford, ask Jimmy Carter, Ask George Bush the First. Barack Obama has had an amazing first term when taken under consideration that half of congress (including you damn DINO's) fought every measure he ran out there, He got health care reform passed (no thanks to the Reich Wing and Damn DINO's) he got Osama Bin Laden, he did stimulus packages the right way, he got DADT repealed, he's attacking DOMA, he is on the verge of getting "No Child Left Behind" struck down, yet some of my liberal brethren bitch it ain't enough or he's a closet republican or i hear "Obummer"...WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? He's not a magic man like Heart sang about. He's a man trying to get 30 years of GOP fuck ups straightened out and if you thought that in two and a half years he was going have it all figured out, put down your joystick or your X-box console, pull your head out of your ass and look around he stopped a depression! It was no recession it was a depression brought about by ceding control of our country to big business. The rights for workers that Sam Gompers fought for are being slowly eroded...and some of you idiots don't see the forest for the damned trees.
So no, BHO does not "need" to be primaried, he doesn't need to "get a wake up call" he doesn't need "a lesson" he needs YOU to get a clue as to how a country is run and get your ass involved the right way. Support him, understand that he is cleaning up this mess a little at a time and remember WE'RE the change we need to be!
it is likely that within four years that our country will need a new appointment to the "supreme" court with 4 of the justices, including the liberal lioness Ruth Bader Ginsburg in their 70's, we can not have "President(s)" Perry, Bachmann, or Romney making these decisions. It was surely no mistake that John Roberts was tapped by the shrub to be the Chief Justice at the tender age of 51. If he lives as long as Rehnquist and is as stubborn, he will be Chief Justice almost as long as John Marshall. That thought is beyond terrifying to me. Unless we get idealistic liberals that know the power and the word of The Constitution, then Thomas, Alito, Roberts and the other band of thugs, will have no checks OR balances and they will continue to run roughshod over The Constitution.
The historical implications of running a primary against the sitting president has been disaster for the incumbent. Ask Jerry Ford, ask Jimmy Carter, Ask George Bush the First. Barack Obama has had an amazing first term when taken under consideration that half of congress (including you damn DINO's) fought every measure he ran out there, He got health care reform passed (no thanks to the Reich Wing and Damn DINO's) he got Osama Bin Laden, he did stimulus packages the right way, he got DADT repealed, he's attacking DOMA, he is on the verge of getting "No Child Left Behind" struck down, yet some of my liberal brethren bitch it ain't enough or he's a closet republican or i hear "Obummer"...WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? He's not a magic man like Heart sang about. He's a man trying to get 30 years of GOP fuck ups straightened out and if you thought that in two and a half years he was going have it all figured out, put down your joystick or your X-box console, pull your head out of your ass and look around he stopped a depression! It was no recession it was a depression brought about by ceding control of our country to big business. The rights for workers that Sam Gompers fought for are being slowly eroded...and some of you idiots don't see the forest for the damned trees.
So no, BHO does not "need" to be primaried, he doesn't need to "get a wake up call" he doesn't need "a lesson" he needs YOU to get a clue as to how a country is run and get your ass involved the right way. Support him, understand that he is cleaning up this mess a little at a time and remember WE'RE the change we need to be!
Friday, September 23, 2011
I can't think of a witty title
So I took a vacation in August that allowed me to take a month sabbatical. In the midst of said vacation, Ole Blue got engaged, started planning his wedding and made things happy in his life. Along the way, I went back to school for my sixth consecutive semester and started to realize the sabbatical from politics outside of the few snarky comments I make under my real name were actually more healthful and easy for my psyche. I got lazy. I almost decided to disband the Blue conceit I allow for myself.
As beautiful as reality can be it also can be a saddening, maddening kick in the balls. Yesterday everything was good I was fighting (lovingly) with sweetie over our upcoming wedding cake and nuptials then I got news that showed me how lazy I was becoming. A name to some of you, a prophet to others and an all round good guy with biting insight died of a massive heart attack at the age of 34. Quincey (Big Dog On Em) Ivey, A man who was from Detroit, who created at least 4 pages on facebook and not only had a foot in the political pond but also had great taste in music, a wonderful sense of humor and knew his sports; silenced. One moment he was arguing about Troy Davis, joking about the Lions being underrated and posting a great video....then I read he passed. I cried. His was a voice that not only I looked forward to but his acceptance of a point well made with a simple "True Dat" was a stamp of approval that a lot of his friends look forward to. I know I did.
He also created a site called "Ghettonewz America". It was held to high journalistic standards and his was the voice that made it happen. He had a page called Mr. Know it All that allowed all sides to argue, mock and never fully resolve but allowed us to show we are know it alls. One of my favorite memories has nothing to do with politics, we belong to a group called Musical Thoughts where we escaped political talk and we had a "cheese" war. We went to find the cheesiest music videos we could find. Everything from Britney Spears to Justin Bieber was used...I'm proud to say it was the one time I got the "best" of him.
But it was in politics that Q, really shined. He asked for no quarter but that damn sure meant he gave none. He didn't mind an opinion that differed from his but you better have something better than Fox News or Huffington post. He wasn't going to give you a parroted view point from MSNBC, he was going to come strong and come proper. He wouldn't let you parrot his views either, you better have your own opinions. On an unusual view point for a liberal, he did NOT consider Bradley Manning a hero. I had his back there. He took pure hell from a lot of his friends even called a teabagger by some. He held firm to his beliefs. Quincey, Big Dog or Q whatever you are called my friend, you are a true American, and come the day we finally meet on the other side, you can tell me the truth about "Ghettonewz Heaven". I am sure I will be rapt...True Dat!
As beautiful as reality can be it also can be a saddening, maddening kick in the balls. Yesterday everything was good I was fighting (lovingly) with sweetie over our upcoming wedding cake and nuptials then I got news that showed me how lazy I was becoming. A name to some of you, a prophet to others and an all round good guy with biting insight died of a massive heart attack at the age of 34. Quincey (Big Dog On Em) Ivey, A man who was from Detroit, who created at least 4 pages on facebook and not only had a foot in the political pond but also had great taste in music, a wonderful sense of humor and knew his sports; silenced. One moment he was arguing about Troy Davis, joking about the Lions being underrated and posting a great video....then I read he passed. I cried. His was a voice that not only I looked forward to but his acceptance of a point well made with a simple "True Dat" was a stamp of approval that a lot of his friends look forward to. I know I did.
He also created a site called "Ghettonewz America". It was held to high journalistic standards and his was the voice that made it happen. He had a page called Mr. Know it All that allowed all sides to argue, mock and never fully resolve but allowed us to show we are know it alls. One of my favorite memories has nothing to do with politics, we belong to a group called Musical Thoughts where we escaped political talk and we had a "cheese" war. We went to find the cheesiest music videos we could find. Everything from Britney Spears to Justin Bieber was used...I'm proud to say it was the one time I got the "best" of him.
But it was in politics that Q, really shined. He asked for no quarter but that damn sure meant he gave none. He didn't mind an opinion that differed from his but you better have something better than Fox News or Huffington post. He wasn't going to give you a parroted view point from MSNBC, he was going to come strong and come proper. He wouldn't let you parrot his views either, you better have your own opinions. On an unusual view point for a liberal, he did NOT consider Bradley Manning a hero. I had his back there. He took pure hell from a lot of his friends even called a teabagger by some. He held firm to his beliefs. Quincey, Big Dog or Q whatever you are called my friend, you are a true American, and come the day we finally meet on the other side, you can tell me the truth about "Ghettonewz Heaven". I am sure I will be rapt...True Dat!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Try, Try, Try to Understand...He's a Magic Man, Mama
there ain't no pleasing some of you is there? I quote Heart here because you firebaggers/teagressives/progbaggers all believe you "hired" a magic man come november of 08. Worse, a lot of you believed because he is an African-American, you "hired" "Buck, the Wonder Pres." See there is a great movie called "Bowfinger" (as I thank you for the digression but I WILL tie it together) Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin Two great comics that are twice as funny together...Eddie plays a superstar action hero AND his dimwitted brother. The Superstar yells at his agent about how black actors can't get an oscar unless they are a slave or "retarded". The character "Kit" opines how his agent should find him a script where he's a "retarded" slave. (pp) "Go out there and look for 'Buck, The Wonder Slave"
How it chaps the hides of Jane Hamster (yes janie poo, I am one of the dumbest motherfuckers in the world) and her wanna be boy toy Cerk Uyoff (if Cenk Uygur is pronounced 'Jenk Yooger' you can imagine how Cerk Uyoff is pronounced) that as a liberal i have no use for a defaulting elf who has designs on making the country default like he did Cleveland. I also am not about a 70 year old socialist who been running up that hill for fifty years. The treads are damn near off that tire.
Of course, for years I have asked the reich wing have they no shame, can they look at themselves in the mirror? Can they? I think they can. Not because I have found an admiration for them, No because they see something they believe is wrong no matter how twisted their logic and they end up doing what is to be done. They vote they organize...on the left we bitch. We advocate our own "teach" Obama a lesson...now you're crying about Tea baggers and shit like that....SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!! YOU sat on your ass, YOU sipped your latte whilst Rome burned, YOU voted for a damn third party that you KNEW had less than a snowballs chance in hell...to get the fucking teabagging Rand Paul type in office...Now you want to accuse ME of drinking the koolaid?
Well guess what Firebagger/teagressive/progbagger, I'm done with you. You have joined the list of a certain half term Governor, and you beat out Bat Boy's spawn. I frankly have NO use for you and your's and If i see FIREDOGLAKE on any profile of yours I promise you will be deleted because we will no longer have a damn thing in common and the strange thing is, I have Red staters in my ring of friends. But if they ever follow the bullshit of Cerk and janiepoo hamster I am done. I need you assholes in my life like i need hemmorhoids
How it chaps the hides of Jane Hamster (yes janie poo, I am one of the dumbest motherfuckers in the world) and her wanna be boy toy Cerk Uyoff (if Cenk Uygur is pronounced 'Jenk Yooger' you can imagine how Cerk Uyoff is pronounced) that as a liberal i have no use for a defaulting elf who has designs on making the country default like he did Cleveland. I also am not about a 70 year old socialist who been running up that hill for fifty years. The treads are damn near off that tire.
Of course, for years I have asked the reich wing have they no shame, can they look at themselves in the mirror? Can they? I think they can. Not because I have found an admiration for them, No because they see something they believe is wrong no matter how twisted their logic and they end up doing what is to be done. They vote they organize...on the left we bitch. We advocate our own "teach" Obama a lesson...now you're crying about Tea baggers and shit like that....SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!! YOU sat on your ass, YOU sipped your latte whilst Rome burned, YOU voted for a damn third party that you KNEW had less than a snowballs chance in hell...to get the fucking teabagging Rand Paul type in office...Now you want to accuse ME of drinking the koolaid?
Well guess what Firebagger/teagressive/progbagger, I'm done with you. You have joined the list of a certain half term Governor, and you beat out Bat Boy's spawn. I frankly have NO use for you and your's and If i see FIREDOGLAKE on any profile of yours I promise you will be deleted because we will no longer have a damn thing in common and the strange thing is, I have Red staters in my ring of friends. But if they ever follow the bullshit of Cerk and janiepoo hamster I am done. I need you assholes in my life like i need hemmorhoids
Saturday, July 30, 2011
We are Spirits, In the Material World, Are spirits, In the Material World...
so between posts whose titles quote the Dixie Chicks, Edwyn Collins and Cee-Lo Green, I have become a pearl to a lot of my fellow lefties oyster ie an irritant. I am too mean, it almost sounds like a right wing, I am surely drinking the kool aid, no i am snorting the kool aid...good! As ole Blue stated in a response to a post I am tired of being nice, of being calm, cool and collected, and then due to lines and misinformation and piss poor press, giving the worlds greatest concession speeches.
I point at some of the old school lefties that have watched the character assassination over 40+ years and still maintain the "Pollyanna" attitude. Look I too want us to debate issues, I too am sick of ad hominem attacks, also sick of red herrings but I really am sick of hearing great ideas pissed on because "we're to nice and classy to 'go there' and be like the GOP". Ad hominems don't piss me off as bad as a lefty that sees the bullshit then continues to vomit out sunshine and unicorns, and THEY only piss me off a little less than the teagressives.
WAKE UP Lefties, this isn't a case being nice. Our president is under a siege every god damned day! If you want me to start hugging trees and laughing at these seditious republicans, then damn it get on board and understand no less than our country is at state. The time for nice should have passed at McGovern. We have heard all of our lives that "the left is soft on defense" REALLY? who won WWII? And which right winger made the ballsy move to end the war in Japan? Which Right winger made the moves needed to make in 1918 during WWI? Which Right winger crapped and pissed himself to get out of Vietnam? (Ted Nugent). Which Right winger kept us safe from terrorism? Cause if old Blues memory serves, a certain "Muslim" president called the Taliban "the moral equivilent of our founding fathers" St. Ronnie of Eureka in case i have to remind.
I don't want anyone to do anything illegal or untoward to anyone. We will do things the correct way, get legally pissed off but dammit y'all DO get mad. the debt ceiling is simply a red herring to fuck over our president and some of you are busy worried about Bernie and the elf that screwed Cleveland or you're worried about BHO being "Bushbama" or for God's sake worried about a short order cook being to mean, STOP! Stop the clueless act! My old man used to say "I didn't get to be 60 by being stupid" Well, I gotta figure that's true about us too. Stop pretending shit's fine our country is in peril and we need to pull our shit together!
I point at some of the old school lefties that have watched the character assassination over 40+ years and still maintain the "Pollyanna" attitude. Look I too want us to debate issues, I too am sick of ad hominem attacks, also sick of red herrings but I really am sick of hearing great ideas pissed on because "we're to nice and classy to 'go there' and be like the GOP". Ad hominems don't piss me off as bad as a lefty that sees the bullshit then continues to vomit out sunshine and unicorns, and THEY only piss me off a little less than the teagressives.
WAKE UP Lefties, this isn't a case being nice. Our president is under a siege every god damned day! If you want me to start hugging trees and laughing at these seditious republicans, then damn it get on board and understand no less than our country is at state. The time for nice should have passed at McGovern. We have heard all of our lives that "the left is soft on defense" REALLY? who won WWII? And which right winger made the ballsy move to end the war in Japan? Which Right winger made the moves needed to make in 1918 during WWI? Which Right winger crapped and pissed himself to get out of Vietnam? (Ted Nugent). Which Right winger kept us safe from terrorism? Cause if old Blues memory serves, a certain "Muslim" president called the Taliban "the moral equivilent of our founding fathers" St. Ronnie of Eureka in case i have to remind.
I don't want anyone to do anything illegal or untoward to anyone. We will do things the correct way, get legally pissed off but dammit y'all DO get mad. the debt ceiling is simply a red herring to fuck over our president and some of you are busy worried about Bernie and the elf that screwed Cleveland or you're worried about BHO being "Bushbama" or for God's sake worried about a short order cook being to mean, STOP! Stop the clueless act! My old man used to say "I didn't get to be 60 by being stupid" Well, I gotta figure that's true about us too. Stop pretending shit's fine our country is in peril and we need to pull our shit together!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
I see you running on down the Pres I love, I'm like FUCK YOU!
I keep hearing how badly we need the teagressives on our side. How we need their intelligence and their views to aid us in helping PBHO to help guide us out of the Bush imposed forest of debt and war and bullshit from 2001-09. Oh, we on the left need these people because they helped PBHO get elected in the first place and they will help us in 12 retain this great and good man as president. OH the progbaggers will be so willing not to allow us to hear the grating sound of the words "President Bat Boy's Spawn"....
I call BULLSHIT! I consider progbaggers to be worse than the reich wing. I know what frankly to expect from the reich wing. I know their racist tactics. I know their history of misinformation, I know that historically we on the left have cleaned their mess and 30 years later they will put their incompetence on display and blame the president from 30 years earlier. In the 70's inflation was actually Roosevelts fault. When Bush W had his economic downfall it wasn't tax guts, stimulus' and two inflated wars...it was Clinton.
I see a current President in a thankless situation and right at the moment I also see people forgetting what was stated in November of 08 "We are the change we need to be" (pp) Nope damn near from the outset these teagressive/progbaggers have had buyers remorse and begged for an old socialist (while crying McCain was to old but they sure love them some Bernie Sanders born 8 September 1941) or an elf that screwed a major American city (Cleveland, being the first major US city to default) but he can run an entire country...RIIIIIIIIIGHT (thank you Bill Cosby)Thanks, but no thanks to Kucinich.
Yes we need the teagressives my ass. We need people to be critical and look if they have the mental ability, and have more than 22% of people that proclaim themselves liberal to get off their historically lazy ass and vote! We need Teagressives as badly as apparently we needed Pakistan to be our ally in the war on terror as they were hiding bin Laden.
I understand some Proggers will be pissed at me, I mean you're so damned smart and I am not. I am merely a middle aged college student and short order cook. I don't have the intelligence to grasp the issues with your nuanced viewpoint that you have had all of 28 months to formulate it's not like the mess hasn't been made over and over in the past say 80 years.
I call BULLSHIT! I consider progbaggers to be worse than the reich wing. I know what frankly to expect from the reich wing. I know their racist tactics. I know their history of misinformation, I know that historically we on the left have cleaned their mess and 30 years later they will put their incompetence on display and blame the president from 30 years earlier. In the 70's inflation was actually Roosevelts fault. When Bush W had his economic downfall it wasn't tax guts, stimulus' and two inflated wars...it was Clinton.
I see a current President in a thankless situation and right at the moment I also see people forgetting what was stated in November of 08 "We are the change we need to be" (pp) Nope damn near from the outset these teagressive/progbaggers have had buyers remorse and begged for an old socialist (while crying McCain was to old but they sure love them some Bernie Sanders born 8 September 1941) or an elf that screwed a major American city (Cleveland, being the first major US city to default) but he can run an entire country...RIIIIIIIIIGHT (thank you Bill Cosby)Thanks, but no thanks to Kucinich.
Yes we need the teagressives my ass. We need people to be critical and look if they have the mental ability, and have more than 22% of people that proclaim themselves liberal to get off their historically lazy ass and vote! We need Teagressives as badly as apparently we needed Pakistan to be our ally in the war on terror as they were hiding bin Laden.
I understand some Proggers will be pissed at me, I mean you're so damned smart and I am not. I am merely a middle aged college student and short order cook. I don't have the intelligence to grasp the issues with your nuanced viewpoint that you have had all of 28 months to formulate it's not like the mess hasn't been made over and over in the past say 80 years.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I'm Not Ready to Make Nice, I'm Not Ready to Back Down. I'm Mad as Hell and I Don't have Time to go Round and Round and Round
"I'm John Boehner, I am the speaker of the House of representatives" That was the only two truths spoken by Representative Boehner. Oh sure technically there was truth in his cry for bi partisan bill of course the bi partys were blue dogs that are DINO but this is a case of speaking within the letter of the law but not the spirit.
I have witnessed no great president in my life. I have no FDR to look at, I have no Truman that inspired me and I believe that BHO WILL be that man. Like any president that looks to improve the country he catches hell that idiots tend not to. It's amazing we would rather have a president we could drink a beer with or go fishing with as opposed to the smartest guy in the room. I have never seen such blatant disrespect for a president when Bush would stutter through a Presser, When St. Ronnie of Eureka would say "Well....", even while robbing us blind Nixon would say "I'm Not a Crook"....the only times you had a rebuttal of what the POTUS would say is The Weekly Radio Address or after the State of the Union address. Now, we see not only the rebuttal from the GOP on the most recent SOTU we also see the batshit crazy rebuttal from the seditious play known as the "Tea Party". Now last night POTUS states we need to work together and if we go on this facade of "shared sacrifice" then we all have to dig down deep and make it happen including the millionaires and billionaires. Then The weeper of the house demands equal time to spew his untruths and the whines "I didn't sign up to go Mano a mano with the President" NO you didn't IF you were an American you were elected to work WITH the president but since you're a neo grand wizard you expected BHO to roll over with the wonder that is you Mr. Weeper. Yes, I am going there. I know your type sir, it frosts your balls that the black man is the smartest man in the room. You can't do what daddy did in Ohio with Jim Crow oh no, you have to listen and work with the man.
As we see under the last democrat president, your party ruined the threat of impeachment and I figure whatever happens with the debt ceiling you bitches will also impeach PBHO. you've already thrown it out there. See I have to believe that there will be a justice done in 2012. So guess what bring it out GOP and all you Kochsuckers, I have been bitter but playing nice, but now me and Natalie Maines are laying it on the line
I have witnessed no great president in my life. I have no FDR to look at, I have no Truman that inspired me and I believe that BHO WILL be that man. Like any president that looks to improve the country he catches hell that idiots tend not to. It's amazing we would rather have a president we could drink a beer with or go fishing with as opposed to the smartest guy in the room. I have never seen such blatant disrespect for a president when Bush would stutter through a Presser, When St. Ronnie of Eureka would say "Well....", even while robbing us blind Nixon would say "I'm Not a Crook"....the only times you had a rebuttal of what the POTUS would say is The Weekly Radio Address or after the State of the Union address. Now, we see not only the rebuttal from the GOP on the most recent SOTU we also see the batshit crazy rebuttal from the seditious play known as the "Tea Party". Now last night POTUS states we need to work together and if we go on this facade of "shared sacrifice" then we all have to dig down deep and make it happen including the millionaires and billionaires. Then The weeper of the house demands equal time to spew his untruths and the whines "I didn't sign up to go Mano a mano with the President" NO you didn't IF you were an American you were elected to work WITH the president but since you're a neo grand wizard you expected BHO to roll over with the wonder that is you Mr. Weeper. Yes, I am going there. I know your type sir, it frosts your balls that the black man is the smartest man in the room. You can't do what daddy did in Ohio with Jim Crow oh no, you have to listen and work with the man.
As we see under the last democrat president, your party ruined the threat of impeachment and I figure whatever happens with the debt ceiling you bitches will also impeach PBHO. you've already thrown it out there. See I have to believe that there will be a justice done in 2012. So guess what bring it out GOP and all you Kochsuckers, I have been bitter but playing nice, but now me and Natalie Maines are laying it on the line
Monday, July 25, 2011
This old town's changed so much, Don't feel like I belong...
I was there. I saw the day it happened. When the news shifted from facts of the day to it's present state of tabloid sensationalizing. To the point of lazy journo ethics....yes I was there that day. Now I won't reveal myself as Lucifer as The Rolling Stones did. No no Old Blue was then Young Blue. I had just walked my dog around the block and when I had got back in the news had broken, Elvis Presley was dead. He was my favorite uncles' favorite singer. Now Uncle Jerry had passed 3 years before but before he did, he had turned Young Blue onto Elvis. To me this was actually a double blow almost like I had another death in the family. Now, every night we watched Channel 7 Action News then we switched to channel 2 to watch Walter Cronkite. There was something President Carter did, and something that the house and senate were showing the opposite of progress IS Congress....Then Mr. Cronkite mentioned Elvis. It was his third story. It was appropriate for the times. you got the hard news the news that mattered THEN did you get the celebrity obit. Well the outrage that Walter received for daring to not make Elvis his top story was unprecedented. Granted Elvis was Rock n roll to a generation but he was merely a celebrity we have real hard news to get too....
I relate that tale to get to this one. Someone went to a Norwegian government building and bombed it, then he turned around and went to a childrens camp and shot up kids. over 80 kids were killed...and for a day we never knew the name of Anders Behring Breivik. We heard he's a right wing pig, we hear he's getting his information from the unabomber, he fell in love with the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck...but we didn't know his name or why for fucks sake would he blast away at kids. BUT we sure as hell knew what we were doing the second we heard Amy Winehouse was found dead. As a recovering soul myself I DO feel for her, I have wrote about my struggles and some I have noticed about some people but while her passing is sad Mostly for her family and perhaps some ardent fans, the weekend really should have been more about finding out about the sick fucker Anders Breivik.
I put the lazy journo ethics on...US. we no longer demand news. We have had a generation of overgrown kids that say "ohhhh the news depresses me I can't watch it" or they can't tell you one bill that Reid sponsors but because they watch Fox news keeping it "exciting" they know that it's "wrong for America". My own pal was telling me that "you gotta admit Fox keeps news exciting"...and it is that attitude that tells you why journalists no longer exist in the US. All you have is commentators and idealogues. There are no more Journalists that dig for the truth, that do give a shit about our country. Whether they are on the right OR left, they go for the easy story instead of digging beneath the surface. In my English Comp classes they demand I go deeper than the surface, we do not hold our own journalists or politicians to that same ideal.
There is no liberal bias in the media Jon Stewart was right. There IS a sensationalistic bias,,,and i witnessed the day it happened and when young Blue heard that Cronkite caught hell, I went into my bedroom and played my old "You Can Hear It Now" albums my mother had from Edward R. Murrow to remind me who and what in life was important
I relate that tale to get to this one. Someone went to a Norwegian government building and bombed it, then he turned around and went to a childrens camp and shot up kids. over 80 kids were killed...and for a day we never knew the name of Anders Behring Breivik. We heard he's a right wing pig, we hear he's getting his information from the unabomber, he fell in love with the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck...but we didn't know his name or why for fucks sake would he blast away at kids. BUT we sure as hell knew what we were doing the second we heard Amy Winehouse was found dead. As a recovering soul myself I DO feel for her, I have wrote about my struggles and some I have noticed about some people but while her passing is sad Mostly for her family and perhaps some ardent fans, the weekend really should have been more about finding out about the sick fucker Anders Breivik.
I put the lazy journo ethics on...US. we no longer demand news. We have had a generation of overgrown kids that say "ohhhh the news depresses me I can't watch it" or they can't tell you one bill that Reid sponsors but because they watch Fox news keeping it "exciting" they know that it's "wrong for America". My own pal was telling me that "you gotta admit Fox keeps news exciting"...and it is that attitude that tells you why journalists no longer exist in the US. All you have is commentators and idealogues. There are no more Journalists that dig for the truth, that do give a shit about our country. Whether they are on the right OR left, they go for the easy story instead of digging beneath the surface. In my English Comp classes they demand I go deeper than the surface, we do not hold our own journalists or politicians to that same ideal.
There is no liberal bias in the media Jon Stewart was right. There IS a sensationalistic bias,,,and i witnessed the day it happened and when young Blue heard that Cronkite caught hell, I went into my bedroom and played my old "You Can Hear It Now" albums my mother had from Edward R. Murrow to remind me who and what in life was important
Sunday, July 17, 2011
it's all just a little bit of history repeating...
Just a week ago it seems like such a long time ago but that was before the whole News Corp mess came up where it looks like Rupert Murdoch was ready to join his kindred soul William Randolph Hearst in Hell. It appears that News of the World was taking phone messages from a poor dead murder victim and clearing messages so they could get that scoop and that is the tip of the iceberg. Hugh Grant, Jude Law have come out and it appears that it will stretch to 9/11 victims and all the way to Australia. Halllelujah! We caught the rat bastard Murdoch....
But, let's put that champagne back on ice. Going back almost 40 years, the republican party was fighting for it's very survival after the Watergate scandal. Nixon had to actually resign the presidency, Ford was the guy you liked as your neighbor to share a beer and talk sports and work on your car with...but was he really entrusted to run the country? All it took was Jimmy Carter to be a little to forward thinking for the country and the republican party came back in a sick reinvention and it culminated with the reign of error that was the shrub.
Just a week ago i mentioned the sad story of Lynddie England and her disgusting photos at Abu Ghraib...Terrell Prior at Ohio State and Mark McGwire and Major League Baseball...Murdoch has his flunkie now. Given the interpretation of the Patriot Act and some slick lawyering, what makes anyone think that Murdoch is in any fear whatsoever? He has all but renounced his Australian citizenship so he really doesn't give a shit about what happens there. Like I stated last week, ALL the above mentioned should bare their crosses in these various messes. England is no saint for taking pictures of prisoners in vulnerable positions, McGwire, Bonds, Clemens et al, need to be accountable for their steroid intake, Prior needs to be accountable for his actions at THE Ohio State University and Rebekkah Brooks needs to take her medicine in this News Corp scandal.
But if you think Murdoch, who has his grubby fucking claw in the worlds number one media market, with the number one station, preaching his very special brand of hate harm and discontent is worried? Recent history is on the side of him crying all the way to the bank.
But, let's put that champagne back on ice. Going back almost 40 years, the republican party was fighting for it's very survival after the Watergate scandal. Nixon had to actually resign the presidency, Ford was the guy you liked as your neighbor to share a beer and talk sports and work on your car with...but was he really entrusted to run the country? All it took was Jimmy Carter to be a little to forward thinking for the country and the republican party came back in a sick reinvention and it culminated with the reign of error that was the shrub.
Just a week ago i mentioned the sad story of Lynddie England and her disgusting photos at Abu Ghraib...Terrell Prior at Ohio State and Mark McGwire and Major League Baseball...Murdoch has his flunkie now. Given the interpretation of the Patriot Act and some slick lawyering, what makes anyone think that Murdoch is in any fear whatsoever? He has all but renounced his Australian citizenship so he really doesn't give a shit about what happens there. Like I stated last week, ALL the above mentioned should bare their crosses in these various messes. England is no saint for taking pictures of prisoners in vulnerable positions, McGwire, Bonds, Clemens et al, need to be accountable for their steroid intake, Prior needs to be accountable for his actions at THE Ohio State University and Rebekkah Brooks needs to take her medicine in this News Corp scandal.
But if you think Murdoch, who has his grubby fucking claw in the worlds number one media market, with the number one station, preaching his very special brand of hate harm and discontent is worried? Recent history is on the side of him crying all the way to the bank.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Here we are, born to be kings, we're the princes of the universe...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/13/267791/mcconnell-hates-democracy/
Open the link. I dare you. After 30+ years of setting themselves up as the defender of the Constitution, the end of be all of American Liberty and Freedom, finally proof that the Reich wing really thinks of the Constitution as the words of George W. Bush says...."A Goddamn piece of paper". Toilet tissue to be more precise.
See it IS easy to swear to uphold the Constitution when your party has raped it and left it for dead. Did Blue just go there? Hell yes. I am aware that usage of the term rape is a powerful one and disgusting and violent and crude. The thing is it is also factual.
Yertle the turtle (as Mitch McConnell is known from this day forward) is suggesting that we the American people, who put his sorry ass into office, who elected his alleged icon St. Ronnie of Eureka, whose ancestors put in the greatest president in history FDR are now incapable of making the simple decision of who we want to run this country. Now to Blue it has been obvious since 1980 that a lot of his fellow citizens are horses asses that don't read and need their news and history in small bite sized morsels so they can continue feeding their fat asses with McDonalds and Taco Bell but to see this and know that there are still some idiots that will back Yertle and i will lay good money get this asshole re-elected baffles the ever loving shit out of me. HEY RED, Yertle told you you're an idiot and his infinite wisdom in re writing the Constitution is all that will save you! He claims "Elections don't work" Well if you're using 2000 as a barometer, we sure as HELL know it didn't work then. I mean that was a clusterfuck from the word go. 2004 was shady but as much we knew in our guts something was up there wasn't clear cut proof that Cheney and Rove stole that election, yet in 2008, with a clear majority (not quite a landslide but sizable enough that John McBush er Cain conceded before midnight eastern time) BHO was elected president...NOW elections don't work you know yertle fuck you! seriously fuck you and the horse you rode in on!
The Constitution has worked just fine for 222 years in spite of you bastards and guess what, it will outlive you! You want a balanced budget amendment? Fine, stop fucking your country and get a workable budget. this is the Bluest Blue has been in a long time. You want to play your reindeer games with my money, you want to misinform the public? Fine, that's the outhouse that is USA politics. You want to further use MY Constitution as your personal shit paper...well sir, that's one hornet's nest that is not a wise one to stir.
Open the link. I dare you. After 30+ years of setting themselves up as the defender of the Constitution, the end of be all of American Liberty and Freedom, finally proof that the Reich wing really thinks of the Constitution as the words of George W. Bush says...."A Goddamn piece of paper". Toilet tissue to be more precise.
See it IS easy to swear to uphold the Constitution when your party has raped it and left it for dead. Did Blue just go there? Hell yes. I am aware that usage of the term rape is a powerful one and disgusting and violent and crude. The thing is it is also factual.
Yertle the turtle (as Mitch McConnell is known from this day forward) is suggesting that we the American people, who put his sorry ass into office, who elected his alleged icon St. Ronnie of Eureka, whose ancestors put in the greatest president in history FDR are now incapable of making the simple decision of who we want to run this country. Now to Blue it has been obvious since 1980 that a lot of his fellow citizens are horses asses that don't read and need their news and history in small bite sized morsels so they can continue feeding their fat asses with McDonalds and Taco Bell but to see this and know that there are still some idiots that will back Yertle and i will lay good money get this asshole re-elected baffles the ever loving shit out of me. HEY RED, Yertle told you you're an idiot and his infinite wisdom in re writing the Constitution is all that will save you! He claims "Elections don't work" Well if you're using 2000 as a barometer, we sure as HELL know it didn't work then. I mean that was a clusterfuck from the word go. 2004 was shady but as much we knew in our guts something was up there wasn't clear cut proof that Cheney and Rove stole that election, yet in 2008, with a clear majority (not quite a landslide but sizable enough that John McBush er Cain conceded before midnight eastern time) BHO was elected president...NOW elections don't work you know yertle fuck you! seriously fuck you and the horse you rode in on!
The Constitution has worked just fine for 222 years in spite of you bastards and guess what, it will outlive you! You want a balanced budget amendment? Fine, stop fucking your country and get a workable budget. this is the Bluest Blue has been in a long time. You want to play your reindeer games with my money, you want to misinform the public? Fine, that's the outhouse that is USA politics. You want to further use MY Constitution as your personal shit paper...well sir, that's one hornet's nest that is not a wise one to stir.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
You can tell everyone i'm a down disgrace, drag my name all over the place I don't care anymore!
The more I know the less I want to. My fellow liberals are all tied up over the fact that BHO called the GOP on their bluff about the debt ceiling. It was a calculated gamble but he knows that to make our president look bad they will on the right stick to their agenda. He even knew some dyed to the wool lefties would crap their drawers over just mentioning the words he mentioned. He offered cuts to social security. IN RETURN, the bush cuts to the higher income people have to be ceded. Knowing what he knew he took the republicans, bent them over his knee and spanked their ass candy apple red.
of course panicky liberals even lead by moveon.org, wet themselves over this game of chicken. "I will never contribute to Obama's campaign again!" "How could you Mr. President?" are about the two nicer things I heard about Obama's "audacity". Comparing him to the shrub and of course the general racist crap the worst. Some of you "disheartened" liberals KNEW that Obama was the smartest man in the room yet when the chips were down...you scurried like rats. Hasn't living more than say 30 years taught some of you morons to look under the shiny surface? NO you heard "SACRED COW TOUCHED EEEEEK!" and when some of you idiots saw what he did, did you cowards apologize for the inflammatory shit you wrote? NO! None of you even acknowledged that he played a low risk, high reward move to show what dicks the republicans have been over this whole budget crisis. Again, Progbaggers or teagressives (take your pick tools) i have no use for you, you sold out to the kochsuckers in december of 08 and you bore me, but some good libs that panicked in a heartbeat YOU disappoint me. I know 'who the hell is Blue?" and I concede I AM nobody but another US liberal that understands yes politics is politics and to make a point you have to 'double dog dare' and I thought we on the left were the smart ones, the non reactionary ones. No we are as knee jerk as the insult of the 70's implies and I am a left winger pointer this out to you.
Again, as move on says move on, understand that BHO knows what he's doing and either get on board or don't but stop the knee jerk overreaction and like BHO said...be the change we need to be!
of course panicky liberals even lead by moveon.org, wet themselves over this game of chicken. "I will never contribute to Obama's campaign again!" "How could you Mr. President?" are about the two nicer things I heard about Obama's "audacity". Comparing him to the shrub and of course the general racist crap the worst. Some of you "disheartened" liberals KNEW that Obama was the smartest man in the room yet when the chips were down...you scurried like rats. Hasn't living more than say 30 years taught some of you morons to look under the shiny surface? NO you heard "SACRED COW TOUCHED EEEEEK!" and when some of you idiots saw what he did, did you cowards apologize for the inflammatory shit you wrote? NO! None of you even acknowledged that he played a low risk, high reward move to show what dicks the republicans have been over this whole budget crisis. Again, Progbaggers or teagressives (take your pick tools) i have no use for you, you sold out to the kochsuckers in december of 08 and you bore me, but some good libs that panicked in a heartbeat YOU disappoint me. I know 'who the hell is Blue?" and I concede I AM nobody but another US liberal that understands yes politics is politics and to make a point you have to 'double dog dare' and I thought we on the left were the smart ones, the non reactionary ones. No we are as knee jerk as the insult of the 70's implies and I am a left winger pointer this out to you.
Again, as move on says move on, understand that BHO knows what he's doing and either get on board or don't but stop the knee jerk overreaction and like BHO said...be the change we need to be!
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Show Me a Hero, I'll Show You a Bum
I apologize for the delay of about 3 weeks. Life outside of the blog has interfered with me and I will try to be more diligent.
Terrell Pryor formerly of THE Ohio State University broke some rules and in Columbus, Ohio he is treated as a criminal. Jim Tressel the former coach of THE Ohio State University broke rules and lied to the NCAA and in Columbus, Ohio he's a conquering hero. Maybe it was his 9-1 record versus the University of Michigan, maybe it was his Number 1 in the Bowl Championship series in 2001 who knows...
Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa allegedly took steroids and enhanced their performance. With their bobblehead looks and sometimes questionable attitudes, it's tough to argue against that allegation...Yet in 1998 the commissioner of baseball Bud Selig, okayed a baseball promotional ad that claimed "Chicks dig the long ball". One of the effects of steroids is that one can continue to work out when their bodies should be resting. This is due to artificial testosterone being replaced into ones body. Now why the head grows it's a mystery to me, but while the testicles shrink makes perfect sense but that's neither here nor there. Bonds, McGwire, Clemens and Sosa while greats of their era won't be able to get to the Hall Of Fame without a ticket, while the architect of the proliferation of the Steroid Era will be forever immortalized by...doing nothing!
Lyndie Englund and many of her cohorts were pictured putting Muslim prisoners in positions that were insulting to their faith. They were put into humiliating positions and had those pictures taken for posterity or a friggin joke. Englund and her lower level ilk caught hell...Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush live off their retirement funds.
Do I excuse Pryor and the rest? No, they did do wrong and of course my point in this blog is accountability. But the way Blue was raised by his old man (a Roosevelt democrat thank you) You have to accept your errors because whatever punishment you get trust me the person above you is getting deeper shit than you are. Sorry Dad, from what it has been proven for a while, what with Golden Parachutes for failed financial executives and coaches and commissioners playing dumb and chief executives never hearing of "Abu Ghraib" tells me that you were sadly wrong. It makes a middle aged guy wonder how one day he will tell his future charges the happy horseshit of being accountable when it appears that if you're middle class or below you get screwed and your boss just because he (and lets not kid ourselves it will be HE) gets a pat on the back and maybe keys to the city.
It isn't a race or gender thing, it's a perceived class thing. Them that got, gets. Until some of my red friends that do have a lick of sense realize that things they were taught ain't being put into practice then its only gonna get worse.
Terrell Pryor formerly of THE Ohio State University broke some rules and in Columbus, Ohio he is treated as a criminal. Jim Tressel the former coach of THE Ohio State University broke rules and lied to the NCAA and in Columbus, Ohio he's a conquering hero. Maybe it was his 9-1 record versus the University of Michigan, maybe it was his Number 1 in the Bowl Championship series in 2001 who knows...
Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa allegedly took steroids and enhanced their performance. With their bobblehead looks and sometimes questionable attitudes, it's tough to argue against that allegation...Yet in 1998 the commissioner of baseball Bud Selig, okayed a baseball promotional ad that claimed "Chicks dig the long ball". One of the effects of steroids is that one can continue to work out when their bodies should be resting. This is due to artificial testosterone being replaced into ones body. Now why the head grows it's a mystery to me, but while the testicles shrink makes perfect sense but that's neither here nor there. Bonds, McGwire, Clemens and Sosa while greats of their era won't be able to get to the Hall Of Fame without a ticket, while the architect of the proliferation of the Steroid Era will be forever immortalized by...doing nothing!
Lyndie Englund and many of her cohorts were pictured putting Muslim prisoners in positions that were insulting to their faith. They were put into humiliating positions and had those pictures taken for posterity or a friggin joke. Englund and her lower level ilk caught hell...Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush live off their retirement funds.
Do I excuse Pryor and the rest? No, they did do wrong and of course my point in this blog is accountability. But the way Blue was raised by his old man (a Roosevelt democrat thank you) You have to accept your errors because whatever punishment you get trust me the person above you is getting deeper shit than you are. Sorry Dad, from what it has been proven for a while, what with Golden Parachutes for failed financial executives and coaches and commissioners playing dumb and chief executives never hearing of "Abu Ghraib" tells me that you were sadly wrong. It makes a middle aged guy wonder how one day he will tell his future charges the happy horseshit of being accountable when it appears that if you're middle class or below you get screwed and your boss just because he (and lets not kid ourselves it will be HE) gets a pat on the back and maybe keys to the city.
It isn't a race or gender thing, it's a perceived class thing. Them that got, gets. Until some of my red friends that do have a lick of sense realize that things they were taught ain't being put into practice then its only gonna get worse.
Monday, June 27, 2011
they subjugate the meek, but it's the rhetoric of failure
Okay, let me tell ya what I envision the press is. They get the information, they research the information, they write out the information and we disseminate said information. I am old enough to remember Cronkite, Reynolds, Huntley/Brinkley. They had the idea down. Joe Wershba who recently passed took on the McCarthy machine knowing Friendly and Murrow had his back. Even back then Paley believed in a well informed populace and backed Murrow. We have no one standing up like that now. Maybe its the proliferation of news and our desire to hear our view parroted that prevents us from getting news, perhaps it's all we can do to stomach our news in little bite sized morsels for our feeble brains to process...perhaps we're to lazy with all of the information out there at our own hands to dig and look and see what IS going on. I know our parents and grandparents had to have their news handed out by reputable newsfolks. Now, we look to the celebrity to spoon feed our news to us.
The blame for the growth of O'Reilly, Hannity, even Olbermann and O'Donnell lies not with them they merely are conduits. No it's OUR fault. We have allowed them to form all of our views and repeat the things we want to hear. Well folks all of us Blues, Purples and Reds have to stand up and demand real news and real context given to us. A week after his monumental fail with Jon Stewart, Chris Wallace actually stood up and asked Bat Boy's Spawn if she was a "Flake". He has since been "asked" to apologize to the flavor of the month and even though we know she's bat guano insane if Fox tells it's sheeple to capitulate to the Government whore that she is, they do...that's not journalism folks, this is glorified cheerleading. we're as guilty on the left, waiting with bated breath the return of Olbermann, we cried over the suspension of Schultz, and we wait for Rachel's reaction to find out if we should be mortified...We have the ability to know what's up. We have the net, we have the brain power, we have great capabilities than our parents...it is now up to us to really do the hard work and dig and truly form OUR opinions.
The blame for the growth of O'Reilly, Hannity, even Olbermann and O'Donnell lies not with them they merely are conduits. No it's OUR fault. We have allowed them to form all of our views and repeat the things we want to hear. Well folks all of us Blues, Purples and Reds have to stand up and demand real news and real context given to us. A week after his monumental fail with Jon Stewart, Chris Wallace actually stood up and asked Bat Boy's Spawn if she was a "Flake". He has since been "asked" to apologize to the flavor of the month and even though we know she's bat guano insane if Fox tells it's sheeple to capitulate to the Government whore that she is, they do...that's not journalism folks, this is glorified cheerleading. we're as guilty on the left, waiting with bated breath the return of Olbermann, we cried over the suspension of Schultz, and we wait for Rachel's reaction to find out if we should be mortified...We have the ability to know what's up. We have the net, we have the brain power, we have great capabilities than our parents...it is now up to us to really do the hard work and dig and truly form OUR opinions.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Jon Stewart- The Filet Mignon of Bulls**t?
So clearly Jon Stewart continues the tradition began by Will Rogers and carried by the legends like Bruce, Carlin, Hicks, et al. The jester who cites that the emperor is nude whilst he carries on as though he were wearing fancy duds.
Mr. Stewart went to the den of thieves and actually got one to admit that yes they were thieves. Stewart wasn't even callous about it. He called it effective and that they have a niche. Granted it is a disgusting niche. It's Goebbelesque in its deception, but it is a niche that speaks to it's viewer. He gave the host Chris Wallace a credit that must make his father cringe but still he gave him that credit. Mr. Wallace came out and admitted that Fox News does indeed cater to the right. Stewart even admitted to Wallace that BHO was a disappointment to him. He even clearly stated that there is no left wing bias in the media. It IS more a bias toward laziness and sensationalism. Jon Stewart carried himself well in the interview. He made the point that he IS a comedian and when Wallace brought up "proof" that Stewart uses it as a shield Stewart in essence told him "Yeah, and...?"
No here's where Mr Stewart "proves" himself to be a liar. He told Wallace that Fox Viewers are constantly rating last in every poll in information received. They constantly misinform their viewer and that they are not above a lie to further their agenda.
Politifact.com. A watchdog for pundits I generally agree with, claimed that his statement was false. They even went so far as to show that Fox viewers were given better information than "The Daily Show". Of course it's not meant to be news!. It's not as slapsticky as it was when Lizz Winstead created it and Craig Kilbourne was the host. It has more (and it's hard to believe that this is the right word) gravitas than it did then, but at it's core it is a satire of news shows. If you get something out of it, good for you, but by no means is the daily show a true comprehensive "news" show. Though Jon Stewart has some earned journalistic credibility by showing all sides and even addressed the politifact "scandal".
Look all Jon Stewart is not the "news". Blue here isn't even news. I am clearly partisan. But what he has done shows more journalistic integrity than all the talking heads combined and perhaps that can be lesson if it is wanted to be applied by all the wanna be "news" shows.
Mr. Stewart went to the den of thieves and actually got one to admit that yes they were thieves. Stewart wasn't even callous about it. He called it effective and that they have a niche. Granted it is a disgusting niche. It's Goebbelesque in its deception, but it is a niche that speaks to it's viewer. He gave the host Chris Wallace a credit that must make his father cringe but still he gave him that credit. Mr. Wallace came out and admitted that Fox News does indeed cater to the right. Stewart even admitted to Wallace that BHO was a disappointment to him. He even clearly stated that there is no left wing bias in the media. It IS more a bias toward laziness and sensationalism. Jon Stewart carried himself well in the interview. He made the point that he IS a comedian and when Wallace brought up "proof" that Stewart uses it as a shield Stewart in essence told him "Yeah, and...?"
No here's where Mr Stewart "proves" himself to be a liar. He told Wallace that Fox Viewers are constantly rating last in every poll in information received. They constantly misinform their viewer and that they are not above a lie to further their agenda.
Politifact.com. A watchdog for pundits I generally agree with, claimed that his statement was false. They even went so far as to show that Fox viewers were given better information than "The Daily Show". Of course it's not meant to be news!. It's not as slapsticky as it was when Lizz Winstead created it and Craig Kilbourne was the host. It has more (and it's hard to believe that this is the right word) gravitas than it did then, but at it's core it is a satire of news shows. If you get something out of it, good for you, but by no means is the daily show a true comprehensive "news" show. Though Jon Stewart has some earned journalistic credibility by showing all sides and even addressed the politifact "scandal".
Look all Jon Stewart is not the "news". Blue here isn't even news. I am clearly partisan. But what he has done shows more journalistic integrity than all the talking heads combined and perhaps that can be lesson if it is wanted to be applied by all the wanna be "news" shows.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
My Life Has Been a Poor Attempt To Imitate the Man. I'm Just a Living Legacy to the Leader of the Band
It would be trite to boil down our father's influence to mere pop culture references. "Some dad's are like Archie Bunker and others are like Ward Cleaver..." It makes for a nice Hallmark moment, but it doesn't offer what our fathers offer us.
My solid liberal beliefs and by extension my sisters solid conservative beliefs extend from our fathers no nonsense, no bullshit attitude. My father was a WWII vet. Hence, my reverence toward the "greatest generation" that I DO believe in. He was awarded three bronze stars in the European theater. Should have been awarded a purple heart but refused to have his commanding officer put in for one because his injury "wasn't that bad". He would never tell a 'blood and guts' story. He took all that he saw and lived and died with it. He would regale us with humorous stories that made the world on the brink seem like a "crazy day at work".
He also worked for the local fire department for 25 years. He was a driver which means he was pretty damned good at his job. He loved listening to his Hank Williams albums and singing along (badly). He was surprisingly a good cook and it was always the attention to details he paid heed to. When big stuff went wrong, it was water off a ducks back...but God Forbid little Blue or little Red sis forgot to take out the trash.
I never took the opportunity to tell my father in his life what he meant to me but I have spent the rest of my life understanding his lessons. Thank you Dad and Happy Fathers day to you, and to all fathers out there.
My solid liberal beliefs and by extension my sisters solid conservative beliefs extend from our fathers no nonsense, no bullshit attitude. My father was a WWII vet. Hence, my reverence toward the "greatest generation" that I DO believe in. He was awarded three bronze stars in the European theater. Should have been awarded a purple heart but refused to have his commanding officer put in for one because his injury "wasn't that bad". He would never tell a 'blood and guts' story. He took all that he saw and lived and died with it. He would regale us with humorous stories that made the world on the brink seem like a "crazy day at work".
He also worked for the local fire department for 25 years. He was a driver which means he was pretty damned good at his job. He loved listening to his Hank Williams albums and singing along (badly). He was surprisingly a good cook and it was always the attention to details he paid heed to. When big stuff went wrong, it was water off a ducks back...but God Forbid little Blue or little Red sis forgot to take out the trash.
I never took the opportunity to tell my father in his life what he meant to me but I have spent the rest of my life understanding his lessons. Thank you Dad and Happy Fathers day to you, and to all fathers out there.
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