HAIKU: "Nature's Music"

Coyotes howl out
With late night full moon above.
Nature's music soothes.

HAIKU: "Winter's Arrival Is Certain"

Light snow has melted

Revealing lush, green grasses.
But color's time: fleeting.

LETTER: A Plea from Defense-less Buffalo Bils Fans

To Whom It May Concern:

Can someone please help the Buffalo Bills find their defense. It would be an effort that I am sure would be greatly welcomed and appreciated by millions (OK, thousands) of fans across the wilds of upstate New York and where ever else its natives do roam.

Rewards would take the form of chicken wings and snow shovels. 

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Signed,
Defense-less Bills Fans

Suddenly, it dawned on me: Holy shit, I have fucking blog!

Wait. I have a blog?!? Holy shit. I forgot.

But, I'm remembering now...

Wow...

... I better post something soon on this, although I have been saying that for the past several months that I would. Oh well, at least I'm consistent, lol.

Too tired to write. But not to post. So, something musical. Here a double-decker helping of The Cars. And it's a nice and live clip. Enjoy.

Yeah, OK, it's been forever...

... since I last posted. But I am back on the blogging bandwagon. In honor of the return, here's a little diddy (not P.Diddy, but a song diddy).

Text of letter to the President from Senator Edward M. Kennedy | Edward M. Kennedy

http://tedkennedy.org/pages/letter

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What?!? No new posts in days?!? This situation must soon be rectified.
Harumph.

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NYTimes: U.S. Still Using Security Firm It Broke With

No time to comment this morning, except to say this plain doesn't
surprise me one bit.

From The New York Times:

U.S. Still Using Security Firm It Broke With

The State Department continues to award the company formerly known as
Blackwater millions in contracts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/us/22intel.html

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Crazy clouds from the storms last night. We had a couple more cells
move through in the early A.M. (gotta love taking the dogs out at 4 in
the morning), and more storms expected to flare up later. But one
thing's certain: it's definately cooler than it was. Whew!

In the process of reactivating my blogging prowess (please note: you
were warned. Ha.)

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Breaking the silence (or "What, me post?")

Baci and Gypsy are excited. They are off and running to tell one and
all that their mama (that would be me) has made her first blog post in
more than a month.

Of course that post (which would be the one you're reading now) is
about me making my first blog post in more than a month. A bit
circular, I'll admit, but a post is a post is a post.

(Unless of course it's not, which then in that case, it would be
something different. And so, we'd look at it and point and say: "Hey,
that's not a post. It's something different," and move on with our
busy day.)

The song that just popped into my head

... is the Beautiful South's "Song for Whoever." I am going to have to find the CD now.

This actually happens to me all the time. A song just pops into my head, or I hear a song and I can't get it out of my head until I watch the video or get out the record and listen to the album it's from.

So, I think that this will be a new feature for the blog — it certainly will help me post more frequently, that's for sure. Because my head never stops spinning records. Trust me

Because when it comes to...

... a delicious political scandal, I don't care if it's right or left — just tawdry. :0)

Best hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold line: "...prostitution is about sex, and an escort is more about time spent..."

Um, yeah... sure it is...

(and, omg, Gawker is right: Sawyer's "Bitch, what?" facial expressions are priceless!!)

Oh my goodness!

It's been a week since my last post. This is entirely unacceptable, and will soon be rectified. Stay tuned...

John McCain: Yes, he was funny on SNL's Weekend Update

And here's your proof:



Best line: "... the Sad Grandpa..." lol

When Space Clams attack (or I hate the criminal enterprise known as "Scientology")

If you know me well, you know how much I despise Scientology and the upper echelons of their criminal enterprise. This is NO religion. Trust me. It's part cult, part mafioso. And if these freaky people had their way, they would rule the world (and for once, I am not kidding.).

Anyhow, Gawker rules on so many levels. And one of them is that they have the balls to continually report on these crazy mofos. Here is the latest. There was a recent protest by Anonymous, an online group that protests, monitors and challenges the so-called Church of Scientology (although most recently it made headlines for hacking into Sarah Palin's personal email account, where they found out she was frequently doing state business through it, and that's a no no).

And of course, eventually the CoS goon squad showed up, and while their thugs had hog tied one protester, they politely took the time to beat another one whens she tried to grab the hog-tied guy's digital camera. Such lovely church-going people, aren't they? Can someone please explain to me how these effs STILL have their nonprofit status?!? Anyone?!? Sigh.

OK, color me stupid. Seriously (or Jenny McCarthy is hot!)

When I read this Reuters story's headline "Judge halts New York plan to turn yellow cabs green," I freaked out. I thought, "Wait, no! You can't turn NYC cabs from yellow to green — that would be a sacrilegious outrage!!" Of course, that's not what the story is actually about. It's about making the city's cabs eco-friendly. lol.

I mean, maybe this isn't funny to anybody else but me. But then again, it IS my blog.

And ABC did have a successful seven-year run with their popular sitcom "Three's Company," where each episode would revolve around some misunderstanding between one character and everybody else on the show, from which a great amount of zaniness and Jack Tripper one-line whoppers would flow, until eventually, the issue was resolved in the waning moments, an important life lesson was learned, everyone would hug — but Jack still failed to get into Chrissy's pants.... so, you know, I've got that working for me, too.



(OK, that wasn't a real Three's Company clip, because they are no where to be found online. It was a parady from the old Jenny McCarthy Show on MTV — although it DID include Suzanne "Buy My ThighMaster!" Sommers. And quite frankly, any excuse to watch Jenny McCarthy do anything, sounds like a good idea to me — meow!)

Touch screen voting: Totally flip-ping out

This is an interesting article on the problems with touch screen voting machines. Personally, I think it's a combination of poor calibration, user error and dirty tricks — which begs the question: if there are so many problems with these damn machines, and they are easily manipulated to steal (aka "flip") votes, why the hell are we even using them?

Eyebrow raiser: "The nature of a touch-screen device [is that], like any other device, there can be an instance where it's not operating properly. What the majority of our jurisdictions find is that where 'vote flipping' ... or mis-selection is occurring ... in the vast majority of cases they find that the calibration is not out of specification."

Hmmmmm...

Why are people in Afghanistan facing starvation this winter — and not a peep out of reporters here in the US?

I don't have anything funny to say about this. WTF?!? I mean, this think tank is calling for a Berlin Airlift-like effort so that people won't starve and freak out and send the country spiraling out of control, making it even more unstable than it already is. Man.

Eyebrow raiser: "It says food shortages now represented a greater threat to Afghanistan than the Taliban insurgency."

... oh, btw, there is a shit storm of trouble in the Congo. Not that anyone in the American press would care to report about that either.

I mean, I know that we are all tangled up in the election over the past few months — me included — but there is an entire world out there where important and amazing things happen, that we, as readers and listeners and viewers of the news should be informed about. Because whether we like it or not, we are all affected by world events. You know? I just wish our own press would make an effort to cover the world beyond the Atlantic and the Pacific sometime. Sigh.

(OK, back down off my soapbox for the night.)

Could CSPAN's Supreme Court coverage go blue?

This just cracks me up, especially the thought of Chief Justice Roberts really thinking this one over, oh boy. Like he doesn't have anything else better to do, you know, like... think of iron-clad legal arguments to overturn Roe v Wade or suspend habeus corpus or laugh about how that crazy GWB-lovin' biatch Harriet Myers almost got his job.

Best line: "It's going to sound like a bunch of goddamned longshoremen or hard-boiled crime reporters up in there—only uttered by white-shoe barristers whose education costs are triple your net worth"

LIVE BLOGGING: Obama infomercial

It was almost as if I was right there too...

LIVE BLOGGING: Obama infomercial

"Ehhhh... forgettaboutit!"

LIVE BLOGGING: Obama infomercial

I think that the real secret about Barack Obama is not that he's a
socialist, it's that he's Italian. Look at that pisano talk with his
hands!

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