One Man's Vote

Ah

Just in time for the Glorious Fourth.

Sally is not pleased with me (she wants a standard flag), but a stand on principle must come before domestic bliss, IMHO.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 3 Jul 2009 1:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Defining homelessness up

There's a front-pager in the Gannett Star this morning bemoaning all these folks who've lost their homes and are now living in extended-stay hotels.

The banner head in the print edition: THE HIDDEN HOMELESS. (This headline is missing from the online edition. Imagine that.)

Now, excuse me...but if you have a roof over your head, a door that locks, heat, light, phone, probably high-speed Internet, cable TV, private bathroom, AIR CONDITIONING fer crap sake, and clean sheets at least once a week, YOU ARE NOT HOMELESS, regardless of whether it's you, the wife, and your two rugrats cooped up in there together -- and regardless of whether you were once a big cheese somewhere with a big house and a big mortgage you obviously could not afford.

Thank you for playing, Gannett Star.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 3 Jul 2009 11:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Cap and traitor, see ya later.

Sen. Jim Inhofe says the bill is DOA in the Senate.

We can only hope. The full story is here.

Inhofe said the much-anticipated conclusion of a Senate race in Minnesota that will give Democrats the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican filibusters would not be enough to save the climate change bill.
"I’ll tell you what a lot of people are thinking, and that is it looks like things are going to be over and we are going to get the clown from Minnesota," he said.

"They are not going to get more than 35 votes."

Asked if he was referring to Al Franken as the clown from Minnesota, Inhofe confirmed he was.

"I didn’t mean to be disrespectful. I don’t know the guy, but … for a living he is a clown," the senator said.

"That’s what he does for a living."

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 2 Jul 2009 5:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Oh, yeah.

see more Fail Blog

LOL

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 1 Jul 2009 11:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

No, this is not turning into a sex blog.

But...Fox News says

An advertisement for Burger King's latest sandwich leaves little to the imagination and should be discontinued due to "distasteful" and unappetizing references to oral sex, advertising experts told FOXNews.com.

I say it's frickin' genius. I saw it and just flat out LOL'd. (And of course, it ran in Singapore -- it would never run here.)

I report. You decide.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 1 Jul 2009 8:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Hearsay Channel

If anyone out there actually watched "Secrets of the Founding Fathers" on the Hysterical Channel last night -- on behalf of my friends and brothers Chris Hodapp, Mark Tabbert, and Brent Morris, I sincerely apologize for the two hours you will never get back. And if you were planning to watch one of the repeats because you missed the original broadcast -- don't.

Or be damn sure you've got plenty of liquor handy.

Did you know that our Founding Fathers were high on hemp and drunk on wine and booze when they wrote the Constitution?

Did you know that George Washington could trace his lineage back to the priesthood of Solomon's Temple?

Did you know that Ben Franklin spent his time in England mostly whoring it up underground with the Hellfire Club?

Yeah, me neither. And you sure didn't hear that from Hodapp, Tabbert and Morris, that is, when the producers actually let them talk.

Hell, they gave the stoner who runs the USA Hemp Museum more yak-yak time than Tabbert got, and Tabbert is actually a real historian. Christopher Knight is clearly in need of the medicine that laces up the back, and Ralph Epperson needs a dose of sanity as well.

And...GHOSTS!

Ai yi yi.

This piece of crap was supposed to be based on Chris Hodapp's Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C., and if they had kept him and Tabbert and Morris, dumped the rest of the "experts", and done a straight show on Chris's book, it would have been accurate, interesting, and -- above all! -- HISTORICAL.

What a shame the History Channel can't even do good history.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 30 Jun 2009 2:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

A new party

Frank W. James was ruminating about what in the world he'd call himself these days (via Bobbi).

Which gives me the perfect opportunity to quote Robert A. Heinlein.

Political tags—such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth—are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
—"The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"

I think we need a Surly Curmudgeons Party, myself.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 30 Jun 2009 8:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Fox News is not serious.

Fourteen links on their main page at this moment having to do with the death of aging pop star and child molester Michael Jackson.

Absolutely nothing about the traitorous backstab called cap and trade that the House voted up yesterday.

WTF is conservative about Fox News anymore?

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 27 Jun 2009 2:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Michael Jackson - LUIP.

Leave Us In Peace, already.

The wall-to-wall cable news coverage of the death of the aging pop star is, in a word, nauseating.

From exploited child to child exploiter, his 15 minutes have been up for a VERY long time.

Perhaps my wife said it best as she was channel-surfing last night: "Ah, a channel talking about Farrah Fawcett. I can stand that -- at least she was a human being."

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 26 Jun 2009 7:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Incredibly, it's not where you might think.

The seafloor sediments in the middle of the South Pacific have fewer living cells than anywhere else measured, a new study found.

Obviously there were no Democrat brains available for testing.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 23 Jun 2009 2:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Friday Cat Blogging

Clickee for biggee

Sometimes they get along...

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 19 Jun 2009 9:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Well, if PETA hadn't already jumped the shark

then this would definitely be in contention for the honor. (Link slightly NSFW.)

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 19 Jun 2009 8:09 AM | Permalink

Happy World Sauntering Day!

For more information, click here.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 19 Jun 2009 12:00 AM | Permalink

I don't care who you are

that right there is great entertainment.

The director ought to get an Oscar.

H/T.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 18 Jun 2009 8:41 AM | Permalink

Maybe I just don't understand Persians.

But if I were an Iranian right now, the first thing I'd be thinking to do would be to sidle up to my local mullah and give him a second ear-to-ear smile. And hope the example would get around to other people and give them the same idea.

The solution to the problem right now seems to be to boot their religious "leaders" out of power. And it's starting to look like the religious leaders don't control the army very well -- which is not particularly surprising to me. Thirty years of turnover in the Iranian military has produced less-than-revolutionary soldiers who really don't want to fire on their own people.

The Iranian people could do all this themselves. All they need is encouragement from outside (and maybe a big airdrop of AK's, ammo, hand grenades, and other assorted toys).

Somebody just needs to take that first step.

Posted by Nathan Brindle on 18 Jun 2009 8:23 AM | Permalink

One Man's Vote

Friday, 3 July 2009

Ah

Defining homelessness up

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Cap and traitor, see ya later.

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Oh, yeah.

No, this is not turning into a sex blog.

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

The Hearsay Channel

A new party

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Fox News is not serious.

Friday, 26 June 2009

Michael Jackson - LUIP.

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Incredibly, it's not where you might think.

Friday, 19 June 2009

Friday Cat Blogging

Well, if PETA hadn't already jumped the shark

Happy World Sauntering Day!

Thursday, 18 June 2009

I don't care who you are

Maybe I just don't understand Persians.

Search

Sarah Palin Links

Blogs of Interest

Links

Recent Posts

Categories

Archives