September 29, 2007

This and That

Humpday, 4 Gathring 2007

Yes, I have been remiss in providing bloggy goodness to all and sundry. Again. I've been busy.

Yes, I had a chance to meet my friend who just got a big horking mass of melanoma removed from his right arm. They took some skin off of his inner thigh to replace the cancerous growth that was there. Other than some discomfort dealing with the raw mass that needs to regrow skin, he seems to be doing fine. Way to go, Bud!

Yes, I also had a chance to party with a pair of nineteen year old twins. After having had my buttocks handed to me by their father earlier on the golf course. And helping to cook up chicken and veggie kabobs thoughtfully assembled by elves while we were out on the course (well... I mostly helped with the dsiposal of said kabobs, and moral support to the grillmeister). I had almost forgotten the youthful capacity for alcoholic consumption - and I certainly found out that I can't keep up any more. Praise Koresh I had the foresight to take Monday off as an extra recovery vacation day. Your Humble Narrator managed to imbibe about fifteen drinks or so before drunken stupor caused accurate counts to be unavailable.

Yes, I find the hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance associated with Reich wingnut outrage has increased (even though I can't imagine how they function with that tenuous a grip on reality right now). I wonder how Rush Limbaugh would react if he was treated like all the other the law breaking Oxycontin addicts out there, or if there was a sense of the senate motion condeming him for bad mouthing the troops (in a manner that was worse than the Move On ad IMHO). I wonder how the Catholic League of Hypocrites would react if there were anti-prayer vigils and protesters in town hall meetings demanding that building permits for christian religious buildings be revoked because of all the pederasts that would be moving into the community*. Or people harrassing the construction workers assembling the religious building. Or white powder sent to them in plain white envelopes. Or picketing with posters showing the children abused by christian religious figures, videotaping said christian religious figures, and naming names - after all, if you can show pictures of fetuses, you should be able to show pictures of real, live, kids, too. Right?

Yes, I find the capitulation of the Democratic politicians (who are in the majority) to the Republican't obstructionists in the government (who, surprisingly enough, have engaged in hyperpartisan political posturing that ignores taking care of government responsibilities so that Democratic politicians look bad) disturbing. Particularly so when they ask for more money from me so that they can take it up the bum from the Republican'ts. Again.

Yes, I find it somewhat disturbing that recently, there was a lot of attention focused on the striking workers in the GM-UAW contract negotiations - but not a heck of a lot on the corpo-weasels and their multimillion dollar salary, benefit, bonus, and retirement packages. Funny thing - the executroid perks are usually guaranteed (regardless of performance), yet the pension funds of ordinary workers can be eliminated. And that companies can demand pay cuts, benefit cuts, and increased hours from its' regular employees - but start bitching about any kind of reining in of executive compensation.

And, yes, I have been studiously avoiding commenting on these issues. Because it's just the same old same old once more, and there are still people who buy into the Republican't disinformation dumps, and waste even more of the nation's time and energy on ridiculous horse hockey such as petty partisan obstructionist politics, religious insanity, and corporate welfare projects. But the farging Irony Alert Siren keeps going off - even though I've pulverized it, it seems to keep on re-forming itself like those advanced terminator models in the movies.

So I'll be here, reading some of that real journalism coming from the progressive blogsphere, and waiting for the adults to be in charge again. Talk to you later...

* - Yes, I know that there might not be pederasts moving in. But I also know that there is more truth in my disingenuous smear than there is in their disingenuous smears. And that a concern for truth is surprisingly missing in a supposedly christian organization when they blatantly lie about non-christian behavior in order to further their taxpayer subsidized partisan political exercises.

Maybe that's why I'm not quite so enamored of christianity in general as I used to be...

Posted by (: Tom :) at September 29, 2007 11:51 AM