Interesting

I never realized how many people who have resigned/quit the Bush Administration this term. Add Tony Snow to the list cause he said he was resigning soon today. http://www.thinkprogress.org is the source

- White House Senior Political Adviser Karl Rove
- White House Counselor Dan Bartlett
- White House Budget Director Rob Portman
- White House Counsel Harriet Miers
- White House Political Director Sara Taylor
- White House Director of Strategic Initiatives Pete Wehner
- White House Deputy National Security Adviser J.D. Crouch
- Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty
- Acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer
- Justice Department White House liaison Monica Goodling
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
- Army Secretary Francis Harvey
- Joint Chief of Staffs Chairman Peter Pace
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson
- U.N. Ambassador John Bolton
- USAID Director Randall Tobias


Lot of people. I guess Bush wants to go alone

Just some fun

Thought this might be a little fun. A friend of mine sent me this link to an 80's music lyrics quiz. http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html

It's interesting to see how well we remember lyrics

Where to Begin

I don't know where to begin with Karl Rove. First I will say he is a bright mind even though I disagree with everything he did. His ideas have put our country in a tailspin where it might cost his party the presidency and give more control of Congress and Senate to Democrats. Which is of course a good thing.

He is also a man who had his hand in so many of the scandels involving the Bush Administration which is why he is resigning more then likely. I feel though he will end up running another Republican campaign, more then likely Fred Thompson if he runs so he won't be out of work for long.

More Disgust

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20221295/?GT1=10252

Again how the religious right disgusts me. I posted the other day about the religious group was protesting the funerals of the people who died due to the bridge failure because of nothing the people did but they felt Minnesota was too friendly toward gay people now I found something just as bad.

A CHURCH group in Texas canceled a memorial service of a veteran of the first gulf war after finding out he was gay. No other reason.

I'm sorry close minded people like these are why we will never develop as a society. We need to open our hearts toward all people no matter what their race,age,sexual preference is cause in the grand scheme of things what does it really matter what those things are? People like this and the group in Kansas and anyone who feels the hatred need to realize we are a diverse country and need to realize their way is the WORST possible way to view life in general. Hatred needs to go.

Remember you don't necessarily have to hang out with anyone you don't want to BUT just recognize the rights of other people.

Just Curious

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-friday10.s2aug10,0,5646722.story?coll=la-news-comment-letters

The above link is a letter in yesterday's Los Angeles Times. I wanted to talk about it for a bit cause I feel it's completely misleading. The letter writer, Geoffrey C. Church, obviously a conservative, gives baseless attacks on Daily Kos which is a liberal website where the link is on my page.

In the letter he says the Daily Kos is a "vicous, hate-filled blog that routinely spews far-left hyperbole and smear attacks". Now if I were to make a charge like that I would be asked where specifically in the site those are cause I don't see them anywhere. Now Daily Kos is a liberal site but that is the only crime.

All Daily Kos does is present facts. What people say, what they do. Conservatives who yet again don't seem to understand facts can't except how crappy they are and what their pollititions are doing so instead of finding out he just attacks the people who report it.

In his second paragraph Church states how the Democrats won't debate on Fox News. Well knowing how Fox kisses Republicans asses all the time and does nothing BUT attack Democrats would you? After all I don't see Republicans rushing for a debate hosted by Keith Olbermann and they are pulling out of the CNN you tube debate cause they don't wanna talk with real people. He doesn't mention that at all.

And as a typical conservative as Church is he also fails to mention Bill O'Reilly (idiot as I rightfully call him) which allowed on his site a post from a frequent poster saying if Hillary Clinton gets elected he is going to keep his guns loaded. Something taken so seriously the secret service is investigating cause that is a threat if I ever heard one.

Like I said this is a typical conservative who is either oblivious to who is really the haters or is ignoring it. Either way he needs to wake up to reality. Another thing the writer fails to realize is he, just like anyone, can start their own website if they wish and voice their opinions but better have facts to back them up.

No sense

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=252822

This doesn't make sense to me. According to the article the IRS is going tax the fan who caught Barry Bonds record-breaking home run ball based on what it's worth WHETHER HE SELLS IT OR NOT. I'm confused how th IRS can judge a value of something that doesn't have any value unless it's sold. Maybe if there is an accountant or something out there they can explain how that works.

A Theory

Just wondering if anyone thinks this theory is plausible: I've always had a theory that one earthquake in one part of the world can trigger others. Two recent examples:

Last week there was a big earthquake in Japan and a couple of days later there was a quake in the San Francisco Bay area which was smaller.

Yesterday there was a big earthquake in Indonesia and at 1 am there was a 4.6 quake centered here in Chatsworth. Again I'm not a huge fan of coincidence and those are the two most recent examples.

Also why does it seem that earthquakes lately always seem to happen in the middle of the night?

418 Days

So Bush is about to embark on another 1 month vacation (nevermind how a lot of people can't afford any vacations) he has taken more vacations then any other president. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve any vacation but keep in mind two things that happened in previous vacations:

He was advised Ben Lauden determined to strike in the United States in 2001 and oh yeah 9/11 happened.

Katrina hit and the disaster of the federal response cause his appointees couldn't handle it.

Hopefully nothing else will happen nevermind we are in two wars right now.

By the way this only includes time he spent in Crawford not anywhere else like Kennebunkport or Ca. or anywhere.

Let them Rest

I've talked a lot about the tragedy in Minnesota last week (as another potential tragedy is developing in Utah) but leave it to the right-wing psychopaths to take advantage of the situation.

http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2184

This right wing church is going to protest at funerals for the people who died during the bridge collaspe. Seriously. The reason as told by Rev. Phelps: In a press release issued the day after the bridge collapse, the church called for protests at the funerals and outlined its feelings about the relationship between God's plan and the sins of Minneapolis and Minnesota, which it calls the "land of the Sodomite damned."

Damn you. You are going to hell as well as anyone who supports you. The only thing the people who died on the bridge is guilty for is going to where they had to be. You are using this tragedy to promote your right wing agenda where it has no place. You are disgusting as well as what you represent.

And if anyone wants to know why I am so down on the Christian Religion people like this sick freak are why.

Loss of a Los Angeles Legend

It is my sad duty to report a loss of a Los Angeles Legend. Hal Fishman died this morning suprisingly after 1 week being diagnosed with cancer. He has been on KTLA for as long as I can remember and things will not be the same without him. He will be missed. He was 75.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-fishman8aug08,1,2545893.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews&track=crosspromo

118 Violations

I'd like to talk about something happening in Southern California a bit. The Los Angeles Angels of disgust, I mean Anaheim. It was disclosed that the Anaheim Stadium had 118 heath code violations mainly dealing with rats and cockroaches.

Why didn't heath officials close the stadium immediately like they would restaurants after all isn't the public who's heath is at significant risk here? Should it not matter who/what is involved? What if people become sick? And the most important since he is the owner where is Arte Moreno and why isn't he being held responsible here?

O'Idiot

So I gotta admit I'm a little torn about Bill O'Idiots column today. You see he talks about something that I am in actual agreement with him about rap music. I am not a big fan. Like anything else that doesn't mean there are exceptions there are a few songs I like but generally I think it's nothing but a lot of garbage. So on that pint I will agree with him as much as it saddens me.

Now here is when he and I part company on the issue. He uses McDonalds using a particular "rap artist" as a spokesperson when his songs have a lot of swearing in them and since McDonalds obviously has a lot of children going they shouldn't use them as a sponsor. Now here is where he and I differ because of a couple of things: I listen to classic rock and a lot of their songs have swearing in them. Most importantly the parents of the children need to be responsible and teach their children not to use the language said in the songs and to teach them right and wrong.

It's not the company's responsibility to teach children.


By the way for pure comic relief Weird Al Yankovic is playing in concert in Los Angeles at the Greek Theater on October 30th.

Stupid

In his column the other day in the Conservative Los Angeles Times Jonah Goldberg suggested that people were too stupid to vote. His words not mine. And actually he's right but not in the sense he was going for suggesting if you vote Democrat you are stupid. People were stupid enough to elect George Bush in office and look at the stupidity we have as a result. Take a look at the covering up for the stupidity the refusal to admit the stupidity and the lies based on the stupidity of the person elected in the White House.

Voting Democrat isn't stupid voting for Bush was.

Questions from the tragedy

Really I see one contradiction from yesterday that I would like to see what happened. Yesterday with the bridge collapse in Minnesota I saw two contradictions:

A) The media reported how the bridge received a 4 rating during the last federal government inspection with 9 being best. And we learn now that 4 means the bridge was "structurally unsafe".

B) The governor of Minnesota said how the bridge passed inspection and there weren't any problems.

Now I want to know who is lying. Someone is with the contradictions. But if the bridge is under control of the federal government we know who is in charge of the federal government and if this is a lapse on their part we know who to blame.

Here is one more comment I have about yesterday: The reason I said don't rule out anything immediately is I think that the Bush Administration thinks that the only form of terrorist attacks is bombs or airplanes. Really all it takes is someone who knows bridges to screw around with the piece that would cause that.

I'm not saying that's the cause in fact I have a few ideas on what might or might not be the cause. Keep in mind I just got home and have been out of the loop on what the media is and is not talking about.

A) Erosion. 40 years along the Mississippi River might cause that.
B) Weather. Minnesota goes through a lot of extremes.
C) Terrorism. See above.
D) Faulty Construction. You know how contractors are
E) The Construction crew on the bridge. Could have done the wrong thing at the wrong time
F) The train that was shown. Maybe that clipped something on the bridge
G) A barge hitting the bridge. Doesn't have to be immediate but something that happened earlier setting off a chain of events.


Just my thoughts.

Cowards

Yet again showing how afraid he is to have his administration members appear before Congress and Senate and testify under oath Karl Rove didn't testify because the coward in chief invoked YET AGAIN executive privilege. When is Congress going to grow a set of balls and invoke contempt of congress to this ahole in the office?

Breaking

Looks like a tragic situation developing in Minneapolis as a bridge collapsed in the Mississippi River. CNN is reporting 3 dead but if anyone sees the video I fear the death toll will go up. Homeland Security, ever quick to deflect bad news on the Bush Administration with false threats, says it's not a terrorist attack.

More Right Wing Lies

It's funny with all the talk about how the Republicans are the "party of values and morals" and the bs that is when they have a chance to back it up they ALWAYS cave. For instance the ethics bill that just passed the House and is heading for the Senate is going to be blocked by Ted Stevens (R, Alaska).

Odd thing is Ted Stevens is yet another Republican who had his house raided by the FBI and IRS yesterday.

Some values.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0707/Stevens_threatens_to_block_lobbying_bill_.html

Cowards

Showing once again that they are either afraid to embrace technology or unwilling to face the people like myself who will actually ask question that are important to them instead of the softball questions they normally get asked by the media who supports them blindly most Republicowards are pulling out of their scheduled You Tube debate in September.

I guess that makes sense for them because they don't know how to react to real questions. Again proving what cowards they are.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/07/27/conservative-buzz-gop-dropping-out-of-cnn-youtube-debate

Michael Moore

While on the Jay Leno Show Michael Moore said he was served a subpoena by the Bush Administration. His crime: Taking three 9/11 workers who are ill to Cuba to try to get them something the Bush Administration won't provide for these heroes which is healthcare.

Now since the Bush Administration seems to think they could ignore subpoena's given to them I think Michael Moore should give the finger to Bush (as do most sane people) and ignore the subpoena as well.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Michael_Moore_says_hes_been_served_0727.html

Class

Another quick sports take here since I might not be able to post much this weekend. I wanna give congrats to Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn for being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday. They played the game with dignity and class and I couldn't be prouder as a baseball fan for these two players.

Congrats again it's a well deserved honor.