Lunch Break

Go For It: You have nothing left to lose, Rod. Spill the beans. All of them. On EVERYONE.

Quote: I've been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled. As we watch that, we'll be able to prove that there's a class issue here.

Sarah Palin on the media's treatment of her and Caroline Kennedy's candidacies.



Puma Pride: Please vote for Uppity, The Confluence, and Deadenders, here, here, and here. Everyone gets one vote per category per 24 hours. Despite the frothing Pod Blogs being in the flush of BHO's ascendancy (though it does seem to me they are beginning to wane) the PUMAs are making a very good go of it.

Disappearing act: What happened to the RCP readers page?

Sarah Sitdown: ...she is as down to earth and honest as they get....

Music: Flood - Jars of Clay
I do not like "Christan rock" It is too "earnest" for me...I have a problem with the "happy, earnest Jesus" - which springs exclusively those who never really experience oppression in this culture. Too often it is about making their lives seem tragic, or it is weirdly homoerotic adjacent, or it is just grating. (As if often the case, the best satire around on this topic is the South Park episode called Faith Plus One.) and, as I stated earlier this week, my religion is not about venerating jesus but about pivoting toward christ...nevertheless this Jars of Clay song is good pop music...

Again???Another slide show of Los Angeles. If I could make a living snapping pics of people on my walks I would drop all else...

Lunch Break!

Vote! L.R. highly recommends voting for uppity woman and deadenders in the webblog awards. Go here and here. Both are in very close contests. Go. Vote. Now.

Cinie is sinnfully good: Obacrats Can't Be This Stupid.

New Bad Habit: L.R. has fallen hard for a Bad Habit. Head over there and check out her predictions for the new year:
Tweety will find out it wasn't the mention of Obama that was causing those leg tingles, but Keith Olberman who was feeling him up under the table Jack Cafferty will still be an asshole.Wolf Blitzer will still be an idiot. Larry King will live to give another year of bad interviews. Campbell Brown will continue to be a twit...

Combo plate! A great pop song and one of my new year's resolutions all in one - A Little Less Conversation.

Look: I made a slide show!

something about what Mary said...

Deadenders hits hard at the Obama myth enablers in the blogophere. So you wonder why we want nothing to do with the bulk of Obama supporters who post at our sites, and why we despise most of them?

Read the post - but my answer is this: Obots remain a kool-aid drunk mob with no concept of the troubles on the horizon. Being entirely fueled by a dangerous fantasy spoon fed into their infantile heads (by people who are NOT like you and me) the Obots have yet to demonstrate the slightest capacity for contextualizing the reality of Obama. Double digit unemployment and a President -stuck in 2 or 3 or 4 wars - with few answers other than dumping truckloads of increasingly worthless "currency" into the "system" and begging people to go to Wal-Mart-might wake up a few.

Get this: OBAMA IS AN ERRAND BOY, SENT BY GROCERY CLERKS TO COLLECT A BILL.
I repeat this line from Apocalypse Now on L.R. for a few reasons. None nearly as nasty as the line implies.

1. This line distills what clearly happened in the election - buttressed further this Fall by the financial meltdown. Therefore it allows a vision of unfolding events from a tangible, illusion less perspective. It is a direct counter point to the "Obama is going to pay my mortgage" meme in all its forms.
2. Part of me does think a kind of apocalypse is upon us NOW. The bill is past due.


To me Barry and Michelle represent the worst of America in many way. Both are gliders. Barry has gamed the system through out his alleged career. Both give off the stink of arrogance with every third public move. (The "Lincoln train ride" to D.C. is sickening. Who in God's name does this man think he is?) But it is his cult that continues to garner my deepest contempt. I see no need to be polite: They are assholes. I write from experience. Even without direct experience with BHO my guess is that he's an asshole, too. Unearned position creates this outcome. Trust me, I work in Hollywood.

It is therefore no surprise that his most ardent fans lapse into assholery. There are no good reasons to support the man. With a 10 month handjob from the media, he glided to the top this year mostly because W is so revolting. There never have been verifiable reasons to support the man. The Obots response to this: don't vet. Lame reasons, usually screamed, continue to stand in for rationality and inquiry.

Millions voted for Obama that I do not loath. The choices were not good. It's the fanatic cult members and their handlers in the media and blogosphere that try my Christian soul.

Lunch Break: photo, Depression tip, not shakespeare, John Lennon

The gorgeous photo of the Florida night sky comes from Deadenders.

New Depression Tip: Buy Spam! Spam is the new black!

With the sickening marketing of Obama on plates and coins and bobbleheads and toilet bowls...I am glad a counter narrative is also for sale.

Guess which John Lennon song I am finishing out this December week with?



This is not Shakespeare but in many ways I find it every bit as inspired as Hamlet:



A quote:
The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.

-- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

Lunch Break- Deadenders

New blog on the block - check it out - Deadenders: Because voting for Barky is not an option.
I really like the people behind this blog - let's wish them well -give them a click!



Quote from a regular here I just saw - paraphrased - Telling me how much Sarah Palin and I may disagree on some issues, does not, through some medieval alchemy, morph Obama into a man of character, integrity or experience.

Great point. I have noticed this - the PODS suddenly want to talk about issues when they realize the smoke is drifting and the mirrors have cracked. Policy is not the issue with BHO for most recent ex-Democrats. BHO's mysterious character, toxic associations, lack of judgement and integrity are the issue.

Palin has more experience than Obama. It is a shock to realize this. But it is true.