tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60828342011-04-21T14:48:02.600-04:00The Rational GazetteOnward forever we walk among the ignorant...
Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comBlogger701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1093729133902734262004-08-28T16:04:00.000-04:002004-08-28T17:38:53.903-04:00In the State of New Sexico
So, this past Wednesday I mosied my hiney over to the Launchpad to see my first show in my new home town. Who did I happen to spy but those most heaviest of lads, Killswitch Engage (there were three other bands but fuck them, I'll get to 'em later). What can I say about KSE that hasn't been said by a bunch of syphalitic, homeless, crackheads? But seriously, KSE Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1092271726013535082004-08-11T20:41:00.000-04:002004-08-11T20:48:46.013-04:00I'm surrounded by morons
Here are some sample "questions" gifted to Our Glorious Leader during an "Ask the President" session in the Land of Enchantment, according to CNN.com:
Can I take a picture with you?Can I introduce you to my wife and mother in law? I want you to know that I'm praying for you.
Fuck me with a broomstick people are stupid.
Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1091161974157066872004-07-29T23:49:00.000-04:002004-07-30T00:32:54.156-04:00Things I'd Rather Do.
READ THIS NOW!!! And prepare for hilarity.
Speaking of comedy:
--Stanhope's new DVD, "Deadbeat Hero," comes out August 24th. Go pre-order it now.
--"It's Not Funny" by David Cross is out now on CD and very good, if not more of the same in his ovure.
--Eat a bullet Ant, you sad fucking hack. I don't hate you because you're gay, I hate you because you Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1090182779020268312004-07-18T16:03:00.000-04:002004-07-18T16:32:59.020-04:00It's been awhile
Not that you care...Started the new job at AAA as an insurance sales ass. Lotsa other stuff like the opera, binge drinking and t-shirt design have stymied my attempts at posting. Well, that and trying to give a shit about that emptyheaded chimp known as W to his friends. Sometimes I don't.
In other news: my good buddy Floyd has started his own blog, a mixture of tech and Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1090180937250459322004-07-18T15:44:00.000-04:002004-07-18T16:02:17.250-04:00Oh come on, you alredy knew this didn't you?
While speaking to a bunch of folks who take their religion seriously, the Amish, Our Glorious Leader uttered this no-prize: "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job." Hey, who knows? He might be telling the truth. Ever read the Old Testament? Courtesy of The Revealer.
Really the only thing that bothers me about this is Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1087404684744669862004-06-16T12:47:00.000-04:002004-06-16T12:51:24.746-04:00Out of the ashes
Looks like the subjects are becoming the verbs. Iraqi artists are starting to tackle the subject of Abu Ghraib. The CSM has the story.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1086381063525996342004-06-04T16:23:00.000-04:002004-06-04T16:31:03.526-04:00Wiseblood
Destroyer of complacency, from beliefnet: "No one can say they are not responsible for this current situation (Iraq) even if we oppose our country’s actions. We are still a member of our community, a citizen of our country. Maybe we have not done enough." --Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh
Taking the NthPosition: "The problem here is that, in the post-9/11 world, we have all becomeCharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1086114837230755172004-06-01T14:12:00.000-04:002004-06-01T14:45:31.350-04:00Ain't that America...
Saw this story on Tom Tomorrow's site and thought I'd share. Here's the opening coupla paragraphs:
"After displaying a painting of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners, a San Francisco gallery owner bears a painful reminder of the nation's unresolved anguish over the incidents at Abu Ghraib -- a black eye and bloodied brow delivered by an unknown assailant who Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1085074514713953722004-05-20T13:24:00.000-04:002004-05-20T13:35:14.713-04:00Preach on, Sister
Normally Zulieka writes about playing the violin and gettin' laid but she did happen to pour out an impressive refutation (scroll down to "my patriot act") of our so-called President and the scheißekopfs that hold this retardo view that he's "All-American." She says:
"What is wrong with some of us that the term All-American is semantically speared on the end of steak knife Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1084904568417889392004-05-18T12:18:00.000-04:002004-05-20T13:22:39.050-04:00Praise the Lord and pass the Gummo
As the thousands of you know religion is one of my favorite topics of conversation and reflection. I've written about it several times on this here web log and what with all the gay marriages and PBS'n on George it's a wonder we don't live in theocracy. Juan Cole writes expertly on the gay marriage issue in a recent post on his excellent blog. Mainly he remindsCharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1084836230025230342004-05-17T18:35:00.000-04:002004-05-17T19:23:50.026-04:00Under Penalty of Torture...
Just dicking around the internet looking for information on Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the second great boogie-man of the Coalition (after the Hussains, of course) I found some interesting snippets of k-nowledge:
Along with the General it seems that kidnapping is sanctioned US policy in Iraq. In order to form a more perfect union of seriously pissed off Iraqis the US Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1084467268387996852004-05-13T12:28:00.000-04:002004-05-13T13:06:33.870-04:00A Chink in the Armor?
Here's what good ole Colin Powell has to say about the chain of command in the Baltimore Sun:
"We kept the president informed of the concerns that were raised by the ICRC and other international organizations as part of my regular briefings of the president, and advised him that we had to follow these issues, and when we got notes sent to us or reports sent to us ... we Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-108429196500903792004-05-11T11:52:00.000-04:002004-05-11T12:12:45.010-04:00Untermenschen
Luc Sante has a great op/ed in the NYT today. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call him one of my heros but the man is a great writer and chronicler of humanity's lesser traits. His inspiration is my inspiration. Here's the relevant passage from his highly apt comparison of the Abu Ghraib photos to the lynching of blacks in the South:
Like the lynching crowds, the Americans atCharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1083293869809239462004-04-29T22:57:00.000-04:002004-04-30T11:50:23.653-04:00Looks like freedom to me...
Good to know that the prison torture under Saddam hasn't let up under Uncle Sam.
Update: The story appearently broke in the US on 60 Minutes II...which I missed. The report online gives a pretty descent account of the story, though I imagine the visuals make it quite a bit more powerful. I did find this little nugget of joy in the comments of a one General Mark Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1083084024368137012004-04-27T12:40:00.000-04:002004-04-27T12:44:38.466-04:00Still looking...
...but I still haven't found, what Im looking for (i.e. a job). Man, I need a job like Billy Clinton needs a blowjob.
In other news: loyal fans of Jello Biafra rejoyce! The FBI was found to be in the wrong concerning the (bombing of) Earth First activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. The San Fran Cronicle has the low down. The article also notes the various payouts to the Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1082397269736539382004-04-19T13:54:00.000-04:002004-04-19T14:06:27.090-04:00Im back and deader than ever
Well thank to all who have missed me. I know you are out there. Everything went well and the great state of Nuevo Mexico is treating us just fine.
Taking a look-see over at the fine and talented Roger Ailes (not the Fox guy) I see he has an honorable memoriam to the fallen on this date. Specifically in the memory of events at Waco and Ok. City. Now I do agree with Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1080323327614162232004-03-26T12:48:00.000-05:002004-03-26T12:52:17.670-05:00DisEnchanted
That chicken-necked fuck, aka GWB, is giving a speech in my future home town of Albuquerque, NM. Speaking of, I will be away from my sporadic hitching post for at least a week so if you people that manage to not register any hits but still come on over I'll be seeing you later.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1079652446582213462004-03-18T18:27:00.000-05:002004-03-18T18:30:46.280-05:00The Persian Gulf Distraction II
Watching and listening to Bush is fun! Like all good drinking games he gives a lot to work with.
What I'm getting mighty tired of the excuse that 'we have to attack them there, so they doesn't happen here.' This notion is rather troubling because it suggests the notion that it is O.K. to fuck up their country but it's highly unacceptable for them to fuck up ours.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1079651233887311592004-03-18T18:07:00.000-05:002004-03-18T18:10:33.843-05:00A Gentleman and a Scholar...
Listening to Rush Limbaugh today on my way back from lunch I heard a caller who had an addendum to Rush's rejection of viewing terrorism as a legal issue. The guy says that it's a bad idea because you would have to reveal the evidence to the accused during trial. Rush, the chucklehead that he is, agrees and says dismissive that you basically have to treat them as Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1078682982198814372004-03-07T13:09:00.000-05:002004-03-07T13:12:46.780-05:00Busy Beaver (eater)
Sorry I haven't been around I'm trying to sell some paintings and in about three weeks hence we are moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico. If you've ever moved to some place way away from where you are currently you know how much shit you have to get taken care of. Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1078682736313851222004-03-07T13:05:00.000-05:002004-03-07T13:08:40.950-05:00*finishes crying*
Well isn't that just special
From the Mrs. McSatan news desk: Looks like the RNC wants to silence MoveOn. It's go to see the GOP blatantly showing how scared they are of MoveOn. Read the acticle and see how many lies you can spot coming out of Vogel's speakhole.
Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077722794800978492004-02-25T10:26:00.000-05:002004-02-25T10:29:23.966-05:00Dangerous
Tomorrow, Feb. 26, marks the tenth anniversary of Bill Hicks death.
ps. It's a wonderful irony that "The Passion of the Christ" comes out the day before Hicks' passing. I'm sure he'd find something to say about that.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077654558584823472004-02-24T15:29:00.000-05:002004-02-24T15:32:29.090-05:00Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Jack Balkin has the legal run down on the "Constitution Restoration Act." Read it and weep for America should it pass into law. Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077597970466160642004-02-23T23:46:00.000-05:002004-02-23T23:50:44.076-05:00
You know the drill.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077549486985220372004-02-23T10:18:00.000-05:002004-02-23T23:23:21.390-05:00Be Still, My Beating Heart
Looks like for one day The Paper of Record reverted into that liberal bastion that the GOP always accuses it of being. Guess who has an editorial on Israel's "security wall?" My main man, Noam Chomsky. I'm sure tomorrow to be 'square and phalanxed' they'll run an op/ed from Bill Kristol extolling the virtues of the wall. Oh well, any day with a reasoned argument from Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077548186828011852004-02-23T09:56:00.000-05:002004-02-23T09:59:12.733-05:00'Bout Time
As in 'bout time scientists stood up for themselves and the welfare of the planet they inhabit. More than sixty scientists sent a letter of protest to the Bush White House stating that there has been a consistant pattern of misstating facts, ingnoring facts and blatantly telling their own scientists to basically 'eat shit.' Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077546842812896552004-02-23T09:34:00.000-05:002004-02-23T09:36:49.000-05:00No time for love Dr. Jones
Looks like the Iraq Governing Council isn't quite so hot to trot about agreeing to allow US forces to stay in Iraq. One line caught my eye: "Legally and in every other sense, the new sovereign Iraqi government will have the power to say `Thanks very much, we don't need you, go home,' " said Samir Sumaidy, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. "That is probably Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077545742033975382004-02-23T09:15:00.000-05:002004-02-23T09:18:28.436-05:00Speaking of evil...
Counterspin has a nice run down with a history of recent Uzbekistan horrors and the role you and I play in facilitating said horrors. If, after reading that you still think Our Glorious Leader isn't a scum fuck then you deserve whatever this cuntry turns into after another four years (or more) of that infantile, lying bastard.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077124514657531662004-02-18T12:15:00.000-05:002004-02-18T12:18:37.030-05:00Human rights?
It seemed only yesterday that Our Glorious Leader was touting the changes in US foreign policy. Faint echoes of 'not doing business with dictators' and 'we must promote democracy around the world' ring through my noggin'. Well according to two editorials in today's Paper of Record that's not exactly the way that thing are. In one instance we have the State Dept. endorsing "a Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1077121740681938222004-02-18T11:29:00.000-05:002004-02-18T11:34:04.810-05:00Just in case you were wondering...
...the U.S. government is trying to overthrow the democratically elected Venezuelan government. This isn't news to those who have read the works of Gregg Palast and Noam Chomsky butt the VAST majority of this country doesn't think we do this kind of thing anymore (or ever did, for that matter). Chavez is a major roadblock to U.S. control of the hemisphere's Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1076702167509323012004-02-13T14:56:00.000-05:002004-02-13T14:58:39.936-05:00Coulda been a ladybug on a windchime...
This is why Clutch is one the greatest bands in the history of all that rocks:
"Most of the lyrics were written on the spot, which lends some thematic cohesion," singer Neil Fallon says. "Namely, the adventures of one conscientious objector, 'Worm Drink' (a demon, of sorts) and the effects of his actions (both anecdotal and epic) while fleeing the guns ofCharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1076526426977144162004-02-11T14:07:00.000-05:002004-02-11T14:09:37.250-05:00The Toofless Bulldog
Nice to see Russert playing favorites in the Oval Office. Bitch.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1075927594055029282004-02-04T15:12:00.000-05:002004-02-11T14:03:32.966-05:00Apocalypse...ehh
And speaking of fundamentalist quackery, Rolling Stone has a profile of who, according to them, is the most powerful right-wing Christian politico in America. His name is Tim LaHaye. If you've ever meandered through the new fiction section of a bookstore or a Wal-Mart in the last five years you've probably seen his co-writer's and his novels from the "Left Behind" series. The Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1075575426001414552004-01-31T13:57:00.000-05:002004-02-03T11:03:20.950-05:00Finally!
After months of half-assed opining on the state of our union I get to talk about something "rational." It looks like the state of Georgia has decided that telling kids about evolution and the age of the Earth would cause irreparable harm to their kids fragile little minds. A one Kathy Cox had this to say about the subject: according to the NYT "She added that people often associate it Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1075496230491071312004-01-30T15:41:00.000-05:002004-01-30T15:59:23.670-05:00Hello, my name is Rusty and I have an addiction
...and it's not the oxy that got me all "huh?" It was Rush's admission that he received Botox injections some time in the last few days. No joke. While I always applaud honesty, I almost always deride vanity and physical attachment. This time I'm gonna have to come down on the side of "what are you, some sort of metrosexual?" I wonder if the other Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1075315947190040302004-01-28T13:52:00.000-05:002004-02-03T10:33:04.903-05:00No, no Nanette
Often it's not the message it's the messenger. Case in point: Bush 43's 'Jesus is the answer' spiel (I know he says "faith-based initiatives" but anyone with an once of sense in their noggin knows this is a Jesus only dance.) Now Jesus may have been the answer for you but it never was the answer for me and millions of other Americans. If turning to the "good book" got you off the Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1075312226477532042004-01-28T12:47:00.000-05:002004-01-28T13:06:07.936-05:00Thank you, sir. May I have another?
From today's WaPo:
"U.S. weapons inspectors in Iraq found new evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime quietly destroyed some stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons in the mid-1990s, former chief inspector David Kay said yesterday.
The discovery means that inspectors have not only failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1074961765687104842004-01-24T11:29:00.000-05:002004-01-24T11:53:12.983-05:00Henry Rollins *hearts* Ann Coulter...err Hitler
Pass it on.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1074805227707870922004-01-22T16:00:00.000-05:002004-01-22T16:02:30.653-05:00Un-B-Fucking-Livable
I will now attempt to muster as much righteous anger as my ego can manufacture. Dude, I am going past Dean, far beyond Bill Bennett and am racing toward code:Novak (which I believe the color code for that is tope.)
IF this story in today's Boston Globe isn't the lede story on every news broadcast, pundit pontification and newspaper across the country today or tomorrow Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1074128252272257182004-01-14T19:57:00.000-05:002004-01-22T15:48:36.653-05:00What's All the Fuss About?
So Bush's policy of violently overthrowing Saddam was just a continuation of Clinton's. Or so the GOP would love you to believe. Try reading the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998 and pay special attention to the very end. (I'll wait here while you read it.) Yer back, good. Isn't that fascinating? That last part seems to say, and I quote, "nothing in this act shall be Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1074023862318817662004-01-13T14:57:00.000-05:002004-01-13T14:59:32.123-05:00All Retardo
That's about how I felt after watching Tom Broke-ass last night summarily dismissing anything of substance concerning Paul O'Neill's accusations against the Bush White House. Guess that ole Liberal Media's got me down again. I've said it before and I'll steal it again: the media serves power, not a party. In my lifetime I have never had the misfortune to see such a compliant and Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1073573938193373482004-01-08T09:58:00.000-05:002004-01-08T09:59:39.073-05:00Low, mordant chuckles
Ya know, if Reagan was president Saddam would still be in power.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1072880864980388732003-12-31T09:27:00.000-05:002003-12-31T09:28:02.600-05:00HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
Hope everyone had a festive JeebusMas, I know I did. Got lots of neato stuff. With any luck I will be drinkin' and blowing stuff up round midnight. Fireworks and booze, if those two things don't spell 'funny story' I don't know what does. "Lost one..."Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1072798253290186662003-12-30T10:30:00.000-05:002003-12-31T09:11:26.020-05:00That old greye mare...
Well here's that essay debunking Victor Davis Hanson's article in the National Review (finally):
At work a couple of days ago I managed to spy a cover story (Dec. 8) authored by the military historian Victor David Hanson in National Review. The article centers around the comparison between war in Vietnam and current police action in Iraq. As preamble to my rebuttal I Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1072561458683825942003-12-27T16:44:00.000-05:002003-12-27T16:44:47.470-05:00Hypocrisy isn't just the name of a Death Metal band
I know it's a tad early but I, your humble servant of the arcane mumbo-jumbo of your existence, here-by declare the two thousandth and third year of the Christian era the "Year of Conservative hypocrisy!" It's a bit lofty, I know, but you have to name these things.
In a Year of Rush "El Oxy Grande" Limbaugh busted for poppin' pills, Bill "Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1072312331555903132003-12-24T19:32:00.000-05:002003-12-27T14:33:01.790-05:00With my squegeed third eye...
Managed to catch the last fourty five minutes of "Waco: Rules of Engagement" on cable last night. Like "Incident at Ogala," my favorite documentary, this has the effect of blowing the lid off your preconceptions and in my case scared the shit out of me. "W:RoE" has the feel of a good horror movie. I'm guessing that the intent was there. Creepy movie music, pictures Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071932257249057102003-12-20T09:57:00.000-05:002003-12-20T09:57:51.603-05:00It's Clobberin' Time!
The American Family Ass. is having a poll they plan on taking to Congress. One would assume to show that "the average Joe" dosen't support gay marriage. Fill it out and embarass the shit out of them (i.e. pile on).
The short pole.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071780643326889052003-12-18T15:50:00.000-05:002003-12-18T15:50:57.326-05:00This did not need to happen...
Well, according to CBS the head of the 9/11 investigation "...is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented..." If this doesn't rile the public up and give the Dem. Pres. contenders some serious ammo I haven't a clue what would. I guess Bush coming out and saying that his administration let 9/11 happen to ensure his reelection and that it Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071687559135440952003-12-17T13:59:00.000-05:002003-12-17T19:47:58.030-05:00Top 5-ish List-ish
The top 5 music that was released this year:
Mit Gas - Tomahawk
Skanks For the Memories - Dave Attell
Elephant - The White Stripes
Delousing in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Come Poop With Me - Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Top 5 list of music I listened to this year (basically it came out last year but I'm a little slow sometimes):
Art of Balance - Shadows Fall
Nothing - Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071244350843676032003-12-12T10:52:00.000-05:002003-12-12T10:52:43.956-05:00My nizzle
Go check out my buddy Floyd's blog. You'll be glad you did.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071174328344621472003-12-11T15:25:00.000-05:002003-12-11T15:25:40.803-05:00James Baker is evil.
No post, just the truth.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071161440696868062003-12-11T11:50:00.000-05:002003-12-11T11:50:52.780-05:00BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Shadows Fall has the best fucking belt buckle ever! "Destroyer of False Metal." Talk about your balls. Of course, when you are arguably the best metal band on the planet you can talk that kinda shit.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071159113370676502003-12-11T11:11:00.000-05:002003-12-11T15:30:36.393-05:00Not to sound like an alarmist, but...
This article in the New York Times Magazine (which happens to have the best reporting of the week) about the nature of Pakistan and sad relationship that we now have with that state. I've held the view for a while now that Pakistan will be an amazingly dangerous place for the world some time in the not too distant future. I hope I'm wrong but that part of Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071114114518403432003-12-10T22:41:00.000-05:002003-12-10T22:42:06.606-05:00Spread-eagle Beagle
So Wolfowitz bans non-coalition states from bidding on the Iraqi reconstruction. Makes sense, at least in a sort of NeoCon absolutist kind of way. Don't want to join in the fight then you don't need the contracts, fine. The problem comes in when you don't want to do all the heavy lifting and you want to show some sort meager inclusiveness. Thus we now have within twenty-four Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071039549915161572003-12-10T01:59:00.000-05:002003-12-10T22:10:17.256-05:00This Fallacy, I Have Disowned
Since I don't have the big post ready to go I figured that a post about patriotism would make the roaring masses quiet down...
How about instead of a trying to win the unwinable battle of who's a better patriot, Republican or Democrat, why not just remove ourselves from it? It seems that patriotism is such a laughably nebulous term, much less an idea, that like Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1071036876377768132003-12-10T01:14:00.000-05:002003-12-10T01:14:48.596-05:00Basic principals of hand to hand combat.
I've got a pretty big post coming down the pike sometime in the next day or so. It's my rebuttal of Victor David Hanson's cover story in the Dec. 8th issue of National Review concerning the comparison between Vietnam and Iraq. While I don't think they are the same as of yet, I do believe that for one it is too soon to definitively tell and for two Hanson Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1070999578982306702003-12-09T14:52:00.000-05:002003-12-09T14:53:11.340-05:00GOREing Dean
Looks like Lieberman wants to get in a bitch fight with Gore. The great promise-keeper Lieberman is shocked that Gore would do something like this without telling Joe first, oh swoon, the horrah. Me? Good for Gore 'bout time he did something away from his handlers. If he can go back to actually giving a fuck about the environment then we'll talk. Makes you wonder if Dean can pull Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1070575183843381712003-12-04T16:59:00.000-05:002003-12-04T16:59:54.036-05:00C'Mon, get down with the sickness!
Been feeling a mite under the weather and the wife is far worse, so please forgive the lack of posts.Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-10700371347320602003-11-28T11:32:00.000-05:002003-11-28T11:41:48.776-05:00I'll have my French Dip with a side of C-SPAN and generous helping of Dolphin Whoop Ass!
Not so much as a glorious Thanksgiving, as a time to spend watching policy debate on C-SPAN and perhaps rooting for the Dolphins to kick Dallas' ass (America's team, my ass). My better half is out of town at the in-laws so I get to entertain myself with the boob tube and the mighty internet. Did I mention Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069905999428859632003-11-26T23:06:00.000-05:002003-11-26T23:06:48.366-05:00People with nil art history knowledge shouldn't throw stones...
None so much as Glenn Reynolds is miffed about this political cartoon getting a top cartooning prize. Like the article in the Independent, which happens to have published the cartoon in the first fucking place, describes the piece as "controversial." The piece is a take off of Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Children" which any good Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069879430878954632003-11-26T15:43:00.000-05:002003-11-26T15:43:59.223-05:00What a glorious day in the neighborhood...
Atrios is calling it Watergate 2: Electric Boogaloo, a blatant MST3K reference if ever there was one. Heh. But seriously guys and gals, this almost frightening development in the political world would knock me flat if it weren't for the already amazing lows put forth by the Republicans during the current administration. Looks like my generation gets Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069538323508405912003-11-22T16:58:00.000-05:002003-11-22T16:58:51.370-05:00So, I'm listening to NPR last night on my way to being ripped-off by Rot Lobster and I hear the most profound statement concerning post-war Iraq. When asked about the amount of times Iraqi citizens have turned in suspected guerrillas the capt. in charge of raiding homes in the area replied "pretty much none." Which knocked me on my ass and sent me into stunned, retardo amazment. Iraqis are being Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069532883616048052003-11-22T15:28:00.000-05:002003-11-22T15:28:11.173-05:00Gollum, gollum...
For that chara. and Andy Serkis' performance alone "The Two Towers: Extended Edition" rules your ass. Gollum's mono/dialogue with himself kicks the teeth out of S.W. I & II and the last two Matrix movies, by itself. Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069448324884085422003-11-21T15:58:00.000-05:002003-11-21T15:58:51.680-05:00Concerning a real threat to the world...
...not the made-up ghosts of WMD past. Nepal is now, and has been for the last seven years, the target of Maoist (read:Chinese) aggression. As deliniated in this story by Rueters, India and the US REALLY need to make sure that Nepal is free from Maoist control. It's position in the world is undeniably important. Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069287967602355502003-11-19T19:26:00.000-05:002003-11-19T19:44:23.716-05:00Wacko Jacko on his backo!"
One of my favorite skits from SNL revolved around that headline from the "Daily News," a coupla years ago. Darrell Hammond (FL. native) killed as Ted Koppel. I figured with all the fuss of Jacko possibly committing "the bad touch" I'd relate this worthless piece of trivia...which is exactly what the "elite liberal media" is, as of late. Like Mom used to say 'you are Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069267544867754682003-11-19T13:39:00.000-05:002003-11-19T15:55:29.863-05:00Looks like good, olde Billy Safire's gone off the deep end...again.
It's nice to see that Billy's two most important admissions in his fairy-tale world are that British war protesters "would generously admit that they had been a noisy minority" and that Wesley Clark's analysis on CNN was "unduly panicky" and like minded statements about the "war's" outcome were "egregious error(s)."
Now that Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069255118758562272003-11-19T10:18:00.000-05:002003-11-19T10:18:45.590-05:00Ooooo, more stupid shit about marriage. Here's what Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said about the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as an act between a man and a women by the US govt. He proclaimed that DOMA was "in peril" and that "we have no choice but to confront that threat." Did Osama call for a jihad against mariage and I wasn't paying attention?
Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069201446381836032003-11-18T19:24:00.000-05:002003-11-18T19:27:59.726-05:00In honour of the auspicious day in equal rights I figured it'd be as good as time as any for me to post my op/ed on the nature of religion and marriage. So here it is:
Ya know what’s on my mind? Ya know what I love, people that tell other folks and myself what to do. Man, do I love that. What’s really neat is using a two thousand-year-old mythology to tell people that have little or no interestCharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1069174617308941492003-11-18T11:56:00.000-05:002003-11-18T18:01:37.510-05:00Zip, zip ,zip...
Looks like El Rushbo is "off" the oxy. Uh-huh, sure he is. Anybody that's gone through any sort of addiction/withdrawal knows that it is a lifetime fight. Five weeks in Az. ain't gonna cut it. Would it been too much to ask for some sort acknowledgement of the sincere compassion shown by people who he constantly berates as being "traitors" and "whackos"? Rational (a word I plan Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6082834.post-1068914872059294252003-11-15T11:47:00.000-05:002003-11-15T15:52:40.976-05:00Hey everybody my name is (see below) aka Jeebus McSatan. I will be your guide through the hoary nether regions of my mind. This is my second blog (the first was on a body modification community site) and because the state of the world is so incredibly out of whack I need a vent and my wife is tired of listening (hi, hon.) so I figured I'd bother all of you with my self-important ramblings. I'm noCharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08764048382188864692noreply@blogger.com