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Something came up...

..and this idea is kaput. Maybe if I get time later I will do more at this site, but for now it will go dormant.

I will continue to do my original blog, and I have an idea for a new blog that is more specific to a cause that I care deeply about. Details will be announced at my "other" place when and if I get it up and running.

Thanks for the visits...and have a pleasant tomorrow!

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Whatever holiday you celebrate, have a merry one!

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Your PDB for Thursday

This can't be good. Officials are investigating the theft of 400 pounds of high-powered plastic explosives in New Mexico. "The missing 400 pounds of explosives includes 150 pounds of what is known as C-4 plastic, or 'sheet explosive,' which can be shaped and molded and is often used by terrorists and military operatives." Instead of listening in on phone conversations, perhaps we should watch the stuff that actually goes "boom" a little better, eh boys?

Check your Christmas candy. It might be a little...uh...heavy, especially if it came from Mexico. The FDA announced they were lowering the amount of lead allowable in certain types of children's candy. Probably a good idea.

Donald "Cut and Run" Rumsfeld announced that we would soon be lowering troop levels in Iraq. I expect to hear the condemnation from the right any second now...any second now... any...hey, where did everybody go?

Yet another reason to move to Canada- group sex is now legal. "Group sex among consenting adults is neither prostitution nor a threat to society, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Wednesday as it lifted a ban on so-called 'swingers' clubs." Man, they are so cool up there.

Santa has been given clearance to fly into US airspace, but there is no guarantee that we won't listen in on his cell phone conversations. You've been warned, fat guy.

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Your PDB for Wednesday

U.S. District Judge John Jones smacked down the wingnuts and their attempts to push religion, under the cloak of "intelligent design", in the public schools. "Any asserted secular purposes by the board are a sham and are merely secondary to a religious objective," he said. Hope this dude has some bodyguards.

Tommy "Bugman" DeLay officially filed for re-election even though he is facing criminal charges for money laundering. Life is good when you are a member of the Culture of Corruption. A report on Tommy's lavish lifestyle shows that the Bugman enjoyed "cliff-top Caribbean resorts, golf courses designed by PGA champions and four-star restaurants — all courtesy of donors who bankrolled his political money empire." Go read the story for a complete description on Tommy's fun.

Drunken Santas run amok in New Zealand. "The rampage, dubbed Santarchy by local newspapers, began Saturday when the men, wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an Auckland overpass, said Auckland Central Police Department spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty." There's a country with the Xmas spirit!

Happy Winter Solstice Day! Starting tomorrow, the Sun starts coming back to us. Baseball will be here before you know it.

That's all for today...I'm taking a little road trip with my Mom to get away from watching the Senate. Stick to your guns, Harry. I would love to read of a Ted Stevens complete and total melt-down when I come home.

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Your PBD for Monday

Sorry I haven't been able to keep up with this like I should- I've spent quite a bit of time picking my jaw up off the floor and it's hindering my typing abilities.

George "Dictator" Bush vows to continue to spy on Americans, and if you don't like it, tough shit. You must be a terrorist. Coming next, little TV cameras in every home just so, you know, we can watch what you are doing. Maybe a little recorder in your car to see where you are driving. Don't worry, it's to "protect your freedom". And if you don't like it, why, you must be a terrorist. Who can argue with that?

Bush pulled a Rovian slip-of-the-tongue in his press conference Monday, substituting "Saddam" when he meant to say "Osama". Aides were quite impressed that it took him this long to verbally screw this up after four years of implying the two were connected.

Dick "Dick" Cheney finally made it to a combat zone after forty years of successful dodging. First thing his Iraqi hosts said was, "Leave. Get your troops and leave." Dick replied that was not an option. "Guess what! We are never leaving. How are the pipelines coming along?"

Harry Reid calls this Congress "the most corrupt in history". I really can't add to that.

The NSA has a page on their website just for kids! Yes, kids, you too can spy on your neighbors, just like the President! Any resemblance to the "Youth League" and the "Spies" in the book "1984" are purely coincidental, but we are getting closer and closer everyday.

The fact that Bill "Transmission Through Tears" Frist has an AIDS charity is hard to believe. The fact that he is probably funneling big money donations from major corporations through it is not.

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Your PBD for Saturday

George "Liar" Bush says that he never made the connection between Saddam and 9/11. Nope, wasn't him. Nuh-uh. Oh no he didn't! "There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11," Bush said. "I've never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq." So, all you Americans that thought that there was a connection between the two must have been under a mass delusion. Where would you get that idea?

Georgie is also a little bummed that the Senate blocked the extension of the Patriot Act. One has to wonder why when he just ignores the laws anyway. Seriously, why do we need the Patriot Act? Or the Constitution, for that matter? There are reasons why Bush ranks as the "least popular and most bellicose" President out of the last ten, and I think he is trying to display them all this week.

Tests show the Diebold voting machines can easily be hacked without a trace being left behind. I guess we don't need to bother having elections, either.

In happier news, $3 billion will be going to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

More creepy Christmas Holiday news- a homeowner in Florida has a display of a gutted Rudolph, complete with red lights representing blood draining from the body, in his front yard. "I don't think it's very nice at all. It's Rudolph and I think that's really nasty," said neighbor Bree McMahon. Um, yeah. I guess so. There are some folks I don't mind the NSA spying on.

West Wing actor John Spencer passed away at the age of 58 from a heart attack. While I only caught West Wing on and off throughout the years, I do remember John from LA Law- at the time I was busy drooling over Amanda Donohoe. (hey, I was young) Another piece of my past drifts away. Thanks for the memories, John.

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Your PDB for Thursday

President Bush tainted the jury pools everywhere when he proclaimed that he knows the Tom DeLay is innocent of charges of money laundering. Gee, Mr. President, if you are so sure, perhaps you should subpoenaed testify as to what you do know?

"Bob Novack? Never heard of him.", was Scottie McClellan's answer to charges from Novack that President Bush knows who leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's name to the press. Oooo, so cold on the outside, isn't it Bob? Career...over.

The U.S. government once again shows why we are so popular around the world, this time denying Cuba entry into the inaugural World Baseball Classic series that will run from March 3-20. The US Treasury Department cited our long standing and pointless embargo as reason for the decision. Face it, folks, Castro ain't going nowhere. Sometimes I think the guy will live forever just to piss off the USA.

North of the border, Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin told the US to "stuff it" (my favorite expression lately) when it comes to what he can and cannot say about the US during the run-up to Canada's Jan 23rd election. Good on you, Paul.

The Freeway Blogger has a blog now. Check it out.

The drumbeat for Lions Team President and CEO Matt Millen's head keeps getting louder. Fans as far away as Seattle are holding up "Fire Millen" signs at Seahawk games. There is a firemillen.com and firemillen.net and firemattmillen.net. Lions fans plan a protest march around Ford Field this coming Sunday, and fans inside the stadium are encouraged to dress in orange. Sounds like the seating area will be more entertaining than the game. You just know that fans will also sneak signs in there, and Fox (or CBS) will eat it up. Give it up, Matt! We have you surrounded!

Speaking of fun with the Fords, the Ford Motor Corporation announced that they will advertise in gay magazines no matter what the AFA says. So there. They will also continue to sponsor gay events and plan to auction off a "lap dance from Matt Millen" at the next HRC fundraiser in Detroit. Donald Wildmon was not available for comment. (and that's true)

Yes, George Michael Bluth, there may indeed be a Santa Claus after all. Rumors and whispers abound that either Showtime or ABC might pick up the Fox series "Arrested Development". Please, please, please...let this be true, although if it's on Showtime I'll have to wait for the DVD. Santa's not bringing me pay TV for Xmas.

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Your PDB for Wednesday

The Patriot Act renewal has flown through the House, but has hit a snag in the Senate. Russ Feingold (D-Freedom), has threatened to filibuster due to the fact that this is America and we are supposedly a free country with an expectation of privacy from the government. James Sensenbrenner (R- Nazi Pig), immediately threw a hissy fit, proclaiming that "ohmyGodweneedthisrightnowortheterroristswinandwewillalldie" before he collapsed on the floor kicking his legs and holding his breath. Mr Sensenbrenner was then sent to his office for a much needed "time-out".

The Pentagon has you in it's sights if you are suspicious domestic group known to be a "threat", such as these radical Quakers in Florida. According to Lisa Myers at NBC, the Defense Department has a secret database of information on American citizens who are protesting the war. Somewhere Richard Nixon is smiling.

Singing "go on...take the money and run...woo hoo hoo", President Marsha Evans has resigned from the Red Cross mere hours before allegations of general mass confusion in the wake of Hurricane Katrina were reported to a Congressional hearing. Citing FEMA as their role model, the Red Cross has taken in billions in relief funds and still hasn't distributed to those in need. Can I have my $20 back?

And speaking of those in need, it turns out that there is not one county in America where you can rent a one bedroom apartment at minimum wage. Jerry Kooiman was not available for comment.

Today's dispatch from the front lines in the War on Christmas^TM: A NYC family took things a little too far when they "decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets." Yeesh. Top that, Mr. O'Reilly.

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Your PDB for Tuesday

Researchers have injected human brain cells into mice embryos with the hopes of making them more "human" to test various neurological drugs. If efforts are successful, plans will be drawn up to inject Republicans with human brain cells to make them more...well...human.

Bobby Byrd called out Bill Frist on the Senate floor Monday, saying, "You want a piece of me? Bring it, sucka, I take you out", in answer to Frist's repeated threats to change Senate rules. "If the senator wants a fight, let him try. I'm 88 years old but I can still fight and fight I will for freedom of speech," Byrd said. Frist was found later hiding in Rick Santorum's office closet and had no comment. Look for a HBO pay-per-view special if the fight does indeed go down.

Time to fill up the car. With the bulk of the Xmas buying rush just about over, gas prices are inching their way back upward. Prediction: it goes up dramatically in January. Just about the time when the new credit card rates to kick in. Maybe you will get lucky and get cross-country skis for Xmas. OPEC hinted at cutting oil production next year, and energy forecasters are predicting a rise in oil prices until at least 2014, which will be a heck of a long time to nurse that tank of gas.

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Your PDB for Sunday

Barak Obama tells it like it is in Florida. I wish that more Democrats would pick up on this theme and run with it.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Republicans controlling the federal government practice Social Darwinism, a discredited philosophy that in economics and politics calls for survival of the fittest, according to a Democratic U.S. senator.

Sen. Barak Obama of Illinois, a fast-rising Democratic star, told Florida party members that only a philosophy among Republicans of sink or swim explains why some Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans still live in cars while Republicans in Washington prepare next week to enact $70 billion in tax breaks.

"It's called the 'Ownership society' in Washington. This isn't the first time this philosophy has appeared. It used to be called Social Darwinism," Obama said late Saturday at the Democrats meeting at Walt Disney World.

"They have a philosophy they have implemented and that is doing exactly what it was designed to do. They basically don't believe in government. They have a different philosophy that says, 'We're going to dismantle government'," Obama said.

Republicans running the federal government believe, "You are on your own to buy your own health care, to buy your own retirement security ... to buy your own roads and levees," Obama said, referring to flood barriers that gave way in New Orleans during Katrina last August.

But Mr. Obama, you are missing one very distinct difference- today's Republicans believe in government when it can benefit them, and only them. As long as they are free to give healthy contracts to their buddies and big tax benefits to themselves, they are all for big government. Don't forget that. When the money is flowing, they love the governmnet.

Bill "Cat Killer" Frist decided it was safe to visit the Sunday talk show-o-rama, blathering on once again that, if the Republicans can't win, they will just change the rules.

"The answer is yes," Frist said when asked if he would act to change Senate procedures to restrict a Democratic filibuster. "Supreme Court justice nominees deserve an up-or-down vote, and it would be absolutely wrong to deny him that."

Unless you're Harriet Miers. Then it doesn't count.

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Your PDB for Saturday

Bill Clinton once again showed why he is da bomb when it comes to international diplomacy. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal, the Bush delegation got up, walked out, thumbed it's nose, turned it's back, stuck out it's tongue and basically were the complete and total assholes that America has come to be on the world stage, while Bill left 'em cheering in the aisles. Real leadership. Boy, do I miss that.

If the economy is so great, why the huge drop in the stock market in the past two weeks that wiped out the gains of the entire year? Do investors know something that we (and when I say we, I mean the Bush administration and the media) don't?

Speaking of the stock holders and all those other rich folk, they should be jumping for joy and pouring money into investments after the House cut taxes to the tune of $95 billion dollars. So, cough it up folks! We had to mug little old ladies and kids and sick people just so you could invest more money! Better jump to it! Actually, this isn't a done deal quite yet, the Senate only wants to cut $60 billion. The pillaging will resume after the holiday break.

Televangelists are a little bit nervous about the ala carte cable TV proposals being pushed by their own band of followers. You see, when it comes to supposedly "fighting indecency" or making money hand over fist, they will choose the money every time. Such a quandary. Guess the smut stays. Perhaps they should form church groups that teach people how to use the remote.

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Your PBD for Friday

Rumors are swirling that Secretary of Defense Donald "Crazy" Rumsfeld may be forced to retire next year. While Rummy vehemently denies this, one has to wonder where they are coming from if it isn't true. Joe-Zell "Big Kiss" Lieberman could be offered the job. Everybody go check your calendar and make sure it's not April 1st.

Turns out Bill "Cat Killer" Frist may have played favorites when it came to legislation on his supposed blind trust investments. No surprises there. Wipe that look of shock off your face.

Wal-Mart loves the gays, and, apparently, all kinds of sex related sales, as long as they are outside the US. Asda, Britain's arm of the retail giant, is offering same sex marriage products to those lucky British who now will enjoy equal marriage rights as of Dec. 21st. Last year, Asda announced it was "rolling back" the price of condoms in time for the Christmas party season, and stores were open late in case customers "unexpectedly get lucky." Wal-Mart in Canada already sells a line of sex toys. Ahhh, life in the civilized world.

In other "too bad America sucks for people in the closet" gay related news, Spokane's mayor Jim West was recalled in a special election after it was revealed he was trolling the Internet looking for young hot employees he could bestow his...uh..."favors" on. In the past Mr. West had repeatedly denounced attempts at legislation for equal rights for gays, making him eligible for the "Hypocrite of the Year" award. Competition is said to be fierce this year.

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