November’s Rhino Nuggets

Once a month or so, I clear out some of the pages and place them here on the blog to make room for fresh content on those pages.  This is from the page “Rhino Nuggets”, posted from Nov. 11th through the 29th.  Enjoy!

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Nov. 11th It’s 10:54 pm Wednesday, November 11th and I still don’t give a shit about that fat pompous fuck Lou Dobbs leaving CNN.

Sens. Dodd and Sanders both have legislation out there that deals with banks which are  “Too big to fail”.  Nice.  Now,while you are protecting us from the predations of these evil pricks, could you maybe get us our fucking money back?  They seem to not really need it anymore, and we could use the extra $700,000,000,000.

Listen to some music. Hang with some geeks.  More when i feel like it.

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Nov. 12th Hmmm… Let’s see.  We’ve held this guy Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for a several years. We finally decide to send him to trial, in New York, so the man who masterminded 9/11 can be killed brought to justice in the place where he assaulted the consciousness of America and killed several thousand people, and this is a bad thing? Actually killing the assholes who did this to us justice, a bad thing? The Republicans who are fighting this apparently like terrorists and don’t LIKE justice, they just like talking about it.

Assholes.  I can understand the families of the victims not wanting him here, this close to the scene where his plans came to fruition, but  maneuvering for political gain by the republican party here  is fucking bullshit.

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Nov. 13th I have to sit back and calm the fuck down…been ranting about the people on youtube again in the blog.  Fat load of mindless twats.  They still try to call the president a Muslim from Kenya who is trying to steal our freedom (never say how either).  Do these people remember bush? The patriot act? the military commissions act?  Attempts to destroy Habeas Corpus, the 4th, 9th, and 14th amendments? This President is trying to reset the balance, set it right after years of abuse.

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Nov. 14th Thank you, Bart Stupak, for finding another way to divide the democratic party.  Abortions are performed mostly on as I recall, poor and/or single women.  A group more likely to need less expensive health insurance, than most, and therefor, more in need of a public option.  So what you did, Mr. Stupak, is cut off millions of women from a medical procedure that they would in all likelihood need more than any other group of women.  Among other things, the law of unintended consequences comes into play here, Mr. Stupidak.

And don’t forget, November 15th is  “Clean out your refrigerator day”. I mean it.  No, seriously!  Click here for proof!

I’m surprised Lou Dobbs hasn’t joined Fox news yet. Or maybe he has and I just missed it.

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Nov. 15th  WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!  New York state is weeks away from running into Bankruptcy!  Not that this is news, it isn’t, the states finances have been a mess for a while, I didn’t realize it was quite weeks away from running out of cash.  JUST LIKE ME!  YAY! Well, OK, maybe not weeks away for me… I may be in better shape financially than NYS.  

Robotic Hamsters?  If you spend the money on all 4 hamsters and the playsets for it, it’s more cost efficient to just get a real one.  Admittedly, when the child you buy it for loses interest, at least you don’t have to flush the toy down the toilet, just your money.  Pluses and minuses on both sides, I guess.

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Nov. 16th  Sent out a few resumes, and I am awaiting a response.  A response would in fact be nice, but I’m not expecting any.  I have sent in stuff to tons of people over the last few months and I’ve gotten zip, zilch, nada back in terms of actual response.  Even staffing agencies don’t call back.  They say they have my info, they say they’ll call when something comes up.  Nicht, rien, nyet.  Dammit.

Cesare Bonizzi, The metal monk has retired.  The devil he claims, went to his head.  Toss on some slayer later, or if you can find it, some Fratello Metallo (Cesare’s former band) and thrash in his honor.

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Nov. 18th  If you don’t completely lose your mind once in a while, it is certifiable proof that you don’t have one. 

After the beating the job market has taken recently, there are places now that have the FUCKING NERVE to offer even LESS money than they did before!!!  $9 an hour for a copy guy in 2009! Full Time!  They didn’t offer that little for that position 15 years ago to trainees!  How the screaming ass FUCK is anyone supposed to live on $9 an hour?  I should go there, just walk in with a bag full of cat shit and smear it all over the owners face for that weak ass offer.  I’d rather starve and die and take the fucking world with me.  Fuck YOU, you CUNT!

I can feel the love, can’t you? 

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Nov. 19th  RANT, MOAN SCREAM, BITCH, YELL, RANT, SCREAM, YELL… seems to be about all I do, right?  Not really.  Most of the time I’m pretty relaxed, I think. I do like getting keyed up for the writing though.  It’s fun to just BARK AT PEOPLE.  I like to think of myself as a surly curmudgeon in training.  A younger version of John C. Dvorak, without all the messy conservatism, but with 50% more pontificating! 

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Nov. 20th   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nov. 21st    Your favorite Rhino is having a blast yelling at the television right now.  Football game? No.  Hockey? Nopers.  Uglier than that.  I’m watching the U.S. Senate.  John McCain is a complete Idiot.  Orrin Hatch is a moron.  John Kyl is out of his mind.  “The cost of the bill over a real ten year period.”  This bill may pass the house and pass the senate, but it will not pass”  I’m afraid that this bill may be socialist”  Each of these quotes were actually said on the floor of the senate.  Are there fake ten year periods out there?  How the hell will a bill pass the democratically controlled senate and the democratically controlled house, and not get signed by a Democratic President who campaigned in part on health care reform?   Socialist?  I have beaten this horse half to death over the better part of a year.

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Nov. 23rd  A New Toy! …well, new to me anyway.

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Nov. 24th:  Headlines on bloomberg.com at 10:24am : CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IN U.S. UNEXPECTEDLY GAINS. Another one reads: U.S. ECONOMY GROWS AT 2.8% RATE ON HIGHER DEFICIT, LOWER CONSUMER SPENDING. 

Wait… If consumer spending dropped, does that not denote a lack of confidence SOMEWHERE…along with an obvious lack of cash.  Wall street has reacted positively to this news.  The market is down 69 points.  Joy.  And that consumer confidence # they were touting there?    It’s at the same place it was in September of 2008.  You remember 2008 right?

The market should take some solace in this little fact: Corporate profits in the third quarter posted a sharp gain to $1.181 trillion annualized-up from $1.031 trillion the prior quarter. Profits up by $150,000,000,000.   I don’t expect the market to stay down, in large part because of that last bit there.

If you get a chance, find intelligence squared on tv and watch it. Or check it out here.

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Nov. 26th:  Happy Thanksgiving !!!

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Nov. 28th:  Does anyone really give a shit about Climategate? We know something is fucked up with the environment, that sea levels are rising.  If people who are doing a small portion of the science here fudged some numbers, nail those assholes to the wall.  But don’t throw all the information that we have taken in during all the years out the window.  Throwing out the baby with the bath water makes no sense in any way.  And even if we aren’t to blame for global warming, if we are completely blameless in this (highly unfucking likely), it does no harm, and does in fact a great good to try and set high environmental standards, and it will create millions of new jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars of industry for America, and the world.

     And if you don’t like that, you are a fucking anti capitalist Nazi cunt.

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Nov. 29th:  There is good news.  There are people out there with money and the did more shopping this year than last year,½% more than last year.  Happy economic news on the home front.  

There is not altogether unexpected bad news.  Apparently then Def. Sec.Rumsfeld and Gen. Tommy Franks, afraid of backlash from the locals in Afghanistan, let Osama Bin Laden slip through their fingers, according to a Senate report due for release tomorrow. JOY!

Ain’t life wonderful?!

Golfing doesn’t make you bad

      John Boehner loves him some golf.  A lot apparently,  to the tune of $82,998 this year so far, according to a story on politico.  A funny commercial, that pokes fun at John Boehner’s cluelessness, here because it hits him where it hurts right in his (golf) balls.

  

    The “Freedom Project political action committee”, John boy’s PAC, has held a number of golf outings at really ritzy golf courses.  I had originally guessed that he has made tens of thousands of dollars for the GOP via his golf outings here.  The article says more,not how much more, but more.  Quoting Don Seymour, a spokesman for Johns PAC, saying that the money…
   

related to events that have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help the Freedom Project support Republican candidates for Congress.

       I would talk about it looking like he seems a bit out of touch here with this, but I don’t think this necessarily shows that.  I think his views on actual legislation are a much clearer indicator of his cluelessness about the state of the nation.

    I think he’s a complete schmuck, and i think that it’s great that he has a backup career that doesn’t involve politics when his days in congress are over.  Which one hopes will be relatively soon, 2010 would be a good time for a hearty democratic challenge.  The PGA senior tour could definitely use him.  I hear he is VERY good at playing with his balls in public.   

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     And now for something completely different…

          

       I tried reading Ayn Rand.  I really did, but it was really truly difficult, and in the end I just gave up.  It wasn’t difficult because she was throwing difficult to comprehend subjects out to be digested.  It’s because she was making ideological points that I disagreed with,  It was because she annoyed the crap out of me.  She wasn’t just an ideologue with delusions of humanity, but she was just so…full of shit.  Allow me a few examples:          

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

      Is fixing the mess that is Health care in America for example,  an “interference in the economy”, when it is business that is the cause of the problem for which a solution that is necessarily outside of business has to be found?  From my vantage point, it is the business that has created not only interference in the economy, but the need for counter-interference on the governments behalf.

     I’d much rather not have the government do this, but the industry would not, has not, and apparently is unwilling to fix itself.  It shows itself entirely incapable of doing anything but bankrupting the people who are it’s bread and butter. 
   

When I say “capitalism,” I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.

      I don’t mind regulation, not at all.  We have seen, we have all I think seen the excesses that an unregulated market can create.  A lack of control created by of lack of enforced regulation led to the current economic collapse.  Plain and simple.  Too many people thought about making a buck before putting the ethical considerations of their actions first. 

     Nothing wrong with making a buck, but greed uncontrolled created a monster.  Regulation, along with sensible legislation, would have saved many people much money and much grief.  Lack of regulation, the fall of glass steagel, the end of bretton woods, all of these things and a hundred others led us to the ugly path we are on today.    

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

       Bullshit. Bullshit on it’s face, bullshit everywhere. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.  Was it government intervention that created the oil monopolies or the railroad monopolies in the 19th century?  No, it was government that ended those monopolies. Did government create the Microsoft monopoly? No. 

     It was special privileges made with under the table deals  to other companies to undercut competition that made standard oil the juggernaut they were, and made it necessary to break Standard oil up.  No government mandated special privileges.  The right has been passing this particular lie off since the gilded age.  No one has bought that bullshit, aside from people who have a vested interest in it, in a generation.

      All that said, I think I want to try again to read her work.  To critique it, to get inside the head of one of the foremost thinkers the right has ever had, to know the arguments from that sharp mind.  If i can get past her bullshit that is, which would clearly be the largest hurdle.

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That’s it from me. Later!

Today’s Nuggets, by Marcus Aurelius, via wikiquote:  Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

Search men’s governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.

What is it with people?

           There I was, just surfing teh intarwebs, armed only with my wits, my extremely non trusty keyboard (QWERTY sucks), and an old cold cup of coffee that wasn’t helping anyone, and all of a sudden, WHAM, it hit me.  I have been playing around on this @$%@^$# computer all day and I haven’t written  hardly anything… well, i did toss a blurb out in the rhino nuggets, but it wasn’t much.  Plus, Khlaid Sheikh Mohammed is dead meat on a stick no matter where he goes, doesn’t much matter where they hold the trial.  He must be held accountable, and he must be held accountable by “We The People” not the military, not just kept locked up in a cell forever.  Put him in a court and let him defend himself just like anyone else who went around killing people like a complete antisocial f****** nutcase.  Aaaaaaaand We do have the death penalty here, ya know…

      Onto other things.

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  I’ve been reading some comments on youtube that were attached to this particular viddy (after watching some keyboard cat goodness, of course), and I have to tell you, the Presidents opponents are both angry, and extraordinarily unintelligent, at least the ones whose fiction I read there.  A few tidbits for you to peruse:

Obama: At his SKIT SPEECH in “Asia”……”HEY ASIANS!……..if I can keep up the LYING BY OMMISION?……then we have a whole generation of kids in America !!! who ~mm~mmm~mmm!…..I will be turning over to you – and you can make them become Chinese SLAVE LABORERS – as their only career choice! ……..that is because I am here to destroy the FREEDOM OF AMERICA!….with some more loans and Liberal World AGENDA of COMMIES and CRACKPOTS and CULTS – I so admire! LET’s get er DONE!”(cheers follow)

Obama = another smooth talking, Muslim.

I didn’t know Kenya was a pacific region.

Here is a outline of Obama’s trip:

Blame America
apologize for America
America will not monitorize the debt (although we are already doing that)
America will give Billions for Global warming (or is it temperature change now??)
Fat ass michelle will once again barely fit on air force one do to her huge butt and hips.
America makes too much CO2 (it would be a lot less if Obama would just shut his trap.)

     Do you see ANY intelligent discussion above? Anything that could be construed as an honest political discourse? Me neither.

    A) Barack Obama is a Christian and was born in the city of Honolulu, on the Island of Hawaii, this has been proven, and the birth certificate is out there.  Pay f****** attention, dumbass.

   B) If we are going to lay blame for America becoming owned by Asia, that blame goes a long way back. Japan and China have been buying our debt in massive quantities for years.  China has been adding exponentially more American debt since the early 2000’s.  Japan since the 90’s.  And Great Britain and Germany have been major players for years.  Don’t hear complaints about them.  Or Luxembourg, or Caribbean banking centers, or any of the other 25+ listed nations that buy our debt.   And with all the debt they have been buying, the bulk of our debt stays here.  The last numbers I have seen have the foreign ownership of said debt at 27.9% of total.

    Meaning that 72.1% of it stays here in America, it doesn’t leave these shores. So much for the thought of our children being sold in slave labor to china by way of other nations owning us.  Better way to put it is WE ARE BROKE AND WE HAVE BEEN FOR AGES.  This sucks, tis true, but blaming The President, and China, and foreign interests is bullshit from the get go.  There’s enough blame to go around for everyone. 

    And there is no liberal world agenda. 

    C)  America will give billions for Global Warming, and we won’t monetize (not monitorize) the debt? Umm…WTF is that about? Monetization was necessary due to the amount of pressure the financial system was under due to the banking system collapse in 2008.  And we have been monetizing some portion of the debt for a while now.   Or what else do you call what’s happening with Freddie mac and Fannie mae? And who the f*** are we giving billions to for global warming?  Ya need to explain a wee bit more there, laddie. 

    D)  Since when does Michelle have a fat ass?  My guess is that guys wife weighs 400 pounds and has more cellulite than the entire city of Louisville Kentucky.

    Everyone is entitled to an opinion.  But some opinions have a more firm basis in fact than others.  I’m not perfect in this, I have been wrong on a great many occasions, but not here.  Misinformation and plain nonsense of the type written by these …crazed xenophobes doesn’t make those opinions valid, it lessens the value of what is written by these writers.  In the end, opinion without fact is useless to the world.

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     To end with something completely off topic … SCREW YOU ARRINGTON! Play him off, keyboard cat!

    

   Later!

Today’s nuggets, by Plato, Via wikiquote:   When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician’s business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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Anagram: The Politics Of Now/ Low Point Of Ethics

      Aside from the obvious fact that Beck can’t spell, what is wrong here? 

   

        Tis funny that spelling mistake, but lets look at what he was actually trying to say here, shall we?  It really is a good thing that he wants to ask questions, but lets look at what he is questioning,  on the basis of wording and basic ideas.

    Obama.  That’s perfectly OK.  Every President should be questioned, as ruthlessly as possible about his actions, and what he wants.  To leave a President unquestioned is to leave him unopposed, and that should never happen.  Ever.  He should be questioned about motive and action by both those who are with him and those who are against.  And he is getting that.  Good.  It’ll keep him on his toes and make him a better leader.

     Left-Internationalist.  Lets tackle the second word first.  There are several meanings to the word internationalist, but the most prevalent meaning is simply:
      

Internationalism is a political movement which advocates a greater economic and political cooperation among nations for the theoretical benefit of all.

      There is no doubt in my mind, that this is a good thing.  The concept of free trade stands within this concept, as does capitalism. Can’t really see much wrong in that… 

     …He may have been thinking of International Socialism, but he didn’t say it that way, so we’ll just presume the man had a second brain fart, that the misspell on Oligarch isn’t the only mistake he made.  And since International Socialism would in fact need an actual massive communist underground to do it’s dirty work, and since there is no chance in hell of that happening here in America, there really is little need for you, Mr. Beck, to get all huffy about that particular possibility. 

    Unions are about as close as we get, and those are nothing close to what would be needed to make that a real concern for anyone.  

   As for Left, we know why Glenn hates that.  No need to speak on that.

     Next up.  Graft.

   Now maybe this would be an issue if we had President Blagojevich or President Agnew in the White House, because those men knew their way around graft.  The President is a man who has enough for himself and his family, just on the strength of his book sales, having made several million dollars as an author, not including his pay as president, and since he does not have the spectre of corruption upon him, I have grave doubts about the seriousness of this particular issue of Mr. Beck’s.  Barack Obama is not Spiro Agnew or Rod Blagojevich. 

    Now if Glenn wants to fight corruption, I’m with him 100%, just like most everyone else.  Let’s fight corruption,  not just our political rivals.

   Next up.  Acorn-style organizations. 

     Let’s take a serious look at Acorn.  They are an organization that fights predatory lending practices, fights for voters rights, health care and a host of other concerns.  They do much good in America.  Ask the survivors of Katrina.  Yes there was talk during the presidential election cycle of massive voter fraud perpetrated by Acorn, but this is simply not true.  There were a bunch of shitheads in a bunch of places who didn’t want to work and put in invalid registrations, but the claim that it was ACORN itself that did this is nothing more than outlandish intellectual dishonesty.

   So, when you say Acorn style organizations, what you are really talking about is an organization that cares enough about the powerless in society that they will go to bat for them, help them out in a jam, and fight for the rights of the common citizen when they have nowhere else to turn.

     This is a bad thing?  Who else is on your hate list, Glenn? The Salvation Army?  UNICEF? WTF is that about?

    Next up: Revolutionaries.

      I like revolutionaries.  Ben Franklin was a revolutionary.  Tom Paine was a revolutionary.  You know who Tom Paine is, right, Mr. Beck? I presume you do. You wrote a book stealing the title of his most famous treatise, and so I’m told, it was meant to be a modern version thereof.  Haven’t read it myself.  I might, just to critique it.  The question that arises is, what type of revolutionary are you afraid of, Mr. Beck?

     Socialists?  There aren’t any really, the only socialists out there are the ones in your head.  The ones you create to populate a world that is out to get you, even though it isn’t.  There are no revolutionaries

     This nation has no need of a Fidel Castro/Che Guevara type, and will not produce one.  There be no  Lenin/Stalin/ Trotsky types here.  1969 has come and gone and the hippies that didn’t die of overdoses and random ugly unfair death grew up, or else became rich and have enslaved that which they once wanted to free.  There are no more real American revolutionaries.

    And that’s kind of a shame.  I’d like to test myself against one, just to see what they could teach me, and what I could teach them. I’m a willing student to all forms of thought.

   Last one:  Hidden Agendas.

     Um…. if there was a real hidden agenda, you wouldn’t be able to find it.  When people talk of hidden agendas, i presume they actually mean subversive activity.  And I just don’t see any.  If you do, dear reader, please enlighten me.  But since i don’t know enough about what exactly you mean there, I will leave writing on hidden agendas unfinished.  I will get to it another time, if and when I can.

    Freedom of Speech is great, isn’t it? He can say what he likes, and I can respond in kind.  God Bless America.

      I asked a question at the very beginning of this blog.  The answer is that he thinks the government, and anything even vaguely democratic in nature is out to get him and the good people of America. 

        I disagree, and frankly i think the boy looks a bit silly talking the way he does, even without the misspellings.   

     A second viddy, an antidote to Beck.  Bill Moyers talking to Bill Maher.

    

   That’s it for me.   Later!

Today’s Nuggets, Via Wikiquote:  It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.   Thomas Paine

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, “whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone;” but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.  Ethan Allen

Anagram: Playing Games/ A Gleaming Spy

       D*ck: The Blog

     For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, there’s a lot of noise on the right about the President taking things away from us, the American people.  There’s talk of death panels, of having to pay for illegal immigrants health care, and abortions.  None of them true.  Now there’s one more thing the President is apparently after according to our friends on the right.  You won’t believe it. 

       America’s Foreskins.  LOL.

      You read that right.  They want the men of America afraid that a Black man’s gonna steal your foreskin. 

   

       Shocked the re-fried beans out of me when I first heard of it.  Giggled so hard milk almost shot out of my nose, and the last milk I had was in my coffee 8 hours ago.  THAT’s some impressive humor, and whom do we have to thank for this silliness? 

    Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. 

    The fat bastard talking about a story put out by Fox News, America’s conservative media wing, seems to think that a move, in the works by the CDC for the better part of two years, to recommend circumcision for newborn boys as a way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, somehow translates into the President wanting our penises.  The Fox story was later commented on By Mr. Limbaugh, who stated that The President wanted to “Mandate circumcision” a day after citing said Fox news story on his radio show.

     To read the actual CDC report, click here.   Nothing about a mandate.  Nothing.  There is ample medical evidence that they bring to suggest that circumcision may be good all around for your health, and the health of your partner, but the word mandate, or any hint of government intervention to MAKE people do anything, either specifically or implicitly, simply does not exist.

    Rush, get off of my D*ck, OK?  Back that the hell up, you and Fox.  Stop making everything look like some massive government conspiracy to take everything from the American people.  The government isn’t out to get anyone.  Dubya and Cheney are out of office, we don’t have to worry about that horse-crap anymore. 

    What a bunch of D*cks. 

   Dirty Humor in the viddy up next.  101 Big d*ck jokes, with Drew Carey.  Funny Stuff.

   

   ROFL.  I kinda feel bad that this thing cuts off early.  There is some serious funny in there.

That’s It for me. Later! Some serious quotes after all the d*ck jokes.

Today’s Nuggets, Via Wikiquote:  The national argument right now is, one, who’s got the truth and, two, who’s got the facts… Until we can manage to get the two of them back together again, we’re not going to make much progress.   Michael Adams

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one’s heart…that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.  Freidrich Nietzsche

 O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott