v happy.
In USA, the Indians mostly support the Republicans, at least when I was there.
OK, I am sure some support Dems, but in the communities in the South, they supported Thuglicans.
So I was not really supporting Bobby Jindal and in fact was a Kathleen Blanco supporter and she won the first time.
and bunch of commentator dweebs, I think it was these weekly standard people or some other right wing people said, it was a racist result.
How could it possibly be a racist result when 2 whitest counties voted for him, Bossier, the sister city of Shreveport, voted for him and some other county, almost totally.
Bossier is as conservative as Shreveport is liberal.
Bobby was winning when he started bragging about how totally anti abortion he was. This scared Dems silly. Also Dems already rejected a guy Milkovich, who said he was standing against abortion. He was rejected by 25% to 75% even though the Rethuglican is a watery eyed slug type.
Why do Indians support an anti abortion candidate. It is baffling.
That was not all.
Then he said Helmet laws mean a Nanny State, like there is something weird about telling people to wear helmets. OK, so maybe the Hell's Angels like that.
Then Kathleen Blanco released stuff on his record of Medicaid cuts when he was supposedly George Bush's little young health care whiz and also his record that he almost caused Grambling University to lose its accreditation.
And ya gotta understand, Grambling is the pride and joy of Louisiana.
Then finally, Bobby kicked his own self in the balls, by calling one set of so called Miscellaneous Funds, Slush funds.
Bobby mistakenly thought that Miscellaneous funds was a sneaky way for Governor's to pull wool over constituent eyes.
Keep in mind that the Governor at the time was a thuglican, Kathleen was only the candidate. But Bobby was blabbing about slush funds.
Now Miscellaneous funds was funds given to smaller counties that did not have their own tax revenue to keep roads, sewage and all.
But if ya want the State to function, ya cannot have a road or pipeline or electric line suddenly stop short at a county line becoz their own taxes dont cover it.
so in a state which has rich counties and downright poor counties, some which did not even have telephone lines well into the 2000s, ya have to find a way to pay for stuff, even if it is not strictly State Bidness.
So people in those counties, which many of them was white and poor, quickly ran and voted for Blanco in the final election.
So that is how Bobby Jindal lost that election.
Now, last thang I saw, was he was actually arguing for more Medicaid money and it was the Dem legislators who cut the funds.
People this is not a smart move, dont count on him being Indian, he is gonna tell everyone Your Stupid Ass cut the funds and if ya get ya ass kicked, it will be ya own damn stupid fault.
Louisiana medical care depends totally on charity care and Medicaid and the Medical School depends on it to keep their hospitals open, so heck do not mess with Medicaid funds just becoz ya feel like twisting the tail of the Rethuglican governor.
It is not a damn smart thang to do.
Just saying.
Think about it.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
one last thang about the Republicans, ya remember when Lauch Washcloth was the face of the thugs
Him and Phil Gramm and Dan Burton.
Now I find that Larry Craig apparently called Clinton a bad, naughty boy over the Monica Lewinsky thang.
But he was not the ranters and hollerers who showed up on news shows all over the place, bawling for the impeachment.
I am real happy the 2 Hutchinson brothers of Arkansas reaped their just rewards by being booted out in elections.
Mike Beebe is an excellent governor of Arkansas.
The booting out of the impeachment thugs was one of my happiest recurring moments, as one by one they got booted out.
Lindsey Graham is the only one with staying power and he has turned into some kind of people based civil libertarian and people appear to like him.
But ya remember the time when Lauch Washcloth was the face of the thuglicans. Hahahhahahahaha. Gone.
Now apparently McCain is reviewing Charlie Crist, Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal for veep. Charlie Crist I dont know, but I heard he is practically liberal, I may be wrong, Mitt Romney is a reject already, for heaven's sake and a trillionaire who will compound all the Bush mistakes and banking and high lending rate fiascos of the 21st century and Bobby Jindal, my, my, my.
Imagine where the thuglicans are right now.
Now I find that Larry Craig apparently called Clinton a bad, naughty boy over the Monica Lewinsky thang.
But he was not the ranters and hollerers who showed up on news shows all over the place, bawling for the impeachment.
I am real happy the 2 Hutchinson brothers of Arkansas reaped their just rewards by being booted out in elections.
Mike Beebe is an excellent governor of Arkansas.
The booting out of the impeachment thugs was one of my happiest recurring moments, as one by one they got booted out.
Lindsey Graham is the only one with staying power and he has turned into some kind of people based civil libertarian and people appear to like him.
But ya remember the time when Lauch Washcloth was the face of the thuglicans. Hahahhahahahaha. Gone.
Now apparently McCain is reviewing Charlie Crist, Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal for veep. Charlie Crist I dont know, but I heard he is practically liberal, I may be wrong, Mitt Romney is a reject already, for heaven's sake and a trillionaire who will compound all the Bush mistakes and banking and high lending rate fiascos of the 21st century and Bobby Jindal, my, my, my.
Imagine where the thuglicans are right now.
and it may be coincidence, but coming across Oscar Wilde may be coincidence becoz the last person I was googling was Larry Craig
and I have made it a practice to look at a couple of McClatchy papers now and then and ya have to be real careful of the spelling becoz it is a tricky name, but anyway, the Idaho Statesman has a whole timeline of the Larry Craig issue.
And at the time and even now, I was against the prosecution and the summary resignation, becoz it did not seem that wagging your hand under a stall warrants a prosecution and plea.
It seemed simply ludicrous.
next time, they will jump on somebody becoz they scratched their nose or sneezed or coughed, becoz they will say, everyone knows it Means Somethang.
Well, that's just ridiculous.
But if ya check the Idaho statesman, they are also concerned that the Gay thang surfaced in 1982, then he married a chick with 3 children and vehemently denied it, then also that he repeatedly said he is not gay and the baseball team gave out bobble head dolls and some dolls apparently say the phrase, then he voted against hate crime bill including sexual orientation and in December 5 different people came up and gave various stories of gay type encounters with him including they say on Capitol Hill and in the same airport etc.
The Idaho Statesman also got a Pulitzer nomination for the breaking news aspect of the story. And they have an Asian publisher appointed by this McClatchy people folks.
Anway, whatever, the issue is that that was the second reason we did not want it pursued, we were tired of the gay bashing crap.
The other feller, Mark Foley, was a different case, he was a predator, even though his victims were the holy moly intern types who seemed to be scrub faced White Holy Republicans kept quiet about his crap but boasted or complained about it privately and didnt make a ruckus about it in their communities becoz their target would have been a fellow White Holy Republican.
But never mind the annoying aspect of the victims, their perky White Holy Republicanhood, the fact that he was a predator who abused his office was the deciding issue.
Larry Craig running from the stigma of gay dom is a different issue and now he has stayed in, he should think about coming out of the closet and apologizing to gay folks for betraying them and stuff like that.
Just come clean and start taking responsibility and show how difficult it is to be a gay man who is also a cowboy from a Western state and a Senator.
Go on, be brave.
And at the time and even now, I was against the prosecution and the summary resignation, becoz it did not seem that wagging your hand under a stall warrants a prosecution and plea.
It seemed simply ludicrous.
next time, they will jump on somebody becoz they scratched their nose or sneezed or coughed, becoz they will say, everyone knows it Means Somethang.
Well, that's just ridiculous.
But if ya check the Idaho statesman, they are also concerned that the Gay thang surfaced in 1982, then he married a chick with 3 children and vehemently denied it, then also that he repeatedly said he is not gay and the baseball team gave out bobble head dolls and some dolls apparently say the phrase, then he voted against hate crime bill including sexual orientation and in December 5 different people came up and gave various stories of gay type encounters with him including they say on Capitol Hill and in the same airport etc.
The Idaho Statesman also got a Pulitzer nomination for the breaking news aspect of the story. And they have an Asian publisher appointed by this McClatchy people folks.
Anway, whatever, the issue is that that was the second reason we did not want it pursued, we were tired of the gay bashing crap.
The other feller, Mark Foley, was a different case, he was a predator, even though his victims were the holy moly intern types who seemed to be scrub faced White Holy Republicans kept quiet about his crap but boasted or complained about it privately and didnt make a ruckus about it in their communities becoz their target would have been a fellow White Holy Republican.
But never mind the annoying aspect of the victims, their perky White Holy Republicanhood, the fact that he was a predator who abused his office was the deciding issue.
Larry Craig running from the stigma of gay dom is a different issue and now he has stayed in, he should think about coming out of the closet and apologizing to gay folks for betraying them and stuff like that.
Just come clean and start taking responsibility and show how difficult it is to be a gay man who is also a cowboy from a Western state and a Senator.
Go on, be brave.
and BTW the healthful anodyne line is from Oscar Wilde
the ballad of Reading Gaol, which is a word for Jail
and it is a real sad poem and the opposite of healthful or anodyne
the paragraph is this and why I was reciting the poem at circa age 10, I have no idea
He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some healthful anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
I remember a much shorter version, but some kind of longer version is posted here
and it is a real sad poem and the opposite of healthful or anodyne
the paragraph is this and why I was reciting the poem at circa age 10, I have no idea
He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some healthful anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
I remember a much shorter version, but some kind of longer version is posted here
in case ya wanna read the stupid David Frum blog post yaself
here the stupid thang is
in case the stupid man goes and changes it, which he is sneaky and ass and could craftily go and screw with it
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Mrs Clinton's RFK Remark
It seems obvious to me that she was just trying to stress that the most intensely emotional Democratic primary contest of her lifetime extended into June. It seems utterly bizarre to suggest that she was in any way contemplating an assassination attempt on Sen Obama.
Maybe Obama and his team heard it differently.
But maybe also they have a regular tactic of seizing on anodyne Clinton remarks and clutching at them as racial insults.
When my son was little and played kid soccer, there was a boy in his group who used to fall to the ground howling and clutching his shin every time the ball was taken away from him. The Obama campaign reminds me of that boy: a lot of theatrical injuries. We'll see more of that in the general. We'll see much more of it if he wins the presidency. An ultra-thin-skinned president whose supporters reject all criticism as a racist outrage - yes, I guess that counts as a new kind of politics. I'm not so sure it counts as an improved kind of politics.
05/24 05:14 AM
Plus, I only now noticed it says 5.14 am and when I checked my computer clock which shows 3 time zones, it is 6.50 am in NYC. Hahahahhahahah.
Talk about happy returns.
This was fast, people, at least for moi, since I am not sitting around waiting to respond every 2 seconds like some folks, not that that is a bad thang.
in case the stupid man goes and changes it, which he is sneaky and ass and could craftily go and screw with it
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Mrs Clinton's RFK Remark
It seems obvious to me that she was just trying to stress that the most intensely emotional Democratic primary contest of her lifetime extended into June. It seems utterly bizarre to suggest that she was in any way contemplating an assassination attempt on Sen Obama.
Maybe Obama and his team heard it differently.
But maybe also they have a regular tactic of seizing on anodyne Clinton remarks and clutching at them as racial insults.
When my son was little and played kid soccer, there was a boy in his group who used to fall to the ground howling and clutching his shin every time the ball was taken away from him. The Obama campaign reminds me of that boy: a lot of theatrical injuries. We'll see more of that in the general. We'll see much more of it if he wins the presidency. An ultra-thin-skinned president whose supporters reject all criticism as a racist outrage - yes, I guess that counts as a new kind of politics. I'm not so sure it counts as an improved kind of politics.
05/24 05:14 AM
Plus, I only now noticed it says 5.14 am and when I checked my computer clock which shows 3 time zones, it is 6.50 am in NYC. Hahahahhahahah.
Talk about happy returns.
This was fast, people, at least for moi, since I am not sitting around waiting to respond every 2 seconds like some folks, not that that is a bad thang.
The only thang sillier and cuckooer and even more ludicrous and bizarre is David Frum's blog post
over the top yappity yap on it.
Mind you, I have almost forgotten who is David Frum. Mind you, I was not looking for his looney ass. I vaguely remember him as some kind of Canada transplant who wrote speeches for Bush. Maybe he was the axis of evil dude. I cant recall. The other speech writers name I have no recollection.
But I am googling Clinton remark to actually see if anything else was said, and somethang called National Review Online has somethang about anodyne and racial insult. I remember the word anodyne, it was in some recitation poem we spoke in some speech and poem elocution contest when I was like 10 years old. Around that time was also when I collected multiple scrap books of Bobby and JFK. As far as I knew anodyne is somethang good. The phrase was healthful anodyne.
Then, becoz I am lazy and bored, I am too fed up to even try and google anodyne. forget about dictionary, I have no idea where a dictionary is. Last one I had is in a store room in Shreveport. The one in Mumbai may be in a bookshelf. But I already told ya I was too bored to look.
So I look it up in the Word thesaurus. This implies anodyne is insipid, dull etc. Also neutral, inoffensive. This does not coincide with my memories of healthful anodyne. Also if so, it definitely does not coincide with an inflammatory remark about a sad and tragic assassination. So then I definitely have to google it.
An anodyne (Greek αν, loss, and οδυνη, pain: a cause which relieves pain) is a medicine that relieves or soothes pain by lessening the sensitivity of the brain or nervous system. Also called an analgesic (or colloquially a "painkiller").
The term has been applied incorrectly to various medications, such as narcotics, hypnotics, and opiates. True anodynes were applied externally to the part affected. Among those classed "simple" were onion, lily, root of mallows, leaves of violet, and elderberry.
Certain compound medicines were also called by this name, such as anodyne balsam, made of castile soap, camphor, saffron, and spirit of wine, and digested in a sand heat. It was recommended not only for easing extreme pain, but for assisting in discharging the peccant matter that occurred with the pain.
By extension, soothing or placating words are called anodyne.
Yeah, so this is more in line with my memory of healthful anodyne. And it is even further from a correct assessment of the inflammatory remark. How the heck can the RFK assassination remark be even vaguely considered an anodyne. Does it soothe, does it relieve pain, does it placate.
Sheesh, so when I turn to this so called National Review link, I am finding it is by this David Frum coot. Now that he has used the word so inappropriately, I see English must be his second or third language. Who knew.
That, or the man is cuckoo.
I also have a further rant.
Who the heck thinks the RFK assassination remark is a racial insult. Did RFK suddenly become African American. Jesse Jackson, OK, MLK Jr., OK. Why is offing RFK a racial insult. And BTW why is even invoking Jesse or MLK an insult. I would be highly complimented.
so David Frum riffs that it is an insipid remark or a healthful remark (depending on which thesaurus you use) that is used to interpret a racial insult and it is an example of a ultra thin skinned politics that cannot handle criticism.
I did not know invoking a painful assassination came under the category of criticism.
Man, that David Frum is not just a cuckoo but an idiot.
What a damn moron.
so it looks like Hillary Clinton has either developed political Tourette's disease or she has morphed into Tonya Harding or she is how can one put
this, just plain cuckoo.
What a world class cuckoo and icky thang to say, to invoke a painful assassination as an example of a political process that changed.
I can't even begin to address it.
Why is she even talking this way.
The whole point of staying in the race was to let people have their vote count.
It was not to turn into Tonya Harding and start imagining all kinds of stuff befalling your opponents, it was not to turn into Mitt Romney and spend millions of your own money, it was just to stay in and see the process through, now that so many people had got engaged in the primary and wanted to have their say.
Why for instance, is it even costing so many millions to stay in the race, this itself is something that is so amazing. OK, so maybe it is the ads.
But anyway, I thought it had been decided that there would be no smackdowns and backstabs politically.
Now this RFK assassination thang.
For heaven's sake.
Knock it off, Hillary.
And take a few days off, the campaign is making you cuckoo.
Live long and prosper, Barry. Live to a ripe, healthy old age.
For heaven's sake
What a world class cuckoo and icky thang to say, to invoke a painful assassination as an example of a political process that changed.
I can't even begin to address it.
Why is she even talking this way.
The whole point of staying in the race was to let people have their vote count.
It was not to turn into Tonya Harding and start imagining all kinds of stuff befalling your opponents, it was not to turn into Mitt Romney and spend millions of your own money, it was just to stay in and see the process through, now that so many people had got engaged in the primary and wanted to have their say.
Why for instance, is it even costing so many millions to stay in the race, this itself is something that is so amazing. OK, so maybe it is the ads.
But anyway, I thought it had been decided that there would be no smackdowns and backstabs politically.
Now this RFK assassination thang.
For heaven's sake.
Knock it off, Hillary.
And take a few days off, the campaign is making you cuckoo.
Live long and prosper, Barry. Live to a ripe, healthy old age.
For heaven's sake
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