Although Obama doesn’t look like the presidents on our money He might have the skin color of some of the offspring of the guy on the two dollar bill.

The Total Experience Gospel Choir backing up the Bergevin Brothers with “Fired Up And Ready To Go”

John McCain said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”, “There is nothing that’s off the table. I have my positions, and I’ll articulate them. But nothing’s off the table,” McCain said. “I don’t want tax increases. But that doesn’t mean that anything is off the table.”

He was talking about an increase of payroll taxes toward Social Security. During his campaign he has promised no new taxes as a major part of his platform. Then he suggests a tax increase.

Eyebrows were raised by constituents, then by the Republican party. They musta raised a little cane because he changed his tune yesterday again. He is trying the old Nancy Reagan “Just Say No” tactic now to those who question him. No explanations. No discussion of his statements from Sunday. Just a “NO” when asked about new taxes.

At least he is following in Nancy’s footsteps and not Ronnie’s.

Or is he?

We really can’t afford another sleeping senile president.

Nor a flip,flop, then flip again “leader”.

On a seperate note;

Thanx for being patient with me while I was one. I have not spent much time at the computing machine because of severe pain and recovery. I will try to be more faithful to my readers by posting more.

Pain is depressing and it takes a lot to overcome those things. I’m working on it though.

DeeDee Ramone and his band with the Punk GOD himself G.G.Allin doing “Bite It You Scum”?

It’s fitting that DeeDee would have G.G. as a guest voice. And do a G.G. song.

2 dead punks who died like rock stars.  May they both jam eternally in the heaven they brought us.

I personally dedicate this to John McSameoldbushit.

From 1/11/91 at the Tin Pan Alley Studios in NYC.

Here are the lyrics for those of you who can’t understand hardcore.

you want me to kiss your ass
well bent over buddy here comes my foot
i don’t need your cry ass shit
tempers rising take a fit

bite it you scum
bite it you scum
bite it you scum, here i come
bite it you scum

well you want me to contribute
all i got is blood for you
all you want is more and more
gluttony, you pig, you whore

bite it you scum, here i come
bite it you scum,
bite it you scum, oh yum
bite it you scum

one day when your end is near
ill be laughing at your fear
when your gone there will be none
who’ll be fucking up my fun, no one

bite it you scum
bite it you scum, here i come
bite it you scum, i’m never gonna run
bite it you scum
bite it you scum
bite it you scum
bite it you scum, here i come
bite it you scum
bite it you scum
bite it, bite it, bite it, bite, (a couple of times)
bite it you scumfucking sucking whore

Last week Obama fucked up badly when he cast his un-American vote to absolve those who have commited domestic spying crimes and continue to do so.

John McCain says flip flopping politicians aren’t to be trusted. Wonder if he should just drop out now.

Read The Political Cat’s post and follow the link therein. Then figure out how much you trust the candidates.

Welcome back Cat.

No. This time it isn’t a hurricane. Not any natural disaster has or can bring the long lasting destruction that off shore oil drilling has already brought. Bush wants even more.

I remember when the coast of Mississippi was brilliant white sand. By the end of the ’80’s it was brown and dirty. They said it was from the waste and run off from the wells off of the coast. The fishing industry has been messed up. Boating isn’t as fun anymore as the water is dirty and oily.

Bush announced today that he is lifting bans on off shore drilling and hopes Congress approves it.

Nancy Pelosi calls it a election year hoax.

John McCain supports it. Same Ol’ Bushit for him.

Obama’s campaign opposes it because it wouldn’t give any short term relief at the pumps.

MSNBC reports on the disaster named Bush/McCain.

John McCain loves Bush. We have all seen the picture.

Now his love of Phil Gramm seems to be waning… in public at least.

(something to sing on your way to work this summer.)

Springsteen.

Listen to what he says before breaking into “Livin’ In The Future”

In this election year I have been wondering how to cast my vote. Not totally on board with Obama I am searching for a reason to support a candidate. I found this little ad that makes me rethink everything I have said so far. Take a look and see if it can help convince you to vote Republican as well.

tip o’ the space helmet to Mahakala.

Shell shock, now known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is claiming casualties all over our country. Soldiers come home not always able to make the distinction of being here or back under attack. Victims of the war even while back in peaceful surroundings.

I knew a Viet Nam veteran who was an officer in that conflict. Crazy George, as he was known by everyone, was a jumble of paranoid nerves that was always set to explode. His trips to the V A hospital to get his meds sometimes led to extended stays in the psych ward for a few months. I have seen him hide from “Charlie” when an Asian person walked by. He was always looking around sure someone was out to get him. Years after the conflict in Viet Nam was over he still lived in the jungle…in his mind.

In trying to help him they experimented with drugs and therapy to no avail. He couldn’t come home, always staying behind to be with his “brovets” (as Buzz calls them) that didn’t survive. He fought back against all those he felt were threats and was eventually shot to death by the Baton Rouge City Police while laying on his back, unarmed, in his own bedroom. (RIP my old friend)

Alicia at Last Left Turn Before Hooterville wrote about the hell that is coming back from war. Quite a disturbing post considering my old friend was just one victim of this horrible way of life returning vets face. So many new faces of this horrible condition are showing up in our hometowns as kids…yes kids…(I mean no disrespect at all as most of the soldiers fighting in Iraq weren’t even born by the time I finished college)…return home with fresh horror every day.

So they put them on new experimental drugs. Chantix is the popular one now. It, like so many other “anti-depressant” drugs is linked to violence and suicide. ABC’s Good Morning America did a story about this this morning. I haven’t figgered a way to embed the vids from there so I will post this link to ‘Disposable Heroes’: Veterans Used To Test Suicide-Linked Drugs. The story from this morning along with the vid clip I want you to see.

I guess there are many more casualties than the 4100 official KIA’s the DOD lets us know about.

Again I ask that everyone do whatever it takes to let the powers that be know we don’t want our fellow Americans over there anymore.

(UPDATE) Obama is outraged. As well he should be. We all should be.

The Big Muddy is set to overflow in Iowa and Illinois. The levee system there isn’t high enough to keep the big river back.

Reading so much about this brings me back to when I left Louisiana on the Thursday morning after Katrina hit. Days after the flooding started FEMA is still asessing the way to help. Not really doing much except looking.

We left that day heading west on Hwy. 190 til we got to I-49 north at Opelousas. There were rescue crews form all points north and west lined up on the shoulder of the freeway headed south towards New Orleans. I-49 ends at Lafayette and Hwy 90 continues to N.O. from there. The FEMA rats had all of the volunteers stopped and forbidden to go any farther. Fire departments, water rescue groups and hospital/emergency health folks had poured from their hometowns to rush to the needs of a city which had fallen to disaster, but the feds wouldn’t allow them to go do the work they had gone for.

I wonder if the people of Iowa and Illinois will think about this response and equate it to the FEMA disaster that was the Gulf Coast just a couple of years ago. Wonder if they will vote according to the response come November.

The Political Cat wonders which of the candidates you would want to be in office if disaster hits your town. McSameolBushit or the kid with the big ears who actually turned a hand to help?

(UPDATE) Sorry if I gave the impression we were Katrina Victims. We had moved to Roswell one month before and had just returned to get our last load of furniture and stuff. We were just as appaled as we would have been if we had still lived there though. We were some of the lucky ones.

Yes I am watching the NASCAR race from Michigan but thats not the race I’m talking about. The race for president is in a critical spot right now. Both Barack and John are trying to choose their running mate. I really don’t think McCain’s choice will help him in this race but Obama’s choice is critical. I’m hoping he chooses the very talented and experienced Richardson with Edwards or Clinton being my picks if he can’t get Bill.

The whole process is almost ridiculous and every one is watching now to see what will happen. My online friend from Santa Cruz, CA posted this on a forum I visit often. One of the posters had suggested that McCain s only chance would to choose a black woman for his VEEP position. Another regular said something about Michelle Obama.

Mahakala (thats his forum handle) posted the following in response to that. After I quit laughing I asked him if I could use it here.

He graciously gave me his permission. I hope you enjoy it like I did.

Thank you Mahakala.

“OK, howzabout this: Obama picks Cindy McCain as his veep; McCain picks Michelle Obama.

Insults to spouses arise; catfights and mutual male fisticuffs quickly follow.

Growing dispute culminates in four-way mud-wrestling match on basketball court in Hanoi-type cage set with madrassa-style decorations. Mud is neutral (light brown) color for equality of degradation.

Hillary and Bob Dole officiate, with Lincoln Chafee to break any possible tie.

Special cheering sections on Obama’s side reserved for Hamas, black liberation theologists, and leftover ’60’s radicals; on McCain’s side, for oil barons, homophobe televangelists and drunken disgruntled veterans of lost wars.

Each side gets one — and ONLY one — large TV screen to host slide shows. Each time Bin Laden appears on either, McCain’s says, “Fear — he’s still out there!”; Obama’s says, “Losers never got ‘im!”

Dems sell tickets by lottery at $25 each to keem ‘em affordable (except for Super-Dems, who get five seats for $25); GOPs auction them off to the highest bidder except for the special convicted GOP pedophile section; they get in for free to compensate them for their unfair suffering.

Rules: no drugs for Cindy, no vodka for John, no terrorist-fist-jabs for Michelle, no arugula for Barack. No liquor for Hillary, either, no little blue pills for Dole, and Bill, if attending, must wear locked chastity device. No pulling Cindy’s long hair, no forcing John’s arms above his shoulders, no references to Michelle as a “baby mama,” and no pulling Barack’s ears.

Entire thing broadcast worldwide on CNN, Univision and Telemundo; Spanish version blanked out in Miami so McCain doesn’t give wrong impression of solid demand for English as sole official language.

Winner: whoever ends up the least covered with mud and is still living by the end. As determined by either the House of Representatives or, if they deadlock, the Supreme Court; if one justice gets ill and it results in a tie, the World Court.

That’d do it, dont’cha think?”

I have a friend….no…really…I do. She is a sweet caring thinking mother of three. All boys that are completely wonderful. Notice I said she is a thinking person. Not one to just fall into lockstep to the political dogma Faux News or Rush Limbaugh marching tunes. Not one to puke up the soundbites of the so called liberals either. A woman who I admire greatly because her views don’t line up with most of her friends opinion yet she stands fast with her beliefs.

While she by no means endorses John McSameolBushit she loaths Obama. In many of her onesided arguments she posts on her My Space page she berates Barack while saying she is not a Republican. I’m sure she is not. Like I said…she is a thinking person. I try to fancy myself as a thinker too.

So I have been doing some thinking about the effect slamming Obama has on the whole presidential race. While I know it is the stuff right wing folks seem to thrive on, you know, the problems with the preachers sermons, the flagpin issue, pics of Obama in the native clothes of a region he was visiting (which all political officeholders including Bush and McCain do) it doesn’t seem to be the norm with thinking folks. Thinkers want to deal with real issues. The things that affect the majority of Americans. Regular people like she and I are.

I believe that each slam against Obama (the presumed Demo candidate) is a homerun for McCain (the presumed Repube guy). Each time someone lashes out against Obama it a supportive lash for the same old stuff to continue in America. This isn’t to say that Barack is perfect just sayin’ that in our 2 party system he is the only choice to stop things from continuing down the same destructive path John wants to rush down.

Every time anyone puts Obama down they are in a sense supporting war. The already failing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the one McCain supports against Iran. Supporting the reinstatement of the draft that will be the only way to restock the cannon fodder children of America. Supportive opinion for this war is negligable and if we start another unwinnable war with Iran all support will wane.

In my opinion, every time someone talks about Obama’s faults they are supporting at least 100 years of occupation in Iraq. John McSameolBushit has compared his dream of peacefully occupying the country similar to Korea and Japan. But both of those nations had to be brutally conquered before the peaceful occupation could begin.

The people of Korea and Japan were not as heavily influenced by religion as the people of the middle east are. The zealots there will not be so easily conquered. Even nuclear weapons, like the U.S. dropped on Japan, would not deter the defense of Iraq or Iran. They want to be left alone and will fight harder than the other countries our military occupies. So overcoming their will is a long and deadly process. That could be a verrrrrrrrrrry long time before the “Hundred years…maybe a thousand” desired by McCain could even begin.

Which all comes together to mean that not only will the American kids that are already alive today be forced to be put into harms way in the middle east so will those of generations to come. The human toll alone with McCains dreams will be incredible. The financial cost will be enough to destroy our country as we know it. And with our military fighting a losing war in the middle east who will be here to defend those who would invade us in our time of weakness and vulnerability?

I guess what I am saying is this. Every slam against the man who can defeat the same old Bush stuff is a voice supporting endless war and the devastation of America.

“Nuff Said!