Maybe I’m just not paying attention, but there doesn’t seem to be much going on out there today (even the Two for Tuesday Woot sucks). Nothing to provide me with the morning dose of righteous indignation I require to get me up and motivated for another day at the salt mines, anyway. Glenn Beck is an idiot, but that’s nothing new. Kim Jong is ill (and misunderstood, no doubt). But that seems to be about it (other than next time I fly, I’m gonna request a plane w/o a sunroof). I guess I need to head over to Brilliant at Breakfast. Jill always seems to be able to work up some morning anger.
The whole John Ensign thing is pretty darn funny, if you ask me. All I know is, if I’d asked my mom to pay off the family of the woman I was schtupping, she’d have told me, “you’re on your own, buster.” Of course, we weren’t sanctimonious, wealthy Republicans. We were union, blue-collar Democrats, so we didn’t know any better.
Locally, after four days of the police insisting that reports of somebody falling into our inner harbor (yes, smack-dab in the middle of NYS, yet we still have an inner harbor; pretty sure we don’t have an outer harbor, though) and drowning was a bunch of hooey, a body was found floating in the water, and the Common Council has approved holding a weekly drinking party on the roof of a parking garage (doesn’t really seem like a good idea to me, but what do I know).
Back in May, over a quarter million dollars “fell out the back” of an armored car. Most of the money way recovered, but one guy apparently picked up about ten grand, and he’s been charged with grand larceny for not returning it. Really? You find a bag of money in the street, and you’re legally required to turn it in? That doesn’t seem right.
This screws up my whole retirement plan.
Well, I’m awake. I don’t have to be awake but the puppy Lola woke me to let her out and then…I stepped into a pile of “good luck.” At least that’s what I’m always told when I step in dog poop on the sidewalk. Is it luckier when I know the source? (My very old dog Emily every once in a while forgets to wake me and goes straight for “leave it on the floor.”) But the real question is, “Is there another way to discover such luck, other than to step in it?
Anyway, this should be my lucky day.
I signed up for financial advice on my 401K but I shouldn’t have since they tried to take over the management of the funds. So it gave me a chance to call them “retarded” over the phone. I wonder if Maron has ever called someone that face-to-face ๐ ๐ก
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook is seeking a federal court order to stall and eventually prevent an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.
In the 20-page document รขโฌโ filed July 8 with the United States District Court, Middle District of Georgia รขโฌโ Cook’s California-based attorney, Orly Taitz, asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that President Barrack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of U.S Armed Forces.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/71760.html
Beyond the obvious hypocrisy inherent in GOP Senator and Promise Keepers member John Ensign’s recently disclosed extramarital sexual affair, there’s another notable aspect to Ensign’s religious affiliations that has so far escaped public notice: exorcism.
Senator John Ensign belongs to a Pentecostal denomination, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, that promotes a new health care paradigm in which both physical and psychological maladies can be cured through the casting out of demons. In the new approach, individuals can even heal themselves by exorcising their own demons, through a process that a 2003 Associated Press story characterized as “do it yourself exorcism”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/john-ensign-linked-to-do_b_231272.html
This is much cheaper than healthcare. I wonder if Ensign has any need for health insurance. If he sees a doctor does that mean he’s not being a good Christian?
I think everyone agrees we’d be healthier if we exorcised more.
Howard Dean cameo on BRL just now.
#5. I totally agree, PJ. :blues:
Exorcism probably works at least as well as all the :crap: they put people through with extensive (and expensive) medical testing & treatments & drugs of questionable value invented by drug companies & medical equipment manufacturers for huge profits.
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RG, nice to see you here.
Granny is looking sveltey ๐
Nobody said I looked sveltey… ๐
Marc Maron Interview: The Sound of Young America
The Sound of Young America
Also Marc and Sam subbed on Ring of Fire this last weekend. Podcasts can here.
Oh, why, thank you, SueP & Heron! I did just get a haircut & some highlights today 8) :tongue:
Needed some updating & age-reversing — although the inside of me doesn’t feel like it’s aging, but the outside of me keeps coming up with wrinkles & bags & sags that didn’t used to be there and I’m like, “What the f*** — where the hell did THAT come from????” So, when my hairdresser asked me if I’d like to try highlights earlier this year because my “dirty blond” locks are turning “dirty grayish”, I said “what the hell!!”.
When I was in my teens & was carefree & had summers to spend in Rocky Point, NY, with my aunt, I spent every day on the beach & had highlights in my hair without any effort. Well. Too bad I didn’t appreciate being young & didn’t know how to have fun back then. ๐ But at least my hair looked really good & I didn’t have to go to Super Cuts to have that Sun Streaked look! Oh, well. ๐ Wasted youth. Didn’t get to do anything else exciting back then except watch the Beverly Hillbillies and play Monopoly.
PJ always needs a little time to deal with change and doesn’t want to get in trouble, so he never knows what to say and tries to be diplomatic, which is pretty funny but pretty annoying too sometimes. There are times when I just wish he were a gay guy just so I could know what he REALLY thought!!! (Although David Fisher on 6 Feet Under could never reveal his REAL thoughts, except in his imagination :omg: )
Well, it’s all superficial stuff in the end, but Girls just wanna have fun! :nod: :omg:
Well, for now, it’s late & I’ll be checking out.
Good Night & Good Luck! :blues:
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