Big day in a lot of states today, with primaries for US Senate taking place in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. This could be the end of Arlen Specter’s political career, and it’s looking pretty good that DINO Blanche Lincoln will be forced into a June runoff down in Arkansas. In Kentucky, teabagger darling Rand Paul looks like he’ll kick the ass of Mitch McConnell’s hand picked candidate. Here, there are votes on school district budgets going on. Could be bad news for school districts. People are pretty pissed at, well, just about everything, and about the only things they actually get to vote on are their school district budgets, so they tend to take it out them.
It was 30 years ago today that Mount St. Helens blew up. I hope Harry Truman’s OK.
Speaking of disasters, tar balls are starting to wash up on shore in the Florida Keys, though the Coast Guard isn’t saying if they’re coming from the underwater oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Probably just a coincidence.
A Tokio Hotel guitarist OD’d on Viagara, or so he claims (not OD’d as in killed himself, I guess). Hs story is that somebody offered him one, and he replied that he didn’t need that sorta thing, but the guy replied “you should take it anyway,” so he took a fistful of them, and they made him feel bad. My first thought was, when did we start spelling Tokyo with an ‘i’ and I didn’t realize the hotels over there had in-house guitar players. As for a 20-yr old being stupid enough to take a fistful of Viagara because somebody told him, “dude, you gotta try these,” well, that doesn’t surprise me one bit.
The FIFA World Cup begins in about three weeks. This year, it’s in South Africa. Great place for a vacation, with a murder rate of about .5 murders per 1,000 people (or roughly 100 times greater then here in the US of A). Don’t worry, Colombia; you’re still #1.
You may have heard that Oily Taints and Michele Bachmann teamed up at a teabagger event in California yesterday. One headline I read yesterday, said “How Bachmann and Taitz Came Together Without the Universe Exploding” or something like that. Which was kinda dumb. Everybody knows that it’s only a problem is matter and anti-matter are brought together, and since neither Taints nor Bachmann matter, ther universe is safe. Taints and Bachmann in a roof full of teabaggers, though. Oy. That’s a whole lotta crazy in one place.
Oh well, looks like it’s about that time again.
Maybe the headline writer assumed that if Bachmann and Taitz appeared together, the combined brainlessness would create a huge vacuum that would suck in everything around it like a black hole. I got the same fear over the weekend when I saw the pix of Caribou Barbie with Jan Brewer.
And for all you voters in Pennsylvania: Vote for Joe Sestak. Make Tweety cry.
I just got back from my trip to VA/NC for my niece’s wedding and I have a whole lotta more respect/sympathy for people who live outside of an oasis for the most part like SF. A lot of ignunce, hatred, selfishness and ugliness out there Very sad, disgusting and depressing.
I did have a few great soft shell crabs and shrimps and some red velvet cakes though.
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I’m glad you’re back, Vern. I know what it feels like to be in the midst of Rethug territory.
Hey Vern,
Welcome home. First, did the Giants win on Sunday? I’m having trouble finding it. SWEEP? I saw Friday and Sat’s games, thanks to Texas :barf: being televised ’round these parts.
Second, thanks for the empathy, those of us among the
idiotsright -wing, ok, idiots, have it is rather tough.(Trav, as a mother of a son and a Bonus son in residence, stay off that Ducati. Buy an old bright orange Volvo and stay safe. ) :nixon:
Nice to be back. I know I’ve lived a sheltered life for a long time. I don’t know if I can ever leave.
OKat, it was a sweep but I think they lost yesterday. My friend gave me the Willie Mays bio for :cake: . Thick book but he deserves it.
Sorry about the lacrosse for anyone who cares. I traveled from the big news about students banned for wearing bastardizations of the American flag to collegiate lacrosse murder dominating the news psycles.
I didn’t bother to look at the flag my father got from Eric Cantor that flew over the Capitol on his b’day. If my Dad was in a better mental state, he may have returned it.
Well if my StarTrek science is correct, two identical particles coming in contact with one another would also destroy the universe.
I voted for Sestak Kev.
Bye bye , Arlen. Olbermann says Sestak won.
Critz (D Pa-12) wins special election over Repug.
Campbell Brown Resigns From CNN, Spitzer to Slip Into Brown’s Spot?