“Breaking” news this morning from CNN: according to some unnamed NATO dude, Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in Pakistan (or maybe I should say, ‘Paki-Satan’). And not even in a cave, either. He’s in a house. Probably with high-speed Internet and satellite TV, too. And hear I thought he was making audio and video recordings and running his dialysis machine on batteries (some kickass batteries, too; they’ve lasted, like, nine years already). Or maybe he’s got an infidel-driven generator or something. So, my two-word (and not particularly well-formed) question is – October surprise? Does Obama have it in him to pull Osama out of his hat? Will bin Laden sacrifice himself so his brother Mooslam can stay in office and push his godless (oh, wait, he’s a secret Muslim, so I guess he can’t exactly be godless; it’s just the wrong god; I mean, god backwards, as we all know, is dog, but Allah backwards is halla, which is a kingdom in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne). This, by the way, is why Mooslams hate dogs.
Big day at Home Depot yesterday, as they had all new carts (not wimpy shopping carts, but the lumber carts and flatbeds and whatnot). Probably not actually new, but reconditioned with all new wheels and orange paint jobs. These suckers damn near pushed themselves. It inspired me to purchase an extra sheet of Luann. Sadly, I managed to drop said piece of Luann from a not inconsiderable height onto my foot (and, of course, at a 90 degree angle; picture a 1/4″ wooden guillotine). Fear not, though, my big toe managed to take the full force of the hit (and or course I was wearing sneakers, not work boots, because, well, I’m not sure where any of my pairs of boots have gotten to at this point in time). As a result, my toe is an interesting shade of purple. And a bit on the sore side, which is good because it takes away from the pain of the other cuts and splinters I acquired over the weekend.
There’s much that happened in the sports world this weekend that we shall not speak of. However, we can at least be happy that the Jets managed to win – and now have the best record in the NFL at 5-1 (though the godless Patriots, led by Satan spawn and Justin Bieber wannabe Tom Brady, managed to pull out a win after sacrificing a virgin or chickens or something late in the 4th quarter; hey, say what you want about Brett Favre, but at least all he’s got is a picture of his naughty bits in his attic that ages instead of him). In other happy news, Dallas lost, bringing their record to 1-4, and cementing their lock on last place in the NFC East. Let’s hope they stay there.
I’d really hoped to be closing on the new house today. Not because I have a hankering to write a huge check and throw myself deeply into debt, but because I have a meeting this afternoon (at 3 o’clock, too; what idiot scheduled that, and I’d really hoped to be able to blow it off. Sadly, it appears that won’t happen. We have our biweekly Wednesday meeting this week. I hope I can at least miss that.
But, until then, I guess I have to go and face another Monday. That sucks.
:joe: Always wondered about the dog thing, thanks for the explanation.
sp, great vid you posted yesterday, thanks!
Taking care of 6 dogs at the moment, several quite old, which means special pills and diets. All going well until a couple rolled in sh*t when I took them for a romp at the lake. Those that hadn’t rolled in it still got it on them from being in the car with those that had. Bet you can guess what I did this past weekend. Work looks pretty good about now.
From Democracy Now:
…why is it that so many hedge fund managers, wealthy Americans and big banks, Wall Street banks, have—executives of Wall Street banks, have all lined up supporting and getting involved in the development of charter schools. And I think I may have come across one of the reasons: there’s a lot of money to be made in charter schools. And I’m not talking just about the for-profit management companies that run a lot of these charter schools.
It turns out that at the tail end of the Clinton administration in 2000, Congress passed a new kind of tax credit called a New Markets Tax Credit. And what this allows is it gives an enormous federal tax credit to banks and equity funds that invest in community projects in underserved communities, and it’s been used heavily now for the last several years for charter schools. And I focused on Albany, New York, which in New York state is the district with the highest percentage of children in charter schools. Twenty percent of the schoolchildren in Albany are now attending charter schools. And I discovered that quite a few of the charter schools there have been built using these New Markets Tax Credits.
And what happens is, the investors who put up the money to build the charter schools get to basically virtually double their money in seven years through a 39 percent tax credit from the federal government.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/7/juan_gonzalez_big_banks_making_a
NY State is blessed with more candidates for governor than just Cuomo and Paladino:
Charles Barron
The Freedom Party candidate and city councilman from East New York jumped into the race after Cuomo picked Robert Duffy as his running mate. Barron said he wanted to add diversity to the ballot that he felt was sorely lacking on the Democratic ticket.
Barron told the New York Times, “the biggest form of racism in this state is the inequitable distribution of wealth and income. There’s something wrong with the richest city in the world having the most impoverished Congressional district in the country.”
Kristin Davis
Davis gained notoriety when she claimed she provided former Gov. Eliot Spitzer with prostitutes.
The Financial consultant and former madam is running on a platform that centers around legalizing marijuana, prostitution and gay marriage.
Howie Hawkins
The man Ralph Nader affectionately calls the “Green Hornet” wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and invest in a renewable energy economy.
The Green Party candidate is also against hydrofracking for natural gas.
Jimmy McMillan
McMillan is running as the Rent Is Too Damn High party candidate, and, not surprisingly, he supports rent freezes and lower property taxes.
The Vietnam vet’s website says it all. “Rent: There is nothing else to talk about.”
When asked about his debate strategy, McMillan told Daily Intel he’s going to be the baddest candidate on stage. “You got one guy that appears to be bad, but it’s time to let him know who’s the baddest person in the arena tonight,” McMillan said. “He gonna need that bad.”
Warren Redlich
Redlich made headlines after he posted a parody of the now infamous confrontation between Paladino and New York Post reporter Fred Dicker.
The Libertarian candidate wants to slash government spending by eliminating several state offices, including the Public Integrity Commission and the Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. He also wants to lower taxes and tackle tort reform.
They are debating as I post, careening from interesting to comical.
Listening to some right-wing tools on the radio.
One: Billy Cunningham said, “We have No Huh on the line, is that right?” (caller says it is “Noah”).
Another: Radio Rosie from Quinn&Rose says “(so-and-so) is from Haskencats New Jersey” (Quinn corrects her, “that’s Hackensack”)
I blew chunks on that one, thinking “I can has cats”
All these doofus’s get things spelled to them phonetically and then can’t even do that right.