This is the day that you godless liberals hate more than any other day (except for Christmas and Easter) – the day when we celebrate Jesus Christ writing and presenting the Constitution (not that Bill of Rights crap, though – except the Second Amendment, but not those other fruity ones) to King George III and his Nazi wife. History tells us that George was so enraged when he read the document that his head exploded, thereby spawning the traditional display of fireworks on this day (another thing liberals hate about this holiday, because many Americans enjoy fireworks, and as we all know, liberals hate to see people enjoying themselves doing anything except for smoking dope, burning the flag, or eating gay wedding pizza).
Personally, I don’t count today as a holiday, because “holidays” on Saturday and/or Sunday are bullshit. Plus it’s not a holiday if there’s no beer, and I haven’t had a beer in a long time, which sucks. I keep waking up in the morning (in the dark, because what I consider “this morning” these days is what most people think of as “last night”), wondering what the point of living is (I think it has something to do with owning the most electronic devices that don’t have fruit logos on them).
It’s one of life’s little ironies – beer makes life worth living, yet drinking beer shortens one’s life. Unless you drink it in moderation, of course, but moderation is for wimps.
Oh well, time to decide whether or not to go to Costco (I assume it’s open – I mean, there’s Patriotism, and then there’s Capitalism, and I’m pretty sure we all know which one this country’s all about. UPDATE: Looks like Costco is closed today – good for them!), or maybe skip that and cut the grass. But then I’ll have to decide whether to take the loader off the tractor and cut the grass first and then put the loader back on, or do all the shit I need the loader for first, and then cut the grass. Or maybe cut the grass with the loader on, but I tend to do some damage that way. And then I think I need to get some diesel, and if I’m gonna leave the house, I might as well go to Costco. But that would mean putting pants on (and if you have to put pants on, it aint a real holiday).
It’s just one dilemma after another.
Somebody really needs to help this woman get her oxygen cannula back in. I think she’s got some cerebral hypoxia going on.
I am confused. I hear that Jesus or his father or someone told his followers that the proscriptions in Leviticus need not be followed. But, somehow, the one about men not lying with men was not overturned even though Jesus never uttered a word about homosexuals. Where am I misinformed? Is there a passage in the New Testament that I don’t know about (which is totally possible)?
She needs some new carpet.
Are you saying it doesn’t match the drapes?
One of Palemale and Octavia’s kids celebrating the fourth.
Nice looking drumsticks there.
The bird’s cool, too.
Fabulous photo!! Our three Robins being raised on our porch launched. It was all rather exciting to see each one take off and mom and dad waiting for them in yard. They left an immaculate nest, too. The parents take away the excrement while raising the hatchlings. I wish the pigeons on the back of our house were so tidy. Their babies also launched so now it’s time to take pigeon eradication measures.
Fun read up there, pj. I needed the smile.
I’ve long thought that most of the people who call themselves “Christian” have no clue what being a Christian actually means. Jimmy Carter, of course, is an exception.
Here is the wikipedia entry on Morning Sedition on AAR and its cancellation (by D. Goldberg). It needs some updating.
On February 28, 2005, a new CEO, Danny Goldberg, was named, and in April 2005, Gary Krantz was named president of the network. Ginsburg and Sinton were named co-COOs with Ginsburg in charge of operations and Sinton running programming and affiliate relations.
In December 2005, over Sinton’s objections, CEO Danny Goldberg broke up the network’s morning drive-time show Morning Sedition, and let comedian and co-host Marc Maron‘s contract lapse. While the increased overhead for the show’s heavily produced format may have been a factor in the show’s demise, Maron claimed that Goldberg did not “get” or agree with the comedy on the show.[citation needed] Maron exacerbated the conflict by calling attention to his situation during the show for several weeks, prompting a petition drive that garnered over 5,000 signatures. This was to no avail, as Maron announced on November 28 that his last show would be December 16, 2005. Maron was offered an evening show, which ran briefly on affiliate KTLK in Los Angeles, but Air America never followed through with promised national syndication and the show was cancelled in July 2006. Goldberg announced his resignation on April 6, 2006, after a little more than a year on the job. Maron guest hosted a few times in 2007, and now cohosts a webcast program for Air America called “Breakroom Live”.
THE SCOTUS MARRIAGE DECISION, IN HAIKU.
BY DANIELA LAPIDOUS
Roberts’ dissent:
I support you all
No, really, I do, but this
Isn’t our problem.
Alito’s dissent:
“Happiness is not
the point of marriage, fools. It’s
BABIES,” he whispered.
Thomas’ dissent:
“Liberty” – this word,
I do not think Locke means what
You think it means. Sigh.
Scalia’s dissent:
You’re not a poet,
Kennedy. And by the way,
Democracy’s dead.
Kennedy’s majority decision:
Hark! Love is love, and
love is love is love is love.
It is so ordered.
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h/t McSweeney’s blog
It rained this morning so I’m not sure that Dr Bamboo will begin today but, sometime this week he will build a barrier bewtween us and our *%#$@%$ neighbor and remove the stuff that that has already invaded our yard and continues to spread. Shelter Island will not allow anyone to plant bamboo but does not require those who have already done so to contain it or remove it from neighbors yards to which it has spread. Bamboo is a grass but it is impossible control. I thought it would be nice to employ a few bamboo eating pandas but it turns out they only eat the tops of the plants which only encourages its growth.
Dr Bamboo has been here for 4 days digging up bamboo and putting down a barrier so that it will not spread (we hope) again. He says that the tip of a bamboo root is so sharp that it will grow though almost anything. However, if it meets a difficult to penetrate barrier it will turn in another direction if it can.
I once watched a Myth Busters episode in which they explored a story that Japan tortured soldiers by staking them to the ground and allowing bamboo to grow through their bodies. I believe they used a pig carcass to do so. They did find a species of bamboo that penetrated it.
When we were trying to find someone to dig up the stuff a local landscaper told us we need a tractor with metal treads because the bamboo was so sharp it would ruin his Babcat tires.