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Ten Post Round-Up: War On Everything Edition
Doesn’t it seem like we are always at war with something, if not with someone? The “War on Terror”, aside, we also have the “War on Drugs” (or rather, the people who use them), the “Mommy Wars” (where apparently, stay-at-home moms are an affront to working moms and vice versa) and a war on just about everything that was meant to be enjoyed (like food or adult entertainment).
In an ideal world, I’d like to buy the world a Coke and then lob the empties at the idiots who like to keep the rest of us in a heightened state of anxiety by sucking the life and love out of everything under the sun.
Of course, in reading today’s Ten Post Round-Up, you will find that not all wars are bad, while most still make the world a difficult, if not, scary place to live.
- Yes, Virginia, there are some mommies who stay home, rather than go to work, because of the kids, not despite them (Dizzy is proud to say that she is one of them).
- McCain appears to be in some hot water over the speech he gave regarding the Russo-Georgia conflict.
- Speaking of the the Russo-Georgia confrontation, The Russians have apparently called the whole thing off. But, at the time of this posting, apparently the word hadn’t gotten to everyone.
- Australia may have cracked the case in the war on cancer.
- Doesn’t it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know that John Lennon’s killer gets conjugal visits while our brave soldiers are being poisoned?
- It’s just a tad irritating that law-abiding, homosexual citizens aren’t allowed to get married (in most states) while heterosexual perverts are allowed to wed with wild abandon?
- If famous deaths come in threes, it looks like somebody needs to watch their back. I don’t need to mention that the somebody in question actually played the namesake from the most recent dead person’s hit song of the same name (and just wrapped a movie with the two dead guys who triggered this thread). It’s a good thing I’m not superstitious!
- Sometimes, I have to ask myself, “how come sh** like this never happens in my neighborhood?”
- Do you think that the legacy that GWB is trying to leave will be called “The Age of Irony?”
- And, as if you thought that GWB and the boys weren’t doing enough for our troops, along comes the news that the VA is happy to make it more difficult for vets to register to vote.
(originally posted at: Hypocrisy)
Ten Post Round-Up: Georgia On My Mind Edition
For some reason, I woke up this morning and as I traveled the blogosphere, began having visions of Ray Charles sitting down at his grand piano, playing “Georgia On My Mind” as rockets and bombs went off in the background.
I’m sure after perusing today’s Ten Post Round-Up, you may begin having the same visions…
- Truthdig has a primer on the conflict in Georgia, in case you are interested. Ezra Klein informs us that everyone in the region is blaming US and by “US”, I mean, “the you-ess-of-ay”. Putin thinks we are taking sides by airlifting Georgian troops from Iraq back home (meanwhile, Georgians are upset that the US isn’t sending troops when, after all, they “are” helping us in Iraq). Adding insult to injury, oil prices are heading back upwards after almost a month of a trickling downward AND this conflict could catapult us to war with Iran (I’ll bet Cheney is doing the “happy dance” about now!).
- Speaking of Iraq (and Afghanistan), Homefront Six blogs about a new program being implemented by a judge in Buffalo, NY called the Veteran Treatment Court. It’s meant to help divert troubled troops to help when their crimes are non-violent and its counselors are other war veterans, including those who served in Vietnam. It’s nice to see somebody stepping up to the plate and offering our brave men and women the help and support they need.
- Former christian singing sensation and Top 40 hottie, Katy Perry makes me wonder just what “Fundie Kids” are playing on their iPods, these days!
- Maybe Ben Stiller can benefit from controversy more than Ben Stein did?
- All you Applebee’s fans can now get a side of lizard with your salad!
- Pelosi admits she hasn’t read the articles of impeachment against Herr Bush put forth by Dennis Kucinich. That’s too bad. Because of that (rather, the fact that she took impeachment off the table), now she has to read articles about her political rival, Cindy Sheehan, until November.
- California home educators can breath a sigh of relief, for the time being.
- The Brilliant cafe reminds me why I will likely never fly, again. I’m also reminded why I will probably stay away from buses, as well.
- Lest you forget, please pay your taxes, so that the state does not have to arrest you for that $10 you stole from them…
- And, in case you missed these: Obama is a technological elitist, Isaac Hayes was a Scientologist, Former “American Idol”, Clay Aikens, is a new daddy, and John Edwards…well, you know…
(originally posted at: Hypocrisy)
Ten Post Round-Up: Chocolate Salty Balls Edition
Sorry that it appears that I have been out of the loop, my friends. Indeed, that is not actually the case. Sometimes, my days as a military spouse with a soldier deployed means that I need distance from things, including blogging, to maintain my sanity.
In any case, I’m back and ready for bear. I’m working out a new format for the (supposedly) daily Ten Post Round-Up. I’d appreciate it if all five of you would tell me what you think (or not. whatevah.)
- The world lost two fabulous entertainers this week. First, we lost Bernie Mac on Saturday and on Sunday, we lost Isaac Hayes. At least, (thanks to “South Park”), we’ll always have “Chocolate Salty Balls” (a karaoke classic, I tell ya!).
- Be careful where you park when headed to the local parade. Some nefarious tow truck drivers may kidnap your car and charge extortion fees after you’ve been tricked into parking for free!
- From skippy, we learn which lies are worse. Take a wild guess whether the MSM thinks that lies that lead to an illegal war or lies about marital infidelity are worse…
- Speaking of John Edwards, the other woman says “onay ayway otay away aternitypay esttay.”
- Some states think its citizens are being selfish for taking advantage of money-saving tax holidays.
- Now that Iraq clearly wants a regime change, can our troops come home now?
- Maryland mayor’s recent police/SWAT team raid (home invasion?) sheds much needed light on the failures (gestapo tactics?) of the War on Drugs.
- Many bloggers have Georgia on their minds, but the MSM seems more obsessed with what’s on the mind of Edwards’ little soldier.
- If it takes blood and guts to get kids to read, I say, “bring on the gore!”.
(originally posted at Hypocrisy)
Things I Don’t Know _ Edition No: 1,021,948
For those of you who have not read the previous 1,021,947 editions, you may just have to wait for my Book of Specific Ignorance.
While looking at photographs taken this month in Glacier Bay, Alaska, I was told that at one time maybe only a couple of hundred years ago, this bay did not exist, that what is now water was solid glaciers.
That stimulated me to do some exhausting research on The Google and I found this link after maybe 15 seconds.
I must have studied it for about a minute or two and think I learned that when John Muir visited in the 1870s the glacier that bears his name was about 200 feet high and was calving even then. It is now tiny.
Naturally it is hard to not think of today’s “settled science” on greenhouse gases. Kind of like the Iraq war is “settled”.
I love nature and while hiking in national forests, stay on hiking trails most of the time except to, you know, and I try to pickup more trash than I bring in but I do drive a gasoline fueled car and heat my home with ground based energy because it is the most convenient and cheapest I know about. This may sound like a lot of you out there in the hypocrisphere but I am pretty sure most of you want the earth to remain friendly to our way of life, as I do.
Why then do I not know whether mankind is causing global warming or what we are going to do to move away from otherwise polluting and politically charged energy sources?
Oil companies want to drill oil because that is their business, so they promote oil. And we all use their product in many ways, even though we do have alternatives, although not necessarily convenient or cheap ones.
Similarly, solar companies promote solar energy, wind companies promote wind energy, bio fuels companies, well you get the point. I say let them at it. If one or more of them produces inconvenient and uncompetitive products let them eat cake, if they can still afford it. And if they make a profit, more power to them.
What pun?
So why is it that, while I really do not know much about greenhouse gases, I am by the day growing more anxious about the various unsavory consequences of our energy situation now and in the future.
Why is it that the climate change movement seems more like a political movement and an economic opportunity for those who scare and offer help? I am studying how to live off the grid because I want off. Beside being afraid, I feel guilty and I don’t like that. Do you like it when you are criticized by those who pollute more than you do?
And the green movement seems like a new style and design environment, much of which I think is cool. I buy green, love those new bamboo shirts, they hardly wrinkle.
While I still do not know the answer, actually having trouble remembering the question, I do know that partisan politics and greedy capitalism come in a lot of guises. Thank goodness for ubiquitous greedy capitalism. With the right amount of regulation, it is the best reflection of nature that man can create. Or woman.