Oh, magoo, I've done it again....

Cheers to KO for a good interview on Letterman, highlighting the treachery of the Wallace-Clinton Hitjob.

Jeers to BO for Slander and Libel, labeling Mark Foley as “D-FL,” a ‘mistake’ Faux News repeated several times yesterday. Go demand to see the license documents at your local Faux affiliate. They’re required by law to show you those records.

Cheers to the Tiger for making my life so wonderful.

Jeers to Reynolds, for hiding behind children to avoid questions about his criminal conspiracy. What greater demonstration could there be that you at long last have no decency at all?

Cheers to the reporters who asked him what the hell he was up to, and requested that he dismiss the children so that they could do their job with some decency of their own.

Jeers to the vultures who won’t leave the Amish alone. Let them grieve, and stop pimping them out to build your ratings.

for positively imploding right before our very eyes!

President Bush claims he is already doing everything he can to prevent future terrorist attacks, and that he must have the power to detain people indefinitely as an added measure of security.

The administration dismisses critics who suggest that, rather than overturning habeas corpus and other fundamental legal protections, Bush might have more success fighting terror with common sense measures such as scanning port containers, or tightening security at chemical plants.

Or, reading the mail of convicted terrorists.  

A Justice Dept. review finds that federal prison officials are not reading all of the mail received by people convicted of terrorist activities.

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons is supposed to translate and screen all mail to and from the highest-risk inmates — including terrorists, gang members and spies — for evidence of criminal activity. But that target was not being met consistently at 10 federal prisons and detention centers surveyed by the Justice Department's inspector general.

"The threat remains that terrorist and other high-risk inmates can use mail and verbal communications to conduct terrorist or criminal activities while incarcerated," concluded the report by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. It urged the Bureau of Prisons to correct quickly the security gap, including putting tracking systems in place to ensure all high-risk inmate mail is read and analyzed.

A Bureau of Prisons spokesman said the agency agrees with the review's recommendations in whole or in part. But it is largely too cash-strapped to afford enough staff to sort through the thousands of letters and other pieces of mail federal prisons receive each week — what Bureau of Prisons Director Harley G. Lappin described to inspectors as searching for "a needle in a haystack."

Experts fear that a new generation of homegrown terrorists is being bred in prison and, after release, they will seek guidance from Islamic extremists still behind bars.

I am reminded of Bush's sneering response to John Kerry's assurance that, if elected, he would implement the security measures recommended by the 9/11 commission.  Bush snorted, "I don't think he wants to talk about how he's gonna pay for all that."  Billions for war and the drug companies, but pennies for real homeland security.  

They won't even hire enough people to read all the mail received by convicted terrorists.  Heckuva job.

Cheers, Everybody!

An elderly man in Florida had owned a large farm for several years. He had a
large pond in the back, fixed up nicely: picnic tables, horseshoe courts, a
volleyball court, and some apple and peach trees. The pond was properly
shaped and fixed up for swimming.

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond and look it over,
as he hadn't been there in a while. He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring
back some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and
laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women
skinny-dipping in his pond.

He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.
One of the women shouted to him, "We're not coming out until you leave!" The
old man frowned, "I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or
make you get out of the pond naked."

Holding the bucket up he said, "I'm here to feed the alligator."

Old men can still think fast.

Partying hearty on Rush Street?  Chicago deep dish pizza, the Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum?  I can do that.  Which raises a quandary:  I wonder if I can get someone to help bind my Poem du Jour offerings into a book.  Might even be able to do some money-raising around that...except that I have very little concept of how that actually works, being an anti-capitalist and all.

Breastfed kids tend to have higher IQs than children who weren't...but not because of the breastfeeding.  Rather, they tend to be smarter because breastfeeding mothers tend to be more intelligent.

Once upon a time...or yearly, as the case may be...Mighty Bill went to Key West.  The graphic below was created for his return.  As the title says, the graphic is my interpretation of Key West at sunset, after experiencing more than one's fair share of the Rum & Cokes.  Wishing I were there...

Poem du Jour:

Art Link:  Sunset in Key West with Rum & Coke Rest Every cell taut the totality vibrates with tension stress slowly drains away too slowly grudgingly ceding potential in favor of kinetic I tingle becoming again one with my soul --Robyn Elaine Serven --March 10, 2006

of these pages?

"End the Page program because you can't trust Congress to protect the pages against gay pedaphiles"

Cheers for the snooze alarm letting me snuggle in a nice warm bed for another ten minutes on a chilly morning.  Jeers for work for forcing me to get up eventually.

Cheers to Darrell, Maggie, Becca, Bubba, Petey and even Scooby, because I love you all!!

Cheers to my Maggie,  sometimes I am surprised with how mature and caring she can be!!!

Cheers to a great birthday party for my nephew!!!  My sister and her husband did a great job with the party and with raising the kiddo too.

Cheers to my BIL mom, who is currently going through chemo for breast cancer, she looked good on Sunday and is in great spirits!!!!

Cheers to seeing family that I have not seen in a while!!!!

Cheers to seeing my cousins little ones, they will be leaving us once he comes back from Iraq.

Cheers to the great food that I made for the party, everyone wanted the recipes!!!!

Cheers to a day at the park with the girls!!!!

Cheers to a day off!!!!

Cheers to liking my job enough that I recommend it to other people!!!!

Jeers  to my Aunt having an accident with her van!! Thankfully it was parked and no one was in it when it happened.  

Prayers  for a co-worker of mine, his son is only 4 months old and is having problems with eating and gaining weight.  They were going to try something new this week to help him, keep your fingers crossed that it works.  

Cheers to Nightline (I know it is ABC, but...) to doing a story on S.T.O.P and Kevin’s story.  It is supposed to air next Friday, but we are not sure yet.

Cheers to hugs and kisses.  Even if the kisses are a little slobbery. XOXO

That is all I have time for today!!!!

Patti

"Our gasoline and heating oil bills have doubled in the past 10 years," she said, "but our salaries certainly haven't."

It's time to dust off the old Reagan campaign slogan:  "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

The only people who could say "yes" to that are the really, really rich people who got gigantic tax giveaways and whose children never ever need to join the military because that's their only hope of affording an education.

who this morning on NPR said that it was "too expensive" to extend habeus corpus to enemy noncombatants.

Cheers to the end of Bush's 9/11/Torture Bill bounce.  Both  CNN and WSJ polls have the shrub back under 39% approval.

Let's get rid of the BRASH Foley Five responsible for the cover-up: Boehner, Reynolds, Alexander, Shimkus, and Hastert.

Support their Democratic challengers at actblue.com/page/foleyfive.

Happy Freaking Hump Day Between Consenting adults from Central Carolina.

Cool mornings and temperate days. Jebus, I love Fall.

Aside: Going to the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival this weekend. Major roots music event. I recommend it strongly to anyone who likes rock/blues/bluegrass/zydeco/old time/clogging/swing, jeez, any music. Camping is free. Twice a year. (This is not meant to be a commercial, but if you get the chance, check it out.)

Cheers to the Snark-infested Kiddie Pool.
Cheers to Bill, the Keeper of the keys. You do us proud.
Cheers to the Players in the Pool. Thanks for the grins.
Cheers to some very good diaries.
Cheers to the spectaculer NeoCon flameouts. Jeers to the reasons.

Jeers to the ever-weakening Republican excuses. The day has come to face the jury. You Really Cannot Govern. You sold your morality to the Devil. You Got Nothing. Shut Up And Go Away.

Cheers to "Missiom Accomplished" when the Grown-ups get the government back. Only then.

Jeers: Hey, America. Listen up. It ain't that Foley's gay. It's that he's a sleaze-ball pedophile. Got it?
Jeers to Faux News. Nothing is beneath you shills, is it?

Eye, Ear, and Brain Candy Birthdays:

1822 Rutherford B. Hayes
1822 Remington, Frederic
1884 Damon Runyon
1895 Buster Keaton
1923 Charlton Heston
1928 Alvin Toffler
1939 Jackie Collins
1941 Anne Rice
1946 Susan Sarandon
1949 Armand Assante
1957 Russell Simmons
1961 Jon Secada
1976 Alicia Silverstone
1979 Rachael Leigh Cook

And "No", I can't link to a picture of Pres. Hayes. I don't want to give more fodder to the InterTube content filters.

We Lost Some Seriously Right Stuff On This Day In History:

2004 Gordon Cooper, original Mercury astronaut.
1989 Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python).
1974 Anne Sexton.
1972 Louis S B Leakey. (Bite me, you purveyors of Intelligent Design!)
1970 Janis Joplin (Ball 'n Chain is the best rock-blues song ever.)
1947 Max Planck (and his Constant).
1904 Frederic Auguste Bertholdi. (His legacy in New York Harbor still makes me tear up.)

Extremely Assorted History:

1984 U.S. government closes down due to budget problems.
1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke. Compared to the current batch of crooks, Butz seemed honorable. How sad is that?
1974 John Lennon releases "Walls and Bridges" album.
1957 "Leave It to Beaver", debuts on CBS.
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7.

Crimestoppers Notebook:
1931 Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts.

It is a strange world where speaking the political truth is classified as Porn/Mature Content.
Keep it clean. No punching below the beltway. Three minute pervs only.

Jeez.

So, where's the skilled Photoshopper who can translate my rough draft into something we can make iconic in every story about "Rubber Stamp Republicans?"

I want a sticker I can put on signs of local Republicans who are afraid to advertise their party.

Jeers to NY-25 Republican Congressman Walsh who has agreed to debate his Democratic challenger Dan Maffei, but only if he isn't quoted afterward.

Cheers to the 50-state strategy, which seems to be paying many unexpected dividends.

CHEERS to Bill in PWM, alternate janitors maintenance supervisors who open the pool and........C&J people, who are making my fiscal-year-end at work just a tad less neurotic.

CHEERS to a gathering of former rail employees in Northern Ireland, 50 years after steam engines went out of service.

HAIL and FAREWELL to Frank Robinson who is leaving organized baseball at age 71, after 51 years of service in some capacity.

CHEERS to Stanford professor Roger Kornberg whose work with eukaryotic transcription in cells has earned this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. While on the Nobel subject .....

CHEERS to a new autobiography from Wangari Maathai - the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2004.

GOOD LUCK to two Irish women (who were married in Canada) and are now before Ireland's Supreme Court seeking recognition of their marriage.

HAIL and FAREWELL to Australian distance ruuner Peter Norman who has died at the age of 64. He was the silver medalist at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and - for a long time - I thought of him as the ultimate "photography prop", or the answer to the trivia question "Who was that white guy in this famous photo standing next to gold and bronze medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos with their Black Power salute?", almost as if Peter Norman just happened to stumble into the photo.

It turns out that he wore an "Olympic Project for Human Rights" badge on the podium in support of them, and stayed in touch with Smith and Carlos(including a reunion last year in San Jose)....it just "shows to go ya" that things aren't always as they appear.

SIGN of the APOCALYPSE #1 - "Brangelina" have recruited David Beckham to give soccer lessons to their five year-old son.

CHEERS to organized religious groups pressing McDonald's for a more equitable pay scale for tomato harvesters in Florida.

CHEERS to veteran folksinger Ramblin' Jack Elliott now in the midst of a North American tour, beginning in Montréal this evening.

SIGN of the APOCALYPSE #2 - a Georgia Tech professor has created a musical robot that composes, performs and teaches. Ummmm....I'll still take virgo-music.

CHEERS to the decsion by GWB's Commerce Department to cede control over Icann, the Internet(s) domain names association.

...and for a song of the day....................the late guitarist Tommy Bolin (who spent time with Billy Cobham, as well as a stretch in Deep Purple) got his start with a terrific 60's-70's band called Zephyr.

They featured a singer named Candy Givens (also no longer of this earth) whose voice - at her best - sounded Joplinesque. Other times.....well, a bit of a caterwaul. "Cross The River" (written along with her bandmate husband David) was the standout tune from their eponymous first album.

From far, far, far...'cross the river
A man's voice calls out to me
I can't hear what he's saying,
Why won't he let me be?
I beg him to release me
Oh, but he will not set me free

His arms reached across the river
His hands nearly touched my face
But the sun is slowly sinking now,
And I know that I must leave this place
I take a hold of my hand
I want to touch his face

From far, far, far...'cross the river
A man's voice calls out to me
I can't hear what he's saying,
Why won't he let me be?
I beg him to release me
Oh, but he will not set me free

I saw him right through the madness
But he walked right into my life
For he walked across the river, and
His smile tells me that he's my kind
I don't love him, not right now
But I think it's going to work out fine.

What's on TV?
4 NTV
7:00 Interview variety speical
8:54 News, weather
9:00 Game Variety: Samurai Five
10:48 Topics: 54 News Zero

6 TBS
6:55 A Match Soccer: Japan vs. Ghana
9:19 News :25 Sportsmen No. 1

8 Fuji
7:00 Comedy: Haneru no Tobira Special
8:54 News, Weather
9:00 Sanma's Talk Variety speical

10 TV ASAHI
7:00 Cooking Variety Special
9:48 Topics: 54 News Hodo Station

Jeers: KAWASAKI -- Police have launched an investigation into a spate of vandal attacks on mainly red vehicles that have been left with X-shaped scratches on their bonnets, law enforcers said.
Between July and September, at least 16 cars in Kawasaki's Asao-ku have been attacked. Fourteen of the vandalized cars were red and the other two were pink, police said.

Does this person have a thing for the X-men, or maybe buried treasure. Perhaps they have hatred for the color red just like bulls.  Maybe the person is hoping to get a nice used red car cheap.

Cheers:  KISARAZU, Chiba -- A Japanese man has broken his own world record for memorizing the mathematical constant pi, reeling off 100,000 digits from memory in an attempt lasting more than 16 hours.
Akira Haraguchi reached the 100,000th digit in the predawn hours of Wednesday.
Haraguchi, 60, began his attempt at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, reciting the digits of pi at Kazusa Academia Hall in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecturee
He ended his latest attempt at 1:28 p.m. on Wednesday, more than 16 1/2 hours after he started, when he reached the 100,000th digit. He plans to apply to Guinness World Records to have his latest attempt recognized

First congradulations: But, one must ask the question doesn't this person have anything better to do with there time?

Wanted: Tortured old male virgins with a creative mind!
Once shunned for being dweebish or simply grotesque, older male virgins are being sought out in Japan in the belief that they're more creative than their sexually experienced peers, according to Shukan Asahi (10/13)
Virgins

Beer drinkers beware: 4 percent of U.S. hops crop burns
Federal investigators were set Tuesday to begin an investigation into a fire that ruined about 4 percent of America's yield of hops, used as flavoring in the brewing of beer and ale.

Cheers to all of you this morning!
Cheers to no more bugs inside the house or outside!
Cheers to exterminators!
Cheers to my friend who brought a big steak from the US for us to eat!  It was soooo good, even if she did cook it well done!  She is from England.
Jeers to those who covered Foley's ass for all the years!  The party of family values, my ass!

It is my distinct pleasure to FINALLY be able to accompany this semi-regular C&J feature with a streaming audio link!!!
This feature airs each weekday at 5pm EST. There's also a lot of other neat stuff like the Fab 4 @ 4, the All Request Lunch Hour, 60's at 6, Final Lap NASCAR report (if you're into that....) at 5:40 pm.....

Bout darn time. I was getting ticked off.

That said:
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YESTERDAY IN HISTORY
OCTOBER 3, 1975

The arraignment of Bill and Emily Harris in los Angeles on 11 state felony counts against them and Patricia Hearst stemming from a 1974 crime spree was postponed for a week to allow Mrs. Harris to seek a new attorney. Mrs. Harris, who was to be represented separately from her husband, said she wanted to take part in her own defense, and to do so she would need a new lawyer to work with her on what she described as political issues in the case. The most serious charges against the three members of the Symbionese Liberation Army carried a maximum life sentence.

#5 DICKIE GOODMAN "MR. JAWS"

President Ford vetoed the National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act, saying that it would provide subsidies for non needy children. Ford suggested that Congress either extend the present school lunch programs or act favorably on his proposal to provide aid for all children from families below the poverty level.The President said subsidies should not be extended to families with incomes above the poverty level.

#4 DAVID GEDDES "RUN JOEY RUN"

Some people might have thought it was funny for a go go dancer to perform on the deck of a submarine, but not the Navy's top commander. Admiral James Holloway III announced solemnly that Commander Connelly Stevenson's conduct was inexcusable in allowing topless dancer Cat Futch to do her act on the deck of the submarine USS Finback. A letter of admonition was placed in the commander's file, and Navy officers said they wouldn't bet much on Stevenson's chances for promotion or for another major ship command in the future because of the blot on his record.

 

#3 GLEN CAMPBELL "RHINESTONE COWBOY"

A planeload of more than 2000 exotic birds  from India arrived dead at Heathrow Airport, the Royal SPCA reported. The birds died because their Air India flight was delayed in Kuwait by technical prblems. When they arrived 48 hours late, it was discovered there was no water in their pots. The birds were packed up to 300 to a box, and only small tins of water were provided. A member of Parliament was outraged, saying, "This is something no civilized society can tolerate."

#2 JOHN DENVER "I'M SORRY"

TV: Sanford And Son, Chico And The Man, Rockford Files, MASH, Big Eddie, Hawaii Five O, Masterpiece Theatre, Barnaby Jones.

Movies: Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn "The Exorcist"
Charles Bronson "Death Wish"
Jon Voight "The Odessa File"
James Whitmore "Give Em Hell Harry"
Tom Laughlin "The Master Gunfighter"
Dustin Hoffman Double feature 'Lenny" and "Midnight Cowboy"

#1 DAVID BOWIE "FAME"

Fame, (fame) makes a man take things over
Fame, (fame) lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, (fame) puts you there where things are hollow
Fame (fame)

Fame, its not your brain, its just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane (sane)
Fame (fame)

Fame, (fame) what you like is in the limo
Fame, (fame) what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, (fame) what you need you have to borrow
Fame (fame)

Fame, nien! its mine! is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to, crime
Fame (fame)

Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Could it, babe? , could it, babe?

Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool
Fame (fame)

Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on pain (pain)
(fame)

Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame ,fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame,

fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame
Whats your name?

Feeling so gay, feeling gay

JEERS - To a lack of sleep.  New software installs that run at midnight are not conducive to good sleep.

CHEERS - , however, to being over the first hurdle.  At least I think we're past it.

WOEIGO - (What On Earth Is Going On) - School shootings... Murder Suicides...  Weird times.  And I heard a rumor (that I have not been able to confirm) that the Westboro Baptist folks are planning on protesting at the funerals of the young children killed in their school in Lancaster county Pa.  It's kind of depressing.  And WOEIGO about Foley perhaps not being in violation of any law?!  8AM EDT and I may need a drink (which is odd since I don't drink in the first place...)

CHEERS - To what I expect to read thru this thread and the fact that it will no doubt cheer me up.

CHEERS - To holiday seasons.  I know it's early, but I'm already laying in Christmas concert tickets (I love BE Taylor's concerts!).  I'm thinking about adding the Trans-Siberian Orchestra to my holiday concert schedule this year.

Enjoy hump day everyone!

...members of which were, even as late as LAST FUCKING WEEK, making Clinton blow-job jokes. OVER THE WEEKEND joking about a "homosekshule" (read it with a Texas twang, please)they know in the neighborhood.

This week? They're too busy mourning over the Amish shootings -- admittedly, horrible -- to think at all about Foley. "Melody, really. There are too many other horrible things in the headlines this week to focus on a story like that."

Of course he always deserves Jeers, but yesterday he came to my neck of the woods, Northern California, to do fundraising and stumping for two sleazy Repubican incumbants: Richard Pombo and John Doolittle.

Cheers to Jerry McNerney who is challenging Richard Pombo and is in a dead heat with him in the polls. As Kid Oakland said, "We all live in Richard Pombo's district".  

But not for long!

Cheers to Lt. Col. Charlie Brown for Congress. Also running neck and neck with the incumbant Doolittle in another area once considered "safe".

If these guys weren't in trouble, we wouldn't be seeing Mr. "Mission Accomplished" out here.  California isn't his favorite place to hang with his peeps.

America's greatest city!  And Cheers to deep-dish pizza, and Chicago-style hotdogs.
Oh, and Cheers to Republicans for letting on that they are fundamentally incapable of honest government!