The current political climate

So I am of course a left of center Democrat. I was happy with the new health care bill. I would have liked there to have been a public option but I will settle for what we got. I can't believe that the GOP is so hostile to Obama that not a single Republican voted for the bill. After all many of there districts and states would have been helped by this bill. I have a hard time believing that no one in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi is being screwed over by the insurance companies right now.

What scares me more right now is how the GOP leaders both in Congress and on the Radio are talking about the bill. I assume they know(well maybe Glen Beck doesn't) that this bill is not socialist or going to destroy the country. And yet everyday these leaders go on TV and rile up a base who seem to be getting angrier and angrier and yet seem to have no idea what congress actually just voted on.  And nowt here are threats of violence. It is really scary.  Paul Krugman(NY Times) is totally dead on in his latest column when he says that the right wing believes that no one but them should be in charge. We saw this hatred with Bill Clinton and now we are seeing it a gain.

This day in history March 24th

Well of course many things happened but what are some of the more well known things. I guess the one that I thing will resonate with most of my peers is that the Exxon Valdez in 1989(yes 1989) ran aground off of Alaska. Now I am sure Sarah Palin will tell us that it was no big deal and that seals and birds deserved to get killed by oil(cause that is the natural order of things) but for me I remember how this was one of my wake up calls to how fragile our environment is.

I am back

So after three years of inactivity I have decided that it is time to start blogging again.

Today in History April 6th

April 6th 1917: The United States enters world war I. World War I had almost been going on for 3 years when the United States finally entered. It was known as the great war and Woodrow Wilson pushed the United States to enter to "fight a war to End all Wars" and hoped to create a more international(not isolated) United States.

Today in History: April 3

April 3rd 1965. Richmond captured. Although General Robert E. Lee would not surrender for another week the capture of the Confederate capital signaled that the war was coming to a close and assured a Northern victory.

Impeachment Talk

There has been much emailing recently(in liberal blogs and mass emails) about impeaching President Bush. Now while I agree with the concept of impeaching a president who ignores the balance of power and the constitution I feel that to impeach the President for reasons like that I think that we are treading down a slippery slope.

In the past the worthy impeachment(Nixon) revolved around not only ignoring the power of Congress and the Courts but also serious lapse in ethical conduct on the part of Richard Nixon( the whole obstruction of Justice episode in the early days of the Watergate break in)

President Bush while he has certainly weaken the Constitution has done so only because the Republican controlled congress has allowed him to do so because they were so intent on creating a permanent GOP majority they were willing to allow Bush to use his bully pulpit to preach fear of Democrats and the rule of law. If anything certain congressmen should be impeached.

No Bush is a poor president as I stated in my previous post he will probably go down as one of the worst but in no way has any thing he done(that we know of ) been truly worthy of impeachment. The Democrats should leave the political(unjustified) impeachments to the GOP

Historical Presidents.

So I have been having this conversation with my friend about the historical view of the now current President Bush. The question is this. Does he know that unless things dramatically and quickly change in Iraq Bush will go down in history as one of the worst most ineffective presidents. Even if things do improve in Iraq he will in no way be counted amongst the best or even good. He might if he is lucky be counted as average. More on this later

Karl Rove "Worst Rapper Ever"

So I have returned from a long hiatus to show to all the horrid antics of Bush and Co. The Turd Blossom is at his "finest" in this video.
I can't decide what is worse Rove actually rapping or the people in the audience clapping and laughing with it.

No wonder why bad movies kept on being made.

BRAVO TV's Funniest movies of all time. I have bolded those that should be ranked much much higher

Also
Where is Some like it Hot, or any of the Marx brothers movies. I guess in order to really be on this list you must have been made after 1970(for the most part)

100. Anchorman
99. The Birdcage
98. School of Rock
97. Happy Gilmore
96. Four Weddings and a Funeral
95. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
94. Waiting for Guffman
93. The Aristocrats
92. Father of the Bride
91. Revenge of the Nerds
90. Clueless
89. Slapshot
88. Team America
87. The Kentucky Fried Movie
86. Zoolander
85. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
84. Silver Streak
83. Sister Act
82. Tootsie
81. Half Baked
80. Lost in America
79. Three Amigos
78. Bananas
77. Flirting with Disaster
76. Ghostbusters
75. Dumb and Dumber
74. Trading Places
73. City Slickers
72. Moonstruck
71. Roxanne
70. The Nutty Professor (Eddie Murphy)
69. The Blues Brothers
68. Broadcast News
67. Kingpin
66. Dazed and Confused
65. Office Space
64. This is Spinal Tap
63. Manhattan
62. The Pink Panther
61. Election
60. When Harry Met Sally: Giant Stadium scene need I say more
59. Police Academy Series
58. Private Benjamin
57. Swingers
56. Young Frankenstein: Top 15 easy
55. Bull Durham Top 20 easy
54. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
53. Dr. Strangelove Top 15 easy
52. Meet the Parents
51. National Lampoon's Vacation
50. The Princess Bride
49. American Pie
48. American Graffiti
47. 9 to 5
46. The Incredibles
45. Raising Arizona
44. Sixteen Candles
43. What About Bob?
42. Harold and Maude
41. Austin Powers
40. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
39. Mrs. Doubtfire What the F**** is this doing above those bolded. Robin Williams will never be funnier than Classic Mel Brooks or Strangelove.
38. Best In Show
37. Dodgeball
36. Good Morning Vietnam
35. Beetlejuice
34. Rushmore
33. Clerks
32. Groundhog Day
31. The Big Lebowski
30. The 40 Year Old Virgin
29. Legally Blonde
28. Annie Hall
27. A Fish Called Wanda
26. Wayne's World
25. Meet the Fockers
24. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
23. Big
22. Beverly Hills Cop
21. Shampoo
20. The Jerk
19. Wedding Crashers
18. Stripes
17. M*A*S*H
16. Old School
15. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
14. Napoleon Dynamite
13. Naked Gun Series
12. The Producers
11. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
10. Arthur
9. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
8. Blazing Saddles
7. The Wedding Singer Get some Taste mofos!!!!
6. Airplane
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
4. There's Something About Mary
3. Shrek No this is just wrong. Why is this here. It should not even be on the list.
2. Caddyshack
1. Animal House

Vietnam again

So I had to post again about Bush and Nam. Bush is currently in Vietnam. And apparently he doesn't have the time to visit the city. Also it takes a lot of balls to go to a country and essentially say "hey Vietnam you would not exist as is today if we had not quit" Yeah thats a way to make friends. Also can he play the tourist please. Show these countries that you actually might say be interested in their culture. What a boring person.

The President as Historian

Can some please explain to President Bush what actually happened during the Vietnam War.

No wonder why he thinks Iraq is winable. He just thinks we quit in Vietnam on the verge of victory.

I never thought I would read this on CNN. Actually wait I am not surprised

Okay first Mark Foley now this.

I know that democrats have had their fair share of sex scandals in the past(Clinton, Hart, Kennedy) and probably now just waiting to brew. But I think the public now needs to admit that Republicans as a party and as people are no more perfect than Democrats when it comes to dealing with sex and marriage and family values.

Very Geeky Political Tool

Check out this link. It allows one to see an analysis of the current races in the country.

Hey Not so bad huh.

create your own personalized map of the USA
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New Bush Administration blunders

So the New York times reported on Saturday that the Bushies were paying journalists in Miami to write anti Castro reports for a government run radion/tv station. Now apart from the whole unethicalness of the whole thing this was just a waste of money.(I must thank Mike Shopsin for his point). I mean these journalist would be writing anti Castro stuff already in their own papers why does the government need its own paper. WASTE of MONEY

The New Facism

Back from Labor Day Weekend. I now hear that Bush is comparing the new war on terror with the war against Hitler and Communism. As Joe Klein(I usally disagree with him) said if this is too be compared to fighting Hitler why have we 1 Not Raised Taxes (Like we did in every other war) 2 Why have we not raised a draft 2 Why are we not rallying the country in terms of man power at al levels.
The answer this is just typical Bush speech during an election year. Lets scare the American Public. Lets hope that this time the American Citizenry does not buy it.

My Thoughts of Jury Duty

So it has now been a week since Jury Duty. I have to say I really enjoyed it. Yes it was essentially a week of my life. But here I was doing my civic duty. And I have to say I really didn't see any signs of frustration from any of my Jury mates. It was truly a cool lesson in Civics.

The George Allen apology

Well once again the Republican party has proved where its heart really lies. So here was George Allen running for relection to the senate in Virginia. His opponent like any good campaigner had a volunteer follow mr. Allen around to tape what he was saying. Now the young man, S.R. Sidarth, who was following Mr. Allen around happens to be of Indian ancestory but is and I quote an NATIVE BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN. Mr. Allen however decided to make fun of this young man by saying.

"This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca,(Which is a slur meaning Monkey) or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent. He's following us around everywhere. And it's just great. We're going to places all over Virginia, and he's having it on film and it's great to have you here and you show it to your opponent because he's never been there and probably will never come. [...] Let's give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia.<sup>"

Now Mr. Allen just yesterday finally apologized to Sidarth but come on He knew what he was saying.</sup>

Damn it's a slow news day.

So how do you know it is a slow news day. Read this article.
Now I could really care less about that story. The story was bogus news when it happened 3 years ago and it is still.

Another Mixed day in History

So August 9th. This is both a happy day, a sad day, an unforgetable day and a politically expidient day.
So lets list some of the following events.
1945 Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
1974 My parents are on their honeymoon
1974 Tricky Dick Resigns and Ford becomes president.

So what can I say. This was a happy day for my parents and democrats. But overall this is in many ways a sad day for the nation. The fact that Tricky Dick had to resign was a tragedy. Nixon's abuse of power was a horrible moment in our history and his resignation and subsequent pardon only ended the madness. The dropping of the atomic bomb ended a World War II but again I must ask at what cost to human life and moral ideals.