Bits, Pieces and Other Folks Snatches

My guess is that Toni Morrison will think carefully before spouting off garbage like “Bill Clinton is our 1st black president”. It may have been funny and catchy at the time and suited her purposes as well as Bill’s, but those words now show it as a twisted insult to the black community. It sounded like she thought there was no chance there ever being a qualified black candidate in her lifetime to be president so she declared Bill HER first black president.

What the hell is happening with the democrats!? The rats are bailing on the Clinton’s and Ted Kennedy is the first to hit the water (again). Now author Toni Morrison has endorsed Obama. This goes to show the confusing prediciment black voters are experiencing with this years candidates. After South Carolina, my guess is that they are making up their mind and their mind is clear enough to notice that Billary Clinton’s interest in the black voters was for just that, votes. It seems that black’s have never voted a principal other than they are supposed to vote democrat despite the fact that democrats are no more interested in the welfare and well being of our black citizens than the Republicans.

I believe Obama is the best candidate floating to the surface this election year. I don’t care that he’s black. He’s smart, speaks to me at a level I understand, shows signs of hope, and does not appear to be an “Insider”. Insiders have proven they are no better running our country than anyone portrayed in the show “Dirty Jobs”. George Bush wasn’t an “Insider” after being elected the first time. However, after that second win, he was an Insider with 4 years of experience at the highest level and he’s proven he can’t govern either way. As much as I like John McCain, I’m afraid he’s too inside as well and can’t get past the idea that there is something about him that makes me a little nervous.  I am one independent that believes Obama is the candidate for the job. I’m sure Hillary thinks she’s qualified because she’s already had 8 years in the white house. But, as Dick Morris said “it is irrelevant that she was in the White House for eight years. So was the pastry chef”.

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/why-the-democrats-are-backing-hillary-2007-10-10.html As I’ve said before, it’s unlikely the dems will allow Obama to be president. The machine will unfortunately chew him up and spit him out. Hillary represents all the interests of the Left and they know it. The link referenced above sums it up quite nicely. There is some hope however with the endorsement of the drunk Kennedy. He was a Machine Democrat and he managed to sober up enough to reason out his endorsement.

For a bunch of folks propped up by the Arab world as a cause to rally around, there’s not much more use for the Palestinians outside their fences. Egypt is right now spraying them with water cannons to keep them out of their country. You would think that the Arabs would be more open to receiving their repressed Arab brothers and Sisters from Gaza.

Rebates from the government are on their way. We’re saving ours so we won’t be helping invigorate the economy.

A union worker at a Ford plant makes $68,000 a year popping hub caps on new cars floating down an assembly line. Just recently, Ford proposed a buyout for longtime union employees in hopes of replacing that workforce with cheaper non-union workers. Those who refuse to recognize that Union wages have driven up the cost of everything MADE IN AMERICA are in denial or in a union. These people seem to think that the work they do is worth more than what I make after 15 years at the same place, what they forget is that a robot (or an illegal immigrant) has the ability to do their work a lot better and for a lot less.

Japanese whalers have been pestered by those whale hugging Greenpeace types. This time, I say give em hell Greenpeacers. Or in this case the Sea Shepherds of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The Japs have seem to found a nice little loophole that allows them to slaughter thousands of whales for “scientific purposes”. The only science on the whales performed is with soy sauce and white wine.

American Idol is a fraud and if you watch this show with the idea that it is a sincere effort to find America’s undiscovered talent, “your retarded”. Check out one of the best sites on the Internet www.votefortheworst.com for a good time. The folks at VFTW have been pissing on AI’s good times for a few years now and every year they only get better and better. The funniest thing about the site is the hate mail from the AI ‘tards that defend this scam.

Tom Cruise and scientology ought to have a sit down with Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and compare notes on which of their religions is more screwy. Do you think Cruise will ever look back on his days as a scientologist and wonder what the hell he was thinking? No wonder he can’t keep a wife. He starts babbling that shit and they run like hell. Unless Katie is on board the scientology UFO, we can expect to see her running soon as well. The lines for recruits to a new religion based on The Matrix will be forming soon.

Oh dear God, the perfect storm of a worst case scenario is forming in American politics with what looks like a Hillary vs Romney showdown in November. Now I’m nowhere near wanting to find a nice little shack in Saskatchewan but that Icy Hell will be better than the choice we have to make in December.

1. The act of snatching; a quick grasp or grab.
2. A brief period of time: “At the end we preferred to travel all night,/Sleeping in snatches” (T.S. Eliot).
3. A small amount; a bit or fragment: a snatch of dialogue.

In the case of my title, not lady parts.  Instead, little conversations with the world.

Although a risky play, the crying game worked.

In our village, we teach our kids that you shouldn’t get what you want by crying. Apparently we now know that isn’t necessarily true. The same way we learned that oral isn’t really sex. I know because the President said so. Hillary was well advised when it was suggested after the planted question at the ladies tea in NH that she should work up a good show of emotion. Although an actual tear never happened, the effort to cry was enough. The angry ladies of NH who claim to have bumped their heads on the glass ceiling have spoken. Hilary’s disingenuous efforts work.

She’d be crazy to fire the adviser who led her to that gem. However, it probably would have better served the Clinton campaign to fire up the emotional play before Super Tuesday. Therefore, she will need to play a different emotion card since crying is now old school. The short list of political ploy cards to be played between now and 2/5: cramps, postpartum depression, sincere appreciation, 1st woman president.

U of A takes the phrase “Blowing your Nutt” to new levels.

Help please! The closest thing to a national football championship in Arkansas was a 1965 Cotton Bowl victory against Nebraska when the players still wore leather helmets (sort of) and Nixon was around. Things were as screwed up then as the BCS is now and sportswriters twisted that win up enough to convince all the folks here in Arkansas that they had actually won a national championship. Just because the Razorbacks are among the bottom feeders in the best football conference in America doesn’t mean they absorb football tradition, talent and become a magnet for major recruits. We have actually had morons on sports radio here reason that since Arkansas beat LSU, that they should be considered for a higher National rating better than 46th behind Appalachian State, who was able to do something Arkansas has never done in football, beat Michigan.

How about this as a great summary of how things are here: “Arkansas is a complete tragedy. Arkansas can’t do anything right. Arkansas couldn’t even fire the intensely fireable Houston Nutt, who bumbled around for years — losing winnable games and alienating blindly loyal fans — and still was begged to stay.

This is how bad Arkansas football has become: Houston Nutt took a paycut to leave … for Ole Miss.”

Link for those who give a rats ass: http://sportsline.com/columns/story/10521564

This being my token college football post is not meant to inflame the people here who have blind devotion to a less than mediocre sports program, but to simply state a fact: Arkansas is NOT a college sports powerhouse. They do however have a great agri department.

E Mail circulating among the rednecks here in the “Land of Opportunity” attempts to “warn” of Obama’s past. Yes, it was sure to happen sooner than later and it’s no surprise, this kind of crap is resurfacing. I’m not going to post the contents of the message, all of which is old news, but it does “warn” everyone of his religious past. Never mind the man joined a Christian church (even if for political reasons). If he was really a Muslim and he defected to Christianity and stated it publicly, that would go to show how serious his Muslim inclinations were if there were any at all. It also states some obvious and already disproved lies. Knowing that it’s easy to cut, paste and forward an email, even for an inbred redneck, we’ll be seeing more of this shit to be sure. Unfortunately, these are the same folks who forward shit to 10 of their friends then believe Bill Gates is going to hand them a free computer. My guess is that this stuff will be floating not only from the Right Wing Conspirators but also the Yellow Dog Democrats will be squeezing out a few Obama tidbits as well.

The South has traditionally been a Democratic stronghold. However, the fact that a black man is showing some promise as an electable candidate has thrown things into turmoil. The problem with rednecks these day’s is that they’ve seen too many movin’ picture shows that may go something like this: a terrorist is raised from childhood as the typical American boy, goes to high school and college, starts a business, marries an all American girl, has 2 kids, gets elected to a few local councils then ultimately makes it to the White House. All of a sudden things turn and this sleeper terrorist unleashes his minions on the world from within the walls of the White House. To make things worse, Obama isn’t the typical American boy that everyone thinks should be running for President, even those loyal Democrats.

When Obama’s wheels get rolling, there’s going to be big problems for the Democrats particularly here in the south. All of the black voters that have traditionally gravitated toward the left are going to see just how loyal the Democrats are to the black voter when the true feelings towards Obama and minorities surface. They’re going to realize that the black voters best interest was only an interest of convenience. My guess is that the Democrats of the South will vote Republican before they vote “black”. Even the Yellow Dogs may have a change of heart.

First, the Hillary lovers said (and I’m quoting a real HL here from a last Sunday discussion). “Just wait until she cries. All the people will say that means she’s too weak to be president, (just like Sleepy Edwards did when asked about Hillary’s episode). Others will say if she doesn’t cry, she cold and emotionless”.

I take a 3rd perspective, crying is a genuine show of emotion and because it’s true she has no emotions other than the pre-programmed ones she uses for politicing, this really couldn’t have been considered a cry as we know in the traditional sense. She didn’t actually work up a cry, it was more of a crackly throat with dry puffs of air poofing from her tear ducts. My guess is that her advisers suggested an attempt at emotion to woo in some fringe voters without showing weakness by actually producing real tears. The planted question (which coincidentally was reported to be the final question of the tea) was asked to get the tears rolling.

All of the angry feminists in that little coffee shop bought it and all were moved to dry tears and voice changes as well so the ploy may have helped for the moment.

I watched CNN’s unprecedented coverage of ABC’s debate. No surprises, I didn’t miss anything the first time except:

• Sleepy Edwards showed some balls and raised his voice a little, however this guy is shades of Jimmy Carter and no, not because of the annoying accent.
• I loved the Romney attacks from all the Republicans. They all got in appropriate shots and Huckabee was even praised by George Stephanopoulos for making an appropriate clean jab. Ron Paul was notably absent from the Romney attacks but that was about par because he seemed absent from the whole proceedings.
• The most telling thing about all 13 hours of that debate was the final “feel good-leave the debate on a humor moment” question. ABC’s Charles Gibson asked the candidates if there was one thing they said they could take back what would it be? Right before Hillary answered, I paused the DVR, put in a CD of dance music and began playing both. With one song and danced, she won a whole season of Dancing With The Stars with her answer. Of course she didn’t answer the question, she apparently has nothing to regret except that there is an opposition right wing conspiracy. I have to give credit to Richardson and Sleepy, they in the spirit of the question gave answers that did add a little closing fun. Disappointingly, Barack parroted Hillary and is possibly being set up to take next seasons “Dance With the Stars”.

After a few more appropriate shots in Romney’s direction, hopefully we’ll begin to see the smoke pouring from the engine and the wings beginning to dip slightly in an inevitable death spiral into the ground. I hope he packed his ‘chute.

I had lunch at my favorite (and only) local Asian Food restaurant. Up until the middle of December, this was a great place to eat. Sadly, I saw the beginnings of the end today. In mid December, they started an all you can eat buffet. Up until that point it was menu only. I stated when they first opened, this place will be fine until they open the buffet. What these well meaning folks fail to understand or ignore, is that instead of “all you should eat”, there’s a lot of fat bastards out there who take literally the phrase “all you can eat” and eat all they can. There’s no way a small business like this can accommodate all the pigs out there who have no hobby other than to eat. Inevitably, they will either have to close the buffet or worse yet, close an otherwise nice restaurant. The all you can eat buffet bring the pigs out of the pen and we actually had to sit somewhere other than our favorite table.

Today, I watched 2 fat slobs and their wives make at least 16 trips between them to our little buffet line. They were already snorting around in their plates when we arrived and they were there when we left. I know its all you can eat but does that mean they should gorge until you can actually see food packed in the back of their throat because it won’t go down any further. Additionally, these folks walk around holding their plates with this look of entitlement on their face. They complain the loudest when food isn’t available and if I were guessing they justify not leaving a tip because it was a self serve buffet and they had to haul themselves off of their fat ass to be served. Look around: in shape people are a minority and gluttony is a sport in America. There’s no way we can take an idea that came about when people weren’t as big and greedy like an all you can eat buffet and make it work today.

The following is from MSNBC and shows how frustrating dealing with fat folks who blob around with this sense of entitlement can be. This restaurant will probably shut down.

All you can eat buffet bans ample appetites, big eaters expelled: This is weighty matter: A 265-pound man says a Louisiana restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet, then banned him and a relative because of how much they consumed during their visits.

Ricky Labit, a 6-foot-3 disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular at the Manchuria Restaurant located in Houma, eating there as often as three times a week. But on his most recent visit, he said a waitress gave him and his wife’s cousin, Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.

“She says, ‘Y’all fat, and y’all eat too much,’” Labit said.

Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size.

“I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain’t that fat, I only weigh 277,” Borrelli said.

LINK http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22487819/

That last line is a sad comment on the state of American waistlines. The fat bastards ought to lose weight so the discrimination will stop. By the way, I had the buffet.

So I didn’t.  I watched my stored up selection of DVR’ed episodes of the Rockford Files.  They’re not going to answer a question any differently that hasn’t already been asked.  They can throw in a few more adjectives and maybe Mitt won’t have to pause for 8 seconds before answering  since he has his lines down by now.  However, he may take a new stand on the issues that matter we hadn’t heard before.  If it matters the next debate worth watching will be the one among the nominees for both (or all) parties.  Anything else is just the same old same old.

BY THE WAY:  Bill Bradley (Republican) endorses Obama as the candidate that truly appeals to all ancd can unite our country.   I think we’re on to something here.