April Week 1, 2008

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."

American humorist Mark Twain

We went to Colville today, Trevor, Calie, Cindy, Autumn Monica Christy and I... I was not thinking ahead and forgot that we needed to bring the stuff home that we were buying, with all the seats full it left only the small space behind the third row of seats, it was a challenge but I got it all in somehow.

John (The BMW Mechanic in Idaho) called and said that the bike was almost done... going to cost a bit more though, needs brakes and a headlight. Should be strong when he's done though. Now all I need is to find the moneyu to pay for it. Next year I'll get shocks.

I read this little bit of silliness on April Fools Day... I will have to check this site out occasionally.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.”

Bill Maher

I cleaned the garage, chauffeured Cindy and went to the dump.

Time to paint the bathroom down stairs... I hate painting... a lot. It's just a pain in the butt, 80% of the effort is set up and clean up...

They [the Conservative Crusaders for a world of their making] are really laying into Obama. I get one or two crude or hateful e-mails every day from folks who want to destroy him. They are racist, demeaning, lies and distortions. It scares me that no one seems to be able to set the record straight.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

"Did you see Barack Obama bowling in Pennsylvania the other day?

Ooh, that was bad. He bowled a 37 out of a 300. See, that's good.

That is good, because I want a president that's bad at bowling.

I mean, shouldn't he have more important things to do? Look, I don't know President Bush, but I'm willing to guess he's a great bowler."

Jay Leno

This is a picture of Trevor, #32, shooting the basket that broke the tie and gave Selkirk the win 63 -61 over Wellpinit he also just won the low hurdles and the Javelin events at the last Invitational at Wilber-Creston.

Christy took Calie and Monica to the Mall in Spokane to shop for dresses for the Junior Prom next month... yes... Monica too. I stayed home to chauffeur Cindy again and I took Autumn to lunch at the Western.

Christy and the girls got home at midnight.

John McCain vs. John McCain

Fourteen people in a doomsday cult in Russia left their cave on April Fools Day when part of it collapsed ... the comic ramifications stemming from just that wee bit of information boggles the mind. Normally I just shake my head at what gullible idiots humans can be and just write it off to one more piece of evidence that Darwin was right and there truly is such a thing as Natural Selection. Cults are universally the laughing stock of humanity but the fact is, we are all subject to being seduced by one sort of mass dementia or another. Sadly three or four children were unaccounted for. It pisses me off when adults inflict their children with their lunacy. Children are too vulnerable to authority and entrusting them to crazy people should be against the law. If you tell the world that you are going to go into a cave to await the "End Of Times" I believe that society, in order to preserve itself and do it's bit to cleanse the gene pool, should allow them to go with it's blessing but at the same time it think it is totally inhumane and irresponsible to allow them to take their children with them.

We need crazy people in the world to measure ourselves by. As lone as there are nuts for us to pity or point fingers at we can sit back smugly and deem ourselves to be sane. What frightens me is the nagging suspision that I am no longer flowing in the main-stream. In several instances lately I find myself on the outside looking in at the majority. I really wonder what

Friday, April 04, 2008

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to apply it.

Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)

I heard another story from Jerry. There was a fella in town named [] He used to be a prison guard in Montana and was working at the mine. He was in the Western, he wasn't supposed to be in there for some reason, maybe he had been 86'd, but he wasn't drinking . The local cop came by and told him to leave, he said "leave me alone [] I'm not doing anything to concern you." and went back inside. The cop left and waited for him to leave, when he left he went to a party in the Falls and the cop followed him. He went in and rousted him again. [] went outside with him and said, "Why don't you just go home, the cop said you're under arrest," [] picked him up with one hand and hung him on the truck mirror by his gun belt and took his gun and threw it in the back of the truck saying "You won't need this, you're just going to hurt yourself, then he took off his badge and hung it on the rear view mirror.

Calie needs to sound like she's kidding when she's kidding. It's not fair to say outrageious things and then say "Just kidding"

I painted today... I hate to paint, I really hate to paint, I will pay the girls to finish.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"

Dwight David Eisenhower : 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969

I did a little more work in the bathroom in the basement.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

"The key lesson to me of Vietnam is that you cannot outlast insurgents in their own country. This idea that when Bush says, "Well, we can't say we're going to pull out in six months because they'll only have to wait six months and a day. They'll wait a hundred years if they have to!"

Bill Maher

I did Mikes taxes, he made next to nothing last year and will get $600 back from Bush...

I just picked up one of the guys from out this way and took him into town. He is an ex-hell raiser who found Jesus, he listens to the radio preachers and the sad reality is that the radio preacher probably saved his life. Why some folks will listen to a huckster with a haircut that costs more than the car they drive is beyond me…

I enjoy talking to people about their religious beliefs, you learn a lot about them by how far they can go into the discussion without saying “faith” or “belief”. Usually not more than a sentence or two. My problem with religion has always been those two words. They are such nebulous concepts that it seems incredulous to me that an intelligent person can deem their ‘faith and belief’ is any more significant than anyone else’s. Why is it that one system based on faith and belief is any more relevant than any other. The bottom mine is that they believe because they have to, the possibility that we are on our own, subjects of chaos, evolution, luck, our own intelligence and providence is just to scary to contemplate. To me that concept is comforting... hell, shit happens.

It seems important to me to be able to understand why people pass judgment on one another based on nothing more than their own imagination. At one point in our lives we all believed in Santa Claus the Easter Bunny and the infallibility of our parents, why is the same fundamental system that allows us to believe in the fantasies of childhood allowed to dictate how we conduct our lives. Why are we killing people simply because we believe we are right and they are wrong… that sort of shit just mystifies the hell out of me.

One days worth on Media Matters:

Despite having to correct Ross' false claim that McCain has released tax returns, ABC still ignored McCain in report musing about Clinton tax returns

Summary: On ABC's Good Morning America, Brian Ross asserted that Sen. Hillary Clinton's "delay" in releasing tax returns "has raised a lot of questions," including "whether they paid their taxes like average Americans, or like the super-rich they have become." At no point during the segment did anyone, including Ross, who has falsely asserted that Sen. John McCain released his tax returns, question McCain's "delay."

Radio Factor guest host Tony Snow offered false and misleading attacks on Obama

Summary: Guest-hosting The Radio Factor, Tony Snow falsely claimed that "since he's been in the United States Senate, [Sen. Barack Obama] has voted present more often than any other member of the Senate." Snow also asserted that Obama "has described Jeremiah Wright as one of his key political advisers, and he said that he didn't make any key political decision without consulting him." In fact, Obama has stated that Wright "has never been my political advisor; he's been my pastor."

MSNBC and CNN ignored "boldest question" from student at prep school but reported extensively on students' question to Chelsea Clinton

Summary: MSNBC and CNN reported on Sen. John McCain's visit to his high school alma mater without noting that -- in what MSNBC's First Read political blog called "[t]he boldest question" from the crowd -- a student at the school, pointing out that "political motivation isn't completely absent" even though people "were told that this isn't a political event," asked McCain "what exactly is your purpose in being" at the school. By contrast, MSNBC and CNN both extensively reported on questions posed to Chelsea Clinton about the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Coulter: Obama's memoir is "Dimestore 'Mein Kampf' "

Summary: In a syndicated column titled "Obama's Dimestore 'Mein Kampf,'" Ann Coulter wrote that Sen. Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, "reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic," adding: "If only people had read 'Mein Kampf' ..."

Now, this really flabbergasts me... Why is it that folks are surprised that Annie memorized Mein Kampf? I would have been surprised if she hadn't... what a vile, soulless harridan she is... can you imagine what it would be like to be her friend? All the while knowing that she would crucify you if she thought she would get a little publicity or a chuckle from her loyal lynch-mob.

Fineman stated that McCain said he is "with Bush on the war, but only the war" -- but McCain is "with Bush" on other issues

Summary: On Hardball, Newsweek's Howard Fineman stated that, in his foreign policy speech, Sen. John McCain said, "I want to adopt the Democratic view of the need for diplomacy and alliances, and even the one that predated George W. Bush. ... I'm with Bush on the war, but only the war." However, McCain is also "with Bush" on a number of other issues, notably taxes, Social Security, and missile defense.

CBS report on "mind-numbing" national debt made no mention of Republican-led Congress' years of deficit spending on Bush tax cuts, Iraq

Summary: A CBS Evening News report on the national debt, the current level of which both anchor Katie Couric and correspondent Anthony Mason described as "mind-numbing," failed to quote a single Democrat and did not point out the extent to which deficit spending by Republican-led Congresses has contributed to the debt.

Following pattern in the media, CNN's King uncritically repeated McCain campaign's false attacks on Democrats

Summary: On The Situation Room, John King uncritically reported that "[i]n a statement, a McCain spokesman took a shot at the other party, saying, 'Americans can't afford the Democrats' liberal agenda to raise taxes, nationalize health care, cut off trade, and crush the economy under big government.' " Following what has become a pattern in the media, King failed to note the significant falsehoods and misleading claims in McCain's statement and simply read it without challenge.

**Matthews touted questioning of Obama about Wright, but left out Obama's response: "I hear you say controversial things, Chris"**

Summary: On MSNBC, Chris Matthews said that during an interview the previous day, he "prodded" Sen. Barack Obama on his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But while Matthews touted his questioning of Obama, he did not provide Obama's response. After Obama told Matthews that he had "never heard [Wright] say those things that were in those clips," which he said the media "ran [] over and over and over again," Matthews continued: "But you did say you heard him say controversial things." Obama responded, "Well, but I hear you say controversial things, Chris."

What I want to know is "Where is the Liberal Media?" these assholes keep harping about... click on any one of these links and try to find a "Liberal" counterpart in the national media.

· Jonathan Allen

· Jim Angle

· David Asman

· Fred Barnes

· Dana Bash

· Glenn Beck

· Michelle Bernard

· Wolf Blitzer

· Mika Brzezinski

· Pat Buchanan

· Tucker Carlson

· Gretchen Carlson