Don't Tase My Junk, Bro!

TSA has been issued Tasers.

Somebody tell Digby.

Happy Veterans Day Uncle Buzz

My Uncle Buzz fought in Italy during WWII. He made it out in one piece. When he got home, the CCC was waiting for him and he helped build most of the infrastructure in Central Maine. He passed a fews years back, but while he was alive, my daughter worshiped him on Veteran's Day. She would color him a picture and just loved him. He was a crusty curmudgeon but melted under my daughter's influence.

My father, who was too young for the first one and too old for the second one, was also part of the infrastructure building and helped build a dam, by hand, on Rt. 100 in Burnam shortly after the war. While on the job, he developed a friendship with a rather large individual who knew how to split big, unruly rocks - my dad asked him, "Big Eddie, how do you split those big rocks so easy?", Big Eddie told him - "Where I learn to do that, you don't get no pay".

I always remember that story. My Dad has been gone for 24 years, Uncle Buzz - 10. Time flies whether you are having fun or not. Miss those guys.

Tim Sample - The Strict Carnivore

Tim Sample is a Maine humorist that actually tells jokes that out-of-staters get. I've met Tim on a couple of occasions and he's a lot of fun.

Check this out:



One More - With The Maine Accent This Time

The Juan Williams Pledge Drive Bounce

I like to listen to NPR on Saturday mornings - "Wait Wait, don't Tell Me" is my favorite show (radio, TV, or Web). This is a fundraising week and as of noon today, they are well ahead of their projected pledges.

Must be the result of sacking that two-faced Fox News hack Juan Williams.

It has always been a serious disconnect for me that Juan Williams worked for NPR and was a contributor to Fox News and a panelist on Fox News Sunday. WTF?

The Bush administration bullied NPR with threats of de-funding and intimidation for years keeping NPR on the defensive, running Republican partisan stories they may not have run otherwise. I used to keep track of how much time John Kerry would get compared to Bush, before the 2004 election, during news hours. It was no contest, Bush cronies would get double and sometimes triple the airtime that the Kerry camp would get. The content from the repubs was always the same discredited bullshit. Drove me crazy. Then, watching Moira Liasson and Juan Williams on Fox News was the nail in the coffin that told me that they were trying a little too hard to please the conservatives.

And now the conservatives want to de-fund NPR. Big Whoop. They always want to defund NPR.

I read Mike Moore's article on this and agree that (paraphrased) ANYONE who shills for corporations and ignorance on Fox News is a traitor to this country, an idiot and deserves to be fired from a legitimate news organization like NPR.

Moira, you're next.

The Ant and the Grasshopper - 2009

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for the Vid

What if Everyone Had Medicare?

From Common Dreams

"...Improved Medicare-for-all, by replacing our dysfunctional patchwork of private health insurers with a single, streamlined system of financing, would save about $400 billion annually in unnecessary paperwork and bureaucracy. That's enough to cover all of those now uninsured and to provide every person in the United States with quality, comprehensive coverage."

"A single-payer plan would also furnish us with effective cost-control tools, like the ability to negotiate fees and purchase medications in bulk. It would permit patients to go to the doctor and hospital of their choice."

Read the rest here

Robert Reich on Where We Stand

Via TPM Robert Reich on the state of the economy, the Great Depression and his new book 'Aftershock'. And look at the statistical correlation he notes between 1927 and 2007.

Katy Perry Will Never Be As Cool As This

I'm not happy about it..(Katy's Cleavage Conundrum) Most kids that watch this show see more tits in a day than you or I in a year.. but Sharia law is coming... from the American Taliban

Katy Perry Is Not Cooler Than This, Either

..." I just got out of a Scandanavian Jail and I'm on My Way Straight Home to You..

Jimi Hendrix - My Friend from Naoyoshi Kitamura on Vimeo.

Evil Has More Money

Working my Way Back...






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I used to be a lobsterman and knew more than one guy like Eddie.

Breaktime - Going Fishing

"They Talk About Me, Like a Dog..Talk About the Clothes I Wear..

..But They Don't Realize... They're the One's Who's Square.)