With Our Profound Respect and A Sense Of Obligation...

...we pause on this day to honor and pay fidelity to all American troops of all times. Their lives....their injuries....their disabilities have enriched this "Sea-to-shining-sea" assemblage of weak States exponentially far surpassing anything ever imagined only a few hundred years ago.

Ladies and Gentlemen, past and present, words are insufficient to express what this nation - and the world - owes you for your incalculable contributions to humanity.

Like Lincoln, I have to wonder how long this nation can endure in the UNcivil war it is now engaging in. A war of words not bullets and cannon fodder at present but nonetheless as divisive as any battlefield of the Civil War or any World War.

Just one of the greatest assets, just one of this nation's greatest treasures of all times which has been protected by the troops is our nation's libraries and centers of learning where all can go freely and drink from the well of knowledge. Yet as I hear our national leaders speak and as I read comments on the many news articles which flood the airways and across the Internet, I am appalled at what an ignorant nation this one has become. I am appalled at how our delicate system of checks and balances has been so corrupted by money, Gried, and power that ensuring the health and welfare of our most precious resource will again remain only a promise unfulfilled.

I truly hope that my forbears who fought in the name of this country before it was ever a country, cannot look down now and see what the people they died for are like on this day of remembrance and honor. This country was founded by Nonpartisans whose only political party was that "Of the People....by the People....and for the People". The North and South of the Civil War have become the Repuglicans and the Dummocrats of this day, this era. Self-serving, self-enriching, monstrous tools of destruction which are engaged in practices that are far more dangerous to our republic than any war our troops ever served in.

Please, Dear God in Heaven....please Bless America again. Please send us some leaders who are not dividers, men and women of character and intelligence who we can follow and believe in.
Amen.

$2.24 MILLION Per Word and Growing

Yup....that's where the Haus "healthcare" bill stands now and that's without the so-called "public option":

It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah...

The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word.

Republicans aide said a print-out of the bill weighs more than 19 pounds and stands nearly nine inches tall.

No word on the Sinate version but I'm sure those blowhards can beat this with even more obfuscation and padding for their constituents campaign contributors!

Our condolences to the family of 23-year old Sgt. Josue E. Hernandez Chavez and the hundreds of others that have died since January 20th of this year. Why is the U.S. still there? What complelling reason is there to continue 43's war? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with Congresscritters repaying campaign contributions with interest now could it?

My friend, Dullard Mush, has an informative article about changing your voter registration the right way if you're finally fed up with all of the political parties. As Dullard points out, if you want to do this, Nonpartisan is the box you want to check. Here's where you can contact your County Clerk and ask for the form. You do not have to list your phone number if you want to avoid all those calls from Harry Gried et al.

Speaking of Gried the Gutless, he's delegated Tom Harkin to handle the ever recurrent "Joe" matter. Here's the County Clerk phone number again in case you need it.

Speaking of Gried the Gutless II, Lisa Masquerado is out stumping for Griedo again today. Poor girl must think Harry has a place for in his organization. Poor, poor delusioned girl...

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to the surgeons of Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford who did a great job of patching him up.

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY HATEMONGER AND ANTICHRIST ON EARTH is desperately needing some cash. That's all the protons I'm going to waste on this. See 'ya in Hell, Lucifer!

Loose Hips Sink Ships...

...and all on board evidently. Poor fella... And I do mean poor! Usually 'ya'd have to tie a pork chop around his neck to even get the dog to play with him. Nonetheless, 'ol Rusty Zipper has plenty of folks who want a minute or two of his time.

As soon as the "public option" is declared either stillborn for lack of a father or completely aborted for lack of the infamous "60", the next item which will fail under the Sinate Majority Lardasser will be the so-called climate bill. Yup - same set of Clues here: Baucus did it in the Committee with a pocket full of cash from Big Oil and Big Coal. If things get really, really tough, the SMLardasser can fly in the big gun on AF2. Some things never "Change" - especially in DeeCee where SCOTUS appointments and Sinators are there for life (Rusty excepted, of course).

Here's how our own Goober da Gubber can get re-elected. (or wake up next to a horse's head in his bed) Anyhoo, you can count on Deputy Chief of Staff Stacy Woodbury trying anything to keep her staff position.

Some are hedging their bets on the Gried b**b thing and stumbling all over themselves about the Gried news release from waaaay back in '81 when an unknown sin czar wanted to become the next Sinatar. No Clues here to say who really planted a telephone book under the hood but it sounds awfully fishy. First off, the sin czar was pretty much a do-nothing in that post - the same as he is now. Second, why would the mafia want to rub him out when he was not a problem at all. Third, the mafia (by then) had become much too sophisticated in their assassination techniques to try and blow someone up with a phone book; only a nerd would be that stupid. Fourth, gas tanks don't have any oxygen in them to explode (otherwise you'd see cars blowing up at every refill). It takes explosives to do the trick. Connect the '81 Clues together and come to your own conclusions.

I'm personally wondering just why Gried chose this particular time to even bring up the hoax. Is he that desperate?

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to the millions and millions of people who fought hard to stop the persecution of folks who just want to be a little bit different. This won't stop the persecution but it will do something to bring the world a bit closer to sanity.

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY II to GOP Iowans for incubating themselves against paying for insanity to visit there.

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY FOREVER goes to the Repugs for denying our justice system a chance to give justice to those who deserve it. Obviously a tri-cameral system is what the Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution and to deny that for political ideologies only disrobes the repugs as complete Anti-Constitutionalists.

Why don't they just legalize prostitution in DeeCee and get it over with?

Whose B**b is Whose?

There's so many b**bs going off today it's hard to tell whose is whose, and, which is which. Sorry - but I can't use the "b" word online or Quanico and FISA will be after me with swat teams so you'll just have to understand it is a synonym for ex**osives.

First, it appears that our most flatulent Sinator has reached to the very bottom of his dirty tricks for re-election by now playing the old man sympathy card from something which occurred way, way back in 1981: A police report that claimed he was going to be "vaporized" by no less than an ordinary phone book.

All in all, this was quite an admirably crafty trap that both Sue and Goober stepped into just in time for Halloween pranks - both having an innate inability to know when to keep the brain engaged before opening the mouth.

You know the kind of "tricks" I'm referring to - like where you fill a paper bag full of dogs**t, put it at someone's door, set it on fire, and ring the doorbell. What happens then will just be left for the reader's imagination to fill in but the front door's fire is pure Harry Gried.

So while Sue was busy stomping on the paper bag at the front door, dear friend and competitor for Gried's open seat Sharon Angle, placed a second one at Sue's back door in case Gried's was missed at the front door... This one is time-delayed though to go off come this Friday.

I imagine Tark is ROTFL(his)AO at all of this! If real estate is "location, location, location" then politics is "timing, timing timing". Sue's campaign may become considerably shortened no matter what is revealed in those sealed ballots. I gotta go along with Jon Ralston here -

"...the Lowden-Harris colloquy gives me serious doubts about her becoming a U.S. senator."

As the SUN Sets Slowly in the South....

....some people find themselves scrambling for another paying job amongst NevaDUH's top three industries as things are not doing so well for the MSM. Namely - Gambling, mining, and Harry Gried.

It's no big secret that more than the Greenspun empire is failing in Las Bugsy and the LVSun may be the next enterprise to close its doors. Everything down there (and up here, too) is in deep doodoo that only worsens by the day. Which, with vulture circling (those aren't seagulls in the pic, folks!) leaves a working girl with only two industries to go to now - mining or Gried. Since Elko isn't quite the glitz and glamour Bugsy is, this leaves only the last alternative.

Therefore, one uses the pen and paper to write fluff pieces praising their newly found industry like this and this. Perhaps I did neglect mentioning NevaDUH's fourth industry: Prostitution.


Anyhoo, the piece does mention a recurrent Gried problem: Joe Liebergirl - who is probably a whole lot better at reading the tea leaves than Gried. Joe, as you recall, has been one of Gried's constant saddle sores but despite being re-elected as "Not-a-Democrat" as anyone can plainly see, Gried has been carrying him on the books as one anyhow to get the magic I-can-do-anything-if-I-have-60 plateau in the Sinate. Joe can see that tired and impotent Gried just isn't going to be Sinate Majority Lardasser come 2011 so he is now positioning himself in a strong position to negotiate with the nest SML. It's not Joe's fault he is what he is; that has been well known for a long time. The real prob - and one that will bring down the "public option" - is that the SML rested the whole enchilada on smoke and mirrors. The highly crucial "60" existed only in the SML's head.... Perhaps, come 2011, Pres O will finally take complete control of his party and not leave Alzheimer's patients to drive the bus.

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to pal, Mike Zahara, who cogently points out "Read My Lips" is the best way to be a one-termer. What's wrong with that?

BONUS KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to Michael Steele who should be based in Las Bugsy.

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY goes to Pres O who is showing the White Haus is, again, nothing more than a ho house.

Animus House

A new CNN poll is showing the Repugs have gone through the toilet, down the sewer pipe, and are now headed toward the waste disposal station. To combat their 54% unfavorable rating - the lowest since before Bush/Chainey - the RNC is gathering all their brightest and best (pictured) to refine the message of No!No!No! using just their greatest thinkers.


Just in case they do make a sudden turn back up the sewer pipe, the Dummocrats are also huddled up with their best and brightest hoping the Celeb-in-Chief can actually join in a photo op or something with them.

Whatever..... It's going to be drop your jocks and grab your socks time sooner than we think. Note this article says "Mr. Reid spent the weekend working on blahblahblah". Actually on last Saturday, Reid had another taxpayer paid junket to show how many taxpayer subsidized jobs he has created in NevaDUH besides the mag-lev. Isn't it grand that despite having $8 million in the bank, we taxpayers are subsidizing the "Change We Can Believe In II" campaign?

Somehow this got misplaced in today's RGJ. It ended up on the editorial page instead of the comics section. However....right on cue, Lisa was right there yesterday in the Sun's comics.

Obviously this ass-clown and this ass-clown haven't visited Lake Mead lately. Here's an idea for Stevie Botox: Bring Princess cruise ships full of suckers up to Hoover Dam and bus 'em into your dying ego traps. Up "North", we have lotsa water. No dancing fountains or anything like they have in Las Bugsy, but we do have some water because it is being planned for.

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to a very courageous and wise young man I have greatly admired for a long time: Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford. All the best to you, Sam, in whatever lies ahead for you and here's a thumbs up for a quick and thorough recovery.

KNUCKLE BUMP II goes to Newt Gingrich who wants to be Prez. What better way could be devised to see Pres O get a second term?

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY can go to Fux Nuz who dragged out this Cretan who actually compares Pres O to Hugo Chavez:

And if you look at some of the coverage of what mainstream media covers when, for example, somebody like a Hugo Chavez shuts down television stations, he calls them illegitimate.

The article goes on to enumerate just a few things the Church Lady "conveniently" manages to forget:

– The Pentagon had a secret program to use retired military analysts to “generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance.” Most of these analysts had “ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.” When the “message machine” became public, Perino defended the program as “absolutely appropriate.”

– The U.S. military was “secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.” The articles contained anonymous quotes from U.S. military officials — which may or may not have been authentic — and “read more like press releases than news stories.”

– The Education Department paid conservative pundit Armstrong Williams hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote Bush’s No Child Left Behind law. Even after the corruption was uncovered, the administration defended it as “a permissible use of taxpayer funds.”

– The Government Accountability Office found that the Bush administration violated anti-propaganda laws when it disguised two promotional ads — on federal drug policy and Medicare — as news reports. The “reports” aired on dozens of stations, and the GAO “faulted the administration for distributing seemingly independent, ready-to-air reports that did not inform viewers that they came from the government.”

I can't say as how I don't blame her for crawling out from underneath her rock. It must be getting awfully crowded in there.

Lisa Preparing for a Rainy Day?

In as many days, Lisa Mascaro has written two fluff pieces on Sinator Gried. And in as many days, she has curiously disallowed any Comments from the readers over the warm and fuzzy renditions of Gried. And in as many days, her boss has lost two chunks of his empire.

Are there any dots to connect here? Just what does one do in a state as small as this when one is (possibly) facing the unemployment line? One goes to work for Sinator Gried is what one does. 'Ya'd think one could be a little bit more subtle about it, though....

The so-called "public option" is getting at least one LDS (Latter Day Sinator) to consider swapping over if it means getting even one more vote. News Flash to all new LDSers - the public option is dead. Gone, kaput, D.O.A. for lack of adult supervision in all three Hauses. The world can but hope that Gried does not do for the monopoly of Big Insurance what he has done for the public option....

KNUCKLE BUMP OF THE DAY goes to Momma Dean's Soul Food Kitchen in Fayettevile, AR, which is feeding the homeless there free of charge per CNN this morning. Which contrasts greatly here where it takes $25 million to feed just one Griedy person. Btw, these are not the homeless in NevaDUH. They are just Griedy promoters who want "Change We Can Believe In" without meaning here.

KNUCKLEDRAGGER OF THE DAY SUPREMO says - before a crowd devouring a $400/plate steak luncheon:

"I did not sell my soul."...."I only leased it out for eight years."

OK - OK....I tinkered with that just a wee bit.