Well, I guess that's it then...we're all gonna die.

Or so ya'd think! My god, Obama hasn't been in office a year yet and the sky is falling! He's a socialist, Muslim, not born in this country, democracy hatin', Iranian appeasin', America hater!

Whew! He sure has accomplished a bunch! You'd think he got us in an unnecessary war, buried us in debt, and trashed our reputation with the world or something...all the while blaming it on God.

Now I hate Dubya as much as a Republican hates Clinton...perhaps more, but I'm not sure that's possible...but geeze! It took me close to a year or so before I really got a head of steam going about the guy! I mean, I knew he was an idiot the first time he opened his mouth, but...These people are nuts! They can't stand the site of Obama (stringing whole sentences together) on TV!

oh, well!

Be interesting to see, besides Newt and Sarah, who the GOP will run against Mr. Obama. The ones they've been pushing for are dropping like flies, what with long walks on the Appalachian trail and what not...we shall see though...well...that's all I've got for now. This has sorta been a 'mercy post' made simply for the fact I've not posted in so long!

see ya's!

Wow. It's been a long time...

...and a whole lot has happened. I'm sorry, but I lost my ability to bitch for a while. Well, bitch in print anyway! The whole political thing really got me down and I couldn't go on...so, I stopped writing. It was too depressing and you can only hit yourself on the head with a ball-peen hammer so many times before the side of your cranium crumbles like a drakes coffee cake.

So how's about that new guy we elected? Smart, funny, looks good in a bathing suit...I wonder if he'll be my friend? ;-)) It even appears that he can speak in full sentences! Wow! Seems to be making the best out of a particularly bad situation. I'm willing to give him a bit more than one hundred days to suss it all out. Heck, if you added up all of Bush's vacation time, and put it all up in front of his two terms, he wouldn't even be expected to work until next year! So, I'm gonna chill. And smile every time I hear the phrase 'President Obama.'

Union Leader actually printed my letter!

The Manchester Union Leader, once called the "...worst newspaper in the U.S..." by Hunter Thompson, has actually printed one of my letters! (NH House to allow civil unions, found below) To say the Leader leans to the 'right' really is an understatement, and doubly so for it's op-ed page. So, without further adieu, here it is!

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Steve+McBrian%3a+Bigoted+homophobes+hide+behind+the+call+to+%27protect+marriage%27+in+NH&articleId=e6d83d96-5693-4d3b-89ba-a55568d1a654

Vermont Senate: Impeach the President

By ROSS SNEYD Associated Press Writer

April 20,2007 | MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Vermont senators voted Friday to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised "serious questions of constitutionality."

The non-binding resolution was approved 16-9 without debate -- all six Republicans in the chamber at the time and three Democrats voted against it.

The resolution says Bush and Cheney's actions in the U.S. and abroad, including in Iraq, "raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of the public trust."

"I think it's going to have a tremendous political effect, a tremendous political effect on public discourse about what to do about this president," said James Leas, a vocal advocate of withdrawing troops from Iraq and impeaching Bush and Cheney.
Vermont lawmakers earlier voted to demand an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq in another non-binding resolution.

Democratic House Speaker Gaye Symington has kept a similar resolution from reaching the floor in her chamber. She argued that an impeachment resolution would be partisan and divisive and that it would distract Washington from efforts to get the United States out of Iraq, which she says is more important.

In the Senate, Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie had opposed the resolution, but he was absent Friday. That left Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin in charge, and he immediately took up the measure.

Forty towns voted in favor of similar nonbinding impeachment resolutions at their annual town meetings in March. State lawmakers in Wisconsin and Washington have pushed for similar resolutions.

Listen. Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. A smart, funny, and cantankerous voice has been silenced. I will miss him.

"The only proof I need for the existence of god was music." - Kurt Vonnegut

A good quote

"The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is ignorance."
~Kurt Tucholsky

In other words

Can you beleive this guy? If he's riffing off the cuff, well, we know he's a terrible public speaker. But what if this was written for him? Good God, he's lost in a sea of idiots! Read on!
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In other words
War Room, Salon.com - originally posted by Tim Grieve

From the Congressional Quarterly transcript of George W. Bush's talk today at an American Legion post in Fairfax, Va.:

"This is a -- this is an unusual era in which we live, defined on September the 11th, 2001. See, that's a date that reminding us the world has changed significantly from what we thought the world was ... My attitude about the world changed, and I know the attitude about the world from a lot of folks here in America's attitude changed ...

"I vowed that day that we would go on the offense against an enemy, that the best way to defeat this enemy is to find them overseas and bring them to justice so they will not hurt the folks here at home. In other words, we don't have the luxury of hoping for the best, of sitting back and being passive in the face of this threat. In the past, we would say oceans would protect us and, therefore, what happened overseas may not matter here at home.

"That's what changed on September the 11th. What happens overseas affects the security of the United States ...

"I vowed that, 'If you harbor a terrorist, you're equally as guilty as the terrorist.' That's a doctrine.

"In order for this country to be credible, when the president says something, he must mean it. I meant it. And the Taliban found out that we meant what we said. And therefore, we ended al-Qaida's safe haven in a failed state.

"The two points I want to make is, doctrine matters; and secondly, a failed state can lead to severe consequences for the American people ...

"In other words, there was reprisal ...

"In other words, the lack of security would have created an opportunity for extremists to move in ...

"In other words, in sending troops in, it is -- I recognize that this is more than a military mission ...

"In other words, this operation is just getting started ...

"In other words, part of the effort is not only to provide security to neighborhoods, but we're constantly training Iraqis so that they can do this job ...

"So, in other words, it's a combination of providing security in neighborhoods through these joint security stations, and training ...

"I'm always amazed at the men and women who wear our uniform. Last week, before I went down to Crawford -- for a snowy Easter, I might add -- I was in California at Fort Irwin. And I had a chance to visit with some who had just come back from Iraq and some who were going over to Iraq. And it just amazes me that these young men and women know the stakes. They understand what we're doing. And they have volunteered to serve.

"We're really a remarkable country and a remarkable military. And therefore we owe it to the families and to those who wear the uniform to make sure that this remarkable group of men and women are strongly supported -- strongly supported, by the way, during their time in uniform and then after their time in uniform through the Veterans Administration.

"I tried to put this war into a historical context for them. In other words, I told them that they're laying the foundation of peace. In other words, the work we're doing today really will yield peace for a generation to come."

-- Tim Grieve