Rush Limbaugh looks like the dead bloated hooker floating face-down in my pool

Let's start with the hooker...the bitch was gonna open her mouth and she got what was coming to her. Plus, hookers aren't really people unless they get romanced by Richard Gere. Wait...does that make the gerbil a person...?

Anyway...

The 5 of you who actually read my claptrap may have been noticed that I've been a tad lax in my blogging duties as of late, but I have an excuse…two of them really. First, my only colleague in my office that wasn't my boss retired at the end of September. Of course, my company, just fresh out of chapter 11, decided it would be best not to try and replace her, and rather added to my daily requirements an additional 40% of work. Can I handle it? Probably, but I have lost any breathing room and free time that I used to have. In addition, I've started taking Networking and computer classes every evening, so the last 3 days, I've left home at 7:30am and not gotten home until after 10pm. I'm pretty tired.

Now onto the meat of the blog…heh heh…meat. Rush Limbaugh isn't one of my heroes. Quite the opposite, really. I grew up listening to the so-called EIB(Excellence In Broadcasting) network, and thought the guy was a huge windbag with the most distorted opinions I'd ever heard. He's had his moments of glory smearing the liberal/democrat faction, and sometimes, as much as loathe as I am to admit it, he made some valid points.

Now he's officially gone too far. He messed with Alex P Keaton, Marty McFly, and Mike Flannery. For those of you who live in a pop culture-impervious bubble, these are all characters by Michael J Fox. Fox, as you may know retired from acting a couple years ago after almost a decade of trying to hide his fight with Parkinson's disease. He now spends all his time trying to find a cure for his debilitating disease. Whether raising money for his foundation, or lobbying congress to increase the scope of stem cell research, he works tirelessly to forward the cause of Parkinson's research.

Recently, Fox has been campaigning for Democratic candidates who support the stem cell amendments that Fox and Parkinson's sufferers all over have wished for. Limbaugh used this news as an opportunity to pretty much call Fox a faker. He cited Fox's acting ability and claimed in no uncertain terms that Fox was playing up the disease and purposely not taking his medication to get more sympathy. Now, this is infuriating on a couple levels. First, Fox has said on a number of occasions that he needs to regulate his medication differently if he is going to be speaking in public because, on the medication, he is completely unable to communicate properly. Now, while it is true that being off the medications brings the symptoms to more prominent light, there is the trade off that he is able to SPEAK coherently.

Also, so what if it does elicit some sympathy and compassion? Fox is using his celebrity to change minds and make people think about who they want to put in the positions that make decisions for all of us. Limbaugh thinks this is a ploy to curry favor with the democrats and undecided voters. Again, I say so what? Conservatives like Limbaugh are the same people that propped up Terri Schiavo and tried to use her for political gain. Don't get me wrong…I don't like the idea of comparing Schiavo and Fox, because I'm optimistic about Parkinson's being cured before it's too late. Compassion is, I believe, one of the main things missing from the Conservative platform.

Note: There were reports on Fox News that Limbaugh had issued an apology to Michael J. Fox, and as of right now, that is just not true. Limbaugh, as usual, is pretending that he is above following the same rules as everyone else in the civilized world.

Also, this is going to start my series of getting everyone I know to vote, preferably Democratic, but as long as you vote, you're taking part in this very important process!!!  If this country is going to survive and thrive as the wonderful place it is, you have to make your voice heard.  If you think that it doesn't matter, you couldn't be more wrong!  Please get out and vote and maybe these asshats will get replaced with people who will make sure this administration gets held accountable for their actions.

Currently listening: Start Static By Sugarcult Release date: 06 December, 2005

A blog two weeks in the making

Not that I've been working on this blog for that long, but it seems that everytime I sit down to blog, I get distracted by something that is deemed more important at the time...stuff like work, and sleep.  In retrospect, they seem trivial.

Dennis "Large Mouth Bass" Hastert is still a congressman.  When it came out that he was made aware of Foley's indiscretions more than a year ago, I thought he would fold like a card table and resign.  The fact that he hasn't shows just how drunk with power the republicans are.  They have not been held accountable for their failures in such a long time that they have a sense of entitlement. 

Another example

 Recently indicted Rep. Bob Ney waited until after he had entered a guilty plea to corruption charges to resign his seat in congress.  Ney had been indicted for participating in Jack Abramoff's dirty deeds. 
Among all the horrible things going on in Iraq and our own Congress, the Karl Rove Propaganda Machine kicked into high production mode, sending UN ambassador and hothead John Bolton and Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice out to the Sunday morning shows to gloss over those topics and highlight the necessity for China to join the world in its sanctions on North Korea.  Now, this is an important news story, and is important on the world stage, but in less than a month, this country will hold elections which could swing congress back toward the democrats, and stories dealing with the travesties in Iraq and the whole Mark Foley debacle, could further destabilize the thin ice on which the Republicans are currently teetering.

Currently listening: Dream to Make Believe By Armor for Sleep Release date: 10 February, 2005

The Mark Foley Debacle...and ensuing fallout

It's safe to say that speaking inappropriately online with minors is an actionable offense.  I mean, by now, we've all seen at least one episode of perverted justice in 48 hours, with Chris Hanson.  If not, check it out..it will blow your mind.
What Foley did was unconscionable and I'm glad to see that he resigned.  What is more disturbing at this point, other than the fact that ABC news actually read some of these IM exchanges on the air, is that there are reports that the Republican leadership knew about these lascivious exchanges were going on, but did nothing about it.  In particular, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is coming under fire, as he was supposedly made aware of these cyberspace liaisons almost a year ago.  Some are even going so far as to ask for his resignation for the coverup.
Over the weekend, Newt "Where have you been hiding that pasty white ass" Gingrich was interviewed and he said that Republican leadership probably kept it quiet so they wouldn't be accused of Gay bashing.  Um...hold on a sec....I have to go...WHAT!!!??
Gay bashing?  and Pedophilia....?  I don't know guys.  As Jon Stewart said last night on the Daily show...(paraphrased)  Comparing homosexuals with pedophiles...that wouldn't be gay bashing right there, would it? 
Of course, those on the right who have the GOP's back on any and everything, are blaming the Democrats...I've yet to see how it can possibly be the fault of the Democrats that a Republican Congressman flirted with underaged boys, and it as covered up by HIS OWN PARTY!!!

Oh, and I'm not going to even do more than mention that Foley was the chair of the committee on exploited children
Can someone just give me the dimensions of that handbasket we're in, and whether it's insulated...I need to know what I need to pack for our trip down into the pit of hell