MINISTER OF RANTS

HAS BOB WOODWARD STOPPED DRINKING THE NEOCON KOOLAID?!

In his latest book, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, slated to hit stores on Oct. 2, Watergate investigative journalist and Washington Post editor Bob Woodward says our troops are getting attacked by insurgents 900 TIMES A WEEK!! CBS News reports that this Sunday on 60 Minutes Woodward's interview with Mike Wallace will reveal:

Insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret. "It’s getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week. That's more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces," says Woodward.

Woodward also reports that the president and vice president often meet with Henry Kissinger, who was President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, as an adviser. Says Woodward, "Now what’s Kissinger’s advice? In Iraq, he declared very simply, ‘Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.'" Woodward adds. "This is so fascinating. Kissinger’s fighting the Vietnam War again because, in his view, the problem in Vietnam was we lost our will."

When Mr. Bush had key Republicans to the White House to discuss Iraq, he told them, "I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me."

 

PLEASE wake up Tony Snow & TELL HIM!
How will this situation be IMPROVED by EXTENDING TOURS OF DUTY?!

White House Press Whore Tony Snow says the NIE assessment that Iraq is fueling terrorist recruiting is not what he sees. Tony says al Quaeda's fallin' into disarray. Uh-mmm... What about all the OTHER Islamo-Fascist THUG Militias that have sworn to kill every last one of us stinking infidels? WHO is attacking and killing American troops every 15 minutes? Who is blowing up all the women and kids every day in Iraq. BUSHCO apologists also need a copy of Woodward's book. But, of course -  they don't want to be dissuaded from their litany of comfortable myths...

9/11 is Clinton's fault;

The Iraquagmire is Clinton's fault... and Sean Penn's fault... and all those seditious Retired Generals share the blame;

The US loss in Viet Nam is the New York Times' fault... and Walter Cronkite's fault... and Jane Fonda's...

WOULD JESUS TORTURE?...

CHECK OUT DA REV'S NEW POLL:

WOULD JESUS TORTURE?!

You Decide... The poll is in the far-right column.
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SKEPTICS' DIGEST – SEPTEMBER 2006 || CREATIONISM VS. SCIENCE REDUX: WHO'S RUNNING FOR YOUR STATE SCHOOL BOARD?!... RATIONALLY REMEMBERING 9/11... WALKIN' ON WATER MAY BE, ETC... AMAZING RANDI VS. SYLVIA BROWNE...

Formerly, the CORI Bulletin -
for Members of Central Ohioans
for Rational Inquiry

YOURS FOR BOLOGNA DETECTION SINCE 1996 

“What you think you know may not be so.”

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QUOTE / UNQUOTE

Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics. [Anon.] 

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. 
[J.G. Ballard, "News from the Sun," Myths of the Near Future, 1982]

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull.  It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all.  Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. 
[Henry Louis Mencken]

OPINION

Concerning, "Scientists fight to keep evolution in curriculum", Dayton Daily News,
Sunday, September 17.

To the Editor of the Dayton Daily News:

Any attempt to attach equivalency between "Intelligent Design" and Darwin's Theory of Evolution in public school science curriculums undermines the sound scientific principles that should be taught in a biology class. ID is not science. Its proponents don't do science. What they do is assume the literal truth of selected biblical passages and search for scientific writings that seem to reinforce their beliefs or provide loophole arguments against Natural Selection. 

Scientists, on the other hand, examine as much relevant information as possible. Then they draw the most likely conclusion compatible with the available data. Darwin’s theory of evolution is a masterful example of inference to the best explanation. It remains one of the best substantiated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology, geology, genetics and developmental biology.

Ideologically driven policy is almost by definition binding and static, capable of obstruction but not progress. As citizens and taxpayers, shouldn't we have some expectation of offering a globally competitive, objective education that emphasizes the development of critical thinking skills?

Respectfully, Rev. Art Hites, Fairborn

ARTICLES

HOPE FOR OHIO
National Center for Science Education

A newly formed coalition in Ohio - Help Ohio Public Education, is seeking to unseat a member of the board of education who was at the forefront of efforts to compromise the treatment of evolution in the state science standards. Speaking to the Columbus Dispatch August 12, 2006, HOPE’s chair, Lawrence M. Krauss of Case Western University, explained, “We hope to raise the profile of school-board elections … We’ve seen in Ohio and Kansas how significant these elections can be.” HOPE is targeting Deborah Owens-Fink, who represents the Seventh State Board District (encompassing Ashtabula, Portage, Summit, and Trumbull counties, including Ohio’s fifth largest city, Akron), and whose term of office expires at the end of 2006. Writing in the Cleveland Plain Dealer August 11, 2006 Krauss contended that Owens-Fink “has systematically worked to dilute and distort the teaching of science in the state.”

HOPE expects to recruit Tom Sawyer — a former teacher, mayor of Akron, and member of Congress — to challenge Owens-Fink in the November 2006 election. The Akron Beacon-Journal’s editorial August 17, 2006 was enthusiastic about the prospect of Sawyer’s campaign, and commenting on his supporters, “They grasp the critical need for a rigorous science curriculum, one that avoids detours into the realm of faith. In Tom Sawyer, they have a candidate who recognizes the difference this election can make.”

The Columbus Dispatch, August 17, 2006, threw its editorial weight behind HOPE, commenting, “HOPE deserves the attention of Ohio voters. The group’s members include some of the brightest minds in Ohio, people who are in a position to know the kind of scientific base students should have before they move onto college and out into the world, where their understanding of science will play a crucial role in keeping the nation economically competitive.”

VOLATILE SOCIAL DEBATE
ENTERS MICHIGAN GOVERNOR’S RACE
Intelligent design OK for science class, DeVos says
Detroit Free Press, September 21, 2006
By Chris Christoff and Lori Higgins – (Excerpt)

Republican candidate Dick DeVos said Michigan school districts should be allowed to teach intelligent design in science classes as a possible explanation of diverse life on Earth, injecting the national debate over evolution into the campaign.

"Lots of intelligent people can disagree about the origins of life. In the end, I believe in our system of local control," he said… "Local school boards should have the opportunity to offer evolution and intelligent design in their curriculums."

DeVos said exposing students to the concept of intelligent design -- viewed by most scientists as a nonscientific, religion-based belief -- would help them analyze competing theories.

Many educators and policymakers, including Gov. Jennifer Granholm, say they wouldn't object to discussing intelligent design in classes such as philosophy or comparative religion - but not in science classes.

MUDDLING SCIENCE AT PARKS AND MUSEUMS
National Center for Science Education

Challenges to evolution education occur in informal learning environments as well as the public schools, as “Muddling science at parks and museums,” published in the August 2006 issue of Geotimes, reiterates: “As reported in the December 2005 Geotimes, some parks and museums have stepped up to the task to make evolution understandable, so as not to be confused with religious beliefs such as ‘intelligent design,’ which holds that the complexity of life is evidence that something intelligent must have designed it, and ‘young-Earth creationism,’ which holds that God created Earth and life about 6,000 years ago. Despite these efforts, however, science museums and parks across the United States are facing the challenge of educating what remains a largely confused public.” Among the problems discussed is the controversy due to the continued sale in the official Grand Canyon National Park bookstores of a young-earth creationist book expounding the flood geology account of the Grand Canyon’s formation.

REMEMBERING 9/11
My last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the "National Day of Prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.
[Richard Dawkins, “A Devil’s Chaplain” (2004)]

PZ Myers recommends this as an entrance exam for the priesthood…

A (missionary) has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water. Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle. But he drowned after walking out to sea from a beach in the capital Libreville in Gabon, west Africa. One eyewitness said: "He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus. "He took his congregation to the beach saying he would walk across the Komo estuary, which takes 20 minutes by boat. "He walked into the water, which soon passed over his head and he never came back."

“Maybe it would have been more sensible to start with the water-and-wine trick, and later work up to the walking-on-water finale.” [PZ Myers]
(I dunno… I think turnin’ water into wine would have been over this guy’s head…) 
THOSE MERRY PRANKSTERS -
JESUS & MOSES

ANNOUNCEMENT: “This October 21st will mark the 92nd revolution of the Earth around the sun since Martin Gardner’s debut on the world stage,” reports Randi. 

FALLACIOUS ASSAULTS 

SYLVIA BROWNE (Her Official Website)

Sylvia Browne is the #1 New York Times best-selling author and world-famous psychic who appears regularly on the Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live, as well as making countless other media and public appearances. She is also the president of the Sylvia Browne Corporation, and founder of her church, the *Society of Novus Spiritus - which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2006… At three years old, Sylvia's psychic powers were revealed when she announced that her grandfather was dead (he was), and that she would have a baby sister in three years…

Chris Dufresne, son of Sylvia, is a highly respected psychic in his own right who works alongside his mother in the Northern California area… Chris is an authentic psychic from birth. Being Sylvia’s son he shares in her genetic predisposition to psychic excellence. Chris is the only other psychic recommended by Sylvia…

SYLVIA’S OWN CHURCH

*The end result of Sylvia's devotion to God, and her gift of prophecy, is Novus Spiritus. Combining His love, with direct revelation of His plan, creates a New Spirit and a new understanding about life. Is this new view of life true? Each individual must make that decision, for we always say: "Take what you like and leave the rest behind."

THE AMAZING RANDI REMAINS SKEPTICAL CONCERNING SYLVIA

Sylvia gives the victims the names of guardian angels that she “sees” watching over them, the names that they were formerly known by in previous incarnations – always as exotic princesses or fierce warlords – lucky numbers, and endless vague pap about diet items, medical advice, and time-consuming pop psychology – all of which eat up the $37.50-a-minute telephone conversation for which the victim has paid in advance via credit card.

Not familiar with Sylvia Browne’s “callous and cruel handling of the grief brought before her, aided and abetted by the very willing, shallow, and co-operative Montel Williams” (as described by The Amazing Randi)? Check out this revealing video...

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1959: THE DEATH OF ROCK... UNSUBSCRIBED: TEQUILA!

1959 - "THE YEAR THE MUSIC DIED?"...

The year 1958 saw a dramatic increase in rock and roll instrumental combos. The biggest selling instrumental of '57 was "Raunchy" by it's co-composer Bill Justis. By the end of 1959, there was "Sleep Walk" by Santo and Johnny, a string of hits by Johnny and the Hurricanes, ("Red River Rock") Dave "Baby" Cortez and "The Happy Organ", the legendary twanguitarist, Duane Eddy,  The Fireballs, a Tex-Mex group ("Torquay", "Bulldog", "Sugar Shack", "Bottle o' Wine"), the Virtues, the Wailers, Link Wray and His Ray Men (Rumble), the Royaltones, the Rock-A-Teens, Sandy Nelson ("Let There Be Drums", Cozy Cole (Topsy Part I & II), and Preston Epps.("Bongo Rock") - and, of course, in 1959, The Champs  hit with "Tequila"...

"GOD OF TWANG"

Every non-rock hit, such as Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song", was heralded by the "Big Band" die-hards as the next big trend in pop music - or, at least, a sign of the weakening of the market for rock, the commercial nemesis of not only jazz musicians, but pop crooners, country and bluegrass recording artists. Even rock afficianadoes wondered if the well had begun to run dry, as instrumentals displaced rock vocals on the charts.

There was ample cause for concern, as I recall. In 1959 I was 17 and exploring rockabilly & rhythm & blues with two or three other guys in my parent's basement. "Dino & The Detours" was born during this period of transition in the fledgling rock industry. I was Dino.

GENE VINCENT WAS THE FUTURE OF ROCK 'N' ROLL!

I wasn't the only one who wondered if there was some sort of conspiracy to kill rock 'n' roll. In the preceding years, 1954-'57, we had seen the outcry in the media by squares of our parents' generation who characterized our music as everything from "degenerate" to "jungle music". During the years 1958 through 1961, Chuck Willis O.D.'d; The Platters were arrested following an underage sex-sting in Cincinnati; Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash; Eddie Cochran died in a car wreck; Gene Vincent was crippled in a car crash; Elvis got drafted; Chuck Berry got busted for violatin' the Mann Act (transportin' an underage chick across state lines for  immoral purposes); and Little Richard hung up his rock 'n' roll shoes to become a Pentecostal preacher.

It didn't end there. later, Johnny Burnette died in a car wreck and Sam Cooke got blown away in a motel.

"ROCKIN' DICK"

The WORST thing that happened to our vital new music was the ascendance of  the vapid, insipid, wholesome, white-bread, all American DJ Dick Clark. 

"America's Oldest Teenager" established himself as the arbiter of what would be considered "hip" ("It's got a good beat, I give it a 9!") well into the mid-'60s and the advent of The British Invasion, along with the rise of the Stax-Volt and Atlantic Records Memphis Soul phenomenon.

Dick Clark not only owned and promoted his own stable of homogenized teen-oriented, bubble-gum artists, he controlled a large segment of the top-40 market, as airplay trends followed the records he "broke-out" on his influential American Band Stand TV dance hop. Clark was responsible more than anyone for the dominance of bland pop product leading up to the British Invasion.

"FRANKIE AVALON -  ONE OF CLARK'S  ADENOIDAL ADOLESCENTS

Dick Clark was implicated in the "Payola" shake-up that destroyed such seminal figures as Alan Freed - but the Dickster with the Brylcreem-slicked haircut and the sparkling Ipana toothpaste smile - managed to keep anything from sticking to him. But really - what - other than "pay-to-play" might account for the dominance on the charts of such mediocre talents as Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Freddie "Boom-Boom" Cannon, and no-talent simpleton "Fabian"?

Meanwhile, back in Detroit, Berry Gordy was layin' down tracks that would soon become part of the historical body of work known as the "Motown Sound". Rock hadn't died. It had been anesthetized during the years of Dick Clark's Top-40 hit hegemony.

UNSUBSCRIBED: "TEQUILA"

Danny Flores, who played tenor sax with The Champs and shouted the word "Tequila!" in the 1957 hit instrumental "Tequila!", has died. He was 77.

The Champs Original touring lineup with (l - r) Joe Burnas, Dave Burgess, Gene Alden, *Chuck Rio/Daniel Flores* and Dale Norris.

Danny Flores toured with various ensembles, never tiring of playing "Tequila" for 40 years. At the time "Tequila" was recorded, he was using the stage name "Chuck Rio"...

Photo: The Champs - minus Flores - in '59: Dash Crofts played drums. In this photo, the personnel, left to right: Dash Crofts, Bob Morris, Dave Burgess, Jimmy Seals on sax, Johnny Meeks.

The Champs were not a band   'til "Tequila" (the B-Side) hit big. They were a group of studio musicians pulled together by songwriter-lead guitarist Dave Burgess who recorded as Dave Dupree. The group faced personal changes through the years, including a brief membership by guitarist/vocalist Delaney Bramlett (later of Delaney and Bonnie), before disbanding in 1965. Some other ex-Champs, Glen Campbell (played rhythm guitar (not lead) on a few tracks in '59), Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts (AKA, The Jimmy Seals Orchestra). BTW, the label, Challenge Records, was owned by Gene Autry, who managed The Champs for their tenure with Challenge!

Seals & Croft played on Atlantic recordings with Dean Beard, a rockabilly piano player. I have an old 45 of Rakin' & A-scrapin' b/w I've Got You On My Mind Again - a decent R& B ballad I used to sing in clubs. Seals provided 100% enthusiasm and 75% technique on his sax playing, but only about 60% on tone on the Beard sides.

DEAN BEARD, 1936-1989
 

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PISS ON EVER’THIN’ –
T’DAY’S SATURDAY, September 23, 2006

"Metropolis" by George Grosz

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(Da Rev’s STAND-UP begins after the quotes…)

UNSUBSCRIBED:


Carmen - our  beloved Siamese kitty, apple-head, lilac points. 1994-2006. Cancer.

Danny Flores, who played the saxophone and shouted the word "Tequila!" in the 1957 hit song "Tequila!", has died. He was 77.


 

BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES This Weekend:

The late jazz tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, born in Hamlet, North Carolina (1926); Singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen, born in Freehold, New Jersey (1949); the late singer-pianist Ray Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia (1930).



QUOTE/UNQUOTE

“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.” [Neil Armstrong]

“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.” [Blaise Pascal]

“Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.” [Jeff Mallett]

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered:  entertainment, food, and affection.  It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection.  As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating.  Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.  [Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior]


WELL HOWDY, REV’LERS!

Happy Rosh Hashanah! [Judaism 101]

The proceeds from this week’s STAND-UP are going to a very worthy organization – the National Association of Tap Dancing Mongoloids…

Help yourselves to the buffet. Practice safe eating - always use condiments.



WOW! It’s been an exciting week here in Metro Fairborn. A widow who lives not far from here got herself a cloned version of her dead Rottweiler, Moby, after he passed on – a couple of years ago.  Well… this is disturbing…

Moby II turned on the old gal and did what he couldn’t do when the owner was younger and stronger and could defend herself. He gave her the humpin’ of her life! YES!!

THERE’S MORE!  Then Moby the cloned dog mutated… if that’s the right terminology… he changed into a Mynah bird and start spouting rapper Jay-Zee’s lyrics backwards! I’ll bet that never happened in Columbus! Daily Gut

Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.

Are there any questions?


Judy wants to know on what temperature the thermostat is set. It’s room temperature. It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's ALWAYS room temperature…

Don’t worry - my powers can only be used for good.

I hooked up the accelerator pedal in my pick-em-up to my brake lights. Oh, yeah! I hit the gas, and the cars behind me stop, and I'm GONE!

Some days misery no longer loves company; it puts itself out of its.

I used to go shoppin’ with my mom when they had big department stores downtown. She’d try on about 40 dresses while I put Slinkies on the escalators. Haven’t you done that? It’s not too late. There are still Slinkies and there are still escalators…

Y’ know… My Mum never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.


The guy across the street has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. And, wouldn’t y’ know – he had the misfortune to buy a home with a circular driveway. The poor bastard can’t get out…

My friend Frank died. He was a clown. All his friends came to the funeral in one car.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.



Yeah, I know… ugly people have trouble gettin’ laid. It seems we’re genetically predisposed to prefer lookin’ at attractive people - which is why I’ve placed so many mirrors throughout our home.



Women having lesbian sex are more likely to reach orgasm than those embarking on straight sex - according to a survey published this week in the Journal of Sex Research. Researchers found that 76 per cent of women who slept with another woman reached orgasm, compared to only 69 per cent who slept with men. BUT WAIT!

Aren’t there two women participating in each of the lesbian relationships and only one woman in each hetero relationship? Help me out here – from the information provided, I’d say the women getting’ shagged by men are havin’ more orgasms, proportionately. Am I right? 



You don't really appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things … like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman. Stuff you’ll pay good money for later in your life.

"WHO KILLED SUPERMAN?"

I was watchin’ a health update on CNN yesterday. There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many American men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling for an increasing number of men. OK. So – this is a problem?!

Jason insists he made a promise to his late mother not to engage in premarital sex. Jason – buddy - it isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married...



Is it just me – or do some of you have an acquired appreciation for the macabre beauty of some things – like… empty cell phone cases… resin… fist holes in sheetrock… a cage in a basement, woo-hoo!.. keys under grates… spent cartridges… Hugo Chavez's oil supply!?!  Daily Gut

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject. I MUST be OFF…



THIS JUST ___ IN!!

Wonkette: How’s former New   Jersey guv James McGreevey’s insane book publicity tour going? “He wasn’t a gay governor, he was a bad governor,” Democratic State Senator John Adler told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hold up, Mr. Adler. We’re POSITIVE Rick Perry’s already using that slogan.

"THE GOVERNOR?"

Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd’s website claims he’s the only congress person fluent in Spanish. Other Spanish-speaking members disagree. [The Hill] 

This week:  Senator Allen To Ban Himself From Own Country Club...
Senator Macaca was asked whether he was Jewish and freaked the fuck out!! Happy Rosh Hashanah, Senator Fershlugginer!

George W. Bush goes to Hell: "Welcome to Hell. What's your pleasure: Water boarding or white phosphorus?"  BartCop



Jake Novak's Humor Blog 
Male Sexuality
A new medical study shows that 10% of men who say they are straight admit to having sex with other men. In Washington, heterosexual men who sometimes agree to have gay sex are known as "lobbyists."

LETTERMAN: There’s a lot of tension in the world. Today Pope Benedict apologized to Muslims for statements he has made. Altar boys are still waiting for theirs.

Comedian Argus Hamilton:
President Bush addressed the United Nations Tuesday with two options clearly facing the United States. One path leads to endless chaos and destruction and the other path leads to retreat and humiliation. May we have the wisdom to choose wisely.



The Iranian President also spoke at the U.N. He was the one who could pronounce “nuclear”!

Iraq's prime minister was in Teheran Monday where he hugged Iran's president and declared their solidarity. The Iraqis and Iranians are forming an alliance. President Bush has finally fulfilled his promise of being a uniter and not a divider.

Colin Powell wrote a letter to John McCain last week saying it's wrong for the White House to try to change the interpretation of the Geneva Convention. He said it would undercut the moral basis of the War on Terror. Both men are torture victims themselves, John McCain by the North Vietnamese and Colin Powell by his conscience.

HERE’S SOMETHIN’ REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT!

BuzzFlash: "American Airlines almost diverted a flight over gay kiss! Their statement said their actions were justified because of 9-11. Yes, we must stop men from kissing there so we don't have to stop them from kissing here."


When being gay is an act of terrorism:
The situation escalated to the purser and even to the captain, both of whom threatened to - GET THIS! - divert the plane (to where? Fire Island?) if the men didn't fall into line…



Comedian Argus Hamilton:
Willie Nelson was ticketed in Louisiana Monday with a large quantity of hallucogenic mushrooms in his tour bus. The cops also found a pound and a half of marijuana – or, as Willie calls it – Brownie Mix.

Looks like Willie’s cuttin’ back in his old age!

The British and Irish governments held a summit last week to try to bridge the differences between Catholics and Protestants. They are doctrinally incompatible. Protestants believe in trying to accumulate consecutive days of sobriety by attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings while Catholics believe in daily confession.



WARNING! RATED PG-34!

Two old Jewish men are strolling down the street one day, when they happen to walk by a Catholic church. They see a big sign posted that says, “Convert to Catholicism and get $10.“ One of the Jewish men stops walking and stares at the sign. His friend turns to him and says, "Murray, what’s going on?”
“Abe,” replies "Murray, I’m thinking of doing it.”
Abe says, “What are you, crazy?”
Murray thinks for a minute and says, “Abe, I’m going to do it.”
With that, Murray strides purposefully into the church and comes out twenty minutes later with his head bowed.
“So,” asks Abe, “did you get your ten dollars?”
Murray looks up at him and says, “Is that all you people think about?”

 

After many years, a young Talmudic student who had left the old country for America returns to visit the family.
"But-- where is your beard?" asks his mother upon seeing him.
"Mama," he replies, "In America, nobody wears a beard."
"But at least you keep the Sabbat?" mama asks.
"Mama, business is business. In America, everybody works on the Sabbat."
"But kosher food you still eat?", asks Mama.
"Mama, in America, it is very difficult to keep kosher."
The old lady ponders this information and then leans over and whispers in his ear,
"Shmuel, tell me, are you still circumcised?"

ACTRESS EVA MENDEZ

As an El-Al plane landed at Ben Gurion airport in Israel, the voice of the Captain came on: "Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened until this plane is at a complete standstill and the seat belt signs have been turned off. We also wish to remind you that using cell phones on board this aircraft is strictly prohibited." 
"To those who are seated, we wish you a Merry Christmas, and hope that you enjoy your stay ... and to those of you standing in the aisles and talking on their cell phones, we wish you a Happy Chanukah, and welcome back home."



Two gentlemen are using the bathroom at Grand Central Station in New York. One gentleman says to the other, "Are you from Woodmere?"
The other gentleman exclaims, "Yeah, how did you know that?"
The first gentleman says, "Do you belong to Temple Beth El?"
The second gentleman exclaims, "Yeah, how did you know that?"
The first gentleman says, "Is Rabbi Kugelberg, the mohel, still there?"
The second gentleman exclaims "Yeah, how did you know that?"
The first gentleman answers, "Because he always cuts on a slant, and you're pissin' on my shoe!"

An older Jewish gentleman marries a younger lady and they are very much in love. However, no matter what the husband does sexually, the woman never achieves an orgasm. Since a Jewish wife is entitled to sexual pleasure, they decide to ask the rabbi.
The rabbi listens to their story, strokes his beard, and makes the following suggestion.. "Hire a strapping young man. While the two of you are making love, have the young man wave a towel over you. That will help the wife fantasize and should bring on an orgasm."
They go home and follow the rabbi's advice. They hire a handsome young man and he waves a towel over them as they make love. It doesn't help and she is still unsatisfied.
Perplexed, they go back to the rabbi. "Okay," says the rabbi to the husband, "let's try it reversed. Have the young man make love to your wife and you wave the towel over them."
Once again, they follow the rabbi's advice. The young man gets into bed with the wife and the husband waves the towel. The young man gets to work with great enthusiasm and the wife soon has an enormous, room-shaking, screaming orgasm. The husband smiles, looks at the young man and says to him triumphantly...
"You see, schmuck, THAT'S the way to wave a towel!"

ETHIOPIAN GIRL - 1930s

One Sabbath, at the end of the service, Rabbi Cohen announces to his Hendon congregation that he would not be renewing his contract and that he would be moving on to a larger synagogue in the West End for more money.  There is immediate silence. He is a popular Rabbi and most of the congregation (but not all - after all he's a Rabbi) are unhappy to hear this news.
Suddenly Moshe, who owns several very successful kosher restaurants, gets up and shouts out,  "If Rabbi Cohen agrees to stay with us, I'll provide him and his family with a free 3-course meal every day for the next 2 years."
Then Abe, a successful property tycoon, stands up and shouts, "If Rabbi Cohen stays, I'll not only increase his salary by 50% but I'll also guarantee the education of his two children."
Then Sadie, aged 75, stands up and shouts, "And if Rabbi Cohen stays, I'll promise him sex."
Rabbi Cohen, blushing, asks her, "Sadie, why on earth did you say that?!"
Sadie replies, "Because I've just asked my husband how we could help and he said, "FUCK HIM!"  

ARTIST: BODE

Good fortune. COMMENT!!
Please spread the meme. Don’t smoke in bed…

 

OK, WE'VE KICKED THE POPE; NOW WHO'LL SPEAK TO THE ISLAMO-FASCIST RABBLE-ROUSERS?!

THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD WEPT, "It's Hard  ...sniff...
To Be Loved By Fools!"

Thanks to The Blast

(Depicted in the French Mag,"Charlie Hebdo")

If Kemal Atatürk were alive t'day there'd be a fatwa issued ordering his murder...

"Can a civilised nation tolerate a crowd of people who let themselves be led by the nose by sheiks, dervishes and the like, and who entrust their faith and their lives to fortune-tellers, magicians, witch-doctors and amulet-makers?"  

[Kemal Atatürk,

Founder of the modern, democratic secular Turkish state]

(Introducing: Kamel AttaBoy)

THE POPE VS. THE AYATOLLAH - WHO'S THE BIGGEST CHARLATAN?

CHEESES! Pope Benny criticized the secularist "exclusion                                  of the divine from the universality of reason!"

I'm not aware of any atheists who have jumped up and down, screamed obscenities and threatened to execute the Pope and all who insult their naturalistic world-view.

Some things need to be said:

1) All religions, including the three that spring from the mythical Abraham, are made-up by men. For adherents to these monotheist cultural artifacts to have invested so much hate, wars and suffering in the name of the same god they all worship as the one and true, is as ridiculous as it is appalling.

Crusades and counter-crusades, massacres and The Holocaust don't help to make the case that the world is a better place for its religions, whether they're true or false. Preaching hatred toward Christians, Jews or Muslims, one or the other against one or the other, for reasons of heresy or apostasy, makes about as much sense as if the phrenologists threatened the astrologers and the fortune tellers predicted the demise of both...

The bishops of all the Christian sects, the rabbis ministering to the various Jewish sects and the imams leading the various Islamic sects are ALL CHARLATANS! Sure they are! No god ever revealed ANYTHING to any of the MEN who claimed he did. And for all their scholarly studies and pondering of select texts - I accuse them of conspiring to delude the masses. I'm convinced that Dobson and Falwell and Robertson know that what they're preachin' isn't worth a sack of untreated bull excrement. The reasons are many - from control of the masses to MONEY!

If people all over the world could just get a clue - if they all opted out of their theistic bonds - all those freakin' clerics would have to get REAL JOBS!

Oh, my...
 

 

 

P.O.E.T.S. - 091606 ||OUIJA BOARD BUFFET... SHOPPING @ THE BIG & FAT STORE... STAMPEDE ON A CAROUSEL... FISHIN' WITH SALVADOR DALI... POPE BENNY STEPS ON HIS D***... IRAQ + 9/11 = 0; HIILARY'S CAMPAIGN WAR CHEST... MADONNA IN SPACE (NOT)... ANN RICHARDS

P.O.E.T.S.! PISS ON EVER'THIN' -
T'DAY'S SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2006
Artist: Watashi
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UNSUBSCRIBED:
Governor ANN RICHARDS was inclusive... 

Writer Molly Ivins, who will be accompanying Da Rev & Da Pagan Baby on The Nation Seminar Carribean Cruise in December, recalls that she was standing nearby at a Democratic function in Texas when a prominent old-school Dem judge approached their group - which included a black legislator named Charley Myles and Ann Richards.
The ol' judge reached out and gingerly grasped one finger of Representative Myles's hand and said, "Howdy do, Boy - SAY, who is THIS lovely lady?"
Before Charley Myles could speak, Ann leaned forward and replied, "Howdy do, Judge, I'm MRS. Myles!"
Queen Anne brought more women and minorities into Texass gummint than any governor before OR since. The lady had class, a terrific sense of humor, a razor-sharp intellect to go along with her eloquent tongue and an affinity for poor and middle class folks who work for a living. And she rode a Harley!

THE NEXT BIG THING? BRANDED CONDOMS?!
BIRTHDAY SALUTES:

Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger) would be 92; B.B. King is 81; Lauren “Baby” Bacall is 82; Cassandra “Elvira, Mistress of the Night” Peterson is 55; Lance Armstrong is 34; Comedian Rita Rudner is 50;


Cute ‘n’ Country Connie Smith is 65…  (Shown with husband Marty Stuart & the late, great Ol' Waylon)

(The STAND-UP follows the Quotes)

"PIKASSO" -  It has Four necks. Two sound holes. 42 strings. Two access doors; one on the upper player's side and one at the tail block.
Created by luthier Linda Manzer for guitarist Pat Metheny, the instrument took 2 years to build (approximately 1000 hours), and when the 42 strings are strung up to high tension, the Pikasso is under approximately 1000 lbs pressure. It weighs 6.7 kg or 14 3/4 lbs.

(I THINK I NEED T’ USE A COUPLE O’ CAPOS, HERE…)

QUOTE/UNQUOTE

Everything flows, nothing stays. [Heraclitus]

“Freedom for the wolves means death for the sheep.”
[Isaiah Berlin]

“Do you realize that the only thing that gives democracy existence is sin? The absence of democracy is perfect obedience to god.”
[Robert T. Lee, Extremist Christian]


WELL HOWDY, REV’LERS!
Welcome to Metro Fairborn, Ohio – where any geographic elitists you see are just passin’ through…

I love blogging. This is the best gig I’ve ever had. Let me clarify that: blogging is the best gig I’ve ever had where I can work naked...
If I don’t write, nobody will know who I am!
(91 Ego Emissions Rating)
"Let's go milk the elk…"

By the way - while casual bidness attire is acceptable dress for the STAND-UP - shorts and halters are encouraged. No shirt, no shoes, no problem... Bras & Panties, Optional...

HAHAH! Jim wants to know, "How do you feel?"
Well, Jim - you know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs? Then you lean too far and you almost fall over - but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel pretty much like that all the time, Jim, but you knew that!

Normal? Around here? I think it’s a setting on the dryer…

Before I forget – I must announce that all proceeds from today’s STAND-UP are being sent to the “SHAVE THE CHILDREN FUND”!

Help yourselves to the regrettable buffet. There’s Meat Pie with Meat Crust. Oh, boy! Be sure to try Da Pagan Baby’s special recipe, Baked Peppers with Creamy Marshmallow Sauce. And Cousin Linda has graced our table with her notorious rendering of Tongue Mousse! And I call your attention to the small green dishes scattered about. They contain imported chocolate licorice cows (farm raised in small herds).

Bill's actin' as barman t'day. He passes along this cocktail recipe for a ".5"... The ingredients are:
6-parts Red Wine|2-parts Yogurt|2-parts Orange Juice|1-Cocktail Umbrella||Blend with crushed ice and pour into an Old Fashioned glass with ice cubes. (Hmm... OK. Needs vodka...)



URINE THE MOOD FOR LOVE!

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

What’s that, Charlie? Do I know what time it is? Usually, yes.

Can anybody answer this for me? I’m wond’rin’: "If I can melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?"

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

THE KLEAGLE WOUND UP IN AN URBAN E.R. IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA... (I don't like his chances...)

There’s a new restaurant here in Metro Fairborn. It’s set up like a big buffet in the shape of a Ouija board. You think about what kind of food you want, and the table moves across the floor to it. Being devout skeptics, Da Pagan Baby & think there’s gotta be a trick to it… somewhere…

The Daily Gut
We’ve ordered a set of 12 plates. We’ll save them to use once a year for a commemorative dinner for our close personal friend the Croc Hunter. We’d REALLY like a set o’ commemorative mugs featuring a Stingray and a Mercedes. …sigh…Lest we forget…

Da Pagan Baby & I threw a barbecue when Steve and his wife were visiting here in Fairborn just a couple of years ago... Steve swore Da Rev’s recipe for barbequed whole baby koala on a stick was the best he’s ever eaten and Steph just RAVED about the spicy baby wallaby skin served with Da Pagan Baby’s special-recipe dill dip. 

(Damn internet - all the good "Crikey" jokes are exhausted already…)

I went to the Big ‘n’ Fat Clothing Store the other day ‘cuz they were havin’ a sale. The salesman walked up to me and asked, "Can I help you?"
I replied, "Yeah, do you have anything I like?"
He said, "What do you mean - do we have anything you like?"
I said, "LOOK! YOU STARTED THIS!"

Video: Human Dominoes

When I was a kid, my parents didn’t get me an electric train like most of the other kids had. I got an electric subway instead. They explained, “You can't see anything here in the apartment – but your subway runs through tunnels in the basement.”
Early on, I figured out there was no basement - but every now and then I’d awaken to hear this rumbling noise under the floor of the closet where I slept...
After a while I compiled a subway schedule and posted it on the refrigerator…

I’ve been e-mailing back & forth with Bobby Brown. I knew his marriage with Whitney Houston was in trouble when I got this e-mail back in July: “Rev – My ol’ lady’s a ‘ho, but she won't fuck. Was’sup wit dat?”
I told him to let her go – for the good of the United States. Maybe the divorce’ll bring Osama outta his hidey hole!

CHEESES! Once when I was five years old I rode on a carousel in an amusement park in Dayton. The ride had galloping horses with their heads in the air, their mouths wide open. And there were the prancing horses with their heads inclined. They weren’t very exciting to look at, but I always chose one of the more dignified prancers because the teeth on the galloping steeds scared me.
I had been around on the merry-go-round once. The calliope was pumpin’ out a tune that seemed to urge the horses forward. All of a sudden a gunshot rang out, causing the to horses to stampede!
HOLY CRAP!! There I was gripping the reins with one hand, the tall chrome pole with the other – speeding down North Main Street on a runaway, prancing, purple wooden horse. Three motorcycle cops took up the chase, and finally I was rescued – by the third cop. The first two crashed when they became convulsed in uncontrollable laughter…

Oh. I should pass this along from Greg:
“HAVING SEX WITH A COWORKER IS FAR HEALTHIER THAN WITH SOMEONE YOU MET IN A BAR”.

Da Pagan Baby and I have our computers linked by a wireless connection. Wow! Isn’t that somethin’? I know it’s just a matter of time ‘til they invent a wireless extension cord…

Last year when we were in St. Petersburg, Florida, we stopped by the Salvador Dali Museum again. Dali’s works always reminds me of something.
Have I ever told you about the time I went fishing with Salvador Dali? He cautioned me, “Rev! There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot”.
Dali used a dotted line. He caught every other fish...
Which reminds me – an angry man can’t catch fish…

I MUST be OFF! Let’s hit that buffet again!!

THIS JUST ___ IN!!

According to an article in The Daily Mail (U.K.) the Vatican's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth who is Pope Benedict XVI's 'caster out of demons', said Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Joe Stalin were possessed by the Devil. He said, "We need to defend society from demons."
A comment @ the site asks, ”If the Devil can make a man like Stalin order the deaths of 20,000,000 people - why can't God stop him?”

Speakin' of Pope Benedict XVI - the former member of "Young NAZIs for JESUS" quoted from a little-known medieval text quoting a Byzantine emperor during a lecture at his old university at Regensburg, in Germany this week: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Pope Benny acknowledged the "startling brusqueness" of the remark – then expressed his amazement that Muslims might have taken it the wrong way…

From Jake Novak's Comedy Corner:
Islam vs. Benedict
Several Muslim leaders are expressing anger over a speech Pope Benedict XVI recently made that was critical of Islam. Arabs are mostly furious about the increased workload now that now they're going to have to start killing Jews AND Catholics.

Religion Survey
A new survey of religion in the U.S. finds people have very different images of God —from a wrathful deity thundering at sinful humanity to a distant power uninvolved in mankind's affairs... and then there are the people who believe in the Da Vinci Code. 

German Rabbis
Three men have been ordained as Rabbis in Germany for the first time since World War II. They will now go where they're needed most; to perform overflow high holiday services in synagogues on Long Island.

9/11 Anniversary
President Bush laid a wreath at Ground Zero Sunday, the site where the Twin Towers stood before they were destroyed by terrorists who considered New Yorkers to be "evil infidels." Then President Bush returned to the White House, where everyone from New York is considered to be an evil infidel.

"LALALA LALALA
I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU LALALA..."

BartCop
DUBYA - telling the truth to "Perky" on CBS:
"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." 

The Daily Show VIDEO:
President Bush uses Little Richard as translator

PERSONAL AD:
Senator. I made a speech equating gay sex with bigamy, polygamy and incest. Now I'd like to do some personal research into these practices.

Comedian Argus Hamilton:
President Bush will give a speech to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday. Everything should go about as expected. He'll deliver an eloquent call to arms against terrorism and a passionate defense of human liberty, and then the U.N. General Assembly will vote to EAT him.
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President Bush went to Congress Thursday to rally the Republican members and pump them up for November. He really wants to get the feel for Capitol Hill. If the Republicans don't win he's going to spend the next two years testifying up there.   

The New York Post reported that Senator Hillary Clinton's war chest now contains the astronomical sum of forty-seven million dollars. She still won't say if she is running for president. She might be trying to cure muscular dystrophy.

 

Hillary Clinton was profiled on ABC's Nightline the same day her Senate campaign war chest reached forty-seven million dollars. She needs every penny if she wants to win.
Her husband charges a hundred thousand dollars a speech!

HERE’S SOMETHIN’ REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT!

DA REV: Britney Spears had another baby. There’s a rumor Britney is suffering from post-partum depression. She’s disappointed that her baby isn’t getting as much media attention as the Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise baby. Look on the bright side, Britney – at least you got to have sex with the daddy!

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Katie Couric's Doc on Staff
The doctor who performed Katie Couric's famous on-air colonoscopy when she co-anchored The Today Show has been put on staff as a medical reporter for CBS News. Usually, the people who can take Katie’s crap are just made producers. 

Age in America
A new study shows Asian-American women living in Bergen County, New Jersey have the longest life expectancy in the nation. Oh the cruel twist of fate; you get to live a long time... but you have to do it in Jersey!

The Russian parliament turned down a proposal Wednesday to send Madonna into space. The pop star has expressed a desire to be a space tourist and Russia could use the twenty million dollars. The last time Madonna went around the world every ninety minutes she was dating Dennis Rodman. 

 

New York City hosted the Fall Fashion Show in lower Manhattan. The start of the show had to be delayed. Six of the supermodels slipped through the sidewalk grates and died after the bomb squad mistook them for suspicious envelopes.

Paris Hilton said the Hollywood police were very nice when they picked her up for drunk driving last week. She said they had her in and out of the police station in fifteen minutes. She felt really bad charging them, but they said they're not allowed to accept gratuities.

WARNING: RATED PG-34!

A survey concerning womens legs revealed that 10 percent of men preferred fat legs, 20 percent preferred thin legs - while the overwhelming majority preferred something in-between!

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Her clothes all tattered and torn.
It wasn't a spider that crept up beside her,
But Little Boy Blue and his horn. 

DOWN IN ALABAMA -
Where the miners shovel coal,
One miner shovelled it
Up another miner's hole,
They rushed him off to hospital
Where he breathed his last,
He died of constipation,
With a shovel up his ass.

An Alabamian and his gal were embracing passionately in the front seat of the car. "Want to go in the back seat?" she asked.
"No," he replied.
A few minutes later she asked, "NOW do you want to get in the back seat?"
"No," he said again, "I wanna stay here in the front seat with you."

(Bringin' one o' your students to the State Teachers' Convention  - probably NOT advisable...)

Two inebriated Alabamans are walking along a railroad track. One says, "Damn! These stairs are killin' me!"
The other says, "It's ain't the stairs that bothers me, it's them low handrails!"

WANTED: Elvira Barbie, with skimpy black gown and long, black hair...

Q. What do they put on the bottoms of Coke bottles in Alabama?
A. Please Open Other End.

Q.) What is the difference between *Love,
**True Love and
***a Show off ?
A.) *Spit.  **Swallow.
And ***Gargle.

A man was coming home from work one evening when he passed a tattoo studio. He then had a spontanous idea. He walked in and asked the man to tattoo " I LOVE YOU" on to his dick. After the few minutes of pain it was done.
When the man returened home the first thing he did was show his wife. She replied: "Darlin', why are you always trying to put words in my mouth?"

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WHY THE HELL NOT KINKY?!... HOW HARD COULD IT BE?!... (UPDATE: SEE COMMENTS)...

Current Texass Governor Rick Perry scored only 34% to Kinky Friedman's 44% in a recent poll by a Midland newspaper.

PLEASE check out the comments after the break.
UPDATE:

I have visited Stop Kinky and I urge readers to seriously examine what is posted there concerning candidate Kinky. I must say I find what is posted disturbing. I'm glad I don't have to vote in Texas this year.

I'm an original fan of Kinky & the Texas Jewboys from the '70s ("They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore") and I find his detective novels extremely entertaining. Kinky has seemed to be a breath of fresh air in the current political climate. I'll continue to follow the race with interest. I hope Kinky's flip-flops and flirtation with the wing-nut fringe are an example of inexperience in the political arena - reminiscent of Jesse Ventura's sometimes bizarre statements in Minnesota.

In particular, I urge potential Texas voters to consider ALL the available information. Voting always calls for critical thinking. Unfortunately, emotions and implicit assumptions often influence voting decisions, even the choice of political affiliation. Partisans may stubbornly discount any information that challenges their preexisting beliefs. Consequently, partisan candidates tend to play to the middle to attract the unaffiliated voters - and the status quo is seldom truly challenged. That's why a candidate such as Kinky Friedman who presents as a true independent occasionally arises to attract a following - especially when the public is eager for meaningful change.

Here's my original post: 

Perry, the Republican, and Carol Strayhorn, the Dem, have amassed huge war che$ts compared to Kinky's grassroots campaign - but the mood in Texass is anti-incumbent. I don't know why - but the well-funded Dem Strayhorn is polling at 17%. Kinky's straightforward, reformist, essentially libertarian platform seems to be catchin' fire with potential voters. He's got the majority of the 18-24 crowd. 

Kinky Friedman, singer-songwriter-novelist, and independent candidate for governor, is a secular Jew who is honest to a fault. He lived in a green trailer on his animal rescue "ranch" for years. (I don't know if that's still the case.) He claims he's "the oldest living Jew in Texas who doesn't own any real estate!" 

Kinky on the campaign trail, recently, exclaimed, "People are breaking our way!"

Reaching into his pocket, he grabbed a bandana and dabbed his sweaty brow. "The governor is hot!" he said.

He will say ONLY what he believes. Could this become a trend?! 

(Photo: Kinky; foreground, Cuddles)

IT COULD TURN OUT TO BE A TREND!

Truth in politics. What will we think of next?

But - Kinky wrote this log ago:

"You come to see what you want to see; you come to see, but you never come to know..."

What's it mean?  It means what the people think it means. I think it's a damn good explanation for the ascendance of Ronald RayGunZap and the gimlet-eyed weasel AKA Commander-In-Chief Bushbaby...  and Jimmy Carter... and Jesse The Body!  (UPDATE:  I no longer urge Texans to vote for OR against Kinky Friedman. I'm a Buckeye. I'll watch and wait and report...)

WHERE DOES THE KINKSTER STAND ON THE ISSUES?

For example, on gay marriage, Kinky says:

"Kinky supports gay marriage and equal rights for homosexuals. He believes that the constitution protects everyone. As he says, "I believe love is bigger than government. And besides, they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."

Kinky proposes several options that, if implemented, would bring new money into the education budget and improve the state of education in Texas:

* Legalizing casino gambling ("Slots for Tots") to bring in billions per year,

* Closing corporate loopholes so that the 10,000 Texas businesses that are not currently paying taxes will be charged,

* Increasing teacher salaries—currently $6,000 below the national average,

* Establishing a Trust for Texas Heroes program to increase the salaries of teachers, cops, and firefighters through a 1 percent tax on oil and gas produced in Texas

* Outsourcing sports funding to sports companies/retailers, and

* Stopping the practice of "teaching to the test." The TAKS shouldn't be the sole focus of education in Texas.

And more...

"The second amendment is every bit as important as the others. Texans have the right to keep and bear arms, as well as to hunt." 

AND - Kinky (says he) supports a woman's right to choose...

Kinky never played with any of the members of this '60s Texass band...
 

WAR ON TERROR? HAVE WE DECLARED WAR ON SOMEONE?!

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Congress hasn't declared a war on anyone!

On September 12, 2001, Congress should have passed a resolution declaring war on al Qaeda. Under the "one-war-at-a-time" doctrine, the US would have pursued al Qaeda to the last operative and the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden.

"War On Terror" is a rhetorical device - a metaphor that has served BUSHCO's purposes for mounting an invasion of one of the ONLY countries in the region that was NOT a clear and present danger to the US. 

A rational argument can be made that we should have punished or toppled the gummints of Syria and Iran for sponsoring ACTUAL terrorist activities counter to US interests. The US has the MORAL AUTHORITY to attack anyone who has attacked us overtly or covertly. We have the authority to attack these countries - which does NOT necessarily mean we have a MORAL IMPERATIVE for war.

I still view the incursion into Iraq as unnecessary and probably unwarranted. No matter how the administration has spun the reasons for invasion - I don't think they can cut the requirements for their incursion in 2003 to fit the "just war" concept...