August 23, 2ôô8
NAVIGATING THE FRINGE STREAM
- LISTING A BIT TO THE LEFT...
Minister of Rants - it‘s my bully pulpit - except with a lot more bull.
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Lately there has been an effort to stigmatize the word "retard" - to attach to it the same social taboo as the "N-word".
I don't think it will take so long to switch folks to substituting "fundamentalist" or "fundie" in many situations where they might usually have said, "retard".
BLOGGIN' FOR OBAMA-BIDEN
WHA'D'YA KNOW ABOUT JOE?
MICHELLE'S STORY
Argus Hamilton reports:
Vanity Fair found Barack Obama's long lost brother George Hussein Onyango Obama in Africa. He's now living in a hut on the outskirts of Nairobi on a dollar a month. He bet everything he had that Hillary Clinton would get the Democratic nomination.
John McCain's mother denied a report she once sued her son's first wife over heirlooms. There's more. John McCain's mom is fighting off other rumors long whispered among Republicans that she was more than just friends with John Wilkes Booth. 
John McCain's Tour of Homes
A lot of these old guys forget where they live...
Wonkette.com
Cindy McCain did NOT enter the Miss Buffalo Chip contest during Bike Week at Sturgiss, SD. Her husband DID perform the duties of WARM-UP MIDGET for Kid Rock…
WaPo-The Trail Blog By Robert Barnes
YORK, Pa., August 12, 2008: Sen. John McCain said he talked with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili... and told him he and his country have the support of Americans in their struggle for "freedom and independence.''
McCain said he told him "that I know I speak for every American when I say to him today, we are all Georgians.''
RANT, REV - RANT!
WTF?!? Isn't DUBYA still the Commander-In-Chief? Somebody PLEASE tell this batshit-crazy old unreconstructed cold warrior mother fucker that he does NOT speak for the majority of Americans who do NOT want to throw down against Russia after 70 years of relatively peaceful coexistence! 
Anthony J. Russo (71) Rand Corp. researcher in the late '60s who encouraged Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and stood trial with him in the Vietnam War-era case that triggered debates over freedom of the press and hastened the fall of President Richard M. Nixon. Ellsberg later became an antiwar icon and sought-after lecturer and author, but Russo was relegated to a few lines in history books. He had a heart attack in 2005 and died in his native Suffolk, Virginia on August 6, 2008.
Erik Darling (74) guitarist and banjo player who stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers. Darling was perhaps best known for his hit "Walk Right In" and for his arrangement of the Southern true-crime ballad "Tom Dooley," which inspired The Kingston Trio's recording of the song that topped the charts in 1958. He died of lymphoma in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on August 3, 2008.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (58) US congresswoman (D-Ohio), the first black woman elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio and a leader in the fight against predatory lending practices. Tubbs Jones was in her fifth term representing the 11th Congressional District, which includes most of the east side of Cleveland. She died one day after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm, in East Cleveland, Ohio on August 20, 2008. Life In Legacy
“Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to. - [Fleetwood Mac]
“You're dangerous cause your honest, you're dangerous cause you don't know what you want.” - [U2]
RANT, REV - RANT!
Progressive taxation is the only fair and equitable way to spread the co$t of gummint operations throughout the population. Yes, it's weighted to impact the wealthy more than the middle and low income citizens.
Progressive taxation takes into account not only the higher incomes of the rich - it allows for a settling-up for the increased impact they have on the nation's resources - higher usage of roads and other infrastructure, exploitation of natural resources that belong to ALL the citizens of a nation, etc. Progressive taxation is the best way to address the conundrum of equality of opportunity - an often overlooked underpinning of economic democracy.
I believe that a true and fair progressive taxation system may even negate the need for other, less effective gummint attempts to redress unequal opportunity, such as affirmative action.
I don't care if you call it Socialism or Marxism or Pantiewadism - if it restores fairness to the rat race, let it be!
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Welcome to our crib here in Metro Fairborn, Ohio - and The Stand-Up! What are your other two wishes?
We are very pleased to share with you an exceptional original music composition from the band “Sumo Water” right after this important message:
PLEASE - join Da Rev & Da Pagan Baby in contributing to an all out effort to eradicate a horrific malady brought to our attention by Feral Kuntz. I hope we can count on a check from everyone here this weekend for $500. or more for continuing research into Man's Short Liver …
Check out the buffet… We have glazed donuts – the building blocks of the universe!
I’ve read every word in every book in the Harry Potter series - and I don’t believe any of it!
In school, every period ends with a bell.
Every sentence ends with a period.
Every crime ends with a sentence.
If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress?
"Monosyllabic" has 5 syllables…
I watch our cat a lot. Sylvia’s 17 - yet she maintains the push-up position with so little effort…
Does anyone here know Morse code? I’ve always wondered – what runs through your mind when you’re watchin’ a tap dancer?
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Do you have to unbuckle your pants after eating? You know what you should do? Get new pants!
The last time Da Pagan Baby & I dined out with Jerry and Jeri, he ate so damn much he unbuckled MY PANTS!
Marilyn says she and her husband have separate bedrooms. They have hallway sex. Yeah - When they pass each other in the hallway they both say "FUCK YOU!"
She told me, “It's been so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom."
Marilyn made an anniversary card on the computer for her husband. The message was, “You brought Religion into my life. I never believed in Hell until I married you!”
TRIVIA QUESTION
BartCop Entertainment Page
Where was the world's first oil well drilled?
A: Bradford, PA
B: Oil City, PA
C: Rasselas, PA
D: Titusville, PA
E: Wilcox, PA
TRIVIA ANSWER below...
According to a government study, only one percent of Web sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit. So I guess that means no one is using the other 99% of the Internet. 
According to a new study, one in four women say they have negative thoughts about their body during sex. See, why do women worry about these kinds of things?
During sex most men are thinking about some other woman’s body anyway. Don’t worry about it. 
Did you hear about the new "morning after" pill for men?
It changes their blood type. 
Democrats promise the conservatives that we will never stick our noses in your bedrooms or your wombs, unless you're hiding untaxed money in either of those places.
I checked – and Madame Tussaud STILL hasn’t installed a figure of Da Rev in her Wax Museum. The bitch said, “Honey, there ain’t THAT MUCH wax in all the British Isles!”
TRIVIA ANSWER
Where was the world's first oil well drilled?
A: Bradford, PA
B: Oil City, PA
C: Rasselas, PA
D: Titusville, PA
E: Wilcox, PA 
By the way - I have never seen a barrel of oil - have you?
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