Cat Killing B@st*rd Rules Out Run for Presidency

ONCE again, the so-called Liberal Media (HA!) get the story wrong. On Wednesday, ABC picked up a story from Reuters announcing that former Senate Majority Leader Bill (pphhaaat-Uie!) Frist will not seek the Presidency in 2008 after all.

"In the Bible, God tells us for everything there is a season, and for me, for now, this season of being an elected official has come to a close. I do not intend to run for president in 2008," quoth the evil Dr. Frist.

The article went on to speculate about some of the reasons why First may have chosen to step from the spotlight.

Some hold him partly responsible for the "Thumpin" the Republicans took in the Midterm Elections this November.

Others, according to the article, thought it irresponsible of this doctor to make a diagnosis in the Terry Schiavo case based on an upclose and personal examination of...wait for it... a video tape. ("I'm not a medical patient, but I play one on TV.")

And, of course, the media mentions some fishy stock dealings that raised a few eyebrows.

But nowhere, NOWHERE does the so called mainstream media article mention the fact that, as a medical student, Senator Doctor Frist admitted adopting PET CATS from the local animal shelter and dissecting them in his apartment...2 FREAKING PAGES on ABC and not one mention of those poor, eviscerated little kitties.

Don't believe me? Look it up. http://www.upi.com/archive/view.php?archive=1&StoryID=20021231-071056-3546r

(By the way, did you know that John Douglas, who has worked as an FBI Profiler, is noted for his theory that serial killers exhibit what he calls "the homicidal triad" of early warning signs? These include: bed-wetting, fire setting, and cruelty to animals.

Kinda makes me think twice about letting this heart surgeon anywhere NEAR a knife...

But the damn Republicans chose to make this man their standard bearer...says a lot, huh?)

At any rate, Dr. Friendly was also quoted as saying that "In the short term, I will resume my regular medical mission trips as a doctor around the world to serve those in poverty, in famine, and in civil war".


Great. Lock Up your Cats. The former majority leader is coming to town.

Liberal Media MY BUTT!

Fluffy, Izzy and Buffy join me in condemning this gross oversight on behalf of the mainstream media.

Animal Crackers

Following the Thanksgiving break, I had a really difficult time getting back into the habit of writing my blog. What would I write about? The things I kept turning over in my mind seemed either done to death, or overly narcissistic, or simply comments on blogs which are commenting on other blogs which are focused on news articles which talk about blogs.

Then, today, like an answer to a prayer, came a RASH of really cool animal stories.

First, there is the Giant Fish, Dunkleosteus terrelli, which grew to over 30 feet long (longer than my house!) and packed one of the fiercest bites in history. However, like Moderate Republicans, the species is extinct, and so, while interesting, no longer relevant.

But that (gosh, I love hyperlinks) lead me to a story about Sea Lions Attacking people from California. It is postulated that these animals MAY have been driven insane by Toxic algae resulting from agricultural runoff and various other sources of pollution. What's funny to me is that, if you search the topic on Google news, most of the headlines are some variation on the following theme: Attacks by sea lions challenge animal's cute, cuddly image Sounds to me like the main stream media thinks that the big seals don't need pollution control, they need a better advertising agency.

(Actually, As I re-read this paragraph the phrase "Attacking People from California" jumps out at me and I think to myself: "Well duh! Of course they are attacking people from California, who the hell wouldn't?" But then, I'm East Coast born and bred.)

Last but not least, REALLY good news from Florida...several emus and some pets have been eaten. WHY is this good news? Because for the first time in a LONG time nobody is pointing a finger at the Alligator. Instead, the state's animal, the Florida Panther is being blamed. And that means that there are finaly enough panthers out there to start getting revenge on the Damn Yankees who have stolen their home state!

According to the Washington Post, 20 years ago, there were as few as 30 Florida Panthers in existence. Now, there are almost 100, according to some sources. Which still, according to www.naplesnews.com , leaves the Florida cat as "one of the most endangered [species] on the planet."

A few weeks ago, I posted about Katherine Harris, and named her as one of the reasons I REFUSED to return to my native land under any circumstances.

Well, here are OTHER reasons why just reading about my beloved home state gives me high blood pressure. At a South Florida forum, called to educate people about how to live with the Florida Panther, the following comments were heard:

"It's my property, not the panther's property," said Mildred Mercado of Golden Gate Estates. "I paid for it. They didn't pay for it."
One of the written questions that was read aloud referred to the Florida panther as a "government-sponsored lethal animal."

Instead, Floridians have expressed approval, in spades for a program of road widening and continued building which will leave, not a new subdivision, but a new TOWN in it's wake.

Now, I know that, just like the Republican Responce to fires a few years back, at least ONE of the Bush Brothers will weigh in with some terrific solution like....oh, I don't know, a tax rebate for every fifty thousand dollar Panther Coat purchased....but as for me....I'm about ready to send those so-called Floridians some seals!

Rip and Read Monday Report ( filed-late)

Good Day, and welcome to this week's edition of Rip and Read with Walter Wrenchall. This week: The Case of the First Purse.

Rip and Read apologizes for the Broken Link earlier today and invites our loyal visitors to Try It Nooow!


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Sources:
Allies Withdraw
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061128/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqmilitarybritain_061128005857

Snatched Purse
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/21/bush.purse/index.html

Bush Thanksgiving- A Blast from the (re)Past

Ah, Thanksgiving was yesterday, but my Turkey is in the oven today. Here's another blast from 2002, A George Bush Thanksgiving. You know what I'm thankful for? I'm thankful that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are going to help drown out this kind of crap for the next two years.



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Rip and Read Monday Report (late)

Good Day, and welcome to this week's edition of Rip and Read with Walter Wrenchall. This week: A New Plan for Peace.

Sorry the Monday Report is a little late this week...I've been having fun over at Vermont Daily Briefing producing a little political satire with Philip Baruth...check it out.



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Sources:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/
news/local/states/california/northern_california/16054846.htm

http://www.globalorgasm.org

The Gingerbread Nazis are here:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2668416

Smokey Resigns- A Blast from the Past.

Well, nothing much to post about today, so I figured I'd pull this one out from the archives. This one goes back to 2002 when President Bush declared a War on Fire.

From the LA Times:

KERNVILLE, Calif. -- As flames leaped across the West this summer, so did the hyperbole. If fires weren't devastating, they were horrific or catastrophic. Colorado's governor at one point declared his state ablaze. Television sets blared the peril to California's groves of giant sequoias.

In August, President Bush tramped through the charred landscape of a fire that had raged across southern Oregon and Northern California and declared the sight a "crying shame."

Of course, lest you think that the President was truly awash in grief, remember what the Republican response was.

From the LA Times again:

At the site of a 500,000 -- acre fire in southern Oregon, Bush lamented the consequences of "bad forest policy," and called for an emergency program to increase logging and thinning in federal forests.

Backed by the White House, legislation that would curtail legal challenges to future logging is now pending in Congress.

What's funny about this piece is that, if I'd known in 2002 what I know now, I might have had some other administration official out in the forest!

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Sources:
The LA Times article was origionally written on 10/27/02

I found it posted at:
http://www.saveamericasforests.org/congress/Fire/CalFireSciSayGood.htm

After the Party

Well, this is all Democratic Party crap this morning, so you can skip it unless you are REALLY interested. After all, the Democrats control Congress and can work more effectively against the President.

Still....

James Carvell seems to have flipped his lid or is working for someone who has flipped her lid. Perhaps this is all a "move" on their part... to get their claws on party leadership.
(See Green Mountain Daily for links, insights, and just to see the pure spleen of the blog-o-crats...I have to admit, Carvell as Gollum is perfect! Why should I visit Commandant Kos' site when I can get intelligent, and some times eerily spot on, uberliberalism right here in the mountains of home?)

But after ALL of the major Democratic Players worked to smooth party feathers after Carvell's post election day dirty-bomb, (Hell, even the Conservative Democratic Blog, New Donkey basically told the Ragin' Cajun to shut up) Carvell came out talking TRASH AGAIN.

Well, yesterday, the AP came out with an article about Dean's response. And yes, the Governor Whomped Butt.

Dean was undetured by the Washington criticism.
"We are going to do the 50-state strategy for the next 150 years so we can be the dominant party power in this country again," he said. "You can't be the powerful party in this country who controls the government unless you are willing to let the people control you. And the only way you can do that is ask everybody for their vote, understand everybody is our boss even if they vote for you or not."

Well, I have to admit, I can't always figure the Good Doctor...however, it's pretty clear that his strategy WORKS. It's also pretty clear that, in many ways, he has picked up on that fighting "never take it laying down" spirit that James Carvell did more than anyone else to infuse back into the Democrats after the Reagan Revolution.

So...I add my tiny little blogger voice to the cacophony of noise: James! Shut UP!

The Subversive Penguin Agenda

A day or two ago, our friends over at NYCStories posted a story entitled “Happy Feet, Happy Movie”. A glowing review of the new film, Happy Feet, relates the plot line and tells us:

Happy feet is the story of Mumble a penguin who isn't able to learn to sing his lovesong, and thus he is a misfit in Emperor Penguin society … If this all sounds a bit like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, it is. The difference, however, is in the twist on the story that speaks to the discussion of the old school religious ways vs. more youthful and liberal ways, including hints of the same sex marriage issue going on in society today. (Not to worry America, Mumble is straight and likes a girl.) Mumble is shamed and run out of town by the essentially fanatical religious penguins who make up the old guard and rely on blind faith to lead them out of the current crisis that the penguins are having with their food supply. When they see Mumble's differences, they blame the lack of fish on Mumble's dancing skills and chase him off.

NYCStories concludes their review with the following thought:

Happy Feet is a fun movie, and will do well. I am interested to see if the
religious right picks up on the barely hidden meaning in the movie, and if they
decide to protest what is really one of the cutest movies of the year.

Wow. A subversive PENGUIN movie? Who would have thunk? We were still reeling (and having a lot of fun with) this idea, when we opened up our news page this morning and found this item from the AP Wire:

Gay penguin book shakes up Ill. School

Holy Cow. It’s not a subversive Penguin movie, it’s a whole subversive Penguin MOVEMENT!

From the AP story:

SHILOH, Ill. - A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is
getting a chilly reception among some parents who worry about the book's
availability to children — and the reluctance of school administrators to
restrict access to it.

The payoff, however, comes a little further down the page when a disturbed mother (you can read that remark anyway you like!) recounts how she and her daughter discovered the book:

Lilly Del Pinto thought the book looked charming when her 5-year-old daughter
brought it home in September. Del Pinto said she was halfway through reading it
to her daughter "when the zookeeper said the two penguins must be in love."

"That's when I ended the story," she said.

You go lady. It’s a horrible conspiracy. I’ll be the French are behind it all.

As for us, we’ll be eating scrambled Penguin eggs for breakfast.

We had to destroy the embryo in order to save it.

Sources:
AP Story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_us/gay_penguins_book_flap_6

NYC Stories:
http://nycstories.blog-city.com/happy_feet_happy_movie.htm

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Another Post Election Gloat

At least one more bit of post-election gloating this week. In the Palm Beach Post we found this story which we relate in our own words:

It seems that, like General Custer, Katherine Harris, everyone's favorite vote shredding former Florida Secretary of State and U.S. Senate hopeful, had no inkling of defeat until the very end. Harris claimed that, despite loosing to Bill Nelson by 25% of the vote, it never occurred to her that she would be trounced. Having failed to follow through on her threat to spend as much as 10 million dollars of her own money to win the seat, (she, in fact, spent none), Harris complained that a lack of money and a liberal media kept her from getting her message across.

Still, she is quoted in the paper as saying she had no regrets. "I really believe that this was exactly where I was supposed to be and what I was supposed to do."

If she means loosing, then this blogger says: AMEN to that, sister. AMEN.

PS- If you really want a close look back at this hag (and want to know one reason why I don't return to my native state of Florida, despite my abiding love of Alligators, Oranges, and Scrub Land) read Harris's Bio on Wikipedia. Warning: it's as long as your arm with more twists than a corkscrew.