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Chris Matthews Can Suck My Left Nut

As a matter fact... double suck.

Chris Matthews may be a Democrat... I don't know. Most adult liberals I know voted for AL Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008. I'm not sure I can look at Chris Matthew's record and say for sure that is how he voted... but that's his business... or is it?

Chris Matthews is fun to watch when he gets on a liberal rant, and he has had a few, but I can't get the taste out of my mouth (and I'm sure he can't either) of his prostrating before George Bush, Jr. I mean this grown man had a hard-on on Hardball on more than one occasion.

I'm a Democrat. I'm a liberal. I'm a grown up. I vote. I post to this blog. I give money to candidates. I read bills. I listen to debate. I hated the Bush, Jr./Cheney Administration. I was getting ready to move back to Pennsylvania and declare for the U.S. Senate if Chris Matthews decided to run.

There are a plenty of bad guys out there today Chris, enemies of Democratic Party, most of them are on TV and in the Republican Party. Some, obviously are Democrats themselves.

Iam not one of them nor are the net-roots or bloggers or progressive blogosphere or whatever you want to call us... (back-benchers, bitchers, children.)

Chris Matthews has been a recipient in the past of a ...Sucks Big Fat Elephant Dick headline for sucking up to the Republican Party... he has created a new category all together. Your stupid is starting to become unforgivable.

Saturday Musings: The 'protect the minority of the opulent against the majority' Edition

How does one teach a Civics class today? If you review the basics of American Government and then look at our government today, our system clearly has stopped working. In fact, it is harmful.

The House of Representatives is bad enough, but at least there is a pretty fair representation of the population.

The Senate is a whole other story. Who do they represent? Do the two Senators from California and the two Senators from Montana represent their constituents fairly?

Then, there is our Presidents. We elect and worship dumb men and we belittle the smart ones.

Something has got to give in these United States or we are not going to be a viable nation in the near future.

Our military is a bloated mess filled with undereducated working-poor. It is spread through with a cancer of contractors and secret CIA/Corporate raiders with totally different agendas then the soldiers that are fighting next to them.

Our financial system is a perpetual and legal date-rape system, organized to keep working Americans paying and dreaming and blind to the fact that they are poor and will never be millionaires.

Our public education system is Prep School for our prison system.

Our national media is a Praetorian Guard for our Corporate Puppeteers.

On that note… shove the health care reform up your ass.

Revolutions come from the ground up, when the people, the poor and tired and angry workers rebel and take the heads of the Heads of State… Revolutions usually have a few falls starts until their needs and strengths become overwhelming… this is going to be one hell of a century.

"fighting with shadows in the streets": American Media Fails In Its Coverage Of Iran

The American Media and its right wing enablers are having trouble reporting on Iran. They want Iran to be another bogeyman for Americans, but the people of Iran are fighting that same bogeyman.

The Iranians are taking to the streets like Americans never do. In fact, Iran's taking to the streets against Americans in 1979 effected politics in America to this day, ushering in Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr.

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, Republican John McCain was singing songs about bombing Iran, and then peace protests broke out in the streets of Iran. Wouldn't that have been a mess if Republicans has their way and bombed Iran?

So when you have the Republican Party and the right wing Media misreading and misleading Americans about Iran... you get more coverage of celebrity sex lives.

What the Iranians are using the on-line social networks for should humble Americans, who are sending pictures of their asses to each other.

The BBC has kept up with the latest events in Iran.

In the capital Tehran, police and militiamen used batons and teargas, and witnesses said there had been gunfire.

The protests, led by Iranian students, were over the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and suppression of academic freedom.

It appears to be the most widespread unrest in Iran for months.

Foreign journalists were banned from reporting on the rallies, and the Iranian authorities closed down mobile phone networks and severely restricted internet access.

Saturday Musings: 'The "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting" - Curtis LeMay' Edition

Pope Benedick-head V1,V1,V1 wants a “Leaner, Smaller, Purer Church.”.

Now all you abortion hating, ex-commie fighting Catholics in America, please don’t misunderstand his Holiness's message… from God…to Pope…to you… It is not about you or religion or sex.

It is about money and like every other country and corporation on the planet this century, The Vatican is going to turn its back on America and go after the dumb poor. America has become the smart poor. We don't give generously to a church that molests our children or we chose weekly groceries over the weekly donation envelope.

The Church is going to send the Holy Spirit into Central and South America and into Africa to convert the poor, the hungry, the mourners, to the one true faith… with donations accepted at services.

But remember, on Sunday, according to the Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine, it is now okay to throw a Nazi salute after blessing yourself.. SO it is forehead, heart, left shoulder, right shoulder, Hail Hitler!

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Why did President Obama double down with our young soldiers in Afghanistan?

If it is war, let the air force go at it for a couple of weeks to kill every living thing along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Then put a standing order that if one more terrorist attack happens on American soil, the capital cities of all Middle Eastern nations will be nuked.

Hold them all hostages for peace: Ankara, Beirut, Jerusalem, Riyadh, Sana, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Manama, Kuwait City, Baghdad, Damascus, Amman, Tehran, Ashgabat, Kabul, Islamabad, Dushanbe, Tashkent, Bishkek

If even one attack… they all go. So they are all in it together. Peace in our time.

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If the Republican Party is not blown out of the water in 2010 and then ended in 2012 then the American people might as well roll up the side walks and go home.

Watch TV for a ½ hour and listen to their side of the debate on any topic. You may not love the Democratic Leadership, but good lord, at least most of them have the middle class in mind and are not certifiably insane.

Let’s just take two extremes… Senators Vitter and Franken. Now who do you really want making decisions about your future, your children and your grand children?

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I have made my Holiday gift-giving Writer of Choice for Christmas 2009 decision: Somerset Maugham. So if you are a member of my ever expanding family, be prepared to be Anglicized this year. Cakes & Ale anyone?

Saturday Musings 'Too Much Time On My Hands' Edition

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Whenever the Crazy gets turned up too high for me to deal with, I re-read some Hunter S. Thompson to put my life in perspective. The man knew how to cope.

I work all the time and having four days off in a row over this Thanksgiving holiday has given me time to think... which means it has given me time to worry...My thoughts on the week that just passed.

We have terrorists blowing up trains in Russia.

We have non-terrorists killing soldiers in America.

Tiger Woods wife is taking a golf club to his head.

Glenn Beck is on my TV, my radio and my computer every day. Even the progressive blogs feature every utterance of that man.

Sarah Palin is back and bigger than ever. She even has a porn-side show with her little hockey player.

Oprah is quitting.

Joss Wedon’s new show was canceled.

The dollar is falling.

CHASE bank keeps chasing me around like a fucking PAC MAN eating my banks as fast as I can open a new checking account. Don’t you guys get it. I do not want a CHASE account!

I thought I voted in a liberal President, hell, he was even half black! But instead I get a Republican who happens to not be a neo-con. Is that the best I can expect from the Democratic Party?

I didn’t do any shopping on Black Friday.

I recycle.

I have two fucking 15 year old cats.

I donate to KPFK.

I don’t eat as much red-meat as I want used to.

I grow my own fucking tomatoes.

I fly three thousand miles to see my mother at Christmas and the holiday costs me about $1,500 each year. I've already got the tickets and they cost over $1,200... so I'll be over my limit by 12/24/09.

I buy expensive health care through my job and I can only get one pair of glasses per year.

I don't understand Obamacare.

I’ve had the same three Netflix movies sitting on my TV for two months.

Everyone is getting Frank Sinatra's A Man Alone for Christmas.

I’ve read fewer books this year than anytime since I was 6 years old...

It was at this point I decided to find Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

Two For The Price Of One: Lee Harvey Oswald Shot By Jack Ruby and President Johnson Declares War On Vietnam -11/24/1963

Live, right on your TV. In your living room. Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby... no need for a trial now.

On November 24, 1963 new president Lyndon Johnson stated his intention to "win the war" in a meeting with his advisors, including Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Johnson stated: " the battle against communism… must be joined… with strength and determination. We should stop playing cops and robbers [a reference to Diem's failed leadership] and get back to... winning the war... tell the generals in Saigon that Lyndon Johnson intends to stand by our word...[to] win the contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy." (p.339 Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam") Almost immediately upon assuming the presidency Johnson commits the USA to war in Vietnam.

Saturday Musings: 'Does President Obama Like Chinese Food?' Edition

A bunch of old rich white men, and maybe a few women, but they probably won’t speak, are debating whether or not to debate the future of American health care. This ought to be a real treat.

The United States Senate… what a pack of losers, bought, sold and scared. Not scared of their constituents, but of the lobbyist and the media. Whatever they come up with, I probably don’t want, because it is not in my interests they meet today.

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I heard that President Obama visited China last week. I saw it on the BBC. I tried to find some wall-to-wall coverage of the President abroad, but American TV didn’t  cover it. I wonder what the President and those 2 billion Chinese talked about?

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I wish the progressive blogs would write more posts featuring progressive people and less time on what conservative and crazy-right pundits had to say. I really don’t need a re-cap of what Glenn Beck said every day. I don’t watch him for a reason. I don’t want to hear what he has to say. A strange cycle some blogs have found themselves in… recapping the stupid.

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I have a good idea for health care… Medicare… and extend it to every U.S. citizen. How do we pay for it? Let’s try not fighting a foreign war for maybe like a decade and see how much money we save… or maybe only just fight one, you know, to keep us in shape.

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Can you imagine if President Obama announced the end of military activities in Afghanistan, effective immediately. And then he puts the 9/11 left-over terrorists on trial  in Manhattan and kind of just wraps up the Bush, Jr/Cheney era war on terror… you know, starts his own version of peace and security instead of trying to prop up what previous administrations have done…and starting in 2010 we have the Obama Doctrine. I wonder what that would look like.

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My television is dying. I have the last fat, really heavy, tube TV in the United  States. Last night it started to fade to black and then slowly fade back up to picture again. I thought it was just the movie I was watching, some strange film editing trick, but then the picture would turn purple and only fill half the screen, then bounce back. I guess it’s time to go flat screen, LCD, LED, HD and all that. I don’t watch any weekly series. I don’t have TIVO... I wonder if I can get by with just my computer.

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I broke my two month on-line book buying fast. I bought a birthday present that had to be shipped across the country. I bought my nephew Philip Caputo’s The Voyage.

Edward Woodward Has Died

At age 79, the British actor Edward Woodward has died.

Here is a scene from Breaker Morant Here is a promo for The Equalizer

Saturday Musings 'Republicans On My TV' Edition

Why are there Republicans? Because of television, I guess.

If people vote their conscience, their pocket book, their health care, their safety… Democrats would be a super majority.

The few folks that vote their prejudices would pull the Republican lever in the voting booth, but that does not send anyone to Washington or a State House.

It must be that the television lies to us… and we watch it and trust it too much.

I wish I could answer the TV back.

But that wish would be un-American.

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I did like the image of President Obama visiting Arlington cemetery and seeming to be taking his own council over the idea of perpetual war. I guess we'll see.

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According to PBS and Elizabeth Warren, the Credit Card companies are going to be sending hit men out to get us all before the February 2010 regulations kick in... so don't answer your phone.

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I chose not to purchase any on line music or books in October or November and I think I am tanking the economy. I am panicking the on line stores and getting flooded with incredible bonus emails... just in time for holiday shopping. Now that is gaming the market. I even went so far as to go into a book store on the way home from work one night... and pay cash.

TV Writer David Lloyd Dies ("We laugh at Death because Death has the Last Laugh on Us." )

One of the great TV writers of all time has passed away. David Lloyd has written some of what are considered everyone's favorite sitcom episodes. His credits are momentous: "Mary Tyler Moore", "Frasier", "The Bob Newhart Show",  "Cheers",  "Wings", and "Taxi."

Here is an obituary from Ken Levine, a collaborator.

And here is a scene from The Mary Tyler Moore episode Chuckles Bites The Dust.