Monday, November 27, 2006

CRANKY IN THE MIDDLE - Issue 8

CRANKY IN THE MIDDLE: OBSERVATIONS FROM ST. JOHN, KANSAS
Volume 1 - Issue 8 - October 31, 2006

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE?
Once again the prez and Karl have done an amazing thing. They managed to get the five most popular conservative talk radio show gasbags to air a conflab to preach to the sheep. I don’t think much of talk radio, or talking on the radio in general, unless it‘s info I can use, like telling me about severe weather. Monotonous voices cause car accidents. When my radio is on, its got music playing, not some boring droid from the planet Nutyap chanting talking points over and over again like a Buddhist monk……………. ………………………………..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

DO YOU SMELL SOMETHING FUNNY?
In the new movie “Man of the Year”, Robin Williams’ character has a very good line. He says that, “politicians are like diapers, they should be changed often………for the same reason.”

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and this is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
--- Harry S. Truman

I THINK I’M GOING TO BE IL
What is it with this Kim Jong Il dude? He’s short, he’s chubby, has a bad haircut, wears Jackie-O sunglasses, shoe lifts and his wardrobe is an absolute disaster (he‘s only missing a pink feather boa and stiletto heels). Who does he think he is? Elvis? Liberace? Elton John? Take your pick, it’s multiple choice.
Sending Condi Rice to the region to deal with him is just beyond a bad idea, she’ll only end up entertaining him by playing show tunes on the piano.

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
--- Thomas Paine

KEANU AND SANDRA ARE NOT IN THIS VERSION OF SPEED
We’re coming up on the midterm elections. This year they are as important as a midterm election has ever possibly been in our entire history. This year we need to vote like our lives depend on it………….because they do.
We’re on a speeding bus, driven by people who don’t know how to drive, and it’s headed for a cliff. I’m getting off the bus.

A BRAIN IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE
No one seems to be more ignorant on more subjects than Rush Limbaugh………..unless it’s Ann Coulter. Rush seems to have this whole Parkinson’s thing figured out……that person’s with Parkinson’s are acting or not taking their medicine.
In a nutshell, Parkinson’s happens when specific cells in the brain that make a chemical called dopamine malfunction and die…hence no dopamine…hence no info to parts of the brain that control movement and coordination. Messages from the brain tell our bodies how and when to move are delivered more slowly, leaving a person unable to initiate and control movements.
The most common drug for this disease is Sinemet, but with increased dosing and prolonged use of the medicine the side effects are usually spontaneous, involuntary movements and periods when the medicine just starts or stops working. If patients do not take the medicine…….they simply do not move at all, they become immobile.
Rush knows a lot about Oxycontin (a narcotic) and Viagra (an ego booster), but I would have to see his MD, DO or RN license before he practices medicine or nursing and opens his big mouth again. In this day and age of the internet…there’s a ton of info to be found……..educate yourself Rush.

“The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.” --- Art Spander

I’M A CITIZEN, HOW ABOUT MY CONCERNS?
The Military Commissions Act of 2006. Need I say more? I probably do, because this little gem that was signed by the president on October 17th has been almost completely ignored by the press and is going to have a far reaching impact on what you say or do, and is mostly based on the premise that if the prez is in a PMS mood and you catch his attention and he doesn’t like it……..off you go to GitMo. Didn’t we invade a country three and half years ago to get rid of a guy who acted just like that?
I don’t think many people realize that this Act applies to US citizens as well as non US citizens, and how it moves us closer to being a totalitarian state all in the name of the war on “terra.” Do we send good men and women to die to give up our rights? Goodbye to habeas corpus, it’s been nice to know you, unless the supreme court knocks it in the dirt, and there’s a 50/50 chance that justice Kennedy will blindly go along with this, just because the dictator loving, traitorous congress passed this totally un-American piece of crap. Baby, if you’re not outraged …………….then you’re not paying attention!

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