Laugh at XO!! Go ahead! Yuck it up!

I don't know shit about cars. Don't really want to. I want to get in them and go. What goes on under the hood is a mystery.

Ask me about rockets, the history of space exploration, the big bang, evoloution, international politics, aerodynamics, astrophysics or the intellectual poverty of mankind as a whole (and conservatives in particular) and I will hold forth ad nauseum. I'll bore you fucking silly.

But ask me to change my own oil and I'll tell you to go fuck yourself.

A former friend of mine was a real motor-head. He'd work on his cars even if they didn't need anything done. He was always tinkering. Personally, I think it was just an excuse to get away from his fat-assed, hypochondriac wife and his idiot sons. I wouldn't blame him if it was. But I digress.

When his boys were young, he bought them a couple of those little battery operated cars so they could tool around the back yard and terrorize the dogs. He used to brag that he watched his oldest son drive around for a while, stop, open the hood, pretend to tinker, close the hood, then get in and drive around some more. He was SO proud! His son was growing up to be a bloody-knuckled, dirty-fingered, semi-literate, minimum waged Auto Mechanic! What father wouldn't be PROUD?

I always responded that if it were MY son, you'd see him drive around for a while, stop, pretend to make a call on his cell phone, pretend to write a check, then get in and drive around some more. Fuck a bunch of crawling under cars! That's for "Tool Users"! An evoloutionary step just above learning to bang rocks together.

All of this is an introduction to what happened this week. I was driving into work and just as I was getting ready to pull into the garage downtown, my Jeep (a 2000 Sahara) beeped at me! Impudent bastard! An Idiot Light said "Check The Gauages". So (being an Idiot) I did. Radiator gauge was just hitting the Red Zone. By the time I parked, it was PEGGED all the way to the right! WTF?!?

I start having panic attacks! Jeep was fine, now all of a sudden I'm fucked. My mind is racing with Worst Case Scenarios.

I wait till lunch time and then go take a look. The radiator and reservoir appear to be EMPTY! HOLY SHIT!!! So I call a dealership and ask for the service dept. They tell me that my Jeep will hold two gallons of water and antifreeze (50/50 mixture). I work downtown! There ain't no freaking gas stations downtown! At least not any that stock coolant. Crack, yes. Coolant, no.

So I call AAA. I explain the situation. They say they can either tow me (imagine a tow truck making it up six levels of a downtown parking garage and extracting me), or, they can bring me gasoline (I don't know much about cars, but I'm thinking that putting gas in the radiator just don't sound right).

A pregnant coworker (overhearing my predicament) suggests looking at OSCO at 10th & Main. She even tells me which aisle to look in. Sure enough...coolant! Saved by a pregnant woman!! I buy four gallons! Just in case!

At the end of the day I'm getting ready to go out and add the coolant just before heading for home. Hoping and praying that this is all I need. I'm freaking.

I email The Girlfriend for advice. She used to own a POS Lumina that required constant fluid replenishment. I asked her if, "in addition to filling up the radiator, do I need to fill up the reservoir too? Or does it fill itself?"

I knew there was some sort of suction-function that takes place in engines. I thought maybe it sucked coolant into the reservoir, thus filling itself. What the fuck do I know?

She laughed so hard she couldn't even respond to my email. She tried to leave me a voice mail but was laughing so hard I thought she was peeing her pants. Accused me of shaving my head just so no one would know I was really a BLONDE!

Bottom line is, all it takes is a pin-hole leak in my radiator to send me into a blind, idiotic panic attack.

Now, my girl friend knows it. You all know it. And you can all have a good guffaw at my expense.

What I won't do to entertain my readers!

My Girl Friends First Blog!

She is a much better writer than I am. More humor and introspection without all of the anger and bitterness!

Go check her out.

I love you baby!

Minnesota Karl vs. XO

OK. Some guy up in MN called me out for my last post and basically accused me of hating bicycle riders who use busy roads. I responded to him. You can read it if you want.

BUT, I want to make one final point here. And since this is my blog, that's what I'm gonna do.

I'm not just against bicycles on busy roads. That would be narrow minded and shallow of me. XO is much deeper and more complex than that. You can't put XO in a box! Don't try to label me!

I'm also against 18 wheelers that you can't see around and that take about 2 weeks to go from a dead stop to highway speeds.

I'm against those stupid little fucking four cylinder cars with loud exhaust pipes that make 'em sound like a cartoon squirrel farting.

I'm against bikers who like to rev their loud pipes just to be pricks.

I'm against stores that think they need to know you're fucking zip code just to ring up a sale.

I'm against those friendly fuckers at Quick Trip who want to be my best friend when all I want is a fucking Diet Coke and to be on my way without any needless, superfluous human interaction.

I'm against ANY missionary of ANY persuasion who comes knocking on my door uninvited. Their worst nightmare would be me actually opening the door and talking to them. I can do a very credible impersonation of a "baby eatin' Satanist" and giggle like a schoolgirl for days over the expression on their faces.

I'm against the war in Iraq, against the Republicans, the conservatives, the Neo-Cons, far-right religious fanatics, extremists of any kind and I'm against intolerance.

I absolutely cannot tolerate intolerance. It is abhorrent to me. If I had a bumper sticker on my gas guzzling SUV, it would say "DEATH TO ALL FANATICS". I'll wait just a second until you absorb the irony of that statement.

Hmmm, hmmm hmm............................

OK. Got it? Let's proceed.

What am I for, you ask? Well thank you for your interest! Let me tell you!

Kinky sex, small batch bourbon, good cigars, porn on the internet, and anything that makes my life easier and less stressfull no matter what the cost to the environment or future generations.

Oh, and lesbians. Love those lesbians!

I sincerely hope this clears up any confusion.

Have a nice fucking day. Or not. I really don't care. Just trying to be "polite".

Thanks for stopping by.

Bicycles vs. Cars

I own and occasionally ride a bicycle. Although I manage to do so without being a spandex-clad, cyborg-helmeted total fucking nerd. I make bike riding cool. Got an ashtray mounted on my handlebars, and a little tray that holds my smokes and a drink. Picture someone from the Vegas Rat Pack riding a bike. That's me.

My girlfriend also owns and rides a bicycle. She's even more bicycle friendly than I am. She looks HOT in spandex shorts! She's even ridden in the MS 150 (personally, I think it's fucking cruel to make people with MS ride on bikes for 150 miles, but to each their own. Ya know?)

Well, this morning, me and the girlfriend were headed up to Lowes so she could scope out some wallpaper borders and buy some paint. I live in Liberty and we were headed north on Southview Drive. Those of you familiar with the area may know that Southview runs parellel to 291. Between Southview and 291, is a bicycle trail.

In front of us, ON THE STREET, not 5 feet away from the designated bicycle path, was a guy on a bike!! We had to slow to a CRAWL and wait for traffic in the other lane to clear before we could pass his obnoxious ass!

Now, like I said. We are both sympathetic to bicycling. Not because we think it will change the world or save the fucking planet. It's just fun, good exercise and we enjoy it. But WHY THE FUCK should I have to yield a road meant for cars to some fucking asshole on a bicycle when there is a bicycle path damn near within arms reach of this inconsiderate asshole?

I felt like opening my door as we went by and clobbering the geeky sonofabitch!

Every year, when I renew my car tags, I have to pay taxes and fees for the upkeep of the roads that I drive on. Fair enough. I understand the logic. I drive the roads...I pay for the roads.

What about those inconsiderate, nerdy fucking assholes on bicycles?? Why IN THE FUCK should I have to slow to a crawl or swerve into an opposing lane of traffic and take the chance of a head on collision with another TAX AND FEE PAYING CAR OWNER just to avoid taking out a few tree-hugging "cyclists" decked out in gay-cyborg-superhero regalia?

I suggest that a new TAX is in order. If bicyclists want to use the public roads and highways built for and funded by automobile owners, they should pay a hefty INCONVENIENCE and DANGER TAX and display a License Tag on the back of their rediculously expensive mechanical conveyances proving that they have paid said tax and are thereby entitled to inconvenience and endanger everyone else.

Any cyclist without said tag displayed, is fair game.

In a future post, I plan to piss off REAL bikers (motorcyclists) who claim that "loud pipes save lives". Yet another bunch of inconsiderate assholes. My plan for them involves very thin, nearly invisible clothesline strung across residential streets at neck-level.

When you see my body floating down the Missouri River, please call The Authorities.

Private rocket's maiden liftoff a letdown

I knew this would happen. I could see the writing on the wall.

These guys were one of the X-Prize contestants who got their ass handed to them by Burt Rutan almost 2 years ago.

Since then, they have been doing nothing but talking big and postponing launches.

SpaceX will be a minor footnote in history. A glaring example of the wrong way to go about it.

Personally, my money (if I had any) is on t/Space, or Lunar Transportation Systems, or (best of all possible worlds) a joint venture between the two.

Yeah, some major, traditional, military-industrial contractor conglomorate will get NASA's CEV contract.

But it will be folks like t/Space or LTS that will "leap-frog" them into deep space.

Study Proves Conservatives Are Whiny Bitches

Conservatives constantly accuse Liberals of being Whiners. A new study proves just the opposite is true.

Lets look at the Top Ten things Conservatives are constantly whining about:

10: Laws. There are too many laws telling "Honest Business People" what they can and can't do. We need fewer laws!

9: Laws. There are too few laws governing what "American Citizens" can and can't do in the privacy of their bedrooms. We need more laws!

8: The concept of Checks and Balances. There are too many restrictions on Presidential Power. We elected Him, we trust Him. Let Him do whatever he wants!

7: The concept of Checks and Balances. We elected Congress. We trust Congress. Who the fuck does the Supreme Court think it is to second guess the Will Of The People?

6: The concept of a Supreme Court. We have a Constitution. It's all there in black and white...just like The Bible. Every word means exactly what it means. Two hundred years ago, two thousand years ago...what's the difference? Nothing ever changes. "Interpreters? We don't need no stinking "interpreters"!!

5: Freedom Of The Press. Who the Hell are the News Media to question Our Government? They should be reporting whatever the Hell we tell them is true. Not asking questions!!

4: Freedom Of Speech. Once The Government decides something is True (or at least has "thruthiness"), any dissent is TREASON!

3: The Right Of Privacy. If you ain't doin' nuthin' wrong, why the fuck do you need "privacy"? The Gov'munt should have the right to monitor your every move (in the sake of National Security). If you ain't no "terrorist", what are you afraid of?

2: Freedom FROM Religion. Like it or not, the Constitution does not dictate that Americans must be be Christians. They can believe whatever they want. Or not believe in anything. America is a DEMOCRACY, not a THEOCRACY.

1: And the number one thing that Conservatives whine about....drum roll....that someone, somewhere is getting more sex than they are. Really GOOD sex! Kinky sex! Shit their uptight fund-raising, socialite trophy-wives would never DREAM of giving THEM!

Tightassed, repressed, narrow-minded biatches. Throw off the shackles and live a little! Life isn't about how many pleasures you deny yourself. That's Hell. Life is about enjoying, experiencing and indulging! You can have all the "faith" you want. But none of us...NONE OF US absolutely KNOWS beyond any shadow of doubt what awaits us after death. All we know for sure is what we have here. So, make yourselves miserable if you want to. But some of us are going to choose to enjoy life while we have it. All we ask of you is that you leave us the fuck alone and we'll do the same for you.

Deal?

Deal!

Lazy Ass!

I had just finished firing off a couple of over due email responses.

With the weather forcast predicting heavy snow and such, I figured I better find out what was going on outside.

I looked at the blind-covered window not three feet away.

Instead of getting up off my big white flabby ass and taking a look out the window, I logged on to the local TV station web site to look at the radar loop!

And now, I'm blogging about it and STILL haven't looked out the window!

I had big plans for this spring! Gonna plant some stuff outside my dining room window that would attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Now I'm afraid I'll just download a screensaver that has butterfiles and hummingbirds on it instead of actually doing all of that digging and planting.

When I start downloading videos of people enjoying garden-fresh tomatos instead of eating my own garden-fresh tomatos? Please, just shoot me.

Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated Reporters

"They just came up and said they were with the media, and then they said they were with Fox. They just talked to us and asked us about rebuilding our house. Then, after everything was over with, they approached us and they were laughing, and they said: 'You know, we really weren't with Fox. We're government, Secret Service men.' "

So, I guess this means it's OK for members of the Media to impersonate Government Officials if it helps them get a good story?

For instance, I can put on my black suit and RayBans, frisk hot Republican MILFs, perform full body cavity searches (in the name of National Security), and then just chuckle and announce "I'm not really with the Secret Service! I'm a reporter for the Hip Suburban White Guy!"

Sounds like the exact same thing to me! Someone want to explain the difference?

Operation Spinner!

"Not a shot was fired, or a leader nabbed, in a major offensive that failed to live up to its advance billing."

VOTE REPUBLICAN!

STAY THE COURSE!

If you like seeing American men and women coming home in body bags to defend an administration that is based on lies, mis-direction, partisan-spin and absolute bullshit, then by all means...keep your eyes and ears closed and Vote Republican!

"You Can't Even Have Our Ball Sweat!"

Something about this story just bugs me. In a nutshell, the Imperial Irrigation District in Southern California is planning to line the All American Canal with concrete to prevent Mexico from getting the ground seepage of American water that has been irrigating Mexican farms and filling Mexican wells for 60 years.

This is just sooooo incredibly greedy and petty.

The self-sufficient Mexican farms and wells along the canal will dry up, forcing them to come across the border to get jobs in America picking the crops and cleaning the toilets that the diverted water will be used for. Now, we don't want any of them dying in the attempt to get here, so they are going to install ladders at 750 foot intervals along the canal. But if we catch them using the ladders, we're going to arrest them and send them back to Mexico.

Nice to see we have such a clear, consistent and well thought out strategy.

The one ray of hope in the article proving that not ALL Americans are greedy assholes was this:

The City Council of Calexico, Calif., voted in January to oppose the project. The symbolic gesture echoed the opinion of some Imperial Valley farmers.

"I'm a farmer and those guys are farmers," said Tom Brundy, 49, who sends his four children to a private Catholic school in Mexicali. "I'd hate to have it happen to me."

U.S. Debt Hits $9 TRILLION

$9 TRILLION

Is roughly four times Britain’s GDP

Equates to $1,500 for every man, woman and child in the world

Would buy all the tea in China. In fact it would buy all the tea in the world for the next 2,000 years.

Is enough to solve the Palestinian crisis by rehousing every Israeli and Palestinian family in a £1.5m detached house in Henley-on-Thames

Would build 28 Eiffel Towers — constructed out of gold.

France's Air Force To Get New Planes

Now if they can just do something about their wimpy ground troops, their whiny leaders and their hairy women.

Skanks in Johnson County

Just as certain as Death and Taxes is the inevitability that some bunch of government tightasses who "ain't gettin' any" are worrying themselves silly over the idea that someone, somewhere, is out having fun bumpin' uglies.

Prostitution exists for one simple reason...women who should be putting out are refusing to do so. Prostitution will never be eliminated by arresting the people involved. This is a simple case of supply and demand. If more women were giving it up for free, there would be no need for skanky hookers.

So, I say to all you JoCo women, "Do you want to see prostitution driven out of your community?" If the answer is yes, then you MUST do your part. Become a "low cost provider". Drive out the competition! Go blow a stranger! Do it today! Do it 10 times today!

Only then can you have a nice, healthy, wholesome, hooker-free environment in which to raise your spoiled little curtain climbers.

I TAKE IT ALL BACK!

Everything nice I said about KSHB's storm coverage!

That media-whore, self-congratulatory, circle-jerk that they aired tonight completely negated all of the good that they did last Sunday.

Enough is enough! Stop! Shut up!

Agggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More Republican Corruption Revealed

Is it just my imagination, or does she look like that Romulan Commander that seduced Captain Kirk in one of the original Star Trek episodes? Not that seducing Kirk took any real "skills". Fucking man-whore!

LEZAK! God of Thunder!

This has been a very stormy day in the KC area. The kind of day that makes non-midwesterners tremble with fear at the thought of living here. Huge, powerful thunderstorms capable of producing F3, F4 or even F5 (a.k.a. "The Finger Of God") tornados moving through the area, one after the other. We're talking Wizard of Oz shit here.

I watched several TV station's coverage of the storms and, once again, KSHB's Gary Lezak was the absolute best. KMBC's Bryan Busby seemed to be dueling for airtime with some blonde chick. KCMO's weather team didn't even seem to understand or be able to adequately explain their own radar technology. And, predictably, Fox4's weather team claimed that the "perception" of "bad weather" in the area was all due to "liberal media bias" and focused instead on the "good weather" outside the stormy areas and credited the Bush Administrations "Fair Weather Policy" as the source.

But Lezak rocked! I don't know what all those radars and software programs they have are, but it was like watching something from Star Wars. They can take a thunderstorm, "dissect" it, turn it on it's side, and see the vertical flow within the storm cell! They can do all kinds of cool shit! Plus, they can control it while standing in front of the green screen map with points of a finger and waves of their hands! Almost like "Minority Report".

OK, I know I sound like I'm KSHB's bitch or that I'm Gay For Gary. Not true! I was just really impressed by the technology they had, literally, at their fingertips and the accuracy of it. The weather was blowing (No Homo) through Liberty right on cue...just like their radar stuff was predicting.

True, Lezak is a Total Nerd. When he was a kid he probably had the shit beat out of him every day after school just for breathing other people's air. And I'm absolutely fed up with those fucking "weather dogs", Stormy and Wendy. The straw that broke the camel's back was when they started selling cute little stuffed toy "weather dogs" in the grocery stores. That is WAY over the top! STOP THAT SHIT IMMEDIATELY!

But that said, when I want accurate weather reports, KSHB is where I go.

FULL DISCLAIMER - CAVEAT - ANECDOTE: Back in late April, 1993 I was preparing to marry my second wife. Wedding date was May 1st (MAYDAY! MAYDAY! I should have known how THAT would end!). The weather was typically unpredictable. Our wedding reception was going to be outside, at a friend's house, up by the airport. Roasted Pig, Live Band, Kegs, the works. The weather reports were talking about the possibility of huge thunderstorms that weekend. The soon-to-be-wife-later-to-be-ex was freaking! We had no "Plan B". So I contacted Gary Lezak and told him of our situation. He actually volunteered to call my fiance at her work everyday in the last few days leading up to the wedding and give her personal, up to date forecasts just to ease her mind. The end result was that the reception went off without a hitch. From where we were, we could see thunderstorms all around us, on every horizon. But we remained storm free and it was a great fucking party! Lousy ass marriage that ended in disaster, but a great fucking party.

Draw, Emaw!

My Esteemed Colleague "Emaw_KC" over at Three O'Clock in the Morning "called me out" on my last post, thus FORCING me to respond lest my honor be sullied. So be it!

First of all, I never suggested that Iran would "destroy the earth in an impending nuclear holocaust". Nothing of the sort. I merely suggested that the probability of some sort of nuclear exchange between Iran and the US before King George leaves office is approaching inevitability. This may not be them attacking us and us unleashing an all out "Gates Of Hell" obliteration on them. They may instead simply nuke Isreal, forcing Isreal or the U.S. to respond. It probably wouldn't escalate past the two nukings before the world put a stop to it. But I think that's bad enough. Don't you?

Your next point ("the humanity on Earth will be destroyed sooner or later, and for extreme environmentalist Greenies like myself, the sooner the better. Then the earth can get on with being an innocent ball of mud and water making it's way through the universe in peace") I tend to agree with. I've always said, this would be a pretty nice little planet if it weren't for all the FUCKING PEOPLE. But then, I'm a guy whose bubble of "personal space" is a bit larger than most. My Rule Of Thumb is, if I can email you, YOU'RE STANDING TO FUCKING CLOSE! But that's just me.

Next you said "Although a simplistic world view might help some people get through the night, purely good or bad guys are rare". I agree! 100%. The problem is, this Administration views the world strictly in terms of good guys and bad guys! There is Us (Right-Wing, Republican, Evangelical, Conservatives), our Allies (people who do what we say), and anyone who doesn't fit into those categories are either "Evil Doers" or Terrorist Coddlers. There are no shades of gray. There is no room for differing points of view. It's not an environment where Honest People can agree to disagree. It's "Our Way or The Highway!".

Then you wrote "In the case of Iran's nuclear ambitions, I think a lot of the blame can be given to Europe". Again, I agree. In fact, one of their diplomats recently boasted of "fooling the Europeans". But once again, this can be traced back to our own behavior. We are the only remaining Super Power. The Soviets were a paper tiger, the Chinese are just beginning to strive for dominance. We are (for now) the 400 pound Gorilla. The Europeans (especially France and Germany) feel that it is their duty to fill the void and act as a counter-balance to our overwhelming influence. So the more we take the hardline, the more compelled they are to take a softer approach. It's the classic "good cop, bad cop" routine. They see us as the bad cop, they try to be the good cop. Problem is, the cops are working against each other instead of with each other. The more we insist that the world follow OUR lead and do things OUR way, the more the Europeans rebel and say "Come talk to us. We are more reasonable than those oafish, arrogant Americans".

If we weren't such arrogant fucking bastards, we would get a lot more cooperation from the Europeans (and the rest of the world) and they wouldn't be so opposed to our interests. We are more isolated, and have fewer international friends now than at anytime in our history. You can thank the Bush Administration for that. The world LOVED Bill Clinton. They fucking HATE George W. Bush.

As for your last admonishment that I should become "older and wiser", my response is mixed. I continually strive for "wiser", but the "older" part of that can go fuck itself! My birth certificate says I'm 50 (lying piece of shit propaganda fucking government paperwork), but I swear I'm only 27!

Iranian Nuke Crisis is Bush's Fault

The Iranians WILL have nukes. Make no mistake about it. Bush pretty much handed nuclear weapons to them on uranium plated platter.

There is NO FUCKING WAY that the Iranians would be this "uppity" if we weren't hopelessly bogged down and stretched to the limit in Iran and Afghanistan. They know there ain't a goddamn thing we can do to stop them.

They have us by the short and curlies and it's because Dubya dropped trou and invited them to grab a handful.

But this gets even scarier. There is an eerie similarity in the religious fervor of both Dubya and that chucklehead Ahmadinejad that almost guarantees a nuclear exchange will take place before W leaves office.

You see, Ahmadinejad believes that he is on a Divine Mission to speed the return of the "Hidden Imam", the Muslim "messiah".

"All streams of Islam believe in a divine saviour, known as the Mahdi, who will appear at the End of Days. A common rumour - denied by the government but widely believed - is that Mr Ahmadinejad and his cabinet have signed a "contract" pledging themselves to work for the return of the Mahdi and sent it to Jamkaran.....This is similar to the Christian vision of the Apocalypse. Indeed, the Hidden Imam is expected to return in the company of Jesus."

Bush, and the NeoCons, are adherents to the concept of Dominionism and believe that it is our moral duty to speed the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the father of NeoConservatism. See if any of this sounds familiar:

First: Strauss believed that a leader had to perpetually deceive the citizens he ruled.

Secondly: Those who lead must understand there is no morality, there is only the right of the superior to rule the inferior.

Thirdly: According to Drury, Religion “is the glue that holds society together.”[40] It is a handle by which the ruler can manipulate the masses. Any religion will do. Strauss is indifferent to them all.

Fourthly: “Secular society…is the worst possible thing,” because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, all of which encourage dissent and rebellion. As Drury sums it up: “You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty.”[41]

Fifthly: “Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat; and following Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then one has to be manufactured.”[42]

Sixthly: “In Strauss’s view, the trouble with liberal society is that it dispenses with noble lies and pious frauds. It tries to found society on secular rational foundations.”

I wish there was something funny about all of this, but there really isn't.

We are on a collision course with disaster and our (semi) elected leaders have their hands at 10 and 2 and the pedal to the metal.

As bad as things are, it's going to get worse.

Much worse.

Bush and Blair Screw The Pooch

"The Sunday Telegraph said the planned pull-out followed an acceptance by the two governments that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq was now a large obstacle to securing peace."

Well DUH!!

How many people with over 32 brain cells didn't see this coming years ago?

Like it ot not, the only thing that kept the ethnic and religious factions who were shoe-horned together by British cartographers after WWI were dictators like Saddam.

We came in and tore this country up! No real reason. We just wanted to. There were no WMD. No connection to 9/11. None!

Now, when things get tough, we are ready to say "Ya know, this is YOUR problem, not ours. Good luck! See ya at the U.N.!"

We went into Afghanistan after 9/11 because that was where the terrorist that attcked us were trained. That was a good call! Made sense.

But extending the war to Iraq was idiocy. Saddam had been effectively contained. He was no threat to anyone. He was an impotent despot fenced in by sanctions.

But that wasn't good enough for Dubya. He wanted REVENGE!

So he bullyed what Allies he could and did what he wanted to do despite the total and complete lack of any real justification.

Such is the arrogance of this Presidency.

Now, with Sunni and Shiite at each other's throats; with foreign insurrgents stoking the fires of unrest; the rebuilding of Iraq's shattered infrastructure safely in the hands of American contractors posied to make billion$; we are now ready to walk away from the mess we created and say "Good luck! Don't forget to write! Luv ya!"

Is it any wonder that the rest of the world hates us?

Personally, I don't blame them. I am embarassed by this administration. It will take a century to repair the damage that Dubya has done in just six years. Unfortunately, we have two more to go before the healing can begin.

I won't be surprised at all when, a few years from now, the U.N. is calling for a former President of The United States to be called before the International Court of Justice and charged with Crimes Against Humanity.

It's gonna happen. I guarantee it.

How proud will you Right-Wing, Fox-watchin', Limbaugh-listnin', anti-intellectual, pro-choice, home-schoolin', firearm-stockpilin', tobacco-chewin', book-banning, lawsuit-filing, pencil-necked pin-heads be when George W. Bush is sitting in the docket in The Haugue wearing translator headphones and that typically dazed look on his face wondering "Where's Karl? What's going on? I don't understand!"

Let it burn!! Who cares?

I heard this story this morning and my jaw thumped to the floor everytime I heard them say "Historic Downtown Overland Park".

Huh?? What?!?

First of all, I didn't even know Overland Park HAD a "downtown". I still seriously doubt it. If people from Johnson County like it, go there and feel safe there, then it ain't no "downtown".

Secondly, what the fuck can possibly be "historical" about a city with the word "Park" in it's name? What is their claim to "historical" status? Home of the first, all white, exclusive, gated golf club west of the Missouri River?

Now, Shawnee Mission is "historical" because they have a history of oppressing Native Americans and Christianizing them against their will and forcing them to speak only English. Much like the Bush Administration hopes to do with Muslims everywhere.

For the most part, all of Johnson County is just a sprawl of strip malls and housing additions where all of the houses look alike and are spaced about 3 feet apart, all of them filled with affluent, white morons who are incapable of any form of critical thought. That's why they listen to conservative talk radio...so they'll have something to parrot to their other white friends at work without having to actually think about anything.