Scary stuff. Keep listening to hear the part about “Wamp of Chattanooga.”
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And here is yet another hodgepodge from the past week…
• Bottled water. How do you feel about it? Ripped off? Misled? You should. We got some stainless water bottles earlier this year and they are wonderful — the openings are big enough to add ice, there are no BPAs in the water we drink, there is no waste for the landfill, and they fit in the bike drink holders. We took them with us on our road trip last month and had no trouble refilling them with ice and cold water at gas stations along the way, and, thanks to our cozies and the added ice, it was so nice to have water that stayed cold for hours after a rest stop.
• This may come as a shock to some, but not all low-income housing has to be ugly.
• This remembrance from Pam Spaulding (apparently my brother’s classmate at Stuyvesant!) is the best post I’ve seen since Frank McCourt died last week.
• I admit that I haven’t been consuming much media lately (comcast recently cut us down to just a few worthless channels), but I’m still surprised that since the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. story broke, I haven’t heard a single person mention the movie Amos and Andrew.
• On health care: we could be doing a LOT better than we are — certainly better than BCBS is doing (which is maybe the RNC chair’s insurance company — he’s not sure, but he’s still trying to kill any chance at reform). Why are some of our representatives dragging their feet? Other systems work. Lewis Black shares some thoughts. And so does Bill Maher (best one ever?).
• I’ve said it before many, many times, but it bears repeating over and over and over again: the only thing abstinence-only education produces is really freakin’ stupid teenagers.
• For the record: calorie labeling is a positive thing. As with many things (including sex — see above), ignorance can be toxic.
• Here’s a shocker: the C-Street Cult (oh, Zach!) story shows no sign of slowing down! Why is disgraced Senator Ensign giving Zach Wamp money? Apparently, it’s a secret! Unfortunately, in other marriage defender/marriage non-honorer news (AKA republican sexual hypocrites), Tennessee still picks the winners.
• Jimmy Carter is challenging the Southern Baptist Convention’s sexism — but is he making any sense?
• Pat Buchanan: Why do you keep talking? You’re making Lou Dobbs look good. Even Rachel, who often refers to you as “Uncle Pat,” thinks you’re a misinformed douche.
• Today was Sarah Palin’s last day. Top Ten observes the occasion.
• Lastly, this just leaves me gasping for air. And Jimmy Carter thought the Baptists were bad! Ha!
• And finally, I posted this on facebook about a week back, but if you missed it there, you might enjoy it here. I apologize to everyone who attended my wedding, because it wasn’t this cool. Neither was any wedding I’ve ever attended. The bar has been raised.
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It’s been a while and these things do pile up…
• How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck — this is an interesting chart. We’re by no means average (we’ve never carried a car loan, for one thing, and we probably spend more on food and alcohol, even though we don’t eat out much), but the proportions seem to be generally true.
• Have you tried goofram yet? It’s a combination of google and wolfram|alpha.
• Think you’re a geek? Have you mastered the essential skills?
• The Young Republicans have elected an Aryan as their leader.
• Barney Frank visited the Daily Show last week.
• Just how rich is Fitzwilliam Darcy? (Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: Pride and Prejudice is not only my favorite novel, it’s also the first book I ever read aloud to Emmie — starting when she was about a week old.) And speaking of Jane Austen, today is the anniversary of her death.
• How’s your sense of pitch? (I scored a 26 out of 26 — which, if you’ve ever heard me sing, you know must mean that I hear pitch perfectly — I just can’t produce it that way.)
• Local coverage of Zach Wamp’s psooper psekret christian adultery cult (read about yet another C Street philanderer here — and here!).
• You Suck at Craig’s List is pretty funny (via Joe. My. God.).
• Badass of the Week, featuring Blenda, the Viking Heroine!
• Rick Perry is apparently rethinking that whole Texas-as-a-country thing (seriously — who voted for this guy?).
• If you want to see the Great Barrier Reef, you better go soon.
• Can someone find Glenn Beck a nice small room with soft walls and a good therapist?
• … and speaking of health care (that’s what set Beck off)… Glenn doesn’t have it quite right when it comes to France’s system. The current American system is fine until you get sick, but will the next one be any better?
• This can’t be said enough times: the only thing abstinence-only “education” produces is unbelievably stupid kids.
• I loves me some Usain Bolt footage. He makes all the other best runners in the world look like my grandma.
• And finally, Pat Buchanan: he really stepped in it this week — even more than usual!
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In other politics news, it looks as though Bill “is that your cat?” Frist will not be running for governor of Tennessee.
Whew. Tennessee really dodged a bullet there. We’ve got enough problems down here without being subjected to a dangerous wingnut who wants you to think you can get AIDS from tears and believes he can magically diagnose people from watching a video.
OK, so yeah, the down side is that means that we’re probably staring down the barrel at having to spend an entire campaign season listening to the nasally spiels and squeals of this weasel — for the uninitiated, that’s the Tennessee 3rd District’s own lying-under-oath, check-kiting coke whore, Zach Wamp. But on the other hand, Wamp’s deranged word salads should provide for lots of entertainment in a long campaign.
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I went to the Veterans Day Observance at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga today. It was a gorgeous day and I rode my bike over for the program. The crowd was a good size and included plenty of dignitaries, politicians and just plain regular folks. Apparently Andy Berke included himself in the last category today, as I spotted him at the edge of the crowd — no staff, no attention-seeking, no glad-handing — he just quietly took part in the event with the rest of us, and then he left.
Tommie Brown was the featured speaker and our local Congressional delegation were also given a few moments at the mic. Unfortunately, Zach Wamp got confused half-way through his speech. He apparently forgot it was Veterans Day and instead thought it was Make a Political Speech Day (he whined about anti-war protesters — even though there were zero to be found, and then went on complaining about the lack of funding for our nation’s veterans, oblivious to the fact that it’s been his party that’s been defunding those programs over the last seven years). But Bob Corker, who came after Wamp, did a nice job of honoring those who have served our country without politicizing the event, so the remarks ended on a positive note.
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Zach Wamp, who keeps voting himself raises worth thousands of dollars a year, “outfoxed” the legislators who wanted to raise the minimum wage. Whadda guy — we should start calling him Bush, Jr. — he votes with him, used to dose like him, has the supposed piousness down pat, lies and flipflops at the drop of a hat, and has even mastered the patented the Bush smirk. And there’s no doubt that they’re on the same level intellectually.
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Zach Wamp was caught in a number of “mistakes” as he struggled to defend his vote to stop stem cell research. Unfortunately for the little mouth-breathing weasel, Chattanooga citizens aren’t as willing as the press gobble up all that DC BS. Here’s just a sample:
Mr. Bush says that there is no such thing as a ’spare embryo,’ and so the only possible fate would be to find a surrogate for each of these 400,000 plus embryos as well as a home for every resultant child. Given the absurdity of this idea, we have to think of other potential fates for these embryos. Shall they remain in their liquid nitrogen stores indefinitely until they are discarded, or shall we harness their potential for medicine and science through human embryonic stem cell research?
That was an exerpt from stem-cell researcher and Chattanooga native Kit Nazor. And here’s a bit of what W. Smith had to say (read Wamp’s quackery and all of both responses here):
So, the obvious conclusion to Rep. Wamp’s article is that he is either one of the deceivers or one of the deceived. At best he doesn’t do his homework, and this is another example of his parroting of information to go along with the Bush administration and its congressional leaders. At worst it is a lie purposefully presented to deceive the voters of our district.
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What with the utter disaster that is the US war in Iraq, escalating violence in Afghanistan, bin Laden still on the loose, North Korea shooting missles, Israel and Hezbollah going at each other, Bush making an ass of himself at the G8, volcanos, troptical storms (there is no such thing as global warming?), the big pharma giveaway that is the Republican prescription drug program, the administration’s extra-legal activities and scandals, the loss of a US city, and so much more recently taking place on this administration’s watch, you’d think that Zach Wamp would want to spring into action and do something important.
But you would be wrong.
(Hey, Zach: while you’re pretending to concern yourself with history, why are you pandering to the right wing’s obsession with the recently added “under God” in the Pledge while disregarding the long-used, but now completely ignored Bellamy Salute?)
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Arianna is amazed that Bush “wants us to buy that he’s never even heard of, let alone thought about the biblical implications of terrorism in relation to the apocalypse.” John wonders if Bush was caught taking his supposed faith less than seriously.
I never believed Bush’s religous claims to begin with (for Bush — and Zach Wamp, too — the late-in-life conversion seems too much like a political convenience to explain away earlier bad behavior) so all I’m surprised about is that he got so sloppy.
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