"Let us with BOLDNESS proclaim the fact that we are one nation, UNDER GOD."

This douchebag teabagger, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), is so geared up to yell "UNDER GAWWWD" at the top of his lungs during our Pledge of Allegiance that he seems to forget the rest of it, especially and appropriately the "indivisible" part, after declaring that he's going to say the Pledge 'cause that just drives liberals ca-raaay-zee, dontcha know.  I laughed so loudly at this one and just felt I should share.  

Did it drive you crazy yet?

Seriously though, I roffled.

Choice quotes, my bolding:

"...that is, until the lawyer for the Pageant showed Carrie [Prejean] an XXX home video of her handiwork"
"Let's just say, Carrie has a promising solo career."

Maybe it's lingering anger from last night's Maine decision, but I've really had it with fucking hypocrites.  REALLY had it.  Can Carrie Prejean take her secret stroke flick, her pageant-paid fake tits and her even more fake "godly" image and go the fuck away now?

I'm watching Latino in America on CNN and getting really mad at some of this shit, like the beating death of a Mexican guy in Shenandoah, PA.

I really have a hard time determining what heritage people think I am, wondering if what I see in the mirror is what others see, and I suspect a lot of people just see me as being solely an Italian/Irish typical Northeast Bronx mix because of my surname, the paternal contribution to the patchwork quilt that is uniquely me.  But what of the other half?  Over the years, all too many people who should know better have felt comfortable racially slurring hispanics and Puerto Ricans specifically, right to my face, while expecting me to laugh and go along with it or agree because I look white enough I guess, but all this makes me reflect on my mother and her complexities.  I've had more than a taste of it myself, whatever it was that made her the way she was, when my stepmother would purposely rant about "spic" this and "lazy spic" that right in front of me, usually at the dinnertable, in reference to some of her coworkers or my own mother, with a certain daggery look shot my way as she said the word.  I realized my childhood friends' parents and grandparents, who lived in a house just three down from my mom's, and whose slightly younger kids I played with every single day on that block, wouldn't let me into their yard, let alone their precious house, because of my heritage.  Meanwhile, other kids with skin just as pale as my own could hang out there.  It was absolutely bizarre and they weren't the only ones who acted this way toward us on that block.

One memorable Halloween, I went out in a frizzy, jet black haired witch's wig with a pointy hat and black dress and in some weird insult to me, their grandparents, who were sitting outside on lawnchairs as usual, acted surprised and told me my hair looked nice with an odd, sarcastic tone while smirking at my mother.  She was about this close to hitting those old farts for that and I'm not sure if I was ever allowed to play with their grandchildren ever again.  I don't think I did.  One, if not both girls, wound up going to the same high school as me, but we never spoke again, sadly.  They didn't seem bigoted like the rest of their family clearly was, and they may have been too young yet to understand what was going on, but sometimes I wonder.  I'll remind people that this was in the mid-to-late 80s, when you'd imagine people might know better than to behave that way.  I have seen all three of them on Facebook, posting on friends' updates, but I haven't yet felt comfortable enough to send them simple messages of greetings and I think I probably never will.  It's just too awkward. 

At times back then and even into the 90s, depending on the company, it seemed to me that my mother was ashamed of her Puerto Rican heritage and felt she should lie about it to make herself and selected acquaintances more comfortable with who she was.  Instead, she would tell some people she was a Spaniard most of the time and occasionally reminded me to go along with her lie as I just shook my head, not really getting it.  I guess it seemed more acceptable yet believable to her to claim to be born in Europe?  I think she even told someone she was Jewish once or twice, because the person told her she looked like Barbra Streisand.  I don't know what the point of my post is, really, aside from me feeling a bit reflective, but it just makes me sad that she felt she should hide who she was, whether in the Bronx or elsewhere.

[01:51am] Shoes: and I hope she gets vagina cancer
[01:51am] Lunabot: rofl
[01:51am] nautilus: shoes that's wrong
[01:51am] nautilus: it's cervical cancer
[01:51am] Lunabot: haaha
[01:51am] Shoes: no I want it all down the vaginal canal
[01:51am] nautilus: i feel like the names of the female parts are all weird
[01:51am] nautilus: CERVIX
[01:51am] nautilus: VULVA
[01:51am] Lunabot: that's because they are
[01:51am] Lunabot: rofl
[01:51am] nautilus: they sound like planets in some scifi virgin's rpg
[01:51am] Lunabot: rofl!
[01:52am] Shoes: I also want her to get cancer in her rotten unused clitoris
[01:52am] nautilus: they're not straightforward like ours
[01:52am] Lunabot: ahaaha
[01:52am] nautilus: BALLS
[01:52am] nautilus: COCK
[01:52am] Shoes: urethra
[01:52am] nautilus: to be scientific
[01:52am] Shoes: franklin
[01:52am] Lunabot: to be fair you guys do have frenulum, which sounds like something the sci-fi virgin would mine for on a fictional planet
[01:53am] Shoes: that sounds like a 70s singer...Frenulum comes alive
[01:53am] Lunabot: haahah
[01:53am] Shoes: well it does
[01:54am] nautilus: frenulum: one night only
[01:54am] Lunabot: I can't dispute that, rofl
[01:54am] Lunabot: hah!
[01:54am] Shoes: Remember when Frenulum had that outdoor concert at Central Park
[01:55am] Lunabot: it rained... I cried and held up my lighter
[01:55am] Shoes: yes and Frenulum KEPT SINGING
[01:55am] Lunabot: they didn't let themselves be rained out
[01:55am] Shoes: Frenulum could have been electrocuted
[01:56am] Lunabot: Frenulum were so brave
[01:57am] Shoes: I remember their one huge hit D.I.C.K (It's fun to play with the..)
[01:57am] Lunabot: ROFL
[01:57am] Lunabot: I am crying now aaha

(A few minutes later...)

[02:05am] Shoes is now known as FrenulumROX.
[02:08am] • FrenulumROX is listening to D.I.C.K. (It's Fun to Play With The) by Frenulum from In The Foreskin Extended LP

Being interviewed on Countdown, regarding the Dems and health care and getting the fuck behind a good bill, fellow Bronxite Alan Grayson: 


...and Keith Olbermann laughs knowingly.

...in front of their damn school on a school day.  What the fuck?  I wonder if any of them went armed to prove a point about their Second Amendment freedoms, etc?  That'd be extra special.

This is really getting stupid as hell and these 9/12-er teabagging Glenn Beck ball-licking motherfuckers, don't they have jobs to be at in the afternoon or what?  I wish I could have been there to scream "GET A JOB, HIPPIE" at them, like they were so fond of doing a few years back when people were protesting the war... you know, something actually worth protesting.  Not a silly song second graders sang for some event at their damn school.  Ugh.  I am getting so tired of stupidity today.

I'm looking for video, of course.  Here's one that's basically a slideshow with audio clips.

It's PUNDITS.  Please, stop saying "pundants", people on my television set.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Obama lost us the Olympics because other countries see him as a joke, HAHAHA!!!1  Wait, our President won a Nobel Peace Prize?  But, I thought he was a joke just last week!  DAMNED FICKLE EUROPEANS.  BOOOOO!!!

Gotta get those priorities straight, clearly, and boo the US when we are honored on the world stage and CHEER when we fail!

This country just baffles me these days.  O_O

In other news, I am just letting people know I'm still around... just too preoccupied with my stupid wisdom teeth hurting to do much yapping here.  Also with Farmville on Facebook... it's EVIL.

If anyone knows anything about affordable/discount dentistry in Houston, please share, and no I don't mean those fake ass scams where you pay them a fee per month and they give you a list of dentists who might give you a discount or whatever.  I'm not interested in scams.  If anyone knows anything about a dental college in Houston or nearby who can do two wisdom teeth at a steep discount or very inexpensive price, please let me know.  I'm desperate to get these things out of my damned mouth.

I would never let that one slip by!  CBS totally needs to hire me to spell-check their Chyrons.

Also, check out THIS handsome fella:



Yeah, I'll be avoiding that area.  Beware of those choppers!  Apparently his nickname is "The Choker" because he hides in apartment complexes in Southwest Houston, springs out and chokes people to the point of unconsciousness... and then robs them.  D:

I recorded this short film off of TCM sometime last week and threw it on my iPod for sleepytime viewing.  I can't seem to get past the halfway mark due to falling asleep, but this thing is just plain weird so I felt I should share.  I particularly like when the husband smacks her ass hard, sending her head first into the cupboard, as he laughs at her bloody headed misery... or when she trips on a cord while her brats destroy the living room and she's moaning in pain and nobody helps her.  Oh, the life of an early 60s housewife...

You can find a faux-MSTed one on Youtube but ehhh, best to see the real thing.

"We're in one?"

Maybe you aren't, Gov. Rick "Secessionist Asshole" Perry (R-Denial), BUT I'm sure your fellow Texans would be very interested to know you think we aren't in a recession. I wonder how many Texans have been trying to get jobs in the past year or two and how much success they've had overall.  Houston lost nearly 100,000 jobs in the past year but hey, Texas is recession-proof!

Try living in the real world sometime, Goodhair.

What a fucking douche.

I know she's richer than sin too, and it probably wouldn't affect her, but I wonder if Kay Bailey Hutchison realizes we've been in a recession.  It sure would be nice to have a saner governor who has eyes, at the very least.

In other news, Republican party leader Rush Limbaugh thinks we need to return to the days of Jim Crow... segregated buses?  What the fuck is going on here?

Too lazy to put it together myself, so thanks person who did!

Oh, Kanye... will he ever learn?

I should be in bed but this video made me laaaaugh.  Here's the lobbyist seemingly involved in married  -- and anti-gay marriage probably because it destroys the obvious sanctity of his marriage -- California assemblyman Michael Duvall's spanking, dripping and other things which will give me nightmares, the pitiable Heidi De Jong Barsuglia.


Oh honey, he's just a piddly assemblyman.  He can't be paying you THAT much, can he, enough for creampies even?  I know you're 36 now but you can do MUCH better than that... or do his strong, Christian family values just drive you wild?  :'(

And he had ANOTHER mistress besides her?  Why?!

*shudder*

P.S. - Not related, but HILARIOUS.  Also, I am happy to say that THREE of my typo pics have made it into this collage.  Mine?  Neigbor, daugter, and "commander in THEIF" (yellow sign).  There's a screenshot I took during the Republican convention, in which a man holds up a "The Mavrick" sign, another of which can be found near the center of the collage.  I rewound just enough to capture as much as possible of his face in the picture, for further shaming purposes.  The one in the collage doesn't quite show enough of his face, in my opinion, but at least it's represented!  For extra funny, it was during McCain's acceptance speech, at or near a point where he mentioned teaching illiterate adults how to read.  :D

Here's my excellent haul from Black Dog:

Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - Replicas
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Ultravox - Young Savage / Slip Away (Live) 7"
John Foxx - The Garden (with special book "Church")
David Bowie - Lodger
David Bowie - Starting Point (I was surprised to find this and HAD to own it.)
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby / Try Me, I Know We Can Make It (Each is the full, superlong version, woo!)
Tracey Ullman - Breakaway (not the exact one, mine is a promo 7")
Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
Donovan - Poor Cow / Jennifer Juniper (The nice guy there gave me this one for free, yay! You know, I was named after the b-side, trufax.)

I thought that was perfect but then we stopped at Cactus and got a SHITLOAD of $1 albums, with a small handful costing just a few bucks more at most.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Kate Bush - The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix)
Jools Holland And His Millionaires - S/T
Difford & Tilbrook - S/T
El DeBarge - Who's Johnny (12" Version) / Who's Johnny (12" Instrumental)
Public Image Ltd. - Disappointed (12" Version)
Dead Or Alive - Youthquake
ABBA - Arrival
Yaz - Upstairs At Eric's
Yaz - You And Me Both
Daryl Hall and John Oates - Bigger Than Both Of Us
Information Society - S/T
Flashdance (Original Soundtrack)
Shriekback - Get Down Tonight (12")
Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat
Falco - 3
Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe
Kajagoogoo - White Feathers
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Tom Jones - A-Tom-Ic Jones (I couldn't resist this cover image and being priced at $1 makes most things desirable! Plus, hello, THUNDERBALL!)
Spandau Ballet - Parade
Thompson Twins - Into The Gap (I only got this for "The Gap" because I really don't like "Hold Me Now" or "Doctor Doctor" that much. Again, $1, I'll take it!)

"The Democrats are thinking of using a "special technique" that will allow them to pass health care with a simple majority instead of the usual 60 votes."

The problem is, she said it, with a certain tone, as if 60 votes is a normal requirement as of ALWAYS and that the Dems are doing something sneaky and unheard of by passing something with a simple (read ACTUAL, NORMAL) majority by using reconciliation.  Someone, please tell these retards that they're wrong?  It wasn't always 60 votes... do they have no memory at all past the last decade or two?  Do they not know the definition of a majority?  It's fucking simple MATH, people.  I hate that it has to be so complicated now.  You know, this virtual filibuster shit sucks... most ridiculous thing ever.  Ugh.

What the flying fuck?! Anyone else get a vibe from this nutcase that he'll start the shootin' when he flat out loses the race?  God-In-Name-Jesus-Christ-Lord-Savior-Messiah won't be able to help him then!  :\

Edit:  Holy shit, I found his Myspace!  Please, please, look at his pictures.  He has a fucking folder called

So, I hope I don't have to take back that <3 shirt below!  Health care is too tiring to follow, I swear.  One day it's all going to hell and the next it's on the right track, or is it?

I am reserving my <3s for when something good actually gets done.  It's much easier that way.

Especially when it concerns a clearly insane bitch and a half named Pamela Pilger who screams "HEIL HITLER" at an Israeli and mock cries at him like a five year old when he explains how he had to pay $8000 for two hours in the emergency room.

What the fuck do you say to this?  Look at her shirt.  My brain is exploding.  Is this really the level of discourse this so-called health care "debate" has sunken to... for real?

Fuck these Republicans, conservatives, whatever the fuck they want to call themselves.  Fuck them all if this is what they approve of.  If this is all they can bring to the table, there is no fucking debate.  Fuck appeasing them, fuck bipartisanship and most of all FUCK cuntrags like this who have no shame whatsoever and claim to have values.  These aren't values of any kind and certainly are not true American values as far as I'm concerned.  This is just plain cruelty and stupidity... ENDLESS fucking stupidity.

Blue dog Democrats of the House and Senate, this one's for you:  watch this video and watch it again just to make sure you saw what you think you did.  Is this your constituency?  Do you actually give a flying fuck about constituents like this one?  Then WHY are you CAVING like fucking PUSSIES?  You give an inch, they want five fucking miles.  Nothing will ever be good enough and you aren't making new friends... you are alienating your own fucking base... people who actually donate to you and the party and support your shitty campaigns.

ENOUGH BULLSHIT!  There is a fucking Democratic majority for a reason.  People actually ELECTED you to do something about health care among other things, so less spineless caving, more fucking POSITIVE ACTION, or you will ALL be out of jobs soon.

*tears her hair out*