First, I would like to thank everyone again for their kind words and help this past week while it was decided that the old site just wasn’t working anymore, and it was time for a change. Thanks, Ya’ll! So, let’s grab our forks and dig in. First on the agenda, WTF??
- WTF?? #1. John McCain Just Can’t Keep His Mouth Shut. This past week, we saw John McCain flip-flop over the impending repeal of DADT (and I call it impending because I believe it is – a page is starting to turn, as we’ll see in a bit under the Strikes My Fancy section). Now, he’s prattling on about the census bureau running an ad during the superbowl. According to McCain, the ad is symptomatic of the spending practices of the federal government and the Congress in a way that is completely out of touch with what’s going on out there in the real world. Actually, Johnny-boy, it’s symptomatic of how out of touch you are that you evidently aren’t aware that John Boehner has warned that the Census would waste billions of taxpayers dollars and Michelle Batpucky Crazy Bachmann already said she won’t fill out her census form. Why not? Because she’s batpucky crazy, that’s why.
- WTF?? #2. Sarah Palin at the teaparty convention in Nashville. ’nuff said.
Now for a bit of Strikes My Fancy:
- SMF #1. Court Victory for Transgender taxpayers . In 1997, Rhiannon O’Donnabhain began the long journey of gender reassignment. When Rhiannon filed her 2001 tax returns, she deducted medical expenses relating to her reassignment. She was, of course, audited. This month, the Tax Court ruled that Rhiannon’s medical expenses were the result of medical treatment and were therefore deductible. You can read the court’s decision here. A page is turning, folks, a page is turning. Descrimination against the GLBT community is getting more and more difficult to rationalize and maintain. This is indeed a good thing.
- SMF #2. Every Now And Then, Something Turns Up. Eleven years ago, an Everest expedition found the remains of George Mallory , who died while trying to climb the mountain in 1921. Now we learn that while renovating the Antarctic shed used by Ernest Shackleton, cases of 100 year old whisky was discovered. Something about men and women who quite literally risk it all to do something no one else has done appeals to me. So when the artifacts of the early explorers is found, it really strikes my fancy.
I hope everyone has a very good rest of the weekend. The Bee still has some renovations for the Hive in mind, so I’ll head off to put on the steel-toed’s and don my toolbelt. Huzzah!
I think there’s something to say about the stupid teabagger convention…
Bee,
To kinda quote Hannibal Lecter “Love the site”! It’s like the Fresno Bee who I think you should sue for stealing your name. Even if they stole it before the fact.
Sounds like McCain trying to appeal to the teabaggers.A real maverick, that one.
I’m glad for Rhiannon. GLBT take enough flak from the Suchristians and the general unwashed public.Suchristians to differentiate the Christians who suck,and Truth101 and I who don’t suck.Or, who suck at a lesser rate than those who Cosmically suck. I’ll work on a chart for this, may keep me from ranting as much.
I’d seen something on history channel where a group of explorers in Alaske (Pre-Palin) went crazy and I think cannibalized themselves. Turned out to be lead-poisoning from canned goods they’d eatn.
Jolly I know, but you do it so well at your site
Oso I like your SuChristian designation, and you and Truth 101 most definitely to NOT fit in that category!
The Alaska crazies sounds right up my alley, interest-wise. You know the whole Donner Party thing just fascinates me, I’m drawn to the “what do you do in a survival situation” thing. I dunno about taking on the Fresno Bee, as I figure some day Laurie King (who wrote the book I pilfered my handle from) to complain and have her lawyers ask not-so-nicely for the domain back. However, she’s a pretty liberal person, I think, so she might actually like it.
The site looks good so far, BA. Good luck with it.
I wonder how many of the Tea Party delegates paid their own $550 delegate fees.
Re: SMF1, I gotta say I’m not crazy about the decision. Y’all can go ahead and tell me why I’m wrong, but I just don’t see gender reassignment as medically necessary. Seems to me that thousands of generations were just fine without it.
McCain would do well to exert whatever influence he has on the paranoid whackjobs in the Republican base, teabag racists and resenters, and right-wing noise machine talkers like Limbaugh and Hannity. If it wasn’t for rabble rousers in their ranks and in public office, the Census Bureau wouldn’t have to spend millions to overcome fearmongering and lies, just to get people to fill out their forms.
This is a disgusting example of how eager they are for any chance to criticize, to achieve some political advantage. If McCain wants to complain about waste of taxpayers’ money, he should investigate where that $9 billion sent to Iraq in 2003 wound up. If McCain gets that figured out, he can go to work informing the public about how much of their hard-earned cash was squandered on no-bid contracts, as opposed to what they would’ve paid for let-to-bid contracts, during Goerge W. Bush’s reign of error.
Of course McCain, who did everything but kiss Bush on the lips at the ‘04 GOP convention, has no interest in the public getting the full story on those things.
McCain is just trying to score points with the Taliban Republicans (oops, redundancy) with his hysteria over repealing DADT. Oliver North goes him one better — repealing DADT will pave the way for gangs of NAMBLA members to enlist and start corrupting our soldiers. He’s already perjured himself once, isn’t that enough?
Have fun with the renovations.
Stimpson: Nary a one, they went panhandling their health insurance company handlers for the delegate admission/cover fee/whatever they called it. As far as gender reassignment, a good friend told me that she views her transgenderism as a birth defect. She has always been a woman, trapped in a body with a man’s plumbing. Either way, it is classified now as a medical condition. So, basically, it is not unlike correcting a hairlip or a cleft palate, only a bit more invasive surgery-wise.
SW: I think that if Jesus himself came down on a trumped up chariot and read the republican hierarchy the riot act, they would crucify him all over again – I really do think they are that far out of control. The thing about losing control is, it’s hard as hell to regain it. They’ll either bluster until they run out of steam, or make themselves irrelevant by forcing this stupid Tea Party to gain more momentum and eventually shove them aside. The teabaggers are out of control, though, so it’s like entropy in an open system. I don’t really think McCain has any clout with them anymore. Oh, I’m so on board over the billions lost in Iraq. And it was f’ing cash, too, just *poof* gone. Amazing, they scream bloody murder over any hint of legislation that might, possibly, someday help someone other than a rich CEO of a fortune 500 company, but when billions just plain went missing, literally, they had not a single word to say about it. Total silence. Amazing.
TomH When did Oliver North come back into the limelight? Wait, it was when Bush and the rest of the degenerates were in power, right? Yeah, I guess like begets like.
Old crankpants is just upset he didn’t think about it first. This works up to be less than $1 per taxpayer so he needs to go away with this bullshit. Crazy eyes has backed off her “I won’t fillup the for , so you shouldn’t either” horseshit. Only an educated guess here, but she figured out if she was telling people in her district not to fill it up, someone told her she might lose her seat and she did a face palm.
Bible Spice at the convention, was very painful to watch the parts I have seen this morning. Idiot had to write on her hand to lift Anerica’s spirits, wrote budget cuts but crossed off budget and substituted tax for it. WTF she couldn’t remember the whole reason for the GoOPsters to be alive. She is a walking train wreck. I am doing another educated guess here too, no one in the “lamestream”, yup she actually called them that, media will call her on her shenanigans. Bob Shrum? said she is hate disguised with an aw shucks smile. Now there is talk of her getting a tv studio, courtesy of the Foxness monster, in her living room so she can go ahead and grift from home. But, but, she is one of the little people. John Mccranker has a lot to answer for with this idiot. She even said how Todd is not a rep but is even more conservative than she is. The mind truly boggles, how these two survived as long as they did.
Like I have said elsewhere, it is just now a matter of when not if anymore for the GLBT discrimination to end.
Good luck with the renovations. I think a latte machine would look good over there, no not there, yep right there
Gotta go watch the puppy bowl now with the kitties.
Bee,
here’s a link to that expedition thing I was talking about.
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.c.....dition.htm
Nice place you’ve got here, been thinking of doing something similar myself, you must write a post on how easy or hard it was to change over. I would find it very interesting.
McCain’s continual dissembling indicates that I had good cause to nickname him McConJob.
Jess: McCrankyPants just needs to shut up and sit the hell down…he’s gone beyond annoying. A latte machine…not a bad idea…
Oso: Gonna have to get a book, because that link sparked interest…what a way to go, lead and food poisoning. Have you ever read Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild”? If not, get a copy, trust me.
Holte: I think it gave me some mild brain damage, HA. On a self-hosted server, not so easy. On a wordpress hosted site, it would probably be a piece of cake.
TomCat: McConJob is right…that guy is not quite as crooked as some of the company he keeps, but he’s still crookeder than a dog’s hind leg.
McInsane McPisses McMe McOff.
McBada-McBing
Hill, Huzzah!