Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to one and all...

Dear Fellow Alters and Ex Alters:

Could you do me a favor? If you are linked to me and use any permutation of my handle there in the link...could you please change the name to something else?

I checked my site meter for the first time in a long time today...and discovered that in this month alone I've had a dozen different visitors lead to my blog here via a google search on my alt handle. It's probably sandard members wanting to take a look at my profile and finding this blog because the same handle is listed on some blogs here as a link name.

Thanks.

(p.s. I'll do the same if you like since some of my links use your alt handles. I also had two google searches that lead to my blog here that were searching for some of your alt handles)

Future Serial Killers of America, Unite!

Mike Huckabee's kid...what a winner:

"...one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed."

Hoo boy.

Oh Mike, Mike Mike....as personable as ye may be...you are looking more and more like a sociopath and/or poorly informed, willfully ignorant, back-country rube. You do not believe in evolution...want Christianity to be brought into all public life...once said that AIDS patients should be quarantined like plague victims (a good ten years after the contagion mechanism was identified).

And now it's revealed you gave birth to a future serial/spree killer. Good job, Mike. Pray for him. See how much that does for you.

Mike Huckabee: My least favorite Republican of the day.

The Top Seven Rejected Toys of 2007

The Ted Kennedy's Liver Beanbag Chair.
Made from genuine donkey hides and utilizing a unique stuffing system comprised of hot air and pork. May be used as a flotation device.

The Ann Coulter Home Genetics Testing Kit.
Now you can finally determine beyond a doubt if your seXXy lover is truly seXY. Comes complete with mouth swabs, depilatory and mock turtleneck. Appropriate for all ages and indeterminate genders.

The Bill O'Reilly Brand Falafel Flavored Loofah.
Whether you are sexually harassing subordinates or just kicking back being a douchebag, now comes the perfect tool for clumsy self pleasure. Perfect for the dirty, old man in your life. Costs: an undisclosed amount, your dignity.

The Pastor Ted Haggard Game of Non-Gay Life.
Now you too can live the life of a powerful and influential man teetering on the precipice! It's the classic battle of good v. evil! "Yay, Tommy! You have rolled a 144 and have won acceptance into Pray the Gay Away Camp! Sit out three turns and be welcomed into the cleansing light of Jesus!" "Oh no, Jimmy! You rolled triple sixes! You're condemned to a life of cock sucking and meth abuse!"Warning: May cause hypocrisy. Appropriate for: no one.

The Mike Huckabee AIDS Patient Concentration Camp Play Set.
Warning: May leave an oily taste in the mouth and cause uncomfortable shifting and back-peddling. Made in China, sired in ignorance.

The Lil' Hillary Future Shrew Costume Extravaganza Dress Up Playset.
Comes with seven pantsuits, a nutcracker, a mask with faces on both sides and a velvet pouch for your playmate's "jewels." Warning: may cause insane cackling and voice changes to sound more "southern negro."

The Willard Mitt Romney Pander Bear.
Cozy up your cuddly constituent! Comes with magical underpants and two mates. Costs: next to nothing because it's made by illegal immigrants.

Rudy Can Fail

I just love Rudy Ghouliani's new TV ad...the one wherein he lisps on about how the only way to deal with terrorists is to stand up to them. Really? As opposed to...what? Laying down in defeat? The inference is deafening.

And the ad goes on with Rudy managing to again to link his name to Ronald Reagan's (this time around every republican candidate not only has to puff up and display their Christ credentials...but also compete to see who is most Reagan-like. Call it Bushie blowback). Rudy recalls misty-eyed how those savage Iranians, quaking with stark terror, released the embassy hostages within an hour of Reagan taking the oath of office. As if somehow...by the simple act of being elected...a republican dealt ISLAMOFASCISTS a serious defeat!

I'm positive the Iranians were living in fear of a craggy, Grecian-formulaic old man and ex B movie actor and capitulated immediately rather than face his elderly wrath. That makes much more sense than the notion that they held the hostages to the final minutes of Carter's time in office as a way to humiliate the peanut farmer. Or that the invasion of the country by Iraq might have made them more receptive to dealing with the USA. I'm impressed with Rudy's ability to not only rewrite history...but to sell the people what they think they want to buy.

Yesterday Senator Mitch McConnell was my least favorite Republican of the Day...today it's the ever ethical Rudy Ghoulani.

“Unfortunately, most of our friends on the other aisle are having a hard time admitting things are getting better; some days I almost think the critics of this war don't want us to win. Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers."

---Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

I guess The Senator thinks it is OK to have sent these kids to their deaths because they signed up for the service.

Senator, you are wrong, dead wrong. When your nation's young men and women take a sacred oath to defend their country and volunteer to live a sometimes harsh and unpleasant life and do and live through unpleasant things...you, as a national leader, made damned sure you only send them into harm's way to make that ultimate sacrifice as a last resort. You don't support their use in a bankrupt foreign excursion over and over while voting against veteran's benefits expansions. And you sure as shit don't toss out casual statements trying to shine that turd and downplay the deaths of these kids. It's callous and cruel. And wrong.

Maybe if the good senator had not gone the draft deferment for law school route during the height of Vietnam and gone another way...he'd have an inkling of what purposeful sacrifice means. Instead he has the typical mindset of the conservative chickenhawk.

Up yours, senator.

Far be it from me (well, not really) to look down on other people's fetishes....because heaven knows...I've got some that would make people blanche, scratch their heads and perhaps even shudder.

But that doesn't mean I can't be befuddled by some...or find them a bit...icky. Or comical.

Check this out:

http://www.blimpboyadventures.com/index.html

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