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Yes, I thought of Chappaquiddick. It’s How We are Wired.

Published on August 26, 2009 in Baby Boomer, Family and Politics. 0 Comments

For the good he did, Title Nine and getting the vote for 18 year olds who could die but not vote, and a lot more, Ted Kennedy is also tied to Chappaquiddick by those of us old enough to remember.

It’s Chappaquiddick.
Not Chapaquitic.

Polarizing? for sure. He even got under Jimmy Carter’s skin.

“If Kennedy runs, I’ll whip his ass.”

But he knew MA politics and voters and rainmakers. He got things done. He was a kingmaker in the Senate.

How long will it take for the cable newsers to start dredging up his past escapades? Since I don’t watch, I don’t know, but I’m guessing it’s happening now.

Will NBC give Ted Kennedy the same treatment as Tim Russert? Probably not. Remember Senator Edward Kennedy was the definition of liberal, and mainstream media already classified (wrongly) as having the same political bias.

No matter how many troubles you have, none - NONE - compare to what the Ted Kennedy family has endured.

Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. Killed in action in the second world war.
Rosemary Kennedy – institutionalized from failed lobotomy
John F. Kennedy – assassinated
Robert Kennedy – assassinated

Forget about the extended family grief and problems. And yet, there has never been a hint of bitterness what our “civilized” society has done to the Kennedys and said about the Kennedys.

They continue to serve.

For that we are very lucky as a nation.

(comments are closed because I won’t be able to tolerate the venom this post might generate.)

Cash for Clunker Crybabies

Published on August 19, 2009 in Cars, Money and Politics. 15 Comments Tags: cash for clunkers, crybabies, national car dealers association, new car dealers, obama.

Oh puh-leeze, the Cash for Clunker Crybabies have just about pushed me to the limits.

First, when the program had been operation for just ten days, an owner of 20 dealerships in the east was crying about how long it took to do the paperwork for Cash for Clunkers. He was bitchin’ because he had to pay a clerk (probably making $10 an hour) to sit in front of a computer for a few hours to submit the paperwork to collect $4,500 free money collected from you and me.

Now the paperwork is in the gummit’s hands, here’s the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) aka CFCC (Cash for Clunker Crybabies) are crying they aren’t getting their money quick enough.

The National Automobile Dealers Association estimates that dealers have hundreds– and in some cases thousands — of applications pending that are

“worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.”

Peter Kitzmiller, president of the 325-member Maryland Automobile Dealers Association said:

“It is ludicrous at this point, We’ve got deals that are just sitting there waiting to be reviewed. The customer is gone, the car is gone, and you don’t have your money.”

Damn Republicans. (And new car dealers are all Republicans.) They cry that something needs to be done to save the U.S. car business. Obama does something.

They cry that Obama is moving too fast on the stimulus.

They cry that the stimulus idea is bad for the economy. Cars fly out of the showrooms at record pace – after 18 months of gathering dust. Factories go on overtime to keep up with demand.

They cry that they aren’t getting their money fast enough. They want quicker turn-around. They want bigger goverment to handle the Cash for Clunkers program.

By the end of the week, up to 1,100 people will be working full time to process cash for clunker reimbursements.

They cry that government is getting too big.

How long would you sit (or pay someone to sit) in front of a computer to collect $4,500?

Damn Cash for Clunker Crybabies. They give money to McCain, cry that Obama got elected, line up at the public trough and then cry that the slop is too sour.

Attention Birthers: I Am Kenyan. Other Moments of “Duh”

Published on August 6, 2009 in Baby Boomer, Birthdays, Childhood, Entertainment and Politics. 1 Comment Tags: air force academy, birther, kenya, kirstie alley, lou dobbs, Mrs. Butterworth, natalie cole, Paula Abdul, typewriters, victoria beckham.

I knew it wouldn’t take long for Dou Lobbs to take after me, the old buzzard. To avoid further controversy about my birthplace, I am publishing – for the first time – my Kenyan birth certificate to keep the birthers at bay.

You will have to click to enlarge to read the faded document – after all Kenyan birther certificates aren’t printed on the best paper. The typewriter used to fill out by Kenyan birther document needed a new ribbon too.

Remember that? Changing typewriter ribbons? Before cartridges? Fingers would get all smudged with ink and you itch your face and walk around all day and nobody tells you “there is a black smudge on your face.” Or what that just me?

(clickify to explode)

Here are some other moments of “duh”:

Forbes says Air Force Academy top school: Duh. Takes a congressional appointment, you can’t drink or do drugs, no long hair,guaranteed a job afterwards, and eventually you are a General.
Brad Pitt says “No” to Angelina: Duh. He has the perfect reason. He tells Angie, if gays can’t marry, then I won’t marry you. It’s the activist/protest avoidance.
Big party when Paula Abdul said she wasn’t returning: Duh. She’s a star. They aren’t. It’s just jealousy. Paula will be have regular weekly appearances on Dancing With The Stars, Survivor, The View, Jon & Kate + 9, and Sponge Bob.
Lots o’ Rumors on Paula’s replacement: Duh. There is Kirstie Alley and moi at the top, then Diana Ross, Victoria Beckham, Natalie Cole, Allee Willis, Mrs. Butterworth and Rosanne auditioning in case Kirstie and I can’t make the deal.

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We Are Ready for the President Palin Nuclear War

Published on August 2, 2009 in Health and Politics. 1 Comment Tags: nukes, sarah palin, tecnu, todd, trigg.

Thinking people have already figured out the United States is doomed.

Our health care system will collapse, we will will run out of paper to print more money because inflation will rival Zimbabwe and all Hawaiian citizenship papers will be revoked.

President Palin will start throwing around Nukes just to keep us preoccupied.

I’m not sure which Palin will be President.

Sarah and Todd have pretty much screwed themselves (and apparently more than a few others.) So I’m guessing it will be Trigg.

(((Hugs))) will be his campaign slogan.

As soon as President Palin starts lobbing Nukes, we’re prepared. Nancy picked this up the other day:

Conan Interprets Sarah Palin: Shatner Delivers

Published on July 28, 2009 in Baby Boomer, Blogging, Education, Entertainment and Politics. 1 Comment Tags: conan, longfellow, sarah palin, shat.

Sarah Palin is a poet.
She don’t know it,
her feet don’t show it.
But they sure are Longfellows.

(How old IS that ditty?)

Here is William Shatner delivering Sarah Palin’s speech in poetic mode as dictated by Conan.

…soaring through nature’s finest show.
Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun.
And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road
that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty,
the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?
And then in the summertime such extreme
summertime
about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter
than just some months ago, than just some months from now,
with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here,
Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life
teeming along the road that is north to the future.