My Anti-Ed Smiley

This is the one. This is the guy, to whom I am going to pin all of my "why-are-these-people-fucking-up-this-country-with-their-bullshit-and-distraction" anger.

R. Alex Conant. He (?) is credited as being the Republican National Convention's press secretary.
Just a few quotes from Alex:

On Obama acting all "presidenty" on his trip to Germany: Alex Conant, an RNC spokesman, quipped, "At this rate, it's only a matter of days before he opens his presidential library."

On Harry Reids criticism of Bush: Republicans shrugged off the attack, with spokesman Alex Conant saying that the altitude in Denver may have gotten to Mr. Reid.

On Obama's energy policies: “Rather than demanding Americans inflate their tires, Obama should be demanding Congress return to DC to vote on a real energy plan. Obama is wrong: Inflated tires are no substitute for oil drilling and a comprehensive energy plan,” said RNC spokesman Alex Conant.

[Sidebar]
Representative Charlie Rangel underwent an ethics committee investigation for failing to pay taxes on a house he owns in the Dominican Republic. He was found guilty and had to pay $10,800 on Friday. Let me spell that out the long way. Ten thousand, eight hundred dollars.

Rangel was also recently asked "why Democrats appear "afraid" of Palin" and his quoted response was, "You got to be kind to the disabled" (sic).

[Back to my buddy Alex]

Alex on Representative Rangel: "As if achieving new ethical lows was not sufficient, now Rangel is hitting a rhetorical low. Insulting the next vice president will not distract from Rangel's tax scandals," Republican National Committee Spokesman Alex Conant said.

New ethical low? Really Alex? Really? $10,800? That ain't even an old ethical mediocrity. Chump change. A tip for the teenage congressional page for an exceptionally well executed rusty trombone. A down payment for the coke you'd sniff off a post-op trannie hookers newfangled labia. Hell, even John Quincy Adams had that scandal in Ye Olde Mens Roome. This ain't nowhere near a new low.

No Alex. A new ethical low is backroom players spitting out soundbites, distracting from actual issues. A new ethical low is your pithy quips accusing your opponents of doing EXACTLY what you are doing yourself. And then calling them low and cheap for doing it. A new ethical low is registering your own website http://www.alexconant.com/ and having it redirect to http://www.whitehouse.gov/ (with which you have nothing to do, not openly anyhow).

No, I cannot link this prick with the "Lipstick" smoke and mirrors outrage. But I'm sure he is just a part of this tiger-team that is capitalizing on the attention deficit disorder of America.

And if Alex is a woman, I take all of this back. You have just misunderstood all of my above rant. I'll treat her just like any man. But nicer. And I won't stare at her boobies.

PS: I'll explain Ed Smiley another, calmer time.

On Alaskan dating: The odds are good. But the goods are odd.

Posting this here, only 'cause I don't know where else to post. Trust me, it ain't funny.

A response to Sarah Palins "I don't judge" the homos when asked by Charlie Gibson.

December 29, 2006, Governor Palin Vetoed an Alaskan House bill that would "prohibit the commissioner of administration from extending benefits to same-sex partners of state employees". Boo!

The Alaskan Supreme Court had allowed these benefits to be extended on December 19, 2006. Yeah! Good for the Gays (all three of them in Alaska. At least two of them have each other).

Sometime within the next 10 days, the Alaskan State Legislature quickly passed a bill saying that the commissioner of administration could deny those benefits. Boo! Bad for the Gays.

But, Governor Palin vetoed the bill. Stating that the Alaskan Supreme court would find the bill unconstitutional. Yeah, good for the Gays! Thanks Sarah!

"But, no the'aanks".

Of course, she goes on to say, in the veto "Please know that this veto does not signal any change or modification to my disagreement with the Supreme Court order. It is my intention to work with the legislature and to give the people of Alaska an opportunity to express whether these benefits should continue.

http://www.votesmart.org/vetotext/22232.pdf

Suffice it to say, any gay man who decided to wear a moose costume for halloween the next year, quickly disrobed at the sound of helicopters overhead. (Oooh, naked Alaskan men. Yeah!)

Sarah Palins sweet silken tunnel accepts powerful incoming train. Wet and messy wreck follows

Is that sexist of me? Is it wrong that I think she is a cunt, if I equally feel that McCain is a dick? I feel it is just proper use of pronouns.

At least we don't have to wait for Palin to try to debate Biden. She just bit a big one all over the place with Charlie Gibson. What a train wreck. What a pleasure to watch. I can't wait to see the rest of it tonight. Gosh, she knows a lot of words. She can't answer a question for shit, but she can sure stretch out the non-answer.

I'm biased (ya think?) but I don't know how anyone can call her bullshit brilliant. It is not even brilliantly delivered bullshit.

Now, about that flag pin brooch. Really? Isn't that sexist too. A bit too feminine for Obama I feel. What's fair that the men counter with? Red, white and blue jock straps? Flag pin condoms? And who would see them? Besides Lieberman I mean.

Drivin' Miss Daisy

Just home from a Key West to Los Angeles road trip. 2,908 miles. Me, one 70 year old "daffy" yet lovable former hippie chick, three small, yappy type dogs, a broken radio and one CD. I don't remember what the CD was.
One story, then I shall never speak of it again:
"Hmmm, that cloud is shaped like a beagle at his writing desk, with a tennis racket and a candle. That one like a bear in liederhosen on a tractor. Ooo, and that one looks like labia."

I can't begin to describe how my head felt just then. Oh, perhaps you felt it too. I've bathed. A lot.

You scratch my backgammon...

So you know I play a lot of online Backgammon. Like to an obsession. It's nice to get an online opponent that stays with the game, regardless of their win/lose ratio. I have never, never dropped out of a game 'cause it looked like I was going to lose. But the number of people who do! If the first five rolls don't go their way, they will just drop out and start another game. It's like playing with that bratty cousin of ours who would flip the Monopoly board when he started losing!

Then, there is the downside to playing so much. Well, besides the eyestrain and total loss of social skills. I've gotten good. I know most of the right plays for each roll. That makes me a rotten person to play against. And one of my favorite vacation past-times is playing backgammon with my sister. Now I'm just a bore. A pompous, backgammon winning, level 46 vocabulary bore.

Wendy, get practicing! Only 10 months to Puerto Rico! Mom, you could brush up a little too!