Bridge Democratic Bridge Debate Bridge

The word for tonights debate is, "Bridge". Time for some out of context quotes:

7:21: Hilary says we need a, "broad reform".
7:23: Richardson goes on record as being against slavery and child labor
7:25: Biden suggests that we take the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexio to the mat.
7:27: Senator Edwards will not appear on the cover of Fortune Magazine
7:27: Leprican, "I'll take us out of Nafta." "I will take us forward, not backward."
7:29: Hllary, "I'm your girl."
7:29: Obama, "People don't want a cheaper t-shirt if they're losing a job in the process."
7:33: Hilary, "I want to say 'amen' to Joe Biden because he's 100% right." Also, Hillary doesn't want her "children" to be playing with shoddy chinese toys.
7:34: John Edwards, "Everything everyone has said thus far about China is right..."
7:35: Kusinich, "There was a rumor that if you dug a hole you could get to China...we're there."
7:41: Biden doesn't answer the question
7:42: Hilary has a 3 point plan for leaving iraq which is based on sounding good to the electorate
7:42: Dodd doesn't answer the question
7:44: Lord God Edwards is a tool
7:46: Keith asks Obama why it took so fucking long to hear what his vote would be on the war spending supplimental bill. Obama stutters for 32 seconds.
7:47: Keith asks the same question of Hillary, she talks about how this is Bush's war.
7:48: Dodd, "words mean things"
7:52: Dodd and Obama have it out. Keith cuts them off to go to commercial. A Cialis commercial. >:(
7:58: Widow, "What will you do to make mines safer?" Biden, "We shouldn't have gone into iraq." Audience yells, "ANSWER THE QUESTION!"
8:03: Man, "I lost 1/3 of my penchon and can't pay for my wifes healthcare after being forced to retire. How will you fix america?" Edwards, "Universal healthcare and treating the penchants of CEOs the same way we treat workers."
8:12: Biden makes a HUGE BURN on edwards for being a fucking poser.
8:14: Edwards hates scabs
8:22: Richardson, "My vice president would not be Dick Cheney."
8:27: Dodd, "Terroism is a tactic, not a philosophy."
8:29: hehe, Barry Bonds question.
8:30: Hilary has a 3 to 10 point plan for everything.
8:35: Dodd wishes that we had a Parlimentary system.

Meet the Asshole of the Day

Thats right, Fred "God hates Fags" Phelps. Not a huge surprise, because really he is the asshole of the day, everyday. I am only point out that Fred Phepls is an asshole today because he and fucktard Westboro Baptist Church buddies are going to Minnesota to protest at the funerals of people who died in the bridge collapse last week. Thinkprogress has the link.

update:

Global Warming: Nuh-UH!!

Here is a link to a delightful Newsweek artical about Global-Warming Denial. The six page article discusses the means by which Global Warming deniers influenced the public debate and did basically what the tobacco industry did when people started to think, "Hey, maybe these things are bad for you!"

From a rhetoric standpoint the things these people do is inspired. From a "we're animals living on a planet on which we depend for life" perspective, it's pretty damn infuriating.

"Should pose no health issues"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/06/wice106.xml
Creatures that once lived eight million years ago have been successfully thawed from the ice of an Antarctic glacier, in an experiment that sounds like a scene from a science fiction film.

Scientists found the microorganisms in ice samples from ancient Antartic glaciers
The feat of revival was managed with as yet unidentified single-celled microbes and should pose no health issues, say the scientists

In Eastern News....

China:
Panda Attack! Zookeeper required over 100 stitches after suffering lesser mauling by panda.

Beijing undergoing updates for 2008 Olympics. New Architecture to be considered. Free Speech, Democracy not to be considered.

Japan:
Hiroshima survivors, children, dignitaries mark the 62nd anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing. A moment of silence was observed. A moment of darkness would have been observed, but the town still glows a little.

Godzirra forecast: No Godzirra attacks likely, but 35% chance of Mothra swarm overnight.

The Human Condition.

So here's a picture of two cats:



I think this picture explains the human condition. At first there is one cat stuck in a jar. Then the next cat happens upon this jar and even though the cat can see that the other cat is stuck in the jar the non-stuck cat "decides" that it, too, must be stuck in the same jar so that it might experience the same things as the cat-in-jar.

What is interesting is that the jar is transparent. So we can see the trap, see through the trap, and see those others who are in the trap. Yet still we, like cats, enter into the trap and once in the trap merely try to find comfort within the transparent trap into which we entered. Yet there always remains the entrance through which we entered the trap.

It might be a metaphor for dating, or marriage, or spending money needlessly, or really any situation in which one sees other people, trapped, yet decides that were they to be in that same trap they would do it better than those who are trapped. So they enter into the same transparent trap situation and, as a result, become themselves trapped with those others who are trapped.

I'm not sure, though. I'm photoshopping pictures of wingnuts, which I think is an activity that drains hope from a person.

My family

this is my family... at my great aunts funeral her brother says, "i want to be cremated, and my ashes to be used to fertilize some marijuana plants. that way everyone can be happy."