Headline: Winehouse toxicology results: No illegal drugs

but lots and lots of alcohol I’m guessing…

I have an admission, the Frogette and I took a lot of cr*p from our friends, family, and colleagues when we decided to leave California. But the plain fact is, after 14 years, we were fed up with California dysfunction, jobs in San Francisco had dried up, and remaining would have probably involved moving down the peninsula for work.

With that in mind I present to you an unrenovated, 3 bedroom sh*tbox, in a bad section of San Mateo, not near anything that matters, painted powder-blue for god sake, with a concrete front yard, and a backyard of…well…dirt. And this tired example of the American Dream goes for a modest $950K!!!

Need I say more?

Michelle Bachmann today stood up for millionaire and billionaires everywhere when she declared in her campaigning that, “Taxes are high enough already”.   Watch the video and tell me that you don’t think her audience is not made up of the super wealthy.  I’ve never seen a more lukewarm reception.  Had I not read she was in South Carolina, I would have thought she was in her home state trying to convince the Minnesotans that taxes are, ‘too damn high’.  As it is, the audience is probably all snowbirds anyway.  I mean let’s face it Midwesterners love the South, and they will do anything to evade paying taxes in their home state, so maybe they really are her demographic.

As US debt negotiations propel this country toward the cliff, one thing is becoming increasingly apparent: Republicans are not interested in a deal, not even on their own terms. Obama has put forward a $4T plan that…well…gave the Republicans more than they asked for on deficit reduction. Boner and the House Thug’s rejected it because it included new revenues. Harry Reid, quite literally, gave Boner everything he’d outlined the previous week. Eric C*nter called the plan a “gimmick”.

Pundits claim that this high-stakes brinksmanship is about destroying the Obama administration, about defunding Medicare so that it can be used in the next election to get a ‘Thuglican back in the White House, but this is incorrect.

Republicans want a default, and here’s why: They’re not out to destroy Obama but the middle-class. They want, with one stroke, to wipe out that class of people that provide stability in this country but that also make elections volatile and unpredictable. They feel, that if they can destroy the middle-class, they can somehow consolidate Republican power for a generation.

Personally, I can’t really grok this twisted logic, but the result—what will happen to markets on Thursday and Friday—is the end that justifies, or at least exposes, the means. When 8 trillion more in wealth is wiped out between Thursday and Monday of next week, the loss will fall squarely on the middle-class. Most of us will be wiped out in one giant financial massacre, and every time I see the Republicans walk away from the negotiating table with some pathetic, lame, entirely new, excuse I become more convinced that the real goal of the Republican party is to finish us off for good.

I am so sick of the debate over the debt ceiling.  It’s all anyone has talked about for the past couple of weeks.  News outlets breathlessly report that we are approaching the time limit for passing debt ceiling legislation while Tea Partiers harrass their newly elected representatives saying that raised taxes will end in their being turned out of office.  It’s all rhetoric.  That is until Moody’s really does downgrade the U.S. credit and we’re all totally humped.  And President Obama, this appeal the middle class to ’sacrifice’ for the sake of the Nation.  You can just stuff it.  I’ve sacrificed all right.  I’ve paid into social security, worker’s comp and Medicare/Medicaid all my life and I’m not going to get diddly from any one of those programs.  I accept that and I’ve planned for my retirement, but if you and the Congress blow this one the U.S. economy is going to spiral into freefall and once again I’ll watch my retirement savings vanish in front of my eyes.

It’s time for you people to make a deal and get real.  Raise taxes.  You don’t pay your bills by making less money, why on earth would you believe the U.S. can meet it’s debts without bringing in more cash?  We are borrowing money now because we don’t have enough to meet our obligations.  Cut spending.  Stop funding wars, prisons, and programs we simply don’t need.  No sacred cows.  Just do it.  America is tired of hearing you all rail about the debt.  We want a solution, not more hot air so get in there and hash out a deal.  Or I myself will make it my mission to turn you out of office.  You hear me?

You just stepped in it.  Big time.  Michelle Bachmann, Republican front runner and the gift that just keeps on giving, compared herself this week to John Wayne. She meant the macho, moralizing Hollywood star.  Unfortunately she said John Wayne of Waterloo, Iowa.  Ummmm…the serial killer?  Nice.  See now if you didn’t spend so much time worrying about Liberal conspiracies Michelle you might have heard of this thing called Google or, wait for it Wikipedia.

All I can say is I’m not voting for you, that’s for sure.

I used to have to go the New Yorker for this kind of entertainment, but with the world wide web it’s everywhere.  This is seriously a headline from ABCNews.com:

25 Hurt as School Bush Flips on Pa. Highway

A school bush, huh?  Idiots.

Just when you got your entire life online.  You pay your bills there, serve content wirelessly, and Twitter like a madman.  You’re living the 24/7 virtual dream and, BAM!  Complete blackout.  Apparently it could happen.  The U.S. Government this week made an announcement in advance of North Korea’s nuclear tests that the rogue government has invented a “Super EMP” capable of taking down power grids across the United States.  It’s  my worst nightmare.  An electro-magnetic pulse has long been the weapon of choice in Hollywood, but in real life it’s proved stubbornly difficult to produce.  I practically went insane when my ISP went down for 8 days.  How is a spoiled, techno-saavy Westerner like myself supposed to survive on books alone?  It can’t be done I tell you.  Now this may be the yellow cake uranium of the North Korean conflict or it may be a clear and present danger.  The question is how can we ever know?  Anyone close enough to the test to confirm it, isn’t going to be able to send cell phone images or even e-mail.  Yikes!

There’s nothing that goes unnoticed in this age.

~ Robin Williams

When you passed the Patriot Act and opened all of our lives up to scrutiny, yours wasn’t exempt.  If you do it in the Internet Age someone is going to see and report it to everyone else.  You opened this can of worms guys, you should know better.  I’m talking to you Weiner.

I was astonished this evening when the Frog pointed me toward an article in which Democratic representative Anthony Weiner (his real name), admitted to tweeting his winky.  He’s been all over the media in the past week denying that it was him and claiming his account had been ‘hacked’.  I have to say that rang hollow for me, but even I was taken aback when he also copped to sexting on Twitter and Facebook.   On a government issued Blackberry.  Doesn’t the Patriot Act cover this sort of madness?  I mean, who does that?!!!

I can just imagine the Barbara Walters interview promo, “Weiner wegrets wagging weiner at women”