Shakin' Like a Human Bein'

Yeehaa! Me and Cousin Bobby went out last night (He's been worried, since I haven't been getting out and socializing) We went to a place that just opened up, the "Yellow Moon," and I danced with a few old gals and had a few brews, and, as William S. Burroughs once wrote, awoke in new flesh, the outlook different. Amen, ahem. Thinking tonight about something my old good friend Sam said long ago. He asked me what my plans were upon graduation from High School, and I said, in my callow youth and utter stupidity, "Whatever." He looked at me and said/asked, "Wherever the river carries you."

Since then I have crossed many rivers, indeed, and rode out some tough spots indeed; and now I am at a point in my life, to mix metaphors feely, where I am in the Quik-Stop, it's 11:30 something, and I am hungry, but....nothing looks good. Gen X turns 40 and that's the problem, cause we are all getting on, the Cold War is over, and nothing looks good.

But thanks Bobby, and hang in there Sam. The jury is still out on this old SOB and who knows, he's got a few moves in him yet, if the Callow young gals from the next town over can be believed. And today I choose to believe. I'm shakin', but I'm just glad the good Lord let me be here, and stick around this long, besides. Stay loose, stay cool, and keep the Faith.

The Corbomite Maneuver, Revisited

We need more geeks in government! Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has obviously watched some Star Trek. I was struck by the wily bastard's face down of the Western Powers and the UN. It bore a remarkable resemblance to the redoubtable Capt. Kirk's face down of a alien vessel (captain by a bald child played by Roan Howard's mutant brother) To save the Enterprise from certain destruction, Kirk uses bluff, baravado, and a little white lie about something called "Corbomite," an erstwhile component in all Federation ships, he claims, which blows the hooey out of anyone foolish enough to successfully destroy one. This bamboozles the much more powerful aliens, who chicken out instead. Sound familiar? A geek administration would have spotted this forty-year old plot device with ease. Instead, the current Fratboy administration took the boondoggle and left this crazy Klingon bastard out their in the desert, playing brinkmanship. Beam me up, Scotty, I'm in a world of shit down here!

That's rich!

Hoo-boy. I have always maintained that there is nothing quite as sweet as hypocrite written large. As this nation continues its slide out of reality and into becoming Mexico's first colony, I think it worthwhile to glory in the nonsense, self-delusion, and outright lies of the close-knit group of ninnies who would call themselves our "leaders." Read on:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's warnings to Iran and Syria to not interfere in Iraq and the arrest of six Iranians in Iraq by U.S. troops raised eyebrows Thursday on Capitol Hill, where senators warned Bush against widening the nearly four-year-old war.
Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Bush did not have the authority to send U.S. troops on cross-border raids.

To which Condi replied:

"Surely the United States is not the one being threatening," she said. "We are not the ones being meddlesome and troublesome in Iraq."


Roflmao!!!!!

Backtrack:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/11/iraq.iran/index.html?eref=rss_topstories