"Ivars, looks like someone just gave you an enema with broken glass"

Dictionary.com/bloviate:

Bloviate

intr.v. Slang blo-vi-at-ed, blo-vi-at-ing, blo-vi-ates

To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: "the rural Babbitt who bloviates about progress and growth (George Rebeck). "

John Kerry has spoken about mounting a civil campaign, but at this point I just wonder if he is capable of doing anything but attacking the President. Sen. Kerry, WHAT would YOU do? That's a lot harder question to answer. I'm not an ardent Bush supporter, but as I look at both candidates, I'm not sure if we'd be doing or having anything different by going for our own regime change.

What is YOUR vision, Mr. Kerry? Sorry to say, but so far your "vision" seems to be more like "hindsight." And hindsight is always 20/20.


KANSAS CITY, Mo. - John Kerry said Saturday the White House is committing character assassination with its treatment of former counterterror chief Richard Clarke to avoid responding to questions about national security. Kerry also said Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser, should testify in public before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

"If Condoleezza Rice can find time to do `60 Minutes' on television before the American people, she ought to find 60 minutes to speak to the commission under oath," Kerry told reporters. "We're talking about the security of our country."

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Being bitch slapped by Richard Simmons....YUCK!

Fitness Guru Simmons Cited for Slapping Fighter

"PHOENIX (Reuters) - Flamboyant fitness guru Richard Simmons was cited by authorities for allegedly slapping a 255-pound Harley-Davidson salesman who was poking fun at his exercise videos at an airport, police said on Thursday. Simmons, 54, famous for his frizzy hair, glittery tank tops and exuberant demeanor, was ticketed for misdemeanor assault after allegedly striking the man across the face while in line at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Wednesday night, police said.
The confrontation occurred when the man, identified as Chris Farney, 23, recognized Simmons as the celebrity trainer was signing autographs and posing for pictures, police said.
'He (Farney) apparently said, 'Hey everybody, it's Richard Simmons. Let's drop our bags and rock to the '50s,'' said Sgt. Lauri Williams in a reference to Simmons' well-known series of 'Sweatin' to the Oldies' exercise videos. 'Mr. Simmons took offense and said he had to 'bitch slap' him.'
According to the police report, Farney said Simmons told him, 'It's not nice to make fun of people with issues' before slapping him on the left side of the face. Stunned, Farney walked away for a moment before contacting authorities.
Police described Farney as a 6-foot-1-inch sales representative for the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company who weighs 255 pounds and has competed in the spectator sport of cage fighting -- otherwise known as mixed martial arts.
He told officers he had no intention of hitting Simmons, who stands 5 feet 4 inches tall, because he 'knew that he was much more powerful than Simmons.'
Nevertheless, Farney told police he wanted to press charges"

I guess telling fibs about having received numerous calls from foreign leaders saying that they support him doesn't count. And I think having a terrorist country that tortures its people and rules with terror doesn't count either.


Kerry Says U.S. Deserves Truthful Leader

"WASHINGTON - John Kerry (news - web sites) said the country deserves leadership that 'tells the truth' as he took over the mantle of the Democratic Party at a unity dinner Thursday with Presidents Clinton and Carter and most of his former foes. "
"Above all, this country of ours which we love deserves leadership that faces the truth and tells the truth," Kerry said, "that trusts the American people and knows that when we live up to our values, the United States of America never goes to war because it wants to, we only go to war because we have to."

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The militant group Hamas backed off its initial threats against the United States, saying Wednesday that it would focus on attacking Israel — and try to kill Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) — in retaliation for the assassination of its founder in an Israeli missile strike.

Can we talk bombing Hamas into smithereens like we bombed Libya into oblivion? Afghanistan? Baghad? Go ahead...make our day....

DON'T FENCE ME IN
(Cole Porter)

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,
Don't fence me in.
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love,
Don't fence me in.
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze,
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees,
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don't fence me in.

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies.
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can't look at hovels and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in.

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies,
Don't fence me in.
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love,
Don't fence me in.
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don't fence me in

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise.
Ba boo ba ba boo.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in.
No.
Poppa, don't you fence me in"

Now I'm mad....

Some of my friends will take the excuse that "they don't watch TV or follow politics" (they should...it is about their pocketbook), but hearing about these anti-American, anti-war demonstrations really gets to me...just like the protests by the parents of soldiers killed in combat walking in silence with drawn faces and moaning and whining about the death of their kid in war. NOBODY ASKED THEIR KIDS TO JOIN THE MILITARY... The stark reality is that the military is about killing people and blowing things up. Soldiers get killed in conflicts. It happens in 2004. It happened 2000 years ago. Yet these people look for the nearest TV camera for the 15 seconds of fame and go on whining and sobbing. And of course, the TV folks love it because it is dramatics cloaked as news.

Hey folks, the military is not Club Med.

So today on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, why aren't these same boobs protesting against the liberation of 6 million Jews United States and its allies during World War II....and against the liberation of Europe from this tyrant called Adolf Hitler? Huh? I want to hear somebody give me a good reason based on FACTS not HYSTERIA. These boobs have never lost a family member because they were of an ethnicity and profession (my grandfather was killed in a Russian-run prison/concnetration camp in East Germany; my mother, aunt and grandmother fled from the Russian occupation of Latvia. My dad he was put in jail in Belgium by the Nazis and my grandfather since World War I always managed to be enslaved in a prison factory as Jews were easy targets and to be blamed for all of the world's miseries.) World War II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's predecessor, Sir Neville Chamberlain pursued a pacificist policy with Adolf Hitler and ended up with the blood of six million Jews on his hands while he negotiated, negotiated, negotiated and signed useless and valueless agreements. And what about the 3000 Americans killed with the bombing of the World Trade Center... Remember that? Did these people have a choice? It would seem that poet George Santayana's almost worn out words about those refusing to learn from the past are destined to repeat the mistakes of history are coming to roost once again.

Don't get me wrong....WAR IS HORRIBLE. Innocent people get killed. But that's life. The biggest boob of them all, former Pres. Jimmy Carter said it himself many years ago... "life isn't always fair." NOBODY in their right mind wants war. But it is a part of human nature and man's innate need to dominate other men (and women and others). Just see the effect that religion has on some people.

While I'm bothered by President Bush's confused and untidy foreign policy in dealing with terrorism, Americans and others need to figure out that we are in a full-fledged war against radical fundamentalists who want to inflict THEIR doctrines and whacked out philosophies on us. We were at war as early as the bombing of the Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland by Libya in the arly 1980s. The people who we are fighting against are those who don't give a rat's ass about women's rights, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, etc., etc. I'd love to see what the National Organization Of Women would say if women this country were FORCED to wear chadors or burhkas as the Islamic terrorists imposed on the women in Afghanistan, and if women were denied to the right to education and freedom of thought and assembly as they were in Afghanistan and Iraq under the tyrannical regimes.

Whew...I feel better...

Back to your regularly scheduled programming....


Major Protests Mark Iraq War Anniversary
"NEW YORK - Hundreds of thousands of people around the world rallied against the U.S. presence in Iraq (news - web sites) on the first anniversary of the war Saturday, in protests that retained the anger, if not the size, of demonstrations held before the invasion began.
Protesters filled more than a dozen police-lined blocks in Manhattan, calling on President Bush (news - web sites) to bring home U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Mayor Michael Bloomberg estimated the crowd at about 30,000, but organizers said later that number had grown to more than 100,000.
'It is time to bring our children home and declare this war was unnecessary,' said the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a New York activist addressing a rally in Manhattan. The roughly 250 anti-war protests scheduled around the country by United for Peace and Justice ranged from solemn to brash. "

Mr. Kerry....you are such Presidential material! You are so classy...so...so..eloquent in your utterances...

C'mon you RABs (Rabid Against Bush)...you think this guy is any smarter than good ol' GW? At this point, I would beg to differ.

KERRY CALLED SECRET SERVICE AGENT 'SON OF A B*TCH' AFTER SLOPE SPILL

(AP) Dem presidential candidate John Kerry called his secret service agent a 'son of a bitch' after the agent inadvertently moved into his path during a ski mishap in Idaho, sending Kerry falling into the snow.

When asked a moment later about the incident by a reporter on the ski run, Kerry said sharply, 'I don't fall down,' the 'son of a b*itch knocked me over.' The Secret Service agent in question has complained about Kerry's treatment, top sources tell the Associated Press. Last month, Kerry began receiving Secret Service protection.

'Obviously, the complications and burden of being monitored 24-hours a day is not just an a simple inconvenience,' a government source explained Friday. 'But Senator Kerry should understand agents are working for his safety and well-being.'

On Friday, Kerry, his snowboard strapped to his back, hiked past 9,000 feet on Durrance Peak, then snowboarded down the mountain, taking repeated tumbles. Reporters counted six falls, although Kerry was out of sight for part of the descent. "

This is why religion is bad.... Religion whether it is practiced by some Bible-thumpin' right winger in Tennessee or an Arab fundamentalist in the middle east is no different.

MANAMA (Reuters) - Some 100 Bahraini Islamists shouting "God is Greatest" stormed a French restaurant serving alcohol in the pro-Western Gulf Arab state and threatened diners with knives, witnesses said on Thursday. One diner managed to wrest a knife away from the Islamists and stabbed one with it, causing him severe injuries, a witness said. They said the assailants, opposed to the consumption of alcohol banned by Islam, also threw gasoline bombs at customers' cars parked outside the restaurant near the capital Manama late on Wednesday, damaging nine vehicles.

"Abound 100 young men, shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest), came to the restaurant carrying knives and shouted at the customers: Why do you drink?," Jahanshah Bakhtiar, owner of La Terrasse Restaurant, told Reuters. "They were acting as if they had the right ideas and people should obey them," he said, adding that there were about 40 customers in the restaurant. Security police investigating the incident declined to comment.

Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and the Gulf's banking hub, has traditionally enjoyed a more liberal atmosphere than some of its more conservative neighbors. It allows restaurants, bars and night clubs to serve alcohol but has recently witnessed a rise in protests against Western-style events deemed immoral by Islamists. Bahraini newspapers reported on Thursday that young men had attacked a house in a village where they suspected foreign workers were producing alcohol.

"WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said Tuesday that President Bush's decision to send troops to Iraq appears to have contributed to the bombing deaths of 201 in Spain."

Oh shut up....go back to your corner in the mental asylum where you can act out another scene in your Napolean Bonaparte costume.

Life has a way of making you get off your ass and do what it is you are supposed to be doing.

(Madrid, SPAIN) (AFP) MORE than a thousand people held a protest in Madrid today to blame this week's bombs in the capital on the government's unpopular decision to support the US war on Iraq.

Shouting "The bombs on Iraq have exploded in Madrid" and "Resign", the crowd gathered in front of the ruling Popular Party's headquarters but were held back by police in riot gear.

The demonstration, on the eve of general elections, came amid conflicting theories as to who was to blame for Thursday's blasts on crowded commuter trains that killed 200 people and wounded nearly 1500.

Never mind that radical Muslims are implicitly trying to kill off all the "infidels" of the Western world.

The other night I saw an interesting grafitti outside of a popular San Diego coffeehouse...

"MAKE COFFEE, NOT WAR!"

That got me to thinking...with everybody high and buzzed on caffeine...doesn't this raise the possibility of war?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry returned to Congress on Thursday for a series of party unity meetings and slammed a 'Republican attack squad' that he said specializes in destroying foes.

Kerry, facing a flood of Republican criticism for characterizing his critics in the other party on Wednesday as a 'crooked, lying group,' refused to apologize and amplified his charges.
'There is a Republican attack squad that specializes in trying to destroy people and be negative,' Kerry told reporters after having lunch in the Capitol with his Senate Democratic colleagues. 'I think the president needs to talk about the real priorities of our country.'"

I guess that calling critics and the Republican party "crooked, lying group" is talking about the real priorities of our country.

More and more I don't know about this guy.....

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

Down went the gunner, a bullet was his fate
Down went the gunner, and then the gunner's mate
Up jumped the sky pilot, gave the boys a look
And manned the gun himself as he laid aside The Book, shouting...

{Refrain}
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
And we'll all stay free

Praise the Lord and swing into position
Can't afford to be a politician
[or Can't afford to sit around and wishin
or All aboard, we're on a mighty mission]
Praise the Lord, we're all between perdition
And the deep blue sea

Yes the sky pilot said it
Ya gotta give him credit
For a sonofagun of a gunner was he

Shouting Praise the Lord, we're on a mighty mission
All aboard, we ain't a-goin' fishin'
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
And we'll all stay free

{Refrain twice}"

What in the hell were the Republicans thinking?

Sheesh... You mean to say that the proliferation of guns is no longer a problem? What in the hell is wrong with background checks?

This is crazy.... IMHO!


Senate Republicans Scuttle Gun Bill

WASHINGTON - In a last-minute turnaround, Senate Republicans scuttled their election-year gun legislation Tuesday after Democrats added amendments to extend an assault weapons ban and require background checks on all buyers at private gun shows to the package. The 90-8 vote against the bill handed Democrats and gun control advocates an unexpected victory in the GOP-controlled Congress. It all but eliminated any chance for gun legislation this year.

'Twenty-four hours ago, I knew of no one who would have said we would be sitting where we are right now,' said Mike Barnes, president of the Brady Campaign gun-control group. 'The NRA's highest legislative priority was just defeated.'
Beginning in September, the gun industry can resume making, importing and selling military style semiautomatic weapons that were outlawed a decade ago. Nonetheless, Democrats say they now have the Senate on record as supporting the assault weapons ban by a 52-47 vote even though Republican leaders have vowed they won't allow the House to consider it this year. "