OK...I found it tonight.....

The letter I received directed to "LIRIS".....

Oh boy....

Newest batch of examples of my name being butchered....

Then there was the envelope and letter addressed to "Liris"....

Reports are circulating in the popular press that dramatic actor extraordinaire Leonardo "I'm the king of the world" DiCaprio has admitted that he does not feel "inspired" by the 2008 US presidential candidates. (Oh what to do!)

Apparently the actor wasted time and energy campaigning for the haunted tree, Senator John Kerry in 2004, travelling to 14 different states to support the Democratic hopeful. However, he will not be doing the same for any of the 2008 candidates until they make their environmental policies clear. Oh crummm!

"I'm still on the fence about it, to tell you the truth. I have yet to hear a candidate that has clearly laid out their environmental policy in a way that is inspiring to me," DiCaprio told WENN.

Speaking about Kerry, Leonardo added: "I thought he had an amazing environmental policy. But I have yet to hear a candidate that has compared in that regard. I'm waiting for the right questions to be asked, and for these candidates to give really clear responses to what they're going to do in a tangible way - not a lot of rhetoric. I want to hear hardcore facts."

The hardcore fact, Lenny, is: 1) nobody really gives a damn what you think, and 2) we all know that you couldn't act your way out of paper bag (however, you don't seem to know it or realize it). So go back and go hawk a DVD release of "Growing Pains" at Walmart in an Alabama backwater strip mall and go visit Al "The earth is melting" Gore or some other Hollywood fraud.

(God, I'm feeling catty today.)

holy cats!

An acquaintance from Singapore asked me a few questions trying to understand the so-called "American mentality."

His questions:

1) Why would neighbors have so much to say about the new house getting built? They can literally stop a project just because they don't like it aesthetically.

2) Why are there so many Judge Mathis/Greg type of shows. "What not to wear", "10 years younger."

3) How come the TV can go on on on on on on on for days about Lindsay Lohan getting arrested, Anna Nicole Smith, (Princess Diana, now??) etc.

4) How come they can have so many engraved nominations of liberty and democracy when prejudice and restrictions are everywhere

5) WHy do americans talk so much? I was at a social function and was amazed how can they talk among themselves and not yawn?

6) They seem to constantly search for trivia knowledge to share. This trend is VERY American.


My observations/answers:

1. Americans like order...and I do kind of agree with that philosophy.

2. Because the American people love to convince themselves they have "justice for all" -- yet justice is only for the rich/privileged.

3. They are ASSUMING that the American public is interested in the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. It also is a distraction from dealing with what really ails American society.

4. Because they are hypocrites.

5. They get nervous when there is quiet...like they have to fill air. The average American has no use for quiet, solitude.

6. It is pseudo-intellectualism on their part. By spouting of this type of info they self gratify themselves into think that they are educated.

While channel surfing I caught former Vice President Al (B)ore on Oprah winfrey where he was touting "Five ways to fight global warming."

The suggestions:

1) Use fluorescent bulbs
2) Use solar-energized outdoor lighting
3) Use computer-activated "smart" heating/cooling thermostats
4) Use a blanket on your water heater
5) Regularly change out the filter on your heating/cooling system.

While three of the suggestions are valid, AlGore hasn't thought about the unintended consequences of the first two suggestions.

Fluorescent bulbs and the solar-energized outdoor LED lighting contain dangerous levels of mercury. When disposed of incorrectly pose a threat to human beings and muck up landfills with these trace elements. Not only that, like tube-based fluorescent lights, the bulbs emit radio frequency which interfere with hearing aids. This goes to prove that there is no "free lunch," and that this really poses another good argument that we as human beings should stop using fossil-based energy resources in our daily lives, and that we should resort to returning to caves and mudhuts and campfires.... But don't campfires emit smoke which goes up into the atmosphere causing more pollution?

Which leads me to suggest the only way out of this whole cunundrum: we need to regress to pre-fire discovering cavemen living, and regress back to the evolution of humans so that we are carbon-emitting negative specie.

Sounds logical to me..... (Tongue firmly in cheek)

and the story behind this video which has now gotten nearly three million posts...

My Christian neighbor really made me laugh today when i needed it the most. I was complaining how so many Christians go around being the ultimate hypocrites on one hand shoving a Bible in your chest while they stab you in the back or lie, cheat, or steal. On one hand they impose a very legalistic view on how you should live while they literally get away with murder, but use the excuse and justification that because they are "born again" they will be forgiven for whatever transgression they commit.

Out of the blue he said to me, "Going to McDonald's doesn't make you any more a hamburger than going to Church makes you a Christian."

Hallelujah!

Praise The Lord!

From Crackle: FISSION

If the Democratic party could have a few more Senators like Joe Lieberman...

Lieberman escalates attack on Iraq critics

By Manu Raju
The Hill
July 31, 2007

Ever since Connecticut Democrats refused to back him for a fourth term in Congress, Joe Lieberman has been burnishing his independent credentials in the narrowly divided Senate while becoming increasingly critical of the Democratic Party on the war in Iraq.

Lieberman, the Democrats’ 2000 vice presidential nominee, insists he is not actively considering joining the Republican Party. But he is keeping that possibility wide open as his disenchantment grows with Democratic leaders. The main sticking points are their attempts to end the war in Iraq and their hesitation to take a harder line against Iran.

“I think either [Democrats] are, in my opinion, respectfully, naïve in thinking we can somehow defeat this enemy with talk, or they’re simply hesitant to use American power, including military power,” Lieberman said in a wide-ranging interview with The Hill.

“There is a very strong group within the party that I think doesn’t take the threat of Islamist terrorism seriously enough.”

Lieberman says he is annoyed by the mudslinging on Capitol Hill and Democrats’ unwillingness to work with President Bush. But his critics say he has contributed to that polarization by his rhetoric and refusal to compel Bush to find a new way forward in Iraq.

As Lieberman sees it, however, the Democratic Party has slipped away from its “most important and successful times” of the middle of last century, where it was tough on Communism and progressive on domestic policy.

“I fear that some people take this position also because anything President Bush is for, they’ll be against, and that’s wrong,” said Lieberman, a staunch advocate of the war. “There’s a great tradition in our history of partisanship generally receding when it comes to foreign policy. But for the moment we’ve lost that.”

Even though he did not reclaim his Senate seat as a Democrat, Lieberman has been instrumental in two bills this Congress central to the 2006 Democratic campaign platform: an ethics and lobbying overhaul bill and a measure to implement recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. The 9/11 bill cleared Congress last week, and the ethics bill could win final approval this week before lawmakers adjourn for August recess.

But if Lieberman seems blunt about the direction of the Democratic Party, it may stem from his loss last August in the primaries to businessman Ned Lamont, who wooed Democratic voters with his anti-war platform. Lieberman calls his ensuing victory in the general election as an independent “inspiring.” And remaining an independent has freed him to repeatedly buck the Democratic leadership on foreign policy and other legislative issues.

“Now that he knows he can win as an independent, he doesn’t need the Democrats at all,” said Kenneth Dautrich, a professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut. “I think it’s absolutely emboldened him.”

Lieberman was the only non-Republican in June to vote against Democratic efforts to pass a resolution expressing no confidence on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He has no plans to endorse a Democrat for president, including the senior senator from his home state, Christopher Dodd, and is open to backing a Republican candidate for president. Lieberman also startled Democrats when he lent his support to the re-election bid of Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a top target of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

During this month’s Iraq debate, Lieberman was working behind the scenes strategizing with Republicans and was front-and-center in several GOP press conferences denouncing Democratic tactics to push for an end to the war.

Lieberman was the lone non-Republican to vote against Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) efforts to shut down debate on an amendment to bring troops home by next April. (Reid voted against the cloture motion to file a similar motion at a later time.) Lieberman was also alone when he joined 40 Republicans in voting to kill an amendment by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) to extend the time between troop deployments in Iraq.

“I’m disappointed that I am in so small a minority among Senate Democrats in taking the position that I have,” Lieberman said.

But even as he has played a key role on some of their top domestic initiatives, Democrats have at times kept their distance from Lieberman. Last week, for instance, Reid held a press conference with several Democrats to tout their efforts to pass the 9/11 Commission bill and a homeland-security spending plan. Lieberman, the lead Senate negotiator on the measure and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was conspicuously absent.

Reid said it was not intentional to leave Lieberman out of the press conference, but Lieberman said not being invited was “surprising.”

The distance that Democratic leaders appear to be keeping from Lieberman could result from the animosity that the Democrats’ anti-war base has directed toward him. That criticism intensified even more last month, when he suggested military intervention against the Iranian government.

“He used to have a heart and soul, and he used to care about people,” said Leslie Angeline, an activist with the anti-war group Code Pink, who held a 24-day hunger strike until she could meet with Lieberman about his position on Iran.
Angeline is facing an unlawful entry charge after she refused to leave Lieberman’s office during her strike.

Even though Lieberman has become a lightning rod on the left, his prominent chairmanship and influence within the Democratic caucus is safe, for now, given the Democrats’ razor-thin majority. Analysts say if Democrats increase their Senate majority from the 2008 elections, Lieberman’s influence and role could be marginalized within the caucus.

Still, Lieberman is unfazed and says he has no intention of formally rejoining the Democratic Party.

“For now, I find being an independent more fun,” Lieberman said. “The partisanship in this place is out of control. As an independent I’ve got the opportunity to speak out against that.”

In response to a nasty liberal website, DailyKos, where a Photoshopped picture was posted depicting Sen. Lieberman on his knees engaging President Bush in oral sex. The same site is promoting a conference which has been endorsed by the airline JetBlue, and will be featuring Hillary Clinton and John Edwards....to which I wrote in to The O'Reilly Factor...

Bill, thank you for exposing the real merchants of hate and intolerance as the DailyKos. As an independent voter (like many Americans even though they may be affiliated with a particular mainstream party), I can't help but feel that while any of the Democratic presidential candidates feel that it is a fait accompli that one of them may be occupying the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue come Tuesday, January 20, 2009, nothing is set in stone. Remember the Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare? Nothing prevents the Dems to be drubbed out again.

The other night Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner appeared on what has been regarded in some circles as her final television interview on CNN's Larry King Show. She is a "stage 4" cancer victim. I couldn't watch more than a minute of the interview given that I recently lost my mom to cancer.

From what I saw of it this is sooo what I would call "ratingsploitation." It is both funny and sad how one of the great innovators of cable news, CNN, has turned into a bad parody of FOX News without the gaudy graphics.

I swear that when Larry King dies (unless perhaps that he is a present day reincarnation of God and is immortal) CNN is going to have him taxidermied and turn on a camera on him every night at 6 p.m. till the end of time (or be the last live host) and run a tape loop of his standard questions to which the guest sitting there answers.

What a piece of modern artwork.


Here is a sample of the interview.

CNN interview, part 1 of 3
CNN interview, part 2 of 3
CNN interview, part 3 of 3

The most shocking part of the interview is how Mr. Praise The Lord, Tammy's ex-husband and televangelist, Jim Bakker, has not contacted or given support to his former wife.

This just shows how fucked up "born again" Christians are....

Totally not figuring out what TOLERANCE means, three Christian activist audience members were arrested Thursday after staging a noisy protest as a Hindu chaplain read the opening prayer at the US Senate, branding his appearance an "abomination."
They were ejected from the chamber and charged with an unlawful disruption of Congress.

As Hindu chaplain Rajan Zed started to recite his prayer, one protestor was heard chanting "Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer which is an abomination in your sight. "You are the one, true living God."

It has been a Congress tradition to bring in Faith leaders from various belief systems to give the Senate's daily opening prayer, though it is normally offered by the Congress's Christian (sometimes Jewish) chaplain.

An article on the Internet quotes a group calling itself "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" as condemning the protest. According to a dispatch from AFP, "This shows the intolerance of many Religious Right activists," said the group's executive director, Reverend Barry Lynn. "They say they want more religion in the public square, but it's clear they mean only their religion." The conservative American Family Association had been campaigning against the use of a Hindu prayer in the chamber, asking members to send emails and letters to Senators in protest.