A little bit of computer problems here the last couple of days, now fixed, I hope. However, I just wrote a post and it vanished without a trace. Perhaps I should call Poppy Montgomery. Oh, she’s gone on to another gig. Well, have a great Thanksgiving Day turkey, or should it be, have a great Thanksgiving Day, turkey?
Stupid political tricks
Here are just a few of the supremely stupid ideas coming from the mouths of mostly Republican politicians but I will include some Democrats just to be “fair and balanced” like that stupid cable network.
Get to work you little heathens!
Newt. We must call him Newt. Like Cher. Like Madonna. Like Attila. Newt the pot of greed calling the kettle black says we should slack off on our “truly stupid” child labor laws. Yes, why don’t we go back to the good ol’ days, say, 1810, when about 2 million children were working anywhere from 50-to-70 hours per week? There weren’t many if any sanitation laws back then so kids would work in dirty, damp, infested factories. Whether one thinks an increased longevity of life is a good thing, it can only be imagined that the kids who did live to grow up into adults would not have significant lifespans. Some factories even put up wire fences to keep kids from escaping.
Newt thinks “union” janitors should be fired from schools and local children should be hired to clean the schools. Why not just make ’em work for punishment? Why not legalize indentured servitude of little kids? Hey, they spend too much time playing computer games and figuring out ways to massacre their classmates and teachers anyway.
Newt. He truly wastes the earth’s oxygen.
Like this is going to happen
Pat Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen must either be shills for the GOP or they have been huffing glue. The pair of pollsters wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sunday that President Obama should step aside and let Hillary Clinton run for president. I am not familiar with Schoen although I know Caddell, a former political operative for Jimmy Carter, is one of the token Democrats Faux News runs out to enhance their false claim of being fair and balanced.
These two are wasting trees and bandwidth. How many ways can I say stupid? Estúpido. Stupide. Dumm. ηλίθιος. 愚か. тупоумно. (Ed. note: Translations are from Yahoo Babel Fish. I am not responsible for their accuracy. This is just an example that many ways exist to proclaim stupidity and no matter how it is spelled, written or pronounced, it flourishes as ever in American politics nowadays.)
When comedy isn’t comedy
My final stupid political trick pick is funny man, the Godfather of Pizza himself, Herman Cain. No, it wasn’t his brain breakdown in front of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board when questioned on Libya. Instead, it was Cain being undone with his own cleverness in a late night interview with David Letterman.
Dave is one of the craftiest, and can be one of the most dangerous, television interviewers in the business. While Letterman brought a little comedy to the surface, he also sliced and diced Cain about some of the GOP candidate’s most recent blunders. For instance, Letterman got laughs with his comment that “I’m not stranger to sexual scandal,” referring to his own past sexual dalliances with staffers. But other stupid remarks from Cain’s recent past brought on the side of Letterman that makes the comic as good or probably better than most of today’s TV pundits. This was evident with a near-sneering Dave who half-asked and was half-accusatory with Cain’s claim that he was “just kidding” about his “electric fence” comment. Cain claimed he would have a border fence installed, if elected president, which would be electrified and kill people. He later called the comment a joke.
The appearance on David Letterman’s show is just one more example of Herman Cain and his incredible lack of judgment in talking seriously when the pizza man should just hit the rubber chicken circuit and give up politics.
Stupid is as stupid does. Those are words for Herman Cain to live by.
Opting for short. Everybody’s working for the weekend so here it comes.
Does the green-eyed monster affect toes?
Part of my “medical team” as it is called at the VA has scolded me for wearing flip flops since I have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. It is understandable. The naked feet can suffer an injury which can become more easily affected leading to some real problems. Still, walking to the bathroom at night isn’t like hiking across the Himalayas. Or so I would think.
I have had to rethink my strategy since finding several small puddles of blood on my floor this morning. I looked and said “what the hell?” I found a small cut on the side of my big toe that I must have banged against my dresser while going to the bathroom during the night. Since I have numbness in my feet from diabetic neuropathy, I can’t feel a great portion of my toes.
What made me scratch my bald head this morning though was that my other toe, the one I didn’t slice open, felt as if someone was sticking a hot poker on it. I finally had to take sick leave after about three hours at work because a very sharp and severe pain was shooting down my right toe. It has finally relented, but I have no idea why my toe up and decided to hurt like hell this morning. Perhaps it was because I applied some antibiotic cream and bandaged the cut toe and the right toe became jealous. But I am applying an anti-fungal to my right toe. Hey, I’m taking care of you too, big guy!
I looked at some slippers earlier but I just hate wearing shoes, period, these days.
Jeez, what a wreck.
Kim Jong Il can now boast of air conditioned pigs fed through pipes
Every once in awhile it is helpful to sit back and take a gander at truth, North Korean style. Yes, ladies and gerbils, I am talking about “Korean News: News from Korean Central News Agency.” This is, of course, from the state-run news agency of North Korea. Perhaps it is best to not even comment upon this late 20th century-styled news sheet, but let the reader interpret the news of the lonely communist nation. That is, provided one can first understand what they hell they are talking about.
The North Koreans always practice with their most bellicose statements. Sad to say for them, their language seems to be their worst enemy.
U.S., S. Korea’s Military Provocations Censured by Nepali Organization
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) — The Nepalese Committee for Promotion of Reunification of Korea released a statement on Nov. 7 denouncing the United States and the south Korean puppet warmongers for their frantic war moves against the DPRK.
The statement said: The Nepalese Committee for Promotion of Reunification of Korea expresses serious concern over the fact that the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers recently staged large-scale Hoguk joint military exercises under the pretext of coping with someone’s “provocation” and had confabs on “provision of deterrent including nuclear umbrella” at the annual security consultative meeting, thus bringing again the grave situation to the Korean Peninsula.
Whatever the relationship North Korea and Nepal share is beyond me and certainly will not be keeping me up this evening worrying about that alliance. The best that I can tell is the countries have diplomatic relations and there are also, according to this Wikipedia article, “a number” of North Korean restaurants in Kathmandu. Who knew?
We certainly cannot blame the North Koreans of trying to keep their culture buried underground. This food article, will no doubt, shock more than one Westerner:
Kimchi, Traditional Food of Korea
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) — Kimchi, one of the Korean nation’s traditional dishes, is very popular in the country for its peculiar flavor and nutritive substances. The dish is mainly divided into two — kimchi prepared for winter and kimchi made for other seasons.
Winter kimchi is an important part of the Korean people’s diet in the winter season. So, it has been called half-yearly food.
Kimchi made for other seasons is diverse in kind. It is prepared with vegetables or edible herbs. With the popularity of kimchi steadily increasing in other countries, its preparing methods have been widespread worldwide. Kimchi is considered health food with a peculiar medical effect caused by the action of lactic acid bacteria.
Perhaps the North Korean government doesn’t know that kimchi can be purchased in many larger American food stores and served in Korean-American restaurants. I’m sure Kim Jong Il would blame this on the result of the CIA and its infiltration. This revealing look into the dietary habits of what has been described by some as a half-starving country raises the question of what is the food during the other half of the year? Also, why is it half-yearly if it is only a staple of the winter season? “Peculiar flavor” and “peculiar medical effect?” This lends itself to a great international slogan: “Kimchi–It’s twice as peculiar!”
Kim Jong Il’s Work Carried in Bulletin
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) — The Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea carried in the 2nd issue of its bulletin the gist of General Secretary Kim Jong Il’s celebrated work “The Songun-based Revolutionary Line Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution.”
The country’s esteemed leader should, at the very least, receive a heavy medal reward for such a long title which uses the root word “Revolution” three times.
And to show that I learned something from my local TV news stations. I leave this interesting mix of North Korean news with an animal story.
Taedonggang Pig Farm Automated
Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) — The Taedonggang Pig Farm built in Pyongyang some time ago has introduced an integrated automatic system in its management and production.
All the processes of the farm, including feed processing and supply suitable for species, ages and health conditions of pigs, are operated by computer.
Granulated feed, assorted differently to suit breeding and fattening pigs and piglets, are supplied to air-conditioned pigpens through pipes.
The number and weight of slaughtered pigs are automatically calculated. The integrated automatic system is also good for the anti-epizootic work.
Leave the audience smiling. All should be so happy that Kim Jong Il finally got that damn pig farm automated! I’m sure he has wished for that since childhood. I mean who wouldn’t breathlessly anticipate an automated pig farm where “pigs and piglets” can be fattened up through pipes “supplied to air-conditioned pigpens?” Isn’t that enough to make PETA want to up and leave for the People’s Republic?
Have a nice day! Anyone for nice heaping helping of Daeli Galbi?