Little Feat - Roll Um Easy

Florida, where we love the criminally insane, especially when they build firing ranges in their front yard

Oh Florida, where we can't wait to pave over paradise and the right for every idiot to own a shooting iron Trumps every other right like not getting killed by psychopaths using their Second Amendment rights.

So this absolutely batshit crazy gun nut--Joseph "Compensating for Small Cock" Carannate--after hammering a couple of bottles of cheap booze thought it a fine idea to build small gun target backed up by sand in his front yard, next to houses where other children play.

Obviously, the right of neighboring kids to live pales next to the right of an asshole to avoid driving drunk to a local firing range and instead just to bust off caps on his own property.

So, the ass wipe neighbor built the target to the most exacting standards by getting a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon By God Beer and get some gap toothed Confederate flag flying friends to help him slap it up.  That way he could just step outside and blast off a few rounds, practicing for fighting off the Islamic fascist hordes 'cause real Americans don't take no shit from no hordes.

Also, who wants the hassle of driving to a gun range?  With a home range you can just roll out of bed bleary eyed, pop a beer, and walk outside, and blast away.  And Florida law, handcrafted by the National Rifle Association, makes it all legal.

Yay, smell the gunpowder and freedom!

Beause you know, what could possibly go wrong?

http://freakoutnation.com/2015/02/neighbors-upset-about-florida-gun-nuts-front-yard-shooting-range/

Governor Dick Scott; Just like Mother Teresa, only betterer

Who knew famed Wonkette blog of renown has a section on Florida follies?  Why didn't anyone tell me?

Because it came as quite a surprise to me Mr. so-called Guv Scott received an award for his stewardship of the environment in Florida--an award given by a board filled with appointees of Dick Scott.

Oh yes, Rick Scott, who has opened state parks to cattle ranchers, slashed the state’s environmental enforcement to the bone, and forbid state officials from even mouthing the words “climate change,” an utterance which angers the Good Lord (by which we mean the Kochs). Could you think of any better candidate for a Friend of the Environment award?
Read more at http://wonkette.com/592470/rick-scott-is-just-like-mother-teresa-your-florida-roundup#yZKWCS5YyA4vDWqM.99

Just like Mother Teresa, only more betterer.


http://wonkette.com/592470/rick-scott-is-just-like-mother-teresa-your-florida-roundup

TRUMP: WHAT'S THE DEAL? THE TRAILER

Pro Life vs. Merely Pro Birth

Sister Joan Chittister, Order of St. Benedictine, quoted by Daily Kos on difference between merely pro birth and truly prolife, caring for kids health, hunger, and education:

"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."  (emphasis added)   http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/30/1407166/-Catholic-Nun-Explains-Pro-Life-In-A-Way-That-May-Stun-The-Masses

How Right Wing Media Machine Turned Our Parents Into Fanatics

[“Centrists and liberals and progressives have to wake up and smell the fucking coffee,” she told me. “We’ve all sort of been polite. Liberals, progressives, we want to be fair—but it’s not about being fair, it’s about being objective. So I really hope to make people aware of this. Oh my God, it’s the media, stupid.”

Her hope is that the film, which screened as a work in progress, gets in front of audiences in time to make a difference in the 2016 presidential election {Jan}. Senko, incidentally, calls herself a Progressive and is throwing her weight behind Bernie Sanders. “I’m tired of seeing Democrats allowing themselves to be slapped in the face, allowing and adopting the language that people like Frank Luntz came up with for the Republicans,” she said.  “Just being aware is a huge step. It’s going to change conversations.”

To that end, Senko’s film takes a fiercely unapologetic stance; at one point, she invokes a quote by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in an archival montage of conservative news anchors linking WMDs to Iraq. “Goebbels actually did look at American advertising to get ideas for propaganda, so there’s a tie-in there,” she said. “I guess it’ll rock some boats, but I feel like it’s accurate and I stand by it.”] emphasis added  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/31/how-fox-news-made-my-dad-crazy.html

Then the So-Called Liberal Media scoffed at Hillary C. for pointing out the obvious, at least obvious to literate people.

Now, they stand poised to destroy Mrs. Clinton as part of Republican Congressional witch hunt, blasting out dribs and drabs of innocuous emails as "evidence" of sordid conspiracies when the truth remains these RepubliKKKan clowns specialize in character assassinations.

Rowdy Roddy PIper Gone to the Great Squared Circle in the Sky

[Although he was Canadian, due to his Scottish heritage he was billed as coming from Glasgow in Scotland and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He earned the nickname "Rowdy" by displaying his trademark "Scottish" rage, spontaneity and quick wit. Despite being a crowd favorite for his rock star-like persona, he often played a villain. Aside from his ring name, he was also known by the nickname "Hot Rod".

Piper headlined several major pay-per-view events; he participated in the main events of WrestleMania I and WrestleMania X – as a special guest referee in the latter. Never a world champion, he nevertheless accumulated 34 championships in various promotions during his career. Piper was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 and named No. 1 of the Top 50 villains in wrestling history by WWE.[5]]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_Piper


http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/news/rowdy-roddy-piper-dead-at-61-20150731

Piper promos:

On Vacation in Cape Canaveral, FL

Water has always played a large part in my life; rain, the ocean, and rivers flowing have always calmed me, providing handy metaphors for phases of my life.  So if you find yourself sick on the Space Coat of Florida, you might want to try Cape Canaveral hospital.  Surrounded on all sides by water, almost every room has a great view.

     

With only a mild kidney infection however, it means they won't let me stay long.  Soon, you'll find me at a nursing home; Island Health and Rehabilitation, a fine place in many ways but facing the same limitations as other for profit institutions, chief among them hiring decent workers while paying low wages.  Shareholders must profit off the misery of patients by warehousing them and collecting Medicare and Medicaid payments as well as confiscating our disability checks.

As with perhaps many places of employment, Island Health has humans working with only some caring about their patients and working hard while others just walk around ignoring patient call lights and caring little 'bout the people they get paid to care for.

One spiteful little troll nursing assistant in particular told me the reason for my paralysis came because God hates me.

I feel like that sometimes, most times, but her verbalizing that comes as highly unprofessional and just plain wrong.

Nevertheless while  wishing to live in Canaveral hospital ER in the land of tall, gorgeous blond nurses, must return to real life at Island Health and No Rehabilitation, charting my own course towards increased independence.

Fuck everyone who stands in my way, as their shins will get hit by my wheelchair footrests as i try to run them over.

Excelsior!

First Grateful Dead Album

UNDER CONSTRUCTION-Check back later this week


First, the album starts off with my favorite Dead song ever, perhaps because it reminds me of 2 girls in particular: the firt loved in college before I could even talk to ladies and the econd my favorite, literate baartender who ignored my great charm, intellect, and sense of humour and who thoroughly spurned my advances:

See that girl, barefootin' along,
Whistlin' and singin', she's a carryin' on.
There's laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet....

C'est la vie.

Next, although skeptical of painting metaphors with a broad brush, perhaps the album embodied the era and start of so-called hippy culture: carefree, dancing along, and with this band one sort of must mention  LSD as an influence.

Although in the current era "drugs" have become considered "evil" and "bad."



"it's a valiant attempt to corral the group's hydra-headed psychedelic jug-band music " http://www.allmusic.com/album/grateful-dead-mw0001998802


http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/goldroad.html

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS602US602&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=grateful%20dead%20first%20album%20review


http://www.salon.com/2015/07/18/trump_polls_partner

Backide of Pluto, otherwise known as Trump's Uranus

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/24/nasa-reveals-pluto-s-dark-side.html

Jon Stewart: Please Don't Leave!

Jon rips Don new one.  Trying to blog about The Donald but alternate between paroxysms of laughter and weeping over future of America f the US: the first 'cause Trumpster just so damn funny and the latter after realizing tea party losers and other fool well actually for the man, the mockery of a candidate.

"Making America great again," what does that mean?  When did we get un-great, when public support $ became available for people to buy private insurance, lowering rates of uninsured humans to historic levels?
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Chef Boyardee vs. the Volcano

Heard of "cooking with gas" but  this is ridiculous.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/ravioli-lava-video_n_7701950.html

Jewelbots: Accessorizing to Learn Coding

I want 1 too!  Wait, Why, I lack BFF's.

D. Trump Hears from a Veteran

https://www.patreon.com/keefknight

"If a comic is printed in a paper no one reads, is it still funny?"

Dennis Rodman: "Trump for President"

Oh man, this justs easier every day, like finding a racist at a Klan rally easy.  Former NBA player (valet and rebounder for Michael Jordan) and self-appointed unofficial ambassador to brutal dictatorship of North Korea, has come out in favor of Donald Trump for President. http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/24/dennis-rodman-trump-for-president.html

That settles it for me!

Welcome to the future, coming now to a planet near you.

Already in the US where we have for years paid too much for too little when compared to high speed internet in Europe, Austin TX has 'net architecture capable of transmitting a gigabyte of data every second; "The network, called GigaPower and offered through AT&T, relies 100 percent on fiber-optic lines laid directly to homes and souped-up routers that allow speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. That's 30 times the average in the United States today and fast enough to download 25 songs in a single second..." (Emphasis added because that's freaking fanTAStic.)

Also NASA with the Kepler Space telescope has found a bigger and older cousin planet to our Terran planet:

Kepler-452b is the first confirmation of a near-Earth-size planet that can sustain liquid water and orbits a star much like the Sun. It was found through data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope, launched into space more than six years ago.

“As far as we can tell,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, “it’s a pretty good, close cousin to our planet and sun.”  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/23/nasa-s-kepler-finds-earth-s-cousin.html

What the heck, might as well put on my big boy boxer shorts, eat more fruits and vegetables, and try to stick around for a long while just to see what happens next.

The REAL reason Sandra Bland changed lanes in the first place

Prarie View, TX, Warning Sign

Sign posted after inexcusable death of Sandra Bland:

https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/623493054880612352/photo/1

found at:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/21/1404253/-Someone-put-up-a-new-warning-sign-for-motorists-in-the-town-where-Sandra-Bland-was-arrested

Bruce Springsteen and Joe Grushecky Pumping Iron July 19th 2015

July 19, 2015 Bruce Springsteen and Joe Grushecky doing Darkness on the ...