The other day

at the game, John told us he had been talking to his reading partner (a writing partner who reads and critiques your writing) and told him he was "homophonic".

Even without knowing exactly what the word meant I could tell how funny it was and how the republicans would cringe at it. And it's only one letter different from their hue and cry!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/homophonic

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
hom·o·phon·ic /ˌhɒməˈfɒnɪk, ˌhoʊmə-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hom-uh-fon-ik, hoh-muh-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. having the same sound.
2. Music. having one part or melody predominating (opposed to polyphonic).
[Origin: 1875–80; < Gk homóphōn(os) (see homophonous) + -ic]

—Related forms
hom·o·phon·i·cal·ly, adverb
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Liberal Democrat? Me?

I am: 17% Republican.

"You're a tax-and-spend liberal democrat. People like you are the reason everyone else votes for guys like Reagan or George W."

Are You A Republican?

It's rigged I tell you!

Both sides

Of the fence seem to contain a sufficient number of idiots and morons.

Store's e-mail slams soldiers in Iraq

Here is a sergeant who is trying to get some gear for his troops in Iraq. Something the Army seems to have forgotten or neglected. On the one had he gets an email in response to his request telling him he should pull out of Iraq.

"SGT Hess,

We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.

Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com"

Kind of a moronic thing to say. He's a soldier, they go where they're ordered to and do what their told.

But the public outcry in response to this email exchange is even more moronic than the original response.

"You terrorist loving jihad mother ((expletive)). This is America you son of a ((expletive)). You get the ((expletive)) out of this country."
(voicemail on the family's answering machine)

I suspect that it so totally escapes this redneck mouth-breathing mono-browed moron (apologies to rednecks since many of them are fine upstanding people, however the phrase was just too good to pass up) that is it exactly because this is America that people can come here with different opinions (if not very good ways of expressing it).

<sigh>

Anniversary

Today marks the 34th anniversary of the end of "forced pregnancy" (as I like to call it). Today women got at least some control over their own bodies rather than being forced in the dark of the night to go to men with coat hangers to "fix" the problem.

Abortion Ruling Anniversary Marked

"Fetal rights"??

They're not even people yet but still they have "rights" (and thus attorney's, advocates and litigation). What's up next? If you have a stray thought about having a child and then decided it was just that, a stray thought, you're going to be punished for killing (ie, not having) a baby? Or will it be "not having a fetus"?

Can we, perhaps, inject a little, oh, I don't know, common sense into this issue?

Nope, sorry, we don't need any of that hear. Take a hike buddy!

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Jury Selection in Libby Trial Nears End

This particular topic still burns me. It was classified information. It got out. He seemed to be the one who let it out. Take away his security clearance and send him to prison. Problem solved.

And then when I considered it I realized that proving he was the one who let it out is the crux of the problem. And why he's being tried for perjury instead. And, after all, when they finally did put Al Capone in prison it wasn't for killing scores of people, running a racket or assorted other thuggery, it was for tax evasion!

So throw his perjuring ass in prison!

It's my phone

Mine!

I don't want you all (or around here "yall") to dictate what sound my phone makes when it rings. I want it to ring like I have it set (which is to say with a ringing sound like a ... oh, I don't know, PHONE!). That way I'll know that my phone is ringing and I should answer it.

If, however, some song starts, I sit here for minutes trying to figure out where that music is coming from. When I finally track it down to being my phone because no one else around me has answered their phone and the speakers on the computer I'm sitting at are turned off it's too late, you've hung up.

So I won't ask politely (because that is my resolution for this year, to be more rude when appropriate) that my phone ring like a phone. I will DEMAND it! Because it's MY FREAKING PHONE!

DAMNIT!!.

The two sides

On the one hand we have a guy who thinks he has the right to listen to our phone conversations and, now, read our mail.

Bush claims power to open Americans' mail without warrants

It sounds like a third grader telling all the first and second graders they have to do what he says.

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On the other hand, we have three men who are behaving as people should!

New York's week for split-second heroes
Star turn for hero of subway
Bronx Pair Saves Falling Child

Any words I could type simply pale by comparison with these actions.

Unbelievable

The extent to which the man deludes himself.

Message in a Vacuum: Bush Lists his Principles in the Wall Street Journal

What the Congress Can Do for America

I agree with Kim, it should more accurately, be entitled "What Congress Can Do For Me!" It's amazing the extent to which he deludes himself into believing that what he has proposed and passed legislation for in the past has actually worked.

"we met our goal of cutting the deficit in half three years ahead of schedule"

HA! What was cut in half was the predictions of what the deficit would be and that was because a) they left out the military spending for Iraq and Afghanistan and b) the prediction was wrong in the first place. "No Child Left Behind" is a colossal joke. And his own committee has concluded that America is less safe now, rather than more.

HA! I say again. HA HA!

Wrong

Well I always thought that it was silly to have all these religious disagreements since it seemed to me that at it's core, most religions seemed to hold the same or very similar views of One God.

Survey Says: Multiple Gods

This seems to indicate that my perception was in error. There seem to be a number of "modes" of God and his position of human issues.

• The Authoritarian God (the whole "wrath of God" idea)
  
• The Benevolent God (judgemental but not to the point of throwing lightning bolts)
  
• The Critical God (judgemental but not to get involved one way or the other)
  
• The Distant God (you're on your own)
  

Every one but the first seems to be benevolent enough to provide for some common ground to begin discussions on the differences in human issues. Of course that implies that they don't think all the others are wrong because they don't believe what we believe.

But it concerns me in a global perspective that I don't feel this includes Muslims or other non-judeo-christian religions. However it's point seems to involve American issues so I suspect that this omission wasn't necessarily intentional.