Truth Surfer

Well time to kick back with friends and family...enjoy the holiday season...work for peace..love to all..peace out...

It's not a rumor ...A Blue Dog become Rethugican't, really no one is surprised by this . His conservative values coupled with his rebellion against Nancy Pelosi's leadership lead him to believe that the women hating, narrow minded GOP would be a better match...and he's probably correct. I do believe he'll get his certificate from them...: "I would not vote for her. Someone that divisive and that polarizing cannot bring us together," he told the Huntsville Times. "If she doesn't like it, I've got a gift certificate to the mental health center." Rumor has it that MN loser Norm Coleman will rise from the dead to declare his campaign for Governor after the first of the year... Classless rumors: Britney Spears has recapped the year of Britney in rumors up at her website ...true or false some are more interesting than others...like her family was so poor they had to hunt and eat squirrels!...pretty funny that one! My favorite Rumor : chocola...

Erika Smith, the aide to Congressman Bart Stupak, sent an email to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Right to Life, the Family Research Council and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office in attempt to derail the Nelson abortion compromise. Politico obtained Smith's email, which read, "Guys - when will we see your letters of opposition to the managers amendment?? We need them ASAP!” Naturally when this came to light, Rep. Stupak claimed he knew nothing of the email exchange: "Earlier today an unauthorized email from a member of my staff was sent to interested parties. I was unaware of this email and it was sent without my knowledge or approval." So essentially Stupak has thrown Smith to the wolves or more fittingly...under the bus. Smith might want to know check out " Not Under The Bus ," a project by the Women's Media Center. Not Under the Bus is "a platform for a unified media message that supports and defends women’...

I ranted earlier this week on Minnesota's Senator Al Franken ( Jedi Knight Franken )...I believe his exchange with the evil Darth Lieberman shows us his hero qualities...again... Thank you Senator Franken...

Howard Dean has proven to be resilient and able to redefine himself in the face of adversity...we've seen it after the scream when he took over the DNC and with Dean's fifty state strategy that helped elect Obama as well as many other Democrats... But when Obama came into the White House, I watched in disbelief as Rahm and Obama froze Howard Dean out of their administration. They essentially ask him to leave and slammed the door behind him. Then another slight...Howard Dean, a former governor and health care advocate and doctor, was given no chance by Obama for Health and Human Services secretary. Over and over, the Obama people publicly and willfully have insulted Howard Dean...Not content to just ignore him, they kicked him to the curb and spit on him...but now Dean may have the last laugh...abetted it's a very sad one... With no obligation to the Obama administration, Howard Dean can freely speak openly about the mis-fires, mis-steps and mistakes of the Obama Health Care...

Haven't we been here before? A foriegn country, more Defense Department hired private security contractors than soldiers , little oversight, contracts run amuck , Erik Prince, CEO of Xe [formally know as Blackwater] deploying hit squads for us...alas...welcome to the Obama's Afghanistan, same as the last war... The War Corporation...hmm...reminds me of something? Iraq? Vietnam?... Ironman... "...and the government for hire at a combat site.."

You know that scene in Star Wars, where Obi-Wan clutches his heart and says " I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. "...It's the same feeling I get about health care ..about Obama's mishandling of it, about the blue dogs and about Lieberman. I'm hopeless and helpless, mad and cranky...and scared...Is the 'change we believed in' dying? Today I saw this video posted up at several blogs...Thank goodness for Senator Franken ...at least there are some Democrats that are true to their values...I still feel kicked in the teeth...but let me listen a few more times to Jedi Franken and maybe the feeling will start to pass...maybe... "For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire".. These are dark times...there is a wall stre...

I had pages of rants about health care...volumes of venom about what's wrong (blue dogs, rethugicans, sell outs, bought outs, Liebertaitors)..but it was so negative...then in a blinding flash I realized that there is always someone directing, in charge, the grand poobah, the...fall guy. I won't mention names...just like my rant, it doesn't seem to be changing what's going on but I will tell ya this...it's time for Mr. Nice Guy Obama to send the family away and take to the mattresses... LBJ said: “Don’t ever argue with me [about health]. I’ll go a hundred million or a billion on health or education. I don’t argue about that any more than I argue about Lady Bird [Mrs. Johnson] buying flour. You got to have to have flour and coffee in your house. Education and health. I’ll spend the goddamn money. I may cut back some tanks. But not on health.” In case someone forget, LBJ was responsible for among other things the 'great society'. His was a moment in time filled...

Eternal Things: Oh Yoko…John Lennons love for Yoko....Grocery stores check out lines...And men becoming soft …what?! Oh yeah… "More women are drawn to softy fellows, which is prompting more men to get dolled up at hair salons, adorn themselves in the latest hip fashions and paint up their noggins with the latest from Mary Kay. Whatever the cause, the trend may not bode well for America. If your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, will there be any regular fellows around who know how to fix things and don't mind getting their hands dirty? The best you may be able to hope for is that a modern fellow stops his car to offer consolation and hand you a cell phone from his purse. " Hmm..personally, I don’t want a guy spending more time and products on his hair than…me! It would lead to endless bathroom vanity fights but I think it's long past time for man bags. I am the Walrus… but today it's all about cherry cola-lol

This gave me indigestion and set my hair on fire... So a group of elected officials (all men) are mad because of Minnesota Senator Al Franken's amendment made them look bad when they voted it was okay for the USA to do business with military contractors that would RAPE women. Really? They expected Americans to be okay with that? Because of the bad press, they blame Al Franken: “I think hopefully he’ll [Al Franken] settle down and do the kind of the serious work of legislating that’s important to Minnesota.” -Senator John Thune (R-SD) "I think it would be helpful for Senator Franken to come forward and say, ‘I’m not suggesting that anybody who votes for my amendment is indifferent to crimes against women or anybody else,’” -Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Hmm...so they want exoneration for their totally morally voided vote...but not because their vote was wrong, but because Al Franken shouldn't have sponsored the bill making them look bad because of their votes...(really I co...

This is about the right to smoke ...well mostly, sort of, kind of...it's an interesting rant on the right to blow smoke up our arses...But don't get me wrong... I do agree with 'most' of what is being said. But I don't smoke and therefore, I don't want to smell or breath smoke. Simply put... if we're talking about individual rights, smoke all you want....just not in public! As to the rest of the rant . (shoot the fat guys, hang the smokers).. It's an interesting read...and smoke for thought...yes we been sold down the river by raiders...Corporate pirates that are now demanding we walk the plank after they force fed up their ideology and we brought it hook, line, and sinker. The smoking analogy applies everywhere and to everything...sigh...it's depressing. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. "Generally, this war is described as a battle against big tobacco, but, of course, it's actually a war on working people, their habits, their little idiot ...

We fought to give you a place inside hoping for much, much better... but you've turned your back on us to stand with profiteers of the military industrial complexes and wall street thieves. Sure I knew your campaign was the top recipient of defense industry money in the 2008 election cycle ($1,029,997.00), but I still expected you to be as good as your words...now I see them now as only lies wrapped in fluffy rhetoric ...from war to wall street bail outs, to gays in the military to Gitmo... Where's the change? I've had enough 'hope' and 'change'....last night the person I wanted, voted for, and supported died. I'm grieving now.

Thanksgiving was fun and wacky...We did an 'Elvis comes to turkey day' theme....complete with a hunka hunka of burning turkey...Friends and Family gathered and we reflected on the year while listening to Elvis tunes. After a few glasses of bubbly I realized that humor really does save me...as in Jon Stewart getting me through the Bush years...and more recently...the Rev. Billy getting me through the season of consumerism (better know as the season of giving to corportations or Shopcaloypse). If you haven't seen 'What Would Jesus Buy'...then do so...and take your family and friends. Get in touch with your spending and realize there's a difference between what you need and what you want and more importantly...what the cost is to both your community and your soul. I was going to post some pictures of Rev. Billy but found a bright shiney object on the way home and decided to post it instead-) Imagine all that and no trailer park in view! Just say no!