Still more birthday natterings

Sorry, but this does seem to be more of a "birthweek" celebration this year, I tend to get handed things, respond in a puzzled fashion for a few seconds, then say, "Oh yes, right, thanks!" I must thank odogoddess and chazpure for the wonderful Jamba Juice card! I am currently putting it to very good use with my new favorite Grape Escape one. Yum!

Many thanks as well to jakejr for my copy of "V for Vendetta", which I'll be receiving soon. I'm totally serious about us sitting down to watch it together, hon, and my inner anarchist is doing a happy dance in celebration already.

And of course, aelfsciene who got me a beautiful, hand signed print by an artist whose works I was unfamiliar with before, but am definitely intrigued with now. The piece is called "The High Priestess", which just happens to be my significator card in the Tarot deck. It's gorgeous. She also found this graphic novel version of Oscar Wilde's "Salome", a particular favorite of mine. The artwork is just stunning and I can't wait to get a chance to read it cover to cover.

Actually had the time last night to CLEAN MY DAMN APARTMENT, for the first time in forever. It felt disturbingly satisfying. Also dismantled my Frankensteinian A/V hook up so that it's all down to one dvd recorder and the cable box. Tossed my VCR into a box with some other random stuff and slid Dumbledore (ravenmb's TiVo that I'm babysitting for a few months) into its place. Hopefully with her help I'll get it up and running on Sunday and be back in business.

Sadly, because of my new set up, I wasn't able to record "Hex" last night, which might have been worth having for the lesbian sex scene at the beginning...but that was about it. When the best thing you can say about a show is that the only semi-interesting character in it is dead, you probably shouldn't be watching it. I just don't like the characters, don't really give a damn about the story, and couldn't care less about the whole mystery behind all the goings on. And if anybody watched it and can explain to me the physics that govern ghosts in that world, can you please comment me here? As far as I could tell they were just all over the place without any rhyme or reason.

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Isn't this just adorable?

Democrats Behave Like Sunni Insurgents

I've been wondering why there is something familiar about the behavior of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, and suddenly it dawned on me that we have our own similar insurgency right here at home -- it is called the Democrat Party.

Think about it. Both are operating under the same motivation -- an unrequited lust for lost power. And both will do just about anything to retrieve it....

Saddam may have ordered the atrocities, but it was the Sunnis who carried them out, torturing, beheading and otherwise brutalizing the Shia and the Kurds and looting the nation's treasure.

They were very well compensated for their services -- and since being ousted by the U.S. invasion and the deposing of their benefactor they have been unable to accept their current powerlessness. They are, as the liberals like to say, "in denial." They just can't live with their loss of authority and act as if they can somehow regain what they lost by mounting an insurgency against the new Iraqi government....

Like the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, the Democrats cannot accept their minority status....

Like the Sunni insurgency, the national Democrat Party and its congressional contingent has demonstrated time and again that they will willingly sacrifice the welfare and security of the American people to get their way.

...In the end, all that matters to them is regaining the power the American people took from them in 1994, and, thank God, have kept it out of their hands ever since.

via No More Mister Nice Blog

That's Michael Reagan referring to all Dems as basically insurgents. As terrorists. Do you suppose this is a sort of wingnut mating ritual, using outrageous and slanderous comments about the Dems in order to make himself more appealing to Ann Coulter? It would explain so much.

For more mating calls of the wild wingnut, I point you to Retardo Montalbon's thorough savaging of paste eater Jeff Goldstein:

To the casual observer, Goldstein might seem to be a garden-variety internet wingnut, a suburban douchebag whose sad and petty hatreds, frustrations over stagnated ambitions and innate cowardice lead him to adopt a sort of Walter-Mitty-As-Rambo-As-Whackjob-Blogger schtick, whereby all his fantasies of action and genocidal crusade and manly-man aggression are sated through internet jackassery...although Goldstein has a curiously ambitious drive to be the biggest jerk of them all, and he very nearly succeeds. Added to this drive and his deep, abiding fear that he might be a weenie is his status as “Literature Wingnut” and the unique salad of sex and violence issues which reside in his otherwise empty brainpan; Goldstein’s a hell of a case study.

His sex and violence issues I’ll deal with first; if by the end you’re not also convinced that Goldstein is certifably crazy and that, therefore, he ought to be straitjacketed and shot-up with elephant tranquilizers, then you should be drubbed to death with a giant dildo.

Do check out the comments if you get the chance, my own favorite bit was the troll defense that actually dragged poor Hunter S Thompson into the fray. I'm afraid you'll just have to read it to believe it.