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"it's lovely to think that he would ever even consider" coming over for Thanksgiving.

Sarah Palin Invites Levi Johnston Over for Thanksgiving Dinner
(Village Voice)

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Rogue judicature; frightful ruminations from America's preminent political bauble and celebrated rattlebrain:

It is crucially important that Americans be made aware that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks may walk away from this trial without receiving just punishment because of a “hung jury” or from any variety of court room technicalities. If we are stuck with this terrible Obama Administration decision, I, like most Americans, hope that Mohammed and his co-conspirators are convicted. Hang ‘em high. ( Sarah Palin )

Palin, pining for a guilty verdict, yet unconvinced an American court of law is the best place to render such a decision. USA! USA!

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The Medievel Order of Cranks in Cassocks haggles with the fate of the hungry and homeless.

From BeliefNet:

New Catholic Hardball: Trading the Poor for Doctrinal Purity
By: Diana Butler Bass
Thursday November 12, 2009

This morning's Washington Post made me choke on my coffee: "Catholic Church Gives D.C. Ultimatum." The Catholic Archdiocese is playing political hardball by threatening to cut off social services to the city's poor--including the homeless, the hungry, the sick, and children--if D.C. expands gay and lesbian civil rights and recognizes same-sex marriage.

That's right. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is holding poor people hostage in order to keep gay and lesbian persons from getting married. They are willing to trade the indigent for getting their theological way.

Read full article at link above.

If you are somehow captive (or predisposed) to the kind of holy scree that litters the Roman Catholic high altar - and - you are growing tired of the stale authoritarian diktats of an increasingly reactionary "holy government" - well - screw it. Cross the courtyard and throw a few bucks into the alms basin at your local Episcopal church.

Wiki:

The Episcopal Church was active in the Social Gospel movement of the late nineteenth century and since the 1960s and 1970s has played a leading role in the progressive movement and on related political issues. For example, in its resolutions on state issues the Episcopal Church has opposed the death penalty, and supported the civil rights movement and affirmative action. Some of its leaders and priests marched with civil rights demonstrators. The church calls for the full civil equality of gay men and lesbians. Most dioceses ordain openly gay men and women; in some, same-sex unions are celebrated with services of blessing. In 2009, the church's General Convention passed resolutions that allowed for gay and lesbian marriages in states where it is legal. On the question of abortion, the church has adopted a nuanced position. About all these issues, individual members and clergy can and do frequently disagree with the stated position of the church.

The Episcopal Church ordains women to the priesthood as well as the diaconate and the episcopate. The current Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church is Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first female primate in the Anglican Communion.

Wiki:

On gender and sexuality
In 1976 the Convention declared that homosexuals are "children of God" and "entitled to full civil rights".
In 1979 the Convention endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment and urged legislatures to ratify it.
In 1988 the Convention reaffirmed the expectation of chastity and fidelity in relationships.
In 1991 the Convention restated that "physical sexual expression" is only appropriate within a monogamous "union of husband and wife". The Convention also called on the church to "continue to reconcile the discontinuity between this teaching and the experience of members", referring both to dioceses that have chosen to bless monogamous same-sex unions and to general tolerance of premarital relations.

In 2000 the Convention affirmed "the variety of human relationships in and outside of marriage" and acknowledged "disagreement over the Church's traditional teaching on human sexuality."

The 2006 General Convention affirmed "support of gay and lesbian persons and children of God"; calls on legislatures to provide protections such as bereavement and family leave policies; and opposes any state or federal constitutional amendment that prohibits same-sex civil marriages or civil unions."

The 2009 General Convention affirmed that "gays and lesbians (that are) in lifelong committed relationships," should be ordained, saying that "God has called and may call such individuals to any ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church." The Convention also voted to allow bishops to decide whether or not to bless same-sex marriages.

What are ya waiting for? If I wasn't a long ago lapsed Roman schismatic barreling down an unimproved road to Hell with one eye on the rearview mirror and another on the high weeds and hoar frost in front of me - and for some reason decided to return to the fold - I'd probably join up tomorrow (or the next day, or after the playoffs, or whatever).

In any event, if you are a disenchanted RC looking to refinance your salvation you can (as I understand**) always shift your debt obligations to the Episcopalians. Pre-existing conditions** and all.

**Disclaimer: I am not now nor have I ever been affiliated with the Episcopal Church. Any offers or guarantees made here on behalf of the Episcopal Church are purely suppositional and derived from previously advertised informational data available to the general laity. So help me gawd.

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!!! LOU DOBBS LEAVES CNN !!!
Preliminary video clip release of final program/appearence (with Kitty Pilgim):

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I now return you to our regularly scheduled intermission already in progress.

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SNACK BAR UPDATES:

Frozen Moose Twitters: Sarah Palin upset by U.S. Deptartment of Treasury plan to mint new Levi Johnston $1 coin.





(when will John McCain apologize to the American people?)

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Red Hot Speed Demons - Orly on wheels: Taitz ticketed (on Oct 12, 2009) for driving in excess of 100 mph (no doubt while fleeing from character assasins, claim jumpers, Kenyan ivory poachers and Chicago Machine Usurper Agents brandishing butterfly nets. See: Mustang Orly / case summary (scribd).

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UPDATE: NOV 11, 2009

Moldovian COLB Nuts - Million Birther March: throngs of demonstrators join Orly Taitz in NYC to protest FOXNoise blabbermouth Bill O'Reilly. See !!! PHOTO !!!.

Oh, sorry, wrong photo. Try here: actual photos of Orly leading massive protest in front of FOX News in NYC (current estimates of crowd size vary and may include the entire commuter population count of midtown Manhattan.)

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Appalachian Trail Spooners Incur Sparking Probe

Associated Press:

high court says gov's ethics probe is public
By JIM DAVENPORT (AP)

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel must be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering impeachment to review a report on the probe.

Sanford's lawyers had tried keep a report on a criminal investigation by the State Ethics Commission from being released to the House of Representatives as leaders there decide whether to move forward with impeachment efforts.

The commission's investigation was launched after Sanford returned from a five-day rendezvous with an Argentine lover in June that prompted investigations by The Associated Press into his travel practices.

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Via Booman Tribune:

The abortion compromise was turning into a contest of wills, with the U.S. Conference of Bishops on one side and Pelosi, a devout Catholic and a supporter of abortion rights, on the other.

[Rep. Brad] Ellsworth said at least three Democratic abortion-rights opponents have agreed to support his language, but many others won’t because the bishops don’t support it.

“Other members felt like they needed the … blessing of the Catholic bishops,” Ellsworth said.

Attention Brad Ellsworth (D-Papal Infallibility) and "other members". This ain't Francisco Franco's Carlist/Opus Dei Catholic Theocracy. You don't "need" the "blessing" of Catholic Bishops to support anything (not yet anyway). Despite the putrescent lustings and aspirations of energumens like Pat Buchanan and William Donohue and Rick Santorum and Richard John Neuhaus and so on. (And that goes for Mr. True Progressive Purity League feather flouncer Dennis Kucinich too.)

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The bus back to Waco leaves in the morning.

In NY-23, Teabagger trainee Doug Hoffman gets swatted away by Democrat Bill Owens, the first Democrat to represent the 23rd district of NY since Nehemiah Birdseye Peltsselaer won the seat by defeating the bastard son of the Duchess of Cleveland during an adirondack chair throwing competition at Great Sacandaga Lake in the year of our Lord 1823.

It's Palin's fault. Had Madame Moosefoot of the Starburst Nation swooped down - rogue booties on the ground - and draped her photogenic lovliness over an ATV wearing nothing but a pair of chestnut colored shearling boots and a pine cone wreath... things would have been different. As it turned out, Doug Hoffman - a man who resembles a magnification of the kinds of things you'll find flying around a lantern on a picnic table at night (at the Glenn Beck Campground of Foredoom) - goes down in a mist of citronella oil.

Meanwhile...

In Virginia, Blue Dog conservadem creature Creigh Deeds (inspiring Dem voters to stay at home practicing family values) gets pounded by Pat Robertson's pet wallet-dog, Republican Bob McDonnell. Demonstrating once again why Blue Dog poodles amount to little more than chew toys for Republican party lapdogs.

In New Jersey, John Corzine gets rubbed out by Bush/Rove crime family capo Chris "Snack Fairy" "no-bid contract" Christie.

Mr. Palatucci introduced his partner to the Bush family when he was working on George H.W. Bush's 1992 re-election campaign. Mr. Christie befriended the president's son, George W. Bush, and signed on early for the younger Mr. Bush's presidential bid, serving as legal counsel to the campaign in New Jersey. Although the Republicans were trounced in the state, Mr. Christie was nonetheless selected to become United States attorney for New Jersey.

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Unlike some United States attorneys who prefer to cultivate an apolitical image, Mr. Christie remains a die-hard Bush supporter, with photographs of the president prominently placed in his office. One shot from the Texas governor’s mansion shows Mr. Christie with Mr. Bush in front of a painting of the last stand at the Alamo. Mr. Christie noted that the photo was taken by Mr. Bush’s omnipresent political adviser, Karl Rove. (NY Times

New Jersey, the Big Pharma State. Take two idiots and elect one of them governor in the morning.

And, In the Poppy Bush state, the cowards entertain themselves by throwing rotten potatoes at their neighbors:

With 87 percent of precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the vote in a referendum that asked Maine voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Democratic Gov. John Baldacci.

Hey Mainers, print this on your license plates: Descriminationland.

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Afternoon pole dancing at the Wood-n-Pecker Lounge. Two female pileated woodpeckers dancing around on a tree on Wednesday afternoon. Males and females look alot alike (both have red crests). But the males have a red "mustache" - the area extending off the bill and under the eyes - and red forehead - red extends from crest all the way down to beak (like Woody Woodpecker) - while the females have both a black mustache and forehead.

They spent about a half hour doing a kind of peek-a-boo mirror dance with each other. Where A would peek around the left side of the tree and B would peek around to the right. And then A to the right and B to the left and over and over again until both would stop and hang back opposite each other on opposite sides of the tree trunk as if waiting for the other to make the next move. That pause would last a few seconds until one would hop to the right or left and the other would respond by hopping in the equal and opposite direction, countering the others hippity hop. Next, one would hop up the tree a foot or two, and when the other hopped up the tree in response, the first would hop back down. Hippity hop, hippity hop. All the while continuing with the stop-n-go peek-a-boo around the tree groove. I never saw anything like it. And they provided all sorts of vocal backup for the entire number. Loud kik kik kiks and chirps and monkey chattering sounds and all manner of excitable racket.

















I don't know what it was all about. Some kind of territorial ritual I guess. Eventually they flew off together in the same direction, one after the other. They let me get close enough to take their pictures though, about fifteen yards (i have a zoom function on the camera but nothing fancy), which they never do when they are just hammering away at the bugs in the bark.

I feel like I'm one of them now.




Photo above of the parking lot beside the Wood-n-Pecker Lounge.

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"Therefore, for the reasons stated above, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED." ~ Judge David O. Carter, US District Court for the Central District of California.


Dr Orly (the mad dentist of delinquency) looses another tooth.

Dave Weigel (Washington Independent):

Central District of California Judge David O. Carter has dismissed Barnett et al v. Obama et al, Orly Taitz’s most successful lawsuit — that is, the one that got the furthest through the legal system — demanding proof of the president’s citizenship. The entire decision is here, and it’s devastating to Taitz. Here’s an excerpt of the disposition, with emphasis in the original: [see link above]

She fought the law and the law won.
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snapshot: 3:00 am, October 16, 2009.

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By popular demand.

Please contribute any fungi poetry or songs about fungi that you have either written yourself, or have passed down through your family for generations, to the comment section below.

It's fungi fun night at the SBL. Free fungi slurpees for the first 100 callers!

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I didn't write anything to go with this blog post because I'm far too busy not giving a shit about writing anything having to do with this blog post title.

However, for what it's worth:

1] I don't eat Cheetos (actually, I don't eat any snack foods at all but sometimes I will eat deli meat or leftover pizza or pimento stuffed spanish olives straight from the jar at strange hours).

2] I don't wear pajamas (which are for creative class pussies and mooslims and snooty British jim-jammie outfitters.)

3] I always wear extreme weather BaseMap 3.0 under armour and a pair of 18" comfort trac scent free rubber boots. When I sleep. Or, a Grand River Lodge cuddle wrap. Except in the summer, when I sleep in the naked except for the scent free trac boots and a CAR-15 assault rifle which I cling to in the event Caroline Kennedy trys to break into my house at 4am to try to steal my collection of JFK half dollars.

4] Sometimes, in the winter, when things are their darkest just after dawn, I will jump out of bed and throw up the sash and open up on the woodpeckers in the stand of Harwood outside my bunkhouse if I believe they are making fun of my PJs (which I dont even wear or even have in the first place). Nevertheless: Take that you peckerneck suet stained BB brained cosmoplitians! Eat 223! I yell, until all hell breaks loose.

There is nothing wrong with me. Stop saying there is. I am perfectly unhappy.

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