Friday Rap

Rand the man Paul wants to build a big underground electric fence under the border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico...Won't say how it will work or how much it will cost...but it does sound like big government...which I thought Dr. Paul was against.

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Ewwwww!

Accusing Al Gore of sexual assault....conjures up images in my head of a woman fighting off the pillsbury doughboy or the michelin man.......a sexually hungry power mad predator is not how I picture Al Gore. Not saying it didn't happen....just..... ewwwwww!

Woman wanted a million dollars to tell her story. National Enquirer says they didn't pay her and got the story the old fashioned way...they went and found the police report..

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Women staying childless...

Report says more women are doing it...not having kids or delaying until after the age of 40.

Goes against prevailing thought that women without children are unhappy, depressed and sometimes suicidal...really? Let me grab a glass of wine and think about that for a moment.

I love children...however, my favorite child is the one I can send home...nothing depressing about that..

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Remember in November

GOP once again successfully blocked unemployment benefits for millions of Americans in desperate need.

GOP thinking is that the chump change check makes people lazy and less interested in finding employment.

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Snowbilly Chronicles Episode 964

Sassy Sarah gets caught up in some more ethics violations...court ruled...but you know it's just the liberal left wing media smearing America's darling once again...She never does anything wrong...does she...

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One year anniversary of the deaths of the King of Pop...Michael Jackson. And Farah Fawcett....

One year later and Michael Jackson with any woman in his videos still looks like two girls in a gay bar cavorting on the dance floor...

Two of my favorite MJ songs...

Liberian Girl Mix

Dirty Diana

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Wimbledon and World Cup

Wimbledon is underway...both Serena and Venus are into third round play...They are on a collision course for the finals with Justine Henin and Kim Cljisters in the way...Henin and Cljisters have to play each other first..that's a good thing...Serena and Venus are ranked one and two in the world in singles and number one in doubles...Amazing!

World Cup...going well....next up Ghana who knocked the US out of the 2006 World Cup...If they beat Ghana and survive their next match...then they will probably face Brazil...but let's do this one match at a time...No need to think about Brazil until necessary...

A Sunday Fruit Salad

A little this... A little that to greet Summer Solstice......

A rich guy with Tourette's..

is one of the people funding the fight against marriage equality...

He had problems with his parents...so he takes it out on the rest of us by paying for hate campaigns..

So how to do you continue to hate parents who died 44 years ago and left you 300 million dollars...

This guy, Howard Ahmanson, contributed nearly a million dollars to defeat Prop 8..

he is a disciple of a religious zealot who advocates putting America under the jurisdiction of a theocratic commission..

Which among other things mandates that people be stoned to death for being homosexual...

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Juneteenth Celebrations..

Happening all across America....What Juneteenth is not...is the day that slavery ended in America as I heard one clueless newscaster say this morning... The Emancipation Proclamation became law on January 1, 1863..

Juneteenth celebrates the day that Texas slaves found out they were free....on June 19, 1865...two years late because Texas plantation owners refused to tell them....

and since there was no Twitter back in the day...it took em a while to find out...

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Pass me the Sports section, please....

The US Open is in progress at Bethpage Black, as we speak....Tiger was the preemptive favorite going in...But he's having one of those tournaments where at least this week...I can beat him...

The talking heads are beginning to count him out...

Too Stoopid....Can't count Tiger out til the final putt goes down on 18 on the last day....
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Wimbledon getting ready to fire up...

Nadal's out....Federer will win....

So will a Williams sister....Just think it will be Serena this time...

Even though the Wimbledon trophy is officially named “The Venus Trophy”....not after Venus Williams..it's had that name since it was created...

Venus Williams fulfills her destiny by claiming it more often than not..
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Give me a break, please....

Now the critics are ticked off because the Obama's are allowing pop culture in the White House instead of doing stodgy and boring formal state dinners....

Damned if they do....damned if they don't....

Like it or not.....we have a real Christian in the White House...not one of the fake born again variety...

We have a man who dates his wife...not put his mistress on the payroll at double the going rate.....

A man who makes time for his kids...Not let them run wild

A man who seemingly lives the rest of his life as if he really, really pays attention when he goes to church....

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Father's Day

I am blessed with coming from a two parent home....My dad turns 81 in a couple of weeks...my mom reached 79 back in January...They're will celebrate 59 years of marriage in a couple of months...

My Mom has always been the rock.....My Dad....well all you have to do is pick up the phone and say..

“ Hey Dad, I need some help...”

Knowing that his help meant he would literally take over the project, making you the assistant....

Don't get me wrong...We ain't the Cleavers ...we are as dysfunctional as every other American family..but still...there was and there still is...some good stuff going on...

On this day....I choose to think about the good stuff...

watching him Box on television, when I was four....he was a professional light heavyweight...32-2 before he quit...his knees gave out....he retired...

he said he quit because he was “too pretty to stand there and get hit”...My dad boxed dancing on his toes before Muhammed Ali...never flatfooted...

learning how to work on cars despite my gender....he taught me....and even today, I'm better at it then most guys I know...

Getting up before dawn to pick up our grandmother and go fishing at Lake Chetaq or the Doctor's lake..

Hearing from other people...how proud my Dad was because I was the morning anchor on the TV newscast....

Happy Father's Day...Daddy..

McCain’s Got Jokes

John McCain says he’s going to balance the budget by the end of his first term in office as president. And after he does that he is going marry me and make me a straight woman. Ha!

Republicans have been rolling out this campaign lie since Ronald Reagan. Eight years ago, before the latest GOP clown took over, there was a government surplus. We, meaning the 95% of the population who are regular folks and not rich, were happy. We had jobs, we had money, we could feed our families and drive our cars. Reagan not only did not balance the budget, but he increased the deficit and should have been brought up on charges along with Ollie North.

Now, thanks to the policies of trickle down economics or voodoo economics, as George the first called it before he became Reagan’s vice president, implemented by George the second, we have a deficit approaching multi trillion dollars. We have a couple of wars, no jobs, no money, no health care, no food for our families, and we can’t afford gasoline.

GOP nominee, John McCain apparently wants to continue the policies that has put us 95 percenters deeper in the poor house.

McCain was originally against the Bush tax cuts....Now that he is running for president..he is in favor of them....AND...he says he will pay down the deficit by winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and taking all that money that we no longer have to spend over there, and pay off the bills over here....voila! Balanced budget! Hehehehehehehehehehe! “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

He also wants to cut spending on social security, medicare and medicaid, because that is where all the wasteful government spending is located, according to him.

McCain also shook up his advisory staff, too. He added a Bush acolyte to the payroll, a guy who is said to be a Karl Rove disciple. Hasn’t anyone told McCain that if you’re truly trying to distance yourself from someone....you run AWAY from them.....NOT toward them...And you certainly don’t hire their old staff to help you run what you say is a NEW campaign.

But then maybe I’m the one who’s the dummy....Maybe he isn’t running away from Bush. Doesn’t seem like it.

And, since I’m in a McCain smack down mood......General Wesley Clark didn’t lie.....flying planes does not necessarily qualify you to be president....it’s kind of like....just because we can all drive a car...that we are all qualified to drive in the Indy 500......No.....Not at all.....

This was just another example of all the fake scandals that have been floating around for the past several years to deflect our attention away from the real stuff.....

I call it peripheral Bullshit.....pay attention to the BS and you miss the real story hidden behind it..

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WIMBLEDON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go Williams....the girls took home 2.5-million dollars by Venus winning singles for the fifth time and then teaming up with Serena to take the doubles crown from the number one ranked women’s team in the world.....

I didn’t think it could get any better...but then came Sunday...


Ra-fa! Ra-fa! Ra-fa!

Man....I just saw the greatest tennis match of my life.....I never thought I would see anything to top the Borg-McEnroe matches of 1980 and 1981. They were magnicificent, and I was content to go to my grave with those memories...

Now there is a new one.....Nadal and Federer....

May they play long and hard. Man! That was some weekend!

July 4th, 2008 Passings

Jesse Helms died today....quoting the late, great Jackie “Moms” Mabley.....” never say anything about the dead, unless you can say something good..............”he’s dead....good!”

The professional bigot will not be missed on this block. He opposed anything connected to civil rights....the Martin Luther King national holiday, the Civil Rights Act, integration, affirmative action, you name it. If it helped minorities reach equal ground with whites, he was against it.

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Speaking of professional bigots, this time masquerading as Christians, the AFA is boycotting McDonald’s. Pseudo Reverend Donald Wildmon and company say Mickey D’s is pro homosexual. Gee, I thought all they did was sell hamburgers. Makes me want to run out and buy a big mac in support of the corporation.

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Uncle Tom is alive and well and living in Sarasota Florida. Seems the National Black Republican Association has decided to resort to “swift boating” Barack Obama. The NHRA is buying ads and putting up billboards attacking the democratic nominee.

I want to know who’s paying for the ads? The RNC has disavowed the attacks. John McCain has distanced himself from the attacks. So who is footing the bill? What great white rich man is behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings this time?

These deluded chocolate covered fools should have read their history books in toto rather than pick out lines to remember, like “the party of Lincoln...or Martin Luther King was a Republican.

Once again slow people...the Republican Party of Lincoln is not the GOP of today. The only connection is the name, Republican.

Please, lemmings, take off the rose colored glasses and look out for the cliff, you’re about to go over.

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Condi surfaces...she says she is proud we bombed Iraq and that the world is safer since Dubya took office.

Standing by her man to the end.

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Meantime, Dubya has ramped up the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The white house cowboy wants him caught and strung up by sundown on January 19th, 2009. To that end he is keeping our out manned Marines in harms way in Afghanistan longer than he promised. They can’t come home until he says so...Not fair....

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Finally...a shout out to Wimbledon.....GO WILLIAMS! TAKING ALL THE MONEY HOME! THAT'S THE AMERICAN WAY....Celebrating the 4th on the 5th with mimosas, eggs and bacon and a scarlett O'hara....Nothing like breakfast at Wimbledon!

Equal Pay for Equal Work

Well, it’s about time. The Brits have finally decided to award equal prize money to men and women at Wimbledon this year.

The old boys of All England Tennis have refused for years to give women their just due, saying that men deserved more prize money because they play five sets while the women play just three.

All grand slams are now on the same page, sort of.....The French always seeing things differently only give the male and female champions an equal check. Other women from second place down will still get less than their male counterparts.

Now it’s time to work on Golf. While Tiger Woods is making millions per tournament, the women of the LPGA are left to split maybe a one million dollar kitty. That means the winning check is usually just a couple of hundred thousand dollars instead of multi millions.

And lest we forget the WNBA. Those women must still play overseas in order to supplement what they make in the American league. All this while the men pocket millions, destroy the game and, other than the all star game, don’t offer any real entertainment.

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Question: Why is Congress taking so long to pull the plug on Dubya’s war? Nonbinding resolutions aren’t worth the paper on which they’re written. Why bother?

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Question #2: What is Condi doing in the Palestine? Does she really understand what is going on there?

I usually don’t say stuff about a sister, but man, this child needs some help, fast. “Wake up girlfriend.” This administration is sinking and it’s taking you and your once pristine reputation with it.

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Feeding Frenzy

Good news...James Brown is finally going to be buried.
Bad news...the Anna Nicole reality show goes on. Please bury this woman before she melts on the coroner’s autopsy slab.....Please...take that baby away from Howard Stern....and Please...send her mother home without the body..

Finally...somebody please reprimand this Judge in Florida...talk about an a**hole.