Whales for Sale USA

Written Feb 20, 2013

Back in 2007 two humpback whales became befuddled by the backwash of mobile phones in San Francisco Bay and swam seventy miles up the Sacramento River. Oceanologists failed to seduce the errant sea mammals to the open sea with love sirens from other whales and Japanese researchers offered to lend California marine biologists a sonar signature of their whaling ships in hopes that the whales will flee the estuary in terror. The Bush administration responded with an entreaty from a Sapporo fish market, which would purchase the pair for scientific culinary purposes should the whales die.

"Maybe this gesture will ease the entrance of US beef into the Japanese market," one FDA official mused at a Georgetown sushi restaurant.

Whale meat?

Yes, whale meant.

In the 1960s a Haymarket fish market served whale sandwiches to Bostonians. My friend and I tried one. It tasted nothing like beef or chicken or salmon. It was much better, although my great-grandaunt Bert who sailed around the world in the 1870s said that that the cheaper slabs were very blubbery and full of fat.

Despite its deliciousity I never ate it again for moral reason.

I guess it was too much like eating a fat person, but it's a good thing whale meat has no aphrodisiacal properties or else the Chinese would have sucked the bone marrow out of the last whale decades ago.

Lip-smacking good.

ps thankfully those whales made it to the sea after feasting on the fish in the estuary.

October 10

In two days some of America will celebrate Columbus Day. Many will curse the Genoan navigator.

On October 10, 1492 the great navigator was two hundred miles from land.

In 1973 Vice President Agnew was deposed as Nixon's vice president for graft.

He once said, "An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike."

Millions of my generation said, "Go fuck yourself."

Pseudo-intellectuals are not nattering nabobs of negativism and I celebrate Agnew's exile into non-existence every year.

Fuck the GOP.

ps Columbus' fleet had yet to sight land on October 10, 1492. The day meant nothing to his crew, but they all studied the west for a sign of land. Their Admiral had promised a gold coin to the first man to sight China. He reneged on that prmise and doomed the inhabitants to extermination.

Where Is The USA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0TK_vk-XDM America is separated from the rest of the world by two oceans and most of my countrymen are completely ignorant of the world beyond our borders. A GPS system can't help these people find New York or the USA on a map and this inability to identify different nations around the globe was highlighted when a 2007 US Teen beauty pageant interviewer asked Miss South Carolina, "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?" "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do find the USA on a map because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future." Caitlin Upton was ridiculed for this reply, however in 2020 even fewer Americans could find Iran or Iraq on a map or Taunton, MA. "I know it's here somewhere." Some people like being dumber than mud. Who needs a map when you have a Bible?

Trump Tantrum - Go Fuck Yourself

Throughout his presidency Donald Trump has communicate with friend and foe through twitter.

He has set thousands of terribly short tweaks.

I've not read one.

Then again I've never read anything from a Tweating Twitter.

Ok-Boomer yeah.

Anyway Old Donald emailed a tortuous six-page letter to Congressional Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi accusing the opposition party of of declaring “open war on American democracy.”

Old Chicken Neck Mitch McConnell joined Trump in attacking the Democrats by stating, "From everything we can tell, House Democrats’ slapdash impeachment inquiry has failed to come anywhere near – anywhere near – the bar for impeaching a duly elected president, let alone removing him for the first time in American history."

Trump's fiercely loyal backers are ready for civil war.

That rebellion to support slavery and racism really went well last time, but while I ask myself how did an illiterate man write a six-page letter, I do have a good response.

It is really short too.

Three words.

GO FUCK YOURSELF.

The Nonsense Of Nunes

Last Friday the GOP released a memorandum written by the staff of Republican Congressman Devin Nunes accusin the FBI of using questionable practices to investigate the the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 Presidential election. Security departments throughout the government criticize the release of the unproven document. I tried to read the memo without any success. The writing was indecipherable Washingtonese. No one in the public can read it.

Not me.

Not anyone.

So it is as meaningless as an empty beer can.

Every single word.

A Thin Crowd For Trump

Watching the inauguration yesterday I was struck by the low volume of the applause and then spotted large gaps in the audience. The National Park Service is banned from estimating crowds due to GOP budget constraints. The Trump people said the crowd numbered around 250,000 supporters or an eighth of the turn-out for Barack Obama.

Bikers for Trump had promised a 500,000-strong 'wall of meat' to protect the new President from harm.

500 showed up in DC.

My estimate for the thin attendance differs from the Trump camp's numbers.

To me the crowd looks like 87,000 give or take a few thousand.

Where were his people?

At home celebrating?

More likely they were at work and couldn't afford to travel from the hinterland.

Nothing comes cheap anymore.

But that didn't stop the Sisters March.

Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets of the world to protest the new government and declare that they weren't giving up. The struggle continues. Bravo, sisters. E pluribus unum.

Out Of My Small Hands

NRA president Charlton Heston famously told a gathering of gun-lovers at the 129th NRA convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 20, 2000, "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands."

While the slogan's originality has been attributed to the Hollywood actor, however the line was first popularized by Bellevue, Washington's Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in 1970, "I Will Give Up My Gun When They Peel My Cold Dead Fingers From Around It."

Tough words.

From a actor wearing a wig.

And I never believe anyone who lies about their baldness, especially Donald Trump.

Most recently a north Carolina Sheriff extolled the GOP candidate's shooting ability, saying “I’ve got to say this man can shoot.”

However judging from his grip of a rifle, I could pry any weapon out of the fat short eye's small hands without a fight.

And fuck Charlton Heston too.

He had small hands too.

The Great Canadian Wall

The GOP candidates have focused their presidential ire on illegal immigration. Donald Trump has leap-frogged the pack by assailing Mexicans seeking a better life in El Norte as rapists, murderers, and drug dealers. Wisconsin governor Scott Taylor had the backing of the infamous Koch Brothers, but has lost ground in the early polls out of Iowa to Trump and this week Walker announced on TV that building a 5000 mile continuous wall between the USA and Canada from Maine to Washington State and also along the Alaska frontier intended to stop 10,000 violators crossing from Canada to the USA each year, although last year US Emmigration agents arrested less than 1000 Canadians.

The cost of a top-of-the-line fence would be about $18 billion US.

The cheaper version prices out at $1.5 million per mile or $$75 million, but almost anyone could get over that fence.

No one else is talking about the Canadian Wall, except for Scott Walker and the news media, because the best guard on the border and Old Man Winter, which I know as a native of Maine.

Here's the river crossing at Fort Kent, Maine.

Looks like ISIS could drive across the St. John's River in the blink of an eye.

Where Is The USA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0TK_vk-XDM

American is separated from the rest of the world by two oceans and most of my countrymen are completely ignorant of the world beyond our borders. A GPS system can't help these people find New York or the USA on a map and this inability to identify different nations around the globe was highlighted after an a 2007 US Teen beauty pageant interviewer asked Miss South Carolina in 2007, ""Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do find the USA on a map because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future."

Caitlin Upton was ridiculed for this reply, however I suspect few of the GOP presidental candidates could find Iran or Iraq on a map.

"I know it's here somewhere."

Some people like being dumber than mud.

qwho needs a map when you have a Bible

American Fools - 2015

Yesterday Ohio Governor announced his candidacy for GOP candidate for president and explained his reason to join the crowded field by saying, "Why not?"

This rationale was better than answering, "What's it to you?", but he is miles behind the present party favorite, Donald Trump, who has been thrust into the lead after saying that all Mexican illegals are rapists or criminals.

The smug pseudo billionaire also spent the weekend attacking the 2008 GOP candidate John McCain's war record by deriding the former POW's status as a hero.

"“He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”

Trump served his country during the Viet-Nam War as a college student. I protested against the war. donald would think much of me, then again I have a full head of hair.

The rest the the GOP field isn't much better.

Rick Santorum was taught to eat kielbasa sausages by his parish priest.

Mike Huckabee believes in ET atheists

Scott Walker loves CABARET.

They makes Steve Jacobs seem presidential.

But never me.

Like Bernie Sanders I remain true to radical progressivism along with millions of others

Burn Baby Burn.

MIss You Long Time - Michael Charles Smith

In the summer of 1995 my baby brother succumbed to the ravages of AIDS. I miss him every day along with the rest of my friends and family who died from that killer. I will remember them forever.

My brother's name was Michael Charles Smith.

He's the smaller blonde boy in the photo.

And still always the youngest.

The Wheaties Curse

Bruce Jenner captured the hearts of Americans with her gold medal decathlon in the Montreal Olympics. Everyone loved the all-American boy, yet Jenner's struggles with gender issues was heightened by his eating of GMO-Wheaties in accordance with his status as Wheaties poster boy. Decades later Jenner announced that he has changed his sexual designation to female, proving the dangers of eating genetically-modified foods, although Caitlyn Jenner has denied the connection as would any Republican in denial.

Wheaties eaters beware.

Bibi Came To Congress

Yesterday the Israeli PM appeared before the joint houses of the US Congress at the invitation of GOP leader John Boehner. While hundreds of world leaders have spoken from the podium on congress, all had been invited by the sitting president. The media loved this spat between Obama, the Republicans, and Netanyahu, who is facing a close election in Israel. Critics attacked the right-wing Zionist for overstepping the boundaries of diplomacy, however Bibi Netanyahu was greeted by a long boisterous ovation from both sides of the aisle, as the GOP and Democrats displayed their support for the Zionist State. The Prime Minister waited for the ten-minute long applause to died out and then hectored the audience about how the upcoming anti-nuclear pact with Iran endangered the existence of Israel and its apartheid policies against the Palestinians.

In his speech Netanyahu referred to the Iranians as Persians and claimed the ancestors of Xerxes were a year away from producing a nuclear bomb.

Israel has been saying that for about twenty years.

The Israelis also were instrumental in feeding information about Saddam's WMD program to a gullible George W. Bush.

Centrifuges, yellow cake, a year from production of a nuke.

Same speech as always.

Fear.

Never again.

I agree with those two words in thought and deed.

But not one Palestinian worked in Dachau or Buchenwald.

I'm half-Irish.

The British stole our lands.

They stayed for 600 years.

The UK consider Ulster as part of the Empire.

No day it will be free.

Same as Palestine.

Same as the Jews, because we are all one in peace.

Here is the list of Senators brave enough to buck the Zionist agenda

SENATE

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

Hillary Clinton showed herself to be a sell-out.

Same as on the Iraq War vote.

New England - Be proud. \

Another Alien GOP Member

Florida's governor Rick Scott has recently called for the drug-testing of welfare recipients, forcing parents found with traces of marijuana, cocaine, or heroin off the dole. Scott said on CNN, "Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare and the bottom line is, if they're not using drugs, it's not an issue."

His statement was backed by government research dating back to 1999, however Utah's program of drug testing has caught 12 people out of 466 or 2.5% of those tested for drug use.

Florida conducted tests on over four-thousand people.

Number of drug-positive people were a little over a hundred.

Even less successful was the Arizona program nabbing one person after 87,000 tests.

Rick Scott has not been deterred by these debacles, expanding the program to interview all public employees, except for police and lawmakers, and the governor's company would be the one conducting the tests proving that there is no success like a government-funded failure.

Rick Scott has not volunteered for the test, but he has to be on something to look the way he looks and thinks the way he does.

ps fuck the GOP.

Sinners Beware

According to the Bible-Thumpers from the square states Obama was born the Anti-Christ.

White people from north and south hate the president.

His every policy attacks their supremacy, but none more than the Affordable Health Bill, which strips power from the insurance companies' governance over profit from hospitals, doctors, prescription drugs, nurses, daycare centers, hospices, old age homes et al.

Even more diabolical has been the inroads incurred by marijuana, signaling defeat in the War on Drugs. The radical right of the GOP refuse to wave the white flag and the Republican majority in Congress has passed a bill against ObamaCare in hopes of returning power to fat white men over the nation, but we weed smokers refuse to listen to their bullshit.

On 4/20 we shall gather across the nation and smoke reefer to tell the GOP.

Reefer now.

Reefer forever.

More Of The Same No Change

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Wear What November 22,1963

Not only do I know where I was 50 years ago when I heard about JFK, I know exactly what I was wearing.

The school uniform for St. Mary of the Hills.

We miss you JFK.

Always have.

Always will.

Fuck the debunkers of Camelot.

You Dumb Motherfuckers!

Tomorrow is Day 2 of the Us government shutdown. Are you all cowards? Tomorrow tell your fucking bosses not to extract fed taxes from your pay. No government. No taxes. Drink more beer. FUCK THE GOP

No Government. No Taxes

Spend your money on fun. foto by gwen o'neill

Shut Your Mouth

The other day Samira Ibrahim was denied her State Department award after the right-wing Zionist Weekly Standard supposedly found anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account. According to the Weekly Standard Ibrahim has since “refused to apologize” for her tweets, writing on Twitter that the “Zionist lobby in America” is to blame, who was being honored for her protests against virginity tests by the Egyptian authorities. The State Department reacted with knee-jerk spontaneity and their flak Victoria Nuland said. “So it was on that basis that she was initially selected, but obviously, these comments need to be looked into and we need some time.” The comments in question are indeed offensive to Zionists, who profess to be Semites. One was attributed to Hitler. ”I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it.” Ibrahim deleted the quote once it was found on her account. The Weekly Standard failed to contact Ms. Ibrahim and reported this as news without any investigation once more revealing the depth to which the Media has sunk in the last decade. "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. ” ― Joseph Goebbels You learn best for your masters.