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cameron_vale
Apr. 28th, 2006
10:32 am - Hi Pot, It's the Kettle
Found this doozy on the Slate.
"The FDA says there's no -- zilch, zero, nada -- shred of medicinal value to the evil weed marijuana. This is going to be a setback to the long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking crowd."
-- Rush Limbaugh
I love the hypocrisy. I'm sure he had an Rx for his trunkload of oxycontin as well as a defensible "medical use". For even more hysterical hyprocisy check out the hiring of Tony Snow, and the fact that AirForce One's antenna is tuned only to FOX news. As one of my friend's here said, "'Fair and Balanced,' my ass." Interestingly, the pages and pages of Tony Snow's fair and balanced commentary on all things has been scrubbed from the FOX news website. You can still find snippets thanks to Google's expansive cache that thankfully still lives outside the greedy reach of the government trying to tie all loose ends.
Apr. 4th, 2006
08:54 am - Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
As everybody knows by now, Tom "the ball-peen hammer" Delay has decided to resign effective immedia... er I mean sometime in June. Unfortuntely, this allows the GOP enough time to mount an effective campign for some other lesser known jackal schlub. So consider this an alarm from our own publically funded Emergency Broadcast System; with special attn to Gramma & Grandpa Cameron Vale, "Please don't vote for what ever hack GOPer they put up for the November election in Houston." I know that you like low taxes, but c'mon.
Apr. 3rd, 2006
06:21 pm - Baseball is Here
PLAAAAAAY BAAAAAAALL!
Baseball season has begun, my friends. What an awesome country we live in. While everything else is going to hell, the evil villany of steroids in baseball is what ends up taking all the useful time of my dearest congresspeoples.
But while my new home team Giants deal with the whole Barry Bonds Balco thing, my beloved Pirates have already flung themselves into last place due to a bull pen implosion. Thanks go out to some dude named Capps and the irreplaceable Solomon "Ed" Torres.
Keeping on the baseball theme, the Rotissorie draft is this Saturday and that's about as close as I going to get to a religious experience. I will rest on Sunday before conquering the rest of my roto competitors known as the Idaho Crew.
God bless Todd Walker, may he carry the Cubs to the postseason, and to defeat in the Divisional Championship series against the PITTSBURGH PIRATES!
Feb. 21st, 2006
10:08 am - No More Ziggy Stardust
So the news came down the mountain this morning that NASA is shitcanning the space shuttle by 2008. Since a child I've maintained a deep love for the space shuttle, but I understand why it is time to advance to new technology. After all, fourteen people have died in the last twenty years because of the space shuttle. And by the time the program is completely "mothballed" it will have cost this country $175 billion (2005 dollars). Now see, that's enough money to fund a war in say... Iraq for about three years. And we would kill WAAAAAY more people than just 14. (This figure OF COURSE does not include the estimated 30,000 to 100,000 Iraqis that are dead, but they don't really count do they)
I'd also like to mention a dear friend of mine who has a theory about the strange love our president has for revolutionizing the space program. AF suggests that dubya is trying to squeeze all the money out of the federal gov't in what ever way he can to "starve the beast" that is the numerous insidious social welfare programs that have helped to support this country for over fifty years. I've since heard this theory reiterated in different ways by different people, but AF was first in my world. So here's to Mars and great new outer space America that will be populated with a whole lot of poor people.
Feb. 15th, 2006
07:16 am - Dick Button
So me and the missus are watching the Olympics. And man-o-man is Dick Button an asshole! Aside from the appearance of some latent racial issues he has (a lot of "them" and "they" when referring to the Chinese skaters), he suffers from a severe "sit-spin" fetish. At one point, I thought that he was going to run out onto the ice and shove some 16 year old from croatia onto the ground and show them how to properly sit and spin. Well, to you Dick Button, wherever you may be, I want you to know that I am doing this as hard as I have ever done it before and I hope that you heed my message, "Sit and Spin!"
Feb. 9th, 2006
12:26 pm - Boner: the new leader of the house
So I'm listening to the Podcast of this past Sunday's Meet the Press, and boy is John Boehner just a breath of fresh air. How can he think that he's fooling anybody? Russert confronts him on his past lobbyist whoring (for big tobacco) and Boehner's like, I learned my lesson. So some guy who was already caught with his hand in the cookie jar is replacing another guy who is merely (although most likely, rightly) accused of doing the same. That's a real step up Republicans. Way to go!!!
Now, one of the few Republicans that isn't a total schill for the Dubya administration, is gearing up to take down Bush and Gonzales and their cabal of CIA/NSA voyeurs. I love Arlen Specter. Of course, at these hearings this week, we can bear witness to that Douchebag extraordinaire Attorney General give the finger to the Senate. The translation of his testimony by Daniel J. Solove is exceptional.
I have no real thoughts on these matters, just a little bit of vomit in my mouth.
Feb. 7th, 2006
10:40 am - More Cuts
Bush resuscitates old reasons to hate him.
Bush: Slash public broadcast funds [Hollywood Reporter]
WASHINGTON -- President Bush took a swipe at Big Bird and his ilk
Monday as he proposed slashing funds to public broadcasting by more
than $150 million. In the president's 2007 budget request, CPB funding
will be cut by $53.5 million in 2007 and $50 million more in 2008.
Those cuts don't reflect others made in funding at the Education and
Commerce departments and the elimination of specific programs for
digital TV conversion and satellite delivery system. Public
broadcasting officials estimate that the entire budget cuts run $157
million over the two-year period. "Oscar the Grouch has been
friendlier to the Sesame Street characters than President Bush, who
has chosen to make huge cuts to children's television programming,"
said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. "In a world of fast-and-furious
television with ratings-driven content, the public broadcasting system
represents the last stronghold of quality child-oriented programming
-- we owe this to America's children."
I wish that PBS had trained a select group of second graders with
questionable moral compasses and excellent hand-eye coordination. It
wouyld be cool if Seasame Street had a "crack commando unit" that
could, as Pat Robertson would say, "take 'em out."
Maybe Bush was reading about evil Bert and got scared....
Nov. 15th, 2005
12:49 am - Collegiate Shout Out
The last twenty four hours have seen a series of high profile shout
outs to some of my dearest mater. Yesterday, on Meet the Press, former
Vermont governor and current chair of the Democratic National Committee
Howard Dean, mentioned that story about an African-American student at
the University of California Davis who hoped to go to law school. "The Republicans want to cut $14 billion out of higher education so this kid can't go to law school."
I've recently started my post-doctoral research at UC Davis and was happy to hear governor Dean give us Aggies
some props on national TV. I assume that Mr. Dean was referring to the
B.A.'s intention to continue cutting the funding for any program that
offers a helping hand to those in need. My favorite line of the B.A. is
how Medicare and welfare only teach people to lower the expectations
they have of themselves; thus assuring that they remain on the welfare
rolls for perpetuity. However, I fail to see how this thinking works
when applied to giving people money to go to college. Except for Van Wilder,
I can't imagine how someone could drag down the federal government and
the national economy by staying in school for an eternity. What does
make sense is "teaching someone to fish." But I'm some crazed liberal
intelligentsia that doesn't understand the machinations of reality.
While, the Dean props invigorated me for the day, it was tonight's Charlie Rose that made me smile from ear to ear. Gordon Moore was talking about the best schools for developments in computer science and artificial intelligence. The DARPA challenge
came up in the course of the conversation, and instead of mentioning
the winner, Stanford, by name, the honorable Gordon Moore chose to
instead discuss how Carnegie Mellon University is the nexus of research
toward a true AI. Way to go Gordie! And just to pile on when the
piling's good, my new Aggies crushed those wimpy Stanford Stans in some NCAA football earlier this year.
Sorry it took me so long to join the blogosphere.
May. 13th, 2005
08:18 pm - long time listener, first time poster
Greetings and Salutations to all my Droogies-
The local thought magistrate may be recording this message.
Once our techs have determined if this site is safe, future posts will follow.
Until then, keep the rebellion alive.
