Random Thoughts

I was reading the great Jesus General blog this evening when someone posted in the comments section about a wacko Christian sect called Quiverfull, which is averse to any form of birth control and advocates that people have as many offspring as they can splorch out. No, this is apparently NOT related to the Mormons.

In reply to this, one of the respondents riposted that "a vagina isn't a clown car" while another told an anecdote that supposedly occurred on Groucho Marx' old game show, You Bet Your Life: when a female contestant revealed that she had a large brood, Marx asked her why. "I love my husband," she is said to have rejoindered. Which engendered this observation from the mustachioed comedian: "Well, I like my cigars, too, but I take them out of my mouth every once in a while." I haven't stopped laughing since.

I just saw on the news of how Iran and Syria might end up being allowed to weigh in on any settlement of the Iraq situation. To me, that would be the greatest diplomatic and military humiliation ever endured by America. Let's call Bush what he is: Nero. Or a scatalogical King Midas, who turns to shit everything he touches.

There were some recent cheers in some sectors of the liberal blogosphere regarding a reported improvement in the ratings of MSNBC and CNN as compared with Fox News. But why? MSNBC was perhaps an even bigger cheerleader for the Iraq invasion than the Rupe-a dupes and CNN features one blowhard wingnut shithead Glenn Beck as well as former Rush Limbaugh fuck toy Darin Kagin. Furthermore, the one watchable asset that MSNBC, which should be folded up like a cheap carnival tent and sent into that eternal good night, has, Keith Olberman, is forced to have his show scarred by a bunch of tabloid horseshit by his Republican bosses attempting to blunt the impact of his show. None of the winger hosts, Joe Thugborough, Tim "the Buffalo Buttface" Russert and"Quisling Chris" Matthews are so hamstrung.

Thus, all three cable news outlets suck and it wouldn't be much of a loss if all three of them went off the air tomorrow. Most smart people are getting their news off the internet anyway.

Speaking of which, are there big enough numbers available to quantify just how galactic an embarrassment the Katie Couric version of the once proud CBS Evening News is? It is like having a sexless soccer mom from down the block working the anchor chair. Even Rita Cosby would be an improvement only because she makes you imagine what she did to get that husky voice of hers and it kind of makes you horny even if, like Couric, Cosby isn't a journalist but rather just a bimbo who can read a teleprompter.

Scraping the bottom of the brainpan the last couple of days was Democrat New York Congress critter Chucky Rangell, who would like to revive the draft. Rangell, unlike most of the war eagle crowd on the other side of the isle, has seen combat somewhere (Korea, in fact) and is pissed about how it is generally minorities and the poor who end up with the cannons pointed at them, to plagiarize John Fogerty. So he wants to make (cue melody from White Christmas) everyone from 18-42 available to Uncle Sam's beck and call.

One can see Rangell's point. He also posits that this would have kept us from pulling the trigger on Iraq since everybody in the country would have had some kind of personal stake in how we exercise military power. Of course, that's about as sound as Ted Haggard's ability to deny himself buttsex and street pharmaceuticals because Bush and Cheney are such sociopaths that they don't give a shit and the empty eyed denizens of the country's hosanna huts back them because their leaders (Jerry Falwell, ad nauseum) are part of the GOP in crowd. If Bush really gave a shit about what Americans think we would have gun control, abortion wouldn't be threatened and we would have national health care.

The conscription proposal was immediately shot down (no pun intended) by speaker to be Nancy Pelosi. All Rangell ultimately did was create a distraction from the incremental agenda that Pelosi has in mind for the first few months of the Democrat Congress and it may have even alienated independents who don't want to hear anything associated with war at the moment due to the monumental clusterfuck Bush has subjected our brave troops to.

What is a bit ominous about all this is that Bush has so crippled the reach and readiness of our armed forces that one wonders if maybe Rangell isn't right. The GOP won't back a draft either out of political expediency even as you have idiots like John McCain calling for 20,000 more men to be dropped into the quagmire. McCain is talking like he has the intention of going McNamara on us if he were elected president and then it will be even more like Vietnam than it already is. Yet another reason to refrain from voting for this stealth rightwing hack.

Fox has no decided to pull the OJ Simpson tv special and I had initially thought that they would leave the book available (which was already climbing up the Amazon charts; The queen bitch of South Central, Maxine Waters, was probably looking forward to the former running back personally autographing her copy) while using the fuss over it as a form of negative marketing. But no, the book has been pulled, too, thank the deity of your choice. C'mon, even the most blindered Republican has to now realize that Fox and its honchos Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes lack any conscience whatsoever. Or is that what the wingnuts like about them?

This all provoked a poster to Americablog to do a send up in the comments section concerning a deal Fox probably would have made with Osama Bin-Laden. It's under the headline, "Fox News' Rupert Murdoch Cancels OJ Book and TV Special."

I guess we've seen the last of Michael Richards, no? What a pinhead!