What a night last night. It was so hot that the older dog would not stop panting and drinking (loudly!!) out of the toilet bowl. I finally dragged her ass downstairs, but then she whined and scratched at the barricade all f*cking night long, trying to get back upstairs. To top it off, when I got up this morning I found one of the dogs had crapped on the rug. JKF. I think I'll take tomorrow off just to catch up on my sleep.
Lots of Other Stuff Happened Today
1492 Christopher Columbus got the OK from Spain to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia.
1524 Giovanni da Verrazano reached present-day New York harbor, discovered bridge with his name on it.
1790 a real statesman, Benjamin Franklin, died in Philadelphia at age 84. 212 years later his grave-spinning began.
1861 the Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union. Why didn't Florida try this?
1941 Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany in World War II.
1961 The CIA, in a total flame-out, launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. 41 years later the Daddy's Little Doofus version get their asses spanked trying to pull the same shit in Venezuela.
1964 Ford Motor Co. unveiled its new Mustang.
1964 Washington's FBI audio lab reports it cannot determine the lyrics to "Louie Louie".
1969 a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1997 House Speaker and adulterer Newt Gingrich announced he would borrow $300,000 from Bob "down, boy!" Dole to pay a fine imposed for violation of House rules. The party of honor and integrity...
Word of the Day: Sanguine: A sanguine Chimpy McPretzal was looking forward to talking with his cows and maybe some Arab guy at his pig farm, Bunnypants Bunker, next weekend.
Quotes of the Day
"Most have already figured it out that the reason the 'president' and the Republicans don't want to get tough with white-collar criminals is because they are their friends, they work together and they go to the same country clubs." - Rep. John Conyers (D-Big Steel Ones)
"I go [on television] when I can add to the success of the administration," - Andrew "what a card!" Card. I want what he's taking.
"We could have a cease-fire declared today, but what would it mean?" - Colin "wtf am I doing??" Powell on the Mideast.
"United States officials have met with a broad spectrum of Venezuelans over several months. Our message has been consistent: The political situation is one for the Venezuelans to resolve peacefully, democratically, and constitutionally. We explicitly told opposition leaders the United States would not support a coup." - WH spokes-tool and Borscht-Belt Comedian Ari "the liar" Fleischer. Stop it, you're killing me!
"Now the senator seems to have hit the hypocrisy jackpot. He divorced his wife of 29 years in 1999. After the briefest of bachelorhoods he then married a woman whose name is not only Randi but who is a young thing of only 39. Worse, he found her in a way that always sounds suspicious to Republicans - from among members of his Senate office staff." - Robert Reno, on Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-Sanctimoniouspig), in Newsday.com
"The president has a cast of thousands working to create an impression of dynamism and policymaking vigour about his person, even if he is really mostly asleep or having carpet sex." - Matthew Engel, in The Guardian
"And his speeches, it has been noted, seem increasingly incomprehensible, not because of his malapropisms but because he has lost his old knack of translating Washington jargon into plain-folks English. What we are seeing, I think, is a president who is essentially disengaged, as he was so often in his early months on the job. When the going gets complex, he would rather be elsewhere." - ditto
"As the past few weeks have plainly indicated, the grownups may be back in charge at the White House, but they are grownups who, at least on foreign policy matters, are a pack of gibbering idiots. From the Bush Administration's abandoning several important international treaties to its shocking ineptitude in dealing with Muslin nations, an unbiased observer can't help but wonder, 'Who voted for this guy?'". - Jeff Ritchie, at Democratic Underground
"The Clinton presidency was illegitimate, 'a cultural coup d'état,' they informed the country -- this from the same people who denounced Democrats for not 'moving on' after George W. Bush was handed the presidential election by a stacked Supreme Court. - David Talbot, in Salon.com. A must-read: click Here
"We hold thorough public inquiries into rail disasters, plane crashes, and even natural disasters in order to understand what happened and to prevent them from happening again or minimizing the tragic effects when they do. Why then does the Administration remain steadfast in its opposition to an investigation into the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation?" - Cynthia McKinney, (D-Georgia). Word!!
"The rest of us are expected to shut up and accept the administration wisdom that Big Oil knows best how to write a national energy policy, that big employers know best how to solve ergonomic problems, and that Big Coal knows best about health, safety and environment at the mines." - Lexington Courier-Journal Editorial
"Ari Fleischer is lying. The New York Times has two solid sources that say our government, dubiously elected president that we have, was trying to overthrow a freely elected president in Latin America." - Paul Begala, on Crossfire
"I'm talking about -- I don't take my marching orders from the White House, as you well know." - Tucker "beau petit" Carlson on Crossfire
"Once again, the supposed masters of foreign policy serving Mr. Bush have displayed their own arrogance and incompetence. " - Joe Conason, in the NY Observer
US Quietly Pays $11.5 Million Compensation for Shrub's Rich Oil Buddies' Sub Joyride-of-Death
The submarine joyride on the USS Greenville by Texas energy executives that cost 9 lives, including 4 teenagers, has now cost US taxpayers $11.5 million in compensation to the Japanese government. The submarine was piloted by one of the Texan energy executives during its fateful ascent to the surface. To date, the Navy has spent $60 million to raise the fishing boat, at least $40 million of which went to Cheney's Halliburton, which owns one of the salvage vessels. The Navy is
conducting separate compensation talks with the victims' families. (- from democrats.com)
What the hell is wrong with people? One of the screaming beagles in the cube farm right next to me whelped a few weeks ago. Today she brought the little hellspawn in to hold court and receive adoration - it was a mad rush for the rest of the pack to finish lunch in time so they wouldn't miss the Holy Viewing. "Are you coming to see xxx and the baby?!", one yapped at me. Sorry, but I just ate.
April 17, 2002
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