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"Decker has written many articles on the subject of Aggravated Alcoholic Amnesia. His most recent—”Tips, Hints and Strategies toward a More Manageable Blackout”—will be covered in the course, as well as selected chapters from his new suspense novel, Oh Man, Why Am I Naked, and Bleeding, and Taped to the Dumpster Again?"
i hate when that happens. - jib
I got a friend. His name is Bill W. He'll take you a walkin'; and after only 12 steps, you'll meet someone else. This next person is someone who loves you.
Oh please, let's not bring mythology into this. I have enough fantasy instead of reality in my life.
Wow - meet a friend after 12 steps, that sounds like fun! And I'd love to know who this Bill W. guy is - he sounds like a crazy cracka'!
good one. I completely fell for that.
Mimi's is my favorite bar. I'm going to eventually write an article about the N'awlins scene, maybe a bunch of them, for Jeff Colyer's new 'zine he's putting together. Speaking of which, I should be getting on that soon. I'll write more about Mimi's a little later. I have to work a bit here.
I don't know exactly where this came from, but I have checked out the numbers and it does seem to be fair...
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January.....
In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January.
That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq.
When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war,
Remind them of the following ...
FDR...
led us into World War II.
Germany never attacked us: Japan did.
From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost,
an average of 112,500 per year.
Truman...
finished that war and started one in Korea,
North Korea never attacked us.
From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost,
an average of 18,334 per year.
John F. Kennedy...
started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.
Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson...
turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost,
an average of 5,800 per year.
Clinton...
went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent,
Bosnia never attacked us.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing.
Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us
President Bush has:
- liberated two countries,
- crushed the Taliban,
- crippled al-Qaida,
- put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot,
- and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take theBranch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.
We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
Getting too hot for you??? Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Accomplishments as president:
Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
In my first two years in office over 2.7 million Americans lost their job. No Bush president has ever created one net new job yet.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
Most secretive and un-accountable presidency of any in US history.
Members of cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law. -- corrected by a viewer who commented that Bush withdrew our signature from the ICC, the International Criminal Court, which is a different body than the "World Court" or ICJ.
Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
First US president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. Many people consider me a bigger threat to world peace than Saddam.
First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 911 attacks, successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
The previous list was taken from "topplebush.com"
First, I want to thank John for stating that my comment was "not offensive. Rather, right on." It was nice to get a comment that stems from an open mind. You know, to fully understand something, you do have to look at it from every angle. So again... Thank you John! As for Brad's comment - There is no need to use that kind of fucking language! (Ha Ha - see, I can joke around like the rest of you!!) As far as me posting my name... The fact is, that wouldn't matter - I would still be anonymous to you because you don't know me and I don't know you (except for what I have read on your blogs. Would it matter if my name was Joe Smith, or Sandy Johnson, or Bill Jones? Even with a name, I am still this anomymous person posting to this blog. With that said, I must say that the last post by Benjamin is very impressive. I read every bit of it with my open mind and must say that it is a very bad list (for Bush). Many of those things listed were real eye openers. I thank Benjamin for pointing those things out. Let me ask this question - Wouldn't it be possible for me to find a list like that for any President we have had? Probably. No one is perfect. Everybody is going to have a bad list. (Although, I must say the Mr. Bush's is pretty bad.) If a political party doesn't like you, they will put together a list... no matter what. I'm sure Mr. Bush has a list of "good" things out there as well. Mr. Kerry will have a "list" as well if he get elected. His friends will have the good list and his foes will have the bad list... I guess you just have to have an open mind.
With that said - My name is David White and I am from Indianapolis, Indiana
My point wasn't to argue with your statement, though I disagreed with it. It was primarily to note that you were walking that fine line between meaningful discourse & spam. Due to the fact that the commenty things were concerning drunk blackouts, Bush's policy had very little relevance.
But this isn't my front porch, so I'll get off the rocker.
First off, I don't mind anyone saying anything. (except please don't try to save my soul or tell me drinking is bad for me... this is the DRUNKENFISH!!!)
Secondly, back to the drinking. I wanted to tell John about my bar Mimi's.
Oh why not, I'll do a list. Top 10 things I like about Mimi's.
1. Very diverse mix of people.
2. Hefferweisen, Hefferweisen, Hefferweisen!!! (Paulaner with lemon wedge)
3. The most awesome Tapas I've ever had the experience to dine on.
4. Close to my house (No drunk driving involved)
5. Bartenders always buy me drinks when I help them win arguments with customers.
6. Beautiful bar. Upstairs the doors to the balcony are open and big red cloth curtains are blowing into the room like a cheesy music video. Old crumbly brick French Quarter like bar.
7. One of the bartenders is a goddess. ...and she actually smiles and talks to me. ummm, I'm sure it's not just for the tip. hmmmm.
8. Decent jukebox.
9. The really bad drunks (including me) often talk about metaphysics.
10. Everyone talks to everyone
Hello all, David White here. Brad - Thank you for your comment. I understand your comment now that you expanded on the fact that I was leaning toward spam. Sorry about that. Benjamin: No fears about me trying to save your soul and talk to you about drinking. I too am a big fan of drinking and I hold the same beliefs on religion as you do. I hate it when the bible-beaters try to come and “save” me. Pisses me off, it does.
Well, well, well. What would Sunday mornings be like without John talking about his penis. I guess we'll never know. Hope the pizza warmed up well. (Or did you just do the cold pizza morning thing?)
I got one hour of snooze time last night. It's about time to turn to a drug for sleep. I'm giving this one more work week to correct itself.
Well said Jibber. This is the biggest election I've ever had the chance to vote in. It's not right to have the corporate world dictate our government policies and rape our economy. It's sad to think of the feudal fascist state we will continue to turn into if Bush is re-elected.
I agree with Benjamin with his "well said, Jibber" comment. I like your comparisons to the Bush list. I really like the “He was drunk, I wouldn’t have called the police either”!!! After reading that – I agree 100% on that one!! Again, like I said, with an open mind, you can see both sides of a story. Also, it is just a list that I found on the internet. Like I said, you can find lists on any President or candidate (pro or con). I put “John Kerry bad list” into my search engine and came up with a lot of pages with a lot of information. I won’t link to any because you can do the same thing just as easily.
I guess a lot of these views depend on how you look at things. You can take the world as this huge monstrous situation and compare it to any of us as the individual specs on this planet and look at things very differently. On a world view – there is war, crime, political unrest, etc. Did Bush cause it? Would it have been different with Gore in the oval office? Who knows? On the personal and selfish view of my own tiny world – things are fine. During the Bush era: My job has been and is secure. My salary has risen from about $40,000 a year to about $49,000 a year. I was able to sell my previous home for a 27% profit and purchase my new home with an all time low 4.75%, 30 year fixed interest rate mortgage. I have had the freedom to have a part-time internet business that also brings in more income. That extra income allowed my to buy a nice sports car to go along with my “family cruiser”. I have the freedom to drink beer on my back porch any time I want to. I watch cable TV and take vacations. I have one cousin in the military (he is in Kuwait), but other than that, I don’t know any body in the war. I live less than two miles from my work, grocery stores, malls, etc., so the high gas prices don’t really bother me. For me (in my little, tiny world) everything is fine. Bush hasn’t damaged my world. I’m sure things would have been the same for me if Gore had been elected. I guess from a selfish point of view – It doesn’t matter. Things happen in the BIG world that may alter my LITTLE world, but you roll with it.
This has been a long story to say this: Deep down inside, I think Kerry is going to be our next President. I may not vote for him, but I think it will happen. Things in the BIG world will change. Lists will be made – Good and Bad. He will have triumphs and failures – he is human, after all. But, in my LITTLE, almost insignificant world, not much is going to change. I will still have my job, house, cars, family, etc. I hope all goes well with the BIG world, but I’m going to crack open a beer, sit back, lighten up and worry about MY LITTLE world. – David White
Thank you John - that was one of most entertaining lyrical rants I've read in a long time. Your ADD inspired philosophy is unlike any other...
I am a petal as well - oblivious to what the stem is up to, but all I know is I'd rather be in the safety & comfort with all my fellow petals.
But what is the stem doing? Are we sure the stem knows best - I'm afraid of autumn.
then we drink!
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