Yodeling Monkey Puppet

It's a chilly blustery day here in Mendon-land.

For some reason my coffee pot stopped getting the coffee really hot.

Laundry is piled up , close to the laundry room ceiling, etc.

This helped:

I don't think I have ever watched the Craig Ferguson show. I need to change that...

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Shep and Dylan sittin in a tree.....

OK.... inquiring minds want to know: What does Shepard Smith have on Mr. Murdoch?

Is the pic a dead girl or a live boy?

Bone head insurance corporation shill , Senator Dr. John Barrasso, (R) Wyoming, thinking he was going on the Fox News for a little love and a reach around.

Enter Fox odd duck, Mr.Smith

In the same vein today, my coffee and I were watching this one, new k+b poster boy, the Pride of the Adirondacks, Dylan Ratigan... how are the kids saying it today? Ripped Ms. Death Panel a new one.

I wish EVERY talk show/newsy type in the country would watch this. " Are you telling the truth, guest, or just pulling facts out of your hat and spewing your opinion as fact ? "

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This puppy is long, but watch it. A HUGE gripe I have with MSNBC is they are so ," wham , bam, now on to Andrea Mitchell "... Dylan took his time to call this nut , a nut.

Dinner ( with Snickers Bar )

Koda had Ciara over for a sleep over ( which we got very little sleep the first night ) and when Roja came to pick her up Sunday, she brought us Indian Food, without me even asking! So this was dinner and it was VERY good. I really do have to learn to make this dish. It was just chicken, I added the beans. Classic side salad with fat free light ranch, left over sprouts from last night and yes, a Snickers Bar.

I took lots of pics of Koda and Ciara doing their doggie things, but left my camera over at Dahn's post UGA getting beat. See, I too, was penalized for excessive celebration.

Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart does go on

The University of Georgia football team doing its Titanic impression in the polls. NOT even in the top 25... no mans land. The loss to LSU was just not pretty, and I may have made bets with my pal Brett that well... ya'll know the old catch phrase....

Hunker down folks, the next two weekends spent in Tennessee. For better or worse both games will be on tv up here, ( I HOPE ) The pretty darn fun SEC Network is being carried by the MSG ( the Mets/Madison Square Garden ) Network. I think I hope they keep it up.

Georgia v Tennessee : 10/10/09 12:21 kick-off

Georgia v Vanderbilt : 10/17/09 12:21 kick-off ( some prime tail gate opportunities..)

ENOUGH!

The recession gets real : CONDE NAST TO END GOURMET!

Give Me That Old Time Religion.....

I have been writing this in my head for the last few days. It has been hard to get here on the k+b because I do not understand it. It all started with this Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times sent to me, and posted on by B. Day.

The overall premise is that right wing politics has become religion to its followers.

"Perhaps the single most profound change in our political culture over the last 30 years has been the transformation of conservatism from a political movement, with all the limitations, hedges and forbearances of politics, into a kind of fundamentalist religious movement, with the absolute certainty of religious belief."

NOT ,so much, Jesus ♡ Sara Palin, but politics, right wing politics, as " immutable truths that cannot be negotiated, compromised or changed." American Politics is ALL about compromise. That is the way the whole complex sausage factory is set up. This committee does "A", the House does "B", the Senate does "C" , then all the powers that be sit down with Lyndon , have a bourbon and branch and come up with a voting rights bill. That is the way it has always been done.

But, if you see your politics as religion, if you see yourself as doing the bidding of the Almighty god of tax cuts, then compromise - sausage making - becomes heresy. Your immortal soul is in danger if you do not protect capitol gains. This is not my usual hyperbole, there are people , powerful GOP politicians and pundits that have adopted this as their main religion.

A very personal, probably overly personal example of this from the facebook. Worlds collide on that website like no other place in most folks lives. An old friend of mine from college was going off on some President Obama hating rant, and getting very nasty and personal. ( it is VERY surprising to me , how many folks that I have known for such a long time have gone over to the other side...) He called me , and others, " close minded for not listening to his point of view". Went on and on about it. I asked him " does my strongly disagreeing with you on issues make me close minded" His answer was " YES ". His way , their way, is the ONLY way... " If you are not with us, you are against us" mentality.

How does the left, a progressive world view - kum-bah-ya-can't-we-just-all-get-along deal with this ?? I know I am way way left of the political mainstream, but I don't see most of the other side as evil, crazy, misguided, selfish as hell, but not possessed by demons. There are symptoms of this everywhere on the right today. The glee at Chicago losing the Olympics as the most recent example. Glen Beck as the modern day Amiee Semple McPherson. I do not have an answer for this, which is I guess why I had such issue with writing this.

It goes back to the loss of " WE" I have been writing about. I can only win if you lose. Where does this take us? In the late 60's when America was going through such horrible turmoil, there was still the reality of the 7:30 news. Love it or hate it Uncle Walter gave us the facts. THERE ARE NO FACTS any more, truth was the first casualty of this new religious war. The birthers/deathers/Beckers make their own truth, and they believe it with the passion of a brand new Baptist. Can our country survive if there is no US to fight for in the U.S. ???

Sunday Dinner

I am all about tradition.

Sunday dinner is Roast Chicken. Rice and Gravy, some yummy buttery lemony Brussel sprouts, the last of the Summer Squash from a friends garden, cooked in an Indian way.. very good, cranberry sauce.