xxx stars are people, too

You've gotta check out this blog: Becoming Jennie.

Its about an ex-adult film star's road from sex addict to sobriety.

Not much of a point to this blog, but to display an interesting person's daily struggle to walk the straight-and-narrow.

That, and to continually be amazed about how interesting people can be.

The start of something new

Well now i'm a contributor at Count's Banned and Dangerous blogsite, where you can catch up on the mass hysteria of right-wing rants and quotes!

Check me out!

Hate mongering doesn't take a day off

You would honestly expect that on the 6th anniversary on 9/11, there would be at least a day without politicization, right? Well, there was. The College Republicans and College Democrats at San Francisco State decided to join together in commemorating the horrific events of September 11, when a group of protesters pulled this stunt.

Regardless whether the opinions of the communists protesters was accurate, it was highly inappropriate for them to do this on the day of remembering those who died in 9/11, as were the methods.

Unfortunately, for Leo Pusateri, he wasn't aware that two wrongs don't make a right.

There's a name for individuals who pull this kind of a number: certified assholes.

The Count was right about Leo

Let me tell you point blank what I think about Leo Pusateri . He is a piss poor parent. The worst kind of parent. Anybody who has a child in Iraq or Afghanistan and supports this war and this President doesn't give a shit about his children.

He cares more about his president then he does his own child and to me that makes him a worthless parent and a worthless human being.

I couldn't agree with you more, Count.

I came to this conclusion when I posted about why he's bitching about Al Gore but not about the Army Times reporting that the troops serving in Iraq don't need a bigger pay raise. This was his response:

1. Try to stay on topic.

2. Bush wouldn't complain about a larger increase in pay than he proposed if your defeatocrat friends wouldn't be threatening to cut military funding at every turn of the corner (and don't give me that B.S. that you're not a democrat--you hang out at D.U.).

I'd be trying to conserve money, too.

Don't be talking to me about supporting the troops.

You and yours may just as well hold a friggen gun to their head, and threaten to pull the trigger, since that's what you and yours have been doing lo' these many months.

Talk about torture and stress. It's not like they have enough, and you go and pile it on with your worthless piece of crap political posturing and threatening to cut off their funding.

Screw you!!

Don't ever--ever come on this blog again and talk about Bush not supporting the troops!

I decided to ignore his ranting and provide more examples of Bush not giving a shit about our troops.

Jonathan said...

"(and don't give me that B.S. that you're not a democrat--you hang out at D.U.). "

Wrong, I read D.U. - barely, because I don't have the luxury to do it(responsibilities to school)everyday, and btw: i'm not a member. I've never signed up for D.U., you condescending prick.

What's the matter, Leo? Hard to accept that Bush only uses the soldiers as either a photo-op or for political posturing?

Well, here are more examples of Bush not supporting the troops:

Wieghtman testifying about privatization of Walter Reed

two soldiers killed in friendly fire, not in combat

injured troops being deployed

veterans disabilities being downgraded

neglection at Walter Reed #18

sending troops to war without the right amount of troops needed

Who supports the troops now?
It sure as hell isn't the Commander-In-Chief.

5/25/2007 10:59:00 AM

Unfortunately, Leo couldn't handle the truth, so he deleted it.

Count Istavan was right........Leo, you don't care.

I could really care less at this point, whether or not you support the war. I believed that you would be pissed that for all the talk of Bush claiming to support the troops, that you would be mad as hell that he's only using them for a photo-op, but I guess your unwavering loyalty to Bush trumps your own son and the troops.

You sir, are a fucking creep.

To Leo.....

Remember when I blogged about Leo Pusateri calling me out for supposedly calling Chimpy an idiot and a coward (which I didn't, i said he was "incompetent" and "intellectually-challenged")?

Well I've decided to respond to Mr. Pusateri's comments.

Leo? I hope you're reading this blogs, cause I have a few misconceptions I need to clear up with your post, which by the way, was flattering:

First, I said that the Shrub was incompetent, not stupid. I'm not sure if you realize this, but incompetent and stupid are not the same thing. Here's the definition of stupid:

1. lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
2. characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question.

Now, the definition of incompetent:

1. not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
2. characterized by or showing incompetence: His incompetent acting ruined the play.

Second, let me explain why I called the president incompetent and intellectually challenged. I called Bush incompetent because all the studying he did in Harvard and Yale and his terms as Governor of Texas couldn't help him fight a war with competence, or rebuild New Orleans, or hire qualified officials to high-ranking positions of power (Alberto Gonzalez and Michael Brown ring any bells, Leo?). I called Bush intellectually challenged cause, if you've listened to the man for five minutes, you'd see he couldn't string together a coherent sentence if his life depended on it.

Thirdly, no one called Bush a coward, but I did find it ironic that you invoked Bush's service to the National Guard, which is honorable work, which I would have given him credit for.......if the Shrub hadn't gone AWOL on his service as Salon.com reported in 2004.

Bush flew for the last time on April 16, 1972. Upon entering the Guard, Bush agreed to fly for 60 months. After his training was complete, he owed 53 months of flying.

But he flew for only 22 of those 53 months.

Upon being accepted for pilot training, Bush promised to serve with his parent (Texas) Guard unit for five years once he completed his pilot training.

But Bush served as a pilot with his parent unit for just two years.

In May 1972 Bush left the Houston Guard base for Alabama. According to Air Force regulations, Bush was supposed to obtain prior authorization before leaving Texas to join a new Guard unit in Alabama.

But Bush failed to get the authorization.

In requesting a permanent transfer to a nonflying unit in Alabama in 1972, Bush was supposed to sign an acknowledgment that he received relocation counseling.

But no such document exists.

He was supposed to receive a certification of satisfactory participation from his unit.

But Bush did not.

He was supposed to sign and give a letter of resignation to his Texas unit commander.

But Bush did not.

He was supposed to receive discharge orders from the Texas Air National Guard adjutant general.

But Bush did not.

He was supposed to receive new assignment orders for the Air Force Reserves.

But Bush did not.

On his transfer request Bush was asked to list his "permanent address."

But he wrote down a post office box number for the campaign he was working for on a temporary basis.

On his transfer request Bush was asked to list his Air Force specialty code.

But Bush, an F-102 pilot, erroneously wrote the code for an F-89 or F-94 pilot. Both planes had been retired from service at the time. Bush, an officer, made this mistake more than once on the same form.

On May 26, 1972, Lt. Col. Reese Bricken, commander of the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, informed Bush that a transfer to his nonflying unit would be unsuitable for a fully trained pilot such as he was, and that Bush would not be able to fulfill any of his remaining two years of flight obligation.

But Bush pressed on with his transfer request nonetheless.

Bush's transfer request to the 9921st was eventually denied by the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver, which meant he was still obligated to attend training sessions one weekend a month with his Texas unit in Houston.

But Bush failed to attend weekend drills in May, June, July, August and September. He also failed to request permission to make up those days at the time.

Now, this list goes on for a while, but hopefully, you get the point: Bush cut and ran from the Guard.

Lastly, Leo, let me translate what you told me, to what you're actually saying:

Well, Jonathan--I must forgive you for your shallow thinking.

Translation: I've got nothing on this kid.

I mean, as a 16 year old and a probable victim of indoctrination by liberal teachers,

Translation: Acting like a condescending prick will really put this snot-nosed brat in his place!

your life's experience has not allowed you to see reality.

Translation: I am in no way aware of what either irony or hypocrisy mean.

Glad I could clear some of these misconceptions up for you, Leo!

The perks of pissing off Bush apologists

Who knew pissing off Bush apologists would pay off like this?

To Jonathan...

Who commented:

Be careful how you vote.

Cause you'll never know when your country will wind up with an incompetent and an intellectually-challenged president like Dubaya.


Well, Jonathan--I must forgive you for your shallow thinking. I mean, as a 16 year old and a probable victim of indoctrination by liberal teachers, your life's experience has not allowed you to see reality.

So for yours, and for the edification of your fellow shallow thinkers, many well into their forties, I bring you the following, courtesy of EJECT! EJECT! EJECT!

Somewhere in Texas, a Village is missing its Idiot. I chose this one first since it's the only one that has a particle of real wit. But the Bush is an idiot meme is very tired, and the most cursory look causes it to fall apart like -- how can I make them understand? -- like a lemon almond biscotti left too long in a grande' caffe verona.

For starters, you can of course point to the fact that the man did graduate from both Harvard and Yale, but that was with a C average, and clearly, the idea of being merely in the middle of the pack of those getting advanced degrees from America's two preeminent universities cuts you no slack from those community-college theater major drop-outs who love to level the charge.

So let's leave that aside for a moment – Poppy's connections and all that – and take a moment to look at this, if you will:



This is a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger. It is a second-generation, supersonic fighter-interceptor. It cruises at 845 mph.

There were some minor aerodynamic problems with the F-102. For example, at certain power settings and angles of attack – like, say, take-off -- the jet compressor would stall and the aircraft would roll inverted. It is no picnic, skill-wise, to fly a modern F-16 with advanced avionics and fly-by-wire flight control systems. The workload on the F-102 was far higher. The F-16 has an accident rate of 4.14 occurrences per 100,000 flight hours. The F-102's accident rate was more than three times that: 13.69 per 100,000 hours. 875 F-102A interceptors were built; 259 – almost 30% - were lost to accidents or enemy action while serving in Vietnam.

George W. Bush flew hundreds of hours in the F-102.

Now look at this:



This is the cockpit of the F-102 Delta Dagger's successor, the F-106 Delta Dart (I could not find an F-102 panel, but they would have been very similar)

Now, picture yourself in this chair, at 40,000 feet, traveling at one and a half times the speed of sound. Now imagine that someone has painted the windows white – you are flying on instruments. Now imagine that not only do you have to be able to fly blind, by referencing these instruments, but that you also have to stare into that orange jack-o-lantern of a radar, and interpret a squiggle that will lead you to your target. Now imagine that in addition to not hitting the ground, or your wingman, and watching the squiggle, you also have to turn those switches on the right side panel to activate weapons systems, to overcome enemy countermeasures…without looking outside, as you hurtle through air at -40 degrees F, air so thin that should you lose pressure, you have about 4-6 seconds of consciousness before you black out and die.

I maintain that the instant George W. Bush closed that canopy and took off on the first of his many solo hours in an F-102, it is quite impossible that he was either an idiot or a coward.

Here is a random question from the instrument rating exam I had to pass a few years ago.

Refer to figure 91:



What should be the approximate elapsed time from the BOSEMAN (BZN) VOR to the DUBOIS (DBS) VORTAC if the wind is 24 knots from 260 degrees and your intended True Air Speed is 185 knots? (The magnetic variation is 17deg. E)

A. 33 minutes
B. 37 minutes
C. 39 minutes

(It's C., obviously)

If he had been a civilian rather than military pilot, Dubya would have had to have passed 60 questions like this with at least 70% correct. Questions on weather, radio communications, mechanical systems, aerodynamics, pilot physiology, airspace, navigation and a hundred other things. But, since he was military, he also had to know how to operate that primitive in-flight radar, plus weapons systems, rules of engagement, electronic warfare, hydraulics, fuel systems…it goes on and on.

People like Michael Moore and Bill Maher and Keith Olberman would not be able to figure out how to close the canopy on an F-102. These people would be weeping with fear when those afterburners light up and you barrel down that runway hoping that engine doesn't flame out and roll you inverted into the asphalt, or when you're rocketing through the soup at 300mph watching two little needles chase each other, praying the next thing you see out the window is a runway and not a mountain goat.

George W. Bush is not stupid. It's not possible to be a moron and fly a supersonic jet fighter, and everyone knows it.

To which I responded:

Leo, I really can't understand why in God's name you'd still support this man.

This is a man who's idea of restoring honor and integrity to the White House is by surrounding himself with yes-men who kiss his ass at every turn, instead of hiring qualified people to positions of power and importance.

This is a man who took our nation to war with the wrong country and now refuses to come to the inconvenient truth that he f***ked up and it's time to leave and let the Iraqis figure out what they're going to do with their country.

This is a man who equates protecting our freedoms with wiretapping our phones.

This is a man who equates bi-partisanship with having a rubber-stamp Congress carry out the wishes of the executive branch.

If that's what makes me a liberal, then i'll wear the badge with honor.

Not a bad birthday present, no?

Partisan Extremes

If I have gotten anything out of the dirty, scheming, back-stabbing world or politics(or as I call it, a typical episode of the HBO original series , "Rome"), it's been that all sides have ranting, idiotic partisans carrying water for the other team.
Sometimes though, you have people so stuck-on-stupid and so blinded by the partisan glasses that they wear, that they reuse to see reality.

Ralph, a blogger at Americaphile, happens to top the craziest of the lunatics who still blindly support George Bush, although most Americans now see our Commander-In-Chief as a complete incompetent who can't manage to fight a war, let alone take care of his own people during a national crisis(Katrina anyone?).

And when I mean crazy, I mean completely batshit crazy. The kind of crazy where you can't believe what the hell you're hearing.

Here is a sample of his latest rant:

CRAZED LIBTARD CHARLIE SHEEN AND PIAPS’ FELLOW-LESBIAN ROSIE O’DONNELL ARE NOW FULLY ENGAGED IN THE DEMLIB EFFORT TO OBFUSCATE THE TERRIBLE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11!!!!!!

THEY ARE TRYING TO PLACE THE BLAME ON AMERICA’S GREATEST PRESIDENT, GEORGE W. BUSH!!!!!

THIS IS SLANDER AND TREASON, PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF AL-QAEDA AND THE PIAPS CAMPAIGN!!!!

EVEN WORSE, THEY ARE DEPERATELY TRYING TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE REAL CULPRITS, PIAPS AND CLINTOON!!!!!

EVEN AFTER ABC’S “PATH TO 9/11” EXPOSED HOW AMERICA WAS LEFT VULNERABLE AS CLINTOON ATTACKED MONICA LEWINSKY WITH A CIGAR AND AS PIAPS WAS CHANNELING ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND ROMPING WITH HER LESBIAN CONCUBINES!!!!

WE MUST EXPOSE THE LIES AND EVIL AGENDA OF THE HATE-FILLED “9/11 TRUTH” MOVEMENT. THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT TRUTH AND ARE FILLED WITH LIES AND HATE!!!!!

LIES!!!!! HATE!!!!! LIES!!!!! HATE!!!!! LIES!!!!! HATE!!!!!

THEY HAVE NO IDEAS AND CAN’T EVEN THINK!!!!!

“And, you know, if I were Bush, I'd take a look at you, Professor. I'd definitely take a look at you, just like Sami al-Arian. I'd put the FBI on you, and nutty Barrett, and find out what the hell you guys are up to, bottom line…You have disgraced those people by accusing the president of being a murderer.” ~ JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR, BILL O’REILLY.

You maybe wondering to yourself, 'Is it genetic? Can a person really be born crazy?'

As I said before, both sides have their extreme followers. Take the case of last week's anti-war protests in Portland, Oregon where in a crowd of 15,000 peaceful protestors, a handful of anti-militarists burned an effigy of a U.S. serviceman and burned the U.S. flag.

On the South Park Blocks, a handful of people set afire a uniformed effigy of a U.S. soldier and an upside-down flag. Around them, bystanders took pictures. Some of these images have made several loops of the planet by now, with the "Portland" marquee from the Performing Arts Center centered in the background.

The backlash began a day later.

"These jackasses are pure SCUM," reads one of the e-mails received here this week. "It's because of the sacrifices of these soldiers they have the freedom to act like idiots."

Others of the 15,000 or so marchers were horrified to learn about the small demonstration with the burning effigy. They say they weren't aware it was happening and wish that it hadn't.

"So much for supporting the troops," read an e-mail from an Oregon National Guardsman.

Thanks to those assholes, there's now a perception being spread around the media(mainly FOX News and conservative blogospheres)that the anti-war left are a bunch of kooks who hate the troops, which sure as hell isn't true.

Unfortunately, in today's political climate, we have loud and obnoxious partisans who try and make one stupid incident or the sayings of one shock jock, paint the other side with the same brush, and i'll be honest, i've done it myself when I get annoyed with the folks who still blindly support Bush, although I don't consider myself a partisan to the Democrats.

What both Republicans and Democrats need to do is to drown out the obnoxious voices from the shock jocks, the partisan hacks, and the blind followers, sit down and talk about the issues that our nation is facing, and find a way to re-connect a divided America after six years of partisan games and division tactics from the current administration.