Greetings From Rhode Island ! Out of the blue...state
Buddhists stole my clarinet... and I'm still as mad as Hell about it!
How did a small-town boy from the Midwest come to such an end? And what's he doing in Rhode Island by way of Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York? Well, first of all, it's not the end YET! Come back regularly to find out. (Plant your "flag" at the bottom of the page, and leave a comment. Claim a piece of Rhode Island!)
My final epitaph? "I've calmed down now."
This is funny. Except for the fact that Hillary and McCain voted FOR Bush's bill to give credit card companies more power to collect debt and raise interest rates, while simultaneously reducing the power of Americans to be able to declare bankruptcy from 30 % interest rates, even under extreme circumstances, such as health issues. (Is this their universal health care? Debtor's prison?) And.. she was FOR NAFTA before she was AGAINST it. But enjoy and smile.. perhaps a change is in the wind...
David Shuster reports saying that Clinton helped get NAFTA approved, 3/25. If you look at the videos, you can only conclude she was lying when she supported it, or she's lying now when she says she never supported it. But she's on record (video) as saying she fully supported it. How can she say she's always been against it? Maybe she was under sniper fire at the time.
(A note from Greetings: I was checking my "cookies" as I always do on my regular computer. However, I don't do it as much on my laptop.. a Mac. What I found was... from all of my visits to the candidates' sites... only one put tracking cookies on my computer. HillaryClinton.com . If we get that from her campaign, what will her Presidency bring? Do watch the Jed Report below... both funny and scary.)
From The Jed Report http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/bosnia-and-back.html#disqus_thread
Presenting the newest production from The Jed Report -- Bosnia and Back Again, the story of Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. AMERICAblog declares it is "the most spectacular display of sniper fire since Tuzla." Senator Clinton plays herself in a performance The Field calls "a paid political ad for John McCain." Watch the trailer now:
The story behind Bosnia and Back Again:
A few days ago, MasterSitsu, a member of the Daily Kos community, sent me an e-mail. His subject line: "OMG I hit the video goldmine." He wasn't kidding -- he had found unbroadcast footage of Hillary Clinton from a 1992 interview on 60 Minutes. MasterSitsu suggested a video highlighting the stark contrast between her rhetoric then and her actions now, and I took his idea and ran with it.
I'd been wanting to put together a video that would serve as a bookend to Hillary in Tuzla: The Story of Bosnian Sniper Fire, but until MasterSitsu sent me the 60 Minutes footage, I hadn't felt like I had enough material to make a strong video.
Another person who helped find a key piece of video for Bosnia and Back Again is Carthage -- who found Clinton's cookies and teas comment.
One interesting side note: the 60 Minutes interview from which the outtakes were pulled was aired after the Superbowl in January 1992 shortly before the New Hampshire primary. At the time, a variety of scandals including charges of marital infidelity threatened to destroy the Clinton campaign, but in this interview the Clintons managed to get his campaign back on track, ultimately sending him to the White House. (None of the outtake footage directly deals with any of the scandals. We're not the business of doing Ken Starr's work here at The Jed Report.)
Hey.. did I mention that Buddhists stole my clarinet? It's the only logical explanation I can give for ... well... all of this. I know it's not the reason, I really, really know. But they're the most helpless bunch of innocent bystanders that I can find to blame at present.
And please. No hate mail from Buddhists now. I love you all, each and every denomination. OTHERS may find them responsible, but I am not one, and those who cast aspersions are NOT affiliated with me. I have love and forgiveness in my heart. But if you ever find that guy Devananda...it was a Le Blanc Noblet, Damn it!
How did a small-town boy from the Midwest come to such an end? And what's he doing in Pennyslvania? Well, first of all, it's not the end YET!
Come back for my regular rants about life, politics, the arts, and anything that I find just plain nuts in everyday life.
About 5 years ago, I had vocal chord surgery. The doctor botoxed my left vocal chord so it would heal. I lost my voice for 6 months. My wife later offered to pay the doctor to botox it again on a semi-annual basis.