Splatterred

Like a fly on the windshield
Crooked legs point in all directions
Make a Nazi symbol
With a heart and body in the middle

The once lively juice-filled life
Turns green

But what of in between?

All of us have our good moments
Those times when God if there’s a God says
“You were worth it”

Did the fly feel worth it?
Did the fly protest wars against flies?
Did the fly raise funding for a fly party?
Did the flies try to at least teach themselves not to bang into a windshield going 60 mph?

If my heart were to be ripped from my body right now
And flung against a wall
It would feel no different

I want to make a difference before I’m beetle juice
I want to raise my voice and scream in protest
“Something is WRONG here!”
“Some things are WRONG!”

And then die
Knowing that other flies are still protesting
Still maniacally throwing themselves into windshields
Trying to make a difference

Trying to get the attention of those who drive cars
At 60 miles per hour
When it’s been proven that cars conserve more energy when being driven at 55

The voice of clarity has long been sung out
The buzzing of flies has taken over

So I fly around, around, around,
Circling,
Diving,
Rising,
Only to circle and dive and rise again

Waiting for my moment
Watching for the next windshield

Waiting for a Prius to land on

 

Hillary had it
Obama has it more so
What will you decide?

Sniper fire aside
Her plane indeed did spiral
Sinbad's stomach growled

Obama is new thing
like virgin fallen snowflakes
Hillary pisses

I am bored tonight
The press makes me feel beaten
Obama shines on

Feel free to add on
your own enlightening comments
My brain has withered

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeATPo7BPSc

Let's go grocery shopping!

As my newest best hero Joe Andrew put it in his excellent appearance on MSNBC tonight, the remaining "undecided" super delegates have been shopping for their candidate for a year.

Apparently, they squeezed Biden.  They sniffed Dodd.  They studied Richardson's color.  They likened Kucinich to a nut.  They came close to buying Edwards, but careful study of his freshness date gave them pause.

So if Hillary is the New York Strip of Democrats, why are they choosing arugula?

 

No, this is not some idiotic post by Gotalife, wherein I shout over and over again in capital letters:  HILLARY RULES, OBAMA DROOLS!!  Nor is it an Idiotic post made in irony.  It’s a headline for this great article I just read in Politico this morning:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9994.html

I love reminding folks that it’s not the popular vote that matters. 

 

 

I haven't watched Fox News in a long time.  I wasn't watching the news at all between 2002 and 2006.

I used to like Bill O'Reilly, back in the day.  When I was a Republican.  I have one of his books.  I went to one of his book-signings with my sister (and forgot to bring my book).

Sometimes I check out Fox News during commercial breaks on MSNBC.  But that's about it.

Tonight, because I knew Hillary Clinton was appearing on Bill O'Reilly's show, I turned on Fox at 7:30.  Lo and behold, there's Shepherd Smith (or is that Shepard, I forget) talking to Bill himself about the upcoming interview.

Bill is getting old.  He has no hair.  He's got a turkey neck.  Shep looks the same as he always did.  His hair color still matches his make-up.  He still has hair.  And no turkey neck.

After trying to stomach Bill's responses, and failing, I was grateful for a break in which Shep got to ask a female Fox reporter about the economy.

The woman had so much makeup on, I thought she was Paula Abdul. 

I don't remember the chicks on Fox looking this way back in the day.  I remember Greta with her pudgy, unmade up face and her amazing zig zag of a part in the somewhat middle of her hair. 

I recently saw Greta and I didn't even recognize her.  Skeery.

The female talking heads on Fox have been Barbi-fied.  All they need are Playboy Bunny suits on to make their look complete.

Anyway.

Who wants to live-blog the Hillary on O'Reilly Show right here?

Comments welcome.

I just love this show.  Rachel Maddow is my new hero.  Okay, so I realize she and Keith Olbermann can't get married and have children, but still.

Tonight she said some amazing things.  I wish I could find the video at MSNBC.com.  But I can't, so I'll try to sum it up here.

Basically, she laughed at Joe Scarborough, as usual, and then said, "Look, the MSM has been ranting about Wright for almost a week.  Meantime, there's the argument going on about the solution to gas prices, there's Bush blaming Congress for the recession that he's been denying for months, and 4 soldiers died in Iraq yesterday, I mean....c'mon!"

She then made everyone there (Eugene Robinson, Joe, the fill-in for Gregory tonight, and some nerdy looking right-winger whom I think goes by the name of Casey) promise to stop talking about Wright from now on.  And even Joe promised her he'd stop.  I was blown away.

Right after that shocking moment, the nerdy Casey guy and Joe both divulged that they heard rumors today that the Clinton camp is starting to signal that they might pack up their tents and go home in early June...if not before.

Am I the only one who saw this tonight on MSNBC?  Because I'd like to be pinched. 

Barack Obama, straight up.  Otherwise known as, "The Audacity of Hope".

Haven't read it?  Then don't reply.

Read it already?  Then you must feel it too.  The man makes sense.

In a world where our military is stuck in a rut in a place it had no real sense going into, the man makes sense.  He said so.  Back in 2002.  He's been saying so since.

In a world where CEO's are making millions while letting their workers get laid off, the man makes sense.

In a world where Bush and McCain could literally eat cake while New Orleans drowns, the man makes sense.

In a world where drug companies and oil companies make more profits and have more influence than unions do, the man makes sense.

In his book, Obama shares personal stories and personal views, mixed with the real world.  He brings up good and bad points about our progress in everything from HIV to NAFTA.  He points out one point of view, and then another....and then brings us to the common ground in between.

The man makes sense.  And I want him for my president.

Read his book.  And then maybe you'll make sense to me too.

In an AP feed from 30 minutes ago, Michelle Roberts reports that 31 of 53 teen girls at FLDS ranch are pregnant or had a baby.

"More than half the teen girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday.

A total of 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 are in state custody after a raid 3 1/2 weeks ago at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado. Of those girls, 31 either have children or are pregnant, said Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar. Two of those are pregnant now, he said; it was unclear whether either of those two already have children.

"It shows you a pretty distinct pattern, that it was pretty pervasive," he said.

State officials took custody of all 463 children at the ranch controlled by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, saying a pattern of teen girls forced into underage "spiritual" marriages and sex with much older men created an unsafe environment for the sect's children.

Under Texas law, children under the age of 17 generally cannot consent to sex with an adult. A girl can get married with parental permission at 16, but none of these girls is believed to have a legal marriage under state law.

A call seeking comment from FLDS spokesman Rod Parker was not immediately returned. Church officials have denied that any children were abused at the ranch and say the state's actions are a form of religious persecution.

Civil-liberties groups and lawyers for the children have criticized the state for sweeping all the children, from nursing infants to teen boys, into foster care when only teen girls are alleged to have been sexually abused.

No one has been charged since the raid...

The sect, which broke from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints more than a century ago, believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven. Its leader, Warren Jeffs, is revered as a prophet. Jeffs was convicted last year in Utah of forcing a 14-year-old girl into marriage with an older cousin."