Jester's Musings and Missives

Fey-ning Palin's Folksiness

Tina Fey is a comedic genius!  She's hysterical in last night's SNL skit re: Palin's debate performance.  Check it out!

Us vs. Them

Caught up with this video after it was posted on DailyKos. Slightly different from the snide, nasty and misleading personal attacks the GOP uses, don't you think?>

CDC Announces New STD

(ATLANTA)  The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease.  The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lec-tim and pronounced "gonna re-elect him." Many victims contracted it in 2004, after having been screwed for the past four years.  Cognitive characteristics of individuals infected include: antisocial personality disorders, delusions of grandeur with messianic overtones, extreme cognitive dissonance, inability to incorporate new information, pronounced xenophobia and paranoia, inability to accept responsibility for own actions, cowardice masked by misplaced bravado, uncontrolled facial smirking, ignorance of geography and history, tendencies towards evangelical theocracy, categorical all-or-nothing behavior.  Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed at how this destructive disease originated only a few years ago from a bush found in Texas.

~ Courtesy of Katrina M.

Pondering Poverty

On Sunday, I watched Meet the Press with Tim Russert.  While discussing race relations in America, Marian Wright Edelman spoke eloquently about the Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy – how far we’ve come and how much further we have to go. 

In addition to race relations, Ms. Edelman and her fellow guests discussed the issue of poverty in America.  Their all-too-brief conversation stressed how education is critical to changing poor people’s fortunes.  It opens minds and doors.  It wasn’t groundbreaking thinking, but it certainly was refreshing to hear the topic being discussed on national TV. 

Snoop: Dog-Eat-Dog

I haven’t written much about politics lately because things have been so damn depressing.  However, I’ve maxed out watching the Bush PR circus.  His handlers have him appearing all over TV - same ole story, a little softer packaging and peddling, but nothing that inspires any confidence in his intelligence or ability.  Plus, we just learned that he broke the law.  Can you spell I-M-P-E-A-C-H?? 

JibJab Strikes Again!

JibJab creates VERY amusing (and clever) animated musical “cartoons”; political satire at its best.

Click to see their latest video => 2*0*5 (sit tight during the brief 30-second video ad)

Talking Turkey

Another Turkey Day has come and gone.  Thanksgiving is my absolutely favorite holiday.  No pressure to buy gifts – just a time to relax with great company, conversation, and food.

Each Thanksgiving, Greg and I head west to the Albany area to spend Thanksgiving with his older sister’s family and close friends.  Greg’s family is Greek – very Greek – so we enjoy a mix of traditional American T-Day fare with not-quite-so-traditional spinach pie, feta, and baklava. 

Sc-alito for SCOTUS? Skata!

Be afraid – VERY afraid! 

Illustrating yet again why he’s the worst President in my lifetime (possibly ever!), Bush nominated a patrician white male to fill O’Connor’s shoes - like we don’t already have enough of THOSE people on the court. <haughty sniff> 

Lame Duck Support is Quacking

I miss Bill Clinton in the White House.  His blow job-gate was certainly an embarrassment, but at least no one died from his bad judgment.  In fact, crudely put, I think the only two parties immediately involved in the event probably walked away from the scene smiling. 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not condoning his sexual dalliances.  I just think Clinton was a pretty damn good President; I believe he left the country in better shape than he found it.  He wasn’t perfect, but no one ever accused him of being dumb.  If anything, he was accused of being too smart, too smooth - ergo his “Slick Willy” moniker. 

Clinton lied about cheating on his wife and was impeached.  Bush lied to get this country into an unprovoked war and has thus far escaped any legal or moral ramification.  Ignorance doesn’t excuse Bush’s incompetence.  It just further degrades our national morale and international credibility.  Election tampering allegations aside, apparently Democracy enables us to elect idiots.  Not exactly something to brag about as we impose promote Democracy in the Middle East.

Speechifyin' - George Bush Style

It took more than strategery for Bush to get elected.  Karl Rove may have been “The Architect”, but it’s obvious that the President’s double secret undercover weapon was his talented Presidential Speechalist.

To learn more about how Bush really won the White House, check out BadMash's Video.  It’s enlightening.

~Kudos to BoingBoing for bringing this impressive mini-film to the public’s attention