Friggin' hicks in Orange County...
(*GNASHING MY TEETH*)
(*SLAMMING MY FIST ON THE DESK TOP*)
So... beautiful day... for breakfast a slice of cold leftover pizza - extra cheese and onion; then off to Body Pump Class at the gym.
After an outstanding workout and a refreshing shower my body craves... BEER!
But not just any beer!
My body craves 21st Amendment Brewery's "Bitter American" session ale.
(Thanks be to "He Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned" for introducing me to this PERFECT post-workout brew!)
Folks... it comes in a can... and there's a MONKEY IN A SPACESUIT on the can...!!!
So... there's a (supposed!) beer store in Monroe. I drive there. No cans of beer with monkeys in spacesuits!
Then... I drive further northwest... to Chester, NY; again.... NO FRIGGIN' SPACESUITED MONKEYS...!!!
My friends... I am a bitter Amerrican. Perhaps I'm THE bitter American. But can you honestly blame me...???
I live in a nation where beer stores within a 60 mile radius of midtown Manhattan don't have the beer I want!
Luckily... on the way home... one of my favorite songs came on the radio.
I suppose... I'll just have to carry on...
4 comments:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/brennan-takes-oath-constitution-without-bill-rights-205110620.html
Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted.
Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America's top spy, the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony.
“There's one piece of this that I wanted to note for you,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at their daily briefing. “Director Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution that had George Washington's personal handwriting and annotations on it, dating from 1787.”
* UH-OH... I KNOW WHAT'S COMING... (DO YOU?) (READ ON!)
Earnest said Brennan had asked for a document from the National Archives that would demonstrate the U.S. is a nation of laws.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*) (KEEP READING... YOU'LL SEE THE IRONY...)
"Director Brennan told the president that he made the request to the archives because he wanted to reaffirm his commitment to the rule of law as he took the oath of office as director of the CIA,” Earnest said.
The Constitution itself went into effect in 1789.
* BUT...
But troublemaking blogger Marcy Wheeler points out that what was missing from the Constitution in 1787 is also quite symbolic: The Bill of Rights...
* BINGO...!!!
...which did not officially go into effect until December 1791 after ratification by states.
That means: No freedom of speech and of the press, no right to bear arms, no Fourth Amendment ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and no right to a jury trial.
How ... symbolic...
(*SNORT*)
* SEE: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/03/08/john-brennan-sworn-in-as-cia-director-using-constitution-lacking-bill-of-rights/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-10/karzai-accuses-u-s-of-taliban-collusion-as-hagel-visits.html
* FOLKS... THIS IS NOTHING NEW! BROWSE THROUGH OLD NEWSBITES! SINCE OBAMA HAS BECOME PRESIDENT THINGS IN AFGHANISTAN HAVE GOTTEN WORSE, NOT BETTER.
* FOLKS... IT'S THEIR FUCKING COUNTRY! (BUT OUR FUCKING BLOOD AND TREASURE; SOMETHING'S WRONG HERE!)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/confessions_of_tsa_agent_we_re_bunch_OhxHeGd0RR9UVGzfypjnLO
Did you know you don’t need a high-school diploma or GED to work as a security screener? These are the same screeners that TSA chief John Pistole and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refer to as a first-class first line of defense in the war on terror.
Screeners start at $15 per hour, and there is tons of overtime — mainly because they are filling in for the many screeners who don’t bother coming to work. For every 40 hours you work, you receive four hours of vacation and four hours of sick time.
* GEEZUS...
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/americans-training-syria-rebels-jordan-spiegel-194808853.html
BERLIN (Reuters) - Americans are training Syrian anti-government fighters in Jordan, the German weekly Der Spiegel said on Sunday, quoting what it said were participants and organizers.
Spiegel said it was not clear whether the Americans worked for private firms or were from the army but said some wore uniforms. The training focused on use of anti-tank weaponry.
* WHAT... ARE... WE... FUCKING... DOING...?!?!
* LET THE FUCKING ISRAELIS DO THIS IF IT ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE AND IS TRULY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WEST! AT LEAST THEY UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE AND THE PLAYERS!
A spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department declined immediate comment on the Spiegel report.
The reports could not be independently verified. [But...] Britain's Guardian newspaper also reported that U.S. trainers were assisting Syrian rebels in Jordan. British and French instructors were also participating in the U.S.-led effort, the Guardian said on Saturday, citing Jordanian security sources.
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