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Author: velveeta jones    Date: 02/24/2008 12:02:39

How do? Listen up. Miss Velveeta has gone and got herself a job, a real one too, not one o’ them lay about “jobs” she’s always claiming t’ have, like "filmmaker" or "artist" or whatever. So, as she is off working at her job which is where she should be, she has asked me, her ex-husband, to write this here blog thing. Course we was only married for a short while, then she started wanting to all this fancy stuff and stopped even cleaning the house! No doing my laundry, NOTHING! So, as you can imagine: right out she goes. And good riddance far as I'm concerned. But eventually we start being neighborly again. She's nice enough to help get me back into the house after I plowed my car through the porch one morning. And she does look prettier than a glob of butter melting on a stack of pancakes, so its hard to resist when she asks. Also, she pays me in Bud.

But now, I haven’t rightly introduced myself. Though yawl may have heard o’ me, I’m sure she talks me up all the time, right? She does don’t she? For those t’aint heard a me my formal name is Clemet Franklin Robert “Lee” Davis, Jr. Course my friends call me "Root", and that’s what yawl can call me.

First off, I sure am glad that Miss Velveeta got herself one of these computoor talky things so’s I don't have to type, otherwise this blog thingy would never get to written, fer sure! Hell, I’d spill my beer typin’. Its kinda spooky to see the words that I'm saying comin' cross the screen as I am sayin' them. Weird stuff! Pussy! Haahahahhahahahaha! Buttfucker!! Wooooooooo!

Now then, off to the stories. The note under my six-pack says I'm supposed to talk about Bill O'Reilly and his lynching comment and then segoo into talkin' bout animals and how man is the cruelest animal of all and talk about this here book. Pffffffth. Yawn. I'm gonna need more beer.

Okay here we go.

First off, Bill O'Reilly made this comment 'bout Obama's wife Michelle. Here's what he said:

And I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down.


Well, I am at a loss. I don't quite see what the big deal is. Do yawl? I mean, yeah, Michelle is a black lady and maybe "lynching" was the wrong word. But yawl know he didn't mean it, right? I mean, see how he follows it with he's gonna "track it down"? See, he's gonna track down the evidence first. Think of it like a posse of sorts. So he's sayin' he's gonna go out and find the evidence and THEN lynch her. So fer this he should be fired? I just don't see it. He don't mean literally "hang her from a tree" like some people used to do back in the day.

So yawl are all up inna tree over this? Yawl really want him to git fired? Its a sad day for men, white men 'specially. Seems like the white man never gets a break these days.

And its not like the Obams don't know that they're black, right? So, they should be used to the lynching comments. Get off his back why don't cha!!! And fer cryin’ out loud, HE SAID HE WAS SORRY! So just let it go!! Bills got a family to feed. (And from what I hear, he also got a gambling problem, but choo didn't hear that from me, no sir)!

And anyway, all I’m askin’ is, why shouldn’t she be lynched if she says bad things about America? I mean............this is America!! You don't go 'round bad mouthin' this great country!! DAMN!! Why isn't she back at home keeping the house straight and tending to all his kids anyway? If she wants to work, she could get a job as a cleaning lady couldn't she?

I consider myself to be a true American. And I don’t have anything against the black man. Not at all. But this is just going too far, and I think that Bill O'Reilly has every right to say what he wants to say. I mean, if the Obama's are upset they can say shit back can't they? Let the husband come on TV and say Bill is a fag or a pussy or that he's gonna come down on him like a pile of vicious Rottweilers or something. Then they can be even.

Okay, so this here is the part where I segoo (I looked it up) into the animals.

So, speaking of Rottweilers, there is this new book out called Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection by Erin E. Williams and Margo Demello and can be found in your local bookstore. (Books! This is one of the reasons that I booted Miss Velveeta out of the trailer. Always reading books).

Seems this book says the the cruelest animal of all is..................what? Man? Oh noooooo it does NOT say that. Damn if it don't say that!

Well ain't this just as sorry as a 2 dollar watch! Seems that the authors are all put out 'cause a few billion animals around the world needlessly get used as sport, get shot, boiled, burned alive, stabbed, electrocuted, beaten, drowned, cut with knifes/saws/machete's, tortured, caged up without ever seeing the light of day, drugged, experimented on, hunted, and other things.

Well, Miss Jones recently became a vegetarian, so this should tell you that she’s become crazier than a run-over dog! Whoops. Better not say that.

Anyway, according to one of the reviews of this here book, it has, and I quote:

revealing many disturbing facts that could turn the most ardent meat eater into a hard-core vegetarian. The meat industry gets their toughest scrutiny: the authors show that while nearly 10 billion land animals are raised and killed for food each year in the U.S., "there are virtually no laws that protect them from the worst abuse." Williams and DeMello also vividly describe how more than 95% of the nation's 300 million egg-laying hens spend their entire lives—only 12 to 18 months—"crammed into barren, wire battery cages" where they lack the space to walk and spread their wings. Further, our turkeys are produced by artificial insemination using a sucking device that collects semen from males and then forcibly injects it into females. They are also equally hard on other industries, like cosmetics, textiles and the large commercial pet breeders who sell animals "well before weaning age" to outlets like Petco, Petsmart and Petland. This is a tough but fair-minded revelation of how mass production of animals for food and other purposes results in cruelty that usually remains hidden from sight.


The book also talks about how we humans use animals for sport in caged hunting for the rich, and sports like cock fighting and dog fighting, and factory farming of fish so's their little skulls actually pop out of their heads 'cause they are so cramped in the aquariums, and how we hunt animals for there skin and pelts and use them as experiments, and so on.

Well tie me to a pig and role me in the mud! Sounds like a snooze of a read if ya ask me!

See, we are bigger than them, so it just seems only fair. Know what I'm sayin'? 'Sides, God says were supposed to have domination over the Earth, right? So if I eat animals, that's the way God intended. S'all I'm sayin'.

Well, seems I am in need of more beer and I gotta pee like strung up race horse, so I figure I have done my job here.

Velveeta will be back later on tonight, but seems she may be working every Sunday. She best not be asking me to write this shit, er, this blog every week! I already done more readin’ and writin’ in one morning than I done in 14 years o’ elementary school!








 

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Comment by m-hadley on 02/24/2008 15:11:35
Mornin' Velveeta,

Hee-larious post VJ (with a creepy flair)

Can't believe that you were ever married to this hayseed Were you sniffing glue or what as you stood before the Justice of the Peace (in Las Vegas, right, or was it Tijuana?) But good on ya for getting his perspective on the Bill O'Lielly debacle - it probably is a more accurate reflection of what more 'mericans believe than you and I would care to think. Entertaining as always - how's the new job going?

Take care.

Cheers,

mfaye

Comment by TriSec on 02/24/2008 15:40:03
Oog, I was looking at both the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald today...



Methinks I'm gonna have to stick with Boston.com (Boston Globe) as a primary news source if/when we move north...



(still working on convincing Mrs. TriSec. I need more ammo...anyone out there relocated from the city to the country and have some tales to tell?)

Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 16:03:48
Quote by TriSec: Oog, I was looking at both the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald today...



Methinks I'm gonna have to stick with Boston.com (Boston Globe) as a primary news source if/when we move north...



(still working on convincing Mrs. TriSec. I need more ammo...anyone out there relocated from the city to the country and have some tales to tell?)




I'm still living in the suburbs so I'm no help. Well, you would get real news on the TV machine because Time Warner Cable in Bangor (which serves Belfast) carries CBMT (CBC in Montreal) on channel 15 and you can still get the Boston news off WSBK which they carry on channel 11.



I'm actually surprised Time Warner is in Maine. I would have guessed that Comcast had acquired the systems when Adelphia was carved up.



Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 16:05:38
With media consolodation there are only a handful of good papers now, mostly the large metro city dailies are readable. I would look at most other papers now only for the comics and TV Listings.

Comment by Raine on 02/24/2008 16:47:45
I'm in Tri... and on Monday, I shall. ;)



Good morning everyone. We are a little, shall we say, hungover. Last night wasthe Great Guinness toast 2008. We toasted a lot. So much fun. Irish music, dancing, good times, good times.



Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 17:12:57
It looks like Nader is going to run again.

Comment by m-hadley on 02/24/2008 17:27:09
Quote by livingonli: It looks like Nader is going to run again.






Screw Ralphie, he and his gianormous ego can go jump in the nearest toxic lake - sorry, I'm in a mood this mornin'

Comment by m-hadley on 02/24/2008 17:41:59
I just finished posting a YouTube version of EmmyLou Harris singing one of my all-time favorite songs (Townes Van Zandt's) Pancho & Lefty. Check it out and if you feel so inclined read the post below - I give mad props to the crew here at 4Fs - you all have been more important to me in the last few weeks than I think you know. Take care and have a happy Sunday Here's a link to my blog.

Cheers,

mfaye

Comment by Raine on 02/24/2008 17:53:12
Faye, I think some of know. We have all felt that way at one point or another about the friends we have here on the blog.











Comment by Raine on 02/24/2008 18:12:14
Quote by m-hadley:
Quote by livingonli: It looks like Nader is going to run again.






Screw Ralphie, he and his gianormous ego can go jump in the nearest toxic lake - sorry, I'm in a mood this mornin'
Who the F*ck does he think he is?!?!?







I had a few words to say over on the MB.







Comment by Raine on 02/24/2008 18:27:09
:rofl:

Comment by m-hadley on 02/24/2008 18:27:13
Quote by Raine: I'm in Tri... and on Monday, I shall. ;)



Good morning everyone. We are a little, shall we say, hungover. Last night wasthe Great Guinness toast 2008. We toasted a lot. So much fun. Irish music, dancing, good times, good times.







Sounds like fun, Raine,

Wish I could join you all in DC - but the time and money just aren't aligned right for me at that time - I will however take plenty of photos of Steph in Columbus, Ohio - I've been in touch with Connie from Columbus who will also be there. I'm really looking forward to meeting Momma and tellling her "thank you mucho" in person for all the smiles, laughs and happy times she has brought me... You guys have all probably met Steph before, yes? I'm just guessing Thanks for the hug - back atcha...

Comment by starling310 on 02/24/2008 18:28:46
Fuckin' Nader! :modbat:

Comment by Raine on 02/24/2008 18:35:35
OH. Mah. Gahd. Huckabee got Spanked last night on weekend update.

Comment by starling310 on 02/24/2008 18:40:26
Quote by Raine: I'm in Tri... and on Monday, I shall. ;)



Good morning everyone. We are a little, shall we say, hungover. Last night wasthe Great Guinness toast 2008. We toasted a lot. So much fun. Irish music, dancing, good times, good times.





Ooh! Fun.

One of my theaters is hosting a Caileigh ( sp?) on the 8th....Irish music, Guinness....it's going to be awesome.



Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 18:49:24
Raine, did you see my post on the trip blog about HBK? She will be coming down. She even took Friday off so she will be cruising with me both ways.

Comment by BobR on 02/24/2008 19:30:15
Great post VJ, although I take exception to the vague generalities in the quote from the book "Why Animals Matter". I have never seen dogs or cats for sale at PetsMart (nor at PetCo), only fish and rodents. Most PetsMarts have adoptions on the weekends from the local animal shelters.

Comment by BobR on 02/24/2008 19:31:53
Quote by m-hadley:





Sounds like fun, Raine,

Wish I could join you all in DC - but the time and money just aren't aligned right for me at that time - I will however take plenty of photos of Steph in Columbus, Ohio - I've been in touch with Connie from Columbus who will also be there. I'm really looking forward to meeting Momma and tellling her "thank you mucho" in person for all the smiles, laughs and happy times she has brought me... You guys have all probably met Steph before, yes? I'm just guessing Thanks for the hug - back atcha...


I don't think anyone here has met her.



I HAVE met Mike Malloy (several times - he lives here in Atlanta) and Rachel Maddow (as well as Chuck D and Lizz Winstead when Unfiltered came to town).



Comment by Raine on 02/24/2008 19:33:15
Coolness!!! HBK is coming as well! ( I should go over to the other bloggie. )

Comment by Raine on 02/24/2008 19:33:35
Heya !

Comment by BobR on 02/24/2008 19:33:39
Quote by starling310:



Ooh! Fun.

One of my theaters is hosting a Caileigh ( sp?) on the 8th....Irish music, Guinness....it's going to be awesome.



céilidh

Comment by starling310 on 02/24/2008 19:37:06
Quote by BobR:
Quote by starling310:



Ooh! Fun.

One of my theaters is hosting a Caileigh ( sp?) on the 8th....Irish music, Guinness....it's going to be awesome.



céilidh




Why thank you kind sir!





Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 19:37:17
I have met Laura Flanders, but I haven't met any of the other hosts.



Too bad I had to work the night they had the Thom Hartmann book signing in New York.

Comment by starling310 on 02/24/2008 19:37:38
Quote by Raine: Heya !




Hiya!

Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 19:52:16
How are you doing this fine Sunday, ?

Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 21:01:00
Time to go hit the salt mine. At least I can listen to a little Seder on the way in.

Comment by livingonli on 02/24/2008 23:18:34
Tonight, I have the Knicks in Toronto. Our first HD game north of the border.

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 00:13:46
60 minutes is doing a peice on Gov Siegleman and the KArl Rove connection -- as well as the justice department scandal I am sure this will be up online... and just 8 minutes in, my jaw has stayed dropped.

Comment by livingonli on 02/25/2008 00:22:24
How low can Karl go? Well, as we arleady know, pretty damn low.

Comment by velveeta jones on 02/25/2008 00:26:42
Back from the salt mines (organic)



OH Ya'll!!!!!!! I am as happy as a pig rolling in its own shit!!!!!! I'm as giddy as a little gurrrrllll!!!!!!!!!



One of my best friends who fell off the face of the earth after his Broadway show failed, and I thought he was dead! Has returned!!!! He showed up at an AA meeting tonight and he's alive and well. Perhaps "okay" is a better word. BUT HE IS ALIVE!! And he's here in my town staying low for awhile. I'm gonna spend the day with him tomorrow!!!!





:banana:

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 00:56:25
So is anyone going to be watching the Oscars?

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 00:57:30
Quote by velveeta jones: Back from the salt mines (organic)



OH Ya'll!!!!!!! I am as happy as a pig rolling in its own shit!!!!!! I'm as giddy as a little gurrrrllll!!!!!!!!!



One of my best friends who fell off the face of the earth after his Broadway show failed, and I thought he was dead! Has returned!!!! He showed up at an AA meeting tonight and he's alive and well. Perhaps "okay" is a better word. BUT HE IS ALIVE!! And he's here in my town staying low for awhile. I'm gonna spend the day with him tomorrow!!!!





:banana:
:clap:





That is wonderful news VJ!!!!!!!!



Comment by velveeta jones on 02/25/2008 01:12:02
Yes, I'll be watching. Jon Stewart did a great job last time. Hoping he'll be great again.



BobR made a comment back in the blog about PetsMart and Petco not selling animals. I am not sure, but it might have something to do with franchise ownership. When I lived in FL the Petsmart had stray cats up for adoption through an acredited adoption agency, however, the one here does indeed sell pets. Everything from fish to small animals and rabbits to a plethora of reptiles. Though, no dogs and cats.



So maybe the owner of the franchise can decide whether they choose to sell animals.

Comment by m-hadley on 02/25/2008 01:13:52
Quote by velveeta jones: Back from the salt mines (organic)



OH Ya'll!!!!!!! I am as happy as a pig rolling in its own shit!!!!!! I'm as giddy as a little gurrrrllll!!!!!!!!!



One of my best friends who fell off the face of the earth after his Broadway show failed, and I thought he was dead! Has returned!!!! He showed up at an AA meeting tonight and he's alive and well. Perhaps "okay" is a better word. BUT HE IS ALIVE!! And he's here in my town staying low for awhile. I'm gonna spend the day with him tomorrow!!!!





:banana:




Velveeta,

How great is that? I know how wonderful it is to discover a long lost friend who you thought might be gone... Enjoy your day tomorrow :)

cheers,

mfaye



Comment by m-hadley on 02/25/2008 01:15:55
Quote by velveeta jones: Yes, I'll be watching. Jon Stewart did a great job last time. Hoping he'll be great again.



BobR made a comment back in the blog about PetsMart and Petco not selling animals. I am not sure, but it might have something to do with franchise ownership. When I lived in FL the Petsmart had stray cats up for adoption through an acredited adoption agency, however, the one here does indeed sell pets. Everything from fish to small animals and rabbits to a plethora of reptiles. Though, no dogs and cats.



So maybe the owner of the franchise can decide whether they choose to sell animals.




I'll be tuning in til I fall asleep - ZZzzzzzz

Comment by livingonli on 02/25/2008 01:19:19
If I wasn't at work I would watch to see Jon Stewart.

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 01:36:19
So far, his monologue is pretty funny!

Comment by livingonli on 02/25/2008 01:39:25
And the Knicks blew another one.

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 01:40:14
"Oscar is 80 this year, which automatically makes him the Republican FrontRunner" :rofl:

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 01:41:16
Gadolph Titler... :rofl:

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 01:44:54
Should I be shocked that another Elizabethian Movie got best Costume design??

Comment by TriSec on 02/25/2008 01:50:37
Hey liv...I was looking over cable in Belfast a couple of days ago. I'm surprised to see Slime Porner; all I could find was Verizon FIOS. I thought we were probably going to look at the dish thingy...or take even a bigger leap and just get whatever pitiful basic system they had up there and try to reduce our viewing...



I'm on to round 2 of the interview process on Tuesday, BTW.



Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 02:03:32
I am actaully enjoying the Oscars.... Mental note... Don't EVER write anything for the show till 2 weeks before.. the spontaneity is wonderful!

Comment by livingonli on 02/25/2008 02:06:09
Quote by TriSec: Hey liv...I was looking over cable in Belfast a couple of days ago. I'm surprised to see Slime Porner; all I could find was Verizon FIOS. I thought we were probably going to look at the dish thingy...or take even a bigger leap and just get whatever pitiful basic system they had up there and try to reduce our viewing...



I'm on to round 2 of the interview process on Tuesday, BTW.



Verizon FiOS isn't in Maine yet, although they are competing with Comcast in the Boston area as they are against Cablevision here in the New York area. When I plugged in the zip code at zap2it.com, it showed up Slime Porner's Bangor's system as serving that area.



If you go with satellite, it looks like Dish provides Bangor locals but DirecTV does not (both providers provide Portland locals). A lot of the local Bangor TV stations are low-power broadcasters (including the Fox affiliate). With Dish Network, they also have the Superstation package which includes WSBK as well as WWOR and WPIX from New York, KWGN from Denver and KTLA from LA.

Comment by livingonli on 02/25/2008 02:10:03
The Oscars I noticed is the only awards show broadcast live on the West Coast. The others all air on West Coast stations on tape delay.

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 02:10:51
you have to watch the video. This was just pathetic.From Huffpo:

Hillary Clinton's campaign is on its last legs after suffering a string of defeats to her rival Barack Obama. Clinton made the decision to go negative in an effort to halt Obama's rising momentum. On Saturday, she also accused Obama's campaign of using negative tactics "right out of Karl Rove's playbook" in mailers that misrepresent her positions on NAFTA and healthcare. Obama called the mailings accurate.



Today, Clinton was at a campaign rally in Providence, Rhode Island, and she mocked Obama and his message of hope and change in a very theatrical, over-the-top manner.



Watch the video from CNN below, and tell HuffPost whether you think Clinton's line of attack against Obama will help or hurt her campaign:






(cate Blanchet! swoon! )

Comment by Mondobubba on 02/25/2008 03:10:56
Evening all. I've been waiting a week to say this.



DAVID SIMON, YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED OMAR!


Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 03:22:55


Comment by Mondobubba on 02/25/2008 03:33:55
Now for those of you, who don't who know who Omar Devonne Little is, here we go:











http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/The_Wire_Omar.jpg






All About Omar

Comment by Raine on 02/25/2008 04:02:33
:( the memorium segment..