And he sure does it for a safety helmet too:
He was there today to inaugurate a gas plant in Santa Cruz. Happily, with nary a fascist or coupmonger in sight. PS: Still working on trying to restore my comments section…hang in there, kiddies.
And he sure does it for a safety helmet too:
He was there today to inaugurate a gas plant in Santa Cruz. Happily, with nary a fascist or coupmonger in sight. PS: Still working on trying to restore my comments section…hang in there, kiddies.

First…a little mood music, maestro…
Ah. That’s nice. So, here’s the dish, kiddies…your aunt’s two babies, PowerBook 12 and PowerBook 15, are gonna be taking a little trip this aft. Never mind where, only keep in mind that when they come back, they’ll have been rejuvenated and will be lookin’ fine. PowerBook 12’s hard drive melted down in spectacular fashion last week during what was supposed to be a routine software update; PowerBook 15, which has also recently gotten a new hard drive, now needs a new keyboard (the S key on this sucker sticks!) and probably a new sound card as well. Doctor ‘Bina has been concerned about the babies’ prognosis, but she’s thankful for the Time Capsule, which has saved everything from PowerBook 12 and is now doing PowerBook 15 as well, with a little help from Nurse Leopard. She’s also pleased that the Time Capsule has enabled her to rescue her music, pix and works-in-progress from PowerBook 12; it’s kind of nice to have those on both machines, no?But in order to have them on both machines, it’s paramount to have both machines working. And PowerBook 12 can’t work without a functional hard drive, alas. Since I’ll be taking both at the same time for repairs, I’ll be incommunicado (¿incomunicada?) until further notice. And among other things, that means I’ll be temporarily closing this blog to comments (gotta keep the spammers and trolls at bay, y’know!) I’ll also ask my regular e-mailers to keep it down to a dull roar–I can’t read, respond or unclutter my mailbox until I get the babies back, after all.Yeah, I know–whatta drag. Don’t worry about me; I’ll be safe, happy and busy-busy-busy in my garden, and giving the place a long-overdue spring cleaning as well. If worse comes to worst, I’ll annoy my cats. In the meantime, have a few lulz on me:
And I will see you on the other side.
Could be. Here he is, beside his lightly-damaged car, inspecting two mysterious marks on the windshield:
And now, the story:
Well, if this was a murder attempt, one possible motive is clear; the 28th is just two weeks away, and if Zelaya were done away with, there would be no referendum on that date after all. No referendum would mean no chance of a constituent assembly, meaning in turn that the traditional power-brokers in Honduras would maintain their power unchallenged. Meanwhile, a preliminary report says that the mystery marks were not produced by a firearm.The investigation continues.TEGUCIGALPA. Last Friday afternoon, two rocks or bullets hit the car in which the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was riding. No major damage was done, according to the president, who ruled out “political motivations”. “I don’t know if it concerns an attempt on my life; I can’t say. The Department of Investigation is here looking into it,” said Zelaya.“There are two impacts, no one knows if they are from rocks or gunshots, but this will be investigated. But it’s not the work of professionals. A pro wouldn’t leave you alive,” said the Honduran president. He was driving a grey Toyota Lexus, along with three motorcycle outriders and a security car. Behind the vehicle, another car followed throughout the ring road of the capital city. Suddenly, Zelaya noticed two impacts in the windshield, but neither one hit him.Zelaya ruled out that the incident had “political motivations” from groups he has confronted. “I don’t believe it’s anything political…they would be fools to do it,” said the leader, alluding to sectors who oppose his proposal to elect a Constituent Assembly as part of the general elections planned for November. In the primary investigations, experts have so far found evidence of neither stones nor gunshots.Zelaya, who has taken a left turn as a member of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA), spearheaded by Cuba and Venezuela, maintains a confrontation with conservative groups who in the past had the power to make or break presidents. This confrontation, which has been going on for several months, was aggravated in March when Zelaya called a referendum–for June 28 of this year–to determine whether the general elections in November will also see the election of a Constituent Assembly (to rewrite the Honduran constitution.)

“I’m getting damned sick of all the triangulation and Third-Way hand-wringing bullshit over reducing abortion.“Or, looked at another way, we pro-choicers already occupy that middle ground. Most of us support all the measures that have been bruited about to reduce abortion.“Wide access to affordable, safe birth control, check.“Age-appropriate, fact-based, comprehensive sex ed, check.“Financial and other support for pregnant women, check.“Financial and other support for individuals and families with children, check.“Quality, affordable daycare for parents who want to or have to work or go to school, check.“Making adoption easier, sure, why not?“If the militant anti-abortion religious right won’t budge on so-called artificial contraception and fact-based sex ed — and I highly doubt they will — there is NO middle ground.”–Fern Hill, at DAMMIT JANET!


She waited FOUR YEARS before starting a fake blog to deal with her grief? Talk about having unresolved issues. Most people have healed and moved on after between one year and three. I don’t think grief alone was a motivator here.Beushausen said she really did lose a son shortly after birth in 2005. She started her blog in March to help deal with that loss and to express her strong anti-abortion views, she said.She had expected only a handful of friends to read it, but when her first post got 50 comments, she was hooked.“I’ve always liked writing. It was addictive to find out I had a voice that people wanted to hear,” Beushausen said.“Soon I was getting 100,000 hits a week, and it just got out of hand,” she said. “I didn’t know how to stop. … One lie led to another.”
Let’s hope things don’t come to this, but don’t underestimate the anti-choice fascists. They won’t stop until they’ve rolled back the clock to 1952, minimum. Required reading on what that would look like, here.Meanwhile, even though Dr. Tiller’s clinic is closed, elsewhere on the frontlines the Lord’s work goes on. (Read John Irving’s The Cider House Rules to get the reference.)
Let the lies, backpedaling and strange scapegoating begin. Stormfront and Operation Rescue are having kittens! Both kinds of fascists are saying the same thing now that their rhetoric has borne its inevitable fruit. Coincidence? Of course not.
And lest we forget what’s REALLY at the bottom of all this violence and madness, here’s a timely reminder. It’s the HATE, stupid!
Garbage in, garbage out. Isn’t it time to take out the trash?
I don’t know what was said here, but it sure brought out Evo’s dimples:
And look! Lugo’s all duded out in his cool shades!