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One of the great things about living in San Francisco is all of the family-friendly entertainment. Take, for instance, the annual x-rated animal sex tour that happens at the San Francisco Zoo. Every year for the past seventeen years a woman by the name of Jane Tollini takes visitors on a three-hour tour of humping hippos, copulating cats, and masturbating monkeys. When talking about a tapir that had damaged his tallywhacker, she says, “We soaked it in a tub of betadine for a couple of weeks,” Tollini said. “It turned purple, then black, then it atrophied. Then it fell off, and he ate it.”

I can’t think of anything clever to say to that. Read the rest of the article at SF Gate.

Ha! This blurb on RollCall made me laugh. Look, it doesn’t take much brain power to stuff a ballot box but fer fuck’s sake at least make sure you don’t overdo it and put in more ballots than people who voted. What the fuck is going on with the Republicans?

A few years back the self-proclaimed “Sausage King” was convicted of murdering three meat inspectors and was tossed into San Quentin. He was found dead this morning in his jail cell. I guess it’s true that meat is murder. And suicide apparently.

I cannot believe that the idiot that is the Governor of California denied clemency to Stanley “Tookie” Williams. I guess political suicide is in vogue right now because California is going to kick him out on his can’t-even-pronounce-the-name-of-the-state ass. Tookie was executed last night but the thing I find disturbing is that there was no mention of it on the front page of google’s news site. I found articles after doing a search but the front page is blank. I guess nobody wants to admit what fucking barbarians we are. Maybe it’s already old news and I missed the boat, ten hours can be an awful long time when we’re talking news and there are more important things to get the latest on, like how EmptyVee and Microshaft are going to offer yet another fucking music download service. Glad that one was on the front page!

Why do we still have the death penalty? When has the threat of death ever stopped a crime? Some say that executing a prisoner brings closure to the family. Bull. Shit. What a lame excuse to try to push on us. There’s no fucking closure for anyone. An eye for an eye some claim. Like the fucking bible is some sort of guide to living. People that quote the bible so that their actions are justified tend to pick and choose certain things and pretend the other stuff doesn’t exist. The incest. The murder. The drunken carousing. Fuck you and your bible, it was written by mysoginistic men. Bring me a book actually penned by a god and maybe I’ll be a little more interested. The fact is that this nation is a bunch of so-called christian savages who get a hardon thinking about putting a man to death.

Tookie was a shining example of rehabilitation but the fucking terminator decided that he had to die anyway. Look, when someone kills another person we punish them by killing them. What makes us different than a common murderer? Nothing. We’re a nation of murderers who sleep easy at night because we know that we’ll be in church on Sunday morning where God loves us. We sit and listen to some idiot that claims he is sent by God and then after the service we stand around and yank on each others dicks and talk about what wonderful people we are and then we go home and covet the neighbors wife and try to think of ways to steal cable.

I can think of a few elected (hah!) officials that hide behind the cloak of God. Maybe some of them hang out in a big white mansion when they’re not taking a vacation, organizing the killing of thousands of people is tiring after all. These evil bastards smile their political grimace-smiles and make sure that the cameras are rolling as they stroll into church. After they are done they send American citizens overseas to countries like Iraq and where they blow the shit out of innocent people and get the shit blown out of them. But that’s okay, God sanctions those murders. Murder in the name of God is fine, especially if you’re white and not a muslim.

God Bless America! I hope you all choke to death on your pretzels.

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Congressman Randy Cunningham (R) tearfully resigned yesterday after being caught with his hands in a two million dollar cookie jar.

The thing that really bothers me about this is the way the guy denied that he’d done anything wrong back in July. “Noooo. Blah blah blah, this is a witch hunt, blah blah blah. I’m innocent of all charges, justice will reign, blah blah blah. War in Iraq!” I watched him last night on the news as he cried about, I dunno, trust and family or something but I just wasn’t biting. I think he’s only sorry that he got caught. Too bad he’ll have a couple million bucks to console himself in ten years when he gets out of prison.

The one line that really glared at me from the article says, “Prosecutors did not identify the defense contractors.” This shows that the problems with our government lie not just with officials. Halliburton? Nope, never heard of ‘em. Secret deals with defense contractors are nothing new but the outright raping and pillaging that is going on in Washington makes me gag. These people aren’t even trying to hide their shenanigans. Well, Cunningham tried…

The GOP is crumbling like a cookie made without butter. These arrogant warmongers are on the way out but they’ll be leaving a dessicated husk of a country behind. They have sucked this country dry and will be tossing it out of the car window on the way home. The true mind boggler here is that they’ll be back at some point because there are a lot of ignorant, uninformed people in this country that will vote for them again.

How many times will you look at the guy humping a corpse before taking action?

Bosnia unveils their tribute to Bruce Lee. Bruce died a year before I was born but he was such a constant figure in my life that I thought he was one of my parents. Anyway, very cool effigy. I hope to have such a cool bird-shitter when I’m gone.

via [BBC News]

Comeback of the year award should go to former head of FEMA Michael Brown. Brownie, as he likes to be called, is starting a disaster preparedness firm. He claims that companies have expressed interest in his services.

Why would anyone do that? Is he serious?

Step 1. Resign from cushy presidential appointment for failing to act during a moment of disaster and then act like a little weaseal and blame everyone else for what happened.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit!

Awesome. The underground transit system in San Francisco, aka BART, is going wireless. I love riding the train but I don’t do it very often these days since I’m not working downtown anymore but I may start riding it again just for the hell of going to Pittsburg/Baypoint and back because wireless makes everything bearable. Having a wireless signal is great, I can take my new Sidekick II with me and sit on the train all day, surfing the interwebs or IM’ing (the way our language is evolving is scary to me but I’ll save that for another time) with people and sending email to the grandparents. Rawk \m/

Sitting on a train all day and watching people and writing is fun by itself but throw in a wireless signal and suddenly you’re *working* and getting things done and not just sitting at home and getting fat. No, instead you can sit on a train and get fat (as long as they don’t bust you for eating your lunch I guess) and look cool while doing so. The article says that downtown is covered and the stop near my apartment is scheduled so it’ll probably still be a little while before I’m posting to DMDN from the train but hopefully it won’t be that long of a wait.

Link via [Slashdot]

The Grope-inator got bitch-slapped on his ballot measures and I’m very happy with the results. Californians did not need this special election, did not want this special election, and they showed their feelings by voting negatively to the asinine measures that the actor backed. I’m still unsure of how he got elected in the first place but this and his recent approval-rating speak volumes of how people will react when he tries to get re-elected next year. Goodbye Grope-inator, can’t say that I’ll miss you.

Also, New Jersey and Virginia got new Democrat Governors which will be putting the GOP in a tight spot come election time 2006. Hats off to Tim Kaine (Virginia) who was able to defeat his opponent despite said opponent’s dirty trickery and last-minute campain visits from GWB.

Too bad about Texas banning same-sex marriages. I fail to see how who you fuck has anything to do with the courts but there you have it. They’re not the only state to do this though so those of us that are interested in human-rights and equality for all still have an uphill battle that won’t end anytime soon. With all the assholes in the world I really don’t understand why people want to waste their time and resources on outlawing what people do in a bedroom, especially since it doesn’t affect anyone except those that are in the bedroom and if it really bothers you than you should pull your goddamned eyes away and spy on your own life. Damn, this issue really burns me.

Enough of all that, 2006 is going to be an interesting year for politics and I’m ready for the wild ride ahead. Money is going to be changing hands faster than it can be recorded into ledgers while PR consultants kick out the jams and show us pictures of smiling devils that kiss babies and shake hands. Blood is in the water and the sharks can smell it.

It looks like the Republican monster is getting desperate. The Republican Governor’s Association has now stooped so low as to use misleading robo-calls to show their support for candidate Jerry Kilgore, who is running for Governor of Virginia.

I often discuss politics and at some point during the conversation someone will say that a person’s individual vote doesn’t count, that there is no point in going to cast your vote because the decision has already been made. If this were true then the RGA wouldn’t be willing to violate federal laws to get their man in.

Thirteen electoral votes (based on the 2000 census) might not seem like a big deal but it’s pretty substantial and the Republicans obviously want to hold onto the state, leading me to believe that an individual’s vote is VERY important.

Politics is a dirty business and I’m not saying that the Democrats are some sort of shining example that would never use misleading tactics to get a vote. All I want is for people to go to the polls and let their voice be heard regardless of which party they vote for.

The game is on and we must all play…

Via [dailykos]