Thomasville, AL: The Week That Was

It was another exciting week in Thomasville. The Marvin's store is moving forward, high school football is back, and then there was this:

Hunter Martin killed this 5-foot, six-inch rattlesnake while visiting with his dad, Moose Martin, in Millry over the weekend. The snake had seven rattles and two buttons. Martin, while attending Alabama Southern Community College, lives with his grandparents, Wilmer and Nancy Odom in Thomasville.

That's SEVEN rattles and TWO buttons people.

Obama Joins The Other Firsters: To Become UN Security Council Chair

So Obama can't play God...it's above his pay grade. And now he is going to chair the Security Council at the UN.

It has never happened before. I guess other presidents had a full plate. Isn't this, to turn his own phrase, below his pay grade?

Here's a funny:

“The council has a very important role to play in preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons, and it’s the world’s principal body for dealing with global security cooperation,” Susan Rice, US envoy to the UN, said last week.

OK, where. Which country has been stopped exactly?

Maybe Obama just feels more comfortable with like minded people. You know the ones who blame this country first for everything.

Here is the current council:

The Council is composed of five permanent members — China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States — and ten non-permanent members (with year of term's end):

Austria (2010)
Japan (2010)
Uganda (2010)
Burkina Faso (2009)
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2009)
Viet Nam (2009)
Costa Rica (2009)
Mexico (2010)
Croatia (2009)
Turkey (2010)

Now there is a group we can count on to do the right thing. Maybe this will give him a chance to catch up with family?

So Is It Tsars or Czars?

Really, it's important. The windbags at wiki cover Nixon's one czar, but fail to mention the 59 czars in the current White House.

From Wiki:

Tsar or czar[1] (Bulgarian цар, Russian: царь (help·info), Ukrainian: цар, in Serbian: цар / car, in scientific transliteration respectively car' and car), occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English, is a Slavic term with Bulgarian origins used to designate certain monarchs. The first ruler to adopt the title tsar was Simeon I of Bulgaria [2]

Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).

Occasionally, the word could be used to designate other, non-Christian, supreme rulers. In Russia and Bulgaria the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and, by the 19th century, it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of King.[3][4]

"Tsar" was the official title of the supreme ruler in the following states:

Bulgaria in 913–1018, in 1185–1422 and in 1908–1946
Serbia in 1346–1371
Russia from about 1547 until 1721 (replaced in 1721 by imperator, but remained in common usage until 1917).
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria, is the only living person who bore the Slavonic title Tsar.

So it's interchangable?

Maybe we should Americanize it even more... Xar!

I was going to do a Xena Warrior Princess thing here. You think it would be easy to find a pic of her, and you would be wrong. Apparently every half decent looking chick (and a few that were not) from the 1990's dressed up like Xena and it's on the internet now.



Like, I can't believe we had the same idea for a costume here in 1995.


OK, what was I talking about again?

Paint The Town (Venice) Red: Firsters Rail Against Capitalism

UPDATE: A picture of the lovely couple. Chavez blows kisses while Oliver Stone...naw that's just too easy.



Looking at the headlines from the Venice Film Festival, its hard not to notice the strong anti-capitalist theme throughout. Hollywood's favorite dictator, Hugo Chavez, is there and he brought his personal media consultant, Oliver Stone, with a fresh "documentary" about the beloved leaders "great life story."

Up on the screen, its Michael Moore's latest, "Capitalism, A Love Story."
A 2 plus hour scab picking exercise that concludes "Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil."

Taken as a whole, this Venice Film Festival looks like a gussied up political rally for Hate America Firsters...or just Firsters.

As the master scab picker, Moore has gutlessly picked subjects that play to his Firster base. Why not examine the horrors of political repression by modern-day dictators or the treatment of women in Muslim countries. Instead Moore chooses to make films that come across as being made by an overweight, hormonal teenager who is angry at a slightly overbearing father. Good thing for him he keeps choosing his father subjects well, because the really evil ones cut peoples throats, or worse - disinvite you to those fabulous Hollywood parties with the 10 count shrimp.

And how about ol' reliable, Oliver Stone. His "documentary" plays like a pre-teen girls' love letter complete with XOXOXO and a Hello Kitty stamp. Stone, the Lion of Hollywood Firsters, lovingly presents Hugo's story as Venezuela's "peaceful revolution" since Chavez came to power in 1998: that "he(Chavez), who grew up in a peasant family, is an emblematic figure of bottom-up change."

I guess being a Firster is like living a life of a perpetual child: you know where the dangers are and are able to avoid them while living at home and complaining about Dad.

UPDATED: Things That Are Racist

Signatures on truther petitions.

Now that Van Johnson has been busted, his name on the dotted line was a ruse perpetrated by the man who could see that this would be a problem in the future...using his future cast computer the way that he does. Kind of like Thom Cruise using in Minority Report. Which sounds racist too.

Soooo, does that make the future racist?


...

Health Care Reform protesters (except for the ones biting the fingers off old people)

College Football Coaches (except for the black ones)

NHL Hockey.

Credit Cards.

Mortgage Applications.

Home Ownership.

Cash Money.

Smoking.

Breast Cancer.

Tax Reform.

Welfare Reform.

Death.

High Blood Pressure.

Flu. (all types)

Unites States Constitution.

Taxes.

Hurricanes.

Global Warming

Republicans.

Everything before 1848.

Rockwood Tn Youth Crying Tears of Blood: Channeling The Regal Horned Lizard

No really! Tears of blood. They said they took him to a specialist (in blood tears?) and they were stumped.



Now for the news you won't get from the State Controlled Media.


And of course this seems like a good excuse for...From Dusk Till Dawn.

Skip Day? Obama Addresses Our Kids

Actually, the address to skool kidz on September 8th will be pretty bland. The real disturbing part is in the Dept of Education's website activities to follow the speech to our kids.

Michelle Malkin has a good wrap up here.

From the Dept of Ed website.

*What do you think the President wants us to do?

*Does the speech make you want to do anything?

*Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?


Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.

• Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

I will probably send my kids, with their own essays and information. But not sending them would feel soooo right.

Weekly Check Of Thomasville Alabama

My adopted hometown. Sister city to no ghey French towns. Where men are men and women know what that means.

Mayor: tired of "conspiracies"

Thomasville Mayor Sheldon Day lashed out at one of his most outspoken critics, council member Charles Allen at Monday night's meeting.

"I'm tired of everything being a damn conspiracy," Day said. "Every time we make a mistake around here, it's some kind of conspiracy."

Oh hells yeah mayor! Note: Mayor day is a big-time deacon at a church.

There were no other big events last week. No 100 lb watermelons or anything.

Combination Nazi Bastards and Racist Pigs

First the background. The song of the summer? Maybe, maybe not - but the inspiration for this post anyway. Hearing the left constantly repeat racist and nazi reminded me of the Das Racist song.



So what are opponents of socialist takeovers? Nazi's? or Racists?



OK, so opposition to tax hikes is racist.



So they are Nazi's?

Meh. Maybe the left needs a new Thesaurus.

Now if I could only get that damn song out of my head.

Fox Has Just embarrased Themselves Again With Another "Hottest..." Slideshow

This time it's the Hottest 10 Female Athletes. To be fair, they claim they got their list from the readers of radaronline.com.

1. Serena Williams
2. Amanda Beard (I'm on board with the first 2)
3. Anna Kournikova (OK, ten years ago, but OK)
4. Gabby Reece (ditto)
5. Laila Ali (What? Who even has her name in the mix?)
6. Danica Patrick (She has to be driving NASCAR before she earns the right)
7. Venus Williams (Uh...NO. Not today, not 10 years ago. NO)
8. Maria Sharapova (OK, but there are other sports)
9. Steffi Graf (Are you fucking kidding me?)
10.Misty May-Treanor (Enough!)


I had to head over to radaronline.com to see how this list could happen. It was very clear...immediately. The joint is pink and full of gheyness.

Three glaringly obvious misses.

1. Allison Stokke


2. Leryn Franco. Javellin. Paraguay


3. Natalie Gulbis.


Fox needs to go somewhere else for their "hottest" lists. They always miss Marissa Tomei in the hottest 40 over 40 and this list was terrible.

By the way, a google image search for Leryn Franco with the filter turned off is well worth it. She is a calender model as well.

There Are A Few Meanings

Purple Monkey Dishwasher is a non-sequitur that has evolved into commonly used response to opinions stated based on hearsay and unconfirmed rumors.

This blog is the response to the opinions and unconfirmed rumor mongering in the media today.

From the Urban Dictionary, the other ways this phrase is used.

1. purple monkey dishwasher
Despite claims this phrase originated on "The Simpsons", it actually existed long before it was used in the show. The phrase is intended to portray the distortion of facts when passed from person to person.

Its use in "The Simpsons" was accurate; Bart starts a rumour by whispering to one person who whispers it to another, etc. By the time the rumour reaches the front of the crowd, the phrase "Purple monkey dishwasher" has been added to the end due to people mishearing the original rumour as it passed from person to person.

Due to the popularity of "The Simpsons", the phrase has since become a commonly used response to opinions stated based on hearsay and unconfirmed rumours.
Person A - "I heard from a friend of a friend that John cheated on Linda with Karen!"

Person B - "Purple monkey dishwasher."

2. purple monkey dishwasher
A nonsense phrase seen widely in an early Simpson's episode. Added at the end of a Chinese whisper, ironically, as there are few if any phrases which can be mistaken for "purple monkey dishwasher". For this reason, it is sometimes used to check if communications are working properly, instead of ie. "testing" "mic check" "test test 1 2 3 check" and/or "syphilis".
"Say purple monkey dishwasher, if you can hear this."

3. purple monkey dishwasher
Derived from the simpsons, a term that should now be applied to the end of every game of chinese whispers - broken telephone.
Person 1: "The Sky is blue"

Person 17: "The man eats poo, purple monkey dishwasher"

4. purple monkey dishwasher
Originating from an episode of the Simpsons (episode 2F19 "The PTA Disbands")
It has taken on a comical nonsensical interjectional use... appropriate as comic relief or as a tension breaker
-'Jeezus!! who the hell ate the last jos louis?'
- 'purple monkey dishwasher?'
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by whiskymack Jul 14, 2004 share this

5. Purple Monkey Dishwasher
A dishwasher made by the world famous 'Purple Monkey' brand. Comes with one year garantee.
"That dishwasher is l33t"
"I know, it's Purple Monkey"
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by fire extinguisher Nov 1, 2004 share this

6. purple monkey dishwasher
the answer to any "why" question you do not know.
"Why didnt you eat your veggie?"
-"Purple Monkey Dishwasher."
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by melissa Nov 25, 2003 share this

7. purple monkey dishwasher
A quick inconspicuous phrase to alert your friends of the pressence of a suspicious looking/acting character.
in other words - 'lets get out of here'
Out shopping with friends you notice a stranger eyeing off your handbags but your friends are too distracted to notice....
friend - "do you think this dress will look good with my red heels?"
you - "purple monkey dishwasher!!!!"

100 Pound Watermelons And Small Town Living

It's August, small town Alabama. A man brings his 98 pound watermelon by the local paper to be photographed for the weekly edition.



From the Thomasville Times:

Allison Driver of Sweet Water brought this huge, 98 lbs. watermelon by The Thomasville Times office last week. The melon was so big, it had to ride shotgun in the car with him. Rather than trying to get the massive melon out of the car, Driver just got back in the driver's side to pose with his prize.

In other news, The Surginer Volunteer Fire Department has barbecue for sale for $7 per pound.

A simple way of life.

This Is Why FRM, Stuff And The Others Were Started

After years of having gay men mock women like this as fat in US Weekly and any other rag with a "fashion" section.


And who could forget the awful Jennifer Love Hewitt.



I think I will go buy a subscription to Maxim.

Black Guy Creates "White Supremacist" On Facebook

What a dummy. The Feds are always going to run this kind of stuff down.

African-American man has pleaded guilty after being accused of impersonating a white supremacist in a fictitious Facebook account to make death threats against an African-American university student.
...
A court document provided by the U.S. attorney's office said Hart told an FBI interviewer that he intended the threat to be a prank "to get a reaction."

Lone nut theory?

One white guy does this and the State Controlled Media will exaust every resource looking for a conspriacy. Ask a tough question of Obama, 12 hours later all of your personal information is out there courtesy of you state departments.

Hart admitted creating the fictitious account in November, pretending to be a white supremacist outraged by the election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African-American president, the statement said.

Remember When Dissent Was Patriotic?

The good old days. We used to be able to cover our faces and run around howling at the moon about any damn thing.

Remeber when they "understood our anger." Our patient representatives like Nancy Pelosi used to like disruption.



And the louder and more virulent the language...well that just meant you really meant it.

Politicians could call out other politicians.


Remember when yelling at a president was considered "cool?"