Okay, really, someone find a way to share my common sense with the world.They need it more than I do

You know, it's always been apparent that Ann Coulter is a few cards shy of a full deck. However, a new interview takes it even a step farther. Coulter comes out against Women Voting. WTF???

If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president.

Dear Ann, if you really feel that way, please feel free to immigrate to Cuba or Burma or North Korea. Now please, go have a sex change so you'll stop giving women a bad name.

Also, the new vogue in cosmetic surgery is the Mommy Makeover

Guess what? Bush declared October 1, 2007, to be Child Health Day. Someone send the man a dictionary with his picture pasted next to "irony".

And, Dear Leader, believes an Iraq exit would bolster Iran. You know, because nothing bolsters an "enemy" like knowing that the other side's military is no longer totally overextended in policing a civil war.

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Okay, I can't wait for the "new" smell to get off my couch. It doesn't give me a headache, but it is vaguely annoying and a little overpowering when I'm sitting on it.

But on the other hand, my bed is HEAVEN. I'm mildly worried that a body slump will rapidly appear, but that's neither here nor there. My hips and shoulders sink into the bed enough that lying on my side doesn't cause body pain. As a result, I wasn't sore when I woke up this morning. Moreover, I actually woke up at six awake...however, the bed was just too durn comfy to get out of and I was having problems remembering if it was Friday or Saturday.

SPN 3x01 -- I've been reading the various rants and wow. I don't know. I mean, SPN has pissed me off in the past with very very bad episodes (Route 666 anyone), but this wasn't one of those. I'm reserving judgement on Mary Sue the female regular, but oh well. ( as to Dean.. )

So yeah, I actually think they served Dean's character very well when I actually examine it. But then again, I've never gone into Supernatural expecting it to be perfect. When it's GREAT, it's GREAT. But it's never been, or tried to be, what Firefly was or the like.

Man, exactly how do I let myself get drawn into the wank?

Want to help Burma? Avoid Chevron gas stations (among other things)

Thanks to adelheide for posting this earlier in the day, but I want to get it out there for those of you not on her flist -- We can do more than talk and march for the Burmese. The blog is worth a full read, but here's an excision of the most relevant parts -

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who has been forcibly kept all these years from assuming the prime minister’s post she won in Burma's 1990 elections, told us how to do this a decade ago:

Those fortunate enough to live in societies where they are entitled to full political rights can reach out to help their less fortunate brethren in other areas of our troubled planet. ...

There are multinational business concerns which have no inhibitions about dealing with repressive regimes. Their justification for economic involvement in Burma is that their presence will actually assist the process of democratization.

But investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice — the foundation stones for a sound democracy. I would therefore like to call upon those who have an interest in expanding their capacity for promoting intellectual freedom and humanitarian ideals to take a principled stand against companies that are doing business with the Burmese military regime. Please use your liberty to promote ours.

But haven’t sanctions against Burma been in place for more than a decade? And didn't Mister Bush tighten U.S. sanctions in 2003? Yes. However, one thing keeps the regime going, providing the generals not only a lucrative lifestyle but also the cash to fill their arsenals and buy the accessories with which they rule. As Amy Goodman writes:

Fueling the military junta that has ruled for decades are Burma's natural gas reserves, controlled by the Burmese regime in partnership with the U.S. multinational oil giant Chevron, the French oil company Total and a Thai oil firm. Offshore natural gas facilities deliver their extracted gas to Thailand through Burma's Yadana pipeline. The pipeline was built with slave labor, forced into servitude by the Burmese military.

The original pipeline partner, Unocal, was sued by EarthRights International for the use of slave labor. As soon as the suit was settled out of court, Chevron bought Unocal.

Chevron's role in propping up the brutal regime in Burma is clear. According to Marco Simons, U.S. legal director at EarthRights International: "Sanctions haven't worked because gas is the lifeline of the regime. Before Yadana went online, Burma's regime was facing severe shortages of currency. It's really Yadana and gas projects that kept the military regime afloat to buy arms and ammunition and pay its soldiers." (Italicized portions were quotes in the Daily Kos blog)

To find out about more companies that do business with the Burmese military junta, this website details the full "dirty list"

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The biggest congressional vote you haven't heard about occurs on Sunday. It's about CAFTA..aka, telling Costa Rica to bend over and ... well, you know what the Bush administration wants out of our allies just as well as I do.

National Guardsmen deployment ended one day shy of what qualifies for GI bill benefits. (psst, if they go to college, they won't reup).

As if fishing stocks being depleted due to overfishing and the effects of global warming weren't enough, giant jellyfish are now wrecking the fishing economy of Japan.

GOP presidential candidates all support Bush's SCHIP veto.

72 members of the Progressive Caucus have banded together with regard to FISA...this may have been the cause of Dems postponing a press conference to say that it would pass. Would you look at that - congressmen actually doing what we elected them to do -> STAND UP TO BUSH.

As much as I'm for Edwards, the big money is pushing for Clinton and Obama is raising more. If it comes down to those two, this pushes me to Obama: Hillary's top adviser represents both union busters and Blackwater. Frankly, I refuse to vote for someone who seems to be employing the same "anything to win" strategy that Bush aka Rove used. Background checking your employees to determine if any mud might stick to you is common.

Speaking of Blackwater..

U.S. military reports from the scene of the Sept. 16 shooting incident involving the security firm Blackwater USA indicate that its guards opened fire without provocation and used excessive force against Iraqi civilians, according to a senior U.S. military official. [...]

The civilians that were fired upon, they didn't have any weapons to fire back at them. And none of the IP or any of the local security forces fired back at them," he added, using a military abbreviation for the Iraqi police. The Blackwater guards appeared to have fired grenade launchers in addition to machine guns, the official said.

In response, US is overhauling contractor rules meaning that US diplomatic guards will accompany Blackwater protective convoys. Which is all fine and good that the diplomats won't have to see Blackwater abuses anymore, but what about all the non-diplomatic missions the company does? Maybe I'm misreading and this is across the board, but somehow I doubt it.

Bush the decider is really Bush the denier. He's, of course, once again stating that the US doesn't torture. I guess he never got around to reading "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

The appendix may have a function after all

Myanmar is hunting 4 monks that led protests

A priest in Ukraine is recording the oral history of those who witnessed the holocaust in that country.

Try not to giggle too much when you look at the official GOP 2008 convention logo. It helps if you take your porn goggles off and then gouge your eyes out.

And just to prove that's nothing safe anymore, Cub Scout badges are latest subject of Chinese lead paint recalls. Ummm, is there any sort of irony to be found in the fact that BSA badges are made in China?