Author Archives: Al Swearengen

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and … Continue reading →

This is a letter sent to controlcongress.com. Dear Senator Sarbanes, As a native Marylander, and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an … Continue reading →

Pelosi backs Murtha for majority leader – Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threw her support behind Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for majority leader Sunday, giving a significant boost to Murtha in his race against Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).

Smart guy.  50 state strategy.  Nicely done.  Organizing all the gay male prostitutes’ in America with names, phone numbers, addresses and client lists.  Brilliant.  CSPAN is getting a makeover.  Will anyone notice?

War games are held, with the most sophisticated simulations that money could buy at the time, and the results weren’t what the neoconservatives’ analysis showed them after running their own war games, with the most sophisticated asian hookers that money could … Continue reading →

The Army Times is coming out tomorrow with a call for Rumsfeld to go, and Cheney has come out and said that the public can’t take his toys away, nor will he testify in Congress if ordered to do so.  … Continue reading →

I wrote about this guy here, Born Again Christianity’s Jihad on America, having been aware of mega-churches for quite a while, Ted Haggard seemed more political than Chistian to me, and his “flock” ate up every word he spoke without … Continue reading →

I am anticipating the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death, expecting it to be the biggest news story of the day as I wake up every morning. Bombing campaigns near the Durand Line, an arbitrary border line separating Afghanistan and … Continue reading →

(SOURCE – Miami Herald) After a week of early voting, a handful of glitches with electronic voting machines have drawn the ire of voters…several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones … Continue reading →

I’ve been messing around with perl and how to link input from an html file to a database for most of the day’s nap time, knowing now that it’s only a matter of seconds before they’re up and ready to … Continue reading →

Misery all sticky arrives in words from far away Packages of bile needing to be gulped down More and more arrive dripping as you sleep Another time in another life it will go down easy

Who does this numbskull think he’s kidding when he says something like this? “The United States does not torture”…is this said solely for the benefit of voters with autism? If so, the ones who can understand enough to vote are … Continue reading →

I note that any time you have the party of Limbaugh, Hannity, Delay in power, when the public grows weary of their failure to legislate effectively, it will always be the other side’s fault. When Iraq is over and done … Continue reading →

“He is exaggerating the effects of the disease,” Limbaugh told listeners. “He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act…This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.” For some … Continue reading →

Stupidity at high levels of government should offend everyone, especially when an example of it has to do with life and death. I posted a map of the Sunni/Shia breakdown in the middle east a few weeks ago…wasn’t overly complicated, … Continue reading →

Rape charge recommended for Israeli president JERUSALEM (CNN) — Police in Israel are recommending that the country’s president be charged with rape and other crimes against several women, a police announcement said. Police issued a statement Sunday announcing that they … Continue reading →

Reid got $1M in land sale As I see it, when you’ve got a mandatory minimum sentence for some kid a few grams over the statute limit for whatever substance they’re caught with…if that’s how our government wants to carry … Continue reading →

During my brief stint as a local sports media flunky a few years back, Kenny Rogers suckerpunched me in the clubhouse for no reason, and for a long time I’ve been replaying the moment again and again in my head, … Continue reading →

Regardless of how she’s making you feel at the time, congratulating a female state trooper on her sex change is never a good idea.

This has been bothering me for a while now, and with conditions on the ground in Iraq being what they are, the military in general today compared with five years ago, when is the Defense Secretary’s boss going to finally tell … Continue reading →

I’ve been swiming upstream lately with the new semester starting this week, trying to get smart on the material and ahead on assignments, so politics has been far down on the list…though, the reaction from Republicans on this matter of … Continue reading →

Anesthetic is administered to the patient in an innovative, cost-sensitive manner that respects the sanctity of his/her religious beliefs (aversion in the Muslim faith to alcohol/drug use).  This is carried out by corrections officers, who place the patient in a … Continue reading →

Following the lead of Harvard, Princeton and other schools of higher learning, George Wallace will now also be cancelling their early admissions program, citing as others have, the amount of undue pressure being put on students to over achieve at … Continue reading →

A little while before this last season started they were filming scenes in Chicopee, MA – about 15 minutes from where I live, and where I’m actually going to for an appointment tomorrow.  The actor that plays Vito says in … Continue reading →

Vanity Fair keeps hounding me for pictures of Cleo, for their next cover…I sent them this list of links and told them to find what they wanted on their own.  She’s got an agent now, so suddenly I’m being handed … Continue reading →