Patrick’s Rants

Wah, Wah, Wah. Obama’s being treated like a rock star.

The media went with Obama to Iraq.. wah! I played golf with Big Daddy Bush and the media didn’t follow me around…

Man grow a pair – hell you survived a POW camp, this should be nothing.

On September 11, religious zealots set out to murder innocent men, women and children. Of course I’m not writing about September 11, 2001 now. This was September 11, 1857 and the religious zealots were members of the Mormon church, finishing a siege on a wagon train that started days earlier. “September Dawn”, a portrayal of the Mountain Meadow Massacre is a factual event that shows another unpleasant facet of religion and fanaticism. The Meadow Mountain Massacre is a stain on the Mormon church. This portrayal places the blame at the top, with Brigham Young. Naturally, Young, and the entire LDS church deny that the church had any prior knowledge of the impending death of the wagon train members.

For a more in depth history of the Mormon Church’s murderous spree in Utah, read The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Statement from Cindy Sheehan, independent candidate for U.S. Congress, on the Non-Impeachment Impeachment Hearings of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC

(Friday, July 25, 2008 — 2 p.m. EST)

I got up at 5:00 a.m. this morning so that I could get into the hearings of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. — and I sat through the hearings. I think they should have been real impeachment hearings and not sham hearings about the abuse of executive power.
Still, I recognize it was a baby step in the right direction — and I think that our Cindy Sheehan For Congress candidacy in San Francisco was the tipping point that pushed Nancy Pelosi to say that hearings could happen.
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Bush in a short clip was defending putting federal money into and behind Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae:

“People are calling this a bailout. It’s not a bailout (hyperventilate laugh). The shareholders still own the company”

Well isn’t that the definition of a bailout? Maybe he was confused with a buyout where the government would directly own Freddie and Fannie and the shareholders would have cash

This morning the Fox affiliate was reporting that John Edwards was having an affair and sneaking out of a hotel room while reporters were following him. Their source was the Enquirer. I mean if it was in the Enquirer then it must be true. So when are we going to start hearing about all of the alien abductions and sasquatch ordering pizza and then refusing to pay for it? Fox spends nearly half of each news hour covering auditions for American Idol (pretending that it’s news instead of an unpaid 30 minute commercial for a show on their network) and now their source is the Enquirer? There’s only so much stupid reporting that one can take. If only Andrea would move to another network.

Got this in the email today:

Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington
Cindy Sheehan

There is nothing unusual about the fact that I am heading to Washington, DC today. Indeed, since my son was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004, I have been to our nation’s capitol dozens of times.

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(Updated 2008/06/18 18:15 – wow that was freaking fast!)
(Updated 2008/06/18 18:45 – I didn’t get to respond to this last update as it was just after dinner)
(Updated 2008/06/26 19:30 I should have had a response by 2008/06/23 13:43 even allowing for a “business day 48″ So I sent the follow up email)
(Updated 2008/07/01 7:24 Still no responses from Sandisk despite two emails to the rma address)
(Updated 2008/07/03 6:40 they called and left a message on my answering machine – no concept of what time of day it is here I guess – and left a bizarre message in my RMA inbox)
(Updated 2008/07/23) I have the new MP3 Player.

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Attentive readers might remember my Sandisk Support post. I’m now doing the dance with Sansa again and this time I’m a little steamed. I filed a support request that was closed after two contacts. I’m going to post the saga in all its glory. The Sandisk is dead. Won’t power on.
This is a long post. I will add an update line to the top of the post as it progresses. (more…)

We’re having an impact! Today we reached a quarter of million mark, a huge fundraising milestone. We’ve collected almost 8000 signatures from committed voters in San Francisco. And for the first time since she’s taken her seat Madame Speaker (Pelosi) has had to talk about why’s she’s taken impeachment off the table.

This week the House Judiciary Committee will hold clearly imperfect and pandering hearings into the “abuses” of the Bush administration. Cindy for Congress, of course, believes with the vast majority of San Franciscans that impeachment hearings should have begun in January of 2007 and, if so, would have been completed by this time.
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We made a commitment to you that when the time came, we would do
everything we could to help Cindy Sheehan. That time is now.

Cindy Sheehan is making a courageous run for the Congressional seat
in San Francisco, to challenge Nancy Pelosi, who has done nothing but
cave in to the Bush/Cheney criminal war agenda, while the approval
rating of Congress drops into single digits for the first time ever.

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I’m not a gynecologist
But I’ll take a look