Here, let me ’splain it to you…

Having a difficult time telling Democrats from Republicans?

O.K., it will help if you can visualize Al Pacino in the movie “Dog Day Afternoon”.

Here you go: “Well, aren’t you going to kiss me first?”.

That’s it, the Democrats will kiss you first, before they bend you over the sofa, the Republicans will usually be no kinder than to ask you to grab your ankles.

See, it’s not too difficult to tell them apart. There is a difference in their procedures, but the end result (no pun intended) still leaves you walking a little bow legged. I imagine that it would kind of be how the guy walking on water in the photo below would be if he got caught and nailed by the bull.

Yep, sure glad I voted in the mid-terms to help elect all those folks that were going to finally do something to stop the war.  Hmm, isn’t it a nicer world now?

Every Picture Tells A Story, Don’t It……

I found this photo on October 20th, 2007 on www.onegoodmove.org/1gm/

“W”, what meds do you take to be able to sleep at night?

photo by Aaron Thompson

The story behind the photo:

www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710170323

Just nothing more to say today…..

God – Bless – Armenia, land that I……..

Try singing that opening riff to the tune of god bless America, or if you’re of the older persuasion, picture Kate Smith singing it.

One has to wonder what all the uproar is about, with some U.S. politicos pushing to make a non-binding * statement about something that, no matter how horrible it was, happened (or not) before about 99 percent of people alive today were born, in a part of the world about as far away as possible.

Hey, by definition I’m an old fart now, and the year quoted in this discussion took place before my father was born.

This is all especially hard to follow, especially when you consider that the particular area of the world doesn’t even have a large supply of oil to steal.

I could understand it easier if this was coming only from the elected representatives of residents of, oh let’s say, Glendale, California, AKA “Little Armenia”. However, this noise is coming from a crap pile of white bread hacks on the right who see it as yet another chance to create a distraction from the mess our country finds itself in, and at the same time, an odd assortment of lefties.

In yet another strange turn in my life, I now find myself siding with that good old boy,
George W. Bush, who is trying to derail this clusterfuck, and wondering WTF the House speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing in trying to bring it to the floor of the House of Representatives.

I’ve heard at least two sides to the genocide story, one here from Armenian friends, and the other while working twice on films in Turkey. Sadly, neither one trumps the other enough to make me take a side in the debate, only to question why it’s boiling over now.

Speaking only for myself, I worry more about what’s happening to the Kurds and the Darfurians (yeah, I know that calling those f’d individuals of Darfur by that name makes them seem to be of Armenian ancestry), and the long list of other countries around the globe where so many people are in such deep shit right now for starts.

Also, I can almost be concerned about the people of Iraq and Iran. Well, almost.

Before any reader whose name ends with …ian, …ien, …yan, etc.-ian should jump in heavy on this, I have to ask you exactly how much of your energy or money is going to the assistance of the poor folk of the countries mentioned above?

Sort of what I thought.

*non-binding: This has no effect on any actual thing, and never will. It’s just a lot of political posturing for the sake of the news. It’s also often referred to as “Bullshit”.