I'm not dead and will resume posting in the next week or so. I've been doing fieldwork all summer and haven't had time for this bullshit.

This domain name will be renewed after all.

Fuck you,

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In two months it will be time to renew this domain name.

I can't decide whether I should or not.

I don't actually use this blog anymore. I would say that it serves less purpose than ever, but it didn't really serve one at any point prior to now either. Therefore, what's the point paying for this placeholder? On the other hand, it's not like it's expensive to keep around.

I could actually start posting here again, but I've said that countless times before and haven't followed through. I should probably feel bad about letting my readers down. (That was joke. Ha. Ha.)

If I made an effort to post again, I suppose it would be worthwhile to try to gain some sort of audience. I can't remember how that's done anymore, though.

So what's my point here?

Do the two or three of you lurking bastards, the remains of the Shitty Blogs Club, have any suggestions?

So the Republicans are already working to fight the "big fucking deal" healthcare bill signed by Obama earlier today:

14 Attorneys General are suing to stop the bill as unconstitutional.

Rep. Steven King (R-Iowa) has a bill ready for the House to repeal it (PDF).

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and a handful of Republicans have a Senate bill worked up.

Here's the Senate Bill:

TEXT of Senator DeMint’s bill to Repeal ObamaCare: To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPEAL.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the amendments made by that Act, are repealed.

I'd be lying if I said their outrage didn't amuse me.

When these attempts fail, what will they do next? Secede?

I'm still unclear on what rights and liberties are lost by enacting this bill.

To be fair, I'm not impressed with the mandate to buy insurance from private companies. I still think that aspect is a mistake, but maybe it will provide an opportunity for something better in the future. The bill should have, minimally, included a public option. Unfortunately the Democrats gave up on that early in the process.

Single-payer was never an option, though it should have been.

Maybe we'll get that in another 103 years.

Well, this is just retarded Palin-American:

NEW YORK – On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he's a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say "he may be the Antichrist."

...

"high percentages of Republicans—and Americans overall—believe that President Obama is "racist," "anti-American" "wants the terrorists to win" and "wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one-world government."

Source: Opinion: Scary new GOP poll

These beliefs would be laughable if the percentages and overall stupidity levels weren't so high. What world do these people live in? Are there broad swaths of the American public that drink gasoline and eat lead-based paint chips for dinner?

Additional findings include:

45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president" [and] 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"

I wonder, are these people so far off the deep end that they'll never be able to come back?

Do the even know what they're mad about?

Clearly, calling them retarded and stupid isn't enough or nice, even if it is gratifying.

There just isn't enough coffee to keep me awake today. I wish I could go home and sleep. Four hours of sleep, two days in a row, just isn't enough for me to function properly today. Fuck it, though. At least I have something to post about now.

Here's a song for everyone. It may be the best song ever written. I'm sure you all can relate.

Child Molesters - I'm Gonna Punch You in the Face

Damn. I guess this happened last week, but I was too busy to notice.

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass

[From Howard Zinn, dissident historian, dead at 87 | Raw Story]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying to take 33 children out of Haiti.

The church group, most of them from Idaho, allegedly lacked the proper documents when they were arrested Friday night in a bus along with children from 2 months to 12 years old who had survived the catastrophic earthquake.

[From U.S. Baptists arrested in Haitian orphan incident (OneNewsNow.com) ]

Pray for them! They are still brothers & sisters in the Lord... and they are Americans!

South Carolina Lt.-Gov. Andre Bauer, a candidate for governor, made the comment during a town hall meeting on Friday. During a discussion of subsidized school lunches, Bauer argued that children should be denied reduced prices for school lunches if their parents fail a drug test or don't show up for parent-teacher meetings.

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed," Bauer said, as quoted at the South Carolina State. "You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."

[From SC Lt. Gov. regrets comparing poor to animals, then does it again]

What a prick.

This is a post because there hasn't been one in almost two weeks.

It's been one week since I've had a smoke.

I want a fucking cigarette.