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Greetings From Scenic Tulsa

After a trip that included a long wait to leave Austin, a mad dash across DFW Airport, followed by another long wait to leave Dallas, an hour-long layover in a podunk airport in Podunk, Arkansas due to thunderstorms and finally, only a couple of hours late, arrival in scenic Tulsa, OK.

Which, in some sections of downtown, bears a striking resemblance to Sarajevo circa about 1992.

I'm here until Thursday, then it's home again and NO MORE BUSINESS TRAVEL for at least a couple of months.

Later on, I'll see if I can post some pictures taken with my shiny new camera phone.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:53:00 PM

 


Yes, that is a glass of my beer. The glass was a gift to Melissa from a Very GOod Friend.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 11:53:00 AM

 
It's Back!

After an utterly shitty week, I get a little good news: my blog has returned. Something with the new and "improved" blogger disappeared it from me, but it's back now.

'Bout damn time.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 9:48:00 PM

 
Yeah, I'm Still Here

Just a wee bit busy in the office - got a business trip next week and another the week after, so there's a lot of fires to put out before I go.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 11:34:00 AM

 
Preach It, Harvey

I've always liked Harvey Fierstein. He's witty, a talented actor and a damn fine writer. He has a little to say about the Don Imus foofraw, and it's worth reading:

For the past two decades political correctness has been derided as a surrender to thin-skinned, humorless, uptight oversensitive sissies. Well, you anti-politically correct people have won the battle, and we’re all now feasting on the spoils of your victory. During the last few months alone we’ve had a few comedians spout racism, a basketball coach put forth anti-Semitism and several high-profile spoutings of anti-gay epithets.

What surprises me, I guess, is how choosy the anti-P.C. crowd is about which hate speech it will not tolerate. Sure, there were voices of protest when the TV actor Isaiah Washington called a gay colleague a “faggot.” But corporate America didn’t pull its advertising from “Grey’s Anatomy,” as it did with Mr. Imus, did it? And when Ann Coulter likewise tagged a presidential candidate last month, she paid no real price.

Don Imus is a scumbag, but he's no less a scumbag than Jerry Falwell, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter or any of the rest of 'em. He was just clueless enough to target someone most Americans can sympathize with.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 11:46:00 PM

 
Voter Fraud? Not Really.

Following on yesterday's post, Justice Department investigations conclude no evidence of organized voter fraud.

Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.

Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.

120 people in five years? Oh my stars and garters, bring me the smelling salts! Of course, the modern GOP hasn't ever let reality get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, so I'm sure this will continue:

Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show. Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules, a review of court records and interviews with prosecutors and defense lawyers show.

Let's compare this to the GOP's push to purge voting rolls of "ineligible" voters, who are disproportionately black, latino and poor. Which is a bigger threat to our republic? If you chose (b), you get a certified No-Prize!

If there were a massive conspiracy to tilt elections through the use of multiple votes, vote-buying, cemetery voting and illegal aliens voting, five years of investigations would find it. I mean, hell, Ken Starr knew Bill Clinton had received at least one blowjob within a couple of years of starting his investigation, and that only cost about $40 million!

Unless...

Unless most of the American population is in on the conspiracy! No, no - hear me out! See, maybe the Bush Administration has realized that millions of Americans are illegally casting votes against Bush and the GOP! Why, that's an attempt to limit the power of the Presidency, and we can't have that! My god, the diabolical brilliance that created this terrible conspiracy called democracy! If we're not careful, we might end up with a representative government. Best if we stop all that nonsense right away.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 8:41:00 AM

 
Faith-Based Electoral Fraud

Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud - NYT

Despite findings by experts that there is little or no voter fraud in the US, the Election Assistance Commission, a panel composed of one Democrat and two Republicans, voted unanimously to replace the phrase “there is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling place fraud,” with “there is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud.” Sound familiar to anyone?

They GOP doesn't like a fact? No need to acknowledge what we know to be true. "There's a great deal of debate on the validity of Intelligent Design." "There's a great deal of debate on man's impact on the environment." "There's a great deal of debate on what effect drilling for oil would have on the ANWR." The sentence in each case is literally true, but not factually. There is debate, but it's all coming from one side - the creationists/theocrats in the first case and Big Oil and its supporters in the latter two.

Phony claims of voter fraud have been a staple of the GOP since Goldwater at least - William Rehnquist worked for the GOP in Arizona in the early 1960s as a "poll watcher" during elections, working to suppress Hispanic voting through objections and demands for credentials - and the GOP's been beating the drum even louder since 2000 showed them that "voter fraud" was a great way to justify purging lots of blacks from the voting rolls. This ties in with the purge of insufficiently loyal US Attorneys - a lack of investigations and prosecutions for "voter fraud" against Democratic candidates was cited in several of the firings. As with almost everything else the GOP claims, their protests and bleatings divert attention from their own similar sins, in this case their efforts to engage in wholesale rather than retail vote suppression.

A couple of other tidbits from the panel's report:

The original report on fraud cites “evidence of some continued outright intimidation and suppression” of voters by local officials, especially in some American Indian communities, while the final report says only that voter “intimidation is also a topic of some debate because there is little agreement concerning what constitutes actionable voter intimidation.”

The original report said most experts believe that “false registration forms have not resulted in polling place fraud,” but the final report cites “registration drives by nongovernmental groups as a source of fraud.”

Really, is anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Bueller?
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 11:11:00 AM

 
Better, Mostly

Finally got over the stomach bug. It took most of yesterday subsisting on a couple of tablespoons of water at a time until my stomach felt better, but I was finally able to keep something down by evening.

Try to avoid this bug if you can. It's nasty.

::looks at laundry pile, shudders::

Just trust me on that one.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 12:57:00 PM

 
Still Ill

Add Alec to the sick list - he and Drew and I are staying home, Melissa took Fran to church.

Seriously, don't get this crap. It's wicked nasty.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 8:33:00 AM

 
Andromeda Strain Update

Drew's got it, Fran's all better. I might have it - while cleaning up Drew's room, I got socked with a pretty nasty wave of nausea.

Guess I won't be sneaking jellybeans from the kids' Easter baskets...
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 1:36:00 AM

 
Oh, Man, I'm Dyin' Here!


posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 9:12:00 PM

 
Home Day

Whatever the virus du jour is called, the one that makes you puke violently for a day or so, well, Franny's got it. So I'm home today, mostly mopping and cleaning, though I did get our new refrigerator hooked up to a water line so we can use the icemaker.
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 2:32:00 PM

 
Can't Go Into Details

But I encourage all of you that know Melissa to tell her "Well done!"
posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 7:07:00 PM

 
A Motivational Poster For The White House


posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 8:11:00 AM

 
Hat Tip To Smoooochie

Smoooochie's blog entry from Saturday caught my eye. She tore into adulterer, hypocrite and neo-fascistcon Newt Gingrich like nobody's business, and I was reminded of a classic song by The Austin Lounge Lizards, "Gingrich The Newt":

We'd like to set the record straight by singing of the newt
For newts are open-minded; they are flexible and cute
A newt can breathe in water and a newt can breathe on land
And if you are a different critter newts will understand
Newts are not mean-spirited; they never are unfair
Newts are not underhanded and are not afraid to share
Newts do not have bad haircuts because newts are lacking hair
But the newt called Gingrich drives all true newts to despair
Gingrich the Newt's a disgrace to the name
When true newts see him they feel so ashamed
He's the black sheep of the newt family
The one rotten fruit on the newt family tree
Newts don't prey on other newts; in that they don't believe
And you will never catch a newt with something up his sleeve
They're tolerant to different environments and so
They don't send little newties to the orphanage to grow
What kind of newt wears a suit and a tie
And frightens small children as he rushes by?
But we admit that his suit suits him good
Much more discreet than a sheet and a hood
A newt may be cold-blooded but he won't go to extremes
And you can trust a newt to be exactly what he seems
Newts are sorry if you're sad; they're happy if you're gay
But Gingrich is perverse, and worse
He's proud to be that way
Gingrich the Newt is puffed up like a toad
So full of himself that he's bound to explode
And then we'll raise up our tails in salute
A fitting tribute
To that horse's patoot
Gingrich the Newt

posted by Adam C. Lipscomb at 8:10:00 AM