Virgil Did Not Have Sex With That Woman, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Or Any One Else At Pamela Martin & Associates.

In the unlikely event that it is proven that he did, he still didn’t get us into a war under false pretenses & get a bunch of folks killed for nothing.

A Kinky Look At The Imus Fiasco.

Some, including Kinky Friedman, for whom Virgil has the utmost respect, imply that Imus's use of the words “nappy headed hos”is no worse than rappers or hip-hoppers use of similar words in Grammy winning songs. Virgil disagrees. We'd all be better off not using the words. see, Words Hurt Too. However, like it or not, the words sound worse coming from an older white guy, and Imus did more than just use the words. He used them to describe specific, real, young women who had done nothing improper. Worse yet, they had done exactly what our culture claims to respect. They had worked hard, made sacrifices, and become winners. They became role models for those even younger than they. Imus sent a cruel, dangerous, message, which I'm sure he never intended, to our young people .
Still, Virgil agrees with a much of the rest of the Kinkster's article quoted, in part, below, though it pains him to cite anything from the New York Post. The I-Man, given the chance, may have healed the wounds sooner and more completely than they will be now that the cowards and the politically correct have sacrificed him for the sins of many others as well as his own. He would, at least, have opened up an honest dialogue.

Take it away Kinky:

“There's no excusing Imus' recent ridiculous remark, but there's something not kosher in America when one guy gets a Grammy and one gets fired for the same line.
The Matt Lauers and Al Rokers of this world live by the cue-card and die by the cue-card; Imus is a rare bird, indeed - he works without a net. When you work without a net as long as Imus has, sometimes you make mistakes. . . .
Political correctness, a term first used by Joseph Stalin, has trivialized, sanitized and homogenized America, transforming us into a nation of chain establishments and chain people. . . there will always be plenty of Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons around. There will be plenty of cowardly executives, plenty of fair-weather friends, and plenty of Jehovah's Bystanders, people who believe in God but just don't want to get involved. In this crowd, it could be argued that we need a Don Imus just to wake us up once in a while.
There probably isn't a single one of Imus' vocal critics who come anywhere close to matching his record of philanthropy or good acts on this earth.
Judge a man by the size of his enemies, my father used to say. A man who, year after year, has raised countless millions of dollars and has fought hand-to-hand to combat against childhood cancer, autism, and SIDS - well, you've got a rodeo clown who not only rescues the cowboy, but saves the children as well.
I believe New York will miss its crazy cowboy and America will miss the voice of a free-thinking independent-minded, rugged individualist. I believe MSNBC will lose many viewers and CBS radio many listeners.
Too bad for them. That's what happens when you get rid of the only guy you've got who knows how to ride, shoot straight and tell the truth." From COWARDS KICK AWAY ANOTHER PIECE OF AMERICA'S SOUL By KINKY FRIEDMAN

Opus Dei Goes To Washington.

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Patti nails it again with About that Majority Conservative Male Supreme Court Ruling to Protect Women Against Themselves and Their Doctors.

See, also Bush Wins Honesty Loses Alito Sucks

"Don't Touch Me." Can You Find the Prima Donna?

"Laurie David . . . said she and [Sheryl Crow]. . .had hoped Rove might take a ‘fresh look at the science of global warming’ when they met him at the black-tie gala in D.C. But, according to David, Rove ‘immediately got combative. . . . Throwing a tantrum, Mr. Rove launched into a series of illogical arguments.’
As he headed toward his table, ‘Sheryl reached out to touch his arm,’ David writes on TheHuffingtonPost.com. ‘Karl swung around and spat, `Don't touch me.' . . . ‘Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, 'You can't speak to us like that, you work for us.' Karl then quipped, 'I don't work for you, I work for the American people.' . . . Sheryl promptly reminded him, 'We are the American people.' ‘”
Is it getting too hot for you Karl?

Trapped In A Nutritional Maize.

“A public-health researcher from Mars might legitimately wonder why a nation faced with what its surgeon general has called "an epidemic" of obesity would at the same time be in the business of subsidizing the production of high-fructose corn syrup. But such is the perversity of the farm bill: the nation's agricultural policies operate at cross-purposes with its public-health objectives. And the subsidies are only part of the problem. The farm bill helps determine what sort of food your children will have for lunch in school tomorrow. The school-lunch program began at a time when the public-health problem of America's children was undernourishment, so feeding surplus agricultural commodities to kids seemed like a win-win strategy. Today the problem is overnutrition, but a school lunch lady trying to prepare healthful fresh food is apt to get dinged by U.S.D.A. inspectors for failing to serve enough calories; if she dishes up a lunch that includes chicken nuggets and Tater Tots, however, the inspector smiles and the reimbursements flow. The farm bill essentially treats our children as a human Disposall for all the unhealthful calories that the farm bill has encouraged American farmers to overproduce. To speak of the farm bill's influence on the American food system does not begin to describe its full impact - on the environment, on global poverty, even on immigration. By making it possible for American farmers to sell their crops abroad for considerably less than it costs to grow them, the farm bill helps determine the price of corn in Mexico and the price of cotton in Nigeria and therefore whether farmers in those places will survive or be forced off the land, to migrate to the cities - or to the United States. The flow of immigrants north from Mexico since Nafta is inextricably linked to the flow of American corn in the opposite direction, a flood of subsidized grain that the Mexican government estimates has thrown two million Mexican farmers and other agricultural workers off the land since the mid-90s. (More recently, the ethanol boom has led to a spike in corn prices that has left that country reeling from soaring tortilla prices; linking its corn economy to ours has been an unalloyed disaster for Mexico's eaters as well as its farmers.) You can't fully comprehend the pressures driving immigration without comprehending what U.S. agricultural policy is doing to rural agriculture in Mexico.” You Are What You Grow, Michael Pollan, New York Times.

Earth Day Turns 37 Today

Oh, how I long for the good ol' days
Without that carbon monoxide haze
A-hangin' over that roar on the interstates. . .

Lord, Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could see
What your simple horse-less carriage has become
This world was once a garden spot
But now it's one big parkin' lot
Lord, Mr. Ford, what have you done?
From Lord Mr. Ford by Dick Feller. Click here to hear Jerry Reed sing it.

Pretties In Pink-Cancer Benefit

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Remus & His Brother Founded Rome On This Day In 753 B.C.

Also on this day, Emily D. West turned Santa Anna every which way but loose. Though we may have been better off letting Texas stay with Mexico, she was still quite a gal. Here's to the Yellow Rose!

"Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran"-Another Dick head wants to be president.

To hear him sing it, click here.

May You Live In Interesting Times

"Yum. We're now at the end of one epoch and well before the start of a new one. During this period of transition, there will be no moratorium on individual aliveness. In fact, momentous events are hatching in the vacuum. It's a wonderful time to be alive. As long as one has enough dynamite." Bernard Mickey Wrangle

Bush's Sex Life

Plenty of Guns & Somethin to Shoot

It’s good that we grieve together, as a nation, when shootings like those at Virginia Tech happen. We did the same for, Columbine, Jonesboro, Austin, and other places. It’s a sign of our humanity. We haven’t been totally desensitized though mass killings happen daily somewhere in the world. It’s still a shock when it happens in our midst and especially when it happens to our young. It’s not, however, the aberration that we pretend it to be. With guns available to almost all, incidents like these are inevitable. Periodically, a deeply disturbed person who sees no other outlet for his or her rage will obtain a firearm and start shooting. Guns are part of our mythology- gods that demand human sacrifice. We, as a nation, are willing to make these sacrifices. Whether or not the Second Amendment or the First Amendment (Some say the right of revolution is guaranteed by the First) guarantee our right to posses guns (Or Nukes for that matter), they would still have to pry our guns from our cold dead fingers and take them over the dead bodies of our children.

Live Free. Live Dangerously .

"I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel. You lousy cork-suckers. You have violated my fargin' rights. This suminonbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens, like me, could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin' ice holes, like yourselves." Roman Marone

More Con Than Neo

". . .we are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq. You will not be surprised to learn, gentle readers, that Wolfie in love is no less deceptive and bumbling than Wolfie at war. Proving he is more con than neo, he confessed that he had not been candid with his staff at the World Bank. While he was acting holier than thou, demanding incorruptibility from poor countries desperate for loans, he was enriching his girlfriend with tax-free ducats." . . .
"This vacuum in leadership spawned the White House plan to create a powerful war czar to oversee Iraq and Afghanistan, who could replace Ms. O'Sullivan when she leaves. The push to finally get the A-team on the case is laughably, tragically late. The Washington Post reported that at least five retired four-star generals have refused to be considered; the paper quoted retired Marine Gen. Jack Sheehan as saying, 'The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going.' I couldn't have said it better myself." More Con Than Neo By Maureen Dowd, The New York Times

Armed and Dangerous

Things happen on this Pale Blue Dot.

Happy Birthday Vicki

This good little witch turned 51 on April 10, 2007.

Oops!

Lawyer: Rove Didn't Mean to Delete Email

Wolfowitz Apologizes in Salary Scandal-Now, if He’d Just Apologize For The Iraq Scandal.

"World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz apologized Thursday for his role in helping his girlfriend Shaha Ali Riza secure a lucrative job at the State Department, for which she is said to be paid even more than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."
See, Iraq War's Architect Apologizes in Salary Scandal

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007-THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.

God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.

I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud
that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!

Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat's Cradle.
See, also, Thanks a lot you dirty rats.

Sorry About This Taz. Sorry for Us All.

“[Tasmanian Devils] are being wiped out on the island state of Tasmania by a contagious cancer that creates grotesque facial tumors.”

The gas is a’seepin in
The water’s a creepin in
The yellow bird don’t sing in the mines anymore. (Don’t remember who wrote this)

Birds don’t sing as much above ground either. See, Birds fell out of the sky as a whole town was poisoned by lead dust

Words Hurt Too.

We are, in spite of our "progress," a racist and sexist society. "'We need to get to the point where we don't call women hos, we don't classify African American women as 'nappy-headed hos,' said team captain Essence Carson."

The Good News-Virg Has Lost 20 Pounds.

Click Here for the Bad News.

Happy Easter-Thank You Jesus, Attis, Mithra et. al.

“Attis, who immaculately conceived by Nana, was gored by a wild boar but resurrected on March 22 . . .”
“The son/Sun had died and so there was darkness. And look how many hours this lasted for: three. The same story of darkness at their death was told by the Hindus of Khrishna, the Buddhists of Buddha, the Greeks of Hercules, the Mexicans of Quetzalcoatl, ad infinitum, long before Jesus. When he died, Jesus `descended into hell', just like the earlier Khrishna, Zoroaster, Osiris, Horus, Adonis/Tammuz, Bacchus, Hercules, Mercury and so on. He then rose from the dead like the earlier Khrishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Adonis/Tammuz, Osiris, Mithra, Hercules and Baldur.”
And don't forget the Easter Bunny.

Lucy’s Right-Dion Did Abraham Martin & John. So Did Whitney.

Click here for Dion's version.

Abraham, Martin, & John.

One ole boy asked if I were gay after I put a link to U2 instead of Tommy Cash in the post below. I told him it’s nonea his damn business and I’m, by God, secure in my sexuality. Still, by popular demand, here's is an earlier tribute to Rev. King & the Kennedy brothers by Tommy Cash. I was a friend of old Tommy’s. I’s in the Navy with im.

Free At Last?

On April 4, 1968, when Virgil was a student at the University of Arkansas, his next door neighbors burst through his door cheering “They got him.” Virg & his roommates asked “who?” The neighbors, with looks of glee, said that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot. I don’t know what we said, if anything, but the neighbors blushed, mumbled an apology and backed out. They never came over again. Arkansas -even my generation-& the world have changed since then. The change is not big enough or fast enough, but I hope it continues.
Pride (In The Name Of Love) lyrics are below. To hear U2 sing it, click here.
One man come in the name of love One man come and go One man come here to justify One man to overthrow In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more? In the name of love! One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resists One man washed on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more? In the name of love! ...nobody like you...there's nobody like you... Mmm...mmm...mmm... Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more in the name of love? In the name of love! What more in the name of love...

Whoever Thought George H.W. & Danny Would Look Comparatively Competent?

Colonel Ann Wright Is Still Fighting For Her Country.

WRIGHT: "I want to make sure the United States treats people properly.."

O'REILLY: "Sure you do. Sure you do."

WRIGHT: "I surely do. That's what I spent 29 years of my life trying to do."

O'REILLY: "Sorry. No you didn't. You know what happened to you…somewhere along the line you started to dislike your own country…."

WRIGHT: "I served 29 years. How many did you serve? Where did you teach the Geneva Conventions?"

O'REILLY: "Cut her mic."

Click here to read Ann's resignation letter.

Too Bad McCain (Or Bush or Cheney) Didn’t Walk Down This Street.

Passover Is Not Just Seder Masochism

"Passover is probably the best known of the Jewish holidays, mostly because it ties in with Christian history (the Last Supper was apparently a Passover seder), and because a lot of its observances have been reinterpreted by Christians as Messianic and signs of Jesus."
I wonder why God made Pesach, Beltane, Easter, and Buddha's birthday happen at the same time?

Tempus Fugit-Benny "Kid" Paret Has Been Dead For 45 Years

Gil Hodges Make's Virgil's Hall of Fame

So, by God, does Buck O'Neil.