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Groundhog Day
Volume 6: 
February 2, 2004
Ass Whipping Advisory
It might be inappropriate to want to whip someone's ass, but when it comes to Russert, I don't think I could control myself.  Advice to Russert - I wouldn't make any trips to East Tennessee click here to read why It's not that I think I'm tough!
It's just that I've been married for 7 years, and I'm finally learning to defend myself.
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Living in Murka
I've had this thought in my mind going back nearly 4 years.  From the first time I heard chimpy speak, there was something that grated.  It just didn't sound right in my ear.  This is a man who was supposedly educated at Andover and Yale.  How could it be that his voice sounded less refined than mine.  My voice has the unmistakable twang of East Tennessee, which if you don't know, is not like any other type of southern accent.  It is specific to the mountains of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.  If you ever hear it, you'll know what I mean.  But I digress....

Bush's voice sounded funny to me.  Not funny "ha-ha" but odd.  It sounded wrong.  There was one word in particular that started catching my ear that seemed to some up the wrongness of his entire voice.  Whenever he tried to say "America" it came out "Murka".  I thought that I must be having hearing problems, because this man had just been selected pResident by the Supreme Court of the United States.  Surely the leader of the free world was not a man who could not pronounce the name of his own country.

I conferred with my wife, who confessed that she too heard the odd-sounding word coming from the mouth of Bush.  I couldn't understand what was going on.  The United States of America had just finished a presidential election where the most qualified person to run for the office in my lifetime, Albert Gore, had received more votes in an election against possibly the most unqualified person to run in the history of the republic.  Due to a little situation in Florida, the election results were overturned, and a Republican majority on the US Supreme Court had made this man Bush pResident.

It became clear what had happened.  I had entered a parallel universe.  I no longer lived in the United States of America.  I now lived in Murka.  Murka is very similar to the United States of America, but there  are some seriously messed up differences.

I made the following chart to help myself understand the differences:
The United States of America 
+We elect our leaders
+Our leaders are qualified to hold office
+Our president can prounounce the name of the goddamned country
+Leaders fight terror by arresting the terrorists and putting them in jail.
+President is forced to endure the most dispicable attacks in the history of the country from his political enemies. 
 
Murka
+Leaders are selected by courts
+Leaders lead country into war by lying
+Say "Murka" when they mean America.  Never ever say "United States of America"
+Leaders fight terra by provoking wars of choice and implementing restrictions on civil liberties.
+President criticizes the patriotism of those who oppose him.
Conspiracy Theories?
Whose ass needs whooped the most?
Robin Williams
Chris Matthews
Rush Limbaugh
Paul Thomas Anderson
Katie Couric
Ari Fleischer
  
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I am currently several books into a crash course in the JFK assassination.  Currently I am reading the Warren Commission Report.  I find all of the information to be very interesting, and find myself more and more convinced that there was a conspiracy in the assassination of president Kennedy.  All of the theories I read don't really match my own opinion though.  I believe that Kennedy was likely assassinated by the Republican Party and its agents.

There were 3 major political assassinations during the 1960's.  JFK, RFK, and MLK.  No other group outside of the GOP benefitted in any way from the assassination of this group of great Murkans.  The way I see it, you start with the Bay of Pigs - a right wing/GOP attempt to overthrow Castro.  You have 3 assassinations, and you end up with the same people breaking into the Watergate.  They hide for a while and then they come back and launch a series of illegal and immoral wars in Central and South America.  They get caught, hide for a while, come back and essentially create a war in Iraq (1991) and again start a baseless war in central America (Panama).  They get defeated, come back and steal the Murkan Presidential election, allow 9/11 to happen to insure public support of their invasions, and then launch a series of wars of choice with the intent being to build some Right Wing, neo-conservative, Pax Americana.

3 things are true if you believe my theory:

1.    They always get caught in the end
2.    They always come back stronger
3.    They will do
ANYTHING to insure the success of their plans.

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Tuesday Night is Primary Night
Wesley Clark is expected to do well in several states - especially Tennessee and Oklahoma.  Polls conducted in Tennessee show him neck and neck with Kerry.  My candidate, Dean, is substantially further behind.  Clark looks like a winner in Oklahoma.  He is running some very effective ads essentially saying that Bush screwed up by leading the country into war with Iraq, and that he has the experience to get us out of that mess, and not to lead us into another mess.  I, for one, believe him.
I plan on doing an update on Tuesday night to discuss the results of the primary.  I will likely be pissed off, because anytime I watch television, I add another person to my list of people that I would like to kick their tails.  What the hell is wrong with me that I want to fight everyone on television (as long as they are smaller, older, weaker, slower, and fatter than me).
Superbowl XXXVIII
The game was great - even though the Panthers lost.  The big story isn't even the game it turns out.  The story of the day is Janet Jackson's breast.  Now I personally don't go for nipple rings, but hey, if that's your thing.

What is stupid about it is that they did it, and then they deny that they intended to do it, all the while they are apologizing for having done it.  Not too bright.

Worst of all, Michael Powell of the FCC now intends to waste taxpayer money investigating Ms. Jackson's nipple.  What have we come to in this country?
Worst Broadcast in History?
Phil Simms and Greg Gumbel called possibly the worst game in the history of televised football.  The lack of impartiality was unlike anything I have ever seen in a nationally televised football game.  The lack of knowledge left me thinking that I could do a better job, with absolutely NO broadcasting experience and only high school football experience.
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