http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/ Mostly politics, a few current events, a squirt of seltzer down yer pants .. a little blog for my rambles and rants. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:42:53 +0000 http://bloghi.com/ http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/img_ch.hi?id=8369 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/ http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/26/just-had-to-share-this.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/26/just-had-to-share-this.html#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:41:51 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/26/just-had-to-share-this.html                   The devil made me do it.   It seems that Gov. Bobby Jindal has the power to cast out demons...without any government assistance! Who... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/26/just-had-to-share-this.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/25/dang-it-s-great-to-be-inspired-by-a-presidential-address-again.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/25/dang-it-s-great-to-be-inspired-by-a-presidential-address-again.html#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:59:58 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/25/dang-it-s-great-to-be-inspired-by-a-presidential-address-again.html President Obama's speech was off the charts. This country hasn't had a dose of vision this large since JFK looked at the moon and refused to blink.   We are in capable hands...and the polls show that people know it...   There's not a... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/25/dang-it-s-great-to-be-inspired-by-a-presidential-address-again.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/24/how-we-know-he-s-doing-something-right.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/24/how-we-know-he-s-doing-something-right.html#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:31:53 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/24/how-we-know-he-s-doing-something-right.html Now, I'm not one who thinks that polls are infallible reflections of the truth, or that polled American people are always right about everything...but the following polls are an awfully good sign.   Republicans have turned on President Obama... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/24/how-we-know-he-s-doing-something-right.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/23/bobby-jindal-doesn-t-scare-me.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/23/bobby-jindal-doesn-t-scare-me.html#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:38:03 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/23/bobby-jindal-doesn-t-scare-me.html   The rift in the GOP became very apparent yesterday on "Meet the Press" as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal faced off with Florida's Gov. Charlie Crist over the stimulus package. Crist welcomed the package, saying his state needed the help, that... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/23/bobby-jindal-doesn-t-scare-me.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/arrest-near-in-chandra-levy-case.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/arrest-near-in-chandra-levy-case.html#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:22:40 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/arrest-near-in-chandra-levy-case.html Remember Gary Condit - the California congressman with a creepy smile and dippity-doo hair who touted "pro-family" politics and had an affair with a young woman who was murdered?   Poor Chandra's disappearance sure blew his political future... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/arrest-near-in-chandra-levy-case.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/not-a-penny.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/not-a-penny.html#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:03:32 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/not-a-penny.html   In a perfect world we would block funds to those states whose rank partisan Republicans voted against the stimulus package. The folks who direct the money should insure that not a penny of the stimulus money flows to districts... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/not-a-penny.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/late-night-jokes-recap-2-21.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/late-night-jokes-recap-2-21.html#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:33:19 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/late-night-jokes-recap-2-21.html   "Michigan Congressman John Dingell has set the all-time record as the longest serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He's been there 19,421 days. That's the longest a member of Congress has ever been in one place well, if you... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/21/late-night-jokes-recap-2-21.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/then-he-took-them-all-out-to-eat-at-taco-bell.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/then-he-took-them-all-out-to-eat-at-taco-bell.html#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:44:03 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/then-he-took-them-all-out-to-eat-at-taco-bell.html Ex-Senator Macaca pitches the GOP to minorities. Dang, the Republicans have moved beyond parody. Yep, this oughta show you how desperate they are...the Republican National Hispanic Assembly had former Republican senator George Allen - a man... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/then-he-took-them-all-out-to-eat-at-taco-bell.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/sure-sarah-knows-how-to-play-the-game.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/sure-sarah-knows-how-to-play-the-game.html#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:03:42 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/sure-sarah-knows-how-to-play-the-game.html She's just not very good at it. Sarah Palin is the crack cocaine of political junkies...we want to ignore her, but we just can't. Thank goodness that she's a gift that keeps on giving to Democrats. Michael Leahy of the Washington Post... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/20/sure-sarah-knows-how-to-play-the-game.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/19/black-president-dead-chimp-racist-cartoon.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/19/black-president-dead-chimp-racist-cartoon.html#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:24:23 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/19/black-president-dead-chimp-racist-cartoon.html There's no getting around it. Even my conservative friend says it's offensive.   The rightie tabloid (stories of alien abduction), The New York Post, owned by FOX News boss Rupert Murdoch, ran a cartoon implying that a crazed chimpanzee... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/19/black-president-dead-chimp-racist-cartoon.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/18/bet-that-made-his-ol-pacemaker-skip-a-beat.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/18/bet-that-made-his-ol-pacemaker-skip-a-beat.html#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:49:02 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/18/bet-that-made-his-ol-pacemaker-skip-a-beat.html "Hi, George, it's Dick. How about that hunting trip I mentioned?"   The New York Daily News reports that George Bush and Dick Cheney fought bitterly in the final days of Bush's presidency over a pardon for Scooter Libby. Staffers said... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/18/bet-that-made-his-ol-pacemaker-skip-a-beat.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/17/he-ll-have-to-change-his-tombstone-again.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/17/he-ll-have-to-change-his-tombstone-again.html#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:15:49 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/17/he-ll-have-to-change-his-tombstone-again.html Blago-appointed Illinois Sen. Roland Burris has to go. I thought I'd found a Saturday Night Live skit when I clicked on his news conference the other day...he was sweating, squirming, denying and jabbing his finger in the air..."I am a man of... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/17/he-ll-have-to-change-his-tombstone-again.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/16/late-night-jokes-recap-2-16.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/16/late-night-jokes-recap-2-16.html#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:08:28 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/16/late-night-jokes-recap-2-16.html   "Well, the heads of the eight largest banks testified before Congress. Bank C.E.O.'s in a room full of politicians -- they had to flip a coin to see who's going to tell the first lie." --Jay Leno   "Down in Louisiana, a porn star named... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/16/late-night-jokes-recap-2-16.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/15/stimulus-bill-heads-for-obama-s-desk.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/15/stimulus-bill-heads-for-obama-s-desk.html#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:20:36 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/15/stimulus-bill-heads-for-obama-s-desk.html Historic win for Obama. Lest we forget - the bill passed with zero Republican votes in the House and just three Republican votes in the Senate. The three were Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins.   Specter said many Republican senators... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/15/stimulus-bill-heads-for-obama-s-desk.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/14/i-got-your-stimulus-package-right-here.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/14/i-got-your-stimulus-package-right-here.html#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:30:31 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/14/i-got-your-stimulus-package-right-here.html   Sorry, this post has little to do with that header...it just makes me giggle... Seriously, the header should really be about Democrats losing the message war on the stimulus package...and how the success or failure of the stimulus could... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/14/i-got-your-stimulus-package-right-here.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/13/don-t-laugh.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/13/don-t-laugh.html#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:08:09 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/13/don-t-laugh.html ...but one thing I would like to see President Obama do is legalize the growing of hemp...the kind grown for industrial use that has no drug properties because of its low THC content.   Growing hemp could help revitalize our agriculture... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/13/don-t-laugh.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/12/country-first-my-aunt-fanny.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/12/country-first-my-aunt-fanny.html#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:08:40 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/12/country-first-my-aunt-fanny.html Republicans had such a hissy fit and fought until they had a number of provisions inserted in the stimulus bill...then voted against it en masse...then took to the air waves pleased as punch with themselves.   From nytimes.com: "WASHINGTON —... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/12/country-first-my-aunt-fanny.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/biden-the-gaffe-machine.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/biden-the-gaffe-machine.html#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:34:35 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/biden-the-gaffe-machine.html You know, Barack Obama might be a genius on a level we haven't even thought of yet...   I thought uh oh when Obama announced Joe Biden would be his running mate. Biden is seen by most as a foreign policy expert and a nice guy, but he does... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/biden-the-gaffe-machine.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/late-night-jokes-recap-2-10.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/late-night-jokes-recap-2-10.html#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:43:51 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/late-night-jokes-recap-2-10.html "President Obama, getting very tough now, has imposed a $500,000 salary cap for executives getting federal bailout money. And, listen to this: Now on weekends, they can only play miniature golf. No more 18 holes." --Jay Leno "See, the whole theory... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/late-night-jokes-recap-2-10.html#comments http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/the-more-i-hear-of-geithner.html http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/the-more-i-hear-of-geithner.html#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:38:47 +0000 http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/the-more-i-hear-of-geithner.html ...the less I'm liking him.   This is really, really upsetting. Banks received TARP money and it didn't help anything but the CEO's bonuses - it sure as hell didn't free up credit - and now it might HAPPEN AGAIN?   From nytimes.com:... http://soonerbeblue.bloghi.com/2009/02/10/the-more-i-hear-of-geithner.html#comments