Welcome to March! Seems like we got here pretty darn fast, this year is flying by! Perhaps it seems to be moving so quickly due to the amount of vacations and lack of camera time from George W. Bush, our current criminal in charge. (I'll end up in Gitmo for that comment - I forgot, our "Constitution" is merely a historical document, much like the Magna Carta).

Eight years ago this week, we Americans lived in isolated bliss - having that pre-9/11 mentality ™. The only thing about the Taliban making headlines was that on this day in 2001 they began the destruction of the Ancient Buddha statues that had stood for centuries in Afghanistan.

Despite an international outcry and many groups trying to intervene in an effort to save the Buddhas, the puritanical Taliban's Islamic militia began demolishing the statues across the Bamian Province in the heart of Afghanistan. Even the suggestion of building a concrete wall in front of the statues to block their view, was rejected by the Taliban.

The statues were a marvel of artistry, workmanship and wonder. Two of the tallest Bamiyan Buddhas, carved into a sandstone cliff near the provincial capital in central Afghanistan, stood 175 feet and 114 feet tall and were built around the second century. They stood, tall and proud, overlooking the farming fields below the mountains on the Hazara peoples of that region.



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13 comments (Latest Comment: 03/03/2008 04:44:25 by Mondobubba)

Nothing.

We got nothing. At 10pm last night, the city of Waltham declared a snow emergency, to take effect at 11pm. Fortunately I was still up and about and happened to hear the cruiser driving by...so like a good soldier, I obediently got dressed and moved my car to off-street parking.

Since yesterday was February 29th, it quickly became obvious that the *real* reason was a budgetary shortfall, as the city began towing cars not very long after 11pm last night, and by midnight the street was clear.

Of course, I rise this morning to less than one inch of snow. I'd wager if the city fleet wasn't out plowing sparks last night, we wouldn't be having the usual snow budget crisis. Anyway, I digress.


Of course, if there's a Saturday blog before 7am, that can only mean your loyal TriSec is off for his monthly platelet donation. If you're already a regular blood donor, why not move on to the next level?

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14 comments (Latest Comment: 03/02/2008 05:10:37 by livingonli)

It is critical that we elect a Democratic Candidate to the Executive office in Novemeber. Critical.

It is critical that we get a super majority in the House and the Senate as well.
Damage Control at High Court:
The Court Justice is more concerned about Poor Exxon and it's corporate profits than it is about the 10's of thousands of people who are plaintiff's in this case? Many of them have since died.
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230 comments (Latest Comment: 02/29/2008 02:35:38 by livingonli)

Good Morning.

Today is our 1,627th day in Iraq.

We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 3972
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 3833
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3511
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3114
Since Election (1/31/05): 2534

Other Coalition Troops: 307
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 483


We find this morning's cost of war passing through: $ 497, 650, 000, 000.00

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196 comments (Latest Comment: 02/27/2008 07:15:33 by livingonli)

How do? Listen up. Miss Velveeta has gone and got herself a job, a real one too, not one o’ them lay about “jobs” she’s always claiming t’ have, like "filmmaker" or "artist" or whatever. So, as she is off working at her job which is where she should be, she has asked me, her ex-husband, to write this here blog thing. Course we was only married for a short while, then she started wanting to all this fancy stuff and stopped even cleaning the house! No doing my laundry, NOTHING! So, as you can imagine: right out she goes. And good riddance far as I'm concerned. But eventually we start being neighborly again. She's nice enough to help get me back into the house after I plowed my car through the porch one morning. And she does look prettier than a glob of butter melting on a stack of pancakes, so its hard to resist when she asks. Also, she pays me in Bud.

But now, I haven’t rightly introduced myself. Though yawl may have heard o’ me, I’m sure she talks me up all the time, right? She does don’t she? For those t’aint heard a me my formal name is Clemet Franklin Robert “Lee” Davis, Jr. Course my friends call me "Root", and that’s what yawl can call me.

First off, I sure am glad that Miss Velveeta got herself one of these computoor talky things so’s I don't have to type, otherwise this blog thingy would never get to written, fer sure! Hell, I’d spill my beer typin’. Its kinda spooky to see the words that I'm saying comin' cross the screen as I am sayin' them. Weird stuff! Pussy! Haahahahhahahahaha! Buttfucker!! Wooooooooo!

Now then, off to the stories. The note under my six-pack says I'm supposed to talk about Bill O'Reilly and his lynching comment and then segoo into talkin' bout animals and how man is the cruelest animal of all and talk about this here book. Pffffffth. Yawn. I'm gonna need more beer
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58 comments (Latest Comment: 02/25/2008 05:16:20 by Mondobubba)