Here he is folks...



Though he's better known by his "other name"



and when I'm stressed or down, he makes me kinda feel like this guy below...



oh Alprazolam,  how I love thee....

i think i might like to marry you.

I was recently leafing thru a book I own entitled "Images of American Radicalism".  The book includes some rarely seen pictures and art that embody the stuggle of the American worker thoughout history (which is a peroid very much overlooked in our high school textbooks).  I found the artwork of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) to be particularly facinating.   So I thought I'd post some of those images here for shits and giggles. 

My apologies if this doesn't interest you non-union loving folk!












The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, having much in common with anarcho-syndicalist unions, but also many differences. It contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the wage system abolished. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshall the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict and government repression. Today it numbers about 1,000 members world-wide, but with a recent renewal of organizing activity membership appears to be rising again.

Now that's some radical shit if I do say so myself!

Funny how the national news hasn't picked this stuff up...

Very strange story. Suicide bombing at Univ of Oklahoma football game
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/very-strange-story-suicide-bombing-at.html

DHHS' Avian Flu Preparedness Leader is Inexperienced Crony
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/6/13731/9534

Submit a common sense idea to better the country and win $100,000!  (no joke)
http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/

9 Republican Senators Come Out in Favor of Torture
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002784.html

October 9th is "National Porn Sunday".  Seventy-five churches expected to discuss how porn affects society, why "Song of Solomon" pages stick together
http://www.newsnet5.com/family/5057265/detail.html

D.C. Rumor mill is thrumming with whispers that 22 indictments are about to be handed down on the outed-CIA agent Valerie Plame case
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/are-22-indictments-imminent.html

I went to a seafood club last week... and I pulled a mussel. A sandwich walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Sorry we don't serve food in here." Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?" Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted. I went to the butcher's the other day, and I bet him 50 bucks that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. He said, "No, the steaks are too high."..."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
(1918) - Theodore Roosevelt





"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government."
- Thomas Paine





"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son





"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
- 'Mark Twain'




"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
- Oscar Wilde




"Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a hen"
  - Ambrose Bierce




"Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country."
- Bertrand Russell




"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
- Haile Selassie



"Dissent Is the Highest Form of Patriotism"
 - Howard Zinn

some thoughts from a drunken Hambone for anyone that gives a flying shit...

1.  BBQ rib sandwiches from 7/11 are delicious at 2:45 am
2.  heineken is an ovverated beer but it looks damn cool in a mini keg can
3.  smoking is a bad habit to take up when you're 27
4.  the lifeguard at my pool is hot as balls but she's most likey 17.  i can still look right?
5.  jealousy is a fucking bitch and i have issues with it.  even if its not justified
6.  i will regret writing this blog tomorrow

Holy mackerel snappers! That sneaky Darth Sidious has not only managed to become a member of the Imperial Senate, but is also the fucking Pope on planet Earth! I kid you not! See for yourself... And it's not just his physical resemblence... «He wrote a letter of advice to U.S. bishops on denying communion to politicians who support abortion rights, which some observers viewed as a slam at Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry. He publicly cautioned Europe against admitting Turkey to the European Union and wrote a letter to bishops around the world justifying that stand on the grounds that the continent is essentially Christian in nature. In another letter to bishops worldwide, he decried a sort of feminism that makes women "adversaries" of men. He is a lightning rod for church liberals who see the hierarchy as reactionary. Ratzinger was active in stamping out liberation theology, with its emphasis on grass-roots activism to fight poverty and its association with Marxist movements. He once called homosexuality a tendency toward "intrinsic moral evil" and dismissed the uproar over priestly pedophilia in the United States as a "planned campaign" against the church." » Yep, this guy is definitely part of the "Darkside".

I am completely in lust with The Weather Channel's Stephanie Abrams... When she was covering the hurricanes in Florida last summer, I kept hoping a strong gust of wind would blow her top off! Playboy should to do a "Women of the Weather Channel" special issue. Now that would be HOT!

something to ponder... http://www.globalrichlist.com/ Even my crap retail supermarket job puts me among the top 7.22 % of the richest people in the world! Our standard of living in this country is obscene when you view it from larger perspective. EVEN WITH right wing nutjobs in control of our govt, most of us still have fairly clean water, electricity, and some sort of access to a doctor. there are millions of people who don't have those simple things. and we take this for granted every single day. now, i'm not implying we shouldn't be fighting for better lives and wages at home. i just think we should all step back and be thankful for the enourmous pleasures we enjoy here is the USA. So let's be grateful. and work towards a better world, not just a better "America". i'll get off my soapbox now.

TEN INCHES OF SNOW MY COCK!!! Way to blow another forecast geniuses. My goddamn horoscope is more accurate than your pathetic weather forecast! Hey Al, you were only amusing when you were fat. And you couldn't forecast your next dump let alone the weather. Go binge on some twinkies and come back when you're 300 lbs again. And YOU, Mr. NBC 4 "Weather Guru", should have an anemometer shoved straight up your hairy ass. I always thought you were overrated. I hope Doug Hill and Topper Shutt beat the crap out of you with that "first snow of the season" shovel. All that milk, bread and toilet paper we sold. FOR NOTHING!

couldn't resist buying the "BIG PAPA Portly Pickle" when i ran across it at Safeway the other night...

it was quite portly...
this one is from my Giant. located near the COCK FLAVORED soup mix.

Lindsay Lohan's dad arrested on DWI charge There's a fucking genocide going on in Dafur and this is one of the seven headlines on Yahoo's main page. Mainstream media makes me want to gag sometimes. Correction. Lots of times.

i am not making this up folks. we carry this product at my store. it's on aisle nine. RIGHT NEXT TO THE FUCKING JESUS CANDLES of all things!!! i took this with my camera phone.

A friend of mine was complaining the other day how she is constantly freezing during the winter time. "Nothing short of throwing on fleece pajama pants, big thick socks, a t-shirt and a hoodie and curling up on the couch with a couple of blankets is gonna keep me warm". Well that just isn't practical for people who sit in a cubicle at work next to a drafty window, or for those who might work in a gigantic dairy REFRIDGERATOR all day long like myself. But I have found the solution my friends! Electrically Heated Pants That's right. Why not incorporate the electric blanket and heating pad technology into jeans and slacks? Now it might require inventing thinner less obtrusive wires and hiding them in the seems of the pants. And there would certainly have to be a safety feature included to prevent overheating of the balls. I don't want my nuts catching on fire. Or getting shocked for that matter. There could be a little dial on the side of the waistline to adjust the temperature. And you would simply plug the pants into an outlet every night for a recharge, not much different than a cell phone. So am I crazy or is this really feasible? What other dangers might this technology pose? Could the electromagnetic fields make you sterile? Would you pause purchasing over fears of testicular or ovarian cancer? Or should i even care since I know one thing for sure. Some hillbilly living in the mountains of West Virginia watching QVC will probably buy it regardless. Spoken like a true republican! leave comments plz