Here goes Tom Delay and here he goes again...

10 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes by Tom DeLay:

1) "So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War(Source)
2) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" –Tom Delay, to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)
3) "I AM the federal government." –Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003 (Source)
4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power." –Tom DeLay, explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in 2002 interview with Fox News (Source)
5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes." –Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003 (Source)
6) "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." –Tom DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999 (Source)
7) "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though." -Tom DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004 (Source)
8) "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church." –Tom DeLay (Source)
9) "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist." –Tom DeLay, during a debate in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996 (Source)
10) "I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution." –Tom DeLay, in a CNN interview, Dec. 19, 1995 (Source)

Too bad, I dont watch much TV...

If I did manage to catch by chance, here is a treatise to the eye. "Commander in chief" opened last night on ABC and airs at 8 PM central time. Geena davis playing the vice president isnt such a bad deal after all.
An excerpt from the NYT article:-- He assures her that Islamic nations will never accept a woman as leader of the free world. "Not only that, Nathan," she retorts sarcastically, "but we have the whole once-a-month, 'will she/won't she press the button?' thing. --
I didnt really get the reference to the month, but do you think a feminist female president would ever press the button? :) I do believe Indira would have pressed it more than once, if she had such facility.

The bitch never showed up!

Nada, nunka, zilch - Rita never visited A-town, even though we could have used a t-storm during the ACL fest. Probably, I shouldnt have "ben"ed her :)

Saturday was a blast, both literally and figuratively. "Aqualung", "Buddy Guy", "Zap Mama", "Oasis" were the ones that I can remember on top of my head. It would have been much more fun, if only it wasnt as hot and not as dusty. I am still trying to clear the dust that got accumulated in my lungs.

Rita and ACL

Most of the popular blogs of date are about disasters, natural or otherwise. They either talked about how the disaster affected millions of people, or how badly the rescue efforts are and how skewed up the government's response is. Starting with last december's Tsunami to latest Katrina, people were just a bunch of ideas.

On the same note, I got an idea to avoid Rita from hitting Austin - its quite simple, lets call it "Rita ben". Make her know that she is quite fat and unwanted ;-) Maybe she will drift herself towards east, northeast, whereever - all I care about now is Austin City Limits.

Dalailama intown today

Today, on Sep 20th 2005, Dalailama is delivering a lecture at UT, Austin. I wanted to go see him - not because he is a religious head, but because I think he is cool. Even though, he has changed much according to what Indian politics has dominoed, he represents the wishes of millions of Tibetans who wish to live in peace and according to their will. Today's secularists of India has traded and insulted all of them to curry favor with China - just so that Chinese govt would admit that Sikkim is part of India (wonder why Arunachal Pradesh still shows in chinese map). How about this, you keep Sikkim and get out of Tibet!

Well, even if you manage to read this post before 4 PM today, you wont be able to attend Lama's speech - because a total of 3200 tickets were distributed to public in less than 18 minutes - thats Austin for ya. I think its cool to be with Austinites who are carving an image and identity for themselves amongst otherwise redneck Tejas. Holler 'em up.

cheers
-P

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WTF!!!