Murdock's Madhouse

You can Never Be Too Blonde.

"A Summary Judgment Motion is an opinion that is brief." said Laura Ingrahm on the Bill O'Really show last night discussing Sotomayer's Ricci opinion. She meant to say A summary judgment motion is an opinion that is a summary. That's because she must not expect that any real lawyers are actually watching.

The only thing more hysterical than the blonde mouths castigating supreme court choices (Laura Ingrams has a degree in what? communications? home ec? cosmetology? fashion?) is
Rep. King feeling qualified to judge the dancing talents of Michael Jackson.

At least Ann Coulter has a law degree. And I guarantee you she wasn't No. 1 in her class at Princeton as was Sotomayor- in fact she went to Cornell and Princeton beat us at Crew. And another one for Ann- in case anyone gets the misguided notion to make us watch her on Fox for a solid few hearing days- while Michigan Law might be considered the "Harvard of the Midwest", Sotomayor went to the Harvard of Harvard. The real one. The one in Cambridge. The one Ann didn't get into.

A Summary Judgment MOTION (for everyone who has never either been in a court, a lawsuit, had a lawyer as a relative, or been to law school) is not an OPINION, it's a MOTION asking the court for an OPINION after the other side has a chance to respond. Further, a Summary Judgment MOTION doesn't have to be all that "brief"- the "brief" portion is typically limited to a certain number of pages depending on the court (State, Federal, etc....25 pages, 30 pages,) and it can have a pile of Exhibits numbering in the hundreds if necessary....

Laura, Laura, Laura. If only your education matched your passionate vitriol.

Is this the formula for successful talking head punditry? No matter how unknowledgeable all one has to do is spit bottle blonde nastiness and half the country buys it? Because I am just about ready to dunk my head in a vat of peroxide so I can set the record straight.

And then she blasted the San Francisco Mayor's initiative to keep californians healthy and fit by
his initiative to reform the menus in schools and prisons demanding her Cheetos. http://www.examiner.com/x-7030-SF-Sustainable-Food-Examiner~y2009m7d8-Mayor-Gavin-Newsom-announces-a-regional-sustainable-food-policy-for-San-Francisco

Didn't she have CANCER not too long ago? Did no one tell her about the macrobiotic connection between nutrition and cancer? Is she kidding. "Food" made of orange dye, plastic and chemicals in heathy doses can have nothing whatsoever to do with health (not that Cheetos is made of that- don't sue me Cheetos or I might have to write a brief Summary Judgment motion brief, er opinion,) neither does ingesting vast quantities of radioactive processed styrofoam we call lunch lately, does it. SERIOUSLY!

Are we in a 'I'll say anything indignantly if you pay me enough" culture? Is this the real culture war- between the Irate Indignant Ignorant (I--cubed) and the more thoughtful reflective semi-silent majority? Thank God we have at least that flaming red head Joy Behar.

POSTSCRIPT- ERRATA CORRECTION. Sotomayor went to Yale, not Harvard law. Also a school Ann didn't go to. Yale is arguably the top Law School in the Country depending on who you ask.

The full coverage of Sotomayor's confirmation hearings are airing on Maryland Public Television station.

BEST WISHES FOR HER CONFIRMATION. HOW WONDERFUL TO HAVE HER.

Sonia's Story

Sonia Sotomayor's nomination hearings start this Monday. Say a Prayer. And a Rosary.

What If The Catholics Are Right?

A reporter today said on morning news TV that for today's Obama meeting with the Pope it is unlikely that any reporter is going to shout rudely "Hey Bennie" or the like at the Pope to get
questions answered as one might shout at for example the Brazilian President because a certain amount of solemn reverence is due someone who is the titular and religious head of a BILLION people around the world. "What If The Catholics Are Right!" he said.

THE OTHER GUILIANI- Today's Saint.
Someone else deeply misunderstood and slandered for being so good they couldn't stand it.

St. Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727)
Veronica’s desire to be like Christ crucified was answered with the stigmata.
Veronica was born in Mercatelli. It is said that when her mother Benedetta was dying she called her five daughters to her bedside and entrusted each of them to one of the five wounds of Jesus. Veronica was entrusted to the wound below Christ’s heart.

At the age of 17, Veronica joined the Poor Clares directed by the Capuchins (a franciscan order). Her father had wanted her to marry, but she convinced him to allow her to become a nun. In her first years in the monastery, she worked in the kitchen, infirmary, sacristy and served as portress. At the age of 34, she was made novice mistress, a position she held for 22 years. When she was 37, Veronica received the stigmata. Life was not the same after that.
Church authorities in Rome wanted to test Veronica’s authenticity and so conducted an investigation. She lost the office of novice mistress temporarily and was not allowed to attend Mass except on Sundays or holy days. Through all of this Veronica did not become bitter, and the investigation eventually restored her as novice mistress.
Though she protested against it, at the age of 56 she was elected abbess, an office she held for 11 years until her death. Veronica was very devoted to the Eucharist and to the Sacred Heart. She offered her sufferings for the missions. Veronica was canonized in 1839.

Take the Test

How Narcissistic Are You Really

Answer and scale yourself.

1/ You google yourself weekly
2/ You prefer reading about yourself than talking to the reporter/blogger
3/ You prefer talking to reporters/bloggers than your boy or girlfriend or spouse
4/ You try to make eye contact with people you think look hot but don't talk to people asking
for directions or help
5/ You prefer making speeches than having cappuccino.
6/ The Mirror is your best friend and you check in with it several times daily
7/ You make people call you and wait days before you call back.
8/ You can't stop posting your picture to your blog.
9/ You can't stop emailing your picture for others to post to their blogs.
10/Over half your facebook pictures are all You.

If you answered YES to 10 of these you are a classic tragic hopeless pitiful Narcisist.
If you answered YES to 8 of these you are a silly scary selfish Narcisist
If you answered YES to 5 of these you are a stupid Narcisist
If you answered YES to 3 of these you are just a bit of a lonely Ass.

I Rise In Support

Of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's Michael Jackson Resolution


On Michael Jackson:

"The Greatest Dancer of Our Time"
Fred Astaire

"He did a little dancin'"
Rep. King


I am astounded, floored, flabbergasted, shocked and stunned to hear of all the vitriolic diabribe against Michael Jackson who was never convicted of ANYTHING other than being the victim of hateful exploitative extortive rumor.
Small minded bitter haters whose ego cannot handle real raw God-given talent because they can't recognize what they so lack label him with every vile epithet so vile I dare repeat it not here.

The man was someone who inspired a foreign country to rename a town after him. He inspired children around the world to sing with Joy.
His own daughter, his greatest testimony called him the best father in the world.

Anyone who has been the object of vicious jealousy can tell you that people cannot stand it when other people threaten their distorted egos into reality checking their self-perceptions. These are puny people. Compound that with the deep seated racism that compells white people to rip apart any black person of obvious superior talent and spirit because they cannot stand a superior Black Person confronting their own puniness.

They have to tear them down, even by inventing total lies about them. I am disgusted, outraged and appauled by people like Rep. King and Bill O'REALLY! for propagating total unsubstantiated untruths, like his kids were not conceived with his sperm- his kids LOOK more than a bit like his mother for God's sake. You people ought to be deeply ashamed of yourselves.

I say this as a white person (ok, more than moderately freckled and I tan really well)- You white people don't even see how racist you are. It is time to go to Confession.

Rethinking Again.

Shout Out To My French Friends- Happy Bastille Day!

It's actually July 14, but the party at La Maison is on Saturday, July 11th. [It's like the French 4th of July]

You want to be there:

La Maison Française and the Comité Tricolore invite you to celebrate "Bastille Day at the Embassy of France," an evening of feasting, music and dance on Saturday, July 11 from 7:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m!Take an imaginary trip to France as you visit different Parisian "arrondissements" (neighborhoods) throughout the evening. Cocktails and a silent auction will begin the festivities. You will have a chance to bid on restaurant and hotel vouchers, paintings and other pieces of art, as well as luxury items!In our cafés, chefs from the area's most prestigious kitchens (Café du Parc/ Willard InterContinental Washington, URBAN Bistrot/Sofitel, Ritz Carlton, La Ferme Restaurant, Bastille Restaurant, Ronald Reagan International Trade Center and Panorama Bakery) will offer mouth-watering creations.A luscious dessert service (Pâtisserie Poupon and Cacao Fine European Chocolate & Pastry) will follow and open bars will serve a variety of refreshing spirits and soft drinks. Throughout the evening enjoy French cancan music and dancing with singer Simone Marchand (outside under the tent) and accordionist Estelle Sauvain with pianist Angélique Sauvain (inside in the ballroom).
WHAT: Bastille Day 2009…. Ca c’est Paris!

WHEN: Saturday, July 11, 2009 from 7 p.m. to 12a.m.

WHERE: La Maison Française, Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Rd, NW

ADMISSION:
- General admission: $85 ($45 tax deductible)- Benefactor ticket: $150 ($110 tax deductible)*
*Benefactor ticket will include a listing of your name in the evening's program and on the official Bastille Day 2009 website.TICKETS: http://www.instantseats.com/

The Comité Tricolore (http://www.bastille-day.org/)— a coordinating committee of French and French-American associations in the Washington metro area — is a non-profit volunteer organization that provides healthcare support to the sick and elderly in the local French and French-American community. Proceeds from the evening will sustain this mission throughout the year.Celebrate Bastille Day and support a worthy cause!

Warm regards,

Roland Celette

Cultural Attaché Director of La Maison Française

http://www.houseoffrancedc.org/

Salut Roland!

Jesus Is a Liberal

And Apparently So Is The Pope

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/07/the-pope-is-a-liberal-who-knew/

Key Excerpts from Caritas in Veritate:
"Another important consideration is the common good. To love someone is to desire that person's good and to take effective steps to secure it. Besides the good of the individual, there is a good that is linked to living in society: the common good."

"If we love others with charity, then first of all we are just towards them. Not only is justice not extraneous to charity, not only is it not an alternative or parallel path to charity: justice is inseparable from charity, and intrinsic to it."

"The dignity of the individual and the demands of justice require, particularly today, that economic choices do not cause disparities in wealth to increase in an excessive and morally unacceptable manner,83 and that we continue to prioritize the goal of access to steady employment for everyone."

"Economic activity cannot solve all social problems through the simple application of commercial logic. This needs to be directed towards the pursuit of the common good, for which the political community in particular must also take responsibility."

Stop The Bus

I WANT TO GET OFF

Oh. I forgot, I can't - I'm in INDEFINITE DETENTION IN GUANTANAMO.

PAAALEEEZE Don't Tell me that this is still remotely an issue - we have people who have never been tried, some of whom have had their so called "confessions" procured by Torture where they say anything to make it stop, and they are still languishing without one iota of real proof or evidence that they were anything other than people caught in the wrong poppy field at the wrong time for a bounty rotting in the third ring of Hell called Gitmo. PALEEEEZE don't tell me that one of the "compromises" Obama is legislatively postured into eating for fear Cheney's daughter is going to pop her fake blonde head all over Meet the Press again to call him 'unsafe' is the indefinite suspension of Habeus Corpus.
GET SERIOUS!!
These men and boys in Gitmo deserve American Justice or they don't deserve to be locked up by Americans.

We don't do this in this country. We don't call people "enemy combattants" without any proof whatsoever that they were anything other than -the other nationality- when we INVADE another country to keep innocent people locked up until they crack their heads against the wall hoping to die.

OBAMA. You were elected to instill the RULE OF LAW here. Get to It NOW. (Before anyone else takes their bedsheets and strings their head through them dangling from the cage above their head.)

The Perils of Mis-citing Scripture.

The Elephant in the Room

A Proverb From Somewhere

A large elephant was placed in a large dark room with the lights out. Four people were positioned variously around the elephant and asked to describe what an elephant is.

The first person felt the elephant and said 'an elephant is a smooth hard object ending in a point.' He felt it's tusk.

The second person felt the elephant and said 'an elephant is an ocean of bumpy scratchy wrinkles.' She felt it's back

The third person said 'an elephant is like a rigid columnular tree trunk.' He felt it's leg.

The Fourth person said 'an elephant is a sinewy whip of a fountain that moves with agility and grace.' He felt it's trunk.

Each insisted in the rightness of their opinions vigorously and the truth of their knowledge. Each insisted the others were in apostacy, error and heresy.
All are right. All are wrong. All at the same time.

What is God? Who is God?

God is bigger than a breadbox. God is bigger than an elephant. Who do you say that he is?
Is God the room or the elephant here?

Jesus said "If you have seen me you have seen the father because I and the father are ONE."

Comic Relief from Beliefnet

Bless This Car

A rabbi, a priest and a minister have their houses of worship side by side, so they decide to carpool.

On the first day, the other two are shocked to see the pastor lay hands on the hood and pray silently.

"What are you doing?" the priest asks.

The pastor looks up. "I'm just dedicating the car to the Lord's service."

"Good idea! Be right back!" the priest exclaims, running into his church. He emerges with a bulb on a short stick, shaking water out of it onto the car.

The rabbi stares. "What are you doing?" he says.

"I'm consecrating it with holy water," the priest replies.

"Great idea!" the rabbi says, and runs into his synagogue's toolshed. He emerges with a hacksaw and takes off an inch of the tailpipe.

Bye Bye Sweet Prince
Your soul now flies
like the voice that carries
skies to rest on treetops
while lolipops dance in Neverland
Bye Bye Sweet Prince
the lightness of your flying feet
made us swirl like dervishes undefeated
in dreams. Say hello for me
when you meet Jesus and Thank Him
for the music in which he floods our souls
like waterfalls of butterflies, no old
growing in this eternity now.
Bye Bye Sweet Prince, a peaceful rest
and a prayer to light a candle in heaven
for all our songs of distress and joy.

That Pesky Priest

For Life Pavone

I keep getting emails from him even when he ticks me off and I hit the "spam" button because of his clearly partisan perspective-not to mention the aggressive fundraising (if you gave half your budget to pregnant women you would see a lot less abortions).
But I do admire his tenacity. I love having a Priest Stalker.

These Priests for Life do one thing I greatly admire and would like to see more of: they
engage in a healing ministry for women who have had abortions and miscarriages. They have a huge conference coming up in Malvern Pennsylvania TOMORROW (an exquisitely beautiful place this time of year.) The Rachael's Vineyard is the part of the healing ministry for people coping with post-abortive issues (depression, trauma, PTSD, guilt, anxiety, suicidal ideation, etc. )
These women in many cases tend to be the greatest witnesses who encourage people to keep their babies and not preliminarily terminate them. They often suffer deeply the anguish of regret.
Check out Fr. Pavone's website and find out about the Malvern conference:
http://www.priestsforlife.org/

Top Ten Reasons Palin Really Stepped Down

These are all just rumors and wild unsubstantiated speculation (and opinion, and sarcasm and a joke and not truth-and she's a public figure and no malice intended here, and just clean fun, so there for your disclaimer- don't sue me-you will lose--and it's free for me to defend and I will counter-sue for wasting my time.)


1. Her husband said she was costing them too much money
2. She was more interested in the sale on Elizabeth Arden than arms sales to Afghanistan
3. She still couldn't stay awake reading one Supreme Court opinion to tell Katie Couric about
4. She figured out no one was going to pay her extra for that Alaska pipeline deal
5. Someone told her that it wasn't a political plus to be "lame duck" traveling around on trade junkets to exciting places internationally because she might be seen as actually learning something about foreign cultures and the base hates foreigner cultures- especially french ones.
6. Her legal debt caused her to cancel her credit card at Nordstroms and she has nothing now to wear.
7. She still doesn't have an answer for Katie Couric's question on "what newspapers do you regularly read" and was advised not to say "Vogue" or "O" again.
8. It's funner to be behind the cameras talking about bubble gum than sitting in Alaska state assembly sessions debating anything of substance- especially when you get free make-up before the show.
9. Her kids want her around more to play Twister with. "Hell yeah!"
10. She can't keep a good parental control eye on all the 14 year old's apologetic emails from Letterman unless she is closer to the house.

Considerate Indiscriminate Acts of Kindness

Now You Try It.

Foy Vance

And the Salvation Army Band

Who is This

KING OF GLORY

Remember Cheney's Energy Task Force?

We Still Aren't Sure Who All Was On It

And as if we needed more proof that the invasion of Iraq was inspired by the Oil Execs, here it is: http://www.truthout.org/070309J?n

And Keith Olberman is right: there was no 9-11 or Al Q. connection to Saddam Hussein
and they tried to make us think there was from the Veep to the Rice thrower. 4,000 US dead and counting. How many hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead and counting.
20,000 severely wounded and/or brain injured US young people and counting.

And in 2004 we might have stopped much of it much sooner had Kerry been elected- so don't tell me about "Life."