Voenix Rising

(Hat tip to Kyle.)

I saw my urologist yesterday.  After looking over the films of my CT scans, he said, “My…that’s a big one!”

He also said I was a good candidate for lithotripsy, but sent me off to get another (regular) x-ray to verify that it was a calcium stone—the type most easily broken up by the non-invasive procedure.

I just spoke to his scheduler who indicated that they were going to try to rearrange some other appointments so I can get in on Monday to get the monster blasted.  In the meantime, Percocet has become my friend.

UPDATE: Monday it is!  Woohoo!

Jesus Christ, November can’t get here soon enough.  I not only want to see McCain defeated, but I want to see his soggy, pasty ass drop-kicked by the electorate so hard he wakes up in the eighteenth century.

Phil Gramm, McSame’s chief economic advisor:

You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.  Growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”

“We have become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy.”

All this from the douchebag who had his slimy fingers entwined in Enron a few years ago.  You remember Enron, right?  The company that went belly-up with its CEO laughing all the way to the bank?

All this from the same douchebag who was serving as a lobbyist for the international banking and subprime mortgage giant UBS until April. As Mother Jones documented, Gramm played a key role in the subprime meltdown during his time in the Senate.  Yeah, just the kind of guy we need setting economic policy.

Just yesterday, McCain himself said “I would imagine that we are” in a recession. But he and Gramm are still on the same page: in April McCain said “a lot of our problems today are psychological.”

I’ll give you psychological, you demented old fuckwit. Right up your goddamn ass.

This morning on the way to work I found myself behind a Cadillac Escalade (They get what, 7 mpg?) that had the Republican Party Elephant Symbol as a trailer hitch cover and a rear window plastered with “McCain ‘08″ bumper stickers.  Yeah, we need 4 more years of this bullshit.  Jeebus.  I mean really, WHO are these people?

Answer:  The same types who, in the 1790s said, “Let them eat cake.”

Yeah, well that worked real well for Marie Antoinette, didn’t it?

Just sayin’…

Boys will be boys…