I Guess They Want To Beat Out Oklahoma

Perhaps, Texas Governor Rick Perry, when he threatened secession last year, meant, only, intellectually.



Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State Education Curriculum

The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum's world history standards on Enlightenment thinking, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.”

[snip]

We’re just picking ourselves up off the floor. The board’s far-right faction has spent months now proclaiming the importance of emphasizing America’s exceptionalism in social studies classrooms. But today they voted to remove one of the greatest of America’s Founders, Thomas Jefferson, from a standard about the influence of great political philosophers on political revolutions from 1750 to today.

Matt Duss, over on Think Progress, shows how this dovetails with the NeoNitWit philosophy, and notes, with Texas being the second largest market for school textbooks , "It seems like a really bad idea to let the market determine the history we teach our children."



But wait, there's more!

Looks like they'll be buying white paint, by the tanker-load;

Efforts by Hispanic board members to include more Latino figures as role models for the state’s large Hispanic population were consistently defeated, prompting one member, Mary Helen Berlanga, to storm out of a meeting late Thursday night, saying, “They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist.”

“They are going overboard, they are not experts, they are not historians,” she said. “They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world.”

And, let's not leave the Good Lord out of this;

12:28 – Board member Mavis Knight offers the following amendment: “examine the reasons the Founding Fathers protected religious freedom in America by barring government from promoting or disfavoring any particular religion over all others.” Knight points out that students should understand that the Founders believed religious freedom was so important that they insisted on separation of church and state.

12:32 – Board member Cynthia Dunbar argues that the Founders didn’t intend for separation of church and state in America. And she’s off on a long lecture about why the Founders intended to promote religion. She calls this amendment “not historically accurate.”

12:35 – Knight’s amendment fails on a straight party-line vote, 5-10. Republicans vote no, Democrats vote yes.

12:38 – Let the word go out here: The Texas State Board of Education today refused to require that students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others. They voted to lie to students by omission.

Holy Phony Longhorns, Batman!

Last year, when we wrote about Oklahoma, thanks to 75% of their high school students not being able to name the first U.S. President, was bucking to be the location for the Idiocracy sequel, we now see that Texas was planning to give them a run for it.

Tough call, could be a toss up, or maybe, Texas gets saved for the Prequel, on how the state actually sanctioned teaching their children to be dumber than doorknobs.

Just another chapter for the Right Wing Freak show, in their Sisyphus role of pushing that stone back up the hill, trying to make up their own facts.

This Date ... On The Garlic

14 March 2009... On The Garlic

Chew'em If You Got'em!


14 March 2008... On The Garlic

Obama's Turn ... On My Faith and My Church

Get Ready For The SuperSizeMe Fearmongering ... House Passes - Without Immunity - New FISA Bill

Top Ten Cloves: Things Overheard In House Secret Session Last Evening

Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Bailout Curtain!


14 March 2007... On The Garlic

Alberto Gonzales Sings 'Justice For Sale'


14 March 2006... On The Garlic

Libby’s Lawyers Mull Using Moussaoui Trial Strategy

Top Ten Cloves: Why Democratic Leadership Isn’t Backing Feingold’s Censure of President Bush


14 March 2005... On The Garlic

Disney Picks Iger but Eisner Says He Won't Go; Digging In For Fight

Rose Cashes In On Steroid Scandel

Youths Nabbed In Corporate Icon Hit; MSN Butterfly, Geiko Tortured; Had Long List of Targets

Top Ten Cloves: Excuses Baseball Will Use To Avoid Testifying To Congress

Our Condolences, To The Olbermann Family

Tough weekend, in the Death Business.

We just discovered that Theodore Olbermann, father of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, passed away today, after an extended illness, following what had been successful colon surgery.

My father died, in the city of his birth, New York, at 3:50 EST this afternoon

He was my inspiration, and will always remain so. His bravery these last six months cannot be measured. He is as much my hero now, as he was when I was five years old.

Early in The Garlic's history, we often featured Olbermann's rants, his "Special Comments", unique at that time, as he sought to bring to the attention of the American Public the lies, crimes and misdemeanors, of the Court Appointed President.

More recently, he used his pulpit, to shake his fist at the spineless Congress, and the Right Wing Freak Show, using his father's situation, to highlight the need for comprehensive healthcare reform;

Drew Grant: Keith Olbermann Discusses Father, “Life Panels”

Ron Chusid: An American Cry For Help

Our condolences, to the Olbermann Family

This Date ... On The Garlic

13 March 2009... On The Garlic

It's All Junkies and Guns, Says Peggy Noonan


13 March 2008... On The Garlic

Editor's Note: Rough Day, Dog Tired, No Posting ...


13 March 2007... On The Garlic

Cosby Out At MSNBC But Still In Running For World Wonder Title; Smith Funeral Coverage Pushes Former Raspy-Voiced Anchor Ahead of Great Wall of China, But Trailing Pyramids of Giza

The Laura Bush Bummer Bombing-of-the Day; Warning - Bypass this post if you don't want to be discouraged


13 March 2006... On The Garlic

When Pressed, Matthews Admits Miffed Not Cast in Clooney Film

Top Ten Cloves: Signs That March Madness Is Taking Root In The White House

Another Piece of Childhood Gone ...RIP Merlin Olsen

When I heard the news of his death late last evening, I immediately thought about the three, or four, generations that would only know of Merlin Olsen from his role on "Little House on the Prairie".



Or, maybe. those incongruous FTD commercials.

Those of us slightly older, have a whole different recollection.

Merlin Olsen; Fearsome Foursome anchor became TV actor and NBC commentator

Merlin Olsen, the Hall of Fame tackle who anchored the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome, the line that glamorized defensive play in the NFL, died early yesterday at a hospital in Duarte, Calif. He was 69.

His brother Orrin announced his death, saying Mr. Olsen had been treated for mesothelioma, a form of cancer.

Mr. Olsen was also a longtime color commentator for NBC’s pro football and Rose Bowl telecasts, working with Dick Enberg, and he acted on television, most prominently as the very large and bearded Jonathan Garvey in NBC’s “Little House on the Prairie’’ and in his own series, “Father Murphy.’’

The Rams of the mid-1960s were renowned for defensive linemen who earned a collective nickname a decade before the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Steel Curtain.

[snip]

Mr. Olsen believed that the Fearsome Foursome could have excelled in any era.

“What made the Foursome unique, I think, is that we could have fit in extremely comfortably in the modern game,’’ he told The Orange County Register in 1997. He estimated that the line’s average weight was 275 pounds and said that “there was not a weight lifter in the group.’’

“Imagine how big we’d be today,’’ he added.

“We could all run,’’ Mr. Olsen said. “The other thing we had going for us was a rare chemistry. There was also a very special kind of unselfishness.’’

As a youth in the 1960's, despite growing up in Boston, the lowly AFL, and woeful Boston Patriots, were not on our radar.

We were NFL, baby, all the way.

And, after a brief flirt, with the mid-60's Dallas Cowboys (chiefly due to Chuck Howley, Bob Lily and, at the time, the world's fastest human, Bob Hayes), the Los Angeles Rams became our favorite team, and specifically due to the legendary "Fearsome Foursome" that Merlin Olsen helped anchor.



Olsen, Deacon Jones, Rosey Grier (who would, in 1968, be on the tragic scene, as one of Bobby Kennedy's bodyguards) and Lamar Lundy, there wasn't a better front defensive four in the game, and along with movie-star-looks QB Roman Gabriel, RB Dick Bass, and receivers like Bernie Casey (another LA Ram who would go on to a film and television career), and Jack Snow, the Rams of the late 1960's and very early 1970's were poised to go all the way.

But the brass ring, the newly-created Super Bowl, eluded the LA Rams, thwarted by a new rival out of the frozen tundra, the Minnesota Vikings, and their soon-to-be-legendary front four, the Purple People Eaters (though, the Vikings would go on to lose four Super Bowls).

Whether you remember Olsen as "Jonathan Garvey", or one of the Fearsome Foursome that terrified NFL quarterbacks, it's a sad day, another piece from the childhood memory block chipped away.

This Date ... On The Garlic

12 March 2009... On The Garlic

Come With Me


12 March 2008... On The Garlic

Minced Garlic - Keith Olbermann Special Comment ... Smackdown!

Well, At Least We Should Get Some New Lies ... When He Launches Against Iran

Top Ten Cloves: Things Hillary Clinton and Howard Wolfson Think Barack Obama Can Do To Pass National Security Threshold

If Congress Does Take Up Impeachment, Here's A Piece of Evidence


12 March 2007... On The Garlic

Top Ten Cloves: Things The French Are Worried About With New 'Desert Louvre" in Dubai

Hit The Road Dick, And Don't You Come Back, No More, No More, No More, No More ... The Results - The Garlic's Weekly Poll


12 March 2006... On The Garlic

Update - Now 32-Hours Left To Vote For The Garlic; Help Lift The Garlic Into The 2005 Koufax Award Finals!

Quote of the Day!

When Vice President Joe Biden returns home, from his humiliating visit to Israel, the White House chef should cook him up a big ol' ham steak, to go with the egg on his face.

Juan Cole has the Quote of the Day, in his "Abbas Reported to have Withdrawn from Israeli-Palestinian talks; Obama Mideast Policy Sabotaged by Netanyahu";

Since 1949, the US has given Israel over $100 billion in direct aid, and the indirect forms of aid are orders of magnitude greater. That the vice president of the United States (and therefore the president himself) were ambushed by the prime minister in this arrogant and nearly sadistic manner raises the severest questions about why US taxpayer money should flow in such enormous amounts to a country that is actively and on a massive scale violating the Hague Agreement of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on the treatment of populations by occupiers. And this at a time when the US budget deficit is ballooning and there is not enough government money to take care of the needs of US citizens. The argument that Israel is a security asset for the United States is undermined if the Israelis are provoking enmity toward the United States among 1.5 billion Muslims by their inexorable annexation of Palestinian land and daily oppression of the Palestinian people.

[snip]

Obama is in real danger of seeing his allies lose respect for the United States once they see that Israel can treat him in this humiliating way with impunity. The security implications for the US are enormous. Many European allies feel strongly that Israel is an aggressor state in the region, and when Obama asks them for help in the fight against al-Qaeda, they may feel that Washington's coddling of Israeli colonialism produced much of the radicalism that they are now asked to spend blood and treasure combating. Moreover, many leaders may be emboldened to treat Obama and Biden just as Netanyahu did, if the latter faces no consequences for his impudence.

To embellish this circus, maybe they can make Eric Massa the new Ambassador to Israel.

This Date ... On The Garlic

11 March 2009... On The Garlic

Tweety vs. Ari - It's A Saddam Hussein ... Saddam Hussein ... Saddam Hussein Kind of World!

Blame?

Mike Allen Forgets To Add Himself To The List


11 March 2008... On The Garlic

When Former Attorney Generals Soar

Larisa Alexandrovna: Alabama Democrats are Under Attack

He-Man Heaved!

More On Client No. 9 ... Brought To You By "On Cue"


11 March 2006... On The Garlic

Weekend Special - Sautéed Cloves


11 March 2005... On The Garlic

Groundhog Lied; Investigation Launched

Jackson Family In Deal To Launch New Wine

Top Ten Cloves: Why You Don't Want To Become A Fat Actress

An Eric Massa Cloud

Tickle Fights?... Favorite Song - In The Navy? ... "The sexual tension between Glenn Beck and Eric Massa is palpable"...Crossing The Line - Shellbacks and Pollywags ... Favorite TV Show - Bachelor Father? ... Groping Male Staffers... Cancer ... "You need any help with that, let me know" ...The Democratic Leadership Made Me Do It... Snorkling ... Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?...

Oh, we could go on-and-on, piling on this riveting, public meltdown.

So, rather, we will turn it over to another - Barry Crimmins.

Crimmins' "Ticklish Times in NY-29" is hysterical, a complete rundown, but I can't say "soup-to-nuts" with this story, without breaking out in a huge grin;

That was Saturday night. On Sunday he went on his radio show and tried to explain himself. It got mighty weird. He told of how when men sleep in the same bed together they should sleep one man under a sheet, the other over it. This method helps avoid any accidental sexual contact. How about flipping a coin and the loser gets the floor, Eric? The Three Stooges were the last guys I can think of who could sleep in the same bed free of sexual overtones.

Then he told of how he ended up at a table with all 15 of the "bachelors" on his congressional staff at the end of a drunken wedding party. Massa, by the way, uses the word "bachelor" more often than a 50's movie about marriage-averse single men. Before long and due to his own loopy disclosures, it became obvious that he seeks the company of bachelors more often than say, Clifton Webb.

There's a lot more ...

Go read "Ticklish Times in NY-29"

This Date ... On The Garlic

10 March 2009... On The Garlic

The Loon Star State


10 March 2008... On The Garlic

Retro Garlic: Color Me Client 9, From Out of Office

"Can we have our $40,000 back?"


10 March 2006... On The Garlic

Breaking News! Beta-Mode Settlement By Google Draws Disappointment

Top Ten Cloves: Other Things That NASA's Cassini May Find On Saturn's Moon Enceladus


10 March 2005... On The Garlic

Bush Team Prepares Call For New Axis of Evil Member

Apple Takes Blog Ruling As New Club On Criticism and Dissent

Top Ten Cloves: Signs That Congress Is On Steroids

Breaking News: Costa Rican Legislature Convenes Emergency Session To Ban Limbaugh

Country United In Not Wanting Right Wing Hatemonger; OAS Sends Out Advisory Calling for Similar Action

Even though it may not occur for five-years, Costa Rica is not taking any chances, its' legislature convening in an emergency session today, voting unanimously to ban controversial radio clown Rush Limbaugh from entering the country, or, otherwise establishing "any type of domestic residency," as he has stated he may do.



President Óscar Arias quickly signaled his endorsement of the vote, citing "the protection of our citizens from this drug-addict hatemonger is our utmost concern."

The country's Judiciary branch, the Supreme Court, in an unusual, and non-scheduled session, also voted unanimously, that the bill passed by the legislature is valid, and completely legal and, in strongly worded language, stated it would "not entertain any challenges" to the ruling.

Limbaugh, on his radio program yesterday, continuing to bash the pending healthcare reform package in Congress, vowed, if the bill passes, he will leave the country.

Think Progress has the details;

CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what would happen to the doctors, do they have to participate in the federal program, or could they opt out of it? [...]

LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t know if that’s been outlawed in the Senate bill. I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica/

In a developing related matter, the Organization of American States (OAS) issued an rare advisory to its' member nations, urging them to adopt, and pass, similar legislation as Costa Rica.

In the advisory, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza stated it should be "our goal to keep this racist, cheeseburger-that-sweats, wind bag out of our hemisphere."

In a flash survey conducted by The Garlic, over 89% of Limbaugh's Dittoheads contacted believed that "Costa Rica" was a "new, discount department store for Illegal Aliens" and over 65% wanted to know of the closest one in their area.


Bonus Limbaugh Riffs

NFL Singing Rush's Tune?

Jesus, It Sounded Like A Violation of the Rico Act!

Top Ten Cloves: Things Overhead While The Nobel Peace Prize Committee Reviewed Rush Limbaugh's Nomination

This Date ... On The Garlic

9 March 2009... On The Garlic

Say What, There, David Frum?

Start Cutting The Squares For The Office Pool On Geithner Exit?

AEI/Bloomberg/McCain Hack Plays A Little Solitaire

Beyond Repugnant


9 March 2008... On The Garlic

Retro Garlic - What Waters?

Ain't That The Cat's Ass ... Hillary Hits Snooze Alarm On 3AM Ad

The "Admit It, It Crossed Your Mind" Department

The Ignornant Congressman from Iowa

Editor's Note ... Slow Boat To Posting II ... Stuck In Dry Dock


9 March 2007... On The Garlic

Bush To Shift Gears, Use Radio Address To Urge Private Daylight Savings Accounts; No Details Offered; Snow Says "Not A Little Comma In Your Portfolio", While Rove Driving To Build Domestic Legacy

Top Ten Cloves: Ways Scooter Libby May Get A Pardon

The Laura Bush Bummer Bombing-of-the Day; Warning - Bypass this post if you don't want to be discouraged.


9 March 2006... On The Garlic

Faith-Based Offices To Be Part of Bush Private Government

Top Ten Cloves: What Rick Santorum Meant To Say About Not Meeting With Lobbyists


9 March 2005... On The Garlic

Red Sox Sue Colorado Town Over Frozen Body Rights

Boeing Exec Tried To Start Runway Club

Study Shows Clams Not Happy At All

Top Ten Cloves: Dan Rather's Final Anchor Broadcast

This Date ... On The Garlic

8 March 2009... On The Garlic

Breaking! ... Buffet Broke, Sends Chain Letter For Cash


8 March 2007... On The Garlic

Breaking News - White House Bombshell: "VP Could Be In His Last Throes"; Libby Verdict Has Bush, White House Urging Cheney Into Rehab; Sources Claim "Can't Be Trusted He Won't Break"; Iraq Comments "Last Straw" and "Were Not An Enormous Success"


8 March 2006... On The Garlic

South Dakota Not Waiting, Bans All Home Runs

Top Ten Cloves: How Bush’s Domestic Wiretapping Will Be Monitored By Senate


8 March 2005... On The Garlic

Despite Hype, Martha's First Day 'Pretty Average'

Hawk and Weapons Expert Get's Bush Nod for U.N. Post

Top Ten Cloves: How Howard Stringer Will Revive Sony

This Date ... On The Garlic

7 March 2008... On The Garlic

Top Ten Cloves: If Hillary Clinton Is A Monster, The Movies That Would Be Made About Her


7 March 2006... On The Garlic

Vote For The Garlic!


7 March 2005... On The Garlic

Rumsfeld Defends Shooting Italians

Syrian Pullout Hinges on Moving Van Backlog

Top Ten Cloves: Signs The Government Is Screwing with Your Private Retirement Account

You Won't See Me Cry

It's another day off, Garlic Fans, least we go in the opposite direction, and unleash a full-scale, red-faced rant against the smegma that is Liz Cheney.

We already took one shower today.

And, since we alluded to, last evening, the group B-Tribe (or The Barcelona Tribe of Soulsters), we'll turn things over to them for the night (and highly recommend that you explore their music- kick-ass stuff)

Enjoy!

B-Tribe - You won't see me cry

This Date ... On The Garlic

6 March 2009... On The Garlic

Black Coffee


6 March 2008... On The Garlic

Top Ten Cloves: Reasons John McCain Was Late Yesterday, To Receive His Endorsement From President Bush


6 March 2007... On The Garlic

The Laura Bush Bummer Bombing-of-the Day

Top Ten Cloves: Things Ann Coulter Would Spend "Coulter Cash" On


6 March 2006... On The Garlic

More Bush Troubles As Rice Backtracks, Corrects Comments, Blames Lincoln Group

The Garlic Nabs 4th Nomination; Koufax Voting Now Open

Top Ten Cloves: Things Overheard At The Oscars Last Night

Tamally Ma'ak (Always With You)

Sorry Garlic Fans, it was another wall-to-wall day, so no posting tonight.

I had, initially, thought of putting up some B-Tribe (also known as The Barcelona Tribe of Soulsters), when I stumbled on "Wonderful Arabic Chill Out Music" and, bust my buttons, it certainly was just that.

The tune, Tamally Ma'ak (Always With You) is from Amr Diab, which Wikipedia says is "known as the Father of Mediterranean Music. He has created his own style which is often termed "Mediterranean Music" or "Mediterranean Sound", a blend of Western and Arabic rhythms."

Enjoy!

Wonderful Arabic Chill Out Music

This Date ... On The Garlic

5 March 2009... On The Garlic

"You Know, So Many People In The Hospital Here, You Know, Are Sick, Anyway ..."

Something Truly Depressing


5 March 2008... On The Garlic

Best of Day! ... Dennis Perrin

WaPo Consults Ministry of Silly Walks, Backtracks From Obama Conspiracy

Marc Andreessen: An hour and a half with Barack Obama


5 March 2007... On The Garlic

New Feature - The Laura Bush Bummer Bombing-of-the Day; Warning - Bypass this post if you don't want to be discouraged

Don't Worry Tim, The Vice President Still Loves Ya! ... The Results - The Garlic's Weekly Poll


5 March 2006... On The Garlic

Weekend Special - Sautéed Cloves

My Boy Lollipop

"You'll get up to 2,000 euros ... Do not touch his balls. You need the money. Put on some music, take out the [inaudible], swallow the Viagra, and adelante!"

Oh no, those boys at the Vatican are at it, again ...

Vatican hit by gay sex scandal ...Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting

The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict's household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting.

Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, was caught by police on a wiretap allegedly negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Vatican chorister, over the specific physical details of men he wanted brought to him. Transcripts in the possession of the Guardian suggest that numerous men may have been procured for Balducci, at least one of whom was studying for the priesthood

We can look up the measurements, the square-miles Vatican City sits in, so, it's really well past time that they come out of the, undoubtedly, largest closet on the face of the earth.

I mean, they ship the the big wigs out of the United States, when the scandal of having sex with boys got too hot, and, what's waiting for them when the get there - a choir of dream boys, and people to procure them (no more of that messy business of running a parish).

They give them a veritable menu.

The Gay News Watch wasn't as demure as the Guardian, as our lead quote showed, on putting out the details;

The scandal now envelops Balducci, a well-known and powerful local figure who is married with two children, who despite all this is said to have taken remarkable risks in setting up sexual liaisons even in Chigi Palace, home of the Italian prime minister, or immediately after a private audience with a cardinal.

In 72 pages of transcribed wiretaps, Ehiem tells Balducci about one possible candidate: "Angelo ... I'll say no more. Two meters (6-foot-7), 97 kilos (250 lbs.), 33 years-old and completely active (top)."

In later calls, Ehiem offered fewer details: "I have a situation in Naples."

"I have a Cuban situation."

"I have a German who just arrived from Germany."

"I have two black guys."

"I have the soccer player."

"I have the dancer from RAI," the Italian TV network.

Some of the young men were seminarians or attended ecclesiastical colleges in Rome. On one occasion, Balducci is heard saying, "He, when does he have to return to the seminary?"

Well, Angelo Balducci, c'mon down, this song is for you!

Take it away, Millie Smalls!

Millie - My boy lollipop 1973




Bonus Vatican Riffs

Top Ten Cloves: Things The Vatican Has Done To Make Good Friday Even Better

Know Thy Pope

Beyond Repugnant

Top Ten Cloves: Possible Problems With Suing God

Vatican Discounts "Bonfire Pope"; Says Flames "Not Hunched Over Enough" ...Late Pontiff's Bend Was Measured "Religiously"; Never Used Contingency "Roller Skate Gloves"

This Date ... On The Garlic

4 March 2009... On The Garlic

Compared To What


4 March 2008... On The Garlic

She Comes With A Tinfoil Hat, But That's Not So Bad, Is It Mitt? ... The Results - The Garlic's Weekly Poll

Editor's Note: Slow Boat To Posting ...


4 March 2005... On The Garlic

Millionaire Flyer Charged With Security Violations

Charity Raises $650G For New Monkey Name

Top Ten Cloves: Things Bill Gates Will Do With His Knighthood

Milonga Del Ángel

Sorry, Garlic Fans, we be workin' it today, and a wee bit too tired to fire up the creative juices, so, rather than force anything, and it being a overcast, gloomy day (some snow a'comin'), we'll give it up to the legendary bandoneonist (not an accordion!), Astor Piazzolla, and his New Tango Sextet, on a monster riff (you really owe it to yourselves to give a listen);

Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992) "Milonga Del Ángel"

This Date ... On The Garlic

3 March 2009... On The Garlic

Steele Singing "To Rush With Love"


3 March 2008... On The Garlic

The New Hillary Soundtrack


3 March 2007... On The Garlic

Chopped Garlic: Yeah, What Coulter Said Was Horrible, But Did She Write It?


3 March 2005... On The Garlic

Volkswagen Halts Call For Drivers

Third of Americans Unaware of New Month

Stunning Gaffe By Queen Has England in Uproar

Top Ten Cloves: Other Things WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers Didn't Know

Hmmm ... Radio Quiz Show? ... Movie? ...

Somebody needs to hip the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas, Bill Bunten, that Google has neither, a radio quiz show, nor a movie named after it;

We’re Not In Kansas Anymore. Well, We Are — Google, Kansas

Last month, Google announced plans to sell 1 gigabit-per-second fiber optic broadband to consumers. The plan called for it to be rolled out to no fewer than 50,000 homes in the initial test, and maybe as many as 500,000, but didn’t specify where it would be rolled-out. Topeka, Kansas wants in. Bad.

The city’s mayor today signed a proclamation that for the rest of the month, Topeka will be known as “Google, Kansas.” Yes, you’re reading that correctly — Topeka is now “Google.”

And, maybe, show him an atlas, or map, of New Mexico.

Something the good folks of the formerly-named Hot Springs, New Mexico, some 60-years ago, could talk to him about;

Originally named Hot Springs, the city changed its name to Truth or Consequences, the title of a popular NBC radio program. In 1950, Ralph Edwards, the host of the radio quiz show Truth or Consequences announced that he would air the program from the first town that renamed itself after the show. Hot Springs, NM won the honor. Ralph Edwards came to the town during the first weekend of May for the next fifty years. This event was called "Fiesta" and included a beauty contest, a parade, and a stage show. The city still celebrates Fiesta each year on the first weekend of May. The parade generally features area celebrities such as the Hatch Chile Queen. Fiesta also features a dance in Ralph Edwards Park.

And, they got a movie named after them, as well.

Hmmm ...

Well, this ought to help out Google's fledgling Buzz, at least in the Kansas area.

Okay, the Mayor, at least, he's lobbying for something, that super-giga-byte service.

I wonder if Larry and Serge will visit "Google, Kansas", the first week of March, for the next 50-years?

Maybe dance, with the "Google Chile Queen", in Google Park?

But wait, there's more!

This isn't Topeka's first alias;

Humorously, this isn’t the first time Topeka has tried something like this. Apparently, in August 1998, the city has a proclamation to change its name to “ToPikachu” — yes, after the Pokemon character. So this move seems roughly 100 times more sane than that one.

The people of Google, Kansas better start hitting that "I'm Feeling Lucky" bar, for the occupant of the Mayor's office not to be a raving huckster.

Who knows, if she wins the Dancing With The Stars thing, Topeka might wake up, finding itself being called "Kate-Plus-Eight", Kansas.

This Date ... On The Garlic

2 March 2008... On The Garlic

What Else Could It Be? ... WaPo Launches Plan, Push To Elect Hillary!

SNL - We Had To Endure Hillary, But Then Came The Obama Files


2 March 2007... On The Garlic

Top Ten Cloves: Reasons Rick Santorum Is Joining Fox News


2 March 2006... On The Garlic

Top Ten Cloves: Ways White House Will Try To Do Damage Control On Hurricane Video


2 March 2005... On The Garlic

Fiorina, Wolfowitz Head List For World Bank

Day Three of Swank Thank You's; No End In Sight

Nadar In Early Lobby To Take Pope's Seat

Top Ten Cloves: Reasons CBS Colleagues Don't Watch Dan Rather

Top Ten Cloves: Things That Can Happen When Earth Gets Knocked Off Its' Axis

News Item: Chilean quake shifted Earth's axis: NASA scientist

10. Warren Buffett sneaks out his annual report, glossing over his boners

9. Disgraced, election-losing, Jack Abramoff-toadie Ralph Reed starts thinking about running for Congress

8. New York Times fawns over Teabagger

7. Harold Ford bails out of running for Senate (and someone thinks Larry "Kuddles" Kudlow should run)

6. PlayStation 3 goes screwy

5. Rightwing Freakshower Ann Althouse gives President Obama beer-drinking advice

4. Jim Bunning hides in "Senator's Only" elevators, and gives people the middle finger

3. People start putting up "Miss Me Yet" billboards, to honor The Commander Guy

2. A certain new Senator longs to wear his retro pink leather shorts

1. Canada breaks out the Inflatable Beavers

This Date ... On The Garlic

1 March 2009... On The Garlic

La Nevada


1 March 2008... On The Garlic

The Friday Night Bag Job


1 March 2007... On The Garlic

This Just In! White House Applying Katrina Strategy To Med Center Neglect; To Gauge Neglect, Problems, President Set To Fly Over Walter Reed, Bldg. 18 Today; Bush Promising Action, "To Press Face Against Window"; Recommends DOD Follow Katrina Strategy


1 March 2006... On The Garlic

The Garlic Receives Three Nominations For 2005 Koufax Awards


1 March 2005... On The Garlic

American Idol, Clear Channel To Go With All-Beyonce Format

Hershey Splitting Company, Changing Name, New Tag

Top Ten Cloves: Other Things Month of March Could Roar In Like

This Date ... On The Garlic

28 February 2009... On The Garlic

Sweet And Dandy

Good Post Alert: Must Read Al Giordano's "The New and Improved "Us vs. Them" Narrative"


28 February 2008... On The Garlic

Last Nights' Dress Boy Sticks His Neck Out

Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones ...


28 February 2007... On The Garlic

Top Ten Cloves: Surprising Things Found In Newly Discovered Jesus Burial Cave


28 February 2006... On The Garlic

Bush To "Kick Back" For 45-Days; Bush To Tackle First Lady's "To-Do" List During Port Review

Top Law Schools Launch Admissions War

Top Ten Cloves: Last Minute Things President Bush Did Before Leaving For India


28 February 2005... On The Garlic

Bush Launches No Pharmaceutical Company Left Behind; Hundreds To Be Laid Off In FDA Reorg

Sirius To Broadcast NASCAR, Other Major Visual Events

New Ken Burns Follow-Up To Baseball; Spotlight On Steroids

Top Ten Cloves: People Who Wish This Year Was A Leap Year

This Date ... On The Garlic

27 February 2009... On The Garlic

M'm! M'm! Good!

Look! ... Up In The Sky! .. It's A Bird! ... It's A Plane! ...It's A $400K Comic Book!


27 February 2008... On The Garlic

The Day After ... Around The Debate-Go-Round


27 February 2007... On The Garlic

Breaking News! Cheney Bound By Terror Policy, Told To Not Come Home!; After Bomb Attempt, White House Tells Cheney To "Stay Away"; Belief "They Will Follow The Vice President Home"; Cheney To Get New Secret Bunker "Somewhere In Iraq"


27 February 2006... On The Garlic

The New Strategy For Winning Olympic Medals; Bush Says Would Be Mistake To Pull Out Olympic Team

Top Ten Cloves: Reasons Dubai Ports World Asked For 45-Day Delay In Taking Over U.S. Ports