Gay Governor Resigns
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Well, I guess the big news, aside from the on-going slaughter in Iraq, is the public resignation of Democratic governor James McGreevey (Moo Jersey).

Apparently McGreevey decided to come out about his sexual orientation becasue of an on-going probe involving him and his lover, and the graft McGreevey used to pay(pay-off??) him:

(Aug. 13) - It was an extraordinary spectacle, one that bosses with a sense of history ordered their young assistants to watch on the television set in the office, one that caused a stunned, lingering silence in hospital waiting rooms and diners and malls. A sitting governor, accompanied by his wife and parents, held a news conference in which he disclosed in a quick sequence that he was gay, had had an extramarital affair with another man and was resigning.

But for all that was remarkable about Gov. James E. McGreevey's personal public confession, there was a more familiar element behind his demise, one he left unsaid: the man who his aides said had had an affair with him had been on the state payroll. That suggestion of patronage sounded somehow almost run-of-the-mill in the tawdry universe of New Jersey politics.

In early 2002, when he was facing criticism for appointing an unknown Israeli citizen named Golan Cipel as his special assistant on homeland security without so much as a routine background check, Gov. James E. McGreevey was asked by a reporter about rumors that he and the man were involved in a sexual relationship.

Mr. McGreevey responded, "Don't be ridiculous!"

But yesterday, in a short announcement in which he said he would resign the governorship, he acknowledged that he was gay and had had an affair with a man. The man, his aides acknowledged, was Mr. Cipel, 35, who, they added, had threatened a sexual harassment suit naming the governor.

The details of their relationship and a clearer picture of Mr. Cipel, a published poet and former naval officer, will emerge in the days ahead. But he occupied a significant position in New Jersey's effort against terrorism with questionable credentials for nearly three months and played a curious role in the McGreevey administration that provoked rumors about their relationship.

Throughout his eight months in the administration, Mr. Cipel remained publicly silent, avoiding the news media and never being asked by the governor to answer its questions.

A sad, sleazy turn of events - let's hope the poeple of Moo Jersey can put this aside & mooove on with the affairs of state. While the MooCow acknowledges the supreme difficulties in being an openly gay politician in this sexually-repressed country, the fact is this affair also smacks of cronie-ism and pay-offs, and so feels that this governor's resignation is very appropriate.

On the bad side of the news comes the story that julia Child has passed away, just 3 days before her 92nd brithday:

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A culinary-world giant for two decades, Julia Child brought French cuisine to American kitchens and cooking to the airwaves, becoming such a cultural icon that her kitchen was ultimately donated for display among the nation's cultural treasures in Washington.

The beloved author of a dozen cookbooks and star of numerous televised cooking shows died Thursday at the age of 91 at her home near Santa Barbara, California, according to a spokesman for her publisher, Alfred A Knopf.
Top chefs and even the US president praised her Friday for her role in elevating Americans' culinary sense of adventure, for her dedication to teaching the culinary arts, and her personal warmth and lack of pretension.

Julia was a woman of class, dignity, and good food! She had moore class in her toe nail clippings than in all of Martha Stewart's venomous heart. An-udder giant falls be the wayside...

DOH - it's now the 21st - stupid cowputer ate my Blogspot info, cudn't get on, and now I am away from my cowputer down here in St. Mary's County, MD, with all the cows and the Navy jets - looks like I'll be here for a couple of weeks, soooo...there may not be a whole lotta bloggin' going on for a bit. But I had to come back and finish up this blog.

Cya when I cya!

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Eustace 
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Stupid Dog!
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Oh no...

Lionel Wilson, best known as the voice of "Tom Terrific" recently passed away at the age of 79. He died of pneumonia in New York on April 30th 2003. More recently, he was the voice of Eustace Bagg on "Courage the Cowardly Dog."


Well that just sucks - especially that I'm just now hearing about it! Courage will never be the same show now. Wilson also did the voices of some of the "The Mighty Heroes", as well as a host of udder cartoons. The world will miss his great voices.

"Murial! Where's my dinner!?!"

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Buffy & Spike 
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Bible Thumpers VS Buffy???
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Awlright, damn it! The MooCow's dander is really up this time!!! (ummm...what the heck is dander, anycow?)

Bad enough I have to suffer the presence of these holier-than-thou, mindless Born-Agains with their infantile, purile, pathetic Christian beliefs (seriously, loose the superstitions guys...), but now their're going after BUFFY!?!?!?! The gloves are cowming off this MooCow's hooves!

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Check it out:

Buffy Cleared By FCC
The Federal Communications Commission rejected an indecency complaint lodged against UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer by a conservative watchdog group, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The complaint filed by the Parents Television Council against an episode of Buffy was dismissed in a 5-0 vote because the commission found the show didn't violate its indecency regulations, the trade paper reported. The PTC, run by L. Brent Bozell, complained to the commission about theApril 22, 2003, episode of Buffy, in which the characters Spike andBuffy fight before having sex, according to the order.
"The commissionnoted that there was no nudity and there was no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon or was used to pander, titillate or shock the audience," the commission said in a release.

Well this cow is madder than Martha Stewart at a K-Mart clearance sale.

MAD COW!!! :=8O

Buffy indecent??!!?? Has the world gone mad!?!
Be very ashamed, L. Brent Bozell, the brainless Bozo behind the very uptight and juvenile PTC. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer is one of the very very few watchable, interesting, creative, original shows out there in that putrescent zombified wasteland we call cowmercial television. Well, WAS one, anyways. Everything was fine until our little Buffy decided she simply HAD to make an-udder crappy Scooby Doo moovie, 'cause one big stinky cow pie just wasn't enough. :=8P

But that's the subject of an-udder rant. Point is Buffy was quality programing, and if yer little pea-brained, bed-wetting, self-important tribe of Christ-toadies don't like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, then they can just crawl off their fat asses in their double-wide trailer homes and click off the tv (assuming they know how), and allow the rest of us adults the benefit of a free society. Oh, but cow about the children??? This cow has said it before, and he'll say it again: fuck the children! My life does not revolve around children, and even if it did I would have NO problem whatsoever exposing them to the brilliance of the Buff.

So what if the characters fight before dancing the dirty cow samba? Gee, its not like Christianity doesn't promote warped, mindless automotons who practice racism, sexism, fascism, and conformity. So Spike and Buffy had a tiff - life's rough, get a fucking helmet and grow up!

Stick it up yer ass, God-freaks, and leave my Buffy alone!

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Dubya and his REAL top advisor... :=8/ 
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New Bush-ism...as if there weren't enough
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Looks like our stupidest President ever is at it again - Freudian slip, anyone?? :=8/

WASHINGTON - President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of "Bushisms" on Thursday, declaring that his administration will "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people."
Bush misspoke as he delivered a speech at the signing ceremony for a $417 billion defense spending bill.
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
No one in Bush's audience of military brass or Pentagon chiefs reacted.

(sigh) yep...yep yep yep... :=8/

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Hmmm, maybe they know something we don't... :=8/ 
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McCain Condemns Anti-Kerry Ad
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So, it has finally come to pass that a Republican has helped defend a Democrat from a political attack in an election year - better check the the trees, folks, 'cause this might be the year pigs fly...
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 5) - Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service ''dishonest and dishonorable'' and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.
The White House declined.
''It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me,'' McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press, comparing the anti-Kerry ad to tactics in his bitter Republican primary fight with President Bush.
The 60-second ad features Vietnam veterans who accuse the Democratic presidential nominee of lying about his decorated Vietnam War record and betraying his fellow veterans by later opposing the conflict.
''When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry,'' one of the veterans, Larry Thurlow, says in the ad. Thurlow didn't serve on Kerry's swiftboat, but says he witnessed the events that led to Kerry winning a Bronze Star and the last of his three Purple Hearts. Kerry's crewmates support the candidate and call him a hero.
The ad, scheduled to air in a few markets in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin, was produced by Stevens, Reed, Curcio and Potham, the same team that produced McCain's ads in 2000.
''I wish they hadn't done it,'' McCain said of his former advisers. ''I don't know if they knew all the facts.''
Asked if the White House knew about the ad or helped find financing for it, McCain said, ''I hope not, but I don't know. But I think the Bush campaign should specifically condemn the ad.''
McCain, chairman of Bush's campaign in Arizona, later said the Bush campaign has denied any involvement and added, ''I can't believe the president would pull such a cheap stunt.''
White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined to condemn the ad.
''The president thought he got rid of this unregulated soft money when he signed the bipartisan campaign finance reform into law,'' McClellan said. A chief sponsor of that bill, which Bush initially opposed, was McCain.
McCain said that's all in the past to him, but he's speaking out against the anti-Kerry ad because ''it reopens all the old wounds of the Vietnam War, which I spent the last 35 years trying to heal.''
''I deplore this kind of politics,'' McCain said. ''I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. I think George Bush served honorably in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.''
The Kerry campaign has denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, saying none of the men in the ad served on the boat that Kerry commanded. Three veterans on Kerry's boat that day - Jim Rassmann, who says Kerry saved his life, Gene Thorson and Del Sandusky, the driver on Kerry's boat, said the group was lying.

Just when you thought Republican attack ads cudn't get any slimier... heck, they figure the average Joe Sixpack in America is stupid enough that even an obvious attempt to muddy the waters surrounding Kerry will be enough to dissuade some. And ultimately, this is why the Republicns will win yet again: they have far moore stupid people on their side. Heck, moost of America is nothing but a bunch of stupid, greedy, apathetic, self-absorbed nose-pickers, lacking even the moost basic grasp of cowmunity spirit, public advocacy, and interest in perserving the future. This is ripe stuff for the Conservative scythe to harvest.

The Democrats need to put aside the arty-intellectual-minority vote block and go after the Dumb-Ass Walmart & SUV Gas-Guzzlin' vote, which has far moore vote potential and moore economic power. It is, after al, all about the money, isn't it?

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SOMEONE drank too much moo juice... :=8/ 
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All the Moos Fit to Print... ;=8)
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Sooo, let's see, where did I leave off before my blogging was so rudely interrupted by BlogSpot's service upgrade....hmmm, yes, I think I was reporting in on various bizzare happenings around this wacky world of ours....

Chop Chop Chop ‘til You Drop

BUCHAREST (AFP) - A Romanian surgeon who underwent a fit of madness while operating on a man's testicles proceeded to amputate his penis and cut it into three pieces. :=8O
The surgeon, Naum Ciomu, was said to be a senior member of the hospital staff and a professor of anatomy.
He had been operating on a 34-year-old man for a testicular malformation when he committed the act, hospital officials said Friday.
"We are shocked by what has happened. It is the first time we have had such a case," said Sorin Oprescu, head of the Bucharest emergency hospital where the operation took place.
Doctor Ciomu had been banned from entering an operating theatre for two months pending the results of an investigation by the medical council, Oprescu said.
Meanwhile the wife of the unfortunate patient said she was suing Dr. Ciomu.

Soooo, the next time you visit beautiful, modern Romania, be sure to stay healthy, 'cause one trip to the hospital there can be a farewell performance for the Fellas! :=8/

A 28-year-old man who shot himself in the testicles with a sawn-off shotgun :=8O
has been jailed for five years for possessing a prohibited firearm. David Walker had drunk 15 pints of lager when he accidentally discharged the gun which was stuffed down his trousers, Sheffield Crown Court was told. Walker underwent emergency surgery following the incident in Dinnington, South Yorkshire, and tests are continuing to find out how it will affect his fertility and future "sexual relationships". Andrew Hatton, prosecuting, said Walker went home for the gun after arguing with a lifelong friend about whose turn it was to buy a beer. By the time he returned the bar was closed and his friend had gone home. Mr Hatton said: "As he was returning to the area of the pub the gun went off. He had it shoved down his trousers. After the shotgun had discharged he placed it in a rubbish bin and crawled back to his home address. "Walker told police he was so drunk he had no idea how he managed to shoot himself. The defendent's mother found him at home and took him to hospital, where doctors called the police. Gulzar Syed, defending, said: "He is still suffering as a result of the injuries. He still feels quite severe pain. There are still pellets embedded within the scrotum area of his body."Judge Robert Moore said recent legislation regarding banned guns meant he had to impose the statutory minimum sentence on Walker of five years in prison.

What is with these idiots and their Fellas??? Have they no respect?? :=8/

Speaking of idiots...

DAVENPORT, Iowa - Three banks were robbed while President Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry were speaking just blocks away from one another Wednesday morning.
The Ralston Credit Union was robbed at 10:45 a.m., shortly after the president began speaking at LeClaire Park in this eastern Iowa town, said Davenport police Capt. David Struckman.
The next robbery, at First National Bank, happened at 11:23 a.m., followed by another at 11:45 a.m. at Southeast National Bank, said Struckman, who also served as the department's liaison to the U.S. Secret Service during the visits from the two political leaders.
Kerry had begun his economic forum at River Center at 10 a.m.
No one was injured in the robberies. Authorities weren't releasing details on what weapons may have been used or how much money was taken.

Nice to see the criminal element acting together in public for a change... :=8/

Well, that's it for me now. I may just have to post a random snugglebunny picture, even without context, just to keep my snugglebunny fans happy. So check back early and often!
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The New MooCow Blog!!! :=8D
Well, I finally had enough of trying to rescue the old classic blog "Thus Spoke the MooCow". Looks like a lost cause. :=8(
Somewhere along the line Blogspot updated, and I cud no longer post pictures, change fonts, bold, italics, etc, because all my editing buttons vanished. When Itried to go back in to fix things everything got all fouled up, and now I can't post ANYTHING to the old blog, sooooooooooo...

Time for a new MooCow blog! If everything works out right you should be able to visit the old blog by clicking onto here: MMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I still can't upload pictures directly into the text of the blog anymoooore, only in a seperate blog, which stinks, but at least this is something.

Sooo, tell all yer MooCow fans that the ol' cow is back and blogging, although things may seem just a tad different these days... Annnd, those of you who wish to leave cowments may now do so!

Oh, and by the by, be sure to check out the MooCow's Mooovie Review Blog, fresh and brand-spanking new, here: MOOMOOOOVIES!

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