behold the purply rnb goodness that is h-town & jodeci (by drewfus mclovin)

behold ladies and germs, real rnb straight from the annuls of 1992! behold as the houston crooners h-town and charlotte's vocal suavisimos jodeci take the culture back to a time when sessy music didn't need no stinking lab tricks. back to a day when all you needed was two or three homies (or brothers, or cousins) to back yo sangin' ass up and a few harmonies and spladow! you had a panty dampening hit! no voice modulators, 'ceptin of course the uber cool (because of, not despite the fact that it was used so well soooo sparingly) synthesizer. remember computer love? me too! thanks zapp & roger! anyway, this song is such hot buttered goodness that even my friend, luscious manwellington, said "i just wanna simmer this song in its own juices and sop it up with a biscuit." i don't know what that means either but from him, it's about as good as it gets. anyway, this song makes me wanna throw on my lavender linen suit with minty green ascot and walk down the beach outside my villa with no shoes on, then go back inside and lay spme lucky lady down on a bed rose petals and give her a standing ovation, but that's just me...

the 30 senators that voted against the anti-rape bill

picture this: a freshmen senator from Minnesota is set to sponsor his first bill. he knows, given his background as a comedian and comedy writer, that he must pick a subject for this bill that is an absolute, foolproof, 100% slam dunk, home run issue that everyone agrees on. he also knows that he must pick a very serious issue or else run the risk that some of his more vicious opposition could dismiss it as the musings of a comic playing politician for shits and giggles, or a writer simply using congress to prepare his memoirs. we all know that limbaugh and o'reilly would tear into him, and beck would, like, cry or whatever. ahile pondering all these things, an issue comes gift-wrapped to his office door: halliburton KBR, a dick cheney founded oil company with a small fortune in government contracts, had silenced a woman who, while working for the company in the middle east, was gang raped by company employees, then shoved in a crate when she threatened to take action against the assholes that did it. well, she would eventually make it back stateside, upon which time she attempts to take action against KBR for allowing this to occur. as it turned out KBR (which i assume stands for Keeps Bush's Rich) had written what amounted to a "no sexual harassment suites" clause into all contracts. excuse me *cough*howthefuckdoesanevilfuckingcorporationlikehalliburtonstillgetgovernmentmoneythislongaftepeoplewhobenefitareoutofpower*cough* sorry about that. anyway, in this atrocity this man might see his bill. a bill that would prevent atrocities like this from ever happening on the taxpayers dime again. surely this would be his absolute, foolproof, 100% slam dunk, home run of a bill that everyone agreed on. this issue would surely inspire no opposition. there was no possible way that even the staunchest opposers could see any gain, political or otherwise, in opposing a bill that would prevent government contractees from preventing rape victims from seeking even the slightest semblance of retribution from the employers that facilitated their ordeal. this would e the rare bill that got unanimous support from the senate.

you don't have to picture it, because it really happened. al franken is a freshman senator from minnesota. he is a former comedian and comedy writer. senator franken did face that dilemma and this mythical bill was his. and it passed. it received overwhelming bipartisan support. let me repeat, it received OVERWHELMING BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. but overwhelming is not synonymous with unanimous, which is the level of support the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill, or rather mr. franken's ammendment that would prevent contractors from denying litigation for victims of sexual misconduct, did not get. which means this seemingly unoffensive bill offended somebody enough to vote nay.

there were 98 senators present for this vote. none voted present, 68 voted aye. the ayes had it. but what about the rest of the senators? that leaves 1-2-3-4... 30! 30 nay votes on the let rape victims get their retribution bill! who were these people? who could possibly vote nay on this bill? i'll give you a hint: none of them had a little d by their name. none had an i by their name either. they were:


Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

so what was the reason that many of these so called public servants voted against this benevolent bill? apparently some senators don't see that government has the authority to dictate to those on the govenrnment payroll how they should conduct government sponsored business. never mind that some of these practices may be criminal. but hark, many of these "distinguished" "ladies" and "gentlemen" are the same that stood upon the soapbox to cut the government funding to ACORN, a non profit that provides housing, job training, and voter registration for low income (read black and latino) communities, because of some amateur video that showed a few rogue agents going against protocol. oh, and they also happen to be a liberal group that supported the Obama campaign. why was there such vitriol about government funding when it was ACORN and such opposition to the same sort of controls when good ol' cheneyburton Keeps Bush's Rich is involved? hypocrisy.

all jokes aside, the scariest name on this list? McCain. he could have been our president. luckily, a number of these people will likely lose their seat next year. demint and ensign are as good as gone. my charge to the reader is to see that all 30 of these seats change in the next 6 years. lets start with the 2010ers. we here at DIUU will make it our mission to see that any public official that would dare take the side of a corporation that would allow you to be raped without so much as a "my bad" over your safety, any public official that is more concerned with destroying their opponents across the aisle than serving the community they represent be removed from office through impeachment or through the election process. we make no exceptions. we play no sides. we do not desire that one arty win out over another, our goal is simply to remove ineffective or compromised public officials from their positions of power. it is time we the people of the united states of america flexed our muscles. it is pertinent that we end this washingtonian cronyism through our vote and our protest. i promise that i will do more than scream about these injustices from the sanctity of my DARK fortress. my first target? Richard Burr of North Carolina. Mr. senator, you are official on my list.