tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225631122024-03-17T23:03:51.413-07:00The Dean's OfficeDean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1059125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-79310474393485238252010-07-07T16:26:00.000-07:002010-07-07T16:26:02.648-07:00In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.I left the democratic party today and registered in the Oregon Progessive Party. I encourage anyone in the state to also join the OPP. They need to get only about 600 more members by August to maintain their minor party status to appear on ballots.
It probably isn't a surprise to anyone that my frustration with Obama and the democrats have reached this level but what REALLY pushed meDean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com180tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-43004791469824305432010-03-18T08:00:00.000-07:002010-03-18T08:00:27.907-07:00I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this.Even the Great Orange Satan of the Daily Kos has pretty much made it a standard to piss on liberals because we have the audicity to insist that health care reform actually include HEALTH CARE REFORM.
The problem with this country right now is that the establishment - Democrats, Republicans and the media - will only allow right-wing solutions to problems which in large part Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-15058542108822455092010-02-17T12:38:00.000-08:002010-02-17T13:03:55.230-08:00Rome is the mob.We picked up cable when we dropped DSL because my wife works at home and DSL was simply not fast enough for her nees. One of the things that came with our hundreds of new channels was a few months free of the Starz movie channels.I'm REALLY digging their new series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand." It's a mix of golden era sword and sandal pictures, NC 17 cable shows like "Deadwood," cheesy guilty Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-72488970994977897742010-01-20T09:52:00.000-08:002010-01-20T10:45:35.838-08:00What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that young girl.I made the mistake of tuning in to the news just long enough last night to hear that the Massachusetts results are the result of Obama coddling his base and "overreaching."The narrative from the DLC/ Blue Dog wing of the party is that because liberals refused to compromise the democrats lost their 60 supermajority. A supermajority, I might add, that was clear to anyone paying attention months agoDean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-52528081897302783192010-01-08T15:55:00.000-08:002010-01-08T16:15:15.239-08:00I thought maybe you and I could go dancing or something.Happy birthday to Elvis Presley. Every time I put a bullet in my television or head off to DC to convince the president to make me a DEA Agent I think of you.Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-27588834199065374862009-12-31T11:09:00.000-08:002009-12-31T11:31:12.052-08:00Reason? There's no TIME to be reasonable!Happy New Year y'all and good riddance to the awful decade that's passing.I hope everybody has a prosperous 2010. Except Buckeyes fans. They're going to start the year off in a foul (fowl) mood.DeanDean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-7542719726066535612009-12-15T13:22:00.000-08:002009-12-16T09:16:03.412-08:00Now you go home and write "I am very sorry for what I did to Frosty" a hundred zillion times.One reason I haven't blogged much (besides work) is that I mostly blog about politics and the state of politics right now makes my heart hurt too damned much.I didn't expect to get everything I wanted with the new administration, but on the other hand I didn't expect that there would be absolutely no consequences to the last election. None.I've volunteered on campaigns and held elective office inDean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-77956779231219113132009-12-09T08:11:00.000-08:002009-12-09T10:02:58.455-08:00The clean, cool chill of the holiday air... an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...I took this with my camera phone last night while shopping. I have no idea how that book got there. :-)Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-15316682559092570772009-12-07T08:18:00.000-08:002009-12-08T09:05:14.927-08:00Well, if I can't have any fun I might as well leave.I started this post several times in commemoration of World AIDS Day last week. At times it's gotten pretty long so I'm going to just pare it down to it's essence.Somebody that my wife and I knew personally, loved and lost to AIDS was Father Peter Davis. Peter was a wonderful man, bigger than life and the pastor at the Catholic church my wife and I met at.Part of what's made it so hard to finish Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-25950454028199898402009-12-04T08:12:00.000-08:002009-12-04T08:43:49.588-08:00When you gonna drop Magnum on us, buddy?This gallery of movie stars posing in shots that call back their iconic roles years later is chock full of WIN. Probably my favorite out of the bunch...Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-76636265219597132202009-10-09T10:41:00.000-07:002009-10-09T10:57:53.495-07:00When an armed and threatening power lands uninvited in our capitol, we don't meet him with tea and cookies!How can Barack Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize when he's attacking the moon unprovoked?Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-2426308388639466662009-10-07T10:30:00.000-07:002009-10-07T12:36:12.388-07:00Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?This is a wonderful idea that Slash Films had. They're asking people to list their favorite movie scenes.As the author mentions this is an intensely personal thing that says more about the person identifying the scene than it does the scene itself. Reading through other's suggestions I found myself subconsciously taking points away from folks who either a) didn't have much cinematic literacy (i.eDean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-64411063923354960332009-09-24T08:54:00.000-07:002009-10-01T10:42:43.199-07:00All dogs go to heaven because, unlike people, dogs are naturally good and loyal and kind.This is a post about dogs. One dog in particular.This last week I've been worried about my friend Lisa's puppy Chloe. The little gal was stricken with parvo and almost didn't make it. Lisa's ordeal in dealing with her worried kids and corporate vet brought back a lot of memories about the best dog I ever owned; Loey.Loey was a Border Collie/ German Shepherd mix that looked like a black German Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-2363333791937444012009-09-14T08:06:00.000-07:002009-09-14T09:05:01.247-07:00Sometimes a baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do.This last weekend upwards of 50,000-60,000 teabagging douchebags descended on the streets of Washington D.C. to loudly voice their anger at the results of the last election.We're all aware that a good portion of the clowns that were marching were there in response to Glenn Beck's "9-12 Project" of which the goal, according to Beck, is to return the country to that unified spirit of purpose we Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-70185618125115487152009-09-01T12:30:00.000-07:002009-09-01T12:54:11.883-07:00You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.I've been struggling with this all morning. It's a vile accusation about a very unfunny subject. But that's really not the point, is it?Conservatives like Beck have pushed the envelope in their discourse to the point that objective reality itself is under assault and any sort of bullshit they want to make up becomes part of our actual political conversation. Death panels. Birth certificates. Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-53105697766804706672009-08-28T07:54:00.001-07:002009-08-28T09:59:05.275-07:00Kirk Douglas... Van Gogh... ear.A little example of why I love Portland...Yesterday I took a break from work and walked the block or so from my office to the greatest used book store in the world. In the course of that one block journey......I passed a pair of beautiful women pulling along a wiener dog on leash......listened to the guys in front of me talk about Star Trek......stopped in front of the book store to talk to a Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-23239494968079917702009-08-26T04:58:00.000-07:002009-08-26T05:21:23.014-07:00Goodbye TeddyI sit here muddling through a sense of disbelief that Ted Kennedy has passed away. It certainly comes as no shock under the circumstances. It's just that the image of him being wheeled into the senate to cast the deciding vote in the health care battle has been seared into my imagination. It's clearly the only thing he was holding out for.Bouncing around the web a bit I see the haters on the Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-21335211850472882432009-08-20T09:17:00.001-07:002009-08-21T09:52:59.468-07:00You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.In response to the same sort of budget shortfalls plaguing most other states this July the Oregon legislature passed a $700 million dollar tax increase which was signed by Governor Kulongoski. The first was an increase in the state income tax by a couple of points on single filers making over $150,000 and joint filers making over $250,000. The second was an increase in the corporate minimum tax Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-88564578967029088302009-08-11T12:18:00.000-07:002009-08-12T09:51:06.865-07:00The ship is in ship-shape shape.I watched a bit of the ridiculous Specter townhall and wasn't surprised that senator tool tweeted this bullshit shortly after the meeting..."1000 people came to tell me what was on their minds and I have a message to take back to DC loud and clear."So Specter thinks the folks we ought to listen to when it comes to the very complicated issue of health care in America are the children throwing a Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-53542996559708435142009-08-07T08:00:00.000-07:002009-08-07T08:30:47.426-07:00You're a mean father, you'll never give me anything I want! And I won't go to school till I have it!You have one of those unruly 8-year old children for which Ritalin may be a good idea. The child is disrespectful of the rules of the house, insists that everything goes their way and has no respect for your things. Just recently the little monkey broke your heart and your grandmother's china set playing frisbee in the house.Having had enough you put your foot down and send the child to his room Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-79731298938352516682009-08-06T15:28:00.001-07:002009-08-06T16:11:38.935-07:00Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.When I was younger I dreamed of being a movie director. In an effort to break into the business I did some PA work for a while working on a low-budget kung-fu flick and then a few national car commercials (which paid much better than the kung-fu flick in that they paid at all.) I gave it up after I interviewed for job on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film they were shooting in Oregon and they Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-51916697495637887742009-08-05T11:17:00.000-07:002009-08-05T12:06:14.313-07:00Poop, Poop! Oh, poetry of motion! Ohh, the bliss! Ohhh... poop, poop!They're still shooting the television show "Leverage" a few blocks from my office. How do I know? Because I almost ran over star Timothy Hutton this morning on my way to work as I turned a corner.Hutton was drinking a coffee, riding a bike the wrong way on a one-way street. I didn't recognize him until I rolled down my window to "explain" to the yahoo I'd almost killed how the one-way streets Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-68484689054949619002009-08-04T08:07:00.000-07:002009-08-04T10:38:49.358-07:00...Say it!... Say it!... Say it!Back to the real world after a wonderful vacation at the Washington coast with my family. From the sound of it we picked the perfect week to get out of town. 100 degree plus weather is atypical for Oregon. Six days in a row of that weather is unheard of. Yeesh.There's a lot of crap going through my head right now. Frankly there's too much going on in the world to write about. I'm just going to Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-88411991807957257092009-07-28T11:58:00.000-07:002009-07-29T08:13:32.065-07:00The Wagon Queen Family Truckster... You think you hate it now, wait 'til you drive it.I'm currently up at Cape Disappointment (where Lewis and Clark ended their journey but I'm not sure if it was before Lewis found out Clark was secretly Superman) enjoying the beautiful weather with my family. The campground has a wi-fi connection but I forgot the damn wire to connect our old digital camera to the pc to upload pictures. When I get back I'll put up some really great shots we took Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563112.post-50541526652231572662009-07-24T08:05:00.001-07:002009-07-24T13:24:38.468-07:00Let him rave on, that men will know him mad.Wow, just... wow.I'm a big believer in trial by jury but occasionally you get some ignorant yahoos that make some pretty ridiculous decisions. This trial is a glaring example of such a case.Yes; I wasn't in that courtroom listening to weeks of testimony. I'm not privy to all the information the jurors had to reach their verdict.None of that changes the central fact of this case: this couple Dean Wormerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214049238722718299noreply@blogger.com5