repugican reaction to palin

"It's important that America has a vice president who has eaten a mooseburger."

-- some GOP dude on CNN searching for the good news and how to spin the disaster of McCain picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP

Really? Sarah Plain and Tall from Alaska?

McCain has indicated he's waaaaay too old for two terms,
so his VP will naturally assume front-runner status for 2012
...and the GOP is going to be led
...by a vagina'd American?

(That's the GOP's reaction to a woman in power, not mine.)

For What It's Worth

What with the current election being about change I thought this reminder of the change we started and the neo-cons derailed was needed - so we can finish the job we began all those years ago.

Yeah I was there or at least they tell me I was

Memory's a bit hazy from August of '69 but I do remember this band from that concert in upstate New York I was at.

The Band performing "The Weight" at Woodstock

Copperhead Road Twenty Years On

Damn, it's been twenty years since Steve Earle told us a familiar tale for the Vietnam Generation.

Olde Schoole

Tommy James and the Shondells doing it old school.

(For all you young whippersnappers out there that thing in the video is an single vinyl 45rpm record)

Who will cut taxes again?

For all you 'tax cut' fanatics of the wing-nut variety as well as all the rest of us ordinary folks check out this calculator to see which presidential candidate's tax plan will actually cut your taxes.

In my case:

Your Obama Tax Cut is: $4,156.62

Don't get a damned thing from McPain!

Gustav just short of becoming a top-scale Category 5 hurricane

Gustav slammed into Cuba's tobacco-growing western tip as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane Saturday while both Cubans and Americans scrambled to flee the storm as it roared toward the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans.

Forecasters said Gustav was just short of becoming a top-scale Category 5 hurricane as it hit Cuba's mainland after passing over its Isla de la Juventud province, where shrieking 150 mph (240 kph) winds toppled telephone poles, mango and almond trees and peeled back the tin roofs of homes.

Meanwhile on the Gulf Coast authorities began ordering mandatory evacuations along Louisiana and Mississippi's Gulf Coast on Saturday as Hurricane Gustav roared past Cuba and into the Gulf of Mexico.

"They made it very clear that this storm could be as bad as it gets," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Saturday afternoon of the Category 4 storm, with sustained winds that reached 150 mph. "We could see flooding even worse than we saw in Hurricane Katrina."

Thousands of people had begun fleeing the coast by the time a hurricane watch was issued Saturday afternoon for southeastern Texas to the Alabama-Florida border as Gustav pursued a projected path toward the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The watch, which means hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours, was announced the day after many in the region marked the third anniversary of Katrina's landfall.

Following in Katrina's footsteps

Gustav swelled to a fearsome Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph (195 kph) as it shrieked toward the heartland of Cuba's cigar industry Saturday on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina.

The storm already has killed 78 people in the Caribbean and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it had become the second major hurricane of the Atlantic season, following Bertha in July.

Hopefully this time those on the Gulf Coast will heed the signs and leave the area.
And that the response to any need be swift and proper.

Nude Vacationers

The number of people who are taking and want to take a vacation and leave their clothes behind is increasing.

Check out this article on the increase in nude vacationers.

Their paranoia is showing ...

Police raided a rental hall used by a group organizing protests at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Friday.

The RNC Welcoming Committee, which describes itself as "anarchist/anti-authoritarian," accused St. Paul police of trying to disrupt their protest planned for Monday, the day the GOP convention is set to begin.

While no one was arrested, the group said police temporarily detained and photographed at least 50 people who were inside the building.

St. Paul Police spokesman Tom Walsh said they were executing a search warrant.

"The cause for the search warrant is not public at this time," Walsh said.

As many as 30 police officers entered with guns drawn, according to witnesses in the building.

"The convergence center is simply a gathering place and is not used for illegal actions -- it is a place for workshops and trainings," a statement from the protest group said. "Tonight, we were watching films and sharing food."

"We are now accused of a simple fire code violation," the statement said.

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Now what I want to know are where are the reports of raids on those protesting at the DNC in Denver last week ... oh, wait there are none.

A few 'good ol'boys' planning to kill the Democratic nominee and had the arsenal to do it are treated like 'boys will be boys' and a room full of liars were left alone by the police in Denver at the discretion of a repugican U.S. attorney.
But lord, in Minneapolis there are people watching a movie - send in S.W.A.T!
Want to bet there is a repugican U,S. attorney in Minneapolis as well?!

Nice Quote

Remember only the good; the bad will never forget you.

~ Doug Horton.