You Could Put That Shit On Pay Per View

This afternoon, CNN "Open House" host Gerri Willis came by CNN Newsroom to discuss the economy. Willis joked with anchor Kyra Phillips that if she could predict the stock market, she and Phillips could run off to an island, prompting Phillips' co-anchor, Don Lemon, to ask not to be left out of the girls' getaway. This resulted in the following exchange:

Gerri: Alright Don, you come too.
Kyra: We could bring him along with the girls. 
Gerri: Come on!
Kyra: He's paying! Thanks, Gerri.
Don: A little sandwich!
Kyra: Ooh!
Gerri: Whoa, I have to go now!
Kyra: Yeah, good time. You don't want to talk about the reverse oreo!

Willis was visibly embarrassed by Phillips' joke, though Lemon seemed to enjoy it, laughing out loud and announcing, "Oh, she said it! I'm glad she said it." 

Somewhere Admiral Nelson Is Twirling

One of Britain's biggest warships was forced to retreat back to base Wednesday -- by fears about a fridge.

The aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious sailed out Wednesday from Portsmouth on the southern English coast, the home of the fleet, to join multi-national operations in the Indian Ocean.
But "Lusty" had to turn back because a refrigeration unit used to store meat was in danger of breaking down.

"The sensible thing is for her to come in and get that fixed before she goes off again," said Royal Navy spokesman Anton Hanney.

"It wouldn't be prudent for her to go off with the chance of the unit breaking down while she was in warmer climates and then engineers would have to be flown out to her to fix it."ip.

Cui Bono

So my boy JohnEdwards ( or John Boy if you insist ) is throwing in the towel. I am inclined to believe a deal was made, and that deal needed to get done before Super Tuesday....... To begin to puzzle out the outline of any deal we should consider who benefits: Where will the white guys Edwards was taking go? Obama? On a strictly closer in spirit basis the answer would be yes...but, a white guy who sees BHO as the new JFK was already there... and would certainly have been tipped the rest of the way by Teddy and Caroline. So I'm left to wonder..... what did John and Hillary talk about in the South Carolina green room? The Internets are a clamoring fro JE as the AG which would be fine, though I would rather see him on the SCOTUS.

Anyhow..I am proud to have stood with you John, keep the faith. Now I'm gonna see if I can still get a seat on the soul train.........

Curtains For Rudy In Fla?

The chattering nabobs are blabbering on the Tee Vee that Rudy The G' might be done for after Florida today. Don't believe it. You can't kill the devil, pure evil may morph and change shapes, but it never disappears. We have not seen the last of the beast....

"And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs...."

Revelation 16:13 

In Today's Flying Robot News.....

Cool Headline:

Flying robot to track whales off Australia: report

A flying robot is to join the fight to save the world's whales by taking part in an aerial survey to count humpbacks off Australia, a report said Sunday.

The remote-controlled drone will patrol waters off Australia's North Stradbroke Island, taking pictures scientists hope will enable them to count the migrating whales, Sydney's Sun-Herald newspaper said.

Scientists hope using the five-metre (16-foot) wingspan drone will result in a more accurate estimate of the animals' numbers and help convince Japan to stop its annual whale hunt.

Final SOTU From POTUS Code name: "Dickweed"

Tonight is the final State of The Union screech from President shit for brains. In my humble opinion the best thing this tool could do is announce tonight that he is having Dick Cheney arrested for treason, and plans to surrender himself to the Hague in the morning.

Well perhaps I'm being a bit optimistic........ maybe he could just announce that Cheney and Rove have fled the country...........

Hop On Board The Soul Train

Kennedy Endorsement Gives Obama Key Boost
Romney and McCain Neck and Neck in Florida

By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 28, 2008; 2:59 PM

Sen. Barack Obama today picked up the endorsement of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), giving the Illinois Democrat a key boost as he and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) head into their final week of campaigning before the potentially crucial "Super Tuesday" presidential primaries on Feb. 5.

In a speech at American University in Washington, Kennedy, 75, a 45-year veteran of the Senate and a standard-bearer for liberal Democrats, joined his niece, Caroline Kennedy, and his son, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.), in publicly backing Obama for the party's nomination.

The three Kennedys, taking turns speaking at a lectern bearing the slogan, "Change We Can Believe In," invoked the inspiration of former President John F. Kennedy in supporting the candidacy of Obama, a first-term senator who seeks to become the nation's first African American president.

Addressing a cheering, overflow crowd in the university's Bender Arena, Sen. Kennedy hailed Obama as a candidate who "has lit a spark of hope amid the fierce urgency of now." Calling on Americans to "have the courage to choose change," he declared: "It is time again for a new generation of leadership! It is time now for Barack Obama!"

In accepting the endorsements, Obama told the crowd: "We will change the course of history. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world."

The endorsement by the senior senator from Massachusetts was widely seen as important for Obama because it gives him the imprimatur of a major leader of the Democratic establishment.

But it also highlights a split in one of America's most politically prominent families, reflecting the division and uncertainty in the establishment as the race for the Democratic nomination heats up. Another of Kennedy's nieces, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former Democratic lieutenant governor of Maryland, is supporting Clinton. So is a nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading environmental activist.

Aides to Clinton, who was campaigning today in Connecticut and Massachusetts, said endorsements matter much less than delegates to the Democratic convention.

God Himself Would Yell Bravo

Casey and I went to the Kennedy Center last night for the Kirov performing La Bayadere. I think this is the third time I've seen the Kirov, and all I can say is wow. The Ruskies never fail to stun me with their perfection. The famous 'Kingdom of The Shades' scene is a wonder to behold when done by 32 Russian ballerinas. 

Ballet always reminds me of mass, both transcendent, both a marriage of heaven and earth, both taking the ordinary and making it into something quite extraordinary. Both offer praise to the human spirit and our creator.

Rick James In Charge of the Crack Pipe Part II

From The Lede

Wolfowitz May Return as Arms Control Advisor
By Mike Nizza

If you’ve never heard of the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board, it may be because the name recently changed. And if its former moniker — the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board — still doesn’t ring a bell, you may recognize some of the current members, including former chiefs of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Still at a loss? Don’t be disappointed in yourself — the board has been almost famous for years, toiling away on vital arms control issues without much notoriety. But that may be about to change if Newsweek’s report is confirmed:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered [Paul D.] Wolfowitz … a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters.“We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job,” one unnamed senior official old Newsweek.
Another official called the reported appointment “amazing.” That comment alluded to Mr. Wolfowitz’s staunch support for the Iraq War when he was deputy secretary of defense under President George W. Bush. He hasn’t won much good will since then, either during a relatively quick rise and fall as World Bank president, or in his current post at a conservative think tank in Washington.
But if nothing else, Mr. Wolfowitz really needs no introduction, especially to his detractors on the blogs, who are a puzzled, angry lot today:
The Next Hurrah: “Condi, is it a coincidence that so many people responsible for gaming the intelligence to get us into Iraq are on your advisory board?”
The Brad Blog: “In Bushworld, incompetence must be rewarded.”
Arms Control Wonk: “Andrew Sullivan has a better line than I can muster.”
Andrew Sullivan: “He’s advising Condi on WMDs. Curveball wasn’t available?”

The Party Of Hitting The Pipe Hard

I just caught a couple minutes of Willard and John and Huckie live from Boca all claiming that somehow the Republicans were the party of "fiscal responsibility". WTF???? 

The R's are fiscally responsible in the same way Rick James was the most responsible person you could put in charge of the crack pipe. 

I realize I never blew Alan Greenspan at Union Station like some people I could name ( I just want to see Willard deny that one..), but even I can tell the difference between a surplus that the last Dem left and the black hole of debt this crowd has plunged us into. 

We'll all be sucking off our Chinese overlords to make the vig on the national credit card balance if we elect another one of these ignorant super freaks.

Text Book Rescue (There Still Ain't No Cure For Stupid)

From an AP story about dead actor dude:

She entered the bedroom and saw him lying in bed. She took a massage table out of the closet and began to set it up near his bed. She then went over to him and shook him, but got no response. Using his cellphone, she used a speed-dial button to call Ms. Olsen in California to seek her guidance, knowing Ms. Olsen to be a friend of Mr. Ledger's.

According to the authorities, Ms. Wolozin told Ms. Olsen that Mr. Ledger was unconscious. Ms. Olsen said she would call some private security people she knew in New York, and hung up. Ms. Wolozin again shook Mr. Ledger, called Ms. Olsen a second time, and said she believed the situation was grave and would call 911.

Ms. Wolozin called 911 at 3:26 p.m. to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing. The call occurred less than 15 minutes since she had first seen him in bed and only a few moments after the first call to Ms. Olsen. The 911 operator urged Ms. Wolozin to try to revive Mr. Ledger, but Ms. Wolozin's efforts were not successful.

So if he was not breathing for ummm say 15 minutes he should still be Ok right????? Huh.. What...Uh Oh..I better call Mary Kate....

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times As These Revisited

I recall saying a couple of months ago that whatever candidate wrapped his or her arms around the fact that Americans were losing their homes would be the next President. It seems to me quite obvious that we are in the terminal phase of the "Enronization" of the American economy. We have been defrauded, ripped off, and sold off bit by bit; all to make that grisly gang of thugs that Bush calls "my base" richer. What about the war you ask? It's rasion d'ette is as plain as the price of a barrel of oil. As James Baker said when he was bitch slapping Paul Wolfowitz  (who thought the Iraq war would decrease the power of OPEC) " You don't understand Paul, we are OPEC"

So who is calling it for what it is? The only guy that's made any fucking sense to me is Edwards. When folks are drowning, starving, losing homes, and dying in this so called "city on a hill' ( and BTW a big posthumous FUCK YOU to Ronald Reagan), it's time for a leader who knows who the enemy is. 

Don't give up John.

Hey Fred, Shut The Fuck Up Redux

From ABC:

It's curtains for the presidential campaign of former Sen. Fred Thompson, whose campaign failed to capitalize on early momentum and never won any presidential contests.
"Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States," read a statement Thompson released Tuesday afternoon.
"I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people."
The former lawyer and actor once seemed a likely top-tier candidate, but he failed to capitalize on a jumbled Republican field and never reached the momentum many predicted when talk of his joining the race began late in the spring

Playing The Palace, or Don't Settle For A.G.

I watched the Dems from the Palace in Myrtle Beach last night thinking how I wish I was in our condo down there walking on the Grand Strand. I thought Edwards did a good job of staying out of the squabbles between Hill -O and Obam-O. That's why I was a bit perplexed to read this in my WA-PO this A.M.:

Offstage Action at Dem. Debate?
By Shailagh Murray

The nasty spat between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama last night sure created fireworks, but after the debate attention turned to an offstage encounter, between Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards.
According to eyewitnesses, they both walked out of their green rooms after the debate and agreed to talk, then went behind closed doors in Edwards's green room.
Clinton left 20 minutes later. No word on the subject matter, but as Edwards struggles in the polls with no wins to date, his post-campaign strategy is surely in the air.
"They were catching up, as they tend to do at the events, and probably discussing the even-handed media coverage of the race," quipped Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz.

John..hold out for SCOTUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best Place to Buy Nazi Knickers (click here)

Let me guess, Rosemary Woods is in charge of White House email now.....

New report shows archives gone on several key days in Plame investigation

Among the sixteen days for which email are missing from Vice President Cheney's office is Sept. 30, 2003, the same day the day the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced they were investigating who outed former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson.

That morning, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales ordered the president and the vice president's staff to "preserve all materials that might be relevant" to an inchoate Justice Department probe.

The White House said that backup tapes, which contained archived copies of the e-mails, were recycled as part of a policy the White House had in place until October 2003.

Ironically, Cheney's office is missing emails from the very day President Bush told reporters he'd "take care of" whatever staff member had actually leaked the CIA agent's name.

"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is," Bush said  "And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of."

Michigan Seems Like a Dream To Me Now

Here in the depth of January, I find myself again dreaming of Michigan.  For a thousand and one reasons I don't want to go back, I've built a new life here and I am enjoying it.... but:

I still think of Lake Michigan on a winter afternoon with Chicago dimly imagined on the other side of green and stormy waves. 

I think of a roaring fire in a huge stone hearth with snow dappled pines and spruce trees seen through each window pane. 

I dream of Mackinaw in sumer,  looking down from the terraced cafe to a marina of white boats on deep blue water. 

I remember Grosse Pointe at twilight along Lakeshore Drive, seeing the red and orange sails out on the water, with the big lake freighters out in the deep channel at the edge of my vision.

 Sometimes I just dream of Michigan.. so long ago now...so far away.... still so deep in my heart.

Lookin' Out My Back Door

View from my second floor balcony this afternoon.

Any Way You Look At It You Lose.....

Time for a quick lookie loo at the R's

1. Willard Mitt Romney: It's no accident that moron, and Mormon are almost the same word. He won in Michigan, my home state. BFD. Willard's dad was the Gov back in the day plus that crazy old hoot John McCain told a bunch of laid off autoworkers that they were fucked for life. Bear in mind that before Willard's daddy was the Gov, he ran American Motors. Home of the Rambler. Yikes..if you've ever seen a Rambler you wouldn't want anybody with that DNA near the oval office.

2. John McCain: American hero. Senile. Crazier than Jim Stockdale ever was, and we didn't give the old admiral the time of day did we? Sometimes I can't figure out if McCain is trying to channel Rambo or Frank Rizzo in his tough talk about the mid east. Straight Talk Express to Hell if this dipshit gets his hands on the nuke button.

3. Mike Huckabee: The Huckster has been lambasted previously in this blog, but let's review: Right wing "Christian" nut job who wants to amend the constitution to add some "biblical" shit. What the fuck??? That should be enough right there to stop anyone from ever mentioning the name of the Huckman again. What would Jesus do here? Well I don't presume to know the mind of Christ, but I'm pretty sure He would tell you that this Huck fellow IS FUCKING NUTS!

4. Ron Paul: So batshit insane he makes that other nutty dweezil from Texas,Ross Perot, look like Sigmund Freud. Increase the Lithium dose on this fucker.

5. Rudy: Pure evil. Lucifer. Really, no shit, he's the fucking devil. I mean it. El Diablo in a red dress. When he shook my hand I had to soak it in Holy Water for a day and a half before the pentagram disappeared.

6. Mike Bloomberg. A stupid rich c#@t from New York. I thought we already had one of those in the race.

7. Fred Thompson: Look up the word 'shitheel' and you see Freds fat mug. Makes Willard look like Albert Einstein. Has done for politics what pantyhose did for fingerfucking.

Poem for a Winter Storm

Here is one I wrote a really long time ago:

In Anticipation Of Groundhog Day

For some reason I strain for this spring

Like no other season I've known

With each afternoon wind

and every morning window frost

I think of rain gray skies

And lunchtime walks

Hunched over my microphone all night

Hunched over another woman 

Alone 

A voice whispers, whispers

For some reason I strain for this spring

Like no other season I've known.

And He's Got A Plastic Hoo Haw On His Bumper

Actual AP Headline:

Va. Lawmaker Seeks Ban on Replica Genitalia After Girl Spots Rubber Testicles on Trailer Hitch

Hello Kitty

I guess I'm getting to the age that this is my idea of a mechanical sex toy: The new Jag XF... purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Top Ten Captions:

10. A picture is worth about a hundred bucks a barrel.

9. You make me wet.

8. L'amour toujours l'amour.

7. I am not, nor have I ever been gay. Really. No shit.

6. Mmm Old Spice..mmmmm

5. Pssst..I got some blow in the limo dude..wanna do a line?

4. Don't move, Cheneys got his gun and he's drunk as shit again.

3. Is that an F-16 in your pocket or you just happy to see me George?

2. OK, one more slow dance, but then I really gotta go.

1. Don't tase me bro.

I Just Want To See His Face

Years ago I remember shooting a full Gospel choir in some run down part of Dallas one Sunday morning. I was hung over, had a hard time keeping the shot in focus, and didn't give a shit about being there...until they began to sing. I don't remember all the words of the hymn they sang, but there was a bit about "I just want to see His face..." I have never forgotten those singers and that moment.

Last week I took a tour of a non profit doing work with developmentally disabled adults in Gaithersburg. A lot of Downs syndrome folks, and a mix of other issue. They have about 70 clients in the place daily mostly doing "practice' work stuffing envelopes because they can't get enough paying jobs to keep the people busy. If you've never been around this population you have no idea how warm and friendly they are. Every time I spend some time with these guys I am profoundly affected. After my time last week, I had to sit in my car for a bit and dry my eyes ( my version of a Hillary moment) before I could go on with my day. If you want a glimpse of "His face", I will suggest that you are unlikely to see it on Tee Vee in spite of what the Screechers and Preachers promise; but you just might see Him for a second or two stuffing an envelope in Gaithersburg.

Maybe He Has An Armadillo In His Trousers ,Which Could Explain What She's Doing With Him

Kucinich treated like a rock star in Troy campaign stop

January 10, 2008
BY KATHLEEN GRAY
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

With presidential candidates largely absent from Michigan in the days leading to Tuesday’s primary, even a second-tier candidate generates a lot of excitement in the state.
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich might not be doing very well in voting so far in Iowa and New Hampshire, but tonight in Troy he attracted a standing room-only crowd of more than 300 people at the Troy Democratic Club meeting.

They treated him like a rock star, screaming in adoration and repeatedly giving him standing ovations when he said he would call for the removal of all troops from Iraq within three months of taking office, and advocated impeaching vice president Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush and charging them with crimes after they leave office.“America has been pursuing a strategy that has taken us down a very dark path,” he said. "I’m the only candidate running for President of the United States who voted against the war.”Kucinich is one of only four Democrats who will appear on Tuesday’s ballot, along with Sen. Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Rep. Mike Gravel and Sen. Christopher Dodd, who dropped out of the race last week.

And he will be the only candidate to make any appearances in Michigan. He is scheduled to appear at four more campaign events in the state through Monday.

No Shit Sherlock, Now About That Darfur Deal Again....

Bush Visits Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial; Says US Should Have Bombed Auschwitz

ARON HELLERAP News
Jan 11, 2008 06:07 EST

President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said.

At one point, Bush viewed aerial photos of the Auschwitz camp taken during the war by U.S. forces and called Rice over to discuss why the American government had decided against bombing the site, Shalev said.

The Allies had detailed reports about Auschwitz during the war from Polish partisans and escaped prisoners. But they chose not to bomb the camp, the rail lines leading to it, or any of the other Nazi death camps, preferring instead to focus all resources on the broader military effort, a decision that became the subject of intense controversy years later.

Between 1.1 million and 1.5 million people were killed at the camp.

"We should have bombed it," Bush said, according to Shalev.

Perpetual Light

I heard last night that my little cousin Smedlys father Harley passed away Tuesday. Please spare a moment to think a good thought for her and her mother. 

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine 

et lux perpetua luceat eis

The Peoples POTUS

Well fuck me running.... Hillary pulls one out in NH.  I'm not sure how this plays out in a way that helps Edwards, but this campaign looks like it could go on for a while, which is good. I also note that both Obama and Hillary were sounding notes from the Edwards playbook about insurance  companies, tough times, and the little guy. I have to admit that at times it sounds like they are each running for 'Peoples Princess' rather than President of the United States of America. At least it all bodes well for the Dems chances, if not for my skill at predicting political outcomes.

 

 On the R's side it's worth a chuckle to see Willard take a beat down from a crazy old man. Bring back the Huckster.

Tap Into America

I just finished watching Barack Obama live on the Span from Rochester NH. Senator O's stump speech may not rank as one of the greatest of all time, but for this time and place, it is stunning.  He has figured out how to tap into that great American idealism. We think of ourselves as good people, and we believe in the power of dreams, of, love and yes, hope. Good songwriters, playwrights, and poets throughout the ages have understood that inspiration requires more than prose. 

As much as I am skeptical of the O man, as much as I prefer John Edwards (or my first choice Al Gore ), I only see three things that could stand between Mr. Obama and the White House:

A. A major stumble by Barack of the Larry Craig variety which seems unlikely.

B. George and Dick cancel the election due to umm..... the "International Situation". 

C. A bullet. ( God forbid. )

This man with the funny name may be about to change history. 

"And so say all of us..."

Can You Say Gulf Of Tonkin? Sure You Can...

From ABC

Five Iranian boats made aggressive maneuvers and showed hostile intent towards three U.S. Navy ships at the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route in the Gulf, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The Pentagon said the incident was serious. It described the Iranian actions as "careless, reckless and potentially hostile" and said Tehran should provide an explanation.

In Tehran, the Iranian foreign ministry described the incident as ordinary.

"The example that happened on Saturday was similar to previous cases and is an ordinary and natural issue," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told Iran's official IRNA news agency.

"This is an ordinary issue that happens for the two sides every once in a while and, after the identification of the two sides, the issue is resolved."

The incident was the latest sign of tension between Washington and Tehran, at odds over a range of issues from Iran's nuclear program to U.S. allegations of Iranian support for terrorism.

President George W. Bush is due to travel to the Middle East this week on a trip he has said is partly aimed at countering Iranian influence.

I'm Yahweh And I Approve This Message

How long will you judge unjustly

   and show partiality to the wicked?

Give justice to the weak and the orphan;
   maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute. 
Rescue the weak and the needy;

   deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

From Psalm82

Don't Dream It's Over

I caught the dems on ABC with Charlie tonight. I thought the O man looked somewhat bored, I expected Hillary to break out with a chorus of ch-ch-changes at any moment, and I thought Edwards spoke with passion and conviction in the wrap up. I even sent a few more bucks his way tonight.I did like Hills coy take on her feelings being hurt, it was genuine, funny, and self depreciating all at once.  I kept switching back and forth to the brothers Finn with Crowded House on Austin City Limits, and that was a weird segue every-time I hit the gizmo to switch. I remember seeing CH at an outdoor show in the desert of Arizona one night long ago. They were magic, the stars were magic in the sky, and that was one of the best times in my life. John, Hill, Barrack; we're ready for some Changes. Really ready.

Smells Like Teen Spirit....

Well, well, well.... Okay..I was HALF right on Iowa, and half talking out of my ass. I nailed the call on the Huckster, and blew it bad on Obama. I'm reminded this morning of a day many years ago when some record weasel sat in my office playing a new unknown Seattle band named Nirvana. I didn't hear it..and didn't add it to rotation.....until later......duh. My heart wanted Edwards because he has come closest to telling the truth about who's really doing what to whom and why in this country. I've been reading Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" recently in which she lays out a powerful explanation and history of the quasi fascist corporate agenda . Edwards addressed that better than the rest. As for my idea of Joe-Men-tum for Biden, I guess I was the one doing the bong hits.

That being said my hats off to Obama, he really did figure out a way to turn out the kids. I have found him at times to be a somewhat diffident speaker, but he was excellent last night in his victory speech. If he keeps that up he may be unbeatable. I still have the same questions about the man: what sort of change does he mean? Change and improvement are not synonymous. I am ready to support Mr. Obama if John Edwards drops out. My sense is that 'Clinton fatigue' is a huge factor that my prove fatal to Hillary, however, I wouldn't count her out in NH next week. Bill and Hill have a hell of a machine and plenty of money so we shall see. McCain will shoot down the Huck in NH, Huck will come back in SC and the action for the R's will switch to Michigan. I like the O mans chances for the grand prize in November if he doesn't get shot. I hate that I even had to write that last sentence but history shows us that real threats to the American power elite get struck down. Let's hope the SS boys and girls get all the resources they need to protect the big O. Other thoughts for the future: what about Edwards on the Supreme Court? That would be sweet. Biden as VP, or Secretary of State. Chris Dodd as Senate Majority Leader, John McCain as Sec Def, and Bill Richardson as some sort of Immigration Czar.


Here we are nowEntertain us....

Real Friend Of The Working Man

Johnny B Good Tonight!

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night..Throwing Up...

Hucking Scab

Predictions For Iowa

Using ALL my finely honed political instincts, and a fair dose of good old fashioned pulling stuff outta my ass.... here are my predictions for Thursday in Iowa:

Dems:

The college kids stay in their dorms doing bong hits while pissed off hicks with big medical bills show up: Result Edwards/Hillary in a squeaker at the top with come from nowhere Biden and Obama vying for 3rd. Bill Richardson gets nasty with Chris Mathews after a two day Tequila bender.

Repubs:

Right wing wackjobs have church buses, I'm not so sure that Mormons do. Huckster eeks one out over Willard. Fred Thompson goes on rampage at mall in Council Bluffs, takes Cinabon chick hostage for two hours.

Independents:

Mike Bloomberg still "thinking it over' and BTW didn't you just love him as Hyman Roth in the Godfather.

"What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government.."

I Used To Hunt All Night For More Scotch,Pussy, and Blow

Edwards Hunts All Night For Caucus Supporters

By TONY LEYSREGISTER STAFF WRITER
Des Moines Register

Creston, Ia. -- It would be surprising enough if Marcia Fulton was willing to get up in the middle of the night to go listen to her favorite presidential candidate. Or even her second-favorite presidential candidate. But here she was, at 2:15 a.m. today, sitting on a couch in someone else's Creston home, waiting for the arrival of her third-favorite presidential candidate.A few minutes later, the front door opened, and in came John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, who were midway through a frantic, 36-hour campaign trek across Iowa.
The marathon trip is similar to one Democrat John Kerry made right before the 2004 caucuses, which he wound up winning. The events drew from 500 in Ames to a few dozen at homes Edwards visited in the wee hours.At a 5:15 a.m. stop at a Centerville home, a heavenly, sweet aroma greeted the trekkers. A lady holding open the door looked at a local man who'd just climbed up the front stairs. "You'd do anything for a cinnamon roll, wouldn't you?" she joked.

Top Ten Official Causes Of Death Of Benazir Bhutto

10. Colonel Mustard in the den with a candlestick.

9. A sudden onset eating disorder.

8. Cancer. It's always cancer isn't it?

7. Didn't Arthur Bremer get released last month?

6. Global Warming.

5. Suicide. Not a bomber, just suicide.

4. Anybody seen Mark David Chapman lately? I'm just asking.

3. After all it was you and me....

2. Dick Cheney was duck hunting nearby.

1. Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.