And He Has A Suite Booked At The Willard Hotel

If some Connecticut Democrats get their way, Sen. Joe Lieberman will be greeted at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota by a gigantic inflatable rat.
Stamford's The Advocate reports:
Joseph Lieberman might want to pack some rodenticide if he decides to stump for John McCain at the upcoming Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.Some of the same Connecticut Democrats who stalked the senator on the re-election trail two years ago with the famous "kiss" float - a papier mache likeness of President Bush kissing Lieberman after the 2005 State of the Union address - are hoping to make a similar splash at the GOP fete Sept. 1-4.If Lieberman's detractors get their way, their prop would be a 30-foot inflatable rat, the kind unions typically use when construction workers cross picket lines."The 30-foot rat is a big rat. A 12-foot rat you can kind of put in the back of a pickup truck A 30-foot rat you have to put on the back of a flatbed," said Ed Anderson, a New Haven Democrat who helped start the Web site DumpJoe.com.

Words Can Wound and Kill

Story "A"

Radio host Michael Savage is in hot water over his comments about autism.
Several big advertisers have pulled their commercials from the syndicated "Savage Nation" radio show, and now, thousands of parents and protesters are urging Savage to step down, calling his words "hate speech."
"I'll tell you what autism is," Savage told his audience on July 16. "In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is." The talk show host also said, "Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot."
The conservative shock jock's comments sent shock waves through the autism community. Parents and autism activists staged rallies in protest in New York and San Francisco.

Story "B"

An unemployed man who opened fire on parishioners in a church over the weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee, killing two and wounding seven, had expressed hatred for what he called the "liberal movement," police said Monday.
Jim Adkisson, 58, was overpowered by members of the congregation and arrested after firing three blasts from a 12 gauge shotgun in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday.
Adkisson was being held on murder charges on Monday on one million dollar bond.
Knoxville police chief Sterling Owen said Adkisson brought the shotgun into the church in a guitar case along with 76 shotgun shells but only managed to fire off three rounds before being subdued.

Cleveland Rocks

From Media Matters:

Cleveland radio station drops Michael Savage: ‘This guy’s a knucklehead.’
Last week, Media Matters caught right-wing radio talker Michael Savage claiming that autism is a “fraud” and “a racket” where “99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.” But Savage’s controversial remarks about autistic children have gotten him booted off Cleveland’s airwaves, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reports:
WHK AM/1420, the only Cleveland-area station carrying Savage’s radio talk show, is breaking its contract with Savage’s syndicator, Talk Radio Network, said Mark Jaycox, who manages the Cleveland stations under the Salem Communications corporate umbrella.
“This guy’s a knucklehead, and I want to get rid of him,” Jaycox said. The radio station Super Talk Mississippi announced recently that they were canceling Savage’s show because of the autism comments.

BTW: Fuck You Mikey.....

New Poem

Again

I could fall in love again this September

If the light is right, on just the right day

I could fall in love again if the shadows dance and the afternoon glows at the top of the hill

I could fall in love again, though it's only late July

And August will be hot and cruel

I could fall in love again if sun is softer and the leafs rattle and the breeze is just so

I could fall, though my face grows lined and weary

September brings redemption, September brings remembrance,

And I could fall in love again

Dark Night?

A county commissioner who is running for re-election in Oklahoma City is defending the virulently anti-gay comic he sent to local Republicans by insisting that the "homosexual agenda" is an issue in the campaign.
In the comic, which Commissioner Brent Rinehart created along with a friend, a devil threatens a small child with a pitchfork, saying "If I can get the kids to believe homosexuality is normal!" while an angel yells, "Not with Brent around you won't!"
CNN's John Roberts spoke to Rinehart, who told him,"One person's mud-slinging , I guess, is another man's issues. ... I believe the homosexual agenda is an issue in this campaign. ... I thought that it was a very good campaign piece."
"Are you homophobic?" Roberts asked.
"I'm not even sure as to what 'homophobic' means," Rinehart replied, "but let's just keep in mind that we are in a cultural war."
Rinehart refused to acknowledge that his comic could be considered gay-bashing. He insisted, "We have an attorney general here in the state of Oklahoma that has used his office for political means, filed campaign charges against me, and it's based on my opposition to the homosexual agenda. ... The attorney general, Mr. Drew Edmondson, sued the Boy Scouts of America because they would not allow homosexual boy scout leaders as leaders."
Attorney General Edmondson appears in Rinehart's comic holding a sign saying, "Gay rights now!" A caption explains that "Drew Edmondson put Oklahoma on record to force the Boy Scots to accept homosexuals as scout leaders, a pedifile's [sic] dream come true."
"A drowning man tends to thrash about,” was Edmondson's only comment on Rinehart's comic.
"This is one of the strangest things I've ever seen," noted political science professor Keith Gaddie. "I've never seen a comic book with the phrase 'anal sodomy' in it before. ... He's pretty much grinding every ax he's got from his days in the county commission."
County Assessor Leonard Sullivan stated, "I've really encouraged him on more than one occasion to get professional help. He really needs it."
Rinehart is facing a difficult re-election battle, in large part because of his questionable purchasing decisions and other actions. Attorney General Edmondson filed felony campaign finance charges against him last year, accusing him of perjury, conspiracy, and money laundering in connection with his 2004 campaign. It has also been suggested that Rinehart "is pushing a road and bridge improvement project ... to help Del City developer Ray Pelfrey who is building a new home next to the road and once held the mortgage on Rinehart’s home."
"Is this some desperate and weird attempt at payback against the attorney general?" Roberts asked.
"It's getting a message out," Rinehart insisted. "It's telling a story of how I got to where I'm at. ... It exposes Drew Edmondson for his true agenda. ... It exposes others here in county government for their true agenda. ... When I ran for county commissioner, my agenda was roads and bridges, limited government and less taxation, and family values. ... I've stuck to my guns. ... I'm not going to back down."
NewsOK.com has a full report on Rinehart's comic here.

A Whiff Of Something Over The Bay....

From Raw Story:

A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.
The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq.
Local Republicans say the plan stinks and they will oppose it.

The House By The Side Of The Road

I always loved Ernie Harwell's broadcasts of Detroit Tiger baseball games. I remember summer evenings on the porch, with Ernie's voice from the radio filling the night air, competing with the crickets and the traffic up the street. One of Ernie's signature lines was to say a batter who took a called strike; "stood there like the house by the side of the road" and watched that ball go by. I have a feeling that we are all standing in dumb amazement right now watching our country crumble before our eyes.  I've said it before, but the analogy remains apt: we are akin to Enron employees and stockholders: helpless pawns forced to witness the destruction of their dreams for the future. The country stands on the precipice of a total financial meltdown, and our chimpanzee in chief spends his days watching t -ball games on the south lawn. Jesus! At least Caligula was busy getting busy if you catch my drift. This fucking moron just stands there and grins while his buddies finish looting the economy, destroying the middle class, and robbing our children of a future. The planet is tipping past no return on global warming, the dollar is tanked, nine GI' s dead the other day in one attack, inflation is out of control, people are losing their homes; and Dick Cheney is about to launch a sneak attack on Iran. 

Yea I'd say its a great day for ball game.

Come To Me All Who Are Weary, And I'll Blow Your Fucking Head Off

An Oklahoma church canceled plans for a gun giveaway Friday at its annual youth conference, a local news station reported.

The church's youth pastor, Bob Ross, said the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle was a means of luring young people as far away as Canada, according to Oklahoma City's KOCO Channel 5 News.

“I don’t want people thinking ‘My goodness, we’re putting a weapon in the hand of somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go out and kill,'” said Ross. “That’s not at all what we’re trying to do.”

The gun giveaway is a part of the event's shooting competition. A gun was given away at last year's conference and this year, Windsor Hills Baptist used the giveaway in the marketing of the event on its Web site.

The pastor said the cancellation of the giveaway was due to the instructor of the shooting competition -- and a pastor of the church -- having injured his foot and being unable to attend.

I Have A Dream: The Future Of Karl Rove

As If........

More tax cuts for the rich will help the economy like more packs of Winston's help lung cancer.

The war in Iraq has made us safer in the same way anal sex without a rubber with seven or eight guys you find at a bus station decreases your chances of getting aids.

John McCain is a 'straight talker' just like Kieth Richards is "drug free".

George Bush is to Winston Churchill as Wolf Blitzer is to Edward R. Murrow.

What Happens In Vegas.....

Copyright © Las Vegas Review-

A naked man was arrested Tuesday morning after hijacking a Citizens Area Transit bus.
Las Vegas police said the man, 35-year-old Charles P. Sell, was first seen stealing a beer at the 7-Eleven on the corner of Lamb Boulevard and Washington Avenue about 8 a.m.
An officer arrived at the scene and the man fled, a police spokesman said.
Sell then climbed onto the back of a moving CAT bus traveling east on Washington, broke one of the back windows with his fists, and climbed in.

He threw the driver off the bus and drove it about 200 yards before jumping off, according to police. An officer climbed aboard and stopped it.
Sell was arrested and taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation before being booked at the Clark County Detention Center on felony charges of robbery, grand larceny and malicious destruction of private property, according to police.

My Favorite Line Of The Story:

Police said the man was possibly on drugs during the incident.

Vacation.........

Well I'm back from one week working in Ocean City and two weeks on vacation with my cousin Lori and her daughter Jessica ( Smedly). Lori's husband died last January of a brain tumor, and I wanted to give little Jessica trip to remember.

So their vacation included:

First ever plane ride.

First ride in a Jaguar.

Washington DC, all the monuments etc.

Baltimore MD, and the Aquarium there plus a ride in a water taxi.

Lots of swimming at our community pool and the pool at my friends home.

First trip to a Japanese steak house.

First train ride to South Carolina.

First ( for Smedly) sight and feel of an ocean.

First ocean speedboat ride, and first time seeing dolphins in the sea.

First trip to the circus, (Le Grande Cirque front row!)

A brand new IPOD with lots of Hannah Montana songs on it.

More swimming in our pool at the Myrtle Beach condo.

Much ice cream.

First trip ( mine too) to the new Hard Rock Theme park.

First visit to the Kennedy Center in DC and first legitimate theatre show with The Lion King.

All in all 18 days for Smedly...and I miss her already. I hope she remembers this trip in years to come, and in some way it takes the edge off her terrible year.