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.