Every time I see two Rethugs together, whether it’s St. John and Sarah or Pickles and Cindy, the picture that comes to mind is “Dumb and Dumber.” Where’s an asteroid when you need one?

good morning, Recently I read that Sarah’s husband and son were registered independents. Maybe they couldn’t register as Alaska Independence Party members. From what I have seen on the news, they are highlighting the pregnancy but not the other issues.

Was this just all planned in advance as a massive distraction from something much more important?

Look – over here – it’s bread and circuses!

Never mind the man behind the curtain, hiding the truth about the murder of a scientist from Fort Dietrich whose name you’ve already forgotten, or the genocide committed by US and Israeli trained troops in South Osettia, or the pending nuclear strike against Iran or the pending imposition of Martial law or the pending collapse of the banking system!

The Presidential Election, previously scheduled for this time slot, has been postponed until further notice. We now return you to our regularly scheduled dictatorship, already in progress.

Did anyone monitor the 7-7:30 segment of Washington Journal to see what callers had to say about the palin news?

Mornin’ all!

I’m no fashion expert but

Cindy? JHFC, I’ve seen better looking drag queens.

These people don’t want to hear about olongapo city :)

nah, way too messy to be a planned diversion.

Was a rash & reckless pick.
Apparently McCain so wanted Lieberman it ended in this mess. Hey, mebbe we should send Lieberman a thank you note.

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Saw that thing with Cindy and Laura. Those two have the same thousand yards, deers in the headlight, stare. That koolaid sure is powerful…

I was half listening, so not a great assessment; but overall — lousy pick and a lot of callers think she needs to tend to her family’s needs. She did have defenders tho, the ones trying so hard to make the best of this disaster.

Raven, that was for you. Laughin’ so hard I fergot to click reply. They was even better lookin’ in Manila.

gotcha

cindy looks very….. um …… pale.

A song for Sarah Palin and her Wing … and John McCain too.

“SEPARATION ANXIETY”
http://versusplus.com/separation.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..8Go– XU

maybe more pasty white than pale. but she gets points for losing the pink cast. atyt would have clased big-time. but Cindy looks like she’s wearing one of the Disney “princess dresses” like my daughter used to have.
Who is that? The beauty and the beast lady?

Spot-on, Plunger; as is often the case with your posts.

still not seeing any traditional media stories on the thuggish FBI/national guard/police crackdown on protests in MSP. Where are the Ron Paul supporters?

Looks like she’s got more colour than Laura. Must be all that time she spends outside with the pool boyz. Still looks like an amateur drag queen, though.

Saw your comment from last night. Vernor’s is the only ginger ale worth spending money on. Discovered it in San Diego after getting back to the world.

Amy Goodman talking about her arrest on democracynow.

Gotta love the headline writer at McClatchy.

Absence of Bush and Cheney cheers Republican delegates
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Although they were reluctant to say it out loud, many Republicans were relieved Monday that President Bush didn’t attend the Republican National Convention.

They didn’t like to talk about it on the record, in part because they didn’t want to admit an unintended political benefit in Hurricane Gustav, which led both Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to cancel their scheduled speeches Monday to the convention.

They also didn’t want to admit publicly that a president from their own party is a drag on their prospects.

Those “many Republicans” are apparently all Senior Administration Officials cheering on Deep Background.

These people don’t want to hear about olongapo city

… in a galaxy far, far, faraway ;-)

(finishing touches)

The media narrative is that the Democrats are divided, not the Republicans.

-G

Friend of mine trekked into St. Paul to see what was happening. I have her photos. She did get out of Dodge before the tear-gassing and pepper-spraying began. Before the storm troopers pounded the hell out of a young man of middle eastern color on the Seventh Place mall, while RNCers who were wining and dining outside on the mall stood and applauded. Yup. My home towns.

For some of us it’s only a blink away. In gorgeous Technicolor, 70mm and Surround Sound.

Word is that Bush now intends to show up here. Raise puke shields.

Tks! Couldn’t force meself to listen. :-(

…. and popcorn with real butter ……

Here at the Lake? Well, shit, I’m ready. Where’s my wrist rocket.

Funny! Sorry to be so parochial. “Here,” meaning RNC convention in St. Paul.

The GOP narrative is beginning in earnest.

Drudge headlines “media turns on McCain”.

Johnny and Sarah McVictim.

-G

Saw your comment from last night. Vernor’s is the only ginger ale worth spending money on. Discovered it in San Diego after getting back to the world.

Maybe you know this: one of the unique things about the Vernor’s taste was the sweetener originally used: stevia. The refined sugar lobby forced the discontinuance of this harmless substance in Vernor’s ginger ale, adducing bullshit claims. Today’s Vernors, fine as it is, is not the wonderful Vernors of my youth. I used to get it when visiting folks in Detroit, where it originated, but it is now specially brought into the Twin Cities by a high-end grocery here. Wonderful stuff, as you know.

My grandfather used to make ginger ale, and root beer fermented with yeast, in bottles. When we visited him we kids were delighted with the explosions in the cellar from time to time!

Democracy Now playing Lenonard Cohen’s “Democracy”……Keith Ellison now on.

Ha! Reminds me of a little business card my ex brought back from a bar in Olangapo called (I think) The MC Club which had as its logo a little Marine Corps bulldog with a huge erect penis. What I liked about the image was that this fierce little dog had such a huge dick that it took all its effort to hold it up, but he couldn’t see around it because it was so big. It is a metaphor that I have had many opportunities to apply and seems appropriate again now.

Ron Paul up now on CSPAN
they are having a Liberty Rally 1:30 today and CSPAN will cover it.

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday afternoon.

Today’s forecast in Minn…100% chance of brutality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxlb0_G72uM

Don’t forget your umbrellas!

Will his blimp be there?

When I was a kid my neighbor made root beer from scratch and always made sure I got some. He also made beer. What a kick that shit had. I also remember the exploding bottle caps in the cellar routine. What a mess!

Luang Prabang
(Dave Van Ronk)

When I came back from Luang Prabang
I didn’t have a thing where my balls used to hang
But I got a wooden medal and a fine harangue
Now I’m a fucking hero

cho: Mourn your dead, land of the free
If you wanna be a hero, follow me
Mourn your dead, land of the free
If you wanna be a hero, follow me

And now the boys all envy me
I fought for Christian democracy
With nothing but air where my balls used to me
Now I’m a fucking hero

One and twenty cannons thundered
Into the bloody pale blue yonder
For a patriotic balless wonder
Now I’m a fucking hero

In Luang Prabang there is a spot
Where the corpses of your brothers rot
And every corpse is a patriot
And every corpse is a hero

Copyright Folklore Music ASCAP
Van Ronk’s answer to “wimpy anti-war songs.” The melody is “Byker Hill”

I’ve emailed that question in, so we’ll find out ;)

This is long. Sorry. Can’t find the link.

Truth to Tell producer Andy Driscoll and crew arrived on the scene at 9th and Jackson Streets immediately after Amy was closed inside the police van. Andy interviewed DN! Producer Mike Burke at the scene. Audio available Tuesday.

Commentary:

One can only be incredulous that two new producers would be charged with felony rioting, and that Amy Goodman would be unceremoniously yanked into custody while inquiring as to why her news producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, would have been arrested while doing their jobs.

Could it be the color of their skin played any part in this? I roamed freely throughout downtown today, seeking out hot spots (and there were many we
found) of police overkill, accompanied by two assistants. While I recorded running commentary and interviewed others in the streets, an assistant photographed the treatment of arrested protesters at the hands of fully padded, black-helmuted riot police in numbers three to four times that of any group we encountered, many of them from such jurisdictions as Cedar Rapids, IA, Springfield, MO, and Tucson, AZ, let alone most of the Metro jurisdictions and outstate towns that brought the force to over 3,500 officers.

While the three of us sat down in an outdoor café at St. Peter and 7th Place, police confronted three young men seeking to search their backpacks. The young men refused and police pressed their case, calling in St. Paul SWAT Team back-ups, who piled out of a rapidly arriving police van. The men still refused to be searched (meaning that a warrant would be required to do so absent probable cause they represented some immediate danger).

The three began to walk away down the mall between the two outdoor restaurants, but were chased by the SWAT officers. The men broke into a run, the front two escaping, but the third caught and slammed head first onto the concrete sidewalk while having the very angry officer screaming at him and kneeling on his already bleeding head as two more officer arrived to arrest him.

As the cops went through this extraordinary exercise in the midst of some one hundred diners and pedestrians, several people, clearly RNC delegates, stood up from their table and cheered the violence the officer were inflicting on this mere boy, completely powerless, unarmed and unarmored, unlike his police assailants. The blood-thirstiness of this Roman Coliseum-like display was the far more distressing development of the encounter, and our tempers flared as almost never before.

A pair of diners next to our table kept up the nasty rhetoric, inflaming more anger among those of us who found this crude reaction as dangerous as any police officer’s baton. It was difficult to eat in the heat of this disastrous display of assuming guilt on the part of the young men by virtue of his arrest than the obvious propriety of innocence before guilt is proven.

They dragged the young man with his bleeding head to the van where he was obviously searched. Twenty minutes later, he walked down the mall a free man, his angry face screwed up into the most contemptuous look at the seated diners (not knowing who was for or again him).

The greater damage has been to the cultural sensibilities of a community that generally prides itself on the restraint of its police force, often in great contrast to our sister city’s across the river. But St. Paul, especially, was converted all too easily into an oppressive battleground when provided more cops than delegates, infused with the dehumanizing paranoia only a massive gathering of highly trained armed machines can demonstrate when given carte blanche to treat the human beings with a complete lack of dignity and respect as most of these officers in black did today and yesterday and the day before when private residences were broken into and their occupants floored and cuffed without provocation.

What this now says about the disrespect and disregard for the rule of law that has grown all too commonplace in light of the way the Bush-Cheney administration’s years running this country and now so deeply a part of our cultural mien is too frightening to contemplate. Can we, will we, ever return to a system in which the police feel as obligated as the rest of us do to comply with the law and the protections guaranteed by the Constitution and its Amendments.

It almost appears too deeply entrenched now in the fears perpetrated by post-9-11 police state-style governance to reverse it.

Only the collective we can change this.

(Listen to Wednesday’s Truth to Tell when we attempt to discuss the various perspectives on this new world of so-called security as practiced by unaccountable cops.

Andy Driscoll

It was also on coffee cups you could buy. Different branch of service? Yep, different uniform, same dick. Wish I could remember some of the captions.

Same thing in my youth–my father made root beer, not real beer. And exploding bottles. The result was worth the work though. I no longer drink root beer because the manufactured stuff bears no resemblance to the real mccoy.

here ya go barbara
Andy Driscoll:: Commentary on Amy Goodman’s arrest

One of my comments from the prior thread:

Just found in my e-mail

TO: Shawn Hannity & 249 other media stooges
FROM: Da Republicans
RE: Sara Palin Talking Points for Monday 9/2

1. Attack the media.
2. Attack the media.
3. Attack the media.
(How did I get on that distribution list?)

The army had no such vile stuff! Ever see the big dady roth military drawings?

Fuckin’ pigs.

McCain/Palin and the GOP are now playing every victim card in the deck.

Rally the base the librul media is attacking us!

-G

Hi eCAHN, was a delight to meet you this weekend.

my Dad talked about the same thing, good root beer and popping bottles in the basement. lol!

didn’t he do the Ratt Fink drawings?

Cleanth:

Have you had occasion to read through all of this?

http://plungerspeaks.blogspot.com

It was all saved, compiled an posted by WinterPatriot a couple years ago, much to my surprise.

If I have I don’t remember them. I’ve still got copies of a lot of the artwork from those days. My favourite has always been the mouse flipping off an eagle swooping down on it with the caption, “The last great act of defiance.”

What a nice BBQ and great schmoozing!

Yea. lot’s of custom cars too. I won’t put a link to the drawings because they would be considered “offensive” but if you google Big Daddy Ed Roth Vietnam a couple pop up.

Send me the link at FB, please.

Top o’the morning all!
Glad to see New Orleans was mostly spared ,thank God!
Can’t wait to see how the Palin thing turns out
I think she was just meant to be a distraction from the real issues in this election!
Smoke and mirrors from the Rethug party

Roth on South Vietnam Air Force

When will NPR get rid of Mara Liasson? She is absolutely terrible. Always parses her words very carefully not to offend her Republican “friends”. Not one word about Palin having been a member of a seccessionist party in Alaska. Anyone that is still contributing to NPR is merely helping finance another Republican soapbox.

whoa

thanks!

With Republicans it’s always image over reality. George Lakof has another brilliant analysis at Huffingtonpost.

Patrick Sammon up on CSPAN, head of the Log Cabin Republicans

That’s mild. The artwork coming out of Nam could be brutal. There was one with a really big dude with an M-16 in one hand and a human thigh bone on his shoulder with the caption:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil because I’m the meanest motherfucker in the valley.

big dady roth

Big Daddy Roth was a friend of my brother! When he visited, he slept on his hog. What a colourful character.

I am trying to find for you guys the lyrics of Dave Van Ronk’s “The Whores Of San Pedro”. (O, the whores of San Pedro are older than God…With only one thump of their ponderous rumps, they could blow your poor pecker to bits./So here’s to the whores of San Pedro, those wonderful fucking machines/if I had my way, they’d feature today/on the cover of Time Magazine.”

Maybe you already know it.

The McCain Campaign’s VP vetting process – captured on film – courtesy of “Big Dan.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..gspot.com/

I wonder what kind of artwork was popular with the Nam era Texas Air National Guard?

Thanks for the tip. I’ll get to it anon.

McCain probably chose Palin because the ‘qualified’ members of the GOP said “hell no” when his campaign inquired about their interest in being VP.

Spin,spin spin!!
I think they know they’re in big trouble,they have nothing to offer!

Thanks for clueing me in have you seen Campbells interveiw with Tucker Bounds?

Ask and ye shall receive.

Campbell kicked Bounds ass right up over his shoulders, then called him “Babe!”

When will NPR get rid of Mara Liasson?

Egad! I thought the same thing this morning. I no longer listen to rebarbative NPR news, but I had some local classical music public radio on and they have NPR news on the hour. I gritted my teeth and turned it off. I loathe her! NPR are establishment whores nowadays.

Do ya think they’ll turn all progressive and shit when the Dems take over? ROFLMAO. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.

Jane’s upstairs tweeting

I remember when the gov’t started decreasing funding for public radio. This put the fear into NPR right good and they changed in a trice into reactionaries. It does disgust me. I listen to Amy Goodman and an amaziing low power station here called KFAI.

Hadn’t heard of it in years. I appreciate your note in light of the previous dust-up.

As I said the day that it was announced (and actually before it was announced ;) ), the Palin selection was a Christian Right/Rove pick first; they were the only ones that actually “vetted” her. It showed who really is in charge of the campaign.

To get on point to what you are saying, the media persecution narrative is all about rallying the base. That darn librul media attacking Palin like that. Her 17-year old daughter was sinful, but she’s getting married now so everything is Okie-dokie.

This Rove tactic failed in 2006 and it will fail again. As an aside, I have often wondered why the name Rove is not radioactive. My theory is that how successful he was in getting as much done for the real GOP “base”, the monied interests, from 2000 to 2004 is the ONLY reason that he has not been tarred and feathered, because the man has made a lot of enemies, leaving dead bodies in his wake left and right.

McCain is not the only one who is doubling down on the Presidency. Karl Rove and his minions (Steve Schmidt!) are betting the house as well. [Lookie there - it’s Tucker “shhh - McCain has a black bastard baby” Askew!]

In my mind they’re going to lose, but then we have 8 weeks (and 2 hurricanes and whatever other scary things they can drum up) to go.

Not unless and until we get rid of Bushco.

In the Tampa Bay area we get her on our community radio station WMNF. I’ve met her twice now and am enthralled by her presence. Awesome person.

No – all of the GOP appointees would have to move on as well and they all like their wingnut welfare.

I stay away from Nice Polite Republicans. Unfortunately, those idiots from XM have replaced The Young Turks with Bill “I love my MSM sources” “milktoast” Press again. grrrrrrr!

The story is not about Sarah Palin. The story is about John McCain. Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008…..-game.html