the question is, do I was MSNBC, or go for the laughs with FOX? of course, there is always THE DAILY SHOW and THE COLBERT REPORT.

DECISION, DECISIONS, DECISIONS

So far, Morning Joe has been a fun chatty program, talking to Dan Rather (HDNet) about 1968 - the videotape shocked me - I remember watching the convention, and the news - the riots were in color, they convention black and white - odd... then the parade continued the the fake Democrat Harold Ford, who could never get a "meetup" together when he was running for Senate.

And, it continues.

Then this thought struck me: Does the music the Conventions choose clue us in about their focus? More to come on this idea

So, I guess I am now a Social Media Maven. I twitter, plurk, have myspace and facebook, (though facebook is superior), and now I am going to POWNCE. like I need another microblogging client. it will go along with the multiple blogs I have.... I learned the hard way on that.

Twitter - I Like it - the mini-dramas and flame wars are fun to observe. I use both twhirl and twitterific. although, the ads in twitterific are a bit annoying, I tried out twitterpod is interesting, but could be seizure inducing, and is a mac only program

Plurk... nice interface - needs some getting used to howver, since entries are on a timeline (horizon?)

For information on Autism: http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer

SEND ROVE TO JAIL!!!

What becomes of the Disinivted
from a business trip. I'm so unexcited....
I know I got to find
Some kind of party time.

I got disinvited to a hostage situation training weekend held by my employer. oh boo fucking hoo.

now that it appears that dear old "Grendel" is still in the USA, where is "Beowulf" to kill the monster?
Do you get the feeling Good Ol' Karl never actually READ Beowulf? The movie, is from the perspective of Grendel.



oh, poor poor Karl.. So misunderstood. So, Karl, why not go to Congress and clear the misunderstandings. Maybe, you'll be invited to the Prom.

PART ONE: GRENDEL
Grendel Attacks

One night, after a beer party,
the Danes settled in the hall
for sleep; they knew no sorrows.
The evil creature, grim and hungry,
grabbed thirty warriors
and went home laughing.

( So Grendel ruled )

why has this major turn of events being ignored by our News Media? Karl Rove skipping a date with Congress is one thing.
Source

"Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) defended Rove, saying that he did have immunity from testifying and that the Democratic insistence on holding the hearing was a “partisan stunt.”

Cannon said Rove was out of the country on a “long-planned trip.”

But leaving the country? and just where did Mr. Rove go on his "long-planned trip"? why, according to NotionsCapitol he's vacationing in the Crimea. and where is the Crimea? Why in the Ukraine. And, just what is so special about the Ukraine that it drew Mr. Rove to the shores of the Crimea River? Their lack of an Extradition Treaty with the United States. I would say that the Traitor Rove has admitted his Treasonous Acts by fleeing.

I say "Good Riddance to ya, ya black-hearted traitor"

OBAMA SUPPORTER REPONSE AD TO RNC ENERGY SWIFTBOAT OF OBAMA

I'm watching Cristina's Court and a NYC "personality"known as "The Naked Cowboy" is currently being sued on this show for becoming obsessed with himself. He's using a 24/7 webcam thinking he's going to be a "reality star"... he's a jackass. He also apparently failed to discuss the idea with the mother of children.... he is delusional.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Dear Sen. McCain,

Your call for Sen. Obama to "cut Gen. Clark loose" is pure hypocrisy, when your campaign staff is littered with Lobbyists and Swift Boaters - the same people you denounced when they were trashing Sen. Kerry's war record. The same people who trashed a disabled Iraq War Veteran when she ran for office. YOU have them on your staff. SHAME ON YOU. SHAME ON YOU FOR TURNING YOUR BACKS ON YOUR FELLOW VETS. FOR 30+ YEARS YOU HAVE TURNED YOUR BACK ON THEM.

Senator, you can't have it both ways. Your fitness as our potential Commander-in-Chief is important, and your service record figures into that fitness. Your false outrage does not commend you.

You are not to be trusted.

On Tuesday, June 3, 2008, the President signed into law:

H.R. 2356, which encourages the display of the flag of the United States on Father's Day;

To what purpose? To conflate Fatherhood with Patriotism? is that like the Women in WWII Germany who became Breeders for the Fatherland???
H.R.2356
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate) In perusing this Bil, I can find no mention of Father's Day and the Flag... oh... it's a DIFFERENT H.R.2356.....

Now, there is another test of "Patriotism"... Flying the Flag on a made up holiday. Can't wait for the size of the flag to be deisignated

If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president's wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight, according to a statement released by his campaign Monday.

Do we really want more of the same? Does he make you feel all warm and gooey inside. This is not the John McCain I met back in 2004 as when I was a Greeter for the City of NY during the Republican National Convention. I don't recognize this man. I seriously don't, and that is what worries me. Sen. McCain survived the Hanoi Hilton, but did he survive the Relgious Right of his Party? is he suffering from the trauma of having his career and life thrashed by the very groups he now kowtows to? I fear so. and, the John McCain who stood up to bush in 2000 has been disappeared.d.