This is Nice...

Rough Cut..

like it must have been back in '67...

You Gotta be Kidding Me...

McCain making Henny Youngman references? 90% of the population...not voting population...90% of people with a verifiable pulse don't know or care who the fuck Henny Youngman is. Give me a break please...speeches to the Rotary Club will not likely make him a future president.

He should start to think about his reputation and how he might ever muster a recovery to that lost virtue. Pitiful.


(I know the McCain campaign doesn't have much money but apparently they had enough to get the reporter for the Times laid to write the love story)

Phillies and Cubs..

are out....both swept. So then there are 6 left....

No way 4 teams are swept out of division series...no way.

Torture R Us...or ..Is Us Not....

Can you imagine if the enemy captured dear leader and decided to torture him to gain operational knowledge and secrets of our nefarious intentions?

I'm guessing that after intense application of (our standards of) non-torturous methods...the finding would be a furious head scratching debate over whether they were up against the most clever and incredibly strong willed individual ever imagined...or...just some idiot with such obvious limited ability that it can't be possible we are worried about these dickheads...

doh!

Kinda Backwards if you ask me..

to have these people more than marginally involved in national politics. What is there...a couple thousand population between the 2 of them?....who gives a shit what they think?

The screenshot above is from the Iowa State website Homeland Security Page....I think they may be kidding themselves into a little more self importance than actually justified.


via Atrios of course

Baseball Blogging....Playoff Editions..

Start now.

I've recorded my picks on the post-season match-ups but am reluctant to post for fear of jinxing most of my picks. I have a dated draft so I will post after the WS and we'll see how I did.

The start times on the 1st round are a challenge for any working person. Good thing that apparentlly bloggers sit around in apartments in their pj's and don't have to worry about it. I guess I should be fine then.

Funky Chalk Drawing...blogging?

Sports Blogging..

Extra..Extra..as they used to say in the newspaper biz...National League is more interesting than the American League...for a few days anyway. ...Very fun BB in NY and Philly...heres hoping for the rare single game playoff.....1978 in Fenway redux?

Big race in Sandy Hook also....a half marathon under expected sunny and temperate conditions should be a great experience for all.....except the pukers...it always sucks for them.

The Guy...

That draws these funky 3 dimensional pavement pictures is going to be in my neighborhood this weekend...I'll try to get a picture and post up....

Baseball Blogging

So, the Yanks are in... and the field for the AL playoff picture looks formidable to be sure but I like the Yank's chances after the year they've had. Mostly written off by the BB pundits, they now have a chance for a pretty nice " I told you so" moment.

Way to go, Boys!

At Some Point..

People need to state the obvious...

If you voted for George Bush...and you continue to support him...then you need to send your children to the military to support those policies you voted for. All of your kids need to go to the nearest recruitment center. Right?

Do I...

really need to point out to the NY Times that John McCain is nearly out of money...AND has no recent successes? How clueless or intentionally misleading can you be on this?

And Senator John McCain’s campaign, short on cash, is weighing whether to accept federal matching funds, which would limit what it can spend, but could allow it to capitalize on its recent successes by broadcasting television advertisements in its must-win state, New Hampshire.

Hey Rudy..

The prevailing Repug narative about civil rights since 911 has been that the average citizen should consider themself lucky not to get a trunchen beating for walking down the street....Now we hear that everyone should have a gun..cool..I think I'm gonna get one for everyone in my family..dogs too!

Does this make even the slightest sense? In what possible way did 9/11 affect gun rights? Perhaps someone on his staff could explain?

Asked to explain Mr. Giuliani's remarks that his views on guns were shaped by Sept. 11, a campaign spokeswoman said, "he was making a point that personal rights such as the 2nd Amendment are even more critical in a post-September 11th world."

Crikey. How much more obvious can his campaign make it that he doesn't have the slightest idea what he's talking about and was just randomly inserting a 9/11 reference because he figured it sounded good?

Acoustic Buddy Guy..

is pretty cool...

I Think it was...

Lyndon Johnson who said that the "Vice-Presidency wasn't worth a warm bucket of spit".

I think that Lyndon could have grouped most "politicians" in that particular description. After the Webb Amendment filibuster, the failure to restore habeous corpus and the Senate actually voting on a fucking ad....warm spit might be high praise for some of these Washington scumbags.

Wax On, Wax Off...

Via TPM, we learn about the tenacious Henry Waxman's newest target. This bozo looks like a typical Bushie douchebag.

Baseball Blogging..

The races are heating up considerably heading into the last 2 weeks of the season. In the east, the Yanks are suprisingly close to Boston...just 3 games in the loss column. By virtue of winning the season series against the Sox, the Yankees don't need to pass Boston to win the division...they just need to tie them.

Wouldn't that be something?

They Call it.....

Arlington Cemetary West and is located on the beach in Santa Monica, CA. Each cross represents a soldier who has died in Iraq. I can tell you that it is very hard to see this in person and not get choked up. It sadly brings home the reality of numbers. There were many people leaving flowers and walking silently amoung the crosses. Most were visibly moved by the experience.


They keep a running tally for the week and war. They say if they tried to include the Iraqi numbers, the whole beach would be filled.

Last of the Night..a Goodie though..

Finally...Here Comes..

Garcia...Is that Garcia??...I think it is...

Hard Not...

to include...

He had the...

Tat's and Aviators way before they were cool together.

Still Jorma Blogging..

a lot of stuff is popping up huh?

Maybe Not as..

rare as previously advertised...

Pretty Rare...Hot Effing Tuna & David Bromberg...Wow!

U2 & Bruce

It Would..

be hard to find a better musically sound group than these guys....

A Little Reckless Kelly...

Good tune....check out the dude with the electric mandolin...nice.

Richard Thompson's

venerable 1952 Vincent Black Lightning is given pretty good go by Del and the Boys...

Nanci Sings Like an Angel...

always..but seems even more so when doing a Townes Van Zant song.




If I'm not mistaken, that's Steve Earle sitting in.

Half..

the newspapers in America are leading with....President Bush to Withdraw Troops From Iraq...

After another thousand American casualties maybe..... a few years from now.

Where were the headlines 5 years ago announcing.....Bush to start unnecessary and bloody war! A million people will die due to the policy of Republicans....Great job Bush Jag-off.

Shorter Bush....

I'm a effing liar, man....

This Dude...

is good...Richard Shindell...don't know much about him but ran across on KPIG doing a great version of the Band's Arcadian Driftwood....it is worth looking for a listen and can be found on his Courrier CD...meanwhile his "Willin'" version doesn't disappoint either. Turns out he's Jersey boy and has played around with the likes of John Gorka, Dar Williams and Joan Baez.

Boy, you have one too many...

and someone always has to get smart with you!!!

Lions Invading...

LA?? Kinda....

One Altadena resident heard a neighbor's dog bark for 10 minutes in the middle of the night, then the bark turned into a growl.

That was the last ever heard from the 60-pound Labrador-mix dog, who was hauled over a 5-foot-high fence by the cat, the Pasadena Star-News reported.

I have a customer who lives in Altadena and it is not exactly the "back country"

Everything I Have Seen...

on Petraeus (should be Betrae-us) tells me that he stuck to the story the Bushies drew up for him. I haven't have a chance to read full transcripts though.....

How could he not realize that when you attach your reputation to the Bush gang war, your name will forever be viewed as politically suspicious and as someone willing to sell the country down the river for termporary personal gain. Pox on him.

Yes, Bob...

how nice of you to notice.

I wonder how long he has before the long knives come out for him.



via thinkprogress again.....

Moss This...

Moss that...great day...yada, blah, dada..got it...k?

He'll be asking to re-negotiate his contract within 2 weeks. God, I hate Randy Moss and all who enable his ilk.

Reposted by..

my own request...

The Fat Man...

has sung...

Some Early...

Bob...

Larry Craig...

must have some new advisors...I have to wonder if their names are Dean and Schumer?

Just Because You're Paranoid...

doesn't mean they're not out to get you....

I was sending an email today where the address was a general mailbox type...As I started to fill in the email prefix office@..... Outlook auto filled in office@ cia.gov.....that's odd because I've never sent a email to that address before. Hmmmmm, go figure.....

Hardcore Runner?

I can say I'm not for sure...,but check this out if you'd like to see what kind of self torture running can be...amazing show.

Mile Blogging..

Hot, Hot, Hot in CA but fantastic running at the beach because so much is going on...millions of people out and about, brilliant sunshine, deep blue water with dolphins frolicking...before you realize, you have racked up some serious mileage. Hit 50 this week in 6 days....a gratifying milestone as I have never done before....even during marathon training.

Pretty cool and now on to 60 somewhere down the road.

Ummmm...

I hope he's talking about baseball....

Long found that Peña, now 29, was willing to listen. He spread his stance wider, tried to stop drifting forward and controlled the movement of his head.

What John Warner is Thinking...

pre-retirement...

"note to self.....do NOT be photographed without the damn makeup!"

Well, I Stand...

happily corrected....Yankees/Red Sox season series is tied at 7 games apeice....that kinda crept up on me.

This is an AP...

filed story but the Times put it up and I have to say that I doubt the veracity of the statement...let's do some research shall we?

The Yankees tied the season series 7-all after losing the first four meetings. The teams play four more times this year, including Thursday afternoon. New York will go for a series sweep when 15-game winner Chien-Ming Wang faces Boston's Curt Schilling.

Remiss I Am...

and blogging I'm not as yet on the hilarious antics of the Repugs and our great leaders. I guess "Wide Stance" is no longer just a baseball term and the fishin' is just great on the lake as Fredo will soon find out.

Not to mention a few hundred thou military weapons gone missing and Gen. P likely to face more than a few questions about the aforementioned come 9/11.

delicious stuff....which I hope to delve into soon.

Been Looking For..

some of this acoustic shit I've been hearing on sat radio...not exactly what I was searching for but not chopped liver either. I really, really need to find the Elizabeth Reed because it is maybe the best they have done ever.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzwMLQi-caU

Barack Obama Says..

He would loosen the travel restrictions between Cuba and US...It's hard to believe such a outdated law still exists. We could use more visits by these guys I think. Buena Vista Social Club with Ry Cooder. Cooder was the driving force in drawing attention to this great music. Pretty sure he did OK financially on it too..Great CD.

This Guy Can Play...

plus he has a cool name too...



That's Jackie Greene.

Burning Man is Coming Up....

and unfortunately I am keeping up my perfect record of not attending. For the unfamiliar check out the website and some of the history of the event. For one week a year it is the biggest city in the county. Set up as semi-circle....here is how it looks..

Shorter George Bush...

If all the pussies didn't leave Vietnam, we would have won that one too...

Uh George?...how about all the pussies who never went in the first place?

OK...What do you know..

found it...what a great comparison..Joe Ely...cool.

A Frequent RE-Post..

cause it's sooooooo good....

For the interested...Joe Ely does a more than serviceable version on his cuts that featured some back up singers that included Bruce S. from Jersey.

I wish There Was Some..

way to thank the person I stole this from..extraordinary.. it is fantastic. ....unreal good...wow.

You Won't Hear This..

that often on the radio...a goodie though...

part Pete Townsend project I think.




Thunderclap Newman...that's a weird name for band man...

Oh Yeah...I Almost Forgot...

Mike Mussina couldn't pitch his way out of a wet paper bag if his hair was on fire.

Awww....

Little Jenna is getting hitched...how nice. And to such a nice guy... Henry...I bet his bud's call him Hank or some other cool nickname, I wonder if they kid him about..ya know..Jenna's past..???

Look...you don't expect to be the 1st....but you really don't want to be the 101st do ya?

via the invaluable Think Progress

Born Free??

Kinda funny local story to LA....

A while back there was a small lake not much bigger than a pond really....in Harbor City where a full size alligator was found to be living. Apparently a few birds were snatched off the shoreline in full view of some disbelieving park visitors. Anyway....the local press nicknamed the gator Reggie and they tried to catch him for about a year. They even brought in people from Florida and Louisiana familiar with trapping gators. After a while, the story seemed to go away because they couldn't catch him.

This year, a few months ago they got their gator and shipped him off to the LA Zoo. He had to go into quarantine for a couple of weeks and then opened in a new exhibit to great fanfare.

Yesterday it climbed a retaining wall and then scaled a 5 ft chain link fence and escaped it's enclosure. Zoo officials found Reggie within the general area before the zoo opened. That is some gator!

Which is the best Picture?

Click image to enlarge...

The Scooter...

passes at 89. Truly one of the "nice guys" of baseball for over half a century. Listening to him broadcast games was always interesting and fun. He was a character without trying to be one.

RIP Scooter.

Et Tu Karl?

Another rat leaves the sinking ship and the MSM wants us to beleive that we are seeing something special. I hope he gets hit by a bus on the way out the door.

Hey Red Sox Fans......

Gagne vs. Chamberlain doesn't look close right now....


Some times the best trade are the ones you never make.....right, Brian?

I'm Pretty Sure...

that Media Matters will be one of the most valuable and important sites to visit over the next 14 months.

Rush Fan?

If he had any money.....I'd like to sell something to him because if he really believes that Repugs are in his corner....geez.

Graham acknowledged that he watches TV, listens to music and sometimes sleeps in his blue, 1989 Buick Century. The car is parked on a concrete slab, mostly covered by a large, blue tarp that is secured with bricks and cinder blocks.

An extension cord from the house to the car provides power for a 13-inch TV, an oscillating fan and a radio.

"I get better reception there than I do in there," he said, pointing at the house. "I listen to Rush (Limbaugh) every day, just about."

Via Rawstory

Go to..

Tbogg and check out the Joe Strummer video on his pre-friday random ten....very cool song.

For the uninformed, Joe was the front man for The Clash who had some pretty good tunes. His last and best album was a compilation of interesting music that included Johnny Cash and other famous folks. A really great CD..... (STREETCORE by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros)

didn't want to steal T's thunder but here is something to wet the whistle...

This song appeared on both Johnny's and Joe's separate CD released the same year.




The lead lyrics on this song were swapped by Strummer and Cash on their respective CD's....interesting huh?

Hey Joe...

and not the Jimi Hendrix version....been reading my blog?

Biden suggests bringing criminal charges against Bush admin.In a recent interview with Newsweek, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) said he is opposed to impeachment proceedings because they would disrupt Congressional business. “But he has a pretty stunning Plan B“:

The alternative, and it’s taken me time to think through, I think we should be acquiring and accumulating all the data that is appropriate for possibly bringing criminal charges against members of this administration at a later date.

and just a few days ago, I said...

Thursday, July 26, 2007
With so Many...

administration investigative targets to choose from, it would behoove the Congress to slow walk many of the more serious criminal cases. I think it wise to carefully time any potential indictments and prosecutions to hit the ground post 2009 inauguration of a Dem Prez....

Best not to let any of scumbags avail themselves of the sure to be ubiquitous Bush pardons. Oh, the singing they'll do then when they have to work without a net. Good times if it is done right.

And that means....no fucking way do you let anyone get away with going gently. If Watergate has taught us anything, it is that if you don't totally kneecap these assholes....they'll come back in another administration to fuck you over all over again. Can't emphasize that enough.

K?

Hat tip to the invaluable ThinkProgress...

Last of a Breed Tour...

The great Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard doing the fantastic Townes Van Zant song Pancho and Lefty. Not a great video quality but terrific version. A Willie specialty for sure but Merle brings it too....

What is it....

about Repugs always trying to cop someone's joint. ....And why didn't he just offer to pay like other Repugs...

Via Americablog.....

You're Kidding Right???....

Charles Murray, the owner of the mining company whose employees have been trapped 2000 ft below ground since dawn on Mon. took the time from his press conference covered on CNN to extoll the virtues of coal energy and helpfully provided statistics to reinforce the importance of coal to the American way of life.

I'm sure the families of the trapped miners were able to take great comfort in that.

Check this Dude out...

Amazing really.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JwAh3tPmMA

Hey, Who Wouldn't Believe...

This Guy. It's not like he's ever lied to the American people before is it??

Hey..I Dowanna..

retire because I make 14 mil a year and I'm willing to hve surgery every year if you guys keep paying...jerkoffs...

How About Next...

Press Conference when Idiot-in-Chief lauds all progress in Iraq..someone, and I mean..ANYONE..throws this effing report in his disgusting smirking face....k?

Colbert Delivers...

...as usual.

With so Many...

administration investigative targets to choose from, it would behoove the Congress to slow walk many of the more serious criminal cases. I think it wise to carefully time any potential indictments and prosecutions to hit the ground post 2009 inauguration of a Dem Prez....

Best not to let any of scumbags avail themselves of the sure to be ubiquitous Bush pardons. Oh, the singing they'll do then when they have to work without a net. Good times if it is done right.

And that means....no fucking way do you let anyone get away with going gently. If Watergate has taught us anything, it is that if you don't totally kneecap these assholes....they'll come back in another administration to fuck you over all over again. Can't emphasize that enough.

Uhhhhh...

still not Yankee blogging but...

The Red Sox and Indians sure have lost a few games off of their previously insurmountable leads....hmmmmm.

It may be hard to believe but...

I've got 2 of these living temporarily in my back yard. A favor for a friend resulted in a 12' x 6' x 6' enclosure and voila...mini zoo.

Weird huh?

This Guy Gives Hacks...

a bad name....what a douchebag.

At Some Point...

the Bushie's will have to take Fredo fishing and not the kind of fishing that is better than any day working either....

Until then, they'll keep sending him up the Hill to lie thru his teeth and obstruct justice with smarminess only a Repug seems to be able to muster. It's a wonder to behold really....Our system of government has changed to the point where schools will have to change curriculum to accurately reflect the end of checks and balances. We no longer have the government spelled out in the constitution...we just don't.

Not Yankee Blogging...

because that would probably lead to the predictable jinx that invariably follows such postings....

But there is a team in NY playing some pretty good ball right now. Hmmmmm.

Dog Fighting...

is a dirty business and it looks like Michael Vick is gonna find out the hard way. Apparently:

According to the indictment, Vick was in the middle of everything from beginning
to end. He purchased a vacant piece of property for $34,000, the indictment
says. He then had sheds built for training dogs and staging fights and a fence
erected to shield the operation from view. And finally, the indictment says, he
had a two-story frame house with a basketball court put up as a residence for
the people taking care of the dogs. If you believe the indictment, the Vick
property had everything anyone could want in a dogfighting operation.

Nice Guy huh?

Vitter is Back Baby!.....

That hooker lovin scamp David Vitter is back in DC and his wife has got his back apparently.....she took a few minutes to scold the press for the interest in her hippie critter of a husband...how nice that family can do stuff together like that.

I have to say that after seeing the wife, it's hard to fault the guy too much.

Bush....

has consistently conflated the disaster in Iraq with 9/11 by telling us that the same people we are fighting there are the ones that attacked us in 2001.....That's actually partly true but not in the way the he has been trying to frame it.

Turns out that most...not some...MOST of the suicide bombers in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia...just like the 9/11 hijackers. Hmmmm, the same ally that has been so helpful to the Bush family over the years? Yep, those are the guys.

When Bush talks about foreign fighters, he never mentions the percentages and certainly never correctly identifies the group most highly represented and launching the deadliest attacks. The idea is to make people believe that Iran, Syria and other "bad" guys are invading Iraq and killing people. I guess Iran and Syria have also been providing some fodder but the fact is that Saudia Arabians is again the biggest offender.....and almost nobody other than the LA Times has said anything about it. Stunning.

They are still not biggest problem for the US in Iraq but the Bush deception on the facts is just business as usual.

Moyers Round Table...

From Fri...John Nichols and Bruce Fein on the "I" word...

Say it loud and proud muthapucker.

I guess you...

can probably cross this guy off Larry's List.

...whoa!...that's pretty damn funny. ...Maybe he can get someone in the lock up to cooperate.....though I doubt he can get more than a couple cigs for his efforts.

Tony Snow...

Says that Iraq is not in a civil war because Sunni's and Shia aren't massing armies in battles against each other.

I'm pretty sure that Tony won't concede this point until they don Union and Confederate uni's.

The WH Claims..

of Executive Privilege are decidedly weak on their face according to most legal experts like Jonathan Turley but that doesn't do much to diminish the effectiveness of the tactic. The Bushies don't stand on principle and conviction, they just want to do what ever they choose to do. That's it....not shooting for establishing a precedent based on deeply felt political ideals. They know they can play out the string with any court decision potentially more than a year out ...but just in case, the Justice Dept. stands ready to put the final kabosh on any enforcement should the need arise.

The Judiciary Committee needs to deal harshly with Miers and Taylor if they do indeed show up for testimony. No one expects much in the way of answers but they should be shamed and humilated for the blatant FU's the Bushies have been dealing out.

Maybe they should be waterboarded since it is not torture and totally legal and all....

Yanks..

hmmmmm...........pretty bad today...

Jerks

Like T says..

http://tbogg.blogspot.com/

Consistently great fare....and for a soccer fan and Yankee hater...he seems like an ok dude..although I'd take issue with some of the music...but this Neil is classic..scroll down, scroll down.

The Previous Post..

got me thinking about The Band and all of the trials and tribulations they seemed to experience. Rick Danko passed last year and Robby can't seem to patch things up and take the high road with Levon.

Richard Manuel was a big part of the "sound" of The Band both vocally and musically. His voice is almost instantly recognizable as part the mix of some of The Band's best songs.

Sadly, he committed suicide. I wonder why more wasn't made of it? Anyway, here is one of his solo's with his mate's backing..

We All Can Feel...

like this sometimes...I listen to this version frequently running..Pops and Mavis backing the Band is a twofer you don't see too often anymore. Check Danko out as the priceless show he always was. This one is a mile eater because it is so good that you can't help but focus on the great music....as opposed to the chapping of your legs and nether regions.

Talk About..

light blogging...tell me about it.

Especially with so much rich material available...preoccupation with so many things summer keep me otherwise indisposed lately.

I'll have to work on something decent soon.

Congrats to the Rocket..

on win # 350...Wow, that's pretty unbelievable in today's game. A number we won't likely see again either.

It won't make the Yanks Champions but it it's very impressive anyway.

Looks Like Scooter...

won't have to change his nickname after all...No real surprise there but the craven hypocrisy of the Bushies is still stunning to behold.

At least now the WH Press corps won't have to take "no comment on ongoing legal proceedings" as an answer anymore. So...I'm waiting for some follow up...anybody?

It's ok to lie to Federal investigators and the Grand Jury if you are a Bush guy. Hmmmm, can you imagine the number of pardons that will be issued at the end of the Bush term?

It's gonna be a lot but don't think for a minute that all the kings men aren't already aware of the quid, the pro and the ultimate quo...