Macdries says, "I'm wondering how many of those 91% ever thought about the idea for 3 straight minutes."
I'm Getting Tired...
of all these oh so trendy websites with Flash animation opening that are more puzzle than planned. Also tired of multi-colored, over-linked, bad grammar blogs and those subtle light grey on white texts that we are supposed to read. Give me a simple menu to chose from up front and then deliver useful information. If I want to order some thing I will Google for it. I especially hate that ugly badly animated bad dancer trying to sell me a mortgage. If I want entertainment I'll order a movie or call up a hooker. Thank you too much. JMHO.
Some People Have Too Much Money
"The word gentrification is used when wealthy people move into a new neighborhood and fix it up," said Richard Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor whose mansion on Carbon Beach is steps away from the weekend homes of Terry Semel, the chief executive of Yahoo, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a movie executive and a friend of Mr. Geffen's. "But when it is billionaires taking over from multimillionaires, I'm not sure what you call that."
Go HERE if you have the abs for it.
Hubble Website

Great site for star gazing. Go HERE.
My Sparkler
Emma's off to Paree tomorrow with BFF Ava. They'll meet mom and do the do for a week. What a life. I scarcely got a hundred miles from Sibley, Iowa before I was 18. Here's Ella.

"I don't think the attorney general's statement that he was not involved in any discussions of U.S. attorney removals was accurate. I remember discussing with him this process of asking certain U.S. attorneys to resign."
-- Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Gonzales, testifying under oath, March 29, 2007
Stanley Turrentine

LOL
Paul Anka sings Nirvana's Smells To High Heaven. And then Curt.

MacDries wants to know, "What is paranoia?"
More Art

New Congress In Town
Pelosi lays it out for The Shrub. Go HERE.
American Medicine-8
Just got home from my 4th chemo treatment. In discussing all of this with my oncologist, I found out that when they start the Taxol in two weeks (weekly), it will only be Taxol. I'm done with the other two types of chemo!!! Hooray! He said most people don't get sick from Taxol so I won't have to take the expensive anti-nausea meds anymore either. Now I can handle the rest since I most likely won't have the fatigue side-effects either. Great news!
  As usual, thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. They are much appreciated.
I suggested that I could have sent her some good pot for her nausea but she declined.
Sure then I would have been "hooked" on that... thanks anyway. Took me 30+ years to get away from regular smoking. Even though the anti-nausea meds are expensive, they sure are worth it...at least for me.
  We South Dakotans are having some really strange weather... tornado warnings in places; blizzard warnings in others; flood warnings in others. Weird. Think I'll probably sleep through it, since I didn't sleep much last night.
  Thanks kid!! Take care of yourself.
Billary Bought Visack's Vote
Go HERE.
Johnny Cash
This is painful and I'm not sure why they had to release it. Go HERE.
CodeFred says this is a hoax. Don't know what that means but Go HERE for a better view.
Just 4 Fun

MacDries says, "Yeah, let's start with squeegy guys and jay-walking. Forget about the SEC guy who got a $300 million parachute. Y'know I always hated Koch as a poseur Democrat until Rudy got elected and re-elected. Now we have Bloombush, who is a step up but still a "moderate" Republicrat. Gimmie a break. At least we've now got Spitrzer."
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Buy it! Stadium Arcadium
The Riches - 2
Caught the 2nd episode last night on TiVo and the characters are becoming richer as well. I just ordered a season pass and suggest you sign on too. Not your usual soaper sit-com hospital drama.
Also saw Magnolia again and despite Julienne Moore, and PS Hoffman and other excellent actors you do have to suffer through the sleaziest slimiest Tom Cruise you've ever seen. He is either really good or really Tom Cruise. And then there are the frogs.
You Go, Senator
Barbara put on her boxing gloves and KOs Inhofe. Go HERE to Crooks & Liars.
Damn!
Looks like Edwards will suspend his campaign. Maybe even drop out. His wife, Elizabeth is probably having a recurrence of breast cancer.
Update: They go on and I'm certain that cynics are already parlaying the political odds going up or down in the polls.

MacDries says, "How childish is that? Like a kid, caught lying, keeping his fingers crossed."
Dirty Dick
Cheney goes back to hospital with more pain in his leg. OK, he gives all of us a pain in the ass. I thinkin' and wishin' this is his way of laying ground work for his resignation. But... doubtful cuz The Shrub must know that he'ss biggest impediment to impeachment.
Go HERE.
Derick & The Dominoes
More from Wolfgang's Vault. Go HERE.
Some People Have Too Much Money
Lemon Marilyn by Warhol, bought for $250 in 1962 will sell for $15 million dollars.

MacDries says, "Hell, I'll sell my whole oeuvre and art collection for $1 mil. Call me."
The Pretenders
Vintage Chrissie @ The Paladium via Wolfgang's Vault. Go HERE.
Roland Kirk

Monk
Rhythm-n-ning with our mentor. 1961

Move
Lee Konitz and Band.

Running Late
Can't wake up. Bored and my arthritic finger hurts.

Abortion is the pregnant womans' business. No one is pro-abortion but sometimes it is the lesser of evils. Sex education is part of the solution.

Marriage is not a moral issue. It is a social-legal right to establish families and share the benefits on an equal basis.

The death penalty, like war, is legalized murder. Some people deserve to die but the ones who die are not always the ones who deserve it.

Waging war is an immoral paranoid offense performed by one faction against other factions. Defending yourself against perceived or actual agression is never wrong unless you are paranoid.

That's all I've got today.
Veterans
Wanna connect with old buddies? Go HERE.
Steve Earle
Mini Doc. "Sometimes you make things up cuz reality does not rhyme."

What's The Point?
TIME mag has to Photoshop a tear on St. Reagan's cheek. And what is our most mean minded Prez crying about? How his right wing went wrong. Go HERE if you can take it.
Quotes Of The Day
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
-- Dante
New From Apple, Inc.
The iRack.

Dad's Gonna Kill Me
Baghdad, that is. Richard Thompson

Rahm Emmanuel Is Chicken Shit
He's telling new Reps to avoid The Colbert Report. Go HERE.
Billary Es Mas Macho
Billary wants to keep some troops in Iraq to fight Al Qaeda. Now it's also her war. So I guess she doesn't regret her vote at all.

He didn't listen to voters, just his friends he was pleasin'
Now, please don't ask why, who knows what's the reason.
It could be his heart wasn't working just right.
It could be, perhaps, that he wasn't too bright.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
Is that both brain and heart were two sizes too small.
In times of great turmoil, this was bad news,
To have a government that ignores its Whos.

But the Whos shrugged their shoulders, went on with their work,
Their duties as citizens so casually did shirk.
They shopped at the mall and watched their T.V.
They drove a gas guzzling big S.U.V.,
Oblivious to what was going on in D.C.,
Ignoring the threats to democracy.

They read the same papers that ran the same leads,
Reporting what only served corporate needs.
(For the policies affecting the lives of all nations
Were made by the giant U.S. Corporations.)
Big business grew fatter, fed by its own greed,
And by people who shopped for the things they didn't need.

But amidst all the apathy came signs of unrest,
The Whos came to see we were fouling our nest.
And the people who cared for the ideals of this nation
Began to discuss and exchange information:
The things they couldn't read, in the corporate-owned news,
Of FTAA meetings and CIA coups,
Of drilling for oil and restricting rights.
They published some books, created Websites,
Began to write letters, and use their e-mail
(Though Homeland Security might send them to jail!)

What began as a whisper soon grew to a roar,
These things going on they could no longer ignore.
They started to rise up and reach out to all
Let their voices be heard, they rose to the call,
To vote, to petition, to gather, dissent,
To question the policies of the "President."

As greed gained in power and power knew no shame
The Whos came together, sang "Not in our name!"
One by one from their sleep and their slumber they woke
The old and the young, all kinds of folk,
The black, brown and white, the gay, bi- and straight,
All united to sing, "Feed our hope, not our hate
Stop stockpiling weapons and aiming for war!
Stop feeding the rich, start feeding the poor!
Stop storming the deserts to fuel SUV's!
Stop telling us lies on the mainstream T.V.'s!
Stop treating our children as a market to sack!
Stop feeding them Barney, Barbie and Big Mac!
Stop trying to addict them to lifelong consuming,
In a time when severe global warming is looming!
Stop sanctions that are killing the kids in Iraq!
Start dealing with ours that are strung out on crack!"

A mighty sound started to rise and to grow,
"The old way of thinking simply must go!
Enough of God versus Allah, Muslim vs. Jew
With what lies ahead, it simply won't do.
No American dream that cares only for wealth
Ignoring the need for community health.

The rivers and forests are demanding their pay,
If we're to survive, we must walk a new way
No more excessive and mindless consumption
Let's sharpen our minds and garner our gumption.
For the ideas are simple, but the practice is hard,
And not to be won by a poem on a card.
It needs the ideas and the acts of each Who,
So let's get together and plan what to do!"

And so they all gathered from all 'round the Earth
And from it all came a miraculous birth.
The hearts and the minds of the Whos they did grow,
Three sizes to fit what they felt and they know.
While the Grinches they shrank from their hate and their greed,
Bearing the weight of their every foul deed.

From that day onward the standard of wealth,
Was whatever fed the Whos spiritual health.
They gathered together to revel and feast,
And thanked all who worked to conquer their beast
For although our story pits Grinches 'gainst Whos,
The true battle lies in what we daily choose.
For inside each Grinch is a tiny small Who,
And inside each Who is a tiny Grinch too.
One thrives on love and one thrives on greed.
Who will win out? It depends who you feed!

Author: Unknown
Catatonia
One of my readers claims that I haven't been writing much about ME. Well, here goes. Read, re-read Elmore Leonard, last night in bed until about 12:30 then lights out. Cold sweats a couple times and bad dreams. I keep a towel next to me these days. I read that sweats can be a symptom of low blood sugar but mine is almost normal when I get up; which is getting later and later. This morning I finally rolled out reluctantly at 11:30. Toilet, then my insulin/meds routine. Coffee and toast then back to the couch for my ritual nap. Up again now at 1:30 pm. I check the weather to see if it will be warm enough for my daily walk and shop. I shop daily like the Europeans. 58 and overcast which is good. Now I will try to do some blogging. Not much creative work going on these days. The days when Emma is with me are better. that's about it. The short lived thrill of the Dems taking over congress has passed and it looks like no one will dare to stop the little bastard. Everyone is running for his job and don't want to offend anyone.
Friday the 13th comes on a Tuesday this month.

"Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion."
-- Samuel James Ervin Jr., lawyer, judge, and senator (1896-1985)

"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner."
-- H. L. Mencken

"I particularly condemn the way our political leaders supplied the manpower for that war [The Vietnam War]. The policies determining who would be drafted and who would be deferred, who would serve and who would escape, who would die and who would live, were an anti-democratic disgrace.... I am angry that so many sons of the powerful and well-placed ... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units. Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to our country."
-- Colin Powell
Don't Know Where To Go?
Go HERE for Animal Hybrids.
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Go HERE for sand sculptures.
The Gruppster In Cuernavaca

Who Is Hillary?
A hawk in dove's feathers. And now she claims she's JFK. Go HERE.
Ad Hoc Architecture

©1974 Danny Dries
Aaron's Picks
Go HERE Replacements.
Go HERE Radiohead.
Go HERE Murder City Devils.
Go HERE 16 Horsepower.
Go HERE Queens Of The Stone Age.
Go HERE Arab Strap.
Go HERE Murder City Devils.

MacDries says, "And that will be the last mention of AC. We will not longer be her host intestine."
A True Conservative
"I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
-- Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
Grupp In Cuernavaca

©2007 Carl Grupp
Go HERE for more.
And It Came To Pass...
Somewhere along the line the "F" word became the "FR" word. The other night I was watching Taxi Driver and all the Fs were edited into fricks and frickins'. And even though I've always though Scorcese overdoes the Fs I must say it seemed quite silly.
The next night My Sparkler had a friend over for dinner and in between the every third word "like" her friend dropped in a frickin'.
"Huh?", I says, "when did we start using that word?" Sparkler and friend both looked a bit sheepish but I knew it was useless to pursue it. I guess it's like when "god damn it" became "gol' darn it" or "gosh darn".
Guiliani - Coward
Benito wants a pass on his record as a husband, father and extra credit for doing his job as Mayor. As Mayor he started the campaign against the homeless and tried to enforce jay-walking laws. He was famously quoted: "I jay-walk too but the difference is, I know it's wrong."
Now there is a defense for any crime: I killed her, sure, but I knew it was wrong.
Go HERE.
Doh! Of The Day
Scooter is guilty. Now the appeals. Then the pardon. But first Scooter has to drag it out until right after the 2008 election in the lamest of ducks period.
The Old Grey Lady
Ginormous is the latest word to be slithering around the NYTimes. I saw two usages in Sunday's issue. What's wrong with good old enormous? Snarky must be finished for a while.

MacDries says, " Beyond that, what does Neuter hope to achieve with such logic?"
Billary/Obama-Rama
After 16 years of Clinton/Shrub, do you really wanna see Billary's mug daily for the next 4 years?
Obama's looking better, if we can't get Gore to run. Gore/Obama would be a cinch. Edwards as Labor Secretary. Robert Reich as Secretary of Health Education. And Warren Buffett as Treasury Secretary. Richardson at U.N. Wesley Clark at Defense. Hell I could put together a better government that The Shrub.
Great Performances
Caught Last Man Standing, the Jerry Lee Lewis Special last night on TiVo. Awesome lineup including Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Don Henley, Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke, Ron Wood, Chris Isack, Kris Kristopherson, Nils Lofgren, & Kid Rock (who had the audacity to climb on The Killer's piano). Still kicking ass &72. Buy it! Last Man Standing

Back at'cha Shrub. You little twerp!
Go HERE to see the whole tape.

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I've never actually watched an episode of The Simpsons (I'm more of a Pixar kind of guy) butt...
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