Wonder how the debate went :)

Going kayaking tomorrow with Meal, Hope it's a nice day :)

Some people remembered :D

I hope we never forget :(

Here's how they spin Katrina

he couldn't handle another 4 years! of course they don't mention it's a faux trailer and the guy, Rockey Vaccarella had a background himself in GOP politics.
Unlike the common regular guy in the videos, he is actually a highly successful businessman in the fast-food industry, and had run unsuccessfully under the GOP banner for a seat on the St. Bernard Parish commission back in 1999. Here is part of his bio that ran in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on Oct. 15, 1999:

ROCKEY VACCARELLA
Republican, 35.
Born in New Orleans. Grew up in Arabi and Chalmette. Lived 11 years in Meraux.
Married, two children.
Graduated from Chalmette High, 1982. Attended St. Bernard Community College.
Director of operations, Lundy Enterprises, as manager of 31 Pizza Hut restaurants and 450 employees. Former general restaurant manager of Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits

Of course. They also have the professional spinner try to rewrite history...



What a jerk...

Wow! To think what we could've funded...

Taxpayers in Hawaii will pay $1.0 billion for the cost of war in Iraq. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

350,508 People with Health Care or
19,485 Elementary School Teachers or
137,653 Head Start Places for Children or
543,259 Children with Health Care or
4,667 Affordable Housing Units or
112 New Elementary Schools or
297,212 Scholarships for University Students or
17,748 Music and Arts Teachers or
27,359 Public Safety Officers or
3,004,201 Homes with Renewable Electricity or
14,497 Port Container Inspectors

and with the $56.5 billion in tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% this year could have been spent on the people of Hawaii. If that money were used to support state and local programs, the residents of Hawaii could have $250.0 million, which could provide:

85,089 People with Health Care or
4,730 Elementary School Teachers or
33,416 Head Start Places for Children or
131,881 Children with Health Care or
1,133 Affordable Housing Units or
27 New Elementary Schools or
72,151 Scholarships for University Students or
4,309 Music and Arts Teachers or
6,642 Public Safety Officers or
729,296 Homes with Renewable Electricity or
3,519 Port Container Inspectors

The figures are from The National Priorities Project and can be figured for each State

Those Who Hate Us Weekly

Glad I missed the convention.. crazy trekies!

Maybe he should read it again :(

Dad, sure you want to live here?

"A seventh-grade geography teacher who refused to remove Chinese, Mexican and United Nations flags from his classroom was placed on paid administrative leave Wednesday by Jefferson County officials who were concerned that the display violates the law.

District officials said state law forbids the display of foreign flags unless they are temporary and related to the curriculum."

OK.. let's remember, he's a GEOGRAPHY teacher! Hello!?!

Read the Story

I guess we're all getting older...

I heard too many desperate soundbites on the boat tonight :(

Val, don't be late for work! You can get ready on the way...

And you can hear a lecture on the way :)

Powerpoint is Evil...

Of course, I say this because I'm tired of uploading bad Powerpoint presentations :) But at least I'm not the only one who sees the problem...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

Vegas is Crazy!!!

Wow! What'd I miss :)

Missile-like metal tube is reported over Hilo Airport

By Rod Thompson


HILO » The FBI and the Transportation Security Administration are investigating sightings of an object resembling a missile flying over the Hilo Airport area Tuesday morning, Hawaii County Civil Defense said.

Reports gave opposite descriptions of its direction and widely varying estimates of its size.

The largest estimate was about 12 feet long, and the smallest was one foot. One report said it was headed over the airport's main runway, but another said it was headed north from Hilo, away from the airport.

Civil Defense official Lanny Nakano said the federal agencies classified the sighting as unconfirmed. The FBI and TSA did not return requests for comment.

Nakano, reading from notes from another Civil Defense official, said it was seen at 10:18 a.m. headed away from the airport.

But an eyewitness, who asked that his name not be used, told the Star-Bulletin he saw it heading from the Civic Auditorium area to the Keaukaha area, which would take it over the main runway.

That witness saw a silver tube with no markings or fins, trailing "vapor" that quickly dispersed.

"The noise was super-loud," he said.

Police also interviewed about a half-dozen witnesses who saw or heard it, said police spokeswoman Chris Loos.

Loos and the nameless witness said there were plane flights before and after the object was sighted, but the object did not appear connected to their presence.

At Pohakuloa Training Area, 30 miles to the west, spokesman Bob McElroy said there were no military exercises using missiles.

http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/17/news/story08.html

log cabin

Hey Dad, here's a cabin like you like :)



and here's the kids in the hot tub...

Going camping with the kids and dog.. wish me luck!

The Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight :)

I need to get on my powerbook :D

They are flying blind :(

Remember the Black Night?

Ugh.. what a bad day to fly :(

Oh.. I hope Joe loses!

So the guy in the picture above dons a Liebermann T-Shirt and with a few other hacks crowds out a small diner where Lamont had planned to meet with supporters.. disrupts the meeting with boistrous comments, forcing Lamont to meet with supporters outside. Then we find out he's a lobbyist and a "good friend" of Liebermann (probably has gotten a lot of "support" over the years).. so with his career on the line, he makes a sign, goes to protest another Lamont meeting and then ends up yelling at a reporter.. go figure.. I'm not sure Joe needs these kind of "friends"




Even Joe Lieberman's Yale College Roommate, David Wyles, wouldn't vote for him...

"Just so you know, there was no personal pique in this, no 40 years of bad blood or dirt between us. When Joe Lieberman and I were at Yale, we were roommates and good friends. I knew then that he was going to be "going places" in politics and, even though I'm much more liberal, I've always supported his runs for elective office -- until now.

His cheerleading for Bush and the War on Iraq, along with his Alito flip-flop, has finally made me speak out publicly. As I say in this letter –

"Sometimes you have to consider what's best for your country rather than what's best for your friend...If I were living in Connecticut, I would vote for Ned Lamont."

So they think they outfoxed us?

Watch this video

So what he's saying is, the repugs attached raising the minimum wage to the elimination of the estate tax (which they knew wouldn't pass since it's a bad idea when the country is in such debt.. but they could say they tried!)

The end result being that, once again, the poor do not get an increase on their low paying jobs and go further into debt.. doesn't he know that the poor spend everything they make and it goes right back into the economy.. raising the mimimum wage only increases the amount of money in circulation.. and they haven't done it in 10 years! (with the repugs in control all that time, they have given themselves eight 8! raises in the past ten years!) Not to mention, it's way below the 70s when adjusted for inflation.. working at the car wash wouldn't pay as much :( and forget about if the job gets tips.. they put in the bill that you would be excempt from the minimum wage requirement and get paid only $3 an hour.. on a dead night at MidPac, you'd only get $10 total!

Watch out for the Pirates of Silicon Valley :)

I think i'd rather see Steve Jobs ;)

I hope Mel is in the Confession Booth today...

it's been a rough week for Mel Gibson, he'll need more than just a Sundays blessing from the priest.. good thing they've cancelled his holocaust miniseries.. he seems to believe the jews weren't specifically targeted and it's all a hoax..

Sailing on the Lynx was fun... wouldn't want to cross the Atlantic in it tho!

Well, it seems there are still holdouts who dispute the facts...

We will not solve a problem if we deny it exists or kill the messenger :(





"The leading climate scientists now generally agree that earth in the coming decades will warm another 2 degrees Fahrenheit no matter what we do -- partly because carbon dioxide, the major manmade greenhouse gas, stays in the atmosphere about a hundred years.

That's in addition to the average of 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit the Earth has already warmed from manmade causes -- which though it doesn't sound like much (remember, it's a single-number average for the entire planet) has already, say most scientists, given us disappearing glaciers worldwide, drought and famine, increasingly frequent and more intense heat waves and millions of species in ecosystems everywhere scrambling for cooler ground but often running into uncrossable highways and ever-expanding human development.

Even scarier is the other sight, about 20 meters down off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif.: bubbles, millions of bubbles of methane -- 20 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. The methane is bubbling up naturally from some of the enormous natural undersea reservoirs of the gas mostly locked into the frozen mud under the sea floor.

Scientists have just released video showing how, for the first time, they have been able to measure these natural up-wellings to tell whether, if large amounts of this methane ever thawed out from its deep sea beds, it would reach the atmosphere, rather than being absorbed in the water, and thus make the earth even hotter."

They won't like this story

And don't forget the permafrost in Siberia is melting too.. lots of methane under there...

So cats make you nuts :)

Check out this study.. I guess I should stop kissing the cat :)

Parasite that makes cat-lovers neurotic

Bush broke 26 different laws!

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) released "Constitution in Crisis," a report identifying 26 specific laws and regulations implicated by the Bush Administration. The 350-page document is divided into sections on Iraq and civil liberties and supported with more than 1,400 footnotes.

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/iraqrept2.html

"The situation we find ourselves in today under the administration of George W. Bush is systemically worse than previous scandals such as Watergate and Iran-Contra," Conyers said. "The alleged acts of wrongdoing my staff has documented -- which include making misleading statements about the decision to go to war; manipulating intelligence; facilitating and countenancing torture; using classified information to out a CIA agent; and violating federal surveillance and privacy laws -- are quite serious."

* Deception of Congress and the American Public
o Committing a Fraud Against the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371)
o Making False Statements Against the United States (18 U.S.C. § 1001)
o War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148)
o Misuse of Government Funds (31 U.S.C. § 1301)
* Improper Detention, Torture, and Other Inhumane Treatment
o Anti-Torture Statute (18 U.S.C. § 2340-40A)
o The War Crimes Act (18 U.S.C. § 2441)
o The Geneva Conventions and Hague Convention: International Laws Governing
the Treatment of Detainees
o United Nations Convention Against Torture, and Cruel, Inhuman and
Degrading Treatment: International Laws Governing the Treatment of
Detainees
o Command Responsibility (for known illegal acts of subordinates in the
military)
o Detainment of Material Witnesses (18 U.S.C. § 3144)
* Retaliating against Witnesses and Other Individuals
o Obstruction Congress (18 U.S.C. § 1505)
o Whistleblower Protection (5 U.S.C. § 2302)
o The Lloyd-LaFollette Act, or "anti-gag rule" (5 U.S.C. § 7211)
o Retaliating against Witnesses (18 U.S.C. § 1513)
* Leaking and other Misuse of Intelligence and other Government Information
o Revealing Classified Information in Contravention of Federal Regulations
(Executive Order 12958/Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement)
o Statutory Prohibitions on Leaking Information (18 U.S.C. § 641, etc.)
* Laws Governing Electronic Surveillance
o Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (50 U.S.C. § 1801, et seq.)
o National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. chapter 15)
o Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. § 222)
o Stored Communications Act of 1986 (18 U.S.C. § 2702)
o Pen Registers or Trap and Trace Devices (18 U.S.C. § 3121)
* Laws and Guidelines Prohibiting Conflicts of Interest (28 U.S.C. § 528, etc.)

Gee, which would you pick...

I think these guys did too many drugs..

Don't worry Matt, it's totally flat here :(






Just in case you were thinking of going in...

Those were the days...

You tell 'em Amy! Way to shake up the party!

What do the Young Turks think is happening...

Talk about Big Love :) For Themselves!

Theses people are Bananas!

Hey Kirk.. you look like you want to laugh :) Explain why monkey's eat from the other end? And why God make the original bananas very small and full of seeds until man crossbred them to the large seedless variety that you hold in your hand...