Okay, folks . . .

1. Now that the Teabaggers have finally figured out what the term really means . . . they say it is a slur! I refer them to the phrase "hoist by one's own petard."

2. I love how the local Republican political vermin are crawling into the light of day . . . and nary can the term "Republican" be seen! They're all "conservatives" now. Like that carpet-bagging fetid pile of dingo's kidneys asshat Richard Pombo, who mis-represented my old congressional district a decade ago before getting punted like a demented gnome in 2008. I guess it takes more than a wee dram of, you know, political courage, to run on the brand so soiled and defiled by Shrub the Younger.

I guess he was a Rethug before being a Rethug was un-cool, right? As though filing the serial number off a gun changes its ability to kill . . . .

3. Second ICC 10 run yesterday for Tyrantos. Nice belt and bracers for his Enhancement spec dropped but nothing for his healbot set that he did not already have. Raid is going "Splat" on Rotface. Just need better execution on this guy. Still 5/12 ICC-10 Regular. Hope to Odin I can make the 25 on Sunday-day-day. Doing Mom's day stuffs tonight with Jameece, her mom and a friend.

4. Been watching some TV on DVD -- to wit: Babylon 5, Season 2. Two episodes to go, and it is as awesome now as it was when I first saw it in reruns on SciFi (the current designator for the network, "SciFy" makes me sick, BTW) almost a decade ago. It's a LotR-class epic space opera, the best damn SF show made in the 1990s, and outside of Star Trek TOS, is the best-of-all-time SF TV series not created by Joss Wheadon. Firefly is just as good or better in terms of acting, writing and effects; it takes the honors for the decade just passed with only token competition from Stargate . . . but Firefly never got the chance to tell this kind of story . . . if that was ever Joss' intent.

Thank Odin for Hulu.com and the WB's streaming of all five seasons.

Two movie premieres today

W and Max Payne...

Coincidence? Naaah.

The RNC / Palin Nomination

Just a few observations about this week's political convention:

1. I'm going to ignore the speeches. There is nothing that they have said or will say that I have not heard before, and staying out of thrown weapons range of a TV screen is a wise maneuver. Since I'm ignoring the speeches, I'll not comment on them. As Mom told me as a wee lad, if you cannot say anything nice about someone, you're probably going to grow up a blogger don't say anything at all.

2. As to the Palin nomination, which is something that has been blogged to within an inch of its life, I have this to say: the pick clearly was not vetted by John McCain, and even more clearly was a sop to the theocratic wing of the Republican Party. I agree with Barack Obama that the nominee's families should be off limits. Palin's politics and performance as Govenor of Alaska is not. Her resume is thinner than an anorexic starlet on a week-long purge, her management style makes Dick Cheney look like Barney the Purple Dinosaur by comparison, her record on reproductive choice is unsupportable and if, Goddess forbid it, the McCain-Palin ticket wins or steals the election, this 44 year old tyro will stand one 72-year old heartbeat away from the highest office in the land. Don't be fooled by her attractiveness, she's a hardcore Christian Dominionist in sheep's clothing.

3. One more thing about St. Paul and Minneapolis: I've been there, those towns are lovely places. Hard to imagins such a place overrun with riot cops and no-knock flying squads on pre-emptive raids. It's almost as though the cops are trying to provoke a riot. As for the violent ones among them . . . I'm willing to bet some of them are cops -- agent provocateurs sent in to discredit the nonviolent ones and to justify the $50 million price tag for "security."

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Listening to: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down
via FoxyTunes

Some politicians kiss babies . . .

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Going for the NASCAR Dad vote, it's . . .

Ron Paul Racing!

And I don't have Van Halen's I Can't Drive 55 in iTunes.

The Christian Hell Just Froze Over . . .

I am in complete agreement with a New York Times editorial for once.

Heard in Global Trade Channel: "LF Guild "

Presidential candidate meets WoW. Film at 11 (server time) . . . .



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Now playing: The Elders - Gonna Take a Miracle
via FoxyTunes

An "anti-endosement"

Mitt Romney takes it in the shorts from the Concord Monitor.



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Listening to: "Weird Al" Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy
via FoxyTunes

OK, this is getting out of hand, or tenticle

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