So Help Me God, Under God, By God.

The flap about Obama's oath and its reference to God brought to mind the Pledge of Allegiance. When I learned it in the first grade, the words "under God" were not in it. I was upset when Eisenhower changed it when I was in the second grade because I had to relearn it and besides he was a Republican. Looking back on it, I might have been a better Christian today if I hadn't wasted a whole year without saying "under god" every morning, though we did say the Lord's Prayer and a prayer at lunch I think. This all assumes that the God we're talking about is Baby Jesus. Shake & Bake.

Hank Williams Died Either On This Date in 1952 or January 1, 1953. We Miss Him.

The Munster Final of 1959 ... Ned Power gets the better of Ring, and Waterford are on on their way to an All Ireland crown

Camógaíocht & Iománaíocht

Goalkeeper Mags Darcy did well this year but
Wexford didn't make the finals. See, Camógaíocht & Iománaíocht at Virg n' Mary.

Dana Perino & President Elect Both Sporting Black Eyes.

Of course, Perino's is not nearly as bad as the permanent one she'll have for shamelessly spinning Bush's bobbles. Rick Warren is a big one for Obama, but if this is the worst he gets, he'll be ok.

Your Choice of Numbers Offers Insight Into The Person You Are.

WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL?
1) Pick your favorite number between 1 and 9.
2) Multiply by 3.
3) Add 3.
4) Multiply by 3 again. You will get a 2-digit number.
5) Add these two digits together.
Now with that number see who your ROLE MODEL is at Your Role Model Is at Virg n' Mary.

Both Virgil & Titanic Thompson Were Raised In Rogers. Virgil Was Conceived In Detroit, but Only a Titanic Thompson Can Save It.

This From Hizhonor:
Boy, talk about your bad attitude!! Now I know why one of the lead characters in Guys and Dolls (by Damon Runyon) was named Nathan Detroit. He was a consummate con man and gambler. (played by Old Blue Eyes hisself). Incidentally....for your edification....Marlon Brando played the lead character, Sky Masterson. Few Rogers folks know Runyon named him for the most famous, or infamous, citizen of Rogers, one "Titanic Thompson" who was born and raised in the Beaver Lake area and whose birth name was Alvin C. Thomas. He was born in 1892. He is considered the greatest con man, gambler, golf hustler, pool hustler in history. He once conned Al Capone and got away with it. His trade name of Titanic Thompson came from a card game in Joplin where he absolutely cleaned everyone out. Someone asked who that guy was and another responded, "I don't know, but he is sinking everyone like the Titanic". Runyon considered him the Master of his trade and the Sky was the limit on his bets. I've given talks about him and his escapades to service clubs and I have yet to find anyone who ever heard of him. I know that he and C. Jimmy Carter were "associates". But, I digress................... John
From Jim:
Yeroner, I’ve always wondered, if NOone else has ever heard of Titanic Thompson, just what circles you might have been in to have learned of his lore? NOT… to insinuate anything… of course. But I have enjoyed passing along one or two of his tales. I like the road sign and the golf drive wagers. Jim
From a Different Honor’s Joplin Friend:
Yes I am very aware of Titanic..........up here he was called Titanic Slim and was well know as a golf hustler. I think I have a book with some of his tales. If I am not mistaken there is a fella here that as a young boy was an outstanding golfer and Slim took him on as a protoge as part of the hustle. I did not know of his Rogers connection but the Ol timers up here still remember him..........I think Joplin was at least for a time his HQ
Cites to Titanic Courtesy of Orve & Mary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_Thompson

http://www.evansville.net/user/boneyard/jjeff12.html

http://www.titanicthompson.com/

http://www.jetcafe.org/npc/reviews/gambling/unsinkable_titanic_thompson.html

http://www.cardcheaters.com/thompson-titanic.htm

http://www.palmermagic.com/titanic_thompson.html

Muntadhar al-Zaidi and Those Like Him Owe Dogs an Apology.

Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference in Iraq, called his shoe-throwing, “a traditional insult in Arab culture, a ‘farewell kiss’ to a ‘dog’ who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq.” I’m outraged. Dogs are loyal, usually kind, honest, and never launched an invasion of anyone. Muntadhar and others of like mind of like mind should hang their heads in shame. That Arab culture was traditionally ignorant of the virtuous dog nature is no excuse.

On This Day In 1872 Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback Became Governor of Louisiana and the First Black Governor Of Any American State.

It took over a hundred years for another African-American to become a governor. Douglas Wilder was the second when he became governor of Virginia in 1990.

Happy 75th Birthday to the Twenty First Amendment.

WARNING-Consumption of alcohol can destroy brain cells, interfere with sleep, damage the liver, cause weight gain, and lower testosterone levels.

Suit Stops Salacious Siloam Springs Searches. Dom Deputy To Go Private.

“I always wanted to work in the private sector anyway,” says Siloam Deputy Hegona Spreadum.(pictured here) “They’ll have to pay for it now”she added. See, Siloam Springs Settles Strip Search Suit by Jonah in The Iconoclast.

Posts Plagerized from Patti

"With the Tax Cuts Extended, Top 1 Percent of Households Would Receive Almost $1.2 Trillion in Tax Benefits"

Congress can pass tax policy that benefits all of us -- not just the richest 1%. Bush's tax cuts, that mostly benefit the richest 1%, are set to expire in 2010. If Congress doesn't let these Bush tax cuts expire, then according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

"Nearly $1.2 trillion in tax cuts would go to the top 1 percent of households, a group with annual incomes above $450,000 in 2008. The highest income 1 percent of households thus would receive nearly one third of the tax cuts’ total value."

AND "Putting the Cost of the Tax Cuts in Context"

"When the tax cuts are fully in effect, the cost of the tax cuts going to the very highest income households will be greater, in today’s terms, than the amounts spent on various high-priority programs.

In 2007 terms, the cost of tax cuts for households with annual incomes above $1 million will exceed what the federal government spent last year on K-12 and vocational education. It similarly will exceed the federal resources dedicated to hospital and other medical care for veterans, as well the resources provided for medical research conducted by the National Institutes of Health (see Figure 1).

The cost of tax cuts for the highest-income 1 percent of households will exceed the entire 2007 budget of the Department of Education. It similarly will exceed the entire 2007 budget of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. And it will be greater than the combined budgets of the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Energy, and State."

Read:Aviva Aron-Dine

THE SKEWED BENEFITS OF THE TAX CUTS

Why the rich are rich and the poor are poor

Or, Poor people wrecked the economy and now we have to spend all of this money bailing out Citigroup. Read Steve Clifford

“We finally found the W.M.D.” They were buried in our own backyard — subprime mortgages and all the derivatives attached to them -- Thomas L. Friedman

Friedman warns us:

"...You should be saving your money. You should be home eating tuna fish. This financial crisis is so far from over. We are just at the end of the beginning. Please, wrap up that steak in a doggy bag and go home.”

Read Thomas L. Friedman

Fact Check: Dems claiming your IRA and Slugs Bite

Check out those chain e-mails: Are the Dems going to take over your IRA (or what's left of it)? NO. And the facts are HERE

& Of course, slugs don't bite. These have curled themselves into terrified slug fetus positions -- but they quickly recovered their confident manner.

Check out this stuff. Go to Factcheck.org for political fact checking.
You can, if you want, check out The European red slug, Arion rufus L at OSU

(No slugs were injured during the production of this photo.)

Faith Brings Out The Best & Worst In Us.

THE GOOD
A Public Prayer of Thanksgiving by Randy Woodley 11-25-2008

"This historic proclamation of “A Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer” was supposedly issued by George Washington during his first year as President. In keeping with that tradition, I offer a simple prayer:

Great Mystery, I am humbled that I will never know everything about you, but I am grateful that through the lives of the other I can know more of you. I thank you for those who are like me, but I especially thank you for those who are different than me. I thank you for those who are younger than me and those older than me; for those who have less than me and those who have more than me; for those more physically able than me and those less physically able than me; for those whose skin is of a lighter hue than me and those of a darker hue than me; for those of the opposite sex as me and those of the same sex as me; for those of a different worldview than me and those with a similar worldview as me.

Please help me to discard the old American Myth built on falsehood and justification of racism, sexism, individualism, materialism, greed, and an abuse of your good earth. These and other lies have kept systems of oppression in place—systems that you hate but I sometimes grow comfortable with. May we together discover a new story for our country where everyone has an equal voice—even those with whom we disagree and even with those who have no voice.

I am thankful for this place we indigenous people sometimes call Turtle Island and others call America. I am thankful that it is becoming a place where freedom can take hold and it is becoming a place where one day we will all be equal under the law, under the prevailing social structures, and in our own minds.

And I thank you for the land itself; may you work through us to revive it to your most beautiful intentions. May we work together to purify the land and live with it as well as on it. May all of your creatures, the four-legged, the flying things, the crawling things, and the two-legged creatures all be able to afford a home on your land. May we make the water sacred once again, the first medicine that provides life to all your creation. May it not be comodified so as to keep it out of the reaches of any of your creatures, and may it be kept in a way that shows the respect for it that you gave it when you made the water such an important part of this earth.

As I look around this circle we call mother earth, I am thankful to you that it is a sacred circle and in the circle no one is more, nor less, than the other. As I look around the sacred circle, I see that I am related to all your creation and that each one in the circle is as sacred as me. You have given us all stories to tell but in all our stories we find you. It is the you in the other that I most value Great Mystery. Please teach me about myself in this sacred circle so I may know you and reflect you more on this good earth. Thank you…" Rev. Randy Woodley is a Keetoowah Cherokee Indian teacher, lecturer, poet, activist, pastor, and the author of Living in Color: Embracing God’s Passion for Ethnic Diversity Thanks to Rev. Sandi

Though I'm trying to be thankful for "those of a different worldview than me" I don't appreciate insanity. Here's
THE BAD & UGLY
“Drawing on fear and ignorance to support his position, Rev. Cole seems milder than usual in his denunciation of the people and the Democrats in general. ‘While Barack Obama does share many traits with the coming antichrist described in the Bible, and while those who lived through the Jewish Holocaust are fearfully warning of striking similarities to 1930s Germany, we cannot say with certainty at this point that Obama amounts to anything more than just another leftist puppet who is controlled by the enemies of our Constitution . . .’” Jay Cole, Jr., and the Anti-Christ, by Jonah in The Iconoclast.

Legal Stuff & More Sex

Legal Stuff
They don't make um any bettern Lonnie Turner. These are excerpts from his closing argument in Davis v. Tyson which he tried with Cousin Jim.

"Now they had been raising chickens and they didn't have a moisture problem with chickens and I think most of us know that. I've never seen a chicken take a leak in my life; but that ain't the case with hogs. That ain't the case with hogs. Them hogs will produce as much water as the Mulberry Creek on a rampage will."

"What they did to my client was like a farmer castrating a calf, and telling the calf he was doing it a favor."

On punitive damages, "When I was young, I got my ass whipped for lighting a little cedar bush at the front step of our old home place and nearly burning the house down."

This is a typical deposition: It was taken by my ole buddy Joe Jamail. One time me'n ole Jamail . . .

Sex

This is Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, for whom I had the hots in my elementary school years.

Gonads, Vulva, Penis, Intercourse.

Some have complained that I don't have the sex appeal of the Iconoclast. Sex sells and politics is boring. To spice things up, I'm shamelessly and lustfully copying Jonah's material. The Pic at the left is from Dr. Thomas the Bogus Blogger
Equally erotic is Naked Lunch
"Phillip and Tina Sherman of Bella Vista have sued McDonald's for at least $3 million after nude photographs of Tina were posted on the Internet. Phillip seems to have left his cell phone at McDonald's on Sixth Street in Fayetteville on July 5. Tina soon learned that the nude pictures of herself, which she had sent to her husband's phone, had been posted on-line by clever burger-flippers, along with her name, address, and phone number. The brisk response of phone calls and text messages was unwelcome, and Tina says she was mortified and cried uncontrollably.

To compensate them for their foolishness, the Sherman's have filed suit against McDonald's Corp., Matthews Management Co. and Aaron Brummley, a local manager, for negligence and negligent supervision. They want no less than $1 million for outrage; no less than $1 million for public disclosure of private facts; and, no less than $1 million for casting the Shermans in a false light. They claim that they and their family suffered severe mental and emotional distress, physical injury, pain and suffering, embarrassment, damage to their reputations, fear, and loss of earnings. They also want to be paid for the cost of moving to a new residence.

Let this be a lesson kids. Don't be sending nekkid pictures of yourself to anyone's cell phone."

Nearing The End of An Error

Thanks to Gene

Paradise Now

“To the repentant thief upon the cross, the soft Jesus of the modern Bible holds our hope of Heaven. ‘Today thou art with me in Paradise.’ But in older translations, as Soen Roshi points out, there is no ‘today,’ no suggestion of the future. In the Russian translation, for example, the meaning is ‘right here now.’ Thus, Jesus declares, ‘You are in Paradise right now’–how much more vital! There is no hope anywhere but in this moment, in the karmic terms laid down by one’s own life. This very day is an aspect of nirvana, which is not different from samsara but, rather, a subtle alchemy, the transformation of dark mud into the pure, white blossom of the lotus.
‘Of course I enjoy this life! It’s wonderful! Especially when I have no choice’” From The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthessen

Stand By Me All Over The Place-Only The Cheese Stands Lone.

Thanks to Judge C.

Teresa Brewer- Step to the Rear & My little grass shack in Kealekekua, Hawaii

Lieberman's A Turd In The Punch Bowl.

See, Lieberman's Biggest Crime Of All by Bob Geiger " . . .deep down, underneath all the words and speeches and photo opportunities with the McCain-Palin ticket, what Lieberman was really after was four to eight more years of neo-conservative Republican rule. At least four more years of the same leadership that made 80 percent of Americans believe the country was on the wrong track. And up to eight, 12 or even 16 more years of the same policies that have driven the United States to the point of social, economic and political ruin. Beyond every outward thing Joe Lieberman did in 2008, he finally came out and admitted through his actions that he is exactly what we've always known he is -- a Republican. That alone disqualifies him from leading a committee in a Democratic Senate or, for that matter, even sitting in the same room with the Democratic caucus. And, for dismissing all of that, 42 Senate Democrats should be profoundly ashamed."

Two of the great virtues:Patience and Wisdom.

Luna- August 1992-November 12, 2008

Luna died on November 12. Kim found her in August of 1992 at Hendrix when some maintenance men rescued her from under the student center which had been fumigated by some exterminators. Her mother and litter mates died. Luna stayed alive and toxic. The chemicals took their toll. I don’t know if her cancer (of the larynx) was related to them, but sixteen years after the exposure, any tick that got on her neck would die.
From Kim:
She may have been the ugliest cat I had ever seen, but I took her home and vowed to take care of her. Angie protested at first, but eventually gave in. We kept her in a box in my room for a long time while she gained enough strength to live. Bill gave us tips on caring for her and we eventually nursed her back to health. She was always feisty and you never knew if you would get a kiss or a slash when you approached her. She was also finicky and always preferred to drink running water from the faucet as opposed to drinking from her bowl. She would wait in the kitchen sink or bathtub for someone to come to turn on the water for her. My fondest memories are of her curling up in a ball in my lap to watch television or sleeping by my feet on cold nights. She was a sweet cat and she will be missed.

From Barbara whom Luna called Barbar:
In the summer of 1993 Kim asked if we could take care of Luna "for the summer" while she went off to work in Tennessee. Fifteen years later she was still with us. I took her to the vet clinic across from the office on Halsted. The vet was asking me her name when I noticed that his name tag said "Dr. Luna". I was almost embarrassed to tell him hers....... I made the mistake of applying some flea and ticket repellent on her not long after she came to our house. She began frothing at the mouth and she stretched out on her side on the floor and began dragging herself around in a circle while she caterwauled (think of Curly on the 3 Stooges). We called Bill (the Vet) and he confirmed she was exhibiting signs of chemical sensitivity. I'd just made her more toxic! Her chemical dependency continued to exhibit itself. If she was near anyone wearing hand lotion, she would try her best to lick it off. She had brain damage. But she wasn't dumb. We taught her how to give "kisses" -- if you put your face close to hers and said "kiss," she would lick your nose. She was also the most petite cat I ever had -- probably to do with the initial rough start to her life. In spite of her handicaps she was absolutely fearless. One day a large dead catfish washed up on the bank of the lake. A bunch of turkey vultures were taking turns picking at it. Luna wanted part of the action and walked deliberately among them oblivious to any danger. Fortunately, I saw it happening and raced down to swoop her up before the vultures did. She was not happy with me. We also had a couple of dogs over the years that Luna lived with us. She got her bluff in early and they never bothered her. She survived long after the dogs were gone. She also managed to get stuck in trees before she figured out there were other places to hide from the neighbor dogs. The first time she got stuck in a small oak tree about 4 inches around. We didn't have a ladder tall enough to reach her and we couldn't climb the tree, so we had to cut it down with her in it! After that we rigged up a basket attached to a rake as a "cherry picker" to reach her. The last time the dogs chased her up a tree was about 3-4 years ago. She got about 20 feet up the tree and promptly fell out of it. She did not land on her feet. Miraculously, she wasn't hurt at all.
Luna went into heat and, as adolescents will do, could think of nothing else. She would caterwaul and “back up” to her friends. Finally, Bill satisfied her with a Q-tip. Apparently she never forgot that experience (does anyone?). Wish I could say that it worked, but she was no less frisky and in fact grew to love Q-tips so much that we had to keep them out of her reach. If she got a hold of one, she would wrestle with it until it fell apart. After she came to live with us I had to put away the container of Q-Tips I kept on the bathroom counter. We'd come home and find Q-Tips on the floor. Many years later (2006) I put a container of Q-Tips on the downstairs bathroom counter thinking that she was probably over all that. A day or so later we found about 18 Q-Tips all over the bedroom and bathroom -- on the floor, on the bed, under rugs, etc. Aside from the ongoing drama and entertainment she provided, I think what I loved about Luna most was her "honesty." She was uncomplicated and direct. You always knew when she was happy or mad -- the only two "emotions" she seemed to exhibit. I consider Luna our "miracle" cat. Her existence itself was a miracle. And I think she was in far more pain than we knew, but she plugged along almost "normally" all the way to the end. I knew something was up when she quit wanting to drink water in the bathtub a few days ago. She was a sweet kitty cat and I miss her, but I'm glad she's not in any more pain.

From Jim:
Luna was nearly blind, had poor balance, and the only cat I’ve ever seen who was slower than I. She was athletic character in spite of her lack of coordination. She loved climbing the screens and would be half-way up the window most times. She loved it when Scott would sing her special song How Much Is That Pussy In The Window when he’d see Luna perched in the windowsill. In her early days, she loved and was loved by Kim, Angie, Cristi, Ann, Jennifer, Bill and Scott. Luna loved drinking in the bathtub, showering in the sink, sleeping with Barbar, meditating with Jim, being with Kim, jumping into Aarika’s lapenjoying her discomfort, taking some of Cecil’s blood, and answering the phone. Luna also loved and was loved by Andrea who took care of her when we were gone. Luna was her favorite cat. Luna was tolerant of children and was the favorite of the young ones who could not get near other cats. She was grateful to Margot, Dr. Angie, Karen, Marilyn, Diane, Carol, Mayse, Sarah, Marilyn, Miranda and all at the cat clinic who took good care of her.
We all miss you Luna.

I pondered......for a day or two......and with everything that's going on in the outside world and in my own little sick world, I, too have questions about believing and what "is to believe"?! But it all goes back to one thing and one thing only....what's inside and what we feel is right in our hearts......By no means am I a bible thumper; however, I am a very big believer of a "Higher Being"......and with that, I had to open my daily devotional this morning. Novermber 11th......I was needing something to help in this week of uncertainty; and I'm not talking about politics or the world economics-I believe that will work out; we have to trust in the "Higher Being"-don't we or don't we?.....And, I guess in this self imposed uncertainty, I was thinking of myself and food for the soul.....I need "maintenance" for my heart and something to keep me going and for some reason.....I'm not getting it.....however; I do find comfort in these words and I hope someone else who reads this may too:

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

Psalm 72:6

Amos speaks of the king's mowings. Our King has many scythes, and is perpetually mowing His lawns. The musical tinkle of the whetstone on the scythe portends the cutting down of myriads of green blades, daisies, and other flowers. Beautiful as they were in the morning, within an hour or two they lie in long, faded rows.

Thus in human life we make a brave show, before the scythe of pain, the shears of disappointment, the sickle of death.

There is no method of obtaining a velvety lawn but by repeated mowings:

And there is no way of developing tenderness, evenness, sympathy, but by the passing of God's scythes. How constantly the Word of God compare man to grass, and His glory to its flower. But when the grass is mown, and all the tender shoots are bleeding, and desolation reigns where flowers were bursting, it is the most acceptable time for showers of rain falling soft and warm.

O soul, thou has been mown! Time after time the King has come to thee with His sharp scythe. Do not dread the scythe-it is sure to be followed by the shower.

F. B. Meyer

OBAMA ELECTION REPRESENTS MANY FIRSTS

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Many are commenting upon the seismic novelty of Obama’s election as President of the United States. There are many dimensions to this, some easily overlooked. Among the more significant perhaps is that this marks the first time that a black family has been asked to move into a formerly white residence with the expectation of raising property values!

It now appears that this novel outcome was brought about not only by a historic turnout among young voters and minority voters but also by a drop in turnout by white voters. Apparently, this demographic of confused voters was trapped between the objective failure of a dogma previously embraced and a prejudice precluding acceptance of a rational alternative and stayed home. Minds it would seem, accustomed to surrendering reason to belief have a hard time resorting to reason even when belief has plainly failed them. This raises a question, do people choose to be believers or are they born that way? Do they believe because they can’t think or just choose not to? What an irony that would be?! Perhaps thinkers should put together an initiated act to prevent believers from marrying. It might trigger an interesting debate.

Welcome To Our World Piper Suzanne Crenshaw.

Piper was born this morning at 8:55 am after an 18 hour labor and weighed 6 lbs 4 ounces. Pictured here are Piper, Sister Shelby,Mom, and Dad. The liberal law firm where Mom works has graciously given her time off work until Monday.

New World Order

Note to Palin Republicans-THIS IS A SATIRE.

Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.

Thanks to Judge C.

Seventy Years Hasn't Diluted The Horror of Kristallnacht

"On the nights of November 9 and 10, gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting. In all 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died (Snyder, Louis L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. New York: Paragon House, 1989:201)."

Pass Life On. Be An Organ Donor. Sing It John!

"Here's to the first of the day, fellas. To ol' D. H. Lawrence."

Hank Thompson Died One Year Ago Today. We Miss You Hank.

Here, Hank does one of my favorite patriotic songs- Red Neck, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer.

It's Time To Heal. Hat's Off To John McCain For Helping Us Along That Road.

“My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly," . . . A little while ago, I had the honour of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love . . .This is an historic election. I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans, for the special pride that must be theirs tonight. . . I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too. . . .We both recognise that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation ... the memory of them still had the power to wound. . . .I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together. . . .Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. . . . Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country, and I applaud him for it and offer him his sincere sympathy his beloved grandmother did not see him on this day” John McCain
McCain was graceful and courageous in a difficult moment. He put country first and admonished supporters who were disrespectful. Thanks John.

Don't Let Cameron Down. Vote for Change He Can Believe In.

Don't forget about the change in voting procedure this year. If you're voting for Obama, go to the polls today, November 4. If you're for McCain, go to the polls on Wednesday November 5. Thanks to Cristi for the tip.

Hockey Mama for Obama

Palin Talks to Sarkozy Who Wasn't Talking to Her. Both Like Hunting From Helicopters.

Just When McCain Thought Things Couldn't Get Worse, Cheney Endorses Him.

Taking America Back.

DOUBLE CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO HEAR BEN EXPLAIN IT.
Thanks to Jane.

The Way We Treat The Little Children Would Make Jesus Roll Over In His Grave If He Hadn't Done Risen.

When the Scots-Irish came to America, they were predominately Presbyterian. Presbyterians required educated clergy. Since educated folk were largely unavailable in the back woods, the Scots-Irish became Baptists and Methodists who had no requirement. Methodists, have have evolved into a relative enlightened group. Some Baptists have too, but there weren’t enough of them at the Arkansas Baptist Convention.
“Those Baptist want to make it illegal to do a lot of things, but assuming this position allows them to stand firm against gays and fornicators. They declared that orphans and unwanted children should be warehoused in state institutions at taxpayer expense unless potential adoptive or foster parents meet their standards, . . .Never mind that there are 3,700 Arkansas children needing foster care and only about 1,100 foster homes are ready to take them. Better that they rot in bedlam than be placed in a loving home with qualified adults who don't conform to the lifestyles of the priggish Arkansas Baptist Convention. These pious meddlers have no better solution, but they are damn sure against sexually active unmarried couples, gay or straight, adopting children or providing foster homes. If you haven't already done so, Vote Against Act 1.” Baptist Convention Casts First Stone by Jonah.

Werewolves of London, Jumpin Gene Simmons et al Wish You a Happy Halloween

Sonny Boy Was One Of McClean's Best Razzle Dazzle Backs.

Sonny Boy's son Richard went to the University of Arkansas on a golf scholarship and is now a practicing clinical psychologist in Fayetteville.

Bush-McCain Redistribution of Wealth.

"Joe the plumber really should look at the reports from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Republicans redistributed the nation's wealth from the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of households to the incomes of the top 1% of households. Now that's wealth redistribution. So, Joe, unless you're in that top 1% income household, a vote for McCain is a vote against yourself." Speaking of Wealth Redistribution -- "Income Concentration at Highest Level Since 1928" by Patti

Bee Gees’ ‘Stayin’ Alive’ Could Indeed Save Your Life

Thanks to Kim

Happy Birthday Cameron

Obama Supporter Attacked.

An Obama campaign volunteer pictured here was beaten by a white woman after she became enraged over the Obama sticker on his car. The man says he was robbed at an ATM Wednesday night after leaving a Democratic Party phone bank. He said the robber, whom he described only as a white woman wearing designer clothes and having a Fargo accent, held a knife to his neck, stole $60 from him and then punched and kicked him. Before she fled, he said she carved a moose on his butt.

Rest In Peace Bobo. I'm So Sorry My Species Isn't More Like Yours.

". . .the Yorkshire terrier clinging to life after his owner purposely burned him, died early this morning. The shock of the burns apparently did damage to his kidneys, pancreas and other internal organs . . .Bobo suffered burns over his legs and other parts of his body after his owner allegedly hog-tied him and set him on fire over a stove on Sunday." Bobo the Yorkshire terrier burned by his owner, dies By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News

Happy Birthday to the Honorable Councilwoman Edye

You can tell by the smile that this girl would never be trouble.

Happy Birthday Dorothy

Thanks for lugging Jim around. Sorry about the long term consequences for your back.

Sarah Palin Directs McCain Attack Ad Bloopers

To see Palin as President, double click here and move the mouse around.

This Has To Be Wrong.

Drinking alcohol shrinks the brain. People who enjoy more than two glasses of wine a day are at greater risk of suffering memory problems in old age than non drinkers, a new study shows. By Kate Devlin Double Click Here for More If You Can Remember How.

McCain/Palin Fingers On The Nuqular (Sick) Button?

"'A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and . . .'" See Patti's McCain: "temperamentally unsuited to be commander in chief"

Happy Birthday Lori