DBT WIR - Shut up and Get on the Plane

First, I've changed the site for the weekend to honor the kick off of the DBT/Drams tour. Two mighty fine bands putting on what will be the best rock show in the states for the next couple of weeks.

Columbus, OH - Tonight
Cleveland, OH - Tomorrow
Pittsburgh, PA - Sunday....

You lucky bastards! Get out and support these fellas and lady (speaking of the lady she got several 'ohs' and 'ahs' at the Hardly Strictly show last weekend. Lookin' fine, Shonna!) buy some merch. Give them much love!

_________

Update: Check out Patterson's Blog on Gibson.com

_________

On with the DBT WIR - Shut up and Get on the Plane.....

Seriously, now, shut your mouth and get your ass on the plane. Take some Zoloft if you need too... We'll maybe don't, but all that family's problems did disappear over night.

We had a mighty fine weekend in the Bay Area last week. Chock full of visual and auditory candy. The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival was held in Golden Gate park and DBT played it for the first time ever on Sunday.

On Friday I dodged out of work early to check out the kick off of the Festival. Elvis Costello with the Hammer of the Honkey-Tonk Gods got things started. Here's a couple of photos of about 50k folks who ditched work early, too.

It was also Fleet Week in the City-by-the-Bay and Saturday evening I had the honor of buying a drink for a Navy soldier who was taking leave from the U.S.S. Nimitz. Those aircraft carriers are freakin' HUGE!

Earlier that Saturday we caught an awesome airshow by the Blue Angels from the roof top of a fellow Alabamian's apartment building in the Marina District. Believe it or not, that little lady on the far right of the below picture was Miss Lauderdale County H.S. 1996. Know where LCHS is located? Rogersville, Alabama. She didn't have "a case a Sterling Bigmouths", but she did have 2 six packs of Stella Artois which were mighty tasty. Oh, and the "half ounce of weed".... well...... :-)

Be sure to click on the pictures in order to see the jets really well. I didn't reduce the size of the pictures so they blow up pretty good.

From the roof top with Pacific Heights in the background.

A MiG over Alcatraz

A view of Pacific Heights. Rich folk live there.

Blue Angels, Palace of Fine Arts and the Golden Gate Bridge

Blue Angels - 2 Flying upside down

Straight up

Starburst

Blue Angels

A lot of fun to watch those crazy cats. Now, on to DBT at the Hardly Strictly:

Strictly a good time: Annual free Golden Gate Park bluegrass festival gets better -- and bigger -- with age.:

"With most of the festival's biggest names reserved for Sunday, and Saturday's bill more concentrated on traditional acoustic music, the crowds for the first day of the weekend have always been substantially smaller. But the audience Saturday topped the previous year's attendance by at least half. Police estimated that as many as 500,000 people could have attended the three-day event."

500,000 people... and a snake. That snake came from one of the planes. It was a 'Snake on a Plane'. The hype on that one died pretty quickly, aye?

Best part is that he's drinking a King Cobra. Nice!

And what would a concert in Golden Gate park be without a spinning hippie. Hey, look! A Spinning hippie.

Know what song she was spinning to? Lookout Mountain. No shit. Actually she spun and hippie grooved to all the songs, but it as funny as hell to have a hippie spinning in front of you while the heavy metal sounds of Lookout Mountain are permeating the park.

This was the largest crowd I've ever seen DBT play too. I guesstimated around 7K. Here's a look from the front of the stage to as far as I could see going back. (Hey, I was hung over as piss that day and I found a spot in the shade and stayed there. No photo journalist was I.)

Here is a shot of the stage and some rocking out pictures:

The COOLEST part of the show was the Blue Angels flying over while DBT played. DBT damn near was the only thing in SF that weekend that was louder the Blue Angels. Click to see the jet above the stage.

Here they are in formation over the stage:

Here's Patterson preaching and the band Rocking:

The crowd loved them. They gained a ton of new fans that day and I had a shit load of people from the Bay Area find this site by searching for DBT this last week. The guy in front of me during the show turned around and said that he had never heard of the band until he looked them up online the morning before the show. He was seriously impressed. He asked me how many albums they had put out and I said 7. He asked which one should he get and I said all of 'em.

A band called Freakwater played before DBT, and, I apologize if there are any fans of this group reading this, they were a snooze and a half. Reminded me of the country music I hated growing up. DBT was a "Day" to Freakwater's "Night". Shifting from Dec Day to Lookout blew people away. Buttholeville brought the park down as the final song. The stage MC said something to the effect of "That's how you DO it" when DBT was finished. It was an awesome weekend.

News and Links

Glorious Noise - GLONO Video with the Drams:

"The Drams, a Texas band composed of former members of Slobberbone and Budapest One, sat down with Glorious Noise in Chicago while touring in support of Jubilee Dive, out now on New West Records."

_________

Mark and the boys at Ninebullets have made sure we don't miss any of the Rocktober files. Mark kicks much ass:

Mirror of LetThereBeRocktober files

__________

Jeff Wall gets the honor of the funniest post on the DBT Yahoo Group this week. Jeff, you're not cocaine rich are you?

dbts : Message: Time to put a band together:

"It's time to get off of my ass and put a band together. I'm thinkingsomething small, something fun, something kind of like my dick. Something on the lines of Traditional Country/ Acoustic Southern Rock/Bluegrass/ Some Classic Rock. For those of y'all that don't know me, I am a big, shaggy, irreverent, extremely profane, exceptionally good looking (in a shaved down Sasquatch kind of way) Kernersville based, well hung (I was lying earlier, really I was), 45 year old studmuffin who plays acoustic guitar.

_________

via Jayne on the Yahoo Group Board.

dbts : Message: Legendary FAME Records Inks Deal with EMI: "

Legendary FAME Records Inks Deal with EMI

MUSCLE SHOALS, Alabama The world-famous FAME Records- based in the fabled music mecca of Muscle Shoals, Alabama - has signed a distribution agreement with EMI Music Marketing in the United States.

Under the terms of the deal, EMI will distribute new FAME Records product along with rare and vintage Southern soul and rhythm-and-blues recordings from the treasured FAME vaults."

__________

I'd really like to hear some thoughts from you folks in the comments on the following article. One person was waving a small Confederate flag during the DBT show.

Red flag - NASCAR - Yahoo! Sports:

"'Why are you doing this to us?' demanded one public relations woman. 'This is not a story,' shouted another, even after I pointed out that the flags are still flying. 'Absolutely no way, no how,' said another.

Email responses were often bitter. Face-to-face encounters often worse. Interview and statement requests were summarily denied. At some drivers' scheduled weekly press conferences, I was told that any question involving the flag would end the session."

_________

What the fuck is wrong with christians?

Angry Christians force Slayer album out of India:

"MUMBAI (Reuters) - U.S. heavy metal band Slayer's latest album has been recalled from music stores across India after the country's small Christian community said the cover depicting Christ with amputated arms and a missing eye was insulting."

That's all for this week, folks. Go out and support DBT and the Drams.

_______
_____
___

Straight Bullshit Express - Choo Choo!

KO-REA

What Josh Marshall says:

Talking Points Memo:

"For the US this is a strategic failure of the first order.

The origins of the failure are ones anyone familiar with the last six years in this country will readily recognize: chest-thumping followed by failure followed by cover-up and denial. The same story as Iraq. Even the same story as Foley.

But wait, Saint McCain is speaking. Everybody hush and listen to the prophet of the straight talk express. He'll shed new light on this problem and lead us to a solution not yet conceived by us mere mortals. Lets see what he has to say:

After Blaming Clinton For North Korea Nuke, McCain Blasts People ‘Engaging In Finger-Pointing’:

"Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) explicitly blamed the Clinton administration for North Korea’s nuclear weapons test on Sunday: “[I]t is a failure of the Clinton administration policies…that have caused us to be in the situation we’re in today.”

This morning on NBC, “Straight Talk” McCain had a different tune: “I think this is the wrong time for us to be engaging in finger pointing when in this crucial time, we need the world and Americans united.”"

Seems to me Saint McCain is straight talkin' out of both sides of his ass.... again! Blame Clinton... yeah, that's an original argument for Rethugs. "It rained out little Billy's baseball game yesterday". "Goddamn Clinton"!

That shit happen on two consecutive days. One day he's blaming Clinton and the next day he's making a plea to not 'finger point'?

Vote for that fool at your own risk in '08. I thought it was a smear in 2000 by the Bush cadre, but maybe all that torture did fuck up McCain pretty badly. Just sayin'.....

Let's see what Josh Marshall has to say now:

Talking Points Memo:

"'Failure' =1994-2002 -- Era of Clinton 'Agreed Framework': No plutonium production. All existing plutonium under international inspection. No bomb.

'Success' = 2002-2006 -- Bush Policy Era: Active plutonium production. No international inspections of plutonium stocks. Nuclear warhead detonated.

Face it. They ditched an imperfect but working policy. They replaced it with nothing. Now North Korea is a nuclear state.

Facts hurt. So do nukes."

"Facts hurt". Yes they do. I'm just not sure who they are hurting at this point. Bizarro World!

They don't have skeellz..... steelz.... fo' reelz

FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills :

"Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics."

Welcome to Gilead, Bitches!

Where's my OfJPW

There is no separation of church and state:

"The NY Times has a long article that is basically a litany of the exemptions and privileges granted to religious organizations. A church-based daycare, for instance, has none of the licensing requirements of a private daycare, and doesn't have to meet any of the standards of a non-religious establishment, nor does it have to worry about civil rights requirements…and it's protected from lawsuits.

The practice of granting churches ever more special rights is accelerating, too, since legislators are always willing to hand over more to the pious frauds. Wouldn't want to be thought disrespectful of religion, you know—so what if they're greedily sucking up more and more money. That's what Christianity is all about!

I say we should revoke the tax-exempt status of all religious organizations. They can ask for exemption for their charitable efforts (and only that part of their work; I don't consider evanglism or missionary work to be charity) just like any secular organization, but simply having 'Christ' in their name and mission statement and having a few guys running around with clerical collars is not sufficient justification. It's time to end the sacred scam."

Boo-yah on the "sacred scam" bit. I couldn't agree more. Take away their tax exemption. Now!

Chavez is a tool

It's not because he dissed Bush at the U.N. by calling him the devil. That was actually pretty funny. Escpecially when he mentions the sulfur smell. Chavez has the makings of a comedic genius with that type of timing and creativity, but.....

Chavez is a tool because of this:

Venezuela to ban beer sales on stree:

"CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's president has a new public enemy: beer trucks.

President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday he is fed up with seeing beer trucks sell alcohol directly on the streets of poor neighborhoods."

Hugo, you bastard. We don't even have beer trucks in the states! What kind of socialist are you, anyway? The U.S.S.R. never, ever thought about taking away the vodka! Dick!!

BoobTube

I was going to make today a YouTube day in celebration of YouTube's recent corporate whoredom. (Google is quickly becoming the Walmart of tech companies. Can't figure out why those guys have gone all neocon of late. Seem to be hitching their wagon to some ponies heading off a cliff). But, I came across this email from one of our fightin' men in Iraq and I wanted to share it with you. It is enlightening, funny, scary and sad. It puts a real face on this forgotten war that's getting uglier and uglier every day.

Marine For Life - Email from Iraq:

"Best Chuck Norris Moment - 13 May. Bad Guys arrived at the government center in the small town of Kubaysah to kidnap the town mayor, since they have a problem with any form of government that does not include regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the bad Guys put down his machinegun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machinegun and drill five of the Bad Guys. The other two ran away. One of the dead Bad Guys was on our top twenty wanted list. Like they say, you can't fight City Hall."

Hell you can't fight 'em if they take your gun away, now can you? Sounds like a good issue for the NRA to take up.

_________

YouTube, ITube, we all Tube for YouTube....

Check out Stephn Colbert County on George Bush and "Words".

__________

Here are two, stellar, special comments from Keith Olbermann. If you are not watching him... why are you not watching him?

Olbermann's Special Comments:

"The traditional media has been slow to come to grips with the American public's distrust and dislike of President Bush -- sentiments clearly reflected in opinion polls dating back well over a year.

Almost alone among the network newscasters, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is channeling that sensibility. Channeling it -- and amplifying it."

Count Down - Special Comment - Bush Lies (Quicktime)

But the premise of a President who comes across as a compulsive liar — is nothing less than terrifying.

A President who since 9/11 will not listen, is not listening — and thanks to Bob Woodward's most recent account — evidently has never listened.

A President who since 9/11 so hates or fears other Americans, that he accuses them of advocating deliberate inaction in the face of the enemy.

A President who since 9/11 has savaged the very freedoms he claims to be protecting from attack. Attack by terrorists, or by Democrats, or by both — it is now impossible to find a consistent thread of logic as to who Mr. Bush believes the enemy is.

Speaking of 9/11 here is Keith's special comment on that day. So powerful.



Start watching Keith. He along with Jon Stewart and Colbert are the only worthy news sources on television. And 2 out of the 3 are "fake" news programs. Says a lot doesn't it?

Take a Break Tuesday

Let's take a break from the politics today shall we? I mean, it's pretty stressful to be reminded day after day that the Republicans are entirely incompetent and, really, can't keep us safe from anything at all.

So let's take a look at some other ridiculousness.....

25 Worst. Web Sites. Evar. ... according to PC World Magazine. MySpace and Hotmail are, deservedly, on the list. Blogger should be on there.

___________

Legal defense: "Your honor, I was stoned... to the bejesus I was. Brownies, your honor... with chocolate dipping sauce. They came up with a chocolate dipping sauce, your honor... for brownies. Do I need to say more? I was stoned your honor... to the bejesus I was.

___________

Doctors urge more playtime for children... and JPW urges more playtime for adults. Giggity.

___________

And why do children need more playtime? To become strong enough and fast enough to prevent this from happening:

Mom Reportedly Hurls Baby at Boyfriend

Hell hath no fury......

__________

Hmmm, this same combination kinda fucked up Clinton's life. Leave it to the Cubans to make it work:

Cigars and sex 'boost Cuba lives'

__________

Speaking of sex lives, has anyone ever been caught...

__________

And finally, Diet Myths Exposed

___________

Take a break today, kids. Smoke a joint... order some brownies.... surf shitty websites... don't kick the baby, or piss off your girlfriend.... have a cigar and some sex... even if the sex is with yourself and if it is solo throw on that mask and snorkel.

Tomorrow we rage against the machine once more.

What a Weekend

Holy crap. What a weekend. Extremely discombobulated. Must speak and write in clipped sentences. Articles. Below. Interesting. Read. DBT post on Friday. Pictures. Incredible. Rocked the bark off of the trees in Golden Gate park.

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald:

"The absolute refusal ever to admit error. The desperate clinging to power above all else. The efforts to cloud what are clear matters of wrongdoing with irrelevant sideshows. And the parade of dishonest and just plainly inane demonization efforts to hide and distract from their wrongdoing: hence, the pages are manipulative sex vixens; a shadowy gay cabal is to blame; the real criminals are those who exposed the conduct, not those who engaged in it; liberals created the whole scandal; George Soros funded the whole thing; a Democratic Congressman did something wrong 23 years ago; one of the pages IM'd with Foley as a 'hoax', and on and on. There has been a virtual carousel -- as there always is -- of one pathetic, desperate attempt after the next to deflect blame and demonize those who are pointing out the wrongdoing. This is what they always do, on every issue. The difference here is that everyone can see it, and so nothing is working."

_________

Whiskey Bar: Hot Republican Studds:

It's the talking point of the day for Republicans -- and yes, it is a talking point.

Gerry Studds (D-MA) had sex with a 17-year-old male page in 1983. He was reprimanded. Republicans wanted to censure him. But 79 Dems voted against upgrading the condemnation.

It may be the talking point of the day, but it's also a lie."

__________

Pelosi says she would drain GOP 'swamp:

"Day One: Put new rules in place to 'break the link between lobbyists and legislation.'

Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.

Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds — 'I hope with a veto-proof majority,' she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday.

All the days after that: 'Pay as you go,' meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.

To do that, she said, Bush-era tax cuts would have to be rolled back for those above 'a certain level.' She mentioned annual incomes of $250,000 or $300,000 a year and higher, and said tax rates for those individuals might revert to those of the Clinton era. Details will have to be worked out, she emphasized.

'We believe in the marketplace,' Pelosi said of Democrats, then drew a contrast with Republicans. 'They have only rewarded wealth, not work.'

'We must share the benefits of our wealth' beyond the privileged few, she added."

_________

Which is scarier? This:

Bush: Job Ratings

Or this:

It puts the lotion on its skin:

DBT Week in Review - 10/6

What a weekend in the Bay Area. I'll put our metropolitan area up against any in the world this weekend for having shit to do.

A's playoff baseball... (Don't care)
San Francisco v. Oakland in NFL action... (yeah they both such, but still...)
Cal v. Oregon.... (PAC 10 football sucks, I know, but still...)
Fleet Week which means the Blue Angels.... (not sucking at all)

.... and the Red Bull Air Race (also not sucking)

Hurtling through the air with an acrobatic pilot:
"Kirby Chambliss thinks all commercial pilots should receive acrobatic training, just in case their jetliner happens to flip mid-flight."

But the BEST of the BEST will be the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2006. A free multi-concert in the Golden Gate park paid for by some rich fucker. Basically, a gift to the city.

Here's whose going to be at the show:

Earl Scruggs, Hot Tuna Acoustic, Flying Other Brothers, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Robert Earl Keen, The Del McCoury Band, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Iris DeMent, Four Year Bender, Hazel Dickens, Billy Bragg, Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle & the Bluegrass Dukes, Drive-By Truckers, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Tim O'Brien's Cornbread Nation with special guest Mollie O'Brien, Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, The Devil Makes Three, Chatham County Line, Alejandro Escovedo, Jerry Douglas & Best Kept Secret, Gillian Welch, Scott Miller & The Commonwealth, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Allison Moorer, The Austin Lounge Lizards, Alison Brown Quartet with special guest Joe Craven, Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Pine Leaf Boys, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Richard Thompson Solo Acoustic, The Lee Boys, Todd Snider, North Mississippi Allstars, Banjo Extravaganza with Bill Evans, Tony Trischka and Alan Munde, Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin, T Bone Burnett, The Waybacks w/ special guest Bob Weir, Heidi Clare & AtaGallop, Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, Willy Mason, The Avett Brothers, Richie Furay, Danny Barnes Collective, Annie & The Vets, The Opera Dukes, The Stairwell Sisters, Poor Man's Whiskey, Etienne de Rocher, Freakwater, A.J. Roach, Elvis Costello (solo & with the Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods), Barbary Coast Cloggers, Keystone Station, Kemo Sabe, David Berkeley, The Coward Brothers feat. Elvis Costello & T Bone Burnett, Jeffrey Luck Lucas & the Sorrows, Jon Langford, Rico Bell & Sally Timms of the Mekons, G.E. Smith, David Gans Trio, The Wronglers, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Songwriter Circle featuring Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson."

That's right, them Drive-by Truckers are flying out for a quick show. I'll take what I can get and be proud that I get to see for a bit. Here's the stage they'll be playing on:

It is gonna be some fun, let me tell you. Can't wait to see the band. Hopefully, the Blue Angels will fly over the park then DBT will launch into Lookout Mountain. Ohhhh, baby....

__________

Here's Musickfest article that Jenn posted on the Yahoo board. Musickfest started last night and I do believe some ribs were involved. Damn Athens folks have all the fun and the best benefits in the world. Good on 'em.

Check out the art that was auctioned. Some pretty bad-a paintings including some serious awesomeness from Mr. Freed. I asked Jenn if she was going to buy me the $800 pictures. She said the $1500 was more my speed. One of these days I'm gonna own a Wes Freed piece.

__________

Get some free DBT tracks at LetThereBeRocktober this month. The first two have been Buttholeville and Sandwhiches for the Road. Both are live and sound great.

Here's a bio of Eddie Hinton, the man who Sandwiches was written about, by Dick Cooper.

___________

The cool kids in America are getting inspired by DBT and are putting there vocal talents out there. Our own MaddyC (She's only 16 but she's a wise old soul) Put a couple of YouTubes up displaying her vocal chops. Good on ya, MaddyC. Sounding sweet and keep it up.

Check 'em out and give her some encouragement:

MaddyC 1
MaddyC 2

________

In other music news:

Lost my house, lost my job, lost my kids.... Concaine

Eric Clapton Rethinks Playing 'Cocaine':

"ST. PAUL, MINN. — Eric Clapton is playing 'Cocaine' in concert again. The recovering drug addict and alcoholic, who founded the Crossroads Centre addiction recovery center on the Caribbean island of Antigua, stopped performing the song written by J.J. Cale when he first got sober."

Why? Because!

Singer sets undersea concert record:

OSLO, Norway - Singer Katie Melua set a world deep-water record by performing a concert 994 feet under the North Sea in the leg of an oil platform, the rig's operator said Tuesday.

The Georgian-Irish artist and her band performed two, hour-long concerts Monday at the bottom of a hollow concrete leg that helps support the Troll A offshore platform, the Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA said.

'This was definitely the most surreal gig I've ever done,' said Melua, 22, whose albums have sold more than five million copies worldwide."

Not music related but some I got good feedback when I posted the Southern Culture on the Skids recipe page so here are some recipes from SF, the best foodie town in the U.S. (Yeah, that's right New York. You heard me! Suck it!)

SFGate: Food at 20:

It was 20 years ago when The Chronicle gathered one of the largest food staffs of any newspaper in the United States, developed a free-standing section and made a conscious effort to focus on the Bay Area food scene.

_____
____
__

26 Miles to Colbert Heights is the End of the World

All for Cobert:

"'On behalf of Stephen Colbert, the Stephen Colbert Museum and Gift Shop, and myself, Tad, I'd like to say, 'You're welcome,' ' he proclaimed, to the laughter and applause of the crowd.

'It's not every day I get to save a town, and I know you must appreciate the opportunity for me to do so,' he said, playing on the conceitedness that the character Stephen Colbert portrays."
......
The ceremony also included a scene from "The Miracle Workers (with an "s" at the end)," which is about Tuscumbia's Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan. In the touching scene, Keller is at the pump, spelling out her first words: "S-t-e-p-h-e-n C-o-l-b-e-r-t."

______________

It's the End of the World as we know it... It's the End of the World as we know it.....

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline."

And I feel fine.......

DBT's stage at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival this Sunday

You Can Throw Me in the Stephen Colbert Co. Jailhouse

Is it.....

Or is it....

I've had the pleasure... nay, displeasure, of spending the night in a Colbert County Jailhouse. The next morning my grits were served to me ice cold. Now, I realize that I was in jail, but I was still in the south and you just don't serve a man cold grits... It's not christian.

Comedy show crews due in Shoals on Wednesday:

"TUSCUMBIA -- The grand opening of the area's newest museum is set for Wednesday.

If you want to see it, you'd better do it quickly, because the museum will close a day later.

It's all part of a plot line for Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report.'

The show, which airs at 10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday on the national cable network, is a parody of cable news shows.

___________

Before we get into which Republican has committed a crime against nature today, I want to throw a shout out to my first ever visitor from the Islamic Republic of Iran, coming from Ertebat Net Co Of Sabzevar! What's up! How's the weather. Hotter than a motherfucker, I suppose. I won't drop the search term you used to find this site **cough** penis **cough** ass, but I've got to say, you better be careful, bro (I'm assuming its a bro because, well, they don't let the ladies do too much over there). Those words, separate, could get you thrown in the pokey (bet they don't serve cold grits in Iranian jails.) but together, you're looking at having some appendages removed.

Of course, who am I to talk. Since I wrote "Iran" "Islamic" and "Sabzevar" in my post, I'm sure BushCo will know more about me than I do in a few minutes. If they are visiting the site right now, I just want to give a big FUCK YOU to them. With much love.

___________

On to the freak show.....

Above whose diddling who, we're still stuck in the quagmire *giggity* called Iraq. You might remember it being spoken of on "news" shows from last year. Folks seem to have forgotten about it. It is getting uglier and more of our good, godamn people are being slaughtered:

'Tragic day' claims eight US soldiers in Baghdad:

"BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 17 US soldiers have been killed around Iraq since Saturday, including eight in a single day in Baghdad, the US military announced, saying the toll had brought 'a tragic day'."

Oh, and another fogotten, unsolved terrorist attack that's been swept under a rug. Anthrax. It ain't just a heavy metal band. I'm glad the 'hunt' is back on.

____________

Headline: Bush: Democrats shouldn't be trusted to run Congress: Yeah, we should leave it to the incompetent Republican child molesters...... Speaking of which:

Waaah.... Wa-wa Waaaaaaahhhh. I'm a victim. I'm not a predator. Please give me water.

Foley attorney claims client abused as child:

"He also announced that Foley’s actions are connected to his own abuse by a Catholic priest as an adolescent boy, and confirmed that the congressman is indeed a homosexual, a fact which was suspected long before the internet sex scandal was made public."

And why the fuck is 'is indeed a homosexual' a part of the story? I'll tell you why, because it is one more opportunity for the Republicans to slam homosexuals by tying them to a child predator. Fucking sleaze balls.

But why should I be surprised. Look what O'Lielly did yesterday:

O'Reilly graphic labels Foley (D-Florida) !!!!!!

Blame it on the Dems by any means necessary, huh O'Lielly? Fucktard.

____________

Thank god for fake boobs, though:

Forget airbags, silicone breasts will do:

"SOFIA (AFP) - A woman in the northern Bulgarian town of Ruse survived a car crash thanks to her silicone breasts which acted as an airbag, a newspaper has reported."

Ain't Never Gonna Change

....but, boy howdy, they sure are doing something wrong.

________

Quick quote:

'It's vile.' It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.'

Ok, who said it and who were they saying it about?

Answer:

Republican Congressman Mark (Spanky) Foley, September 12, 1998 referring to President Bill Clinton.

Keyboards get messy when you ejaculate that much hypocrisy on them. The best 52 year old, one handed IMer out there.

________

But, seriously, folks..... no, really, seriously.....

"Forget about Foley. He's done. What's incredible about this scandal is the lengths this Republican Party will go to maintain their majorities. We already knew that power trumped everything for these guys. But coddling a child predator merely to save some cash and protect a single House seat.

They should've been protecting the kids working the House instead."

________

Where's Batman when you need him 'cause apparently The Penguin has released a "I don't recall" gas in Washington that is only infecting Republicans:

"HASTERT: No, I’m not saying. I just don’t recall him telling me that. If he would have told me that, he would have told me that in the context of maybe a half a dozen or a dozen other things. I don’t remember that."

Condilying Rice has been infected too:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001."

Ummmm, ahhh, let's seee, hmmmmmmm, nope, can't recall.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think its the Penguins memory gas that's causing this epidemic of the 'can't recalls'. Could be be something more evil?


Bush Officials May Have Covered Up Rice-Tenet Meeting From 9/11 Commission:

"Most of the world has now seen the infamous picture of President Bush tending to his ranch on August 6, 2001, the day he received the ultra-classified Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) that included a report entitled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US.” And most Americans have also heard of the so-called “Phoenix Memo” that an FBI agent in Phoenix sent to FBI headquarters on July 10, 2001, which advised of the “possibility of a coordinated effort” by bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation schools.

....Bob Woodward’s new book about a special surprise visit that George Tenet and his counterterrorism chief Cofer Black made to Condi Rice, also on July 10, 2001:

They went over top-secret intelligence pointing to an impending attack and “sounded the loudest warning” to the White House of a likely attack on the U.S. by Bin Laden.

Woodward writes that Rice was polite, but, “They felt the brushoff.”"

So our possibilities are The Penguin's 'can't recall' gas or just plain evil OR maybe it is a State of Denial? Maybe?

"NEW YORK — Bob Woodward’s much-anticipated new book paints a devastating picture of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an arrogant, indecisive bumbler who won’t take responsibility for his mistakes — or even admit any.
......

“State of Denial” also claims that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney — “increasingly removed from reality” — consult frequently with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who served President Nixon during Vietnam.

“Kissinger’s fighting the Vietnam War again "

Though Woodward's lacks credibility due to the 2 previous fluff job books on pResident Bush. Remember, Rats are the first off a sinking ship.

__________

HEY! Check out this cut-and-runner, terrorist appeasing Ratpublican:

"The Tennessee Republican (Frist) said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means."

__________

Let me leave you with a nice hug today. I got this in my email and when I first started to watch it I thought, great, some sappy kumbaya crap. But it is actually quite nice and inspiring. Hugs!

If I Died in Colbert Report County

Update: Welcome, Colbert Nation! If you want to know more about the county in Alabama that was named after Stephen, give the Drive-by Truckers a listen. Great music and great stories. Several of the songs mention Stephen by name, even.... well, by last name at least. Check 'em out!

Update2: I do have to state, however, that it is unfortunate that a good old country boy like Stephen had to move off to the big city and Frenchify his name. Stephen, deep down you know you want to pronounce it correctly. Be proud of where you're from. Cawl-bert... not Cole-bear. As Jason Isbel from the Drive-by Truckers sings in Outfit, "Don't sing with a fake British accent...." Fake French accents are just as bad, Stephen, just... as.... bad.

I was wondering how long it was gonna take them to come to Co-bear County for a bit.

Colbert coming to Colbert:

"TUSCUMBIA -- Yeah, yeah, we all know the county's name is pronounced 'Colbert,' with the emphasis on the first syllable, a sort of schwa-sounding 'e' and a 't' that's pronounced aloud.

But there's no sense in trying to tell that to Stephen Colbert -- or at least the character he plays on Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report.'

Despite the same spelling, his last name is pronounced with a silent 'l,' emphasis on the second syllable, short 'e' and silent 't.'

Nonetheless, the self-applauding, egocentric Stephen Colbert character is convinced Colbert County was named after him.

As a thank you, he plans to open 'The Stephen Colbert Museum and Gift Shop' in Tuscumbia.

Seriously.

Well, not so seriously.

Either way, it's actually going take place and is going to be part of an October storyline on the program, which airs weeknights at 10:30 on the national cable network.

And, either way, it's going to bring national exposure to Tuscumbia and the county during the course of two or three days that month, said Jeff Cooperman, senior producer of 'The Colbert Report.'

Representatives of the show will tape for a couple of days early next week, likely Tuesday and Wednesday, Cooperman said.

They will return for an Oct. 4 'grand opening' of the museum, he said. Colbert, himself, isn't scheduled to come to the event.

Ultimately, the joke will be that Colbert (Stephen, that is) isn't as popular as he thought, because the museum closes for lack of interest the next day.

Those tapings will be put together for the two to three days it'll air on 'The Colbert Report,' Cooperman said. That will be in October, but the dates haven't been set.

'The premise is Stephen Colbert wants to open his museum, and what better place than a county that is named for him,' Cooperman said. 'This town seems like the perfect place to send his building manager -- a guy named Tad (played by one of the show's staff, Paul Dinello) -- to open the museum.'

Cooperman said final details of the museum's location are being ironed out, although it likely will be a Main Street spot.

'It'll be a running adventure of Tad's effort to get Stephen's dream off the ground,' Cooperman said.

He adds, tongue-in-cheek, 'One thing Stephen is going to try to figure out is why you guys pronounce Stephen's last name wrong.'"

________

Alright... it must be done. We've got to discuss boy lover Foley. Check out the actually IMs here. We have 'bottom bouncing in the air' and measurements being taken and a dirty old man hitting on 16 year old boys.

Bottom (no pun intended) line is the guy is a perv.... not because he is attracted to other guys... nothing wrong with that. It is because he liked YOUNG, possible ILLEGAL boys, not grown men. Also, these boys were pages who WORKED for the man. And the Republicans knew about Foley for years, yet never did anything.... other than warn the pages to stay away from Foley. And, AND the guy worked on legislation to protect minors from weirdos such as himself. He sat on a child protection committee for gods sake. The Republicans let him after they knew.

Today we learn that Rep. Foley has entered alcohol rehab. How convenient for him. He's taking responsibility for the 'disease' he has which prevents him from being responsible for his actions. At least that's more than Bush did with his alcoholism.

But, really, it is no big deal according to the Republican party. My god, it was only a couple of 'naughty emails'. Jesus, you'd think you people saw a accesorized nipple on tv during a football game. I mean grow up.

Republican party or NAMBLA. Same-same or same-same? You be the judge.

Just listen to the outrage on the Christian Right web

____________

As a parting shot... foxes in the hen house.

Abramoff team had 485 contacts with White House:

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jack Abramoff had hundreds of contacts with White House officials, but they brought mixed results for the convicted lobbyist's clients, according to a congressional report.

The draft report of the House Government Reform Committee said the documents -- largely Abramoff's billing records and e-mails -- listed 485 lobbying contacts with White House officials over three years, including 10 with top Bush aide Karl Rove."