Housework Gets a Chub

Recently discovered that a fella I went to high school with has created the fastest growing micro brew company in the U.S.

Dale Katechis, visionary:

Check out a great video on his website describing the beers and process.

Another Shoals Area, AL success story.

Oskar Blues: Our Beer (Restaurant & Brewery - Lyons, Colorado)

Style Weekly : Richmond's alternative for news, arts, culture and opinion:

"When it comes to beer, the can has never known the glory of the bottle — it has always gotten a bum rap. Dale Katechis and his Colorado-based Oskar Blues Brewery have organized their own personal blitz to overhaul the image of the lowly can, provided their product is in it. Oskar Blues is the nation’s first craft brewer to can its own beer. And outside the Centennial State, the only place you can get the stuff is in Virginia. Like most funky ideas, canning high-end beer started as a lark. Katechis and brewer Brian Lutz “kind of laughed about the idea of putting big, heavy beer in a can,” Katechis says. “One day we stopped laughing and just tried it.”"

_______

10 to 1 a chick wrote this article.

Housework Gets You Laid:

"The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up off the sofa and pitching in, according to a new report in which a psychologist suggests the payoff for doing more chores could be more sex."

_______

Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills

_______

My friend ABAT sent me this link of tales and pictures from an Americana festival in NZ. My plan is to be at the one next year.

Hey, it seems at least one other country doesn't hate the U.S. at the moment. Give us time, ABAT, give us time.

PHOTOS: Americarna in NEW ZEALAND.....What an EXPERIENCE!!! - THE H.A.M.B.:

"I've been back for a little over a week now, but WOW what a trip!

OK, a little fine print here. This post does contain some off topic (for the HAMB) photos. This post is meant to do more than just show old cars. It's also meant to feature an amazing country and its even more amazing people. That's why there are so many people shots - they really had an impact on me. This may be my longest post ever. I had to try and edit down from nearly 2800 photos.

In August, at the Goodguys West Coast Nationals, I was approached by the promoter of a car show in New Zealand to come check it out. All the details were worked out and I waited for February to come. Goodguys was going to be my link to another cool event.

The flight out was great because I was surprised at the check-in counter with an upgrade to first class. Waited on hand and foot, a full-on flat bed and your own cubicle is definitely the way to travel!

I arrived in New Plymouth after about 16 hours of travel in pretty good spirits. Hell, I had a killer week ahead of me in a beautiful country looking at old cars, who wouldn't be stoked?"

_______
_____
___

Stuck on You

Its always big fun to check out what people are googling when they stumble across this site. The word 'Ass' and its many variations is a popular search term for locating AAW. The below search from yesterday warmed my heart and made me grin real big like.

"www.google.com/search?q=why is Hillary Clinton being such an Ass"

Why indeed.

Senator Clinton Isn't A Republican, As Far As I Know

_______

Jack Cafferty from CNN posted this beauty before Gerry "It sure does suck to be white" Ferraro resigned (wasn't fired) from the Clinton campaign.



But the home run, knock-out punch for the Hillary/Ferraro ticket came last from from Keith O. who so took Hillary to task that I hope she cried (assuming her power hunger allows her to cry... for real).



See this is the type of racism that the Hillary's and the Ferraro's of the world perpetuate.

I'm sure this reporter wouldn't have been in the position she was in if she wasn't black. None of the white reporters were attack.

Charmayne Brown, Black Reporter, Attacked On Camera By White Family In SC - Media on The Huffington Post

_______

Meanwhile, Obama picks up even more military endorsements.

Obama Receives Endorsement of Flag Officers from Army, Navy and Air Force

Because.... SURGE!

Car bomb kills 18 in Baghdad - Yahoo! News:

"The policeman and a hospital official said 18 people died. The hospital official said 57 others were injured.

The attack is the latest in a string of violence to grip Iraq's capital after several months of relative calm that followed a surge of U.S. forces last year.

There also has been a sharp increase of U.S. military deaths in recent days. Twelve Americans have been killed in the past four days, bringing the overall U.S. military death toll since the start of the war to 3,987, according to an AP count"

_______

I'm all for some quality time in the can, but this is brutal:

Boyfriend: Woman lived in bathroom:

"The case drew nationwide attention after Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat in the two years she apparently was in the bathroom.

'We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital,' Whipple said. 'The hospital removed it.'"

_______
_____
___

Racist Piece of Shite

The Drive-by Truckers did an incredible job on Conan O'Brien last night playing Two Daughters and a Beautiful wife. The band sounded great, looked spiffy as hell, and my-my that camera sure does love it some Shonna Tucker.

The corporate rebellion statement "FNW" found on Cooley's banjo and Shonna's bass was an inspired act. Rock and Roll is alive and well.

Check out the show below. It is already up on Conan's website:

Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV Show, Series - Video Clips, Watch Full Episodes, Photos & Exclusives � NBC Official Site

________

Who knew that former VP candidate and Hillary Clinton' current money whore Geraldine A. Ferraro was such a racists piece of shite.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation:

"More classiness, from one of Clinton's top surrogates, Geraldine Ferraro.

'If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.'

Ferraro isn't some unknown lower-level or obscure advisor, but one of her top fundraisers, member of Clinton's finance committee, and a former Democratic vice presidential nominee."

"I'm not sure that I understood then" Geraldine "But I guarantee I understand know".

Fool me once....

A Ferraro flashback - Ben Smith's Blog - Politico.com:

"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race,' she said.

Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.

Here's the full context:

Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don't ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his 'radical' views, 'if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race.'"

_______

Hillary is SO experienced. See how everybody agrees with Hillary's bullsh...

Clinton's foreign experience is more limited than she says:

"But one of the key Irish negotiators last week called Clinton's description of her role in the process a 'wee bit silly.'

'I don't know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill (Clinton) going around,' David Trimble told Belfast's Daily Telegraph.

I'm sure they'll try to spin Sinbad bagging on Hillary as somehow bad for Obama.

If Sinbad weren't black he wouldn't be in this position. Sorry bastard taking some deserving white comedians job.

Sinbad Unloads on Hillary Clinton - The Sleuth:

"Harrowing? Not that Sinbad recalls. He just remembers it being a USO tour to buck up the troops amid a much worse situation than he had imagined between the Bosnians and Serbs.

In an interview with the Sleuth Monday, he said the 'scariest' part of the trip was wondering where he'd eat next. 'I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.''"

_______

Bill Clinton recently going on Rush Limbaugh's show. My god the Clinton's are willing to stoop lower than low.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:

"You may have missed it - almost everyone missed it - but Bill Clinton was on Rush Limbaugh's show the day of the Texas primary. You can hear the radio here. Limbaugh himself was sick that day, apparently, but he had already urged Republicans to cross over to keep Hillary Clinton in the race. Bill saw an opening - and went there.

Now just wrap your mind around this: the Clintons were happy to support a cynical, partisan Republican campaign to wound the Democratic front-runner, and they were brazen enough to go on the Limbaugh show to do so."

_______

This settles the age old debate of Mary Ann vs. Ginger. If Mary Ann is holding the good shite then how could you chose otherwise.

Meanwhile the professor was busted for cooking meth.

'Gilligan's' Mary Ann caught with dope:

"DRIGGS, Idaho - Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island,' is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car."

_______
_____
___

Drunk Girls

Not that this should matter one damn bit... but, unfortunately we WERE settled by the Puritans (damn my ancestors for not being criminal enough to be sent to Australia).

Official: NY Gov Caught on Wiretap:

"A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a prostitution ring was caught on a federal wiretap.

However, the story hasn't fully been told. Spitzer's wife, Riskay Spitzer, was already suspicious of her husband so she asked if she could Smell His D*ck after he came home late one night, recently.

Moral of the story? Boys, always wash up before you come home to your hood rat wife. Oh, and always check for a federal wiretap when ordering a ho' on Craigslist.

'Cause, you know, the feds don't have anything bigger to worry about. Seriously, they don't know where the eff bin Laden is but they can tell you in a heart beat where a Democrat's dick has been.

Hullabaloo:

"Obviously Spitzer's in big trouble and is very likely to resign. When you build your career as a self righteous crusader, you don't get the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this. But there are questions that should be asked. It is unusual to release the names of johns and it's weird that we still don't know why the feds were wiretapping on some seemingly inconsequential prostitution case in the first place. Is that something the feds spend a lot of time doing these days?"

_______

Drunken History Lesson's (NSFW)



My favorite one:

_______

The best piece of performance art in the history of mankind. I 'highly' recommend enjoying some pie before you settle in to watch this one.

Awesomeness!

_______
_____
___

Good for the Gander, Good for the Goose

Deep thought of the day: Someone should ask Hillary the following: If she is so prepared and tuned in to be President then why did it take a 100 million dollar Republican Congressional investigation to clue her in that her husband was playing 'hide the WMD in an intern's va-jay-jay'? If you can't even keep track of your husbands penis then how will you keep track of Iran's nuclear ambitions?

Hey, she started it.

Funny because it is true.

Larry David: Does Anyone Want This Nut Answering the Phone?:

"Here's an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton's Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voiceover at the end saying, 'Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?

_______

Gary Hart: Breaking the Final Rule :

Do not provide ammunition to the opposition party that can be used to destroy your party's nominee. This is a hyper-truth where the presidential contest is concerned.

By saying that only she and John McCain are qualified to lead the country, particularly in times of crisis, Hillary Clinton has broken that rule, severely damaged the Democratic candidate who may well be the party's nominee, and, perhaps most ominously, revealed the unlimited lengths to which she will go to achieve power. She has essentially said that the Democratic party deserves to lose unless it nominates her.
....
"'Politics ain't beanbag,' is the old slogan. But that does not mean that it must also be rule-or-ruin, me-first-and-only-me, my way or the highway. That is not politics. That is raw, unrestrained ambition for power that cannot accept the will of the voters.""

_______

Shame, indeed.

Daily Kos: Shame on you, Hillary Clinton:

"Over the last two days, I began to resent you.

But today, your ruthless tactics make me realize that it's clear:

you will try to win at any costs. You have put yourself above the best interests and future of the Democratic Party. And I'm not into that.

In fact, thanks for the heads up, because until today, I really couldn't decide for whom to vote.

Good luck with the McCain lovefest. And you might want to give Lieberman a call or at least a text message."

_______

Sad because Hillary made it true:

236 - The Room - A Detailed Analysis of Why Obama Lost Ohio & Texas in Cartoon Form

_______

In order to fully enforce this new law, Pasadena and blown up I-210 to prevent the daily mass cussing that occurs along this interstate.

No Swearing in South Pasadena This Week:

"What the @$%#? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone."

_______

Viva la France!

French Women: The New Sexual Predators

_______
_____
___

DBT Week in Review - 3/7/08

Say what you will about Rolling Stone's music coverage, but there political coverage is top notch.
The March edition of RS endorses Obama for President

A New Hope : Rolling Stone:

"Obama has emerged by displaying precisely the kind of character and judgment we need in a president: renouncing the politics of fear, speaking frankly on the most pressing issues facing the country and sticking to his principles. He recognizes that running for president is an opportunity to inspire an entire nation."

Obama and Lincoln both dig Glossary's new record?! How can you not for vote him.

"Like Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama challenges America to rise up, to do what so many of us long to do: to summon 'the better angels of our nature.'"

_______

DBT! DBT! DBT!

Lots of good news out of the DBT camp.

New Tour Dates.

Patterson Solo dates

Appearance on Conan O'Brien

Blog post by Patterson hinting at European dates.

NPR Music: A 'Brighter' Album from the Drive-By Truckers:

Folks are adding taped shows from The Home Front:

Internet Archive Search: collection:Drive-ByTruckers AND year:"2008"

Purty pictures:

Drive-By Truckers @ the Pageant — 2008.02.29 | Todd Owyoung: Concert Photographerd

NineBullets.org - a DBT fansite :: View topic - Pics From Louisville

______

Shonna Tucker's songs highlight 'Creations Dark':

"'It's quite amazing -- a mystical, magical redneck journey,' she said. 'Every day, even when you wake up feeling like ---- , you know that something good is gonna happen.'"

_______

Great thread on NB:

NineBullets.org - a DBT fansite :: View topic - Differences between Hood and Cooley

_______

Yeah, what they said:

Rock And Roll Army Magazine | Al habla con Patterson Hood, alma de Drive-By Truckers - � �Drive-By Truckers acaban de editar el intens... :

"Drive-By Truckers acaban de editar el intenso -por su duraci�n- 'Brighter than Creation's Dark'. Nos pusimos en contacto con Patterson Hood, la cara m�s visible de la banda (aunque como deja claro �l mismo no la �nica), para que nos hablara del nuevo disco, de la marcha de Jason Isbell, del formato vinilo... y en definitva de todo lo que ha ocurrido desde su anterior 'A Blessing and a Course'. Al habla Patterson Hood, un verdadero caballero sure�o, aunque algo parco en palabras"

_______

dbts : Message: Jen U waz rite:

"on another note: I'm social worker in a military prison and played Crystal meth for my substance abuse group and The man I shot and homefront for my Combat Stress Group. Both songs got the groups stirred and cooking on the issues at hand up. I use other songs in my group all the time specially, world of hurt and Blessing and a curse. Thanks DBT.
Can't wait til DBT hitz SC.
Ruseter84"

_______

The Sounds of David Barbe

"David Barbe’s studio magic renders him a highly sought after engineer. His musical expertise proves essential to some of the south’s finest contemporary groups and artists such as The Drive By Truckers, Vic Chesnutt, Kevn Kinney and Bloodkin to name a few. Barbe, an accomplished musician, can play various instruments and his golden ear provides a vital asset to the aforementioned artists."

_______


_______

Jason Isbell

Jason posted a song blog from his living room this week. I hope to see some DBT folks pick up this practice in the future.

Fantastic cover of a Dylan tune. I get hypnotized watching Jason play the guitar.

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Add to My Profile | More Videos

_______

Centro-matic

New Music on Centro's MySpace:

MySpace.com - Centro-matic - DENTON, Texas - Rock / Indie -www.myspace.com/centromatic

_______

Music News

Great idea!

Turning to Fans to Finance CD:

"'The old kind of paradigm, where you've always waited for other people to do things, you'd have your manager and your agent,' she said. 'You'd wait for the big record company to give you money to do things and they tell you what to do. This is so great. I want to do everything like this.'"

_______

Shelby Lynne: Vinyl vs. iPod:

"Now, I have an iPod and I admit they are genius especially for travel and convenience. But they aren't really any fun. I don't call up my friends and say 'Hey why don't y'all come over and bring your computers and let's have a party'? Hell no! I say bring pot, wine and vinyl. That's sexy."

_______

I dig what these chicks are doing:

MySpace.com - The Puppini Sisters - London, UK - Pop / Jazz / A'cappella - www.myspace.com/puppinisisters

Chicks Get Clicks! - New This Week

The Case Of The Missing #2 Album - Chart Watch:

One String Willie Plays Guitar With One String - Geekologie

Nine Inch Nails follow Radiohead with free album download | News | NME.COM

Become A Real Guitar Hero - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games

Blind Guitarist Jeff Healey Dies at 41:

Detroit Free Press - www.freep.com:

"LONDON (AP) -- Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger escaped an assassination plot hatched in 1969 by the Hells Angels, a new British Broadcasting Corp. documentary has claimed."

Keith Richards: Mick Jagger "A Maniac" And "Power Freak" - Entertainment on The Huffington Post

GIRLS LET IT ALL OUT AT ROCK CAMP:

"Filmmakers Arne Johnson and Shane King have known each other since grade school in Portland, Ore. Long before they made the recently released, award-winning documentary 'Girls Rock!, ' they'd hatched plans for an untold number of projects - mostly films or bands."

_______
_____
___

Hillary and Rove Sittin' in a Tree....

Amen to this. Must read:

MyDD :: Why Do We Reward Politicians Who Swift Boat, Throw the Kitchen Sink?:

"In America politics today, pundits and media reward politicians and say how smart they are when the politician uses Bully tactics and an 'assualt-like' mentality when they tear their opponents down by smear, distortions and lies --'swift boating', throwing the kitchen sink. The news media and pundits like to Praise the unscrupulous Politician up instead of disavowing them. The pundits like to say how Brilliant they are; What a Victory they say; what a Comeback Kid; and justify their use of Negative Ads and reward the worst in us -- this low and base behavior which should be outgrown as a humanitarian society. How many good and decent men have gone down because they were unfairly swiftboated by their opponents, mischaracaterized by those who have no morals or ethics. Something is wrong with that picture.

There is nothing brilliant about lies, distortions, peddling fear, swiftboating, and an assassination of one's character, it's not a physical killing but a killing just the same, an emotional theft and mental crime."

_______

Here's Mrs. Swift-Sink:

Hillary pulled the classic Rovian switch-a-roo which in turn handed her Ohio.

Take your weakness (the fact that Hillary supported NAFTA which has stripped Ohio of many jobs) and make it you opponents weakness (claim that Obama, who opposes the current incarnation of NAFTA, has told the Canadian government not to worry that his opposition to NAFTA is only for the primarys... he doesn't really mean it).

Hillary will not be that much different that Bush.

_______

Talking Points Memo | Tangled Friggin' Web:

"Seems the NAFTAgate leak started with -- surprise, surprise -- the Chief of Staff to Canada's conservative PM Stephen Harper. Only the first hint wasn't about stuff the Canadians had heard from the Obama camp. It was about reassurances the Canadians got from the Clinton campaign. According to a reporter who heard the original conversation, Brodie said 'someone from (Hillary) Clinton's campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. . . That someone called us and told us not to worry.'"

_______

CBC Exonerates Obama: A Post-Mortem:

"I think it's safe to say that the turmoil surrounding the so-called 'NAFTAgate' played into Hillary's strong performance tonight. On the heels of 'Super Tuesday II', CBC, Canada's Public Broadcaster, has done a piece on the NAFTA scandal.

The CBC piece details the involvement of the conservative Harper government in creating a sensationalized leak, which itself had almost no resemblance to the actual memo, which itself is now being disclaimed as perhaps not accurate at all. We peel off layers of deception, and there is nothing left at all, except a successful attempt to promote bloodletting among Democrats."

If Hillary wants to sling shite, then let's sling shite:

Has Hillary Clinton really been "vetted" as she so often claims?

Um, no.

_______

Good.

Obama Camp Lays Ground For Negative Attacks

_______

Hillary makes Daddy Need a Drink

Binge Drinking - Behavior - When People Drink Themselves Silly, and Why:

"The urge to binge mindlessly, though it can strike at any time, seems to stir in the collective unconscious during the last weeks of winter. Maybe it’s the television images from places like Fort Lauderdale and Cabo San Lucas, of communications majors’ face planting outside bars or on beaches."

_______
_____

___

The Math Ain't Fuzzy, Baby Blue

Update: A little food for your soul.

Jason Isbell

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Add to My Profile | More Videos

________

So Hillary was the big winner last night?

Not really. There's no way she can overcome the math. All she can (and probably will) do is scorch the earth on her way out or try to steal the election.

Daily Kos: Delegates

So total for the night, thus far, is Clinton 185 and Obama 184. Not all votes are in, so things will change a bit. But at this point, we have a ridiculously tiny one-delegate lead for Clinton for the night, which could either produce her first delegate victory of the election, or be erased by the rest of the still-not-reported Texas caucuses.

Now according to both the Clinton and Obama campaigns, Obama entered the race with a 159 pledged delegate lead. So with some luck, Clinton ends the night about ... 158 157 delegates behind.

More problematic for Clinton, is that today's 370 delegates were about 38 percent of the just-shy of 1,000 remaining delegates before Tuesday's contests. That means we just had over 1/3rd of the remaining delegates allocated, with only marginal-to-none gains in the count for Clinton.

So Clinton is running out of states, and even her "big" victory Tuesday is proving little more than a pyrrhic victory.

_______

And she knows how to steal it because Rove et al have perfected this 'strategy':

The changing of the guards: Bay Minette, election night - Baldwin County NOW - A Gulf Coast Information Source for South Alabama:

"What were exactly the chain of events which continues to irk Democrats, Siegelman supporters, election analysts and the national press when the power of the highest office in Alabama shifted in the middle of the night from incumbent Don Siegelman to Bob Riley?

On the eve of the election, the Siegelman camp believed the governor had secured enough votes in Baldwin County to win the election, but evidently a “glitch,” according to probate court officials, caused Siegelman to lose 6,334 votes from his tally.

Riley, due to the “glitch,” barely edged out the Democratic governor, who was considered a threat by Republican officials.

The following morning a recount seemed reasonable and evident to the Siegelman campaign as two men laid claim to the governorship.

But, the recount was denied by then Attorney General William “Bill” Holcombe Pryor, who was appointed Feb. 20, 2004 - during a congressional recess - to the federal-bench, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush."

_______

No shite:

The Raw Story | Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher:

"High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

'As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,' Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday."

_______

Stupid.

Senator Tom Harkin: Marijuana Makes People Sell Their Children:

"a hilarious reply from Harkin, which noted many of pot's notorious doom scenarios: 'the small child whose parents are so addicted to illegal drugs that they sell everything including perhaps their own children to obtain a fix.' Harkin knows the routine: smoke up, eat gyro, play Legend of Zelda, sell children to pirates for more pot, repeat. The full, horrifying letter, after the jump."

_______

_____

Vote Obama!

Texan and Ohioans! Go vote for Obama today and let's end this primary.

_______

Kos' prediction. Grain o' salt:

Daily Kos: Prediction thread:

"In any case, enough caveats:

Ohio: Clinton +4
Texas: Obama +12
Rhode Island: Clinton +6
Vermont: Obama +35"

_______

Hillary Rove-Bush-Clinton. No difference. And to think I so respected her just a few short months ago:

The Swamp: 'Did I say Osama? I meant Obama!' says Clintonite:

"So last night around dinner time, the phone rings. It’s the Hillary campaign–official number, per the caller ID. The woman on the other end asks me if Hillary can count on my support Tuesday. I say I have not decided.

She asks what would help me decide. I say, “Well . . . maybe she can make Bill her vice president.” She does not know how to take me, of course, but has to assume I am serious. “I don’t think she can do that.” “Bill will have a significant role in major decisions, though, won’t he?” I ask. “Oh, certainly he will be very involved. Do you like Bill?” “Very much.” I reply.

She then launches into a two-minute spiel on all the very specific initiatives and proposals Hillary has put forth on health care, the war in Iraq, etc., etc. At the end of her spiel, she says, “And we haven’t heard anything that specific from Osama bin Laden.”

I say, “You did not just say that.” She replies, “I’m sorry . . . just a slip of the tongue.” She then thanks me for my time and encourages me to vote for Hillary on Tuesday."

_______

This is AWESOME!

Plane Makes Heartstopping Landing In 150 MPH Wind Gusts

_______

Get your sweater on.

Fred Rogers tribute includes Sweater Day:

"PITTSBURGH - A tribute to children's public television pioneer Fred Rogers will include an effort to get people everywhere to wear a sweater on what would have been his 80th birthday.

March 20th is being promoted as 'Sweater Day' to honor Rogers, who died of cancer five years ago. A sweater was his trademark garb on 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.'"

_______
_____
___

Murder by Taco

My hometown rag finally decides to run a story on political prisoner Siegelman.

Alabama in spotlight not always good | TimesDaily.com | Florence, AL:

"Alabama is again in the national spotlight, and it's not flattering news."

________

Thank jeebus Abrams is on the case. He's about the only one in the traditional media.

_______

Another reason to dig Obama. Intelligence in the Obama family runeth over.

Obama's Girls Not Fans of Britney, Paris:

"Barack Obama says his two daughters are fans of Hannah Montana and Beyonce, but think anything to do with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is 'yuck."

_______

In case you'd like to hate on him, though. Here's how it will play out:

How to hate Barack Obama / Right now, deep in the GOP dungeons, they're planning their racist, disgraceful assault. Whatever will it be?:

"The name thing is just too damn easy. Childish, sophomoric, a given.

Of course, this doesn't mean they won't use it. A lot."

_______

New YouTube love from a Pea:

YouTube - We Are The Ones Song by will.i.am:

"people say Obama's words are just words...
but...
when was the last time 'words' weren't important...???...

when was the last time a great leader didn't use words to lead...??...
when was the last time a person didn't use words to describe how they felt...?...
when was the last time 'words' weren't empowering...?...

and we can all recall the last time 'words' were used to divide us and install fear..."

_______

Taco murders are becoming epidemic in the bay area. I'm sticking to Indian buffets until taco thing chills.

Oakland man slain on late-night run to taco truck:

"An Oakland man was shot and killed while waiting to get food at a taco truck in Oakland's Fruitvale district, police said today.

Brandon Quilice, 24, was shot shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday near the corner of 38th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, homicide Lt. Ersie Joyner said."

_______
_____
___