I can't believe it

I agree with Joe Scarborogh. He made a critque of John Kerry's great acceptance speech. And it is this: it is a shame that John Kerry had to rush through a great speech because he was afraid that he may be cutoff had he gone past 11 pm eastern.

What does that say about us as Americans, that we can not be bothered to watch history?

Kerry made a great speech. But it was rushed because of time constraints.

Congratulations Sen. Kerry!

Hope is on the way!

Miss Mary

Miss Mary
Please tell me
How does your garden grow

Miss Mary
Please tell me
How much your mother loved you
Though you never knew

Miss Mary
Please tell me
How to mend a broken heart
Many lives torn apart

Miss Mary
Please tell me

Miss Mary
_________

I went to the Museum of Contemorary Photography Tuesday night. While there I saw an amazingly moving exhibit. It was by Mary Ellen Mark. It was called Faulkland Road: Prostiutes of Bombay. The picture of Miss Mary moved me to tears.

It was left speechless after walking thourgh the exhibit. It is my prayer that the girls and guys stuck in the cycle of prostitution can break free.
________

Here is the text from the photo of Miss Mary:

Pulabai, a madam, with the baby of one of her girls in the brothel. The madam has named the baby 'Miss Mary'. The baby subsequently died when she was two months old of a high fever

Simple

Just be and be happy
Smile and people will smile
Laugh and others will laugh
Crack a joke at just the right time
Take care and be taken care of
Love and be loved more than you will ever know

For Dad. Six years ago today he got out of the wheel chair and started dancing. We will dance together one day. You are missed. We all love you.

You are the inspriation in my life.

Here is the Speech

On behalf of the great state of Illinois, crossroads of a nation, land of Lincoln, let me express my deep gratitude for the privilege of addressing this convention. Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant. Keep Reading here Here is the speech on his website Here is the Speech from his website.

Barak Obama Originally uploaded by CelticWander.

Oh My Gosh

I just listened to Barak Obama's Speech!

I love that man!!!

Congrats Brother Obama on an amazing speech.

I will post a link to it tomorrow when it is online

Holy Crap

On Air America Radio, it just finished, we had Al Franken and Sean Hannity together. Let me just say, that made for some fun listening. I think I need a hearing aid now. Holy Crap. That was fun.

WWWHHHYYY

I have The Bunny Hop stuck in my head...helllllllpp mmeeeeeee

The other day I had the ATA Jingle in me heed.

What is going on???

Woo Hoo

I am back online at home

YIPPEE

"BUT WHAT THEN, SENOR?"

I got this in an e-mail today. It is such a great commentary on our lives.

"BUT WHAT THEN, SENOR?"
An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while, Senor."

The American then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"

The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, Senor."

The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to
Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But Senor, how long will this all take?"

To which the American replied, "15-20 years."

"But what then, Senor?"

The American laughed and said, "That's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."

”Millions, Senor? Then what?"

The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where
you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

"You mean being a Harvard MBA, you have to go through all that to finally get to where I already am, Senor?"

Holeeeee Cow
 
I just ran into someone I went to Highschool with...crazy.

AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH

I am so upset. Over a week ago my car got its window smashed in. Unpleasent. So, I called the insurance company. Took it to a shop. I also had a door ding that needed fixed. I was supposed to get it back last Thursday. They had to order a part. Ok. It will be ready today. Nope. Now they are saying next Thursday. This is pissing me off. I am planning on going to Spirngfield this weekend, but for some reason I think I won't make it.

I can understand if the part didn't come in. That is cool. But why the heck do I have to call to find this out?

RRRRRRRRRRR

Baby Steps Big Steps
 
In approximately 525,600 minutes I will be making the best steps forward in my life.  You see, exactly 365 days from now I will become a married man.  The woman I will be marrying is a gift beyond all gifts.  The woman I will be marrying is a saint among saints.  The woman I will be marrying is a light on my path.  The woman I will be marrying is the patient with my quirks.  The woman I am marrying is beautiful beyond words.  The woman I am marrying is beyond definition.
 
I love you Mae. 

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Movin' on Up

To that delux apartment in the sky.

Good bye Weezie.

A thought

Something I heard on the radio yesterday prompts this.

Bush/Cheney are claiming that John Edwards doesn't have enough experience to be VP.

Edwards served 4 years in the Senate. Not a full term, no multiple terms (since something like 1960 no one has held that particular seat for more than 1 term).

But Bush's experience was serving 4 years as Gov. of Texas. Whose legislature only meets every other year. So, when legislature wasn't in session all he did was deny death penalty appeals.

So, the current PRESIDENT came to office with really only 2 years of any leadership experience, but the VICE-PRESIDENTIAL nominee comes to us with 4 years of Washington experience.

Sometimes B/C makes absolutely no sense at all.

Accountability

Sen. Dick Durbin has a great op-ed in Today's Washington Post. (Free Registration required, I believe)

...The Senate intelligence committee report scheduled to be released today reveals in stark terms that in many key areas, the prewar intelligence regarding Iraq's threat to the United States was neither reliable nor accurate. And the report tells only half of the story.

What's missing is the ways intelligence was used, misused, misinterpreted or ignored by administration policymakers in deciding to go to war and in making the case to the American people that war with Iraq was necessary. The intelligence committee leadership chose to defer these issues to a second report -- one that will not be released until after the November elections...

Senior decision makers throughout the executive branch must bear responsibility as well. They should have been more diligent in challenging the validity of analytical assumptions and the adequacy of intelligence collection and reporting related to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war. Instead, those analyses that conformed with pro-war views were routinely accepted and reports that did not conform to the pro-war model were largely ignored.

I just wish, once, this administration would take responsibility for its actions. Just once.

Things look good

Brendan Hansen set a world record for the 100 meter Breaststroke at the Olympic trials.

He was the first person to break a minute in the event. Shattering the old record by almost a half a second. The Washington Post writer says that is like taking 10 minutes off the marathon.

Michael Phelps is sweeping tons of stuff, too. It is looking like he may finally break Mark Spitz's record for the number of gold medals won.

And there are good things coming from the women's side. Watch for Thompson and Coughlin.

Watch NBC tonight, Sat. night, and Sun. for the trials.

USA Swimming Rocks!!!

Flip Flop

Holy Crap! From The O'Franken Factor Blog:

POLITICIZING THE WAR ON TERROR

From the Center for American Progress:

"I have no ambition whatsoever to use [the war on terror] as a political issue."
– President Bush, 1/24/02

VERSUS

"A White House aide told [Pakistani Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq] last spring that 'it would be best if the arrest of killing of [any] HVT [High Value Target] were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July' – the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston."
– The New Republic, 7/7/04

Top Ten

Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About "Fahrenheit 9/11"

10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words
7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported
6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger
5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true
4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe
3. Where the hell was Spider-man?
2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth
1. I thought this was supposed to be about Dodgeball

Who do you believe?

Cliff and I have been discussing Farenheit 9/11.

That discussion has been revoling around Newsweek's Michael Isikoff's critical view of the movie. Michael Isikoff is their chief investigative reporter, but maybe he should be replaced. You see, the things he quotes in this article (Note: it was updated after the following response was posted). Are not quite right. Here is David Unger's response. In it we find out that Isikoff decided not to use all the information he had in making his argument. He was given materials by Unger, but decided to pick and choose what he wanted to use.

I just think if you are going to argue about things, you better have you ducks in a row. Thank goodness Michael Moore does. I concede that F 9/11 is a biased piece of work, but so does Moore.

If you are going to argue about the merits of the film, please see it.

(Side note: it is a pet peeve of mine when people argue something they do not know about. How can you be against something that you have no clue about?)

Please remember our 872 fallen, and the 13,000 civilian dead.

RIP

Goodbye Godfather

Marlon Brando, age 80, RIP