I Am A Wee Bit Slow

I have had a "blogroll me" button over on my side bar for, I don't know, two years maybe. Well, today I finally figgered out how to use it. So, I have been adding some of my daily wanderings to it. Feel free to check 'em out.

Peace

Fozen Over???

Is hell freezing over? Tomorrow morning The Al Franken Show and the G. Gordon Liddy Show will be broadcasting together!!!

This should make for some interresting listening...to be sure!

Water and Oil, anyone?

Organized Democrats?

(This is a comment for Cliff's blog.... As usual I stayed from the topic, but believe this a viable if incoherent post.)

With the near imminent election of Howard Dean to the DNC Chair I think notice has been given to the Beltway Dems who have run the party since the inception of the DLC. The grassroots of the party are firing up, and I think Dean, while not my choice for pres, will make a...(God forgive me for saying this)...Rove like leader that the Dems need. Someone who understands how the grassroots works. Can appeal to the base of the party. The DLC has too long tried to be Republican Light (not all, but most). That hasn't worked. See the congressional seats lost, the 2 failed presidential campaigns. Dean and Reid (I am a still a little leery of Pelosi) "get it" and will get the grassroots moving.

Dean won the chair of the DNC the old fashioned way. Grassroots. There was a massive anyone but Dean campaigning put on by the DLC and the other Beltway Babies, but through grassroots organizing and old-school door knocking and phone calling Dean won his way into leadership.

As for the anyone but Dean, I think the Good Doctor learned a valuable lesson...that kind of message can not win a campaign. Focusing on issues (that he has promised to let the Democratic congressional leadership determine), making people a part of the system...damn his slogan is "You have the power"...decentralizing the national party and focusing on the state parties (allowing them to build viable candidates) and then facilitating communication between them...that is what wins elections.

Reid has been working hard to unite Senate Democrats. This is working. The whole idea is to make sure that in a system where the majority party holds all the power, there is strength to our checks and balances system. Without a united frot this can not happen. Newt Gingrich did the same thing during Clinton's first term. Look where it got them. Hopefully, this new, fresh batch of Democratic leadership has been taking notes.

Listen to the people...GET IT!

Death Of A Playwright

Arthur Miller
Originally uploaded by CelticWander.

Arthur Miller Died last night.

One of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th Century has gone to join the myriad before him.

Rest in Peace

Welcome

Bar
Originally uploaded by CelticWander.

Welcome to the Knotty Pine Inn. Our new apartment. This room was built in the 1950's. Click here to see more picture of the apartment, including the SWEET wall paper. Feel free to leave comments here on with the pictures. Be sure to click to page 2 to see more,

Birthday Boy

Birthday Boy
Originally uploaded by CelticWander.

Everybody wish THE MAN Alice Cooper a wicked birthday!

oh yeah...it is mine too!

Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis
Originally uploaded by CelticWander.

I just heard on the radio that actor Ossie Davis has died. Not only is he the husband to the wonderful Ruby Dee, but he was such a force in the civil rights movement. The two of them have used their fame to instigate more good than most can even fathom. From race relations of the 60s to the anti-war movement of today. An Inspiration.

Rest in Peace