just for fun....Washblog

a great post at Washblog.....

Seattle Musician posts video-A nonpartisan version of song "Yes We Can"
By lmsings Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 01:25:20 PM PST

SNL ...Tina Fey again

the Naomi's warning us...

Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
this from a year ago
Talk by Naomi Wolf - The End of America

and a recent interview on Stephanie Miller (blog page with links to audio) videos


Naomi Klein:
a recent interview with Naomi Klein
more from Naomi Klein
videos

go Campbell !!!!

Campbell Brown: McCain Sexist For Sequestering Sarah Palin

there's a choice??????

ask yourself where you fit....hmmmm......

Brutal: Sarah Palin's Record on Aerial Wolf Hunting

disclaimer: not for the faint hearted.......

Brutal: Sarah Palin's Record on Aerial Wolf Hunting

Fiestas Patrias

a few photos before the parade....


Democrats have a awesome presence.....

Fiesta! Fiesta!
by Susan Rosenberry
Record-Journal editor

Standing alongside a hubbub of area residents
who lined the span of Third Avenue’s curbside, Ferndale resident Daniel Walker,
22, bared the sweltering heat Saturday for the last city festival of the season.

Festival-goers took in the public display of American pride presented in
the Northwest Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s second-annual Fiestas
Patrias event, an all-day Mexican Independence Day commemoration.
full article

perhaps so.....

really...is anyone even considering electing these people????? if i didn't know people who will be voting for them i would say "not a fucking chance in hell" oh we are a sick disordered bunch. we do not have many more decades to get this right.....we cannot continue to over-populate, pollute and wage war.

wake up america!!!!!!

Palin: War with Russia? Perhaps So!

economy on my mind.....

who are we going to trust the great great grandchildren's credit cards with.????? with our relationships with other nations on our finite planet earth.....

i want someone smart, (1st in his class at Harvard Law School)

who knows how to organize people with few resources (3 years in his neighborhood in Chicago),

who understands how a legistlature works (8 years in Illinois state Senate and 3+years in the U. S.Senate)

who understands the constitution (taught constitiutional law)

i want someone who expects me to be involved.

i want someone whose love for his family i can see on his face.

i want someone who i believe understands where we are and will give it all to leave a home for those who come after.

i hope we get this election right....wake up america

CC from Alaska......

stream her live starting at 4PM our time

CC
Monday - Friday: 3:00 PM - 6:00
PM

CC is an award-winning radio broadcaster with 20 years of experience
here in Anchorage. Back in 1987, CC worked with the Pacific Rim Broadcasting Network to help pioneer talk radio in Alaska on KENI AM and KENI FM. CC hosted the mid-day show on 100.5 The Fox from its inception in 1989 until 1997. She was featured on "We Alaskans" in April of 1991 as the "most listened-to DJ in the state," and later that year was awarded the National Broadcasters Association Marconi Award for best Radio Personality in a medium size market.
From 1998 to 2001, CC hosted “Morning Line” on 90.3 KNBA and loved her time in public radio. In addition to her work in radio, CC is the owner/operator of Professional Production Concepts, which offers MC/Auctioneer/DJ services and fundraising consultation to the non-profit community here in Anchorage. She is also owner/operator of Healing Hearts Cards, designing and marketing specialty greeting cards that address grief, loss and transition. CC returned to the talk radio airwaves in January 2007 as host of “Cutting Edge,” which airs weekdays from 3:00 – 6:00 here on Newstalk 1080 KUDO Alaska’s Progressive Voice.

Here’s what CC says about her show, “Cutting Edge”: "There’s no doubt
that my style is quite different from your typical AM talk show host. I prefer conversations to shouting matches. I believe that healthy discourse trumps
dogmatic monologue, sound-byte talking points, and sensationalism. Cutting Edge listeners are progressive, open-minded people who are educated, intelligent and passionate. Cutting Edge is a partnership between myself, the guests and the listeners – together we are attempting to understand the complex issues that affect our lives, and to identify proactive solutions to which we can all contribute.”

A Palin McCain Administration?

scarey goes terrifying regularly these daze....
breathe .....breathe....breathe.....

Fey is Palin on 'SNL'

this was so great i had to capture it!!!

where did the money go....????

i will default to Hoyt on this question......

Conservative Financial Follies

The Politics
We are witnessing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.Wall Street’s “shadow banking system” has been revealed to be a house of cards. Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan is calling it a “once-in-a-century” financial crisis. Who is responsible? Who should be held accountable? What is the real solution to this crisis?

The Facts
Wall Street’s binge is over; now come the migraines. Lehman Brothers,
one of the largest investment banks in the world, just declared bankruptcy.
Yesterday, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself at a fire-sale price to Bank of
America. Last week, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the Treasury Department, and the insurance giant American International Group is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Banks across the nation, holding billions in toxic loans, are in trouble. [Wall Street Journal]
The debacle is the direct result of conservative misrule. To increase profits, finance companies sold subprime and nontraditional mortgages to millions of Americans who—the companies knew—could not afford to make the payments. The brokers didn’t care; before the mortgages could become a problem, they sold the loans to investment houses that repackaged them into exotic securities and marketed them around the world. Now the entire financial system is reeling since no one knows what the toxic loans
are worth. These follies were made possible when:
Banking deregulation allowed the growth of a totally unregulated shadow banking system that borrowed heavily while inventing exotic securities to hide the value of underlying assets.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which could have halted the sale of the worst of these loans by designating them “unfair and deceptive practices,” refused to do so. [Center for Responsible Lending]
The Federal Reserve Board failed to regulate subprime and exotic mortgage loans, although it had the power to do so. [New York Times]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase large numbers of subprime loans. [Washington Post]
The banks went on a binge; the cops on the street turned a blind eye. The bankers pocketed billions until the housing bubble burst. Americans are now paying dearly for the conservative folly. Across the nation, home values have dropped 16 percent over 12 months, the largest one-year decline on record. [New York Times] Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth. [Bloomberg] Homeowners without mortgage problems find themselves surrounded by boarded-up foreclosed houses. And taxpayers will ultimately have to pay hundreds of billions for all the recent government banking bailouts. [U.S. News]

full post

Bees gorge on sedums......

i just love this time of year when the bees and sedum are sooo fun to sit and watch....

impeachment hearings...HillbillyReport

i'm beginning to think there is something about jims

Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono and beyond

Barenaked Ladies - If I Had A Million Dollars


and this one's great ....


live


'The Sound Of Your Voice'