Morning Editorial

We can tell we are in the waning days now, as the barrel is really being scraped by you-know-who. The repugs have taken their normal track of going from innuendo and distortion to outright lies. They always pull out the "Media has a liberal bias" bs whenever the media actually investigate their claims and reveal them to be the lies and slander that they are. I also don't know that the "liberal" media have their own entire news network...like Faux News..to promulgate the "black man tortures white woman for supporting McCain" story that Faux had to invent. I wonder what the "liberal" version would be..."Joe Sixpack got drunk and kicked another fag to death last night...". Oh..wait...they probably wouldn't have to make that one up would they....

I will admit that the comedy news does seem to spend more time picking on the repugs than the dems, but I would just suggest that, like most people, comedy writers will tend to do the easy thing first....and the repugs just make it so easy for them.....with such a wealth of material.

I wonder why the repugs have elevated the Joe Sixpack character as their standard bearer anyway. Are they really suggesting that the only people they believe they can get to accept their claptrap anymore spends most of his time in a drunken stupor? (Although, admittedly, it probably is the best way to get through repug administrations..^_^).

please vote

Hi everybody!

Please remember to vote on November 4, 2008, for the new President! I hope you make a good choice. If not, the next four years will be like the last eight years.

i wish i could vote too but i live in Toronto, Canada so its against the law.

It's just too bad that the new President will be inheriting a system thats collapsing...and i'm sure he will be blamed for everything...

i like Americans alot...so friendly! i wish i could live in the U.S.A. but i'm stuck up here in cold Canada.

love from,

tara

This is the Sound

I'm tossing in a plug for the most excellent new music release (This is the Sound) from my friend Ian McGlynn. If you don't trust my opinion, I suspect you can find some free clips on his Myspace page. I have no idea anymore where one goes to buy a hard copy of music albums, but I'm sure it can be found at any of the online stores, and digital versions are also available at Itunes and Amazon and a couple of others. Let's see...what's the best plug I can give it..

"..one of 3 albums that I've actually bought this year..."

I don't know of any higher praise...^_^

Todays editorial goodies...

Isn't it amusing how the right screams socialism only when the "wealth" isn't being re-distributed to them......well..wait..it is actually isn't it...it's the possibility of some of it being diverted to the working class that seems to have them in such an uproar...^_^

Openspace

To my S***** L*** friends..we will be moving...probably around the 3rd week in November..back to 1/4 of a region (given that we can find one at the right price at the right time). This will not be quite the same as it was last time we were on a 1/4 region, since the height restrictions have changed so much there will be plenty of air space for us to spread out in. If you want to see why we are doing this...read this article. You can also find the Labs description of what they are up to on their blog. I am not sure yet if we will be renting privately held land..like before...or if we will be heading back to the mainland. I am assuming the former at the moment, as the latter has a heavy initial cost outlay..although it could be cheaper each month if each full member donated tier...still..I can't see the outlay for mainland happening right now. Just a quick heads up to any of you who read this. I'll be sending a note to all group members over the weekend.

...and we'll start today

Finally, a cartoon for today....

Now we can see if the size of this is readable....but at least I've figured out how to do it..(I think)

Not as simple as I'd hoped...

I realize this seems like grade school to members of a generation a couple removed from me...but none of this comes easily to me..^_^

So far, I can't get it to do what I really want it to do..that is..act as a repository to easily put things that strike my fancy.

Example..I look at a lot of comic strips and editorial cartoons each day..and some of them I'd like to share. Basically..I'd just like to post the link to the cartoon. As it is...I can add a gadget to the page that will allow anyone to look at the same set of cartoons day after day...or I can send individual links as posts...which happily proclaim in the header my real email address for all to spam...so, not exactly what I am searching for.

The other thing I was looking for was a gadget or button that would just stream whatever music I am playing when you clicked it on the page. Pretty simple eh? Damned if I can find one..^_^

Oh well...I'll just keep looking I guess. Likely just my strange inability to come up with the correct search term no matter how simple it seems to the rest of humanity.....^_^

Introduction

As is probably usual for a first posting, a short explanation. (Or excuse).

I am setting this up as a catch-all for things that I discover...both on the web and elsewhere. I will, (I hope), be opening it up to my friends also as a place they can stash the things they stumble across as well. There is no pretension that anything I find or write (or that any friends do) is of any import to the world at large, although it may well look pretentious soon after posting...much as our lives seem in retrospect...^_^.

That's it..at least to start. Just an attic room to quickly store old junk. I don't expect anyone aside from close friends to come here often, or even at all...but welcome if you do come across it and find anything of even passing interest.