New York ...

Okay, last one and I'm done with the vacation pics. Back to reality ...

Halifax ...

My post from 2 days in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

When you've lost Bobo ...

You really suck.

Tough to summarize this one. Just go read the entire thing. But here's a little from conservative opinion leader David Brooks in the NYT on Mitt Romney's extraordinary gaffe tonight in the secret video just released.

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Your choices ...

From MoveOn.org:

The Mexican Mormon War

This just came out today. The Mexican Romneys are heavily involved. I'm on their side. The trailer:

The cartels of Juarez, Mexico, are at war with a group of polygamous Mormons, some of whom are related to Mitt Romney. We went there to document the conflict.

Part 1/7:

The Mexican drug cartels are at war... with Mormons. Join VICE on Part 1 of our journey filled with guns, drugs, murder, and booze.

Thanks to vice.

Nanortalik ...

After a day in the Sund, we pulled into Nanortalik, Greenland.

Prins Christian Sund ...

One of the most beautiful places I've ever been to. Prins Christian Sund in Greenland.

Reykjavik ...

I got a post up from our 2 days in Iceland too.

Flam ...

Got a post up from our visit to Flam, Norway.

Oh, the irony...

Ironic Times

Poll: Obama Has Slight Lead Among Likely Voters
Has huge lead among suppressed voters.

Many Ohio Republicans Think Romney Responsible for Killing Bin Laden
At least that's what that nice man on Fox implied.

Halliburton Issues Warning to Public About Misplaced Radioactive Cylinder
If you find it, go to nearest biohazard disposal site, give it to first person you see in HazMat suit.

I wonder if Cheney's hiding it where it makes him walk funny...

Pennsylvania Court Decision Upholding Voter ID Law Is Based on 1869 Decision Citing “Rogues,” “Strumpets,” “Wandering Arabs,” “Vicious Vagrants,” and “Pestilent Hordes”
Thank goodness we can prevent them from voting.

They forgot to include "And Other Democrats".

Assange gets an Aboriginal passport

I've stayed outta the whole Wikileaks/Assange/Manning deal up to now because I don't give much of a shit about it. Those guys made their choices and the power structure is dumpin' on 'em. Yer gonna have that. Assange knew that would happen going in and dumb kid soldier Manning knows it now. He also knows the true meaning of that memorable line from the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) - "Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense". Heh. His heart may belong to God but his ass belongs to them. Their behavior has taught us all the meaning of "chickenshit" as well.

That'e exactly all I have to say about that, but ... that said,

This is so good on so many levels! From the Sydney Morning Herald.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities.
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The group that organised Saturday's ceremony, the Indigenous Social Justice Association, wants recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty.
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The passport will now be sent to Mr Assange in London.

Well and good. Now let's see Mr. Assange get out of London on it. Heh. /snark.

So we have a people who make a point about their claim to sovereignty by doing something sovereign like a nation would do. Took some smart Ab ta come up with that!

Native Americans claim sovereignty and open up casinos.

Native Australians claim sovereignty and help free a political prisoner half the world away. Whatever happens next on that, good on yer, mates! Damn good start.

I bet we hear more about this.

Headline of the Day

Santorum: ‘We Will Never Have… Smart People On Our Side’

Got that one right, Frothy!

Unpacking ...

Gah ... I'll be back tomorrow. Gonna try to do some posts about where I been tonight, in between laundry and football (soccer).

Gord wasn't kidding when he said I froze my dick off. Heh ...

Inchon

Today is the 62nd anniversary of the invasion of Inchon by a hastily-assembled 1st Marine Division. I wasn't quite 5 years old. I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now...

Wikipedia's plenty close enough.

The Battle of Inchon, code name: Operation Chromite) was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations (UN). The operation involved some 75,000 troops and 261 naval vessels, and led to the recapture of the South Korean capital Seoul two weeks later.[3]

The battle began on September 15, 1950, and ended September 19. Through a surprise amphibious assault far from the Pusan Perimeter that UN and South Korean forces were desperately defending, the largely undefended city of Incheon was secured after being bombed by UN forces. The battle ended a string of victories by the invading North Korean People's Army (NKPA). The subsequent UN recapture of Seoul partially severed NKPA's supply lines in South Korea.

Ah, fer the good ol' days o' rum, sodomy, and th' lash!

I am actually old enough to have carried one of these in ITR. They had been replaced with the M-14, but we trained with the leftovers. The two rifles were very similar in use.

Ah, memories...

Thanks to ostoja59.

Be sure to hit yourself in the ass with the door on the way out

A lateral transfer from my Facebook page after stealing it from Donner Party of Massachusetts, whose motto is "Face Ripping, Poop Flinging, Cannabilism & Progressive Liberal Politics - Home to the Angry & Pantsless".

Angry & pantsless. Yep. That's me. At least that's my image at Safeway.

Note to Miss Lindsey: If you're driving scared angry old white men away from The Party Of Scared Angry Old White Men, you might wanta rethink your message.

Fat chance. Good riddance.

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

Track 1 from his album "Grievous Angel" (1974; remastered version, 2006). Composed by Thomas Brown and Gram Parsons. Recorded July 1973.

Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, "Return of the Grievous Angel"

Thanks to Queenigma.

Fixer's back!

He'll show up as soon as the icicles melt off his dick and he can wear Speedos again! :-)

Bryan Fischer: Today’s GOP Will Be ‘Dead’ If Romney Loses

Gee, he says that like it's a bad thing...

TPM

A Barack Obama win in November will lead to a meltdown within the Republican Party, said Bryan Fischer, an influential official at the American Family Association. And he isn’t too optimistic about Mitt Romney’s chances.

“If Barack Obama wins this election the Republican Party as we know it is finished, it is dead, it is toast — you can stick a fork in it,” he told TPM Friday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. “And conservatives, grassroots conservatives, are either going to start a third party or they are going to launch a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.”

Fischer said he believed Romney would be leading national polls by double digits at this point if he had followed Paul Ryan’s lead and offered more detailed conservative positions on the budget and social issues.

Fischer and his hate group are among the worst of the worst. The funny (bad choice of words, I know) part is that these phony xtians think their Dead End Quarter is in the majority.

“I think if Mitt Romney loses this election that the pro-family leaders in the United States should get together with Rick Perry on Nov. 7 and start planning for 2016,” he said.

Excellent idea. Perhaps we'll never hear from them again.

Here's a little more on Ryan at the "value" voters circle jerk today:

BuzzFlash

People For the American Way today challenged the Romney campaign for its decision to send vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to speak today at the Values Voter Summit, an event organized by groups that regularly push false and demeaning smears about gays and lesbians, Muslim-Americans and others. These groups also push extreme anti-woman policies, including defending Rep. Todd Akin after his "legitimate rape" comments.
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“By speaking at the Values Voter Summit, Paul Ryan sends a clear message: a Romney-Ryan administration has decided to embrace the entrenched bigotry advocated by the farthest of the far right,” said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American Way.

Philosophically speaking, I guess I have to thank these wingnut hater assholes for showing me how much hate I have in my own soul. For them. Not a pretty realization.

I didn't know they had Republicans in Pakistan

Anger Rolls Across Pakistani City in Aftermath of Factory Fire

KARACHI, Pakistan — The towering metal door at the back of the burned-out garment factory could have been an escape for many of the low-paid textile workers caught in the fire here on Tuesday. Instead, it stands as a testament to greed and corruption at a factory where 289 trapped employees died.

As hundreds of workers scrambled to escape the flaming factory after a boiler explosion, they found the main sliding door — 30 feet high, big enough for a truckload of cotton — firmly locked. Instead of letting the workers escape, several survivors said Thursday, plant managers forced them to stay in order to save the company’s stock: piles of stonewashed jeans, destined for Europe.

Go read this sneak peek at manufacturing here if Rmoney gets "elected".