30 Haziran 2004 Çarşamba

Union Label Weblogs

Nobody Messes With Da Union



I stumpled onto this thanks to GeoHawk. If you're a union member you can sign up and bug your blog. You'll see my union label here soon. (Non-union members are eligible for an I Love Unions sticker instead.)

Kidman: Men Aren't Beating Down the Door

Kidman: Men Aren't Beating Down the Door



"I'm hoping to meet someone and be happy with them. But that's not as easy as it sounds. I'm a 37-year-old woman with two children. Men aren't beating a path to my door," she said in an interview published Wednesday...



Uhhh... knock knock?



I checked my prospects with the Magic 8 Ball: VERY DOUBTFUL

Yahoo! News - Nader, Dean to Debate if Ralph Should Run

Nader, Dean to Debate if Ralph Should Run



Now THIS oughta be interesting:



"I am anxious to debate Ralph Nader in order to speak about why he wants to run for president," Dean said in a statement. "This is the most important election in my lifetime and a third party candidate could make a difference — this November and for years to come."



Of course, if we had actually NOMINATED Dean, this wouldn't even be an issue...



29 Haziran 2004 Salı

Cheney Booed at Yankee Game

Cheney Booed at Yankee Game



Cheney was booed when he was shown on the right-field videoboard during the seventh-inning stretch.



Coulda been worse. He could have tried to sing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" at Wrigley.



More:



Though their team's fiercest rivals were in town, Yankees fans' loudest boos last night were not for the Red Sox but for Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney watched the game with New York Gov. George Pataki (R) and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and when his image was shown on the scoreboard during the 7th inning's singing of God Bless America, fans stopped singing and booed loudly. Cheney's picture was quickly taken off the screen.



The bad news was the Yankees beat the Red Sox.



If you want a good story, read the section of Tip O'Neill's autobiography where he describes how Nixon shook down George Steinbrenner for 100 boxes of ziti back in `72...

Welcome To The Occupation...

Welcome To The Occupation



Hang your collar up inside

Hang your dollar on me

Listen to the water still

Listen to the cause where you are

Fed and educated,

primitive and wild

Welcome to the occupation




So the occupation is over. That means the troops will be home any second, right? Mission Accomplished.



I have GOT to get myself some newer musical references. I gave up on keeping up for myself the day Cobain died; now all my current music knowledge is second hand as a parent of a teenager, and I have to be careful not to like anything TOO much so as to spoil it for her.



Right now I've got some vintage `86 Steve Earle rolling.

Contactmusic - RAPPERS TAKE ON DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE

RAPPERS TAKE ON DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE



Rappers SEAN 'P DIDDY' COMBS and RUSSELL SIMMONS are taking on political big wigs including DEMOCRAT hopeful Senator JOHN KERRY - in a protest against New York's strict drug laws.



The hip-hop moguls are summoning every major rap star to protest against the Rockefeller drug laws outside MADISON SQUARE GARDEN in time for the Republican Convention on 30 August 2004 - although they are also questioning the Democrats' political agenda.



Combs says, "I'm holding my vote hostage until I hear what I expect Kerry to say about health care and computers in schools."



DEF JAM founder Simmons adds, "Kerry is certainly taking the black vote for granted. He doesn't have a master plan yet to make a dramatic overhaul.



"Ninety per cent of the black people will vote Democratic unless people get as angry as I'm getting and they start looking at RALPH NADER.



"If you don't speak to the issues of poverty, you're no different than BUSH. The Rockefeller drug laws require harsh prison terms for the possession or sale of relatively small amounts of drugs.