When They Stand Up, We'll Stand Down

Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?



Video if Iraq's finest (under the tutleage of our best and brightest).

Reality Comes Up and Splashes the Face

Would that there were more Republicans with such clairty of mind:

I had intended to register independent, but when I got there to do it, I had a moment of clarity- there seemed to be no point leaving the Republican party in protest and joining the unwashed masses. If I really was going to protest, it made no sense to not commit to the opposition party. Besides, as a Republican all these years, I never had any problem voting for libertarians, Democrats, etc., I don’t see why being a Democrat will change anything. And, the 2008 election really is the most important election of my lifetime- the basic foundation of our country has been under assault for a while, now, and I want to vote in the Democratic primary as a Democrat, not as someone with no party affiliation. I want to send a message, and as small as this gesture (which should appropriately be interpreted as a middle finger to the GOP and not as a sloppy wet kiss to Nancy Pelosi) is, I want it to mean as much as possible. There is now one less Republican in WV, and one more Democrat.


Long story short, I got up there to register as an independent, said “Fuck it,” and now I am a Democrat. I certainly don’t agree with all their positions, but they are not bat-shit crazy like the GOP. That has to count for something. Additionally, I no longer have to read posts by the 24% crowd calling me a “true conservative” with quotes o’sarcasm (you know who they are). Not any more, bitches. I repudiate you, your party, and whatever the fuck it is you are currently pretending is “conservatism.” It isn’t.


Now send me my check from Soros and the 40 virgins.

As someone once said, "Welcome aboard, former asshole."

'65 Impala punks Lamborghini

This is pretty weird. Some guy dropped a pimped up biodiesel engine in a 1965 Chvrolet Impala and turned it into an 800 horsepower race car (yes, you read that right) so fast that it blew the doors off a Lamborghini:



You can read all about it at Daily Kos, but this about sums it up:

"Conservatively," Goodwin muses, scratching his chin, "it'll get 60 miles to the gallon. With 2,000 foot-pounds of torque. You'll be able to smoke the tires. And it's going to be superefficient."

He laughs. "Think about it: a 5,000-pound vehicle that gets 60 miles to the gallon and does zero to 60 in five seconds!"

[...]

Goodwin's feats of engineering have become gradually more visible over the past year. Last summer, Imperium Renewables contacted MTV's show Pimp My Ride about creating an Earth Day special in which Goodwin would convert a muscle car to run on biodiesel. The show chose a '65 Chevy Impala, and when the conversion was done, he'd doubled its mileage to 25 mpg and increased its pull from 250 to 800 horsepower. As a stunt, MTV drag-raced the Impala against a Lamborghini on California's Pomona Raceway. "The Impala blew the Lamborghini away," says Kevin Kluemper, the lead calibration engineer for GM's Allison transmission unit, who'd flown down to help with the conversion. Schwarzenegger, who was on the set that day, asked Goodwin on the spot to convert his Wagoneer to biodiesel.

California Burning

Here's a fairly dramatic photo of the fire devastation in Lake Arrowhead, California.

All I wanna do is watch the World Series....

Koufax kicks... he delivers....

Full Disclosure

I'd just like to make it clear that I don't know "George Soros" and "George Soros" has never given me any money. If "George Soros" would like to get in touch with me, I will gladly help him take Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh down, for a small fee. My email can be found over on the left margin.

For those of you who, like me, don't even know who "George Soros" is or what he looks like, I give you: "George Soros."


The Republicans rely on a different organ to disburse their message.

Iceland Doesn't Work Here Anymore

Iceland brings its troop home....

New Evidence, Rockies Must Lose

Remember all that stuff I said about 5 minutes ago about the Phillies being too nice and maybe that would hurt their chances to take the NLDS from the Rockies? Well, strike that. Reverse it. We have new evidence it's the Rockies who are too niiiiiiice. Aside from that absurd post-game interview after the Padre game in which Jamey Carroll thanked God about 10 times for the victory, we now have this:

DENVER — No copies of Playboy or Penthouse are in the clubhouse of baseball's Colorado Rockies. There's not even a Maxim. The only reading materials are daily newspapers, sports and car magazines and the Bible.




Music filled with obscenities, wildly popular with youth today and in many other clubhouses, is not played. A player will curse occasionally but usually in hushed tones. Quotes from Scripture are posted in the weight room. Chapel service is packed on Sundays. Prayer and fellowship groups each Tuesday are well-attended. It's not unusual for the front office executives to pray together.

Good lord, what would Ty Cobb think? Besides, "Go Phillies, that Pat Burrell is a playa."

Nice Guys Finish Last

I'm pretty sure it was Leo Durocher who said "Nice guys finish last."

This clip doesn't bode well for the Phils vs. the Rockies.







Game 1 Result: Rocks 4 -- Phillies 2.

Chase Ultey 0-fer-4 with 4 strikeouts?!?

Ryan Howard 0-fer-4 with 3 strikeouts?!?

Feel Good Story of the Year

Dmitri Young went ahead and won himself the Comeback Player of the Year award:

Each day, as he shuffled around the clubhouse in the hours leading up to game time, Dmitri Young wore a gray T-shirt. On the back was an innocuous phrase that meant nothing to most people but everything to him: "Field 5." It was an homage to the down-the-road, no-fans-around patch of dirt and grass where Young began the 2007 season with a group of Washington Nationals minor leaguers. His days in the majors -- which began in 1996 -- seemed distant.



"I definitely questioned myself here and there," Young said.



Yesterday, Young received the final reward for following through on those days at Field 5. Major League Baseball named Young the National League's comeback player of the year, an official acknowledgment of a season in which he hit .320 and was named an all-star, one that followed a campaign lost to a laundry list of personal, legal and health problems.



"It was very humbling, to say the least," Young said. "This put the stamp on everything I've been through and what I accomplished this year from an individual standpoint. Shed some tears. Looked back, thought about my kids immediately. My parents, my brother, my sisters, all the friends that stuck with me when I was at my absolute lowest, and the people I met along the way on my way back up."

Congratulations are in order. The man's got character.




Here we are in DC.