I would love to see Karl Rove dragged into Congress in handcuffs, and then beaten repeatedly.  Not going to happen, but it’s a nice thought.
 
 
 
In the past few days, Walnuts is looking more and more feeble.  That man really can’t get his shit together.   He really is Abe Simpson and feeding OxyContin laced BBQ sauce to the media isn’t going to save him either.
 
 
 
 
The GOP’s smear campaign against Obama’s just started, but if smearing Michelle is their best opening shot then they really got nothing.  All those years of oppo research wasted eh Repubs?
 
 
 
As for me, I’m off to the deep woods on a three day hiking trip with friends (Victoria Day weekend) so I won’t be around till late Monday.  It will be my time to pretend I’m a man, fight bugs and rain, sleep on the ground and slay bears with my bare hands (obviously the last part isn’t true.)

Conyers has had the ability to clap Rove, Miers, Bolten, Addington, any of them in irons and haul them before his committee.  It’s called inherent contempt.  He should have grown a set in January 2007, but maybe he’ll come through this time.  I doubt it.

@Manchu: Ooooh, Victoria Day. I can has extra holiday too? We’ll gladly give you Memorial Day as well. And be kind to bears. They can be your friends…

@rptcub,
Will try, but the ones where I’m going do bite.
 
 
Hmmm, I should read the itinerary more often.  I’m not going for another 4 hours.  Shit

@Manchu:  I want a Victoria Day holiday, too!  Except the Queen I would want to honor is Elton John.

@Manchu: Kinky.

Bears in my ‘hood.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/Bear-sighting-reported-near-Santa-Fe-High-School

@RML:  The article states that the bears are especially looking for “urban treats.”  Offer them Republicans.  They’ll stay away after that. 

OOh, I love bears.  Besides being omnivorous killing machines, they provide the important service of keeping a little bit of teh stupid out of the human gene pool.   I wish there were more of them in Minneapolis-Saint Paul in the first few days of fall…

@raging,
Who doesn’t like eating the human equivalent of Cheez Whiz?
@RML,
That’s not good for me.  Where I live, they’re all black bears and all I’m carrying is my buck knife.  Oh well, the ole joke about being chased by a bear is that you only have to outrun the guy next to you (good thing I started running this spring… Heh.)

@ ragemonkey - that school is a five minute walk from the site of the CP National Convention Host Committee’s Weenie Roast and Rave: ”A Cynic’s Party” and RML’s ___ th BD party, assuming of couse that Santa Fe is the convention site.  But if there’s going to be a wave of matrimony in Cali this summer, we would glaadly send our disco ball and lasers to a West Coast site to help the cause.  And bears.  (No reason Party members seeking outdoor adventure can’t swing by on the way to or from, either.)  I have enough fishing gear for several people, so no need to buy or even bring tackle. 

Well, it’s actually time for me to shut down and say good bye for a few days.  May post up photos somewhere if I’m not busy itching and scratching bug bites or I don’t drain the batteries on my camera (did the last time.)

@ manchu = “urban treat”. 

Get your self a big can of bear whoop ass.  The one I have looks like a fire extinguisher. 
http://www.udap.com/product.htm

@manchu: We’ll see you when you get back, and tell me how you do with the bears.
@Tommmcatt: I’m sure you can find them here. And further upstate, you can actually find the animal species of said killing machine.

I can’t wait for the obligatory Bin Laden tape that surfaces during the democratic convention,  you know, the one that serves the dual purpose of stealing the headlines and highlighting the perception of dems being soft on terror.  I wonder if Bin Laden will endorse Obama, or merely express gratitude that a man of muslim roots has earned the nomination and pray that Obama returns to the faith of his father.

Then there will be that tape that comes out the day before the election that will say only “you’re all gonna die.”

@promnight:  this is what i don’t understand.  yes, it could be argued that the clinton administration didn’t go after bin laden like it should have.  but then again, they were being cautious and for good reason.  the bush administration was given some good reasons not to be so cautious, and did even less than clinton until the shit hit the fan.  and then proceeded to not be able to find the bastard for almost 7 years.  so, for me, a video of bin laden coming out around the dem convention would just underline the fact that the bush war on terror hasn’t even accomplished its first and primary goal of taking out bin laden.

also, the whole “bin laden wants you to vote for the dems” thing.  why would he?  the republicans have been just great for him in a) being ineffective in capturing him and b) providing a great recruiting center in a once highly secular part of the middle east.  wouldn’t he just say vote dem cause he knows dumb americans would do the opposite?

oh, yeah, that would involve using logic to figure out…

@rptrcub
I love those kind of bears too.  Not attracted to them, but they were always the most fun to party with…no attitude, fun guys without a lot of drama.  Also, there are quite a few asian bear admirers, so I could always meet one or two in that demographic  although I wasn’t terribly ursine myself.
Ah, those were the days….
 
 
 

@Manchu: I love that they have started attacking Michelle. This makes Cindy Lou (and her pill stealing, tax hiding, mob connected beer dynasty) fair game.

Thanks, repubtards.

@Prom: I thought you were sailing away for 48 hours on your Lil’ Ark. What happened?

And another thing we hadn’t thought of - the revival of the California economy this summer as teh geyz come here to get married.  The wedding industrial complex is salivating at the likes of Pedo.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/05/16/notes051608.DTL
 

@prom: Did you bring backa sea chanty for us?

@pocket gay: It’s a hall of mirrors trying to figure out what a bin Laden endorsement accomplishes. There’s the question of why anyone would consider bin Laden’s opinion relevant. And the mental pretzel of trying to figure out, is the enemy of my enemy’s enemy…my enemy? She’s my daughter! She’s my sister! She’s my daughter and my sister!

@SFL: I’m just a patriot, doing my part for the Economy. 

@SFL  They need to put the same residency rules in place as our friends to the north:  anybody can come and get married, but you have to live in Canada for a year before you can get divorced.  That way they get all the wedding moola, but don’t have their courts clogged up when the honeymoon is over.

Luckily I love the hell out of my wife, because this warm-blooded Texan ain’t never gonna survive a year in those hyperborean temperatures.

Gays using their Bush stimulus checks for wedding expenses should be sure to send thank you cards.

. . . and what about metal’s most famous lesbian,  Otep Shamaya, who just came out for Obama?
http://www.last.fm/music/Otep/+videos/+1-BNDm_NdQp8I

Otep’s such a shock-chick, it’s pathetic.  Kids these days, trying too hard.

Don’t make me link to ‘Bear Force One’ again.  Because I will.  It is all fun and games until someone links to ‘Bear Force One’.

The best thing about the Osama videos are the hilariously subtle ways that he references current events to prove that he’s still alive. It’s all totes like Nostradamus.

I guess in the next one he’s gonna have to talk about the most recent seasons of <i>American Idol</i> and <i>Dancing with the Stars</i> before he endorses Obama so this nation’s douchenozzle hillbillies will have a clue what he’s talking about.

@ Tommmcatt,

Asian bears are lovingly called Pandas, for real.

SFL, Pedo, 24 hours was all I got before the weather turned ugly.  But it was a fantastic 24 hours.  Sun, calm seas, pure relaxation for one day. Laphroaig, Cohibas, Domo kun enjoyed it very much.  Woke up to rising seas and howling wind and rain, which to me is nirvana, as long as I can make a big cup of coffee and jump back under my comforter and listen to the wind howl outside.  But it kept getting worse so I had to bail.   I am paranoid about the anchor dragging ever since 2 years ago, I went to bed on a beautiful night and woke up in a thunderstorm with the boat hard aground against a lee shore.  So, I went out into the rain, hauled up the anchor, and ran home.  Got home only with the help of GPS, couldn’t see shore or any landmarks, couldn’t see the channel markers until I was within 100 yards of them.  I created a photo essay that tells the tale, gonna post to photobucket and post so you can go see.

redman, where are you on the glorious Joan Jett?  Speaking of rock and roll lesbians, the ulitmate.

ATTN: Jamie Sommers:
Speaking of teh gheyz from California, here to rest your jealous heart is definitive proof that you don’t need to worry about Rachel Maddow stealing your Keith OH! unless she decides to change teams…she outs herself to her alma mater with “Don’t put any makeup on me! I’m a dyke!”
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2008/mayjun/pc/maddow.html
 

@manchu@rml@prom
I’m not sleeping on the ground, but am currently in the North woods of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in a family cottage on a lake,  with a fire in the wood stove and a “cask strength” laphroiag neat next to the laptop. Also broadband cable.
Still, we are also fighting mosquitoes  and the rain.
There is a healthy black bear population here.  Even though I have been coming up here for the last 50 years or so, the only time I have ever seen black bears was when my parents used to take us to see them rummaging through the garbage at the dump when I was a young’n.  And one truly pathetic example kept in a small cage as a tourist attraction. I take comfort that it is a small measure of our progress and environmental sensitivity and that neither of these roadside attractions are around today.

@sfl
Just in time to make a dent in the on-going disaster of the San Francisco city and  California state budget. Gavin and Ahnold should roll out a national advertising campaign to bring in all that gay marriage disposable income and slap a big tax on out-of-state marriages.

@ string - that’s me next week, dude.  Headed to a friend’s family ranch in Colorado for fly fishing, some good dinners, a few drinks and r and r before summer kicks off.

I’m on vacation at home. A friend is visiting so we’re doing a punishing four days of winery visits and wine tastings, with side trips to Portland and to the coast. It’s a dirty job, but someone has to make the sacrifice. Also sampling cheeses with the wine in a number of places. If you have the opportunity to get your hands on Truffle Tremor by Cypress Grove (truffle infused chever encased in a triple creme cheese) buy it whatever the price. Trust me, it’s worth it. Well, back to drinking. Happy Victoria Day weekend, all!

@RML
My brother is the real fly fisherman in the family, although I do enjoy walking downstream and roll casting a fly to the bank.  I have even managed to land a retarded brookie every now and then with this method.  My  brother is all catch and release, of course, as I think he could clear out a stream if he kept his catch.  I, OTOH think that the trout gene pool is significantly improved by removing any fish that are stupid enough to find  their way into my creel.

@ winos - I picked up a skunky wine yesterday with my morning papers, a 2006 Morande “pinot noir” from Chile.   Although it had a plastic stopper, it tasted as if it were corked, kinda moldy.  I’ll take it back today for a US American Willamatte Valley PN.  (I’ve fished that river below some dam in a forest by Eugene. Beautiful.)
@ string - the little ones that take my fly are scouts sent by the  big ones holding fast to the stream bed.  I see that you release them to the frying pan.  Hopefully I’ll get out later today.
 
 

@ winos - I picked up a skunky wine yesterday with my morning papers, a 2006 Morande pinot noir from Chile.   Although it had a plastic stopper, it tasted as if it were corked, kinda moldy.  I’ll take it back today for a US American Willamatte Valley PN.  (I’ve fished that river below some dam in a forest by Eugene. Beautiful.)
@ string - the little ones that take my fly are scouts sent by the  big ones holding fast to the stream bed.  I see that you release them to the frying pan.  Hopefully I’ll get out later today.
 
 

@SBT/MW: Good to see you reporting in. Actually, 15 minutes after the gay marriage decision was announced, the SF Visitors and Conventions Bureau sent out a press release praising the decision and inviting geyz around the world to come here for a destination wedding (this release was mentioned on the radio). And Arnie is in today’s paper saying he favored the decision and will campaign the ballot initiative:
“When the people vote, people are not legal experts, constitutional experts or any of that,” he said. “I think that’s why we have the courts. People may vote with good intentions, but then the court says, ‘This is not constitutional.’
“It’s not that the court interferes with the will of the people,” he added. “But the court says, ‘You voted for something, but it’s not constitutionally right, so let’s rework this.’ That’s really the idea.”

@me: Argh! More coffee! Ahnold is campaigning AGAINST the ballot initiative.

@SFL
Yes, to paraphrase the sage Michael Corleone “I though I was out, and you pulled me back in!”.
Better get any June reservation at good SF restaurants booked now. There will be getting in anywhere with all the June brides.
So why the fuck does the GOP let the Governator call himself a Republican?  It’s a mystery.

/ Ted Kennedy airlifted to hospital/

“I’m coming, Mary Jane!”

@redmanlaw:  This is not good.  Stroke-like symptoms with a seizure, per MSNBC.  I have a snark line, but I think I want to follow the news awhile before sharing.  With all his flaws, he’s the one I would want to share an Irish whiskey with the most.

@SanFranLefty:  Gay executives in the entertainment business have made Ahnold a very rich man, enabling him to live the Austrian Dream, no?

@nojo:  Thanks for your good work on our favorite website.  I’m especially grateful that the comment arrow is enabled again.  You are both a philosophical giant and a software mechanic par excellence.  Way to go.

@gurukalehuru:  LOL, but it’s “Mary Jo.”  Close enough for comedy, though, as I told someone else here once.
Mrs. RML is appalled at out “coverage”, btw.
 
 

@redmanlaw: Well, heck, Mrs. RML, we’re just getting started…

This is what happens when you cross Hillary.

@RML, you have the bestest line on lesbian hard rock evah. For those about to rock, I salute you!

@Pedonator: check this shit out with your morning coffee - Otep, “Warhead”.  The totally anti-GWB video is like Soviet poster art come to life.
http://www.last.fm/music/Otep/+videos/+1-tfLnDUPmP4s
And while we’re all about chix singing about war, here’s L7’s “Wargasm”.  (”Tie a yellow ribbon ’round the amputee” . . . )
http://www.last.fm/music/L7/+videos/+1-HteX6o6F1Es