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11:58:15PM “who do you serve, who do you protect”. The police arrest infrastructure is lining up on the sidewalks outside Woodruff Park. The crowd is chanting “who do you serve, who do you protect”. The park has been officially closed for 58 minutes. The police assault is believed to be imminent. 11:59:25 PM “whose park our park, whose park our park” “reply to the general welfare” There was an announcement to those with children, and those whose alien status is uncertain, to please move to the sidewalk. There is a division between the people who want to get arrested, and those who are not into that. 12:12:25 AM Commercial break on the live feed from slim jims spicy sticks. A representative from the mayor’s office was talking to reporters, and was shouted down by protesters. 12:19:13 AM The ad on the feed is from blue cross blue shield. “Lets show them lets show them that we are not that we are not leaving leaving” 12:27:28 AM They are having a “general assembly” in “troy davis park”. This means that some lady is screaming at the crowd, and they are repeating what she says back to her. They have decided to re occupy the park, and the Mayor is on the way to address the crowd. The police have not moved in yet, and some say they have backed down. There was an apparent massing of police forces on the fringe of the crowd, and now the police seem to be backing off. 12:37:52 AM The fishwrapper has announced that the mayor is allowing the people to stay. They are going to stay anyway. 12:45:21 AM rairojasii Rai Rojas Not sure if shouting “I am Troy Davis” to hundreds of police about to arrest you is wise. #OccupyAtlanta. #copkiller /// dezlock dezlock Really tempted to make a late night doughnut run to get the cops hopped up on sugar & caffeine before they clean up the park #OccupyAtlanta /// The general assembly is discussing what to say to the mayor when he arrives at the park. This speaker says and crowd repeats format that the meeting is taking gets very tiresome very fast. I hope this is not the way meetings go on from now on. /// “the press is on our ass, be on your best behavior please” 12:50:42 AM GrouchoMarxist Jon D.A. @KasimReed Please let #occupyatlanta stay in Troy Davis park. They are peaceful people, your constituents, your allies. Stand with them. 1:02:45 AM who is taking minutes…it’s important for transparency…I kind of am.. PG went downtown with Uzi Sunday afternoon to see the Occupy Atlanta facility. They found a parking lot on John Wesley Dobbs Avenue, and paid two dollars for two hours of parking. The parking meters in Atlanta are notoriously corrupt, and PG was eagar to get back to his vehicle. As it turned out, the car was there, unbooted and unbrokeninto, when they got back. Uzi wondered how the “real” homeless people felt about these hippies moving into the park. PG thought this was a good question. Then the park came into view. PG got a pictures of the camp with the Coca Cola sign in the background. Next was an image with the encampment in front of the GP building. Uzi did not know that the Koch Brothers own GP. PG has mixed feelings about renaming the park for Troy Davis. The Woodruff family has been good for the city. While there is enough doubt about the guilt of Mr. Davis to object to his execution, PG does not want to make a hero out of the man. Learning about an issue will do that for you. 1:22:32 AM Quinnnerd Quinn Edgar Mayor needs to come so I can sleep. #occupyatlanta /// The GA is getting stuck on the issue of whether to ask the mayor whether to rename Woodruff Park as Troy Davis Park. “he will realize that his opinion is secondary””we should be asking the mayor to abolish the death penalty” /// 1:25:11 AM caulkthewagon Robin by Occupy_Boston We will rack up arrest records ten miles long. We don’t fucking care. We have nothing left to lose. /// some say the Boston police are moving in, some say they are backing down /// drewwill Drew @ RT @RTColvin: Wouldn’t it be neat if #OccupyAtlanta was really a @WalkingDead_AMC marketing stunt? #whenwilltheyturnintozombies /// 1:35:31 AM mike check i would like to propose that mayor reed provide better restrooms for this park ///make check i would propose to turn those g-d awful sprinklers off /// 1:37:38 AM the general assembly decides that the mayor is not going to come, and that tonight is a tremendous win for the people of atlanta 1:42:07 AM Occupy_Boston Occupy Boston KEEP TAKING PICTURES. WRITE DOWN BADGE NUMBERS. Occupy Boston Police are going in now #occupyboston 43 seconds ago Occupy Boston Cops are beating Veterans for Peace 42 seconds ago 1:57:03 AM We are being inundated by young good doers. Get them and their money out. Go home! Leave us alone. Change the world from your home. Leave us alone. Get out of New Orleans. Your money helps the machine, not us./// Update The police never moved in. Here is an on the scene report ./// selah

As you may know, Hank Williams Jr. recently expressed himself. If you want to see the original, here is the video. Those are mighty good drugs talking.
The money quote comes at the 1:35 point. The looks on the Fox folks faces are priceless. At the 3:08 point, the lady says that Mr. Williams “used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the President.” To a person on the West Bank, whose land was stolen by Israel to build a settlement, the most hated person in the world is probably Mr. Netanyahu.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress .

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. 5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery. 6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering. 7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie. 9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it. 10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head. ’13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. 14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’ 15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large. 16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. 17. A backward poet writes inverse. 18. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes. 19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion. 20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you’d be in Seine. 21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.’ 22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says ‘Dam!’ 23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too. 24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, ‘I’ve lost my electron.’ The other says ‘Are you sure?’ The first replies, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’ 25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. 26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did. 27. Pictures for this entertainment are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost..

Long Island Congressman Peter King is in the news these days. He was on the Laura Ingraham radio show recently, and made a few comments about the Occupy Wall Street movement. “They have no sense of purpose other than a basically anti-American tone and anti-capitalist. It’s a ragtag mob basically,’ … ‘We have to be careful not to allow this to get any legitimacy … I’m taking this seriously in that I’m old enough to remember what happened in the 1960’s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.’
Wikipedia has a few stories about Mr. King. He joined the National Guard in 1968, when he finished law school, and he could not claim a student deferment any longer. 1968 was also the year of the Tet offensive. While a military victory for the United States, the Tet offensive was a psychological victory for the Viet Cong. It convinced many in the United States that the war in Vietnam could not be won. It was a turning point. The anti war protests in the United States had little to do with this.
PG is also curious as to what Mr. King meant when he said “it ended up shaping policy”. In the 1968 elections, Richard Nixon won. He persued a policy of “Vietnamization”, or withdrawing the United States combat forces. It was not until 1973 that the Paris accords were signed. These called for the withdrawal of the final American forces, and the release of POWs. (Rumors of POWs kept by North Vietnam continue to this day.) During the Nixon years of the Vietnam war, 20,000 American troops died, as did untold Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. There was an invasion of Cambodia. The conflict spread into Cambodia, with a horrendous loss of life. It is tough to see how American policy was affected by the domestic war protests.
Peter King is the Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and seems to be a piece of work. At one time, he was considered to be a friend of the Muslim community. Mr. King was a friend of the Irish Republican Army. “In 1982, speaking at a pro-IRA rally in Nassau County, New York, King said: “We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry.”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.

We, the people of Mortville reject global capitalism and the consumer-based identities it imposes upon the populace. We acknowledge that race, class, gender, and sexual orientation have been systematically transformed into marketing schemes to sell us our identities at the expense of the global poor and the human spirit. Mortville shall exist indefinitely as a laboratory in which we create recombinant personas from the detritus of corrupt corporate constructs. We shall embarrass capitalism by exposing its lies and subverting its strategy of spectacle. In the shadow of Urban Outfitters, we will illuminate the plight of those who toil in sweatshops to line the pockets of republican scum. We strive to alternately parody the excesses of consumer culture and set an example of living free of them. We declare the self-definition of glamor to be a human right and not a privilege of the 1%. Constantly reinventing ourselves as a hybrid of identities, we will look how we feel, say what we wish, fuck who we want, act as we should(n’t), vogue like a queen, and walk like an Egyptian. The first action of the un-government of Mortville shall be to impose economic sanctions upon the tyrannical regime of the status quo and it’s allies. Sanctions shall be lifted when the wealth is redistributed, the military industrial complex dismantled, the police disempowered, and the public sector fulfilling its obligations to the people. We demand education, housing, public transportation, dignified employment, energy that neither spoils our planet nor supports oppressive theocracies, abortions, human rights, arts programming, a secular and transparent democracy, free health care (including sex change operations), and legal residency for all! Until our demands are met, we shall cast our glittery high-heeled sabots into the mechanism of complacency and laugh as the gears shatter! HT to Mattilda. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
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Just shook hands with the bud light truck driver, thanked him for his service to our country /// I mean really it’s like when you’re super hungry and you can’t decide what to eat, you just know you want food. This is that situation, but for my vagina /// I legit just said “vaginal access denied” then told him his password hint was “tequila shots” /// I still love him regardless of his misguided forays into heterosexuality ///1. If you’re too open minded, your brains will fall out. 2. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. 3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. 4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. 5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before. 6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. 7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. 8. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. ///And nobody even seems to be considering that it could just be a publicity stunt for the new iPhone. /// In the eyes and ears of many people, including the writer of this opinion, a juke box confined to ‘jazz’ records may be a nuisance. It robs the air of sweet silence, it substitutes for the gentle concord of stillness the wailings of the so-called ‘blues singer,’ the whinings of foggy saxophones, the screeching of untuned fiddles, the blasts of head-splitting horns, and the battering of earshattering drums. It makes a mockery of music, it replaces harmony with cacophony, tonality with discord, and peace with annoyance. /// In 1937, Judge Leon R. Yankwich of Los Angeles Federal Court heard a case involving nearly identical patent claims submitted by Luther Wright and Herman Rongg. His decision: “Wright is wrong and Rongg is right.” /// 9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. 10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. 11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. 12. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. 13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. 14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. 15. No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes. 16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. /// All that can be thought can be written. /// First we eat, then we beget; first we read, then we write. /// It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again. /// Avoid adjectives. Let the noun do the work. /// The blind man doth eat many a fly. /// Man: I hope Santa come down your chimney! Woman: I don’t want him to come down a chimney. I want him to walk through the front door so I can get some fuckin head! –McDonald’s, The Village /// I do like those fuck-me pumps, but they’re terrible for my feet. /// 17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. 18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming. 19. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it. 20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on. 21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. 22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends. 23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator. 24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. 25. Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused. /// Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. /// This Alzheimer’s Test is a MUST take if you are 40 or older. How fast can you guess these words and fill-in the blanks? 1. _ _NDOM, 2. F_ _K, 3. P_N_S, 4 PU_S_ , 5. S_X , 6. BOO_S Answers: 1. RANDOM 2. FORK 3. PANTS 4. PULSE 5. SIX 6. BOOKS You got all 6 wrong….d idn’t you? You do NOT have Alzheimer’ s YOU ARE A PERVERT!!!!!!! /// I probably shouldn’t confess this but when I was 14 and fighting for my life I never thought of suicide; I became obsessed with revenge. /// LETHOLOGICA is the word for the feeling you get when you cannot remember a word. /// We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. /// “Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.”–Nietzsche /// three apples changed the world, the one eaten by eve, the one that hit newton, and the one created by steve jobs /// Quick question. What’s the protocol on going back to a bar after going home with one of their bartenders? Go back and try to find another to go home with. /// since when did our medecine drawer and our sex drawer become the same drawer? we now have lube covered cough drops. /// How many Apple employees does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to come up with a design for a brand new type of lighting source that requires its own unique proprietary electrical connection to your home, one to create a method to buy proprietary accessories and design elements to improve the bulb’s functions, and one to come up with a name like iGlow that will convince people to spend $399 on a really cool looking light source. /// “If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna.” — Napoleon /// Minus forty Celsius is the same temperature as minus forty Fahrenheit /// No, but its not like diarrhea. i swear its like my intestines had a secret bank account and i just punched in the right pin. /// Had “I should be in prison or dead” storytime at the bar. Found out James has done blow off a dead guy. Overwhelmed and speechless. /// I was afraid that she would smell her boyfriend’s penis on my breath while we were talking. /// Wow. This hand sanitizer smells awesome. It’s like I just gave a handjob to a fruit basket. /// Skyscrapers don’t end till they run out of stories—like tedious people. /// Aphorisms are the echoes of our silences. /// The first rule of writing is not to omit the thing you meant to say. /// Four-year-old girl: Look daddy, I’m going to make a sand castle! Inexplicably angry father: You know that’s not going to work! The sand has to be wet. I thought we went over this already, but you never listen, do you? /// It was fun meeting your parents in my underwear. /// logomach n. one who fights over words /// Dude: I flirted with her really hard, and she was totally into it. Girl, flirtatious: Oh, yeah? Dude: Yeah. Her boyfriend wasn’t too happy though. Girl: Ha! Yeah? Dude: Yeah. And he’s a vampire, but it’s cool. Cause I’m a werewolf. /// Woman in fur coat #1: I’m thinking about downsizing: just one bedroom and one closet, that’s all I need. Woman in fur coat #2: Me too. But the ski clothes, and the golf clubs… they take up so much space! /// It’s taking 3 penises to fill the hole he left in my heart. /// Apparently you need a permit for a flamethrower. /// The Kardashian’s once again show they are right on trend, and this is on (sic) Mommy’s are all going to want to follow.( Spell check suggestion for Kardashian’s: Guardianship’s)/// This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged, confidential or copyrighted under law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby formally notified that any use, copying or distribution of this e-Mail, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender by return e-Mail and delete this e-Mail from your system. Unless explicitly and conspicuously stated in the subject matter of the above e-Mail, this e-Mail does not constitute a contract offer, a contract amendment, or an acceptance of a contract offer. This e-Mail does not constitute consent to the use of sender’s contact information for direct marketing purposes or for transfers of data to third parties. /// selah

This is a repost. It was originally posted four years ago. At the time, BHO was not doing well. The smart people said that Rudy Giuliani would run against Hillary Clinton to be the next POTUS. BHO was called out by the fashion police for not wearing a little flag on his lapel.
As we all know, things change very quickly. The yuck factor did in Hillary. BHO was elected POTUS. At some point in his journey, BHO began to wear flag jewelry. When he went on TV to announce the murder of Osama Bin Ladin, the camera saw a little flag.
BHO has changed his game in a few other ways. He is winding down the war in Babylon. The bad news is, the undeclared war against the Muslim world has been expanded. Thousands of women and children have been killed by American forces. How many women and children were killed in the drone strike(s) that killed Anwar al-Awlaki?

Barack Obama keeps saying things that appeal to me, and keeps falling further and further behind. This is the latest, courtesy of a local news service. Iowa City – Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is trying to change political fashion. He gave a speech in Iowa City Wednesday and he wasn’t wearing an American flag pin. Those pins have become synonymous with politicians since 9-11.
Obama says he doesn’t like how the pin has come to represent patriotism in America. “I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest, instead I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great. Hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.”
The candidate, owner of the most prominent ears since Lyndon Johnson, is not doing well in the polls. Hillary is kicking his mixed race butt. Jesse Jackson accuses him of acting white.
It’s really a shame. Mr. O was opposed to the war in Babylon while the others were posturing over wmds. He is a good speaker, and is younger than yours truly. Part of the problem could be the shade of his exterior. He is expected to say things that appeal to black voters.(Hence the comment from Mr. Jackson) The only problem is that what appeals to African Americans frequently scares Whitefolk. He is in a tough spot. The irony is, his mother was white, his father is from Kenya, and he was born in Hawaii. He is not the descendant of slaves.
This latest flap is one more thing that I like. I get tired of the flag used as jewelry, and exploited for commercial and political gain. A while back, a real estate lady in my area put a flag in everyone’s front yard, with her business card attached. I wonder how many of those flags wound up in a landfill, which is not a place of respect.
A co worker once had a sticker on her van, “try burning this one”. After leaving the van in direct sunlight for a while, the pink, lavender, and beige were still there.
I have one flag on display. It is in my tool shed. I found it in a box of garbage once, while I was riding my bike. I rescued it. But I don’t use the flag as an item of jewelry. I applaud Mr. Obama for his not doing so.

The electoral college method of electing the President is broken, and needs to be fixed. This problem has been around since the constitution was written. It hurt America badly in 2000, when the man who won the popular vote was denied the Presidency on a technicality.
There have been few calls for electoral reform since the 2000 election, even from the Democrats who were robbed. It is almost as if the two parties don’t really compete, but pretend to fight each other, knowing that soon it will be the other guys turn to rule. The thieves who run our political system are used to playing the electoral college game, and would have to have an honest election if the race was decided by popular vote.
In Georgia, it is known that the Republicans will get the states votes. If you vote for a democrat, your vote in Georgia won’t make a difference in Ohio. The electoral college system takes the Presidential vote away from Georgia citizens.
The reform of this system does not have to be complicated. The constitution calls for the voters to select electors, who will vote on the President. The winner-take-all plan is a perversion of the original plan. The customs can be changed just as easily, probably without a constitutional amendment.
Here is a plan. Elect one elector for each congressional district. Give each state two electors based on the statewide vote. There will be districts where one party always wins, and that is regretable. There will probably be fewer people disenfranchised this way that under the present system of state by state, winner takes all.
Pictures tonight are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”

We had a post here a few days ago inspired by a list of dumb liberal quotes. In the spirit of fairness, it is time to take a look at the Top 50 Dumbest Conservative Quotes. The credit/blame for introducing chamblee54 to these pages goes to Morgan K Freeberg. This is a repost.
We are going to look at three quotes today. Many of the top 50 are from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell, and should not be taken seriously. The three today are from actors in leading roles.
Number 1 on the list is from Richard Nixon. “When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.” This was said during a TV interview with David Frost, after he was out of office. A bit of digging found a bit of back story.
“Interviewer David Frost has a difficult time with his subject, former President Richard Nixon, in the day’s early questioning (see April 6, 1977). Frost attempts to recoup with a line of questioning suggested by his adviser James Reston, Jr., one used in the trial of former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman (see January 1, 1975). Were there no limits to what a president can do, even if the president wants to do something plainly illegal? he asks. Could he do anything despite the law? Burglary? Forgery? Even murder? “If the president does it, that means it’s not illegal,” Nixon retorts. … Frost asks if the dividing line between, for example, a police burglary and the murder of an antiwar protester is only the president’s judgment? Nixon agrees, and adds: “There’s nothing specific that the Constitution contemplates in that respect. I haven’t read every word, every jot and every tittle, but I do know this: That it has been, however, argued that as far as a president is concerned, that in war time, a president does have certain extraordinary powers which would make acts that would otherwise be unlawful, lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the nation and the Constitution, which is essential for the rights we’re all talking about.”
The current POTUS is involved in a controversy about whether or not to kill Americans abroad. Perhaps BHO could study the thoughts of his predecessor…If he is the President, then it is legal.
The next quote is from the fun loving Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia. “I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.” In contrast to the other two quotes, the backup on this came up quickly on Google.
In 2004, Mr. Scalia gave a speech at Harvard University . If you get a chance to read the article, you will see that he made a few other choice comments that night.
Mr. Scalia has shown himself to be quotable before. In an opinion in the Troy Davis case, he said “This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually” innocent.”
The last quote is from another POTUS who is no longer with us, Ronald Reagan. “I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.” Mr. Reagan was a professional actor, and he knew the value of a good script.
This slogan is another one that Mr. Obama may find handy. It should be noted that it was a big deal when the national debt (the grand total of the deficits) went over a trillion dollars. This was during the first term of Mr. Reagan. Today, under Mr. Obama, the annual deficit is over a trillion dollars. Sooner or later, you are talking about real money.
PG suffered brain damage trying to find out more about the quote from Mr. Reagan. He went through six pages of google. There must be 25 sites which have lists of quotes from Mr. Reagan, and all of them feature this quote.
What was the context? When did he first say it? One site says it was “(during the latter years of his administration)”. Another site says it was “Said often during his presidency, 1981-1989”. Maybe this is an urban legend.