Taken today with a crappy cellphone camera.
Fifteen Minutes and Counting…
This would be teh awesome:
Move over Sanjaya and tell William Hung the news: Joe the Plumber is being pursued for a major record deal and could come out with a country album as early as Inauguration Day.
“Joe” – aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, a Holland, Ohio, pipe-and-toilet man – just signed with a Nashville public relations and management firm to handle interview requests and media appearances, as well create new career opportunities, including a shift out of the plumbing trade into stage and studio performances.
Then he can write patriotic songs and perform them at the Palin/Huckabee rallies in 2012- he can call his backup band Joe (not Joe). Some suggested song titles:
She Chews Tobaccy And She Votes Huckabee
Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Marxists
Everybody Wants to Go to the White House
No dancing, though. Remember, good Christians only in the new GOP.
If he works quick, I bet they can squeeze a few songs in for the DVD release of An American Carol. I am sure harnessing the power of Joe the Plumber can do for that movie what it has done for the McCain campaign.
(via the GOS)
Kay Hagan, Godless American (True Story- Ask Liddy Dole)
Via the Washington Monthly, this Politico piece about an ad Liddy Dole cut accusing her opponent, Kay Hagan, of being a “godless American.” My favorite part is the voice impersonator at the end saying “there is no God.”
Now I am not big on the whole God thing, so I am not sure what qualifies someone as being godless, but Kay Hagan is a Sunday School teacher, which would seem to suggest to me that she has at least a passing relationship with God.
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Stevens Guilty On All Seven Counts
CNN reporting that Republican Senator Ted Stevens was found guilty on every count. This election just got better.
Links when they become available.
*** Update ***
CNN:
A jury found U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska guilty Monday of all seven counts in his federal corruption trial.
The jury found Stevens guilty of “knowingly and willfully” scheming to conceal on Senate disclosure forms more than $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts from an Alaska-based oil industry contractor.
Stevens faces a maximum sentence of up to to 35 years in prison — five years for each of the seven counts.
Legal experts note the judge has the discretion to give Stevens as little as no jail time and probation when he is sentenced.
Of course, it goes without saying that this is excellent news for John McCain.
Harry Ellis for House Minority Leader
The flying spaghetti monster does not love me enough to let this happen:
House Republican Deputy Whip Eric Cantor has spent the last week making calls to fellow Republican House members he believes will survive next week’s election, according to several members who received the call. “He is already lining up support for his next job,” says one member who spoke to Cantor. “I’m not sure what it is, and he doesn’t seem to know, but it’s not going to be deputy job, that’s for sure.”
Please, please, please, Republicans, make this guy your leader:
I am begging you. I think what the Republicans need is this guy on every news show defending the “true conservatism” you all plan to bring us in your comeback.
*** Update ***
I am reminded in the comments that Cantor is the brain trust who, immediately following the failed vote on the bailout (you know, the one McCain suspended his campaign to make sure it passed), stated that the reason it failed was because Nancy Pelosi insulted Republicans:
Railing against her words yesterday, the Republican whip, Eric Cantor, said Pelosi had “frankly struck a tone of partisanship that was inappropriate in this discussion”. He continued: “There is a reason that this vote failed – and that is Speaker Pelosi’s speech.”
That, of course, led to all sorts of awesome, to include having the entire house wingnut caucus being taunted on national television by Barney Frank:
In all seriousness, I hope the Republicans choose Cantor. I am begging. Please.
Quick Hits
1.) This explains the McCain campaign better than anything else.
2.) This explains why the Republicans, if the trust their instincts, will be a minority party for a long, long time.
3.) More fail from K-Lo’s House of Crazy.
4.) It is Monday, so you know what that means. Dozens of breathless right-whinge posts about Obama the socialist. As usual, they have NO EARTHLY FLIPPING IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
5.) Also, a smattering of Obama the terrorist.
6.) The left has idiots, too.
7.) The markets are stable despite overseas routs, so I think those estimating that around 8000 as the bottom may be right.
8.) Political ad fail. However, a minor quibble- they list this ad:
They then state:
“Experience,” gets the nod for its footage – perhaps a first in political history — of the candidate scooping up dog poop in her backyard. We’re still not sure what she was trying to say — maybe she was trying to secure the dog vote. Then again, we don’t pretend to understand Alaska politics.
The message was pretty clear, folks. Send her to congress, she has experience cleaning up shit. I kinda like the ad- it is funny, and most likely got people talking.
9.) Why interrogations should be videotaped. In case you are unaware, one of the things that Obama helped to enact in Illinois was just this type of legislation, which was initially opposed by police and prosecutors but then passed unanimously. Of course, Red State tells me Obama has no experience and cannot reach across the aisle.
10.) The best for last- Politic states this was the best ad of the season. It was ok, although I preferred Helter Skelter more:
Have at it.
A Day Trip to India
Well, as close as I have ever been to India anyway. Halef and I drove up to Lilburn to check out the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. It is the largest traditional Vedic Hindu Temple of stone and marble to be constructed in the United States. The company he worked for did the landscape architecture.
Click the image for a high resolution view.
I’ve never quite seen anything like this. In fact, it was a little overwhelming. The detail in the carving of each piece of stone was incredible. I’ve heard it took 900 artisans to pull this off. The work was done in India, and the pieces were shipped to Atlanta and put together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Unfortunately, we were not permitted to take pictures inside – unfortunate because, while you’re generally impressed with the outside, the inside will blow you away. We’re going to go back at night so we can see it lit by floodlights.
Update: Next week, we’re going to visit the new al-Farooq mosque in Atlanta. I’ll bring my camera, just in case I spot a certain presidential Candidate.