Fillibuster Friday!!!!

if you haven't made a call or sent a fax to your senator.. well today is the day..
WE HAVE GOT TO STOP THIS!
the democrats have got to get a spine and fillibuster this nomination.. and they need to know they have your support. If alito goes through.. well.. it is the beginning of the end for our civil rights..
go to
http://www.nocrony.com/

to get a list of phone numbers.. call them all ESPECIALLY the two women from maine.. word has it they are on the fence and need some convincing..
Hillary is really disappointing me with her apathy on this important subject.. she's a woman for chrissakes!

call.. do it now.. well do it friday.. most everyone's voicemail is full tonight..
but tomrrow.. let them have it

NO ON ALITO
NO ON CLOTURE!

Katrina hits close to home

Ethel Herbert.. Rest in Peace
The morning after hurricane Katrina hit, I received a frantic phone call at 5 o'clock in the morning.. now if any of you have elderly parents, the sound of a phone ringing, waking you out of a blissful slumber usually means bad news.. fortunately for my family it wasn't our bad news but it was bad nonetheless.. It was the manager of our football team, asking me if I would call and talk to one of our players.. Her family was in New Orleans, they were still at their house, and it appeared her grandmother had had a stroke. They were trying to get her medical help..but at that point had been unable. So, the answer.. call biscuit.. she works in the media.. maybe she can help.. I called her back.. she was hysterical to say the least... they were blocks from the superdome and unable to get her there.. they had tried a couple of times.. wanting to help but not knowing what to do.. and being that it was 5 in the morning. I told her I would make some calls and call her back.. I wasn't able to find out much.. but did get the number of the command center in charge of rescue ( hey what can I say.. I'm creative in a pinch!).. I called her back and gave her the information I was able to get.. she was very much appreciative.. she was one of my favorite players and we always rode on the bus near her so we could chat.. She wasn't able to play last year.. and I hadn't seen her at all.. due to my own health issues and not being out of the house much.. flash forward to yesterday, when I got an email from the manager of the team letting us know that their story was to be featured on Anderson Cooper 360 at 10pm.(you can watch the story here or read the show transcript here
We tuned in expecting one of those nice reunion stories that we like so much.. instead we sat, mouth agape as the family told a story that I couldn't even imagine..
Once at the Superdome, Ethel was loaded onto a helicopter for medical evacuation.. that was the last they saw of her.. They have spent the last 5 months trying to find out where she went.. what happened to her... getting no answers from anyone. The Gov. of New Orleans was in town for a meeting the other day and while gary tuchman was interviewing my friend's mother.. she caught the attention of the governor.. she was beside herself with frustration.. and her voice raised began shrieking about her mother and the 3000 other people who are unaccounted for in the wake of Katrina.. Apparently the governor heard her and came over to talk.. she made some calls and promised they would find something out. Turns out that a gentleman who had helped evacuate ethel saw the story and called CNN.. He didn't know what happened to her, but she was in grave condition when they loaded her onto the copter, he doubted that she survived the trip. They wouldn't let anyone from the family go with her, so she was seperated, unable to speak and shipped off god knows where..
I had absolutely no idea that this had been going on.. I hadn't heard about it.. we've been sending crews down there monthly to do stories.. if they had only called back, maybe we could have tried to find something out.. I was just sick last night after watching this story.. I just wish they had called.. I am glad that CNN was able to get them some closure.. and apparently there is a morgue down there that thinks they may have her in their unidentified bodies area.. so they will do some DNA testing to see if she's there.. Perhaps then, the family will be able to give her a proper burial and be able to get past the grief.. though I can only imagine it will be difficult.. I don't know what I would do if I were in their shoes.. I am so sorry for them.. and for those who are still dealing with a horrific situation. At the end of nightly news tonight they published some emails they had been receiving and one of them actually said that they were tired of the series NBC has been doing called "the long road back" (paraphrasing) "we are tired of hearing about the trouble in new orleans" you can read the comments for yourself here
I was appalled.. as a country is it so easy to forget what has displaced such a huge number of people? that has devastated so many? are we so uncaring and unfeeling? Sadly it appears we are. You can leave a comment on the brian williams blog if you care to.. I can't string enough non-expletives together to form a cohesive sentence. What the hell is wrong with people?
So to the family of Ethel Herbert.. I am so sorry for your loss.. I am sorry for your pain.. and I am sorry that no one was there to help you.. may your mother/grandmother rest in peace, and may you find the strength to go on and know that you did everything you could.

do 3 letters make a difference??

Who else thinks we will bomb Iran within 6 months?
Not condoning the reinstitution of their nuclear program.. but well we've just been waiting for an excuse to do it anyway haven't we?
iran....iraq......
bombs away..
god help us..

Go Team CanaSA

So the olympics are rapidly approaching.. not just ANY olympics mind you .. not the sissyfied summer olympics of gymnastics and syncronized swimming.. I'm talking the WINTER olympics.. HOCKEY! and other deadly events like skeleton, luge, downhill skiing and yes....curling.. ok I'm joking about that last part!
This is the time when I have a crisis of conscience.. see.. I remember listening to hockey on the radio as a kid.. back when the colorado avalance were the Nordiques and they hailed from Quebec... their farm team practiced in my hometown, there were Nordiques memorabilia at shops all around town.. (I'll have to ask my sister if she remembers this.. she routinely has no memory of our childhood and the terror she inflicted on me... ) just kidding folks.. if ya read my ode to seester.. you know she didn't terrorize me....much....

See.. CANADA IS HOCKEY!!! It is given life when you are in the womb and if your mother is lucky, you don't come out with a hockey stick..... Growing up so close to canada.. and being that most of my family would be canucks, or rather "franco-american".. therein lies my crisis.. Team Canada....or Team USA... I've always rooted for both until which point they play each other and then I just let fate decide (fate decided that Canada MADE hockey at the last olympic matchup!) But I do have my team Canada hockey shirt.. and I must say.. looking around at the olympic stuff coming out (you know ROOTS always has olympic stuff) the team USA stuff is butt ugly and looks like retro '70's to me.. so that one should be a no brainer.. as far as what to wear anyway.
So, know that for a few weeks in february I will be switchin hats/shirts like a madman trying to keep up with the schedule and hoping that I can catch some great matchups!

Al Gore Rocks!

Al Gore rocks my frickin world...
never did I ever think that formally bland unfunny guy would make me all tingly inside...
if you didn't catch his MLK speech today, I invite.. nay.. beseech you to check it out.. it's much better if you can catch it on CSPAN or on the net.. but the text of it is linked HERE

it's is about damned time that someone called congress on their shit..
my favorite part

I call upon Democratic and Republican members of Congress today to uphold your oath of office and defend the Constitution. Stop going along to get along. Start acting like the independent and co-equal branch of government you're supposed to be.

hell yeah Al, you tell em!
It's about time that someone said this.. I've been impatiently waiting.. writing my representatives.. begging that they do what we elected them to do.. no response..

I know that it's a sign of the apocolypse when Al Gore, and the man behind the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Bob Barr.. former representative from round these parts..agree on something.. well.. the end is near..
at least an end to this corrupt administration I am hoping..

btw.. did anyone hear New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin's comments during MLK celebrations today? He has officially lost his frickin mind...
read nagin's comments here
he's lost it...

cool website

my bro-in-law sent a link to this really cool website where you upload a picture of yourself and it sends you back who you look like.. it's called face recognition..

Recognizing faces is done by algorithms that compare the faces in your photo, with all faces previously known to MyHeritage Face Recognition, through photos and meta-data contributed by yourself and other users. So the more photos added to the system, the more powerful it becomes.


it's totally cool.. and you may find yourself uploading lots of pictures and trying it out.. I tried different photos and got different results..

apparently I look like george clooney.. so I guess that's not all bad..
try it yourself!

face recognition

Hogwash!

from AP
Press secretary Scott McClellan said Jack Abramoff might have attended large gatherings with Bush but added, "The President does not know him, nor does the President recall ever meeting him."


Can you say BULLSHIT!!????

Simple scotty mclellan actually thinks we are going to buy that? With as many connections as he had within republican leadership and the fact that he personally raised over 100 grand for ole shrub.. he thinks that we are going to but that he doesn't know them man and has never met him???

pardon me I think I just laughed so hard I threw up a lil...

my space

I have a page at myspace... if anyone else has one.. please stop by and add yourself to my friend list and also to my frappr page


biscuit's myspace page


check it out..
peace..

my favorite website of the day

freeway blogger

A nationwide effort underway to promote free speech..


A couple of my favorite photos..

after blogging about the Dixie Chicks I thought this one was also great!







So go and check out all of the photos! They really are inspiring!

Peace

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Wacky Warning Labels

CAUTION!!! coffee is HOT!
You've seen them.. you've shaken your head at them.. here are this year's winners! wacky warning winners

just to give you a feel.. here is the third place winner

Third prize of $100 went to Alice Morgan of La Junta, Colo. She
found a cocktail napkin with a map of the waterways around Hilton
Head Island, S.C., printed on it that cautioned: "Not to be used
for navigation."

Abramoff by the numbers

below is a list of monies given to various politicians through Jack Abramoff..
These monies are now being donated to charities, to well... try to convince us that they had no idea that the money was dirty.. you really think I believe that Bush only got 6 grand? puhleeze!!

Total Republicans- 44
Total Democrats- 13

--President Bush, $6,000 from Abramoff, his wife and the Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan for the Bush-Cheney 2004
re-election campaign is being donated to the American Heart
Association. Abramoff raised at least $100,000 for the campaign.
--House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. A spokesman would not say
much money Hastert received or planned to donate.
--House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., $8,500 to charity.
--Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, $15,000 to
local charities in suburban Houston.
--Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., $2,000 will be
returned to the Michigan Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe.
--Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., $11,000 to the
American Indian Center of Chicago and the American Indian Health
Service of Chicago.

Senate Republicans:
--Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., $12,500 to the Salvation Army.
--Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., $8,000 to the Mississippi Hurricane
Recovery Fund.
--Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., $1,000 to charity.
--Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., $1,000 to charity.
--Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., $12,000 to Marguerites Place.
--Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., refunding $4,000 to three Indian tribes.
--Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., $2,000 to charity.
--Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., $8,500 to be refunded or for
charity.
--Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., $3,000 to charity.
--Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., $8,000 to victims of the 2005
tornado in Wright, Wyo.
--Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., $2,000 to White Buffalo Calf Woman
Society.
Senate Democrats:
--Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., $2,000 to charity.
--Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., $8,250 to Billy Mills Running Strong
for American Indian Youth.
--Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., $5,000, to the American Indian
College Fund.
House Republicans:
--Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, $2,000.
--Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., about $10,000 to the William Byrd
Community House.
--Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., $250 to charity.
--Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, $2,000 to Boys and Girls Club of
Greater Fort Worth.
--Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Pa., $2,000 to two women's shelters.
--Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., $2,250 to the Salvation Army
Katrina Disaster Fund.
--Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., $1,000 to charity.
--Rep. Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., $1,500 to be returned to the Agua
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.
--Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., $1,000 to Crossroads Safehouse.
--Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, $9,000 to charity.
--Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., at least $2,500 to the
Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund.
--Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio, $8,000 to charity.
--Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., $949 to USO Operation Phone Home.
--Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., $1,000 to charity.
--Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., $2,000 to St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital.
--Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., 2,000 to charity.
--Rep. Jerry Weller, R-Ill., at least $500 to charity.
--Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., $250 to Mississippi Hurricane
Recovery Fund.
--Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., $1,000 to the Great Southwest
Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
House Democrats:
--Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, $500 to be returned to the Tigua
tribe of El Paso.
--Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., $1,000 to be returned to the Saginaw
Chippewa Tribe.
--Rep. Lane Evans, D-Ill., $2,000 to Community Caring Conference.
--Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa., $1,000 to an animal shelter.
--Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., $2,000 to be refunded.
--Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., $6,950 to be refunded.
December 2005:
--Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., $18,892 to seven tribal colleges.
--Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., $42,000 to charity.
--Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., about $150,000 donated to Native
American charities and refunded.
--Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., $3,750 to North Dakota's tribal
colleges.
--Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., $67,000 refunded.
--Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., $6,000 to the Oklahoma Medical
Research Foundation.
--Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., $19,900 refunded and given to
charity.
August-November 2005
--Rep. Mike Ferguson, R-N.J., $1,000 to the Children's
Specialized Hospital Foundation.
--Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J., returned $1,000.
--Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Ohio, $1,000 to the American Indian
College Fund.
--Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., $1,250 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina
Fund.
--Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., $3,000.

source:various news outlets

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and by the way.. if you haven't seen david letterman just put the screws to bill oreilly from Faux News.. check it out HERE

it was beautiful... dave letterman frickin Rocks!

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back to life...back to reality

well.. the holidays are over..
I've been in and out of bed since last friday with some sort of head cold/sinus infection that has been particularly miserable.. New years eve was spent on the couch watching movies and then Dick Clark, rockin in the new year.. a part of me was a little sad to see such an Icon be so shaken after having had his stroke.. His speech was so slurred it was hard to understand at times.. but Kudos Dick.. for comin back strong.. The man who never seemed to have aged, finally has.. it just made me a little sad..
We had big plans for our three day weekend.. none of it happened. we did watch "the 40 year old virgin, bewitched and Elektra" on DVD over the weekend.. I enjoyed each of them in different ways.. I do think it was difficult to watch nicole kidman in the role of samantha.. something about nicole kidman doing a fun light silly role just didn't work for me. Jim Carey would have been a better choice for Darrin.. Shirley Maclaine as Endora was perfect casting though.. and steve carell did a pretty fair paul lynde/uncle arthur..

Elektra.. was pretty cool.. I don't think it could have possibly lived up to the hype that was created before it came out.. but it was a great ass kickin movie.. and come on .. jennifer garner in red leather.. who wouldn't like that!?
I have to admit.. I am fond of jennifer garner.. not in a wanna throw her down on a bed kinda way.. she's just cute.. I mean.. she IS hot.. but she's adorable in that person you wanna have coffee with kinda way.. or something like that..

I liked the "40 year old virgin" but I really don't get all the acclaim it got.. American Pie was much better IMHO as a cult sex movie.. It was ok.. but I just didn't get it..

anyway.. hope everyone is having a great new year thus far.. I'm just trying to get through the week with my 50 lb head :)
peace