Harry’s Place

Great Ad. It would work against a Democrat who isn’t a conservative.
Questions: Is Barnes raising money on the west coast? With Pelosi? Is she pro-choice? How much so? Does she have a position on gay marriage?

Is this for November, or is there another special election?

Seen this polar opposite from Oregon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2UesvrH-cs

Is this for November, or is there another special election?

For November. I guess we’ll have to wait until then to see who’s right.

It looks as desperate as Labour’s toff strategy.

McCain says Al-Qaeda are being trained in Iran, then is quickly corrected by his minders and takes it back

http://poorbastardmarvin.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccain-what-dick.html

meanwhile, the Democrats send a shout out to Denver caterers:

***Fried foods are forbidden at the committee’s 22 or so events, as is liquid served in individual plastic containers. Plates must be reusable, like china, recyclable or compostable. The food should be local, organic or both.
And caterers must provide foods in “at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white,” garnishes not included, according to a Request for Proposals, or RFP, distributed last week.
The shrimp-and-mango ensemble? All it’s got is white, brown and orange, so it may not have the nutritional balance that generally comes from a multihued menu.**

San Fransisco Values. (Buncha metrosexuals, if you ask me.)

BTW, Gene. I was driving thru Castroville (Texas) this morning. I came up behind a white van with blue lettering: “ISRAEL’S PAINTING”.

As I passed I looked at the side of the van. It had a 5′-tall Star Of David.

mesquito: Have you seen the bumperstcker that says
“My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter”

Castroville, Texas. Is not that a contradiction in terms?!

“Castroville, Texas. Is not that a contradiction in terms?!”

Of course not:

Castroville was established in 1844 by Henri Castro, an empresario of the Republic of Texas, who brought several dozen European families to the area from Alsace and adjoining Baden to populate his land grant along the Medina River 20 miles west of San Antonio. After a few hard years, the town and surrounding farms flourished, although for generations, the residents remained insular. In Castroville’s first century, a visitor would be more likely to hear Alsatian — a soft, French-flecked dialect of German — than English spoken in the town’s homes, stores and taverns.

Today, though, native speakers of Alsatian are dying out, and fewer of town’s residents can trace their ancestry back to the original Castro colonists. The suburbs of nearby San Antonio are encroaching, and much of the town has been made a national historic district to preserve the unique, sloped-roof architecture of dozens of original Alsatian homes and shops.

(wiki)

fantastic music

Thanks mesquito:

The story of Castroville is something like that of two rural towns in the western part of my home state of Ohio which were founded by two very different groups of French immigrants. The first, Versailles, (pronunced locally Ver Sales) was founded by a group of Royalist refugees or emirges as they were called, who fled the French Revolution and settled in the US. They called their settlement Versailles after the Great Palace which had been the set of power for the Bourbon Kings prior to the Revolution. Versailles has a modern day population of about 2,500.

The second, Russia (locally pronounced ROO-she) is a village that was founded by a group of French Napoleonic War Veterans and their families who came to the US after Waterloo. They recieved a land grant to settle in western Ohio. They named their settlement Russia, because the flat priairie area that their land grant wast part of reminded them of the vast Russian plain! Despite the nasty memories of that unfortunate campaign this must have brought up, their small settlement thrieved and currently has a population of about 550.

DAVID ALL:

There is a Versailles, Ky., also(and pronounced the same way). It is the hometown and birthplace of a former Governor named “Happy” Chandler. When the interstate connecting Lexington to the state capital
at Frankfort (which is a straight shot) was built while Happy was Governor he arranged so that it took a big loop detour (and thus increase travel time for 99.99% of those using hwy) past Versailles so Happy could make it from his front door to his office in about 15 min….same reason old Airline Hwy runs right past Baton Rouge, La. State Capitol direct to the old former Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans– so Huey Long could get to his suite in the Roosevelt ASAP when he got the urge.

The ad reminded me of one of those late night ‘txt date’ ads, where heavierly made up girls look longing out of the screen at their lonely punters.

‘Call Dem line now! - We’re got thousands of baby killing floosies, Child abusing Gays and one-legged pinko Lesbos just waiting for your call. Call Now and bring Satan to the party!’

Farce

Doesn’t resemble the last San Fran club I was in; that was mainly Asian tunnel-and-bridge kids off their heads waving glowsticks in each other faces. Or the drum-and-base club downstairs where the Irish-American DJ found out me and a friend were from Dublin, and introduced us the crowd yelling “GOT THE IRISH IN DA HOUSE, TIOCFAIDH AR LA!” *wince*

It’s funny to think there are some people in the world who think that scene from the video is considered debauchery; I’ve seen far more in Irish country discos. Hell, I expect my parents’ generation saw far more in 1950s Irish dance halls (or at least outside the back of them).

P.

Last summer I drove through a village in rural Québec called “St-Louis de Ha! Ha!”

And there is a village in the province of Newfoundland called “Dildo”.

there’s a place on the A5 called Willey

How do tax breaks for oil companies cause a) high gas prices b) a faltering ecomony? Seriously, what possible mechanism can you produce for that? Srsly?

The GOP ad is stupid, no doubt, and poorly produced to boot. The Democratic ad is well produced, but no less stupid in its arguments and plays to a irrational bigotry no less than the other one and in a far more effective way. That’s the difference between the propaganda of the party that has George Soros behind it and the one that doesn’t.

Maybe if the Demos would allow drilling in Alaska, or end the ban on refinery construction, or repeal the mountain of insane environmental legislation we’d get some traction on this issue. Or maybe another tax hike will do the trick!

“How do tax breaks for oil companies cause a) high gas prices b) a faltering ecomony? Seriously, what possible mechanism can you produce for that? Srsly?”

It’s the corporations, dammit. Those corporation guys sit around in their corporation buildings and act all corporation-y.