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How We Welcome Our OverLords...
Aug. 31st, 2008 01:05 amMassive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis
It's a good thing they didn't have anything legal, like guns...
It's a good thing they didn't have anything legal, like guns...
Aug. 31st, 2008
Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: August 30, 2008
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town. More
Sunday Afternoon Grill
Aug. 31st, 2008 07:42 amSunday Afternoon I'm fixing to pull the grill out of the garage. After we run out of gas, I'll refill it at SuperAmerica and we'll continue. Please bring something to grill & an extra.
Details: Around 3:00 or so.
I should have:
Details: Around 3:00 or so.
I should have:
- Pickled Carrots
- Pickled Daikon
- Potato Salad
- Cole Slaw
- Cucumbers
- Buns (Burger & Sausage)
- Ketchup
- Mustards
- Sweet Relish
- Lettuce
- Sliced Tomatoes
- Sauerkraut
- Corn for grilling
- White wine
- Red Stripe
- Iced Tea
- Diet Coke
- Root Beer
- Big Honking Grill
Obama Outwits the Bloviators
By FRANK RICH
Published: August 30, 2008
STOP the presses! This election isn’t about the Clintons after all. It isn’t about the Acropolis columns erected at Invesco Field. It isn’t about who is Paris Hilton and who is Hanoi Hilton. (Though it may yet be about who is Sarah Palin.) After a weeklong orgy of inane manufactured melodrama labeled “convention coverage” on television, Barack Obama descended in classic deus ex machina fashion — yes, that’s Greek too — to set the record straight. America is in too much trouble, he said, to indulge in “a big election about small things.” More
Bush to duck convention! Repugs relieved!
Aug. 31st, 2008 08:14 amBreaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
I wonder if he's gonna go have cake with St. John McSame? Or maybe somebody bought him a fiddle...
One went south; one goes north.
PRESIDENT BUSH ALMOST CERTAINLY WILL NOT ATTEND REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN MINNESOTA, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TELL ABC NEWS' GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS
I wonder if he's gonna go have cake with St. John McSame? Or maybe somebody bought him a fiddle...
One went south; one goes north.
On the way to the Farmer's Market this morning, I saw two, count 'em, two red London double-decker buses. (Although they wuzn't billowing clouds of oily smoke like the one's I ustta see in London.) WoW, I thought, sweet chariots to separate the wives and children of Our Fearful OverLords from their money! How Sweet It Is! No buses, of course, for the DFH!
It's just like 1608!
Aug. 31st, 2008 02:31 pmWhen people come to town that believe in witches, what do you have? Why, witch hunts of course! Drawing and quartering, a good burning in the center of St. Paul. That oughta liven up the Repugs, now that Gustav has let the air out of their convention's tires.
See Terry Karney's post.
See Terry Karney's post.
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Sunday, August 31, 2008 -- 4:19 PM ET
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Republicans Suspend Most of Convention Activities Monday
With Hurricane Gustav heading toward the Gulf Coast, Senator John McCain announced that Republican Party activities on Monday in St. Paul would be suspended except for necessary business. He called on his party members to "take off our Republican hats and put on out American hats."
See wot happens when they let all of the proofreaders go for the long weekend?