Lenny Kravitz
“Are You Gonna Go My Way”

They played this at the convention tonight…..wonder who they were talking to with this one.

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Who’s it gonna be folks? What’s your guess?? These guys are betting on Biden. They better announce soon…. if not I hope the talking heads have easy access to defibulators cause the last couple hours it looks like they’re going to blow a gasket if they don’t find out soon.

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The Beatles - “I’m So Tired”

Just the track here, but a great one, which goes out to all my fellow insomniac bloggers…

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Foo Fighters
“Times Like These”

Club Blue selections this weekend courtesy of Chicher!

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BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said two American soldiers were killed and one was wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Monday, while Iraqi officials reported that at least nine Iraqis died in a separate series of bombings.

And in Afghanistan:

A roadside bomb has struck a US-led military convoy outside the Afghan capital killing one soldier and wounding another.

The attack happened in the Bagrami district on the eastern outskirts of Kabul, the latest in a spiralling cycle of violence blamed on a resurgent Taliban

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On September 3, 2007, James Stephen Fossett, an American aviator, sailor, adventurer, and holder of 116 records in five different sports (60 of which still stand), took off in a single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon airplane from a private airstrip known as Flying-M Ranch near Smith Valley, Nevada. The ranch and airfield (guarded by Blackwater during the later search and rescue effort) are owned by Barron Hilton. The flight was expected to last 3 hours. Six hours after takeoff Fossett was reported missing and a search for him and his plane was begun. Although many privately-funded search efforts have continued, the search was officially called off on October 2nd. One month later, his wife requested that Fossett be declared legally dead and on February 15th of this year her request was granted.

Now, in the mold of the National Enquirer’s dubious claim of John Edward’s mistress and love child, comes the Daily Mail’s strongly-suggested claim of Fossett’s pseudocide, i.e., he faked his death, suggestions also made by many other, and mostly more reliable, sources.

The Daily Mail article does raise some intriguing points. Here are a few of them:

* Despite extensive and sophisticated and hugely expensive searches, no body or plane wreckage has been found.
* He did not file a flight plan (he was not required to do this).
* Although he had always worn it, he left his global positioning system watch, with an emergency transponder, behind. The plane was fitted with a satellite rescue beacon to alert rescuers to his position if he crashed, but no signal was ever received and the beacon has never been located.
* Even with cool weather, and very cold nights, he wore only a T-shirt and shorts and had no parachute or blankets with him. He carried only one bottle of water.
* He left without an emergency kit, something he is not known to have ever done.
* Only one person claims to have seen the flight take off.
* Rescue investigators discovered that Fossett, married for 38 years to childhood sweetheart Peggy, had at least two mistresses and was living a secret double life. There are suggestions that he was in financial trouble and feared a ruinous divorce if his philandering was discovered.

Steve Fossett’s widow has dismissed faked death claims, but there are certainly financial reasons for her to do so.

Here’s more about Fossett, including his possible pseudocide, and a google search for “Steve Fossett, faked death” will keep you busy for a long time. The Chicago Magazine has this article, Without A Trace.

Hey! It’s good to be back home at Blue Herald!

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Your heart has to go out to these poor animals.

Hard times force owners to ditch pets

PASADENA (KABC) — Economic hardships are forcing pet owners to turn their animals over to shelters.

When owners lose their homes so do their pets. During these tough economic times more pets are being abandoned or dropped off at animal shelters.

The Pasadena Humane Society, like others, have seen an increase in dog and cat owners come in with their pet asking if they’ll will take them in.

“These people are sobbing and these are people who don’t feel that they have any recourse. It is tragic for the family and that includes the pet,” said Ricky Whitman from the Pasadena Humane Society.

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Only the dumbest of the dumb would vote for this idiot. Does he even realize what an idiot he sounds like? First he says Obama is bad because he hasn’t been to Iraq or Afghanistan, and he should go. Then when Obama travels overseas, he says that is bad. First he says Obama is completely wrong on Iraq. Then he says 16 months sounds like a good idea. He is the biggest friggin flip floppin whine baby. For the love of God, somebody shove a tablespoon of oatmeal in his mouth and shut him up.

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Sonny Landreth

Riffing off the slide guitar earlier this week, here’s a double dose of Sonny Landreth, “Uberesso” and “Native Stepson,” live from the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007. Landreth’s got a wild, very impressive technique.

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Guest post by Chicher

This could explain bush’s over all view of his tenure as president. Maybe it explains this country’s reason for waking up one day and having this ivy league mafia running America. We got drunk and ended up in bed with a whore. Hey it happens but most of the time the whore doesn’t hang around for eight years. bushco, the money, all that is left of it, is on the dresser, get the hell out.

The Young Turks Cenk’s take on Bush’s Wall Street got drunk remarks:

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One of my pet peeves…….. let’s talk about plastic bags!

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My senator, Nelson-Fl. voted against it. I called his office several times over the past few weeks. They made no sense at all. They said he was going to vote for the FISA bill, but that he would do everything he could to protect our civil liberties. Hellooo……. you are making no sense. It’s so hard to remain polite when talking to these morons. Why would anyone vote against stripping immunity out of this bill? Why? Because they are bought and fucking paid for. That’s why. There can be no other reason. Roll call here

Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)

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Da Beatles
“Paperback Writer”

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I’ve posted this link before, but here it is again. They post daily activities in the Senate and senate committees.

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DRILLING IS A FRAUD

TENNESSEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OFFICIAL: OBAMA MAY BE A TERRORIST

CLINTON REPORTS MORE CAMPAIGN DEBT

NEW EVIDENCE ON MAN’S TORTURE CLAIMS

OUSTED AIR FORCE SECRETARY: I WAS FIRED DUE TO ESCALATING POLICY DISAGREEMENTS

THE MILITARY SCANDAL THE MEDIA WON’T TOUCH

THE FLIPPER AND THE FLOPPER

OBAMA WILL TRY AND STRIP IMMUNITY FROM FISA BILL

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