I had a groovy dream about Obama buying us all Ice-Cream...

Maybe that's how he's gonna save the world! :O)

It was a real vivid, real-like dream. He was in this little diner, dressed all smart to the 9's, hands in pockets, walked over to us and said "hey, what's up, whadda guys doing"? and then bought us all Ice-Cream and when he turned around he was dressed in a white T-shirt and swimming trunks! It was so cool. He walked down the street with all us girls and spent the intire day like he was a long last friend. One of us. laughing and smiling and visiting people. We walked down the middle of the street as if we were in a parade, just licking our snow-cones and ice creams!

I woke up with a smile on my face!

This is how you can tell if you've been really bad!

I got caught playing air piano on the sidewalk again...

Rocking out to "Happiness is a warm gun", "New Age", "Heart of Gold" and "I don't like Mondays" because I've always loved when Tori does her covers. I appreciate them!

People go by in their cars staring at me like I'm totally insane, while I play a mean air piano in my little world. Haha.

Playing air piano while looking at all the Chemtrails above my head in the big blue sky. I counted 8! - And right before the Holidays. How Sweet.

I picked out one big fat puffy cloud I'd like to bounce off of. I could bounce my butt off it like a trampoline! While walking thru & over all these Bee's on the sidewalk.

Wow! It's like walking thru Tori Land today! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

and I can see the pretty Sea from where I stand! ;o)

It's my party - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds make their wish list for All Tomorrow's Parties festival

A very interesting read ~

Rock-star curators thrust their left-field wish lists at Australian festival punters next month

'This is your captain. Sorry... but I'm not qualified to land the plane,' Flybe pilot tells stunned passengers

'This is your captain. Sorry... but I'm not qualified to land the plane,' Flybe pilot tells stunned passengers

They are not the most comforting words to hear at 30,000ft.
So imagine the shock of passengers on a Flybe aircraft who heard the captain announce: 'Sorry, I'm not qualified to land the plane.'
He then turned it around and flew back to the airport they had left hours earlier.

A pilot flying a Flybe aircraft like this one to Paris had to travel 300 miles back to Cardiff because he was not trained to land this particular plane in fog

Yesterday passengers spoke of their shock at hearing the announcement as they waited for the 80-seater plane to land in Paris, which was shrouded in thick fog.

Their captain had more than 30 years of flying experience - but he had only recently started to pilot the type of plane they were in.

This meant he had not passed the necessary low-visibility training. After making the unsettling announcement at the end of the 300 mile journey, the captain flew back to Cardiff airport instead.


Cassandra Grant, 29, said: 'We were about 20 minutes from landing, when the captain said: "Unfortunately I'm not qualified to land the plane in Paris. We'll have to fly back".'

She added: 'It was amazing. The whole thing beggars belief. The captain apologised but said it was down to his qualification status.'

Miss Grant and her fellow passengers on flight BE1431 had already been delayed for three hours by fog at Cardiff International Airport on Tuesday morning.

Luckily, by the time the plane returned to Wales, the runway was clear. Miss Grant added: 'There were a lot of puzzled and disappointed people on board. 'When the pilot said he couldn't land the plane we all thought: "Pardon? You can fly a plane but you can't land it?"

'Everyone was pretty appalled but there was some concern that the pilot wasn't fully qualified.

'I would expect an airline pilot to have every qualification possible - then a few more.

'If he couldn't land in the Paris fog what would have happened if it was foggy back in Cardiff?'

Yesterday a spokesman for Flybe stood by the decision taken by its unnamed captain.

She said: 'He has relatively recently transferred his type-rating from a Bombardier Q300 to a Bombardier Q400.

'He has not yet completed the requisite low-visibility training to complete a landing in conditions such as the dense fog experienced in Paris Charles de Gaulle. The captain therefore quite correctly turned the aircraft around and returned to Cardiff, a decision which the company stands by 100 per cent.'

It is understood the plane could not be landed by the co-pilot as both pilots must have the correct flying qualifications.

The Civil Aviation Authority yesterday backed the pilot's action and said: 'He did the right thing.'
A spokesman added: 'If he had landed in Paris he could have been prosecuted.

'It is not like driving a car where you can pull over into a lay-by to look up the handbook. A pilot can't do that at 12,000 feet with 100 passengers sitting behind.'

Independent aviation consultant Simon Gill said: 'His only mistake was announcing his lack of qualification. If he had just said it was not safe to land because of adverse weather conditions, nobody would have minded.'

More new LOST photos!!! and a few I made... Jan. 21 people!

Yummy!

Maestro Warren Ellis Tells Of A Busy Year For The Bearded & Brilliant Bad Seeds

Maestro Warren Ellis Tells Of A Busy Year For The Bearded & Brilliant Bad Seeds

Warren Ellis, one of The Quietus' favourite Australians, drops by as we hail the several gentlemen of the Bad Seeds and Grinderman as artists of 2008

Every good 'n'grizzled commander knows to pick his Lieutenants well. The past two years have been something of a golden period for Nick Cave; judging moustache contests, giving out the Turner Prize, not to mention the feral Grinderman set upon a supine, willing audience and this year's new Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! marking a welcome return to a rawer Bad Seeds sound. Yet Cave is always quick to insist that he is not a solo artist. Since the departure of Blixa Bargeld in 2003, Warren Ellis seems to have found a greater voice within the Bad Seeds set-up and beyond, be it in his role in Grinderman, or working on film soundtracks with Cave. The sounds he wrings from violin and those tiny, yet full-throated, guitars gave Grinderman its lustre, his picking raises Lazarus, his onstage high-kicking complimenting Cave's twisted evangelical, seam-busting gesturing. The Quietus called Ellis to reflect on the peculiar alliance between Grinderman and the Bad Seeds, his relationship with the group, and just what the hell else he's been up to in this 2008. It's been a busy old year has it, Warren? "Fuck, tell me about it man..."

So to start, how was it unleashing Grinderman on the festival crowds this summer?

This festival run was really enjoyable. The band seems made for the festivals, the way we play. It's a very different thing, just the four of us going on to play with no soundcheck or any of that boring stuff, which actually seems to help the performance with Grinderman in some ways. All hell breaks loose up there. We've found the songs and it's loosened up a whole lot more and we're looking at different ways of playing them, not just discovering them.

You said that Grinderman would have an impact on the Bad Seeds, do you think post-Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! that's going to work the other way round too?

I think so. It's not like we go in there in a different mood or a different headspace. When we went in to record that Grinderman album we didn't even have a name for it. You couldn't imagine how liberating that was if you tried. A big part of the whole thing was to not have any identity - obviously you can't start from zero again, and it's pointless to even think that you could, but to go in there not even having a name was a real reminder of how many restrictions you unwittingly put on yourself, particularly with a group like the Bad Seeds where there's such a long history. The Bad Seeds, particularly before I joined, flew in the face of what was considered to be the norm for rock music, and that was part of their thing. You'd never find a guitar solo on a Bad Seeds record, it was anti a lot of that stuff, to their credit. I guess we've tried to open doors on things that wouldn't be liked.

Do you feel like perhaps you've come to the fore more in terms of the Bad Seeds dynamic?

I was never particularly into playing just the violin. When I started with the Dirty Three that was always what was that great thing about it, we wanted to be free from the instruments, and I'd never play a straight violin line. So joining the Bad Seeds was a rather odd proposition for me because I'd never been in that position before, and it would arise that I'd have to do that sort of thing. Then I guess by playing these other instruments it changed my involvement. I've been working on Nick on so many varied projects now, and up to this point it's going good. It's like when you meet somebody and you have a chat and realise you get on with them, so you meet up again and six months later that might grow into something quite different. And music is a bit like that too, you find you get on with somebody, and you find you might want to spend more time with them. What I like about working with Nick is he tries to push me as far as I can go, he doesn't try to hold me back and that's really encouraging.

How does that work in the wider Bad Seeds group?

It's good because within that environment you can fall flat on your face and realise that it doesn't matter. It's good to go as far as you can go before you realise it's not working, because sometimes it can work, you know? I guess it encourages even the most ridiculous-sounding idea to be carried through to whichever conclusion it could go to. I really like that. It's about taking chances. In the Bad Seeds it seems like people go in and do what they do, and sometimes people are required to do more or less, and it's not even a discussed thing.

You've also done the music for a series of Sony adverts. How was that?

I was doing it ten days before the Bad Seeds were going on tour and it was a total meltdown experience. You'd present it and they'd be saying 'We love it, we love it', then you get a phone call as you're walking out of the door saying 'we just presented it to the heads of Sony and they don't like it'. You've got fifty minutes to do a new thing before we present it again'. I just went 'you're fucking joking' and smashed the phone into pieces.

Would you put yourself through that again?

It's not the sort of thing I'd want to do all the time, I wouldn't say it was incredibly rewarding, it's not like playing in front of a couple hundred people. It's only been in the past couple of years that I've actually started enjoying the studio, and getting more involved in that. Before, it was always more about playing live - it's just fantastic, that whole experience. I love playing with people we know, I love playing in a band, and I love that thing of performing music. It sounds like a corny thing to say, but it's just an incredible escape you know, all the stuff getting fucked up and shit-faced, it's fantastic. You work your way through all that and work out where you want to be if you're still going with it.

How does that relate to the different groups you're in?

It's really great, it just helps with what you're doing. Someone like me, I don't like songs, I somehow seem to have been part of writing quite a lot of material now for some reason, and I found doing all these different thing has really helped whatever I'm going on to do next. Playing in the Dirty Three has helped with the Bad Seeds, then the Bad Seeds helped with the Dirty Three. Whatever you do, if you're trying to do something different the next time you're trying to modify things a whole lot and it's really invigorating.

Does it stop you getting stuck?

Aside from the whole thing about the music there's an incredible dynamic to a band, being around the same people all the time, and it's a real relief to have different things going on.

Do all you Bad Seeds still get on?

Every bunch of people like that if you have problems you either work it out or you don't and you split up. It's something that you don't really think about until it happens and you find yourselves together, it's like having a girlfriend or a boyfriend, the intensity of the relationship. It's something you realise after two years of touring non-stop with the Bad Seeds: fuck me, I'm living with these people.

Nick Cave's put together his own festival line-up * a must read!

NICK Cave isn't backward about coming forward, and one of his pet hates is the line-up at festivals. So he's solved the problem, by creating his own.

Music fans have exhausted hours at house parties contemplating their fantasy festival line-up.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are the lucky blokes who get to live the dream as the curators of Australia's inaugural All Tomorrow's Parties festival.

Of course it's never as dreamy as it sounds. Budgets and availability can whittle that wish list down, but the final collection of acts will cater for both the curious and the converted alternative music fan.

Cave is satisfied that he and his bandmates "got really close" to making their fantasy a reality.

"There were some people we couldn't get, which was inevitable. But this is going to be good and certainly it isn't like anything anyone has seen (in Australia)."

Cave, Mick Harvey, Warren Ellis, Conway Savage, Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler and Jim Sclavunos devised their hit list on the road in the US.

"We were on the bus for incredibly long hours each day. We literally had a sheet of paper, tossed names around to see which ones would stick between the lot of us," Cave says.

"That was amazing as it turned out because it was funny to see where each person was coming from."

Cave credits Harvey and the other Australian-based Seeds with having more to do with sourcing local acts to join the bill, which will travel to Mt Buller.

The 51-year-old musician isn't enamoured of the festival experience -- with the exception of All Tomorrow's Parties, an event he graced in Somerset, England, as a solo performer and with Grinderman last year.

That program was curated by the Dirty Three, who appear on the Australian tour.

But the festival's non-mainstream aesthetic and the absence of a VIP area are important points of difference for Cave.

"The idea of the All Tomorrow's Parties thing for us was to put together a festival -- or a set of concerts rather -- with a range of people you would never ever get a chance to see under the same roof.

"It is not designed around what are the biggest current bands of the day; it's about something completely different."

The completion of his curator duties comes as Cave enters a frenzy of creation.

A novel, a film score and a new Grinderman record are a few of his endeavours.

He reckons work keeps him out of trouble.

"It's kind of a wish to pull your head in now and then and remind myself, 'I am not f---ing Nick Cave here'," he says of his life at home with partner Susie Bick and twins Arthur and Earl.

Each day when not on tour, Cave suits up and heads to a nearby office to work.

"But I don't know why it's all coming now, I can't help it. There's just a lot of stuff pouring out at the moment. It keeps me out of mischief, from getting into any more fights with my neighbours. I'm kind of the neighbour from hell unless I'm working hard. I will get in everyone's face. Invariably my wife and kids will say, 'Isn't there a novel you could write?' or something like that and I'm happy to oblige."

The novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, will be released early next year and Cave insists it is nothing like his debut effort, And the Ass Saw the Angel.

"The novel is very different from what I normally do -- it's chick lit. You are going to love it."

The score has been written with Warren Ellis for the new John Hillcoat film The Road, adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel.

"It always looks like it's going to be smooth sailing with films but it never is. It takes f---ing years," Cave says.

Cave doesn't expect to wait too long to realise one of his festival ambitions; if it happens it will be one hell of a supergroup.

"I have no idea what will happen but there will be extensive interaction between the bands. You have a wealth of artists you love and respect all in the same place, so it's bound to happen," he says.

"It's usually the opposite for us, where we are usually surrounded by bands we loathe.

"Generally the way a festival is put together, they take a more populist approach to the bill because they just want as many people to come along as possible. So generally we hate them and they hate us; it's always been the way.

"But we are excited to be with the people on All Tomorrow's Parties. Hopefully they won't hate us."

SEE Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Palace Theatre, Jan 6-7, $78, www.oztix.com.au

URGENT ALERT: Demand Obama rescind invitation to homophobe

* I already went to the website and took the few minutes to sign up and sent my letter*...

URGENT ALERT: Demand Obama rescind invitation to homophobe

It is appalling that President-elect Barack Obama would invite California Pastor Rev. Rick Warren, an ardent supporter of Prop 8 and someone who is opposed to the equality of LGBT Americans, to give the invocation at his inauguration.

:: Demand President-elect Obama to immediately rescind this invitation.
www.eqca.org/actioncenter.com

Would President-elect Obama invite someone to give the invocation who supported eliminating the civil rights of a minority other than the LGBT community? Of course he wouldn't!

This is a slap in the face to the millions of LGBT Americans who supported his historic candidacy.

:: TAKE ACTION: Sign EQCA's petition to President-elect Obama. Ask him to immediately rescind this despicable invitation.

Gregoire 1942 ~ 2008. I was sadden to hear the news this morning

It's with sadness that we write to tell you that a special friend passed away yesterday. You may already be familiar with Gregoire - the oldest living chimpanzee in Africa and a celebrity throughout the Congo.

He was the best known of the more than 140 chimpanzees living at JGI's Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center - a sanctuary for chimpanzees orphaned by the illegal commercial bushmeat trade. In fact, he was something of an international celebrity, having been on the cover of National Geographic and featured in Animal Planet and BBC television specials.

Gregoire was also a study in resilience, having survived more than 40 years of solitary display in a barren cage at a zoo and then an airlift during a civil war.

More than anything, however, Gregoire was a beloved personality, known for his playfulness even far into old age and a mellow disposition. We'll miss him, but we are so happy to have been able to help him find companionship and contentment in his twilight years.

He is one example of the ways we are making a difference for people, animals and the environment.

PLEASE READ THIS-

Sad sight: Jane met a very emaciated and very lonely Gregoire in 1990! (photo)

Gregorie's Story, so sad-thank god he was rescued!http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/janegoodall/earthalert/earthalertgregorie.html





I been following Jane's career ever since I was fascinated by her when I was a little girl. I collected all the National Geographic magazine's that she was in. I was blessed to meet her about 7 years ago in Pasadena, Ca. at The Huntington Art Museum. I talked to her & handed her my letter. I was shocked when I got a beautiful 'Eagle and the Wren' postcard from her, writing me from South Africa! What a gift that I treasure! She has always been and will always be one of my major heroes for all the hard work she has done through out her life and tireless efforts on behalf of these lovely creatures that are so close to us humans. ;o) She is truely amazing as so was/is Gregoire! I wish I could be right there by her side, doing that same kind of work. *sighs*... Maybe someday! It was awful and a sad sad trajady what poor poor Gregoire went thru for 50 some odd years, but I am so glad Jane found him, saved him and it makes my heart flutter to know he was happy in the last years of his life. Which is the most important, isn't it?

Bush dodges flying shoes in Baghdad!!! MUST WATCH, this is great!

I know I'm a day or two late on this, I been busy and haven't had time to post, but I first heard of this late Sunday night on my Coast to Coast AM radio show and I was busting out laughing in my bed.

I say..."So long, fare well, Auf wiedersehn, fuck you and goodbye... "


Bush dodges flying shoes in Baghdad

1981 Murder of Son of America's Most Wanted Anchor John Walsh is Solved-I remember when this happened

I remember when this happened. I was a kid myself. I couldn't stop thinking about this little boy and how scared he must have been. And I couldn't stop thinking about how awful this was for his dad and mother, the intire famliy. What a thing to go thru. But that sick monster, had me thinking how could another humam being do this to another? See how some monster could come into your life an interrupt and devastate it. How dare he! Where ever he is, I'm pretty sure he is suffering. He deserves it! *I have watched American's Most Wanted ever since the day it came on and I still do.* I love this show! John Walsh has been in my living room every Saturday night and So, I'm so glad that they found out who it was and that that poor famliy can rest, at least somewhat. Wow! It only took 27 years! Crazy!

Police: 1981 Murder of Son of America's Most Wanted Anchor John Walsh Is Solved
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The investigation into the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of "America's Most Wanted" anchor John Walsh, is finally closed.

Hollywood, Fla., Police Chief Chad Wagner announced Tuesday that the department had concluded that Ottis Toole, a serial killer who died in jail in 1996, was the man who kidnapped and decapitated the young boy.

The announcement brought to a close a case that had angered the Walsh family for more than two decades, inspired the television show about the nation's most notorious criminals and triggered changes in how authorities search for missing children.

"Who could take a 6-year-old and murder and decapitate him? Who?" an emotional John Walsh said at Tuesday's news conference. "We needed to know. We needed to know. And today we know."

Adam Walsh with his parents, 1974-1981

The Twisted Life of Serial Killer Ottis Elwood Toole

Adam Walsh disappeared from a Hollywood mall on July 27, 1981. Two weeks later, fishermen discovered his severed head in a canal 120 miles away. The rest of his body was never found.

Toole confessed twice to Adam's murder, but he had confessed to hundreds of other killings, and police determined most of those confessions were lies.

Officials were never able to verify his confessions because of a series of errors they made in the investigation — including losing the bloodstained carpeting from Toole's car, preventing DNA testing, — and the car itself.

Toole's niece later told Walsh that her uncle gave a deathbed confession to Adam's murder in September 1996.

Wagner acknowledged and apologized for the mistakes that were made in the investigation, but he said detectives were always led back to Toole.

"Our agency has devoted an inordinate amount of time seeking leads to other potential perpetrators rather than emphasizing Ottis Toole as our primary suspect," he said. "Ottis Toole has continued to be our only real suspect."

For all that went wrong in the probe, the case contributed to massive advances in police searches for missing youngsters.

Adam's death, and his father's subsequent activism, helped put faces on milk cartons, started fingerprinting programs, increased security at schools and stores and spurred the creation of missing persons units at every large police department.

It also prompted legislation to create a national center, database and toll-free line devoted to missing children, and led to the start of "America's Most Wanted," which brought those cases into millions of homes.

With the case now closed, Wagner said he hoped the Walsh family could find some closure.

"The not knowing has been a torture, but that journey's over," John Walsh said.



John Walsh: 'Not knowing has been torture'

Dog rescues another dog on freeway, very very sad!

The video shows one dog struck by a vehicle while trying to cross a multi-lane highway in Chile. While no drivers stop to assist the injured dog, one very brave dog does intervene to save a fellow dog. The rescue dog runs to the injured dog and pulls it out of the traffic by the scruff of its neck. After the dog saves dog rescue, a road crew pulls up and assists. This story is a heartwarmer.

That's the lesson for humans, if the dog can do why not by human . I am overwhelmed by that rescurer dog. It shows how SORRY ASS humans can be, they kept whizzing by instead of slowing down HUMANS make me sick sometimes!

VERY very sad!

Alice Walker's letter to Barack Obama...

(Alice Walker is one of my favourite writers, and this letter to Obama is wonderfully inspiring... please share with others, it's worth it!)

Dear Brother Obama,

You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so many others before you carried, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, only to be struck down before igniting the flame of justice and of law, is almost more than the heart can bear.

And yet, this observation is not intended to burden you, for you are of a different time, and, indeed, because of all the relay runners before you, North America is a different place. It is really only to say: Well done. We knew, through all the generations, that you were with us, in us, the best of the spirit of Africa and of the Americas. Knowing this, that you would actually appear, someday, was part of our strength. Seeing you take your rightful place, based solely on your wisdom, stamina and character, is a balm for the weary warriors of hope, previously only sung about.

I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that you do have, however, is to cultivate happiness in your own life. To make a schedule that permits sufficient time of rest and play with your gorgeous wife and lovely daughters. And so on. One gathers that your family is large. We are used to seeing men in the White House soon become juiceless and as white-haired as the building; we notice their wives and children looking strained and stressed. They soon have smiles so lacking in joy that they remind us of scissors. This is no way to lead. Nor does your family deserve this fate. One way of thinking about all this is: It is so bad now that there is no excuse not to relax. From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone.

I would further advise you not to take on other people’s enemies. Most damage that others do to us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. We must learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. It is understood by all that you are commander in chief of the United States and are sworn to protect our beloved country; this we understand, completely. However, as my mother used to say, quoting a Bible with which I often fought, “hate the sin, but love the sinner.” There must be no more crushing of whole communities, no more torture, no more dehumanizing as a means of ruling a people’s spirit. This has already happened to people of color, poor people, women, children. We see where this leads, where it has led.

A good model of how to “work with the enemy” internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Because, finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies.

And your smile, with which we watch you do gracious battle with unjust characterizations, distortions and lies, is that expression of healthy self-worth, spirit and soul, that, kept happy and free and relaxed, can find an answering smile in all of us, lighting our way, and brightening the world.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

In Peace and Joy,

Alice Walker

*Hear the Grinderman songs "Dream(Song for Finn)" & "Song for Frank" right here...*

I been waiting for this:

I listened to both songs and although I think their different from the 'No Pussy Blues' album (of course because they are for a movie) I like them. Nothing can be better then 'Love Bomb' and 'When my love comes down to meet you' in my opinion. ; ) I am patiently waiting their new album and having weird dreams about it! Ha! Don't ask! :O)

Both the Palermo Shooting score (by Can man Irmin Schmidt) and original soundtrack are available to buy/download now. Apart from 'Let Us Know' the soundtrack also features two new songs from Nick Cave's Grinderman ('Dream (Song for Finn)' and 'Song for Frank') and one from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ('Torn and Brayed'), as well as tunes from Iron & Wine, The Velvet Underground and Beirut amongst others. The movie also features a cameo from Lou Reed.

Here's the link and enjoy! :O)
http://en.qoob.tv/audio/qoob_playlist_view.asp?id=66

The movie Trailer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPvS-Q9tVsI

A great read:
http://entertainment.aol.ca/article/qa-director-wim-wenders-talks-palermo-shooting/387349/

Raven

I fucking hate Sean Hannity, that retarded bastard!

I planned on listening to music all day while cleaning my fucking house and here I checked my AM coast to coast radio station just to see what kind of stuff was on during the day, since I don't listen to it during the night and only at night.

My god, what a bad mood this fucker put me in while making Ice-Tea and my famous green bean cassorole. I bleached my tiolet while this fucker spewed his hate and negativity. He says what he wants to say and then cuts off the callers when he doesn't like what their sayin'. He is very belittleling, condescening and majorly passive-aggressive. That's his job, just imagine getting paid to be an asshole! I wanted to crawl right thru my headphones and beat his ass.

I watched his crappy little show on cable before and it just makes me sick. How can this prick have his own show? He gets paid to sit there all day and talk pure rubbish, he's full of hate and anger and you should hear how he gets all pumped up when people call up and lick his ass. He's sick in the head and not the good kind- He needs to see a therapist about this. Or up his meds.

I laughed my ass off when he kept playing a clip where Obama even openly states his dislike for him. haha. Mr. Obama saying he'd sic someone on him! lol. I love it!

P.S. I love Bleach!

I know I'm going to feel this way until you kill it...

I want you

I want you

Im going to say it once again til I instill it

I know Im going to feel this way until you kill it

I want you

I want you

"Sounds like we have a new President"... He is Political Poetry!

That's how I found out!

I walked out of the library into the streets @ around 7:45pm, walked on over to Starbucks to get me a coffee 'cause I was freezing. When I took my money out to pay the dude behind the counter he said "put that money away, it's free for you". Me thinking I was being Punk'd or something, still trying to pay the weisel. He said "it's free because you have that" and pointed to my *I voted* sticker on my sweater. I was stoked. I never get anything for free! I said "wait, I have 2 more" and opened my sweater to show the other 2 stickers on my shirt. haha. It didn't work. Oh well, worth a shot. As I truned around to leave an intire barrage of people came in. I was all happy telling them about all the free coffee. They already knew. I asked them how they knew, they said "it was on the radio". Ohhhh. Haha. I scurried out into the street, crossed the street and heard a collective loud ass cheer and celebrating from what I thought was a desolite downtown. I heard some guy yell "did he win?" I hurried towards the historic 3rd floor bar to see what it was all about. The distinguished doorman w/ his iphone in hand said to me as I walked up to him, "sounds like we have a new president" as he looked down at his iphone trying to check. He let me in, I ran to the big screen T.V.'s and just saw a sea of people celebrating. I couldn't believe I was standing there while history was just being made, my soul wept, felt warm and I, we all felt hopeful. Strangers hugging each other.

When I came back out the doorman said "their giving free ice-cream out at Ben & Jerry's (me not liking ice cream that much-only rocky road) I was on a mission because it was free. I told the doorman "I'm gonna go get my ice cream" and he said w/ such conviction "go on girl, go get your ice-cream". haha. I get there but the door is locked. Some other girl & guy popped up. I told her to pout. We did. It worked. The owner came over & let us in. I told him he was a good man. After that I left somewhere, just all mixed up. Then the couple I met back @ Starbucks came up to me, where I was standing by a sign that read 'Free Pizza'. I was clueless until they pointed to it. haha. Wake up Raven. So we pop in, stand in a very short line. Watching the big screen. All these cute boys stroll in & we stood there saying "I think McCain doesn't have 4 years left in him" and how we would like a president that could stand (I'm sorry-it's mean-sorry McCain and I mean that sincerly). We kept high-fiving each other & cracking jokes! I left down the street w/ that couple to a bar they said were giving away $10.00 gift certificates. We went down the cold street and people on bikes came flying down waving the American flag and ringing their bells. We all cheered and yelled. We got to the bar & watched parts of McCain's concession speech. It was really lovely. I was suprised. There's no doubt McCain loves America & he was sincere, for the first time ever in Raven history did I like a republican's concession speech. I really did. Both speeches were given quietly and sincerely. I didn't want to leave, but unfortunately I had to get home. I came home with a sence of good-disbelief. I closed all my windows and turned on my AM radio, still in total disbelief. Why you ask? I never thought we would know so soon, not on the 4th! Remember what happened w/ Kerry-we didn't know until the next day. It was all like spinning me in circles. I felt I missed out on everything not having my TV moved in yet. You know how much I love my CNN! I caught only parts of Obama's speech. Got it later. I stayed up until 4am listening to all the different stations. Smothering myself with all the outpouring of the beautiful reactions from all around the World! Paris, Germany, Africa, Indonesia and other countries woke up to the news and were waving American flags and crying! This makes me feel so happy, like America/we redeemed ourselves. People like us again. Bush was an absolute assult and an embarrassment to not only America but the intire world, even the deer & all the little animals were bitching about it to each other at night when no one was around. Grazing on their grass-"what a fuckhead & were drowning". What a relief guys! We can all Exhale now. I went to bed w/ a smile on my face & a big fat warm throbbing heart.

WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT PEOPLE! AND THIS TIME IT'S A GOOD ONE

Welcome our 44th President!

I can almost feel the change in the air already.

We just made HISTORY! When Obama was born, people of his skin colour couldn't even vote in some parts of America and many were killed when trying! Obama even won Ohio, Iowa, Florida (Florida people!-that use to be a die-hard RED STATE) and Virginia, the first canidate of his party in 44 years to do so!

The day of the 4th was weird for me, almost went too smooth & almost perfect (sorry about Prop. 8, we tried! I have a feeling something's gonna happen here, your'll see!) that it was hard to believe. I woke up, walked to my polling place (a elementry school) voted around 2:30ish? went to the library & in just a handful of hours, walked out and we have a new President!!!

Mystical incantations, call it what you will- even all the gods voted for him, for they have had enough!

If I were you, I'd do what I did & go out & buy today's Newspaper and save it to show your grandchildren. This is one for the record books, rather you voted for him or not.

We have a lot of Democrats in the senate and only 75 days left until we get rid of this parasite, this cancer we called a "president" and hand the tourch over to Barack, fill the air w/ this lovely sencitive man that give hope into office. There's this hunger in America, we need to heal from the last past 8 years we were served mounstrous lies & stood by as our souls evaporated into the abyss. We need to heal & Obama is our rehab, our "make things right" guy, our teacher we can & will learn a lot from. He's not only well read, well spoken and well educated (doesn't it feel nice to have a smart president for a change?) He gives hope to many people-for different reasons. Seriously-think about it, he was raised by a single mother, wasn't raised w/ a silver spoon in his mouth, does not come from money! He studied hard, made it to the top w/ perserverance, ambition and persistence. He had no "connections", like Bush jr. and his daddy. He snuck up on us and came out from nowhere it seems and WON! So, he understands-he's for the poor and middle class, not rich oil greedy old men w/ no souls & black hearts. I bet even those sickies Al Qaeda were secrectly happy that Obama won. Maybe their plans to wanna fuck w/ us will dissipate?

Something I found amusing, I could just imagine the words muttered underneath Bush's breath when Obama won, but he had called him up and invited him and his family over for dinner at his ranch. He had to. It's only politically correct!

I love this sence, this feeling I get with Obama and everything that surrounds this man and his ideas. I loved how his little girls came out on stage skipping. ...I finally -and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just might put up an American flag in front of my home. A first ever for me. I caught myself thinking this yesterday.

Obama - He is political poetry and he'll move thru us and America with Grace.

P. S. I'm going to try and make it to his inauguration (swown in and parade) on January 20th, so I can really experience fellowship, a common ground and just love from total strangers. Sometimes that's the best. I am a part of History being made. ...And I look foward to seeing how this story unfolds-

I was supossed to go see Obama & Hillary back in January of this year when they came thru my town BUT I had the flu really bad and was couch-ridden. I'll regret this until the day I die!

...And Tori we found our Mr. Lincoln! No cause for sneezing! ;o)

Now watch this

Hey! Barack & I have another thing in common-both our grandmother's name is Madeline! So sweet! I found this to be so sweet. His Grandmother voted for him before she died. I wish she would have lived to see him win this, I take comfort in thinking she some how knows. ;o)

The campaign says Obama's late grandmother voted by absentee ballot for her grandson before she passed away.

It is so sad that Senator Obama's grandmother died just one day before she had the chance to see her grandson become the next President of the United States of America. 'President Barack Obama' .




I had to add this little sidenote: I was thumbing thru one of my "gossip mags" about 4 months ago and found Barack's work out routine, I tore it out and have been doing his work out ever since. haha. It's easy and for people on the go like him and me. :o) . I thought this was amusing. So when people ask me "how'd you do it?" I'll say "it's all Barack's fault". lol.







See more photos at my myspace 'Obama Album'

The Senate is only getting hotter! We have the hottest Senate around!

Two hotties! How many more can we get into office?

Thanks to the Nov. 17th issue of Newsweek magazine for pointing me to Scout Tufankjian 's stunning images of the Obama campaign. Her images are front row tickets to his long journey thus far. These photographs touched my soul. You must check these out. So interesting!

*Change is gonna come*