Alcoholic Takes Over Most Of US Armed Only With Road Flares And Duck Tape

Incident also causes stocks to drop gas prices to skyrocket Wolf Blitzer to have a hernia Fox Network to call for much higher border fence and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to calls for guns for everyone!

Friday’s morning’s hostage bomb incident at the Rochester New Hampshire campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton is a good barometer of the palpable state of fear that manipulates everyone in present day America.

Needless to say, at the beginning of the incident it may have appeared that it could be serious enough to classify it at the top end on a homeland security color-coded level of impending doom.

But shortly after the incident began it became obvious to just about everyone that has a brain that what we had here was an ego centric wife beating drunk on a bender who was not getting his way with some road flares taped to his mid section that he was trying to pass off as a makeshift bomb.

As the police swat teams and multiple government agencies drooled all the news networks thought oh boy we got a major crisis here that going to provide us with tons of actionable content for days. Meanwhile the perpetrator’s stepson sat in a coffee shop down the street. He casually told the waitress that his dad was on a drunken bender. He had taped road flares to his body and gone to the campaign headquarters hoping that maybe when all was said and done he still be able to avoid going to those 12 step meetings or looking in the mirror.

God what some people will do to get some Antabuse. New reports indicated the stepson had told the police about it all and even asked them:

"Can’t I just go in and tackle my dad? He’s harmless”

Advise that the cops didn't care to heed or execute themselves. God that wouldn't give them the chance to try all the bells and whistles on the swat team's armor personnel carrier and have a little harmless fun themselves. Nor would it let the taxpayers off the hook for the enormous bill it would eventually end up costing.

The suspect Leeland Eisenberg age 47 going on 70 was strangely dressed for this type of alcoholic behavior. Wearing a white shirt slacks and red tie with red road safety flares and grey duck tape accessories around his midsection. We expected a shirtless suspect or one wearing a wife beater sleeveless tee. Just like the one we see all the time when we watch our favorite TV show Cops. The suspects always lose their shirts on that show? Lots of folks think that losing your shirt is a term for financial ruin but drunks know losing your shirt really is what happens when you meet a cop and the situation ends up going south.

CNN even sent Anderson Cooper to New Hampshire to do remote coverage from down the street based on the possibility that those road flares actually where lit and would look real pretty on the big situation room TV screens at CNN. FOX news had a guy in car racing towards Rochester broadcasting live while a helicopter offered synchronized aerial coverage from above.

"Both these over reactions by major news networks showing the scoop driven sharks in the water mentality of the modern day news coverage."

Not to long ago in America the guy may have been sent home with a warning to lay off the liquor and stop scaring the hell out of everyone. But now days people just don’t get the joke anymore. It's also possible that if this incident happened back in the good old days this drunk wouldn't have been allowed the time to bring the entire country to a standstill at all.

Instead he just would have had the shit beat out of him by the police and been thrown in the drunk tank. There he would be forced to contemplate his unacceptable conduct and realized he had perhaps hit bottom. Possibly a good thing in the long run for him and the system. It sure make a hell of a funny story to tell at one of those meetings where drunks go. The day I brought the country to a standstill is pretty hard to bottom for sure. But I've heard some damn good ones that would even "bottom this" as they say.

This also brought a cry from some for better mental health coverage especially those not well schooled in the inter workings of the steel trap alcoholic disposed mind. Clinton tried to seem calm concerned and politically engaged while saying the incident was a sign of the problem with the mental health treatment system.

Or was it just some drunk who thinks his personal problems take precedence over everyone else's so much so that he's justified in disrupting everyone life. Isn't it that he really needs someone to start holding him responsible for his unacceptable conduct? Often this is the only way that a drunk will begin to deal with THEIR problem effectively instead of projecting the blame on others and on the system. Which when you think of it will never really be able to cope with all the mentally ill in this country at the rate we are pumping them out.

Maybe it's not that complicated but it sure a money maker for the treatment industry folks and those looking for excuses to blame it all on the system. Including one drunk in New Hampshire.

Romney Voted Most Likely That People Would Like To Have A Bar Fight With

Buy American You Nitwits And Help Local Small Business

Texas Commie Pinko Jim Hightower suggest you buy local products for Christmas at your neighborhood's small businesses. It will help them from turning into one enormous Walmart Store full of bullshit products and lead filled toys from China. It may also keep taxpayers from eventually paying the health care costs for Walmart employees that they say on TV they provide for but in real life really don't. It sort of like the oil company saying in one of those fuzzy feel good flower filled commercials it cares about the environment when most people know it's really a total crock of shit.

A Media Image Centered Superficial She Devil Brand Of Shallow Politics

Is foreign policy experience overrated?

Hillary Clinton hopes to make a case that it’s not when it comes to framing Barak Obama’s candidacy. But history and other factors could indicate it’s not that important when it come to determining what quality of president you’ll get when the individual actually becomes the commander-in-chief.

I’ve always believed that along with experience moral character, defined here as moral strength mixed with originality of thought and ideas, is the most important ingredient to look for in anyone seeking your vote for a political office. Including the highest political office in this land of President of the United States.

“The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

All to often the media pundits get caught up in the more literal interpretation of on the job political experience as the touchstone of political legitimacy or intelligence rather then looking at an individual’s character. Based on this type of argument Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska may be the best qualified to become President.

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell certiainly had experience and they led us into one of the worst foreign policy disasters in our history. I would argue that with the possible exception of Powell it was due to a major lack of person character.

George W. Bush had little foreign policy experience prior to his election in 2000. Something that surprisingly doesn't ever come up in the current discussions about candidate experience. Frat boy Bush repeatedly has difficulty remembering the names of the other countries in the world even to this day.

Perhaps a problem of not being that good a student or curious enough about the world or just lazy together with being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Passed through school and other challenges in life including his run for the Whitehouse without much personal effort other then to show up on time and doing what he was told by Carl Rove or his media handlers.

Al Gore was far more qualified by any standard of measurement than Bush berfore the 2000 election. Yet the issue was not that paramount during the 2000 election mostly due to Gore’s reluctance or inability to make it a major issue. With the factor that the election was probably stolen not even addressed here. Gore did get more votes so perhaps he did win this argument with voters about his experience. The following Gore quote from 1999 seems somewhat profound given the nightmare that we’ve suffer through under President Frat Boy these last 7 years.

"You deserve a leader who has been tested in it, who knows how to protect America, and secure peace and freedom." Gore's point: That Bush lacked the experience to lead America in a complex and dangerous world”.

George H. Bush when running against Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign stated that “my dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs then these two bozos” when referring to Clinton and his running mate Gore. Once again it made no difference in the final outcome of the election. Bush the senior was Vice President and had been a congressman a former head of the CIA an ambassador to China and winner of the first Gulf war.

Harry Truman didn’t even know about the development of the atom bomb prior to being thrust into the presidency by the death of FDR. He had little foreign policy experience. But he now is considered among the more successful modern presidents because he is credited with having a strong character and lots of common sense that helped guide his decision making. His character guided him in ending WWII, rebuilding Western Europe, starting the UN and fighting the Korean War.

John Kennedy was a US Senator and Congressman. He’s one big failure was probably the Bay of Pigs invasion. But Kennedy succeeded in getting the Russians to remove missiles from Cuba after a tense showdown. Lyndon Johnson had only been a Congressman and Senator from Texas and Vice President for a short time but ended up seeing historic civil rights legislation passed during his presidency. The Viet Nam War was a disaster for the country and Johnson and ruined his presidency and severely tarnished his legacy.

Tricky Dick Nixon was Vice President for eight years under Eisenhower and it could be argued an experienced politician. He gets credit for opening up China and being president when the war in Viet Nam ended. His presidency ended in disgrace when he had to resign because of criminal activity and corruption within his administration. He certainly lacked character one could argue.

Jimmy Carter was a former Governor and naval officer but he got blamed for not seeing that the Russians were going to invade Afghanistan and because he was unable to rescue the hostages held in Iran or deal with the economic chaos of an OPEC oil boycott. He was defeated after only one term. Ronald Reagan had little experience in foreign policy or governing anything yet he gets credit for ending the cold war and significant disarmament treaties reached on his watch. He's been rewarded with god like status when he is spoke of by conservatives.

So experience matters if your Eisenhower, Johnson, Carter or George W. Bush but doesn’t if your Truman, Nixon, Reagan, George H Bush or Bill Clinton I guess. Little experience didn't matter to some and lots of experience didn't matter to others.

Bill Richardson has all kinds of experience. He’s been a diplomat, a governor, an energy secretary. Joe Bidden has extensive experience with foreign policy matters given his long tenure on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It could be successfully argued that both are more qualified at foreign policy and many other things then both Clinton or Obama. But it seems to make little real difference when considering who should be president from what you garner from listening to the "horse race” centered mainstream media diatribe.

Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards both strike me as having tons of character and intelligence. They probably lack experience of the type Hillary would like you to think she has in the way she’s tried to framed that argument. But I trust them more then I trust her because she strikes me as one who lacks real character. In fact I would argue that she is the one Democratic who has a serious problem when it come to questions of character. I think this is demonstrated by her problem being seen as trustworthy by a number of voters.

"Hillary Clinton represents an old media centered image driven superficial and shallow style of politics that needs for the good of the country to pass into history."

The argument that Obama makes about his experience is more about his strength of character. I was against the war and it was the right position even though not popular at time I took the position. Experience is absolutely no good if you end up making the wrong decisions in the end. Which is exactly the case with Hillary he argues.

I agree with Obama and given the history of the modern presidency I think that the experience factor may not be the only thing we should be looking at when choosing our president.

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Smoke Them If You Got Them Classic Smoking Ads

I was a smoker for years. I think I started a pack a day habit when I was 16. Except I even started before that experimenting with cigarettes. It make me feel like an adult and fed some of the youthful rebellion within me. It felt good in my hand. I like the way I preceived I looked puffing away on a smoke. Plus it seemed glamorous and hip to be able to light up. I finally stopped smoking when I was in my mid forties. I struggled with it on and off after that for years and right now I'm not smoking again. So out of the last sixteen years since I first stopped I probably haven't smoked 12 of those years. Pretty good I think.

Given the awesome collection of 1920 to 1950 classic smoking advertisements I came across at the Stanford School of Medicine Website and that I certainly must of been subjected to when I was young it's little wonder I started smoking in the first place. The Tabacco companies went to great length in all of the ads to promote the lie that smoking was supposedly healthy and glamorous. Hell if conservative golden boy Ronald Reagan is sending Chesterfields to everyone he knows for Christmas it must be good.

Hey I don't hate smokers and I hope I'm not a self righteous former smoker either. Because that attitude seems somewhat obnoxious to me and I'm sure to those who still are hooked. I just wish them the best if they every hope of quiting sometime.

Washed Up TV B Movie Rock Stars Fake Sport Personalities Religious Cult Leaders The Guy Down At the Corner Gas Station Indorse Huckabee

What a week for Huckabee. He's gaining ground in Iowa on Romney and he's gotten several endorsements that make him seem much crazier than even I first imagined. Ric Flair from the fake sport called professional wrestling is now firmly in the Huckabee camp. He was proceeded by tough guy Chuck Norris. Who will break your face if you vote for Romney or try to limit his home gym time. Ted Nugent libertarian hunting wack job (see video below) also can be counted on for his support and donating a fund raising mother load of talent.

Plus adding his endorsement recently was Donald Wildmon, who has led national boycotts against corporations over social policies and once accused Mighty Mouse of teaching children to snort cocaine.

Now Tim LaHaye, the Christian conservative organizer and co-author of the apocalyptic 'Left Behind” novels is jumping on the Huckster's bandwagon. I can hardly wait to find out who the next nut bar will be to join this distinguished group of Americans.

Buy Nothing Day Unable To Stop American Consumerism Juggernaut

It's has become the new American religion. Feel bad emotionally about you crummy little life then you should just go get that 50' plasma.

Buying things you don't really need or soon grow tired of is one all American life style choice that will be hard to stop. Equally significant is the argument that consumerism is the only thing that's keeping the economy from slipping into a massive recession or worse.

America Needs to Demand The Congress Impeach The President and Vice President

If this is a nation based on law and a legal system seeking truth? Then the Congress has a duty to begin impeachment proceedings against the leaders of this administration as soon as possible. Of Course, I don't think it will happen. But it is certainly justifiable by any standard if such a thing as justice really still exist in the country.

The latest revelations by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan implicating the President and Vice President and other high level administration officials directly in the cover up of the leaking of the name of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame for political reasons only strengthens the case against them. How many High Crimes and Misdemeanors must be committed before justice is brought to bare here?

Former German Chancellor Believes America More Dangerous Than Russia

Helmut Schmidt, the former German chancellor who initiated the US arms buildup against the Soviet Union during his term in office, considers today's Russia to be less dangerous than the United States.

"And now to America. The superpower is experiencing a difficult phase not unlike the period in the early 1970s, when the Vietnam War was approaching its inglorious end. The country senses that no one is impressed by its tough talk on the so-called "clash of civilizations" and the "war on terror," as long as success remains elusive on the real war fronts. The Taliban in Afghanistan are confident again, thriving within the population like fish in water. Iraq remains a constant challenge, refusing to be pacified. The United States has isolated itself internationally. No one on the planet, not even in its remotest corners, is currently sending Bush the message that the world wants more of America. The domestic mood is by no means gung-ho when it comes to the war in Iraq. The Americans are defiant. They don't want to lose the war, and yet their support for it is waning. The strategy of aggression, of launching attacks based on suspicion alone and the doctrine of the preemptive strike are now seen as military and political failures."

Chuck Norris Texas Ranger Huckabee Join Up In Creepy Political Ad

The Huckabee campaign calls it HUCKCHUCKFACTS.
I call it FUCKTHEFACTSCHUCKHUCKSTERISM. This is funny and makes one wonder about Huckabee's sanity and judgment.

Dennis Kucinich Marginalization By Centerist Democrats And The Media Lap Dogs

Being right the first time nothing new to Kucinich

I would not have any regret at all if Dennis Kucinich by some unforeseen political miracle ended up winning the White House.

In the recent Las Vegas Debate I was struck by this question and answer of Dennis Kucinich shown in this video below. Dennis is the closest thing to a real Democrat seeking the presidency. He the kind of Democrat I remember from the presidential elections of my youth. Why isn't Kucinich doing better given his outstanding record on core issue Democratic Party philosophy? He most always projects a authentic demeanor of integrity, character and fearlessness.

The litany of his postitions on the key issues of the day and the fact that history has pretty much vindicated his original position on each of them is uncanny when compared to the other 2008 candidates.

Out of fear of losing a more conservative voter has the Democratic Party moved so far to the center right on the political spectrum that it has made it impossible for a candidate like Kucinich to win.

Has the Democrat Party simply become a waffling, flip flopping, triangulating, Clintontonian style shadow of it's once proud self as the political party of working class America and the protector of the weak who are being abused by powerful interest? Well just watch the video.

Psycho-Babbling Rightwing Bozos From Hell

Great article in NYT by Frank Rich on a number of skeletons in the closet of Rudy Giuliani that are not widely covered by national media. Including Bernard Kerik Judith Regan, ties to the Government of Qatar and to the manufacturer of OxyContin. One interesting aspect of the story is that Giuliani had his official papers suspiciously copied and archived and then returned to the New York City archives. All without anyway to verify if the records really made it back unaltered or fully intact.

"after Mr. Giuliani left office, his mayoral papers were temporarily transferred to a private, tax-exempt foundation run by his supporters and financed with $1.5 million from mostly undisclosed donors. The foundation, which shares the same address as Giuliani Partners, copied and archived the records before sending them back to New York’s municipal archives. Historians told The (Chicago) Tribune there’s no way to verify that the papers were returned to government custody intact. Mayor Bloomberg has since signed a law that will prevent this unprecedented deal from being repeated."

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Hillary Didn’t Win The Las Vegas Debate I Watched

So Hillary won the Las Vegas debate eh? If so I must have been watching some mysterious Martian invader based broadcast rerun from outer space. It’s Hillary strikes back! Hillary shows the boys whose boss or Hillary in an asbestos pantsuit crapola spreader spin masters at work.

It amazes me how much the voters are willing to suspend belief in what ones senses or what their experience is telling them if Wolf “get a little closer to the razor please” Blitzer, Campbell “Ditzy” Brown or Chris "Twitty" Matthews infers that it is really so.

The mainstream media types spin the outcome of these debates whatever way they decide, based on whatever half-baked quotient their diamonds or pearls type question coated candy-ass mentalities apparently can come up with.

Problem is most voters who either haven’t watched the debate or are most often impressed by the last person they talked to believe what’s being served up from the Ministry of Truth mainstream media like CNN or worse yet FOX News. Everyone is so disengaged and apathetic with their intuitions in shut down mode. Which, of course, is a part of their psyche that exists in theory only for many of them.

Hillary was the same old and tired “lets have a stupid dangling conversation” candidate she as always been. Really saying nothing and speaking in platitudes that she and husband Bill have perfected down to perfect little sound bites for inserting in your nightly news hour. She’s either being superficial or waffling or subliminally suggesting it's her turn to be president.

Her new tactic, after receiving a supposed pounding in the last debate, was to turn up the volume and blame others for mud slinging or using the Republican play book when she was actually confronted about her being a corporate Democrat or perhaps tied to out of date political thinking or she was actually asked a question requiring more then a retoric filled bullshit answer.

Meanwhile the day after the debate “Twitty” over and MSNBC Hardball and the rest of the lackey networks had joined in on the CNN Mantra about how Hillary showed the boys whose boss and how she’s back on top. Continuing the news narrative of loving her one day hating her the next. Or that her being a woman shouldn’t be a issue, but then having the roundtable panel discuss it for most of the hour. It ends up being all superficial and meaningless. Because her real qualifications and those of the other candidates are not discussed.

The media seems to completely forget about the lower echelon candidates. Most provided strong performances at the Las Vegas debate. Joe Biden and Bill Richardson both certainly held their own during the debate even though they did not receive equal time from the moderators who apparently base the distribution of questions on the amount of money the candidate has been able to raise to date or who they determine is important based on some unknown influences from the powers to be at CNN.

Then there’s poor Dennis Kucinich, who in a perfect world would make one hell of a President. Always seems to hold the right position on the issues of the day. Was right on the war, NAFTA, impeaching certain government officials, supporting the working class or healthcare, you name it. But they just want to talk about how young and good looking his wife is or use him for a punchline in a joke.

It could certainly be argued that Biden probably won the debate based on his tendency toward a plain speaking style and his knowledge and experience when talking about current issues. Plus he comes across as likeable and funny. Richardson, although always a bit frumpy and clumsy in his delivery, demonstrated a wealth of experience and grasp of the issues of the day. He is also very down to earth and real. Something Hillary has never appeared to be to me whenever I’ve watched her. Barak Obama is the lilting voice of the new generation of leadership. Idealistic and sincere but as yet unable to smoothly deliver his ideas in this type of debate format which favors short and superficial sound bites and an infotaining style of answer.

Ever time Obama started to explain a position in depth, which is his style, Blitzer would start to interrupt him unnecessarily even though a question of the nature asked him deserved more time to answer. CNN isn't interested in real answers to the questions. It's all just for entertainment value content filling anyway. A good example being the attempted Hillary directed softball family fun question about whether she perfers diamonds or pearls.

The world is going down the shit hole and the best CNN can do is this stupid sexist shit for brains question fed to us by some unwitting student questioner they've turned into their robot.

So I for one have been taught to make up my own minded and it definitely tells me that Hillary did not win this debate. All this and my experiences have led me to have a basic mistrust of news anchors and their corporate controlled networks. Most of them miserably compromised or just plain lacking in true life experiences or apparent knowledge of the subjects they cover to do much other then sound articulate or look pretty.

The Rest Of The World Prefers Obama Be The Next President

Roger Cohen in the English version of the German Online Magazine Der Spiegel makes the case that the rest of the world appears to want Barak Obama to be the next US President.

Us Jesus Folk Like A Good Hanging

As if we needed anymore proof that the "what would Jesus do" folks, who run this country, have lost the ship of state's moral compass. The United States has joined with Iran, Botswana, Saudi Arabia, China, and the other morally despotic nations of the world to oppose a UN resolution that would outlaw the death penalty.

Who's The Best Bullshitter Most Important Issue for 2008 Voters

Our friends at the Onion News Network cut through the crap in their video report and get right to the point. What voters really have to decide is who among the vast array of presidential hopefuls in really the best bullshitter. It's hard to determine who really on top since all the candidates are usually at the top of their game when it comes to the subtle art of the subliminal message.

How The Hell Can Tim Eyman Still Get An Initiative Passed In This Place

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Liberals wring their hands over election setbacks and spend countless hours trying to figure out what's wrong with the system...

But through all the professional level bitching and complaining liberals and other lazy lefties must take the blame for failing to turn up at the polls to vote! It's not that difficult to figure out I'd argue.

My type of thinking apparently frustrates the spacy yoga mat toting love children who are always looking for the deeper meaning for everything or a excuse for their lack of a basic understanding or how the freaking system works.

It's not unusual for less then half of registered voters in America to actually cast a ballot in any given election. That's if your lucky. Let's say that you could get 70 to 80 percent of voters out for every election. It's my contention there would be a wholesale change in the political landscape. The widespread liberal political delusion that we need some sort of a revolution to really change things would finally be debunked.

"The revolution we need is in the thinking that somehow your vote isn't worth something or lacks importance. Wake up, you nitwits this is a democracy not a feudal state or monarchy."

Often they can be heard counseling one another on why they feel so powerless with only their single vote to cast or how confusing it is to figure out what the fuck is going on with this initiative or that. It can be oh so overwhelming they say. Plus their so fucking busy all the time runing here and there spending their precious time extending their home equity lines of credit. Well have you every considered that it may be your one paramount duty as a citizen to cast your damn vote at election time. I contend that this is the MAIN reason that all these brave souls have been dying for their country all these years. Not so you can be free to go to the mall and endlessly shop like you think.

You can owe this type of thinking in part to why we also have President Asshole in office for the last 7 years. Apparently they don't teach this shit in the American Public school system.

Above I offer a mock graphic I created for those who went to public school and think America is a Monarchy and/or if you usually need a graphic to understand what's going on.

Veterans Day Photos

On Monday a friend and I decided to take a drive to visit the grave of her dad. A veteran buried in the Veterans Home Cemetary near Retsil, WA. It was a stormy and windy day adding a sullen ambiance to the place. She didn't know exactly where the grave marker was at first.

We found ourselves going from one section of the place reading each name on each marker, one by one. This turned out to be interesting and profound search. Veterans from most all of America's wars, including our Civil War, lay here at rest. Finally we found her dad's marker and she placed a single rose at the grave.

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Watch New 2 Minute Video On The Fight For Better Media

In line with the feelings of a large part of the turnout last night in Seattle for the FCC panel. The people at Free Press offer us a video about the state of media consolidation in America and what you can do to stop it. Click here for a link where you can tell your congressperson how you feel and support current ledgislation opposing colsolidation.

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Norman Mailer Talks About Iraq And Neo Conservatives

The great American author and feisty iconoclast speaks about Iraq, neo-conservatism and fascists in video segment from June 2007.

Psycho-Babbling Intellectualizing Self-Aggrandizing Liberal Wonks Theorists And Environmental Hair-Splitters Holdup Public Transportation

Northwest Liberals Shoot Themselves In the Foot And Help Stop Real Public Transportation Improvements Again With Defeat of Roads and Transit Prop. 1

At the end of the Soviet era in Russia, just after the Berlin wall fell, I remember seeing a news photo of a protester in Moscow carrying a sign on which he had written “90 years and the road to nowhere” in English referring of course to the failure and downfall of the then Soviet system.

Funny or not that’s exactly how I felt today when I awoke to find that the Roads and Transit package had failed. I'm not into making politically correct or nice here or going on about how ALL of us should start pulling together to work for a BETTER plan sometime in the fucking future for our yet unborn children. Or lookng at any more polls or surveys or listening to endless carbon score brain pounding self serving rhetoric.

I’m just sick of it, and I know there are many citizens out HERE just like me. PISSED! Unfortunately, it appears, that lots of them forgot to vote yesterday. Well welcome to fucking modern day America. Lazy retards. The jist being if we could get 90% to the polls most of these lame ass political types would be part of yesterday's news. No revolution even necessary my fellow baby boomers. But I rather live in the delusion that somehow my one little vote isn't really going to change things. Carl Rove and some of the fascists that run this county now would be happy knowing you think like that.

But that’s not the point I'd like to make now. I think there are many in the political left and some Democrat and liberal leaders who should have the blame for the defeat of Prop 1 laid directly on their doorstep. So they can step in it like a piece of burning newpaper full of dog shit left there by a Halloween prankster.

I’m sick of the, now all to familiar. hair-splitting babble and self-aggrandizing posing that invariability emanates predominately from the left side of the political spectrum every time a worthwhile plan for improving transit, or for that matter any capitol improvement over $1000, is placed on the ballot.

With friends like this on the left who needs the expected don't tax me ever enemies of projects that are always going to come from the right.

You’d think these lefties would COMPROMISE and support the long sought after systemic solution to the public transportation problems that are threatening to overwhelm this area. May even create a few long-term union wage jobs. Oh I forgot you probably don’t really know what that is do you…since in your minds your all apparently a bunch of upwardly mobile young nitwits. It's my postition that anything that was wrong with the package could of been tweaked later if necessary. With these type of mega projects as in life it is important that you are always ready to "put your cash on the barrel head son"!

The ringing of hands, the concern for the children, the mostly BS regurgitated self important bonking of anything that THEY conceive is not meeting their personal image of utopian perfection, or worse yet may displace hapless homeless from sleeping under the viaduct. Oh, the gnashing of teeth, the sanctimonious outcry as protectors of the moral high ground in the name of the working man and woman. Talk talk, fucking talk.

All unadulterated bullshit! But more than guaranteed to stop any long overdue or meaningful mega civic improvement project dead in its tracks.

Yes I’m talking about Ron Sims and the “it's more important to be considered hip even though your really not” crowd at the Stranger and the over caffeinated hair splitting crowd at the Sierra Club. Well you cheapskate and/or brainiacs didn’t do me any favors by saving me from the ROADS part of the package or by testing your whack job theories that my grandkids will probably be morally or environmentally damaged if we actually voted to approve a roads and transit package.

We can all thanks you folks for fucking up the hope of getting light rail here till at least the turn of the next century. We should have had it 30 years ago. Hello, out there were running behind schedule. Your pulling a Democrat Congress act on us here. Everybody look up INDECISIVE in the damn dictionary.

It must come from too many of you being raised vicariously by Dr. Spock. Negotiate with your kids while their setting the house on fire. "Now Billy put down that stick of dynamite or your going to force me to make you have a time fucking out"!

Why doesn’t this constipation of the political system seem to affect transit projects in Portland or even Tacoma or inumerable other WORLD CLASS cities? Because their not overrun by a bunch of half-backed bozos who’d rather talk endlessly about SHIT then actually build a fucking public transportation system even if it means it not going to be perfect or cost a shit load of money. Hey it going to cost a shitload more money later.

Goddamn the part of the political process here that requires that we intellectualize and gum to death every freaking major capitol improvement project. Screw the lack of political leadership that is unable to stake their personal political capitol on the line to support expensive projects for the long term good of the community. Instead of hiding under their desks somewhere only concerned with their next election. Speaking from both sides of their mouths most of the time. I vote for people I want to make big decisions. Not whine and go hide every time their ask to stick their necks out. If they don't do what you like I vote for someone else.

Here we just keep electing the same ineffective assholes over and over on the recommendation of some rag newspaper or some self engrossed blogger.

Thanks again to all the weakling politicians, posturing pundits and blogger wind bags out there who we can thank for more gridlock and the defeat of a ballot measure that would of certainly jump started the oh so long overdue creation of something resembling a public transportation system here.

You all SUCK!

p.s. It takes one posturing wind bag to know another.

My Vote For Best Poltitical Commercial Ever Made

Must see to believe! Here's my vote for best campaign commercial ever made . It was made last year in Rockingham County, North Carolina for a seat on the Board of Education. The Jedi didn't win, but he did get 4,648 votes from people who obviously know what the hell is up with politics. May the force be with this man. Courtesy of Geekologie

Campy Calendar Sure To Be Hit With Burlesque And Pin Up Afficionados

The Lovely Mistresses of George W. Bush



My daughter' s friend in New York Burke Heffner, who is a phenomenal East Coast photographer and conceptual artist, has come up with this fine idea for the Holiday gift giving. Part of the proceeds will even go to lefty watchdog organizations:

The Lovely Mistresses of George W. Bush is a classically styled, 13 month pin-up calendar ending on January 20th, 2009, the final day of George W. Bush's presidency. Packed with jaw dropping all-original images by Burke Heffner, The Lovely Mistresses features some of America's hottest burlesque stars and pin-up girls.

Every stunning girl is a hilarious reveal of the corporations, special interest groups and billionaires who have influenced George the most. Each pin-up includes her vital statistics, important dates and a farewell love letter to the president.

A one-of-a-kind gift, this commemorative masterpiece is sexy, witty, and work safe.

The Lovely Mistresses hangs 12" wide and 24" tall, in luscious color. Printed on partially post-consumer recycled paper, with soy based inks and biodegradable coatings.

A Look At Hillary's Qualifications Comics

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The Heckuva Job GOP Rewarding Incompetence

Conservative core philosophy exposes a distrust and dislike for all government institutions and the belief, based on such thinking, that government if allowed to will fail or interfere with individual freedom. Every man or women for yourself it goes.

Liberal philosophy says government can help and assist people by using government programs to assist in making life better.

The modern neocon Republicans movements have especially espoused this belief in anti government or limiting government with promises to dismantle government if elected. The so called Republican revolution of the early 1990's use it as one of it major thrusts. In it most basic form the message says that government is always bad for you.

Paradoxically, once the Republicans gained power, and had to run the government they became what they dreaded the most the government. Their hate of government has subsequently made it nearly impossible for them to govern and has unarguably led to widespread incompetence at all levels when it came to providing the most basic services and citizen protections.

The response to hurricane Katrina, Heckuva Job Brownie and Iraq are the poster children of such systemic incompetence. But, as we all know, this is only a small tip of the iceberg given the almost daily revelations of scandal and malfeasance only now being revealed.

What is especially frustrating is how ineffective and incompetent officials, while really like rats leaving a sinking ship are presented as being successful when all the facts point to complete failure. I give you Karen Hughes as the latest example. I'm sure we will soon see her being honored with the medal of freedom.

Happy Days Are Here Again

How did I miss this.....

World War III News Comics

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Broken Arm-Ageddon Wingnut End Times News

Iraq Mosul Dam failure of biblical proportions could kill up to 500,000 says Army Corp of Engineers. Better get " Hell of a Job Brownie" on it.

Is drug treatment a waste of time? Some in UK question overall success of government funded treatment programs. Often treatment programs only detox participants for short periods of time only to have them relapse soon after release. Do substance abuser have to realize that they are hopeless cases before they will make real effort to stop?

Supreme Court to decide whether lethal injection is "cruel and unusual punishment.

Cross dressing La Center, WA legislator has sex with man he met at erotic boutique still claims he's not gay. Wonder what they think down at the local coffee shop?

Rightwing Bozos From Hell Comics

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Artistdogboy Trip To Catalan Region Of Spain Comics

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Invasion Of The Self-Centered Weird Satanic Sickos

Who the heck killed Laura Palmer? North Bend can rejoice along with the Log Lady because of the release of the Twin Peaks Definitive Gold Box Edition 10 DVD Set. Celebrate by stopping by the T-Mar cafe for a damn good cup of coffee and piece of cherry pie.

A Rough Day For Ferries Riders During Storm

Last weeks wind storm made it a rough ride on the Mukilteo Clinton ferry run

Artistdogboy Does Dallas Comics

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Enough Of This Empty-Headed Narcissistic Music There's A War To Stop!

To me it seems there aren't enough young mainstream popular song writers today who write about the pride and hope of the working class struggle. No music to inspire youth to take to the streets except maybe to shop at the mall. No hits that sing about the anger or outrage at our current political institutions or THE WAR. Just this corporately produced and marketed big bowl of warm narcissistic bullshit. We need another young Dylan or Guthrie now more then ever it seems. Here's some Springsteen that should help to soothe those of you who agree.

Just In Case You Missed It

French volcanic clay with miraculous healing properties may prove highly effective against super bug MRSA. Oh my god, we have lots of volcanic clay around here don't we?

40-year-old non-English speaking Polish immigrant coming to Canada to join mother dies after being tasered by Vancouver airport police

Gerald Ford thought Bill Clinton had a sex addiction. Wanted him to go to Betty Ford type sex addiction rehab

D.C. Man claims he had gay sex with "I'm not gay" Larry Craig

Catholic Church Offended by Children's Musical

Psycho-Babbling Pill Popping Closeted Gay Republicans On Deathwatch

Oh shit! Bill Gates maybe the Antichrist according to Rapture Ready the end times website. Thank god I own a Mac.

Number One Video On YouTube Calls For Widespread College War Protest

Will any of us make it out of here alive? With the seemingly inertness of Democrat leadership in congress to even consider impeaching Bush or Cheney or both. Or their inability to block further funding of the war in Iraq. Widespread protest seems the only alternative available to save America and to end the madness by awakening our asleep the wheel political leadership.

Crooks and Liars Davis Fleetwood’s video calling for college protest against the war was number one for ALL of YouTube this week, and with over 1.9 million views, is the number one politics video for the month.

Preview Of Upcoming PBS Frontline Program "Extraordinary Rendition"

How The CIA Used Black Sites And Torture In The Name Of The War On Terror. Series begins November 6th...

Incoherent American Foreign Policy Out of Control Under Bush Cheney And Rice

I've attempted to compile a list of the major areas of world instability.

• Iraq War drags on with no end in sight

• Iran US threatens World War III if Iranians don't do as Cheney says in saber rattling speaches
  
• Afghanistan Fragile government under renewed attacks by Taliban
• Pakistan Butto assassination attempt hinders hope of return to democracy and containing Al Qaeda
  
• Israel all parties at least agree that they expect peace talks to fail
  
• Russia US insistence on missile defense system block diplomatic progress and influence over Putin's centralization of power
  
• Syria US has little influence over rogue state due to isolation policy resulting in lack of any meaningful diplomatic exchange
  
• Britain seeking way to distance itself from Bush's Iraq war policies
  
• European Union baffled by lack of coherent American foreign policy
  
• China Asian giant owns America
  
• Myanmar Distracted America apparently can do little to stop drug running and brutal Burmese junta
  
• Cuba Bush offers no new approach to Cuba even as end of Castro era nears
  
• Turkey America ready to bomb Kurdish rebels in widening war in Iraq
  
• Canada Uncomfortable with treatment of it's citizens by US in name of war on terror and dislike of cowboy policies
  
• Mexico US offers billions to Mexico for war on drugs instead of addressing the demand side in US while open borders problem continues after leadership unable to deliver coherent long term immigration policy
  
• South America radical influence of Hugo Chaves in Venezuela and others grows as he joins with Iranians and threatens to support them and impose sanctions on oil and goods if US attacks
• North Korea Bush claims success limiting nuclear arms but evidence exists that Korea help Syria with clandestine program
  
• Darfur Peace talks fail as US can do little militarily with army stretched to breaking point

Manny Ramirez Fest Destiny

The Boston Red Sox slapped the Colorado Rockies around like a red headed stepchild in game one of the 2007 World Series at Fenway Park in Boston winning handily by a score of 13 to 1. On air prognosticators speculated ad-nauseam before and after the game whether a long lay off between games for the Rockies affected the rocky mountain high of the National League representatives going into the series.

I think the real reason the Rockies lost is because the National League just plain sucks.

Repressed Parents Go After MacDonald's Barbie Doll Promotion As Sexual Stereotyping And Objectification Of Double Whopper With Bacon And Cheeze

Saying I want a Big Mac may literally constitute selling sex in the eyes of The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC). Today the CCFC called on MacDonald's to drop the My Scene Barbie Doll Promotion in fear it may lead to their sons and daughters eventually becoming fat junk food eating over-sexed sluts.

Protester Confronts Condi Puts Her On Notice That Most Likely She's A War Criminal

Code Pink went fake blood Red in somewhat effective political theater in nation's capitol. Video of incident available via Raw Story. Meanwhile Michelle Malkin loses mind. In surprise, Code pink supporters claims cops overreacted.

Flexcar Announces New Rates After Bid To Avoid Rental Car Tax Fails

Dear Daniel,

As you may know, Flexcar has been working with the Department of Revenue to address the application of the State and County rental-car tax to Flexcar members. While we made important progress in educating the Department of Revenue on why car-sharing is different from traditional car rental, we were unable to reach a definitive resolution. The Department determined that it could not exempt car-sharing from the rental-car tax without legislative authority.

Consequently, the Department of Revenue has informed us that we must now begin to collect the rental-car tax effective November 1, 2007. As a result, you will see those taxes reflected in our invoices beginning with any November Flexcar charges. For trips using Flexcars in King County (Seattle, Bellevue, or Kirkland), the rental-car tax will be 9.7%. Use of Flexcar vehicles in Vancouver, WA, will be subject to a rental-car tax of 5.9%.

We are disappointed that we were not able to fully resolve the issue with the Department of Revenue. While we were unable to achieve an administrative fix to this issue, we are already working with the Department and members of the Legislature on a legislative solution and are optimistic about a favorable outcome. We will keep you informed on the progress of our efforts.

Thank you for your continued support.

Regards,

Jamie Cheney
General Manager
Flexcar Seattle

Best Sex Ever New Thailand Sex Sting

A Thai buffalo racer competes in an annual water buffalo race in Chonburi Province, south of Bangkok. The annual race is held as a celebration among rice farmers before the rice harvest. Photograph: Sakchai Lalit/AP

Rehab Round-Up

Pete Doherty released from drug treatment says he's drug free wants Kate Moss back

Lohan so dry she a fire hazard and planning to host new year's club bash in Las Vegas

NYC Preppy Killer's cry for help

Daily Star says Britney Spears is really a two headed alien baby with a drinking problem

Really pretty NYC model actually is guy who had sex with cross dressing millionare who wanted her to call him Janice. They blame drug use for anomalies.

Short Attention Span

Oakland teacher says American kids getting dumber and dumber

Island of trash larger than Texas floats in Pacific Ocean

Federal Way cop stops man with grenade on way to blow up federal building. FBI claims it knows nothing about it.

Flower shaped urinals for people who probably also would like Georgia O'Keefe

James Lipton admits he once was a pimp while living in Paris

Demon Possessed Drugged Up Pussy Whippers

Granny Drives Wheelchair onto Autobahn

Kid Rock Drinks too much

At Benefit, Imus and Son Flip Reporters the Bird in chip off the old block demonstration

Binge drinking Amy Winehouse doesn't like the way she looks supposedly

Beserk drunk elephants tear up nightclub then attend tailgate party before Seahawks game

Why They Probably Hate You

Actress Helen Mirren hates newborn babes

Yuppie Ferrari Segway gadget envy

Apparent New York designer bling baby backlash

Things liberals need to know. How Much Piss Can You Drink Without Getting Sick?

The Week In US Government Corruption And Incompetence

Must read story by NYT Frank Rich on how the suicide of second highest ranking Air Force procurement officer relates to the untold billions stolen already by corrupt officials connected to the Iraq war. Or as one US Senator discribed it, “the most significant defense procurement mismanagement in contemporary history.”

Deposed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may face prosecution says Fired US Attorney for Western Washington John McKay.

Government tries to explain how Nuclear Weapons mistakingly flown across country without anyone knowing

Just how stupid is Duke Cunningham?

Magistrate pushes for White House email archive

Dems Will Be Unable to Change Course Of War Until 2008

I'm convinced that most Americans don't have a good grasp of how the US Congress works. Frustration grows among antiwar activists, rank and file Democrats and independents who voted for Democrats in the 2006 elections. Anger with the inability of the party to bring about the US military withdrawal from Iraq grows.

The problem apparently lies in the general lack of proper civics classes in American schools. Few men or women in the street understanding the predicament Democrat Senate Leader Reid and House Speaker Pelosi face when they are forced to work with ineffective majorities in both houses of Congress.

I want to throw up ever time I hear someone refer to how badly the congress is doing in public opinion polls. Something like 11% think the Congress is doing a good job. It's become an effective Republican talking point. It sells well with the masses but reflects the aforementioned lack of understanding of the internal workings of the US Congress that has led to the perception out there that the Democrats are obstructionist and ineffective. Even old time democratic loyalist are starting to believe the spin.

As frustrating as it may seem the Democrats simply lack the votes to pass the necessary legislation to stop the war or any other legislation that is strongly opposed by the right.

With a 51-49 split in the Senate and Loopy Senator Lieberman and Dick Cheney controlling the balance or power you should begin to get the picture. The often referenced 60 vote majority is considered to be bullet proof in the Senate. The house is split 233-202 in favor of the Democrats.

It may start to sink in with Cindy Sheehan, the Code Pink crowd and the rest of us eventually. Metaphorically speaking I hope its before we end up eat our young.

Heck, the Democrat leadership couldn't even muster the needed votes in the House to override the veto by the child hating President of the widely popular bi-partisan publicly popular Children's Medical Health Plan.

Much of the constipation is due to the continuing Republican ability to maintain voting discipline among it's minority party members on important policy and ideologically based legislation. The democrats certainly cannot claim the same discipline within its caucus, especially in the House. Often Democrats from conservative districts find themselves voting with the Republicans when the issue reflects the make up and desires of their right leaning constituents.Saving the possibility of some sort of totally unforeseen major political catastrophe or other event bringing about a sea change in Republicans Congressional thinking the Democrats power will remain limited.

Those that really want to see fundamental change in this country must begin to work to elect effective majorities in both house of Congress and a Democratic President in 2008.

Democrats do control the committee, subpoena and rules processes. They have made excellent progress in returning Congress to it role as a investigative watchdog. But passing contentious legislation is another matter entirely.

Some would argue the Democrats should just refuse to consider any war funding legislation. This could backfire because many conservative democrats would bolt. Most Democrats now fear that such a ploy would be perceived as not supporting the troops in the field and unless party discipline remained extremely strong the effort would most likely fail anyway given the makeup and current party head counts.

Walter Shapiro's extensive article at Solon.com puts forth the idea that real change will not come until the Democrats can take power in the 2008 elections. He argues that this should be the focus of those seeking fundamental changes.

"That is why angry antiwar activists should realize that their targets are no longer skittish congressional Democrats and Beltway insiders who are their counselors in caution. This is not the moment for guerrilla theater and mau-mauing the moderates. For the true struggle on the home front to end the Iraq war is no longer going to be waged in the chambers of Congress. The coming battleground instead is the familiar terrain of Ohio and Florida -- and the hearts and minds of the swing voters who will decide the 2008 election."

The Rebel

I offer a Poem entitled The Rebel by Patrick Pearse a hero, architect and instigator of the Irish uprising of Easter week 1916. Pearse was executed by a British firing squad on May 4th, 1916. The uprising he started eventually led to the creation of the modern independent Irish state.

I am come of the seed of the people, the people that sorrow,
That have no treasure but hope, No riches laid up but a memory Of an Ancient glory.

My mother bore me in bondage, in bondage my mother was born,

I am of the blood of serfs;

The children with whom I have played, the men and women with whom I have eaten, Have had masters over them, have been under the lash of masters, And, though gentle, have served churls;

The hands that have touched mine, the dear hands whose touch is familiar to me, Have worn shameful manacles, have been bitten at the wrist by manacles, Have grown hard with the manacles and the task-work of strangers,

I am flesh of the flesh of these lowly; I am bone of their bone,
I that have never submitted;

I that have a soul greater than the souls of my people's masters, I that have vision and prophecy and the gift of fiery speech, I that have spoken with God on the top of His holy hill.

And because I am of the people, I understand the people,
I am sorrowful with their sorrow, I am hungry with their desire:

My heart has been heavy with the grief of mothers,
My eyes have been wet with the tears of children,
I have yearned with old wistful men, And laughed or cursed with young men;

Their shame is my shame, and I have reddened for it,
Reddened for that they have served, they who should be free, Reddened for that they have gone in want, while others have been full, Reddened for that they have walked in fear of lawyers and of their jailers, With their writs of summons and their handcuffs, Men mean and cruel!

I could have borne stripes on my body rather than this shame of my people.

And now I speak, being full of vision;

I speak to my people, and I speak in my people's name to the masters of my people.

I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august, despite their chains, That they are greater than those that hold them, and stronger and purer, That they have but need of courage, and to call on the name of their God, God the unforgetting, the dear God that loves the peoples for whom He died naked, suffering shame.

And I say to my people's masters: Beware,
Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people, Who shall take what ye would not give.

Did ye think to conquer the people, Or that Law is stronger than life and than men's desire to be free?

We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held,
Ye that have bullied and bribed, tyrants, hypocrites, liars!

This Machine Kills Fascists

Sick of war and sick of the masters of war.....

SCHIP OVERRIDE VOTE FAILS

BREAKING: Bush’s SCHIP veto holds

Another Reality Check For Neurotic American Pet Owners and Helen DeGeneres

Cesar Millan author of The Dog Wisperer tells pet owners that "dogs are not humans"

It's not the dogs, it's the people

Spoiling your dog rotten

Rich and pampered New York City dogs

When is too much love bad for your dog

Cry me a river or is Ellen Degeneres pet separation frenzy anxiety real

American priorities: children without medical care, wars, starvation, disease, global warming, plague and Iggy

Seattle Baseball's Cleveland Indian World Series Championship Connection

I was watching the American League Championship Series between the Red Sox and Cleveland Indians Tuesday night on the FOX channel. The Tribe won the game 7 to 3 to go up 3 games to 1 in the best of seven series. Cleveland now is just one win away from clinching the right to play in the 2007 World Series.

Joe Buck, the annoying FOX play by play guy who talks way to much about stuff that isn’t happening on the field when he calls the games, happens to mention that the Indians last World Series title was in 1948. Nearly sixty years ago.

So “State the obvious” Buck and Tim Mc Carver, the Cardinal ex catcher, who does the color commentary, are both driving me nuts. Mc Carver keeps saying things like “that’s a good hit” when someone gets a hit. I have to ask myself what constitutes a bad hit Tim? Buck just talks too damn much period. He talking about stuff the likes of A-Rod’s (New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez) divorce proceedings while Boston is hitting its third consecutive home run in their half of the sixth inning. He’s often never centers in on what’s going on in the present time during the game.

Yap, Yap, Yap. We can see the game on TV Joe; so just shut the hell up once in a while so we can pick up on the subtleties of the game for crying out loud. Well it is the FOX Network so I guess that explains it. FOX sports broadcast have that sort of video game simulated production value to them aimed directly at 20 to 30 something males in puberty. Lots of graphics, sound effects, T&A and live game interrupting tape delayed dugout interviews with the managers that are always dumb and where the managers seem bothered but are forced to make small talk and state the obvious.

But to get back to what Joe Buck said about the last Cleveland Indians World Series Championship being in 1948. It made me think about an old family friend and a weird Northwest connection to the Indian’s passed successes and a possible World Series Championship this year.

It’s a story about a Seattle raised major league ballplayer by the name of John Jeffrey Heath. "Jeff" Heath was born April 1st 1915 at Fort William, Ontario Canada and eventually migrated to Seattle with his family and graduated from Garfield High in 1934. He was an all around star athlete 6 feet tall and weighing in at around 200lb in his prime. He broke into the big leagues with the Cleveland Indians in 1936. He played for the Indians, Washington Senators, St Louis Browns, and finally the old National League Boston Braves while in the majors. His last year in the majors was 1949 as a Boston Brave.

I met Heath in the late sixties when I was this full blown hippie who happened to like baseball and about twenty years after he had retired from baseball in 1950 after a truly remarkable major league career. He was a dear friend of my step dad John Francis Buckley at that time. They met as young men and had known each other by reputation during high school and during Heath’s budding major league career and later in their extensive travels in Seattle Baseball circles. My step dad was a star baseball player for O’Dea during high school in the forties. He was a bona fide major league prospect in his own right until a severely broken leg caused by a outfield collision while trying to catch a fly ball pretty much ended his dreams. I don’t think he every really got over it. But this story is mainly suppose to be about Heath.

Jeff Heath was a pure slugger and mainly a left fielder during the dead ball era of baseball. I remember Jeff as an extremely playful gregarious sort of fellow. He had a great sense of humor a big laugh and loved practical jokes. Sure, some say he could be temperamental at times but he was mainly a carefree Seattle sports celebrity to me. He also liked to bend his elbow a little as did my step dad and they often could be found making stops at a number of popular sports crowd watering holes around town. They’d end up at my folks place on Queen Anne Hill and if I happened to be there I’d hang around when they were there just to pick up on the funny stories and imitations of Babe Ruth eating a hotdog or running the bases Heath would do when he was feeling his oats. Plus it was absolutely fascinating to talk about baseball with the man if given the chance. God he actually knew the Babe.

He once showed me his enormous scrapbook when I dropped by his house one day that was literally shaped like a giant baseball and chucked full of clippings and photos of him alongside all the great players of that era including Ted Williams, Warren Spann, Stan “the man” Musial, Bob Lemon, Bob Feller, Bill Veech (the GM), Johnny Sain, Al Dark, and Lou Boudreau to name only a few. I was flabbergasted as it all sank in and I realized what an amazing baseball player he really had been in his day.

Over his 14-year career Heath had a batting average of .293. He appeared in 1383 games had 103 triples and 194 home runs. He made two all-star game appearances in 1941 and 1943 as an Indian. He was the runner up to the Red Sox legend Jimmy Fox for the batting title in 1938 and led the league in triples that year and in 1941. He averaged 104 RBI per season during his career. One remarkable stat he will forever own is being the FIRST major league player to hit at least one home run in every existing National League park and every American League Park, a feat completed in 1948 while playing for the NL Braves.

There's a story about Heath causing a near riot at Wrigley Field in Chicago during a game in 1948 between the Braves and Cubs. Seems he lost a ball in the famous ivy covered walls of Wrigley Field, it turns out it was really at his feet. The umpire rules the hit a double instead of a in the park homer for the Cubs. Fans go nuts and shower the field with debris causing a twenty minute delay and eventual police intervention to control the Cubs bleacher bums.

Heath played in 115 games as a Boston Braves in 1948 and the team went on to clinched the National League Pennant with a 3 to 2 win over the New York Giants on September 26th, 1948 with six games remaining in the season. Jeff ended up hitting .319 for the year with 20 homers.

It must have been a thrill for him to think he could soon be facing the eventual American League Champion Indians in the upcoming World Series. A team he broke in with in 1936 and for whom he played for 10 seasons. At the age of 33 Heath was in the twilight of his career and he’d finally be playing in a World Series in just a few days. But fate was to dictate a different outcome and Heath would never get the chance to play in a World Series.

On September 29th 1948 just two days before the end of the regular season in a meaningless game against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Brooklyn Heath snaps a bone 2 inches above his ankle while sliding home in a game eventually won by the Braves 4 to 3. It’s Brave pitcher Johnny Sain’s 23rd victory of the year.

Heath’s season, his destiny to finally play in a World Series, and career would effectively be finished that day.

When the news reached Fenway Park in Boston of the season ending injury to Heath the Red Sox will find themselves embroiled in a game against the Washington Senators and the ongoing American League pennant race with the Indians. Red Sox fans cheered because Heath had previously said in a radio interview he rather face the Indians in the World Series instead of the cross town Red Sox because Municipal Stadium in Cleveland could hold more fans and it would mean a bigger World Series money split for the players. The American League Red Sox would eventually lose a one game playoff to the Indians and a trip to the 1948 World Series.

The National League Champion Boston Braves went on to face the Cleveland Indians in the 1948 World Series. Cleveland won World Series Championship in six games, a fact that long-winded Joe Buck was trying to point out last night on TV.

Heath returned to the Braves in 1949 but because of the effects of the injury to his ankle the previous season he played in only 36 games in 1949 and would never achieve the level of play he had enjoyed in previous years. He was release by the Braves on October 13th 1949. He played briefly for the Seattle Rainier’s in 1950 and then retired from professional baseball. Jeff died on December 9, 1975 after suffering a heart attack at his home on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle he was 60 years old.

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