Coffee and Grilled Cheese

Presidential Rag
-Arlo Guthrie

You said you didn’t know,
that the cats with the bugs were there,
and you never go along with that kind of stuff no where,
but that just isn’t the point man,
that’s the wrong wrong way to go,
if you didn’t know about that one, well then what else don’t you know

You said that you were lied to,
well that ain’t hard to see,
but you must have been fooled again by your friends across the sea,
and maybe you were fooled again by your people here at home,
because nobody could talk like you,
and know what’s going on

Nobody elected your family,
and we didn’t elect your friends,
no one voted for your advisors,
and nobody wants amends,
You’re the one we voted for, so you must take the blame,
For handing out authority to men who are insane

You say its all fixed up now, you’ve got new guys on the line,
but you had better remember this while you still got the time,
Mothers still are weeping for their boys that went to war,
father still are asking what the whole damn thing was for,
and People still are hungry and people still are poor,
An honest week of work these days don’t feed the kids no more,
Schools are still like prisons,
cuz we don’t learn how to live,
and everybody wants to take, nobody wants to give

Yes you will be remembered, be remembered very well,
and if I live a long life, all the stories I could tell,
Of men who are in poverty of sickness and of grief,
hell yes, you will be remembered,
be remembered very well

You said you didn’t know,
that the that the cats with the bugs were there,
You’d never go along with that kind of stuff no where
But that just isn’t the point man,
That’s the wrong ,wrong way to go,
You didn’t know about that one,
well then what else don’t you know.

Voiceover Master Don LaFontaine has died

LaFontaine, known as the “King of Voiceovers,” died Monday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. LaFontaine’s agent, Vanessa Gilbert, tells ET that he passed away following complications from Pneumothorax, the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity, the result of a collapsed lung. The official cause of death has not yet been released.

Over the past 25 years, LaFontaine cemented his position as the “King of Voiceovers.” Aside from being the preeminent voice in the movie trailer industry, Don also worked as the voice of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, as well as for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and UPN, in addition to TNT, TBS and the Cartoon Network. By conservative estimates, he voiced hundreds of thousands of television and radio spots, including commercials for Chevrolet, Pontiac, Ford, Budweiser, McDonalds, Coke, and many other corporate sponsors.

He recently parodied himself on a series of national television commercials for Geico. At last count, he has worked on nearly 5000 films, including appearances as the in-show announcer for the Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards. Based on contracts signed, he has the distinction of being perhaps the single busiest actor in the history of SAG. Don is survived by his wife — singer/actress Nita Whitaker, and three children: Christine, Skye and Elyse.

Posted September 01, 2008 6:02:00 PM

From the Washington Post.

If Ms. Palin is is pro-contraception, what exactly was she teaching her daughter?

The Washington Post
Monday, September 1, 2008; 1:21 PM

McCain Running Mate’s Daughter, 17, Is Pregnant
Gov. Palin Announces Her Teen Daughter Plans to Keep Baby, Marry

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer

St. Paul, Sept. 1 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced today that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and plans to have the baby and marry the father.

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned,” Palin, the presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, said in a statement issued by Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign. “We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.”

The stunning revelation comes less than a week after McCain introduced Palin as an all-American mother with five children. Her biography — which includes her giving birth to a son, Trig, with Down Syndrome in mid-April — has been a touted as a key part of her appeal, especially to conservatives.

Almost since the day Sarah Plain was named as McCain’s running mate, rumors have circulated on liberal blogs raising questions about whether Bristol Palin was actually Trig’s mother.

The statement today appeared designed to rebut that rumor. The McCain campaign confirmed that the daughter is five months pregnant, which would make it impossible for her to have delivered a baby in April.

“It was completely fabricated rumors that were being spread around by liberal blogs to smear our candidates,” a senior McCain aide said.

The campaign said Monday that senior McCain aides knew of Bristol’s pregnancy before the senator announced his selection of her as his vice presidential nominee last Friday. They said that knowledge did not disqualify her in the senator’s eyes.

In announcing his choice, McCain called the first-term governor a “a devoted wife and a mother of five” and a reformer who shares his maverick streak.

She is “someone who grew up in a decent, hardworking, middle-class family, whose father was an elementary school teacher and mother was the school secretary,” McCain said in his introduction. “They taught their children to care about others, to work hard and to stand up with courage for the things you believe in.

Palin said of her selection: “Some of life’s greatest opportunities come unexpectedly, and this is certainly the case today.”

In the statement issued yesterday, Palin pleaded for privacy and understanding, identifying the father only as Levi.

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family,” she said. “We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

Senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt warned Democrats not to try to use the revelations to their political advantage: “If anyone tries to politicize this, there will be a backlash. One thing I think everyone agrees on is let the kids alone.”

Unfortunately, the children are in the public eye now with the announcement of the Vice Presidency like all presidential and Vice Presidential children in the past.

But she’s made up her mind. She’s keeping her baby.

I’m adding this here in case one of my “comments” is deleted from a blog I posted in.

BTW, I’m not a democrat.

Some information on Ms. Sarah Palin:

She is pro-life

She is pro-contraception

She is a prominent member of Feminists for Life

She opposes abortion for rape and incest victims (supporting it only in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.)

Her baby has down’s syndrome.

Palin opposes same-sex marriage.

She supported a non-binding referendum for a constitutional amendment to deny benefits to gay couples.

Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

Alone among the candidates in the 2006 gubernatorial election, Palin said in a televised debate that she supported teaching creationism alongside evolution in public schools, but the next day modified her position to one of allowing the debate of alternative views.

She has admitted that she tried marijuana, but she does not support legalization, stating concerns about the message it would send to her children.

Palin has strongly promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska, including opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.

She does not believe that global warming is man-made.

She opposed listing of the polar bear as an endangered species, and supported a controversial predator-control program involving aerial hunting of wolves.

Palin is a life member of the National Rifle Association, and is popular among gun rights activists.

She is a strong proponent of the Second Amendment, and supports gun safety education for youth.

And her long standing feud in Alaska:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083002366.html?hpid=topnews

This is just so sad.

David Duchovny’s sex disorder likened to alcoholism

By Jill Serjeant
Reuters
Friday, August 29, 2008; 6:00 PM

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Did life imitate art when David Duchovny, who plays a sex-mad writer on the hit US TV show “Californication,” seek treatment for sex addiction?

Or was it case of art imitating life for the “X-Files” actor — regarded as one of the hottest men in Hollywood and whose off-screen romances have long been a talking point.

Duchovny’s announcement on Thursday that he was voluntarily going into rehab for sex addiction after years of denying he had a problem, threw a spotlight on a disorder that few celebrities, and even fewer ordinary men and women, admit to.

Often likened to alcoholism, drug addiction or gambling, sex addiction is a form of compulsive behavior which is sending growing numbers of people into therapy but which is not formally recognized as a “diagnosable disorder” by the American Psychiatric Association.
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“The concept of sexual addiction is a controversial one and that’s because it is difficult to define,” said Dr. Steve Eichel, an addiction specialist who works in Delaware.

“There are a lot of people who are critical of the concept because we live in a society that tends to over medicalize and which makes every behavior, which deviates from the norm, an addiction or a disorder,” Eichel said.

Sexual health experts estimate that about 3-5 percent of Americans have the disorder, including women.

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I’m sitting here and watching As the Lights Go Down which I haven’t seen since I was 13. I remember it being on Cinemax (which we didn’t have at the time) and once on MTV.

While watching and listening to Simon le Bon’s hot and sexy voice (”Is anybody hungry?”) I remember something that PINKBUNNIESLIPPERS posted on her blog and I think I have to wash my eyes out!

Well, at least one of them ‘cuz the other one doesn’t work. But that one is already washed out and its plastic container for the evening.

Here is what I saw that just destroyed me!

Is this the man I wrote all that fanfic about in 1984 and 1985? ICK! That vision was NEVER included in my fic!

Who is the chick? Yasmin?

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