Mike's Blog Round Up
[And we do mean MIKE...welcome home, Mr. Finnigan, Sir. -- C&L staff and sitemonitors]
Twelve weeks and twelve great bloggers later, I'm back from my marathon, fifteen-nation, European jaunt. As the poet said, "I'm tired but I'm clean." Gonna spend the next couple days tipping my hat to the talented people who guested while I was away.
Political satire has become nearly impossible in the Age of Bush, but not for the ingenious Jon Swift.
Get off the cross we need the wood, Dept....Over at The Opinion Mill, Steve notes that ignoring wingnuts sometimes just exacerbates their pathological delusions.
Paging Merle Haggard: Alex believes the bottle has let us all down.
I'm always enlightened by The Reactions of Canadian, Michael J. W. Stickings and cohort...
TS at Instaputz illuminates one of the chronic failings in wingnuttia; the notion that good intentions relieve them of any responsibility for the disastrous results of their actions.
Simply Left Behind:Renewable energy? I think not...
I'd bet that Evil Dick kept important papers in his "ceremonial office" in the Eisenhower Executive Bldg -- and now they're burned.
Welcome home Mike! So tell us all about the tour. I wanna hear about my man Cocker. I love that guy's music. I used to play some of his songs just before going to parties. That would get me in the right mood to party. Did you guys make a cd of the music you played together. If so, is it out now? I have dozen's of questions about all this.
Oh, and while you were away I watered your plants and your mail is on the kitchen counter. Hope you found everything okay on your return. :)
Bush said if he hadn't stopped drinking he wouldn't have become president. I am in total support of alcoholics in recovery. Hell I admire them for seeing the problem and dealing with it, something my own father never did. But in just this one case, with bush, why did he have to stop when he did? If he hadn't stopped drinking we might be watching President Gore as he bragged about our country being in such great shape, and we would all be agreeing.
Oh Jeez, I found myself on Swift's blog once and didn't even realize it was satire. I have a sense of humor, even! Those wingnuts are so messed up I can't tell the difference sometimes...
to pissed off patricia--I did a CD with Joe which has been released in Europe. It'll be out in the states in early 2008. We'll be touring the US this summer. Cocker is a pro. Shows up and delivers every night. It was a lot of work (15 countries in 12 weeks) but we had fun, too. Glad to be home. Thanks for picking up the mail...hee, hee
Jena, LA is back in the news, for a couple of ugly reasons.
Mickey Finn @ 5:
Please let me know exactly when the CD will be available in the US, as soon as you know. Will your US tour come to Fla? Hopefully West Palm will be on the list. I hadn't heard anything about Cocker for such a long time before the tour that I was afraid he was sick or something. Good to know he is still rocking and rolling with the best of them.
I cannot imagine being in 15 countries in only 12 weeks, you must be tired as hell.
As for the mail, I tossed out all the stuff that came in plain brown wrappers. :)
Some great links there, thanks for the new reading material.
Welcome home, boss! And thanks for the link!
Listen up, everyone:
Bush might be trying to destroy evidence:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1313089
Call me a conspiracy nut, but this is just too coincidental, coming on the heels of Federal rulings that say Bush has to acknowledge the governmental system of checks and balances...
pissed off patricia @ 3:
what did it matter that this crud stopped drinking the mother fluckers brain stem was gone by the time he did it!better the world just remembered his major achevment of being a pussey cheerleader rah rah sis boom bah!!!!!!!!!!!!
About time our boys start coming home from overseas! Welcome home, Mike!
I saw recent footage of Bush drinking a beer at some summit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKc6UMfZW6U&feature=related
don't know if its a non-alcoholic beverage, but check out the overpour leading to major spillage. tip the glass before you pour, George.
Wecome back Mike
The Mexican government, itsownself, just solved our mexican illegal alien problem.
They announced that 50% of the Mexicans in the US were illegal.
So all we have to do is ship every other Mexican back home.
Good point about political satire being impossible when the government is a satire.
We need a new word to describe satirizing satire.
Has anyone else heard the rumor that the Canadians are so disgusted with our current government, they are about to secede from North America?
In Wingnuttia, it's the belief in, and instructions from, 'god' that relieves them of any responsibility for their actions.
It's not the bottle, it's the dope that has let us all down.
So let's get off bush, and get back on the good stuff, that'll make us high and happy.
Welcome back to C&L, Mike.
KCMO man turning 55 Xmas Eve here. I have been following your career since the days of The Serfs, Finnigan & Wood and The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood.
When I found you doing this here and that you were engaged in politics (my kind), it made you that much more popular with me.
Season Greetings and keep on making the beautiful music you are so capable of.
Bill Osment
KCMO
Welcome back, Mike...looking forward to your blogging...btw, GREAT intro to "With a Little Help..." on the tour..hope you guys keep the same set this Summer here.
Woo-hoo! Welcome back, Mike!
tyree @ 11:
In a bit of delicious irony, a national poll just revealed that the overwhelming majority of the US public believes that if they had quit drinking, Bush wouldn't have become president
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There are a bunch of great satire site out there. Shelley The Republican, Baptists For Republican Faith, Blogs 4 Conservatives (Fomerly Blogs 4 Brownback which sucked in Keith Olberman) and Billy Bob Neck plus bunches of others. It's not impossible. The good ones make it hard to tell sometimes.
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