Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone and hopefully you’ve recovered from that mass insanity known as Black Friday, it’s time to support our local creative community again.  The Shadow Art Fair is back next Saturday Dec 1 from noon to midnight at the Corner Brewery.  Go check it out for some unique gifts that you won’t find at Wal-Mart or Best Buy!

Sacha Baron Cohen appeared on the Daily Show in his guise as Borat the Kazakh journalist and always he was absolutely brilliant.

We have two cats, one of whom Buffy is quite normal, and friendly. Maggie on the other hand has always been very skittish. Any sudden movements, and she takes off. This means it’s really hard to brush or otherwise groom her. This is a real problem because she has really long hair and she’s not very good at grooming herself. As a result her fur gets all matted, and if you pet her you can feel the lumps in her fur where it’s all matted together. Yesterday Jules was sitting on the sofa and Maggie was on the back of the sofa. She looked over and saw what looked like a ridge along the length of her body.
I stepped around to check it out and saw it was sticking out. It looked like a handle sticking out her side. The clump of matted fur was hanging on each end, so I grabbed it. Of course Maggie immediately took off but the clump of fur stayed in my hand. Check out the picture. It looks like Maggie’s tail.

I work in Livonia, MI and I’m pretty sure the only thing the Livonia police do is traffic enforcement. Rarely a day goes by that I don’t see at least 1 speed trap somewhere in Livonia. For the past 6-7 years they have been using Ford Crown Victoria’s since they retired the last of the old rear-drive Chevy Caprices. Well now if you drive in the Livonia area you may want to keep you eyes open. Over the past year they have changed their color scheme to solid black with just gold decals on the front doors and often no rooftop light-bar. This week I have seen that they also have new cars. They have added some new Dodge Chargers to the fleet like the one in this picture. Unfortunately they are a lot less visible because of the all black paint job. So be careful on the roads of Livonia, because those officers don’t mind writing you up for 5mph over the limit or even worse cutting through a mall parking lot without stopping to shop. If you know where I work you probably know what I’m talking about.

So Arlen Specter says that the White House may allow a federal court to look at it’s secret surveillance program? Excuse me, but since when does the executive branch get to dictate what the judicial and legislative branches do? it shouldn’t matter if the Bush likes it or not, both the congress and the judiciary have every right to determine if he is breaking the law and deal with that appropriately. There is no need for the other branches of government to bow to his highness ever!. It doesn’t matter if we are in wartime (and that is a dubious assertion at best), no president is ever allowed to break the law just be feels like it. The oath of office requires him to uphold the constitution and that means letting the other two branches of government to do their duties as well.

Mr. Specter, please either grow some balls and do your job or get out of the way so someone else can. And the same goes for the other 434 members of congress. You all ready to remove an actual properly elected president from office for lying about a blow-job why aren’t willing to do the same to one who has consistently lied to the American public about the reasons for sending 2500 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis to their deaths.

If I’ve learned anything from the last year and a half, it’s that we don’t know what we’re doing anywhere!

The hilarious Lewis Black tonight in his new HBO special Red, White and Screwed!

This video obtained by the associated press and linked from crooks and liars shows shrub sitting in via video conference on a FEMA briefing the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall. During the briefing the director of the national hurricane center talked about the potential of the New Orleans levees being breached. Even Mike Brown seemed to be on top of things. But once the storm hit nothing happened. Meanwhile shrub outright lied about no one anticipating the levees failing. Come on people, let’s impeach the guy. He is clearly a liar, and incompetent. He shouldn’t be running a hot dog cart, much less a country. Give him the boot.

 

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