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Dream Sequence:

Cindy is in the gallery. During the middle of the speech, she starts a ruckus. Before the coppers can take her down, Laura Bush, in a "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" type move, comes flying across the gallery and delivers a secret martial art blow to the Cindy's skull, not killing her, but increasing the blood flow. The increased oxygen supply causes Cindy to realize that her son's death was honorable, George Bush does have the countries best interest at heart, and communism sucks.

She humbly apologies to the Prez for stalking him, apologizes to the country for being such a pain in the shorts, and quietly leaves public life to start a blog that exposes the communist, anti-american agenda of the Hollywood elite. Something like: Communist, Anti-American Agenda of the Hollywood Elite Exposed.

Eventually, she returns to public life as a regular on the Hugh Hewitt Show.


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Sweeter Half and I will be watching the Prez deliver the speech tonight. We've got a couple o' Widmer Hefeweizens on ice, or rather, I do. Widmer is a little to hoppy for her. We won't be live blogging. We'll probably be in our jammies and asleep before the Democratic response is over.

But I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict the gist of the Dem's response:

I'm melting! Melting! Aaahhhh!

Update:What is up with Timothy Kaine's eye brows? Is that supposed to be an indignant look? Incredulous? For a moment, I thought somebody had attacked him with a black marker.

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I wish to apologize to all Google (heck, you know their URL) stock holders.

I know it's been less than a week since I decided to abandon their commie boot-licking services, but I didn't think things would turn south so quickly. I was hoping that my friends would have a chance to off load their Google (heck, you know their URL) stock before it crashed.

I should have given them better warning.



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Sheehan, whose 24-year-old soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in thanked Chavez for "supporting life and peace." She said earlier that she was impressed by his sincerity when they met privately on Saturday.


Casey's death (bless his service and sacrifice) bestowed "Ultimate Moral Authority" to Cindy, elevating her to the lefts equivalent of saint. That title would not be granted to anyone if they didn't blame Bush.


"He said, 'Why don't I run for president?'" she said. "I just laughed."

Instead, she's considering running for the Senate.

Actually, I like the idea. Think of the leftie money that would be wasted down that pit. Worse case senerio: She beats Dianne Feinstein. They would be trading a box of rocks for a fence post (Somebody please quote me on this!). Best case senerio: The split the dems and a Conservative wins.

In fact, she already discusing foreign relations:


On Sunday, when Chavez passed the microphone to Sheehan on his show, she blamed Bush for the killings of innocents in Iraq.

Noting that the singer and commie activist Harry Belafonte recently called Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Chavez's show, Sheehan said: "I agree with him."


Ah Cindy, you wacky commie.

Go here for a pictoral on the ravages of communism.


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A couple of my favorite facts about Chuck Norris (H/T The Night Writer)



1. Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Ever.


7. Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting implies
the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

Go check out the rest. Good stuff.

So... Bush and his Haliburton buddies, who control the weather through ancient black magic occultism, can't get his legions of killer bees to infest New Orleans and oppress the blacks. I can't believe he can hit them with hurricanes, but miss them with the bees.

Man.

I want a all-powerful president, not some novice from Disney's Fantasia.

Okay, so he's doing a bang up job with global warming, but come on! It just bees!

I hope he addresses this issue during the State of the Nation address, and put those of us who voted for him at ease.


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The yin to his yang … every surly guy needs some sugar in his life. Since my dear husband has sneakily sunk me into the blogosphere by calling on my creative side and helping him design his new template, I guess I’ll have to submit myself to the world of bloggers by agreeing to be an occasional contributor. Hopefully the cynical among Dave’s regular readers won’t mind the occasional post from “optimistic me”.

It’s tough wearing rose colored glasses in a world as chaotic as ours, but if you always look at your glass as half empty, you’ll live your life never feeling satisfied and more thirsty than not. I prefer to look at life with a more positive world view. So, hopefully over time I’ll add a little light-hearted balance to the surliness (not to say that this site, or my husband for that matter, is completely lacking in levity … can you say handle bar moustache?).

About the “ a.k.a. Effervescent Ingrid” … that’s the name that The Night Writer gave me after the Annual MOB Christmas bash. I’ll let Dave’s regular readers determine if that name holds water.

P.S. After wasting away a good chunk of our Saturday between designing the "soap box" and figuring out how the heck to get it uploaded, I'm anxious to hear what people think of the new skin on Surly's new digs.

My Saturday is slipping away!!! This blog template stuff is driving me nuts! My wife designed me a really cool "Soap Box" logo and we can't get it to work.

Must step away now. Relax.

I'm just playing with my template, trying to find the perfect setting. With out spending money.

Mayor Nagin? Are you listening? Your fears are about to come true:

The city of New Orleans could lose up to 80 percent of its black population if people displaced by Hurricane Katrina are not able to return to damaged neighborhoods, according to an analysis by a Brown University sociologist.

Sorry Ray. Your not motivating the land lords to repair their properties so the blacks would come back and make the city "chocolate".

Elliott Stonecipher, a demographer and political analyst based in Shreveport, La., said the analysis gets to the heart of the debate over how to rebuild New Orleans. Racial tensions have been high with some worried that those in charge of the rebuilding will push black residents out of the city.

Here is what I think is going to happen: We are going to end up paying for the reconstruction of these areas twice. I wonder how many of the slum lords in New Orleans have already collected checks and decided to take the money and run? It is New Orleans, after all. These people will leave with their pockets full of FEMA cash, abandoning the wreckage, then the Nanny Government will have to come in and rebuild anyway, thus spending the money twice.

On another note: Why is everybody in such a hurry to get these people to move back into a swamp? Why are they trying so hard to get people to move back into an area that isn't any safer than it was back in September? I guess I have to ask what their real motivation is. It obviously isn't the saftey and well being of the blacks. Well, other than Ray Nagin getting elected again. And the millions and millions of dollars coming in.


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"Hamas and Fatah gunmen exchanged fire on Friday in political turmoil as the long-dominant Fatah faction was threatened with a violent backlash from within after its crushing election defeat by the Islamic militant group."



Does this mean that Arafat was a moderate as far as Palestinian politics go? Did he actually have control over the state?

Are the people of Palestine so fed up, so desperate for something to change that they went over the edge? Or are they all just terrorist at heart?

Undoubtedly they are hungry for change, but obviously they choose to blame others for their plight rather than elect leaders who will work for peace.

Blame others? Hamas' mission is to destroy Isreal. They have no place for the Jews and plan to push them into the sea. These are not the people you vote for when you want peace and jobs and security. These are the people you vote for when you refuse to accept responsibilty for your situation and want someone else to blame.


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Yes, Surly's Soap Box has moved. Still working on the template, figuring out how to do stuff, but here I am.

More Later.