Week #14 - Week 1 for
Roger's Creative Photography Contest...click on the banner above if you want to learn more and enter or just feel like sliding around the Bloggosphere and checking out some really fantastic photos...
1982...a camping trip with some buddies in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. After a day of hiking and being caught in a downpour, we all made it back to our campsite and relaxed with multiple liquid refreshments.
Prior to cooking dinner, our fire was used for another reason...Changes to teh original photo were to saturate the picture and add some contrast.
I present
"Boots-A-Drying"
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Thanks to
STARRLIGHT for the heads up on this, found at
MJ's Blog:
There’s some very good news breaking on the Taylor Hicks album front. Looks like he’s found a distributor, a producer, and set a release date–February 10, 2009– for his upcoming album: Celebrating his birthday today (Tuesday, October 7th), Hicks has tapped the independent artist services company Artist To Market (A2M) to release his much-buzzed-about new album, due in stores on February 10, 2009.
The platinum-selling singer-songwriter will be releasing the new title with complete control of direction and ownership of his masters on his solely owned and operated, Modern Whomp Records label. Hicks is currently in the studio with producer Simon Climie (Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Faith Hill).Some of the artists on the A2M roster are Tommy Lee, Sinead O’Connor, Tracey Lawrence and Dolly Parton.The National Tour of the Broadway musical Grease begins on December 2 featuring Taylor as the Teen Angel. It runs through April.When Taylor announced he’d be joining the Grease tour, I figured it meant his album wouldn’t drop until after the tour, but it looks like there’s been much activity behind the scenes to ready this album for release, which is a good thing. After Taylor is done with Grease, hopefully a summer tour will follow to promote the album.TOUR DATES:December 2 - 7, 2008 at the Providence Performing Arts Center, Providence, RI
December 9 - 14, 2008 at the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts, East Lansing, MI
December 16 -21, 2008 at Palace Theatre, Columbus, OH
December 30, 2008 - January 4, 2009 at the Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
January 6 - 18, 2009 at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
January 20 - February 1, 2009 at the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
February 3 - 15, 2009 at the Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore, MD
February 24 - March 1, 2009 at the Music Hall, Tucson, AZ
March 3 - 8, 2009 at the Civic Theatre, San Diego, CA
March 10 - 22, 2009 at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
March 24 - April 19, 2009 at the Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, CA
April 21 - 26, 2009 at Keller Auditorium, Portland, OR
April 28 - May 10, 2009 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA
May 12 - 30, 2009 at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, WA
Isn't this too much now? When will the rhetoric of fear and hatred be put to a halt?
From A rally held by Governor Palin:"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.
"Boooo!" said the crowd.
"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.
"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
Kill Him? Isn't this a threat against a candidate for President? Should this man not have been taken away by police? Shouldn't the candidate speaking have shouted him down with a reprimand for inciting violence?Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley. The shout of "kill him" followed a Sarah Palin rant on Obama's relationship with radical Chicagoan Bill Ayers.
Wiley says the Secret Service did not begin looking into the matter until press reports, namely Dana Milbank's article in the Washington Post, surfaced today, because no agents at the event heard anything. "The Secret Service did not hear any threatening statements directed at targets under its protection and no threatening statements were reported to us by law enforcement or citizens at the event," Wiley said.
I certainly hope they confiscate all video from this rally and find this man.
SOURCE: Washington PostFrom another rally held by Governor Palin:Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, FL, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000.
Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her
"less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him,
"Sit down, boy."
Is this 1950???????????????
And it is not just happening at Governor Palin's rallies...Senator McCain was speaking in New Mexico, doing his usual personal attack on Barack Obama, as the stock market plummeted
(you can see the ticker next to McCain - but let's NOT talk about the economy), and McCain asked the crowd
"who is Barack Obama?" Immediately you hear someone yell
"terrorist." McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting. Oh, but McCain does say in the next sentence that he's upset about all the
"angry barrage of insults."And how does the McCain camp feel about all this? Well it appears they have no other choice...
"It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice," a top McCain strategist recently admitted to the Daily News.
"If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose." This is not what MY country is about. I thought we were moving on from these things. Standing together to stay strong. Today I am disgusted with this 'politics as usual - 'smear them to hell and back' attitude
Should
Senator Obama have allowed
Bill Ayers to hold a rally in his living room? It does not seem to have been the prudent thing to do.
I truly do not know much about Mr. Ayers since his time with the Weathermen, but he holds the title of Distinguish Professor at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. His interests include teaching for social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues.
Does this change what he did back in the 60's? Absolutely not. Many people took part in activities back then to protest the war. I did many things as a youth that I am not particularly proud of today, but I grew up and changed. Look at many of those people of the 60's and see them today, solid members of society. Hell,
Dennis Hopper is doing commercials about retirement for
Ameriprise...DENNIS HOPPER, the icon of the 60's "F-U" generation.
Shall we check out some affiliations Governor Palin and her husband have had...as recently as the last 10 years??? Check it out
HERE.
And now the seven officials subpoenaed to testify in the
Troopergate investigation have agreed to appear. The Governor might not be holding any rallies except for the local soccer organization in the near future.
I despise any type of smear-politics and it is normally the last resort of the candidate who sees their chances of winning slipping away.
Unfortunately, in the past, this type of campaign has worked...we can only hope that is not the case this time.
If you are a supporter of a candidate that uses smear tactics and incites hatred toward their opponent it is YOUR DUTY as a citizen of this great country to write to them and tell them to stop. It must be done today, tomorrow, four years from now...whenever it occurs.
