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Switching Channels

I do a semi-regular feature on Friday’s over at my place called Radio KBwD. Its an opportunity at the end of the work week to just relax and to introduce what I feel is some great music. . The tie-in here was too difficult (obvious?) to resist. The song you are about to hear is also the title track of the very first album I owned (tape cassette - yes, I’m dating myself). For my money, the man stands only behind Jimi Hendrix in terms of greatest rock’n’roll guitar players… and they’re standing very close to each other. I walked around in a daze for a day or so after finding out he had died in a plane crash in Wisconsin. He left us way too early and he still had so much great music to make. We will always have, though, what he left behind. . Ladies and Gentlemen, from Austin Texas…. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble performing “Texas Flood”.

Yarrr! 'Tis Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Avast there, me hearties, tis I, K T Cat, boarding Justin's blog to give him another guest post. Yarrrr! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so ye need to pull into port over at the TLAP site and learn how to navigate in these waters. And be sure tonight to raise a mug of grog to the greatest swashbuckling buccaneer that ever swashed a buckle, Errol Flynn.

Yarrrrr!

"Ike" fallout reigns supreme

Last we left the Houston Astros, they were on a 15-1 tear that put them within striking distance of the NL Wild Card lead. . Enter “Ike”. . The first two games of the Astros’ highly anticipated home showdown with the NL Central-leading Cubbies this past weekend were postponed and moved to “neutral” Milwaukee. . If by “neutral”, one means a 90 minute drive up I-94 from Chicago. . In the ensuing games, the Cubs’ Carlos Zambrano twirled a no-no on Sunday which was followed-up by Ted Lilly, one-hitting the ‘Stros on Monday in front of very-much partisan Cubby crowds. Yeah, Ted Freaking Lilly. . Needless to say, MLB has done the Astros no favors in piling-on after “Ike” and the Astros now face an uphill battle to remain in playoff contention as they are now 4 games back in the wild card chase with 11 left to play. . But wait, there’s more: The Houston Texans’ schedule is also altered as a result of “Ike” and their game against the Ravens originally scheduled for this past weekend will be played on Nov. 9 because of hurricane-related damage to Houston’s Reliant Stadium. . When things like this happen in real life, why is it then that people like Roger Goodell, the NFL commish, think it a good idea to recreate a make-believe hurricane or other natural disaster and schedule regular season NFL games overseas? . Last year’s Giants-Dolphins game in London stunk as surely will this year’s Chargers-Saints game played in the same Wembley Stadium. . Please, Rog… "Ike" has gone away, so to with your ridiculous overseas scheduling idea.

It Won't Be Long Before We're Overrun By Roaches

Hi-ho there, it's K T Cat with another guest post for Justin while he recovers from Ike. Today we're dealing with an insect invasion...

I've got a relatively neat house. I try to keep it clean and bug-free. However, our Maximum Leader, in her desire to hunt, keeps bringing in these:

We don't have mice or rats in the area and the birds are all in the trees and hard to get. The roaches, on the other hand, rush about in an attractive, random way and provide plenty of exciting chase opportunities. Our Maximum Leader catches them outside and then brings them indoors to present them as gifts and continue to play with them. After a while, however, the roaches get boring and she wanders off to the food dish to see if anything new is in it. The roaches, still alive, crawl under the coach to plot their revenge.

Pretty soon we're going to be living in a terrarium.

HERO

Dean here. I found this over at a fellow Theocrats, Ohioan@Heart. I don't want to clutter this up with a lot of meaningless sentiment when the video above says it all but... reasonable people can agree or disagree on whether we should've gone over there in the first place but once we did go, the fact there were people here who did not get onboard and not only did not get onboard but levied false accusations against our troops or played games with or denied funding the war effort altogether was extremely discouraging and disheartening. How some people over here with the way they talked and behaved could look this young man in the eye is inexplicable.

You know who else hates Hurricane "Ike"?

… the Houston Astros, that’s who. Howdy, its Dean again. The Astros had won 14 of their last 15 games to vault their way to within 3 games of the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Wild Card race. “Ike” has forced the Astros to postpone both their games on Friday and Saturday against the Cubbies. They will resume play again on Sunday against the same Cubbies at Minute Maid Park. Now that’s a rally killer. Hey, have you ever sat around with your friends and wondered what a bunch of people living together in an old folk’s home would sound like if they started a band and covered some classic rock anthems? You haven’t? oh. Well, if you did I betcha didn’t think they’d sound like this. H/T: Head Noises

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K T Cat here again, filling in for the vacationing fleeing Justin. Here's a quickie I think you'll like. I don't get what the point of it is, but it's funny.

Hurricane "Ike" Update

Dean here. Justin is enroute to the high ground of Ft. Worth because of “Ike” and has asked me to hold down the fort. I, of course, said yes and am honored that he would give me the keys to the family station wagon. (Oh, you can find more of my stuff over at Beers with Demo (aka the Theocracy’s Monastery of Miscellaneous Musings) where I run a collective of one… with some occasional outside help.) Let’s check on Ike’s progress here. (Weather Underground is a great site which Justin turned me on to). Looks like the models are predicting landfall in Galveston early Saturday morning by which time it will be a Cat 3 Hurricane. Good times. I’ll be back tomorrow with some music. Not mine, thank goodness, but someone else’s.

A Sarah Palin Fact

Here's my first humble entry into the growing list of Sarah Palin facts, the complete set of which can be found here.

When Sarah Palin cooks snake, it doesn't taste like chicken. It tastes better.

Red State Update on Sarah Palin

Hi, everybody! This is K T Cat, normally of The Scratching Post, but as long as Gustav has got old Justin on the run, we figured we'd cover over and help out on his blog. Our first Gustav guest-post is this hilarious video from Red State Update. Just sit right on back and take a look.

Guest Post - Stuffed Animal Strangles US Soldier

It's a quagmire! American soldiers are dropping like flies! In another major setback for the US attempt to bring democracy and prosperity to the previously oppressed people of Iraq, a US serviceman was recently attacked by a stuffed animal at an orphanage in Kirkuk. Here's the photgraphic evidence. "Garrrk!" Sgt. 1st Class Steven Bailey was quoted as saying. "I can't breathe!" Hideous, isn't it? US Torture and Atrocities has more.

Guest Post - Exercising my Freedom of Thought

Greetings from your guest blogger for the week, Jacob the Syrian Hamster! I normally blog over at The Scratching Post, but this week I'll be filling in for Justin while he's gone doing who knows what. I'm a happy little rodent from San Diego, California. I have no plan for this at all and will just be blogging whatever comes into my furry little head.

I take requests.

So this morning we were driving in to work and we got behind a car with lots of bumper stickers. I mean a lot of them. The one that struck me as the best said, "Exercise your right to think for yourself." That in itself was ironic as the entire car urged me to simply agree with the driver on a wide range of issues. What was doubly ironic was the fact that the driver didn't seem to have thought for themselves at all.

One bumper sticker claimed that "A village in Texas is missing its idiot" apparently referring to George W. Bush. It's hard to see that as evidence that the driver had been thinking for themselves. President Bush was a jet fighter pilot and has an MBA from Harvard. Either the driver has an impossibly high standard for idiocy or they bought that bumper sticker because it made fun of someone they hate, but don't actually know.

A second bumper sticker said, "How did our oil get under their sand?" A similar question unasked by the driver might have been, "How did my bread get in their wheat field?" or perhaps "How did my water get in the Colorado River?" While single-celled organisms consume only what they control, civilized humans do not.

Maybe a truly apropos bumper sticker would have read, "My car has severe rust. These bumper stickers were cheap and prevent further decay."

Now that would have been thinking for yourself.