a New Year Approaches

Today the trees are bending under 25 mph wind gusts. The road sand is tapping like hail against the window and I’m certain the car will be jostled from side to side. It's reminiscent of Gaza with its rocket attacks and the retaliatory bombing.

The Israelis and Palestinians are fighting (again or still, I suggest reading a history on the area) over the same thing they always fight over, sovereignty, over a hatred which neither side remembers how it started and neither side wishes to end. Now people, Israeli and Palestinian, are dying.

This isn't war:Neither is this:


War isn't tanks and artillery. This is war:




It is sad that this will probably be the last post for 2008. This year is ending in the midst of a downward spiral with wars, the economy, genocide in Africa, and Dancing With the Stars still on the air. Obama has preached hope, I wonder how long hope can holdout before the middle and working classes are pressed into despair.

Top Ten Joe's of 2008

10. Joe The Plumber - Joe whose real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, was used by the McCain campaign as a symbol of middle America's worry about President-Elect Obama's tax policy. Joe was found to not be a licensed plumber, but just an ass who wasn't working class. He apparently has written a memoir that will surely help heat houses here in New England.

(you could get a tan standing next to that melon)

9. Joe Satriani- Joe is a late addition to the list. He is suing Coldplay for copyright infringement claiming the song "Viva La Vida" copied parts of one of his. Joe, does anyone that isn't a guitar student or 15 and pimply faced really know your songs?


8. Trader Joe's - Joe, you continuously have the cheapest most flatulent beans in the area. I am right now saluting you in the unique way that only your beans could be a part of.



7. Joe Sixpack - Joe's name was used more times during the presidential election than Iraq and economy, you know the important things. Supposedly the Sixpack brand is a metaphor for the middle and working classes. (spoiler alert) Joe, is like Santa Claus - not real).

6. Joe Torre - Joe told the Yankees where to go after being unappreciated for getting a team in turmoil to the playoffs. He went to the Dodgers and subsequently brought an otherwise lackluster team to the playoffs.

5. Joe Biden - Joe, your the Vice- President elect and not such a horrible white guy. You managed to keep your mouth from vomiting up the crazy things your brain wants to say and helped get Obama elected. Also your not from Alaska, but you do look like what I always imagined former Secretary of State Seward looked like.

($5 Foot Long)

4. Joey Lawrence - for not putting out anything that I know of this year- whoa! you suck. Hmm. How come every Joe that sucks is bald?

(Yuck!)

3. Joe Leiberman - Joe had a big year. He flirted with the Republicans and even spoke at their convention. When Obama won, he came crawling back to the Democrats for forgiveness and got it along with the red imprint of every Democratic Caucus members hand on ass.


2. Cup-A-Joe - Joe without you constantly by my side, I could never do these inane posts, function alertly, or continue to be regular.


and the #1 Joe of the year is:




Joe Mama

The Longest Congessional Election Ever

©New York Times

According to liscence plate manufacturers, the state of Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 lakes . The states official motto is L'Etoile du Nord” or “The Star of North.” A few famous people who grew up in the state include Bob Dylan, Prince, F.Scott Fitzgerald, and of course this former Minnesotan governor:

(Jesse "The Body" Ventura)

However, more importantly the state has yet to figure out if Republican Senator Norm Coleman will retain his seat or if Democratic challenger and former comedian Al Franken will become a congressional freshman.

The problem as it stands is disputed ballots. Each side has of course hired a team of lawyers the size of which the rest of us will only see at a law school graduation or in line at a cocaine house.

As it stands Dirk Johnson of The New York Times reports Mr. Franken in the lead by a narrow margin, which means it can still go eather way. If it comes down to a few votes, I wonder which side will be laughing at the votes that were made for God, Al Frankenstein, Mickey Mouse, and several for Chuck Norris.

In the meantime, here's some of both candidates best work.