See I told you...

The newest cover of the New Yorker makes me laugh.


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I can't wait for Thursday night!

Breathtaking

I will start off by saying this will not be funny. However, it will be stunning.


This is a picture of Rannoch Moor in Scotland.



This is South Harris, also Scotland.



And this is Glen Trulm. Yes, you guessed it Scotland.

In short, Wow! I want to go.

You can see more of this photographers pictures here.

That is all.

Ilness and awesomeness!

Well this past weekend had its ups and downs, sometimes ups outnumber the downs, but not in Nottingham...oh, sorry, Disney tangent...Evey and Jess caught a stomach flu on Friday and were pretty sick all weekend, so that sucked, but the Titans are 2-0 for the first time since 1999. Not too shabby. Maybe they'll make it to the Super Bowl and lose by 1 yard again. Probably not. I managed to evade the sickness all weekend, until Sunday at like 9PM. Luckily, I wasn't as sick as the girls and only missed one work day. hmmm, luckily?

So this week is going to be action packed. My mom and step-dad arrive this evening for what has been named Birthday Week '08. Jess' mom, Susie's, was yesterday, my step-dad's is tomorrow, Jess' is Thursday, and then the main event: Evelyn's on Friday. Then the Big Birthday Bash on Saturday. It's going to be crazy. Crazy Awesome!

Thought I'd post a pic of the youngest birthday girl I took at lunch today so you all can see what she looks like now.

From late summer

Yeah she always has food on her face.

Oh and Jess and I bought a Vespa on Saturday too, so that was also exciting...

From late summer

From late summer

Hmm. That post wasn't very funny. But this is...

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The Cafferty File and the Fall of the GOP

So, normally I tend to not pay attention to the talking heads on cable news, for many of the reasons outlined here and because of examples like this. However, sometimes these people actually make some interesting and well thought out points. I stumbled across Jack Cafferty's commentary blog on cnn.com today in which he discusses the state of the RNC and the GOP in general. As a liberal I usually agree with most of what Cafferty says, even when he is being kind of douche-y about it. I was intrigued by the insight into the decay of the Republican party, especially in regard to the fact that they seem to almost be unaware of the fact that they are a dying "brand."

Cafferty starts with,

This week the Republicans gather for their convention. For four days, they will labor under the illusion their party is still relevant. It's not.

It is entirely fitting that the headliner for this masquerade is a feeble looking 72-year-old white guy who doesn't know how many homes he owns.

It's more than symbolic that when a million Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure, the Republican candidate for president has lost track of his holdings.

The fact that ex-Senators think we are a "nation of whiners" and in a "mental recession" (see below) must say something about these political dinosaurs who are too close minded to open their eyes and observe the precarious position they have placed this country in over the past 8 years.

The most ludicrous thing is that most of them don't even realize the fundamental shift in the country. They refuse to acknowledge the fact that the majority of voters in this country aren't people who have lived long enough to see a Roosevelt in the Oval Office. They are people who barely remember Ronald Reagan in the White House, people who hardly even lived through the Cold War. These young people are not the only Americans, there are still members of the Greatest Generation and Plenty of Baby Boomers still kicking. But these young people, who know simply that this is not the America of their youth, this is not the America of their parent's youth, are the voice of America's future.

And that voice is loud, and getting louder every day.

Regardless of your political philosophy, it is hard to think that our country is in a good position right now. Economically, socially, internationally, we are in a dangerous place. Unfortunately, the GOP hasn't realized it yet. When you are stuck in your own fantasy world it is hard to see clearly.

Hopefully, the American people will be able to see clearly over the next two months and on November 4th.

If you haven't registered to vote here is a link, voteforchange.com. Here is another site if you so choose, rockthevote.org. If you don't want to enter an email address or recieve email from these sites, you could always do it the old fashioned way, you know Google "voter registration." I won't judge you for waiting this long to do it, just register.

Here is Phil Gramm, former Representative and Senator from Texas and John McCain's senior financial adviser from Summer 2007 until July 18, 2008, with a wonderful statement about Americans.