Well I really hope buhdy’s computer is fixed because all this responsibility is dragging me down.

I suppose I really should write something light and frivolous to cheer everybody up, but the news keeps getting me down and about the most humorous thing I got right now is that WaMu has been downgraded to junk, AIG has been downgraded to not quite junk and might need quite a bit more than $75 Billion to avoid bankruptcy by Wednesday.

What makes this funny is that the Dow is a mere 300 points or so from where it was the day W took the oath of office that he has so tarnished.

Unfortunately our long national nightmare is not yet over, nor will it be if we do not succeed in throwing this criminal cabal out of office and even then there are little over 2 long months to destroy what’s left.

And not all the wreckage is so easily undone as the illusionary paper greed gains the wannabe wealthy pretend plutocrats got stuck with while the real deal escape on their golden parachutes.

So tomorrow CNBC will be good for giggles, kind of like toasting marshmallows while listening to the musical stylings of Nero.

My original plan was to re-post these at their original times, but I can’t quite make that artistic vision happen.

Here instead are links to them-

• Pony Party; Labor Pains and Pharmaceuticals
  
  by: 73rd virgin
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 06:00:00 PDT

• Pony Party… it’s LAUNCH DAY wranglers
  
  by: pfiore8
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 09:00:00 PDT

• Pony Party: Angela Davis Edition
  
  by: Turing Test
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 15:00:00 PDT

• PONY PARTY… your favorite things (like ponies)
  
  by: pfiore8
  
  Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 15:00:00 PDT

What a long strange trip it’s been.

Well, anniversaries are supposed to be times of introspection and remembrance.  If I concentrate a little on my own feelings and less on those of others it’s because I value everyone’s contribution so much that I don’t trust myself not to forget one or two.

I’ve spoken before about this being a team blog, indeed tomorrow at 8 am I’ll repost my opening day essays and the first Pony Party to start the celebration.  We publish a good amount of content, most of which is excellent.

I like to feature the essays of others on the Front Page, but it’s a mixed blessing.  You only last about a day unless you’re picked up on the Rec List which is a dKos and a half (12 to the uninitiate).  It ages in 3 days which is just about long enough to keep it filled through Thanksgiving and eksmas.

I’m not likely to feature personal stories because I’m not sure how much you really want to share although I can think of occasional exceptions.

I have my Recent Essays set to 50 and essays age in about 3 days there too.  In terms of volume of original content I’d compare our collective output to some pretty active sites though I have no statistics at all to support that.

I look at DocuDharma pretty much as a interactive Daily Newspaper, Literary Magazine, and Gossip Column, so those are the kind of stories I tend to promote, but there are other editorial voices and I’m very responsive to recommendations.

I expect the future will pretty much resemble the past.  I think that after the election it’s going to be quite a problem to enact a progressive agenda. but I am sure what the results will be if we don’t at least try.

My hopes for DocuDharma are rather modest, that it remain a place where people are not afraid to express themselves creatively or politically and that through discussion we can generate some activity and awareness that percolates up.

I have no sense of humor.

I’m sadly forced to this conclusion after reading a day’s worth of commentaries about lipstick.

And pigs.

Now it is a fact that I have kissed a pig because I lost a bet at my club but it was on the forehead and very chaste even though I am a heck of a kisser.

I didn’t check the sex of that pig.

But I did kiss it and one thing I can tell you is it didn’t have lipstick.

It was a clean and friendly animal, like a dog.  On the other hand I cook with pork.  Yum.

I’m not sure what moose burgers taste like.

My advice is to oink oink oink.

Below the fold you will find 9/11: The Day The World Stood Still, a film that was produced for the 2008 Republican National Convention.

It’s only 2:48 and this copy played correctly for me twice, but you don’t have to watch it on my account, indeed I never want to watch it again; but I do have some observations I’d like to share.

The first is that if this really is the one shown live (and I can’t prove it myself as the whole dreary affair tonight put me to sleep, thank goodness I set my alarm otherwise I would have missed TDS/TCR entirely), there are no images of people actually jumping out of the World Trade Center that I could see although it does show the second plane hit in slow motion and the voice over talks about it.

A more disturbing observation is that the opening line is- “The first attack occured in Iran.  444 Days, America held Hostage.”

Flat Fucking Not True!

Are we having a McSame Senior Moment™ again?  How many times do we have to say that Sunni’s (like Al Queda) and Shia’s (like Iran and most of Iraq) are as different as Irish Catholics and Protestants!

There is no relation between 9/11 and the Iran Hostage Crisis AT ALL!

It’s as big a lie as the one that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11.

It is THE SAME LIE as a matter of fact!

Now I hesitate to read tea leaves, but to me this indicates that the Republican Party wants to commit another war crime and guess what?  This time we lose!  There is absolutely no way we can keep the Straits of Hormuz open however much damage we inflict on Iran and the likelihood is that we isolate and destroy our occupation force in Iraq (basically our whole Army and Marine Corps) and mobilize the entire Islamic world against us.

And that’s an optimistic scenario, could be that the whole world gets together to put us down like the rabid mad dog Nazi’s we are.