Reno and Beyond: Canopy Redux
- DMD updates us on the infamous canopy project for the plaza at 10 N. Virginia. Its actually going to be built in September of 2008 if the city council is to be believed. And good news—the new design won’t blow over in a hurricane. Seriously—thank god. The canopy will be a seriously interesting addition to downtown. Now, how is Plaza del Sesso coming along?
- That Dina Titus is getting all shrill and making trouble again. This time, she wants Gibbons to join with other governors and ask the President to bring our National Guard troops home for Thanksgiving. Uh, fat chance. If the President brought the National Guard troops home, the war in Iraq would be over.
- I’m not sure what The Gleaner means by calling Richardson’s new ads “cute,” but to me, it illustrates everything wrong with the ad. If he weren’t running or president, “cute” might be good I guess, but this “aw sucks, can’t you see I’m full of Western values like humility and a love for tax cuts and guns” image just isn’t very presidential. Who wants a president that lets some ass clown eating a sandwich treat him with all the dignity of someone applying for a telemarketing job? Richardson is clearly qualified for the job, and I get that the ads are supposed to be funny (and they are), but somehow, I don’t think they convey a serious man running seriously for president, Erin Neff’s admiration be damned. But maybe that’s the point? Richardson would make a very good Vice President of Secretary of State. (I just found out Kevin Drum agrees with me.)
- Mitt Romney just started broadcasting ads in Nevada too. I just say one. Romney likes vetos!
- This is a good ad.
- You think? You’ve got to hope that someone, anyone in the President’s cabinet is brought to some kind of justice. I’d rather have it be Cheney and Rove, but Gonzales and his minions will do in pinch. All of the Bush brethren would be a dream come true. I can’t remember where I read this (it sure wasn’t something Camille Paglia wrote!), but the case for public trials of impeachment is strong. This nation needs to be cleansed somehow and an old fashioned village square court action is probably exactly what we all need. So many of our lawmakers throw around terms like “morality,” “ethics,”and “courage.” Are you kidding me? Very few of them have shown any of those qualities. What takes courage and a true sense of morality is not caring a rat’s ass about your own re-election because you put country over your ass and the ass of your political party in order to hold the appropriate public leaders accountable for what they have done to this nation, its reputation, its Constitution, and its people. Was the Republican debate last week scary or what? The only people who seemed to realize that their party is hemorrhaging were Huckabee and Paul. And if the Bushies won’t take responsibility for their crimes and submit to the people’s justice without a fight then so be it–a fight we should have. While some fear that these criminal may result in even more irrational rage and fear on the part of those who support (and supported) them, I think it might actually shame many of the villains into prison or into hiding, and their supporters at least into silence. This is too little too late.
- And now for a little entertainment–I love Bjork. Alexis Gray posted her latest video: “Earth Intruders.” And just in case you haven’t heard, Monday the 14th is Roy Scheider Day.
- Stanley Scandalmonger, my entry in the caption contest is: “Gibbons left prison dressed in a lovely ensemble made just for the occasion by his cell mate and “lifer” Cleetus McBride out of prison sheets and some pink satin his mother sent him. McBride struck up a very close relationship with the former Governor during his stay in Lovelock.”
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I too love Björk. I saw her on SNL a couple of weeks ago and wasn’t sure of that song. Like just about everything else she has done, though, it will grow on me and I’ll be cranking it with regularity soon.
Dina Titus shrill? Well, okay. Her voice is a little irritating. I give you that. And speaking of, um, interesting voices, seems Titus and Congresswoman Berkley are on the same page what with her bill to get a 90-day withdrawal. It’s got that whiff of presidential veto in its future, if it even makes it out of the House, but still, she’s trying.
I was making fun of how others characterize Dina Titus.
Bjork can be hit or miss for me. I like the songs where I can actually understand what she’s singing, and not the ones where it sounds like she’s speaking in tongue. Her lyrics can be very deep.
Regarding the new canopy design…I like it, it’s a heck of a lot closer to the original out-of-budget $6 million desig than the first ‘revised’ concept.
What is that thing – a landing pad for UFOs or something just as badly needed in Reno? The street people are going to love living there in the summer.
Mitt Romney this. Mitt Romney that. I’m so sick of hearing about this gay NBA player who dared to come out of the closet. “Mitt Romney played for two seasons with the Sixers and then announced he was gay!” Tired of it. No story here. Get over it. No more Mitt Romney stories, okay?
I know…I know. At least I tried. WTF are you people doing about it?
Steel Reserve (they were out of Sauza) and Sathers’ Apple Rings made me say that. I apologize to Mitt Romney and his family. I know he’s never played in the NBA and not gay and stuff. But don’t let be a reason not to vote for him, kids! His financial disclosure says he’s rich enough to be as much a “faggot” as John Edwards, to quote the harpy to the right of Bill O’Reilly. Peabody awards? Where are the Peabody awards, Bill? Did A Current Affair sweep you again? Povich is a “Jewish devil,” eh?
I ran into Bjork one time just off Sixth Avenue and like 12th. She is very small. Some guy looks at me and goes, was that Bjork? and I said I think so and then he said Where did you get your sweater?
What’s happening to all of the bees? I hear they’re being slaughtered en masse. We should build a memorial.
Johnny, after you take your Ambien, go right to bed!
Ambien? Please. Try 240 OC slammed.