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Eddie Vedder (photo: Jim Rinaldi)

It has come to light that the AT&T "Blue Room" Webcast of Pearl Jam's performance from Lollapalooza on Sunday night was censored, as segments where frontman Eddie Vedder made remarks about George Bush were not shown. While performing the song "Daughter," Pearl Jam segued into a portion of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," in which Vedder sang, "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush, find yourself another home." Those lyrics were missing from the cybercast. AT&T said in a statement that parts of the show were indeed missing from the Webcast, but it was due to "a mistake by a Webcast vendor" that was "contrary to our policy. We have policies in place with respect to editing excessive profanity, but AT&T does not censor performances. We very much regret that this happened in the first place." Vedder also spoke out against oil giant BP Amoco during his band's set, and he brought a disabled Iraq War veteran onstage to call for an end to the war. However, neither of those segments were edited. So - It's OK to "insult" the soliders, but under NO circumstances will AT&T allow anyone to say anything negative about Der Fake Fuhrer . 

In this morning's speech, which I missed because I didn't know it was on until I was halfway thru to pick up today's fresh Bixy corn, Bush couldn't get anything right. (I caught some punditry about it.) First, he said, "Not only must we win in Iraq, we can, too." That seems backwards - wouldn't  "Not only can we win, we must!" be better? Then he previewed his flawed strategery for his all Fs report card that's due 9/15. He said, "If you don't like the surge, you'll probably say there was no progress, but if you do like the surge, you'll probably say there has been progress." So if 9/15 is going to be nothing then another stalling tactic, why bother? Why be wrong and stubborn now when you can be wrong and stubborn later? He's just buying time because he's stealing $300M a day. He's an evil thing.

I don't know who the Dallas Cowboys are playing tonight, but whichever team that is has become my favorite team in the whole NFL - until next week. Is Tony Romo still their quarterback? I hope so - I like the way he holds the snap.

 Salon.com Excerpt: "Military, intelligence agency and police work is also coming together in numerous "fusion centers" around the country in a joint program run by the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security that has received little public attention. At present, there are 43 current and planned fusion centers in the United States where information from intelligence agencies, the FBI, local police, private sector databases and anonymous tipsters is combined and analyzed by counterterrorism analysts. DHS hopes to create a wide network of such centers that would be tied into the agency's day-to-day activities, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The project, according to EPIC, "inculcates DHS with enormous domestic surveillance powers and evokes comparisons with the publicly condemned domestic surveillance program of COINTELPRO," the 1960s program by the FBI aimed at destroying groups on the American political left. It doesn't take much imagination to see how powerful technologies, when combined with secretive, growing interagency collaboration, could be misused in a domestic context. In recent years many U.S. cities have deployed sophisticated video cameras throughout their downtown areas that track activity 24 hours a day. And U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies now have at their disposal facial recognition software that can identify one person among thousands in a large crowd. Combine that with the awesome eavesdropping power of the NSA and the ability of the NGA to capture live imagery from satellites and UAVs, and the result could be an ability to track any individual, in real time, as he or she moves around."

So on the way back from Bixby to pick up some fresh corn (4 kinds still left) I stop at the "Food Pyramid" to try to find something Bart the Cat will eat (don't ask). I bought three items - Gerber's Beef Baby Food - he'll eat that sometimes, and I bought a can of Chicken by the Sea Tuna and a pouch of Whiskas Beef Cat Treats. As I was checking out, it occured to me how strange the prices were. The can of name brand tuna was 39 cents, the baby food was 89 cents and the cat treats were $1.49. That seems like crazy pricing to me. To get the tuna, you have to get a boat and some fisherman and some nets etc and that sounds like an expensive deal yet they're able to sell it for just 39 cents a can? Don't know much about baby food, but since it's Gerbers I figured it was safe - but then the damn cat treats end up costing me $1.49 - what's up with that?  You figure the beef cat treats are made up out of whatever's left on the slaughterhouse floor, so why does it cost me more than four times what the name brand tuna costs?  Something ain't right. I'll bet Bush is making something off the cat food.  

Chris Kelly, The Huffington Post, August 9, 2007 There are some lame political websites out there, but only one, "stophernow.com" is so weak it actually drains your computer battery, then leaches through the wiring to the rest of your house and makes the lights dim and the TV fade out, and your freezer defrost and all your Hot Pockets go bad. (Wait, can Hot Pockets go bad?) I guess "stophernow.com" is supposed to be an anti-Hillary site. But it's so toothless, for all I know it's for her. It has a bunch of links to news stories, but about half of them aren't even negative. (It's like some temp is in charge, and just types "'Hillary' not 'Duff'" into Google News and attaches whatever comes up.) There's a place where you can donate money - of course. But the core of this thing is an animated talk show parody called "The Hillary Show." Hoo-hoo! A talk show! Hosted by Hillary Clinton! It practically writes itself! (Which would explain a lot, since most human authors are at least a little funny.) Go see for yourself. But wait! Before you go, I should warn you: If you're a liberal, lock up your limousine and hold on to your tree, you're going to get a satirizing! Because this is the website that tells it like it is. No sacred cow goes ungored. (Not even Al Gore! That nature lover!) Read More Here

 Link Here is my audio interview with my congressman, and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Henry Waxman. The Interview was conducted this morning over the phone from his LA office. In the interview we discuss Impeachment, The Democrats, Pat Tillman, Sibel Edmonds, Alberto Gonzalez, Condi Rice and more