Glory Halleluja!!

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens indicted on seven counts.

Alaska, welcome to the Democratic Party!

Karma, B!%@&#$!

Kids will be kids

And I will be writing up some more stuff about Netroots Nation as soon as I can.

Hello from Austin, TX!

I'm still having a little bit of a hard time believing that I'm actually in frakkin' Texas. Talk about a state I never expected to visit. Anyway I'm here at Netroots Nation, THE epicenter of new progressive movement created, fueled and expanded by the liberal bloggers.

So, anyway here's a couple pics I've taken:
Lobby at the Hilton


Checkin


Convention Center sign #1


Convention Center sign #2


Darcy Burner checking in.


Our fearless leader of the DNC, Howard Dean


The pic that is not here is of Markos Moulitsas (founder of DailyKos, one of the founding fathers/mothers of the liberal blogosphere). I was walking along when he came up the escalator right beside me, but he was with his wife (I think) and carrying his child, didn't seem appropriate to take a picture. I would make a lousy paparrazi.

More to come, I'm hungry.

Elitist snob

I sure hope the Republicans keep pushing that "Obama is an elitist" smear. 'Cuz all the elitists I know sit around in folding $10 lawn chairs from Sports Authority, watching their daughter's soccer game and joking around with their wives.

McCain should just throw in the towel now.

Mercedes - leading the way

So, I'm seeing stories that Mercedes has announced that they will stop production of petroleum based vehicles by 2015. I haven't been able to find the actual press release and I'm not sure if "petroleum based vehicles" includes diesel or not (I assume it does not, but they seem pretty heavily invested in their diesel engines). But, whether it includes diesel or not, this is a great move and a fairly emphatic indication of the state of oil, it's done. And unless they change their ways this is the death knell for American auto makers. The Japanese already have a 10-15 year head start on hybrids and now the Europeans will leapfrog the hybrids to non-gas based cars, leaving the Americans two steps behind.