They once led the Weather Underground, a “terrorist” group that broke off from the Students for a Democratic Society in 1969 in order to put an end to US actions in Vietnam among other things.

During the Weather Underground’s “Days of Rage” in 1969, Barack Obama was eleven years old.

35 years later, Obama meets the two in Chicago (where Obama is also living and teaching law).

13 years later in October of 2008, John McCain is getting his ass kicked in the presidential election and sends his lipsticked pitbull Sarah “Don’t-Pal-around-with-65-year-old-terrorists” Palin to desperately try to revive the dying campaign by associating Obama with the Weather Underground.

What else might we not know about Obama’s past? My god, while working as a community organizer in Chicago, could he have shaken hands with a gang member?

Meanwhile, the Dow has plunged below 10,000 points and WaMu just gave its chief executive of three weeks 14 million dollars as severance.

yesterday palin accused obama for “palling with terrorists.”

the said terrorists include Professor Bill Ayers formerly of the maybe 1960’s-70’s terrorist organization, the Weather Underground.

the connection between obama and ayers: they served on a charity board together.

omg…. scary!

I wonder if sarah palin even knows what the hell the weather underground was.

you suck sarah palin. good luck with the rest of your pathetic political career.

oh wait…

the market fell 777 points or 7% today.

“i’m dropping benjamins like the dow”

investor: yes, i’ll take 1,000 shares of quantum of solace. no, i have no idea what it is, but it sounds cool. on second thought, my google stock just vested so give me 2,000 shares.

ok, maybe it’s just me.

and if you had your money in Wachovia, here’s a cool picture of daniel craig to cheer you up this fine morning:

um…. that was for real.

ah how i love watching faux katrina footage and soldiers making friends with bright-eyed arab lads.

and if you didn’t quite catch all the lyrics you can find them below. My favorite lines include: “And if you ain’t gonna fight/ get out of the way;” “And they call me/Ready to deploy/ Engage, and destroy.”

it just makes me all tingly inside. what about you?

So don’t tell me who’s wrong and right,
When liberty starts slipping away.
And if you ain’t gonna fight,
Get out of the way.

‘Cause freedom ain’t so free,
When you breathe red, white, and blue.
I’m givin’ all of myself,
‘Cause that’s what I do.

And they call me - WARRIOR!
They call me - LOYALTY!
And they call me,
Ready to provide,
Relief and help, I’m
Wherever you need me to be.
I’m an American - WARRIOR!
Citizen Soldier!
I’m an American - WARRIOR!
Citizen Soldier!

Citizen Soldier

I’ll never leave another behind,
I will never accept defeat.
I’m a soldier in war,
Civilian in peace.

‘Cause freedom ain’t so free,
When you breathe red, white, and blue.
I’m givin’ all of myself,
How ’bout you?

And they call me - WARRIOR!
They call me - LOYALTY!
And they call me,
Ready to deploy,
Engage, and destroy,
Whenever you need me to be.
I’m an American - WARRIOR!
Citizen Soldier!
I’m an American - WARRIOR!
Citizen Soldier!

Warrior!
Citizen Soldier!
Warrior!
Citizen Soldier!

some of you have been lucky enough to hear about the psycho-delicious freak folk duo (was a trio until joe expatriated to be a sheep and hobbit herder with his gf in new zealand last month) morgan and i have been working on for awhile called Kittens? Kittens? KITTENS!

here are the opening lyrics to our new song, ICE* Baby (InterCityExpress Baby):

Stop, get off the train and listen
Which track is my next connection?
A gypsy,** grabs a hold of me tightly,
tries to steal my…. well anything really.

*ICE is one of Germany’s train systems.
** I apologize to my gypsy friends… you can write a song about drunk irishmen eating potatoes and reproducing like rabbits.

with the economy maybe collapsing, don’t move your money from wamu to gold…. move it to sausage… yes sausage.

to make up for my absence, i offer this gem (thanks morgan):

Fresno man arrested in spice, sausage attacks
Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

Fresno County sheriff’s Lt. Ian Burrimond says the suspect, 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez of Fresno, was found hiding in a nearby field wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks.

The victims told deputies they awoke Saturday morning to the stranger applying spices to one of them and striking the other with an 8-inch sausage.

Burrimond said money allegedly stolen in the burglary was recovered. The sausage was tossed away by the fleeing suspect and eaten by a dog.