<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from lightningjoe.blog-city.com</title><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 lightningjoe.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from lightningjoe.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>GOP Ignores Country&apos;s Needs (Again), For Mealtickets</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/gop_ignores_countrys_needs_again_for_mealtickets.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/gop_ignores_countrys_needs_again_for_mealtickets.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gop%5Fignores%5Fcountrys%5Fneeds%5Fagain%5Ffor%5Fmealtickets</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The GOP won't condemn the hatefulness. After all, the hatefulness was their idea.]]></description><category>healthcare</category><category>reform</category><category>gop</category><category>public</category><category>option</category></item><item><title>Moose With Mushrooms</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/moose_with_mushrooms.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/moose_with_mushrooms.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=moose%5Fwith%5Fmushrooms</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I wonder when McCain will realize that his base is no longer on board for him, but for Sa-rah! They love her. She&#39;s Bush all over again: ignorant, arrogant, parochial, born-again. But while she&#39;s ideologically firmly in Bush&#39;s camp, she s]]></description></item><item><title>Mayor in(to) Moose</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/mayor_into_moose.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/mayor_into_moose.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mayor%5Finto%5Fmoose</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A moose went missing from the Wasilla Public Library last Thursday. After dodging traffic moose-fashion (the cars do the dodging) all the way to the Library's foyer, the moose reportedly picked up a book from the resale cart and went downstairs to...]]></description><category>ak</category><category>ban</category><category>book</category><category>mayor</category><category>moose</category><category>palin</category><category>sarah</category></item><item><title>Alpha Sarah</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/alpha_sarah.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/alpha_sarah.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=alpha%5Fsarah</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So much has happened in the last few days, and I just looked at my own last post. OMG, how much the story changes, how faster!I wrote my last entry before the stuff about Sarah Palin's book-banning question came out.]]></description><category>aip</category><category>alaska</category><category>banning</category><category>books</category><category>sarah</category><category>statehood</category><category>palin</category><category>vote</category><category>vp</category></item><item><title>Say it&apos;s not so, Sarah</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/say_its_not_so_sarah.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/say_its_not_so_sarah.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=say%5Fits%5Fnot%5Fso%5Fsarah</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As an Alaskan, I can truly say this was a shocker. A couple of thoughts. I'm decidedly NOT Republican (Alaska Green Party), but I like Sarah Palin. She is, for a Republican, a breath of fresh air. Her heart's in the right place on social issues --]]></description><category>sarah</category><category>palin</category><category>mccain</category><category>bush</category><category>vp</category></item><item><title>Torching the Olympics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/torching_the_olympics.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/torching_the_olympics.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=torching%5Fthe%5Folympics</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not being a regular tv watcher (well, hardly ever, by most people's standards), I thought it was a joke, the first time I ran across a "news" anchor's "clever" aside about fireworks being faked. But only just now I heard it from a source I trust: NPR]]></description><category>olympics</category><category>fake</category><category>fireworks</category></item><item><title>The First Black Presidentress?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/the_first_black_presidentress.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/the_first_black_presidentress.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffirst%5Fblack%5Fpresidentress</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kind of ironic, that the "first  black  president" is after riding back into the White House (albeit as First Gentleman, this time) on the back of racially charged politics .One wonders if this sort of consideration ever comes up at the dinner table]]></description><category>chelsea</category><category>clinton</category><category>first</category><category>black</category><category>president</category></item><item><title>Sadr But Wiser</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/sadr_but_wiser.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/sadr_but_wiser.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sadr%5Fbut%5Fwiser</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sadr cut a deal. That's the only conclusion I see right now.The U.S. has been pushing the idea lately, that Sadr's long-running cease-fire hasn't really been that instrumental in the (apparent) easing of tensions in Iraq.]]></description><category>sadr</category><category>iraq</category><category>ceasefire</category><category>basra</category><category>fighting</category><category>mahdi</category></item><item><title>It&apos;s 3:00 AM: Do You Know Where Your Red Phone Is?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/its_300_am_do_you_know_where_your_red_phone_is.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/its_300_am_do_you_know_where_your_red_phone_is.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=its%5F300%5Fam%5Fdo%5Fyou%5Fknow%5Fwhere%5Fyour%5Fred%5Fphone%5Fis</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's 3:00 AM, and the Red Phone rings. A staffer hauls President Obama out of bed to take the call. Whatever the issue is, Obama then calls the Head of the General Chiefs, while WH staffers call the Pentagon. Within half an hour, a meeting forms up..]]></description><category>3am</category><category>clinton</category><category>obama</category><category>red</category><category>phone</category></item><item><title>Spiritual Sluttery and the Permanent Majority</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/spiritual_sluttery_and_the_permanent_majority.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/spiritual_sluttery_and_the_permanent_majority.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=spiritual%5Fsluttery%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fpermanent%5Fmajority</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Starship Troopers is a cult again? Strange that soldiers in Iraq are studying up on a fictional battle-for-survival against rapacious aliens.So lemme see, on this side we have alien hordes, who lob moons at our planet, and swarm-attack in the tens...]]></description><category>republicans</category><category>star</category><category>torture</category><category>troopers</category><category>wars</category></item><item><title>Corporatists don&apos;t need no stinking conservatives!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/corporatists_dont_need_no_stinking_conservatives.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/corporatists_dont_need_no_stinking_conservatives.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=corporatists%5Fdont%5Fneed%5Fno%5Fstinking%5Fconservatives</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Washington and Wall Street, "conservative" has now become a code word for "Corporatist," which is what the beltway power crowd really is. So it's no wonder these far-right-wingers are being taken by surprise, by the emerging realization,]]></description><category>corporatist</category><category>owner</category><category>class</category></item><item><title>What&apos;s One More Retroactive Lie?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/whats_one_more_retroactive_lie.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/whats_one_more_retroactive_lie.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whats%5Fone%5Fmore%5Fretroactive%5Flie</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No actual thinking being can now be expecting to hear truth, from our Perpetrator Administration. The only meaningful listening choice is over which lie is more revealing. In the current case , the Bushies made a tactical error by letting us know...]]></description><category>attorneys</category><category>bush</category><category>emails</category><category>lies</category><category>missing</category><category>us</category></item><item><title>A Soldier Blogs About His Death And Our Rights</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/a_soldier_blogs_about_his_death_and_our_rights.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/a_soldier_blogs_about_his_death_and_our_rights.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fsoldier%5Fblogs%5Fabout%5Fhis%5Fdeath%5Fand%5Four%5Frights</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Came across the last post of Andy Olmsted . Some responders  had tears over this. Not I, as I'm from a military family, and have long since come to terms with the reality of committed military service, and the inevitable consequences of wars, even...]]></description><category>andy</category><category>olmsted</category><category>last</category><category>post</category><category>rights</category><category>freedom</category></item><item><title>Central Stupid Agency?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/central_stupid_agency.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/central_stupid_agency.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=central%5Fstupid%5Fagency</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, so here's a begging question: where are all the OTHER tapes? Everyone's making such a fuss over two interrogation tapes the CIA chose to destroy to protect the torturer's identities (never thought I'd type such a statement in earnest)...]]></description><category>cia</category><category>csa</category><category>padilla</category><category>cameras</category><category>torture</category><category>interrogation</category><category>tapes</category><category>terror</category></item><item><title>Dogs &quot;Classify&quot; &quot;Complex&quot; Photos</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/dogs_classify_complex_photos.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/dogs_classify_complex_photos.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dogs%5Fclassify%5Fcomplex%5Fphotos</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dogs Can Classify Complex Photos In Categories Like Humans Do" Doesn't that have an elevated sound to it? Are dogs reading tactical satellite data; using Google Earth to find new hydrants? Not exactly. Turns out dogs can recognize other dogs.]]></description><category>dog</category><category>photos</category><category>shower</category><category>vortex</category><category>science</category><category>fiction</category></item><item><title>Chance at Greatness Du Jour...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/chance_at_greatness_du_jour.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/chance_at_greatness_du_jour.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chance%5Fat%5Fgreatness%5Fdu%5Fjour</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I supposed I'd better weigh in on the much-ballyhooed Hollywood Writer's strike, since everyone else who should also know better is doing it too. When everyone else jumps off a cliff without the benefit of bungees, you won't have to put up with me an]]></description><category>television</category><category>greatness</category><category>culture</category><category>writers</category><category>strike</category></item><item><title>Reconcilliation Out Of Mutual Distrust?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/reconcilliation_out_of_mutual_distrust.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/reconcilliation_out_of_mutual_distrust.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=reconcilliation%5Fout%5Fof%5Fmutual%5Fdistrust</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[bush iraq reconcilliation fairy tale]]></description></item><item><title>Cast Out The Buccaneer Prophet</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cast_out_the_buccaneer_prophet.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cast_out_the_buccaneer_prophet.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cast%5Fout%5Fthe%5Fbuccaneer%5Fprophet</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[bush prophet smirk buccaneer pirate beast]]></description></item><item><title>Crows Lead Way For Free Speech</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/crows_lead_way_for_free_speech.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/crows_lead_way_for_free_speech.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=crows%5Flead%5Fway%5Ffor%5Ffree%5Fspeech</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[digicam protest police abuse]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Free&quot; Market Fundamentalist Jihad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/free_market_fundamentalist_jihad.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/free_market_fundamentalist_jihad.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=free%5Fmarket%5Ffundamentalist%5Fjihad</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[chicago school jihad bush peak oil population naomi klein john cusack]]></description></item><item><title>Bush&apos;s Oil Bride, The Smoking Gun</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_oil_bride_the_smoking_gun.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_oil_bride_the_smoking_gun.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bushs%5Foil%5Fbride%5Fthe%5Fsmoking%5Fgun</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[bush oil bride smoking gun paul oneil]]></description></item><item><title>Cold Turkey! (if only)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cold_turkey_if_only.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cold_turkey_if_only.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cold%5Fturkey%5Fif%5Fonly</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[tv television digital dead fred]]></description></item><item><title>Brain-Dead Chaos</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/braindead_chaos.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/braindead_chaos.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=braindead%5Fchaos</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[homeland security LAX random chaos]]></description></item><item><title>Bush&apos;s God</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_god.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_god.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bushs%5Fgod</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[bush god naomi klein disaster capitalism shock doctrine]]></description></item><item><title>AT&amp;T: Ooops!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/att_ooops.htm</guid><link>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/att_ooops.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=att%5Fooops</comments><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So AT&T shows their true colors , in censoring music performances of political content they don't like. 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