Getting Ready to go to Mackinac Island!

Just a quick stop in to update my readers. Finally finished ALL my garments! YAY! There has been sooo much I have been wanting to share with y’all. Just been too busy. Couldn’t hold in my opinions, so my poor cats had to listen to me complaining.

Anyhoo, I will have full recaps of happenings on the island. I will let y’all know of the candidates for ‘10. I may be able to sneak onto a computer at the internet cafe on the island. Perhaps, perhaps, there may be some endorsements coming up. I am getting ready to hop on the ferry.

So, enjoy some Rockabilly Before Midnite. I think the perfect song for this moment is “Ghost Ship” by the German group Black Raven, since I will soon be on a ferry across the Mysterious Great Lakes, where many ghost ships lie below the waters.

I have a review of the group coming up soon enough. Gonna buy one of their records. That’s right, I said record. Ya know, black, vinyl and circular things.

gene pitney – half heaven half heartache

Haven’t posted Rockabilly After Midnite for a while.  Hemming my skirt, this song just popped in my head.  No reason.  Hey it’s better than voices in my head.  Anyhoo, this is one of those songs that just touches my heart and makes me desire to reach out to something, never knowing what that is, but it’s there – somewhere out there.

Sorry to go sappy on ya. I will post some real gone rockin Rockabilly soon enough.

John Edwards is such a Cad

Ex-aide says Edwards fathered mistress’ child

Senator also allegedly asked campaign finance chair to hide paternity

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A man who once claimed to have fathered the child of John Edwards’ mistress says in a book proposal the former presidential candidate is the real father and that he and Edwards worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday.

The New York Times said the book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young states he helped facilitate the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter. According to the newspaper, Young wrote that Edwards once told Hunter they would wed after Edwards’ wife, who has cancer, died.

What a gentleman…

Edwards told Hunter that the ceremony would be held on a rooftop in New York and the Dave Matthews Bands would make an appearance, the newspaper said, citing its examination of the book proposal.

Again,  what is with these poli-critters just being plain old awkward when dealing with affairs?

Edwards has said the affair with Hunter ended in 2006. That year, Edwards’ political action committee paid Hunter’s video production firm $100,000 for work. Then the committee paid another $14,086 on April 1, 2007. The Edwards camp has said the latter payment from the PAC was exchanged for 100 hours of unused videotape Hunter shot.

The same day, the Edwards presidential campaign had injected $14,034.61 into the PAC for a “furniture purchase,” according to federal election records.

Read more on the weird, awkward and disgusting story here

Bill Schuette Launches Campaign to be Michigan’s Attorney General

At news conferences across Michigan on Monday, Sept. 21 and Tuesday, Sept. 22, Bill Schuette will announce his candidacy for Attorney General of Michigan. “Our state needs an Attorney General who will put safety first and do what it takes to protect Michigan families,” Schuette said. “I will and that’s why I’m running.”

Campaign events on Monday will take place at:

8:30 a.m. – In Midland at the Midland County Courthouse, located at 220 W. Ellsworth Street (NOTE: Please enter the courthouse from the back).

11 a.m. - In Southfield at the Southfield Public Library Auditorium, located at 26300 Evergreen.

1 p.m. - In Lansing at the Radisson Hotel, located at 111 N. Grand Ave.

3 p.m. – In Grand Rapids at the Kent County Republican Party Headquarters, located at 264 Leonard Street, NW.

Campaign events on Tuesday will take place at:

9:30 a.m. – In Traverse City at the Robert P. Griffin Hall of Justice, located at 280 Washington Street.

Noon - In Marquette at the Marquette County Courthouse, located at 234 W. Baraga Avenue.

Schuette, a Midland resident, has served Michigan as a congressman, Republican U.S. Senate candidate, director of the state Agriculture Department, state senator, and judge on the Court of Appeals.

19% PetPlace.com Readers Think That Pets Should be Allowed to Sue Owners

I subscribe to a Cat newsletter called PetPlace.com. A few days ago I received an email for a poll asking people if they think pets have the right to sue. Today I received the results of the poll.

Earlier this week, we asked you this question: Should pets be able to sue their owners? If you haven’t already done so – take our poll.

This is an interesting question.

This topic came up as a result of Senate confirmation of Cass Sunstein as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Many were reluctant to approve Sunstein, concerned that he would push a radical animal rights agenda. In a 2002 academic paper for Harvard University, Sunstein drew a parallel between current uses of animals and human slavery, even going as far as to suggest that animals could be granted the right to sue humans in court.

It’s a controversial issue. Should animals have the right to sue their owners?

Here is what you think:

36% – Animals should not be allowed to sue and whoever came up with the idea is stupid

24% – I think it is a ploy for lawyers to make more money

20% – I think it is another ridiculous idea of President Obama’s Administration

19% – I think it is a great idea and they should be able to sue

What do you think? Take our poll .

I found some of our the comments we received really interesting. Check them out. Some people say – yes, this is a great idea … and other people were disgusted by the poll. Read the poll comments.

Until next time,

Dr. Jon

I checked some of the comments, I swear some people are so stupid. I am not sure how these people even have half the brains to even do basic things as feed and take care of their pets. Fortunately, the majority does have common sense.

PetPlace.com is not some militant animal rights website. It is mainly a site for pet owners to learn about critter related issues. Like why your cat or dog may do silly things, how to detect symptoms of certain pet related diseases, how to know when your pet needs to go to the vet versus something that can be waited out, what the best foods are for certain conditions, what people foods are safe for pets and what is bad for animals. So if 19% of PetPlace.com readers think that pets should sue, imagine what subscribers to PETA think?

The Runaway Boys – Rawhide

I am dedicating tonite’s Rockabilly After Midnite to my fellow bloggers.  We conservatives need to keep herding in our poli-critters.  They have gotten way far off the trail.  Now it’s time for the bloggers and Glenn Beck to take on our lassos and rope in the strays.  We need to show the poli-critters that us cowboys and cowgirls are BOSS! 

Don’t try to understand the politicians.  They are like cows.  They have no sense of direction or moral compasses.  The cowpokes need to give them the occasional poking.  They need to fear “We the people.”  But they can’t fear us if we are not speaking out and telling them what we want them to do.  In fact they will wander off, cause stampedes and ruin towns of hard working Americans.

North & South Book 2 – Orry Rescues Madeline

To honor Patrick Swayze’s memory, I am going to do something a bit different for Rockabilly After Midnite and play one of my most fave scenes from North and South.

I tried to post a music scene from Dirty Dancing, but frankly I couldn’t find anything too good. Let’s be honest, Patrick Swayze was hot in the movie and was a good actor, other than that the movie didn’t have much going for it.  Most of the music was either crappy or ho-hum.

Take that Justin!  You big jerk!

Update on Fake MIRepublican.com Email

Last nite I had posted about a fake email from a fake site posing as being from the MI Republican Party, which was not. I received this email from someone “in the know” in the Michigan Republican Party. I was asked to not reveal who gave me the info, but I will copy/paste from the email;

The dems did not somehow get a hold of the registration list as the party response claims. It’s offensive and insulting to our intelligence that they suggested that.

There is an individual who is a well-known for pulling this kind of stunt, that works for a gubernatorial candidate. That alone is not news. Other than there may be legal problems this time with how they did it.

The news is how one campaign obviously got registration emails and the others (hoekstra, cox, bouchard) did not. Perhaps those in charge of the list need to be asked how emails got to that camapign?

Ex-Blagojevich adviser dies before prison term

CHICAGO – A week before one of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s closest advisers was to go to prison for fraud, the commercial roofing contractor died at a Chicago hospital, and the mayor of a town where he was found said the death was being investigated as a suicide.

An autopsy was planned Sunday for Christopher G. Kelly, 51, who was discovered Friday night in a lumber yard parking lot in Country Club Hills, a town just southwest of Chicago. Kelly died Saturday morning, authorities said.

Country Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch said police were investigating Kelly’s death as a suicide, but were going to be especially thorough. Local and state police and the FBI searched for clues at the lumberyard, but no further information was available, Welch said.

Kelly — who raised millions of dollars for Blagojevich’s campaigns — was taken to Oak Forest Hospital at 11:15 p.m. Friday, and later transferred to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital for further treatment, said Stroger spokesman Marcel Bright. Kelly arrived there by ambulance at 5:15 a.m. Saturday and was pronounced dead at 10:46 a.m., Bright said.

Kelly had pleaded not guilty to charges included in the federal indictment alleging Blagojevich sought to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat.

But he was to report Friday to begin serving a three-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to tax fraud charges that included writing off thousands of dollars in gambling debts as business expenses.

Kelly, who admittedly loved to gamble and ran up big debts at Las Vegas casinos and elsewhere, was part of Blagojevich’s tight inner circle along with convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko. Rezko is believed to be cooperating with federal prosecutors after being convicted of taking part in a $7 million payoff scheme.

More here

Ernie Maresca – Shout! Shout! Knock yourself out

Tonite’s Rockabilly After Midnite goes out to the 9/12 Patriots. 

Today y’all shouted, shouted knocked yourselves out.  You yelled, yelled, yelled at your clueless congress critters.  Ya had to scream, to let them know what ya mean.  Congress needs to stop putting our dimes in their big brother machine.  Hey, y’all are havin a tea party and it’s been brewin.  Y’all were in D.C. and it looked like fun.  I was alone at home, telling congress to kiss my ass.  Gubmint needs to stop playing games.  They need to stop dancing around the truth.  Y’all really livened up that crazy crowd.  Everbody who cares about this country is speaking out.  Saturday night, you really gave them a time.  Gubmint’s doin it’s own thing with their heads up their asses.  We need to stomp out this power hungry monster known as government. Now we need to school them in common sense.  America needs to wake up, it’s plain to see.  So keep shouting and knocking down the socialists.

Suspicious Boat in the Potomac

FOX News has just reported on a suspicious boat was fired upon by the Coast Guard, in the Potomac River near 9/11 Memorial events.

UPDATE: “Something happened” Expect a statement from Coast Guard in a momment.

NEW UPDATE:  Allegedly Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise.  Strange time for a training exercise.  God though, hope it’s true.

Black Raven – Don’t You Ask Me Now

Don’t ask me why I posted this.  As is with many Rockabilly After Midnites, sometimes there is just no rhyme or reason.  This is just a good melodious song by some modern Rockabilly cats.  And plus they are so dreamy.  Ah, look at those poses, the hair, the sideburns, the glasses on the mid guy, the tats, the shirts…

I think I am in love….

Otis White – Shape Up

Tonite’s Rockabilly After Midnite is dedicated to the Republican Party.  Y’all need to shape up.  I am not completely giving up on the Republican Party.  But y’all do one thing and say another.  This family values crap ain’t nothing more than a magician’s allusion.  When the people start becoming concerned with real issues, like I don’t know the economy, you make us turn our heads and look at your happy ass family.  So that we don’t see that behind the scenes you are doing nothing but sitting on your asses while Democrats raise our taxes and shove health care down our throats and nanny state us to death. 

When the hell are you going to get out of the business of social issues and shape up and do what you were voted in to do?  Also, when are the voters going to realize that family values of a poli-critter ain’t  gonna help you no way no how?  Perhaps the poli-critters’ family values may hurt you in the end.  What is to say that a poli-critter can’t use family values to create their own version of nanny-statism?  What you value in your family may be different than what someone else values in their family. 

Oh, almost forgot, was going to post a vid.

Bye Bye Vansy w/ Rockabilly Poetry Added

Glad I was late on tonite’s Rockabilly After Midnite. Even though Barack is the Rock Star, I think that Ann Margaret’s title song from “Bye Bye Birdie” works for the celebration of at least one czar down, 32 to go!

Hang on. I already have the Rockabilly Poetry moving through my little mind. I’ll be back in an hour or so.

Here is the Rockabilly Poetry.

Bye Bye Vansy! Glenn Beck caught you so. I’ll try Vansy, to forget somehow. No more calling people racists each time you preach to the choir. No more laughs from liberals each time you call Republicans assholes. You thought you had super duper sway. There’s nothing left to say, but Vansy you’re a commie. Bye bye Vansy, ciao sweety-pie. Bye bye Vansy it’s your time to fly away little birdy. Time to say goodbye. Bye Now!

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass(whole).

Peter Schiff and Rand Paul are Continuing the Spirit of the Ron Paul Campaign

Ron Paul campaign lives on in Senate races

By Aaron Blake – 09/01/09 02:37 PM ET

Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) presidential campaign will live on in 2010 in the form of two of his closest devotees running in key Senate races.
And they are starting to have a real impact.

Paul’s libertarian-leaning presidential bid, while notable for its novelty and the amount of money he raised, was never given a chance. By contrast, his son Rand Paul and adviser Peter Schiff are starting to be seen and felt in two of the biggest Senate races in the country.

Rand Paul has already raised nearly $770,000 and is on pace to report a quarterly total of about $1 million for the GOP primary to replace Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.). In addition, a SurveyUSA poll late last month showed him within striking distance of the establishment favorite, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, trailing 37-26.

Schiff, meanwhile, is approaching the $1 million mark before he is even an officially announced candidate in the race against Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).

Both keep running tabs of their fundraising online, which is highly unusual for a federal candidate. And that’s not the only thing that sets them apart.

Schiff and Paul are harnessing the energy that propelled Ron Paul to more than $35 million raised in the presidential race and hoping it translates better to a smaller-scale, but still high-profile, Senate race. Ron Paul didn’t win any states, but his acolytes say focusing on one state could pay dividends.

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Rand Paul has been much more active in getting his name out — as evidenced by the poll numbers — while Schiff plans to do this in the near future. But even though Schiff is getting a later start on the ground, he is running in a crowded and competitive primary field where anything could feasibly happen.

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Andrew Schiff (Peter’s brother) also said that the environment could actually be better for a Ron Paul-like candidate in 2010. He said the economic downturn helps a man who, as an investment adviser, made a name for himself by predicting such trouble.

“When Ron Paul was running, the economic crash was still theoretical,” Andrew Schiff said. “Now it’s not a theoretical; it’s an actual. That’s something in our favor.”

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Chris Healy, the chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party, said the jury’s out and that Schiff has plenty of work to do getting known.

“He has no political footprint at all in Connecticut; he hasn’t voted, contributed or participated in anything political in our state,” Healy said. “He has written books and appeared on television and has a business of which we know little.”

Another source wasn’t so charitable. The source, who is close to Schiff’s campaign but disgruntled, said the inmates are running the asylum and that both Schiff and Paul are “too untraditional to have a chance.”

That’s just it. They are too untraditional NOT to have chance. That is what the American people are looking for. The American people are sick and tired of “politics as usual.” Do I need to repeat that? I am sure Americans outside of Connecticut and Kentucky are wishing that there was someone running for offices in their state, or will be once Schiff’s and Paul’s names get out there.

“They refuse to run traditional races, meaning that they will rely on volunteers to conduct critically important campaign operations — much like the Ron Paul campaign did in 2008,” the source said. “Every campaign needs volunteers, but unfortunately for Schiff and Paul, their volunteers scare the crap out of traditional Republicans.”

Granted, I admit that when Ron Paul was running in ‘08 his volunteers did seem a bit off. But I think by now, voters don’t care about the volunteers. It is time to focus on the message.

It’s clear that both are running as outsiders, and they fit the description.

Washington needs outsiders.

Kentucky Senate candidate Grayson will be the beneficiary of a fundraiser at National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) headquarters this month, with more than half of the GOP Senate caucus in attendance. In the Connecticut race, Simmons is a former lawmaker, and Foley was a big-time fundraiser for former President Bush.

It just goes to show that the Republican Party is still clueless. I am not dissing the Republican Party, I believe there is still a chance for the party.

Here is what some of the commentors to the original article had to say of Grayson and the fundraiser;

The 23 Republican Senator’s (NRSC) throwing their weight behind the former Democrat, now, conservative Republican ? Trey Greyson are not listening. They’re are pushing the same GOP, good ole boy back door politics that real conservative Americans are sick of. 17 of them voted for the TARP bailouts and need to go!Rand Paul has pledged to refuse donations from any Senator who voted for the TARP bailouts.~ WAKE UP! http://www.kentuckyfight.com/

Grayson the “traditional” Republican who was a Democrat and supported Bill Clinton! Give me Paul and Schiff anyday over these fools who have bankrupted the country!

Back to the article;

Ron Paul said his movement needs to win some races in order for it to be seen as a mainstream alternative to GOP leadership.

“We’ve got to continue the growth in the number of people involved and get more people elected,” Ron Paul said. “In many ways, things are falling in place for us, if we do our job right.”

Back during the ‘08 Pres election, I admit that I thought Ron Paul was a bit of a kook. But now I am starting to realize just how right he was back then. I think it is time for all of us to take a new look at Ron Paul and the Ron Paul Movement.

Read the full article from The Hill here