the double wide salon

i'm gordon smith, and i approve of barack obama's poll numbers in oregon

hmmm...

Rare Footage of Me, Elrod, Captured on Film.

I've been into recycling for a long time, and this proves it:

It's Business Time Part Two

Ain't Nothin Sexier Than Makin Love To Clovis (tm).  But Check This Out Anyway:

it's business time

All right you Pacific-Northwest pantywaists.

Put down your lattes, hop in on your magnesium framed commuter bikes bigass SUVs and get your ass to the polls next Tuesday. (or mail the fucker, however ya'll do it out there)

It's time to run up the score and put this away.  They say dumb-ass white boys won't vote for Barry Hussein and we know dat ain't right.

DW- R.I.P.

that's when i reach for my revolver

Ralph Nader Running for President -- Again

He Says He's Ready To Take On Political Establishment One More Time

By JAKE TAPPER and KIM RANDOLPH

Feb. 24, 2008—

 

Calling Washington, D.C., "corporate-occupied territory," consumer advocate Ralph Nader launched his fifth campaign for the presidency Sunday.

"I'm running for president," said Nader in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." Nader downplayed the impact he might have on the ultimate outcome of the race, saying "if Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form."

Assailing Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as "the candidate for perpetual war" and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as someone whose "better instincts and his knowledge have been censored by himself," Nader said he was running to advocate positions he said were being ignored by McCain, Obama, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, whom last month he called a "political coward."

"All the candidates -- McCain, Obama, and Clinton -- are against single payer health insurance, full Medicare for all," Nader said, saying he also wanted to take on the "bloated military budget," labor law reform, repealing the Taft-Hartley Act, and corporate crime.

"One feels an obligation to try to open the doorways," Nader said. "Dissent is the mother of assent and in that context I have decided to run for president."

Nader, 73, has run for president as a write-in candidate on both the Democratic and Republican tickets in the New Hampshire primary 1992 as a "none of the above" candidate. He mounted more serious, if still quixotic, campaigns in 1996, 2000, and 2004.

Many Democrats resent his 2000 run, believing he sapped enough votes from then-Vice President Al Gore to hand the presidency to then-Gov. George W. Bush. In Florida, where Gore ultimately lost to Bush by 537 votes, more than 97,000 Floridians supported Nader, then on the Green Party ticket.

The Clinton campaign declined to comment on Nader's announcement.

Campaigning in Columbus on Saturday, Obama called Nader a "heroic" figure who "has done as much as just about anybody on behalf of consumers."

But Obama also assailed the consumer advocate as a stubborn egomaniac.

"My sense is that Mr.. Nader is somebody who, if you don't listen and adopt all of his policies, thinks you're not substantive," Obama said. "He seems to have a pretty high opinion of his own work &I do think there's a sense now that ... if somebody's not hewing to the Ralph Nader agenda then you must be lacking in some way."

Obama said the job of the Democratic Party "is to be so compelling that a few percentage (points) of the vote going to another candidate's not going to make any difference."

Nader, calling Obama "the first liberal evangelist in a long time," criticized the Illinois Democrat for having been "pro-Palestine when he was in Illinois, before he ran for the state senate" but now "supporting the Israeli destruction" of Gaza.

Nader said that those who would argue against his candidacy are displaying "political bigotry" against "all of us that think that the country needs an infusion of freedom, democracy and choice," suggesting they "should just sit on the sidelines and watch the two political parties own all the voters and turn the government over to big business."

 

Clovis To Withdraw Brownback Endorsement, Now Supporting Obama

From the Des Moines Register:

Former Iowa State Fair butter sculptor Duffy Lyon has endorsed Barack Obama through a butter sculpture of his campaign logo.

Obama’s campaign unveiled Duffy Lyon’s butter work last week while campaigning in Iowa.

poot: je suis le media!

Breaking:  Double Wide Salon publisher/editor/dude who pays the typepad fee every month Poot issued the following response to a scurrilous story printed in these pages earlier today:

• I deny these allegations.  All I did was have some girls come over to the condo dressed up like cabbies and change my diaper.  Then I beat the stew out of 'em.  All of which is legal in DC.

• These allegations are the result of a smear campaign being conducted by a certain liver-lipped pederast Yeti with an axe to grind.  Well I am no Paul Wolfowitz.  I'm no Alberto Gonzales, and I won't be run out of this town with my head down in shame.  NEVER!

• I cannot comment further as these matters are being investigated.  I will fully cooperate with the Special Prosecutor.

• My family really really really wants me to spend more time with them.

• I will not resign.  I will not consider resigning, nor will I accept any deal to step down.

Salomé: beheading sometimes funny

Clovis' Grieving Process

I know many of you are concerned about my grieving process... Well here's how I'ma dealing with it...

Suburban Shepherd Charged With Cruelty

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 3:13 p.m. ET

Jessup, GA. (AP) -- A man who kept 77 sheep in his suburban home was charged Wednesday with 30 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty.

Lewis Crews, 43, was being held at the Wake County jail in lieu of $30,000 bail, police Detective Joey Best said.

Crews surrendered the flock to animal control officers Monday after police found some sheep grazing on artificial flowers in the town cemetery in Jessup, a bedroom community of Hahira.

Thirty of the sheep were euthanized because of various health problems. In addition, sheep bones and carcasses were found in Crews' yard.

Veterinarian Kelli Ferris, who examined the flock, said some of the animals' hooves had never been trimmed, causing infections that led the sheep to walk on their knees.

Crews kept some of the younger sheep on the ground floor of his house and kept the others in pens in the yard, authorities said.

Crews denies abusing the animals. He told The News & Observer of Raleigh on Tuesday that he was overwhelmed by the number of lambs born this year.

Crews, who said he has raised sheep for a decade, called the animals ''relaxing to be around.''

''It's like in Florida, you can swim with the dolphins. If you can get sheep to follow you, it might be a similar experience. Oh, and my mama's dead.''