New Banner and on the edge of the abyss

The new banner is up in celebration of the debaaaaa completely civilized and church going type trip we are taking in Vegas this weekend. We shall return next week with plenty of pictures, well the ones that are allowed, and plenty of stories. Perhaps we may even find a striiii young lady to lead Dews around naked tethered to a leash...intriguing.

The ironic thing about this banner is the shirt the artist gave Hunter in that picture is almost exact for the Acapulco shirt I have purchased for this event. For those not in the know the other gentleman is Hunter, more or less, as a comic book character. His name is Spider Jerusalem and his comic is Transmetropolitan, I highly suggest you all go out, find it, immerse yourself in it, then take a bath after.

In other interesting news, we have officially sold a Walken 08 sticker and a Walken 08 t-shirt so by pure economics Walken is winning our nomination at this point.

It's only a few days now...

...until the LSWTF crew (well some of us) gathering ourselves up by the boots and travel to the city the doesn't sleep, cause if you sleep you're dead, likely by the zombies that are now infesting the desert wasteland that was once known as Las Vegas, Nevada.

You can hear it humming on the horizon, a constant buzzing sound in your ear, the sound that can only be the impending doom to our livers and various other body parts. Dews, Say Hey and the others have it easy as they were smart enough to only touchdown in that place for less then 48 hours. I however have decided, if you're gonna do anything, might as well do it right, just like Horatio Alger.

Though our party has fallen by the wayside, some damned by the main who keeps them chained to their employment. Others though have been taken out of play since apparently they are a character on Oregon Trail and has been stricken with the measles, at 28 years old. I have not seen the evidence so I cannot confirm nor deny whether it is in fact measles or this fat bastard slept with a Boomer Sooner and came down with Syphilis.

Do not worry faithful readers, this adventurous reporter will not let things like gambling, booze and strippers keep him from a story. I will be reporting on what is sure to be a shit show, the UFC 81 weigh in Friday afternoon. I've always wanted to see a man fight a rabid bear, which is what we're likely to see Saturday night. Then on Sunday we make our way to the Belagio to lose our minds, place some bets, and watch Giselle Brady put up the most points in Super Bowl history.

I'm trying to write something here, but this morning has seemed to slow down as if this was a camera pan in some English Jane Austen movie as they keyhaul my limp body over the coral reef of Jamaica. The good news is I was able to cancel my hotel reservation last night since we no longer have the appropriate amount of people and just took two nights (Thursday and Sunday) at two important hotels...Circus Circus and The Flamingo.

Good People Drink Good Beer

I just received the following email from Flying Dog Brewery, my favorite brewery, created in part by LSWTF idol and GOD Hunter S Thompson.

As some of you may have heard, Flying Dog Brewery announced on Tuesday that we are embarking on the next step in our illustrious, 17 year history of crafting remarkable beer by concentrating all of our brewing and production to the brewery in Frederick, MD, where 70% of Flying Dog Beer is already being brewed. This move will take place in January and we are working to ensure that our entire production team will be able to make this move over to Maryland. Accounting, sales, marketing and other administrative functions will remain largely unaffected by this change and our HQ will remain in Denver.

My beer will be closer in my last final months, will become more readily available, and I may even be able to get it at more bars then just RFD.

If you have not had a Flying Dog, I highly encourage you give it a shot. They have a wide variety, and you can even look on the bottle to see the type of beer that particular bottle is be it darker, lighter, hoppy, or malty. Needless to say that Dews and I will attempt to be apart of the inaugural Brewery tour when it opens in Fredrick, Maryland (if they have one) and will give you an exclusive reporting of it.

This is better news then Roger Clemens being linked to steroids.

My Greatest Fear

There is apparently a book out that was just released on paperback called Armed Madhouse By Greg Palast. The link is a book review by Mark Groubert on C&L and it brings to the forefront my biggest fear in the coming year.

The line that works best for me is the following:

Anti-conspiracy theorists in the media kept demanding a ‘smoking gun’. There is no smoking gun – just thousands of spent rounds of ammunition.

The numbers don't lie, the Democrats won the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections. Both times the vote was stolen by the Republican Party, then I'm sure they saw it as doing what was best for America. Perhaps it was even a vision by God that told you to lead America to providence.

It frightens the hell out of me that this next election could also be stolen and those in power in the Democratic party will do nothing to stop it. I think Hunter must have saw some of this coming, it very well be the reason he left us, he couldn't stand the bullshit anymore and he was too old to fight it.

This country has been hi-jacked by a power that has been unseen by most people, but that is because they are blind. One merely has to open his eyes and see the corruption and hypocrisy going on inside this beltway. From far away folks merely shrug their shoulders and tell themselves that this is merely the way things work. People blindly follow what they are told because we have become a country too lazy to think anymore.

Think about it, a recent study just showed a third of American's still believe that Sadaam was directly involved with the terror attacks on 9/11. This has been disproved time and time again to the point where even the White House admits there was no connection. Yet the Republican Propaganda Network still says it so folks still believe. You won't find it surprising to also know that 40% of Republicans polled believed that very lie. How sad is it that people can't even listen and hear the truth anymore?

We are getting dangerously close to Big Brother, Escape From LA, or any other dystopia story you know of. JFK once said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." How far off are we from that very point? How much more are the people of America willing to stand as corporations and political machines rape and murder this great nation? People didn't even blink an eye when their civil liberties were taken away, why should they care if their votes are outsourced to the highest bider.

Nothing terrifies me and saddens me then this possibility. I can only hope that the powers of justice, of right and integrity can overcome this blight that has seemingly taken hold of our country. A country whose past isn't perfect as we were taught, we are not the sparkling ivory tower they would have you believe. Our hands are covered in blood over what we have done over the centuries. It seems every generation we realize this, but we seem to have forgotten. We are a great nation, we are the land of opportunity, and we must take it back from the barons who attempt to steal it away from us as if this was a child's game.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. -HST