It's 5:02 AM, Saturday. I've been up for about 40 minutes.In 28 minutes I'll be pressure washing a small parking garage at one of my properties.

Right now, I hate myself. On pay day, I'll tell myself how brilliant I was to volunteer for overtime.

Can't. Find. Vein. For. Coffee. IV.

help.

Here it is Tuesday and I haven't said a thing since Saturday. Here, at least.

The pressure washing worked out well. I had no traffic in the garage until right at the end and that was only two cars. It was a bit of a pain to have to unlock/lock and roll/unroll the security gates on two floors to get the equipment out and put it all away but it was doable. I was tired as hell for the rest of the day and I think it's carried into the week. *yawn*

Yesterday was uneventful. I had to return to the same property where the garage mentioned above is to clean up several messes at the end of the day and I did have to face 4:30 PM traffic in da haat of da city. Other than that, it was a nice, sunny day and I took the chance to recharge my Vitamin D sa couple of times. At one point, with the heat of the sun on my face and the sound of the ebbing and flowing traffic on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, it almost felt like Maui...

Today's forecast os for near-60 degrees and no rain until late so I'm going in a bit early this AM to hose down the sidewalks and part of a pier.

I bought a Spec-Ops organizer a week or so ago, to hold my SanDisk Cruzer, my Fisher Space pen and other pens, a pad and whatnots and I left it and my Spyderco Dragonfly home yesterday! I missed them both terribly and have promised to never leave them home again.

Okay, gotta go or I'll never be early.

Only a screwed-up city like Seattle would celebrate the anniversary of its most beloved icon by sending the winner of a contest somewhere else...

Lucky Space Needle visitor would get a trip to Paris

Have a gut feeling of when the 45-millionth person might arrive at the Space Needle?

If you're that visitor, you might win a five-day trip to Paris as the guest of Space Needle officials.

Tune in next time when we announce that the winner of the "20M4Ms" contest - the lucky visitor to a Mariner's game who spends the 20-millionth dollar on beer - wins a free trip to New York to see the Yankees play...

Excuse me. I really hate to say this but: all of us unpatriotic, left-wing, America-hating, ultra-Liberals told you abuse of power and illegal spying would happen as a result of the Patriot Act. In fact, many of us told you that the use of these "national security letters" would specifically be the instrument of abuse and spying.

But there will be no vindication until Mueller and Gonzales resign for allowing these abuses of power and acts of illegal espionage against Americans occur on their watch. If this was a Democrat administration, the right would be clamouring for Mueller's and Gonzales' heads.

Instead, Americans are given more arrogance from the administration hacks like Mueller: "But the question should and must be asked: How could this happen? Who is accountable?" Mueller said. "And the answer to that is, I am to be held accountable."

Dood, the only way to hold yourself accountable for the egregious crimes against your fellow Americans is to resign your position. Dork.

Mueller Admits Fault in FBI Intrusions

The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.

The FBI's transgressions were spelled out in a damning 126-page audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. He found that agents sometimes demanded personal data on people without official authorization, and in other cases improperly obtained telephone records in non-emergency circumstances.

We regret to inform you that due to a brainial meltdown, Panzo.org will be on hiatal hernia until such a time as Panzo learns to accept rather than condemn the dominant bullshit culture, the dominant media reality, the dominant business paradigm and the dominant white dick in his ass.

Than Kew

Someone wanted to know what the hell I meant in yesterday's post. Me too.

I think I meant that I had read the news and was so pissed off that I needed to take a break until such a time as I didn't care about things again.

Or maybe I was wishing that I didn't care about things.

That might be closer to it, in fact.

It's hard to care about stuff. It's especially hard to care about stuff in a way that is opposite to the feelings of the dominant culture.

Take Hawaii. I care that the U.S. government overthrew the soveriegn nation of Hawaii in 1893. I care that native Hawaiians have been screwed out of their lands. I care that native Hawaiians are the poorest, most undereducated and most under-represented group in Hawaii (I don't count whitey acting with misguided paternalism toward kanakas as them being "represented"). I care that development is on a pace to overwhelm the aquifers in Hawaii and has nearly turned the islands into nice places to visit but shitty places to live (you should see pau hana time on the highways in Hawaii if you want to know gridlock or peruse a few real estate listings if you want to know how far out of reach housing is becomeing). I could go on about the rape and belittling of the Hawaiian culture. I could go on about the environmental degradation in Hawaii or how the military is screwing the islands and so on and so on but the point is this: the dominant culture doesn't give a fuck about all of that.

The dominant culture simply wants to lie on the beach and order another mai tai and not think about the server having to work three jobs and still live hand to mouth.

It's hard to care. Sometimes I wish I didn't. Yesterday was one of those times.

Today is, too.

A Search for Self in Obama’s Hawaii Childhood - New York Times

It was his early search for a cultural identity on this plumeria-scented island populated with people of diverse origins, but relatively few blacks, that presaged his current political persona, his sister suggested.

“He couldn’t sit back and wait for the answers to come to him,” said Ms. Soetoro-Ng, the child of Mr. Obama’s mother from another marriage, who remains close to him. “He had to pursue those answers actively. People from very far-away places collide here, and cultures collide, and there is a blending and negotiation that is constant.”

Iraq War Anniversary Vigil on Monday

Panzo, can you make it?

Host: Assaf O.—fellow MoveOn member

Where: Five Corners "Tully's" Junction E. of U-Village, 45th St. and 35th Ave. (in Seattle)

When: Monday, Mar 19 2007, 6:00 PM

We're gathering this Monday night in conjunction with 1,000+ vigils across the country to commemorate and reflect on the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. While Congress debates ending the war and bringing our troops home, let's gather for what is hopefully our final Iraq war vigil together

R.S.V.P.: Can you attend a vigil this Monday to honor our troops and help end the war?

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Regrettably, I will not be able to join you on Monday in your fine and fruitful effort to end the war by sitting in a fucking coffee shop.

Truly,

Panzo

Lots of people think I'm a left-wingnut and, on a lot of things I am. But I love Washington State's Attorney General Rob McKenna.

This (Republican) guy has busted his ass for the people of Washington since the day I helped vote him into office and he hasn't stopped once.

Our current governor is our former AG and with any luck we'll be able to say the same about Rob McKenna one day.

About Rob McKenna

Rob McKenna is Washington's 17th Attorney General. As the state's chief legal officer, he directs 500 attorneys and nearly 700 professional staff providing legal services to state agencies, boards and commissions.

Cheney Says House Doesn't Support Troops

Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.

Jesus H. Christ up a conifer, Dick! Those who shit on the floor have no room to bitch about the technique used by those who have to clean it up!

In other words, you big asshole, you cannot blunder your country into the position it is in in Iraq as you have and expect your criticism of the Congress to have any credibility.

Go away, Dick. You're irrelevant to the future of America.

Another thing we don't do in America is negotiate with terrorists. So we only call them terrorists at politically expedient moments, such as election time when the American sheeple need to be "guided" toward some conclusion.

When we want to negotiate with them, we call them "rebels". Or "various groups". Or, "disenfrachised".

U.S. Envoy Says He Met With Iraq Rebels

“There were discussions with the representatives of various groups in the aftermath of the elections, and during the formation of the government before the Samarra incident, and some discussions afterwards as well,” Mr. Khalilzad said in a farewell interview on Friday at his home inside the fortified Green Zone. He is the first American official to publicly acknowledge holding such talks.

Recall Expanded to Some Dry Cat Food

Melamine is used to make plastic kitchen ware and is used as a fertilizer in Asia.

Go back and read that slowly.

That sounds a lot like, "It's a soup and an industrial solvent!"

More and more the words to Blue Oyster Cult's song "Godzilla" run through my mind: "History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of men."

Gonzales Carries on As Attorney General

"I believe in an attorney general who is actually the people's lawyer, not the president's lawyer," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said at a fundraiser in Tallahassee, Fla.

No one, Democrat or Republican, could have put that better. That was gutsy and eloquent.

I can't shake the incestuous way Gonzalez became AG - going from Bush's lawyer to the the nation's top lawyer - or the fact that Harriet Miers has been pegged as the head political axe weilder during this administration pogrom. "Dirty Harriet", you will recall, was at one time a Bush nominee to the Supreme Court.

What a fucking mess this administration is!