Tales from the Dark Side: Day 1

well, after making the men's room at the st. paul/minneapolis airport a national punchline.... and after a bridge collapsed once they announced they would hold their convention in minneapolis/st. paul... the republicans have decided to give the twin cities a break.

obviously, in an attempt to remedy the mistakes of katrina three years ago, the GOP made the decision to postpone the majority of the republican national convention today and urge people to pay close attention to hurricane gustav as he slammed into the gulf coast of louisiana earlier today.

so tonight.... at the 9:00 CST hour, instead of covering the snake pit of the republican nation convention, the major networks continue to cover gustav and his effects.

on a side note: my brother and his wife live in baton rouge and were hit pretty hard today. they lost power early and are still waiting for power...from what i understand. my brother is in contact with my parents who are keeping my other brother and i updated. in an attempt to save his cell phone battery, we've been asked not to call.

but i'll keep people posted.

now as i mentioned.... the GOP convention was not 100% scrapped today. in fact, several large parties were still held over the weekend for the delegates while the louisiana residents fled the storm.

as abc news reporters tried to speak with the GOP delegates to ask about the appropriateness of the decadent, drunken, weekend festivities, most of the individuals dodged the cameras. one GOP prick actually responded, "everyone faces difficult times."

yeah... when was the last time you had some difficulty in your ivory tower?

anyway.... bush was to speak this evening, instead.... just before 5:00pm CST, laura bush and cindy mccain entered the stage and, side by side, spoke to the american people with the vacant looks of stepford wives.

cindy, in particular, was clad in a lovely gold-plated gown with about five pearl necklaces strung around her pain-killer addicted, strung-out neck. (oh come on... you don't think that fake cast was to get more pretty pink pills?)

at any rate... i'm sure her gold dress and laura's ivory white dress really made the individuals who had to flee the hurricane feel a real connection.

interesting side note: apparently mccain sent a private jet down to the gulf coast to help evacuate several GOP delegates and their families. as one delegate from louisiana said, "mccain's my hero."

i wonder how many more times he sent the plane back to help evacuate other, non-delegates from the affected states? do you imagine a single african american saw the inside of that plane?

by why quibble? especially when the real talk today was around the GOP delegates' concerns for governor palin's knocked-up seventeen year old. as one alaska delegate put it: "love one another" is the most important commandment.

there was no follow-up to the delegate on whether or not that applied to homosexuals and immigrants, as well.

it's possible george bush may speak via satellite to the RNC tomorrow night. but everything is being taken a day at a time. so i guess we'll see....

oh...and hurricane hannah may put a damper on john mccain's acceptance speech on thursday.

so stay tuned.

e.