Factions, Fashions, and Fists

Strib:

Long-time Minneapolis peace activist and sometime-gadfly Ed Felien asked a Hennepin County District Court judge on Thursday to compel the county attorney to arrest President Bush when his plane lands for the GOP convention in September.

Felien, a former Minneapolis City Council member, said Bush should be investigated and prosecuted for murder because of troop deaths in Iraq, conspiracy to fix oil prices and conspiracy to distribute drugs by controlling the opium trade in Afghanistan.

He acknowledged his request was unusual, but also said, "the purpose of the prosecuting attorney is not to achieve convictions, but to seek justice."

At the end of a 30-minute hearing, Judge Gary Larson said he would rule in the normal course of business, but he did not provide a time frame. Felien's request certainly had the feel of a very long shot.

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Now, I'm no law-talking guy, but............all the best, Ed. Bush certainly needs to answer to somebody; just not sure this is the way to do it. I'd love to be wrong, though.

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Having one of those weeks where laying down on the sidewalk might feel pretty good. Gotta take a break from the regular places I frequent on the Ted Stevens Innertubes.



"Just" by Radiohead.

I'm fixing to redo my sidebar here. Had it all done last night, but forgot to hit the all-important "save" button...grrr. Maybe I'll have it done by the end of the weekend.

Otherwise, enjoy a great song!

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RNC, 2004:




RNC, 2008:


Well, it's a little better...

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I came across this Felix The Cat cartoon from 1922. Apparently, there were great wars between cats and rats sometime ago. Personally, I'm more disturbed that Felix enlisted sausages to help him in his unholy jihad:



But that's just me...

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It's spring, so that means you should buy some jewelry!

She's cute, and she's make some cute shit.

But, if you can't come, enjoy the musical stylings of The Magnetic Fields:

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This time, brought to you by the Minnesota GOP:

It was a creative political idea: Run anti-Democrat, anti-gas tax ads on the little monitors at gas stations across the Twin Cities.

But, despite talking it up for a month, the idea from House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, can't find a home.

Holiday gas stations in Minnesota, 49 of which have at-the-pump video monitors, won't take the political ads.

Robert Nye, Holiday spokesman, said the company has a long-standing policy against accepting political ads.

"It's not as if Seifert had asked and we thought about it and we said no," Nye said.

Seifert said Monday morning that his caucus had also hoped that SuperAmerica stations would run the ad on their video monitors.

But a spokeswoman for SuperAmerica's corporate parent, Linda Casey, said the company does not have television monitors at its stations.

You'd assume that Seifert, et.al, would have looked into placing these ads at the gas pumps before announcing that they'd do this. But no...they're adamant on capitalizing on something politically (outrage over gas prices, in this case) like the GOP always does.

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To mimic an old SNL bit, who were the ad wizards that came up with this?

MILWAUKEE - The beer that made Milwaukee famous hopes to stage a comeback by returning to a brewing formula discarded more than 30 years ago.

Schlitz had been available only in cans for several years until the brand's owner, Pabst Brewing Co., began selling it in bottles last year in the Twin Cities and Tampa, Fla.

That bottled version of Schlitz, which uses a traditional recipe last used in the early '70s, is aimed at older baby boomers who remember the beer from its glory days, before Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. cheapened the formula.

Around here, beers like PBR and Old Style have enjoyed a kind of "retro-immunity" from the scrutiny of hipsters and the like because, well, that's what their Grandparents drank. The problem is: they're terrible beers. And I've got to believe that they always have been; and only made sense to drink because of their price. While I'm glad that breweries made certain beers available to those in a certain income bracket, it doesn't take away the fact that those beers will mess your shit up good.

So, good luck to Schlitz, I guess. If people are willing to buy your beer again, more power to ya. Then again, there's this:

In the Twin Cities, a highly unscientific survey Friday found that out of three liquor stores surveyed, one carried bottled Schlitz: the Cellars in Roseville.

So far, sales have been disappointing, said Rod Olson, manager of the store. Olson began carrying the beer last summer, and in the first two months, despite prominent in-store displays, he sold only a case and a half -- three 12-packs.

Part of the problem, he said, is Pabst's pricing. At $9.99 for a 12-pack and $5.99 for a six-pack, it's more expensive than Budweiser, about the same as Michelob and almost as expensive as more upscale brews such as Samuel Adams. "It's just overpriced," he said.

Ten bucks for the privilege of getting kicked in the gut? No thanks.

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