RIP Richard Wright-Pink Floyd founder dies at 65

It's truly a sad for Floyd fans. Richard Wright, the group's keyboardist died today from cancer. He was 65.

What this guy did for the sound of the band can be seen by comparing "Dark Side of The Moon" to the only album he was not on "The Final Cut."


This is from their Delicate Sound of Thunder tour. Here is Pink Floyd playing "Great Gig In The Sky" in Italy.

If you need some good news...

...in a day that saw Wall Street calamity and a natural catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico-

Obama's numbers are going back up and McCain's are trending down again.

DailyKos: Reaserch 2000 poll

From 23/6, a funny round up of the campaigns' negative ads.

Here's a disturbing documentary about the kind of church Sarah Palin attends.

And it's actually quite a good introduction into rightwing theology.


Sarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave from Bruce Wilson on Vimeo.



Youtube initially tried to censor this video but it has since been reposted by someone else.

You can read all about it in the film maker's diary here:
TDKos Diary: YouTube censors viral video on Palin's churches

Disco Fridays-The Venga Boys

Here they are with "We Like To Party."

Meet the Republican ticket.

The state of the race.

The DailyKos has entered into a polling agreement with what is considered the most objective polling outfit around: Research 2000. You can see today's poll here:
The Daily tracking poll

Right now Obama is at 47 and McCain is at 46 nationally. So while it's one on the plus side, it's not great news.

Tonight's Featured Artists-The Filipino prison system...

Here they are doing "The Hustle."

Well it's seven years later.

I feel like the last seven years was a massive waste of time when it comes to avenging 9/11. Osama bin Laden is still running around just east of where he was 7 years ago in Pakistan and we're committed to security missions in Iraq.

Looking around it seems our economy has been in stasis like Ground Zero. Our financial sector has never been quite the same since that day. The Freedom Tower remains on the drawing board. The pluck...the we can do anything spirit has never returned since that day.

You know if in the early 1990s you said to me, "A smirking chimp will take control, deregulate, destroy, bankrupt the country." I would have laughed. "Impossible!"

9/11 lengthened the Bush nightmare we live under. Nightmares like wiretapped phones, gulags in Cuba, torture of POWs and the general screwing up of every government institution that ensure citizen safety and well being.

I hate this day. I hate this day because the cretins won.

Obama hits back...

Obama breaks it down for people pretty effectively here-



He is still awesome. He's awesome because he accepts reality.

It's amazing how little it takes.

Tonight's Featured Artist-Alanis Morissette

Here she is doing the Black Eyes Peas hit "My Humps."

Sex, drugs and oil

CNN: Sex-drugs-and-inappropriate-gifts-alleged-in-government-probe

Whatever happened to rock and roll?

23/6 has some good advice for Dems feeling guilty...

...about playing hardball.

If your having trouble reading it, double click on the image for a clearer view.

You want to hear somethin' f&@ked up?

Palin as mayor of Wasilla charged rape victims for rape kits. Rape kits are the evidence collecting tool used shortly after the rape occurred. Meaning yeah, she demanded that fresh rape victims pony up as little as $300 up to $1200 dollars for this necessary prosecution tool.

Frontiersman-Sex Assualt Bill

Fortunately Governor Knowles signed a law in 2000 to end this practice. Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. So for 4 years, and until it was legislated against on a state level, this was Palin's policy.

Americablog broke the story here- wasilla-charged-rape-victims

Behold! A wack-a-doodle visits our site

This was written yesterday morning on the chat widget.

watch your step Mr Bold
you've went around forcing your beliefs and insulting people for too long
if I were you, Id watch my step very carefully



















-Guest
2008-09-08 6:08 AM

Conservatives just can't stand having problems with their worldview pointed out and being called an idiot at the same time. They're such little puritanical reality-denying fascists.

Tonight's Featured Artists-Yes remixed by Klonhertz

Here is an updated version of "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

Is Vory a McCain supporter?

Tonight's Featured Artist-Jascha Heifetz

Here he is playing Rondo (from Serenade No. 7 "Haffner", K. 250) by Mozart.

TIVO alert-Rachel Maddow's show premiere is tonight.

It should be good. It's comes on at 8 o'clock tonight central time on MSNBC.

It's a Monday-Ughhh! open thread...

Rant and Rave about whatever you feel like hear.

I'll kick it off...

Rave-True Blood on HBO. We needed a good vampire drama on TV with the ending of Forever Knight.

True Blood is an alternative history universe where a synthetic blood was created to satisfy the vampires' thirst. Since they don't have to be in secretive about killing anymore, vampires in this drama have come "out of the coffin" so to speak and hang out with mortals in town.

It premiered last night on HBO.