Meditation Timer CD Still Available!

Yep, Kay still has copies of this one-of-a-kind product for sale, $20 includes postage, for those needing some timed meditation silence. Perfect for Yoga exercise sessions too.
Contact Kay at kbingner@pacbell.net to order.

Friday Wrap Up

New bicycles are fun to ride. Trek Navigator 3, Comfort line lives up to its claim: very comfortable to ride and gear shifts work splendidly. We rode to breakfast at the Parkside Cafe in Santa Rosa on Memorial Day, a round trip distance of about 20 miles.
Photo taken with my trusty old Coolpix 5700.





Visited Photographer buddy Kevin Berne's new studio in Oakland this week. He's gearing up for an open studio event the first two weekends in June, but took the time to give me a tour. We hope to do some lighting seminars there for wanna be video pros, or for folks who put a lot of video up on social sites and would like them to look more professional.
His site is kevinberne.com and has some great images on it. You can also get the dates for the Open Studio days.
Couple views of the studio, courtesy Kevin:

Something to think about this Memorial Day

AP released this fact today:

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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,299

That figure does not include the suicide deaths that take place once a GI is home.

Read that figure then ask me how much I detest Cheney.

Fox Exec Takes On Nielsen

Something I have been waiting for: Murdoch taking on the only entity beyond his control and to which his empire's destiny is joined.

I wrote about this just this morning on my blog:



Mediamarv.blogspot. com



This will be a story to follow.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Don't Trust Neilsen Ratings - Never Have, Never Will.

This has long been a mantra of mine that the ratings games is totally a guessing business, estimates that are taken as gospel, mostly by advertisers who buy into the system.

And I have long thought that Rupert Murdoch's empire was too big to kowtow to someone's elses' rules (ratings) and eventually I expect him to buy Nielsen.
Here's the first step in that process:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118003924.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

Pelosi Uproard in a Nutshell:

From Hannity's show yesterday, a former federal prosecutor summed up neatly why the Repubs are so desperately using Pelosi as a diversion:

"...Later, Sonny Hostin raises the really relevant point:

The issue here is that everybody knows that waterboarding is torture. And that was an approved policy. It is torture! Everyone knows that. And that was the policy of the Bush administration. Why don't we talk about that?

Yes, why aren't Repubs talking about that?

Thanks to Fire Dog Lake for the following chart
showing Democrats voted against credit card interest rate caps and the amount of money they received from the financial world:

Senator	Credit Card Interest Rate Caps	TARP I Bank Bailout Oct 2008	TARP II Bank Bailout Jan 2009	Lifetime FIRE Donations
Akaka (D-HI)	No	Yes	Yes	$551,095
Baucus (D-MT)	No	Yes	Yes	$4,633,243
Bayh (D-IN)	No	Yes	No	$3,988,480
Bingaman (D-NM)	No	Yes	Yes	$492,042
Byrd (D-WV)	No	Yes	Yes	$421,000
Cantwell (D-WA)	No	No	No	$1,828,540
Carper (D-DE)	No	Yes	Yes	$2,160,628
Hagan (D-NC)	No	N/A	Yes	$545,000
Johnson (D-SD)	No	No	Yes	$3,025,166
Kaufman (D-DE)	No	Yes	Yes	$0*
Landrieu (D-LA)	No	No	Yes	$2,388,634
Lieberman (ID-CT)	No	Yes	Yes	$9,981,924
Lincoln (D-AR)	No	Yes	No	$1,672,292
Murray (D-WA)	No	Yes	Yes	$1,394,807
Nelson (D-FL)	No	No	Yes	$2,667,406
Nelson (D-NE)	No	Yes	No	$3,058,968
Pryor (D-AR)	No	Yes	Yes	$1,322,948
Shaheen (D-NH)	No	Yes	No	$659,000
Specter (D-PA)	No	Yes	Yes	$5,757,910
Stabenow (D-MI)	No	No	Yes	$1,736,406
Tester (D-MT)	No	No	"Present" (Yes)	$473,226
Warner (D-VA)	No	Yes	Yes	$1,950,479

More Proof Gas Prices Are A Farce:

From a post on Huffington Post by Mark Williams:

(snip)

Regardless, oil prices continue to rise even though demand has hit its lowest level since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Crude inventories are at their highest levels since 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

"In my mind, this is a market that is looking for an excuse to go higher," said Phil Flynn of Alaron Trading Corp."

Supply and demand my arse. Profiteering is more like it.

Stevie Ray Vaughn Statue in Austin

Thought this was a nice tribute. South side of river. Near Threadgills.

Favorite Photoshop Photo of the Day:


El Rushbo never looked better:

See more examples of conservatives in clown face here:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/30835791@N07/sets/72157614241935013/

Back From Austin - full of beer and smelling like barbque.


After 5 days of Austin's best beer, music and food, we are booked solidy at the club for the next two weeks. But...

A very special find: One of the best biscuits I've ever had. At a wine bar!!! They do light breakfasts, have a natural food market and bakery in the back and an excellent wine selection. We stopped by this place several times. Would have been back once more but they were closed on Mondays, the day we left.



Biscuit sandwich of cheese, egg and bacon. Biscuit was flaky, full of flavor and was just dense enough to hold together as a sandwich.

Located on South Congress, half mile or so past the Ann Richardson bridge (aka Congress St. bridge)