Sometimes you get sidetracked doing things, and they don’t go as planned. A few examples will follow. one personal, One real news, One kinda news.

Real News First. The Democratic national convention rules committee will be meeting on Saturday, to, amongst other things, fix a problem that I am sure they didn’t think would exist before the States of Michigan and Florida would throw them a curve ball. That curve ball, we all know, is a thing called their primaries, which they held early, before February 5th, in the somewhat mistaken belief that it would make them more relevant to the primary process. Well, It kinda has, but not exactly in the way they had planned. As you all know, These two states, because they had their primaries early, and because the Democratic party is a bunch of unbending idiots who don’t know the meaning of the term “for the good of the party”, have no delegates seated at this point in the Convention in Denver. This mess should have been cleaned up months ago, but between Barack Obama stymieing the attempts at a re vote in Michigan, and Howard Dean’s amazingly unyielding attitude, have kept these two parties from the big dance in Denver.

The Republicans have the same issue, but they dealt with it like professionals. It irks the SHIT out of me that The Republicans played this card SO much better than we Democrats did. They said to those states “Okay, You F***** up. Here’s how this works. You get half your delegates. we can give you that. You can’t have the primaries before we say you can have them. Got it?” And they got it. Haven’t heard any major complaints from the Republicans, even before McCain became the presumptive nominee. But Us Democrats? Noooooo. Can’t have a simple conversation like that. We need DRAMA. Or at least Howard Dean does. He could have come up with a compromise plan. It’s not like anyone would have killed him for seating SOME delegates early, finding a way to censure these states without creating all this Crap with this pigheaded inflexibility. And that’s what it is. Crap. Capital C Crap.

Howard Dean can Fix the Problems he and his Less than brilliant cohorts came up with here, with a QUICK fix to this issue. Screw Obama. Screw Clinton. Don’t give either party a say. Tell them what has to happen, Give an order and be done with it. Can it actually happen like that? Probably not, but dammit someone has to put their foot down here and MAKE this happen. I don’t Like telling people what to do in most circumstances, but in this case, I’ll make an exception, and for a good reason. All sides here are acting like children, and someone has to be the Adult. Everyone wants what they want, and SCREW The good of the Party, SCREW the voices of all these millions of voters, who are the backbone of your party, because this is the party of the people. That makes ALL DEMOCRATS The backbone of the party. Leaving some out sends the wrong message. In this Case, It’s high time for Howard Dean to put on his big boy pants and GIVE AN ORDER.

Maybe you can tell I’m a wee bit unhappy that this situation has gone this far. It could have been fixed Before It became an issue, before Obama even won Iowa. We all knew they were gonna vote early, but Howard Dean and the Deanettes at the DNC didn’t know how to fix things the right way, AKA as soon as they Pop up, so we get 6+ months worth of drama. I for one am hoping that we get a better leader for the DNC once this election is over. I don’t want to see another election cycle with Dean at the head of things for The Democrats.

Onto the Kinda News, you’ll see why I call it that…

Rachel Ray and those fine people at Dunkin Do Nots stirred things up by having Rach wear something that looked amazingly like a Kaffiyeh. For those who don’t know, Kaffiyeh is a symbol, and a well known one, Of Palestinian hate. I can’t see how a Multi-Billion dollar corporation, with tens of thousands of Employees could not have an idea about this. For their part, they do say that It has a paisley pattern to it, and, therefore, is not a Kaffiyeh. Point Made. I really doubt that RR and DD are saying they back terrorism or muslim extremism. The kid wants to look pretty for the camera, tosses on a scarf and says, “I’m ready for my close-up”. Somehow I’m severely doubting she was Thinking “DEATH TO AMERICA: BUY DD ICED COFFEE, IMPERIALIST DOGS!”

The Rachel as Jihadist claim was made by some commentator named Michelle Malkin on Fox News. Guess she must want that DD spot of Rachel’s bad, if she’s gonna try to get the kid kicked off the DD spot by calling her out as a terrorist supporter.

Seriously tho, Listen, we’re all adult. Mistakes are made. Shit happens. I for one don’t really think it’s a big deal, except that DD didn’t know what a kaffiyeh is. Do I blame Rachel? Nah. She’s a good kid, and I can’t for a second think that either DD Or Rachel really meant anything by it. Just a silly mistake.

With all that said, The ads have been pulled. Maybe with the 4th of July Coming up, they can Photoshop the Image and Have the Scarf RED WHITE AND BLUE, so the fine people at fox won’t freak out quite so much. I mean, think about it, with everything going on in the world, do we really need to read this stupid bullshit headline one day?: RACHEL RAY: FASHION TERRORIST!!!!

Please. Maybe Ms. Malkin and the people who decided to call her and DD On the carpet should grab a Cup of DELICIOUS DD ICED COFFEE, maybe the caffeine and sugar would help them think straight.

Malkin’s a Moron. Onto personal stuff.

Guitar: I recorded today! I played the wedding march for my wife for her Blog. I would have this blog done by now (it’s 11:15 as i type these words) but for the time it took to learn, get down and play. Took about 45 minutes, maybe an hour. Truth be known I sucked, but She seemed willing to accept it. My fingernails are too long, and the strings buzzed a bit. I think I only missed one note, but then again, one note missed is One note too many. It is a simple piece of Music to play, at least the way I played it, as a single note line. I think the Whole piece in it’s entirety is around 90 seconds long, maybe less, but I managed to stretch it to 1:54. I’ll toss a link in My blogroll to my wife’s wedding blog at some point. She’s a good kid and a damn sight better writer than I am.

I played a fair bit not including that bit today. I played every mode Yet again, That’s beginning to be a regular thing with me lately. Can’t complain, My playing has gotten better as a result. I’ve been beating the hell out of E Major the last few days, really just hammering it from every angle I can get to. Not for any other reason but to get as much out of it that I can. I’ve spent a great deal of my playing time over the years playing Minor/Pentatonic stuff, with a Minor feel to it, so the happier sound of the Major stuff is a welcome change. Why E major? I think it’s easier to learn from scales and other techniques from somewhere in the open position. After learning it there, then I move stuff around. Build a solid foundation and then grow from there. Sounds right to me.

Played a fair bit with the Line 6 Toneport. Gonna hit it again in a few minutes if I can. created a new sound, similar to the Blues clean that I created, but a little cleaner, and with added chorus….I LOVE my chorus.

Time for a Video I think….Hmmmm….Something other than what you would expect…. No words to describe this, Just enjoy…

That’s It for Me! JAM ON!

Today’s Nuggets, Via Wikiquote: He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe— “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Henry David Thoreau