<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from lightningjoe.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 lightningjoe.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-04T13:06:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2009-08-15:links.412179491</id><title>GOP Ignores Country&apos;s Needs (Again), For Mealtickets</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/gop_ignores_countrys_needs_again_for_mealtickets.htm"><![CDATA[The GOP won't condemn the hatefulness. After all, the hatefulness was their idea.]]></content><dc:subject>healthcare</dc:subject><dc:subject>reform</dc:subject><dc:subject>gop</dc:subject><dc:subject>public</dc:subject><dc:subject>option</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/gop_ignores_countrys_needs_again_for_mealtickets.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2009-08-15T13:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-15T13:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-09-14:links.412128308</id><title>Moose With Mushrooms</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/moose_with_mushrooms.htm"><![CDATA[I wonder when McCain will realize that his base is no longer on board for him, but for Sa-rah! They love her. She&#39;s Bush all over again: ignorant, arrogant, parochial, born-again. But while she&#39;s ideologically firmly in Bush&#39;s camp, she s]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/moose_with_mushrooms.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-09-14T12:44:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-14T12:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-09-06:links.412126930</id><title>Mayor in(to) Moose</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/mayor_into_moose.htm"><![CDATA[A moose went missing from the Wasilla Public Library last Thursday. After dodging traffic moose-fashion (the cars do the dodging) all the way to the Library's foyer, the moose reportedly picked up a book from the resale cart and went downstairs to...]]></content><dc:subject>ak</dc:subject><dc:subject>ban</dc:subject><dc:subject>book</dc:subject><dc:subject>mayor</dc:subject><dc:subject>moose</dc:subject><dc:subject>palin</dc:subject><dc:subject>sarah</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/mayor_into_moose.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-09-06T09:13:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-06T09:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-09-06:links.412126917</id><title>Alpha Sarah</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/alpha_sarah.htm"><![CDATA[So much has happened in the last few days, and I just looked at my own last post. OMG, how much the story changes, how faster!I wrote my last entry before the stuff about Sarah Palin's book-banning question came out.]]></content><dc:subject>aip</dc:subject><dc:subject>alaska</dc:subject><dc:subject>banning</dc:subject><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>sarah</dc:subject><dc:subject>statehood</dc:subject><dc:subject>palin</dc:subject><dc:subject>vote</dc:subject><dc:subject>vp</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/alpha_sarah.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-09-06T06:10:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-06T06:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-08-29:links.412125683</id><title>Say it&apos;s not so, Sarah</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/say_its_not_so_sarah.htm"><![CDATA[As an Alaskan, I can truly say this was a shocker. A couple of thoughts. I'm decidedly NOT Republican (Alaska Green Party), but I like Sarah Palin. She is, for a Republican, a breath of fresh air. Her heart's in the right place on social issues --]]></content><dc:subject>sarah</dc:subject><dc:subject>palin</dc:subject><dc:subject>mccain</dc:subject><dc:subject>bush</dc:subject><dc:subject>vp</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/say_its_not_so_sarah.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-08-29T22:25:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-29T22:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-08-17:links.412122812</id><title>Torching the Olympics</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/torching_the_olympics.htm"><![CDATA[Not being a regular tv watcher (well, hardly ever, by most people's standards), I thought it was a joke, the first time I ran across a "news" anchor's "clever" aside about fireworks being faked. But only just now I heard it from a source I trust: NPR]]></content><dc:subject>olympics</dc:subject><dc:subject>fake</dc:subject><dc:subject>fireworks</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/torching_the_olympics.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-08-17T23:24:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-17T23:24:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-03-31:links.412093666</id><title>The First Black Presidentress?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/the_first_black_presidentress.htm"><![CDATA[Kind of ironic, that the "first  black  president" is after riding back into the White House (albeit as First Gentleman, this time) on the back of racially charged politics .One wonders if this sort of consideration ever comes up at the dinner table]]></content><dc:subject>chelsea</dc:subject><dc:subject>clinton</dc:subject><dc:subject>first</dc:subject><dc:subject>black</dc:subject><dc:subject>president</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/the_first_black_presidentress.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-03-31T22:43:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-31T22:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-03-31:links.412093495</id><title>Sadr But Wiser</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/sadr_but_wiser.htm"><![CDATA[Sadr cut a deal. That's the only conclusion I see right now.The U.S. has been pushing the idea lately, that Sadr's long-running cease-fire hasn't really been that instrumental in the (apparent) easing of tensions in Iraq.]]></content><dc:subject>sadr</dc:subject><dc:subject>iraq</dc:subject><dc:subject>ceasefire</dc:subject><dc:subject>basra</dc:subject><dc:subject>fighting</dc:subject><dc:subject>mahdi</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/sadr_but_wiser.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-03-31T09:56:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-31T09:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-03-07:links.412088550</id><title>It&apos;s 3:00 AM: Do You Know Where Your Red Phone Is?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/its_300_am_do_you_know_where_your_red_phone_is.htm"><![CDATA[It's 3:00 AM, and the Red Phone rings. A staffer hauls President Obama out of bed to take the call. Whatever the issue is, Obama then calls the Head of the General Chiefs, while WH staffers call the Pentagon. Within half an hour, a meeting forms up..]]></content><dc:subject>3am</dc:subject><dc:subject>clinton</dc:subject><dc:subject>obama</dc:subject><dc:subject>red</dc:subject><dc:subject>phone</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/its_300_am_do_you_know_where_your_red_phone_is.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-03-07T03:22:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-07T03:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-03-06:links.412088390</id><title>Spiritual Sluttery and the Permanent Majority</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/spiritual_sluttery_and_the_permanent_majority.htm"><![CDATA[Starship Troopers is a cult again? Strange that soldiers in Iraq are studying up on a fictional battle-for-survival against rapacious aliens.So lemme see, on this side we have alien hordes, who lob moons at our planet, and swarm-attack in the tens...]]></content><dc:subject>republicans</dc:subject><dc:subject>star</dc:subject><dc:subject>torture</dc:subject><dc:subject>troopers</dc:subject><dc:subject>wars</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/spiritual_sluttery_and_the_permanent_majority.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-03-06T13:30:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-06T13:30:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-02-09:links.412082384</id><title>Corporatists don&apos;t need no stinking conservatives!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/corporatists_dont_need_no_stinking_conservatives.htm"><![CDATA[In Washington and Wall Street, "conservative" has now become a code word for "Corporatist," which is what the beltway power crowd really is. So it's no wonder these far-right-wingers are being taken by surprise, by the emerging realization,]]></content><dc:subject>corporatist</dc:subject><dc:subject>owner</dc:subject><dc:subject>class</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/corporatists_dont_need_no_stinking_conservatives.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-02-09T12:14:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-09T12:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-01-19:links.412077568</id><title>What&apos;s One More Retroactive Lie?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/whats_one_more_retroactive_lie.htm"><![CDATA[No actual thinking being can now be expecting to hear truth, from our Perpetrator Administration. The only meaningful listening choice is over which lie is more revealing. In the current case , the Bushies made a tactical error by letting us know...]]></content><dc:subject>attorneys</dc:subject><dc:subject>bush</dc:subject><dc:subject>emails</dc:subject><dc:subject>lies</dc:subject><dc:subject>missing</dc:subject><dc:subject>us</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/whats_one_more_retroactive_lie.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-01-19T02:34:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-19T02:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2008-01-11:links.412075752</id><title>A Soldier Blogs About His Death And Our Rights</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/a_soldier_blogs_about_his_death_and_our_rights.htm"><![CDATA[Came across the last post of Andy Olmsted . Some responders  had tears over this. Not I, as I'm from a military family, and have long since come to terms with the reality of committed military service, and the inevitable consequences of wars, even...]]></content><dc:subject>andy</dc:subject><dc:subject>olmsted</dc:subject><dc:subject>last</dc:subject><dc:subject>post</dc:subject><dc:subject>rights</dc:subject><dc:subject>freedom</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/a_soldier_blogs_about_his_death_and_our_rights.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2008-01-11T05:12:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-11T05:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-12-15:links.412069494</id><title>Central Stupid Agency?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/central_stupid_agency.htm"><![CDATA[Okay, so here's a begging question: where are all the OTHER tapes? Everyone's making such a fuss over two interrogation tapes the CIA chose to destroy to protect the torturer's identities (never thought I'd type such a statement in earnest)...]]></content><dc:subject>cia</dc:subject><dc:subject>csa</dc:subject><dc:subject>padilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>cameras</dc:subject><dc:subject>torture</dc:subject><dc:subject>interrogation</dc:subject><dc:subject>tapes</dc:subject><dc:subject>terror</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/central_stupid_agency.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-12-15T23:04:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-15T23:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-11-29:links.412064760</id><title>Dogs &quot;Classify&quot; &quot;Complex&quot; Photos</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/dogs_classify_complex_photos.htm"><![CDATA["Dogs Can Classify Complex Photos In Categories Like Humans Do" Doesn't that have an elevated sound to it? Are dogs reading tactical satellite data; using Google Earth to find new hydrants? Not exactly. Turns out dogs can recognize other dogs.]]></content><dc:subject>dog</dc:subject><dc:subject>photos</dc:subject><dc:subject>shower</dc:subject><dc:subject>vortex</dc:subject><dc:subject>science</dc:subject><dc:subject>fiction</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/dogs_classify_complex_photos.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-11-29T21:16:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-29T21:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-11-18:links.412061721</id><title>Chance at Greatness Du Jour...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/chance_at_greatness_du_jour.htm"><![CDATA[I supposed I'd better weigh in on the much-ballyhooed Hollywood Writer's strike, since everyone else who should also know better is doing it too. When everyone else jumps off a cliff without the benefit of bungees, you won't have to put up with me an]]></content><dc:subject>television</dc:subject><dc:subject>greatness</dc:subject><dc:subject>culture</dc:subject><dc:subject>writers</dc:subject><dc:subject>strike</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/chance_at_greatness_du_jour.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-11-18T08:26:00Z</updated><published>2007-11-18T08:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-10-08:links.412048466</id><title>Reconcilliation Out Of Mutual Distrust?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/reconcilliation_out_of_mutual_distrust.htm"><![CDATA[bush iraq reconcilliation fairy tale]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/reconcilliation_out_of_mutual_distrust.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-10-08T23:34:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-08T23:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-10-07:links.412048124</id><title>Cast Out The Buccaneer Prophet</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cast_out_the_buccaneer_prophet.htm"><![CDATA[bush prophet smirk buccaneer pirate beast]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cast_out_the_buccaneer_prophet.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-10-07T21:48:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-07T21:48:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-10-05:links.412047436</id><title>Crows Lead Way For Free Speech</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/crows_lead_way_for_free_speech.htm"><![CDATA[digicam protest police abuse]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/crows_lead_way_for_free_speech.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-10-05T02:26:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-05T02:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-10-01:links.412046240</id><title>&quot;Free&quot; Market Fundamentalist Jihad</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/free_market_fundamentalist_jihad.htm"><![CDATA[chicago school jihad bush peak oil population naomi klein john cusack]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/free_market_fundamentalist_jihad.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-10-01T20:23:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-01T20:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-09-29:links.412045599</id><title>Bush&apos;s Oil Bride, The Smoking Gun</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_oil_bride_the_smoking_gun.htm"><![CDATA[bush oil bride smoking gun paul oneil]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_oil_bride_the_smoking_gun.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-09-29T11:13:00Z</updated><published>2007-09-29T11:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-09-29:links.412045582</id><title>Cold Turkey! (if only)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cold_turkey_if_only.htm"><![CDATA[tv television digital dead fred]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/cold_turkey_if_only.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-09-29T06:22:00Z</updated><published>2007-09-29T06:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-09-29:links.412045555</id><title>Brain-Dead Chaos</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/braindead_chaos.htm"><![CDATA[homeland security LAX random chaos]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/braindead_chaos.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-09-29T03:07:00Z</updated><published>2007-09-29T03:07:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-09-28:links.412045191</id><title>Bush&apos;s God</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_god.htm"><![CDATA[bush god naomi klein disaster capitalism shock doctrine]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/bushs_god.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-09-28T00:44:00Z</updated><published>2007-09-28T00:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:lightningjoe.blog-city.com,2007-08-14:links.412030456</id><title>AT&amp;T: Ooops!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/att_ooops.htm"><![CDATA[So AT&T shows their true colors , in censoring music performances of political content they don't like. This is their idea of a fair and balanced web. One feeling here is glee, because AT&T are showing themselves to be even more corrupt...]]></content><dc:subject>att</dc:subject><dc:subject>censor</dc:subject><dc:subject>music</dc:subject><dc:subject>streams</dc:subject><dc:subject>capitalism</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://lightningjoe.blog-city.com/att_ooops.htm"/><dc:creator>Dan Mortenson</dc:creator><author><name>Dan Mortenson</name></author><updated>2007-08-14T10:31:00Z</updated><published>2007-08-14T10:31:00Z</published></entry></feed>