Give em Hell, Joe.

Charlotte wondering “When John McCain says he’ll put the country back on track, doesn’t he realize his party is the one that drove it off the rails in the first place?”

We’re having a funny face making contest here at the house…here is entry number one from Charlotte

Being in Canada makes embedding Daily Show clips nigh impossible so I’m posting the links instead, but you really MUST see this piece of brilliance from last night:

In the US watching it HERE

In Canada click HERE

If their words alone don’t show how crass and cynical the choice of Sarah Palin is, nothing else will.

Edited to add: Here’s a piece of it I found on You Tube- this is just the part with O’Reilly but there’s so much more

This is what is left from my run in with a ground ball last Tuesday. I don’t bruise easy so you’ve got to know it was a shot.

Played game two of my Wackers playoffs last night. We won and everyone played well. Tonight I have my final regular season game with Mike’s Painting and also we’re spending some time with Shell’s parents as they are getting ready to head to Spain for two weeks tomorrow.
We spent the weekend getting the house in order for my Mom’s visit, trying to make things as comfortable for her as we can. We got the girls’ passports today…so odd to have a passport for a 6 month old…but her picture is cute at least.

I got no sleep last night since I let Shell get some baby free rest, and since tonight I won’t get home until late it’ll likely be another mostly sleepless night. I’ve convinced Shell to let me have Wednesday night off (woohoo), so as soon as she comes home I’m going to crash hard that night.

I think this was the widest shot I took- the white pole with the red light atop at the very right edge of frame is the giant wind prop near the Ex (for Toronto peeps to get some idea of the distance)

The best laid plans…
I set out this evening to shoot the Chinese Latern Festival at Ontario Place, but failed to realize that since it’s a holiday weekend, and the last weeked of the summer that everyone and their Uncle Leo would ALSO be going downtown. When I rolled down the Lakeshore it was obvious that I had chosen poorly. So I saved the Laterns for another night and instead headed to a movie. I saw “Traitor” with Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce and I can’t recommend it enough. Cheadle is in just about every scene and is simply brilliant, and Peace is at his best since LA Confidential and Memento. After the movie I went back up the Lakeshore a bit to see if I could get a couple of shots of the skyline and a few of them turned out pretty well I think.

I’ve all but decided on the next camera purchase. I think I’m going to try and get a Pentax K200D SLR, since I already have some Pentax glass that will fit. I might not be able to get one this year but I’m hoping by next summer and then look out world (okay not really but it’s late and I’m tired).