Gaming: Travel Pictures from Wrath of the Lich King

11 million people play World of Warcraft. But that's not everybody.

But everybody likes good travel pictures, right? So here are some pictures taken on my way around the new expansion:
Wrath of the Lich King. And I still have most of the new continent left to explore!

Click on an image to see it full sized.

Top Gear to Save American Auto Industry in Six Days

OK, this is simple. We have three car companies. There are three hosts on Top Gear. Give one company to each of the guys. Give GM to Richard, because it is big, and he gets the Corvette. Chrysler goes to James because of well, nothing special. And Richard gets Ford, so he can have the Mustang.

Problem solved, six days max.

Yes We Did!

1,000,000 volunteers worked election day.

3,500,000 people donated to the campaign.

After years of neo-com misrule, years of war, income redistribution up to the wealthiest, years of war, and years of being told there was nothing we could do about it, the giant awoke.

In the Clackamas County headquarters I worked in, I saw people hitting every neighborhood, then going back again and again to talk to the undecided, to encourage the discouraged, and to get out the vote. I saw older people with little exposure to computers become skilled at our micro targeting voter database. I saw high school students going out in the rain to register working people at bus stations. And day after day, night after night, volunteers flooded into our headquarters to phone bank. Most had never been involved in a campaign before.

And across the country, our story was repeated. Each office bringing out the voters. Neighbor to neighbor. A triumph of community organizing writ large. Men, women, all ethnicities, rich, poor, and in between, gay, and straight. America showed up, and went to work.

On November 4th, these people stood up and said "Yes We Can!"

Obama vs. McCain in Azeroth

From comedians Rich Kuras and Sandeep Parikh, who made the hilarious spoof on game players: The Guild.

Kurt Schrader drops by

Kurt Schrader, Democrat for congress came by the Obama campaign today in Oregon City to talk about the Get Out The Vote campaign. 

Although the man is known as a numbers and budget guy, he is a farmer and in casual mode. We were all Obama volunteers, so he talked campaigning. 

"I got some great news from our latesting polling," he said. "I'm up 9 points."

People whooped.

"And some not so great news. 30% of the voters are undecided." 

I had read he was 13 points up in another poll. His opponent, Mike Erikson, claims to be anti-abortion, but the anti-abortion groups haven't liked him since Erikson arranged for his mistresses abortion. The state Republican party and Gordon Smith, the state's Republican senator, refused to endorse him. So what's with the undecided voters?

"Only about twenty percent of the people in this district read the papers," said Schrader. He asked us, when we were on someone's doorstep or on the phone, to speak up for him.

OK Kurt. It's a deal.

Bush Endoses Palin (and McCain) SNL

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-thursday-bush-endorsement/783981/

Conservatives for Obama

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBLnwMbYmUw