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Have a nice summer, kids! Stay out of trouble!

Tony Palmeri posted this on his site a few days ago. It totally rocks in a really weird and somewhat disturbing way.

God Bless the 70s.

The Libertarian Party took six ballots before former Republican Congressman Bob Barr won the nomination 324-276 over longtime Libertarian activist Mary Ruwart. Wayne Allyn Root, who was eliminated on the fifth ballot, was nominated Vice President narrowly over medicinal marijuana activist Steve Kubby. Former Democrat Mike Gravel was eliminated on the fourth ballot, George Phillies on the third ballot, Steve Kubby on the second ballot, and Mike Jingozian and Christine Smith were eliminated on the first ballot.

Bob Barr’s nomination was not without drama or controversy, and a number of Libertarians seem to feel that their party has been hijacked by “Conservatives”. I certainly don’t know all the ins and outs but you can likely learn more at Independent Political Report.

…Independent Political Report is THE blog for regular insider posts from the floor of the Convention and everywhere else it seems. These are the guys that started Third Party Watch before it got sold to Conservative Direct Mail Mogul Viguerie.

Pop over to independentpoliticalreport.com now and then over the weekend to find out who’s backing who. Can former Republican Congressman Bob Barr win the nomination, or is the momentum for Mary Ruwart going to carry her through? Will Mike Gravel impact the race at all? Would Barr pick Gravel for a VP? Would any of them? Will Gravel impress the Libertarians at the debate (televised by C-Span) tonight and take the nomination himself? Steve Kubby, Marijuana activist, on the stage with online gambling guru Wayne Allyn Root, and the guy they call “Jingo” Jingozian… set the Tivo for this one.

The C-Span coverage of the seven person debate begins at 9 Eastern (8 p.m. Central).

. . . start relentlessly criticizing Clinton without being accused of sexism?  Take a look:

Sen. Hillary Clinton referred Friday to the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 Democratic campaign as a reason she should continue to campaign despite increasingly long odds.

Is it OK?  She seems to be working awfully hard to become the Power Hour’s Asshat of the Year.  Have we ever had a female asshat?  No?  That’s sexist!

I was fooling around with Google Earth trying to get a good image of Oshkosh when I noticed this angle from the East (as if you turned the map 90 degrees clockwise):

I couldn’t help feeling that it looked like a scary ghost face. What do you think?

(crossposted at The Green Banana)

Which one though, depends on which sect of the Discordian Movement (or lack of movement) you might identify with.

May 23 was identified as an important date by the late Robert Anton Wilson, as it contains the magical numbers “5″ from the Law of Fives and “23″. Plus it was claimed that it was Groucho Marx’s birthday, which isn’t true.

The Discordian Calendar printed in the landmark work “Principia Discordia” by Malaclypse the Younger doesn’t mention any importance given to the date May 23.

The Discordians for Jesus acknowledge May 23 as “Jake Day”, a day in which you are supposed to send a confusing fax message to someone or do something that causes a loss of personal modesty.

According to the Mythics of Harmonia however May 23 is the Day of the Elppin, however neither Princess Unicornia nor Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko left any hint of what the Day of the Elppin means.

However if anything can and should be recognized it is Defenestration of Prague Day, as reported by His Wholiness the Rev.DrJohn. Defenestration of Prague Day recognizes the event of May 23, 1618 when a group of Protestants at Prague Castle found two Imperial Governors guilty of violating their Right to Freedom of Religion and sentenced them to “Defenestration”, which means to throw something out of a window. The two Governors however survived when they landed in a large pile of crap. This act started the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). (By the way, this is all true).