A little bit of a change up to today’s Countdown. Primaries and general elections are starting to heat up… your television screens across the country. Here’s a few ads that I have been sent and or stumbled upon.

AMERICAN FUTURE FUND POLITICAL ACTION – “Laugh Track” (Playing in Minnesota)


Yikes! Nice work. You know I actually still think Al Franken is hilarious. It’s too bad (although his right) that he got all lefty activist like. Great stuff AFF!

MITCH DANIELS FOR GOVERNOR – “Change That’s Working” (from Indiana)


Full disclosure here, I’m a huge fan of Mitch Daniels. I am the self proclaimed Hawkeyes for Mitch Chairman. Love this ad, not because it highlights all of the good work getting done in Indiana, but I’m a sucker for dramatic music. MY MAN MITCH ’08!!! Wow, a governor that actually gets things done… take note Big Lug.

JOHN MCCAIN 2008 – “Health Solutions” (Playing in Iowa)


Of course I think everything JSM does is great, but the interesting note is that this ad has been playing in Iowa for a couple of weeks. Who says Iowa isn’t a battleground anymore?

FINKLE AND EICHORN, HARKIN AND FINKLE, EICHORN AND HARKIN! Word up QCI-ders. So last week George Eichorn released a huge list of endorsements solidifying him as the “establishment candidate.” You don’t have to quote me on the label. Dave Price had the story Friday about a recent Harkin fundraising letter mentioning the release.

Now here’s an interesting question. Who will raise more money off of the release? Eichorn, Harkin or Finkle?

Let’s see here. There’s not much buzz going on out there… the Districts have come and gone. We have a new State Central Committee and the weather is showing some signs of summer… all is good in the Republic today. So in honor of a bunch of my old NIACC buddies I ran into at the tailgate yesterday, I busted out the old Goose. Choose NIC-NAC Thirst! Oh the old days… great to see you dudes… when the party at Pink Apartments this week?

APPROACHING 6,000 HITS – Again, thanks to all who are dropping by and hitting me upside the head when have a lack of posts. When I first started this thing, I figured… “Is anyone really gonna ready this thing.” You are and I annoy my loyalist of readers when I slack off for a few days (or a week). Got some good advice from some media types and bloggers on how to get a little better at this. If I’m not posting THE hottest scoop of the day… rest assure I will amaze you with my better than average wit, charm and some random ass movie that I know by heart. And no more Jared Allen posts, because I’m over him.

CAMPAIGN PEEPS – I’m talking to you. Many campaigns in the state are embracing “new media” and have added me to their press release lists. Keep ‘em coming. When it comes to the spin of the day, I’ll give you my guarantee that I firm but I’m fair… if I’m not posting your stuff here, there are 3 situations why: 1) someone else posted on it all ready 2) you sent me a release from Captain Obvious (ie: FLASH – The Sun Also Rises in the East) or 3) you can call it triple A grade laziness. So for you loser campaigns out there (loser meaning, you don’t want your stuff on the world’s crappiest blog?) add grantyoung72@hotmail.com to your press list.

FALLON V. BOSWELL – This is a hell of a race to watch… because it’s getting nasty and hotly competitive. I mean. Ole GMLB has his peeps out there hitting the streets. Fallon has a great hard core base from his Gov run. Oh and in case you missed it, Fallon won the entire 3rd District in that campaign. From my view in the nose bleeds, it looks like Fallon has attracted a lot of folks from the Obama organization.

I don’t know if I have mentioned this before, but have seen some of the franked mail coming out of Boswell’s official office? Environmental pieces? For real? Must be nice to run a campaign at taxpayers’ expense. Stay tuned to this one QCI-ders.

MAC BACK IN DES MOINES – Yea, I know this is completely late to talk about, but I just wanted to give a shout out to all my peeps at Team Straight Talk. Great to see all of weary warriors and volunteers who didn’t surrender during the dark days of late summer. Your dedication and enthusiasm paid off… now, let’s put him in the White House.

WHERE THE HELL IS SKANKS? Now that Krusty is back... where is the complete set of Krustacians? Yoda is always in the house. Cedar is always bringing the east coast party, 'cause the east coast party don't stop. But, where is that hilarious poster who had the handle called "Skanks for the Memories." Damn that was some hilarious stuff. Skanks- I'm calling you out you dirty SOB. I know you're all out there... need a place to go? Stop at QCI!

ANYTHING WITH JIMMY PAGE EQUALS DAMN GOOD – Yea, even the one he did with P. Diddy. But to get you on your lazy Sunday or Monday Morning reads… here’s a great one with Page and the Black Crowes doing “Ten Years Gone.”

So as I announced here a while a go, Krusty is back. Better than ever. He is blaming the audacity of the World’s krappiest blog for pushing him over the edge in the first Haiku Friday in ages. Apparently the “Riddle Me This” post for a week paid off… not really. I’m seriously not that big of deal. If you think so, I’d like to sell you the Locust Street Bridge.

He followed up with a couple of posts and it looks like ole Hershel Krustofski is back to mid season form. His recent post on the state of the US Senate race is a great read. I’ll tell ya, I was going to be the first blog/news source/gossip rag/waste of time/crappy website to officially call the race for Harkin. Making a Drudge like breaking new story, sirens, and piss off a lot of people… It’s weird, you become a little snarky when you do a blog, it just goes with the biz I guess.

But my inner TB (true believerism) comes back and I always become a "pitcher half full" type of guy. A buddy of mine told me once, “Dude, 96% of the Republican Caucus could be busted with hookers a week out from Election Day and you would still say we have a solid shot at the majority.” That may be stretching it a bit… although if 96% of the caucus was getting busted with hookers on the same day, wouldn’t you think it was some sort of cultural trend?

Anyways, I’m just a believer of the idea of “That’s why you play the game.” You know it could be worse, you could get your nose bitten off by a Saigon whore… take it away Norm!

1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!!!!!!!

Yea, I know... just posting random pictures of Doc Brown.

Working on some stuff, please be patient. Oh, and way to man up Hershel! Glad to have you back and your stuff is great as always.

I'm off to the local drug store to purchase platonium... as it has been available there since 1985.

LIBYANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!