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The competition's getting really fierce at the Iowahawk Endowment for the Arts $33.18 Steel Cage Art Death Match. Some great new entries: I'm partial to The Battle Hymn of the Obamatons - First verse & chorus:

Barack Hussein Obama is the coming of the Lord!
He has taken o’er the banks where all the cap’t’list wealth is stored,
He runs all the auto comp’nies save those bastards out at Ford!
His lies keep rolling on!

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Barack Obama is our ruler!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His lies keep rolling on!

Whole song here. The downsized auto worker in me couldn't resist that one, but go see them all - you'll laugh & laugh.

I Can Die Happy

I'm on iowahawk! Hey, I'm unemployed & don't have much to live for.

My submission letter:

Having endless respect (okay, slavish worship) for the talent that is Burge, as well as life-long love of all things Gilbert & Sullivan (particularly The Mikado), I imagine the noble iowhawk as the humane Mikado himself. Who else in the the blogosphere could be described thus?

A more humane Mikado never
Did in Japan exist,
To nobody second,
I'm certainly reckoned
A true philanthropist.
It is my very humane endeavour
To make, to some extent,
Each evil liver
A running river
Of harmless merriment.

My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time —
To let the punishment fit the crime —
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!

(more here and here)

No one, that's who. And he's saving Teh Arts - A true philanthropist! Bow! Bow! to iowahawk!

Your humble servant,
iamfelix

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Check out how the program started here and here.


From the 1982 Stratford Festival, The Humane Mikado:

w00t!!!!!

I was stunned by this. I turned on the radio (Rush) as I was dashing about the house, getting ready for work. I heard a woman's voice talking about "my running mate" and was all ... "Huh???!? ... " I hadn't heard much of Palin's voice, but I was sure it was her. And, indeed, it was.

Frankly, I didn't think the old bastard had it in him to make this choice. Bully!

Also this - terrific - pic found at From the Maas:

And, as Stoaty Weasel puts it, "Okay, I'm in .... "

UPDATES: Nice Deb, with one of her great link-roundups.

Ace, on double standards of the MSM and experience & pork.

Rachel Lucas: "Sarah Palin's got your hope-n-change right here, bucko."

Tim Blair: "McCain Chooses."

Doubleplusundead: "It's Palin."

UK Daily Mail: Some great pics.

Brief Palin bio: At the Anchorage Daily News.

Sweetness & Light: WaPo: ‘Palin Pick Leaves Bruised Feelings’

Thomas Sowell: "Changes in Politics."