Widespread Panic Day

J wrote,

“MAYOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER PROCLAIMS “WIDESPREAD PANIC DAY” IN DENVER”

Hickenlooper? With a name like Hickenlooper, living in Denver has to be a barrel of laughs.

From the Denver Post:

DENVER — Warning to Southern delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver this August: it will be a no-fry zone.

As part of the effort to make the August 25-28 convention the greenest ever, the Democrats’ guidelines for food catering include one that strikes at the heart of Southern cuisine: no fried food.

No fried chicken. No fried catfish. No fried green tomatoes. No fried okra. No fried anything.

In promoting healthy eating habits, the Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.”

“It’s the new patriotism,” says Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the driving force behind the greening of the Democratic convention.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9709107

J’s last blog post..The Aztec Death Whistle Revealed

Link | June 30th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,

That’s how I read it, Dr J.

I have lots of acquaintances who have derived a knowledge base that prohibits me from entering with my lower level of intelligence.

Many of my esteemed latent hippie peers have brought forth the teachings of 1962 anarchy to the present. The only problem with most of my distinguished Nam Vet home-schooled child rearing second hand Rose wived associates is that when the anarchist ideals fail, they get all vicious eat up. And what ever they built up crumbles to the ground, with a lot of loud cursing.

Zaphod, Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox, figurehead and Worst dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe for the seventh time, knew he had the “Infinite Improbability Drive” (Chapter Ten - Eleven, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and could pretty much escape any situation in both universes. And as the lamb being led to slaughter,(Pribek) well it was a generally good way for him to think: “Don’t Panic…” …oh, J, by the way, never say that to a young girl.

Pat Darnell and Friends’s last blog post..Jesus for President: should get the Evangelical Base Vote… eh?

Link | July 1st, 2008 at 4:22 pm

J wrote,

Hickenlooper Update– from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,375164,00.html

A jazz singer has shocked some Denver residents after replacing the words of the national anthem with those of the “Black National Anthem” during the annual State of the City address.

Rene Marie was asked to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, she sang the lyrics of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — a hymn commonly referred to as the “Black National Anthem” — to the tune of the national anthem, MyFOXColorado.com reports.

“If anyone has got a right to be angry it’s probably me,” Hickenlooper told the station. “I guess what I feel most is just deeply disappointed.”

Thank God there wasn’t Widespread Panic!

J’s last blog post..Masters of Song-Fu #2 @ QuickStop

Link | July 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 am