This week the IBC show is at Skippers Smoke House on Sunday October 19th 2008 The show features a great line up starting with the Walker Smith Group, Sack O’ Woe, Nervous Turkey, Delta Aces, The Nelms / Chavers Band, and After Dark. The Show starts at 5pm and goes until 9pm. The judges will select the band that will represent the Suncoast Blues Society for the IBC Blues Challenge in Memphis January 31, 2009 to February 2nd 2009. Skippers Smoke House is located at 910 Skipper Rd Tampa FL 33613 813-971-0666 Check out some youtube videos of the Nelms / Chavers Band http://nelmschaversband.blogspot.com/ So come on out and see six fine bands and support live music. Friday October 17th & Saturday October 18th 2008 Mike Chavers will be playing at The Beached Whale down in Fort Myers with the Charlie Morris Band with Tom Bell on the drums. The show starts at 9pm so if you’re in the area come on out. The Beached Whale 1249 Estero Blvd. Fort Myers Beach, FL 33931 239.463.5505 Bluesfuly yours Mike Chavers http://mikechavers.blogspot.com/

The Republican slime machine is in full attack mode. McCaniac has his little pit-bull with lipstick stumping nonsense about Obama associating with domestic a terrorists.

According to the Washington Post Palin campaigning on Saturday in Colorado, accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists" by associating with Ayers, citing as her source a New York Times story from that morning. In fact, the story concluded that the Obama-Ayers "relationship" consisted of both men attending the board meetings of two Chicago organizations and that there had been no contact between the men, other than bumping into each other on the sidewalk (they live in the same neighborhood), since Obama went to the U.S. Senate in January 2005.

When the republicans have run out of real solutions that need to be addressed, they sink to the lowest level of mudslinging and start promoting the perception that they are the strong ones on National Security.

I will not dignify their attacks because on this blog I would be preaching to the choir, however I know there is a lot of water cooler politics going on, and if the choir needs some ammo when talking to the “ditto heads” and Glenn Beck watchers, here is a great place to start.

http://www.factcheck.org/

Let’s keep them all honest, so load up on the facts and when some starts talking $#!T fire back.

FactChecking Biden-Palin Debate

October 3, 2008

The candidates were not 100 percent accurate. To say the least.

Summary

Biden and Palin debated, and both mangled some facts.

· Palin mistakenly claimed that troop levels in Iraq had returned to “pre-surge” levels. Levels are gradually coming down but current plans would have levels higher than pre-surge numbers through early next year, at least.

· Palin repeated a false claim that Obama once voted in favor of higher taxes on “families” making as little as $42,000 a year. He did not. The budget bill in question called for an increase only on singles making that amount, but a family of four would not have been affected unless they made at least $90,000 a year.

· Biden wrongly claimed that McCain “voted the exact same way” as Obama on the budget bill that contained an increase on singles making as little as $42,000 a year. McCain voted against it. Biden was referring to an amendment that didn't address taxes at that income level.

· Palin claimed McCain’s health care plan would be “budget neutral,” costing the government nothing. Independent budget experts estimate McCain's plan would cost tens of billions each year, though details are too fuzzy to allow for exact estimates.

· Biden wrongly claimed that McCain had said "he wouldn't even sit down" with the government of Spain. Actually, McCain didn't reject a meeting, but simply refused to commit himself one way or the other during an interview.

· Palin wrongly claimed that “millions of small businesses” would see tax increases under Obama’s tax proposals. At most, several hundred thousand business owners would see increases.

For full details on these misstatements, and on additional factual disputes and dubious claims, please read on to the Analysis section.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

Well I for one am impressed on just how stupid the republican nominee for president is. As a self-proclaimed not so knowledgeable on economics kind of guy, John McCain is going to suspend his campaign to rescue Amerika.

Well I guess he means suspend any meaningful part of his campaign but not the muck racking mudslinging or ugly blatantly untrue TV commercials.

Well at least he can unleash his barely potty trained pit bull, who can still gallivant around the country and show everybody how unqualified she is to be Mayor of a tiny village let alone Vice President of this country just one heart beat away from being President of Amerika.

Have you seen the Katie interview yet? YIKES!!!!!!

So far I have to say that Congress has done a good job since in like a scene from the Godfather T. Sec. Henry Paulson delivered a “three page ransom note that said give me $700 billion, or I’d hate to see anything bad happen to that nice economy of yours.” I got that line from Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.

I for one am glad that the Republicans decided to bolt from rushing into an agreement as flawed as the rush to war with Iraq.

Since we have allowed this situation to get this far this bailout needs to have lots of strings attached. In fact the hell with strings we need ropes chains and muzzles. Plus the Treasury better get a good return on their buck. Maybe that will bailout our social security problem too.

There is no way my tax dollars should reward the Greed Is Good crowd in corporate Amerika who through mismanagement corruption and bad judgment put their companies and our economy at risk.

But just how that ole coot McCain’s sour puss in Washington is going to help get a deal done when all he has done since the convention is slime Obama is beyond me. John don’t worry about it according to your own assessment the American Economy is fundamentally sound.

Here comes the smoke and mirrors again. John McCaniac riding the white horse to the White House to proclaim “We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans” hooray John to the rescue he is putting politics aside that is except for his slime machine.

John stay the hell out of the way get out your leash and take your pit bull for a walk and let congress do its job.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength and integrity.

The Nelms / Chavers Band performing at Dave's Aqua Lounge May 2008 Doing a Muddy Watters song She's Into Somthing 1957 Hope you all like it.