It's this rug I had, it really tied the room together.

Last week, I went to the Lebowski Fest in Louisville, KY.
But, just to add to the fun, we flew first into Nashville for a couple days, with the plan on driving from there to Louisville, then flying back from there.

Nashville is a lot of fun. Great town with lots of friendly people, good food and more live music in more bars than you can shake a stick at.
At which you can shake a stick. Whatever.
Anyway, I stayed out way too late and drank too much booze than I normally would, but it was fun.

The bars are really cool because you can just walk in without cover charge all up and down the places along Broadway to hear different acts.
Including people that normally get paid to play at the Grand Ol' Opry and such.
Nice way to check out all kinds of performers.

It was nice to take a drive over to the Gibson Showcase.
You can play whatever you want from the staggering number of guitars hanging in the store. Everything from cheapo Epiphones to Gibson Custom shop guitars that run into the many thousands of dollars.
FWIW, I played a Black Beauty and a really, really nice playing R6.

The drive from Nashville to Louisville was pretty. The landscape in this part of the country is lovely. And man, oh, man did we have some good BBQ at this place called Jimmy D's in Bowling Green. Wow. Pulled pork cooked over a pit, served on corn cakes with Mac & Cheese and collard greens. Damn, that was good. With southern sweet tea, of course. :)


We caught the movie on Friday night with all the other achievers, stayed up late, then went out and about to Jim Beam and Makers Mark on Saturday.
The Kentucky countryside is truly beautiful. Much more green than I am used to here in San Diego.
Um, did I mention it was hot and humid? Yea, that's takes a bit of getting used to. And by getting used to, I mean that you don't and you change your shirt like 7 times a day.
The bourbon tasting and the touring was a lot of fun.

On a side note, since I talk lots of politics on my blog, I saw WAY more Obama stickers on cars during my travels. And I don't think I saw any BushCheney at all. That was sort of a surprise to me. Then again, maybe not. Who knows?

So, Saturday was happy fun time, bowling with all the other acheivers. Many of them very dressed up for the occation in all kinds of obscure costumes.
I even got a chance to bowl two games, which was nice.
There was all kinds of Dudes, Maudes, toes, and even agression not standing.
There were very few amatuers, thankfully.

Enjoy the photos, and check out all of them, a whole gallery full, over at my domain.

Have a fun week and then some.

Yoo and Addington, two to this great country.

Listen to these two try and dance around the topic here.
Trying to keep themselves and their administration buddies out of jail.
A special fuck you goes out to them.
And a special fuck you goes out to the UC system for hiring Yoo.
They have disgraced this nation by supporting our outsourced terrorism and torture.
Rot in hell, motherfuckers.

A note to hipster boys. NO MORE PBR !!

I went to a bar here in San Diego to see a friend's band not too long ago.
All the hipster boys were paying 7 dollars for big cans of PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon).
Note, I was paying 4 dollars a pint for Guinness.

Anyway, please stop drinking that crap.
It's fucking disgusting. It's worse than Bud. It's worse than Miller.
God Almighty, I believe it is worse than Coors Light.
Stop it. Now.
San Diego has awesome local beer.
Man up and buy that at the least.
The end.

Obama '08

I'm sure that it's not a shock that I think we all should vote for Obama.

Just so we are clear, I'll go over this one time only.

Until McCain publicly repudiates the entire Bush administration, there is no way in hell that he deserves even one vote.
And since he has pretty much done the opposite (while in fact trying without success to paint himself as different than BushCheney) the only choice is Obama, not JJ McSame.

I'm a little bit (just a little) shocked that there are so many Americans - according to recent polls - that are considering voting for this old fool.
I guess they buy into the whole straight talk express and all that happy horseshit.

A vote for McCain is a vote for an extension of the failed Bush years, only with a geezer.
No offense to older people, or whatever, but McSame is too fucking old to be president besides being a damn fool.

McSame is the only reason I would have considered voting for Clinton.
He already has stated that he would appoint more assholes to the Supreme Court like the two Nazi's that Bush appointed.
You know, guys that hate America and our Constitution as much as the president.
No thanks.
More war time tax cuts.

Obama '08 means a chance at reversing the course we've been on.
Plus, as a bonus, he does not appear to be insane.

Malkin is crazy. Or, why some regressive pundits should just stick to blowing old guys.

In a bizarre attempt to maintain relevancy(?) we see Michelle Malkin actually talking about a scarf worn by "celebrity chef" Rachael Ray in a Dunkin Donuts ad online and on TV.
In a weird turn of events, DD has pulled the ads. Chickenshits.

Reading the scribblings/ramblings/thoughts(ha!) of the morons that follow said shit-for-brains is even scarier than reading her foolishness. Some of them are so intuitive, that they can tell from Ray's stupid shows that she is a "moonbat". Amazing.

To think that anyone should spend even a nanosecond worrying about a paisley scarf is truly amazing.
I guess when you have been marginalized by the Darwinism of truth, you have to grasp at straws like a fucking mad person.

I suppose the fact that the bulk of the middle class and below in this country are being ground down by the boot heal of the bush economy is not really that important.

Silly regressives.
Trix are for right wing pundits and politicians.
In the mens room stall..

Meet Poppy

Here's a new guy in the family.

We went up to meet a lady from a rescue org all the way in Corona on Saturday.
And she brought along a couple doggies that have been living with their foster parents and are up for adoption.
This little one came home with us.

He already thinks he runs the place.
Very confident dog, but also very sweet. He seems to love all other dogs and people.
He and Otis LOVE to play, play, play.

Nala is not to sure of him around here, but so long as she has her bed to lay on, she's fine. She lets them both know when they need to back off..

Here's all three, new guy first:

McCain's pastor buddy Hagee and friends

Submitted without comment.
Because what else is there to say other than these people are fucking nuts and the media seems to have no problem with these assholes, yet Obama's pastor what's his face is the devil:

Newspapers are stupid.

But what the fuck are you going to use to wrap up your fish?

Our paper is no exception, yesterday publishing the May 19th "column" by William "The Bloody" Kristol from the New York Times titled "Depite party, McCain still can win".
And by column, I mean the rantings of a lunatic jerking off onto a typewriter.

It's bad enough that the "paper of record" for whom Kristol works can't find the time to fact check his columns.
But it's particularly bad when our local paper publishes said column a day later with the same factual errors.

Kristol proclaims: "I can't find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party's nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin" (referring to Obama losing by 41 point in WV).
By the late morning of the 19th when the column was first published, numerous websites had already corrected Kristol:
Romney beat McCain in Utah by 85 points.
Huckabee beat McCain by (put your irony hat on) 41 points in Arkansas. So did Romney in Colorado.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the New York Times hired this person to begin with given everything he's been wrong about. Not the least of which, his views of the so-called "war on terror" and the Iraq debacle.
Fine, they hired him.
Why do other papers have to publish his foolishness?

Shouldn't everyone get to be miserable??

OK, in all seriousness, this was a nice headline to read today:

California's top court overturns gay marriage ban

I'm sure the uber regressives and the religious freaks and bigots will flip out.
But so long as the state is in the business of marriage, gays and lesbians should be allowed to get hitched.
What the fuck do you care?

When I was younger and immature (and probably used even MORE curse words) I used to be bothered by teh gays gettin' married. I also voted for St. Ronnie Raygun, so there is that.
That's another story..

So one day I asked myself, "self, what do you care whether two guys or two girls can get married or do whatever seeing as they are adults?"
And the answer is, I shouldn't give a shit. And I don't.
So get over it. And stop with the crap about what "they do" makes you feel funny in the stomach.
I don't like looking at two guys kissing in public.
But I also don't want to see you and your spouse do it either, so fuck off.
I'd like to see Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz kiss, though.
That would be hot.

More proof (like we needed it) that BushCheney hates America

And, not like they care.
This is pretty good, though:

Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow

"WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.

"The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing to satisfy demand from overseas customers in Japan and elsewhere."

Consumers, BushCo knows best.
Fucking live with it, motherfuckers.

Art Test. Mission Accomplished Week Version

I thought I would just try something fun this week.
I already expect tons of other people are going to talk all about Bush and his Mission Accomplished.
At this point, I'm sort of like "what the fuck is the point" on a good number of things. Anyone that still supports the Prez in 2008.. congrats, you're an idiot. I'm not changing anyone's opinion on that sociopath asshole. And with that...

Anyway, so here is the test.
I was up in the Bay Area over the past weekend, and while in San Francisco, I visited the De Young Museum where we saw some lovely art. We also visited my nephew.
My brother and my sister in law, proud parents they are, showed me some wonderful art as well that my nephew had created.

So, you tell me, of the works of art in this post, what is hanging in the De Young, and what is hanging in their house?
You may click on any one of them and it will open in a new window in larger size so you may examine closer. Don't cheat and go to like the De Young site or whatever.

Bill Maher on the Pope.

So, what exactly is the problem?
Everything he said was 100 percent on the money.

"How does the Catholic Church get away with all their buggery? Volume, volume, volume."

And so it goes:

Hate to see the young ones die.

I hadn't heard of Sean Costello until recently.
He died this week.
This kid could rock. Man he was awesome.
Check out this video with him on a remake. If you don't like this, something is wrong with you:

Write your Senator and Rep. (though it may do no good)

I hesitate to even do it, but I suppose NOT doing it is worse?
Does that make sense? Who knows...
But if Americans DON'T show a little outrage at the revelations that have come (holy crap, even from the Main Stream Corporate Media, fer crissakes!!) out about the fascist little cocksucker John Yoo and his "torture memo's", and what could only be called a conspiracy to commit war crimes, then what is there to be outraged about?
We have all known for years that the entire CheneyBush administration is corrupt and full of sociopaths.
I'm not even going to argue with people about all the reasons anymore.
Either you're with me, or you're against me. If you support GWB and his administration and policies, then fuck you. Like I'm going to pretend that I can like someone that thinks it's OK that our country has been ruined by these fucks?? No thanks. Fuck you, again.
You're an idiot.
Or you're benefiting from the largess that is the money laundering from working people to the military-industrial-complex and others.

So, in light of the news about the latest findings about the CheneyBush Administration and the Lawyer John Yoo - and by lawyer I mean filthy sociopath scumbag that shouldn't be teaching at Bob Jones let alone a law school in the University of California system - below is text of a letter that I found within an article on the Smirking Chimp today.
Kind of a good catch all.
Send it on.
If you care..

You're no doubt aware of the ABC News report alleging that current and former senior Bush administration officials were actively involved in dictating specific acts of torture from the White House to be used against various terrorism suspects.
As you know, torture is a violation of domestic and international law.
I strongly urge you to convene hearings and demand the appearance of those officials named in the ABC report—Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and John Ashcroft—for the purpose of determining whether they committed war crimes and, in the case of Mr. Cheney and his immediate supervisor, whether their actions constitute impeachable offenses warranting removal from office.
The image presented by top US officials authorizing and managing the torture of US prisoners from the White House is both nauseating and immensely harmful to the interests of our country, and only a prompt and thorough investigation can begin to mitigate the damage. I know that you take your oath of office seriously; if there is ever to be a moment when the Constitution requires your defense, it has arrived.

Sincerely,

Lord only knows if it will do any good with the spineless Congress we have now.
If you do send it, at least you tried! Peace. Have a warm weekend.
Mike

Tell me again why BushCheney should not be impeached

If you saw the first story on 60 Minutes Sunday night, you probably hate your government just a little bit more.
This segment was about a German citizen that was via bounty sold into our shadow prison system in the "War on Terror".

I suggest you check this out when you get a chance.

In case you're wondering why OTHER people around the world also hate our government just a little bit more every day. And rightly so.

At the top of the heap you have BushCheney the fucking war criminals.
Add to that years of a rethuglican congress continually sucking them off, and now a spineless democratic congress doing nothing about the criminals.

This is not my country when citizens of other countries can be rounded up and thrown away for years with no charges and with no evidence of any wrongdoing.

What I want to know is where the hell is the oversight?
Where the hell is the outrage and the investigations in Congress over these things?
Do we have a Constitution and do we abide by the treaties that our country have signed or not??

Light a match, would you!

And then light a candle with it.

Save a little energy with Earth Hour tonight.

"On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation."

Who knows, there might be a little fun on tap with all those candles burning and the lights off.
Man, I wonder if there's going to be a spike in the birth rate nine months from now?

Have a dark Saturday night.

Peace.

Delicious Mexican Food

We went to this Mexican place down in City Heights Sunday called El Borrego.
They do one thing, pretty much, and they do it right: Make roast lamb and slow cooked lamb.

Below is the bulk of our meal which was slow cooked lamb, served with the limes, onions, cilantro and a basket of 8 tortillas. And the tortillas were made fresh. As in when you order. We also had a flauta to try the flavor of the bbq lamb.

Washed all down with agua fresca (for my wife) and Mexican Coke (for me).
So much better than the crap made here..

The lamb had very interesting spices and appeared to be from the shoulder. It was beyond fork tender.

We also had a side of beans. Cooked in lard, of course.

City Heights is a gold mine for good ethnic food for cheap here in San Diego. Some of the best Vietnamese, Chinese and Mexican food.

Yummy, assembled taco ready to be destroyed below. By me. CLICK FOR LARGER PICS:

A terrible anniversary

I'm sure you are aware that today marks the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Operation
Iraqi
Liberation

Yea, that's what it was called first. Clever, no?
Not really.

I don't need to get into all the reasons why this foreign policy blunder was a mistake.
You already know why. If you still agree with it.. then I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you.
The cost of lives and ultimately the cost in money are both staggering.
I pulled the below off of Salon. It was the speech made on the Senate floor by Sen. Byrd on March 19th, 2003.

I don't have anything else to add.

Here is the original link.

You can read McCain's response on that same link.
I'm not going to post it here because he was as full of shit then as he is now.
Fuck him.

Text:

"Today, I weep for my country"

Mar. 19, 2008 | Byrd:
"I believe in this beautiful country. I have studied its roots and gloried in the wisdom of its magnificent Constitution. I have marveled at the wisdom of its founders and framers. Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic. I have been inspired by the story of their sacrifice and their strength.

But, today I weep for my country. I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned.

Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination. Instead of isolating Saddam Hussein, we seem to have isolated ourselves. We proclaim a new doctrine of preemption which is understood by few and feared by many. We say that the United States has the right to turn its firepower on any corner of the globe which might be suspect in the war on terrorism. We assert that right without the sanction of any international body. As a result, the world has become a much more dangerous place.

We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance. We treat U.N. Security Council members like ingrates who offend our princely dignity by lifting their heads from the carpet. Valuable alliances are split. After war has ended, the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.

The case this Administration tries to make to justify its fixation with war is tainted by charges of falsified documents and circumstantial evidence. We cannot convince the world of the necessity of this war for one simple reason. This is a war of choice.

There is no credible information to connect Saddam Hussein to 9/11. The twin towers fell because a world-wide terrorist group, al-Qaida, with cells in over 60 nations, struck at our wealth and our influence by turning our own planes into missiles, one of which would likely have slammed into the dome of this beautiful Capitol except for the brave sacrifice of the passengers on board.

The brutality seen on September 11th and in other terrorist attacks we have witnessed around the globe are the violent and desperate efforts by extremists to stop the daily encroachment of western values upon their cultures. That is what we fight. It is a force not confined to borders. It is a shadowy entity with many faces, many names, and many addresses.

But, this Administration has directed all of the anger, fear, and grief which emerged from the ashes of the twin towers and the twisted metal of the Pentagon towards a tangible villain, one we can see and hate and attack. And villain he is. But, he is the wrong villain. And this is the wrong war. If we attack Saddam Hussein, we will probably drive him from power. But, the zeal of our friends to assist our global war on terrorism may have already taken flight.

The general unease surrounding this war is not just due to "orange alert." There is a pervasive sense of rush and risk and too many questions unanswered. How long will we be in Iraq? What will be the cost? What is the ultimate mission? How great is the danger at home? A pall has fallen over the Senate Chamber. We avoid our solemn duty to debate the one topic on the minds of all Americans, even while scores of thousands of our sons and daughters faithfully do their duty in Iraq.

What is happening to this country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When did we decide to risk undermining international order by adopting a radical and doctrinaire approach to using our awesome military might? How can we abandon diplomatic efforts when the turmoil in the world cries out for diplomacy?

Why can this President not seem to see that America's true power lies not in its will to intimidate, but in its ability to inspire?

War appears inevitable. But, I continue to hope that the cloud will lift. Perhaps Saddam will yet turn tail and run. Perhaps reason will somehow still prevail. I along with millions of Americans will pray for the safety of our troops, for the innocent civilians in Iraq, and for the security of our homeland. May God continue to bless the United States of America in the troubled days ahead, and may we somehow recapture the vision which for the present eludes us."

Lying liars.

You gotta love this guy. The president of some meat packing company today in front of congress.

Funny, when they weren't under oath, their official line was that the cattle seen in the video were being taken to be euthanized.

But once he's force to put his hand on the big black book of fairy tales in DC, this piece of shit cocksucker sings a different tune, eh?

Fuck this guy.

It's all about the profits.
I hope someone from his family got some of his delicious tainted meat..

Making choices in '08. Thank you CheneyBush version.

Going into the end of this year when the big election happens, there will be a lot on the mind of voters.
And I have to tell you, I'm not too sure that if anyone tries, you're going to get a whole lot of people worked over gay marriage or evolution in science class.
The Iraq war and the "state of the union" (as in real issues, not your lesbian neighbors) will be front and center.

Once again, I have to quote Pat Buchanan.

From today:

"Under Bush, the U.S. trade deficit has doubled. Three million manufacturing jobs have vanished. And America has begun to run a trade deficit in advanced technology goods of more than $50 billion.
Is there not a correlation between $4.3 trillion in trade deficits under Bush, the 3 million manufacturing jobs lost under Bush, the fall of the dollar by 50 percent against the euro under Bush and the resurgence of inflation, signaled by a quadrupling of the price of gold, under Bush?"

Answer: Yes.

One day, I hope that Americans will wake up to the fact that running into WalMart and cheering the fact that you just saved 50 cents on some crappy shit made in China is not a good thing.

Also online was this story about some CEO's that were dragged in front of Congress.
Now, I am not really big fan of this kind of political theater. No more so than when they drag a ballplayer in front of Congress.

But the story points out some things that I would hope open some folks eyes.
The fact that CEO's are making 600 times what you and I make is one thing.
The bigger issue is that a whole lot of these assholes are pulling down that kind of coin while either on the way out and getting the boot, or sticking around after they have presided over management decisions that border on gross malfeasance, if not outright fraud.
I'd say that working people (not the least of which, employees of badly run companies) and shareholders have a reason to be pissed off.

Overall, have a look at the wire stories today.
Our economy is in the fucking shitter.
Christ on a pony, even Bush had to appear in front of the cameras and (sort of) admit as much.
Not that he gives a shit. He's got his and those that support him (excluding the "average" voter, of course) have more than got theirs.
His line, "we recognized the problem early and we provided the economy with a booster shot" could not be MORE bullshit.
This economy was engineered by the likes of this asshole and Greenspan.
You can blame them for NOT giving a shit it would happen and for the bloodshed in our follies in the Middle East.

As a country, we need to:
Get the fuck out of Iraq.
Get rid of NAFTA.
Build our manufacturing base.
Invest in our infrastructure.
And finally, REPUDIATE everything that the Bush crew has stood for and reverse everything they have done to our great nation.
In other words, we have to un-fuck ourselves..

Peace.

And now something really funny from Bill Maher:

Bless these folks!

An improvement on an AT&T billboard in SF

I like the Oscars, so sue me

Can't help it, I have always enjoyed the Oscars.
Even when so many Hollywood movies can suck.
BUT, this year was great because my favorite filmmakers the Coen Brothers got their props (as it were) for a fantastic movie.
Now, The Big Lebowski will always be my favorite from them, but No Country For Old Men was great. Amazing, maybe.

Also this year, I liked that two young musicians/filmmakers won an award for best original song.
That would be Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard for their song "Falling Slowly" in the movie Once. They also played the lead roles.
If you have not seen this (and you probably have not) I recommend it.
It's a wonderful movie.
And WTF was that crap with one movie getting 3 song nominations??
Amy Adams was cute singing that one song, though.

Also, that French broad Marion Cotillard is hot.
And the chicks sure love that Javier Bardem fella.

Oh, Jon Stewart did a good job. Fuck the newspapers and such.
What the hell do they expect? He's not a trained monkey like Billy Crystal.
Like Johnny Carson was so great.

That is my review.

Texas students give the finger to voter disenfranchisement

Sometimes a good story comes along in the face of trying to keep people from exercising their rights in our country.

This is one of them.

Thousands of Prairie View Students March 7.3 Miles to Vote

From the story:

Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.

1000 students, along with an additional 1000 friends and supporters, are this morning walking the 7.3 miles between Prairie View and Hempstead in order to vote today. According to the piece I saw on the news (there's no video up, so I can't link to it), the students plan to all vote today. There are only 2 machines available at the courthouse for early voting, so they hope to tie them up all day and into the night.


Good for them.

I wouldn't hold my breath that my vote would get counted properly in that hick town, but at least they did what they felt was the right thing.

Two cheers for these young voters..

Why you shouldn't vote for McCain

I know it's early, but he's going to be the Republican nominee.
No one is going to allow that nutcase Huck(abee)leberry out in front.

Great article on the Chimp today about McCain by Bill Hare.


Some highlights:

"..what about that disgraceful 2000 Republican primary campaign in South Carolina when the forces of George W. Bush, led by Karl Rove, attacked your wife as a harlot, attacked your mental stability, and used stereotypical racism by alleging that you had a “black” daughter

"what happened at the end? You were seen embracing and being embraced by George W. Bush. I have seen that scene repeated many times with the same visceral feeling of disgust being shown by you as your body tightens up and recoils. You know what Bush was responsible for and you detest him for it, but rather than embrace principle and tell him as well as his ruthless organization what you think of them you swallowed your distrust and detestation in the interest of political expediency."

As a matter of fact, this one event makes it so I have no respect at all for McCain.
Zero.
He allowed himself and his family to be bitch-slapped HARD by a cocksucker like Karl Rove.
Rove would not have properly functioning arms and/or legs had he pulled that crap on me.

McCain was also one of the "Keating Five". Use the googles if you need to.

I don't think that they will give the nomination to Clinton, but if they do, it will be third party for me this year.
Otherwise, I will vote for Obama.
He's a relatively unknown entity, but it's what I know about a corporate whore like Clinton, plus her stated positions on foreign policy that cannot allow me to vote for her.
She and McCain are the same thing.
She's Cheney in a pants suit.

Outlaw presidency.

The contents within the story in the following article from Time Magazine should be enough for any real American citizen to demand that President Bush and his band of scum be forcibly removed from Washington:

New Charges of Gitmo Torture

Anyone that doesn't agree with me can fuck right the hell off.
You do not belong here.
You belong in fucking Stalin's Russia.
Fuck you, and anyone that thinks like you.
Fuck you and your fucking piece of shit president.
Fuck you and your "war on terror".

You are wrong and the reality-based world knows it.
Take your neo-con views of the world and our country and stick them straight up your fucking ass.

The world has had enough of these assholes.
Fuck Pelosi and her "Impeachment is off the table" bullshit.
They are just trying to buy time to get out of office so the next person can clean up their mess.

Impeach Bush and Cheney now!!