-Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey and Maxine Waters get standing ovation from Congress for not voting for House resolution against the war. It'll make sense if you read it. -Gavin says restaurant shutdown ain't gonna happen. -DeAnza College rape case gets sent to the DA. -Rudy G. visits Oakland city. -What will become of Bay Meadows? -Cockfighting ring broken up in Oakley. Little Jerry is okay. -Berkeley City Hall finally named after Maudelle Shirek despite complaints......

-Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. -Or maybe not-- the Governator declares a state of emergency after a potential loss of $1 billion dollars in losses to citrus farms. ...

Yep, it finally happened. The Mighty Stephen Colbert finally let us better know a district we actually know, that being "The Fighting 6th" of California. That district, of course, is Marin County and Sonoma and the congressperson is our very own Lynn Woolsey. And all this despite our little Nancy warning her minions to stay away from Colbert. ...

As promised, SFist in fact did not watch the State of the Union address -- though we did catch part of it as we went to stock up on booze at the corner store (we figured they were watching it by the hard liquor in order to drive up sales.) The anti-Bush group The World Can't Wait was pretty busy not waiting, though -- SFist received bulletins all day about various events, including one hilarious email reporting that someone was spelling out a message on Bernal Hill that looked like "BUSH IS TER DOWN." That's right, baby, he's Ter Down! This was apparently repaired shortly afterwards to BUSH STEP DOWN. The day of protests culminated in Union Square, where activists aired the state of the union on a huge screen and banged drums and booed and played trumpets to drown Bush out. The drums looked a little Revolutionary war-like, but that's a minor complaint. We also heard a lovely rendition of the World Can't Wait theme song on KRON 4 News at 11 ("The world can't wait..... the world can't wait....") from an activist whose last name was Makepeace. They then toppled a papier-mache statue of Bush at the end of the protest and everyone went home. Police were watching but made no arrests. If you're so inclined, you should definitely check out KRON 4's video coverage of the event, it was hilarious. The world can't wait.... the world can't wait.... At the actual state of the union, someone else didn't hear the speech either -- Cindy Sheehan, an invited guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), was arrested and hustled out of the building for wearing a t-shirt that said "2,245 and how many more?" Isn't that what the whole speech was about? (Well, that and conserving oil.) Picture of Union Square protest from KRON 4...