There's nothing to see here people. Especially not a military funeral. Just move along.
If you're bothered by the negative campaigning of today, check out some attack ads of yore.
What if ABC had been in charge of the Lincoln-Douglass debates?
This guy proves it: men are smarter than women.
Your official guide to the left-wing blogosphere.
It's not just my Luddite tendencies that make me leery of texting. It's also my obviously well-founded fear that my Turkish texts will be tragically misinterpreted.
I knew they would both disappoint me someday. I just didn't anticipate it would be on the same issue.
Thinking about voting McCain? This guy says don't be such a dumbass.
Does Paul Broun hate the troops?
Does anyone know how I can download pictures from my Samsung SGH-a737 camera phone to my Mac without emailing them? How about how I transfer shows from my TiVo to my computer?
Oh, and one more thing. Check out where the license plate was issued.
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I'm not much of a hockey fan, but I was watching this guy Ovechkin on ESPN the other night. You should see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAiuLynJhjs
re: Tivo
If you're on a PC, you can use Tivo Desktop, which is available for free from Tivo.
If you're on a Mac, you can use Tivo Transfer, which is packaged with Roxio Toast. I use this and it works great.
Either will leave you with encrypted .tivo files, which are useless except to watch on your PC or Mac through the Tivo/Roxio-supplied software.
Toast on the Mac can convert the .tivo files to Quicktime to watch on an iPod, but at reduced resolution.
If you want the video files at full resolution you'll need to use a utility like tivodecode, which strips the encryption and gives you MPEG2 video which you can then easily convert to whatever other format you want. I use this and it works great, but it's not for anybody who is afraid of a command prompt.
I'm sure there are also ways to decrypt full-res video on a Windows PC, but I don't have a PC.
The piece about the military funeral is so very sad.
Imagine the 4000+ courageous stories of the women and men who have died. And, then imagine the support and strength their families would have gained had those stories been shared with us.
Tell me again about patriotism, President Bush?
The families of the fallen need to get themselves some of those Military Analysts who were paid flunkies to pimp information to build up the war mongering..
what were they called again... "message force multipliers”
Almost nothing in MSM on this outside of the NYT article. sad, really sad. reminds me of the Jackson Browe song, "Lives in the Balance" Different war, same result.
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that youve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war
And theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs
On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally cant take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
Theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we cant even say the names
They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But theyre never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
Well, if we're posting lyrics... this Bobby Darin song seems appropriate too.
SIMPLE SONG OF FREEDOM
Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war
Hey there, Mister Black Man can you hear me?
I don't want your diamonds or your game
I just want to be, someone known to you as me
and I will bet my life you want the same
Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war
Seven hundred million are you listening?
Most of what you read is made of lies
But speaking one to one, ain't it everybody's sun
To wake to in the morning when we rise?
So come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war
Brother Yareshenko are you busy?
If not would you drop a friend a line?
Tell me if the man, who is plowing up your land
has got the war machine upon his mind
Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
That we, the people here, don't want a war
Now no doubt some folks enjoy doin' battle
Like presidents, prime ministers and kings
So let's build them shelves where they can fight among themselves
and leave the people be who like to sing
Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
That we the people here, don't want a war
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
That we the people here, don't want a war
OK Indie Rock (IRE) you're up... wow us with your relevent song
If you want me to wow you, you will be disappointed.
Point in case, I can't think of a relevant song BUT, I will post this:
after the glow, the scene, the stage, the set
talk becomes slow but there's one thing i'll never forget:
hey, you gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent.
over the turnstile turn out in the traffic
there's ways of living it's the way i'm living
right or wrong, it's all that i can do,
and i wouldn't want to let you be
i want a range life, if i could settle down,
if i could settle down, then i would settle down
[x2]
run from the pigs, the fuzz, the cops, the heat
pass me your gloves, there's crime and it's never complete
until you snort it up or shoot it down
you're never gonna feel free
out on my skateboard the night is just hummin'
and the gum smacks are the pulse i'll follow if my walkman fades
but i've got absolutely no one, no one but myself to blame
don't worry- we're in no hurry
school's out, what did you expect?
i want a range life, if i could settle down,
if i could settle down, then i would settle down
[x2]
out on tour with the smashing pumpkins
nature kids, i/they don't have no function
i don't understand what they mean
and i could really give a fuck.
the stone temple pilots,
they're elegant bachelors
they're foxy to me are they foxy to you?
i will agree theY DESERVE absolutely nothing
nothing more than me
dreamin' dream dream dream....
Ummmm Ms. Nita? Remember that little sushi story you told me a while ago?
It's on the Fox 5 website
People shouldn't be eating red snapper anyway! It's totally overfished. Tilapia is actually a much more environmentally-friendly choice. Although I don't condone the bait and switch (heh heh).
For more info: http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
You guys have got to see this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVVg54C2cNA
h/t to Graham Norton Show
Damn, Youtube took it down, but you can see it at the end of this clip from Graham Norton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1dIppZrDcM
Rockridge is shutting down. Dang!
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/the-rockridge-era-ends
ok, here is my thing, why hasn't Mariah Carey aged in 10+ years? I mean even Madonna has managed to age at least a little bit...
for immigration day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORAyORWRAA