I Love That Xtranormal

via Powerline:

A Simple Carol

via The Other McCain

Via Another Althouse Commenter

We get to see this snippet of a Jim Morrison interview in 1970. He clearly percieves the advent and flourishing of rap and techno as the blogger notes.

Via Dichotomies whom I noticed over at Althouse:



Althouse provides a lovely little salon, I enjoy the launching point provided by other people's arguments and links and thoughts.

Thank you Dichotomies

God Bless

Our good friend D.K. and family lost their father early Sunday. Deep and sincere condolences are extended, his Dad was a very nice guy with a neat sense of humor, smarts and he enjoyed going to work out. I remember vividly the few times I spoke with him and you could tell he was a good person.

God Bless him and the family, our prayers are going out to them.

Stephen Breyer

Saw his segment on Wallace.

Ugh.

American Rhetoric looks like quite the nice resource, saw it on the blog of one Freeman Hunt, a frequent commenter over at Althouse.

Helicopter Friday

Chinook extraction, a highly compelling Chinook extraction.

I find it mesmerizing and inspiring.



I find that footage so compelling words fail, (I even reused "compelling").

God Bless those soldiers! God Bless them and their families from the bottom of the heart!

I will put up a few links for veterans groups that are worth contributing towards. They are a wonderful avenue and provide a genuine positive assisstance to participate in at this time of year or any other. I will ask Jimmy as well, he knows some good ones as I recall.

There was some sort of silly friction with the group that I participated in for Thanksgiving and Easter and Christmas, though it was not military in focus, and now I am unaware of how it all stands for this season. I believe I will just show up to help box and deliver and speed matters along, why must people resort to being people and making things all awkward anyhow in the first place;)?

Adam knows of what I speak I believe...

Chinook via Boortz

On a related matter does anyone have any interest in a resumption of Helicopter Friday?

A comment or an email will be appreciated, it certainly has been quite a while, time zips by so...

Your vote counts!

No votes mean "No!", as do an absence of votes, and in that event, so be it.

God Bless The United States of America!!!

Peter Schiff

I never had the chance to vote for him because I am not a filthy Democrat or a rotten Republican, I am just a simple little Independent. This state needs a wave of common sense and patriotism and a thrilling welling up of liberty and heart and soul as from a divine spring, and badly.

http://www.schiffradio.com/

Kukri Humor

Funny and oddly true...

Is It Me?

Or does Firefox absolutely suck nowadays?

Please respond and be honest, I need to know where the suck from my 'puter ends and the collapse I hear anecdotally of Firefox begins.

Not me, much out there such as this.

December 7, 1941

Bing has an image up on their home page, they always have a beautiful homepage.

I heard some first hand accounts of being trapped in the Arizona and the difficulties of the rescuers in getting through the hull and the labyrinth below to save sailors, very stirring material.

Truly one of the great sagas in human history.

Insane nation savages it's neighbors and then takes a swipe at a behemoth which would prefer to be left alone. (take your oil embargo crap and stick it. Then go read "The Rape of Nanking" and then learn about Korea). Behemoth arises and invents super death bomb and smites the freaks, have I mentioned my bat signed by Paul Tibbets? I want to keep mentioning it, makes me grin.

At any rate, I am glad they lost, but more to the point is that you can determine a great nation by the fact that those who lose to them are blessed in their capitulation.

Obsidian

Maggie's Farm has the three parts of what look like a fascinating program called "The Obsidian Trail".

That stuff gets crazy sharp. I have handled samples that were really quite sharp, and have been assured that they get much more so.

I like sharp things.

There is a time and a place, certainly, if I must add a caveat.

What On Earth?

The LG pond man commercial?

???




Boggles the mind.

Update: First of all might I take a moment to say to Hell with Firefox. I don't believe that I am the only person watching it crash over and over and over, get bogged, 'fess up to being embarrassed. It is not the program it was, despite my own computer issues, from those I speak with Firefox now stinks in it's own rot. Feel free to chime in.

I am simply at this point going WallyWorld with this post and this will be another time I am trying to zip out something that should and did take mere moments, and started out as a silly bit of fun:

I don't believe that Pond Man is being portrayed

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Carly Foulkes

by Carly Foulkes, the astoundingly talented and stunningly adept, ready for any ability Carly Foulkes!

Unless she did portray the Pond Man, I believe she may be capable of the Jedi Mind Meld which can be quite convincing. (She is the T-Mobile 4g girl just so I don't seem so insane with this bonkers update. Honestly, the first update was amusing...)

Wow do I resent Firefox right now. The post I had put up was fun and quick and enjoyable. Darnit, may just leave this in draft, grrrrr. I want to smash my computer more than admire Carly's talents, poor girl. Any comments, you folks are experiencing the Firefox misery also?

Couldn't care less about mistakes or misspellings etc. after this asinine ordeal at this point. I forget what I started out updating and how, quite frankly.

----Oh, the other portion of the update had to do with the couple who are on the Hyundai commercials and are delightful. They are Pomplamoose, I will put up a separate post tomorrow after this Firefox debacle.

I HATE YOU FIREFOX. Never wanted to say that.

Old Scrap

Just this evening I found a scrap of paper with the title and author of a book I wanted to read very badly about ten or more years ago.

I went everywhere and could not buy or borrow the item. Yale, several points in NYC and points outside and in between.

Now we have this internet thingy, so, while I don't have various astute individuals(clerks)looking at me like I had invented a title, I still am having trouble with procuring the text--er, update: just found it:

The title of the item speaks, The Death of Humane Medicine and the Rise of Coercive Healthism:

http://bradtaylor.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/death-of-humane-medicine.pdf


A scrap of paper and a thought from ten years ago, and yet it proves to some degree that those fearing the pernicious creep of societies judgement and the governments vile coercion were not fools. They were correct, and too meek to thwart, which is in itself a disgrace.

That having been said without reading the book, but having read quite a bit on the matter of public health policy particularly in light of the tobacco fiasco.

Would still like to read that book...

Electric Eel

Everyone has likely seen this already but I can simply not avoid posting it, via boingboing, a Japanese Christmas tree is powered by an electric eel. After viewing this I can't look at anything without imagining it powered by electric eels. The electric toothbrush notion is a little icky but can't you imagine a treadle attached to the eel tank which would agitate it when you needed more power?



Is it me, or is there something more than vaguely sinister about his conjecture regarding harnessing the power of all the electric eels in the world? I'm thinking we have a glimpse at a neophyte James Bond villain here.

NPR

I like NPR, as all who know me likely realize. They have many nice pieces on science and daily life and all manner of human interest.

They are also shills for Obama and propagandists for liberals, with the bonus of being exceedingly condescending and arrogant.

I resent the fact that I can write their stories before they can, if given the topic.

Illegal immigration? Give me some back sound of children crying and a young woman afraid for the family future. Then back that up with a sonorous older white male speaking with implied hostility towards humanity.

Guns? You guess. Take a stab at it...lots of talk regarding drive by shootings and children in gangs, a smattering of school massacres and nothing sane from those who understand that gun laws don't trump murder laws when it comes to the decisions of murderers. An NPR employee wouldn't know a rifle from a boomerang. Unless they had just returned from Australia at which time they would write upon how wrong we have everything in this country compared to those nations far afield.

Taxes? Well it would seem that the liberal wealthy can't figure out how to take it upon themselves to donate to the I.R.S. and pay what they insist ought to be paid. You will hear clips of the wealthy, especially liberal senators, insisting upon armed coercion (tax hikes at the ultimate insistence of the I.R.S. and the Federal goons) at the same time that they dodge their own taxes, all without any difficult or pressing questions.

Am I wrong? Anyone? Bueller?

Here is an interesting account of an individuals recognition of the avoidable NPR corruption regarding open and honest reporting. They propagandize on our dime. They also lie. When asked if they need government tit they say it's a small portion of their dues. When asked if they can get by on corporate grants and donations they say they need uncle Sam's nipple.

They fudge the accounting according to whom they are speaking with...they wash their accounting through various foundations and quasi governmental constructs and they dodge every query while grubbing and grubbing.

Here is a Pajamas Media piece which is bold enough to mention NPR's money laundering and lies:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/npr-and-the-liberal-subculture-that-worships-it/

At any rate here is the link:

http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/10/30/nprs-carefully-crafted-tales-and-why-i-dont-listen-any-more/

via the always fascinating GreatSatan'sGirlfriend.

Also it has been quite a spell since I have posted, will post regularly and make a point of it, so you are warned...

Here via WingsOverIraq is a lovely animation with one Mr. Assange, the language is clearly NSFW: