For those who have to squint, it says, "It's all fun and games until someone ends up in a cone."

I found it very useful.  It compares the House Dem bill, the Senate Dem bill, and the GOP bill.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gm81TTE7a0EUL9JlzVML1dnH2N2gD9BPUITO0



The one thing that the article failed to mention, however, is that, by even discussing healthcare issues on Capitol Hill, our represented leaders are sending us on a downward spiral into SOCIALISM.  

Then again, it's hard to get your hands on truthful journalism, these days.

Wrote this rockabilly song in an evening. Inspired by real life events.

Porn Run.

It's 2 in the mornin'
I don't have a lover
But I heard about a Playboy with Marge Simpson on the cover.

I'm goin' on a porn run
To relieve my boredom.
Though I can't afford `em,
I'm goin' on a porn run.

On my way,
I call up my posse.
Before long I've promised everyone a copy

I'm goin' on a porn run
Though I can't afford `em.
I'm goin' on a porn run
For everyone.

So I went to the newsstand
Said, "Hey, Mister Newsman,
What you got?"
He said "Everything but what you want."
"That's alright, I'm through with you
On to porn-monger number two."

After I went through 3, 4 and 5
I swear I asked every Indian alive.
Each of those fellas had something to say
About the blue-haired MILF that they wanted to lay.
"By Ganesh's tusks, that issue's a jewel,
But I tell you, my friend, you're on an errand of fools."

--Guitar and honky-tonk piano solos.

Wandered in at dawn, tired and forelorn
Met an angry mob, shoutin' "Where's my porn?"
I said, "They're all sold out, but I brought some beer."
They said "We're drunk already. We've got a problem here.
`Cause you're our friend, got till the count of two."
Got run out on a rail, I got the porn run blues!

I'm out on a porn run.
Ain't relieved my boredom,
Never-ending porn run,
I ramble from town-to-town.

I'm banished to a porn run,
Prayin' to the Lord's son
That past my mortem
Won't still be wanderin' around.


Copyright 2009.

Scientists in Moscow say stray dogs have learnt to use the subway to travel to the city centre in search of food. Biology professor Andrew Poyarkov said he had seen several dogs unaccompanied on the city's underground rail system, reports rupor.org.

He claims the dogs travel into the city centre, where they can more easily find food, each morning and travel back to where they live each evening.

"They do not just go to the subway station, they actually board the trains," he said.

"They seem to have learnt how long they need to stay on the train to leave at the right station.

"Sometimes they fall asleep and miss their stop. Then they get off take another train back to the centre."

Dr Poyarkov said he had also noted the same dogs waiting for a green light to cross the road.

He says they have somehow managed to pick up habits from humans and is investigating the phenomenon.</i>

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3438747.html?menu=
(link I found on lj community, allthingsdog)

(link stolen from Russ)

EDIT: Well, to be more specific, though it varies in style, it's mostly stride piano. Ragtime should, as Scott Joplin put it, always be slow.

My entire extended family is nuts for this video. Basically, some guy, during an acid trip, locked himself in the closet and rambled on and on. His friends made an audio recording, and then animated a talking lizard for the visuals.

Been insanely busy lately, and haven't had time for livejournal.

I am so far behind on my friends list, I have no hope of catching up. If there's anything important going with y'all that you think I should know about, leave a comment.

If it's private, send me an lj message or an email or use smoke signals or something.

A country western singer named Dave Caroll and his band took a flight across the country for a gig. They flew United, and the baggage folk callously mishandled their instruments; the suits refused to comp them when the instruments broke as a result.

To get even, Dave Caroll wrote a song about it, and made a video. It is getting millions of hits on You Tube, and actually cutting into United's business as a result. CNN did a piece on it and everything.

Without further adieu:



United Breaks Guitars.

Lots of folks still believe that Michael Jackson had nothing but the best of intentions when he shared his bed with 12 year old boys that weren't even his kin - that Neverland Ranch was his way of showing children a good time - you know, because of his saintly intentions and all.

I'm not going to argue the pedophile point. However, Michael's defenders really need to ask themselves: If he was really that altruistic when it came to children, why did he have Disneyland closed to the public for an entire day, just so he wouldn't have to share it with any of them? That ruined a lot of vacations, and not everybody can afford to bring their kids twice.

These guys made a interview-style video, where the script is all taken from shit people say on Fundamentalist forums verbatim.

It's fucking hysterical.

I don't like to make whole judgments based on sound bites out of context, but what little I do know is pretty damning. I will certainly look into this further. For now, here's what I've got:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_sotomayor


In discussing discrimination cases, Sotomayor also referred to a remark at times attributed to former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that "a wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion" and said that she didn't necessarily agree.
"First, as Professor Martha Minow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise," Sotomayor said. "Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."


Are white folks somehow incapable of gaining the sort of rich experiences that could lead to the cultivation of wisdom? Are there not many paths to the same moral and ethical truths, (insofar as such things can be said to exist)?

What the Hell?


Newt Gingrich, in his blog, responded: "Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. A white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw."


It's a scary day when you find yourself siding with Newt Gingrich, of all people, sonofabitch-bastard though he may be.

When white firefighters sued the fire department for suppressing inconvenient and politically incorrect test results that showed lower scores amongst some minorities, Sotomayor dismissed the case without even hearing them. Granted, court cases are complex entities, and can get thrown out for any number of reasons, from insufficient evidence to technicalities. I'm no legal expert, and I'm not going to suggest that in this instance, she should have heard the case no matter what the facts in the brief. I didn't get the brief, and if I did, I doubt I'd understand it. I'm the first to admit that.

However, this does not look good for her. Consider that dismissal beside her own brazen words, and I think I am more than justified in having serious concerns about Sotomayor.

Otter pups! So fucking cute they ought to be outlawed.