Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
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But not by all that much, really.
This is what this generation of Democrats does every time: every time they come to a fork in the road, they try to take it.
There's always some sort of semantic twist involved with their policies, an asterisk, some kind of leprechaun trick to get around doing the simple right thing. They're all for gay rights, and then once the lights come on, they've basically codified the closet by ushering in Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
They campaign against the war in Iraq, promise to get us out, and say they were against it all along — and then once they get in power, they start using words like eventually and in 4-6 years and once the situation stabilizes. Later it turns out that what they meant by being against the war all along was their conviction that we should have invaded on a Thursday instead of a Tuesday, or some such bullshit.
Now there's this Gitmo business. This, folks, just isn't that tough a call. The prison (and the much less publicized archipelago of hard sites in foreign countries where more terror suspects are held) was a symbol of everything wrong and stupid about the Bush administration. Snatching people up by force and dumping them on rocks in the middle of the ocean without due process is the kind of thing that was last done by "civilized" cultures back in the days of the Roman Empire; since then it's been the exclusive province of sociopathic third-world dictators like Stalin and Mobutu Sese Seko. It was absolutely imperative, from a public relations standpoint if nothing else, that Obama immediately repudiate these practices, design some kind of due process to deal with the already incarcerated prisoners, and show the world that what happened during the Bush years was an insane aberration, a result of our having accidentally elected an emotionally retarded sadist to the White House.
Instead, Obama is on his way to doing exactly the wrong thing. He's going to make a show of closing the base, but retain the underlying idea by keeping some of the prisoners in indefinite legal purgatory. In some ways this is worse than what Bush did, because Bush at least took a clear stand — he was nuts and thought this was the right thing to do. No matter how you look at Obama's decision, it's weighed somewhere along the line by political calculation. Either he thinks indefinite decision is right and he's bowing to public appeals by closing the base, or else he thinks it's wrong and is bowing to opposition outcry by maintaining the old policy.
It's shameful and disgusting, but it's not very surprising. This is what they do.
Update: And this is just indefensible. Way to go, Obama. Just when it seemed like we could quit being ashamed of our government.
You might shit yourself at work. Erm, I mean, there may be "treatment effects." Nothing to worry about, really.
For the english speakers: i collect in this lj blog photos and links to this new form of food art, we tentatively call "hot dogs strikes back". it is primarily made by inserting dried spaghetti into the hot dogs and then boiling the resulting concoctions. it is fun to make and fun to eat for the whole family and the variations seem endless. if you do engage into experimenting with different forms of this "art", please take photos and drop me a link. i will post it here, so we can keep the project alive.
Via Blort.
How Down syndrome prevents cancer.
Five-dimensional data storage.
Presidents who could also be strippers.
The YouTube version is here, but you really should go watch the high-def version at Philips' site.
Director Adam Berg responded with an idea for an epic frozen moment cops and robbers shootout sequence that included clowns, explosions, a decimated hospital, and plenty of broken glass and bullet casings. This epic film is the centrepiece of the project. On its own, it clocks in at a (totally coincidental) two minutes and 19 seconds, but Berg conceived it to work as an endless loop. Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to spin through the films single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot.
Then after you watch it, the how they did it video is interesting, too.
Two more discs of funk and soul, the second disc is all longer live recordings. Set gaps between tracks to zero and get on down.
Details behind the fold.
Disc 1
01 Redd Foxx - Ham and Eggs
02 Brownout - African Battle
03 The Wrecking Crew - Bump and Boogie
04 Sir Mack Rice - Bump Meat
05 Billy Preston - I Don't Want to Pretend
06 Clarence Reid - Nobody But You Babe
07 Smith Connection - I'm Bugging Your Phone
08 Southern Energy Ensemble - F-U-N-K-Y Til the Day I Die
09 The Brides of Funkenstein - Amorous
10 Shotgun - Fire It Up
11 Kashmere Stage Band - $$ Kash Register $$
12 Victor Wooten - Victa
13 Bill Withers - Kissing My Love
14 Inez Foxx - Circuits Overloaded
15 The Everyday People - Funk Gene-ra-tion
16 Atlas - Necessity
17 Black Heat - Last Dance
18 Sugar Pie DeSanto - Git Back
19 Betty Wright - Al Your Kissin' Sho Don't Make True Lovin'
20 Israel Tolbert - Big Leg Woman
21 Richard Popcorn Wylie - Both Ends Against the Middle
22 Billy Sha-Rae - Let's Do It Again
23 Tony Camillo's Bazuka - Dynomite
128.9 MB .zip, 78:34
Disc 2 (Live)
01 Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces
02 Parliament-Funkadelic - Funk Gettin' Ready to Roll
03 Bill Withers - Use Me
04 Kool and the Gang - Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
05 Marcus Miller - Blast
06 Maceo Parker - Pass the Peas
07 Trouble Funk - No, Don't Touch that Stereo
08 Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out (in a Rubber Band)
09 Redd Foxx - Closing
114.5 MB, 77:26
And the archives:
For the record, Google now has roughly ten times as many hits for "preverbal nail" as it did four years ago. Also, the top hit is a blog post linking to my original post, which now is down around #50. NO JUSTICE, SNOW PEAS!
Perhaps this video only makes sense if you've watched a bunch of late-night kickboxing and Japanese MMA freak matches. Of course, I have watched a bunch of late-night kickboxing and Japanese MMA freak matches, so I am hereby declaring this hilariously awesome.
There's only one pig in all of Afghanistan, and now he's been quarantined. Poor little guy.
Not that I really want to spark another 2000-comment thread of scariness, but the verdict is in and... Close, but no cigar. But just because he isn't actually the Antichrist doesn't mean that he isn't in cahoots with the Freemasons to clear the Antichrist's path.
In June 2008 after assessing over 3000 pieces of documentation our research team uncovered some damning and frightening evidence that completely changed our view of him Totally.
The information was so startling that at first we refused to believe it but additional analysis of confidential documents made our fears come true and it was an undeniable fact. There was a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach because I literally had to undo everything I had liked about this man in light of the chilling evidence.
In September 2008 we published the findings in a report called the Antichrist Identity. The title is slightly misleading as we do not believe that he is the biblical Antichrist. However there is iron clad research and evidence that confirms that he is a major pawn in the new world order and one of the most dangerous US presidents ever to hold office.
He is also progressing the antichrist system that is is gathering pace after the recent world economic upheaval.
The report also implicates not only Barack Obama but also Javier Solana of the European Union, Prince Charles of Wales, Queen Beatrix of Netherlands and Prince Hassan of Jordan.
I knew that Queen Beatrix was up to no damn good. Anyhow, you can get their report for the low, low price of $24.97 (a "Limited Blockbuster 45% Discount" from its every day price of $44.97), and you'll also receive "5 Extra massive special bonuses". And while the savings of Biblical proportions should be reason enough, there's also this added incentive to order now:
Because MSN and YAHOO have already blocked us from advertising this report through their advertising system. Only Google remains and we now know the days of this report are limited. Therefore you must take Action Today and Obtain This Report. We can no longer guarantee its availability.
Via Cynical-C.
The College Republicans are accepting nominations for College Republican of the Year, and I encourage everybody to go nominate the obvious choice for the activist who best personifies the spirit and philosophy of that august organization: Ashley Todd of Blinn College.
Hat tip: Sadly, No!
"The entire history of his cult from the Crusades onwards seems to have escaped his notice."
This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley's base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz's added some metal percussion to it.
And from there, it just gets rock 'n' rolling bananas: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones.
More, along with information about the project, at playingforchange.com.
