A classic advert from John Cleese, who is now blogging and Twittering all over the place. Open thread below...
President Obama lashes out at his liberal critics: Choice is to 'get things done' or feel 'sanctimonious'
Bill Maher Sends Alexandra Pelosi Out to Interview Mississippi Residents
Rachel Maddow: Words Matter
Palin Advises Romney: 'Go Rogue' and Use Rev. Wright to Attack Obama 
Rep. John Lewis Speaks Out on Voter Suppression and Marriage Equality |
Ed Schultz Brings National Attention to Florida Voter Roll Purge |
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Tucker Carlson: Reporters Have 'Slavish, Dog-Like Loyalty' to Obama |
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John Fugelsang: Only in America Can You Be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-Torture... and Still Call Yourself Pro-Life |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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Church Member Defends NC Pastor: LGBT People 'Worthy of Death' |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Krugman: Romney's Business Career is Fair Game |
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NY Fox 5 Crew Pepper Sprayed And Assaulted By NYPD |
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Bill Maher Sends Alexandra Pelosi Out to Interview Mississippi Residents |
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This is Your Brain After Listening to Too Many Right Wing Talking Points on the Debt Ceiling |
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President Obama and AZ Gov. Jan Brewer Share Testy Exchange at Phoenix Airport |
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Some stuff you can't make up!
Let's hear it for Morris Dancing! A Life with Bells on!!
Cleese is the coolest of human beings
My hubby (who's British) tells me that they're releasing a movie in the UK about Morris Dancing! However, they're not planning on releasing it in the USA. :( Boo!
I really liked this commercial. There's only 3 cuts in the whole thing. The director leaves Cleese alone and doesn't clutter it up with incessant cuts. Today, a 30 second spot like this would have a cut every few seconds.
And it's bloody hilarious.
More Jindal rants. Be careful when "looting" leftovers from Circuit City. L.A. is forced to release 4,000 non-violent offenders early, due to budget cuts. Freddie Mac plays the fox guarding the henhouse game. Be sure to make sure Barry sticks to his Iraq withdrawal due date. Though we could use it sooner... Over 83,000 cases of cholera with over 3,800 dead in Zimbabwe. When it comes to the Brit equivalent of the Pentagon Papers, Brown thinks he's Nixon. Mardi Gras gets ruined by gun nuts. How dare the head of the Kurdish minority in Turkey demand human rights?! If you want less abortions, family planning is the cure. Palin's willing to throw Murkowski under the bus to defend her latest shopping spree. Health care costs are expected to go up by $8,000 per person. The economy's so bad, a Taiwanese ex-con asks police to send him back to prison.
$8000 a year per person is just an amazing amount of money. For a family of 4 that would $32,000 a year in healthcare costs alone.
I'm a low-income person and I take in only about $ 12,000 (CDN) a year. I can't imagine anyone having to pay $ 8000 for healthcare.
"What we desire for ourselves we wish for all." Here's hoping Americans get healthcare reform soon.
Soon we (America) will get to rebuild Gaza to the tune of a billion dollars. Both of these are beginning to look like lying/reneging on the part of the president.
Do you have any links? Thanks :-)
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The 900 billion is Hillary's gift to gaza and was leaked on Algezerra yesterday. The 50,000 troops left in Iraq was a composite of Keith Olbermann, Obama's own words, and loose ends derived from the latest Washington Post, and Truthout.org. I don't know Bill Hicks so that might have been the source of the rumor on Iraq.
You mean 900 Million too Gaza?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_re_...
Here is another link for the Iraq troop levels to be maintained at 30,000 to 50,000 indefinitely: http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/02/break...
"Obama expects to leave a large contingent of troops in Iraq, between 30,000 and 50,000 troops, after August, 2010 to advise and train Iraqi security forces and to protect U.S. interests, according to two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been made public."
"The withdrawal of American forces is set to be completed by December 2011, the period by which the U.S. agreed with Iraq to remove all troops." Thanks
[ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/us-t... ]
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and "U.S. interests" are.....?
embassy?
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OIL.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
You understand it's Million and not Billion right?
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900 million or so
That's better then "The 900 billion is Hillary's gift"
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missed that one...thanks for the heads up!
there. Who can keep track any more. These days its more like 100 billion here, a 100 billion there.....
I want to believe Bill Hicks was wrong.
Um, isn't Bill Hicks kind of dead?
seems full of shit to me.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Rush, BillO, Savage, Hannity and all the rest of the right wingnuts blame the housing crises on all the lowerr class, less educated people who outsmarted some of the best educated people in the country. I mean they outsmarted lawyers, bankers, CEOs and regulators who are the best educated people in the world. Most of them went to the best universities in the world. All I can say is "WOW."
"they outsmarted lawyers, bankers, CEOs and regulators who are the best educated people in the world"
And now Obama has put them in charge of the government
Is there a lot America doesn't know about Bush torture policies? There is, says Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. "This is going to be big."
[ http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/02/24/... ]
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We're going to find out that Bush ITSELF ordered TORTURE so IT could have IT's own private library of TORTURE DVD's. IT (not human -sociopathic) would divide up the sexual content torture, man on man, etc. IT wants to put it all in the BUSH LIBRARY, for a creature that can't read, yet!!!! That's why IT needed ITS own private colledtion of torture de jour. TWISTED!!! CRAZY!!! LITTLE SOCIOPATH.
That's why they hate the motherfucker. The man can talk.
but we already knew obama could talk; it's time for ACTION.
Switching modes from "Yes we can" to "Yes we are" It'll be a while before we hear "Yes we did"
British soldiers are engaged in "a surreal mini civil war"
Sip - "The Americans are said to have raised the issue of the Pakistan connection, complaining that the UK is not doing enough to curb radical Muslims. The US pointed out that this threatens their own security because UK passport holders can get into the US under the visa waiver programme."
[ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/... ]
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Just saw a video on Yahoo News of a Glenn Beck program discussing the 'Bubba Effect'.. I found it a chillingly vieled call for insurrection and civil war.. Just incredible!
"Hold on.. We're in for a bumpy ride"
The feeling of insecurity is increasing. Obama's "state of the union" address" took on an ethereal feel of 'let them eat cake', so there could be a systemic resistance building. Some of us are looking to ourselves, neighbors, and relatives for security, and are lowering our tolerance of uninvited guests. Waco and Ruby Ridge have not been forgotten. Americans are not likely to slip into a third world existence easily. I'd say, be on your best behavior when roaming around in areas you haven't asked for permission to use in advance. When in doubt, smile a lot....it tends to calm the natives!
Glenn Beck is making threats against the US government?
That seems to be what you are getting at.
and laying siege to Washington, DC every 20 years!
typical wacko talk from the NRAittes...
I will expect them to beat all sorts of land speed records if the shit ever hits the fan.
Why does Murdoch want to buy it?
killing trees.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Murdoch wants to "turn around" the NY times into a right-wing rag. He would probably also lay off half the staff, slash local/regional reporting, and fill the pages with advertising and tabloid-style reporting.
Better pay and benefits for everyone!
As I recall, the Compaq 386 was the first clone of the IBM PC, setting off the "clone wars."
If they had things like DMCA back them we would still be using either a IBM, Apple, or hey, Amiga. The positive side would be that MS would still be a little software shop.
It's called vision and Gates got caught off guard with Netscape to for awhile, the damn nerd...:-) I myself don't care for the proprietary mindset.
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No, not the first. But Compaq was considered the most successful. The 386 was two generations beyond the 8086 that was the IBM PC, and there were many, many clones in between.
until they got acquired by a printer company. :-)
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I have an IBM 8088 XT on a desk in my office as an antique. It still boots. And though it has run out of ink, I have an IBM branded Epson 8x8 Dot-Matrix printer right next to it. It's one of my prized possessions left over from that era.
I don't how Epson got their ass kicked by HP though? The real floppy 5.25 and all... :-)
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IBM has gotten their ass handed to them when it comes to hardware as well. They hardly make computers anymore. Now they're mostly a SOA service company.
But Compaq's initial business model was around being the first company to reverse engineer the IBM bios.
They did in fact enable the whole IBM-compatible market.
I get a kick out the whole PC history thing - going back to Babbage. I don't know why, maybe just an interesting offshoot of the programming I do.
Columbia Data Products was the first clone of the IBM BIOS. Compaq did have a good business model, with full PC-DOS vs MS-DOS compatibility (along with the reversed engineered BIOS).
Interesting aside - The IBM PC actually had three operating systems to choose from when it was released. DOS, CP/M and a weird in-house system written by IBM with ZERO software (I don't know if that even had a name. I would love to get a copy though). And Gates didn't start Microsoft with MS-DOS that he licensed to IBM, it was his BASIC interpreter (the default boot OS in the BIOS) which was his first IBM contract.
cspan is broadcasting video of the Bill Press show and the Bill Bennett show. OMG is Bennett FAT!
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative.”
- John Stuart Mill
Food Stamps in Hard Times
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's food-relief policy makes little sense, and, by limiting eligibility, the city reduces the amount of money it receives from Washington.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Snip - "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s town house at 17 East 79th Street is the epitome of Upper East Side elegance: five stories of flawless Beaux-Arts limestone with 7,500 square feet of exquisite living space, all within steps of Central Park."
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/nyregion/25... ]
It sickens me.... :-/
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http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/w...
and 90's. My helper would tell me many people would sell their food stamps for 50,60 or 70 cents on the dollar so they could get drugs, smokes or booze. I'm not sure if their still able to do that though, because I think they use a credit/debit type card system now?
People gotta eat, I just hope they can't scam the system. In ending that article said, "We can understand the mayor’s ideal of “work, not welfare,” but this is not a time to be stingy with food, especially if Washington is picking up the tab."
"especially if Washington is picking up the tab." :-/
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Always a way to scam the system, if that's what you want to do. What they're doing now is buying food for others with their debit cards, and having those who end up with the food pay them 50,60,70 cents on the dollar in cash.
They gotta eat sometime though. I would not trade places with them though, it's a sad situation. :-(
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'It begins with energy', Obama puts climate and energy atop his priorities list in his first address to Congress - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/2/24/18...
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Must Focus on Health, Experts Say - http://onthehillblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/us-...
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) must make public health a strong focus as it undergoes an internal reorganization under the Obama administration, say leading medical experts, health and environmental groups.
Obama's Tuesday Night Speech to Congress. America Will Recover, But We Must Reinvent Energy Sources, Healthcare and Education. Finally, a President Whose Gear is in Forward and Not Reverse. This Speech is Like Finally Realizing That America is Really Back on the Road to Progress, that the long nightmare of Bush/Cheney is over.
Filled with Vision, Inspiration, and Language that, as George Lakoff wrote for BuzzFlash, Unites Americans Around Common Values. This Address Hit It Out of the Park. GOP House Reps and Senators Were Left Dazed, in the Dust, and Downing Bourbon.
- http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/25/americ...
Nothing for Heroes, Pilot of Hudson landing says his pay's been slashed and his pension terminated - http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
Where in the World is Karl Rove?; Bush's Brain once again fails to show for subpoenaed testimony in front of Congress - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/200...
What He's Hiding; "Rove will never show up under oath and answer truthfully ... He can't because he is guilty as sin." – former Alabama governor Don Siegelman - http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Siegelman_Rove_...
Fox Noise "war games" the coming civil war - Glenn Greenwald - http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/0...
With Obama in office for four weeks, Fox convenes military and intelligence officials to analyze -- and call for -- violent upheaval against the tyrannical federal government
Newscorp = Treason, its that simple.
Revising unemployment programs involves wresting power from clueless Southern governors - http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/639
The Southern governors, who are striving for political points, want to starve their unemployment compensation programs. But these are federal programs, and the problem of the unemployment programs is not too much money, but too little money. States rights be damned; as Americans, we need help in times of crisis. One way out is to take away the power from governors to screw over their citizens.
20 years out, Alaska's social and physical environment still reeling from Exxon Valdez disaster - http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/640
Social and environmental echoes are still reverberating as well. Platt said that still bubbling up to the surface are instances of suicide, bankruptcy and divorce. But while debt forgiveness, reinvestment and legal settlements can work to ameliorate economic pain, the answers are much more elusive when it comes to the physical and mental landscape of the area hit by the Exxon Valdez two decades ago.
Exxon is infinitely more dangerous than that 'Putin rearin his head'....
FAIR: Post Responds on Will's Inaccuracies; Paper's explanation makes matters worse - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3727
Republican Governors: NYT editorial: What Part of 'Stimulus' Don't They Get? - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/opinion/24t...
China cracks down on human rights lawyers - http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0225/p01s01-woa...
RNC insanely jealous....
Naomi Klein wins $90,000 Warwick Prize for 'The Shock Doctrine' - http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpres...
"'The Shock Doctrine' is a brilliant, provocative, outstandingly written investigation into some of the great outrages of our time," said author China Mieville, chair of the judging panel.
Barney Frank to Obama: Cut Military Spending - http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/02/b...
Landmark study argues that Medicare for all would create jobs, stimulate economy - http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Int...
Ron Reagan Challenges Rush Limbaugh; Won't be a fair fight, but would be fun - http://airamerica.com/blog/2009/feb/23/ron-re...
What's in a name? "Countrywide" Goes the Way of "Blackwater" - http://www.prwatch.org/node/8226
Fed Chief Says Recovery May Wait Until 2010 or Later - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/business/ec...
Held Over: Special to BuzzFlash from Greg Palast. Damn that Lincoln. Abe's to blame for Jindal. -- A BuzzFlash Special Guest Contribution as Jindal and Haley Barbour Jilts Their Constituents.
- http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributor...
Research on the "sponsors" behind the Heartland's New York Climate Change Conference - http://www.desmogblog.com/research-sponsors-b...
ExxonMobil (1998-2006): $6,199,000 Koch Foundations (1986-2006): $4,438,920 Scaife Foundations (1985-2006): $36,868,640 Grand Total: $47,506,560 spent to deny climate change....
Exxon everyone knows, Koch Industries Oil, Coal, Mining, Fuel components, Mellon Scaife - right wingnut extraordinaire also in Oil/petroleum, banking, etc.... Exactly who you'd go for if you wanted to know the 'science' and 'reality'...right?
NASA's First CO2-Monitoring Satellite Crashes Into the Sea - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/nasa-...
'Luckily', Japan's satellite reached orbit....so when will we launch the next one, eh NASA?
Obama May Set National Auto Emissions Standard - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/obama...
California's proposed rule would produce a standard of roughly 42 mpg.
Right wingnut Denier Stupidity Update ("China isn't doing anything"): China To Invest $36.5 Billion to Upgrade Electric Grid - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/china...
They also have the largest Solar Panel suppliers and are spending billions on solar energy projects...
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2009/02/25/late-nig...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
John Cleese is legendary ...
He isn`t in this skit but it`s one of my many favorites from Monty Python.
This always cracks me up........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw
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That commercial is a lie, buy commodore.
can i remind you that the war in iraq and afganistan were started by bush and cheny and i find it more then troubeling that people here who would scream thier bloody heads off if bush was still the president and he was blowing smoke up your arse by telling you he was ending the iraq war but was actually only getting it at the point where he was keeping thousands of troops there so that he could use the ones withdrawn from that clusterfluck to enlarge another bush war in afganistan , you tell people who still are against the bush cheny wars to stfup because we shouldnt mind the war in afganistan or the occupation of iraq because ..... we must worry about jobs first killing folks comes in second place now!.... where have all the flowers gone ... gone to graveyards everyone ... when will they ever learn?
Iraq still "needs" 30,000 to 50,000 troops past the year 2011 "...to protect U.S. interests". I'm assuming that monstrous embassy isn't going anywhere soon.
it's up to us to keep doing what we've been doing -keep reminding everyone what this bull$#!+ is really all about.
afghanistan? let's talk about the pipeline, let's post pictures of soldiers protecting poppy fields.
iraq? keep reminding everyone about the giant embassy, and the 14+ military bases.
9/11? let's talk about the NORAD stand-dowm, the perfectly preserved passport, the hijackers still alive in other countries, etc., etc.
this isn't going to be easy; it's going to take a lot of work. but look what we've all already accomplished.
obama is not inflexible, and i'm sure he sees all the same things we do.
we have to do our parts, each and every one of us. sphinx, that means getting off your lazy butt. sitemonitors, that may mean not deleting plunger as a rule of hand.
we WILL get our damn country back.
and when the wall come a' tumblin' down, the crooks and liars will b!tch and whine, "WE WOULDA PULLED IT OFF IF IT WASN'T FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS!!"
I think according to the Romanum Rituale blogging and twittering are signs of demonic possession.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
we should call bobby "brother voodoo" jindal.
he is an exorcist, ya know.
Voodoo is West African, Haitian and Carribean,
Umbando is Afro-Brazilian
Macumbo (Quimbanda) is also Afro-Brazilian
Candomblé is also Afro-Braziian(Salvadorean),
"bobby" being Indian the closest he would come is a Thugee or a Pentecostal.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
but "brother voodoo" is just a d-list comic book character. same as bobby.
and you better believe i know better than to go pissing off real voodoo witch doctors!
MIT Students Develop Hydraulic Energy-Generating Shock Absorbers
13 February 2009
Snip - A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. MIT Senior Shakeel Avadhany and his teammates say they can produce up to a 10% improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using the regenerative shock absorbers.
[ http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/02/mit-s... ]
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I love research that focuses on efficiency, it helps a lot. Golf carts had regenerative breaking that recharges the batteries since the '70s. It took 20 years for that technology to make its way to autos. The big-three auto makers have been behind the curve for too long.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTR...
That is so sad. Haven't these poor people been put through enough? Sadly, you are probably preaching to the choir. Right now, every nation on the globe is doing financial naval gazing and doesn't give a crap about their own poor, much less someone elses. Welcome to the New World Order. Isn't it nice?
in Ireland, England, France, Germany, Greece, Spain...........hmmm...why none in North America? Between the US and Canada in January, a million people were layed off. A million. Yet, nobody organised any marches? Unions? Anyone?
... we are all gonna be dancin' like soupy and pookie!
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