Wednesday, April 11, 2007
A Textbook Video On How NOT To Rob A Liquor Store
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Video and Lyrics: The Outsiders' Time Won't Let me
This is one of my favorite nuggets/moldy oldies, and a well-known pop masterpiece. I don't know any of the Outsider's other music, but they got it right at least this once. . .
Time Won't Let Me
By Tom King - Chet Kelley
I can't wait forever
Even though you want me to
I can't wait forever
To know if you'll be true
[Chorus:]
Time won't let me (oh, no)
Time won't let me (oh, no)
Time won't let me...ee...ee...ee
Can't you see I've waited too long
To love you, to hold you in my arms
Ahhh...ahhh...ahhh...ah!
I can't wait forever
Even though you want me to
I can't wait forever
To know if you'll be true
[Chorus]
Hear me baby waitin' that long
Take me back, I'm comin' back right now
Hear me baby sayin' I'm comin' home
I'm comin' home, oh hear me talkin', pretty baby
Don't you know I'm comin' back to you, oh!
Oh pretty baby, take me back, I'm comin' back
Open up your arms and take me back, a-here I come
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Hillary Clinton As Barack Obama's Vice-President?/Trying Out For Quarterback
Letterman: People will say, they say, ‘Oh well, this is Barack Obama’s – he’s only been a senator for two years, so maybe we’re looking at some sort of a compromise on the ticket. Maybe he’ll be the Presidential candidate, Hillary might be the vice president, maybe the reverse of that. Any of that occur at this point or not?”
Obama: “No, you don’t run for second. I don’t believe in that, yeah.”
Letterman: “But that would be a powerful ticket. Undeniably that would be a powerful ticket.”
Obama: “Which order are we talking about?” [audience laughs, Sen. Obama and Letterman laugh; the audience applauds]
Letterman: “Let’s say you’re the presidential candidate and Hillary is the vice presidential candidate. Now, if she were sitting here, it would be different than that, but – “ [audience laughs; Sen. Obama laughs]
Obama: “I have terrific respect for Hillary. She’s a terrific senator. She does a great job for New York. “
Letterman: “Right, but that’s what I’m saying. Is there any thought to that in – I mean, is it unspoken? Is it discussed at all or is it only the kind of thing people like to write about and talk about on TV?”
Obama: “You know, I think all the candidates are in to win and one of the things about the process is by the end of it, after having gone through all the debates and all the campaigning out in various states, people get a pretty good sense of who various candidates are and, but I think we’re all on the same team. We’re all Democrats. I think most of us want to see a healthcare system that provides coverage to everybody. Most of want to see an education system that gives opportunity to every kid. All of us think that we’ve got to start getting our troops out of Iraq, and so really what we’re doing is we’re trying out for quarterback…”
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Poem: Changes 55 /Fullness
Plots and intrigue shade us
Like a solar eclipse.
Darkness is on the wane
As humanity coalesces,
Marching to civilization.
Just when things look brightest,
You remember the decline will follow.
You want to be the midday sun
Gladdening everything under heaven,
But achieve the opposite
With your reverse Midas touch.
Sometimes you lay down the law
And sometimes you enforce it:
You want to be the master of all
But lose your family
And find yourself alone
In the dim light
Under a pale paring of the moon
Walking on a dark road into the west.
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Monday, April 09, 2007
The Return Of The Bedbugs
"We never treated bedbugs until 2002. Now we have a dedicated bedbug crew working on this every day," said Luis Agurto, president of Pestec in San Francisco.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
A video mashup of Harry Potter with South Park dialogue
click 2x to play the video...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007
Poem: Changes 54/Marrying Maiden
1
We understand the transitory
Thunder stirs the lake's water
Which follows it in shimmering waves
If we drift along we come together
But the one-eyed man is able to see
The woman holds the basket but there is no fruit
The man stabs the sheep but no blood flows
The sacrifice to ancestors and harvest offerings
Are superficial
The woman holds the empty basket
The man stabs a slaughtered sheep—
Just to preserve the forms
A soulless cleaving to the rules
In a marriage built on sand.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Cruxufuxion In The Philippines: The Annual Nail Me To A Cross Ritual
Thursday, April 05, 2007
As We Predicted, The Romney Campaign Surges
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
39 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
It was only a couple of months later that Bobby Kennedy was also assassinated. I was only 14 years old, and even I knew how bad this really was. Bobby Kennedy that night was about to hold a rally for his 1968 Presidential run. Just after he arrived in Indianapolis, RFK was told of King's death. The police asked him to not show up at this campaign stop because they felt it was in a dangerous ghetto. Kennedy insisted on going, however, and he made this moving and heartfelt speech. The historyplace.com has a clip of that speech and you can listen to it here.
Ladies and Gentlemen - I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because...
I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.
For those of you who are black - considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible - you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.
But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
(Interrupted by applause)
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, yeah that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love - a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
(Interrupted by applause)
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people. Thank you very much. (Applause)
Robert F. Kennedy - April 4, 1968
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