Old Film of Bird & Diz playing "Dexterity"

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie play Dexterity on film. Bird has been my favorite saxaphone player since I first heard him when I was about 19. He doesn't disappoint in this filmed snippet.

Jackulation — a list of Jacks

Jack (and Jill)
Jack Albertson
Jack Bauer
Jack Benny
Jack Black
Jack Brummet
Jack Daniels
Jack Dempsey
Jack Haley
Jack Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kevorkian (a/k/a Dr. Death)
Jack Klugman
Jack LaLane
Jack Lemmon
Jack London
Jack Lord
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicklaus
Jack Osborne
Jack Paar
Jack Palance

Jack Ruby
Jack Sparrow
Jack Straw
Jack The Ripper
Jack Warner
Jack Webb
Jack White
Little Jack Horner
The Union Jack
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George Bush Naked

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As Bob Dylan once wrote, "Sometimes The President of the United States has to stand naked." Allie's Creations took that literally, and offer a dress-up naked George Bush magnet set for sale here.
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Senator Joe Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Senators Clinton and Obama bitch slap Pres over Knesset remarks

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Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), joined the flood of Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel:

“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
— Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee

Speaking at the Knesset, The President said “some people” believe the United States “should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Barack Obama joined in, accusing President Bush of "a false political attack" Thursday after Bush warned against appeasing terrorists.

Speaker of the House Pelosi tore into the President, saying Thursday that Bush's remarks were "beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation" at the celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary.





Even Senator Hillary Clinton took the time to lambaste POTUS: "President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy. This is the kind of statement that has no place in any presidential address and certainly to use an important moment like the 60th anniversary celebration of Israel to make a political point seems terribly misplaced. Unfortunately, this is what we’ve come to expect from President Bush."
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Aviophobia: Part 28 - Flight attendant intentionally starts fire on jet

Dave Kolpack of the Associated Press reported today that a disgruntled flight attendant--Eder Rojas, 19--smuggled a lighter aboard an airplane and started a fire in a bathroom, forcing an emergency landing. Rojas was angry because he had been assigned to routes he didn't like.

The Compass Airlines flight carrying 72 passengers and four crew members landed safely in Fargo, N.D. on May 7 after smoke filled the back. No injuries were reported. Read the entire sordid story here.
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Obama's new (and secret) plan to end the war in Iraq: The SuperSurge [tm]

By Pablo Fanque,

All This Is That National Affairs Editor

Washington, D.C. May 15, 2008 - A disgruntled former Obama staffer (e.g., fired staff member) recently disclosed to All This Is That Senator Barack Obama's secret plan to end the war. The plan? To increase troop levels in Iraq to 1.5 million troops, followed by a staged, and complete, withdrawal 60 days later. Some staffers believe that this will require reinstatement of The Draft. The SuperSurge [tm] plan was also confirmed by a former Obama fundraiser.

While Senator Obama frequently says he intends to immediately end the war in Iraq, he has not disclosed his exact plan of sending one million additional troops to Iraq. The blitzkrieg clean-up operation would be immediately followed by a staged withdrawal of 100,000 troops per month, ending the war during his first year in office. While the Obama camp is fully behind the Obama Surge, they are understandably reluctant to roll out details of the plan to a base that was strongly energized by his anti-war messaging.

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Alien Lore No. 128 - The Vatican Says Aliens Are God's Children Too

According to an Associated Press article yesterday, datelined from The Vatican, "The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God."

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, says the vastness of the universe means it is possible there may be other forms of life outside Earth--even intelligent ones.

In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.

The astronomer said that ruling out the possibility of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom.

Thanks to Jeff Clinton for the tip on this fine article...

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The Scorched Earth Duo: Billary Clinton

"If we can't be President, no Democrat can be President."

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President Hugo Chavez strikes back & a round-up of colorful quotes from the deranged Presidente

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell. Chancellor Merkel had earlier called on Latin American leaders to distance themselves from the wackjob Chavez. He backed off for using the word Hell, but went right ahead and called her a Nazi spawn--a political descendent of Adolf Hitler and German fascism. The leftist President said: "She is from the German right, the same that supported Hitler, that supported fascism, that's the Chancellor of Germany today." Chavez also said he might confront her about that statement if she attends an upcoming summit of heads of state from Europe and Latin America in Peru.

El Presidente has also commented on other world leaders over the last few years:

On President George W. Bush: "The devil."

Also on George W. Bush: "The devil came right here... And it still smells of sulfur today." ~ Chavez at the UN referring to the President of the United States.

On Sunday, President Chavez called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe a "liar" who "shouldn't even run a corner store."

President Chavez on President Bush: "You are ignoramus, you are a burro, Mr Danger... or to say it to you in my bad English: [switching languages] You are a donkey, Mr Danger. You are a donkey, Mr George W. Bush. [Returning to Spanish] You are a coward, a killer, a [perpetrator of] genocide, an alcoholic, a drunk, a liar, an immoral person, Mr Danger. You are the worst, Mr Danger. The worst of this planet... A psychologically sick man, I know it. "

On televangelist Pat Robertson: “That's why Pat Robertson, the spiritual adviser of Mr. Bush, is calling for my assassination. That would be much cheaper than an invasion.”

Chavez talks about the U.S. Secretary of State: "Remember, little girl, I'm like the thorn tree that flowers on the plain. I waft my scent to passers-by and prick he who shakes me. Don't mess with me, Condoleezza. Don't mess with me, girl. " He blew a screen kiss to Ms Rice and jokingly referred to her as "Condolence."

On former Prime Minister Tony Blair: "Don't be shameless, Mr Blair. Don't be immoral, Mr Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticise anyone about the rules of the international community. You are an imperialist pawn who attempts to curry favour with Danger Bush-Hitler, the number one mass murderer and assassin there is on the planet. Go straight to hell, Mr Blair. "

He once called U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld "one of the dogs of the devil," and described-President of Mexico Vicente Fox as a "lap-dog of the empire."
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Noted Sex Expert Pope Benedict XVI says that "sex can become like a drug"

My friend Daryle Conners meets the Pope shortly before
she interviewed him for her Vatican II documentary

Pope Benedict XVI admitted on Saturday that the Vatican's teaching against birth control was difficult as he praised a 1968 Church document that condemned contraception.

In a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the document, Benedict reiterated the Church's ban against artificial birth control as well as more recent teaching against using artificial procreation methods.

"What was true yesterday remains true even today [Pope Paul VI's 1968 "Humanae vitae]. The truth expressed in 'Humanae vitae' doesn't change; on the contrary, in the light of new scientific discoveries, it is ever more up to date," the pope added. "No mechanical technique can substitute the act of love that two married people exchange as a sign of a greater mystery," Benedict said.

Il Papa expressed concern that human life risks losing its value in today's culture and worried that sex could "transform itself into a drug" that one partner had to have even against the will of the other. Did he learn this from studies, or from the histories of his minions, the Priests?
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Ben Fry's Map of every road, lane, boulevard, avenue, street, highway, expressway, turnpike, parkway, and freeway in the United States

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This is definitely the coolest map and one of the most magnificent obsessions I've seen in a long time. Ben Fry has mapped 26 million separate road segments. There aren't enough roads in Hawaii and Alaska to clearly delineate those states, so he, regretfully, left them out. And you thought the map of McDonalds in the U.S. was comprehensive? For more details, check out Ben's website:


http://benfry.com/allstreets/
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Dirty Old Egg Sucking Hound; Johnny Cash song and lyrics

Dirty Old Egg Sucking Hound

Well he's not very handsome to look at
Oh he's shaggy and he eats like a hog
And he's always killin' my chickens
That dirty old egg-suckin' dog

Egg-suckin' dog
I'm gonna stomp your head in the ground
If you don't stay out of my hen house
You dirty old egg-suckin' hound

Now if he don't stop eatin' my eggs up
Though I'm not a real bad guy
I'm gonna get my riffle and send him
To that great chicken house in the sky

Egg-suckin' dog
Your always hangin' around
But you'd better stay out of my hen house
You dirty old egg-suckin' hound
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