A Textbook Video On How NOT To Rob A Liquor Store

You gotta love security cams. I will admit this robber is an iron man. He had to hurt just a little bit the next day. . .



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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

David Letterman asked some intriguing questions of Senator Obama on last night's CBS Late Show. It's probably a little early to speculate on just who will get skunked in the primary races. . .but you can't blame Letterman for trying, even though it's a fool's mission to press a candidate (and especially before the first primary) into saying, "sure I'd love to be Vice-President."

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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Painting: Self Portrait 32

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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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The Return Of The Bedbugs

Bedbugs were nearly wiped out in the U.S. in the 1950's. And they are now back with a vengeance. Super-bedbugs, resistant to eradication have now been found in all 50 states and the problem is growing.

According to the S.F. Chronicle, "Pest control companies nationwide reported a 71 percent increase in bedbug calls between 2000 and 2005. Left alone, a few bedbugs can create a colony of thousands within weeks."

"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.

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A video mashup of Harry Potter with South Park dialogue

This is a pretty good mash-up of one of the Harry Potter movies, using dialogue from South Park: The Movie.


click 2x to play the video...
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Poem: Changes 54/Marrying Maiden

1

Thunder over the lake—
We understand the transitory

All too well

In light of the eternity of the end
Thunder stirs the lake's water
Which follows it in shimmering waves

Like a woman tracks her man
If we drift along we come together

And part as the day determines

2

A husband and wife can work together

Like a pair of eyes
But the one-eyed man is able to see

3
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.

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Poem: Changes 53/Gradual Progress

The path rises high
Toward heaven
Like the flight of wild geese

Leaving
Earth
Behind.
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Cruxufuxion In The Philippines: The Annual Nail Me To A Cross Ritual

As they do every Good Friday, Phillipine religious zealots were nailed to crosses on Good Friday in the San Pedro Cutud village. The bloody re-enactment draws thousands of tourists and the faithful. The ritual is very much frowned upon by religious leaders in the Philippines. It has nonetheless persisted to become one of the country's most-awaited events.

The devotees' palms and feet are attached to wooden crosses with 4-inch nails soaked in alcohol. But first they walk a mile to the mound, carrying a wooden cross on their backs. Ruben Enaje, a 46-year-old commercial sign maker,was today nailed to the cross for the 21st time. It's like a scene from a Mel Gibson movie.

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As We Predicted, The Romney Campaign Surges

Yeah, the early polls showed him seriously lagging behind Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. And you had to wonder. . .if he couldn't make inroads on those two knuckleheads, maybe he really didn't have the mojo after all. But on Monday, Mitt Romney burst into full bloom with his announcement that his campaign had netted a stunning $23 million that rivaled the $26 million previously announced by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, and now, today, the $25 million raised by Barack Hussein Obama. And he did it with name recognition far below his two Republican rivals. It's getting interesting on both sides!

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39 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated

I remember that night. I had just arrived home from a Boy Scout swim party at the Aqua Barn. Walter Cronkite was on the Philco black and white TV telling us that Martin Lutler King had just been killed,standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. King was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike. He was DOA at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.

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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