Saturday, January 7, 2012
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
14th Amendment-Debt Ceiling Query
Obama Sidesteps 14th Amendment-Debt Ceiling Query At Twitter Town Hall
The 14th amendment of the United States Constitution states: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."
Assuming the amendment is talking about domestic insurrection or rebellion, not international or multinational insurrection or rebellion around the globe in other countries; we can say that our War Plans and subsequent Budget can be and should be Questioned.
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Monday, July 4, 2011
Best & worst national anthem singers
Since 1931, a galaxy of stars have put their own spin on the national anthem (get the lyrics). On this July 4, to get us in the Independence Day spirit, let's look back at performances that set off some fireworks and some that made others cover their ears.
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One of the best-known performances at Woodstock came from rock legend Jimi Hendrix (see photos), who dazzled the pivotal 1969 music and arts festival (see photos) audience with his electrifying version.
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Pop singer Christina Aguilera (see photos) snagged the coveted gig at Super Bowl XLV. But it was her botching of the lyrics that made headlines for weeks after. How did the "Burlesque" star explain the gaffe?
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In one of the best performances of the anthem ever,Whitney Houston (see photos) sang her heart out at the 25th anniversary of America's football championship in 1991.
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Former Olympic sprinter Carl Lewis (see photos) may be lightning fast on the track, but he will never be able to outrun his 1993 blundering of the national anthem at an NBA game. Ear-shattering vocals aside, midway through the song Lewis lost his place and then made a promise to the booing crowd.
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The late Motown legend (see photos) wowed the crowd with his soulful take on the anthem at a major all-star game in 1983.
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America's favorite brusque-tongued, working-class TV mother, Roseanne Barr (see photos) put her acting skills to work with her infamous 1990 torturing of the national anthem at a San Diego Padres game.
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The cast of the hit musical comedy "Glee" poured on the All-American musical charm as they sang the nation's song at the 2009 World Series between theNew York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies (find out who won).
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It could have been the high-profile scandal the R&B singer (see photos) was embroiled in at the time of his 2005 anthem performance at a boxing match that drew so much criticism.
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R&B superstar Beyoncé (see photos)belted out the anthem accompanied by an orchestra before the start of the 2004 Super Bowl between the Carolina Panthersand the New England Patriots (find out who won).
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Dominican R&B sensation Kat DeLuna's (see photos) soprano vocals must have failed her during herwarbled performance at a 2008 Dallas Cowboys game.
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Former "American Idol" finalist Chris Daughtry (see photos) rocked the anthem at a chilly NFC championship game in 2007.
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Sexy balladeer Michael Bolton (see photos) was mercilessly ridiculed for his 2003 performance at a Red Sox-Yankees game. When he couldn't remember the lyrics, the 1990s soft rock star relied on a cheat sheet.
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Less than five months after a catastrophic event, pop superstar Mariah Carey (see photos) put her heart into her anthem performance at the 2002 Super Bowlbetween the New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Search: Famous last meals
On death row, the last menu is up to you. In all other cases, it's up to fate. Let's look at some famous (and not-so-famous) final repasts.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The story behind Oscar's "Kanye moment"
Two filmmakers whose personal fight became one of the ceremony's weirdest moments
Glenn Greenwald
Could Obama Be Impeached for Waging War in Libya Without Approval of Congress?
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/20/glenn_greenwald_could_obama_be_impeached
Supporters of Bradley Manning Risk Jail for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Probe
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/20/glenn_greenwald_supporters_of_bradley_manning
Why Was Rep. Weiner Forced to Resign While Bush and Cheney Walk Free?
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/20/glenn_greenwald_why_was_rep_weiner
The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation
Glenn Greenwald's Salon stories
Friday, June 17, 2011
Weiner Updates
Obama: Anthony Weiner Will 'Bounce Back' After Twitter Photo Scandal, Resignation
Anthony Weiner Heckled At Press Conference: Hecklers Shout Obscenities
Anthony Weiner Resignation Relieves Democrats, Lets Medicare Message Live Again
Sarah Palin: Anthony Weiner Has Been 'Rendered Impotent'
Anthony Weiner Resigns: Congressman Announces Resignation At Press Conference
Andrew Cuomo Faces Strategic Choices In Filling Anthony Weiner's Seat
Anthony Weiner Photos: Women With Whom Congressman Had Online Relationships
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/anthony-weiner-resignation-democrats-medicare_n_878752.html
Sarah Palin: Anthony Weiner Has Been 'Rendered Impotent'
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Unclaimed Luggage Bought and Sold
An Alabama facility makes a profit from selling your forgotten luggage.
Final Destination for Your Lost Luggage: Scottsboro, Alabama
Airlines Made $5.7 Billion in Revenues in 2010 From Fees
Which Famous Mother-in-Law Was a Flight Attendant? The Airline Quiz
Final Destination for Your Lost Luggage: Scottsboro, Alabama
Which Famous Mother-in-Law Was a Flight Attendant? The Airline Quiz
Monday, June 6, 2011
Weinergate
Lyrics are just below this paragraph: The Notorious ROSCOE from Biloxi gets dressed up for a night on the town in Washington, DC, and performs his original song, "Tell us if that's your Weiner," to celebrate married New York Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner's sudden media explosion and self-immolation after he "allegedly" tweeted a photograph of his erect "manhood" to a 21-year-old co-ed. The best part: Anthony says he's been "pranked," but he won't answer the question when reporters ask him if he did it!
Tell us if that's your weiner that's on the Internet.
We like our wieners boiled and burned and cooked as they can get.
A hotdog in a toasted bun with relish so it's green,
Tell us if that's your weiner, the one we all have seen.
Tell us if that's your weiner, that little, smoky thing?
Perhaps a cocktail hotdog? "Oh, Tony, you're the King!"
You're the object of elation. You're cooking on TV,
As you do self-immolation, for all the world to see.
Tell us if that's your weiner, in all its turgid might,
Have you cooked your weiner good and done, is it ready for a bite?
If your weiner isn't cooked enough, we'll just crank up the heat,
Boiled and broiled and good and done, yank it off so we can see!
Tell us if that's your weiner, if your weiner's cooked and spanked,
Y' tweeted pictures of your wiener, then you told us you've been pranked.
(C'mon, Tony.)
Y' took pictures of your weiner, tweeted on the telephone.
Now you're yanking all our weiners.
That's how you've cooked your own.
Monty Python, a short piano song from the Meaning of Life. About how wonderful it is to have a dick
Sarah Palin: Paul Revere Warned The British
Sarah Palin Supporters Attempted To Edit Wikipedia Page On Paul Revere
Price of Internet freedom? Eternal misquotes
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Ron Paul speaks against assault on the American Republic
This powerful speech was delivered by Congressman Ron Paul on the Floor of Congress on May 25, 2011. "The Last Nail The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions."
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Area 51
Area 51 Tour: CIA Film Excerpt
Early CIA briefing film, recently declassified, explores Area 51 and U-2 plane.
Inside Project Oxcart at Area 51
Aviation engineer T.D. Barnes discusses the top secret work he did at Area 51.
Air Force Test Pilot on Area 51
Pilot Ken Collins describes the first time he saw the A-12 spy plane at the base
Monday, May 23, 2011
First ever rock song turns 60 in obscurity
Monday, May 16, 2011
“Making Art in America is a Political Statement in Itself”: Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle on Music, Writing and Acting
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/13/making_art_in_america_is_a
Singer-songwriter, actor and author Steve Earle joins us in the studio to talk about his art and perform two songs from his new album, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive. He is being awarded an honorary degree today from the City University of New York School of Law. Last year, he was honored by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for his years of involvement with the anti-death penalty movement. “Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself,” Earle says. “I don’t think I’m a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person.”
album: I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (April 2011)
lyrics: I love you with all my heart
All my soul, every part of me.
It's all I can do to mark
Where you end and where I start you see.
Living long in my travails, I left a trail of tears behind me.
Been in love so many times
didn't think this kind
would ever find me.
I love you with everything, all my weakness,
all my strength.
I can't promise anything except that my last breath
will bear your name.
And when I'm gone they'll sing a song
about a lonely fool who wandered around the world and back again,
but in the end he finally found her.
I love you with all my heart,
all my soul and every part of me.
Across the universe I'll spin until the end and then I wonder,
if we should get another chance
could I have that dance forever under
a double moon and the sky-lit stars shining down on where you are.
And I love you with all my heart
all my soul and every part of me.
Singer-songwriter, actor and author Steve Earle joins us in the studio to talk about his art and perform two songs from his new album, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive. He is being awarded an honorary degree today from the City University of New York School of Law. Last year, he was honored by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty for his years of involvement with the anti-death penalty movement. “Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself,” Earle says. “I don’t think I’m a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person.”
album: I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (April 2011)
lyrics: I love you with all my heart
All my soul, every part of me.
It's all I can do to mark
Where you end and where I start you see.
Living long in my travails, I left a trail of tears behind me.
Been in love so many times
didn't think this kind
would ever find me.
I love you with everything, all my weakness,
all my strength.
I can't promise anything except that my last breath
will bear your name.
And when I'm gone they'll sing a song
about a lonely fool who wandered around the world and back again,
but in the end he finally found her.
I love you with all my heart,
all my soul and every part of me.
Across the universe I'll spin until the end and then I wonder,
if we should get another chance
could I have that dance forever under
a double moon and the sky-lit stars shining down on where you are.
And I love you with all my heart
all my soul and every part of me.
“Sing Your Song”: Harry Belafonte on Art & Politics, Civil Rights & His Critique of President Obama
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/16/sing_your_song_harry_belafonte_on
Legendary musician, actor, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte joins us for the hour to talk about his battle against racism, his mentor Paul Robeson, the power of music to push for political change, his close relationship with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the U.S. role in Haiti. A new documentary chronicles his life, called Sing Your Song. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Belafonte grew up on the streets of Harlem and Jamaica. In the 1950s, he spearheaded the calypso craze and became the first artist in recording history with a million-selling album. He was also the first African-American musician to win an Emmy. Along with his rise to worldwide stardom, Belafonte became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. One of Dr. King’s closest confidants, he helped organize the March on Washington in 1963. “Going into the South of the United States, listening to the voices of rural black America, listening to the voices of those who sang out against the Ku Klux Klan and out against segregation, and women, who were the most oppressed of all, rising to the occasion to protest against their conditions, became the arena where my first songs were to emerge,” Belafonte tells Democracy Now!
Legendary musician, actor, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte joins us for the hour to talk about his battle against racism, his mentor Paul Robeson, the power of music to push for political change, his close relationship with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the U.S. role in Haiti. A new documentary chronicles his life, called Sing Your Song. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Belafonte grew up on the streets of Harlem and Jamaica. In the 1950s, he spearheaded the calypso craze and became the first artist in recording history with a million-selling album. He was also the first African-American musician to win an Emmy. Along with his rise to worldwide stardom, Belafonte became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. One of Dr. King’s closest confidants, he helped organize the March on Washington in 1963. “Going into the South of the United States, listening to the voices of rural black America, listening to the voices of those who sang out against the Ku Klux Klan and out against segregation, and women, who were the most oppressed of all, rising to the occasion to protest against their conditions, became the arena where my first songs were to emerge,” Belafonte tells Democracy Now!
'Freedom Riders' Film Revisits Those Who Risked Lives for Civil Rights
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june11/freedomriders_05-16.html
SUMMARY
"Freedom Riders," a documentary that will air Monday on PBS' American Experience, revisits a group of young men and women who boarded commercial buses headed for the Deep South during the civil rights movement. Judy Woodruff discusses the risks and rewards with Rep. John Lewis and a young man who participated in a reenactment.
Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.
SUMMARY
"Freedom Riders," a documentary that will air Monday on PBS' American Experience, revisits a group of young men and women who boarded commercial buses headed for the Deep South during the civil rights movement. Judy Woodruff discusses the risks and rewards with Rep. John Lewis and a young man who participated in a reenactment.
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