Diamond in the rough
More Pure Pleasure from the Legion of Rock Stars. First we have "Cracklin' Rosie" featuring a mid-song coughing fit.
Store bought woman, indeed. Next we have the school bus version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
More Pure Pleasure from the Legion of Rock Stars. First we have "Cracklin' Rosie" featuring a mid-song coughing fit.
Posted by Pauli at 8/28/2010 07:37:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Legion of Rock Stars, music sort of, Neil Diamond
Posted by Pauli at 8/27/2010 10:29:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: funny but serious, politics, union thugs
My friend, Blake, just sent me an email. Turns out he's looking for a job, and so he's emailing everyone in his address book. That normally wouldn't bother me, but I was busy buying some shrimp online when I got the email, and seeing his email looking for work made me totally forget how much shrimp I needed to buy. I mean, come on, man; you might be unemployed, but I'm not and I am trying to buy shrimp. And lobster.
Blake, please don't bother me again with your trivialities when I'm buying shrimp. Some things may seem important to you, but other things are simply more important.
Posted by Pauli at 8/26/2010 09:12:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Barack Obama, food, Michelle Obama, must be nice. we're buying shrimp
Number 2 is my favorite. What's yours?
Posted by Pauli at 8/26/2010 07:56:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Election 2010, guhmint spendin, Harry Reid, Sharron Angle
Posted by Pauli at 8/26/2010 07:51:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: democrackup, Election 2010, Sharron Angle
Joe Hargrave is fast becoming one of my favorite Catholic bloggers on political issues. He is libertarian by temperament and is a fan of Ron Paul, agreeing with him most of the time. But his opinion has diverged recently over Paul's comments on the Ground Zero Mosque. He first mentioned it here on TAC where he blogs, and he put up a longer post at his personal blog on Tuesday. Here's an excerpt:
Though I agree with Ron Paul and other prominent libertarians on a number of issues, and even take their side on issues over which they typically disagree with conservatives, such as the war on drugs or even the “war on terror” – if by that is meant the occupation of foreign countries by American troops and the formation of an domestic police state – when it comes to the challenges posed to the West by radical Islam, many of them are, to use the most accurate and charitable word possible, naive.
I have heard Ron Paul, for instance, actually argue once that if Islamic terrorists hated the West for its values, as opposed to US foreign policy, they would be attacking countries besides the United States – as if they hadn’t carried out bombings in Madrid, London, Bali, Jakarta, or other places. Paul and other libertarians routinely deny that Islamic radicals hate the West for any reason other than foreign policy, or at the very least, imply that all hatred of the West can be reduced to that factor.
While I don’t doubt at all that US foreign policy has inflamed jihadism around the world, this reduction simply cannot explain what has been taking place in Europe for the past decades. The radicalization of Europe’s Muslim immigrant populations, growing sections of which declare their open hatred on a regular basis for democracy, free speech, and other Western political ideas, agitate for Sharia law, use the courts to try and silence critics, and even declare fatwas on them, cannot be explained by this analysis.
Finally, it demonstrates the contradiction at the heart of libertarianism; in order to preserve certain liberties, you must begin to take a hard line against those who would uproot and destroy them. Yet another Dutchman, Oscar van den Boogaard, a “Dutch gay humanist” is now famously quoted as having said, reflecting upon the Islamification of his society:“I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”
Fortuyn and van Gogh, like most Dutch libertines I imagine, would have rather enjoyed their liberties in peace instead of dying in their defense.
Got this in my email a while back, have been meaning to share with all y'all.
"Here is something to help make Obama's speeches more interesting. Just print out this page, distribute it to your friends, and go listen...."
Here are the all-important Rules and Testimonials for BO BS Bingo.
Rules for Bullshit Bingo:
1. Before Barrack Obama's next televised speech, print your "Bullshit Bingo"
2. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those words/phrases.
3. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout "BULLSHIT!"
Testimonials from past satisfied "Bullshit Bingo" players:
"I had been listening to the speech for only five minutes when I won." - Jack W.,Boston
"My attention span during speeches has improved dramatically." - David D., Florida
"What a gas! Speeches will never be the same for me after my first win." - Bill R., New York City
The atmosphere was tense in the last speech as 14 of us waited for the fifth box." - Ben G., Denver
"The speaker was stunned as eight of us screamed "BULLSHIT!" for the third time in two hours." - Harry A, Chantilly
If you haven't already, think about going to the Winning in November website and signing the "pledge" form. Here's the meat:
Dear American Citizen,
Your elected representatives had a chance to vote on Big Government programs, Big Government bailouts, and Big Government health care. Now it's your turn to act. And your actions count. You have the power to choose the policies that will set this country on a pro-growth, pro-prosperity path. Pledging to win in November entitles members to receive candidate and policy updates.
Do your part. Sign the pledge now. Commit to Winning in November."The Pledge"
I pledge to demand that candidates seeking elected office support pro growth, pro free enterprise policies, and reject freedom-killing policies and legislation such as Cap and Trade, ObamaCare, Big Government Stimulus, and Big Corporate Bailouts.
Anne Nicol Gaylor is an old lady who likes to buy abortion services for poor women. Is she a eugenicist who wants to "clean up the chaff of humanity"? Probably. Excerpt:
On Gaylor's 80th birthday she sponsored a fund-raising event to raise funds to kill more children in the womb. Those funds go mostly to poor women to assist them in taking the life of the children in their womb. There is no effort to offer counseling or any kind of abortion alternative. Erickson writes, "Gaylor used the occasion of her 80th birthday to hold a fund-raising party for the fund at the Madison home of Dr. Dennis Christensen, an abortion provider who has since retired. Gaylor sent invitations far afield, including one to a well-to-do woman in California she'd never met but who had donated to the Freedom from Religion Foundation. The woman sent her regrets and a $20,000 check."
If you have 10 minutes to spare and you like cartoons and/or Johnny English, it's worth checking out:
The question he asks is "Do we really need so many 'Eucharistic Ministers'?" Excerpt:
What’s the point of all these assistants? The Catholic Church does allow for what it calls an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion, in cases when the priest is not available. But there is absolutely no need to have five extra ministers, giving Holy Communion under both kinds, as I saw this morning in an ordinary parish church, two thirds full, with a perfectly capable parish priest.
I can’t help thinking all these ministers are there just to give the more assertive parishioners something to do – so that they feel as though they’re joining in. I should think the priest is often bullied into allowing it, and daren’t refuse. As for ordinary Catholics, most of them probably find the extra helpers irritating, but are too polite to say.
Jonah Goldberg discusses that oh-so-scary anti-Muslim backlash for which the media doth greatly jones, but which is as elusive as Sasquatch in an Albertan blizzard. Excerpt:
In 2001, there were twice as many anti-Jewish incidents as there were anti-Muslim, again according to the FBI. In 2002 and pretty much every year since, anti-Jewish incidents have outstripped anti-Muslim ones by at least 6 to 1. Why aren't we talking about the anti-Jewish climate in America?
Because there isn't one. And there isn't an anti-Muslim climate either. Yes, there's a lot of heated rhetoric on the Internet. Absolutely, some Americans don't like Muslims. But if you watch TV or movies or read, say, the op-ed page of the New York Times - never mind left-wing blogs - you'll hear much more open bigotry toward evangelical Christians (in blogspeak, the "Taliban wing of the Republican Party") than you will toward Muslims.
This version of Material Girl is so much better than the original. It sounds like it is being performed by the puppets from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
Posted by Pauli at 8/24/2010 08:06:00 PM 2 comments
Labels: Legion of Rock Stars, mad onna, music, pure pleasure
Start the day off with a smile and a LOL. This is a riot unless you take Vox Nova seriously.
Posted by Pauli at 8/24/2010 08:30:00 AM 7 comments
Labels: bingo, bullseye, cleverness, funny but serious, humor
From the Endangered Catholics website:
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A WEEKLY PRAYER SERVICE AT ST. CASIMIR'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, UNJUSTLY CLOSED BY BISHOP LENNON.
The “Prayer Service will take place EVERY SUNDAY in front of St. Casimir's Church at 11:30 am on E. 82nd Street between Sowinski and Pulaski Streets.
Come with your cars packed full of supporters for this most noble cause.
There is no greater cause than to save a church built by our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents!
Posted by Pauli at 8/23/2010 11:07:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: absurdity, cleveland, Endangered Catholics, local news, stupidity