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Infiltration

by savage ( 11 Comments › )
Filed under Humor, Open thread at March 18th, 2010 - 11:00 pm

happy thread time!

In 1934, DNA was just a bunch of zebra lookin’ worms.

by Bunk X ( 186 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Evolution, Humor, Science at March 18th, 2010 - 8:00 pm

But mine isn’t, and yours aren’t likely to be either. These are the DNA of your parents and grandparents. Yep. Zebra worms. Deal with it.

This is an open thread.

[Image from here.]

Nell Flaherty’s Drake

by Bunk X ( 84 Comments › )
Filed under Europe, Humor, Music, Open thread, Patriotism, Politics, UK, World at March 17th, 2010 - 6:00 pm

This is one of my favorite Irish Rebel songs, full of insults and curses. It was a coded message, the Drake being a reference to  Robert Emmet (1778-1803). Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers recorded it once, but here’s a decent version.

If you can’t read it proper, here’s the transcription, with explanatory footnotes compiled with help on the Irish slang from Mr. Eoin Shalloo, Curator of Rare Books, National Library of Scotland, after the break.
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Obama gets nasty

by Rodan ( 222 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Liberal Fascism, Open thread, Progressives at March 17th, 2010 - 3:47 pm

The clip below shows the totalitarian instincts of Barack Hussein Obama. Rather than be a man and answer the questions about his Eugenics based Health Care ideas, he throws a kiddie tantrum. This is typical of 3rd World despots who are really spoiled kids that never grew up. Obama’s dismissive attitude brings shame to the Office of the President of the United States. We can do better than this Progressive wannabe be Dictator.

This is Your Brain on Progressivism. Any Questions?

by snork ( 124 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread, Progressives, Science at March 17th, 2010 - 8:30 am

This is not for the faint of heart (warning: don’t watch if you’re easily grossed out). This is a brain infecting fungus ideology, and how ant colonies deal with it.

It’s hard to argue with the method. If they let this spread, the whole colony will be wiped out. This is what we should do with anyone showing signs of Progressive Dementia -- take them out into the woods, far, far away from civilization, let the disease take its course, and hope the spores don’t find their way back.

Note that this is full of metaphor. Let me point one out: this parasite, like many other parasites including germs, as they said at the end of the video, insures biodiversity. It does it, as they said, by making sure that no species becomes dominant. In general, parasites tend to equalize by preferentially attacking the most successful species.

I think you can see the metaphor for progressive socialism: attack the strong, suck the life out of them, redistribute to the rest, but above all, assure that the parasite prospers.

And if that grosses you out too much, this is an open thread.

We the people

by m ( 133 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Open thread, Patriotism, Politics, Tea Parties at March 16th, 2010 - 7:30 am

Tea party activists to storm Congress today

Hundreds – perhaps thousands of tea party patriots will storm the Capitol offices of wavering Democratic Congressmen in a final effort to “Kill the Bill.”

And in a change in tactics, the Democrats are rolling out the red carpet for the activists, as word has come down from the Democratic leadership to kill the tea partyers with kindness.

[...]

If you live in or near Washington, here’s your chance to help make a difference. Get on down to the Capitol and let your voice be heard.

One of the Most Important Words in the English Language.

by Bunk X ( 257 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Economy, Guest Post, Healthcare, Humor, Music, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Republican Party, Socialism at March 13th, 2010 - 9:00 pm


I belong to the Party of NO.

Do I believe that government should insert itself into the private health care insurance industry?

Do I  believe that government is capable of running any business profitably?

Do I believe that government is capable of creating jobs in the private sector?

Do I believe that government is capable of resurrecting the automotive industry by nationalizing it?

Do I believe that government cannot reign back spending by 20% and freeze it at that level for 10 years?

Do I believe that government will collapse if there is a reduction in corporate and personal taxes?

Do I believe that government should tax what I purchase on the internet?

Do I believe that the Constitution is a document that is open to arbitrary interpretation and amendment?

Do I believe that the majority of the American public is ignorant?

Do I believe I’m being unreasonable?

[Now go back up to the top of the post and click on Sluggo to hear my answers.]

NO is what I vote on everything that expands the scope of government, adds taxes for anyone, spends on ludicrous popular programs, and any measure supported by any Union, the League of Women Voters, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, or any other socialist group. And if I am ever in doubt, I vote NO.

This is an open thread.

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Saturday Night Music Thread

by Speranza ( 266 Comments › )
Filed under Music, Open thread at March 13th, 2010 - 6:00 pm

Continuing our look at great musical groups from the 1960’s  – one American and three British

The Grass Roots

Ever see the TV show The Office (I never watch it)? Well the guitar player  (the big guy on the left) is Creed Bratton who acts in that show.

This band consisted of Creed Bratton (guitar) , Rick Coonce (drums) , Warren Entner (bass), and Rob Grill (lead singer) Midnight Confessions was a hit for them in 1968. Other hits were “Let’s Live for Today” and “Wait a million years”.

The Zombies

The Zombies were a British group from St. Albans, England They had a few  good songs -- She’s Not There, Tell Her No, and their most famous song -- Time of the Season.  keyboardist (and writer) Rod Argent, singer Colin Blunstone,  guitarist  Paul Atkinson, bass Chris White,  drummer  Hugh Grundy. They had a great album called Odessey and Oracle which is considered to be one of the best albums of the 1960’s


The Animals

The Animals were another British invasion group who were a  blues/rock band from the north in Newcastle. They had numerous hits including The House of the Rising Sun (a traditional blues song from the South. Other hits for this group (Rock and Roll Hall of Famers by the way) were “We Got To Get Out of this Place” and “It’s My Life”.

Eric Burdon (vocals), Alan Price (keyboards), Hilton Valentine (guitar),  Bryan Chandler (bass) and  John Steel (drums)

(click on the watch on youtube)

The Spencer Davis Group

The SDG were a rock group formed in 1963 in Birmingham England which had several hits “I’m A Man”, “Gimme Some Lovin”, and which was famous for having 17 year old Steve Winwood as its lead singer (before he left to form Traffic and then briefly the super group Blind Faith”.

Steve Winwood (organist, vocals), his brother Muff Winwood (bass), Spencer Davis (guitar),  Pete York (drums).

Tough Tuna, Shamu

by snork ( 144 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at March 13th, 2010 - 3:00 pm

Here we have a couple of stories:

Your Chilean Sea Bass Dinner Deprives Killer Whales

And

Killer whales love to dine on chinook salmon, which could further endanger their future

This all coming on the heels of the story:

Orca kills trainer at Florida’s SeaWorld

I like salmon. It’s good for us humans. Omega-3 and all that good stuff. Orcas aren’t good for us humans. Orcas are called Killer Whales for a reason. They eat anything that swims, from herring to sea lions, including humans.

So somebody explain to me: if they don’t give a rat’s ass about us, why are we fools writing these sob stories about how they can’t have their favorite meals? And if some of the chinook are threatened or endangered, shouldn’t we be keeping these savage whales away? Let ‘em eat the goddam sea lions that are eating MY fish.

This is an open fish tail tale thread.

Update: This is what happens when you try to blow up a whale with dynamite:

Uncle Scam Blues

by m ( 186 Comments › )
Filed under Music, Open thread at March 12th, 2010 - 8:00 pm

Chris Cook

The Asylum that is LGF

by coldwarrior ( 338 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Open thread at March 12th, 2010 - 4:00 pm

A Rake’s Progress, Plate 8

‘The rake ends his life in Bedlam’

Willliam Hogarth (1697-1764)

As we know, Chuckie ‘Icarus’ Johnson (obscure jazz guitarist and all ’round husky blogger) decided to libel one of our very own, and favorites Buzzsawmonkey last night. Nice work chuckie, you are picking on a cyber identity that exists in one blog. Wooohoooo! youdaman…not. Btw, chuckie, Daedalus say hi!

Well, for our enjoyment, lets have some fun with LGF. Above is William Hogarth’s ‘The Rake Ends His Life in Bedlam’.

A Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth, Plate 8: “A Rake’s Progress” ends in the famous madhouse, Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam). Chained, half-naked, and in great anguish is our final view of Tom Rakewell. Faithful to the end, Sarah Young attempts to give him whatever comfort she can. One keeper attends to Tom’s chains while another molests Sarah.

This particular image is among Hogarth’s greatest and most damning indictments of society. Its cast of tormented characters points to the many causes of madness. Behind Tom and Sarah, science has claimed two victims. One studies the stars through a useless role or tube of paper, while another scribbles geometric calculations on the wall. Religion, too, has led to madness. In the cell to the left, a tormented, half-animal, soul worships his cross. To the extreme right a delusional man believes he is the Pope. Beside him a musician madly plays his violin with a stick. On the steps a love lost man has carved the initials of his obsession (‘Charming Betty Careless’, who was a famous prostitute of the day) on the banister. Rounding out this horrific scene is a mad tailor and, in cell 55, a naked delusional King.

Most disturbing, however, are the two, pretty aristocratic ladies who have come to view the suffering of the insane as a form of entertainment. Throughout this entire, masterful set, Hogarth has shown us the dangers of a morally bankrupt society.

Almost thirty years (1763) after completing A Rake’s Progress, Hogarth returned to this final plate and made one significant addition. On the wall he etched an image of a halfpenny portraying Britannia with her hair wildly flying behind her. Within the lower margin he also wrote, “Retouch’d by the Author, 1763.” In the last year of his life, Hogarth clearly felt that Britain and its ruling classes had not improved.

A Rake’s Progress was first published by William Hogarth in 1735. Created several years after A Harlot’s Progress, it chronicles many of the same vices and follies. But whereas Moll, the heroine of the earlier set, is a victim of society, the young, aristocratic ‘hero’, of A Rake’s Progress, Tom Rakewell, is a victim of himself. In this series, Hogarth brilliantly satirizes the often useless and destructive character of Britain’s ruling classes.

This original engraving was both designed and engraved by William Hogarth and published by William Heath in 1822.

There is the background…SO…just for fun, lets pick out which of our favorite LGF characters are in the above plate. Be sure to explain why!

and its an open thread, the bar is also open!

h/t vagabond trader for reminding me of Hogarth’s work on Bedlam Mental Hospital

Buzzsawmonkey has a reply as well”:

The Unicorn
—apologies to Shel Silverstein and the Irish Rovers

A long time ago, when Johnson was lean,
He had a lot of posters on a site called “Green”
The foibles of the day they would discuss with scorn
And none of them believed in silly unicorns.

There were some believing Christians, atheists too
Some gun nuts and some poets, and a mix of Jews
Conservatives and liberals, but sure as you’re born
Not one of them believed in silly unicorns.

Then Johnson found a weasel with fur soft and warm
Who said, “Let me come in and play, too–what could be the harm?”
He forgot that rabid animals will scratch and bite
And it went for everyone in sight.

It started biting believing Christians, atheists too
Some gun nuts and some poets, and a mix of Jews
Conservatives and liberals, but it said, “For fear of horns,
One thing that I will never bite is unicorns.”

Johnson started eating Cheetos, potato chips too,
And as his waist expanded, paranoia grew—
He started seeing enemies, his mind grew sick
And he got himself a banning stick.

He started banning believing Christians, atheists too
Some gun nuts and some poets, and a mix of Jews
Conservatives and liberals, and one fine morn
He even started to believe in unicorns.

One who goes seeking enemies is quite a dope
‘Cause quickly you’re a-sliding down a slippery slope
Johnson decided he’d make his site globally warm
For anyone who won’t believe in unicorns.

So the believing Christians, atheists too
Some gun nuts and some poets, and a mix of Jews
Conservatives and liberals decided, best be gone
Rather than be forced to believe in unicorns.

Johnson stands the solid emperor of his own site
And the weasel capers ’round his feet both day and night
The folks who’ve turned their backs on him view him with scorn
And he’s butthurt ’cause he’s sitting on a unicorn.

Yes, the believing Christians, atheists too
Some gun nuts and some poets, and a mix of Jews
Conservatives and liberals are all ignorin’
The idiot who now believes in unicorns.

Don’t Worry, Kid. Just Drink The Koolaid

by Bunk X ( 238 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, Guest Post, Humor, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Socialism at March 11th, 2010 - 8:30 pm


This is an Open Thread with a Possible Topic Suggestion:“Who is the biggest paranoid boob that comes to mind first?” “What’s the biggest lie you bought into that was proven false?”

Okay, I’ll start.

The “rich” get rich by exploiting the poor, and government’s primary function is to help those who cannot help themselves by taking money from the wealthy to provide for those less fortunate in life.  I bought into this false premise (concealed under the popular mantra of  “Social Justice”) as a naive young tad growing up in the 1960s before I learned basic economics twenty years later.

NEXT

I’m pissed off again…

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 131 Comments › )
Filed under Patriotism, Sports at March 11th, 2010 - 10:30 am

This moron has a problem with Americans for showing our love for our country?

First, I’ll tell you how this got started. In the mid-80’s, there were only a few dozen American-born hockey players in the National Hockey League.

When these teams would come to Chicago Stadium (I was a Blackhawks season ticket holder back then), they’d start skating before our national anthem was finished (now, they play both the American and Canadian anthems before every game).

This pissed us off.

So we decided to start cheering for our country from the beginning to the end of the Star Spangled Banner. This has been going on as a sign of how much we love America for 25+ years.

Now some idiot writer from Detroit has a problem with it.

You tell me if this is inappropriate:


BTW, go to the article and read the comments…

Caption This!

by coldwarrior ( 201 Comments › )
Filed under Caption This, Open thread at March 10th, 2010 - 3:35 pm

caption this!

The U.S. Department of Homeland Suppository

by Bunk X ( 117 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Free Speech, Guest Post, Healthcare, Humor, Medicare, Open thread, Political Correctness, Socialism, Weapons at March 9th, 2010 - 10:00 pm

Never forget that these nice people were once sentient law-abiding citizens just like yourselves, prior to the insidious onslaught commonly referred to as El Rayo Estupido.

This is an open forum for Advanced Fuldkommen Gak and other miscellaneous topics of interest. The line forms to the rear.