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Not your father’s Sweet Home Alabama

MB4 on September 29, 2007 at 11:34 PM

W. T. F???????

Not your father’s Sweet Home Alabama
MB4 on September 29, 2007 at 11:34 PM

That was great. Thanks for posting.

Not your father’s Sweet Home Alabama

MB4 on September 29, 2007 at 11:34 PM

That was pretty dang cool…….

Although I think Walter Brennen’s classic version of “Tennesse Stud” would be a better musical choice for the soundtrack.

(More dramatic. And sonically more like a lawn-mower.)

profitsbeard on September 29, 2007 at 11:34 PM

I really like that song, the only time I hear it is when some friends of mine up north get together and sing folk songs.

The Kos Kidz thought it was a great idea, but I thought I’d check here too.

(Mowing at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning is bad enough.)

Although I think Walter Brennen’s classic version of “Tennesse Stud” would be a better musical choice for the soundtrack.

(More dramatic. And sonically more like a lawn-mower.)

Big sadness in kidletville last night over the premier of “Meerkat Manor”
I won’t give out the spoiler for fans who may not have seen it, but real tears were shed by my 10 year old.

bbz123 on September 29, 2007 at 12:14 PM

End of an era, eh? …..I was hoping to hear that Flower was going to declare for the Presidency, she would be a much more “human” choice than Hillary.

He was also of the opinion that NASA wasn’t being challenged enough in the 90′s, and that it cost just as much to have talented engineers sitting around looking after the shuttle as it did to empower them with more significant manned missions.

Don’t know how he’s regarded in the industry or what his current thinking is – the new mission directives have come about since I last read anything – but it looks like the space gear (Orion, Ares) is being completely built from scratch, and it will take us at least another 10 years to get to the Moon. I wonder if the space community agrees this is a good thing or a bad thing, or if there is significant disagreement.

Or anyone out there in addition to Bryan who worked with these good folks?

FRAKING ANIMALS

Limerick on September 29, 2007 at 5:34 PM

I could not agree more.

However this also happened in NYC.

I can’t find the real story (someone please help me out) however the TV show Law and Order:SVU did an historical-fiction show on it.

In the real story the father was suspected of having ties to terrorists, Prior to the daughters murder, the FBI obtained a warrent and planted bugs in the familys apartment.

What the FBI tapes helped prove is the the Mom and Dad killed their daughter because they were unhappy with her (namely she was dating a black man).

csdeven on September 29, 2007 at 4:45 PM

Ha. You’re SO gonna vote for him when the choice is Fred or Hitlery.

Mojave Mark on September 29, 2007 at 6:10 PM

Yeah, but I fear he’ll never refer to him as Fred!, more like Fred..

csdeven on September 29, 2007 at 4:45 PM

Ha. You’re SO gonna vote for him when the choice is Fred or Hitlery.

(That would make it a ‘flying squirrel’, right?)

http://kalapanapundit.blogspot.com/

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411509737&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

FRAKING ANIMALS

RightWinged on September 29, 2007 at 4:25 PM

Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if news reports start looking a little more cheery when the Dems take over.

He’s actually pretty considerate and keeps it low most of the time. Since he just got the amp, I told him he could crank it for a while, so he put it up to about 4 or 5 and started playing a Jaco Pastorius tune…everything’s vibrating.

As a working musician, I find your restraint to be something awesome. You should be proud he blasted Jaco instead of playing the intro to “Running With The Devil”(hint, it’s just one note over and over). It brings back fresh to my mind the days when we’d hold full band practices in our drummer’s garage, and people from 2 blocks away would call the police and complain. I was seriously under-amped, but our rhythm guitar player had an awesome 50W HiWatt combo that could just tune out the rest of us.

Oh, the good old days.

I mean really, WHO is advising him? His wife? What kind of a politician doesn’t know whats going on in his own state? We all know Fred isn’t stupid so there has to be some logical reason for him shooting himself in the foot like this on a weekly basis. My theory is he wants the groupies cash donations funneled into his bank account so he can live like a king for the rest of his life.

The only good thing I see about having a Democrat for President in 2009 is that finally comics can move on from Republican jokes and poke fun at the Dems.

terryannonline on September 29, 2007 at 3:30 PM

Trouble is, if you watch SNL, the late shows, the Daily Show, etc. you’ll notice that they tend to mock Dems only on personal levels (like the Hillary laughing thing, or Bill chasing broads, or Kennedy being a drunk, etc.). They attack, in a dishonest manner (not using facts) Republicans on policy, and the sad thing is, millions of viewers of these shows are pretty detached from the news outside of these comedy shows.

The shows get away with the “it’s just a comedy show” excuse, but in reality they’re appealing to headline readers… just like the major papers in this country do, Yahoo!, the AP, etc. They write misleading and sometimes outright LYING headlines, because they know most people don’t sit down and read the paper. And I’ve noticed a theme in AP stories that start with misleading headlines to bury the most important bit (if it doesn’t make Bush/GOP/Iraq war/economy look bad) at the end, in hopes that even those who skim the article, or start to read it, will never digest that bit.

A recent example is this CSM article via Yahoo!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070927/ts_csm/adebt
The headline reads:
Bush’s fiscal legacy: bigger debt

But Yahoo used this headline on it’s home page:
“Historic federal debt to become Bush’s fiscal legacy”

Now, I’m not going to nitpick on how that seems to be editorializing, but what I want you to notice, is that we’re looking at a 23 paragraph article that is unrelentingly negative, until it ends with this bit, which almost says “this entire article was pointless to write”:

The public debt is now about 37 percent of the size of the US gross domestic product, says Riedl. That figure was higher during the 1990s, following the Reagan buildup.

The US can handle the current amount of red ink, he says. “It is not at a level that would significantly increase interest rates or cripple economic growth.”

[Editor's note: The sub-headline in the original version misstated the publicly held federal debt.]

So as a percentage of GDP, public debt was higher before… so wtf was the point of writing this article? Oh, because they can trick readers by talking about dollar amounts, because most aren’t going to say “wait a minute, what about the percentage of the GDP!?”, and CSM is covered because they snuck that in at the end.

This is a drop in the bucket, but I think you get my point.