Friday Night Nonsense: Animated Friday
Two very cool animated clips. The return of Simon's Cat and a strange Korean love tale between a rabbit and a cat. Enjoy!
Darn cat!
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Two very cool animated clips. The return of Simon's Cat and a strange Korean love tale between a rabbit and a cat. Enjoy!
Darn cat!
You like me? Say what now?
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Labels: Colbert Report, music, RUSH, Stephen Colbert, Tom Sawyer
I just had enough! I tried but I am out of patience. How can people be stupid delusional? I am not talking about the just plain stupid or the willfully ignorant. No I mean people like this:
And here is a run-down of the last 8 years of history. The US was attacked. The US responded to those attacks in Afghanistan. They now have a democratically elected government for the first time. Also, for the first time, women are being educated in that country. In one sweeping move the US smacked down all the years on inequity and human rights violations in that country. That country now has a future that includes all members of its society.
Iraq is also free from its tyranny. No longer are the Hussein's able to run that country into the ground. TO ethnically cleanse the Kurds or the Shias or any other group of people who opposed his dictatorial rule.
After the Islamic fundamentalist joined into to create havoc in Iraq things got worse for a while. They purposefully stirred up ethnic rivalries in order to cause further chaos in Iraq and the US. They used our own media to turn the tide of the war. Then the President appointed Petraeus and got COngress to agree to allow his new strategies. The Surge has been and UNQUALIFIED success. Now, the oil is flowing the revenues are being shared by everyone and the government has opened the industry to the world's companies. The first OPEC nation to do so.
Remember, a few years ago, Sadaam was jerking around weapons inspectors, invading his neighbors, terrorizing his own people and generally making the middle east as unstable has he could. Now he is dead. His sons are dead. His government is no longer a threat. All Iraqis are able to participate and vote AND (this is astounding if you think about it) IRaq has become the first OPEC country to allow the foreign oil companies to come participate in their market.
This is what history will remember. Not who's fault it was (and it certainly wasn't the Presiden'ts) that FEMA didn't live up to its expectations during Katrina.
It's true that there are a handful of European rights activists and people on the lacy left fringe of American politics who would dearly like to see such trials, but actually pursuing them would be a profound -- even tragic -- mistake. Our political system works as smoothly as it does, in part, because we've never criminalized differences over policy. Since Andrew Jackson's time, our electoral victors celebrate by throwing the losers out of work -- not into jail cells.
The Bush administration has been wretchedly mistaken in its conception of executive power, deceitful in its push for war with Iraq and appalling in its scheming to make torture an instrument of state power. But a healthy democracy punishes policy mistakes, however egregious, and seeks redress for its societal wounds, however deep, at the ballot box and not in the prisoner's dock.
The whole point of the Bush NSA warrantless spying program was to enable the administration to spy on people in secret -- i.e., without the judicial oversight the law required. Thus, the only people outside the Executive Branch who have any real knowledge at all of how these illegal spying powers were exercised are a small number of Senators on the Intelligence Committee who have been briefed by Bush officials, but they are barred by law from saying what they know.
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Labels: facts, I had enough, insanity, Iraq, politics, reality, right wing, state of mind, stupidity
President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official
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If this blog had a theme song, this would be it. Now you might not be a fan of Coldplay, if that is the case, your loss. But I am and therefore I celebrate their new single appropriately called Viva La Vida!
Enjoy!
And if you are wondering why this is now the official theme song of this blog, well just look at the title (Ruins of Empire) and then read the lyrics:
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemies eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing:
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt, and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can not explain
Once you know there was never, never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
(Ohhh)
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in.
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People could not believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries Wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can not explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)
Hear Jerusalem bells are ringings
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can not explain
I know Saint Peter will call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Oooooh Oooooh Oooooh
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Labels: Coldplay, Empire, friday, lyrics, music video, Ruins of Empire, song, Viva La Vida, YouTube
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