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Author Archives: Al Swearengen
Raffi – Banana Phone
I’ve heard this song at least a hundred times in the past couple months. Max and Sam love it. Someone synched it up to the Simpsons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvz1LNZ5OQ
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Colbert on the Overcrowded Prisons
This is outstanding: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7337892262573277400&hl=en
Blackwater Bullies The Army
(Larry Kaplow, Rod Nordland, Mark Hosenball and Michael Hastings – Newsweek) The colonel was furious. “Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers.” He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of … Continue reading
Priorities of Tyranny – One Way DNA
(Richard Willing, USA TODAY) “Since 2006, the Justice Department has yet to spend any of the $8 million set aside by Congress for DNA tests for convicts to prove their innocence while it has used $214 million to collect DNA … Continue reading
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Karl Rove Linked to Siegelman Prosecution
(Harpers) “For months, the Alabama Republican machine has attempted to brush off claims about Rove’s involvement as some sort of fantastic speculation. Those efforts have just been exploded. We are one step closer to understanding why Karl Rove left the … Continue reading
How to Conduct a Book Interview
I had to share these two clips from last week’s Daily Show. The first is Stewart interviewing Chris Matthews, whose book is a waste of money apparantly: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6199069745998448444&hl=en Then the show’s take on Bush’s SCHIP veto: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5362258944780360072&hl=en
Al on Sports
College Football – MLB Divisional Round Those rare extended periods of seemingly historical events lining up one after the other, where the second you think it can’t get any better than it already is, something else happens…like Stanford converting a … Continue reading
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Omar testifies against Bird
A discussion of The Wire broke out in a post at The Trader’s Den, one I put up for a classic Phil Lesh and Friends show. The person I’m conversing with (rick m) about a character I’ve featured here in … Continue reading
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Living Colour – Love Rears It’s Ugly Head
Coolhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9WZUvzsh4
Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-IN)
(TPMmuckraker) “Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-IN) earmarks over $7 million for a technology start-up incubator to be built in his state. The first five businesses to take up residence in the new building are all clients of the lobbying firm PMA. … Continue reading
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Letterman interviews Paris
Since porn was the topic of my last post, today I’ll also include this funny video of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton on 9-28-07. He keeps the “jail” zingers coming for more than half of it. The “legacy” question is … Continue reading
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Documentary – The Making of Deep Throat
This one is perfect. A lot of it is hillarious, especially the early parts when they’re interviewing the people who worked on the most notorious porn film ever made. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6404197429724896283&hl=en
22,000 US Soldiers Denied Healthcare
(from DailyKOS) “The Pentagon has informed thousands of American soldiers in Iraq that their Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was a pre-existing condition from before they ever joined the military. In other words, NO TREATMENT, NO INSURANCE, NO NOTHING! More than 22,000 … Continue reading
Cream – Sunshine of Your Love
Christy Hardin Smith posted this to Crooks and Liars. From 1968 – a sweet Sunday surprise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8SUc2SV4k
Hersh: The Strategy to SELL a war with Iran
From Think Progress You can sell [this approach]. It’s more logical. You can say to people, the American people, we’re only hitting those people that we think are trying to hit our boys and the coalition forces. And so that … Continue reading
Voter Fraud in Texas
This is interesting – a news clip from Texas, where the state legislature has a rule on the books saying representatives can’t cast votes for one another, yet the video footage shows many of them casting several votes. Where the … Continue reading
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The Iran War
This is its genesis right here – text of an amendment to the defense authorization bill (note that paragraphs 3 and 4 were removed from the final version, and 5 remained): (1) that the manner in which the United States … Continue reading
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Support the Troops, Screw the Veterans
This war is becoming more difficult to support in a romantic sense as the bloody months continue to pile up. What interests me most about true believers today, is that besides the token blather points – “Anbar now has casual … Continue reading
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Go Rockies!!!
Anyone who has followed this race down the stretch, you know what I’m talking about. They’re up 2-0 on the Dodgers late in tonight’s game, and if they win, they’d still be a game out of the wild card spot … Continue reading
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OSU’s coach Gundy goes apeshit at a press conference
I agree with the guy. Even when it happens in professional sports, it sucks. I’ve been tempted some nights to get on the blog and tear Eric Gagne to pieces, but then I calm down and get over it. When … Continue reading
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Read This Sentencing Memorandum
(Harpers) From a February 26 sentencing memorandum by Judge Gregory R. Todd, in the case of Montana v. Andrew McCormack. In 2006, McCormack was arrested for stealing beer. After entering a guilty plea, he received a sentence of probation, community … Continue reading
Lynch the Jena 6
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow on an October 2003 edition of Fox News Sunday: “Here’s the unmentionable secret: Racism isn’t that big a deal any more. No sensible person supports it. Nobody of importance preaches it. It’s rapidly … Continue reading
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JENA – Feet meet pavement
White kids from the high school hang nooses up on trees on school property, and one of them gets his ass kicked for it. Something to learn from, nothing too serious, as he was up and about that night, … Continue reading
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The Webb Amendment
Jim Webb is one hell of a leader, and this time around, Repubicans are going to have a tough time claiming to care about the troops if they filibuster. This bill would give the troops equal recovery time to how … Continue reading
Chuck Hagel on Petraeus/War Policy
I’ve been trying to rip Hagel’s speech and questions to Petraeus and Crocker at last week’s day 2 hearing from CSPAN’s website, but my computer is barely a step up from an abacus, so every time I try, only the … Continue reading
LEAVE BILL BELICHICK ALONE!
Watching the pile-on this weekend, I finally understand how it must feel to be a Republican right now. The only comment I have on all of this is…who the hell signed Emmitt Smith up for Sunday Countdown? Did they notice … Continue reading
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Buy Gold – Junk Bonds
FED set to cut rates on Tuesday – The dollar is already going in the wrong direction, and a .25 or .50 rate cut this week will lower its value even more. I sold one of my three US securities … Continue reading
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Beastie Boys – So What’cha Want?
From ‘Check Your Head’, one that came out when I was a freshman in high school, and a couple of us had the record memorized in about two weeks. At the time I figured this video was the coolest shit … Continue reading
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LEAVE ________ ALONE! (it begins)
To coincide with the post a bit further down from a couple days ago, the “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!” video, we now have the first parody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiuRhy4CqzU
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Walter Cronkite after the Tet Offensive, 1968
h/t to Blue Gal over at Crooks and Liars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdOb_183d1o