i would LOVE to see her and bjork do a duet
You Should Share a Robot Lawn Mower With Your Neighbors
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When you share it, a robot lawn mower goes from a good value to a great one.
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Why we will be seeing more of Susan Boyle
from buzzfeed:
Susan Boyle’s ‘Cry Me A River’Music Buzz Someone found a 1999 recording of YouTube star Susan Boyle singing “Cry Me A River” on a charity album. Sadly, it is not the Justin Timberlake “Cry Me A River,” though someone should really make that cover happen. Someone should also make a reality show with Susan and Paul Potts, while I'm throwing out free ideas.
I DO NOT approve of Obama -
4/16/2009
Obama's decision to appeal the recent court decision that granted habeas corpus rights to Bagram detainees. "He's just following the long-standing principle of American justice: guilty until proven forgotten about."
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"Do You Or Do You Not Have Six-Pack Abs Congressman?"
27-year-old Republican Congressman Schock rose to fame after being voted 'Hottest Freshman in Congress' by Huffington Post readers. He has since become a TMZ favorite.
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Secession! It's not just for Vermont academics and Sarah Palin's
Glenn Beck makes a point:
GLENN BECK: Does the individual have any rights anymore? Does the state have any right any more? And I know, because I've heard it, from all of the conservative, uh, you know, uh, historians...and scholars, and everything else. But you can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. And if a state says, I don't want to go there, because that's suicide, they have a right to back out. They have a right. People have a right to not commit economic suicide...I sign into this Union, and I can never get out, no matter what the government does? I can never get out? Well that leaves only one other option. That doesn't seem like a good option.
and Jesse Berney makes a reply:
It's not even hard. All you have to do is travel to a foreign country, visit a U.S. embassy or consulate, and sign a paper declaring that you're no longer a citizen.
Secession is illegal, and suicide is drastic. So if you're too lazy to work for what you believe in, if you really believe that a modest tax hike on the wealthiest Americans is tantamount to destroying our nation, please feel free to get out while the getting is good.
I promise, we won't even miss you.
Love,
Jesse
I guess the love-it-or-leave-it crowd has a little something to think about now...
Glenn thinks that if he and his fellow travelers can't secede from the United States, than the only other option is suicide. But that's a little melodramatic. In fact, U.S. law gives Beck an easy way to jump ship: renounce his citizenship. According to the State Department, all he has to do to officially cut his citizenship ties with the United States is to make:a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in a foreign state, in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State
That's right, Glenn -- you can leave any time you want to. Just head off to a foreign country, visit a U.S. embassy, and sign a piece of paper renouncing your citizenship once and for all. You don't even have to pretend to cry when you do it.
If you honestly believe that the United States has been put on a path of certain destruction, if you think it's so bad that you think your only options are secession or suicide, and if you don't love America enough to work within the system created by our founding fathers, then take a hike. I think we'll get by just fine without you. http://www.renounceglennbeck.com/
- Second Vermont Republic (SVR) is a secessionist group within the U.S. state of Vermont which seeks to return to the formerly independent status of the Vermont Republic (1777–91)
- Palin's secession flirtation
In a country that made it's name seceeding from the Motherland where does treason begin?
On the other hand, if Texas and her quite numerous electoral college votes do decide to cloister themselves away and secede would that might be a temporary victory for the Teabaggers and Glenn but would mean a more or less permanent victory for the Democratic Party over the next few decades.
Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions
4/15/2009
HONG KONG -- This city's three billionaire Kwok brothers have just the answer forthe rising waters threatening the global economy: the world's first life-size replica of Noah's ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast of this recession-struck Chinese financial center...
The instructions in the King James version of the Bible call for a gopher wood and pitch vessel that is 300 cubits long, 50 wide and 30 high, with a window, a door and three stories. (By the reckoning of modern scholars, that comes out to about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123966767906515339.html
You’re Gonna Need a Dick Armey
For the tea bagging. MSNBC explains. You know, Dick Armey (R-TX), the former House Majority Leader.
Very insightful coverage actually...
and - oh, the number of puns!
Besides these protests taking up the name recently - what is teabagging? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagging&defid=1608058
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Britain's Got Talent Shocker - Never judge a book by its cover
4/14/2009
Susan Boyle, 48, from West Lothian is living proof of this quote as she stunned the judges on Britain's Got Talent singing 'I Dream A Dream' from Les Miserables, earning herself a standing ovation from the crowd and inspired the ITV show to a peak audience of 11.8million viewers.
Miss Boyle told Geordie hosts Ant and Dec that she's "never had a boyfriend" and she has "never been kissed before". Her previous singing experience was limited to the church choir and karaoke.
After the singing, and the audience reaction, the most satisfying thing about that was seeing Simon Cowell taken down a peg.
Apparently Disney only made one film and has been tracing it ever since.
What Dobson Doesn't Understand from Andrew Sullivan
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/what-dobson-doesnt-understand.html#more
emphasis mine
He's throwing a tantrum, like so many on the far right:
“We tried to defend the unborn child, the dignity of the family, but it was a holding action,” he said. “We are awash in evil and the battle is still to be waged. We are right now in the most discouraging period of that long conflict. Humanly speaking, we can say we have lost all those battles.”
I'd say he's only partly right. I don't see the younger generation believing that abortion is a no-brainer; most see it as a tragedy that should nonetheless remain a choice in the first trimester. Abortion rates have indeed gone down since the 1980s. So has crime. Divorce rates have leveled off and are in a small decline. In the White House, we have a model black family. Gays, if only Dobson could see it, have matured, entered the mainstream, embraced institutions like the military and civil marriage; drug use is down.
I could go on. Of course, among those parts of America most beleaguered by some of the problems Dobson sites are red states, where his brand of Christianism still dominates.
The boomers keep fighting the war between the 1960s and the 1980s. What they don't seem to have absorbed is that the younger generations have taken many of the gains of the 1960s - more equality and freedom for women, racial minorities and gays - and integrated them into a mode of living that is neither counter-cultural as such nor old-school. It's a more humane, more inclusive and more small-c conservative culture. For some of it, we can thank those who worried about the dangers of social and sexual excess. And for the rest of it, we can thank those sane liberals who didn't throw the liberty out with the license.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/what-dobson-doesnt-understand.html#more
this is what family values means
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