My Senator, Jim Bunning | Small Mind and Heart Of Stone

Speaking of creepy old farts:
Here's Republican compassion in a nutshell.
My old and barely aware senator(not Mitch McConnell, he's the money grubbing one) Jim "F*ck the poor" Bunning.


If they were voting for more weapons, wars, tax breaks for heirs, you just know that old Senator Crankstanky here would be all for it.

As a long-suffering constituent I can only say;
What. A. Dick.

Oh and the DemocratsPussies rolled over(what else) and let him do this to suffering, desperate people.

As always Digby explains it so much better than I.

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Kreep of The Week | K-K-K-K-Kriminal Klown

I know what I'll do! I'll get clown tattoos and start a life of crime. No one will ever recognize me. Yeah baby, that's the ticket!


Meet Tony Alexander Pete, 43, aka "Happy." Police in Ogden, Utah are seeking Happy who is a suspect in a burglary that took place Wednesday evening. Happy, a career criminal, is easily identified due to his unique facial tattoos.
-the Salt Lake Tribune

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Image of The Day: Von Stuck, "Lucifer"

Franz Von Stuck's creepy Lucifer




















From Wikipedia common images.

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Quotes: More Federal Money For Blackwater Mercenaries?

"The only way Congress would stop giving Blackwater money is if it started registering black people to vote."

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Obama White House Says Not Enough Votes For Public Option Support

The Obama "Give Up You Can't Win" White House once again tries to kick the Public Option before it gets up off the ground.

Robert Gibbs: Public Option Via Reconciliation Can’t Pass Congress

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Video: Jon Stewart On CPAC

Jon Stewart on those crazy knuckleheads at the CPAC gathering:

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CPAC 2010 - Rage Within the Machine
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It's the "conservative Woodstock".

I'm safe in assuming that means; Boring, white, hypocritical, with no good music, no good drugs, and yes I saw the women in the CPAC crowd, so NO SKINNY DIPPING, EVER!!



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Quote of The Day; Harry Reid

Every now and then Vanilla Harry Reid hits the proverbial nail on the head.

"They should stop crying about reconciliation as if it's never been done before... It's been done 21 times before."

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TED TALKS | Bill Gates On A new Future For Energy

Maybe he can lead the way, someone needs to.

Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

"A molecule of uranium has a million times more energy than a molecule of coal." He and Nathan "Mosquito Zapper" Myrhvold are backing a nuclear approach. It's called Terrapower, and it's different from a standard nuclear reactor. Instead of burning the 1% of uranium-235 found in natural uranium, this reactor burns the other 99%, called uranium-238. You can use all the leftover waste from today's reactors as fuel. "In terms of fuel this really solves the problem." He showed a photo of depleted waste uranium in steel cylinders at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky -- the waste at this plant could supply the US energy needs for 200 years (woah!), and filtering seawater for uranium could supply energy for much longer than that."

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Oh, I get it..The Pot Leaf Pot Holder

Now I wouldn't mind having one of these:

The Pot Leaf Pot Holder




















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CPAC | Conservatives In Glass Houses Throwing Stones

Another perfect case of conservative projection? From past experience with sneering conservative ranters I'm now assuming this guy is a closeted gay cokehead(NOT that there's anything wrong with that!).


A few examples from their idols list; Rush Limbaugh(pills, pills, pills), Glenn Beck(cokehead, of course), George W. Bush(snorted up Peru, smoked up Mexico), Ted "to chicken for the draft" Nugent(yeah, pretty much everything), etc......

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Kentucky History Excerpts; "Tales From Buffalo Creek"

This is an excerpt from a short history of Buffalo Creek in Owsley County Kentucky. Titled "Tales From Buffalo Creek" and written from personal memories by Leon Sandlin
Leon Sandlin comes from a long line of old Dean family friends. Our ancesters grew up together in that little remote area. Like every place Buffalo Creek has enormous amount of history lost for good because of the passing of generations and failure to write it down. Thanks to Leon a bit of the history of Buffalo Creek will remain. Through his memories his family and a lot of the history of mine lives on.
This excerpt tells of my great grandfather Ezekial Dean coming into Kentucky, sometime around 1870 and established his life, family and a long Dean history on Buffalo Creek in Owsley County Kentucky.



The Dean's Come to Kentucky and to Buffalo Creek in Owsley County.
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Tales From Buffalo Creek
"..It is my intent to write about all the families that lived on Buffalo Creek during the 1940' and 50's. The Dean family has been on Buffalo(*) since sometime during the 1870's. Ezekiel was the beginning of the Dean line in this area. Ezekiel was born sometime around 1840 in Virginia. He had a sister that married Abraham Carmack. Abraham and his wife lived around the mouth of Island Creek. It is not known for sure when Ezekiel came to Kentucky. He married Kizzie Barrett, a daughter of Jesse and Polly Asher. They were married in Clay County on August 6, 1859. Ezekiel joined the Union during the Civil War. It was during the 1870's that Ezekiel's family along with some of the Carmack's came to Buffalo Creek and settled on the Rattlesnake Branch. Ezekiel and Kizzie("Coon" as she was called) had a large family. Their children were Rachel born 5/1/1861, John born 2/25/1863, Mary Jane born5/7/1865,Else Ann born 2/20/1867, James born 5/7/1869, Brice born 10/1/1871, Nancy Margaret born 4/7/1873,, Jesse(*2) born 10/10/1875, George born 10/15/1877, Daniel Boone born 9/15/1879, and Cattie born 4/15/1881.
Rachel married William Davidson they had several children. William hanged himself. All of Rachel's children left Buffalo. John married _?_ Webb. I don't know if they had children. John was killed in a fight that took place during a card game.Mary Jane married Harve Abner. They lived in Clay County and had several children. Some of them were Luch, John, Brice, James(known as "Jim Black"), Ezekial and Anna. Jim Black came to our house quite often when I was a small boy. I remember the first time I saw him. He came to our house one afternoon and I was surprised to see he was missing both hands. It was getting quite late as my mother was in the kitchen cooking supper. When it was apparent that he had come to spend the night I began to wonder how he would be able to eat his meal without hands. When supper was cooked and we were called in to eat I was surprised to see him pick up a fork between the stubs he had left and eat as well as we did. Jim Black was out in a boat throwing dynamite in the river to kill fish. He had cut a stick in half and was holding them one in each hand, one went off prematurely and the explosion set the other one off. Else Ann married John Bishop, their children were Scott and Jessee. James married Elizabeth Riley, their children were Nancy and Jimmie. Brice married 1st Ara Daniel, their children were Ester, Lucy, and Colson. Brice's 2nd wife was Mary Ellen Rice and their children were Bradley, Ezekiel, Thomas, Geneva, Woodrow and Shirley. Most of Brice's family lived around Booneville. Nancy Margaret married William Clark. Their children were Rushia, Della,Rose and Nettie. Nancy Magaret died Jan. 28, 1906. Jesse Dean married Jane Riley(*3), their children were Johny, George, Ellen, Albert, Florence, Mark, Edd(*4), Ledford, Ray, Myrtle, and Elvia. Jesse Dean died on Buffalo Creek in 1930. Most of his family left Buffalo except Edd, who lived on Buffalo Creek until around 1950. George married Martha Gay, their children wereNellie, Stella, Clay, Ida, Chaney, Hazel, Wilton, Addie, Effie, and Opal. George lived his entire life on the Rattlesnake Branch where he died 4/28/1951. Daniel Boone married Ida Neace, their children were Violet, Fannie, William, Sam, Arthur and Ruth. Daniel's family lived around Booneville. Cattie Dean married Green Burns, their children were Jimmy, Ernest, Kinard, Nancy, Levi, Frank, Dan and Steve. Green Burns died while cleaning out a well for WIlliam Clark on the Rockhouse Branch this was around 1914. Cattie died in Indiana around 1965.."
-Leon Sandlin

(*) Dean Note; I don't think any Deans have lived on Buffalo Creek for a long time now.
(*2) Dean Note2; Jesse Dean is my grandfather
(*3) Note3; My grandparents
(*4) My father

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Greenwald; The Almighty Lindsey Graham Must Be Appeased

Lindsey Graham and every other Republican as far as I can tell. The Obama Doctrine seems to have become the Rahm Emanuel style of "bi-partisanship" since his swearing in. Here's Glenn Greenwald:

The all-powerful Lindsey Graham must not be displeased

"..This is the same excuse that has been offered by Obama loyalists from the start for everything from continuing radical Bush/Cheney Terrorism policies to protecting Bush crimes from disclosure and accountability: we have to do this otherwise we won't have bipartisan support for our domestic agenda. Leaving aside the perverse, Mussolini-like willingness to trade away core liberties for material benefits (just as long as the trains run on time), can someone point to all of the crucial GOP support for health care reform and the rest of Obama's domestic agenda that would have been lost had Obama angered the GOP by reversing and/or investigating Bush/Cheney Terrorism policies?

It was painfully predictable from the start that the GOP would impede Obama's agenda no matter what he did, which is what made all those "post-partisan" proclamations nothing short of sad. Where is this vital GOP cooperation that would have been lost had Obama fulfilled his campaign pledges to "change" these Terrorism and civil liberties policies? It's almost as hard to find as the secret weapon Lindsey Graham possesses for single-handedly preventing the closure of Guantanamo if he's angry.."

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Video: The "Texas Flashlight" Submachine Gun

Now this is what I want when the "nasty" happens. Flashlight that turns quickly into a small light submachine gun. GRAWR! RAWR!



BB

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Poll: The Alternate Universe of GOP

This is some fun reading.

2010 Comprehensive Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll of Self-Identified Republicans

And you wondered why Obama can't get them to help out. They live in an alternate reality. A reality where Klondite Sarah is smart("you Betcha") and FOX is real "News".

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RIP | Doug Fieger

....for the Memories of my youth
Doug Fieger lead singer of the Band The Knack died this morning after a long fight with cancer. Here's Doug and the band with "Good Girls Don't". Most certainly a musical memory from good days:



Thanks to John for the heads up.

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Video: Stewart Mocks Republican Fear Of Health Care Debate "Trap"

They should be pitied not mocked.:-P

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The Apparent Trap
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"It's a public dialogue about important legislation. Not Little Big Horn."
-John Stewart

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Video: For All My Former Valentines

Yusuf Islam(Cat Stevens) and company(Alun Davies on guitar and Larry Steele on bass) with what I consider one of the best love songs EVER!
"How Can I Tell You":



Toin it up!
I still miss all the(possible) music lost when Yusuf -CatStevens- Islam quit writing and performing and dropped out of sight for all those years. STILL have some of the early vinyls like "Teaser and the Fire Cat,, which this song comes from.

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