Well, well, well! Since Sunday, two groups that Democrats have gleefully exploited and abused and held hostage — because what are they going to do? become Republicans? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! — have finally figured out that they must unite and ring the party’s bell to teach it a lesson in keeping its promises that it will never …
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'Witchi Tai To' song makes me feel glad
Jim Pepper, who wrote “Witchi Tai To” — his version takes a minute or so to get started: The version I first fell in love with, by Jim Pepper’s band, Everything Is Everything, from 1969: Brewer and Shipley’s version (their Web site explains they heard it on the radio and changed some of the lyrics …
Kathy Griffin, fiscal conservative unaware
Kathy Griffin made my late life partner, Margaret Ardussi, laugh when she was in pain and dying, as much as I’d ever heard her laugh in our 20+ years together. We watched her first HBO special, “My Life on the D-list,” again and again in the fall of 2004 in the weeks before Margaret died. …
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Proven technology for producing peace
This is a video from 1990 of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, explaining how the Maharishi Effect can create peace and positive trends. The Maharishi Effect begins when any given population has at least one percent practicing the Transcendental Meditation program twice a day, or the square root of one …
Carrie Prejean sex tape revelation
Carrie Prejean, the fired Miss California USA who became famous for stating her opposition to marriage equality for homosexuals, dropped her lawsuit against the California state pageant officials on Nov. 3 after they showed her an X-rated home movie in which TMZ.com reports she performed solo. “I just wanted to make an audition tape but …
'There are going to be fewer but better Russians'
Ninotchka is one of my favorite movies of all time. It perfectly illustrates the dichotomy between capitalism and communism. Greta Garbo plays Ninotchka and this is the movie that was advertised, “Garbo laughs!” She has my favorite line at 8:38 in the clip above: “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going …
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Rush is right — Sarah Palin is ready to be president right now
H/T Conservatives4Palin. Sarah Palin has the experience, leadership, policies and temperament to be the president of the United States RIGHT NOW. In 2008, of the four persons on the Democratic and Republican tickets in the presidential race, ONLY Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had the experience to be president AND only Gov. Palin had the best …
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Hot Voodoo
I was reminded of this performance by Marlene Dietrich by a post by Reclusive Leftist, who was suggesting Halloween outfits. I first saw this in 1995 when I rented the movie to watch with my late life partner, Margaret Ardussi, after getting caught up in a biography of Marlene Dietrich that she had listened to …
Good karma for you, a bridge back to life for a disabled soldier
In honor of my uncle, Donald Yockey, who served with the Flying Tigers in World War II, and in memory of my late life partner, who was quadriplegic the last 10 years of her life due to multiple sclerosis, I have joined the Air Force team of the Valour IT campaign to raise money to …
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'I'm your social media guru'
H/T Katherine Mangu-Ward at Reason magazine’s Hit-and-Run blog. In August The Bloggess, whom I love pure and chaste from afar, wrote “How not to get fired for using social networking” — speaking of which, while you’re in the neighborhood, I also recommend her post, “Get my husband off Facebook” — I adore her husband, Victor, …