Thursday PM Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 22 December 2011 11:45:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

Uh oh, it looks like somebody got spanked (here) ? and by the way, how dumb does Mikey the Beloved now look for this?

?and I?ll put up what I think is a clever parody of that Christmas tune, the original of which I will never feature here?

?though I always get a bit of a chuckle out of this?

?and I always liked this version; kind of neck-and-neck with the one by Ed Ames (I hope she?s OK).

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 22 December 2011 11:30:40 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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A Bull Frog plays Ant Crusher. h/t Best Roof Talk Ever

Open thread below.....

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Open Thread for Night Owls: Preoccupied Hearts
and Minds

post from Daily Kos on 22 December 2011 11:30:03 PM. © Daily Kos

Open Thread for Night Owls At Tomgram, Rebecca Solnit writes:

Usually at year?s end, we?re supposed to look back at events just passed?and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it has hardly registered. People in thousands of communities across the United States and elsewhere are living in public, experimenting with direct democracy, calling things by their true names, and obliging the media and politicians to do the same.
The breadth of this movement is one thing, its depth another. It has rejected not just the particulars of our economic system, but the whole set of moral and emotional assumptions on which it?s based. Take the pair shown in a photograph from Occupy Austin in Texas. The amiable-looking elderly woman is holding a sign whose computer-printed words say, ?Money has stolen our vote.? The older man next to her with the baseball cap is holding a sign handwritten on cardboard that states, ?We are our brothers? keeper.?
Yup'ik Elder Esther Green joins the Occupy movement.The photo of the two of them offers just a peek into a single moment in the remarkable period we?re living through and the astonishing movement that?s drawn in? well, if not 99% of us, then a striking enough percentage: everyone from teen pop superstar Miley Cyrus with her Occupy-homage video to Alaska Yup?ik elder Esther Green ice-fishing and holding a sign that says ?Yirqa Kuik? in big letters, with the translation??occupy the river??in little ones below.
The woman with the stolen-votes sign is referring to them. Her companion is talking about us, all of us, and our fundamental principles. His sign comes straight out of Genesis, a denial of what that competitive entrepreneur Cain said to God after foreclosing on his brother Abel?s life. He was not, he claimed, his brother?s keeper; we are not, he insisted, beholden to each other, but separate, isolated, each of us for ourselves.
Think of Cain as the first Social Darwinist and this Occupier in Austin as his opposite, claiming, no, our operating system should be love; we are all connected; we must take care of each other. And this movement, he?s saying, is about what the Argentinian uprising that began a decade ago, on December 19, 2001, called politica afectiva, the politics of affection.
If it?s a movement about love, it?s also about the money they so unjustly took, and continue to take, from us -- and about the fact that, right now, money and love are at war with each other. After all, in the American heartland, people are beginning to be imprisoned for debt, while the Occupy movement is arguing for debt forgiveness, renegotiation, and debt jubilees....
Before the Occupy movement arrived on the scene, political dialogue and media chatter in this country seemed to be arriving from a warped parallel universe. Tiny government expenditures were denounced, while the vortex sucking our economy dry was rarely addressed; hard-working immigrants were portrayed as deadbeats; people who did nothing were anointed as ?job creators?; the trashed economy and massive suffering were overlooked, while politicians jousted over (and pundits pontificated about) the deficit; class war was only called class war when someone other than the ruling class waged it. It?s as though we were trying to navigate Las Vegas with a tattered map of medieval Byzantium?via, that is, a broken language in which everything and everyone got lost. ...

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Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008:

Oh, puke.
For how long have we seen this one coming?
For the sake of national security and national unity, President-elect Barack Obama should put a stop to efforts to investigate or prosecute Bush administration officials for anti-terror "war crimes."
The motive behind such efforts is not ? as claimed ? "truth" or "justice," but political vengeance.

Yes, yes. When Democrats were in the minority and were the "out" party in the executive, Democrats were lectured that they had to put a stop to efforts to investigate or prosecute Bush "administration" officials for torture, for illegal wiretapping, for domestic spying on anti-war activists, for indefinite detention, for extraordinary rendition, for signing statements, etc. About half the party listened to that advice, and Democrats went on to win back the Congress. ...
Yes, yes. The prescription for brazen lawbreaking is as it has always been: forgive, forget and repeat. What a shocker. No one could have predicted...

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Terrifying Santa Face Breads Want To Kill Us In
Our Sleep

post from Texas Liberal on 22 December 2011 11:26:00 PM. © Texas Liberal

Here are some terrifying Santa face breads that I saw at the supermarket a few hours ago. I think they yearn for nothing more but to come to life and cut our throats as we sleep on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.

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What's Our Culture

post from Everyday Citizen on 22 December 2011 11:13:11 PM. © Everyday Citizen

Is there no answer to the inequities of life? Is it acceptable to just say, ?That?s life, get[...]

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Yes, We Can: The Case for Indefinite Detention &
Rendition

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 22 December 2011 11:12:33 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow GazetteTwist as the president's supporters might with the "look over here" tactic, the National Defense Authorization Bill (NDAA) does not change any existing law that Barack Obama has interpreted to mean he has the[...]

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C&L's Late Night Music Club With James Brown

post from Crooks and Liars on 22 December 2011 11:00:39 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Title: Santa Claus, Go Straight To The GhettoArtist: James Brown

Occupy Xmas.

The Best of James Brown: The Christmas Collection (20th Century Masters)

Artist: James Brown Price: $5.86 (As of 12/22/11 05:17 pm details)

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Late Night FDL: Invisible but Still Human

There are many ways and reasons for people to become Invisible. Sometimes it is race. Other times it is physical disability or "social status". Homeless people are also on this list.[...]

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House GOP sees the light

I haven’t posted that much on the payroll tax cut. Why, you ask? Cuz it was a no brainer.[...]

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Stupid award

How do you tie up your 1 year in duck tape? Why? Then how do you figure that it is a good idea to[...]

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