Save the possums!

Do your duty to help Susan Reinhardt and I save the possums.

SEND MONEY!

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Susan's cookin show "Tuna help us"

This lady really knows how to cook & save a few bucks doing it too...

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Finally found Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee

Alice Cooper live in Detroit 1971 - Is It My Body & Black JuJu

True Alice Cooper classics...

Black JuJu...

Way too sexy not to post

Chaka Khan with Rufus - Tell me something good

Melanie Safka, the song that defined an era.

"Lay Down"

Written To God; From A Guru - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL ! ! !

Long dark road.

This is The Hollies but I was searching for The Partridge family version. It is very good but I only saw it once. If anyone finds it please send me a copy.

3 versions of Darlin be home soon.

The Lovin Spoonful...



Mister Joe Cocker...



As always, best fer last...

Slade...

Lovin Spoonful - Nashville Cats

The best juggling act I ever saw...

Once there was a way & Golden Slumber by The Beatles.

Watch this full screen...

Bunch of free stuff here...

20 nope, 21 Fabulous Freebies 2009

by Erin Burt from this page here [link to page]
Friday, September 4, 2009provided by

It's been said that the best things in life are free -- and we couldn't agree more. That's why we're back with our third annual list of our favorite freebies.

We looked for primo goods and services, no useless junk allowed. And boy, did we find 'em, from financial management and planning helps to entertainment and vacation freebies.

Go ahead. Embrace your inner tightwad:

1. Free Video Games

If you're looking for games for the kids -- or an excuse to act like a kid yourself -- head to Kongregate.com, Popcap.com, Pogo.com and OnlineFlashGames.org for thousands of free online and downloadable games of all types.

For educational or just-for-fun games suited to young kids, check out PBSkids.org, DiscoveryKids.com, NickJr.com and Scholastic.com/kids.

2. Free Birthday Goodies

A slew of businesses will give you prime freebies on your birthday that almost make getting older worth it. For instance, anyone can get free admission to Disneyland or Disney World parks in 2009. Join the birthday club at Toys R Us and your child (younger than 10) will get a free toy or gift card every year.

If you sign up in advance to join the club at your favorite eatery, you could score free food on your birthday too. For example, you can get a free meal at Famous Dave's BBQ and free ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and Baskin Robbins. Search the Web for "birthday freebies," then call your local restaurants to ask whether they participate in the deal.

3. Free Shipping

Special delivery! Some retailers still offer free shipping on every order, including Alyssagiftbaskets.com (special-occasion gifts), Bluenile.com (jewelry), Piperlime.com (shoes), Shopbop.com (clothes) and Zappos.com (shoes).

Many merchants offer free shipping if you can pick up the item at your local store, including Walmart.com, Payless.com and REI.com. This comes in handy for online-only items, oversize purchases or goods that have sold out at your local store. Or, look for free shipping deals when you spend a certain amount, such as orders over $25 at Amazon.com. See FreeShipping.org for more deals.

4. Free Software

For most of your computing needs, you can get free software. For word processing and spreadsheets, go to OpenOffice.org. For antivirus protection, head to http://free.avg.com. For free basic photo editing, check out http://picasa.google.com, or for more advanced touch-ups, try Gimp.org. And to manage your finances, use the free programs at Mint.com or Wesabe.com.

5. Free Stock Trades

At Wells Fargo, you get 100 commission-free online trades per year if your cumulative account balance is $25,000 or more (including your Wells Fargo checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, IRAs and brokerage accounts).

Also, Zecco.com offers ten free trades per month if you have $25,000 in your brokerage account.

6. Free Credit Report

By law, you're entitled to one free report once a year from each of the three main credit bureaus. Go to www.annualcreditreport.com to find out what lenders can see about your credit history.

7. Free TV and Movies

Head online to watch free episodes from hundreds of TV shows -- old and current -- as well as free movies. And it's perfectly legal.

At OVGuide.com you'll find a list of TV and movie sites including Hulu.com, Veoh.com and Fancast.com, as well as individual network Web sites, such as ABC.com and CBS.com.

8. Free ATMs

A buck or two here and there may not seem like a big deal, but if you're frequenting ATMs outside your bank's network, the surcharges can add up quickly.

Get money from an ATM that belongs to a surcharge-free network. Allpoint has about 200 participating institutions and 32,000 ATMs. Money Pass has 600 members and 8,000 ATMs.

9. Free (and Risk-Free) Interest

Many banks offer free savings accounts, but they won't help your money grow. Instead, use a high-yield online savings account for your short-term savings, such as ING Direct, HSBC Direct and Emigrant Direct. They're FDIC-insured and were recently paying around 1.4%. They have no minimum-balance requirement, so you earn that rate whether you have $1 or $100,000 saved.

And consider the free interest-bearing checking accounts from ING Direct and Everbank. They're also FDIC-insured and were recently paying between 0.25% and 1.96%. (Most traditional banks' free checking accounts pay you nil.)

10. Airline Freebies

Airlines may be scaling back their perks, but some still have freebies for fliers. For instance, Southwest lets you check two bags for free, while most others charge extra for luggage. JetBlue lets you check one bag free, plus gives you access to free TV, satellite radio and all-you-can-eat snacks. Continental still serves free meals on several routes. And all kids under age 2 can fly free on your lap on any airline.

Don't forget about the free flights you can score by signing up for an airline's frequent-flier program (enrollment is also free). See the "Program Guide" at WebFlyer.com for the lowdown on each airline's rules.

11. Free Money for Grad School

On average, a year of graduate school costs $28,375 for a master's degree at a public school and $38,665 at a private school. But free money abounds, from grants and scholarships to assistantships and fellowships.

12. Free Rewards

You have to buy groceries and gas anyway, so why not use those purchases to get a little more green in your wallet? Sign up for a rewards credit card and get free money, gift certificates, airline miles or other perks. (Of course, it's only free if you pay the balance in full each month without incurring interest charges.)

When you have to make a purchase online, start at BondRewards.com to earn another cool freebie: You click on an affiliated online retailer (there are hundreds) to do your shopping as usual, and a percentage of your purchase is given back to you in your BondRewards account. You then redeem your rewards for U.S. savings bonds or cash.

13. Free Financial Advice

Not to toot our own horn (okay, maybe just a little), but Kiplinger.com is a treasure trove of free financial advice. Our tools and calculators will help you get on the right financial track.

Our expert columnists will answer your personal-finance questions. For instance, Kim Lankford answers your general financial questions, Janet Bodnar tackles family and kid topics and Knight Kiplinger advises readers on ethics and money matters.

14. Free Mobile Apps

You spent all that money on a new iPhone. Now download some free apps to help you save money and recoup the cost. For instance, the free Mint.com or Quicken apps help you track your spending and manage your money and investments on the go. AMT Hunter can help you find a surcharge-free machine near wherever you are. And iShop can help you search for the lowest price on an item before you buy.

There are plenty of other useful applications at the iTunes App Store, with free recipes, weather updates, diet help, music, games and more.

15. Free Books, Movies, & Music

If you haven't been to the public library lately, dust off your card. It's your ticket to mounds of free books, magazines, CDs and movies.

Many libraries also offer free lectures, book readings and community clubs to residents.

16. Free Online Bill Paying

Stop paying your bills by check and put their payment on autopilot. At many banks, including Bank of America, BB&T, SunTrust and Wachovia, you get free bill paying with every online checking account. (Be sure you read the fine print -- some banks may require you to maintain a certain balance in your checking account to get the freebie.)

But even if your bank doesn't give you this freebie, you can probably arrange for automatic bill paying directly with the parties sending the bills, such as your utility, credit-card, phone and mortgage companies.

17. Free Kids' Meals

Yes, there is such a thing as a free lunch -- or dinner. Kids eat free at Denny's, Lone Star Steakhouse and Roadhouse Grill every Tuesday night (and some Saturdays) with a paying adult. IHOP, Golden Corral, Marie Callender's and Chevys restaurants offer kids-eat-free deals at select locations.

You can search for eateries in your area at KidsMealDeals.com.

18. Free Digital Storage Space

With free online backup storage, you can protect your important files and photos from computer crashes, theft or natural disaster.

For instance, Spideroak.com and Myotherdrive.com each give you 2 gigabytes of free and secure digital storage space. You can also store your cherished photos and videos at sites such as Photobucket.com and Flickr.com. You can also store your pics at photo-print ordering sites such as Snapfish.com, Shutterfly.com or Walmart.com, as long as your account is active.

19. Free Tech Recycling -- With Benefits

Not only is it getting easier to keep your old electronics out of the landfill, but you may even get some free cash in exchange. Services such as BuyMyTronics.com, Gazelle.com, MyBoneyard.com and GreenPhone.com recycle or refurbish your old tech and send you a check in return. They take cameras, cell phones, MP3 players, game consoles and more.

If you can't find anyone willing to pay for your dinosaur, look for other free places to recycle. For instance, Best Buy will take many of your tech castoffs at no charge. And keep your eyes open for free e-recycling days in your city.

20. Free Capital Gains

Who wouldn't love to let their investments grow 100% tax-free? Take a pass on paying capital-gains taxes by investing in a Roth IRA. Any money you put into your Roth grows tax-free, and you won't owe Uncle Sam a dime when you cash out in retirement. It's all yours.

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This is a great offer limited to bodacious females age 30 to about 55. To receive this incredible offer you must complete an application and submit it by email to FunkingDave@gmail.com. You also must have long red hair, freckles and sexy green eyes. Blondes, brunettes and bald wimmin are also eligible but not for the free offer. Price will vary depending on influence and circumstances.

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Blonde Jokes

I Want to Buy That

A blonde goes into a nearby store and asks a clerk if she can buy the TV in the corner.

The clerk looks at her and says that he doesn't serve blondes, so she goes back home and dyes her hair black.

The next day she returns to the store and asks the same thing, and again, the clerk said he doesn't serve blondes.

Frustrated, the blonde goes home and dyes her hair yet again, to a shade of red.

Sure that a clerk would sell her the TV this time, she returns and asks a different clerk this time.

To her astonishment, this clerk also says that she doesn't serve blondes.

The blonde asks the clerk, "How in the world do you know I am a blonde?"

The clerk looks at her disgustedly and says,"That's not a TV -- it's a microwave!"

Are You Really Sure?

A blind guy on a bar stool shouts to the bartender, "Wanna hear a blonde joke?"

In a hushed voice, the guy next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, you should know something."

Our bartender IS blonde, the bouncer is blonde. I'm a 6' tall, 200 lb black belt. The guy sitting next to me is 6'2", weighs 225, and he's a rugby player. The fella to your right is 6'5" pushing 300 and he's a wrestler. Each one of US is blonde. Think about it, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?"

The blind guy says, "Nah, not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."

Rowing Your Boat...

Two blondes were driving along a road by a wheat field when they saw a blonde in the middle of the field rowing a row boat.

The driver blonde turned to her friend and said "You know - it's blondes like that that give us a bad name!"

To this, the other blonde replies "I know it, and if I knew how to swim, I'd go out there and drown her."

Question and answer blonde jokes

Q: How do blonde braincells die?
A: Alone.

Q: How do you brainwash a blonde?
A: Give her a douche and shake her upside down.

Q: How do you change a blonde's mind?
A: Blow in her ear.

Q: How do you measure a blonde's intelligence?
A: Stick a tire pressure gauge in her ear!

Q: How does a blonde kill a fish?
A: She drowns it.

Q: A blond going to London on a plane, how can you steal her window seat?
A: Tell her the seats that are going to London are all in the middle row.

Q: How do you amuse a blonde for hours?
A: Write 'Please turn over' on both sides of a piece of paper

Q: What do you call 20 blondes in a freezer?
A: Frosted Flakes.

Q: How can you tell if a blonde's been using the computer?
A: There's white-out on the screen.

Q: How can you tell if another blonde's been using the computer?
A: There's writing on the white-out.

Q: How can you tell when a fax had been sent from a blonde?
A: There is a stamp on it.

Q: How can you tell if a blonde is a good cook?
A: She gets the pop tarts out of the toaster in one piece.

Q: Why is it good to have a blonde passenger?
A: You can park in the handicap zone.

Q: Why should blondes not be given coffee breaks?
A: It takes too long to retrain them.

Helping a blond lose weight

A blonde is overweight, so her doctor puts her on a diet.

"I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat the procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you'll have lost at least five pounds."

When the blonde returns, she's lost nearly 20 pounds.

"Why, that's amazing!" the doctor says. "Did you follow my instructions?"

The blonde nods. "I'll tell you, though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day." "From hunger, you mean?" said the doctor.

"No, from skipping," replied the blonde.

My abecedarian attempt at educatin you.

Today we will start out with "A" and work ourselves through the letter "D"

The letter A is pronounced "aye". It is the only single letter I have ever known used to make up a full sentence.

It can be used to show a level of respect, offer a reply and end any further conversation in one single shot. Judge asks "Do you plead guilty to speeding?" I reply "A". Guy in a bar asks "You take me for a fool?" I reply "A". Blonde in a tight dress asks "You like?" I reply "A"

Now comes the letter "B". It is rumored that William Shakespeare once wrote one of his most famous lines based simply on the letter B. On returning from the pub half sloshed and unable to remember his hotel room number he fumbled with his keys in all three doors in the hallway, causing a ruckus he woke several people and one gentleman asked him kindly. "What in hell do you think you're doing out in the hall this time of the night?" He simply grinned and asked "2-B or not 2-B? That is the question that I ask of thee." It turned out to be 2-C far down on the left but upon waking he remembered it with a grin and wrote about it.

The letter C is unique in that Americans and the British people use this letter only to annoy other people. It owns no real sound of it's own and it's a real pain in the ass to use in writing but it does confuse others with it's many uses. It can be pronounced like the letter Q, S, the sounds shh, ck (or just K) and even be used silent like a waste of ink on paper.

D is a better letter. No arguing it's sound and my favorite thing about the letter D is it can be added onto so many other words to create a new word when playing Scrabble or Literati and you can build off it easily to create another word for a double play. I also use it often when describing dumbasses, dim-whits, dorks, druids, dill-bowls, danks, dweebs, ding-dongs, Democrats, dorks, dis-contentious dis-concerned dramatic dowel kissin doughnut spittin moronic delusive ding-dongs and other things.

I hope you have enjoyed this lesson and tomorrow we might get to study E, F, G & H together...

Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 2, 2009

abecedarian \ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-uhn\, noun:

1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a beginner.
2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet. <--- Me dummy.
3. Pertaining to the letters of the alphabet.
4. Arranged alphabetically.
5. Rudimentary; elementary.

Columba's poem is fittingly 'abecedarian', each stanza starts with a subsequent letter of the alphabet -- a harbinger of the Scottish appetite for cataloguing, and delight in craft.
-- WN Herbert, "A rhyme and a prayer", Scotland on Sunday, December 10, 2000

While much of the work resembled abecedarian attempts of a novice choreographer, "Duet," sensitively danced by Jennifer A. Cooper and William Petroni, is surprisingly sophisticated in its careful deployment of formal thematic manipulations in the service of emotional expression.
-- Lisa Jo Sagolla, "Open 24 Hours Dance Company", Back Stage, September 1, 1998

The approach may seem abecedarian today, but his was among the first endeavors of the sort.
-- Jennifer Liese, "May 1973", ArtForum, May 2003

Abecedarian derives from Latin abecedarius, from the first four letters of the alphabet. <--- those would be A,B,C & D.

Lloyd hates The Beatles. I hate The Kinks. I win cause it's my damn Blog anyway sukka!

More feed from Lloyd here...

Lloyd I might post yer tractor pic an show these whipper-snappers old, really old men still Rock.

The Seeds - Yer pushin to hard.

I ever mention that I hate the Kinks?

Low budget


Still hate em...

Come dancing.

My other post on The Kinks... [link here]

This band went on to become Traffic. Steve Winwood was the balls! Best for last again....

Spencer Davis Group. "Give it up woman", or more commonly known as "Gimme some lovin"


Bonus:

Oldies but goodies flood from Lloyd...

Listen in because this is good stuff man...

The Buckinghams "Kind of a drag"


Chuck Berry and Keith Richards "Oh Carol"


LOL, this is a Hollies re-post. I guess Lloyd aint watchin my posts, but it's Long Cool Woman and it fits here...


The Byrds how they were meant to be played. On scratchy 45's "I feel a whole lot better"

Last is always best post!

Very rare Shadows of the night hittin it up on Gloria!

This hot chick loves Ray Charles....

This was sent in to me by my crazy sister Jewels. She keeps birds too and I think she gets em drunk because when it gets late in the evening the damn things start dancing too and they never shut up

*GRIN :-) TY Jewels

Farnam, Nebraska -UFO Files - Cattle Mutilations-

Interesting, huh?

More on Chemtrails.

To date no information from the USA has been released as to what they are doing or why they are doing it but almost daily I see from 4 to 7 and sometimes 9 jets up there myself. As mentioned below these man-made clouds do not move. Instead they thin out to cause a single larger one piece cloud covering that resembles a haze covering a large portion of the sky. I heard once (when fuel was much less expensive) that it can cost $250 or more per hour to keep a single jet up there so even to justify the added expense of this project I think we deserve answers.

Another point to consider is the old saying "what goes up must come down". I am in Dawson County, Nebraska. Nebraska is still one of the wealthiest states in America and Dawson is one of the richest in the state. This is due mainly to the farming industry. We supply pretty much all of America with our produce and meat processing. The beef on your table has been raised and fed with the fallout from these man-made clouds> You yourselves are eating and feeding your family whatever it is that they are spraying up there daily and by the ton. I guess it's true that nothing ever gets fixed until it's been broken, but why in hell would anyone ever want to break our while food supply???

Stephen Hawking at a glance.

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include the runaway best seller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestsellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.^[1]

Hawking's key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).^[2] He is a world-renowned theoretical physicist whose scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,^[3] and a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.^[4] On August 12, 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. ^{<---This was taken from Wiki's site located [here]. Read the whole article for more on this great man.}

A Brief History of Time

1:19:42

The movie about Stephen Hawking's ideas from his book titled the same and about his life.



One thing that stands out in my mind from watching this is his continued respect for God even facing the challenges of scientific theory, the loss of the use of his body mostly and the difficulties that he must have endured.

Bless this man...

A very concerned and caring mother looks out for her son.

I admire this woman. She's got it all under control and her son won't make the same mistakes I did.


Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

Stripper-Cop Brutality Case Goes All The Way To Stripper Supreme Court.

When will it ever end?

Dayum. I think I might like this judge...

Ohio judge silences defendant with duct tape

Tue Sep 1, 4:00 pm ET

CANTON, Ohio – An Ohio judge unhappy with repeated interruptions from a robbery suspect ordered a deputy to put duct tape over the defendant's mouth. Canton Municipal Court Judge Stephen Belden says the taping last Thursday was the best way to restore order at a hearing for 51-year-old Harry Brown of Canton.

Brown complained that his court-appointed attorney wasn't prepared and angered the judge with interruptions. After a warning, the judge told the bailiff to tape Brown's mouth shut.

When the tape was removed, the defendant said the judge wasn't being respectful. The judge ended the hearing and sent the case to a grand jury.

"LOL, when they tell you shut the hell up you better listen next time dumbass."

Natural born killers tracks...

I gotta admit I love these vids.

Taboo - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Peter Gabriel

The Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

Nude Commercial

Shocking and disturbing content.

Jan Svankmajer - Dimensions of dialogue

Interesting...

More here [LINK].

Wimmin kill too....

For how long this post works I just don't know. I found it [here] on WebPhemera and they might pull it on me. anyway, I like their site and this post so enjoy while you can.

Female Assassins and their Intended Victims

Equality is something that women (and their supporters) have striven for over centuries of male dominated history. Every now and again, though, the fairer sex let the side down. There is a lamentably short list of female assassins in the annals of history and – more often than not – they fail to kill their intended target. Perhaps that is nothing to be ashamed of, after all, and perhaps part of the proof we need to justify the pole position of the female as the gentler of the sexes. Here, though, are history’s female assassins and their intended victims.

Shi Jianqiao

1935, Tianjin, China. Sometimes the only way to kill someone is when they have their defenses down. So it was when Shi Jianqiao slipped in to a Buddhist temple and fired several shots in to Sun Chuanfang while he was praying. She then threw the gun down and explained her act to terrified and astonished onlookers. She had even taken the time to print up and copy a document explaining her actions. Chuanfang was not mourned. He had been involved in the repression of strikes in Shanghai, opium trafficking and a well known collaborator with the Japanese. Jianqiao was opposed to all of these actions. Oh yes, and he had had her father executed by decapitation and had ordered his head put on a pike for all to see. So, quite rightly she was angry – very angry. She was put on trial with three different courts handing out contradictory verdicts. With public opinion resoundingly on her side she was eventually released and was given a full pardon.

Fanny Kaplan

Ah, those Russians. The revolution was only sweet for the winners and Fanny Kaplan thoroughly believed that Lenin had betrayed the revolution as he had ordered the Constituent Assembly to be dissolved. On 30 August 1918 Lenin was speaking at a Moscow factory, dully named the Hammer and Sickle – no doubt taking a short break from trying to win the First World War. Kaplan was there with a gun. Three shots were fired – one went straight through Lenin’s coat. The other two hit his shoulder and his jaw. They did not kill him but it is thought that they were contributory to the stroke that killed him a couple of years later. No such luck for Kaplan, however. She was taken in to custody and when it became apparent that she would not finger anyone as accomplices she was shot – just three days later.

Sara Jane Moore

Fast forwarding a few decades and over to the continent of North America, the city of San Francisco is the center point for our next female assassin. Strange things have happened there, it must be admitted and some stranger than the events of September 22 1975. The then Presidential incumbent, Gerald Ford, was to find himself the target of the ire – not to mention the bullets of Ms Moore.


Obsessed with Patty Hearst, Moore had turned to revolutionary politics in 1975 – five husbands and four children were seemingly not enough to occupy her. A single shot from forty foot away from the President sealed her fate. She had been noticed aiming by a bystander and he had grabbed he arm, meaning that the bullet missed President Ford and ricocheted off a wall slightly injuring another bystander. Moore served thirty two years of a life sentence and was released in 2007 at the age of 72.

Charlotte Corday


Politics. Crikey, it really gets people hot under the collar. So it was with Mademoiselle Corday. She was only twenty five when she had had quite enough with Marat, one of the leading Jacobins of the French Revolution and one who had instigated the Reign of Terror (and there is no hyperbole in its name either). He was a journalist who stirred up opinion in his newspaper; she was a member of a minor aristocratic family who was kinda fed up with her class ending up in the final caress of the guillotine. On 10 July 1793 she put her plan in to action. Getting access to Marat was easy – she told his housekeeper that she would be informing him of a plot against the state. She was admitted – approaching Marat in his bathtub (he had a skin condition and conducted many of his affairs from there). After giving Marat the names of the plotters she pulled out a knife and plunged it deep in to his chest, an act immortalized in much artwork. She herself was guillotined just a week later. Records maintain that her decapitated head was picked up, slapped on the cheek and the face registered a look of ‘unequivocal indignation’ at this post mortem attack.

Lolita Lebron

Puerto Rican independence campaigners gained a heroine – and some notoriety – in an attack on the United States House of Representatives in 1954. On 1 March of that year she met up with a number of other Puerto Rican Nationalists and infiltrated the visitor’s gallery above the chamber of the House. After a quick rendition of the Lord’s Prayer, :Lebron screamed out “Long Live a Free Puerto Rico” and the group let loose with their guns. Around thirty shots were fired, wounding five, one seriously. She was released in 1981 and left for her native land where she continues, to this day, a proponent for a free and democratic Puerto Rico.


Mary Suratt

Although she didn’t pull the trigger Suratt was implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and was executed for her involvement. As such she was an unwitting first for women – the first to be hanged by the United States Federal Government. It was she it seems who instructed a fellow conspirator to prepare the guns used in the assassination. After the event, the shooter John Wilkes Booth stopped at her tavern where he was given whiskey and pistols. Many believe that she was arrested to try and draw out her fugitive son who was also involved in the assassination. Nevertheless she was sentenced to death for treason, conspiracy, and plotting murder. Despite appeals President Johnson did not stay her execution, saying that she had "kept the nest that hatched the egg". She was executed with three other conspirators on 7 July 1865. She is the one on the far left in the picture below.


Khioniya Guseva

Back to Russia and the strange 1914 case of Khioniya Guseva and the most famous mad monk of them all, Grigori Rasputin. Said to be horribly disfigured through syphilis (she had no nose) she attacked Rasputin as he was leaving Church in a town in Siberia. She drove a knife in to his stomach, shouting that she had killed the antichrist while she did so. However, she hadn’t and he quickly tried to run away from her. She pursued him and attempted to finish the task but he managed to grab a stick and hit her in the face with it. Not very gentlemanly but he wasn’t exactly renowned for his manners. Narrowly avoiding being killed by a mob that had gathered she managed to turn herself over the to the authorities and was committed to an asylum. Rasputin survived but was successfully assassinated two years later. It is not known when she died.

Valerie Solanas

Some people don’t like modern art, but to try and kill one of its most famous exponents is taking it a little too far. Not that the events of June 3 1968 were precipitated because of that - far more likely it was a case of professional jealousy instead. Solanas was a radical feminist writer who had been closely associated with Andy Warhol and his famous Factory. She shot him as he left the Factory, also shooting a critic Mario Amaya as well. Warhol almost died and had to ear a corset for the rest of his life to stop his injury from getting worse. Even though she almost killed him Warhol refused to testify against her. She got three years. She died of emphysema at the age of 52, having been in and out of mental institutions since her release.

Izola Curry

Martin Luther King Jr had an attempt made on his life by African-American Izola Curry at a book signing in Harlem in 1958. Had she succeeded the Civil Rights movement would have lost one of its primary movers before it had had a chance to properly get going. Fortunately her choice of weapon was a letter opener but it could easily have killed him. It lodged inside him and it was several hours before surgeons worked out how to properly and safely remove it. King was typically forgiving


King recovered in hospital (see above). His press release said ‘I felt no ill will toward Mrs. Izola Curry and know that thoughtful people will do all in their power to see that she gets the help she apparently needs if she is to become a free and constructive member of society’. The authorities were less forgiving. Curry was judged to be unfit to stand trial and was committed to a psychiatric institution for the rest of her life.

Violet Gibson

Not quite one in the eye for dictators everywhere, but almost. Gibson tried to assassinate Mussolini, the fascist leader of Italy, in 1926. She shot him while he sat in a car he had just given a speech on the wonders of modern medicine – something he would need to rely on himself pretty shortly. She shot at him three times, missed one but hit him twice. In the nose. Yes – his nose. She was almost lynched on the spot but was arrested and carted off by the police. She never gave a reason for her actions but it was suspected that she was insane. She was deported to the UK and released, at the request of Benito himself no less. Unsurprisingly she spent the rest of her days in a mental hospital.






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Ron White on "Paying for the War"

Barb, I love yer ass!

Rest of you put the drink down an pay attention!

Some NSFW, few swears in this so some NSFSFE & NSFSUOP "Not Safe For Stupid Freakin Evangelists" and "Not Safe For Stuck Up Old People"

WBCN, Boston's greatest radio station is now no more...

TO PRAISE WBCN
Posted in Radio with tags WBCN, radio, My Damn Channel, Boston on 7/18/2009 5:34:21 AM by Rob Barnett

"This post was taken from a site called "My Damn Channel" here is the link to it [Link]"



Famous deaths surround us these past few weeks. The nature of heat and fame create imagined personal connections to a legendary news oracle, to a Pop King, or a Pin-up angel. But this time, it's personal.

The death of WBCN is a painful loss felt deeply by everyone of us directly influenced by its greatness.

Every music fan whose ears and taste were shaped by the artists, songs and albums heard on 104.1 lost a friend.

Don't believe everything you hear from Spinal Tap. Boston IS a college town. If you've ever called this city "home," you owe respect and appreciation for the fun, the spirit and the sounds that BCN put into Boston.

My first college internship was at BCN. I remember the intense electric feeling as my heart beat way too fast on the first night inside that studio. That internship was the first step onto a path chasing dreams. I'll always be grateful.

If you're a fellow mourner, do you accept all the nice nice talk about change being inevitable, or can you imagine a new kind of radio powerful enough to make hearts beat way too fast?

Seth Godin once said that one of the problems with radio in the modern age is that it should no longer be called "radio."

What would we call it?

How could we forge a new model for "radio" with the honesty, passion, brains and balls to a co-create a business too powerfully protected by its fans and artists to be stopped?

Where would you launch such a thing?

Just asking.

LOL, The new cure for the economy is to join the circus.

Don't even ask!

State fairs offer many people badly needed jobs

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press Writer Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Writer, from this post here [link]

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. – A year's worth of failed job leads prepared Richard Briggs for anything, including night shifts as a Minnesota State Fair custodian.

For $8.50 an hour, the out-of-work financial analyst vacuums and cleans bathrooms in fairground buildings. Briggs, 38, said he's "something of a curiosity" among his co-workers.

"You know, they don't hire financial analysts to clean the sidewalks," Briggs said.

A crippled economy has sent droves of unemployed and underemployed people to fairs nationwide, with many reporting record numbers of applicants to tear tickets, serve food and clean up after crowds.

Iowa's state fair closed most of its hiring weeks earlier than usual. Colorado's fair is finished hiring but was still getting more than 50 people a day trying to apply as the fair opened last week. In Indiana, about 2,300 people — at least twice as many as usual — applied for 800 open positions.

"And the nice thing about it for us is that we got, I guess you could say, many overqualified candidates," said Andy Klotz, a spokesman for the Indiana State Fair.

In Minnesota, more than 10,000 people applied for the fair's 3,000 jobs. At the same time more people were applying, fair vendors intent on keeping costs down were requesting far fewer employees than in years past.

And, more experienced fair workers were returning. The fair had room for just 1,250 new employees, about one-third the number of last year.

Briggs lives in the Twin Cities suburb of Mendota Heights with his wife and two stepchildren. He lost his job last September, and he's found few openings in the financial sector since. Over dinner in June, his wife suggested he apply for a job at the Fair, which he hadn't attended since childhood.

"It'll get you out of the house, and you'll be busy for 12 straight days," Briggs remembers her saying.

After a visit to the State Fair's employment center, he got an offer. Though the family still has his wife's income as a regulatory analyst, Briggs said his fair paycheck has given their budget "some breathing space."

"We have a mortgage to pay and mouths to feed," he said.

As the fair opened its 12-day run last week, Josh Chaika was working a day shift as a custodian.

Chaika, 27, signed up to work for the first time this year. He has a part-time job for 30 hours a week, but when he saw a newspaper advertisement for fair jobs, he decided to apply because he "just needed the extra cash."

He was surprised when he heard about the size of the waiting list.

"I didn't think it would be that tough," he said.

Jerry Hammer, the general manager of Minnesota's fair, said it's not always like this.

"I've seen other years where we're telling staff to go home and tell your friends and neighbors" workers are needed, he said.

The Minnesota State Fair still attracted a large number of teenagers and 20-somethings. Jessica Schoenleber got a job tearing tickets on one of the fair's parking lots. The 23-year-old from nearby Roseville wanted to make some money before she moves to New Zealand this fall.

"This was more like short-term, high intensity and a lot of fun," Schoenleber said of the job.

The high demand for state fair jobs is occurring at time when attendance is up as more people cut back on travel and look for attractions close to home. Minnesota set a first-day record Thursday with more than 114,000 attendees.

"We seem to be one of those sectors of the economy that we're doing quite well," said Jim Tucker, CEO of the International Association of Fairs and Exhibitions. "Not only are we not down, we're up."

Briggs, the financial analyst-turned-custodian, says he's not ashamed of his new job, even if he seems overqualified.

"It's fun to be outdoors, and it's fun to see the results of your work," Briggs said. "Being a financial analyst, at least in the situation I was in, no matter what kind of report you try to produce ... there was always a way around it, whereas you know when you don't empty the garbage or something."

"It might not pay much but it will help with travel expenses to get you to your job at Burger King."

Honestly though. if you are stupid enough to find hopes in this media bullshit you only need a can opener and a few cans of dog food to survive. There were no jobs yesterday, there are less today and tomorrow there will be even less but.... these assholes will be kind enough to sell you hopes for what? A friggin job that comes to your county once or twice a year and that needs the support of now jobless people to survive on. How stupid are you???

Smithereens (1982)

From what I remember hearing about it this was supposed to be a really good film.
A link to IMDB's page on it is [here] and below is a quote from that page.

"An restless and abrasive young woman eschews the affections of a sensitive young portrait artist, preferring to chase punk singers in a misguided desire for fame and fortune in New York's Greenwich Village"

A John Lennon Classic "#9 Dream"

Dr. Demento.



Funny Farm. (They're coming to take me away)



Shaving Cream.



Fish heads.

QUEEN - Greatest Video Hits I & II (full)

Greatest Hits I released by Queen on 2 November 1981, became UK's all-time bestseller.

NOTE: Below is the actual play list. Not the one listed on Google [here], so this might not be "Queen - The greatest video hits" but instead a compilation put together by a fan.

1. "Bohemian Rhapsody"
2. "Another one bites the dust"
3. "Killer Queen"
4. "Fat bottomed girls"
5. "Bicycle race"
6. "You're my best friend"
7. "Don't stop me now"
8. "Save me"
9. "Crazy little thing called love"
10. "Somebody to love"
11. "Spread your wings"
12. "Play the game"
13. "Flash"
14. "Tie your mother down"
15. "We will rock you"
16. "We are the champions"



Queen - Greatest Video Hits I & II (full)
The disc contains all of Queen's European hits from 1981 to 1991.
(I did not check this play list and might not bother to at all)

1. "A Kind of Magic" (Roger Taylor)
2. "Under Pressure" (Queen and David Bowie)
3. "Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor)
4. "I Want It All" (Queen) – single version
5. "I Want To Break Free" (Deacon) – single version
6. "Innuendo" (Queen)
7. "It's a Hard Life" (Mercury)
8. "Breakthru" (Queen)
9. "Who Wants To Live Forever" (May)
10. "Headlong" (Queen)
11. "The Miracle" (Queen)
12. "I'm Going Slightly Mad" (Queen)
13. "The Invisible Man" (Queen)
14. "Hammer to Fall" (May) – single version
15. "Friends Will Be Friends" (Deacon, Mercury)
16. "The Show Must Go On" (Queen)
17. "One Vision" (Queen) – single version