Some people just got it.

In a day and age where pretty much every musical act tunes their songs down to perform them live, it's good that some folks can still pull off their hits live, and in some cases, sound even better.

Case in point - Peter Schilling (the song Major Tom)

1983 -



2010 -

It's really the futility of all war.

If there's one thing humanity can show to any other existing species out there in the universe that can demonstrate we are worth engaging with, it's the basic skill to overcome the instinctive need for violence.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/166080/futility-afghan-war

From commenter 'JTMcPhee' -

"...  We kill some of them, so they kill some of us, so we kill some more of them, so they kill some of us, so we kill some other ones over there, so they kill some of us ..."

Somehow I don't think we're there, or will get there anytime soon.

Classic from The Onion.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/congressman-hurt-to-discover-lobbyist-not-really-h,27253/

WASHINGTON—According to Capitol Hill sources, Rep. Bobby Schilling (R-IL) came to the painful realization this week that agribusiness lobbyist Stephen Fischer, who had been kind and generous toward him for months and had often met up with him for drinks after work, was not, in fact, his friend.

It's frightening how close to reality that is.

How sad how far the Montreal Canadiens have fallen -

as of Saturday, February 04, 2012 1:16 AM.


Division Conference League Eastern

Rank Team GP W L OT PTS GF GA Home Away Last 10 Streak

1 NY Rangers 49 32 12 5 69 136 100 15-5-2 17-7-3 6-3-1 Won 1

2 Boston 49 32 15 2 66 175 108 17-8-2 15-7-0 5-4-1 Lost 1

3 Florida 50 24 15 11 59 128 139 13-5-7 11-10-4 4-3-3 Won 2

4 Philadelphia 50 30 14 6 66 167 145 12-7-4 18-7-2 6-2-2 Won 1

5 Pittsburgh 51 29 18 4 62 157 132 15-7-2 14-11-2 8-2-0 Lost 1

6 Ottawa 54 27 20 7 61 161 166 14-9-2 13-11-5 4-5-1 OT 1

7 New Jersey 50 28 19 3 59 138 142 14-9-2 14-10-1 6-3-1 Won 2

8 Toronto 51 26 19 6 58 156 152 15-8-4 11-11-2 5-4-1 Won 1



9 Washington 50 26 20 4 56 141 145 18-6-1 8-14-3 5-3-2 Lost 1

10 Winnipeg 53 24 23 6 54 129 147 15-8-2 9-15-4 4-5-1 Lost 1

11 Tampa Bay 50 22 23 5 49 141 170 14-7-2 8-16-3 5-3-2 OT 1

12 NY Islanders 50 21 22 7 49 122 146 11-11-4 10-11-3 6-3-1 Won 2

13 Buffalo 51 21 24 6 48 122 151 11-9-6 10-15-0 3-6-1 OT 1

14 Montreal 51 19 23 9 47 134 142 9-10-7 10-13-2 3-5-2 Lost 2

15 Carolina 53 19 25 9 47 135 164 13-12-3 6-13-6 5-3-2 Won 1

It's been more than 30 years, and they've still never replaced Guy LaFleur's scoring ability.

"You know how naive you sound...senators and presidents don't have men killed."

Not only was it true before that phrase was uttered naively by Kay Adams in The Godfather, but it's still quite true, right through 2011 -

http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/Anwar%20Al-Aulaqi

On September 30, the CIA and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) jointly carried out the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico, using missiles fired from unmanned drones in Yemen. A second U.S. citizen, Samir Khan, was killed in the same attack. Two weeks later, Anwar al-Awlaki’s son, Abdulrahman, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen born in Colorado, was killed in another U.S. drone strike elsewhere in Yemen. The administration has not adequately explained the legal basis for these strikes, and it has not explained the factual basis, either.

More here - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2011/10/03/drone-assassinations-hurt-the-u-s-more-than-they-help-us/

As a bonus, check out the right-wingers and their classless comments in the last link.

Michael Corleone was right - "Oh, who's being naive, Kay?"

An interesting commentary about America, Wealth, and Equality.

Take a look -

http://crooksandliars.com/mike-lux/great-debate-america-and-equality

Let's hope this never finds its way ...

... to the Stuff White People Like blog ...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/02/01/bc-canadian-nazis-exposed.html

The names of dozens of alleged white supremacists in Canada are contained in files leaked by computer hackers in Europe intent on exposing hate movements, CBC News has learned.
The alleged white supremacists' names were revealed earlier this month by members of a loose-knit group of hackers called Anonymous on a website called nazi-leaks.net, which is now offline.
In addition to emails and secret websites and blogs, the hackers uncovered photographs of children giving Nazi salutes at a gathering in Missouri, confidential legal documents and displays of Hitler tattoos.