Work those Free Speech muscles. And strrretch:
Mo rates it a solid: 
for making his head want to explode.
I think because it's a film requiring resources to view and not simple images, we're far less likely to see the violence we saw over the Mo toons. What's more likely is useful idiots trying to keep others from viewing it.
UPDATE:
Oops.
Quote from Liveleak:
"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.
This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.
Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.
We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high."
It's up on YouTube now.
It's not the vid's being such a tour-de-force that makes it linkable, because it's not, but rather all the self-censoring in fear of violent fanatics..
I've heard someone around here has a thing for tambourine-playing girls. This cute one could use some attention here; she appears to be being ignored:
Another from the 12-31-70 Warehouse show. Duane's to the right of DIckey Betts.
Wail on, Skydog!
This might be a slight exaggeration of what girlfriends are like. Points off for no crying.
The Gap girls are still one of my favorite bunch of mall denizens.
Happy Easter to everyone.
I took a nap on the couch and was dreaming of Russian spies and transmitters when suddenly I noticed that in the corner of the living room was a pool where we kept our pet baby Orca, Little Bottom. I lay down near the pool and she jumped out of the tank with a splash and slid up next to me, only just bumping me with her bulk. I thought that was a neat trick and was anxious to inform my husband of her antics.
I suspect this round black and white creature of involvement in the redirection of my dream.
Here it is:
A 75-pound stingray killed a Michigan woman Thursday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode a boat in the Florida Keys, officials said.Judy Kay Zagorski, of Pigeon, Mich., was sitting in the front seat of a boat going 25 mph when the spotted eagle ray, with a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet, leaped out of the water, said Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The 57-year-old woman's father was driving the boat on the Atlantic Ocean side of Vaca Key, Pino said.
"He had absolutely no warning. It just happened instantaneously," Pino said.
Another "quiet one" snaps.
Drums, drums everywhere. I don't know where or when this pic was taken.
Wail on, Skydog!
I wonder what political statement this postmodern Bartleby was making? Was it about imperialism, capitalism, mass-consumerism, or something else?:
Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.
"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."
Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend.
"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."
He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.
"And her reply would be, `Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."
The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call.
Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.
"She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.
She was reported in fair condition at a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.
The boyfriend's MySpace status shows him as being sad, as would be you if you'd just lost your toilet angel.
Duane in his studio sideman days.
Wail on, Skydog!
Four years ago I posted a small version of this one. Here's a better of better copy of him in sartorial splendor. The days of striped pants and vests are over, but the boots are still happening.
Also, another from the series.
Miami's had two mothers famous for the decades of devotion to a daughter: Susan Billig, who spent 30 years actively searching for her abducted daughter Amy, and Kaye O'Bara. They're both gone now.
She never broke her promise.Kaye O'Bara, who pledged never to leave her then-teenage daughter's side as the girl slipped into a diabetic coma 38 years ago, died at her Miami Gardens home this week -- in the same room she shared with her child, Edwarda, since 1970.
O'Bara, 80, died in her sleep. She had suffered for years from a cardiac illness that dated back to a heart attack in the early 1980s, said her niece, Pamela Burdgick.
''We thought she'd outlive us all. The woman was so strong,'' Burdgick said.
The story of O'Bara's steadfast devotion to her child, and her belief that Edwarda's life was not a burden but a blessing, inspired countless visitors who passed by the small one-story O'Bara home over the decades.
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Edwarda, a diabetic, had come down with the flu shortly before Christmas 1969. Her condition worsened over the next few days, and her parents -- Kaye and husband Joe -- took her to the hospital.As the frightened girl began to lose consciousness, she turned to her mother and asked: ``Promise you won't leave me, will you, Mommy?''
Kaye O'Bara promised her she wouldn't, and those final words to her daughter became the blueprint for her life: turning her every two hours so her daughter wouldn't develop bedsores; feeding her a mixture of baby food and powdered milk through a tube; administering insulin; playing music; reading books to Edwarda, who was once an avid reader; and keeping a watchful vigil by her bedside in the hope that one day her daughter would come to.
Sue and Kaye's stories are sad, but as I open the newspaper and read yet another of the equally sad stories of some wretched parent's neglect or abuse of a child, my mind often wanders back to these ladies and the hard paths they chose to follow out of love.
My favorite Jimmy Webb composition is sung beautifully here by Glen Campbell in its television debut.
When as a teen the Oklahoma-bred Webb told his father he was striking out on his own to be a songwriter, his father said, "This songwriting thing is going to break your heart." Happily it turned out the Grammy-laden Webb was the one to do all the heart breaking with his lovely lyrics:
Continued months of the former would be more entertaining, but we'll see if cooler (DNC) heads prevail:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility of a Democratic "dream ticket" with Sen. Barack Obama.Speaking on "The Early Show" on CBS, Clinton said "that may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket."
Clinton said the race between her and Obama remains "incredibly close," with just "smidgens of difference" between them in both the popular vote and number of delegates.
Clinton's remarks came after her campaign won two big states yesterday: Ohio and Texas. She also won Rhode Island. The wins enabled her campaign to break Obama's 12-state winning streak and pick up some momentum of its own.
Speaking later on "The Early Show," Obama congratulated Clinton on her victories while maintaining he would be able to wrap up the Democratic nomination.
"We still have close to an insurmountable lead in delegates," Obama said. Obama said his campaign had won nearly twice as many states as Clinton as well as a greater share of the popular vote.
The DNC powers-that-be won't want this race to continue now that McCain has won the Republican nomination, but I say why shy away from a good cage match?
This is the funniest thing I've seen on "Saturday Night Live" since Andy Samberg's Special Christmas Box video.
(Better link via Paco Malo.)
The combination of the voices of Willie, Kris, Waylon, and Johnny with the lyrics of songwriter Jimmy Webb is so tasty. Ben and Jerry would have made "Highwaymen" ice cream, but they couldn't get Willie's pot to blend.
They claim that he fit in a port-a-potty and that she ran:
A Connecticut man and his wife were placed under arrest Friday on charges of public intoxication after authorities say they found the 330-pound man seated on the floor of a portable toilet in Bonita Springs and cursing everyone within earshot.Joseph Beaudin, 48, and his wife, Patricia Beaudin, 44, of Bristol, Conn., were transported to Lee County jail for booking.
According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, responding deputies found Joseph Beaudin seated on the floor of a portable toilet near the 7-Eleven on Bonita Beach Road, swearing at EMS personnel and refusing medical attention. The 7-Eleven store is between U.S. 41 and the beach.
When deputies tried to place him under arrest, reports show Beaudin resisted before finally being handcuffed and placed in the rear of a patrol car. Meanwhile, a handcuffed Patricia Beaudin managed to wrench herself away from deputies and make a run for it directly into oncoming traffic on Imperial Shores Boulevard, according to the report. Reports show a deputy then deployed his Taser on her, at which time they were able to escort her to another patrol car.
Ahh, I wish I could have been there.
The water wars continue. Due to massive siphoning, the Colorado river looks like an old man's urine stream by the time it trickles into Mexico. If allowed, Georgia would do the Panhandle and Alabama the same way and that's just wrong because we're not beaners :
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne acknowledged Saturday that White House-brokered water negotiations among Alabama, Florida and Georgia have failed.Without an agreement, the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies will begin implementing a water-sharing plan of their own, Kempthorne said in a letter to the governors.
"Regrettably, it will necessarily be a solution being directed to the states instead of our much hoped for solution coming from the states," he wrote in the letter, released Saturday.
Kempthorne said the talks, which began last fall, yielded more progress in three months than at any time during the last 18 years.
But he said the negotiators could not reach a comprehensive agreement and called it "unfortunate" that the states are moving forward with ongoing litigation.
"It is our hope that developments in the courts will not frustrate further progress in resolving the remaining technical issues we face together," he said.
The three states have been feuding for nearly two decades over water rights in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa river basins, which run south through Georgia into Alabama and the Florida panhandle.
Georgia is fighting to hold back more water in federal reservoirs around Atlanta to serve its growing population.
Florida and Alabama argue that Georgia hasn't adequately planned for growth. The extra withdrawals, they argue, would damage the environment and dry up river flows into their states that support smaller municipalities, power plants, commercial fisheries and industrial users like paper mills.
They act like Atlanta's burning the way they pour water on it. Has Governor Perdue not thought to do a rain dance on Chris Carlos' head? Would the chronically offended protest it as against the separation of church and state if he did?
The joke's going to be on everybody when the Corps of Engineers gets done.
