THIS IS A "MUST NOT MISS" MOMENT

Yesterday I thought “I wonder if “Classical Gas” is around with the original slide show? Today I looked over the YouTube content and didn’t find it. But boy is there ever some great versions. The first link below is illustrated with mostly desert photos, and while not having the original furor, is non-the-less worth a look. I thought of a biologist friend that lives out west and thought she would enjoy the photos, and maybe the music. She is a youngster (old ager pejorative for anyone under 30, said with affection) and maybe doesn’t even know who Mason Williams is.
So I copied the URL and went back to YouTube for a second dip. Well, partner, after about 6 or 7 dips I decided the world should see this stuff. The second is illustrated with lightening and if you like lightening, take a peek.
The third is a history lesson and I remember almost every slide in this slide show. It is for me a real journey.
BUT, the fourth is the real reason for the posting. My toes are still tingling from this new, high energy and very powerful interpretation. And the group is having fun!!! This left me breathless and tear-streaked.
If you don’t ever watch another YouTube video, watch number one and number four.
Let me know what you think.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wDfXqZ4vs
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sOVXMmtsM&feature=related
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt9sYUmJNkU&feature=related
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCA84PTYmg8&feature=related
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Even MLK Jr. Thinks it is Funny.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” MLK, Jr.

“Taking the Lord’s name in vain does not go over well in some households, particularly in the South”

Ok, call me sensitive. Or, call me an iconoclast. Or, call me an atheist. And you would be wrong on all calls. What I am, though, is very tired of every media outlet in the free world using a capital “L” in lord when they refer to god, as in the NPR headline above. There may or may not be a Lord out there somewhere, but whatever it is one thing is certain. It’s not MY lord. No capital for me. And by using the capital “L” I think the writers, editors and publishers are actively or tacitly agreeing that there is a “Lord” and it is the Christian one. Nonsense as far as I can see. If there really were just one lord, we would all know it by now.

So please, keep your capital “L” lord out of my face and I’ll keep my capital “C” cthulhu out of yours.

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Much Too Do and Much has been Done

What a couple of weeks! Billions of dollars of damage and hundreds of lives lost in the South from nasty weather; major floods in the central part of the country; a Royal wedding; bin Laden killed; POTUS is revealed to be an American, and Trump is revealed to be a jerkoff.

No wonder I feel a bit overloaded. Oh, and snakes in my ponds. Lots of them. And I haven’t been able to identify them yet. Possible s few Queen Snakes, maybe a banded water snake and possible an exotic of some kind. All very wary. My snake grabber arrives today and then the fight is really on. Get in the small pond and drain it, then take down the rock walls the snakes are using for a home, catch the snakes, then redo the bottom and sides, replace the rocks and voila! a new and snake-free pond.

Then get the snakes out of the big pond. Ditto procedure except no rock wall. Just a mass of roots and crap to sort through. It needs to be cleaned out anyway, but the addition of a couple of unknown reptiles adds a bit of spice to the mix.

And yesterday I finished getting the riding mower going, not so easy a project BTW. New battery and starter, some tune-up adjustments and off she went. Today the new battery is DEAD and the rear tire is so flat I call it Twiggy. Must be a trickle leak in the electrical system somewhere. Crap.

But, the orchids are blooming their little buds off, and the spring is glorious. Sigh.

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Osama gets a Sausage (but it's a virgin!)

Now it starts. Osama the martyr. Osama the aggrieved because he was killed at home; Osama the martyr because he died on land and was buried at sea; Osama isn’t really dead just hiding, captured, wounded, Who The F (bomb) Knows?

Ok, there are some hokey things and maybe my friend Z can illuminate one of them; How could they confirm his DNA in 8 hours? I don’t say they can’t, I just don’t know.

On the martyr issue I have real problems. This guy was clearly a very bad guy from the view of the free world. He is by his own words responsible for the death of thousands of innocent people including thousands of Muslims. Why the hell should he get to heaven and sleep on a Brocade Couch, be served (if you know what I mean) by as many celestial virgins as he wants and eat perfect fruit from Mohammed’s own orchards. Bullcrap to that. I hope they stuffed a nice fresh pork sausage down his miserable throat before they buried him at sea. That might keep his unclean terrorist corpse out of heaven.

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Tired of the Conservative Crap

I get so tired of the same old conservative Republican crap that denigrates Obama and his presidency without ever giving credit for anything. No point in going over the dozens of things accomplished over the last few years. Today there are two examples that serve:

One: the decisive and patient running of the bin Laden affair;

Two: the remarkable response of FEMA after the devastation of the South last week.

The bin Laden affair was bungled badly in the past, and handled beautifully by the President. No leaks, no false moves tarnished this operation. SEAL team 6 carried out the orders of the Commander in Chief flawlessly, bravely and perfectly. They were the boots on the ground, Obama was the Commander. Where is there room for denigration here?

Go back to Katrina. FEMA was a disaster in itself. Lack of leadership from the top (wonder who that could be?) left New Orleans devastated for months and crippled for years. One of Obama’s early efforts was the reorganization of FEMA and a retooling of all of their procedures. Repeat: this was done under the Presidents directives. Fast forward to the devastating storms last week and FEMA was there in hours, massively and decisively. BIG DIFFERENCE, don’t you think.

Come on boys and girls, get real. Even the Republican leadership acknowledges that the President has done a few things right.

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The Spillway - DUHHHH

They live in “The Spillway”, a part of the flood plain designated to be the place where water will be dumped when the river reaches dangerous heights. “The Spillway?” Hello?
You have to be sorry for the families that are wiped out by the blasting open of the levee. Here is a hint: Most were unable to get insurance or even financing to build their homes in this flood plain. To risky. The next problem is the secondary levee on the other side of the spillway. Never been tested by flood.
The better question is this: Why are they there in the first place? Did anyone really think living below the river level was a smart strategy? And another better question is this: Where the hell is all this water coming from? Ahh. Easy. Unprecedented rains.
Unprecedented rains; unprecedented floods; unprecedented global climate change. One hundred or more years ignoring warnings that sooner or later a flood would wipe out the development of the flood plain. Now it happens. Why should anyone be surprised? My students aren’t. I’m not. The Corps of Engineers isn’t.

Seems like only the conservative Republicans are. I suggest that they pray away the waters like they pray away hurricanes in Florida.

Information: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/us/03levee.html?hp
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The Bastard is Dead

I watched then go down. I watched them die. I watched the cleanup, the grief and the war caused by the terrorist bin Laden. And now I have watched the unfolding of the end of the bastard.

Good.

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