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I think this video distills a lot of artists into one female artist, from Norway, in this case. It's like Regina Spektor, Belanova, Sarah Bareilles, Feist, etc, rolled into one happy singer. The music video, as well, seems to be a refinement of the elements that make up those artists' videos as well, from the color spatters in Spektor's "Fidelity ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8348941.stm

Edit to add: Decline is a choice, but is it America's choice?
Part 2 of editorial above

Well, Dr. Krauthammer, clearly the will of the people has been accomplished, and their will is indeed to choose decline.

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"Now, I'm going to get to the horrible national tragedy that I was informed about before walking up to this podium, heh *grin*, but I gotta say that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, your Congressional Medal of Honor (sic) was the best medal EVER." (paraphrase)

Never mind the difference between a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Congressional Medal of ( Read more... )

So I hear tell that Ms. Pelosi and crew are going to try and ram the healthcare bill through this week, if not over the weekend. This, much like cap and trade, just happens to coincide with an enormous news story that has soaked up 24/7 coverage on every network. It's so telling that this has to happen in order for sweeping social changes to be ( Read more... )

I just love the girl's reaction at the end... it's so HAPPY!

(sans poll, as I am a free account-holder)

Should I get back on Facebook?

my capacity for self-destruction never ceases to amaze me.

also, Woodford Reserve Bourbon smells like graham crackers and socks when you exhale. *smoking can't kill my obscene sense of smell, though it will likely kill me*

Just a thought... people talk about "colonizing space" and "exploring other planets" but mentally do so on an Apollo Mission, space opera concept. What would stop as a scientific "experiment" that would potentially lack our our future ability to "observe" (and so could it be called an experiment?) of seeding other planets and space structures with ( Read more... )

link from Instapundit... it's not an American politics article, rather it comes from Austria concerning a British scientist involved with Iranian nuclear stuff... Is it defenestration if there's not a window? technically not, but this is very suspicious. Not saying it's 100% foul play or that there's certainty, but it looks pretty bad on the

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