corrente

moving on

2010-04-27T22:46:00.004-04:00

Have moved. Visit new location at:correntesbl.blogspot.comHERE*

Fountain of Babble (with duckface update)

2010-04-19T03:50:00.017-04:00

So, how'd that hopey charity thing work out...?: Check it out. It's classic Palin. One long windy unpunctuated rattlebrain babble-feast.Globe and Mail (transcript) (Friday, Apr. 16):Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin addressed a crowd in Hamilton, Ont., on Thursday night at an event benefitting the Charity of Hope. Nine hundred tickets were sold at $200 a pop, where the one

Pudden-heads on parade

2010-04-09T04:21:00.002-04:00

Sarah "Pinkyphant" Palin discharches a warning shot across the bow of Washington, Wed. April 7, 2010 (WaPo):Someone had better tell Washington that that pink elephant is on the move, and Michele [Bachmann] is leading the stampede.Look out! Look out!Pink elephants on paradeHere they come!Hippety hoppetyThey're here and therePink elephants ev'rywhereVideo - Pink Elephants On Parade:*

OT

2010-03-30T01:31:00.006-04:00

"thunder on the left" - "thunder on the right": a "concert of all interests"

2010-03-12T02:43:00.009-05:00

Author and historian Otis Graham on FDR and the New Deal (excerpts):The year 1935 was marked by what historian James M. Burns called "thunder on the left," a wave of protest against the New Deal's slow progress toward recovery and its reluctance to confront business power and redistribute income and wealth. Millions responded to Louisiana's senator Huey Long, whose Share Our Wealth program

running low on winter

2010-03-11T05:36:00.002-05:00

Storm Demon

2010-02-26T01:18:00.013-05:00

SBL Nature Trail

2010-02-25T00:59:00.005-05:00

Waiting for the Snowicane.Uh oh. Maybe another nor'easter next week? Six day forecast map for March 3:*

Autopron: SBL Grand Prix Alta Classic

2010-02-15T00:49:00.004-05:00

1936 Alta 2L SC - Alta Car and Engineering Company (UK)Photo credit: Akela NDEPhoto credit: John Chapman (Pyrope)1939 Alta 2L(click images for larger view)*

SBL Bovid Terror Theater presents

2010-02-14T19:05:00.002-05:00

Udder Madness (New Yorker, Jan. 18, 2010).Just because I think it's funny.*

SBL Nature Trail

2010-02-02T00:21:00.000-05:00

I welcome your hatred

2010-01-23T03:26:00.002-05:00

Open hatred thread.*

Jane Hamsher, go jump in a lake!

2010-01-21T03:23:00.010-05:00

Jan 22, 2010 - Paul Krugman:A message to House Democrats: This is your moment of truth. You can do the right thing and pass the Senate health care bill. Or you can look for an easy way out, make excuses and fail the test of history.And don't be afraid to tell Jane Hamsher and her FireBag Fail Flukes to go jump in a fucking lake.----Al Giordono on the Accountability Not Pack and the election of

Congratulations Massachusetts, Enjoy Your New Overton Window Salesman!

2010-01-20T05:16:00.004-05:00

And don't forget to thank Jane Hamsher and her Firedog Lake HCR Kill The Bill fail-tards for their tireless disinformation and negative messaging campaign effort on behalf of scuttling the HCR bill. Without Jane and friends young Scotty might never have sold his own tea-soaked kill the bill message as easily and effectively and with as much vigorous bipartisan support from both wingnut

EarthShake Info

2010-01-17T04:29:00.004-05:00

4 USGS Earthquake information page (includes maps, incident updates, etc) 4 Puerto Rico Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Program: Poseidon (click the "continue" button on linked page to proceed). 4 Most Recent Earthquakes (worldwide - last 7 days): USGS *

American Gibberish

2010-01-15T05:36:00.001-05:00

Balloon Juice: PALIN: Of course they’re sinking. It was just a matter of time before more of that reflection of the people’s uncomfortableness that they feel towards this administration is manifesting in these poll numbers. There is an obvious disconnect between President Obama and the White House, what they are doing to our economy and what they are doing in terms of not allowing Americans

2010

2010-01-01T01:26:00.003-05:00

Happy New YearEnjoy it while it lasts.Only 281 more shopping days left til Leif Erikson Day.*

"fix it in the mix"

2009-12-28T11:38:00.008-05:00

A New Rallying Cryfrom Bare LeftI like it. And I want a t-shirt.In the meantime, Wrong Way Jane and her neo-consciousness band of Fire Dog Bathtub mutineers can busy themselves with the sinking of world-wide corporatism. Which should keep all Hamsher-hands hoay and in high hempen jig furioso until after the 2010 mid-terms when Jane's new sailing buddy Captain Grover decides to lash her to her own

What Jacob Hacker said

2009-12-20T21:06:00.001-05:00

At TNR: Why I Still Believe in This Bill It would therefore be tempting for me to side with Howard Dean and other progressive critics who say that health care reform should now be killed. It would be tempting, but it would be wrong. Since the first campaign for publicly guaranteed health insurance in the early twentieth century, opportunities for serious health reform have come only rarely and

What Keith Olbermann Said

2009-12-16T21:49:00.005-05:00

Here: SPECIAL COMMENT - Ruined Senate bill unsupportable; Conservatives have destroyed this version of health care reform [ Full transcript and video, (MSNBC, Dec. 16, 2009) ] [...] No single payer? No sale. No public option? No sale. No Medicare buy-in? No sale. I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health care reform. Pass

SBL Open Shred

2009-12-02T03:01:00.001-05:00

Tune up in the Whammy Bar*

turkey in the brine

2009-11-26T02:06:00.000-05:00

¹ turkey in the strawHappy Thanksgiving*

PalinNation: Orange Wristband Revolution Rescue Night

2009-11-21T04:49:00.014-05:00

The tree of liberty parking lot of fortune must be refreshed must be littered from time to time with theblood with the forsaken wristbands of patriots and tyrants of partisans and sycophants.Rescue threads for the record:Boos for Babylon BarbieSarah Past Meets Sarah FuturePalin Apologizes For Skipping Out On The TipLet us sing:She is coming like the glory in the morning on the busShe is winsome

Palin: the News--ek cover

2009-11-16T22:26:00.023-05:00

(click image for larger view)If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? - Sarah Palin, Going Rogue"If God had not intended for us to eat Katie Couric, how come He made her out of meat? You're bein' awful quiet there Katie. What's a matter... cat

Guess who's not coming to dinner

2009-11-13T15:42:00.005-05:00

"it's lovely to think that he would ever even consider" coming over for Thanksgiving.Sarah Palin Invites Levi Johnston Over for Thanksgiving Dinner(Village Voice)-----.Rogue judicature; frightful ruminations from America's preminent political bauble and celebrated rattlebrain:It is crucially important that Americans be made aware that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks may walk away from this

Holy Roman Canon Fodder

2009-11-13T04:18:00.002-05:00

The Medievel Order of Cranks in Cassocks haggles with the fate of the hungry and homeless.From BeliefNet:New Catholic Hardball: Trading the Poor for Doctrinal PurityBy: Diana Butler Bass Thursday November 12, 2009 This morning's Washington Post made me choke on my coffee: "Catholic Church Gives D.C. Ultimatum." The Catholic Archdiocese is playing political hardball by threatening to cut off

Lou Dobbs faces CNN firing squad

2009-11-11T23:06:00.006-05:00

!!! LOU DOBBS LEAVES CNN !!!Preliminary video clip release of final program/appearence (with Kitty Pilgim): ¹I now return you to our regularly scheduled intermission already in progress.!!BREAKING!! -- 11.16.2009 - We interupt this irregularly scheduled post to bring you the following UPDATE Via the Booman Tribune:CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave,

open thread

2009-11-08T02:10:00.011-05:00

SNACK BAR UPDATES:Frozen Moose Twitters: Sarah Palin upset by U.S. Deptartment of Treasury plan to mint new Levi Johnston $1 coin. (when will John McCain apologize to the American people?)-----Red Hot Speed Demons - Orly on wheels: Taitz ticketed (on Oct 12, 2009) for driving in excess of 100 mph (no doubt while fleeing from character assasins, claim jumpers, Kenyan ivory poachers and Chicago

Sparking Trail

2009-11-06T02:20:00.005-05:00

Appalachian Trail Spooners Incur Sparking Probe Associated Press:high court says gov's ethics probe is publicBy JIM DAVENPORT (AP)COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel must be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering impeachment to review a report on the probe.Sanford's lawyers had tried keep a

Francisco Franco Just Won't Die

2009-11-06T02:15:00.003-05:00

Via Booman Tribune:The abortion compromise was turning into a contest of wills, with the U.S. Conference of Bishops on one side and Pelosi, a devout Catholic and a supporter of abortion rights, on the other.[Rep. Brad] Ellsworth said at least three Democratic abortion-rights opponents have agreed to support his language, but many others won’t because the bishops don’t support it.“Other members

Somewhere in the North Country a loon is looking for another small fish to fry.

2009-11-04T04:57:00.003-05:00

The bus back to Waco leaves in the morning. In NY-23, Teabagger trainee Doug Hoffman gets swatted away by Democrat Bill Owens, the first Democrat to represent the 23rd district of NY since Nehemiah Birdseye Peltsselaer won the seat by defeating the bastard son of the Duchess of Cleveland during an adirondack chair throwing competition at Great Sacandaga Lake in the year of our Lord 1823.It's

SBL Nature Trail

2009-10-31T03:12:00.012-04:00

Afternoon pole dancing at the Wood-n-Pecker Lounge. Two female pileated woodpeckers dancing around on a tree on Wednesday afternoon. Males and females look alot alike (both have red crests). But the males have a red "mustache" - the area extending off the bill and under the eyes - and red forehead - red extends from crest all the way down to beak (like Woody Woodpecker) - while the females have

Dentist The Menace Dismissed

2009-10-29T15:47:00.008-04:00

"Therefore, for the reasons stated above, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED." ~ Judge David O. Carter, US District Court for the Central District of California.Dr Orly (the mad dentist of delinquency) looses another tooth.Dave Weigel (Washington Independent):Central District of California Judge David O. Carter has dismissed Barnett et al v. Obama et al, Orly Taitz’s most successful lawsuit

pumpkin pile on

2009-10-23T20:51:00.008-04:00

First Snow

2009-10-16T03:19:00.003-04:00

snapshot: 3:00 am, October 16, 2009.*

SBL Fungi Foto Fun!

2009-10-14T02:33:00.003-04:00

By popular demand. Please contribute any fungi poetry or songs about fungi that you have either written yourself, or have passed down through your family for generations, to the comment section below.It's fungi fun night at the SBL. Free fungi slurpees for the first 100 callers!*

Great Infant Colic Hothouse Orchids of the Intertoobzs!

2009-10-13T06:19:00.003-04:00

I didn't write anything to go with this blog post because I'm far too busy not giving a shit about writing anything having to do with this blog post title. However, for what it's worth:1] I don't eat Cheetos (actually, I don't eat any snack foods at all but sometimes I will eat deli meat or leftover pizza or pimento stuffed spanish olives straight from the jar at strange hours).2] I don't wear

Open Thread

2009-10-10T04:11:00.003-04:00

Nobel Peace Prize

2009-10-09T05:35:00.010-04:00

For saving the town from wingnuts*

Early Fall Open Thread

2009-10-05T02:16:00.004-04:00

The things ya see from a car window.*

Lone Wolf Palin: Goin' All Roguery, you know.

2009-10-03T04:37:00.006-04:00

Lost Cause Books:American Heritage Dictionary:rogue n. 1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal. [...] 4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.You betcha'.*

Baucus Blue Dog Bacchanal

2009-10-02T00:46:00.004-04:00

click image for full size view*

Random selection

2009-10-01T16:40:00.006-04:00

Great moments in privatization. Stop in the name of the law-like enterprise:American Police Force (disguised as an actual police department) rolls into Montana town (TPM)and (gosh, jeepers, who woulda' thunk it)..."American Police Force" leader has long greasy criminal record (TPM)Common Loon-state bunko artist Michelle Bachmann...hustles some more boo-scare fiction. (TPM)Stupidity Street:video

SBL nature trail

2009-09-26T01:27:00.010-04:00

Chip E. Munk giving me the munk-eye.I've been watching him/her come and go all summer (he/she scampers down a hole right there between the pavers).I think he's got some kind of survivalist shelter down there. Maybe even a jimsonweed lab. Or some kind of underground sex nest.I wish I had an underground sex nest. But that's for another post.Tomorrow, or the next day, or sometime, I'll try to take a

end of summer thread

2009-09-19T03:34:00.006-04:00

Last full day of Summer: Monday, Sept 21.Fall Equinox: Sept, 22.And some late summer lily pads (from about 3 weeks ago). Can click the image for a better full size pic.*

SBL sing-a-long

2009-09-14T21:11:00.001-04:00

¹ "Let's Save the Status Quo"Billionaires for Wealthcare.com*

Wingnut Wind-up Toys On Parade!

2009-09-13T02:53:00.006-04:00

Approximately 60-70 thousand Wingnuts wind-up in Washington on Saturday.---TPM:"DC Fire Department has issued an unofficial estimate of 60,000 to 70,000 people in attendance,..."---That's impressive.For a Ted Nugent concert.Meanwhile: approximately 102,000 college football fans attend the Ohio State v. USC game at Horseshoe Stadium in Columbus.*

Heckles the Clown of South Carolina.

2009-09-09T23:09:00.008-04:00

Addison Graves Wilson, former aide to Strom Thurmond and campaign manager for former Dixiecrat Floyd Spence, emits a strident bitter squawk.Lou Dobbs Show on line one Mr. Wilson!Video via TPM.============I think someone should contact Mrs Donatto at The Southern Etiquette Society and ask her if she would travel to Washington DC and help Mr. Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson of South Carolina with his

SBL First Annual Baby Bunny Bean Patch Roundup

2009-09-08T21:30:00.008-04:00

end of summer flower power post

2009-09-07T03:04:00.005-04:00

Lucifer Lilies Crocosmia.*

To The Lighthouse!

2009-09-05T02:26:00.010-04:00

SBL weekend presents:~ Flying Red Herrings~ Momma Grizzlyand~ Feast of a Nation's StomachMooseshit you can believe in. Behold a Feast of Mixed Metaphors and Washed Up Cliches swept ashore in LA and stranded upon the sands of a Minnesota Desert Oasis crawling with Growling Stomach Snakes, the Fog of Mirage, Suffocating Famine, and Flying Red Herrings brighter than all the stars in a Hollywood

SBL Weekend

2009-08-30T01:45:00.000-04:00

One Night Only:Pumpkin Patch Sunflowers*

Ted Kennedy

2009-08-26T01:47:00.002-04:00

Monday morning non-post

2009-08-17T03:32:00.002-04:00

please resort to mob rule in the lowly comment thread below.*

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): Death Panel Guard since 2003!

2009-08-14T03:35:00.012-04:00

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) voted for bill mandating government death panels in 2003!!!! Chuck Grassley (R-Glenn Beck): Senate Death Panel member since 2003 !!!Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Lewin Group) voted in 2003 to allow government bureaucrats to evaluate:"...the beneficiary's need for pain and symptom management, including the individual's need for hospice care; counseling the beneficiary with

Tomato Blight Night Post

2009-08-13T00:41:00.028-04:00

Actual SBL/farm photos:Early signs of blight on leaves (outlined in red above)Beneath this seemingly happy looking canopy lurks a tangled fungal nightmare of blight and doom and metastasizing horrors! Areas of blighted leaves outlined in red above.Closeup of blighted leaves below. Leaves curl and dry out, turn brown and die. Early warnings of late blight may also appear as yellow discoloration

Orly run amok in the goldenrod

2009-08-12T03:00:00.004-04:00

I dunno how many old soviet lead fillings Orly Taitz (if that is her real name) has squirreled away in her molars but however many there may be they are obviously leaching into her bloodstream and screwing around - like bugs in a bughouse - with her ding-a-ling receptors (or whatever those things are called).Via Politico:We set off in a flotilla of cars. When we got to the state office complex an

Breaking: Government bureaucrats agree to grant unconditional commutation of death sentence to Sarah Palin's baby!

2009-08-09T19:45:00.024-04:00

Must readProgressives make sweeping concessions to conservatives on health care by agreeing to remove the "Kill Sarah Palin's Baby Act of 2009" (Daily Kos) provisions from any future health care legislation. [...] While this will require us to gut HR 3200 "America's Health Choices and Murder Sarah Palin's Baby Act of 2009," we're currently working with Henry Waxman to remove the extensive

Angry Wingnut Wind-Up Toys!

2009-08-05T02:56:00.008-04:00

Wind one up and watch it hop around like a fly on a hot stove at your next public square town hall healthcare meeting! So lifelike! Even CBS News and CNN's Candy Crowley think they are real!Angry Wingnut Windup Toys (TM) are a jointly owned subsidary of RightWingNutter Playpen USA and the Managed Healthcare Bureaucrat Family of Insurance Company Lobbyist Caregivers of America.Wind one of yer own

Somewhere in the world a cuckoo clock is missing its cuckoo

2009-08-04T02:29:00.007-04:00

Orly Taitz (a cuckoo without a clock)< Orly, at home in happier times, on the front porch of her cuckoo clock. (actual photo at left)From Monday, August 3, 2009. Orly in the media viper room: Via Rumproast, video of Orly's visit with MSNBC's David Schuster and Tamron HallI'm still pretty much convinced that this entire Orly Taitz Traveling Birfer Bumpkin Circus is nothing but a fabulous madcap

Your basic non-post

2009-08-02T02:04:00.001-04:00

Open thread.*

Is Orly Taitz actually Sacha Baron Cohen?

2009-07-29T04:38:00.011-04:00

This fantastic news from Orly via her blog:July 28th, 2009 A well known talk show host Dr. Mike Savage is my friend on FacebookHigh five!< photo: Dr. Mike, on his way to the operating room.Seriously.Discuss.Video: Dr. Orly's appearance on the Colber Report, via Rumproast.*

Blue Dog Pocket Poodles For Sale!

2009-07-29T03:49:00.004-04:00

< My name is Max. I want to be managed cares best friend. Take me home to your favorite private health care lobbyist or big health insurance company public relations bureaucrat.Fully trained to sit and stand and bark and fetch (arf arf!) on command. Will eat own turds. Retrieve approved talking points. Guard against public option. Lick the hand that feeds it. Sit obiediently in private care

aka: Barack Obama - just because you have a birth certificate doesn't mean you are who you say you are

2009-07-28T02:09:00.013-04:00

This just in (again) from the Candlenut state:Hawaii again declares Obama birth certificate realBy JAYMES SONG (AP) – 1 hour agoHONOLULU — State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.Health Director

Orly and the Barrators

2009-07-22T00:34:00.006-04:00

The cuckoo clock crows for thee.===What constitutes a "natural born" citizen of the United States?US Federal Code - Section 8/1401:1401. Nationals and citizens of United States at birthThe following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: (a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;(b) a person born in the United States to a member of an

General Purpose open thread

2009-07-18T01:58:00.002-04:00

And that's the way it was, Monday, September 2, 1963

2009-07-17T22:21:00.002-04:00

Nightly 1/2 hour CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite -first broadcast Sept. 2, 1963:¹ Video:*

Wingnut Summer of Love

2009-07-10T03:04:00.010-04:00

Starburst Revolution! - Turn on, tune in, drop out! - Head out on the highway - Lookin' for adventure - And whatever comes your way - Hike the Appalachian Trail - On The Road to Argentina - Naked Brunch - Teabagger Orgies in the Park - G.O.P-Ins - Hampton hideaways and hushpuppy money - Psychedelic wavy gravy love train - lizard brain - proclaim hearts aflame - no shame - media blame - C-Street

Flight of the Loon -or- Thwack of the Beaver Tail!

2009-07-04T01:50:00.009-04:00

Sarah Palin's cut-n-run ski-doodle.Lake Lucille Nesting Grounds, Wasilla, Alaska: Brandishing an itchy Trig scold-finger and her usual penchant for loon whistling Governor Sarah "Loon of the Midnight Sun" Palin announced she will be abandoning her command perch and striking out for the wild blue yonder in search of unconventional flyways and sports metaphor victory speaker fee gold. In the

Dig You Some Electric Dirt

2009-07-02T01:44:00.001-04:00

Levon Helm Band performing Deep Ellum Blues (Turin, NY, August 2008):¹Levon Helm.com audio and video page: includes Electric Dirt, Midnight Ramble Sessions, and more.*

SBL video jukebox

2009-06-22T03:35:00.005-04:00

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with Old Crow Medicine Show"The Weight":¹Levon Helm Band - "Poor Old Dirt Farmer"¹Inspirational credit for above jukebox selections: Pole Hill Album project: The Band*

Summer comin'

2009-06-20T01:49:00.008-04:00

Sunday, June 21, at 1:45 AM (EDT)Saturday, June 20, at 10:45 PM on the West Coast*

open air thread

2009-06-08T02:06:00.008-04:00

chives, garlic, onion - naturalized (click for larger pic).chives domesticated. should cut back flowers to prevent plants from becoming woody... but the flowers are soooo purty. *

SBLB (Stay Behinder Lilac Bush)

2009-05-30T03:33:00.005-04:00

open thread*

SBL Open Stage Presents

2009-05-27T02:40:00.006-04:00

Red Onion and the Space ScallionsIncludes the hits:- Naked Earth- Asparagus Uprising- Runaway Rototiller- Garlic Mustard Breakdown- Crisper Drawer Blues- Onion Thrips - The Farmer's Daughter- Beta Carotene and Cigarettes- Booker T. & the M.G.'s*

When Newt Gingrich worked for the Lie Factory

2009-05-21T03:34:00.004-04:00

Re-reading: from 2006 and 2004. Some old articles as they relate to recent charges from the likes of Newt Gingrich:“To have the person third in line to be president say that the CIA misleads us all the time is so utterly irresponsible and such an attack on the men and women who are risking their lives ... that she disqualifies herself for being speaker of the House,” the Georgia Republican

SBL new vegetation thread

2009-05-12T03:37:00.005-04:00

Ride a Pale Swine

2009-05-11T04:43:00.003-04:00

And I looked, and beheld a pale swine: and the names that sat on him were Fail. Ye shall know them by their fruitcakes.*

SBL Doom Stage

2009-05-09T03:46:00.001-04:00

The Hackensaw Boys usher in the End Time:¹COUNTERDOOM!The Hackensaw Boys performing "John Henry". Live at the Green Parrot in Key West:¹Hackensaw Boys.com*

SBL Doom Studio

2009-05-02T03:19:00.001-04:00

open thread of doom.catering to most varieties of doom: (doom and gloom - doomsayer fume - doomsday kaboom - doom in the afternoon - goodnight doom - algae bloom... etc.) Proceed to the smoke filled room.*

twittering dead or alive

2009-05-01T02:41:00.019-04:00

Loose Lucy is my delight, she come runnin' and we ball all night, round and round and round and round... don't take much to get me on the ground.She's my yo-yo, I'm her string, listen to the birds on the hot wire sing,~::~::~::~::~For the record: I don't have a Twitter feed.This > http://twitter.com/thefarmer - is not me (because I don't have a twitter feed). Also too: this here > http://

Spring Haywire Sale!

2009-04-28T03:28:00.003-04:00

Yesterday, April 27, was a beoootiful July day.Today, April 28, will be Elastic. Elastic Fantastic, with a 30% chance of Fear, and a lingering threat of Doom in the late afternoon.*

SBeLm

2009-04-25T03:51:00.002-04:00

Concord, MA.

Surround Glenn Beck with American Elm Trees

2009-04-23T05:39:00.011-04:00

The following was published in the Constitutional Gazette, September 9, 1775:SEPTEMBER 1. - The enemies to liberty and America, headed by Tom Gage, lately gave a notable specimen of their hatred to the very name liberty. A party of them, of whom Job Williams was the ringleader, a few days since repaired to a tree at the south end of Boston, known by the name of Liberty Tree, and armed with axes,

Apoplexy apropos

2009-04-21T02:08:00.010-04:00

2009 (redacted adaptation)1975 - original cartoon(click for closer look)New York Times, April 21, 2009 (bold emphasis added):Pressure Grows to Investigate InterrogationsAnd while Mr. Obama vowed not to prosecute C.I.A. officers for acting on legal advice, on Monday aides did not rule out legal sanctions for the Bush lawyers who developed the legal basis for the use of the techniques.[...]The

Just another open thread

2009-04-15T03:36:00.001-04:00

Teabagger turkey call

2009-04-11T01:50:00.004-04:00

I don't think the Teabagger party clucks realize that the Boston Tea Party of 1773 was mostly a reaction against the repeal of taxes and not a protest of higher taxes. The British Tea Act of 1773 allowed the East India Company to export cheap tea (duty free) to the colonies thereby undercutting the colonial tea merchants. It was an attempt by the British East India Company to dump surplus tea in

SBL Aquarium

2009-04-09T21:46:00.000-04:00

Paul Klee, Fish Magic, 1925; Oil and watercolor; The Philadelphia Museum of Art.take a closer look*

Follow Me Boys!

2009-04-09T04:06:00.006-04:00

For some reason Atrios decided to disquise himself as Fred MacMurray in a trilby hat and have himself photographed for the Philadelphia City Paper stylee section:What is Philadelphia style?I dunno, but please stop it.They make him look like a Rinso salesman trying to remember where he parked his Plymouth Cranbrook.*

SBL Gallery Thread

2009-04-05T02:44:00.008-04:00

Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, 1952ADDEDDiebenkorn, Cityscape I, 1963Diebenkorn, Table and ChairDiebenkorn, untitled, 1951*

Armed and Dangerously Misinformed

2009-04-04T19:54:00.001-04:00

If those police officers who confronted Poplawski had been allowed to carry guns none of this would have happened.AP:Police Chief Nate Harper said the motive for the shooting isn't clear, but friends said the gunman recently had been upset about losing his job and feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.Richard Poplawski, 23, met officers at the doorway and shot two of them in the

BREAKING OUTRAGE!

2009-04-03T02:26:00.010-04:00

Queen winks at President Obama in elevator!Queen tells dirty joke about clootie dumplings and old man from Nantucket. President Obama laughs and says "good one shorty!" and slaps Queen on ass. Queen responds: "watch it buster, you can call me Liz... just don't call me late for tea". Everyone all around has a jolly good belly-yuck. Michelle Obama arm wrestles Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh in

SBL moss project

2009-04-01T02:20:00.004-04:00

find the moss nymph(click image for bigger picture)*

Question and Answer time

2009-03-27T04:05:00.010-04:00

DougJ at Balloon-Juice writes (emphasis mine):Personally, I don’t favor harassing, let alone attacking, the wealthy bankers and other assorted riff-raff who may have caused this financial crisis. But I do wonder what role fear of uprising plays in a society like ours. So I’m going to pose a question that some of you may know the answer to: during the Great Depression, did some wealthy

Nouriel Roubini Captured!

2009-03-26T06:26:00.008-04:00

Elite special forces operating on behalf of Global Capitalist Banking Tyranny have reportedly captured Nouriel Roubini. Roubini is outspoken advocate of banking regulation, reform, and restructuring, and has been closely linked to Nacionalización Bancaria Movimiento (NBM). Followers and supporters of NBM expressed concern following statement by Roubini in the New York Daily News in which Roubini

SBL hideout

2009-03-19T02:47:00.006-04:00

Stay Behinder Lounge Presents

2009-03-13T17:42:00.019-04:00

Tad Warmer and the Chirping Birds (Spring 2009 Barefeet Blast-Off Tour)Pansypoo Rantpage ProductionswithBolus Cud's Hollerin' Cow, Barn Dance Band (Hole in the Fence!) - (Wastewater Treatment Plant Breakdown) - (Otis Horsley Went A-Courtin')Pole Hill RecordsandMidnight Raccoons (Debil Snow Blues)Pazdan MusicAnd a playlist: free downloads (via johnpazdan.com) (mp3 and wmv) scroll down page for "

SBL open thread

2009-03-10T02:22:00.003-04:00

the raccoon is back - under the bird feeder right now.*

Reinforcing Fail Spirals For Future Success

2009-03-09T04:25:00.007-04:00

Paul Krugman / NYTimes / March 09, 2009Paul Krugman frets that the Obama stimulus plan and banking recovery policies are too small and too timid: ... — together with the continuing failure to announce any broad plans for bank restructuring — means that the White House has decided to muddle through on the financial front, relying on economic recovery to rescue the banks rather than the other way

Signs of Spring

2009-03-08T04:48:00.008-04:00

Ok, this is very exciting. First of all, yesterday, when i came home from the grocery store (where i went to buy some ice and beer and artificle imitation crab meat) the trees behind the house where i live (or supposedly live, depending on what your idea of livin' is) were filled with blackbirds (or whatever they are). And now, right now, OMG! as i write this at 3:45 am, the raccoon is under the