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Seraphic Secret got it from JoshuaPundit, who found it at the source — PoliticalMath.  Watch this video, and then make a mental note of where to find it the next time a liberal counters criticism of Obama’s spending by pointing to Bush’s spending.  While it’s true that latter (shame on him) took us for a [...]

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I understand that some of you are having problems coming to grips with the fact that I included Donny and Marie in my sibling line-up.  Just be grateful that I didn’t do a Jackson 5 post.  (It seemed inappropriate this week.)  To help get the bad taste out of your mouths, let me present the [...]

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Israel stopped a contingent of Hamas supporters who tried to run a blockade bringing money and supplies into Gaza.  Cynthia McKinney figures prominently in their number: The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists – including a San Rafael woman – trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it [...]

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Donny and Marie were a genuinely talented and personable duo, but I never liked their songs.  Nevertheless, they have a place in the panetheon of sibling singers, so here they are — Donny and Marie Osmond:

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Al Franken is entering the Senate, and I’m trying to figure out a procedural way around a Labor Commissioners unbearably stupid ruling. My wonderful, scintillating email group is arguing like crazy over peripheral matters because central matters all seem to have been sucked irrevocably into the black hole of Obama politics. The brilliant, but absolutely [...]

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A lovely Civil War song, sung by Kate & Anna McGarrigle:

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I’ve finally gotten around to reading the news, and have nothing to say.  Obama is staying true to form and backing a dictatorship, this one in Honduras.  The Supreme Court is poised on a knife’s edge, with four justices thinking it’s perfectly okay to discriminate against people based upon their lack of color.  Iranians are [...]

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I haven’t even read the news this morning. Even now, I’m on the road tapping on my iPhone. I promise I’ll catch up later.

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I’m beginning to believe that PETA has been taken over by saboteurs who are trying to destroy the organization by making it look unbelievably stupid: “Hali-BUT! Hali-BUT! Heyyyyyy!” six men scream in unison. “Goin’ right home! Goin’ right home!” The counterman catches the hurtling fish neatly between the head and tail fin and slaps it [...]

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My husband was in the City for a conference, so he caught part of the SF Gay Pride Parade.  He said that there was an enormous group of gay Jews in the parade.  The last part of this group had huge signs proclaiming anti-Zionist Jews for Palestine.  They got incredible applause from the crowd. And [...]

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A very bright Marin professional told me she’s incredibly excited about the proposed Obama health care plan, because the government is certain to be more efficient than the market.  When I suggested that the market might be more efficient if we took away the thousands of regulations that impeded it, allowing it to function more [...]

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I’ve already been to the swim meet and back, worked out at the dojo, and am going back to the swim meet.  Blogging will not be a happening thing.  However, I love doing open threads because all of you post such interesting stuff. Also, I’m using this space for a little more sibling music. The [...]

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. . . . and by visiting her blog, you can figure out which Republicans need to be knocked out in the upcoming primaries.  Oh, you don’t know what I’m talking about?  I’m talking about the House passing Cap-and-trade by a vote of 219-212.  Passage was made possible by 8 Republicans who voted for the [...]

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Beach Boys: The Boswell Sisters:

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From Richard Baehr: 218 needed to win…Call your Congressman or Congresswoman, or congressmen in other states too. The Waxman Markey bill will do two things- 1. raise the price of energy in the US for all income levels (an energy tax that is regressive- it will hit lower income families more than high income families), [...]

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Elephants really, really don’t deserve this (although the zoo keepers seem to have good motives):

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Movie review one: The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise. [snip] Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the [...]

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Jonah Goldberg expresses beautifully everything that’s wrong with the media’s coverage about Michael Jackson’s death: Generally speaking, I’m a believer in the rule that we should not speak ill of the dead. Or at least we should wait a decent interval before doing so (if we never spoke ill of the dead, history would be [...]

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I know that, in the run-up to the to the 2008 presidential election, many Christians said that they could not vote for Romney because he is a Mormon.  I’m wondering if that’s changed.  Romney may be a Mormon but Obama is, well, Obama.  For true Christians, can there be a “lesser of two evils” calculus [...]

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It says an enormous amount about Nancy Pelosi’s credibility that the public, by a two to one margin, believes spooks rather than her.

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I’d never heard of Brian Ferry when I arrived in England many, many years ago.  One of my roommates was shocked:  “Brian Ferry is completely cool,” she said.  If you ignore the funny faces he makes and the weird bolo tie, this song makes her case: And here’s another cool gem from the early 1980s: [...]

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The other day, I posted my favorite Bee Gee’s song, Nights on Broadway.  I played it for my son and he, bless his heart, liked it so much he put it on his iTouch.  “That’s a great song.”  That’s my boy. I have to say, listening to these old dance songs, I really miss dancing.  [...]

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Rick, at Brutally Honest, helps put Jackson’s and Fawcett’s deaths in perspective.  He doesn’t diminish those two personal tragedies; he just, as I said, puts them in perspective.

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This is the fantastic Watcher’s Council stuff I’m getting to read right now.  I’m struggling mightily to cast my votes, because I find the contributions uniformly excellent. Council Submissions The Provocateur – Too Good To Check: How the Conservative Media Unwittingly Smeared ACORN and Handed Them a Gift Joshuapundit – Obama’s Press Conference: The Fiction [...]

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Last week it was the Bee Gees.  This week, I’ve got the Andrews Sisters for you:

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