Cagey's listening to

The Smiths - 'There is a Light that Never Goes Out' - The Queen is Dead (1986)



Morrissey - 'I'm Not Sorry' - You are the Quarry (2004)

Cagey sing-a-long

There is only.... one chance for us all

And we must surely.... make sense of it all

Try to bring peace on earth

Not to bury your enemy

Try to bring peace on earth

Or we aren’t worth anything

Try to bring peace on earth

For piece of mind

There is only.... one time for us all

And we must surely.... stand to the call

No peace on earth and the blame lies at our feet

There’s no peace on earth, no virtue, I see only pride

Do what you can

When you see a wrong try to mend it

A little is a lot

Show them what it means to be human

Show them how it feels to care

There is only.... one chance for us all

And we must surely.... make sense of the call

An effort for peace is it not worth buying?

An effort for peace for future life

An effort for peace just to say goodnight

Do what you can

When you see a wrong try to mend it

A little is a lot

Show that what it means to be human

Show them how it feels to care

Do what you can

Do it

Its not what we are Its what we do

By what we do we shall remembered

Live by the sword die by the sword

We take the word around the world

We’re all to blame we’re all the same

In fact, false truths, in mirrored lives

You see through me I see through you

But underneath you’re just like me

"Do What You Can" - The Fixx - Walkabout (1986)

STEVEN SEAGAL ENERGY DRINK HAIKU NO. 3

CRISP EFFERVESCENCE

DEADLY MOVEMENT BREAKS YOUR BONES

SUBLIMATE IMPULSE

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“I have made a lot of mistakes. But I've worked hard. I have no fear of death. More importantly, I don't fear life.” ~ Steven Seagal

GCAS Music Video of the Year

Duran Duran released 'Girl Panic' this month from their new album, All You Need is Now, a production with the new wave sophistication and star power that helped make the '80s the greatest decade. George Michael tried this trick before I read, but Duran Duran were among the first putting supermodels in the music video format that was just debuting. The production comes off a brilliant original, and cast are Naomi Campbell as Simon Le Bon, Eva Herzigova as Nick Rhodes, Cindy Crawford as John Taylor, Helena Christensen as Roger Taylor. The storyboard follows the troupe through a drunken hazy day through London to the set of their 'video shoot' in a 9 minute tongue in cheek rock star interview and retracing of a lost day's events, with a cool nod to just a few other videos chiseling out the DD archetype: Rio, Notorious, The Chauffeur, Ordinary World, and Girls on Film.

Article: "Girl Panic", Rolling Stone, (LINK), 9 November 2011.
Article: "Yasmin Le Bon on the Duran Duran video, her dream campaign & unexciting editorials!", Grazia Daily, (LINK), 9 November 2011.

The Obama Economic Record

Good job.

source: US Senate Republican Policy Committee

Should a Hooters girl be allowed to speak to students at their school?

   Huge ripples in the internet yesterday on this question.  What's your opinion?  I say, "Yes, of course."



A now famous picture illustrating the concept between progressive feminist fantasy and reality.


   -The article in question: (LINK)

   -The best comments:

Great, a para-legal that THINKS she is a lawyer. Our economy, which is basically swirling around in the toilet, is being run in Washington by mostly lawyers. I would rather fire all of the lawyers, and para-legals, and put the Hooter's Girls in charge. I'm sure they could do a better job and certainly they will show more respect to the citizens of the USA. Unfortunately Ashley, you got your name in the SPTimes, which in this case is NOT a good thing. Because other parents will not agree with you, you have probably doomed
your son to ridicule. Good job.

Many a college student waited tables through college. Nothing wrong with learning customer service. keeping track of multiple tasks and team work.

   -The story of an amazing Hooters girl who made her way to Vice Presidency of the company: (LINK)

   -The quote by Dr. MLK, Jr.:
 
 

 
Fin.

The funniest thing I read today: "The Chewbacca Defense"

Excerpted From Wikipedia.

   Johnnie Cochran using the Chewbacca defense against Chef in South Park.The Chewbacca defense is a legal strategy used in episode 27 of South Park, "Chef Aid", which premiered on October 7, 1998, as the fourteenth episode of the second season. The aim of the argument is deliberately to confuse the jury by making use of the fallacy known as ignoratio elenchi, or a red herring. It starts by stating that Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. The argument continues from there, the false premise leading to a series of nonsense conclusions. The concept satirized attorney Johnnie Cochran's closing argument defending O. J. Simpson in his murder trial. The Associated Press noted it as an example of Cochran's position in popular culture. The concept has become a minor Internet phenomenon, used frequently as a running gag on satirical sites and in forums as a form of rhetoric.

   In the episode, Chef contacts a "major record company" executive, seeking only to have his name credited as the composer of "Stinky Britches". Chef's claim is substantiated by a 20-year-old recording of Chef performing the song, as well as a copyright held by MacElroy. The record company refuses, and furthermore hires Johnnie Cochran, who files a lawsuit against Chef for harassment. In court, Cochran resorts to his "famous" Chewbacca defense, which he "used during the Simpson trial", according to Gerald Broflovski.

   Cochran:  "...Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

   Gerald Broflovski: "Damn it! ... He's using the Chewbacca defense!

   Cochran: "Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests."

   This penultimate statement is a parody of Johnnie Cochran's closing arguments in the O. J. Simpson murder case where he states to the jury: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit!" in reference to an earlier point in the trial when prosecutor Christopher Darden asked Simpson to try on a bloody glove found at the murder scene and the glove turned out to be too small for Simpson to put on easily.

QOTD

Science sees no further than what it can sense.




Religion sees beyond the senses.

            ~Unk.

Flotsam and Jetsam

 Updated 19 NOV 11
 

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  2000s Jaguar S-type

  
  

  

  Older, '90s style Jag, just as the beautiful

  lines and grill started coming off. 

  
  

     Which limp-wristed lisper decided to make the newer S-type Jaguars look so gottamned effeminate?  With the effete, heart-shaped/butt-shaped grill I guess I can understand why mechaphilia exists.  There is nothing masculine about this car whatsoever and little redeeming; I would be mortified to be seen driving this car; I'd have to hire a driver so I could duck down in the back seat.   

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     If you were a store manager, and in consideration of your employees' sanity, would you have the courage to turn off the Christmas music that begins on November 1st during non-peak hours, while keeping it quiet from management?

•   Sense experience that doesn't get enough consideration: the hearing of old mechanical sounds (LINK)

•    "Worst First", (LINK) the idea to keep kids cooped in away from playgrounds, safe from the obsessive and incipient fear of unseen danger lurking everywhere, seems to be today's modus operandi of the Defense Department's leadership philosophy.                                           

•   Finally, a quote of the day: "Liberalism is the f__t upon which wafts diversity."  (source Unknown)  Balkanization, and a lack of national unity and moral outrage is what leads to incidents like the elderly man attacked in Chicago, to the extremely tragic urban blight of Detroit.  I'm not inclined to give you an earth-shattering essay defending this statement (one: that's not my writing style, two: reductio ad absurdum), please don't think I'm here to harp on ethnicity or the issues of dogmatic multiculturalism; I'm talking about the kind of permissiveness, relativism, fear and one-dimensional thinking so entrenched in our culture which has set the conditions for all this to happen.  This bystander attitude.  Don't criticize.  It's at the heart of the school lunch debate going on right now:  yeah, limited government, health public policy and so forth, but could there be an inherent cultural sub-agenda coming from top down acknowledging that America's cultural vibrance is on a track to oblivion unless we get strong again?  Physically, as well as morally?



Cagey's listening to

...My three favorite Robert Plant songs...



Robert Plant - Heaven Knows (1988)



Robert Plant - Ship of Fools (1988)



Robert Plant - Big Log (1983)

leaves dancing

Cagey's listening to

RUSH - Manhattan Project, Force Ten, Time Stand Still - Chronicles (1990)

Rush is a Canadian band I didn't come into until later along the way. I love the crystalline, perfect sound of synth they incorporate into their music, like in the first 15 seconds of Manhattan Project through the three chimes, creating an expectant mood. Is this New Wave, or does it just borrow elements?

'Cool Little'

This grey autumn afternoon
We found a cool little park
With a cool little name ("Brigadoon")
With a cool little playground
And a cool little stream running along the side
Beyond the edge
We found a a cool little path
('Path' seems to fit better than 'trail')
Leading into a cool little forest
That had cool little breaks in it that you had to push aside
And led to a cool little spot
Where you could see a cool little lean-to across the river
Further still, a group of cool little improbable wildflowers that
Rustled in the cool little breeze
And then you popped out from the other side of the trees.