Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

Musical interlude. Skip James performing “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” from 1931.

Christmas Fun and Mischief

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Christmas!

Santa Claus Bailout Hearings
 
 

Santa’s helpers disable naughty cameras in Tempe
 
 

Santa Claus Boot Camp
 
 

Sock It to the Holidays!
 
 

12 Days of Global Warming
 
 

I Can’t Pay My Taxes [...]

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes

50 Strange Buildings of the World

Very cool stuff. See the other 49 with brief descriptions of all at Village Of Joy.

Oldest Ever Lolcat Found *gasp* (Iz From Teh 1905)

From icanhascheezburger.com:

This captioned cat picture postcard was found by Tracy Angulo in a Seattle antique store. Tracy tells us that the photograph is from 1905, which would make this officially the oldest cat picture with a caption, AKA lolcat, that we’ve seen.
The differences are clear. Proper grammar and a more formal tone was in vogue [...]

Quantitative Easing

When the Federal Reserve announced its new $800 Billion rescue package earlier this week, the phrase “quantitative easing” began appearing in numerous articles discussing the announcement. Not being an economist, the phrase was new to me and I wanted to know exactly what it means.
I found an absurdly simple definition at Guardian.co.uk:

“Quantitative easing is what non-economists call [...]

Thirteen O’Clock News Brief

Things that caught my attention today…
The government commitment of “rescue funds” in various forms is $8.5 Trillion.  SFGate.com has it all broken down here.
AntiWar.com’s Justin Raimondo connects the dots between The Bailout, the Media, and the War Party. Pravda had nothing on American corporate media.
Richard Rahn’s commentary in the Washington Times asks, The Fed: Solution or problem? No [...]

LOL – Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Gets Rick Rolled

Epic Rick Roll.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.  ~Cicero
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ~Thomas Jefferson

Holiday Gift Idea

Here’s a gift idea for freedom lovers – The Freedom Documents  from Chuck Baldwin’s web site. You may remember that Ron Paul endorsed Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party candidate in the 2008 presidential election.
Description of the The Freedom Documents from Baldwin’s site:
50 of the greatest documents of American history in one beautiful volume! 171 full size pages. [...]