.: Happy Halloween

First a Treat from Stilton at Hope n' Change:

.: Return of the Living Dead

Been MIA. I got my ass kicked by a nasty nasty flu and then Miss Anthropic and I went to NM to help Guido and Mama Pazzesco with the big move.

The house came out really nice and I have to admit I'm jealous of her kitchen. The refrigerator and dishwasher match the cabinets and the island really came out nice.

.: Greg Pattillo | Beatboxing Flute

Newest video from Greg Pattillo

Classique performed by Greg Pattillo and Eric Stephenson of PROJECT (in StroMotion™!)

.: Melody Gardot

Melody Gardot performing Worrisome Heart

Melody Gardot was cycling in Philadelphia in November 2003 when she was hit by a Jeep that ran a red light. She suffered serious head injuries, her pelvis was shattered in two places and spinal injuries meant she was in hospital on her back for a year. She had to re-learn how to do simple things such as brushing her teeth and walking and to this day she needs a cane to walk and, when performing, she sits on a special chair (or stands). Unable to walk or to formulate words, she slowly regained her powers of language after a doctor suggested music therapy as a way to reconnect her neural pathways. While lying on her back in a body cast, she learned the guitar, and began writing songs inspired by her experience.

Check out samples of Worrisome Heart at Amazon

.: Randomonium Jr.

15 crazy scalp tattoos ... Whatever dude ... The Tattoo Menu.

Science Tattoo Emporium Scientists who enjoy getting tattoos of their science.

Here's the Born Oppenheimer Approximation with a Schroedinger Equation.

Some stunning pictures heralding the arrival of Autumn

The Most Beautiful Forests of China. Check out the Chinese Show Caves too.

The Incredible Hanging Temple of Hengshan.

Moon Shots: Dazzling Lunar Pics

Drink of the Day: "Fuck da Flu"

1 cup Stolichnaya vodka
1 cup Chambord raspberry liqueur
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup cherry sorbet
3 tblsps of cherrytussin w/codin.
1 crushed fentanyl
Pour liquid ingredients into mixing cup and shake until sorbet has melted.
Add Ice and crushed fentanyl and shake well.
Strain into large Martini glass.
Garnish with slice of lemon.

Get in the damn hot tub!

The Other McCain has a very nice recap of Tonight's Twitter Tantrum starring Meghan McCain and friends.

Contra Obama has the Photoshop of the Day!

iOwnTheWorld has a nice "Seperated at Birth" post: What the?

SouthPark takes on ACORN!

Full episode at the link (if ya got 21 minutes to kill) Butters, determined to get his first kiss so the guys won’t make fun of him anymore, becomes a man by paying Sally $5 to kiss him. Now that he's a man, Butters decides it's time for him to start making money, so he starts his own kissing company. He discovers he's not the only one in the kissing business so he goes to a pimp convention. He gets advice on being a player, some help from ACORN and puts his new pimping skills to work. Meanwhile after hearing about a new prostitution ring the cops start a sting operation and Sgt. Yates goes way undercover to bust it up.

Butter's Bottom Bitch

.: Bad News/Good news

Bad News: I have the Flu.

Good News: It's not Swine Flu.

Better News: I'll be off work for a few days!

Best News: Robitussin with CODEINE Baby!

I'll have plenty of Time to play with my new mouse for the next few days.

Holy Shit Again! One of the finest bloggers in the U.S. as well as one of the only conservatives in the state of Vermont, Dan Collins has chosen poorly and cheapened his very fine Blog by adding me to the POWIP blogroll !

Please visit Dan over at Piece of Work In Progress (POWIP) and let him know how much you admire his kindness to poor-dumb-animals.

Happy Birthday to the Iron Lady! Baroness Margaret Thatcher turned 84 today. Ninnuh at Man Pants has a wonderful video of then Prime Minister Thatcher's last speech at the House of Commons sharing her thoughts on socialism. Sarah Palin's Birthday Wishes to Mararet Thatcher from her facebook page.

"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. "
~Mararet Thatcher

.: Pazzesco's Potpourri III

Artforms of Nature

German biologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his fantastically illustrated book Artforms of Nature. The copyright for this book from 1904 has now expired and thanks to Wikimedia Commons it is available for everyone to appreciate.

Here's what happens when plugins are used to animate...

Bullet Impacts in Super-Slo-Mo

This 10-minute video shows the impact of bullets on various targets at 1 million frames per second. It was made by Werner Mehl, an engineer noted for his development of high-speed photography.

Here's another video of Slo-Mo bullet impacts:

Chuck Norris Facts

• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
• Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
• Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
• Chuck Norris is suing Myspace for taking the name of what he calls everything around you.
• When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

Baby Dragon in Formaldehyde

With tiny teeth and claws, a little tail and soft-looking white skin, could this really be what it seems - a baby dragon?

Highly unlikely of course, but this disturbingly realistic model almost had the experts fooled.

The dragon, suspended in a jar of what is thought to be formaldehyde, is believed to be the brainchild of German scientists who wanted to humiliate their English counterparts in the 1890s, when the rivalry between the two countries was intense.

Just over two and a half million years ago, our brains swelled. Less than a million years later, they swelled again, our posture and our gait changed, our jaws shrank, and we grew taller. These two evolutionary changes define our species, distinguishing us from our fellow primates.

Richard Wrangham has new ideas about why these changes occurred. He has no argument with the generally accepted wisdom that our first transformation – from nimble tree-climbing australopithecines to sociable, tool-wielding habilines – was the consequence of a meat diet. But the character of the second change – from Homo habilis to the protohuman Homo erectus – has never been adequately explained, and Wrangham believes he has the answer: 1.8 million years ago, we learned to cook!

And then came indoor plumbing...

and bizzarre drinking utensils...

.: Games:
Jelly Battle
Fig. 8
& Mobster World!

.: NewsBusted Update

The Ignoble Peace Prize

Comment of the Day:
From RM responding to a UK Times article about the Audacity of Obama's aPease Prize:

"I'm not sure if people from other countries are familiar with the term, Greatest Generation, but here in the US, that is what we call the World War II generation. And it is really sad, but the magnificent country that was built up by the Greatest Generation, due to their unending sacrifice, has since been torn apart by their offspring, the Baby Boomers. The Greatest Generation who sacrificed everything and asked for nothing, and now we have the Baby Boomers whom ask for everything to be given to them and in return give very little. Nothing in this country is ever good enough for them, and they are entitled to everything. It makes me sick. I hope my generation, whatever that might be, does better."

Thomas Sowell's Random Thoughts:

"Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Muammar Qaddafi and Vladimir Putin have all praised Barack Obama. When enemies of freedom and democracy praise your president, what are you to think? When you add to this Barack Obama's many previous years of associations and alliances with people who hate America — Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, etc. — at what point do you stop denying the obvious and start to connect the dots?"

.: Barry Brings Home the Gold!

Today people on both the right and left seem shocked that President Obama has been awarded The Nobel Peace Prize. Personally, I think it make perfect sense. Especially when you consider some of the Nobel Committee's recent selections.

Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat?
What exactly is the criteria for winning the prize?
1) Anti-Semite
2) Blames USA for all world's problems
3) Terrorism (man-caused disaster) apologist
4) Vilifies US military
5) Appeases (and supports) despots and dictators

So you see Obama's a perfect fit for the Nobel Appease Prize!

It's also important to consider the origin of the Appease Prize.

Alfred Nobel, the man who invented dynamite, was the world's premier major armaments manufacturer. As Nobel lay on his deathbed, the man who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before decided to buy his way into the hearts of hearts of the European press who had dubbed him "The Merchant of Death" by leaving the bulk of his enormous fortune for the establishment of the Nobel Prizes.
As defined in Nobel's last will and testament, the "Peace Prize" will be dedicated to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies..."

"Fraternity between nations" doesn't mean putting your country first and Obama's certainly proved that he absolutely will not put the interest of his American subjects ahead of the rest of the world.

"Abolition or reduction of standing armies." There it is! The Committee is attempting to manipulate Dear Leader into retreating from Afghanistan and love all his talk about nuclear disarmament. Stroking The narcissistic One's ego is a good way to make him your puppet.

Who is the most beloved living US President around the globe? Jimmah Carter! Why? Because he made America weak! Making the U.S.A. weak is what it's all about and in his short presidency Obama has already proved that he has the right stuff to be a Nobel laureate!

So congratulations to President Barack Obama for doing something that other famous nominees like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini couldn't do. Barack Hussein Obama like Yasser Arafat has a Nobel Prize. Mmm Mmm Mmm.

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The REAL WINNER is HERE

Updates: Iowahawk:
Membership Has Its Privileges

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.: The Berlin Reunion

"Royal de Luxe" came to Berlin to celebrate the Day of German Unification from 2nd to 4th of October. Two giants, walking through Berlin - one coming from the east, one from the west of Berlin, to finally meet and unite at the Brandenburger Tor ..and to leave the city again, together.

.: Homeland Security?

Fed Strips Arizona Sherrif of Authority to Arrest Criminals
Former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano gets her revenge...

From Hope n' Change:

"But as Whoopi Napolitano says, "it's not like illegal immigration is illegal-illegal."
Which is why she's made it impossible for our laws to be enforced-enforced."

Sheriff Joe Arpaio holds a news conference in Phoenix on Tuesday in which he discussed issues with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Frugal Cafe has a nice post on the story on America’s Toughest Sheriff...

I Nominate Sheriff Joe Arpaio for President of the United States

"Recently the Maripoca County was spending $18million for stray cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take over that department also. The prisoners now run the department at a cost of just over $3million to the county."

Stephen Colbert, on Obama’s & Afghanistan:

BigFurHat at iOwnTheWorld has the Photoshop of the Day!

.: Randomonium

"One Nation Under God," by artist Jon McNaughton. Go to his site and scroll over the painting to ID various subjects.
Here's a parody site.
Found at Mother Jones1936 Ford Tudor Sedan built for and owned by Allegheny Ludlum Steel.
Jacked from Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Breakfast of Chumpians
From iOwnTheWorld

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.: Weekly Bored Awards

Headline of the Week
"The Ego Has Landed"

Blog Headers of the Week
"Stupid Petting Tricks" Snark 'n Boobs on Letterman's confession.
"The Audacity Of Nope" Sondra K on Shock in Chi-Town.

Audio of the Week:
Caller Susan from Glendale on Rush Limbaugh:

Part I
Part II
Part III

Photshop of the Week

Automotivator of the Week
It's a tie!

Best critique of Obama's Olympic Failure

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's "Hate America, Love Me" jockeying fails to impress the Olympic Committee...

Berlingske Tidende newspaper in Copenhagen:
"Why Obama Failed"

"It comes down to respect. President Obama showed none. And in the end, the Olympics committee returned the favor... "

This was a really really really tough one ...

Asshole of the Week
and everyone who signed this and this .

Automotivator from BUUUUURRRRNING HOT

Cartoons of the Week:
Michael Ramirez

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Video of the Week:
from iOwnTheWorld

.: Holy Shit!

Apparently, there are some sick people out there who are as bored as I am!

Many thanks to Garrett: Honesty In Motion, Linda: The Chronicle of Linnnn, Dr. Dave and innominatus from: Feed Your ADHD and innominatus and Hoosierboy: Fat in Indiana for having such incredibly low blogroll standards and linking my sorry ass.

I'm shocked as well as a little worried about these fine folks. I'd just like to ask my reader (hi Melissa) to please visit their sites daily. If you do so, I promise to pick-up the dog poop in the backyard without being reminded and no more farting under the covers... I Swear!

Update: Jessica, The Conservative Mama and Ninnuh , Man Pants have also proved they'll pretty much link any man they meet and Jessica confessed that she's drawn to weirdness. It's always wonderful to find beautiful, intelligent women with absolutely no blogroll standards! Thank you ladies.

Updated Update: Uh-oh. Weblog Awards Finalist Nice Deb has linked me. I think Deb has been drinking again... The only thing better than finding a beautiful, intelligent woman with absolutely no blogroll standards is finding a beautiful intelligent inebriated woman with an affinity for weird whose blogroll standards have been compromised!*
Thanks Deb!
*Incriminating photos will be destroyed upon verification of link (as promised in my 1,137 e-mails).

While I'm shamelessly sucking up, allow me to kiss Iowahawk's ass. Thank you so much to the founder of The IEA for sending so my traffic my way. Sir, you're a scholar and a gentleman... and dagnammit, you shoulda been Car Czar!

.: Practice Makes Perfect

Think this guy spent a lot of time practicing his smile in the mirror? Here's Tele-Potus posing for 135 photos during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC last Wed. His smile is exactly the same in each picture... and like Dear Leader, his smile is fake.

The State Departments Flickr page proves this isn't photoshopped.

Newsweak!:
Mr. President, please stay off TV:

"The president's problem isn't that he is too visible; it's the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words "I" and "my." (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.)"

Michael Gerson: All About Obama

"I can recall no other major American speech in which the narcissism of a leader has been quite so pronounced.
[...]
At the United Nations, Obama set out to denigrate American goodness so he can become our rescuer. The speech had nothing to do with the confident style of Democratic rhetoric found in Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy. It insulted that tradition. And no one is likely ever to quote the speech -- except to deride it."

Image from Contra Obama

Mmm, mmm, mm!
By Asher Embry

Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama.

A creepy abnormality,
This cult of personality.
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama.

What lunatic would think it's fine
To do this to a child of mine.
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama.

Do teachers have so little sense
To think we wouldn't take offense?
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama.

We don't recall schools try to push
A song like this 'bout either Bush.
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama.

Think maybe now we weren't such "fools"
To try to block O's speech to schools?
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama.

Michelle Malkin:
The 3 R’s in the Age of Obama:
Rappin’, Revolution & Radicalism

Image from: The LCA Broadside
Obamabots are still upset at the audacity of George Stephanopoulos for daring to ask The One if forcing people to buy health insurance was simply a new tax...

"Stephanopoulos: That may be, but it's still a tax increase.
Tele-POTUS: No. That's not true, George. For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs.
Stephanopoulos: But it may be fair, it may be good public policy...
Tele-POTUS: No, but — but, George, you — you can't just make up that language and decide that that's called a tax increase. Any...
Stephanopoulos: I — I don't think I'm making it up. Merriam Webster's Dictionary: Tax — "a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes."
Tele-POTUS: George, the fact that you looked up Merriam's Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you're stretching a little bit right now. Otherwise, you wouldn't have gone to the dictionary to check on the definition. "