Armstrong and Miller - Rude Chef (Gordon Ramsey)

A fine casserole indeed.

Gay Bar Song - The Armstrong and Miller Show - S2 Ep4 Preview - BBC One

I love these guys...

Activist Post: 10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Country

Activist Post: 10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Country

I've been saying many of these things for years.

Stone Age Sex Toys....

Took me a while to convince my wife of this kind of behavior, but in the end I did:

Did sex toys provide a lift?


Peter Zetterlund / Swedish National Heritage Board

There's evidence that the sex industry may indeed be one the world's oldest trades. Take the 4,000- to 6,000-year-old phallus-shaped bone from Sweden shown here, for example. Archaeologists said the shape of the carved antler bone is unmistakable, though how it was used remains an open question.

Other archaeological digs, notably at Hohle Fels in Germany, have encountered even older figurines and carvings with clear sexual themes, including a sexually explicit figurine of a woman dated to 35,000 years ago and a dildo-shaped object from 25,000 years ago.

It's like I've been saying for years, porn and sex-objects go back to the stone age. Humans are just freaking horny...

Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury

lol. Nerd porn?

One of Art's Little Truths -- Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings 16 Tons

"SIXTEEN TONS"
Written By Merle Travis

Some people say a man is made out of mud

A poor man's made out of muscle and blood

Muscle and blood, skin and bones...

A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

_________________

Chorus
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?

another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

__________________

I was born one mornin' and the sun didn't shine

I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine

I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal and

the straw boss said, "well bless my soul!"

.....you loaded...

(Chorus)

__________________

I was born one mornin' it was drizzlin' rain

fightin' and trouble are my middle name

I was raised in a cane-brake by an old mama lion

can't no high-toned woman make me walk no line

(Chorus)

__________________

If you see me comin', better step aside

A lot of men didn't, a lot of men died

One fist of iron, the other of steel

If the right one don't get you, then the left one will

(Chorus)

__________________

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

"Sixteen Tons"/ Copyright / Merle's Girls Music ~ All Rights Reserved

Louis CK learns about the Catholic Church

Ah, ha ha ha ha ha...

Echoes Of A Supernova

Really cool stuff...

Einstein's Theory Of Relativity Made Easy

Really cool, except the dorky music.

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Lifestyle Nutritionists

Kind of like Homeopathy...

Porcupine who thinks he is a puppy!

So adorable.

How the GOP destroyed the American Economy

Lifted from The Big Picture:

The details are what makes Stockman’s take so astonishing. Here are his most important observations, of which I find little to disagree with:

• The total US debt, including states and municipalities, will soon reach $18 trillion dollars. That is a Greece-like 120% of GDP.

• Supply Side tax cuts for the wealthy are based on “money printing and deficit finance — vulgar Keynesiansism robed in the ideological vestments of the prosperous classes.”

• Republicans abandoned the belief that prosperity depended upon the regular balancing of accounts — government, trade, central banks private households and businesses.

• Once fiscal conservatism was abandoned, it led to the serial financial bubbles and Wall Street depredations that have crippled our economy.

• The Nixon administration defaulted on American obligations under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement.

• Who is to blame? Milton Friedman. In 1971, he persuaded President Nixon to unleash on the world paper dollars no longer redeemable in gold.

• According to Friedman, “The free market set currency exchange rates, he said, and trade deficits will self-correct.” What actually occurred was “impossible.” Stockman calls it “Friedman’s $8 trillion error.”

• Ideological tax-cutters are what killed the Republicans’ fiscal religion.

• America’s debt explosion has resulted from the Republican Party’s embrace, three decades ago, of the insidious Supply Side doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.

• The GOP controlled Congress from 1994 to 2006: Combine neocon warfare spending with entitlements, farm subsidies, education, water projects and you end up with a GOP welfare/warfare state driving the federal spending machine.

• It was Paul Volcker who crushed inflation and enabled a solid economic rebound — not the Reagan Supply Side Tax cuts. 

• Republicans believed the “delusion that the economy will outgrow the deficit if plied with enough tax cuts.”

• Over George W. Bush 8 years in office, non-defense appropriations gained 65%.• Fiscal year 2009 (GWB last budget): Tax-cutters reduced federal revenues to 15% of GDP — lower than they had been since the 1940s.

• The expansion of our financial sector has been vast and unproductive. Stockman blames (tho but not by name): 1) Greenspan, for flooding financial markets with freely printed money; and 2) Phil Gramm, for removing traditional restrictions on leverage and speculation.

• The shadow banking system grew from a mere $500 billion in 1970 to $30 trillion by September 2008 (see Gramm, above).

• Trillion-dollar financial conglomerates are not free enterprises — they are wards of the state, living on virtually free money from the Fed’s discount window to cover their bad bets.

• From 2002 to 2006, the top 1% of Americans received two-thirds of the gain in national income.

I follow the Big Picture. The Big Picture Barry Ritholtz, like myself is (was) a kicked-from-the-party Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative Republican.

George Carlin ~ The American Dream

Sad but true.