Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Pacific Air - Sunshine

I like. New. From Stop Talking, 2013. The kids will be just fine.

MP3 File

There Will Be A Golden Gate Park Summit

Perhaps not this year, but a summit will occur for all RS, Inc. staff by 2015 at the latest. Pending approval by the board of course. I'll show my Chief around my old stomping grounds.

Book it.

BTW, each of these artists have been featured here in the past.

Young the Giant - "God Made Man" In The Open Session

I think we'll have another album soon enough. Will be hard to beat their debut.

Deep Eddy Spirits

I like the vibe.

Saw Lucy on a delivery truck this afternoon and needed to investigate. Would like a website like their's someday.

Deep Eddy

He thought he could handle his own problems, therefore he kept having them. Patrick Carnes

Monday, June 17, 2013

I thought of something that Alexander Solzhenitsyn said. Having escaped the Soviet Union, where the government constantly spied on citizens, he found himself alone in his car, parked by some empty road out west. He stood by the road in sprawling desert and reflected, amazed, that nobody knew where he was, and nobody cared. Today of course he would be tracked by cell phone, his email read, his web browsing recorded and analyzed, and his use of his credit card duly stored.

Fred on Everything

Alexander Solzhenitsyn wiki'd

Grayson Hugh - Tears of Love

The Female of the Species

Thanks The Sisterhood of the Pointy Heel

Go Back To Your Business...

President Obama says the NSA domestic spying program is "transparent."

Well that's a relief.

I hope to see the interview with Mr. Rose eventually. Does he ask why my phone records were needed by the NSA recently? I'm a Verizon customer.

Ms. Althouse provides a counterpoint.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Stampeders - Sweet City Woman

Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World

We Can Thank...

none other than Edward Snowden for opening the discussion and debate we must have.

Noonan would not have written this column had not Snowden blown the whistle.

Many other columns by pundits and press along these lines would not have been written except for Edward Snowden.

A traitor he is not.

Let's see where this goes.

Nice

E.'s lucky.

For the Good of the Nation

More: The Program

Keb' Mo' - More Than One Way Home

ObamaScare

The reality of Obamacare actually affecting the political class has Congress and their staffers in a tizzy.

Perhaps even they didn't read the legislation before it was passed. Too bad, so sad.

Rep. John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat in leadership when the law passed, said he thinks the problem will be resolved.

“If not, I think we should begin an immediate amicus brief to say, ‘Listen this is simply not fair to these employees,’” Larson told POLITICO. “They are federal employees.”

Republicans, never a fan of Democratic health care reform, are more vocal about the potential adverse effects of the provision.

“It’s a reality,” said Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas). “This is the law. … It’s going to hinder our ability with retention of members, it’s going to hinder our ability for members to take care of their families.” He said his fellow lawmakers are having “quiet conversations” about the threat.

Question: Is Obamacare "fair" to any employees?

Want Some Free Classics?

Classicly.

Download away.

Controversy

A post by Steve Layman got my motor running this morning and I made my thoughts known in the comments and over at Bilbo's place.

Just to add to the discussion, here is a recent Wired article that you may be interested in.

The Secret War. All about NSA Chief, General Keith Alexander.

Related:

Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance

Dad and 4

Dad was a hellava running back in high school and won himself a full ride to Santa Clara University where he played one season and pissed the rest away by missing a lot of classes. Then he joined the Air Force and married my mother against his mother's wishes. So they had a rough start. But start they did. After our oldest brother was born they went over to England where he served his country tending the big bombs early in the Cold War. Once out he pursued his degree at San Jose State and here is a graduation day picture. He's holding me there in 1958. There were going to be four others to follow.

Spencer P. Fine. A good dad. Happy Father's Day Pop. I love you. Thanks for all you did for me and us.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Clinton Ad Nauseum

Now, here's Hillary announcing that she has actually taken over the Clinton Global Initiative.

HILLARY: We are officially renaming the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

RUSH: Yeah. It was the Clinton Global Initiative. Now it's the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. That's what she did. She finds the guy at Yale. They get married. She decides to hook herself to his coattails, and, wherever he goes, take over.

Live and in color:

Will they ever cease and desist?

Or as my good friend Bob would say: Isn't it time for Bill to fuck off? At least the Bushes had the class to disappear after their presidencies were over. Of course class is something Bill would not be familiar with. Go away already,Pimp Daddy.

I would apply that sentiment to that bulldog of a wife of his too.

Chelsea in 2024!