Here's an appropriate track for my first music post of 2010.
Starts out slow and a little melancholy, but then it gets a little bit of a happy swagger. Let's hope 2010 is the same way, a little thoughtful at first and more optimistic around the beginning of November.
CHILI!
INGREDIENTS: ground beef, diced tomatoes, tomatoe paste, kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, a little corn (adds color), fresh cilantro, onion, green pepper, jalapeno pepper, diced garlic, cumin, salt, sugar, chili powder, paprika and a little corn starch
DIRECTIONS: Cook and mix all this stuff up until it looks and tastes awesome.
It's cooking right now. The whole house smells delicious. Can't wait for dinner time.
2009
2010
Let's hope this year things get better, not worse.
Well, you used to be... but that was before Obama signed away yet another piece of our sovereignty in pursuit of his liberal vision of "global governance".
In 1983 President Reagan agreed to host an agency of Europe's Interpol police force here in the US, but only with the requirement that Interpol operations in America would be subject to U.S. laws such as the Fourth Ammendment protection against search and seizure, and the Freedom Of Informtation Act. Fast forward to December 16th 2009 and President Obama signs Executive Order 12425, removing nearly all of Regan's restrictions on Interpol.
Now Interpol is essentially operating on a higher plane that the U.S. Constitution. It's officers already have diplomatic immunity, and now they will be able to investigate and possibly make arrests of American citizens on U.S. soil without regard to the protections afforded to us by the founding fathers. It also creates a repository for documents within the U.S. Department Of Justice that is inviolate... exempt from scrutiny by Congress and immune to subpoenas from our court system.
Think about that for a minute... Obama just signed away some of the protections Thomas Jefferson and George Washington signed into law for you.
Is this the change you were hoping for?
Hat tip to CmBlake6 for the heads up. More info and links over at his site.
I wouldn't pick on the President's wife if A) she hadn't campaigned just like a member of the administration, and B) she wasn't constantly being touted by left leaning media types as the new paragon of style and beauty. But she does, and she is, so here you go:
Oh yeah, she TOTALLY deserved to be on that list! There was absolutely NO political motive to her selection by the magazines unbiased editorial staff.
Riiight.
Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano was interviewed about the attempted terrorist attack man-caused disaster aboard a Northwest Airlines flight into Detroit on Christmas Day. She said the fact that the plane was not destroyed and the terrorist suspect was apprehended was evidence that "the system has worked".
Really?
What system is that Janet? The bureaucratic, politically correct system designed to prevent security personnel from giving Muslim males the additional screening they deserve? Yes, I guess THAT system worked perfectly.
This woman is a joke.
I was not aware "the system" required PASSENGERS to subdue terrorists men attempting to cause disasters in the aisles mid-flight. I thought "the system" was supposed to prevent terrorists men attempting to cause disasters from getting on-board in the first place, or at least prevent them from bringing aboard the tools necessary to hijack or destroy an aircraft.
DEMOCRATS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH THE SECURITY OF THIS NATION. They will allow political correctness to hamper all our efforts to defeat the enemy, both at home and abroad. Liberals are pussies, and the terrorists men attempting to cause disasters know this. Hell, even Vice President Biden knows this, and he said as much on the campaign trail!
Before Obama's term is up I'm afraid we will learn this lesson the hard way.
Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" is the bible of left wing Chicago style power politics, and Alinsky is one of Obama's mentors, and Barry is successfully using Alisnky's tactics to advance his liberal remaking of AmeriKKKa.
Case in point:
Rule #8 - Keep the pressure on. Overwhelm your enemy.
The Democrats have succeeded at this.
How else can you explain a blogger like me not even posting once about the ridiculous health care "reform" bill getting rammed through the Senate at a midnight roll call on a party line vote bought with hundreds of billions in taxpayer funded bribes to several Democrat Senators?
I'm just worn out... You can't be outraged all the time about everything can you? I can't.
Okay, just one more bit of Christmas stuff to share with you guys.
This is a short little video I made of our dog Chloe and all her goofy antics on Christmas morning. Most notably, that she saw our daughter get a stocking, remembered that she had her own stocking, found her stocking hanging up, and proceeded to beg until we gave her what Santa brought for her.
She is so smart... and such a stickler for tradition.
Here's a little belated Christmas present from the bountiful and beautiful Denise Milani.
Oh my. She's really got some wonderul "gifts" don't you think?
Here's a special holiday treat. It's a Christmas tune I recorded back in '97 (I think) when I used to noodle around with keyboards and musical equipment. My musical project (not really a band per se) was called Cygnus and focused on electronic music, usually with some kind of space or sci-fi vibe.
I'm not going to win a Grammy for this, but I think it came out pretty cool, and made a nice little Christmas day blog post.
It was taken from a casette tape, so the sound quality isn't the greatest at times, but it's all I've got. I'm not even sure I could recreate it if I tried. I think I've forgotten how to hook up all that stuff, much less operate it and play chords and notes and things.
(This is also my first YouTube video. Woo hoo!)
Hope you guys all had a wonderful holiday.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Shocking news: Actress Brittany Murphy, best known for roles in Sin City and 8 Mile, died today of cardiac arrest at 32.
Brittany was a lovely young woman. What a shame. I hope drugs weren't involved. That would turn something poignant into something pathetic.
You can see more Brittany on her page in my babes section from last April.
Here's one of my favorite Christmas tunes:
What a fun uptempo song. Beats "White Christmas" anyday IMHO.
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