Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing

http://youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A

http://youtu.be/-fYV3dJp-k4

This little guy has achieved a certain degree of immortality.
But he doesn't really view it as such a big deal.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-source-retired-gen-norman-schwarzkopf-dies-002111413--politics.html

http://www.house.gov/representatives/

Handy reference for phone numbers...

Maybe the House could start by getting their lame non-voting absent
azzes back to DC and work over the weekend to fix it.

Yeah. No more doggie treats!
They will have to get by on fewer of my doggie treats!

There is absolutely no reason not to extend the tax cuts. It won't
fix the spending problem. But at least they will have less of our
money which will continue to force the issue. Then they will have to
work on the spending next.

Less taxes is less to fund this stupidity.

Obama has said he'll sign it. Just do it today and stop being ridiculous.

Syria Jets Kill Tens As International Envoy Visits
By Associated PressDec. 23, 2012Add a Comment

Read more: http://world.time.com/2012/12/23/syria-activists-airstrike-kills-tens-near-hama/#ixzz2FxJ2T0np


(BEIRUT) — A government airstrike Sunday on a bakery in a rebel-held town in central Syria killed more than 60 people, activists said, casting a pall over a visit by the international envoy charged with negotiating an end to the country’s civil war.

The strike on the town of Halfaya left scattered bodies and debris up and down a street, and more than a dozen dead and wounded were trapped in tangled heap of dirt and rubble.

The attack appeared to be the government response to a newly announced rebel offensive seeking to drive the Syrian army from a constellation of towns and village north of the central city of Hama. Halfaya was the first of the area’s towns to be “liberated” by rebel fighters, and activists saw Sunday’s attack as payback.

I agree that spending is the problem. That is why I do not want them
to have more of my money. Pass the d@mn Bush tax rate extensions NOW.
Those making over $400K/yr can pay 2% more and Obama has said he will
sign that.

Avoid the immediate crisis and assure us of having a reasonable tax
rate for 2013.

Tackle the spending issues with those dollars in 2013 and stop
screwing around already.

Trying to make idiotic political points while throwing our taxes and
spending into disarray over something that almost everyone has
already agreed upon is just completely stoopid.

Just like the masochistic faux-debt-ceiling crisis which hammered our
credit rating and cost us billions and billions of dollars in interest
rate points for no reason whatsover when our commitment to honoring
our debt was called into question.

This manufactured crisis is not good for us or our country and I'm
sick of it already. It is like watching a bad sitcom.

But Plan B’s demise doesn’t ensure we’re going over the cliff—it simply narrows the options. And two bits of good news are embedded in the failure. First, if we do go over the cliff, a resolution will arrive sooner than it would have otherwise. That’s because Plan B’s biggest effect, had it passed, would have been to inoculate Republicans against the charge that they blew up the economy to protect “millionaires and billionaires” from tax hikes. Now that they’re vulnerable to that charge, public pressure will be much more intense and likely to elicit a quick concession.

Second, it’s now clear that the only way to avoid the cliff is through a bipartisan bill that can pass the House, probably with substantial Democratic support. The GOP’s self-defeating revolt will shift the center of gravity to the left. Here’s where things get tricky: Boehner has said he won’t bring a bill to the floor unless it has the support of the majority of his caucus. Lost in Thursday night’s disarray was that the overwhelming majority of House Republicans—all but 30 or so of his 241 members—supported Plan B’s tax hike on millionaires. So it’s not impossible to imagine him gaining the support of 121 Republicans (he may need fewer because of vacancies) for a deal that raises taxes on households earning, say, $400,000 or $500,000, especially if that deal also contains cuts to entitlement programs and removes the dreaded sequester.

But gaining that support is far from a sure thing. It’s what Republicans and Democrats are now frantically trying to gauge. If Boehner can’t get a majority of his caucus on board, then he’ll truly be facing the end of the world—or at least the end of his speakership. The conservatives I polled Thursday night agreed (contra some media chatter) that Plan B’s failure doesn’t threaten Boehner’s job. But they also thought that if Boehner were to pass a cliff bill without a majority of his caucus, he’d be doomed.

In a drama Aaron Sorkin might have scripted, Boehner may soon be faced with the choice of holding firm and hurtling everyone into the abyss or saving the country from chaos by passing a Democratic-friendly bill with only a minority of Republicans—at the cost of his speakership, which (more Sorkin drama) is up for a vote on Jan. 3.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-21/dont-panic-fiscal-cliff-chaos-is-good-news#r=read

same monumental idiocy which resulted in the threat of credit
default and the downgrade of US credit rating for absolutely
no reason after the ridiculous debt ceiling fight...

Russia and China both are ready for end to Assad regime.
There is no prospect for anything there except deaths of Syrians
and Iranian meddling.

WW3 hardly.

Just Iran pointlessly propping up dictators like Assad
while they both brutalize and slaughter their own citizens.

Not a surprise just disgusting.

Want to put some nice ones on the Galaxy tab for 8 to 10 years old.
Hey what do you recommend?

He saw it, he caught it and now he’s in the record books.

Johnson, a freakish 6-foot-5, 236-pound athlete, made one more catch and now has 1,892 yards through 15 games.

“With the loss, it’s tough,” Johnson said of the bittersweet moment. “At the same time, it’s an accomplishment that took a lot of work. So you can’t take that thing away.

“I didn’t expect coming into the year to see this happen. But now that it’s a part of history, I’m sure it will sink in at some point.”

As the home crowd roared for their one silver lining in an otherwise embarrassing season for the 4-11 Lions, Johnson took the record-setting football and presented it to his father, Calvin Sr., on the sideline.

Detroit Lions receiver Calvin "Megatron" Johnson surpassed Rice for the most receiving yards in a season with a brilliant performance Saturday night in a 31-18 loss to the Atlanta Falcons at Ford Field.

http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/12/22/12/Megatron-Three-records-down-one-to-go/landing_lions.html?blockID=839101&feedID=3701



Something that just does not happen very often.
Nice.

The long and winding road...

http://youtu.be/KaJGKV2G3TY