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Puerile Punk of a President Threatens, Sulks... then Takes His Ball and Goes Home (video: Obama storms out!)

Rep Allen West (R-Fla): "Real leaders don't make threats"


In increasingly acrimonious budget talks, President Obama is still attempting to play hardball with the GOP's large congressional majority while proposing smoke-and-mirrors deferred "cuts" that bite far after the 2012 election cycle has run its course. But even this illusion of restraint is only being offered so as to ensure that he gets his money-grubbing paws on as much of your grandkids' dinero as possible, pronto- and everybody and his dog knows it.

After hectoring, demagoguery, and threats didn't impress anybody over the last four days, Obama slipped into a childish funk last night, with Eric Cantor describing to reporters afterwards how he flipped his lid and stormed out of the room. Naturally, Dems present at the time are spinning the Messiah's latest in a series of tantrums as "passion" (lol), but the unbiased observer will recall previous episodes of hissy fits and diplomatic ham-handedness when any mere mortal dare tell him "no", i.e. Benjamin Netanyahu.

Rep Cantor was promoting the idea of incremental debt ceiling adjustments at the time -in contrast to Obama's preferred 'grand deal' that would take him through the campaign- when it appears that he (unforgivably) brushed the Grand Poobah the wrong way, the result being a wee-wee'd up Obama. The Bolshevik Boy Wonder subsequently attempted to dress-down Mr Cantor with "Don't call my bluff, Eric." and the even more outlandish "Reagan wouldn't sit through this!". 

But Barack Obama never did learn not to pick fights he can't win, be it "stupid" cops, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, or what-have-you: this is what happens when you hide from reality and don't learn from prior mistakes, as is so typical of narcissist-megalomaniacs surrounded by yes-men lackeys.

Yep, NOW is the time for the infantile, anti-American Obama to realize that his class-warfare-driven looting of the US Treasury is over... effective immediately, and now means now. As for the anti-American bit... the feeling's mutual, you crazy nut.

TEA-Pary conservative Allen West was predictably underwhlemed by the President's acts of desperation and churlish behavior... he knows a real leader when he sees one, and what we're looking-at in the Oval Office these days is surely nothing of the sort:


The fact that Hopenchange is dead as Lincoln seems to have hit the Establishment Left hard, and they are absolutely freaking out as it becomes undeniably obvious that the Obama agenda has failed: today in the United States of America, we simply cannot afford any spendthrift socio-enviro-engineering, crony capitalism/vote-buying Porkulus-type scams, and all the rest of the so-called 'progressives' fiscal lunacy- that means incremental spending in-addition to all the stuff they just rammed through pre-shellacking, too

Alas, if Obama stubbornly refuses to acknowledge his own political weakness and reckless mismanagement of the US economy -and thus the few difficult options remaining- the bond market will undoubtedly drive the message home soon enough... 

OK, here's unhinged, neo-Calvinist Obama in action-
(looks like Cantor's right!)


-Conservative Perspective-


Update: latest Gallup poll has Obama tanking in a big way -here-




TGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: THE CARS - 1984/85


The Cars were a trailblazing pop band who's beat-and-guitar driven rock n roll added synthesizers in a way that created a foundation for the 80s New Wave scene that was to come...

The first album -1978's The Cars- was a smash hit for the Boston-based group that promptly went platinum. That debut has been lauded as a "genuine rock masterpiece" by allmusic, with songs such as "Just What I Needed" "Best Friend's Girl", 
"Let the Good Times Roll", and "Bye Bye Love".

After six albums and four Top Ten hits in the US, the band broke up in 1988. Sadly, singer/bassist Benjamin Orr -a close friend to fellow Cars founder Ric Ocasek- passed away far too young in 2000. Following that, Ocasek often said there would never be a Cars reunion, so by 2005 guitarist Elliott Easton and keyboard player Greg Hawkes instead hooked-up with Todd Rundgren and Kashim Sultan (fmr Meat Loaf/Rundgren's Utopia) to form a cleverly-named spin-off band -The New Cars- who toured with classic Cars and Rundgren tunes in addition to some new collaborative compositions.


But as overplayed as they were for so long, The Cars are still one of the few bands it's hard to tire of hearing, at least in my case. The epitome of power pop... what originality and fun!
If you're a rock fan that can somehow manage to be unhappy when The Cars are playing there's something seriously wrong with you.
 

Myself, I'll always hold them dear, as this band 
really made that first summer with my Camaro in '79... couldn't play them loud enough, or often enough.

The Cars also ruled MTV in that era, with hugely popular videos like "You Might Think I'm Crazy", which specifically won Video of the Year honors on the cable music channel.


Band leader Ric Ocasek -son of a NASA engineer- also appeared in Jon Waters' cult film Hairspray, has put out a number of solo albums, and today produces bands such as Weezer and No Doubt. He has been married to the ever-lovely Paulina Porizkova for over 20 years, who he met on the set while shooting the video for "Drive" in 1984, in which the supermodel starred. (clip below). 

But to the surprise of many, just last month a new Cars album
-the first in 24 years- was released. Seems that Mr Ocasek had a change of heart last year, and the surviving members began practicing and composing for a new album: Move Like This.
It's been met with a decent critical reception, if not commercially. I myself have only heard one track -Sad Song- really not bad at all, though- and real Cars all the way, right down to the hand claps. The band is touring again, too... dates -here-


Let the good times roll indeed- remember when bands actually had some sense of humor and sang fun songs about cool cars and beautiful women?  What a contrast to most of the caustic rubbish you hear today. Who needs angry pierced-n-stamped 'outcasts' like Pink or Eminem whining about their childhood and what victims they are? To hell with them, if I want to get depressed I'll listen to George Jones-



The Cars: Drive - 1984




The Obama Legacy: 'How you like me now?'


 Sums-it-right-up in 3 mins:
everybody who votes needs to see this... well done:


If we can just get this guy to do one on Romney now,
we'll be all set lol


h/t Speedunque

TGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: STEELY DAN

"Sue me if I play too long..."

Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American pop band who developed refined and highly-original compositions blending elements of rock, funk, blues, jazz, and R-n-B, among other influences. Executed to perfection by founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker -along with the finest studio musicians on the planet- there simply never was a band like Steely Dan before, and it's unlikely there ever will be, not like this...

The music that they brought was complex and well orchestrated, with most songs displaying a significant jazz influence. Fagan's unique voice backed by sweet harmonies and irresistible musical hooks made the sound beautiful and timeless, and the cerebral and ironic lyrics were hip, sarcastic, and witty- touching on topics such as international crime, affairs, personal demons, regrets, society, and lost love.

Initially -pre Steely Dan- the two played in a handful of bands together, including Bad Rock Group, featuring comedic actor Chevy Chase on drums (!). They also performed under pseudonyms in Jay and the Americans' backing band, but a real break came when Babara Streisand chose to record the Fagan/Becker-penned "I Mean to Shine" in 1971.  

Interestingly, Donald Fagan initially lacked confidence in his voice and suffered from substantial stage-fright... it took some effort to convince him that he could -and should- sing lead later in the newly-formed Steely Dan.



Steely Dan also strove to go against the prevailing late 60s/early 70s hippy culture, seeming to think they were above the earthy San Francisco scene- in fact, they despised it. The two had become fast friends at college in upstate NY after Fagan heard Becker playing guitar at a coffee shop he was strolling by, and after some collaboration had a whole other take on what was cool, musically: they then proceeded to go out and create it.

In contrast to hippy icon Janis Joplin falling-down drunk at Woodstock, Fagan and Becker are known for near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, very difficult to work with... they really took their business and art seriously.

The Dan toured for a couple years in the early 1970s, but by 1975 had gone studio-only. After seven albums the pair disbanded in 1981, leaving the music world for a decade. But in the early 90s, the group (surprisingly) resumed playing live concerts: since, they've released two albums of new material, the first of which earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. As it stands, Steely Dan has now sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. 

And in my humble opinion, the songs below are nothing short of musical masterpieces- but not unusual for Steely Dan, pretty much the only kind of stuff they ever did, including Fagan's solo album The Nightfly.

Yeah, in case you can't tell: 
I absolutely adore this band, always have: can't imagine ever getting sick of listening to such greatness... what a class act.








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Top Ten Low-Pass Fighter Flybys of ALL TIME


This'll get yer heart pumpin red stuff this morning...
put on the headphones, the sound is wicked:


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Enjoy your weekend, all-

Biertijd  Techeblog  h/t Robert

DETAILS: Osama Bin Laden 'Shot in the Face' by US Navy SEALS, Family Arrested, Compound Still Burning (video)


First reported to have been popped by the CIA, it's coming out now that it was a special, crack team of Navy SEALS that took to fight to the enemy... right in the walled, heavily defended $1M compound -not in the wild frontier tribal areas as widely suspected- but at the end of a dirt road in an affluent suburb of Islamabad (Abbottabad)... sheltered amongst his former buddies in a neighborhood of  Pakistani military retirees (!) 

Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday at around 1 AM local time.

How did they manage to polish the scum off?



Security at the compound was “extraordinary,” an official said, with 12- to 18-foot walls topped by barbed wire. Yet the $1 million compound had no phone or Internet service. “Our best assessment was that bin Laden was living there with several family members, including his youngest wife,” the official said.

Asked what bin Laden did once the U.S. team landed, an official would say only: “He did resist the assault force.”

Officials said three other men were killed in the raid—one who is believed to be bin Laden’s adult son, and two couriers. One woman was killed when she was used as a shield by one of the combatants, they said. The U.S. team lost a helicopter due to mechanical failure.


And how did they find him?


The US had been monitoring the compound in Abbottabad for months after receiving a tip in August that Bin Laden might be seeking shelter there. He had long been said to be in the mountainous region along the Afghanistan, Pakistan border, hiding in a cave as the U.S. sought to kill him with drone strikes from above. 

Instead, he was in a house eight times larger than its neighbors, with a seven-foot wall and valued at $1 million. The house had no phone of television and the residents burned their trash. The house had high windows and few points of access, and U.S. officials concluded it had been built to hide someone.

According to U.S. officials, two U.S. helicopters swept into the compound at 1:30 and 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning. Twenty to 25 U.S. Navy Seals under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command in cooperation with the CIA stormed the compound and engaged Bin Laden and his men in a firefight, killed Bin Laden and all those with him.


Other details:

After taking him out, the SEAL squad took him out-to-sea... a good idea, we don't need any trace left of this one left around.  

The CIA was actually watching the compound for two years, and they were astounded he built in right in the same town as the Pakistani military academy and a major base- bold, and apparently protected by the ISI.  But US military interogation targets had revealed a trusted Bin Laden courier who was tracked to the compound in 2009.

Planning for the raid was of course kept secret from most on our side, all allies, and even the Pakastanis didn't know what was happening until it was all said and done.

Two of Bin Laden's wives -as well as six of his devil-spawn children- are in US Military custody, captured in a mountainous region a bit north of the now-burning Bin Laden mansion...




Nice job, heroes- tho we may never know your names



And congratulations to President George W Bush... 
mission accomplished, sir

UPDATE: Left Coast Rebel has that photo of Bin Laden and the 
controversy surrounding it -here-


TGIF AMERICAN Oldies: Loretta Lynn - 1967

"If you need that kind of love- you don't need none of mine"


Loretta Lynn is a world-famous American country music singer-songwriter/author who was -as the script goes- indeed born a coal miner's daughter in 1935 just outside the small mountain town of Paintsville, Kentucky.

But that childhood was brief indeed, as the then-Loretta Webb was married off at just thirteen years of age, becoming a mother shortly thereafter. She proceeded to have four children by her nineteenth birthday, living in Washington state with husband Oliver V. Lynn.

The marriage certainly had it's ups and downs, as he was a womanizer and heavy drinker, while Appalachian-bred Loretta was more than a little headstrong. But she remained married to him until his death in 1996, and their experiences together became a primary inspiration for the music.

Starting late for a musician, at 24 years old Lynn's husband casually bought her a guitar. Blessed with to-that-point hidden talent, she took to it immediately, teaching herself to play and proceeding to cut her first record the next year.

Loretta quickly became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the Sixties, and by 1967 had her first mega-hit with "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)". She also became known for classic duets with Country legend Conway Twitty, and counting those charted 70 singles over the span of an incredible career.


Lynn was from the start a talented songwriter -a true natural, she sometimes collaborated with her sister Peggy Sue. The lyrics largely focused on working-class women's issues, with themes of wandering and/or whiskey-breathed husbands. She often pushed boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control, repeated childbirth, double standards for men and women, and even Vietnam war widows... to the point of being banned by some stations.

Her best-selling 1976 autobiography was of course made into the Academy Award winning film Coal Miner's Daughter starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones in 1980.

Lynn's most recent album Van Lear Rose (2004) went right to #1 on the Country album charts, and not only do her own twin daughters form country act The Lynns, Loretta's 19-years-younger sister Crystal Gayle -inspired by the early career of her sibling- also became a pop/country star in her own right, best known for the pop hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".


Today in 2011 -at an all-American 76 years old- country music icon Loretta Lynn continues to tour. Here's what you call American music, my friends: the very first of what was to be sixteen #1 Country hits...



LorettaLynn.com   Wikipedia   YouTube

Previous RR Oldies features -here-