Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Pop Culture | Tags: Creative Commercials, Imagination & Terror, Root Beer
OK, this is just silly, but I thought you might need a good laugh.
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Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Entertainment, Law, Music, Pop Culture | Tags: Confiscating Guitars?, Gibson Guitars, Summer Concerts
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander is concerned about the summer concert season. Nashville is home to one of Gibson Guitar’s factories, and to many of the famed bands and stars who use Gibson Guitars. According to the Examiner.federal agents are poised to seize the instruments made by Gibson Guitars, theoretically because the wood used in Guitar frets may not meet Indian and Madagascar environmental law, although the governments of India and Madagascar insist that they do.
Gibson Guitar factories in Nashville and Memphis were raided by armed federal agents nine months ago supposedly for violating the Lacey Act; and though they have been operating in a sort of legal limbo since last August, no formal charges have been forthcoming. The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (whose career staff is notorious for pursuing a green agenda) and senators are working to solve the situation. Alexander and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) met with representatives from the music industry, the wood import business and environmental and conservation groups on Thursday to settle on a solution. Alexander said:
“We held this roundtable because instrument makers like Gibson Guitars in Tennessee are an important part of our music industry, and if the Lacey Act as written is keeping them from being able to get the wood they need to make instruments, we need to make every effort to fix the regulation,” said Alexander.
“The law was intended to prevent illegal logging and protect U.S. jobs that are threatened by illegal logging, it was never intended to seize instruments or wood products that were obtained prior to the passage of the Lacey Act amendments in May 2008 because they were made from imported wood—and when laws have unintended consequences, Congress has a responsibility to promptly make changes,” he added.
This is a very odd case. It seems like an example of government gone wild, or at least government asserting their power— because they can. The Justice Department is already in difficult territory with their failure to prosecute the voter intimidation case of the Black Panthers, and Congress is pursing the Fast and Furious gun-running case. There is a significant amount of over criminalization going on. We have a number of departments in the Executive Branch that seem to be out-of-control, and acting illegally. I don’t know how this will play out, but it is very worrying.
Filed under: Entertainment, Fun n Games, Sports | Tags: 41 Stories Tall, Sheer Terror!
This is the Insano (well named) Water Slide in Brazil’s'Beach Park. It is 41 meters high — the height of a 14 story building. You go down at a 105 kilometer/hour speed. Looks popular! It is the world’s tallest water slide. You may click to enlarge and see the scary descent even bigger. The landing is not shown.
(h/t: Vanderleun)
A new piano piece by W.A. Mozart —Allegro Molto in C Major: Florian Birsak. The World Premier.
(h/t: Maggie’s Farm)
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Filed under: Entertainment, Freedom, Heartwarming | Tags: Bunny Traps, Easter Bunny, Happy Easter
You need some preparations first. The Easter bunny comes in the early morning hours, right at dawn, when the sun is just coming up and the dew is still shining on the grass. You have to find a likely spot which seems as if it might be a bunny path. You will require a standard bushel basket, a long straight stick of kindling, and a good strong straight pin or slender nail. And you will need a nice fresh young carrot with its greens still intact.
You must set up the trap the night before Easter, just when it is about to get dark. Turn the bushel basket upside down, and prop up one side with the stick of kindling. Attach the carrot so it hangs on the front of the stick of kindling. You many have to take the kindling out and attach the carrot with a hammer. It must be well attached, and yet still look enticing. When the Easter bunny comes hopping along, he will spot the carrot right away. Bunnies cannot resist nice fresh carrots. When he takes a bite of the carrot, the stick of kindling will fall on top of the bunny, and he is captured.
Then he needs only love and care. Bunnies are particularly fond of carrots, of course, and soda crackers, and rabbit chow, grass and clover.
It always worked for me. You can tell if it is the real Easter bunny because he will have a blue ribbon around his neck.
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Filed under: Australia, Entertainment, Music, YouTube | Tags: CAAS 2009, Guitar Master, Tommy Emmanuel
Tommy Emmanuel is an Australian, and known as one of the world”s great guitarists. There are lots of his videos on You Tube. For sheer beauty look for “The Mountains of Illinois,” a Chet Atkins song. One of my many favorites is “Lewis and Clark,” and to accompany that, his new American Indian song, “Trails.” Or try “The Band” where he introduces you to his three piece band, all played on his guitar. He is an enormous talent. Enjoy.
Filed under: Australia, Entertainment, Music | Tags: "Halfway Home", Australian Institute of Music, Tommy Emmanuel
Tommy Emmanuel performs “Halfway Home”, live at the Australian Institute of Music as part of his amazing master class in December of 2010.
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Filed under: Domestic Policy, Entertainment, Fun n Games | Tags: Look but Do Not Touch, New Rules For The Beach, No Playing
Never fear, parents who fear for the safety of your children, The federal government, as represented by the fearless EPA is on the job. They are working on new regulations about digging in the sand, building sandcastles, or burying body parts.
People usually take sunscreen when they go the beach, they stay away from big waves if they are not strong swimmers, but beach sand could contain more harmful bacteria than the beach water. EPA researchers and their counterparts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and John Hopkins University found a positive relationship between sand exposure and gastrointestinal illnesses as a function of fecal microbial pollution in beach sand.
They collected 144 samples of wet sand from Fairhope Municipal Park Beach in Fairhope, Alabama and Goddard Memorial State Park Beach in Warwick RI. They asked 4,999 people who visited these beaches about their contact with wet sand. Both beaches are located less than 2 miles from an outflow from a publicly owned waste treatment-works outfall. Two weeks later they called participants and asked about any diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, and/or stomach ache that members of the household might have experienced. They also asked about any other activities since the initial interview, even including raw or undercooked foods. No sandcastles.
Los Angeles County has banned Frisbees, footballs, and any other object to cast, toss, throw, kick, or roll, except a beach ball or volleyball — upon or over any beach between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.
In passing the 37-page [!!!] ordinance on Tuesday, officials sought to outline responsibilities for law enforcement and other public agencies while also providing clarification on beach-goer activities that could potentially disrupt or even injure the public.
Also forbidden is the ability of little kids to dig any hole deeper than 18 inches in the sand, so leave those little shovels and buckets at home. But now that beach volleyball is an Olympic sport, there are some limits.
There was some controversy here in Seattle about banning bonfires on the beaches. Seattle Parks and Recreation received this memo from staff:
The overall policy question for the Board is whether it is good policy for Seattle Parks to continue public beach fires when the carbon … emissions produced by thousands of beach fires per year contributes to global warming.
As far as I know, that one succumbed to public laughter; but you never know, there are a lot of loons here.
Filed under: Entertainment, Heartwarming, Humor | Tags: Human Happiness, The Food Industry, The Search for Perfection
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Tipping Point and Blink, talks about the food industry’s search for the perfect spaghetti sauce, and makes some larger points about human happiness, and the nature of choice.
Filed under: Entertainment, Movies, News the Media Doesn't Want You to Hear, Politics, Progressivism | Tags: Drive Audiences Away, Hollywood, Politically Correct Movies
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Perpetuum Jazzile, the Slovenian jazz choir, sings the Avsenik Medley of traditional Slovenian folk music at the annual Vokal Xtravaganzza in Ljubjana.
Filed under: Capitalism, Economy, Entertainment | Tags: Common Sense, Keeping It Simple, Value
