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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 4/22/13

Interrogatories

If you had a Spirit Animal/Power Animal/familiar, what would it be?

Do you have a lucky number?

TV: Cable or Satellite or just plain broadcast?

Internet: Dial-up, DSL, Cable or Satellite?

The Twitter Emitter

This includes the best of the tweets during the manhunt last week:

Motley Monday Check in and Mooselaneous Musings

Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Remember to let your peeps know where you are!

I am in transit home from my visit to Khloe, so this will be a post and run.

Here’s today’s Motley Monday Shot of the Week, Mabry Mill along the Blue Ridge Parkway on a crisp fall day.

Another view of the mill

Odds & Ends: News/Humor

I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past week in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

The world of media, sports and politics … not many degrees of separation, it would appear …

SEPARATED at BIRTH – Greg Dyke – a former BBC director general and soon-to-be head of England’s governing body of football (soccer) – and John McCain …. the king of Sunday talk shows.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

Obama Just Cannot Win

When the gun control bill failed, my first reaction was “How will the left blame this on Obama?”

Despite speeches, a lobbying effort, and a tough response, Only 55 Senators supported the bill (Reid switched his vote so he could bring it up again).

The recent fights have lead a number of pundits, from Ezra Klein to Joan Walsh, to admit the bully pulpit sometimes does not work. (See: Jedi Mind Meld).

Then comes Maureen Dowd, in a column that I saw thanks to a tweet from a Democratic candidate for NYS Senate who agrees with her assertion. The gun control bill failed because of Obama, and only Obama.

He doesn’t know how to ‘govern” or “lead” and he needs to be more like Michael Douglas in The American President…seriously.

Unfortunately a number of people are tweeting her column, saying how it’s insightful and how they agree.

Sunday All Day Brunch: Different

(Cross posted from Street Prophets.)

Welcome to Sunday All Day Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I have been doing an enormous amount of work lately on updating old art. I started graphic art in 1998 when it started getting too hard to hold a pen or brush. The state of art back then was not the highest. My ability to use the new medium was also a beginner’s ability. In the 15 years both of us have matured. I have learned to do all sorts of manipulation to get the pictures I want and the industry has grown to give me the tools to make my art more realistic. Follow me below the orange squiggle de doodle and I’ll show you what the industry and I have learned over the past 15 years.

The Jewel of Dresden

PhotobucketEighteenth-century Dresden was one of the loveliest cities in Europe. The capital of Saxony since the Middle Ages, under the rule of Prince-Elector Augustus the Strong (who ruled 1694-1733) Dresden was a leading center of art, culture and technology. All of these came together in some surpassingly lovely architecture, including a large Lutheran church in central Dresden’s Neumarktplatz (New Market Square).

The Dresdner Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) was begun in 1726 and completed in 1743; it represents in stone something akin to what the music of J.S. Bach does in notes and staves: the apotheosis of the German Late Baroque style. (It is poetically appropriate that Bach, on a visit to Dresden in 1736, gave a recital on the Frauenkirche’s superb Silbermann organ.)

The church’s most distinctive feature was its unconventional 96 m-high dome, called die Steinerne Glocke or “Stone Bell”. An engineering feat comparable to Michelangelo’s dome for St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the Frauenkirche’s 12,000-ton sandstone dome stood high resting on eight slender supports. Despite initial doubts, the dome proved to be extremely stable. Witnesses in 1760 said that the dome had been hit by more than 100 cannonballs fired by the Prussian army led by Friedrich II during the Seven Years’ War. The projectiles bounced off and the church survived.

“They Vote Against Their Own Self-Interest”

By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/

There’s a common refrain among both parties of the American political system. Members of Group X always vote for the opposing party. But it doesn’t make sense for Group X to be so antagonistic against us. Our party’s policies are actually much more in line with what members of Group X believe. They’re voting against their own self-interest. If only members of Group X woke up and saw the light, they’d be voting for our party all the time.

More below.

Happee Caturdai Pootie Diaree

Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. We have just moved into an apartment and now have a pootie, named Jenny; however I grew up with both cats & dogs and I love both. I do not discriminate against any animal & love animal photos of all kinds. Please enjoy the following and add any photos that you think the community would like to see. Now, enjoy the photos & have some fun.





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