Sites To See #418

The SOLE purpose of this series is to help call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another.  Just to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as an endorsement, and I have included sites that I found rather disturbing.  The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable.  Please, go see for yourself.  Oh, and as of August 10, 2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word verification engaged.

 Link: [365 No Themes-No Memes.]

 

 Link: [Adventures with Retro Camera]

 Link: [AGeekTragedy]

 Link: [All News Now]

 

 Link: [An Obscure Optimist!]

Link: [Make A Joyful Noise]

 Link: [Whimsy Willows Farm]

 Link: [Woods Country Cove]

Link: [Yorkshire Pudding]

Please Also Visit:

[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

ATF: Newsworthy

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [The Beatles]

A Day in the Life

The Beatles

I read the news today

Oh boy

About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad

Well I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before

Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords

I saw a film today

Oh boy

The English army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

But I just had to look

Having read the book

I'd love to

Turn

You

On

Woke up

Got out of bed

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs

And drank a cup

And looking up

I noticed I was late

Found my coat

And grabbed my hat

Made the bus

In seconds flat

Found my way upstairs

And had a smoke

And somebody spoke

And I went into a dream

Aaaaaah

Ah ah ah

Ah ah aaaah

Aah aah

Aaaaaah

Ah ah ah

Ah ah aaaah

Aah aah

I read the news today

Oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

I'd love to

Turn

You

On

Link: [Lonestar]

No News

Lonestar

She said it's just a woman thing

And pulled out of the drive

I said not to worry

I'm an understandin’ guy

I've heard that when you love someone

You gotta let 'em go

She hollered

When I find myself

You'll be the first to know

Ooh ooh

No news

I learned to do the laundry

Feed the cat

And clean the house

I promised to be patient

While she worked her problems out

When she packed her bags

Her destination wasn't clear

But I sensed that her intentions

Were honest and sincere

Ooh ooh

No news

She could telephone

Tell a friend

Tell a lie about where she's been

Send a pigeon

Send a fax

Write it on a post-it pad

Send a signal up in smoke

Tap it out in Morse code

I'd prefer a bad excuse

To no news

Her mama's been a little vague

As to her whereabouts

Her sister says

I'm certain your romance is headed south

I don't have a single doubt

That she's still in love

My level of anxiety

Is just a product of

Ooh ooh

No news

She could telephone

Tell a friend

Tell a lie about where she's been

Send a pigeon

Send a fax

Write it on a post-it pad

Send a signal up in smoke

Tap it out in Morse code

I'd prefer a bad excuse

She missed her bus

Missed her plane

Surely this can be explained

Lost her car at the mall

Got locked in a bathroom stall

Playin’ guitar with the band

On the road with Pearl Jam

Buried with the Grateful Dead

Came back as a parrot head

Got derailed

Got de-iced

Offered as a sacrifice

FBI

CIA

If they've seen her

They ain't sayin’

No news

Still no news

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

FNC's MediaBuzz

As you may already know from previous rants and raves over the years, I have found television news reporting to be sorely lacking in scope and presentation at times, and I am evidently not the only one.  For there are actually news programs on the state of news reporting.

The first one of these shows I discovered was [Reliable Sources] on CNN. It aired at 10:00 a.m. Central on Sundays, and was hosted by the dapper feller over there on the left, [Howard Kurtz].

I do not remember just exactly how long, but several weeks after I started watching Reliable Sources, the amiable Mr. Kurtz left for a new show on the FOX News Channel (FNC).  Well, I was not about to watch any show on FNC.  So, I did not pay any attention to what his new show was going to be called.  That is, of course, if CNN even allowed it to be given at the time.

[Brian Stelter] then took over as host of Reliable Sources, and I was soon finding it to be sorely lacking.  In all fairness, the show’s downhill slide may have nothing to do with what Stelter has contributed.  In fact, it may have been on account of the changes the powers that be at CNN wanted to make to Reliable Sources that precipitated Kurtz’s move to his new show.

Such a move serves as a good example of a topic for discussion on [MediaBuzz], and the show seems to go out of its way to present a fair and balanced approach—even when discussing something about news coverage and commentary by FNC.  Hey, shots are even taken at [Bill O’Reilly] when he has stuck his foot in his mouth again!

If you don’t believe it, tune in to MediaBuzz (or record it to watch later) at 10 a.m. Central on Sundays to see for yourself.  Yeah, it is in the same time-slot as Reliable Sources.  Curious—huh?

Alas, I am ashamed to admit that I was suckered by the MSNBC propaganda against FNC.  So, when MSNBC became too obviously liberally-biased for my taste, we switched to CNN.  The final straw for CNN with me was hearing [Wolf Blitzer] ask retired [Lt. General Honoré], who truly distinguished himself by quickly restoring order and having his troops be of great help to all in need after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans a few years back, if the National Guard troops deployed to guard against vandalism in Ferguson, Missouri would be armed.  When the general answered that they would have side-arms/pistols, the celebrated Mr. Blitzer asked him if they would have ammunition.  Now, I don’t know about you, but to me, being armed means having a weapon that can actually be used as it is designed to!

We still watch NBC’s Nightly News because CBS’ Evening News is almost as bad as MSNBC, and the whole ABC News Division has generally become cartoonish, which is understandable since ABC is now owned by Disney.

Yeah, my wife and I now tune to FNC when we want to find out what may be going on at other hours of the day or night.  However, be assured that we avoid Bill O’Reilly and [Geraldo Rivera] like they may have a very nasty strain of an electronically-transmitted disease.

Please Also Visit:

[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

Sites To See #417

The SOLE purpose of this series is to help call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another.  Just to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as an endorsement, and I have included sites that I found rather disturbing.  The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable.  Please, go see for yourself.  Oh, and as of August 10, 2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word verification engaged.

 Link: [That British Woman]

 Link: [The Art of Not Working]

 Link: [The Blessed Earth]

 Link: [The Greenockian]

 Link: [The Japing Ape]

 Link: [The Pictorial Arts]

 Link: [The Redneck Rosarian]

 Link: [The Self-Absorbing Man]

 Link: [Travel with Intent]

Link: [What Karen Sees]

Please Also Visit:

[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

ATF: Dogs and Cats

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Lobo]

Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

Lobo

I remember to this day

The bright red Georgia clay

How it stuck to the tires

After the summer rain

Will-power made that old car go

A woman's mind told me that it's so

Oh how I wish we were

Back on the road again

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

Travellin' and livin' off the land

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

How I love bein'

A free man

I can still recall

The wheat fields of St. Paul

And the mornin' we got caught

Robbin' from an old hen

Old MacDonald made us work

But then he paid us for what it was worth

Another tank of gas

And back on the road again

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

Travellin' and livin' off the land

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

How I love bein'

A free man

I'll never forget that day

We motored stately into big L.A.

The lights of the city put

Settlin' down in my brain

Though it's only been a month or so

That old car's buggin' us to go

You gotta get away

And get back on the road again

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

Travellin' and livin' off the land

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

How I love bein'

A free man

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

Travellin' and livin' off the land

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

How I love bein'

A free man

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

Travellin' and livin' off the land

Me and you

And a dog named Boo

How I love bein'

A free man

Link: [Hoyt Axton]

Della and the Dealer

Hoyt Axton

It was Della and a dealer

And a dog named Jake

And a cat named Kalamazoo

Left the city in a pickup truck

Gonna make some dreams come true

Yeah they rolled out west

Where the wild sun sets

And the coyote bays at the moon

Della and a dealer

And a dog named Jake

And a cat named Kalamazoo

If that cat could talk

What tales he'd tell

About Della and the dealer

And the dog as well

But the cat was cool

And he never said a mumblin' word

Down Tucson way

There's a small cafe

Where they play a little cowboy tune

And the guitar picker was a friend of mine

By the name of Randy Boone

Yeah Randy played her a sweet love song

And Della got a fire in her eyes

The dealer had a knife

And the dog had a gun

And the cat had a shot of rye

If that cat could talk

What tales he'd tell

About Della and the dealer

And the dog as well

But the cat was cool

And he never said a mumblin' word

Yeah the dealer was a killer

He was evil and mean

And he was jealous of the fire in her eyes

He snorted his coke

Through a century note

And swore that Boone would die

And the stage was set

When the lights went out

There was death in Tucson town

Two shadows ran for the bar back door

But one stayed on the ground

If that cat could talk

What tales he'd tell

About Della and the dealer

And the dog as well

But the cat was cool

And he never said a mumblin' word

If that cat could talk

What tales he'd tell

About Della and the dealer

And the dog as well

But the cat was cool

And he never said a mumblin' word

Two shadows ran from the bar that night

And a dog and a cat ran too

And the tires got hot on the pickup truck

As down the road they flew

It was Della and her lover

And a dog named Jake

And a cat named Kalamazoo

Left Tucson in a pickup truck

Gonna make some dreams come true

Yeah yeah yeah

If that cat could talk

What tales he'd tell

About Della and the dealer

And the dog as well

But the cat was cool

And he never said a mumblin' word

If that cat could talk

What tales he'd tell

About Della and the dealer

And the dog as well

But the cat was cool

And he never said a mumblin' word

If that cat could talk

What tales he'd tell

About Della and the dealer

And the dog as well

But the cat was cool

And he never said a mumblin' word

Lyrics From: [AllTheLyrics.com]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

A Sunday Drive

Back during our childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived.  Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.  The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

 

 Link: [Locusts and Wild Honey]

 Link: [Love Your Neighbor]

 Link: [Magnon's Meanderings]

 Link: [Memorable Meanders]

 Link: [Menton Daily Photo]

 Link: [Molly The Wally]

 Link: [Mr. Knowitall]

 Link: [Old Fat Man Adventures]

Link: [Terlingua Dreams]

Please Also Visit:

[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]