Well, these videos have been circulating around from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre located in the Philippines. The videos of prisoners dancing have been posted on YouTube by the mastermind of these routines himself, security consultant for the Cebu provincial government Byron Garcia.
I think these are fascinating to watch and really well done. Now just to be clear, I’m all for dance numbers (any time any place, lay it on me), but it may be that some of these guys are being held captive and forced to dance by the Bob Fosse of the Philippines.
“Using music, you can involve the body and the mind. The inmates have to count, memorise steps and follow the music,” Mr Garcia told the BBC news website.
I’m sure a lot of the prisoners enjoy it, but I’m also pretty sure that some are less enthusiastic then Garcia lets on. The dancing is mandatory for all prisoners except the sick and elderly.
Hmm, let’s see Thriller, Radio Gaga by Queen, two numbers from Sister Act and a song called Jumbo Hotdog.
Other early choices included In the Navy and YMCA by the Village People, which were chosen so that macho inmates “wouldn’t be offended by being asked to dance”.
Yeah, I think Garcia’s got a point about the macho inmates maybe feeling a bit uncomfortable. What’s next, a Judy Garland medley? If you look closely, some of these dudes don’t look very happy. Let’s hope that none of them are working on a shank made from a bedspring once they get back to their cell.
Speaking of shanks….. sometimes when I’m zoning out on the opiate for the masses, I enjoy watching the gritty show Lock-up on MSNBC. I cannot imagine the Philippines Dance Routine program working on these American prisoners. Although the West Side Story-Prologue number could be really good… Jailhouse Rock would be fantastic, poles and all! Maybe what America needs is our own Prison Fosse, who can rule with an iron boa.
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Zed?
almost 2
Hey,the spin I’m in.
I could use a drink right now.Pulling wheels and tires off of a 40 tanker to do wheel seals and brake adjusters.
No fun, so spin me!
40 foot.
No edit function?
That vid rates as strange.
These videos are wrong on so many levels. The Jumbo Hot Dog song is currently on a never ending loop in my skull and is driving me crazy.
Die dee die dee die die dee die
die dee die dee die die dee doe
On local ABC news, city of White Plains, NY owed over $100Gs in parking tickets unpaid by Marine recruiters.
Guess when the commander-in-chief ignores our laws, it’s OK for his troops to also. *g*
Just don’t see the Crips, Bloods, and the Aryan Brotherhood getting into this.
Pretty lame post.
Whew.
I had somehow managed to blithely forget all about Queen’s brief but tragic flirtation with the Linn Drum Machine and the Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer.
I think I’m going to be sick…
Dance routine? Did someone say dance routine?
Today I saw Hairspray and I have to admit that the music and dancing drew me in. Leaving the theatre young adults remained in their seats singing. If you want a serious look at racial issues in the sixties, the movie’s not for you, but if you are looking for an escape, then go and be entertained.
JPL @ 12
How do you think it compared to the original?
Speaking of forced performances and hot dogs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4v6qRdnKas
“Tucker, not many people are as dense as you.”
Bill Press
Now, if they could get the Schoolhouse Rock thing going, everyone could learn grammar and parts of speech at the same time! (Some ask why, I ask…){feeling very silly at the moment; I’m sure I’ll get over it}
TRex @ 10
Yeah, but you got to admit, the prisoners got that routine from the Queen video down pat!
Douglas Watts @ 9
One of the better posts of the week, actually. And it’s been a strange week.
Slothrop @ 11
Thats pretty great but that is most definitely NOT the Godfather of Soul James Brown. JB had his own moves and he never shared them with no one.
Beyond surreal. Esp considering MJ’s shall-we-say questionable moral reputation. And Queen. As much as I love Queen, this seems designed to humiliate the prisoners.
Whoa, one of those things you have to see – and then see again while calling your significant in to check this out – and then pour another glass so that you can make yourself watch it again.
I’m going sailing.
Drenchedotter, I never saw the original. Most of the performances were good but not one stood out for me. I adore Queen Latifah and for the West Wing fans Allison Janney has a great role.
Take a good look at life under President Romney or Rudy or Thompson everyone.
Slothrop @ 11
That was really good.
Bustedknuckles, I think I’ll join you. Can I buy you a drink?
Looseheadprop made an interesting point in EPU land. He spoke of two programs, the terrorist surveillance program, (TSP) and the total information awareness program (TIA).
As he writes, there is some question about what was done with information which was garnered but not incriminatory under TSP. Was it destroyed, as I think the law required? Or was it fed into a big, big database.
Loosehead prop says that TSP was an NSA program, while TIA was an FBI program. If all of this is true, it may be an important detail that Mueller testified yesterday that the meeting before the hospital run was about an NSA program.
Is it possible that the problem with the NSA program was that it was feeding the TIA program. That would explain why Comey’s first call was to Mueller, when he received a call telling him that Ashcroft’s wife was concerned. It would also be a shocking violation of American’s right to privacy and 4th ammendment rights.
Perjury or no, this could become very, very big.
Fein’s nose was pointed in the right direction.
Did someone mention the Godfather of soul?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
They’re good, but they’re not quite as good as the Hullabaloo Dancers…
Wonderful new format — so easy to use and looks great.
Just an FYI
LHP is a she. ;-)…….another brilliant lady attorney a la our ReddHedd
Woodhall Hollow @ 20
I think what we have here is a security consultant with questionable taste engaging in a little Fosse worship at the expense of the inmates he has been tasked to rehabilitate into society. Who knows, maybe these routines are providing the prisoners with a sense of dignity and pride. Misguided? Probably. Designed to humiliate? I don’t think so.
These are probably not the guys building the US embassy in Iraq?
Boston1775 @ 21
Lucky you.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 14
I love the original too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..38;search=
Donita Sparks @ 0
Yes gave a rather humiliated impression. I’d consider it humiliating if I had to do that. I considered plays in kindergarten and elementary school humiliating. Being forced on stage in front of a town hall full of parents and grandparents… childhood trauma.
Donita Sparks @ 0
Well, they’re prison inmates, they aren’t supposed to look very happy. On the other hand…
Donita Sparks @ 0
…I am appalled on what I hear about prison life. The beat down on the weaker, the occurency of rapes…
According to the comments that can be read on news articles on the web, quite a few people are ok with that. Like “Serves them right being abused in prison, after all they commit crimes.” How is that? I mean they got their sentence. How is it fair when they become additionally victims of crimes themselves?
Scarecrow @ 29
Thats a new feature on YouTube, customizable playlist players. You get to pick from color schemes and layout choices. Eventually they plan to offer a branded version where would be able to put the FDL logo on the player skin.
Jane (nyc) @ 30
You know, I have been thinking lately of how this new media, blogs and chats, have this advantage of you never know who you are talking to. Thus, no stereotype prejudices, which, try as I might, I must struggle to become free of. But thanks for the tip, and apologies to LHP.
Slothrop @ 28
Can’t get link to work
wangdangdoodle @ 25
Why thank you.
A double Crown on the rocks please.
Hullabaloo Dancers
And then there’s this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Walk it Out, Fosse!
Now, if I were a prisoner in the Philippines, I’d much rather do the Peppermint Twist.
But that’s just me.
OK, it’s off topic, but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UphGD7jGCJ8
I found the end so funny. The host didn’t know how to react when you were lying on the ground for so long. I’d really would like to know what went through your head at that time. How does it feel to know millions (?) of people are watching as you decided to play dead?
Bustednuckles @ 39
Here you go…
Virtual booze, virtual bar tab! Anybody else want anything?
Woodhall Hollow @ 42
GENIUS!
Norman Wagner @ 35
related note…don’t you find it interesting
that there is uncanny relatively parallel
physical size among the hundreds of inmates
in the video? this seems profound on
so many levels when compared to our prison
system and the dynamics observed therein.
Jane (nyc) @ 30
Thanks, Jane(nyc)
And a wonderful professor of all things law to us here at the Lake.
lhp is a she, mitch, your misogyny is showing…………….
and fini fini love your work, thank you…….
couldn’t watch the video, i’m on dial up, and my browser doesn’t even show the option, so, i’m out on that front………
i’ve been out of town all week, just got back, so, if i wasn’t on dialup i would offer to you all, pete……..
fini fini, could you find on you tube, pete townshend’s live from marysville academy version of now and then? and post it? or the same cd, north country girl?
thanks, and if you can’t find it, thanks anyway………
thanks donita for your friday groooooooooooove…………it’s a groove that lasts…….
Donita… that is some of the weirdest shit I have ever seen. I couldn’t have even imagined such a thing before I launched Internet Explorer and FDL came up as my homepage. WOW.
Hey… thanks also for turning me on to the Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson clip (”Everybody Today is Turning On”). However, it is no longer available on YouTube for some reason.
Just for the record, I don’t think these videos are humiliating at all. I think they’re very cool. As I wrote… I think some of the prisoner are into it and some may not be. It sure beats “breaking rocks in the hot sun”.
Slothrop @ 40
yeah baby
BigMitch @ 26
Does this mean that the A.G. was following Fielding’s script and committed perjury to divert attention and be the shiny object dangled for the Dems?
I would love to see the Bush/Cheney prison dance troop performing these numbers.
wangdangdoodle @ 45
I’ll take a White Pirate – Kahlua, milk and Captain Morgan’s
Would love to see CDC make the Bulldog gang members incarcerated here dance like that…..
dannyM @ 50
Why thank you DannyM! It’s my pleasure to bring you weirdness. I like weirdness too.
dmac @ 49
Aww..thanks!
Lemme see what I can find in these here toobz…brb.
i’ll have a rhum neat with a lemon twist ty ;o)
marymccurnin @ 54
Chain gang
Oopsie, Obama.
marymccurnin @ 54
707 Mary…as would I (still chuckling)
Donita Sparks @ 60
OOOOOO_AAAAAA
OOOOOO_AAAAAA
Ford Prefect @ 53
I don’t see that. What I see is Gonzo trying to mislead while remaining within a technical interpretation of the truth. And he succeeded, unless I miss my bet. I am totally convinced of this.
I think that the perjury is the shiny object which will draw us nearer to a scandal that is a whole lot bigger than any we have seen. Remember always that you can never fully imagine the level of lawlessness that this administration is capable of.
best 3min of The Birdcage:
Fosse …Twyla …Madonna
TRex @ 10
Now wait a minute. The DX-7 is 80s music.
TribeScribe @ 47
It didn’t occur to me, but now that you mention it…
Here is a solo Pete Townshend acoustic version from 1993 of “Now and Then” and here is a live version with The Who from an undetermined show recording. With more digging I could probably find the version you are looking for if someone has put it into the toobz but it might take a while.
wangdangdoodle @ 45
I’ll have what she’s having.
finifinito @ 55
Hey look, mister – we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint “atmosphere”. Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?
/Nick
I keeeed. That sounds really good, here’s one for you and one for me!
Someone said Queen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..o&NR=1
Donita Sparks @ 60
As always an Abu Garaib production.
juslin @ 59
Just for you, juslin. Looks like I’ll be busy tonight!
Big Mitch @ 64
“I think that the perjury is the shiny object which will draw us nearer to a scandal that is a whole lot bigger than any we have seen. Remember always that you can never fully imagine the level of lawlessness that this administration is capable of.”
Thanks for saying this. I posted a similar comment the other day that got no traction. I have always believed this administration has used domestic spying on both their political friends and opponents.
There is simply no logic to support that they (especially Rove and Cheney) could resist the temptation. They always overereach.
For one example, it’s the most compelling argument for how they have kept their Congress critters in line.
White Pirates are tasty. Theyre like alcoholic versions of Jamocha shakes from Arbys. And they DO get you pretty lit up pretty quickly. I found myself yelling YARGH ME MATEY a number of nights with those.
This is dedicated to Harriet, Josh, Karl, etal.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
This administration probably spied on it’s self.
Jane (nyc) @ 74
Mith? Is that payback for something? :-)
fini-thank you thank you, someone emailed me that they’re tryin’ to call, i’m on dialup andit ties upmy phone line…… i told them i had to wait until you came back with an answer………my priority was you, thank you……….
Jane (nyc) @ 74
And the press.
TribeScribe @ 47
This is actually why I figured it for a fake of some kind (although, why? springs to mind) when I first saw this. Though I didn’t know at the time it was in the Phillipines. Some countries have a more homogenous population than others; I’m sure one done in Sweden would have a similar identical-man effect…
marymccurnin @ 77
the ass spins are connected at the roots.
Mitch,
My preview button was missing. Just edited the comment. Payback?……..naw, not that kind of woman. *g*
Oh, my, my, my…the fake terrorist cheese bombs were FAKE!!! Per CNN Wolf B.
Bwwwhaaaaaha
I can’t believe it, but my downstairs neighbor is blasting Fleetwood Mac (this is NYC so everything comes through an open window in the summertime).
Time to turn on the XM receiver in my office and listen to the Mets game while I try to figure out what the hell Section 88 of the Canadian Income Tax Act is all about. Have a great late afternoon/early evening, everyone.
hi, folks, sorry i’m late, but i’m caring for my sister’s lovable but rowdy mutt today, and sammy has no idea who donita sparks is.
since the topic has turned to drinks,i’ll let you in on a secret. donita sez her favorite drink is jaegermeister, but i’ll tell you what it really is:
SCOPE!
i’ll leave it donita to explain it to y’all.
LS @ 84
Actually, the fake alert was fake, because it started because a lady had ice packs for her bad back….
wangdangdoodle @ 70
Could I have a Harveys on the rocks with a twist? *fingering American Ballet Tickets bwt gloved fingers*
Here’s my video of the week.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XNs6aK4mz-M
I saw all those orange suits and thought for a moment that they finally hauled in the Bush Administration.
One can dream, can’t they?
Big Mitch@ 64
Thanks,now it is starting to make a lot more sense and I couldn’t agree with you more. Do you think the Dems knew this all along and were going through the motions and waiting for a knock out punch?
PB @ 82
makes me think that the relatively higher level of violence inside of our prisons is, at least in part, due to the vastly greater margin of difference(s) available to be exploited.
less exploitable advantage = freer attention span to be directed elsewhere. (maybe?)
ahhhhhhhhh – that drink hits the spot!!! may i have another? yeah i have hollow legs hehehehehe thanks wangdoodle :-)
Hey look, mister – we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint “atmosphere”. Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?
/Nick
I keeeed. That sounds really good, here’s one for you and one for me!
Wow. A quote from “It’s a Wonderful Life” and it’s only July. I am truly impressed.
mhpcr @ 88
That’s it. Out you two pixies go – through the door, or out the window.
/Nick
Don’t say you didn’t see that coming!
[Hands mhpcr a double Harveys on the rocks]
I went on a gentle Giant nostalgia jag last night:
Proclamation
(big on the syncopation, lacking on a straight-up groove. 70s Brit prog rock in a nutshell!)
Here’s what I wrote on 12/21/05 in No Such Agency
The NSA is so secretive, that it has been nick-named No Such Agency. When we learned that it had illegally intercepted communications of American citizens, it made me ask, “When was the last time we even heard something about the NSA?”
Funny you should ask.
To give you some perspective on how secret the NSA is, consider this: For a year, The New York Times, which had published the Pentagon Papers, sat on the story of NSA violating the rights American citizens.
Not quite a year ago, the President had nominated John Bolton to be the US Ambassador to the United Nations. In April, his nomination hit a snag when it was revealed that he wanted the names of some U.S. citizens that had been blacked out of NSA intercepts he had requested.
At the time of his nomination, Bolton was the Under-Secretary of State, dealing with non-proliferation. He had had his run-ins with Colin Powell, then Secretary of State and it has been widely speculated that he was spying on the boss. This is important because if true, it shows that the NSA was engaged in domestic spying for political purposes.
We may never know if Bolton was bugging his boss, though Powell’s willingness to speak out about W’s lame defense of Snoop-gate, suggests that he has his own opinion on this.
Here’s what we know so far: Bush was breaking the law to snoop on Americans. It is only logical to assume that the reason the Bushies didn’t go to the FISA court is because they knew it wouldn’t grant their request for authorization.
What kind of request would the FISA court turn down? I suppose one kind of snooping that they would frown upon would be snooping for purely political purposes. Can you think of another?
Me neither.
” … tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!”
punaise @ 81
Laughing so; thanks.
I’m going to need some back up here behind the bar. Mixing drinks and keeping up with the different comment themes is hard work!
Woodhall Hollow @ 61
Every time Obama takes a step forward in my book, he takes 2 steps back. I’d meet with Chavez in a heartbeat. Castro? Sure. Ahmadinejad? He hardly runs the country, so it would be all (internal) politics for him. Kim Jong Il? He’s scheming 6 ways from Sunday. Make him run the gamut of the State Dept. Can’t anybody tell the difference between a real threat and a manufactured one?
Gentle Giant got a lot of play in my house as a kid, I’d never seen this video though. great tune!
Did you ever dig another late 70s Brit Prog-rock/New Waveish act called Magazine by chance? It had bassist Barry Adamson, later of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the lineup. Really aggressive for that era, but great stuff.
Hi, Donita! Those prisoners are very bizarre… I never saw something like that.
I want to see those prisoners dance the “dance of the siri” (a small animal from the sea).
This dance, we invented here in Brazil.
I’ll explain better… That was in an event of “animes”, that it happened here in Fortaleza, on this last weekend. The “S.A.N.A. 7″, a culture event, about music and Japanese films.
In the great show of the night of the event, two Japanese singers, Akira Kushida and Takayuki Miyauchi, were invited by the public to dance “the dance of the siri”! I was in the show and I filmed the dance, take a look in the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e34568uhKVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Rock on, Donita! ^^
mets are on now – wangdangdoodle – need my refill thanx vm
This is a fantastic idea! Let’s have the Bloods and Crips work this one: (turn up the volume.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLaMipm01IY
That has always been my suspicion, Mitch.
Fini – nope, don’t know Magazine. by the late ’70s I was starting to come down out of the snobby prog-rock ivory tower…
Oprah paved the way for Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat for, yes – it’s enjoyable to wait, so enjoyable – can you effin believe it, she’s from Texax. Such sweet cherry Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee just took over the world on Hardball.
punaise @ 97
Cool. Is it Zappa they remind me of?? There are riffs in there that sound like somebody else…I can’t put my finger on it.
did anyone listen to fini’s links at 68?????????????
pete rules.
thanks fini……..
[Hands juslin a rum neat with a twist]
[Puts out tip jar]
Boston1775 @ 107
I thought she was from Florida?
punaise @ 107
I’m a Headbanger.
the late 70’s and early 80’s had some great stuff.
I esp. like what is sometimes called ‘Stadium Rock’.
There were some great gigs back then.
Jandira Ferreira @ 102
That is great stuff! I like that little crab dance movement.
ohhh rep sheila jackson lee is awesome
hey donita!
great videos! great post!
maybe they could try “luck be a lady tonight?” you know, guys & dolls? if the late, great marlon brando could do it, and still retain his “manliness,” maybe they could too…..but then again, there was only 1 marlon!
party on!
nora
Not sure whether this should be filed under Dumb Crime or Prosecutorial Silliness.
http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/182489.html
wangdangdoodle @ 110
Here’s a fiver.
keep ‘em coming .
thanx wangdang – i left a tip near the pretzel dish….
Sheila Jackson Lee hailed from Texas on Google. Did I get it wrong?
punaise @ 106
Try this one on for size. And this one too, though it is cutoff early. This is like a melting pot of prog rock, punk and new wave.
For some reason, the videos put me in a good mood. Is that weird? LOL
Big Mitch – as I understand it, once TIA was declared illegal, they outsourced it. I’d guess that takes some backdoor (is there any other kind?) cooperation with the NSA. But all those a**holes like Choicepoint who know more than you about your credit rating and demographics are in on it (plus they do caging lists on the side).
Boston1775 @ 119
Ahhh, perhaps she is from Texas and represents a district in Florida.
Bustednuckles @ 118
Open bar, I gave the bouncer the rest of the night off. Y’all help yourself.
Boston1775 @ 120
Nope. Her district is the one formerly represented most admirably by the late great Barbara Jordan. And she is in the spirit of Ms Jordan.
Sheila Jackson Lee is no Barbara Jordon.
Screwing Indian Peoples over once again, Geoge W. Custer, the Little Tinhorn
Jane (nyc) @ 74
Agreed. I had a comment earlier today to this effect. It is a variant on Lord Acton’s saying : [the] power [to spy] corrupts, and [the] absolute power [to spy] corrupts absolutely.
That is why the right to privacy is a cornerstone of political liberty. There is nothing the terrorists can do that can cause more harm than destroying the bedrock foundation of liberty in which this country was built. The great irony is that this is not happening because some insidious power invaded us. We are doing it to ourselves.
What the terrorists did was to give Bush/Cheney/Rove and the neocons the excuse they needed, is all.
Their goal was to establish a permanent Republican majority led by a a unitary executive with plenary powers.
To what extent have they succeeded?
My guess is that they are 66.6% there. (No pun intended with the three sixes.)
So, were we set up?
Your move.
Open bar?
Open bar?
OPEN BAR!!!
(throws glass down)
Gimme that jug.
Freakin glass had a hole in it, couldn’t keep it full.
finifinito @ 114
The crowd was delirious… Those foreigners made it only here, in Fortaleza! In other events, it’s difficult to happen… We corrupted the foreigners! =D
Oh yeahh! Crabs really rock! o/
Obama and Hillary show. Can someone get the hook. Actually two hooks.
Mitch@ 97
Thanks once again, the answered quite a few questions and now I see why Bush went to the mattresses early. Do you think they can nail Bush/Cheney with this?
Jandira Ferreira @ 130
Depends on the crabs involved!
Open bar, I gave the bouncer the rest of the night off. Y’all help yourself.
Thanks so much for the fun; wonderful.
When Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the Cabal go to prison someday, I would like for them to dance to for the masses. *screaming laughter* Oh gawd, that would be fun to watch…
OK, this is weird. I click on fini’s fb link and I get my own profile. I click on half a dozen other folks fb links and I get theirs. I click on fini’s fb link again and I get my own profile.
Bustednuckles @ 129
Yeah that hole is kept at the top so as to facilitate the transfer of the fluids to the esopha…fuck that noise, pass the Morgan’s!
BigMitch @ 126
You’re right about that, Big Mitch. That voice…
busted@129
LOL – no wonder i downed my drank so fast – leaky shot glass…. pass that rhum bottle to me plz…. i hope wangdang left some lemon slices on the bar for me…
From PBS Newshour:
Lee Casy, Republican shill, describes yesterday’s Dem call for a
perjury investigation of Abu as a “Mike Nifong” moment.
wangdangdoodle @ 136
I click my FB link thingy and get my own profile too. Only my profile is not yours but its mine. Maybe I did something wrong when I posted the link in my FDL profile?
Donita @ Top: “I cannot imagine the Philippines Dance Routine program working on these American prisoners. Although the West Side Story-Prologue number could be really good… Jailhouse Rock would be fantastic…”
Hmm, I’m thinkin’ Geto Boys, “Mind Playing Tricks On Me”, might be a better choice. For American prisons.
It just sort of captures that feeling of paranoia and despair.
juslin @ 140
Virtual citrus orchard, too!
finifinito @ 134
Oh yes! hehe! I’m sure that Donita would rock dancing the “dance of the crabs”! Give this idea for her, because she danced samba very well, in Hollywood Rock Festival, here in Brazil in 93!
finifinito @ 142
So does anyone else get me when they click fini? Oh hell, just noticed I’m not logged in at FDL, be right back!
AZMatt @ #128,
This single issue pisses me off more than any other single domestic robbery except African American voter suppression and the failure of white Dem leaders to bring the latter issue to the fore. They haven’t done much to advance justice in the former issue, either.
A little southwest motif.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXP6PCOIGqM
LS @ 108
there is definitely some musical overlap, but I think of Zappa as a whole different kettle of fish.
GG has a bit of the medieval English troubadour in them, albeit filtered through a wired prism.
A lot of Republicans should begin learning some dance steps.
finifinito @ 121
thanks – I’ll check it out
I figured out the FB problem, I had the wrong link location to my profile posted in the form where you put that. When I first filled out that form I went to Facebook, hit the link to go to my profile which was the generic My Profile link and copied it into the FDL form. Anyone clicking the FB logo next to me would have seen their own profile. I fixed it now.
punaise @ 149
things have been getting fishy around here lately.
Dreamcatcher @ 128 is correct when s/he says: That is why the right to privacy is a cornerstone of political liberty. There is nothing the terrorists can do that can cause more harm than destroying the bedrock foundation of liberty in which this country was built.
Please forgive my blog-whoring and recycling of old stuff. It’s just that it is useful to review sometimes. This is taken from what I wrote 12/17/05 when news of the warantless wiretapping first broke in an article entitled Respect for the Constitution and Law:
You see, when the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence and pledged their lives, their fortunes, and sacred honor to the cause of freedom, they fully appreciated what William Pitt meant, when he said, “A man’s home is his castle.” The plaintiff in the companion to that case was the first man to successfully sue the British Crown after officers searched his house under a general warrant. He was so highly regarded as a hero in the fight for liberty that a half a century later, Americans were naming their babies after him. His name was John Wilkes.
By 1949, Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, had been the chief United States prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. In Brinegar v. United States (1949) 338 U.S. 160, 180-81 he wrote as follows:
(Jackson, J., joined by Frankfurter and Murphy, JJ., dissenting).
Some will say that it is too early to jump to conclusions, but faithful readers of this space know that has never stopped me before. My conclusion is that this is really big and that America is at a fork in the road. Down one path lies submission with no pretense that we live in a nation of laws, where criminals are held accountable, even if they commit their heinous acts at the highest level of government.
Or we can choose the high road. This route leads inexorably to re-affirming the principles that our country was founded on – not merely freedom, but accountability, and equal justice under the law. Of course this will mean impeaching the President of the United States, convicting him, and then commencing a criminal prosecution.
Sic semper tyrannis.
… tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!”
finifinito @ 152
Thanks fini! I was sure it was me. Or @#%$*@ Vista.
Ed*ard Teller @ 147
Hey ET,
Is Alaska going to need to increase its prison beds now that so much of the Congressional delegation seems to be in hot water? *g*
Beer O’clock is rapidly approaching here on the Left Coast.
I am on vacation next week with no toobz.
Give the GOP a big raspberry for me while I’m gone.
It would be special if a whole bunch of the pricks went to jail while I was fishing.
Toodles.
Hic. Who called a cab?
Boston1775 @ 139
Didn’t say she was, just that she’s in the spirit of Ms Jordan.
Dreamcatcher @129
Of course we have been “set up.” One thing Cheney has learned during his long tenure in DC is how much poeple there have to hide and what they will do to maintain their positions.
My worst nightmare is a Giuliani presidency. He and his minions would make the Dubya troops (OK..maybe absent Rove and Cheney)look like rank amateurs.
Don’t want to get into “tin foil hat” territory here. However, the Rethug crowd would stop at absolutely nothing to “cow” the American public and usurp power.
As an example of what really troubles me …when Obama came to DC and chose Liarman as his mentor… I thought..You don’t really “get” it.
You cannot “Lie(berman)” with this crowd without getting fleas. One cannot obfuscate or equivocate with these people. The Democrats need their own version of the “Bug Man”..i.e. someone with the cujones of a DeLay but without the ethical challenges.
Toodles, Bustedknuckles!! Have fun on your vacay.
finifinito @ 142
fini,
check the instructions posted on FDL wall to wall by wangdangdoodle (from me) You have copied the “Profile layout” rather than your actual profile. I did the same thing at first
Hi dakine!! Shonuff, that’s what hapn’t. Fini’s fixed it.
Lahoma tells me she’s in the mood to rock tonight. It’s her birthday. She doesn’t know I’m taking her dancing tonight.
Soooo…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUh6TAll_7o
And then later….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Retiring to the garage for half an hour of KO, then some NOW, and Moyers after that.
NOW looks real good tonight.
thanx for the drinks wangdang – lemon slices were sliced justttttt right… muahh
Hey, football players use dance to increase agility; the Japanese have used group dance and calisthenics forever to develop group solidarity, even in the workplace; yoga, karate and jujitsu involve dance-like movement and dancers have really healthy percent body mass – Maybe more US guys should try it and lose some of the spare tires
OKK, you and Lahoma have a wonderful time!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAHOMA!!
Ooh, John Dean is gonna be on KO!!!
KO!
KO!!!
Keith Olbermann says that W uses his time as president wisely!
shorter Keith: “they lie. then they lie some more”.
KO says that through the 25th amendment when Darth gets his battery changed tomorrow W will actually get to be Preznit for a few hours. What might he do?
Loo Hoo. @ 168
Thank you… lahoma.
RevDeb @ 174
Bomb, bomb, Iran! No wait that’s Cheney’s MO!
John Dean on KO-Traditionally, an attorney general would invite the leaders in for a discussion about what what happened.
Literal truth is a full defense. With an intent to mislead, if he’s parsing it so finely, he might get away with it.
Lahoma,
Hippo Birdies to Ewe!
Tony Snow is doing a good Ron Zeigler impersonation. These days, the press secretaries are kept out of the loop, says Dean.
Bush made a fool of himself when he put on the flight suit. Not sure he even gets it yet. (Dean)
WH refusing to turn over Tillman info, including drafts of Bush’s speech.
thanks fini for the post at 68………..
pete is my favorite, he is a genius……….
i’m on dialup, and yet i’ve taken the time to download what you posted, is my favorite song by him…my man pete, ever since i heard
“who came first”…ever since then i’ve been on his bandwagon…….i sent your links to my friends…….thanks……..a soft hug sent to you, the kind described in the song at 68…”now and then you see a soul and you fall in love, you can’t do a thing about it”………..((((fini)))) may it help you sleep peacefully……
AZ Matt @ 156
Not if they let out 25 percent of the minority convicts here whose sentences are incredibly disproportionate to what white convicts convicted of similar crimes are serving.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 163
You two have fun! Before you posted one of those links a couple of weeks ago, I’d never heard of Brian Setzer. Love his music.
remember pups – the first casualty in war is ….TRUTH! watching KO now
RevDeb @ 178
Thankyou. lahoma.
Loo Hoo. @ 181
As Big Mitch sez – Tillman!
As the Dinodog sez – attack…Attack…ATTACK…ATTAAACCCKKKKK!!!
(this message approved by Pat Tillman, if he could be here)
Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Why is it a problem if they force them to dance?
Doesn’t it mean that they are not being tortured and frozen and injured and water boarded?
Margot @ 184
We will. Going to OK City tonight. Won’t get back until dawn. My sweet thing (Lahoma) loves Brian Setzer. And so do I. We’re glad you do too. ;0)
HI Snarky!
wangdangdoodle @ 190
Hi Doodley!
Loo Hoo. @ 179
Interesting comment by Dean. If a press secretary is kept out of the loop, who would know this better than the press secretary?
So when Snow gets up there and lies, he can pretend that he is not lying (being out of the loop) but then he must know he is lying (being out of the loop).
It is a job no honest person can possibly take.
Pach has a new post.
Too surreal to be anything but malevolently intended —though one can’t help a laugh, can one? And of course Fosse’s edge in that regard is a big reason to love his work.
dreamcatcher @ 192
Dean was positing that the WH press corp should ask Snow if he really knows what’s gong on. Maybe they will, next presser… y’think?
Bustednuckles @ 157
Have just the best time possible.
Roy Fosse was dawg.
Twyla Tharp is the dawgess.
What they gave us.
Awesome.
Harumph.
Dude is wearing a Lime Green Suit.
Jandira Ferreira @ 103
Cool stuff. My favorite Japanese singer…
Slothrop @ 199
I couldn’t get first link Slothrop…