More f’ing our rights (guilty until proven guilty).

Hey there Firepups, I’m alive and kicking and very humbled by the response from my FDL family members today to the news of my being in the hospital. But hey, check it out, hospital wifi! Double w00t!

Get well soon finifinito!

Hope ya get better!!

Donita!

But Donita! Why, if the companies had to try to do something with their own money, the corporate weasels execs couldn’t whine over their cocktail weenies and would have to lay off a yard person or pool boy they pay with their extra bonus cash.

FITZ!

make that fitz + 5

Wow Fini! Hope you’re feeling better but talk about your dedication to a cause! Rest and get better Dood!

Interscope just laid off sixty people today. Ouch baby.

Thank you grande mucho Richmond, YJ and dakine! Though I feel like crap I’m well medicated and not doing too bad really. If you want the whole story of whats up with me I have a blog post at my place that explains whats going on, Ive been diagnosed with Inferior Vena Cava Thrombosis. Say that three times fast, I dare ya!

dakine01: I couldn’t just sit here with the morphine in my system being bored now could I? Trust me, I feel fiiiiine right now. :D

Oops, forgot to post a link: http://johpadgett.com/monticello/?p=430

Hey fini, thank God you have wifi!

Unfortunately the only thing that the democrats seem to have learned since we handed congress back to them last fall is how to suck up to K Street too, that and writing names for bills that are 180 degrees out from what they actually do.

Maybe it’s time to purge all 435 members of the house and all the senators as their terms expire and start anew. It could certainly not be any worse.

So now the record-company losers want the Feds to force universities to collect their royalties?

This is lobbyism in action, folks. These are the SAME people who are trying to screw writers out of royalties.

I wonder which Democratic candidates support this scam. Will Hillary condemn it? Don’t hold your breath.

Hey everyone.

Get better soon, Finifinito. Reminds me on my granny who’s in hospital right now as well. :-(

In response to Donita @ 0

In addition to the proposed “Pro IP” Bill that I’ve been reading about which increases the penalties for copyright infringements, I also came across this piece in AlterNet titled Download a Song, Lose Your Loan.

I don’t know what to say, having ranted about this earlier. The thing I don’t get is why the fines are so draconician. I mean they are in no relation to what someone would get who steals a CD from a store – well at least not here. And what gives with the damages of $150000 per song. Isn’t the damage fee only supposed to even out the actual damage? Like if we would make up sums like that when something breaks in our household, it would be insurance fraud.

Hey Young Jess, remember last week?

In response to myself @ last week’s Spin

In response to YoungJess @ 20

Hey Donita, what do ya think of this?

http;//i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee144/jr112_/DSArmy.gif

Oh, we can make fanart now? Cool! Maybe I’ll come up with something for next week, if I don’t forget it again.

Well I didn’t forget and this is my contribution for this week: a drawing done after an old promo shot of Donita. I’m not fully content with the result, though. For instance do I think that I messed up the hair…

But please have a look at it anyway. :-)

http://img.photobucket.com/alb…..Donita.jpg

Wow!! That’s awesome, I wish I could draw like that! Really all I can draw are stick people, and when I’m at least trying, it’s a head with arms and legs sticking out of it. I do better art on the computer

Nice you liked it :-)

Damn Samson that is awesome!

In the summer I did up one of L7 on the computer, it’s okay, I put the colours as green and black, but I had forgotten to put the file format to something thats not Bitmap or JPG so it turned out a little crap

donita
love this Busdriver! strange and cool.thanks again. love poking in here to see what you are up to. ;-)

That Busdriver song is pretty freaking cool. I like the visuals of that video too.

http://locke-kefka.deviantart……n-62059979 Here’s the L7 one I did, like I said, it’s not all that good

But you’re heavily medicated.

OK, good point. I think I would still like the visuals without the morphine. Oy!

Hi Samson,
Very nice drawing, but please keep in mind that I am far more beautiful in person. (har har)

Didn’t want to imply anything else. :-)

nice drawing!

Young Jess!
Cool photo, but I do believe that this is copyright infringement. Only kidding!

The Decider has finally slipped into full-on fundamentalist lunacy. He believes he is God’s man on earth…..

Look at the content of his Christmas card this year. He’s has been consumed by the fantasy that he is the handpicked leader placed by God in America.

This is going to end badly.

You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you. NEHEMIAH 9:6 (NIV)

-G

I’m glad you like it :) But I hate how the quality is :( When I can draw better, I’ll post somethin better

“This is going to end badly.”

yep. that’s a possibility.

Well I have a nurse coming back with dinner so I need to run along but thanks for everything folks! See you next week!

I am getting so so so sick of higher education and libraries getting targeted by these draconian bills drafted by oily industry lobbyist types, no doubt. A few days ago we had the kiddie porn penalties passed by the house, as if librarians have all the time in the world to patrol in loco parentis snooping over the shoulders of both adults and kids and peering into caches and nodes and god knows what else. And then there are these copyright laws. Publishers don’t like ILL, Xerox and document delivery. In fact, it seems they can’t stand the idea of democratic info sharing in general. (Even though libraries are cash cows for the academic publisher) Now the file-sharing. /rant off.maybe.

Snow storms in the Northeast. Maybe its cabin fever.

See ya next week!

fini!
Big relief. Feel better, fast!

((((((((((FINIFINITO))))))))))))

Out of that sickbed and back to that trailer right this instant, malingering fiend!

You don’t need no doctor when you’ve got Rock and Roll

;>)

Get well soon, buddy.

Shouldn’t FiniFinito be the name of a really good night cap? Something with brandy, coffee, and chocolate perhaps…

Jess, that IS good.
If your mom approves, join Facebook so you can use the Graffiti Wall application. So much easier than MS Paint, I can’t tell you. You’d love it, I think.

If we should be moving forward, why are we this close to electing another Clinton or, even worse, another Republic?

Thanks :)
I’m sure I can, all my friends have one, they’ve all given me the peer pressure before but turned down cuz I saw no point but I might consider it. I’m sure I’d love it, since I enjoy doing art

Who knows. But I had the misfortune to see Wolfie Blitzer announce that Hillary has a reason to smile this week. I left the room.

We should be moving forward instead of trying to plug up the damn with federal fingers.

Here, here. I don’t even buy something unless it’s been highly recommended, or I heard it and like it. Whether it’s a book or music. Basically the net provides free advertisement. I could never understand why any music company wouldn’t want a musician’s video on youtube, since a music video is basically an advertisement, IMHO.

good song Donita.

What about protest voting? I’d always liked to hear some opinions about that. Politicians here (Germany) are quite worried about the trend that more people don’t pick the one-eyes amoung the blind, but instead intentionally vote for the worst party that’s on the poll.

Would that work with basically a two-party system. I mean Germany is more diverse, non?

greetings donita!

wow–what a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in these scary days.

talk about the dumbing down of america.

love that busdriver!

TGIF
al

All good vibes and prayers to you!!!!!! Hang in there!!!

Yes, more diverse. And a government does have to get at least 50% of the votes. That means, if no party has enough, they have to form coalitions. Every party gets members in the parliament, unless they score less than 5%of the votes – that is to keep out extremist. And here’s where protest voting comes into play, if voters don’t choose the lesser of the evils but try to get an extremist party (one that doesn’t have any chance to get into the government anyway) into the parliament.

fun video!
happy friday to you donita!
as usual, you find the coolest stuff!

as for what i just read in your post…….OUTRAGEOUS!
nora

Would that work with basically a two-party system. I mean Germany is more diverse, non?

My last post was menat to be a reply to your post.

Take care, fini. Watch out for the night nurses.

OK, more music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crWB-cXNEVU

Excuse the bad quality of the video (at 1:40 some seconds are missing)

I am beginning to envy other systems. I’d love to boot Chimpy out the way of Tony Blair.

Well our system ain’t perfect either. Like in the sixties there were two major parties scoring about 45% each and only one other to make it into parliament. Effectively that small one decided who was in charge, as they could choose one of the big ones to make a government.

More music. Also poor quality.

I think we’ve already got that.

Song for Chimpy and all Constitution gutters.

Nice one Samson The Cat!

I have a thing for 60s music.

I’m sure once all the power is consolidated in the Executive branch the blogs will be allowed to vent their outrage at the latest scandal and Congressional sell out. The powers that be know that if all they have to fear is outraged bloggers sitting at a keyboard then from their perspective all is well in the land. Nothing will change in the United States, the game is so obviously fixed. It will take something as momentous as the Great Depression to shake the system at it’s very foundations before any meaningful change occurs.

Music:
She’s champagne, crioula-Portugal/Cap’ Vert–the sublime Sara Tavares:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

See her in person; fall in love.

Hi Samson,
Very nice drawing, but please keep in mind that I am far more beautiful in person. (har har)

Yes,Donita!!
You are very beautiful and I love you:)