Frehley's Comet - Insane (Link) Favorite part of this video: The bassist looks like he runs a Native American Casino. Dangerous Toys - Teasing and Pleasing (Link) Favorite part of this video: The vocalist's ear-shattering attempts at scat after the tempo change. Queensryche - Queen of the Reich (Link) Favorite part of this video: Okay, pretty much the whole thing from start to finish. Hear'n Aid - Stars (Link) Favorite part of this video: Aside from Dio and Halford rocking out the same song,...

You used to be awesome. Think of all of the bands that you have produced. Think of all of the wonderful musical movements that started there. You provided 3 decades of glorious music. And then your economy picked up in the 1990s and you started exporting shit like EMF, Oasis, and the Spice Girls. You teased with an endless crop of bands your media hyped as the New Beatles. You promised us you still rocked. And yet, the music said otherwise. Now your "best and brightest" are reduced to covering...

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Thanks, Rick! Texans lost a ton of influence in Washington when Democrats took command of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives after last week's elections. We have our state leaders and former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to thank for that. The loss of clout was compounded because state GOP leaders took partisanship to new levels, from a divisive mid-census redistricting to questionable campaign financing artifices. <...> Now that the Democrats will control the agenda ...

(Image) The General Post Office in Dublin after the Easter Uprising, 1916 I HAVE met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or a gibe To please a companion Around the fire at the club, Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn: All changed,...

During the April 12 edition of Fox News' Your World, Jonathan Hoenig, the managing member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, asserted that the U.S. economy would be unable to "thrive" in the event that convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is not summarily executed. Hoenig was responding to a question from host Neil Cavuto, who asked Hoenig and radio host Herman Cain for their thoughts on whether the outcome of the Moussaoui trial, currently in the defense phase, will have an...

Today is the first day of the Easter Triduum. In the Middle Ages, specifically in England, the Mass was performed with a greater solemnity than during the rest of the liturgical year. The priest consecrated three hosts: one for his communion at the Mass, one for his communion at the Good Friday Mass, and a third to be used in sepulchre ceremonies. When Maundy Thursday Mass was complete, the altars of the church were ritually stripped of their coverings while a series of responsories (chants) a...

(Link) During the April 11 broadcast of his daily BreakPoint radio commentary, convicted Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Charles W. Colson claimed that legalized abortion created a labor shortage, forcing the United States to solicit undocumented workers from other countries to fill jobs that might have otherwise been occupied by the "40 million sacrificed since 1973," when the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion. Colson asked: "But what's the root ...

(Image) WAUSAU, Wis. - Mike Fisher has had the unique distinction of owning the land where Ed Gein — the grave robber and murderer whose story inspired the movie "Psycho" — was arrested. But now he wants to sell it. Asking price? $250,000 — probably double what it's worth without its ghoulish past. The 40 acres west of Plainfield in central Wisconsin once contained Gein's ramshackle home and part of his farm. "I am just a guy who got stuck with this white elephant," Fisher said. "I am tired o...

53 minutes ago LONDON - A 300-year-old book that appears to be bound in human skin has been found in northern England, police said Saturday. The macabre discovery was made on a central street in Leeds, and officers said the ledger may have been dumped following a burglary. <...> Much of the text is in French, and it was not uncommon around the time of the French Revolution for books to be covered in human skin. The practice, known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, was sometimes used in ...

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Gold buggery is often advocated by economic libertarians because they think that because it is something concrete, it provides more stability than stocks. Gold bugs also believe that gold is a good investment because they predict that the market is going to crash, or certain sectors are going to crash, and gold will withstand such a crash and remain valuable. There's a bit of nostalgia for the old gold backed currency system in gold advocacy - many believe the use of fiat currency is simply dang...

Truly a collision of news anchor hubris, cheap visual gimmicks, and declining journalistic standards. Wolf is the ultimate idiot newsreader. Not a single original thought in that hairy skull of his. And the worst part is he thinks he's doing a great job.

Room by room, drawer by drawer, shelf by shelf. No cabinet went unexamined, no box unopened. All of the possessions amassed by two people over their lifetimes picked over by their family for anything of worth. The chaff was left for an estate sale. Even by estate sale standards, the items remaining will not fetch a whole lot. The uniform my great grandfather wore in France in 1917 that I had dreamed of and coveted since I was alerted of its existence went to a more senior member of the famil...

The time has finally come to clean out my grandmother's home in Port Neches so it can be put on the market and sold, so I'm making a trip out there to help my parents, since I'm the kid with no job (my brother and sister both have to work). Well, that disingenuous - I actually want to help out. I spent many summer days there in the cool quiet of my grandparent's ranch-style near the Port Neches River. I can fondly recall climbing out of the car on many occasions and being overcome by the heavy, ...

- Entire floor of the hotel room (save the bathroom) is to be covered by mattresses. - All drawers are to be removed from furniture. Also, dovetail joints will not be tolerated on any furniture item, and if they are found, all of the furniture will be tossed out the window. If the hotel does not provide an opening window, Mr Fenris will create one. - The bathroom is to be stocked with enough towels to conceal several dead bodies. - The requisite Gideon's Bible is to be replaced with a copy "Jona...

I was "privileged" to see about 15 seconds of the President's speech in Cleveland today, and in that 15 minutes, I learned two things. 1) The president can identify what the leader of Pakistan's name is (Musharraf) but he doesn't remember what his title is, as he identified him first as Prime Minister Musharraf (Musharraf is a president - just like you, sir!). 2) The president can remember the name of former BJP Prime Minister Vajpayee, but he can't recall what the current prime minister's nam...

No one is debating the voluntary status of the army - that status is a well-established fact. The men and women who are in Iraq agreed to join the army and become a soldier. It is a moot point. What is really important here is that, like Viet Nam, those who exert control over the military manipulated intelligence and information and led the country to war in pursuit of a phantom menace. The lesson of Viet Nam was not learned - superior firepower, technology, and training does not a victory make...

Brandon's discharge from the Army entitles him to lifelong VA disability benefits of about $6,500 a month — nearly half of which goes to Blaine for providing care. Another $500 goes to a friend who keeps an eye on Brandon while Blaine works three nights a week stocking shelves at Safeway. That's all your service is worth. $6500 per month. That's what you get for losing control of your body. The President gets a cushy pension and perquisites of office, and you get $6,500 a month.

We shouldn't inspect foreign products for safety - if I spend less on a product from India, it's a personal choice, and I should accept as a consequence that I may be poisoned with mercury. I chose to pay less, therefore I chose to die! It's the ultimate expression of personal freedom! **takes off the Milton Friedman hat**

Was David Copperfield in the Clinton Administration?

I have nothing interesting to say really. I should start an all-Chemtrail journal.

On the day I was supposed to leave for summer classes at my university, I received a bit of information that suddenly changed my life and my relationship with my family. My mother and I were standing on the driveway, waving to my grandparents as they pulled out and onto the street, when she burst into tears. The grandparents had been in town for my sister's graduation, and my grandmother had been very ill recently, so I assumed my mother was broken up at the prospect of that moment being the las...

Alright, first off I would like to ask the mods to please keep this thread open despite it's minor sexual content. My point is not to be obscene or humorous, but to make a point about the culture I exist in. That being said I would also like to point out that this might be my last thread for a while, until next week at least, as I am (fortunately) going on spring break, so after this you won't have to put up with my yelling about music and my disgust for humanity for a few days. I was sitting ...

(Image) That's Saturn, by the way, as recently photographed by the Cassini space probe approximately 43.1 million miles away from the ringed giant. It occurred to me as I saw this picture on NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw how little time I spend thinking about space; or rather, I reflected upon how little time we spend thinking of space. That's not to say that there aren't many qualified people staring up at the heavens and pondering their great mysteries. No, it is the mass we, the cultur...