CAROLINA NATURALLY: Jan 31, 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Draggin' The Line

Tommy James and the Shondells

This song went to #4 in 1971.

LYRICS:

Makin' a living the old hard way
Takin' and giving day by day
I dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

My dog Sam eats purple flowers
We ain't got much but what we got's ours
We dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

I feel fine
I'm talkin' bout peace of mind
I'm gonna take my time
I'm gettin' the good sign
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

Loving the free and feelin' spirit
Of huggin' a tree when you get near it
Diggin' the snow and the rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

I feel fine
I'm talkin' bout peace of mind
I'm gonna take my time
I'm gettin' the good sign
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

La la la la la la la la
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

High Jinks to Handcuffs for Landrieu Provocateur

James O'Keefe III, the guerrilla videographer, advised conservative students this month that they needed to start taking more risks.

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13 young students killed at party in Mexico border

A high school student party in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez was broken up by drug bandits on the weekend, when two adults and 11 teenagers died in gunfire.

Armed men stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by false information.

Evil drug pushers murder Mexican teenagers

13 young students killed at party in Mexico border

Orangutan Predicts Winner of The Super Bowl

About eight days before the Super Bowl the people at the Chaffee Zoo already knew who was going to win.

Orangutan Predicts Winner of The Super Bowl

Four Years After Performing At The Grammys, Sly Stone Now Lives On Social Security

Four years after he made his big comeback performance at the Grammys, Sly Stone is living on Social Security and is sometimes homeless.

Four Years After Performing At The Grammys, Sly Stone Now Lives On Social Security

Willie Nelson Concert Cancelled Due To Severe Hand Pain

Singer and guitarist Willie Nelson canceled a North Carolina concert because of a bum hand about an hour after several band and crew members were busted for possessing moonshine and pot.

Willie Nelson Concert Cancelled Due To Severe Hand Pain

Car crash turns into 238-pound pot bust

Tracks in the snow leading from a crashed car to the nearby bridge overpass on New Mexico's I-40 just didn't look right to officers.

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Valentine's Day gifts for less than $20

Show your love with one of these unexpected and inexpensive presents.

Survival kit in a sardine can

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Big space-travel changes proposed

Shuttling astronauts to and from the International Space Station may soon fall to private companies.

Concerns

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What the Air Force is doing with 1,700 PS3s

The U.S. military puts PlayStation 3 consoles together to simulate a giant human brain.

Tricky computer feat

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How much to tip for beauty services

You should give 20 percent to the hairstylist, unless that person is the salon owner.

What assistants get

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The lore behind gooey winter ointment

Bag Balm seems to be used for almost everything except what it is intended for.

Big hit for tiny, unusual business

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Gangster Prisoner 'Issued Facebook Threats'

One of Britain's most dangerous gangsters has been using Facebook to threaten his enemies from inside a maximum security prison, it has been reported. Colin Gunn

Colin Gunn had posted threats on his Facebook page from inside prison.

Gangster Prisoner 'Issued Facebook Threats'

Worshippers Pierced With Hooks At Festival

One more reason religion is wrong, so very wrong ... all of them.

Thousands of devotees gathered for a Hindu festival piercing their tongues, skin and nipples with hooks holding coconuts and other fruit.

Worshippers Pierced With Hooks At Festival

Driving while hooked up

china iv driver Man Takes IV While Driving picture

As a man in the Wuxi province of China learned, if you're going to hang an IV bag from your rear view mirror, it might be a good idea to disguise it as an air freshener.

Man Takes IV While Driving

Egypt arrests 26 suspected of plotting terrorism

Egypt has arrested 26 suspects who the prosecutor said belonged to a cell of militant group Islamic Jihad and were plotting "terrorist acts" against tourists and state installations, the official news agency MENA reported on Sunday.

Egypt arrests 26 suspected of plotting terrorism

Sign the petition

Found this wonderful post @ Skippy

Sign the petition to tell CBS not to air the anti-choice Tim Tebow ad , which is based on a lie to begin with: the fight heated up yesterday when famed women’s rights activist and powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred stepped up to slam the ad.

Obviously, Allred opposes the ads personally for anti-choice reasons, but she has an even more pressing concern, “will CBS still insist on running this anti-choice commercial that is outright misleading advertising”?

You see, the ad’s story features the mother of the relig-o-facist football player Tim Tebow, who claims she went against her doctor’s advisement during a difficult pregnancy in the Phillipines to carry her pregnancy to term. she birthed Tim, and now we are all able to witness the glory of Tim running around on a turf with his football, which is very lovely. I believe the message is that you shouldn’t abort your fetus because what if he turns out to be a football player.

Attorney Gloria Allred has questioned the veracity of Mrs. Tebow’s claim that doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy, since abortion in the philippines has been illegal since 1930 and is punishable by a six-year prison term for both the doctor and the mother.

Yean, I know. Crazy! That a wingnut relig-o-facist group would twist a story to promote their own agenda! It’s almost too wild to be true!

Gloria, Allred goes on to urge Les Moonves to think carefully on this matter, stating, “this is not just another ad. Women’s lives are at stake. No woman should have to live in a country where abortion is illegal as it once was in the U.S. and was and is in the Philippines.”

Allred states definitively that, “no sugar coated religiously inspired ad which fails to give all of the relevant facts should be permitted to air on cbs or anywhere else.”

GLAAD has made the following statement:

“CBS’s decision to run a focus on the family ad during this year’s super bowl can’t and shouldn’t be considered in a vacuum. CBS spent years denying a platform to an LGBT-inclusive church that wanted to share a message of inclusion with a national audience. Now, when it happens to be financially inconvenient for CBS to hold to the standard it had previously imposed, the network’s expediency benefits a virulently anti-gay organization whose advocacy on these issues is the antithesis of that of the united church of christ.”

Sign the petition

God Hates Lady Gaga

The always classy Westboro Baptist Church (the assholes behind the “God Hates Fags” campaign) recently launched their latest ~~abomination~~ ... ahem ...creation – a music video parody of Lady Gaga’s hit single “Poker Face.” Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up, people. Take a look…

God Hates Lady Gaga

*****
The idiots really have no idea how stupid the really are ...

Tobacco Plants Tapped to Grow Solar Cells

tobacco plants

Tobacco plants could help wean the world from fossil fuels, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley.

In a paper in the journal ACS Nano Letters, Matt Francis and his colleagues used genetically engineered bacteria to produce the building blocks for artificial photovoltaic and photochemical cells. The technique could be more environmentally friendly than traditional methods of making solar cells and could lead to cheap, temporary and biodegradable solar cells.

“Over billions of years, evolution has established exactly the right distances between chromophore to allow them to collect and use light from the sun with unparalleled efficiency,” said Francis. “We are trying to mimic these finely tuned systems using the tobacco mosaic virus.”

Tobacco Plants Tapped to Grow Solar Cells

Job Fairy

Funny Ad

Snowbound

If you hadn't guessed we're snowbound here.
Well, not really bound but hobbled a bit.
And we're bored.

Mark Twain Tonight

Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain from 1967

Conservative Bloggers More Depraved/Deranged/Stupid Than Osama bin Laden

'Nuff said, but follow the link and read the piece in it's entirety just for shits and giggles anyway.

The Disloyal Canadians

Dudley Do-Right

Paul Krugman Calls Faux News “Deliberate Misinformation” to Roger Ailes’ Face on National Television

From Blue Texan over @ Fire Dog Lake:

I have no idea why Jabba the Ailes decided to appear on “This Week” — but after this beatdown by Krugman, I doubt he’ll be back.

Notice Jabba doesn’t refute Krugman’s charge. He just ignores it, belches up a total non sequitur, then starts spewing repugican talking points. The result? The master propagandist was made to look like an ass on live teevee.

A thing of beauty.

Truck skids off I-77 at lake

Others are not liking the weather so much.

A tractor-trailer skidded on an icy patch on Interstate 77 at Lake Norman on Saturday afternoon, and the truck slid within a few feet of the water.

The wreck has closed the southbound lanes of I-77 at the lake.

The N.C. Department of Transportation says it could be after dark before the lanes can be reopened.

The wreck happened during a collision or near-collision with another truck, according to reports from the scene. No serious injuries were reported.

Crews were working late Saturday afternoon to pull the tractor-trailer from the water. After that, according to the DOT, repairs will have to be made to the guardrail along the side of the road.

Motorists headed toward Charlotte from the north faced detours or lengthy delays well into the evening.

The local weather

At least some like the weather!

'Budget' cars that aren't a good deal

5 'budget' cars that aren't a good deal

These cars may be inexpensive upfront, but the cost of owning them adds up quickly.

Models to consider instead

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Question of foreign funding of U.S. elections unsettled

The most heated controversy over the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down parts of the nation's campaign-funding laws has focused on whether the decision frees foreign corporations to pour money into American elections.

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Pakistan investigates report Taliban chief is dead

This could be Great news!

In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is seen in Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan.

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How strange icy spokes in Saturns ring form and evolve

In a new research, scientists have analyzed the strange icy spokes in Saturn's ring to understand how they form and evolve.
In Saturn's largest ring, the B ring, radial spokes sometimes form across the ring.

How strange icy spokes in Saturns ring form and evolve

Churchill's Cigar Stump Fetches £4,500

A half-smoked cigar Winston Churchill left unfinished in 1941 has been sold. Churchill's cigar was auctioned by Keys

The half-smoked stogie was picked up by a Downing St worker.

Churchill's Cigar Stump

Pair use jury box to smuggle drugs

From the "They don't call it DOPE for nothing you know" Department:

This photo provided by the Pubelo County Detention Center shows Phil Martinez, who Pueblo County authorities say tried to get narcotics into jail for his girlfriend.

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Thieves Steal Electronics From Gaston County School

A local school system is out thousands of dollars in electronics after a weekend break-in.
Someone broke into a mobile classroom at Forest Heights Elementary between late Friday afternoon and Saturday.

Thieves Steal Electronics From Gaston County School

Nanotube dye makes wearable batteries

A carbon-nanotube-based ink makes common fabrics conductive.

Nanotube dye makes wearable batteries

Five bacon taste-test winners

Pounds of grocery store varieties were tested to find these top sizzling strips.

Best thick-cut, turkey, and sweet

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Haiti detains Americans taking kids

Ten Americans trying to bus 33 Haitian orphans out of the country are held by authorities.

Their explanation for kidnapping the children

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Just because you have cockeyed notions don't make'em right.
And being baptists makes them worse than catholics.

And I Quote

The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Hey, all you wingnuts/teabaggers/birthers/neo-cons/repugicans/relig-o-facists and whatever other appellation we place upon you take heed of President Jefferson's words. We will not allow your type to flourish in other parts of the world, so what makes you think we'll do so here.

Pat Robertson is an asshole

Listing Pat's inhumanity: Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said By Pat Robertson

Rip Torn Charged With Breaking Into A Bank

Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicated.

State police say the 78 year old Salisbury resident was arrested Friday night after police found him inside the Litchfield Bancorp with a loaded revolver.

The "Men in Black" actor has been taken into custody and booked on charges including burglary and possession of firearm without a permit. He is being held on $100,000 bond and is scheduled for a Monday appearance in Bantam Superior Court.

Last year, Torn was given probation in a Connecticut drunken driving case and granted permission to enter an alcohol education program. He also has two previous drunken driving arrests in New York.

The hidden owl and other dollar myths

Find out where tiny owls are supposedly printed along with what the big letter means.

Grab a dollar and follow along

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When owning your home doesn't pay

Many people overlook the costs of homeownership until it's too late.

Significant cash outlays

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Today is ...

Today is Sunday, January 31, the 31st day of 2010.

There are 334 days left in the year.

Today In History January 31

The unusual holidays and celebrations for the day are:

Inspire Your Heart With Art Day

and

National Seed Swap Day

Our Readers

Some of our readers today have been in:

Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Bari, Puglia, Italy
Puerto De La Cruz, Canarias, Spain
Ruse, Razgrad, Bulgaria
Santiago, Santiago, Dominican Republic
Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
Stoke On Trent, England, United Kingdom
Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Daily Horoscope

Today's horoscope says:

Someone whom you haven't seen in a long time -- possibly someone who may actually have moved or been away -- seems to be making trouble for you from behind the scenes.
You may be right -- but then, you may be wrong.
Better be sure before you say or do anything that will put you in an irreparably bad position with them.
Check your sources before you make that long-distance call.

OK, sources, spill.

Welcome to ...

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