Friday Palate Cleanser Part III: What My Sister, The New Mom, Calls “Non-Specific Angst”

Read it all – hat tip to Stand Firm.

Friday Palate Cleanser Part II – Vampire Weekend: Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

As a young girl
Louis Vuitton
With your mother
On a sandy lawn

As a sophomore
With reggaeton
And the linens
You’re sitting on

Is your bed made?
Is your sweater on?
Do you want to
Like you know I do

But this feels so unnatural
Peter Gabriel too

Can you stay up
To see the dawn
In the colors
Of Bennetton?

Is your bed made
Is your sweater on
Do you want to
Like you know I do

But this feels so unnatural
Peter Gabriel too

Is your bed made
Is your sweater on
Do you want to
Like you know I do

Friday Palate Cleanser – Josh Joplin: To All My Friends

It was the winter of our unpaid rent
When everything we had we spent
On stupid things we didn’t need
And everything in between

You were the victim of your point of view
With the faith of saints, you suffered through
Part-time jobs and lousy pot
Sneaking out and getting caught

I’ve been waiting so long
I’ve been wanting to find
Somebody a lifetime leaves behind
Are you happy at last?
Are you happy, at least?
Do you think that you’ll ever find your peace?
Everyone says hi
Everyone says
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye

I spent the summer of unrequited love
Singing your name to the stars above
But I never had a chance
I didn’t know my audience

I’ve been waiting so long
I’ve been wanting to find
Somebody a lifetime leaves behind
Are you happy at last?
Are you happy, at least?
Do you think that you’ll ever move back east?
Everyone says hi
Everyone says
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye

Goodbye
To the restless changes
We went through that made us strangers
Goodbye
To those who never made it
To all my friends who’ve all but faded
Goodbye
Goodbye

I’ve seen the best minds of my troubled youth
Disappear for lack of proof
That they believed the songs they sung
That they were ever really young

I’ve been waiting so long
I’ve been wanting to find
Somebody a lifetime leaves behind
Are you happy at last?
Are you happy, at least?
Do you think that you’ll ever find your peace?
Everyone says hi
Everyone says hi
Everyone says
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye
Goodbye

John Coleman (Weather Channel Founder): Global Warming and the Price of Gas

Read it all.

The battle against fossil fuels has controlled policy in this country for decades. It was the environmentalist’s prime force in blocking any drilling for oil in this country and the blocking the building of any new refineries, as well. So now the shortage they created has sent gasoline prices soaring. And, it has lead to the folly of ethanol, which is also partly behind the fuel price increases; that and our restricted oil policy. The ethanol folly is also creating a food crisis throughput the world – it is behind the food price rises for all the grains, for cereals, bread, everything that relies on corn or soy or wheat, including animals that are fed corn, most processed foods that use corn oil or soybean oil or corn syrup. Food shortages or high costs have led to food riots in some third world countries and made the cost of eating out or at home budget busting for many.

So now the global warming myth actually has lead to the chaos we are now enduring with energy and food prices. We pay for it every time we fill our gas tanks. Not only is it running up gasoline prices, it has changed government policy impacting our taxes, our utility bills and the entire focus of government funding. And, now the Congress is considering a cap and trade carbon credits policy. We the citizens will pay for that, too. It all ends up in our taxes and the price of goods and services.

So the Global warming frenzy is, indeed, threatening our civilization. Not because global warming is real; it is not. But because of the all the horrible side effects of the global warming scam.

I love this civilization. I want to do my part to protect it.

If Al Gore and his global warming scare dictates the future policy of our governments, the current economic downturn could indeed become a recession, drift into a depression and our modern civilization could fall into an abyss. And it would largely be a direct result of the global warming frenzy.

My mission, in what is left of a long and exciting lifetime, is to stamp out this Global Warming silliness and let all of us get on with enjoying our lives and loving our planet, Earth.