Join in on the fun — and there’s LOTS more available where this came from!
This is massively cool. The site seems to allow sharing but not embedding, so you’ll have to click the link.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/bob-dylan-rolling-stone-video/
Yes, as you no doubt expected, this is indeed a 16-separate-track music video of “Like a Rolling Stone” — one track showing Bob Dylan and the other tracks showing lip synching by … well, you’ll have to check it out for yourself. It’s the first-ever official music video for the classic song. (Can a similar treatment of “Lay Lady Lay” be far behind?) For those of you who don’t plan on watching football this weekend, fully exploring this video (planning the best jump cuts) might take up about as much time.
Did you enjoy watching that video? Yes, it appears that you sure DID!
This is your Weekend Open Thread, hoping that you are not on your own like a complete unknown this long holiday weekend — let alone with no direction home while having to be scrounging your next meal. Talk about that, or about anything else you’d like, within reasonable bounds of decency and decorum.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
Study: Having daughters makes parents more likely to be Republican
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/25/study-having-daughters-makes-parents-more-likely-to-be-republican/
Can Science Explain Tea Party Success, ‘Occupy’ Fade-Out?
“Are liberals their own worst enemy? A new study suggests that may be the case, with its examination of why some political movements succeed and others fail.
The study showed that liberals overestimate the uniqueness of their political beliefs and that they are eager to have views that set them apart from others — characteristics that might undermine their ability to maintain a cohesive political movement.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/study-success-failure-political-movements_n_4310626.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Also the tea partiers allowed themselves to be pretty easily co-opted by the GOP; not so much the Occupiers by the Dems.
There’s something to that.
Also, the government was very solicitous towards the Tea Party and largely hostile to Occupy. Can you imagine them having let us get away with “open carry” at our rallies? It would have been “open season”!
“…the government was very solicitous towards the Tea Party and largely hostile to Occupy.”
How many members of Congress identify themselves with Occupy?
How many members of Congress identify themselves with the Tea Party?
Duh… Who’s had a greater impact on national politics?
Who leaves a greater impact on an area when the leave the area?
Who has repeatedly had violent outbursts during their demonstrations?
Who wants to take something from folks that have something?
Who wants to give everyone more Rights, that nobody can take away?
While I support the Right to open carry, that enumerated Right is denied to everyone in the state of California, sorry, but your party made it illegal under state law for everyone.
Much has been in recent news about news grabbing financial studies that whose faulty methodology was exposed under scrutiny, (cough, Anaheim, cough,cough), and after sleeping in this Black Friday, rather than join the pre-dawn melee, this struck a responsive chord-
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/ignore-black-friday-giant-hypefest-huge-consumer-orgy-135027021.html
after which I was curious what else Mr. Ritholz , et al, had to say, and browsed across this-
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/japan-reacts-to-fukushima-crisis-by-banning-journalism/
chilling as much for the US support as for the action itself. Apologies if I overlooked this in any previous OJB-WOT(?) – was news to me!
PS: NOTE the instructions (there) to the ‘Comments’! LOL!
way too funny!!! and oh, so true!
Ever wonder what would happen if people got their heads out of their asses and stampeded the corrupt government and bankers like they stampede black friday?
Except that reverie is harshly interrupted by the memory of the HSA purchase order for 450 Million .40cal rounds a few months ago!
Remember that the .223 and .40 S&W was hollow point ammo. NOT suitable for war as they are illegal by Geneva accord regulations…and the total buy as I understand is now 1.6 Billion rounds to ATK on a multi year blanket order agreement.
It’s kind of chilling until you realize how many shots are used by govt employees in each incident that results in an assailant being taken down…and some of you want to trust your security to these people.
I shot my .54 cal Hawken last weekend – for the first time. That was a blast!
THIS JUST IN! You have probably heard of the Anaheim City Sport Park plans to counter plans by OCWD to lease Santa Ana Riverbank land for a Power Station complex. Well, perhaps both sides could think further ‘out of the box’ to a compromise, as demonstrated in the March 2013 groundbreaking of a Power Plant / Ski Slope hybrid (wow!) in Denmark, where ski slopes are about as (un)common as in Anaheim. Come to think of it, WASN’T there a project proposal some time ago for something to be called ‘Gotcha Glacier’ near the Stadium??? More info-
http://snowbrains.com/man-made-ski-resort-on-waste-energy-plant-in-denmark/
And if THAT’s not crazy enough, check out the OTHER new items in this video from VSAUCE, where I spotted it! http://youtu.be/Uxu-wKE9s1c
For more on the waste 2 energy aspect, here’s another link FWIW-
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130801-amager-bakke-europe-waste-to-energy/
‘Only’ costs $670 Million! probably seen by the Council as ‘1.2 New Stadiums’!
A little post Thanksgiving Holiday Goodness. Guess what’s the worst run state in America? (Based on the source, take it with a grain of salt.)
Can you say . . . THREE-PEAT?
http://money.msn.com/investing/americas-best-and-worst-run-states
Worst: California
Debt per capita: $3,990 (20th highest)
Budget deficit: 27.8 percent (3rd largest)
Unemployment: 10.5 percent (2nd highest)
Median household income: $58,328 (11th highest)
Pct. below poverty line: 17.0 percent (18th highest)
For the third year in a row, California is the worst-run state in America. California faced a nearly $24 billion in budget shortfall in fiscal 2012, including a mid-year shortfall of $930 million and $8.2 billion carried over from the year before.
California carries an A credit rating from Standard & Poor’s, and an A1 from Moody’s — both worse than any other state except for Illinois. Explaining its rating, Moody’s pointed to the state’s history of one-time solutions to resolve its budgetary gaps. It also noted the state’s “highly volatile revenue structure,” due to its over reliance on wealthy taxpayers. The Golden State was also among the worst states in the nation for educational attainment, health coverage and unemployment.
Should we then add the Judges ruling against the High Speed Rail Bonds, to our ‘thankfulness’ list? Two side questions – will (can) they use the remainder of the bucks filing appeals, or do they have to start unwinding things? We still have to pay off the bonds, right? Not completely thankful, that’s life!
Well, they can rent out the glass barn in Anaheim. Won’t see any high speed trains there soon.
Give us Democrats some more time to dig out from under quarter-century of debt burdens imposed by the “borrow against the future” Deukmejian, Wilson, and Schwarzneggar administrations, Ryan! (I’d include the Davis Administration there, but he did try to dig out from under the debt with the VLF fee — which would have prevented the calamities of the Schwarzneggar era, which he had to repeal under fire from Republicans, and which got him recalled.)
The economic trend in California is wonderful, thanks to Brown’s leadership and to Prop 30, and I’m sure that you appreciate his efforts. (Or you should….)
And the standard dem response is as usual – “more taxes.”
Yeah — to pay debts run up by Republicans.
That’s pretty casual. Only Schwarz borrowed to balance the budget and he was the classic RINO – virtually a Democrat.
It was during Davis’s aborted governorship that State public employee pay, benefits and pensions skyrocketed because the unions had the Legislature and the Governor on the payroll.
Brown is stuck with the realities of modern California governorship, one of which is a profligate Democratic legislature that can now pass a budget on its own.
You think so?
Well, before I do any compilation of facts, would it change your view if you were incorrect? (Because if not, why bother?)
I have the feeling you are going to claim that any borrowing for such things as mental health services, clean water projects or capital projects constitutes “balancing the budget.”
If so, no, I wouldn’t bother doing any research.
I would also add that under those republican governors the Legislature had a Republican majority for a very short time in the 90s.
Why am I getting Occupy feeds into my Facebook? I thought they had no money.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=716417468369234&set=a.115969958413991.17486.114517875225866&type=1&theater
Not much money — but we have connections!
Keep in mind that generally when Republican governors are elected in California it is for the publics purpose of putting the breaks to profligate dem spending and taxing.
Where is Hillary?
“Nameless” wrote in reply to the item about the death of Nelson Mandela:
I’m moving that grudge-sharpening comment here, instead of leaving it in what was intended as a memorial item, for reasons that I think will be clear to everyone who isn’t brain-addled.
I’ll add, as usual — if nameless wants to post the comment under his own name, forcing him to take responsibility for its consequences, he can do what he wants. You can be anonymous or you can be a total ass, but not both.