Music Night on DinD: Acrassicauda - Heavy Metal from Baghdad...

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This is the movie about them. It is really good.

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

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Music night on DinD! Why? Because I can.

MDFMK SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY



Oops... Whomever made the video appears to have messed up, this is probably Electric Hellfire Club, not MDFMK. Explains why I haven't heard this before. EHC... Used to have an album of their's many years ago, it was so so. I think I saw them live back in the day as well. Who knows? It was the 1990s and things were damn fuzzy back then.

I still like this song and video, though.

Radiation fears in the wake of the Japanese nuclear crisis...

In other words, there is little to worry about, so far...

Congress: A bunch of screaming children on a bus...

Amusing, but I think they did get it a bit right in comparing Congress, especially the House, to a bunch of screaming children on the bus while the President is the driver trying not to crash the whole thing... Doesn't matter which party is in charge where, it's still about the same, even when one party holds both the the House and Senate and the Presidency, as we've seen recently.

The Daily Show - The Correspondents Explain: The American Presidency - Congress
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Unfortunately, throw the federal bureaucracy into the mix, and things really get bogged down.  As I wrote in a comment on FB recently in response to a post worried that we voted for a presidential canidate of "change" and ended up with what some people, people  a little bit further on the left for my comfort, feels is turning into Bush III:

One of the problems with government is that it is designed to move very slowly. Anyone coming in and promising immediate and significant change is setting themselves up for trouble. Clinton went through the same deal his first two years in office, and he promised a lot less change than Obama, however, he also made some bigger mistakes during his first two years in office than Obama has.

This slow movement is actually a good thing. It keeps any one administration or congress from wrecking everything.

However, sometimes with the bureaucracy, which changes at a glacial pace, change becomes almost impossible. At that point, I see it going down almost exactly like Nathan describes. It is not that Obama is Bush 3, but that all of these presidents are working with the same bureaucrats within the government.

Now, add to this a busload of screaming children in the back, and things really come to a screaming halt, really fast...

JFK: Nuclear Weapons Must Be Abolished

JFK: Nuclear Weapons Must Be Abolished

Mostly just trying out the posting tool on this one. It's funny, though, I am not hearing much about getting rid of nuclear weapons these days, but a lot about getting rid of nuclear power plants. Trust me, an ICBM in your neighborhood will ruin your day a lot quicker than a nuclear power plant.

Libya: Another Iraq or another Kuwait?

Why Libya 2011 is not Iraq 2003 By Peter Bergen, CNN

A good article talking about the fear of the U.S. military's involvment in a third Arab nation.  His determination is that this is probably more like Iraq 1991, not 2003.

What's up with the .com?

Well, here is the plan... The .com is still available and I don't want to lose it, so I will make this the new primary website. Should work better that way. I will need to wait until next week to make it official, but this is way cheaper than my old hosting solution… (Rhymes with Ah, You).

I think I still own the domain name, or my ownership of it has just expired.  If the latter, time could be of the essence.  Some one parked on another old domain name of mine pretty quickly a couple years ago.  Evil.  (Then again, if I do snag this domain and you are some right wing wacko who wants to pay top dollar for an Anti-Obama website, let's talk!)