Waterboarding. Now for Kids!

Eradicate? Yes. Because your twisted Christian beliefs are some of the most hateful on the planet.

Christians claim hate crimes law an effort to ‘eradicate’ their beliefs

And the irony flies so far over their heads all they see is a contrail.

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This kind of Jesus-Torture is good beliefs? Why would we ever want to vaccinate the disease of the Bush years from our collected blood?

Because I promise you.... This isn't the first child that's been waterboarded by an American.

Done in your name and done in my name.

Soldier reportedly ‘waterboards’ daughter for failing to recite alphabet | Raw Story:

"A 27-year-old Washington state soldier allegedly admitted Sunday to having held his daughter's head in a bowl of water because she couldn't recite the alphabet.

British newspapers labeled the technique 'waterboarding,'"

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Loyalty DNA? Kill switch? Haven't these people watched or read ANY science fiction?

And I wonder where the Christian outrage is on this one. Seems to be pretty godlike creating immortal beings.

And it'll probably run on Windows. A 9 year old Chinese child will be able to write code to flip the loyalty DNA. Promise.

Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included | Danger Room | Wired.com:

"Of course, Darpa’s got to prevent the super-species from being swayed to do enemy work — so they’ll encode loyalty right into DNA, by developing genetically programmed locks to create “tamper proof” cells."

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Yup. Big buzz coming from this article.

Steve Clemons: Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency

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She reads better than she sounds, but she nailed this one. Too bad her dad is one of the 65+ year old nut jobs.

Meghan McCain Calls Out Tea Party For Racism, On 'The View' (VIDEO):

"McCain: Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, 'People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.' And then he went on to say that people at the convention should have to pass literacy tests in order to be able to vote in this country, which is the same thing that happened in the 50's to prevent African Americans from voting. It's innate racism and I think it's why young people are turned off by this movement. And I'm sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can't say the word 'vote' in English."

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It'll be legal on the west side soon.

When 70 Percent Support Marijuana Legalization, Starbucks Gets The Message | NEWS JUNKIE POST:

A remarkable scenario played out in the American media recently, and beyond the import of the story itself is the quantum shift in public perception that it illustrates.

A pro-cannabis group based in Colorado called for a nationwide boycott of coffee giant Starbucks after activists spotted a Starbucks logo on the website of a virulently extremist anti-drug organization. After intense negative publicity ensued, Starbucks actually felt moved to issue a denial."

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Bay Area is ground zero for California effort to legalize pot - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

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Neat

David Hume Kennerly: A Forty Year Photographic Retrospective:

"David Hume Kennerly A Forty Year Photographic Retrospective, 1970-2010 opens this Sunday at the Frank Pictures Gallery, in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station.

'When I look at all those places and all those people in these photographs, it's hard to believe I did that,' David Kennerly says. 'I never get over that feeling.'"

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You gotta roll with it.

How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall - Plane Crash Survival Guide - Popular Mechanics:

"You’re 6 miles up. You’re alone. You’re falling.

Things are bad. But now’s the time to focus on the good news. (Yes, it goes beyond surviving the destruction of your aircraft.) Although gravity is against you, another force is working in your favor: time. Believe it or not, you’re better off up here than if you’d slipped from the balcony of your high-rise hotel room after one too many drinks last night.

Or at least you will be. Oxygen is scarce at these heights. By now, hypoxia is starting to set in. You’ll be unconscious soon, and you’ll cannonball at least a mile before waking up again. When that happens, remember what you are about to read. The ground, after all, is your next destination."

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Cool.

Mars Pictures: NASA's Most Extraordinary Images EVER (PHOTOS)

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This has been around a while. I just came across it. It buoys my burnout a bit.

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Fuck You Blogger!

Yet another long post completely obliterated by fucking Blogger.

Dear Blogger,

You fucking suck. I rue the day I created my blog with you. You make me want to quit, seriously.

FUCK YOU BLOGGER

Kisses,

JPW

DBT Week in Review - 2/6/2010

DBT WIR delayed by some evil frackin' animal flu....

DBT/Booker!

Now THAT is a handsome Mofo.

Hood proud of Grammy-winning collaboration | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"The Truckers played a show in Tuscaloosa on Saturday and Hood said he forgot about the Grammys when he arrived home in Athens, Ga.

Then he received a text message informing him that 'Potato Hole' had won a Grammy.

'I received another 20 in the next 15 minutes,' he said.

Hood said he and the Truckers have no problem whatsoever playing the role of the backing musicians.

'It feels great,' Hood said. 'I'm really, really, really thrilled for Booker. Of course, it's good for us, too, since we were definitely heavily involved with the record. Just getting to work with Booker was winning an award.'"

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GRAMMYS PHLOG | The People's Music:

"And of course, congratulations to Booker T and all the many, many more very talented artists who won and were nominated for untelevised awards. Except Michael Buble. He knows why."

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Nominees | GRAMMY.com- Best Pop Instrumental Album

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Drive-By Truckers keep on truckin':

"In February and March the band is playing the southeastern United States before heading to South by Southwest in Austin. The tour begins in earnest in April with a northeast run, followed by the Midwest and the West Coast. Then comes European festivals, U.S. festivals like Lollapalooza in Chicago and Mile High in Denver, and then a return to Europe to headline clubs and theaters."

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Q&A: Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood | Billboard.com

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Global Green USA:

"Global Green USA and supporter & actor Walton Goggins will be holding a very special fundraiser screening of 'That Evening Sun.' Nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, the film stars Hal Holbrook, Ray Mckinnon, Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska and Carrie Preston. Learn more about the film here.

Funds will help Global Green collaborate with on the ground organizations to help rebuild green homes, schools and communities.Funds raised will also help provide emergency sustainable aid to Haiti including solar powered flashlights and water purification.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 10th

WHERE:
Harmony Gold
7655 W. Sunset Blvd."

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Music

A little STFU for Bono from Brian Johnson.

AC/DC's Brian Johnson: Bono Should Do Charity Work In Private

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Pot meet kettle. Paging Taylor Swift.

Nick Jonas: Bob Dylan Can't Sing (VIDEO):

"Jonas said the producers wanted Lil Wayne to sing the solo originally sung by Bob Dylan. 'He said, 'I can't sing,'' Jonas said. 'And I'm like, 'exactly. Perfect.''

'Nick Jonas says Bob Dylan can't sing,' Kimmel laughed."

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Radio Ink Magazine:

"January 28, 2010: The Prometheus Radio Project says the Local Community Radio Act -- which would open the door to potentially thousands of new low-power FMs -- is 'in the home stretch,' but there are still obstacles.

On the group's website, Prometheus says, 'In our fight to pass the Local Community Radio Act, every victory we celebrate comes with a new hurdle to overcome.' The group notes that the bill has passed out of committee in the Senate and must pass the full Senate to go to President Obama for signature, and that it still needs to be officially reported and filed."

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Like 52k is anyless 'monstrous'.

Judge slashes ‘monstrous’ fine in music piracy case | Raw Story:

"WASHINGTON — Condemning a two-million-dollar fine meted out to a Minnesota woman for illegally downloading music over the Internet as 'monstrous and shocking,' a judge has slashed the penalty to 54,000 dollars.

US District Court Michael Davis said the fine imposed by a jury on Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the town of Brainerd, veered into the 'realm of gross injustice.'"

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Let me answer this. Umm, hell no. 'Fixed' competition = collusion.

Ticketmaster, Live Nation Merger Approved: Will It Lead To Lower Ticket Prices?:

"LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Justice Department cleared the way Monday for concert promoter Live Nation and ticket-seller Ticketmaster to combine after imposing major conditions meant to create stronger competitors and lower ticket prices for consumers."

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This, I did no know.

'Ghosts' resurrects Kip Winger's career:

"When the grunge thing hit,' Kip Winger explains, 'it was like all the 1980s bands were gone. Overnight.'

It's a well-referenced piece of musical history. Nirvana's 1991 album 'Nevermind' sold 10 million copies, and Winger the band became an oft-used punch line.

That brutal ending was also the beginning for the artist, who is about to execute one of the all-time improbable musical resurrections. Winger, who spent much of the past 17 years studying classical music composition, on Tuesday will premiere his first symphonic piece with the San Francisco Ballet. He wrote the music for 'Ghosts,' featuring choreography by Christopher Wheeldon."

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Say Anything

Olbermann: New GOP strategy is ’say anything’

Same as the old strategy.

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Tennessee Lt.-Gov.: ‘I don’t know’ if Obama is US citizen

And, I do not know if Tennessee's Lt-Gov. fucks goats. It is unclear if the Lt-Gov is or is not a goat fucker.

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Obama Continues Policy Outreach to Republicans - NYTimes.com

And I keep banging my head against the door jam to see if it will ever stop hurting.

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If you read this blog you know I'm a fan of Survivor.

Jennifer came in forth during the Palau edition.

There, but by the grace of ,go I:

INSIDE STORY: Jennifer Lyon's Cancer Battle - Jennifer Lyon : People.com:

"It all began in the summer of 2004, when she 'felt something in my right breast that didn't feel normal,' Lyon told PEOPLE in October 2005. 'I thought it was probably scar tissue related to my breast implants. It was right along the ridge of the implant, so I let it go, and I let it go for a long time.'

Asked why she delayed seeing a doctor, Lyon said, 'I didn't have insurance, which is a big part of it. And it really wasn't changing much. But a year later, I felt another lump, and then I felt something under my armpit.'"

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Interesting analogy

Daily Kos: Pander Fail: Obama's New Coke:

"What had gone wrong is that Coca-Cola had abandoned their core market strengths: Coca-Cola was associated with tradition, family, stability. People drank Coke not only for its taste, but for emotional reasons. They had a core emotional attachment to the brand, as one would for a loving parent. When Coca-Cola changed to be more like Pepsi, it abandoned the core elements that made consumers trust and love the brand.

The only difference between Coca-Cola and the Democratic Party is that Coke only needed one opportunity to wise up and learn its lesson, while the Democratic Party continues to roll out its own New Coke every decade or so."

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Brush up on your Chinese, y'all.

The most important news and commentary to read right now. - The Slatest - Slate Magazine:

"China is so far ahead in the race to create technology related to renewable energy, that 'the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China,' notes the New York Times. The United States, along with other countries, is trying to catch up, but it's an uphill battle. While renewable energy continues to be more expensive, China charges a fee to all users to help spread out the cost, an example of how the government takes a deep interest in energy policy. And it's not just about government regulations. In fact, part of the reason why China has been able to become a world leader in building this new technology is that its domestic market is growing. Demand for electricity in China is skyrocketing, so power companies have to constantly buy new equipment, making it easier to develop large-scale production lines."

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Multi-verse.

Damn cool stuff.

And to answer the first question in the blurb.... 'She' did.

"Was the Universe Created By A Big Bang?" -Several of the World's Leading Cosmologists Say "No":

"'What banged?' Sean Carroll, CalTech -Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology & Physics

Several of the worlds leading astrophysicists believe there was no Big Bang that brought the universe and time into existence. Before the Big Bang, the standard theory assumes, there was no space, just nothing. Einstein merged the universe into a single entity: not space, not time, but spacetime.

Proponents of branes propose that we are trapped in a thin membrane of space-time embedded in a much larger cosmos from which neither light nor energy -except gravity- can escape or enter and that that 'dark matter' is just the rest of the universe that we can't see because light can't escape from or enter into our membrane from the great bulk of the universe. And our membrane may be only one of many, all of which may warp, connect, and collide with one another in as many as 10 dimensions -a new frontier physicists call the 'brane world.' Stephen Hawking, among others, envisions brane worlds perculating up out of the void, giving rise to whole new universes."

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Shitty weed.

743 pounds of marijuana found in septic tank truck, Arizona police say - CNN.com:

"CNN) -- In a messy drug bust this week, investigators uncovered more than 700 pounds of marijuana stuffed in a septic tank truck full of human waste, Arizona police said Friday.

And the search of the truck was as awful as it sounds.

'Yeah, that really does suck,' Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves told CNN. 'It's a long way to go to make a bust.'"

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Pfft. So 2001. We TOTALLY had a website where you could send anon emails to someone in the office who had an annoying habit.

Oh, and for a small fee, I'll tell you why you suck. Call now!

Failin.gs: New Site Will Tell You Why You Suck (PICTURE):

"If you've ever wondered what people really think of you, now you can find out.

A new site, Failin.gs, provides a forum for your friends to point out your faults, whether it's what a cheapskate you are, or how poorly you listen."

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Legalized Thongs

Mish-mash of older and new articles as I clear out my tubes today.

Why my "always going broke, Commie fucking state" is way better than which-ever hell hole you live in:

This is one way to get me to the polls in November.

Pot legalization headed for California ballot | Raw Story:

"Voters in California will likely decide this November whether or not to legalize marijuana, after legalization activists handed in far more than the necessary number of petition signatures to get the measure onto the ballot."

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Arnie is HORRIBLE. Worst Governor that is not from the South.

But, another reason why I ain't moving to any other U.S. state (like that caveat... U.S. state...) probably ever.

CA Senate ignores Arnie, okays single-payer health care | Raw Story:

"The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation's most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Meanwhile, in Wing-Nut Utopia.....

Working as well for them as it is Somalia. Galt, baby. Galt.

Daily Kos: Colo. Wing-Nut Capital Becomes 3rd-World Dump

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In news of 'no-shit'.

Poll: Americans pretty clueless about politics, world | Raw Story:

"Only one in four Americans know how many votes a Senate filibuster requires. One in three know the name of the chairman of the Republican Party. One in two know the Democratic leader of the US Senate."

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Under fire, Obama’s chief of staff calls liberal strategy ‘fucking retarded’ | Raw Story:

This coming from the DLC corporatist douche who hates Howard Dean and was against the 50 state strategy. The two major reasons Rahm has the fucking job he has now.

Also, the DLC corporatist douche who is against primaries and is for anointing Dem candidates. Even though his current boss won election b/c he went through one of the toughest primaries ever and nobody was EVER going to anoint a brother.

Fucking Retarded? Just look in the mirror Rahm.

Please go away, Rahm.

"'Everyone seems to be waiting around for the Chicago street brawler Rahm, because the one that showed up in the White House has little apparent fight in him,' Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos remarked. 'Sure, he's quick to attack progressives when they criticize Obama or put legislative pressure on him from the left, but he's far too quick and happy to accommodate the Democratic Party's corporatist wing.'"

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She's right. Will it happen? Never.

We could save 300 Billion with a stroke of a pen.

Pelosi: Defense Pork Shouldn't Be Exempt From Spending Freeze:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated on Thursday that pork-laden Pentagon programs shouldn't be protected from President Obama's proposed three-year spending freeze -- a position that the White House distanced itself from on Wednesday after Pelosi made comments to that effect in an interview with Politico.

'While we all want to support our men and women in uniform... and our national defense and our veterans, I don't think that we should protect military contractors, and I want to make that distinction very clear,' Pelosi said at her weekly press conference Thursday.

The government can't minimize wasteful spending without auditing the Pentagon, Pelosi said, citing a 2009 report indicating that top U.S. weapons programs went over budget by some $296 billion."

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IOKIYAR:

The Washington Monthly:

"'Some of the votes [Republicans] cast -- we would be on trial for treason if we had voted against defense appropriations in the midst of a war,' he told reporters on his way to the Senate chamber. Durbin was referring to GOP members who tried to block the defense bill out of concern that a hate crimes bill was attached to it.

'They did it with impunity,' Durbin lamented.

Durbin's right; they did. Every reckless, irresponsible, hypocritical, dangerous, and incoherent step Republicans take, they do so 'with impunity.'

They do so because they're pretty confident that Democrats won't effectively raise a fuss, the media won't care, and the public won't know. And they're right.

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I'd like to be stoked about this but it all seems a bit 'Write this down. M.A.R.S. That's right! Mars, bitches!' lately.

White House Plans $8 Billion For High Speed Trains:

"WASHINGTON — High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced Thursday by the White House – the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era."

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Hello. Democrats? This should be fertilizer in your efforts to grow balls.

Calitics:: Oregon Voters Deliver Game-Changing Victory:

"Pundits like to claim California voters are anti-tax. Of course, we've raised various kinds of taxes at the state level, including the Prop 10 cigarette taxes in 1998, and the Prop 63 millionaire's tax for mental health programs passed in 2004. Still, even though our reputation remains, we've got nothing on Oregon, where no tax has been approved by statewide voters since 1930.

Until now.

Yesterday Oregon voters delivered a huge victory for progressives by approving Measures 66 and 67, raising taxes on incomes over $250,000 and large corporations to generate $733 million to close the state's budget deficit. The Oregon legislature had approved the taxes last summer, but a corporate/teabagger alliance organized to put it to voters in a referendum."

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You LIE, Cosmo. YOU LIE. Damn you, Cosmo. Damn you all to HELL!

Just because they write it doesn't make it so!

So Thong, Farewell: Cosmo Declares The G-String Dead (POLL)

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Meanwhile, in other views :)

Mount Everest-360 degree panorama view from Top - Climbing Mt Everest - Nepal Trekking-panoramic photo from summit of Everest

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Feral Fire - Glossary

Today brings much musical pleasure.

Quick note before I get to the Fire of the matter...

Pre-Sale for select shows begins today at 10:00 a.m. local time for the first leg of Drive-By Truckers The Big To-Do Tour.

Links here. Go buy your tickets now, because it is going to be a 'sell out' kinda year.

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Glossary - Feral Fire

Over a year ago, there was a disk in my car stereo that simply refused to leave and refused to stop playing. I could not tear myself from listening to what was my favorite album of that time period.

Glossary's The Better Nature of our Angels would have been on the top of my year end lists, if I ever did year end lists.

I loved this record and wanted to have its baby.

Today, Glossary dips into another literary well for the title of their latest effort, Feral Fire.

I've had the pleasure of reviewing Feral Fire for 10 days or so and it lives up to and surpasses in some cases the promise of Better Angels.

Glossary is definitely one of my favorite bands out there.

Why, two of the band members, Todd Beene and Kelly Kneiser appear in AAW's header.

This band pours it heart and soul out on stage, too. A great performing band.

Please go purchase their new album today.

Amazon.com: Feral Fire: Glossary: Music

We talk alot about 'supporting good music' around these parts.

Well, here's your first opportunity of 2010.

Amazon.com: Feral Fire: Glossary: Music

My favorite so far are:

No Guarantee
Pretty Things
Through the Screen Door
Hope and Peril

Pretty, Through and Hope could be the finest 3 song run of the year.

The album is, per past Glossary, lyrically engaging but it also has a groove to it.

Official news about the rock band Glossary from Murfreesboro, TN � About:

"“Nowadays, we definitely want the songs to have some sort of groove to them… or swing a little more,” says Kneiser. “Really, we just try to just work the song. Nobody plays more than they should. It’s more like ‘how can we serve the song?’”"

See, told ya.

Here's the press release. Go buy Feral Fire TODAY!

Amazon.com: Feral Fire: Glossary: Music

When author Cormac McCarthy describes looking upon “paths of feral fire in the coagulate sands” in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road, he hit on what Glossary lead singer Joey Kneiser says is “the perfect image of longing.”

It sparked the title of Glossary’s sixth full-length album, Feral Fire, which includes a testifying batch of R&B and country tinged rock songs that explores the band’s dysfunctional relationship with time, religion, materialism, the universe and southern ideals. It’s that same longing, says Kneiser, that drives people to pursue the things they wouldn’t normally pursue.

Mixing pedal steel and other traditional instrumentation with bending and crashing electric guitars, Glossary’s spirited American rock and roll speaks loudly to those beyond the southern region—those who relate to the great communicators like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Otis Redding. Joey Kneiser’s cracked voice, complemented by Kelly Kneiser’s relaxed, creamy vocals, creates an everyman musical quality able to fit the passing night through a car window, or a rowdy beer swilling get-together. The group has opened for everyone from the Drive-By Truckers to Against Me! and been embraced as musical cousins by their crowds.

Produced by Centro-matic drummer and recording guru Matt Pence, and released on sister band Lucero’s label, Liberty Lement, Feral Fire was recorded in ten days and encapsulatesGlossary’s unremitting musical drive---one that involves playing and creating for the sake of simply playing and creating. In fact, the five-piece from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has been releasing records both independently and on labels for over a decade.

Feral Fire sees a band full of “pop music junkies,” with a soft spot for both underground music and ’80s country radio, delving into multiple genres. The soul-soaked “Pretty Things” is a love song pointed at a materialistic girl coming to grips with change, while the jaunty, rebellious “Save Your Money for the Weekend” chronicles a rough and ragged southerner pleading with a waning Christian girl to shed some of her inhibitions—kind of a southern version of “Only the Good Die Young”. The latter seems to resurrect the spirit of Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott and includes the line, “All I know is southern girls are sweeter ‘cause they’re full of Jesus’ love.”

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Booker T Jones with Drive-By Truckers - Grammy Winner

I've been telling folks 2010 was going to be THE year. Best January ever.

Congrats to Booker T and Drive-By Truckers (also that Neil Young dude. He may go places one day) on winning the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental for Potato Hole!

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More pwnage:

We mock better than anyone in the country.

San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church

"GOD HATES #TAGS"

Westboro Baptist Church Protests, Gets Protested Outside Twitter - Asylum.com

Protesting the Westboro Baptist Church in San Francisco | Geeked Info

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His name is 'Rip Torn, for gods sake. He should be holding up banks every weekend, then escorting himself to lock-up to sleep it off a la this guy.

'Rip' Torn Charged With Breaking Into A Bank, Carrying Loaded Handgun, Drunk:

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

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And, Obama did dominate on Friday. Let's see if this is an actual change or just a blip then back to the same.

Cameras Roll As Obama Schools GOP:

"He rebuked a questioner who insisted that the monthly deficit is higher now than Bush's annual deficit. 'That's factually just not true,' he said. 'And you know it's not true.' He lampooned Republican lawmakers seated in front of him for portraying his health care legislation as 'some Bolshevik plot.' He mocked Republicans for railing against the stimulus package and then showing up at 'the ribbon-cuttings for some of these important projects in your communities.' And he did it all while calling for 'a tone of civility instead of slash and burn will be helpful.'"

Obama Reprimands GOP: Stop Saying ‘This Guy’s Doing All Kinds Of Crazy Stuff…To Destroy America’

Yes, accountability is a bitch. The camera's were the only problem for the Republicans. True patriots, they are.

Republicans dismayed by Obama’s strong performance, say it was a ‘mistake’ to let cameras roll.:

"RUSSERT: Tom Cole — former head of the NRCC, congressman from Oklahoma — said, “He scored many points. He did really well.” Barack Obama, for an hour and a half, was able to refute every single Republican talking point used against him on the major issues of the day. In essence, it was almost like a debate where he was front and center for the majority of it. … One Republican said to me, off the record, behind closed doors: “It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that.”"

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DBT Week in Review - 1/29/10

DBT!

Booker T. Jones Potato Hole is up for two Grammies!

Remember, you can tune in online for the awards not shown on TV.

Go Booker and DBT!

I almost feel this one in my bones. The stars are really aligned at the moment. (Roll Tide, anyone?)

Nominees | GRAMMY.com

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Check out the new bio if you haven't already.

Drive-By Truckers- Bio

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Peter Grumbine reviews This Fucking Job

NEW DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS SONG, TOUR DATES, ALBUM ART, DOCUMENTARY | The People's Music:

"When most bands make an announcement, they simply do that: they make AN announcement, but not the Drive-by Truckers. No, when you get some DBT news, you get all kinds of cool shit in your inbox.

Today the Truckers released “This Fucking Job” the first song off their upcoming album “The Big To-Do,” they unveiled the cover art by the always brilliant Wes Freed, they announced tour dates, and released more screening dates for the documentary on the band “The Secret to a Happy Ending.” That’s more than most indie shitheads do in a career, and it was just another Tuesday for the Truckers."

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Check out Nuci's Thank you for the fans and links reviewing the benefit.

Nu�i's Space - DBT Review

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Camp Amped Band:

Here they are covering Centro-Matic's Breathe Deep Not Loud:

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I'll have a full picture post from the 3 night run hopefully up Monday.

Here are a couple more.

Look at these NBers:

I do know one of them battled an won this bad boy at the auction:

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Check out the Dead Drunk and Naked cover by The BluesBerries from....

Steyr, Oberösterreich Austria

The BluesBerries on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads:

"and the occasional modern song (Dead Drunk & Naked by The Drive-By Truckers and Prison Grove by Warren Zevon)."

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Don't worry, great music is on the way - ESPN:

"A week later, on March 16, new work from the Drive-By Truckers. Meaning that on March 17, you'll be able to find me hunkered in my bedroom with a bottle of whiskey to drink, a mixed-breed dog to pet, and the Truckers on my stereo. I'll be as happy as a man can be.

(Note: I do not own a dog, mixed-breed or otherwise. But I might buy one on March 15, to get ready.)"

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Best Sing-A-Long ever:

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Keep on Smiling, y'all:

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Muscle Shoals Sound

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Stumbled upon these on YouTube:

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Music I Like

If you haven't gotten Hubbards latest one you are missing out.

Sessions: Ray Wylie Hubbard | American Songwriter

Ray Wylie Hubbard, the bard behind Jerry Jeff Walker’s classic ‘73 cut “Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother,” was visiting Nashville, up from his home outside of Austin, Texas, when he stopped in to discuss his new album A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is No C). The album features the title cut (inspired by his favorite Poe poem) as well as the co-write with Hayes Carll, “Drunken Poet’s Dream,” also the first cut on Hayes’ 2007 album Trouble In Mind. Hubbard discussed life in Texas as an elder statesman of songwriting, what it’s like taking guys like Hayes under his wing and new tools like e-mail (!) and Masterwriter that keep his songwriting fresh. Take a listen to three live tracks that Hubbard recorded in our office and, below the interview, check out the video of Hubbard playing the album’s title track.

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Dead Drunk and Naked

The Stupidest Pop Lyrics Of All Time

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Like 54k isn't just as 'monstrous'.

Judge slashes ‘monstrous’ fine in music piracy case | Raw Story:

"WASHINGTON — Condemning a two-million-dollar fine meted out to a Minnesota woman for illegally downloading music over the Internet as 'monstrous and shocking,' a judge has slashed the penalty to 54,000 dollars.

US District Court Michael Davis said the fine imposed by a jury on Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the town of Brainerd, veered into the 'realm of gross injustice.'"

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Just another day in the Tennessee Valley

Couple in court; body still missing | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"Her car was discovered burned beyond recognition Friday on an isolated logging road in McNairy County. Authorities said a GPS unit in the car indicated it left the Beersdorf residence Thursday and was driven to McNairy County."

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Salinger was still alive?!? We'll RIP, then, J.D.

J.D. Salinger Dead: 'Catcher in the Rye' Author Dies At 91:

"NEW YORK — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose 'The Catcher in the Rye' shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91."

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Home-Run Obama

Excellent job by our President last night.

Speech didn't soar or get too lofty. Very practical and he took some folks to task who needed it.

I support the President (though not blindly or quietly) and I support the House Dems.

The entire Senate can suck it. Those fuckers are a real problem. We must get rid of the filibuster.

News Analysis - Obama Delivers Confident Speech to a Skeptical Audience - NYTimes.com:

"He pleaded for patience and understanding. “I campaigned on the promise of change; ‘change we can believe in,’ the slogan went,” he said toward the end of the address. “And right now, I know there are many Americans who aren’t sure if they still believe we can change — or that I can deliver it.

“But, remember this,” he went on. “I never suggested that change would be easy, or that I can do it alone. Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That’s just how it is.”"

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But, surprise, here's my problem.

I hope Obama's continued talk of Bipartisanship is only for show. He MUST realize that to forsake all progress in the name of bipartisanship is a horrible decision.

These people will, never, ever, ever, fucking work with you Obama.

Do whatever Kabuke you feel you need, but if it appears that this will be your actual governing strategy, I'll work my ass off to have someone primary you in 2012.

These people hate you. They hate that you are a black man. They do not see you as a legitimate president. There is no reason to legitimize them back.

Obama Emphasizes Bipartisanship: Dems And GOP Unite In Displeasure:

"And at the same time, his continued emphasis on bipartisanship worried Democrats, while failing to appease Republicans.

Some Democrats expressed concerns Wednesday night that he had failed to learn one of the key lessons from this first year in office: that efforts to find bipartisan consensus invariably lead to watered-down legislation that still doesn't get the GOP votes.

'It is fine if he wants to meet with Republicans once a week, but I hope he doesn't think those meetings will produce anything,' Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who worked on the losing side of the recent Massachusetts Senate race told the Huffington Post. 'I hope he understand that bipartisanship won't work and it won't produce the results he wants.

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What Jon Says.

Jon Stewart Warns Dems: Republicans Are "F**king With You!" (VIDEO):

"Shocked that the Dems would make such concessions, Stewart asked, 'Don't you get what the Republicans are doing? They're fucking with you.' He then compared the ploy to the 'Wonder Years' where Fred Savage's character would repeatedly attempt to get into a station wagon, only to have his brother Wayne drive off. Stewart warned that giving into Republican agendas would be fruitless: 'No matter what you do, the Republicans are not going to let you into the station wagon.'

Correspondent Aasif Mandvi joined Stewart, going as far to say that Democrats should abandon their unrealized agenda and revert to Bush-era policies. To top it off, he unveiled a new logo for the DNC: a lifeless possum. Explained Mandvi: 'It says, 'You can't hurt us anymore. Because we're already dead.''"

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He did stick to the assholes last night.

Obama Takes Crack At GOP For Not Applauding Tax Cuts (VIDEO):

"The Republican lawmakers in attendance sat on their hands while the president discussed policy provisions that, ostensibly, are very much in their philosophical wheelhouse. At one point, Obama turned to the GOP leadership with surprise: 'I thought I'd get some applause on that side,' he said.

So, apparently, did others. A Democratic strategist quite pleased with the chilly Republican reception emailed the Huffington Post the following: 'Footage of every Republican sitting when Obama talked about bank tax is going straight into every 2010 ad.'"

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What Kerry says. I've been saying it all along.

Best get outraged and louder than the teabaggers toot sweet.

One EVERY issue.

Think Progress � Kerry tells climate advocates to get as angry as Tea Partiers.:

"Kerry told the assembled crowd that if “the Tea Party folks can go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high,” then even more people “ought to get angry about the fact that they’re being killed and our planet is being injured” by fossil fuel pollution:"

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2nd place asshole of the night:

Chris Matthews on Obama: ‘I forgot he was black tonight for an hour’ | Raw Story

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Super-Duper Republican ASSHOLE of the century:

Alito Mouths 'NOT TRUE' At State Of The Union (VIDEO)

Daily Kos: Greenwald on Alito: "A Serious And Substantive Breach Of Protocol":

"By contrast, the behavior of Justice Alito at last night's State of the Union address -- visibly shaking his head and mouthing the words 'not true' when Obama warned of the dangers of the Court's Citizens United ruling -- was a serious and substantive breach of protocol that reflects very poorly on Alito and only further undermines the credibility of the Court. It has nothing to do with etiquette and everything to do with the Court's ability to adhere to its intended function,"

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31 House Republicans - O'Keefe Owed a Debt of Gratitude

Get to some important stuff first before I start bitching.

DBT Press Release - 1/26/10

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Are you fucking serious?!? GODDAMMIT!

Obama: ‘I’d rather be a really good one-term president’ | Raw Story:

"'I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,' he said Monday in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer."

There's no such thing as a 'really good one-term president'. No. Such. Fucking. Thing.

If you are 'really good' in your first term, then you are elected for a 2nd term.

Yes, the U.S. is a clusterfuck of stupidity but not the 'Yeah, he was a really good president.... let's vote for this douchebag, instead' battered fucking wife kind of stupid... well, OK, sometimes that stupid, but.... just FUCK!

Just because he was articulate expressing this view doesn't make it any stupider than the dumbest thing Bush ever said.

You are making this really hard, Obama.

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We elected a DEMOCRAT, Obama, not whatever kind of Republican you are trying to be.

Why in the hell is this man trying to legitimize one of the dumbest conservative ideas out there.

Spending freeze? Really?

Obama Liquidates Himself - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com:

"A spending freeze? That’s the brilliant response of the Obama team to their first serious political setback?

It’s appalling on every level."

Obama must be being paid to write Republican campaign commercials.

Every heard of 'He was for it before he was against it', Obama?

Candidate Obama criticized McCain’s spending freeze idea as ‘hatchet’ | Raw Story

"The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel," then-Senator Obama said in his first presidential debate against McCain. "There are some programs that are very important that are underfunded."

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Snark freeze

Daily Kos: BREAKING: Liberals announce “support freeze”:

"WASHINGTON—Speaking for the millions of principled American liberals who believe in the government’s fundamental ability to best address the republic’s ills, left-wing favorite Howard Dean took the podium today in Washington to announce a 'freeze' of support for the Obama Administration and its policy agenda.

Howard Dean at today's event, speaking on behalf of liberals everywhere:

'By cutting all discretionary support for the Obama Administration over the next three years, liberals in America will save up to 250 billion hours of wasted time and energy on mid-term campaigning and voting in 2010 alone. Not to mention the millions of dollars we can save withholding campaign contributions. I know this all sounds radical, even crazy, but I don’t see liberals as having much of a choice. If we continue to let the president think he has our support, there’s no telling which atrocities he may perpetrate to win over independents. It must stop here.'"

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I REALLY wanted to lead with this bit of gold, but....

Watergate, anyone? This one goes deep, I'm sure. But, this is America. After Nixon, conservatives ensured that only the small take the fall.

ACORN gotcha man among four arrested for attempting to bug Mary Landrieu's office | Louisiana Politics & Government - - Louisiana Politics | State Legislature News - NOLA.com:

"The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group's credibility."

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The 'news' always gets it wrong.

But, point a finger we must.

John Atlas: ACORN Is Back in the News, but the News Still Gets it Wrong:

"Now ACORN is back in the news, but as part of the 'back story' linked to O'Keefe's arrest. In reporting on O'Keefe's arrest, however, the mainstream press continues to botch the ACORN story. In her report for National Public Radio, for example, reporter Eileen Fleming said that in reaction to the controversy over ACORN, Congress had blocked federal funds going to the group, without mentioning that a federal district court ruling had overturned Congress' action on December 12, 2009. The Associated Press omitted the same important fact. Reporting in the The Times-Picayune, David Hammer, repeated the myth that O'Keefe was dressed as a pimp when taping ACORN employees. In fact, O'Keefe presented himself to ACORN staffers as a friend, or boyfriend, of his colleague, Ms. Giles, who was posing as a prostitute. O'Keefe wore a dress shirt and normal clothing when he was in the ACORN offices, but spliced in shots of himself wearing the pimp outfit in the final videos to make it appear that he had worn them in the meetings with ACORN. The New York Times' story on Tuesday, by Campbell Robertson and Liz Robbins, made the same mistake."

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He'll be getting his ass sued off too whilst sitting in a federal prison.

FOXNews.com - ACORN Employee Sues Undercover Filmmakers

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And, get this:

FLASHBACK: 31 House Republicans Supported Resolution Honoring Alleged Felon James O'Keefe | Media Matters Action Network:

"The following 31 House Republicans cosponsored Olson's measure, which declared that O'Keefe was 'owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the United States':"

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Don't tell Obama. He'll up the pace of running away from the folks who elected him.

Humans Could Run 40 mph, in Theory - Yahoo! News:

"Humans could perhaps run as fast 40 mph, a new study suggests. Such a feat would leave in the dust the world's fastest runner, Usain Bolt, who has clocked nearly 28 mph in the 100-meter sprint.

The new findings come after researchers took a new look at the factors that limit human speed. Their conclusions? The top speed humans could reach may come down to how quickly muscles in the body can move."

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