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Here's a groovy fashion flashback:

"Time of the Season" was orphaned by The Zombies -- they broke up a year before the song became a hit in 1969.

Like The Rolling Stones, The Zombies had been around since 1962 -- here's how they looked and sounded in 1964 -- fifty years ago.

Notice how that song has an actual ending and not a fade out -- that's the hallmark of a live performing stage act and not a studio band.  Listen to many of the early Beatles songs and you'll also hear clean abrupt endings.  How else are you going to close a song live? I think radio DJ's learned to love fade outs because they could start talking over the song.

Nearly Everything We Know About The Moon

 

"Scientists have pinned down the birth date of the moon to within 100 million years of the birth of the solar system — the best timeline yet for the evolution of our planet's natural satellite.

This new discovery about the origin of the moon may help solve a mystery about why the moon and the Earth appear virtually identical in makeup, investigators added." read more 

Harry Montana

Eighty Amish Men Move A House By Hand

Their religious beliefs preclude the use of cranes and tractors and other equipment.  When a house had to be moved onto a new concrete pad, the only way to move it was by hand.



Wasn't that something?  How about 120 Amish men moving a barn?




Holy yoder, batman!  Maybe the Amish built the pyramids.  You never know.  This took place in rural Dalton, Wisconsin.  An Amish man assembled a couple hundred neighbors to move his pole shed from one area of his farm to another.  As word spread it became a sort of event and quite a few spectators turned out.  This was the first time anything like this had been attempted in this settlement. Once the building was lifted it took maybe five minutes to actually move.

Kudos for the care with which the videos were made and edited.  The old order Amish  don't like to be photographed or videotaped.

In the Trunk: poor executive function

"Just as my suspension ended, I got pulled over.

The policeman said to me, “Do you know why you got pulled over?”

I said, “No.”

He said, “Your tags are expired.”

I was shocked. I didn’t think people really kept track of their tags.

He said, “Can I see your license?”

I started crying.

The kids said, from the back seat, “Are you in trouble? Are you going to jail? Did you break the law?”

I asked the policeman if I could get out of the car and talk to him because I didn’t want my kids to hear.

He said okay.

I explained that I didn’t have a license. I told him I’ve been trying to get one but I couldn’t and then I got it suspended and I said please don’t make it so it’s suspended again. I’ll never get a license.

He gave the kids stickers and coloring books while he made calls on his radio and wrote tickets in his car. He ticketed me for the tags but not the license.

I went back to get a license and I couldn’t do it. I didn’t have the right combination of name and address to match everything. I had changed my name and where I live so often that nothing matched. I went home discouraged.

...Slowly, I started taking steps to get my license. I hired someone to help me. I was making progress. I had a Wisconsin State ID and a social security card. And I was gearing up to the take the written exam.

To give you and idea of how hard it is for me to take a standardized test, when I took the GRE I scored in the 17th percentile. I think that’s where people score when English is not their first—or second—language.

My son sat next to me while I surreptitiously popped a Xanax and started the test.

The DMV person told my son he had to sit farther away from me.

There are a lot of questions that I’ve studied for. For example, I know that if you hit a deer and you do not take it, the next driver can take the deer home for himself.

I pass the written test. The Farmer and Jeanenne have a mini-celebration.

Jeanenne drives me to the DMV in Darlington to take the road test.  I wait too long at intersections but they still pass me.

Then they let me take six photos until I get one I like.

And Jeanenne says, “It’s amazing that even when you are trying to follow the rules and be like everyone else, you still get people to make exceptions for you. “

But look. It’s a good picture:"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I rate my executive functioning at -6P. How about you?

Popular Mechanics: "How to Make Your Headlights Shine Like New"

Over time, the plastic that makes up your headlights will degrade and cloud over. If yours aren't shining quite like they used to, here's what to do.

"Most headlights are made of polycarbonate plastic, which is durable and scratch-resistant. But over time polycarbonate clouds over, mostly due to UV rays that degrade the outer layer of plastic. Fortunately, there are plenty of products on the market designed to help you restore your car's 20/20 nighttime vision." read more

Anderson Cooper: "I don't believe in inheriting money"

"So he's far from miffed that his famous heiress mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, has told him he doesn't stand to inherit her fortune. In fact, he sounds relieved."

"My mom's made clear to me that there's no trust fund," Anderson Cooper, 46, told Howard Stern on his radio show Monday. "There's none of that."

"Who has inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in their own life? From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would've been so motivated."

That question begs some research, which would/could mean he is passing on a chance to be a pioneer... or something.

"My dad (Wyatt Emory Cooper) grew up really poor in Mississippi ... I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to than, like, some statue of a great-great-great-grandfather who has no connection to my life."

When Anderson Cooper "came out", he said in an email to Andrew Sullivan...

I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

I don't know. Maybe Cooper could have made the case for using that money to advance the tide of history. That's the bottom line, isn't it? 'Money makes the world go around', pulling and tugging the moon, advancing and retreating the tides. What do you think?

Common Core

To say the fifteen-year old kid connects the dots on Common Core understates the report the young man provides. To refer to Patrick Richardson as a kid understates his intellect, his composure, his handling of his information, his presentation, the  gravitas he projects.

The video seen linked on Ace is 35 minutes long, well worth the time spent watching here. The project and the report is outstanding. (needs flash) 

Points of fact: Connect the dots as you know refers to a children's game in which a line is drawn by connecting numbered dots on a page in sequence in linear fashion starting with 1 and ending wherever it does until the last number is reached and by the trail of connected lines left behind a recognizable picture appears. A kid is an immature goat.

Connecting the dots by a kid is not what is happening here, rather, a grand conspiracy worth billions of dollars and decades of education of hundreds of thousands of students is occurring behind scenes but nonetheless leaving its heavy scent trail everywhere is picked up and pursued, rocks turned over, accounts looked into, portfolios examined, company histories closely vivisected, principals named and shown speaking, reports divulged, money followed, plots uncovered, methods explained, and motives examined and questioned. Not a dot game, not by a child, rather a thorough report on Common Core is presented complete.

My favorite part is his noting the copyright material at the front of his textbook, and all of the extra printed material not used. That is where the story is intimate. Immediately.

          

               "This is what I get to carry back and forth every day." 

A very fat book stuffed thick with crap not taught, carried back and forth day after day in his backpack multiplied by hundreds of thousands of  -- kids is it? -- every single day across America, land of the free, home of the brave.

Oh man, those two epithets just now caused me trip out and visualize "America" in hieroglyphics, this must be one of those Colorado things, cartouche, followed by two epithets, just like a royal name. So when the royal name is bashed, out of meanness or rewriting history, the correct name is still identified by its epithets left unbashed. Like this one.  The name is Akhenaten and that is known by the unbashed epithets. 

See, it would not be Canada: Home of the free, land of the brave, although that might not be wrong it is not Canada's epithets. It would not be Mexico, land of the free, home of the brave, although there are free and brave live there, it is not Mexico's epithets. True or false, those are still America's epithets. On account of a song.

"Ah" (transcribed: 3) an Egyptian eagle, "mer" a primitive wooden hoe, very common biliteral used frequently in names, "eh" (transcribed: i.) a sedge frond that looks like a feather, two frond feathers for "y",  "ka" two human arms connected as "stop", refers to a portion of the soul, an important sign used frequently in names.  That is what I saw just now. I bet I don't even have to make it. I bet someone already did. I just now lost that bet. Here, I made this.

G1 U6 M17-M17 D28  

That was easy. It says AhMerryKa. 

A-a-a-a-a-a-ny way. Back on Earth.

That remark about toting a book took me back. I carried my books back and forth with no intention of reading them. I figured if I paid attention in class HA! I'd have it nailed. If everything made sense along the way then I'd have no problem when the test came and that worked solidly until then but it was getting harder and harder to keep up the act  and finally at a new school I encountered Elaine Stotko sitting there by herself, a vision, a lovely girl like an angel,  and I wondered why all the boys were avoiding a fox like her so I mozzied on up and sat at the desk beside her and admired her beautiful luxurious long straight blond silken hair that occurs on princesses in towers, doll hair on a doll head with a doll face, no make up, nature girl, a hippy chick except intellectual, daughter of the corn, actually a Major's daughter it turned out, and I learned right off within one minute the reason boys kept a clear swath. She drove them off with her caustic cutting disrespect, her aloof attitude and insincere sharp-edged bitchiness that allowed no intimacy and discouraged humor and fun.

I have two sisters. Is she trying to charm me or what? It didn't work on me. She failed to drive me off and in her world that is very odd indeed. We turned out friends. She hooked up with another such officer's bitch-daughter with the same aloof streak that kept boys at a distance and the three of us ruled. Then I moved. But before that I asked her how she managed straight A's, this was when straight A's meant something, and she told me. It took me a moment to process what she was saying. It was quite incredible.

"Do you mean to tell me you read that thing? This whole time I thought the book was something to carry back and forth, part of the act." 

I adopted her student-ninja ways, there were other things too, like take notes, then re-write the notes at home legibly, then review the notes taken and review the book, a lot of work involved in getting straight A's hardly worth the effort but I wanted to be near Elaine. This guy here, Patrick Robertson, is a lot smarter than I was then. 

My second favorite thing is his popping up. It is irrepressible energy that pops his whole body up, he does that a few times. It is a minor thing but it is teenager thing, a little pop of energy that lifts the body. 

Patrick Richardson, you are impressive indeed. In deed you are impressive. In the YouTube description this:

Some may wonder what produces a young man like Patrick Richardson. Patrick is quick to credit his success to the role his family has played, by instilling in him strong religious beliefs and values, and encouraging him to develop his God given talents. Mrs. Lewis believes this is what has enabled him to become the mature, highly motivated, ambitious, well rounded productive young man he is today.

French Politics

The state -- friend of all, enemy of each one. ~ Paul Valéry 

To govern is to foresee. ~ Émile de Girardin 

Every nation has the government it deserves. ~ Joseph de Maistre 

The powerful man commands. Public opinion governs. ~ Henry de Montherlant 

The tyrant never corrects himself because he hears only flatterers. ~ André Maurois 

Gizmodo: "Just so we're clear, zapping pilots midair with lasers is an incredibly, psychotically stupid idea"

"Unfortunately, it's popping into the minds of an increasing number of idiots: nearly 4,000 incidents were reported in 2013, up more than ten-fold since 2005. The FBI now offers a $10,000 reward for reporting laser morons, and a national task force searches out perpetrators of this federal crime."

Astounding moron Sergio Rodriguez got slapped with a 14-year prison sentence earlier this month, convicted of aiming a handheld laser pointer at an emergency medical helicopter delivering a young patient to the Children's Hospital of Central California.

The criminal complaint against Rodriguez, obtained by Ars Technica, says Rodriguez blasted "Air George," the emergency transport helicopter serving Children's Hospital of Central California, as it was carrying a child patient to the Fresno hospital one night in August 2012. Air George radioed air traffic control, who mobilized a police helicopter to locate the laser.

That wasn't enough for Rodriguez. He blasted the police helicopter seven times as it circled his location.

Luckily, none of the pilots Rodriguez lasered were blinded, and the police helicopter helped officers from the nearby town of Clovis locate and arrest Rodriguez and his girlfriend Jennifer Coleman, who also tried blasting the helicopters at Rodriguez's encouragement.

Red Sox road to the White House

"For their first off-day of the regular season today, the Red Sox get to go on a field trip -- one they will long remember, as the 2013 World Series champions are honored at the White House."

TEXAS #SoxAndStripes #Champs pic.twitter.com/YOOD7f6ncm
— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) April 1, 2014 

Not Fit To Teach

This person is not fit to teach students at any level, especially at primary and secondary grades.  That is what I thought as I read this:

"If you are not serious about being an agent of change that helps stifle the oppressive systems, go find another job. Because you are a political figure."

The speaker was Kim Radersma, a former high school English teacher in California and Colorado. Radersma is currently working toward her Ph. D. in critical whiteness studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

Critical.  Whiteness.  Studies.

Radersma was leading a breakout session for educators at the National White Privilege Conference recently held in  Madison, Wisconsin.   Madison, an epicenter of white privilege, if there is such a thing.  A city filled with white liberals who stifle racial integration at every opportunity.

Radersma argued that teachers must fight against the oppressive structure in education and society. She said anyone who is going into teaching and education must be a political figure.

"Teaching is a political act, and you can't choose to be neutral. You are either a pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting against it," Radersma said during the session. "And if you think you are neutral, you are a pawn."

What sane parent would want his or her children in a class taught by Kim Radersma?  Or any teacher, for that matter who believes this, and who thinks it mandatory that teachers must be political in what and how they teach children.  It is leftist indoctrination writ large, increasingly a role held by public school teachers.

Radersma unwittingly makes an excellent argument in favor of home schooling and parochial schools, and against sending children to the indoctrination camps that some public schools have become.  

 "Being a white person who does anti-racist work is like being an alcoholic. I will never be recovered by my alcoholism, to use the metaphor," Radersma said. "I have to everyday wake up and acknowledge that I am so deeply imbedded with racist thoughts and notions and actions in my body that I have to choose everyday to do anti-racist work and think in an anti-racist way."

 Oh please.  Spare us the self-heroism and false drama, Kim Radersma.  And stay away from our children with your foolishness.  And as for your PhD in critical whiteness studies, it's horsehit that passes for eduction in the humanities departments of universities that will teach anything in order to keep the tuition money flowing.

Full article here.

Cut and Paste: Cobalt Lemons and Released Illegals

"Long before the Chevrolet Cobalt became known for having a deadly ignition defect, it was already seen as a lemon. Owners complained about power steering failures, locks inexplicably opening and closing, doors jamming shut in the rain — even windows falling out."

 



The report, provided to Breitbart News ahead of its late Sunday evening release, reviews internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) metrics to conclude that the Obama administration released 35 percent—or 68,000—convicted criminal aliens back into the U.S. general population when they could have been deported. “The criminal alien releases typically occur without formal notice to local law enforcement agencies and victims,” CIS’s Jessica Vaughan, the report’s author, added.

“There were transmission issues, issues with the clutch, engine issues, air-conditioning issues,” James Gonzales of Riverview, Fla., said of his 2006 Cobalt, which G.M. repurchased under Florida’s lemon law. “Everything went wrong with that car, and everything that went wrong needed a big fix. Mechanically, it was a huge nuisance.”

By “criminal,” ICE means people who have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony that is not a traffic violation. For instance, traffic violations like Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or even vehicular manslaughter do not count toward this description of “criminal alien.” As for the definition of “alien,” ICE mostly means illegal aliens, though some are legal aliens when they are considered deportable legal aliens—which is possible for legal immigrants who have committed a serious crime, like a felony.

CNN: “Boeing 777 Will Struggle To Maintain Altitude Once The Fuel Tanks Are Empty”

@jdawsey1 @instapundit pic.twitter.com/Of5Z5FxB5q
— Sister Too (@SisterstooInc) April 1, 2014

While most signs point to that Boeing 777 being lost to the sea, CNN is also lost, but still on the air.