Marc Dion: Ya Know What's Wrong With This Country? (Creators Syndicate)
Every business in the whole country conspires to get you into debt, and there is no institutional understanding of anyone's desire to live within their means. I could get a $400,000 mortgage, which I could not pay for even a month, easier than I can get one company to let me save up for something I can afford, $10 at a time.
Mark Shields: The Anti-Washington Candidate (Creators Syndicate)
… the Democrats' historic summons to a public sector that abolished slavery, ended racial segregation, saved the Great Lakes and built the world's greatest higher education system. Absent is the inspiring call of John Kennedy: "Let the public service be a good and lively career. And let every man and woman who works in an area of our national government, in any branch, at any level, be able to say with pride and with honor in future years, 'I served the United States government in that hour of our nation's need.'"
Tom Shales: This One's a Keeper
The president stayed safely away from flamboyance or posturing that could be seen as demagoguery. A refrain like "Let's get it done, let's get it done" was spoken almost conversationally, not with wild-eyed fanaticism, but the words still carried hefty impact. There are no unconquerable problems, Obama was saying, whether talking about the ease with which lunatics can obtain assault weapons or the difficulty that middle-class couples have getting their homes re-financed.
Scott Burns: For Couch Potato Investors, 2012 Was a Good Year for Margaritas (AssetBuilder)
A little elbow bending with your investments paid off in 2012. The return on my Margarita portfolio, a mixture of one part domestic stocks, one part international stocks and one part inflation-protected bonds, provided a return of 13.31 percent. That's better than 78 percent of the managed funds categorized at "moderate allocation" funds by Morningstar.
A Conversation with E.O. Wilson (NOVA)
"The reason I'm an optimist," says Edward Wilson, referring to where society stands in terms of protecting the natural world, "is that we still have a lot of elasticity, a lot of wiggle room."
People's responses to being handed a free bouquet of flowers (Imgur)
After a launch for a flower-message concept called 'Cryptofloricon', we had a lot of flowers left over. We went to the busy Liverpool Street station in London and handed them to strangers. Here are some reactions.
The Wellingtons were a folk singing group who performed the title songs for multiple television programs, including "Gilligan's Island" and "Davy Crockett." They were also regulars on the television series "Shindig!"
The Wellingtons was formed by George Patterson The group was originally called The Lincolns, and recorded for Kapp Records. As The Wellingtons, they were signed by Walt Disney to record the theme song for Disney's "The Wonderful World of Color". For Disney Records, they recorded numerous theme songs, including "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" for the mini-series "Davy Crockett."
"Gilligan's Island" producer Sherwood Schwartz had actually had his pilot episodes for the show rejected twice and decided he needed a new theme song. Working with composer George Wyle he came up with a folk song that told the back story of the castaways, and hired The Wellingtons to sing it. The song was a hit. The Wellingtons appear in a second season (1965-66) episode as a rock group called "The Mosquitoes." Not only is the name a play on The Beatles, but the members of the fictitious group are named Bingo, Bango, Bongo and Irving in a reverse play on the names John, Paul, George and Ringo.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
The Wellingtons
Alan J replied:
The Wellingtons
Charlie wrote:
The Wellingtons
The Duke of Wellington The Wellingtons
Adam answered:
The Wellingtons.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The Wellingtons (who also played a band called the Mosquitos on an episode
of Gilligan's Island)
Sally said:
The Wellingtons were a folk singing group who performed the title songs for multiple television programs, including, "Gilligan's Island" and "Davy Crockett.
No kidding, I have never heard of them!!
According to the Google: The Wellingtons were part of the Walt Disney contract for various musical performances and were a folk singing group who performed the title songs for multiple television programs, including "Gilligan's Island" and "Davy Crockett." They were also regulars on the television series "Shindig!"
As I suspected, BUBBLE GUM musicians!
PS: My granddaughter is coming to spend the WE with me. We are going to sew and make cookies! She just turned 11, so our good times together are limited...
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
The Wellingtons were a folk singing group who performed the title songs for multiple television programs, including "Gilligan's Island" and "Davy Crockett>." They were also regulars on the television series "Shindig! They toured with star . That is evidence that they totally firkin sucked. Those Stone guys would only play "Shindig" if they let Howlin Wolf play.
BttbBob replied:
The Wellingtons (The Wellingtons?) Certainly I've heard them, but I've never heard OF them. Thus, once again, demonstrating the utter depths of my ignorance in certain musical matters. But, it's not a big deal really, cuz...
... I bet ya never heard of this dude! - Har!
Willis Alan Ramsey - Northeast Texas Women - YouTube ... an early 70's Texas hippie cult legend (Yes, there were tons o' hippies in Texas back then. Think: Willie Nelson and the city of Austin just fer starters). Had to hand to them Texas hippies... they treated us GI's pretty well overall considering the times and with 'The Great Southeast Asia Debacle' goin' on and all... Play the tune. It'll make ya smile. It did me then and still does now...
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Ramsey's album had a tune he called, "Muskrat Candlelight" which was covered by the folk-rock group 'America' and 'Captain and Tennille' as "Muskrat Love".
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He had a falling out with Shelter Records and only had the one album. For years his fans would ask him why he never did another and he would reply, "What's wrong with the first one?" - Har!
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As I always say, "There's no accountin' fer taste!" (Right, JoeS?)
MAM wrote:
The Wellingtons (folk group) formed by George Patterson.
And, Joe S said:
The Wellingtons. Well I'll be dipped, I've never heard of them, obviously they've been around a while. Were they named after footwear?
But speaking of music, it seems that once again Sally and I have expressed similar preferences. Oh, and I should clarify, when I referenced the British invasion I was no way speaking of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, or Queen.
Get well BadttbBob, what is it? Flu?
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', then another RERUN'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', then a RERUN'SNL: SNL In The 90s' (originally aired 05/06/07).
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Revenge', followed by a FRESH'Revenge For Real'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'The Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'Anaconda', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 5
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 6
[8:00AM] ELEPHANTS OF SAMBURU
[9:00AM] GREAT NATURAL WONDERS OF THE WORLD
[10:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Giant Centipede
[11:00AM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 1
[12:00PM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 2
[1:00PM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 3
[2:00PM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS-Episode 4
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 6
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 7
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 8
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 9
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 10
[8:00PM] THE PATRIOT
[11:00PM] THE PATRIOT
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 5
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 6
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 7
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 8 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Shahs Of Sunset', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Dinner For Schmucks', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself', 'Jeff Dunham: Minding The Monsters', 'Tosh.0', and 'Workaholics'.
FX has the movie 'Live Free Of Die Hard', followed by the movie 'TRON: Legacy', then the movie 'TRON: Legacy'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', 'Pawn Stars', 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', and 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whisker Wars-A New Growth
[6:30AM] Whisker Wars-Return of the Passion
[7:00AM] Lord of War
[9:30AM] Dilbert-The Pregnancy
[10:00AM] Dilbert-The Delivery
[10:30AM] Dilbert-Company Picnic
[11:00AM] Dilbert-The Fact
[11:30AM] Dilbert-Ethics
[12:00PM] Portlandia-Soft Opening
[12:30PM] Night of the Living Dead
[2:30PM] Cursed
[4:30PM] Cop Land
[6:45PM] Transporter 3
[9:00PM] Charlie Wilson's War
[11:00PM] Portlandia-Alexandra
[11:30PM] Portlandia-Blunderbuss
[12:00AM] Trapped in the Closet-Chapters 1-33
[3:00AM] Charlie Wilson's War
[5:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Away From Her
[8:00A] Holy Rollers
[9:45A] Rescue Dawn
[12:00P] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
[2:00P] The Squid And The Whale
[3:30P] Lords of Detroit
[3:45P] Holy Rollers
[5:30P] Rescue Dawn
[7:45P] An Officer and a Gentleman
[10:00P] Big Trouble in Little China
[11:45P] Spit Gold Under an Empire
[12:00A] Me and Orson Welles
[2:00A] The Waiting Room
[4:00A] The Ghost (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Fast & Furious', followed by the movie 'GI Joe: The Rise Of The Cobra'.
Elizabeth Colbert Busch poses on a street in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. The sister of comedian Stephen Colbert is one of two Democrats seeking South Carolina's vacant 1st District congressional seat. There are 16 Republicans in the race.
Photo by Bruce Smith
Is there really a government law that disallows the Fourth Amendment for 200 million Americans? Some people say it's true, but the reasoning behind a 100-mile "Constitution-free" zone argument is confusing at best.
The American Civil Liberties Union has been saying since 2010 that a regulation allowing customs and immigration agents to search electronic devices at America's borders without cause is wrong. Two years prior to that, the ACLU also warned of a 100-mile-wide U.S. border called the "Constitution-free zone" where such searches could occur.
The DHS said that customs and immigration agents can "exercise long-standing constitutional and statutory authority permitting suspicionless and warrantless searches of merchandise at the border and its functional equivalent."
The story was picked up by Wired magazine and some tech and political blogs as another example of the 100-mile "Constitution-free" zone and a violation of Fourth Amendment rights.
Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, right, and singer/actress Queen Latifah arrive at the NBA All-Star celebrity game Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Houston.
Photo by Pat Sullivan
Days after the congressional aide met the University of Texas history and journalism graduate in Austin, he boldly proposed marriage.
Claudia Alta Taylor, the 21-year-old rancher's daughter known to her friends as "Bird," was intrigued but thought Lyndon Johnson's proposal was much too impulsive. Her clearly smitten suitor, however, was persistent.
"It is an important decision," he wrote to her in one of the nearly 90 love letters the pair exchanged during their 10-week courtship in 1934. "It isn't being made in one night ... but your lack of decision hasn't tempered either my affection, devotion or ability to know what I want."
She replied that his proposal and repeated insistence "sort of put me on the spot, didn't it, dear? All I can say, in absolutely honesty, is - I love you, I don't know how everlastingly I love you - so I can't answer you yet."
The correspondence between the 26-year-old future president and the woman the world would come to know as Lady Bird are available for public review for the first time starting Thursday - Valentine's Day - at the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas at Austin.
According to media reports, a fireball streaked through the skies above California's Bay Area Friday evening (Feb. 15), just hours after another bright meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk and a 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid gave Earth a historically close shave.
The Bay Area fireball blazed up around 7:45 p.m. local time Friday (10:45 p.m. EST; 0345 GMT Saturday), NBC Bay Area reported. The meteor apparently had a bluish tinge and was visible over a wide swath of the region, from Fairfield north of San Francisco Bay down to Gilroy, which is south of San Jose.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, which distinguished the California fireball from its Russian counterpart. The Chelyabinsk blast generated a powerful shock wave that damaged hundreds of buildings and wounded more than 1,000 people.
Friday's Russian fireball was the largest such explosion since a 1908 airburst levelled 825 square miles (2,137 square kilometers) of forest in the Tunguska region of Siberia, NASA scientists said.
Hugh Grant says he has become a father for the second time.
The "Four Weddings and a Funeral" star used his Twitter account to announce Saturday: "Am thrilled my daughter now has a brother. Adore them both to an uncool degree."
He said both children "have a fab mum" and: "To be crystal clear, I am the Daddy."
Grant's sometime girlfriend Tinglan Hong gave birth to the couple's daughter in 2011.
Facebook Inc said on Friday it had been the target of an unidentified hacker group, but it found no evidence that user data was compromised.
"Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack," the company said in a blog post posted on Friday afternoon, just before the three-day Presidents Day weekend. "The attack occurred when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website that was compromised."
A security expert at another company with knowledge of the matter said he was told the Facebook attack appeared to have originated in China.
Facebook's announcement follows recent cyber attacks on other prominent websites. Twitter, the microblogging social network, said earlier this month it had been hacked and that about 250,000 user accounts were potentially compromised, with attackers gaining access to information, including user names and email addresses.
Newspaper websites, including those of The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, have also been infiltrated. Those attacks were attributed by the news organizations to Chinese hackers targeting coverage of China.
Women in traditional Russian clothes wait for the flower ceremony of the women's skeleton test event at the "Sanki" sliding center in Rosa Khutor, a venue for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, near Sochi February 16, 2013. Although many complexes and venues in the Black Sea resort of Sochi mostly resemble building sites that are still under construction, there is nothing to suggest any concern over readiness. Construction will be completed by August 2013 according to organizers. The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opens on February 7, 2014.
Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach
Reeva Steenkamp's last wish for her family before she was shot dead at boyfriend Oscar Pistorius' home was for them to watch her in a reality TV show that went on air in South Africa on Saturday night, two days after her killing.
Sharon Steenkamp, Reeva's cousin, told The Associated Press that the model and law graduate was "proud of being in the show" and asked them in their last conversation to make sure that they watched it.
The South African Broadcasting Corp. aired the "Tropika Island of Treasure" program, showing the late Steenkamp - the victim of a Valentine's Day shooting at Pistorius' home - laughing and smiling in Jamaica when it was filmed last year.
Steenkamp, a 29-year-old blonde model who graduated from law school, died after suffering four gunshot wounds, police said. Officers recovered a 9 mm pistol from Pistorius' house and quickly charged the Olympian with murder over Steenkamp's killing.
Members of the Mansudae Art Troupe take part in a music and dance performance, titled "Love the Country", at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre on the occasion of the birth anniversary of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-Il on February 16, 2013 in this picture taken and released by the North's official KCNA news agency on Saturday.
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow is scheduled to speak at a megachurch in Dallas whose pastor has spoken out against Muslims, Jews, Mormons and members of the LGBT community.
Tebow is listed as a special guest at one of the First Baptist Church's morning services on April 28, according to its website.
The church is led by Evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress, who has previously denounced non-Christian religions such as Islam, Judaism and Mormonism. Leading up to the most recent presidential election, Jeffress warned parishioners that re-electing President Barack Obama would "lead to the rise of the Antichrist," according to The Christian Post. While denouncing the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Jeffress also declared that 70 percent of the gay population has AIDS, and referred to it as "a gay disease," according to ThinkProgress.org.
Tebow has made no secret of the fact that he's a devout Christian, but has shied away from taking a stance on controversial social issues.
In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, displayed is the 1957 ceramic piece titled "The Lovers and the Beast," by artist Marc Chagall included in the "Chagall: Beyond Color," exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas. This will be the only U.S. venue to host the exhibit that opens to the public on Sunday.
Photo by LM Otero
Documents released Friday shed light on the inner workings of a secretive and now-disgraced Roman Catholic order called the Legion of Christ, including new details on how the organization solicited money from an elderly widow, eventually persuading her to bequeath it $60 million.
The documents, previously sealed in a lawsuit brought before Superior Court in Rhode Island, include thousands of pages of testimony from high-ranking leaders at the Legion, its members and relatives of wealthy widow Gabrielle Mee. They are the first-ever depositions of high-ranking Legion officials and include how the order's former second-in-command learned in 2006 that its founder had fathered a child.
The No. 2 said he didn't go public with the news of the paternity because the founder, the late Rev. Marcial Maciel, had already been sanctioned by the Holy See for having sexually abused seminarians and forced into a lifetime of penance and prayer.
Pope Benedict XVI took over the Legion in 2010 after a Vatican investigation determined that Maciel had lived a double life, including fathering three children by two women. The pope ordered a wholesale reform of the order and named a papal delegate to oversee it.
The Legion scandal is significant because it shows how the Holy See willfully ignored credible allegations of abuse against Maciel for decades while holding him up as a model of sainthood for the faithful because he brought in money and vocations to the priesthood. The scandal, which has tarnished the legacy of Pope John Paul II, is cited as an especially egregious example of how the Vatican ignored decades of reports about sexually abusive priests because church leaders put the interests of the institution above those of the victims.
A cheese sculpture of the Mount Rushmore national monument is seen at Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Times Square, New York February 16, 2013. Artist Sarah Kaufmann used 160 pounds of cheddar cheese over the span of two days to carve out a replica of the historic Mount Rushmore national monument to commemorate President's Day holiday which is observed on February 18, 2013.
Photo by Zoran Milich
Rabbits are wreaking havoc on cars parked at Denver International Airport by eating spark plug cables and other wiring.
To stop the problem, federal wildlife workers are removing at least 100 bunnies a month while parking companies install better fences and build perches for predator hawks and eagles.
Airport spokeswoman Laura Coale says that out of 4.3 million parking transactions in 2012, three claims were submitted for rodent or rabbit damage, and none was submitted with a claim for towing.
Mechanics say coating the wires with fox or coyote urine can rob the rabbits of their appetite. Fox urine can be purchased at many hunting shops.
An exhibitor shows an Exotico cat during an international cat show in Medellin February 16, 2013. About 18 breeds of cats were part of the show.
Photo by Albeiro Lopera
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Is there really a government law that disallows the Fourth Amendment for 200 million Americans? Some people say it's true, but the reasoning behind a 100-mile "Constitution-free" zone argument is confusing at best.
