Monday, December 3, 2012

Wake the fuck up... http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/03/1270541/corporate-profits-wages-record/

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/03/1270541/corporate-profits-wages-record/

Monday, November 26, 2012

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33153.htm

Monday, November 19, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhB1B6cObdU&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhB1B6cObdU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhB1B6cObdU&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhB1B6cObdU&feature=related

Sunday, November 11, 2012

As only an Iraq war veteran could say it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=akm3nYN8aG8#!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

This a truly magnificent performance of my favorite symphony!  I love that most are standing....adds energy to the piece. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DYmM-LE2-OA

Friday, October 5, 2012

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Give Peace A Chance!

Tonight I stumbled on this wonderfully executed video by Yoko.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO2bHSTQvdo

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Mirror Dome For My "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" living Room Ceiling

I've wanted one of these for the exact center of my livingroom ceiling mandala so today I FINALLY splurged!

http://www.superiormirror.com/catalog.asp?prodid=719615

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

This is a wonderfully dance-able remix of her relentless 1973 original. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rte8k_LuXus

Saturday, September 1, 2012

“If the Republican Party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove and Tom Delay, you’re not a political movement, you’re the Witness Protection Program. Because let’s be real. If you’re trying to sell what the Republican Party can do for you, it’s best not to remind people of what its recent fuck-ups actually did TO YOU, especially during hurricane season” 
Bill Maher

"He Built That"?

What stunning, bald-faced hypocrisy!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney-20120829

Friday, August 31, 2012

The Beatles

I've long loved two songs from the 'Yellow Submarine' album that seem quite obscure....'Northern Song' and  
'It's All Too Much', both written primarily by George Harrison. The second link is to the end of the movie and 'It's All Too Much'. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skcc3zWHAn8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G0gdjIC-XQ

"WE BUILT THIS"??

Give me a break!

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/8/31/will_taxpayers_foot_.html

What War?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/what-war_651279.html

Thursday, August 30, 2012

I usually think that calling woman a cunt is in poor taste

....but not in this situation. What a cunt.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-richest-woman-20120830,0,3323996.story

While helping my 82 year old wonderful neighbor Theresa with her gardens today I was reminded that, while I've had a great many really cool Christians of differing "brands" in my life over the years, those that self identify as Catholic seem to be the most Christ-like and accepting. I bought this house in November of 1998 when I still lived in Denver, and Theresa and her now-deceased husband Bill, who was the Deacon for MacDill AFB for many years, knowing that I am a pot-smoking homosexual, immediately gave me the keys to their house and I gave them mine. When I'd be in Denver and a storm would knock out the power, Bill would go into my house and reset all the outlet lamp timers. When I moved in to my home in 2002 I'd care for their dog Ginger, get the mail etc, turn on the porch light, etc. when they would travel. Bill had dementia for 6 years and Theresa could call me at 11 PM with me fully "altered" and playing my music full blast and I would immediately be grounded/not high and go into their home to assist her as he "acted out" until we could reassure him and get him calmed down. Since Bill died a few years ago I've been helping her out around the house and yard, and as always she calls to give me leftovers (Bill hated leftovers and I am a garbage gut tightwad who LOVES to be fed!) Other Catholics in my life, plus Methodists, have been similar blessings. Least Christ-like and scariest by FAR have been the "Born Again" Christians who usually "found Jesus" after hitting absolute bottom with alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc....hardly a "rational" intellectual conversion but instead one born of raw "end-of-my-rope" desperation. I know that Catholicism as a social force has a horrid history (Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, slaughter of native Americans, silence as Nazis slaughtered Jews etc.) but as individual friends and neighbors most Catholics have been wonderful to know, with their showing NONE of the crass shameful materialism as demonstrated by the Pope and the Vatican, nor the shrill judgementalism of "Born Again" Christians I've had the misfortune to know.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Cute music video that hits the mark....

Hot bodies too!   John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAGR0arBUo

Remarkable Video!

This is NOT a simulation but the Curiosity rover recording its own landing after dropping the heat shield that protected it during entry into the Martian atmosphere!

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/22/watch-curiosity-land-in-hd/?hpt=hp_t3

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Thursday, June 21, 2012

They Lied About Iraq, They Are Lying About Iran

I so hope that young people stop enlisting in the Empire's army that has nothing to do with "defending America" but everything to do with enriching the 1%. And I pray that people already IN the Empire's armed services will refuse orders WHEN an attack on Iran is ordered. How sad that when I was a child I believed I lived in the land of the "Good Guys" that the world looked up to, only to realize at 58 that this country is the  global epicenter of suffering and death caused by wars of choice for profit, that we are feared and hated instead, and for ample reasons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31669.htm

Sunday, May 20, 2012

I want this super-trippy floor in my Gay Trailer Trash On Acid Livingroom!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6N9Qid8Tqs&feature=related

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Friday, May 4, 2012

A very nice Fireball XL-5 tribute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z5zKWV23i4&feature=related
I hope he faces justice for the incredible suffering, injury, disease, death and destruction he brought to tens of millions of people in Iraq, Afghanistan, surrounding countries, and the U.S.

NDAA Contested

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/obama-ndaa-backlash

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

I love natural abstract compositions.....









Bless this brave patriot!!

This U.S. is creating "terrorists" faster than we can kill them by murdering innocent civilians all over the world using drones in violation of international laws and the Geneva Conventions.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNBlxdk9wPA&feature=share

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Does a day go by when Israeli Zionism does not commit an international crime?

Yet Israel, like any bully confronted, plays "victim". I am so embarrassed by the fact that I was a knee jerk supporter of Israel until the spring of 2001 when I FINALLY set aside my brainwashing and looked at the core issue of UN Resolution 242, which Israel has ignored and defied since 1967, aided by US vetoes and vast funding. Zionism's bizarre belief that they can just TAKE land inhabited by others for 20 centuries because their invisible version of the Flying Spaghetti Monster supposedly gave it to them millenia ago sure is convenient, and inherently amoral.

http://www.nilin-village.org/2012/04/24/new-settlement-on-nilins-land/

Monday, April 16, 2012

Quite the song and video if you've had your heart broken.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY&feature=youtu.be

This Infectious Song was No. 1 On the Dance Club Charts The Same Year...

that Bush "won" his second term via voting machine tampering in Ohio. Who'd have imagined a gay rights dance song at No. 1?!

http://soundcloud.com/yokoono/ono-every-man-has-a-man-dave-aude

Why are Bush and Cheney NOT facing war crimes charges?

There are pics of deformed babies born in Fallujah, where the US used banned white phosphorus and uranium weapons against a town that had NO tanks, MUCH worse than these. I hope I live to see the entire Bush cabal face justice for their vast crimes against the US and humanity.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255312/Birth-defects-Fallujah-rise-U-S-operation.html

Saturday, April 14, 2012

9-11 was an inside job

When Building 7 collapsed, then SOMEHOW the next day photos and names of all the hijackers were broadcast, and the claim that Atta's passport was SOMEHOW found in the debris, I was filled with suspicion about what we were being told. In my life history I have the systemic government lies about the "Gulf Of Tonkin" incidents used to expand the Vietnam War....count me as a "conspiracy whack job". The 1% know no limits.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31079.htm

The last stunning Lincoln was the Mark VIII back in 1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRPqxVlrF_8

Why is Bush Not Facing War Crimes Charges?

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/13-3

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The 1% Have NO Apparent Moral Qualms About Sending Our Children Off To Their Wars Of Choice For Profit

...that they and theirs studiously having the "honor" of serving in. Romney's cabinet would include at least two of the members of the PNAC that lied America into the illegal attack and occupation of Iraq.




Friday, March 30, 2012

This is the next-gen Mazda 6

I love the sleek futurism, including the two creases that trail back from the hood and front fender onto the sides of the car. This a VERY slightly tamed production version of their previous Shinari concept as I so hoped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKtlfEn68rY

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Give Me A Fucking Break!

I'll keep astrophysics  and evolution out of your church services and you keep your faith masquerading as "science" out of our schools!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/23/oklahoma-opens-the-door-for-creationism-in-schools/

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wonderful New Views Of A Gorgeous Extended Range Electric Sports Car

I love this thing and I hope it goes into production as is with no "watering down" of the radical design. This is the first time in a few years I've gone this mental over a concept car.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/03/infiniti-emerg-e-ev/

'Amelie' and

My friends Pat and Lyn over the last few weeks turned me onto dinner followed by these two quirky, creative and very human films by the same gifted director, Jean-Pierre Jeune. Heartwarming and charming!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0CK_jgNns&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buarPFzHmBw

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Here in 2012 I am still uplifted, mystified and inspired by this "song" by The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVf5Cr4M-F8

Nissan Ellure concept car

I'd so hoped that this was a sneak peek at the next-gen Altima, but an image accidentally leaked in a Nissan video reveals it was just the "design inspiration" of a MUCH tamer looking  production car. DANG!

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/11/17/nissan-ellure-concept-la-2010/

Saturday, March 3, 2012

      Last Night

Last night
the breeze through my bedroom window
was cool and carried distant train song,
and the scent of leaves  bruised by frost.
The sheets were crisp against my neck.
I studied moon shadows on the wall.

I heard a bobwhite
cry out in the autumn dark.....
if that moment could have been held
it would be gem,
be lense.

Soon I dreamed of the black lip of a midnight tide
moonlit and creeping inland;
a scent of wet algae and
stars......
the metallic taste of mystery.

I dreamed of a moonlit glass train,
the transparent cars roaring past me
just as the first snow of the year began.

There was no smoke,
no whistle of heat and steam,
only the smile of the waving engineer
and the gleam of clear wheels on steel.

John Starnes  1986

They Lied About Iraq, They Are Lying About Iran

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30698.htm

I Had No Idea How Grim Things Are For Europeans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQLab4AoNrQ&feature=player_embedded

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Ron Paul Hearing About Fiasco Currency

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Afl-Pmr3A&feature=youtu.be

The original 'War of the Worlds' movie

This icon came out the year I was born, 1953, and as an older child I loved it, and the manta ray crafts and their cool ray gun sounds were, along with dinosaurs and space ships, were among my most fun obsessions then. I am so glad I checked YouTube....the infamous battle scene that dazzled me for years during rare broadcasts in TV back then (WAY pre-VHS and DVD!) is there in hi-res!. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfF5fGPLYM&feature=related

What A Futuristic Stunner From 1938!!

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z9210/Hispano-Suiza-H6C.aspx

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Prehistoric Forest Preserved

Ever since childhood I've long for a time machine so I could see landscapes such as this one.....a forest without trees.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/21/300-million-year-old-forest-found-in-china-99093

Monday, February 20, 2012

A Breathtaking Performance Of One Of My Favorite Love Songs

My heart spills over with admiration of, and gratitude to, the many gifted people who together created this masterpiece, each and every time I play it.  Simply remarkable.  John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzWjTrRcDAE

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Cool flying wing!

My paper flying wing planes in Denver always had winglets that drooped down...if I made them tilt up in the usual position, the planes would invariably porpoise! I'm reviving an RC foam plane project begun by me and a former friend who turned me onto this affordable approach, a healthy legacy of our relationship, by using three carbon fiber fishing pole tips to use to both strengthen the wings and also to join them to the foam lifting body glider that will house the battery, with the motor THIS time mounted on the rear. I love this jet-powered flying wing! Amazing that jet engines can be so tiny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g433yysM2AA

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Pics From Yesterday's March On South Tampa's MacDill AFB, Home To Central Command

We got several angry LONG honks and birds shot at us, but MANY more thumbs up, peace signs, waves and smiles and friendly toots. The police were polite, friendly and helpful.

http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u121/stpeteforpeace/No%20War%20on%20Iran%20protest%20-%20Tampa%20Feb%2012/?albumview=slideshow

Thursday, February 2, 2012

The 1% Is Again Trying To Make Americans "Want" To Attack A Country, This Time Iran

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30422.htm

Refuse to "Serve"!!

"The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles. The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another's throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt. And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose-especially their lives."  
Eugene Debs

Feel Like This Daily!

http://positivesharing.com/2012/01/friday-spoing-46/

Rick Santorum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3BYcHmBhE

A Remarkable Encounter With Wild Gorillas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hg2hCuDy2wg#!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

What Astonishing Hypocrisy!

As if the U.S. acts to "stabilize" governments there and elsewhere! This country never STOPS destabilizing governments all around the world, even democracies like Iran was before the CIA toppled it in 1953 to install the Shah. How does Panetta look himself in the mirror each day?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcFCdFx8gs

Remarkable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDTsZn-eM5g

Monday, January 9, 2012

I Love This Post On A New Sites About Panetta's Freudian Slip....

“I think the pressure of the sanctions, the diplomatic pressures from everywhere, Europe, the United States, elsewhere, it’s working to put pressure on them,”

Working to put "pressure on them" for what, not having a nuclear weapons program?  Does this fucking douchebag really still expect us to believe that we are morally above other nations.  We fucking nuked Japan!  We run dozens of secret torture prisons.  We invaded two (three, four, five?) sovereign countries based on a web of lies and greed and killed hundreds of thousands of people.  What the fuck did Iran do?

This Lexus Concept Car Almost Gives Me a Boner!

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/09/lexus-lf-lc-concept-detroit-2012/

Video of the Chevy TRU I40s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foOMbOBE7HY

Panetta Admits That Iran Is NOT Trying To Build Nuclear Weapons

Yet Usrael beats the war drums louder and louder for a new version of "Saddam has WMDs and did 9-11".

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/09/panetta-admits-iran-not-developing-nukes/

Cool Chevy Concept Car Unveiled Today

This is the first Chevy concept to get me excited since the Centennial Corvette and before that, the Chevy SS of some years back.

http://www.netcarshow.com/chevrolet/2012-tru_140s_concept/

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2012

One of Yoko's Eight No. 1 Dance Club Hits

I love the fierce vocals and the unrelenting beat tying together the deliciously complex structure.

http://imaginepeace.com/archives/13862