Saturday Song Share: JD McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll

I just love this guy's brand of rockabilly:

Game of Thrones Best Character - Lady Mormont

I'm quite addicted to Game of Thrones, at least the TV version.  It is written, produced, and delivered impeccably, and the ranging story lines are original in their conceptualization and as entertaining as all hell.

The beauty of the story are the characters, and the fact that any one beloved character is as likely to be killed off as another.  I've had a couple of favorite characters, and each has found their way 6 feet under.  Fortunately for me, Season 6 introduced a new character, and she's a flat-out buttkicker.

She only has had two scenes, but she stole them both.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Lady Mormont of Bear Island:

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Lady Mormont helps Jon Snow

Lady Mormont calls out the Kings

I swear, the show is worth it just for her...

The Best Commercial Ever? Johnny Walker - Dear Brother

Marketing and advertising is what I do for a living.  As such, I critique not only from a consumer's standpoint, but from a professional one as well.

There's a lot of crap out there, ladies and gentlemen.  However, what this team produced is what advertising should be.  It's easily in my top five commercials of all time, if not my number one.  

In a world full of mechanisms to block/bypass ads, it is work like this that will save advertising.  

I can't wait to see my brother and hug the living tar out of him.

Hillary Skates

FBI Director Jim Comey lambasted Hillary Clinton and her staff yesterday for their abject negligence in her treatment of her private email server.  He also exposed myriad lies, such as she only wanted one device, she never had top secret email on the server, she turned over all the government related emails, and her server had never been hacked (among others).

His diatribe was long, but at the end, since her negligence wasn't intentional, she gets off clean.  Never mind that it was more important to Hillary that she be able to cover her tracks via her own illegal server, and that American citizens would be placed in jeopardy.  In the end the only thing that is important is that the Clintons are taken care of.

There is absolutely another set of rules for the Democrats.  Laws don't matter.  Public safety doesn't matter.  The only thing that matters is that they hold power.  Period.

And in their wake are millions of supporters, willing to turn a blind eye again and again, because the specter of losing power is far more scary than supporting a lying criminal.

This lady makes Nixon look like a choirboy, yet nobody cares.

God have mercy on our country.

David Feherty and His Father with Alzheimer's

For those of us touched by dementia, we clearly have stories very similar to this.  

Feherty is a hell of a man.  It would have taken a hell of a man to raise him.  Here's to Mr. Feherty.  Both of them.

What Happened to Patriotism?

Somewhere our country has gone off track, and the act of being proud about one's country is now viewed down upon.  In fact, in a recent article in the New York Daily News, the call was put out to have MLB "permanently retire ‘God Bless America,’ a song that offends everyone."

Indeed, from an early age, children who used to be taught that ours was the greatest nation in the history of the world are now taught that we are guilty of slavery, genocide, jingoism, sexism, racism, and white privilege.   To sum up, America now sucks, and we must atone for our wicked past.

When I grew up, we were one and half generations removed from WWII.  We had literally saved the world from oppression, torture, and death.  Likewise, upon our victory, we didn't vanquish our opponents, we rebuilt them with our own sweat and treasure.  That's happened pretty much never in human history.

Also during my childhood, we were deeply engaged in a cold war with the Soviet Union, and in many fronts, it felt like it was a war we were losing.  Freedom was on the run, Iranians took our citizens hostage, and America's glory days appeared gone.  Finally, we as a country had enough, and elected Reagan, and our good days returned for a short while.

They ended again once liberal ideology embedded itself into school curriculum.  Now, we're back to sucking.  Show respect for the flag or the country?  Then you're a damned rube.

What happened to us, and why do so many of our citizens hate our country and our history?  Perhaps we'll never know.  But in light of our birth as a country (the original Brexit), forgive me if I don't feel just a little proud.

Fellow rubes, enjoy, and happy Independence Day

  

Man Dancing with the World

This has been out there a while, and if you've already bumped into it, I apologize.

It is pretty darned cool:


How much better would all of our lives be if we could just take five minutes, shut up and dance with each other?

Saturday Song Share: Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

I understand
Just a little
No comprende
It's a riddle