At Least We Enjoyed The Ride....... Most of the Time.....
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To Celebrate the New Chinese New Year.....The Year of the Rabbit...
... Choosing a Dragon Song....
Happy "New" Russian New Year... With a Little Vintage "Midnight Hour" Greatful Dead From 1985/6 Featuring Ken Kesey, Bill Walton...
And The Usual Suspects...
I Should of used Googles for this Jump.... But I Stuck The Landing...Photo By The Legendary Mike Epstien 1990 or 1991
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Have a Very Jerry Merry Christmas.... and just remeber Uncle Sam has always been hiding out in a Rock & Roll Band....enjoy a little US Blues Animation performed 10-19-1974 from The Grateful Dead Movie
Happy Christmas From Willy Bova
"Subliminal Bears" (Short Film)
Featuring Genesis Album covers and "Spielberg Movies" to explain the Bear Conspiracies.... with Animation...
Most likely why Stephen Colbert is afraid of BEARS
Suka or Husky Superman as his dog Friends call him
Likes This Fat Paw Video.. Down From The Mountain 5-23-1998
This is Part 1 of Down from the Mountain preformed ( From the Fat Paw CD Illusions of the West ) at the Crystal Ballroom with Mike Walker sitting in on the Hammond B3 from 5-23-1998. The song normally runs around 16 minutes, this version stretched to 29 minutes. The curly Blonde haired guy who needs a lot of room, dancing around in the front row is the legendary "Buffalo Joe" from Eugene, Oregon. This was put up in three parts. Occasionally the camera is slightly out of focus due to Gremlins in the Sony VX1000 that night...
Enjoy The Show... Willy Bova
Comedian Bill Hicks on JFK Coup
Back and to the Left....
Bill Hicks on the New Presidents First Briefing
....You go into this smoking room with the 12 industrial ..... Who got you in there and your in this smokey room and this little Film Screen comes down... and a Big Guy in a Cigar... Roll the Film...and it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you have never seen before...That looks like ...the Grassy Knoll...and the film shows and the screen goes up, and the Big Guy with the Cigar asks... Any Questions? (New President answers) Just what my agenda is?
George Carlin on Airport Security
George Carlin on Airplane Safety
"Politics is the Entertainment Division of the Military Industrial Complex"
So said Frank Zappa... for some Nirvana "Teen spirit" follow the link
"Brokedown Palace"
Video for Nancy Pelosi...
Fat Lady Sings, America Becoming Canadian,
Republicans Waterloo is Health Care Reform,
According to Bush Speechwriter David Frum
Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.
It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. But:
(1) It’s a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs.
(2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now.
So far, I think a lot of conservatives will agree with me. Now comes the hard lesson:
A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.
At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.
Only, the hardliners overlooked a few key facts: Obama was elected with 53% of the vote, not Clinton’s 42%. The liberal block within the Democratic congressional caucus is bigger and stronger than it was in 1993-94. And of course the Democrats also remember their history, and also remember the consequences of their 1994 failure.
This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.....it’s Waterloo all right: ours.
Turning 50, One Long Strange Trip... Getting a Surprise Day of Heli Skiing for Your Birthday, from your Wife... Priceless...
America Is Not Yet Lost
By Paul Krugman
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic....
.....The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster. This is something they could and should do, by majority vote, on the first day of the next Senate session.
Don’t hold your breath. As it is, Democrats don’t even seem able to score political points by highlighting their opponents’ obstructionism.
It should be a simple message (and it should have been the central message in Massachusetts): a vote for a Republican, no matter what you think of him as a person, is a vote for paralysis....
Will Ferrell, Ben Harper, Beck and ZZ Top Play "Free Bird" for Conan' Final Tonight Show, The Video is Priceless...
Will Ferrell closed the show, much like he did Conan's final "Late Night" show less than a year ago. He performed "Free Bird," with help from Beck, ZZ Top, Ben Harper and Conan himself. MORE COWBELL!
Obama Staffer Wants ‘Cognitive Infiltration’ of Conspiracy Groups
From Cryptogon: Sunstein’s paper may be downloaded here. Wow. Clip a clothes peg over your nose if you try to make it through that one.
This story is interesting. In the paper Sustein uses the JFK Coup of 11-22-63 as an example. Most surveys over the last 10 years show that 90% of Americans believe that the Kennedy Coup was a conspiracy. As for the 10% who think Oswald acted alone, well they might want to consider watching the videos linked below the Sustein story. One features actual footage from the days around the assassination, and is around 8 hours long in it's five parts, the other two feature The HSCA expert on images, who produced a documentary of all the images taken in Dallas that day. His work is what caused the House to reopen the JFK and MLK Assassinations, and his documentary is absolutely amazing. The Last link is to the banned in America final episodes of The Men Who Killed Kennedy. Which implicates LBJ and H.L. Hunt, as well as General Walker and General Cabell deputy Director of the CIA, who was fired after the Pay of Pigs Fiasco..... Willy Bova
Via: Raw Story:
In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures,” in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups......
Evidence of Revision (1 of 5) :
The Assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald
This is the mindblowing 5-part video documentary series Evidence of Revision whose purpose is to present the publicly unavailable and even suppressed historical audio, video and film recordings largely unseen by the American and world public relating to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers...
JFK - Case for Conspiracy
This is Robert Groden's fascinating video documentary JFK - The Case for Conspiracy Part 1 (1993) which is the answer to tens of thousands of requests for his optically enhanced films and photographs of the actual assassination and the investigation and cover-up that followed. Groden has been considered the world's leading expert on the photographic evidence relating to the assassination of President Kennedy for nearly forty years. Presented here for the first time are the incredibly clear films of the murder, mastered from Groden's original material. This tape truly presents the case for conspiracy. Everything from the Presidential party landing at Love Field in Dallas, as well as the whole route of the motorcade through downtown Dallas, Dealey Plaza, the assassination and on to Parkland Hospital where the announcement of the President's death occurs. The reactions of the press, secret service agents, and crowds at Parkland Hospital are shown. Eyewitness testimony, rare and exclusive interviews with the doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. Utililizing more than 200 films of the motorcade and the assassination this video contains exclusive photographic, medical, acoustic, ballistic, and autopsy evidence. Groden's films are the best proof of the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy...
JFK - Case for Conspiracy II - The Kennedy Assassination Films
This is Robert Groden's fascinating video documentary JFK - The Case for Conspiracy Part 2 - The Kennedy Assassination Films (1995) which brings together the complete filmed record of the "Crime of the Century" - the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States on November 22, 1963 - an event that shocked the world. For the first time ever, all of the relevant film footage of that dark day has been assembled for this historic, milestone compilation. This is the very evidence that forced Congress to reopen the investigation. Now you too can be a witness to the assassination. Prepare to go back to Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, at 12:30pm in order to return to Dealey Plaza and see a detailed, moment-by-moment look at the shooting and aftermath, as filmed by amateur and professional photographers. Includes the famous Zapruder home movie of the assassination, available here for the first time in its original, unspliced condition, and in over 20 different versions. A great deal of disinformation from both official government and media sources has surrounded the assassination in recent years...
The Men Who Killed Kennedy (Banned in USA Episode)
The Final Chapter, ep.7 The Smoking Guns, seg.1
The Men Who Killed Kennedy (Banned in USA Episode)
The Final Chapter, ep.9 The Guilty Men, seg.1
Follow the links on the page to watch all the banned episodes, it is an eye opener, basically it implicates LBJ, H.L. Hunt, General Walker, and General Cabell, (Who's brother was the mayor of Dallas) among others....
33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True,
What Every Person Should Know
23.Kennedy Assassination - the 2nd Investigation by Congress Few People Know About, United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA): The HSCA was established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report, concluding that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated by a conspiracy involving the mob, and potentially the CIA.The House Select Committee on Assassinations undertook reinvestigations of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1979, a single Report and twelve volumes of appendices on each assassination were published by the Congress. In the JFK case, the HSCA found that there was a "probable conspiracy," though it was unable to determine the nature of that conspiracy or its other participants (besides Oswald).....
....many witnesses (some of whom were CIA agents and station chiefs in Dallas that morning) were killed the night before testifying.For example, George de Mohrenschildt was a petroleum geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.He also worked for the CIA.He also blew his brains out the night before he was to testify to the committee.The committee also uncovered, among many things, that Oswald left the marines where he learned how to speak fluent Russian (at the height of the cold war).He was given money by the State Department to travel to Russia where he stopped off in Japan at a top secret US Military facility.The Warren Commission even mentioned this part.What most people do not know is that he probably was working in the Cold War infiltrating the Russians as either a “dangle,” “double agent,” or “defector" of some kind.
What is interesting is that upon his return he got more money from the State Department to buy a house and work with an ex FBI Chief and CIA officials in training anti-Castro Cubans for an invasion.In Louisiana, where he was working, the CIA was involved in Operation Mongoose, Where Oswald worked under CIA Agent David Ferrie, who killed himself before testifying in a trial on the Assassination as well.... Oswald's tax returns are still classified top secret to this day. Why? Perhaps he was still getting $$ from the United States, which places him on the payroll.
Happy New Year
Grateful Dead 'One More Saturday Night'
12-31-1976 (Video)
Move Your Money to a Small Community Bank: A New Year's Resolution (Video)
Last week, over a pre-Christmas dinner, the two of us, along with political strategist Alexis McGill, filmmaker/author Eugene Jarecki, and Nick Penniman of the HuffPost Investigative Fund, began talking about the huge, growing chasm between the fortunes of Wall Street banks and Main Street banks, and started discussing what concrete steps individuals could take to help create a better financial system. Before long, the conversation turned practical, and with some help from friends in the world of bank analysis, a video and website were produced devoted to a simple idea: Move Your Money.
The big banks on Wall Street, propped up by taxpayer money and government guarantees, have had a record year, making record profits while returning to the highly leveraged activities that brought our economy to the brink of disaster. In a slap in the face to taxpayers, they have also cut back on the money they are lending, even though the need to get credit flowing again was one of the main points used in selling the public the bank bailout. But since April, the Big Four banks -- JP Morgan/Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo -- all of which took billions in taxpayer money, have cut lending to businesses by $100 billion....
Have a Grateful Christmas, Merry Festivus....and A Happy New Year
(New Videos by Justin Kretzmann about the Dead)
Grateful Dead New Years 85, Midnight Hour
with Commentary by Ken Kesey..(Video)
New Years Eve countdown, parade and Midnight Hour. Great commentary from Ken Kesey and Fr. Guido Sarducci. Absolutely classic
Senate Passes Landmark Health Care Bill
(Now the Real Sausage making begins in the Conference Committee)
This morning, after a year-long fight with Republicans, and a weeks-long debate, which ultimately pitted Democrat against Democrat, and liberal against liberal, the Senate passed a historic bill calling for major reforms of the U.S. health care system by a vote of 60-39. Presiding over the Senate, in a rare appearance, was Vice President Joe Biden. As Senate chair, the Vice President can serve as the tie-breaking vote in the event of a 50-50 deadlock. But tonight's victory for Democrats was never in doubt....
Palin Surprises Shatner On Tonight Show By Reading His Autobiography (Video)
On the Tonight Show Friday, William Shatner offered a dramatic reading of passages from Sarah Palin's memoir "Going Rogue."
Then in a surprise appearance, Palin showed up. She congratulated Shatner on doing a good job ... and then gave him a taste of his own medicine by reading excerpts from Shatner's own autobiograph...
Images of John Lennon Selected by Yoko Ono
(10-9-1940 to 12-8-1980)
Exclusive (Bush 2004 Election Web Guru): Mike Connell's Family Copes With His Mysterious Death, Tipsters, Legal Options
On December 18, 2008, Bush IT expert Mike Connell, a highly skilled pilot, was killed in a sudden crash while flying his small aircraft from Washington DC to his Akron/Canton home airport. The cause of the crash is still unknown and under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
For more than ten months, Connell's family has been coping with feelings of disbelief, anger and confusion and has many unanswered questions about the man they knew and loved.....Although mainly un-reported, there's a great deal of controversy surrounding Connell's death - largely in part because he was the architect of many Republican websites including GeorgeWBush.com and GWB43.com, the site Karl Rove used for 95% of his email correspondence. Connell was also considered a key witness in the election fraud lawsuit King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell. The suit implicates Former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell, Karl Rove and others of 2004 election night vote rigging.....
The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See (Video)
An interesting take on the Climate change debate, it has over 7 million views.
Forget DTV; FCC now planning "all-IP" phone transition
If you thought that the digital TV transition, with its billion-dollar coupon program for converter boxes, was a migration nightmare, wait until it's time for the phone system to dump its legacy circuit-switched system and move to an all-IP communications network. That day could be coming sooner than you think; the Federal Communications Commission has just requested comment on its planning for the transition....
Police Tapped Sprint Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times In A Year
Under a new system set up by Sprint, law enforcement agencies have gotten GPS data from the company about its wireless customers 8 million times in about a year, raising a host of questions about consumer privacy, transparency, and oversight of how police obtain location data. What this means -- and what many wireless customers no doubt do not realize -- is that with a few keystrokes, police can determine in real time the location of a cell phone user through automated systems set up by the phone companies.
And while a Sprint spokesman told us customers can shield themselves from surveillance by simply switching off the GPS function of their phones, one expert told TPM that the company and other carriers almost certainly have the power to remotely switch the function back on....
Yahoo: Our spying policy would ’shock’ customers
A little-noticed letter from Yahoo! to the US Marshals Service offers troubling insight into the surveillance policies of one of the Internet's largest email providers.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of Yahoo's! policies allowing the Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users and the amount they charge US taxpayers per wiretap -- the search engine leviathan declared in a 12-page letter that they couldn't provide information on their approach because their pricing scheme would "shock" customers. The news was first reported by Kim Zetter at Wired....
Release of secret reports delayed
President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials.
The missed deadline spells trouble for the White House’s promises to introduce an era of government openness, say advocates, who believe that releasing historical information enforces a key check on government behavior. They cite as an example the abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War, including domestic spying and assassinations of foreign officials, that were publicly outlined in a set of agency documents known as the “family jewels.’’
The documents in question - all more than 25 years old - were scheduled to be declassified on Dec. 31 under an order originally signed by President Bill Clinton and amended by President George W. Bush.
Patriot Act Renewal Moving Forward
Renewal of two controversial Patriot Act provisions set to expire at the end of the year have been approved by House and Senate Committees over the past month, and appear headed for floor votes in both bodies. President Obama has endorsed extending the provisions.
The two provisions include the “records” rule and the “roving wiretaps” provision. The so-called “records” rule grants federal officials with a court order the power to force private parties such as businesses, hospitals, and libraries to hand over "any tangible thing" they believe has "relevance" to a terrorist investigation.
“Roving wiretaps” allow wiretapping multiple lines of communication without informing FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) courts which specific phone lines or communication media are being targeted.
President Obama has reversed himself on the issue, since he once opposed Patriot Act provisions as a fishing expedition by federal snoops in a December 15, 2005 Senate speech:
If someone wants to know why their own government has decided to go on a fishing expedition through every personal record or private document — through library books they've read and phone calls they've made — this legislation gives people no rights to appeal the need for such a search in a court of law. No judge will hear their plea, no jury will hear their case. This is just plain wrong...
Following Bush-era argument, Obama attorneys push to weaken search protections
Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving.
U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, and twenty other government attorneys submitted a brief to the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, making a very extraordinary request.
Federal prosecutors went too far when they seized the drug test results of 104 pro baseball players, according to a 9-2 "en banc" panel decision in August by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling included guidelines for computer search conduct designed to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights, in the style of Miranda rights.
10 films the US Government would rather you not see
These are 10 films that I believe if watched by the majority of US citizens there would be demands of impeachment, a push to pull out of Iraq and a complete shift in thought or at the very least some questioning of the government.
It’s also amazing to me how few people have seen most of these films even the “popular” ones...
Drug-Makers Paying Off Competitors To Keep Cheap Generics Off Market
Republicans and their allies in the business community talk a good game about the virtues of free-market competition. But, as we've seen in the debate over the public option, that stance often goes out the window when corporate profits are at stake.
And now we've got another example -- one of the sleaziest and most blatantly self-serving yet.
Over the last few years, drug-makers have embraced a startlingly simple tactic for fending off competition from generic brands: paying them off. In a nutshell, the company that holds the patent on a profitable drug strikes a deal with the maker of the cheaper generic brand: you hold off on marketing your generic for several years, and in return, we'll give you a share of our profits on the drug.
So common have these deals become lately that they've been given a name: pay-for-delay. The approach -- a textbook anti-competitive tactic -- is worth billions to drug-makers...
Vanity Fair article on Goldman Sachs about the Finacial Collapse:
The Bank Job
One of the biggest disconnects on Wall Street today is between the way Goldman Sachs sees itself (they’re the smartest) and the way everyone else sees Goldman (they’re the smartest, greediest, and most dangerous). Questioning C.E.O. Lloyd Blankfein, C.O.O. Gary Cohn, and C.F.O. David Viniar, among others, the author explores how their firm navigated the collapse of September 2008, why it has already set aside $16.7 billion for compensation this year, and which lines it’s accused of crossing....
Back from Wedding/Vacation :-)
The news cycle was pretty slow while I was in Hawaii, the Senate is still making sausage with the Health Care Bill, so no real news on that bill until it gets to the conference committee. Look for the bill to be split in two and be made a "Budget Reconciliation Bill" meaning it will only need 50 votes for passage. The current debate is little more than theater for Television. Bush did the same thing with the Tax Cuts for the wealthy Americans, I expect Obama will do the same with the Health care bill. The Republicans now seem to think the mess in Afghanistan is so bad all business in Congress should stop and deal with Afghanistan. WTF, where were the Republicans the last 8 years when Bush was doing nothing in Afghanistan?
Willy Bova
Palin Tricked By Comedian Again, Says Canada Should Drop Public Health Care (VIDEO)
At a recent stop on her "Going Rogue" book tour, Sarah Palin told Canadian comedian Mary Walsh that Canada should get rid of its public health care system.
Walsh is the co-creator and star of This Hour Has 22 Minutes -- a nightly news parody show in the same vein as The Daily Show -- and she arrived in character, as the conservative Marg Delahunty, to the Borders where Palin (the "Alaskan Aphrodite") was signing books.
Robin Williams Takes On Sarah Palin (VIDEO)
Robin Williams stopped by the "Late Show" this week to promote his new movie "Old Dogs" and ended up trying out some Palin material.
"It's wonderful, I went looking for her book and I found it in the fantasy aisle. With Sarah you get the feeling she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one. You look at her and wonder 'Where did they find her, Project Running Mate?'"
Always a fan of Palin humor, Dave sat back and laughed while Williams went on to mock Palin for not reading and doing impressions of her skeet shooting..
Taking the Plunge in Hawaii,
Willy Bova getting married to Pauline Heaton (Watervisions.com) 11-19-2009
"What a Long Strange Trip it's Been..."
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" Finale Includes New "Seinfeld" Episode (VIDEO)
SPOILERS AHEAD*: It took over a decade, but "Seinfeld"-less fans finally received a new episode. Sort of. This season's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" followed Larry as he put together a reunion in an attempt win back Cheryl, and last night the results were finally unveiled.
For any "Seinfeld" fan, the season has been a dream come true. Not only were the characters reunited, but we finally saw them interact with Larry, the neurotic man who put it all together. Especially hilarious was Larry's ongoing feud with Jason Alexander, who given the character he made famous, can be considered the "Bizarro Larry." The tip at lunch, the borrowed pen, and even last night's competition for Chery's affection - it was all glorious.
Throughout the series, Larry has worn his connection to George as a badge of honor, taking offense when anyone referred to the character as a "yutz" or "schmuck." His pride reached new heights last night as he got the chance to play the character himself when Jason Alexander threatened to quit.....
SNL: Palin 2012 presidential disaster movie
Global destruction breaks out as Sarah Palin is elected president in 2012, in a new mashup presented on Saturday Night Live. News coverage purportedly revealing a Sarah Palin presidential victory and cataclysmic scenes from the new Roland Emmerich film draw familiar fake tears from new Vice President Glenn Beck on Fox News.....
Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin At Ad Council Dinner (VIDEO)
hile hosting the Ad Council Annual Dinner Wednesday night, "30 Rock" creator Tina Fey brought back her famous impersonation of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
"Mrs. Palin and I continue to have so much in common," she said. "They recently made a porn movie about Sarah and then this same porn actress, Lisa Ann, played me in a parody of '30 Rock' ... And weirdly of the three of us, Lisa Ann knows the most about foreign policy."
"I feel like Sarah Palin right now," she said later, gesturing at her teleprompters. "It's not that hard." She went into her Palin voice, saying, "We'll begin with an issue that's so critical to the future opportunity ..." When the audience laughed, she added, "I'm gonna be doing that 'till I'm dead." ....