President Obama debunks Palin’s “death panel” conspiracy theory

Isakson's response:

Yesterday:
"I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin's web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You're putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don't know how that got so mixed up"

Today:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today denounced comments made by President Obama and his spokesman regarding Isakson’s alleged connection to language contained in the House health care bill on "end-of-life counseling."

Isakson vehemently opposes the House and Senate health care bills and he played no role in drafting language added to the House bill by House Democrats calling for the government to incentivize doctors by offering them money to conduct "end-of-life counseling" with Medicare patients every five years.

"The House provision is merely another ill-advised attempt at more government mandates, more government intrusion, and more government involvement in what should be an individual choice."

As John Cole put it:

"In for a penny, in for a pound. There is simply nothing these guys will not lie about, and they have no problem reversing course hours after publicly stating something completely different. The facts are just optional with these guys. They just don’t care if they tell the truth, they are not ashamed to lie at will, and no one in the media will hold them accountable.

Isakson is up for re-election in 2010, and he knows how wingnutty the base is. He has to play to the Palin wing or he will get primaried. That is how crazy the GOP is these days."

@ 'Daily Kos'

broken haze - Live

broken haze is the alias of Keisuke Ito, a Japanese experimental electronica hip-hop producer whose fururistic music is composed with glitchy digital noise, chopped melody, industrial drum sound, and dark cinematic ambience.
This is some cutting-edge music. If you like dark dubstep/atmospheric breakbeat/techno/glitch, you'll feel right at home.

David Sylvian - Manafon (Update)

Manafon's release date is set for Sept 14th. Manafon will be available in two editions. A regular CD/digipak edition and a twin volume deluxe edition with CD and DVD featuring the film 'Amplified Gesture'.

7 minutes of fame for carrying a gun to an Obama protest! Will it be 15 minutes for using it?

Go here.

The best post ever!

Go here to see the similarities between Christian Bale & Kermit the Frog!

UN worker ‘bites’ man and lands diplomat in middle of nepotism row

And Murdoch wants us to pay for this crap!

Rush Hour London

What a surprise! Rachel Maddows exposes the backers of the Healthscare tactics

"A lie told often enough becomes truth." - Lenin

Spank!!! # 7 (Don't make the King mad!)

(Spank King?)
Via 'Skull Swap'

Robert Crumb - A short history of America

My acid trip with Squeaky Fromme

Photograph by Dick Schmidt, Sacramento Bee. "Sacramento Police and Secret Service men handcuff Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme under a Capitol Park tree after she tried to shoot President Gerald Ford Sept. 5, 1975."
@ 'BoingBoing'

By Paul Krassner

@ 'HuffPo'

Florida man blames cat for illegal downloads

@ 'The Guardian'
More @ 'The Hangover-Helper'

George Pelecanos & The Pogues - The Boogaloo, London 23 July 2009

Earlier this year, when The Pogues played Washington, D.C., bestselling novelist and writer/producer on The Wire George Pelecanos was in the audience, and he went backstage after the show: "The band were fans of The Wire (we had used several of their songs, memorably, on the show)," he recalls, "and we were all fans of their music going back to the 80s, when I was buying their vinyl imports at records stores like Phantasmagoria in Wheaton, Maryland." A few weeks later, when band member Spider Stacey came through town, they met again: "Over a meal in Chinatown, on H Street, (Full Kee, my spot for Chinese) I told Spider that I would like to do a pub event in London when I came over in July, and asked him if he would be interested in playing a set after I did a reading. He agreed and through Gaby Young hooked it up at Boogaloo on Archway Road in Highgate, run by a fellow named Richard who used to book the old Filthy McNasty's. The gig was set for Thursday, July 23. To my surprise, it wasn't just Spider and a couple of friends on the bill, as I had understood it would be. It was The Pogues, who had come to play their first pub date since 1983. In other words, it was history."

@'Media Bistro'

George Pelecanos reads from his new novel 'The Way Home'
Songs performed by The Pogues include The Body of an American, The Sick Bed of Cuchullainn, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Transmetropolitan, Kitty and Down in The Hole.
This reading which was accompanied by a 'secret' gig by The Pogues was presented by a very old friend of mine, former Fall manager Richard Thomas, who is also promoting these upcoming shows at The Roundhouse: David Peace August 18th Rich Hall September 10th Iain Banks September 14th William Boyd September 16th Please note the Armando Ianucci shows on October 11/12th are completely sold out More info www.roundhouse.org.uk
(It is moments like this when I wish that I still was in London and in fact one of my last nights there was seeing The Pogues at 'The Bull & Gate' in Kentish Town in '83 and The Boogaloo for a time before it's present reincarnation was my local!)

George Pelecanos on his visit to London here.

Old news as new news!

So redheads feel more pain and need more anesthetic?
Sound familiar, go to 'New Scientist' here in 2002