Apr 25 2008
Archive for the 'video' Category
Apr 16 2008
Shadowy Overlords & the Illusion of Democracy
From the folks @ The Onion
Newsflash: Bullshit is THE most important Topic for Voters 
Apr 14 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
(Programming note: I’m going to keep the round-up, short and sweet. But, I will continue to post a video for the day and make my usual commentary on my own crazy blog.)
Have cuppa? Prepare to traverse today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Many Americans are avoiding movies and documentaries based on the Iraq War, regardless of their personal stand on the war, itself…
2: This just in: Presidential candidates are people, too!…
3: Novel idea: Army attempting to lure new recruits via amusement park and Xbox 360…
4: Captives for the war on terror…
U.S. May Not Release Guantanamo Prisoners: Even If Found Innocent of Charges Against Them–Global Research
5: 74-million-year old baby dinosaur for sale!…
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Apr 11 2008
Team Torture
Turley is a Constitutional Law Prof and he seems almost cavalier in his pronouncement that this is a war crime. But he has been saying that BushCo is full of war criminals for years now..so perhaps that is why he is non-plussed over this new revelation.
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video picks of the day
i love james blunt. there. i said it. if you have ever read at my own blog, you have probably seen me post his videos everywhere because he is one of my faves. second only to kris kristofferson- whom i also love. so, i am going to post 3 songs that really touched my heart and spoke to me- and i hope that they do you too.
james blunt served in the british armed forces and with nato in kosovo for 6 years- until 2002. this is footage taken by soldiers.
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this is from james’ latest album ‘all the lost souls’
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kris kristofferson- ‘in the news’- blew me away
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Apr 10 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I’m on fire, right now, as I have a lot on my mind. I’m sure many of you are getting worked up about the same things that are sticking in my craw. Yet, when I try to express myself in a coherent fashion, it comes out on the page looking something like “akjf;laghoehtoieWTFgj;akjoijfoidjAHHHH!” Of course, I “know” what it says, but it’s impossible to translate.
I have plenty of time to think of these things, as I go about my daily tasks. I think “oh, how witty that will sound” and then I sit down to write and…I got nothin’!
Maybe I worry too much about censoring myself once I set down to my computer, trying not to offend anyone or at least, not offend them too much, especially with everyone on even higher alert and pointing to offenses more than usual during the current primary/caucus race. I think that I am coming to a point where I say fu…–I mean, “bleep” that (*wink*), I would rather lose friends than not be able to speak my mind. Of course, I will always be respectful when I am in a space (where you may be reading this) that does not belong to me, but I’m thinking it’s time for me to cut to the chase and actually say whatever the he…–I mean, “bleep” is on my mind.
That being said, there is some shi…–I mean, there are some things in today’s round-up that will definitely make you go “wtf?” So, why don’t we start off with a little soft shoe to ease you into it: Gregory Hines & Steve Martin Tap.
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Try dancing around today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: If sisters are doing it for themselves, how come movies and television are not representing them properly?…
2: Things not so comfy cozy on the housing front between GWB and the GOP?…
Bush throws GOP Senators under the bus on the bi-partisan housing bill–AMERICAblog
3: Those rebate checks might not arrive in time to do the economy any good, but at least the average Jane and Joe can maybe pay off one more bill before finally hitting the skids…
It’s official now: George W. Bush is today’s Herbert Hoover–Brilliant at Breakfast
4: Milestones and reminders on the road to victory in Iraq: Are we there yet?…
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Apr 09 2008
Beyond Beijing..
For Enigma at WaterGate Summer. Hugs, from Dusty 
We can protest without fear..the monks in Tibet and Burma..not so much.
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Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
My apologies. My brain appears to be suffering a 404 page error, today. Maybe it’s the lack of caffeine. Maybe I’m suffering from “John McCain Syndrome”. Not good for a lass of my age.
Of course, it could just be that I am still recovering from my usual work-weekend. During the rest of the week, I wake early and bed down early. But, since I work bar hours, and still find myself getting up early to IM with my darling husband in Iraq, my aging body can’t cope with the bedtime disparities (early to rise, late to bed). It’s hard on this morning person. I feel bad for sleeping in when there is so much blogging and housework to be done.
I guess I need a wake-up song: ACE OF BASE - BEAUTIFUL MORNING
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Let this Ten Post Round-Up serve as your wake-up call:
1: Puh-leeze! Taxes are for the little people! Please leave those poor business execs alone to enjoy the fruits of YOUR labor…
“We’re paying executives like successful entrepreneurs, without asking them to take entrepreneurial risks”–AMERICAblog
2: But will anything worthwhile come of this?…
Common Cause calls out McCain on Campaign financing–Crooks and Liars
3: Well, if you can’t afford health care, then maybe you just aren’t supposed to have it…
McCain Health Care: Social Darwinism For All, Especially The Already Haves–Firedoglake
4: The fraud was not the exorcisms, it’s the performing of exorcisms without a license?…
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Apr 04 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
With my kids getting a little older and not needing 100% constant supervision (including the fact, as we are doing lessons, they can follow me around the house for instruction when I give them homework) and with the limited time I chat with my husband, online, I am finally getting a groove where I find that I can actually accomplish many things of substance and in a short amount of time. I haven’t had that since before the little ones were still in diapers (which is about the same time that I also started my business). So, now, I am actually experiencing boredom. What a relief!
So what do I decide to do on a workday, when I could be resting up for the long night ahead?
Chocolate? Yes, of course.
But, not only that, I decided to post a round-up. I must like you guys, a lot. Besides, according to my site stats, I have one loyal reader, so I don’t want to disappoint him/her.
It’s snowing outside, so it’s possible that I may not even go to work if it get’s nasty. The weather outside and all the dramz in the nooz is putting me in a miserable funk, so I figured I’d offer up something upbeat and funky for your musical intervention, today (btw: Dizzy abso-friggin-lutely LOVES this song): Ce Ce Peniston - Keep On Walkin
Stop a moment and let me walk you through today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Wholesale Lies: The surge is not working as planned…
General William Odom Tells Senate Rapid Withdrawal Is Only Solution–AfterDowningStreet.org
2: Health Compromised: Eating ourselves to death…
Pollan: Nutrition “Science” Has Hijacked Our Meals — and Our Health–AlterNet
3: Worthless Education: President with an MBA failing the USA in the time of financial crisis…
“Mr. Bush has sometimes seemed invisible during the housing and credit crunch”–AMERICAblog
4: Let’s Raise A Toast(er): The Cylons are coming! The Cylons are coming! (PSA: Friday night on Sci-Fi Channel) Consider yourself warned!…
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Apr 02 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I know many people who visited my blog on April Fool’s Day, probably thought that I had jumped off the deep end. Rest assured, I am completely sane, at least according to my own biased standards…
In the spirit of April Fool’s Day past, I offer this video: Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Some of the posts in today’s Ten Post Round-Up are no joke:
1: Ignored: Voter intimidation of African-Americans in Dallas…
2: Bad Publicity Sucks: Walmart cries “uncle”…
Wal-Mart Backs Down, Drops Draconian Reimbursement Case–Crooks and Liars
3: I Spy: Google goes into business with the CIA and the NSA…sort of…
4: Brown-Nosing: China pwns the U.S., therefore Bush must go to China…
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Apr 01 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
No kidding, it’s April Fool’s Day and there are a whole lot of April Fools in the news and, alas, none of them are very funny.
Just for fun, I thought you all would get a kick out of the footage of GWB getting booed: Bush booed at 2008 Nationals home opener
There will probably be a few boos heard about today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Lack of health care coverage is no joke, but the current initiatives in place in two states are not exactly sound, either…
2: Obvious Alert: “Multiracial people aren’t some new hot thing”. My own children and many of my siblings, nieces, and nephews are multiracial. My grandmother used to call us her very own “Rainbow Coalition”…
We can’t stop here! This is MULTIRACIAL country!–The Angry Black Woman
3: See what happens when you don’t corral people into political free speech zones to protect GWB from teh negative?…
4: Ironic? Guy who gives advice on how to deal with credit cards gets the runaround from his own credit card company…
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Mar 31 2008
The Lives of Others & Snowcake
The Lives of Others
This one won an Oscar for best foreign language film in 2006, with a highly nuanced and intelligent script this political yet very human film grabs you and does not let go. I cannot say enough about these actors, not a bad one in the bunch .Yet Ulrich Muhe, who plays the STASI Captain Gerd Wiesler is to be singled out. An actor, who can allow you to enter his mind with just his facial expression, is a great actor.
The plot line has you following the captain as he does what he does best, listen to others, and find enemies of the state. You slowly watch this finely tuned machine of a man, who begins to feel and become demoralized, warp into a good man. The GDR and the STASI has full power over the lives of others and his own Wielser finds out. There are twists and turns here, like any good political thriller, which one does not expect. The ending will lift your heart.
In an interesting real life twist one learns that only some 10% of west Germans have gone to the archives to see who their informants were during this period. We learn that Ulrich Muhe did exactly that only to find his wife and the mother of his child was one of his informants~ perhaps that is why he excels in this role. To understand the motivation of ones family to inform, one would have to understand those they reported to. Clearly Mr. Muhe understood. I highly recommend this film.
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The Job Market we will see soon.
Mar 31 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
It’s Monday and it’s April Fool’s Eve. I am currently planning what minor prank I shall play on my children. I’m also steeling myself for whatever pranks might be planned for me…
Rest assured, Uncle Jay has a run-down of the political hi-jinx of the past week: Uncle Jay Explains the News - March 31, 2008
Let’s take a gander at the hi-jinx in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: If this is the free-market conservatives preach about, I’d say they’d got it all wrong…
Countrywide executives showered with even more money–AMERICAblog
2: Could we be on the verge of another “Big Bang”? Apparently, some scientists want to try out a new gizmo that creates black holes. Somehow, I think Mother Nature might have a problem with that…
Uh…maybe sometimes “Because we can” isn’t enough of a reason to do something–Brilliant at Breakfast
3: Keep your opinions to yourself if you encounter other shoppers at Best Buy…
Best Buy calls copper on unsatisfied shopper–Channel Register
4: Now, if only GWB and his minions could honestly get choked up about the things that hurt the rest of America and not just themselves…
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Mar 30 2008
are you nuts?
Mar 27 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Just so you know, I am very grateful for being able to write this round-up, after having gotten myself stuck in my basement (longish story)!
After screaming and wailing for about fifteen minutes, my “MacGyver” instincts kicked in and I was able to create a contraption to extricate myself before I was overcome by cobwebs and hairballs.
As soon as I freed myself, I swore by the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I would get this round-up to you, if it was the last thing I did.
After washing my hair, painting my toenails, redecorating my living room and consulting a fortune cookie for my weekly lottery numbers, I was finally able to sit down and write this round-up. Since I’ll be bedding down, after this, I guess you could say this is the last thing I am doing.
I’m in a jazzy, bluesy, kind of mood, so I’ll let “Lady Day” sing some blues for you: Billie Holiday “One for my Baby (and one more for the road)”
Wonder who’s singin’ the blues in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Spooky: When an internet prank based on your work finally gets to you…
2: Typical: Bush appointee who oversees consumer product protection leaving FTC to work for largest consumer products company…
How Things Work: FTC Chair to Join Procter & Gamble–The Huffington Post
3: Stupid Laws: Want to sell a book with sexually explicit material in the Hoosier state, pay up and register with the secretary of state…
4: Peculiar: Nobody thought of this before now?…
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Mar 27 2008
manhattan, new york, usa
Mar 25 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Today, was a miserable day. Sure, it was a beautiful sunny day. But, noticing that we have passed a casualty milestone in Iraq and hearing how cold-hearted the Vice-President was, in response to that milestone, broke my heart. Every day, I hope that my soldier will not become part of that milestone, yet, the current White House administration acts like, “it’s business, as usual”; not a big deal.
So, it’s only fitting that I re-post the following video, because it is a big deal that this president does not care that he is tearing this country apart: Dear Mr President - Pink
Meditate on today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Being bullied: Sadly, just another day, for some kids…
What the f@#k is wrong with parents in Arkansas?–Brilliant at Breakfast
2: Decisions, decisions: If not McCain, then whom?…
3: “Make your kids lose weight or they’ll be raised by the state”…
4: Drug testing bar patrons?…
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Mar 24 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
We got snow for Easter, in my neck of the woods. As the snow began to melt, today, I could see the first signs of Spring, sprouting up out of the brown ground; the first sprigs of green grass. I think we are going to need another decent snowstorm, to saturate the ground, to boost the colors of Spring; something I am looking forward to, along with the 60-plus degree temperatures.
It’s Monday, so ya’ll know what that means: Uncle Jay Explains the News - March 24, 2008
Thank goodness, a snow day is always a good excuse to churn out a Ten Post Round-Up:
1: History in the making: Transgendered man prepares to give birth…
2: Obviously the Senate has too much time on its hands: A Ten Commandments Resolution?…
3: It appears that the “Coalition of the Willing” may not exactly have been, ya know, “willing”…
Surprise! US Did Everything Possible To Force Iraq Invasion–duckplops
4: The more I learn about the Spitzer saga, the more I have to wonder who the real “whores” are…
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Mar 23 2008
Part 2 of Bill Moyers Journal: Body of War
Mar 22 2008
Body of War
Friday night’s Bill Moyers Journal was an emotional roller coaster for me. The entire show was devoted to a documentary made by Phil Donohue and Ellen Spiro called Body of War. The subject of the documentary is Tomas Young, a soldier that was shot and paralyzed from the nipples down less than a week after he landed in Iraq. It is a moving haunting tale of how he came back to life when he became an anti-war activist. The irony of the documentary is that Tomas’ brother and step-father are still supporters of the war, while Tomas and his mother are not. But they still love and support each other. It took three years for this documentary to be completed. Ms. Spiro literally became part of the family, filming during all hours of the day and night to show what Tomas and his family deal with to bring him back from the hell created by George Bush’s war in Iraq.
The documentary is slowly being released nationwide now. I am still emotionally affected by Tomas’ story so this post won’t go into much detail. I urge you to watch Bill Moyers Journal this weekend, you can find the broadcast time in your area here. The music was done by Eddie Vedder.
Its a moving, emotional Bill Moyers Journal..watch part one of it below. A link to the movie’s website is here. The documentary is being released nationally now.
Sphere: Related ContentMar 22 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Got some time on my hands, so I thought I would churn out a round-up, for you.
I don’t have any mood music for you, but in honor of Spring and Easter weekend, I would ask you to view this public service announcement about the senseless killing of chocolate bunnies: How to kill a chocolate bunny
Please note that no chocolate bunnies or marshmallow peeps were harmed in the making of today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Widow to GWB: Sir, you are no Gene Kelly!…
2: Using outdated (and questionable) laws to punish political opponents…
3: Taxpayers bailout the big boys, the little guy gets squat…
Wall Street borrowing billions from average Americans–AMERICAblog
4: I have a feeling there will be a couple of requests for this in my gamers household…
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Mar 21 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Basketball, Springtime, and Peeps! Oh, my!
It’s a good thing I have 10 minutes to relax and put out this post.
What’s that? I only have 6 minutes to chill?
Oh, my! It looks like I only have 4 minutes to save the world!: Madonna Feat Justin Timberlake & Timbaland - 4 Minutes
Alas, you must save yourself from today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Most Americans blaming the war for poor economy…
Poll: 71% of Americans think Iraq spending hurts economy–AMERICAblog
2: When you love Fido enough to weave him into the very best…
3: No wonder McCain is a grumpy old man…
Bill Maher on McCain: “Not Tougher. Dumber.”–Crooks and Liars
4: Funny, how we know more than we care to know about Spitzer’s “gal pal”. What ever happened to McCain’s “friend”, Vicky Iseman…
Sphere: Related ContentA Song to Help Find Vicki Iseman (Remember Her? McCain’s Maybe-Onetime-Mistress?)–The Huffington Post
Mar 20 2008
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Yesterday, marking the 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, was far from a somber day, for me. I have to somewhat disconnect from my feelings about the war because I live with it, on too many levels.
As a military spouse, of course, I live with the Iraq war on daily basis, as I tend the home-fires and keep them burning. As the only regular professional entertainment for the troops, where my husband is stationed, I get to meet soldiers on their way to and/or from the war(s).
I have seen a few of them with parts of their skulls or other body parts, blown off. I have met many more at their mentally and emotionally lowest point in their life. Many of them tell me that my show is a form or therapy for them. It’s a form of therapy for their wives, too.
Honestly, it’s a form of therapy for me, too. If I was not serving the troops entertainment, I would be sitting at home worrying for my own soldier. I feel like I am giving something back and it makes me feel less lonely knowing that I am doing something good for others, rather than wallowing in my own misery.
I try to make a point to sing fun, upbeat and positive music. The following piece of mood music is one of the most popular songs I sing and I love how it brings a smile to even the grumpiest soldier’s face: Swing Out Sister - Breakout
You will likely scratch your head or gouge your eyes out after you read today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Looks like somebody at “Wally World” made a boo-boo…
From the Feed: Walmart shoppers just as dumb as they look–236.com
2: So…how can we really actually know how much the war in Iraq is costing?…
3: A man of so few words, yet so full of what my mother used to call “stuff and nonsense”…
Cheney To 66% Of The American People: Go F*** Yourself–Firedoglake
4: Cat owners, rejoice! Cats are good for your health!…
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