The Tedder P. Schoenhopfer Policy Exchange

It seems the rest of the world caught up to us and there isn’t room for both the  Tedder B. Schoenhopfer Policy Exchange and Facebook.

HBTY,

HBTY,

HBDD,

HBTY.

Any fun plans?  I’ll post on facebook too

Japanese gameshows have always been known to be far crazier than the ones we’re used to…here’s two pretty funny pranks at a spa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzyASg1O85g

Aunt Julie got promoted to full time with benefits.  Yay!!

I don’t know if you guys have seen this, but there’s a group that autotunes newscasters speaking to make a song. Auto-tuning is what hip hop artists who can’t sing use to put themselves on pitch.

Here’s the funny video:
Smoking Lettuce: Auto Tune the News #5

My favorite part is at 1:15.

I took this from one of the blogs I read, Pharyngula, but I think it’s a good read.

Texas has state-sanctioned murder

The story of Cameron Todd Willingham (via Digby) ought to be read by everyone. Willingham seems to have been a kind of Texan dumbass, an uneducated, wife-beating piece of work, but he was also the father of three children, who he, by all accounts, loved. Those kids died in a house fire. Forensic ‘experts’ declared the fire an arson, Willingham was arrested, tried, and convicted of murder, and was executed.

Only problem: he didn’t do it. The fire experts were good ol’ boys who were operating on folklore and fairy tales about how fires propagated; real experts have looked at the scene and since declared that it was an accidental fire. Nobody killed those little girls, but their father was killed for their deaths.

That’s not the most disturbing part of the story to me. You have to watch these videos of Judge John Jackson (he was prosecutor in the case, and is now a judge). He openly admits that the evidence for arson was weak, and that he looked at the circumstances to determine Willingham’s guilt. Those circumstances? Willingham was a low-class ruffian with tattoos of skulls who liked heavy metal music. Therefore, he was probably a satanist. Therefore, he probably killed his children.

I’m not joking. That was the basis for this smug cracker’s determination of guilt, that led directly to his execution. Why not just criminalize tattoos and Metallica? It would make it easy to round up the riff-raff and exterminate them.

The state of Texas murdered an innocent man, and we can see the whole chain of incompetence, bigotry, and cowardice that led to the tragedy, from this ass of a prosecutor to Governor Perry, who refused to heed the evidence of malfeasance. Why aren’t all of them being impeached or fired, and facing criminal charges in a court of law? Is it because they don’t have any tattoos and listen to patriotic tripe from Lee Greenwood, Brooks & Dunn, and Tim McGraw?

End the death penalty everywhere. Drum the red-necked blundering boobs out of office, at the very least.

I really like the group Lacuna Coil.  Super-edgy, excellent songwriting and technical execution, and double lead vocalists, male and female, who take turns and play off against each other.  Great stuff.

Here’s a video that I think demonstrates all of those qualities –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9E30Hc5pg&feature=channel

and right now my favorite song is “Spellbound” –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_VS2B48c24&feature=channel

breadpig.com/blog tells about Randy’s book and a book tour he is going on.  The first one in NY.  I don’t know how to put the web site here.

From old family photos B

I just uploaded a bunch more photos Evvie and his friend scanned in. I wish Picasa worked with facebook.

Dear Sony Corporation:  I bought a top-of-the-line Sony Vaio laptop last January and on Tuesday it failed the simple task of turning on.  When I called for service you claimed someone would call me the next day to schedule a technician to come in the next three days and repair it and NO ONE CALLED. Then when I called to check you told me “there was a problem” and I now have a NEW CASE and have to wait again for someone to call.

I really want to write a review about how amazing this movie was, but words fail me. It was one of the most intense movies I’ve seen. It was awesome.

…starring, of course, a cute doggie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G7bGBUlx2M&fmt=22

I’ve started scanning in old photos — most of these are Marshall-centric since he bugged me so much about doing it but I’ll be adding more.