Bovines.
(Source: nervousgnosis)
Bovines.
(Source: nervousgnosis)
Guys, this was really great to watch. Amazing jokes.
Politics took a backseat at the White House Thursday as President George W. Bush and Laura Bush returned to witness the unveiling of their official portraits — and to trade zingers with the current occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, nicely summarized in this reel.
An Offer For President Obama
Featured above are remarks by President Obama about Polish resistance figure (and later Georgetown professor) Jan Karski, whom he awarded a posthumous Medal of Freedom today. Karski is considered a major hero of the anti-Nazi movement, who sought valiantly to alert the world to the atrocity of the Holocaust; he died in 2001. As you can hear in the above statement, President Obama made reference to “Polish death camps,” a phrasing that touched off a firestorm amongst Polish political figures, insisting Obama should have made it clear the camps were under the control of Nazi occupied Poland. The calls for apology came fast and fierce. Said Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski: “The White House will apologize for this outrageous error. [Prime Minister Donald] Tusk will make a statement in the morning. It’s a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence.”
(Source: BuzzFeed)
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS : LOVE PLAY (LIVE AT GUITAR CENTER, HOLLYWOOD)
Performing 10/5 and 10/7 at Culture Collide Festival and 10/6 at the Constellation Room
In which Wolf Blitzer, of all people, schools Donald Trump on the air over his position on birtherism. An excerpt:
WB: Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.
DT: You are, Wolf. Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous, and if you’d ask me a question and let me answer it.
WB: Here’s the question, did the conspiracy start in 1961 where theHonolulu Star-Bulletin and the Advertiser contemporaneously published announcements that he was born in Hawaii?
DT: Many people put those announcements in because they wanted to get the benefit because of getting so-called born in this country. Many people did it. It was something done by many people even though they weren’t born in the country. You know and I know it.
Trump hosts a fundraiser for Mitt Romney tonight in Las Vegas.
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Long done with this issue, admittedly, but there’s a great laugh-out-loud moment six minutes in where Wolf asks Trump what “his people” found about Obama’s birth certificate back in April of last year — he claimed to Meredith Viera that his people “cannot believe what they’re finding” about Obama’s birth certificate. “We don’t have to go into OLD NEWS,” Trump says. “That’s old news.”
Early footage of Talking Heads performing at CBGB in 1975, from the new documentary Chronology.
Farid al-Atrache - Kelmet Itab
فريد الأطرش - كلمة عتاب
I quite like this newly granted privilege to upload videos longer than 15 minutes to YouTube, longer songs at higher bit-rates that don’t get bumped off the tumblr servers when they’re not reblogged.
Wow. Just wow.
Here is a wonderful collection of people who are not going to be “pushing the envelope” anytime soon.
(Source: notesladykier)
Jimmy Stewart reads his famous poem about his dog Beau on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in 1981.
This could very well make you cry.
The response here, despite the views expressed on both side, reminds me much of my own family’s responses of “you’re twisting things” when there is fear or insecurity about the positions taken. I don’t find Anderson to be twisting or devious at all here. I do find him, rather, to be genuine and curious.
(Source: shortformblog, via motherjones)
Missed the annual solar eclipse that occurred on May 20? Don’t feel bad, NASA has released a gorgeous new video of a sight even rarer: the Sun’s surface, up close and as you’ve never seen it before.
The video is actually a collection of still images of the Sun collected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), an unmanned orbital spacecraft launched in February 2010 specifically to track the Sun’s activity and better understand its causes and effects on Earth.
The video is made up of images of the Sun’s plasma activity captured by SDO’s instruments, activity that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye, as it is seen only in an ultraviolet wavelength (171 Angstrom).
(Reported by TPM’s Carl Franzen, who also spoke with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center producer Scott Wiessinger, the video’s creator)
