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The Obamacare tree's looking dire
Affordable care might expire
The plan for the tree
Is like you and me
From the frying pan into the fire
The Limerick King
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Obama's a Grinch with no soul
Your medical plan he has stole
Your savings are gone
Your freedom's a con
This douche played one hell of a role!
The Limerick King
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.."Once in Royal David’s City stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby.
You’d do well to remember the things He later said.
When you’re stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties,
you’ll laugh when I tell you to take a running jump.
You’re missing the point I’m sure does not need making;
that Christmas spirit is not what you drink.
So how can you laugh when your own mother’s hungry
and how can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
And if I messed up your thoughtless pleasures,
remember, if you wish, this is just a Christmas song.
Hey, Santa: pass us that bottle, will you?"..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auc23qz6QhE
Merry Christmas William, we would all do well to remember there is only one plumb and one level when we set our sights to build anything..
I don't think anyone needs to worry about the chart of your course, keep fighting the good fight.
The State can only be useful to society if it draws it's legitimacy from it's smallest increment the individual, and we will not see change from the present day grotesque apparition it has morphed into unless the interests of the individual once again becomes the true seat of power.
I am not convinced of a happy ending but like you said, what's the alternative- to meekly close the door from the inside trying not to notice the faint odor of gas?
Merry Christmas and thanks for the impeccable, inspired work- you are a truly useful artist.
looks like santa has a secret...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cShYbLkhBc
domo arigato,
janu
Merry Xmas WB7
Great stuff as usual!
Happy 'whatever you celebrate this time of year'
http://s25.postimg.org/54yg9xh3j/Christmas2013.jpg
OT: Jump You Fuckers
Hedge fund titan, giant of philanthropy leaps to his death after stroketoo little - too late
Read that. Guy had a 'stroke of genius' and did the right thing. Now if we can just get the rest of 'them' to stroke-out and jump, there might be a happier ending to this nightmare.
Unfortunately, there is a list of 100s that should have preceded him.
They may kill an innocent when they fall. If they did it on Wall Street, we might get a two-fer.
http://dhnnews.com/obamacare-has-a-new-challenge/
We can only hope this works
Great renditions as usual WB7 and Limmerick King!
Merry Christmas to you (or whatever you may celebrate).
Keep up the great work - and the good fight.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE WORLD CREW...
MANY BLESSING UPON YOU...
CHRISTMAS CHEER...
HAVE A BEER...
GOOD TIDINGS TO ALL...
FROM THE HEART...HEAR THE DING DING DING CALL!
Uh oh... you said "Merry" instead of "Happy"
I want you to know I'm deeply offended by that.
Don' merry, be happy...
I don't know why there is not +1000 on this one, but here it is......+1000!
O.K., I'm a dog, I'd pay for a night with those two.
No, I'm not married.
Hubba-Hubba.
thanks and merry christmas to you !
here more cheer !
season linking to be jolly , fa la la la ...
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The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y5GtaTrPHM
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joe spence.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEgKEbT5a7Q
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Arlo Guthrie: The Pause of Mr Clause
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17gKw_j6Qq0
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James Booker Christmas 1978 (Kaarst)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuO4jBq24U
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John McCutcheon - Christmas in the trenches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EghujaSynnM
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John Prine - A John Prine Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00qbR8bO4W8
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Dylan Thomas — A Child's Christmas in Wales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjCJd9Bc-qA
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O Holy Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0RI_Iv4WM&app=desktop
Apparently me biting your ass has spurred you to step up your game recently. Some good stuff.
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Merry Christmas Bitches!!
http://vimeo.com/82621335
Thanks you Banzai for your Visual Combat and all the smiles and laughs!!!
Merry Christmas, ya’ll :*
Millions of insured now succesfully UN-insured and growing!
Merry Christmas William !!!
Thanks for spreading good cheer throughout the year !!!
MAY WE ALL PRAY FOR PEACE WORLDWIDE...AND GOOD WILL TOWARDS ALL MANKIND.
FROM THE HEART TO ALL...MERRY CHRISTMAS...HAPPY NEW YEAR...AND YES...HAPPY HANUKKAH TOO!
BE THE LOVE YOU ARE.
Back at ya, with gratitude
kwanza. please. p.c. you didn't know it existed, but now you do. people feel bad leaving out on the celebrations.
(raises hand) "One on the left first please!?!?".
Going for the expensive one first huh?
Oh well.....it's your money I suppose.
affinity to flickr .. ( •) (• ) ?
Are you volunteering to lead the push to raise financing to back a standalone Banzai7 website?
I sure hope so. I have a Flickr headache and I can use some "geek backup."
I am sure Yahoo won't be pleased.
...can i help? ...blush :)
Billy Swan I Can Help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBw1MEOMWI
So far just today, Flickr has clocked 974,000 Banzai7 views. That number has to be more than a blip on their radar screen.The people who are posting top notch soft porn images are hard pressed to match that.
I know there is an ad model that this kind of traffic supports. But frankly, I don't like that model because I want nothing to do with the "evil people" who are running it. You know who I am talking about.
So we are talking about an image posting website that will have to be independently crowd funded indefinitely. And it will need tech support to keep it clean.
Flickr provides an unlimited amount of bandwith for free. It allows me to manage how the images are used by others. And it also draws substantial traffic flow. They are supposedly focused on optimising cross platform viewing. Which leads me to think the current situation is a hiccup.
For them, it has to be unacceptable that for the past few days my iPad keeps crashing when I load my ZH posts. I have complained and I hope they are paying attention.
So someone please tell me, what is the alternative I/we should be considering?
It's not insurmountable. Flickr has shitloads of bells/whistles that once discarded, would clean it up nice and also make it much faster (and more importantly not inherently part of the 'eye').
The content (static images) is easy to cache and push to a CDN. All that is really required is a pair of frontends - one for management, one for viewing. Both are pretty easy to do scalably and inexpensively today, especially if you can do it without a full database.
The difficulty isn't in building it as such, it's in finding a non-idiot to do it who is available for the job.
BTW: 100k views of 50k images is about 5Gbytes of transit, which will probably cost about $0.10-15/gig on any decent CDN.
Thanks for that.
One of the reasons I run a lean and mean set up the way I do is to maximise the time I dedicate to content generation. I am sure some would be very surprised at how much I am able to accomplish just using Flickr and an email account.
But I am fully aware that it is not optimal. I am also aware that many have sought the assistance of professional website developers who then proceeded to fuck everything up royally.
I will spend tomorrow trying to peal back whatever is causing the Flickr hiccups here. Up until now, one of the other benefits of Flickr has been general access. Other sites have had no problem using it to put up my images.
Your second point is the one that usually gets people burned. Professional web development has devolved to the point of a few enterprisey paths that are riddled with scale and security problems: i.e. LAMP. The cost of delivering content goes up dramatically when you involve a database layer.
As you can see from the numbers above, it's not expensive to deliver the images. The expensive stuff comes from the development and systems involved (if poor choices are made).
I know first hand that Max Keiser's site got all fucked up by so called web professionals.
So someone please tell me, what is the alternative I/we should be considering?
check-out. at some point, you've said it all. how many more GREAT pictures de-riding bernake and company?
the people that 'get it', 'get it'. the one's that do not, never will. otherwise, we would not have gotten to this point.
nobody seems to understand. QE is LITERALLY $250 per month that every american citizen, whether 8 or 80 has spent,
after taxes a month, that they had no idea. for 4 years. and on going. cash.
photos of bernake as batman - well - the nike crowd will never, ever get it, and i know your intentions are to try to help them,
but we wouldn't have gotten here if they could have understood. so, since you asked the question, i will give you my version of the answer.
silence is sometimes a virtue.
Photos of Bernanke as Batman? What an appalling thought.
You are not paying attention, I'm not not building anyone's ego. Ridicule is my forte. You will not find one Bernanke as Batman or superhero in my portfolio.
I don't expect much from the Air Jordon set. They are all players in the same con game. And I don't miss them at all.
But I do worry about my kids and my family and friends, friends here included.
You are welcome to practice the silence you suggest.
But that is what they all did on the way to the ovens is it not.
Not me. Most definitely not me.
wb7 - man crush for your art. man ray. dali. duchamp. the breugels. i don't say this easily.
big history. rembrandt. but what happened? before there was the reformation, for over 1,000 years, artists had to paint or sculpt portraits of biblical themes. the protestant reformation happened in the middle of rembrandts career (and others also). suddenly these artists no longer had to make pictures of the blessed little baby jesus (yes, it is xmas, and i'm catholic and love him and celebrating also). but, they could paint landscapes, or patrons, or wives, or even medical scenes. and suddenly, the non-clergy would pay for 'art'.
and somehow, in my silly mind, it all comes back to what we have today. now. because rembrandt got 'rich'. and he has cash. and he didn't know what to do with it. and he invested in (bitcoins, oops, no.) and (facebook, oops, no.) tulip bulbs. and then he went bust. really. look it up. and if you go to the 'rembrandt house' today in amsterdam and read the fine print, he was bust, and no, he did not live their at the end of his life, or for many years before that.
Thank you very much. While I love all four of the artists artists you mention, I chose Breugel.
The Battle of the Money Bags...
My situation is different from Rembrandt.
I already know what the fiat high life smells like and I have chosen a different path for myself. The best way to describe it is, just doin what makes me happy. And I do lots of things, not just this.
And, almost forgot...I am not a master painter ;-)
Changed some settings in my Avast Online Security(checked "block others") and the result is the Breugel pic above is the only one that loads in this thread. But damn does it load fast(2 seconds)! :)
edit: Before I did that it took 5 fucking minutes to load to load this page, and that's with cable broadband...
I think I have the solution.
Merry Mithras to us! ;p
It's only been slow for maybe a week.
I use Firefox 26, but tried IE with the same url and it seemed even slower. With all the traffic you generate over at flickr, if you open a support ticket with them, you'd think you should get an answer if this is just something they'll be straightening out soon.
For some reason scribd dropped support for flash embed code in favor of html5. Ever try scribd?
Scribed is not an imagecentric site. When I was doing song lyrics and poetry I stored it all on scribd along with a treasure trove of documents and books I had accumulated.
Then one day they took me down for unspecified reasons.
And of course, there is no recourse when they do that.
A harsh lesson in cloud computing, well learned.
Well, to hell with scribd then. It sounds like you'll be able to fix it. Some others, with a way faster connection than I've got, report that images won't load at all. It's just a little slow for me (but worth the wait).
What a start to this day. My favorite dog, Iris, had a seizure for a few minutes. Pretty scary but she seems fine now. Phew...she's only 4 years old.
We love that dog and named her after this Iris right here.
Merry Christmas everybody...even you Gerutarda.
Give me the names of the cocksuckers, I have a K98 that had 147 confirmed kills and up to 200 probables. Picked it up accidentally at a local pawn type gunshop a few years back. It has a Heimsoth scope with bullet trajectory calibrated in the scope, a wonderful thing to shot super long distance (700-800 yrds..
It sits in the corner in a gun case, it told me the other day that there is no differnce between commies or cronies when you look thru the scope! It is screaming for me to get it out and do some evil doers some lung shots.
Naw, just kidding, but I do have the described weapon.
Glad to read of the awesome amount of hits you are getting, the scrowl down of comments has become quite informative on the hazzards of storage and setting up a website,. I dealt into that stuff with a brainchild idea back before 2000, those fuckers drove me crazy on setting up the web site thing, with the attitude of a brain surgeon or Porsche mechanic when you wanted something done,
Happy party days to you, William,. I know this Chrismas is one just like I am having, with that special person that has alway been there for the big gathering not with us other than spirit
Keep pouring it to em, it appears they are falling back dragging their wounded with them. Victory is sure to be ours!