"Well, i'm a fast talking, hell raising, son of a bitch and i'm a sinner and i know how to fight well, i can leave you if i wanna, little baby and i'm gonna tonight. cause i got a bucket full of tears and a hard luck story there's a bad moon rising behind!" Whiskeytown
sábado, setembro 27, 2008
quinta-feira, setembro 25, 2008
Os maiores inimigos da educação em casa.
Pois bem, que tal uma aulinha de história para saber de onde essas sumidades intelectuais inspiram-se ?
Em 1919, o Estado Soviético tornou a educação algo compulsório - e educação em casa foi abolida.
Em 1938, Hitler (sempre inspirado pelos comunas) aboliu a edução em casa.
Em 1959 e a vez da China abolir a educação em casa, segundo Mao : "Todas as crianças de seis anos de idade devem entrar na escola e receber uma educação compulsória pelo tempo necessário, independente de sexo, nacionalidade ou raça."
Agora me digam, será que esse papo todo de que o que falta para o Brasil é mais educação? mais escolas públicas?
Reflitam.
quarta-feira, setembro 24, 2008
A última dica musical da noite...e ela merece uma foto!
Se você acha que Eric Clapton toca blues...
Old, New, Borrowed & Blue.
Está na hora de vocês saberem que um branco pode (e sabe) tocar blues, hehehe.
Enjoy!
American Rock Treasures
Formada por :
Mark - Lead Vocals / Harmonica
Bill - Bass Guitar / Lead Vocals / Backing Vocals
Mike - Drums / Backing Vocals
Chuck - Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals
a banda é praticamente desconhecida, o selo por qual eles lançaram os cds (três) é tão pequeno que só é possível comprar por um site chamado CDBABY, que merece ser explorado, principalmente por ser um site que abriga pequenas bandas de Southern, Country e Blues. Só coisa fina. Quer outra dica? procure e escute Adam Klein.
Ah, para saber mais sobre o Freedom & Whiskey vá para Myspace.
domingo, setembro 21, 2008
Raquel Botelho e uma bela imagem...
sexta-feira, setembro 19, 2008
A letra completa...
Alicia Keys and Jack White - Another Way to Die Lyrics
JW: Another ringer with the slick trigger finger for Her Majesty
AK: Another one with the golden tone voice and then your fantasy
JW: Another bill from a killer turned a thrill into a tragedy
CHORUS:A door left open
A woman walking by
A drop in the water
A look in the eyeA phone on the table
A man on your side
Someone that you think that you can trust is just
Another way to die
JW: Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one that will never see the sunshine
AK: Another inch of your life sacrificed for your brother in the nick of time
JW: Another dirty money, heaven sent honey turning on a dime
[CHORUS]
It’s just another way to…
Hey…
It’s just another way to…
You’ve got to….
JW: Another girl with her finger on the world singing do what you wanna hear
AK: Another gun thrown down and surrendered took away your fear
JW & AK: Another man that stands right behind you looking in the mirror
[CHORUS]
It’s just another way…
Suit ‘em up, bang bang!
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
Extra! extra! A música tema do novo filme de James Bond (essa é pra você Igor)
Jack White e Alicia Keys mostram que, sim, James Bond está definitivamente revitalizado.
E para este post ser completo, segue a letra:
I know the player with the slick trigger finger for Her Majesty
Another one with the golden tone voice and then your fantasy
Another bill from a killer turned a thrill into a tragedy
A door left open
A woman walking by
A drop in the water
A look in the eye
A phone on the table
A man on your side
Someone that you think that you can trust is just
Another way to die
Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one that will never see the sunshine
Another inch of your life sacrificed for your brother in the nick of time
Another dirty money, heaven sent honey turning on a dime
A door left open
A woman walking by
A drop in the water
A look in the eye
A phone on the table
A man on your side
Someone that you think that you can trust is just
Another way to die
p.s. escutem logo, copiem o link, o Youtube já teve que tirar do ar um outro vídeo com a música por questões de direito autoral.
quinta-feira, setembro 18, 2008
Vaclav Klaus vs. "envirofascists".
"O maior desafio que a humanidade encara é distinguir entre realidade e fantasia, verdade e propaganda" (em relação ao aquecimento global).
"Eu estou frustrado pelo fato de muitas pessoas, inclusive alguns políticos que privadamente expressam opiniões similares às minhas, fiquem em silêncio publicamente, o aquecimento global não é debatido de forma racional, mas entra na consciência pública graças a uma propaganda enviesada."
Vaclav Klaus não têm dúvidas. Estamos de volta a um velho ideário
É o modelo socialista de centralização e controle da economia. Este controle é o objetivo deles.
"Eles invocam um perigo iminente e apocalíptico na tentativa de incultar nos outros a necessidade de um salvador --- um messias."
Quem são eles? Novamente a clareza surpreende. O aquecimento global tornou-se "uma falsa identidade para a falida Nações Unidas que busca poder sobre os governos e cidadãos do mundo."
"O ambientalismo tornou-se uma quase-religião, é uma ideologia que tem muito em comum com o marxismo. Mudança climática é a nova estratégia de recrutamento do exército anti-capitalista, socialista e comunista. São sistemas de crenças monolíticas designadas para suprimir a liberdade humana."
E esses socialistas do verde estão preocupados com os pobres, com os países do terceiro-mundo? Novamente Klaus : "As principais vítimas da ideologia verde serão os países mais pobres do planeta."
Vaclav Klaus ainda deixa claro que o principal inimigo de nossas liberdades, o mais perigoso inimigo, o porta-voz da repressão verde é Al Gore! (Sim, ele dá nome aos bois!)
leiam a entrevista completa de Vaclav Klaus, basta clicar aqui.
sábado, setembro 13, 2008
Sofisma
Trailer do curta-metragem SOFISMA, com estréia prevista para novembro de 2008.
Direção: Guilherme Foresti
O primeiro país a ter leis antitabagistas.
Dreamin' of you
Talvez vocês tenham visto, talvez não...mas eis o novo vídeo do bardo Bob Dylan.
Enjoy
terça-feira, setembro 09, 2008
Alguém por aí é cheio da grana, fã de Dylan e toca gaita?
Em terra de cego...
Todo mundo ficou meio besta com a notícia que Rússia e Venezuela irão realizar manobras militares envolvendo suas forças navais.
Em julho já antecipava por aqui que uma aproximação entre os dois países em busca de cooperação militar já estava ocorrendo.
Pois é, ou o mundo tá ficando previsível ou eu estou ficando menos burro.
p.s. Não se iludam esquerdopatas de plantão, o interesse russo por Hugo Chavez e sua revolução bolivariana é inexistente, na há nenhum romantismo guevarista nesta empreitada, na verdade eles desprezam o "irmão revolucionário", o que os une, o que move estes dois luminares do totalitarismo, Chavez e Putin, é o mais puro antiamericanismo e, mais profundamente, um ódio a tudo que representa a democracia.
McCain e Palin lideram? O que fazer então?
Portanto não se iludam, para cada notícia que sair revelando algum "podre" dos republicanos, saibam que é apenas um parte bem chinfrim da história. E nem pensem que os americanos são idiotas ou não sabem votar: a verdade é que a força das rádios e dos blogs conservadores nos EUA hoje é muito maior que a da mídia impresa.
Onde vocês acham que "descobri" o nome de Sarah Palin (antes do Olavo, hehehe), lendo o New York Times?
Haja paciência...
Cultura, Esporte e Lazer são entendidos no programa como um direito de cidadania.
Uma questão gravíssima: a desigualdade social. São Paulo tem muitos contrastes.
Eficiência, planejamento, descentralização, transparência, participação popular, controle social, parcerias.
Estabelece que a questão da saúde passa também pela dimensão ambiental, pois uma cidade sã propicia a existência de pessoas saudáveis.
Estamos trabalhando. Consultando a sociedade. Ouvindo as pessoas. Ouvindo a nossa gente. Em fóruns especializados, e nas ruas. Quem sabe melhor do sofrimento e dos problemas do povo que não o próprio povo?
resposta: de vários programas, tem coisa da Marta, da Soninha, do Geraldinho...é difícil escolher o pior, mas vamos lá, temos que de alguma forma acreditar nessa tal democracia.
O País dos Petralhas.
sexta-feira, setembro 05, 2008
Ronald Reagan e Sarah Palin nas palavrar de Michael Reagan.
Palavras fortes de quem sabe o que diz: Michael Reagan, filho de RR escreve artigo onde dá as boas-vindas ao seu "pai".
E vocês pensaram que tinham visto de tudo!
A descrição é demais, acho que veio da cabeça do próprio Obama
Captain Obama is a superhero with extraordinary powers and unprecedented idealism dedicated to hope, freedom, and change for the American people.
Six inches of plastic freedom!
Captain Obama talks when his head bobbles and says: "Yes, we can!"
Se alguém se interessar em comprar (sei lá, pra enfiar umas agulhas, heheh) é só acessar - http://www.imaginegate.com/captain-obama-toy-figure-bobblehead-superhero-exclusive.html - mas cuidado, você termina contribuindo pra campanha do Bobama!
Eis o novo intelequitual brasileiro...
Impressionante a miséria intelectual produzida em nossas faculdades, isso aí não é nem o homem-massa do Ortega, é simplesmente o ruminar das bestas mesmo.
E é para pensar seriamente se vale enfiar nossas crianças nestes moedores de inteligência chamados Universidades.
Metallica e o vídeo pró-Bush!
Seria o Metallica uma banda conservadora?
O lançamento do CD, Death Magnetic, é agora dia 12 de Setembro. Será que tem alguma coisa relacionada aos ataques de 11 de Setembro?
quinta-feira, setembro 04, 2008
Sobre o discurso de Sarah Palin.
Infelizmente o debate político no Brasil não chega aos pés do que ocorre nos EUA. Mesmo com todo o espalhafato, o show, os americanos tocam nas feridas, abordam questões morais. Questões sobre fé, aborto, visão de mundo têm importância, enquanto por aqui se discute o bilhete único, o retorno do projeto belezura ou ainda, ciclovias para melhorar o ambiente.
A idéia de democracia ainda é uma "coisa" vaga, o homem político, o home maduro de Aristóteles ainda engatinha neste país.
Sarah Palin's Address to the RNC
Sarah Palin's Address to the RNC
By Sarah Palin
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States...
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election... against confident opponents ... at a crucial hour for our country.
And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions ... and met far graver challenges ... and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S. McCain.
It was just a year ago when all the experts in Washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to the security of the country he loves.
With their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost - there was no hope for this candidate who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.
But the pollsters and pundits overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off.
They overlooked the caliber of the man himself - the determination, resolve, and sheer guts of Senator John McCain. The voters knew better.
And maybe that's because they realize there is a time for politics and a time for leadership ... a time to campaign and a time to put our country first.
Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by.
He's a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years, and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.
And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief. I'm just one of many moms who'll say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
Our son Track is 19.
And one week from tomorrow - September 11th - he'll deploy to Iraq with the Army infantry in the service of his country.
My nephew Kasey also enlisted, and serves on a carrier in the Persian Gulf.
My family is proud of both of them and of all the fine men and women serving the country in uniform. Track is the eldest of our five children.
In our family, it's two boys and three girls in between - my strong and kind-hearted daughters Bristol, Willow, and Piper.
And in April, my husband Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.
That's how it is with us.
Our family has the same ups and downs as any other ... the same challenges and the same joys.
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.
And children with special needs inspire a special love.
To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.
I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House. Todd is a story all by himself.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers' Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.
We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he's still my guy. My Mom and Dad both worked at the elementary school in our small town.
And among the many things I owe them is one simple lesson: that this is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.
My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath. Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency.
A writer observed: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity." I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.
I grew up with those people.
They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America ... who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars.
They love their country, in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
When I ran for city council, I didn't need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
As for my running mate, you can be certain that wherever he goes, and whoever is listening, John McCain is the same man. I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment.
And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.
The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
No one expects us to agree on everything.
But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and ... a servant's heart.
I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of the United States. This was the spirit that brought me to the governor's office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau ... when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol' boys network.
Sudden and relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests and power brokers. That's why true reform is so hard to achieve.
But with the support of the citizens of Alaska, we shook things up.
And in short order we put the government of our state back on the side of the people.
I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is the law.
While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for.
That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.
I also drive myself to work.
And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef - although I've got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending - by request if possible and by veto if necessary.
Senator McCain also promises to use the power of veto in defense of the public interest - and as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.
Our state budget is under control.
We have a surplus.
And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.
I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.
I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere.
If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
And despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things the way they were, we broke their monopoly on power and resources.
As governor, I insisted on competition and basic fairness to end their control of our state and return it to the people.
I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.
And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.
That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.
The stakes for our nation could not be higher.
When a hurricane strikes in the Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
And families cannot throw away more and more of their paychecks on gas and heating oil.
With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.
To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies ... or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia ... or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries ... we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.
And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we've got lots of both.
Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already.
But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines ... build more new-clear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.
We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers. I've noticed a pattern with our opponent.
Maybe you have, too.
We've all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers.
And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.
But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate.
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it.
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit.
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights? Government is too big ... he wants to grow it.
Congress spends too much ... he promises more.
Taxes are too high ... he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.
The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes ... raise payroll taxes ... raise investment income taxes ... raise the death tax ... raise business taxes ... and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister Heather and her husband have just built a service station that's now opened for business - like millions of others who run small businesses.
How are they going to be any better off if taxes go up? Or maybe you're trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio ... or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia ... or keep a small farm in the family right here in Minnesota.
How are you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to the American economy? Here's how I look at the choice Americans face in this election.
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
They're the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.
Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.
And then there is the idealism of those leaders, like John McCain, who actually do great things. They're the ones who are good for more than talk ... the ones we have always been able to count on to serve and defend America. Senator McCain's record of actual achievement and reform helps explain why so many special interests, lobbyists, and comfortable committee chairmen in Congress have fought the prospect of a McCain presidency - from the primary election of 2000 to this very day.
Our nominee doesn't run with the Washington herd.
He's a man who's there to serve his country, and not just his party.
A leader who's not looking for a fight, but is not afraid of one either. Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
He said, quote, "I can't stand John McCain." Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we've chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can't stand up to John McCain. That is only one more reason to take the maverick of the Senate and put him in the White House. My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of "personal discovery." This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn't just need an organizer.
And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, "fighting for you," let us face the matter squarely.
There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you ... in places where winning means survival and defeat means death ... and that man is John McCain. In our day, politicians have readily shared much lesser tales of adversity than the nightmare world in which this man, and others equally brave, served and suffered for their country.
It's a long way from the fear and pain and squalor of a six-by-four cell in Hanoi to the Oval Office.
But if Senator McCain is elected president, that is the journey he will have made.
It's the journey of an upright and honorable man - the kind of fellow whose name you will find on war memorials in small towns across this country, only he was among those who came home.
To the most powerful office on earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless ... the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God ... the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pin-hole in his cell door as Lieutenant Commander John McCain was led down the hallway, by the guards, day after day.
As the story is told, "When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe's door and flash a grin and thumbs up" - as if to say, "We're going to pull through this." My fellow Americans, that is the kind of man America needs to see us through these next four years.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words.
For a lifetime, John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
If character is the measure in this election ... and hope the theme ... and change the goal we share, then I ask you to join our cause. Join our cause and help America elect a great man as the next president of the United States.
Thank you all, and may God bless America.