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I thought this clip would lift our spirits with everything that is going on. Classic clip. I love Don Rickles

Never heard this group before! Beautiful music! I'm hooked! Hope you enjoy it! Video

If the BCS did elections for us: 2012 Elections breakdown BCS rankings: 1.) Barack Obama. Big state winner who is the defending champion. Both the AP polls and USA Today polls have him at #1. 2.) Charlie Crist. Big state winner who may win multiple statewide elections for major conference offices of Senate and FL Governor. Popular among AP and USA today pollsters for a Republican. 3.) Mitt Romney. Strength of schedule was weak, but hails from a "big" state. Low polls rankings, but "big" BCS state calculation puts him at #3. 4.) Hillary Clinton. A loss to a then-unseasoned...

In a situation that most any conservatives can relate to, a stupid Reporter and his Guide catches an anaconda snake off guard. Well they decide to harass the snake and play with him for a few minutes before tossing him like garbage, away from the camp. Remind you of the way the drive-by media treats conservatives? Well, that's the first thing I thought of when I watched it. Anyway, after a little while the Guide hears the reporter screaming for help. So he rushes to where the Reporter is and finds him under attack from the angry anaconda that tracked...

This was something that I found on a friend's Facebook Page. Thought I would share it with you. Sung to the 12 Days of Christmas All together NOW: On the 12th Day of Christmas Obama gave to me, 12 KSM Jurors, 11 Trillion Debt, 10 percent unemployment, 9 Communist Dictators 8 Adoring Networks, 7 Bush Blamers, 6 Death Panels, FIIVVVE Wars on Fox, 4 Years of Hell, 3 Crashing Polls, 2 Teleprompters AND a MARXIST IDEAOLOGY!

Regardless of why, this man deserves this, and many more. The headline on Drudge read: OJ Simpson beaten in prison, race incident, currently in hospital, sources claim... NATIONAL ENQUIRER to report details later in week... Developing... This report, from last July, claims OJ was terrified that his cellmate would murder him:

Announcement: Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh will join "American Idol" runner-up Brooke White and actress Vivica A. Fox as judges on the 2010 Miss America pageant airing Jan. 10 on TLC. A few responses: -Terrible pick. What does he know about oogling women? All he studies is politics. -NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The world will surely end if we allow this to happen!!!!!!! Stop the madness!!!! -The single most informative and entertaining 3 hours in All of Media. -Perhaps they should allow ex-KKK Grand Dragon DemoTard Senator Byrd be a judge. -Could have been worse: They could have gone with a...

For those of you who need a good laugh, you need to see this videwo of high schools students giving a great rendition of Halleluia! If this doesn't make you laugh, then you have major physiological problems, because it is real funny Silent Monks Singing Halleluia

Saturday Night Live's take on the State Dinner party crashers

Sportswriters Show They Are Not Bright Lights College football is a game -- a very profitable game -- played by unpaid college kids. The kids play for pride and a chance to go onto the pros. The universities, the television networks like ESPN, the bowl organizations and others reap the profits by exploiting them. So lets stop the annual whining about ...

Who was the most glamorous celeb of the day, the best dressed star? The Editors of the Fashion Time Magazine reveal that it was… Kate Hudson, who attended the world premiere of Nine held at the Odeon Leicester Square in London last night and outshined her co-stars Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz.

This one-hour program will celebrate Ms. Boyle's extraordinary journey, from her devout upbringing in a rural Scottish village where she learned to sing in churches and choral societies, to instant international fame after her inspiring performance on "Britain's Got Talent," Simon Cowell's British reality TV competition series.

Internet and television personality Alex Albrecht claimed to have insight on the price of Apple's rumored tablet during the latest episode of Diggnation, which also featured actor John Hodgman from Apple's "Get a Mac" commercials. During the course of episode 231 of the Internet-based show, co-host and Web entrepreneur Kevin Rose asked Hodgman, who plays the bumbling "PC" in Apple's commercials, if he has any inside information on the tablet. "I don't know anything about it," Hodgman said. "You think they'd tell me?" Rose then turned his attention to Albrecht, and insinuated that the co-host had privately revealed supposed information...

Time Inc. released a video walkthrough as well as a working model of its digital magazine format designed for touchscreen tablets. Less than a month after competitor Conde Nast revealed that a digital version of Wired magazine would be available by the middle of next year, publisher Time Inc. released information Wednesday on its plans for making digital magazines a reality. Time announced that Sports Illustrated would be the first magazine to undergo the digital transition, and produced not only a video walkthrough but also a working example. ...various features and capabilities including: multi-touch controls, live links and sports scores,...

Google is closing in on a beta for the Mac version of its Chrome browser, according to a list of still-to-be-addressed issues. Just eight bugs are holding up the release of Chrome for the Mac, Google's bug tracking database showed Monday morning. Of the eight, only two are marked as Priority 1: Both involve crashes when the browser tries to render content for Adobe's Flash media format. Three weeks ago, a product manager on the Chrome team said that Google would deliver a beta for the Mac in early December.

So it seems the CrunchPad is no more... The CrunchPad, which was the brainchild (pace legal settlements) of Michael Arrington, who runs the Silicon Valley-based technology news site TechCrunch, was intended to be a touchscreen tablet computer with a 12.1in screen... it began in July 2008 with the aim of producing a $200 tablet computer... the idea was that it would be open-sourced as far as possible. Except what is there to open source in the hardware? All the things you need to be standard already are; all the things you need to be special aren't -- such as some...

While rumors of a possible Verizon-compatible iPhone in 2010 persist, one analyst has predicted that Apple will instead bring the iPhone to another GSM-based carrier in the U.S.: T-Mobile. In a note to investors released this week, Doug Reid of Thomas Weisel Partners said his firm believes that T-Mobile, and not Verizon, will be the beneficiary when Apple's exclusive agreement with AT&T expires next year... AT&T's exclusive contract with Apple for the iPhone is due to expire in 2010... While the iPhone in its current iteration is compatible with T-Mobile's network, it is not capable of connecting to its high-speed...

Businesses of all sizes have reached out to Apple with interest in its iPod touch-based point-of-sale system, which recently debuted at the Mac maker's stores. Gary Allen of ifoAppleStore has reported that Apple has been "deluged" with inquiries about the system, which utilizes a custom-built shell that encases the iPod touch and adds a barcode scanner and magnetic stripe reader to it. The hardware attachment is partnered with custom-built software that allows Apple retail employees to check out customers quickly and easily from any point in the store... In November, ifoAppleStore and AppleInsider gave an exclusive look at Apple's new...

A few months ago one of my Aunts passed away and I drove up to Jersey for the funeral service. At the lunch afterward one of my cousins was kind enough to give my brother and me a mix of some some CD's he had burned. They were a compilation of the best of Stiff Records - a bunch of punk / new wave / underground music from the 70's. It featured bands like Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Devo, and Elvis Costello. Everybody has a favorite era in music - it usually coincides with when you come of age....

What's better than reading 'Going Rogue'? Listening Sarah Palin reading 'Going Rogue', of course! I'm usually not an enthusiast for audio-books, but how can I pass on Sarah's soothing voice narrating her book for 7 hours and 17 minutes? Here's my question: Has anyone here bought/listened to the audio-book? How is it? And how much is it abridged from the print version?Thanks. Going Rogue: An American Life (Audiobook)Audible.com - Download: Going Rogue: An American Life narrated by Sarah Palin

When DVDs first began to contain those now ubiquitous special features, those mini documentaries, series of interviews, or behind the scenes shoots, it seemed like such an exciting idea, especially for film buffs (or series fans). But now that they have become fairly common and now that I've seen a lot of them, I have to say that they are almost entirely worthless for anything other than time-wasting, disc stuffers. Did you know that JJ Abrams is a great camera shaker and is "the life" of the new Star Trek movie? Did you know that no one worked harder than...

Tired of shtick masquerading as talent? The team over at Barely Political spoofs Lady Gaga. Through Lady Gaga the entertainment industry is delivering a powerless caricature. Whatever happened to the voice of the strong woman in rock n' roll? While Lady Gaga is trying so hard like an adolescent teenager to shock her parents, nobody is going to remember her so-called music. Lady Gaga ain't no talent; she's a manufactured product. But in this era of inauthenticity who cares, right? The only thing that really matters these days is that everybody gets paid.

Barack Hussein Obama’s safe-school czar, Kevin Jennings, is sexual left-of-left, per expected. He is now mentoring our Republic’s school systems to the tune of homosexual spread. When an instructor at Concord, Mass. Academy, Jennings set up America’s first ‘gay-straight alliance.’

When the "Oprah Winfrey Show" ends its run after 25 years in 2011, what are America's women gonna do? OH NO!!! Note: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. thanks much, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Nashville, Tn- Former Vice President, and partial human being, Albert Gore Junior recently came forward with the somewhat spurious claim that the novel New Moon -and by extension the blockbuster movie using the afore mentioned title as its source material- is based largely on the romantic exploits of himself and wife Tipper. According to the recently divulged Gore narrative he was, for a brief time in college, a Vampire. “It was a phase I was going through. Like the time I invented the Internet. You know just one of those things that happen in college when your trying to discover...

Jim Brickman and Richie McDonald's performance of 'Coming Home for Christmas set to some warrior's home comings"

leaves WH clutching GQ mag featuring himself on cover

We here at Grand Rants are frequently critical of the President’s policies, and for good reason. We have also had occasion to pick on the First Lady as well. But when either one of them does things right, we like to point out those instances as well. Last night, Michelle Obama appeared every inch a First Lady the entire country could applaud. No dowdy red-and-black disaster dress, no unflattering dear-Lord-what-the-heck-is-that-outfit? moment. She was drop-dead gorgous...

Adam Lambert is telecasting that he is an out-o-the-closet kind of person. And he proves it on stage by kissing an onstage male entertainer—impromptu, so who can judge him for doing what his drives tell him what to do?

Italian American group UNICO National has denounced Jersey Shore -- MTV's latest entry into the reality genre which premieres Dec. 3 -- as "trash television" for its "crude stereotypes and highlights cursing, bad behavior and violence in depicting renters at a New Jersey beach house" as reported by The Associated Press. In the promotional trailer below the cast is described as the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" who "keep their hair high, their muscles juiced and their fists pumping all summer long!"

Filmmaker Spike Lee said that God put Barack Hussein Obama in the Oval Office. He is certain that Barack Hussein Obama will walk into the White House because heaven ordained it to be so. Lee says that he can feel it. It is without question. There is such certainty in Lee's conviction.

Julia Roberts is getting $15 million to make Eat, Pray, Love, but Scarlett Johansson was only offered $250,000 for Iron Man 2. Kim Masters on the tactics Hollywood is using to slash salaries. You’re Scarlett Johansson. You’re pretty and you’re pretty famous, too. And you’ve just been offered the part of the Black Widow in Iron Man 2! That’s got to be some payday, right? How about $250,000, which is what Marvel Studios offered Johansson and Mickey Rourke to be in the film? The stars negotiated the number up to something over $400,000. Still, it’s not hard to imagine that...

"Evan Chandler--father of Jordan Chandler, the boy who first accused Michael of molestation--committed suicide by handgun, sparking speculation that he'd perhaps done so out of guilt over the whole child molestation scandal that arguably started the downward spiral of the fallen King Of Pop's bizarre life. We shall never really know, and there was no suicide note at the scene."

This is the philosophical theme the film works tirelessly to promote; when you strip away our contrived institutional divisions, we are all the same, all part of one big happy human family. Survival requires abandoning antiquated paradigms and placing faith in the experts among us to “ensure the continuity of the species.” The paradigm most in the crosshairs of this philosophical apocalypse is Christianity. The eccentric Charlie Frost, a pirate radio host played with slovenly relish by Woody Harellson, demeans the Bible as the least accurate predictor of the end of days among competitors like the Mayan calendar and the...

The obnoxious Tina Fey, at the "Ad Council Annual Dinner" repeated the only shtick she is known for and showed her gutter-level sense of "humor". Tina Fey: "Mrs. Palin and I continue to have so much in common," - "They recently made a porn movie about Sarah Palin and then this same adult actress, Lisa Ann, played me in a porn parody of '30 Rock' ... And weirdly of the three of us, Lisa Ann knows the most about foreign policy."

Michael Moore’s latest blockbuster lacks luster. After languishing in theaters for two months, Michael Moore’s anti-capitalism movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, has officially bombed. In its painfully short run of two months, the movie grossed 14.2 million. Approximately 55% of sales make it back to the studio, that leaves eight million to cover production costs and advertising costs, in other words the film has finished in the Red, how appropriate. Moore scored big with Fahrenheit 9/11, it had a 120 million domestic gross. Since then his films have been falling faster than a fat man on ice. Sicko made a...

Pirouette on over, Baryshnikov. There’s a new interpretation of Tchaikovski’s Nutcracker coming out! (Crazy-funny video)

Where on earth do I begin? This all started as me, a young 17 year old American going to see a woman I admire and turned into this crazy event hah I’ll start at the very beginning. My dad and I arrived at the Barnes and Noble at 11 pmTuesday evening. There were 2 tents in front of us; we were probably number 15 or so in line. It was a chilly evening but I enjoyed some good conversation from several Palin fans. We talked about Obama, Palin and just some other stuff. We sat outside in the cold, bundled...

Sarah Palin’s appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday rocketed the show to its best numbers in two years, averaging an 8.7 rating/13 share, according to Nielsen. The numbers could hint at a similarly strong showing for Barbara Walters’ interview with Palin tomorrow night on 20/20, writes Media Life.The Palin ep of The Oprah Winfrey Show was up 36% over the same day last year, and pulled more viewers than the Whitney Houston episode that began the television season. It was the highest rated Winfrey show in two years, since the Osmond family appeared in Nov. 2007. Palin is...

I rarely comment on such things as mundane as a television miniseries. Let me make the exception to offer my two sense worth on the the "updated" version of "The Prisoner".... IT SUCKS! Despite top notch casting and a premise with tons of potential it fell flatter than a 2000 lb. pancake dropped from the Sears Tower.

MSNBC's Dylan Rattigan issued an apology this morning for using photo-shopped images of Sarah Palin

The secret fantasy of most every dictator. Although I believe there are some who really only dream of accomplishing what happens at the very end of this clip! Enjoy!

I am looking for a cheap but nice video editing tool> Something I can use to make movies but do photo shop stuff with the movies. Changing faces, adding voices, that kind of thing. Any ideas or suggestions?

For a long time I've been impressed with Glenn Beck's approach to growing and engaging his audience. Taking advantage of almost every major media format available: -Radio -Print -Email -TV -Social Media and now an online video contest - to further promote his work: SIMPLY BRILLIANT! From a content perspective he's having his audience do almost all the work - and from a marketing perspective, his gaining exposure with very little cost or effort. For all the reasons stated above, this is why I do think Glenn Beck (and his staff) may ultimately have what it takes to be the...

His blog is one of the funniest conservative sites I've found, and this video's priceless.

[W]ith all the waves of negativity in the world today, may you encounter your own Bodhisattva… enjoy your week-end. Oh, and don’t worry…The stress will wait for you until Monday. But if you should happen to attain your own prajna, be sure to share it with others, won’t you? And somehow, when the stress resumes on Monday, you’ll be far better prepared to control it rather than vice versa. (Be sure to watch the fantastic video!)

Willow, Piper, and I are in Chicago and just wanted to let you know that I had a great conversation with Oprah today. We taped the show for Monday, November 16th, and enjoyed it so much that we went way over on time. The rest will air on Oprah.com. Oprah was very hospitable and gracious, and her audience was full of warm, energized and (no doubt) curious viewers. - Sarah Palin

# http://bit.ly/2VXfz Repubs & Demos have a reason 2 fear 2010. Tell yr friends & C U a week from Sat in The Villages, FL. FREE RALLY.about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck ** # http://bit.ly/2VXfz Kicking things off in SC nxt week & then a Free Rally in FL on Saturday. U'll get a glimpse of wht i'm planning!about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck ** # http://bit.ly/21FVts Interesting times we live in. Can't wait to see what this story is about.about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck ** # pat is filling in ths am. saying sum of wht I wnt...

You have never seen anyone jump rope like this! ~~~~ VIDEO

ABC has run promos for All My Children (AMC) that are obviously false. Broadcasters receive licenses based on serving the public interest. A network that lies to attract viewers is not acting in the public interest. The FCC should consider revoking ABC's license allowing it to own individual television stations. I initially thought I wouldn't post this on blogs other than the one at Soap Central because it involves a show with fewer viewers than live in the 33rd most populous state, Arkansas. However, I realized that a network that will lie in promos for one show will likely lie...