"Wake Up"

If you have seen one of the trailers for the movie, Where The Wild Things Are, chances are this song was being used for it. It does manage to get stuck in your head.

Friday Night Celebration

To congratulate Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, he may as well top that off with going to Disney Dizz Knee Land. Everything else has been handed to him, why not this?

Barack Won The Nobel Peace Prize? WTF?

UPDATE: The new ribbon for the Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama.

Seriously?

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the Norwegian committee said in a statement.

"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

Asked why the prize had been awarded to Mr Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve".

Actual achievement doesn't count for much anymore, I guess.

More from The Times Online:

[T]he prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. Many people will point out that, while the President has indeed promised to “reset” relations with Russia and offer a fresh start to relations with the Muslim world, there is little so far to show for his fine words.

This From Ann Althouse:

Riddle: Why didn't Barack Obama win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: He wrote 2 books.

President Prissypants has had a 15 second career. After seeing Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and Yasir Arafat win, the Nobel Peace Prize has become a joke. With Barack winning, it only confirms that.

Micky Kaus makes sense out of one of the biggest WTF moments since Jan. 20th this year. Turn it down. Politely decline. Let the committee give the award to someone who deserves it. Like Neil Patrick Harris.

Coffee Is For Closers Round-Up

Due to a previous engagement (So I'm recovering from an ether soaked handkerchief my Samoan attorney gave me while out celebrating(Who, for the record, is neither Samoan or an attorney)), I couldn't be here so I called in a favor to my friend, Blake, to finish this for me.

UPDATE: Jimmie knows about the coffee.

All right, lets get started. First thing about a round up is to Always Be Linking. Be sure seal the deal with a link. Don't be like Barack Obama and leave thinking the deal is done to be shut out in the first round. He's not even getting the steak knives.

You have to be more like Carrol from No Sheeples Here. Now she is a Blogger Who Links. Despite the fact she didn't do one of her phenomenal photoshops she is able to point out a first. A comedy sketch by Saturday Night Live is fact checked on CNN? I wouldn't say that CNN is a news channel. When Red Eye comes on at 3 AM EST and that has more viewers than your lead in prime time show with Campbell Brown, you are not a news channel.

Little Miss Attila show why she has balls enough to be a Blogger Who Links. She's not afraid to say what most people think about Micheal Moore.

But the one thing that the Bloggers Who Link should never do is wear a flower sun dress to a posthumous Medal of Honor award ceremony. No matter what your level of education, it's plain tacky.

Robert Stacy is the Blog Fu master of Bloggers Who Link. For starters, he goes a long way to say the thing that needs to be said. And you can enjoy the ride there.

There's been a dust up about a nasty rumor about Stacy's past. I can assure you, nothing is further from the truth. Just because there is a camera pointed at Rachel Maddow's head doesn't make her an authority on anything. It's an issue of fake journalists repeating what their producers say in their earpiece. Besides, I heard a rumor that her coochie is a protective habitat due to the rare and endangered species of crabs who live down there. No Kwell for her.

Do you realize what these links are? These links are gold. They are At The Point Of A Gun links. And those links are not there to attract Google spiders. It's as if I have Levi Johnston Nude up on purpose for that very reason.

They are gold because these links see through the usual crap and can sum something up like THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL instead the usual filler TV has to do. They can help sort through the political spectrum to help you see when groups are identified as far right wing extremists, they are actually run of the mill left wing moonbats.

Now remember. Always Be Linking and the coffee is for closers.

Levi Johnston Nude

UPDATED: Levi Johnston Nude has his own twitter page now?

Is that a Google bomb worth owning? Levi Johnston Nude? It's worked in the past but that was Carrie Prejean Nude, a young blond from California. Who knows. Levi Johnston Nude might work out after all. Hits are hits.

The Real Story Behind Bill Sparkman

Instead of reading about Bill Sparkman's murder by someone sitting on their ass, too lazy to pick up a phone for a simple fact check, read this by someone who has actually been to the scene of the crime.

The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation. . . .

The article was datelined from Washington, D.C., which likely meant that the unnamed “law enforcement official” who was the AP’s source worked at the U.S. Department of Justice. The article said this official “was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity,” and went on to cite David Breyer, a spokesman in the FBI’s Louisville, Ky., office as saying that “the bureau is helping state police with the case.”

Right. Anybody who knows anything about law enforcement knows that when the FBI gets involved in a criminal investigation, their “helping” generally takes the form of big-footing all over the case and bossing everybody else around.
[. . .]
In a single blog post, [David Empsall of MyDD.com] had connected Sparkman’s death not only to the health-care debate in Washington, but also to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. By contrast, when I first learned of the Clay County case – some three hours before Empsall posted his connect-the-dots commentary - I was profoundly skeptical of any such connection.

Be sure to read the whole thing.

"Dirty" Deeds

Some nick-names are earned.

This is no exception.

Who Knew?

. . . That at the world stage, there is a First Lady that's pretty, toned, and talented. Carla Bruni recently married Nicolas Sarkozy early last year, making her the First Lady of France.

I knew she was a former model and that was about it when she started dating Sarkozy. Then a friend of mine showed me a video of her playing the guitar and singing. She's more than just a pretty face. And when I found that photo of her a while back I thought that the guitar was only a prop.

For those who really need to know, you can find the lyrics translated into English here. Go at your own disgression. The site is obviously safe for work or home or even church. And it's nothing against the song in and of itself. For me, knowing the lyrics now take away from the magic of hearing the song in it's original language.


She even has her own IMDB entry with more than the average First Lady. The usual entry has stock footage of newsreels and the occasional documentary of their husband and appearances on Morning Shows. Not Ms. Bruni.

UPDATED: Smitty kicks in with a link.