Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Thanks for the help...

[That's help for showing this person to be a nimrod]

This is reprinted without permission from the Minneapolis StarTribune.  It did the research so I didn't have to.


WASHINGTON - Michele Bachmann's claim that she has "never gotten a penny" from a family farm that's been subsidized by the government is at odds with her financial disclosure statements. They show tens of thousands in personal income from the operation.

And, on a less substantive note, she flubbed her hometown history when declaring "John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa," and "that's the kind of spirit that I have, too," in running for president.

The actor was born nearly 150 miles away. It was the serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr. who lived, for a time, in Waterloo.

Those were among the latest examples of how the Minnesota congresswoman has become one to watch — for inaccuracies as well as rising support — in the Republican presidential race.

Bachmann's wildly off-base assertion last month that a NATO airstrike might have killed as many as 30,000 Libyan civilians, her misrepresentations of the health care law, misfires on other aspects of President Barack Obama's record and historical inaccuracies have saddled her with a reputation for uttering populist jibes that don't hold up. On Tuesday, she erred in describing John Quincy Adams as a Founding Father.

She announced her candidacy Monday in Iowa with a speech typical for someone joining the campaign. It laid out the broad themes of her candidacy and mostly avoided the Bachmann bomblets that have grabbed attention — and often fizzled under scrutiny — in the long lead-up.

The more the political season heats up, the more that exaggerations and sound-bite oversimplifications emanate from the Republicans going after Obama — and from the Democrats playing defense. Still, Bachmann's record on this score is distinct.

Examining 24 of her statements, Politifact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, found just one to be fully true and 17 to be false (seven of them "pants on fire" false). No other Republican candidate whose statements have been vigorously vetted matched that record of inaccuracy.

A look at some of her recent statements and how they compare with the facts:

BACHMANN: "The farm is my father-in-law's farm. It's not my husband and my farm. It's my father-in-law's farm. And my husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm." — On "Fox News Sunday."

THE FACTS: In personal financial disclosure reports required annually from members of Congress, Bachmann reported that she holds an interest in a family farm in Independence, Wis., with her share worth between $100,000 and $250,000.

The farm, which was owned by her father-in-law, produced income for Bachmann of at least $32,500 and as much as $105,000 from 2006 through 2009, according to the reports she filed for that period. The farm also received federal crop and disaster subsidies, according to a database maintained by the Environmental Working Group. From 1995 through 2010, the farm got $259,332 in federal payments.

When asked about the subsidies and her income from the farm late last year, a spokesman for Bachmann said only that she wasn't involved in decisions about the running of the farm.

Bachmann told The Associated Press on Monday that her husband became a trustee of the farm because his father had dementia before he died two years ago, and "oversees the legal entity."

"Everything we do with those forms is in an abundance of caution," she said, insisting she and her husband receive no farm income despite the forms reporting it.

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BACHMANN: "If you look at one of our Founding Fathers, John Quincy Adams, that's absolutely true. He was a very young boy when he was with his father serving essentially as his father's secretary. He tirelessly worked throughout his life to make sure that we did in fact one day eradicate slavery." — On ABC's "Good Morning America."

THE FACTS: John Quincy Adams was not a Founding Father. He was 9 when the Declaration of Independence was made and 20 when the Constitution was adopted. His father, John Adams, was the Revolutionary War figure and an architect of the declaration — and therefore a Founding Father. Both father and son became president. Bachmann was defending her earlier, inaccurate remark that the Founding Fathers had devoted themselves to ending slavery.

John Quincy Adams, president from 1825 to 1829, privately called slavery a "great and foul stain" but largely sidestepped the issue in office, according to "The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency." He tried to avoid antagonizing the South while reasoning that his push for a stronger central government would hasten slavery's end over time.

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BACHMANN: "Well what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too." — Speaking to Fox News on Sunday.

Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, nearly three hours away, and moved to California in his childhood. John Wayne Gacy, convicted of killing 33 men and boys, was born in Chicago, moved to Waterloo to work in his father-in-law's chicken restaurants and first ran afoul of the law there, sentenced to 10 years for sodomy. He began his killing spree after his release, and his return to Illinois.

Bachmann told CNN on Tuesday her comments "were just misspeaking" and that her main intent was to show she identified with Wayne's patriotism.

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BACHMANN: "Overnight we are hearing that potentially 10 to 30,000 people could have been killed in the strike." — Criticizing Obama in May for the "foolish" U.S. intervention in Libya, and citing what she said were reports of a civilian death toll from a NATO strike as high as 30,000.

THE FACTS: The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Gene Cretz, said in late April that U.S. officials have seen reports that 10,000 to 30,000 people may have died in Moammar Gadhafi's crackdown on protesters and the fighting between rebels and pro-government forces, but it is hard to know if that is true. He was speaking about all casualties of the conflict; no one has attributed such a death toll to NATO bombing alone, much less to a single strike.

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BACHMANN: "It's ironic and sad that the president released all of the oil from the strategic oil reserve. ... There's only a limited amount of oil that we have in the strategic oil reserve. It's there for emergencies." — On CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

THE FACTS: Obama did not empty all the oil from the strategic reserve, as Bachmann said. He approved the release of 30 million barrels, about 4 percent of the 727 million barrels stored in salt caverns along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. It's true that the U.S. normally taps the reserve for more dire emergencies than exist today, and that exposes Obama to criticism that he acted for political gain. But the reserve has never been fuller; it held 707 million barrels when last tapped, after 2008 hurricanes.

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BACHMANN: "One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office." — Comment to a conservative conference in Iowa in March.

THE FACTS: The Obama administration issued more than 200 new drilling permits before the Gulf oil spill alone. Over the past year, since new safety standards were imposed, the administration has issued more than 60 shallow-water drilling permits. Since the deep water moratorium was lifted in October, nine new wells have been approved.

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Associated Press writers Brian Bakst in Waterloo, Iowa, and Dina Cappiello in Washington contributed to this report.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

"foggy memory"

"Booze and an erect member?   Where?"



The Minneapolis StarTribune wasted manpower and money to ask a few questions to drunken slut Bristol Palin about her upcoming [shame on the publisher] lameass memoir on entitlement. The Q and A below are from the "interview."


Q: In your book, you describe losing your virginity, writing that you were drinking and woke up with no memory of it. Was it non-consensual?

A: I'm not accusing Levi of date rape or anything like that. I am just looking back on it with the eyes of a 20-year-old. It was a stupid, stupid decision to sneak out like that and get into underage drinking. It was stupid to get myself into that situation with Levi. It's definitely a warning [for young readers] and I thought if I opened the book with that scene, it would show readers how candid I am in the book and how honest I am.


So, she really is a drunken slut.  She could have been gangbanged by all of Alaska and wouldn't know the difference because she was passed out drunk.  Any one of hundreds of guys could be her kids DNA donor.

Wow, what an inspiring tale.  Please, please, please don't buy her lameass book.

Reggie F Cat's prior posts on this turd:

http://reggiefcat.blogspot.com/2011/06/please-boycott-this.html

http://reggiefcat.blogspot.com/2009/12/genetic-code-successfully-passed.html

http://reggiefcat.blogspot.com/2010/08/bristol-palin-levi-johnston-call-off.html

http://reggiefcat.blogspot.com/2010/11/dancing-with-starsand-bristol-palin.html

http://reggiefcat.blogspot.com/2010/11/bristol-palin-part-ii.html

Wait a minute...



Is Michele Bachmann sporting an adam's apple?

Monday, June 27, 2011

Finally...



Dickhead Rod Blagojevich is today convicted on a wide variety of corruption charges.

We at Reggie F. Cat always enjoy the conviction of public officials who use their position for personal gain.

"Don't bend over for the soap."

Monday, June 20, 2011

please BOYCOTT this ...


Other rejected titles:

My Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Love Child.


I'm Entitled.


Why Does Everyone Think I'm a Whiny, Addlebrained Asshole?

But no.  Not Afraid Of Life:  My Journey So Far.  

First thought.  Of course you're not afraid of life.  You've had everything handed to you because your shitbag mom is a minor cultural curio.

Second thought.  Your journey?  You mean all the cars you got nailed in during high school?

Your Journey?  No, your life, as is, really isn't a journey.  Getting through high school while your mom quits jobs isn't a journey.  Oh, that's right.  You were on that lameass dance show.  My mistake: you MUST have all sorts of life-affirming lessons to pass on from that experience.

There really aren't adequate words to describe my hatred of the Palins, so I'll just leave it at this:  I hate anyone with their degree of arrogance and sense of entitlement.

Please boycott this book.  Don't let crotch-rot Palin's belief that she's soo interesting be affirmed.

Your fifteen minutes are way over.  Go away and make more babies, something worthy of your skills and talents.

Wow, that's a shock...



No Gang Strike Force charges, feds say


The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to prosecute anyone else in connection with the scandal-plagued Metro Gang Strike Force, the multi-jurisdictional law enforcement unit that was abolished nearly two years ago.
"We have closed our case, and it is our understanding that the Department of Justice is not going to prosecute anyone else," said Special Agent Steve Warfield, media coordinator for the FBI's Minneapolis office,
Last year, the Justice Department prosecuted Minneapolis police officer Jason Andersen, a member of the Strike Force, on charges of violating a teenager's civil rights by kicking the boy in the head in Crystal in 2008. A jury found Andersen not guilty.
The FBI concluded its investigation last year and handed its reports over to the Justice Department, where the case had remained. Warfield said Justice officials recently told the FBI it was closing the case.
In May 2009, Michael Campion, Minnesota's commissioner of public safety, asked the FBI to conduct an investigation of the Strike Force after a Legislative Auditor's report uncovered a series of problems Those including missing cash, and cars seized in raids.
The report said the Strike Force failed to develop basic internal controls that would ensure it properly safeguarded or accounted for seized cash and other property. Auditors found nearly $400,000 of seized cash in a property room safe, dating to 2000.
Campion called the report "significant, serious and disturbing."
Hours after the report was issued and Strike Force activities temporarily suspended, members of the force were found shredding documents and carrying materials out of the Strike Force offices.
While the FBI began one investigation, Campion also authorized a second one by former federal prosecutor Andy Luger and retired FBI agent John Egelhof. It concluded that Strike Force members took home property seized in raids, and that minorities may have been unfairly targeted.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department assumed control of the federal inquiry, removing it from the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis.
After the FBI ended its inquiry in 2010, its findings were turned over to Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, for possible state charges.
Freeman announced last September he was filing no charges against the Strike Force, citing major obstacles to the investigation, including the unit's substandard handling of records and evidence and the refusal of 29 of the former Force officers and employees to talk to investigators.

Friday, June 17, 2011

I laugh at al-Qaida...

This was the second in command to jackoff Osama Bin Laden [he with the moonroof in his head].

He's the leader now.

My question is...



What the hell is that on your forehead?

Is that a dent?

It looks like you've been hanging out with Larry, Moe and Curly.

Enjoy the rest of your life ... my money is on you not surviving 2011.

Tick, tick, tick ...

P.S.  You gotta little Egg McMuffin in your beard there sport.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

been waitin' for this one...

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6667391


C'mon man, act like you were raised in a civilized society and not a barn.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

"herbal jazz cigarette"

"What?"

Monday, June 13, 2011

Google AdSense can GFY!

Ugh.

After a year of carrying their ads like a freakin' cross, and having to feel like a sellout for doing so, Google AdSense emailed me to let me know they had discontinued my AdSense account.

Although they never specifically noted what the problem was, they sent me some smiley-smile lame-ass email.  I amassed $30 in ad click revenue in over a year, so I'm not really sure what stick went up their ass that made them shit on my birthday cake and take my money.  Even though it likely would have been over a year, minimum, before I reached the $100 payout threshold.

I really don't understand it, but hey, it's Google's world and I just inhabit it.

So I followed their link to file my appeal, with the caveat that it might take up to ten days to receive a response.   Amazingly, the reply was sooner.  Ten minutes.  TEN MINUTES!   Wow, you'd think someone was waiting for the damn thing.

Naturally, my appeal, after being given a whole eight minutes or so of deep thought and analysis, was denied.  Of course, what could you expect?  Without any information at all, how could I possibly file a decent appeal?  Seems kind of retarded, like asking me to file a book report on a book I've never seen.

them: "Would you like to appeal something we know but haven't told you about?"

me: "I'm sorry, I scratched my nutsac in the produce section at Hy-Vee.  Was that it?"

So, what it really means is this: no more friggin' ads on my blog...

and Google AdSense can GFY.

[that's um, go "f" yourself....I cleaned it up for the kids]

Seriously.  Eff off.

"Google AdSense...let us put our ads on your blog, before we put our member up your ass."

Sunday, June 12, 2011

again, follow the trail...

Rumor has it, someone is going to be posting everything he has by The Who over at Blank Frank's place.  It will take a few days, but if you like The Who, Yahtzee!!

Please follow this to the And Your Bird Can Swing forum.

Peace,

Reg

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Brian Loves You: The Alternate Love You



Beach Boys
Brian Loves You: The Alternate Love You

mp3 @320

18 tracks
44 minutes

1] Roller Skating Child [alternate]
2] Mona [alternate]
3] Honkin' Down The Highway [alternate]
4] Ding Dang [alternate]
5] The Night Was So Young [alternate]
6] Let's Put Our Hearts Together [alternate]
7] I Wanna Pick You Up [alternate]
8] Mona [demo]
9] I'll Bet He's Nice [demo]
10] Let's Put Our Hearts Together [demo]
11] Airplane [demo]
12] Love Is A Woman [demo]
13] Roller Skating Child [live]
14] Honkin' Down The Highway [live]
15] Airplane [live]
16] Love Is A Woman [live]
17] Ding Dang ["It's OK" rehearsal, 1976]
18] Love Is A Woman [SNL, 1976]


Here's the quick assessment:

Essentially the tracks are broken into three groups.

Demos, which are the most interesting here.

Studio Alternates, which are moderately interesting.

Live, which are truly for completists only.

Overall, the sound quality is shaky.

Hope you enjoy,

Reg F Cat


***NOTE***
This is going to be posted exclusively on the And Your Bird Can Swing forum. Blank Frank runs that place. He kinda looks like Jimmy Stewart.

If you have troubles, drop me a line. Or Frank

Hope you can follow this....




Matthew Sweet
Live At The Belly Up Club
Solano Beach, CA
June 1, 1997

mp3 @320
10 tracks, 40.9 minutes

1] Come To California
2] Divine Intervention
3] Into Your Drugs
4] Girlfriend
5] Sick Of Yourself
6] Evangeline
7] Over It
8] Where You Get Love
9] Moonage Daydream
10] Do Ya

not sure anymore where this came from.  i probably got it from one of you!

RFC

***NOTE***
This is going to be posted on the And Your Bird Can Swing forum.  Blank Frank runs that place.  He kinda looks like Jimmy Stewart.

If you have troubles, drop me a line.  Or Frank.

The Official Reggie F Cat position on Matthew Sweet:


We like Mr. Sweet.  We would like Mr. Sweet if Girlfriend were the only thing he had done.  It isn't.

By combining close harmonies with classic grunge rock riffs ala Neil Young, Mr. Sweet is seldom unpredictable.  And seldom terrible.

His two collaborations with Susannah Hoffs are also fun listening, a nostalgic homage to great songs of the 60's and 70's.  The covers are pretty straight forward, without much re-invention, and adhere closely to the arrangements and spirit of the originals. Not amazing stuff, but enjoyable.

Plus: karma points for recording a cover of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

I think it's really funny...

...that a New York Representative with the last name of WEINER...


yes, WEINER...


"I don't like the smell of this."




WEINER...


A man named Anthony WEINER...


...is embroiled in a "sexting" scandal for sharing pictures.

Pictures of his "underwear clad," yep, you got it...wiener.

Wiener.

I miss Bill Clinton.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

finishing BF's BW Vigotone Project

Brian Wilson
Come Back, Brian
320 kbps



This is the stray BW release from Vigotone that eluded Blank Frank's prior post on AYBCS.

It's really a dog, for completists only.  The sound quality is often brutal, and the best material is actually better represented on Wilson's reissued self-titled 1988 debut.  Maybe I'm off a bit on the overall quality here, but I'd rather have you pleasantly surprised than how I felt when I listened.

And then there's the cover...

But I still want it.

1] Intro
2] Turning Point
3] Heavenly Bodies
4] Black Widow
5] In The Nighttime
6] Love And Mercy [live]
7] Walkin' The Line [demo]
8] Melt Away [live]
9] Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long
10] Little Children
11] One For The Boys
12] Up In The Sky
13] Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight
14] Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel [demo]
15] He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body To Move
16] Someone To Love
17] Water Builds Up
18] Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel
19] Let's Get Together
20] Smart Girls
21] We Love You
22] Fantasy Is Reality/Belles Of Madness
23] Outro


Men, don't be embarrassed.  Solve your erection problems with new enhanced Tylenol, Boner Formula.  Tylenol: if those major losers in the Pos-T-Vac commercial can get a little, why shouldn't you?








Actual people you could never believe are having sex.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

"Well I'll be. That lucky, old, son of a gun..."

Yep, that's passing for subterfuge here.




Brian Wilson
That Lucky Old Sun: The Demos
320 kbps

If you liked Brian's 2008 release TLOS, you'll love this studio demo.  Superb sound quality.   If you didn't care for that album, please try again, I think it has some serious charms.

It's not even a minute long snippet, but I really like that BW pulled the leftover stray, "Can't Wait Too Long," from the Smile era.  Sounds gorgeous.

1] That Lucky Old Sun
2] That Lucky Old Sun 2
3] Morning Beat
4] Room With A View [narrative]
5] Good Kind Of Love
6] Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl
7] Venice Beach [narrative]
8] Live Let Live
9] Mexican Girl
10] Cinco De Mayo [narrative]
11] California Role
12] Between Pictures [narrative]
13] Oxygen To The Brain
14] Can't Wait Too Long
15] Midnight's Another Day
16] That Lucky Old Sun
17] Goin' Home
18] Southern California

I'm copping out on a full-length review here just so I can post this and move on to my next atrocity.  You can view the Wiki page on the finished product right here.

Let me know what you think?  Did you like this?

"Try me: Hot gay sex!  You'll never look at her...the same way."

Friday, June 3, 2011

Summer: let the sundrench begin!

June 21 is still seventeen days away, but for me, summer officially started today.

I spent several hours working outside today doing lawn work/weeding [no, not a euphemism] and felt for the first time all year, tangible heat.  Not just bright, direct sunlight, but heat.  It was marvelous.

There are certain albums I like to hear when it turns summer.  I played two of them today while working, along with one other.

Though not on my "summer commencement" list, the recently remastered SHM version of Exile On Main St. sounded absolutely stunning.  I stopped and flopped into a chair to soak rays while "Tumbling Dice" played.  Ditto "Sweet Virginia" and "Sweet Black Angel."

The Stones were in such a groove here, the tail end of a great run of four studio albums from Beggars Banquet [1968] to Let It Bleed [1969] to Sticky Fingers [1971]  and ending with Exile in 1972 that were as solid and satisfying as the four-record run of any band you'd care to name.  Seriously.  At their height, they were that good.

Note to whoever released the remastered Exile: lost opportunity.  I'd sure like to have gotten a cleaner sounding version of the track-only "Sweet Black Angel" than the ones I have on several boots.
 
I love hearing Pet Sounds at the onset of summer.  Very "summer-y"  Mono, stereo or session work.  Love 'em all.  Today, mono stood proud, though I honestly prefer the stereo remix: it roars!  More about Brian Wilson later.

If you only own one cd of Billy Joel, grab this one: Songs In The Attic.  I'm planning a full-length review/dl opportunity in a week or so, but a few comments anyway.  Absolutely terrific live album highlighting performances of some of his better "older material," which I think gives you a better sense of the artist than say, Greatest Hits.  Joel himself refers to the album in his liner notes as "a reunion with lovers past."  I like that.

The songs are rich with melody and perfectly produced, highlighting Joel's piano and acoustic guitars, all resting comfortably on a nice, solid, fat, low end.  I really like this one.  As good as live gets.


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Ok, this 20-year-old Spanish kid is supposed to be the savior of my wretched Minnesota Timberwolves.

Ricky Rubio.  Point guard.  Wunderkind.  What's that in Spanish: el Wunderkindo?

Personally, I'm excited to see him play.  Which leads me to this: did anyone reading this actually see him play?  Please tell me.  What did you think?

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Breaking Bad season premiere on the horizon.  [shrugs shoulders: sometime this month]  Great show that I'm afraid has just about run it's course.  But I will tune in to find out.  Victory: advertisers.


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In the next few week(s) or so, I'm planning to make available the following material for a brief time.

I am listing the content in advance.  If you have an issue with it...you know...a DMCA issue.  Please tell me in advance of my posting it and the post will not occur.  The listings are for educational purpose only. If you enjoy the artist, please support them.  Mail them a sandwich.  Or buy their officially released stuff.

I'm going to finish off Blank Frank's series of Brian Wilson Vigotone releases by making available Come Back, Brian.  It's dreadful, really a dog.  Even the best stuff here is better represented on the reissue of his 1988 self-titled solo debut.  But hey, 2TB for under $90, so pretty much everything is in play.

Before Brian released That Lucky Old Sun, a nice complete studio demo of it floated around the innerweb for a few weeks.  I don't see it around much anymore, so I'm going to post it.

I will also post an audio rip of the TLOS live DVD.

I will also post an audio rip of SMiLE live DVD.

The SMiLE live DVD also includes noted Brian Wilson jock-sniffer David Leaf's documentary about Brian and SMiLE.  The DVD is really a great package.  The documentary is great.  The performance kills.  I will be posting the fantastic isolated score from the documentary.  A very nice presentation I think BW nuts will enjoy.

If there is enough interest I have a few other BW items.

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Peter Gabriel's Passion, an album I will review eventually was just reviewed by Wardo on Everybody's Dummy.  Check it out, Wardo does nice work.  I wish I put his level of effort into my blog!

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Congrats again to Blank Frank and his super-duper new And Your Bird Can Swing forum.  It's invite only, but Frank's a good guy, seek him out.


All for now,

Reg