Last week I featured a song about polk salad; tonight, what with it being summer and all, we’re going to take a left turn into a cornfield to feature a strange 1944 song about potato salad – the solid kind, not the runny stuff – as performed by Aggie, Maggie and Elmira Ross. The Ross Sisters‘ act, a unique mix of singing, dancing, contortionism and acrobatics, was once considered good solid family entertainment, but now seems vaguely discomfiting, and desperate, in a stage-mom kind of way. One wag’s description of the performance as “Hee-Haw meets Cirque Du Soleil” is apt; the enterprise doesn’t make any sense, somehow, as the aggressively-smiling, all-American perkiness mixes uneasily with carnival-esque freakishness to create in the viewer something resembling cognitive dissonance.
A true oddity, for your Friday night amusement. Without further ado, here are the Ross Sisters performing Solid Potato Salad.
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I am in awe.
Syncro
What a species!
Species is as species does.
What is very interesting as an aside.
Syncro
yeah, that’s going to be hard to top!
That video reminds me of a blind date I had in college. Who knew there’d be more than one of them?! I still have pain when a low pressure system comes in.
Yet another example of America’s decline: Today the only entertainers in this class are Chinese acrobats, and you won’t hear them singing Solid Potato Salad.
Hagi Mazuz, writing in Hudson-NY.org:
“The Europeans have since been trying to impose their Soft Power solution on the Middle East in general, and on Israel and the Palestinians in particular. The central problem facing the Europeans in carrying out their strategy for making peace between the two sides is that the Europeans are guilty of “mirror imaging:.” They see Israel, justifiably so, as a Western country in every sense of the word; and start with the assumption that both the Palestinians and Israel want to get along with one another the way the Europeans now do. This is Europe’s problem. Israel educates its young to pursue peace. Some Israelis have made this their utmost goal, even to the point of ignoring — or even blinding themselves — to the Middle Eastern reality in which they live. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have done the exact opposite.
“Examining the Palestinian Authority’s Educational Curriculum — both in the West Bank and Gaza — exposes the bitter truth…
The whole thing here.
Forgive if I am misinterpreting site protocol, but Reader Tips can include comments that are otherwise unrelated to the other topics being discussed?
In that case I thought I would share a video that I’m sure some of you will enjoy. Arizona governor Jan Brewer has no qualms about firing shots across the Boy King’s bow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlN7VLmXQ
Kevin, Reader Tips is a place for SDA Readers and visitors to provide links to things they find interesting/notable/significant/timely, etc., and not a place for any particular topic, even a previous Reader Tip, to be discussed. (Individual comments are okay.) Your 12:29 comment, which consisted of a link, and a description what’s in that link (and excerpts are okay, too)is exemplary, i.e. a perfect Reader Tip. You are invited and encouraged to provide such personally juried tips as yours, at any time. That’s the whole purpose of the Reader Tips comments thread.
Excerpt from Jonah Knox’s piece, titled “A Soldier Speaks: What About Some Respect From Obama, published at aim.org –
“Now that General McChrystal is gone, liberals and conservatives seem to agree that McChrystal did not show sufficient ‘respect’ for President Obama. But what about respect from Obama and his ruling liberal elite for our system, our country, and its values? What about the chain of command that makes Obama answerable to the American people and the system that he is so brazenly attempting to transform into something completely foreign to what our founders intended?”
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The liberals in power constantly do things that you are not supposed to do, violate the way things are done, and break rules and laws…here are a few examples of things that we once did not do (and which still break the law or rules) but which the liberals have normalized through unilaterally and unapologetically doing:
(I’m excerpting here a few of Knox’s examples – EBD)
“It is now acceptable to have the police escort a mob of thugs to a banker’s home so the mob can terrorize innocent civilians.
“It is now acceptable to have the New Black Panthers wield weapons outside a voting station in order to increase liberal voter turnout.
“It is now acceptable to have a U.S. President who is personal friends with a communist terrorist.
“It is now acceptable to have a U.S. President who goes around the world “apologizing” for America and debasing it.
“It is acceptable to side with foreign invaders and prosecute American citizens who are trying to protect our sovereignty and lives.
“it is now acceptable to declare Tea Partiers, proponents of national sovereignty, and other law-abiding citizens of the United States of America ‘enemies’ of the state, even as one allies with communists and Mexican invaders.”
“Unless the Right stops condemning people like General McChrystal, whose contempt for the President he voted for is obviously shared within the ranks, the Right will ensure that it will stay on the defensive…” (emph. mine)
The whole thing here.
yikes
Syncro
EBD: The soldier you have linked to has a valid argument, IMO. Thank-you for linking us to this common sense warrior who chooses those whom he respects with care and with consideration. Like this soldier, President Obama is not someone that I would consider ‘important’ because I have yet to see him say or do anything that would make me respect him as a man, I would rather avoid him than be forced to converse with him. His views do not interest me.
So this is what people sung about before being billionaires, drive-bys, hookers and blow.
Also that contortionist act weirds me out. I’m a conservative I prefer my women frigid I guess. j/k
The latest Climate Gate is Judithgate:
IPCC “Consensus” on Solar Influence was Only One Solar Physicist who Agreed with Her Own Paper. On the basis of this “consensus of one” solar physicist, the IPCC proclaimed solar influences upon the climate to be minimal. It is from a Czech climate skeptic blog Klimaskeptik.cz
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2010/06/ipcc-consensus-on-solar-influence-was.html
Thanks for the video but do watch out for those Canadian earthquakes.
Readers tips?
The NORKS say we owe them 75 trillion dollars?
Hey! No Problem!
The Chinese will honor our credit.
We have 148 million troy ounces-
Found this ironic. Don’t follow the political side of things that intently anymore but this is too funny. Juxtapose this!
Michael Ignatieff Tuesday, June 21, 2010 6:04 am
The federal Liberals want to ban oil supertankers from British Columbia’s northwestern coast, a promise that would halt the building of a proposed $5.5-billion oil sands pipeline from Alberta through northern B.C.
From the comments: Good to see the Liberals take a stand on something. Protect Canada’s coastline. China can manage without our oil resources.
Michael Ignatieff Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 600 pm
A future Liberal government, he said, would lever relationships with China.
That didn’t take long.
Fake socialists: O&I&R.
Obama.
Ignatieff.
Rudd.
“*He was a fake.”
The T.E.A.R.
The Man From Tear.
Socialist Man.
“Kevin Rudd sheds a tear at a press conference after he was deposed by his deputy Julia Gillard. Picture: AFP Source: Herald Sun”
“*He was a fake.”
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“Shattered leader Kevin Rudd deserted by those he led to power
A SINGLE tear ran down Kevin Rudd’s face as he delivered an emotional farewell to the nation.
Flanked by his wife Therese and their three children, Mr Rudd was overcome several times as he spoke about his passion to fight cancer, promote organ donation, and the apology to the Stolen Generations.
But he still found time for humour and humility, despite the indignity of being a first-term Prime Minister elected by the people of Australia who was dumped from the highest office in the land by his party.
Mr Rudd decided not to contest the leadership ballot against Julia Gillard yesterday after being told by number crunchers that he faced a crushing defeat. Ms Gillard’s supporters claimed to have secured more than 70 of the 112 possible votes.
But Australia’s 26th prime minister says he will not quit politics and wants a senior role in the Gillard Government.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/shattered-leader-kevin-rudd-deserted-by-those-he-lead-to-power/story-e6frf7jo-1225884032074
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“*He was a fake.”
“No wonder Kevin Rudd cried, says Andrew Bolt
NO wonder Kevin Rudd cried when he was told he was finished as prime minister.
Never has a leader been shown so little mercy by his own.
And, worse, he was brought undone by a great tearing flaw in his character that, once exposed, robbed him of all his power and most of his dignity.
Just seven months ago, Rudd was still one of the most popular prime ministers we’d had.
What’s more, the Opposition was tearing itself to pieces over global warming, and had Rudd then called a double-dissolution election he most likely would have won.
He blinked – and now he’s the first prime minister to be sacked before he could run for re-election.
How did this happen so fast? The key is Rudd’s character.
Blame the early loss of his father, or just his wiring, but Rudd has had a manic need to assert himself, as if to make up for a deep insecurity.”
“Yet Rudd could have been saved, if voters had now not seen through him.
For almost three years he has had stratospheric approval ratings. He was rated highly for trustworthiness and vision, and seemed to have a plan, and to be meticulous in implementing it.
His fall started when his grandiose schemes started to fail – and
none more badly that his “free insulation” disaster.
How could this man who seemed so diligent bungle one thing after another? But the public smelled fraud only when Rudd was this year forced to drop one more overblown, oversold plan – the emissions trading scheme that he’d promised to tackle, “the great moral challenge of our time”.
Now it seemed to many that Rudd had tricked them. He was a fake.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/no-wonder-kevin-cried/story-e6frfhqf-1225883996365
Hurricane Obama.
O’Golf:
“*When US President Barack Obama stepped off his helicopter in Huntsville on Friday, the first thing he said was, “You’ve got a lot of golf courses here, don’t you?” Industry Minister Tony Clement told the National Post in an exclusive interview.
“I told him, ‘We would really recommend and love it if you could come back here with Michelle and the kids at some point — we think you’d really love it here,’” Minister Clement said on the sidewalk of Huntsville’s Main Street, in his home riding. “I think I’ve planted a seed in the President’s mind.””
Barack Petroleum: Update.
Hurricane Obama Watch: 67+ days of O’Oil Spill.
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“Gale force winds could leave Gulf oil gushing for 2 weeks
MIAMI—Gale force winds could force at-sea workers to abandon their oil collection efforts in the Gulf of Mexico for two weeks, the head of the national response effort said Friday.
Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen described the cut-and-run plan in a conference call to reporters Friday as, “Realistically, out of an abundance of caution,” but the Deepwater Horizon well would remain uncapped for “14 days” if that happened.
Hurricane contingencies have become major concerns for planners trying to clean up the runaway Deepwater Horizon spill in its 67th day.”
http://www.thestar.com/article/828592–gale-force-winds-could-leave-gulf-oil-gushing-for-2-weeks
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*O’narcissist Golf:
“G8: Obama interested in Huntsville’s golf courses: Clement”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/25/g8-obama-interested-in-huntsvilles-golf-courses-clement/
The Toronto Star is carrying an article about the young man (with a bandana around his neck) who was arrested near the G20 security fence for refusing to give his name.
He declares that such a request is a violation of his ‘charter rights’ and is planning to sue.
But being arrested at a security zone for refusing to identify yourself isn’t a violation of your ‘freedom of association’ or your ‘freedom of speech’ as he and his lawyer claim. No-one was preventing him from doing either.
Refusal to identify yourself in a national security zone is, however, an act of insisting on anonymity. That’s not a Charter Right or any right. It is, however, an act of cowardice in my view. Either stand up for yourself as a citizen, which means that you have an identity as such or don’t go to such zones.
I ran acrosss the Ross Sisters act just a few weeks ago. I think it was here,but am not positive. It is an eerie act. Sort of reminds me of my first encounter with snakes, I wanted to touch them but was afraid of being bitten. Of course,curiousity got the better of me,and still does.
Solid Potato Salad: Nothing solid about it: Esther Williams meets Country Hoe Down meets Transformers. This stuff was big before TV, movie special effects and the Internet introduced every variety of contortionist shenanigans 24 hours a day.
I liked the Ross Sisters’ singing, though!!
(And “Triplets,” my foot! Only one of them is an actual Ross! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Sisters)
Re the malware warning at First Things: A reliable source has suggested that a hacker’s at the bottom of First Thing’s (FT) troubles (not Google, as I’d feared). This person has had his site sabotaged many times and says that FT will be working to sort things out—at the expense of a great deal of time and money.
How is it that the “tolerant, diversity loving” left are virtually always the saboteurs, and not those of us who are more conservative (and, of course, nasty)? A mystery, isn’t it?
Tipper’s GoreButt Report (TGBR).
(H/T AGW).
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“Animation of Al Gore’s Massage Encounter”
“Taiwanese news service NMA uses computer animation to re-create the allegations made against Al Gore.”
http://www.breitbart.tv/animation-of-al-gores-massage-encounter/
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“Al Gore jumps twenty-five sharks
Is it “Cap and Trade” or “Cap and Rough Trade”?
Will Al Gore now be the butt of more jokes than anyone who ever lived?
Well, not quite, but it was always easy enough to make fun of Al — that blowhard who claimed to have helped create the Internet (tell CERN) and that his marriage inspired Love Story. But no one could have anticipated his never-to-be-forgotten June of 2010, a month that would give even the strongest of us a migraine for life. And everything seemed to be going so well for him in May with the announcement of his purchase of a nine-million dollar ocean front home in Montecito.
Well, that place may have had a carbon footprint the size of Indiana, but we’re used to the hypocrisy of the supposedly green-minded. It comes with the territory.
But then came June. First the end of the “Love Story-ed” marriage with Tipper, then the putative affair with Laurie David and now this — sexual assault allegations. (That last appeared in the National Enquirer — as we know, a newspaper with one of the greatest track records for accuracy of any publication in our country. I’m serious. If not for them, John Edwards might be vice-president right now. Think about that. And, NE is backed up by police reports, etc.)
Whoa … Forget the migraines. Think seppuku.
But what does this all mean in the real world? Al Gore has already made a mockery of the Academy Awards and the Nobel Peace Prize, not that these organizations’ voters didn’t make a mockery of themselves and not that the latter wasn’t already a self-parody of monumental Orwellian proportions.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/06/25/al-gore-jumps-twenty-five-sharks/
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Foul times for Lilith (aka Fowl times for the singing hens):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/foul-times-for-lilith-fair/article1617883/
I suspect that it’s because most people aren’t interested anymore in propping up feminist hype. A good singer’s a good singer, punto. Can you imagine if a guy put together a tour called the Boy’s Bazaar and excluded the girls? They’d never hear the end of it from the feminazis.
I figure Lilith’s lack of popularity is a victory against the oppressive we’re-better-than-the-guys-girls-rule feminazism we’ve had to endure for the past 40 years.
Hurricane O Update (free from SeaBeeSee).
SBS says “some experts are worried”.
Other “experts” are not “worried”? TBA.
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“Tropical storm forms in Caribbean
Unclear if it will affect Gulf oil spill
The first tropical storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season has formed in the western Caribbean and some experts are worried it could slow efforts to stop the gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico if it changes direction.
A storm’s track can quickly change, but it’s still too early to tell if this storm, dubbed Alex, will reach the area fouled by the BP spill, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday.”
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/26/storm-alex-mexico.html
The Toronto Pride parade this year has “Queers against Israel Appartheid” the anti-semitic group who support Hamas et.al. A list of the sponsors of the parade can be found at:
http://www.pridetoronto.com/sponsor/sponsors/
Remember Janeane Garofalo? She told us that anyone who criticized Obama was a racist.
During an interview, Garofalo “expressed disappointment in President Obama. “It’s a drag that he’s such a conservative,” she lamented.
Heh. She’s now, according to her own definition, a racist.
Oh dear. It seems the President may really have jumped the shark. According to Iowahawk, even T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII is beginning to wonder whether Obama’s lost that certain special je ne sais quoi…
This is the kind of thing you find in the Sudan.
Warlords in an age where the Law has been compromised can do what they please.
Decision to use on-duty officers for funeral procession of David Brown Jr. spurs outrage
A cop-killer who is the son of the Dallas police chief continued to stir deep emotions Friday as he headed to his grave.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/06/decision-to-use-on-duty-office.html
Hope and Fear and Anger in TO; raccoon havoc in Memphis; GoreBull.
First, the awful news:
>>> “CBC news crew attacked,”.
“*the outage delayed production of Friday’s newspaper”.
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“”This isn’t our Toronto. My response is anger,” Mayor David Miller” (nnw)
“”CBC news crew attacked, other violence as G20 protest turns ugly” (nnw)
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“*’Acrobatic and mean-spirited’ raccoon knocks out power in downtown Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A raccoon described by a Memphis utility official as “very acrobatic and mean-spirited” short-circuited a switch and knocked out power downtown for more than five hours. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division president Jerry Collins told The Commercial Appeal that about 8,000 customers were without city power late Thursday and early Friday.
Emergency generators restored power to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital within seconds, but the outage delayed production of Friday’s newspaper at The Commercial Appeal and disrupted other businesses. Collins said the utility has installed barriers to keep animals…”
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index
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“Gore Response to Masseuse Story: Enquirer Did Not Pay Massage Therapist
The Washington Post is now reporting the Al Gore-Redheaded Masseuse story. Amazingly, they track how the National Enquirer report relied “heavily” on the documents behind the accusation, and point out the care taken before letting the story go to press.
The most powerful part of the story, if true – and this is coming from the Washington Post, not the Enquirer, is:
According to a source friendly with the Gores, Al Gore confirmed that he received a therapeutic massage in his hotel room that night, and likely from the therapist making the accusation. But, the source said, Gore remembers getting a massage without incident and the therapist leaving on good terms.
When an accused person indicates they remember the incident differently, they’re lying. He obviously remembers this particular massage therapist, this particular night in this particular hotel.
Yes, Gore remembers it well, and not in hindsight. His attorneys have been trying to keep it under the rug since 2007, once again in 2008 – and used not-so-subtle threats when talking to the Portland Tribune:
Gore’s lawyers wrote: “You. . . . are aware that everyone who knows Al and Tipper Gore well can and does attest to the integrity of their 37 year marriage and to his honorable character. [The Gore’s recently separated]”.
http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/06/gore-response-to-masseuse-story.html