Genius usually seems crazy. Adam is super smart. This is way cool. 15:34 long, but worth your time

Knopfler and Atkins

Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins play a great instrumental medley live at Secret Policeman’s Third Ball 1987.

‘I’ll see you in my dreams’
‘Imagine’ by John Lennon.

This show is at Kiel Opera House in St Louis June 1965 when Carson hosted the Tonight Show. This is supposed to be the ONLY time Carson sang in public.

If that is true, that is a shame. This is the way The Carson Show blew every other tv show away forever.
Kids today have no idea what a great treasure was on television.

Yes, I did a post about this about a year plus ago! Now it is even more popular.

Journalist John Stossel discusses the modern day relevance of Ayn Rand’s classic, Atlas Shrugged, with guests John Allison (BB&T Bank), Professor Bradley Thompson (Clemson University) and Yaron Brook (Ayn Rand Institute).. http://www.LibertyPen.com

Buy the book, and READ it. Very much worth your time. Order below.
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*THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER (Just received this email)

This one is a little different… . Two Different Versions….. Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION
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The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION
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The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush , President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant – not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it anyway.*

A SCAPEGOAT IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS A SOLUTION….

The coolest dogs in the world. They love their family. This boy has a dog, this dog has a boy.
People should fear a dog when his boy is threatened. He is super safe.

The ultimate man in debunking fakery and he could have made millions being a swindler, instead he exposed all of them. A great man, and a personal hero of mine.

Recorded: 2000
Location: California IT
Lecture: Chasing the Chimera

Santa Barbara winemaker Byran Babcock talks about the American values he cherishes most and laments limitations on trade between the states in the land of liberty. http://LibertyPen.com

Patrick Henry

Just in case you missed it, the first few seasons of Dick Van Dyke Show is available on HULU.

http://www.hulu.com/the-dick-van-dyke-show

Classic Great TV now for Free online.

Title Details

Network / StudioImage EntertainmentTitleThe Dick Van Dyke ShowChannelsComedyDescriptionThe Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom about a TV writer doing his best to juggle the responsibilities of life, both at work and at home, which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. Totalling 158 episodes and five seasons, the show was also produced by Reiner, who wrote many episodes and played the part of Alan Brady. Reiner based the main character of Rob Petrie on himself and the Alan Brady character on his former boss Sid Caesar. Many of the show’s plots were inspired by Reiner’s experiences as a writer for Your Show of Shows (which starred Caesar). Dick Van Dyke won three Emmy’s for his portrayal of Rob Petrie and Mary Tyler Moore (who would alter go on to star in her own self-titled Emmy-winning series) won two Emmy’s playing Dick’s irascible, Capri pants-wearing wife, Laura. The series was a launching pad for a slew of legendary comedians and artists, from director Garry Marshall and actress Rose Marie to comedians Jerry Farr and Don Rickles. Storylines deal with Rob Petrie and his two coworkers, Buddy and Sally, who write material for a television variety show. Mel Cooley, a balding straight man is the show’s producer and the brother-in-law of Alan Brady, the show’s seldom-seen star. Other stories focus on the home life of Rob and Laura, who live in suburban New Rochelle, New York. Frequently seen is their young son, Ritchie, as well as their neighbors, Jerry and Millie Helper.

Cast/Crew
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Morey Amsterdam
Actor
Richard Deacon
Actor
Ann Morgan Guilbert
Actor
Rose Marie
Actor
Larry Mathews
Actor
Mary Tyler Moore
Actor
Jerry Paris
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Carl Reiner
Actor
Dick Van Dyke

My Favorite for the Christmas Season. A Charlie Brown Christmas. Don’t Miss it. Buy it on DVD.