Thursday Night Tight

I always figured it was harder for a studio band to go on the road than it was for a live band to go in the studio.

Steely Dan proves me wrong, in this live performance of Babylon Sister.

Nite y’all

Hizballah the role model?

Ok, so it’s World Nut Daily….but still, the headline itself is an attention grabber.

Mitt Romney saying that the Hizbos are a role model for the United States?

Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney has cited the social welfare network of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group as a role model the U.S. should copy to help promote “goodness” and “freedom” around the world.

Mitt’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.

PM Links

Security video of I-35W Bridge collapse

Extreme Storm Survival 

Nancy Boyda’s ears hurt 

Koreans blame US for Taleban hostages 

Emir of Mosul assumes room temperature 

Chavez praises Spicoli

Hugo Chavez heaps praise on Sean Penn.

Great. Meglomaniac hearts Egomaniac…

from AP:

“Welcome to Venezuela, Mr. Penn. What drives him is consciousness, the search for new paths,” Chavez said Wednesday in a televised speech. “He’s one of the greatest opponents of the Iraq invasion.”

Chavez read aloud from a recent open letter by Penn to President Bush in which the actor condemned the Iraq war and called for Bush to be impeached, saying the president along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are “villainously and criminally obscene people.”

The socialist president, who shares those views, said he and Penn talked by phone – “with my bad English but we understood each other more or less.”

Chavez said the two plan to meet Thursday. He called the actor “well-informed about what is happening in the United States and the world, in spite of being in Hollywood.”

He also is well-versed in the proper usage of the famous Red Cup.

Other words of wisdom from Spicoli

FBI investigates fire at Spokane fuel depot

From KLXY….

Could the person who started the Whitley Fuel fire last week have been looking for another target in the Inland Northwest? The FBI is now on the case after two suspicious individuals were spotted at a second Spokane area fuel depot before the Whitley Fuel depot caught fire.

An employee at the Petro Card fuel facility in southeast Spokane spotted some suspicious activity at their property located near the intersection of Sprague and Haven. The man was in the company’s yard when he spotted two men in a vehicle checking out the Petro Card fuel distribution center.

The men, who were described as having beards and wearing turbans, were driving a white Plymouth around the perimeter of the facility….

One of the things investigators are looking into is the surveillance video retrieved from several businesses that neighbor the Whitley Fuel site. In one of the videos released by Comcast, which has an office across the street from Whitley Fuel, a white vehicle – now being described as a Toyota – is observed stopping and a passenger getting out of the vehicle and heading into the yard, only to get back in the vehicle and speed away from the scene.

Video report

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