This is a hauntingly beautiful arrangement of “Claire de Lune” performed on a 10-string guitar – I heard a version of this on the “Falling Skies” episode titled “Young Bloods”. I don’t know if this is the one that was used in the show, but it’s close enough.
The artist’s name is Vincenzo Macaluso.
I have only ever heard this done in a symphonic setting, so this was quite a treat:
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Lord knows, the past few days have been stressful – this is a wonderful tonic…
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“Bite me, Obama.”
In essence, I think that is what Chief Justice John Roberts just said to the spoiled child who set about to “fundamentally transform” this country. Obama just got hit right between the eyes with Justice Roberts’ Schrodinger’s Cat decision on the fate of Obamacare.
While all of the liberals are whooping it up and celebrating their “win”, they have lost sight of one very important thing:
The Supreme Court’s ruling gave them nothing.
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“No branch of Government may compel any Citizen to participate in Commerce, nor may any Citizen be penalized or taxed for choosing not to participate in Commerce.”
That’s my humble submission for a new Constitutional Amendment.
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All right, all of you young kids who couldn’t wait to vote for Obama back in 2008 – time for you guys to start “sharing the wealth” with those of us who are about to be hit with exorbitant tax rates thanks to Obamacare.
See, the way I see it, you owe us now.
You wanted Hope and Change? You wanted Free Health Care? Guess what – the Supreme Court of the United States just ruled that Obamacare is only constitutional if it is treated as a tax. And there is NOTHING that Congress loves more than taxing the citizenry.
I’ve sacrificed my entire life so that I could have money for retirement, and now the Federal Government is going to take an additional 9.5% of my husband’s hard-earned pay, then turn around and presume to tell me what medical care they are going to be gracious enough to allow me to have.
Screw that.
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Mere hours after the Supreme Court handed down their verdict on the fate of Arizona’s SB1070, the country was treated to this:
Ummm…did I just step through the looking glass into some “Bizarro World” version of America? The president is telling the United States Department of Homeland Security – the agency tasked with keeping American citizens safe from the threat of harm – that they are not to share vitally important information with one of the 50 states of the union?
The Obama Administration is responsible for killings on both sides of the US-Mexico border
Barack Obama and Eric Holder are hiding behind Executive Privilege in the hope that their involvement in the ATF program “Fast and Furious” – which ultimately resulted in the deaths of US Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and at least 300 Mexican citizens (possibly including the brother of then-attorney general Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez) – will not come to light.
Whether they like it or not, this issue is not going to disappear.
While Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder may not have been the ones who fired the guns which caused these deaths, it has become increasingly clear that the chain of evidence in this case can be traced back to the very highest levels of this administration:
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So here’s the latest story that is has been making the rounds:
A transgender man made a bold move on Friday during an extravagant White House reception in honor of LGBT Pride Month: he dropped down on one knee and proposed to his partner.
Scout, whose full name is legally one word, popped the question to Liz Margolies just minutes after President Barack Obama addressed the guests, many of whom are leaders in the LGBT community.
I knew there was a reason I didn’t take any Philosophy courses in college – this article could be a stand-alone Final Exam in any grad-level course:
“If a transgender man asks a lesbian to marry him, is she still a lesbian?”
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Well, I guess my mom will soon be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound – she had knee replacement surgery this morning.
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So watch out, world – she won’t be using that walker much longer!
(No word yet on whether the surgeons were able to make her look like this….)
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Get well soon, Mom!
We love you ♥♥♥
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“Constitutional Scholar”, my ass….
I guess Mr. Obama thinks that he is the King of America, rather than the President. Because the last time I checked, the Chief Executive of the United States of America does not have the power to do an end-run around Congress, just because they aren’t doing what he wants them to do.
It matters not to Mr. Obama that Congress already took up the issue of the DREAM Act (in 2001, 2009, 2010, AND 2011), but no legislation has ever made it through both houses of Congress (including the two years when Democrats held a filibuster-proof majority in both chambers).
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Whenever we go to visit Paul’s mom, we know that there is always going to be pie.
Mary has these wonderful old cookbooks filled with recipes from long ago – all of those little “church” and “small town” cookbooks fit into one of her kitchen drawers. All of the recipes that Paul and his siblings grew up on are in that little drawer, and now that all of them are grown, those recipes have been copied and taken to new homes.
While Paul is perfectly happy with just pouring a can of cherry pie filling into a crust and calling it a day, I fell in love with the buttermilk pie that Mary makes – it’s sweet and lemony and oh-so-good.
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