A L P H A V I L L E

Relaxing

2011-04-05T20:11:00.002-04:00

Yeah, we've been doing that.

Just Evil

2011-04-05T20:07:00.000-04:00

On Assignment

2011-03-29T21:12:00.001-04:00

Work will have me away from a computer for a few days. Bastards.

The End Is Near

2011-03-25T21:20:00.002-04:00

Covered in spiders' webs, these cocooned trees in Sindh, Pakistan, are an unexpected result of floods that hit the region in 2010.

To escape from the rising waters, millions of spiders crawled up into trees. The scale of the flooding and the slow rate at which the waters receded, have left many trees completely enveloped in spiders' webs.

H/T

Tom Waits - I hope I don't fall in love with you

2011-03-25T07:54:00.000-04:00

Jackass Quote Of The Week

2011-03-23T17:24:00.002-04:00

“I’d love the world to be lead by people who have a biblical worldview.....wouldn’t it be an exciting thing to have leaders who believe all of us are equal?” - Mike Huckabee

This coming from someone who has already stated that if elected president he would reinstate Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Christian Pole Dancing

2011-03-23T17:23:00.000-04:00

Welcome

2011-03-21T21:43:00.001-04:00

Bogart

2011-03-21T21:36:00.000-04:00

Sam Harris On Japan

2011-03-21T21:33:00.001-04:00

"Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

The only sense to make of tragedies like this is that terrible things can happen to perfectly innocent people. This understanding inspires compassion.

Religious faith, on the other hand, erodes compassion. Thoughts like, “this might be all part of God’s plan,” or “there are no accidents in life,” or “everyone on some level gets what he or she deserves” - these ideas are not only stupid, they are extraordinarily callous. They are nothing more than a childish refusal to connect with the suffering of other human beings. It is time to grow up and let our hearts break at moments like this." - Sam Harris

H/T

Serious Scientist On Radiation

2011-03-20T10:27:00.000-04:00

Pray For Japan...

2011-03-20T10:21:00.001-04:00

Cindy Jacobs

2011-03-20T09:50:00.002-04:00

"In the early nineties, the Lord gave me a prophecy for Japan that it was a "sickle in the hand of the Lord" that will be used for great harvest. The physical geography of the islands look like a curved sickle with the handle being the island of Hokkaido in the north. One could also say that it looks like a curved sword. Where Japan has historically been a sword of war across Asia. I see God raising up young revivalists from the nation who will impact Asia and the world for the gospel.

On the other hand, if you look at it another way, this island, Hokkaido, looks like the head of a dragon with the body being the rest of Japan. The people of Asia have worshipped the dragon for 5,000 years. If one looks at the place where the earthquake took place, it looks like the soft underbelly of most vulnerable part of the dragon. Let's pray that the deep idolatry and the worship of hundreds of idols under the guise of Shintoism, Buddhism, and allegiances to being "sons of the dragon" will be broken and thousands will turn to the Lord.

My interpretation of this is that while God did not want people to perish, He is going to use this to "pierce" the darkness surrounding the Japanese people if we will cry out to God for them in the midst of this crisis ... If we respond correctly, the darkness and the grip of idolatry of all forms that has blinded the eyes of so many in Japan will be broken off of them. The faithful believers in Jesus Christ will be strengthened as they are used for great harvest across Asia and the face of the earth." - Cindy Jacobs

James Randi

2011-03-20T09:33:00.001-04:00

Gun

2011-03-20T09:32:00.000-04:00

Minivans

2011-03-17T22:06:00.001-04:00

Oh Hai !

2011-03-15T21:25:00.002-04:00

Richard Dawkins: One Fact to Refute Creationism

2011-03-15T20:37:00.000-04:00

Catholics Come Home Commercial

2011-03-15T19:29:00.000-04:00

Jackass Quote Of The Week

2011-03-15T19:24:00.002-04:00

It's a long one.....but it's worth it. Glenn always makes it worth it. His well of crazy has no bottom and it's just chock full of woo. Kick back and enjoy....

We can't see the connections here. Now look, I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes. Well -- I'm not saying that he -- I'm not not saying that either. God -- what God does is God's business, I have no idea. But I'll tell you this: whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus -- there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just sayin'. And -- yesterday I got home and I was thinking about all the messages that I could bring in, all the things that I could tell ya, and oh I've got stuff on Hezbollah. Oh, I have stuff on radical Islam in America that'll make your eyes fall out. Or I could just tell you the answer, and the answer is: Buckle up. Buckle up, 'cause it's going to be a bumpy ride. Make sure you keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. Because, things are gonna get bumpy and, just a few reminders there at the beginning as this rollercoaster takes off, always a good safety tip: Keep your arms and legs in. Don't do anything stupid, what do you say we follow the big top ten. You can call them Moses' ten commandments, or ten rules of thumb. What do you say we start doing those things? Because the things we are doing really suck and they're not getting better. - Glenn Beck

Yes Glenn. God used the earthquake to send a message. Which god and what the message is remains a bit unclear. I'm guessing the message must be Joseph Smith hates the Japanese. Or something.

Newt

2011-03-15T19:22:00.002-04:00

Christopher Hitchens drops the hammer

2011-03-13T16:16:00.000-04:00

Earthquake

2011-03-13T16:14:00.001-04:00

Lent

2011-03-13T16:12:00.002-04:00

Tom Waits - Cemetery Polka (Live, Atlanta 2008)

2011-03-12T14:31:00.000-05:00

Let's Get This Straight

2011-03-12T14:19:00.001-05:00

NPR

2011-03-12T14:17:00.000-05:00

Recovery

2011-03-12T14:15:00.003-05:00

Been a bit ill. Hacking, sneezing, coughing, leaking. All around blah.

Going to hang out at the computer a bit, watch the Pens game, and post some nonsense.

Hokum

2011-03-08T09:06:00.002-05:00

Economics

2011-03-08T09:06:00.001-05:00

Who Needs JC.....We Prefer GC

2011-03-08T08:54:00.002-05:00

Tom Waits - Downtown

2011-03-04T18:47:00.000-05:00

How Sweet Of Him

2011-03-03T09:07:00.002-05:00

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus Christ, tackling one of the most controversial issues in Christianity in a new book.

Full Story Here

In related news Benjamin Netanyahu has forgiven the Catholics for the forcible rape of tens of thousands of children and the systematic cover up of the crimes.

Palin Tweets

2011-03-03T08:49:00.002-05:00

Sarah Palin tweeted this yesterday following the Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling allowing the Westboro Baptist Church to protest outside soldiers' funerals....

Common sense & decency absent as wacko "church" allowed hate msgs spewed at soldiers' funerals but we can't invoke God's name in public square

Huh?

The Supreme Court rules that a church can scream the word of god in public and Palin is upset that we can't invoke god's name in public.

If she were any dumber she'd need watering at least twice a week.

Palin/Sheen

2011-03-02T20:16:00.001-05:00

Wynn Stewart

2011-03-02T19:31:00.002-05:00

Scored a TEN CD Bear Family box set of Wynn Stewart.

Gay Marriage

2011-03-02T19:21:00.000-05:00

Wake Me When It's Over

2011-03-02T08:58:00.000-05:00

My State Is A Joke

2011-03-02T08:54:00.001-05:00

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected.

Faith2Action, the anti-abortion group that has targeted Ohio to pilot the measure, called the in-utero witness the youngest to ever come before the House Health Committee at 9 weeks old.

Faith2Action president Janet Folger Porter said the intent is to show lawmakers who will be affected by the bill, which abortion rights groups oppose. Ohio Right to Life has not endorsed the measure.

Full Story Here

Pat Robertson....Unintentional Comedian

2011-03-02T08:50:00.001-05:00

"Some of these radical gay groups are willing to do in anything in the world to have their way of doing sex legitimized by this country." - Pat Robertson

They have their own way? Really?

Thinking

2011-03-02T08:46:00.000-05:00

Dawkins

2011-03-02T08:45:00.000-05:00

Tom Waits - Big In Japan (from Vinyl)

2011-02-25T06:15:00.000-05:00

Mmmmm......Vinyl.

Know Your Enemy

2011-02-24T09:06:00.002-05:00

H/T

Don't Want

2011-02-24T09:02:00.000-05:00

Cancel The Devil's Assignment

2011-02-24T08:48:00.000-05:00

H/T

This Guy...

2011-02-23T11:31:00.000-05:00

....is fucking awesome.

Think

2011-02-23T10:47:00.001-05:00

Abstinence

2011-02-23T09:52:00.000-05:00

H/T

Roy Clark - Thank God And Greyhound

2011-02-23T09:45:00.001-05:00

A mellow opening leads into a hilariously awesome bridge and chorus.....stick with it.

Roy is a badass.

Really?

2011-02-22T20:50:00.000-05:00

End Of Break

2011-02-22T20:48:00.004-05:00

Have had the last five days off work. Good times.

Manhattan

2011-02-22T20:47:00.002-05:00

Tom Waits - Take it with me

2011-02-18T13:40:00.000-05:00

February has sucked a big fat one. Your buddy Lemmy has been hanging in there the best he can....but this past month has beaten me down. I have the next five days off of work and am working on turning this year around. In the meantime, enjoy what has been called "the saddest song Tom Waits ever recorded".

Chico plays the piano with an apple

2011-02-17T10:07:00.000-05:00

Proper Lounging

2011-02-15T16:11:00.004-05:00

These two almost never share the same room together.....let alone the bed. Don't let this rather cute photo fool you. They just barely tolerate each others existence.

Jackass Quote of the Week

2011-02-15T16:07:00.003-05:00

"My son who’s a Kansas resident, born here, raised here, didn’t qualify for any financial aid. Yet this girl was going to get financial aid. My son was kinda upset about it because he works and pays for his own schooling and his books and everything and he didn’t think that was fair. We didn’t ask the girl what nationality she was, we didn’t think that was proper. But we could tell by looking at her that she was not originally from this country. She wasn’t black, she wasn’t Asian, and she had the olive complexion." - Kansas GOP state Rep. Connie O'Brien

"We could tell by looking at her". Wow. I can tell by reading this quote that Connie is a narrow minded bigoted fuckhead. Funny how that works.

H/T

Bill

2011-02-15T16:06:00.000-05:00

My Favorite Valentine

2011-02-14T09:24:00.001-05:00

Yep, It's Sunday

2011-02-13T13:33:00.001-05:00

Frances Peek

2011-02-11T09:45:00.001-05:00

Fox Always Very Serious

2011-02-11T09:38:00.002-05:00

Tom Waits - Puttin` On The Dog

2011-02-10T21:34:00.001-05:00

Beware!

2011-02-10T20:10:00.002-05:00

2011-02-10T19:53:00.001-05:00

Serious Fox News Is Still Serious

2011-02-10T10:16:00.002-05:00

Jackass Quote of the Week

2011-02-10T10:05:00.002-05:00

"One of the biggest pet peeves black women have in recent decades is black men marrying or pairing up with white women. Just bugs them. Particularly if they happen to be blond." - The World's Foremost Authority on race relations : Rush Limbaugh

Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words

2011-02-09T09:40:00.000-05:00

Fox News - Still Very Serious

2011-02-09T09:19:00.001-05:00

White Males......so put upon. So discriminated against. When will we grasp the power?

Rep. Janna Taylor Talks About Blow Dart Wielding HIV Positive Murderers

2011-02-09T08:57:00.000-05:00

WTF is she going on about?

H/T

Keith

2011-02-09T08:49:00.000-05:00

Logic

2011-02-09T08:38:00.000-05:00

Fox News - Hard Hitting Serious Issues

2011-02-08T09:15:00.000-05:00

Tom Waits - Ain't Goin' Down

2011-02-04T08:33:00.002-05:00

Bonus Track : Primus & Tom Waits - Coattails of a Dead Man

Wanda Jackson and Jack White - Thunder On The Mountain

2011-02-03T13:56:00.000-05:00

Goalie Fight!!

2011-02-03T10:14:00.000-05:00

Sam Harris

2011-02-03T08:58:00.001-05:00

Photoshopped Billboards

2011-02-03T08:54:00.003-05:00

I really do wish these were real.

Hopefully some smart atheist group with money will make it so...

Frightening Thought

2011-02-01T21:35:00.001-05:00

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Houseboy

2011-02-01T21:18:00.000-05:00

Jackass Quote Of The Week

2011-02-01T21:10:00.002-05:00

"Married people living chastely can have vibrant sex lives. In the relationship between a man and a woman, chastity helps them love each other as persons rather than make each other an object of pleasure or satisfaction. Despite what the media and Hollywood suggest, the value of sexual intercourse does not lie in recreation, or physical gratification. Any physical pleasure should lead toward the ultimate expression of love between husband and wife, the total self-giving of one person to another. Sexual intercourse in marriage can be so intimate that it becomes an emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual experience. It strengthens and completes the bond of marriage. That is why the sexual act has to be unitive and procreative and why some kinds of sexual activity are not chaste. Though pleasure may be present, some acts are a misuse of sex when the fall short of what God intends." - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

Yes folks. Sexual advice from the Catholic church. Because when it comes to normal sexual behavior, one need look no further than the Catholic church.

Barbra Walters & Sean Connery

2011-02-01T15:11:00.000-05:00

I've been re watching all of the James Bond movies......Connery is an amazing Bond, but every time he woos another scantily clad Bond girl I keep remembering this clip.

Not Sean's finest moment to be sure.

Fox News Geography FAIL

2011-01-31T12:56:00.000-05:00

Ugly Truth

2011-01-31T12:55:00.000-05:00

Promises, Promises

2011-01-28T14:06:00.000-05:00

Nope, Nothing Creepy Here

2011-01-28T10:23:00.003-05:00

Ted Haggard, the Christian preacher famous for gay sex and smoking meth poses in a hot tub with his family.

Tom Waits - Road To Peace

2011-01-28T10:03:00.000-05:00

Seems somewhat topical.

Holy Napkin

2011-01-27T13:05:00.002-05:00

No Wonder It's Cold In Here

2011-01-26T14:38:00.004-05:00

The heat disperses itself into the living room much more efficiently when there isn't a fuzzy cat ass draped over it. Thanks Frances.

Words With Friends

2011-01-26T14:36:00.003-05:00

If you have an Iphone and play the game "Words With Friends", you are more than welcome to pop my name in and we shall do some tile battle.

lemmycaution25

Bring it.

Louvin Brothers - I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby

2011-01-26T11:46:00.000-05:00

Charlie Louvin, a member of one of the pre-eminent brother acts in country music and an inspiration to several generations of rock musicians, died Wednesday at his home in Wartrace, Tenn. He was 83.

Full Story Here

Offensive Magazine Cover

2011-01-26T11:03:00.004-05:00

In Mountain Home, Arkansas a Harps grocery store has done it's customers a community service by covering up an offensive magazine cover....

One can only imagine the horrible offensive image that the store saw fit to ensure didn't burn the retinas of children and destroy the delicate sensibilities of good Americans everywhere....

What's behind the plastic.....?

Arkansas....keeping people safe from teh scary gayz and their devil offspring.

Colbert

2011-01-26T10:45:00.002-05:00

"For the record, I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor, and eight-episode reality show star has fully prepared her to take control of our nuclear arsenal." - STEPHEN COLBERT

Groucho

2011-01-25T19:34:00.001-05:00

Lou Engle Worried That Gays Will "Be Legalized"

2011-01-25T19:31:00.000-05:00

God Hates Dogs

2011-01-25T19:04:00.000-05:00

We Won! We Beat The.....Wha?

2011-01-25T09:22:00.002-05:00

Not

2011-01-25T09:04:00.001-05:00

I May Never Sleep Again

2011-01-21T13:41:00.001-05:00

Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream

2011-01-21T13:40:00.000-05:00