Santana covers a gorgeous song written by George Harrison.
This is our daily open thread — Play some music for me, Zoosters.
TheZoo
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
TheZoo 
(This makes me think of Witch1 and hope she is well)
Winter Solstice is next Sunday…
The names they call him are funny…
Straight out of Monty Python.
I heard a good interview with him recently on NPR. He started his career using his actor father’s last name, Carlton, and wasn’t getting work. His agent persuaded him to switch to the family name and the offers poured in for Benedict Cumberbatch. I do like Bodysnatch Cummerbund.
And yet they left off his credits his most widely seen role as Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness.
E.O. Wilson explains why he believes extraterrestrial life is out there:
Reminds me of a cartoon I ran across somewhere around four decades ago. There was a saucer with a little three-eyed guy in it looking down on a distant earth. Emanating from the earth were clouds of smoke, a mushroom cloud, and some disparate musical notes. The caption was the voice of the little alien communicating with his home planet superiors.
“I have closely observed planet earth, and though there is obviously a lot of activity down there, there is no sign of intelligent life.”
Clearly, not much has changed.
It’s nice that there are a few constants in the world. For example. The Sunday after the release of a report describing the sheer depravity and viciousness of the torture practiced by this country; the “librul media”, predictably, has handed over their Sunday Morning shows to the people who ordered that torture so that they can whitewash their roles.
Using data from the National Weather Service, they estimate that in the last 10 days, California has gotten rain in the amount of 10 trillion gallons.
And yet that’s considered a small amount to combat our severe drought.
I do not doubt that number. The feeling was no matter how much rain we received the talk would still go to drought!
It’s snowing in the mountains so that should help.
How many acre feet does California typically use in a given year?
That I do not know. There are 38+million people in our state.
If I did the math right (and that’s a big IF), ten trillion gallons is around 28 million acre feet, based on 8 gal per cu. ft and 43560 cu ft in an acre foot. If that’s right, then the rainfall would amount to a bit over half a year’s worth, assuming it was all useable, and it’s surely not. Still, it’s better than nothing at all, and a lot of the snow melt will probably end up in reservoirs.
Hmm. Memory fades. There are 7.58 gal. per cu. ft., not 8. So that means 325830 gallons per acre foot, or 30.69 million acre ft in ten trillion gallons. If I did the math right, of course. 😉
Johnny Manziel’s first NFL start isn’t going well. To be fair, it looks like the play selection isn’t giving him much chance to utilize his ‘intangibles’. It’s as if the coordinator is only calling plays that get the ball out of Manziel’s hands as quickly as possible.
It reads as if there isn’t that much faith in Johnny’s ability, at the moment!
It’s well founded. The closest he came to scoring, he threw an interception at the goal line.
This, my friends, is a study in pure evil. I’m not one to run with conspiracy theories but I am forced to conclude that there are dark and shadowy forces at work. If all is as it seems? This man, his boss, and several of their underlings would have been hanged and Nancy Pelosi would have been our first female president.
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/12/14/3603444/dick-cheney-on-torture-report-revelations-id-do-it-again-in-a-minute/
Can that new heart be recalled? DickDick is an absolutely good for nothing, immoral blight on this earth.
Cheney would “do it again in a minute” —
He is truly the most disgusting H. sapiens alive today. He makes ISIS folks look almost godlike.
Hard to believe a heart was wasted on him. There had to be other choices. Why him? What a waste.
Your Sunday LOLcats – Christmas Cutefest 2014 Edition
Call that camel back to take away the drum!