Rickie Lee Jones collaborated with the Squirrel Nut Zippers to create something new from that group’s Put a Lid on It. The result is Have You Had Enough?
The song is hard to find on the Web, and has mostly been adapted for use with particular, local political campaigns in other parts of America. I’ve reduced the size of the video to obscure the campaign for which the video above was intended, so that the embedded recording emphasizes the song without a particular political message.
Enjoy.
Have you had enough of hypocrisy?
Have you had enough of the spending spree?
Have you had enough?
Does it make you want to scream and shout?
Have you had enough of the rubber stamps?
Have you had enough of the wire taps?
If you’ve had enough, then it’s time to throw the rascals out!
We’ve let them take the test too long
They’ve gotten all the answers wrong
No plan, no shame, no oversight
Now’s the time to put it right!
Have you had enough, cause they’re all corrupt?
Have you had enough of being divvied up?
If you’ve had enough, then it’s time to throw the rascals out!
Well, do what’s right and spread the word
It’s time to make our voices heard
You cast your vote it don’t cost a dime
Sittin’ it out will be a crime
I’ve had enough, and it’s time to throw the rascals out!
Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of sixty degrees, and winds from the southwest at sixteen miles per hour. Sunrise is 6:32 AM and sunset 4:44 PM. We’ll have 10h 11m 27s of daytime.
Laika, part Siberian husky, lived as a stray on the Moscow streets before being enlisted into the Soviet space program. Laika survived for several days as a passenger in the USSR’s second artificial Earth satellite, kept alive by a sophisticated life-support system. Electrodes attached to her body provided scientists on the ground with important information about the biological effects of space travel. She died after the batteries of her life-support system ran down.
At least a dozen more Russian dogs were launched into space in preparation for the first manned Soviet space mission, and at least five of these dogs died in flight. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. He orbited Earth once before landing safely in the USSR.
1804 – Treaty at St. Louis
On this date Fox and Sauk negotiators in St. Louis traded 50 million acres of land in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois for an annuity of $1,000. The treaty allowed the tribes to remain on the land until it was sold to white settlers. However, Chief Black Hawk and others believed that the 1804 negotiators had no authority to speak for their nation, so the treaty was invalid. U.S. authorities, on the other hand, considered it binding and used it justify the Black Hawk War that occured in the spring and summer of 1832. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p. 32-33]
Un film de Gordon, Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet et Corentin Leconte 30 minutes (extrait / exerpt)
Une coproduction Camera Lucida productions et Radio France avec la participation de France Télévisions
Musique de Sergueï Prokokiev avec l’Orchestre National de France, dirigé par le maestro Daniele Gatti Raconté par François Morel Illustré par Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet
Animation et effets visuels : Doncvoilà productions Animateurs : Jean-Yves Castillon, Emmanuel Linderer et Christophe Nardi Superviseurs des effets spéciaux : Stéphane Jarreau Compositeurs : Julien Baret, Fabrice Casali, Julie Guerineau, Gwen Habert, Olivier Martin et Stéphane Jarreau
What’s it look like – observed closely – when a drop of water hits a pool of that same liquid? It look like this, as recorded by scientists of fluid dynamics in Brazil:
The idea of a thermonuclear fusion bomb ignited by a smaller fission bomb was first proposed by Enrico Fermi to his colleague Edward Teller in 1941 at the start of what would become the Manhattan Project.[3] Teller spent most of the Manhattan Project attempting to figure out how to make the design work, to some degree neglecting his assigned work on the Manhattan Project fission bomb program. His difficult and devil’s advocate attitude in discussions led Robert Oppenheimer to sidetrack him and other “problem” physicists into the super program to smooth his way.
Stanislaw Ulam, a coworker of Teller, made the first key conceptual leaps towards a workable fusion design. Ulam’s two innovations which rendered the fusion bomb practical were that compression of the thermonuclear fuel before extreme heating was a practical path towards the conditions needed for fusion, and the idea of staging or placing a separate thermonuclear component outside a fission primary component, and somehow using the primary to compress the secondary. Teller then realized that the gamma and X-ray radiation produced in the primary could transfer enough energy into the secondary to create a successful implosion and fusion burn, if the whole assembly was wrapped in a hohlraum or radiation case.[3] Teller and his various proponents and detractors later disputed the degree to which Ulam had contributed to the theories underlying this mechanism. Indeed, shortly before his death, and in a last-ditch effort to discredit Ulam’s contributions, Teller claimed that one of his own “graduate students” had proposed the mechanism.
The “George” shot of Operation Greenhouse of 9 May 1951 tested the basic concept for the first time on a very small scale. As the first successful (uncontrolled) release of nuclear fusion energy, which made up a small fraction of the 225kt total yield,[19] it raised expectations to a near certainty that the concept would work.
On November 1, 1952, the Teller–Ulam configuration was tested at full scale in the “Ivy Mike” shot at an island in the Enewetak Atoll, with a yield of 10.4 megatons (over 450 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II). The device, dubbed the Sausage, used an extra-large fission bomb as a “trigger” and liquid deuterium—kept in its liquid state by 20 short tons (18 metric tons) of cryogenic equipment—as its fusion fuel, and weighed around 80 short tons (70 metric tons) altogether.
A pen magnate is born on this day in 1863:
1863 – George Safford Parker Born
On this date George Safford Parker was born in Shullsburg. While studying telegraphy in Janesville, he developed an interest in fountain pens. In 1891 he organized the Parker Pen Company in Janesville. The company gained world-wide acclaim for innovations like the duo-fold pen and pencil. Parker served as president of the company until 1933. Parker died on July 19, 1937. [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, p.280]
Here’s the eighth annual FREE WHITEWATER list of the scariest things in Whitewater for 2014. The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 editions are available for comparison.
The list runs in reverse order, from mildly frightening to super scary.
10. Hard work & standard usage. Everyone makes mistakes, typos, etc. (I’m appreciative of every correction or suggestion a reader makes.) It shouldn’t be too much, though, to expect officials to try harder to speak and write properly.
What does it profit a committee to have two or three professionals if their presence does nothing to lift policies and documents beyond the quality of a struggling high-school student’s work?
Whitewater is filled with smart and studious people who, at work or in school, will proofread important term papers or notes.
There is no ‘special’ or ‘separate’ path on which we should not at least try to write as our forefathers did. They did so with far fewer technological advantages than we have; we can do at least as well as they did.
9. Ordinary input. It’s hard to gather, but we should try harder to survey large numbers through sound methods. It’s not enough to rely on ad hoc committees. Their small numbers may lead astray from a selection bias.
8. Ordinary streets. The East Gateway project looks great, but do you feel $2,300,00 richer for it? When you awoke this morning, was the sun $2,300,000 brighter, children that much happier, or merchants that much better off?
One-hundred thousand on potholes and simple repair would have been useful, and another one-hundred thousand on emergency poverty assistance, and taxpayers would have been millions better off.
7. Small merchants. What strange brick-and-mortar-phobia causes leaders to shy from supporting our own merchants?
Snazzy tech ventures sound great, but their results are often sketchily unverifiable. They’re bright and shiny, but then so is a fishing lure.
Sales pitches from these tech-ventures work on the gullible, the ignorant, or the intoxicated.
By contrast, we haven’t done enough for brick-and-mortar merchants. For a fraction of the vast sums (hundreds of thousands) we’ve spent on rejected tech projects from other cities, we could boost brick-and-mortar merchants in traditional, conventional ventures that will attract customers to our own downtown.
Boosting what we have is both cheaper and more sensible. Here’s hoping the 2015 budget item for merchants passes and helps overcome this fear by supporting the small retailers we now have. Their success will bring others.
6. Layers. Fifteen-thousand people in our small city, but hierarchies like the Pentagon’s. It’s an insecure person’s attempt to seem important or profound. Few are truly impressed, so why bother?
5. Speaking without a press release. Is it so scary to speak to people directly? Must every official hide behind a press agent?
Honest to goodness, the quality of their press releases is laughable in any event; tired boilerplate that everyone’s heard a thousand times before.
When campus officials speak, why must they do they do so in the stilted and tired language of bureaucracy?
They should forget the script, and the middling scriptwriter.
4. Parking. People live in town, and so they want to park in town. It’s neither unexpected nor frightening that they do.
3. Extreme. So a new apartment building at Main & Prince is ‘too extreme’ in design for Whitewater? Well, I would guess that existing landlords must think so. [Update: For consumers it’s a good thing, and a bad joke that anyone from the CDA would shill against it.]
2. Practical solutions. Small and simple isn’t inadequate because it’s small and simple.
1. A city without a proposal from a big vendor. There are a few gentlemen who act as though Whitewater would shrivel if there were not a multi-million-dollar proposal for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious project always in the oven.
The supposed benefits are shouted; the risks unspoken.
There will be another of this kind, soon I wouldn’t wonder.
There’s the 2014 list. We’re more than able to overcome these fears, and assure a happier and more prosperous city.
1968 – Milwaukee Bucks Win First Game
On this date the Milwaukee Bucks claimed their first victory, a 134-118 win over the Detroit Pistons in the Milwaukee Arena. The Bucks were 0-5 at the time, and Wayne Embry led Milwaukee with 30 points. Embry became the first player in Bucks history to score 30 or more points in a regular season game. [Source: Milwaukee Bucks]
Look at Whitewater, and one sees scores of groups with press releases, community announcements, or political viewpoints to publicize. Even much smaller communities have similar conditions: a dozen people are likely to have more than a dozen views.
Each day, and especially in an election year, it helps to have the independence to offer views one truly supports, rather than what others expect or want to published. In this, there’s an advantage in being an independent commentator, aided even more by being a libertarian, a member of a third party.
Honest to goodness, it’s a blessing to act independently, from a position of strength, without need to please, cater, or oblige.
Even in more placid times, it’s not worth flacking whatever comes along. A man or woman should be his or her own man or woman.
In these times, with schemers near and far looking for someone to push any nutty contention that they’ve concocted for the occasion, it’s even better to stand away from that mud pit.
“The War of the Worlds” is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for causing mass panic, although the extent of this panic is debated.[3]
The first two thirds of the 62-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to some listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a sustaining show (it ran without commercial breaks), adding to the program’s realism, and that others were primarily listening to Edgar Bergen and only tuned in to the show during a musical interlude, thereby missing the introduction that proved the show was a drama.[3]
In the days following the adaptation, there was widespread outrage in the media.[4] The program’s news-bulletin format was described as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers (which had lost advertising revenue to radio) and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast and calls for regulation by the Federal Communications Commission.[3] Despite these complaints—or perhaps in part because of them—the episode secured Welles’s fame as a dramatist.
1914 – First 4-H Club in Wisconsin Organized
On this date the Linn Junior Farmers Club in Walworth County was organized. This club was started five months after Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act which created the Cooperative Extension Service whereby federal, state, and county governments participate in the county agent system. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers]
The main character in the Broadway production of “Jersey Boys” was the lead singer for a band that celebrated their first commercial release in what year?
For today, from the Saline Project‘s animators, let’s go with a Loch Ness Monster for Halloween:
