I'm a Single Lady

Good Dad

Good Dad for rapidly recognizing his screw-up and correcting as best he could. Plus Full Props to Dad for posting-up on YouTube.

Most dads wouldn't have the guts to expose themselves so fully. 3.5 Million hits later... *smiles* ...we have real evidence being authentic works. Regardless of the public response or lack thereof, posting-up the video -- so others learned and so he and his family wouldn't forget -- was a great move. (More evidence in my view that this is a Good Dad and a good family.)

This is a family that sings together, corrects mistakes together, creates their public identity together, and are Single Ladies together.

Right on, Sister. Everybody DANCE.

H/T Feminist Law Professors.

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"Four Dead in Ohio"

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A Song For Arizona

Sing Loud, Sing Together.

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

Chorus (2x)


“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

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A Quick Question For Sarah Palin

Photo By U.S. Coast Guard

How's That "Drill Baby Drill" and "Drill Here, Drill Now" Thingie Workin' For Ya?

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It's a Parody, Dammit

Guess how long before YouTube takes this down in Germany? In the U.S.?

After all... This is technically illegal in Deutschland. (But not the U.S.)

The "illegal in another country" issue is why Google said they left China. Because Search Results shouldn't be upgafucked-with by any given country's laws (says Google.) Yet here we have Germany saying it's illegal to talk about Hitler in certain ways. Such as making fun of him. (I'm not totally clear about the precise laws in Germany vis-à-vis Hitler, but I'm fairly certain the above video breaks them. Hell; this conversation likely breaks them as well. *smiles sweetly*)

Well Google? Whatcha gonna do now, hmmm?

As to the second issue, that the copyright owner wants the video pulled down everywhere, including in the United States...

It's a parody. Funny as hell, also.

Parody is one of the primary tests for fair use under U.S. law. No question that this mix survives any challenge; the copyright owner is a legal fool -- other than causing lots of hype -- for even raising the issue. However as the mix points out, unless one has enough money to stay in the game, you're going to end up folding.

So Google... Are you going to cave in the U.S. under copyright law? Are you going to cave in Germany on the "no Hitler" issue? What's it going to be? Are you being evil today? Or... not.

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