The Residents: Burning Love

In 1989 avant-garde rockers The Residents released The King & Eye, a dark view of the Elvis Presley phenomenon.

If you are old enough to remember the early days of the King when rock and roll was called devil's music by some, this twisted performance of Presley's last big hit, "Burning Love," might make you believe that the critics were right.

This, yes, song-and-dance rendition features cowboys that seem to be escaped demons from Hell.



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Ex-con Jesse Jr calls on Obama to pardon millions of ex-cons

Clearly mental illness still plagues this crooked Chicago politician.

From NBC Chicago's Ward Room:

Jesse Jackson Jr. urged President Barack Obama Thursday to pardon millions of former prison inmates, a group that would include Jackson and his wife, former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson.

In his open letter to the president, which Jackson posted to his Facebook page early Thursday morning, the former congressman claimed that "the great 2016 pardoning of the masses will create a resounding echo in history and will mark you as the greatest Christian president ever to serve."

"Mr. President, for those Americans who have traipsed through the criminal justice system and transcended transgression by duly serving time, the outcome should be clear," Jackson wrote in the post. "An official declaration of TIME SERVED, for each and every eligible member of the American family, from the highest office of the land is the only response congruent with the redemption story of Christ."

"Truly, Mr. President, with a presidential pardon equally monumental to, and greater in scope than, the Emancipation Proclamation the legacy of Barack Hussein Obama II will be one of faith, hope and love," he added.

Junior and his wife, a former Chicago aldermen, used $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items, many of them strange, at least for a pol, such as mounted elk heads and a guitar once owned by Eddie Van Halen.

(Video) Charles Krauthammer: Liberals' excuses for Hillary's loss are "ridiculous"

After Fox News presents a greatest hits array from Donald Trump's Cincinnati "Thank You" appearance, Charles Krauthammer dimssisses the "ridiculous" excuses being peddled by the Hillary Clinton camp on why she lost.

(Video) The Worst of Nancy Pelosi

This week the House Democratic caucus reelected San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi as their leaders.

Here are some of her worst moments over the years, courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon.

(Video) Obama eating crow over Trump Carrier deal

This summer Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump for his vow to save those jobs lost when Carrier said they were shipping 1,600 jobs to Mexico.

Well, Obama was wrong and Trump was right. Expect to hear that a lot over the next four years. Trump is keeping 1,000 of those jobs here.

77 dead in Chiraq in November, 3rd-most deadly month this year

Sure it was a warmer-than-usual month, but November was the third-deadliest month of a bloody 2016 in Chicago. Seventy-seven people were murdered in Barack Obama's hometown this past month, only August and October were worse. As those are recent months it's easy to ascertain that the violence plaguing Chiraq is getting worse.

Numbers vary, the police say 682 people were murdered so far in Chicago this year, whereas the generally reliable Hey Jackass! gives a total of 737, although that total is for homicides, and not all murders are homicides.

"Mad Dog" Mattis to be Trump SecDef

Donald Trump has picked retired Marine general James "Mad Dog" Mattis to be his secretary of defense, he'll replace Ivy Leaguer Ash Carter, the type of bureaucratic wonk Barack Obama loves. Trump is following up on his promise, again, to Make America Great Again.

There is one minor complication, Mattis has been retired from the military for four years and the law requires that ex-military SecDef appointees be seven years removed from active duty. Congress will likely approve a waiver.

(Video) Historical elements of Trump’s Carrier deal

Burt Folsom, a presidential historian, says that Donald Trumps saving of 1,000 jobs at an Indianapolis Carrier plan is an unprecedented move by a presidential-elect.

(Video) Dem rep on his party: "At the present time I have to say we have no strategy and we have no plan"

While on MSNBC today US Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said of his party "At the present time I have to say we have no strategy and we have no plan."

Then he added, "We have some proven leadership that can take into what's going to be a new era."

It appears that the Democrats deserve their minority status in Congress.

Seattle Times columnist amazed the most-ObamaCare dependent Washington counties voted Trump

Blogger in Aberdeen WA
this summer

Add the Seattle Times' Danny Westneat to the list of clueless mainstream media mouthpieces who pre-conceived notions prevent them from properly analyzing the Donald Trump phenomenon.

While Hillary Clinton easily prevailed in Washington state, there is reason for the Democrats to be concerned there. Grays Harbor County, where the biggest town is Aberdeen, Kurt Cobain's hometown, flipped from Democrat to Republican. It was the first time the Pacific coast county went for the GOP in a presidential election since 1928.

Other Washington rural counties went deep red for Trump and Westneat notes they are also the ones that signed up for ObamaCare at the highest rate in the state. Singling out Grays Harbor he comments, "Yet the county that's relying on it just voted for the candidate who vowed to get rid ofit."

Westneat appears shocked. I'm not. Grays Harbor is struggling economically. Many of those ObamaCare subscribers enrolled only because they are faced with two bad options. Pay a fine or buy health insurance. And in the part-time Obama economy, many workers aren't even offered employer-based health insurance.

As for the so-called Affordable Health Care Act, what Michael Moore calls "the shitty ObamaCare Bronze Plan" is expensive--and it doesn't cover that much.

Westneat makes the ludicrous claim that ObamaCare "was scarcely talked about" during the campaign. Perhaps that was the case in Seattle, but the massive ObamaCare rate hikes announced in October likely helped tip the balance for Trump in the former "blue wall" states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. And yes, repealing ObamaCare was frequently mentioned the Trump at his rallies.

Another reason for the rural Washington shift: The Democrats are the party of the environmental extremists, and they are vociferous opponents of the timber industry, which was once a big employer in Washington. And farmers face increasing amounts of EPA regulations, Obama weaponized, metaphorically speaking of course, the EPA.

As for ObamaCare, rural Washington voters flocked to Trump because of ObamaCare, not in spite of it.

The dogs just don't like the food.