Morning Music - "Waitin' on June"

Holly Williams, granddaughter of Hank Williams Sr. and daughter of Hank Williams Jr.



Holly Williams:

Today's Tearjerker

Found at Ace's.

A Pig and His Salad

And in a few short weeks, they can fry it it up and crumble it over the salad, too!

Yosemite

One of the most beautiful places on earth. Take a quick tour, and be sure to use HD.



From Theo's.

An Incredible Rescue Story

Amazing footage as a pod of dolphins rushes the beach and become stranded. A good thing it was in Brazil and not Japan.

Be Happy. . .

. . .or help make other people unhappy.



I'm still working on it.

I Cried Because I Had No Gloves...

Until I met a woman who had no hands:



Found at Ace's, who found it here, who found it...

Feel Good Story of the Day

Dog rescued after falling through the ice in a pond:

Remarkable Survival Story

Nigerian man survives 3 days at bottom of Atlantic

About 100 feet down, on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, divers had already pulled four bodies out of the sunken tugboat. Then a hand appeared on a TV screen monitoring the recovery.

Everyone assumed it was another corpse, and the diver moved toward it.

"But when he went to grab the hand, the hand grabbed him!" Tony Walker, project manager for the Dutch company DCN Diving, said of the rescue in May.

Imagine what that diver thought...



Good thing the water was relatively warm. At ~50 F, the survival time around here these days is a few minutes at best.

High Tipper Makes Days

A Reminder: Even a Country Needs a Little Maintenance Sometimes

I was down on the Mall a couple of days ago for the annual "company" picnic, and saw that the Washington Monument is still under repair from the effects of the earthquake in 2011.

Hey, Hey, Mr. Postman

Follow the link to watch the video.  

Chinese Postal workers stop little girls fall from top of 5 story building

China's CCTV state TV service said two-and-a-half-year-old Qiqi had climbed on to a windowsill while left home alone in Ninghai.

Workers from a nearby delivery company saw the child dangling from the window and gathered underneath, breaking her fall as she plunged to the ground.

Of course, if they'd known it was a girl, they might not have put forth the effort.

Cool Visit

I think he's a spy for the Orca conspiracy. They've never been caught eating a human.

Just Go See It

http://imgur.com/a/2BpKA

Just go see it.  Thanks to Ihateboats.

Sanford Beats Colbert-Busch in SC-01

From Smitty at the Other McCain:

The Russians Call South Carolina’s Media Trajectory A Molniya Orbit

Twitter was awash in SC-1 Jubilation about Sanford’s win over Colbert-Bush:

IowaHawk captures the depth of the opportunity SC-1 has missed for redeeming itself in the eyes of our mainstream media betters:

The trajectory calls to mind something from the Cold War:

I suppose if Sanford has truly repented, and the voters have given him what amounts to a pardon at the polls, then maybe conservatives should think about walking back some of the epithets hurled at the dishonorable scoundrel. Details at Rare.

I always thought it was kind of romantic for him to run away to be with the love of his live.  Romantic but stupid.  He won't be the only stupid Congressman .

The Leader of the Pack

I Guess it was Just a One Dog Night

Missing girl, 3, found alive in Poland with pet dog

A 3-year-old girl who went missing from her home in a village in western Poland on Friday evening has been found alive after her pet dog snuggled up to her overnight to help keep her warm in sub zero temperatures.

She was last seen playing in her backyard with the dog but was discovered in a marshy area several kilometres away.

Found at Althouse.

Your Daily Overdose of Cute

I'm not really into cute kitty videos, but I'm really into sloth...



Yeah, there's a few cats in there, too.

It Started with a Fight Over Lumpy Mashed Potatoes

"The Wind Cries Mary" was written after a food fight.

That evening, Etchingham was trying to make mashed potato and not doing a very good job of it.

"He comes along and tastes them with a fork and says they're all lumpy," she recalls. "I knew he couldn't cook himself and that's how the argument started. It ended with my screaming and shouting, throwing the plates on the floor and marching out."

Etchingham spent the night at a friend's and Hendrix missed her so much that he sat down to write one of his biggest hits, The Wind Cries Mary.

Mary is Etchingham's middle name and the guitarist would sometimes use it to wind her up. That may be why when she first heard the song, she was distinctly underwhelmed.

"It was just the twanging of an electric guitar disconnected," she says. "It was only when it was recorded that I realised it was a nice, sad song - he was obviously a bit upset."

Found at Althouse. 

Have A ABBA New Year