Yup, that's how it's done.

Oooh! Miles Davis!

YESSS! *fist pumps air, gleefully!*

Gonna' drop some links from the previous thread.

Excellent! I was just listening to "Kind of Blue" and Best of Miles and Coltrane this afternoon.

General George S. Patton's Speech to the Third Army - the Unabridged Edition
1. Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944

"Be seated."

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, every one of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.

You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they ARE He Men. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen.

All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling." That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you're not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit! There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily, all because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did.

An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking! We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do.

My men don't surrender, and I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That's not just bull shit either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man!

As for the greatest jazz quintet ever, I'd be inclined to go with the earlier incarnation of the Miles Davis Quintet, with John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and Red Garland.

Of course, the Hot Fives are not to be neglected here -- Satch, Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr, and Lil Hardin.

Immediately opened Kind of Blue on the IPOD.

Is this where you vote for Ron Paul?

Miles Davis? Unbelievable.

Mandy, did you get to post all the parts of the Patton Letter on the last thread? That is awesome.

My latest slam against the Jihad is up at Malaysia Today. Enjoy!

[Link: malaysia-today.net...]

Ron Paul is a truther-hugging, jihadi-sucking traitor.

OT:

"If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens. "

-AC (who else?)

arguably the greatest jazz quintet ever

Now, if we were talking quartets . . .

/Return to Forever

Davis is amazing, but Hancock is sublime. He's only gotten better the past 40 years.

mmm, miles davis.

got a nice vid of him at a prince concert on some new year's eve... he acts like a walk-on extra in a demille pic... still, it does nothing to zap my view of the man...

"All this shit about me being better in the old days... pitiful thinking from reactionary motherfuckers who weren't even there."
-miles, to Musician magazine back in the early 80s

the above is my favorite miles quote... hope i got it right

/or was it "pitiful thinking from reactionary motherfuckers"?

note to self: quit the drink

/no, it was "reactionary thinking from pitiful mot-"

(stops before posting the MF word again)

yeah, THAT's what it was...

I'm with Fred!

nice, thx charles :)

#5 MandyManners . . .

Thanks for posting Patton's speech. My dad was in Patton's army. I've always been proud of that fact.

Could Patton give such a speech today?

I hope our military professionals understand that they must win their battles. We cannot afford to lose.

If our civilization dies, it may never rise again. For most people of the world, life is "nasty, brutal, and short." It's only Western Civilization that has given hope to ordinary people for a better life.

Kelsey Smith killer now in custody.

/name: Edwin Hall

Kinda partial to Tina Turner myself...even tho her husband Ike was a slime

#14

i'll see your "return to forever" full house and raise you this royal flush...

/posted only because "a love supreme" wasn't available in this form

#12 Ward Cleaver

Nice use of the hyphen.

Europeans' flight from Europe

Last year more than 155,000 Germans emigrated from their native country. Since 2004 the number of ethnic Germans who leave each year is greater than the number of immigrants moving in. While the emigrants are highly motivated and well educated, "those coming in are mostly poor, untrained and hardly educated," says Stephanie Wahl of the German Institute for Economics.

The fruits of socialism.

Europe cannot afford to be "Eldorado" for foreigners any longer, because it has stopped being "home" for thousands of its own educated children, now eagerly looking for opportunities to move to America, Canada, Australia or New Zealand -- white European nations outside Europe.

Cultural suicide tends to get messy.

not a big fan of the jazz...great example of academics degrading into nihilism imo

here's a infuriating thought on the murder of Kelsey Smith...(if you need another)...if this had happened in Saudi, Iran, or any other home of Death Cult of Peace, and she had been found alive, she would be facing lashes, or execution, or even honor killing by her own family...

Regarding jazz- I like my Black Coffee

Heck, everyone should groove to Dave Brubeck - Take Five

#14 Killian Bundy

Thanks for that. Brought back many memories. Return To Forever was the band that turned me on to jazz...After Hendrix passed, there wasn't much that got me excited until I heard "Mystery" by Return To Forever... all the members went on to become legends

#22

been following that. left work today with a broken heart upon learning that they found her as they did...

may her killer not get the easy out of the death penalty, but the long, slow death of the soul via a long, long stretch in a federal prison, with the bigger inmates making him into the community bitch he deserves to be made into

That was great. Loved Herbie. Thanks for putting a smile on my face, Charles.

OT

Unbelievable:

Home Depot Fires Men Who Stopped Thieves (Read the whole thing, it really is as bad as it sounds)

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. -- A former Home Depot employee said the company fired him and three other workers because they helped police catch several suspected shoplifters in May.Midwest City Police said the men helped officers catch suspected shoplifters as they tried to run from a store with lawn equipment.

An internal memo from Home Depot outlines that associates cannot accuse, detain, chase or call the police on any customer for shoplifting. (emphasis added)

WTF? What the F**king F**k!?
Don't call the cops? What are they supposed to do? Any lizardoids need a new lawn tractor? Hell, rent a truck and take off with a dozen of them.

#32 Shiplord Kirel

wow that is ridiculous...i suspect their legal dept convinced them that the danger of a racism/etc lawsuit was worse...short this stock please...

I'm one of those people who doesn't get Jazz. It sounds like discord to me, although I can certainly recognize instrumental skill.

An internal memo from Home Depot outlines that associates cannot accuse, detain, chase or call the police on any customer for shoplifting. (emphasis added)

Let's kill all the lawyers
Kill 'em tonight

With apologies to non-destructive lawyers who may be reading

Scat

#30 braverutherford

with the bigger inmates making him into the community bitch

he would probably enjoy that. just kill the ***er now

Jazz like this annoys me, I don't care how good everyone says it is, where the hell is the melody? Like modern art, senseless gobs of paint on the canvas. Like the artist is too stupid to paint a landscape or human form.

Caribbean has greater dangers than radical Islam
[Link: www.reuters.com...]

Hey, Marines! I need a little advice.

My 19-year-old son, who has never been in great physical shape in his life (video games, not football), recently dropped 50 pounds so he could qualify for the Navy or Coasties. Well, while he was waiting at the Navy office (where his recruiter was late), the Marine recruiter struck up a conversation with him.

To make a long story short, he took the ASVAB under the Marine, scored 95, and as he's a clean-cut, clean-record, good kid, they're hot to get him now.

I support him in anything he does. I confess to a secret love for Marines -- I've adored every single one that's come into my life. But I've watched Marines work out too, and I know how mentally and physically grueling Marine boot camp can be.

Can y'all give me some advice about where I can send him for straight talk from Marines? I have one who's going to talk to him and probably coach him through it (inc. some practice with firearms and helping him get over a fear of heights), but I'd really like to see him getting involved with others who can give him honest (non-recruiter) advice on what he can expect.

Thanks!

Jamie
(Brother -- Army, Afghanistan; Husband -- Navy, submarines; Son -- who knows?)

One of the local free rags has a front page story entitled, "Al Gore in Marin" with this quote on the cover: "Why is it that facts, truth and reason play such a minor role in our democracy?" Can you believe the total lack of self-awareness of this clown?

It is astounding to me that the irony of this statement is lost on:
A - Al Gore
and
B - His brain-dead followers.

[Link: www.pacificsun.com...]

All day I've had a song rattling around my noggin, a song with no personal connection to me; no history, no baggage, no ghosts or skeletons. I was about five when it came out, so I don't remember it new or fresh; it's one of those songs that just always existed. If I let it out here, maybe it'll leave me be. Enjoy.

An internal memo from Home Depot outlines that associates cannot accuse, detain, chase or call the police on any customer for shoplifting. (emphasis added)

Awesome! I need a new BBQ grill!

St Pancake
Hello teacher! :)
Take Five is a delight, thanks ;)

Hola, Miguel
Como estas, Miguelito?

St Pancake
This is no Jazz, but for me it is an excellent work of drums, besides the great guitars ;)

Bien gracias, St Pancake.
¿Y tú cómo estás?

Oldie, but goody.

I like some blues too. I acquired that taste while visiting New Orleans, even though that city is better known for its jazz history.

He estado trabajando difícilmente en historia. Soy cansado de este trabajo, pero sigue siendo bueno para mi.

Oy vey!

And Miles to Go Before I Sleep...

Edwards campaigns with actor Glover
Way to go, Silk Pony! Maybe you can get a bit part in one of Glover's new movies.

Hugo Chavez, Movie Mogul has big hug for Glover

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) and US actor/activist Danny Glover hug each other in Harlem, New York. [picture caption]

pero intento!

Haha, I still struggle with the fundamentals of spanish.

How I loathe Chavez and Glover.

Chavez's backers insist that Venezuela is still replete with privately owned media that openly criticize him, and argue that his move against RCTV is justified because the network openly backed a failed 2002 coup against Chavez and his democratically elected government. "I doubt," says the Chavez adviser, "that what RCTV did [in 2002] would be tolerated by any government in any country."

Um... no.

St Pancake
You do well! :)

Keep on trying. And as a teacher, you're a natural, and you know it lol.

#28 St. Pancake:

Roger on the Brubeck.

I got turned on to Take Five during college, when I heard it played on the harp.

I wish I could find the guy's name. He was a genius with those strings. He even played a riff of Classical Gas for me, just to show he could do that, too.

Vital information you will not see in the quisling *spit* MSM *spit*:

Terrorist Death Watch-Update on Iraq surge.

Example: 625 jihadis sent to the raisins in May.

It should be emphasized that TDW's figures for dead terrs are taken from media reports and Iraqi civil (chiefly hospital and police) records, NOT US military handouts, so moonbats cannot reasonably dismiss them as propaganda. The US military does not keep a running count of enemy dead anyway, though figures are often given for individual actions as a necessary part of the narrative.

Lol, still even have trouble remembering the difference between que tal, and the regular como esta.

Can I use que tal with you, for example?

52 victor_yugo

Thanks, and it is nice to have someone say that.
On a harp? Wow!

St Pancake
THE GALL! Chávez tried EXACTLY THE SAME, but worse, as he had part of the army on his side, as a colonel, and he was in the very brink of toppling down the established government in 1992.
This peace of crap accuses others of doing the same things he's done.
He should take himself off the air, the mother something, to be fair and not a monster of repression.
I'm sure he'd opt for the second option that refuse of the human race.

Isn't this free-form jazz, pure improvisational? Judge it on its own merits. This aint Diana Krall people!

St Pancake
Sure! it's informal, like among friends, and we are friends.
Yo también soy maestro, y también soy natural, quiero estar enseñando todo el tiempo jajajaja.

;)

Miguel
*smile*

Correction:
Cháveza is not a peace of crap, he's a piece of crap lol

Wah though, is "jajajaja"?
I am thinking "yes" auf deutsch. Anything else?

pimf
What

St Pancake
*Sonrisa mexicana conquistadora*

Technically brilliant, but wow is that hard to listen to. Maybe I am showing myself to be a heathen (and I love Jazz), but isn't atonal music an oxymoron?

mierda para Hugo baby

#37 jehu:

Like modern art, senseless gobs of paint on the canvas. Like the artist is too stupid to paint a landscape or human form.

Kind of like Jackson Pollock?

Actually, what you say about the melody, e.g. "where is it?", can also be said about Russian Orthodox liturgical music. Traditionally, the melody is all but absent. Instead, the chord progression defines the music.

Egads!
Atonal music reminds me of Arnold Schoenberg.

What was that about?

St Pancake
jajajaja=hahahahaha.
J in Spanish sounds like H in English, with a bit harsher sound.
So we laugh so: jajajaja.

Or jeje if we're shy.

Or jijiji would by shier.

Or jojojo would be Santa.

Jajajajaja.

#39 kywrite

I have one who's going to talk to him and probably coach him through it (inc. some practice with firearms and helping him get over a fear of heights), but I'd really like to see him getting involved with others who can give him honest (non-recruiter) advice on what he can expect.

First of all, God bless your son. You have a good young man there.

The marine you're in touch with now will evaluate him as well and possibly make the determination if the marines is the direction best suited for him.

For what its worth from a former Navy E-4.

#57

This is an actual composed piece, a blues in 6/8 actually. The soloists interpret it quite freely but the structure doesn't completely disappear.

It took me ages to "get" anything about Pollack.

Drunken genius.

St Pancake
Your gift for Chávez is right on the dot!

Ah, Miguel
You are correct. I was not thinking of the Spanish "j", darnit.

I see "j", and I think of German.

This is what Islam would destroy. We are fighting to protect not just pretty melodies people! To the shores of Iraq with the young men of 2007 to storm those beaches and protect FREE JAZZ!

Lol, Miguel

Spanish has its place on a blog when (in)appropriate language needs some help.

#37 jehu

yup, same mentality behind the John Cages of the world imo. all part of the Marxist dream to destroy beauty :)

FREE JAZZ!

Hey, this sounds like a plan.
Much better than Free Mumia or Free Peltier.

#66 victor_yugo

Kind of like Jackson Pollock?

/bet you didn't know that Jack Kevorkian is also an acclaimed artist

"Free Jazz"

Hey, there's lots of free stuff at Home Depot (see #32)

Well, I'm watching the Miles Davis Quintet video.

I will try to be tactful. Honest and tactful.

It hardly needs to be said that Miles Davis is virtuoso of the highest order. His musicianship is beyond compare. And the same can be said for other people in the quintet as well, like Herbie Hancock and so forth.

I'm not disputing that point.

But here's why I generally don't voluntarily listen to contemporary jazz (and some other musical genres as well): The mere act of virtuosity is not sufficient to make me want to hear a performance. A technically brilliant musician could play the scales up and down, and can do it perfectly and with feeling -- but would I want to listen to that?

I know that there are people out there who would say "Yes! I would listen to Yo-yo Ma or Miles Daivs play the scales," but for me the answer is no -- or at least, usually no. Because of my personality type, I need an additional element, and what I'm talking about (in most instances) is a melody. A nice melody, a beautiful melody, a memorable melody. And if not a melody, at least some emotionally satisfying chord changes or bass line.

And that's what a lot of contemporary jazz lacks. This track is a good example -- it's "free jazz," without predetermined structure, and without any sort of mutually agreed-upon melody (or at least one that I can discern). Just pure improvisation.

Which is fine, for those that like such things. I'm not putting down unstructured improvisation as a concept, and understand full well that there is an audience for such stuff, who appreciate the skill of the performers above all else.

But me, the kind of person I am, I'd rather listen to a completely incompetent and totally drunk Paul Revere and the Raiders playing "Louie Louie" totally atrociously, because the song has an unforgettable chord progression, an unforgettable rhythmic structure, and was performed with enthusiasm and gusto, regardless of the skill.

Jazz pre-1960s generally was melody-based, and I am happy to listen to that. But it is when the musicians -- no mater how talented -- go off on aimless flights of fancy that my interest wanders. It's not just jazz -- self-indulgent guitar solos by overwrought '70s rock bands are just as uninteresting to me, as is postmodern "experimental" music. And don't even talk to me about the Grateful Dead and other "jam bands." Shudder.

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade here, or claim that one musical taste is better than another. I'm just saying -- "different strokes for different folks," and I'm one of those folks for whom this type of music just doesn't move me.

There. I've said it. Now you can all throw rotten vegetables at me.

#55 St. Pancake:

The performance was one of those "cozy" deals in the student diner. It was his closing number. He told us how he did the transcription, then called his harp instructor from 20 years earlier. She said it couldn't be done... then she heard it.

He didn't say as much, but I think it was one of those moments where the student surpasses the teacher.

I really regret not remembering the guy's name.

Killian Bundy
Oh. hell's bells!
I wish I had not glanced at his work.

:(

Miles Davis is virtuoso = Miles Davis is a virtuoso

PIMF

Today in History
June 7

1498 Christopher Columbus leaves on his third voyage of exploration
1654 Louis XIV is crowned king of France.
1712 The Pennsylvania Assembly bans the importation of slaves.
1767 Daniel Boone sights present-day Kentucky.
1775 The United Colonies change their name to the United States.
1863 Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1900 The Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China.
1903 Professor Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of Polonium.
1914 The first vessel passes through the Panama Canal.
1932 Over 7,000 war veterans march on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus pay for service in World War I.
1942 The Japanese invade Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
1968 In Operation Swift Saber, U.S. Marines sweep an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.
1981 Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroy Iraq's only nuclear reactor.

and a Happy B'Day to Paul Gaugin, French post-impressionist painter, who was born on this day in 1848.

Viva Maximilian!

Will this get a rise out of Miguelito?

#71 St. Pancake:

Sorry, but from where I sit, an untrained monkey could do the same thing. In that respect, it's almost Dada.

Oh, Victor
I do not do Dada, even though I love the name, and the origin of that name.
The Dada artists were a little too radical for my tastes.

Hey, if you're talking art . . .

/Duchamp's Fountain wins the prize

St Pancake
I got disconected for a while, sorry.
I was so happy with Firefox, but after I downloaded the latest version my comp has been having trouble.
Oh well, you can't always get what you want. ;)

#84 St. Pancake:

1932 Over 7,000 war veterans march on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus pay for service in World War I.

IIRC, this "Bonus Army" march was the inspiration for the song Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?.

Hey, Victor
This is one very cool Pollock site.

I love to waste time there.

Yes, it was Victor
Really awful story. Many future WWII Generals took part in that event also. Of course, that was very difficult for them.

#80 Zombie

Jazz has its share of empty virtuosity but I don't think that's the case here. Shorter in particular solos with tremendous lyricism, and there is a quiet and spaciousness in this six minute piece that you won't find in, e.g., a Jimmy Page solo. But yes, one has to have or develop an ear for jazz and other improvised or abstract music; it's not for everybody.

Believe it or not, this piece, a Wayne Shorter composition called Footprints, is a type of 12 bar blues and the soloists stay within that form. They do, compared to something more straight ahead, take more liberties with the chord changes. And actually, the soloists do make reference to the melody in their solos.

Miguel
Did you see the date in history for La Ciudad de Mexico?

I don't like Jazz.

Now, stone me!

I love Miles.

And it's a great way to celebrate finally getting a driver that fixes my wireless. Yesterday it would have played half the song and then lost the connection.

95 MigueldowninMexico
Haha!
I don't like Menudo!

Sue me!

St Pancake
Oh! Those damn French!
Now I know why you said ¡Maximiliano! hahaha.

Anyway we had the pleasure of making them bit the dust a couple of times.

Actually, cherie, I like France and the French, quite a bit. So I'm very depressed watching that wonderful country descend into an African pit.

Still, that Sarkozy victory gives me a bit of renewed hope for France.

Zombie, I grew up with Miles Davis albums, so I think nostalgia makes me want to hear this stuff occasionally.

But he's not someone you can listen to and completely follow and enjoy like Coltrane.

Miguel
Ever heard of rumors of French treasure hidden away in various places?

Davis is interesting texture mostly.

St Pancake
Menudo the Portorrican band or menudo the food?

I don't like either, so it's not me the one suing you lol ;)

St Pancake
No, I haven't, wow. There's rumors of Aztefc treasures, Spanish treasures, mainly in the sea, and gold treasures hidden from the time of the revolution 1911-1921.

This piece is actually pretty mild compared to much of the truly avant-garde and free jazz that was being created at the time. For something really hair-raising, try Ascension, Meditations, or Om by Coltrane

Supposedly, Maximilian collected some five million dollars in jewelry and gold coins, gold and silver plate and
some bullion before his capture and had loyal aides hide it in 45 flour barrels loaded onto wagons with the
instructions for the drivers to go to San Antonio, Texas and then to Galveston, Texas where the treasure could be
sent to Austria to Carlota. A group referred to as "Maximilianos" left Mexico with Maximilian’s treasure but
were killed by robbers before journey's end, their bodies and wagons burned. The robbers could only carry so
much, so they buried more of the treasure than they took with them, with the hopes of returning later. The group
of robbers were later attacked and murdered by Indians and only one survived that knew the whereabouts of
Maximilian’s treasure, and he later even presented a treasure map of the location before he, too, died. The
(mythical?) treasure is still buried to this day somewhere around Castle Gap, hidden high in the King Mountains
north of El Paso, Texas.

Maximilian’s Millions

Why do I remember this?
"Free Jazz" Yeah, I remember Sun Rah, so I hardly listen to Jazz any more.

Here is another site, Miguel

Another thing are the other videos that youtube puts along the bottom.

I wonder if they're customized to LGF or to my own cookies...

For instance I'm listening to this video that was next to more appropriate stuff like Ron Paul (arguing that we can solve terrorism by getting rid of the CIA)on Bill Maher (with maher telling him he's nuts), Miles and Coltrane

Do you all get the same links.

St Pancake
that's why I've never heard about that treasure, as it is not in Mexican soil. ;)

#34 Pawn of the Oppressor
I'm one of those people who doesn't get Jazz. It sounds like discord to me, although I can certainly recognize instrumental skill..

#37 jehu
Jazz like this annoys me, I don't care how good everyone says it is, where the hell is the melody?

Dagnabbit, both of you two fine gentleman said the exact same sentiment as me, said it more concisely, and said it earlier!

I bow to your primacy.

No mas Jazz, but here we have La Paloma.

Oh Jesus, Ron Paul is uhm claiming that we wouldn't have had 9/11 if we get rid of the FAA?!

Ron Paul is uhm claiming that we wouldn't have had 9/11 if we get rid of the FAA?!

What is the logic to that?

probably none coming from Paul

Oy, Miguel
The comments on that Paloma video are interesting.

ULTRA CONSERVADOR HASTA LA MÉDULA!

Haha!

I believe that means conservative to the bone.

I love jazz. I don't know much about it, though. They play a lot on this AM station I listen to. I developed an appreciation for it's discordance from listening to Mr Bungle, Bad Brains and other experimental fusion bands.

St Pancake
Thanks for the song ;)

#41 stevieray

All day I've had a song rattling around my noggin, a song with no personal connection to me; no history, no baggage, no ghosts or skeletons. I was about five when it came out, so I don't remember it new or fresh; it's one of those songs that just always existed. If I let it out here, maybe it'll leave me be. Enjoy.

The video you linked to is The Toys doing "Lover's Concerto," and yes, the reason it seems that "the song has always existed" is that it was written in 1722 by JS Bach; later songwriters in 1965 just stole the famous melody and added lyrics. (The song's original title is "Minuet in G major.")

This is exactly the point I was making earlier about melodies -- a strong melody will stay with you forever. I guarantee not many people right now are walking along humming some "free jazz" improv to themselves.

St Pancake
Yes, actually to the marrow, médula :)

St Pancake
It's a commie site. Woeshipers of López Obrador lol ;)

119 MigueldowninMexico
Yesd, now I know, but I still like the songe.

Remember when I used to get him confused with Obregon?

St Pancake
I do! Hahahahaha.
He was so famous back then and now...nothing.
He went into oblivion, thanks to all the harm he did to millions and millions of people.

Payback's a playa LOL

playback's a playa.

Cool. payback is a beach.

That was on purpose lol ;)

Yo se.

Soy cansada.

Great tunes.

If you'd like a little mood lighting to listen to them by, I've located Bush's missing spine, which has been beautifully converted into a reading lamp (or mood lamp, if you use a colored bulb).

This explains so much.

Menudo,

A Band Which Proves Plastic Boy Band Lameness Stretches it's grip beyond the U.S.

Casada?
lol ;)

Lol, Miguel

Haha!

Jewels
That is priceless.

Jewels
Hahahahahaha.

Now careful there, don't you diss Menudo.
Ricky Martin was there...

(sounds of crowds of girls shouting and fainting...)

Living La Vida Estúpida.

Es is ahora para mi cama.

Good night!

Living La Vida Estúpida.

Durn you for making me laugh before I go to bed.

Livin La Vida Yoda

He's into superstition,
He's really not very tall,
He's got a premonition, this kid's gonna kill us all.

He's on the Jedi Council,
Big heads and long necks.
He's got a small lightsaber, and speaks he in ways to vex.

He'll make you lift up big rocks with the power of your brain.
He'll make you face your destiny and you'll never be the same.
And your hand will cause you pain.

Long eared, green and stout,
Livin' la vida Yoda.
He'll train and wear you out,
Livin la vida Yoda.
His cane is a gimer stick, his skin is mountain soda,
He will wear you out,
He's Livin la vida Yoda.
Livin la vida Yoda.

Woke up in Dagobah swamp,
In a funky set of robes.
He trained my mind and he trained my body,
But now I'm off to Lando's globe.

He always talks in riddles and he puzzles at your brain,
And once he's finished training you, you'll never be the same,
And Vader's quite a pain.

Long eared, green and stout,
Livin' la vida Yoda.
He'll train and wear you out,
Livin la vida Yoda.
His cane is a gimer stick, his skin is mountain soda,
He will wear you out,
He's Livin la vida Yoda.
Livin la vida Yoda.

He'll make you lift up big rocks with the power of your brain.
He'll make you face your destiny and you'll never be the same.
And your hand will cause you pain.

Long eared, green and stout,
Livin' la vida Yoda.
He'll train and wear you out,
Livin la vida Yoda.
His cane is a gimer stick, his skin is mountain soda,
He will wear you out,
He's Livin la vida Yoda.
Livin la vida Yoda.

#117 zombie:

Apparently, graphoanalysis shows that the melody wasn't written by J. S. Bach.

St Pancake
Good night! Sleep tight :)

What if the D-Day incasion had occured on June 6th 2007?

How would the have reported it?

#134 victor_yugo

Yes, I found that info after posting my comment. It may have been written by a family friend, another composer from the era.

Either way, it still dates from 1722 or thereabouts.

REPORTS: IMMIGRATION BILL ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE IN SENATE... DEVELOPING...

I hope they stop opressing us victim Mexicans and give us American citizenship right away!
The whole 125 million of us :)

We are entitled to! 'Cause we say so!

Oh, and the AP is reporting "Immigration Deal Survives Senate hurdles" but if you actually read the story, they are talking about all of the hurdles except the one that will apparently sink it. Nice reporting, jerks.

Well, if we build a fence, we'll still have a northern border, which means the terrorists won't be deterred, which is supposed to be the whole point of the border security craze. If we get serious now, we'll still be a long way from taking care of the problem.

I want to see the fence put up, at least. Then I'd like us to help make Mexico a country people don't want to flee, but with the corruption in the government down there (and up here, frankly) it all seems like a pipe-dream. Or, at any rate, a long way off.

Sadly, you're right, Salem.

39 kywrite

Hey, Marines! I need a little advice.

It will be tough in boot camp, no doubt, if he puts his heart and soul into it he will do just fine, as many before him have done.

His recruiter will clue him in, if you live in a big city they may have a Marine poolees program in the area.
Here's a couple of links for him to eyeball.

Recruit Training click on calendar right side.

Marine Poolee message board.

Good Morning Dead Threaders!

Israel's (government) radio admits to its biases.

Immigration bill in doubt after vote

WASHINGTON - A fragile compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants risks coming unraveled after the Senate voted early Thursday to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually.

The 49-48 vote came two weeks after the Senate, also by a one-vote margin, rejected the same amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan. The North Dakota Democrat says immigrants take many jobs Americans could fill.

The reversal dismayed backers of the immigration bill, which is supported by
President Bush but loathed by many conservatives. Business interests and their congressional allies were already angry that the temporary worker program had been cut in half from its original 400,000-person-a-year target.

Salem
It was a mistake to reduce the number of temporary workers. These are people who enter and work legally in the USA. Then, they go back home.
If you want to fight illegals (illegality, let's say), the worst way of doing it is by shrinking the number of possible legal entrances.

#41 stevieray -

"All day I've had a song rattling around my noggin"..

I call that a "Stong". A sticky, stalking, stuck, tune that relentlessly hounds you throughout the day.

"If I let it out here, maybe it'll leave me be"

It's worth a try. What works best for me, is to finally just sing the whole damn thing out loud and hope that it takes wing and finds someone new to taunt!

AZTLAAAN!

Aztland?

Well, I think the idea of that was just to get the bill killed altogether. McCain was against even deporting alien felons. I hope this puts him on the fast-track to retirement.

And the temporary worker program would have been horribly abused under this bill, anyway.

Basically, these guys need to clean out their ears. If less than a quarter of Americans want it, then that should have put the brakes on it right there.

Ass-Tlan?

Hahahahaha Jewels hahahahaha.

Night Jewels.

"Tlan" means "Place" or "Place of" in Náhuatl (so called Aztec).

Ass Tlan? Ahem.

Is the DNC an Ass Tlan?

New ways to make clean water - for everyone.

What I call biofuel...

Basically just good camping skills.

No Miguel - the is ass FLOSS

The DNC?

Miguel,
It depends on what you think the word, "IS"... is.

(pimf! DNC)

I's gonna meditate that ;)

Suspect arrested in Kan. teen's death

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Police arrested a man in the abduction and death of a teenager whose body was found Wednesday in a Missouri park four days after she disappeared from a Kansas store's parking lot.

Authorities said 18-year-old Kelsey Smith's body was found at a lake in Grandview, Mo., about 20 miles east of where she had disappeared Saturday. They did not say how Smith died.

Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass identified the suspect as Edwin R. Hall, 26, of Olathe. Hall was expected to be charged Thursday with premeditated first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping.

Douglass said Hall was interviewed Wednesday after police acted on a tip that matched him to a vehicle seen in surveillance video pulling into the Target parking lot about a minute after Smith parked there.

He declined to comment on the circumstances of Hall's questioning or evidence in the case.

Douglass said Hall appeared to be the same person shown in the video walking into the Target soon after Smith entered the store.

Perhaps now I can get some sleep:

Kelsey Smith Murder suspect arrested

#143 Marinegrunt:

That was EXACTLY what I was looking for, thanks! I think if he survives telling his grandmother, he'll probably survive boot, now that I think about it. It was just a bit of a shock.

And if he makes it through, he'll be a heck of a Marine. He's a really good kid.

Six Day War history roundup

hrmm a bit ago there was a story on the wire about more hamas-fatah fighting, it's floated off now, can't find it. g'nite all

Bye Thanos.

A little comic relief

Janeane Garofalo used to torture Iraqis

Janeane Garofalo's voice was used to torture Iraqis, and they "hated" it.

Tony Lagouranis is a former military interrogator, who's now telling his story. And, believe it or not, the formerly cute comedienne and former Air America hostess played a role:

Not long ago in Iraq, [Lagouranis] felt "absolute power," he said, over men kept in cages. Lagouranis had forced a grandfather to kneel all night in the cold and bombarded others in metal shipping containers with the tape of the self-help parody "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction," by comedians Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. ("They hated it," Lagouranis recalled. "Like, 'Please! Just stop that voice!' ")

In lighter news, Garoffalo appears with Payton Oswald at the Somerville Theatre on June 23. Tickets are $35.

Would lizards like to see The Surge in graphics? Mighty encouraging.
[Link: northshorejournal.org...]

Good morning, dead thread.

Carl in Jerusalem
Howdy Carl -

6 Day War Synopsis

[]By the morning of the 5th, the Israeli deception hook was set. Hod took an enormous gamble, sending all but 12 of his fighter aircraft on first wave attacks against Egypt. The attackers followed the same profile used on previous, IAF training flights over the Mediterranean. While some of the Israeli fighters appeared on Egyptian radar screens, the controllers were unconcerned. They had watched large formations approach in the past; in a few minutes the IAF pilots would turn around and head home, just as they always did.

Meanwhile, that IAF transport was circling over Israel, broadcasting radio traffic from a "routine" training day that was monitored by Arab SIGINT sites. They automatically assumed that the radio calls were coming from the Israeli jets in the air that morning; in reality, the IAF strike packages were maintaining strict radio silence.

Oblivious to impending Israeli onslaught, the Egyptian Air Force followed its normal morning routine. The MiGs landed; AAA sites, radar posts and SAM batteries went to minimal manning, as most personnel headed off for breakfast. At 0645, almost 200 Israeli jet fighters streaked across the Nile Valley, almost completely unopposed. Over the next three hours, they annihilated Egypt's air force and air defenses, destroying nearly 500 aircraft, many of them on the ground. With the Egyptian threat neutralized, the IAF then set its sights on Jordan and Syria, with equally devastating results.

It was a stunning victory, virtually unparalleled in the history of air warfare. But it was also a triumph that was firmly rooted in deception, following a practice that the Israelis have used time and time again. Fourteen years after Operation Focus, the IAF mounted its famous airstrike on Saddam's nuclear reactor near Baghdad, an attack that coincided with dinner time for the Iraqi Air Force and air defense crews.

Whooops!

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup and all that jazz --->

/I'm on topic!

Hi littleoldlady!

RTLM! :-)

Have some fruitcup.

...and coffee.

... gotta cinnamon roll?

:::rummaging around:::

Nope. No cinnamon roll. A couple of tea biscuits and a jelly donut. Oh! I do have a babka with cinnamon in it.

Here.

Mike C.

Ever seen these?

# 177 RTLM

The small ones pictured at the bottom look to be some sort of concretion. The large ones at the top most likely formed as pockets of clastic material (clay, sand) deposited in plant material. When lithified, the clastic stuff formed these odd looking lumps in the middle of a coal seam.

I've seen concretions of various types, and I've seen intra-coal clastic deposits, but none quite like these.

Hello everyone!

#168 MigueldowninMexico

That is a very good link. Thanks.

littleoldlady

Good jazzy fruitcup. Yum.

Its interesting - they look almost chiseled. I guess heat and pressure take their toll.

Maybe a good place to look for diamonds?

gettinby! :-)

/I suddenly have an overwhelming urge to do laundry...

Not that it matters concerning the quality of Miles Davis' music, but the guy was a racist asshole. That's the impression I got from reading his autobiography (which I recommend, BTW). He HATED white people.

I also heard that he once played an entire concert with his back turned to the audience out of sheer contempt.

As a musician, Miles was great. But as a person, he sucked.

America, stand with Israel at the counter-rally on June 10, 2007

littleoldlady

What an effect I have on you; and for that, I'm terribly sorry!

LOL

/do you ever find those lost socks? :)

/do you ever find those lost socks?

No. Was I supposed to?

/dryer-consumed socks = one of the many pississitudes of life

littleoldlady -

Did you ever try out your tater mitts? If you did, how did they work?

# 180 RTLM

No - way wrong type of rock.

Sent them back, windybon. If I have to boil the potatoes first, they're worthless. (Kugels and latkes are made from raw potatoes.)

Besides, they're like, HUGE! Fall right off my hands. I have no idea who they think will be using these things.

# 180 RTLM Addendum

Here's what you look for if diamonds are the objective.

#187 Mike C.
So no diamonds -
Well then then the hell with the damn rocks !

nite all

Acres of Diamonds.

Funny how some stuff sticks in your head...

188 littleoldlady -

Well, damn! You mean they were not advertised honestly? LOL! What is this world coming to? :)

windybon,

You mean they were not advertised honestly?

Let's just say they left out an important detail or two...

/:-(

Free at WSJ Opinion Journal today...

Register's Last Hurrah?
Our taxpayer-financed Arabic network was set up to counter Al-Jazeera, not echo it.
By Joel Mowbray

To understand the challenge faced by Al-Hurra, the U.S. taxpayer-financed Arabic TV network, consider the case of Yasser Thabet. For years, Mr. Thabet has been a leading figure in shaping news coverage in the region. Whereas fawning over terrorists would be career suicide in the United States, Mr. Thabet, formerly a broadcast editor at Al-Jazeera, did just that--and promptly landed a top position at a major Arab media outlet.

Last summer, Mr. Thabet wrote a loving tribute on his personal Web site to Soha Bechara, a woman who attempted to assassinate a general of the main anti-Hezbollah forces, the South Lebanese Army. Calling her "a living symbol of Lebanese resistance," he encouraged "those who are unfairly and unjustly detained in our Arab World" to take solace from her example, including Tayssir Allouni, the former Al-Jazeera reporter who was convicted by a Spanish court in 2005 of passing money between al Qaeda and an affiliated cell in Spain.

After the execution of Saddam Hussein, Mr. Thabet unleashed a vitriolic attack on Iraqi Shiites, whom he called "a group of murderers." Lamenting that "the execution of Saddam was a political and historical mistake," Mr. Thabet wrote fondly about how the "corpse" of Saddam had managed "to incite its people to retaliate and resist."

A few months later, in March of this year, Mr. Thabet was hired as chief editor of news by Al-Hurra. His employment is just one of a number of recent controversies surrounding the network since the appointment of longtime CNN producer Larry Register as its news director last November.

There's more.

As this is a Jazz thread ...
Is there any Lizard out there who can give me links to the career and works of Frank DaSilva? Wiki has nothing and even Google seems clueless. Have I spelt his name right? I was particularly interested in his works covered by Judy Boucher but again Wiki and Google are no help.
I know the pool of Lizard knowledge is at my disposal...

#188 littleoldlady

have to boil the potatoes firs

t

See? You people don't listen to me.

That's what I said the first time we were talking about these things.

And what's the deal about cleaning them? Which my point is, it would be difficult to do. Did the instructions say anything about that?

nonic,

Yeah. "Rinse and hang to dry." As if that would clean them sufficiently.

Okay, Mom. Next time I'll listen to you!

/I know, I say that all the time, don't I?

;-)

Good morning, Lizards! Today's my last day of the 2006-2007 school year.

What I learned:

1. Just because I believe in honor and honesty doesn't mean other adults do.
2. Even though as a teacher I'm supposed to be a paragon of organization, fairness, and justice, noticing and praising excellence in my students, it doesn't mean that my superiors will extend the same to me.
3. The kids make everything worth it (most important).

Organized bus trip to Sderot this Sunday

#197 littleoldlady

LOL :-)

Great weather we've been having lately!

Who do I thank for that?

There was a joke on here yesterday about a Liberal in a hot air balloon and a conservative in a fishing boat.

I can't find it, it's lost among the threads.

Can someone please give me a link or tell it again?

Thanks.

#185 littleoldlady

Since my children were BORN I've tried to get everyone to put his dirty socks in lingerie bag so all I had to do wass toss the bag in the wash, take the socks out to dry, and then pair them up.

It's never workes, and we have a MOUNTAIN of single socks. It drive me crazy.

#198 Goddess

Just because I believe in honor and honesty doesn't mean other adults do.

There's worse news.

Your believing in honor and honesty facilitates the people who don't gettin' away with sh*t.

(And you know what I mean.)

#202 Goddess

The answer to that is let them go barefoot. They'll learn.

This public service message brought to you from a woman who raised 5 sons and had the laziest husband in the world.

#203 nonic

You're SO right.

I gotta tell ya, I get the biggest kick in the world hearing my sons (4 still live with me) complain the day before the cleaning women come.

I started a cleaning service just a few months ago for the first time in my life -- and I LOVE it.

Anyway. The sons crab that they hate the cleaning women coming because they have to straighten up their rooms. If they don't, the cleaning women will, and then they can't find anything.

These are MEN we're talking about.

The oldest, 29, an attorney, was pissed that the cleaning women had the audacity to pile his dirty laundry, which had been in a pile on the floor, on top of his clean laundry, which had been in a basket on the floor.

(What was she supposed to do? Sniff?)

Goddess and nonic

My question on single socks...

Why do we keep them?

I'm off - have a great day everyone!

Morning all/
A day late ..
crisis on Omaha
Doom! Doom I say!

#207 gettinby

We live in hope! We're Lizrds, after all!

Speaking of which...

Where is Mike C's sock puppet these days?

That’s what life has become for me. My two thrills are twice a month when the cleaning women come, and twice a month when my alimony comes.

(No “come” jokes, please.)

Last Valentine’s Day, I was feeling all mopey and sorry for myself, thinking about how nobody sends me a Valentine, blah, blah, blah and blubber. And then I realized, hell, that’s not true. I get a Valentine EVERY month. In fact, twice every month. And I just KNOW how much it means to him to send it! LOL

(Kathy Bates in Delores Clairborne: “Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has left.”)

# Paris got a new cell mate today: Scooter Libby.
# Prison is not the place to be when your nickname is Scooter.
# Scooter Libby has been sentenced to 30 months in jail. He should get along with the other prisoners, because you know what they say about scooters: They’re fun to ride until your friends see you. ...
Roll over Scooter..

# Top Ten Excuses Of The Tuberculosis Traveler
10. "Calm down — most of the people I coughed on were foreigners"
9. "How was I supposed to know drug-resistant bacteria was a bad thing — who am I, Dr. House?"
8. "When the doctor told me I had 'TB,' I assumed he meant 'Terrific Breath'"
7. "Of course my judgment was impaired! I had tuberculosis you moron!"
6. "If people with a dangerous communicable disease are not allowed to travel among innocent civilians, then the terrorists have won"
5. No number 5 — writer infected by tuberculosis traveler
4. "Ha! You've been tuberculosis'd"
3. "It's just drug-resistant tuberculosis. What harm can it do?"
2. "Surgical mask made me feel like Spider-Man"
1. "Hey it's still better than flying JetBlue. Am I right, people?"

# 191 littleoldlady

Don't DO that ! I had to read the whole damned thing.

Mikey,

Well I didn't. Was it worth it? ;-)

That's the guy who founded Temple U. (a/k/a "Harvard on the Delaware") The whole idea was why leave town to go to school when there's this "gem" right in your backyard.

/"I could have gone anywhere, but I went to Temple." (TWICE!) © Bill Cosby

Morning folks,

Lynne Cheney is being floated as possible replacement for the late Wyoming Senator Craig Thomas.

A great idea, if only to see heads explode on the left.

# 214 littleoldlady

Held my interest long enough to make it all the way through. In certain respects, he sounds a little like Twain, which I suppose is not surprising, since they were near-contemporaries. The really astounding thing is that people used to stand up and give orations like these. Not that length was always an advantage, mind you. The primary speaker at Gettysburg went on and on at great length, while Lincoln dissapointed the crowd by saying very few words indeed. Oops.

Andrew Keen, a 47-year-old Briton who founded dot-com era music startup Audiocafe, argues that basic notions of expertise are under assault amid a cultural shift in favor of the amateurism of blogs, MySpace and other popularity-driven sites. "Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys ... are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity," Keen writes in a book published Tuesday.
The villains in Keen's narrative are a "pajama army" of mostly anonymous writers who spread gossip and scandal, "intellectual kleptomaniacs," who search Google to copy others' work and the "digital thieves" of media content in the post-Napster era.

Charles,
I can write a book about Lizards and make millions!

And I would never plagiarized someone else's jokes..

LittleoldLoverly,

And Temple is in such a nice Neighborhood.

How ya doing sunshine. Butt heads with the Nasty one lately?

Iran protests Spain's finding Ahamadinejad's genocide remarks offensive.

Iran has summoned Spain's ambassador to express its protest over Madrid's reaction to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent remarks against Israel, semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Thursday.

Just another inconvenient truth

They're piling up.

Widow'smight,

Actually, I think it's a lot safer there now compared to when I went (back in the Dark Ages). The University owns a lot more North Philadelphia property.

Everyday is an adventure with meannastyteenager.

Tuesday she presented her Senior Project so it looks as though she'll graduate. ;-) Tomorrow is prom but I told her she can't go until she finishes her thank you notes for all the gifts she got.

Yeah, this is no doubt a head-butting day.

My favorite Miles quote: "Bad time is like death."

"Footprints" has a clear melody, which they play together at the beginning and at the end.

These guys were modernists. They weren't playing to indulge your taste for romantic melody and provide background music for your dinner. They were pushing the envelope, making a new kind of music.

Because they could. Because they were bored with doing the same thing.

Because they wanted to be free.

Al-Guardian recognizes Hamas 'government'

O.T.

Three guys get sent to Hell a American, a Israeli and a pali and the Satan says they get to make one phone call and are told the pay phone is down the hall. They all make there calls and are told the charges the American and Israeli calls cost $20 but the pali call costs him 25 cents. the two guys say whats up how come the arab gets a cheaper call and the satan says 'your calls are long distance but the call to gaza is a local call"

North Korea test-fires missiles

Hail Lizardia

Cable went down all day yesterday
I lost 3 big posts for my blog that I had spent a lot of hours on

call me a wahhhmbulance!

meantime

are the Turks in Kurdistan or not?
Depends who you read.

But now the Norks obviously perceive a good opportunity to stick it up our asses yet again

GEE
I wonder why the world perceives American weakness at the moment.

ladies it is June in Chicago I DON'T NEED NO F*** SOCKS.

only dorks were socks with sandals.

Sorry for this need to rant:

What is it about this "liberal" (or rather utterly selfish) society. I'm sitting in a crowded train car (most of the people sitting are men) and a very pregnant woman gets on. Not one of the men sitting so much as shifted. Now, I'm sorry, but my mother taught me manners. I gave her my seat.

Where are the real men in this society?

I just saw this. I can't believe there are such idiots around. These people can vote.

#226 BabbaZee 6/07/2007 4:52:31 am PDT

Condi rice will call for more talks.

ITALY: ALLEGED AL-QAEDA-LINKED MILITANTS ARRESTED IN MILAN

[Link: www.adnki.com...]

I got an email notification during the night that resistancemedia1 (down one thread) just posted 20 new videos. It looks like he's putting them back up as quickly as YouTube yanks them. I guess they've totally automated the process so that no human has to sit there and think, "Hmm, maybe I should terminate this account after 30 some removals?"

# 228 rin

The phrase "common courtesy" is a non sequiter.

Please not Peres!

#234 Mike C.

If this is the "global village" I think I'd rather be lost in the wilderness.

LittleoldLoverly,

Tuesday she presented her Senior Project so it looks as though she'll graduate. ;-) Tomorrow is prom but I told her she can't go until she finishes her thank you notes for all the gifts she got.

Yeah, this is no doubt a head-butting day.

My daughter's Macadamia is not a sore subject, but her prom date was a dolt. Fortunately for him, he didn't do anything stupid. She graduates tomorrow night, I'm beginning to realize she's not going to be around much after Mid August. She will be dearly missed. How about something to brighten your day?

[Link: farm2.static.flickr.com...]

# 236 Rin

You are. That's the sad part.

From a 1967 concert in Sweden, arguably the greatest jazz quintet ever—Miles Davis, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Herbie Hancock—performing Footprints.

What about Ron Paul?!?

If Ron Paul wasn't there, then it wasn't the greatest jazz quintet ever.

I'm sure that it was good but, without Paul, not the greatest...

~ENT

#228 rin 6/07/2007 4:58:54 am PDT

Sorry for this need to rant:

What is it about this "liberal" (or rather utterly selfish) society. I'm sitting in a crowded train car (most of the people sitting are men) and a very pregnant woman gets on. Not one of the men sitting so much as shifted. Now, I'm sorry, but my mother taught me manners. I gave her my seat.

Where are the real men in this society?

1. Iraq
2. Afghanistan
3. Florida (all elderly)
4. Dead

Babba Zee,

Cable went down all day yesterday
I lost 3 big posts for my blog that I had spent a lot of hours on

call me a wahhhmbulance!

That sucks. Don't you have some kind of autosave feature?

I've lost a couple of drafts, but now it saves automatically every couple of minutes.

Go wireless as a backup, or be at the mercy of the cable company.

#231 storagemanager
ya, more
Diplobabbling Whoredoms of DOOM
that's the ticket!

BBL

Immigration Bill Unraveling.

The Senate voted early Thursday to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually.

The 49-48 vote came two weeks after the Senate, also by a one-vote margin, rejected the same amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan. The North Dakota Democrat says immigrants take many jobs Americans could fill.

Lots more -- mostly collapses of various compromises.

/warning -- reading the story gives far too clear an indication of how sausage is made.

The Day We Took the Temple Back

40 years ago today, a miracle of gigantic proportions took place. 1900 years after being forced from Judaism's holiest city, the Jewish people were fully restored to our anicent capital.

What were the odds on such a thing? Most people can recover from an upset loss by their favorite team after a couple of days, except Red Sox fans over the Buckner botch, but Islamic world has still not recovered from this blow.

The Koran tells Muslims that all the world will fall to them and once a place becomes Muslim, it should stay that way forever. The collective heads of the Islamic world are still spinning from the insult and shame of being defeated by the scraggly remnant of the Jews, the people Islam thought they had defeated forever 1300 years previously.

The problem is the Jewish people didn't get the memo. Throughout the years of exile, we would finish our Seders and look to Jerusalem with hope.

On June 7th, 1967, General Motta Gur gave the order and the Israeli Army stormed into the city. This was second time the city had been taken from the East, the first time was by King David, every other time, Jerusalem was taken from the north.

The ancient ram's horn sounded in the city and the Jewish people awoke from two millenia of inferiority to utter joy: we stood once again in Jerusalem, as a free Jewish people, with our faith intact and our hearts restored. The nightmare was over.

Hebrew was once again spoken in prayer without fear of anything other than G-d not hearing the it.

1967 was a sea change of monumental proportions to the Jewish people and the world in which we live. The population of Israel has more than tripled since. Jerusalem's pull is too strong.

Even though the Arabists in the State Department refuse to ever admit Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, eventually, their knees too will bend as reality is a water that erodes all stone.

I know that when the Jews Jerusalem were restore to Jerusalem our enemies brians imploded from the shock and have never recovered.

But I also know that without Jerusalem the Jewsih people were not fully alive.

I could regale you with the story of the heorism it took to make this miracle but rather, I think it best to just be thankful for it.

The day calls. The mundane world is still there and there is work to do. But to the East is Jerusalem, a city, an idea, an ideal, holy and I sleep knowing there is a place there for all mankind, even me.

# 240 galloping granny

I respect the sentiment, but I disagree on the geographical limits. There are still gentlemen around, and be sure I'm raising my boys to be "real men." After all, their momma is a disciple of Harvey Mansfield. She uses The Prince as a parenting manual.

#241 JammieWearingFool

Hi Jams

Ya Blogger does the auto save now but BLOGGER also keeps messing up and reformatting my the posts so I dont work IN Blogger anymore, I work in my e-mail and then send the email to myself

Now I realize this is stupid, because I lost all 3 "create Mails" when the cable went out

One I had half saved to a DOC
Now I will do it all in DOCs first.

BTW I can never access the "add a page element" in the sidebars for Blogger but MAYBE once a week for a few minutes, this is also a PIA.

I really wish I were a computer geek, it would make this alot easier!

BBL

#215 JammieWearingFool 6/07/2007 4:28:30 am PDT

Morning folks,

Lynne Cheney is being floated as possible replacement for the late Wyoming Senator Craig Thomas.

A great idea, if only to see heads explode on the left.

I wish someone was floating Lynne Cheney for POTUS. The lady rocks in a very big way. Definitely outclasses and outthinks Mrs. Clinton!

#273 Widow'smight,

Hey! I have one of those, too. Mine is done blooming. So are the peonies. Now I have honeysuckle perfuming the yard.

Time to make the donuts...sigh.

Good day, ALL!™

Galloping Granny,

Where are the real men in this society?

We're here, it's required of us by our Wives and Moms! Liberalism takes away Manliness by making us think women aren't a special gift.

#244 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

If you have not ever heard this recording, listen to the Wall being taken 6/7/67 on the Tovia Singer radio show, I had posted it here

Amazing Recording...

NOW...
BBL

#245 Lucius Septimius 6/07/2007 5:27:32 am PDT

# 240 galloping granny

I respect the sentiment, but I disagree on the geographical limits. There are still gentlemen around, and be sure I'm raising my boys to be "real men." After all, their momma is a disciple of Harvey Mansfield. She uses The Prince as a parenting manual.

I was being just a little bit sarcastic. And I do agree that there are real gentlemen around here and there. Harder & harder to find though, at least in any great numbers.

244 Ayatollah Ghilmeini 6/07/2007 5:26:25 am PDT ...The day calls. The mundane world is still there and there is work to do. But to the East is Jerusalem, a city, an idea, an ideal, holy and I sleep knowing there is a place there for all mankind, even me.

Thank you...that post made my day.

Did Mr. Mike C post this awesome picture of flooding and a submerged McDonalds from Oman here yet?

# 240 galloping granny

I open doors and give up seats...I even say please and thank you.

# 253 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

What I want to see are the pictures of Rove and Cheney blowing up the levees in Oman.

39 Mutants "Disappear"

The usual suspects are whining.

Morning all!

# 251 g g

Those of us that were raised to behave like that are just getting old and dying off.

# 253 Ed

No. I don't have any way to post a picture here.

Good Morning Y'all from a hot (69 degrees, going up to 94 degrees) but sunny Charlotte!
I hope everyone is doing well this morning!
And, since I have to go get brekkie and have to BBIAM, here's something "special" for Y'll:

Just add water - students invent alcohol powder

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.

The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros ($1.35-$2).

Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.

"We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks," 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters.

Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour's drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project.

"Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16," said project member Martyn van Nierop.

The legal age for drinking alcohol and smoking is 16 in the Netherlands.

In Germany, alcopops -- sweet drinks containing alcohol and in powder form -- caused quite a stir when launched on to the market. Alcohol powder, classified as a flavoring, was sold in the United States three years ago.

The students said companies interested in making the product commercially could avoid taxes because the alcohol was in powder form. A number of companies are interested, they said.

[Link: today.reuters.com...]
Isn't it nice to see students not wasting their "higher" education? LOL!
BBIAM

World
U.S. intelligence chief says Russian spies at "Cold War levels

[Link: en.rian.ru...]

# 255 L S

Levees ? Hell, they don't even have storm drains !

#228 rin
#240 gallop

Where are the real men in this society?

Looking for their own socks.

259 realwest

"Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16," said project member Martyn van Nierop.

Gaaah! One more thing for those of us who are parents to worry about.

Good morning Lizards!

Thursday, finally... Almost to the weekend... Nice, cool morning here in the Big Apple...

I'm reading these stories about the 'immigration bill unraveling' and just can't follow all of it... The only thing I care about is whether this bill dies in the vote or not... It's Amnesty, it blows, end of story...

Boker tov, Lizardim.

The highlight of this clip for me is what the rhythm section is doing behind Wayne's solo. This was an awesome group.

I feel stupid, but can someone tell me what Boker tov means?

Good morn all off to work in a bit, just stopping in to say hello

thanos,

Very sad news from out your way. Broke my heart seeing the father speak last night.

#267 Thanos and
#268 JammieWearingFool Good Morning to Y'all!
Um, what happened out Thanos' way?

Well, I've got a 9:00 meeting.

Later Lizards!

I also like the 1969 Berlin clip of Miles with Chick Corea, Dave Holland & Don Moye.

YO BABBA! How are you this morning?

The Senate voted 51-46 to reject a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to bar criminals - including those ordered by judges to be deported - from gaining legal status.

[Link: apnews.myway.com...]
/Not ordering anyone to do anything, but read that nice and slowly and let it sink in for a second. Nice, huh?