Let’s Get Literal
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A very literal version of “Under the Bridge,” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
325 comments
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:29:20pm |
I love the Chili Peppers but that is some funny stuff right there!
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:31:00pm |
Why do I hear Olivia Newton-John when I read the thread title?
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:31:22pm |
"Is that Will Ferrell?" I think he should make a cameo in every single music video.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:33:45pm |
Heh, good one. The Chili Peppers were such a great band until they went into chick music.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:37:29pm |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
Heh, good one. The Chili Peppers were such a great band until they went into chick music.
I agree but have you checked out Stadium Arcadium, their most recent album? It is the first album that they have made since 1991 that is worth listening to. Although still can't touch the '80s stuff. But some great tunes regardless.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:38:27pm |
Am I correct in guessing that that's not supposed to mean anything?
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Sharmuta Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:38:55pm |
I like the Chili Peppers- I feel the song being spoofed here is their weakest song. Not really a fan of it, so I enjoyed the laugh.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:39:15pm |
Never a big fan of RHCP but I always loved that tune.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:39:22pm |
re: #14 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Am I correct in guessing that that's not supposed to mean anything?
correct, except for the hidden message if you play the clip backwards and run it through the universal translator
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Desert Dog Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:39:36pm |
re: #15 Sharmuta
I like the Chili Peppers- I feel the song being spoofed here is their weakest song. Not really a fan of it, so I enjoyed the laugh.
See them live, you will appreciate them much more....I hope the come to PHX again soon....
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CynicalConservative Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:40:46pm |
re: #18 sattv4u2
correct, except for the hidden message if you play the clip backwards and run it through the universal translator
Universal translator, pfffttt. Don't you have your Babel Fish?
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:41:03pm |
re: #13 freedombilly
I agree but have you checked out Stadium Arcadium, their most recent album? It is the first album that they have made since 1991 that is worth listening to. Although still can't touch the '80s stuff. But some great tunes regardless.
True that. Dani California is RHCP in good form. And by good form I mean not suitable as musak form, and carries some thunder form.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:41:17pm |
re: #18 sattv4u2
correct, except for the hidden message if you play the clip backwards and run it through the universal translator
I ran it thru the TFK decoder ring -- came up with gibberish.
/probably an improvement
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:41:58pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:42:54pm |
I'm so far away from Modern Music that I feel like I'm from another millennia
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Salem Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:43:22pm |
Oh jeez, they should have gotten a better singer. I could have done better.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:43:42pm |
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:44:07pm |
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Sharmuta Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:44:22pm |
re: #19 Desert Dog
See them live, you will appreciate them much more....I hope the come to PHX again soon....
Best band I ever saw live was probably Primus. (Though Morphine was a real kick in the pants too.)
Primus:
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Noam Sayin' Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:45:03pm |
You be the judge:
Cool bass-line, sure. But they seem to be missing something...
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:45:09pm |
The universe may be filled with Earth-like planets — worlds where extraterrestrials might flourish.
But these planets were once considered too small to spot, even with the latest in space technology.
Now, many astronomers believe NASA’s $600 million Kepler telescope, which is scheduled to shoot into space this week, will help to clear up the mystery.
. . .
Kepler, essentially a large light meter, does not photograph stars. It was designed to detect small changes in the brightness of a distant star when a planet as small as Mars makes a crossing, or transit.
/wouldn't it be a better use of our borrowed and printed money to just give Hamas the whole 1.5 billion?
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unclassifiable Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:45:32pm |
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lifeofthemind Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:45:51pm |
Wasn't there a Simpsons episode with them?
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:46:49pm |
re: #31 Sharmuta
Best band I ever saw live was probably Primus. (Though Morphine was a real kick in the pants too.)
Primus:
[Video]
Primus kicks all available ass! I love just about everything that Les Claypool has ever put out. I was at the first show of his band Oysterhead with Stewart Copeland and Trey Anastasio in New Orleans.
Long live Primus!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:47:06pm |
My personal fav, displaying the wacky percussion break in Breaking The Girl.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:47:16pm |
Dani California, live from 2006:
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:47:27pm |
re: #33 Killian Bundy
/wouldn't it be a better use of our borrowed and printed money to just give Hamas the whole 1.5 billion?
I think finding another planet is rapidly rising up the list of priorities.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:48:06pm |
Dani California was my favorite video of theirs. Especially for those of use who remember some of those videos (shudder) in the original.
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:48:29pm |
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unclassifiable Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:48:38pm |
re: #26 pre-Boomer Marine brat
You know what?
I really like the music "before my time".
I wish I could have seen just one Doors concert before Jim checked out.
And before that -- Buddy Holly.
And before that -- Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespe during the age of BeBop
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Stonemason Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:50:30pm |
too much time, too much leisure time.
We need to read some history.
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USCMSNE Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:50:33pm |
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unclassifiable Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:51:01pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:51:01pm |
No, speaking as a historian, if I could go back and catch one American artist, it would be Robert Johnson. The others would good, but recordings exist.
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Cognito Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:51:42pm |
Funny, funny.
I'm glad someone -- someone! -- finally acknowledged the argument I've had with my wife for years now: The Chili Peppers' drummer looks just like Will Ferrell.
And the line near the end, "I'm cold," made me laugh out loud.
Great video.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:51:51pm |
re: #40 JohnAdams
I think finding another planet is rapidly rising up the list of priorities.
Well, this one seems to be going to hell, so its not a bad idea.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:51:55pm |
Snoop Dogg joins Nation of Islam
Snoop Dogg has revealed he has joined the Nation of Islam after appearing at the religious group's annual Saviours' Day event in Chicago.
The rapper, who described himself as the "leader of the hip-hop community", told followers he would share what he learned with other musicians.
He told reporters that he joined the group because he was "doing what's right and representing what's right".
Well, that's a match made in heaven.
/he still gets to smoke dope, right?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:52:13pm |
re: #46 unclassifiable
You know what?
I really like the music "before my time".
I wish I could have seen just one Doors concert before Jim checked out.
And before that -- Buddy Holly.
And before that -- Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespe during the age of BeBop
Never saw Miles or Dizzy, but I did see the MJQ (mid-Sixties vintage), Cal Tjader and Cannonball Adderley.
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CynicalConservative Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:52:21pm |
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:52:31pm |
Hear I am yeeeahh,
I logged in ooohhh!
To see how all
The honcos are doing!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:53:34pm |
re: #59 jcm
Hear I am yeeeahh,
I logged in ooohhh!
To see how all
The honcos are doing!
I'm bored.
It's about modern music, and I quit listening to R&R before the Beatles.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:54:08pm |
re: #60 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I'm bored.
It's about modern music, and I quit listening to R&R before the Beatles.
:-)
Trying to see if I can agitate the thread.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:54:17pm |
Speaking of Mr. Claypool, a little live Oysterhead.
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unclassifiable Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:55:10pm |
re: #47 astronmr20
Well this is not musical.
More like just plain old olympic shredding.
Buckethead.
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:56:35pm |
re: #60 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I'm bored.
It's about modern music, and I quit listening to R&R before the Beatles.
Here's mud in your eye....
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Colonel Panik Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:56:43pm |
re: #33 Killian Bundy
The universe may be filled with Earth-like planets — worlds where extraterrestrials might flourish.
But these planets were once considered too small to spot, even with the latest in space technology.
Now, many astronomers believe NASA’s $600 million Kepler telescope, which is scheduled to shoot into space this week, will help to clear up the mystery.
. . .
Kepler, essentially a large light meter, does not photograph stars. It was designed to detect small changes in the brightness of a distant star when a planet as small as Mars makes a crossing, or transit.
Are they going to look at Zeta Reticuli with it?
LOL.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:58:12pm |
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lifeofthemind Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:01:33pm |
re: #54 Killian Bundy
Snoop Dogg joins Nation of Islam
Well, that's a match made in heaven.
/he still gets to smoke dope, right?
A jump the shark test for has beens.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:01:56pm |
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:03:05pm |
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:03:49pm |
Evening lizards.
{Sharmuta}
I had a bad day today. I could not stay indoors any longer. The bad part is whenever I leave the house, I spend money. I went to the video store, a consignment store and got a nifty sweater for $40 then to the art supply store to buy a sketch book $14. With economy tight I am staying away from the stores and nurturing my cheaper hobbies.
I am getting that feeling that I am coming down with my friend's cold. I ache all over. I wish mom were alive to read me a bedtime story and bring me warm milk.
Ps. I blew up that pic of Valerie Jarret and Michelle Obama in the White House kitchen. I heard they had a girls night. And I am sick of MO's arms.
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Desert Dog Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:04:40pm |
re: #69 pre-Boomer Marine brat
She played the ER head nurse on the Seventies' "Emergency"
I was a faithful watcher ... hoping (in vain) that she'd sing.
Her husband was Bobbie Troup, one of the Doctors on that show. Emergency! was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I wanted to be a Fireman or a Paramedic so bad.
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Salem Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:05:19pm |
re: #54 Killian Bundy
Snoop Dogg joins Nation of Islam
Well, that's a match made in heaven.
/he still gets to smoke dope, right?
I can imagine that relationship going sour.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:05:46pm |
I also like this one, Californication
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:06:22pm |
re: #54 Killian Bundy
Snoop Dogg joins Nation of Islam
Well, that's a match made in heaven.
/he still gets to smoke dope, right?
We discussed earlier that he'll have to change his name since dogs are haram.
I forgot who suggested "Snoop Goaty Goat" as a replacement.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:06:28pm |
re: #76 Salem
I can imagine that relationship going
sourup in smoke.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:07:26pm |
New Islamic mortgages now available in Minnesota
Islamic law does make exceptions to the ban on interest, if one's family is at stake. But the exceptions are open to interpretation and for many observant Muslims, conventional mortgages are strictly taboo.
Nawawi Sheikh is one of them. The Somali-American says he and his wife just couldn't go against their beliefs, even if it meant giving up their dream of owning a home. Still, he grew tired of moving from one rented apartment to another.
. . ..
Here's how the mortgage, known as Murabaha financing or "cost plus sale," works:
The state buys a home and resells it to the buyer at a higher price. The down payment and monthly installments are agreed to up front at current mortgage rates.
The deal is identical to a thirty-year fixed-rate loan, except there's no additional interest, because the higher up front price factors in payments that would have been made over the life of a traditional mortgage.
In other words, they're paying interest, it's just not called interest.
/but, instead of calling them on the farce, we just bend over for Sharia law so they don't have to assimilate
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lifeofthemind Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:08:34pm |
re: #54 Killian Bundy
Snoop Dogg joins Nation of Islam
Well, that's a match made in heaven.
/he still gets to smoke dope, right?
Picture him sitting for 45 minutes on an al-Jazeera green room couch next to Michael Jackson, there's a stimulating conversation for you.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:09:24pm |
re: #72 Afrocity
Make yourself some chamomile tea with a lot of lemon and a touch of honey and go to bed!
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:09:52pm |
And in honor of Phish returning this weekend (with freedombilly in attendance)
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Colonel Panik Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:10:38pm |
re: #72 Afrocity
Be careful, there is a nasty bug going around right now. It started for me with a throat tickle on the way back from Tucson a week ago Friday and by Sunday I had a raging sinus and upper respiratory infection. I thought I could fight it off but I finally gave in and went to the docs on Thursday.
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Cognito Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:10:42pm |
re: #80 Kosh's Shadow
We discussed earlier that he'll have to change his name since dogs are haram.
I forgot who suggested "Snoop Goaty Goat" as a replacement.
You guys are just cracking me up, tonight.
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unclassifiable Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:11:48pm |
The sax in the Morphine vid (Sharmuta's upthread) reminded me of this.
Romeo Void
Good night folks.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:11:51pm |
re: #74 Desert Dog
Her husband was Bobbie Troup, one of the Doctors on that show. Emergency! was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I wanted to be a Fireman or a Paramedic so bad.
Heh, my (then) 4-year-old daughter was MADLY in love with "Roy DeSoto".
I knew about Troup. Back in the early 50's, her career was sputtering. Troup was a bandleader, and took her under his wing. Her career went up like a skyrocket.
I hoped against hope that "Emergency" would have a New Years episode. Camera would follow Dixie McCall into the staff lounge, with the sound of a piano growing louder and louder. There would be Dr. Early at an old upright over in the corner. Nurse McCall would walk over, lean on the piano ... then ...
/AAUUGGHH, they NEVER DID IT!
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jaunte Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:12:01pm |
re: #89 wee fury
Very apropos. But now it's "if I had a thousand dollars."
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:12:03pm |
re: #89 wee fury
And buy really expensive catsups.
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LynnfromNZ Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:12:07pm |
Good one, thanks. That's a great Peps song, but it does lend itself to parody -- Weird Al's Bedrock Anthem was one of his more inspired videos.
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Cognito Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:12:59pm |
re: #82 Killian Bundy
New Islamic mortgages now available in Minnesota
In other words, they're paying interest, it's just not called interest.
/but, instead of calling them on the farce, we just bend over for Sharia law so they don't have to assimilate
I'd bet the APR comes out pretty much identical.
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:12:59pm |
re: #26 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I'm so far away from Modern Music that I feel like I'm from another millennia
Ha! Then I am from another planet.....
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:13:16pm |
re: #72 Afrocity
I empathize. Never in my life have I scrutinized every can of beans or tuna, every gallon of milk.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:13:49pm |
re: #84 Dianna
Okay, I have two of the three ingredients. You know I almost bought lemons on Sunday and I ended up with blackberries instead.
My produce weaknesses:
Lemons
Baking potatoes
cherries
watermelon
berries
avocados
pomegranates
asparagus
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Archimedes Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:14:00pm |
The tune is pretty substandard .... though. I mean, hey, change it up a bit, would you?
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lifeofthemind Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:14:00pm |
re: #82 Killian Bundy
New Islamic mortgages now available in Minnesota
In other words, they're paying interest, it's just not called interest.
/but, instead of calling them on the farce, we just bend over for Sharia law so they don't have to assimilate
Read closer "the State buys the house" so politics is involved, in theory they buy it at market and resell it at market plus the value of the interest but you and I know that once politicians get involved strange things happen. There will be pressure to lower the price paid by the favored sharia recipient and the prices paid by the state will either be inflated or if deflated to look good there will be other favors and costs extracted. Corruption opportunities on both ends of this deal with more bailouts needed as it goes broke.
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Dustyvet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:14:46pm |
re: #91 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Heh, my (then) 4-year-old daughter was MADLY in love with "Roy DeSoto".
I knew about Troup. Back in the early 50's, her career was sputtering. Troup was a bandleader, and took her under his wing. Her career went up like a skyrocket.
I hoped against hope that "Emergency" would have a New Years episode. Camera would follow Dixie McCall into the staff lounge, with the sound of a piano growing louder and louder. There would be Dr. Early at an old upright over in the corner. Nurse McCall would walk over, lean on the piano ... then ...
/AAUUGGHH, they NEVER DID IT!
Troup was the jeep driver in the M*A*S*H* movie. "G** Damn Army!"
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:14:47pm |
re: #91 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Heh, my (then) 4-year-old daughter was MADLY in love with "Roy DeSoto".
I knew about Troup. Back in the early 50's, her career was sputtering. Troup was a bandleader, and took her under his wing. Her career went up like a skyrocket.
I hoped against hope that "Emergency" would have a New Years episode. Camera would follow Dixie McCall into the staff lounge, with the sound of a piano growing louder and louder. There would be Dr. Early at an old upright over in the corner. Nurse McCall would walk over, lean on the piano ... then ...
/AAUUGGHH, they NEVER DID IT!
While Emergency was running, my VFD was District 5, and I was at station 1......
I was a on real engine 51.....
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:15:57pm |
re: #91 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Heh, my (then) 4-year-old daughter was MADLY in love with "Roy DeSoto".
I knew about Troup. Back in the early 50's, her career was sputtering. Troup was a bandleader, and took her under his wing. Her career went up like a skyrocket.
I hoped against hope that "Emergency" would have a New Years episode. Camera would follow Dixie McCall into the staff lounge, with the sound of a piano growing louder and louder. There would be Dr. Early at an old upright over in the corner. Nurse McCall would walk over, lean on the piano ... then ...
/AAUUGGHH, they NEVER DID IT!
LOL! You should have written them about your idea.
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Cognito Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:16:02pm |
re: #101 Afrocity
Okay, I have two of the three ingredients. You know I almost bought lemons on Sunday and I ended up with blackberries instead.
My produce weaknesses: ...
My list is almost identical:
Lemonheads
Irish potatoes
Maraschino cherries...
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lifeofthemind Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:16:20pm |
re: #94 LynnfromNZ
Good one, thanks. That's a great Peps song, but it does lend itself to parody -- Weird Al's Bedrock Anthem was one of his more inspired videos.
Loved weird Al's take on "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, "Like a Surgeon" and the time they raffled off his car on MTV.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:16:41pm |
re: #99 JohnAdams
I empathize. Never in my life have I scrutinized every can of beans or tuna, every gallon of milk.
If I am mistaken wasn't Campbell's soup the cheapest thing you can buy at one time? My store sells Chicken noodle 3 for $5. I feel guilty for buying bagged salad greens. I did save $15 this week by using coupons.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:16:56pm |
re: #103 lifeofthemind
Read closer "the State buys the house" so politics is involved, in theory they buy it at market and resell it at market plus the value of the interest but you and I know that once politicians get involved strange things happen. There will be pressure to lower the price paid by the favored sharia recipient and the prices paid by the state will either be inflated or if deflated to look good there will be other favors and costs extracted. Corruption opportunities on both ends of this deal with more bailouts needed as it goes broke.
Sharia and Socialism...the Perfect Storm.
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lifeofthemind Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:17:59pm |
re: #110 Afrocity
If I am mistaken wasn't Campbell's soup the cheapest thing you can buy at one time? My store sells Chicken noodle 3 for $5. I feel guilty for buying bagged salad greens. I did save $15 this week by using coupons.
Find 5 friends and shop at Costco but it just doesn't work if you shop for one.
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:18:00pm |
re: #104 pre-Boomer Marine brat
;)
I am now seriously depressed; Leno is on at 10 PM....it just is not the same.
NBC will regret this, I bet, but it will be too late. As for Conan? Feh.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:18:32pm |
re: #109 lifeofthemind
Loved weird Al's take on "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, "Like a Surgeon" and the time they raffled off his car on MTV.
His "Jurassic Park" is a classic, as is "Smells Like.. Nirvana"
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:18:53pm |
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:19:20pm |
re: #87 Colonel Panik
Be careful, there is a nasty bug going around right now. It started for me with a throat tickle on the way back from Tucson a week ago Friday and by Sunday I had a raging sinus and upper respiratory infection. I thought I could fight it off but I finally gave in and went to the docs on Thursday.
Sh!t. Mine sounds exactly like that. The left side of my throat tickles and my nose is running, plus I have a general "ick" feeling.
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:19:39pm |
re: #113 NY Nana
Boy, do I need a night's sleep! It is not the new Leno show..a repeat, and it is 12:19 AM here.
See, I am so sleep deprived that I am talking to myself!
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:19:46pm |
re: #111 JohnAdams
Sharia and Socialism...the Perfect Storm.
A brief history of the financial collapse.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:20:39pm |
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Dustyvet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:20:51pm |
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:21:13pm |
re: #110 Afrocity
If I am mistaken wasn't Campbell's soup the cheapest thing you can buy at one time? My store sells Chicken noodle 3 for $5. I feel guilty for buying bagged salad greens. I did save $15 this week by using coupons.
In truth and despite the present down economy, the one thing you can do is eat very healthy and very cheaply if you shop the right stores and are willing to cook. Plus, it occupies your time and your mind ;~)
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Silvergirl Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:21:15pm |
re: #89 wee fury
I couldn't get the YouTube to play, but there's a great kid's CD by Barenaked Ladies. The kids love it and it's not one you feel like destroying after you've heard it endlessly. Odd title, Snack Time, but fun music.
If you scroll down the page at Amazon, you can click preview all.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:21:52pm |
re: #101 Afrocity
Okay, I have two of the three ingredients. You know I almost bought lemons on Sunday and I ended up with blackberries instead.
My produce weaknesses:
Lemons
Baking potatoes
cherries
watermelon
berries
avocados
pomegranates
asparagus
Do not get me started! I'm writing a library scene; if I get distracted talking about fruits and veg, my scene will have to wait for tomorrow night.
Actually, it might have to wait for tomorrow night anyway. My brain's turning to mush.
All berries are heavenly. I love apple varieties: pippins, pink ladies, granny smith, macintosh...melons can be wonderful, avocados ought to be regulated...you get my drift? Ooooh, and those amazing brown pears. Or the red ones....
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:22:42pm |
re: #115 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Now we're talking! I had the privilege of seeing Lionel Hampton perform at the 2000 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. I was sitting front row, dead center. He had to be walked to the front of the stage by two people. It took him almost two minutes to get in place and then he proceeded to absolutely kick the place's ass.
Amazing day.
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Archimedes Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:22:55pm |
I thought this was an excellent speech by a guy named Dan Edge at the New York Tea Party:
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:23:40pm |
re: #108 Cognito
My list is almost identical:
Lemonheads
Irish potatoes
Maraschino cherries...
I sent Reine a recipe involving potatoes, beets, and onions, roasted.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:24:18pm |
re: #116 jaunte
Under Pressure
[Video]
I have no sound, so I hope you're linking my beloved Freddie and Bowie.
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CynicalConservative Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:25:27pm |
Might be appropriate....
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:26:22pm |
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Silvergirl Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:26:31pm |
re: #127 Dianna
Do not get me started! I'm writing a library scene; if I get distracted talking about fruits and veg, my scene will have to wait for tomorrow night.
Was it Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick?
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:26:48pm |
re: #127 Dianna
Do not get me started! I'm writing a library scene; if I get distracted talking about fruits and veg, my scene will have to wait for tomorrow night.
Actually, it might have to wait for tomorrow night anyway. My brain's turning to mush.
All berries are heavenly. I love apple varieties: pippins, pink ladies, granny smith, macintosh...melons can be wonderful, avocados ought to be regulated...you get my drift? Ooooh, and those amazing brown pears. Or the red ones....
You know I have never been a fresh apple person. I love apple pie, and taffy apples but get me to eat one plain...never. We have a place in Chicago that makes the best taffy apples. The only thing is, he changes apples with the season. April-Sept, is granny smith which is IMHO the best for taffy apples. Oct-april, red delicious, which I hate as taffy apples.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:27:03pm |
re: #133 jaunte
That's the one. :-)
I love Freddie. I cried harder when I heard he'd died than I've ever cried over any public figure. I was embarrassed about it, but every time I listen to Queen, I remember the joy he gave.
I never met him, but I loved him.
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Archimedes Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:27:25pm |
I'm starting to thing Adobe Flash bogs down my computer. Often when I play a flash video I get this giant reduction in speed. Or it could be Ajax processing in the background on facebook and little green footballs. Something is amiss.
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jaunte Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:27:29pm |
re: #131 Dianna
weefury's link at 89; Barenaked ladies was doing a riff on the Freddie Mercury style.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:27:34pm |
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:28:35pm |
re: #137 Afrocity
Red delicious is anything but! It's mealy and watery and nasty.
You know D. H. Lawrence's poem about apples, right?
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Archimedes Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:28:45pm |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:28:49pm |
re: #138 Dianna
I love Freddie. I cried harder when I heard he'd died than I've ever cried over any public figure. I was embarrassed about it, but every time I listen to Queen, I remember the joy he gave.
I never met him, but I loved him.
I have to like a group that wrote a song about relativistic time dilation.
39
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:29:01pm |
/Emergency!
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:29:08pm |
re: #122 pre-Boomer Marine brat
That was real music! Thank you!
I was born before WWII...and still have the old .78 records.
But this one, though newer? Those really were the days..
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:29:21pm |
re: #140 jaunte
weefury's link at 89; Barenaked ladies was doing a riff on the Freddie Mercury style.
Amateurs!
/
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:30:04pm |
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:30:11pm |
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jaunte Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:30:42pm |
"Carol Brown" [Choir of Ex Girlfriends] - Flight of the Conchords
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:30:45pm |
re: #121 jcm
A brief history of the financial collapse.
Pretty powerful. Is that recent? It's good medicine for the "Blame Bush" and "there was no government oversight" liberal arguments.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:30:47pm |
re: #142 Dianna
Red delicious is anything but! It's mealy and watery and nasty.
You know D. H. Lawrence's poem about apples, right?
No. I am familiar with "After Apple Picking" by Frost.
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stevieray Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:30:53pm |
Have a few brews... play the blues. Good times with old friends.
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swamprat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:31:04pm |
re: #110 Afrocity
If you can sleep while over heated and sweating, you will break most fevers and colds...Three aspirins, a cup of tea, then sleep in your sweats with the blankets piled on.
Usually works for me.
When I am "between jobs" luxuries are
Mcdonalds $1 double cheeseburger
Thirft store (I do stuff, not clothes)
Obscure coffee shop where I can drink cheap and hang out as if I bought a $5 latte
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:31:14pm |
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:31:20pm |
re: #151 JohnAdams
Pretty powerful. Is that recent? It's good medicine for the "Blame Bush" and "there was no government oversight" liberal arguments.
Last Sept. 24 IIRC.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:31:59pm |
re: #106 jcm
While Emergency was running, my VFD was District 5, and I was at station 1......
I was a on real engine 51.....
We got my daughter a huge Tonka ladder truck. You can imagine her glee.
A year later, we took her to the nearby fire station to see the REAL engines. A firefighter was showing her (mommy & daddy too) around the ladder truck, when the kid asks ... "Wher th turner ting?"
Mom had to translate for the baffled firefighter. Her Tonka engine had a crank on the side, for extending the ladder. She didn't see one on the one in the firehouse.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:33:42pm |
re: #146 NY Nana
I knew that you're pre-war. That's why I figured on taking a wild shot re: Goodman.
heh ... DAMN, we had MUSIC back then!
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:33:44pm |
re: #142 Dianna
Red delicious is anything but! It's mealy and watery and nasty.
You know D. H. Lawrence's poem about apples, right?
Please share. Have not ready any D.H. Lawrence since college but he was deep!
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:34:05pm |
re: #149 Dianna
That's Brian May, who has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics.
I like 39 very much. I've called it one of the very few science fiction songs that actually works.
And I have an idea for a science fiction series where 39 would be a great theme song.
Since getting a TV show made by someone with no connection to Hollywierd is difficult to impossible, I'm writing a short story based on it. Maybe more stories will follow.
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:34:46pm |
re: #157 pre-Boomer Marine brat
We got my daughter a huge Tonka ladder truck. You can imagine her glee.
A year later, we took her to the nearby fire station to see the REAL engines. A firefighter was showing her (mommy & daddy too) around the ladder truck, when the kid asks ... "Wher th turner ting?"
Mom had to translate for the baffled firefighter. Her Tonka engine had a crank on the side, for extending the ladder. She didn't see one on the one in the firehouse.
LOL!
Kids touring the firehouse was always a favorite thing.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:35:53pm |
re: #128 freedombilly
I would have LOVED to see Hamp, especially from that close.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:38:38pm |
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:39:17pm |
re: #152 Afrocity
No. I am familiar with "After Apple Picking" by Frost.
Oh. Here:
Mystic
They call all experience of the senses mystic, when the experience is
considered.
So an apple becomes mystic when I taste in it
the summer and the snows, the wild welter of earth
and the insistence of the sun.All of which things I can surely taste in a good apple.
Though some apples taste preponderantly of water, wet and sour
and some of too much sun, brackish sweet
like lagoon water, that has been too much sunned.If I say I taste these things in an apple, I am called mystic, which
means a liar.
The only way to eat an apple is to hog it down like a pig
and taste nothing
that is real.But if I eat an apple, I like to eat it with all my senses awake.
Hogging it down I call the feeding of corpses.--D. H. Lawrence
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:39:28pm |
Does Hannity really have Lou Holtz on his "Great American Panel"?
/ranks right up there with Jillian Barberie the other night
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:39:46pm |
re: #155 freedombilly
I thought that tune was by Vanilla Ice?
/
No, he stole the opening. Which is Freddie on piano.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:40:41pm |
re: #161 JohnAdams
Please share. Have not ready any D.H. Lawrence since college but he was deep!
It took me a minute, but I found it.
I love that poem. It's about five posts above this one.
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swamprat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:41:22pm |
Not big band,not country. WWII instrumental
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jaunte Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:41:49pm |
re: #169 Dianna
When my oldest daughter was much younger, she was a Vanilla Ice fan, and I had the pleasure of showing her where he stole those notes.
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Dark_Falcon Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:41:57pm |
re: #169 Dianna
No, he stole the opening. Which is Freddie on piano.
Freddie was quite a talent. RIP
Goodnight all.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:42:55pm |
re: #162 Kosh's Shadow
And I have an idea for a science fiction series where 39 would be a great theme song.
Since getting a TV show made by someone with no connection to Hollywierd is difficult to impossible, I'm writing a short story based on it. Maybe more stories will follow.
I'm bluing my nic. Share!
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jaunte Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:43:00pm |
re: #172 jaunte
When my oldest daughter was much younger, she was a Vanilla Ice fan, and I had the pleasure of showing her where he stole those notes.
...and she's loved 'Under Pressure' ever since.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:43:04pm |
re: #164 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I saw him in the Jazz Tent at New Orleans Jazzfest. The place was completely full so I was actually sitting on the ground in front of the first row. I could basically touch the marimba. That was one of the moments in life where even those I was relatively young and stupid I took a pretty thorough mental snapshot and had a big, dumb smile on my face.
I knew just enough to know I wouldn't find myself in too many positions like that in life. And the dichotomy of him barely being able to walk and simply playing his ass off was truly a sight to see.
Wish you were there!
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:45:15pm |
re: #172 jaunte
When my oldest daughter was much younger, she was a Vanilla Ice fan, and I had the pleasure of showing her where he stole those notes.
I hope your demonstration improved her taste!
"I want it All!" is one of the great performances, for instance.
"It's not much I'm asking," I heard him say:
"Gotta find me a future, get outta my way!"
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:46:25pm |
re: #169 Dianna
No, he stole the opening. Which is Freddie on piano.
Don't you remember that precious Vanilla Ice interview? He explained that since he (actually his writers and producers) added an extra eighth note pick up between the first and second measures of that base riff it was original. Hearing him sing the two versions on that MTV interview defending himself on an intellectual level was absolutely priceless.
They didn't even change the key. Talk about dishonest and lazy.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:48:03pm |
Hey y'all - sorry I'm late tonight but it took me a while to comprehend that I can't fix a microwave oven.
How is everyone? Any one get the stick?
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:49:22pm |
re: #179 realwest
RW! How the hell are you feeling these days? It has been forever since I've run into you around here.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:49:41pm |
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:50:11pm |
re: #169 Dianna
I haven't checked up on your best friend's health recently. How is she doing?
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teleskiguy Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:50:52pm |
As long as we're talking about music...here's Frank Zappa.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:51:20pm |
re: #181 Dianna
I had no idea.
I just dismissed the theft as very, very low class.
It was! But the best part was him trying to defend it by singing these two identical parts. Oh I wish I could find a clip of that interview.
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:51:52pm |
re: #160 pre-Boomer Marine brat
DAMN, we had MUSIC back then!
Did we ever! And we could actually hear the lyrics. Ahhh, it was a very different world....even during the war.
I adored Bob Hope, and he did more for the troops with his USO trips....
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:52:21pm |
re: #182 freedombilly
I haven't checked up on your best friend's health recently. How is she doing?
Very well. She's lost rather a lot of weight - all good - and is coming down regularly for weekend hikes and (when the weather improves) bike rides.
I hope she's being sensible about work! I can't tell, and it worries me, but I think that she's cut back to one job.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:53:01pm |
re: #180 freedombilly
Hey Howdy freedombilly - yeah it's been awhile - I've been keeping awfully busy and not feeling all that great either, though I do appear to be getting better!
How are y'all doing?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:53:19pm |
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capitalist piglet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:54:09pm |
re: #186 NY Nana
Did we ever! And we could actually hear the lyrics. Ahhh, it was a very different world....even during the war.
I adored Bob Hope, and he did more for the troops with his USO trips....
My dad was a Navy corpsman in WWII, but he also played guitar in shows with Bob Hope and others. Bob Hope was a great man.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:54:30pm |
re: #176 freedombilly
I saw him in the Jazz Tent at New Orleans Jazzfest. The place was completely full so I was actually sitting on the ground in front of the first row. I could basically touch the marimba. That was one of the moments in life where even those I was relatively young and stupid I took a pretty thorough mental snapshot and had a big, dumb smile on my face.
I knew just enough to know I wouldn't find myself in too many positions like that in life. And the dichotomy of him barely being able to walk and simply playing his ass off was truly a sight to see.
Wish you were there!
I am (AM) glad you saw it.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:55:20pm |
re: #170 Dianna
It took me a minute, but I found it.
I love that poem. It's about five posts above this one.
"Hogging it down." Cool.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:56:05pm |
Okay this is for everyone on the thread, the young and the old. Here is a clip of Vanilla Ice talking about crack AND singing some Bing Crosby.
You can't make this stuff up.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:56:24pm |
re: #191 jaunte
What's happened to your sound?
Fedora.
I can have music from my library, but I can't play youtube.
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thefarmer Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:57:52pm |
Just wanted to thanks for you all being here. Helps me feel sane. Other than the wife and a few friends, I think the rest around me are insane, buying this BS as Obama works his "magic".
Do you all buy this 60% approval rating? In a few weeks he's gone a long way to creating interminable problems for the far future.
T
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:58:32pm |
re: #196 Dianna
Hey hi Dianna! Why can't y'all play Youtube?
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:59:10pm |
re: #194 JohnAdams
"Hogging it down." Cool.
I recall the line as, "Hogging it down like a pig I call the feeding of corpses." Which isn't as cited in the poem. I sometimes do add things if I feel the author made a mistake...but that's just me.
I was actively shocked that I couldn't find it in the D.H. Lawrence collection; I found The Mystic Blue, and of course Elephants Mate Slowly, but not Mystic.
It bothers me.
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jaunte Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:59:14pm |
re: #196 Dianna
Some people on this forum are talking about fixes:
[Link: fedoraforum.org...]
[Link: thilinavithanage.blogspot.com...]
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:00:05pm |
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:00:15pm |
re: #188 realwest
Well keep busy and keep feeling better. That's an order. And you should be very scared of the Red Sox bullpen this year :)
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:01:03pm |
Anyone know the name of the song by Jason Mraz (sp?) that is a hit recently, and which he did on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago? Just heard it in the grocery store tonight and I love that song. It is so happy. I must be getting soft...at heart I am a Dylan devotee but I confess and certain affection for John Mayer and now this Jason Mraz tune.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:01:32pm |
re: #200 jaunte
Some people on this forum are talking about fixes:
[Link: fedoraforum.org...][Link: thilinavithanage.blogspot.com...]
I'm not technical. I shall refer it to my Male.
Of course, he may not enable it, just because it was via youtube that I got most horribly virused last time. It was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right....
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:01:42pm |
re: #196 Dianna
Fedora.
I can have music from my library, but I can't play youtube.
Well, take th' stupid hat OFF of th' squirrel's ears!
/sheesh, th' solution's so OBVIOUS!
*duck and run like hell*
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swamprat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:02:03pm |
re: #190 pre-Boomer Marine brat Guy told me he heard it in the military ...I made a guess because of his age....I still like it, and think it was a little "before its time".
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:02:04pm |
re: #179 realwest
Hey y'all - sorry I'm late tonight but it took me a while to comprehend that I can't fix a microwave oven.
How is everyone? Any one get the stick?
Realign the cavitron, flash the eeprom, reconnect the primary alternating current supply and you should be good to go.
;-P
How ya' doing Real?
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:02:33pm |
re: #197 thefarmer
I saw someone out here posted a poll (by Gallup, iirc) that said Obama's approval ratings have dropped 14 points since he took office.
The American People aren't quite as dumb as Obama is and if Obama REALLY is trying to drive the US economy down further, on the theory that he can then come riding along on his trusty Unicorn and waive his hands and make it all better , then he's dumber than a fricking brick.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:03:00pm |
re: #205 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Well, take th' stupid hat OFF of th' squirrel's ears!
/sheesh, th' solution's so OBVIOUS!
*duck and run like hell*
*opens the violin case, gently, precisely, unsnapping the clasps just so*
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:03:04pm |
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:03:37pm |
re: #201 Dianna
Huh, y'all can't play YouTube cause of your hat?!?
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:03:56pm |
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rawmuse Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:04:39pm |
I put a frozen muffin in my microwave a couple days ago and hit the wrong button, cook instead of defrost. Wow, that bugga went flash, bang, pop and I opened the door, smoke poured out, set off my alarm, my pets went all apey on me. What a mess.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:04:39pm |
re: #197 thefarmer
Just wanted to thanks for you all being here. Helps me feel sane. Other than the wife and a few friends, I think the rest around me are insane, buying this BS as Obama works his "magic".
Do you all buy this 60% approval rating? In a few weeks he's gone a long way to creating interminable problems for the far future.
T
I can relate. It is a shitstorm of "Change TM" and can be very discouraging without a community to vent with.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:05:17pm |
re: #202 freedombilly
Hey - I am scared of the Bosox bullpen since it looks like we're gonna be facing it a LOT this year!
;)'
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:06:24pm |
re: #207 jcm
Realign the cavitron, flash the eeprom, reconnect the primary alternating current supply and you should be good to go.
;-P
How ya' doing Real?
There you go again, tellin' people to flash their eeproms.
*gasp*
Realwest, DONNNN'TTTT
euuwwwww!
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:06:28pm |
re: #215 rawmuse
I put a frozen muffin in my microwave a couple days ago and hit the wrong button, cook instead of defrost. Wow, that bugga went flash, bang, pop and I opened the door, smoke poured out, set off my alarm, my pets went all apey on me. What a mess.
Don't ever do that with an egg.
Trust me, it's a bad thing. It doesn't rise to the level of being a Bad Thing, certainly not a BAD THING, but certainly very messy.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:06:28pm |
re: #217 realwest
Damn that was a good comeback. I've got nothing. And you can ask my wife how often I'm speechless.
rw 1
fb 0
DOH!
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:07:28pm |
re: #219 Dianna
Don't ever do that with an egg.
Trust me, it's a bad thing. It doesn't rise to the level of being a Bad Thing, certainly not a BAD THING, but certainly very messy.
Oh, and I forgot: it's loud. Very loud.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:07:32pm |
re: #207 jcm I done did all of that and it still won't work. Damnit.
I'm doing ok my friend - really, really sad to hear about Washington State and Orgeon greenlighting assisted suicide though.
Course I DO understand the side that wan'ts physician assisted suicide but it still doesn't set well with me.
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capitalist piglet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:07:38pm |
re: #197 thefarmer
Just wanted to thanks for you all being here. Helps me feel sane. Other than the wife and a few friends, I think the rest around me are insane, buying this BS as Obama works his "magic".
Do you all buy this 60% approval rating? In a few weeks he's gone a long way to creating interminable problems for the far future.
T
It is my understanding that a 60% approval rating for this time period (a few weeks after taking office) isn't at all unusual; in fact, it might be a few points lower than some other recent presidents had soon after being inaugurated.
Still higher than he should have, if you ask me.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:07:38pm |
re: #209 Dianna
*opens the violin case, gently, precisely, unsnapping the clasps just so*
*runs screaming outdoors and down the street, desperate to escape*
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swamprat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:08:42pm |
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Maximu§ Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:08:59pm |
Anyone watch "24" tonight?
Jack Bauer tortured a liberal Senators aide who was feeding information to terrorists. Now thats entertainment!
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Gretchen Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:09:53pm |
re: #208 realwest
I'm not sure the plan is to allow it to come back. He's destroying the whole system long-term. It's hard to come up with an other explaination, he's not stupid. He and the rest of the political class will continue to party at our expense and make the rest of the electorate poor and dependent on government. There will be no money left to stop him. He can't borrow these deficits, Japan and China don't have the money. He'll print Obama bucks, and inflation will set in. He's harming not only the stock market but by reducing deductions he'll further harm the housing markets and charities so no one will have assets or any where to turn but Daddy Obama.
This is frightening.
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:10:38pm |
re: #222 realwest
I done did all of that and it still won't work. Damnit.
I'm doing ok my friend - really, really sad to hear about Washington State and Orgeon greenlighting assisted suicide though.
Course I DO understand the side that wan'ts physician assisted suicide but it still doesn't set well with me.
If it's older one the cavitron (microwave emitter) could have died.
Maybe after Obama implodes liberalism for the next 50 years we can roll some of that stuff back.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:10:44pm |
re: #213 swamprat
Um, what? "We're there. So save already!" ?
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capitalist piglet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:10:53pm |
re: #222 realwest
I done did all of that and it still won't work. Damnit.
I'm doing ok my friend - really, really sad to hear about Washington State and Orgeon greenlighting assisted suicide though.
Course I DO understand the side that wan'ts physician assisted suicide but it still doesn't set well with me.
I live in Washington and I voted no on it. I just don't like the slippery slope, especially with socialized health care rearing its ugly head.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:10:53pm |
re: #222 realwest
I done did all of that and it still won't work. Damnit.
I'm doing ok my friend - really, really sad to hear about Washington State and Orgeon greenlighting assisted suicide though.
Course I DO understand the side that wan'ts physician assisted suicide but it still doesn't set well with me.
It doesn't sit well with the disabled, the elderly, or anyone with a lick of sense.
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:11:06pm |
re: #192 capitalist piglet
My dad was a Navy corpsman in WWII, but he also played guitar in shows with Bob Hope and others. Bob Hope was a great man.
G-d bless your Dad for his service...he must have been quite a guitar player to play in those shows.
Bob Hope? I cannot say enough about him. Sad. There are no more Bob Hope-style comedians. He did it so naturally. it was as if he wasn't even working.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:11:08pm |
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:11:38pm |
re: #225 swamprat
My only problem with reggae is that I have about a two song threshold for it. But nobody does it better than the master, Mr. Marley. He was quite a musical storyteller.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:12:11pm |
re: #230 capitalist piglet
I live in Washington and I voted no on it. I just don't like the slippery slope, especially with socialized health care rearing its ugly head.
Very sensible of you.
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Gretchen Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:12:49pm |
re: #226 Maximu§
I loved when the senator claimed the whole hostage sistation was jack's fault. Typical.
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rawmuse Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:13:03pm |
re: #219 Dianna
I cook eggs in the microwave, scrambled, with cheese, in a ceramic bowl.
That works ok, if the eggs are out of their shells.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:13:21pm |
re: #223 capitalist piglet
Hey capitalist piglet - I'm still in shock that he's President Obama!
How are you doing tonight?
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capitalist piglet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:13:25pm |
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capitalist piglet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:14:12pm |
re: #239 realwest
Hey capitalist piglet - I'm still in shock that he's President Obama!
How are you doing tonight?
I'm doing all right, considering the liberal spitstorm we're all standing in the middle of.
How are you, my friend?
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swamprat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:14:17pm |
re: #229 realwest
Um, what? "We're there. So save already!" ?
on the theory that he can then come riding along on his trusty Unicorn and waive his hands and make it all better , then he's dumber than a fricking brick.
Make it better, Obama, It's bad enough now, You don't have to drive the economy down, ANY FURTHER, we are ready to be saved!
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:14:19pm |
re: #226 Maximu§
Anyone watch "24" tonight?
Jack Bauer tortured a liberal Senators aide who was feeding information to terrorists. Now thats entertainment!
Not a senator who looks like Chuckie Schumckie?
I'm disappointed!
/
Holder ruled water boarding is torture. I wonder what the guys in SERE school think, after getting boarded as part of the training.
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swamprat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:15:23pm |
they like it when I am awake at work, so good night
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:15:32pm |
re: #238 rawmuse
I cook eggs in the microwave, scrambled, with cheese, in a ceramic bowl.
That works ok, if the eggs are out of their shells.
I did mean "do not stick a whole egg in the microwave." I learned that the hard way.
Seriously, it woke the neighbor. Granted, I was living in a victorian at the time, and the walls were thin. But still, it was really loud. And very, very messy.
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Gretchen Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:15:36pm |
re: #228 jcm
That will be tough, he'll have new Obamatized census numbers, and new redistricting. Plus a ton of ACORN cash in the "stimulus" to be disbursed around 2010.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:17:17pm |
re: #243 jcm
Not a senator who looks like Chuckie Schumckie?
I'm disappointed!
/Holder ruled water boarding is torture. I wonder what the guys in SERE school think, after getting boarded as part of the training.
We (the US) have called it torture in the past.
I am not apt to complain about this one.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:19:39pm |
re: #227 Gretchen
I'm not sure the plan is to allow it to come back. He's destroying the whole system long-term. It's hard to come up with an other explaination, he's not stupid. He and the rest of the political class will continue to party at our expense and make the rest of the electorate poor and dependent on government. There will be no money left to stop him. He can't borrow these deficits, Japan and China don't have the money. He'll print Obama bucks, and inflation will set in. He's harming not only the stock market but by reducing deductions he'll further harm the housing markets and charities so no one will have assets or any where to turn but Daddy Obama.
This is frightening.
I think we're all dazed and unable to comprehend the magnitude of what you are saying, but that of course does not mean that you are wrong! As Rush Limbaugh pointed out over the weekend, these guys are proposing more spending than everything the US government has spent from the Revolution until the One's inauguration. And they appear to be doing it with a sense of urgency, as though they were under the cover of night. And they seem resolute. Whatever their agenda is, it is not something more than a very small few are in on. It is a gamble of unimaginable proportions.
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IslandLibertarian Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:20:14pm |
re: #248 TheMatrix31
24 was INcredible tonight.
Time Zone challenged here............
the Africans just invaded a White House with a Hillary Clinton lookalike president.
Go figure..........
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:20:14pm |
re: #227 Gretchen Well I understand what you're saying (although I DO think he's truly ignorant if not outright Stupid) but bringing the whole system down won't help HIM. Folks under your scenario would, I suppose out of necessity, turn to Big Daddy Obama, but he won't be able to help them. Seriously, even with owning the printing presses, folks won't have enought to eat, be able to heat their homes in winter or cool them off in summer nor go to places where they want to go to and what does that gain Obama, other than a truly PISSED OFF populace.
It's sometimes hard to remember in this Leftists vs Republican political world, but it WAS the fringe left, the MSM and dubious sources of money that got him where he is, but they CAN'T keep him there.
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thefarmer Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:22:11pm |
re: #216 JohnAdams
I can relate. It is a shitstorm of "Change TM" and can be very discouraging without a community to vent with.
And you have a great nick here. Imagine the shitstorm that patriot had to deal with.
We WILL survive this...what does he describe himself as...we are the hope you have been waiting for? Hard to remember, it was such nonsense.
T
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:24:12pm |
re: #230 capitalist piglet
Oh, listen, I'm almost 64 and have incurable cancer and live with my 84 year old, diabetic mom - I can't let myself think about socialized medicine or I'll have really bad dreams tonight!
What I meant was I KNOW some people who were FAR GONE medically speaking and in enormous amounts of pain, with no hope for a medical cure for their ailment(s) and I do sorta understand that they might want to just end it all rather than cling to an awful truly PAINFUL existence for another month or two, you know?
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capitalist piglet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:25:15pm |
re: #232 NY Nana
G-d bless your Dad for his service...he must have been quite a guitar player to play in those shows.
Bob Hope? I cannot say enough about him. Sad. There are no more Bob Hope-style comedians. He did it so naturally. it was as if he wasn't even working.
Oh, my! That is an awesome vid! (It brought tears to my eyes.)
Yes, Dad was good at everything he did...thank you. He ended up on Iwo Jima, with the Fourth Marine Division. After the war, he played professionally until he was too ill to hold a guitar, and died about a year later. I'm very proud of him.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:25:16pm |
re: #251 realwest
Well I understand what you're saying (although I DO think he's truly ignorant if not outright Stupid) but bringing the whole system down won't help HIM. Folks under your scenario would, I suppose out of necessity, turn to Big Daddy Obama, but he won't be able to help them. Seriously, even with owning the printing presses, folks won't have enought to eat, be able to heat their homes in winter or cool them off in summer nor go to places where they want to go to and what does that gain Obama, other than a truly PISSED OFF populace.
It's sometimes hard to remember in this Leftists vs Republican political world, but it WAS the fringe left, the MSM and dubious sources of money that got him where he is, but they CAN'T keep him there.
This gives me hope...sort of. In the sense that they will crush a generation but in doing so discredit liberalism for two generations at least. This is deep damage they are inflicting.
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:25:28pm |
re: #249 JohnAdams
I think we're all dazed and unable to comprehend the magnitude of what you are saying, but that of course does not mean that you are wrong! As Rush Limbaugh pointed out over the weekend, these guys are proposing more spending than everything the US government has spent from the Revolution until the One's inauguration. And they appear to be doing it with a sense of urgency, as though they were under the cover of night. And they seem resolute. Whatever their agenda is, it is not something more than a very small few are in on. It is a gamble of unimaginable proportions.
Obama attended Columbia, and hung in radical circles. Two Columbia profs of sociology came up with the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Obama after graduation went to work for an Alinsky community organizing group. Combine Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and you can put together a comprehensive picture of Obama's tactics, methods and goals.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:26:24pm |
re: #231 Dianna
Kindly see my #253. And I DO know how you feel.
But a part of me truly does understand "the other side" of the issue.
Don't agree with it, but I do understand it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:26:55pm |
Tomorrow I will head to the polls to vote on two measly, local issues. One is an increase in sales tax, a sales tax that was just last year lowered to compete with a neighboring city which has been getting the benefit of big ticket sales as a result of this difference in sales tax. The way the argument is being framed, I can't imagine my one measly vote will make a difference.
The other is for a seat on the local city council. The candidate I figure on backing is up against an incumbent who has worked with Habitat for Humanity, and whose father is a local pastor. Hard as it may be to believe, that whole "son of a preacher man" shtick carries weight 'round this part of Ca, so I don't imagine my one measly vote will make a difference on this either. BTW, the feller I plan on voting for is against increasing local taxes right now, he has this silly idea that raising taxes during an economic decline is a bad idea. Go figure.
Yeah. A couple of tiny, stupid things that my measly, single vote likely won't have any impact on. :sigh: I'm still going.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:30:09pm |
re: #253 realwest
Oh, listen, I'm almost 64 and have incurable cancer and live with my 84 year old, diabetic mom - I can't let myself think about socialized medicine or I'll have really bad dreams tonight!
What I meant was I KNOW some people who were FAR GONE medically speaking and in enormous amounts of pain, with no hope for a medical cure for their ailment(s) and I do sorta understand that they might want to just end it all rather than cling to an awful truly PAINFUL existence for another month or two, you know?
There is a huge difference between hoarding enough pain drugs to off ones' self, and having a doctor "help" you.
I can see where that goes. I've talked to some highly capable disabled people who are even clearer on it.
While I do not approve of suicide for any reason - which is a personal, and not a religious, prejudice - I understand it as personal choice when faced with unbearable pain. What I cannot accept, and will not accept, is the slippery slope that physician assisted suicide leads to.
I am well aware that most doctors or nurses or vets would not dream of forcing someone to suicide. That's not the point. The point is that there is a prejudice already against "meaningless lives", and a willingness to look the other way while they are ended. I find that more than unacceptable; I find it something to fight tooth and nail.
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capitalist piglet Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:31:15pm |
re: #253 realwest
Oh, listen, I'm almost 64 and have incurable cancer and live with my 84 year old, diabetic mom - I can't let myself think about socialized medicine or I'll have really bad dreams tonight!
What I meant was I KNOW some people who were FAR GONE medically speaking and in enormous amounts of pain, with no hope for a medical cure for their ailment(s) and I do sorta understand that they might want to just end it all rather than cling to an awful truly PAINFUL existence for another month or two, you know?
I do. I've been sick before to the point where I honestly began to understand why people lose the will to live (thankfully, it didn't last). The government's involvement in matters of health, life, and death makes me nervous is all.
I am so terribly sorry to hear about your situation. : (
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:31:25pm |
re: #241 capitalist piglet
I'm doing ok, just sorta wondering which one of the MSM will crack first.
Cause as sure as hell, once one major news outlet - especially TV - starts reporting on how bad things are and getting worse AND THAT BUSH CAN NO LONGER BE BLAMED FOR IT, the blowback is gonna be more that Obama can handle.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:32:21pm |
re: #256 jcm
Obama attended Columbia, and hung in radical circles. Two Columbia profs of sociology came up with the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Obama after graduation went to work for an Alinsky community organizing group. Combine Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and you can put together a comprehensive picture of Obama's tactics, methods and goals.
Yep. That is the line of crushed corn leading back to the woodblock and the axe.
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Neo Con since 9-11 Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:32:24pm |
re: #223 capitalist piglet
It is my understanding that a 60% approval rating for this time period (a few weeks after taking office) isn't at all unusual; in fact, it might be a few points lower than some other recent presidents had soon after being inaugurated.
Still higher than he should have, if you ask me.
He's actually lower than Carter was 6 weeks into his presidency but strangely higher that Reagan was this far into his.
[Link: www.presidency.ucsb.edu...]
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jcm Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:32:34pm |
I checked my mortgage account, it's hasn't been paid by unicorns or stimulus or The One Hisself.
So I must go to work tomorrow....
Night all.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:33:07pm |
re: #262 realwest
I just sent you an email with a gift!
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Dianna Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:35:13pm |
re: #257 realwest
Kindly see my #253. And I DO know how you feel.
But a part of me truly does understand "the other side" of the issue.
Don't agree with it, but I do understand it.
I think we're in a similar position on that.
Chronic pain is an absolute bitch. It doesn't have to be severe to get you to the point where you'll do anything at all to end it. It just has to be chronic. I understand the temptations of that, oh, all too well.
But that's different; the problem isn't one's own choices. It's any time outside forces are encouraged to interfere.
Now, I must walk doggies and go to bed.
Forgive me for just dropping that.
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:36:33pm |
re: #243 jcm
Can you tell from my nic that I just might want to ship Chuckie Cheese Schumer to the Arctic, C.O.D.?
I cannot stand him. But I would rather endure him than Barney Frank, from my native State of Taxachusetts.
/Difficult decision, that one.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:37:27pm |
Goodnight all. Pray for those men floating all alone in the dark in the Gulf of Mexico. I hope they can hold on.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:38:24pm |
Benny Goodman Orchestra, with Gene Krupa and Harry James
Sing, Sing, Sing
This was filmed for a movie, hence the visual "orchestration".
/Music speaks for itself.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:38:33pm |
re: #270 JohnAdams
Goodnight all. Pray for those men floating all alone in the dark in the Gulf of Mexico. I hope they can hold on.
Word is they had life vests on. There is still hope.
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:39:31pm |
re: #255 JohnAdams
Well I kinda look at it this way - Socialism has failed EVERY SINGLE PLACE IT'S BEEN TRIED. And it's never really been tried in a nation with the World's first true democracy, populated by folks who historically HATE being told what to do by the government. Oh yeah, there's lots of folks who get by on the public teat, but there the same the world over. Many, MANY more Americans are used to doing it themselves, thankew very much and I honestly think they'll come a time when they realize they've been sold an enormous bill of goods and then all hell is gonna break out - and it ain't gonna take one generation's worth to do it, either. And it won't be pretty, either.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:39:33pm |
re: #271 pre-Boomer Marine brat
You're only posting the old stuff, but you've taste kid!
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:40:43pm |
re: #271 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Got this one for you:
Enjoy! I am going to watch your video, and go to sleep with a smile.
G'nite, all. Can't keep my eyes open. Sweet dreams!
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Archimedes Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:41:02pm |
re: #129 Archimedes
I thought this was an excellent speech by a guy named Dan Edge at the New York Tea Party:
[Video]
I hope people check this video out! :-D
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:41:42pm |
re: #274 freedombilly
You're only posting the old stuff, but you've taste kid!
Of COURSE I'm posting the old stuff.
heh ... :D ... click the avatar for my data ... dinosaur here
/and thanks very much for the compliment
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:41:47pm |
re: #258 Slumbering Behemoth Good on you for voting. You are exactly the kind of person I was talking about in my #
273.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:42:11pm |
re: #275 NY Nana
Got this one for you:
Enjoy! I am going to watch your video, and go to sleep with a smile.
G'nite, all. Can't keep my eyes open. Sweet dreams!
Good night, Nana!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:42:19pm |
re: #259 Sharmuta
That's right. It took me a while to figure that out. I won't lie, I spent much of my young, voting eligible life being indifferent. Sometimes voting, sometimes not. I've been taking this right of ours a bit more seriously in the last decade, though. Even if it sometimes seems fruitless.
Hey, I even voted for a RINO.
/no surprise, though, since I am a RINO ;)
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:43:51pm |
re: #260 Dianna
" I find that more than unacceptable; I find it something to fight tooth and nail." Amen to that one.
It is morally repugnant to me and I'll fight that as long as I have a breath to take.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:45:25pm |
re: #277 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I am barely over 30 and I like a whole lot of new music but a classic is a classic. As a professional musician I find myself listening to a lot of "your" music for my ultimate inspiration.
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JohnAdams Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:45:57pm |
re: #273 realwest
I hope you're right and I hope we can keep that spirit alive. I know I will do my best to keep that "Don't Tread on Me" philosophy going. People around me will not lack for knowing of it.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:46:35pm |
If we could force-play Spike Jones on a thread, like over a loudspeaker, it'd drive the younger Lizards crazy!
/hee hee hee
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realwest Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:47:48pm |
Well y'all it's been interesting and educational as usual and I wish I coulda got out here sooner, but I'm so tired I can't keep my eyes open anymore.
Goodnight y'all and I hope I get the chance to see you all down the road.
Goodnight, all.
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:47:51pm |
re: #279 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Can't do sleep typing...I am even worse at that than my usual 2-fingered brilliance. ;)
Spike Jones? One of my favorites...that song gave me the giggles when I was a kid, but now? I ROTFL!
Again, sweet dreams!
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Sharmuta Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:48:08pm |
re: #280 Slumbering Behemoth
I always vote, always have. Voting is what separates us from lower animals. ;p
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NY Nana Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:49:33pm |
re: #285 pre-Boomer Marine brat
If we could force-play Spike Jones on a thread, like over a loudspeaker, it'd drive the younger Lizards crazy!
/hee hee hee
Charles, oh, Charles? Could you please help Pre-Boomer Marine Brat with his great idea? ;)
Thanks!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:51:33pm |
re: #283 freedombilly
I am barely over 30 and I like a whole lot of new music but a classic is a classic. As a professional musician I find myself listening to a lot of "your" music for my ultimate inspiration.
Good idea. You have my respect, for your professionalism.
Times change, but change shouldn't be for its own sake.
That usually leads one straight into one's navel.
/witness the Sixties Children
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Cognito Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:51:55pm |
re: #285 pre-Boomer Marine brat
If we could force-play Spike Jones on a thread, like over a loudspeaker, it'd drive the younger Lizards crazy!
/hee hee hee
Maybe I'm showing my age, here, but isn't Spike Jones suited toward the younger set?
Are Spike Jones's fans already old?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:54:16pm |
re: #287 NY Nana
Can't do sleep typing...I am even worse at that than my usual 2-fingered brilliance. ;)
Spike Jones? One of my favorites...that song gave me the giggles when I was a kid, but now? I ROTFL!
Again, sweet dreams!
Look deeply into my eyes.
You are not sleepy.
We will listen to Spike Jones all night.
We will search the Web for a video of Jimmy Durante singing "The Box".
You are not sleepy.
You are not sleepy.
You ar zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzTHUD
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:55:13pm |
re: #278 realwest
Well I'll do what I can, Lizard. Sharmuta has been making a valid point in many of her posts. This is not exactly what she has said, but it is the spirit I am taking from her message: "Take it personal, take it local".
I am not sure how my scraggly ass could make a difference in my party's local chapter. Right now, I am just enjoying the looks on the poll running folk's faces when they see that my disheveled, unshaven, low rent ass is registered as a republican.
/even if I am a RINO...
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:55:15pm |
re: #292 Cognito
Maybe I'm showing my age, here, but isn't Spike Jones suited toward the younger set?
Are Spike Jones's fans already old?
LOL!
Those of us who remember him from when we were growing up sure are!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:55:54pm |
re: #290 NY Nana
Charles, oh, Charles? Could you please help Pre-Boomer Marine Brat with his great idea? ;)
Thanks!
The William Tell Overture!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:58:19pm |
re: #288 Sharmuta
Voting is what separates us from lower animals. ;p
That, and oral s... aw, never mind.
:p...
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rawmuse Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:58:33pm |
re: #295 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I know Spike's daughter. We have worked together on lots of movies.
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ArchangelMichael Mon, Mar 2, 2009 10:58:55pm |
re: #260 Dianna
There is a huge difference between hoarding enough pain drugs to off ones' self, and having a doctor "help" you.
I can see where that goes. I've talked to some highly capable disabled people who are even clearer on it.
While I do not approve of suicide for any reason - which is a personal, and not a religious, prejudice - I understand it as personal choice when faced with unbearable pain. What I cannot accept, and will not accept, is the slippery slope that physician assisted suicide leads to.
I am well aware that most doctors or nurses or vets would not dream of forcing someone to suicide. That's not the point. The point is that there is a prejudice already against "meaningless lives", and a willingness to look the other way while they are ended. I find that more than unacceptable; I find it something to fight tooth and nail.
There is little in my opinion that is more disgusting than listening medical professionals discussing "quality of life" at a "bioethics" forum. There definitely is a prejudice against "meaningless lives" as you put it. It seems to me the slippery slope (especially if we get stuck with CommieCare™) towards doctors or government busy-bodies deciding who is worth living and who is not is obvious and not that far off. I was really put off by both sides of the Schiavo case. Even though it was different as she was basically brain dead, and not an elderly person with a chronic illness, she still was incapable of making a life-ending decision for herself and it had to made by others. I'm very worried about how this precedent can be twisted or spun and used to justify euthanasia at some point down the road even when the patient can say "no". (I was throughly annoyed with Congressional meddling and Sean Hannity's shenanigans as well though).
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pink freud Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:02:01pm |
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Neo Con since 9-11 Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:03:23pm |
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:05:06pm |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:07:03pm |
re: #306 Sharmuta
Isn't that your sock puppet's line?
LOL!
If it wasn't so late, I would have dragged SockPuppy out for the response.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:07:50pm |
In the three months since the election, the broadest measure of the stock market's value, the Wilshire 5000 Index, has plunged more than 30%, slicing over $3 trillion from Americans' wealth. Investors have walked away from investing, while businesses shut down factories and offices and slash jobs.
This is both highly significant and dangerous. Capital, bluntly put, has gone on strike. Those who own wealth are pushing it to the sidelines, as a young and inexperienced president tries to jam through the most sweeping economic changes in over 70 years.
The prospect of these changes becoming law has already radically altered our nation's economy. Entrepreneurs and CEOs who once created new products, new services, jobs and trillions in wealth for America's workers and retirees now find themselves vilified and punished for their success.
ABC News reported this week that many upper-income taxpayers already are planning to cut back on work and investments to stay under $250,000 in income — the point where Obama's punitive taxes kick in. No one wins from this, yet Obama seems oblivious.
/as usual, IBD nails it, will Obama be too proud, at the nation's expense, to back off his ill timed, harmful agenda?
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BatGuano Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:08:15pm |
Did anyone hear about the dyslexic, insomniac, philosopher? He laid awake all night wondering if dog exists.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:08:27pm |
Who knew? (Other than rawmuse)
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SurferDoc Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:09:32pm |
re: #271 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Benny Goodman Orchestra, with Gene Krupa and Harry James
Sing, Sing, Sing
This was filmed for a movie, hence the visual "orchestration"./Music speaks for itself.
Outstanding!
/composed by Louis Prima
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:10:41pm |
re: #306 Sharmuta
Did you see the link I put up for you, up-thread after you said you love Goodman, of the BG Quartet doing Avalon?
I've still got it up in another window. Every once in a while, I'll jump over and just melllllllow out!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:11:58pm |
re: #311 SurferDoc
Didya see the link in #312?
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Cognito Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:13:29pm |
re: #295 pre-Boomer Marine brat
LOL!
Those of us who remember him from when we were growing up sure are!
Oh, HA!
I'm showing my age, all right, but in the other direction. I thought you were talking about the Academy Award-nominated director who did this groundbreaking video, among many other things.
Whew. For a second there I thought I'd gone over the hill without the pleasure of noticing the view.
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BatGuano Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:14:16pm |
re: #311 SurferDoc
Thanks for the post. I have that one favorited on my you tube account. I'm not qualified to have an opinion ,but sing, sing, sing, is my all time favorite bit of drumming.
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:14:59pm |
re: #314 Cognito
That is one of the greatest videos of all time. Hands down.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:15:57pm |
re: #314 Cognito
Cog, ... you DID kinda make me wonder back up there!
/has some alien invaded Cog's brain ... YIKES!
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freedombilly Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:17:59pm |
Goodnight everyone. New thread is reminding me it is time to sleep.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:18:56pm |
re: #301 pink freud
Well. If I have to spell it out, then... *ahem*
Ya see, there's parts of a gal's body I really like, and... *ahem*
Sheesh, can't you just go ask your mother?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:24:44pm |
There's a recording out there of the 2nd (I think it was the second) Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall. I forget the year. It's on CD now.
It was recorded by a single mike over the stage, with the cable looped across the street to the recording machine. Surprisingly, the sound is excellent. The recording was thought "lost" for a number of years, until one of Goodman's grandkids pulled some old records out of a closet ....
It has some fantastic, and historic, stuff on it. IIRC, a matter of weeks later, Harry James left the orchestra to go out on his own, so this was his last appearance with BG. Some of Ellington's guys sit in (including Cootie Williams, I think.) Et cetera, et cetera.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 2, 2009 11:25:12pm |
I'm hitting the sack.
Good night all.
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keebler71 Tue, Mar 3, 2009 3:50:23am |
Here is a literal version of "Take on Me"
[Link: www.urlesque.com...]
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