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Tuesday 29 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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my "oldest" buddy,(we met when I reported for duty on my first ship, the U.S.S. Cacapon in 1961 and we celebrated my 18th birthday in Hong Kong) Roger, is down from Ukiah to help me organize for the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock that's comin' up the 25th of October at Speedway Meadows, always good to see him...
here’s a sneak preview of Bebop Videos latest innovation... BEBOP-GOLD RUSH… everywhere I turn these days, folks are coming to one common conclusion…”I’ve got to lighten the load here”…one man’s need to “circle the wagon’s”, can be another man’s opportunity to “load up a wagon or two”…there are plenty of venues out there to dispose of “whatever”…BEBOP-GOLD RUSH diamonded@bebopvideos.com and we’ll spread the word…
Monday 28 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Saturday 26 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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the Stripers are bitin' so I'm gonna mozey on down to the Corte Madera Creek, and feed the fish, it's the best Striper fishin' in Marin County, it's about a block away, I walk down there with my dog, Rocky, a couple of times a day...the audio track is from "Soft Summer Breeze" on the Buddy Owen Band Of Angels Album...See ya'
this is what it looked like around here, Christmas 03'...after this they hit the reset button and added some drain pumps and re-furbished the old ones...
I was just listening to The Rock Garden, the late Bill Ashford's free-form internet radio station and Emmy Lou Harris and old "Dump Truck" eased into my consciousness...so many many hours of listening pleasure...they still haven't changed a thing, left his library and sense of rotation and selection intact...it's like he never left..
Michael Moore Calls Out ABC Labor Practices On "Good Morning America" (VIDEO) "And I said 'Guy, I was here two years ago and you were a freelancer' — right backstage here at ABC — he said, 'We call ourselves permalancers now.' They don't get to share in just the basic benefits that an employee used to have who worked here. What's wrong with that? What is wrong with just giving people basic things for their hard work?"
Sunday 20 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Fox News Producer Caught Rallying 9/12 Protest Crowd In Behind-The-Scenes Video
A Fox News Channel producer has been caught in a behind-the-scenes video rallying the crowd during last weekend's 9/12 protest in Washington.
The Huffington Post has confirmed that the woman in the below video — seen raising her arms to rally the crowd behind Griff Jenkins, who was reporting from the scene for Fox News — is Fox News producer Heidi Noonan.
"The employee is a young, relatively inexperienced associate producer who realizes she made a mistake and has been disciplined," Bryan Boughton, Fox News Channel Washington Bureau Chief told the Huffington Post.
The video shows the producer on her cell phone as she urges the crowd behind Jenkins to cheer louder. An "I'm A Foxaholic" poster appears nearby.
CNN anchor calls out Fox News: ‘You lie’ When Fox News ran a full-page ad in the Washington Post — as well as in two newspapers owned by Fox’s parent company — claiming that it had been the only network to cover the 9.12 tea party rally in Washington, DC, it was more than one CNN anchor was willing to take. “I usually don’t suffer fools gladly,” CNN’s Rick Sanchez began. “Especially when it comes to the fools who perpetuate falsehoods. Well, today thousands of you flipped through the pages of the Washington Post, only to come up a lie so bold and so upsetting that frankly I’m just not going to sit here in silence and allow my craft or my news operation to be unfairly maligned.” “Here’s the fact,” Sanchez summed up. “We do cover the news, and we did extensively cover this event. We didn’t promote the event. That’s not what real news organizations are supposed to do. … ‘Cover’ is kind of like a ‘fair and balanced’ way of doing things. You get it? You might want to look into that.”
I just downloaded a trial version of Videocue, a teleprompting program that show's you being filmed and giving you the copy you wrote while your looking directly into the camera. The free trial allows you to publish clips up to 60' and as soon as you've finishd shooting, it saves a quick time movie instantly that's ready to print to video. I'm not getting a very good audio track, but I only paid $40 for this little Dynex webcam so in the real world I'll be using a Senheiser mike or the mikes on my video cameras. So here goes...
so here's a"usin' ur ed'" mini-tutorial clip shot with my Sony PC-101 digital video camera and it takes a lot better picture, I can create my teleprompter text with one of my titles programs and slow it down to my copy reading speed which, if I remember right, it's about 250 wpm. so here goes...
I am a conservative.
This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by our municipal water utility.After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like,
using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the prescriptions which have beendetermined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency,
using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
Max Neu
Herb's son Max wrote this, he just returned from a "2 year stint in Dubai, where he was an engineer on major construction projects". It must be sweet, having children out there doin' ya' proud, I just hooked up with a long-lost daughter, about 6 years ago, and it's certainly brought some depth and joy to my life.
Insurance Company Must Pay $10 Million For Revoking Policy Of Teen With HIV
Thursday 17 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Glenn Beck On TIME Magazine Cover: Is The "Mad Man" Bad For America?
Glenn Beck has landed on the cover of TIME magazine.
Beck is featured in a cover story by David Von Drehle titled, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad For America?"
"As melodrama, it's thumping good stuff," Von Drehle writes. "But as politics, it's sort of a train wreck - at once powerful, spellbinding and uncontrolled."
Von Drehle adds:
Extreme talk, especially as practiced by a genuine talent like Beck, squeezes maximum profit from a relatively small, deeply invested audience...The more the host is criticized, the more committed the original audience becomes. And the more committed the audience, the bigger target it presents to the rant industry on the other side of the spectrum... How can we trust each other, though, when the integrated economy of ranters and their delighted-to-be-outraged critics are such a model of profitability? A microphone, a camera and a polarizing host is all it takes to get the money moving.
Looks like Time booted another one…
here’s the cover of Time Magazine, dated December the 8th, 1941, the day after the Japanese attackedPearl Harbor…not a word about it in the entire magazine, not even the suspicion it might happen, much less any walk-up stuff…nada
New TIME Cover on Glenn Beck Ignores Facts, and Worse
I have no quarrel with TIME magazine devoting a cover to Glenn Beck -- so long as the accompanying story sticks to hard facts and harsh truths. The issue coming tomorrow, online today, sadly fails to do so in an apparent effort to woo the rightwing with a ludicrously "balanced" treatment of equally dangerous and wacko "ranting" coming from left and right.
It starts right away with a first paragraph that claims that only "liberal sources" estimated the protest crowd in D.C. last weekend as about 70,000, while conservatives say up to a million or more. Actually, virtually all mainstream media sources (even some on Fox News) endorse a far lower number.
I've decided to re-rack this post from Tuesday, in the hope it snags some attention, ie., support...this could be "the big one"...the time to nurture a good idea is at it's birth...with a little help, this could take "Tea Party" to the Woodstock level...
now we knew how to put together a "Tea Party"...
I’m finally catching up on Friday’s edition of the Bill Maher Show and one of his guests is Paul Reickhoff, “the executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest organization for veterans of the War on Terror. During his time in the Adamiyah section of central Baghdad, he led his light infantry platoon on hundreds of combat patrols with the 3rd Infantry and 1st Armored Divisions. He continues to serve his country as an Infantry Officer in the New York Army National Guard.”
Saturday morning last, I caught a post on Raw Story about the Friday night show and it had several YouTube clips breaking down the main segments. I watched the monologue and I was rolling around on the floor so in favor of putting together my own post, I put off watching the other clips in order to go through all of the fast breaking stories that were all over the web.
By sundown, I was pretty well caught up with my stuff and returned to the Raw Story post, and HBO had removed all of the clips, for a copyright violation. Now it’s Tuesday, and I’m watching the show On Demand. Five minutes or so into the show Paul Reickhoff comes out with the most intelligent statement I’ve heard since Obama called Kanya a jackass.
“Obama is completely wasting the power of the most dedicated, loyal, conscientious, and passionate collection of supporters at his disposal." I'm paraphrasing here...
"All he has to do is direct a speech at those Americans that have no health coverage, “I want all of you folks that have no health coverage whatsoever, to assemble in the morning on the South Lawn”, and that would assemble the biggest crowd anybody’s ever seen”. This is such a nuclear statement, that I can’t imagine how the Obama administration can avoid addressing it. Can you? Where I come from, way down in Louisianne, we call it "dancin' wif dem wut brung' ya"
Van Jones Breaks Silence On Resignation: 'Nothing But Love For Obama'
“Of course, some supporters actually think I will be more effective on the "outside." Maybe so. But those ideas always remind me of that old canard about Winston Churchill. After he lost a hard-fought election, a friend told him: "Winston, this really is just a blessing in disguise." Churchill quipped: "Damned good disguise." I can certainly relate to that sentiment right now. :)
Wednesday 16 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Happy Hour 2night ,6-8pm 19 Broadway, Fairfax - The Buddy Owen Band live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax with Ian Lamson on guitar and Richie Smith on keyboards Steve Evans is on the road with CoCo Montoya so we have the extremely capable Phil Marshall on bass...and Bruce Brymer on drums...
"Great job bebop. I can smell the smoke and sweat and taste the cold beer here in Wisconsin. Thank you Buddy Owen & Band." wag11man
"Tea Party" Leader Melts Down On CNN: Obama Is An "Indonesian Muslim Turned Welfare Thug" (VIDEO)
"Tea Party" leader Mark Williams appeared on a CNN panel on "Anderson Cooper 360" last night and promptly set to work discrediting himself and his movement. Williams denounced those carrying blatantly racist signs against President Obama during the tea parties as "no more part of the mainstream of America than the hippies who wear nipple clips and feather boas in San Francisco streets during so-called peace demonstrations."
Cooper had done his homework, however, and caught Williams blatantly misrepresenting himself: "What you're saying makes sense to me here when I'm hearing what you say but then I read on your blog, you say, you call the President an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief."
"let us pray, there will be no more...no more" Part II
Tuesday 15 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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President Obama reportedly calls Kanye West ‘jackass’
UPDATE: Audio surfaces of Obama calling Kanye West ‘a jackass’
Celebrity news Web site TMZ.com has obtained an audio clip of President Obama’s CNBC interview in which he called rapper Kanye West a “jackass.”
Asked for his thoughts on West giving Taylor Swift “the Joe Wilson treatment,” Obama replied: “I thought that was really inappropriate. I mean, she’s getting an award, what are you butting in? I hear ya, I agree with ya. … The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, she’s getting her award. Why did he do that? He’s a jackass.”
Apparently realizing the stir his remark created, Obama added: “come on guys, cut the president some slack. I’ve got a lot of other stuff on my plate.”
Listen to the clip here.
–Original report follows–
President Barack Obama appears to have dubbed Kanye West a “jackass” in off-the-record comments posted by an ABC News anchor Monday night.
Weighing in on an interruption made by the singer during the MTV Music Awards Monday, where West grabbed the mic from country music singer Taylor Swift, Obama appears to have echoed a relatively universal irritation.
“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential,” “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday to his followers on Twitter.
But because the remarks were supposed to be off the record, ABC quickly pulled them, and issued an apology.
After 8 years and more, the MSM should go ahead and leave their head up their ass...Nightline has been no more than a jazzed up TMZ for years now and this is their "break-out" nooze flash?...now that we have a really well organized web presence of responsible journalists and non-profit watchdogs, etc., who would ever want to go back to relying on the MSM for anything but "vapid meaningless elevator video".
Terry Moron, star of "elevator video" please stick to this sort of shit, it's the least harmful exercise you can lend yourself to. Let the grown ups take care of the serious shit, ie., Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, Huff Post, Media Matters, TPM, Bill Maher, John Stuart, Crooks and Liars, BradBlog, The Washington Note, PBS, Tavis Smiley, David Letterman, Steven Colbert ...you know, the list goes on and on...let's hope you don't. In fact, let's see you pull some shit like this on Jessie Ventura...he'd slap the taste out of your mouth like that other rube, John Stossel... and your story about the innocent man just executed in Texas for a crime he was completely innocent of would have surely saved his life if you had run it a month ago...when are you guys gonna realize, "weapons of mass destruction" are no laughing matter you guys in the MSM thought it was hysterical when GW made a "comedy bit out of it..."no, no MWD's here, none under here, yuk-yuk
diamonde@bebopvideos.com
I've pretty much decided to return to my roots to restore a little balance and harmony into my life...my very first concert was an Alan Freed extravaganza in Houston, Texas... the year "1956 I was 14 years old and living in Detroit with my grandparents when Hound Dog, by Elvis came out and I bought it to take to school for our weekly sock-hop in gym....I soon transplanted to my mom's home in Houston and attended my first concert at the Houston Auditorium, where I had a job selling peanuts, popcorn, and cracker-jacks at the wrestling matches. Since the rock & roll concerts were held at the same auditorium, and I knew that all the doors would be open all day on the eve of concerts, my buds and I would head down there in the late afternoon and sneak in and hide under the stage. My first concert was one of Alan Freed's show" (for more on this subject A BRIEF HISTORY OF DIAMOND ED)...one of the songs I heard that night...The Great Pretender by the Platters..."preeetending...that aliens ran off with Glen Beck",...and after a couple of hours cooped up with him in a spaceship, they ditched him at the nearest asteroid...buh bye
there's balance and harmony everywhere if you just "shut your mouth, and open your mind"...Chet Helms
Opinion: So far, Obama's failing miserably
When he ran for president, George W. Bush promised to be a modest reformer at home and a humble representative of the United States on the world stage. The Al Qaeda-organized-and-funded terrorist attacks of eight years ago changed all that. During his presidency, Bush created massive new government bureaucracies, sent troops into two wars and threatened more as part of America’s war on terror.
Barack Obama’s initial approach to the office of the presidency has been as grandiose as Bush’s was restrained. It’s not hard to recall that he ran as a transformative candidate, promising sweeping, though somewhat fuzzy, “change” during the campaign.
Here's the comment I tried to post on Politico this morning after reading this shit...I don't think they posted it...
It might be worth noting that "8 years of Bush bashing", failed miserably as far as stopping him from driving the entire nation, and half the world, into the ditch so you can pee & moan and whine till’ the cows come home, with equal or less empact, the noise is falling on deaf ears. He’s just getting started and the right’s hair is on fire even now. It’s been less than a year and the way the right is feeding on their own already, I suspect a “tea party” a year from now will be about as busy as a Nazi funeral in Bethlehem.
Stand by for Act II, this is where Obama clicks his heels twice, and suspends: Bush's "tax break for the rich", immediately pumping big bucks into the tax coffers, torture, all of his signing statements, and generally speaking, gets to the heart of the matter of restoring some sanity to our weary nation. No more mister nice guy.
With a firm hand, and the slightest semblance of Bush's "heavy hand" at governing, Obama ought to have this country, spiritually, physically, and financially, running like a Swiss watch in his second year, and that sad mistreated mass, the ghosts of Obama’s best bi-partisan efforts, the Republican Party et al., can go on a 20 year sabbatical and study their Naval's.
here’s an excellent preview of what the fall television programming may hold for you…(check out this unique media gallery from the Daily Beast
Hollywood vs. Leno
With Jay Leno’s show premiering Monday, many in Hollywood are hopeful—that he’ll fail. The reason? His show signals the end of the good old days for anyone who isn’t a comic, says Kim Masters.
The new Jay Leno Show finally premieres Monday night, and oh, how passionately many in Hollywood are rooting for him to fail...
Monday 14 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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speak truth to power at your own peril...
is it just me or did this poor guy just fall off the planet? MSNBC throws him under the bus and nobody says a word...talk about "movin' in mysterious ways"...what are they trying to do? Turn daytime MSNBC into the never-ending "Morning Joe Show", what a joke, what the hell is Faux Nooze for?
Carlos Watson Loses Anchor Slot At MSNBC
Mediaite has learned that Carlos Watson, anchor of MSNBC’s 11 a.m. weekday show, “Live with Carlos Watson,” will no longer be anchoring that hour on the network. An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed the rumor, which we learned via Mediaite columnist Danielle Belton on her website, The Black Snob. MSNBC spokesperson Alana Russo said that yes, Watson’s hour had been canceled, but that he will remain a contributor with MSNBC.
one of the things he talked about...
one of the things he talked about...and Mike Wallace made sure to rub it in The Ayatolla's face, sealing Anwar Sadat's fate a year later...thanks Mike
Sunday 13 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
the latest edition of The Bill Maher Show offers one of his freshest, most relevant monologues ever and the YouTube clips were posted on Raw Story, and of course bebopvideos and it was fantastic...up until a few minutes ago when HBO pulled the clips for a copyright violation...in other words if your one of the millions of Americans who's found themselves in an extremely precarious financial state, and god forbid, lost your HBO, by god your shit out of luck as a target viewer of Bill Maher...I think if I was Bill Maher, I'd be thinking long and hard about curtailing "freedom of speech"...maybe you could go down to BestBuys and catch his act on the fly...he's also catching a little flack for his bone-headed refusal to show any regard whatsoever for folks that are so bold as to question any aspect of 911 and the flakey, inadequate investigation by the government...oh' well, this is the worst time in the world for the left to be going to pieces...
Bill Maher to Obama: 'Stand up for the 70% of Americans who aren't crazy.'
Friday night on 'Real Time' with Bill Maher, Maher had a lot on his mind to cover in his 'New Rules' segment. He had new rules to cover everything from babies in public swimming pools to Michelle Obama's arms, and a message for President Obama, asking him to "Stand up for the 70% of Americans who aren't crazy" in the drive for serious health care reform.
Many will remember the song American Pie by Don McClean, Pearl Harbor, and "9/11" eight years ago today, on September 11, 2001.
The lyrics of the song American Pie clearly depict a loss of the intangible because the song depicts a poetic, musical notion that there was a day when the music died:
In a voice that came from you and me
And while the King was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
...
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in hell
Could break that satan's spell
And as flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw satan laughing with delight
the day the music died.
...
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
(American Pie, Wiki). The Pearl Harbor Episode before that, and the 9/11 Episode after that caused loss to our nation too.
In both cases a part of the music of the U.S. Constitution died.
"may the baby Jesus, shut your mouth...and open your mind"...Chet Helms, The Family Dog
I once interviewed for a job as Sales Manager of a Christian radio station in my home town of Shreveport, Louisiana. The General Manager that hired me had given me everything I asked for, 25% commission, cash as I wrote it, food and gas trade-outs, literally everything I could think of to give me a strong footing and some hope for success. That night I was up late pondering the position I had possibly put myself in, with my new employer and "the gods", as well.
In the morning, I went into the office and approached James Ederer, General Manager of KJOE AM, and told him, "Franly, I'm not much of a Christian...and beyond that, I'd describe myself as a "casual heathen", meaning, I seldom attend church of any kind, never quote "the gospel", have little or nothing in common with the average "Christian", and could potentially embarris him and the "company. However, my greatest concern is the baby Jesus, my loose affiliation with the gods, prohibits me from "raping and pillaging in the name of god. If I was to behave like many of the preachers who's pre-recorded messages graced our programming, I'd be afraid of god gettin' me." James replied, "Ehhyyudd, you just load the wagon, and let me worry about the mule."
As the time quickly passed, and James, and I became fast friends and dedicated “water-hole buddy’s”, meeting daily at one of my “food and beverage” trade-outs, to tally my sales achievements for the day and drink to “our” success. In two and a half weeks I had sold us out completely. The month prior to my hiring on, a sales staff of two retired preachers had sold a grand total of $86 worth of ads.
James had been a successful insurance broker in Oklahoma City and one of his high school buddies, a radio tycoon of considerable wealth, owner of a chain of 7 radio stations, was one of his “star accounts”. He had talked James into launching a career in radio by moving to Shreveport as KJOE’s new General Manager. James was going through an ugly divorce and saw it as an opportunity to get out of Dodge and proceed with the “rest of his life”.
James had a beautiful girl friend, a preachers daughter, who had come along with him and they were quietly “living in sin” and loving it. The lady had a pre-fab Playboy class rack, a stunning figure, a pristine singing voice, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Pentecostal gospel music.
You could be sitting in the Waffle House at 2 am, waiting on your breakfast, or casually walking down the street, and this girl would, out of nowhere, bust out in full-throated song…her favorites were standards of the Chuck Wagon Gang and she could draw a fond crowd anywhere. I should have been passing the hat. Here’s a sampling of their music. As a group, their recordings span sixty some-odd years, and as the members age and pass on, their replaced by their children. She turned me onto them, and I’d like to share the wealth with you now.
Friday 11 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Here's the Weekend Scoop, Buddy Owen Band + Special Guests, @ Rancho Nicasio Friday Night Sept 11th Starting @ 8pm
Sat. Sept. 12th The Broken Drum With Brian Fischer + Giovanni
Extra Special Smokin' Sunday Sept. 13th @ 19 Broadway 9pm with The band featuring Ernest "Boom"Carter, and Richard Segovia from Puro Bandido.
I'm sure you can make one of these Shows Each with a Special Twist.
Thanks Buddy,
as Always More Info @ www.buddyowen.com
Nirvana Members 'Dismayed And Very Disappointed' By 'Guitar Hero 5'
Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl said in a joint statement Thursday that they were "dismayed and very disappointed" that an avatar of the late Nirvana frontman could be used to play songs by other artists.
"While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the character," they said. "This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants. We urge Activision to do the right thing in 're-locking' Kurt's character so that this won't continue in the future."
Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, had been lashing out on Twitter this week about her late husband's inclusion in the game, calling it vile and claiming she would sue Activision, the game's publisher. Love claimed she never approved Cobain's digital likeness, and that she thought the grunge rocker would despise the rhythm game "let alone this avatar."
Baucus & Conrad cave again, toughen health care bill's anti-immigrant provisions to appease Joe "You lie!" Wilson
by John Aravosis (DC) on 9/11/2009 08:30:00 AM
Yes, because that's the first thing a sane person would think after Wilson's bizarre, and boorish, and untrue outbreak during the joint session, an outburst that has the GOP reeling: What can we do to appease Joe Wilson's legitimate concerns so he'll stop being mean to us? From TIME:
Health Care Bill To Cover Undocumented Immigrants? False.
Over at Media Matters, Eric Boehlert calls out the media for covering Rep. Joe Wilson's interjectory fireworks during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night without delving into whether Wilson was correct in his assertion -- that Obama was lying when he said that illegal immigrants would not qualify for credits for the proposed health care exchanges:
What's been completely glossed over by the press is the fact that the "You Lie!" was itself built upon a lie. That the rude outburst was yet more GOP misinformation. Instead, too many in the press treat the exchange as a he said/he said. i.e. Obama claimed illegal immigrants won't be covered, and Wilson called him a liar. What are the facts? Which man was telling the truth? The press won't say.
Thursday 10 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Arianna Discusses The Right Wing's "Lunatic Fringe" On ABC's 20/20
Watch a clip of Arianna talking about the right wing's "lunatic fringe" on ABC"s 20/20 with John Stossel. (a little schoolin’ for the boy)
John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox Business & Fox News
John Stossel is leaving ABC News for Fox, where he'll host a weekly show on Fox Business and host a series of specials for Fox News.
TVNewser reports that the libertarian "20/20" host is expected to sign a multi-year-deal with Fox, where he'll host a two-hour weekly show on Fox Business and make appearances on Fox News in both the daytime and primetime hours.
Stossel's departure comes on the heels of last week's announcement that Charlie Gibson is retiring from ABC News.
here's another Stossel clip...easy viewing, as they say
Olbermann Retracts "Fox-Twa" on Glenn Beck
"Do I really want to be like Glenn Beck? Do I really want to be like Fox News or the New York Post? I don't mean I'd stop calling any of them out for their inanities... What could we possibility find out that would be more humiliating to Glenn Beck, more embarrassing to Glenn Beck, more destructive about Glenn Beck, than this one fact: he's Glenn Beck."
Obama speech disrupter a health industry darling
During President Obama’s address on health insurance reform to a joint session of Congress last night, he observed that some people have been spreading bad information about his proposal — and that contrary to what’s been said it would not cover illegal immigrants.
At that point the president was interrupted by Rep. Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson (right), a Republican from South Carolina.
“You lie!” Wilson shouted from the crowd…
Whether because of his outspokenness or in spite of it, Wilson is a major recipient of contributions from the health care industry.
In fact, over his entire congressional career, health professionals represent Wilson’s top industry contributors, donating a total of $244,196 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org database. He received another $86,150 from pharmaceutical companies, $73,050 from insurance companies and $68,000 from hospitals and nursing homes.
Wednesday 9 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Rachel Maddow On Obama's Speech: President Offered "Full, Formal Defense Of Liberalism" (VIDEO)
Rachel Maddow's initial reaction to President Obama's health care speech to a joint session of Congress was largely favorable, particularly the end of the speech in which the President promised to "call out" Republicans who misrepresented his plan and offered what Maddow described as a "full, basically formal, at length defense of liberalism":
The president gave what I think is the only full, basically formal, at length defense of liberalism and defense of the idea of government for the people's good, in ideological terms. It's the most ideological I've ever heard him be and I think liberals will be happy.
Scarborough for President
by Mark McKinnon-The Daily Beast
The Plausible: Why not Joe Scarborough, the former Florida congressman, author, and entertaining host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe? Scarborough is telegenic, has a quick wit, legislative experience, and may have the most important factor of all, though he won’t admit it. Yet. He may have the “want it” factor.
Scarborough could be a strong candidate against Obama. He’s a terrific communicator. He’s media savvy. He has strong conservative credentials especially on fiscal and foreign-policy issues.
Scarborough left Congress five months into his fourth term because he wanted to spend more time with his children, saying that he’d rather be judged as being a good father than a good politician. And for that alone, he shows he has his priorities in place and deserves some credit and consideration. But now the kids are older, so...
but wait a minute...
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo...
Friday, July 14, 2006
scarborough country of the dead
katherine harris' floundering u.s. senate campaign lost its high-level staff again this week and is groping for a message -- which doesn't surprise republican insiders who trace the seeds of her trouble to the story of "joe's dead intern."
this wasn't any old joe.
it was joe scarborough, host of the prime-time msnbc show scarborough country and a former pensacola republican congressman who was courted last summer by national republicans to run against harris. but before he could announce he wouldn't, harris called major donors and suggested scarborough would have to answer questions about the strange death of a former staff member in 2001, according to two former high-level harris staff members, a gop donor and scarborough.
"that was the first clue that something wasn't right with katherine harris," scarborough told the miami herald in a recent interview, noting that a medical examiner found his staff member's death was natural and not the result of foul play.
well, we never thought we'd hear ourselves say this, but...
we agree with katherine harris.
"Since this scandal involving the death of Scarborough's alleged mistress ended his political career, MSNBC gave him a plum job as a talking head. Doesn't this crime cry out for Michael Moore's investigative talents? Doesn't this poor girl deserve to have her death investigated and to bring the criminal to justice?"
Robert Reich Explains The Public Option In 70 Seconds
Tonight, President Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress and urge lawmakers to pass health care reform. Naturally, it will also be an occasion to address the American people and once again explain the core ingredients of the plan. All eyes will be focused on the extent to which Obama makes or does not make the case for the public option, a matter about which the White House has continually sent mixed signals.
By contrast, former Labor Secretary and Huffington Post contributor Robert Reich has been a clear and outspoken supporter of the public option and, in a video that's been bouncing around the Internet this week, Reich states the case for the public option in a very clear in succinct fashion. As many have pointed out, it takes Reich only 70 seconds to fully explain what the public option is and does. (He spend the rest of the video explaining the pernicious effects of health care lobbyists and urging the public to act.) It can be done! It will be interesting to see if Obama is capable of a similar explanation. To my mind, Reich sets the standard.
DEVELOPING…ORAL ARGUMENTS HAVE CONCLUDED; McCain, Feingold: Roberts vote ‘could have serious consequences for our democracy’
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that began with a film attacking Hillary Clinton, but could end up having far-reaching ramifications. The Associated Press notes that the Justices are effectively weighing “whether to allow corporations and labor unions to pay for political campaigns and end a century of legislative efforts to curb such spending.”
NBC’s Pete Williams reported that five Justices indicated support for overturning prohibitions on the contributions of corporations and labor unions.
The AP reports that “newly seated Justice Sonia Sotomayor jumped right into the questioning. She appeared skeptical about taking the far-reaching step of lifting the ban, a move urged on the court by a lawyer for a group that made the 90-minute movie that sought to undermine Clinton’s presidential ambitions.”
The McCain/Feingold statement continues, ““It was just six years ago that the Supreme Court upheld the electioneering communications provision in McCain-Feingold and nothing has happened in that time to warrant the drastic step of overruling that decision. During his confirmation hearing, Chief Justice Roberts, whom we both voted for, promised to respect precedent. If he casts the deciding vote to overrule Austin and McConnell, it would completely contradict that promise, and could have serious consequences for our democracy.”
By all means "lift the ban"...this could turn out for the better...If the conservative wing of he Supreme Court over-reaches and shows it's pro-business colors in such an obnoxious way, it could result in Obama permanently salting the balance in the other direction, which would be his reasonable, intelligent, balanced reaction, and his base would rally like never before...I'm sure there are sufficient remedy's to "lifting the ban" and whatever immediate misery it might bring would surely be outweighed by having a LIberal majority on the Supreme Court...
Are the Days of Drudge Over?
By Gillian Reagan
September 8, 2009 | 7:26 p.m
Just over a month ago, Linda Douglass, a former ABC News correspondent and current communications director for the Obama administration’s Health Reform Office, appeared in a video posted on the White House’s official blog titled “Facts Are Stubborn Things.”
In the video, the Drudge Report was displayed on one of the computer screens at her desk. Peering over her red-framed glasses, Ms. Douglass read one of the headlines posted on the site: “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Healthcare Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.”
“Well, nothing can be farther from the truth,” Ms. Douglass said into the camera. “The people who always try to scare people whenever you try to bring them health-insurance reform are at it again. And they’re taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they’re cobbling them together to leave a very false impression.”
Tuesday 8 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
"Liberal does not and has not meant weak until the conservatives said it did. Was Martin Luther King weak? Bobby Kennedy? Gene McCarthy? It was the liberals who remade this country and ended legal segregation and legal sexism. Not the conservatives, who wanted to hold on to the old ways.
It's time to regain the sprit of FDR and Truman and the people around them. People who believed in the public good over private gain. It is time to stop apologizing for being a liberal and be proud to fight for your beliefs. No more shying away or being defined by other people. Liberals believe in a strong defense and punishment for crime. But not preemption and pointless jail sentences. We believe no American should be turned away from a hospital because they are too poor or lack a proper legal defense. We believe that people should make enough from one job to live on, to spend time on raising their family. We believe that individuals and not the state should dictate who gets married and why. The best way to defend marriage is to expand, not restrict it.
It was the liberals who opposed the Nazis while the conservatives were plotting to get their brown shirts or fund Hitler. It was the liberals who warned about Spain and fought there, who joined the RAF to fight the Germans, who brought democracy to Germany and Japan. Let us not forget it was the conservatives who opposed defending America until the Germans sank our ships. They would have done nothing as Britain came under Nazi control. It was they who supported Joe McCarthy and his baseless, drink fueled claims.
Without liberals, there would be no modern America, just a Nazi sattlelite state. Liberals weak on defense? Liberals created America's defense. The conservatives only need vets at election time.
It is time to stop looking for an accomodation with the right. They want none for us. They want to win, at any price. So, you have a choice: be a fighting liberal or sit quietly. I know what I am, what are you?" - Steve Gilliard
MSNBC Republican strategist Joe Watkins has, as one network host put it, a tough position to defend.
Speaking with MSNBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman on Tuesday, Watkins insisted that President Barack Obama is too charismatic to give a speech to American students, arguing that parents should not have to “compete” with him for the “hearts and minds” of their children.
A fellow guest on the show, Michael Knowles of the San Antonio, Texas tea party group, first argued Watkins’ position, telling Snyderman he believes the lesson plans accompanying Obama’s speech are “actually illegal.”
“What’s your problem with the message?” she asked Knowles.
“There is no problem with the message,” he said. “It the lesson plans that encourages the students to reveal personal information about themselves by participating in the lessons that the teachers are putting forth for ‘em, and that’s illegal under state and federal law.”
It’s been a little over two years now and I’ve never missed him more. Steve Gilliard November 13, 1964 – June 2, 2007
“Ever wonder why New Yorkers detest George Bush?”
“Because we experienced his incompetence up close and person. We knew this guy was full of shit, absolutely full of fucking shit, after they started to play games with the funding and gave Wyoming terrorism money. We knew he was an assclown then.
We thought DC 9/11 was a comedy, because the Bush we saw hid in AF One like the scared bitch that he is.
But did you listen?
Fuck no. Until last week, Ann Coulter was calling New Yorkers cowards for not endorsing Bush's folly in Iraq.
We have been screaming for two years that Bush and his team sucked. That they had no clue. They sent soldiers to be wounded in Iraq without armored anything. And you idiots cheered him on from the safety of your keyboards. We told you he was fucking up Iraq. But no, we supported Saddam, we were racist, we blamed America.
You say this isn't about politics? Fuck you, this IS politics, real time, real life politics, where the insanity of all your ideas are exposed to the world for the fraud that they are. Tax cuts kill. Ask the relatives of the dead of the Gulf Coast.
Well, motherfuckers, the alligators are feasting on dead nigger and there isn't an Iraqi in sight. And Bush is trying to gladhand his way through a mess which has stunned FOX reporters. I mean, Shepard Smith is calling Fox's talking heads liars ON THE AIR.”…
Thank You, Glenn Beck!
Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than what you intended.
Your vile and vicious smear campaign has helped reverse one of the worst examples of miscasting since John Wayne took on the role of Genghis Khan in The Conqueror.
Don't get me wrong: Van Jones was the best person for the job he just gave up. But the job was not the best use of Van Jones.
Contrary to the media caricature, the real Van Jones is a thoughtful leader who knows how to use words to move people to action. To stick him behind a desk, working out the details of tax credits for green jobs -- incredibly important though the job is -- was never the best use of his unique and abundant skills.
Leave Van Jones Alone
Conservative Reihan Salam on why the liberal environmentalist is a tragic victim of the thought police—and the Republican facing a similar firing squad.
My guess is that Van Jones and Bob McDonnell aren't the closest of friends. One is an African-American activist from the progressive left, who's spent much of his adult life in inner-city Oakland fighting The Man; the other is a white middle-aged pro-life Catholic Republican, who has long represented The Man in the deep-red Sunbelt suburbs of Virginia. But I'd recommend that Jones and McDonnell get in touch. Over the past few weeks, both men have run into a media buzz-saw for the crime of daring to have had actual thoughts at some point in the distant past, rather than filling the space between their ears with poll-tested nothings. And while liberals are outraged about the right's jihad against Jones and conservatives insist that McDonnell is being crucified by the left-wing media elite, hardly anyone appreciates the pervasive—and nauseating—hypocrisy that has left American democracy at the mercy of a gang of self-policing, sanctimonious nerds.
Monday 7 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
another one bites the dust...
speak truth to power at your own peril...
Carlos Watson Loses Anchor Slot At MSNBC
Mediaite has learned that Carlos Watson, anchor of MSNBC’s 11 a.m. weekday show, “Live with Carlos Watson,” will no longer be anchoring that hour on the network. An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed the rumor, which we learned via Mediaite columnist Danielle Belton on her website, The Black Snob. MSNBC spokesperson Alana Russo said that yes, Watson’s hour had been canceled, but that he will remain a contributor with MSNBC.
one of the things he talked about...
Dean: Van Jones resignation a ‘loss for the country’
The resignation of Van Jones from his position as the White House’s green jobs czar is a “loss for the country,” Howard Dean told Fox News Sunday morning.
Dean added that “this guy is a Yale-educated lawyer, he’s a best-selling author. … I think he was brought down, I think Washington’s a tough place that way. I think it’s a loss for the country.”
The problem with Van Jones' resignation isn't that it's a major loss to the Obama administration. Jones wasn't a particularly important player in the big scheme of things, and he's by no means irreplaceable.
No, the real problem is that it gives these sentiments legitimacy.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) called on Jones to resign Friday, saying in a statement, "His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate."
Senator Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) urged Congress to investigate Jones's "fitness" for the position, writing in an open letter, "Can the American people trust a senior White House official that is so cavalier in his association with such radical and repugnant sentiments?" On Saturday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, wrote on his Twitter account, "Van Jones has to go."
one of the things he talked about...
one of the things he talked about...
one of the things he talked about...and Mike Wallace made sure to rub it in The Ayatolla's face, sealing Anwar Sadat's fate a year later...thanks Mike
The Great Indoctrinator
President Obama’s stay-in-school speech (full video and transcript)
Pro-Refm Rally In Seattle Ignored By Media...from the Huffington Post
I have personally never been to Seattle, Washington, but I am reliably informed that it is a major American city that enjoys many of the technological amenities of modern life, including news organizations with real live reporters and cameras and internet access and even a major newspaper called the Seattle Times. So, there's really no reason why the media couldn't have reported on the fact that yesterday, 3,000 people attended a rally for health care reform in Westlake Park. According to one person who was there, though, no one could be bothered:
another classic Moon Martin tune...
Sunday 6 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Firedoglake wonders...
Is There Anything More Ridiculous Than Republicans Complaining about “Extremist Views and Coarse Rhetoric”?
By: Blue Texan Sunday September 6, 2009 11:30 am
How can Beck and many another right wing-nut get away with hollering "fire" in theaters across the board, and every time a liberal doubts their misinformation, he gets thrown under the bus. What's up with that lilly-livered press corp that gets all ga-ga over Van Jones "opinions", and snuggles up to the ranting and ravings of an obvious lunatic, Glenn Beck. This is starting to feel like the Bush years, downward spiral to oblivion.
When I was growing up, you had to go to the wrestling matches to find the kind of people that are clamoring after Glenn Beck. Bring on Jessie Ventura for a couple of hours a day, right across from the Glenn Beck show, and let's get it on. This is obviously a war, and it's long overdue to fight fire with fire.
Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp: Van Jones Resigns
Glenn Beck has his first scalp. Van Jones, under fire from the extremist television show host for his background in radical activism, has resigned from the administration.
Jones was Special Adviser for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality - the so-called 'Green Jobs' Czar. Jones' 2008 book, The Green Collar Economy, was a New York Times best-seller…
Saturday 5 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
hand-wringing over what one of our brightest presidents might say to our kids...when I was a kid, you had to go to the wrestling matches to find people like this...
as opposed to this "propaganda" from one of out dimmest presidents...what have we come to?...
"What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." Charles Krauthammer
The fella that brought you…the Reagan Doctrine
Krauthammer first gained attention in the mid-1980s when he first used the phrase "Reagan Doctrine" in his Time magazine column.[15] The phrase was a reference to the new American foreign policy of supporting anti-communist insurgencies around the globe (most notably Nicaragua, Angola, and Afghanistan) as a response to the Brezhnev Doctrine and reflected a new U.S. foreign policy that went beyond containment of the Soviet Union to rollback of recent Soviet influence in the Third World. The policy, which was strongly supported by Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts and other conservatives, was ultimately embraced by Reagan's senior national security and foreign policy officials. Krauthammer's description of it as the "Reagan Doctrine" has since endured....Wikipedia
Obama, the Mortal
By Charles Krauthammer Friday, September 4, 2009
What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?
The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chávista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?
bebop42 wrote:
Granted, Obama has made a few miss-steps, as all presidents do, however, when you compare this presidency to the last, it's overwhelmingly obvious that, every time Bush stepped in doo-doo, he drug his country right into the poop, ie., beginning with ignoring all the early warnings that 911 was in the works, wars in Iraq\Afghanistan, torture, domestic spying, suspension of Habeus Corpus, total disregard for the Constitution, etc. and yet Obama's "miss-steps" are pretty much restricted to his popularity and ability to deal with the out-of-control right wing elements of our society.
Hopefully, he will soon realize that the shallow politicized opinions of the Kraut-hammers of this world don't mean anything compared to the potential masses he's able to summon when he sets his mind to it. It's not like Kraut-hammers' head has never exploded before.
Friday 4 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Unemployment rate reaches a 26-year high
Even though the unemployment rate has officially reached a 26-year high, there are indicators that the recession might not be worsening.
The US unemployment rate jumped to 9.7 percent in August as 216,000 jobs were lost, the government said Friday in a report showing improving labor market conditions.
Tonight, Friday Sept 4th, Old Western Saloon, 9pm. wwwbuddyowen.com for all current Info. See ya Buddy
Here on April first of last year: The Buddy Owen Band live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax with Ernest (Boom) Carter on drums, Ian Lamson on guitar and Richie Smith on keyboards performing Red House Blues. Steve Evans is on the road with CoCo Montoya so we have the extremely capable Phil Marshall on bass...
Thursday 3 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
"Great job bebop. I can smell the smoke and sweat and taste the cold beer here in Wisconsin. Thank you Buddy Owen & Band." wag11man
Thursday 3 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Use of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 'embarassing': fans
Fans of deceased Nirvana mastermind Kurt Cobain are seething over the release of the video game Guitar Hero 5, which features a cartoon avatar of the frontman singing Bon Jovi songs and rapping. There was mild controversy over Cobain’s inclusion in the wildly popular music simulator – mainly due to his iconoclastic music being at odds with the commercial sensibilities of the game – but this turned to rage when it was revealed that Cobain could be a “playable” character once a certain level of skill was reached. Being able to “play” as Cobain meant that his character could “sing” a range of unusual song choices, including rap group Public Enemy’s Bring The Noise, and poster boy group Bon Jovi’s You Give Love A Bad Name. Fans of Cobain voiced their frustrations with the inclusion almost instantly on the internet, saying that the game was completely at odds with his artistic vision.
Ashley Dupre, Spitzer Call Girl, Lashes Out At Critics, Book Publishers
Ashley Dupre, the call girl entangled in former-Gov. Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal, lashes out at critics and the media in a new blog post on Global Grind.
Dupre writes that while she's happy that Spitzer, who will be an adjunct professor at City College in the fall, is seemingly moving on with his life, she has been unable erase the stain of scandal from her own name.
The struggling singer claims not have "made a dime" on the affair, and takes the publishers who had offered her book deals, only to rescind them, to task:
Did this hit too close to home for you because your husband cheated on you with an escort? I will write the book regardless and do it for the right reasons.
Dupre also takes issue with being called "the woman who brought down the Governor," saying:
I didn't call the tabloids, I didn't blow the whistle and I didn't save "the dress." I did nothing to shine a light on my indiscretions or to "out" anyone else.
Inside Out - Ashley
but Blanche...what's this about you taking more money from the health industry than any other Democrat in 2009?
BLANCHE LINCOLN IS THE QUEEN OF CASH FROM THE HEALTH INDUSTRY
The Sunlight Foundation's Paul Blumenthal reports that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has taken more money in campaign contributions from the health industry than any of her Democratic peers in 2009. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Lincoln benefited from $325,350 in contributions from the health industry in the first half of 2009.
"The large amount in contributions underlies a constantly shifting position by the senator on health care reform," notes Blumenthal. Lincoln sits on the Senate Finance Committee, the lone panel that has so far failed to get its act together on health care reform legislation.
Another Democratic senator bails on public option
A moderate Democratic senator from Arkansas has bailed on the so-called public option health insurance plan after previously publicly supporting the idea.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said Wednesday that she will oppose the public option, which would create a government-run insurance provider to compete with private insurers. Insurance companies say it will eat into their profit margins and result in completely government-run health insurance; supporters say it will trim health insurance costs and make insurance more affordable.
Wednesday 2 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
CDs: Richard Thompson -- Still Brilliant, Still a Rock God, Still Getting Boxed
"For most musical acts, getting a boxed set is the grand finale to their career. Look at Hall & Oates. The most successful pop duo of all time, Hall & Oates are only getting their first boxed set in October.
In contrast stands Richard Thompson, a man dubbed by Rolling Stone as one of the 20 greatest guitarists of all time, alongside the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. (Thompson has jammed with most of them, though Johnson has proven a hard nut to crack.)" Here's the original Fairport Convention, pre Sandy Denny, pre Linda Thompson, with Judy Dyble
Tuesday 1 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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my "oldest" buddy,(we met when I reported for duty on my first ship, the U.S.S. Cacapon in 1961 and we celebrated my 18th birthday in Hong Kong) Roger, is down from Ukiah to help me organize for the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock that's comin' up the 25th of October at Speedway Meadows, always good to see him...
here’s a sneak preview of Bebop Videos latest innovation... BEBOP-GOLD RUSH… everywhere I turn these days, folks are coming to one common conclusion…”I’ve got to lighten the load here”…one man’s need to “circle the wagon’s”, can be another man’s opportunity to “load up a wagon or two”…there are plenty of venues out there to dispose of “whatever”…BEBOP-GOLD RUSH diamonded@bebopvideos.com and we’ll spread the word…
Monday 28 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Saturday 26 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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the Stripers are bitin' so I'm gonna mozey on down to the Corte Madera Creek, and feed the fish, it's the best Striper fishin' in Marin County, it's about a block away, I walk down there with my dog, Rocky, a couple of times a day...the audio track is from "Soft Summer Breeze" on the Buddy Owen Band Of Angels Album...See ya'
this is what it looked like around here, Christmas 03'...after this they hit the reset button and added some drain pumps and re-furbished the old ones...
I was just listening to The Rock Garden, the late Bill Ashford's free-form internet radio station and Emmy Lou Harris and old "Dump Truck" eased into my consciousness...so many many hours of listening pleasure...they still haven't changed a thing, left his library and sense of rotation and selection intact...it's like he never left..
President Obama could read the grim assessment of the Afghanistan war from his top military commander there in two possible read Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s report as a blunt and impassioned last-chance plea for a revamped counterinsurgency strategy bolstered by thousands more combat troops to rescue the beleaguered, eight-year mission.
Or he could read it as a searing indictment of American-led NATO military operations and a corrupt Afghan civilian government, pitted against a surprisingly adaptive and increasingly dangerous insurgency.
Either way, General McChrystal’s 66-page report with the deceptively bland title “Commander’s Initial Assessment” is serving to catalyze the thinking of a president — who is keenly aware of the historical perils of a protracted, faraway war — about what he can realistically accomplish in this conflict, and whether his vision for the war and a commitment of American troops is the same as his general’s.ways. He could
There was a sense among General McChrystal’s staff that the military effort in Afghanistan was disjointed and had not learned from the lessons of the past years of the war.
“We haven’t been fighting in Afghanistan for eight years,” said one officer. “We’ve been fighting in Afghanistan for one year, eight times in a row.”
It's a basic lose-lose proposition and, as journalist Eric Schmitt wrote in a New York Times assessment of the situation, "it will be very hard to say no to General McChrystal." No wonder the president and some of his men are dragging their feet and looking elsewhere. As one typically anonymous "defense analyst" quoted in the Los Angeles Times said, the administration is suffering "buyer's remorse for this war... They never really thought about what was required, and now they have sticker shock."
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A Fox News Channel producer has been caught in a behind-the-scenes video rallying the crowd during last weekend's 9/12 protest in Washington.
The Huffington Post has confirmed that the woman in the below video — seen raising her arms to rally the crowd behind Griff Jenkins, who was reporting from the scene for Fox News — is Fox News producer Heidi Noonan.
"The employee is a young, relatively inexperienced associate producer who realizes she made a mistake and has been disciplined," Bryan Boughton, Fox News Channel Washington Bureau Chief told the Huffington Post.
The video shows the producer on her cell phone as she urges the crowd behind Jenkins to cheer louder. An "I'm A Foxaholic" poster appears nearby.
Saturday 19 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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I just downloaded a trial version of Videocue, a teleprompting program that show's you being filmed and giving you the copy you wrote while your looking directly into the camera. The free trial allows you to publish clips up to 60' and as soon as you've finishd shooting, it saves a quick time movie instantly that's ready to print to video. I'm not getting a very good audio track, but I only paid $40 for this little Dynex webcam so in the real world I'll be using a Senheiser mike or the mikes on my video cameras. So here goes...
so here's a"usin' ur ed'" mini-tutorial clip shot with my Sony PC-101 digital video camera and it takes a lot better picture, I can create my teleprompter text with one of my titles programs and slow it down to my copy reading speed which, if I remember right, it's about 250 wpm. so here goes...
This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by our municipal water utility.After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like,
using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the prescriptions which have beendetermined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency,
using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
Max Neu
Herb's son Max wrote this, he just returned from a "2 year stint in Dubai, where he was an engineer on major construction projects". It must be sweet, having children out there doin' ya' proud, I just hooked up with a long-lost daughter, about 6 years ago, and it's certainly brought some depth and joy to my life.
Insurance Company Must Pay $10 Million For Revoking Policy Of Teen With HIV
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. The court called the 2002 decision by the insurance company "reprehensible."
The ruling emerges from a conservative Southern state with one of the most pro-business climates in the country. And it comes as progressive Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressing for health care reforms, such as a public insurance option, that reflect wariness about the private insurance industry's motives.
In Febuary 2008, a private arbitration judge in Los Angeles ordered Health Net Inc. to pay more than $9 million to a breast cancer patient whose health insurance it revoked shortly after her diagnosis and while she was undergoing chemotherapy. The plaintiff in that case, Patsy Bates, a then-52-year-old grandmother and hair-salon owner, was unable to continue her chemotherapy for several months.
During the case, evidence emerged that Health Net had paid bonuses to employees to reward them based on the number of policyholders they had rescinded. The judge who awarded Bates the $9 million said in his decision: "It's difficult to imagine a policy more reprehensible than tying bonuses to encourage the rescission of health insurance that keeps the public well and alive."
Thursday 17 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Glenn Beck On TIME Magazine Cover: Is The "Mad Man" Bad For America?
Glenn Beck has landed on the cover of TIME magazine.
Beck is featured in a cover story by David Von Drehle titled, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad For America?"
"As melodrama, it's thumping good stuff," Von Drehle writes. "But as politics, it's sort of a train wreck - at once powerful, spellbinding and uncontrolled."
Von Drehle adds:
Extreme talk, especially as practiced by a genuine talent like Beck, squeezes maximum profit from a relatively small, deeply invested audience...The more the host is criticized, the more committed the original audience becomes. And the more committed the audience, the bigger target it presents to the rant industry on the other side of the spectrum... How can we trust each other, though, when the integrated economy of ranters and their delighted-to-be-outraged critics are such a model of profitability? A microphone, a camera and a polarizing host is all it takes to get the money moving.
Looks like Time booted another one…
here’s the cover of Time Magazine, dated December the 8th, 1941, the day after the Japanese attackedPearl Harbor…not a word about it in the entire magazine, not even the suspicion it might happen, much less any walk-up stuff…nada
New TIME Cover on Glenn Beck Ignores Facts, and Worse
I have no quarrel with TIME magazine devoting a cover to Glenn Beck -- so long as the accompanying story sticks to hard facts and harsh truths. The issue coming tomorrow, online today, sadly fails to do so in an apparent effort to woo the rightwing with a ludicrously "balanced" treatment of equally dangerous and wacko "ranting" coming from left and right.
It starts right away with a first paragraph that claims that only "liberal sources" estimated the protest crowd in D.C. last weekend as about 70,000, while conservatives say up to a million or more. Actually, virtually all mainstream media sources (even some on Fox News) endorse a far lower number.
I've decided to re-rack this post from Tuesday, in the hope it snags some attention, ie., support...this could be "the big one"...the time to nurture a good idea is at it's birth...with a little help, this could take "Tea Party" to the Woodstock level...
now we knew how to put together a "Tea Party"...
I’m finally catching up on Friday’s edition of the Bill Maher Show and one of his guests is Paul Reickhoff, “the executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest organization for veterans of the War on Terror. During his time in the Adamiyah section of central Baghdad, he led his light infantry platoon on hundreds of combat patrols with the 3rd Infantry and 1st Armored Divisions. He continues to serve his country as an Infantry Officer in the New York Army National Guard.”
Saturday morning last, I caught a post on Raw Story about the Friday night show and it had several YouTube clips breaking down the main segments. I watched the monologue and I was rolling around on the floor so in favor of putting together my own post, I put off watching the other clips in order to go through all of the fast breaking stories that were all over the web.
By sundown, I was pretty well caught up with my stuff and returned to the Raw Story post, and HBO had removed all of the clips, for a copyright violation. Now it’s Tuesday, and I’m watching the show On Demand. Five minutes or so into the show Paul Reickhoff comes out with the most intelligent statement I’ve heard since Obama called Kanya a jackass.
“Obama is completely wasting the power of the most dedicated, loyal, conscientious, and passionate collection of supporters at his disposal." I'm paraphrasing here...
"All he has to do is direct a speech at those Americans that have no health coverage, “I want all of you folks that have no health coverage whatsoever, to assemble in the morning on the South Lawn”, and that would assemble the biggest crowd anybody’s ever seen”. This is such a nuclear statement, that I can’t imagine how the Obama administration can avoid addressing it. Can you? Where I come from, way down in Louisianne, we call it "dancin' wif dem wut brung' ya"
Van Jones Breaks Silence On Resignation: 'Nothing But Love For Obama'
“Of course, some supporters actually think I will be more effective on the "outside." Maybe so. But those ideas always remind me of that old canard about Winston Churchill. After he lost a hard-fought election, a friend told him: "Winston, this really is just a blessing in disguise." Churchill quipped: "Damned good disguise." I can certainly relate to that sentiment right now. :)
Wednesday 16 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Happy Hour 2night ,6-8pm 19 Broadway, Fairfax - The Buddy Owen Band live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax with Ian Lamson on guitar and Richie Smith on keyboards Steve Evans is on the road with CoCo Montoya so we have the extremely capable Phil Marshall on bass...and Bruce Brymer on drums...
"Great job bebop. I can smell the smoke and sweat and taste the cold beer here in Wisconsin. Thank you Buddy Owen & Band." wag11man
"Tea Party" Leader Melts Down On CNN: Obama Is An "Indonesian Muslim Turned Welfare Thug" (VIDEO) "Tea Party" leader Mark Williams appeared on a CNN panel on "Anderson Cooper 360" last night and promptly set to work discrediting himself and his movement. Williams denounced those carrying blatantly racist signs against President Obama during the tea parties as "no more part of the mainstream of America than the hippies who wear nipple clips and feather boas in San Francisco streets during so-called peace demonstrations."
Cooper had done his homework, however, and caught Williams blatantly misrepresenting himself: "What you're saying makes sense to me here when I'm hearing what you say but then I read on your blog, you say, you call the President an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief."
"let us pray, there will be no more...no more" Part II
Tuesday 15 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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President Obama reportedly calls Kanye West ‘jackass’
UPDATE: Audio surfaces of Obama calling Kanye West ‘a jackass’
Celebrity news Web site TMZ.com has obtained an audio clip of President Obama’s CNBC interview in which he called rapper Kanye West a “jackass.”
Asked for his thoughts on West giving Taylor Swift “the Joe Wilson treatment,” Obama replied: “I thought that was really inappropriate. I mean, she’s getting an award, what are you butting in? I hear ya, I agree with ya. … The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, she’s getting her award. Why did he do that? He’s a jackass.”
Apparently realizing the stir his remark created, Obama added: “come on guys, cut the president some slack. I’ve got a lot of other stuff on my plate.”
Listen to the clip here.
–Original report follows–
President Barack Obama appears to have dubbed Kanye West a “jackass” in off-the-record comments posted by an ABC News anchor Monday night.
Weighing in on an interruption made by the singer during the MTV Music Awards Monday, where West grabbed the mic from country music singer Taylor Swift, Obama appears to have echoed a relatively universal irritation.
“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential,” “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday to his followers on Twitter.
But because the remarks were supposed to be off the record, ABC quickly pulled them, and issued an apology.
After 8 years and more, the MSM should go ahead and leave their head up their ass...Nightline has been no more than a jazzed up TMZ for years now and this is their "break-out" nooze flash?...now that we have a really well organized web presence of responsible journalists and non-profit watchdogs, etc., who would ever want to go back to relying on the MSM for anything but "vapid meaningless elevator video".
Terry Moron, star of "elevator video" please stick to this sort of shit, it's the least harmful exercise you can lend yourself to. Let the grown ups take care of the serious shit, ie., Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, Huff Post, Media Matters, TPM, Bill Maher, John Stuart, Crooks and Liars, BradBlog, The Washington Note, PBS, Tavis Smiley, David Letterman, Steven Colbert ...you know, the list goes on and on...let's hope you don't. In fact, let's see you pull some shit like this on Jessie Ventura...he'd slap the taste out of your mouth like that other rube, John Stossel... and your story about the innocent man just executed in Texas for a crime he was completely innocent of would have surely saved his life if you had run it a month ago...when are you guys gonna realize, "weapons of mass destruction" are no laughing matter you guys in the MSM thought it was hysterical when GW made a "comedy bit out of it..."no, no MWD's here, none under here, yuk-yuk
diamonde@bebopvideos.com
I've pretty much decided to return to my roots to restore a little balance and harmony into my life...my very first concert was an Alan Freed extravaganza in Houston, Texas... the year "1956 I was 14 years old and living in Detroit with my grandparents when Hound Dog, by Elvis came out and I bought it to take to school for our weekly sock-hop in gym....I soon transplanted to my mom's home in Houston and attended my first concert at the Houston Auditorium, where I had a job selling peanuts, popcorn, and cracker-jacks at the wrestling matches. Since the rock & roll concerts were held at the same auditorium, and I knew that all the doors would be open all day on the eve of concerts, my buds and I would head down there in the late afternoon and sneak in and hide under the stage. My first concert was one of Alan Freed's show" (for more on this subject A BRIEF HISTORY OF DIAMOND ED)...one of the songs I heard that night...The Great Pretender by the Platters..."preeetending...that aliens ran off with Glen Beck",...and after a couple of hours cooped up with him in a spaceship, they ditched him at the nearest asteroid...buh bye
there's balance and harmony everywhere if you just "shut your mouth, and open your mind"...Chet Helms
Opinion: So far, Obama's failing miserably
When he ran for president, George W. Bush promised to be a modest reformer at home and a humble representative of the United States on the world stage. The Al Qaeda-organized-and-funded terrorist attacks of eight years ago changed all that. During his presidency, Bush created massive new government bureaucracies, sent troops into two wars and threatened more as part of America’s war on terror.
Barack Obama’s initial approach to the office of the presidency has been as grandiose as Bush’s was restrained. It’s not hard to recall that he ran as a transformative candidate, promising sweeping, though somewhat fuzzy, “change” during the campaign.
Here's the comment I tried to post on Politico this morning after reading this shit...I don't think they posted it...
It might be worth noting that "8 years of Bush bashing", failed miserably as far as stopping him from driving the entire nation, and half the world, into the ditch so you can pee & moan and whine till’ the cows come home, with equal or less empact, the noise is falling on deaf ears. He’s just getting started and the right’s hair is on fire even now. It’s been less than a year and the way the right is feeding on their own already, I suspect a “tea party” a year from now will be about as busy as a Nazi funeral in Bethlehem.
Stand by for Act II, this is where Obama clicks his heels twice, and suspends: Bush's "tax break for the rich", immediately pumping big bucks into the tax coffers, torture, all of his signing statements, and generally speaking, gets to the heart of the matter of restoring some sanity to our weary nation. No more mister nice guy.
With a firm hand, and the slightest semblance of Bush's "heavy hand" at governing, Obama ought to have this country, spiritually, physically, and financially, running like a Swiss watch in his second year, and that sad mistreated mass, the ghosts of Obama’s best bi-partisan efforts, the Republican Party et al., can go on a 20 year sabbatical and study their Naval's.
here’s an excellent preview of what the fall television programming may hold for you…(check out this unique media gallery from the Daily Beast Hollywood vs. Leno
With Jay Leno’s show premiering Monday, many in Hollywood are hopeful—that he’ll fail. The reason? His show signals the end of the good old days for anyone who isn’t a comic, says Kim Masters.
The new Jay Leno Show finally premieres Monday night, and oh, how passionately many in Hollywood are rooting for him to fail...
Monday 14 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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speak truth to power at your own peril...
is it just me or did this poor guy just fall off the planet? MSNBC throws him under the bus and nobody says a word...talk about "movin' in mysterious ways"...what are they trying to do? Turn daytime MSNBC into the never-ending "Morning Joe Show", what a joke, what the hell is Faux Nooze for?
Carlos Watson Loses Anchor Slot At MSNBC Mediaite has learned that Carlos Watson, anchor of MSNBC’s 11 a.m. weekday show, “Live with Carlos Watson,” will no longer be anchoring that hour on the network. An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed the rumor, which we learned via Mediaite columnist Danielle Belton on her website, The Black Snob. MSNBC spokesperson Alana Russo said that yes, Watson’s hour had been canceled, but that he will remain a contributor with MSNBC.
one of the things he talked about...
one of the things he talked about...and Mike Wallace made sure to rub it in The Ayatolla's face, sealing Anwar Sadat's fate a year later...thanks Mike
Sunday 13 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
the latest edition of The Bill Maher Show offers one of his freshest, most relevant monologues ever and the YouTube clips were posted on Raw Story, and of course bebopvideos and it was fantastic...up until a few minutes ago when HBO pulled the clips for a copyright violation...in other words if your one of the millions of Americans who's found themselves in an extremely precarious financial state, and god forbid, lost your HBO, by god your shit out of luck as a target viewer of Bill Maher...I think if I was Bill Maher, I'd be thinking long and hard about curtailing "freedom of speech"...maybe you could go down to BestBuys and catch his act on the fly...he's also catching a little flack for his bone-headed refusal to show any regard whatsoever for folks that are so bold as to question any aspect of 911 and the flakey, inadequate investigation by the government...oh' well, this is the worst time in the world for the left to be going to pieces...
Bill Maher to Obama: 'Stand up for the 70% of Americans who aren't crazy.'
Friday night on 'Real Time' with Bill Maher, Maher had a lot on his mind to cover in his 'New Rules' segment. He had new rules to cover everything from babies in public swimming pools to Michelle Obama's arms, and a message for President Obama, asking him to "Stand up for the 70% of Americans who aren't crazy" in the drive for serious health care reform.
Many will remember the song American Pie by Don McClean, Pearl Harbor, and "9/11" eight years ago today, on September 11, 2001.
The lyrics of the song American Pie clearly depict a loss of the intangible because the song depicts a poetic, musical notion that there was a day when the music died:
In a voice that came from you and me
And while the King was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
...
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in hell
Could break that satan's spell
And as flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw satan laughing with delight
the day the music died.
...
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
(American Pie, Wiki). The Pearl Harbor Episode before that, and the 9/11 Episode after that caused loss to our nation too.
In both cases a part of the music of the U.S. Constitution died.
"may the baby Jesus, shut your mouth...and open your mind"...Chet Helms, The Family Dog
I once interviewed for a job as Sales Manager of a Christian radio station in my home town of Shreveport, Louisiana. The General Manager that hired me had given me everything I asked for, 25% commission, cash as I wrote it, food and gas trade-outs, literally everything I could think of to give me a strong footing and some hope for success. That night I was up late pondering the position I had possibly put myself in, with my new employer and "the gods", as well.
In the morning, I went into the office and approached James Ederer, General Manager of KJOE AM, and told him, "Franly, I'm not much of a Christian...and beyond that, I'd describe myself as a "casual heathen", meaning, I seldom attend church of any kind, never quote "the gospel", have little or nothing in common with the average "Christian", and could potentially embarris him and the "company. However, my greatest concern is the baby Jesus, my loose affiliation with the gods, prohibits me from "raping and pillaging in the name of god. If I was to behave like many of the preachers who's pre-recorded messages graced our programming, I'd be afraid of god gettin' me." James replied, "Ehhyyudd, you just load the wagon, and let me worry about the mule."
As the time quickly passed, and James, and I became fast friends and dedicated “water-hole buddy’s”, meeting daily at one of my “food and beverage” trade-outs, to tally my sales achievements for the day and drink to “our” success. In two and a half weeks I had sold us out completely. The month prior to my hiring on, a sales staff of two retired preachers had sold a grand total of $86 worth of ads.
James had been a successful insurance broker in Oklahoma City and one of his high school buddies, a radio tycoon of considerable wealth, owner of a chain of 7 radio stations, was one of his “star accounts”. He had talked James into launching a career in radio by moving to Shreveport as KJOE’s new General Manager. James was going through an ugly divorce and saw it as an opportunity to get out of Dodge and proceed with the “rest of his life”.
James had a beautiful girl friend, a preachers daughter, who had come along with him and they were quietly “living in sin” and loving it. The lady had a pre-fab Playboy class rack, a stunning figure, a pristine singing voice, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Pentecostal gospel music.
You could be sitting in the Waffle House at 2 am, waiting on your breakfast, or casually walking down the street, and this girl would, out of nowhere, bust out in full-throated song…her favorites were standards of the Chuck Wagon Gang and she could draw a fond crowd anywhere. I should have been passing the hat. Here’s a sampling of their music. As a group, their recordings span sixty some-odd years, and as the members age and pass on, their replaced by their children. She turned me onto them, and I’d like to share the wealth with you now.
Friday 11 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Here's the Weekend Scoop, Buddy Owen Band + Special Guests, @ Rancho Nicasio Friday Night Sept 11th Starting @ 8pm
Sat. Sept. 12th The Broken Drum With Brian Fischer + Giovanni
Extra Special Smokin' Sunday Sept. 13th @ 19 Broadway 9pm with The band featuring Ernest "Boom"Carter, and Richard Segovia from Puro Bandido.
I'm sure you can make one of these Shows Each with a Special Twist.
Thanks Buddy,
as Always More Info @ www.buddyowen.com
Nirvana Members 'Dismayed And Very Disappointed' By 'Guitar Hero 5'
Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl said in a joint statement Thursday that they were "dismayed and very disappointed" that an avatar of the late Nirvana frontman could be used to play songs by other artists.
"While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the character," they said. "This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants. We urge Activision to do the right thing in 're-locking' Kurt's character so that this won't continue in the future."
Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, had been lashing out on Twitter this week about her late husband's inclusion in the game, calling it vile and claiming she would sue Activision, the game's publisher. Love claimed she never approved Cobain's digital likeness, and that she thought the grunge rocker would despise the rhythm game "let alone this avatar."
Baucus & Conrad cave again, toughen health care bill's anti-immigrant provisions to appease Joe "You lie!" Wilson
by John Aravosis (DC) on 9/11/2009 08:30:00 AM
Yes, because that's the first thing a sane person would think after Wilson's bizarre, and boorish, and untrue outbreak during the joint session, an outburst that has the GOP reeling: What can we do to appease Joe Wilson's legitimate concerns so he'll stop being mean to us? From TIME:
Health Care Bill To Cover Undocumented Immigrants? False.
Over at Media Matters, Eric Boehlert calls out the media for covering Rep. Joe Wilson's interjectory fireworks during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night without delving into whether Wilson was correct in his assertion -- that Obama was lying when he said that illegal immigrants would not qualify for credits for the proposed health care exchanges:
What's been completely glossed over by the press is the fact that the "You Lie!" was itself built upon a lie. That the rude outburst was yet more GOP misinformation. Instead, too many in the press treat the exchange as a he said/he said. i.e. Obama claimed illegal immigrants won't be covered, and Wilson called him a liar. What are the facts? Which man was telling the truth? The press won't say.
Thursday 10 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Arianna Discusses The Right Wing's "Lunatic Fringe" On ABC's 20/20
Watch a clip of Arianna talking about the right wing's "lunatic fringe" on ABC"s 20/20 with John Stossel. (a little schoolin’ for the boy)
John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox Business & Fox News
John Stossel is leaving ABC News for Fox, where he'll host a weekly show on Fox Business and host a series of specials for Fox News.
TVNewser reports that the libertarian "20/20" host is expected to sign a multi-year-deal with Fox, where he'll host a two-hour weekly show on Fox Business and make appearances on Fox News in both the daytime and primetime hours.
Stossel's departure comes on the heels of last week's announcement that Charlie Gibson is retiring from ABC News.
here's another Stossel clip...easy viewing, as they say
Olbermann Retracts "Fox-Twa" on Glenn Beck
"Do I really want to be like Glenn Beck? Do I really want to be like Fox News or the New York Post? I don't mean I'd stop calling any of them out for their inanities... What could we possibility find out that would be more humiliating to Glenn Beck, more embarrassing to Glenn Beck, more destructive about Glenn Beck, than this one fact: he's Glenn Beck."
Obama speech disrupter a health industry darling
During President Obama’s address on health insurance reform to a joint session of Congress last night, he observed that some people have been spreading bad information about his proposal — and that contrary to what’s been said it would not cover illegal immigrants.
At that point the president was interrupted by Rep. Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson (right), a Republican from South Carolina.
“You lie!” Wilson shouted from the crowd…
Whether because of his outspokenness or in spite of it, Wilson is a major recipient of contributions from the health care industry.
In fact, over his entire congressional career, health professionals represent Wilson’s top industry contributors, donating a total of $244,196 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org database. He received another $86,150 from pharmaceutical companies, $73,050 from insurance companies and $68,000 from hospitals and nursing homes.
Wednesday 9 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Rachel Maddow On Obama's Speech: President Offered "Full, Formal Defense Of Liberalism" (VIDEO)
Rachel Maddow's initial reaction to President Obama's health care speech to a joint session of Congress was largely favorable, particularly the end of the speech in which the President promised to "call out" Republicans who misrepresented his plan and offered what Maddow described as a "full, basically formal, at length defense of liberalism":
The president gave what I think is the only full, basically formal, at length defense of liberalism and defense of the idea of government for the people's good, in ideological terms. It's the most ideological I've ever heard him be and I think liberals will be happy.
Scarborough for President
by Mark McKinnon-The Daily Beast
The Plausible: Why not Joe Scarborough, the former Florida congressman, author, and entertaining host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe? Scarborough is telegenic, has a quick wit, legislative experience, and may have the most important factor of all, though he won’t admit it. Yet. He may have the “want it” factor.
Scarborough could be a strong candidate against Obama. He’s a terrific communicator. He’s media savvy. He has strong conservative credentials especially on fiscal and foreign-policy issues.
Scarborough left Congress five months into his fourth term because he wanted to spend more time with his children, saying that he’d rather be judged as being a good father than a good politician. And for that alone, he shows he has his priorities in place and deserves some credit and consideration. But now the kids are older, so...
but wait a minute...
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo...
Friday, July 14, 2006
scarborough country of the dead
katherine harris' floundering u.s. senate campaign lost its high-level staff again this week and is groping for a message -- which doesn't surprise republican insiders who trace the seeds of her trouble to the story of "joe's dead intern."
this wasn't any old joe.
it was joe scarborough, host of the prime-time msnbc show scarborough country and a former pensacola republican congressman who was courted last summer by national republicans to run against harris. but before he could announce he wouldn't, harris called major donors and suggested scarborough would have to answer questions about the strange death of a former staff member in 2001, according to two former high-level harris staff members, a gop donor and scarborough.
"that was the first clue that something wasn't right with katherine harris," scarborough told the miami herald in a recent interview, noting that a medical examiner found his staff member's death was natural and not the result of foul play.
well, we never thought we'd hear ourselves say this, but...
we agree with katherine harris.
"Since this scandal involving the death of Scarborough's alleged mistress ended his political career, MSNBC gave him a plum job as a talking head. Doesn't this crime cry out for Michael Moore's investigative talents? Doesn't this poor girl deserve to have her death investigated and to bring the criminal to justice?"
Robert Reich Explains The Public Option In 70 Seconds
Tonight, President Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress and urge lawmakers to pass health care reform. Naturally, it will also be an occasion to address the American people and once again explain the core ingredients of the plan. All eyes will be focused on the extent to which Obama makes or does not make the case for the public option, a matter about which the White House has continually sent mixed signals.
By contrast, former Labor Secretary and Huffington Post contributor Robert Reich has been a clear and outspoken supporter of the public option and, in a video that's been bouncing around the Internet this week, Reich states the case for the public option in a very clear in succinct fashion. As many have pointed out, it takes Reich only 70 seconds to fully explain what the public option is and does. (He spend the rest of the video explaining the pernicious effects of health care lobbyists and urging the public to act.) It can be done! It will be interesting to see if Obama is capable of a similar explanation. To my mind, Reich sets the standard.
DEVELOPING…ORAL ARGUMENTS HAVE CONCLUDED; McCain, Feingold: Roberts vote ‘could have serious consequences for our democracy’
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that began with a film attacking Hillary Clinton, but could end up having far-reaching ramifications. The Associated Press notes that the Justices are effectively weighing “whether to allow corporations and labor unions to pay for political campaigns and end a century of legislative efforts to curb such spending.”
NBC’s Pete Williams reported that five Justices indicated support for overturning prohibitions on the contributions of corporations and labor unions.
The AP reports that “newly seated Justice Sonia Sotomayor jumped right into the questioning. She appeared skeptical about taking the far-reaching step of lifting the ban, a move urged on the court by a lawyer for a group that made the 90-minute movie that sought to undermine Clinton’s presidential ambitions.”
The McCain/Feingold statement continues, ““It was just six years ago that the Supreme Court upheld the electioneering communications provision in McCain-Feingold and nothing has happened in that time to warrant the drastic step of overruling that decision. During his confirmation hearing, Chief Justice Roberts, whom we both voted for, promised to respect precedent. If he casts the deciding vote to overrule Austin and McConnell, it would completely contradict that promise, and could have serious consequences for our democracy.”
By all means "lift the ban"...this could turn out for the better...If the conservative wing of he Supreme Court over-reaches and shows it's pro-business colors in such an obnoxious way, it could result in Obama permanently salting the balance in the other direction, which would be his reasonable, intelligent, balanced reaction, and his base would rally like never before...I'm sure there are sufficient remedy's to "lifting the ban" and whatever immediate misery it might bring would surely be outweighed by having a LIberal majority on the Supreme Court...
Are the Days of Drudge Over?
By Gillian Reagan
September 8, 2009 | 7:26 p.m
Just over a month ago, Linda Douglass, a former ABC News correspondent and current communications director for the Obama administration’s Health Reform Office, appeared in a video posted on the White House’s official blog titled “Facts Are Stubborn Things.”
In the video, the Drudge Report was displayed on one of the computer screens at her desk. Peering over her red-framed glasses, Ms. Douglass read one of the headlines posted on the site: “Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Healthcare Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance.”
“Well, nothing can be farther from the truth,” Ms. Douglass said into the camera. “The people who always try to scare people whenever you try to bring them health-insurance reform are at it again. And they’re taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they’re cobbling them together to leave a very false impression.”
Tuesday 8 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
"Liberal does not and has not meant weak until the conservatives said it did. Was Martin Luther King weak? Bobby Kennedy? Gene McCarthy? It was the liberals who remade this country and ended legal segregation and legal sexism. Not the conservatives, who wanted to hold on to the old ways.
It's time to regain the sprit of FDR and Truman and the people around them. People who believed in the public good over private gain. It is time to stop apologizing for being a liberal and be proud to fight for your beliefs. No more shying away or being defined by other people. Liberals believe in a strong defense and punishment for crime. But not preemption and pointless jail sentences. We believe no American should be turned away from a hospital because they are too poor or lack a proper legal defense. We believe that people should make enough from one job to live on, to spend time on raising their family. We believe that individuals and not the state should dictate who gets married and why. The best way to defend marriage is to expand, not restrict it.
It was the liberals who opposed the Nazis while the conservatives were plotting to get their brown shirts or fund Hitler. It was the liberals who warned about Spain and fought there, who joined the RAF to fight the Germans, who brought democracy to Germany and Japan. Let us not forget it was the conservatives who opposed defending America until the Germans sank our ships. They would have done nothing as Britain came under Nazi control. It was they who supported Joe McCarthy and his baseless, drink fueled claims.
Without liberals, there would be no modern America, just a Nazi sattlelite state. Liberals weak on defense? Liberals created America's defense. The conservatives only need vets at election time.
It is time to stop looking for an accomodation with the right. They want none for us. They want to win, at any price. So, you have a choice: be a fighting liberal or sit quietly. I know what I am, what are you?" - Steve Gilliard
MSNBC Republican strategist Joe Watkins has, as one network host put it, a tough position to defend.
Speaking with MSNBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman on Tuesday, Watkins insisted that President Barack Obama is too charismatic to give a speech to American students, arguing that parents should not have to “compete” with him for the “hearts and minds” of their children.
A fellow guest on the show, Michael Knowles of the San Antonio, Texas tea party group, first argued Watkins’ position, telling Snyderman he believes the lesson plans accompanying Obama’s speech are “actually illegal.”
“What’s your problem with the message?” she asked Knowles.
“There is no problem with the message,” he said. “It the lesson plans that encourages the students to reveal personal information about themselves by participating in the lessons that the teachers are putting forth for ‘em, and that’s illegal under state and federal law.”
It’s been a little over two years now and I’ve never missed him more. Steve Gilliard November 13, 1964 – June 2, 2007
“Ever wonder why New Yorkers detest George Bush?”
“Because we experienced his incompetence up close and person. We knew this guy was full of shit, absolutely full of fucking shit, after they started to play games with the funding and gave Wyoming terrorism money. We knew he was an assclown then.
We thought DC 9/11 was a comedy, because the Bush we saw hid in AF One like the scared bitch that he is.
But did you listen?
Fuck no. Until last week, Ann Coulter was calling New Yorkers cowards for not endorsing Bush's folly in Iraq.
We have been screaming for two years that Bush and his team sucked. That they had no clue. They sent soldiers to be wounded in Iraq without armored anything. And you idiots cheered him on from the safety of your keyboards. We told you he was fucking up Iraq. But no, we supported Saddam, we were racist, we blamed America.
You say this isn't about politics? Fuck you, this IS politics, real time, real life politics, where the insanity of all your ideas are exposed to the world for the fraud that they are. Tax cuts kill. Ask the relatives of the dead of the Gulf Coast.
Well, motherfuckers, the alligators are feasting on dead nigger and there isn't an Iraqi in sight. And Bush is trying to gladhand his way through a mess which has stunned FOX reporters. I mean, Shepard Smith is calling Fox's talking heads liars ON THE AIR.”…
Thank You, Glenn Beck!
Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than what you intended.
Your vile and vicious smear campaign has helped reverse one of the worst examples of miscasting since John Wayne took on the role of Genghis Khan in The Conqueror.
Don't get me wrong: Van Jones was the best person for the job he just gave up. But the job was not the best use of Van Jones.
Contrary to the media caricature, the real Van Jones is a thoughtful leader who knows how to use words to move people to action. To stick him behind a desk, working out the details of tax credits for green jobs -- incredibly important though the job is -- was never the best use of his unique and abundant skills.
Leave Van Jones Alone
Conservative Reihan Salam on why the liberal environmentalist is a tragic victim of the thought police—and the Republican facing a similar firing squad.
My guess is that Van Jones and Bob McDonnell aren't the closest of friends. One is an African-American activist from the progressive left, who's spent much of his adult life in inner-city Oakland fighting The Man; the other is a white middle-aged pro-life Catholic Republican, who has long represented The Man in the deep-red Sunbelt suburbs of Virginia. But I'd recommend that Jones and McDonnell get in touch. Over the past few weeks, both men have run into a media buzz-saw for the crime of daring to have had actual thoughts at some point in the distant past, rather than filling the space between their ears with poll-tested nothings. And while liberals are outraged about the right's jihad against Jones and conservatives insist that McDonnell is being crucified by the left-wing media elite, hardly anyone appreciates the pervasive—and nauseating—hypocrisy that has left American democracy at the mercy of a gang of self-policing, sanctimonious nerds.
Monday 7 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
another one bites the dust...
speak truth to power at your own peril...
Carlos Watson Loses Anchor Slot At MSNBC
Mediaite has learned that Carlos Watson, anchor of MSNBC’s 11 a.m. weekday show, “Live with Carlos Watson,” will no longer be anchoring that hour on the network. An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed the rumor, which we learned via Mediaite columnist Danielle Belton on her website, The Black Snob. MSNBC spokesperson Alana Russo said that yes, Watson’s hour had been canceled, but that he will remain a contributor with MSNBC.
one of the things he talked about...
Dean: Van Jones resignation a ‘loss for the country’
The resignation of Van Jones from his position as the White House’s green jobs czar is a “loss for the country,” Howard Dean told Fox News Sunday morning.
Dean added that “this guy is a Yale-educated lawyer, he’s a best-selling author. … I think he was brought down, I think Washington’s a tough place that way. I think it’s a loss for the country.”
The problem with Van Jones' resignation isn't that it's a major loss to the Obama administration. Jones wasn't a particularly important player in the big scheme of things, and he's by no means irreplaceable.
No, the real problem is that it gives these sentiments legitimacy.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) called on Jones to resign Friday, saying in a statement, "His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate."
Senator Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) urged Congress to investigate Jones's "fitness" for the position, writing in an open letter, "Can the American people trust a senior White House official that is so cavalier in his association with such radical and repugnant sentiments?" On Saturday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, wrote on his Twitter account, "Van Jones has to go."
one of the things he talked about...
one of the things he talked about...
one of the things he talked about...and Mike Wallace made sure to rub it in The Ayatolla's face, sealing Anwar Sadat's fate a year later...thanks Mike
The Great Indoctrinator
President Obama’s stay-in-school speech (full video and transcript)
Pro-Refm Rally In Seattle Ignored By Media...from the Huffington Post
I have personally never been to Seattle, Washington, but I am reliably informed that it is a major American city that enjoys many of the technological amenities of modern life, including news organizations with real live reporters and cameras and internet access and even a major newspaper called the Seattle Times. So, there's really no reason why the media couldn't have reported on the fact that yesterday, 3,000 people attended a rally for health care reform in Westlake Park. According to one person who was there, though, no one could be bothered:
another classic Moon Martin tune...
Sunday 6 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Firedoglake wonders...
Is There Anything More Ridiculous Than Republicans Complaining about “Extremist Views and Coarse Rhetoric”?
By: Blue Texan Sunday September 6, 2009 11:30 am
How can Beck and many another right wing-nut get away with hollering "fire" in theaters across the board, and every time a liberal doubts their misinformation, he gets thrown under the bus. What's up with that lilly-livered press corp that gets all ga-ga over Van Jones "opinions", and snuggles up to the ranting and ravings of an obvious lunatic, Glenn Beck. This is starting to feel like the Bush years, downward spiral to oblivion.
When I was growing up, you had to go to the wrestling matches to find the kind of people that are clamoring after Glenn Beck. Bring on Jessie Ventura for a couple of hours a day, right across from the Glenn Beck show, and let's get it on. This is obviously a war, and it's long overdue to fight fire with fire.
Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp: Van Jones Resigns
Glenn Beck has his first scalp. Van Jones, under fire from the extremist television show host for his background in radical activism, has resigned from the administration.
Jones was Special Adviser for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality - the so-called 'Green Jobs' Czar. Jones' 2008 book, The Green Collar Economy, was a New York Times best-seller…
Saturday 5 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
hand-wringing over what one of our brightest presidents might say to our kids...when I was a kid, you had to go to the wrestling matches to find people like this...
as opposed to this "propaganda" from one of out dimmest presidents...what have we come to?...
"What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." Charles Krauthammer
The fella that brought you…the Reagan Doctrine
Krauthammer first gained attention in the mid-1980s when he first used the phrase "Reagan Doctrine" in his Time magazine column.[15] The phrase was a reference to the new American foreign policy of supporting anti-communist insurgencies around the globe (most notably Nicaragua, Angola, and Afghanistan) as a response to the Brezhnev Doctrine and reflected a new U.S. foreign policy that went beyond containment of the Soviet Union to rollback of recent Soviet influence in the Third World. The policy, which was strongly supported by Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts and other conservatives, was ultimately embraced by Reagan's senior national security and foreign policy officials. Krauthammer's description of it as the "Reagan Doctrine" has since endured....Wikipedia
Obama, the Mortal
By Charles Krauthammer Friday, September 4, 2009
What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?
The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chávista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?
bebop42 wrote:
Granted, Obama has made a few miss-steps, as all presidents do, however, when you compare this presidency to the last, it's overwhelmingly obvious that, every time Bush stepped in doo-doo, he drug his country right into the poop, ie., beginning with ignoring all the early warnings that 911 was in the works, wars in Iraq\Afghanistan, torture, domestic spying, suspension of Habeus Corpus, total disregard for the Constitution, etc. and yet Obama's "miss-steps" are pretty much restricted to his popularity and ability to deal with the out-of-control right wing elements of our society.
Hopefully, he will soon realize that the shallow politicized opinions of the Kraut-hammers of this world don't mean anything compared to the potential masses he's able to summon when he sets his mind to it. It's not like Kraut-hammers' head has never exploded before.
Friday 4 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Unemployment rate reaches a 26-year high
Even though the unemployment rate has officially reached a 26-year high, there are indicators that the recession might not be worsening.
The US unemployment rate jumped to 9.7 percent in August as 216,000 jobs were lost, the government said Friday in a report showing improving labor market conditions.
Tonight, Friday Sept 4th, Old Western Saloon, 9pm. wwwbuddyowen.com for all current Info. See ya Buddy
Here on April first of last year: The Buddy Owen Band live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax with Ernest (Boom) Carter on drums, Ian Lamson on guitar and Richie Smith on keyboards performing Red House Blues. Steve Evans is on the road with CoCo Montoya so we have the extremely capable Phil Marshall on bass...
Thursday 3 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
"Great job bebop. I can smell the smoke and sweat and taste the cold beer here in Wisconsin. Thank you Buddy Owen & Band." wag11man
Thursday 3 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Use of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 'embarassing': fans
Fans of deceased Nirvana mastermind Kurt Cobain are seething over the release of the video game Guitar Hero 5, which features a cartoon avatar of the frontman singing Bon Jovi songs and rapping. There was mild controversy over Cobain’s inclusion in the wildly popular music simulator – mainly due to his iconoclastic music being at odds with the commercial sensibilities of the game – but this turned to rage when it was revealed that Cobain could be a “playable” character once a certain level of skill was reached. Being able to “play” as Cobain meant that his character could “sing” a range of unusual song choices, including rap group Public Enemy’s Bring The Noise, and poster boy group Bon Jovi’s You Give Love A Bad Name. Fans of Cobain voiced their frustrations with the inclusion almost instantly on the internet, saying that the game was completely at odds with his artistic vision.
Ashley Dupre, Spitzer Call Girl, Lashes Out At Critics, Book Publishers
Ashley Dupre, the call girl entangled in former-Gov. Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal, lashes out at critics and the media in a new blog post on Global Grind.
Dupre writes that while she's happy that Spitzer, who will be an adjunct professor at City College in the fall, is seemingly moving on with his life, she has been unable erase the stain of scandal from her own name.
The struggling singer claims not have "made a dime" on the affair, and takes the publishers who had offered her book deals, only to rescind them, to task:
Did this hit too close to home for you because your husband cheated on you with an escort? I will write the book regardless and do it for the right reasons.
Dupre also takes issue with being called "the woman who brought down the Governor," saying:
I didn't call the tabloids, I didn't blow the whistle and I didn't save "the dress." I did nothing to shine a light on my indiscretions or to "out" anyone else.
Inside Out - Ashley
but Blanche...what's this about you taking more money from the health industry than any other Democrat in 2009?
BLANCHE LINCOLN IS THE QUEEN OF CASH FROM THE HEALTH INDUSTRY
The Sunlight Foundation's Paul Blumenthal reports that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has taken more money in campaign contributions from the health industry than any of her Democratic peers in 2009. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Lincoln benefited from $325,350 in contributions from the health industry in the first half of 2009.
"The large amount in contributions underlies a constantly shifting position by the senator on health care reform," notes Blumenthal. Lincoln sits on the Senate Finance Committee, the lone panel that has so far failed to get its act together on health care reform legislation.
Another Democratic senator bails on public option
A moderate Democratic senator from Arkansas has bailed on the so-called public option health insurance plan after previously publicly supporting the idea.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said Wednesday that she will oppose the public option, which would create a government-run insurance provider to compete with private insurers. Insurance companies say it will eat into their profit margins and result in completely government-run health insurance; supporters say it will trim health insurance costs and make insurance more affordable.
Wednesday 2 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
CDs: Richard Thompson -- Still Brilliant, Still a Rock God, Still Getting Boxed
"For most musical acts, getting a boxed set is the grand finale to their career. Look at Hall & Oates. The most successful pop duo of all time, Hall & Oates are only getting their first boxed set in October.
In contrast stands Richard Thompson, a man dubbed by Rolling Stone as one of the 20 greatest guitarists of all time, alongside the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. (Thompson has jammed with most of them, though Johnson has proven a hard nut to crack.)" Here's the original Fairport Convention, pre Sandy Denny, pre Linda Thompson, with Judy Dyble
Tuesday 1 September, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Thursday, August 6, 2009
AUGUST-2009
Sunday 30 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Wednesday 26 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Edward M. Kennedy 1932-2009
Monday 24 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
I woke up to some guy on Morning Joe, walking up the war in Afghanistan...where have I heard this stuff before?..."We have to get to a place where we've built up the troop level to the point that we can fill the void with Afghanistani' troops as we clear out the villages"...yada..yada...more boots, more casualties...whatever happened to simple math?
Saturday 22 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
what could Johnny Depp see in her...he say's he saw her from behind, she turned around and it was all over for him...me too
this guy Willy blows my mind, I wish I had known of him sooner...I'm a subscriber to Art Fein's Poker Party and was notified of an interview with Willy way back when, I watched the interview and started listening to his music...the more I listen the better I like it...
Friday 21 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Willy Deville-RIP August 27, 1950 – August 6, 2009
I see that Joe Scarebourough and Travesty Smiley are the featured guest on MTM Sunday...and I wonders' what mischief they may be up to...neither of them exactly Obama fans..knowing that Rachel's appearance last Sunday that was a ratings extravaganza for Gregory, Joe can't let that lay...i hope his numbers are in the pooper, I know I won't be there if I can...
Tuesday 18 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Thanks to everyone that showed up for my Birthday. I had a blast! Weds 8-19, 6-8 Happy Hour, 19 Broadway, Fairfax, C'mon down Buddy
The Jealous Kind...
Here's the line-up for the 3rd of December, 2006, performance of The Buddy Owen Band, live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax...Ernest (Boom) Carter on drums, Ian Lamson on guitar, Steve Evans on bass, and Richie Smith on keyboards...enjoy their rendition of Hoochey Coochey Man with Harmonica Phil
Maddow: Public Option Dying Because Of Dems' Political Collapse (VIDEO)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow went hard after President Obama Monday night for his willingness to give up a public health care option.
Noting that health insurance stocks did great Monday even as the rest of the market slipped, she asked, "How did we get here? how did we get to the foretold death of the public option and UnitedHealth awesome Monday on Wall Street? We got here through a collapse of political ambition and the resultant downgrading of expectations for this once in a lifetime, stars-aligned political shot at fixing the system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
Sunday 16 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The Click & Clack of PC & Mac recently overhauled one of my computers, Clack (David) is the mac guy and today I met his brother in law, Eugene Huggins, a legend in bay area blues, here's a clip of him and his band at Dunphy's Park in Sausalito, enjoy, his next gig is at the Saloon in North Beach on Saturday, the 22nd of August, don't miss it if you can...
Saturday 15 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
and this from good old Skippy The Bush Kangaroo...
Friday 14 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Watch: At forum, white man destroys black woman's Rosa Parks sign, woman is escored out (so far, CNN is the only one to cover the whole story)
As if the health care debate were not out-of-control already ... This one's sure to get your blood boiling.
At Sen. Claire McCaskill's health care forum on Wednesday, reports surfaced of an angry, black woman being removed from the meeting. Video showed a woman being escorted out of the town hall by a number of white police officers, drawing a wave of cheers from the crowd.
But, this is a case where initial reports and even video simply did not show What Really Happened.
This video was pieced together by Democratic strategist Peter Glickert, who posts on the Hating Not Debating blog. Watch:
Thursday13 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
I'll be damned if one thing don't lead to another...
and this from today's Hullabaloo...
Whole Foods Hullabaloo
by tristero
Ruh Roh. Turns out I wasn't the only one who, in the wake of their CEO's insane libertarian rant against healthcare, decided to vote with their feet when it comes to Whole Foods. They had to shut down the forum over at the WF website apparently because of so many outraged comments. Darksyde over at Kos has a pretty nice rant
Mr. Mackey, I'm not sure if you understand who it is that shops at your organic grocery chain: a lot of progressives, vegetarians, professional and amateur athletes, and others who care so much about the environment and what they eat that they're still willing to shell out three bucks for an organic orange, even in the midst of the worst recession in sixty years. I was proud WFMI was based in my hometown of Austin, and defended it against most of the conservatives I knew growing up there, many of whom still hold your entire business in utter contempt. Some of them ridiculed me for shopping at Whole Foods, with all the "tree huggers and granola eaters and hippies" who, incidentally, made you a millionaire.
Mr. Mackey, you just shat all over your best customers.
Digby of Hullabaloo via Crooks & Liars...
Digby at Netroots Nation: Why are deficits only a problem for Democratic administrations?
Our friend Digby was on an excellent panel today at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh discussing how we find ways to talk about economic issues in America going forward, especially since we have to confront such an endless deluge of right-wing BS framing.
She points out, adroitly, that for some reasons, deficits and federal spending are only a problem when a Democrat occupies the White House. Moreover, that deficit spending in support of an illegitimate overseas war is never questioned, while deficit spending to stop the USA from falling into an economic depression or to help Americans with their health care is readily attacked without raising an eyebrow.
Whole Foods CEO: "The Whole Foods Alternative To ObamaCare" -- Just Eat Whole Foods!
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey penned an op-ed on health care reform in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal in which he pressed, amidst more standard conservative talking points, a "simple" solution.
"Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat."
As TPM's Brian Beutler put it: "Translation: Whole Foods is the solution to all of America's health care woes."
Guitar legend Les Paul dies at age 94
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.
Tuesday 11 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Newt Gingrich Changes What’s Left of his Mind on End-of-life Care
“Amazing. I mean, talk about being full of shit. This is as clear a case as you will ever find of a politician just getting up on television and just flat-out dogging it, saying something without even the faintest shred of belief, just as a means to an end. What an asshole! - Matt Taibbi
I know some politicians have kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge attitude towards lying, and some of them in private will act almost like it’s funny, part of the job description. But there are limits to how much even a politician should be allowed to lie. That’s especially when he’s lying in order to scare a bunch of old people.”-Matt Taibbi
Murkowski: Don't tell lies about the health-care reform bill
"It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's these end-of-life provisions, these death panels," Murkowski, a Republican, said. "Quite honestly, I'm so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn't (in the bill). There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill."
Campbell Brown: "CNN is the only one on cable "doing journalism."...
and diamonded was confused...
“media stars will spend ample time flamboyantly commemorating Cronkite's death as though he reflects well on what they do (though probably not nearly as much time as they spent dwelling on the death of Tim Russert, whose sycophantic servitude to Beltway power and "accommodating head waiter"-like, mindless stenography did indeed represent quite accurately what today's media stars actually do). In fact, within Cronkite's most important moments one finds the essence of journalism that today's modern media stars not only fail to exhibit, but explicitly disclaim as their responsibility". Glenn Greenwald
Campbell Brown Mocks Olbermann-O'Reilly Feud: The "Big Swinging Anchors" War (VIDEO)
“On her show Tuesday night Campbell Brown did a short tongue-in-cheek segment on the feud between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly. "As hard as we have tried to, we can no longer ignore what is happening…
Repeatedly referring to the two hosts as "big swinging anchors," Brown implored her audience not to laugh: "This is a very important story," she insisted.”
“Why is she ignoring Lou Dobbs? He and Keith traded insults last week. Organizations are calling for Dobbs firing and she is covering KO and Bill O the Clown feud.. So much for "most trusted name in news".” timetorevolt
Monday 10 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The "death panels" are already here
Sorry, Sarah Palin -- rationing of care? Private companies are already doing it, with sometimes fatal results By Mike Madden [2009-08-11 Salon]
Jerry Lawaon, formerly of the Persuasions Is performing an a cappella show in NYC 9/19/09 – He is singing at his old stomping grounds
The Bitter End - (212) 673-7030 He has the GrooveBarbers accompanying him & a nice surprise guest appearance too that will surely be the show stopper of the night. ...Preview his new groupThe Talk Of The Town...
Monday 10 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
here's a clip of Buddy, his daughter Mundai, Ernest (boom) Carter and Tim Bush, I shot this in May of 2001...
Levi Johnston And Kathy Griffin Hold Hands At Teen Choice Awards (if this doesn't set Sarah's hair on fire, nothing will)
Kathy Griffin, 48, found herself a hunky date for Sunday night's Teen Choice Awards -- Levi Johnston, 19.
Dressed in a pinstripe suit and pink striped tie, the Alaskan teen and father of Sarah Palin's grandson Tripp arrived hand-in-hand with Griffin, planted a kiss on her cheek for the cameras and did some solo posing as well.
Sunday 9 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Howdy, Come help me celebrate 62yrs on Planet Earth, tonight, 9pm @ 19 Broadway Fairfax Ca. TY Buddy (more Buddy Owen Band clips)
this video was shot by the late, Robert Guastavino...at New Georges'. RIP...
Saturday 8 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Happy Saturday Night...take me back to Demver...1971...Marc Bolan is with T. Rex and they have a hit...
and here's the "'Wart Hog", fall of 1971...KFML AM-FM...Denver...
and here's Junior Cabas, with a simulcast from Summit Studios. fall, 1971, KFML Denver....
Sarah Palin's Second Chance (there's less to Taylor Marsh than meets the page)
“We'll see if Palin's presence on the 2010 stump makes a difference for Republicans. If it does, she's done what's needed, because Romney, Huckabee and Newt combined won't be able to do what she can with crowds, which is why she decided to dump the governorship in the first place. It's an albatross looking at 2012.”
"Oh yeah, baby, if 2010 goes well for her, 2012 here she comes."
Friday 7 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
HuffPo blogger 'appalled' by HuffPo headline
Taylor Marsh didn't care for yesterday's headline following the great news that two U.S. journalists returned home from being imprisoned by the North Korean government: "Bill Upstages Hillary ... Once Again." "Instead of blasting a headline of jubilation," Marsh writes, "someone inside Huffington Post decided to take the road down Clinton Derangement Highway..." Marsh acknowledged "being privileged enough to contribute" on the HuffPost, but said she "was appalled" by the headline choice. I agree that headline wasn't the most appropriate for the moment, but at the same time, it's a good thing HuffPo allows for such criticism on its own site.
Clinton derangement syndrome, North Korean strain
Sufferers of this incurable illness twist Bill Clinton's moving rescue of two journalists into something ugly
By Joe Conason
Thursday 6 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
check this out, somebody needs to bird dog this blowhard O'reilly...or maybe you'd like to take it on...
here's a little Loggins & Messina to listen to while your reading...
Asymmetrical Warfare
by digby
I'm sure you've all been following this astonishing story about Roger Ailes striking a bargain with the corporate heads of GE to get Keith Olbermann to lay off O'Reilly. Glenzilla has been all over it and covers all the important angles. He takes particular aim at GE for their interference in the news business, and on a global scale their journalistic crimes are manifest. But I think the real corporate thug in all this is Fox.
"Here's what gets me: the essence of the agreement is that Olbermann would stop attacking Bill O'Reilly and Bill O'Reilly would stop attacking the multinational corporation GE. Does everyone see the asymmetry of that?"
“If Fox News has the goods on GE they have an obligation to broadcast it regardless of whether Keith Olbermann agrees to stop picking on Billo --- if they don't have the goods, they should stop Billo from broadcasting it without extracting a deal from GE. Instead they used the story as a weapon to silence a critic of one of their stars and then agreed to bury it when the critic's boss agreed to muzzle him.”
more horses spotted tied up behind the "Politico Saloon"...actually, horses once owned by Lou Dobbs and Jason Linkins...one two many "exasporilla's", with a Joe Scarebourough koolaid back?...what nooze will today bring...will someone think of a creepy spin to put on Bill Clinton's whirl-wind rescue of the damsels in distress, nah, some things are still sacred...
who's next, to go rats-ass-batty and chew up and down on Keith Olbermann's leg...what do you do when a pit bull is humpin' on your leg...? Let him finish...right wing moles are easy to spot at Huffington Post...they can't help themselves, they have to wax poetic, pontificate, pretend their Peter O'Toole, quoting Shakespeare...they remind me of the rookie narcs in the Haight Ashbury, with their pork-chop sideburns, long hair, and regulation police issue shoes... diamonded@bebopvideos.com
Wednesday 5 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
"Keith Olbermann Playing Viewers For Fools On O'Reilly Truce" (talk about a head shot-Jason Linkins, what are you thinkin'?)
"Keith Olbermann is in the crosshairs over a recent New York Times article, which reported that bagmen for General Electric and News Corp. engineered a "truce" between the two networks, muzzling Olbermann and Fox's Bill O'Reilly for the mutual benefit of each corporation's concerns."
Oh my god, big corporations controlling the MSM...now that tears it...this is the scoop of the decade...what a revelation...I'm speechless...were that some of these mutts at The Times were...
this was my comment to Jason Linkins hatchet job above...and I'm posting it here because I've had trouble getting comments posted with them before...I don't preach hate or use foul language, so it's a pride thing on there end, can't stand constuctive criticism from a guy with barely a high-school education...this whole thing stinks to the high heavens...
Keith Olbermann is obviously fighting for his life here and who the hell are you, some pompous editor, who's never brought anything to the table, totally abandoning the truest champion of truth to power, and throwing him under the bus. I'm reminded of Godfather Two, Brando tells his son," when they come after you, they will send someone you trust to set the meeting". Are you that guy, Jason Linkins? The blogosphere is full of guys and gals that can write circles around me and the truth as well, Rovian Machiavelly's, biding there time, until the best moment to come in like Manchurian candidates and take out the good guys. I think you may be mistaken if you think that this cheap little "soap opera" is going to take out the man. I'm even questioning Glenn Greenwalds' cavalier tone in this whole thing. One things for sure, we're in a serious war here, and this is no doubt the most critical battle I have witnessed since the poll's closed. It's 7 pm Pacific and time for Countdown...if you don't post this, as is often your way, I'll post it on my own blog, bebopvideos.com anyway" diamonded@bebopvideos.com
here's another comment Linkens won't post...
"This is getting to be a little like watching Good Morning Joe Scarebourough...that posse' over their is like a bunch of buzzards sitting in a tree, "f%@$ patience, let's kill something". The Huffington Post is truly the last place I thought I'd see one of my heros lynched on short information, that's based on jealousy, and envy more than anything else. If Keith had to avoid attacking some corporate interests to keep his job, how would that even remotely set him apart from every other mutt in this world? He's been firing live ammo over the bow of folks that are known to kill you for less, and you want to pick at some little shit like this. Shame on you. I have to think when Arianna sees how far up your ass you've lodged your head, you may be looking for work." diamonded@bebopvideos.com
Now it's Bill O'Reilly's turn to destroy the last shred of any truce between the Fox News host and his prime-time nemesis, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
On Monday night, Olbermann denied reports of a truce and tried to prove his point by slamming O'Reilly, giving him the silver medal in his "World's Worst Person" segment. To up the ante, he then awarded Fox News head Rupert Murdoch the gold medal.
CT GOP Chair: "One Person's Mob Is Another Person's Concerned Citizen's Group" (from My Left Nutmeg)
by: tparty
Wed Aug 05, 2009 at 13:33:26 PM EDT
In the wake of his comment yesterday approving of right-wing attempts to disrupt and shut down town hall meetings with members of Congress and their constituents, state Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy repeated similar sentiments in a post today on the official state Republican Party blog, once again defending the tactics already in use by CT Republican activists:
Economist Laffer on CNN: "[J]ust wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid ... done by the government"
mediamatters.org — Economist Laffer on CNN: "[J]ust wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid ... done by the government" From the 10 a.m. hour of CNN Newsroom on August 4:
Howdy, a twofer, Weds Aug. 5th,Happy Hour, 6-8pm & Come help me celebrate 62yrs on Planet Earth, Sunday Aug 9th,9pm all @ 19 Broadway Fairfax Ca. TY Buddy (more Buddy Owen Band clips)
this video was shot by the late, Robert Guastavino...at New Georges'. RIP...
Tuesday 4 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
this group of Cuban nationals, Akapellando, travels all over the world performing their amazing renditions of hit tunes...Hotel California. Una genial revisión del clásico por Vocal Sampling, amazing in part for the fact that they barely speak English...you'll be sending this clip around to your friends...
Update: Cable providers push back against anti-birther ad
Huffington Post's Sam Stein has the latest:
The prospect of an anti-Dobbs ad running during Dobbs' own show had created quite a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. But now a source at Media Matters says that cable providers have refused to let it run on CNN -- for all but a portion of the New York viewing audience.
According to the Media Matters official, five of the six cable providers contracted for the project have informed the group that they are declining to put the spot on CNN. All of them will air the ad on Fox News and MSNBC.
In New York City, the cable provider ViaMedia will air the ad, though the company is a relatively small player in the city. Time Warner will air the Media Matters spot in New York, both on MSNBC and Fox News but not on CNN.
Birther leader compares US media to Nazi ‘brownshirts’
The attorney behind this weekend’s release of President Barack Obama’s “Kenyan birth certificate” called the US media “Obama’s brownshirts” during an acrimonious interview on MSNBC’s News Live Monday.
Hosts David Shuster and Tamron Hall interviewed Orly Taitz, the de facto leader of the birther movement who is asserting that a document from Kenya, purportedly printed in 1964, three years after Obama’s birth, is the president’s true birth certificate… “We’re sick of the lies coming from the mainstream media...Obama was not vetted, he needs to be vetted, he needs to provide original birth certificate.”...(actually, "vetting" is still a particularly sensitive subject around here, so if your gonna "skool" us, pick another topic)
Saturday 1 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Feelin' Alright...
lies about health care that can make you sick
sara robinson of the group news blog on the thom hartmann radio show discussing the myths of canada's universal health care plan...from a post on Skippy The Bush Kangaroo...
Monday 3 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Joe Scarborough Asks Dylan Ratigan: "How Many Lines Did You Do" Before The Show?
“Dylan Ratigan unleashed a tirade so intense Monday morning that "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough was forced to wonder if he had been using cocaine to hype himself up for the show.” (from the desk of Joe Scarebourough no doubt) where else would you come up with a line like that?
“here he comes, to save the day, it’s mighty mouth, he’s on his way…” I don’t know where Joe Scarbourough has been but he’s back with a vengence, steady on the job, never missing an opportunity to piss on Obama’s leg, while re-en-venting the Repuglican Party, and giving mouth to mouth to every broke down republican pol that comes down the pike. This morning he out did himself, him and that former CNBC host, “Donny Dooch”, laughing like a couple of hyena’s at Dylan Ratigan, the only one telling truth to power before noon at MSNBC, for speaking passionately about the state of the economy, how we got there and what needs to be done to correct it.
Joe Scarborough Asks Dylan Ratigan: "How Many Lines Did You Do" Before The Show?
MSNBC's Dylan Ratiagan unleashed a tirade so intense Monday morning that "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough was forced to wonder if he had been using cocaine to hype himself up for the show.
"Can I ask you a question?" Scarborough said, interrupting Ratigan during his screed on capitalism. "Just between you and me, how many lines did you do before coming out here today?"
in fact, to prove my point, here's Dylan Ratigan on the 24thof July, making it real simple...
Sunday 2 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
a few of the better moments last week...
"(AP) FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid."
I was watching Sarah slog along, saying nothing with that pseudo-minnesota accent, reciting her random-point-agenda, and I suddenly had an epiphany...I don't have to listen to one more word....and neither do you If your a Fox News fan and stumbled into bebop nooze by accident, here's a link to the 18 minute clip, go in peace brother...
Bernanke: "I Had To Hold My Nose" Over Bailouts
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to "hold my nose" over last year's taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
Bernanke's comments came during a town-hall style meeting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was peppered with several questions about government decisions last year to rescue so-called "too big to fail companies" like insurance giant American International Group, whose collapse would have wreaked havoc on the global economy.."
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’...from Raw Story...
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer — who built a reputation as “the Sheriff of Wall Street” for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New York’s attorney-general and then resigned as the state’s governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes — seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to “America’s greatest theft and cover-up ever.
”At the time, Spitzer had been raising the alarm about sub-prime mortgages. In the wake of the economic meltdown triggered last fall by sub-prime loans, some observers have suggested that Spitzer may have been targeted by law enforcement because of his high-profile opposition to Wall Street financial policies.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote that federal agents’ revealing of Spitzer’s identity as a call-girl customer was no coincidence.
Palast wrote that the principle of “prosecutorial discretion” is often used to keep the names of high-profile persons out of the media when they are tangentially linked to a criminal investigation. In the case of Spitzer, the Justice Department chose not to invoke prosecutorial discretion.
"Funny thing, this ‘discretion.’ For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.
Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department."
Wednesday 26 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Edward M. Kennedy 1932-2009
Monday 24 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
I woke up to some guy on Morning Joe, walking up the war in Afghanistan...where have I heard this stuff before?..."We have to get to a place where we've built up the troop level to the point that we can fill the void with Afghanistani' troops as we clear out the villages"...yada..yada...more boots, more casualties...whatever happened to simple math?
Saturday 22 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
what could Johnny Depp see in her...he say's he saw her from behind, she turned around and it was all over for him...me too
this guy Willy blows my mind, I wish I had known of him sooner...I'm a subscriber to Art Fein's Poker Party and was notified of an interview with Willy way back when, I watched the interview and started listening to his music...the more I listen the better I like it...
Friday 21 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Willy Deville-RIP August 27, 1950 – August 6, 2009
I see that Joe Scarebourough and Travesty Smiley are the featured guest on MTM Sunday...and I wonders' what mischief they may be up to...neither of them exactly Obama fans..knowing that Rachel's appearance last Sunday that was a ratings extravaganza for Gregory, Joe can't let that lay...i hope his numbers are in the pooper, I know I won't be there if I can...
Tuesday 18 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Thanks to everyone that showed up for my Birthday. I had a blast! Weds 8-19, 6-8 Happy Hour, 19 Broadway, Fairfax, C'mon down Buddy
The Jealous Kind...
Here's the line-up for the 3rd of December, 2006, performance of The Buddy Owen Band, live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax...Ernest (Boom) Carter on drums, Ian Lamson on guitar, Steve Evans on bass, and Richie Smith on keyboards...enjoy their rendition of Hoochey Coochey Man with Harmonica Phil
Maddow: Public Option Dying Because Of Dems' Political Collapse (VIDEO)
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow went hard after President Obama Monday night for his willingness to give up a public health care option.
Noting that health insurance stocks did great Monday even as the rest of the market slipped, she asked, "How did we get here? how did we get to the foretold death of the public option and UnitedHealth awesome Monday on Wall Street? We got here through a collapse of political ambition and the resultant downgrading of expectations for this once in a lifetime, stars-aligned political shot at fixing the system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
Sunday 16 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The Click & Clack of PC & Mac recently overhauled one of my computers, Clack (David) is the mac guy and today I met his brother in law, Eugene Huggins, a legend in bay area blues, here's a clip of him and his band at Dunphy's Park in Sausalito, enjoy, his next gig is at the Saloon in North Beach on Saturday, the 22nd of August, don't miss it if you can...
Saturday 15 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
and this from good old Skippy The Bush Kangaroo...
Friday 14 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Watch: At forum, white man destroys black woman's Rosa Parks sign, woman is escored out (so far, CNN is the only one to cover the whole story)
As if the health care debate were not out-of-control already ... This one's sure to get your blood boiling.
At Sen. Claire McCaskill's health care forum on Wednesday, reports surfaced of an angry, black woman being removed from the meeting. Video showed a woman being escorted out of the town hall by a number of white police officers, drawing a wave of cheers from the crowd.
But, this is a case where initial reports and even video simply did not show What Really Happened.
This video was pieced together by Democratic strategist Peter Glickert, who posts on the Hating Not Debating blog. Watch:
Thursday13 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
I'll be damned if one thing don't lead to another...
and this from today's Hullabaloo...
Whole Foods Hullabaloo
by tristero
Ruh Roh. Turns out I wasn't the only one who, in the wake of their CEO's insane libertarian rant against healthcare, decided to vote with their feet when it comes to Whole Foods. They had to shut down the forum over at the WF website apparently because of so many outraged comments. Darksyde over at Kos has a pretty nice rant
Mr. Mackey, I'm not sure if you understand who it is that shops at your organic grocery chain: a lot of progressives, vegetarians, professional and amateur athletes, and others who care so much about the environment and what they eat that they're still willing to shell out three bucks for an organic orange, even in the midst of the worst recession in sixty years. I was proud WFMI was based in my hometown of Austin, and defended it against most of the conservatives I knew growing up there, many of whom still hold your entire business in utter contempt. Some of them ridiculed me for shopping at Whole Foods, with all the "tree huggers and granola eaters and hippies" who, incidentally, made you a millionaire.
Mr. Mackey, you just shat all over your best customers.
Digby of Hullabaloo via Crooks & Liars...
Digby at Netroots Nation: Why are deficits only a problem for Democratic administrations?
Our friend Digby was on an excellent panel today at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh discussing how we find ways to talk about economic issues in America going forward, especially since we have to confront such an endless deluge of right-wing BS framing.
She points out, adroitly, that for some reasons, deficits and federal spending are only a problem when a Democrat occupies the White House. Moreover, that deficit spending in support of an illegitimate overseas war is never questioned, while deficit spending to stop the USA from falling into an economic depression or to help Americans with their health care is readily attacked without raising an eyebrow.
Whole Foods CEO: "The Whole Foods Alternative To ObamaCare" -- Just Eat Whole Foods!
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey penned an op-ed on health care reform in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal in which he pressed, amidst more standard conservative talking points, a "simple" solution.
"Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat."
As TPM's Brian Beutler put it: "Translation: Whole Foods is the solution to all of America's health care woes."
Guitar legend Les Paul dies at age 94
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.
Tuesday 11 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Newt Gingrich Changes What’s Left of his Mind on End-of-life Care
“Amazing. I mean, talk about being full of shit. This is as clear a case as you will ever find of a politician just getting up on television and just flat-out dogging it, saying something without even the faintest shred of belief, just as a means to an end. What an asshole! - Matt Taibbi
I know some politicians have kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge attitude towards lying, and some of them in private will act almost like it’s funny, part of the job description. But there are limits to how much even a politician should be allowed to lie. That’s especially when he’s lying in order to scare a bunch of old people.”-Matt Taibbi
Murkowski: Don't tell lies about the health-care reform bill
"It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there's these end-of-life provisions, these death panels," Murkowski, a Republican, said. "Quite honestly, I'm so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn't (in the bill). There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill."
Campbell Brown: "CNN is the only one on cable "doing journalism."...
and diamonded was confused...
“media stars will spend ample time flamboyantly commemorating Cronkite's death as though he reflects well on what they do (though probably not nearly as much time as they spent dwelling on the death of Tim Russert, whose sycophantic servitude to Beltway power and "accommodating head waiter"-like, mindless stenography did indeed represent quite accurately what today's media stars actually do). In fact, within Cronkite's most important moments one finds the essence of journalism that today's modern media stars not only fail to exhibit, but explicitly disclaim as their responsibility". Glenn Greenwald
Campbell Brown Mocks Olbermann-O'Reilly Feud: The "Big Swinging Anchors" War (VIDEO)
“On her show Tuesday night Campbell Brown did a short tongue-in-cheek segment on the feud between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly. "As hard as we have tried to, we can no longer ignore what is happening…
Repeatedly referring to the two hosts as "big swinging anchors," Brown implored her audience not to laugh: "This is a very important story," she insisted.”
“Why is she ignoring Lou Dobbs? He and Keith traded insults last week. Organizations are calling for Dobbs firing and she is covering KO and Bill O the Clown feud.. So much for "most trusted name in news".” timetorevolt
Monday 10 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The "death panels" are already here
Sorry, Sarah Palin -- rationing of care? Private companies are already doing it, with sometimes fatal results By Mike Madden [2009-08-11 Salon]
Jerry Lawaon, formerly of the Persuasions Is performing an a cappella show in NYC 9/19/09 – He is singing at his old stomping grounds
The Bitter End - (212) 673-7030 He has the GrooveBarbers accompanying him & a nice surprise guest appearance too that will surely be the show stopper of the night. ...Preview his new groupThe Talk Of The Town...
Monday 10 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
here's a clip of Buddy, his daughter Mundai, Ernest (boom) Carter and Tim Bush, I shot this in May of 2001...
Levi Johnston And Kathy Griffin Hold Hands At Teen Choice Awards (if this doesn't set Sarah's hair on fire, nothing will)
Kathy Griffin, 48, found herself a hunky date for Sunday night's Teen Choice Awards -- Levi Johnston, 19.
Dressed in a pinstripe suit and pink striped tie, the Alaskan teen and father of Sarah Palin's grandson Tripp arrived hand-in-hand with Griffin, planted a kiss on her cheek for the cameras and did some solo posing as well.
Sunday 9 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Howdy, Come help me celebrate 62yrs on Planet Earth, tonight, 9pm @ 19 Broadway Fairfax Ca. TY Buddy (more Buddy Owen Band clips)
this video was shot by the late, Robert Guastavino...at New Georges'. RIP...
Saturday 8 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Happy Saturday Night...take me back to Demver...1971...Marc Bolan is with T. Rex and they have a hit...
and here's the "'Wart Hog", fall of 1971...KFML AM-FM...Denver...
and here's Junior Cabas, with a simulcast from Summit Studios. fall, 1971, KFML Denver....
Sarah Palin's Second Chance (there's less to Taylor Marsh than meets the page)
“We'll see if Palin's presence on the 2010 stump makes a difference for Republicans. If it does, she's done what's needed, because Romney, Huckabee and Newt combined won't be able to do what she can with crowds, which is why she decided to dump the governorship in the first place. It's an albatross looking at 2012.”
"Oh yeah, baby, if 2010 goes well for her, 2012 here she comes."
Friday 7 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
HuffPo blogger 'appalled' by HuffPo headline
Taylor Marsh didn't care for yesterday's headline following the great news that two U.S. journalists returned home from being imprisoned by the North Korean government: "Bill Upstages Hillary ... Once Again." "Instead of blasting a headline of jubilation," Marsh writes, "someone inside Huffington Post decided to take the road down Clinton Derangement Highway..." Marsh acknowledged "being privileged enough to contribute" on the HuffPost, but said she "was appalled" by the headline choice. I agree that headline wasn't the most appropriate for the moment, but at the same time, it's a good thing HuffPo allows for such criticism on its own site.
Clinton derangement syndrome, North Korean strain
Sufferers of this incurable illness twist Bill Clinton's moving rescue of two journalists into something ugly
By Joe Conason
Thursday 6 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
check this out, somebody needs to bird dog this blowhard O'reilly...or maybe you'd like to take it on...
here's a little Loggins & Messina to listen to while your reading...
Asymmetrical Warfare
by digby
I'm sure you've all been following this astonishing story about Roger Ailes striking a bargain with the corporate heads of GE to get Keith Olbermann to lay off O'Reilly. Glenzilla has been all over it and covers all the important angles. He takes particular aim at GE for their interference in the news business, and on a global scale their journalistic crimes are manifest. But I think the real corporate thug in all this is Fox.
"Here's what gets me: the essence of the agreement is that Olbermann would stop attacking Bill O'Reilly and Bill O'Reilly would stop attacking the multinational corporation GE. Does everyone see the asymmetry of that?"
“If Fox News has the goods on GE they have an obligation to broadcast it regardless of whether Keith Olbermann agrees to stop picking on Billo --- if they don't have the goods, they should stop Billo from broadcasting it without extracting a deal from GE. Instead they used the story as a weapon to silence a critic of one of their stars and then agreed to bury it when the critic's boss agreed to muzzle him.”
more horses spotted tied up behind the "Politico Saloon"...actually, horses once owned by Lou Dobbs and Jason Linkins...one two many "exasporilla's", with a Joe Scarebourough koolaid back?...what nooze will today bring...will someone think of a creepy spin to put on Bill Clinton's whirl-wind rescue of the damsels in distress, nah, some things are still sacred...
who's next, to go rats-ass-batty and chew up and down on Keith Olbermann's leg...what do you do when a pit bull is humpin' on your leg...? Let him finish...right wing moles are easy to spot at Huffington Post...they can't help themselves, they have to wax poetic, pontificate, pretend their Peter O'Toole, quoting Shakespeare...they remind me of the rookie narcs in the Haight Ashbury, with their pork-chop sideburns, long hair, and regulation police issue shoes... diamonded@bebopvideos.com
Wednesday 5 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
"Keith Olbermann Playing Viewers For Fools On O'Reilly Truce" (talk about a head shot-Jason Linkins, what are you thinkin'?)
"Keith Olbermann is in the crosshairs over a recent New York Times article, which reported that bagmen for General Electric and News Corp. engineered a "truce" between the two networks, muzzling Olbermann and Fox's Bill O'Reilly for the mutual benefit of each corporation's concerns."
Oh my god, big corporations controlling the MSM...now that tears it...this is the scoop of the decade...what a revelation...I'm speechless...were that some of these mutts at The Times were...
this was my comment to Jason Linkins hatchet job above...and I'm posting it here because I've had trouble getting comments posted with them before...I don't preach hate or use foul language, so it's a pride thing on there end, can't stand constuctive criticism from a guy with barely a high-school education...this whole thing stinks to the high heavens...
Keith Olbermann is obviously fighting for his life here and who the hell are you, some pompous editor, who's never brought anything to the table, totally abandoning the truest champion of truth to power, and throwing him under the bus. I'm reminded of Godfather Two, Brando tells his son," when they come after you, they will send someone you trust to set the meeting". Are you that guy, Jason Linkins? The blogosphere is full of guys and gals that can write circles around me and the truth as well, Rovian Machiavelly's, biding there time, until the best moment to come in like Manchurian candidates and take out the good guys. I think you may be mistaken if you think that this cheap little "soap opera" is going to take out the man. I'm even questioning Glenn Greenwalds' cavalier tone in this whole thing. One things for sure, we're in a serious war here, and this is no doubt the most critical battle I have witnessed since the poll's closed. It's 7 pm Pacific and time for Countdown...if you don't post this, as is often your way, I'll post it on my own blog, bebopvideos.com anyway" diamonded@bebopvideos.com
here's another comment Linkens won't post...
"This is getting to be a little like watching Good Morning Joe Scarebourough...that posse' over their is like a bunch of buzzards sitting in a tree, "f%@$ patience, let's kill something". The Huffington Post is truly the last place I thought I'd see one of my heros lynched on short information, that's based on jealousy, and envy more than anything else. If Keith had to avoid attacking some corporate interests to keep his job, how would that even remotely set him apart from every other mutt in this world? He's been firing live ammo over the bow of folks that are known to kill you for less, and you want to pick at some little shit like this. Shame on you. I have to think when Arianna sees how far up your ass you've lodged your head, you may be looking for work." diamonded@bebopvideos.com
Now it's Bill O'Reilly's turn to destroy the last shred of any truce between the Fox News host and his prime-time nemesis, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
On Monday night, Olbermann denied reports of a truce and tried to prove his point by slamming O'Reilly, giving him the silver medal in his "World's Worst Person" segment. To up the ante, he then awarded Fox News head Rupert Murdoch the gold medal.
CT GOP Chair: "One Person's Mob Is Another Person's Concerned Citizen's Group" (from My Left Nutmeg)
by: tparty
Wed Aug 05, 2009 at 13:33:26 PM EDT
In the wake of his comment yesterday approving of right-wing attempts to disrupt and shut down town hall meetings with members of Congress and their constituents, state Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy repeated similar sentiments in a post today on the official state Republican Party blog, once again defending the tactics already in use by CT Republican activists:
Economist Laffer on CNN: "[J]ust wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid ... done by the government"
mediamatters.org — Economist Laffer on CNN: "[J]ust wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid ... done by the government" From the 10 a.m. hour of CNN Newsroom on August 4:
Howdy, a twofer, Weds Aug. 5th,Happy Hour, 6-8pm & Come help me celebrate 62yrs on Planet Earth, Sunday Aug 9th,9pm all @ 19 Broadway Fairfax Ca. TY Buddy (more Buddy Owen Band clips)
this video was shot by the late, Robert Guastavino...at New Georges'. RIP...
Tuesday 4 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
this group of Cuban nationals, Akapellando, travels all over the world performing their amazing renditions of hit tunes...Hotel California. Una genial revisión del clásico por Vocal Sampling, amazing in part for the fact that they barely speak English...you'll be sending this clip around to your friends...
Update: Cable providers push back against anti-birther ad
Huffington Post's Sam Stein has the latest:
The prospect of an anti-Dobbs ad running during Dobbs' own show had created quite a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. But now a source at Media Matters says that cable providers have refused to let it run on CNN -- for all but a portion of the New York viewing audience.
According to the Media Matters official, five of the six cable providers contracted for the project have informed the group that they are declining to put the spot on CNN. All of them will air the ad on Fox News and MSNBC.
In New York City, the cable provider ViaMedia will air the ad, though the company is a relatively small player in the city. Time Warner will air the Media Matters spot in New York, both on MSNBC and Fox News but not on CNN.
Birther leader compares US media to Nazi ‘brownshirts’
The attorney behind this weekend’s release of President Barack Obama’s “Kenyan birth certificate” called the US media “Obama’s brownshirts” during an acrimonious interview on MSNBC’s News Live Monday.
Hosts David Shuster and Tamron Hall interviewed Orly Taitz, the de facto leader of the birther movement who is asserting that a document from Kenya, purportedly printed in 1964, three years after Obama’s birth, is the president’s true birth certificate… “We’re sick of the lies coming from the mainstream media...Obama was not vetted, he needs to be vetted, he needs to provide original birth certificate.”...(actually, "vetting" is still a particularly sensitive subject around here, so if your gonna "skool" us, pick another topic)
Saturday 1 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Feelin' Alright...
lies about health care that can make you sick
sara robinson of the group news blog on the thom hartmann radio show discussing the myths of canada's universal health care plan...from a post on Skippy The Bush Kangaroo...
Monday 3 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Joe Scarborough Asks Dylan Ratigan: "How Many Lines Did You Do" Before The Show?
“Dylan Ratigan unleashed a tirade so intense Monday morning that "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough was forced to wonder if he had been using cocaine to hype himself up for the show.” (from the desk of Joe Scarebourough no doubt) where else would you come up with a line like that?
“here he comes, to save the day, it’s mighty mouth, he’s on his way…” I don’t know where Joe Scarbourough has been but he’s back with a vengence, steady on the job, never missing an opportunity to piss on Obama’s leg, while re-en-venting the Repuglican Party, and giving mouth to mouth to every broke down republican pol that comes down the pike. This morning he out did himself, him and that former CNBC host, “Donny Dooch”, laughing like a couple of hyena’s at Dylan Ratigan, the only one telling truth to power before noon at MSNBC, for speaking passionately about the state of the economy, how we got there and what needs to be done to correct it.
Joe Scarborough Asks Dylan Ratigan: "How Many Lines Did You Do" Before The Show?
MSNBC's Dylan Ratiagan unleashed a tirade so intense Monday morning that "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough was forced to wonder if he had been using cocaine to hype himself up for the show.
"Can I ask you a question?" Scarborough said, interrupting Ratigan during his screed on capitalism. "Just between you and me, how many lines did you do before coming out here today?"
in fact, to prove my point, here's Dylan Ratigan on the 24thof July, making it real simple...
Sunday 2 August, 2009 ( on this day in history )
a few of the better moments last week...
"(AP) FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid."
I was watching Sarah slog along, saying nothing with that pseudo-minnesota accent, reciting her random-point-agenda, and I suddenly had an epiphany...I don't have to listen to one more word....and neither do you If your a Fox News fan and stumbled into bebop nooze by accident, here's a link to the 18 minute clip, go in peace brother...
Bernanke: "I Had To Hold My Nose" Over Bailouts
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to "hold my nose" over last year's taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
Bernanke's comments came during a town-hall style meeting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was peppered with several questions about government decisions last year to rescue so-called "too big to fail companies" like insurance giant American International Group, whose collapse would have wreaked havoc on the global economy.."
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’...from Raw Story...
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer — who built a reputation as “the Sheriff of Wall Street” for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New York’s attorney-general and then resigned as the state’s governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes — seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to “America’s greatest theft and cover-up ever.
”At the time, Spitzer had been raising the alarm about sub-prime mortgages. In the wake of the economic meltdown triggered last fall by sub-prime loans, some observers have suggested that Spitzer may have been targeted by law enforcement because of his high-profile opposition to Wall Street financial policies.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote that federal agents’ revealing of Spitzer’s identity as a call-girl customer was no coincidence.
Palast wrote that the principle of “prosecutorial discretion” is often used to keep the names of high-profile persons out of the media when they are tangentially linked to a criminal investigation. In the case of Spitzer, the Justice Department chose not to invoke prosecutorial discretion.
"Funny thing, this ‘discretion.’ For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.
Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department."
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
JULY-2009
Sunday 26 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The good news about the Henry Louis Gages fiasco
“If we’re to believe Crowley’s police report (which I am disinclined to do, frankly), a Harvard scholar, faced with arrest in his own home, suddenly switches codes and begins to talk like George Jefferson -- "Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside!" This cry doesn’t sound so much to me like the gent who edited "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature." I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if there’s one thing a successful academic knows how to respect, it’s authority. What’s more, in the battle of cop versus professor, it’s a safe bet that the African-American historian knows better what’s at stake when it comes to keeping an accurate record of the past.”
James Hannaham
Skip You Mouthed Off
By Mansfield Frazier
And well it should...“Back in the day, our parents gave us similar advice to survive such encounters: “Take low.” If a police officer is dogging you out, simply suck it up and accept it. Don’t display anger; don’t “buck,” as the old folks used to say; don’t look them in the eye and stand up for your rights. In other words, don’t do anything that will cause you to wind up as a statistic on a police blotter.
The goal was clear: Live to tell the tale. Not everyone who has a brush with the law—especially persons of color—is around to talk about it.”
Mansfield Frazier
This is Gestapo Gestaldt, and it knows no racial bounderies. This is "everyones" problem, and to end this kind of injustice "we're" going to need the voices of the most articulate of our civil rights advocates; people like you sir. Surviving in America today may call for some "old school" caution, but the "play ground" rules for America tomorrow have to be determined by progressive"new school" thinking. Groveling, total surrender, and blind submission to abusive practices needs to fade into the proverbial sunset. Americans, all Americans need to be born again, free...diamonded
Friday 31 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Franken Gives Millionaire Swift Boat Ads Funder A Piece Of His Mind...
well now, Liar, Liar, pants on fire, hmmmmmm, now let me see, what "nooze" story comes to mind, hmmmm, could it be, yeah! that's it, Boone Pickens..."swift boat, is that like jumbo shrimp, that's what George Carlin would say about here...Wuz up wit da Democrats? Why does it take a “rookie”, to call that sorry @$$ T Boone Pickens on his sponsoring the Swift Boats campaign? And where have we heard this before, “Boone has clearly moved on and is focused on a mission to solve the foreign oil dependency problem…”, only every single time you try to call the Bushies’ on any of the “wall of shame”, activities that wreaked havoc on home, hearth, economy, world image, and the very foundations of liberty…”no, let’s move on, if we call the former administration on its war crimes and over all criminal behavior for 8 long years etc. we’ll be called a “banana republic”, Tilt, what if we had afforded the Nazi’s such a benevolent policy? With all due respect, would there be concentration camp theme parks? Be sure and check thecomments for both The Huffington Post and Politico...
This is war, and I’m glad somebody with a little humor is on the scene, if for no other reason than to witness, and document, the behavior of the “enemy” and hopefully lead the charge in holding them to account…welcome to your new home, Big Al Franken…
Friday 31 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Taped in September of 1985 this was used in the tv special "Class of 55 - A Rock'n'Roll Homecoming", that was filmed mostly on sacred Rock'n'Roll ground: the famous Sun studio and the American Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
In this clip Carl Perkins talks about writing "Blue Suede Shoes" and sings the self-penned "Birth of Rock'n'Roll". It's also on the album "Class of 55". Carl Perkins was such a talented man!
The video has never been released, wich is a shame, and I bet there is so much more material in the vaults to make a nice dvd for the fans...from the notes at YouTube
In August, Carl Perkins appeared in Houston, along with a rock 'n' roll spectacular called "Record Stars of 1956." The concert also included Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. More than four thousand youths attended the concert i approxomately a 60:40 black-white ratio. Although promoters had advertised the show as both a concert and a dance, police within the auditorium countermanded an announcement that dancing would commence after intermission. As decisive whites made their way to the already black-occupied dance floor, a "taboo-breaking" episode occurred:
When Carl Perkins came on and exhorted the crowd, "Let's everybody in here rock and roll," the cops were unable to restrain or contain the delirious and screaming white teenagers. {Local deejay and emcee} Hotsy Totsy came back to the mike and , warning the crowd not to have a cop-clobbering incident, told all of them to come on the floor and dance. What happened then must have sent the Citizen's Councils' members home with the shakes. The crowd got so carried away that the police made the band stop playing thirty mnutes before the dance was to close. There were no incidents and nobody was arrested. For the first time in history, Negro and white couples danced on the same floor. Race, rock and Elvis
In 1956 I was 14 years old and living in Detroit with my grandparents when Hound Dog, by Elvis came out and I bought it to take to school for our weekly sock-hop in gym....I soon transplanted to my mom's home in Houston and attended my first concert at the Houston Auditorium, where I had a job selling peanuts, popcorn, and cracker-jacks at the wrestling matches. Since the rock & roll concerts were held at the same auditorium, and I knew that all the doors would be open all day on the eve of concerts, my buds and I would head down there in the late afternoon and sneak in and hide under the stage. My first concert was at the Houston Auditorium, and I'm pretty sure, it was one of Alan Freed's shows. It wasn't the show mentioned in the previous clip...but bill included, The Platters, The Coasters, Bo Diddley, Paul Anka, Laverne Baker, and Chuck Berry...such a deal...
Taped in September of 1985 this was used in the tv special "Class of 55 - A Rock'n'Roll Homecoming". They didn't rock too much alltogether, but good enough and the songs sung by Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis appeared on the lp/cd of the same name.
The video has never been released, which is a shame...from the YouTube notes...
The Traveling Wilburys release a new compilation nearly after 20 years. It also contains some unreleased tracks and rare home movies. Report by CNN's Denise Quan. Edited by veteran and award-winning editor Ernie Muraoka.
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Collins Kids -- Interview on Art Fein's Poker Party Another Fein Mess art fein's monthly r&R rant: http://www.sofein.com buy art's stuff: Poker Party Store http://www.hotplatters.com
Larry and Lorrie - their story in less than 10 minutes.
In honor of Buddy, Richie, and the Big Bopper -- Larry and Lorrie's own take on Buddy's tune...
Central Park horror leaves Google engineer Blair-Goldensohn in coma…
UPDATE: The Google genius struck in the head by a massive Central Park tree branch is showing signs of improvement, relatives said Thursday.
Thursday 30 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
well, here it is the last Thursday of the month and once again it's time for the bebop videos Cuban hour...
this group of Cuban nationals, Akapellando, travels all over the world performing their amazing renditions of hit tunes...Hotel California. Una genial revisión del clásico por Vocal Sampling, amazing in part for the fact that they barely speak English...you'll be sending this clip around to your friends...
Hollywood stars visit Cuba amid U.S.-Cuba thaw
Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, with del Toro in town to pick up an award and the other three working on a "research project," a spokesman for the group said on Thursday.
Del Toro won praise last year for his portrayal of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentine who fought alongside Castro in the Cuban revolution, in the two-part biopic "Che" directed by American Steven Soderbergh.
The movie was shown to great acclaim in Cuba last December and on Thursday del Toro was given an award by Cuban artists and intellectuals. (Reporting by Esteban Israel; editing by Jeff Franks and Todd Eastham)
I don't know if you ever saw the film Paris, Texas, but what a sleeper, you don't even know what hit you till tears are running down your face..Canción Mixteca, Instrumental (Traditional), Arranged By Ry Cooder. Wim Wenders Nastassja Kinski Harry Dean Stanton Hunter Carson Aurore Clement Dean Stockwell (from the notes at YouTube).
Steve Vai vs Ry Cooder(Crossroads Guitar Duel)...
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Just pretend that we're together all alone
Tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
You can tell your friend there with you,
he'll have to go
From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987.
Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone
Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s. In the 1990s, nearly 50 years after the club was closed, it inspired a recording made by Cuban musician Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder with traditional Cuban musicians, some of whom were veterans who had performed at the club during the height of its popularity. (Wikipedia)
Wednesday 29 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
here it is Wednesday again, hump day, in the nooze end of the blogosphere, it's the busiest day of the week...if you've spent any time with us here at bebop videos you know that I regularly touch bases with Art Fein over at the Art Fein Poker Party, I've had links to the Poker Party since day one...for those of you who may not have had the enlightening experience of dropping in on a Poker Party, I've decided to visit it weekly on bebopvideos, featuring one or more clips every Wednesday from the Poker Party, the only televised Rock & Roll show anywhere.
By way of introduction, these shows span the past 25 years, and are broadcast from Santa Monica, California. Watching the shows is a lot like listening to a good free form radio station, with the added dimension of visuals. I've decided to kick this feature off with a clip of an old comrade from Denver and the heady times of KFML AM-FM, one of the most energized and well-liked musicians I've ever met. May I introduce you to Chucky Weiss...most of this background information, especially the pertinent stuff, came from Wikipedia...It's getting late, I'll get back to this in the morning...
He grew up in Denver, Colorado, where his parents owned a record store (Record Center). Through his parents, and by spending time at the local blues bar Ebbett's Field, he met Lightnin' Hopkins. Lightnin' was impressed with his drum playing and took him on tour, where Weiss had the opportunity to play with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Roger Miller, Dr. John, and others...
The sun doesn't set on tales of the adventures of the infamous Chucky Weiss. The last time I saw him was at a Robin Trower show at Ebbett’s Field, where he played drums in the house band. Many of my old comrades from KFML were really close to him, partied with him, loved him and know him so much better then I do, hopefully in future installments of the "Art Fein Poker Party" feature here on bebop videos, memories will be re-awakened and shared with us...
CHUCK E. WEISS: MENSCH, MONKEY, AND LIAR
by Rip Rense
(Originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Post.)
'"And deal the cards, roll the dice if it ain't that old Chuck E. Weiss. . ." ---from "I Wish I Was in New Orleans," by Tom Waits...
Chuck E. Weiss sounds like a publicity stunt, a concoction of apocryphae. Oh sure, you think, a Denver trashman (one "Pappy" Frye) gave him his first batch of blues records---fished out of the garbage, no less---when he was about six.. Sure, he sang with Willie Dixon while he was still a teenager---and toured with Lightnin' Hopkins during his teens and early 20s, playing drums. Sure, he taught a class in the History of American Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Sure, Sonny Liston was his neighbor. . .
Weiss released the album Extremely Cool in 1999, featuring extensive collaboration with Tony Gilkyson and Tom Waits, who co-produced the album for his longtime acquaintance (they met in 1972 at Ebbett's Field, where Weiss played in the house band) and appears on at least two tracks. The style is heavily reminiscent of Waits, both in composition and vocal approach. Either could have influenced the other.
In 2006, Weiss released the album 23rd & Stout, an album more reminiscent of Waits's 80s output, featuring an exploration of many blues and rumba styles, as well as a tribute to Sterling Holloway, entitled "Sho' Is Cold". Also featured is long time friend, and collaborator Diablo Dimes.
Weiss has been associated with Los Angeles and Southern California for years, saying he does not like to travel by airplane. Weiss played 11 years of Mondays at a club called the Central before it fell on hard times. Weiss and his friend Johnny Depp (who was executive producer on the first track on Extremely Cool) were instrumental in resuscitating it as the Viper Room, which later became notorious when River Phoenix died there in 1993.
Extremely Cool makes reference to Canter's Kibitz Room, a small nightclub in a larger diner in Los Angeles's Fairfax District, where Weiss has also played habitually. His regular band is called The G-d Damn Liars. He lives in the area under the Hollywood sign, and can be seen walking briskly along Franklin boulevard, just a few miles from the old Tropicana...
Tuesday 28 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Good morning..I just woke up to Dylan Ratigan, and that staccato rat-a-tat-tat delivery of his, and just like the first time I saw him, on the Morning Joe Show, my fight-flee switch froze up like a dual-core PC, with a quarter gig of ram. "what do you do when a pit bull starts humping your leg?...you let him finish"... I must confess, his razor like focus and tenacity have me on, "whats up wit' dis guy", and the more I listen, the more enthusiastic I become...more later, Oh the comment that caught my ear, "the danger of getting too many elephants in one room"...
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’...from Raw Story...
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer — who built a reputation as “the Sheriff of Wall Street” for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New York’s attorney-general and then resigned as the state’s governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes — seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to “America’s greatest theft and cover-up ever.
”At the time, Spitzer had been raising the alarm about sub-prime mortgages. In the wake of the economic meltdown triggered last fall by sub-prime loans, some observers have suggested that Spitzer may have been targeted by law enforcement because of his high-profile opposition to Wall Street financial policies.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote that federal agents’ revealing of Spitzer’s identity as a call-girl customer was no coincidence.
Palast wrote that the principle of “prosecutorial discretion” is often used to keep the names of high-profile persons out of the media when they are tangentially linked to a criminal investigation. In the case of Spitzer, the Justice Department chose not to invoke prosecutorial discretion.
"Funny thing, this ‘discretion.’ For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.
Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department."
here's Loudin Wainwright III, his daddy was, Loudin Wainwright junior, columnist, and Editor, Life Magazine...
Bernanke: "I Had To Hold My Nose" Over Bailouts
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to "hold my nose" over last year's taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
Bernanke's comments came during a town-hall style meeting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was peppered with several questions about government decisions last year to rescue so-called "too big to fail companies" like insurance giant American International Group, whose collapse would have wreaked havoc on the global economy.."
Martha, Rufis, & Teddy Thompson...Martha and Rufus' daddy is Loudin Wainwrigt III...
and here's Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...Richard Thompson was once rated #20 by Rolling Stone Magazine, for guitar players...
and Teddy Thompson himself...
From "The Glenn Reeves Show" on February 23, 1963.Thought to be the last TV appearance of Patsy Cline. On March 3, 1963, Patsy, though ill with the flu, gave a performance at a benefit show at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, for the family of a disc jockey, Cactus Jack Call, who had recently died in an automobile accident. Also performing on the show were George Jones, George Riddle and The Jones Boys, Billy Walker, Dottie West, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, and George McCormick and the Clinch Mountain Clan. Cline wore a white chiffon gown and closed the show with her performance to a thunderous ovation. Her last song was the last one she recorded during her last sessions the previous month, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone."...
Bill Kristol admits govt.-run health care can be better than private
from Raw Story…I’ll be just a minute, they don’t allow embedding so I have to take the long way around the barn, go to the source, Daily Show, and copy the code…most folks just let you embed, direct…
Weekly Standard editor and Fox News pundit Bill Kristol got booed heavily on The Daily Show Monday night when he said that ordinary Americans don’t “deserve” the same standard of health care that soldiers receive.
But the show’s truly revealing moment came when host Jon Stewart caught Kristol — long an opponent of public health care — admitting that government-run health care for soldiers is superior to private health plans.
Blue Dog Bozos
by Reihan Salam
It's important to keep in mind that Blue Dogs are not conservatives. Rather, they appear to be, to put it unkindly, preening bozos. Instead of offering principled alternatives, they choose to Hoover up campaign donations from the well-heeled while stabbing their Democratic allies, many of whom made real sacrifices to get them elected, in the back.
Slowly but surely, Republicans are regrouping. The party is having surprising success with candidate recruitment, while the Democrats are having a far tougher time. Though it's too early to predict a serious Republican comeback, it is entirely possible that the 19 Blue Dogs who defeated Republicans in 2006 and 2008 will return to the primordial ooze from whence they came. And they'll only have themselves to blame: had the Democrats stayed united, conservative could have been effectively marginalized. But through their constant inside-the-tent sniping, they've made the GOP look like the voice of sweet reason.
Bayh's Wife in Deep With Health Industry
"What makes her appointments suspicious and worrisome is the fact that most of these board positions came after Evan Bayh was elected to the Senate."
Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for advocacy group Public Citizen
The Indianapolis Star takes a look at Susan Bayh, who pulled down some $2.1 million between 2006 and 2008 for serving on the boards of health care companies that have a decided stake in the outcome of reform.
Susan Bayh went from midlevel lawyer at Eli Lilly while Evan Bayh was Indiana governor to serving on the boards of eight companies, beginning the month before he was elected to the Senate. "Mrs. Bayh is what is called 'overboarded,' " says one industry watcher. The senator, one of the most conservative members of the Democratic caucus, says his family's income from health care companies hasn't affected his views and he has no plans to withdraw his vote. "Her activities have had zero influence on me," he says.
—Rob Quinn
Minnesota Rep. Afraid of Constituents Over 9/11
"Out-party politicians have long had to deal with conspiracy theorists on their side — the people who think that the Clintons killed Vince Foster or that the Bush administration helped orchestrate the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat who represents a conservative Republican district in Minnesota. “That’s why I don’t do town meetings.”
"(AP) FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid."
I was watching Sarah slog along, saying nothing with that pseudo-minnesota accent, reciting her random-point-agenda, and I suddenly had an epiphany...I don't have to listen to one more word....and neither do you If your a Fox News fan and stumbled into bebop nooze by accident, here's a link to the 18 minute clip, go in peace brother...
Sunday 26 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The good news about the Henry Louis Gages fiasco
“If we’re to believe Crowley’s police report (which I am disinclined to do, frankly), a Harvard scholar, faced with arrest in his own home, suddenly switches codes and begins to talk like George Jefferson -- "Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside!" This cry doesn’t sound so much to me like the gent who edited "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature." I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if there’s one thing a successful academic knows how to respect, it’s authority. What’s more, in the battle of cop versus professor, it’s a safe bet that the African-American historian knows better what’s at stake when it comes to keeping an accurate record of the past.” James Hannaham
Skip You Mouthed Off
By Mansfield Frazier
And well it should...“Back in the day, our parents gave us similar advice to survive such encounters: “Take low.” If a police officer is dogging you out, simply suck it up and accept it. Don’t display anger; don’t “buck,” as the old folks used to say; don’t look them in the eye and stand up for your rights. In other words, don’t do anything that will cause you to wind up as a statistic on a police blotter.
The goal was clear: Live to tell the tale. Not everyone who has a brush with the law—especially persons of color—is around to talk about it.”
Mansfield Frazier
This is Gestapo Gestaldt, and it knows no racial bounderies. This is "everyones" problem, and to end this kind of injustice "we're" going to need the voices of the most articulate of our civil rights advocates; people like you sir. Surviving in America today may call for some "old school" caution, but the "play ground" rules for America tomorrow have to be determined by progressive"new school" thinking. Groveling, total surrender, and blind submission to abusive practices needs to fade into the proverbial sunset. Americans, all Americans need to be born again, free...diamonded
Saturday 25 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
This event eclipsed racism and rose to the level of entitlement exhibited by Officer Crowley, in evidence, the conditioned reflex to strike out at anything short of total submission, an attitude that guaranteed an equally negative reaction from Mr. Gates. When the good officer, "while I was led to believe that Gates was lawfully in the residence, I was quite surprised and confused with the behavior he exhibited toward me", right then and there the writing on Sergeant Crowley’s wall should have been, this is over, time for a quick withdrawal, an apology for any inconvenience, and possibly a passing explanation to the growing assembly on the street outside, and on with a life of "protecting and serving". Unfortunately, Sergeant Crowley couldn’t get past his outrage and indignation at the tenacity of a "common citizen", challenging his “total authority” and “lawful commands”. The direct result of this missed opportunity is the action-reaction of a near exhausted middle-aged man, finally home from a grueling 20-hour flight, he could have been green and if he refused to grovel and show complete submission, he would have surely gone to the slammer. Sadly, this is the American way, which brings us to the tip of the iceberg.
Two otherwise, honest, concerned, learned, knowledgeable, caring, individuals at loggerheads, victims of a bad case of home invasion-road rage. Contagious to the point of reducing Eugene Robinson of The Boston Globe, and Mika Brzezinski to a near street fight exchange.
Couric and the article's writer, Alessandra Stanley, have a long history ever since Stanley penned a harsh piece on Couric when she was still at the "Today" show in 2005, noting: ("At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights." esp. of a person's manner or actions) insisting on immediate attention or obedience, esp. in a brusquely imperious way : “Just do it!” came the peremptory reply)... these errors pale in comparison to Dan Rather (the CBS anchor that took Walter Cronkite and his legend and drove them into the ditch) and the biggest blunder in broadcast history)
Watch CBS Videos Online
The Persuasions "Heavenly Salvation"...
Thanks so much for sharing my music. One friend at a time. Means the world to me. By the way the video above me & Gans is "Heavenly Salvation" a Kurt Weill tune. Also I have a brand new CD with my new a cappella group. Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town. Masterpiece of my career. Hope you'll check it out. www.jerrylawson.biz
Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...
"If this happened to the average person's close friend, their head would explode. We have a president who's traveled all over the world cleaning up our image to enormous crowds of total strangers, communicating and demonstrating his mastery of his emotions as well as the English language. A president who's never lost his temper or composure in our whole relationship with him. A president asked in the middle of a press conference, to comment on the most egregious assault imaginable upon a personal friend, in the confines of their own home, and in the shadows of his own Ivy League alma mater, a neighborhood he had once lived in himself. Put yourself in his shoes, I'm tempted to say, you shouldn't ask the question if your not ready for the answer. Try getting a straight answer out of the last guy." diamonded
Boston Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce: "I don't know. I'm not the one who books her. I mean, it's the folks on shows like this that book her... I don't know that she's a leader of any kind. What I would tell you is she's a prominent Republican because she's been made a prominent Republican on TV."
The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
Friday 24 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Here’s a fella’ walkin’ down the street somewhere in Northern Ireland and he gets hit by a truck and is instantly killed. Never knew what hit him. Now this guy was an active member of the Irish Republican Army for 30 some odd years, fightin’ the good fight against the Brits. He turns up at the pearly gates and St. Peter is standing there blocking the entry…”you’re not gettin’ in” he says. The Irishman says…“I don’t want to come in, you’ve got ten minutes to get out.”
With just days to go before the premiere of his own show this Monday at 5:30AM, Willie Geist presented his customary Week in Review countdown on Friday's "Morning Joe." (the only one over there that isn't a blatant Righty)
Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle "Hard Times Come Again No More" w/Sylvan, Lily and Dane Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Joel Zifkin . From "Songs of the Civil War" dir by Jim Brown song written by Stephen Foster
Thursday 23 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
it's about noon Pacific, Thursday, and it's hurtin' my heart watchin' the wind-bag mutt duo over at MSNBC ( here's one of them now ) running around with their hair on fire totally taken aback by the "overwhelmingly negative reaction" Politico is reporting on Obama's response to the Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest...Have a look for yourself...I find a pretty balanced tone to the comments I read...and here's mine:
Chuck Todd's arguments against investigations-Salon
Chuck Todd - Glenn Greenwald debate the topic: torture prosecutions Salon
Wednesday 22 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
It's been a long day and I bid you a good night...
Part 2: And in the ensuing years that "junk-yard" sense of citizen-law-enforcement dialogue has been reduced to the Gestapo-like experience visited on Mister Gates. I just think it goes a little farther then black-white and us "whitey's are no longer a stranger to it.
In reality it was a suspension of habeas corpus and in effect, a declaration of war between "them" and "us". This happening to "mister Gates" can be a turning point and an opportunity to advance the dialogue. Pat Buchanan is kind of like the canary in the proverbial coal mine, and seeing him on Rachel Maddow's show nearly hysterical, with his hair on fire, spouting the time-worn platitudes of the closet racist is symptomatic of the angst the JoeThe Plumber Army is feeling, and hopefully a window of opportunity.
We recently witnessed the white mans frustration with "what's happening now" in the senseless, meandering, absent of focus, and eventual melt-down of the "tea party" movement but I wouldn't doubt for a moment, the inherent ability of peoples of color to actualize and articulate their refusal to "take it anymore".
and here's my girl, "Amy Goodman on steroids", chewin' the bottom out of Barnicle Bill Buchanan...
Campbell Brown: "CNN is the only one on cable "doing journalism."...
and diamonded was confused...
“media stars will spend ample time flamboyantly commemorating Cronkite's death as though he reflects well on what they do (though probably not nearly as much time as they spent dwelling on the death of Tim Russert, whose sycophantic servitude to Beltway power and "accommodating head waiter"-like, mindless stenography did indeed represent quite accurately what today's media stars actually do). In fact, within Cronkite's most important moments one finds the essence of journalism that today's modern media stars not only fail to exhibit, but explicitly disclaim as their responsibility". Glenn Greenwald
CNN: Cheney is getting 'bum rap' on CIA program ex-officials say...
and did I mention Mighty Mouth Lou Dobbs...?
and what the hell is that smell that's lingering in your hallways...? Oh Glenn Beck.hell, you'd still have him if that crafty Randy Rudy Murdoch hadn't bought him out from under you...
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has been selected, in an online poll conducted by Time Magazine, as America's Most Trusted Newscaster, post-Cronkite. Matched up against Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, Stewart prevailed with 44 percent of the vote. Brian Williams drew the second largest percentage of votes, with 29 percent. Gibson and Couric finished third and fourth, respectively, with 19 and 7 percent of the vote..
all aboard...get on board...all aboard people get on board...People get ready, there's a train a comin'...pickin' up passengers...from coast to coast...
back home in Looziana we call it dancin' wif' dem' wut' brung ya'...
Here's Jerry Lawson and The Talk Of The Town with Rod Stewart performing live at the Katrina Benefit Telecast September 9, 2005
welcome back Jamey me lad...
and as long as we have you here...
Jim Clancy reporting for CNN, courtesy of The Huffington Post...
Tuesday 21 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
“I suppose in all honesty, that I am a liberal, I think so, but I would like to define liberal. I think the great problem with this label is it has been seriously miss-used for political purposes.”
Walter Cronkite
“well that was again classic Cronkite, keep in mind that he wanted to redefine liberal as it’s used in today’s political context, he meant that he was in favor of preserving those things worth preserving, but changing these things that needed changing.”
Dan Rather
too much monkey bizzness...
Monday 20 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
by this guys rules, the North Vietnamese should have taken John Mccain out and shot him...
Buddy Owen And The Band Of Angels..."One More Straw" (more cars)
Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did...Glenn Greenwald, from his blog on Salon...
"I think there are a lot of critics who think that [in the run-up to the Iraq War] . . . . if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role" -- David Gregory, MSNBC, May 28, 2008.
"We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds."
For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.
This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
"What do I regret? Well, I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation." Walter Cronkite
Monday 27 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Blue Dog Bozos
by Reihan Salam
It's important to keep in mind that Blue Dogs are not conservatives. Rather, they appear to be, to put it unkindly, preening bozos. Instead of offering principled alternatives, they choose to Hoover up campaign donations from the well-heeled while stabbing their Democratic allies, many of whom made real sacrifices to get them elected, in the back.
Slowly but surely, Republicans are regrouping. The party is having surprising success with candidate recruitment, while the Democrats are having a far tougher time. Though it's too early to predict a serious Republican comeback, it is entirely possible that the 19 Blue Dogs who defeated Republicans in 2006 and 2008 will return to the primordial ooze from whence they came. And they'll only have themselves to blame: had the Democrats stayed united, conservative could have been effectively marginalized. But through their constant inside-the-tent sniping, they've made the GOP look like the voice of sweet reason.
Bayh's Wife in Deep With Health Industry
"What makes her appointments suspicious and worrisome is the fact that most of these board positions came after Evan Bayh was elected to the Senate."
Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for advocacy group Public Citizen
The Indianapolis Star takes a look at Susan Bayh, who pulled down some $2.1 million between 2006 and 2008 for serving on the boards of health care companies that have a decided stake in the outcome of reform.
Susan Bayh went from midlevel lawyer at Eli Lilly while Evan Bayh was Indiana governor to serving on the boards of eight companies, beginning the month before he was elected to the Senate. "Mrs. Bayh is what is called 'overboarded,' " says one industry watcher. The senator, one of the most conservative members of the Democratic caucus, says his family's income from health care companies hasn't affected his views and he has no plans to withdraw his vote. "Her activities have had zero influence on me," he says.
—Rob Quinn
Minnesota Rep. Afraid of Constituents Over 9/11
"Out-party politicians have long had to deal with conspiracy theorists on their side — the people who think that the Clintons killed Vince Foster or that the Bush administration helped orchestrate the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat who represents a conservative Republican district in Minnesota. “That’s why I don’t do town meetings.”
"(AP) FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid."
I was watching Sarah slog along, saying nothing with that pseudo-minnesota accent, reciting her random-point-agenda, and I suddenly had an epiphany...I don't have to listen to one more word....and neither do you If your a Fox News fan and stumbled into bebop nooze by accident, here's a link to the 18 minute clip, go in peace brother...
Bernanke: "I Had To Hold My Nose" Over Bailouts
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to "hold my nose" over last year's taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
Bernanke's comments came during a town-hall style meeting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was peppered with several questions about government decisions last year to rescue so-called "too big to fail companies" like insurance giant American International Group, whose collapse would have wreaked havoc on the global economy.."
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’...from Raw Story...
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer — who built a reputation as “the Sheriff of Wall Street” for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New York’s attorney-general and then resigned as the state’s governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes — seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to “America’s greatest theft and cover-up ever.
”At the time, Spitzer had been raising the alarm about sub-prime mortgages. In the wake of the economic meltdown triggered last fall by sub-prime loans, some observers have suggested that Spitzer may have been targeted by law enforcement because of his high-profile opposition to Wall Street financial policies.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote that federal agents’ revealing of Spitzer’s identity as a call-girl customer was no coincidence.
Palast wrote that the principle of “prosecutorial discretion” is often used to keep the names of high-profile persons out of the media when they are tangentially linked to a criminal investigation. In the case of Spitzer, the Justice Department chose not to invoke prosecutorial discretion.
"Funny thing, this ‘discretion.’ For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.
Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department."
Sunday 26 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The good news about the Henry Louis Gages fiasco
“If we’re to believe Crowley’s police report (which I am disinclined to do, frankly), a Harvard scholar, faced with arrest in his own home, suddenly switches codes and begins to talk like George Jefferson -- "Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside!" This cry doesn’t sound so much to me like the gent who edited "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature." I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if there’s one thing a successful academic knows how to respect, it’s authority. What’s more, in the battle of cop versus professor, it’s a safe bet that the African-American historian knows better what’s at stake when it comes to keeping an accurate record of the past.”
James Hannaham
Skip You Mouthed Off
By Mansfield Frazier
And well it should...“Back in the day, our parents gave us similar advice to survive such encounters: “Take low.” If a police officer is dogging you out, simply suck it up and accept it. Don’t display anger; don’t “buck,” as the old folks used to say; don’t look them in the eye and stand up for your rights. In other words, don’t do anything that will cause you to wind up as a statistic on a police blotter.
The goal was clear: Live to tell the tale. Not everyone who has a brush with the law—especially persons of color—is around to talk about it.”
Mansfield Frazier
This is Gestapo Gestaldt, and it knows no racial bounderies. This is "everyones" problem, and to end this kind of injustice "we're" going to need the voices of the most articulate of our civil rights advocates; people like you sir. Surviving in America today may call for some "old school" caution, but the "play ground" rules for America tomorrow have to be determined by progressive"new school" thinking. Groveling, total surrender, and blind submission to abusive practices needs to fade into the proverbial sunset. Americans, all Americans need to be born again, free...diamonded
Saturday 25 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
This event eclipsed racism and rose to the level of entitlement exhibited by Officer Crowley, in evidence, the conditioned reflex to strike out at anything short of total submission, an attitude that guaranteed an equally negative reaction from Mr. Gates. When the good officer, "while I was led to believe that Gates was lawfully in the residence, I was quite surprised and confused with the behavior he exhibited toward me", right then and there the writing on Sergeant Crowley’s wall should have been, this is over, time for a quick withdrawal, an apology for any inconvenience, and possibly a passing explanation to the growing assembly on the street outside, and on with a life of "protecting and serving". Unfortunately, Sergeant Crowley couldn’t get past his outrage and indignation at the tenacity of a "common citizen", challenging his “total authority” and “lawful commands”. The direct result of this missed opportunity is the action-reaction of a near exhausted middle-aged man, finally home from a grueling 20-hour flight, he could have been green and if he refused to grovel and show complete submission, he would have surely gone to the slammer. Sadly, this is the American way, which brings us to the tip of the iceberg.
Two otherwise, honest, concerned, learned, knowledgeable, caring, individuals at loggerheads, victims of a bad case of home invasion-road rage. Contagious to the point of reducing Eugene Robinson of The Boston Globe, and Mika Brzezinski to a near street fight exchange.
Couric and the article's writer, Alessandra Stanley, have a long history ever since Stanley penned a harsh piece on Couric when she was still at the "Today" show in 2005, noting: ("At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights." esp. of a person's manner or actions) insisting on immediate attention or obedience, esp. in a brusquely imperious way : “Just do it!” came the peremptory reply)... these errors pale in comparison to Dan Rather (the CBS anchor that took Walter Cronkite and his legend and drove them into the ditch) and the biggest blunder in broadcast history)
Watch CBS Videos Online
The Persuasions "Heavenly Salvation"...
Thanks so much for sharing my music. One friend at a time. Means the world to me. By the way the video above me & Gans is "Heavenly Salvation" a Kurt Weill tune. Also I have a brand new CD with my new a cappella group. Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town. Masterpiece of my career. Hope you'll check it out. www.jerrylawson.biz
Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...
"If this happened to the average person's close friend, their head would explode. We have a president who's traveled all over the world cleaning up our image to enormous crowds of total strangers, communicating and demonstrating his mastery of his emotions as well as the English language. A president who's never lost his temper or composure in our whole relationship with him. A president asked in the middle of a press conference, to comment on the most egregious assault imaginable upon a personal friend, in the confines of their own home, and in the shadows of his own Ivy League alma mater, a neighborhood he had once lived in himself. Put yourself in his shoes, I'm tempted to say, you shouldn't ask the question if your not ready for the answer. Try getting a straight answer out of the last guy." diamonded
Boston Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce: "I don't know. I'm not the one who books her. I mean, it's the folks on shows like this that book her... I don't know that she's a leader of any kind. What I would tell you is she's a prominent Republican because she's been made a prominent Republican on TV."
The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
Friday 24 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Here’s a fella’ walkin’ down the street somewhere in Northern Ireland and he gets hit by a truck and is instantly killed. Never knew what hit him. Now this guy was an active member of the Irish Republican Army for 30 some odd years, fightin’ the good fight against the Brits. He turns up at the pearly gates and St. Peter is standing there blocking the entry…”you’re not gettin’ in” he says. The Irishman says…“I don’t want to come in, you’ve got ten minutes to get out.”
With just days to go before the premiere of his own show this Monday at 5:30AM, Willie Geist presented his customary Week in Review countdown on Friday's "Morning Joe." (the only one over there that isn't a blatant Righty)
Here's the line-up for the 3rd of December, 2006, performance of The Buddy Owen Band, live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax...Ernest (Boom) Carter on drums, Ian Lamson on guitar, Steve Evans on bass, and Richie Smith on keyboards...enjoy their rendition of Hoochey Coochey Man with Harmonica Phil
Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle "Hard Times Come Again No More" w/Sylvan, Lily and Dane Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Joel Zifkin . From "Songs of the Civil War" dir by Jim Brown song written by Stephen Foster
Thursday 23 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
it's about noon Pacific, Thursday, and it's hurtin' my heart watchin' the wind-bag mutt duo over at MSNBC ( here's one of them now ) running around with their hair on fire totally taken aback by the "overwhelmingly negative reaction" Politico is reporting on Obama's response to the Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest...Have a look for yourself...I find a pretty balanced tone to the comments I read...and here's mine:
Chuck Todd's arguments against investigations-Salon
Chuck Todd - Glenn Greenwald debate the topic: torture prosecutions Salon
Wednesday 22 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
It's been a long day and I bid you a good night...
Part 2: And in the ensuing years that "junk-yard" sense of citizen-law-enforcement dialogue has been reduced to the Gestapo-like experience visited on Mister Gates. I just think it goes a little farther then black-white and us "whitey's are no longer a stranger to it.
In reality it was a suspension of habeas corpus and in effect, a declaration of war between "them" and "us". This happening to "mister Gates" can be a turning point and an opportunity to advance the dialogue. Pat Buchanan is kind of like the canary in the proverbial coal mine, and seeing him on Rachel Maddow's show nearly hysterical, with his hair on fire, spouting the time-worn platitudes of the closet racist is symptomatic of the angst the JoeThe Plumber Army is feeling, and hopefully a window of opportunity.
We recently witnessed the white mans frustration with "what's happening now" in the senseless, meandering, absent of focus, and eventual melt-down of the "tea party" movement but I wouldn't doubt for a moment, the inherent ability of peoples of color to actualize and articulate their refusal to "take it anymore".
and here's my girl, "Amy Goodman on steroids", chewin' the bottom out of Barnicle Bill Buchanan...
Campbell Brown: "CNN is the only one on cable "doing journalism."...
and diamonded was confused...
“media stars will spend ample time flamboyantly commemorating Cronkite's death as though he reflects well on what they do (though probably not nearly as much time as they spent dwelling on the death of Tim Russert, whose sycophantic servitude to Beltway power and "accommodating head waiter"-like, mindless stenography did indeed represent quite accurately what today's media stars actually do). In fact, within Cronkite's most important moments one finds the essence of journalism that today's modern media stars not only fail to exhibit, but explicitly disclaim as their responsibility". Glenn Greenwald
CNN: Cheney is getting 'bum rap' on CIA program ex-officials say...
and did I mention Mighty Mouth Lou Dobbs...?
and what the hell is that smell that's lingering in your hallways...? Oh Glenn Beck.hell, you'd still have him if that crafty Randy Rudy Murdoch hadn't bought him out from under you...
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has been selected, in an online poll conducted by Time Magazine, as America's Most Trusted Newscaster, post-Cronkite. Matched up against Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, Stewart prevailed with 44 percent of the vote. Brian Williams drew the second largest percentage of votes, with 29 percent. Gibson and Couric finished third and fourth, respectively, with 19 and 7 percent of the vote..
all aboard...get on board...all aboard people get on board...People get ready, there's a train a comin'...pickin' up passengers...from coast to coast...
back home in Looziana we call it dancin' wif' dem' wut' brung ya'...
from Sam Stein over at The Huffington Post...
Here's Jerry Lawson and The Talk Of The Town with Rod Stewart performing live at the Katrina Benefit Telecast September 9, 2005
welcome back Jamey me lad...
and as long as we have you here...
Happy Birthday Mister Prezident...Happy Birthday to You...
Jim Clancy reporting for CNN, courtesy of The Huffington Post...
Tuesday 21 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
“I suppose in all honesty, that I am a liberal, I think so, but I would like to define liberal. I think the great problem with this label is it has been seriously miss-used for political purposes.”
Walter Cronkite
“well that was again classic Cronkite, keep in mind that he wanted to redefine liberal as it’s used in today’s political context, he meant that he was in favor of preserving those things worth preserving, but changing these things that needed changing.”
Dan Rather
too much monkey bizzness...
Monday 20 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
by this guys rules, the North Vietnamese should have taken John Mccain out and shot him...
Buddy Owen And The Band Of Angels..."One More Straw" (more cars)
a welcome breeze of warm Irish voices wafts over the daily discourse of a troubled blogosphere...a welcome reprieve from the rantings of Bill O'reilly, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarbourough,,,dolens redundantia
greetings from Irish Central...
Sunday 19 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did...Glenn Greenwald, from his blog on Salon...
"I think there are a lot of critics who think that [in the run-up to the Iraq War] . . . . if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role" -- David Gregory, MSNBC, May 28, 2008.
"We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds."
For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.
This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
"What do I regret? Well, I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation." Walter Cronkite
good mornin', it's Sunday and I'm waxin' spiritual...in my way...
Saturday 18 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Happy Saturday Night from the sparkling San Francisco Bay Area...Bill Ashford put the headphones on me one day in the fall of 1971, and told me, "this is the best rock & roll song ever recorded", I tend to agree with him...
I'm gonna' play a few toones till' I run out of gas...here's Pablo Cruise,,,"Love Will Find A Way"
and another of my favorites...Your Saving Grace-Steve Miller Band
and the most creative cover of Hotel California that I have ever heard...
here's The Huffington Post feature, Best Late Night Jokes Of The Week...
The Buddy Owen Band at Free Music In The Plaza, San Rafael CA., 4th Street @ The Plaza, Next to Bank Of America. 2-6, 4 bands, We go on at 5:00pm, The other bands are quite good as well, (especially Loralee Christianson, former singer with Buddy Owen & The Band Of Angels, shes great and goes on @ 3:00pm. Peace Buddy (more Buddy Owen Band clips)
The Jealous Kind...
Thursday 16 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Hi, I'm Art Fein, bringing you Art Fein's Poker Party, the world's only rock & roll talk show, broadcasting on Pubic Access Television for over 25 years. These clips are excerpts from performances and interviews with the 100's of guests who've appeared on my show.
You can catch new shows on cable in many areas across the country, read my out of print books and articles by visiting your local thrift store book bin or snooping the net, and check out my monthly rock & roll rant, "Another Fein Mess", on line at: http://www.sofein.com
DVDs of some shows available.
Email me -- Art@sofein.com
Don Walser and Howard Kalish on Art Fein's Poker Party Part 4...
Al Walser's YouTube Channell for his dad, Don Walser...tons more of this great man's music...
Tuesday morning like most mornings, the Bush Posse', over at Fox Lite (MSNBC-The Morning Joke Show) were busy as usual, doing their best to protect the Bush Administration from ever having their day in court...but this time as ChuckTodd, The MSNBC "White House Journalist", proceeded to chime in as a "pundit", with the rest of the "pundits"...
Glenn Greenwald, of Salon was listening and called him and that whole mess over there for who they are, and what they've been doing, in the name of journalism...Chuck Todd has agreed to debate Glenn Greenwald in the morning in a podcast...hear the podcast here...
Wednesday 15 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Mondayy 13 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Sunday 12 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
I call it a Swan song...
Saturday 11 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Courtesy of Raw Story...Part 1
Courtesy of Raw Story...Part 2
Thursday 9 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
here's another oldie...
an oldie but a goodie...
Friday 3 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Bepopvideos scoops Drudge by 11 minutes...
12:42 pm Pacific...Sarah Palin will step down as governor of Alaska in 3 weeks....not on Drudge yet...12:53 pm Pacific, it's finally on Drudge...the race is on to announce the dropping of the other shoe!!!!!!!!! dum ta dum dum, dum ta dum dum, dahhhhhh
Thursday 2 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
JK's Chinese Buffet,Sat. 4th of July, 6-8pm, 595 Rohnert Park Expressway, Rohnert Park, CA
Rock Me Baby...
The good news about the Henry Louis Gages fiasco
“If we’re to believe Crowley’s police report (which I am disinclined to do, frankly), a Harvard scholar, faced with arrest in his own home, suddenly switches codes and begins to talk like George Jefferson -- "Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside!" This cry doesn’t sound so much to me like the gent who edited "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature." I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if there’s one thing a successful academic knows how to respect, it’s authority. What’s more, in the battle of cop versus professor, it’s a safe bet that the African-American historian knows better what’s at stake when it comes to keeping an accurate record of the past.”
James Hannaham
Skip You Mouthed Off
By Mansfield Frazier
And well it should...“Back in the day, our parents gave us similar advice to survive such encounters: “Take low.” If a police officer is dogging you out, simply suck it up and accept it. Don’t display anger; don’t “buck,” as the old folks used to say; don’t look them in the eye and stand up for your rights. In other words, don’t do anything that will cause you to wind up as a statistic on a police blotter.
The goal was clear: Live to tell the tale. Not everyone who has a brush with the law—especially persons of color—is around to talk about it.”
Mansfield Frazier
This is Gestapo Gestaldt, and it knows no racial bounderies. This is "everyones" problem, and to end this kind of injustice "we're" going to need the voices of the most articulate of our civil rights advocates; people like you sir. Surviving in America today may call for some "old school" caution, but the "play ground" rules for America tomorrow have to be determined by progressive"new school" thinking. Groveling, total surrender, and blind submission to abusive practices needs to fade into the proverbial sunset. Americans, all Americans need to be born again, free...diamonded
Friday 31 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Franken Gives Millionaire Swift Boat Ads Funder A Piece Of His Mind...
well now, Liar, Liar, pants on fire, hmmmmmm, now let me see, what "nooze" story comes to mind, hmmmm, could it be, yeah! that's it, Boone Pickens..."swift boat, is that like jumbo shrimp, that's what George Carlin would say about here...Wuz up wit da Democrats? Why does it take a “rookie”, to call that sorry @$$ T Boone Pickens on his sponsoring the Swift Boats campaign? And where have we heard this before, “Boone has clearly moved on and is focused on a mission to solve the foreign oil dependency problem…”, only every single time you try to call the Bushies’ on any of the “wall of shame”, activities that wreaked havoc on home, hearth, economy, world image, and the very foundations of liberty…”no, let’s move on, if we call the former administration on its war crimes and over all criminal behavior for 8 long years etc. we’ll be called a “banana republic”, Tilt, what if we had afforded the Nazi’s such a benevolent policy? With all due respect, would there be concentration camp theme parks? Be sure and check thecomments for both The Huffington Post and Politico...
This is war, and I’m glad somebody with a little humor is on the scene, if for no other reason than to witness, and document, the behavior of the “enemy” and hopefully lead the charge in holding them to account…welcome to your new home, Big Al Franken…
Friday 31 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Taped in September of 1985 this was used in the tv special "Class of 55 - A Rock'n'Roll Homecoming", that was filmed mostly on sacred Rock'n'Roll ground: the famous Sun studio and the American Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
In this clip Carl Perkins talks about writing "Blue Suede Shoes" and sings the self-penned "Birth of Rock'n'Roll". It's also on the album "Class of 55". Carl Perkins was such a talented man!
The video has never been released, wich is a shame, and I bet there is so much more material in the vaults to make a nice dvd for the fans...from the notes at YouTube
In August, Carl Perkins appeared in Houston, along with a rock 'n' roll spectacular called "Record Stars of 1956." The concert also included Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. More than four thousand youths attended the concert i approxomately a 60:40 black-white ratio. Although promoters had advertised the show as both a concert and a dance, police within the auditorium countermanded an announcement that dancing would commence after intermission. As decisive whites made their way to the already black-occupied dance floor, a "taboo-breaking" episode occurred:
When Carl Perkins came on and exhorted the crowd, "Let's everybody in here rock and roll," the cops were unable to restrain or contain the delirious and screaming white teenagers. {Local deejay and emcee} Hotsy Totsy came back to the mike and , warning the crowd not to have a cop-clobbering incident, told all of them to come on the floor and dance. What happened then must have sent the Citizen's Councils' members home with the shakes. The crowd got so carried away that the police made the band stop playing thirty mnutes before the dance was to close. There were no incidents and nobody was arrested. For the first time in history, Negro and white couples danced on the same floor. Race, rock and Elvis
In 1956 I was 14 years old and living in Detroit with my grandparents when Hound Dog, by Elvis came out and I bought it to take to school for our weekly sock-hop in gym....I soon transplanted to my mom's home in Houston and attended my first concert at the Houston Auditorium, where I had a job selling peanuts, popcorn, and cracker-jacks at the wrestling matches. Since the rock & roll concerts were held at the same auditorium, and I knew that all the doors would be open all day on the eve of concerts, my buds and I would head down there in the late afternoon and sneak in and hide under the stage. My first concert was at the Houston Auditorium, and I'm pretty sure, it was one of Alan Freed's shows. It wasn't the show mentioned in the previous clip...but bill included, The Platters, The Coasters, Bo Diddley, Paul Anka, Laverne Baker, and Chuck Berry...such a deal...
Taped in September of 1985 this was used in the tv special "Class of 55 - A Rock'n'Roll Homecoming". They didn't rock too much alltogether, but good enough and the songs sung by Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis appeared on the lp/cd of the same name.
The video has never been released, which is a shame...from the YouTube notes...
The Traveling Wilburys release a new compilation nearly after 20 years. It also contains some unreleased tracks and rare home movies. Report by CNN's Denise Quan. Edited by veteran and award-winning editor Ernie Muraoka.
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Collins Kids -- Interview on Art Fein's Poker Party Another Fein Mess art fein's monthly r&R rant: http://www.sofein.com buy art's stuff: Poker Party Store http://www.hotplatters.com
Larry and Lorrie - their story in less than 10 minutes.
In honor of Buddy, Richie, and the Big Bopper -- Larry and Lorrie's own take on Buddy's tune...
Central Park horror leaves Google engineer Blair-Goldensohn in coma…
UPDATE: The Google genius struck in the head by a massive Central Park tree branch is showing signs of improvement, relatives said Thursday.
Thursday 30 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
well, here it is the last Thursday of the month and once again it's time for the bebop videos Cuban hour...
this group of Cuban nationals, Akapellando, travels all over the world performing their amazing renditions of hit tunes...Hotel California. Una genial revisión del clásico por Vocal Sampling, amazing in part for the fact that they barely speak English...you'll be sending this clip around to your friends...
Hollywood stars visit Cuba amid U.S.-Cuba thaw
Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, with del Toro in town to pick up an award and the other three working on a "research project," a spokesman for the group said on Thursday.
Del Toro won praise last year for his portrayal of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentine who fought alongside Castro in the Cuban revolution, in the two-part biopic "Che" directed by American Steven Soderbergh.
The movie was shown to great acclaim in Cuba last December and on Thursday del Toro was given an award by Cuban artists and intellectuals. (Reporting by Esteban Israel; editing by Jeff Franks and Todd Eastham)
I don't know if you ever saw the film Paris, Texas, but what a sleeper, you don't even know what hit you till tears are running down your face..Canción Mixteca, Instrumental (Traditional), Arranged By Ry Cooder. Wim Wenders Nastassja Kinski Harry Dean Stanton Hunter Carson Aurore Clement Dean Stockwell (from the notes at YouTube).
Steve Vai vs Ry Cooder(Crossroads Guitar Duel)...
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Just pretend that we're together all alone
Tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
You can tell your friend there with you,
he'll have to go
From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987.
Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone
Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s. In the 1990s, nearly 50 years after the club was closed, it inspired a recording made by Cuban musician Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder with traditional Cuban musicians, some of whom were veterans who had performed at the club during the height of its popularity. (Wikipedia)
Wednesday 29 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
here it is Wednesday again, hump day, in the nooze end of the blogosphere, it's the busiest day of the week...if you've spent any time with us here at bebop videos you know that I regularly touch bases with Art Fein over at the Art Fein Poker Party, I've had links to the Poker Party since day one...for those of you who may not have had the enlightening experience of dropping in on a Poker Party, I've decided to visit it weekly on bebopvideos, featuring one or more clips every Wednesday from the Poker Party, the only televised Rock & Roll show anywhere.
By way of introduction, these shows span the past 25 years, and are broadcast from Santa Monica, California. Watching the shows is a lot like listening to a good free form radio station, with the added dimension of visuals. I've decided to kick this feature off with a clip of an old comrade from Denver and the heady times of KFML AM-FM, one of the most energized and well-liked musicians I've ever met. May I introduce you to Chucky Weiss...most of this background information, especially the pertinent stuff, came from Wikipedia...It's getting late, I'll get back to this in the morning...
He grew up in Denver, Colorado, where his parents owned a record store (Record Center). Through his parents, and by spending time at the local blues bar Ebbett's Field, he met Lightnin' Hopkins. Lightnin' was impressed with his drum playing and took him on tour, where Weiss had the opportunity to play with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Roger Miller, Dr. John, and others...
The sun doesn't set on tales of the adventures of the infamous Chucky Weiss. The last time I saw him was at a Robin Trower show at Ebbett’s Field, where he played drums in the house band. Many of my old comrades from KFML were really close to him, partied with him, loved him and know him so much better then I do, hopefully in future installments of the "Art Fein Poker Party" feature here on bebop videos, memories will be re-awakened and shared with us...
CHUCK E. WEISS: MENSCH, MONKEY, AND LIAR
by Rip Rense
(Originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Post.)
'"And deal the cards, roll the dice if it ain't that old Chuck E. Weiss. . ." ---from "I Wish I Was in New Orleans," by Tom Waits...
Chuck E. Weiss sounds like a publicity stunt, a concoction of apocryphae. Oh sure, you think, a Denver trashman (one "Pappy" Frye) gave him his first batch of blues records---fished out of the garbage, no less---when he was about six.. Sure, he sang with Willie Dixon while he was still a teenager---and toured with Lightnin' Hopkins during his teens and early 20s, playing drums. Sure, he taught a class in the History of American Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Sure, Sonny Liston was his neighbor. . .
Weiss released the album Extremely Cool in 1999, featuring extensive collaboration with Tony Gilkyson and Tom Waits, who co-produced the album for his longtime acquaintance (they met in 1972 at Ebbett's Field, where Weiss played in the house band) and appears on at least two tracks. The style is heavily reminiscent of Waits, both in composition and vocal approach. Either could have influenced the other.
In 2006, Weiss released the album 23rd & Stout, an album more reminiscent of Waits's 80s output, featuring an exploration of many blues and rumba styles, as well as a tribute to Sterling Holloway, entitled "Sho' Is Cold". Also featured is long time friend, and collaborator Diablo Dimes.
Weiss has been associated with Los Angeles and Southern California for years, saying he does not like to travel by airplane. Weiss played 11 years of Mondays at a club called the Central before it fell on hard times. Weiss and his friend Johnny Depp (who was executive producer on the first track on Extremely Cool) were instrumental in resuscitating it as the Viper Room, which later became notorious when River Phoenix died there in 1993.
Extremely Cool makes reference to Canter's Kibitz Room, a small nightclub in a larger diner in Los Angeles's Fairfax District, where Weiss has also played habitually. His regular band is called The G-d Damn Liars. He lives in the area under the Hollywood sign, and can be seen walking briskly along Franklin boulevard, just a few miles from the old Tropicana...
Tuesday 28 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Good morning..I just woke up to Dylan Ratigan, and that staccato rat-a-tat-tat delivery of his, and just like the first time I saw him, on the Morning Joe Show, my fight-flee switch froze up like a dual-core PC, with a quarter gig of ram. "what do you do when a pit bull starts humping your leg?...you let him finish"... I must confess, his razor like focus and tenacity have me on, "whats up wit' dis guy", and the more I listen, the more enthusiastic I become...more later, Oh the comment that caught my ear, "the danger of getting too many elephants in one room"...
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’...from Raw Story...
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer — who built a reputation as “the Sheriff of Wall Street” for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New York’s attorney-general and then resigned as the state’s governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes — seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to “America’s greatest theft and cover-up ever.
”At the time, Spitzer had been raising the alarm about sub-prime mortgages. In the wake of the economic meltdown triggered last fall by sub-prime loans, some observers have suggested that Spitzer may have been targeted by law enforcement because of his high-profile opposition to Wall Street financial policies.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote that federal agents’ revealing of Spitzer’s identity as a call-girl customer was no coincidence.
Palast wrote that the principle of “prosecutorial discretion” is often used to keep the names of high-profile persons out of the media when they are tangentially linked to a criminal investigation. In the case of Spitzer, the Justice Department chose not to invoke prosecutorial discretion.
"Funny thing, this ‘discretion.’ For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.
Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department."
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here's Loudin Wainwright III, his daddy was, Loudin Wainwright junior, columnist, and Editor, Life Magazine...
Bernanke: "I Had To Hold My Nose" Over Bailouts
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to "hold my nose" over last year's taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
Bernanke's comments came during a town-hall style meeting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was peppered with several questions about government decisions last year to rescue so-called "too big to fail companies" like insurance giant American International Group, whose collapse would have wreaked havoc on the global economy.."
Martha, Rufis, & Teddy Thompson...Martha and Rufus' daddy is Loudin Wainwrigt III...
and here's Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...Richard Thompson was once rated #20 by Rolling Stone Magazine, for guitar players...
and Teddy Thompson himself...
From "The Glenn Reeves Show" on February 23, 1963.Thought to be the last TV appearance of Patsy Cline. On March 3, 1963, Patsy, though ill with the flu, gave a performance at a benefit show at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, for the family of a disc jockey, Cactus Jack Call, who had recently died in an automobile accident. Also performing on the show were George Jones, George Riddle and The Jones Boys, Billy Walker, Dottie West, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, and George McCormick and the Clinch Mountain Clan. Cline wore a white chiffon gown and closed the show with her performance to a thunderous ovation. Her last song was the last one she recorded during her last sessions the previous month, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone."...
Bill Kristol admits govt.-run health care can be better than private
from Raw Story…I’ll be just a minute, they don’t allow embedding so I have to take the long way around the barn, go to the source, Daily Show, and copy the code…most folks just let you embed, direct…
Weekly Standard editor and Fox News pundit Bill Kristol got booed heavily on The Daily Show Monday night when he said that ordinary Americans don’t “deserve” the same standard of health care that soldiers receive.
But the show’s truly revealing moment came when host Jon Stewart caught Kristol — long an opponent of public health care — admitting that government-run health care for soldiers is superior to private health plans.
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Blue Dog Bozos
by Reihan Salam
It's important to keep in mind that Blue Dogs are not conservatives. Rather, they appear to be, to put it unkindly, preening bozos. Instead of offering principled alternatives, they choose to Hoover up campaign donations from the well-heeled while stabbing their Democratic allies, many of whom made real sacrifices to get them elected, in the back.
Slowly but surely, Republicans are regrouping. The party is having surprising success with candidate recruitment, while the Democrats are having a far tougher time. Though it's too early to predict a serious Republican comeback, it is entirely possible that the 19 Blue Dogs who defeated Republicans in 2006 and 2008 will return to the primordial ooze from whence they came. And they'll only have themselves to blame: had the Democrats stayed united, conservative could have been effectively marginalized. But through their constant inside-the-tent sniping, they've made the GOP look like the voice of sweet reason.
Bayh's Wife in Deep With Health Industry
"What makes her appointments suspicious and worrisome is the fact that most of these board positions came after Evan Bayh was elected to the Senate."
Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for advocacy group Public Citizen
The Indianapolis Star takes a look at Susan Bayh, who pulled down some $2.1 million between 2006 and 2008 for serving on the boards of health care companies that have a decided stake in the outcome of reform.
Susan Bayh went from midlevel lawyer at Eli Lilly while Evan Bayh was Indiana governor to serving on the boards of eight companies, beginning the month before he was elected to the Senate. "Mrs. Bayh is what is called 'overboarded,' " says one industry watcher. The senator, one of the most conservative members of the Democratic caucus, says his family's income from health care companies hasn't affected his views and he has no plans to withdraw his vote. "Her activities have had zero influence on me," he says.
—Rob Quinn
Minnesota Rep. Afraid of Constituents Over 9/11
"Out-party politicians have long had to deal with conspiracy theorists on their side — the people who think that the Clintons killed Vince Foster or that the Bush administration helped orchestrate the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat who represents a conservative Republican district in Minnesota. “That’s why I don’t do town meetings.”
"(AP) FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid."
I was watching Sarah slog along, saying nothing with that pseudo-minnesota accent, reciting her random-point-agenda, and I suddenly had an epiphany...I don't have to listen to one more word....and neither do you If your a Fox News fan and stumbled into bebop nooze by accident, here's a link to the 18 minute clip, go in peace brother...
Video Courtesy of KSL.com
Sunday 26 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The good news about the Henry Louis Gages fiasco
“If we’re to believe Crowley’s police report (which I am disinclined to do, frankly), a Harvard scholar, faced with arrest in his own home, suddenly switches codes and begins to talk like George Jefferson -- "Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside!" This cry doesn’t sound so much to me like the gent who edited "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature." I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if there’s one thing a successful academic knows how to respect, it’s authority. What’s more, in the battle of cop versus professor, it’s a safe bet that the African-American historian knows better what’s at stake when it comes to keeping an accurate record of the past.” James Hannaham
Skip You Mouthed Off
By Mansfield Frazier
And well it should...“Back in the day, our parents gave us similar advice to survive such encounters: “Take low.” If a police officer is dogging you out, simply suck it up and accept it. Don’t display anger; don’t “buck,” as the old folks used to say; don’t look them in the eye and stand up for your rights. In other words, don’t do anything that will cause you to wind up as a statistic on a police blotter.
The goal was clear: Live to tell the tale. Not everyone who has a brush with the law—especially persons of color—is around to talk about it.”
Mansfield Frazier
This is Gestapo Gestaldt, and it knows no racial bounderies. This is "everyones" problem, and to end this kind of injustice "we're" going to need the voices of the most articulate of our civil rights advocates; people like you sir. Surviving in America today may call for some "old school" caution, but the "play ground" rules for America tomorrow have to be determined by progressive"new school" thinking. Groveling, total surrender, and blind submission to abusive practices needs to fade into the proverbial sunset. Americans, all Americans need to be born again, free...diamonded
Saturday 25 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
This event eclipsed racism and rose to the level of entitlement exhibited by Officer Crowley, in evidence, the conditioned reflex to strike out at anything short of total submission, an attitude that guaranteed an equally negative reaction from Mr. Gates. When the good officer, "while I was led to believe that Gates was lawfully in the residence, I was quite surprised and confused with the behavior he exhibited toward me", right then and there the writing on Sergeant Crowley’s wall should have been, this is over, time for a quick withdrawal, an apology for any inconvenience, and possibly a passing explanation to the growing assembly on the street outside, and on with a life of "protecting and serving". Unfortunately, Sergeant Crowley couldn’t get past his outrage and indignation at the tenacity of a "common citizen", challenging his “total authority” and “lawful commands”. The direct result of this missed opportunity is the action-reaction of a near exhausted middle-aged man, finally home from a grueling 20-hour flight, he could have been green and if he refused to grovel and show complete submission, he would have surely gone to the slammer. Sadly, this is the American way, which brings us to the tip of the iceberg.
Two otherwise, honest, concerned, learned, knowledgeable, caring, individuals at loggerheads, victims of a bad case of home invasion-road rage. Contagious to the point of reducing Eugene Robinson of The Boston Globe, and Mika Brzezinski to a near street fight exchange.
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Couric and the article's writer, Alessandra Stanley, have a long history ever since Stanley penned a harsh piece on Couric when she was still at the "Today" show in 2005, noting: ("At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights." esp. of a person's manner or actions) insisting on immediate attention or obedience, esp. in a brusquely imperious way : “Just do it!” came the peremptory reply)... these errors pale in comparison to Dan Rather (the CBS anchor that took Walter Cronkite and his legend and drove them into the ditch) and the biggest blunder in broadcast history)
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The Persuasions "Heavenly Salvation"...
David Gans & Jerry Lawson Live from BlueIceVideo on Vimeo.
Thanks so much for sharing my music. One friend at a time. Means the world to me. By the way the video above me & Gans is "Heavenly Salvation" a Kurt Weill tune. Also I have a brand new CD with my new a cappella group. Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town. Masterpiece of my career. Hope you'll check it out. www.jerrylawson.biz
Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...
"If this happened to the average person's close friend, their head would explode. We have a president who's traveled all over the world cleaning up our image to enormous crowds of total strangers, communicating and demonstrating his mastery of his emotions as well as the English language. A president who's never lost his temper or composure in our whole relationship with him. A president asked in the middle of a press conference, to comment on the most egregious assault imaginable upon a personal friend, in the confines of their own home, and in the shadows of his own Ivy League alma mater, a neighborhood he had once lived in himself. Put yourself in his shoes, I'm tempted to say, you shouldn't ask the question if your not ready for the answer. Try getting a straight answer out of the last guy." diamonded
Boston Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce: "I don't know. I'm not the one who books her. I mean, it's the folks on shows like this that book her... I don't know that she's a leader of any kind. What I would tell you is she's a prominent Republican because she's been made a prominent Republican on TV."
The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
Friday 24 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Here’s a fella’ walkin’ down the street somewhere in Northern Ireland and he gets hit by a truck and is instantly killed. Never knew what hit him. Now this guy was an active member of the Irish Republican Army for 30 some odd years, fightin’ the good fight against the Brits. He turns up at the pearly gates and St. Peter is standing there blocking the entry…”you’re not gettin’ in” he says. The Irishman says…“I don’t want to come in, you’ve got ten minutes to get out.”
With just days to go before the premiere of his own show this Monday at 5:30AM, Willie Geist presented his customary Week in Review countdown on Friday's "Morning Joe." (the only one over there that isn't a blatant Righty)
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Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle "Hard Times Come Again No More" w/Sylvan, Lily and Dane Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Joel Zifkin . From "Songs of the Civil War" dir by Jim Brown song written by Stephen Foster
Thursday 23 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
it's about noon Pacific, Thursday, and it's hurtin' my heart watchin' the wind-bag mutt duo over at MSNBC ( here's one of them now ) running around with their hair on fire totally taken aback by the "overwhelmingly negative reaction" Politico is reporting on Obama's response to the Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest...Have a look for yourself...I find a pretty balanced tone to the comments I read...and here's mine:
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Chuck Todd's arguments against investigations-Salon
Chuck Todd - Glenn Greenwald debate the topic: torture prosecutions Salon
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Wednesday 22 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
It's been a long day and I bid you a good night...
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Part 2: And in the ensuing years that "junk-yard" sense of citizen-law-enforcement dialogue has been reduced to the Gestapo-like experience visited on Mister Gates. I just think it goes a little farther then black-white and us "whitey's are no longer a stranger to it.
In reality it was a suspension of habeas corpus and in effect, a declaration of war between "them" and "us". This happening to "mister Gates" can be a turning point and an opportunity to advance the dialogue. Pat Buchanan is kind of like the canary in the proverbial coal mine, and seeing him on Rachel Maddow's show nearly hysterical, with his hair on fire, spouting the time-worn platitudes of the closet racist is symptomatic of the angst the JoeThe Plumber Army is feeling, and hopefully a window of opportunity.
We recently witnessed the white mans frustration with "what's happening now" in the senseless, meandering, absent of focus, and eventual melt-down of the "tea party" movement but I wouldn't doubt for a moment, the inherent ability of peoples of color to actualize and articulate their refusal to "take it anymore".
and here's my girl, "Amy Goodman on steroids", chewin' the bottom out of Barnicle Bill Buchanan...
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Campbell Brown: "CNN is the only one on cable "doing journalism."...
and diamonded was confused...
“media stars will spend ample time flamboyantly commemorating Cronkite's death as though he reflects well on what they do (though probably not nearly as much time as they spent dwelling on the death of Tim Russert, whose sycophantic servitude to Beltway power and "accommodating head waiter"-like, mindless stenography did indeed represent quite accurately what today's media stars actually do). In fact, within Cronkite's most important moments one finds the essence of journalism that today's modern media stars not only fail to exhibit, but explicitly disclaim as their responsibility". Glenn Greenwald
CNN: Cheney is getting 'bum rap' on CIA program ex-officials say...
and did I mention Mighty Mouth Lou Dobbs...?
and what the hell is that smell that's lingering in your hallways...? Oh Glenn Beck.hell, you'd still have him if that crafty Randy Rudy Murdoch hadn't bought him out from under you...
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has been selected, in an online poll conducted by Time Magazine, as America's Most Trusted Newscaster, post-Cronkite. Matched up against Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, Stewart prevailed with 44 percent of the vote. Brian Williams drew the second largest percentage of votes, with 29 percent. Gibson and Couric finished third and fourth, respectively, with 19 and 7 percent of the vote..
all aboard...get on board...all aboard people get on board...People get ready, there's a train a comin'...pickin' up passengers...from coast to coast...
back home in Looziana we call it dancin' wif' dem' wut' brung ya'...
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Here's Jerry Lawson and The Talk Of The Town with Rod Stewart performing live at the Katrina Benefit Telecast September 9, 2005
welcome back Jamey me lad...
and as long as we have you here...
Jim Clancy reporting for CNN, courtesy of The Huffington Post...
Tuesday 21 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
“I suppose in all honesty, that I am a liberal, I think so, but I would like to define liberal. I think the great problem with this label is it has been seriously miss-used for political purposes.”
Walter Cronkite
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“well that was again classic Cronkite, keep in mind that he wanted to redefine liberal as it’s used in today’s political context, he meant that he was in favor of preserving those things worth preserving, but changing these things that needed changing.”
Dan Rather
too much monkey bizzness...
Monday 20 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
by this guys rules, the North Vietnamese should have taken John Mccain out and shot him...
Buddy Owen And The Band Of Angels..."One More Straw" (more cars)
Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did...Glenn Greenwald, from his blog on Salon...
"I think there are a lot of critics who think that [in the run-up to the Iraq War] . . . . if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role" -- David Gregory, MSNBC, May 28, 2008.
"We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds."
For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.
This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
"What do I regret? Well, I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation." Walter Cronkite
Monday 27 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Blue Dog Bozos
by Reihan Salam
It's important to keep in mind that Blue Dogs are not conservatives. Rather, they appear to be, to put it unkindly, preening bozos. Instead of offering principled alternatives, they choose to Hoover up campaign donations from the well-heeled while stabbing their Democratic allies, many of whom made real sacrifices to get them elected, in the back.
Slowly but surely, Republicans are regrouping. The party is having surprising success with candidate recruitment, while the Democrats are having a far tougher time. Though it's too early to predict a serious Republican comeback, it is entirely possible that the 19 Blue Dogs who defeated Republicans in 2006 and 2008 will return to the primordial ooze from whence they came. And they'll only have themselves to blame: had the Democrats stayed united, conservative could have been effectively marginalized. But through their constant inside-the-tent sniping, they've made the GOP look like the voice of sweet reason.
Bayh's Wife in Deep With Health Industry
"What makes her appointments suspicious and worrisome is the fact that most of these board positions came after Evan Bayh was elected to the Senate."
Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for advocacy group Public Citizen
The Indianapolis Star takes a look at Susan Bayh, who pulled down some $2.1 million between 2006 and 2008 for serving on the boards of health care companies that have a decided stake in the outcome of reform.
Susan Bayh went from midlevel lawyer at Eli Lilly while Evan Bayh was Indiana governor to serving on the boards of eight companies, beginning the month before he was elected to the Senate. "Mrs. Bayh is what is called 'overboarded,' " says one industry watcher. The senator, one of the most conservative members of the Democratic caucus, says his family's income from health care companies hasn't affected his views and he has no plans to withdraw his vote. "Her activities have had zero influence on me," he says.
—Rob Quinn
Minnesota Rep. Afraid of Constituents Over 9/11
"Out-party politicians have long had to deal with conspiracy theorists on their side — the people who think that the Clintons killed Vince Foster or that the Bush administration helped orchestrate the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat who represents a conservative Republican district in Minnesota. “That’s why I don’t do town meetings.”
"(AP) FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid."
I was watching Sarah slog along, saying nothing with that pseudo-minnesota accent, reciting her random-point-agenda, and I suddenly had an epiphany...I don't have to listen to one more word....and neither do you If your a Fox News fan and stumbled into bebop nooze by accident, here's a link to the 18 minute clip, go in peace brother...
Bernanke: "I Had To Hold My Nose" Over Bailouts
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to "hold my nose" over last year's taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
Bernanke's comments came during a town-hall style meeting in Kansas City, Mo., where he was peppered with several questions about government decisions last year to rescue so-called "too big to fail companies" like insurance giant American International Group, whose collapse would have wreaked havoc on the global economy.."
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi scheme, an inside job’...from Raw Story...
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer — who built a reputation as “the Sheriff of Wall Street” for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New York’s attorney-general and then resigned as the state’s governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes — seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to “America’s greatest theft and cover-up ever.
”At the time, Spitzer had been raising the alarm about sub-prime mortgages. In the wake of the economic meltdown triggered last fall by sub-prime loans, some observers have suggested that Spitzer may have been targeted by law enforcement because of his high-profile opposition to Wall Street financial policies.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote that federal agents’ revealing of Spitzer’s identity as a call-girl customer was no coincidence.
Palast wrote that the principle of “prosecutorial discretion” is often used to keep the names of high-profile persons out of the media when they are tangentially linked to a criminal investigation. In the case of Spitzer, the Justice Department chose not to invoke prosecutorial discretion.
"Funny thing, this ‘discretion.’ For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.
Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department."
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Sunday 26 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The good news about the Henry Louis Gages fiasco
“If we’re to believe Crowley’s police report (which I am disinclined to do, frankly), a Harvard scholar, faced with arrest in his own home, suddenly switches codes and begins to talk like George Jefferson -- "Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside!" This cry doesn’t sound so much to me like the gent who edited "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature." I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if there’s one thing a successful academic knows how to respect, it’s authority. What’s more, in the battle of cop versus professor, it’s a safe bet that the African-American historian knows better what’s at stake when it comes to keeping an accurate record of the past.”
James Hannaham
Skip You Mouthed Off
By Mansfield Frazier
And well it should...“Back in the day, our parents gave us similar advice to survive such encounters: “Take low.” If a police officer is dogging you out, simply suck it up and accept it. Don’t display anger; don’t “buck,” as the old folks used to say; don’t look them in the eye and stand up for your rights. In other words, don’t do anything that will cause you to wind up as a statistic on a police blotter.
The goal was clear: Live to tell the tale. Not everyone who has a brush with the law—especially persons of color—is around to talk about it.”
Mansfield Frazier
This is Gestapo Gestaldt, and it knows no racial bounderies. This is "everyones" problem, and to end this kind of injustice "we're" going to need the voices of the most articulate of our civil rights advocates; people like you sir. Surviving in America today may call for some "old school" caution, but the "play ground" rules for America tomorrow have to be determined by progressive"new school" thinking. Groveling, total surrender, and blind submission to abusive practices needs to fade into the proverbial sunset. Americans, all Americans need to be born again, free...diamonded
Saturday 25 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
This event eclipsed racism and rose to the level of entitlement exhibited by Officer Crowley, in evidence, the conditioned reflex to strike out at anything short of total submission, an attitude that guaranteed an equally negative reaction from Mr. Gates. When the good officer, "while I was led to believe that Gates was lawfully in the residence, I was quite surprised and confused with the behavior he exhibited toward me", right then and there the writing on Sergeant Crowley’s wall should have been, this is over, time for a quick withdrawal, an apology for any inconvenience, and possibly a passing explanation to the growing assembly on the street outside, and on with a life of "protecting and serving". Unfortunately, Sergeant Crowley couldn’t get past his outrage and indignation at the tenacity of a "common citizen", challenging his “total authority” and “lawful commands”. The direct result of this missed opportunity is the action-reaction of a near exhausted middle-aged man, finally home from a grueling 20-hour flight, he could have been green and if he refused to grovel and show complete submission, he would have surely gone to the slammer. Sadly, this is the American way, which brings us to the tip of the iceberg.
Two otherwise, honest, concerned, learned, knowledgeable, caring, individuals at loggerheads, victims of a bad case of home invasion-road rage. Contagious to the point of reducing Eugene Robinson of The Boston Globe, and Mika Brzezinski to a near street fight exchange.
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Couric and the article's writer, Alessandra Stanley, have a long history ever since Stanley penned a harsh piece on Couric when she was still at the "Today" show in 2005, noting: ("At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights." esp. of a person's manner or actions) insisting on immediate attention or obedience, esp. in a brusquely imperious way : “Just do it!” came the peremptory reply)... these errors pale in comparison to Dan Rather (the CBS anchor that took Walter Cronkite and his legend and drove them into the ditch) and the biggest blunder in broadcast history)
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The Persuasions "Heavenly Salvation"...
David Gans & Jerry Lawson Live from BlueIceVideo on Vimeo.
Thanks so much for sharing my music. One friend at a time. Means the world to me. By the way the video above me & Gans is "Heavenly Salvation" a Kurt Weill tune. Also I have a brand new CD with my new a cappella group. Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town. Masterpiece of my career. Hope you'll check it out. www.jerrylawson.biz
Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...
"If this happened to the average person's close friend, their head would explode. We have a president who's traveled all over the world cleaning up our image to enormous crowds of total strangers, communicating and demonstrating his mastery of his emotions as well as the English language. A president who's never lost his temper or composure in our whole relationship with him. A president asked in the middle of a press conference, to comment on the most egregious assault imaginable upon a personal friend, in the confines of their own home, and in the shadows of his own Ivy League alma mater, a neighborhood he had once lived in himself. Put yourself in his shoes, I'm tempted to say, you shouldn't ask the question if your not ready for the answer. Try getting a straight answer out of the last guy." diamonded
Boston Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce: "I don't know. I'm not the one who books her. I mean, it's the folks on shows like this that book her... I don't know that she's a leader of any kind. What I would tell you is she's a prominent Republican because she's been made a prominent Republican on TV."
The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
Friday 24 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Here’s a fella’ walkin’ down the street somewhere in Northern Ireland and he gets hit by a truck and is instantly killed. Never knew what hit him. Now this guy was an active member of the Irish Republican Army for 30 some odd years, fightin’ the good fight against the Brits. He turns up at the pearly gates and St. Peter is standing there blocking the entry…”you’re not gettin’ in” he says. The Irishman says…“I don’t want to come in, you’ve got ten minutes to get out.”
With just days to go before the premiere of his own show this Monday at 5:30AM, Willie Geist presented his customary Week in Review countdown on Friday's "Morning Joe." (the only one over there that isn't a blatant Righty)
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Here's the line-up for the 3rd of December, 2006, performance of The Buddy Owen Band, live at 19 Broadway in Fairfax...Ernest (Boom) Carter on drums, Ian Lamson on guitar, Steve Evans on bass, and Richie Smith on keyboards...enjoy their rendition of Hoochey Coochey Man with Harmonica Phil
Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle "Hard Times Come Again No More" w/Sylvan, Lily and Dane Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Joel Zifkin . From "Songs of the Civil War" dir by Jim Brown song written by Stephen Foster
Thursday 23 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
it's about noon Pacific, Thursday, and it's hurtin' my heart watchin' the wind-bag mutt duo over at MSNBC ( here's one of them now ) running around with their hair on fire totally taken aback by the "overwhelmingly negative reaction" Politico is reporting on Obama's response to the Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest...Have a look for yourself...I find a pretty balanced tone to the comments I read...and here's mine:
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Chuck Todd's arguments against investigations-Salon
Chuck Todd - Glenn Greenwald debate the topic: torture prosecutions Salon
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Wednesday 22 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
It's been a long day and I bid you a good night...
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Part 2: And in the ensuing years that "junk-yard" sense of citizen-law-enforcement dialogue has been reduced to the Gestapo-like experience visited on Mister Gates. I just think it goes a little farther then black-white and us "whitey's are no longer a stranger to it.
In reality it was a suspension of habeas corpus and in effect, a declaration of war between "them" and "us". This happening to "mister Gates" can be a turning point and an opportunity to advance the dialogue. Pat Buchanan is kind of like the canary in the proverbial coal mine, and seeing him on Rachel Maddow's show nearly hysterical, with his hair on fire, spouting the time-worn platitudes of the closet racist is symptomatic of the angst the JoeThe Plumber Army is feeling, and hopefully a window of opportunity.
We recently witnessed the white mans frustration with "what's happening now" in the senseless, meandering, absent of focus, and eventual melt-down of the "tea party" movement but I wouldn't doubt for a moment, the inherent ability of peoples of color to actualize and articulate their refusal to "take it anymore".
and here's my girl, "Amy Goodman on steroids", chewin' the bottom out of Barnicle Bill Buchanan...
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Campbell Brown: "CNN is the only one on cable "doing journalism."...
and diamonded was confused...
“media stars will spend ample time flamboyantly commemorating Cronkite's death as though he reflects well on what they do (though probably not nearly as much time as they spent dwelling on the death of Tim Russert, whose sycophantic servitude to Beltway power and "accommodating head waiter"-like, mindless stenography did indeed represent quite accurately what today's media stars actually do). In fact, within Cronkite's most important moments one finds the essence of journalism that today's modern media stars not only fail to exhibit, but explicitly disclaim as their responsibility". Glenn Greenwald
CNN: Cheney is getting 'bum rap' on CIA program ex-officials say...
and did I mention Mighty Mouth Lou Dobbs...?
and what the hell is that smell that's lingering in your hallways...? Oh Glenn Beck.hell, you'd still have him if that crafty Randy Rudy Murdoch hadn't bought him out from under you...
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart has been selected, in an online poll conducted by Time Magazine, as America's Most Trusted Newscaster, post-Cronkite. Matched up against Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, Stewart prevailed with 44 percent of the vote. Brian Williams drew the second largest percentage of votes, with 29 percent. Gibson and Couric finished third and fourth, respectively, with 19 and 7 percent of the vote..
all aboard...get on board...all aboard people get on board...People get ready, there's a train a comin'...pickin' up passengers...from coast to coast...
back home in Looziana we call it dancin' wif' dem' wut' brung ya'...
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from Sam Stein over at The Huffington Post...
Here's Jerry Lawson and The Talk Of The Town with Rod Stewart performing live at the Katrina Benefit Telecast September 9, 2005
welcome back Jamey me lad...
and as long as we have you here...
Happy Birthday Mister Prezident...Happy Birthday to You...
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Jim Clancy reporting for CNN, courtesy of The Huffington Post...
Tuesday 21 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
“I suppose in all honesty, that I am a liberal, I think so, but I would like to define liberal. I think the great problem with this label is it has been seriously miss-used for political purposes.”
Walter Cronkite
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“well that was again classic Cronkite, keep in mind that he wanted to redefine liberal as it’s used in today’s political context, he meant that he was in favor of preserving those things worth preserving, but changing these things that needed changing.”
Dan Rather
too much monkey bizzness...
Monday 20 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
by this guys rules, the North Vietnamese should have taken John Mccain out and shot him...
Buddy Owen And The Band Of Angels..."One More Straw" (more cars)
a welcome breeze of warm Irish voices wafts over the daily discourse of a troubled blogosphere...a welcome reprieve from the rantings of Bill O'reilly, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarbourough,,,dolens redundantia
greetings from Irish Central...
Sunday 19 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Celebrating Cronkite while ignoring what he did...Glenn Greenwald, from his blog on Salon...
"I think there are a lot of critics who think that [in the run-up to the Iraq War] . . . . if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role" -- David Gregory, MSNBC, May 28, 2008.
"We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds."
For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation; and for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us, and that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of one hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred thousand more American troops to the battle. And with each escalation, the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations.
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.
This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
"What do I regret? Well, I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation." Walter Cronkite
good mornin', it's Sunday and I'm waxin' spiritual...in my way...
Saturday 18 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Happy Saturday Night from the sparkling San Francisco Bay Area...Bill Ashford put the headphones on me one day in the fall of 1971, and told me, "this is the best rock & roll song ever recorded", I tend to agree with him...
I'm gonna' play a few toones till' I run out of gas...here's Pablo Cruise,,,"Love Will Find A Way"
and another of my favorites...Your Saving Grace-Steve Miller Band
and the most creative cover of Hotel California that I have ever heard...
here's The Huffington Post feature, Best Late Night Jokes Of The Week...
The Buddy Owen Band at Free Music In The Plaza, San Rafael CA., 4th Street @ The Plaza, Next to Bank Of America. 2-6, 4 bands, We go on at 5:00pm, The other bands are quite good as well, (especially Loralee Christianson, former singer with Buddy Owen & The Band Of Angels, shes great and goes on @ 3:00pm. Peace Buddy (more Buddy Owen Band clips)
The Jealous Kind...
Thursday 16 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Hi, I'm Art Fein, bringing you Art Fein's Poker Party, the world's only rock & roll talk show, broadcasting on Pubic Access Television for over 25 years. These clips are excerpts from performances and interviews with the 100's of guests who've appeared on my show.
You can catch new shows on cable in many areas across the country, read my out of print books and articles by visiting your local thrift store book bin or snooping the net, and check out my monthly rock & roll rant, "Another Fein Mess", on line at: http://www.sofein.com
DVDs of some shows available.
Email me -- Art@sofein.com
Don Walser and Howard Kalish on Art Fein's Poker Party Part 4...
Al Walser's YouTube Channell for his dad, Don Walser...tons more of this great man's music...
Tuesday morning like most mornings, the Bush Posse', over at Fox Lite (MSNBC-The Morning Joke Show) were busy as usual, doing their best to protect the Bush Administration from ever having their day in court...but this time as ChuckTodd, The MSNBC "White House Journalist", proceeded to chime in as a "pundit", with the rest of the "pundits"...
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Glenn Greenwald, of Salon was listening and called him and that whole mess over there for who they are, and what they've been doing, in the name of journalism...Chuck Todd has agreed to debate Glenn Greenwald in the morning in a podcast...hear the podcast here...
Wednesday 15 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Mondayy 13 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Sunday 12 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
I call it a Swan song...
Saturday 11 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Courtesy of Raw Story...Part 1
Courtesy of Raw Story...Part 2
Thursday 9 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
here's another oldie...
an oldie but a goodie...
Friday 3 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Bepopvideos scoops Drudge by 11 minutes...
12:42 pm Pacific...Sarah Palin will step down as governor of Alaska in 3 weeks....not on Drudge yet...12:53 pm Pacific, it's finally on Drudge...the race is on to announce the dropping of the other shoe!!!!!!!!! dum ta dum dum, dum ta dum dum, dahhhhhh
Thursday 2 July, 2009 ( on this day in history )
JK's Chinese Buffet,Sat. 4th of July, 6-8pm, 595 Rohnert Park Expressway, Rohnert Park, CA
Rock Me Baby...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
JUNE-2009
Monday 29 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Friday 26 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Thursday 25 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Rancho Nicasio Lounge #1 Old Rancheria Road in Nicasio 7 pm - 10 pm
with ED EARLEY BAND
Please join us for the 12th Anniversary of CRISCO & LORI.....Friday 26 June, 2009
I think its time for a little musical chairs...that's where Chris Matthews takes Joe's place and they call it The Morning Chris Show and keep Mika....and send Joe Scarbourough over to Fux where he belongs.
Tuesday 23 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
watching this stuff is just too much fun...
Hello Music Lovers! Tomorrow 20 June, The Old Western Saloon 11201 Highway 1 in Point Reyes Station 9 pm - close
with BUDDY OWEN BAND, Put On Your Dancin' Shoes, Buddy
Rock Me Baby...
Friday 12 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The Jeb Brady Band will be going on around 6pm...
Moanin' For My Baby...
Thursday 11 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Friday 26 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
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Thursday 25 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
Rancho Nicasio Lounge #1 Old Rancheria Road in Nicasio 7 pm - 10 pm
with ED EARLEY BAND
Please join us for the 12th Anniversary of CRISCO & LORI.....Friday 26 June, 2009
I think its time for a little musical chairs...that's where Chris Matthews takes Joe's place and they call it The Morning Chris Show and keep Mika....and send Joe Scarbourough over to Fux where he belongs.
Tuesday 23 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
watching this stuff is just too much fun...
Hello Music Lovers! Tomorrow 20 June, The Old Western Saloon 11201 Highway 1 in Point Reyes Station 9 pm - close
with BUDDY OWEN BAND, Put On Your Dancin' Shoes, Buddy
Rock Me Baby...
Friday 12 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )
The Jeb Brady Band will be going on around 6pm...
Moanin' For My Baby...
Thursday 11 June, 2009 ( on this day in history )