Calm Before the Storm

George Carlin pt 1. -- It's Bad For YA March 2008

Last HBO special. May this great comedian R.I.P.

The Market Traders Podcast: James Howard Kunstler

You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food.

http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=1

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

I have never understood this. I can understand being struck by lightning, but not thunder.

And if you're struck by lightning, you're very likely not going to hear the thunder which results from it.

Don't Call Us We'll Call You- Sugarloaf- 1975

This Thing Is Hard To Forget.A Brilliant Take On The Music Business.Vintage 70's.It's Too Great To Be On A Have A Nice Day Album.Way Too Great. Always A Mp3 Favorite Of Mine.I Never Skip When This Comes On.It's A Rock Song, A Novelty Song And A Classic All In One. Check Out The 1975 Pictures.Those Poor Souls Playing Pong.We Were Stuck With That Ancient Technology.All Of The Changes We Have Seen In 33 Years.If You Would Have Told Someone What We Have Now They Would Think You Were Nuts.Amazing.Too Bad The Songs Today Stink.Technology Can Not Make Up For Lousy Songs.You Can Have A Million Track Computer And You Still Wouldn't Top The 60's And 70's Hits.They Were Worth Their Weight In Gold.Thanks Sugarloaf.We'll Call You.You're Great Song Sure Called Us.

The commentary from the person who put this on YouTube is a bit "over the top," but I agree this is one GREAT song. And look at Jerry Corbetta today performing this last Wednesday at a classic rock festival (I was one of the first 10 people to view it):

WORSHIPPERS GATHER AT LOCAL PUMPS

I hope this was part of a "prayer walk" because if they drove to this station, that would have sort of defeated the purpose of the whole exercise.

I remember the concept of "prayer walking" from my sojourn in the fundy church here in my little town. I snapped out of my spell for good by early 2005.

It just "did not compute" to continue to go to a church that saw "Lord" Bush as some sort of demigod, when in fact he is the putative leader of a criminal cabal, whose members, by the way, are benefitting GREATLY from this surge in petroleum prices, so THEIR god DID answer prayer.

It's just not the same one worshipped in fundy churches. It is this shocking lack of discernment of spiritual evil that was the last straw for this person of faith.

China's All-Seeing Eye

Tim Russert and the decay of the American media

In Bill Moyers' documentary, Buying the War, Russert claims that he didn't raise sufficient doubts about what Cheney and others were telling him because critics and skeptics weren't contacting him. He tells Moyers: "To this day, I wish my phone had rung, or I had access to them."

Millions were protesting in the streets, United Nations inspectors, the International Atomic Energy Agency, various foreign governments, not to mention the World Socialist Web Site and other left-wing publications, were refuting the Bush government's claims, but none of this was accessible to Russert. In this, he's probably being honest. Attuned to what the powerful thought and considering left-wing opinion to be illegitimate, Russert only had ears for Cheney and his fellow conspirators.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/russ-j16.shtml

Once again, it all began to go wrong with the advent of television. I remember as a child looking across the room at the NBC commissary in NYC and saying, "Hey, look, there's Frank McGee" when I was only five. TV "newsmen" (more appropriately called "presenters" in the UK) should never have become celebrities, but that's what TV does. It makes you the story rather than what you're supposed to be covering. For some reason, a few minutes later, I began pouring the little sugar packets at the table at which I was seated all over my head. So Frank McGee, anyhow, did not have a "saccharine" effect on me.

Russert's Big Russ, on the other hand, was nothing but a saccharine account of an America were "traditional" values were honored, where "men were men," etc. In other words, a fictionalized America, conceived in the mind of a conformist

He stole the title of the book I was going to write about Grampi (my grandfather, Russell Laschinger, who was also known as "Big Russ" when I was little) someday.

But "100 years from now, who'll know the difference." (This was Grampi's famous quote on the evanescence and eventual irrelevance of fame and of the ephemeral nature of our quotidian lives.)

the USSR and China "constituted a significantly larger land mass, in toto, than did the United States."

This Joyce Carol Oates fictional account of subversion also hit home. As a child, I also would have supported the arrest of everyone pointing out how much larger Russia was, much less both "red" menaces combined. At that point I thought we needed to go to war and capture enough territory to make the U.S. No. 1. This was my "neocon" phase.

I can almost guarantee that Bill Moyers will not be lionized on his passing. First, you have to die young. Second, he has spoken truth to power a bit too often.

I'm Voting Republican

Voice from the Grave: Robert F. Williams

http://www.thedeathofblackamerica.com/my_weblog/2008/06/voice-from-the-grave-robert-f-williams.html

TAKE ME HOME

Barack Obama on Religion

Question for George W. Bush

Breaking: Bilderberg Goons Harass Jones Family

The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind

Bernanke Cries "It's all China's Fault!"

Oil, Israel, Iran, America and the High Cost of a Single War-Like Remark

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/33949

Montanas - You've Got to Be Loved - 45 rpm

This just makes me smile. Happy Sixties Music. Makes me wanna be in puppy love with someone again.

Russia blames U.S. for global financial crisis

Worker Freak-Out Caught On Tape Creates Internet Phenomenon

http://view.break.com/513310 - Watch more free videos

Barack Obama Hillary Clinton - Umbrella

Clyburn: Clinton Supporters Flood Office With Hate Calls

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/04/clyburn-clinton-supporters-flood-office-with-hate-calls/

This is just bizarre. Why NOT endorse him now that he's got the delegates? What was unusual was that this black congressman had not LONG AGO endorsed him and instead stuck with Hillary to the bitter end.

South Carolina is where the slaves were brought ashore and I guess it must be one of THE most racist states. Maybe they would have voted for Strom Thurmond's mulatto child, but I doubt it. I think South Carolinians must think anyone with even one drop of non-Caucasoid blood is subhuman.

This election will go to Insane McCain by default, provided he lives that long. I wouldn't wish this disaster on Obama to begin with. He is really going to be grateful a year from now that he lost in a landslide (provided some South Carolinian doesn't take a "lucky shot" at him before then). Clearly, the country needs to go into its final stage of demise and disintegration (pardon the pun) under the neocon/Israel First GOPers, who did so much to bring us this far over the last nearly eight years.

The Comeback Id

I find it interesting that the writer would not name the foreign embassy "Big Dog" suspected of listening in on his calls with Monica (and they no doubt were). It was, of course, our ubiquitous Big Brother friends, the Israelis.

Dual citizen Michael Chertoff is now surveilling us all down at Reich headquarters. It's ironic that the Israelis are now the Nazis. It burns their butts to hear that, but if the listening device fits ...

Young Hillary Clinton

Amazon: "uncontacted" tribe train arrows on government aircraft

THIS was the "cakewalk" Cheney and Rummy could have actually achieved. Fortunately for the tribesmen, we already have plenty of logs to pick from, both here and in Canada.

Arrows are so 13th Century ("Archers, loose!" — Edward Longshanks directing the battle on the field in "Braveheart"; that's one part of warfare that SHOULD HAVE remained—Imagine Bush having to ride one of the tanks into Baghdad in 2003; they wouldn't have been able to stock enough "Depends" to keep that a sanitary situation).