The Mamas and the Papas “Monday, Monday” -- April 9, 1966
Manfred Mann “Do Wah Diddy” -- 1964
Steppenwolf “Born to be Wild”
Roy Orbison “Oh Pretty Woman” -- July 4, 1965
Petula Clark “Downtown” - March 14, 1965
The Ed Sullivan Show – Rock Stars
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
hi kids
Hippies. Hippies everywhere…
Obama bumper stickers everywhere I look here in Seattle.
@ savage:
Savage, in response to you yesterday. Are the docks really “that empty” in the Port of LA? As a gift shop owner, I seriously question the numbers that retail sales are up as the MSM reported yesterday. I know I am curbing buying new inventory. I see customer count and average transaction $’s down. People are going “minimal” now.
savage wrote:
That’s different from LA?
oops – transaction
@ Calo:
Not sure about the ports, but I can tell you for a fact that the volume of rail freight is off by 45 to 60 percent from this time last year.
@ snork:
Most of the ‘O’ stickers down in LA got peeled off a while ago.
BTW, Savage. If it gets to you too much, tune in AM 770 or 570. 770 is the bigger one with Rush and Savage so on, but 570 has some pretty good local talent.
@ savage:
Sounds like a good reason not to live there.
@ snork:
Well, I’ll be leaving Monday afternoon but I will check out those stations.
@ Calo:
I just fixed that for you
@ Calo:
Something else I’ve noticed. I can watch the ships coming and going to and from the Port of Tacoma, and the container shipping from Asia is way down. Oddly, the car ships are not down by as much, but I know KIA’s packing new cars into leased parking space all over the port. That can’t go on forever.
And several ships are at anchor long term.
@ savage:
Thanks
@Speranza
The Mamas and the Papas “Monday, Monday” — April 9, 1966
“Monday, Monday… can’t get f*cked that day.”
I used to like them until I heard the rest.
Something a little different from a better time
@ PaladinPhil:
Now that is very nice!
#16 PaladinPhil
Thank you! I haven’t heard so much brass falling on my ears since Desert Storm. Nice link.
Swing is the thing. Nothing like going to a swing dance and watching the people tear up the dance floor. Tried it a few times, it’s fun.
Byrds Mr. Tam
The Byrds Hey Mr. Tamburine Man
Something for you, Phil
@ savage:
Thanks, it’s good to revisit classics.
@ PaladinPhil:
I’ve always liked stuff like this also, even me being a metalhead, go figger…
Didn’t Ed Sullivan introduce America to the Beatles?
@ Rodan:
He did so, February of 1964
@ Rodan:
In 1964 my older brother brought home the albums “Meet the Beatles” and “Introducing the Beatles”. So for me it wasn’t Ed………..
@ savage:
Loved the Gerst Haus (sp?) The food was awesome! Thanks for the suggestion
Rodan wrote:
yes he did in Feb. 1964
Man the threads today have been DEAD!!!
@ Speranza:
I think I killed it. So many on here are usually on at the ungodly hours between 3 & 5 AM I notice. lol
Speranza wrote:
Did you say “DEAD”?
httpv://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=grateful+dead+touch+of+grey&aq=1
Well, goodnite and I hope savage sees my thank you message
Speranza wrote:
Uh, did you say “DEAD”?
NoThreat2U wrote:
Goodnight!
The Young Rascals Good Lovin’
Speranza wrote:
@ NoThreat2U:
Did you have the wienerschnitzel?
savage @ 26:
Watched it with the whole family as we did every Ed show.
The old man says, “if I catch any of you with hair like that you’ll be bald for the rest of your lives” four boys. lol
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Good luck with that. I’d sooner vote fer Lyndon LaDouche.
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/04/09/q-u-i-t-s-protest-against-the-out-in-israel-film-festival/?singlepage=true
@ BenZacharia:
Those things are absolutely meaningless.
Ron Paul came in second.
@ Beltfed:
I think every 13-16 year old boy in the US made some attempt at playing that drum solo on his desk at school at least once.
lobo91 wrote:
That’s why their called “straw”…..
@ IslandLibertarian:
Ok so was that before they were on the Sullivan Show?
@ BenZacharia:
I’m going to Nuclear on Romney during the primaries. He’s a Progressive like Obama. he’s a fake and a fraud.
huckfunn wrote:
My first set of drumsticks were the little cardboard tube from wire coathangers
@ huckfunn:
Supposedly, that solo was how the Van Halen boys decided which of them would play the drums. Alex played it better. The rest is history.
Not a fan of U2′s politics but this is a great song
Rodan wrote:
Idiot Republicans still hooked on the concept of “next in line” for their candidates. What’s the matter – Bob Dole is not interested in another run?
Rodan wrote:
Ed Sullivn was their first American debut. They were selling albums before that.
@ MacDuff:
@ lobo91:
Those were the days. I just tried it again and Mrs. Funn told me to knock it off.
@ Speranza:
or how about Kay Baily Hutchison and Jeb Bush or maybe Richard Lugar?
I think we need a fresh conservative blood transfusion.
Speranza wrote:
Yuck! The one that really gives me the willies is Ron Paul. He was my congressman until they re-gerrymandered several years back. Now I’m stuck with Lloyd Doggett, friend of the hippie.
Straw polls are definitely meaningless.
Liberals cling desperately to the results of GOP straw polls because they need to know in advance who they’re supposed to be trashing to the ends of the Earth.
They can’t function without a direct target for their bile.
They’ve been spraying most of it at Sarah Palin lately since Bush isn’t around anymore, but they really wanted a solid commitment from the GOP on January 21, 2009 about who the next official GOP candidate will be so that they could get as much of a head start on their sliming as possible.
The libs won’t get any sleep at all until they know the identity of their next GOP target.
Nasty little devils, aren’t they.
@ Eliana:
Libs love to pick the Republican candidates. They picked McCain and the inbred GOP primary voters selected him as their torch bearer. Great move!
huckfunn wrote:
Ron Paul is a freak. AS for Hutchison – Bush – someone who posts here actually suggested that as a ticket (Jeb for POTUS and KBH for VP). I almost vomited.
Watts/West ’12
Aguy can dream can’t he?
@ Speranza:
The best candidates (Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani) didn’t run hard enough. Then the second tier candidates split the conservative vote.
McCain ended up being the recipient of these two problems.
We didn’t want him but we were stuck with him.
The GOP has to get a lot more involved in this process ahead of time in 2012 so they we don’t end up with another accidental candidate.
Romney though would’ve been a much better candidate then McCain (but then I would’ve been a much better candidate then the Cranky Old Flatulent Bastard).
Eliana wrote:
Quite concur amiga! Thompson and Rudy acted as if they were guaranteed the nomination. Both would’ve fought Obama a hell of a lot better then McCain did. Certainly Rudy would’ve but he got terrible advice about putting it all into Florida.
Speranza wrote:
The only way to put an end to this insiderism is to show up at the caucuses and turn out for the primaries (and some states, line mine, have both).
@ BenZacharia:
No, Allen West should have top billing.
BenZacharia wrote:
What has JC Watts done lately to deserve the nomination?
@ BenZacharia:
Why not Micahel Steele then?
snork wrote:
The next person who suggest Gingrich is going to get a punch in the mouth from me.
BenZacharia wrote:
Cantor/West. That one has a little more head splody potential.
Ok, here’s some cool news from Israel:
IDF order will enable mass deportation from West Bank
@ snork:
Nominating a ticket of Watts and West smacks of trying to one up the Democrats in racial pandering.
savage wrote:
Watts has a proven track record.
Getting rid of the open primaries would help, too.
@ Speranza:
Steele? You gotta be kidding me. Fucking ballless RINO cocksucker. That mofo can kiss my ass, stupid son of a bitch.
@ Eliana:
Just finish the damned security fence. It is criminal that it still is not finished.
savage wrote:
Geezus Louizas I as being sarcastic and pointing out that Watts and West smacks of racial pandering.
lobo91 wrote:
Quite concur!
Speranza wrote:
I don’t do ‘affirmative action’ politicians.
BenZacharia wrote:
A proven track record of what exactly? and if he were white wold you be touting him?
The anti-Jews will go nuts, but it’s about time Israel started kicking out the illegal aliens from Judea and Samaria!
Sometimes, this means kicking out leftwing Jews who are living there illegally while protesting every single week against Israel’s security fence.
Kick ‘em out!
Israel did kick out one Jewish guy who was working for the English language version of some Arab newspaper. He was living illegally in Judea among the Arabs and he went to Israel’s airport to go somewhere else (expecting to return to Israel in a few days).
He was doing all this without any sort of extended visa or citizenship in Israel, so Israel threw the guy out and told him not to come back. He and his leftist friends squawked about it but I think he’s still out of the country.
BenZacharia wrote:
Well WAtts (who left congress many years ago), and West who has not even been elected to congress – what would you call them?
huckfunn @ 53:
lol. My mom’s wooden spoon was better, she would whack us on the hands when we played wipe out on the dinner table.
@ Speranza:
And McCain/Palin wasn’t racist, agist and sexist pandering?
All JC Watts fucking did was play football in college, not a damn thing else.
West scared the living crap out of a terrorist and kept our guys from getting killed in an ambush.
I want WARRIORS in office, not a bunch of pansies.
I mean if we are going to go for pandering as the Democrats do we can nominate Condoleeza Rice. (She still would get only 2% of the Black vote).
@ Speranza:
Time for you to take your racial insinuations and shove them up your ass.
@ savage:
Watts (a good guy by the way) has no business being on the top ticket. West has not even been elected to congress yet.
BenZacharia wrote:
Fuck you
@ Speranza:
Yup — finish the security fence AND kick out the illegal aliens!
@ PaladinPhil:
OMG! that is my favorite song of all time!
I’ll take “Good Lovin’” ….with “Dream Lover” on the side.
And a mojito.
Unfortunately, I have no fresh mint, so I’ll have …
a) a mediocre daiquiri
b) a good Cuba Libre
c) rum and orange juice
d) Ron Paul
(LOL! I just realized when I typed Ron Paul that ron=rum in Spanish!)
I say we nominate my Sheltie, then. She’s black on top, white underneath, and has some tan on her nose, so she’s got all the major pandering categories covered.
@ Speranza:
I’m sure Watts has a good heart, but we need fresh blood in office, not career politicians. Watts is just another in a long line of careerists.
@ Speranza:
Get a load of this headline.
@ Eliana:
After the Israelis get done doing that, can we do the same?
savage wrote:
I agree. Get people in there who would know what they are doing. Don’t act like Democrats. Watts might have had a future had he stayed n congress an d built up an impressive legislative record, West if elected might have a great future too but he needs to get some experience.
From Drudge – UK election too close to call.
It really does look like there will have to be a realignment of Tories into conservatives and “wets”. I think the same thing will have to happen here. The Republicans will split along the libertarians v. compassionates.
Sad to say, that the governing coalitions can do a lot of damage before the conservative/libertarian parties are able to take power.
@ Bumr50:
according to Geraldo Rivera all they are doing here is looking for a better life. yeah that must be it.
@ Overlook:
Problem is that the Tories under David Cameron remind me of compassionate conservatives here in America.
Speranza wrote:
Far, far worse. Cameron is an Alinskyite. Openly. See Melanie Phillips.
savage wrote:
Ding.
@ Speranza:
If Jerry was able to find Al Capones gold in that vault, I’d think better of the idiot…
@ Speranza:
Certainly explains the carjacking…
@ snork:
Don’t get me wrong J.C. Watts is a good guy but there is nothing at all about him that suggests he is presidential material.
savage wrote:
He looks like 1970′s porn star Harry Reems.
Overlook wrote:
and William Hague their “shadow Foreign Secretary” is a bit of an Israel basher himself.
John Bolton would be the best president. But he is “unelectable”.
Which tells you something about the schizophrenic nature of American democracy.
savage wrote:
I’ve detested Horrendo ever since. All he came up with was an empty wine bottle. Shameless, shallow showboater.
Did The Blogmocracy suddenly join the Eastern Daylight Savings Time zone recently?
This blog has been on Pacific time until recently, right?
@ Speranza:
Only UKIP may be Israel friendly – but UKIP is hiding its light under a bushel in an undisclosed location.
Overlook wrote:
I love John Bolton. Actually he would be better served as Sec. of State.
BALLS
NO BALLS
Take your pick, you all know where I stand. hehhe
Eliana wrote:
Yes to all of those questions.
@ Speranza:
Every Sec of State has been corrupted by Foggy Bottom. As Prez he could over-ride the arseholes.
@ Speranza:
Absolutely!
He would be the most kick a$$ Secretary of State we’ve ever had, as far as I know.
I would love it if he got this job!!
@ Speranza:
More to Savage’s point, West exudes something sorely lacking in GOP candidates: leadership. He knows what he’s all about, he knows what we’re all about, and knows what to do to get there from here. He quite possibly is the closest thing to Reagan that we’ve seen yet. You know, strong horse, and all that.
@ Overlook:
As Secretary of State, John Bolton could clean up Foggy Bottom once and for all.
@ savage:
If we are going to lose (God forbid) let’s at least lose fighting, not like the way McCain rolled over and played dead. For all her shortcomings at least Sarah Heath Palin wanted to fight.
@ snork:
Did you mention a strong horse? Obama has not fallen for the false choice between strong horse and weak horse. He is a Smart Horse: Mr Ed.
Eliana wrote:
I do not think that Bolton would’ve gone native the way Condi Rice so shamelessly did.
@ Overlook:
he is a horses ass and so are all the fools he appointed to high office.
@ Eliana:
There would probably be mass resignations at State if he took over.
Which sounds good to me…
@ Overlook:
He’s one of those coin-operated horses they used to have out in front of the grocery store when we were kids…
Speranza wrote:
Why does he think that is relevant? What part of ILLEGAL doesn’t he understand? I don’t care if they’re joining the Boy Scouts and knitting blankets for the poor.
Speranza wrote:
I have never liked Condi Rice since she “identified” with Palestinians because she was black. Her Russian expertise did not get us very far – or not far enough to prevent Mr. Ed from taking us back to square one.
@ lobo91:
The mass resignations could not come quick enough. Most would probably go to work for Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil producing nations.
@ lobo91:
Sounds good to me, too.
It would save Bolton time and it would save taxpayers the expenses of firing them.
Overlook wrote:
She was singularly unimpressive as sec. of State. Not one of Bush’s better appointments. There is a reason why she as referred to as Clueless Condi.
wolfie wrote:
Geraldo Rivera wants to turn America into a majority Spanish speaking country.
@ Speranza:
I am sick of female Secretaries.
@ Speranza:
They should be made to sign a non-disclosure agreement that also says that they can’t be employed by other countries until they’ve been out of the State Department for 25 years.
@ Eliana:
And they lose the vote.
@ Overlook:
Agreed!
Eliana wrote:
Oh, let ‘em go to Riyadh. Just don’t let them come back.
@ Eliana:
But going back to the new policy in Arab illegals. Is this preparation for the declaration/imposition of Palestine in 2011?
Eliana wrote:
Someone has been pressing for a law to make it illegal to work for a a country that you worked in as a diplomat.
Overlook wrote:
Hillary certainly has been doing a shitty job as Sec of State. I wish Netanyahu had told her to piss off on the phone when she subjugated him to a 45 minute brow beating as if she was Naomi Campbell and he was her house cleaner.
@ Overlook:
Well, if the “Palestinians” declare their state unilaterally in 2011, I think Israel will annex Judea and Samaria (and possibly even Gaza) in response.
So this could be preparation for Israel annexing Judea and Samaria so that the illegal aliens will be gone ahead of time.
Also, Israel has been telling the “Palestinians” that if they plan to make a unilateral move towards statehood, Israel will make some unilateral moves of her own (such as dissolving the Oslo Accords which would end a HECK of a lot of Israeli cooperation that’s been going on with the “Palestinian Authority”).
If they declare statehood, they’re going to be claiming areas where 500,000 Jews live and saying that these Jews are trespassing or whatever.
Israel can dissolve the Oslo Accords and kick Fatah out of the country.
We’ll see.
General Petraeus/ Col. Allen West
@ Speranza:
We need this law.
What these people are doing amounts to treason.
@ Speranza:
Then she bragged about it to the world with her statement that putting “pressure” on Israel was paying off.
A friend of mine told me that Netanyahu should have ended the 45 minute conversation by asking, “Yes, but what does your husband think?”
Hillary would have rocketed to the moon without a space ship.
@ chickadee:
Petraeus won’t run in 2012.
Maybe sometime after, though.
@ Speranza:
Albright. Rice. Clinton.
One trots after Kim Jong Il, begging him to come back to the table. Smart.
One sympathises with the suffering of terrorists. Smarter.
One is willing to see Iran get the bomb, re-sets Russia to take back the USSR, and watches while China lends us the money to buy the rope they will sell us to hang ourselves. Smartest.
@ Overlook:
Maybe a basketball signed by Lebron this time will get him back to the table.
@ Overlook:
Albright ran after Arafat after the master terrorist made like he was walking out of a meeting.
@ Bill Jenkins:
The only way I’m interested in seeing Kim “come to the table” is if Joe Pesci’s there to slam his face into a few times, then stab him with a pen.
Eliana wrote:
or he should have said “Would you like fires with that order?”
@ lobo91:
That should have been “slam his face into it a few times”
PIMF – fries with that order
Bill Jenkins wrote:
and throw in Kobe’s signature as well.
chickadee wrote:
Victor Davis Hanson for UN Ambassador.
@ Eliana:
There will be something like 20000 American trained and supplied Palestinian “security” personnel by next year.
Egypt has been sold the combat helicopters that America refused to sell to Israel.
America stands back while Iran arms Syria.
The nuclear conference will embolden Egypt and Jordan in what I see as preparations by them to suspend the peace agreements. Turkey is on the verge of suspending trade agreements with Israel.
America is actively working with Israel’s enemies to force Israel to capitulate.
Overlook wrote:
And Powell was any better?
I hereby nominate Joe Pesci to be Secretary of State if he’ll do this to Kim:
Speranza wrote:
You’re right. I knew it was some disgusting murderous despot.
snork wrote:
Cannot name a single Secretary of State – male or female – that I have admired.
@ Overlook:
Thomas Jefferson?
@ lobo91:
Kinda went downhill from there, dinnit?
@ Overlook:
Yes, this is exactly what Zero is trying to do.
However, Egypt’s Mubarak (Hosni) was quoted as saying in 2001 that “war with Israel is a trap.”
Egypt has been down this road where they thought they couldn’t lose. They lost.
Zero is asking Israel to commit national suicide.
All-out war would be preferable to voluntary national suicide.
Zero simply doesn’t know this (or else he doesn’t care).
@ snork:
I still think Joe Pesci could turn things around.
I need a link to a Che thread on this site please
My 15 year old child thinks that Che is a “Revolutionary” hero – and ignores his murders. I would like to “smack” him with a link.. please.
@ Calo:
~:)
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2010/03/31/apple-promotes-che-guevara/
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2009/12/03/che-guevara-progressive-killer/
I’m sure there are more.
@ Calo:
Oh – then:
http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535
or:
*i’d watch it for bias first* – haven’t watched that whole thing.
Calo wrote:
Smack him upside the head with Humberto Fontova’s book “Exposing The Real Che”.
PaladinPhil wrote:
I’ll raise you one…
And one more…