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Shortly after recording what was arguably their best album at Abbey Road Studios, the Fab Four crossed that now famous intersection and posed for this publicity shot. (L to R: Paul, George, John and Ringo.)
Some say the Beatles were too popular, but you’ve got to admit that without “the British Invasion” of the 1960s there’d likely be no Overnight Open Thread.
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Isn’t the Monty Python?
PIMF
They did it all for the nookie!
Here’s how they did the Abbey Road cover.
@ m:
Nookie’s been a favorite of mine for years. I never knew that it was song.
Mr Caps wrote:
Quite the zen question you pose.
@ huckfunn:
Yeah I heard Nookie had a fan club, lol.
huckfunn wrote:
This one’s a classic.
@ huckfunn:
And here’s something NOT entirely different.
Bunk X wrote:
Here’s the song that got me going for the Beatles. 1963 or 4.
When we were cleaning out my late M.I.L.’s house, we found some old newspapers with some interesting articles.
1) Topeka State Journal 3/29/1979 Iran lowers marriage age. Iran’s new revolutionary government has lowered the legal age from 18 to 15 for girls, and from 20 to 18 for boys Justice Minister Assadolah Mobasheri said today. Mobasheri said the old laws of marriage were ‘against the laws of nature.’ He said girls of 15 can now get married & leave their parents’ home, making it economically easier for low income families who would have one less person to take care of. Mobasheri told the AP that the new law would also curb prostitution. A girl between the ages of 15 to 18 has a great sexual urge, and energy, and it is against the laws of nature to prevent her from marrying at that time, he said.
2) 3/29/79 Topeka Daily Capital Scuffle mars KU protest; one arrested. What was promoted peaceful’ campus demonstration against the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty was marred Wednesday when two University of Kansas students were taken from the scene by police after several incidents were reported. Several pro-Israel students engaging in a counter protest against the Arab demonstrators said they plan to file complaints against the officers involved in the arrests for alleged brutality…
3) (same paper as above) Arabs reject economic acts against US The Israel-Egypt peace treaty continues to stir shock waves Wednesday just two days after its signing in Washington. In Baghdad Iraq, Arab League foreign ministers rejected demands for economic sanctions against the US on Wednesday and Yasser Arafat angrily pulled his PLO delegates out of the meeting…
4) Oklahoma Journal 11/8/1975 letter to the editor “As a matter of the childs rights. The government shall exert control over the family, because we have recognized that the child is not the care of the parents, but the care of the State. We recognize further that not parental, but communal forms of up-bringing have an unquestionable superiority of all other forms. Furthermore that there is serious question that maybe we cannot trust the family to prepare young children in this country for the new kind of work that is emerging.”
Sound familiar? Communism? Nazism? Orwells ’1984′? Alas, my friends and fellow Americans, this particular piece of insanity is contained in the Congressional record on or about page 44138, concerning the Child & Family Services Act of 1975. House bill 2966 & Senate bill 626.
The most astounding of all is that this atrocity was passed by both Houses in 1971 and only failed to become law because it was vetoed by then President Nixon.
If the above doesn’t shake you up, I suggest that everyone read the so-called Family Services Bill and see just what kind of idiotic laws our elected officials are trying to put into effect in the ‘Land of the Free’.
Bob Baxter SM Sgt, RSAF, Ret.
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It’s been more than 30 years since these articles & this letter were written, and America’s even more screwed up now than we were back then. Why? Because the kids who were in school when this drivel was being pushed are in charge now. Because 30+ years later, we’re still dealing with the Arab world which has gone even further ’round the bend than they were when the Shah was ousted. Because we’ve got an even higher percentage of people now who think it’s the government’s job to provide for them, to wipe their noses, and to look after their every need, since obviously government is more caring and compassionate than mom & dad could possibly be.
We’ve got to turn this country around, and fast.
@ huckfunn:
@ huckfunn:
This was my favorite. Dirk McQuickly and I trade emails occasionally, and no, I’m not making that up.
Damm right Secretariat was an Virginian !
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Before my time (Born 75(, but this is my favorite Beatles song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFquax2F-k&feature=player_embedded#at=21
… and in honor of the poor dude in England, and to poke a finger in the eye of the PC:
@ Bunk X:
Pres. Nixavelt. Heh
Happy Birthday Calo!
I think I’m gonna clock out with this one. And damnit, put the record back in it’s jacket. G’nite
@ m:
Hello Belle!
@ Rodan:
@ Rodan:
The flip side of “Hey Jude” on the 45rpm was “Revolution.” My dad hated it because of the distortion. I played it a lot after that.
@ m:
Hello
@ Bunk X:
AH ok!
@ AZfederalist:
Lol city.
@ Rodan:
Always remember that not too long after that “There was funky Chinamen from funky Chinatown.”
@ m:
This was John Lennon at his worst.
@ Bunk X:
Dang. I believe that.
@ m:
@ Bunk X:
Watching the Cheesiest movie, Zombie Apocalypse on Starz.
@ m:
PIMF. Oop. I meant John Lennon at his best.
@ Bunk X:
Whatever man.
/lol!
Where’s Calo? This is for her.
I’d much rather listen to these fellows!
m wrote:
A classic quote from the Sage of Culver City.
Rodan wrote:
The twitter war was hilarious. I don’t know who Gus_812 is, but he/she deserves an award for the clever and polite yet vicious snark.
Here’s some Modern RetroRock via Bunkessa:
Back to the Disco/Kung Fu Wedding earlier today, it reminded me of this Christmas Classic that’s too hot to handle and too cold to hold. From Bunk’s Stax O’Wax: Have a Kung Fu Christmas.
Bunk X wrote:
Yep, two thumbs up!
@ mfhorn:
You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie … and faster than 2012 too IMHO.
I know I said I was going to bed…but I had to pop back in here. i am scared yinz and freaked out.
@ NoThreat2U:
What’s up? I know you had the funeral today for your son’s buddy.
@ Bagua:
I don’t even want to know who did it. I do know who it wasn’t, besides me.
@ Bunk X:
Blame it on the Beatles.What I put my parents through. They thought they had it rough during the days of the Fab 4 … ’til I ‘graduated’ to Coopers ‘Killer’ and ‘Love It To Death’.
“You Drive Me (Ner, ner, ner) Nervous” got me my first set of head phones under the tree !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXkD7g9d3aQ
Noise.
I’ll never forget the day I had to break it to my pop that ‘Something” was a Beatles song. The look of shock and disbelief !
“But … I really like that song”.
Don’t worry pops, yer secrets safe with me ! The killer though was the day I caught him doin’ a mean toe tap to ‘Satisfaction’. So I sez to ‘em: “Remember when you jumped up and shut off the TV ’cause you couldn’t stand ‘that freak’ leapin’ around the stage (Stones Live – Altamont) ??
“Noooo…” Yep, sorry pop. I had kept that one to myself for quite awhile – my own private chuckle, I always knew he liked “Satisfaction”. He was so disturbed by the Jagger performance on TV that day I didn’t have the heart to break it to ‘em until several years later. And this was the day he also confessed he had always been a sucker for Chuck Berrys music. Coulda knocked me over with a feather ! Picture John Wayne tappin’ his toes to Berry
Those were the days …
I lucked out though – my kids never got into rap.
@ Bunk X:
Bunk – what song is that ????
The ‘tube always causes a Flash crash when I try to go directly to the site – twice already this thread, thats why I ask.
Recently there was a discussion about slave labor in China between Bunk X and Bagua at one of the threads on blogmocracy.
I didn’t have the time to do some research til now so I’d like to answer Bunk X in this open over night thread. Bunk you wrote:
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Bunk there are Millions of slave-laborers in China. Not only kidnapped children but about 8 to 10 Million detainees in Gulags all over China. They don’t get paid and they work for well-known brands ind the U.S.A. and the EU.
Harry Wu was right when he wrote:
We don’t see democracy coming up in China as predicted by those who favored the treaties with China but brutal nationalism, militarism and repression. China hasn’t become an economic super-power b’cause she’s “experimenting with capitalism” but b’cause she steals our intellectual and social property while it forces her own people under one of the most brutal dictatorships.
You’re correct when you write:
No, we can’t dictate what their employees get paid but we CAN tax the hell out from their products and goods produced under unfair, not comparable conditions – like slave labor – we never can compete with. With that taxes we can cut our taxes and become more competitive WITHOUT lowering our standards. If they raise their standards we can lower the taxes on their products and goods.
And Bagua stays correct when he wrote about corruption and the Chinese Mafia:
More here and here
This is one of the Beatles greatest tunes and a great studio video as well:
@ 4_Sticks:
This is The Black Keys – Howlin’ For You.
Direct link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w-590Hk2A0
*Gone…*
@ 4_Sticks:
The Black Keys’ “Howlin’ For Your Soul.” Great fuzzbass.
@ 4_Sticks:
To be truthful, my folks were kinda hip to the early Beatles, up to and including the Sgt. Pepper album. My dad was more of a Stan Kenton guy, but years later I found a couple of Aerosmith albums in his collection, including “Hot Rocks.” That was a jaw dropper for me.
When I was in hiskool, I liked the Eagles, Jackson Browne, country rock stuff. Then my mom bought me Clapton’s classic “E.C. Was Here” thinking it was an Eagles’ album, and everything changed for me. =)
Bunkarina just came back for the weekend. Gotta go. Bunk out.
@ Bunk X:
Please, FREEEEEEE my comment !!!!
@ Bunk X:
Hi, Bunk,
I’ve a comment frozen (probably b’cause of to many links) and this comment is for you. It’s an answer to your discussion with Bagua about slave labor in China.
I think Bunk has left the building…
Mike C. wrote:
sobbing
“free my comment” !!!!!!! 
So break it into pieces and repost them. Not elegant, but practical…
@ Guggi:
Comment freed. My good deed for the day…
Iron Fist wrote:
Merci beaucoup, you’re my knight in shining armor.
Oh and good morning to you and Mike C. and a nice week end for all of you.
Good Morning Blogmocracy! Today is another glorious day in the Reign of Emperor Barack Hussein I, Pasha of the United States and Defender of the
FaithUmmah! There are 556 Days Until the 2012 Presidential Election! The big news is, of course, the tornados. Our prayers are with the people of the South as they deal with this monumental disaster. We weren’t particularly harmed where I live. We were fortunate. In good news, the NRA is going to call for Eric Holder’s resignation over the Project Gunrunner fiasco. I don’t think they will have much pull with this Administration, but they may move Congress to act on this clear abuse of power by the ATF. Or not. The ATF has killed people before, and as spectacularly. No one lost their job over the Waco fiasco. While it is clear that what they were doing here was manufacturing a problem that they would then propose to solve by giving themselves more power, I don’t really expect Congress to react negatively to that. Congress creates problems all the time that it then proposes to “solve” with more regulation. That is part of why we are in the mess we are in today.@ Guggi:
Good afternoon to you! It is supposed to be a beautiful day here today. So at odds with the weather earlier in the week. This is East Tennessee. They say if you don’t like the weather, stick around. It’ll change!
Iron Fist wrote:
Oh, it’s noon here. 11:56 am
@ Iron Fist:
East Tennessee with the wonderful landscape ? We’re both blessed to live in a wonderful country with similar weather conditions *lol*
This is where I live and the city is famous for her rod of rain
(and the view is pretty much the same I’ve from my workroom but of course more to the right, I don’t live in the midst of the river 
so I can see this mountain too and a lot more)
@ Guggi:
That is beautiful! I don’t have nearly so majestic a view, but I live in the foothills of the Appalachins. Right now we have just got through the stpring dogwoods, and everything is green. It is me and my fiancee’s hopes that we will be able to build a house in Blount County, much nearer the mountains, sometime in the next ten years. That’ll depend on how we weather the economic storms that are coming, though.
@ Iron Fist:
I hope so for us all, U.S. and Europe, that 2012 will brind the real change to the better.
You’re a fighter you’ll be successful. If not in ten then may be in 12 years
Restoring the 10th Amendment
By Dustin Stockton
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Powerful, simple words. The Tenth Amendment was designed to be a catchall, ensuring that as our great nation developed, the choices of the federal government would remain secondary to the rights of the states. Yet federal politicians have found ways to circumvent their limited power. The result has been a disastrous eroding of personal liberty and government efficiency.
They’ve bastardized the intent of the interstate commerce clause. On Obamacare, Obama’s lawyers argue that the commerce clause gives them authority to regulate everything that has to do or not to do with the modern definition of commerce. Their argument goes like this. If people don’t purchase health insurance it impacts interstate commerce; therefore, the federal government has constitutional authority to mandate that every person purchase health insurance.
Imagine the implications if that argument is successful. The federal government would grant itself unilateral authority to dictate every purchase your family chooses or doesn’t choose to make. Don’t want to buy a new car in Nevada? That would impact the car industry in Michigan therefore granting authority for the government to demand that you buy a new car. Even worse, every decision has an impact on health. If given the power to regulate healthcare then the federal government could regulate every decision from what kind of toothpaste you use to what kind of food you eat. All these regulations would be controlled by a handful of politicians in Washington DC.
I support States’ rights because an ordinary citizen has almost no control over Washington. Each of us is represented by just one Congressman and two Senators. That means our individual vote only has an impact on 3/535 or about ½ of 1%. America is greatest when decisions are weighted as close to each individual as possible, because the smaller the government the more agile and reactive it can be to its unique community. Every individual school board should have broader control over its district’s education policy than the State and especially the federal government, because you can have an impact on your local school board that you can’t have with the federal government.
The 10th amendment applies both ways. I don’t care if the people of Vermont use their education system to feminize their boys and sexualize their girls. I don’t care if they want to raise their effective tax rate to 90%. I could care less if they want to teach their children that avoiding pain is more important than perseverance and hard work. Their communities should be free to create a narcissistic liberal utopia and then suffer the consequences when it inevitably fails. On the same account, if I choose to live in a community where schools segregate based on ability, allow prayer, and teaches morality, the liberals in Vermont and the politicians in Washington should mind their own d–n business.
This is a big country. Communities in rural Alabama face far different challenges than communities in urban New York. The federal government will never have the ability to regulate each of those different communities equally and therefore should stay out of the business of regulating them at all. If it takes a Constitutional amendment to restrict the commerce clause in order to restore the Tenth Amendment that will be the cost of preserving liberty.
Dustin Stockton
Media/Events Director TheTeaParty.net
Chief Strategist Western Representation PAC
Guggi wrote:
Party at Guggi’s house! Let me go wake up my pilot, he’s been in the vodka-boarding supplies, again… Mechanic, fire up that jet!
PrincessNatasha wrote:
Hehe
You would be either tired or drunk arriving here.
Bunk X wrote:
Bunk, awesome mash up. Soul train dancers and Black Keys Howlin for You. Who’d a thunk it. Just sent that out to my son. Ever see the original video, pretty awesome too. Especially Shawn White. Lol
If it was Calo’s birthday….HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALO.
http://www.totallypimpedout.net/Graphics/Birthday/thumbs/Birthday_Cake.gif
@ Guggi:
Just saw your comment. My response to Bagua was half in jest since Obdicut was brought up on one of the DoD threads recently. I was not attempting to be an apologist for China. It is an evil dangerous threat.
The ChiCom government, like Russia’s and all other communist countries, is extremely corrupt, without a doubt, and to opine that they’re like the mafia is quite an understatement (if not an inadvertent compliment).
My point, however, was that Bagua’s statement was untrue, or at least not entirely true, as there is no way that China can produce all its exports with slave labor.
Taking the higher end of the estimate of the number of slaves in China, 10 million, and dividing that by its population of 1,339,725,852 (2010) results in .075% of the population is forced to work without pay, a relatively small number.
Without a doubt, 10 million slaves is 10 million too many, but that was not what I was intending to point out.
The majority of Chinese live in abject poverty, at mere subsistence levels, mostly in farming. For those people, $2 a day in pay means a lot and they’re willing to work for it.
So Trump threatens a 25% tariff on Chinese exports, and thinks that’s going to sway the ChiComs. It won’t, but lets assume it did. The result would be higher prices for Chinese imports, causing higher prices for goods in the U.S. The dirt poor would be forced to take a pay cut and tens of millions would starve.
Likely a 25% tariff would only reroute Chinese exports through third party countries who trade freely with the U.S. This is why tariffs don’t work, and Trump is just waving popularist flags.
The Chinese economy is in a bubble, and has been for some time. There are signs that the bubble is about to burst, but I’m not an economist and I don’t know how realistic that analysis is. If I remember where I read about it I’ll post the link.[Oddly, due to China's one child per household policy, they are experiencing a labor shortage as the population ages.]
Aside from that, I was just poking Bagua for fun. We get along.
@ Bunk X:
The article on China’s bubble economy came from a newsletter from my investment advisor. This article goes into a little more depth:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0316/China-the-coming-costs-of-a-superbubble