Let’s do the time warp again!
Walter Cronkite is all over my TV set. The Watergate Hotel is back in the news. Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the walk on the moon. And Tom Watson is leading the British Open. Are we back in the ’70s?
I just hope this doesn’t mean they’re bringing disco back.
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Joel Edge
July 19th, 2009
6:31 am
Well, the moon landing was in 69. But you’re right, it does feel like the Carter years again. No jobs, no money, no hope. We need another Reagan.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
6:38 am
Looks like we are back in the Little Ice Age too.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
RW-(the original)
July 19th, 2009
6:40 am
Maybe back when Mom jeans were in style the Pale Hose really did play in Communski Field.
Back to the future!
Joey
July 19th, 2009
7:10 am
We are experiencing another type of warp. Spending and increasing debt at warp speed.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
7:26 am
Talks on Honduras crisis appear to founder-Urinal
Say what?
Nice job of spell checking there, AJC, although you did get the socialist edit job down pat.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
7:29 am
Does this not explain it all?-
We trusted “Uncle Walter”- Urinal
What’s this ‘we’ s*&^?
You got a mouse in your pocket?
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
7:37 am
My goodness, if you can’t find any thing good to race bait with, then make something up out of whole clothe-
There are still some conservatives who deeply resent the social and demographic changes that have swept the country during the past four decades, leading to the election of the nation’s first black president.
That faction sees the rise of a “wise Latina” as one more indication that the country no longer belongs solely to them.-Queen Pinko, Urinal
Man, all of the stereotypes that are now game, I could go on for days.
But I won’t, because I am not despicable like Cynthia Tucker is.
Joey
July 19th, 2009
7:44 am
Walter Cronkite:
Yes he was a trusted news anchor for years. Reporting the news with no bias, for years.
But in my view he is the once trusted news anchor who demonstrated to all news anchors that it is fine, just fine, to bring your personal opinon and politics into a news broadcast.
That was not a good thing. Also not good, he never showed regret for fathering the ruin of TV News.
@@
July 19th, 2009
7:54 am
Horror of horrors….was that Susan Sarandon I saw?
jconservative
July 19th, 2009
7:54 am
Sotomayor will make the sixth justice now sitting on the court. Is six catholics sitting at the same time to many?
TnGelding
July 19th, 2009
7:57 am
Joel Edge
July 19th, 2009
6:31 am
Joey
July 19th, 2009
7:10 am
How did we get here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ES&hl=es&v=wXhND01U734&feature=related
Redneck Convert
July 19th, 2009
8:07 am
Well, it’s a time warp alright, no doubt about that. The Braves are back to being losers, like they were all those years before the 90s. We’re back to the 70s when the libruls put Those People and other bums on guvmint welfare and spent us into a hole. And now you can’t find no straight news unless you turn to Fox News. I halfway expect to wake up one day and find out I’m back in school for my senior year, the 5th grade. And this Tom Watson is the same age as Sister Dusty but acting like some kid again. People his age ought to have the decency to set down and gripe about the libruls instead of hitting the ball further than anyone else and sinking 50-foot putts.
I see it’s 63 this a.m. Good thing we have Global Warming, else it would be down in the 40s.
Well, I’m going to watch a little English golf on TV before I head down to the Church of Holiness. I wish the people over there would keep decent time. Golf that’s on TV ought to be played in the p.m., not the early morning. No wonder the people in Europe are so screwed up. They can’t even get their clocks set right.
Have a good Sabbath everybody.
TnGelding
July 19th, 2009
8:10 am
States will have say in health care reform?
“Human rights met states rights. Bipartisan effort fought for and against, and in the final recorded vote, an amendment offered in the United States House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee by Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio won handily. The issue? Should states be granted federal program waivers if they choose to pass and implement single payer, publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare systems for their residents?”
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/17-12
Cherokee
July 19th, 2009
8:11 am
“Spending and increasing debt at warp speed.”
yeah, just like your hero Reagan, huh…
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
8:33 am
Aw-right, Jay, whatcha got against disco? The only thing kept us awake during the Great Yawn!
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
8:36 am
jconservative
“Sotomayor will make the sixth justice now sitting on the court. Is six catholics sitting at the same time to many?”
We do not have a religious test in this country for holding public office.
DB, Gwinnettian
July 19th, 2009
8:37 am
TnG, while I have little hope that the amendment discussed in your link @ 8.10 will survive conference committee shenanigans, thanks for bringing this bit of underreported news to my attention, and kudos to Dennis for waging this battle on our behalf.
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
8:38 am
Tn Gelding–got your late night from below…I agree on China and Russia, but I think they’d rather let the bad a** little guy do it, too.
DB, Gwinnettian
July 19th, 2009
8:45 am
So did anyone compile just how much time Republican Senators spent crying in public, on our dime, over the Most Upsetting Speech by an Uppity Latina Woman Evah?
DB, Gwinnettian
July 19th, 2009
8:47 am
From the Dept. of Not-that-anyone-cares: While I always found something admirable in the ragtaggy cult of followers attracted to Rocky Horror’s midnight showings, I always found the actual tune “Time Warp” to be a headache-inducing irritation.
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
9:09 am
For all of you global backyard cooling fanatics, here is someone willing to take you up on the silliness that you have managed to Drudge up. Of course, he has not had any one brave enough to take him up on his offer yet and I don’t really think that he expects to get any takers. How about it, IR/YW. Here’s your chance to show us that you rule.
ByteMe
July 19th, 2009
9:09 am
It’s just a JUMP… to the left.
mm
July 19th, 2009
9:29 am
But it’s ok for Republicans to spend a couple of trillion dollars on another country. Be gone, losers.
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
9:35 am
It’s official. We really are in a recession.
@@
July 19th, 2009
9:40 am
Listening to Bloomberg, when it’s traced back to its origins, government interference in lending was at the root of our problem. There’s no other way to see it, in my opinion. Opportunists meet opportunity.
Too much layering. It’s what’s going on right now with the solutions.
Repeat?
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
9:52 am
That’s correct, @@. When you trace the evils of capitalism back to its roots, low and behold, the root of all its evil is money. Write your Congressman and tell him/her to support a Farenheit 451 bill for money. We must purge our society of the evil stuff. And, we’ll get a twofer effect from the bonfires — a localized offset for this horrendous global backyard cooling.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
9:57 am
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
9:09 am
For all of you global backyard cooling fanatics, here is someone willing to take you up on the silliness that you have managed to Drudge up. Of course, he has not had any one brave enough to take him up on his offer yet and I don’t really think that he expects to get any takers. How about it, IR/YW. Here’s your chance to show us that you rule.
Yawn-
It’s the second consecutive day of record-low temperatures in International Falls; the morning low on Sunday also was 35 degrees. Monday’s low was the eighth record daily low temperature recorded in the city this year.
Record Cold High Temperature at St. Cloud, MN – THE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 66 DEGREES … THE COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDED AT ST CLOUD ON JULY 16TH SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1894.
HERE ARE THE COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURES RECORDED AT
ST CLOUD…THE TWIN CITIES…AND EAU CLAIRE ON JULY 17TH:
ST CLOUD 66 DEGREES IN 1927
TWIN CITIES 66 DEGREES IN 1939
EAU CLAIRE 68 DEGREES IN 1939
Jul 14 Low temperature record shattered in Northern Michigan – Joe Charlevoix, Channel 29/8, Traverse City, just reported that the record low of 39F last night in Cadillac and Houghton Lake, MI “shattered” the old record for this date.
I thought it was getting warmer?
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Minneapolis&state=MN&site=MPX&textField1=44.9618&textField2=-93.2668&e=0
Uh, you owe me $75.
Pay up, stooge.
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
July 19th, 2009
10:01 am
Don’t forget, Obumbler is doing his best to bring back stagflation.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
10:03 am
Remember all of the retired generals the libs paraded around to harangue Bushie with?-
Retired general, lieutenant colonel join reservist’s lawsuit over Obama’s birth status- Ledger-Enquirer
Hahahahahaha, let the politics of personal destruction commence.
Uh, where’s dat “birth certificate” at?
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
10:05 am
Quit yawning and get help for that oxygen deprivation problem, IR/YW. And, like he said, take him up on his offer.
Of course, if you are ready for a real discussion, here is a good starting point.
Michael H. Smith
July 19th, 2009
10:08 am
Are we back in the ’70s?
I just hope this doesn’t mean they’re bringing disco back.
Ah the thought of missing Jay wearing a leisure suit. :’(
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
10:12 am
Trust Me @ 9:52–it is not money that’s the root of all evil, it’s “the LOVE of money…”
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
10:13 am
And, like he said, take him up on his offer.
Have you even looked at his offer, stooge?
1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit above average, as listed by Weather Underground, you owe me $25. For each day that it is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit below average, I owe you $25.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Minneapolis%20MN%20&wuSelect=WEATHER
Right off the bat, even while you goofballs run your mouths, you are $75 in the hole.
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
10:14 am
Michael H.Smith–Jay in a leisure suit? Now that’s worth a trip back in time to see..but could he dance? And did he go home alone?
Mike
July 19th, 2009
10:16 am
Wow, liberals on this blog can’t seem to get their facts straight.
(1) The high out-of-control spending and unemplyment and recession of the 70’s was under a Democratic Congress, with a Democratic president. Reagan always sent budget prosposals to that Democratic Congress that were much more balanced, but since they involved cuts in vote-buying programs for the Dems (aka Entitlement Programs, yuck, what a word!), the Dems always killed them immediately.
(2) The spending THIS YEAR has FAR, FAR exceeded anything that the Bush group did in Iraq. By trillions. Just look at ANY chart of deficit spending, and you will see the truth.
But, I forget. The truth is what you make up in the liberal media and the “progressive” movement. By the way, will someone explain what is so “progressive” about the progressive movement? All I see are haters who want to take everything under the guns of government control and eliminate personal liberties. And free speech? Forget that, ever try to go onto Daily Kos and disagree with their thinking? It is frightening the invective that is hurled at you if you are not ‘party-line’!
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
10:26 am
Mike @ 10:16
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less,”
–Humpty Dumpty
AmVet
July 19th, 2009
10:31 am
Can you feel that lusting and dancing devil in ya? Can ya??
JB, I am impressed! But our decidedly quasi-prurient puritans (who are apparently NOT in church!) must be secretly having a hissy fit (or are delighted by the titillation!) over cross-dressing rock & roll on a Sunday morning! Hallelujah brothers and sisters!!
One of the great movies of its era. Killer sound track and as an added bonus a very hot young Ms. Sarandon in bra and panties.
Speaking of eras; two REALLY, REALLY bad ones – disco and Reagan. Both were abominations unto the Lord! Disco was the pre-cursor and genesis for the pitiful state that modern black (c)rap? urban? music fell into. And Ronnie? Well we all know what that actor wrought for the GOP. (Thank gawd Rocky Horror came out in ‘75 before Eddie and Ronnie could ban it!) Their ongoing death spiral!
And one more constant over the past four, make it ten decades – Chicago baseball is a flat-out joke. And now they have the Obama curse to deal with!
Trust me, that is a funny link! And I see that the flat-earth welcher is already blathering about being owed money. Priceless…
And reminiscent of 1969, at least the Uppity Muslim, ala LBJ, has us getting bogged down in Quagmire Part Deux. That should make the neo-conned and chickenhawks happy!
Carry on…
booger
July 19th, 2009
10:35 am
Trust me,
I do not want to bet on the global warming issue. I don’t want my government betting hundreds of billion dollars of taxpayer money on it either.
booger
July 19th, 2009
10:36 am
mm,
No one has spent a couple of trillion dollars on another country! Check your numbers.
FinnMcCool
July 19th, 2009
10:38 am
Nice link, Trust Me, thanks!
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
10:40 am
Am Vet–disco was fun, that’s f-u-n, you know, that thing we didn’t have a lot of in the early 1970S and don’t seem to be having much of now…
booger
July 19th, 2009
10:42 am
Mike,
What liberals call the progressive movement is actually straight out of the Europeon 1950s and 1960s playbook.
They are trying desperately now to back out of the mess they made while we follow the Pied Piper blindly over the cliff.
Kamchak
July 19th, 2009
10:47 am
Mike
How many of those in congress in the 70’s were Dixiecrats? Just askin’
TnGelding
July 19th, 2009
10:52 am
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
9:35 am
Fire up the grill!
And how will we ever get out of the recession?
http://www.ajc.com/business/minimum-wage-is-going-94866.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab&imw=Y
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
10:56 am
IR/YW at 10:13,
Still here. I thought you claimed to “rule”. Take him up on his offer. He’s waiting but not for long. Just think of all the easy money you could make off him. Go for it. You do have what it takes to back up your Drudged up claims, don’t you. I mean, you do rule, right.
Cool Reply
July 19th, 2009
10:59 am
Booger: Nothing the “liberals” have done or could do compares to the horrors of the bush administration. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld and supporters should be made to pay with money and prison time.
GOP=HYPOCRISY
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
10:59 am
Kamchak–you mean like Robet Byrd?
Trust me
July 19th, 2009
11:01 am
TnGelding
July 19th, 2009
10:52 am
Fire up the grill!
And how will we ever get out of the recession?
Hey, if cheap prime cuts only come our way during a recession, I vote for an extended stay.
TnGelding
July 19th, 2009
11:04 am
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
10:03 am
If Mom were alive she’d say behind the at.
Moon landing?
Russia still blue over moon landing 40 years later
MOSCOW (AP) – When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for the Soviet Union – the first time the U.S. had beaten the U.S.S.R in the space race. Forty years later, the memory of that loss of primacy still seems to sting the Russian soul. When state TV channel Rossiya reported last week on the restoration of video footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the account gave a lot of attention to dubious conspiracy theories that the landing was faked. “In the United States, more than anywhere else, they are sure of the believability of the steps on the moon,” the report said, adding that Armstrong keeps a very low profile. “This also seems strange to many people.”
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_MOON_LANDING?SITE=GACAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-07-19-10-45-43
AmVet
July 19th, 2009
11:09 am
josef, to your point, I won’t speak for anyone else, but this kid was having a helluva time in the early, middle AND late 70s. And this old kid is still having a blast. (I love my life.)
As for disco, maybe for you! For me it was a sonic nightmare. And musically I have a very open mind! A fad that was to be thankfully VERY short-lived. But sadly for me it heralded the end of GREAT black music, which like it’s white counter-part has never recovered.
The only silver lining to the state of “modern” music then was that I became so disillusioned by the droves of no-talent assclowns that were coming to the fore, that I got into classical music, Celtic, bluegrass, etc in a big way. Listened to and bought little else for a half dozen years…
Of course by the time the Bedtime for Bozo bozo showed up, the really good times were getting ready to come to an unofficial end. But more significantly that sick, un-Christianlike hypocrisy and cancer of faux-righteousness was to ultimately become their undoing.
Look around. Unable to evolve, they are going the way of the political dodo and still fighting battles they lost forty years ago.
Party on Wayne…