Here’s proof the Mayans got it wrong with their calendar
The world is ending well before December, 2012. It now officially ends on Oct. 13, 2009, the date when Bob Dylan releases his album of Christmas classics.
According to the New York Times, “among the traditional songs that Mr. Dylan will perform on the album, which Columbia Records is to release on Oct. 13, are “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Little Drummer Boy” and “Must Be Santa.”
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pat
August 26th, 2009
2:14 pm
Holy Crap! Is he insane? Please tell me this is some sort joke….
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:18 pm
The man who formed my political opinions early on is doing Christmas songs? GAWD, A world turned upside down. I just may cry…
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:19 pm
The times they are a changing…indeed!
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2009
2:20 pm
“Holy Crap! Is he insane? Please tell me this is some sort joke….”
Isn’t that what “they” said when he went to electric guitars?
Angry Black Man
August 26th, 2009
2:20 pm
Ruh Roh!!
USinUK
August 26th, 2009
2:21 pm
am I the only person who is envisioning the Dylan nasal twang singing “Siiiiiiiiiilent Niiiiiiiiight” and “IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII’m Dreamin’ of a Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite Christmaaaaaas” …
oh, dear. it’s enough to make one celebrate Hanukkah, instead.
jasper
August 26th, 2009
2:22 pm
Don’t forget, ole Mr. Zimmerman was a Christian once. Let’s just say it intefered with his freewheeling ways. Ultimately, dem Jews know how to make a buck. Mazal Tov.
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:23 pm
Hey Angry, how’s doin’?
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:24 pm
USinUK, not that there’s anything wrong with that…;>)
Hi, Josef!
Paul
August 26th, 2009
2:29 pm
Post Traumatic Drug Disorder rearing its head?
Oh, and as for the Mayans, they got it correct.
It’s the interpreters who blew it -
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
2:31 pm
Is this a joke? Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter of all time, but Little Drummer Boy?
Oh God, I really hate that song – it makes me want to slit my wrist everytime I hear it.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
2:32 pm
Funny, but you can’t fool me, the real notice of the end of the world is when my kids learn to turn off lights in rooms they have left!
RW-(the original)
August 26th, 2009
2:33 pm
I thought the product offering downstairs was bad, but I’d eat that thing before I’d listen to Dylan singing Christmas songs.
Angry Black Man
August 26th, 2009
2:35 pm
Pretty good Norm. Still reading the stuff written about Ted. This country is going down the crapper in a huge way.
pat
August 26th, 2009
2:35 pm
This is a sad sad day.
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:36 pm
Can you just hear “Silent Night” by Bob Dylan piped in Macy’s…
PinkoNeoConLibertarian
August 26th, 2009
2:37 pm
LOL! My first thought when I saw that was”I thought he was an athiest”.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
2:38 pm
RW,
OMG, that was a good one – tears streaming down face……………..
joe matarotz
August 26th, 2009
2:40 pm
The silver lining is that this release will mark the nadir of music publishing in the world. It can only get better from here.
sp
August 26th, 2009
2:41 pm
I would love to hear his rendition of “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” or “Blue Christmas”
Brad Steel
August 26th, 2009
2:43 pm
68 years old 34 album – not including the collaborations.
Makes me feel bad when I ask myself, “what have I done lately?”
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
2:43 pm
Jay,
Are you stoned? Did you steal my bong again?
Paul
August 26th, 2009
2:44 pm
Bosch
I posted the chorus to Little Drummer Boy for you. Over and over and over.
But the dang Blog God ate it as a sacrifice.
Thought you’d want to know -
GreenJeans
August 26th, 2009
2:50 pm
This CD, the Double Down and Ted make three.
I guess Liz Taylor can relax for a bit.
George American
August 26th, 2009
2:51 pm
WHAT DEOS THIS COMMIE PINKO KNOW ABOUT THE #1 CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY?
I HOPE CHARLIE DANIELS OR HANK JR. SHOW HIM UP WITH A XMAS ALBUM!!!
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:53 pm
OF COURSE, GEORGE…AN “XMAS” ALBUM…HOW CHRISTIAN OF YOU!!!
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2009
2:56 pm
“XMAS”
What do YOU know about “XMAS”?
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:56 pm
ANGRY: What did the Grateful Dead say? Something about going to Hades in a basket, but enjoying the ride? The future is our children.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
August 26th, 2009
2:57 pm
RW- Dylan doesn’t sing, it’s more whining set to music.
Scooter
August 26th, 2009
2:58 pm
Is Dylan going to protest Christmas or what?
Normal
August 26th, 2009
2:59 pm
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
August 26th, 2009
2:57 pm
RW- Dylan doesn’t sing, it’s more whining set to music.
And you whine without the music…just observin’
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:01 pm
Anybody heard anything about VP Cheney being vindicated?
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
3:01 pm
XMAS??? Gee whiz the nun’s would faint! “X”MAS…..
Sounds like George American is trying to rachet up the war on XMAS…..
Taxpayer
August 26th, 2009
3:02 pm
This just ain’t normal. Something has done took over the world that we all grew up in. Something alien. This cannot be the original Bob Dylan.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
3:03 pm
Paul
Actually I heard just the opposite……
stands for decibels
August 26th, 2009
3:03 pm
Sleigh, Lady, Sleigh
heh.
Anyway, looks like it’s for a worthy cause. Good on ya, Bobby Z.
RW-(the original)
August 26th, 2009
3:04 pm
RW- Dylan doesn’t sing
That’s for sure. I’d rather listen to cats mating while I ran my fingernails down a chalkboard.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:06 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
What did you hear?
Normal
August 26th, 2009
3:06 pm
MRS. G: I’m getting to believe I could make war on Christmas, too. With 14 Grandkids, and two Great Grand kids, I hope I can qualify for a stimulas package, or I’m doomed…
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:07 pm
RW-(the original)
So YOU’RE one of the backup singers.
I knew it!!!!
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
3:07 pm
Paul
I did see where Sy Hersh was vindicated on the whole assasination ring stuff….
Doggone/GA
August 26th, 2009
3:07 pm
“Is Dylan going to protest Christmas or what?”
No one will ever beat: Greg Lake- I believe in Father Christmas
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:08 pm
Normal
Well, with 14 grandkids and 2 great grandkids….
I’d say you already had your stimulus package…
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:09 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
Allow me to specify. I was speaking of the CIA memos the Obama Administration fought releasing -
Normal
August 26th, 2009
3:09 pm
Naw Paul, I was a child Bride…
Bud Wiser
August 26th, 2009
3:10 pm
Dylan doing Christmas could only be comparable to listening to Roseanne Barr do the National Anthem.
GreenJeans
August 26th, 2009
3:10 pm
George at 2:51: Surely Toby Keith’s Easter rejoinder, “Nailed the Wrong Jew” should be announced shortly.
Pre-order on Amazon.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:11 pm
Normal
Class of '98
August 26th, 2009
3:12 pm
The problem with Mayan culture? Lack of diversity.
RW-(the original)
August 26th, 2009
3:12 pm
With KSM, the CIA clearly believes that they never would have gotten his intel in time without the specific use of the waterboard. That vindicates what Cheney has said all along — that the waterboard and the other EITs prevented terrorist attacks in the US and did significant damage to AQ. In effect, Cheney and apparently the CIA called Obama’s bluff, with the agency finally getting the other side of the argument on EITs in the open. EITs and specifically the waterboard saved American lives without costing the terrorists being interrogated any lasting physical damage.
Put me in the vindicated column
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
3:13 pm
Normal
We’ve been cutting back a bit every Christmas – it really is out of hand.
(Course if the Zillettes would get up off their ovaries and turn me into a grannie all bets would be off)
We have started our family Christmas Project 2009 – going through 30 years of snapshots…..some folks are going to get cards this year with
some hysterical old photos….
sitting on the floor laughing with tears…
Will
August 26th, 2009
3:14 pm
Dylan was, and is, great. The album he released earlier this year is terrific, full of good songs that sound like they come from a Texas border town. He’s donating 100 percent of his royalties from this to organizations that feed the hungry. Where exactly is the problem?
Dr. R.
August 26th, 2009
3:14 pm
Could be worse. Could be a duet album with Liza Minelli singing Cole Porter tunes. Or guest shots on Hollywood Squares. Maybe a late-night commercial for senior citizen life insurance. “May you stay forever young … but if you don’t, be sure to call Colonial Penn.”
norman ravitch
August 26th, 2009
3:15 pm
About fifteen years ago when he was making fun at Clinton’s expense Rush Limbaugh sang several pseudo-Christmas carols with political meaning on his show. He showed how really Christian he was! Scratch a real rightwingnut and you’ll find a blasphemer.
Scooter
August 26th, 2009
3:17 pm
Paul,
So YOU’RE one of the backup singers.
Too funny!
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
3:17 pm
I hate it when they do this.
BLEH!
Bruno
August 26th, 2009
3:18 pm
“ANGRY: What did the Grateful Dead say?”
WWJD–What Would Jerry Do?
“WHAT DEOS THIS COMMIE PINKO KNOW ABOUT THE #1 CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY?”
I’m a hard-core conservative, and know that it is a pagan holiday co-opted by fake Christians. Ditto for Easter.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
3:18 pm
“yesterday, those memos were released, along with the CIA inspector general’s report. And, surprise surprise, they don’t begin to show what Cheney said they did.”
here:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/big_surprise_torture_memos_belie_cheneys_claims.php#more
Put me in the Guilty as hell column….
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:18 pm
Will,
You are correct sir!
Paul,
The Blog God ate that ’cause its profanity and obscene – that is in the same category with carrot raisin salad as things that make the world suck sometimes.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:19 pm
RW-(the original)
Got real quiet, didn’t it? I trust there’ll be a separate thread on this once the major interest groups have figured out how to spin it. Even though it’s a lousy strategy I’ll bet some will try to argue ‘well, we don’t know specifically which techniques yielded which information.’ Weak. I’m kinda leaning towards talking points of the ‘is this what we want to be?’ type. Maybe it’ll come up in a few hours when some of the others check in.
It’s gonna be real tough keeping people on point on this one, though -
Normal
August 26th, 2009
3:20 pm
stands for decibels
August 26th, 2009
3:03 pm
Just thinkin’…If you played Bob just before a meal, you wouldn’t want to eat. Maybe as a protest, we get a boom box and play Dylan in front of Chick Filet…
Dr. R.
August 26th, 2009
3:20 pm
If most hard-core Christians had their way, we’d have no holidays at all. Or music, or fun, or sex or candy. So I say to hell with ‘em.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:22 pm
Bosch
How on earth can a BSG afficionado be a Godless Heathen?!!?
pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum…
(for you, too, Scooter)
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:22 pm
“When you know as well as me
You’d rather see me paralyzed
Why don’t you just come out once
And scream it
No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I’d rob them
And now I know you’re dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don’t you understand
It’s not my problem
I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you”
True poetry from a true poet – that’s pure Dylan.
Normal
August 26th, 2009
3:22 pm
MRS G: I have just turned to the simple solution and send money to the Mom’s. They buy what’s needed and put my name on it. The only stipulation is no undies and no socks!
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:26 pm
Bosch
Google 2012 for the movie about the Mayan calendar hype. Great special effects trailer.
Then go to Twilight. Two trailers. One has Jacob transforming.
http://www.newmoonthemovie.com/worldoftwilight/#/Video/VideoGallery/Blank
55 days….
Hef
August 26th, 2009
3:27 pm
AmVet,Thankyou for that very heart felt, not very well thought out,piece of cr*p of a rant you gave 1:49. The day just would’nt be the same without some sort of self absorbed diatribe,I applaud you.You continue to inspire other Pompus As*** everywhere. Peace
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:29 pm
Paul,
Please stop. Please.
Kim, Nottingham
August 26th, 2009
3:30 pm
What a Jokerman he is!
Sorry.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:30 pm
Bosch 3:22
Dylan ought not be restricted to music and English classes. He’d also fit right in a psych class as a master of passive-aggressive comments!
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:30 pm
Paul,
You forget something…….I have a 13 year old daughter – do you not think that trailer hasn’t been playing almost entirely at my home since it first came out? Jacob makes one bad ass wolf though – I’m impressed.
Kim, Nottingham
August 26th, 2009
3:31 pm
I guess we understand now why his last single was “Beyond Here Lies Nothing.”
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:31 pm
Paul,
Oh yeah, I have a friend whose birthday is the day the world is supposed to end, isn’t it December 12? Or something — anyway, he’s been real bummed.
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
August 26th, 2009
3:33 pm
I went to see him recently at Verizon. It was a nightmare. First, Dylan has been creatively dead for four decades. Next, he cannot sing worth a darn. Third, my 24 year old date thought he was a decrepit old man. Fourth and finally, the passes that come with my box at Verizon allow complete access of the facility. This little, pencil necked, creep requires that no one make eye contact with him. So while I was taking my gal to a quiet, out of the way corner a little fantasy time with Ol’ Wyld Byll, some young kid page runs up and tells me “…to divert my eyes from Mr. Dylan while he passes.” Can you believe that. I told the kid that I was more likely to take a leak on Mr. Dylan than to divert my eyes. When Dylan went by, I look at him and it was as if he were the wicked witch of the west melting away in the Wizard of Oz. What a loser. Quite frankly, he is no more musically talented today than an ape that has figured out how to flush a toilet.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:33 pm
Kim in Nottingham! Shame! I’m calling your Sheriff right now!!!
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:34 pm
Bosch 3:29
Okay, you said ‘please.’ I’ll stop.
As to how long….
Ah yes, the daughterly person. Condolences. I pictured the wolf as more massive, more brawny, darker. And really, really huge. Laurent’s expression when he saw Jacob was priceless.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:34 pm
Paul,
I meant to say “non-stop” or “exclusively” – “entirely” – ? I get my words mixed up sometimes.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:36 pm
Bosch
21. Dec 21. Gonna be a bummer of a Christmas shopping season.
But get your friend a birthday present. It’s the Mayan thing to do.
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
3:37 pm
Perhaps Kermit and Ms Piggy can throw together a Christmas album also w/guest vocals by Grace Slick.
BLEH!!
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:38 pm
Bosch 3:34
You’re catching on…. thought you’d be used to it with teenagers looking for loopholes and all – (or from listening to politicians).
Kim, Nottingham
August 26th, 2009
3:38 pm
“Kim in Nottingham! Shame! I’m calling your Sheriff right now!!!”
Your Dylan the Cops?
Oh dear. That was really bad.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 26th, 2009
3:40 pm
Well, and here I thought “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” was bad. I’m just flabbergasted. This Dylan can’t pronounce a “i” to save his life, and I don’t know how he’s going to get thru “Silent Night.”
Have a good night everybody. I give up.
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:42 pm
Paul,
Well, I would hate for that wolf to come at me — just sayin’
Condolences? Yes, thanks. This is the year in which I have three, count them, three teenagers.
Next year my oldest will be 20, so I’m sure he’ll return to normal (actually, he and my 15 year old son have already turned back to normal) – there’s something about that extra X chromosome that makes humans at that age turn into creatures I’m not sure originate from this planet – this weekend, the daughterly person was actually arguing with me that the season spring comes after fall. I’m not joking.
OK, off to work……………..
Bosch
August 26th, 2009
3:43 pm
Kim,
No, it was funny! But I’m still telling.
Paul,
Yeah, what a bummer – can we move Christmas up that year to the 15th or something?
Ok, really off…….
Kim, Nottingham
August 26th, 2009
3:44 pm
Santa Claus was said to be a Man of Constant Sorrow over the prospect of delivering the album.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 26th, 2009
3:45 pm
“last night on CNN, even former Bush homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend had to admit that Cheney still hasn’t been vindicated”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/26/townsend-cheney-cia/
Townsend sure can spin…..
thomas
August 26th, 2009
3:46 pm
Paul the documents blanked out what type of interrogation technique was used. But it was concluded by many that more information was gained that turned out to be true after the “torture” began. Such as finding other operatives and foiling other plots against the US, and England.
And contrary to what we were told here, the CIA operatives and the documents released showed that much of the information obtained before “torture” was used mostly turned out to be either useless or false.
Any wonder why we got pieces on chicken sandwiches and Bob Dylan the day after the documents were released.
From what I have read though the docs do not in any way say torture works, but it also does show that valuable information that DID save American lives was gained from the “torture”.
Since so much is blacked out though it is hard for one to make a complete judgment. But I do think he argument of nothing valuable ever comes from torture could be put to rest by this, and that all they would do was lie when put through “torture”
@@
August 26th, 2009
3:48 pm
jay, since Dylan is the topic I’m here to say that…
the day he fits into yours or anybody else’s mold will be the day I stop listening to Dylan.
“Slow Train Coming”
I ain’t gonna go to hell for anybody
Ain’t gonna go to hell for anybody
Ain’t gonna go to hell for anybody
Not today, not tonight, not tomorrow, no never, no way!
I can deceive people as well as anybody
I know all the angles, know how to make the jangles
I can twist the truth as well as anybody
Find ’em an’ blind ’em, wine ’em an’ dine ’em
But it don’t suit my purpose, it ain’t my goal
To gain the whole world and give up my soul
So tell me…have you misled anybody when it comes to the truth or lack thereof today?
Good luck Bobby! The efforts of you and others will feed many hungry children around the world.
jay seems to find that amusing.
thomas
August 26th, 2009
3:48 pm
Mrs. Godzilla,
Would be slightly dishonest of you to say that some of what he said was proven to be at the least partially truthful. While the lie of torture NEVER produces anything positive has been proven wrong.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:51 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
How did I know it would be a ThinkProgress link?
My impression is, Ms Townsend hasn’t read relevant portions of either report. There’s some pretty unequivocal language in there.
Bud Wiser
August 26th, 2009
3:54 pm
It’ll be time to leave soon, but we’re running an office pool on how many dead Kennedy stories we will have to bear if choosing to watch the former “Big 3″ (self-described) networks.
Everyone throws in a dollar, closest without going over takes it all, tie means in the Christmas Party fund.
We have a trusted scanner assigned to each one (abc, nbc, cbs) who will compile the stats for a winner to be declared tomorrow.
My number of dead Kennedy stories is 27.
I hope I win, but I’ll be watching the only accurate news available, Fox. Lets face it, the chicks on Fox outclass the other 3 by light years (as evidence I submit Megan Kelly vs. Candy Crowley – lovely versus lumpy), and are neck and neck with the women of the Weather Channel.
josef nix
August 26th, 2009
3:55 pm
jasper @ 2:22
“Don’t forget, ole Mr. Zimmerman was a Christian once. Let’s just say it intefered with his freewheeling ways. Ultimately, dem Jews know how to make a buck. Mazal Tov.”
Kish mayn tuchus, chazener momser!
Folks–I can’t believe all this over Dylan’s decision to record a Christmas album. For crissakes you don’t have to listen to it and you don’t have to buy it! Y’all appear to be using this as just another excuse to go castigating, and I might add in a catty, vulgar and petulant fashion, those who don’t share your own view of the theological cosmic order of things.
Kim, Nottingham
August 26th, 2009
3:56 pm
If it all goes horribly wrong he’ll be lamenting why a “Fool Such As I” would come up with such an idea.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:56 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
For starters, you may want to read RW-(the original)’s link. It pulls from source material, not just someone’s opinion of it. It also contradicts a subject of an earlier thread here, FBI interrogator Ali Soufan, who said we didn’t get anything we couldn’t have gotten with other methods.
As I wrote earlier, I’m waiting for the discussion to shift from “did EITs work” to “regardless of outcomes, do we want to be a nation that uses EITs.”
I say EITs instead of torture ’cause Spkr Pelosi wants it that way. See? Bipartisanship!
Angry Black Man
August 26th, 2009
3:58 pm
TF @ 3:37 pm
The topic is about Bob Dylan not Kermit, Mrs. Piggy, or Grace Slick. Stay on the topic or leave the conversation.
Paul
August 26th, 2009
3:59 pm
thomas
Such is what happens when people use speak in absolutes, such as “such and such will never work.”
Hi @@!
William
August 26th, 2009
4:01 pm
Ted Kennedy died!
William
August 26th, 2009
4:02 pm
POTUS is forming a civilian Army with uniforms using our tax dollars.
Angry Black Man
August 26th, 2009
4:06 pm
Bruno
August 26th, 2009
3:18 pm
Normal already said it. He was quoting lyrics from “Hell in a Bucket” where the song says:
“I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I’m enjoying the ride.”
Dusty
August 26th, 2009
4:08 pm
Well, I know who Cheney is but who is Bob Dylan? Yes? Opera?