‘It’s the end of the world as we’ve known it,’ how ya feeling?
Earlier in the week, I was trying to decide which John Coltrane cut I was going to post tonight, given that this would have been the saxophonist’s 85th birthday. Then, well, news happened. R.E.M. announced it was disbanding, which means Trane got pushed aside.
Sorry John (although the guys at R.E.M. are big fans of yours, I hear).
I came to R.E.M. relatively late, at least compared to a lot of folks here in Georgia. But from my first exposure I marveled at their distinctive sound and the fact that somehow, they could come off both lush and economical in their music. Their lyrics were special as well, often funny if absurdly opaque, reaching for and sometimes attaining poetry.
More than any band I can think of, you always wanted to know what their next album would sound like, because it was bound to head off in a new and interesting direction. Following their career was a musical adventure, and after 31 years it has now come to an end.
Thanks, guys. Here’s one of my favorites, as much because of the memories it inspires as much as the music itself:
– Jay Bookman
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Kamchak
September 24th, 2011
6:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB48ZvBHmxQ
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
September 24th, 2011
6:33 pm
Lovely late Saturday afternoon early fall day and we have the poor souls. I won’t name you but I’ll bet y’all have been on here most of the day. Just checking up. I’m out
Kamchak
September 24th, 2011
6:37 pm
Lovely late Saturday afternoon early fall day and we have the poor souls.
A regular poster posting about the habits of other regular posters.
The joke that never grows stale.
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
6:51 pm
Yip Yip Yip Yip
New Flash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3N8ZW6fCa4
1811/0311
September 24th, 2011
7:00 pm
Save your breath guys …………. Obama is DANGEROUS !
Brosephus™ - Partisaned Rancor, I put that s**t on everything!!
September 24th, 2011
7:02 pm
ROLLLLLLLLLL TIDEEEEEEEEEE ROLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jm
September 24th, 2011
7:21 pm
Getalife
Herman Cain is awesome
Own it
Midori
September 24th, 2011
7:27 pm
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/165107_190453920980127_108038612554992_683687_765177_n.jpg
try owning this
out of the blue
September 24th, 2011
7:34 pm
“Herman Cain is awesome”
If you say so JM, I guess you have thrown your love for Mittens under the bus for someone who long ago got run over by the bus!
getalife
September 24th, 2011
7:52 pm
What about willard jm?
Not very loyal jm.
Soothsayer
September 24th, 2011
8:01 pm
That’s Bill Monroe over there on the left. Lester Flatt in the center and Earl Scruggs on the right. What a beautiful song (listen to the words). Go to church tomorrow if you got ‘em.
Brosephus™ - Partisaned Rancor, I put that s**t on everything!!
September 24th, 2011
8:14 pm
Herman Cain is awesome
Own it
Bash Obama over the head like a baby seal about his “inexperience” and then claim someone who has never held any political office whatsoever is awesome??? Hell, even Palin had experience at holding elected office before. I don’t think the President should be someone’s first-ever elected office. Just sayin’…
Kamchak
September 24th, 2011
8:22 pm
Herman Cain is awesome
You still can’t post, “Perry is awesome,”so you’re working your way downward through the candidates.
By the time of the general election you’ll be firmly in the Perry camp due to your anybody but Obama mindset.
Rationalizing, not rational.
theyeshaveit
September 24th, 2011
9:19 pm
CAIN Slew Abel?
Nah, Herman Cain just slew a lot of unable GOP demagogues.
For you, Herman Cain…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEKuGcmW70I&feature=related
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
9:36 pm
to obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTfbCOPApsQ
FEAR THE MITTENS!
Midori
September 24th, 2011
9:37 pm
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/293609_284971888194996_108038612554992_1171253_1252989227_n.jpg
scout should really like this graph. it has words AND numbers.
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
9:42 pm
^^^^^^virus city^^^^^^^
theyeshaveit
September 24th, 2011
9:43 pm
For Rick (W2) Perry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPM_7XOwM5A
theyeshaveit
September 24th, 2011
9:47 pm
betty,
A virus is no problem for Dubya. Take a look…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhs4VCwOdCI
Midori
September 24th, 2011
9:47 pm
poor betty has contracted herpes.
theyeshaveit
September 24th, 2011
9:48 pm
Well, it’s checkout time for me. It’s not as if it’s SRO here tonight.
theyeshaveit
September 24th, 2011
9:49 pm
Midori,
Good night.
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
9:50 pm
thanx for that Midori, really…
and from the Ramen Noodle electorate to Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emWUY8JSB7k
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
9:53 pm
lol, shaveit @ 9:47.
1811/0311
September 24th, 2011
10:22 pm
Romney/Cain vs. Obama/Biden
You heard it here first .
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
10:27 pm
Funny old movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCENBce_dls
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
10:31 pm
Yip Yip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k0i8OcJlgY
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
10:35 pm
Who’s Biden?
RW-(the original)
September 24th, 2011
11:05 pm
I don’t think the President should be someone’s first-ever elected office.
I guess the last one that fits that bill was Eisenhower and we all know what an unmitigated disaster that was. Oh wait…….maybe that’s the way to go after all
getalife
September 24th, 2011
11:40 pm
LSU!
1811/0311
September 24th, 2011
11:46 pm
getalife:
We agree ………….. LSU !
moonbat betty
September 24th, 2011
11:50 pm
LSU/Bama.
What a barn burner that will be.
Dave R.
September 25th, 2011
2:07 am
Well, Jay, I think we can chalk Mr. Cain’s win in Florida this evening as a new “high water mark, can’t we? (snark)
Jay
September 25th, 2011
6:30 am
Are you saying Cain is going to win the nomination, Dave R?
Because if you’re not, you agree with me. As horrid as that may sound to both of us.
TaxPayer
September 25th, 2011
8:06 am
I see the Dixie Chicks are doing a benefit concert for those that lost everything in those Texas fires proving that government is not needed, just patriotic people willing to give for a worthy cause.
Mark in mid-town
September 25th, 2011
8:31 am
To me, REM was the greatest band since The Beatles. They didn’t just make a couple of great albums, near all of their albums were great over the 30 year period they were together. Though some think they declined substantially after Bill Berry left, I found the decline to be less than for any other rock band that was still releasing new albums 20 and 30 years after being together. Of the post Berry albums, I found “Up” to be brilliant, “Reveal” to be quite good, “Around the Sun” to be among the most under-rated and unjustifiably panned albums ever. I thought its songs were mostly fantastic, just that it suffered from a laid-back production that sucked the life out of songs that were very good at their core. “Accelerate” and “Collapse into Now” were both great rock albums as far as I’m concerned, even if they were not trend-setting or trend-defying the was some of their early albums were. The problem REM faced post-Berry is not that they weren’t still a great band, it’s that the general public (including many past REM fans) were under the impression that the new stuff just wasn’t so good. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
liberalefty
September 25th, 2011
8:33 am
@TAXPAYER
SORRY but i rather depend on the government to help out in emergencies than depend on the kindness of strangers!
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
8:52 am
JAy
Cain will be the Vice President
A nightmare scenerio for Democrats.
Thomas
September 25th, 2011
9:22 am
From the ajc- been saying for years over/abusive prescription is 2-3% of healthcare costs. 50% of our leftist friends in CA are diagnosed as depressed.
Ga. doctors develop prescription drug abuse prevention program
Romney/illegal alien- wins in in 2012
Jm
September 25th, 2011
9:23 am
M bloom berg:
Obama engaging in class warfare
Buffet rule is stupid and complete “theatrics”
Jm
September 25th, 2011
9:24 am
M bloomberng on meet the press
Threats to put bankers in jail and new regulations are stopping growth
Jm
September 25th, 2011
9:26 am
Bloom berg
We r doing a good job in NYC closing bad schools and opening new schools
pogo
September 25th, 2011
9:27 am
The bloat Michael Moore says that Americans should be “patriotic” and not complain about waiting for “non-life threatening” “elective” surgery under Obamacare. I guess the bloat figures he’ll just flip out the cash and he will get his care when he wants it. Meanwhile the rest of us will be waiting in the Que.. It is going to be funny though to watch all the old codger’s and emergency room hoppers who supported Obamacare having to wait for the first time in their lives. They are used to going to whichever doctor they want anytime they want. All of that is about to change and you might say that pertaining to this particular this side effect of Obamacare, I am happy to see it. They are still getting off too easy.
getalife
September 25th, 2011
9:44 am
Did you cons find a candidate that can beat our President yet?
Nope.
getalife
September 25th, 2011
9:47 am
If our President is so bad, why can’t you find somebody that can beat him?
Mighty Righty
September 25th, 2011
9:51 am
Anyone will beat Obama at this point. As lone as we stay put of his way he will beat himself. One day he proposes a tax break for small business to stimulate hiring and then he proposes a tax increase on small businees to pay for it. Seriously, I can’t make this stuff up.
1811/0311
September 25th, 2011
9:51 am
Good Little Liberal @ 8:52 am
“JAy
Cain will be the Vice President
A nightmare scenerio for Democrats.”
Exactly …………. see my 10:22pm
ROMNEY/CAIN
1811/0311
September 25th, 2011
9:53 am
Headline: “OBAMA TO BLACKS: ‘PUT ON YOUR MARCHING SHOES’ … ”
The GREAT DIVIDER !
First class warfare ………… now race warfare.
This president has no limits and that is truly scary.
Mighty Righty
September 25th, 2011
9:58 am
Did anyone think this president would be begging for black support at this stage?
Thomas
September 25th, 2011
10:02 am
From here the President will go to an angry “you didn’t give me the support I deserved”-
he is rather easy to predict
getalife
September 25th, 2011
10:06 am
“Anyone will beat Obama at this point”
Nobody believes this lie because you can’t find anybody to beat him.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:07 am
Getalife what are you talking about?
Romney or Cain could crush Obama.
Cain wins FL straw poll. Fantastic. Love it when things get shaken up.
Have no illusions though. Incumbency is powerful.
No matter how bad obama’s polls, he doesn’t have a primary and status quo is always easy.
And Obama has just begun to run.
getalife
September 25th, 2011
10:10 am
More lies.
You can’t find a candidate to beat him and you know it.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:11 am
Gloria bother is funny
She just literally rolled her eyes on Chris Matthews
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:13 am
Getalife who r u talking to other than yourself?
out of the blue
September 25th, 2011
10:17 am
From last nights SNL…………………….
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×619035
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:17 am
Obama losing the Jewish vote
Mighty Righty
September 25th, 2011
10:19 am
I saw 9 Republicans on the stage in Orlando who would be Obama. Obama has been campagning since he took office. We Republicans at this point are not just picking the Republican presidential nominee we are picking the next president. You Democrats can continue to whistle in the wind. According to every single poll, Obama is in serious trouble. They only people who can’t figure it our are a hand full who post here.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:20 am
Chris Matthews consensus Chris Christie not getting in
Thomas
September 25th, 2011
10:21 am
“The future rewards those who press on,” He said. “I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.”
Press on against who? Old people? Unemployed folks? White men in business suits? The NBA? Young folks who are going to be unemployed and saddled with debt?
damn- can we buy a leader?
Kamchak
September 25th, 2011
10:21 am
Romney or Cain could crush Obama.
Neither Romney nor Cain will be the top name on the ballot in the general election.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:22 am
Obama: anti Israel and anti prosperity and wealth creation
Not a Jewish vote winner……
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:24 am
Borger: senate will pass import tariff on china that Obama will be forced to veto
I seriously doubt it…… But would be very interesting
1811/0311
September 25th, 2011
10:26 am
Thomas:
…………………. don’t forget he will also play the race card at some important point in the election …………… “because I’m black”.
The only thing bad about a Romney/Cain vs. Obama/Biden ticket is that Herman will have to debate Joe ……….. I would love to have to watch Obama take him on.
getalife
September 25th, 2011
10:27 am
jm,
You are the only con that cares what the no credibility talking corporate heads on cable news says.
Give it a rest con.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:28 am
Scout. On Cain
Sad truth is, in raw politics Cain won’t get VP
Black vote won’t go red, but Hispanic Latino vote will. So Rubio, plus importance of FL vote means that Rubio is the leading contender for VP right now
JamVet
September 25th, 2011
10:29 am
Good morning peeps.
I see the nonsense-fest rolls along here unabated.
To wit: “Obama losing the Jewish vote.”
To whom? Herman Cain? Newt Gingrich? Michele Bachmann? Rick Perry?
Your delusions are truly entertaining, jm. but not remotely based on reality.
Let’s put it this way, perhaps one of those tools will have stunning success with the MOTs and will garner 25% of the Jewish vote. (Not likely but possible.)
Wake up. We Jews don’t like hyper-intolerance, xenophobic haters and the politics of racial animosity as perfected by small-minded Republican creeps.
Selah. (Word)
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:30 am
Andrew Sullivan is a bit of a moron
1811/0311
September 25th, 2011
10:30 am
Jm:
I hear you except for one thing. Obama is our first “black” president.
That could make the difference in including Cain.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:33 am
Powerful speech to CBC by Obama
Instead of marching shoes though, we need people to put on thinking hats
Do well in school. Innovate. Start businesses.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:36 am
Am vet
Romney could win a big chunk of the Jewish vote
I agree perry or a few others would have a harder time
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:38 am
Love Cain
Apparently growing up in a good ole black church is now good prep for running for president
Very funny
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:41 am
Debbie w-Schultz is beyond annoying
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
10:43 am
Out of the Blue
Holy crap. Are you admitting that you watch SNL? The only thing funny about that show is when the paid screamers in the audience have to act excited about the show.
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
10:44 am
Jm
I love the fact that she was speaking from a yacht club.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:45 am
Getalife “no cred talking heads”
Like jay?
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:46 am
GLL yes ironical
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
10:46 am
JamVet
Obama doesn’t have to lose votes to anyone. A low turnout loses for Obama.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:47 am
Norah odonnell
Obama losing support among African Americans
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
10:49 am
Jm
Shw would not shut up and of course the fair CBS anchor wouldn’t stop her from hogging the entire 12 minutes and then she kept talking over the republicans after she had insisted that he didn’t talk over her.
I think she is great for bringing independents to the Republicans. She is a poster child for a Democrat, arrogant and won’t allow anyone else to speak.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:50 am
Funny line from odonnell about perry
“for a guy who runs with a gun, he can’t seem to get it out of his holster”
Kamchak
September 25th, 2011
10:50 am
Jm — Obama: anti Israel and anti prosperity and wealth creation
Not a Jewish vote winner……
Obama losing support among African Americans
JM — whistling past the graveyard
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:51 am
GLL yes and she knows exactly what she’s doing
She’s hyper partisan and it shows in public
That’s her role, as head of the dnc but she just disgusts me
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
10:54 am
1811/0311
I would like to see Cain as VP because he is smart and has great ideas.
I’ve always understood why Blacks voted for Obama, but given the choice between a Maxist Harvard professor and a very smart businessman, I think the choice will be obvious.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:54 am
If given the opportunity she would just talk for the whole segment uninterrupted
Apparently she can’t complete her thoughts
RE Schultz
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:56 am
Thinking hats
Not walking shoes Obama
JamVet
September 25th, 2011
10:58 am
GLL, and there’s the rub for the cons.
Come November 2012, every Democrat out there, interested in keeping the lunatic fringe (i.e. all of the GOP candidates save Huntsman) out of the White House, is gonna show up at the polls.
And unless one of the deranged non-Mormon candidates wins the nomination in Tampa, tons of the dead red, whites only neo-cons and Teafloggers are gonna stay home.
Meaning, John McCain II is gonna get steamrolled again.
It’s that hard to stop an Uppity Muslim, Kenyan, Marxist, fascist, collectivist, anti-American, community organizing juggernaut…
getalife
September 25th, 2011
10:58 am
cons are job killers.
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
10:59 am
jm
The democrats have lost their base. As I said before, I’m not crazy enough to think that hard leftists will vote for Republicans, but will they get out to vote for the disater that has hurt them so much in every election since the media gave Obama the White House? I don’t think so.
Little Debbie is great for getting the 20% of the population riled up, but hard-liners don’t win elections. .
Jm
September 25th, 2011
10:59 am
Amvet thinks Romney is in the lunatic fringe
I think we now know who is in the lunatic fringe
JamVet
September 25th, 2011
11:00 am
Oh, I see that I forgot “anti-Israel” as well as anti-American, in that list of adjectives for the current CiC.
Do you folks even realize just how idiotic your posts read?
getalife
September 25th, 2011
11:02 am
“media gave Obama the White House”
Liar.
The American people gave our President WH and will do it again.
There is no other choice.
Jm
September 25th, 2011
11:04 am
Cons are job killers
Says the guy who can only complete one line thoughts
Not exactly the most sophisticated thinker on here…..
getalife
September 25th, 2011
11:06 am
“Not exactly the most sophisticated thinker on here”
Says the con living in la la land.
Not much thinking involved spinning corporate media conflicts.
Kamchak
September 25th, 2011
11:07 am
And unless one of the deranged non-Mormon candidates wins the nomination in Tampa, tons of the dead red, whites only neo-cons and Teafloggers are gonna stay home.
Evangelicals have been choosing the Republican nominee for president since Nixon.
Unless and until non-evangelical Republicans publicly kick them out of the bed they have been sharing for forty years, evangelicals will continue to choose the Republican nominee.
Mittens will never be trusted by evangelicals, leaving Perry the choice by default.
11/6/2012 = V-Day
September 25th, 2011
11:08 am
Ah what a week. Obama shows his narcissism well in this UN photo op. Was really hoping that was a photoshop. But alas, it wasn’t. And this guy thinks he deserves re-election next year?
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7862290-barack-obama-joins-open-government-partnership-for-group-photo
And about Obama’s war on asthma inhalers because it contributes to man made global warming. No, really….
“Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government’s latest attempt to protect the Earth’s atmosphere. But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, will cost up to $60.”
Yeah talk about hitting the middle class, eh?
And what’s a week without the king of moonbats, Michael Moore. Nothing moore needs to be said here:
“Michael Moore: ‘Patriotic Americans’ Will Wait Longer For Healthcare as everyone will be in line to get it”
All the thinking people know what Obamacare will cost both financially and health care quality wise:
“Nearly 700,000 Tennesseans will gain new coverage under health-care reform, but those already with insurance might have to wait longer to receive care and younger people overall may have to pay more. Those are among findings from a report out from a think tank the state’s largest health insurer, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, launched this year to study the interface between public policy and health care. ‘It will be a little longer line, but everybody will be in the line,’ said Dr. Steven L. Coulter, president of the insurer’s Tennessee Health Institute and co-author of the report with William T. Cecil, an independent health-care consultant.”
Got stimulus?
“President Barack Obama will raise money in early October with a Missouri businessman whose company benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state. Tom Carnahan, a scion of Missouri’s most prominent Democratic political family, is listed on Obama’s campaign website as a host of a $25,000-per-person fundraiser to be held in St. Louis on October 4.”
Can’t even imagine if a Republican had done something similar. Can’t even imagine….
Good Little Liberal
September 25th, 2011
11:09 am
JamVet
I just don’t think the turnout will be nearly enough. Getting mass groups of people out to play a part in putting the first Black man in the White House was a give-me. Even if Obama had been a successful president, the turnout for 2012 wouldn’t have been as much, but he has been a disaster for the Black demographic.
The Democrats were able to convince the population that Bush’s policies of wire tapping and Homeland Security effected them , but we all know that it didn’t. After three years, people are terrified because neighbors are losing their homes. Jobs are gone. And (nobody talks about this) every time you guys play a youtube video of a band, or anyone sees live music whether it be on the internet or a concert stage and that guitar player takes a lead on a wonderful sounding Gibson Guitar, it is a stark reminder of how this administration has been going after real American companies.
I try to never underestimate the power of the greatest political machine ever known to man, but for the first time in my life, I’m seeing the Democrats swinging at every pitch and they keep striking out.
JamVet
September 25th, 2011
11:13 am
JM, you can barely articulate what it is that YOU think.
And yet you believe you can do so for me?
Your role here is secure.
You, the corporal and few others serve as a type of built-in fact check on the blog.
You incessantly post something that is obviously full of ____, and numerous other bloggers here, including the host, constantly correct your intentional misinformation. And allow people to get the real scoop.
How many times has JB alone, countermanded your goofiness, that emanates out of the fake conservative parallel reality?
So in a bizarre way, you actually serve this forum well.
Even if unwittingly.
As for Republican job killers, ask Messrs. Purdue and Deal about it. Sonny Perdue was sworn into office January 2003 with unemployment in Georgia at 4.9%. He left and it was what? Nearly 11%?
But it turns out he was just another Uncle Sam-mooching, creative accounting, bleeding heart liberal after all:
Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed a bill that expands unemployment benefits in Georgia. The new law makes the state eligible for $226 million of dollars in federal stimulus dollars for the state’s unemployment insurance fund.
The new law provides another 13 weeks of unemployment benefits in Georgia for those who’ve exhausted their 26 weeks of regular benefits. The additional benefits will be paid for with federal dollars.
The bill signed by Perdue on Tuesday also allows people seeking part-time work to qualify for unemployment. And some Georgians can also receive unemployment while in a training program, under the new law. Perdue said the changes will cost the state less than $1.2 million a year.
Brosephus™ - Partisaned Rancor, I put that s**t on everything!!
September 25th, 2011
11:14 am
Did anyone think this president would be begging for black support at this stage?
I’m guessing those who considered the current president as such a big racial divider, as some conservatives here seem to imply, would find that shocking. Personally, it doesn’t surprise me at all. Seems like most Democratic officials have to cater to the Black community at some time for their support. Obama hasn’t done that at all up until now.
Brosephus™ - Partisaned Rancor, I put that s**t on everything!!
September 25th, 2011
11:17 am
I’ve always understood why Blacks voted for Obama, but given the choice between a Maxist Harvard professor and a very smart businessman, I think the choice will be obvious.
Why?