To get you “started” on tonight’s journey …
I guess it’s no surprise that someone with a deep affection for the relatively obscure movie “That Thing You Do,” not to mention a nom de blogue of “stands for decibels,” would have a deep appreciation for music, particularly music of a particular era. From what little we know of him from his postings, he is also a fan of Rachel Maddow and Eric Blair, and one of the calmer voices on an often cacophonous blog.
He is also tonight’s guest host. Ladies and gentlemen, sfd:
“I’d been thinking about some pretext to recommend a tune by a band whose song “Start!” is one that’s somewhat familiar to American ears, and while it may not be my absolute favorite ever-ever by the Jam, I gave it another listen last night and heard some elements I hadn’t previously considered.
For starters, it’s not necessarily specific to the “start” of any particular kind of relationship–it might be about connecting with a potential lover, or a friend, of maybe just a fan. (Given that I was as big a fan as one could be when they recorded it, I wanted to believe that last one.) Musically, when you consider bandleader Paul Weller’s unabashed love for mid-60s rock, it’s kind of a one-song homage to all three composers of the Revolver lp–the opening riff is lifted from George’s “Taxman,” the solo could’ve been part of John’s “Tomorrow Never Knows,” and the bit of horns is a nod to Paul’s “Got to Get You into My Life.”
I could regale you with personal connections to this band, but suffice to say this tune appeared on an album that was released whilst I was sharing a house with a bandmate, wherein we rehearsed in the basement, and we covered more of the Jam’s tunes than we should. I loved their sound, dug the look, and I envied the massive following they had in Britain while being dumbfounded as to why they couldn’t get more of an audience here in the states. (as to that last bit: now it’s obvious. 1) they were just too English for most Americans to digest, and 2) the Jam likely didn’t give enough of a crap to adjust their sound, and tone down their accents, to make themselves more marketable here.)
If you’re not familiar with their catalog, they did six albums–all have some classic nuggets within, but you can’t go wrong with the 3rd, 4th, or the 5th album (Sound Affects), from which “Start” is a part.
And back, for just a bit, to the sentiments expressed? I think it’s true of what we try to do at your blog, with one another. We don’t always really understand each other, we get p–ed off and fight over the silliest of reasons, but it’s different sides, talking to each other, sort of. And at least it’s a start.”
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stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
7:52 pm
yo Godless! Happy Birthday, mon ami!
JamVet
July 6th, 2012
7:53 pm
Sandwich, FOAD.
Happy bday, heathen! Ya youngster! (I got ya by a few months. Grin!)
For us 55 babies…
Well my time went so quickly
I went lickety splitly out to my old fifty-five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnsRjEuPf90
F. Sinkwich
July 6th, 2012
7:53 pm
Some people, like gh, just can’t recognize genius when they see it.
Sigh……
F. Sinkwich
July 6th, 2012
7:56 pm
“Sandwich, FOAD.”
Jamie, I guess you missed my missive from yesterday:
FU.
Nothing personal, obviously…
F. Sinkwich
July 6th, 2012
7:57 pm
Meant Jammie.
Sorry.
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
7:59 pm
Unmentionable and I were talking about Phil Collins the other day and how he, well, at the time was just sort of “okay, yeah, not bad…”
I’ll confess, Phil gets lifetime immunity from getting knocked around for his hummable fluff for having drummed on Eno’s Another Green World.
From which this ditty is sampled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDrTZMVINo
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
8:00 pm
Sandwich, FOAD.
Sounds like short-order-cookspeak.
getalife
July 6th, 2012
8:02 pm
You can’t even get the names right genius.
Music thread not drama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dq9q6afIP8
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
8:04 pm
Went to the tag office today and renewed my tags. They offered me the In God We Trust sticker to go over the county name on my plate. At first I declined, but on 2nd thought I got one. Just got through applying it to my tag after a little cut and paste. IN DOG WE TRUST, it says. You suppose some Conservative Christian right-wing Republican straight white American male COP will put a beat-down on me somewhere?
josef
July 6th, 2012
8:07 pm
ZamVet
Great minds, I had that birthday song pulled up and ready to post…beat me to it!
SFD
Got it on the other screen to play…great choice…
SINKWICH
Funny you should check in…just checked my e-mail and had one from my cousin Jack. He said to tell your ilk that we’re NOT plantation liberals…we’re Hottentot Socialists!
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
8:08 pm
The Jam covered this and put out the single lickety-split after Keith Moon passed away.
(I love the Who original, but there’s something even more informed/bittersweet about this one.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KZStaufcHg
getalife
July 6th, 2012
8:09 pm
Not if he has a drug sniffing dog godless.
G Mare
July 6th, 2012
8:09 pm
Ah, thanks for the Elvis, Josef. I “can’t remember” a song of his I didn’t like, but “Love Me Tender” is my all time fav. It was the first slow song he did. We teenaged girls went MAD.
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
8:10 pm
Godless, mrs. sfd chuckled at your bit of artful transposition @ 8.04. (As did I.)
And you’d have to be pretty messed up to take actual offense at such a thing, however you find yourself on the theism spectrum.
josef
July 6th, 2012
8:11 pm
ooops….SINKWICH…that was supposed to have been said in music…it’s FNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq3a2Ttxvdw
Oscar
July 6th, 2012
8:16 pm
More Tom Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_V0fI2nJrc&feature=related
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
8:16 pm
you all know my screen handle is based on an early/mid 80s power pop outfit’s debut album, right?
Did you know that after 30 years, the original line-up reunited, played SXSW, and have a new lp out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9CwLD1Yrvo
…and it sounds pretty damn good.
JamVet
July 6th, 2012
8:17 pm
stands at 8:00, LOL.
The man is rude, crude and socially unacceptable.
ALL THE TIME.
jonix, well at least one of us is brilliant. (Not sure who, though! Must be you!)
stands, what a nice little song! I never heard it before. Even by that slightly more famous English band. LOL!
…according to the All Music Guide, it is “one of the Who’s most covered songs”. Shaun Cassidy, Primal Scream, The Breeders, and most notably The Jam are among the many artists who have recorded studio versions of the song.
Beyond the sheer number of covers, it is also one of The Who’s most frequently imitated songs. As the aforementioned AMG put it, it is “an archetypal early Who song” and “hundreds of bands have based their entire careers on this one song”. With its ringing guitars, Beach Boys-styled harmonies, crashing drums, and lovelorn lyrics, it is one of the early forebears of the power pop genre, along with other early Who staples such as “I Can’t Explain” and “The Kids Are Alright”.
The original…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5d-G-hFLo
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
8:18 pm
anyway, nice chatting, but it’s time to watch some ‘ball on telly with the fambly.
Have an excellent evening, all.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 6th, 2012
8:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYqIvnPvqQ&ob=av2n
josef
July 6th, 2012
8:34 pm
ZamVet
You would have brought up the Breeders…
Hey MATTI this is for you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
8:34 pm
sfd And you’d have to be pretty messed up to take actual offense at such a thing, however you find yourself on the theism spectrum.
It might even be illegal. “Unauthorized attachment to the motor vehicle license plate.” or some such rot. Bring it on, State of Georgia.
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
8:35 pm
Jam. Like that ol’ 55 tune. That was a very good year.
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
8:39 pm
OK, since the demise of ol’ Anj got us all TV nostalgic, how about this one? Dumb as hell, but stays in your head.
http://youtu.be/h2-zD5lj8Hg
Don't Forget
July 6th, 2012
8:53 pm
Andy doin one of my favorite “traditionals”, and different verses than I’d heard before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZqe4qUTBGc
G Mare
July 6th, 2012
8:58 pm
Yeah, I remember that show, Godless, but never heard the song.
G Mare
July 6th, 2012
9:15 pm
Phil Collins hmmm. Didn’t he do a song about a hammer? Yes, I could google it, but since I don’t know how to post it (I am old, ya know), I figure one of you younguns will find it.
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
9:24 pm
Bonanza and Disney were some of the first shows to be in Color. I remember us visiting other folks in the community so we could see them on Color TV. It was cool, Even if the Cartwrights were on green horses.
josef
July 6th, 2012
9:28 pm
From the band to…well, you know who you are…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBZ8ulc5NTg&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL7B857138EFA10116
Oscar
July 6th, 2012
9:32 pm
G Mare Couldn’t find a hammer. Is this close enough?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF3fd_DOChM
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 6th, 2012
9:35 pm
Well, after the 6th or 7th PBR up here at Billy Bob’s, I sometimes start thinking of things that might of been. And there’s nobody that sings a might-of-been song better than Harry Chapin. Now I know that some people don’t take to Harry too good. And he ain’t exackly a favorite with the trucking crowd. He managed to get hisself run over and kilt by a 18-wheeler on the Long Island Expressway and give truckers a bad name. But while he was alive he was really something. So this one’s been running thru my head all day, and while I’m ordering my 8th I thought I’d give you all “Taxi”. I got nothing against sfd and his music, you understand. It’s just that it don’t go too well with PBR and the might-of-been mood. Have a good weekend everybody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
9:41 pm
Oh sh*t josef, you got me into the Beatles youtube cuts. I may be here all night. Thanks.
josef
July 6th, 2012
9:42 pm
GMARE
No luck here either…the song “In the Air Tonight” was written Jan Hammer who also scored several of the songs from Miami Vice…
josef
July 6th, 2012
9:43 pm
HEATHEN
Yeah, I did it to myself, too…had to force myself off…
Tom Middleton
July 6th, 2012
9:49 pm
sfd@7:43
There were always lots and lots of young girls screaming. Man, Beatle haircuts, jelly bellies, and fake British accents caught on pretty quickly after that., even here in the South.
Hell, I even remember when Elvis sang “Hound Dog” to a hound dog on Ed Sullivan. They had to make him wiggle less (Elvis, not the dog) for TV back then or they would’ve had to shut ol’ Ed down.
G Mare
July 6th, 2012
9:50 pm
Most anything with Clampton will certainly do, Oscar.
I looked for the hammer song, too. Will have to do further research.
Then, of course, apropos of nothing, there is Jerry Lee Lewis. What a scandal he was back in the day re the 13 yr old cuzin. Man could do a tune tho.
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
9:50 pm
Oscar, no reflection on you, but I hate that song. I could be AQ in gitmo and if they wanted me to talk, they could play that song twice and I would spill my guts. If I were Bill Gates, i would spend my last dime to eradicate it from the planet. Stupid, insipid, redundant, simplistic, bad, awful, horrendous, horrible. Claptons’s kid didn’t fall off of that high rise balcony. He found out that his father recorded that song and HE JUMPED!!
But that’s just my opinion.
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
9:54 pm
RC, “Taxi” If she only knew how many times I sang that song for her.
G Mare
July 6th, 2012
10:00 pm
Wasn’t Phil Collins. Peter Gabriel’s SLEDGEHAMMER. For some reason, I thought it was a really poor song. Will now search for the lyrics to confirm that opinion. Or not. The memory plays tricks sometimes.
Oscar
July 6th, 2012
10:00 pm
godless heathen
_____________
Enough holding back, now tell us what you really think.
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
10:01 pm
Just checking in–
I think the Jam, on their raucous, amped-up debut lp, voiced sentiments that many here, from differing political allegiances, might be inclined to agree with.
Who makes the rules that make people select?
Who is to judge that your ways are correct?
The media-as-watchdog is absolute sh-t,
The TV’s telling you what to think.
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
10:02 pm
Enough holding back, now tell us what you really think.
It’s got a nice beat that you can dance to.
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
10:03 pm
Can’t believe JamVet had never heard “So Sad About Us” until tonight. Well better late than never.
I’ve probably heard it a hundred times, and never tire of Keef’s drumming on that one.
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
10:04 pm
I’d no idea what GH was on about ’til I got to the last line of his rant.
And then I laughed. (Although I actually do–dare I say it? happen to like that tune.)
Oscar
July 6th, 2012
10:06 pm
Sledgehammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qOUfGUD2Y
stands for decibels
July 6th, 2012
10:07 pm
i don’t know why, but many years ago, I got it into my head to sing “Smeg-hammer,” laughed at my own stupid “joke,” and I never hear it any other way now.
(sharing is caring!)
Oscar
July 6th, 2012
10:10 pm
I worked – and partied – with a girl that called Wallbangers Ballbangers. Nobody ever corrected her.
Doesn’t have to do with anything, I know.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 6th, 2012
10:10 pm
godless heathen @ 8:04
No ……….. that’s probably a state violation. Have at it.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 6th, 2012
10:10 pm
Enter your comments hereHeadline: “Unemployment rate for blacks jumps to 14.4% !”
Come on ! We need more of those illiegal aliens El Jeffe !
Too many African Americans are working !
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 6th, 2012
10:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_m0v_S6B8
G Mare
July 6th, 2012
10:21 pm
Yeah, thanks, Oscar. I did find it & it’s just as dumb as I remember it!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 6th, 2012
10:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah3vTq2ZxYk
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
10:31 pm
I worked – and partied – with a girl that called Wallbangers Ballbangers.
Hey, I banged her. LOL
godless heathen
July 6th, 2012
10:35 pm
I’m posting this is a counter to Peter Gabriel. (Because I can.) Nice mandolin work.
http://youtu.be/_r-M9gipm9s
G Mare
July 6th, 2012
11:03 pm
Godless, eewwew, but funny.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 6th, 2012
11:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zZUH6y3cc
ld
July 7th, 2012
12:00 am
A lot of tunes that begin as “good” music “end” poorly as the artists just get shrill and/or repeat the same line or two ad naseum. Since I have an off button, these kinds of “jams” are toast.
Bud Wiser
July 7th, 2012
6:09 am
My old roommate in college owned one of the original Beatles album covers for Yesterday and Today, featuring the famed ‘butcher’ cover that had the paste-over. (look it up on Wikipedia if you’re too young to remember) Great great great bass on this one.
I dedicate this to the original Fab Four !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MapMPHJObO8
stands for decibels
July 7th, 2012
8:00 am
featuring the famed ‘butcher’ cover that had the paste-over.
Which (as you may already know), spawned lots of speculation from fans, long after the fact, as to what it really meant. I don’t think there was anything subliminal in the message, myself.
Here’s a classic web essay–glad to see it’s still available, I first read it years ago–on the topic, and well beyond. Mostly it focuses on what Capitol Records did to the original UK Beatles releases before they got to the States.
http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/whobutch.html
There’s a wonderful web-essay, still up there, that goes into a great deal of detail
stands for decibels
July 7th, 2012
8:14 am
(oops, sorry about neglecting to chop that last sentence, @ 8.00.)
Bud Wiser
July 7th, 2012
8:29 am
I suspect that Apple records spawned partially from all the controversy and bickering with Capital and EMI, eventually resulting in (what else?) lawsuits.
stands for decibels
July 7th, 2012
8:33 am
Yeah, they’d been screwed royally over publishing rights and Apple records represented an attempt to control their own business destiny. Irony was that infighting over business management, more than anything else, is what really broke them up of course.
Gotta run (lit’rully.) later, maybe…
Thomas
July 7th, 2012
9:54 am
A little Saturday morning reading about one of the great heroes of the day-
Uncle Sam is suing Warren Buffett’s company over taxes. Yes, taxes. The US government, in a little-followed case in Ohio, filed a lawsuit this month against a unit of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, seeking $366 million in taxes and penalties. The Berkshire division at the centre of the suit is NetJets, the private-aircraft company that caters to the nation’s wealthiest – the people Buffett says should pay more in taxes.
It is an odd twist that a company controlled by Buffett – perhaps the most outspoken businessman in the country in support of raising taxes on the ‘mega-rich’ – is now in a dispute with the government over his company’s paying too little in taxes.”
But it gets better… Buffett’s NetJets has now filed a lawsuit against the IRS.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
10:03 am
And thanks to you Georgia Republicans, we have this ultra-corrupt POS as our governor:
A series of draft advisory opinions from the state ethics commission could spell more trouble for Gov. Nathan Deal.
A commission attorney recently released four draft opinions — interpretations of state ethics laws — that will likely play a significant role in deciding whether a series of complaints filed against Deal move forward.
The commission meets July 23 and is expected to take up five complaints pending against Deal. The complaints, largely based on reporting by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, accuse Deal of:
1) Personally profiting from his campaign’s aircraft rentals
2) Improperly using state campaign funds for legal bills related to a federal ethics investigation
3) Accepting campaign contributions in excess of legal limits.
But the good news?
Thousands and thousands of Georgia Republicans are feeling the long-term effects of compassionate conservatism!
Nearly one in five Georgians now gets federal assistance to put dinner on the table.
As Congress debates the future of the food stamp program, with Republicans looking to cut it back, the number of recipients in Georgia has ballooned to 1.9 million as of April, or nearly 20 percent of the population. The state’s 0.4 percent increase from March was the seventh largest growth rate in the country, making Georgia one of 13 states where the number of beneficiaries rose, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Food Research and Action Center.
You’re doing a heckuva job, connies…
larry
July 7th, 2012
10:26 am
As Congress debates the future of the food stamp program, with Republicans looking to cut it back,
That should go well with their jobs bill that they have……er…..um…..wait…………..didnt they campaign on …oh nevermind.
carlosgvv
July 7th, 2012
10:37 am
JamVet
Cons got what they truly deserved in electing Deal as Guv. Unfortunately, they saddled us normals with what we most definitely don’t deserve.
The same may happen in Nov. I believe “compassionate conservatives” truly deserve someone like Romney, who apparently never met an outsourcing he didn’t like. However, there’s no way to give them who they truly deserve without giving us this same Big Business outsourcer.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
10:46 am
Headline: “Obama: Most People “Would Acknowledge That I’ve Tried Real Hard”
Poor baby !
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
10:47 am
Headline (Reuters): “Dismal hiring shows economy stuck in low gear”
“U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to boost the economy and dealing another setback to President Barack Obama’s reelection bid.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
10:49 am
Headline (New York Times): “Job Weakness Starts to Shape Election Tone”
“It is increasingly apparent what the economy will look like when President Obama faces voters in November: pretty much what it looks like today.”
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
10:55 am
U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June.
Except for in India..
Thanks, Bain Capital…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 7th, 2012
10:59 am
Willard Mitt Romney — Outsourcer-in-Chief
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:00 am
From the Keep Your Mythology Out of My Government file…
American Atheists flew a banner over New York City on July 4, 2012. The banner behind the airplane read, “Atheism Is Patriotic – atheists.org.”
Dave Silverman, President of American Atheists, said, “In 2011, American Atheists attempted to fly a banner in all fifty states on July 4th, but ran into discrimination from companies that refused to fly the banner. This year we are concentrating on New York City where the most powerful symbol of American freedom resides: the Statue of Liberty.”
Mr. Silverman continued, “Religion is unpatriotic at its core, because it places its law above the law of the land. Indeed, religion abhors civil law, which is why we see attacks against science and privacy coming from our religious politicians. Religion asserts itself on the population at large by infiltrating the political system with true believers who will then use the political system to do the church’s bidding.”
Teresa MacBain, Public Relations Director of American Atheists and former pastor, stated, “As a pastor I often reminded my congregants that ‘God’s law was higher than man’s law.’ What that really meant was that the people should take orders from the church, above our civil government. Atheism, being the absence of any religious beliefs, implies that human law alone is supreme over humanity. Here in America, the highest law is in Washington DC, not some fictional heaven. That’s patriotic.”
Silverman concluded, “I ask all citizens to remember that the separation of church and state benefits everyone, except the preachers and the politicians in their pockets. Religious equality only comes from Government neutrality. Celebrate your Independence.”
American Atheists defends civil rights of Atheists, freethinkers and other nonbelievers and works for the total separation of church-mosque-temple and state; and addresses issues of First Amendment public policy.
As a woman who proudly served on active duty in the United States Army, I can attest to the fact that there are many Atheists in foxholes. I was one of them.
Celebrate your freedom and independence!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:02 am
Headline: “Unemployment rate for blacks jumps to 14.4% !”
Thanks Obama !
Come on ! We need more of those illiegal aliens you want !
Too many African Americans are working !
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:03 am
Barack Hussein Obama – Illegal Alien Insourcer-in-Chief
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:07 am
“Religion is unpatriotic at its core, because it places its law above the law of the land. Indeed, religion abhors civil law, which is why we see attacks against science and privacy coming from our religious politicians.” Dave Silverman
“It is the duty of nations as well as men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history: that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation ………… Deeply held convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our nation ………. Biblical teaching inspired concepts of CIVIL GOVERNMENT (emphasis added) that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.”
The United States Congress
carlosgvv
July 7th, 2012
11:08 am
Scout
How do you think those 12 million plus illegsls got to stay here in the first place? Big Business bribed lawmakers, especially Republicans, to look the other way so they could hire cheap labor and not be bothered by those pesky social security and insurance costs.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:09 am
There is NO place in our White House for a corporate raider who delighted in helping ruin the dreams of countless working class Americans. HIS success was predicated on OUR failure.
The good news is that he will be just another footnote in Obama’s biography…
(CNN) — Under the heat of increased media focus and a flurry of ads from the Obama campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s time atop Bain Capital is increasingly viewed negatively by swing state voters.
So it must be something else: It must be that the brighter spotlight on Romney’s time at the helm of a firm with a penchant for investing in companies that shipped jobs overseas and that specialized in taking control of and breaking up companies is revealing something fundamental about a man who wants to lead our economy at a fragile, make-or-break moment.
The more the American people learn about Romney, the less they are comfortable with an economic philosophy seemingly predicated on dismantling weaker companies for personal benefit.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:09 am
According to you traitors, Lincoln was the devil incarnate, no?
LOL at your selective morality…
G Mare
July 7th, 2012
11:10 am
Thanks, Jamvet. That is a good counterpoint to some on here – no names. We all know who they are.
larry
July 7th, 2012
11:14 am
And this is the guy Romney is considering as his VP………….Please nominate him. Please!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/chris-christie-jersey-shore_n_1654583.html
This guy is fighting with everybody, teachers, Navy Seals, reporters, he doesnt get along with anyone.
larry
July 7th, 2012
11:17 am
Come on ! We need more of those illiegal aliens you want !
Its not the illegal immigrants im worried about.
Its those workers with HB1 and HB2 visa’s that businesses sponsor that worry me.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:19 am
Thanks, G Mare. Fascistic Christians in this country are MUCH more a danger to this republic than all the homicidal Muslims in other countries put together.
What else would you expect from a coward who actually said, “Corporations are people, my friend”???
A recent poll commissioned by NBC/WSJ found that more Americans see Romney’s time at Bain negatively than positively. In battleground states, which have seen the Obama campaign’s Bain ads more frequently, voters are nearly twice as likely to view this experience negatively.
This is more than just the predictable effect of a negative ad campaign. Increased media scrutiny is turning up more questions than answers, indicating that Romney and Bain frequently skirted toward legal gray areas.
A recently published expose in Vanity Fair shows that, while at Bain, Romney pressured his employees to use any means necessary to get information on its clients’ competitors, such as by pretending to be working on a project for graduate school. The story also found that Romney has as much as $30 million in Bain retirement funds in tax havens like the Cayman Islands.
Even if this alone were not enough to undermine Romney, it is clear that the Bain method has come to inform his broader economic philosophy. He continues to fail to specify whether he favors tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. He strenuously opposed Obama’s bailout of the auto industry, arguing instead in The New York Times that we should “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” in a managed way.
It is now very clear that Romney was wrong in that opinion. American auto manufacturers are surging to new profitability, and some experts are beginning to talk about a renaissance in American manufacturing.
larry
July 7th, 2012
11:19 am
Im sorry , its H1B and H2B visas.
Thomas
July 7th, 2012
11:19 am
Atlanta Beltline’s taxpayer-funded expenses raise questions
Shocking- let’s go 100mph ahead on the splot of tea thing though- we don’t want the internal folks to be giftless this hot summer
B.Morris
July 7th, 2012
11:24 am
ATLANTA – Good news for job seekers overall is bad news for those looking the longest as the state no longer qualifies for extended unemployment benefits because its jobless rate has improved.
The emergency federal benefit extension ends Saturday, the Georgia Department of Labor announced Tuesday.
Congress created the extended benefits in 2008 during the height of the recession for states struggling the worst. To qualify, a state’s unemployment rate had to be 9 percent or higher for the most recent three months.
Georgia’s rate dropped to 8.9 percent in April and has remained there, ending the state’s qualification for the added federal benefit.
The federal program is due to expire nationally in December.
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-07-03/story/improved-jobs-picture-georgia-means-extended-unemployment-benefits
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:27 am
“According to you traitors, Lincoln was the devil incarnate, no?
LOL at your selective morality…”
Kind of like you libs. who like to quote from the Bible that you so despise !
Here’s another one:
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of thel people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson
getalife
July 7th, 2012
11:30 am
It is amazing the gop extended unemployment for so long.
I guess that is as close as the gop will get to apologizing for their collapse.
I think if the gop win, it is time to stop blogging to prepare for a total collapse.
You know it will happen because the gop have not changed.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:32 am
Kind of like…
Good!
Admitting you have a problem is the first stage in recovery! Now, get some professional (secular) (LOL!) help!
Nationwide, more than 4,500 record-high daily temperatures have been set in the past 30 days, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
Thank gawd that the neocons are right about global warming being a hoax.
Think how hot it would be otherwise!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:32 am
“All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor ……….. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance ?
Dave Silverman and JamVet do.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:34 am
The relevant point today is that long-term investments in economic fundamentals like education, innovation and insourcing are exactly what we need our president to encourage over the next four years.
It seems to me that Romney would run the United States like he ran Bain. But despite all the bluster and misdirection from the right, the United States government cannot and should not be run like a business.
The United States has a responsibility to deliver more than profits. It has an obligation to protect its citizens and promote the general welfare. It must think strategically in the long term to guarantee these things, even if the decisions it makes do not offer an immediate return of investment of the size you can stash in an offshore account.
Our government must take collective action when individual action would be insufficient. This is the very heart of our social contract — and not too long ago, Republicans even believed it, too.
It is now incumbent on the Romney campaign to show that he understands this. If he does not, he will continue to lose swing state voters who do understand that we are not going to continue down the path to recovery by cutting our legs out from under us.
http://tinyurl.com/6qzhftf
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:37 am
P.S. @ 11:32 Benjamin Franklin
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:39 am
Powerful Friend?
Bwahahahahahaha!
With imaginary friends like him, who needs enemies?
The irony is that for the unread and uninformed for every pro-God Jefferson quote they can find, I can list five or ten that absolutely flame them, their Bible and their “friend”…
As Congress debates the future of the food stamp program, with Republicans looking to cut it back, the number of recipients in Georgia has ballooned to 1.9 million as of April, or nearly 20 percent of the population. The state’s 0.4 percent increase from March was the seventh largest growth rate in the country, making Georgia one of 13 states where the number of beneficiaries rose, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Food Research and Action Center.
getalife
July 7th, 2012
11:41 am
Just saw Ringo and the real Joe Walsh on CNN.
Today, Ringo is 72 and still touring with a new CD.
Peace and love.
larry
July 7th, 2012
11:41 am
It seems to me that Romney would run the United States like he ran Bain. But despite all the bluster and misdirection from the right, the United States government cannot and should not be run like a business.
And yet, they continue to try to do so.
Like my Mom used to say, there is hard-headiness and then there is just plain dumb.
JamVet
July 7th, 2012
11:44 am
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. ~-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. ~-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. ~-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. ~-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know. ~-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Ezra Stiles Ely, June 25, 1819
Priests…dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. ~-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Correa de Serra, April 11, 1820
There are MANY more…
barking frog
July 7th, 2012
11:49 am
0311
which
would you vote for, a catholic
bishop or a baptist deacon
for president given the
choice and no other info?
Brian
July 7th, 2012
11:51 am
We don’t always really understand each other, we get p–ed off and fight over the silliest of reasons, but it’s different sides, talking to each other, sort of. And at least it’s a start.”
Gad Zoosk!
JBookman invites lonely hearts to participate. LOL!
Virtual relationships are for losers.
getalife
July 7th, 2012
11:55 am
“Libyans Vote in First Election in More Than 40 Years”
Yeah, this President won his war.
Another major accomplishment.
assad will be killed or tried as a war criminal so he will be history.
Are there any dictators left?
We should never support any dictators because we stand for freedom.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:56 am
barking frog:
Baptist deacon if he didn’t go to Auburn.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 7th, 2012
11:57 am
“The Congress ………. desirious ………… to have people of all ranks and degrees duly impressed with a solemn sense of God’s superintending providence, and of their duty, devoutly to rely ……… on His aid and direction ………. Do earnestly recommend …………. a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer; that we may, with united hearts, confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of life ………. and, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain His pardon and forgiveness.”
Continental Congress
May 16, 1776