Black Keys hitting the right keys to see y’all home

Fred: Somebody linked to the Falcons article on Facebook.

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When I first saw it it didn’t have no ajc dressing on it. Don’t know where that came from, but I guess it’s because it’s linked out of this site.

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superbowl

Good one…

but being the kinder, gentler josef…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3GbF9Bx6E

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8

for aquagirl….

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Might as well stick with the phenoms. Can’t go wrong…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzAHc0NrpS0

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betty, liked it. Sorta new age power pop with a psychedelia twinge. Good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aWPTCc2r0

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Cool Jam, Jane’s rocks.

I haven’t Sweat in a while, thanks.

I don’t think anyone played Dave Matthews here, but I will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXZkdEj7YI

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Peace,

Please post a song if you want to protest.

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ZamVet
@ 934

D*mn! The sh*t you learn at FNM…!!\

PEACE

Uh, are you new to FNM? Best “free speech” in the land….

Get with the program, Mec, and just to prove that even “I” can lay aside my, uh, prejudices, of a Friday just remember, from the kinder, gentler josef
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0sWJ2k8cE

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good stuff, josef.

Check this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQpUs1qNxMM

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Okay, Betty.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=k3pltmw6cmI

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I was so lonesome I took some comfort there.

One of the greatest lines ever written to that then 14 year old. And great cover, betty!

For Peace…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3pltmw6cmI

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moonbat

Thanks! Loved it. Younger Son recently turned me on to them…and that’s also one of my favorite songs. That child of ours never ceases to amaze us with the range of his taste in music…

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Jam,

That was your random kind act for the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6a_1R3w5i4

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Thought you only listened to the Supreme leader sanging Al Green songs!

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Jm has Falcon fever.

So does Vet.

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Richard Cory

ZamVet and moonbat….

Paul Simon, imeoiuo, is the greatest poet of the 2Oth Century in the English Language….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuCiSY0qYs

RICHARD CORY
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
‘Good-morning,’ and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich – yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
—Edwin Arlington Robinson

*******
I’ve told the story here before, but that great teacher of mine, Eileen Dennison Payne. used those two together in her English Literature class. She referred to me in her introduction as Richard, and, was pleased when I recited parts of the poem for her from memory. Her comment was, “good. Somebody has already told you what you need to know,”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQD5RT_MPg&feature=related

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WOO HOO! RW in the JB house!

That’s just wrong on more levels than I can even comprehend. (ISH)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wssByW7JQ

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jm

This ones for you-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWEPu0w-7w

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RW!

Greetings

You old dog you! Where you been?

Jamvet/josef:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV3u6kS2mmE

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take a jumbo, across the water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir7-R8WdtcM

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AzmVet

Yep. I wish we could “reunite the band” at least for one FNM session!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-2Etc6c_0

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The band?….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCV2wgoxC8

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VShpcqd3zE

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RW

Hit me…I lost your SE in a computer fry! Please!

moonbat

That Krauss is one of the best covers yet of that one….

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josef

Yes…I know but it’s kind of a slight against bookman – it is his blog…I dunno, hillbilly is a wise and exceptional human being..

Jamvet

I don’t think it was you or anybody in particular…HD is a man of conviction and said he wouldn’t be back – I think his word is final….he sure as hell knew his music!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI0zkakitMQ

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“Mick, I am a bit paranoid, but I think the final straw when was I insulted him about the “secessionists being cowards”.”

JamVet, geez, get over yourself. You don’t have that much power…He wasn’t a secessionists anyway.

Ease our mind, you are giving yourself way too much credit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03TgkCVDlrA

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Not trying to blow our own horns here, but damn! Do we kick it on a FNM, or what?!!!

Yes! Thanks, Mick and betty. I think you’re right.

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ZamVet.et al

This is a great FNM….I was a bit concerned after last week, but WE’RE BAAAACK!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38kdbKTQ4oI

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Okay, I’m being paged. I’ll bid one and all a bonne nuit with this one…best version ever, imeoiauo, and which I finally found a link to. Thanks for a great evening of good music…

http://www.myspace.com/jonathanedwards-45784639/music/songs/morning-train-27961557

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betty,

The opinions of the Talmudic rabbis are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot and those who do not question them. The latter argue that if the reason for each mitzvah could be determined, people might try to achieve what they see as the purpose of the mitzvah, without actually performing the mitzvah itself (”lishmah”), which would become self-defeating. The former believe that if people were to understand the reason and the purpose for each mitzvah, it would actually help them to observe and perform the mitzvah (some mitzvot are given reasons in the Torah).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM02WcvlKn0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1xDg-zngg

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Meanwhile……..Jeep WILL be producing jeeps in China instead of the US, who would have thought?……and on and on it goes

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Another crooked black liberal bites the dust…… that stalwart, responsible caring and compassionate mayor of New Orleans who scammed off of the federal government while declaring the NO was a chocolate city and would remain so. Sort of makes you proud to be a liberal, ne-ces-pas?

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The Skeptic column of the latest Scientific American is an interesting discussion of how war on science comes from both left and right, but so does openness to science.

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Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said that the National Rifle Association (NRA) opposed President Barack Obama’s gun control plans because the group “still cannot get over” the fact that the president is “black.”

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The Jeep deal a little too complicated for you Cons to figure out?

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Nice.

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After witnessing the fighting of undeclared never ending wars, passage of freedom destroying legislation like the Patriot Act & NDAA, approval of pork barrel spending to the tune of hundreds of billions, rule by Executive Order, using ZIRP to extract hundreds of billions from senior citizen savers and give it to criminal Wall Street banks, forcing the American people at gunpoint to replenish the Wall Street banks with $700 billion after they had committed the greatest financial fraud in history, and a continuing trampling of the U.S. Constitution, the American people continue to remain willfully ignorant of the truth. The American Dream is dead. We’ve allowed a rich, privileged, elite few to achieve hegemony over our economic and political system with their control of the media and manipulation of our financial markets. They will collapse the country because they will never be satisfied with the amount of wealth and power they’ve accumulated. Their voracious greed will be their downfall.

A little light reading to go along with your Saturday morning coffee.

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Couldn’t help but pass this on! Loved the music and brought a big smile to me face!
Scottish or not… have a listen, click Song below………
SONG

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Realism from Bloomberg

U.S. Will Leave Afghanistan to Warlords and Taliban

Afghanistan

“We wanted a clear message from Obama that the U.S. will continue to support democracy in Afghanistan,” Fawzia Koofi, a lawmaker and human-rights activist, said this month. “It’s the only alternative to Talibanization.”
Her honesty revealed the plain truth, without official pieties and doublespeak: The U.S. is quitting Afghanistan, and the morning after it does, the Taliban will begin the reconquest of that tragic land. After 11 years, and a toll of more than 2,000 Americans killed, 18,000 wounded, and the expenditure of more than $600 billion, what is perhaps the longest U.S. war is winding down.
That good war of necessity, set up as a willful contrast to the war of choice in Iraq, is in Washington’s rearview mirror. No stirring prose attends that war. When Afghan President Hamid Karzai came to Washington for an official visit on Jan. 11, the mood was sober and resigned. He could promise immunity for the U.S. forces that would stay in his country, but this would not change the course of things. A cunning warlord — a job requirement — Karzai knew it was the endgame in Kabul for the Americans.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who had made Afghanistan his just war of necessity, had won re-election and he insisted that the conflict was meant to avenge what befell the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. A year into his first term, he had doubled down in Afghanistan, ordering a surge of his own. The potential damage to his presidency from war in the Hindu Kush was contained. The Republicans couldn’t outflank him, for they, too, knew that this was an unpopular war.
Bloodless Realism
But Obama had been shrewd. Early on, he had stripped the Afghan campaign of exalted claims. Not for him was the passion of President George W. Bush about the Iraq War spreading “freedom” throughout the Arab world. Obama had spoken of a “civilian surge” of experts and technocrats from all walks of life descending on Afghanistan and tackling its overwhelming troubles. This was shelved and forgotten. A bloodless realism guided the enterprise.
We would end the war “responsibly,” Obama would repeatedly observe. He was without illusions about the man in Kabul. In Bob Woodward’s “Obama’s Wars,” the president asks and answers the central question about the local “partner” in that war. “Why should Karzai change?” The Afghan could go on with his ways, Obama said, and the “U.S. would be stuck tending to the country for him.”
American soldiers could labor and sacrifice in Afghanistan, but the flights, eight a day, from Kabul to Dubai would haul off the cash for the warlords to prepare for the time when the American centurions would be gone.
There is kitsch and legend about the country being a “graveyard for empires,” about the codes of the Pashtuns. But decades of mayhem and corruption have hardened and wrecked the culture. Plainly, the warrior bandits live off strategic rent, the subsidies that come to them from foreign donors caught up in the messiness of Afghanistan.
You would think that these proud Afghans would want the departure of the Americans, but they dread that day. Luck had come to them when al-Qaeda, Arab jihadis and financiers had nested among them. Like a magnet, the Arabs had pulled in the mighty Americans with their gear and deep pockets. A decade of this lucrative trade for the Afghans in power has been heady.
In 2009, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul at the time, Karl Eikenberry, explained the Afghan and Karzai ways in a cable he sent to Washington. “President Karzai is not an adequate strategic partner. He and much of his circle do not want the U.S. to leave and are only too happy to see us invest further. They assume we covet their territory for a never-ending war on terror and for military bases to use against surrounding powers.”
Mocking Imperialists
Say what you will about the Afghan warrior bandits: In the decade Americans spent among them, they never told us sweet things about our time, and our role, in their country. This was “imperialism” with a new twist. The clients dependent on imperial protection never wearied of second-guessing the protectors.
Karzai himself must be unique in that regard in the long line of unsavory despots the U.S. had supported over several decades in developing countries. For Karzai, the coalition forces were predators inflicting pain and ruin on the Afghans. At times, the foreign protectors ranked lower in esteem than the Taliban.
In November 2011, Karzai gave the quintessential Afghan statement about the place of the Americans and their coalition partners in his homeland. “The lion doesn’t like it if a foreigner intrudes into his house. The lion doesn’t like it if a stranger enters his house. The lion doesn’t want his children to be taken away by someone else in the night, the lion won’t let it happen.” All the lion would tolerate is for the outsiders to “just guard the four sides of the forest.”
Well, soon the lion will be on his own. No Americans will be under any compulsion to dwell on the meaning and the ways of the loya jirga, the assembly of elders. We will be spared anthropological recitations about the “Pashtunwali,” the code of the Pashtuns, for we have already seen through the pretense and the kitsch.
There remain earnest Afghan women such as Fawzia Koofi and those schoolgirls we glimpse in their uniforms when our television crews venture into that country. One shudders in fear and anxiety for them. They won’t be able to board the flights for Dubai. They will be there when the pitiless soldiers of the Taliban, like the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia, sweep in and overwhelm all that the foreign protectors had left in place.
(Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and author of “The Syrian Rebellion.” The opinions expressed are his own.)

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Soothsayer – 9:50

The phrase “let them eat cake” comes to mind.

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indigo & everyone else for that matter: you should read that article. It will open your eyes.

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Black Label

January 19th, 2013
10:38 am

The Soviets were not the 1st to leave the Afghanistan region without accomplishing their goals and the US will probably not be the last..

Let google be your friend and look up the history of the region
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He won’t. Jm is incapable of learning or expanding his mind. His purpose here is to agitate.

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Jay good tunage up top

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