A wonderful life ends, as they all do, pity, her work plays on, nice that.
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JOAN SUTHERLAND, 83
Soprano's outsize voice dazzled the opera world
By Anne Midgette
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Joan Sutherland, one of the greatest operatic sopranos of her generation and creator of a legacy of recordings that remain unassailed benchmarks in the field, died Oct. 10 at her home near Geneva of undisclosed causes. She was 83.
Dubbed "La Stupenda" by Italian critics after her 1960 debut in Venice, the Australian-born Sutherland combined the vocal heft of a Wagnerian singer with the agility and high notes of a coloratura soprano.
She created powerful interpretations of great bel canto roles - the early 19th-century operas of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini - that had lain dormant for decades when Maria Callas began exploring them in the 1950s.
Washington Post Continues
That opera ...
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The apogee of Western Culture.
No doubt of that.
Even the premier female soprano, from Oz, made her mark, in Venice.
Rove denies GOP gets money from foreign sources
ReplyDeleteThe Associated Press
Rove is speaking in such loose terms, he is lying.
News Corp, a Wahhabi front company donated $1 million USD to the GOP Governors.
A Prince of Arabia owns over 7% of News Corp and Murdock, he is not a "Real" American.
Any bets that is just the tip of the foreign money iceberg?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google is investing in a new wind farm power grid to be located off the East Coast of the United States.
ReplyDelete"We just signed an agreement to invest in the development of a backbone transmission project off the Mid-Atlantic coast that offers a solid financial return while helping to accelerate offshore wind development -- so it's both good business and good for the environment," announced the search engine company in a blog on Monday night.
Google to help build East Coast wind farm
Not a Muslim in the bunch.
ReplyDeleteOdds are it was Catholics that committed the crime, murder and subsequent decapitation of the victim.
Chandler police are investigating the bizarre case of a man who was stabbed, decapitated and left in a pool of blood in a central-city apartment.
One man has been arrested and police are seeking three more suspects in what appears to be the city's first beheading.
"We don't go to many cases where the victim has been decapitated," said Chandler police Detective Frank Mendoza.
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Q beat you to the Wind Power Grid story, Rat. 6:41 AM on the previous thread.
ReplyDeleteIt's coming down to an election between the Chinese (Dems,) and the Wahhabis (Pubs.)
No matter which one wins, I know who loses.
No Islamic connection here, either, again it seems that it is Catholics that are committing crimes across the United States.
ReplyDeleteFrom beheadings to anti-Gay outings and beatings.
The ninth suspect accused of beating and torturing three Bronx men in antigay attacks was taken into custody on Monday afternoon, the authorities said.
A police spokesman said the suspect, Rudy Vargas-Perez, did not turn himself in voluntarily, but was arrested. With that, all the men charged in the attacks were in police custody. Seven of the men were arrested on Thursday and Friday, while an eighth was arrested on Saturday.
The stepmother of one of the victims said in an interview on Monday that his face was still swollen from the attack.
“He thought they were his friends,” she said of the defendants. “It hurt him more inside than out.”
The woman said that her stepson, who is 17, moved to the Bronx from Puerto Rico four years ago and only recently fell in with the gang accused of assaulting him.
9th Suspect Is Arrested in Attacks in the Bronx
I was pretty much taking "poetic license" with the Chinee/Dems, Wahabbi/Pubs comment. God knows they all pay off the politicians on Both sides.
ReplyDeleteBut, I Still know who loses.
Now, Bob, even as fucked up as you are you can't agree with that.
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Back at you Ruf.
Fucked up is all in the eye of the beholder.
And you don't know a thing about Schopenhauer.
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ReplyDeleteNo Islamic connection here, either, again it seems that it is Catholics that are committing crimes across the United States.
Gee, rat, I heard they were all Scientologists.
Where did you get your info?
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ReplyDeleteRove is speaking in such loose terms, he is lying.
You state the obvious rat.
He's a politico. They all lie. Just as Obama lies about where the $400 million he spent on his campaign came from.
Any bets that is just the tip of the foreign money iceberg?
It will be played up for the next month. If one side was cleaner than the other it might have legs. However, I suspect it will die quickly when it's clear stirring the pot will expose both sides.
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HiSS: NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google is investing in a new wind farm power grid to be located off the East Coast of the United States.
ReplyDeleteIt won't be held up in the Senate now that Ted "Popeye" Kennedy has gone to his boiling vat of hyena vomit in hell.
...and nobody cares.
ReplyDeleteabout where the money comes from.
ReplyDeleteOne thing about being a Lutheran is you can dis the whole damn wash and no one criticizes you for it.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'm going to make it north today.
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ReplyDeleteSelah, it's good to see you are your bright chipper self this morning.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think I'm going to make it north today.
Bob from where you are you could walk up there.
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Selah has changed her name so many times I don't know who she is anymore.
ReplyDeleteBut she's not Selah.
I had a renter that biked from Moscow to the Canadian border in ONE DAY.
ReplyDeleteTruth.
He started really really early.
He was lean and mean, I tell you.
ReplyDeleteI figured it out one time.
ReplyDeleteHe had to average something about 35 mph.
Maybe more.
ReplyDeleteGoing like hell he was.
I want some music. Something sad, lonely and enticing.
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ReplyDeleteHe had to average something about 35 mph.
Is it all downhill to the border?
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Whit, if you get up this way, take wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_State_Highway_75>This
ReplyDeleteDang it, just look it up, Whit--- 75.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful. You would love it.
The answer is, Quirk, you dumb shit, about half of it.
Now, go play with the girls.
Where ever they are.
Ed Koch wrote:
ReplyDeleteThe Islamic terrorist, Faisal Shahzad, who unsuccessfully sought on May 1, 2010 to blow up a car in Times Square was sentenced to life in prison without parole by a federal district court on October 5, 2010. He pled guilty so there was no trial. At sentencing, he said to the Federal District Court Judge, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, according to The New York Times, "Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun," adding, "Consider me only a first droplet of the flood that will follow me."
The Judge asked, "Didn't you swear allegiance to this country when you became an American citizen?" His response was, "I did swear, but I did not mean it." He concluded his remarks with "Blessed be" Osama bin Laden, "who will be known as no less than Saladin of the 21st century crusade, and blessed be those who give him asylum."
In this case, our justice system worked.
In another, more horrendous terrorist case where the bombs actually went off, justice is not prevailing. On October 7, 2010, when Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Federal District Court in the Southern District (Manhattan), according to The Times, "barred prosecutors on Wednesday from using a critical witness in the first civilian trial of a former Guantanamo terrorism detainee, the ruling - widely perceived as a major setback for the government - contained an unusual observation."
The unusual comment by the court was, "even if the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, is acquitted, his status as an enemy combatant will probably allow his return to military custody, to remain locked up." Why, opined observers, did the judge offer that opinion? One observer quoted in The Times of October 8th, with whom I agree, said that "the judge seemed to want to reassure people who might worry that strictly adhering to constitutional principles, as the judge did in barring the prosecution witness's testimony, could lead to a terrorism suspect's walking free."
The Times described the charges against the defendant, stating, "Mr. Ghailani faces a trial on charges that he conspired in the 1998 bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa, which killed 224 people and wounded thousands. After those attacks, the authorities say, he trained with Al Qaeda, and later became a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden. (Mr. Ghailani does not face charges for those activities in the federal case.)"
The Times also reported, "It was while in C.I.A. custody that he disclosed the existence of the witness, who prosecutors say sold him the TNT used to blow up the American Embassy in Tanzania." The trial court decided the defendant was coerced.
A Daily News editorial of October 7th stated, "Kaplan yesterday barred Abebe from taking the stand because the FBI tracked him down based solely on information provided by Ghailani under 'coerced' questioning."
To allow a mass murderer to go free under these circumstances is intolerable. The federal government should consider bringing an appeal to determine whether, under the circumstances of this case, the alleged coercion was such as to require the barring of the witness' testimony. The US Supreme Court may carve out an exception, as it has in several Miranda rulings. Alternatively, the federal government should explore removing the case to a military tribunal where the rules are different, and the court may permit the witness to testify.
ReplyDeleteInstead, according to The Times of October 11, "The government said on Sunday that it would not appeal a ruling by a federal judge last week that barred prosecutors from using a key witness in the first civilian trial of a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The office of the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, said in a letter to the judge that it 'respectfully disagrees with the court's decision and believes that, under different circumstances, it would merit review by the Court of Appeals.'"The government had earlier said to the court, "Without Mr. Abebe's testimony, prosecutors had told the judge, they had 'no way of putting such evidence in front of the jury at all.'"
The reason given by the government for not appealing the ruling barring the testimony was that the delay in the trial "could have greatly inconvenienced many foreign witnesses," and that "Some might even be unwilling or unable to return, again, for a later trial." What good will the foreign witnesses' testimony be, if the key testimony has already been ruled inadmissible, leaving the government without a case? Further, you can be sure every terrorist will claim he was tortured. If there is to be an exception made, surely this is the best case to secure it. The government should rethink its position and take the appeal. This case is beginning to resemble Alice In Wonderland, becoming curiouser and curiouser.
Remember what the Times Square bomber said last week: "The war with Muslims has just begun." He didn't even count the blowing up of the World Trade Center and its nearly 3,000 dead, nor the dead and wounded resulting from the bombings in East Africa, resulting, said the Daily News editorial in the "kill[ing] of 224 people, including 12 Americans. At least 5,000 were injured." Nor did he count the passage of ten years during which Islamic terrorists have engaged in killing and injuring innocents throughout the world.
Al Qaeda declared war on the US and Western civilization on 9/11/2001. As evidenced by the federal court's ruling in the Ghailani case, we are not adequately prepared to fight the terrorists, some of whom are now citizens of the US, and we need to change the rules so that we can properly deal with Islamic terrorism that threatens Western civilization.
Today in the news...
ReplyDeleteHearing Begins Today For Fort Hood Shooting Suspect
(Fort Hood, TX) -- A military hearing is set for today for a man accused of fatally shooting 13 people and injuring nearly three dozen more at Fort Hood last November.
Major Nidal Hasan faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of premeditated attempted murder.
The Article 32 hearing is being held to determine whether there's enough evidence for each charge.
Hasan allegedly opened fire at the central Texas Army base before he was shot and injured.
He remains paralyzed from the waist down.
Redfish Lake got it's name cause the salmon died there, by their thousands, turning the whole lake red, which is how they color up, when they die.
ReplyDeleteIt's one hell of a journey, from the Pacific, to Redfish Lake.
Hi,
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We got great country around here.
ReplyDeleteHi, Bertina, I'm drunk, lonely, have made a real mess out of my life, can't work my way out of it, you wanna go out?
ReplyDeletePlease say no.
Bob: I had a renter that biked from Moscow to the Canadian border in ONE DAY.
ReplyDeleteWhitebird Hill? That's no mean feat.
Oh, wait, that's the other way, to Mexico.
ReplyDeleteMy darling.
ReplyDeleteWhite Bird is good.
If you don't know, the whites got mowed down there.
Big slaughter.
Dozen to one.
And White Bird is down the other way, you ninny.
ReplyDeleteYes Bob, I realized that after I posted.
ReplyDeleteCeremony today marks 10th anniversary of Cole bombing
Important to me, being a US Navy veteran.
Druze MK Ayoub Kara (Likud) understands the idea that Israel is a Jewish state better than most Jews.
ReplyDelete“We are planning to fly 2,000 balloons across the northern border to Lebanon when Ahmadinejad comes for a visit Wednesday,” Kara told Voice of Israel radio. “The balloons represent the fact that the Jewish people have come home after 2,000 years of exile, and they are not going anywhere.” Kara, who is himself not Jewish, said that he appreciated Israel's freedom and democracy – and that were it not for the Jewish people, the entire Middle East would look like Iran.
Selah said...
ReplyDeleteCeremony today marks 10th anniversary of Cole bombing
Yep now that's what I call Islamic LOVE....
More Islamic Love...
ReplyDeleteintelligence sources report information reaching the West in the past week that Iran has put to death a number of atomic scientists and technicians suspected of helping plant the Stuxnet virus in its nuclear program. The admission by Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization, on Friday, Oct. 8 - the frankest yet by any Iranian official - that Western espionage had successfully penetrated its nuclear program is seen as bearing out those reports.
Great news eh?
Israeli Army Invades Silwan and Arrests Children
ReplyDeleteTuesday October 12, 2010 12:13 by Sandy Khair - IMEMC & Agencies
Tuesday night Israeli troops launched large-scale raids of homes in several neighbourhoods and battled with children in the town of Silwan near the Al Aqsa Mosque.
Eyewitnesses said that Israili soldiers broke the doors and windows of many houses and intimidated women and children.
The children resisted Israeli soldiers by hurling stones and glass objects; and by burning tires and placing obstacles in front of military patrols. The troops retaliated with sound bombs, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas. One of the injured was identified as Silman Syam, 10.
In Beir Ayoub, near Silwan, several undercover soldiers disguised as Palestinians arrested four children. The children were identified as Ihab al-shwaky,11; Mohammad Mansour,13; Baha' al-Rajbe,12; and Jehad al-Shwake,12 . The children were taken to the al-Maskobeya detention and interrogation center in West Jerusalem.
The 2010 summer in the disputed area of Jammu and Kashmir, administered by India, has been marked by popular protests by Kashmiris and crackdowns by India's military. The stream of violence has left more than fifty dead, mostly young protestors.
ReplyDeleteThe situation in Kashmir has some parallels with Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, even borrowing the term intifada to describe the uprising. But the connection is more than analogy -- Israel's pacification efforts against Palestinians have proven valuable for the Indian police, army and intelligence services in their campaigns to pacify Jammu and Kashmir with numerous Indian military and security imports from Israel leading the way.
That's okay WiO, it was 2000, Bubba was POTUS, I'm sure an aspirin factory somewhere regrets bombing the USS Cole.
ReplyDeleteCan't someone play some music?
ReplyDeleteOr I swear I'm goin' to bed.
Selah, play a little music, cheer me up.
ReplyDeleteAnything.
Quirk.
ReplyDeleteHelp.
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Fucked up again.
ReplyDeleteDeath is not the end of life, and I know it, I know it, though it sure seems like it sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI can be funny when I have to be.
ReplyDeleteThere is the Pleroma, and I invite everyone to have a drink, even my friend Quirk, which is damned hard to do.
ReplyDeleteIt's an everlasting outgrowing.
ReplyDeleteIt's a gift.
Life.
Always something more.
If you can see it that way.
A gift for ever and more.
If you can see it that way.
Dr Hiss said...
ReplyDeleteIsraeli Army Invades Silwan and Arrests Children
Tuesday October 12, 2010 12:13 by Sandy Khair - IMEMC & Agencies
Tuesday night Israeli troops launched large-scale raids of homes in several neighbourhoods and battled with children in the town of Silwan near the Al Aqsa Mosque.
Eyewitnesses said that Israili soldiers broke the doors and windows of many houses and intimidated women and children.
Wow what did our resident Nazi post NOW???
Invading Israelis? Intimidated women and children! The CRIMES, the Humanity!
Again, one standard for Israel, no standard for anyone else...
They called Jews "terrorists" cause they spray painted a wall at a mosque and burnt a koran, they called Jews extremists cause they CUT the roots of a few olive trees..
Arab's who use send their kids out to die are called "militants" what horse shit...
WiO, he is piece of horse shit.
ReplyDeleteIf you remember, that asshole attacked my wife, my wife, voting in Ohio, when she had a perfect legal right to do so.
What a piece of crud.
Bob:
ReplyDeleteLife.
Always something more.
Life is like a bus, Bob. I got on the bus in 1965 and met some people who were already riding. I've seen more people get on, and I've seen some people get off, and maybe in 2045 or so I'll get off the bus too, but the bus will go on.
Selah, you're on the bus, you ain't gettin' off, ever, ever, you're just goin' further and further, I know it, you don't yet, but you will. Everyone will.
ReplyDeleteEven Rat, when he finally "gets it".
ReplyDeleteThe gentle finger of the Lord brings up the laggards
Walt Whitman
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips has issued a universal injunction against the enforcement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on the grounds that it violates the constitutional rights of service members. The DOJ has 60 days to appeal. Barring that, this effectively ends the policy.
ReplyDeleteAbout frakkin' time.
Selah, over these months you've convinced me.
ReplyDeleteGet married, I'll be your best man, if you wish.
But don't ask me to wear a suit.
ReplyDeleteBob: Get married, I'll be your best man, if you wish.
ReplyDeleteWe don't say best "man" we say best "patriarchal oppressor". You are welcome to come, as long as you remember going down the aisle has a whole different meaning in lesbian nuptials, and that isn't cake on our faces.
going down the aisle
ReplyDeleteheh
Selah, we've talked for a long time.
If you would be so kind, I need some advice, that I can't get from my wife.
The management would provide you with my e-mail, if you would be so kind.
Who is this Rat and why do you think he is me?
ReplyDeleteDoes he harvest and sell corneas like they were tomatoes?
Trying to back out of your personna, asshole?
ReplyDeleteIt ain't going to work.
Cause you are number one prick.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to bed, thankfully.
Night
Quirk.
A new Citigroup survey shows that investors fear a government policy mistake more than terrorism and 70% intend to invest more in equities in the coming fiscal year.
ReplyDeleteObviously not a bellwether, am I.
As far as the terrorist threat is concerned, I will relax my posture when a blond Caucasian Barbi doll can walk through airport security and not get patted down. Unless the manufacturers start thinking pastel, ain't gonna happen.
As far as bank fraud is concerned, it'll be a cold day in hell.
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ReplyDeleteGood evening guys and gals. This is the old Quirkster sending out those ‘oldies but goodies’ from our WBOB Radio – 101.1 FM studio inside the Dairy Queen here in downtown Orofino, Idaho.
We’ve got the vinyl and we are just waiting for you to call in those requests.
And here is the first request of the night. It comes from a cat named ‘Farmer Bob’ who appears to be holed up in the Red Lion just down the road in Lewiston. Seems Bob has been tying one on for the last couple of days and is a little afraid to go home to the wife. Bob says, “Just play me some music or I’m going back to bed.”
Well alright Bob. That’s what we’re here for. Here’s a ‘blast from the past’ we hope will cheer you up.
Endless Sleep
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ReplyDeleteWell, finally a dedication from a dude. Hey wait, this one is for ‘Farmer Bob’ too.
Rufus called in and said this will be the song ‘Farmer Bob’ will be playing when he finally has to face his wife.
I’m Sorry
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ReplyDeleteWell, it’s about time to shut down things here at the ‘Dairy Queen’.
We’re shutting down early tonight due to NCIS and the Red Wings game.
This one also goes out to ‘Farmer Bob’. It’s the song he’ll be singing when his wife doesn’t buy the ‘I’m Sorry’.
This Time
Bobbo, just remember “My My Hey Hey It’s better to burn out than to fade away”
(Neil Young – ‘Hey Hey My My’)
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Nice try Q
ReplyDeleteBut how about something from a good old Fargo North Dakota boy?
Melody didn't write in any such thing and while I find it very heartwarming that you're trying to cheer up a friend please don't assume anything under my name.
ReplyDeleteK thanks.
I want some music.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Melody when we need her?
My drugs aren't working, but I'm thinking like a philosof, very deep.
I get that way once in a while.
I know what this nature is doing out here for instance, getting cold like it does like it should be doing, and I know my daughter loves me, which is just right.
God I love you, and I don't know why.
ReplyDeleteJust is. Peace.....Out.
I won't bug you.
It's impossible.
My, my, hey, hey, Dr Hiss is here to stay!
ReplyDeleteHe goes airborne all the way!
But he is not the "desert rat" that you all seem to assume him to be.
Persona?
No such thing on this blog.
We have a Liberation Theologian from Moscow and a Candyman from Ohio. He sure is a sweetie.
Candyman from Ohio
ReplyDeleteOuch.
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ReplyDeleteSorry, Melody.
Should have mentioned that dedication came from the Bangor, Maine, Melody.
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World Clock
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ReplyDeleteCL I looked up Jonny Lang and see he has had a relatively short career but has won an emmy and played with some big names.
I'm embarassed to say I've never heard of him. He is pretty good though.
Say, I hope you weren't too PO'd I took your name in vain. Just joking around.
Here's a guy I just started listening to.
James Morrison
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When I hear the "Catholic" boys yelling something like "Holy Mary, Mother of God" as they decapitate their victims, I will equate them with Islamic radicals. Until then, they're common criminals.
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ReplyDeleteThe 'World Clock' was pretty interesting Sam.
Just looking at some of the 2010 crime statistics it listed 73 million people being hit by ID theft in the US.
That's almost 1 in 4.
Not good.
(Of course some of the other statistics are even worse.)
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I second Whit on the jackass comment of the day.
ReplyDeleteI like this James Morrison better.
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ReplyDeleteIs There Anybody Home
You can't live in the past Sam.
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Interesting Q
ReplyDeleteI have a theory on identity theft:
I relate it to credit scores, the scarlet letter, the dreaded and forecasted permanent record that has morphed into an Orwellian nightmare worthy of the East German Stasi Polizai.
Let us deconstruct the name, Credit Score.
Why does one get a credit score if one is not looking for credit? Who is the score keeper?
Where in the Constitution does a private organization have authority to keep a dossier on citizens for credit or any other reason?
The credit score racquet is used by insurance companies to discriminate in insurance premiums, employers in hiring, opening a bank account and probably a thousand other things.
It is done using a social security number, a number that was never to have been used for anything except social security.
A lot of people, have found it more convenient to lift someone else's identity rather than fight the mission impossible of repairing their own credit score.
My position is this:
One's credit profile is of interest to a party of two, the individual if he seeks credit and the prospective creditor. It should be voluntary and if an individual has no interest in seeking credit, they should have the right to request that it be removed. Then there would be no benefit to stealing anyone's identity.
End of story.
After the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan, there was considerable chatter over who would have the chops to continue his musical legacy. Kenny Wayne Shephard was one contender. Sonny Landreth another. And Jonny Lang yet another. Stevie Ray died in 1990. Jonny Lang was nine years old. Five years later the Smokin' album was released containing a number of hit singles including Louise, which is not available on-line. Too bad.
ReplyDeleteHis next two albums continued in the tradition of "dirty" southern blues ala Vaughan, Shepard, and Landreth. His fan base grew. The pros "produced" his next album and you can still hear the screaming. I bought it thinking I was musically sophisticated enough to appreciate raw talent combined with professional musical production.
I was not. I agreed that studio production buried his talent - not a balanced integration. Other demands intercepted my musical exploration and I lost track of his career after that. I view him as a raw talent. If his musicality matures, he is a worthy successor to Stevie Ray.
Rat is Hiss, Hiss is Panama Ed and all three are asshole nazis...
ReplyDeleteSimple story...
He is just a self confessed murderer, a troll, an antisemite whose tiny little life is reflected in his tiny little personas.
New Albany Detective Paul Haub said he believes Jakob's private bank information was hacked from 1,700 miles away in Arizona, where she lives.
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Haub said he does not believe the person in the video is the person who stole the credit card number. Investigators said they believe the person who stole the number cloned it and then sold it.
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If caught, the man could face nearly 10 felony counts for using and attempting to use the cards.
Theft Ring
Just checked out Jonny Lang. Pretty good. Thanks, lady.
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm not into liberation theology.
ReplyDeleteI ain't that stupid.
I might be into Greg of Nyssa though.
Cause I'm smarter than you fuckers
And have proved it.
And proud of it.
Cept for Quirk.
Who is my equal.
I'm just in love with Melody, a simple matter I don't know what to do about.
Rat is a real prick, alright.
ReplyDeleteOf the first class.
If you ever get around to listening to Louise Sam, remember he was 14/15 years old at the time of recording.
ReplyDeletePeople still talk about it.
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ReplyDeleteIf his musicality matures, he is a worthy successor to Stevie Ray.
I guess I would have to hear more of his music before commenting.
At present, I'm just a little sceptical.
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At present, I'm just a little sceptical.
ReplyDeleteTry cutting back on the sugar.
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ReplyDeleteTry cutting back on the sugar.
Speaking of which. Try taking a look at US Food Production on the World Clock provided by Sam above.
Look at 2010 sugar production in metric tons. It is way bigger than dairy. It is bigger than fruits and vegetables. It is almost 2/3 the size of the entire grain crop.
No wonder we are a nation of fatasses.
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Florencio Avalos, 31, stepped out of the rescue capsule amid sobs from his young son and received a bracing bear hug from Chilean President Sebastian Pinera.
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The capsule was then to be sent back down to pick up his trapped co-workers in a drawn-out process to be completed over two days.
Avalos's safe return from more than 600 metres below ground after 69 days represented a new record and an amazing feat of human endurance against all odds.
Rescue Continues
A couple of videos: South Dakota beauties running for the house.
ReplyDeleteHow China is Weaker Than it Looks
ReplyDeleteOne is the amount of money that’s being spent on internal security. According to its official budget, China spent about $80 billion on defence in 2009 (although the United States and others would argue that even this massive figure underestimates the true scale). But more remarkably, it spent almost as much—$75 billion—on internal security.
Keeping the lid on Xinjiang and Tibet has clearly required massive amounts of central government cash, as has policing China’s restless provinces and dealing with public unrest. Indeed, those who venture outside the grand cities of Shanghai and Beijing see a country with surprising levels of fractiousness and casual violence. On a recent visit to the central city of Xian, for example, I was intrigued to see an enormous sign over a side street bearing the words (in English and Chinese) `Centre for Receiving Petitions.’ It seems there are enough disgruntled citizens in the city and the surrounding areas to warrant a whole street to deal with them.
The second indicator of trouble ahead is the way elite leaders themselves are speaking. Yes, it’s true that Politburo members and their local equivalents fill their public pronouncements with rosy statistics. Like their Maoist and Dengist forebears, they live in a world still infected with Utopianism—things will always get better, the harvests will get bigger, the heaven on earth promised under Marxism (albeit now called Socialism with Chinese characteristics) will be realised one day (even if that day has to be pushed further and further into the future).
Big Trouble in Little China
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Maybe it does take a Rocket Scientist
ReplyDeleteRuth McClung is not the average candidate. She is a 27 year old rocket scientist, with 7 years of technical and management experience. She is an avid outdoor enthusiast, and an amateur artist and writer. She received her Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Arizona in 2004. She said as to why she was running, "My competition does not understand energy, the environment, technology, or national security and defense - these complex issues require science based solutions, not political rhetoric. I also want to defend the American Dream. I want to lead America back into prosperity and stop the reckless spending going on in Washington. I want to give freedom back to the people. It's the people who have made this country great, not the politicians!" Ruth will represent the people of Southern Arizona, not the status quo in Washington.
Best damn class of GOP Rookies in my lifetime.
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