Bad Company - Good Lovin' Gone Bad

I have a tab, so I get these after hours videos. (grins) Ah, the stories I can tell re "feel like making love" ... tee hee

Ride With The Tide, And Go With The Flow

A very fun couple, musically and otherwise.

"The blogosphere isn't just 'The Situation Room' with swear words..."

I tried to explain this as delicately and clearly as I could: A-list polemicists are popular because they say things you don't hear on television. The blogosphere isn't just "The Situation Room" with swear words, it's a space for writers to explore ideas that are outside the bounds of mainstream discourse.

Great statement, and oh, so very true. Read more of why Lindsay Beyerstein turned down blogging for Edwards (before they hired Amanda and Shakes). H/T tristero.

That is precisely what attracts me to blogging ... the fact that you can pretty much say anything you want to. I prefer a political slant to my saying anything I want to, but I also enjoy commenting on music from time to time.

I was disappointed that the bloggers did not work out for the Edwards campaign. I agree, however, with Lindsay's point that the campaign should have gone after the likes of Matt Stoller and others.

Switch, Damn It!

So, to sum up: I hope Lieberman switches because A) it would be advantageous for Democrats in the long-term B) it wouldn’t hurt Democrats or progressives in the short-term, if Senate Democrats developed the spine to filibuster horrible nominees (admittedly an "if") and C) while he already is politically irrelevant in terms of actual power, Lieberman’s switch would, finally, make him widely perceived as irrelevant, meaning that he would cease to have any effect on the national debate and that his melting, Emperor-from-Star-Wars face would stop appearing on my television set and freaking out my dog, Monty.

I totally agree. Read the entire piece.

I was thinking the same thing before I went to Sirota's blog. I mean, what the fuck, anyway, right? Go ahead, Lieberman, switch it. We still have Pelosi, which you can never take away or affect. And you will succeed in making yourself totally irrelevant for the rest of your limited career. So, I'm all for it, Lieberman. Switch, damn it!

Sirota Claws Hillary's Straw Man

This campaign is getting ugly pretty damn quickly. What’s next Senator Clinton? Are you going to tell us that some people may be running who are golf buddies with Osama bin Laden, are planning to appoint him Secretary of Defense, and that you promise never to appoint Osama to such a high level position because you are just so damn tough on terrorism?

Meowwww.

I am enjoying the new Democratic circus that is the presidential candidate race. Hillary is getting clawed by the left everywhere for displaying way too many Rupert Murdoch inspired idioms. Really, Hillary, straw man arguments? You cannot possibly believe you can get away with this crap. Just walk on over to the Lieberman side of the aisle, please. I don't care how much corporate money you can put your hands on, you will not be the next Democratic candidate for president.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

And when I die, and when I'm gone, there'll be one child born to carry on.


Laura Nyro song, great rendition by a spectacular band.

Canned Heat - Let's Work Together

Make someone happy, make someone smile...

Let's work together.

I'm in a cooperative mood, obviously. Must be the good weed.

Happy Chinese New Year.

Our Media Pundits, A Pack Of Rabid Dogs That Drool And Growl When Anyone Mentions A Democrat

I haven't posted much on the political scene since the November elections. Although there was a dramatic shift across this nation, with the Democrats taking control over the Republican party in Washington and in most of the states, the change in Washington is slow, if coming at all.

One thing I notice, though, is that all the television news programs have ratcheted up their partisan vitriol. Before the election, those talking heads would always find something negative to say about the Democratic party, but mostly in a dismissive sort of way, like swatting a fly that has become a nuisance.

Now, they are in attack overdrive mode. It's actually kind of funny. Like a pack of rabid dogs that drool and growl when anyone mentions a Democrat.

Hillary Shows Her True Colors

Well, Hillary finally drew the line in the sand, and let us know that when it comes to acknowledging her mistakes, she is just as stubborn and full of hubris as her Republican counterparts.

From Hillary's mouth: “If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from."

Thank you, Mrs. Clinton. Don't mind if I do ... vote for someone else. You were never high on my list, anyway. I gave you consideration because of your gender, only. It's clear that your politics are not beholding to the mass of people that would be actually voting. Your loyalties are with the Rupert Murdochs of the world, the ones that can line your coffers with "big money." You are no different than Lieberman in being out of touch.

To write off the netroots is a huge mistake, honey. You will be hounded throughout your campaign, by the very people you should have embraced.

I'm still hoping Gore will toss his hat into the ring. Sigh.

Flowers By Georgia O'Keeffe

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Back in the late 1990's, when personal computers first started hitting the mass market and I finally broke down and bought one, I played with the paint program that comes with the operating system software. This was one of my first computer drawings. You can tell I'm a fan of Georgia O'Keeffe (grinning).

Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. ...Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Facts Are Not Partisan

But to me, if there is a great failure by the so-called mainstream press in this presidency, it's the unwillingness to look at the lies and disinformation and misinformation and add them up and say clearly, "Here's what they said; here's what the known facts were," because when that is done, you then see this isn't a partisan matter. This is a matter of the truth, particularly about this war. This is a presidency that is not willing to tell the truth very often if it is contrary to its interests. It's not about ideology from whence I say this.

Very true words, indeed, from Carl Bernstein.

Economy Good? Economy Bad?

From this ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the economy should grow modestly this year despite lingering pain from a housing slump and stuck to the Fed's forecast that inflation will continue to ebb.

... to this.

Chrysler Group will cut 13,000 jobs, close an assembly plant in Delaware and eliminate shifts at two other plants in a restructuring announced today.

Spanky & Our Gang - Sunday will never be the same

I remember hope.

The Newbeats - Bread And Butter

No more toast and jam, damn it.

The Dovells - Bristol Stomp (1961)


Sorry, my 55th birthday is around the corner, and thanks to YouTube, I CAN relive my youth... sigh.

I'm not known as the DooWopBroad for nothing!

Archies, The - Sugar, Sugar (Cartoon)

Funny how some memories survive others. I know I won a gift at the Fabulous Forum at a hockey game during one of the intermissions, but I can't remember the specifics, i.e., the question or game or whatever that I lost. But, I do remember stuff about this song. Like, circa the 1960's in my soon to be boyfriend's Dodge Dart driving down Century Blvd. (that's near the airport in L.A.) singing this song as it played on A.M. radio. Both of us sang in a band, so we each took different harmony vocal parts. Funny how we both actually liked the song.

Yours, Mine, Or Theirs?

Not since multiple women claimed they gave birth to Steve Garvey's child have I read of so many claims to paternity!

Dan Seals-I'd Really Love To See You Tonight

Wow, I've never seen this version. I don't play up many of my musical relationships, but Dan and John were very good friends of mine back in the 1970's, and they played at my first wedding. This was, of course, their very first hit, and I totally remember where I was (on the freeway between San Diego and L.A.) when I first heard this song played on AM radio (driving that orange VW beetle).

Flip, Flop, Republican Style - Hey, They Invented It

Senate Republicans who earlier this week helped block deliberations on a resolution opposing President Bush's new troop deployments in Iraq changed course yesterday and vowed to use every tactic at their disposal to ensure a full and open debate.

More Helicopters Down?

Pan-Arab al-Hayat offered an explanation for the frequent downings of American choppers in the last few weeks: Iraqi insurgents are now in possession of a new generation of SA-7 (Strela) anti-aircraft missiles.

Quoting sources "close to the armed groups", al-Hayat claimed that the insurgents have acquired an improved version of the portable anti-aircraft missile. The ‘sources’ indicated that the newly-purchased missiles were responsible for shooting down four out of five choppers that the US Army has lost in Iraq this year.

Hmmmm.

Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes

Don't drink, don't smoke, what DO you do?

Tee hee ...

Karma, Baby

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — The senior Pentagon official who set off a controversy last month with remarks suggesting that corporations should consider severing business ties with law firms that represent Guantánamo Bay detainees has resigned.

About time.

Robin Williams

This was totally always over the top, but when you put Robin Williams in an improv situation with others that are equal to the task ... well, this is just comedy to the NTH degree.

Bobby McFerrin - Ave Maria

Much better goose bumps. The talent it takes to get the audience to sing the melody to your vocal instrumental. Wow.

Bobby McFerrin

This just gave me goose bumps.

Boston Is Attached By Lite Brites!

I'd feel like my security was being safeguarded by morons. These were Lite Brites - children's toys that light up. The Mayor and the rest of the city government threw the city into a panic, when they could've solved the "crisis" by talking to a ten-year-old.

Good God. Wait until somebody leaves a Speak and Spell lying around. They'll probably send in a hostage team to negotiate with it.

[emphasis mine]

That made me laugh. A very funny take on the Boston attack by children's toys. H/T to Crooks and Liars.