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Meet John Doh!
I just listened to the music you recommended. It was beautiful. Thanks!
Here's one (from "Once Upon A Time in Mexico") that I recently discovered and like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rVYQ-GAF4&feature=related
@Quark - Apache Tears
You may remember that Thom had Antonio D'Ambrosio on last year talking about the music of Johnny Cash. I believe the song "Apache Tears" mayhave been mentioned, but wasn't played. Here's a link to the performance of "Apache Tears" from GRIT TV. I like it more than the version by Johnny Cash,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCrxwsBeaM
Thom, when I was a kid, my neighbor kept a few steer. After about a year of raising a calf to adult, he would have a butcher come out. The butcher would shoot the steer in the head with a 22 to stun it, then hook it up to the back of the truck crane, and proceed to butcher it while it hung upside down. I don't think I was ever up early enough to see the steer get shot, but I've watched quite a few go through the rest of the process. The only thing that really disturbed me was the use of a chain saw to cut the carcass in two. Never put me off of eating meat. However, in High School one of my teachers went through a cursory overview on how hot dogs are made. His explanation that when you sometimes bite a hard granular piece, that was generally a piece of hoof, was enough for me to basically give up eating hot dogs since.
Caller Cheryl,
You sound like such a lovely person. I hope things go well for you.
I don't need no farms! I get my food at Jewel!
S.B. "trends"
mstaggerlee,
The changing trend in education you mentioned have been on my mind, too. It is a real shame and must change.
As the world's policeman
we're on the take. We're not doing it out of the goodness of our hearts. $$$$$$$$$$$
@Quark, re:Krugman -
Another quote from the Krugman column today -
In his Thursday speech, by the way, Mr. Obama insisted — twice — that financial reform won’t stifle innovation. Too bad.
That sums up the problem as succinctly as possible, IMHO. Banking should support innovation in OTHER sectors, but we do NOT need new and innovative BANKING. The REAL WORLD word for "innovative finance" is FRAUD!
Earlier, you mentioned that today's Medical students seem more interested in the bottom line than in helping people get well. Medecine is not the only field where motivation seems to be shifting.
Back in "our day" (damn! - am I REALLY old enough to use that term??!!) a high percentage of kids who enrolled in undergrad Physics programs went on to do their graduate studies in either Engineering, or some other Scientific field. These are the kids with the "innovative" minds. Today, a frighteningly high percantage of kids who get Physics undergrad degrees go on to get theira Masters in Business Admin or Economics. When they graduate, they go to Wall Street, and "innovate" the rest of us straight into the poor house.
Meet John Doh!
Thanks for the suggestion. I will follow up after the show. I love Latin music (tho I also like lots of other musc!) :-)
Yeah, why are we the worlds policeman? And for that matter we're in a arms race, but who are we racing against but ourselves?
@Quark
re: You're singing my song!
It's always been a thrill to sing duets with a Doris Day lookalike. But since my voice is so deep and sexy, I'm not allowed to sing in some places because the women go wild. Wink! Wink!
Knowing that you have a love of music, I have a recommendation for you. Here are the instructions:
Google "Sun of Latin Music" Go down the list and click on "Una Rosa Espanola"
It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and the texture of the instrumentation is delicious. I hope you have good speakers or a good headset. Warning: You may want to have your hubby near. This song could put you in the mood for something. Interesting Note: Lalo Rodriguez, the lead singer, was only 15 when this song was recorded.
Glenn Beck talks to people like their idiots and imbeciles (legal terms for people that have the mental capabilities of 3 yr olds and 12 yr olds), so he's talking appropriately to his audience as far as I can tell. :-O
"Don’t Cry for Wall Street"
Excerpts from Paul Krugman's column today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23krugman.html?hp
But these (derivative) reforms should be only the first step. We also need to cut finance down to size.
And it’s not just critical outsiders saying this (not that there’s anything wrong with critical outsiders, who have been much more right than supposedly knowledgeable insiders; see Greenspan, Alan). An intriguing proposal is about to be unveiled from, of all places, the International Monetary Fund. In a leaked paper prepared for a meeting this weekend, the fund calls for a Financial Activity Tax — yes, FAT — levied on financial-industry profits and remuneration.
Such a tax, the fund argues, could “mitigate excessive risk-taking.” It could also “tend to reduce the size of the financial sector,” which the fund presents as a good thing.
Now, the I.M.F. proposal is actually quite mild. Nonetheless, if it moves toward reality, Wall Street will howl.
But the fact is that we’ve been devoting far too large a share of our wealth, far too much of the nation’s talent, to the business of devising and peddling complex financial schemes — schemes that have a tendency to blow up the economy. Ending this state of affairs will hurt the financial industry. So?
On my local (NBC-affiliate) news last night, they did a piece about financial reform. A couple sound bites from Obama's speech yesterday, some analysis from a staff economist, and some man-on-the-Wall-street interviews. In that segment, a guy who works at a brokerge asked how we can trust guys like Chris Dodd & Barney Frank to fix this mess, when "they're the guys who put together the system that got us into this mess all those years ago!"
This, I think, demonstrates the depth of the memory hole we're dealing with! We seem to finally have acheived the 1984 mentality - those in charge NOW have ALWAYS been in charge! Somehow, back "all those years ago" (when the Rethuglicans controlled BOTH houses, and held ALL committee chairmanships) Dodd & Frank STILL managed to push through legistlation to sabotage the economy.
How do we deal with nonsense like this?? Bad enough that people who SHOULD know better hold these fool opinions, but why on Earth should the media give the know-nothings a platform to spread misinformation?
This is about corporation personhood, I live in Ft. Walton Bech Fl and here we have a "Homestead Act" where you get a real estate tax break for living in your home, I purchased the condo next to my original one but in my corporations name, do you think I can "homestead" the condo in the corporaion name? My lawyer owns the radio station in Destin that carries your show, WNWF 1120 AM. I talked to him and he thought that it would be an interesting task to try.
Citi Group needs the TARP money to pay their lobbyists.
In Illinois Eavesdropping can be brought as a felony charge. Two brothers, stopped on suspicion of DUI, were charged with both misdemeanor and felony eavesdropping for trying to record the cops during the traffic stop.
Amazing that the cops can record you, but you can't record the cops.
I think it will be quite ironic if Arizona succeeds in their attempt to chase out all people with more than a slight tan. Snow blindless will be a comman malady amoung the population of a sun baked desert... unnatural. ;-)
mstaggerlee,
Re: But "Legislator-speak" is the official language of Congress!
Yes, you get a handbook on the first day! :-D
I suggest everyone send Senatorial candidate Sue Lowden a chicken egg for a contribution! Maybe then she (or her campaign staff) will figure out the fiscal value of chickens and future chickens (eggs).
-Bryan from Paddock Lake
Meet John Doh!
Re: "Sometimes it's just the little things that make life fun."
You're singing my song! :-D
I'm guessing corporations are asexual. Like an some sort of strange bacteria or virus, they can divide and replicate, or merge by consuming each other.
Speaking of political backing by the banks ---
"Pawlenty's PAC: Who's giving?
More than half of those chipping in to an exploratory presidential PAC are from out of state, and bankers loom large, FEC filings show."
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/90978784.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU