Displaying 91 To 120 Of 222 Comments Weekend Music Thread – Got Change? A savant, to be sure. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 10, 2011 @ 12:35 am In Stravinsky’s autobiography, he admitted that Nijinsky was a brilliant dancer.. but a complete flake who had the IQ of a fencepost. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 9, 2011 @ 11:15 pm Toto’s Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw by Perpetuum Jazzile, performed live at Vokal Xtravaganzza 2008 (October 2008) – arranger Tomaž Kozlevčar. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 9, 2011 @ 11:08 pm You’re KILLING me, Kilgore…. Fan FUCKING TASTIC!!! » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 9, 2011 @ 9:50 pm Pink Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ofFa50LzY MONEY » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 9, 2011 @ 9:28 pm Dr. John & Odetta.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KoJj4dz2I Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 9, 2011 @ 9:25 pm Is there ANY way to turn that obnoxious “cork-pop” effect OFF? When watching videos (even on other sites) it sounds off.. and it’s driving me CRAZY (a short excursion if ever there was one!). » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 8, 2011 @ 7:37 pm UPDATED FOR SATURDAY: The Daily Planet, Vol. 112 I was also pointing to the Constitutional MANDATE that Universal Healthcare should be the law of the land. I’m agreeing that the current iteration of HCR is not a “scam”… it, like all things of lasting import, takes time and will suffer fits & starts until the ultimate goal is reached. The goal is to eventually skip both middlemen…. the “insurance industry” & “employers”. We will, sooner than later, adopt Single Payer.. a universal approach that is, simply, “We the People” pooling our resources to self insure…. giving everyone equal access to the best care. It really is a fait accompli… in fact, it has an excellent chance within the next five years as some states are starting to implement it as we speak … & as these successes are noticed, more momentum will be created to go national with it. The insurers know this.. & are now attempting to squeeze the last drop of blood out of it’s clientele while they still can. This is a done deal, when you really think about it…. & all of the posturing of their shills in the GOP trying to retain a “profit motive” where life & death decisions are made.. & all the wingers & their lies & fear tactics… & all or the mopes who do nothing but complain without ever offering any proactive solutions… & those that couldn’t care less about the welfare of the American People, notwithstanding. There is no turning back. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 8, 2011 @ 6:17 pm All of the true paradigm shifts in the history of enlightened societies everywhere have experienced the very same convulsions as we are experiencing recently. In fact, it is precisely how our Nation was born. Tom Paine advocated such a “social safety net” in the infancy of our country… and this included health-care for all those residing in the United States, as well as care for the aged & the poor, & many other visionary images of an America finally “catching on” centuries later. Without doubt, health-care is indeed a basic human right and I propose that if one’s physical & emotional wellbeing is not such a right.. then there are none at all. Most, if not all religious & spiritual foundations espouse an almost “godlike” virtue in “healing”. It is ingrained in the psyche of every human being on earth that they remain “well”…. as fundamental a need as can be, as it is with our instincts for self-preservation… what makes us “people”. If given a choice between health & wealth, which would any of us think most people would ultimately choose? Our Constitution enumerates this in the very first sentence of its Preamble…. mandating that the Government “Promote the General Welfare”… as well as in Article 1; Sec 8 (a); “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and PROVIDE for the common defense and “General Welfare” of the United States”. Please note that, unlike the Preamble (which only INTRODUCES the text of our Constitution), the Founders substituted the word “PROMOTE” with “PROVIDE”… which raised what could be construed as ambiguous to the level of proactive policy. If the health & safety of ALL of our people is not on the top of that list, I would be hard pressed to know what might supercede it. If this is not a “right”, as some of our more cynical espouse… then this primal need would be relegated to the banality of “stuff”. Indeed, a mere “commodity”.. or even worse, a “privilege” of the upperclass, which is anathema to everything any civilized society stands for. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 8, 2011 @ 5:51 pm GOP Lawmakers Replaced With High Functioning Protozoa Under Newly Signed “Austerity Measures” Thanks, cl!! » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 8, 2011 @ 3:03 pm 😉 » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 8, 2011 @ 3:03 pm How US Industrialists Are Helping Mexico Bust Their Unions… Adding More Undocumented Workers Here. When Mexico smashed the miners strike, it led to the same massive firings that followed an earlier lost strike in 1998, and the destruction of the union in Nacozari in 2006. When that happened, waves of desperate miners, unable to find other employment, crossed the border into the United States as undocumented workers. http://hispanic.cc/tear_gas_in_cananea,_sonora,_mexico.htm » Posted By BlueStateMan On August 27, 2011 @ 7:53 am I have some WONDERFUL artwork that I’d like to add to “Adonai’s” thread… but I can’t figure out HOW to attach a picture using the “url” option (the ONLY one available). Why on EARTH is this the only way to do this? » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 24, 2011 @ 8:00 pm It’s always been my hearts desire to possess one. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 21, 2011 @ 3:37 pm ARE YOU SMARTER THAN AN 8TH GRADER WAS in 1895?? Want to see how far down our educational system has slid since the Grover Cleveland Administration? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina and reprinted by the Salina Journal. http://www.salina.com/1895test/ — — — — — — — — — — — — — Grammar (Time, one hour) 1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters. 2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications. 3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph 4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of ‘lie,”play,’ and ‘run.’ 5. Define case; illustrate each case. 6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation. 7 – 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. Arithmetic (Time,1 hour 15 minutes) 1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. 2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. For tare? 4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000.. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals? 5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. Coal at $6.00 per ton. 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft.. Long at $20 per metre? 8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods? 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes) 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe? 8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865. Orthography (Time, one hour) 1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals 4. Give four substitutes for caret ‘u.’ 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final ‘e.’ Name two exceptions under each rule. 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. 7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis-mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup. 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last. 9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane , vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. Geography (Time, one hour) 1 What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ? 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? 4. Describe the mountains of North America 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa , Denver , Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall andOrinoco 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.. 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? 9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth. — — — — — — — — — — — — — Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete… » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 21, 2011 @ 11:51 am AMERICANS UNITED Urges IRS To Investigate El Paso Ministry For Mayoral Recall Campaign July 12, 2011 Church-State Watchdog Group Says Federal Tax Law Prohibits Political Activities By Religious Organizations A ministry based in El Paso, Texas, should be investigated for organizing a recall campaign against the city’s mayor and two council members, Americans United for Separation of Church and State told the Internal Revenue Service today. In a letter to the IRS, Americans United asserts that Tom Brown Ministries appears to have run afoul of federal tax law, which prohibits houses of worship, ministries and other 501(c)(3) non-profit groups from endorsing or opposing candidates. In June, Pastor Tom Brown of Tom Brown Ministries issued an email titled “A Message from Pastor Tom Brown.” The message, distributed by the ministry, endorses the recall of Mayor John Cook and El Paso City Council Members Steve Ortega and Susie Byrd. Brown has also written about the recall on the ministry’s website and announced it during services at his Word of Life Church. “This is a ministry, not a political action committee,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “If Pastor Brown wants to engage in partisan politics, he should do it on his own time and his own dime. He should not misuse the resources of his tax-exempt religious organization.” Brown and his supporters are angry that the council voted to extend health-care benefits to domestic partners. Writes Brown, “It is for that reason that I, along with El Pasoans for Traditional Family Values (EPFTFV), have decided to join in the recall of Mayor John Cook, and help in any way we can to recall Steve Ortega and Susie Byrd.” The ministry website features an “Open Letter to City Council” that attacks Cook, Ortega and Byrd for their votes. It goes on to say, “If you are upset at this action and would like to sign and/or circulate a recall petition against Mayor John Cook and Representatives Susie Byrd and Steve Ortega, then fill out the form below. Share this page with your friends and get them to fill out the form. Thanks.” In its letter to the IRS, Americans United asserts that Brown’s actions appear to be a clear violation of the law. AU disputes Brown’s claim that his partisan politicking is permissible because the ministry website is registered in his own name. “The fact that the ministry website is registered in Brown’s name is irrelevant,” AU told the IRS. “It remains the ministry’s official website, and as such it may not be used to engineer a recall of election officials – and that is exactly what Brown has done.” Adds the AU letter, “In fact, the IRS has made it clear that websites operated by 501(c)(3) organizations may not be used to endorse or oppose candidates.” —— Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 18, 2011 @ 4:13 pm If you haven’t as of yet read Taibbi’s piece on Bachmann, do it now. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622 . » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 8, 2011 @ 5:08 pm Any cuts to Social Security is theft.. as by LAW, SS is independent of the budget and is NOT part of the deficit. Obama should KNOW this. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 9:46 pm It has now been confirmed that Governor Scott Walker (Fox / Wisconsin) will be replacing union workers with prison labor pools. Well…. so now its the 21st Century version of a chain-gang, is it?
It’s uncanny.
With every new assault on the rule of law..
With every new action…
With every new mugging of the people..
With every new attempt to take their elected office and create a personal fiefdom so as to lie, cheat, con and use the citizens as chattel to manipulate, negate, expropriate and preempt as they wish..
With every utterance emanating from their mouths like a putrescent, green fog they only amplify their breathtaking contempt for the electorate and their willful ignorance…
… and it only serves to illuminate their ingrained sociopathy.
With every, single step that they take, they are driving yet another nail into their own coffins… pounding them in harder with each blow…
Ready and eager to bury themselves and the entire, degenerate bagger agenda with them once and for all.
They’re almost finished….. thank god.
The American People are finally awakening to the reality of what these degenerates TRULY stand for…
Nothing more than a gaggle of witless ideologues & schills for those who want to turn working people into a class of indentured servants.
NONE of the bagger Governors would have been elected, had their constituents known that this was going to be the way that they were planning to “lead”.
Walker, Snyder, Kasich, LePage, Scott. Perry… not a SINGLE one would be in office if the elections were held today…. ALL of the polls are unanimous in this.
It is the job of ALL of us to remind the voters of this every day until these traitors are relegated back into the steaming dungheap that they came from.
The sooner the better. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 8:58 pm Awww shuckins! » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 5:36 pm I’m on keys! Thanks! » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 5:33 pm MEA CULPA for my juvenile behavior the other day…. I should know better.
http://www.youtube.com/user/FROMTHEMLB#p/a/u/1/oIMwZXsaI3c 😉 » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 2:56 am I love you still, Kali… 🙂 » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 1:36 am No worries, choicelady…. as I said, I don’t mind strident debate.. unfettered, unvarnished and without apology… as Kalima said (albeit in a different context).. there is no need… and there REALLY ISN’T. I can take it as well as dish it out. In fact, there is NEVER a need amongst friends… amongst families (like ours here)… and just as we love members of our families, we still have disagreements with them.. and we still have FIGHTS. It comes with the territory when engaging PASSIONATE, TALENTED, EDUCATED people… like you. MUCH respect for your courageous work and your tireless efforts to effect REAL CHANGE (I know full well the dangers you face as I am a charter member of the Southern Poverty Law Center). I’ll try hard to curb the bombast.. it is NEVER meant to be personal (not with you people in any case). I’ll save it for those on other sites are are just ASKING for it (heh!) Peace 😉 » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 1:35 am That is essentially what I THOUGHT I was doing but my continued defenses were in response to what I was perceiving as continued attacks (a juvenile kneejerk that I need to work on). I had posted a rant entitled “FUCK CIVILITY” and it seems that nobody got the “joke”… and my frustration got the best of me. MEA CULPA to all I might have offended. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 6, 2011 @ 1:28 am My dearest friend… That wasn’t the point at all.. and it SHOULDN’T MATTER amongst adults. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 5, 2011 @ 6:35 pm Words, my dear friend… all they are.
Sorry, but I find it more and more difficult to understand how “unrepentantly dissing something that is obviously important to some of the posters here” is anathema to what FREE EXCHANGE means anymore. When someone LIES they need to be called LIARS… and I am NOT accusing anyone HERE of that. When someone is rotting our culture from the inside.. they are a CANCER… and I am NOT accusing anyone HERE of that EITHER… just to be CLEAR. If I didn’t “see the world” (or America for that matter) as something WORTH preserving, then I wouldn’t bother and just relax, read, make music and be content in my isolation. “Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we ought to use all the words we’ve got. Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands.” ~ Clarence Darrow » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 5, 2011 @ 6:12 am choice… I was responding to ADONAI… this format confused me at times. That said, I have ALSO been to jail.. I have been TEARGASSED and BILLYCLUBED… for “getting iin their faces” as I have advocated.. and I continue to do these things as I have done for the past FORTY YEARS. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 4, 2011 @ 8:15 pm THANK YOU! Despite the opinions of many of my colleagues here.. those whom I hold high regard for and respect (and what kind of “Liberals” would we be if there was no infighting??).. they are UNDERESTIMATING the forces stacked against us and it is at our PERIL. » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 4, 2011 @ 8:12 pm Adonai… Look to WISCONSIN.. Look to MICHIGAN.. Look to South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana. Iowa… Look to Nevada and Arizona.. You TRULY feel that these people aren’t a THREAT??? » Posted By BlueStateMan On July 4, 2011 @ 12:57 pmComments Posted By BlueStateMan
«« Back To Stats Page
Home Stats