HUGE story about the true origins and source of money behind Path to 9/11:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/8/133335/7036

Donita! Woohoo 1st comment!

damn xyz is quicker than me.

Word. I’m out for the rest of the day, but check out the link above.

This story could be the last straw for ABC.

You gotta hand it to someone who can put BRMC, Eno, and Tom Jones on the same list.

When are you gonna play L.A. again?

YearlyKos 2007!

Viva Las Vegas baby!

“King’s Lead Hat” is on my favourite road trip playlist, between my buddy Rich Morel’s “Making Sense” and U2’s “Vertigo” — which really should be on any trip to Las Vegas playlist, IMHO.

That Kos link is some first rate investigative reporting. The toobz and rootz never cease to amaze me.

I was a big Delilah fan when I was a wee Inca lad. I had the 45.

YWAM UHP=A screwed mouse

Mark @ News Corpse @ 5

You gotta hand it to someone who can put BRMC, Eno, and Tom Jones on the same list.

When are you gonna play L.A. again?

I have a show at the Viper Room in LA on Saturday Sept. 16th.
James Hall is also on the bill. Thanks for asking, come on down

Donita you sooo rock!

scory @ 7

“King’s Lead Hat” is on my favourite road trip playlist, between my buddy Rich Morel’s “Making Sense” and U2’s “Vertigo” — which really should be on any trip to Las Vegas playlist, IMHO.

King’s Lead Hat is such a jam.

I hope some of you out there are appreciating that awesome Tom Jones video. Now that’s what I call a protest number! OFF THE HOOK

*xyz @ 1

HUGE story about the true origins and source of money behind Path to 9/11:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/8/133335/7036

xyz,

You’re right, this is HUGE. So can we now claim that the film is being secretly funded by laundered money from a right-wing group which is training youth for paramilitary operations against our government?

YWAM is connected to some scary groups whose thinking almost mirrors that of Tim McVeigh.

Thanks Donita for the video– I loooove Tom Jones– what a voice! I can’t count how many times I have sung along with him at full volume (mine and his!)

Have fun.

YHAM is trying to pull up stakes on their web presence as fast a they can. I think there is a big problem here for ABC if the laundered $ crossed international borders (ie – USA to Canada to the USA).

YWAM– hmmm.

Wonder how all of the brown people will be portrayed in this mockumentary.

I’ve had American Idiot on heavy rotation in the car, ’cause I’ve found myself screaming at the radio way too much lately.

Like when CBS radio ran a segment yesterday that all but said “it was all Armitage” featuring their “security consultant.” (Why was it done by the “security consultant” rather than their “legal consultant?” I’ve acquired a nagging suspicion based on recent results that all media “security consultants” are Republican plants.)

Donita
You must “cry with laughter” choosing these videos! The dancers in this one are genius. lol
Love to know what your second choice was. ha!

Love Brian Eno! Used to listen to him back when I was just out of high school…along with League of Gentlemen, which was also really good, just wish they had done more stuff.

So many good Eno songs…Baby’s on Fire, Fat Lady of Limberg, and of course Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch hehe.

Are people getting screen shots of the YHAM stuff before it disappears?

my spin – Mickey Mouse club bangers edition

All hail Donita!
To celebrate The Week of the Rat, I rounded up a wonderful world of pixiedust tracks from my record collection…

Who Killed Bambi? – The Sex Pistols…
Action speaks louder than words – Chocolate Milk… This little funk bomb goes out to Ms. Nix, for taking action.
Ya Playin’ Yourself – Jeru the Damaja… “you’re a playa but only because you be playin’ yourself”
She Watch Channel Zero – Public Enemy… “Her brains retrained by a 24 inch remote”
Mickey Mouse is Dead – Subhumans … pretty much sums it up, don’t it?

“we’re gonna have so much fun you’ll all be whistling zip-a-dee-doo-dah out your assholes”
- Clark Griswold, National Lampoon’s Vacation

Of course Jane is on a plane when you need her … :)

But it’s my understanding that the accounting involving film and television production is notoriously complicated. Tracing YMAH money to the production company and ABC may be quite a challenge.

Pachacutec @ 9

I was a big Delilah fan when I was a wee Inca lad. I had the 45.

Hi Pachacutec! Check these out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0yCGcCwdYc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCdadUyCOqM

that Iggy Pop song “Death Car” (i got on to it from the sound track to “Arizona Dreaming”)…………..

Thanks for that Tom Jones link.

Here here is with The Cardigans covering Burning Down the House. I found musical version on an iMix and it’s really become a favorite. So glad to find the video to match. It’s like a set of ear rings, but not really you know.

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

OT and sorry but check out this from TPM:

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, Georgetown’s Michael Kazin and a half-dozen other historians and professors have written a scathing letter to ABC chief Robert Iger. It demands that ABC yank the broadcast, labeling the network’s explanations “disingenuous” and “dangerous”: “A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the falsification of history, except to expose it. We strongly urge you to halt the show’s broadcast and prevent misinforming Americans about their history.”

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/el…..erous_film

nationwide. MoE 3 (for all adults).

.

“Do you think it would be good for the country or bad for the country if the Democrats in Congress were able to conduct official investigations into what the Bush Administration has done in the past six years?” Half sample, MoE 4.5

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Good Bad Unsure
% % %
8/30 – 9/2/06
57 41 2
.

“Next year, it is possible that the country will have a Republican president and a Democratic Congress. Do you think that is more likely to result in more cooperation between the two parties or more likely to result in more gridlock and stalemate in the government?” Half sample, MoE 4.5

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Cooperation Gridlock Unsure
% % %
8/30 – 9/2/06
27 70 3
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“Based on what you have read or heard, do you believe that President Bush should be impeached and removed from office, or don’t you feel that way?”

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Should Be Should Not Be Unsure
% % %
8/30 – 9/2/06
30 69 1
(Poll results from CNN- interesting that they asked the impeachment question. These look like the sort of questions Rove wants to ask to find out if the goopers can run on fear of gridlock and a Clusterfuck impeachment attempt by dems.)

God, Stay up Late teleports me right back to high school – drinking beers with my buddy Ron, then drag racing and driving through corn fields while wasted. What fun! :)

We just had our 20th reuinion. :(

OT – FLASHBACK: ABC Said Path to 9/11 Was ‘Locked and Ready To Air’

It’s clear that the editing process reopened when people started complaining. What’s irresponsible is for ABC to lie about it.

Here here is with The Cardigans covering Burning Down the House. I found musical version on an iMix and it’s really become a favorite. So glad to find the video to match. It’s like a set of ear rings, but not really you know.

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

Very cool. Love the art direction

OT, check out this video from Raw Story. It’s a nice reality check for those of us who are battling hard to eradicate the forces of darkness.

Marine Colonel smacks Fredo around

Millineryman @ 27

Thanks for that Tom Jones link.

Here here is with The Cardigans covering Burning Down the House. I found musical version on an iMix and it’s really become a favorite. So glad to find the video to match. It’s like a set of ear rings, but not really you know.

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

Wow, that’s a cover I never imagined! Even stranger than the TJ cover of Prince’s “Kiss.”

Urban Pirate (#30):
considering the story you told you should consider yourselves lucky. not that i’m an old fogey or anything……..

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com…..o-911.html

I’m not sure I did this link correctly. I hope so. This is BIG.

Was that Pachacutec in that video up there? Nah, it looked more like Huayna Capac :)

Count me as another Eno / “King’s Lead Hat” fan – it rawks, in that unique Eno way (it’s also an homage to Talking Heads, hence the anagram title… guessing everyone knew this already). His “Third Uncle” is also a jam, with a classic bass line.

Donita, thanks! and please forgive the interruption…

Bay Area ‘Pups:

Here’s a list of addresses, links, or phone numbers for the local advertisers on today’s 11am newscast on ABC owned & operated KGO-7:

Golden State Lumber: webmaster@goldenstatelumber.com

Serramonte Mitsubishi: https://secure.webmakerx.net/Contact-Us.aspx?hostname=www.serramontemitsubishi.com

East Bay Mitsubishi: http://www.eastbaymitsubishi.com/contact_form.htm

San Rafael Mitsubishi: http://www.sanrafaelmitsubishi.com/contactus.aspx

San Mateo Mitsubishi: http://www.veracom.com/veracom…..ct_us.html

Babybel Laughing Cow Cheese: customerservicelc@belbrandsusa.com

Sleep Train Mattress: customerservice@sleeptrain.com

Cache Creek Casino: (800) 452-8181 – Toll Free California
(800) 992-8686 – Toll Free Nationwide

Mervyn’s: http://www.mervyns.com/cust_serv/contact_us.aspx

Mountain Vista Farm: http://mountainvistafarm.com/c…../index.php

Western Career College: [Teddy deleted this one because their contact form allows no free text or commenting]

Here’s the text of my request:

Your company advertised its products on ABC7-KGO’s local news at 11 am today. I have asked the General Manager of KGO not to broadcast “The Path to 9/11″ on Sunday and Monday nights, because it contains inaccuracies of fact and claims to be based upon the 9/11 Commission Report. Don’t you agree that 9/11 is an American tragedy and that the victims need to be treated with the respect of truth-telling that the event deserves?

I will not purchase your products or services as long as you advertise on KGO-TV, if they air this insult to American values and history. Please feel free to share my displeasure with your sponsorship of KGO-TV with their sales department, where you spend your advertising dollars: those dollars are lost on me as long as they are spent at KGO. Urge the station not to air “The Path to 9/11.” As patriotic Americans, we have a right to the truth, don’t you think?

Speaking of spin –I’m really stretching in my OTs today. I visited the ABC News site to see what they had to say about the Path to 911 “documentary”. Their most recent story was from yesterday and was entitled “Clintonistas Claim Foul Over ABC 9/11 Film” by John Cochran. Anyone who uses “Clintonistas” pretty much has told you where they are coming from. Cochran gives ABC’s now standard disclaimer that it is a “dramatization not a documentary” but it is not until page two that any specific examples of falsehoods are given. The article ends:

The executive producer of the miniseries, Marc Platt, told ABC News that it would be a mistake to read any political message into the film.

“It’s certainly not intended as any kind of political statement,” he said. “I think it’s hard to watch and not come away upset in some fashion. Some will be angry.”

For ABC, the blowback from Clinton supporters and aides may not be an entirely bad thing. Conventional wisdom says there’s nothing like a little controversy to boost ratings. And this time it is liberals — not conservatives — who are complaining about reputed Hollywood bias.

You see it’s not that they’re lying but that it is an emotional subject and yes, a few misguided people will express those emotions by becoming angry but that’s really not their fault, is it? Coincidentally, since ABC is a Disney company, Marc Platt’s nose grew six inches during his statement. As for the rest, it’s the “all publicity is good publicity” mantra coupled with the tired old saw that if we’re making both sides angry then we must be doing something right. No, John Cochran, I hate to break this to you but sh*t smells the same whether you’re on the right or the left.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story…..amp;page=1

Just the other day I was mentioning how I pitied people who owned convertibles but never put the top down because it messed up their hair. Sad. It’s a waste of a good convertible to drive around with the top up when it’s even marginally nice weather. Hell, I used to drive my ‘67 Mustang with the top down when it was snowing!

Donita –

Ohhhhhhhhh … “Nice Day” is so groovy, in the best possible way!

Hugh @ 40

Speaking of spin Marc Platt’s nose grew six inches during his statement.

see, here’s your spin tie-in:

The Pinocchio Theory – Bootsy Collins… “if you fake the funk/your nose will grow”

Hugh, stretchin’ out and he didn’t even know it.

I love Elvis too. And a Little Less Conversation send me dancing in any room I happen to be in.

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

Oh, Donita, those are awesome, in a bizarro way.

It’s a little disconcerting to go back to the song about a mudering psycho stalker killer with the benefit of adult wisdom, however. Sometimes there’s so much that’s wrong with a thing like this, especially the video, that it’s oddly perfect.

Ed*ard Teller @
17

YHAM is trying to pull up stakes on their web presence as fast a they can. I think there is a big problem here for ABC if the laundered $ crossed international borders (ie – USA to Canada to the USA).

Ed*ard Teller, I’ve been saving the cached documents I could find. Names, addresses, phone numbers, separate addresses for mailing “donations”…it’s all very interesting.

Firepups, there is work to do on PT911 (Path to 9/11) — the fact that the whole thing is a project of a Christianist group “Youth With a Mission,” whose film unit set this up as the “Untitled History Project” (UHP) and indeed ABC first searched for actors under the title “Untitled ABC History Project.”

Furthermore, the ABC miniseries still had the YWAM title “Untitled History Project” as recently as June 5 as shown on this Google-cached web page of the Donnie Wahlberg website. (The actual web page has been scrubbed, as apparently hav been all YWAM web pages relating to the making of their project, The Path to 9/11.)

A huge number of links can be found in the comments section of this Kos diary: Christian YWAM $$$ behind PT911

And there’s a lot more work to do.

Have a great trip Donita, thanks for this refreshing break on Fridays.

I was diggin’ Jane’s Addiction Classic Girl.

Appropo for the site, don’t you think?

That one’s from Lollapalooza ‘91. Don’t miss the chick rockin’ the violin.

you’ve outdone yourself donita! tom jones singing “war.” what a great way to start the weekend.

i was in vegas for a weekend recently. spent way too much $$, drank way too much…..basically i had a blast!

enjoy!

TeddySanFran @ 39

Donita, thanks! and please forgive the interruption…

Bay Area ‘Pups:

Here’s a list of addresses, links, or phone numbers for the local advertisers on today’s 11am newscast on ABC owned & operated KGO-7:

Golden State Lumber: webmaster@goldenstatelumber.com

Serramonte Mitsubishi: https://secure.webmakerx.net/Contact-Us.aspx?hostname=www.serramontemitsubishi.com

East Bay Mitsubishi: http://www.eastbaymitsubishi.com/contact_form.htm

San Rafael Mitsubishi: http://www.sanrafaelmitsubishi.com/contactus.aspx

San Mateo Mitsubishi: http://www.veracom.com/veracom…..ct_us.html

Babybel Laughing Cow Cheese: customerservicelc@belbrandsusa.com

Sleep Train Mattress: customerservice@sleeptrain.com

Cache Creek Casino: (800) 452-8181 – Toll Free California
(800) 992-8686 – Toll Free Nationwide

Mervyn’s: http://www.mervyns.com/cust_serv/contact_us.aspx

Mountain Vista Farm: http://mountainvistafarm.com/c…../index.php

Western Career College: [Teddy deleted this one because their contact form allows no free text or commenting]

Here’s the text of my request:

Your company advertised its products on ABC7-KGO’s local news at 11 am today. I have asked the General Manager of KGO not to broadcast “The Path to 9/11″ on Sunday and Monday nights, because it contains inaccuracies of fact and claims to be based upon the 9/11 Commission Report. Don’t you agree that 9/11 is an American tragedy and that the victims need to be treated with the respect of truth-telling that the event deserves?

I will not purchase your products or services as long as you advertise on KGO-TV, if they air this insult to American values and history. Please feel free to share my displeasure with your sponsorship of KGO-TV with their sales department, where you spend your advertising dollars: those dollars are lost on me as long as they are spent at KGO. Urge the station not to air “The Path to 9/11.” As patriotic Americans, we have a right to the truth, don’t you think?

Oh, no! Not the Baby Cheesus!

Pachacutec @ 45

Oh, Donita, those are awesome, in a bizarro way.

It’s a little disconcerting to go back to the song about a mudering psycho stalker killer with the benefit of adult wisdom, however. Sometimes there’s so much that’s wrong with a thing like this, especially the video, that it’s oddly perfect.

I know, I never really listened to the lyrics before, freaky baby

Has this been posted on FDL already? I haven’t seen it.

The Bush Defense Record By The Numbers

I don’t often link to AmericaBLOG, but John’s got a great list of email addresses for PT911 iPod complaints, if you are in the mood:
http://americablog.blogspot.co…..apple.html

If you’re in a convertable, skip the scarf. Scarf-wearing women in convertables get decapitated every year when their scarf, wrapped around their head and neck, floats down to the wheel, catches on something and then yanks down with the full force and speed of the car.

fahrender @ 35

Urban Pirate (#30):
considering the story you told you should consider yourselves lucky. not that i’m an old fogey or anything……..

Yeah. Lucky to be alive. As a parent now, I’m terrified of the things I did when young.

Arnold Schwartzenegger quote today:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying during a closed-door meeting that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of “black blood” and “Latino blood.”

Is there an appropriate song for this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14732643/

Tim Wayne said:

If you’re in a convertable, skip the scarf. Scarf-wearing women in convertables get decapitated every year when their scarf, wrapped around their head and neck, floats down to the wheel, catches on something and then yanks down with the full force and speed of the car.

Well, if you wear one that’s several feet long, it’s a hazard. But if you’re in a convertible, especially if you’re the driver, why would you want to wear a scarf that’s blowing around?
(I don’t see it in the news, so the risk seems to be much less than you’re implying. Certainly below that of alcohol or cell phones.)

scarecrow @
57

Arnold Schwartzenegger quote today:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying during a closed-door meeting that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of “black blood” and “Latino blood.”

Is there an appropriate song for this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14732643/

How about this from YouTube?

P J Evans @ 58

Tim Wayne said:

If you’re in a convertable, skip the scarf. Scarf-wearing women in convertables get decapitated every year when their scarf, wrapped around their head and neck, floats down to the wheel, catches on something and then yanks down with the full force and speed of the car.

Well, if you wear one that’s several feet long, it’s a hazard. But if you’re in a convertible, especially if you’re the driver, why would you want to wear a scarf that’s blowing around?
(I don’t see it in the news, so the risk seems to be much less than you’re implying. Certainly below that of alcohol or cell phones.)

Unless you’re Isadora Duncan or Dr. Who (Tom Baker)

Tim Wayne @ 54

If you’re in a convertable, skip the scarf. Scarf-wearing women in convertables get decapitated every year when their scarf, wrapped around their head and neck, floats down to the wheel, catches on something and then yanks down with the full force and speed of the car.

Keep dreamin’ bye bye blackbird

Love that Tom Jones video, thanks!
I’m trying to teach myself to play the guitar. It seems backwards and upside down for me, a piano player from way back. I can do it if I hold it like you hold a double bass, and play by ear. Otherwise…I don’t know. Got any helpful books or hints? Maybe I need a smaller guitar. A ukelele! lol

HotFlash @ 58

scarecrow @
57

Arnold Schwartzenegger quote today:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying during a closed-door meeting that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of “black blood” and “Latino blood.”

Is there an appropriate song for this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14732643/

How about this from YouTube?

I was thinking something more like this hehe. (language alert!)

scarecrow @ 57

Arnold Schwartzenegger quote today:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying during a closed-door meeting that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of “black blood” and “Latino blood.”

Is there an appropriate song for this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14732643/

Oh My God

Is there an appropriate song for this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14732643/

How about this from YouTube?

awwww…*sniff*

fantastic tom jones video, donita.

we used to watch “This is Tom Jones” every week. it was my sister’s favorite show – she used to have his album with a huge lighted-lettered “TOM” on the front.

tom jones rocked then, rocks now, will rock always.

keep those panties flyin’.

LindyH @ 46

Ed*ard Teller @
17

YHAM is trying to pull up stakes on their web presence as fast a they can. I think there is a big problem here for ABC if the laundered $ crossed international borders (ie – USA to Canada to the USA).

Ed*ard Teller, I’ve been saving the cached documents I could find. Names, addresses, phone numbers, separate addresses for mailing “donations”…it’s all very interesting.

Lindy, what more can you tell us?

Yesterday and this morning we were all upset at ABC/Disney for planning to air this lying faceumentary and writing e-mails and making phone calls.

And now it turns out that the TV show is a project of a right-wing, Christianist extremist group and we’re not on it?

‘Scuse me for shouting. But digging is what the blogs do best and here are places where the digging is revealing much more about “Path to 9/11″ than any of us suspected two days ago.

This is surely bigger than the right wing’s score two years ago on Dan Rather, isn’t it? Doesn’t this have the potential to help motivate our base for the coming election?

More details:

“Path to 9/11″ produced by RW activists: goal to “transform Hollywood” (Democratic Underground)

Is a spooky cult behind “The Path to 9/11″? (Cannonfire)

You think it’s tough to connect Youth With a Mission’s “Untitled History Project” with “Path to 9/11″?

Try this:

7/5/2006 9:56 PM

Ugh… the Untitled History Project now has a title: “The Path to 9/11″. It also has air dates: Sunday, Sept. 10 and Monday, Sept. 11 from 8-11pm both nights.

from a Myspace blog: http://profile.myspace.com/ind…..d=34011943

Who posted that?

The high point of last year was getting to play Harvey Keitel’s secretary at the World Trade Center in ABC’s upcoming 9/11 miniseries.

That’s Hellacious Dee from Toronto, Canada, in her MySpace blurb.

The Path to 9/11 was still titled the “Untitled History Project” in January 2006, as shown in Patricia Heaton Online (one of the “stars”).

The whole @#$*! TV program is a project of

The Film Institute – a new auxiliary branch of Youth With A Mission focused on tranforming film and television from the inside out.

and note this:

TFI’s first project is a doozy: simply being referred to as: The Untitled History Project,

That’s from a website that was scrubbed yesterday when bloggers discovered the real source behind The Path to 9/11. The Google cache of the site still shows these sentences, however, at http://66.102.7.104/search?q=c…..ndex2.html “Untitled History Project”&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=40&client=safari .

Maybe someone needs to find Mark and Christa Harris.

We’d love to hear from you via e-mail at: admin@markandkrista.com

Or maybe just read the Google cache of their website:

For new friends who are still trying to figure out what Mark and Krista do:

Mark and Krista Harris are full-time missionaries with Youth With A Mission. They are part of the YWAM vision to release waves of young people to cover the continents with the love of Christ.

And where did the $40 million come from, which is the cost of this dog?

Jen Nix has a letter from Arthur Schlesinger, among other distinguished historians, asking Bob Iger to halt the broadcast of PT911:
http://openlettertoabc.blogspo…..l-for.html

OT: My mom just kicked in $100 for Marcy’s book. Yay, Mom!

XYZ – this is potentially HUGE – and,scarry. It needs to get out to the MSM, ABC, Disney, Scholastic, the Democratic Leadership, law firms. Shouldn’t FDL really highlight it? From my vantage this is some of the biggest news (if true) of the last 5 years.

Donita Sparks @ 64

scarecrow @ 57

Arnold Schwartzenegger quote today:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying during a closed-door meeting that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of “black blood” and “Latino blood.”

Is there an appropriate song for this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14732643/

Oh My God

Yep. And remember, there are almost as many people leaving under the California regime as the Iranian.

Or “living,” though some may now try to leave.

this from TPM on YWAM:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/

Jim in LA @ 66

fantastic tom jones video, donita.

we used to watch “This is Tom Jones” every week. it was my sister’s favorite show – she used to have his album with a huge lighted-lettered “TOM” on the front.

tom jones rocked then, rocks now, will rock always.

keep those panties flyin’.

Amen Brother

I heard the Arnie quote on the local news — that report cited above is sanitized. He did NOT say “naturally feisty and temperamental.” The word he used is “HOT.”

Shameful. Am I more embarassed by my Governor or my President?

At least my mayor is smart (and HOT!)

Pachacutec @ 67

OT: My mom just kicked in $100 for Marcy’s book. Yay, Mom!

How much “Please, mom? Pleeeeeese, will you will you will you? Just this once? I promise I’ll be good from now on – really I will!” did it take?

(Can you tell that my kid is making his parents very, very aware that there’s a birthday coming up soon?)

Shorter version (model letter):

Dear _______ (ABC, George Mitchell, Disney, MSM),

I am concerned that “The Path to 9/11″ has been revealed by investigative reporters to be the made-for-TV movie originally titled “The Untitled History Project” and created by a right-wing, Christianist organization called “The Film Institute,” an “auxiliary branch” of “Youth With a Mission” (YWAM) — established by the father of the film’s director.

This is, in short, a project that was pitched to ABC and Disney, not a project of their own.

And it appears that a great deal of deception was involved in pitching it.

Unless ABC itself was in on the fraud.

Please investigate.

Sincerely,

etc.

Peterr: none. She’s like that. I say, “Can you help?” and she asks no questions. She trusts my judgment and my politics, though she was once a Goldwater Girl.

SOS….Anyone available for some help? Excuse me, but I’m butting in here with a request for some quick help. It is Saturday morning here in NZ (7:45) and I have just come out of tv ignorance to realize that The Path to 9/11 is scheduled to show tomorrow night here. That is of course, ahead of the release there. I tried to call the TV station, but so far, I get recordings that say that they have gone home for the weekend and call on Monday. It is one of the charms of NZ, I suppose.

Anyway, I called the news bureau and they asked me to send them an email, that summarized the controversy and with appropriate links to help them get a sense of it.

Can you help a groggy expat who is coming to all of this rather late to put together a concise narrative, with less partisan links?

If so, I would really appreciate this. I’ll keep tuned for any possible suggestions.

The quote by Ahnahld here:

“I mean, they are all very hot,” the governor says. “They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/lo…..-headlines

OT – The Roots Project is relaunching the SRP Newsweekly podcast in its beta phase episodes this Sunday and we need help from the public with a segment we are doing on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. We have setup our new blog which the podcast will be distributed from every Sunday at http://srpnewsweekly.wordpress.com and there you will find a thread about our effort to memorialize the anniversary by sharing your memories of 9/11 or your thoughts on the anniversary via our podcast.

At that blog you will find more info on how you can leave a message in our voicemail newstip line for inclusion in our podcast. Or you can leave a comment in the thread and one of our SRP News team members will read your comment as part of our segment.

Thanks for your help with this in advance and I look forward to hearing from you all about this. This is the first step we are taking to truly give voice to the netroots community, literally.

Here is the SPIN I’m in and have been in for weeks!

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tkrekel

If you like the sample selections of the Tim Krekel cd featured at the above site check out Tim’s website for all of his cd’s. His music is really hard to classify. His songs run the range from blues, country rock, R&B and good old fashioned Rock n Roll.

I absolutely LOVE this guys music. Alan Jackson is doing one of Krekel’s songs on his soon to be released cd and Martina McBride recorded one of the songs sampled at the above site (Cry on the Shoulder of the Road). If you are looking for something new to listen to this weekend, check out Tim Krekel. Fortunately for me he was born in Louisville and lives here and in Nashville. I got to see him perform twice this week and he is playing this Saturday at a Blues festival in Carrollton, KY.

If you are interested in the Blues festival check out:

http://www.bluestothepoint.net

Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 80

OT – The Roots Project is relaunching the SRP Newsweekly podcast in its beta phase episodes this Sunday and we need help from the public with a segment we are doing on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. We have setup our new blog which the podcast will be distributed from every Sunday at http://srpnewsweekly.wordpress.com and there you will find a thread about our effort to memorialize the anniversary by sharing your memories of 9/11 or your thoughts on the anniversary via our podcast.

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Pachacutec @ 76

Peterr: none. She’s like that. I say, “Can you help?” and she asks no questions. She trusts my judgment and my politics, though she was once a Goldwater Girl.

Yay, Mom!

OTOH, mine trusts my judgment in some things – like religion – but has definite questions about my politics. For the last year, though, she’s been a Red Cross volunteer, and what she’s seen there with regard to the government’s reactions post-Katrina has made her question me less.

Of course, one of the biggest gifts she gave me (and the one she’s proudest of) is that I ask lots of pointed questions – so I can’t really object to her questions of me!

Sandy Berger coming up on CNN WB’s Sit Room.

What was Youth With a Mission doing on September 11, 2001:

“Hooked”

September 2001
By the family of a YWAM member

A member of my family has been involved with YWAM for a number of years. This group targets kids who truly want to work for Christ, isolates them far from their families and home churches, and convinces them that they are “missionaries” doing important work for God.

Once people are hooked, YWAM then preys on them financially. The kids themselves have to raise the money to pay for their training and supposed mission work.

http://www.geocities.com/promo777/ywammap.htm

C&L has video of Chris Wallace on Fox News calling ABC 9/11 film “slanderous.”

http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..o-account/

Here’s some good news: Steve Clemons is reporting that Bolton’s nomination is DOA.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.c…..001632.php

I love Vegas, despite the fact that John Entwistle became one dead Ox there. I’m there every January or February. Last year I caught Elton John’s “The Red Piano” show. It was great. High camp and nothing but the hits, but great.

Today’s spin included five Who songs:

1) Won’t Get Fooled Again
2) Goin’ Mobile
3) Pure & Easy
4) Slip Kid
5) Dreaming From the Waist

Back to work.

scarecrow @ 57

Is there an appropriate song for this?

“Cafe Colao”
versions by Eddie Palmieri, Raphy Leavitt, Roberto y su Nuevo Montuno, etc.

or, for y’all rockers, “Hot Blooded”

Watertiger is in the house!

Ed*ard Teller says:
September 8th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

Do they sell door to door? (That seems to be the standard scam for 18-to-25-year-olds. I’ve seen magazines and perfume being sold that way, with mention of trips/prizes for meeting sales goals. With these people, I don’t know what they’d use as a pitch.)

new watertiger upstairs!

Rick DeVille: I was expecting the Bolton thing to be our drag out fight this week, before ABC popped up on the radar. The Bolton thing is a big won for our side, a big win.

Prof @ 67

And where did the $40 million come from, which is the cost of this dog?

That’s the part I’m most interested in. And I haven’t found any more yet than you already listed, though I keep looking.

The thing about YWMA sends chills up my spine, because their techniques of recruiting young people who really want to serve Christ, isolating them, indoctrinating them, having them do their own fundraising…all of that is a page out of Sun Myung Moon’s book. He did all that in the seventies and beyond. During the Watergate hearings, he had a large group of his followers on the steps of the Capitol building singing something about “The Generation of Righteousness” in support of Richard Nixon.

I have to admit I’m a (secret) Tom Jones fan. Yeah, what a voice. One of my faves is his version of “Tennessee Waltz” on the Chieftans album.

Also, “I (Who have Nothing).” Of course I might be biased as a friend wrote that one.

BTW “Viva Las Vegas” was written by Mort Schulman, who also wrote “Save the Last Dance for Me,” which was a hit both for the Drifters and EmmyLou.

Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 80

OT – The Roots Project is relaunching the SRP Newsweekly podcast in its beta phase episodes this Sunday and we need help from the public with a segment we are doing on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. We have setup our new blog which the podcast will be distributed from every Sunday at http://srpnewsweekly.wordpress.com and there you will find a thread about our effort to memorialize the anniversary by sharing your memories of 9/11 or your thoughts on the anniversary via our podcast.

At that blog you will find more info on how you can leave a message in our voicemail newstip line for inclusion in our podcast. Or you can leave a comment in the thread and one of our SRP News team members will read your comment as part of our segment.

Thanks for your help with this in advance and I look forward to hearing from you all about this. This is the first step we are taking to truly give voice to the netroots community, literally.

Right On Fini!!!

I think I just made a modest donation to the book endevour.
When I tried to print out the reciept, Firefox crashed. I’m pretty sure it went through though.
It’s not much, I’m still getting back on my feet from the little episode in July.
But even if it’s not much, it made me feel good. I have been coming here a long time now.I truly feel like it’s the very least I can do.
Hopefully I’ll get to do it again next week.

Morris Sheppard @ 94

I have to admit I’m a (secret) Tom Jones fan. Yeah, what a voice. One of my faves is his version of “Tennessee Waltz” on the Chieftans album.

Also, “I (Who have Nothing).” Of course I might be biased as a friend wrote that one.

BTW “Viva Las Vegas” was written by Mort Schulman, who also wrote “Save the Last Dance for Me,” which was a hit both for the Drifters and EmmyLou.

Thanks for coming out of your closet with your “secret”. Nothing to be ashamed of my friend. Tom is The Bomb

Donita, thanks for the list. Sadly, the Air website doesn’t have a “no flash” option, so nothing to see there. As for what I like to listen to on road trips, I guess just about anything that isn’t dominated by country music or christian propoganda works for me. Every once in a while, there’s even a classical station left out there in America.

Of course, you can’t go too far wrong with the Beach Boys, U2, or Dick Dale, either.

Sorry we hijacked this thing talking about some silly TV show.

Morris Sheppard at 95,
Oh boy, what a great song. I saw EmmyLou in concert in maybe 1980, and that was it for me. Hooked. Her voice brings tears to my eyes sometimes, it’s so pure.

mods, please fix my last comment. I went back to fix it, but the time had expired. Sorry.

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Margot @ 100

Morris Sheppard at 95,
Oh boy, what a great song. I saw EmmyLou in concert in maybe 1980, and that was it for me. Hooked. Her voice brings tears to my eyes sometimes, it’s so pure.

Yeah. I’ve had the honor of being around musicians when she’s sung and all of them, some pretty accomplished (and rather famous) in their own right, just stand in awe.

well i’m the oldest fogie on the internets, so i just now got into downloading music to my puter.

i’m getting into franz ferdinand and the killers just now. and hearing a commercial for the la county fair (where they will be appearing), i am reminded to start downloading some heart soon.

as the the spin i’m in, i just posted o superman by laurie anderson on my blog. the video holds up suprisingly well.

and here’s for all you tom jones fans:

guy walks into a doctor’s office, says, “doc, i keep hearing ‘the green green grass of home’ in my head.”

doctor says, “you’ve got tom jones-itis.”

guy says “is that normal?”

doctor says “it’s not unuusal.”

goodnight, folks, be sure to tip your waitresses!

.

.

skippy @ 106

and here’s for all you tom jones fans:

guy walks into a doctor’s office, says, “doc, i keep hearing ‘the green green grass of home’ in my head.”

doctor says, “you’ve got tom jones-itis.”

guy says “is that normal?”

doctor says “it’s not unuusal.”

goodnight, folks, be sure to tip your waitresses!
.

Ouch!

Ooops. Let me try that again

Nevermind. I didn’t capture the link properly.

scory @
34

Millineryman @ 27

Thanks for that Tom Jones link.

Here here is with The Cardigans covering Burning Down the House. I found musical version on an iMix and it’s really become a favorite. So glad to find the video to match. It’s like a set of ear rings, but not really you know.

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

Wow, that’s a cover I never imagined! Even stranger than the TJ cover of Prince’s “Kiss.”

Oh, man, I love his cover of “Kiss”! And thanks, Donita for the faboo and trippy video. You too, Millineryman. Boy, sometimes Tom can just really pick the material.

Got fond memories of my last trip to Burning Man a few years ago. The “bar” in our neighborhood was “The Tom Jones Panty Lounge and Instant Intimacy Spot.” Free drinks from our amiable (female) bartender if you contributed lingerie to the decor. TJ on the sound system. Good times, good times.

Pachacutec @
93

Rick DeVille: I was expecting the Bolton thing to be our drag out fight this week, before ABC popped up on the radar. The Bolton thing is a big won for our side, a big win.

Agree strongly on both ABC and Bolton. It’s been a busy week. Although I can’t recall you and I ever having a drag-out fight. Am I missing something? And if we keep agreeing on stuff, it would be pointless to schedule one.

I’m gonna go play some guitar now.

You’ve got to have this Vegas song on any list:

“Ooh Las Vegas”, by Gram Parsons.

“the first time i lose i drink whiskey / second time i lose i drink gin

third time i lose i drink anything / ‘cuz i think i’m gonnna win!”

good luck!