This is to my brother, whose cell-phone is off while he drums his way across Europe with The Lowlows.
Talk
Oh brother I can't, I can't get through I've been trying hard to reach you, cause I don't know what to do Oh brother I can't believe it's true I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you Oh I wanna talk to you You can take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You can climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody has sung Or do something that's never been done Are you lost or incomplete? Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece? Tell me how do you feel? Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak And they're talking it to me So you take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You can climb a ladder up to the sun Or a write a song nobody has sung Or do something that's never been done Do something that's never been done So you don't know were you're going, and you wanna talk And you feel like you're going where you've been before You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored Nothing's really making any sense at all Let's talk, let's ta-a-alk Let's talk, let's ta-a-alk
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Smells like cut and run to me.
-GSD
TRex!!!
While the Repugs look for somebody to blame for this election result, why don’t they blame THIS on Clinton? I do.
Howard Dean cures Electile Dysfunction.
God, the guitars sound AMAZING in this song.
Does anybody but me recognize the Kraftwerk riff?
mutzali @
3
The Bush family needs him onside to keep the little something something that they’ve been up to on the down low.
You know…Plunder, Pardons, Paraguay…Wouldn’t do to spill the beans and get the common folk all riled up.
;>)
TeddySanFran @ 190
TRex @
5
It’s the primary reason I can’t bring myself to listen to it… the blatant kraftwerk riff just turns me off… I’ll just put on Computer World.
GSD @
1
Good catch, GSD. Smells that way from here too.
Sorry for trashing your place once again, TRex, but I did keep my promise to stash the most important but also most divisive issue in serious American politics until after the election.
Please remember, folks. I hang out with lots of young voters. I teach almost 500 of them per year. They WILL show up for a political party which seriously addresses renewable energy, climate change, environmental degradation and rational Mideast policies.
nite…
TeddySanFran @ 7
We love you, too, Teddy.
TeddySanFran @ 7
No honest, decent person should be demeaned by his or her own government. Period.
pretty good song, but that robot is lame…
EPU’d, sorry for the longishness:
William Rivers Pitt at truthout.com takes the long view -
Laundry’s in, dishwasher’s set to run, cat are in, out, in , out. Nite ‘pups. Here’s something to be calm by, nothing much to look at but it sounds lovely.
punaise @ 12
I keep forgetting to watch the whole video. I love singing this one so much…
TRex @ 15
nice shout-out to your bro
Especially when said government lives in a glass house.
I miss him.
EPU but you know I would hate anything to happen to her
The great thing about my brother is that we have always, always, always respected each other as artists. Even when we argue (which is about once every five or six years whether we need to or not.), we still have the utmost respect and admiration for each other. He always has encouraged me as an artist and I like to think I have done the same for him.
SusanD @ 17
I suffer some amazement that I would even have to reiterate something like that at this point in our history. That one would have to say that, today, is a sad commentary on how little we’ve progressed in a century or so.
And then there’s the fact that it was my brother who turned me on to Kraftwerk and poly-rhythms and hip hop and computers. So, this song has special relevance.
TRex @ 22
well, thank $deity for the computer portion of that!
montag, I share your dismay. I have been horrified to see how Bush and crew have encouraged hatred and division, and even more horrified to see how eagerly so many people joined in.
And TRex, thanks for introducing me to ratatat. I’d never heard them until you put up “Wildcat”. I *really* like them.
SusanD @ 24
I mentioned that I liked them to someone over the weekend and they said, “Oh, you’re just so hip and cool, aren’t you? You know they’re the first rock band ever to play at the Guggenheim museum?”
Uh, no, actually, I didn’t know that.
And I didn’t realize that we’re, like, sooooo hip and cool for knowing about them.
Howie Kurtz appears to have discovered something he’d like to share:
President’s Evasion Raises Truth Issues
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01817.html
TeddySanFran @ 26
Dawn breaks on Marblehead.
SusanD @ 17
Or in Kennikins case, a glass closet.
I’m going to take my *totally* hip and cool self to bed in my nice new Blue Ohio.
Night all.
“I’m so scared about the future and I wanna talk”
Me too.
“On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that six nations had given notification of their intention to pursue nuclear programs, the Times (UK) reports: Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.”
Armagideon Time: Bush’s Nuclear Folly and the National Security Lie
Bush unsigned the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and ignores the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Bush wants new nukes. Israel, Pakistan, India are non-signers of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel is thought to have hundreds of WMDs and missles. This is what keeps the neighbours out. India and Pakistan are getting a lot of nuclear help from the Bush administration. Documents were made available on line (by the Bush administration) that described in detail Saddam’s pre-1991 WMD research (in Arabic). Makes things a bit easier for anyone building WMDs.
This is going to be hard to fix. Where do we start?
I remember my tremendous relief when I first heard that the Berlin Wall was coming down. Maybe we weren’t going to blow ourselves up after all. I hoped that the M.A.D. nightmare was over. Now I’m not so sure.
Arnold had no coattails Tuesday; we elected a Democratic Secretary of State, Lt. Governor, Treasurer, and Attorney General (whose last name is Moonbeam!). Only the Insurance Commissioner is a GOPer, and he’s a technocrat multimillionaire who wants to use GPS technology to track child predators, or something.
SecState-elect Deborah Bowen is first and foremost committed to paper-trail voting.
We start by making the world a better place.
Only the Insurance Commissioner is a GOPer, and he’s a technocrat multimillionaire who wants to use GPS technology to track child predators, or something.
But I’m quite upset that our state voted for that atrocity of a bill. “For the children” should have it’s limits, and this has crossed WAY over the line. IMO you do the crime, you do the time, you’re done, you served your punishment.
A permanent inability to live wherever you want and to be tracked in perpetuity by a govt issued GPS lojack once you’re let out of jail, it’s a complete travesty of justice, no matter how horrible the crime.
fixed, reload if you got messed up… sorry.
TeddySanFran @ 31
Susan Kennedy is just a terrific political operative. To rescue Ahnold’s chestnuts after last year is a real feat. And Phil was no challenge. The Dems put up another hack, and we got our money’s worth.
TRex @ 11:23 pm (#27)
Evasion, eshmasion. All sports fans know that when the owner talks about what a fine job the coach is doing, the guy’s about three days from spending the rest of the season on his porch.
California state Democratic politics absolutely baffles me, which probably means (to follow dear Rayne’s example in Michigan) I’ll have to get deeply involved in order to understand (and then fix) it.
Here’s another gorgeous melody.
TRex @ 32
I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war. I worked on renovating South End Boston row houses for low-income families. I hoped that helped make the world a better place. In that ghetto I was stabbed, robbed, shot at, and from my vantage point of roofing work – witnessed a couple of murders.
I worked with food co-ops and food banks on both coasts and in Detroit too.
I’ve taught martial arts to people who wanted to defend themselves against riot police (defensive stuff mostly).
I build harpsichords (which I hope makes the world maybe a little better sounding).
None of this seems like very much really.
It seems that we can do some good here. We can watch the politicians – maybe keep them a little bit more honest and accountable. It was fun to get involved with the election. Many people helped make it easier to do with advice and donation sites and what actions to take locally and MoveOn’s calling program.
I’ll stay tuned and be inspired.
thanks all
TeddySanFran @ 37
Me, too. When’s the last time CA Dems put up a really strong candidate for Gov? Bradley? Kath Brown? Davis? Phil? Garamendi?
Actually it may be Gavin before long, and he can win.
The battle of the mayors (LA and SF) may be our next gubernatorial primary.
Night, y’all.
Be well.
TeddySanFran @ 41
I’d like to get Jackie Speier into that race, too. Very smart lady, balls of a lion, and a compelling story. Very Lib.
Oh yes, I was sorry to see Speier lose her Lt.Gov race, I hope she continues — very pro-consumer and the bane of MBNA. CA seems so “up or out” — all this musical chairs, but if they lose at one stage, their way seems blocked. Altho Cruz’s unlamented loss this time should open the way for someone, maybe Jackie, maybe Mark Leno.
Not sure I know enough about any CA mayoralty as a job to know whether it prepares one to be a Governator.
bdu @ 33:
I am 100 percent on your side on this issue, but don’t ever underestimate how emotional some otherwise rational people can get on the subject of how we treat sex offenders.
You should hear my wife on this subject … she would gladly give Osama a jury trial and the best defense counsel money can buy, but just don’t even get her started on the guy who rapes a 9-year-old. She’d give him the same treatment that Mel Gibson’s character got at the end of Braveheart. Twice. Then burn his remains and bury the ashes under the jail. In her world view, child molesters are much, much worse than cop killers. And news flash: hers is the majority view.
punaise @
13
It’s the Nixon Zombies. Even after this generation’s are dead and gone, they will keep coming back. There are college Republicans out there now who are 2025’s Karl Roves and Jack Abramoffs.
Eternal vigilance.
Mornin’ to all & a good day it is………doesn’t the sky look a little bluer whatever your weather may be? Kinda what I’d describe as a “passing fair” take-out-the-trash
WEEK……naaaaaa……make that SIX YEARS.Some blogger made a wonderful funny – “Burns & Allen…..back together again.”
Good morning, everyone. Today’s NYT columnists, from behind the firewall:
http://select.nytimes.com/2006…..amp;emc=th
Judith Warner, guest columnist, “The Family-Friendly Congress?”
http://select.nytimes.com/2006…..amp;emc=th
Thomas Friedman, “China: Scapegoat or Sputnik?”
http://select.nytimes.com/2006…..amp;emc=th
Paul Krugman, “The Great Revulsion”
c&l has a great clip of dumbsfeld getting asked to grade himself
he makes believehe’s scratching his nose with his middle finger.
and THAT is where we are, someone so crass to think he can get away with that and make believe he was scratching his nose
here’s your choice dumbsfeld;
either you are too yellow to give the finger out right
or you are so unsophisticated and so bass you actually didn’t realize what you were doing
so dumbsfeld, take your pick which you want to claim
TRex @ 5
When I first heard this song on the radio, I almost fell out of my chair. That melody is burned into my brain.
perris @ 49
Perris -
When I first saw that on teevee I thought maybe it was imagination…….but no, rummy really is that stupid . and crass . & every other nasty descriptor you can think of. “Oh my goodness, yes.”
okay, I gotta get on making the Rising Hegemon After Dark Calendar available for purchase, if TRex is an admirer!
and since i’m still shaking off the disbelief from Tuesday, can I just say: Wooo, I saw TRex and Christy on the teebee!
watertiger — can I pre-order?
jane,
Heh. Oh, you betcha!
btw, i got a freaky email from Steve O. What are the odds that Lieberman’s main opponent got the same number of votes in 2000 and 2006?
The NYTimes stuff has been free this week. May be still. Wouldn’t it be nice if they had a sponsor every week?
Maybe the CT ACLU should sue for a recount.
And, Memo to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid:
Re: Dumbya
The truth is not in him. He chooses to lie when the truth would serve us better.
What finally reduced me to the tears of utter relief, insecure hope and joy was hearing yesterday on some Golden Oldies channel,the somewhat corny Billy Jack song, One Tin Soldier Rides Away.
Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end
There won’t be any trumpets blowin’ come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away.
And then there was this from Garrison Keilor on Salon:
People still care deeply about our government, despite every invitation to disillusionment. This is the astonishment. For my generation, the first big blow was the failure of Washington to get to the truth about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and then its inability to change a disastrous course in Vietnam. You stand at the majestic polished wall with the 57,000 names on it, and you look across the river to Arlington, and here, within one mile, are two enormous aching sorrows, and a mile behind you is the U.S. Supreme Court, which threw the election of 2000. Some people killed our president and got away with it; men were shipped off to die in a lousy war promulgated by Democrats afraid to be called weak on communism; and an election was stolen in broad daylight, no protest. And yet we still stroll down to the church and cast our ballots. We live on hope.
‘Morning, gang. Under the gun with a deadline today, won’t be able to hang out.
Still trying to come to terms with the massive shift this week, a sea change in every sense. Feel like a too-long battered child, waiting for the next blow, in spite of conscious awareness that there won’t be one.
Going to take a while to heal the unconscious after 6-plus years of damage. Like the image of that screaming harpy who got in my face and spat at me that I was a baby-killer back in 2004, after a Bush rally…that harpy is still out there, even if I know she’s powerless to do anything now. How do I purge the memory and the knowledge she and her kind are still there?
We’re going to need mass therapy. At least I can get some of it here at the Lake.
I think I have a solution to Rahm Emanuel the guy relies on Mayor Daley’s troops to get elected so unless Fitz takes out Daley he’s untouchable right? Unless we find someone who doesn’t like Daley and has his own election troops, enter Alderman Mell of Chicago father in Law of Rod Blagoevich the Governor of Illinios. His other daughter Deborah is a lesbian activist who was once arrested for misdeameanor battery on a plainclothes Cop! at a same sex marrige rally. She keeps trying to lobby her brother in law to support same sex marriage which isn’t working. So maybe we can convince her she could do more as a congresswoman! Deborah lives last I heard in the 44th ward which is split between Rahm Emanuel’s district and someone else’s. Lets see Rahm make light of the net roots when we target him! Plus brother inlaw Rod might want our friendship he is rumored to want the presidency himself. The only problem is that Illinois politics are so corrupt that ald mell, rod, rahm are all probably being investigated for something Deborah Mell though is likly clean as she is out of politics. Still getting Rahm would send the center Dems a message about how we roll the Chicago Way. (Sean Connery in the Untouchables rules!)
Rayne @
60
Well, it hasn’t changed the media talking points, if NPR is any judge: Democrats have a wafer-thin majority, they’re the ones responsible now, the high independent voter turnout means that John McCain is the leading ‘08 contender, John Kerry’s “gaffe” means it’s Hillary as the Dem ‘08 candidate.
Morning Rayne, all,
Yeah, busy day here to. Feel lots better about things, though. And I find housework very therapeutic.
A quick question: I saw a few reports of vote counting irregularities on Wed, then nada. Did everything actually go OK? BBV was watching, I know, but cards seem very close to chest. Any word?
Morning All,
It’s a very good morning in central New Jersey. Three cheers for Rutgers for a wonderful win against Louisville last night, from a very happy alum.
Coffee is ready. Help yourselves.
Work for peace, every day.
Speaking of taking a picture…
…this really got to me last night:
http://www.ykosfdl.blogspot.com/
THX to NED and all the ‘HEADS’ ~ PEACE!
Florida 13th (Katherine Harris’s old seat) is going into recount. R leads by 300 votes in a race that suspiciously blanked on 1 of every 8 votes cast. Hugely suspicious undervote.
new thread
So we won this election. I’m delighted and happy,but obviously much work lies ahead.
I may get slammed for this(umm,wouldn’t be the first time,lol)but I was wondering about The South. As I’ve travelled around the blogosphere lately,I’m hearing alot of”fuck the south”stuff coming from the liberal side of things. I still feel on the outside looking in.
Umm,what about progressives who actually LIVE here? I’m not whining,nor am I defending the South,if I could leave and find a job worth leaving for,I’d pack up my family and we’d be outta here as soon as we could sell our house.
I’m not a GA native,I moved here about 20 yrs ago when factory jobs up north began dying out,I’m a blue collar gal who couldn’t afford to go to college. I brought my liberal politics and attitudes with me. In the Atlanta metro,there are MANY transplants from other part of the country(our Hispanic community is growing by leaps and bounds too). You can go for awhile in these parts and not meet anyone who was born and raised here.Lots of folks came here from up north when the auto industry took a dump in places like Ohio and Michigan. A fair number of us are by no means conservative voters.
I moved here for work,stayed because I could afford to live here and buy a home. I was only vaguely aware of politics at that time,and GA politics are a indeed quite a mess.
This won’t change until some investments are made by some sort of Dem/Progressive inroads. Right now I feel written off by my own party,like if I wanna do something constructive to help us win I have to support people who I can’t vote for in other states. My Dem challenger to the incumbant Repub for the House was a great candidate,but he was way out of his league,no money for TV ads,no visibility. He still got 30 percent of the votes without publicity,he might have had a shot at things with some investment by the Party.
I don’t know what the answer is,but if progressive politics and that whole machine won’t set foot outside of Atlanta itself(which is rather blue leaning mostly and therefore a safe bet),then how can we change anything? I know it’s considered a waste of resources to invest here politically,but it kind of leaves a true Wellstonian progressive like myself hanging and feeling abandoned. It’s very disheartening.
watertiger 61 — yeah, I caught that about NPR, what with their crap interview with Jim Webb.
Clock’s ticking. CPB is going to be hosed out, and NPR will get reformed. Could be done as part of a return to the Fairness Doctrine, which has broad popular support.
It’s a matter time; if we do a good job for Charlie Brown when the Doolittle shoe drops, we will continue to increase our majority, and increase our leverage.
The chit we have with Lieberman is his seniority; it’s the asset other than Lieberman’s vote that is most important to the Repugs. Reid would do well to regularly threaten to yank the seniority and committees if Lieberman doesn’t caucus with the Dems.
I also think it’s time to revisit Rule 21, invoked by Reid late 2005, if 109th reconvenes to cram through some of Bush’s dirty work before the 110th is seated. Harry needs to remind the 109th that they never satisfactorily answered the public’s questions after the last time he invoked the rule.
Maybe that’s a positive I can take away from the last six years: I’ve learned how to fight back, I’ve acquired some verbal and operational tools to do so. let the healing begin.
AOB,
I get the same feeling every time I visit my mother in SC. She and Dad moved there in 1987, one last transfer for Dad, with a company that moved from the Rust Belt to the south in the early 80s. There are lots of northern transplants in the south, but progressives only seem to achieve critical mass in a few communities, like Raleigh or Asheville in NC. Everywhere else, they’re outnumbered.
Just thinkin’ out loud, maybe the answer is in the netroots. Finding one another through MeetUp, DFA, etc., and working together to build coalitions for local campaigns. But you don’t have many natural allies, since everywhere it’s “right to work” and few if any labor unions. I’ll think on it some more. It’s a conversation we need to have. I want a 50-state party.