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I hate headcolds. Anyway, hope you all are having a good harvest. Here's some planting of the seeds of the future, yesterday, muscially speaking:
I also love the next two songs/numbers in this movie, but I figured one race-traitor lo-fi offering was enough for one night.
... keep the heat on!
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United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
-- Bob Somerby
The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
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* Medicare For All.
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Marine slang: A clusterfuck was any group of Marines big enough to draw enemy fire, or several Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round. More generically, a clusterfuck was something that was all screwed up, i.e. "That blocking operation was a giant clusterfuck!" Whenever three or more CAP Marines gathered in the open, talking or working on something, somebody was sure to call out "clusterfuck!" and one or more guys would walk away. (Capmarine.com)
Clearly, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is "all screwed up"; that makes it a clusterfuck by definition. However, the term is even more a propos. Tactically, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is a clusterfuck. The analogy to "Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round" is clear. In Vietnam, "in the open" meant being exposed in the rice paddies or jungles. In Iraq, "in the open" means (1) urban warfare where (2) troops (and contractors) must be supplied by trucks which (3) are not armored thereby making them vulnerable to (4) the "incoming rounds" of IEDs placed along the roadside. Nice work, Inerrant Boy. (And the resonance to the words of Matthew 18:19, "wherever two or three are gathered together," is heartbreaking.) NOTE: A tip of the Ol' Corrente Hat to the man in the grey turtleneck for mainstreaming the word "clusterfuck" when applied to Bush's war of choice in Iraq.
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god I hated that movie....
...Forman stripped the show of its immediacy and vitality... and his editing of the Twarp's dance numbers was simply criminal.
Tharp did the choreography for Hair?
You're kidding!
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Tharp's "Hair"
She choreographed the movie but not the stage performance that opened in 1968 on Broadway, which was so awesome it still brings tears to my eyes to remember it.
nell!
i love this song!
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true story about sodomy for paul
(who is impossible to please. do you like anything, my friend?)
so i had no idea about what this movie/musical 'meant' and i was just happy that someone finally put video to one of my parents records. i grew up listening to stuff from the era of the original and came to memorize the words to a lot of songs of which i had no concept of what they were about. one year, mom and dad sent me and sis away to summer camp. during one of those sit around the fire let's all sing a song type activities, my sister was asked to pick a song. being younger and more interested in being a smart ass, she picked this one:
those poor camp counselors, they hardly knew what to say...
It isn’t always black or white
Mocha people need loving too…
Phil Spector wrote this song with Jerry Leiber, and it was produced by Leiber and Mike Stoller while Spector was allowed a strong hand in the composition. It was his first attempt at layering tracks, and is the Genesis event for what would become the “Wall of Sound”. Odd as it seems now, the lyrics were considered scandalous and radio stations all over the country refused to play it; anti-miscegenation laws were still in effect in those days. It was Bobby Kennedy’s favorite pop song; he would hum it in odd moments. Funny that just came to me; strange how little memories will return after being lost for years.
now *there* is a series of posts, BIO
how has this election changed the tone, haw, of our discussion about the 'priority of race?' has obama eclipsed all other racial icons, making every conversation about race relations "his" conversation? ok, that's not meant to start a flame war, the issue is actually bigger than just t/his race (oh, god somebody stop me).
but seriously: once again america has reduced an important issue into A vs. B, killing nuance, oversimplifying the diverse nature of the problem, silencing other voices. the latin community is, forgive me, kicking the black community's ass these days, in terms of producing vocal progressives. i could be wrong in that last, but that's my impression. what do "other others" expect from an obama admin, and what does his presidency mean for their futures? that's a conversation we should have more here.
You first
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