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For over 40 years, American songwriter John Prine has used succinct lyrics and simple, almost nursery rhyme melodies to paint biographical vignettes of ordinary people in a way that speaks to larger truths. From Prine’s eponymous first album, released in 1971, here’s the poignant Hello In There.
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  4. Those of you Canadians outside of the Vancouver-Victoria area frequently laugh at what major “wooses” those of us in Southwestern B.C. are. And rightfully so.
    But the past 24 hours we had a major dump of snow which has transformed the appearance of the city somewhat. I put together this video that I think you’ll enjoy!

  9. Nice song and video, but a little too much mirror like. Good riddance Danny, how about sending some of those billions back out west? We certainly sent billions out there.

  10. “Good riddance Danny, how about sending some of those billions back out west? We certainly sent billions out there.”
    Yes, agreed!

  15. Bacardi Breezer at November 25, 2010 11:59 PM
    Too bad she didn’t work in ‘Navy corpseman (twice) and my Muslim faith’.

  17. Thanks EBD. Fell in love with John Prine’s music in college, but I hadn’t seen the video before. Just what it should be.

  18. I think the highlight of Prine’s first album was ‘Sam Stone’.
    Morose, sure, but the lines ‘There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes’ and
    ‘Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios’ still stick in my mind 40 years after first hearing them.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9ZkYViEIs

  19. Hi-ho silver, Tonto.
    Ughold, Kemo Sabay.
    “You cannot find a bank safe deposit box in Germany because every single one has already been taken and stuffed with gold and silver.”
    The flight from Socialism.
    …-
    “EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself
    The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union.”
    “Credit default swaps (CDS) measuring risk on German, French and Dutch bonds have surged over recent days, rising significantly above the levels of non-EMU states in Scandinavia.
    “Germany cannot keep paying for bail-outs without going bankrupt itself,” said Professor Wilhelm Hankel, of Frankfurt University. “This is frightening people. You cannot find a bank safe deposit box in Germany because every single one has already been taken and stuffed with gold and silver. It is like an underground Switzerland within our borders. People have terrible memories of 1948 and 1923 when they lost their savings.”
    The refrain was picked up this week by German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. “We’re not swimming in money, we’re drowning in debts,” he told the Bundestag.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8160999/EU-rescue-costs-start-to-threaten-Germany-itself.html

  20. Sean @ 10:23 p.m. beat me to it: Great speech by Nigel Farage, a one-man Euroweenie Opposition. A full-scale gale of fresh air, this guy …
    ‘Feeling better, EBD? I hope so!

  21. Bacardi Breezer. if you read her total comment you would realize the MSM are grabbing at straws as she had mentiond N. Korea as the bad guy several times before she miss spoke.
    That being said almost anyone who wants to be in the public eye better not miss speak because they will be roasted by their detractors,(MSM).
    Obviousley Obama is the exception.

  27. Thought For The Day
    “work is one of the most fundamental aspects in a person’s life, providing the individual with a means of financial support and, as importantly, a contributory role in society. A person’s employment is an essential component of his or her sense of identity, self-worth and emotional well-being. Accordingly, the conditions in which a person works are highly significant in shaping the whole compendium of psychological, emotional and physical elements of a person’s dignity and self-respect.’ – Brian Dickson
    Have gr8 day wherever you work.

  29. Thanks EBD!
    YES, Louise. Dear Abby was one of my favourites too. I was a huge Prine fan in the 70s and finger-picked just like that on a Martin D28 which alas! I must dig out of the attic after 20 years of banishment.
    What a beautiful admonition for us all, to say Hello In There.
    This is something I resolved to do a while back after observing the joyful surprise of an oldster whom I greeted while jogging.

  30. The Coles Notes version:
    Daniel Johnson, George Soros
    Few tycoons have such an aura of omnipotence and omniscience as George Soros. Still best known in Britain as “the man who broke the Bank of England” on Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992), when sterling was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, Soros is also fêted for pumping billions into Eastern Europe before and after 1989. Now 80, the Hungarian-American financier shows no sign of flagging in his frenetic drive to give away a fortune estimated at $14 billion. The Soros myth is fuelled by a steady stream of bestselling books and articles in liberal journals such as the New York Review of Books.
    There is, however, a darker side to George Soros: he has a domestic agenda in the US that not only helped to put Obama into the White House but filled the administration with radical Soros supporters; a global political agenda which treats America and Israel as the main threats to peace; and a social agenda of drug legalisation, abortion and euthanasia. To describe Soros’s agenda, which has so far cost more than $7 billion, as utopian would be no exaggeration….

  31. If you can’t get enough of Bhagwan Barack:
    John Bolton, Decision Time for Barack Obama
    Now that 2010’s voters have spoken, what will Obama, the first post-American President, do in the next two years? Are they his final two, as he heads towards a Jimmy Carter-like place in history? Or, in 2012, can he “do a Clinton” and win another term? Obama’s choice between alternative paradigms is entirely in his hands….

  33. Thanks, Ken, batb, and others, I am feeling better. I was just suddenly flattened with an almost hallucinating fever, and I couldn’t keep *anything* down – even a sip of water made me hurl. I finally managed to eat a half a banana last night (as per batb’s advice) without puking, and this morning I had some toast and tea and a bit of a hard-boiled egg, so I’m definitely on the upswing.
    Yikes. The last time anything like this happened was in January of 1982 – I rarely even get a cold – so I’m actually pretty lucky.

  35. I find EBD that the longer you go between such incidents the harder they hit you.
    Or, perhaps the perpetually sick folk are just that much tougher, and we’re wimps.

  36. Obama gets a fat lip. 12 stitches?
    Posted by: U at November 26, 2010 3:06 PM
    I once kissed a chain saw and received 72 micro stitches to close a 2″ wound on my nose and upper lip. BooHoo not much of a gash. Wouldn’t want the pansy on my team. A scar is a tattoo with a better story, and in this case, not much of a story.

  38. Obama gets a fat lip. 12 stitches?
    Posted by: U at November 26, 2010 3:06 PM
    I once kissed a chain saw and received 72 micro stitches to close a 2″ wound on my nose and upper lip. BooHoo not much of a gash. Wouldn’t want the pansy on my team. A scar is a tattoo with a better story, and in this case, not much of a story.

  39. bruce wayne riley The best comment I saw was a wag stating it is one stitch for each tribe of Israel.

  40. John Prine is actually of Dutch ancestry. I worked with his cousin who still spells his name the old way, Pruyn (pronounced the same though).
    FYI, for want of nothing.

  48. beagle – I want him dropped from the Biden ticket, dragged out of office in disgrace, and to have many years during which to contemplate watching the fruits of his wretched presidency go down in flames. You think anyone on the right wants him to turned into a martyr? Yeesh.

  49. thanx Kate, brought the same feeling that I would get every time i read the munch book “I love you forever” to my boys.

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