In 1985 LA-based songwriter/composer Randy Newman discovered that he was seemingly the only singer/celebrity on earth who hadn’t been invited to the We Are The World recording session. Miffed by the snub, (or so his wry anecdote goes), he endeavoured to write a truly universal song, one that people of every creed and colour in every nation on earth could relate to. Darned if he didn’t do it, too: from a live performance in Germany, here’s I Want You To Hurt Like I Do.
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MSNBC analyst Karen Finney:
“I would love to see the DNC or somebody follow up with a ‘Here’s what life under the Romney-Ryan plan would be like for Julia’. Because I tell you what, she’d be in the grave by her mid-30s, I can almost assure you.”
The children are our future:
“A Rule Is To Break: A Child’s Guide To Anarchy [Paperback]” by John Seven and Jana Christy.
Bill Ayers:
You know, it’s really too bad about Kent State. That they stopped shooting when they did, I mean.
The original “occupy” movement also had a radical alternative to capitalism – genocide. Here in a stunning revelation by a weatherman underground infiltrator are the plans for America which Obama’s Mentor Bill Ayers espoused. Bill and his communist radicals were sponsored by the KGB through the Cuban secret service – yes there are Canadian tie-ins here with the FLQ and Cuban embassy in Montreal.
Among the weathermen central committee plans “once they controlled government” was to allow Chinese, Russian and Cuban troops to Invade the US and round up anyone who resisted communism ( an estimated 25 million) to be put into “re-education camps” and liquidate them if they still resisted – an American version of the killing fields.
This is Obama’s mentor. Remember all the times he has said “now we control government” echoing the weathermen manifesto. Remember Obama passed an executive order called the NDAA which unconstitutionally negated posse comitatus and habeas corpus – this allows the president to mobilize the military as law enforcement and to arbitrarily detain any American citizen without warrant, indefinitely, without charges. Are the connections with BO, Bill Ayres, Alinskiism, Acorn, Occupy and unconstitutional presidential authorizations of martial law and detention starting to make sense to you?
The whole chilling reality is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VlN2t0oERHk
An overview here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_hPDpOVTE
David Brooks (NYT) wonders what will happen to Universities now that on-line education has taken off.
I hope he meant the following to be tongue in cheek.
[ If a few star professors can lecture to millions, what happens to the rest of the faculty? Will academic standards be as rigorous? What happens to the students who don’t have enough intrinsic motivation to stay glued to their laptop hour after hour? How much communication is lost — gesture, mood, eye contact — when you are not actually in a room with a passionate teacher and students? ] DB
mmmm, like, maybe they will get a real job?
As rigorous ?? Ha ha ha ha.
No intrinsic motivation to study?? How about real work then?
Eliminate the passionate teacher? Such as Suzuki?
Passionate students?? Like the ones throwing rocks in Quebec?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/opinion/brooks-the-campus-tsunami.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Has that principal in Halifax who suspended the grade 12 student for wearing this T-Shirt been disciplined yet? Just heard about it now.
Russ Robert at Cafe Hayek, after referencing an essay on the Curley Effect (“the idea that it is in the interest of politicians to pursue policies that punish those who don’t vote for them”), writes:
“It reminded me of a recent conversation I had with a very nice woman sitting next to me on a flight to California. We were talking about California’s fiscal problems and she suggested that the state should raise taxes on the rich. I pointed out that a lot of people had left California for lower-tax states like Nevada and Arizona and that raising taxes would encourage even more people to leave. Her reply was ‘Good riddance! Let them go!’”
Gee, it’s almost as if the left has no idea where all that money they spend on social programs, high-speed rail, safe-injection sites, windfarms, environmental regulations, etc., etc., etc., comes from.
Wingwalker (11:07), an onscreen blurb on Sun News said that the student is now allowed to wear the T-shirt, but I don’t have any further details.
There you again, EB; hauling out another of my favourites from the days when Mr. Newman was less Progressive.
It was always a peculiar thing to me how Germans really dug his stuff. He even married one of ’em.
A lifetime ago, I caught him at a “coffee house”concert at which Jim Croce opened up. Jeez.
Thanks for the memories, sir.
Here’s something to ponder.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/297214/progressive-rock-conservative-jonah-goldberg#comment-563338
EBD(ick):
You know, it’s really too bad about Kent State. That they stopped shooting when they did, I mean.
yeah, what the hell were Bill Knox, 19, and Sandra Scheur, 20, thinking as they walked from one class to another, over 100 yards away from the Guardsmen? I mean, they had schoolbooks and everything – how much more provocative could they have been? Got what they deserved, right, EBD?
And that Jane Creba, 14, who was shot in downtown Toronto – what the hell was she doing there? She was just asking for it. Shoulda stayed home where it’s safe, eh, EBD?
What an incredibly fatuous comment.
You’re very welcome, Mal, glad you like it too.
I don’t find Newman to be that political, at least not in the overtly partisan, retail politics way. Some of his older songs certainly trade in some traditionally Democrat shibboleths – like racism in the deep South – but in his interviews (at least, all the ones I’ve read), and in concert (I’ve seen him maybe four or five times), and in the bio at his site, he seems to more or less eschew politics. I assume he’s probably an old-fashioned Democrat, but I’ve ever heard him condemn or tout any particular political party.
“A Few Words In Defense of Our Country”, which is maybe his most overtly political song, takes a few gentle (and non-specific) pokes here and there, but it’s en route to a pretty balanced and sane (if elegiac) long-term perspective about America, including its politics.
Uh-oh, Kevin B.’s having a “tilting-at-tongue-in-cheek-quips” moment.
It’ll pass by about noon tomorrow.
Julia’s brother: The Life of Brian.
8 Years Old:
Photos from May 2nd Occupy Chicago demo. I was a bit taken aback by the Stalin flag. I mean, guys…
http://www.libertynews.com/2012/05/03/occupy-chicago-may-day-march-pics-you-wont-see-in-the-establishment-media/
Black Mamba, when you scratch the surface there’s always that romance, even in bejewelled, chateau-leftists like Lillian Hellman.
If there’s one good thing about BO’s presidency, it’s that more conservatives are finally waking up to it.
Ooops! The settled science is wrong again.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/greenland-glaciers-may-melt-slower-thought-study-174357840.html
Despite admitting that they really don’t have a clue what’s going on, they just can’t admit that previous estimates were wrong. So they speculate that the glaciers could speed up at any time.
EBD and Black Mamba, Moynihan does a great review of the Alice Kessler-Harris book on Lillian Hellman. The number of people that have been deluded over the decades by the Potemkin vision of a utopian “new man” is endless and they are still with us today in great abundance.
Take for example the guest Marianne Meed Ward had on today together with David Menzies. Ms. Meed Ward said that communism was misapplied or misinterpreted and that there are good aspects of the ideology.
In an email to Michael I suggested that sort of thinking is seriously deluded and that Marxist communism was applied exactly as intended, as was Hitlerian Marxism.
The seeds of today’s anarchy in North America were planted during the years the Kent incident took place. I thought that comment might go over some.
correction: I should have said the guest Michael Coren had on today.
Based on the exchange that took place on Michael Coren’s show, I would suggest that Bill Ayers’ peers in Canada did a great job of brainwashing their students.
Silly me, that would have been a May 1st demo, now wouldn’t it? (Is “demo” the word I want? “Gathering”? “Rally”? “Public defecation event?” Anyway.)
Welcome back to Canada Conrad Black!
Now if Mark Steyn and Patrick Muttart would follow suit and return to the land of their birth, what a wonderful conservative influence on Canada that would be, eh?
Three of the sharpest conservative voices all abandoned Canada.
Thank goodness Kate McMillan remained and created “Small Dead Animals” Canada’s conservative lynchpin!
Ich Bin Ein Green Haus Flop.
Vorwarts mit der Red-Green Flop Haus.
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“Germany’s $3-Million “Energy-Efficient Test Home Of The Future” Flops”
“The European Institute for Climate and Energy takes a look at how Germany’s experimental taxpayer-paid “energy-efficient home” is doing. The home is a project by the German Federal Ministry for Transportation, Construction and Urban Development (BMVBS). As you can see, it leaves little to be desired aesthetically.”
“The ugly-duckling energy self-sustainable home that isn’t. Erected in Berlin. Price tag: € 2.2 million”
“The energy efficiency home – the latest act of foolery
by Michael Clemens for EIKE
In the story of the fools of Schilda, the citizen fools built a city hall but forgot the windows. So they put sunlight inside bags and carried it inside. Now a new episode of the fools of Schilda has been written in Berlin. Today’s fools are in a state of panic over the world’s energy reserves and dangerous atomic radiation. And so they’ve built a house that produces more energy than it can use and is supposed to fulfill the dream of “100% supplied by renewable energy”.
When it comes to transforming its energy supply, no cost is too high for the German government. As a flagship project, the shimmering blue “Efficiency Plus with Electromobility” was ceremoniously opened on 7 December 2011 by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a Federal Minsiter, and has been recently occupied by a test family.”
http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/03/germanys-3-million-energy-efficient-test-home-of-the-future-flops/
Recently, Ezra showed clips from this interview with Yuri Bezmenov. Highly recommended
Thank-you for the link Nick @ 10:25. Ditto on the Highly recommended.
Mr. Bezmenov worked for Ceebeecee after his departure from India. I have never listened to CBC but some here may remember Thomas D. Schuman.
Bezmenov is a disillusioned, former Communist elitist ; very well educated and well spoken. Turdo’s lapdog (CBC) gave Bezmenov a job. Bezmenov calls Turdo a “Progressive” and labels peons in msm and gument ‘useful idiots’ – the fate of these fools under Communism is execution. Communism is designed to be a Master/slave system and Bezmenov explains how and why it works in the west.
Last words are a dire warning to all of us.
Nope, here it is, well past noon, and I still think your lame attempt at a “quip” was so tasteless that it doesn’t even qualify for bad taste.
Two unarmed, uninvolved kids, strolling from class to class on a warm spring afternoon get shot by trigger happy wannabe soldiers, and you think the Guard should have shot more of them. How is that in any way a “quip”? How is that in any way funny or humourous?
I was 13 when it happened, and having read Nineteeneightyfour and Animal Farm, I was fairly distrustful of authority already, but Kent State, and the reaction of many at the time (“they got what they deserved!” – friends or relatives of yours, EBDick?) flipped the switch entirely.
My elder daughter is considering entering McGill next year. If there’s another stupid tuition protest on campus, which she’ll ignore, and some loony Surete cop fires into a crowd and kills her while she’s strolling by, what would you have me do? Shrug? Forgive the guy? Or say “He should have emptied his magazine!”? Jerk.
This is merely a follow-on to my 12:32AM comment re. the Chicago May Day Occupy thing, but Good Lord, it’s surreal: “Do you know what this sign means!?”
Aye Carumba.
Stolen from Ace.
“Do you know what the sign means!?” These people are Bill Ayer’s useful idiots. Haven’t got a clue why they are there.
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
“This is unheard of where all fruit growing areas in basically the Great Lakes area, in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York State, Ontario, are all basically wiped out.”
“It’s kind of like having a death in the family except there’s no closure to this one,” Nickels said.”
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“A catastrophic freeze has wiped out about 80 per cent of Ontario’s apple crop and has the province’s fruit industry looking at losses already estimated at more than $100 million.”
“Ontario fruit crop losses to top $100 million”
“This is the worst disaster fruit growers have ever, ever experienced,” orchard owner Keith Wright said Friday.
“We’ve been here for generations and I’ve never heard of this happening before across the province. This is unheard of where all fruit growing areas in basically the Great Lakes area, in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York State, Ontario, are all basically wiped out. It’s unheard of,” the Harrow, Ont.-area grower said.
Wright lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of apples and peaches last Sunday when freezing temperatures killed the blossoms.
Warm temperatures got fruit trees blooming early and when temperatures plummeted it damaged or wiped out much of the $60 million apple crop and 20 to 30 per cent of Ontario’s $48 million tender fruit crop, which includes peaches, cherries, pears, plums and nectarines.
Brian Gilroy, a Georgian Bay area apple grower who is chairman of the Ontario Apple Growers, said the loss to fruit growers and the economy will easily be more than $100 million. On top of the lost yield or no crop at all, orchard workers and spinoff industries such as juice, packing, storage and farm supplies will be affected.”
http://www.canada.com/news/Ontario+fruit+crop+losses+million/6572697/story.html
Ken – well it’s not what I’d call grass-roots. For all its exploitation of useful brats who are all, like, spontaneous, there’s something very orchestrated about the “Ocupy” “movement”.
Iowahawk does Julia.
KevinB(urp!):
I have never been able to take po-faced, self-righteous, emotionally incontinent face-chewers like yourself seriously. The sort of people who might read the line “O, Sweet Saint of San Andreas, hear my prayer” and think it’s an actual heartfelt invocation to the heavens, a prayerful request that god induce mass casualties, collapsed buildings, outbreaks of disease, etc., or who, when Jeremy Clarkson jokes that striking public sector workers should be shot in front of their families, not only take it literally, but indulge their embarrassingly maudlin selves by shamelessly appropriating, as you did, their beautiful darling children who are public sector workers, are just embarrassing themselves.
Only a tiny minority of self-righteous, tone-deaf pedagogues would be capable of taking my — obviously tongue-in-cheek — quip literally, let alone as a real-world *advocation*.
I am unable to help you with your problem at this time.
it would work, and could take a lot less time than that…absolutely no troops on the ground, no convoys, firebases or supply lines, no ‘rebuilding teams’, no ‘lunch with the village elders’…just break their toys from long range until they stop playing with them and then leave…after telling them “we’ll be back if you start this foolishness up again”…let them clean up the mess in their yard all by themselves and hope for and then help out a little insurrection to push the ayatollah to the unemployment line…
http://rt.com/news/us-military-presence-iran-419/
As the US beefs up its military presence in the Persian Gulf region, Pentagon strategists estimate that they would need less than a month to defeat Iranian forces should a military conflict take place.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) believes it can destroy or significantly degrade Iran’s conventional armed forces in about three weeks using air and sea strikes, a defense source told The Washington Post.
meanwhile, in iran, the excuses start early…their military power “doesn’t come from weapons”
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8608240236
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Lieutenant commander of the Iranian army’s ground force said here on Thursday that his country has the most powerful army in the world.
“Our army is an idealistic organization established to safeguard the high goals, ideals and causes of the (Islamic ruling) system, “General Seyed Naser Hosseini said, adding, “Today, Iran’s army is more powerful than all the other armies of the world.”
Meantime, the General reminded that nature of the power of the Iranian army is different from those of other armies, saying, “Our capability differs from the nature of the capabilities of the world powers and it can’t be assessed on the basis of such indices as weaponries, equipment and military possibilities.”
“Rather, our beliefs and values along with our strong national motifs are considered as our power engine and strong point,” he added.