Mahalia Jackson is considered by many to be the greatest spiritual singer of the twentieth century. She wasn’t as flashy, for lack of a better word, as many other gospel singers; she could certainly belt out with the best of them, but when she did so there remained a fine, rock-solid sense of control as she seamlessly shifted between power notes and an almost conversational style of delivery.
Those hearing Jackson for the first time may well get the feeling that they’ve heard her before; although she refused throughout her life to sing anything but spiritual songs, many popular musical artists (including Aretha Franklin, who Jackson mentored) speak of the great influence her music had on them. From an archived radio broadcast, here’s Mahalia Jackson singing Move On Up A Little Higher.
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Excerpt from a piece by Barry Rubin at PJM called The distorted Gaza debate: It’s about Hamas, stupid:
“The biggest problem with the way the Gaza Strip and flotilla issues are being presented? This is an issue about Hamas, not an issue about Israel.
“The bottom line is whether the West and the world wants to see, on the coast of the Mediterranean: a revolutionary Islamist state openly seeking to commit genocide against Israel’s Jews; a client of Iran; and a dictatorial government determined to spread Islamist revolution, treat women as the Afghan Taliban did, and educate a generation of Gazans into becoming terrorists.
“Only if this factor is comprehended can the humanitarian issue be put into perspective. To make the determining factor the raising of Gazan living standards is to ignore the strategic issues involved. And the great irony here is that ultimately an acceptance of the Hamas regime will doom Gazans to far more suffering — not to mention death — than the embargo could ever cause.
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“Here’s an example: On June 1, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stated that the Gaza Strip ‘has one of the world’s highest infant mortality rates.’ The obvious implication? It is Israel’s fault, because of its sanctions. In fact, the Gaza Strip has an infant mortality rate of 17.71 deaths per 1000 births — about the same as Mexico and better than Brazil, Romania, neighboring Egypt (26.2), Turkey (24.8), and Iran (34.7).
“None of those, of course, can be blamed on Israel.”
But it’s ok because Hamas was democratically elected…
or something…?
Mahalia Jackson was flat out the best spiritual vocalist ever! There are some other female vocalists that have some of her qualities but she had the whole package. There was one other that was in her class and that was Ella Fitzgerald. The rest are lucky she stayed with religious music.
In todays Colombian election, the Uribe party candidate and ex defense minister Juan Santos took just under 70% of the vote against the Green party candidate and former mayor of Bogota Antanus Mockus.
I imagine the msm will cover this story adequately however they likely won’t have this graphic, which reminds me of R. Reagan’s 1984 election victory when he took all states except Minnesota. The graph should be there until tomorrow, unfortunately it’s all in spanish. In related good news, H. Chavez has said he’s not interested in talking to Sr. Santos…
http://www.eltiempo.com/
note that 99.9% of the votes have been counted in the 5 hours since polls closed, in all the years of Chavez, he has never allowed Venezuela’s voting authority to release the actual vote numbers.
in Chile, similar to Colombia, accurate and public results in a few hours.
A friend of mine encountered Mahalia Jackson when she performed with his high school band at, of all things, a football half-time show.
He said she was a wonderful warm person and I have little doubt he was right.
Natural gas has been found in some abundance 90 kilometres off the coast of Israel near Haifa. Initial estimates are in the 15 Billion dollars range and the company reports that this is likely to increase as more data results arrive. It is a deep well, 5000 metres below sea level.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-s-largest-ever-reserve-of-natural-gas-discovered-off-haifa-coast-1.268364
Pat me on the back for a 2003 loan upgrade/management with RBC.
i really enjoyed that, thanks,
Thanks for reminding me of Mahalia Jackson’s powerful voice and inspiring delivery!
Gagdad Bob at onecosmos sees old hippies hanging on to the “callow political enthusiasms of their youth,” and messing the country up in the process. Excerpt:
“…when you see an old fart like Chris Matthews getting all tingly upon hearing his boyfriend speak, the real source of the excitement is obviously not Obama’s vague future but Matthews’ own specific past. Thus, the recent disillusionment with Obama is just the other side of hisillusionment. He has awakened to his own projection, and yet, has learned nothing, since he now blames Obama for dissing his beautiful illusion!
“Being that politics is a substitute religion for the left, it is understandable that they would be prone to creating earthly messiahs. In reality, the entire process obviously took place in Matthews’ own fat and spluttering head, that is, the illusion followed by the inevitable disillusion…”
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“Perhaps you have to be of my generation, but for me, there is nothing quite as pathetic as when cadge-drive time comes around, and PBS digs out some old hippies to sing the same songs they sang 40 or 50 years ago, in the same way, hopefully kindling the same rancid emotions.
“Can you imagine having to sing something you wrote at the age of 20, while expressing the same emotions you felt then with conviction? It is no wonder then that these people literally haven’t taken a new political imprint since 1967. Ironic too that this desperate flight into the past is called ‘progressive.'”
An extended definition of oxymoron:
“…peace activists prevented the unloading of an Israeli ship at the Port of Oakland.”
“The demonstration was ostensibly held in the name of peace, but organizers said they hoped to avoid costing workers a day’s pay by convincing an arbiter called to the scene that the line was ‘a threat to the health and safety’ of any longshoreman who tried to cross the picket line.”
The ship must have been carrying dangerous weapons.
So tedious.
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necessity is the mother of… damn…
it was right here on the tip of…
aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
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A young piano player was asked to play at a Mahalia concert. During one of the songs the young pianist put in an extra flourish at the end of his solo. Mahalia promptly informed him, off mike, that NOBODY riffed but Mahalia!
Great choice and thanks.
Superb choice EBD – she was truly one of the greatest gospel – spiritual singers ever. The women had true soul and plenty of it.
The birth of the 33 1/3 long playing record.
June 21, 1948 – The birth of the LP
Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
A Muslim apostate speaks.
“Finally, he asked whether she believed there was anything Islam could teach the West. She said she couldn’t think of a thing.”
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“An Islamic refusenik who drives liberals crazy
Ayaan Hirsi Ali comes before the West as a messenger bearing terrifying news: We are in a struggle with Islam that threatens our civilization and our most crucial principles.
She resembles the refugee dissidents who arrived here carrying a similar message from the Soviet empire long ago, except that she’s escaped from an oppressive state of mind rather than a barbed-wire nation state. Born into fundamentalist Islam, she rebelled against its tyranny and eventually set out to tell the West what we face. Her new book, Nomad, helps to spread the alarm to sleepy, prosperous countries, such as Canada.
Even now, after many Islamist atrocities, Canadians prefer to ignore what she has to say. After all, she threatens our religion of multiculturalism and casts grave doubt on our immigration policy. She undermines our anxious hope that Islam is mainly harmless.
On Tuesday, at a Donner Foundation lecture in Toronto, she defined the conflict as a war of ideas. That raised, by implication, some urgent questions. Is this a war Canadians (or others in the West) can fight? Have we the intellectual equipment? Do we feel strongly enough to commit ourselves to it? Are there any leaders for such a war?
Judging by the typical reactions so far to her warnings, the answer in each case is No. As with refugees from communism, she’s received equivocal and uncomprehending responses. In the Soviet era, smug and condescending journalists in the West habitually instructed exiles on the complexities within communism, which liberals in the West could understand but East Europeans couldn’t.
In just this way, the New Yorker magazine carried a review of Nomad by Pankaj Mishra, complaining that Hirsi Ali’s “life experiences have yet to ripen into a sense of history.” When she praises Voltaire and the Enlightenment, Mishra correctly points out that he was a virulent anti-Semite.
Similarly, when Hirsi Ali indicates approval of Oriana Fallaci’s criticism of Islam, Mishra recalls that Fallaci once claimed that Muslims in Europe “breed like rats,” which apparently ends that argument. Writing in a flagrantly liberal magazine, Mishra does his best to label Hirsi Ali a conservative, noting that the Brookings Institution (liberal) declined to hire her but the American Enterprise Institute (conservative) took her on staff — although, within Islam, she is as far from a conservative as it is possible to be.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Islamic+refusenik+drives+liberals+crazy/3145801/story.html
O’de to O’Dead Oil Fish.
“16. Walt
Poor poor Rahm has had his day
His style now out of fashion
Bought by The One then thrown away
To a convenient trash bin
Rahm may claim that it’s his call
But all of us know better
With gun to head he’ll take the fall
By resignation letter
It’s all his fault it’s come apart
This hope and changey promise
Just fizzled out right from the start
Another lefty bomb miss
And so somebody has to pay
For screwing up Obama
And Rahm’s the guy sent on his way
Back home to kids and momma”
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“Attack Speed, Rahmming Speed!”
“So this is how the message might read. “Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is threatening to leave his job later this year unless Barack Obama gets real. Rahm has made a lot of personal sacrifices to join the White House. He gave up being a congressman, Chicago deep dish pizza and being a father to his children for what? To be blamed as abrasive when the midterm disaster unfolds. No way he’s taking the fall for that. But just to show the boss he’s not scared, not a rat — not until the last moment anyway — he’ll stay until the midterm disaster makes it absolutely clear that all his warnings about futzing around have come true. And just in case you think Emanuel is yellow, remember that’s he willing to take on Richard Daley. And think on this. When all you inner circlers are walking the streets in DC rattling pencil cups and looking for a job, Rahm’s going to be mayor of the Windy City.””
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/06/20/attack-speed-rahmming-speed/#comments
More: The Chicago Screwers Screwed.
What is O’narcissists sole legacy*?
“22. wretchard
Chicago has given its name to a number of everday objects. There’s Chicago Deep Dish Pizza; back in the day there was the Chicago Piano, which sometimes referred to a Thompson submachinegun but which was also applied to various kinds of multibarrelled anti-aircraft guns in World War 2. I also remember an article of stationery called Chicago Screws, better known in other parts of the English speaking world as a postbinder. That’s about the extent of my own personal stock of “Chicago” words. And although there is nothing abnormal or sinister about them they have an edge which adds a certain atmosphere to expression.
American English has a certain background tone unique to itself as do other Englishes. There’s nothing like looking for a “drugstore” or going shopping for “Chicago screws” to get people wondering.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/06/20/attack-speed-rahmming-speed/#comments
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*O’narcissist:
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
Great way to start the day, EBD! Thanks for Mahalia; she knew from where her gifts came and never ceased giving G*d the glory. Amen and hallelujah!
As for “PBS dig[ging] out some old hippies to sing the same songs they sang 40 or 50 years ago …” it’s because the Boomers are probably the last generation to donate money to them — and even then, we’re not particularly generous. ‘Same with the churches. The generation before us and before them, were very generous but since we began creating the ME-generation(s), it’s been downhill in the fundraising wagon since then.
You wonder how long PBS can last hauling out the old hippies — and, the other night, the original Three Tenors, from a performance in 1990: That was TWENTY YEARS AGO — hoping for some largese from the Boomers, knowing they won’t get it from our kids and grandkids?
‘Reaping the maelstrom?
There is link to a Globe and Mail article headlined “California on the verge of system failure” at http://www.321gold.com/
If the Great Social Organizer hasn’t got enough problems on his ‘to do’ list, here is what will be the most serious of them all, if it is mishandled.
The article is also a good rebuttal to all those moron economists and politicians who, for years, have said that government debt doesn’t matter.
It’s a crude word, but apt: 70 Shmucks turn on an honourable man for critiquing and rejecting “dialogue” with Islamists in Boston.
Read very carefully, specially about the sect which the assailant belonged to:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsru.com%2Fcrime%2F21jun2010%2F5yrusboycutkrim.html&sl=ru&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
Flashback:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13202
Ann Coulter:
“thank you for reminding me of the devastating collapse of the newspaper industry. I love a happy ending!”
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“Why Newspapers Are Dying: The Ann Coulter Edition
Townhall is the big league of conservative punditry. All of the A-List conservative columnists, with the exception of perhaps Mark Steyn, Karl Rove, & Peggy Noonan write for them. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Michelle Malkin, Charles Krauthammer, Mike Adams, George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson, — they’re all at Townhall, along with a lot of other top notch pundits.
So last night, I took a look at the 5 most popular columns for the last 30 days on Townhall. So, which of those incredibly talented columnists made the list? Actually, as of last night, none of them:
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“Now, it’s no secret that Ann Coulter is an extremely popular columnist, but that’s a level of domination you seldom see from anyone not named Michael Jordan, Greg LeMond, or George S. Patton.
But, it also reminded me of something Ann Coulter said in my 5th interview with her.
There are newspapers all over the country going out of business today and that brings up a question. From what I have seen, no insult meant to Mark Steyn, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Sowell, etc., but you seem to be the single most popular columnist in America with conservatives. So, how many papers run your column?
Thank you for noticing! And thank you for reminding me of the devastating collapse of the newspaper industry. I love a happy ending!
The only newspaper big enough to be on Nexis to carry my column is my home newspaper, Human Events, which was also Ronald Reagan’s favorite newspaper. If that’s how the newspaper industry treats the author of seven massive New York Times bestsellers – including one that was a collection of the columns most newspapers were refusing to publish — how can any bright young conservative writer expect to be published?…
So, there you go. A woman whose last 5 columns were the 5 most popular columns at Townhall for an entire month can’t get mainstream media outlets to carry her column. Yet, you have journalists all across the country griping that no one wants to read newspapers anymore. Well, when you’re completely indifferent to what your customers want, it’s no shock that they’re not interested in your product.”
http://rightwingnews.com/2010/06/why-newspapers-are-dying-the-ann-coulter-edition/
[U. S.] Supreme Court Upholds Law Barring ‘Material Support’ for Terror Groups
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-affirms-material-support-law-free-speech/story?id=10970249
Dissent by Breyer, Ginsburg and Sotomayor. Breyer “took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench”.
However, during oral arguments, this from solicitor general and SCC nominee Elana Kagan: “Hezbollah builds bombs. Hezbollah also builds homes. What Congress decided was when you help Hezbollah build homes, you are also helping Hezbollah build bombs.” That’s the issue right there.
O’Update: Liberal Ziffy’s O’Harvard buddy.
H/T Barack Petroleum, aka O’Golf Oil fOre! Fun: snOrt.
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“BP estimates spill up to 100,000 barrels per day”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/06/20/14456231.html
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“White House defends Obama’s fun time during crisis
WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says the whole country benefits when President Barack Obama takes time to go golfing and “clear his mind.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2538858/posts
This is not a tip,but an observation . IO arrived at work this morning and was asked by the head leftard if I had watched any football on the weekend. I replied”no,I didn’t think there was any games on”. He sorted of smirked and rolled his eyes and told me he meant “soccer,which is the real football”. I said “Sure bud”.Later in the day he was discussing “the beautiful game” with another hard-core leftwinger.
Has anyone else encountered this snobbery ? It seems that these ‘intellectuals’ were attempting to appear European and oh so cosmopolitian by embracing what has to be one of the most boring sports ever. I’d rather watch synchronized swimming than soccer.
This quote from John Doyle of the Globe and Mail regarding the new Sun Media channel “The people who support Fox News – here and in the U.S. – must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. They’d give soccer hooligans a run for their money. This is an informed opinion.”
Hmmm,it is only his opinion though. The mainstream our very afraid,that is a good thing.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/john-doyle/fox-news-north-and-you-thought-the-fake-lake-was-barking-mad/article1610820/
“our very afraid”, more beer please.
Another G&M scribe weighs in on the issue, “Denying Sun TV a licence would only be a good start.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/brian-topp/the-issue-with-sun-tv/article1611422/
Yes,they ARE very afraid.
Planned Parenthood’s missing millions
New GAO report reveals disturbing financial discrepancies
By Rita Diller
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on federal tax money funneled into Planned Parenthood and similar organizations raises more questions than it answers about the nation’s largest abortion chain.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/18/planned-parenthoods-missing-millions/