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In the 1960s the songwriting team of Carole King and her then-husband Gerry Goffin wrote a number of songs, including (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Up On The Roof, The Locomotion, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, and Pleasant Valley Sunday, that became hits for other artists, In 1971, after their divorce, King released Tapestry, a collection of her own songs (with the exception of three that were co-written with Goffin) which became the largest selling solo album of all time. From that Album, here’s Carole King singing You’ve Got A Friend.
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  1. a little carbon footprint?
    “Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; and the president’s personal aide Reggie Love, who chatted with Baldacci.
    “We’re ready. We’re going to do it all,” Love said with a big smile.
    Air traffic at the small Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton was shut down for the presidential arrival. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter patrolled the air in anticipation of the first family’s touchdown, and a pair of local fire and rescue trucks stood ready on an otherwise empty tarmac at the private air hangar.
    The Obamas then traveled onto Mount Desert Island in a motorcade of at least 16 vehicles. It was led by two Maine State Police cruisers and included five black Chevrolet Suburbans.”
    http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/white-house-wanderers-tour-acadia_2010-07-16.html

  3. The following has nothing to do with politics, so I hope Kate and EBD excuses my transgression!
    Next Saturday, July 24th I’m hosting a large BBQ down at the beach. If any SDA regulars will be in Vancouver, it would be great if you could attend!
    Just send me an e-mail and I’ll give you the details.

  4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia+pacific-10633584
    Amnesty warns of healthcare crisis in North Korea
    North Korea is failing to provide the most basic healthcare needs for its people, Amnesty International warns.
    …
    A 56-year-old woman told Amnesty that her appendix was removed without anaesthetic.
    “The operation took about an hour and 10 minutes. I was screaming so much from the pain – I thought I was going to die.”
    This is the health care system that WHO called the “envy of the developing world” in April.
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g9Dd0A-A3n-V0UML31SPpJA-iZ4g
    GENEVA — UN health agency chief Margaret Chan said on Friday after a visit to North Korea that the country’s health system would be the envy for most developing countries although it faced “challenges”.

  5. Dear EBD,
    I have done extensive research on your recommendation regarding the Gremlin (and balls) as a babe magnet. Most of the Gremlins I have found have their hoods open ( http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/pts/1840579065.html ) … which suggests a very powerful engine that must be showcased.
    As I have already indicated, I have a 1992 Ford Tempo. I don’t think I’m ready to step up to a high performance machine. Can you recommend a “bridge” car for me?
    Got the Balls Now in Vancouver

  6. Tapestry is my favourite all time album and You’ve Got a Friend one of her best.
    Inspired me to haul out my old Carole King Tapestry piano book and play a bad rendition but enjoyable all the same.
    Thanks for this great submission EBD.

  11. Dear infinity squared,
    You’re wise to be wary of the power and performance of Gremlins; not everyone can handle such an automobile without extensive practice and training on a closed track. In the interest of getting used to that sort of power, I would recommend that you purchase one of these two models as a “bridge” car. Not only are they the sharpest-looking high-performance vee-hickles out there, but both models come pre-equipped with dedicated ball-holders.
    Whichever model you select, don’t forget to wear a Butch Goering-style helmet when you drive it. Safety and style are, as it turns out, two sides of the same coin.

  13. Syncro, in the “ancient” video you provided was wing-folding. Gee, isn’t that used on aircraft carriers today?
    Sheesh. Always beware of gremlins.

  14. Liberal Ziffy’s Unwanted List: No Pablo.
    Liberal Ziffy’s Bad PR.
    MSM lists:
    1. Steve Pickard,
    2. Bill Prout;
    MSM omits:
    3. ???????????
    Hint: His initials are PR.
    Guess Who?
    Submit name here using these letters:
    olbaP zeugirdoR.
    What does Ziffy believe?
    Ziffy’s Creed: I-Moi believe in the Church of Socialism, the religion of the Stomach, and in I-Moi, socialism’s I-Moi.
    Amen … oops AWomen… oops AMen/Women.
    …-
    “MP candidates derailing Liberal Express bus tour
    Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff’s cross-Canada tour hit some more speed bumps on the weekend, the result of some less-than-desirable local candidates.
    In Chatham, Ont., federal Liberal candidate Steve Pickard faces six serious criminal charges of forcible confinement, assault, and uttering threats — charges Ignatieff won’t talk about.
    “I have no comment. This is before the courts and we’ll let that process play out,” Ignatieff said.
    Pickard will resume his duties as a city councillor Monday night.
    Meanwhile, Ignatieff tried to distance himself from Bill Prout, his
    candidate in Caledon, Ont. Prout, earlier this year, said: “I abhor the fact that Canadians have been involved with torture to get information from prisoners.”
    On Saturday, Ignatieff said, “No member of the Liberal Party believes that Canadian soldiers have been directly involved in torture. That’s not the issue. No one has ever said or will ever say in this party that Canadian soldiers were involved in torture.”
    Opposition parties are worried however, that Canadian diplomats and soldiers may have committed a war crime by turning over insurgents captured by Canadians to Afghan authorities who, it is alleged, then tortured the detainees.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/07/17/14746921.html
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/07/17/i-have-some-bad-news-for-you/#comment-86228

  16. Mr G They can put out those fires with a little bit of cream sauce and a haughty attitude can’t they?

  17. Thanks for the link to those wonderful songs. For myself it was pure nostalgia. Those were the days when we marched demanding all sorts of crazy things to stop global cooling, pestilence and starvation.
    The music got us by… and today we watch as the big wheel is re-invented over and over again.

  19. Apparently there are riots going on in England too, but you would never know it from looking at the English papers.

  20. Speaking of “English papers”.
    “can’t be arsed to log in”.
    Owooowooo ….
    …-
    “Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper paywalls
    Cory Doctorow at 7:45 AM Friday, Jul 16, 2010
    Newser’s Michael Wolff has a report from behind Rupert Murdoch’s notorious UK paywalls which went up this month around The Times and Sunday Times’s sites, which are apparently ghost-towns, unpeopled even by the print subscribers who get free access but can’t be arsed to log in (and never follow links to Times stories, since chances are anyone in a position to make such a link doesn’t have an account for the site).”
    http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/16/winds-howl-through-t.html

  21. Zelig-like former Federal Reserve Chairman and Woody Allen doppelganger, Alan Greenspan, keeps popping up with unsolicited advice on the economy which he, probably more than any one man, helped wreck. Presumably he seeks redemption. Therefore, I feel obliged to post a link to a very informative and amusing speech about Greenspan given at the Mises Institute.
    Choice passages (my passage titles in bold):
    The Right Man at the Right Time:
    Alan Greenspan was the right Federal Reserve chairman for his times. His reputation was a creation of inflation, and this was a century of inflation. His knowledge was superficial when America tended toward superficiality. He was a creation of publicity in an age that craved celebrities. He was inarticulate at a time when minds were growing more confused. He took short cuts to the top when Americans more readily took the easy route.
    Greenie takes up the pipe:
    When Alan Greenspan was 26 years old, he made a far-sighted and characteristic decision. He started smoking a pipe. This was in 1950.
    Whatever he learned in Burns’s class, Greenspan did the important thing: he took up the pipe. This was Burn’s trademark; some will remember when Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns sat before Senate committees and reinvented economics in the 1970s. For instance, when inflation raged in the 1970s, it was Burns who removed food and energy from the Consumer Price Index.
    Greenie’s credentials:
    In 1977, Greenspan would receive his doctorate degree in economics, from NYU. It is a collection of articles and some economic journal pieces stapled together. Alan Greenspan made a habit of choosing the easy route.
    Greenie and Ayn Rand:
    Greenspan never had an ideology. He probably never understood what Ayn Rand was talking about. Nathaniel Branden, Rand’s number one acolyte in the 1950s and also the Randian closest to Greenspan, wrote years later, “Now, looking at [Alan], I wondered to what extent he was aware of Ayn’s opinions.” Branden continued, “Complimenting Ayn on some [paper she had written and read to the group], Greenspan might say, ‘On reading this … one tends to feel … exhilarated.'”
    Ayn Rand seems to have understood why Alan clung to her apron strings, if she wore an apron. She asked Branden: “Do you think Alan might basically be a social climber?” She hit the nail on the head.

  23. Lovely stuff this “Tapestry”. Simply and beautifully put by the singer.

    An unfortunate aspect of my leaving the local steel plant and trying to get into something “positive” was my sojourn at a juvenile detention centre.

    They shoved me on the worst shift- 4pm to midnight. At about 7pm the detainees looked at the lights of down town were like caged tigers. When the little darlings had gone to bed, I saw this recording and played it. I bought a recording and had it sent to England via my spouse.

    At that time I also had Bill Dana and “Jose Jimenez”. A riot of laughs, alas the politically correct johnnies, have called it down. Though I understand some Hispanic people laugh at it.

  24. Ah, Michael Byars, with the ability to multitask and be completely wrong on more than one issue at a time. Now the CF35 acquisition:
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/836959–16-billion-for-the-wrong-planes
    Not content with his ridiculous misreading of international law and the Geneva Convention (where our soldiers’ meticulous handling of detainees is apparently a war crime – at least the Grits just “worry” it may be) – Byars now lends his “expertise” on the jet fighter purchase as the “wrong plane” when we could just buy others (all obsolete within ten years).
    Yes, apparently it’s OK to criticize the range of the CF35 because of Canada’s size and geography but ignore the reality that our air force could be required to operate in environments without air superiority where existing aircraft will have no chance against ever increasingly sophisticated SAM type systems. No, we won’t mention that.
    Idiot. Do some research you fool. Better still, stay out of discussions where you have zero expertise and an axe to grind.
    Cue up Stephen Staples, who never saw a defence expenditure he could not declare as unnecessary and well, militaristic.
    Morons like that are the reason we still don’t have a proper helicopter for our ships and will end up paying more for a woefully inadequate one, decades late.

  25. Syncro, in the “ancient” video you provided was wing-folding. Gee, isn’t that used on aircraft carriers today?
    Sheesh. Always beware of gremlins.

  26. EBD: My friend, thanks for You’ve Got a Friend.
    As a long-ago songwriter, I believe that is a perfectly crafted song and the performance, even with the vocal stress at the top, perfect. And guileless.

  28. ‘Only two more days to see Carole King and James Taylor in concert on the “Troubadour Reunion World Tour”!
    July 19 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
    July 20 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
    Here’s a video of King and Taylor singing “You’ve Got a Friend.”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4mNDS5rIRU&feature=related (James shows up at the 3:35 mark.)
    The flood of memories around this song … university … love … heartache … on the road … trying to find myself … not finding myself … more heart ache … finally love … and always King’s and Taylor’s songs … like old friends …
    Thanks, EBD!

  30. OMAR KHADR’S long road to justice.
    April, 2010 The senior U.S. special forces officer in charge of the assault in Afghanistan where Mr. Khadr was captured testifies that he was only trying to set the record straight when he changed his report of these events after the fact. He initially wrote that the person who threw the grenade was killed himself. The military official changed that report some time later to indicate that the thrower of the grenade had survived. Mr. Khadr’s lawyer claimed the changed report was evidence that the “government manufactured evidence to make it look like Omar was guilty.”
    May, 2010 The lead military interrogator at Bagram prison in Afghanistan testifies that he used accounts of Afghan boys being fatally gang-raped “by four big black guys” to extract Mr. Khadr’s confessions.
    “I will not willingly let the U.S. government use me to fulfill its goal,” Mr. Khadr says. “I have been used too many times when I was a child, and that’s why I’m here – taking blame for things I didn’t have a choice in doing, but was forced to do by elders.”
    Ok, I can accept that there’s enough circumstantial evidence on the murder charge to find him not guilty. But he was still an enemy combatant in a war this country was fighting in. Time already served in Guantanamo Bay and just 2 more things left to do. Denounce all his childhood beliefs and actions and those of his “elders” on every major news channel in Canada, including the Al-Jezeera network, citing the benefits extended to all citizens equally regardless of religion, race, sex or fetish. Then take up residency in downtown Trawna.

  31. Rex Murphy, NP, on Ignatief and Obama.
    Mr. Ignatieff is in a very cruel spot. He has what’s left of this summer to obliterate a whole year’s worth of accumulated impressions that he’s just not a fit for the job he’s in. But when a leader’s tour revives the memory of Joe Clark’s fugitive luggage, and its first halt is at Harper’s Diesel, the auguries are not kind.
    and
    The promise of leadership — new leadership, broader leadership, leadership in a new mold for a new age — that’s been utterly abandoned. Obama seems “bothered” that occasionally he is required to lead. He’s a politician now, angular, brusque, remote and pugnacious.
    QOTW: “There’s a kind of reverse Cinderella syndrome here — he shined every moment till it counted.”
    Beauty!

  32. Prayers for Christopher Hitchens, who has just been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus, and what he thinks about them:
    http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/prayers-for-christopher-hitchens/
    “I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts … I wish it was more consoling. But I have to say there’s some extremely nice people, including people known to you [Hugh Hewitt], have said that I’m in their prayers, and I can only say that I’m touched by the thought.”

  33. Stinkin’ windmills with feathers.
    cawcawcawcaw …….
    “So the edict went out: Feather your turbine blades; slash output.”
    …-
    “Too much of a good thing: Growth in wind power makes life difficult for grid managers
    On the afternoon of May 19, in a single chaotic hour, more than a thousand wind turbines in the Columbia River Gorge went from spinning lazily in the breeze to full throttle as a storm rolled east out of Hood River.
    Suddenly, almost two nuclear plants worth of extra power was sizzling down the lines — the largest hourly spike in wind power the Northwest has ever experienced.
    At the Bonneville Power Administration’s control room in Vancouver, it was too much of a good thing. More electricity than its customers needed. More than the available power lines could export from the region. And more than the grid could readily absorb by ramping down generation at the region’s network of federal dams.
    So the edict went out: Feather your turbine blades; slash output.
    It was an unwelcome instruction for wind farm owners, whose economics depend on generating electricity whenever possible. Yet it’s one likely to go out with increasing frequency.
    During the last three years, the building boom spawned by green energy mandates in Oregon, Washington and California doubled the generation capacity of wind farms in the region. By 2013, it’s expected to double again.
    That seems like great news. Plenty of carbon-free energy with no fuel costs. Jobs. Property taxes.
    In the real world, however, the pace and geographic concentration of wind development, coupled with wild swings in its output, are overwhelming the region’s electrical grid and outstripping its ability to use the power or send it elsewhere.
    In theory, better coordination of the balkanized grid operations around the west could help solve the problem, reducing costs, eliminating bottlenecks and solving scheduling conflicts that plague the system today.”
    http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/07/too_much_of_a_good_thing_growt.html

  35. “They shoved me on the worst shift- 4pm to midnight.”
    I’ve worked that shift (well, actually it was more like 10PM to 6AM). It was great! Could actually get stuff done without interference.

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