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In the 1950s and ’60s the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller wrote a remarkable number of hit songs, including Stand By Me, Is That All There Is, On Broadway (with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil), Save The Last Dance For Me, Spanish Harlem, Jailhouse Rock, Kansas City, Hound Dog, and many others.
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a live performance of one of their lesser-known songs. From a recording made at a 1966 acid test (note the tempo difficulties) at the Filmore Auditorium in San Francisco, here are the newly-minted Grateful Dead (formerly The Warlocks) performing Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s I’m A Hog For You Baby.
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  1. Some choice quotes – suitable for framing – from a who’s-who of AGW proponents:
    “We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
    “The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.” – Prof. Chris Folland, Hadley Centre
    “We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination…So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts…Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” – Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
    “The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yeild only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.” – UN Commission on Global Governance report
    “”Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
    “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” – Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
    “If I were reincarnate I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    “Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” – David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
    “Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.” – Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
    “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. – Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
    Finally, here’s Christine Stewart, former Minister of the Environment under Jean Chretien:
    “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
    More here.

  2. http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2010/07/anti-anti-racism.php
    just thought faithful SDA readers would like to remind themselves what the left is telling itself about the right.
    the fundamental misunderstanding being: calling out acts of “anti-racism” does does not imply that there is no racism. it is simply a call to eliminate double standards. this article is now looking for triple standards. and trying to imply that quadruple standards are both illogical and shockingly stupid. triple standards are where its at.
    sigh. maybe i should write an article about anti-anti-anti-anti racism. people might FINALLY figure this thing out.

  3. Dear EBD,
    Thanks for your sound advice. In Vancouver, it hasn’t rained for about a week. When I went to my mechanic to get new dry surface tires installed on my 1992 Ford Tempo, I mentioned your suggestions for a “bridge” car.
    Oddly enough, he said he had both cars – I think he was selling them at a fair price, but it was just more than I can afford just now.
    He suggested that I put an igniter on the Tempo … I sure you know about the part – it looks like a lighter duct taped upside down on the firewall (he called it the firewall). It only cost $445 taxes in.
    I can certainly feel the new “pep” and I’m getting a lot of interesting looks when I floor it at the lights.
    Is this enough power to install the balls? or do suggest that I drive my souped up Tempo for a couple of weeks and still get a Gremlin? … or?
    Smokin’ in Vancouver

  4. The American Spectator’s readers express ample praise and gratitude for Angelo M. Codevilla’s essay “America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution.”
    One reader writes:
    “The power of this very timely article is undeniable, and in my opinion it ranks with Thomas Paine’s Common Sense as a clarion call to all patriots. I’m forwarding the article to all my friends, urging them to follow suit. Codevilla’s words must be disseminated as widely possible, and if they are perhaps we’ll be able to avoid the bloodshed and destruction that came after the appearance of Paine’s book.”

  6. Dear Infinity Squared:
    “Is this enough power to install the balls?”
    You’re putting the cart before the horse. Regardless of what sort of vee-hickle you’re driving, the balls actually provide most of the power – 60 to 70 percent is the conservative estimate. As for the igniter on the firewall, you’re doing two things wrong: first, you should remove the firewall altogether; not only will this allow you to use your sense of hearing and smell to determine if your engine is running smoothly, but in the event of a front-end mishap your engine will have 3 – 7 feet more room to move, which will help prevent costly damage to it. Second, and most critically, you should put the igniter (sounds like you got yourself a real deal on it) under the gas tank, because that’s ultimately where the “pep” you’re looking for comes from. Just make sure that it’s at least six inches away from the balls to avoid heat-induced droopage.

  8. EBD: Thanks for the safety warning about heat induced droopage. It is possible to get a dangerous swaying during high speed manouevres if excessive droopage results from higher than optimum temperatures.

  9. Bookworm:
    “Americans who push back against Muslim demands on public life are not religious bigots. Instead, they show their understanding that, in a pluralist society, an ordinary religion imposes its strictures on its own followers, not on everyone else in town. Islam is no ordinary religion and we are wrong to treat it as such. Its practitioners should, of course, be allowed to engage in their own religious practices peacefully and without government imposed conditions. We, however, must guard vigilantly against any attempts Muslims makes to change the lifestyle of non-Muslims within that same community.
    “You don’t like pork? Fine, but then don’t get a job at the meat counter of a super market — and then demand that the super market stop carrying meat or that the market assign you to a different job for which you never applied. You don’t like alcohol? Fine, but then don’t get a job as a taxi driver and then refuse to carry people who have alcohol? These demands, and the hundreds (thousands?) like it that we routinely read about from Europe and, increasingly, America, are not about religious freedom. They are about a religious minority trying to shape the dominant culture into a brutal, limiting sharia mold.”

  11. EBD said “Islam is no ordinary religion and we are wrong to treat it as such.”
    I think it was Styne I saw on a talk show once and he was referring to the Muslims as “puritans”. You don’t hear that term much anymore but it works well with the Muslims. Calling them killers crazy stoneage etc just doesn’t resonate with people. I know it should but it doesn’t. If you tell people thay are against dancing music art smiling civil rights etc it might just get more traction.

  12. rebarbarian,
    Your right about about the high speed, but it can also apply to slow-speed manoeuvre. If I can draw a parallel to humans – I have witnessed males, trying to take a wiz in the shrubbery, sway (one way, then the other), and then fall down. The ONLY explanation is heat induced droopage sway.
    Wear a hat when out in the sun.

  13. An amusing anecdote:
    “One day in 1939, Berkeley doctoral candidate George Dantzig arrived late for a statistics class taught by Jerzy Neyman. He copied down the two problems on the blackboard and turned them in a few days later, apologizing for the delay — he’d found them unusually difficult. Distracted, Neyman told him to leave his homework on the desk.
    “On a Sunday morning six weeks later, Neyman banged on Dantzig’s door. The problems that Dantzig had assumed were homework were actually unproved statistical theorems that Neyman had been discussing with the class — and Dantzig had proved both of them. Both were eventually published, with Dantzig as coauthor…”

  15. “Forget about rethink Alberta, how about rethink New York.”
    Actually, this is a good move. There is goose poop everywhere in this region and something needs to be done– although you are right about the hypocracy

  17. CF-18 crash in Lethbridge
    Good video and eyewitness accounts here:
    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Pilot+survives+fiery+fighter+crash+Alberta/3315220/story.html#ixzz0uePaZ8QK
    I’m glad he made it out OK.
    Great comment from a commenter at Warbird Information Exchange ,,,
    “Not so much bravery, but instinct, and probably not for the heroic reason you might think.
    You might be surprised to know that the vast majority of unsuccessful ejections out of aircraft (ergo, the guy died) were because the pilot was continuing to try and ‘save’ the airplane and waited to long to give up on it.
    So, that is something that comes natural to pilots — to try and fly out of whatever problem is encountered. It’s very *un* natural to pull the handles and face a very uncertain future for yourself. I don’t think you’ll find anyone who is eager to pull the handles and chuck the jet into the dirt at the first sign of trouble. Nobody wants to leave that nice, warm womb of a cockpit for the cold, windy, loud harsh environment that awaits outside the canopy and the possible physical injuries that go with it. In addition, most military pilots are the self-critiquing type, and are usually wondering what they did wrong to cause the situation whenever there is a serious emergency. Punching out of the airplane is a bit like admitting you did something wrong….

  18. EBD at 9:59 PM, we should all be grateful for Al Gore’s “invention” of the internet. If it’s weren’t for the WWW and blogs, no one would ever know these things.

  20. Stan, I think all polls – especially G&M polls – should be mandatory.
    In the NP blog, George Jonas recounts a vaguely creepy phone conversation with a Census Canada employee – “We know that you were out of town,” she said, even though his friends didn’t know – and writes:
    “I’m making light of my conversation with Census Canada, but in fact it’s not a laughing matter. For an official to suggest–and perhaps sincerely believe– that it’s not intrusive and impertinent for Census Canada to ask citizens their roommates’ or common law partners’ name (and therefore sex), or that the government ‘needs’ such information for ‘statistical purposes,’ shows that by now our bureaucrats suffer from more than simple arrogance or insensitivity. They sincerely believe that if they ‘need’ to know the name and sex of our roommates, we ought to tell them. After all, they aren’t asking out of idle curiosity but for reasons of state. If that doesn’t override our feeble rights to piffle such as privacy or dignity, what does?
    “Our social-engineering elites and martinets suffer from Sun-king-ism, the kind of megalomania that made Louis XIV utter ‘l’etat, c’est moi.’ Scary enough coming from the Sun King. When it starts coming from Assistant Chief Statisticians, it’s time for the men with the butterfly nets.”

  22. Thanks for the Dead stuff, EBD. I’ve often felt the only problem with conservatives is the prevailing taste in music and I am now reassured.

  23. “No. More. Money.”
    “So yes, the pissed-off call to action phase is upon us.”
    …-
    “47. no mo uro
    “Now that said revolution is TRULY over, the cold wake-up slap has been administered. Many have snapped out of it, a few are still in denial, thinking the economy will bounce back by Christmas or some such nonsense, but by this time next year the result of the cold slap will be nearly universal. No. More. Money.
    So yes, the pissed-off call to action phase is upon us. And you are absolutely correct about the bucket of salt. Retribution is functionally and morally necessary.
    wretchard wrote:
    “The desire to debate government bureaucrats who have “deep expertise” in health care rationing does not interest those who believe they lack the power to impose rationing at all.”
    If you were to add that we also believe that they lack the moral authority to impose rationing, this would be perfect.
    It all boils down to that, as several commenters have said. The debate isn’t over how well a particular person or party can do bad and unconstitutional things, it’s over how we can stop doing them at all. If that means lost jobs and petty empires, so be it.”
    “But She’s Not There”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/07/24/but-shes-not-there/#comments
    …-
    “A modest proposal for curing a whiny nation”
    “The account makes no mention of grief counsellors.”
    http://www.katewerk.com/modestproposal.html

  25. i knew chet helms of the Avalon….i drank guinea red with pigpen…
    perhaps too apposite your thread but there you are…

  28. Left-liberalism: Daddy Warbuck$ at Bay & Wall St.
    But, “But, not everybody is hurting.”.
    O’Harvard O is not in sight.
    …-
    “No To Oligarchy
    “The American people are hurting. As a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, millions of Americans have lost their jobs, homes, life savings and their ability to get a higher education. Today, some 22 percent of our children live in poverty, and millions more have become dependent on food stamps for their food.”
    http://www.thenation.com/article/37889/no-oligarchy
    From comments:
    “2. posted by: Milhaus1 at 07/25/2010 @ 11:25am
    Senator since we are on the topic I would like to add that most people who understand the problem also understand that this isn’t just a political math problem. This is a trend that is already threatening our entire way of life, as seen in the Sumpreme Courts recent right-wing action recognizing corporate personhood. It manifests itself in the form of $120,000,000 contracts to mercenary armies who have already demonstrated total recklessness and hubris in performing core government functions. If that is allowed to continue, then why couldn’t any other level of corruption also happen? The only way it can get worse is if these people get their wish to setup private mercenary operations against Americans on their own soil, which they are campaigning for right now in the form of “disaster” and “border security” contracts. We need government work to be performed by only full-time, vetted, and sworn public servants. It would be a good start.”

  31. Fox News..

    Howard Dean told Fox News host Chris Wallace that Fox News did something that was absolutely racist. “They had an obligation to find out what was really in that clip. They had been pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap and this business of Sotomayor and all this other stuff.”
    When Wallace interrupted Dean to point out that Fox did not air the excerpted Sherrod footage until after the Obama administration had fired her based on it (the excerpts were featured on Fox News’s website prior to her firing), Dean shot back “It was about to go on Glenn Beck, which is what the administration was afraid of.”
    And Dean mildly rebuked the Obama administration, as well, saying, “We’ve got to stop being afraid of Glenn Beck (a Fox News host) and the racist fringe of the Republican Party.

    Keep up the good work,
    these turds are terrified of Glen Beck!

  34. a different kind of media ‘dinosaur’
    washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072303146.html

  35. What will the SOW crowd and dems say about rape by Muslim men being legal? will the arch secularists on the left break their allegiance with fundamental Islam? If they don’t then they become accessories after the fact.
    The culture wars grow fiercer by the day.

  37. Now consider the response of the Christians to the Muslim murders. The View: Christians are terrorists too!!!!
    Really?
    Nigerian Christians ‘are sitting targets’
    Human rights organisation Release International is warning that Christians in Nigeria are ‘sitting targets’, as news emerges that the family of a priest has been murdered in a machete attack in Jos.
    http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/news.aspx?action=view&id=4669

  39. The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, MSM Branch.
    CredO: O is my shepherd, ……
    …-
    “JournoList: 122 Names Confirmed (with News Organizations)
    Source List Included | 07/25/2010 | BuckeyeTexan
    1. Spencer Ackerman – Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect
    2. Thomas Adcock – New York Law Journal
    3. Ben Adler – Newsweek, POLITICO
    4. Mike Allen – POLITICO
    5. Eric Alterman – The Nation, Media Matters for America
    6. Marc Ambinder – The Atlantic
    7. Greg Anrig – The Century Foundation
    8. Ryan Avent – Economist
    9. Dean Baker – The American Prospect
    10. Nick Baumann – Mother Jones
    11. Josh Bearman – LA Weekly
    12. Steven Benen – The Carpetbagger Report
    13. Ari Berman – The Nation
    14. Jared Bernstein – Economic Policy Institute
    15. Michael Berube – Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University
    16. Brian Beutler – The Media Consortium
    17. Lindsay Beyerstein – Freelance journalist
    18. Joel Bleifuss – In These Times
    19. John Blevins – South Texas College of Law
    20. Sam Boyd – The American Prospect
    […]
    122. Avi Zenilman – POLITICO”.
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2558838/posts

  40. More Lockerbie bomber fallout:
    President Obama may have been disappointed by al-Megrahi’s release, but he could hardly have been surprised. The preference for the “compassionate grounds” charade is baffling. It should be noted, that despite the hypocrisy, the White House did oppose the deal, according to Alex Salmond.

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