In 1959 American songwriter Paul Clayton wrote a tune called “Who’s Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I’m Gone” (cover version here) that took its melody directly from an old public domain folk song called “Who’s Gonna Buy You Chickens When I’m Gone.” In 1962 Bob Dylan re-borrowed Clayton’s borrowed melody, as well as several key lines from the lyric (their respective publishing companies would later settle out of court) to write his subsequently oft-covered classic Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright. The following year Johnny Cash borrowed Dylan’s borrowed melody – and the same lyrical theme, and the same chord progression – to write a song, uniquely his own, called Understand Your Man.
Borrow some interesting online tidbits and link to them in the comments.
David Menzies (Charles Adler fans will know him as “The Menzoid”), writing in the Toronto Sun:
“You may recall my column last month regarding an assault that took place at Yonge-Dundas Square. I was there on a Sunday evening with my nine-year-old son, testing my new camera. Suddenly, an hysterical hijab-clad woman confronted me.
“’We are Muslim!’ she screamed. ‘You do not take pictures of us!’ When I refused to holster my camera, she slugged me in the face. (Still images of the assault were caught on my camera.) My son and I were then surrounded by a mob, some speaking Arabic. One individual kept demanding my camera. If I complied, he’d ‘let’ us go.
“I broke through the mob and made a beeline to a group of police officers. I reported what happened, and a couple of eyewitnesses, originally from Syria, bravely came forward and told one of the officers what had happened.
“After speaking to the woman, he said no assault charges would be laid because he believed the woman’s story that she was merely trying to knock the camera out of my hands….”
The rest of the story here.
(h/t Five Feet Of Fury)
Rex Murphy:
The American media: failure’s maidservants
Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously overcompensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin – from utterly trivial emails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity.
[…]
As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength.
To the degree the press neglected its function as watchdog and turned cupbearer to a Styrofoam demigod, it is a partner in the flaws and failures of what is turning out to be one of the most miserable performances in the modern history of the American presidency.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/American+media+failure+maidservants/5417354/story.html
Every time you see a Muzzie in costume say “Happy Halloween” and pretend to take a picture. The one effective way to ‘fight back’ at these crazies is to ridicule them and refuse to take them seriously.
This is a good site if your a space buff.
‘Super-Earth,’ 1 of 50 Newfound Alien Planets, Could Potentially Support Life
“The harvest of discoveries from HARPS has exceeded all expectations and includes an exceptionally rich population of super-Earths and Neptune-type planets hosted by stars very similar to our sun,” HARPS team leader Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva in Switzerland said in a statement. “And even better — the new results show that the pace of discovery is accelerating.”
http://www.space.com/12915-habitable-alien-planet-hd-85512b-super-earth.html
Or not, North of 60.
COAB.
Kids love Archie comics:
“After a pair of straight weddings — both strangely involving Archie, though in his dreams — drew national attention, the publisher behind the popular stories has confirmed that it’s making room for someone else to walk down the aisle: Kevin Keller, the series’ first openly-gay character.
“’Kevin followed in his father’s footsteps and is returning to Riverdale as a war hero, but that’s not all – It’s Kevin’s wedding day!’ reads a news release from Archie Comic Publications, promoting an upcoming issue of ‘Life With Archie.’
“In this offshoot series, which runs glimpse-into-the-future storylines based on the lives of Archie, Betty and Veronica, readers soon will be able to discover how Kevin met ‘Mr. Right’…
h/t moonbattery
Facebook, Google, Apple Censoring Religious Speech?
“The NRB released a report at the National Press Club Thursday analyzing the various content policies of social networking websites. What they found was disturbing: new media platforms Facebook, Apple, Comcast, AT&T and Google have adopted policies to censor lawful viewpoints expressing Christian views or controversial ideas on “hot button issues.” Some platforms, such as Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s search engine, have already started to use those policies to remove orthodox Christian viewpoints considered “offensive” or too controversial.”
http://www.christianpost.com/news/facebook-google-apple-censoring-religious-speech-55736/
Top ten, funniest tweets of the week according to Daily Caller.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/16/top-10-funniest-tweets-of-the-week-2/
Or not, North of 60. COAB. Posted by: EBD
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ?
Re: The Menzoid..
I wonder how often photographers are assaulted by Muslims in concealed carry states?
We need provincial gun laws already. Quebec can have their registry and Alberta can have concealed carry.
Re: “Understand your man.”
Now that is interesting if not enlightening.
RE: North of 60 “Happy Halloween.”
That is totally funny!
Toronto Star, Saturday, Sept. 17, Haroon Siddiqui. “Coming to grips with the new anti-Semitism.”
Anybody care to guess what “the new anti-semitism” is?
http://www.thestar.com/article/1055298–islamophobia-the-new-anti-semitism
What he doesn’t say anywhere in the article is that quite a bit of the old anti-semitism these days comes from the Muslim community, and there are plenty of sad tales from places like Sweden as evidence.
Yet the people in western societies who are blowing the whistle regarding such problems are the ones he would blame for pointing it out.
Siddiqui: “Hardly a month goes by without some controversy over hijab, niqab, ‘honour killings,’ polygamy, ‘forced marriages,’ ‘sharia,’ prayers in public places, such as at Valley Park Middle School in Toronto, or over how far free speech may be invoked to disproportionately demonize Muslims and Islam without running afoul of Canadian and European anti-hate laws.”
Personally I think the minaret ban in Switzerland and the niqab ban in France both infringe on the rights of the individual and are useless besides. I don’t believe the state should recognize more than one wife per husband or vice versa, although in truth the law should not be able to prevent one man from living with two women or vice versa. I don’t even object to the Muslim prayers in public schools, on the grounds that freedom of religion is a fundamental right while “public education” is not; if a voucher system were implemented in its place, this controversy would all but disappear. Free speech and expression should be vigorously defended and the so-called “hate laws” are too flimsy in premise to stand up to rational scrutiny.
Once again, Haroon Siddiqui’s real problem is that the good name of his religion has been hijacked by lunatics, and probably by quite a few psychopaths too. It doesn’t help matters to shoot the messenger or accuse him of “Islamophobia”.
Siddiqui: “Combining xenophobia and Islamophobia, [European extremists] said no to Muslim immigration, no to Muslim Turkey joining the EU and no to multiculturalism that mollycoddled Muslims. The message was delivered in the liberal language of women’s liberation and gay rights.”
Given the often horrendous way that women and gays are treated in many Muslim countries, as he is surely aware, what could possibly be the proper way to describe the issue if not “liberal language”?
Ultimately, there is only one true way to sort it all out, and that is to recognize the fundamental moral principle of a civilized society: No person has the right to initiate the use of force or fraud on any other person.
Seriously, it was nice of Dylan not sue Cash. I like Cash a good deal better than Dylan, but that was a complete ripoff.
Lev 1206 – I recently subscribed to Twitter – it’s more useful than I thought. The Daily Caller missed some awesome Tweets, including:
I have guns and bibles, pls advise #attackwatch
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
We pick ‘em, too.
H/T *Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae, Mao’s nephew.
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“China: Villagers protest at Zhejiang solar panel plant”
“Hundreds of villagers in eastern China have held three days of protests at a solar panel plant over pollution fears.”
“Around 500 people started gathering at Zhejiang Jinko Solar company in Haining city, Zhejiang province, on Thursday.
Some of protesters stormed the factory, overturning several company cars and destroying offices, officials said.
Residents in the nearby village of Hongxiao said they became concerned after the deaths of a large number of river fish.
One 64-year-old villager told the Associated Press that the factory – located close to a school and kindergarten – discharges waste into the river and spews dense smoke out of a dozen chimneys.
“The villagers strongly request that this factory be moved to another area,” he said. “I am very worried about the health of the younger generation”.
Factories closed”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14963354
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“Chinese condoms too small for South Africans”
“A South African court has blocked the government from buying 11 million Chinese condoms, saying they are too small, a newspaper reported Friday.
The finance ministry had awarded a contract to a firm called Siqamba Medical, which planned to buy the Phoenurse condoms from China, the Beeld newspaper said.
A rival firm, Sekunjalo Investments Corporation, turned to the High Court in Pretoria after losing the bid, arguing that their condoms were 20 percent larger than the Chinese ones.
Judge Sulet Potterill blocked the deal with Siqamba, ruling that the condoms were too small, made from the wrong material, and were not approved by the World Health Organisation, the paper said.
South Africa has more HIV infections than any country in the world, with 5.38 million of its 50 million people carrying the virus.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com …”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2779981/posts
Socialism’s brothers & their renaissance in EUrope.
“forms of ugliness that we have not seen walking abroad in Western Europe for half a century.”
EU socialism ends with the rise of Uncle Joe’s Red communism and Gauleiter Adolf’s Black National Socialism:
“The rage and anxiety over this loss of national self-determination are already taking sinister forms in the rise of aggressively nationalist parties and neo-fascist movements in the most unlikely “liberal” countries.”
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“Janet Daley”
“The European dream lies in ruins”
“Europe’s leaders seem incapable of solving the crisis unfolding in front of them.”
“I have to say that even in my most apocalyptic Eurosceptic moments – when I had moved on from thinking the federalist project simply preposterous to believing that it was criminal folly – I never anticipated this. What I expected was growing disillusionment followed by an almost imperceptible unwinding which would be finessed with political double-talk and diplomatic duplicity. The implosion would come, but it would be with a whimper, not a bang. Faces would be saved and enormous numbers of lies would be told, and somehow the thing would be brought to an end – or made so vestigial that it would no longer matter.
Well, so much for that idea. This is going to be huge: so cataclysmic that it may summon up forms of ugliness that we have not seen walking abroad in Western Europe for half a century. This is where the story goes beyond irony.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/8770696/The-European-dream-lies-in-ruins.html
“I broke through the mob and made a beeline to a group of police officers.”
anyone care to expound why we as a society continue to finance such an utterly USELESS group? why is it cops are so selective in what crimes they investigate? whatever happened to due diligence?
p.s. my offer to execute former rcmp commissioner zaccardelli for official corruption still stands.
“This is *REUTERS* publishing this stuff?
Fantastic piece, but where were you three years ago?
Posted by paul1149”
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“Solyndra, the logical endpoint of Obamanomics”
“crony capitalism | solyndra”
“The bankruptcy of solar-panel maker Solyndra neatly encapsulates the economic, political and intellectual bankruptcy of Barack Obama’s Big Idea. It was the president’s intention back in 2009 to begin centrally reorganizing the U.S. economy around the supposed climate-change crisis.
To what end? Well, Obama claimed his election would mark “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” But that was just the cover story. At its core, Obamanomics is about the top-down redistribution of wealth and income. Government spending on various “green” subsidies and programs, along with a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions, would enrich key Democrat constituencies: lawyers, public sector unions, academia and non-profits.
Oh, and Wall Street, too. Who was the exclusive financial adviser to Solyndra when it was trying to secure the $535 million loan from Washington? Goldman Sachs. And had the cap-and-trade scheme been enacted, big banks stood ready to reap billions from the trading of carbon emission credits.
No wonder many Democratic strategists predicted their party’s 2008 landslide win would usher in a generation of political dominance. Obamanomics, essentially, would divert taxpayer dollars to the Green Lobby – and then into the campaign coffers of the Democratic Party. This is what crony capitalism is really all about: politicians enriching favored businesses, who then return the favor. Or maybe it’s the other way around, Who cares, really. It’s an endless, profitable loop for both.
And Obama almost pulled it off.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/09/16/solyndra-the-logical-endpoint-of-obamanomics/
The natural end result of socialism: Fiery Suicide.
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011/09/17/news/web_photos/17.1n009.greece.c–300×450.jpg
“This is the fiery face of Greece’s financial crisis.”
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“Greek bizman ‘fired’ again!”
“A small-business owner, unable to pay off bank loans that have plagued him for months, set himself on fire yesterday — his third attempt, authorities said.
The unidentified 56-year-old went to a Piraeus Bank branch in Thessaloniki in northern Greece and tried to renegotiate payments on loans he had taken out on his home and failing business, police said.
When bank officials refused, the man went outside, doused himself with gasoline from a can and set his clothing on fire — as he shouted that he was in debt.”
urlm.in/jepo
Black Mamba (3:03): Dylan and Cash comprised a two-man mutual admiration society, and neither would have the slightest interest in suing the other. Cash’s emulation was in effect a pat on the back, an affectionate wink and a nod. Both of them well understood that almost all melodies and themes – including most of the repertoire of the Carter family, who Cash famously married into – are just re-borrowed (more or less) and slightly altered forms of old public domain songs, many of them Scottish/Irish/English in origin.
There must be five thousand popular songs loosely based on the 19th Century American song Ol’ Dan Tucker, for example (listen to it, and then to the Texas Swing classic “Stay A Little Longer”), but no listener is the worse for wear unless someone (*cough cough*) draws attention to a particular example.
EBD: just off the top of my foggy head, the song
“Palisades Park” by Neil Sedaka segued into “Crocodile Rock ” by Elton John.
Absolutely, Wallyj. Great ear. It wasn’t a Neil Sedaka song, though, it was written by — grab your chair – Gong Show host and reputed CIA operative Chuck Barris.
It would seem from the comments that I am not the only person in the country that has been less than impressed with the service on Air Canada flights……..
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1263682.html
This just in from my Dublin daughter:
Trinity ‘expels’ barbarian teacher
EBD: Thanks for my all time favourite Dylan. I humbly offer that performance to all narrow-minded naysayers who think Dylan is a good poet but bad singer and harp player. The deep resonance of his voice here: this cat, like opera singers, learned how to sing from the diaphragm (and yeah, I had to look up the damn spelling).
anyone care to expound why we as a society continue to finance such an utterly USELESS group? why is it cops are so selective in what crimes they investigate? whatever happened to due diligence?
Posted by: CEO at September 18, 2011 7:38 AM
There’s a rumour about, as outlined in a recent Fifth Estate show (no, I didn’t watch it, I won’t watch it) that a 25 year RCMP veteran arson expert had evidence that the Swiss Air crash in Nova Scotia was due to a on-board incendiary device. The RCMP wouldn’t explore: I mean they’re all dead right? What would be the point, and expensive too, eh?
More on cops: Bruce Bawer has a piece up about how on the very day the Danish cartoonist cat was expelled from Oslo and prevented from speaking at a conference, a jihadist was welcomed with open arms — fresh from a trip to Saudi Arabia.
EBD, Chuck Barris huh,who’d of thunk that?
I don’t know why I thought Neil Sedaka – perhaps because I saw Sedaka and Freddy Cannon at about the same time. Yeah, I’m that seasoned.
EBD/Black Mamba.
I saw Johnny Cash in a small NFLD town in 1956 I believe. My first big star experience. He trashed his hotel room.
My old man, with whom I had a very difficult relationship, loved Johnny Cash: “brings tears to my eyes”.
You can well imagine the psychological crisis this end at the launch of the Dylan-Cash mutual admiration society COMPOUNDED decades later when my very hip daughter put Cash’s pitiful, bathetic last CD on in the car.
Great, now the Swiss Air 111 tin foil hatters are here too.
http://news.yahoo.com/peta-launch-porn-name-animal-rights-154145914.html
Is there even a name for this type of fetish?
I haven’t read too much on this SwissAir conspiracy cock-up,but my first thought was that there has to be a heck of a lot of easier places to stash a bomb than inside the cockpit.
coming soon to a street near you….
FAISALABAD:
A total of seven women suffered acid attacks in the past two days in Faisalabad in separate incidents.
According to police officials, a first-year student suffered serious burns after being attacked in the limits of Police Station City Jaranwala. First year student Tayyiba was on her way back home from a local tuition academy when students Ali Raza and Hamza allegedly chased her and threatened her life.
“Both boys go to the same college as me and they were heckling me for not wearing a dupatta on my head. They tried to grab me and when I yelled at them they attacked me with acid,” Tayyiba told police officials before being admitted to the hospital. “She said that both men had said she ‘deserved for her face to be ruined because she had not covered her head’,” Station House Officer Malik Zafar Iqbal said.
The victim’s parents filed a complaint and approached the parents of the accused. “Instead of asking for forgiveness they opened fire on us and we barely managed to escape,” Tayyiba’s father Asad said. Area police filed a case on the report of Adnan, a brother of the victim, after having registered a case against the accused under Section 324, 511, & 34 PPC but no arrest has been made so far.
For your pleasure and few laughs this afternoon. Some of us are at this stage and the rest of you will be there soon, so laugh with us and not against us.:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcN08Tg3PWw&feature=share
As far as the altercation that David Menzies was involved in…there will many more of those and worse in the future. Seventh century civilization meets the 21st century. He might want to use a telephoto lens in the future.
Pat Condell at his best!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIesXORjBps&feature=player_embedded
PET Cemetery Report: EUorpe’s socialists.
Zap! They’re frozen.
“The standstill”.
““Policy makers in Europe remain in denial,” said Carl Weinberg,”.
““We’re approaching a tipping point in the euro zone debt crisis, where sooner or later Greece will have to default,” said Michael Hewson,”.
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“Weekend meetings fail to remedy euro zone crisis”
“Europe is heading into its 11th hour in an increasingly fragile state, after a weekend of high-level meetings that failed to make any progress and an election that weakened German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Wroclaw, Poland, failed to agree on how to solve the troubles in Greece, whose prime minister pledged to shore up the country’s finances and cancelled a trip to the United States this week to deal with the coming “critical” seven days.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/weekend-meetings-fail-to-remedy-euro-zone-crisis/article2170542/
coming soon to any non-muslim near you…
Saudi Arabia beheads Sudanese “sorcerer”
September 19, 2011
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sudanese man by sword in the western city of Medina on Monday after he was convicted of practicing sorcery, the Interior Ministry announced.
Abdul Hamid al-Fakki “practiced witchcraft and sorcery,” which are illegal under Saudi Arabia’s Islamic sharia law, said a ministry statement carried by state news agency SPA.
In October last year, Amnesty International said it had appealed to King Abdullah in a letter to commute Fakki’s death sentence.
His execution brings to 42 the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP tally based on official and human rights group reports.
In June, London-based watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to stop applying the death penalty, saying there had been a significant rise in the number of executions in the previous six weeks.
It said 15 people were executed in May alone.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon