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  1. Stole my line Abe … haven’t got a clue what to say, don’t know whether Kate is promoting this just trying to irritate us. It is working though!

  2. I’m with Kate on this one. Bowie was genius. Unfortunately he can’t recall much of his material from this time period. Thanks for the memories Kate. To Dave in Pa, I thought this was profound, I’m shattered.

  3. Kate, but are you “an enigma containing a mystery, which is wrapped in a riddle”? 🙂

  4. The only David Bowie music I can stand just happens to be played for a CAR (of some sort) commercial. It fit.
    The Beatles I liked when I was a kid and didn’t know any better.

  5. Like this is a surprise. Just remember what the school boards are now introducing in grade 3 if not earlier. At least in Ontario. Under the guise of anti-bulling regulations.
    NYT silent on shocking Hollywood pedophilia charges
    Martin Weiss, a 47-year-old Hollywood manager who represented child actors, was charged in Los Angeles on Dec. 1 with sexually abusing a former client. His accuser, who was under 12 years old during the time of the alleged abuse, reported to authorities that Weiss told him “what they were doing was common practice in the entertainment industry.” Weiss has pleaded not guilty
    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/12/nyt-silent-on-shocking-hollywood-pedophilia-charges/

  6. “Kate, but are you “an enigma containing a mystery, which is wrapped in a riddle”? 🙂
    Posted by: Dave in Pa at December 13, 2011 1:38 AM ”
    No my American friend…Kate is an enigma,containing a mystery,wrapped in a conumdrum,which provides a riddle.

  7. The ghost of Winston Churchill arrives at SDA. You are in good company Kate. Are you a Russian?
    I loved the early songs that the Beatles sang because they made me feel like dancing. I was a dancing fool when I was young. The heavy metal and the bellowing folk/hippy sound killed dancing for me long before the smoking ban drove us smokers from the music scene.
    David Bowie is different in every way a person can be different; some of his music is terrific, some too weird for words, always interesting.

  8. C’mon no Bowie-Jagger Dancing in the Streets? I never saw two people want to do each other more in that video than since Travolta and Newton-John in You’re the One I want.

  9. The Who are better than the Beatles.
    Frankly, I’d rather listen to the Monkees than the Beatles…
    And I think Bowie and Jagger had already done each other years earlier, or am I getting my rumors mixed up

  10. Bravo Randy Hillier.
    …-
    “Christmas Protest Coming to Tri-Board”
    “MPP Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington) is rallying the public to join him at Tri-Board Student Transportation Services on Wednesday, December 14 at 2pm to set up and decorate a Christmas Tree in protest of their decoration policy.
    The public is invited to bring ornaments for the tree, garland and any other decorations suitable for the Christmas Tree. People are also invited to bring Christmas cards and messages for the staff at Tri-Board along with their petitions. Carolling will be welcomed for those so inclined.
    Mr. Hillier will be delivering his petition, which in only two days has thousands of signatories, asking the Board to repeal their ban on decorations in school buses.”
    http://www.randyhilliermpp.com/ontariocanleadagain/postings/news-releases/1127-christmas-protest-coming-to-tri-board

  11. AtlanticJim, unfortunately those puppies, even spayed or neutered, wouldn’t be legal in Canada. Where do they print up those birth certificates, so I can enjoy my 2nd amendment rights?

  12. AtlanticJim, unfortunately those puppies, even spayed or neutered, wouldn’t be legal in Canada. Where do they print up those birth certificates, so I can enjoy my 2nd amendment rights?

  13. Well that went over my head Kate. A lot of things were before your time. Do you have no use for toilet paper and automobiles, as well? Long live The Beatles music!

  14. jeff, I really hope you are kidding with that comment.
    The correct formula is Oasis = pale imitation of the Beatles.

  15. Young whipper snappers probably weren’t around the day the music died.
    Beatles were okay, especially when people of the female persuasion were present, but Cream, Zeppelin, Doors and Iron Butterfly were the ones that shook the pictures off the rec room walls.

  16. Still love the Beatles. I cannot think of any other band who transformed themselves from pop-candy music through the concept album and into such wild new experimentations (at the time) as they did. Incredible talent.

  17. Can someone help me with this gun registry legal action. Why don’t the Feds give Quebec whatever records they want if there is some glimmer of hope that Quebec will actually spend their own money to pursue their own agenda.

  18. No accounting for taste but so far we have, among a few with at least some credibility, claims that The Monkees, Iron Butterfly and Oasis were better than The Beatles. A made up group in which only one member could play his instrument, a totally lame group and a group of wannabes who couldn’t get past slagging each other? Get a grip on reality folks. I mean, like whomever you want but, as a musician, I gotta tell you that you’re embarrassing yourselves in public. This is Zinn like historical revisionism. There is a reason why their songs sound as fresh today as they did the first time we heard them. The Beatles were incredible. The Doors? Gentle Giant? I leave you to your delusions.

  19. The scuttle -butt is that Quebec wants ALL the records…so they can detect illegal aliens from ROC bringing in their contraban if they should move to or traverse La Belle Province….
    IOW they want it so the Surite De Quebec can run an Ontario licence plate and find a firearms owner….ya can’t be to careful doncha know….

  20. Ezra Levant in a very subtle way telegraphed Kate’s “a poll gone horribly wrong” technique on air. He talked about the government’s norther gateway pipeline project public consultation process. Anyone can submit comments or request to attend a hearing online. SHOCKER though some people have used made up names and contact information… Hint hint hint.

  21. Bowie was before your time. All the bands mentioned in the comments were quite good, but there are still extra points for being first. One thing you need to remember, Bowie, Jagger, Townshend, Plant, and every other early rocker, would have gone down on John Lennon in a millisecond.

  22. Thomas_L at 8:30 AM: Long live The Beatles music!
    Hear! Hear!!
    When the Top 10 charts are dominated month after month by the songs of only one group, and when the number one hit stays at number one for months on end and is replaced only with another Beatles song, time and time again, and this goes on for years and years, I think they deserve every accolade they are given.

  23. When the Top 10 charts are dominated month after month by the songs of only one group…
    One would expect to see more respect for Nickelback.

  24. grok at 9:52 AM: “I cannot think of any other band who transformed themselves from pop-candy music through the concept album and into such wild new experimentations (at the time) as they did. Incredible talent.”
    ================
    Exactly. They were constantly evolving while everyone else was playing catch-up. Early Beatles is very different music from mid-60s and mid-60s again was different from the stuff at the end, just before they broke up.
    There are legions of one hit wonders and bands that had several hits which all sounded the same, but not the Beatles. They were always ahead of even their own game.

  25. It’s not about violating the First Amendment, explains Bill’s wife: “Lafferty pointed to a July statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in which she said that free speech will be protected, but the U.S. government will “use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.”
    Clinton’s statement was issued at Istanbul, where the United States and the OIC launched the joint project to combat “religious intolerance.”
    Prior to the launch, OIC officials spent 12 years lobbying for a U.N. resolution that would declared criticism of religion to be defamation.
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/13/islamic-governments-push-for-speech-curbs-in-the-us/

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