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7761. judithathome - 2/14/2005 4:56:56 PM Well, don't feel bad, no one else did, either....I had to pat myself on the back for it, after all. ;-) 7762. wonkers2 - 2/14/2005 5:11:34 PM "On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt, Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy, Princeton Here. 7763. wonkers2 - 2/14/2005 5:16:57 PM Frankfort: "The bull artist, on the other hand, cares nothing for truth or falsehood. The only thing that matters is 'getting away with what he says.' An advertiser or a politician or talk show host given to [bull]does not reject the authority of the truth as the liar does, and oppose himself to it, he pays no attention to it at all."
Are Bush-Cheney liars or merely bullshitters? 7764. Magoseph - 2/15/2005 2:52:29 PM Uz, thank you for the C-Span link: "Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age". 7765. wonkers2 - 2/19/2005 3:24:50 PM The Droogs are back, on stage this time. Here. 7766. wabbit - 4/15/2005 3:19:32 PM How cool is this -- the Smithsonian Institution has just gone online with the ethnographic answer to iTunes: smithsonianglobalsound.org, with museum-quality annotation and royalties paid to musicians. I've added a link in the butter bar. 7767. Magoseph - 4/28/2005 12:13:58 PM Culture and our President...
May 2005 issue
Small Favors Molly Ivins
The Whim of a Hat
Hey, the sun is shining, the bluebonnets are out, our big music festival, South by Southwest, rocked, and the puppy wants to play. You expect me to write about Terri Schiavo, Iraq, and Paul ("There is no history of ethnic strife in Iraq") Wolfowitz?
Instead, let us celebrate spring with a roundup of the President's verbal gaffes, boners, grammatical errors, and immortal contributions to logic. Remember, this is a contest between George Bush père and George Bush fils, with the old man still well ahead at this point, though I think you will agree, after reading the latest, that our boy is gaining on him.
These are, as always, taken straight from life and from W.'s mouth.
First of all, there's the ongoing situation in Iraq, where, as he put it, "it is a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life." Our enemies in Iraq are very resourceful, he adds. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we," says the Prez.
Don't worry, the President understands the financial implications of Iraq. He said, "I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops."
Then there was Bush's spluttering in the first debate: "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard."
If ever there was a man who understood hard work, it is our President. He was fully prepared for it by his time as governor of Texas. His former chief of staff, Clay Johnson, stated that in those days, Bush's workweek consisted of "two hard half-days" broken only by his two-hour midday break. We can tell that Bush still misses being governor because he said: "One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the President, governor--the governor--President. Oops. Ex-governor."
On general strategery, the President said, "The best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forward to describe the location of the holes, is to give clues and data." And he uttered these profound words of wisdom: "Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."
He added, curiously, "Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
Bush is not into process. "Oftentimes, we live in a processed world--you know, people focus on the process and not the results."
His focus on results led to this doozie on slavery: "It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left there to go to America, because their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom helped change America."
Last year was a period of high stress for George W., who once again had to struggle with the education issue, observing that the "illiteracy level of our children are appalling."
President Bush also informed us during the campaign that God speaks through him. This disappointed many who thought the Almighty knew how to pronounce the word "nuclear."
Bush himself has noted, "I'm also not very analytical. You know, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." But still, he is capable of deep self-awareness, as when he observed, "I am the master of low expectations."
End of recap. You must admit "kill at the whim of a hat" is almost worth the price of admission. Just try to remember, folks, this is historic times.
7768. wonkers2 - 5/8/2005 1:08:28 PM Heretofor whimsical Colombian painter of fat people, Fernando Botero, turns serious over Abu Ghraib torture. Here. 7769. wabbit - 5/9/2005 2:18:30 AM Pump it up! 7770. wonkers2 - 5/9/2005 4:09:14 PM Is Mass Culture Dumbing us Down or Smartening Us Up? The answer here. 7771. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:08:03 PM La Pistache a Tante Nana - mp3
Huge selection of cajun music mp3's free here 7772. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:11:47 PM E-OU CE QUE T'ES PARTI? WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
What is Cajun French?
French Dept Louisiana State Univ. 7773. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:42:03 PM Mon petit garçon a plus des crises
Ma vieille a plus des rhumatismes
Sont plus malades at all at all
Depuis ils ont pris le Hadacol
Sois garanti tu prends quelque dose
Tes yeux sont clairs, tes joues sont roses,
Prends quelques bouteilles et je te promets
Tu vas jongler pour courtiser
J’ai fait serment dessus la Bible
Me sentir mieux c’est pas possible
Moi qui te dis je peux remercier
Le Hadacol à Nonc Dudley
Si t’as des douleurs mais tout partout,
Dans tes jambes et dans ton cou,
Si t’as besoin des vitamins
Le Hadacol peut le mettre within
Si les docteurs t’ont décompté
Y a une sauce pour t’as cassé,
Y a une chance pour ta santé,
Le Hadacol peut te le donner
Viens faire serment dessus la Bible
Te sentir mieux c’est pas possible
Moi qui dis qui a remercié
Le Hadacol à Nonc Dudley
"Pendant longtemps j’ai miséré
Sur juste du lait, du pain grillé,
Asteur c'est bien je me porte du suif,"
Say Nonc Ignace a L'Anse la Butte
"J’ai pris le tonique à Nonc Dudley
C'est ça ca pris pour m’engraisser,
Asteur ma vieille me trouve si mieux
Elle me prend pareil qu’un amoureux."
J’ai fait le serment dessus la Bible
De me sentir mieux c’est pas possible
Moi qui dis je peux remercier
Le Hadacol à Nonc Dudley
Valse de Hadacol 7774. jexster - 5/14/2005 6:56:44 PM And the ever-populaire Jolie Blon
Jolie blonde, regardez donc quoi t'as fait,
Tu m'as quitte pour t'en aller,
Pour T'en aller avec un autre, oui, que moi,
Quel espoir et quel avenir, mais, moi, je vais avoir?
Jolie blonde, tu m'as laisse, moi tout seul,
Pour t'en aller chez ta famille.
Si t'aurais pas ecoute tos les conseils de les autres
tu serait ici-t-avec moi aujourd 'hui
Jolie blonde, tu croyais il y avait just toi,
Il y a pas just toi dans le pays pour moi aimer.
Je peux trouver just une autre jolie blonde,
Bon Dieu sait, moi, j'ai un tas.
In English
Pretty blond, look at what you've done,
You left me to go away,
to go away with another, yes, than me,
What hope and what future am I going to have?
Pretty blond, you've left me all alone
To go back to your family.
If you had not listened to all the advice of the others
You would be here with me today.
Pretty blond, you thought there as just you,
There is not just you in the land to love me.
I can find another pretty blond,
Good God knows, I have a lot.
7775. alistairConnor - 5/14/2005 8:29:48 PM Asteur ma vieille me trouve si mieux
Elle me prend pareil qu’un amoureux.
Ah that's poetry. 7776. alistairConnor - 5/19/2005 8:44:25 PM 
Oh la what have I done.
I've been meaning to get around to buying tickets for BB King, I've never yet seen him, and you always regret when you had the chance and then they die... and Taj Mahal on the same bill...
I just checked out the Jazz à Vienne web site and of course that concert is sold out already. Bugger.
So I thought : what about George Clinton instead? ... What about Chick Corea? What about Oscar Petersen? The Cuban evening, or the Louisiana gospel evening? the Brazilians?
... so I went and bought season tickets, any seven concerts.
AND I get to see BB!
7777. judithathome - 5/19/2005 10:56:26 PM Congrats, Alistair!
And I snagged a great #! 7778. wabbit - 5/23/2005 8:10:31 PM I don't know if JJ or CharlieL lurk here anymore, but if they do, there is a nice little program they might want to check out now that mp3.com has changed their format.
Radio.blog lets you create a playlist and stream it from a website. The basic program requires a server that allows PHP and XML, but there are ways around the PHP. I was thinking they could create playlists of their original music and stream it from their websites, so folks could hear what they do.
It's a little involved to get set up, but a bit of patience and some website know-how will get you through. The directions available with the program leave a lot to be desired, imo, but I can write up what I ended up doing for anyone who might be interested. Don't mind the playlist I'm using, it's some of what was on this computer at the time. I suppose I should edit the playlist to display the band names...maybe another time. 7779. wabbit - 5/30/2005 7:32:19 PM Nine Inch Nails has dropped out of the MTV Movie Awards after clashing with the network over an image of President Bush that the band planned as a performance backdrop, The Associated Press reported. The image was to accompany the song "The Hand That Feeds," which obliquely criticizes the war in Iraq. MTV said in a statement to its news division that the network was disappointed that the band would not perform at the awards, to air on June 9, but had been "uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement." The Foo Fighters will perform instead. Trent Reznor, above, the leader of Nine Inch Nails, said on the band's Web site that the image of the president would have been unaltered. "Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," he said. 7780. arkymalarky - 5/31/2005 10:33:17 PM Music right now is extremely political--more than it was in the '60s, imo. MTV can't have it both ways, though they've been trying their stupid balancing act ever since they started.
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