Hard News: The next four years
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Stop, hey what's that sound...
(well, Trump is a kind of 'bluffalo'
or 'bewilderbeast' at best!)Just do what you should Donald...
Taste this.... (sure ain't Marvin Gaye's plea for sanity in a world gone mad!)
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
I see Donald Trump has presidentially decreed Jan 20th, the date of his inauguration as "National Patriotic Devotion day"
"Dear Leader of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Un, approves of this glorious message from your American fellow traveller!"
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WH, in reply to
Very nice, I like those. This is my favourite Lou Reed song, although this is good too.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
this is good too.
Mr South providing distinctive guitar for Aretha.
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Farmer Green, in reply to
Duane Allman gets a guitar credit on this one ; Dr. John wrote it.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Duane Allman gets a guitar credit on this one ; Dr. John wrote it.
I was bemused when the media said Trump used Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' as part of his Inauguraton Ball - so many people have covered that song just as successfully (Elvis for one) and really it was written by Paul Anka, who rarely gets a mention...
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"In 1968, Bowie wrote the lyrics “Even a Fool Learns to Love”, set to the music of a 1967 French song “Comme d’habitude”, composed by Claude François and Jacques Revaux. Bowie’s version was never released, but Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version and rewrote it into “My Way”, the song made famous by Frank Sinatra in a 1969 recording on his album of the same name. The success of the Anka version prompted Bowie to write “Life on Mars?"
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WH, in reply to
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This is waay too good to be anything other than ‘fake’….badlands-national-park-defies-donald-trumps-orders-then-eerily-deletes-its-climate-change-facts
With the Trump administration placing a gag order on the Environmental Protection Agency, shutting down its Twitter feed, forcing employees off their individual accounts and dismantling Web pages with climate-change information, Badlands went rogue.
“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years,” it declared in one of at least four tweets.
“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years,” it declared in one of at least four tweets.
Admirers went nuts. They created a hashtag, #Badasslands, in an ode to the defiance and dubbed the park Breaking Badlands after the TV show "Breaking Bad."
Another tune, methinks, to soothe…
You couldn’t make this shit up….
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Farmer Green, in reply to
You couldn’t make this shit up….
That's the question still , isn't it? Can you still make shit up? And if you get called on it , replace with new shit, which is lapped up as greedily as the last lot?
Karl Rove seemed to be confident.
Did Joe Sixpack , somewhere , say :- " I'm not seeing it" ?
The Emperor's New Clothes. There's no going back.http://www.unz.com/article/karl-roves-prophecy/
And so . . . . Trump. -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Can you still make shit up?
The Minitrue will explain all in the finest Newspeak
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andin, in reply to
Can you still make shit up?
Thats the problem Trump& co are making shit up and passing it off as fact/reality/truth whatever they want to call it.
And using their positions to enforce it.
On a personal level this kind of behaviour (all too human) does any real or long lasting damage. But in the positions they occupy it is dangerous in so many way. -
Farmer Green, in reply to
But my question is whether it is still possible to get away with that, or is it the case that Joe Sixpack now believes nobody?
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nzlemming, in reply to
They would revert to the last draft agreed by the founding group
I don't know if they could do that. I suspect not, as the ground has changed under them. The problem, even for the P4 nations, is not knowing what the Orange Elephant in the room will do next, because it doesn't know either.
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mark taslov, in reply to
But my question is whether it is still possible to get away with that, or is it the case that Joe Sixpack now believes nobody?
Human’s are so mind-numbingly conformist that it doesn’t matter much what Joe believes, that’s Joe’s thing. As long as the freemartins don’t start busting out their Woody Guthrie LPs, everyone’s schedules are full.
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Where I come from , a freemartin is a female of a set of twins, with confused hormonal status.
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mark taslov, in reply to
We must come from a very similar place * it’s strange how fluid things are compared to how black and white they’re so often portrayed and readily consumed despite our perception of three dimensions.
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Don’t be stoopid be a smartie, come on join the natzi pardy.
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andin, in reply to
Get away with what?
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
but Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version and rewrote it into “My Way”, the song made famous by Frank Sinatra in a 1969 recording on his album of the same name.
Sinatra's producer Sonny Burke and his A&R guy Jimmy Bowen heard the song Anka was pitching and knew it was a smash. Sinatra hated it but needed a hit so he recorded it reluctantly – in one late night take (as was oft his way). It was, of course, a smash but Sinatra hated it all his life and would at times tell audiences so, explaining that he had to reluctantly sing it because it was so big.
If wasn't from the album of the same name, though - the album was quickly constructed around the song after it was a hit, to cash in. It worked.
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mark taslov, in reply to
Thanks for that Simon, good info!
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Sacha, in reply to
(If you paste the link to the non-mobile version of a Youtube clip it embeds automatically)
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Righto I will google that Sacha.
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Sacha, in reply to
I just removed the "m." part of the address you had pasted.
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