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November 20, 2009 04:39 PM UTC

Friday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Should we talk about the weather

Should we talk about the government

–R.E.M.

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46 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread

  1. http://legaltimes.typepad.com/

    Cassidy & Associates vice chairman Gregg Hartley didn’t like a critical New York Times story this week on one of the firm’s biggest clients, Equatorial Guinea.

    So he’s hitting back against the reporter, Ian Urbina, using an unusual vehicle: His personal Twitter feed.

    “How does NY Times manage its reporter’s conflicts of interest?” Hartley tweeted indignantly on Tuesday. “Not well. Re: Equatorial Guinea, father was judge in controversial case.”

    Hartley also acknowledged that he hadn’t verified what he’d heard about Urbina’s connection to the judge before tweeting. “Here’s one thing about social media. You don’t have to always be right,” he said, though he said he would tweet a correction if he was wrong.

  2. I noticed some barriers by a side entrance to my local King Soopers yesterday and overheard a couple of checkers talking about voting. Nothing in the morning news as of yet.

  3. But I don’t see it.  So, I’ll provide this in celebration of the video finally being released, this past week (Nov 10), 31 years after the concert. (and after 2 years of advocacy by euorpean friends and myself, thank you ERE)  A concert my (ex) wife and I attended in 1978, at a small hall in Offenbach, Germany.  Still have the tickets.  After we bought the LP, it soon became my wife’s favorite album. And 3 or 4 months later, I purchased the concert tickets as a surprise for our wedding anniversary. I took her to dinner and then to the concert.  She had no idea what was happening until I gave her the ticket at the door or even that he was in Germany.  And to my own surprise, when we got inside, the German equivalent of Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, Rockplalast, was there to record the concert.  Needless to say, someone was very happy and I got to experience the real joy of “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” that night on the drive back home to Wiesbaden.  🙂

    I ordered the DVD a few days ago.  And as I know many here lie awake at night wondering what I looked like 31 years ago, like Steve Martin becoming “somebody” when the phone book comes out, I might post it next week.  If I appear in the video. 😉

    Hmmm, I was going to post a “Paradise” clip, which really became apropos years later, but maybe this song from that night “so many years ago” is more germane.

    And yes, that is the legendary song writer/composer, Jim Steinman, at the ivories.  Long time (later) KISS and current Grand Funk Railroad guitarist, Bruce Kulick, was the guitarist on this tour also.  

    Today’s culinary art from the gourmet menu:   31 year old Meatloaf!  Bon AppГ©tit!

            1. comes close sometimes, too: Leo Kottke on the twelve-string, for instance (as long as he doesn’t sing!). Oh, and some acoustic guitarist out of California, I think, in the 1980s, did the most incredible version of “Blackbird” I’ve ever heard; can’t think of his name now. Unbelievably moving (in that case, the singing did help).

          1. My dad was interested in classical guitar in the early 80s and I think he saw Segovia in Phoenix. Dad also played a bit of classical guitar, but I wasn’t living at home then and never really heard him play or had an appreciation for it until my youngest son started playing guitar about six years ago. His instructor felt it was best to start guitar students on classical because it provided a great musical foundation to build on. My son was obsessed for about a year and a half and played constantly. He’s very talented and seemed to pick it up easily. He moved on and dabbled with the violin, piano, and electric guitar. He told me the other day he’s getting interested in the classical guitar again because of the versatility of the sound. I’d get on my knees and beg him to play the classical guitar if I thought that would encourage him. The sound just melts my heart.

  4. I know how frustrating it’s been for CD6 Dems all these years, working for and contributing to Dem candidates and never seeming to make an inch of progress, even in 2008, with an open seat and the wind at our backs in almost all the other elections. But please check out John Flerlage and consider supporting him strongly if only to get a stronger, more respectable showing this time out.

    He’s a much more appealing candidate than anything I’ve seen here in all the time I’ve lived here, granted with the same lack of name recognition as our last three candidates and without benefit of targeting. Still, if CD6 Dems are ever going to even break through the 60/40 barrier and stop looking as hopeless as C Springs, we have to keep pushing and this guy is well worth a push.

    Just a Friday thought for my CD6 neighbors.

  5. From All Headline News (whatever that is)

    Albany, NY (AHN) – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has dropped plans to run for governor and now has his eye on the seat of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), according to reports coinciding with polls that had America’s mayor at the top of the 2010 Senate race.

    Governor Patterson’s ratings are so low he’s being urged not to run. A recent poll shows him getting blown away by Atty. General Andrew Cuomo in a Dem primary. Polls show Cuomo beating Rudy in a governors race, so looks like Rudi wants the safer bet and wants to run against appointed Senator Gillibrand, who took Hillary Clinton’s seat.

    Giuliani spent $66 million and got exactly one delegate seeking the GOP nomination for pres last year.  

    1. Can’t really blame Giuliani for not noticing that his time has passed; the trait is part of virtually every Republican’s DNA. The Candidate from Queens and Staten Island made some New Yorkers feel better for a time with Tough Talk, and was effective at stepping into the spotlight after 9/11 without actually contributing anything, but that was eight years, going on nine, ago. Past tense.

      Since then Rudy’s honcho Top Cop/business partner has found his way into prison, Rudy’s Remember Me campaign of ’08 tanked, and now he would like to pretend that it’s still 2001 in at least some distant corner of New York in order to get an imaginary credential to try, try again in ’12 (perhaps in the belief that having been elected to office is useful when running for higher one). Actually, his best chance of hanging onto office came when he tried to postpone the New York mayoral election after 9/11 and failed. Since then, he has proved only that there is enough spare cash in corporate America to bribe the nearest has-been politician with his hand out.

  6. It’s important you watch this video to understand signs of fraud, waste and abuse.  

    Within the video you’ll learn about the direct and express process for reporting to federal officials corruption of this sort affiliated with ARRA progams.

    Do your part to stop fraud, waste and abuse of billions of ARRA dollars before they are reported by certain news organizations as a tool of political leverage.

    1. You can pop regular popcorn in a regular brown paper bag in the microwave?

      These, and other, incredible cost savings brought to you by the power of recycled electrons.

  7. Link.

    According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops there.

    “They know Favre by name,” said First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen, who is from New Richmond, Wis.

    “One of the big words they know now is shenanigan.  They’ll constantly talk about ‘Favre shenanigans,’ ‘He’s so good for the Vikings,’ and ‘The Packers have got to really feel bad about that one.’  “

  8. Will Steve King have something to be thankful for next Friday?

    http://www.gjsentinel.com/news

    Penry will take holidays to decide future plans

    State Sen. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, will decide over the holidays whether to seek his old Senate seat, after backing out of the campaign for the Republican nomination for governor.

    In the meantime, he said he’ll return what’s left of his gubernatorial campaign chest to the donors who contributed to that bid.

    He remains committed to defeating Gov. Bill Ritter, however, he told about 160 Republicans at their monthly luncheon today at Two Rivers Convention Center.

  9. that the crazy right-wingers, who Palin spent so much time agitating against everyone and anyone different, would eventually turn on her.

    Teabaggers just aren’t happy about anything these days. I guess the Noblesville, Indiana Going Rogue book signing didn’t go very well yesterday because 300* or so of the 1000 people with wristbands were asked not to tread on Sarah Palin and then she tried to make a getaway with Baby Trig and several duffel bags full of cash but wingnuts have learned to protest about everything these days, so they were having none of it.  This is the best thing you will see about horrible, horrible Sarah Palin on the internets all day and until the end of time.

    Apparently once you convince people that the only thing that matters is their own personal happiness, you have to start making them happy. Too hard for Sarah Palin, you know, because it involves actual responsibilities, also.

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