HA!

To me this is signature song, but my mom has a Christmas record of his, so I know what you mean. "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...."

(Maybe this Xmas I'll post that video. And Nat King Cole's too.)

Some of my parents records that I liked:

-Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream (I can't tell you how many hours I stared at that album cover)
-Nat King Cole
-John Denver
-Kenny Rogers
-Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - I practically memorized every word to every song on that album, because it had the lyrics on the back
-LOTS of traditional Irish music records. My dad's parents were both from Ireland. The Irish Rovers were one of his favorites.
-Dean Martin

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Ditto! Just replace Styx with Jethro Tull and Kansas with Motorhead, Maiden, and Priest. Prior to that it was my parent's records, Fats Domino, Beachboys, and Johnny Cash.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Did you ever have an extension cord for those big puffy cans? I had a 25-foot extension cord for my phones, so that I could wander all over my bedroom while I rocked out on "Glass Houses", my very first vinyl record. Followed by:

2. Styx - Paradise Theatre
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Styx - Grand Illusion
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Van Halen - I
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Kansas - Leftoverture
11. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
12. Rush - Permanent Waves

And the rest are kind of blur after that, but those were my first 12 disciples. I'll always remember.

You may be right, I may be crazy.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Nor did I fall asleep every night wearing big puffy headphones with the curly cord listening to an 8-track copy of Songs From the Attic that I bought at Bradlees with my lawn-mowing money. If you ever hear this rumor it is a complete fabrication.

*promote

Bcglorf, why don't you admit it: Reagan, I agree, sucks, but Juan Cole rules, at least with regard to all things Arab/Middle-East.

Re Libya, not only Cole realises that European sanctions against Libya had, in great part, already been lifted in 1999 (in return for owning up for Lockerbie), so to whom should Gadhafi have turned, if not to the US (who had stuck to their embargo)? Not to mention the fact that Libya had given up supporting terrorism long before that date.

If you really think Hitchens is that cool, try to find anything that supports his 10 points of "positive accounting" in the article Cole responds to:

overthrow of Talibanism and Baathism and exposure of highly suggestive links [I don’t know about those suggestive links, but the Taliban seem to be alive & kicking], a capitulation offered not to Kofi Annan or the E.U. [capitulating to Kofi Annan or the EU, that would be a novelty...], agreement by the United Nations that reform is necessary and overdue [war was waged on Iraq to make the UN realise it needed reform?], showing that Chirac and Schröder were cheating [is anybody willing to explain this to the Iraqis?], the ability to certify Iraq as actually disarmed, rather than accept the word of a psychopathic autocrat [Hans Blix a psychopath?], the encouragement of democratic and civil society movements in Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon [videosifters in any of those countries, please respond], the violent and ignominious death of thousands of bin Ladenist infiltrators [I guess, just arresting, or even killing them, wasn’t enough], training and hardening of many thousands of American servicemen/women in a battle against the forces of nihilism and absolutism [videosifters in the military, what do you think?]. Actually, I can agree (a little bit) with his # 7: the immense gains made by the largest stateless minority in the region--the Kurds--and the spread of this example to other states.

(www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/995phqjw.asp?pg=2)

And this is the character of the entire article. As Hitchens has since pointed out, the Iraq war was not the only influence, but it is rather important to note that Gadhafi did not go to the UN, nor to Europe, but to the British and the Americans. If the Iraq war was not an influence, why are it's biggest supporters the ones that Libya went to and has handed it's weapons to?


I don't necessarily agree with Cole either, because if I just saw the world's super powers shred and spit on International law, it would compel me to make my peace offerings with them pretty quickly too.

The point still holds, it was an inane justification to even ponder invoking in defense of something as farcical as this 'war' regardless of the minutia.

After Hitchen's little waterboarding stunt I'm intrigued to see what he tackles next . . maybe he'll let himself be invaded and occupied by the U.S Military, using their 'Shocker and Awe' doctrine, and maybe then he will revise his views yet again.

Anyway, I'm going way off topic.

Nice.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
1. Norah Jones - "Feelin' The Same Way"
2. Van Halen - "Intruder"
3. Sir Edward Elgar - "Enigma Variations for Orchestra, Op. 36 'Nimrod'"
4. Def Leppard - "Don't Shoot Shotgun"
5. Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Kathy's Waltz"
6. Nat King Cole - "Fly Me To The Moon"
7. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "I Drink Alone"
8. The Donnas - "Is That All You've Got For Me"
9. Yes - "Long Distance Runaround"
10. Pink Floyd - "Signs Of Life"

And I'm not ashamed of a single damn one of them.

This is fun. We should do this once a week. Lindsay Beyerstein used to have a Friday Random Ten for a long time, but discontinued it over a year ago. Too bad. Let's not let it end here.

1. Norah Jones - "Feelin' The Same Way"
2. Van Halen - "Intruder"
3. Sir Edward Elgar - "Enigma Variations for Orchestra, Op. 36 'Nimrod'"
4. Def Leppard - "Don't Shoot Shotgun"
5. Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Kathy's Waltz"
6. Nat King Cole - "Fly Me To The Moon"
7. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "I Drink Alone"
8. The Donnas - "Is That All You've Got For Me"
9. Yes - "Long Distance Runaround"
10. Pink Floyd - "Signs Of Life"

And I'm not ashamed of a single damn one of them.

This is fun. We should do this once a week. Lindsay Beyerstein used to have a Friday Random Ten for a long time, but discontinued it over a year ago. Too bad. Let's not let it end here.

>> ^oohahh:
Is there any truth to this? I want a place and date.


Apparently it happened during McCain's Senate bid in 1992. Cliff Schecter wrote about this in his book "The Real McCain" where he talks about how McCain is known for being nasty.

An excerpt from The Real McCain taken from The Raw Story:

"Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."

McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days."

Maybe they just like to talk dirty to each other...

*discard http://www.videosift.com/video/Sixth-Sense-Coles-conversation-with-his-mother-in-the-car

Raigen,

In case you were wondering why this gun is important and useful, take a look at the targets they used - the main usage for this gun is defensive - the threats it was designed to take out are incoming missiles (2:35) or an incoming explosive laden speedboat (Remember the USS Cole?).
This is called "active defenses" and helps save lives.

But if you truly believe that the US is in Afghanistan becuase of 911 then you are a retard. If that were the case then the US definitely had prior knowledge because they were ready to invade before sept 11.


They were ready to invade back under the Clinton administration to get rid of Al-Qaeda. Your either ignorant or lying to act as if 9/11 was the first straw, it was the last in a long line of attacks on the US and other nations made by Al-Qaeda. Remember the USS cole? Weren't you around to complain when Al-Qaeda training camps were previously bombed in Afghanistan? Please don't play dumb. It just makes you look dumb.

>> ^asynchronice:
Goddammit, almost made me cry at my desk...<sucking it up>


ah yes, success.

HJO is one of those kids that is ENTIRELY too talented. I always thought that a remake of "Children of the Corn" with him and the girl from the Spielberg/Cruise "War of the Worlds" Dakota Fanning, would be an amazing mind-f___. Takashi Shimizu would have to direct, of course...


>> ^Ryjkyj:
That scene where the girl comes into his tent I looked around and saw that I was completely alone. That scared the crap out of me. Stupid creepy little girls.


Played Fear yet?

Eh, you'll get used to it. Once you get past that corpsey smell.

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
Sweetness, though it's kind of creepy talking to a dead person. Maybe I'm just like Cole Sear.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I was wondering who, if anyone, would ask for that. Because you asked first it's all yours, once my ghost sifts just a few more videos first. It can't leave this world until it gets to post a couple more toilet humor videos.

It's all about the quality.

Sweetness, though it's kind of creepy talking to a dead person. Maybe I'm just like Cole Sear.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I was wondering who, if anyone, would ask for that. Because you asked first it's all yours, once my ghost sifts just a few more videos first. It can't leave this world until it gets to post a couple more toilet humor videos.

It's all about the quality.

That video shows a clear individual who we can judge..it's good TV, not abstract. Katrina is visual and visceral..global warming and civil liberties are not: http://www.videosift.com/video/Frogs-in-Boiling-Water-the-Psychology-of-Global-Warming

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
People seemingly get more railed up about police abuses captured on video then the continuing judicial abuses committed by the Whitehouse. One affects a minority the other affects the majority. Kind of like whats going on right now in the Senate:

Senate Yesterday

After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants.

One by one, the Senate rejected amendments that would have imposed greater civil liberties checks on the government’s surveillance powers. Finally, the Senate voted 68 to 29 to approve legislation that the White House had been pushing for months. Mr. Bush hailed the vote and urged the House to move quickly in following the Senate’s lead.