Yeah, for me "Scary Monsters" was his last breath of brilliance in 1980. The "Let's Dance" album had a few catchy tunes and I liked the "Blue Jean" single but his albums were becoming mostly filler at that point. I was impressed with his performance of "America" at the 9/11 concert.
>> ^TheJehosephat:

>> ^ulysses1904:
Stopped listening to him after the 1970s, he pretty much dried up creatively after that.

Really? I thought a couple of his songs from the 1980s were good. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Loving The Alien, Ashes To Ashes, Let's Dance, and Under Pressure (collaboration with Queen, but still) ...even a couple from the 1990s like The Heart's Filthy Lesson and I'm Afraid of Americans.

>> ^ulysses1904:
Stopped listening to him after the 1970s, he pretty much dried up creatively after that.


Really? I thought a couple of his songs from the 1980s were good. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Loving The Alien, Ashes To Ashes, Let's Dance, and Under Pressure (collaboration with Queen, but still) ...even a couple from the 1990s like The Heart's Filthy Lesson and I'm Afraid of Americans.

THIS IS IT IN A NUTSHELL.

Buffett Blames Congress for Romney's 15% Rate


Warren Buffett, the billionaire calling for more taxes on the rich, said Mitt Romney's U.S. tax rate of about 15 percent reflects poor laws rather than failings by the candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

"It's the wrong policy to have," Buffett told Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu in an interview today. "He's not going to pay more than the law requires, and I don't fault him for that in the least. But I do fault a law that allows him and me earning enormous sums to pay overall federal taxes at a rate that's about half what the average person in my office pays."

Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) , supports Democratic President Barack Obama and said Congress needs to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to close the budget deficit. Romney has agreed to release his 2010 tax return tomorrow, under pressure from Republican opponents, after saying he pays about 15 percent. Romney co- founded Boston-based private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC.

"He makes his money the same way I make my money," Buffett said. "He makes money by moving around big bucks, not by straining his back or going to work and cleaning toilets or whatever it may be. He makes it shoving around money."

To contact the reporter on this story: Andrew Frye in New York at afrye@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dan Kraut at dkraut2@bloomberg.net

What is happening here is the guys is cooking the popcorn under pressure which stops them from popping then at the end he releases the pressure and they all pop at once.

Wow, very good sift. He's so clearly under pressure and even a bit panicking, apparently.

>> ^enoch:

i was lucky enough to see moving pictures and was astounded how they had to set up the drum set around neil peart.
if you have not seen a live RUSH show,i highly recommend that you check them out.


I saw Grace Under Pressure tour, astounding indeed.

>> ^wraith:

Did she just say that you CAN compress water into a smaller space?


That was a bad analogy; unless you're a physics person. More like throwing a pebble into a pond and yet watch it hit the ground in the pond with no waves. The material structure and atomic setup allow for photons to hit one side without disturbing "the pond" (a.k.a. the atoms) nearly at all; meanwhile, it it is re-emitted as was on, where, or at the point scientists wish it--hence invisibility.

Look up NIMs or what they say in the video. Meta-materials are awesome.

(And no on the water, not unless you put it under pressure first. It's hard to shrink atoms -- density however ...)

@NaMeCaF

What's your address? I want to test your reaction under pressure and I think I smell marijuana smoke.
^Totally not a death threat

Actually, scratch that request. Turns out I dont need it; in some states they're already starting RANDOM searches. You know, just in case random citizens are drug dealers. I guess I'm stupid to not like that either, eh?

Good luck when they come knocking on your door, bitch.

NaMeCaF responds: "RANDOM PEOPLE COULD THROW AWAY RANDOM EVIDENCE IF WE DONT RANDOMLY SEARCH THEM DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW THE WORLD WORKS IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT!!!"

Killing him is not some great victory.

Yes it is.

It seems our difference of opinion on this may be very fundamental.

A victory would have been capturing him, having him tried in a proper court and actually convicted of something with real evidence.

I agree that would have been an even bigger victory. This is still a victory too though as it greatly reduces the capacity of a group of Islamic terrorists that were actively killing people nearly every day. Sure they hadn't killed very many Americans for some time now, but Pakistani civilians are dying everyday to terrorist attacks that WILL be put under pressure and disarray thanks to Osama's death.

If he could actually be shown to be responsible...
If????????

Shame on you for your ignorance. You have access to the internet. go read Al Jazeera, where they have on several occasions reported letters they've received from Osama taking full credit for multiple terrorist attacks on civilians. Go read the English language Pakistani news papers if you don't trust the pro-Western
propaganda of Al Jazeera. Even Pakistan's papers report on direct admission from Osama himself of being responsible. There are elected Pakistani officials that declare Osama a muslim hero, BECAUSE of the attacks he is responsible for.

If??????

Basically they are saying that they turn off their morals at a certain point...

Then you don't see the difference between fighting a war, and enforcing the law. Seeing as you don't even admit Osama's guilt though I shouldn't be surprised.

If you want any respect for your opinions on this from me your passion needs to be matched by your knowledge of the situation, not your ignorance...

Shame this car was canned by GM brass under pressure from the Chevy/Corvette engineers, especially since the 'Vette sucked so bad through these years.

"stereo radio?", "Nothing but the best - A Delco GM Stereo!" - LMFAO!

I'm trying to cut down on the Wikipedia quoting, but this is too awesome:

Defense mechanism
Secretory cells produce hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide, which collect in a reservoir. The reservoir opens through a muscle-controlled valve onto a thick-walled reaction chamber. This chamber is lined with cells that secrete catalases and peroxidases. When the contents of the reservoir are forced into the reaction chamber, the catalases and peroxidases rapidly break down the hydrogen peroxide and catalyze the oxidation of the hydroquinones into p-quinones.

These reactions release free oxygen and generate enough heat to bring the mixture to the boiling point and vaporize about a fifth of it. Under pressure of the released gases, the valve is forced closed, and the chemicals are expelled explosively through openings at the tip of the abdomen. Each time it does this, it shoots about 70 times very rapidly. The damage caused can be fatal to attacking insects and small creatures and is painful to human skin.

That, my good man, is a good idea!

In fact, if there isn't a website by which street performers around the nation (world?) can receive donations from a web audience, then someone needs to get on that!

To be sure, this video was a nice collaboration with the videographer (who, I presume, is not homeless), but the relative costs can be kept minimal so that street performers can be given audience to more than the circumstantial passerby.

>> ^alizarin:

Dude needs a paypal account for donations - I'd pay for that performance!

He actually seems to just be raising money for homeless awareness... The video is borderline viral really

>> ^rgroom1:

There have got to be some issues with him making money off of Kermit ©.
I'll make sure to notify the correct authorities.

Your video, Homeless Man and Two Kermits Sing Under Pressure, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Dali was fascist scum.

http://www.counterpunch.org/navarro12062003.html

The Jackboot of Dada

Salvador Dali, Fascist

By VICENTE NAVARRO

The year 2004, the centenary of Dali's birth, has been proclaimed "the year of Dali" in many countries. Led by the Spanish establishment, with the King at the helm, there has been an international mobilization in the artistic community to pay homage to Dali. But this movement has been silent on a rather crucial item of Dali's biography: his active and belligerent support for Spain's fascist regime, one of the most repressive dictatorial regimes in Europe during the twentieth century.

For every political assassination carried out by Mussolini's fascist regime, there were 10,000 such assassinations by the Franco regime. More than 200,000 people were killed or died in concentration camps between 1939 (when Franco defeated the Spanish Republic, with the military assistance of Hitler and Mussolini) and 1945 (the end of World War II, an anti-fascist war, in Europe). And 30,000 people remain desaparecidos in Spain; no one knows where their bodies are. The Aznar government (Bush's strongest ally in continental Europe) has ignored the instructions of the U.N. Human Rights Agency to help families find the bodies of their loved ones. And the Spanish Supreme Court, appointed by the Aznar government, has even refused to change the legal status of those who, assassinated by the Franco regime because of their struggle for liberty and freedom, remain "criminals."

Now the Spanish establishment, with the assistance of the Catalan establishment, wants to mobilize international support for their painter, Dali, portraying him as a "rebel," an "anti-establishment figure" who stood up to the dominant forces of art. They compare Dali with Picasso. A minor literary figure in Catalonia, Baltasar Porcel (chairman of the Dali year commission), has even said that if Picasso, "who was a Stalinist" (Porcel's term), can receive international acclaim, then Dali, who admittedly supported fascism in Spain, should receive his own homage." Drawing this equivalency between Dali and Picasso is profoundly offensive to all those who remember Picasso's active support for the democratic forces of Spain and who regard his "Guernica" (painted at the request of the Spanish republican government) as an international symbol of the fight against fascism and the Franco regime.

Dali supported the fascist coup by Franco; he applauded the brutal repression by that regime, to the point of congratulating the dictator for his actions aimed "at clearing Spain of destructive forces" (Dali's words). He sent telegrams to Franco, praising him for signing death warrants for political prisoners. The brutality of Franco's regime lasted to his last day. The year he died, 1975, he signed the death sentences of four political prisoners. Dali sent Franco a telegram congratulating him. He had to leave his refuge in Port Lligat because the local people wanted to lynch him. He declared himself an admirer of the founder of the fascist party, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. He used fascist terminology and discourse, presenting himself as a devout servant of the Spanish Church and its teaching--which at that time was celebrating Queen Isabella for having the foresight to expel the Jews from Spain and which had explicitly referred to Hitler's program to exterminate the Jews as the best solution to the Jewish question. Fully aware of the fate of those who were persecuted by Franco's Gestapo, Dali denounced Bunuel and many others, causing them enormous pain and suffering.

None of these events are recorded in the official Dali biography and few people outside Spain know of them. It is difficult to find a more despicable person than Dali. He never changed his opinions. Only when the dictatorship was ending, collapsing under the weight of its enormous corruption, did he become an ardent defender of the monarchy. And when things did not come out in this way, he died.

Dali also visited the U.S. frequently. He referred to Cardinal Spellman as one of the greatest Americans. And while in the U.S., he named names to the FBI of all the friends he had betrayed. In 1942, he used all his influence to have Buñuel fired from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where Buñuel worked after having to leave Spain following Franco's victory. Dali denounced Buñuel as a communist and an atheist, and it seems that under pressure from the Archbishop of New York, Buñuel had to leave for Mexico, where he remained for most of his life. In his frequent visits to New York, Dali made a point of praying in St. Patrick's Cathedral for the health of Franco, announcing at many press conferences his unconditional loyalty to Franco's regime.

Quite a record, yet mostly unknown or ignored by his many fans in the art world.

Vicente Navarro is the author of The Political Economy of Social Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life and Dangerous to Your Health. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University. He can be reached at navarro@counterpunch.org.