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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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Republi-CON Immigration Hypocrisy
You've heard the claim that Americans won't do the jobs that corporations are force to hire immigrants to do.
But did you know that "a Tea Party favorite and president of the House Republicans’ freshman class . . . showed his true allegence to his corporate overlords by defending] a company in his district that discriminates against U.S. citizens in favor of Mexican migrant workers. Scott introduced the bill abolishing Legal Services exactly three days after it became public that Legal Services had won a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determination that Georgia’s Hamilton Growers 'engages in a pattern or practice of regularly denying work hours and assigning less favorable assignments to U.S. workers, in favor of H2-A guestworkers.' Hamilton also 'engages in a pattern or practice of discharging U.S. workers and replacing them with H-2A guestworkers,' the EEOC determined." Read the Washington Post, How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots, which noted:
But did you know that "a Tea Party favorite and president of the House Republicans’ freshman class . . . showed his true allegence to his corporate overlords by defending] a company in his district that discriminates against U.S. citizens in favor of Mexican migrant workers. Scott introduced the bill abolishing Legal Services exactly three days after it became public that Legal Services had won a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determination that Georgia’s Hamilton Growers 'engages in a pattern or practice of regularly denying work hours and assigning less favorable assignments to U.S. workers, in favor of H2-A guestworkers.' Hamilton also 'engages in a pattern or practice of discharging U.S. workers and replacing them with H-2A guestworkers,' the EEOC determined." Read the Washington Post, How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots, which noted:
"As one of the American plaintiffs put it: 'We worked hard at our jobs and really wanted the work, but Hamilton didn’t want Americans to work in their fields.' Americans, after all, would be more likely to know the laws and to complain if they’re being exploited.
Instead, Scott chose to side with a large employer of foreign migrants in his district — against his out-of-work constituents."
Friday, August 5, 2011
To Help Balance the Federal Budget, Should the Blue Angels Be Cut?
"[T]he Blue Angels' budget is about $30 million." Read the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Could the Blue Angels be grounded -- forever?
Republi-CON Sexual Health Hypocrisy
Republi-cons oppose free birth control because they claim it "will wipe out the American race and instantly turn daughters into wanton harlots with insatiable sexual appetites."
Of course, Republi-cons support insurance paid "real, necessary medical expenses, like boner pills."
Watch The Colbert Report, Women's Health-Nazi Plan.
Of course, Republi-cons support insurance paid "real, necessary medical expenses, like boner pills."
Watch The Colbert Report, Women's Health-Nazi Plan.
Priceless: A Republi-CON Candidate Caught Trying to Con the Other RepubliCON Candidates
"Allegations arise that 80% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter followers aren't real, but making up people may be the key to keeping his campaign alive." Watch The Colbert Report, Newt Gingrich's Twitter Scandal:
Israel Should Make Peace With the Palestinians ASAP
UPDATE II: "Welcome to the Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli chapter. Commentators sometimes talked as if the Facebook revolutionaries had forgotten about the Palestinian issue. Not so: The 'dignity revolution' is connecting, as in last week’s frightening riot at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, with the ever-flowing font of Arab shame and rage toward the Jewish state. Bidding for regional leadership is Erdogan, who thundered Monday, 'Israel cannot play with our dignity.' . .
When you strip away the posturing on all sides, what’s happening is that Israel now lives in an Arab neighborhood where public opinion matters. For decades, Israelis have dismissed the 'Arab street,' as if presidents and kings were the only decisive voices. That approach worked so long as dictators could suppress popular opinion, but no more. . .
[The] bottom line on the collision of the new Arab Spring and the old animosities: Israelis may ultimately be more secure in a world of Arab democracies. But it will be a world where compromise is part of survival."
Read the Washington Post, Israel’s new problem with the Arab Street.
UPDATE: "If you think Congress is obstructionist on the debt ceiling, look at the Middle East. But there’s hope." Read The New York Times, Seeking Balance on the Mideast.
"The struggle today across the Arab world is between the 'I will make you afraid' leadership and the 'We are not afraid anymore' citizens." Read The New York Times, The New Hama Rules.
Union Busting, Part of the Republi-CON War on the Middle Class
UPDATE VII: "The decline in organized labor’s power and membership has played a larger role in fostering increased wage inequality in the United States than is generally thought, according to a new study." Read The New York Times, Labor’s Decline and Wage Inequality.
UPDATE VI: There wasn't always Republi-con distain for labor unions. in 1983, Ronald Reagan said: “where collective bargaining is forbidden, freedom is lost.” Watch the mythical Reagan says it himself:
UPDATE V: "Since the early 1980s, when General Electric's widely admired chief executive, Jack Welch, declared that the primary goal of the corporation was to increase shareholder value, America's corporate managers have been faithfully rewarded for treating their employees as necessary - or unnecessary - evils, to be shed whenever possible, or replaced by foreign or temporary workers, and most certainly not allowed to form unions or receive wage increases. Thirty years later, this form of shareholder capitalism has swept the field of nearly all opposition, with results - chiefly, the eclipse of the decent-paying job - that grow more glaring with each passing day." Read the Washington Post, Where's the economic recovery?
UPDATE IV: Stephen Colbert's proposal for two America's -- America Plus and Poor America. Funny, but unfortunately true:
The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - New Country for Old Men
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive
UPDATE III: "In the raging battle over union rights in Wisconsin, those seeking to curtail collective bargaining for state employees have advanced an argument that seems hard to resist: It will make it easier to reward those workers who perform the best [as judged by a performance review]. What could be fairer than that? . .
Performance reviews are held up as objective assessments by the boss, with the assumption that the boss has all the answers.
Now, maybe your boss is all-knowing. But I’ve never seen one that was."
Read The New York Times, Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You.
UPDATE II: "Madison, Wis., is looking a lot like Baghdad in 2003, with government officials exploiting fiscal crises for fun and profit" to benefit our corporate overlords. Read The New York Times, Shock Doctrine, U.S.A.
The real objective -- "reward the G.O.P.’s wealthiest patrons by crippling what remains of organized labor, by wrecking the government agencies charged with regulating and policing corporations, and, as always, by rewarding the wealthiest with more tax breaks." Read The New York Times, Why Wouldn’t the Tea Party Shut It Down?
UPDATE: Wisconsin Gov. Walker has been caught "eagerly recounting his efforts to crush collective bargaining in Wisconsin to an out-of-state billionaire backer," who supported his election and has current (rules on pipeline transport) and possible future (no-bid sell-off of any state-owned heating, cooling, or power plants) business interest in the state. Read The Business Insider, Why A Reporter's Prank Call To David Koch Is No Laughing Matter.
Here is Jon Stewart's take:
"Republican talk of balancing budgets is cover for the real purpose of gutting the political force of middle-class state workers." Read The New York Times, Spreading Anti-Union Agenda.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY
Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!
NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.
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So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.
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Local Business Shout-Out: Holy Smoke LLC, 11532 Old Ganey Road, Stockton, Alabama, "Planning a loved ones final arrangements can be a challenging responsibility, one you want to do with care and consideration. Allow Holy Smoke to help you create a tribute to your outdoorsperson like no other."I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.
Follow-up: for long-time listeners who remember this oldie but goodie, "a $1,000 five day vacation to a South Carribean island with private bungalo and food, fun, and surf provided could put their name on the list and be considered for selection by the Goodin Travel Agency"
Fact-free fantasies: my so-called 'obsession' with the shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred,
don't be duped by the Birthers, including our very own Pastor Dred Scott (you may remember the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, which asserted that African Americans were "beings of an inferior order" who "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." That ruling declared that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens and therefore could never be President), and
Church support for slavery and opposition to civil rights (4 major American Churches split over the issue of slavery, forming northern and southern factions, including:
The Methodist Church: In 1861, the North Carolina Christian Advocate wrote of "the demon spirit of abolitionism" and how Southern Methodists had "tested it fully, and found it to be heartless, inhuman and Christless." Although the two factions reunited in 1939 as the Methodist Church, they retained racial segregation.
The country's Presbyterian Church also split into two.
The Baptist Church: The Southern Baptists are the largest and most reactionary christian denomination in the USA. They split away from the Baptists in 1845 over slavery, because they thought that slavery was okay. After the civil war, some Southern Baptists founded the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1960s, the Southern Baptists supported segregation laws and opposed the black civil rights movement. In 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention issued an apology to all African-Americans and asked for their forgiveness.)
Local and regional: park bait and switch, the GOB network at work in Podunkville-cola, the sad case of the Avalon Middle School principal, and the sadder case of Warren Williams;
National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, and let's admit the obvious, the Republi-CONs are not serious about deficits, and who's responsible for the debt
The debt ceiling deal farce
The civil war continues: Republi-CON establishment v. Republi-CON rage
The Republi-CON's economic no recovery plan: destroy jobs and pay workers less
Republi-CON Jeff Miller, R-Hypocrite-ville
Obama the One Term President, hell hath no fury like a liberal chumped again
The Republi-CON stimulus myth
Let's play the Republi-CON game of 'spot the contradiction', can you explain the Republi-CON contradiction as regards the economy, the debt ceiling, or deficits, or national security, or health care costs, or or even jobs
The myth of expansionary austerity
Beware federal pensioners, your day of reckoning is coming
The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system;
Fear, anger, and hatred = violence, again
150 years later
Congressional government reform hypocrisy
More Republi-CON family values hypocrisy
Name that Florida Republi-CON,
Beware the so-called fair tax
The myth of voter fraud
Who is your favorite 2012 GOP candidate, or do you have a favorite not-yet-a-candidate?, or none of the above,
President Sexpot?
More premarital sex and another shotgun wedding for the Palin clan
The health care industry bottomline, the reason Republi-CON want to repeal the new health care law
Believe it or not: DUI/DWI at the demolition derby
CSI dog poop,
Who you callin a Neanderthal
Giving new meaning to navel gazing,
Another Republi-CON myth buster, no the government isn't banning incandescent light bulbs
and
Big brother is watching you,
Fun stuff: No kidding, an 'amazing' ad campaign featuring vaginal puppeteering
Doo Wop test
Twelve things that a motorcycle can teach, do I look fat responses before the divorce, random thoughts, questions a dog might ask God, did you ever wonder . . ., the liquid nitrogen burger, paraprosdokians, the Y Generation, Husband Day Care, and cute little cats in 'It Could Be Worse';
and
Donate to a good cause: read "the story of a 9-year-old girl who teaches us adults about maturity truly renews our faith in humanity" at The New York Times, Rachel’s Last Fund-Raiser.
So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.
Ashes to Ashes, to 'Fully-Functioning' Bullets to 'Continue to Protect Your Home and Family Even After You Are Gone'
Believe it or not, "Alabama company Holy Smoke turns loved ones' ashes into real bullets that can be used to hunt turkeys on Thanksgiving." Watch Stephen Colbert, From Ashes to Bullets:
If you want "Holy Smoke to help you create a tribute to your outdoorsperson like no other", see their website.
If you want "Holy Smoke to help you create a tribute to your outdoorsperson like no other", see their website.
Obama the One Term President, Hell Hath No Fury Like a Liberal Chumped Again
UPDATE III: Happy Birthday Obama! "The good news is that, although unemployment remains hideous, you, personally, are employed, which is always good for a man at the half-century mark in an economy that increasingly views middle-aged workers as health care time bombs. The bad news is that you may get laid off in just 17 months. I don’t think that’s the likeliest outcome, but recent events have made the 2012 election look very much in play.
[Of course, t]he Republicans may yet bail you out by nominating someone who wants to return to the Gold Standard, or who says flouride in the drinking water is a communist plot, or who has pledged fealty to a demon dwelling in the hollow Earth. But I think it’ll be Mitt Romney. Romney’s not the perfect candidate, but he’s not going to scare 2/3rds of the electorate like some of the GOP hopefuls. He’s the frontrunner and frontrunners usually win."
Read the Washington Post, Obama Five-oh.
UPDATE II: "When handling budget negotiations, Troll Obama should never have let the Republican billy goats clomp over his bridge." So says Stephen Colbert as he recounts Obama's negotiating style in a storybook adaptation he calls, "Three Billy Goats Gruff" Budget Negotiations:
UPDATE: Some Naive-ocrats now realize they've been chumped again by the Republi-cons.
"Jon Stewart, the most intellectually astute of the left's comic darlings, went after President Obama in hilarious fashion", in a piece called Dealageddon, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Compromise:
The debt deal farce "will damage an already depressed economy; it will probably make America’s long-run deficit problem worse, not better; and most important, by demonstrating that raw extortion works and carries no political cost, it will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status." So says the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Read The New York Times, The President Surrenders.
And another commentator speculates that Obama is just 'playing the angles and wonders whether we are "living through yet another failed presidency." Read The New York Times, The Diminished President.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
The Debt Ceiling Deal Farce
UPDATE VI: Not surprisingly, the debt ceiling deal farce "is getting very muted applause from serious fiscal experts -- the ones who actually understand the federal budget.
'No one should pretend that they have solved anything other than an artificial political crisis,' said Bob Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan deficit watchdog group."
Read CNN, What's wrong with the debt ceiling deal.
UPDATE V: "Democrats should use the Bush tax cuts as a trigger in 2012 to force revenue. Which is not to say they should campaign for raising taxes. They should campaign against an outdated, inefficient, unfair tax code as well as the Washington way of leaving hard problems for somebody else to handle." Read the Washington Post, To govern responsibly, the White House will need to negotiate like Republicans.
UPDATE IV: Did your Congressman vote for the debt ceiling deal farce? If so, s/he would be a Congressional veteran and/or moderate.
"The deal that solved the crisis was cut, over the phone, by two men with a combined 64 years in federal office. [And t]he votes that passed that deal were cast by veterans and moderates." Read the Washington Post, In debt deal, the triumph of the old Washington.
UPDATE III: The final voting "results seem to suggest that Mr. Obama left something on the table." Read The New York Times, What the White House Left on the Table.
UPDATE II: Review some of the other "[n]umerous plans [that had] been proposed by lawmakers in Washington to raise the federal debt limit and address the nation’s growing deficit, at The New York Times, Debt Plans That Failed.
UPDATE: "The first round of cuts include 'only' about $22 billion in reductions in 2012 spending . . . That would reduce 2012 G.D.P. by just 0.1 percent, other factors being equal." Read The New York Times, The Fine Print on the Debt Deal.
The best analysis I've seen so far regarding the proposed debt ceiling deal. Read the Washington Post, A deal that found the lowest-common denominator, which notes:
"The upside of this deal is that 'the debt ceiling will cave in and Congress will create a global financial crisis for no reason' is not one of the potential outcomes. So that’s something.
The downside is that we actually haven’t come that far: we’re still pretending that a deal a few months from now will somehow be easier than a deal today, we’re moving to austerity budgeting -- note that neither unemployment insurance nor the payroll tax cut are extended -- while the economy remains weak, and we’re putting off the decisions about what to cut and how to handle taxes.
And that gets to the truth of this deal, and perhaps of Washington in this age: it’s all about lowest-common denominator lawmaking. There are no taxes. No entitlement cuts. No stimulus. No infrastructure. Less in actual, specific deficit reduction than there was in the Simpson-Bowles, Ryan, or Obama plans, and even than there was in the Biden/Cantor or Obama/Boehner talks. The two sides didn’t concede more in order to get more. They conceded almost nothing in order to get a trigger and a process, not to mention avoid a financial catastrophe.
There’s reason to be skeptical that a trigger and a process will do much to change these basic dynamics. We’ve now attempted to get a deficit-reducing grand bargain by yoking it to both a near-shutdown and a near-default, not to mention a series of negotiations, commissions, and senatorial gangs. None of it has been enough. And that’s because bipartisan commissions and terrible consequences have not been enough to convince Republicans to agree to revenues, and revenues are fundamental to large deficit-reduction compromise.
Perhaps this deal signals the end of the need to actually reach an agreement, however. If the Joint Committee fails, the trigger begins cutting spending. If negotiations over taxes fail, the Bush tax cuts expire and revenues rise by $3.6 trillion. Neither scenario is anyone’s first choice on policy grounds. But you can get to both scenarios without Republicans explicitly conceding to higher taxes or Democrats explicitly conceding to entitlement cuts in the absence of higher taxes. Politically, that’s the lowest-common denominator, and that might mean it’s also the only deal the two parties can actually make. But that’s because it’s the only deal that doesn’t require, well, making a deal."
This reminds me of the game of kick the can that Bush played in Iraq, "we’re still pretending that a deal a few months from now will somehow be easier than a deal today, we’re moving to austerity budgeting."
And beware of the myth of expansionary austerity. But who cares, as I've said before, Republi-cons just want Obama to fail, and the American economy is just acceptable collateral damage to achieve that goal.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Name Those 22 Congressional 'Tea Party' Republi-CON
UPDATE: "The road to Washington is paved with broken campaign promises. But few are so rich in hypocrisy as those of House Republican freshmen caught engineering hometown pork even as they vow to slash the federal budget for the supposed good of the nation." Read The New York Times, Pork? That? What Do You Mean?
First there was the Florida Republi-CON, but he has friends in Congress.
"House Republicans who rode a wave of voter discontent into office last year may be pushing for spending cuts, but they’re also quietly funneling millions of federal dollars back home." Read The New York Times, Cost-Cutters, Except When the Spending Is Back Home.
Fear, Anger, and Hatred = Violence, Again
UPDATE: "Racism is stupidity’s recourse. There are plenty of stupid people in the world. . .
[In the past, it was the persecution of blacks. And today Jews] seemed to have forgotten that not being a race but a religion had scarcely saved Jews from racist persecution.
Hatred of Muslims in Europe and the United States is a growing political industry. It’s odious, dangerous and racist. . .
The settings change, the vile stupidity does not."
Read The New York Times, The Racist Scourge.
UPDATE V: "Evil's larger narrative, and why we must guard against it." Read The New York Times, A Madman and His Manifesto, which notes the "alternative is war under the banner of heaven, as both Breivik and his hated Islamists advocate."
UPDATE IV: Despite his denials, our shameful pastor was just one of many who preach their Islamophobic ideology of fear, anger, and hatred and initially tried to blame Muslims for the massacre:
Of course, he is now trying to back track, and claim he prophesied the identity of the real killer, a professed Christian 'crusader', and in a very nuanced argument offered only for Christians states that the killer was not really a Christian.
UPDATE III: "Breivik is no loner. His violence was brewed in a specific European environment that shares characteristics with the specific American environment of Loughner: relative economic decline, a jobless recovery, middle-class anxiety and high levels of immigration serving as the backdrop for racist Islamophobia and use of the spurious specter of a 'Muslim takeover' as a wedge political issue to channel frustrations rightward. . . [and] to enlist [Christendom] in apocalyptical warfare against an 'infidel' enemy supposedly threatening the territory, morals and culture of an imagined community of devout believers." Read The New York Times, Breivik and His Enablers.
UPDATE II: "How many people can assert [civilization-threatening jihad] before small numbers of the disaffected take them literally? If all that were true, wouldn't a lot of people respond violently? Overheated, hyperbolic rhetoric must come naturally once you've immersed yourself in the hard core anti-jihadist blogosphere. Regulars there lose the conviction that words have precise meanings, and the belief that arguing with integrity requires staying within their bounds. Shortcuts are so much easier, hence the frequent descents into ad hominem, the constant reliance on hyperbole, and the crutch of playing on the civilizational anxieties of the audience, in an effort to shake them into awareness." Read The Atlantic, Anders Behring Breivik and the 'Anti-Jihadist' Blogosphere.
Our shameful pastor and his ilk should repudiate their Islamophobic ideology of fear, anger, and hatred.
UPDATE: "Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who apparently justified last week’s mass murder of helpless teenage campers with a 1,500-page 'compendium' calling for a right-wing revolution against Europe’s ruling class. . .
His compendium quotes repeatedly from conservative writers on both sides of the Atlantic, and it’s filled with attacks on familiar right-wing targets: Secularism and political correctness; the European Union and the sexual revolution; radical Islam and the academic left. . .
Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic have an obligation to acknowledge that Anders Behring Breivik is a distinctively right-wing kind of monster. "
Read The New York Times, A Right-Wing Monster.
For years our Resident Pastor-to-the-Dictators (AKA Pastor Truthiness (formerly known as Pastor Poppins)) has waged a campaign of fear, anger and hatred by hosting professional purveyors of hate.
He is one of many "anti-Muslim bloggers and right-wing activists" that influence people to violence. Read The New York Times, Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.
And "their response to the attacks is nonetheless revealing, in that they are now demanding the kind of nuanced analysis of the Norway shootings that they’ve always failed to offer when implicating jihadism or all Muslims for terror attacks." Read the Washington Post, In response to Norway attacks, right-wing bloggers suddenly demand nuance.
I find it no coincidence that this incident was done on Friday, just before the Pastor's show.
The formula is old: Republi-con fear, anger, hatred = violence. But the Republi-CONs have no shame or concern for the violence they may incite.
Monday, August 1, 2011
We Discuss and Debate to Find the Truth
"It’s salvation of a kind: our apparently irrational quirks start to make sense when we think of reasoning as serving the purpose of persuading others to accept our point of view. And by way of positive side effect, these heated social interactions . . . can lead to the discovery of the truth." Read The New York Times, Biased but Brilliant.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
No Kidding, An 'Amazing' Ad Campaign Featuring Vaginal Puppeteering
For mature audiences only:
As noted before, nobody is better at satire than Colbert. Remember his roast of Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner.
As noted before, nobody is better at satire than Colbert. Remember his roast of Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner.
Friday, July 29, 2011
The Republi-CON's Economic No Recovery Plan: Destroy Jobs and Pay Workers Less
UPDATE II: Recent GDP "numbers solve the mystery in the labor market. This isn’t about confidence or uncertainty or regulations or any of the other bankshot explanations we’ve been using to explain why unemployment seems stuck even as the economy rebounds. The economy isn’t rebounding. Demand isn’t returning. And without demand, there can’t be jobs." Read the Washington Post, The recovery-less recovery.
Hello globalization, good-bye jobs.
UPDATE: "Hard as it can be to land a job these days, getting one may not be nearly enough for basic economic security." Read The New York Times, Many Low-Wage Jobs Seen as Failing to Meet Basic Needs.
"A Republican report argues that slashing government spending and employment in the face of a deeply depressed economy would actually create jobs." Read The New York Times, The Mellon Doctrine.
All part of the Republi-con war on the middle class.
Doo Wop Test
From an email:
See comments for the answers.
1. When did ''Little Suzie'' finally wake up?
(a) The movie's over, it's 2 o'clock
(b) The movie's over, it's 3 o'clock
(c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock
2. ''Rock Around The Clock'' was used in what movie?
(a) Rebel Without A Cause
(b) Blackboard Jungle
(c) The Wild Ones
3. What's missing from a Rock & Roll standpoint? Earth _____
(a) Angel
(b) Mother
(c) Worm
4. ''I found my thrill . . .'' where?
(a) Kansas City
(b) Heartbreak Hotel
(c) Blueberry Hill
5. ''Please turn on your magic beam, _____ _____ bring me a dream,'':
(a) Mr. Sandman
(b) Earth Angel
(c) Dream Lover
6. For which label did Elvis Presley first record?
(a) Atlantic
(b) RCA
(c) Sun
7. He asked, ''Why's everybody always pickin' on me?'' Who was he?
(a) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
(b) Charlie Brown
(c) Buster Brown
8. In Bobby Darin's ''Mack The Knife,'' the one with the knife, was named:
(a) MacHeath
(b) MacCloud
(c) MacNamara
9. Name the song with ''A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom.''
(a) Good Golly, Miss Molly
(b) Be-Bop-A-Lula
(c) Tutti Fruitti
10. Who is generally given credit for originating the term ''Rock And Roll''?
(a) Dick Clark
(b) Wolfman Jack
(c) Alan Freed
11. In 1957, he left the music business to become a preacher:
(a) Little Richard
(b) Frankie Lymon
(c) Tony Orlando
12. Paul Anka's ''Puppy Love'' is written to what star?
(a) Susan Gibbs
(b) Connie Francis
(c) Annette Funicello
13. The Everly Brothers were ........
(a) Pete and Dick
(b) Don and Phil
(c) Bob and Bill
14. The Big Bopper's real name was:
(a) Jiles P. Richardson
(b) Roy Iddings Jr.
(c) Marion Michael Morrison
15. In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr. started a small record company called...
(a) Decca
(b) Cameo
(c) Motown
16. Edd Brynes had a hit with ''Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb''. What TV show was he on?
(a) 77 Sunset Strip
(b) Hawaiian Eye
(c) Surfside Six
17. In 1960 Bobby Darin married:
(a) Carol Lynley
(b) Sandra Dee
(c) Natalie Wood
18. They were a one hit wonder with ''Book Of Love'':
(a) The Penguins
(b) The Monotones
(c) The Moonglows
19. The Everly Brothers sang a song called ''Till I ______ You.''
(a) Loved
(b) Kissed
(c) Met
20. Chuck Berry sang ''Oh, ___________, why can't you be true?''
(a) Suzie Q
(b) Peggy Sue
(c) Maybelline
21. ''Wooly _______''
(a) Mammouth
(b) Bully
(c) Pully
22. ''I'm like a one-eyed cat . . . ."
(a) can't go into town no more
(b) sleepin' on a cold hard floor
(c) peepin' in a seafood store
23. ''Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do . . . . .....''
(a) cause there ain't no answer for a life without booze
(b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
(c) cause my car's gassed up and I'm ready to cruise
24. ''They often call me Speedo, but my real name is ..... . . .''
(a) Mr. Earl
(b) Jackie Pearl
(c) Milton Berle
25. ''You're my Fanny and nobody else's ......''
(a) girl
(b) butt
(c) love
26. ''I want you to play with my . . . ''
(a) heart
(b) dreams
(c) ding a ling
27. ''Be Bop A Lula .......''
(a) she's got the rabies
(b) she's my baby.
(c) she loves me, maybe
28. ''Fine Love, Fine Kissing ...''
(a) right here
(b) fifty cents
(c) just for you
29. ''He wore black denim trousers and . . .''
(a) a pink carnation
(b) pink leotards
(c) motorcycle boots
30. ''I got a gal named . ... .''
(a) Jenny Zamboni
(b) Gerri Mahoney
(c) Boney Maroney
See comments for the answers.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY
Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!
NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.
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I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.
So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.
NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.
Topics:
Local Business Shout-Out: TBD.
Follow-up:
Fact-free fantasies: : don't be duped by the Birthers, including our very own Pastor Dred Scott (you may remember the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, which asserted that African Americans were "beings of an inferior order" who "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." That ruling declared that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens and therefore could never be President), and
Church support for slavery and opposition to civil rights (4 major American Churches split over the issue of slavery, forming northern and southern factions, including:The Methodist Church: In 1861, the North Carolina Christian Advocate wrote of "the demon spirit of abolitionism" and how Southern Methodists had "tested it fully, and found it to be heartless, inhuman and Christless." Although the two factions reunited in 1939 as the Methodist Church, they retained racial segregation.
The country's Presbyterian Church also split into two.
The Baptist Church: The Southern Baptists are the largest and most reactionary christian denomination in the USA. They split away from the Baptists in 1845 over slavery, because they thought that slavery was okay. After the civil war, some Southern Baptists founded the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1960s, the Southern Baptists supported segregation laws and opposed the black civil rights movement. In 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention issued an apology to all African-Americans and asked for their forgiveness.)
Local and regional: school district lawsuit update, ransom paid, lawsuits dismissed, and hello globalization, good-bye jobs, Clearwire jobs headed overseas, that makes two county employers, Lumber 84 in the Santa Rosa County Industrial Park is closing;
National and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, don't hold you breath because the Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, there'll be no $100 billion budget cut, and let's admit the obvious, the Republi-CONs are not serious about deficits, and who's responsible for the debt
'What would Jesus cut?'
Don't be duped by CONgress
Damn the unemployed, Republi-CON polly wants a tax cut
The myth of expansionary austerity
Let play you choose: who gets paid (and who doesn't),
To balance the budget, end tax expenditures, better known as tax deductions, which amounted to about $1 trillion in 2009,
To balance the budget, do nothing
Choose your medicine
Call the Republi-CON bluff
Let's play the Republi-CON game of 'spot the contradiction', can you explain the Republi-CON contradiction as regards the economy, the debt ceiling, or deficits, or national security, or health care costs, or or even jobs
Fear, anger, and hatred = violence, again
150 years later
Congressional government reform hypocrisy
More Republi-CON family values hypocrisy
Name that Florida Republi-CON,
Beware the so-called fair tax
The myth of voter fraud
Who is your favorite 2012 GOP candidate, or do you have a favorite not-yet-a-candidate?, or none of the above,
President Sexpot?
More premarital sex and another shotgun wedding for the Palin clan
The health care industry bottomline, the reason Republi-CON want to repeal the new health care law
Believe it or not: DUI/DWI at the demolition derby
CSI dog poop,
Who you callin a Neanderthal
Giving new meaning to navel gazing,
Another Republi-CON myth buster, no the government isn't banning incandescent light bulbs
Big brother is watching you,
and 'The Great Stagnation' and our broken political system;
Fun stuff: twelve things that a motorcycle can teach, do I look fat responses before the divorce, random thoughts, questions a dog might ask God, did you ever wonder . . ., the liquid nitrogen burger, paraprosdokians, the Y Generation, Husband Day Care, and cute little cats in 'It Could Be Worse';
and
Donate to a good cause: help the friends of a former instructor at the Naval EOD school at Eglin Air Force Base, Gunnery Sgt. John Hayes, who was detachment company gunnery sergeant from June 2007 to June 2010 and taught several courses and was recently wounded in Afghanistan.
I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a shrieking hatemonger of right-wing rhetoric and partisan hackery, pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.
So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.
Choose Your Medicine
UPDATE II: The longer the Republi-CONs refuse to compromise, the bigger the debt. See the Washington Post, The incredible, shrinking debt deal in one graph, which shows:
UPDATE: "Over the last several weeks, leaders in Washington have proposed various plans to address the nation’s growing deficit as a condition of raising the debt ceiling by Aug. 2. [Review a] running comparison of some of the major proposals or ideas that have been released" at The New York Times, Comparing Deficit-Reduction Plans.
From the New York Times, A Debt Ceiling Cheat Sheet: 8 Possible Plans, which are nicknamed:
1. The Grand Bargain,
2. The Half-Bargain,
3. The House Cuts,
4. The White House Cuts,
5. The Stop-Gap,
6. The Balanced Budget Plan,
7. The McConnell Option, and
8. The Hybrid McConnell.
And as I've said before, there is the NoBullU solution for the federal deficit and debt is: restructure the federal government (to end Congressional free lunchism), reform the federal tax code (so that revenues pay for ALL government spending), and amend the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget (because Congress can't control its spending).
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