TGIF.....Going Fishing this weekend.  Whoes in?

FYI: On The Daily Show last night, Angelina Jolie said that her management was the one that put out those policies about interviews, and that she never would have done that.

Now...you can choose to believe her, or perhaps Jolie saw the backlash, which clashed with her image makeover, and quickly backtracked, throwing her management under the bus.

On the homeland security issue...

I think that the recent and well deserved backlash on the immigration 'reform' legislation is partly because of the changes in Airline security and the debate over Gitmo.

The people have suffered to the nth degree with Airline travel, intrusive random searches, PC non-profiling and actual fear from fake Mullahs in Minnesota that they are demanding less sacrifice from their own lives, e.g. illegals allowed amnisty; and more action from a bloated over-taxing and weak government.

Bush is really off in la la land here.

McCain has zero chance of the nomination, IMO, and should really just sit down and shut up.

Thought for the day.

ACA

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Quoted from:  'Acaiguana Notes from the Bomb Shelter' (soon to be a movie at theaters near you)

Your tax dollars at work...killing the unborn.

For those of you who did not catch the sidebar link here at NB...

Revenues down...customers up....taxes dollars used increased = record profits

Is this America or what?  And where is the msm on reporting this?

Yeah, logic, reason, facts play less of a role now in the way we make decisions in America. – Al Gore

File this under: What Goes Around Comes Around

Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" is available for free on the internet.  Obviously it's George W. Bush's fault.  Let's see how loud the liberals scream when his propaganda isn't making him huge profits.

http://adage.com/article?article_id=117350

While everyone(?) wants a "green" auto, to reduce greenhouse gasses(?), there are consumer friendly manufacturers who would rather cut the price of cars. 

The only problem will be the non-PC comments, when lending to a friend. i.e.; "You wanna borrow my Tata?", or "Hey, hands off my Tata", "You wanna see my Tata?". Get's worse if you have two . . . How's this gonna play in SF? "Can I interest you with a Pink Tata?"

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

A judge rejected the idea that MO acted unconstitutionally in taking over St Louis schools

JDW

News media: Scoreboard for terrorists

For my fellow NB RUSH fans:

Note: I had meant to post this at lunch yesterday, but wasn't able due to well, whatever.

My brother and I were privileged to attend the first performance of Rush's 2007 World Tour, which kicked off here Wednesday night in Atlanta. The concert was held at our local (insert name of major electronics retailer here) amphitheater, which they have been playing more of on the last several tours, which, sadly, are becoming fewer and farther between. The weather was surprisingly cooperative, as the usual afternoon thunderstorms we are accustomed to around here never materialized. It was perfect.

Just like the R30 show, they started off with a dream sequence video. It was extremely funny, more so than even Jerry Stiller's part in the last tour's intro. The first thing you notice is the lighting has been seriously re-worked and a wider range of colors have been employed compared to R30 and Vapor Trails. The two dryers and the vending machine behind Geddy have been replaced with three box-like objects, but I was too far away to see what they actually were.

I don't want to give away too much about the set list, as I know some fans (like me) like to be surprised, but they (finally) started off a show with Limelight.  :-)

Some quick points, then I gotta go:

-Actuall on-stage playing time was +/- 2.5 hrs.

-They played a lot off the new album, including The Main Monkey Business, one of three great instrumentals on the album. Alex plays a lot of accoustic guitar and mandola in this show. Really cool.

-Cool cartoon intro for Tom Saywer involving the South Park kids. Utterly hilarious.

-Neal has new drum kit and has tweaked the electronic part of it for a little different sound. His solo was a little shorter, but still great (He is 53, after all).

-They actually played something from Permanent Waves that wasn't Spirit of Radio-and they played that, too.  :-)

They also played A Passage To Bankok, one of my all-time faves. They didn't play Working Man (my brother nearly cried) or Xanadu, Closer to the Heart or The Trees either. :-(

-There were a few minor glitches, due to the fact that it was the first real performance of the tour, but nothing major.

If you are a true fan, you may want to make plans to see them on this run, as they aren't getting any younger.

Anyone catch Bill O'Reilly talking to Davy Jones about why The Monkees aren't in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, despite selling, I believe, 63 million records and four number one albums... plus songs that are still popular today? Of course, the reason lies with the biases of Rolling Stones' Jann Wenner, who basically controls the nomination process and doesn't feel they deserve it because they weren't a real band?

That is a ridiculous reason. How many Motown-type groups now in the hall of fame were pieced together in much the same way, yet did not score the same phenomenon that the Monkees did between 1966-69?

From what I gathered, Wenner is the reason that highly successful progressive rock groups like Genesis, Yes, ELP, Rush, etc. are getting the shaft. Meanwhile, second tier performers like Patti Smith are nominated. Wenner makes the Hall of Fame a joke.

(Hey, The Monkees just came up on my iPod. What a coincidence!)

*****

"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions?'" - Elvis Costello

Mother Earth was inducted into the RRHOF in its inaugural year.  Sure, they put out one decent album, Living With The Animals, but it wasn't Rock.