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[quote author=admin board=general thread=15 post=59 time=1266185585]Oh yes, and Sunlight (Svet?!) why in God's name have you got Cher on you avatar? She DESTROYED WIM!!! I know it put Marc's kids through school but stilll!!! [/quote]
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on Feb 13, 2010, 5:29pm
We all know, Cohn's adorable and you love every single song by him, but if you had to pick only one - for whatever reasons, which would it be and why?
If it was up to me, I'd say
"Nowhere Fast".
I think his best is
"Rock of Ages"
(I'm aware he didn't write it, but he has recorded an incredible version of it).
"The Days"
is a small beautiful piece that makes me shiver and get teary every time, and also the line of
"She's Becoming Gold"
, where Marc sings
"How slowly the answers unfold..."
provokes magic in my imagination. Also, I am convinced that
"Street of Windows"
is entirely inspired, written and sang for me - well,
"your green eyes are shining"
"your hair is red and brown"
... obviously all about me, right? But
"Nowhere Fast"
makes me feel cosy and peaceful and somehow content... Probably because it fully responds to my introvert nature. When I was a child, I did wake up in the middle of the night, crawled up to the huge window of my room and watched the moon. So, that's the one I'd go with... Now, what's yours?
Posted by
Shawn Cullen
on Feb 14, 2010, 6:09am
What an eloquent post. Love the fact you sat and looked out of the window. Charming.
Favourite? That's asking the impossible. Sitting in car this morning I listened to Saving the best for last and it was fresh and inspiring. Then again, at the moment She's becoming gold is playing through the IPod (live version: 'over and over again') and its beauty is stunning. Simply stunning.
Then again, when I want a good singalong in the shower it has to be One thing of beauty, or Dig down deep ('go waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy down'). Then again if I want to hear songwriting at its pinnacle, it has to be Healing Hands, or Strangers in a car, or The things we've handed down, or Let me be your witness....
You see the problem I have here!?!
I may return to this thread!
Oh, and I love Angelsong, and Faraway Nearby, and Blow on Chillywind!!!!!!
Posted by
Shawn Cullen
on Feb 14, 2010, 4:48pm
Blow on Chillywind for me!!! "Little grey around the crown, little hint of slowing down" Always makes me think, with a tear in my eye, of our sadly departed german shepherd. My "old soldier", even if that isn't the name of the song!!
(Jules: Shawn's other half!)
Posted by
on Feb 14, 2010, 5:01pm
Old soldier is probably my second favourite though.! Logged in properly this time. Sorry Shawn.
Posted by
Shawn Cullen
on Feb 14, 2010, 5:03pm
New (Join the parade) or old version!?!? My little love bucket. It is Valentine's after all.
Posted by
on Feb 14, 2010, 5:06pm
You've got me there, not sure I'd know the difference. But the Montana sauvignon blanc is helping!!
Posted by
Shawn Cullen
on Feb 14, 2010, 5:11pm
You are correct: this very fine wine is ... very fine!
I always thought your fav was Faraway Nearby.
For obvious reasons.
Although I do remember seeing MC in Dingwalls in 1998 - then meeting him afterwards. Loved the fact that he played "Lost you in the canyon" when we had only heard it on Bob Harris's radio show.
We were probably the only ones who knew the words.
"you don't think about it DO YOU?"
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on Feb 14, 2010, 5:13pm
Oh yes, and Sunlight (Svet?!) why in God's name have you got Cher on you avatar? She DESTROYED WIM!!! I know it put Marc's kids through school but stilll!!!
Posted by
on Feb 14, 2010, 5:17pm
Oh dear, forgot about faraway nearby. Is it allowed to have a joint favourite??
Posted by
Shawn Cullen
on Feb 14, 2010, 5:26pm
No. One only. I also thought your fav would be Walk through the world. 1993. VW Golf. "Shining sea" hand effect. And all.
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on Feb 14, 2010, 5:32pm
Wouldn't put it as a favourite however it does take me back to those halcyon days when road safety was of no concern and we would ride the lanes of north yorkshire with all 4 windows down and 4 hands out the window in a "shining sea" hand motion. Bring on the 3 litre Monza!!
Posted by
Shawn Cullen
on Feb 14, 2010, 6:53pm
shining sea? climb on?????
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Feb 14, 2010, 5:13pm
Shawn Cullen
Oh yes, and Sunlight (Svet?!) why in God's name have you got Cher on you avatar? She DESTROYED WIM!!! I know it put Marc's kids through school but stilll!!!
There, I changed it, only to show that I respect you (as long as you deliver MC to my door).
I love the fact that Cher put Marc's kids through school. Can it get any cuter?
Posted by Sue R on Feb 15, 2010, 12:22am
One thing that I miss, in talking about favorite Marc songs or lyrics, is the old site with all the lyrics posted. I could go there, browse around, and just savor the words again to all Marc's wonderful songs.
I used to have a special love for "True Companion", but now that I'm divorced, I kind of avoid it, because it brings me to tears. "One Safe Place" is more where I am right now... and it's a beautiful song.
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Mike H
on Feb 15, 2010, 6:58am
Hello everybody. Did you miss me. Prizes on offer for the first person who correctly names my favourite. (prizes to be confirmed later)
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Overview"Winter's Tale" is Robert Sabuda's most spectacular original pop-up story yet. The simple, elegant text is illustrated with breathtaking artwork and extraordinary paper engineering. Stunning visual effects of foil, glitter, and a twinkling surprise further capture the magic of winter. This is a must-have for everyone's bookshelf.
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And whose work for the last four years of the other best we can do or.
If there's anyone who fears the American dream is fading away -- it.
There's anyone who wonders whether better jobs and better paychecks are a thing of the past.
I have a clear and unequivocal message.
With the right leadership America is about to come roaring.
This should not be that complicated.
We tried our ideas there or.
The economy -- it would create jobs and -- -- We -- there are business.
-- -- -- -- We've -- to me it didn't grow.
Not a great job does it well.
The closing arguments in the final hours -- back with our panel what about the closing arguments and -- these two candidates are really running -- Well for Obama's very simple -- -- sunny and in fact despite some of these statistics.
That his policies have worked they just need more time to work.
Enron is a bad guy Romney is.
That lying about what he's represented himself -- that he's not the moderate he's portrayed himself fat.
He's going to be a rubber stamp of of -- Very conservative congressional Republicans and he'll take us back that's a simple argument.
Pretty well in this look into two.
The arguments I'd rather be making one of the type one that Romney is making and one the president Obama's make.
The president however is burdened by a record it on some very big issues principally into the economy he has basically not done what he said he would do.
That is a huge problem for him so necessarily there's a larger component of -- -- on the other guy in his closing argument.
And there hasn't been Romney's Romney's talking about hoping chain that's what I was talking about four years ago that's a more uplifting final argument to make and it looks just watching Romney.
He looks happier and more comfortable himself making it the president seems a little weary.
The little horse and glad to have this over with and I think you know that's what's Romney's doing and saying they -- more attractive -- -- and it went well here's some.
Well look I think the line America's gonna come roaring back has a very strong line and the -- it you know very aspiration on I think it's a kind of thing -- people on here you know war or not where we want to be and he he's gonna give us something better.
As I do think -- -- a great job and those coupons closing arguments I think the president is being measured against.
Himself for years ago which is a hard thing to be measured against you know and so.
He does have a record the -- -- to talk about but I think at the same time he's doing good job of getting people.
Fired up getting the base fired up which is what he needs to do and people like him still you know even even -- people aren't happy with the direction of the country based elect the president.
Although electability numbers seem to -- and recent days in fact Mitt Romney on some polls was out.
Performing President Obama and like ability which was shocking if you look back a few weeks there was no way that that was going to happen Steve.
It was and I think that's him in part a function of the fact the president has been making the argument he's been making.
If you back to people which was is in effect the beginning of the general election there's a certain symmetry to the arguments that we're seeing today where you've got Mitt Romney making -- a big.
-- you know optimistic argument hopeful argument and you've got the president basically saying as Chris and back at -- it's not gonna work in if you look at it from that perspective of the president's basic question is we've tried really hard and we'll do better next time.
And Mitt Romney's argument is.
I don't care how hard you tried you haven't produced results and that's really I think the debate but I think the revenge thing was a very unfortunate comment for Karbala and again you know that you you have.
Rhonda I Obama saying.
Vote for revenge did you know that these are the guys that lives Scrooge in the past it and do it again.
And the breadth and you have -- Romney saying vote for love of country boy that's a bad can be and that's that's a bad contrast from Obama's.
Our President Obama.
What what I wished for at some point in this past week you've got governor Romney -- they're talking -- he's the one that's going to be doing a great job of reaching out to the other party.
Then you have this TV pictures.
Of the president who Governor Christie in New Jersey post hurricane walking around without governor that Republican governor that Romney backing Republican governor praising him.
I was pretty good stuff for him.
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It's Maine vs. the feds over national ID cards.
Unless someone blinks, after May 11 air travel for Mainers will get a lot more complicated. So will entering a federal office building or courthouse. That is the day the Department of Homeland Security institutes new regulations that will gradually turn drivers' licenses into national identification cards.
Whoops. We're not supposed to say that. The new regulations, part of the Real ID program, are supposed to "enhance the integrity and reliability of drivers' licenses and identification cards," according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Essentially Real ID sets common standards for all drivers' licenses and state identity cards nationwide and creates the electronic infrastructure that gives states and the federal government access to each other's databases of personal information. Early last year an outraged and skeptical Maine legislature almost unanimously passed a bill opposing the new rules and forbidding the state's participation. Since then at least sixteen other states have passed bills or resolutions similarly opposing.
According to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Real ID will make America safe from terrorists, stop identity theft, and solve the illegal immigration problem. According to its opponents, Real ID is a massive invasion of personal privacy that offers no assurances of safety or security but will impose a multi-billion-dollar unfunded mandate on the states. Once in place, opponents add, Real ID presents the very real opportunity for "mission creep," with its use expanding to include prescription drug purchases, banking, employment, and even access to a voting booth.
"The vote opposing Real ID in the legislature wasn't about the money," Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap explains. "Every caucus, Republican and Democratic, House and Senate, said we don't trust the government to create databases of personal information and controls on how we move around."
"Real ID fundamentally undermines Mainers' privacy and security," declares Shenna Bellows, executive director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union (MCLU). "The federal government is foisting a national identification card on Americans without any debate on the pros or cons."
Opposition to the new regulations has brought together an unusual assortment of players, from the MCLU to George Smith of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine to legislative leaders of both parties. In truth, it's difficult to find anyone in Maine who supports the measure outside the few dozen members of Mainers for a Sensible Immigration Policy, who hope that Real ID is the solution to the illegal immigration problem.
Maine Senator Susan Collins chaired the Homeland Security Committee when the original Real-ID legislation was passed and today is the ranking Republican member. She gets some of the credit for delaying implementation of the rules, and over the past several months, as public opposition to Real ID has mounted, she has adopted a progressively tougher stance against the program.
Among other points, she notes that in 2004 she and her then-Democratic counterpart on the committee, Senator Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, had written a bill that called for a collaborative approach between the federal government and the states in developing a new, more secure ID. "Then Real ID was slipped through, and it repealed the language Joe and I had written," she recalls. "We need a tamper-proof ID. We don't need Real ID."
When Collins says Real ID "was slipped through," she isn't exaggerating. A relatively obscure congressman from Wisconsin, F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., had been promoting Real ID for several years without success until 2005, when he managed to attach the program as a rider to a supplemental military appropriations bill. It sailed through Congress under the radar and without debate.
Originally Real ID was promoted as an anti-terrorist measure, but that argument faltered when opponents pointed out that all of the 9/11 hijackers carried valid identification papers that would have passed the Real ID test. Then supporters argued that it would prevent identity theft - until the DHS' Transportation Security Administration created a Web site that left the personal information of air travelers open to the public.
Now Real ID is being pushed as an anti-illegal immigration program, which makes some people wonder what that has to do with air travel. And since it's a federal program being implemented by state motor vehicle departments, does that also turn drivers' license examiners into immigration agents? Matt Dunlap says that's not in the job description of any of his employees.
Real ID was supposed to be fully implemented by this year, but critics won delays while DHS tried to reduce costs - originally estimated at twenty billion dollars - and answer questions about its effectiveness. If Maine and other recalcitrant states want their licenses and other state-issued IDs to remain valid for air travel after May 11, they must apply for a waiver claiming they need more time to comply.
As it now stands, people born on or after December 1, 1964, will have to obtain the new ID by December 1, 2014. Those born before December 1, 1964, will have until December 1, 2017. "The reason for that," Dunlap says with a laugh, "is that DHS figures that people over fifty years old are less likely to be terrorists. Hello? Anyone care to guess how old Osama Bin Laden is?" (Bin Laden's birth date is generally given as March 10, 1957.)
Collins hopes that Maine applies for the extension, which gives the state until the end of 2009. "The state has many legitimate points about the cost and privacy concerns," she says. "But I don't want to see Maine citizens suffering the consequences of Maine not asking for the extension."
Mainers who cannot produce an acceptable ID after the May 11 deadline - a passport or a military ID card, for example - will face additional screening at airport security checkpoints. "There are practical implications for residents of states that don't participate," acknowledges DHS spokesperson Amy Kudwa. "The IDs of states that opt out are no longer valid for federal purposes. This is the law, and we are the enforcing agency."
"Even if just Maine stays out of the program, it's going to cause chaos at the airports in Portland and Bangor," Dunlap says, "and in Chicago and Boston and Los Angeles, too, because Mainers travel. But it's not just Maine - Montana, Georgia, New Hampshire, all those other states have refused to join the program."
"DHS is trying to scare Maine into backing down," warns the MCLU's Bellows. "What's really going to happen on May 11 is nothing is going to happen. It's hard to believe that DHS is going to prevent the residents of all these states from boarding planes unless they go through enhanced security procedures. It would be a nightmare."
Kudwa says DHS is hanging tough in the expectation that travelers who face the additional hassles will demand that their state governments comply with the program. She dismisses the possibility that citi-zens who already loathe the uncertainty and humiliation of modern air travel might direct their wrath at DHS instead.
There are other issues with Real ID beyond flight delays. Bellows points out that Chertoff could end up explaining himself to a federal judge if citizens are barred from entering a federal courthouse or office building without showing a Real-ID compliant document. "There are serious First Amendment problems relating to the right to assemble and right to petition the government for redress of grievances," she notes. "If people are forced to show a Real ID license to enter a federal building, it imposes an unreasonable restriction on their access to their public servants."
Collins notes that her constituent offices in Bangor and Augusta are both in federal buildings that will require the new identification to enter. "There is a list of alternative acceptable documents," she explains, "but otherwise I do fear there will be inconveniences." Both of Maine's congressmen, Tom Allen and Michael Michaud, have expressed opposition to Real ID, and Senator Olympia Snowe has called for delays to work out a compromise.
Bellows says barring people who lack approved identification could be seen as imposing limits on the right of a federal court defendant to face his or her accuser or the right of a witness to testify. "The regulations do not address the constitutionality issue at all," Bellows notes. "We think Real ID is constitutionally unsound, and the Department of Homeland Security is opening itself to immediate legal challenge."
Dunlap notes that there is already talk of requiring Real ID-compliant identification for voters. "The Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform included it in their final recommendations," he says. If that happens, the state will not be allowed to charge a fee for a driver's license, because it would be interpreted as a poll tax, which is illegal.
Among the few people publicly supporting the program in Maine is Robert Casimiro, of Bridgton, executive director of Mainers for a Sensible Immigration Policy and a member of the Minutemen, which made headlines last year when its members highlighted illegal immigration by setting up their own patrols of the Mexican border. The Brunswick High School graduate returned to the state a year ago from Massachusetts, where he led a similar organization. Both, he says, are outgrowths of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, itself an offshoot of the bitter battle inside the national Sierra Club in the late 1990s over immigration policy and overpopulation.
"Personally I'm not too thrilled about Real ID," Casimiro admits, "but if it will force Maine to do what it currently is not doing - requiring driver's license applicants to prove they are legal residents of the United States - then I have to support it." Casimiro notes that Vermont and New Hampshire already require proof of legal residence to earn a driver's license. Both also oppose Real ID.
"We're not asking state employees to be immigration agents. But they need to verify that people are who they say they are," he argues. "Right now the rules for getting a hunting license in Maine are much more strict than for getting a driver's license."
George Smith, executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, has some experience with that issue. He fears that Real ID is a foot in the door to increasing government surveillance of citizens. "Look what happened with our Social Security numbers," he says. Many older Mainers have Social Security cards from their youth that say prominently "Not to be used for identification." Now the number is required for all sorts of things.
"I was refused a fishing license in Florida and a pheasant hunting license in North Dakota because I refused to give them my Social Security number," Smith recalls. To him Real ID "smacks of needing a passport to travel in your own country."
For now, Mainers can only wait to see if someone blinks. Collins says Chertoff, with whom she speaks frequently on DHS issues, "thinks he already has blinked by allowing the extension to 2009. He's very unhappy with that delay."
By early February, at least, Dunlap was predicting that Maine wouldn't blink, either. "I hate to be alarmist and say our liberty is at stake," he muses, "but we need to have that discussion. We don't need to roll over to a bureaucratic automaton. Justice William O. Douglas once said that oppression doesn't come suddenly, like turning off a light. It comes slowly, like nightfall, just getting darker and darker."
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Guitarist Sues Thunder's Kevin Durant Over Nickname 'Durantula' – NewsOn6.com – Tulsa, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports – KOTV.com |
Posted: June 21, 2012 Filed under: Guitar Stew | Tags: drantula, kevin durant, mark durante Leave a comment »The article states:
"A guitarist popular in the 1980′s has filed a federal lawsuit against Kevin Durant, demanding the popular Oklahoma City Thunder forward stop using a nickname he claims belongs to him."
This popular 80′s guitarist is none other than the world famous Mark Durante a.k.a "Durantula". Who the hell is that!? Maybe it's my lack of 80′s guitar knowledge, despite having been a guitarist in the 80′s, that makes me ignorant to his contributions.
Although I may not being familiar with him as a guitarist, I can now say I know him as a guy who is tying up the courts and wasting tax money on a frivolous lawsuit.


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Haunted: tales of the grotesqueOne of American's foremost authors ventures into dark, uncharted territories of the human psyche in a collection of stories that rival the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Oates is the 1994 recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement given by the Horror Writers of America. |
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User Review - Marilyn Maykron - GoodreadsGoodreads should adjust the star system. Rather than stars meaning 'really liked it' they should be geared to judge the quality of the writing. These tales really were grotesque. 'Really liked it' isn't exactly the way I would phrase my feelings towards it. Read full review
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Michael Gerson becomes the latest member of the Republican establishment to dive into the tank for Samantha Power, President Obama's anti-Israel nominee for U.N. Ambassador. Like others in this category, Gerson apparently has been charmed by his personal interaction with Power. It appears to be Power's passion and fire that charmed Gerson. Gerson initially found her to be an unfair, partisan critic of the Bush administration in which Gerson served. »
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Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. Based on film footage provided by a Palestinian cameraman, Enderlin's report has become infamous among students of Arab propaganda both for its destructive effects and for its probable falsity. The al-Dura affair bids to join the »
IRS scrutiny of pro-Israel group called into question
Josh Gerstein at Politico reports that the same Internal Revenue Service office that singled out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny also challenged Israel-related organizations, at least one of which filed suit over the agency's handling of its application for tax-exempt status. The group in question is called Z Street. It alleges that one of its attorneys was told that its application for tax exemption was delayed and sent to »
Israelis in north do not fear Assad
In the aftermath of Israel's attacks on Syrian weapons facilities, I've seen reports that Israel fears a response from the Assad regime. In such a response, Syria would target nearby areas in Northern Israel — the same ones that were pounded in the 2006 Lebanese War. But according to the Jerusalem Post, residents of Northern Israel are not worried that Assad will bomb them. They see Assad as too weak »
Israel takes its red lines seriously
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Israeli planes reportedly bomb Syrian targets
Israeli planes reportedly entered Syrian air space today and bombed Syrian targets. The targets are said to be one or more weapons facility. It isn't clear whether, assuming the veracity of the reports, the targets were chemical weapons facilities. But if the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, bombing chemical weapons facilities is an appropriate response, for it diminishes the chemical weapons capability of both the Assad regime and its »
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The Palestinian Authority blows off John Kerry
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Groundhog Day in the Middle East
Steve wrote earlier today that he feels like he is living in a personal Groundhog Day, where it is perpetually April 1. I have that feeling too, never more so than with regard to the Middle East. The phrase "deja vu" doesn't begin to do it justice. Today we got this report from the Associated Press: "Thousands of Palestinians protest in West Bank." Stop me if you've heard this story »
Candid camera, Israeli style
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Stephen devises a plan with the Tomorrow People to find his father by getting inside Jedikiah's mind. Meanwhile, Cara and Russell encounter an uninvited visitor in the subway tunnel base; and Stephen snoops around Ultra.


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Submitted by MARYFDOU Carbs: 22.5g | Fat: 5.7g | Fiber: 1.7g | Protein: 11.7g | Calories: 189.6
This is a quick and easy recipe and my family loves it! Submitted by KNAKEDKNITTER Carbs: 12.6g | Fat: 5.9g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 11.6g | Calories: 153.3
Submitted by BECKH888 Carbs: 5.1g | Fat: 3.6g | Fiber: 0.5g | Protein: 6g | Calories: 74
Submitted by MRSMCGARRY Carbs: 23.1g | Fat: 9.9g | Fiber: 2.8g | Protein: 1.3g | Calories: 171.9
Lower in fat version of my old fave recipe. Submitted by PAPEROSES2182 Carbs: 22g | Fat: 2.6g | Fiber: 4.4g | Protein: 15.6g | Calories: 174.7
Easy to make casserole that's healthy! Submitted by JULIAKELLY Carbs: 24.1g | Fat: 5g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 13.5g | Calories: 195.4
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Not Your Mom's Chicken and Dumplings Submitted by ALISTOUGH Carbs: 20.5g | Fat: 3.9g | Fiber: 1.9g | Protein: 13.7g | Calories: 171.3