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The Big Scare in Obamacare
The more that is published these days, the more I think that the end game with Obamacare is to totally deny human dignity in favor of saving the maximum amount of money possible. It may sound like a crazy deduction until we start thinking about what is really happening right now in America.
Currently in Congress there is an effort among progressives to pass legislation that would change the way healthcare is delivered. The goal, according to one analysis, is to replace "standard care with palliative care (symptom treatment and hospice) for sick people, in lieu of costly life-saving treatments."
Sounds like rationing to me.
The name of the group pushing these measures is the Patient Quality of Life Coalition. Sad to say, Catholic healthcare's Supportive Care Coalition is part of the push, part of the coalition, and therefore part of the problem.
In case you are not up to snuff on these questions, let's just say that when the Supportive Care Coalition's homepage tells everybody that it is the "voice of advocacy for palliative care," we can translate that into meaning that it is part of the effort to redefine pain management that moderates the pain for the ill and dying into terminal medication for cost-saving purposes. It's euthanasia with a pretty face.
This is the lesson we learned when we began studying the organizations pushing palliative care and redefining what the term means. This new way of looking at healthcare for the aged, disabled, and dying has been defined as the "third path," but I prefer to simplify it. Using medication designed to relieve suffering in such a way that it relieves a person of his life is murder!
You can't get any simpler than that.
So what has happened to respect for the dignity of the human person?
Let's look at what that dignity means. My dear friend, Bernard Nathanson, M.D., (1926-2011) described it this way when talking with Father Frank Pavone during an interview:
Well, dignity is something which I spent a great deal of time on since I wrote my dissertation in bioethics on it. But, basically it's very simple and it's not a complex issue at all. Dignity resides in what is called "Imago Dei." I mean, I've explored all the other sources of dignity and in general people confuse the appearance of dignity with dignity itself. Dignity is intrinsic within the human being. It is given to us by God. It is untouchable. You cannot have your dignity taken away or enhanced or reduced. The appearance of dignity . . . yes, or respect for dignity . . . yes, those things are changeable, but the dignity itself is not.
The Bible confirms this teaching (imago dei) that man is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). Therefore, an attack on an innocent human being with the intention of ending that person's life—no matter how young, no matter how old—is a direct attack on God Himself. God gives that dignity and we are called to respect that gift in ourselves and in every single person we encounter.
The result of not doing so is barbarism.
It is clear to me that the worst-case scenario, first defined by Sarah Palin, on the coming age of healthcare rationing under Obamacare has come to pass. The pieces are in place, the anti-human dignity philosophy underpins the very mechanism of the program/law, and as Kris Held, M.D. says in a very well-researched article, "The age of Obamacare-Legislated-Death (O.L.D.) is upon us. O.L.D. – yes, bad things come in threes."

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Washington and new coach Chris Petersen started the thrills and chills of national signing day early with a commitment Tuesday evening from ESPN 300 safety Bishard "Budda" Baker (Bellevue, Wash./Bellevue), and Stanford and USC got things going early on Wednesday.
ESPN 300 defensive end Solomon Thomas (Coppell, Texas/Coppell) produced a Tree and donned nerd glasses as visual aids for his commitment to Stanford. The nation's No. 4 defensive end and No. 25 overall player picked the Cardinal over Arkansas and UCLA.
Finally, USC signed three-star cornerback Lamont Simmons (Jacksonville, Fla./Raines). He picked the Trojans over Auburn, Penn State and Arkansas.
Of course, the big battles today will involve USC and UCLA, most notably over five-star cornerback Adoree' Jackson (Gardena, Calif./Serra). He will announce his decision on ESPNU today at 2 p.m. ET.
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I've noticed as of recently Kitsch hair ties are popping up everywhere, the gimmick? They are supposed to be gentle on your hair, resulting in no breakage or pulling. Do they work? Indeed they do, but my only gripe is a pack can cost quite a hefty amount for something which is essentially a bobble.
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Obama's margin of victory in the 2012 popular vote was smaller than in 2008. But the religious contours of the electorate were similar to recent elections – traditionally Republican groups such as white evangelicals and weekly churchgoers strongly backed Romney, while traditionally Democratic groups such as black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated backed Obama by large margins.
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Here's some of what I've been reading this week:
Christianity Today's Her.meneutics blog dismantles the dating myth of what it means for men to be a spiritual leader and why it is hurting many couples.
I started wondering about all the godly men who may have other spiritual gifts—just not the ones traditionally considered "male" spiritual gifts. For example, what about men who have the gift of mercy or hospitality or service or encouragement, and who are full of the fruits of the Spirit? Do we devalue them simply because they're not at the helm or out in front but rather operating alongside their partner? Is initiating devotional activities within a relationship really what it means to lead?
I wonder whether part of the disappointment and tension among Christian women stems from the fact that they have teaching or pastoral gifts, while their boyfriends or husbands possess other gifts wrongly considered "feminine." Is it really contradicting God's will when a woman initiates prayer and Bible study with her significant other? What if her partner models a life characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control? Is this not the Jesus life? Is such a man being derelict in his spiritual duties to wife and family?
Wordgazer's Words picks up the same theme.
Al Mohler thinks that Democrats winning the election was an evangelical disaster. Rachel Held Evans, like so many of us, thinks that the real evangelical disaster is how much it has been conflated with being Republican.
When I tell a reporter or a new acquaintance that I am an evangelical, inevitably the person will respond, "Oh, so you are a Republican?" Sadly, evangelicalism has ceased to represent the Kingdom of God, which transcends all political parties and national allegiances, and has come to represent kingdoms of this world. And so the strengths and weakness of evangelicalism are conflated with the strengths and weaknesses of the Republican Party.
Greg Boyd on video provides a quick introduction to Open Theism, a view that I also support:
Along the same lines, Greg Boyd concludes a series reviewing God With Us by Scott Oliphant. You can check out the rest of the series for background, but I think this final piece was especially valuable.
Chris Lenshyn at Anabaptistly provides a great quote from an Old School Anabaptist, Dirk Philips, about the Incarnation. It's basically the equivalent of the common emerging church line "the Bible isn't the Word of God; Jesus is."
Garret Menges discusses how our view of the atonement affects how we view victims in our world.
Frank Viola interviews Roger Olson about contemporary evangelicalism.
Jesus Creed talks about misconceptions in what the book of Job actually says.
And finally, Feministe points out the irony of a woman making a career out of telling women they must stay home and not have a career including her use of some seriously-distorted research statistics. This line is brilliant so I'll on this:
Facts, as we know, are for communists and liberals, so let's go back to Vekner's completely unsubstantiated assertions and deal with those.
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Like Karl Rove, Dick Cheney seems to have forgotten how the Iraq War got started. In an exclusive interview with Mike Allen, Jim Vandehei and John Harris of Politico.com, he said he'd have to do a little research to figure out just who was pushing whom to war:
Q Speaking of the history in Iraq, there's been a debate recently on the buildup to the vote for us to go to war, and you obviously were very intimately involved in that. Karl Rove has talked about, listen, Democrats — and Daschle — they wanted a speedy vote, before the elections, for the war. And Daschle has said, well, it's nonsense, they're trying to rewrite history. What is your recollection of what was happening? Were they — were Democrats pushing for a quick vote on the war before the election?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I don't want to get into that. I, frankly, I've heard a little bit of the argument and I don't understand it. (Laughter.)
Q I'm sorry, what do you mean by that?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I mean, I thought we proceeded in an orderly fashion. But I have not gone back and looked at that. I don't — it's not clear to me what the issue is that's being debated there.
Q The issue is whether the White House was pushing, or Democrats were pushing.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I thought we had approached it on a fairly bipartisan basis, and that was reflected in the vote. And we also went through a process with respect to intelligence matters, work at the United Nations seeking resolutions from the U.N. Security Council that applied to the situation. But in terms of, you know, we were pushing, or the Democrats were pushing, that's not — I'd have to go back and do a lot of research to have an opinion on that.
Q Mr. Vice President, this was so nice of you. Speaking of 2009, is this it for public service for you…?
In the spirit of bipartisanship, ThinkProgress provides this jumpstart to help the Vice President's research.
Right before the 2002 election, Cheney conceded that there was an option "to wait till January or February" of the next year, but he argued, "we're to the point where we think time is not on our side." Here's Cheney telling Russert that Democrats should vote before the 2002 election:
MR. RUSSERT: So you want a vote in Congress in October?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: Our preference would be to have a vote in Congress before they go home. And when they go home is up to them ordinarily. Now, they've scheduled an early October adjournment. I don't think they'll ever make that 'cause they've got all the appropriation bills to do yet, too, but this is not-I mean, the suggestion that I find reprehensible is the notion that somehow, you know, we saved this and now we've sprung it on them for political reasons. The president and I have talked about this for months. And now we've asked them to engage on it, not because it's a campaign year. As I say every other year is a campaign year anyway. We've asked them to engage in it because they have a constitutional responsibility to do so. They need to stand up and be counted.
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Three of Canada's leading retailers will enter the Australian market in 2013 with each debuting their stores in Adelaide's premier CBD shopping centre, Rundle Place which is set to open in March.
Rundle Place is a $385 million redevelopment of the old Harris Scarfe site currently under construction. It is located in Adelaide's iconic retail precinct, Rundle Mall and extending the depth of the city block through to the retail/office based Grenfell Street. Upon completion it will offer tenants and visitors alike, a premium shopping experience with bright spaces and open light voids.
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"We are thrilled to have three of Canada's leading retailers making their Australian debut in Rundle Place" said Stephen Hyde, Pacific Group Leasing Executive. "The confidence shown by these three who we've bought into Australia via their master licensor Retail Expansion Pty Ltd, in addition to others who are entering the Adelaide market for the first time and in some instances doing so ahead of opening outlets along the eastern seaboard is particularly pleasing and highlights the premium offering of Rundle Place".
The three Canadian retailers leading the charge to Rundle Place are:
Point Zero - the number one leading Canadian brand name and the largest manufacturer of chic and fashion-forward ready-to-wear apparel for men, women and children. Point Zero currently operates more than 35 flagship boutiques across Canada, 920Shop-in-shops in department stores as Dillard's, Macy's, BAY, Sears and has successfully opened franchises in Central and South America and the Middle East. Point Zero aims to open 100 retail stores in the next 3 years.
Joshua Perets - a retail store dedicated primarily to the teen and tween market includes everything from undergarments to hoodies, jeans to accessories and perfume was created in 2001 by the founder of the same name. As of April 2012 there were 35 stores operating across Canada.
La Vie en Rose – Canada's leading specialty lingerie retailer targeting women 25-54 with over 165 boutiques across Canada. Since 2004 the brand has expanded into the Middle Eastern, European and Asian markets with a total of 50 international outlets.
Rundle Place will include a four storey retail centre, anchored by Coles and a food court on the lower level; Harris Scarfe department store on part of Level 1 and all of Level 2 and approximately 70 specialty retail tenancies, with the fashion offering to be provided on ground level.
The development also includes an eleven storey commercial tower (set to open October 2013) which is preleased to the Adelaide/Bendigo Bank. The purchase of the adjoining car park by the developers provides 500 casual car parking spaces and 100 pre-leased car spaces that will directly link to each level of the retail centre.


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The underlying assumption is that as the flu virus breaks out in a specific geographic area, sufferers will turn to their computers (including Google's popular search engine) to seek remedies and treatments. Google, while promising to keep individual data private, can then alert the health care organizations about such breakouts. Yet another terrific Google idea!
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Sukriti and Prakriti Kakar to perform at Hockey India League 2017
Talented twin singers who were recently in news for releasing the EDM version of 'Dariya', a song from the movie 'Baar Baar Dekho', will be performing together at the opening ceremony of 'Hockey India League' in Mumbai on January 21.
Both Sukriti and Prakriti are known to enthrall the crowd with their performances and this time too they have some surprises in store for the audiences. They are really excited to perform at the HIL opening ceremony. Both sukriti and prakriti have a strong list of songs and hits like 'kar gayi chul', 'Pehli baar' and 'katra katra' are some of the songs they'll be crooning to at the event.
Commenting on the same, Sukriti and Prakriti say, "We followed Hockey India League last year and it was a huge success. We are looking forward to entertaining the audiences and motivate the players for this season. It will be a high energy performance and we're sure people will love it."


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My oldest dog, Theo has been with us since he was about 6 weeks old. He'd had a rough start in life. Some evil person dumped him and his litter mates in the woods. Luckily some kids found them and they ended up in the hands of a woman who found them homes. He was a funny little thing, his back legs were swollen from malnourishment, he had demodectic mange which made the hair fall out around his eyes, and was generally so good natured and sensitive. He had a habit of drinking water when he was upset, to the point of throwing up. We called it his "drinking problem" and imagine it was because of his abandonment.
He was also smart and eager to please.
He was our first dog, so of course we made mistakes. He slept on the bed. We didn't know how to address his abandonment issues, so he developed separation anxiety. In his early years he ate through a wall, part of a door and countless homemade dog gates. He also drank from a can of paint, chewed on a nail and various parts of game controllers and cords.
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Eventually we got him a dog friend to keep him company and his anxiety calmed down, he outgrew his puppy chewing, and also eventually, his insane Labrador energy mellowed. Now 13, he really is the ipitome of a good dog, even tempered and tolerant, loving and attentive, and goofy and funny. Sometimes we see shadows of the poor puppy he was, he hates being confined (eating the old linoleum when confined to the kitchen recently), and drinking too much water when he is upset. He also is the dog that always knows when I am not felling well, and tries to sit on my lap, even though he weighs 55 pounds. And almost always, that is enough to make me feel better.
I think if there is anything Theo would say to the world is that every dog deserves a chance to be a good dog.
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Beautiful topic, that strikes an obvious chord with me, being italian.ReplyDelete
It's the renaissance of our football and possibly the nation itself. I was 8 and on vacation, I listened to the final matches over the radio, on the beach. For the final we went to a restaurant/bar/pub. I remember playing on the beach and almost unbelievably learning that we had beaten Brazil!!!
I remember more distinctly, however (and wierdly) watching the group matches in another holiday location, with the other grandparents, with a colour TV, and the disappointment that the adults felt about the team. The only one who was respected and survived the post-match endless trials was Zoff.
From Spain '82, I started following closely football and Juventus became my favourite team. That World Cup has now an almost mythic quality, for all the italians over 40.
one of my first memories was the whole France-Kuwait goal farce that even to a nine year old like myself seemed unrealReplyDelete
needless to say the 1982 Brazil team comes to my mind, within weeks everyone (muself and my neighbors) seemed to know the name of every member of the teamReplyDelete
another memory I have is of maradona's closed angle goal vs hungaryReplyDelete
As far as the goalkeepers, everyone seemed to like Rinat dassayevReplyDelete
My first real World Cup is just began in USA 94, but when the author talks about Dassaev, I have ever met and get his signature while he visited Vietnam many years ago.ReplyDelete
I've just knew through documentary.
The billboard logo in Gijon is very meaningful, it give us an idea about goal and fishing-net as well.
And Espagna 82 is the first World Cup in Vietnam we have Express News, it means newspaper report the match just 1 day after the game will played. That owned by Vietnam News Agency.
your channel at youtube is very great place for me to look back world football in 80' -90'. thanks you so much, but i think it's better if you could make detail by playlist for subcriber easier to take match as i want. happy new year!ReplyDelete
Obviously the brazil team is the abiding memory of the 1982 world cup.. We all know they were something special and we all know that they had the ability to win a world cup. If they hadnt been so sloppy against italy they would be held in the same esteem as brazil 1970.. What other team in history that got knocked out in the quarter finals( 2nd group stage) consistently appears in lists of all time greats.. Holland 74 and hungary 54 both got to final - brazil 82 didnt reach a semi final yet they are ranked among the greats. They are seen as better than the french teams that reached two semi finals in 82 and 86.. So my favourite memory of espana 82 has to be eder's flick and volley against ussr and virtually everything brazil did in that tournament.. My worst memory is junior's careless performance against italy when he played rossi onside for the winner.. But that brazil team of 82 (apart from serginho) is the reason brazil have been so overrated and overhyped sinceReplyDelete
Another memory of espana 82 is the fouling tactics of italy especially against argentina and the despicable germans .. The west germans conspired with austria to draw their final group game and in the semi final shumacher nearly killed battiston with the worst foul i ever saw.. It was the world cup that thuggery won over art and flair.. Without brazil and to a lesser extent france the world cup would have been dullReplyDelete
Hungary thumped El Salvador 10-1, still the biggest win in finals history, while Laszlo Kiss becomes the only substitute to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Finals match.ReplyDelete


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Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Chandelure from the Next Destinies set. This is the first of two Chandelure card reviews from this set, the other Chandulure is a Psychic type card. This is a Stage 2, fire type Pokemon card, with an hp of 120. It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Chandelure doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Flame Burst and for one fire energy card it does 30 damage plus 20 damage to two of your opponent's benched Pokemon. Chandelure's second move is called Inferno which takes two energy cards, one each of fire and colorless and does 80 damage and burns the defending Pokemon, however after using this move you must discard all energy attached to Chandelure.
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So as far as strategy goes, this is one quick Stage 2 Pokemon card that doesn't require much energy to attack. I personally like Flame Blast better than Inferno because it spreads damage around and only requires 1 energy card to do so. So you'll want to definitely include this card in a deck with other spread damage type Pokemon. When attacking, depending on the amount of damage needed to knock out the defending Pokemon, I would probably switch back and forth between the two moves.
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I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating. Like I said in the strategy part of this review, this card is extremely fast for a stage 2 card, with that being said, this card doesn't have a very high hp for a Stage 2 so it may get knocked out sooner than other Stage 2 Pokemon, but boy, can this card pack a punch. As long as you have energy cards in your hand this card can attack every turn and after three turns, this card has the possibility of knocking out some basic Pokemon on your opponent's bench.
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Missions are groups of separate tasks and goals in each Devil May Cry game that act as the story mode of the series. Like chapters in a book, they break up the action of the game into manageable sections organized around a specific theme or target. Missions are episodic in nature, and must be completed in ascending order to unlock the next mission. They are generally where all story progression occurs. Unlike additional content, missions contain cinematic sequences that expand the game by explaining character motivations, developing the plot, and illustrating the consequences of the characters' actions.
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the 'OMG At The Drive In' are reforming thread
as apparently they are now. apparently.
Going to need to see proof
(yeah, like I'd get to see any date of theirs)
hope you're ready for One Armed Scissor
with a thirty minute jam outroMick_Squalor and DaddyorChips this'd this
- Rhymenocerous and useded this'd this
Just announced on Radio 1.
Along with Refused.
Finally ran out of money then
Guess all those TMV session musicians weren't cheap.
so At The Drive In, Refused, Quicksand and Texas Is The Reason
for the Warper Tour, apparently.
Sorry to be "that guy"
but while ATDI and Refused is all well and good, the real holy shit here is Texas Is The Reason.danger, marko23, and ThierryEnnui this'd this
Sorry, that was me lying.
Didn't realise half of my post was going to turn into a semi-possibility tonight though.
no, they've been on hiatus for over a decade.
(well, that almost worked)
that's the piece that has been doing the rounds for a week
anything actually new?
Are they really?
And Refused also? I think I would actually shit my pants.
So I have a real problem with this.
Basically, about, what, five years ago now, I interview TMV, and when I brought up their previous band, the party line was a sneery, indifferent, half-assed hatred of their own output
"We were just savvy guys who signed on the dotted line while we were ripping off Drive Like Jehu."
And they repeatedly said they weren't proud of that band, or their music.
And yet.
Sorry to be a grump about it but this is the ultimate NEED MONEY tour.
^ this
and I am a massive, MASSIVE Volta fan.
Also NB no 6th TMV album despite it "being ready" last February, then "scrapped and re-written" by July and 5 months later....eh...no.
NBC in December.
just a guess.
and now there is thread suggesting i was right
I want to feel smug, but its not the best of news is it if its true.
that thread is a joke
sit the fuck down.
i cant
ive got piles and i think im mildly excited by the prospect of a new atp announcement....
they aren't reforming
yeah hang on
only dis seems to be reporting this?
Nuh-uh, all of my friends and I were into them...
When we were teenagers.
Without girlfriends (mostly).
They were still really good, though.
Can everyone chilllllllll? It's not being reported anywhere else.
The Coachella lineup with Refused on it was confirmed as a fake, so I really can't see this happening. Especially since Jim just confirmed Sparta are back recording again.
and thank god, anyway.
Like Guntrip says upthread, I don't need that dickhead breaking out into 90 minute guitar and mariachi trumpet solos in the middle of songs.
I can see why Refused would reform
But not ATDI. They would probably end up doing a £30 ticket tour of soulless arenas anyway if they did.
They aren't _that_ popular
Souless Carling Academies maybe. Sticking them in arenas would be a worse idea than that Steps arena tour.
ATDI couldn't fill a single arena in the land.
They were never that big a band, and they're still not.
would it be prudent to mention yet again that i saw them back in the day and they were fucking shit?silverfoxqpr this'd this
wow, a backlash already
this has to be a new record
All fake flyers
Dennis seems happy enough playing people's barbecues in Sweden with AC4
the AC4 wiki page has some great Swenglish on it
|"AC4 is a hardcore band from Umeå, Sweden. Ex-Refused members Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström had been talking about starting a new band for a long time.... The first show was at a squatting on Parkgatan in Umeå on the 5th of May 2008."
I just listened to the announcement that Mike Davies made
and he clearly states them and Refused are getting back together this year, but references what appear to be little more than rumours, so I'm not fully convinced, but I'm still hoping.
- noise_annoys this'd this
- SCROTUM this'd this
- SCROTUM, lustforlife, and pieces_of_reece this'd this
- DaddyorChips this'd this
I don't care why they do it. They better not do new stuff. Relationship of command in full
Might all be just a ploy
to hype up the release of the latest Mars Volta record.
Zane Lowe's promised to find out
Presumably in the next link he'll go "there's a website, beyond that we don't know".
Mind you
there being a virtually blank website and a Twitter account isn't strictly the way a band announces its return.
Ain't gonna lie,
I'm fucking pumped for this.Antpocalypsenow this'd this
I was thinking hoax
Especially as the Mars Volta announced their new album today or yesterday, but the reunion news has been picked up by all the big magazines, including Rolling Stone, who I would have thought have sources they check with before publishing things. Or am I just crediting them with more journalistic wherewithal than they actually possess?lustforlife this'd this
the official verified mars volter twitter follows that at the drive in account
so guess thats legit
The first tweet on their official twitter
is a DiS link. Good work.Mike_Diver this'd this
I'm in two minds about this.
One part of me thinks it's finally a chance to see a band I love who I never got to see and who were pretty formative for me.
The other part is a bit upset that they've come back like this following all the efforts both sides made to move on. It just felt like ATD-I were done; it made sense to finish where they finished musically. The Mars Volta made sense as a continuing project for what Omar and Cedric wanted to do: why abandon that now? Their whole schtick was 'we don't care about the record sales or the money, we just want to make the music we want to make'. This feels a bit like a step in the other direction. Idk though. There's probably good reasons for it. And I hope it makes them some money if that's what they need. They definitely deserve some more reward for what they did.DaddyorChips, vamos, and Spicer this'd this
they might just have come round abit, re-evaluated the past, realised how much they loved that music at the time, repairing burnt bridges with each other
C+P'ed from Wikipedia from an interview in 2009
The fact of the matter is that we're in our thirties now and that breakup happened ten years ago. As a human being you just don't want that kind of karma. We did a lot of shit talking, and they did a lot of shit talking, so I just called everybody up and invited them to my house and said 'hey, listen, we're in our thirties now, I'm sorry for whatever I said, I'm sure you guys didn't mean what you said–you guys were upset because I split up the band and we were upset because of whatever. "Let's be friends again. But do I want to reunite and play fucking 15 year old songs? Well, it would be like asking you, 'do you want to get back together with your first girlfriend?' You learn some amazing things together, but I just shudder at the thought. We were a band that went out on top, which is good, but it's just a coincidence. We were also a band that had been together for seven years, and for six of those years played to nobody and had a great time but were also on the verge of splitting up many times before that. It's an old relationship. People would like to think of it as unfinished business because to them we went out when we were most popular, but that has nothing to do with the creative element. As far as the creative element went, it very much was finished business. That's why I ended the band! Now, thank god, fucking ten years later, we're not holding a grudge and we're all cool with it. People pick up on the difference of attitude and think 'oh, this could mean a possible reunion', but that's just them projecting their own desires upon us."badmanreturns this'd this
- badmanreturns, badgertastic, JohnM, and SCROTUM this'd this
This is the main reason I'm not excited about this
Then again I also just don't see the point of any band reforming this long after they've split up. The only glimmer of interest I have is the fact it's happened in the same week that the Coachella lineup is supposedly being released and I'm going this year...
people can change their minds though
a couple of years ago playing those songs might have seemed unthinkable but after a couple of years of rekindled friendship they might look back more favourably at the whole period and think whilst creatively there isnt much left for them to explore it might just be fun to get together and play. not ruling out they probably are just doing it for the money, I just think its odd to hold bands to things theyve said in interviews when everyone can be fickle or contradictory or just change
plus an interview isn't an unfiltered view into his mind
its motivated by wanting to present himself in a certain way, not looking back, slightly negativity towards his old band to make his current one appear relevant and creative
I agree, but I just don't really get the feeling they're doing this out of love for the music
Cedric and Omar have always said they hate looking back. It's not one interview, it's every interview. I don't know, I'd just like the reformation to be more... impassioned and joyous, I guess. Instead, there's the stink of it being a bit of a cashcow. Which is ok, I suppose, Pixies did it and I enjoyed their shows.
yeah I dont know why I was arguing really, its pretty likely to be for the money
they do tour the uk, doubt they'd do any bigger than Brixton mind...
- hip_young_gunslinger this'd this
- pieces_of_reece and medulla this'd this
Anyone else predicting
an underwhelming 2nd billing on the main stage at Reading/Leeds, playing to people who have no idea who they are & are waiting for the headliners?
nah headlining the second stage at the most
as someone up there said, they're not THAT big
they are pretty big
about half a million listeners on last.fm, granted only about a quarter to a third of arcade fire who are headlined, but still enough for a high billing on the main stage, and given that the amount of hype they are bound to get from the reformation their profile is gonna be higher than in 2000 so those listening figures are gonna jump. I really think there comeback could be quite big, they bring together different groups, are seen as a great lost band for many, it will have a lot of features written on it, I dunno unless there is reformation fatigue
- mug_mug_mug and medulla this'd this
I imagine they will either headline Sonisphere (Mars Volta second headlined last year, and ATDI must be bigger than them)
or maybe headline second stage at Reading, (like Faith No More when they reformed) or maaayyyyybe at a push, headline?
either way this is a bit annoying but also awesome.
In reality I can't see either of them not at Reading, but both of them will only be as good as they should be if they are in the Radio 1 Tent.
Any chance that them and Refused will both play Pheonix and Pheonix will be good? hmmmm
Mars Volta are comfortably bigger
just mostly different crowd
???PaintyCanNed this'd this
Another excuse to post the 15 year-old me headbanging like an idiot
what's wrong with some reconciled friends
deciding to reform a band that everyone likes?
...people post some right old shit on message boardsmug_mug_mug and navajo this'd this
At least wait for some interviews to judge the context and motivation for the reformation.
I for one am massively, massively excited. I just hope they come over to England asap.
Confirmed for Coachella
Killer line-upSCROTUM this'd this
Called it!
Oh fuck I am actually going to Coachella, this is going to be the best holiday ever. The line up is fucking unreal. ATDI AND REFUSED. Fuck.
They're second on the bill at coachella? Last time they were in the UK they played manchester academy 2 for crying out loud! Seems to be that the best thing any band can do is split and reform later. A bit sad that really.
I hope they dont play festivals (unless its ATP NBC)
and play some proper gigs in places other than LondonTheSoundofBastards this'd this
from decridcs youtube account
lunarpower666 (14 minutes ago)
i dont know how im going to sing the atdi stuff? its all a rather fun challenge for me: ) do i HAVE to? scream? or more importantly do I have fun and please my bandmates? all i do know is that adam levine and solange knowles will be meshed together in a secret lab in vienna to make the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. ladies and germs i give you SOLANGE LEVINE
lunarpower666 (2 hours ago)
@MrKenmcmullen i can see how many of u would think we only might be in it for the money, but like i said. people change, if you dont believe it....well im not really going to lose sleep over it. in fact im going to have the time of my life doing. what kind of artist would i be if i didnt contradict myself? shouldn't u just relax and let the good times roll? fuck man....i? am
Man im sooooo happy about this
its gunna be ace!
When At The Drive In called it quits I laughed and said one less piece of shit.