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Hey Bo Diddley
A legend is gone. Bo Diddley is my original musical inspiration. He famous guitar riff is the first riff I ever learned and was quite likely the reason for my first guitar purchase. Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley where’d you go?
Quotes of the Year - 2007
I found interesting and wanted to pass along a list compiled by Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations as the “most memorable” quotes of 2007. This is a good list, but I would quibble with the order of ranking. To me his #10 is clearly the number one quote of the year. Find out why HERE. Hope you find this interesting and returns your thoughts to events of this past year.
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- “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” Andrew Meyer UF student as he was being hauled away by campus police during speech by Sen. John Kerry (Tin Soldiers and Kerry Coming…………)
- “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.” Lauren Upton, Miss Teen USA contestant from SC when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S. on a map. (Excuse me………?)
- “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a speaking engagement at Columbia University New York. (I wonder why they don’t have any…..?)
- “That’s some nappy-headed hos there.” Radio personality Don Imus referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. (Another example that no evil deed goes unrewarded)
- “I don’t recall.” Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ repeated response to questions from Congress about the firing of U.S. Attorneys (sounds like the HRc “I don’t recall video” compiled by her detractors when discussing the finding of the “lost” Whitewater papers in her office and other matters, all of which the media didn’t seem to find as humorous as this Gonzales response…..hm…….)
- “There’s only three things he (Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11).” Senator Joe Biden (the man that graduated from the lowest quartile in his class and would be President.)
- “I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating.” Harry Reid on VP Dick Cheney. (Harry….would you like to go over those percentages again?)
- “(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.” Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched a police officer in the airport restroom. (And his hand signaled he was ready for action by reaching under the stall into the next stall…..ha.)
- “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” Senator Joe Biden, referring to Senator Barack Obama. (Wow……two entries from Mr. “C’s get degrees” himself all in one year.)
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“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.” Former President Jimmy Carter, on the Bush administration. (Coming from the actual worst President in history (HERE) this must be some type of put on. I would rank this quote as number 1 for 2007.)
- “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” Andrew Meyer UF student as he was being hauled away by campus police during speech by Sen. John Kerry (Tin Soldiers and Kerry Coming…………)
This & That…………
The Washington Times is reporting that the Democratic party, once the party of the “poor and middle class Americans” is now the party of the rich. The Times references a study by the Heritage Foundation that shows that the nation’s wealthiest Congressional Districts are now represented by the Democrats. ….and contrary to the way the Democrats have routinely defined the Republican’s as the party of the “rich” the same study shows that vast majority of conservative Congressional members come from middle-class districts. [Of course I have my own interpretation of these same facts which doesn’t necessarily follow the Times interpretation.]
It looks like the first major test of the newly elected and “reform” minded President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy has been an overwhelming smash hit. The collapse of the rail/subway strike has resonated a clear message throughout the country. Sarkozy realized that for his country to increase productivity and regain competetivity and increase employment that they would need to “reform” the strangle hold that labor unions have on the country. The rail union leaders have essentially issued their “mea culpa” as strikers have returned to work in droves following a nine day strike. [Oh by the way, Bush’s lack of support for his foreign policy on a so called unified front throughout the world seems to be eroding with Sarkozy being only one of the new adherents.]
Iraqi’s returning to Baghdad in “droves” are finding a transformed city. The Washington Post is reporting: “Many find a Baghdad they no longer recognize, a city altered by blast walls and sectarian rifts. Under the improved security, Iraqis are gingerly testing how far their new liberties allow them to go.” Estimates are that 45,000 Iraqi’s returned last month from Syria alone with flows still continuing at a rate over 1,000 per day. This has got to be bad new for Senator Reid who pronounced the surge “already a failure” weeks before it was launched.
The Gregorian Chant is back in and Winds of Worship is out, at least at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI has eliminated the rotating choirs and music performers at the Vatican and is opting for the more traditional tones of Gregorian Chant and Baroque Sacred music in St. Peter’s Basilica. His comments referenced the time of St. Gregory, the pope that gave rise to the Gregorian Chant by lending the use of his name. [So I guess this means that the likes of P.O.D., Skillet and Reliant K are out of the question.]
Well now you have it. Richard Roberts, son of ORU founder Oral Roberts, has resigned as President under a cloud of suspicion in squandering University Funds in a lavish (and I mean lavish) lifestyle for him and his family. There have also been some accusations of improprieties by both Roberts and his wife Lindsay with some of the hired help and underclasspersons. Roberts statement Friday, he said “that he loved the university.” He became president in 1993. “I love ORU with all my heart,” Roberts said in the statement. “I love the students, faculty, staff and administration and I want to see God’s best for all of them.” I suspect that this is an understatement once you realize the size of that expense account that comes with the job and how much he must have loved that and the private jet.
You have no doubt heard about the forthcoming “end of the stem cells wars” due to recent discovery of being able to get stem cells from skin cells. Don’t ask me how, but you can read it for yourself HERE. This debate has been sort of the opposite of what the Democrats have demanded on energy. They have fought the exploration and use of new reserves while advocating R&D to solve the energy crisis all while denying that approach to the “stem cell” debate. In this case it looks like Bush was right and they were wrong……..again.
And by-the-way, we’ll be headed north next week for the Christmas Holidays and hopefully final resolution to Gayle’s Law Firm. Also, at the moment I’m giving the Ohio State Buckeyes about a 65-70% chance of playing for the BCS National Championship. If either Oklahoma wins the Big 12 Championship next week (likely in my opinion) or Connecticut beats WVA today (not as likely but certainly possible) Michigan oops, I guess Illinois will be going to the Rose Bowl. Go Bucks!!! ………..steve
Rorschach Test
What do you see in these contrails and clouds from the Shuttle Atlantis Launch June 8th, 2007? This sort of reminds me of the Rorschach Inkblot Test. Look forward to your response.
