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Title: What, if anything, has gotten better or what, if anything, are you looking forward to?
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Published: Nov 11, 2005
Author: christine
Post Date: 2005-11-11 19:59:17 by christine
Keywords: anything,, anything,, looking
Views: 351
Comments: 79
This was timetobuildaboat's idea. Since we mostly doom and gloom (with good reason) around here, time thought it might be fun and beneficial for us to have an ongoing thread on which we can share these things with one another. Someone else will have to go first. I'm still wracking my brain trying to think of something. :P
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#17. To: christine (#11)
...burning both ends of the night - the sweat, the moonlight, and the lace... What great imagery.
The mark of the beast and freezing to death in a snow lined ditch while Dubya & Dick Cheney rip past in their motorcade, drunk and screwing Jeff Gannon in the back on one of the suburbans.
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
WOW - Thanks Lod, I never heard that song. Saw Croce in...'69? in Texarkana, Tx. with the Grassroots.
that's sure to get you a pulitzer prize must - not - make - chicken - jokes ....
And I'm optimistic. See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic we'll achieve -- I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals - gwbush
You look like the type who'd throw a cat at a guy who was down on his luck.
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
James Croce was born in Philadelphia, PA, on January 10, 1943. Raised on ragtime and country, Croce played the accordion as a child and would eventually teach himself the guitar. It wasn't until his freshman year of college that he began to take music seriously, forming several bands over the next few years. After graduation, he continued to play various gigs at local bars and parties, working as both a teacher and construction worker to support himself and his wife, Ingrid. In 1969, the Croces and an old friend from college, Tommy West, moved to New York and record an album. When the Jim and Ingrid record failed to sell, they moved to a farm in Lyndell, PA, where Jim juggled several jobs, including singing for radio commercials. Eventually he was noticed and signed by the ABC/Dunhill label and released his second album, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, in 1972. The record spawned three hits: "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," and "Time in a Bottle." The latter would become Croce's breakthrough hit, shooting all the way to number one on the Billboard charts. Croce quickly followed with Life and Times in early 1973 and gained his first number one hit with "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown." After four years of grueling tour schedules, Croce grew homesick. Wishing to spend more time with Ingrid and his infant son Adrian James, he planned to take a break after the Life and Times tour was completed. Unfortunately, the tour would never finish; just two months after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" topped the charts, Croce's plane crashed in Natchitoches, LA. Croce and the four other passengers (including band member Maury Muehleisen) were killed instantly. Ironically, Jim Croce's career peaked after his death. In December of 1973, the album I Got a Name surfaced, but it was "Time in a Bottle," from 1972's You Don't Mess Around with Jim which would become his second number one single. Shortly afterwards, "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" reached the Top Ten. Several albums were released posthumously, most notably the greatest hits collection, Photographs and Memories, which became a best- seller. Several other compilations have since been issued, such as the 1992 release The 50th Anniversary Collection and the 2000 compilation Time in a Bottle: The Definitive Collection. Listening to the songs Croce recorded, one cannot help but wonder how far his extraordinary talents could have taken him if he would have perhaps lived a few years longer. Unfortunately, such a question may only be looked at rhetorically, but Jim Croce continues to live on in the impressive catalog of songs he left behind. ~ Barry Weber, All Music Guide. +++ He's one of my all time favs...the lyrics touch my heart, spirit, and past.
What goes, "red-white, red-white, red-white, ...?"
Loved him. Add Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin.
And I'm optimistic. See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic we'll achieve -- I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals - gwbush
You're just immune to the prospect of social stigma, aren't you?
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
Praise Jeebus Yes!
And I'm optimistic. See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic we'll achieve -- I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals - gwbush
Better: Great internet talk shows. 4um. The internet in general. High speed connections. More people pulling their heads out. Mrs.L stopping the aspartame usage. All God's other blessings. Worse: Everything else. Cheers.
A peppermint candy stuck in my hair after a night on the town?
And I'm optimistic. See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic we'll achieve -- I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals - gwbush
You commie weirdo. Do you think I miss the 90s, when I got raises around 10 percent every year, and had headhunters calling all the time? Bah, making a decent living makes you SOFT! I much prefer making less money, working much harder, watching my living expenses soar while my pay barely budges. Makes a man tough and lean! Like our brave, honest, kindly, thoughtful, intellectual, adorable, handsome, forthright, straight-shooting President said, finally, our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over. I know he said it, it was in the Onion.
Loved him. Add Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin. Hmmm, there might be something dangerous about being a singer/songwriter/storyteller. That reminded me of an old National Lampoon radio hour skit where Hunter Thompson has picked up a hitchhiking hippie who has amnesia from getting kicked in the head by a Hell's Angel at a concert and is heading north for the big Janis Joplin/Jimi Hendrix concert. "I had some bad news for Rip Van Ripple. Janis is dead." OH NO MAAAAAN. "And so's Jimi." OH MAAAAAAN, NOT JIMI!!! "And Jim Morrison." No, NOT JIM MAN! "And Jim Croce." OH NOOOOO, wait, who's Jim Croce? Real old joke, only for us old people.
Welcome to the NWO, comrade. Get your three jobs, so Jorge can pin a medal on your ass. Well done. (Hang in there, friend, you can make it.)
ha! so, whatcha lookin' forward to then?
It's not quite over yet, but it's living on borrowed time. Peace is still realatively real in America, as is prosperity compared to the rest of the world. But big changes are in store soon that will make people think that the last 5 years were the good old days. Heck, even the great depression of the 1930's will look good compared to what's coming to America soon.
God is always good! I hear ya' (barely)(g)
A gallows built for six, a front row seat, and waiter service so I can have a few cocktails. Should only take a few hours to take care of the worst of them.
Hah! But, we're not talking about wet-dreams, just hopes...but I love your dream.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the drug resistant TB. We don't have any diseases like that currently and I appreciate diversity.
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
Bump..
Zogby Poll- "By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq."
Don't get much better than these.
Let's CELEBRATE this diversity.
I want to live on the dark side of the Moon.
Another Mogambo Day
Dengue (aka HEMORRHAGIC) Fever sounds like an absolute hoot, we should sue Texas for oppressing us by keeping it to themselves.
And I'm optimistic. See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic we'll achieve -- I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals - gwbush
A nice long hike today well above 5000 feet on the Mountains to Sea Trail (Western North Carolina) with my beautiful wife and my dog. Wonderful overlooks seeing Tennent Mountain and Mt Pisgah. Looking down into vallies and catching a glimpse of the headwaters of a fork of the Pigeon River flowing over a distant rock. Although we ran into this really dense couple with two hyper and agressive dogs. I (we) have domesticated a wild anmial. As sweet and wonderful as he is, there are certain variables out of my control. 90% of the time, my dog could care less about other dogs. That is, until they attempt to usurp is role as Alpha Male. It was one of those intances where I seriously thought for a couple seconds he may very well inflict serious harm on two other dogs and there was not one thing I could do to stop him. Dingo just does not register with folks. Much less trying to explain Carolina Dog/American Dingo. Honestly, a stupid woman who thought all anmials are kind to one another all the time. I hope they are okay. They had no freaking clue where they were or where they were going and they had no provisions on them. I am looking forward to watching college football tomorrow. Hoping UNC can beat Maryland for 5 wins and then beat Duke for that 6th and go to a bowl. Looking foward to another hike with just me and the dog on Sunday. Want to do some things that my wife (bless her soul) just can't do.
lovely. i'm happy that my son has moved from maryland back here to austin. it's "better" having him close and not so far away.
Better? Hmmm, I am a better musician, but my band broke up. My marriage is stronger though....these could be related issues. Looking forward to: 1) Endangered Species Act reform (abolishment would be even better) 2) A conservative supreme court 3) Thanksgiving with 18 friends and family 4) Republican party hacks retiring so REAL conservatives can take their place. 5) A renaissance of good rock n roll writers 6) The realization among intellectuals that socialism is a failed form of government. 7) Paying less taxes because #6 became reality 8) Seeing positive news on 4um. 9) The defeat of radical Islam. 10) More open minded people - doom and gloom is depressing!
Many a day I feel the same way....
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
Now HERE'S a topic worthy of its own thread. I'm always looking around for internet radio shows I can download and burn to a CD. Anyone want to put up such a thread to solicit suggestions from other posters? Just a thought...
Thank you for ruining my day. :-) I lived a short distance from that area from 1999 to 2004, then returned to New England (I know...stupid, stupid, stupid). I have fond memories of hot days at Sliding Rock (at 53, I should know better, but I didn't care...move over, kids...old fart coming through!) Hope to return to that area next Spring. (or Costa Rica...haven't quite made up my mind.) Enjoy the day...G-d's country.
Man, you'd LOVE New England! ...or are you already here?
Actually; I should quit whining...so it's only fifteen degrees out...at least it's SUNNY! :-)
I want to be "Raptured" so I can go drinking with Hey-Sus.
Things are so much better now that we don't have to picture semen stains on the carpet in that back hall off the Oval Office. And we don't have to worry any more about that little sink where the president is said to have "relieved himself" in some way or other. I am just so glad that we don't have a sexual predator in the White House. (Now we just have a plain old predator.) At last, decency has been restored. The adults are in charge. Now we Americans can hold up our heads. Hillary can't make any more $1000 commodities "investments" and come out with a $100,000 return. No siree--those political people and their wives have to be scrupulously honest now! Can't you just feel the honesty? (All those indictments and SEC investigations and Abramoff this, Abramoff that, but boy Hillary sure paid politically for that huge sum of $100,000! Serves her right. Next thing you know she'd have been using eminent domain to seize land for a stadium, then sticking taxpayers with the bill for building it while walking off with millions!) And I'm sure no lonely government appointees in D.C. will have to commit suicide because "here, ruining people is considered sport." 'Cause they don't ruin people in D.C. any more! Everyone respects everyone else's point of view! Just ask Joe and Valerie Wilson, or Scott Ritter! And... oh! Now that Hillary is not in any sort of power in the White House, I don't have to worry about nationalizing health care. Nope, I can enjoy the current system without a care in the world. It's so much more honorable to pay hundreds of dollars per month to have a $10,000 deductible before a penny of my family's health costs are paid. Sure, we might get sick and be unable to pay for treatment, but at least all those nice drug companies and hospitals and doctors don't have to worry about CREEPING SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM (BOOOOAHAHAHA!) making them have to get along on a paltry $1,000,000 per. I feel so much cleaner. Nowadays all I have to worry about is having the government quite literally come and take my children and send them to die in a foreign country, or just some silly thing like being dragged off to a prison where I have no habeas corpus and where nobody ever reviews my imprisonment-- all because I was discovered to have said "I hate Bush/Cheney" on the internets. Or some nonsense about not being able to afford an antibiotic to treat a dogbite because it cost $250 for about 10 pills because drug companies are allowed to get all their profits at the front end. Wouldn't want any of those generic drugs to get about! And... having to one day walk into the Winn Dixie and find the shelves bare because the trucks that deliver the food couldn't afford to buy gas to transport it? Priceless.
Wow. You knocked it out of the park. Bravo!
excellent!!!
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#18. To: All (#17)
What a talent.
#19. To: christine (#0)
#20. To: lodwick (#18)
#21. To: Jhoffa_ (#19)
#22. To: Dakmar (#21)
#23. To: tom007 (#20)
#24. To: Dakmar (#21)
#25. To: lodwick (#23)
Croce
#26. To: Jhoffa_ (#22)
#27. To: Dakmar (#26)
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#29. To: christine (#0)
Back on topic.
#30. To: Rabble Rouser (#24)
What goes, "red-white, red-white, red-white, ...?"
#31. To: christine (#0)
#32. To: Jethro Tull (#25)
Agree.
#33. To: Jethro Tull (#25)
Croce
#34. To: Mekons4 (#31)
Bah, making a decent living makes you SOFT! I much prefer making less money, working much harder, watching my living expenses soar while my pay barely budges. Makes a man tough and lean!
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#36. To: Mekons4 (#31)
Like our brave, honest, kindly, thoughtful, intellectual, adorable, handsome, forthright, straight-shooting President said, finally, our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over. I know he said it, it was in the Onion.
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
#37. To: Mekons4 (#33)
Real old joke, only for us old people.
#38. To: christine (#35)
ha! so, whatcha lookin' forward to then?
#39. To: Mekons4 (#38)
A gallows built for six, a front row seat, and waiter service so I can have a few cocktails. Should only take a few hours to take care of the worst of them.
#40. To: Dakmar (#28)
#41. To: Mekons4 (#38)
#42. To: lodwick (#23)
"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," and "Time in a Bottle."
#43. To: Jhoffa_ (#40)
We don't have any diseases like that currently and I appreciate diversity.
#44. To: christine (#0)
#45. To: Jhoffa_ (#40)
Personally, I'm looking forward to the drug resistant TB.
#46. To: all (#0)
#47. To: scooter (#46)
A nice long hike today well above 5000 feet on the Mountains to Sea Trail (Western North Carolina) with my beautiful wife and my dog. Wonderful overlooks seeing Tennent Mountain and Mt Pisgah. Looking down into vallies and catching a glimpse of the headwaters of a fork of the Pigeon River flowing over a distant rock.
#48. To: christine (#0)
What, if anything, has gotten better or what, if anything, are you looking forward to?
#49. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
An early, painless death.
#50. To: lodwick (#29)
Great internet talk shows.
#51. To: scooter (#46)
A nice long hike today well above 5000 feet on the Mountains to Sea Trail (Western North Carolina) with my beautiful wife and my dog. Wonderful overlooks seeing Tennent Mountain and Mt Pisgah. Looking down into vallies and catching a glimpse of the headwaters of a fork of the Pigeon River flowing over a distant rock.
#52. To: Mekons4 (#31)
You commie weirdo. Do you think I miss the 90s, when I got raises around 10 percent every year, and had headhunters calling all the time? Bah, making a decent living makes you SOFT! I much prefer making less money, working much harder, watching my living expenses soar while my pay barely budges. Makes a man tough and lean!
#53. To: scooter (#46)
#54. To: christine, DoctorStrangeLove, Dakmar (#0)
Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?
#55. To: Mekons4 (#31)
#56. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#55)
#57. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#55)
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