Lighting a fire
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Lighting a fire
Jose Feliciano performed a rockin' version of the Star Spangled Banner tonight before the first game of the National League Championship Series (sigh) in San Francisco. It felt like closing a loop to watch it. In my first year as a baseball fan -- 1968, when I was 9 -- Feliciano was asked to sing the National Anthem before the World Series at Detroit's Tiger Stadium, and when he did his soulful, very non-tradional version, it caused a national uproar. This was the year of the RFK and MLK assassinations, the Tet offensive, and riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago, and now people thought the counter-culture was invading baseball. Nothing was safe!
You can read the fairly amazing backstory here. Now it's 2012, and no one says "boo" about the same version. A sign that we've come a long way, baby. Or is it...just San Francisco being San Francisco. The final bizarre kicker is that I suspect the Cardinals and Tigers will meet again in the World Series -- a 1968 re-match.
Programming note: I'm taking a well-deserved day off tomorrow. See you Tuesday for Debate Night in America.
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Breaking News: Mrs. Clinton says "I take all responsibility" for the Bengazigate scandel. So it's not because of Rush Limbaugh, The Drudge Report and Mitt Romney politicizing it. And it's not because of the Koch brothers, the Marx brothers, the flying burrito brothers either. I haven't checked in with the tea party lately to see if it was their fault. Now we have to be careful with the statement "I take responsibility". We still have not gotten to the bottom of the meaning of the word "is" is with this bunch.
Murray, you're up.— Phishface- "extreme right wingers". Actually Murray, I consider myself an extreme moderate.— Phishface
- At least nobody died in this latest Barry lie. "We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system," - Barry. "Um, you're full of Obama." - CBO "The cost to the federal government of the TARP’s transactions (also referred to as the subsidy cost), including grants for mortgage programs that have not yet been made, will amount to $24 billion,” said the CBO report, which was released on the same day Obama spoke.— bil,l atkins
- I also seem to remember another local politician in 1985 after a few city blocks burned down saying " I take full responsibility". We know how that played out.— Phishface
- "Stupidity began in '06..."
Need I say more? That's your case? A video of Barney Frank in '05? Thanks for making me "LOL" for once. Not with you, at you.— wokmaster - "Actually Murray, I consider myself an extreme moderate"
Yeah, Murray, and also an "Independent". You know, like all the other "independents" who watch Fox and Friends every morning and troll the Drudge Report all day and parrot Rush Limbaugh all the time. Keep the hits coming, phish.— wokmaster - " the idea any sober person has any idea what your paranoid delusion means is just obnoxious."
You do know that statement makes absolutely no sense, right? For your sake, and those around you(if theres anybody crazy enough) I hope you are drinking
— Phishface - I see wannabe blogger wokmaster( not master of facts) is back. Sorry wok, the daily kos has already beaten you to the whole far left blog thingy. But thats alright, you still have your meds.— Phishface
- C'mon, Phish, you can think of something original. YOU are the wannabe blogger but it's okay...I could never hate you. You make me laugh. But seriously...you think you're a moderate? What do you consider far right?— wokmaster
- Looking more and more like election night will be over and I'll be able to get to sleep before 10 PM.— Mr. Smith
- More great news of the wonders of Obamanomics. For evry person added to the work force under Obama, 10 people have been addd to the not in work force catagory. "Four more years", "Four more years"
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/every-person-added-labor-force-10-added-those-not-labor-force_654547.html— Phishface - Another post from the "extreme moderate" and "independent" Phishface. And his source...The Weekly Standard. Keep the hits comin'!!
— wokmaster - Barry: "Uh, well, uh, it wasn't me. Uh, I, eh, didn't know, uh, anything about, uh, Benghazi. Uh, Joe didn't either. And, uh, besides, I was uh, busy mediating the uh, feud, between uh, Mariah and Nicki. It's uh, hard being the, uh, President." Hillary: "Ok, just shut your pie hole, you eunuch. I'll take responsibility. Someone needs to be an adult male in this administration, and it might as well be me."— bil,l atkins
- Sounds like you'll be voting for Hilary in '16 - after Obama wins re-election in 3 weeks. Good for you, willy! — wokmaster
- If the straight up choice was Hillary or your boy Barry the Clown, I would vote for her in a heartbeat. One of them has a set. The other is Barry. What a 'man' Barry is, hiding behind the skirt of a woman. — bil,l atkins
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