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Percy Member Posts: 22489 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
He once collaborated with Ronnie Spector, she of Ronnie and the Ronettes (Be My Baby).
--Percy
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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One of my favorite journalists.
"I'd rather be an American than a Trump Supporter." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9196 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Sorry she died but I lost all respect for her years ago. Her reporting and commentary was vacuous at best. She was a voice of the elite and privileged.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4440 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.1
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I liked her and I will miss her voice on NPR.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1529 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
I liked her better than Baba Wa-Wa.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9196 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3
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I would call that damning with faint praise.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5 |
jeez...i waited & waited and nobody brings this up.
his songwriting for the Dead and even co-writing with Dylan????"I'd rather be an American than a Trump Supporter." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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I am the reigning King of Death.
ramoss and Minnemooseus have get their game up! 15 run lead now."I'd rather be an American than a Trump Supporter." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
Apparently nobody from Michigan gives a damn. So, I'll break down and (belatedly) do it.
John Dingell - Wikipedia
quote: MooseProfessor, geology, Whatsamatta U Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment. "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. To be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people." - Conan O'Brien "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." - John Kenneth Galbraith It says something about the qualities of our current president that the best argument anyone has made in his defense is that he didn't know what he was talking about. -- Paul Krugman (as stolen from Chiroptera's signature) "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
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LamarkNewAge Member Posts: 2417 Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
But he was an "evil" gun nut.
I am going by memory, but didn't he get called a lot of bad names by people on the left (during the 80s and 90s)? It had to do with guns. The famous "jack-booted" government troops comment (about the government being the thugs) came from him. Always remember that many heroes among the Democratic party were on the opposite side of the party member's position today. I get amazed when I see yards with many signs covering important issues to the home owner. I will see a yard with 5 out of the 6 signs presenting messages like "Keep hate out of Nebraska", and "Everybody is welcome". Very much they are indeed genuinely moral messages covering vitally important issues. Then there will be an odd message thrown into the yard which says "guns kill". I feel like the gun issue is massively diluting the impact of the more important issues. People will then see the messages against racial bigotry as sleazy and insincere. Just cheap "political" messaging stuff mostly unrelated to real world affairs. Perhaps Dingell will be viewed as out-of-date on the gun issue, as so many old folks tend to be seen on a good many issues. But he was for civil rights. Yet he didn't see pro-gun folks as some anti-minority militia trooper or some Neo Nazi type of group. He saw the government as the more SS type than the pro-gun groups. I don't like guns myself (I think the physical impact on humans is minor, but I just hate what is done to so many various animals).
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
A loss that may not get replaced.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Ginger Barker. I was listening to African Force just yesterday.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8546 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
Toad!
Damn. That is way old.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1529 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
For those who never heard him lay it down, go check it out. He was a groovin mo fo. Edited by 1.61803, : No reason given."You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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Percy Member Posts: 22489 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
Adding a couple details. Ginger Baker, Superstar Rock Drummer With Cream, Is Dead at 80:
quote: I've queued this up to the beginning of the drum solo:
--Percy
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