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- Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A Royal Party: Oil, Sex and Coke!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2964
Re: A Royal Party: Oil, Sex and Coke!
Talk about corruption - this is an outrage! Also, clearly I'm in the wrong business ...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sarah Palin: Pros and Cons [Thread Retitled]
- Replies: 696
- Views: 117652
Re: Sarah Palin: Pros and Cons [Thread Retitled]
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/SC_Dem_chair_Palin_primary_qualification_is_she_hasnt_had_an_abortion_.html?showall So now I guess Obama has decided that the only way he can destroy Palin is to have women attack her. But to say that Palin's only qualification is that she "has not ...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Steve Forbes: McCain Isn't Bush
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5183
Re: Steve Forbes: McCain Isn't Bush
Going against the Republicans for the public good?? Is that why anyone should vote them into running this country for another four years? Because they've been operating against the public good? We can't afford another four years of Republican rule. John McCain , whatever his intentions may be, cann...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Whoopi really aggravated ...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7118
Re: Whoopi really aggravated ...
Personally, I think McCain kind of overdoes it a little at times. But still, it is a plus to be considered when comparing the two candidates.
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Steve Forbes: McCain Isn't Bush
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5183
Re: Steve Forbes: McCain Isn't Bush
John McCain can be trusted with fiscal responsibility - he didn't participate in the decadent spending spree of the early 00's. This is a time he went against his own party for the public good. I say give the man line item veto power.
- Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sarah Palin: Pros and Cons [Thread Retitled]
- Replies: 696
- Views: 117652
Re: Inexperience
I'd be interested in knowing how someone arrived at the low 2.4%. I think the actuarial number for the next 4 years should be closer to 14.36% using the following chart: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html I'm taking L76/L72 here and subtracting from 1. But this is a very, very general appro...
- Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:59 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sarah Palin: Pros and Cons [Thread Retitled]
- Replies: 696
- Views: 117652
Re: McCain's attack dog with lipstick
Did anyone see her youngest daughter Piper holding the baby and spitting on her hand to slick his hair down? Call me schmaltzy, but I about puddled up over that one. The whole dynamic of their family was admittedly interesting to watch even though I feel like a jerk saying it. The way Todd handed T...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sarah Palin: Pros and Cons [Thread Retitled]
- Replies: 696
- Views: 117652
Re: Sarah Palin's 17 Year Old Unmarried Daughter Pregnant
I know many of you are commenting that these things happen, but, shouldn't the President and the Vice-President be held to a higher standard? A person can not preach the necessity of high moral standards, without living by them and teaching these values to their family. Since when is Palin running ...
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: To Vet, or Not To Vet...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8005
Re: To Vet, or Not To Vet...
Clearly she was vetted more than Barack Obama.
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sarah Palin: Pros and Cons [Thread Retitled]
- Replies: 696
- Views: 117652
Re: Palin takes on oil industry, Republicans
Palin is very pro-drilling. Her approach in Alaska seems to have been this: you oil companies want to drill here, then I will compromise by demanding that Alaskans get a cut and emissions standards will be raised. I think it's a great approach that should be emulated by the shamefully stagnant Ameri...
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: On Being an Elitist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11271
Re: On Being an Elitist
When people use the word elitist nowadays, it's just a fancy way of saying snobby . Usually the word is used by conservatives as a way to brand liberals as out of touch. JackC's post says it well. Wine snobbery isn't in fashion anymore. Now it's beer snobbery. A stereotypical elitist wouldn't be cau...
- Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:51 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Look Out! Here They Come! The Religious Left!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5924
If there is such an animal, it will not survive in any form for long. It will evolve itself into nothingness. dj Heck no, there are a ton of them (I know plenty). Mostly they're all active in the church and obviously in more urban/suburban areas. All denominations are teeming with political liberal...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My God! What If We Won the War on Terror!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 16506
The notion of "invested in our defeat" goes both ways though. Anyone who is currently claiming that citizens are "invested in our defeat" has an obligation: if Obama is elected and we pull out of Iraq and the country doesn't fall apart and instead goes on to thrive then they must admit that it was o...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My God! What If We Won the War on Terror!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 16506
... America often goes into situations thinking only of its short-term national interest and not its long-term interests. Our actions seldom have evil motivations. They often have evil effects. ... And for some Americans, the inclination is more to withdraw from a difficult situation with only the ...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:54 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My God! What If We Won the War on Terror!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 16506
First I gotta say I've admired Zakaria for years! He's tried to be very objective about this war and his calmness is appreciated by many. I don't think the war on terror can be won. It is like a war on crime, poverty, homelessness, or anything else. You never expect to eliminate it - you just want t...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:52 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How do you top Al Gore's claim of inventing the internet?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8269
Re: How do you top Al Gore's claim of inventing the internet
From the Messiah's speech last night. I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow...
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How the Europeans see us
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9119
- Sun May 25, 2008 7:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bob Barr, Anyone?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8210
This was the guy who got duped into that dumb investigation of the 2001 Clinton-Bush transition. Where they were spending millions of dollars investigating missing "w" keys on keyboards and stuff and came up short. You can tell what the GOP thinks of the guy giving him all the crappy assignments. Li...
- Tue May 06, 2008 8:58 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Composer-performers and piano music
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4271
Re: Composer-performers and piano music
But what [Ravel] managed to convey musically is so imaginative and thematically creative that, in my mind, all of Satie's piano music pales by comparison. Now there's the understatement of the year. Satie was more of a character than a serious composer pianist or not, his own greatest creation as i...
- Sun May 04, 2008 7:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Tom Hanks endorses Obama...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3292
- Sat May 03, 2008 4:06 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: McCain says he'd veto farm bill over subsidies
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2878
McCain says he'd veto farm bill over subsidies
Republican presidential candidate John McCain used the nation's leading corn-producing state as his backdrop Thursday to announce he opposed new federal farm legislation. The presumptive GOP nominee also suggested he would run a different general election campaign in Iowa than did President George W...
- Fri May 02, 2008 9:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: At What Age Did You Discover Classical Music?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17440
I clicked 11-20 for 17 years old. Like anyone else here, I heard it as a kid several times (just the popular tunes), but it was a college appreciation class that made me start listening to the radio, buying CDs, and playing piano. Then I took a few years of classes in music and decided I couldn't be...
- Thu May 01, 2008 4:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Messiaen improvising at the organ
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8207
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11103
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:52 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My daughter Em ....
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7215
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:47 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Is Obama Really Outraged?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11415
Obama is always awkward on defense to the point of being hard to watch. It's a problem with these feel good dream candidates - they take the hits much harder. Clinton doesn't have these problems. Nobody expects her lifelong associates to be warm fuzzy people. I'm sure she has plenty of Jeremiah Wrig...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:34 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Is Obama Really Outraged?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11415
Yes. I do too. A more educational version, with charts and graphs and powerpoint presentations. Look how much Perot was able to accomplish with his very low tech graphs: put the budget on the frontlines of public policy discussions in a way that all the Republican scolding couldn't do. But of cours...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jimmy Carter's OpEd
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6075
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do you believe in angels?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15113
I believe in angels, but that they aren't very powerful. I interpret them to be facilitators and service workers when they're here, but with no power to do things without permission from the boss. I think there are rebellious angels too, but that they can't really accomplish anything useful without ...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: NEEME JARVI ...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10961
Not to mention his Sibelius 2nd originally issued on BIS - this is the fastest,fleetest and firiest performance of this work that I have ever heard - only problem is,after hearing it several times all other recordings sound sluggish and tame (except for Szell's 1970 live Tokyo recording - his last ...
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:25 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sorry I couldn't meet you in NYC, but I found this
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6049
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:38 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jesus and the Romans
- Replies: 93
- Views: 48089
Saul, you're taking refuge in the fact that nobody is willing to trash talk your Scriptures. Posters here either believe them because they are Jewish or Christian, or they are not believers who are passing over the topic out of respect. So enjoy this immunity, and have fun while you investigate the ...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jesus and the Romans
- Replies: 93
- Views: 48089
Saul, I was saying it's hypocritical because you said that non-Jewish scholars' opinions aren't very important to you when it comes to Tenach, but then you're claiming that Paul was giving his followers the wink and nudge when it came to idols and paganism. So first I'm thinking you haven't read or ...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jesus and the Romans
- Replies: 93
- Views: 48089
Paul didn't start Christmas trees, Rudolph, holly wreaths, or any of this other stuff. Seriously, that stuff came centuries later. That's the contribution of Scandinavian dudes who got drunk all winter. Same basically goes for Halloween. Later they would invent death metal - you get the idea; the wi...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jesus and the Romans
- Replies: 93
- Views: 48089
Wanna reach your right ear with your left hand?be my guest, but I will always rely on the source. The Idea that others can teach us Jews about our history and who wrote our own Holy Books, is the most ludicrous thing in the whole world. Fine, but that's kind of what you're doing so it's hypocritica...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:36 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jesus and the Romans
- Replies: 93
- Views: 48089
This is a most unbelievable and phenomenal problem that Christians posses, for they cant even correctly identify the authors of their own 'holy scriptures. But on the other hand we Jews have no disagreement or confusion about who wrote what in the Tenach. I don't understand this comment. Who wrote ...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:01 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Opponents Call Obama ‘Out of Touch’-New York Times
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11918
Obama's comments are typical of an elitist mindset that for good reason many people find offensive. I am an atheist and have never owned or even shot a gun, yet I find them offensive. It shows that he buys into the big city, liberal left view that these people from small towns who go to church and ...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Global Warming Dogma
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5059
Re: Global Warming Dogma
This is highly anti-intellectual and the very antithesis of critical thinking. It's also dangerous. I agree. Truly I have no idea what the best arguments are for both sides. But I get annoyed talking with people about it around me who take it for granted and know absolutely nothing about science. I...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Looking at the past century
- Replies: 72
- Views: 28193
My first music theory teacher promoted the idea that the history of classical music follows the overtones series of a musical note, so I'll make a long boring post about that and at the end tie it in to the 20th century: The overtones for those who don't know are the natural harmonics that quietly s...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Learning to play the piano
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10890
Piano is difficult. I began learning formally as an 18-year old almost from scratch. I worked hard at it for a few years, but never got beyond lower-intermediate. I also did it with the intent to learn composing. It's very fun to play, and most listeners will be extremely impressed by easy pieces pl...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Clinton vows to continue contesting the Demo nomination
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5143
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Obama's spiritual advisor
- Replies: 148
- Views: 63743
Maybe you're right, if he gets big majorities in both houses of Congress. But THAT is hardly a "reach across the isle" let's "work together" approach. It would result in bitter partisan feuds of the type he is saying he wants to avoid. Yeah, he talks a lot of good trash, haha, but in the end partis...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Obama's spiritual advisor
- Replies: 148
- Views: 63743
First of all, I see a lot of people here who say Obama has a record as a knee-jerk liberal. I'll bet most of those who parrot this stuff that the RW commentators have spewed out would be hard pressed to give a single instance of a piece of legislation he has sponsored which demonstrates this. The f...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:29 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Why is Gould so great?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 26014
The reason I believe the Gould hype is because I heard him before I learned about any of his weird behaviors. It was the Goldberg Variations (2nd recording), and I was supposed to hear it as an example of Bach and not piano style. My teacher simply said, "It's a great recording. Listen to the voice ...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:45 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Richest of the richest: who and where.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9399
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Name a beautiful piece of serial music
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14423
Re: Name a beautiful piece of serial music
The closest one I can come up with is Dallapiccola's "Quaderno Musicale Di Annalibera - Simbolo." Does Bill Evans' "T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)" count? :wink: -G I take it you mean serial as in 12-tone in general, but some people only consider music to be serialism if note duration, dynamics, etc. ar...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:02 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What is "lyricism"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 34739
A little more on the etymology of "lyrical". From the point of view of poetry a lyric is a poem to accompany a song. So, whereas within the scope of music, lyrical = singable music, within the scope of poetry, lyric = singable words. The word is derived from "lyre", an instrument which would provid...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Gary Gygax fails his saving throw
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2807
Re: Gary Gygax fails his saving throw
Haven't played for years, but enjoyed when I did. Any other old D&D geeks here? Yup, I geeked out to it to the limits: D&D, heavy metal, and Dragonlance books. It was introduced to me by a friend whose father was a 700 Club fan (no, seriously) and discouraged the monster manuals strongly. I was in ...
- Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:03 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Obama's spiritual advisor
- Replies: 148
- Views: 63743
Here you are, David: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-kD0QdRJk&feature=related In case you're not sure, the two references at the end are to Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice. This brings up an interesting question about Wright's views (aside from Obama's mess dealing with it). He said in another cli...
- Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Obama's spiritual advisor
- Replies: 148
- Views: 63743