Benjamin Cole Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 hours ago, W. Niederhut said: Well, since posting facts for Ben is, obviously, pointless-- like singing to a mule-- I thought I would post a terrific old song for Ben, instead. Ben's favorite word is, "Donk," and the song is The Donkey Serenade, from 1936, based on a melody by the 19th century composer Rudolf Firmi. I used to listen to this recording on one of my mother's old 78 rpm records when I was a boy. Now we have YouTube. It premiered in the 1937 film, The Firefly, featuring the lovely Jeanette MacDonald, and was sung quite brilliantly by the little known Welsh American tenor, Alan Jones. I think Woody Allen included this recording in the soundtrack of his movie, Radio Days, but I'd have to check. Worth a listen. And don't forget Francis the Talking Mule, or Mr. Ed. Those were the days.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Large Numbers of Americans Want a Strong, Rough, Anti-democratic Leader - Nextgov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) I loved his music. Burt Bacharach dies at 94 | AP News I have watched this countless times. In Performance at The White House | Burt Bacharach and Hal David: The Library of Congress... | Season 2012 | PBS Edited February 9, 2023 by Douglas Caddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 The five Republican justices on the Supreme Court who are Catholic embrace this radicalism in their opinions in many instances. This includes Chief Justice Roberts. The justiciar system in America is on the road to being ruled by religious beliefs rather than by the law. FBI Memo Warns against 'Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’ | National Review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Govus Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 17 minutes ago, Douglas Caddy said: I loved his music. Burt Bacharach dies at 94 | AP News I have watched this countless times. In Performance at The White House | Burt Bacharach and Hal David: The Library of Congress... | Season 2012 | PBS His star turn via Mike Myers. Good catch as usual Mr. Caddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 'Conspiracy of dunces': CNN panel torches 'idiot' Republican narratives about Twitter by Brad Reed February 09, 2023 https://www.rawstory.com/republican-twitter-hearing/ “Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, was even more blunt in his assessment of the House GOP's [House Oversight Committee] hearing. "The only conspiracy here is a conspiracy of dunces," he declared. "This communicates to every Chinese official: 'Send more balloons, these people are idiots."” Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 47 minutes ago, Douglas Caddy said: I loved his music. Burt Bacharach dies at 94 | AP News I have watched this countless times. In Performance at The White House | Burt Bacharach and Hal David: The Library of Congress... | Season 2012 | PBS R.I.P., Mr. Bacharach... I used to sing this old Bacharach song to my daughters at bedtime, with a ukelele, when they were little girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 56 minutes ago, Douglas Caddy said: The five Republican justices on the Supreme Court who are Catholic embrace this radicalism in their opinions in many instances. This includes Chief Justice Roberts. The justiciar system in America is on the road to being ruled by religious beliefs rather than by the law. FBI Memo Warns against 'Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’ | National Review Doug you are for the FBI profiling people because of their religion because the court ruled that ROE v WADE is unconstitutional??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 I actually have a Burt /JFKA story. My favorite song from Burt is never listed in his top 10 greatest hits. But what was unique about it was it's 4/4 to 5/4 signatures. I think it was the following night 11/23/63, I was a kid approaching adolescence taking my transistor radio to bed, trying to find some contemporary music or rock and roll because all standard music formats on my AM stations were suspended, but some stations had some classical music going on. . I was tuning around and found a distant signal; and it was a Burt Bacharach song that really hit the spot. "Anyone who had a heart" by Dionne Warwick. A beautiful song that was actually JFKA inspired was Brian Wilson's "Warmth of the Sun". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Douglas Caddy said: The five Republican justices on the Supreme Court who are Catholic embrace this radicalism in their opinions in many instances. This includes Chief Justice Roberts. The justiciar system in America is on the road to being ruled by religious beliefs rather than by the law. FBI Memo Warns against 'Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’ | National Review Absolutely true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) Anyone who had a heart Would have felt sick when they first heard of JFK's brutal killing. I was a little older than you Kirk on 11,22,1963. I was really taken with Dionne Warwick songs as a teenager. Couldn't share that with guy friends though. Thought they would see me as less than macho. And I also loved the Beach Boys music. I grew up spending so much time on California beaches from the youngest age. I would slowly wade into the cool waters of Lovers Point cove beach in our small coastal town of Pacific Grove. Starting at the age of 5 and six. I didn't know how to swim very well, but I would go under the water and look around ( no goggles) and let the tidal ebb and flow gently sway me back and forth. Our welfare single mom would send me to this beach every weekday morning of the summer with a quarter to get in the public pool there with just a towel and bathing suit. My 12 years older oldest brother was a lifeguard there and my other 8 years older brother ( there were 7 of us Bauer Boys ) worked off the pier as a rower of one of their glass bottom boats berthed there. They would keep an eye out for me from time to time. I wouldn't go home until late in the afternoon. Every summer I would get sunburned and then tan doing this. I knew the ocean waters so instinctively. Became a young surfer ( inner tube rider actually ) for awhile. Had bleached blond hair. Quit doing that around 11 or 12 or so. Right around the time of the JFK assassination. But I could really relate to the Beach Boy songs and lyrics. There truly was something magical and freeing about spending so much time at the beach. Warm sand, aqua green waters. Thought and worry freeing wide open blue sky and fresh ocean air. To this day I STILL am super calmed by driving around our coastline and seeing, feeling and even smelling the ocean after pulling into a dirt parking spot and opening my window there. The California Coastline ( especially the beaches ) are truly geographical beauty valium. You can forget your problems there better than seeing a talk therapist imo. Favorite Beach Boy songs are "Surfer Girl" and "In My Room." And let me tell you...there truly were "Surfer Girls" back then. Tan, blond young goddesses. Hanging around in bikinis. Talk about paradise for those of us guys who were lucky enough to be on those beaches as much as we could be at that age. I thought maybe heaven is kind of like being young on a warm, cool water California beach in the Summer. Edited February 9, 2023 by Joe Bauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Why are Republicans so criminal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Andy Biggs skips classified spy balloon briefing so he can go on Fox News and whine about it by David Edwards February 09, 2023 https://www.rawstory.com/andy-biggs-spy-balloon/ “Fox News host Harris Faulkner began her interview with Biggs on Thursday by telling the audience that he had just returned from a classified briefing on the airship. "I know that some of it is classified; you can't share all of it, but what can you tell us?" Faulkner asked. "Well, I'm not going to — I didn't go to that classified briefing because I knew I'd be talking to you," Biggs said. "Instead, I had a discussion yesterday." The congressman did not say who had briefed him, but he offered conclusions about the spy flight”. “Faulkner thanked Biggs for skipping the classified briefing "so you could share so much with the Faulkner Focus."” These people are so full of it, I can't hardlly STAND it. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 @Benjamin Colegive this a watch.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 But thanks for outing yourselves guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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