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I am watching the dvd - has both the full length concert and the theatrical release - and some great interviews really brings home the incredible range and sheer quality of George's work - I always forget the Taveling Wilbury's stuff myself - the absolute creative genius behind what the Quiet Beatle did all those away - and his importance to Monty Python - trying to work on an important paper for me too but I keep getting focused on the dvd

leukimia is not a good way to die whatever wrong he did in life is now done and over so is whatever good that is a horrible way to die

21? I remember 21... do you? happy birthday!!!!!!!

since Sandy is 2nd generation Sox I sure hope that when he manages (not if but when) it is for us

supersteve, some weekend you are free at MSU and want to go down to Chicago for a Sat-Sun, let me know - I am booked for the cubs weekend but otherwise not filled up on the others - I might have an opening day maybe, big maybe - a few weekends I won't make it and a few weekends I will be looking for someone to go with when the kid and the Chicago friends can't make it - keep it in mind - you are MSU but you are ok UM does that too with tickets, you can buy in 3 game packages: a MSU, OSU, or ND, plus 2 teams not as big of a draw, usually a noncnferance game but they all sell - the sox 7 plan worked like that and looks like sox 9 also does but a lot of objections to price I guess - I just get my split season package and take what I get

being 1,000 miles away makes for an exception from the comment -

I have 3 blankets that look like your avatar - is that where you got it from, the Sox blanket? I thought you were older - that is a compliment to you, truly - now that I think about I know you are in college but you post with a lot of maturity so I forget-

Move On check the door hangers - as Jesus hung from the cross, so can Jesus can hang from your doorknob if a noted theologian and priest says it is he a jerk too?

you may well be right as I have not followed it that closely - I had heard the insider charges were dismissed or at least some of them - but what you say makes perfect sense

I'm not so sure they were bs - and I am no fan of Martha Stewart - I thought the things she was accused of, and convicted of, did not rise to the level of criminal conduct -

then by all means do not take the kid to see Mel Gib$on's Pa$$ion movie...

SuperSteve, as a seasons ticket holder I agree. It just seems to me that if a person wants a ticket for a cubs game they should have to provide proof they also bought tickets for the Tigers and Tampa Bay. I love the full house but I also resent that for some folks their idea of supporting the Sox is to show up one weekend a year. that is just me though.

Tex, the complicated piece of reality is that the savings rate is at an all time low. And not just because Americans like to spend. Interest rates paid on savings and certificates of deposit are too low to encourage people to save. The are the lowest that I can remember in my own life and from any time period that I know of in American economic history. Of course interest rates on savings will not go up unless the interest rates on loans go up. In the meanwhile, however, it has never been more profitable to be in the lending business because of the artificially high interest rates on credit cards. There are short term deals up there but many lending institutions soon slip people up to 24.9%. That in my mind is usury and I am not sure why that is not illegal - I am sure it is in most states but not for nationally chartered institutions. There is no way for you to go from $100 to $110. There is one truth thatI can share with you. The glib can try and disguise the truth like in a shell game but the truth remains: there is no such thing as a free lunch. It is curious to me that no one has commented on Greenspan saying and Bush agreeing that future social security benefts will have to be cut to pay for the massive deficits. I know you are conflicted about the next election. In Michigan a lot of Republicans have already decared that they are voting for the Democratic candidate because they cannot abide a lifetime of preaching fiscal policies that have been so violated by this administration. It is amazing to me to watch and has torn many county republican parties apart out here. Our mayor (former GOP chair, memeber of GOP executive committe, his wife is also long standing Republican elected official and currently now my county commissioner) was almost voted out of the local party because he is in that camp. 71 years old and a lifetime of party loyalty and they are treating him like s*** because he is voting Dem for one office because he believes so deeply that this current econmic destruction of America must stop now. When he told me, I was blown away but I am also very impressed with his commitment to fiscal sanity.

of course lying in the State of Union address and in speech after speech and presidential address after address is ok

and bingo that is it, Taste of Honey ss2k4 - I just got min eon ebay too - I have a sneaking suspicion it is a homemade cd but then I paid $4.95 so I am not expecting much - if anyone ever finds it on a real cd, please grab it and I'll pay you for it!

Anna, Chains, Misery, and a 4th song (it will come to be) were a 4 song 45 released in 1964 on I think Swan but I could be wrong - if it was a VJ release it had a black label instead of their usual yellow the evil woman that divorced me has it and I am not calling her to get all the info it was very sad but I could not bring myself emotionally to break up the beatles collection and I let her have it (other than wonderwall) the b**** on the other hand she has undoubtedly taken care of that collection far far better than she did her children or husbands 1-5 (she is now on 6)

Molto, I hope that you will stop posting so much. Every day I have to wade through 1,000 of your latest posts - please, slow down! Flash, you have the most boring graphics always, you need to get some exctiment in your stuff - to you both!

not so, Mr CC, not so at all. howver, since you wish to be wrong, as at Burger King, have it your way... and indeed, Go Sox! I enjoyed your comments in another thread on 2003 opening day - I sure as hell waited it out - I have never been rained out yet

every pop and hiss and sizzle is a reminder of those days - we earned our scars! - I think I really like your friend I would argue that the American releases were the releases based on market numbres alone and their impact - the british releases did not have any where near the cultural effect or impact of the American releases - the American albums were the ones that were the official versions for the vast majority of fans and that the selection and order is so engrained in one's memory that listening to the Bristish order is an outrage to the ear is just plain fact as your friend would agree! there is no one definitive version of Mozart's Don Giovanni, for example, or even Handel's Messiah. Thre is the version that Mozart staged in Vienna, the one in Prague, the one where a few cuts were made or he reorchestarted it - for Handel it is often what cuts were made - Verdi often returned to an opera, reordeed the pasages, rewrote music, added and deleted, gave one aria to another singer, changed some of the notes to fit the range of a given singer - and if I look, I can find the various versions of all of those. I would be happy to have Introducing the Beatles on cd (which i do and pisses me off every time I hear it) if I could also have Meet the Beatles on cd. Then we could have intellectual discussions on why the Carl Perkins covers essentially were released in America only on what was then EP format (two songs on a 45 side, 4 songs per 45) (and I had them all, including Anna and Chains which I don't know are available anywhere now) and why the American producers cut off a few songs per album, etc., rather than the anger one gets now in saying "that is not what it was."

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Chaos, it is pure canard to say that I in any shape or form "blame[d] Americans" and I want you to know up front that I incredibly resent that. If you are going to make stuff up to attack people for, I am not the one who wull take that s***. Criticise what I say all you want, it is a cottage industry for some and soxtalk thrives on dialogue, but stop making s*** up. I stand by what I said about the republicans in congress who diverted attention away from America's needs for the sake of their witch hunt, which was such a crock that they could not get a majority vote in a Republican Senate. As for lying - you who put words in my mouth that I never said - anyone who supports Bush and his lies on the fake nuclear threat of Iraq which he knew was a lie when he said it and the fake WOMD that he used as a justification for war, for 500 Americans and 10,000 Iraqis to die - those are the lies that one should remember befoire one tosses that word around about anyone else. And of course no response to the disdain that the Bush adminsitration and Bush himself had to terror briefings and terror warnings because they had other agendas... And good old Mr AWOL had to be stopped these last months from cutting pay to our troops in Iraq and increasing their out of pocket medical costs. Some fine leader you got there. As the father of an active duty Marine, that is one furtther reason that I want this disgrace as president out of the white house, staging photo ops with Misioin Accomplished while trying to reduce their pay and meidcal benefits. Bush is obscene and immoral. The Republicans missed the boat big time in not nominating McCain in 2000, a man who would be worth respecting and has honor and decency. Fortunately, the Democrats are nominating McCain's good, close frioend John Kerry, war hero, to restiore a sense of decency, honor, and integrity to the White House.

I despise the fact that the American releases are not available. When I listen to Intorudicng the Beatkes is as horriffic because it is not Meet the Beatles and I know what songs went where and were on that album. They really screwed that all over by going with the british pressings. Now: if they got smart and relaeased the American catalogue I would be ecstatic and you know damn well they would see because folks like me want to play what it was we had back then. An oddity - "I Want to Hold your hand" was on Meet the Beatles. I cannot find it on a Bristish original release. The American albums were the ones that marked the passagoe of our lives. To have screwed that up was so stupid from the company. I never owned the veejay one but I remember it. It was little sold. But it wasx outh there, I can still picture it. The American albums you listed - that is a memory rush. the Brtistish catalogue is cold.

Bush ads are what is real f***ing inapprorpriate. Apu makes that point and you dislike it., Oh well.

Bullsdhit. Lies and bulls***. Everyone who attacked the WTC when Clinton was president was arrested, tried in court, and convicted. You seem to forget that on September 12 2001 was the sentencing of the last of those convicted. When Clinton went after bin laden, he was mocked for wag the dog (and that is so f***ing ironic now with bush in the white house). When Clinton wanted Congress to focus on bin laden and terror and amwrica's real needs, they focused instead on what distinguishinging characteristic Clinton's penis had. Every republican who obsessed on Monica rather than issues of real importance to America should be convicted for violating their constitutional oaths to serve and protect the consisutiton and this country. When Clinton's staff tried to inform the incoming Bush staff of the threat if terrorism and bin laden, Condy Rice and the entire Bush staff rejected even listening because they thought they knew better than the Clinton staff. Try reality, it gets you further. A real Bush ad would show Bush refusing the investigation committee the summaries of the daily briefings that Bush had on vacation all of August 2001 and Bush when appear on camera and say, "when I was on vacation and was told that there was a terrorist threat, I did not focus on that, pushed that aside, because I cared more about Ken Lay my biggest contributor and Enron than I did on the threat of terror and that's ok, my attention span is weak and I was on vacation anyway. And my salute to Bill Clinton who actually caught and convicted terrorists in his administration!" That would be truth in advertizing. But your side is afraid of the truth. Fantasy is fun. But we need a real president, not one who whores the dead for political advantage as these Bush ads do.

I think I fiound it on cd - I have vinyl but can't play it - why of all the albums is that the hard one to find on cd?