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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:44 PM) Might be extreme, but IMO, anybody who harms a child deserves to die. Not Glitter's case, but here's the hypothetical: Underage girl lies about her age and has consentual sex with you in a country where statutory rape is punishible by death. You raped an underage girl according to their laws, regardless of what she said about her age. Do you deserve to die? You can't undo execution, as an earlier thread today by Tex made soberingly clear.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:45 PM) Sometimes you have to fight "evil" with "evil". If you don't have that capability then "evil" can use that which you hold dearest against you. And sometimes you just have to teach the evil how to be really effective at being evil, too? That seems to be the thing the School of the Americas has been particularly good at.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:27 PM) I guess there is a chance he could face a firing squad. No joke there. Just find it nice to see a country that gets it. An extreme viewpoint, some would say. :rolly But he should be locked up for life just because of that hairdo.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 01:44 PM) DUH NUHNUH NUHNUH.... GUILTY!!!! DUH NUHNUH NUH!! NUH!!! DUH NUHNUH NUHNUH.... GUILTY!!!! DUH NUHNUH NUH!! NUH!!! Beat me to it!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 01:50 PM) That and Jimmy Jazz. Love falling over yourself drunk studio sessions. Jimmy Jazz Jay-ay-zee-zee-Jay-ay-zed-zed-Jay-ay-zed-zed Jimmy Jazz!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 01:54 PM) So 24 hours ago. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=43399 Sorry, did you say something?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 01:56 PM) Rex, I respect his accomplishments completely. The fact that he's deaf in one ear makes what he's done more impressive. I just don't feel comfortable referring to any entertainer as a genius. I'm not trying to dismiss anything he or Zappa or John Tesh has done, I just don't personally feel right using the term "genius" to refer to an entertainer. I'm sure it's just yet another personality quirk of mine.....throw it on the pile.... DON'T FRIGGIN' MESH WITH TESH!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 01:03 PM) Someone mentioned Train in Vain on here. I like the song but skip it everytime I listen to my CD of London Calling because it doesn't fit the mood of the album. Personally my favorite Clash song would be "Ghetto Defendant" with Allen Ginsberg reading poetry throughout the song. So good. Death Or Glory = Best Clash Song

All Together Now need to be on there too. It HAS to close with Good Night.

Wow, good turnout.

The Reuters headline forthe locked doors story is President Lacks the Key to His Exit Strategy

And The Note said it better than me this morning, calling Bush's remarks yesterday "fascinatingly conciliatory." It will be interesting to see the language Cheney uses in his "Iraq and the War on Terror" speech this morning (He's speaking now at American Enterprise Institute). Edit to add: Another Note snippet:

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 10:44 AM) Good point about inspiring other shows. You mean you bothered to read that?

If not insane, many are borderline idiot savaants. Didn't Einstein have a closet full of the same suit because he didn't want to bother making decisions when he was getting dressed in the morning? And if not insane or savaant, most peopel considered to be geniuses are are also considered to have been 'out there' psychologocally. Zappa was a genius, pure and simple. And he wrote more than pop songs so just maybe he'll get the Critic Seal of Approval. And he was far from insane, but he was always 'out there.'

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 10:26 AM) Mmmm. Delicious. Brian Wilson pre crackup was pure genius. Even some of the stuff he didn't finish producing until the early 70s were just beautiful. God Only Knows is pop perfection, but the best song that he'd ever done IMHO is "Surf's Up." What was supposed to be one of the centerpieces of Smile, the song is really the high water mark of the Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks collaboration. God Only Knows from and In My Room have been my favorite Brian Wilson Beach Boys compositions for years. Pre-meltdown he was a genius.

Happy Happy Kip Canuck!

If many of the dissenters would post about Bush's most recent words on Murtha, it would be in a way that gave it the proper perspective. The broadside attacks by the White House beginning on Thursday night with McClellan "baffled" by the way Murtha turned "Michael Moore" didn't play well to the American public. After Rep. Schmidt stepped in it on the Floor Friday, there was a calculated reassessment as to how to speak to the Murtha issue. We are seeing that in the most recent GWB statements.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 12:32 AM) Another song that I just heard again for the first time in a long time is Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, I really like that song. Quick: 2 cool points for the name of the band Rafferty fronted, and 2 more for their signature song. . .

My attention tracks like an inverted bell curve. As an active protester/dissenter in the run-up and early months of the war I read every story from every newspaper and network news site. By year two I got utterly depressed and despondent (sp?) about it, and it was made that much worse for my psyche when Bush was re-elected despite things not going well and some suggestion of shenanigans on the part of the administration. Now that we are coming up on three years in, things are not measurably better with no end in sight, and a critical mass of sitizens have pulled their heads out of the sand, I'm again very engaged. Something's got to give very soon.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 12:18 AM) I think we all wind up with favorites on albums (cd) from artist precisely because they aren't pounded to death by radio. I always liked Refuge by Tom Petty, but Ethridge's version really kicks ass. Anyone who can make a lyric out of, Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away, and held for ransom, deserves major props. Damn the Torpedoes, I [HEART] Heartbreakers!

We had a bottle of the DuBoeuf tonight. It was good, a little thin compared to a more complex French red wine maybe. But once it had a chance to breathe it had some interesting things going on besides the up front fruitiness. It passed the only really important test. When the bottle was gone my wife and I were sorry we hadn't picked up another one.

Buttermilk is a necessary evil so's you can have buttermilk pancakes and buttermilk biscuits. Otherwise it is a vile, vile, vile concoction. :puke :puke :puke

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 12:05 AM) I also do not believe the founders predicted modern armies and guns in the hands of average citizens having no roll in protecting the country or procuring food. For shame. The Founding Fathers predicted everything. They knew we'd need guns to fight the sentient robot hordes that would be our evil overlords if we gave them the opportunity. Talk about just falling off the turnip truck. . .

QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 09:40 PM) Nay. Although there's a similar drink made with coconut that's is simply delicious (although, in my old age I drink it sans rum). Ahhh, that would be coquito, and it is a heavenly holiday gift from our Puerto Rican bretheren. Yummm!

Gotta love the nog.