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Although the discussion regarding correct attribution of other posters remarks are indeed interesting food for thought and possible further discussion; this isn't the place. Thanks.

"Whoomp! There It Is" is by Tag Team.

I actually played 30th Century Man at an open mike night a couple months back.

I'd agree to Day In The Life before I agree to anything by Marvin Gaye. Marvin Gaye is not Classic Rock. Marvin Gaye = just about perfection. My list: Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle Scott Walker - 30th Century Man Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond King Crimson - I Talk To The Wind The Beach Boys - Sail on Sailor Chicago - Beginnings REO Speedwagon - Riding The Storm Out (Live) Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson & Clover Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy Ritchie Havens - Freedom

New and improved shuffle format: No repeat artists in the ten (making it potentially more embarrassing) Brazillian Girls - Ships In The Night Peaches - Slippery Dick Lambchop - The Decline of Country and Western Civilization Postal Service - National Anthem The Verve - Sonnet Lou Reed - Andy's Chest Frank Black - Kicked In The Taco David Bowie - White Light White Heat Grandmaster Flash - White Lines Yoko Ono - Kiss Kiss Kiss (and 11: Bis - What Youre Afraid Of)

Something Shufflicious: Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - The Look Of Love Bjork - Bachelorette Soul Coughing - Collapse Supergrass - Cheapskate Nathaniel Merriweather - Herbs, Good Hygeine and Socks Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing Momus - Don't Leave Nick Cave and Shane McGowan - What A Wonderful World Afrika Bambaata - Reckless Gnarls Barkley - Transformer. And as winamp shuffles to the next track, yet another shuffle: Love and Rockets - So Alive Sergio Mendes feat. Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day Postal Service - Recycled Air Nick Drake - Pink Moon Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 - Going Out Of My Head Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere The Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus Nathaniel Merriweather - Strangers on the Train Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)

My impression is that there are few people outside of the United States who view the President as corrupt. A womanizer, perhaps, but corrupt no.

Gassed up for 2.39 today. Down from about 3.25 a gallon earlier this summer.

The Shuffle. 1. Bis - Silver Spoon 2. Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels 3. dEUS - Roses 4. David Bowie - Afraid of Americans (Live) 5. Brazillian Girls - Pussy 6. Serge Gainsbourg - Love On The Beat (Remix by Mouree) 7. Elvis Costello - Accidents Will Happen 8. The Beatles - Across The Universe (Mono) 9. Bis - Cliquesuck 10. Bis - Protection

I would also point out that although Drudge cites this source often, it usually ends up wrong.

Whether or not an Air America bankruptcy hurts or helps the on-air profile of the network is actually left to be seen. There are no immediate plans to shutter the net either.

ThinkProgress expects Air America Radio to file for bankruptcy within the month. However, it's not all bad. Apparently, Clear Channel is committed to Progressive Political Radio and is going to announce a partnership with Jones Radio Networks, the Center for American Progress and a couple other outlets this week to conduct a nationwide search for progressive talk radio talent. Link. I tried so hard to like Air America, I really did. But it was a doomed business plan from the start. Leasing radio stations 24 hours a day instead of buying stations. Mediocre talent, for the most part, and trying to be "The" liberal network instead of working to syndicate actual talent to stations around the country.

Saw 2.44 on my way to work today.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 10:20 AM) So, I tore my pants this morning and no one had any needle and thread. I have a big presentation today at noon. Guess what fixed my pants. . . Surgical suture from one of the rat labs. Woo. Ah lab rats, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

There's a time and place for everything, and that's college.

Zee Link, Monsieur.

Syrian security shot the attackers dead by the way. One Syrian Security Force member was killed.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 12:00 AM) Because people like you want no part of it. Kap, the last time I checked - Balta is a geologist. Not a policeman, elected official, first responder, soldier or counterterrorism expert. He'd have no say in starting a war earlier.

Or they just don't know yet.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 11, 2006 -> 11:58 PM) You know, I agree with your sentiment... but, what would you have us do? Keep letting those few f***tards who seek to destroy everything the western civilization has become? It's not all roses and candy, but it's certainly the best thing we have in the modern world. So, let's have a few random acts of violence for .0005% of the world's population take out 3000 people every six months or so, just for the sake of "freedom"? A lot of people love to quote Ben Franklin, but what the hell do you do? Having said ALL of the above, the political hackery on both sides of this argument are at best, pathetic, and really just downright shameful. You take common sense measures to prevent yourself against attacks but you do it within the framework of the freedom we have. It can be done. Instead of freaking out about cellphones on planes, you screen the cargo that goes into planes. Instead of banning nail clippers to prevent hijacking, you strengthen the doors to the cockpits. Instead of focusing on programs to find terrorists based on how much of their credit cards anyone is paying off, focus on building human intelligence assets in areas that might help us find out threats. Connecting ourselves to the world that feeds terrorists help us understand and defeat terrorists. We don't do that as a country now. No program will make us 100% safe. There are lots of things we can do that will protect us as well as, if not better than some of the over the top things we do now. IMO, we work out of panic rather than caution. Caution works better.

It's not downplaying it. This anniversary gets me so angry every year because what I see is the politicization of it. What I see is the commercialization of it. And ultimately what I see is the terrorists winning. Terrorists sow terror. That's what they do, by definition. They want us to feel that our way of life is jeopardized by a few thousand people who live in caves - literally. They want us to change the way we do business as a result of what they do to us. If we're fighting for freedom, we ought to be letting people fly on planes with t-shirts that have arabic writing on it. Someone flying two weeks ago was denied that. If we're fighting terror, we shouldn't be diverting planes because someone's Blackberry fell out of their pocket on the last flight. We shouldn't be closing airports for two hours because someone left an empty laptop carrier bag in a returned rental car. All of those things happened today. You can say it's just an abundance of caution, but what it really is, is an abundance of fear. You can't carry Shampoo in your baggage anymore because it might be a liquid explosive? How about screening the cargo that flies underneath the passengers? We don't do that. And that's a much more likely terror possibility. It seems like we do ridiculous, over the top "protections" on our safety - some of which are really a restriction on the freedom we're claiming to fight to protect - and the common sense ones that may bear fruit on a regular basis are never put into place. In my honest opinion, every time our society panics needlessly about a non-existent Rube Goldberg like threat, we cheapen the loss of 3000 lives on September 11th. Every time we ignore real ways to increase our safety without sacrificing the freedoms we claim to defend in place of ridiculous restrictions that bear no fruit, we cheapen the loss of 3000 lives on September 11th. Being free means a certain degree of vulnerability exists. It's the price you pay for freedom - and not understanding that - and giving that freedom up to your government cheapens the loss of 3000 lives on September 11th.

I would like to also point out that outside of the Dateline, France is not mentioned as having a point of view one way or the other.

To anyone who watched or read the speech. I skimmed it when I got home from work today. I couldn't get past this second line. September 11th was horrible. Definitely one of the most challenging days in the last 65 years of US history. But it was more barbarous than the Holocaust? Rwanda? Trench Warfare in WW1? Maybe its terror fatigue, but I'm sick of seeing this tragedy amplified so out of proportion.

Rumor is, American Airlines is threatening to sue ABC for Libel over PT9/11. Here's the text of the alleged email communication: Source AMERICAblog so I don't know how reliable it is.

Easter is not a federal holiday.