From the Thomas More Law Center, which defends our Constitutional right to freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion - and please note that the oppressors in the following case actually call their organization the Freedom From Religion Foundation: First Battle of the 2009 Christmas Season over Nativity Displays; Federal Lawsuit Filed October 26, 2009 ANN ARBOR, MI -- For 63 years, a privately...
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has implored the youths to desist from engaging in activities that quickly fade away their fame saying such acts have in the past ruined the future for many.
Some hippie-dippy British trad-rock Celtic goodness circa 1970 from Fairport Convention on this Thanksgiving Day, 2009 - written by Dave Swarbick and Richard Thompson - somehow seems fitting in the pre-turkey mists of morning. When the stone is grown too...
My last Dusted review for the year is up today. It’s Jay Bolotin’s self-titled folk album, briefly available around its 1970 release, then lost for decades until Locust Music picked it up for reissue. Here’s part of the review: Another in the parade of long-lost singer-songwriter records recently recovered and dusted off for contemporary consideration, Jay Bolotin’s self-titled...
Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 – November 21, 2009 As already reported, banjo stylist Allen Shelton passed away on 21 November while in the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville. He was 73. Initially he had been diagnosed as having leukemia, although it is thought that he [...]
By Debbie Schlussel Well, the FBI official hate crimes statistics are out for 2008. And like every year since the 9/11 Muslim terrorist attacks on America, the vast majority of religious hate crime victims on U.S. soil are America’s . . . Jews. While the Pentagon and US Army did overtime pandering to Muslims like [...]
Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… The new season of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… kicks off on December 9, 2009 on the Sundance Channel with Bono and The Edge. The schedule for the rest of season looks like this: Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… Season 2 Schedule December 9 at 10:00 PM – Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Bono and The Edge December [...]
CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ:PWER), a leading provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions, today announced that Richard Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, will present at FBR Capital Markets Fall Investor Conference on December 1, 2009 at 2:20 PM Eastern Standard Time. This event will be held in New York City. A live...
Tattoo - the Who The Trees They Do Grow High - Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick Coming Of Age - Any Trouble Bogie's Bonnie Belle - Richard Thompson A Living Wage - Ron Kavana Read About Love - Richard Thompson
it's friday neet and you're drunk as a skunk. well, i am. your missus has gone to bed and after 2 pints of Stella and 2 bottles of Aldi wine you're paralytic/mortal what dus youse lissen to in that period of drunken abandon and regret? 1: God loves a drunk/Richard Thompson 2:Severn meadows/Ivor Gurney/but must be sung by Ian Partridge 3:Some fool's mess/Gallon drunk 4:Peggy Gordon/The Clancy brothers...
Last year the winner of the noxious X-Factor Alexandra Burke released a version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallellujah”. This release for me was a bit of a double-edged sword. On one side it was great to see a great song reach a larger audience, making the writer a few bob in the bargain. However the other selfish part of me feels like “we” lost the song to the general music...
'Form follows Function' is the defining design philosophy underlying styling, engineering and packaging of every McLaren road car. The same's true for McLaren's F1 car. The perfect example? The gorgeous function-first pedal design. What's your favorite set of clutch/slow/go pads? This is the start of a new semi-regular Jalopnik series we're calling " Auto-Erotic Design ." We give you our...
This is the bit where George Bailey has come to his enemy, the evil banker Potter, to beg for a loan - and when Potter finds that George has a $500 life-insurance policy he tells him: "Why, you're worth more dead than alive!" (Although I very much doubt that the insurance company would've paid out if Clarence the angel hadn't intervened in George's subsequent suicide attempt.) From It's A...
Sometimes, at this point in my year, I spend a considerable amount of my time revisiting past work, going through old image files or leafing through older work that I still have in my possession. It’s kind of a reminder of how my mind has been sparked in the past and I’m always looking for [...]
It has been ages since I blogged about anything. This morning I read this piece and I loved it. I hope you enjoy it too. I thought I would keep it here as a mental reminder of the things I need to teach my daughter . If You Really Pay Attention When I was a little bitty kiddy , about five, my Dad began a process … anytime somebody came and said something to us, my dad would say, "You remember...
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