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Happy Birthday ! Hope you're having a great day !

Maybe they couldn't get the song "Una Paloma Blanca" out of their head !

Happy Birthday ! Hope you're having as great day !

Happy Birthday Ham ! For those of us who don't know morse code, what does that message translate as ?

I watched "The Blob" this weekend. It's still a good movie. Even though most of the death was offscreen it was still scary.

Just wanted to bump this up. With Halloween coming up I thought people might get some ideas from here for Halloween viewing.

The problem with music in the offshoots ( at least in mine ) is that the goal is to bless the leadership, not the saints. If the leaders would just let the musicians walk with God and not try to control things there would be some great music out there. As someone who this year quit the band (which I had started then had hijacked out from under me ) in my splinter group after banging my head against the wall for six years I know this way too well.

Jeff, I understand where you're coming from. Right now I'm dealing with my own anger issues over some crap that got dumped on me in a splinter group because leadership felt they should be controlling things. It's good that you can vent here instead of keeping it all bottled up inside. There are times when I want to express my anger with a left hook at certain people who I think need some sense knocked in their head. We're supposed to be Christians now, not acting like we're still cult members. Weirwille and TWI are dead, people should quit dragging the rotting corpse of their bad practices around.

Mark, Since I'm a fan of the group Colosseum I thought you'd find a reference to that Mark Clarke. You should check out their albums.

I remembered hearing about the first crash on the radio before I left for work. My first thought was that is was an a accident because I remembered how a plane had crashed into the empire state building (back in the late 40's, I think). Listening to the radio on the way to work I heard about the second crash and at that point I knew something was up. I didn't get to see TV 'till that evening and I just watched in stunned silence when I saw those buildings go down. A few days later our town had this public memorial and at the time I didn't know if a family friend was alive or not. He's an NYC fireman whose unit was the first to respond ( they were the subject of that documentary made by the french film maker) and I was so relieved to hear he was ok. There was a 9-11 thread as it was happening on the old version of the Greasespot. I wonder if it can be reprinted here.

So maybe Rush was right ? http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080831/D92TGVEO0.html

My son's high school performed the musical "Working" a few years ago. I compiled this CD for the music for before, during the break and after the show. 1) Get A Job - The Silhouettes 2) I Got A Job - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 3) Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran 4) Working In A Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey 5) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford 6) Morning Train (9 To 5) - Sheen Easton 7) D Train - The Washington Squares 8) Car Wash - Rose Royce 9) Keep On Working - Pete Townshend 10) Forty Hour Week (For A Livin') - Alabama 11) Takin' Care Of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive 12) She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer 13) Bell Boy - The Who 14) A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles 15) Out Of Work - Gary "US" Bonds 16) Career Opportunities - The Clash 17) Door To Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival 18) Work To Do - The Isley Brothers 19) Nine To Five - Dolly Parton 20) Six Days On The Road - The Flying Burrito Brothers 21) Working For A Living - Huey Lewis & The News 22) Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk 23) Working Day And Night - Michael Jackson 24) Take This Job.. - Johnny Paycheck At the time I hadn't thought of the Vogues though that would have been a good song.

I guess Jindal's not taking any chances http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411862,00.html

I heard this morning that Gov. Jindal is going to stay home from the convention so he can be there if the storm hits.

This from Rush Limbaugh's show today. RUSH: I must inform you of a weather situation that poses a great threat. There is a hurricane currently making its way toward the southern peninsula of Haiti called Gustav. The National Hurricane Center's track forecast turns this into a category five hurricane by Sunday or Monday, and the many models are fairly close in this hurricane going into the western Gulf, maybe Texas, Mexico. But one model, the model that I know that the National Hurricane Center relies on the most called the GFDL, takes this baby right for New Orleans. Can you say Katrina 2? This hurricane, if that model is correct, will bear down cat five on New Orleans on day one or day two of the Republican convention in St. Paul. Can I fill in the blanks here for you? The Drive-By Media will point out that the Republicans -- the rich Republicans in their private jets with their diamonds and their limousines -- are in St. Paul debating the continuation of tax cuts for the rich and the elimination of the death tax, and then they will cut to photos of Obama and Michelle laying sandbags in the French Quarter and passing out water bottles. If that model is correct, the media will, en masse, leave St. Paul. There will be no media left to cover the Republican convention. Do you know how many delegates there are in Denver? Roughly 4,000. You know how many credentialed Drive-Bys are there? Twenty thousand, five times the number of delegates. Ha! Of course, it's a long way out, and it's impossible this far out to tell where this thing going to go, but if that model holds steady and turns out to be right, you have been warned.

The one good thing I got out of TWI was that I met my wife at a limb meeting in 1976. We've been married since 1977 and we probably would never have met otherwise.

"Butterfly Kisses" does it to me. The first time I heard was when I was taking my daughter in for a second eye surgery at the end of a week that had started with the first eye surgery and ended up being "procedures" every day. This included me holding her hand while the doctor stuck a needle in her eye to replace the excess fluid that had drained out. I had gotten through the week by "going numb" but when I heard that song on the radio I lost it. That was years ago but it still gets me teary every time I hear it.

I always thought that if Romans 13 said what TWI said it did that we should have sent LCM over to take care of Sadaam when the first Gulf War happened !

Sorry I didn't check in yesterday. I hope you had a great day.

That is wonderful news ! I'm sure with you two as parents that's going to be one great kid.

The Ackermansion must have been something to see. I wish I could have seen it.

I'm sure some day some drugstore chain will hire them as spokesmen. The commercial would start with Chong complaining about the price of ( prescription) drugs and end with them pitching that chain as "the best place to pick up your drugs!"

I was amused that my daughter and I were watching "Jason & The Argonauts" right before I saw Nyunknown's post.

In '89 most of us in Illinois left en masse. It was more like TWI leaving us, not versa.

I remember watching that on "ABC's Movie Of The Week." The main thing I remember is Kim Darby tied up and being dragged along by the creatures. The problem I have with 70's horror movies is that too many of them had downer endings. You can have a sad ending when it fits the theme, like Wolfman or such. But a lot of times I would turn off the set and think "I wasted two hours on this?" I'm sure a sociologist could read something into it but as a teen movie watcher I just felt burned.