Ready For Some Music?

Kent Newsome has some really great songs collected. Enjoy..

Newsome.Org Friday Night Music Video Hootenanny (Volume 4)

Volume 4 has some live Cranberries, a great live Ben Harper number, an old one by the vastly under-appreciated Bob Woodruff,  my favorite Band song, my favorite Counting Crows song, one by Chuckanut Drive and a great cover of Neil Young’s Powderfinger by Ruthless Tom.  An absolutely amazing bluegrass number by Emmylou Harris wraps [...]

Tags: Ben Harper, Kent Newsome, Emmylou Harris

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Blackwater is Okay

Unless you believe this story.

Iraqi Investigators Say Blackwater Guards Fired Unprovoked

Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in an incident last week in which 11 people died, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case had been referred to the Iraqi judiciary. Iraq’s president, meanwhile, demanded that [...]

Tags: Blackwater

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Saturday Break Time

And, tonight, I’m letting Crooks and Liars take over for a moment…Just follow the link and listen and watch…

C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with Woody Guthrie

Tags: Classic Music, Woody Guthrie, American Folk

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The Thompson Campaign

So far, I’m not impressed.  He’s soon to be challenging the Prez for stupid statements.

Oh, that Jena Six

By any reasonable measure, Fred Thompson, the actor-lobbyist-presidential candidate, is off to a rough start. Particularly on policy matters, Thompson has been confused and uninformed about everything from Social Security policy to drilling the Everglades for oil to the 2005 Schiavo controversy. But this has to be my favorite. NBC’s “First Read’ reports that when Thompson was [...]

Tags: Fred Thompson

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My Goodness

The bloggers are getting really testy! John at AMERICAblog goes out on a limb..

Bush vows to veto bill that would provide health insurance to millions of kids

Bush is threatening to effectively kill the current program by vetoing this bill, knowing full well that the money is going to run out. He doesn’t care. He also doesn’t care if the Republicans never win another election. Bush’s ego is more important. He’s already shown us that he has no problem killing [...]

Tags: Health Insurance, Children

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Just Dreamin’

And thinking about what America could do with all the money we’re forced to spend on the Iraq War..

$500,000:

Amount the war in Iraq costs per minute, according to a new analysis by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard’s Linda Bilmes, put out by the American Friends Service Committee. The study finds that this $720 million a day could buy homes for [...]

Tags: Iraq War Costs, Stiglitz, Bilmes, American Friends Service Committee

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Saturday Quick Shot

Finally slowed down enough to catch a little football on TV.  And scan the blogs.  Noted a couple of interesting things, a couple of which come from the realm of television.  First off, one that I’m sure will have the conservative bloggers in a tizzy.  I’ll scan through some of them momentarily. But, they were all up in arms about the Iranian Prez speaking at a college.  Now, CBS is turning over a ton of airtime to him!!

Look Who’s Turning 40

As 60 Minutes begins its fortieth season this Sunday — with Scott Pelley’s exclusive interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]

Next, I caught Mika’s interview with Dan Rather as I was heading out the door Friday morning.  You could tell she was a bit on edge..

Brzezinski On Rather: "It Was Like I Was Interviewing My Dad"

Gail Shister TVNewser Columnist Grilling Dan Rather — her former boss — was no easy task for MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski [...]

Tags: Ahmadinejad, Rather, Brzezinski

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