LiveBlog for Friday, May 29, 2009

>> Amy Outside of DC says:
>> If the GOP would think about, Universal healthcare would help US business by putting them on equal footing with the rest of the developed world

I thought Hal Sparks made a good point that universal healthcare would give small businesses more equity with big business, and that might be the real reason we haven't had it yet.

I wish I could bend the ear of the future Cyber Czar.

It drives me crazy that we have the tools and the technology for privacy but out surfing and email are all still like postcards.

Toodles

>> Sarah in Santa Cruz says:
>> 448-I am positively squeamish when sex appears onscreen when I’m watching something with the girl. She thinks it’s funny … not the sex … the mom’s reaction!

Do you listen to the Stephanie Miller Show with your child? I do, but only if I can hit the power button quick.

#451, that's what I mean. Folk music is almost all covers. Which is why I don't see it as a big deal. New tunes and songs enter the repertoire gradually, and are covered almost as soon as they're written.

Bye-bye, friends. Have a good weekend. Feel better soon, kar.

a biento.

Jim knows the overarching population control measures put in place by the boys in power are not furthered by easy, free access to health care!!!

Have a great weekend, everybody.

Yesterday the 8th-graders saw close-up photos of STDs. I think this will put the girl off sex forever!

have a good weekend all!

Bye all have a good weekend!

I would totally join Steph’s “Women Who Don’t Give A F**k” group. I’d even buy a tshirt.

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I'd wear a t-shirt that says, "I'm a Man Who Loves Women Who Don't Give a F**K".

Have a great weekend, guys & gals.

If the GOP would think about, Universal healthcare would help US business by putting them on equal footing with the rest of the developed world. I think it was Honda who was trying to build a plant in either the US or Canada, and they chose Canada because they wouldn't have to pay health care costs like in the US.

It's not ham, Hal. Different cut from the magical animal.

Amy - I think he doesn't want to take a chance and wait

448-I am positively squeamish when sex appears onscreen when I'm watching something with the girl. She thinks it's funny ... not the sex ... the mom's reaction!

I mentioned this point a few times during the Swine Flu flare-up.

Conservative healthcare is HORRIBLE with dealing with epidemics -- encourages it, actually.

spiffy - well yes and no ... three of the band members go to the same academic school and three of the band members go to the same afterschool music school ... but the make up is different
and at least one if not two of the band members going to the same academic school had a class in music theory ... which wasn't offered this year, but hopefully will be offered again next year

Steph would be setting fire to her compound every night after downing a box of wine.

I would totally join Steph's "Women Who Don't Give A F**k" group. I'd even buy a tshirt.

444-I just sent the e-mail, Cindy. Thanks very much!

>> Spiffy Hussein says:
>> Speaking of hell, My ex’s pastor taught my son that all Jewish people go to hell when they die ’cause they didn’t accept Jesus as their savior.

My pastors would not teach that and not just to be PC -- they don't believe it.

Best I can tell, most of our pastors are deeply and "fundamentally" Christian but respect and learn from other religions. I know that one preaches regularly at the local synagogue and another practices Sufism.

Obama's "we have to get it done now" makes me think he believes the GOP will take over Congress in 2010. The horror. The horror.

443---OH! That explains it. They have a class in that---how wonderful and progressive! It would have been nice if my son could have joined a class like that in high school. Out here his high school is still in the 1960s---band and orchestra.

Gotta go! Rock n Roll kid is calling me! Have a lovely weekend!

Peter - but you are an adult... this is a teen band and I know of very few that don't play a majority of covers

If Barack Obama gets another SCOTUS pick, he should pick a black man. That would drive Thomas even more nuts.

#443, as a folk musician, the whole deal about playing covers never made sense to me.

Indeed, the impulse for musicians to write their own material dates to the recording industry. It was the only way for musicians to have a chance to make money; otherwise the record execs would keep everything.

402---I could never watch naked people of any persuasion doing it in front of my mom or my kids. When nudity surprises us when we happen to be watching something together I usually make a joke about it.

It's me. I still see them all as little kids sometimes. I think when they finally get married and give birth I will see them as having earned all the stripes of adulthood.

436-I'm sending you healing thoughts.

431-About that plagarism thing - the girl has been working on George Harrison riffs lately. She adds them to just about everything she plays! I can hardly wait for Christmas carols with Beatles interludes.

Spam in the place where you live.

sarah

Clytemnestra62@gmail.com

Spiffy - they are ALL playing covers .. which is noted and it's a coffee house meaning they aren't being paid for ANYTHING

what they are writing is being reviewed by their music teachers, one who has a grammy so I think they are okay

Sparkling conversation this morning, thank you BlogginMooks! I have to mosey on down the trail, so I wish you all the very best weekend, and see ya on Munday.

Don't you ever change a thing!

425---I miss capt too.

#406: That actually crossed my mind, but how do you explain David Boies?

I _think_ I found the Patraeus quote Steph referred to. It was an interview with Radio Free Eurpoe

http://tinyurl.com/q9rx8u

>>Transcript: RFE/RL Interviews U.S. Central Command Chief, General David Petraeus
>> General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. Central Command, sat down with RFE/RL Central Newsroom Director Jay Tolson in Prague on May 24 to talk about a wide range of issues. He answered questions about Guantanamo and "enhanced interrogation techniques," a looming deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal in Iraq, cutting off and combating militant Islamist extremists.

When they pass Gay Marriage here in NY, I want Melissa and Tammy to come here and get married in my back yard. It overlooks Seneca Lake.

BTW; I like Hal Sparks, but I LOVE John Fuglesang. I'd like to see him sit in for Steph, and better yet, have his own radio show.

423 Yes, we are wallowing in the dark ages. Thank goodness for Iowa, it's one of the few benefits of living in Missouri.

417----Oh I wish that were enough!

#430 Steph and Larry King are very close now. Next time you send the Stephanie Miller Show a fabulous audio track, ask them to ask Larry for you. I'm sure he's got lots of his shows lying around in mp3 format.

428-OK. Now, because I'm completely stupid, will you please remind me how to get an email to you?

Melissa Etheridge: Stephanie Miller's here.

Crowd: Who? Is she your wife?

BTW IVAN that WASN'T me screeming in the audience. It may have been the lead singer's girl friend

#376----Cute kids. That chord riff sounds just like the riff from "Right Here, Right Now". Check it out. Beware of plagiarism lawsuits if they make it big, ;-).

#393 - yes. I cannot locate the audio of Larry King Live from Oct 3, 2006 when Larry (quoting a Mark Foley email) says: "do I make you a little horny?"

I don't think the legal ruling is muddled at all. It's quite clear.

1) We're stuck with the amendment process as it is
2) The substance of In Re Marriage cases, that is marriage equality, is not impacted by prop 8
3) Because of this, prop 8 only affects the state's use of the word "marriage", but not any other aspect of the unions
4) Because of 2), and because there are no ex post facto laws, any gays marriages before prop 8 passed must be grandfathered in, and the state must refer them as marriages in perpetuity.

yes Sarah I have emailed him ... give me your email and I will send it to him

#419 And that's the only reason the Diego cartoon exists. It's the same content as Dora the Explorer, but you can't have little boys wearing cartoon girls on their tshirts. So they created Diego, so little boys can get in on the Dora merchandise.