Drwtsn32, have you heard Weird Al's new (2003) album, Poodle Hat? I think it contains some of his finest work. My favs from it are Complicated Song and Why Does this Always Happen to Me -- which I think might be a classic.
MorpheuzX
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Do you have a favorite piece of music?
by MorpheuzX ini don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?
i know the question seems juvenile.
but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.
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Happy St. Patties Day!
by imallgrowedup inhow're you going to celebrate it?!
may the luck 'o the irish be with you!
growedup
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MorpheuzX
Ditto...Happy St. Patty's Day everyone!
It's definitely time to and until you're or a .
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Victory for Terrorism
by Yerusalyim inthe terrorists won a great victory in spain.
mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.
now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.
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MorpheuzX
ThiChi, if you don't care about the roots of 9/11 and the roots of what happened in Spain, then I don't even know how to have an intelligent discourse with you -- not that this thread has been one.
The fact is that the people who are doing these things aren't "EVIL" like our president likes to label them. They're a group of people who have been historically oppressed and disenfranchised and they view their terrorist acts as their only way to escape the influence we have over the region -- which they view as keeping them oppressed.
If America really cared about democracy, we'd let the Emir of Kuwait fall, the Sa'ud in Saudi Arabia fall, and then after the democratic process in Iraq is complete, the area would really have democracy and we'd see an end to this terrorism.
That said, I have no problem with the US hunting down Al-queda and exterminating them. It's what they deserve for 9/11 and the bombing in Spain (which they maybe behind). But the US has to have a major sea-change in middle-east politics.
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Victory for Terrorism
by Yerusalyim inthe terrorists won a great victory in spain.
mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.
now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.
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MorpheuzX
Explain how that is circular reasoning and not fact. What's the matter, when you're confronted with the facts that's all you can come up with?
The fact is that the US government's propping up of so many corrupt dictatorships in the middle east was one of the root causes of 9/11.
And my point Blacksheep, which you will obviously never see is that not only have we often not stood up to terrorrist, in many cases WE'VE BEEN THE TERRORIST. The CIA over threw the governements in Iran and Chile. The US government invade Vietnam in the 1960s and then illegally expanded the war to Cambodia. Maybe you should research some of the firebombing and napalming we did in Cambodia and the after effects it had -- namely the rise of the Khmer Rouge. I suppose that wasn't terrorism, because we did it, right?
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Do you have a favorite piece of music?
by MorpheuzX ini don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?
i know the question seems juvenile.
but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.
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Talesin, I agree the Rollins Band totally rocks, lol. I listen to their 'The Only Way to Know for Sure' concert album all the time.
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Victory for Terrorism
by Yerusalyim inthe terrorists won a great victory in spain.
mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.
now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.
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MorpheuzX
Some people on this board seem to be blissfully ignorant of US history and seem to be trying to make the point that the US stands up to dictators? Well let's just examine that point -- on this thread that's gotten totally off topic.
Pakistan: One of the United States' closest allies in the "war or terror" is run by a military dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf. In October of 1999, Musharraf deposed the democratically elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and imprisoned him. Then in June 2001 he dissolved Pakistan's parliament, because they elected Rafiq Tarar to be President. After that in 2002 he staged a bogus referendum, giving him another five years in office. So, if the United States cares so passionately about democracy, why do we support a military dictator in Pakistan?
Saudi Arabia: King Fahd has been the head of state since 1982. His family the Sa'ud dynasty has ruled since 1932. How many elections has Saudi Arabia conducted in that time: zero. In 1992 King Fahd created what he called the majlis al-shura or the Consultative Council -- they're now a 90 member body appointed by the King and possessing no power. The Fahd royal family is hated in Saudi Arabia and only exists because the United States government props it up. If we ever took our aircraft carriers off their shorelines, that government would fall overnight. Let's also remember that 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th, were from Saudi Arabia, as is Osama Bin Laden. (whom the US secretly trained, armed and funded in the 1980s during the USSR-Afghani war.)
Iran: In 1950 the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq assumes power. On August 22, 1953 the Shah of Iran, with lots of help from the CIA, stages a coup d'etat. The US installed Shah goes on a campaign of "modernization" throughout the 50s and 60s, which greatly increases the profits of US and British oil companies and totally impoverishes the people of Iran. So, the Shah establishes the SAVAK, a secret police organization, particularly handy at slaughtering people who oppose him or who advocate democracy. In 1979 after completely losing control of the country he flees and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini assumes power and turns Iran into an Islamic fundamentalist state. Ironically enough, although the US publicly opposes the Ayatollah, in 1985 we sell him missile systems he can use in his war against Iraq (who by the way we were also selling weapons to at the time.)
Iraq: July 16, 1979 Baathist dictator Suddam Hussein assumes the Presidency of Iraq. September 4, 1980, the Iran/Iraq war begins. After a trip to Iraq from Donald Rumsfeld, the US begins selling weapons systems to Saddam Hussien's Iraq in 1985. March 16, 1988 Hussein uses chemical weapons against the town of Halabjah. August 2, 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, deposing the Emir -- another dictator. March 3, 1991 after running Iraq out of Kuwait the US re-instates the Emir. George Bush decides to leave Saddam Hussein in power, even though Hussein's started two offensive wars in the last decade and is clearly a threat to the entire region. April 14, 1995, under UN resolution 986, Iraq again begins to export oil, supposedly to buy food and medicine for the people of Iraq. Although the UN and US know this is a sham it continues until March of 2003 when Hussein is finally removed from power.
And if you think this behavior is unique to the region, it's not.
Chile: in 1970 Dr. Salvador Allende is democratically elected President of Chile and starts a program of socialist reform. September 11, 1973 the United States CIA working under the express orders of Richard Nixon assassinates Dr. Allende and installs Augusto Pinochet as the country's military leader. It's estimated that Pinochet kills roughly 3,000 Allende supporters in the months after the coup. Chile has a population of roughly 5.3 million people, in the three years after the US orchestrated coup, roughly 130,000 of those people are detained.
If you think I'm making this stuff up, I suggest you go to the CIA's own website and read for yourself:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/chile/#5
Pinochet's military regime brutally ruled Chile until 1990.
I could go on and on, but I'm kind of sick of typing. The US not only supports dictators, the US empowers and sustains them.
Oh by the way, as a post-script the US government gave the Taliban regime that ruled Afghanistan 124.2 million USD in 2001 alone. And they gave us back 9/11.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/17/us.afghanistan.aid/index.html
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Do you have a favorite piece of music?
by MorpheuzX ini don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?
i know the question seems juvenile.
but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.
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MorpheuzX
I don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer? I know the question seems juvenile. But, I'm curious.
Mine, I think, is a tie between Wladyslaw Szpilman's performance of Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor and Angela Hewitt's version of Bach's Goldberg Variations -- the Aria is divine!
I don't mean for this thread to be just about baroque or classical music, anything. For instance no. 3 for me would probaby be Blind Melon's Mouthful of Cavities.
So what are some of your favorites?
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Cast your vote: Is Jehovah a Myth?
by frankiespeakin inthanks to many fine posters i think we can make an intelligent choice.
cast your vote and debate if you like.
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MorpheuzX
I don't know. I don't even know how to start knowing.
It would certainly be nice, however, if there was a god.
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Baseball!!!
by logansrun inahh, spring is in the air!
the newly unveiled grass freed from it's snowy blanket.
the first buds of leaves barely containing their excitement at the beaconing of all the birds of heaven.
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MorpheuzX
Just don't let Steve Bartman in the stadium next time and maybe the Cubbies can win it all!
Seriously, it must be horrible for that guy.
L_A_Big_Dawg, you must have been thrilled about that Kevin Brown for Jeff Weaver trade.
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God or Goddess, does the supreme have a gender?
by Sirius Dogma insome people say the supreme being is male, some say it is female.. some call it goddess, some call it god.. of course this all pre-supposes one exists in the first place, but that aside, what do you think?
does god have a gender, what is that gender and what do you call it god or goddess?.
for me, i don't think god has a gender, if one exists.
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MorpheuzX
I think this is a great example of anthropomorphism.