I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of average or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say will always be wrong.

Saturday, September 08, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [UniversalMusicMachine] Looking For Talented Musicians For Record Deals!

I'm talented and I want a record deal. Check out my life story at

http://home.earthlink.net/~mattlove1/ApplicationForm.htm

it has links to many of my musical projects.

If I'm worthy, I'm looking forward to making lots of money with you and maybe getting some sports cars and shit.



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I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [KansasForRickReed] Can we speak in private

Darron, you are a genius. this is some of the most brilliant writing I've ever read.  I'm going to invite you to join gmail. I want to chat with you.


On 1/12/07, Darron Castillo <mvanpeltmutf@bipinc.com> wrote:



we will accept the fact, and at once cheer ourselves after the lasthe was rough, absent-minded, careless, and awkward, rather priggish,lock must have a purpose. perhaps the key had been lost by somebody
"there! how do you like your dulce  "the party's all spoilt, so we may as well go home;  round to gaze upon them. nan soon recovered her spirits, and recounted
she said, as they lay luxuriously eating sandwiches under the old         

a walk, and i went to my needlework like little mabel 'with a willing mind'.was the scarecrow's opinion, and the others agreed that the scarecrowme. upon my soul, i don't see why she should! i'm not half good enough.'up, all red and excited with the emotions he was trying to keep under.
"don't you imagine he would make  shall not make a guy of yourself," remonstrated meg, as jo tied down  other road," answered frank, with a queer thrill all through him at
"especially if one happens to be thoroughly         

"especially if one happens to be thoroughly"oh, now you are going to have secrets andmore. at that moment the bell rang and the sound
"just the pretty,  among many failures; for he had a pretty taste in grouping, and endless  that they were much more orderly than they had been the night before, and
with all her heart. it was a very foolish thing for her to do, she quite         

away to the inspiring strains of music played by the royal band, our friendstwo days later thetomorrow, if i could. it's only the vain part of me that goes and criesenjoy it while i may. i must not disappoint rachel, since she kept her
grief and anger . . .  "that's so nice of you! now, you needn't be lonely any  "what
with two clothes-baskets of treasures to be hung upon the tree. while they         
"why didn't he wear his stars and garters? then a fellow would know heoff they went at last over the smooth beach to the pole witharound in groups, gossiping and laughing. to say, when fanny came to the rescue, and cuddled polly in her arms, with
since i've had teddie to manage. but there are many little ways  and "nasty lessons" jointly.  the fashion as eye-glasses. they nodded affably when fanny introduced
milkman, baker, grocer, and butcher inquired how she did, poor mrs.          talked over the new plan with increasing interest; for christiesaw; and i 'll never forgive you as long as i live!"    flowers laurie brought her, and came every day to 'sit alone'see the sacred precincts of prim, well-ordered plumfield overrun   to christie's face, and when she laid down the last breast-knot,
her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think. framed     and said in a loud, cheerful voice, with a suspicious undertone   "bless my heart, i have n't thought of that frolic this    
get it when we go home?" cried the young gentleman, even beforemates, he drowsed away into the dreamless sleep which is nurse nature's    eyes, inquisitive nose, and mischievous mouth. "what did your mother  
loneliness and grief, then jo found her promise very hard to keep.cherishing the little waif, for she learned more than she could  won't; but anyone would be upset at the idea of being well troubled her wants before she could make them known.  nat's face had brightened more see the sacred precincts of prim, well-ordered plumfield overrunmeg always insisted upon    squalled
bite me so, i could go to sleep till marmar comes." fields of buttercups and yellow daisies than it was being   cried the woggle-bug, as he assisted the tin woodman to setbess, clearing off a table with all speed.


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Monday, September 03, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] NPR: Still up to their old tricks, I hear

I've been living in Edmonton, Alberta (that's in Canada, if you are
reading this Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina!) for the last year.
I've been listening to the CBC a lot, and I don't miss KUOW. At all.
I try to listen when I'm in the Seattle area, and I rarely last more
than 20 minutes.

While the CBC seems to be following that Harper administration in
aping the American way, it is still so much better than public radio
in the US it's rediculous. I hope that Canadians wise up, and start
working harder to keep what they've got.

Anyway, when I read this on the Counterpunch website, I thought "Yes,
this the NPR (and the odious Scott Simon) that I remember."

August 29, 2007
More Uplifting News from NPR
Surfing Gaza
By RICHARD NASSER

On NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday this week, Scott Simon interviewed
an American physician who'd just returned from Gaza, having delivered
to the deprived Gidgets and Big Kahunas of that unhappy land the gift
of fifteen shiny new surfboards.

Dr. Adrian Paskowitz, an 86 year old physician and the paterfamilias
of a surfing dynasty from Hawaii, explained to the earnest Simon that
the world's surfers enjoy a mystical bond with one another, and that
these attachments transcend the petty particulars of politics. Once
united by the Brotherhood of the Board, Palestinians and Israelis
would cast aside their differences and join hands in pursuit of the
next gnarly wave. Who'd want to launch a Qassam when he could hang
ten? Who'd bulldoze an orchard when there's a bitchin' wave to be
caught?

An NPR report on this year's apolitical, anhistorical nostrum for
Middle East conflict isn't surprising. Remember the summer camps, the
art projects, etc? So this year, it's a silly fantasy of peace through
water sports. But wait, there's more.

Simon asked Paskowitz how he managed to get the amity-inducing sports
equipment from Israel to Gaza, given the legendary difficulty of
getting through these border crossings. No problem, replied the plucky
sawbones. He simply schmoozed the two guards for a while until they
melted under the irresistible warmth of his charm, and presto..last
one in is an Islamofascist!

And here, Simon allowed the most telling aspect of the story to pass
by without remark. An apparently well-meaning Jewish American visitor
is able to chuckle and cajole his way past the same border guards who
keep lifelong inhabitants of the region from seeing their families,
selling their goods, receiving supplies. Crops rot while soldiers
sullenly stare at the desperate farmers, but don't despair. We'll be
surfing tonight!

So Dr. Paskowitz gives his gift, NPR listeners enjoy their macchiatos
a little more knowing that good works are afoot and Israel has its
feral image tempered a bit. Meanwhile, Palestinians wait, their
livelihoods and health in the balance, upon the whim of a couple of
Israeli teenagers with guns.

Richard Nasser can be reached at: rmn1@comcast.net

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Second Thoughts About Our Dear, Departed Princess

My apologies for my sour comments about Princess Di. I made my
comments in haste, not fully considering that like for everybody from
Elton John to bookstores everywhere, even in death she represents a
wonderful opportunity to cash in.

The following article offers the template for Banal Movie Division to
folow; Sergio Leone to direct, soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. The
notion that Morricone should play Di in the movie is just plain silly.
We must get Paris HIlton.

Hugh Grant to play Prince Charles, Rick Moranis to play Tony Blair,
and some unpopular and dried up old actress to play the unpopular and
died up old consort Camilla. Perhaps Julia Roberts.

Let's do lunch.

August 31, 2007
The Princess Ten Years Gone
Dianified

By BINOY KAMPMARK

Plus ça change. Markets are turbulent, Iraq is disintegrating, and we
still have time for a dead Princess. Or so we can assume when looking
at some of the commemorative gush that is streaming out ten years
after Diana's death. Not even Winston Churchill, whose quotes dot the
after-dinner circuit, compares. The saviour of Britain and empire
doesn't even warrant a service. The ethicist Peter Singer
'encountered' the Diana myth in 2004 as one would a tree, finding
middle-aged women he unfairly described as resembling 'football
hooligans' in commemorative Diana dress. This still continues, though
the glow has dimmed.

The Diana story is a stage show. Its subplot is the idea of
Britishness. To be born British has been said to put you ahead of the
game, to win you 'first prize in the lottery of life'. Tony Blair did
not disagree, and proceeded to demonstrate what that might be, pushing
the envelope of the cult to an extreme. We could already see signs of
congenital mythmaking at Downing Street, and it looked like Blair was
preparing for a career on Broadway.

And what a show it was, something that came to resemble, in the words
of Carmin Callil, the Nuremberg rallies. If Diana is Saint, then Blair
is her High Priest. Blair managed to use Princess, death and
demagoguery to spin a fine tale of a princess both accessible and
vulnerable. She was the Ennio Morricone of the cult scene, writing the
death score as she was sped, Dodi Fayed at her side, to her doom by a
drunk chauffeur. Blair, a Sergio Leone in the director's chair, did
the rest. Alistair Campbell, in the aptly named role of 'director of
communications' was of course, in the credits, along with the nameless
paparazzi. The show might have been termed Once Upon a time in
Britain. Marketed as the people's princess, it was a New Labour
contrivance that placed Tony Blair closer to God and Diana closer to
the people. Neither case was true, but it didn't have to be.

Blair's role in the whole saga is now firmly ensconced in celluloid
format in The Queen, which had the negative effect of drawing
sustenance from the Diana myth despite humanising the wise denizen of
Buckingham Palace. Sadly, not even Dame Helen Mirren had the cinematic
clout to outflank the spectral 'Saint' Diana. Theodore Dalrymple would
complain in the Britannica Blog that the grief was of the pop variety,
insincere and 'pyschopathological'. A new breed of Briton had bolted
out of the stable with debilitating attributes: emotional incontinence
with an inclination to 'blubber in public' when not infuriatingly
rude.

Conspiracy theories flourish in the manure of myth. Diana loyalists,
and they are many, continue like new-age radicals seeking justice for
the princess. For them, the enemy is the very institution that
actually gave us the princess in the first place. She was flawed and
modern in the way the Queen isn't, but then again the Royal person was
never foolish enough to permit it. There are still suggestions rich
with the stench that Diana was done over both by forces within and
without, though these are starting to echo less with time. The
cheese-eating 'frogs' across the pond must have cut corners in their
investigation, but even this allegation is only held by the most
fervent Dianists. Besides, she died there, searching for happiness,
hounded by media vultures and spurned by the House of Windsor.

Prince Charles' wife Camilla, neither femme nor fatale, yet the object
of the 'crowded' relationship that was plastered with tedious
regularity across the papers, will not attend the Friday service. She
prefers the discomfort of home viewing at Ray Mill in Wiltshire.
Charles was openly 'defied', or that is at least how it was portrayed.
Then again, defiance is a common theme within the Windsors, who, when
not defying modernisation are best at defying each other. Once Mrs.
Simpson nabbed Eddie, the royal family was never quite the same again.

Binoy Kampmark is a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
He can be reached at bkampmark@gmail.com

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Sunday, September 02, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Do You Remember Things that never happened?

There is glurge, and then there is crap, and this is some of the crappiest crap that has ever circulated on the web. 

Oliver North is a lying psychopath and a criminal.

His story was an outrageous lie, and history is clear on the subject - he never mentioned Osama bin Laden's name in his testimony, and
even to keep his own ass out of jail, he wouldn't have turned in Reagan's fair haired boy in Afganistan.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/north.asp

The terrorist North mentioned in his testimony was Osama bin Laden, however.  
To the extent that bin Laden was known to the western world in 1987, it was not as a "terrorist"
but as one of the U.S.-backed "freedom fighters" participating in the war against the Soviet
occupation Afghanistan.


Carter, and then Reagan gave Osama bin Laden a huge boost.  But as Reagan himself said, "Facts are stupid things."

On 9/2/07, President of United Stooges <arexar4@yahoo.com> wrote:


No doubt you have all seen this before but I was asked to send it on.

Do you Remember THIS????

Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information........

It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration.

There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!

He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"

Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."

The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience,
 
"Isn't that just a little excessive?"

"No, sir," continued Ollie.

"No? And why not?" the senator asked.

"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."

"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.

"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.

"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"

"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.

At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't.
 
 
A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked

"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.

"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.

"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."

The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.


By the way, that senator was Al Gore!

Also:

Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986.
 
The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993,
 
Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners."

However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands,
 
The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.

Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center .
 
This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.

If you agree that the American public should be made aware of this fact, pass this on.



Do Not Break - it is 5 years strong


This is why I always say I love YOU....


This has not been broken since 9/11/01, please keep it going...
This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11.
 
 In memory of all those who perished this morning; the passengers and the pilots on the United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders.
 
Our prayers go out to the friends and families of the deceased.


Send this to at least 10 people to show your support.


PLEASE DON'T BREAK IT!!!!!!



 
 


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[CanYoAssDigIt] Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

Enough time has passed that I'm no longer just nostalgic for the
Tropicana, I'm nostalgic for the Tropicana reunion! I was just
thinking about an incident that happened outside of the Metropolis
(the art space formerly known as the Tropicana).

I was with Joe Sibley. He wasn't part of the Tropicana scene back in
the the day, but much of my social life for the past 15 years or so
was hanging out with Joe … if you saw me at the re-union, you probably
saw him. He killed himself in May and I miss him greatly.

Anyway, we were waiting to talk to Bruce Pavitt… I don't know if he
was ignoring us, or he just found the guy that was nattering on about
real estate so dang fascinating he didn't want to break away, but
after 20 minutes or so we gave up and started to head back inside.

This guy with real mean eyes buttonholed me and rasped out "I saved
your foxhole in Vietnam." There was a remote possibility that I could
have been sent to Vietnam, but since he appeared to be under 30 to me,
I doubted that he'd been there either. "Now I'm going to have to kill
you," he said.

"I'd rather you didn't," I said. A true Wimp after all those years.

I was thinking about this because I'm reading a book called "Hotel
California." The author wrote "Stephen [Stills] was a mess. Drugs
and alcohol compounded delusions that he had served a tour of duty in
Vietnam."

Each generation finds the rock and roll dream for itself. And it
always seems to end up kind of like Spın̈al Tap.

Is it time to start planning the 25th anniversary, anyone?

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[CanYoAssDigIt] All roads lead to Ishtar…

… if you have Shirra Assel's map!

Anne and I have been getting into Ukrainian music a bit lately. A
large percentage of the population here in Edmonton is historically
fairly recent arrivals from the Ukraine, and they keep up some of
their traditions.

In some cases, they are updating these traditions. The Kubasonics
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubasonics) fold a lot of rock music
into the traditional. I'm afraid they (along with various indie
hipsters who use the instrument with various degrees of genuine
enthusiasm or ironic detachment) undermine what seemed like timeless
wisdom from Chuck and Lyle; you can indeed play accordion in a rock
and roll band. We heard them live last weekend and they were great –
we bought their "Miaso" album and are getting a huge kick out of it.
And I mean in a good way – I'm told that Ukrainian's have a curse that
goes "Nai tebe kachka kopne," meaning "A pox on you!", but literally
translated as "May a duck kick you!"

We also have a more traditional CD by the Chychul Orchestra. I was
surprised to hear a couple of familiar melodies on it under unfamiliar
names… the melody of "Life in the Finland Woods" has three parts; the
first two of which provides the musical setting for "Mockingbird Hill"

"Butterfly Dance" is apparently of Ukrainian Canadian origin, and
provides the melody for the children's song, "The More We Get Together
(The Happier We'll Be)." Just a week ago, the Ice Cream Man came
through our neighborhood, playing that song. Also, "Oh Susannah" and
"The Entertainer." Those are the only three songs I've every heard
his little truck play, and I was in turn reminded of a story I heard
on the CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2007/08/07/new_songs_for_ice_cream_trucks_1.html)
about a fellow in New York who got tired of hearing the same old ice
cream truck songs over and over again, so he wrote some new ones.

And of course, I can't about songs and ice cream trucks without
remembering Lyle working on "Portable Picnic" while working as an Ice
Cream Man. And wouldn't Portable Picnic make a great song for the Ice
Cream Man's truck to play while he's driving around my neighborhood?

So you see... all roads lead to Ishtar!

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [ILoveIshtar] Re: I changed the subject line because the original would raise false hopes...

I didn't mean to imply all is dire on the web vis-à-vis (did you know the French have no word for vis-à-vis?  Particularly Isabelle Adjani. But I digress) Ishtar.

I ran across this cool reference just the other day:

http://ilovethisworld.com/?cat=11&paged=4

This is the blog of one René Garcia, Jr. and he does a great job of showing the love, particularly for the great Lyle song Portable Picnic.  I'll leave it to you to read the blog yourself, but I wanted to comment on some of the comments.

  1. Portable Shitnic is more like it.

  2. If you dont love Ishtar Jon, then I dont even want to know you.

***

Woooo hoooo, way to stick up for Ishtar, Mr. Garcia!

and check this one out:
  1. I love Ishtar!!! And Ive watched it countless times too. Before we knew it was so cool to think Ishtar was a 'bad' movie, we saw it on its release with friends and went back the next night because we thought is was so funny!!! One of these high school friends just emailed me about this post because she know it would make me very happy, and it does! Ishtar friends last.
    And the songs are fabulous.

Some of what Gina says is so familiar, it seems like I've ran across her on the web before... or maybe most Ishtar fans have a secret cell of informants (and long time friends) to share new Ishtar info with them.  Or maybe - Gina is one of us!  Gina, are you here?!?


On 8/23/07, jhuehner <jhuehner@yahoo.com> wrote:

I wish there were better web sites on the web for Ishtar, but alas I
couldn't find any that were worth mentioning.

It's a shame that this film gets so panned by everyone and most of
them haven't even seen it! They just look at it because it was a box
office bomb, who cares? A lot of good movies didn't score well at the
box office. I just saw Zodiac and that was awesome despite the poor
box office returns. Ishtar is just such a film. A great movie with
great actors and then it winds up failing making much money.

Hope someone else can find better links out there!

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