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Hillary Cites RFK assassination in explaining why she's still in race

She's a classy one!

Hillary Clinton today cited the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign to explain why she was remaining in the race despite long odds.

 

"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California," Clinton told the editorial board of a South Dakota newspaper. " I don't understand it," Clinton added, alluding to the calls for her to quit.

 

Clinton made the statement after pointing out that her husband didn't lock up the nomination until June of 1992, trying to point out that, by past history, it's not late in the campaign.

Shane Macgowan

Yeah, good call.

You must not have heard the last Stooges album.

Or seen them singing Madonna numbers at her R&R Hall of Fame induction.

I'm thinking about the Omaha show. I'd be home by like 1:30 or 2:00. I might be too old to handle that.

You have the power. I say let this one ride, though.

OK, I deleted the other one since voting was going on here. I was slow to find the delete topic option.

Iggy Pop, born 4/21/47

Keith Richards, born 12/18/43

I'm beginning to think the chemicals they have ingested are acting as preservatives.

Any good? Petty was so horrible at the Super Bowl! Then again, it is the Super Bowl.

Wishing well runs wet and dry

I wish for things I never had

Surrounds and wells up in my eyes

The screaming voice, it lies

Wishing well gets someone's attention

Every wish you ever had

In a day of nights, in the darkest of light

Sits and cries, watch the lies

Could you give me a wish if I tell you what I want?

Will the price be no object?

I wish for dreams of light

I live for wishing well surprise

Deepest light, the secret lies

Wishing well gives you all that you desire

Homes and trains, and the greenest of plains

That you ever happened upon

The silent wish, it calls you out

Calls you out by name

Lays upon the plain, on the mountain high

City lights, wish delights

What if the waters and wishes appear?

Will the price be no object?

I wish for dreams of light

I live for wishing well surprise

Twist and shape on the winding twine

Around the spindle winds

Wish again, four times again

Four wishes deep into the well

There's a price to pay for a wish to come true

Trade a small piece of your life

Roots in the soil, uprooting the soil

Mountain high, the mountain high

The wish is only to speak a kind

Kind of word, so benign absurd

The well, three wishes run dry

Wishing well is dry

When no grass grows, the weeds run in line

Wish three wishes, three wishes run dry

"Wishing Well" by Bob Mould

Josh Brolin was great in Goonies, though, huh?

I reminded about once every other month that I'm about the only person born in the 70s who hasn't seen The Goonies.

That's coincidental, not ironic.

Point taken, now I feel dumber than Alanis Morrisette.

I thought the rest of the article was better than the last 4 paragraphs. He makes the case that effective diplomacy -- which admittedly, the Bush admin has not been interested in -- requires a lot of hard work in advance. You can't just fly to Tehran or have the president of Iran (I'm too lazy to look up the exact spelling) fly to Washington and meet.

Maybe the reason the Bush admin. has turned their back on dimplomacy is exactly because it's hard work.

Finally! I read in EW that they were having a hard time casting that role. Still can't believe Josh Brolin is playing Bush.

Ironic, his dad played Reagan in the CBS miniseries a few years back.

Richard Dreyfuss to Play Dick Cheney in Stone's "W"

I always thought that his portrayal of the evil Republican in "American President" was based on Cheney. And that was made years before he really became Darth Vader.

It was Tweedy at the Riviera in 97. It was just before he covered "Color Me Impressed".... well.

Based on the recording I have, I figured it was at the Fillmore. "Color me Impressed" is immediately followed up by "I Wanna be Sedated". There were two setlists that show them being played consecutively and they were 5/9 and 5/10 of '97.

Of course, he could've said it more than once. It was true up until ST.

1. I usually tip 20 percent or more. Waitstaff work hard.

2. I have seen servers judge other servers as I judge other copy editors - pretty damn severely. That said, WW's experience is pretty fucked up. It's one thing to have poor service in a restaurant; quite another for the deficient server to bring it up again in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

If something like that is going to happen, it's fitting that it was in a Wal Mart parking lot.

Ha. Just an hour or so before I read this, I added a signature to my VC profile that's a Tweedy quote about the 'mats.

Magnolia is one of my favorites - perhaps this will help clear it up - from Wikipedia:

 

At the end of the movie, a rare but precedented event occurs: frogs rain from the sky. While the plague of frogs is unexpected, there have been real-life reports of frogs being sucked into waterspouts and raining to the ground miles inland.[2]

 

The movie has an underlying theme of unexplained events, taken from the 1920s and 1930s works of American intellectual Charles Fort. Fortean author Loren Coleman has written a chapter about this motion picture, entitled "The Teleporting Animals and Magnolia," in one of his recent books.[3] The film has many hidden Fortean themes. The fall of frogs is merely one of them. One of Charles Fort's books is visible on the table in the library and there is an end credit thanking Charles Fort.[4]

 

Another explanation could be the scene in which a boy named Dixon tells Jim that "when the sunshine don't work, the good Lord bring the rain in." A Bible verse frequently referenced and alluded to in the film, Exodus 8:2 (NIV), states that "If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs" (In Exodus, the frogs are described as simply crawling out of the "waters of Egypt"). Many of the film's other strange occurrences, such as quotes that seem odd or out of place, can be similarly explained (see the link to Cigarettes and Red Vines' Magnolia page below for more information).

 

There are various references to Exodus 8:2, like when the humidity is recorded to be 82 percent. At the very beginning, the man being hanged bears a sign reading "82". The plane that kills Darion has "82" painted on the side, and at the poker table, the man asks for a two and gets an 8. In the "Jumping scene" of Sydney Barringer, to the left of Sydney along the roof border, "82" appears to be spelled out in some type of wire formation on the wall, his parents were arguing in room #682, and the forensics meeting is at 8:20. The phone number for "Seduce and Destroy" has 82 in it. At the beginning scene of What Do Kids Know, a fan is seen carrying a sign reading "Exodus 8:2" before an usher (Anderson in a cameo performance) removes the sign; one of the most concrete references towards that verse in the Bible. During the rain of frogs, a sign reading "Exodus 8:2" can be seen on the side of the street. Also, Jim's voice mailbox says that his automated answering machine number is "82." Anderson did not originally include these allusions in his screenplay; after Henry Gibson brought the passage to his attention, he worked it into the script.[5]

 

Other repeated references to animal rain in the story include at least four different characters in different scenes using the clich

I have a horrible OCD habit of forcing myself to finish any book I read. With 3-year-old twins, a full-time job, a part-time job, and my love of movies and music, reading is often on the backburner. Especially when I've started a book like this and I keep telling myself I have to finish it.

I really liked Russell Banks' Rule of the Bone and enjoyed, but forced myself to finish Cloudsplitter. This one is a collection of short stories. His stories are so depressing that reading one after another is really depressing. My p/t job is at a bookstore and I keep seeing all these other books I should be reading, but, again; I must finish...

I don't think anyone was politicizing anything until you stepped in, though. Even the AFP story reporting the diagnosis made mention of the Chappaquiddick incident. And amidst all this talk of tragedy surrounding Ted Kennedy and the relative "tragic-ness" of it, it seems understandable that Mary Jo Kopechne would eventually get mentioned.

I feel a bit stupid about posting the obvious now. I shouldn't have tainted the sad feelings many feel for Kennedy. I'd delete the original post, but there's too much follow up to it now. Cancer sucks!

I love it. Wasn't disappointed at all. The more I listen to it, the less I think it was a return to their earlier sound. There's a lot of unique sound to this record. I was surprised by the way it sounded. I expected a lot more noise with the addition of Nels.

That family just can't avoid tragedy.

I understand where you

Did you know PT Anderson screened Network for cast & crew before shooting began on Magnolia, and stated "this is what we are trying to do."

Can anyone explain the frogs in Magnolia? A plague from God? The apocalypse? To me it was a cheap, artsy way to end this movie of sometimes interesting, but disparate stories. The ending made me hate that movie!

A fascinating documentary about a very bizarre and self-important American sub-culture. Billy Mitchell may be one of the world's biggest jerks of little consequence.

How about baseball's answer to Lance Armstrong??

Lester throws no-hitter against Royals

5-25-77

Star Wars + Freaks & Geeks + Dazed & Confused = It better be good or I'll be damn disappointed!!