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John Smith

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  1. I got Magic Potion, but have not yet been able to warm up to it. The others I liked immediately.
  2. I'm gonna give this a try, thanks.
  3. Mine is a two cd set. It was originally available only on line. You could order the set by choosing the songs you wanted. So ther ecould be single disc versions out there with only the led zep stuff if that is what you wanted or with only the non-zep covers or just the crowes stuff etc... Mine is in a plastic case with a black book and with no video. The site went dead shortly after I purchased this and a while later it came out on their regular label. I also purchased the Who live. It is a set called "From the blues to the Bush" and is them playing a couple charity gigs at the house
  4. I have the Music Match version of this and it is pretty damned good. I think there is one track different on the version available instores vs waht was only available online previously.
  5. For listening to Zeppelin it depends on what you like. My order would be
  6. Neil young - like a hurricane, DOwn By the RIver, Cowgirl in the sand, Cortez the Killer. Springsteen - Jungleland Zeppeli _ Kashmir
  7. If it were just Colorado that had all this insanity swirlign about it, then yes. But we have the Arkansas Bus thing, Evolution in Kansas (Being cleaned up buy the voters) and many other seemingly irrational events occuring all over the place now.
  8. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/97262...4&qs=1;bp=t A geography teacher suspended for apparently teaching Geography.
  9. http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.d...40332/1002/NEWS
  10. I tend to like Murtha's plan to withdraw over the horizon so to speak. Perhaps we can pull to a friendly nation sucxh as KJuwait and keep our sea power in the region. Then we can watch Iraq incubate and develop. We have already shown that we can quickly dispose of an unfriendly government so pulling back and seeing if the grand vision of democracy takes hold or not will not cost us any more Ameircan blood or dollars. Additionally if Iraq every truely becomes the terrorist threat it was sold as, then we can move quickly to bring the chaos back that exists there now. That will free up resou
  11. At this point I will take weak over dumb any time. Simply killing anyone who we think oposes us is not going to work. There are root causes for terrorism in the world, and that is what should be attacked. For instance in Israel the original root cause was the total displacement of a population, thi sissue is still unresolved 58 years later. In the mid-east one root cause for violence against American's is our unwavering support of Israel and anything they do. Another side cause was our bases in Saudi Arabia. Another cause is our invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation who pose no t
  12. We went to visit this place the other day and it was pretty interesting, not entirely inclusive, but what they had was interesting. Anyhow, they have a video you can watch which is a video collage of all the inductee's. I would explain some of the names I thought my son (10) was familiar with and he found it pretty cool. They had the Jackson Five on and I told him who they were and that the little guy in the video was Michael Jackson. He looked at me and said "That must have been back when he was black" I've never really talked about MJ at all so he picked this up on his own. Pretty fun
  13. You know I had a short dissertation written up about the unified estate and gift tax (not death tax), but I just don't care any more. To put things simply the last 6 years have shown me that Republicans can not govern, so anything they are pushing for has to be inherently bad for the country. And believe it or not I am 100% in favor of revamping, not eliminating this tax that affects so few people.
  14. I've always ranked JWH in my top fie for studio releases by Bob. Though I have to quantify that by noting that I am not a fanatic, and never try to sit and decipher lyrics, for any band actually. If I get them I get them if not no big deal. It does nto make the music better even when I fully understand what they are saying or trying to say. I get out of it what I think they are saying and leave it at that.
  15. 25 years ago Israel pretty much stomped the crap out of the PLO military wing in southern lebanon. In it's place Hezballa grew and became the new nemesis. They were funded by Iran way back then, but today I would not doubt that they get funding from a wide range of supporters. I would guess that if the finances were untangled you would find the Saudi's have a hand in this too, though a distant and hard to trace hand. I know they are shiite and the Saudi's are Sunni, but they all hate Israel and the Saudi's are always rumored to be financing this or that in order to keep the crap out of the
  16. Ultimately if these people really believed the whole stem cell issue is equal to murder, they would work to make it illegal, private sector or public. Also the argument is made that the private sector does research better, and most advances come from the private sector. When the government funds research it is usually funding research schools (universities) or it is funding private sector research. So when they say they want the private sector to perform the research they are being hypocritical on the not wanting to fund murder issue, and they are being disengenuous on the public/private is
  17. This is what Bill Frist is sending out to his minions. Notice the language this filth monger uses... I often email you with the latest developments in the Democrat agenda of obstruction and defeat ... whether its their most recent attempt to raise your taxes ... or to cut and run in Iraq ... or to prevent us from stopping the desecration of the American flag. But today, after a long and productive week in the Senate, I want to share with you a story of success ... a story of responsible, common sense goverance. This week, the Senate passed and the President signed a ban on fetal farmin
  18. Nope, I'm criticizing his spending choices. Big difference. I'm also critical of his, and the republican party's general disdain for science in all area's except applications for warfare.
  19. His statment of not wanting these little boys and girls to become spare parts is absolutely nauseating. If these cell masses go unused they will become garbage if their owners choose to destroy them. So why not pass laws forbidding that? Sorry IKOL, But I thought you were a pre-med student at one point. The governemnt shoudl be taking the lead on this., Imagine how far $300 billion dollars would have gone in this pursuit. But if you don't want YOUR dollars spent for that, fine there are many things I don't want my dollars spent on, yet I don't seem to be getting my way, go figure. Even
  20. Just imagine what would happen if Neil Young passed away? He has more stuff on tape than I can even imagine.
  21. I have no doubt that opver the years various discs will be released and at soem point it will appear to be picking at the financial corpse of Johnny until then though...
  22. I don't think that is a valid argument. I loved Warren Zevon's final album precisely because he was dying and recorded an album to reflect as much. I do howver agree that there are some clunkers on the new Cash album just as there were on almost every album he made, but the good outweigh the bad in my opinion. As to the post mortem releases, there have already been scads of artists, such as Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn whose corpses have been mined far too often for my tastes, but somewhere there is a desire for this product.
  23. Has there been any discussion of the Personal File CD? What I've digested so far is pretty darned good.
  24. A writer at war - Vasily Grossmann Grossman is basically the Russian equivalent of Ernie Pyle during WWII. This is not really a collection of his articles, but more like passages from his articles and excerpts from his notes, some of which might have gotten him shot during the war had their existence been known. Pretty good stuff if you like this sort of thing, and if you like the details rather than the big picture stuff.
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