John Smith

I got Magic Potion, but have not yet been able to warm up to it. The others I liked immediately.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=500138

 

The JP and Black Crowes torrent I mentioned before.

I'm gonna give this a try, thanks.

The one I have is a 2 cd set - and has video stuff on it. I forget the label. I just saw a 10 cd set of this stuff on some Bit Torrent site the other day.

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 of blues in Chicago (For Mayville academy) ad at shepards Bush in England. Zak Starkey is their drummer. This one could be ordered the same way song by song etc... I purchased the whole set.

Edit: That should be Music Maker not music Match.

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Another Zeppelin re-lated cd - the one Jimmy did with The Black Crowes.

 

Rhino is going to re-release all of Robert Plant's albums this fall.

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.

For listening to Zeppelin it depends on what you like. My order would be

Neil young - like a hurricane, DOwn By the RIver, Cowgirl in the sand, Cortez the Killer.

Springsteen - Jungleland

Zeppeli _ Kashmir

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.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/97262...4&qs=1;bp=t

A geography teacher suspended for apparently teaching Geography.

"A new solution reached Monday by School Board officials has a black bus driver driving across town to pick up the nine black children."

 

i'm sure that will do a ton to downplay any racial division.

Separate but equal drivers.

what is the democrats' strategy at this point with regard to terrorism and foreign relations in general (other than "Bush bad")? I think you make valid points about the tunnelvision of both sides (bleeding hearts vs. kill 'em all). So who around has the right balance, in your opinion?

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 resources for the true war on terror because what we have in Iraq is nationalist and an almost balkens like situation playing out. We have Kurds, Sunni's and Shiites who were thrown together back at the end of WWI in a balkens like fashion and they have been held to gether by one disctor or another over the last century. Once theat strong central dictaorship was removed the vaccuum had to be filled with something and we are seeing what that is.

Should we pull out and what is going on continues then we could possibly be seeing the break up of Iraq. I would suspect that Turkey might take a chunk, or perhaps the Kurds will hold their own against the Turks. I suspect that Iran willl take a chunk and the remained will be a new nation. That is a possibility. President Bush laments the breakup of Iraq as being a bad thing, but thus far he has been wrong on nearly every judgement he has made in the mid east, so what would make him suddenly be right now? All in all though my speculation is just that, but is no less valid than the presidents speculation. Though of course his comes courtesy of the Project for a new American Century, and mine is rpetty much speculation based on history, which does tend to repeat itself.

By the way, in regards to another thread, yes Bush has committed treason. He swore to uphold the constitution and he has actively worked to no uphold the contitution, whether it is by warrentless searches or by usurping power that is no where to be found in the constituion, or disregarding laws and court decisions he finds distasteful to his political ideology (Signing statements are abig issue for me. There is nothing in the constitution which says the president may make law. Yet bush with nearly every law passed by congress ( A pliant submissive congress) has reinterpreted the law in his own fashion.

I got a call once froma republican fundraiser before the 2004 election. He was shocked when I articulated those points to him. He stammered soemthing about me being a registered republican and I told him that may be true but I am no ideologue and fully believe that Bush should be in Prison along with a majority of his administration. Needless to say I did not give any money and funny thing the local Republican county chair called me a few weeks later asking me to be a committee man. I turned him down too as I had decided long before that election that I was a full fledged independent.

They are weak in the eyes of Americans when it comes to fighting terror.

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 threat to us. I could go on and on. The so called bleeding heart approach is to negotiate and resolve these issues. The conservaive stance is to simply kill any one who is agianst us and anyone who gets killed as collateral damage must be guilty to, otherwise they would not have lived so near people who hate us. Imagine using this logic in the US? Way back in 1978 we would have locked up all the residents of Sommerdale avenue as well as anyone on the stree behind sommerdale and anyone who was an acquaintance of Mr Gacy, afterall if they didn't stop what was going on they must have approved or supported it? Great logic there. ANyhow the republicans like to toss around the phrase cut and run as if that has anything to do with the actual ideas put forth by dems, nope republicans like their sloganeering and want to stick wth the current strategy of stay and lose.

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 funny stuff.

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.

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.

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 their country. Anyhow my main point is that once Israel defeats Hezballa, what will grow in it's place. Something has to grow because the problem will still be there. The problem for the arabs is Israel and something will take the place of Hezballa, but what t will be? I have no clue.

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 issue. In other words more of the same bullshit from the wrong side of the tracks.

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 farming -- the morally heinous practice of implanting a human embryo in a human or animal for the purpose of aborting this nascent human life for research.

This week, the Senate passed a resolution supporting Israel and its right to self-defense ... and condemning the terrorists of Hezbollah, Hamas and their state sponsors in Iran and Syria.

This week, the Senate reauthorized the Voting Right Act, honoring those whose sacrifices opened the voting booth for millions of Americans and continuing the progress we

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.

Ah, but let's be clear. These are not even embryos, but cell clusters that may or may not one day become embryos that may or may not become fetus that may or may not become born human beings. This is the problem with Bush's rhetoric. Besides, the cells pertaining to this legislation are left over and slated for destruction as medical waste. These are cells that are not being adopted and the parents do not want them.

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 if the government funded this they would not be spending your dollars, because like everything else in the Bush administration they would be spending your kids and grand kids money.

Just imagine what would happen if Neil Young passed away? He has more stuff on tape than I can even imagine.

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...

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.

Has there been any discussion of the Personal File CD? What I've digested so far is pretty darned good.

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.