John Smith

After twoo weeks of listening, I have to say that I really like this disc. No one song stands out for me, so I'll take that as all of them being fairly equal. But what really stands out in my mind is that they have a fuller more complete sound on this. I still love the other stuff, but this one is special.

I live about 50 miles south of Champaign. Every other morning I get up at 4:30 to go play basketball. This morning I was just hitting the bottom of my steps when the quake hit. I first thought it was a burglar or three running through the house so I started flipping on lights. It trembled again and my wife came down stairs to say that a picture had fallen and she thought it was a quake. I live in an old solid brick house (15" thick exterior walls) and it shook the whole house pretty good. Pretty wild.

Without reading the whole thread I'll just put my 2 cents in and leave. Sure in the mid 1970's there was some talk of a cooling effect from green house gasses. The premise was that the gasses reflected sunlight and did not allow the heat to enter all the way through to the planet surface. From what I can remember the solution was the same as thee solution offered up today - cut greenhouse emissions. Today after thirty years of additional study (I'm not quite sure when climate study became a mature science or if it is yet) new theories have emerged and the ball has changed direction with it

After finally getting a chance to listen to this and digest it a bit, I think the praise is a bit overblown. The album is OK not great, but certainly more listenable than what preceded it. That being said I think if this exact same album had been released during their hey day it would have been slagged more harshly than Monster was. It really is a so-so record when taken against the totality of their previous work. But it was not released ten or twelve years ago, it was released last week. Because of that it is getting noticed and proclaimed as being better than the others. But being bet

Interesting. They have been working on this thing for so long and have recorded and re-recorded it so many times, that they could almost release it as a box set.

Yep, they have low approval ratings, but the polls never ask why the approval is low. Informed voters are dissatisfied because the congress is not following the will of the people (you know government of the people, by the people for the people etc...) And informed voters know the reason for the congress not following their will is the obstructionist party. One thing many people desire is impeachment, but there is no way that impeachment could occur. Bush and Dick could be caught snorting coke off of cheap hookers asses, while molesting small animals on the steps of the capital and only a

We still have a copy of the Milli Vanilli casette. My wife brought it into our marriage.

Three words: Metal Machine Music

I love New Adventures. Not at first, but it was definately a grower for me and now it is nearly the only REM CD I listen to. There is just so much going on on the record that it is hard at first to grasp and harder still to ignore as you hear it more...at least for me. I don't buy the saviors of rock stuff any more than I buy Thom Yorke whining about having to destroy rock in order to save himself. They are what they are and we accept them as is or we don't. REM and U2 became what they set out to be. There was nothing to save, at the time these bands came on the scene there were still

No you are correct, I'm in a fog today.

Just about any Mozart is worth listening to lots of very good stuff there and so much of it is easily recognizable. Beethoven I like his symphonies, especially 5 and 9 (the most popular) Bach (Blue Danube is the most well known) and Tchaikovsky (1812 overture was used to provide many Looney Tunes musical snippets) are good with lots of vary familiar stuff in their catalogs to listen to. But my favorite piece has to be Stravinsky's Of course somewhere we need to have someone come up with the collected works of Salieri (sp?), that Rachmaninoff made them all look like dried turds, or tell

The last thing McCain needs right now is for the press to focus on him and his ever shifting views, his total lack of knowledge abotu Iran and Iraq, the words of his supporters and the fact that he is telling the die hard 30% crew that wink wink he will carry on the policies of GWB. Nope, the lack of press is blessiing for McCain right now. No need for him to get 70% of the population stirred up more than they already are.

It's a very sweet touching simple story. No special effects* no beautiful people with the soft focus sex scenes, no guy getting the girl at the end. Just a nice film. * i Generally don't like special effects extravaganzas, but will probably be sucked into seeing the next indy jones film.

I don't think it has anything to do with enhancing the Republicans ability to retain control of the White House. I think it has everything to do with a simple desire to have Iran dealt with in some fashion. The current occupants of the White House do not believe that their sucessors will do anything or rather will deal with Iran the way they want Iran dealt with. Remeber the guys in charge right now are always right and have never made a mistake so what they want done is the right thing regardless of necessity or reality. They also believe that it is necessary to have done...period. The t

I'll bet we don't physically invade either. But I will also bet that Iran is bombed (by us or Israel) before next Janaury.

But if they bomb and Iran has, like we have been told by our intelligence agencies, no atomic program, and they bommb at the request of our governemnt, what then? And you are way understating his power, dangerously so. He has more influence over Bush than Bush himself does.

You're kidding about what trigger dirty dick has his finger on right? He does not need troops american or otherwiase to wage war on Iran. Israel has already done over flights of Syria it was in the news. These flights made syria turn on their ADA and give up some knowledge on what they have and where it is. Iraq of course will gracioulsy grant Israel overflight privledges to bomb Iran. The US Navy has a very strong presence in the gulf etc... and of course dirty dick was in the region to promote the peace process which was the same time period that Ofallon, an opponant of war with Ira

Dirty Dick has never admitted anything that he has not been in agreement with his pre-disposed notions of any subject. Witness the above interviiew and also his still adamit refusal to admit that Sadaam and AQ had no workign relationship, this even in the face of the recently released report from the army stating as much. When a guy has his finger on the trigger and thinks this way it should scare us all.

Perhaps because he is and has been disavowing the intelligence community's point of view and remember this is the vice president and he is playing games with imflamatory rhetoric...never mind.

Here is somthing that they will not be held accoutnable for, O'Fallon, an opponant of a pre-emptive war with Iran was recently fired. Now here is an exchange that dirty dick had with a reporter...this exchange shoudl scare the crap out of any sane person yet he will say it and not get held acocuntable... Raddatz: "Do you believe the National Intelligence Estimate, that says they shut down their nuclear program or intentions five years ago?" Cheney: "I think it's been -- it's important if you're going to look at the National International Estimate that we be precise in terms of what it say

Surprise, I don't agree. Name a specific time and incident that Bush was put under fire for comments made by anyone? The nearest thign I can think of was the tepid press reaction to his utter lack of knowledge as to the nature of Bob Jones university way back in 2000, and that asted all of one day or so. If anything a comment by a Falwell, Dobson, Hagee, LaHaye etc...may have been mentioned in passing by the press, but Bush was never pressed to disavow them, not even by the Catholics that some of those guys hate. Quite the contrary the press continually played up the Bush contacts with the

Please elaborate...WHo has had their feet held to the fire like Obama has? McCain? Bush who...?

But the guys McCain is courting as supporters are virulently anti-Catholic, so bad that William Donohue, an extremist nut if ever there has been one, has been speaking out. If Donohue was speaking out against Obama it would be all over the news, but he is not so the issue remains largely unnoticed. It's easy for the public at large to accept anti-Muslim or anti-Jew because "those people" are generally not like us so "it's OK" and easy for us to swallow. Anyhow my point is not that the remarks of McCain supporters do not come under more scrutiny its that the remarks of Obama's come under tr

Too bad McCain is not being pressed as hard on the things said by preachers that he is actively courting because of their influence. Guys Like Tim LaHaye and Pastor Hageee down there in Texas, both virulent anti-catholics. The press has chosen not to pursue McCains courting of these guys, they choose instead to focus on Obama. Though for the life of me I can't figure it out, last week on Fox Obama was a closet Muslim waiting unleash his jihad on the US, now this week he is a christian following a radical preacher? I'm so confused. Anyhow the issue is a non-issue for me. I hear my ministe

Shocking, I guess it's official now. Who would have ever guessed?? http://www.usmagazine.com/node/16132/ R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe: I'm Gay Monday March 17, 2008 Michael Stipe at the Louis Vuitton Party of LOVE on May 3, 2007. Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.comR.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has come out of the closet.