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Here's my thing
Friday July 18, 2008
Last night I caught a little bit of the VH1 Rock Honors show on The Who. I'm hoping to catch the whole thing on one of the many rebroadcasts they do, but here are my thoughts on what I did see:
Adam Sandler gave one of the effin' best intros I've ever heard while riffin' the Magic Bus lick. Made me forget all the infantile, stupid movies he's ever made.
Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam -- man, if those guys could ever get their heads out of their asses and quit whining about stuff and just play music. The talent there is amazing, they could be the American version of U2.
I don't know who that kid Pete and Roger have playing drums for them is, but he was playing his ass off back there. His name might have been in the credits, but they went by at warp speed and were basically unreadable to these old eyes.
And the lads themselves, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, in their mid-sixties, showing they could rock harder than guys 4 decades their junior. Effin' amazing! I think Pete's actually a better guitarist now than he was back in the day.
It's funny to think back on those days in the late 60s and early 70s, the Who and Zep making kick ass music that had a brain. Two brilliant guitarists and songwriters, and two charasmatic lead singers, similar yet different. Plant was sex incarnate, Daltrey looked like he could wade out into the audience and start kicking asses all over the arena. Yet both with powerful, dramatic voices.
I was lucky enough to see the Who on their original farewell tour at the Orange Bowl in Orlando. When they started to play Squeeze box all 60,000 fans started singing. Daltrey never had to open his mouth. It was one of the coolest things I've ever been a part of.
The Who, Led Zeppelin, and to a lesser extent the Stones (they never rocked hard like the other guys), I wonder if we'll ever see anything like that again.
edit: Oops! That should have been the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando. Sorry. Back then we used to measure drives by how much beer we would drink on the way. Orlando was a one case drive for my best friend and I, so we weren't in the best shape when we got there.
Guess we won't see much of that anymore either. Probably for the best, though.
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The American Physical Society which once went along with the global warming hysteria cooked up by failed publicity whore Al Gore, has now realized that data shows their conclusions were wrong. The society, representing 50,000 actual physicists (not rock stars, lawyers, or actors), claims the IPCC's (Interplanetary Council on Climate Change) conclusions are unsupportable:
"Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton’s [Lord Monckton of Brenchley] paper an 'expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations' and 'extensive errors'"
"In an email to DailyTech, Monckton says, 'I was dismayed to discover that the IPCC’s 2001 and 2007 reports did not devote chapters to the central "climate sensitivity" question, and did not explain in proper, systematic detail the methods by which they evaluated it. When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method.'"
Along with this comes a revelation from one of the authors of Australia's compliance protocols for the Kyoto Treaty who says that scientists rushed to judgement before full analysis was done:
"The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet."
Bottom line, as I said before, the whole global warming thing is a HOAX! There was no consensus when Goracle put out his shlockumentary and there is really no consensus now. Scientists from around the world are realizing that everyone has jumped aboard a bandwagon that should never have been there in the first place.
I don't know how much more it will take for talking head media types to wake up to the actual science of the situation. But it is far past time they do. Revoke this clown's Nobel prize and return him to the trash bin of history where he belongs.
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Thursday July 17, 2008
Here's a couple of pics of Hilary Duff rockin' the boots look that seems fairly popular this summer. No complaints here of course. Plus she votes Republican, so she's stylish and a rebel. Now if only I was 20 years younger . . . and either a rock star or a hockey player . . .
 
For a bonus, here's my favorite redhead, Gillian Anderson, doing a spread for Esquire to promote the upcoming X files movie, and along the way showing that a happily married 40 year old mother can still put on the hooch and be as screamingly sexy as someone half her age.
Oh Scully, how we've missed you!
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Today George Bush signed a release to open 3.9 million acres of Alaska to drilling for oil. The other day he rescinded the ban on offshore drilling around the continental US. The result:
Oil prices have dropped $10 per barrel! The largest drop in per barrel pricing in 20 years!!
It's a fairly simple equation -- the biggest factors in the rising price of oil are speculator's concerns and the weak dollar. A recent front page article in the St. Pete Times noted that the recent drop in demand yielded no decrease in gas prices despite the breathless whining of pantiwaist liberals to the contrary.
What will drop prices are the threat of increased domestic production and a strengthening US dollar. Bush is halfway there, he needs to pull the trigger on the fed to continue.
In an interesting developement, a group of House members -- half Dem and half Rep, are drafting a series of bills to help our energy crisis that includes increased domestic production, coal to liquid technology, renewables, and other incentives to help make us energy independent. They have refused to allow House leadership to have input into this bill, keeping it as a member driven bi-partisan initiative. Nice to finally see some leadership from our elected leaders.
Thanks!
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Friday June 13, 2008
Boy, this summer is looking up. After the Lindsay post the other day, here's hot mess Mischa Barton wearing some very awesome boots.
Nice
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