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In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short.
Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding this war. By releasing this film in parts for free online, we are able to stay on top of news of the war as it continues to unfold. We hope to raise critical questions regarding Afghanistan that Congress must address in oversight hearings, which inform the public and challenge policymakers.
This is Change ™ ? Obama Signs $680 Billion Defense Bill Into Law
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“Lennon remarked to Shotton, “Let the fuckers work that one out. “It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles’ work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo_goo_g%27joob
“Some have speculated that the opening line, “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together”, is a parody of the opening line of “Marching to Pretoria”, a folk song: “I’m with you and you’re with me and we are all together.” ; those ‘some’ referenced obviously have never had an acid trip.
No, John, it’s not change, in fact it’s worse as ‘off the budget’ is now encoded in the bill. “We hope to raise critical questions regarding Afghanistan that Congress must address in oversight hearings, which inform the public and challenge policymakers.”; absolutely and as stated here:
http://www.juancole.com/2009/10/corey-what-afghanistan-should-mean-to.html
John and you other young whipper-snappers, I’m of the generation ‘afore ye, we didn’t have the receivers to interpret a lot of what the Beatles were singing about. I appreciate the explanations above.
John, back on another thread I asked whether you have read the book, Final Judgment, by Michael Collins Piper? Has an entirely different slant on JFK assassination…Mossad involved…have just begun to read it so don’t know how much I’ll believe. Would appreciate your take on it.
Actually I don’t know a lot of the Beatles stuff, that’s my older sister’s generation. I was barely watching cartoons at the time *g* I thought a lot of people here would appreciate the video
And no I haven’t read that book. I’ll have to find it somewhere. Thanks for recommending it
PS been busy for awhile, just wanted to say thanks for the responses BB and ubetchaiam and acquarius
BlueB gave me this link back on prior thread. It’s a killer – ya gotta see it. I know just how he feels! As she said, never mind the silver ad and the cussin.
Thanks I’ll have to watch it tomorrow
Gotta run
L8r
PS Roubini has a new warning
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/11831/
Thanks for responding, John. What’s your take on this “timely find” ?? Just so happened that Hillary was there on a state visit then.
You know, like Mohammed Atta’s passport was found in the conflagration almost undamaged at the World Trade Center…They’re dragging out 9/11 again.
Hmmm..guess we’re due for another fake Osama video any day now?
It wasn’t the receivers you lacked; it was LSD.
“It wasn’t the receivers you lacked; it was LSD.” *G*G*G*G*
John, got a question. Please go to my diary (still listed) and give a watch, then tell me why it is not being visited other than by BB and me (and the troll). Big dust-up about ‘show us the pictures’, but don’t listen to this man’s words pictures of the most horrible atrocities you can imagine that were ordered by our gov via CIA in Uzbekistan back in 2002 (and probably now). Craig Murray’s testimony and fight with Brit gov, testimony in US, and his book may blow this torture issue wide open yet.
My question is: Why aren’t more pups watching it? I guess for the same reason that few people know who Thomas Tamm is…(sigh).
Forgot the link to my diary. Here ’tis.
yeah, blue, figured that out a while back. You ever come late and sober to a party and find everybody already drunk as a skunk? I did that first long ago; decided then not to knowingly alter my brain. However, those experiences back in the 60s probably prepared those ‘kids’ better for dealing with this Fun House of Mirrors we are living in now.
AC74, this analogy “You ever come late and sober to a party and find everybody already drunk as a skunk? ” isn’t applicable as alcohol and acid act in VERY different ways upon the brain; as a ‘for instance’ while Alcohol dims the transmission of information across the corpus callosum, acid enhances such transmission.
I’m not qualified to speak for either case. In my work I dealt with and handled claims for many whose lives had been wrecked by both alcohol and by drugs. I dealt with the tragic effects. I do not judge others for whatever paths they choose to travel, so long as they are the only ones to experience the consequences.
TMI? Too much information?
Outrage Overload or Outrage Fatigue?
Bad timing? People’s lives just happened to get busy when you posted this?
8 years of being lied to, and having it continue with the new President who was going to “change” things
Yup and aren’t drunks mean when a sober person is in their midst, though? I count myself fortunate to have been an observer of friends, not a fellow user, when LSD was first introduced into society. Darned near everyone I knew was using it.
The simple truth..acquarius will forgive me for being a smart butt. At least I think she will..’g’.
Thanks, John. I read and responded to your reply back here.
blue, I got really drunk one time in my life…that was the cure.
Me, too. Just hearing the word Vodka all of these years later turns me green..’g’.
I had a link that was appropriate at HoundDogs diary on the real origin of the Afghan war; but that evangelizing troll has invaded there and I refuse to participate where that disease is present.
John, McClatchey just posted an e-mail to me: How Goldman Bet Against the Housing Crash. GS was backing really bad sub-prime loans and at same time betting the housing mkt would go bust. Possible (???) fraud. I am not qualified to discuss deep financial matters. Thought you might want to post a diary about it.
Patience is a virtue..one I am running out of where his nastiness is concerned. It’s fun to ignore its comments, though. Can you imagine his frustration when he doesn’t get the reaction he wants? Hungry trolls sure do get bitchy sometimes..’g’.
“The bill, with 308 co-sponsors, has been stripped of provisions that would remove Fed exemptions from audits of transactions with foreign central banks, monetary policy deliberations, transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee and communications between the Board, the reserve banks and staff, Paul said today.
“There’s nothing left, it’s been gutted,” he said in a telephone interview. “This is not a partisan issue. People all over the country want to know what the Fed is up to, and this legislation was supposed to help them do that.”
Paul, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, said Mel Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina, has eliminated “just about everything” while preparing the legislation for formal consideration. Watt is chairman of the panel’s domestic monetary policy and technology subcommittee.
Paul said he intends to introduce an amendment to the bill when it comes to the House floor for a vote restoring the legislation’s original language. ”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atc2o1ijLRno
“Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1. In the interview, Cheney demonstrated a behavior common among Bush administration officials under investigation: he couldn’t remember much of anything. Here’s a non-comprehensive list of 22 things Dick Cheney claimed he couldn’t recall about the Plame case, in the order they appear in the FBI’s notes: ”
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/10/22-things-dick-cheney-cant-remember-about-plame-case
“Here’s the killer sentence, spotted by Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown on Page 6 of the CBO’s analysis of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blended” House bill: “A public plan paying negotiated rates … would typically have premiums that are somewhat higher [italics mine] than the average premiums for the private plans in the exchanges.”
Whaa? Most analyses of the public plan, including mine, have assumed that even the watered-down “level playing field” version (i.e., the version in Pelosi’s bill and also—with an “opt out” provision slapped on—in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s yet-to-be-scored Senate bill) would set premiums lower than private insurers. But the CBO says that’s wrong.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2234175/
Abdullah will not participate in a run off election with Karzai. His speech was on CNN a few minutes ago.
Premiums higher than the private ins plans?? When people can’t afford the private rates. What planet is Pelosi living on?
And the opt out provision; the states with the biggest population of poor people will opt out.
All this time and flap and fight to produce another sham product.
If above is true, once again it’s proven that the majority in congress represent the lobbyists that pour the money into their hawg trough, not the people of their district and state.
Oh well –another day in Oz.
I’m sure you know that Karzai was an executive in UNICOL before Bush installed him in Afghanistan. He will be kept in office by any means necessary. Didn’t Poppy and Shrub show him how to win elections?