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jimmyjazz

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  1. I'm pretty sure I told this story before, but that's never stopped me from repeating myself:

    My wife is a big Eric Clapton fan.  I dig his stuff, but he was never my favorite guitarist or anything.  At any rate, he came to Austin and played the Erwin Center maybe 8-10 years ago, so I got us tickets.  He had a big band, and wasn't exactly introducing everyone, so I didn't notice it was Paul Carrack on keys until Clapton said "I'm gonna let Paul Carrack do a couple of his tunes", and he broke into "How Long".  I was flabbergasted.  Talk about out of left field.  THEN, to my utter shock, Carrack continued and played "Tempted" by Squeeze.  You have to understand, that is my favorite tune of all time.  Not just my favorite Squeeze tune, my favorite tune.  I about shat myself.  Couldn't believe it.

    Oh, there's a nomination for this thread.  Squeeze:

     

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  2. Yeah, I'd go "Your Song" for Elton/Bernie.

    For the 'mats, I'd struggle to say "Bastards of Young" is their best, but jeez, there are so many choices.  I'll put it in a tie with "Answering Machine", "Can't Hardly Wait", "Skyway", and "Unsatisfied".  (As it turns out, I am a giant Westerberg fan and picking his best song is like picking my best kid.  I can't do it.)

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

    I think it was Mike "Mr Chairman" Conaway there at the end.

    Conaway also complained at the beginning of the second half that the witnesses had paper copies of the slides everyone was seeing so perhaps the witness was working together with the Dems on the committee and wanted to know if they were working together. Schiff replied that the witness's TV was broken so they gave her paper slides since she could not see the slides on TV like the committee could.  Conspiracy averted...

    Yep, same guy.  He looked absolutely deflated when Schiff told him that the monitor wasn't working so they handed out hard copies.  It was as if he had lost his last chance at a career-defining "gotcha".

  4. 1 hour ago, Chooky said:

    Settle down, Mr. Heck.  Your performance is starting to look like a performance.

     

    1 hour ago, Chooky said:

    Wrong thread.  Does it even matter anymore?

     

    Heck if I know.

  5. 3 minutes ago, Chooky said:

    Established today:  It would've been really difficult to pull off some nefarious and shady shit in Ukraine with Ambassador Yovanovitch around due to her long history of integrity, intellectual curiosity about her assigned tasks and overall competence.  What a bitch!

    Thank God she's still on her post.

  6. 6 minutes ago, Jack Straw said:

    true on the first part; however, there will never be any meaningful consequences for Trump - certainly not prison

    I don't think Trump is all that different than Epstein in the eyes of those who might be concerned that Trump might stand trial.

  7. 23 minutes ago, hullabelew said:

    The chord progression in the chorus of "Still The Same" just kills me.   It takes a meandering trip to finally get to the 5th, then it walks back down to C. 

    C/E/A/Dm/G   

    I think I'd go G7 there, but I don't have a guitar handy to check it out.

  8. 8 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    There's been a steady expansion of special forces since the beginning of the war on terror. Increasingly, they are the military: they do the bulk of the fighting, there officers feed the upper ranks of the pentagon, etc.  But several of the truly elite units have simply stopped following not only our rules of war, but also some of the basic rules of the military.  And by several, I mainly mean the SEALS. Heavy drug use, indiscriminate killing, lack of military order, etc.  The bearded devil/flat heirarchy ethos that suited them so well in the early days of the war on terror has become a problematic culture that needs to be reigned in. You can't have a separate military inside of the the larger military, and that lack of respect for order or humanity ends up  bleeding over into the military at large.

    Read the cases above.  They are appalling.  Stone cold torture and murder, codes of silence, lack of respect for authority, etc.

    Thanks.  Two of my cousins (brothers) are Special Forces graduates of West Point.  One is still active duty, although as a Colonel he is "management" at this point.  Multiple Purple Hearts and other commendations testify to his efforts on the ground, though.  I know him and his brother very, very well and what you describe is not even remotely consistent with their personal ethos (and I say this as a progressive talking about conservative family members).

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