HAPPY BIRTHDAY GLEN CAMPBELL!
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Posted:Apr 22, 2024 8:43 am
Last Updated:Apr 23, 2024 6:20 am 648 Views
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I KNOW, I KNOW...Glen Campbell? I used to think the same thing about the guy (although I did LOVE the 9 or ten number one hit songs he had in his lifetime, with 'Gentle on My Mind' PROBABLY being my favorite. But here's the thing about this 'Rhinestone Cowboy', he was 'a studio musician in Los Angeles, spending several years playing with the group of instrumentalists'. Campbell played on recordings by the Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, the Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan and Dean,[19] Bing Crosby, Phil Spector, Sammy Davis Jr., Doris Day, Bobby Vee, The Everly Brothers, Shelley Fabares, The Cascades, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Wayne Newton, The First Edition, The Kingston Trio, Roger Miller, Gene Clark, Lou Rawls, Claude King, Lorne Greene, Ronnie Dove and Elvis Presley.' THAT'S SAYIN' SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY IN THAT ERA!!! and singer songwriter Jimmy Webb, NO SLOUCH, himself in the music industry said of Glen Campbell; 'He played with all kinds of genres, with different instrumentation and different styles. If it was a just and righteous world, Glen would be credited as one of the great, seminal influences of all time. He was a secret weapon in the armory of Sixties record producers.' Saw him on a variety show years ago where he played every STRING instrument they had on the stage that day as good as anyone that was considered and expert on most of them and BETTER than most experts on many of those musical instruments, including the piano! Not bad for an Arkansas country boy whose parents were sharecroppers, and who picked cotton to help his parents out financially when he was a boy ('I picked cotton for $1.25 a hundred pounds," Campbell said. "If you worked your tail off, you could pick 80 or 90 pounds a day.' . He died in 2017 at the age of 81, so, he'd be 88 today if he was still livin', 'EVER SMILIN', EVER GENTLE on my MIND!'...
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RIP Dickey Betts...
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Posted:Apr 18, 2024 12:39 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2024 7:10 pm 1019 Views
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The Country Rock Bluesie sounds of the '60s, '70s, and '80s from Bands such as 'Second Coming', 'The Allmans Bothers Band', 'Great Southern' and 'The Dickey Betts Band' lost the heart and soul of that genre today, when it was announced in Osprey, Florida that Forrest Richard (Dickey) Betts passed away peacefully at the age of 80. His collaborations with the Allman Brothers SKYROCKETED them and 'The Allman Brothers Band to the forefront of 'Southern Rock' and was a distinctive sound on every college campus and rock radio station from 1970 after te release of 'The Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East' (with hits like 'In Memory of Elizabeth Reed' through 1971 after the death of Duane Allman, with hits from the album 'Eat a Peach' that hit no. 4 ('Blue Sky', and the 1973 release “Brothers and Sisters” rose to No. 1 nationally on the back of the countrified Betts-penned single “Ramblin’ Man,” which peaked at No. 2. Betts went on to write the Allman’s No. 29 single “Crazy Love” (1979) and co-authored the act’s last top-40 single, “Straight From the Heart” (No. 39, 1981). In honor of Dickey Betts, his definitive performance of 'In Memory of Elizabeth Reed' from 'The Allman Brothers - at Fillmore East', all 13:04 minutes of it, were played locally on a radio station, here this afternoon...Rest in PEACE, guitar man!
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You ask, WHY, again?
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Posted:Apr 9, 2024 6:01 am
Last Updated:Apr 10, 2024 3:01 pm 2061 Views
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I concur that there are SO many unexplainable situations that occur fairly REGULARLY on this site. And I've thrown my two cents worth of opinions into discussion on VARIOUS subjects in this regard on occasion. I've also experienced a 'FAIR' share of them myself with NO EXPLANATION form the 'powers that be' of this site.
HOW is it that on the 'Home Page' it shows that I have '87 members' in 'My Hotlist', and YET, when I click on 'My Hotlist' there are 6, SIX, the number between 5 and 7, S-I-X, profiles that come up? Click on any number of 'drop down' features you wish, SIX profiles are ALL that are available. And to add insult to injury (okay, I'm not REALLY injured, or hurt, but it does FRUSTRATE the hell out of me!), I've 'Hotlisted' two or three profile in the last three or four days, AND THEY'RE NOT AMONG THE SIX THAT ARE SHOWN! WHY? And here's a BETTER question WHY, WHY AM I STILL ON THIS FORSAKEN SITE? SHEESH....
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'Whew. I never had a bellyache like this since I'm a little boy.'
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Posted:Apr 2, 2024 6:38 am
Last Updated:Apr 2, 2024 10:02 am 1737 Views
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A quote by the 'Mexican Bandit' (Frank Silvera) in the movie 'HOMBRE', starring Paul Newman, Frederick March, Richard Boone, and Diane Cilento, among others...
And, with the miracles of modern medicine, a quote I made yesterday as I came out of the cloud of anesthesia in the recovery ward to the attending nurse, after some surgery I had, prior to my discharge. In and out surgery, sent home on the same day! What a way to go, short of any complications, this is the BEST way to recover, in the comfort of your own home without all the noise and interruptions throughout the day and night during overnight stays in a Hospital!
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'SIGNS'...
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Posted:Mar 1, 2024 6:44 am
Last Updated:Mar 1, 2024 6:47 am 3140 Views
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'Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?
Now, hey you, mister, can't you read?
You got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't even watch, no, you can't eat
You ain't supposed to be here
The sign said, "You've got to have a membership card
To get inside" ...' 'Signs' by Five Man Electrical Band, written by Les Emerson
ALT is starting to remind me of this song, every day I log on and find more and more restrictions for 'standard members'...
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The World of Crackers Has Lost a Giant Rest in power.
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Posted:Feb 26, 2024 3:45 pm
Last Updated:Feb 27, 2024 12:49 pm 3627 Views
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Crackers...not necessarily the BIGGEST subject you'll read about on this site, but I was disappointed to read the article on line about 'Red Oval Farms Stoned Wheat thins' after not being able to find them in any of my usual 'grocery haunts'. And apparently, finding a GOOD quality replacement for them isn't going to be easy, either. They were my 'go to' crackers of choice, good with anything that you like to put on or enjoy crackers to accompany, such as soups, or chili con carne, or a slice of cheese (choose any type, those crackers never met a cheese they didn't compliment well!). On explanation was given for their demise, I had thought, perhaps, that rising fuel costs made them a product that was discontinued at the local stores, but others mentioned in the online article that Nabisco responded: “They’ve recently been delisted. We apologize for any disappointment and will let the team know you asked about them.”...
From 'SLATE', FOOD
The World of Crackers Has Lost a Giant
Rest in power.
BY NADIRA GOFFE
JAN 12, 2023
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"Life is a matter of really tough choices." ~ Joe Biden
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Posted:Feb 20, 2024 9:06 am
Last Updated:Feb 24, 2024 8:32 am 4326 Views
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"Why Honesty Is Often Difficult
Telling the truth is important, even when it hurts"
'When feeling besieged, doing the right thing is even harder than usual. But it's no less important.
Sometimes telling the truth is difficult, because it can mean sacrificing something one genuinely wants or needs.
It's easy to convince oneself that a small lie is harmless, but cheating is a slippery slope.
“Could you describe a time when you told the truth and it hurt you?”
I wish I could say I came up with this interview question. It gets right to the heart of why honesty is often difficult, which is that telling the truth can mean sacrificing something you genuinely want or need.
But I’d be lying if I did.
Right now, talking about honesty might feel old-fashioned. The pandemic and its ripple effects of anxiety and stress may seem like a license to prioritize our wants and needs over our oughts and shoulds. In particular, more than a few students and parents I’ve spoken with in recent months told me that until this crisis is behind us, it should be okay to cheat a little on homework and exams. And nationwide, reports of cheating at college since the advent of the pandemic have skyrocketed.
New research shows that, indeed, students who report higher levels of distress, sadness, and other negative emotions tend to adopt more generous attitudes toward plagiarism, which in turn predicts actually committing more plagiarism.
In other words, when you’re feeling besieged, doing the right thing is even harder than usual.
Yet I think it’s just as important. At Character Lab, we include honesty as a strength of heart, in the same family as kindness and gratitude. Like other strengths of heart, honesty helps us relate to other people in positive ways. But when it comes to forming judgments about other people, research suggests that nothing is more important than moral character.
It is perhaps for this reason that a student I know well went out of her way to show me her transcript from last semester. With pride, she pointed out her statistics grade—which was noticeably lower than the others. “It was an incredibly hard class,” she explained. “And so many students cheated, working together on the exams even though the professor told us not to. I did my own work. The grade sucks, but I did the right thing.”
Don’t underestimate the influence of stress on every aspect of behavior, including honesty. Decisions to do the right thing are more difficult when you feel like you’re struggling.
Do raise the topic of honesty with the young people in your life. Tell a story about a time when you told the truth and it hurt you—and perhaps a time when you failed to be truthful and regretted it. And be honest about being honest. It can be hard to hold fast to our principles—yet imperative that we try.' Angela Duckworth Ph.D., from Psychology Today Posted February 1, 2022
If you need ME to give you examples of Biden's record of perjurious, fallacious actions over the course of his career, then I suggest you NOT post a response, as they are well documented and plentiful.
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Where's BOND, James Bond, when you need him?
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Posted:Feb 15, 2024 10:43 am
Last Updated:Feb 17, 2024 12:56 pm 4684 Views
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Russia's apparent pursuit of a nuclear space-based weapon has stirred a frenzy in Washington — and raised a flurry of questions among a world...is it an ACTUAL 'NUKE', which would be in violation of the United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1967? Or, a nuclear-powered satellite carrying electronic weapons, which could cause havoc on Earth by crippling satellites that drive everything from weather forecasting and phone calls to wars and the global economy?
Well, Bond took care of the 'Goldeneye' with the help of the pretty Russian 'programmer', Natalya Simonova (played by GORGEOUS Polish actress Izabella Scorupco!!!). Hopefully, His Majesty will dispatch the 2024 version of BOND to eliminate this NEW threat...
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"Don't Let The Ol' Man In"...
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Posted:Feb 6, 2024 7:36 am
Last Updated:Feb 6, 2024 7:42 am 4596 Views
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Don’t let the old man in
I wanna leave this alone
Can’t leave it up to him
He’s knocking on my door
And I knew all of my life
That someday it would end
Get up and go outside
Don’t let the old man in
Many moons I have lived
My body’s weathered and worn
Ask yourself how would you be
If you didn’t know the day you were born
When he rides up on his
And you feel that cold bitter wind
Look out your window and smile
Don’t let the old man in..." Toby Keith Covel, July 8th 1961 - February 5th, 2024
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