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2008-05-16
11:55
quinty: Another opportunity lost?
We appear to have a national memory in this country which often goes no further back than yesterday’s soundbite. And the collective Democratic response to Bush’s comments seem to reflect that tenden..
Apocalypse Anonymous
2008-05-16
11:52
jerryvest: Thanks Jazzo for presenting
such a great overview of these remarks and overview of Bush. We watch Keith Olberman every evening and appreciate that he stands up for our Country and challenges this creep that should have been impe..
Apocalypse Anonymous
2008-05-16
10:06
jazzolog: Bush Equates Diplomacy With Appeasement
You think you can't get anywhere talking with "terrorists?" Try teaching Bush something. Clearly a terrorist is anyone who disagrees with this man about absolutely anything in the world. Especially..
Apocalypse Anonymous
2008-05-15
11:39
jazzolog: Appalachia In The News
Obama and Appalachia appears for scrutiny in a number of major papers this week, and perhaps that encouraged a couple of interesting comments at this entry over at Blogger. My response follows~~~ ..
The Scourge Of Appalachia
2008-05-12
17:18
Roy Turpin@71.142.71.11: Reissue Campaign
Stretching Out was done in 1980 & pre CD. I know there are no commercially available copies on CD. There may be others that followed the same vinyl to mp3 process that I did. Foothill Records owns the..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-05-12
09:42
jazzolog: A Fanfare For Roy Turpin
I always thought a fan was somebody who followed a famous person around, maybe fanning them if they got too hot while performing. Or perhaps fan the flames of fame for them. But maybe fan comes from..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-05-10
11:12
Roy Turpin@71.142.71.11: Other Fanfair alumni located
Thanks for forwarding my info to Willie. Last week I sent you a copy of Stretching Out! The final Fanfair album with Phil Mattson as director. This was recorded after lots of studio experimentation us..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-05-08
17:50
jazzolog: Interview With Peter Eldridge
I suppose most Phil Mattson students follow the New York Voices, which many feel have a purer style than Manhattan Transfer. So far as I know, no member of the Voices came out of a Mattson classroom...
The Foothill Fanfairs
2008-05-08
09:53
jazzolog: Thanks To All The Fanfairs
This is getting a little complicated here at jazzoLOG, as there are 3 (and maybe more) articles about Phil Mattson-related musical creation. Thanks for the comment Roy, and I forwarded it on to Willi..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-05-07
22:29
Roy Turpin@71.142.71.11: Response To Willie
I have a copy of the Stella By Starlight recording with your brother Dana & I on it. It's found on the Look Out! It's The Fanfairs album. I know it was performed in the Fanfairs 77-78 when Michelle wa..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-05-06
08:58
jazzolog: How Business Goes Green Step By Step
This feature article from yesterday's Akron Beacon Journal. Now how about schools and churches? Growing greener good for business Group hoping to find new ways to turn waste material into profit..
Green Energy Development
2008-05-05
09:12
jazzolog: The Free Market Saves The World
Something inside rebels against that title, especially on Karl Marx' birthday. The fact is increasingly I'm hearing from people in business that Going Green saves them money and gets us, at least par..
Green Energy Development
2008-05-02
17:47
jazzolog: How's The Sun In Auckland?
I always worry Yank ozone depletion is really hurting you guys...speaking of same old same old. The good news is the Titanic has much brighter prospects these daze: no more icebergs. Bon voyage! Gr..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-05-02
10:48
maxtobin: Sunny Daze
Sound like you folk are having fun with the deck chairs on the good ship Titanic But don't panic; it don't much matter. The universal plan has other arrangements that you may align with when you are ..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-04-25
09:33
jazzolog: What's A Slurry Pond?
This is NASA's Earth Observatory picture of the day this Arbor Day, and the commentary~~~ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/wvslurry_iko_2006076.jpg Since the mid- to la..
Jeff Goodell Shines The Light On Big Coal
2008-04-24
09:50
jazzolog: The US Bank Account
While James Hansen writes again, at Yale Global last week, that the clock is running out http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=10657 , the only clock George Bush is interested in is how much t..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-24
09:21
jazzolog: The Attack Of The 50-Foot Hillary
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New York times April 23, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Wilting Over Waffles By MAUREEN DOWD He’s never going to sha..
What's With Hillary?
2008-04-23
14:08
Quinty@72.195.137.102: A cousin
of mine believes Heaven will be 70 degrees. I wish I could be so confident. I never thought of that possibility: our souls colliding in the general chaos taking new forms. If reincarnation exists t..
The Redemption Of Spring
2008-04-23
09:26
jazzolog: The Up Side Without Rapture
Much of the heavenly land talk strikes me as reminiscent and typical of ghost-dancing traditions of tribal peoples. They seem to change depending on the fortunes of the tribe during explicit periods...
The Redemption Of Spring
2008-04-21
20:39
quinty: Springtime
When I was in grad school at Berkeley there was this guy who sometimes parked himself on the wall of one of the campus gates picking out freshman girls, mostly, to cajole with a: “Smile. Now that’s ..
The Redemption Of Spring
2008-04-21
09:34
jazzolog: Spammed Again
I guess there is a certain honor in getting selected by this anonymous poster. A Google search of "Janet Reno" with Halliburton reveals this same comment is showing up all over the place. "Her" mach..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-04-20
21:18
Janet Reno@68.40.132.27: Like father Like Son --
Obama’s efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Ch..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-04-19
08:48
jazzolog: Mr. Fish Sums It Up
http://harpers.org/media/image/blogs/misc/myclient.jpg
Vote For MRS. Barack Obama!
2008-04-19
06:00
adrienne jacoby@68.189.53.179: Phil, Mich and the whole kaboodle
I taught vocal music at the junior high level for 27 years. (retired now) Thank God, literally, Phil was sent across my path very early on. He was still teaching at Foothill College in the bay area. H..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-04-18
23:10
Quinty@72.195.137.102: Fair and balanced
Go here if you would like to see McCain (the Republicans) get the same treatment as Obama (with Hillary's eager help) received..... Will McCain deserve this when the Republicans Swift Boat Obama in ..
Vote For MRS. Barack Obama!
2008-04-17
19:29
Roy Turpin@71.142.79.94: Appreciation & Update
Thanks for passing my information on to Sara. She got in touch with me last week & sent me a picture of her & her family. What a delight! I must have misread the earlier post about Intermission Ri..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-04-17
18:36
Quinty@72.195.137.102: Hmmmmm,
maybe that's the kind of stuff Big Agri' interests had in mind when they tried, some years ago, to add industrial sludge to the list of acceptable "organic" soils?
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-17
17:51
jazzolog: Proud Of Our Toxic
To the contrary, at first Massey tried to sell us the idea the toxic sludge was good for the streams. It was so hot it sizzled the crap already in there from hillbilly outhouses. I kid you not. h..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-17
16:59
Quinty@72.195.137.102: Maybe
I should have said ten or twenty trees deep. Through three or four you would be able to see the light on the other side. I suppose that allowing the outward husk of a forest to remain causes less ..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-17
16:41
Quinty@72.195.137.102: Your remarks, Jazzo
remind me of some wooded roads in California. You drive along and sense the isolation, the silence, the encroach of the forest. Problem is, the woods are only three or four trees deep. The appearance ..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-17
15:22
jazzolog: Erik Reece At Ohio University
At last I had the chance to meet this guy, a nature writer in the tradition of Thoreau and Wendell Berry, who is his mentor. The devastation of the mountains is his theme, and believe me you have no ..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-17
10:00
jazzolog: OK Folks, Back To The Flowers
Yes, I too like to reminisce about all the blood and thunder at this site, through whose In and Out doors have passed some of the sweetest and most fascinating men and women one could meet on the Net...
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-17
04:28
Vibe@76.173.37.120: who is a paid thug?
Gad, this place still harbors lunies and has become more boring than any other other place on the internet. It hasn't been a new civ for a very long time, if it ever was.
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-17
04:23
Vibe@76.173.37.120: there's no confusion
as far as I'm concerned: I've seen the REAL Obama from the get-go, no surprises for me since then.
Vote For MRS. Barack Obama!
2008-04-16
23:48
a-d: Three of biggest
FLAMERS are gone!.... and fourth (a slightly smaller one) are all gone... Some of the OLDEST Flamers are still here, like you said...and then maself... a newbie -compared to the time the other ones h..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-16
19:18
quinty: To add another thing
No one in this is being entirely honest. Equating the elete with wealth is spurious. Shooting back shots of whiskey is reprehensible. And Obama really meant what he said. Though does that mean he do..
Vote For MRS. Barack Obama!
2008-04-16
19:02
quinty: The Obamas
Maybe there’s some confusion. And confusion is the way the Obamas want it. For, after all, it should be clear Barack really meant what he said in Marin. (Marin County is the place on the other si..
Vote For MRS. Barack Obama!
2008-04-16
15:10
jazzolog: Dear Maureen
Quinty and I have noticed and remarked that Maureen Dowd's columns during this primary season have been particularly helpful in discerning what these candidates are really like and what their problems..
Vote For MRS. Barack Obama!
2008-04-15
10:31
jazzolog: Floating Trash & Mountaintop Experience
I used to get pretty upset when people flamed each other and me at this NCN Log. The response from die-hard members and management always is this is what the New Civilization Network is about: a wild..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-15
00:01
mortimer: Vax Pic ...
… listens to Depeche Mode and wears Doc Martins http://a5.vox.com/6a00cd9713fd384cd500f48cee7f9d0002-pi one reason you guys hurting each other is because you do care. example: if you did not c..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
23:37
vaxen: Oh...
of course they love to hurt others, mortimer, they're liberals! Liberals with dulcet egos they wear on their sleeves and chant the Kyrie Eleison in unison whilst ogling crotch... Neither one of the..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
23:34
vaxen: I do not...
work for Global Oil Rot and the Amerikan dream! You wouldn't believe who I work for. In in any case these two so called 'liberals' are about as liberal as the Queen of England...in fact they both remi..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
23:27
Quinty@72.195.137.102: Mortimer,
I can relate to and understand your feelings regarding this. But I spoke out of long endurance and familiarity. Years worth, in fact. And enough is enough. I hope you can understand?
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
22:34
Vibe@76.173.37.120: more
Vax, look at the massive amount of plastic in the oceans - there is a glop double the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. Plastic breaks down into tiny pieces, the marine life eats it, it end..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
22:03
mortimer: Excuse meme but,
I don’t mean to take this post off topic but, I don’t think you really mean to be hurting each other?
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
20:52
Vibe@76.173.37.120: Global warming
I think there are truths on both sides of whether global warming is real or not. We do have to admit that for a part of the world, the industrial revolution greatly polluted our planet, unintentionall..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
20:36
quinty: Vax
please take your meds..... Or turn yourself in? One or the other. But if you are out on the street don't look at any babies in any strollers. They may be traumatized for life. At three or four ..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
17:42
vaxen: No...
fat faced man it isn't dead but you are. You were always dumping till I took you to task one day in the chat rooms about your endless proliferations about 'shit!' Yeah...the kind babies play with! And..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
15:43
quinty: What I don't
understand about the No-Manmade-Global-Warming types is their violence. What do they have against cleaning up? Disposing of our waste and garbage in a decent manner? Against having a clean and heal..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
09:22
jazzolog: Vaxen's Blinders
He's like an old horse plodding to the glue factory. Never in my relatively brief association with the guy have I observed him learn anything from someone's article or comment. He comes complete wit..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
07:32
vaxen: And more...
Editorial: The Great Global Warming Hoax? Editor's Introductory Note: Our planet has been slowly warming since last emerging from the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century, often associated with the..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-14
07:19
vaxen: AGW
A little more on "Anthropogenic Global Warming..." Anthropogenic Global Warming Hoax Heats Up By Tim Wood 04 Apr 2008 at 02:42 PM GMT-04:00 NOTE: The BBC story referenced here was modified -..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-13
21:25
vaxen: Well...
it does make for good copy. Take it up with the Federal Reserve boys or the IMF or the World Bank. They create such genocidal dithering for abstemious profit. FUD is great for - some - businesses. But..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-13
20:21
a-d: to continue here on
your latest comment: We really are in deep shit!.... [ http://www.rense.com/general81/rise.htm ] SOMETHING HAS TO END THIS MADNESS and it better be to OUR FAVOR!...or else.... bye bye Planet Ear..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-13
09:50
jazzolog: Let Them Eat Ethanol
The starvation wars begin I'm afraid. The Toronto Globe and Mail published an in-depth article yesterday, discussing rising food prices and the first attacks and who's dying. This is tough stuff, and ..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-13
03:41
vaxen: Heh, heh...
Oh you've plenty of em up there on the hill, to be sure. The only dinosaurus around here, though, is you Tuck. Finnimbrun? You voted for B. Hussein Obama...I didn't! Read the latest at hack the vote? ..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-12
09:46
jazzolog: Where Are We?
Whiling away the time at another site during this long Primary season, an online friend wandered our discussion about Obama off into an Eastertime vigil about which of the thieves was saved. He cente..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-04-12
09:24
jazzolog: DinoVax
Ah yes, the annoying bugaboo that someone---ANYone---would dare to tell me I should change my habits is enough to prompt my reaching for the shotgun. Take one more step and I'll scatter your brains a..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-12
08:28
vaxen: Tee, Hee!
No, it isn't enough. The majority of "hot topics" are debated by people with very little knowledge of the subject. A good example of this is global warming - the majority of people you speak to on ..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-11
09:29
jazzolog: More Info On Solar Power
Since my remark yesterday about Sunpower's potential for solar electric in this country, I've put my brain through "enhanced interrogation" (Bush's new term for what goes on at our concentration camps..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-10
20:05
quinty: If
Obama is elected he will have to become far more radical than he appears to be now. If elected he will have to use his talent for words to do a great deal of educating and persuading. And consider..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-10
15:18
jazzolog: A Good Fascist State
also likes to have the military front and center. In fact, Military is the key. It's the biggest customer for Business, and it's State's job to keep the order forms crossing purchasing's desk. Jobs..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-09
23:34
vaxen: Well...
it is good to see you Istvan cf: http://www.darpa.mil/ I am subscribed to some good publications that the following people http://www.imf.org/ publish. See ya Istvan...good luck.
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-09
23:05
istvan: America.inc.
America is a business. Not much more than capitalizational configurations of who is the cleverest. Of course the truck drivers are complaining. Their bottom line is aching. Now that the money is dwind..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-09
22:52
vaxen: Nice A-D!
Maybe there is hope after all? And I won't have to go to Texas for the last stand? http://cyberdeck13.blogspot.com/ And in the right hand column, Cygberdeck13, you'll see twitter space. There yo..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-09
20:37
a-d: Waking Up!
Yes, little by little... one person/group at the time it seems.... as a slap in the Sleeper's face is that one: "ONE TOO Many" ...the one that wakes them up!... [ http://ehrenreich.blogs.com/barba..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-08
18:41
vaxen: Scary?
You're taught to feed on fear from the moment you get out of womb flash forest. Smack! Wail! Suck... There do happen to be antidotes to the conditioned fear you so lovingly cultivate via mass media..
HopeDance And Waking Up
2008-04-07
10:12
jazzolog: Sara Found & Lots More Info
Wow, tremendous amount of information in this comment. Thanks so much Roy. I found Sara, through the help of a couple other alumni. I wrote about it on one of the other entries about Phil. http://..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-04-07
10:04
jazzolog: We Bring Democracy To The Fish
It is unacceptable that fish prey on each other. For their comfort and safety, we will liberate them into fishfarms with secure, durable boundaries that exclude predators. Our care will provide ..
Green Energy Development
2008-04-07
05:34
Roy Turpin@71.142.102.63: Phil Mattson & The Fanfairs!
Just came across all of this vocal jazz history because I was searching about the unfortunate death of Gene Puerling. If you are looking for Sara Jennison I imagine you could reach her through John Pa..
Phil Mattson Brings Us Jazz Choirs
2008-04-03
09:49
jazzolog: Obits At Last For Gene Puerling
Perhaps the news services finally caught up with the death of Gene Puerling last week because some obits are beginning to appear. The LA Times was the first yesterday, and is notable for including th..
The Hi-Lo's I Presume
2008-04-01
16:59
Quinty@72.195.137.102: Walker's
piece was quite beautiful.... Here's a good one by Gary Younge.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/31/usa.race America lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy ev..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-04-01
09:15
jazzolog: Alice Walker About America
Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for her book The Color Purple. I guess she wrote this March 20th, and it got posted last week~~~ Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Br..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-03-29
18:07
a-d: Jazzo,
I'm delighted over your article! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! Yes, like Vax has pointed out a thousand times: It's ALL "Out There"; the Know-How and the Materials needed for SUSTAINABLE Living are out ther..
Green Energy Development
2008-03-29
10:05
jazzolog: A Note From Michele Weir
Received last night~~~ Hi Richard, thanks, and yes, the word is spreading fast. Gene was so important to us all. FYI, here’s an email sent to a few folks from Clark Burroughs this morning: Don..
The Hi-Lo's I Presume
2008-03-28
17:43
quinty: So ready to be done....
I too am among the legions of the ignorant. But whenever I flip on the TV and happen to see a CEO or President of a major American corporation speak upon the subject it sounds to me as if the priva..
Green Energy Development
2008-03-28
10:15
jazzolog: A Death In The Hi-Lo's
I've just heard from my online friend, bassist Phil Schroeder, that Gene Puerling died on Tuesday. So far I've seen no reference to his passing at Google News or other jazz forums. The brief reference..
The Hi-Lo's I Presume
2008-03-28
08:48
jazzolog: Jim Phillips Reports
I knew the Athens News Senior Writer was in the audience, and I had hoped his article would be online by the time I wrote yesterday. It's up now though. Since he was taking notes, there are details ..
Green Energy Development
2008-03-26
20:33
Quinty@72.195.137.102: A great comment
I found over at Huffington Post.... "The Clinton strategy: Obama's run is a fairy tale, Obama wasn't really against the war, Obama took cocaine, Obama's middle name is Hussein, Obama is like Jesse ..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock
2008-03-26
16:07
quinty: If you watched
last night you may have seen Hillary come on with the exact same line the far right has been repeatedly voicing on Obama and Reverend Wright. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton told a gat..
Barack Obama: Rock Church, Rock

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