Right-Wing Reactionaries Retort!

Weasel Zippers -this week's RR Featured Blog- has Arizona's brave and principled Gov Brewer laying into the Bolshevik Boy Wonder good -here-
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Riehl World View -Dan is all over this Dave Weigel/JournoList scandal at the Wapo- if you want to understand what actually occured you'll find it -here-, -here-, and -here-
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Maggie's Notebook reports on the latest fatwa from Saudi Arabia... you won't believe this one ladies -here- 
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Conservative Pup has a brief clip you got to see... the minds of the race-baiting Obots a murky place indeed -here-
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Caught Him with a Corndog has Gen. McChrystal's Johnny Paycheck moment... and that's real country music -here-

Adriennes' Corner offers up Some Saturday Enjoyment right -here-
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Lonely Conservative presents Troopathon 2010 -here-
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Amusing Bunni's Musings has some choice passages from the Rolling Stone article re. General Stanley McChrystal -here-
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Conservative Hideout 2.0 gives us Fascist Friday... the dark side of today's New Left -here-
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Government Mess finds Louisianans furious at Obama -here-

Jumping in Pools Mr K asks: Patraeus 2012? -here-
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American Power caught Liz Cheney speaking at the Center for Security Policy -here-
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Mind-Numbed Robot provides the latest info on the Ten Buck Fridays initiative -here-
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Jammie Wearing Fool has a Gallup poll I just know you're gonna like -here-
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Thanks as always to Pookie's Toons...

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TGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: Cream 1967

Cream was a 1960s British blues-rock band consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer/vocalist Ginger Baker. The sound was  a hybrid of blues/hard and psychedelic rock, utilizing to great effect Eric Clapton's towering talent as a guitarist with the powerful voice/funky basslines of Jack Bruce and the jazz-influenced drumming of Baker. Cream's Wheels of Fire was the world's first platinum-selling double album, and Cream is widely regarded as being the world's first notable and functioning supergroup.

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Cream's music included songs based on traditional blues such as Crossroads and Spoonful, and modern blues such as Born Under a Bad Sign, as well as more eccentric songs such as Strange Brew (below). Cream's biggest hits were I Feel Free (UK #11), Sunshine of Your Love (US #5),White Room (US #6), Crossroads (US #28), and Badge (UK #18).
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Cream -along with The Jimi Hendrix Experience- made a significant impact upon the popular music of the time, and both popularised the use of the wah-wah pedal. They provided a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed and influenced the emergence of English bands such as Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple, and The Jeff Beck Group in the late 60s.
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Eric Clapton was already the premier blues guitarist in England by July 1966, and his career with The Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers had earned him a reputation for virtuosity and raw power.  Clapton, however, found the environment of Mayall's band confining, and sought to expand. Clapton put-together Cream with Ginger Baker, then the leader of the Graham Bond Organization, which at one point featured Jack Bruce on bass guitar, harmonica and piano. 
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"I had always liked Ginger", explained Eric Clapton. "Ginger had come to see me play with the Bluesbreakers. After the gig he drove me back to London in his Rover. I was very impressed with his car and driving. He was telling me that he wanted to start a band, and I had been thinking about it too." Each was impressed with the other's playing abilities, prompting Baker to ask Eric Clapton to join his new, then-unnamed group. Clapton immediately agreed, on the condition that Ginger Baker hire Jack Bruce as the group's bassist; according to Clapton, Baker was so surprised at the suggestion that he almost crashed the car.

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Eric Clapton had met Bruce when the bassist/vocalist briefly played with the Bluesbreakers in March 1966; the two also had worked together as part of a one-shot band called Powerhouse (which also included Steve Winwood). Impressed with Jack Bruce's vocals and technical prowess, Clapton wanted to work with him on an ongoing basis.
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What Clapton did not know was that while Bruce was in Bond's band, he and Ginger Baker had been notorious for their quarrelling. While both were excellent jazz musicians and respected each other's skills, the confines of the GBO had proved too small for their egos. Their volatile relationship included on-stage fights, culminating in the sabotage of one another's instruments. 
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After Baker fired Bruce from the band, Bruce continued to arrive for gigs; ultimately, Jack Bruce was driven away from the band after Baker threatened him at knifepoint. Surprisingly, Baker and Bruce were initially able to put aside their differences for the good of Baker's new trio, which he envisioned as collaborative, with each of the members contributing to music and lyrics. The band was named "Cream".
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It was during the early organisation that they decided Jack Bruce would serve as the group's lead vocalist- a fine example of this talent would be White Room or Sunshine of Your Love. While Clapton was shy about singing, he did occasionally harmonize with Bruce and, in time, took lead vocals on some notable Cream tunes including Four Until Late, Strange Brew (below),  Crossroads, and the later the stellar Badge.  
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Eventually ongoing Baker-Bruce conflicts doomed Cream, the band lasting barely two years - Clapton then went-on to form Blind Faith,  Derek and the Dominoes, followed of course by his storied solo career... as Bruce and Baker went on to other projects.  Clapton, Baker, and Bruce last re-united in 2005 for a series of concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall and NYC's Madison Square Garden... to rave reviews.

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Previous Rock-n-Roll Oldies features at RR -here-

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Ten-Buck Fridays ROCK. . .

-and Twenty's Twice as Nice!

A noble New-Media grassroots effort to fund true conservatives going into midterm elections has been launched... this initiative is dubbed Ten-Buck Fridays.  No, it's not an all-you-can-drink TGIF happy-hour special (you wish, you lush- lol).
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Rather -as the name implies- these top conservative bloggers implore you to kick some cash to a featured Reaganite-type conservative candidate each Friday, whenever you can... and every $10 helps. 
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The fundraising drive will be supported by this blog as well, and below you'll find the 21st-century Minutemen spearheading the effort... all amongst my daily reads. What a truly great idea- 
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Let's roll... 
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Right Klik is proud to announce this week's candidate: 

Rep. Michelle Bachman -here-

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Maggie's Notebook notes only 18 weeks to election day -here-
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Lonely Conservative was one of the first to jump on this -here-

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Left Coast Rebel tells us how we can all help just a little  -here-
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Fuzzy Slippers says get involved, save your country -here-

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The Ultimate in Reality TV- Barack Obama's Chicago Network!

-h/t Pookie's Toons-

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Kevin Rudd Replaced as Aussie PM: Aloof, "Dictatorial". . . and with Climate-Change Egg on His Face

Parallels with Obama's Flaws and Errors Abound...

Kevin Rudd -a man Barack Obama once laughingly referred to as "-intelligent and humble, like me!-" was abruptly sacked by his own party yesterday amid sliding poll numbers and the humiliation of being forced to delay until 2013 the climate-change program that got him elected. 

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Rudd -who also like the moonbat messiah had zero executive experience/came from academia- likewise was elected in a perfect-storm of political discontent, while attacking his conservative predecessor John Howard as some warmongering, planet-trashing 

Neanderthal

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However, 

once the harsh glare of reality was applied to his actual rule, that popularity took a devastating hit. PM Kevin Rudd initially enjoyed stratospheric approval numbers... only to crash hard when Australians both in-and-outside government soured on the platform, ineffectual leadership, and high-handed management style.

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Fact is Kevin Rudd has gone in just six months from second-highest approval rating in the 40-year history the Nielsen poll... to the first Labour PM to be shown door prior to the completion of his first term... a prompt, comprehensive a political collapse- and humiliating.

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His replacement -Julia Gillard- is a Labour stalwart, and is expected to implement few policy changes. Yet Gillard does enjoy the support of  the conservative wing of her party, as this coup was engineered by Australia's version of the Blue Dogs (Blue 'Roos...?)-- seems the more sensible elements down there had enough of being bullied and treated like children.

Reportedly the decisive issue was intra-party discontentment with Rudd's dictatorial style, power grabs, and centralization of decision-making... after being told what-to-do for the last couple years, a majority decided they'd be a lot better off working with someone else. 

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Hillary, you paying attention here?

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The The Sydney Morning Herald's Political Editor Peter Hartcher comments on just where Kevin Rudd went wrong... a lot of this should sound familiar to contemporary American political observers:

"...a combination of Rudd's decisions, disenchantment with the electorate... something seemed to go snap... "

"that's the lesson the whole party has learned, from Rudd's experience, is that a wider, more consultative form of government is essential."

"... what sealed-the-deal was that he'd bred a lot of resentment within his own party, with his high-handed way of dealing with ministers, his supporters, and a highly-centralized form of government..."

Aussie blogger Down Under on the Right Side offers a concise sum-up Rudd's departure -here-

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Obama 'Fires' McChrystal

After He Already Submitted His Resignation?

The truth hurts, and Dear Leader apparently felt the need to put-on a tough guy show... so 

Obama fires McChrystal... after he already submitted his resignation, anyway. I probably would have fired him, too- he had to.  But McChrystal's no fool, he likely knew it would come to this... makes me think he felt a desperate sense of urgency, one worth sacrificing his long, patriotic career for.  A heroic whistle-blower, informing a perilously ill-informed American electorate that the emperor hasn't a stitch on? Time will tell...

President Barack Obama says he has accepted the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal with regret, but is certain that it is the right decision for the country's national security and the future of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.

Speaking in the Rose Garden, Obama says McChrystal's biting comments about the president and his aides in a magazine article did not meet the standards of conduct for a commanding general.

Obama named Gen. David Petraeus to assume McChrystal's role as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. He says the move will allow the U.S. to maintain leadership and momentum in the war...

Thanks for your service, General McChrystal... and your honesty, we hear you.

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Obama Fires McChrystal

Report: McChrystal Tenders Resignation

Obama hasn't accepted... yet

Toby Harnden in The Telegraph:

A senior Capitol Hill source tells me that General Stanley McChrystal had tendered his resignation to President Barack Obama and that the White House is actively discussing a replacement who could be quickly confirmed by the Senate.

The source said that among the names being touted as possible successors are General James Mattis, the outgoing head of the US Joint Forces Command and due to retire after being passed over as US Marine Corps commander, and Lieutenant General William Caldwell, commander of Nato’s Training Mission in Afghanistan.

Of course, offering to resign is not the same as actually resigning and it remains to be seen whether Mr Obama will accept the resignation...

Daily Telegraph (UK)

BREAKING: McChrystal Resigns?

Conservative Jumping in Pools says Joe Klein has the McChrystal resigns scoop...and it's not a good thing for the United States of America if true that Stanley McChrystal -noted counterinsurgency expert- will no longer be on the job in Afghanistan.
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The journalist -Mr Klein- could be called dubious, so take it as you wish- but seems to fit in pretty well with the rest of the story as we know it.  Check here at RR for McChrystal updates throughout the day, hopefully we'll have some confirmation on the McChrystal resigns rumor shortly.
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You can catch Robert Gibbs' latest dog-and-pony act in a video clip at JiP -here- as well.

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