TGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: The Byrds 1965

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. This pioneering group underwent numerous personnel changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn (aka Jim McGuinn) remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973, while also featuring David Crosby for three seperate stints.

Although they only managed to attain the commercial success on the scale of contemporary greats like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones for a fairly brief period (1965–66), time has treated their work well... as The Byrds are today considered to be one of the most influential bands of the 60s. 

Initially, they pioneered the musical genre of folk rock, melding the influence of The Beatles and other British Invasion bands with contemporary and traditional folk music. As the 1960s progressed, the band were also influential in originating psychedelic rock, raga rock, and country rock.

The Byrds' signature blend of clear harmony singing and McGuinn's jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar has continued to be influential on popular music up to the present day. The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Byrds #45 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time

Among the band's most enduring songs are their electric-cover versions of folk greats Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man and Pete Seeger's Turn! Turn! Turn!, along with the self-penned originals, I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better, Eight Miles High, So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star, Ballad of Easy Rider and Chestnut Mare.

They covered quite a number of Dylan tunes in electric actually, bringing a lot to the material with variations of their own signature sound... like my own lifelong favorite, lip-synched here on the
Ed Sullivan Show...

The Byrds: Mr Tambourine Man- 1965

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This Week on McLaughlin Group

Conservatives: Pat Buchanan, Monica Crowley

Libs:                  Eleanor Clift (Newsweek) 

                          Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune) 

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Issue 1: Flat Stats 1:40 
Issue 2: Rearranging the Chairs  9:40 
Issue 3: Democrats' Dream Ticket 2012? 18:40

Issue 4: Stuxnet  21:00 

Previous McLaughlin Group episodes -here-

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Countdown to Demplosion 2010!

GOP in lead for 80% of competitive House seats...  

The Hill's new poll confirms what so many others have been sensing... the power-drunk "progressive" movement is about to be vaporized:

Republicans are winning eight out of 10 competitive open House seats surveyed in a groundbreaking new poll by The Hill. Taken on top of 11 GOP leads out of 12 freshman Democratic districts polled last week, The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll points toward 19 Republican victories out of 22 races, while Democrats win only two and one is tied.

A further 20 districts will be polled over the next two weeks, for a total of 42 of the most closely contested races, which will point to who is going to win on Nov. 2 and control the House in the 112th Congress. The Week 2 focus on open seats vacated by Democrats suggests a string of important pickup victories by the GOP in the midterm election just three weeks away.

  

Republican candidates have taken big leads in two districts Democrats have held for nearly a century and a half-century, respectively, according to The Hill’s survey. A Republican is also ahead in the heavily Democratic district that contains President Obama’s hometown of Honolulu. Many races are tight — 12 of the 22 fall within the margin of error — but the margins, though slim, preponderantly favor the GOP...

There are over 40 open seats this cycle and almost half of them are considered competitive.

Now Check this out... 

Looks mighty familiar!

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From the Sizzled Synapses of Jerry Brown: "We Need More Welfare and Fewer Jobs"

Is it me, or is this guy still getting weirder?

I'd rather vote for Charlie Brown... this gem from Moonbattery:

If you think the situation in California is bad now, wait until Governor Moonbeam gets reinstated. Here's his economic policy:

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all.

You see, when everyone is on welfare, we can just let robots do all the work while we sit around our government-provided homes and watch Oprah all day. Then we'll all be Democrats. Utopia!

If a certifiable lunatic like Jerry Brown is the best Dems can do for governor of the largest state in the union at a time of severe crisis, it's time for this execrable party to crawl into the dustbin of history.

And get a load of this freak's economic manifesto... a rambling diatribe that makes the Unabomber's a seem fun, breezy read by comparison -here-

Moonbattery   UCSD Guardian 

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Geert Wilders: NOT GUILTY

Prosecutors relent, say Dutch Freedom Party leader 

Geert Wilders 'not guilty' of criminally insulting Muslims

Wilders supporters rally outside courthouse in Amsterdam

DutchNews.nl:

Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders should be found not guilty of insulting Muslims and non-western immigrants as a group, the public prosecution department said at the MP's trial on Tuesday. 

By likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf, Wilders was focusing on Islam and the Koran, rather than Muslims, even if the statement can be considered upsetting, the public prosecutors said during court hearings in Amsterdam. 

In addition, there can only be talk of collective insult when a statement damages the entire group, the prosecutors said. 

Second week:  The public prosecutors began outlining their sentencing demands on Tuesday, in the second week of the MP´s trial. In addition to group insult, Wilders has also been charged with discrimination and inciting hatred. The department will outline its case and sentence demand on those charges on Friday. The department has also said that none of the groups and individuals making formal complaints about Wilders are eligible for damages.

And why should you care about this trial, anyway...?  
Answers -here-

h/t Weasel Zippers

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Obama's Illegal Immigrant Aunt Shows You What She's All About . . . and Him Too

Granted asylum and still living off taxpayers thanks to her nephew's powerful position... meanwhile President Obama
-who wrote fondly of her in his book- 
treats dear Aunt Zietuni like a leper he's never even met

Any residual pity or sympathy you may have harbored for the plight of long-time illegal alien and 2x-deportation-order-defying Zeituni Onyango vanishes the minute she opens that dopey mouth... if you can even understand her.

Interestingly, this Judge Shapiro that granted her asylum earlier in the year is the very same one who's previous deportation order she just completely ignored... that's some change of heart there, eh?

And it's not all-powerful, multi-millionaire Obama that should be lending her a hand, it's us!  Just listen to the sense of entitlement coming from this mooch... the United States sure doesn't need to be opening its arms to any more ingrates of her ilk:

And now that we're stuck with this insolent parasite, why does the President refuse to even lift a finger, maybe make her an asset to this country- or at least no longer a drain -after a freaking decade on public assistance already? You'd think Obama would want to set some example here... and after-all, ole Aunt Zeituni made that illegal contribution to his 2008 campaign with her welfare check... she's already shown her loyalty, lol.

But consider that a narcissist like Obama can often be callous, even ruthless. They tend to lack empathy and/or a conscience. This is evident in his complete and total lack of interest in his own half-brother who lives in poverty in Kenya... as-well as this aunt found living illegally in public housing in Boston.

Barack Obama, who lives in luxury
-golfing, taking upscale vacations, scarfing lobster-, who raised half a billion dollars for his campaign, a man who drones-on-and-on about how he values his heritage, always playing the role of smiley family man... has no concern in the plight of his own relatives? The same cherished kin he made a special "roots" trip to Africa to see and introduce his then-fiancée Michelle to in the early 90s? 

This is likely not a difficult decision for him, as these relatives can no longer be used in attaining his own ends... therefore their fate doesn't interest Obama in the slightest. They are truly nothing to him, as is likewise the case with most everyone else who's not of immediate or potential utility to this
malignant narcissist madman.

None of this should surprise anyone who's been paying-attention to the abhorrent progressive  era... cult leaders aren't known for their empathy.

Rush Limbaugh   Wikipedia   WBZ-TV  Boston

-h/t Roberto-

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