TGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: The Box Tops 1967

The Box Tops were a Memphis rock group active in the mid-to-late 1960s. Known for such hits as The Letter (below), Neon Rainbow, Soul Deep, I Met Her in Church, and Cry Like A Baby, the band is historically significant as a major "blue-eyed soul" group of the period. 

They performed a mixture of current soul music songs by artists such as James and Bobby Purify and Clifford Curry, pop tunes such as A Whiter Shade of Pale by Keith Reid, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum, and songs written by their producers, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and Chips Moman. 

The Box Tops' music combined elements of soul music and light pop. Their records are prime examples of the styles made popular by Moman and Penn at American Sound Studio in Memphis.

Vocalist Alex Chilton went on to front the powerpop band Big Star and to launch a career as a solo artist, during which he occasionally performed songs he had sung with the Box Tops...  

The Box Tops: The Letter 1967

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Hope-n-Change Death Watch

Obama "out-of-touch with 80% of the American people"...

It's become common knowledge that the power-mad American Left is in deep, deep political trouble primarily due to the reckless expansion of government engineered by Team Obama. But while many conservatives are nervously pondering what could go wrong in the next few days to blow this precious opportunity, others see a larger, deeper change in the political environment of our country that goes much farther than just a single election cycle... myself included. 

It increasingly does appear that we are experiencing a full-on renaissance of the American conservative movement... one based on personal liberty and fiscal discipline, and under perhaps a wider social-issues tent then in the past. It's the opposition to outrageous spending and the Dems' Big Government agenda that brought the TEA Party movement to the verge of power, and it's those issues that unite the resurgent Right in America today.

Here in the run-up to perhaps the most vital mid-term elections in US history, Nile Gardiner at The Telegraph (UK) says it's not just the tone of this mid-term election... but the sheer scale of the conservative wave sweeping America that really makes the impression on him. As for the now-ubiquitous Titanic analogies... better think Poseidon Adventure:

Gallup has another devastating poll which makes extremely grim reading for the White House today. Gallup’s polling shows that 48 percent of Americans now regard themselves as conservative, higher than each of the last three midterms, compared to just 20 percent who describe themselves as liberals. In addition, Gallup reveals that 55 percent of likely voters next week are Republican or lean Republican, in contrast to 40 percent who are Democrat or lean Democrat...

The poll underscores not only the huge advantage the Republicans have going into next week’s election, but also the sheer scale of the conservative revolution in America. As Gallup shows, conservatives now outnumber liberals by an almost 2.5 to 1 ratio. Liberals make up just 20 percent of the American population. Barack Obama is the most left-wing president in US history, and is clearly out of touch with at least 80 percent of the American people, who clearly do not share his ideology.

Next Tuesday looks set to be an epic disaster for the Left in America, and the capsizing of the president’s Big Government dream. 

Prof. Donald Douglas at American Power has the case for why ObamaCare can and must be repealed... and the 30 second commercial is a must see -here-

And how desperate is the Left? It's getting ugly out there on the street/net/airwaves... Bob at The Camp of the Saints fills you in with Notes from the Campaign Trail -here-

Then Van at Moonbattery has a brief clip of Michelle Malkin's take on this year's voter fraud problem, she's been really on-top of this emerging issue right from the start -here-

Google Election Tracker map -here-

More polling data at Gallup, RealClearPolitics,
and Rasmussen Reports

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Republicans: NO Deals with Obammunists

Resurgent GOPers "in no mood for compromise"

Contrary to some of the nonsense re. Republicans making nice with Obama out there, listen to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) quoted in The Hill today:

Boehner, the party leader who would likely become Speaker in a GOP-controlled House, distanced himself from a senior senator's suggestion last week that trying to repeal the new healthcare reform law wasn't in Republicans' best interest. 

"This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles," Boehner said during an appearance on conservative Sean Hannity's radio show. 

Whether — or to what extent — Republicans will look to compromise with President Obama and congressional Democrats is a major issue for the party on the verge of Nov. 2's elections. Republicans are within striking distance of winning the net 39 seats they need to take back the House, and are expected to win back seats in the Senate. 

Boehner seemed to cast his lot with some of the more aggressively conservative members of his party by vowing not to compromise. Some more centrist figures in the party have urged the party to work with Democrats on some issues, though. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that Republicans should work with Obama on Social Security and other issues, while Gregg said last week that repealing healthcare reform — the GOP's long-stated goal — was not a good idea. 

"I love Judd Gregg, but maybe he doesn't get it," Boehner said Wednesday in a rebuke to Gregg, the top Republican on budget issues in the Senate who's set to retire at the end of his term in January. "We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can." 

Boehner did open the door to working with Obama, though he said it would have to be on Republicans' terms. "To the extent the president wants to work with us, in terms of our goals," the Ohio Republican explained, "we'd welcome his involvement."

Likewise from Mike Pence (via HotAirPundit)... 

"What I said was, there will be no compromise on ending this era of runaway spending, deficits and debt , there will be no compromise on repealing Obamacare lock, stock and barrel" ...Pence was on the highly rated Parker Spitzer program on CNN

Sounds great- here's two aware that they will be held to it...

h/t Weasel Zippers   thx Pookie's Toons

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Harry Reid Claims Victory!

Early voting/absentee ballots put him over the top...

With an impressive 117% in early balloting, there's just enough now to seal the election for Senator Harry Reid nearly a week before voting was to take place... victorious in an incredibly tough race vs TEA Party favorite Sharron Angle- who has yet to make a statement.

Reid's son -Vegas County Commissioner Rory Reed- promptly then ordered Election Day canceled as "an unnecessary and wholly redundant waste of taxpayer money."- voting machines are on the way to the county storage facility as we go to press. 

Pre-marking ballots has "greatly simplified the voting process" for Nevada's ignorant and ingrateful serfs while "millions of dollars are being saved" in manpower and utilities by naming a winner prior to Election Day, according to Reid: "This is truly a historic day for American democracy". 

Furthermore, as part of his "Green Vegas" program, the vote-by-mail ballots have already been shredded into eco-friendly strips, and will disappear "without a trace in the Nevada desert" claimed a beaming Reid.

Hauling services (donated by fervent Reid supporters) are now whisking the remnants off to an "undisclosed location" where they will produce the smallest possible environmental footprint....

And if you need to be told... THIS IS SATIRE

Now read-up on the already-rampant election fraud of 2010 from a desperately flailing Left at:

Michelle Malkin: 

The Left’s Voter Fraud Whitewash

Gateway Pundit: 

Suspect Voting Machines in Nevada Are Serviced By SEIU

Conservative Hideout 2.0: 

Problems Already Emerging with Voting

Sharron Angle's Countdown to Victory -here-

UPDATE 15:30 EST: the GOP fights back!

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How to Wink at an Illegal Alien*

*provided he's on your property... or maybe
pounding at the door for the Democrats

(best consult your lawyer on that one first tho lol):

In Washington state, it’s illegal alien amnesty-supporting OneAmerica Votes sending illegal alien canvassers out to drum up votes:

When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters’ doors, she’s not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it’s a risk to advertise this fact to strangers — but it’s one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election. 

The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteers — many of them illegal immigrants — canvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-and-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi. 

Pramila Jayapal, head of OneAmerica Votes, says the campaign is about empowering immigrants who may not feel like they can contribute to a campaign because they can’t vote. “Immigrants really do matter,” Jayapal said. “If we can’t vote ourselves, we’re gonna knock on doors or get family members to vote.”

And plenty of alarming examples of voter fraud today as far-Left groups take any means necessary to stave off the pending loss of their ill-gotten power: 

Michelle Malkin and Lonely Conservative

h/t Roberto via e-mail

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FReepers ROCK!

FReepathon 2010 is upon us...

The trailblazing Free Republic conservative forum -same one that was instrumental in ridding our country of fifth-columnist Dan Rather's damaging influence and took the clueless, defeatist Dixie Chicks to task- is as lively as ever over there, if you haven't been by lately.

I enjoy the debate immensely, and in the depths of the grim Obama era they're also highly effective as a grass-roots force: constitutionally-aware patriots can be found in the numerous local FReeper chapters throughout the United States- imo, the TEA Party owes them a lot. 

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Free Republic is currently in the middle of their FReepathon 2010 fundraising drive... if you can spare $10-20 it really helps while providing a great true-conservative forum and driving force behind the growth of the conservative blogosphere. They're at 76% of their goal as I go to press today, so we're just trying to get them over the line here- do what you can.

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