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04-22-2016, 07:01 PM
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As most know by now, Prince has passed. A master of multiple instruments (At least 10, if memory serves me). That being said, personally I believe the electric six string was where he was at his best.
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions. Prince comes in @ the 3:20 mark, but the whole thing is a good view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFN...ature=youtu.be
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions. Prince comes in @ the 3:20 mark, but the whole thing is a good view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFN...ature=youtu.be
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07-15-2016, 01:43 PM
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#3144
10-27-2016, 02:40 PM
Dunno if anyone else reads the vanity cards at the end of a Chuck Lorrie show (like Big Bang Theory) but I thought this one was amusing.
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #536
"I've thought long and hard about this vanity card. What I'm about to say is going to upset quite a few people. Some of them are my friends. Or perhaps, after reading this, my former friends. But I can't let that stop me from speaking my mind. It's time to say out loud what I know in my heart to be true. Vegetarians and vegans are mobility bigots. They believe that if a life form doesn't move, it's fair game to be killed and eaten. They hold a deepseated prejudice against plants, or, as plants prefer to be called, "We Who Stand Still." This hateful philosophy is predicated on the idea that movement equals consciousness, or, if you will, a certain level of sacredness. To put it simply, if it walks, flies, or swims, or comes from something that does, it should not be ingested. If it doesn't, yum-yum. Of course when you ask vegetarians and vegans, they say no, they're only opposed to eating flesh. But what could be more fleshy than a mushroom? Or avocado? Or eggplant? The ugly truth is they are cowards who murder and devour anything that can't run away. These people, who act so high and mighty, so spiritually elevated, have somehow constructed a style of cuisine that would justify them eating my Uncle Murray, a man known for sitting still for hours at a time, staring at a TV that is turned off. So the next time you order a salad consider this: Prince told us that doves cry. But what if kale does too?"
Stewart 
"I've thought long and hard about this vanity card. What I'm about to say is going to upset quite a few people. Some of them are my friends. Or perhaps, after reading this, my former friends. But I can't let that stop me from speaking my mind. It's time to say out loud what I know in my heart to be true. Vegetarians and vegans are mobility bigots. They believe that if a life form doesn't move, it's fair game to be killed and eaten. They hold a deepseated prejudice against plants, or, as plants prefer to be called, "We Who Stand Still." This hateful philosophy is predicated on the idea that movement equals consciousness, or, if you will, a certain level of sacredness. To put it simply, if it walks, flies, or swims, or comes from something that does, it should not be ingested. If it doesn't, yum-yum. Of course when you ask vegetarians and vegans, they say no, they're only opposed to eating flesh. But what could be more fleshy than a mushroom? Or avocado? Or eggplant? The ugly truth is they are cowards who murder and devour anything that can't run away. These people, who act so high and mighty, so spiritually elevated, have somehow constructed a style of cuisine that would justify them eating my Uncle Murray, a man known for sitting still for hours at a time, staring at a TV that is turned off. So the next time you order a salad consider this: Prince told us that doves cry. But what if kale does too?"
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11-23-2016, 06:33 PM
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By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad and vouchsafing to us in His mercy many and signal victories over the enemy, who is of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps and our sailors on the rivers and seas with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while He has opened to us new sources of wealth and has crowned the labor of our workingmen in every department of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, He has been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial of civil war into which we have been brought by our adherence as a nation to the cause of freedom and humanity, and to afford to us reasonable hopes of an ultimate and happy deliverance from all our dangers and afflictions:
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe. And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the Great Disposer of Events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased Him to assign as a dwelling place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 20th day of October, A.D. 1864, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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12-07-2016, 12:01 PM
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#3150
12-07-2016, 01:18 PM
An old friend that passed a few years ago was not only a Pearl Harbor survivor (unscathed), he also survived combat wounds at Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf.
He had a lot of WWII stories. My favorite was the first story he ever told me, which happened to be his activities the morning of December 7, 1941.
He'd gotten up early that morning to go to the pistol range to practice for an upcoming qualification with the .45. When the first explosion occurred, he was actually at the range. He tried to explain the futility of being one of the few servicemen at Pearl that was armed at the time, being a mile or more away, and armed only with a .45. I can't do his story justice, nor can I understand what it must have felt like to watch the battle unfold from a safe distance while armed with only a large caliber pea shooter.
Rest in Peace, Bill.....
He had a lot of WWII stories. My favorite was the first story he ever told me, which happened to be his activities the morning of December 7, 1941.
He'd gotten up early that morning to go to the pistol range to practice for an upcoming qualification with the .45. When the first explosion occurred, he was actually at the range. He tried to explain the futility of being one of the few servicemen at Pearl that was armed at the time, being a mile or more away, and armed only with a .45. I can't do his story justice, nor can I understand what it must have felt like to watch the battle unfold from a safe distance while armed with only a large caliber pea shooter.
Rest in Peace, Bill.....