All Your Talent And My Good Taste

The fall of Hollywood Kingmaker Harvey Weinstein seemingly alerted America to the grotesque underbelly in the entertainment business.

It has actually been well known for years, just hidden from you.

In 1980, off their album The Long Run, The Eagles wrote an awesome song called The King of Hollywood about the decadent lifestyle of the producers and power brokers, most of whom are vocal leftists.

Great tune; give a listen:

"Come sit down here beside me, honey
Let's have a little heart to heart
Now look at me and tell me, darlin'
How badly do you want this part?
Are you willing to sacrifice?
And are you willing to be real nice?
All your talent and my good taste
I'd hate to see it go to waste"

 

Beyond Visible Range

The reasoning for the silence is quite puzzling, as the consequences to our nation as founded by President Barack Obama, the actions of a lawless and imperial presidency are profound and quite dangerous.

Among the very few who will speak candidly about the peril our nation finds itself in is Mark Levin, and in a recent appearance on Hannity of FOX News Channel, he gave the grim details.

 

There are a multitude of areas where President Obama is transforming America, working from within to diminish our presence on the world stage, militarily and economically, under the premise of social justice, but the attack on the sovereignty of the United States of America is forefront.

While many consider the Obama presidency a failure, and by common statistical and historical measure it is, it is actually a most successful tenure if your mindset matches Obama, where the goals are the destruction of the Constitution being implemented beyond the visible range of a citizenry seasick on a sea of irrelevance.

In other words, we have an enemy from within operating in plain sight, with the citizenry, and many elected officials, finding the motive of actions, the destruction of America, inconceivable.

John Lennon, in his brilliant song Instant Karma, an epic noting that while the liberalism and narcissism of your world may mask the real world externalities and geopolitical issues from your mind, facts, economic realities and increasing terrorist threats are omnipresent and will present themselves.

If the American citizenry does not soon wake to the mounting perils facing this nation, lyrics from Lennon's masterpiece may be prophetic.

You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead

About the lack of a plan Obama has for ISIS.  Is he derelict in duty, of is he on their team?

No Quarter

Opportunities to save America from Obamacare, a governmental takeover of our health care system sprinting along the road we will have traveled arriving at the socialist utopia progressives have forever dreamed of, are few.

Certainly, those of us freedom fighters can appreciate the efforts of those will have stood in the face or tyranny, inclusive in particular of Mike Lee, R:UT, Rand Paul, R:KY, Marco Rubio, R:FL, Loise Gohmert, R:TX, Michele Bachmann, R:MN, and Ted Cruz, R:TX.  They are fighting for us!

 

It is important for the noise to be extracted from the truth, which is difficult for the average citizen to fight through amid all the lies and distractions.

For example, former president Bill Clinton was on ABC News This Week this morning telling untold lies.  Clinton said the following:  "I've never seen a time-- can you remember a time in your lifetime when a major political party was just sitting around, begging for America to fail?"

As a matter of fact, yes I can, recalling the Democrats cheering problems in Iraq the Bush administration was having pre-surge, calling for us to retreat while snatching defeat from the arms of victory. Then, there were the rules of engagement qualifications.

Actually, by advocating for a governmental takeover of health care, one would be seeking to limit freedom of choice and liberty of the citizenry, which I deem being complicit in seeking and assisting in the failure of America.

Clinton further offered that "If I were the president, I wouldn't negotiate over these draconian cuts that are gonna take food off the table of low-income working people, while they leave all the agricultural subsidies in for high-income farmers and everything else," he said. "It's chilling to me. The entitlement spending is going down as the unemployment rate drops and the economy grows. Half of the deficit's already disappeared. The rest of it just seems almost spiteful."

The country is bankrupt, and food is not being taken off the table for low-income working people, which is actually part of the reason why the country is bankrupt; unnecessary and growing entitlements.  What is significantly harming the low-income working people is the lack of being able to work, as economic policies of the Obama administration has devastated the work force, particularly for low level and minority workers.

Entitlement spending, with a record number of folks on food stamps, is not "going down".  On top of that, many folks who cannot find work have shifted from the unemployment rolls to the disability rolls, receiving assistance all along the way. Although statistically growing at minuscule levels, the economy is shambles, and the deficit has in no way disappeared. 

What is spiteful and appalling is to speak this type of dishonesty to the American people in effort to seek continuance of the power these individuals have; the country be damned. As such, the former president has identified himself as a dishonest broker. Who knew?

I continue to hear how republicans are blocking the legislation from moving forward.  If only that were true.  Sadly, several GOP members are fighting Sen. Cruz harder than some Democrats.

Obamacare is an encroachment on personal liberty and freedom, a vehicle for massive government control of the citizenry, a road we are traveling to a single payer system.  While progressives demand we wave the flag of surrender, every legally permissible opportunity to thwart Obamacare must be taken.

The fight is on; offer these dishonest opponents of freedom No Quarter!

Distracted Public Should Find Way Back

It is televisions most important night.  Who could care?

Although there are a handful of decent folks among the acting community, many are absorbed with self adulation, considering themselves above working America.  As we consider the influence the attempt to place over the adoring public, we can look no further than their blindful slobbering love affair with our president.

Sheltered from the dreadful realities of the current economic status of our nation and oblivious to the restrictions in freedom actively being placed on the citizenry, the acting community plays a role in the promotion of the ruling class in through propaganda.  The low information voting block are those who can be influenced by those who they see as the Hollywood elite, those of fame and fortune.

This is why President Obama has sought the utilization of Hollywood, the National Baseketball Association and the National Football League in efforts to promote Obamacare, gun control and Common Core.  The objective is to feed the consumers propaganda on these issues where the degree of difficulty for the average citizen to decipher the real story exponentially grows.

Please see the following which Aldous Huxley wrote in Brave New World Revisited:

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”

There certainly is nothing wrong with enjoying the entertainment options available, and like most everyone else, I have my favorites. It is football season.

But our country is in peril, and it is time that along with consuming your favorite hobbies and guilty pleasures, time must be allocated to understand, as Huxley said, the encroachment on your liberty by those who wish to manipulate and control it.

A storm is coming, It is time to fix our seat on the foundations and principles we hold true; our port in the storm. Hear that voice again. Find your way back to what is dear to you; your friends, family and loved ones; and your country.

Find your way back!

From the Jefferson Starship, featuring Mickey Thomas, 1981 album Modern Times, enjoy Find Your Way Back!
 

Sunday Night Song

Paul McCartney opened his world tour last night in Orlando to a cheering crowd in the sold out Amway Arena.

As one of my friends quipped, "some say McCartney is one of the best, almost in the same league as Kanye of John Mayer". The trouble with our liberal friends, and much of the youth these days is they know so much that isn't so. Obviously, the sarcasm ran deep with my friends comment as nobody out there today can dream of being on an equal playing field to Sir Paul.

Simply put, McCartney may well be the most talented and prosperous singer songwriter in history, and The Beatles, with their vast collection of timeless music, will be forever known as the best band of all time.


Paul McCartney Photo by Hal C.

When McCartney was in Orlando over a decade ago performing at the Florida Citrus Bowl, he opened the show with Drive My Car. Last night, it was another Beatles favorite, Eight Days A Week, which is tonight's Sunday Night Song.

Enjoy the YouTube video I lifted from someone with steadier hand than I.

Sunday Night Song: Pencil Pushers

As predicted, in the aftermath of the tragedy in Newtown, the left immediately engaged in an effort to encroach on the rights of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.  Last Tuesday, after reviewing recommendations presented after a study headed by VP Joe Biden, President Obama unleashed a series of regulatory measures, many unconstitutional, in an effort to combat gun violence. However, the measures cloak an attack on the second Amendment.

Of course, the left already had plans on how they might attack the second Amendment and waited until an event triggered an emotional response from the citizenry to attempt to enact legislation.

Remember, never let a crisis go to waste.

Although the Obama administration has never had issue with governing outside the consent of the American people, fearing legislative action the new legislative measures would ultimately fail, the regime sought increasing gun control through writing new law through executive action.

While many progressives in Congress have no issue with this, Senator Rand Paul, (R:KY) has had enough and is prepared to fight.  Paul speaks to FOX News Sean Hannity on the subject:



Obama's neighborhood of the south side of Chicago, home to among the strictest gun laws, is perhaps America's murder capital, an urban killing field of young mostly African American men.  Nobody from Obama to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel seems to care.

While those progressive elites have failed to address that problem they are most eager to severely restrict the citizens rights in the ownership of firearms. 

Of course, it is really not about the guns. It about control over you, gun owner or not.  After all, they know better how you should live your life.

The last thing we need is progressive pencil pushers taking away our Constitutional rights.  As they go for our guns, with that in mind, for Sunday Night Song, lets roll with Gimmie Back My Bullets, from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

We are done fooling around.



HT/Bo

Sunday Night Song: 1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

For a myriad of reasons, recently I have been thinking about George Orwell's 1984. With the re-election of President Barack Obama, as Victor Davis Hanson appropriately pointed out in a recent Investors Business Daily editorial piece, the "Beast Reagan Aimed To Starve Good To Gorge Under Obama." Sadly, right on target.

The recent death of famed economist James M. Buchanan, a leading scholar in "public choice" economic theory, reminded us of conclusions drawn, most accurately noted that those elected to government do not leave their ideology and self interests behind at the door. While in itself this is not necessarily a bad thing, it reminds that proper checks and balances are required from the citizenry as increased government interjection in the economy reduces freedom and liberty and is destined for failure.

A case study for that conclusion is examined in an excellent article the crossed my transom the other day regarding the significant decline of many large American cities. Michael Snyder, from The Economic Collapse blog is the author, details how cities such as Detroit, Oakland and Chicago have become infested with gangs, with increasing violence and lawlessness, and are deteriorating from within.  Government in these cities, due to financial constraints caused by idiotic progressive policies of social justice, have been forced to reduce effort to combat the criminals.

Chicago is particularly noteworthy.  The south side, where the greater majority of murders are taking place, is home to our President; Barack Obama.  With MSNBC contemplating that his record as President should place him upon Mount Rushmore, it is mind boggling he could not, or would not, have accomplished anything with respect to reducing the despair and hopelessness of those in the area that leads to this type of destructive behavior.

For the failure in that regard that was Obama, now his former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is now mayor, and he has absolutely given up.  Can he not do the job, or does he have an interest in not doing the job?  It is the latter.

Those in power like to have chaos on the streets, which leads the ill-informed to think they are in need of help from anyone who can curtail the situation.  By not enforcing laws and creating dependency among the less educated, the government creates an environment of hopelessness and dependency which leads to escalating crime resulting the community to cry out for help.  When they do so, it is the government to the rescue, the same folks who created the problem.  Oh, what job security.

In reflecting back to post war London in Orwell's 1984, wild dogs roamed the streets of a rundown city of crumbling buildings and deteriorating public services.  As noted above, several major US cites are following this pattern, with dangerous, violent urban killing fields where many are robbed of their identity and are hopeless, resulting in increasing violence and civil unrest the government fails to adequately curtail, and this is not by accident.

Over at The Burning Platform blog, a series of articles have been undertaken interacting the works of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley with the ever increasing control of the government, combined with the brilliant work of British rock super group Pink Floyd.  The blog posts, Hey You, and Mother Should I Trust The Government, are simply required reading. 

While I do not agree with all the context presented, I find most of it right on target and it does give us much to decipher.  Interacting Pink Floyd with the posts is very cool, and if you reflect back on Floyd's "The Wall", it is most appropriate.

Although all us makers are quite busy keeping all the takers afloat while the Obama administration executes their transformation of wealth plan, we must create the time in our lives to get informed and resist "inner party" as they continue to gain greater control over our lives.  If not, before too long we may find ourselves on the dark side with no exits remaining for escape.

We don't need no thought control, but we do need education on how our freedoms and liberties are being reduced. On that lovely note, hoping they keep their hands of my stash, for Sunday Night Song, here is Roger Waters of Pink Floyd as he performed for the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy relief concert.

Sunday Night Song #007

Earlier this month, a historic milestone was noted, as 50 years ago Britain, and America, were introduced to two cultural phenomenons which are among the fabric of our societies. 

Britain's Channel 4 has a full report on Bond and The Beatles at 50 years old:

 

From Ian Flemings "Dr. No" to The Beatles "Love Me Do", James Bond and The Fab Four began a historical and timeless rise in film and music which continues today.

For agent 007, with gadgets galore, fine women and cars, our favorite spy has kept us riveted over the years. No matter which of the five gentlemen who have played the part, from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, Bond has been an intriguing figure captivating our fascination battling evil across the globe.  Bond movies have been thrilling and have advanced with the times in seamless fashion.  The 23rd James Bond movie, Skyfall, is due out this fall.

Over on Abbey Road, a revolution in music unparalleled over time began behind the unrivaled musical writing tandem of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The Beatles, although only lasting approximately 8 years as group, wrote and performed a lifetimes worth of timeless music. Individual efforts by each member of the group reached the top of the charts, and without question, they easily remain the greatest collection of musical talent ever assembled.

With London recently hosting the Olympics, "Bond" was able to interact with The Queen in welcoming the world to London. Beatle Paul McCartney closed out the ceremonies with a strong performance, bookending the games with the best of Great Britain.

James Bond and The Beatles have a many linkages, but for me the most notable is relevant to the first Bond movie I saw, with my Aunt taking me to see Live and Let Die.  I will never forger seeing Bond jump that street in his Glastron boat with the 135HP Evinrude!

I will also never forget seeing Paul McCartney perform Bond theme song Live and Let Die, tonight's Sunday Night Song, in person.  With a common date of announcement to the public, it is only fitting the top Bond theme song was performed by Beatle Paul McCartney, "Live and Let Die".  Enjoy!

 

A Level of Importance Above Football

Florida Is Romney Country

 

Mitt Romney

On a college football Saturday with threatening skies, over 10,000 patriots, surprisingly confirmed in the Orlando Sentinel, with many sporting team colors, gathered in the Central Florida community of Apopka for a Romney Victory Rally.

Mitt, joined by his wife Ann, invigorated the crowd discussing the four year legacy of failure of the Obama administration and the pinpoint plans he has to return our country to prosperity.  Rep. Artur Davis, (R:AL), senatorial candidate Connie Mack, Florida CFO Jeff Atwater, Dan Webster and fellow Orlando Boone graduate and state senate candidate Andy Gardiner also spoke.

The entire program can be seen by clicking the following link:  Romney Apopka Rally.

Warming up the crowd before the rally was country music star Andy Griggs, who rather than rooting on his LSU Tigers on Satruday in Gainesville, found his time better served to join up with the Romney Victory Tour for the evening. Our group missed a good portion of the Florida State game, one we lost as huge favorites, as well.

 

There are very few things more important than the color and pageantry of college football Saturday here in the south, but helping to elect Mitt Romney the 45th President of the United States is one of them.

 

For Sunday Night Song, we will give a shout out to Andy for coming out to help us at the rally by posting his classic hit, "You Won't Ever Be Lonely".   Enjoy.

 

 

 

Sunday Night Song

The Sunday Night Song is "Hold Us Together" from Matt Maher. The song has been chosen as the theme song for Glenn Beck's Restoring Love, which is taking place next weekend in Dallas, Texas.



Evil is flexing muscle all over the place these days, as we have seen much too clearly this past weekend. If we ask for God to be among us, our prayers will be answered, good will conquer evil and everything will be alright.

Catch Beck's Restoring Love this weekend on GBTV.com

Sunday Night Song

It has been s strange week in the political arena this week, highlighted perhaps by the oddity of a composite woman. As it turns out, in his book "Dreams From My Father", Obama, or perhaps Bill Ayers, skirted the truth once again in code speak by morphing several girlfriends into a "composite woman".

Obama claimed to be so intellectually superior to these misguided women that they lost their own identity in his book, and in his mind.

The emergence of this story, coupled with the Obama campaign introducing us to Julia, who needs the assistance of our gifted Commander in Arrogance throughout her entire life and Obama crackpot crony and aspiring Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren claiming Native American status all the while insulting our Native American friends.

The collection of these stories this week has opened the floodgates for political fodder, with the best analysis presented by the sharp witty mind of Mark Steyn in a recent Investors Business Daily editorial.

Perhaps blinded by arrogance, one must marvel at the imagination Obama is blessed with.  From having to spend time with in his early years with white women who failed to quite understand the anger and need to get down with the struggle to thinking his presidency is a rousing success, it is astonishing.

Imagination run wild.

This brings us to a fantastic ballad about imagination and composite women of the mind; Atlanta Rhythm Section and their 1977 smash Imaginary Lover. Unfortunately, Obama's private pleasure of a socialist utopia are ruining our the lives our citizens at an alarming rate.  If only his intentions were imaginary. 

Anyhow, November is coming, with satisfaction guaranteed, God willing. In the meantime, a classic tune in Imaginary Lover should brighten the mood.

Enjoy!

Sunday Night Song

It is one of the greatest tunes of all time, one that has been parked in my personal all time top 25 for decades. I own the album, and give it an American thumbs up! It is American Pie, by Don McLean.

Like many, I thought the this song was about the death of Buddy Holly; the day the music died. While that may be part of it, Glenn Beck had a most interesting discussion about what the lyrics really talk about. I found the conversation stirring. Take a listen:





America is eight miles high and falling fast, and until hearing from Don McLean on the subject, I conclude the assessment made by Beck is on the mark as there are way to many associations made for it to be accidental. It makes the song all the more brilliant.

Tonight, for Sunday Night Song, it is Don McLean and American Pie



Are events along this line happening all over again? Over at Noisy Room, Terresa Monroe-Hamilton correctly makes the case they are, and you need to know it.

Sunday Night Song

Celebrating the 100th Velvet Sessions at The Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando last Thursday presented another outstanding performance by Cy Curnin and The FIXX.

Congratulations to Steve O and the staff over there, as they always put on first class evening of entertainment with a wide variety of musical acts. The sights are top notch as well, and it is a target rich environment to be sure.

For this weeks Sunday Night Song, take a listen to the opening song of the set, as The FIXX performs Stand or Fall, off the album Shuttered Room. Enjoy!

Sunday Night Song

Roger Hodgson, formerly of Supertramp, is certainly among the gifted composers of the rock genre of the last half century. Breakfast in America, Supertramp's Grammy Award winning blockbuster 1979 album, I regard as among the best of all time.

Hodgson last played with Supertramp in 1983. While Supertramp continues to exist without him, Hodgson is on the road solo, performing all the old tunes.

Tonight, for Sunday Night Song, Hodgson performs his favorite Supertramp song, and one I hold in most high regard as well, the ballad "Lord, Is It Mine." Enjoy!

Sunday Night Song

Who are the Occupy Wherever protesters? It is a widening collection of village idiots with global associations.

When you get past the radical left, the peacenicks, CAIR, ACORN, the Socialists and the Communists, you find a youthful contingency lacking in the skill set, complete with hard work ethic, integrity and competitiveness, to achieve the success they desire. This is the same group where everyone got a trophy in little league.

These folks think that rewards come without paying the necessary price, and when these rewards are not forthcoming, they are victims. Hence, they demand wealth transformation. Somehow, they think they are deserving. God forbid they put in the work and still come up short!

I grew up wanting to win The Heisman Trophy. I got over it.

Decisions made have consequences. If you graduated from say, Cornell, with a degree in Liberal Arts specializing music of the Orient and have $50,000 of tuition debt, it would be logical to assume a high paying job does not await your graduation and you may find difficulty is satisfying that debt. Perhaps a more suitable major should have been selected?

Instead of camping out, get a job; any job. Rather than claiming your a victim, chart your own path. In fact, quit bitching. The big bad world doesn't owe you a thing! Get Over It!

From Don Henely and The Eagles, a Sunday Night Song message for the protesters:

Get Over It!

Sunday Night Song

Could we have been saved by zero?

According to the Labor Department, zero jobs were created this past August. This is the first time since World War II that the US economy has created zero jobs. Please see the below chart from HoweStreet.com measuring the recent recession in job creation.


Few things solidify a complete failure on the economic front than going around boasting of saving us from the brink and placing Uncle Sam on the road to recovery than the economy producing zero jobs.

As Obama's job approval ratings continue to tank, and rightfully so, I got to thinking we may have been saved from a second Obama term by zero, as in zero jobs. Zero is a hard number to forget, particularly when attached to such a devastating and personal tragedy the state of the economy is in.

Saved by Zero indeed! As it turns out, this is a very cool tune by one of my favorite bands, The FIXX. For tonight' Sunday Night Song, enjoy Saved By Zero by Cy Curnin and The Fixx recorded live in Orlando as I watched live!

Sunday Night Song

Today, on the tenth anniversary of the horrific events of September 11, 2001, the 9-11 Memorial was dedicated among a series of events during this day of remembrance.

At the events at Ground Zero this morning, America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, read from scripture.



Very shortly afterward, Paul Simon performed an acoustic rendition of his terrific song he made famous as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence. The song is as beautiful as the Memorial is, and is the choice for the Sunday Night Song for 9-11-11.



May God Bless all those who gave on this day, the families of those lost and The United States of America.

Sunday Night Song

As you may have heard, Glen Campbell has announced that he has Alzheimer's disease. Health permitting, Glen will turn the Goodtime Hour into a Goodbye Tour. A scheduled date in Central Florida in early 2012 will find my family in attendance.

Glen and his wife Kim spoke with ABC News Nightline earlier this week:



In the interview, Glen mentioned his favorite song of his illustrious career. Still on the line, it was the Jimmy Webb composition Wichita Lineman, which is tonights Sunday Night Song. Enjoy!

Sunday Night Song

Jack Wagner, best known for roles on General Hospital and Melrose Place and the Billboard #1 hit "All I Need", won his second American Century Investments Celebrity Golf Tournament at Lake Tahoe on Sunday. Wagner held off Dallas Cowboy QB Tony Romo, who has now finished second three years in a row. Wagner, who led from start to finish, also won in 2006.

To celebrate his win, our Sunday Night Song will be Wagner's 1985 #1 hit, All I Need! Good job Frisco!

Sunday Night Song

It was certainly sad news to hear late last month that legendary performer Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I have always been a big fan, dating back to the days of the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour. Campbell is among the most talented musicians of our day, and certainly, we wish him the very best in the years ahead and thank him for all the wonderful music he has blessed us with.

Campbell discusses his career and new album "Ghost on the Canvas"

Campbell is planning a Good Bye Tour and I sure hope Central Florida is on the list of stops. Here on the blog, our first Sunday Night Song was Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy. In honor of the lineman for the county, tonight we highlight his timely tune on this July 4th weekend, "Southern Nights"