"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"

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Prisonplanet.com rips into fark.com

Prisonplanet.com has an axe to grind with fark.com:



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Neil Young/Stephen Stills talk about Buffalo Springfield (with lyrics to Young's Bufflo Springfield Again and a video of For What It's Worth)

Stephen Stills and his on-again off-again long-time bandmate Neil Young reminisce about the days of Buffalo Springfield. The last video is a promotional film for For What It's worth.

Interview Clip One:



Interview Clip Two:



Interview Clip Three:



Buffalo Springfield play For What It's Worth from a 1967 promo video:



Buffalo Springfield Again
By Neil Young


Used to play
in a rock 'n' roll band,
But they broke up.
We were young and we were wild,
It ate us up.
Now I'm not saying
who was right or wrong.

Looking out on a big green lawn,
Girls and boys
Playing in the afternoon sun,
Life's a joy
I heard an old song
playing on the radio.

Buffalo Springfield again.

I'd like to see those guys again,
And give it a shot.
Maybe now we can show the world,
What we've got.
But I'd just like to play
for the fun we had.

Buffalo Springfield again.
Buffalo Springfield again.
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Ungawa! A parable of George Bush's failed "mission" in Iraq

A Texas business man traveled to Japan for some business meetings and a few rounds of golf. He arrived in Tokyo the night before his meetngs.

Feeling lonely that evening, he employed a gorgeous young Japanese girl as his companion. The girl spoke very little English and the honky businessman. of course, spoke no Japanese. Over the course of the night, the ended up making the beast with two backs. . They made passionate love, and in the heat of the moment she began yelling "Ungawa! Ungawa!"

The Texan knew he had pleased his hot Japanese friend and soon fell sleep.

The next day, Mr. Businessman was playing golf with his Japanese hosts. One of his Japanese partners made a hole-in-one shot from 170 yards away! Everyone went crazy and began yelling excitedly in Japanese. Wanting to impress his friends, the Texan joined in and began yelling, "Ungawa! Ungawa!" Suddenly everyone became quiet.

After a moment of silence, one of the Japanese turned to him and asked "Wrong hole? What do you mean wrong hole?"

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Today is the 4th anniversary of Accomplishing Our Mission In Iraq

It was four years ago today that President Bush told that nation that "major combat operations" in Iraq were over. Thousands of lives and billions of dollars later. . . .well, we're just getting started.

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Crackdown on toilet paper in Kansas prison: warden apparently gi-normous Sheryl Crow fan

According to the Associated Press, toilet paper is now a hotter trading commodity at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility than cigarettes. Prison officials in Kansas have recently begun enforcement of a longstanding limit on prisoner toulet paper rations.

Inmates are now limited to four rolls of toilet paper each. "The increased enforcement has angered many of the more than 1,600 inmates housed at the facility."

"Some take this for granted," inmate Carl Kennedy said in a letter to The Hutchinson News. "But in here it's part of a safeguard for widespread infections. We use it to blow our noses, clean sinks, toilets and tables."


If each inmate uses one less roll per month, according to prison officials, they would save the prison $600 a month. "There are a lot of things that individually don't cost much," said Kansas Department of Corrections spokeswoman Frances Breyne. "But when you multiply that by hundreds, it makes a drastic impact."
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Alien Lore No. 106 - The 1989 UFO Battle Over Russia

One of the best known Russian UFOlogists—Nikolay Subbotin—told this story to his fellow American UFOlogists. This bizarre story took place in the skies 0ver Zaostrovka on September 16, 1989. Six metallic UFOs and one golden UFO battled it out.

Mr. Subbotin says hundreds of people witnessed a group of six silver saucers fight against one golden UFO. The UFOs engaged in a stunning show of aerial acrobatics, flying as low as one mile above the earth. Red beams, or lasers of some sort were the weapons.


A Russian UFO web site says that an account of the battle was published in the local paper, the "Semipalatinsk." The report was written by a helicopter commander named Sichenko, who claimed that the energy generated by the warring UFOs was so intense that local power stations automatically shut down.


The witnesses interviewed by Sichenko said that the golden UFO was finally defeated, after fighting a heroic battle, and crashed into a bog on the military test range. The area was then zoned off to everyone except military personnel.

Subbotin says a Russian army team searched the area following the battle and crash and that the story leaked out from these searchers.


The entire area was insanely high in radiation readings following the crash, and was eventually shut down. A crew of military personnel guarded the site. And there the story comes to an crashing halt. This is one of those plausible sounding cases, with many witnesses, where so few details have actually emerged that it is impossible to vet its veracity.
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Country Joe McDonald Gives A Shout Out For Peace (Woodstock 1969) with lyrics to I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag (next stop Vietnam)

Country Joe McDonald (who I often saw around town when I lived in Berkeley) performs his "Feel like I'm fixin' to die rag" at the Woodstock Festival. Country Joe was pressed into service solo when other scheduled performers were mired in traffic. That also accounts for John Sebastian's completely stoned performance--he didn't know he would be performing until the organizers leaned on him to fill some time for the half a million music-thirsty fans.




Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag (Next Stop Vietnam)
by Country Joe & the Fish

Come on all of you big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again
he's got himself in a terrible jam
way down yonder in Viet Nam so
put down your books and pick up a gun we're
gonna have a whole lotta fun

(CHORUS)
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for
don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die

Come on generals, let's move fast
your big chance has come at last
now you can go out and get those reds
cos the only good commie is the one that's dead and
you know that peace can only be won when we've
blown 'em all to kingdom come

Come on wall street don't be slow
why man this war is a go-go
there's plenty good money to be made by
supplying the army with the tools of its trade
let's hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
they drop it on the Viet Cong

Come on mothers throughout the land
pack your boys off to Viet Nam
come on fathers don't hesitate
send your sons off before it's too late
and you can be the first ones on your block
to have your boy come home in a box.
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Video: Crosby Stills Nash & Young Perform You Don't Have To Cry

Crosby Stills Nash and newest member, Young perform one of their sweetest songs, back in the day.
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Alien Lore No. 105 - The Grey Aliens

The Grey Aliens is the title of a J. Hunter Holly 1964 British paperback. The book was published in the US as "The Gray Aliens" in 1963 by Avalon Books. This science fiction novel has an alien abduction twist. Humans are scooped up by the shadows a/k/a the grey aliens a/k/a the ghost makers.


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The term "grey alien" is iconic now in alien lore, and this book was probably an early harbinger of what was to come. The Greys are huge now in the realm of alien/ufo lore, along with their associated phenomena like abductions, cattle mutilations, government conspiracies, implanted devices in humans, crop circles, and vast under-earth colonies. The Greys were not really prominent in the lore until the 80s'. The now familiar grey alien's appearance was alluded to in tales of earlier encounters of the fifties, sixties and even the seventies, but not until the 1980's did the Greys emerge as the rock stars of alien lore.
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Happy 108th Birthday Duke Ellington!

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Duke Ellington would have been 108 years old today (born April 29, 1899, died May 24, 1974). He is usually considered one of the most important figures to emerge from jazz scene in the twentieth century. Duke, however, didn't usually speak of jazz, but instead liked to consider his work just music. Jazz was too narrow for Ellington, although he created some of the best jazz yet, as well as nurtured hundreds of young musicians. Here is a YouTube video of his 1942 band:


Duke's band performing C Jame Blues in 1942


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Four videos from Lemmings - with John Belushi, Christopher Guest, and Chevy Chase

These videos come from a National Lampoon stage show, Lemmings, with John Belushi, Chevy Chase, and Christopher Guest, among others. I owned the soundtrack many years ago.

Belushi lures "Bob on stage to perform:



Belushi introduces Christopher Guest who parodies James Taylor:



Belushi (with a faux Leon Russell) performs his very good Joe Cocker parody:



A Crosby Stills and Nash/San Francisco sound parody:


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