30 Responses to “Open Post”

1. shockwaver on July 31st, 2009 12:58 pm

   i suggest those here who think there is no debate left in AGW take a look at this.

   http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/warmist_editor_faces_blowback.html

2. THX1138 on July 31st, 2009 3:50 pm

   Cabbie thanks for the Neil Young link I’m a big fan.

   Oh and I got some good news last night on the TV drama front HBO are making a major new series with a massive budget called ” Pacific” about the war in Pacific In the style of band of brothers, we follow the action from island to island with same bunch of Marines. Gonna be a must see and your so wrong about the Wire

   Wingnut is a right wing nut and you call us moonbats, don’t you know anything

3. THX1138 on July 31st, 2009 4:18 pm

   Liberty et all

   I’m a big African music fan and buy a lot of CD’s, I particularly like the desert blues

   The blues came to America from sub Saharan Africa on the slave ships

   The master Ali Farka Toure explains

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Nem-PNHLY

   and

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2U1ViQCPA0&feature=related

   and his magnificent Machengoidi
   from his posthumous masterpiece the album Savane

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2U1ViQCPA0&feature=related

   and more Live this time

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDU6XtAoWk

   and how could I leave out his friend Toumani Diabate the master of the Kora

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DEKQjj6Ga0

   Not going to be able to post much today but have fun everyone and check out the music.

4. THX1138 on July 31st, 2009 4:21 pm

   Liberty et all

   I’m a big African music fan and buy a lot of CD’s, I particularly like the desert blues

   The blues came to America from sub Saharan Africa on the slave ships

   The master Ali Farka Toure explains

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Nem-PNHLY

   and

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2U1ViQCPA0&feature=related

5. THX1138 on July 31st, 2009 4:21 pm

   and his magnificent Machengoidi
   from his posthumous masterpiece the album Savane

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2U1ViQCPA0&feature=related

   and more Live this time

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDU6XtAoWk

   and how could I leave out his friend Toumani Diabate the master of the Kora

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DEKQjj6Ga0

   Not going to be able to post much today but have fun everyone and check out the music.

6. THX1138 on July 31st, 2009 4:22 pm

   and how could I leave out his friend Toumani Diabate the master of the Kora

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DEKQjj6Ga0

   Not going to be able to post much today but have fun everyone and check out the music.

7. An American on July 31st, 2009 5:12 pm

   shockwaver,

   Its gratifying to see that the scientific community is finally standing up for science to face off Al Gore and his kook leftist scheme to get filthy rich.

8. Hayward Maberley on August 1st, 2009 2:44 am

   Mr Cabbie,
   So, to what were you listening during Neil Young’s days with Buffalo Springfield and onwards from the mid 1960s then into CSNY and beyond

   Not to forget course “Ohio” written following the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970, when Ohio National guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

9. An American on August 1st, 2009 3:35 am

   I’ve been thinking about the Gates affair and came across this site…thought this would give some insight into the mindset at our prestigious universities. Could this be a worldwide affectation?

   I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

   http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

10. Hayward Maberley on August 1st, 2009 7:14 am

    THX1138,
    Re your desert blues remark
    Ruth and I took our daughter, a website wiz and our soon to be son in law. a drummer in bands, as well as another website wiz, to an amazing concert in April at that Australian icon , The Sydney Opera House.

    A double bill the South Pacific meets the South Sahara.
    Te Vaka, Polynesian dancers, drummers, musicians, singers. And Tinariwen the electric Touaregs from Mali.

    Talk about different. on come the Polynesian, the dancers in particular in not much at all, the female dancers in short grass or tapa skirts and the coconut top half, the males in the same not needing the coconuts. But with some amazinz tattoos! Much Polynesisn style hip quivering/shaking and some very athletic leaping. Some great Polynesian log drumming mixed in with traditional and western style songs/tunes.

    The downer of the set for me was a Polynesian version of what they now call r&b in the US. A very big Samoan bloke and a petite Cook Islands girl singing. But it got big cheers from the Polynesian crowd present, so who knows what they were singing about?

    After the break on came Tinariwen. All Touareged up. Layers of robes and cloaks and heads wrapped, with just eyes visible. To any one who does not know their music it seems to me similar to the way camels move with that strange smooth yet slightly disjointed rhythm. The singers dropped the face wrap to sing. One of the guitarist could be the Jimi Hendrix of the Desert he played a right hand guitar as a left hander!

    Elyse, our daughter and Sam were sitting a bit away from us, amongst a group of Polynesian young folks, thanks to some late ticketing. The girls kept passing remarks about all the clothes that the Touaregs were wearing and how they could not understand if they came from a hot place why so many clothes, they were probably not aware of the difference in humidity between the South of the Pacific and that of the Sahara! Also they appeared not to like/understand the music that much. In fact they all left early, much to the relief of Elyse and Sam who were getting fed up with the chat.

    Various member of Tinariwen asked us regularly.
    “Vous aimez, vous êtes heureux avec notre musique?”
    Je étais très heureux! A great experience!

11. Conservative Cabbie on August 1st, 2009 7:27 am

    Hayward

    So, to what were you listening during Neil Young’s days with Buffalo Springfield and onwards from the mid 1960s then into CSNY and beyond

    My mother’s heartbeat. I was only born in ‘67. I lived outside the UK until I was 18 so never really had access to music until the early 80’s. Then it was american rock for me. My first rock idol was Rick Springfield.

12. THX1138 on August 1st, 2009 7:39 am

    Hayward

    Thanks so much for the post Tinariwen are a big Favourite of mine and I have seen them on a couple of occasions unfortunately not at The Sydney Opera House but rather more recently on crowded stage at the Jazz Cafe in Camden.

    They are such an exciting live band and I love all the call and response singing, the virtuoso guitar playing and just the other worldleness of their music.

    The Great track Cler Achel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEfmsdRI8w&feature=related

    Which really shows off all the best aspects of their remarkable music.

    Back in the day I spent 3 months in Tonga and met Paul Theroux I have a strong feeling for South Pacific culture.

13. THX1138 on August 1st, 2009 7:56 am

    Guys I’m going off the grid for a few days we fly to Vancouver tomorrow (phew I can afford to get sick) and off into the wilderness of Vancouver island camping and hiking and no cellular signal & no internet

    We have fly out to Vancouver island on sea plane I’m so excited .

    I’ll look in when we get back to civilisation, take care everybody and be nice.

    I’ll leave you with a joke I heard on Bill Maher tonight

    “Of course the birthers are right Americans always employ illegal aliens to clear up the shit after the party”

14. Hayward Maberley on August 1st, 2009 8:06 am

    Mr Cabbie, & THX1138 (for my Pacific experience)
    Well you are a young chap Mr Cabbie!
    Well in 1967 I was in the SW Pacific, in the BSIP, British Solomon Isalnds Protectorate as it was then. My father had a lecturing job in the Solomons which enabled me to have a fare paid out there on leaving school, so I worked for most of 65/66 to add more funds. This after a trip through parts of North America. In at New York briefly into Quebec, swinging down through the Appalachians, up to Chicago across to Minnesota, down to New Mexico across to California, up to British Columbia then trip down California into to Baja California, across and down to Acapulco. back up to LA then out across to Hawaii, onto the Big Island, out of Honolulu down to Fiji, up to the Condomium aka the Pandemonium of the New/ Nouvelle Hebrides now Vanuatu then up into the Solomons.

15. Hayward Maberley on August 1st, 2009 10:26 am

    Mr Cabbie,
    Rick Springfield though now a citizen of the USA is in origin an Australian rock and roller, born in Sydney, came to fame in the Land Down Under with a quasi glam rock band called Zoot! He holds dual citizenship with the Commonwealth of Australia and USA.

16. Conservative Cabbie on August 1st, 2009 11:16 am

    Hayward

    I knew that about Rick Springfield. He was a teen icon, but listening to some of his music again many years later, there was a level of intelligence and maturity to his work that many teeny-boppers dont have. I’m not quite as big on him as I once was, but can still appreciate his music.

17. Conservative Cabbie on August 1st, 2009 11:17 am

    To All

    I’m sorry, but I won’t be able to blog today, please continue to use this open post. Terribly sorry.

18. An American on August 1st, 2009 2:17 pm

    THX
    Enjoy your trip…I fell in love with Vancouver when we visited several years ago…wish I had a couple of million to buy a place with a view of the sound. We hope tour the islands this fall.

19. Original Tony on August 1st, 2009 3:07 pm

    An American….looks like you and I were correct when we said Hillary is biding her time to cut up Obambi

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/is_hillary_revolting.html

20. Original Tony on August 1st, 2009 3:10 pm

    A nice article to get our liberal posters spitting mad….

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/liberalism_and_the_dumbing_dow.html

21. Original Tony on August 1st, 2009 3:11 pm

    This says it all about liberals…

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_end_game_of_the_left.html

22. Original Tony on August 1st, 2009 3:13 pm

    About Obama’s birth certificate:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/obamas_birth_debate_its_about.html

23. An American on August 1st, 2009 5:28 pm

    O. Tony,

    If you really want to lol a whole lot…check this out.

    Enjoy!

    http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

24. Original Tony on August 1st, 2009 5:49 pm

    AnAm…good site!!

25. Original Tony on August 1st, 2009 5:57 pm

    Hayward…you havent answered my question about chip taylor, C&W singer…john voights brother??

26. Hayward Maberley on August 2nd, 2009 4:52 am

    OT,
    Apologies for the delay, no offence intended. I am currently flat out both phyically and in plannning/drawing/modifying/reconfiguring our front garden and the irrigation system therein.This because we now have serious water rationing in the ACT, so the spray/spinkler system that makes our garden look so good has to be replaced with a dripper/weeper system and the grass/lawn is being changed to ground cover.

    I am aware of CT’s work across a number of genres, for instance “Wild Thing!” and some other stuff he wrote with the great Jerry Ragovy, “Stop!” and others mostly in the rock and pop vein. I will have to hunt up some of the country tunes.

27. shockwaver on August 10th, 2009 6:46 pm

    now that health care has attracted to attention of the general population, let’s not forget the full court press that will come on global warming legislation.

    i have expressed my personal views in a prior post.
    http://www.conservativecabbie.com/american-politics/cap-the-demise-of-science-based-policy-development/

    now public is catching on. doubters now number 44%, up from 33% a year ago.

    http://www.lvrj.com/news/52828402.html

    doubt has grown in spite of a virtual fire-hydrant of press propaganda supporting the notion that the end is near. below i have pasted a few of the scare stories from spiked-online. please take the time to glance through it:

    Agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), ancient forests dramatically changed, Antarctic grass flourishes, anxiety, algal blooms, Arctic bogs melt, Asthma, atmospheric defiance, atmospheric circulation modified, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, bananas destroyed, bananas grow, bet for $10,000, better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, birds return early, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, Britain Siberian, British gardens change, bubonic plague, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cardiac arrest, caterpillar biomass shift, challenges and opportunities, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, cod go south, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , cold spells, cost of trillions, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cyclones (Australia), damages equivalent to $200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth to explode, earth upside down, Earth wobbling, earthquakes, El Niño intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, less, not polar bears), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, food prices rise, food security threat (SA), footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, hazardous waste sites breached, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, high court debates, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, infrastructure failure (Canada), Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, industry threatened, infectious diseases, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers’ income increased (surprise, surprise!), lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, marine dead zone, Meaching (end of the world), megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, more bad air days, more research needed, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountains break up, mountains taller, mudslides, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, no effect in India, nuclear plants bloom, oaks move north, ocean acidification, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears drowning, polar bears starve, polar tours scrapped, psychosocial disturbances, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, refugees, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice yields crash, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, rivers raised, rivers dry up, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, Ross river disease, salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, sex change, sharks booming, shrinking ponds, ski resorts threatened, slow death, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall reduction, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, spiders invade Scotland, squid population explosion, squirrels reproduce earlier, spectacular orchids, stormwater drains stressed, taxes, tectonic plate movement, terrorism, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tourism increase, trade winds weakened, tree beetle attacks, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees could return to Antarctic, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, tsunamis, turtles lay earlier, UK Katrina, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus pups orphaned, war, wars over water, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, wine – harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine – more English, wine -German boon, wine – no more French , winters in Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, Yellow fever

28. shockwaver on August 10th, 2009 6:48 pm

    sorry, i pasted two copies of the long list. but the a single copy is still impressive isn’t it?

29. shockwaver on August 10th, 2009 6:50 pm

    cabbie
    sorry to ask. can you correct my error and delete the duplication of the list

30. Conservative Cabbie on August 10th, 2009 7:25 pm

    shockwaver

    Done.

    Apparently Cap and Trade at least is dead, there’s no way it’s going through the senate.

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