michelle
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Thank you T-Bones! 47 today! Kinda blows my mind. lol! Remember how ooooold 47 was when we were kids? ha! I'm so there dude! It's not old and it never was. It's a gift that deserves to be cherished ~
and so I do.
Party on Wayne!
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Mon Aug 15 '11 8:15:48 am
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michelle
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I read these two things this morning. Worth sharing.
This
and this ~ especially this part ~
Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach also gave a heartfelt response:
“People have been asking me about Jani Lane and I really don’t know what to say. Picturing him by himself in a Comfort Inn in Woodland Hills with a bottle of vodka and a bottle of pills is so typical of what a rock musicians life actually is. It is a life marked by extremes. Extreme attention from people you don’t know, while all the work and travel takes you away from those you actually do know. Playing to thousands of people and then going back to your hotel room and shutting the door. When the door shuts… the quiet is the exact opposite of the volume of the concert. The solitude of the empty hotel room becomes the diametric parallel of the adulation of strangers. For some, the bottle of vodka or whatever becomes a friend that is always there for you while others come and go.
Yes, I have felt these emotions myself. If you see me going head over heels over a girl, it’s because all I have ever wanted is to have a girl to love and share my life with, and for the one I love to be with me wherever I’m at, travel with me to distant locales and stay in nice kick-ass hotel suites and have fun and sing and dance and see the world. But so far this is a fantasy. Just like Jani, I spend most of my time alone in a hotel room dreaming of a girl I love who is somewhere else. I bet Jani Lane felt exactly what I feel. How could he not?
I remember decades ago being invited to Jani’s house for a barbeque, which we went to. But Jani didn’t show up. So I spent the afternoon with Jani’s dad cooking burgers and steaks and having a wonderful day with his family. My condolences to his family and especially Jani’s children who now only have memories of their dad to hold on to. That is truly heartbreaking. Let this be yet another lesson to tell someone some kind words sometimes… before it’s too late… while they are still alive. I can guarantee Jani Lane would not have anticipated everyone coming out of the woodwork extolling the life and times of Jani Lane. Which is why he probably died alone. In a hotel room. With his only real friend…that killed him in the end.”
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Mon Aug 15 '11 8:23:31 am
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Blue_Moon
Alan McKenna
Dublin
Ireland
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Happy 21st M. I was going to send an e card but i typed "x xard" by mistake and sex cards came up, I figured that typo was worth a thousand cards so there ya go dollface!
Happy birthday McCleaf!
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Mon Aug 15 '11 10:50:30 am
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Debora Aylett
Irrigon, Oregon
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Happy Birthday Michelle ...have a most AWESOME day !!!
:-)
edit- put to many LLLs in Michelle....fixed lol
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Mon Aug 15 '11 11:53:11 am
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oxley11
Hackensack, NJ
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Started listening to Paul Gilbert's Fuzz Universe album within the past couple of weeks and I'm really digging the whole feel of that album. I just listened to "Will My Screen Door Stop Neptune" three times in a row and it just takes me away every, single time. So much music to listen to, so little time. And I'm loving every minute of it.
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Mon Aug 15 '11 10:16:28 pm
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Do The Stu
Austin Lewis, III
Costa Mesa, CA
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Happy birthday, michelle!
I know it's already tomorrow on the east coast, but it's still your day in California...
Listening to: The Black Crowes - Descending
...Austin...
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Mon Aug 15 '11 10:51:44 pm
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rCeUdTuHx
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michelle
First off...Happy F'in Birthday
I liked Pat Buchanan's response to Buffet.
With the national debt > 100% of GDP, no matter how much you tax anyone (or everyone, for that matter), without MASSIVE spending cuts the government goes bankrupt.
The class warfare spin by Buffet is more mindless pap which will just ensure things get worse if it is implemented, and I am guessing it will be to some extent.
A financial wizard Buffet may be, but about economics he apparently understands squat.
I will agree, though, that the tax code needs to be addressed. It should be adjusted to 0% on wages for all (including elimination of negative rates for non-payers), as it was before the 16th Amendment was passed...U.S. survived fine for over 100 years to that point with not nearly the debt-to-GDP ratio. Proof enough, it's not the income that's the problem.
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Tue Aug 16 '11 6:24:58 am
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Brian Johnston
Sudbury, Ontario
Canada
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Saw Nugent play this past weekend. There's something about his intensive riffing that is beyond compare. Incredible energy in his music. The melody behind the vocals (and the words) may be a bit humdrum and typical, but the guitar playing was some of the best insofar as rock is concerned.
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Tue Aug 16 '11 8:35:24 am
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rCeUdTuHx
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methinks riots in the US would have a greater chance of coming to an abrupt halt than in the UK and elsewhere; possibly even before the police arrive...location, location, location ;?)
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Tue Aug 16 '11 10:31:05 am
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rCeUdTuHx
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Not poking fun about the riots at all.
My references are often arcane to those who knew me not.
My point was simply this. We in the US have not (yet) been completely neutered when it comes to self defense and, if such rioting were to occur here as Two Shay suggested it might, there might be a very swift and very different outcome for some with the indecency to participate.
And yes, for thse unsure, some yob running at your flat with a petrol bomb cocked and ready is a self defense situation in most locations in the US.
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Tue Aug 16 '11 11:38:37 am
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Daz - I certainly was NOT poking fun at the riots, have another look at my post and try to see the context (what needs doing is the cuts). Furthermore Cuth also strikes me as someone who would not poke fun at such behaviour. The way I read his post is that the cops would have been battering the rioters far quicker than our somewhat reserved riot trained police.
Edit - Shit, you beat me to it Htuc.
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Tue Aug 16 '11 11:49:02 am
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