Monday, December 22, 2008

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Yes, time for another Christmas Tune.

After this weekend, with all the snow, we're not all that merry, at the moment, and definitely could use rest.

So, we have another classic today.

It's the old warhorse, 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman' but there's noting restful about it, as we give you the Jazz version, by the great Jimmy Smith, one of the Kings of the Hammond B-3 Organ (as you would have to include in that set of royalty, Groove Holmes, Brother Jack McDuff, and Jimmy McGriff).

Crank it up to kick start your Christmas Spirit!

Jimmy Smith - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen





Sad News ... 'To Kill A Mockingbird Director' Robert Mulligan Passes Away

I would suspect, this news might even bring tears to the eyes of Boo Radley.

Still, to this day, one of the few works that is both one of my all-time favorite books, and movie.

And news today arrives, that the director of the movie, Robert Mulligan, has passed away.

Robert Mulligan; directed 'To Kill a Mockingbird'; 83

The highlight of Mr. Mulligan's career was "To Kill a Mockingbird," a courtroom drama adapted from Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and centered on Southern attorney Atticus Finch and his children, Scout and Jem. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including best picture, and won three: best actor (Gregory Peck), best screenplay (Horton Foote), and art direction (Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, and Oliver Emert).




Guardian U.K.: Film director Robert Mulligan dies aged 83

The Hollywood Reporter: Robert Mulligan dies at 83; 'Mockingbird' helmer helped actors find Oscar-winning form

Some other films Mulligan directed, include;

Fear Strikes Out (1957)

Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Summer of '42 (1971)







Editor's Note ... Baby It's Cold Outside

Yes, mucho cold ... Teens, with wind chill below zero.

After this weekend of shoveling snow (it snowed her from Friday, around noon, until after 7PM last evening, with rain, or frozen rain, mixing in, just to add that little bit of extra weight), we were running, somewhat, low in the energy department.

So, that means we didn't get around to posting everything we would have liked to have posted.

Today (and, perhaps) tomorrow, we'll play catch-up, finishing off those partial-written posts, and get them up, along with anything new that comes down the line.

And, if you are going out, bundled up!

Peace
JTD


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Merry Christmas!



Sunday, December 21, 2008

White Christmas

Happy 1st Day of Winter!

And, another Snow Alert today!


Actually, it hasn't stopped snowing, here in Boston, since Friday.

We've had a light, sometimes very light, snowfall ongoing, adding another 1-inch+ to the pile, and this will segue, or give way, to the storm coming up the coast, and dumping another half-a-foot on us, before, possibly, turning to rain (followed by extremely frigid air, so everything will freeze to hardness of cement - wonderful).

Since this is about it, as to any snow for the big Christmas Day, we will give you this absolute treat today.

For many of you, it's possible you have never heard this standard holiday classic, 'White Christmas' quite this way.

It's a gem ... Kick back and enjoy!

Charlie Parker -White Christmas


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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Finally! (Head Slap!) ... But It's Still Stuck Up There

Well, this was a pleasant article to espy;

Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000 people since 2003. Critics say the legal offensive ultimately did little to stem the tide of illegally downloaded music. And it created a public-relations disaster for the industry, whose lawsuits targeted, among others, several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl.
Yeah, nothing like going after pimply teenagers and grandmothers to chalk up some good PR.

Perhaps, it had more to due with, and let's use some fancy-dancy business lingo, their "Return On Investment"

Like, can you say, THOUSANDS OF BILLABLE HOURS FROM THEIR LAWYERS!

Either that, or the record companies started asking questions, like, what was the status of those thousands of lawsuits, and when do we collect our big windfall?

Having to tell the record suits that they were going after small fish, had to be a meeting with a lot of foot-shuffling and stammering.

But wait, the RIAA isn't conceding ground here, they are continuing to carry the big stick;
Though the industry group is reserving the right to sue people who are particularly heavy file sharers, or who ignore repeated warnings, it expects its lawsuits to decline to a trickle. The group stopped filing mass lawsuits early this fall.
"Decline to a trickle" ...

Yeah, kind of like what are economy is doing right now.

And, do you know who used to be the "Big Cheese" at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)?

That whiz-bang, Democratic Strategist, Hilary Rosen, who, now, I believe, is the Political Director/Editor at the HuffPo.

This, on Rosen from Wikipedia;
Rosen was at RIAA during the most turbulent and disruptive times in the music industry. She was a major lobbying force on Capitol Hill and a regular presence on behalf of the industry in the media. She raised RIAA's profile from a little known trade group to the most visible and influential music industry voice in Washington and around the country. Her longtime close relationship with Democratic members of Congress led to the passage of several pieces of legislation during her tenure. While the business models were under development by the record labels, RIAA advanced a legal and PR campaign to limit the digital file swapping of copyrighted music, a practice whose popularity increased dramatically with improved personal computer multimedia capabilities and expanded broadband Internet access.

And how did she raise her profile for this piddly little trade group?

Among other things, by suing pimply teenagers and grandmothers, and, as referenced above, a dead person.

Don't think, just yet, that the RIAA has pulled their heads completely out of their asses.

Eric Krangel, at Silcon Alley Insider;
The RIAA is going to stop suing people it accuses of illegally downloading music from the Internet, the WSJ reports.

And here's the music industry's new plan to tackle piracy: Work with ISPs to send emails to pirates, asking them to please knock it off.

The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.

Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.

Kind of reminds us of that old Monty Python skit: "Stop! Or I shall say 'stop' again!!"

Allowing the ISP's, the Cable Companies to police this, with their legendary customer service?

We all would be better off, taking a cue for Krangel, and just go to the Ministry of Silly Walks for some justice.

Call me cautious, but this may just launch a new Spam industry, with those infamous Nigerian Princes offering to let you help them recover their inheritance of millions of digital music files.

All perfectly legal, of course.


Cue The Gloomy Organ Music ...

I gotta tell you, when I read these posts, a rather sick feeling enveloped me.

I mean, talk about an incredibly, almost unbelievable, extraordinary coincidence ...

Back in September, Larisa Alexandrovna (and Muriel Kane) had a piece up on The Raw Story, noting this;

Michael L. Connell was served with a subpoena in Ohio on Sept. 22 in a case alleging that vote-tampering during the 2004 presidential election resulted in civil rights violations. Connell, president of GovTech Solutions and New Media Communications, is a website designer and IT professional who created a website for Ohio’s secretary of state that presented the results of the 2004 election in real time as they were tabulated.
Today, on her blog, At Largely, Larisa has this;

One of my sources died in a plane crash last night...
He has flown his private plane for years without incident. I know he was going to DC last night, but I don't know why. He apparently ran out of gas, something I find hard to believe. (See Update 3 below). I am not saying that this was a hit nor am I resigned to this being simply an accident either. I am no expert on aviation and cannot provide an opinion on the matter. What I am saying, however, is that given the context, this event needs to be examined carefully. If you want to understand the context more broadly, I suggest you read this article I did a while back about the break-ins and arson cases that Siegelman and others have experienced

In case you need it spelled out, from Emily Levy, over on The BRAD BLOG;

BREAKING: MIKE CONNELL, GOP 'IT GURU', KILLED IN SOLO PLANE CRASH ... Said Recently Threatened by Karl Rove, Had Beeen Key Witness in OH '04 Election Fraud Case ...Built Alternate WH Email System, Websites for Bush, McCain, Swiftboaters, '04 OH Election, More...

The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that the private plane of the GOP's highly-placed "IT guru" Mike Connell's went down in Lake Township, Ohio on Friday evening. Connell was killed in the crash and is reported to have been the only person on board. There are no reports of anyone on the ground being hurt, though his plane crashed in a residential neighborhood.

Anderson, over on Newshoggers, comments, wryly;
It's too bad guys who wind up as "key witnesses" in cases against political dynasties like the Bushes don't have better knowledge of the history of their own government. They might be a little less inclined to fly in small single engine airplanes.
Like we said at the top ...

"Incredible, almost unbelievable, extraordinary coincidence ..."

This may be something along the lines of The Parallax View Bush Ohio 2004

Stay Tuned to this one ...


Sleigh Ride

Well, as we noted yesterday, we got blanketed with about a foot of snow.

We did one round of shoveling last evening, and, will be heading out shortly to do another (basically, having to shovel about the same amount done yesterday ... Better in shifts, as it wasn't as "light and powdery" as predicted).

So, while we are toiling in the cold and wind, time for another Christmas Tune, to assist you of getting into the swing of the season.

Snap you fingers, and don't be bashful of humming and singing along.

We'll be back later in the day with some posts.

Enjoy!

Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes


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Friday, December 19, 2008

Retro Garlic: Deep Throat Now Goes Deep Six ... Mark Felt Obit

We had the "BREAKING NEWS" this morning, that the infamous icon of the Watergate Scandal, Mark Felt, aka "Deep Throat", passed away - at the age of 95.

Obituaries - 'Deep Throat' Mark Felt Dies at 95

W. Mark Felt, Watergate Deep Throat, Dies at 95
Leaving aside the "breaking news" aspect of it, it was heady times, the all-consuming early 70's, when the man who was a crook, President Richard Nixon, was doing a soft-tap dance on the laws of the nation, and Constitution (as opposed to the sledgehammer The Bush Grindhouse has taken to it), and the FBI Agent Felt would soon make two young reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, mega-journalistic superstars.

Adding to the intrigue of "Deep Throat" was the agreement that he would not be revealed until his death.

Well, that got blown a couple of years ago.

Felt wasn't dead, but pretty far gone with dementia, and memory-loss.

So, it was "BREAKING NEWS" when Felt was identified as being the ever-mysterious "Deep Throat", ending the decades-old guessing game.
Who Is W. Mark Felt? ...Man Who Admits to Being 'Deep Throat' Breaks His 30-Year Silence

DEEP THROAT REVEALED
And when that news broke, we had a number of days here on The Garlic, where we had quite a bit of fun with it, hence, a Retro Garlic today.

The Retro Part


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News In Brief - Haig Stood In-The-Ready If Felt Backed Down; Former Nixon Staffer Okay To Take "Deep Throat" Rap

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Tis The Season ... First Big Snow Today!

Oh my!

It's not even officially winter yet, and we're due to get dumped on today.

Up here in Boston, the call is for up to a foot of snow.

It always sounds so benign, when they say it will "light and powdery", but it's still a foot of it.

And waiting in the wings is another storm on Sunday, though, it's too early to call on the snow amounts, as there will be a rain/snow line in play.

So, we will try to be creative, in-between the shifts of shoveling (or brooming, it it is, indeed "light and powdery") the season's first snow, otherwise known as the annual date when you find out just how much you are in, or out, of shape.

And with that, another holiday tune ... Rather appropriate for the day.

Vaughn Monroe - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow


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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Take Our Country ... Please!

Boy, this has to really be pissing off The Bush Grindhouse.

A country, seeking another country to come in, invade and occupy them.

What daydreams must be floating in the Office of the Vice President.

You wouldn't have to falsify intelligence ... You wouldn't have to create lies ... Hell, you wouldn't have to out, and expose, covert CIA agents ...

You would have a genuine invitation, the time to put together and create a Vegas-style, elaborate, thematic invasion, complete with all those joyous, shouting (happily) people, greeting you as treasured liberators, showering you, not with smelly shoes, but fragrant flowers.

Why couldn't this have come eight-years ago!!

We speak of the good people of Latvia, via an online petition, reaching out to Sweden for a little helping hand

Latvians beg Swedes to invade as soon as possible

Riga - An online petition in favour of a Swedish invasion of Latvia is proving a seasonal hit - among Latvians.

Fed up with a government that failed to prevent the Baltic state lurching into a serious recession and unimpressed by belated efforts to get out of it, Latvian Roberts Safonovs took the matter into his own hands and set up an online petition calling on Sweden to take over.

[Snip]

At various stages of its history, Latvia has been occupied by Russians, Germans and Poles, but unlike those unfortunate historical episodes, the Swedish occupation which began in 1621 and lasted 172 years is still viewed as a golden age.

The Swedes are admired as benevolent occupiers, improving living standards, opening schools and generally being much more civilized than the Russians who preceded and succeeded them.

[Snip]

While most of the signatures on the petition appear to be genuine, others display the Latvian sense of humour - unless the petition has really been signed by the Latvian prime minister, a director of the International Monetary Fund and US president-elect Barack Obama.

Based on the mega-shit-train The Commander Guy put on the tracks there, in Iraq, I don't believe we will see, at some point in the future, the citizens of Iraq, looking longingly at the U.S. Occupation, and cry out for America to invade and occupy them, again.

Petitioning the Latvians, perhaps with, or without their Swedish overlords, coming in and helping them to boot the United States out of their country?

That, a far-more likely possibility.

Or, maybe, this is just a big ruse by the Latvians, to get some kind of deal on Volvos

(H/T to BJ, over on Newshoggers, for the inspiration)


All I Want For Christmas Is ... A Killer Asteroid?

This should do well for the economy, at least the retailers.

It may prompt a mad, last-minute stampede, for that one-more Xmas gift, Tinfoil Hats, for those in-the-know.

What's to know?

Forget the economy: Killer asteroids could pose real danger

For example, astronomers had only 24 hours' notice of a small asteroid that blew up over northern Africa on Oct. 7. A larger, more dangerous object presumably would be spotted years or decades ahead, giving humans time to change its course before it hit.

[Snip]

The year 2029 could be crucial. When Apophis makes its first pass by Earth, its track can be more precisely determined. That will enable astronomers to judge whether Earth will escape with a near miss or will have to take swift action to avoid a blow that could devastate a region as large as Europe or the Eastern United States.

To deflect an asteroid, scientists need to know its shape, weight and composition. A ball of loose rubble would be handled differently from a solid metallic rock.

"Finding them is one thing, but you have to know your enemy,'' said James Green, the director of NASA's Planetary Science Division.

So far, NASA has spent $41 million on asteroid detection and deflection, but the Near Earth Object Program is running out of money.

"It's just barely hanging on,'' Shapiro said.
Hmmm ...

I wonder if those Southern Senators will block funding on this, perhaps demanding concessions from the asteroids, making sure it is non-union scientists and astrologers that's getting the work.


If so, we, perhaps, know where to place the gigantic "X-marks-the-spot", to assist the forces-that-be to pinpoint the location of where Apophis, or any other asteroid, can make a impactful landing.


Bonus Deep Outer Space Riffs

Jay McDonough: Apophis: don't make any big plans for Easter Sunday, 2036

Top Ten Cloves: Things About The Rocket Scientists' Party, Yuri Night

There's Sucker's Born Every Minute ...

Top Ten Cloves: Things About U.S. Plans to Shoot Down Broken Spy Satellite

Top Ten Cloves: Ways To Tell The Shuttle Astronauts Are Drunk

Top Ten Cloves: Other Things That NASA's Cassini May Find On Saturn's Moon Enceladus


Let Me Cover The Point, and Put Another $2G's on Half-A-Foot ...

Global Warming? ... What Global Warming! ...

Yeah, sure, we always look forward to the beginning of Winter, and seeing the snow storm reports - from Las Vegas!

Road closures extend overnight; county schools cancel classes

A rare winter storm swept through Southern Nevada Wednesday, dumping the most snow on the valley in nearly three decades, grounding flights at the airport, forcing the closure of major highways and closing schools for today.

"This is the most snow we've had in Las Vegas in almost 30 years," said Chris Stachelski, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "It's a significant historical event."

Outgoing flights at McCarran International Airport were grounded Wednesday afternoon because of the snowfall and poor visibility. Incoming flights were cancelled, said Ian Gregor, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Gregor said the airport doesn't have snow removal or deicing equipment, which means there's no way for snow-covered planes to leave safely.
Hmmm ...

I wonder how many casinos opened up books, and took bets, on what the final snow fall amount would be?

Since it's Vegas, and the Season, and snow is not what we typically put together with Vegas, I think we have the perfect soundtrack to offer, that is, well, so, so Vegas.

Maybe they're already singing this along the Strip ...

I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm ~ Dean Martin





Bonus Vegas Snow Riffs

Winter weather blows into Las Vegas

Snow brings Las Vegas a touch of winter

Rare snow snarls Las Vegas airport; big U.S. storms


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Minced Garlic - Year of the Special Comments

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Weekend Special - Sautéed Cloves



Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Is MSNBC Now Pimping David Shuster?

Just kidding ...

We like David Shuster here, at The Garlic.

He has a great sense-of-humor, without giving up his granite-nosed journalism, fear taking a holiday about asking the tough questions, or pressing an interview subject (including his own colleagues, like Morning Joke)

I doubt the MSNBC stables are empty, or they lacked budget, so, perhaps, elevating Shuster to take over the 6PM '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue program this week, due to the failing upward of the fourth son of the lost 'My Three Sons' episode, David Gregory (more on "Stretch" below), this was a long-delayed "make-up to Shuster, by the MSNBC suits who hung him out to dry last year, caving in to the Grand Central Station Locker Creature of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Shuster's a pro, and a good interviewer, and it a refreshing change to the program, moving away from Gregory's gattling-gun, round-robin style of throwing out questions to a satellite of talking heads, like hand grenades, requiring said talking heads to responded in equally lightening speed, before they got hit with another one lobbed by Stretch.

At times, it often appeared that there were about six different question hanging in the air, with the assorted guests answering not the same questions as the others, almost reaching the level of a choreographed cacophony.

In fact, we, very much agree with Jane Hamsher, who said;

Shuster consistently did the best TV reporting on the Libby trial and has been doing great coverage of the auto industry bridge loan. He was one of the first to call the Plantation Caucus senators out for union busting and trying to undermine Detroit automakers for the benefit of foriegn manufacturers who had factories in their home states.

The Shuster/Olbermann/Maddow lineup on MSNBC will be a potent one. Great news.
Go get;em David! ... Kick ass and take names!

Now, about that other twit, David Gregory.

We already weighed in, at his announcement of taking over Little Timmy Russert's island, in our "Meet The Freakshow Defender";

Michael Stickings, over on The Reaction, has a great post up, rounding up some reviews of Stretch, in his first tea party;

From David Gregory: "goofily hollow";

"I don't think I've ever heard Gregory say an interesting thing either, and his reporting on the presidential race was mind-bogglingly banal and shallow.

What's worse, though, is that Gregory is an all-too-eager, all-too-pleased-with-himself Beltway insider who, as Patterson puts it, "[embodies] the coziness of the political class" and who is "delighted to be in the club." Forget hard-hitting, independent journalism. Forget even the tiresome "gotcha" journalism of Russert. At the grand and ironic theater that is American politics, Gregory, like so many other Beltway insiders, doesn't so much sit in the audience with us, the people, monitoring, reporting on, and ultimately holding to account the actors on stage, as prance around on stage with the actors themselves, as with Rove in '07, one of them, not one of us, the Fourth Estate fully co-opted by the powers-that-be, itself a power that is ..."
Stickings quotes Troy Patterson, from 'Slate', who offered this gem;
With Gregory now on the job as the moderator of Meet the Press (NBC), the status quo is in good hands. As a White House correspondent, Gregory had a way of confronting the president and his mouthpieces that was sometimes the welcome yap of a tough watchdog but more often the toot-toot of a showboat practicing the pure art of careerism. It feels unfair to say that Gregory is without substance, and yet I'm certain that I watched him host MSNBC's Race for the White House at least twice a week during the election season and just as certain that I remember nothing of the program beyond the punch of the graphics and the pep of the tempo.
Go read both, Stickings, and Patterson's posts, they're good reads.

And, remember, "If it's Sunday, and if it's David Gregory, it's Meet The Freakshow Defender!"


Say What? ... Commander Guy Cluelessness Alert!

This deserves an Ignorant Dolt of the Day recognition;

Bush says sacrificed free-market principles to save economy

US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from "collapse."

"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."

Bush's comments reflect an extraordinary departure from his longtime advocacy for an unfettered free market, as his administration has orchestrated unprecedented government intervention in the face of a dire financial crisis.

"I am sorry we're having to do it," Bush said.
In denial, and clueless, right to the very end.

Like his crony-based government, Owner-Society policies, and the "Regulation? What Regulation"?" has nothing to do with the collapse of our economy, and now he is being ever so magnanimous in straightening things out ...

"Sacrificing his principles ..."

Gag me!

Vox Popoli sums it up nicely;
I find myself beginning to be astonished, when suddenly I recall that most people truly are idiots. Not one in a hundred individuals, be they godless or religious, collectivist or free market capitalist, ever stops to think about the obvious contradictions they demonstrate every day in their assumptions, beliefs, actions, and statements.

You can only hope, that when he goes back to The Grindhouse after one of these kind of things, someone explains a few things to him, much like a parent correcting an errant child, and he realizes, even for a fleeting nano-second - WORST PRESIDENT EVER!


Bonus Dubya the Dolt Riffs

He is Iraq's Katrina itself"

Where's That Apple Runner When You Need Her?

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This Date ... On The Garlic


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American People 2 Bush Grindhouse 0

God Bless Orrin Hatch ... Defending The Bush FISA, and Telcom Amnesty, He Indicts The Bush Grindhouse

Talk Fight At The FISA Corral ... And While That Goes On, Eye and Hearing Tests For All

Another "I Told You So" ... Lieberman Living Up To His True Colors


17 December 2006... On The Garlic


Weekend Special - Sautéed Cloves

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