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- TDC based DEIS traffic report on wrong info!
- Urban planner's take on Flushing Commons
- State park in Rockaway slated for closure
- City seeks operator for Marty's $64M potato chip
- Letter from Peter Koo about Flushing Commons
- Do Italians have enough "clout" to save historic c...
- City needs to kick its spending habit
- Benepe plans to limit artists in parks
- Some people love living on top of each other
- Flushing, Queens: tourist destination!
- Park Slope plagued by phony 311 complaints
- Sign at Bayside High a public nuisance
- Budget cuts do not apply to City Council
- Immigrants not filling out census
- Back to the drawing board for Jamaica project
- Con Ed rates to go up again
- Councilman sets up shop in a piece of Queens Crap
- Building collapse in Williamsburg
- Crane operator loses license
- No crime at Penn Station, either
- Albany "pay to play" scam exposed
- Avella formally announces Senate campaign
- Who should pay for special elections?
- Developers want DOB, ULURP processes sped up
- Wifi comes to 2 Queens parks
- Rolling up the green carpet
- Council closes overdevelopment loophole
- Making a McMansion out of a rowhouse, part 3
- NYPD finds firetrap nightclub in Jamaica basement
- Riot at Rikers
- Still no crime in the subway
- This is not a photoshop
- Fear not: more of Manhattan landmarked
- Putting "affordable housing" in the projects
- Bayside house in sad shape
- Smith, Espada & Sampson subpoenaed
- Second Avenue subway causing major headaches
- Feds not playing around
- Sports group wants soccer stadium in Queens
- What's new on Mazeau
- Crane collapse in lower Manhattan
- NYU expanding...again
- Carrozza hanging it up
- Placards a big part of Jamaica parking problem
- International counterfeiting ring busted
- City still growing, but not as fast
- Health Dept targeting Queens business owners
- All's not well on Albert Road
- Swinging '60's crapitecture
- Bloomberg admits that fewer cops = more crime
- Schools on closure list to remain open
- Checking him out
- Flushing Commons in a nutshell
- Johnny already doing something shady
- Murders way up this year
- Queens upzoned more than the other boroughs
- Smith hogged the tweeding cash
- More work on the 7 line; N getting cut
- Muss takes a back seat at Sky View Parc
- Faculty and students question CUNY law school's mo...
- Unfinished crap in Jamaica Hills
- Thought of the day
- Bloomberg: Crime doesn't happen in the subway
- Good government group crosses the line
- Railroad Park kinda trashy
- Hasidic bus headscratcher
- City and state subsidizing crap
- Pension bomb about to blow
- Johnny trying to fix CBAs by consulting with real ...
- Granny shoots granny in Rego Park elevator
- Flushing Commons – a study in tweeding
- MTA approves budget cuts
- Serial animal killer in Prospect Park
- Farebeaters cost us many millions
- Bellerose property line snafu
- Taxing colleges and public authorities?
- Bloomie's 'hack' job
- Developer connected to Smith's charter school
- Meeks a member of the jet set
- NYPD making up violations everywhere
- Elmhurst crap gets even more hideous
- Corrupt crane inspector pleads guilty
- Who actually read the health bill?
- Pete Seeger and the LIC Community Boathouse
- Another failed Bloomberg promise
- DOE teaching model a disservice to children
- Fixing up Farmers Blvd
- Anti-landmarking stupidity abounds
- Meditation garden proposed for former parking lot
- Scarano owners shitting bricks
- City creates application for charter schools
- Well, that didn't take long...
- Koo + Lee + Gallagher = bad news for Flushing
- Flushing really pissed about TDC project
- JetBlue staying in Queens
- URGENT NOTICE – PUBLIC HEARING TONIGHT!
- Fraud was family business
- Have you seen this bank robber?
- More tough luck on Tulfan Terrace
- Shady dog breeder sued by the AG
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26 comments:
Wado:) wich means thank you in "Cherokee" I really enjoyed the video and it is so true how important the connection to the water is, I'm blessed to be able to spend my spring and summers on the water:) This video is wonderful and calming, thanks again:)
What a wonderful surprise!
Thank you for sharing this . . . .
Ode to the Kennewick Man - the Great Solutrean Ancestor
(Music by Pete Seeger. Lyrics by Frank of Queens, www.therightperspective.org)
"This Man is your Man.
This Man is my Man.
From California to the New York Island.
From the Redwood forest,
To the Gulf Stream waters.
This Man was made for you and me."
Music by Woody Guthrie.
Gary the Agnostic once again proving his vaunted ignorance ("agnosticism" = "without knowledge")
"Its lyrics ["This Land is Your Land"] were written by Woodie Guthrie in 1940 BASED ON AN EXISTING MELODY [my helpful emphasis to assist in guiding your finger along the text]..." - from the Wikipedia article,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_
Land_Is_Your_Land
I gave Seeger credit for popularizing the warbling.
Third time you've made that crack, George. Are you running out of jokes:
From Wikipedia:
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Woody Guthrie in 1943."This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody, in response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent. Tired of hearing Kate Smith sing it on the radio, he wrote a response originally called "God Blessed America for Me".[1] Guthrie varied the lyrics over time, sometimes including more overtly political verses than appear in recordings or publications.
Guthrie wrote the song in 1940 and recorded it in 1944. The song was not published until 1951, when it was included in a mimeographed booklet of ten songs with typed lyrics and hand drawings. The booklet was sold for twenty-five cents, and copyrighted in 1945.
The first known professionally printed publication was in 1956 by Ludlow Music (now a unit of The Richmond Organization), which administered the publishing rights to Guthrie's tune. Ludlow later issued versions with piano and guitar accompaniments.
In 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.[2]
To my knowledge (and I've been to many Pete Seeger concerts), he has never claimed credit for doing anything more than singing a wonderful song.
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
WILHELM STEKEL
"Agnosticism" = "without knowledge"
There, for you, the 4th time.
Endless counting is truly the sign of an ignorant neurosis. - WILHELM DRECKEL
Gary - I enjoyed reading your post about Guthrie's wonderful song -
He was a great working class hero.
Pete always makes me smile, then I remember what a political simpleton he continues to be.
Before you get too sentimental about kayaking (an activity I heartily endorse), let's remember we are in Nannyville.
By recently enacted law in NYC, you may only launch a kayak from an official site designated for that purpose. And of course, you must purchase a permit in advance. And, you can't launch a kayak before sunrise (screw you, fisherman) and you have to be back a half hour before sunset (screw you again).
Of course, many of the official launch sites suck. For many of these sites, there's no close parking. Carry an 18 foot boat in your arms and see how far you want to walk. But that's OK because the City provides helpful information on using public transportation, so you'll know which bus to carry your boat to a concrete ramp or broken glass beach.
I can't tell you how much this pisses me off. Kayaking damages nothing, kayakers are self-contained (they have to be). The public doesn't need protection from us. Forcing us to pay to use unsightly locations kind of defeats the purpose.
The hell with the City. There are plenty of accessible sites on the Island that are a lot nicer.
Wait until they put the launch under the Kosciuszko Bridge in no man's land!
The reason for the designated launch times is because kayaks may not be seen in the darkness and/or morning fog - those particular rules are for our protection. There are no lights on kayaks - boats of course are lit up, have radar, are carrying flares, etc. and are also REGISTERED if they have a motor - inflatables as well.
Many boatyards will store kayaks - call them - I doubt if the fees are high.
nobody LIKES a know-it-ALL
boo hooooo . . . .
:)
georgetheatheist said...
"Agnosticism" = "without knowledge"
There, for you, the 4th time.
Endless counting is truly the sign of an ignorant neurosis. - WILHELM DRECKEL
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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Go for five, George, since you've got nothing else, aside from your tenth comment that your caravan is leaving.
Have I touched a nerve?
Q: What do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness and an atheist?
A:Someone who knocks on your door for no reason whatsoever.
Babs said...
Gary - I enjoyed reading your post about Guthrie's wonderful song -
He was a great working class hero.
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Thanks, Babs. What you say about Woody is so true.
4 comments counted. 10 comments counted. He's my number one fan. Send me your diaper and I'll autograph it.
georgetheatheist said...
4 comments counted. 10 comments counted. He's my number one fan. Send me your diaper and I'll autograph it.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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Use the diaper you're wearing right now, George. You're the one who whines when someone dares to challenge you. Grow up and get on with your life in the real world instead of sitting at a computer all day.
In the years he has visited this site, I have never read George "whine".
Amazing how testy people get online with people they don't know!
The real world today encompasses computers. What's your point, besides the one on top of your head?
Go ahead, Big Baby, have the last word.
Nah, George. You just proved my "point". Try and respond to someone without insults or namecalling.
You might want to try taking your own advice, Gary. This was supposed to be a happy post .
You're right, Crapper. I'm disrespecting Pete Seeger, which is the last thing that I want to do.
I'm touring with Pete Seeger. Watch the papers for further info.
Pete Seeger is a true American hero..to bad there are none left like him
i enjoy George's banjo playing as well...and a one and a two...
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