Tom Clay - What The World Needs Now

Tom Clay - What The World Needs Now

If you haven't heard this - or if you haven't heard it in a while - this would be the day to hear it.

The song arrangements of "What the World Needs Now" and "Abraham, Martin and John" are dated and kind of corny now but this recording, put together by midwestern Deejay Tom Clay, is very moving. There are clips of JFK, RFK, MLK and Ted Kennedy giving that horribly sad and breathtakingly beautiful eulogy at Bobby's funeral. Gets to me every time. The songs may be dated but the editing on here is still pretty amazing - long before digital. Tom Clay had a way with a blade and a reel-to-reel.

RIP Ted Kennedy. The most effective Senator America has ever seen. America will not be the same without you.

But we can try.

Thanks A Lot, Tom Ridge

Tell me something I don't know.

Tom Ridge, head of Homeland Security under GWB, says he suspected - at the time Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were playing political games with the terror alerts. It's not something he's spent years wrestling with in his mind. No. In his book he says - at the time he suspected the color alert threat levels were being manipulated for Bush's political gain. He says that his office of Homeland Security had no reason to feel that the colors needed changing. Apparently, his hands were tied. And everyone played along.

I'm pretty sure most people who were paying attention at the time were not shocked by Ridge's come to Jesus moment. All I'm left wondering is, why now? Oh yeah, there's no mystery. He's selling a book. So much for Mr. Integrity.

This angered me so much when I heard the news. Watching Chris Matthews on Hardball last night I was amazed - not at Ridge's confession but at Chris' amazement. Did someone as politically astute as the MSNBC Hardball host not have the same suspicions? Maybe he, like many a good American, was only trying to be patriotic, consciously or unconsciously suppressing such conspiratorial thoughts about the Bush administration.

A lot of good you do us now, Mr. Ridge. You could have been a stand up guy at the time and expressed your concerns openly and honestly with the American people. You could have resigned when it mattered.

Color me disgusted.

Also, color me "right all along".

The Rush L., G. Beck, S. Palin, Teabag, Birther Conspiracy to Kill the GOP

It must be a liberal conspiracy, right? The more some of these people carry on with their crazy fake outrage about that mythical "other America" that's supposedly destroying the equally mythical "real America" - the less powerful and less relevant the Republican Party becomes. This attack-anything-that-moves political grandstanding by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc, etc, etc... is only serving to devalue the party of which they claim to be staunch defenders.

So, my new theory, which I will believe until proven wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that all these and other such characters are merely plants. They aren't really conservatives or Republicans. They are undercover liberals and Democrats, sent to destroy the Republican Party from within. Fear not, my fellow Dems and Libs - these people are on our side! They're on a secret mission and it .... IS ..... Working!

Last I checked there were only 5 states solidly in the corner of the Republican party. 37 States are leaning toward or solidly backing the Democrats. Only a few are undecideds. Even Texas is going to be a swing state in 2010.

So, good work, Comrade Rush. Good work, Sarah Palin. Good work Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck. And to all of you. You are bringing down the GOP. The more you spout your insane drivel the more you drive people away from the party of Nixon and Reagan and I give you a standing ovation for that. Thanks. Godspeed.