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RHAPSODY PLAYLIST FOR SEPTEMBER 23, 2004

Panspemic De-Evolution-Tea Leaf Green-06.20.2002-Morning Spring Solstice-Laytonville, California
Three To Get Ready-The Dave Brubeck Quartet-Time Out
Life During Wartime-Talking Heads-The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads(remastered)
Go To The Mirror!-The Who-Tommy
Look What You've Done-Muddy Waters-The Anthology(1947-1972)
Singing Waterfall-Hank Williams-The Complete Hank Williams
Call It Anything-Miles Davis-Message To Love: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Nail In My Heart-Leftover Salmon-09.21.2001-Rhythm & Blues-Chattanooga, Tennessee
13 Days-Umphrey's McGee-04.30.2003-House of Blues-New Orleans, Louisiana
My Darling Allalee-Yonder Mountain String Band-02.02.2000-The Cat's Paw-Bozeman, Montana
Bad Music(Is Better Than No Music At All)-John Hartford-Steam Powered Aereo-Takes
Just My Imagination(Running Away With Me)-The Rolling Stones-Some Girls
Havona-Weather Report-This Is Jazz #40: The Jaco Years
Down In The Beast-Jon Spencer Blues Explosion-Plastic Fang
Rock And Roll-The Velvet Underground-Another View
Pastime Paradise-Stevie Wonder-At The Close Of A Century
Soukous-Living Daylights-06.21.2002-The Tractor Tavern-Seattle, Washington
Save the Children-Marvin Gaye-What's Going On

Still No Votes in Leipzig

Loony.

Golf for Free:

"Even if one demurs on the point money is fungible-and gives Wal-Mart stockholders sole credit for underwriting 21 teen-agers at Pebble Beach-the $4.5 million in federal funds already given to the First Tee raises questions taxpayers should direct at our political leaders: When the Congressional Budget Office projects a $422 billion annual deficit, why is Congress giving any money to a group like this? "

In Support of Voting

"Why? Because if the American people really do follow their no-vote advice, they have virtually no hope for achieving freedom in their lifetime. That’s why the no-vote crowd, even while trying to convince people not to vote, must secretly hope that its advice is rejected."

Lie and You Thrive:

"Bush's manipulation of 9/11 for his re-election campaign helps explain why his administration fights so doggedly to suppress the details of what happened that day. Bush promised to cooperate fully with the congressional Joint Intelligence Committee investigation in 2002. The Bush administration blocked the committee from interviewing an FBI informant who rented rooms to two of the 19 hijackers, refused to disclose whether the Office of Management and Budget had slashed counterterrorism budget requests, refused to permit an interview with CIA chief George Tenet, refused to disclose the National Security Agency's plans to cope with new technology challenges, and fought to prevent congressional investigators from learning when Bush received specific warning information about terrorist plots. The report was finished in late 2002 but the White House blocked its publication until July 2003"

Bush in the Guard:

"However, according to the White House-released pay records, which are unsigned, Bush was credited for serving in Montgomery on Oct. 28-29 and Nov. 11-14, 1972. Those makeup dates should have produced a paper trail, including Bush's formal request as well as authorization and supervision documents.
But no such documents exist, and the dates he was credited for do not match the dates when the Montgomery unit assembled for drills. "

RHAPSODY PLAYLIST FOR SEPTEMBER 20, 2004

Knockin' At Your Door-John Hartford & The String...-Hamilton Ironworks
You Haven't Done Nothin'-Stevie Wonder-The Definitive Collection
Gonna Tear Down The Grand Ol' Opry-Yonder Mountain String Band-11.10.2001-The Fillmore-San Francisco, California
Chains-Railroad Earth-The Black Bear Sessions
We All Fall In Love Sometimes-Elton John-Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Stay Hungry-Talking Heads-More Songs About Buildings & Food
Go Jimmy Go-Bob Marley & the Wailers-Ska Bonanza:The Studio One Ska Years
Redemption Song-Bob Marley & the Wailers-Uprising
Camp Out-John Scofield-Steady Groovin': The Blue Note Groove Sides
Spirits Of Trane-Freddie Hubbard-This is Jazz #25
Down Home Girl-The Rolling Stones-The Rolling Stones, Now!
Nutty-Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins-Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins
Big Spike Hammer-Yonder Mountain String Band-11.09.2001-The Fillmore-San Francisco, California
Crosstown Traffic-Gil Evans-Plays The Music Of Jimi Hendrix
Round Midnight-Thelonious Monk-The Composer
Sueno-Poncho Sanchez-Keeper of the Flame

Journalism Under Fire:

"It's why they have staged confrontations at the old temple site in Jerusalem. It's why the invasion of Iraq for them was a warm-up act, predicted in the 9th chapter of the Book of Revelations where four angels 'which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released 'to slay the third part of men.' As the British writer George Monbiot has pointed out, for these people, the Middle East is not a foreign policy issue, it's a biblical scenario, a matter of personal belief. A war with Islam in the Middle East is not something to be feared but welcomed; if there's a conflagration there, they come out winners on the far side of tribulation, inside the pearly gates, in celestial splendor, supping on ambrosia to the accompaniment of harps plucked by angels"