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Help! The following two MP3s outline a song that I just cannot place. My son (Jimi Hendrix, II) was forcing me to play bass and it popped up - I cannot for the life of me come up with a song title. Any help would be appreciated - I figure it'll take about a minute for someone to name it. Starting stopwatch now! ;-) I did two takes so you get two takes (Dialups be warned - they're ~ 1MB each ... Mystery_Song_1.mp3 Mystery_Song_1a.mp3

Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to evade responsibility for her role in approving the use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques took another hit today in the Washington Post — and this time the fire comes from her side of the aisle. Pete Hoekstra upped the ante as well, demanding the release of precise minutes of Congressional briefings, and Leon Panetta has promised to make them available, at least to Capitol Hill:

* Willing to work with Obama on health care. * Talked about Palin: "I think the world of Sarah." * Admitted rushing into TARP.

Despite the fact that he might have wished he had been the man who just finished his first address to a joint session of Congress as president, Sen. John McCain had kind words for President Obama's address this evening. "The president gave a very effective speech," McCain told Katie Couric on CBSNews.com's presidential webcast following Mr. Obama’s address. "His delivery and the theme of the speech was excellent."Still, McCain said, "now I would like to know how we are going to implement it." "I don't know where Social Security was,” McCain said. “I don't know how you increase all of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain said on Tuesday night he believed an overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system was possible this year after President Barack Obama called for such a timetable. In his speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, Obama said that due to rising costs, revamping the healthcare system "must not wait, and it will not wait another year." McCain, who is a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said in an interview after the speech that he felt an accord was reachable this year. "I do think it's...

Former Fed Chairman and longtime free-market icon Alan Greenspan now says nationalization of U.S. banks might be the “least bad” way forward in the ongoing financial system collapse. In making the comment, Greenspan joined Republican Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, in testing the waters for support of the idea of letting government simply take over failing banks. Germany also this week cleared the way for bank nationalization as a last resort. “It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring,” Greenspan told the Financial Times...

I knew 'Opie" was a naive little kid, but I thought Andy was the wise one! Say it ain't so, Andy?? From the Yahoo! Newsroom, October 23, 2008Celebs go to great lengths for Obama excerpt: Luckily for Obama, some celebrities are taking extreme measures to show their support for him. It's no surprise to see celebrities lining up for the Democratic ticket, but these stars are going above and beyond the normal call of duty. First up, we have director Ron Howard resurrecting not one, but two, classic roles that he admits he'd rather leave behind: Opie Taylor from...

b>A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election. Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama. Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed by reading newspapers and watching TV at the convent. "I'm encouraged by Senator Obama," she says. "I've never met him, but he seems to be a good man with a good private life. That's the first thing. Then he must be able to govern,"...

Madonna’s not the only one with an opinion about Sarah Palin. Or Lindsay Lohan. Or Diddy. Or Courtney Love. Ok, a lot of celebrities have an opinion about her! But Betty White is the latest star to share some choice words about the Vice Presidential candidate. She appeared on Craig Ferguson last night and referred to her as “one crazy bitch.” We love when old people curse! It makes it so much funnier. Check out the clip.

After days of watching in silence, McCain calms the crowd at his Minnesota town meeting. “I want everyone to be respectful. And let’s make sure we are, because that’s the way politics is done in America.” Tells one supporter who says he’s scared of an Obama presidency: “I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States.” After a woman calls Obama “an Arab,” McCain interrupts to say: “No, ma’am. He is a decent family man, citizen

In St. Paul, Palin was told to cancel a meeting with Phyllis Schlafly and pro-life conservatives. McCain's operatives said Palin had to rest for her Wednesday convention speech. Yet, on Tuesday, Palin was behind closed doors with Joe Lieberman and officials of the Israeli lobby AIPAC. There, according to The Washington Post, Palin took and passed her oral exams.

WASHINGTON - Alan Greenspan says the country can't afford tax cuts of the magnitude proposed by Republican presidential contender John McCain — at least not without a corresponding reduction in government spending. "Unless we cut spending, no," the former Federal Reserve chairman said Friday when asked McCain's proposed tax cuts, pegged in some estimates at $3.3 trillion. "I'm not in favor of financing tax cuts with borrowed money," Greenspan said during an interview with Bloomberg Television. "I always have tied tax cuts to spending."

Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role. He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man. From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 -- pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan 01, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Cocaine appears to damage and perhaps destroy the brain cells associated with the "high" it produces, researchers reported Wednesday. "...the specific neurons interacting with cocaine are disturbed, damaged and maybe destroyed in the drug-use process."

Alzheimer’s Disease is certainly not funny to anyone who has lost a relative to a neurodegenerative disease, but Barack Obama’s supporters apparently think otherwise. The following material is sanctioned by the campaign’s moderators, whose job is to remove “offensive” and “disrespectful” material from My.BarackObama.com. We encourage our readers to circulate this material as widely as possible. http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/angels%20of%20hope/gG5M5c John Mccain is unelectable - he has the symptoms of early alzheimer’s disease Post from angels of hope: John Mccain is unelectable - he has the symptoms of early alzheimer’s disease By ♥♥♥ dreams of peace( who is ready to slap hillary clinton...

Wha-h-h-h? This has to go down as one of the stranger non sequiturs from a pundit of national standing. Responding to a study that concludes that burgeoning multiculturalism threatens national unity, David Broder takes solace in the fact that 34 years ago, the American body politic booted Richard Nixon from office. In his column of today, One Nation No More?, Broder comments on the study, E Pluribus Unum, recently released by the The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

The Sunday Telegraph spent three days with the man most likely to be the next president of the United States, riding on his bus and plane, as a campaign that still sees itself as a guerrilla force built on his victory in Tuesday's Florida primary John McCain got to sit in the Oval Office last week. What's more, while there he received the quiet blessing of Nancy Reagan, widow of the man every Republican candidate wants to emulate. In fact he was visiting a replica of America's most famous office, at the Reagan presidential library in California, the venue for...

MIAMI -- The Latin Builders Association basked in the attention of four Republican candidates today, all of whom pledged to pay attention to issues prized by Latino voters. While Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came at the end of the day, as association members were sipping cocktails, he came with a key guest: Sen. Mel Martinez, who formally announced he is endorsing his colleague for president. "The man that we should trust with the leadership of our nation as commander in chief ought to be John McCain," Martinez said, breaking into a mix of Spanish and English. "This is a man...

In an appearance on ABC's Nightline in 2001, Hernandez said, referring to Mexican immigrants in the U.S., "I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think 'Mexico first.'" Hernandez told the Associated Press the same year, "I never knew the border as a limitation. I'd be delighted if all of us could come and go between these two marvelous countries." Last August, Hernandez published a book entitled "The New American Pioneers: Why Are We Afraid of Mexican Immigrants?" in which he argued Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, were at the forefront of establishing a...

WASHINGTON (CNN) – George McGovern, the Democratic Party's 1972 nominee for president, is calling on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. And in an editorial in Sunday's Washington Post, McGovern writes the case for impeaching the current president is "far stronger" than the case made against former President Richard Nixon — the man who soundly defeated McGovern in the general election match up."Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses," McGovern writes. "They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after...

(CBS) The former Democratic nominee for president who ran against a president later driven from office under threat of impeachment, today said that impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is "the rightful course for an American patriot." George McGovern, a former South Dakota Senator who ran on the Democratic ticket in 1972 as an anti-war advocate, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that, while he steered clear of calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon in the '70s - fearing it would appear as "an expression of personal vengeance" against his opponent who...

Richard Mellon Scaife, the reclusive right-wing billionaire who financed a “family values” crusade that almost bought down President Bill Clinton, has offered surprising praise for the politician he once despised - and admitted they both share an interest in philandering. The heir to the Mellon banking fortune was once scorned by Democrats as the shadowy figure behind what Hillary Clinton dubbed “the vast right-wing conspiracy”. Mr Scaife backed the so-called Arkansas Project that produced a series of stories in the American Spectator magazine into Mr Clinton’s sex life, including the notorious “Troopergate” piece that spurred Paula Jones’ sexual harrassment suit...

A Party brought together the family. I have not seen my sister in two year's and I was shocked. My sister is 67 yrs old but was very busy and vibrant, travels the world with her husband.

At least one white male voter is planning to return to the Democrats' fold in 2008.

Over the weekend, John McCain said in Iowa, "One of the things I would do, the first day I am President of the United States, is close Guantanamo Bay. I would close it and I would move those prisoners to Fort Leavenworth. It's become a symbol, which is very bad for America."

Evil in Our Government Paul Craig Roberts Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Is the Bush regime a state sponsor of terrorism? A powerful case can be made that it is. In the past three years, the Bush regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones. U.S. Marines, members of our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and murdering entire families. In an unprecedented event, Gen. Michael Hagee, the Marine Corps commandant, has found it necessary to fly to Iraq to tell our best-trained troops to...

In a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, former Ku Klux Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd, pledged to put President Bush on trial in the Senate if the House impeaches him. Addressing the president in absentia, Sen. Byrd began by warning that Congress retains all its original powers under the Constitution. "You better read that again in the Constitution," Byrd said, declaring that the Senate's powers include "serving as a court of impeachment. "You better believe it, Mr. President," Byrd continued. "The Senate can send you home. You better believe that." The ex-Klansman then added: "If the House impeaches you,...

A giant Pacific octopus that attacked a remotely operated submarine off north Vancouver Island could have been senile or maybe just peckish, a marine biologist said Wednesday. "Large male octopuses in the last part of their lives become senescent, or senile," said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum. "They get to be like humans, doddering old fools that have inappropriate behaviours such as being out in the daytime," said Cosgrove, an expert in octopus behaviour. The attack occurred Nov. 18, 2005, off Brooks Peninsula, on the northwest coast of the Island. The submarine was 55 metres deep and Mike...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Former seven-term Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey said Saturday that he will challenge U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo (news, bio, voting record) for the Republican nomination in his northern California district. The 78-year-old McCloskey, a maverick known for environmental causes, told The Associated Press he felt compelled to get back into politics because of his concern for the environment and what he sees as a shift in Washington away from traditional Republican values. He also was prompted by what he described as Pombo's close ties to Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a growing...

PASADENA, CALIF. -- Walter Cronkite is some kind of hero. He's old and he doesn't give a damn. There's no reason why he should. He'll be 90 this year. He moves a little slowly and he's a bit deaf, but his mind is very sharp. He knows exactly who he is: a newsman. In 1981 when he retired as anchor of the CBS Evening News, he was voted, for the umpteenth time, "the most trusted man in America." In 1994, years after he'd stopped delivering the daily news he was still voted "the most trusted man in America." He's a...

Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, in an appearance Friday on CNN's "Larry King Live," said Americans are too dumb to vote for the right candidates. "We're an ignorant nation right now," Mr. Cronkite said. "We're not really capable, I do not think the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time ....in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course." ...... "I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger."

Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 6:56 a.m. EDT Walter Cronkite: U.S. Too Ignorant to Vote The man once known as the most trusted journalist in America no longer trusts Americans to vote for their own leaders, saying average citizens are just too ignorant to cast their ballots wisely. "We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders," CBS News legend Walter Cronkite told the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication last week. In quotes picked up by the Los Angeles Times, Cronkite said journalists need to find a way...

Former President Jimmy Carter makes a great argument for closing down Gitmo-it would restore America's tarnished reputation before the court of world opinion; it would reaffirm America's commitment to due process and international law; it would reduce the number of terrorists by eliminating Gitmo as a major recruiting poster for Hamas and al-Qaeda crazies; and it would make Jimmy Carter feel good about himself and if the peanut farmer from Plaines feels good about himself the same is sure to be true of Casper Milktoast, Harry Tremblechin, Code Pink, John Conyers, Jerold Nadler, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), half the...

HONG KONG (AP) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday China is not a military threat to the United States. He also urged Beijing to do a better job explaining the benefits of cheap Chinese imports to American consumers. Speaking to delegates at the Pacific Basin Economic Council business conference, Powell said China's increase in weapons spending does not make it a threat to the United States. "The threat comes from the capability to execute these plans and the intention to do so," he said. "My analysis in the last four years is that China has no...

Less Howard Dean, more FDR   . . . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.--"As You Like It," Act II, Scene 7 WITH THE INSTALLATION of Howard Dean as Democratic party chairman, modern American liberalism...

It's not working for me this year. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue just isn't working. We're told this issue will generate $50 million in ad sales, calendars, television shows and other spin-offs, but I think more people are thinking and feeling precisely what I am: The concept is tired and played out. Surely you've heard about the history of this issue. In 1964, the editors wanted to do something to draw readers during February. With football over and baseball not yet begun, readership usually plunged. So on Jan. 20, 1964, they launched the first swimsuit issue -- a cover shot...

The inaugural address was in several respects confusing. The arresting feature of it was of course the exuberant idealism. But one wonders whether signals were crossed in its production, and a lead here is some of the language used. The commentators divulged that the speech was unusual especially in one respect, namely that President Bush turned his attention to it the very next day after his reelection. Peggy Noonan and Karen Hughes, speaking in different television studios, agreed that this was unusual. Presidents attach great importance to inaugural addresses, but they don’t, as a rule, begin to think about them...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Sen. Robert C. Byrd's autobiography will be released this summer, and West Virginia's old-school orator and senior statesman hopes his story will inspire others to consider public service. "Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields" chronicles the 87-year-old Democrat's life from his boyhood to his election in 2000, when he won an eighth term in the U.S. Senate. The 700-page tome will sell for $35 in hardback when it's released June 15, said Patrick Conner, director of the West Virginia University Press. ...But there have been missteps. In 2001, Byrd apologized for using a racial epithet...

Castro laughs off his fall 22oct04 SANTA CLARA, Cuba: Fidel Castro suffered a fall yesterday, possibly breaking an arm and a knee, but laughed off the accident, assuring Cubans he remained in good spirits and in one piece. Television cameras pictured the fall after the communist President, 78, finished a speech to graduates of the Santa Clara art school, 280km east of Havana. "Please excuse me for having fallen ... just so no one speculates, I may have a fracture in my knee and maybe one in my arm, but I remain in one piece," a seated Dr Castro, who...

As former President Jimmy Carter walked into the Woodruff P.E. Center Wednesday evening, Emory students and faculty gave him a standing ovation. Carter donned Emory colors for the occasion: a blue and gold tie, white striped shirt and blue suit. More than 1,200 students, faculty and staff filled the WoodPEC gym. James W. Dooley, the eternal spirit of Emory, arrived shortly after Carter, his wife Rosalynn, University President James W. Wagner, Vice President for Campus Life John Ford and Student Government Association President Jimin Kim. During his speech, Carter called the war in Iraq one of the most “gross and...

Walter Cronkite is doing a lot of talking these days, what with writing a syndicated column and working for several TV networks, and he recently spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle, disseminating some of his "Moses-like rhetoric" on everything from the Christian right to President Bush to Janet Jackson's anatomy. Chronicle interviewers asked Cronkite to what he attributes his 63-year long marriage, and he quipped, "I do think one of the factors was we were of different sexes." As laughter filled the room, he added, "That doesn't mean I wouldn't have been happy to be married to several friends I...

The Senate chamber filled with audible gasps Tuesday when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the pro-choice champion, clearly voted ''yes'' on final passage of the bill to ban partial-birth abortion. It was a mistake, however, and Kennedy changed his vote a few minutes later. This marked the second time in a week that Kennedy, widely considered the most powerful member of the Senate, became confused on an important vote. He mistakenly voted with President Bush in opposing a Democratic-backed amendment to require partial Iraqi repayment of U.S. reconstruction aid. On that occasion, Senate Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle conferred with Kennedy and...

I'm with the kid in Fallujah, the Army private in the Third Infantry Division, who said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ought to resign. Rummy and his crowd led and misled those soldiers out there to occupy a country we can defeat but not control. Rumsfeld, who should never have been given an army to play with, is either nuts or incompetent. I tend toward the former. He and President Bush overreached in sending 16 of the Army's 33 combat-ready divisions to win an easy war and now have to leave them out there to occupy the desert - something...

The slowdown of the brain with old age is due to the lack of a brain chemical which helps neurons to be selective about what they respond to, reveals research involving the world's oldest monkeys. Higher brain functions, such as visual recognition or understanding language, require the processing of information in the brain but decline as people get older. This decline appears to be due to a reduction in a neurotransmitter called GABA, say researchers, which means neurons with specific tasks become more easily fired by some other stimulus. Macaque monkeys, with an age equivalent to 90-years in humans, were...

Should critics of the U.S. attack on Iraq hang their heads now that the United States has won the second Persian Gulf War? Absolutely not! People who opposed the attack on Iraq never had any doubt that the United States -- the world's lone military superpower -- would roll over a pitiful Third World country. That wasn't the point. Instead, it was a question of why should the U.S. military kill thousands of innocent Iraqis, maim thousands more and ruin their country to take out one man. All of that, for questionable U.S. motives. Under its historic principles and treaty...

Q Since you speak for the President, we have no access to him, can you categorically deny that the United States will take over the oil fields when we win this war? Which is apparently obvious and you're on your way and I don't think you doubt your victory. Oil -- is it about oil? MR. FLEISCHER: Helen, as I've told you many times, if this had anything to do with oil, the position of the United States would be to lift the sanctions so the oil could flow. This is not about that. This is about saving lives by...

ARI FLEISCHER: And with that, I'm more than happy to take your questions. Helen. HELEN THOMAS, Hearst Newspapers columnist: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up. FLEISCHER: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the President, as he said in his statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel. THOMAS: My follow-up...

Poor Ann, She can't help it!

It is now apparent that Bill Clinton is the head of the Democratic Party. Al Gore is strangely(fittingly) absent or is playing Far Left Field to batters that will not come close to hitting out his way. This is argueably one of the most important times in American history,on a par with the Civil War and our contry needs leadership now more than ever. The Democrats are now largley a putrid party in their ideas and leadership, as evidenced by Torrecelli and the recent insults of old age being thrust upon the American Political stage.With Wellstones death, enter Mondale, who...

If first impressions mean anything, Norm Coleman is going to beat Walter Mondale. Mondale is giving his first press conference, and he looks very old and slow. In my opinion, he doesn't inspire confidence, and he looks ready to drop dead off the stage! If Coleman cant beat this doddering senior, then he cant beat anyone.