(12/5/02)
Posted on 12/06/2002 4:50:00 AM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail! [President Bush]
Good morning!! Do not let the victims of the attacks in New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Now, the cleanup. More than 1.5 million people remain without electricity in North Carolina this morning.
Algore visited China recently, and it is believed he was paid to speak at a communist government-linked think tank. People could pay 50,000 yuan to get their picture taken with Algore, or 100,000 yuan to buy conference sponsorship packages.
Algore claims he was paid by BusinessWeek to attend the event: "I can tell you specifically our contract says DnmStrategies for BusinessWeek," says Jano Cabrera, spokesman for Algore, as reported by Drudge.
Drudge also reports that Nancy Sheed, spokeswoman for BusinessWeek, says: "This was not an official BusinessWeek-sponsored event. We did not pay any of the participants in the event. We did not pay any of the speakers at the event. BusinessWeek was also not aware that anybody had been invited on behalf of BusinessWeek to speak at the event."
Algore also attended an informal lunch on November 18 with approximately 30 members of the Asia society, sponsored by Hong Kong chairman Mr. Chan. Chan was an independent director of ENRON. Algore knew of Chan's relationship with ENRON because a source said he "told him before we went into the lunch."
Algore may be the master of reinvention, but he does not seem to have reinvented his pechant for Chinese money.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Milt Buckner was a fantastic jazz organist. Back in the 1970s I used to sit in with him once in a while. He played Europe in the winter but he came back to the USA in the Summer time. He worked club circuits. Milt could play piano with his right hand and organ with his left hand. That is not so hard to do but he could play two different songs one on piano and one on organ at the same time.
He taught me to just think a phrase and play it. He would do very involved jazz riffs. He did not think of them as notes .. but the whole riff. On some of them he could not tell you the notes he played. If you asked him how to play it, he would have to stop and figure out how he did it.
You could give Milt any song and ask him to play it in any style... I used to have him play songs like George Shearing would play the song. Then have him do the same song like Basie or even Ferante and Teicher.
I could never play guitar with him because he would arrange songs in his head as he played them with new transition chords not in the books. He called them experience chords. He had played with all the top names in jazz.
What a lot of people did not know was many of the country mucic musicians in Nashville played Jazz for fun. I had gotten a taste of Jazz in nashville in the late 50s.
I once worked a gig with Tex Ritter and Smiley Burnett. Tex was a B movie star in the 30's and 40's. He was John Ritter's (Three's company) Dad. Tex always had you bring him on with "Deep in the Heart of Texas" We would play a chorus as they opened the curtain, then I would introduce Tex and he would come out and sing it. Once just for fun, we did it in a Cha Cha beat. It is a good thing Tex did not have real shells in the pair six shooters he was wearing.
I just spent 30 minutes tearing up the house. I had lost my boot polish. Sheesh! I do drill weekends like a production of "South Pacific". Lots of last minute chaos. LOL! But everything turns out perfectly. Mostly.
/john
I have a very musical weekend ahead of me; accompanying two kids in a concerto competition tomorrow, then playing for Mass at 4, then attending the symphony Christmas concert; and on Sunday, two Masses, and attending a production of "Nutcracker" w/ the Fox Valley Symphony and members of the Moscow Ballet.
AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF..........Sunday night Packers game! No music there, but MUSIC TO MY EARS if they win!!!
Glad I'm not going to the game, though; the high Sunday is supposed to be 21, and that's long BEFORE nightfall.:)
There is an advantage to polishing boots in front of a fireplace. My polish on these is going to look pretty good tomorrow.
/john
I guess we won't be hearing from you for a few days.........hope your weekend goes well..........
I'm going to sign off.........have to get up sort of early (for a Saturday) and be ready to play Mozart by 9:00 a.m.:)
Fourteen angels, Johnny...........make that 28, since you won't be here tomorrow night, prolly.............
God bless us all. Each, and every one.
/john
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