Posted on 09/07/2005 8:04:44 AM PDT by madprof98
It is pretty heavy rock for it's time. It is usually played on Classic rock stations, but only his big name songs. It is bluesy and rock guitar. But it is truly original. To me, it still stands up better than anything coming out today.
No, I didn't see that. Thanks for telling me. Bet the media won't show that footage again!
I'm not surprised. The Vietnamese immigrants I've met are some of the best Americans ever. (With the exception of some of the Hmong mountain people, who've had trouble assimilating.)
There's a great movie about a Vietnamese-American man (son of a US soldier) and his struggle to get to America from Vietnam. It's called The Beautiful Country. Probably not in theaters anymore, but definitely worth watching if you can find it.
OK, "Hello, Poverty." I know, an old Art Carney joke.
Povery can only be addressed by those in it. The government can keep moving the poverty scale up and they can make those in it more comfortable but moving up the ladder is an individual effort.
My old hairdresser was Viet.
As a boy he w/his family was 1 of the "boat people".
He grew up to be a hairdresser (he's very flamboyant - rather the opposite of what he'd be wearing if he were stuck in true Viet poverty!), and a few years ago bought the salon at which he worked. He now runs it.
In that time he also got married (nice wedding) and has 2 boys.
He's only about 40.
Maybe it's time for some rock & roll affirmative action.
I believe that is the same Cynthia Tucker that Neal Boortz calls, "The cutest little Commie in Georgia" ...
Fred Reed nails it this week. Read his column at:
http://fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm
If horse manure were music, Cynthia wrote a friggin' symphony.
At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.
Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, and shelter.
If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you.
Right now the site mostly covers Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio but I will add various churches, schools, and other charities in Ft. Worth and Lubbock tonight. My wife spent yesterday at Reunion Arena in Dallas handing out care packages and otherwise ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer.
There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would greatly appreciate it if you would get the word out.
Many thanks,
Michael McCullough
Stingray blogsite
I think it's slightly different--her head's so far up her fundament that you can see her ears wiggle when she opens her mouth. A former boss of mine had the same problem.
There were huge numbers of drowned cars in every flooded neighborhood, most of which were probably functional, showing most of those people could have evacuated themsleves if they had taken the advice to leave seriously.
I also have a bet for you: Ten years from now, most of those "poor Chinese cooks" will be far better off financially than the vast majority of the native born Americans who're presently being evacuated from NO, having failed to heed the advice to leave.
Good point!
In fact, it's kind of obvious. But leave it to the media to not put two-and-two-together about all those flooded cars.
Ten years from now, most of those "poor Chinese cooks" will be far better off financially than the vast majority of the native born Americans
Yep!
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