The Gvlshornbook

I’ve been looking at the music of the Conventions, noting how they express the Inner process of the Candidate(s).

Bill Clinton used Fleetwood Mac’s DON’T STOP THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW, as he lead the USA to a budget surplus despite all the obstruction from the GOP controlled House

A prime example of a poor choice of campaign songs was the use of AMERICAN WOMAN by the RNCC when Laura Bush was introduced in 2000. It’s a great song, but I doubt the lyrics were vetted before it was selected. The song has been interpreted as anti-American
Is it? It felt oh, so wrong as an Intro for Laura Bush. but, it unfortunately became a prescient cry from around the world echoing to this day.
Take a listen.

So, what will the Candidates expression of their Vision be? Listen closely to the song they “sing”

UPDATE: Michelle Obama was brought onstage to the tune of Stevie Wonder’s I Was Made to Love Her The “Incidental” Music throughout has bee R&B and Funk. I”ll give it a 10 - you can dance to it.

Providing my friend, who has been honored with being selected as a delegate to the Convention, gets her laptop replaced, there will be a guest blogger coming to you direct from Denver.

Hey, Libertas! Get that thing replaced!!!!
UPDATE: I spoke with my friend and she told me she wouldn’t have her laptop back til friday, she was jsut going to be too busy. Libertas, if you see Sean Hannity, Destroy him with your Wit, and if see the BEST F$CKING NEWSTEAM, make them buy you a drink. or two… or MORE. We look forward to your recap. (please?)

My Grandmother was the first white female born in Curtis, NE. The only Jewish family there until they left in the 1890’s, now, there are none. “Abandoning” a town is a lot different than abandoning a child. and yet, a new Nebraska law, allows for just that:
Nebraska law allows abandonment of teens - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com

OMAHA, Neb. - Nebraska’s new “safe-haven” law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.

While lawmakers may not have intended it, the month-old law raises the possibility that frustrated parents could drop off misbehaving teens or even severely disabled older children with impunity.

While no child has been left behind, this sets a dangerous precedent, as to what constitutes an “unruly child”. It’s so Christian. What’s next? The power for a parent to kill a “rebellious son”?

When it pokes Middle Eastern Oil in the eye:

From the Jerusalem Post:

Gulf states may boycott the Nissan Motor Company as a result of an Israeli TV commercial that it depicts Saudis angered by a fuel-efficient car, a Saudi official has said.

The new campaign by Renault-Nissan caused an uproar in the Gulf when it showed a group of Saudi oil barons screaming and attacking the Renault-Nissan vehicle.

The Saudis are shown leaving a hotel and encountering the new, fuel-efficient vehicle. One man pounds his fists on the car and is then held back by his companions as he shouts at it, “Hawks should peck at you day and night.”

At the end of the commercial, the voice-over says, “It’s clear the oil companies won’t like you.”

awwwww… poor poor nebishes… A fuel efficient car is “racist”? Jesus… you are thin skinned.

Kosher meats firm cited for child labor violations - Yahoo! News

DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa labor officials said Tuesday that they had uncovered dozens of child labor violations at the nation’s biggest supplier of kosher meat.

Officials from the state’s Labor Commissioner’s Office said their investigation, which spanned several months, uncovered 57 cases of child labor law violations at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, where nearly 400 workers were arrested this spring in the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.

The types of violations included minors working in prohibited occupations, exceeding allowable hours for youth to work, failure to obtain work permits, exposure to hazardous chemicals and working with prohibited tools.

I’m a Reformed Jew, and this deeply offends me. I call upon all the organizations that oversee Kosher businesses to strip Agriprocessors of the Kashrut Certification. This is one Sin that shall not be swept under the rug of the Bet Din. This harms us all.

we are enjoined by Sacred Obligation to treat all with respect. It’s right there in Leviticus. Oh, yes. I forget, that today, all one needs to be considered “Observant” is observing the Sabbath and the Fast and High Holy Days. All the other Mitzvot are ignored.

Prodigal son - Haaretz - Israel News

CALIFORNIA - A moment before beginning his dinner, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.

It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization in the West Bank, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. A few seconds later, he is savoring his meal, explaining that he hasn’t been eating much recently because of financial problems. During the past week he has been living with the friend, a Christian, of course, whom he met at church. “Without him,” he says, “I would have become homeless.”