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Times were different in 1939. Everyone was poor, and people grew up quickly. Traveling with a dance band at the age of 15 would not be allowed now.
Posted by plainjim]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:37:35 -0500 Arkansas Times
Wanted it on my iPod. So of course I found the link where you can download it for free, legally (the only way I operate). No viruses or malware. I scanned it. (No glove, no love, I always say.)

My GOD, I'm such a giver. My universal love and generosity at times brings even me to tears.

http://togrool.com/download-doris-day-who-…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:50:06 -0500 Arkansas Times
I haven't listened to "Who are We to Say" in forever. So I found it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyg5wpMTW4g


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:22:21 -0500 Arkansas Times
She still, at 88 or whatever, gets on the phone on her birthday with a local Carmel radio host, as she apparently has for years, to say hello and thank her fans.

Remarkable woman and remarkable life (not personally as happy as most imagine, but indomitable).
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:32:06 -0500 Arkansas Times
I love that earlier era music. People forget, with all the pablum like "Everybody Loves a Lover," what a brilliant vocalist Doris Day was.

If you ever get a chance, listen to her "Who Are We to Say" with Andre Previn. Or their version of that old "Annie, Get Your Gun" Ethel Merman warhorse, "I Got Lost in His Arms." (Doris Day's simple but heartbreaking flourish on the last word in THAT one--"found"--is alone worth the price of admission.)

I'm not joking when I say Hayden's drop-dead version of "I've Been Working on the Railroad," of all songs, is equally spellbinding and impressive. Only a genius would think of doing it. Only a great talent could have pulled it off. (And Doris couldn't accompany herself on guitar.)
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:24:22 -0500 Arkansas Times
Is Kim Novak still alive? She left the rat race as well , moved to Big Sur and married a vet.

They are two gorgeous blonds. Definitely a cut above what passes for blonds these days.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:33:56 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.squarestate.net/showDiary.do?di…

Posted by radical centrist]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:03:51 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by NB Lives In Pangburn Trailer Home]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:20:28 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/15/dont_censo…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:16:44 -0500 Arkansas Times
The weak-kneed cowards of Baxter County, Michigan Legislature, Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Tea Klans nationwide are scared. They are scared of change, of losing control, of freedom.

If you want to see real courage and patriotism, watch this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience…
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:50:54 -0500 Arkansas Times
‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/…
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:11:09 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…

Should have known it's going to be that kind of Friday night. EDT insiders are driving me crazy phoning. But it's serious and they need me. So of course I'm here for them rather than joining my other Angels tonight in the City of.

I like to think it's what Doris would do, though she retired before I was born so I only know her from her old movies. We never had the mutual pleasure.

If I eventually make sense of my insiders' urgent content-dump tonight, then like Kelse, I shall share.

Que, sera, sera.

Posted by Norma Bates]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:55:09 -0500 Arkansas Times
That's fine. Create an environment of exclusion with your company policy, but don't hide under the cloak of the Catholic Church as the reason when you've got little to nothing left of your Catholic Origins.
Posted by Ron Rizzardi]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:36:46 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Nanc]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:07:22 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:36:58 -0500 Arkansas Times
Maybe the bishops would be well-advised to stop trying to force a pluralistic secular democracy to dance to their tune and to clean up their own house--as a jury deliberates in Philadelphia about a gross cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by priests, and as the bishop of Kansas City faces criminal indictment for protecting a priest known to have child pornography on his computer.
Posted by William D. Lindsey]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:32:52 -0500 Arkansas Times
Of course, as we've seen with crooked state officials and a stacked SCOTUS, they can always STEAL. Terrorist intimidation works too. See abortion clinic bombings, killings and near-elimination of abortion services. In the name of God.

Even a fifth grader gets it. Kameron Slade of P.S. 195 in Queens won a class competition with a speech endorsing marriage equality. Thanks to the principal, who deemed the topic "inappropriate," Slade won’t be able to deliver it in the school-wide contest.

"Shut up!" in other words.

So a local TV affiliate had Slade deliver it for their cameras and it's going viral. Just posted yesterday.

Slade is working on another speech for the contest, on preventing animal cruelty.

"Officials with the New York City Department of Education declined comment on the principal’s decision but told NY1 that Kameron will be allowed to give the same-sex marriage speech Monday in a different venue."

THEY have already lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:02:37 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:54:37 -0500 Arkansas Times
Their message is clear: Religious Dogma above science and facts.

Their response when called on the scam? Clam up. Like your St. Vincent has with the A-T. Shun questioners. Be accountable to nobody, ultimately, but your religious authorities. Set policies behind closed doors. Fight exposure of the truth.

They're not being merely petty: their life's blood depends on preventing exposure of the game. (I don't know. What vampires do is technically called "assault." But is it "assault" to expose vampires to the light of day or drive stakes through their hearts? Or are those acts "blessings?")

Their percentage of charitable giving versus "expenses" is arrogant, insulting and revealing. Mormon faithful are required to tithe 10% to a church leadership that only tithes less than 1% to "charities" that support their religious dogma?

That's a fail, Flipper.

Factor in $2+ billion in Catholic child abuse settlements and you're beginning to talk real money.

The numbers you cite, BWC, (from so many sources) are absolutely right. Stop taxpayer funding of all discriminatory religious organizations--"charities," schools, hospitals, businesses. The U.S. government and taxpayers don't exist to fund religious discrimination, according to the Constitution.

If religions' Word is so wonderfully evident in their followers' lives and services, people will FLOCK to their private religious schools, hospitals, "charities" and businesses. They will be financially self-supporting and can irrationally discriminate against women, gays, non-theists and anybody else they choose.

End taxpayer / government subsidies for religious discrimination. No loopholes or "exceptions" available for widespread abuse. Let the chips fall where they may.

America can then subsidize vital secular government / taxpayer supported scientific / factual education, health care and social services / infrastructures without the tainted, greedy, bigoted hand of religion skimming its 70-90+ percent for proselytizing "expenses."

That'll be the day, praise be.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:29:09 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by ironfortified]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:33:35 -0500 Arkansas Times
I don't know that atheism is gaining momentum as much as religion is losing steam. Add to that declaring oneself atheist or agnostic no longer as tramatic.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:05:36 -0500 Arkansas Times www.huffingtonpost.com

The controversial contraception mandate proposed by the president had Congress debating about the morality of birth control, however according to a recent Gallup poll, 89 percent of all Americans and 82 percent of U.S. Catholics agree that birth control is morally acceptable.

Catholic Cardinal Says Church Is Willing To Let Poor People Starve In Protest Of Contraception Mandate(VIDE0)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/23/ca…

Apparently religious churches couldn't survive if they weren't subsidized by taxpaers both at the state and federal level. Here's an article that will get your drawers in a twit. Perhaps my all white male leadership (?) should pay attention.

The article states: The Mormon Church gave $1 billion to chaitable causes betwen 1985-2008 which actually equates to only .7 percent of annual charitable income? On average church operating expenses consumes 71 percent of churches income leaving on 29% for all other expenses including charitable work where as the American Red Cross spends 92.1% of its income on charity and 8.9% on operations. States subsidize churches to the tune of 26.2 billion per year on non taxable (value of $600 billion) real estate......!

How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the United States

The following is from a press release distributed by the Center for Inquiry:

AMHERST, NY: In times of crippling cutbacks to badly needed government services, a new article published by Free Inquiry magazine details how the tax exemptions enjoyed by religious institutions cost the U.S. a staggering $71 billion per year, at the least. Meanwhile, this religious privilege helps to subsidize the lavish homes and lifestyles of numerous clergy on the taxpayers’ dime.

In their new report, “How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the U.S.,” researchers Ryan T. Cragun, Stephanie Yeager, and Desmond Vega reject the common assumption of churches as “charitable organizations” and instead classify them as primarily the purveyors of a kind of spiritual entertainment. “What we found,” they write, “suggests that religions, if they were required to pay taxes as for-profit corporations do, would not have nearly as much money or influence as they enjoy in America today.”

The authors calculate the loss of tax revenue to exceed $71 billion—with “parsonage” subsidies alone amounting to over $1.2 billion—and even these estimates, they say, are extremely conservative given the cloudiness and obfuscation that is endemic in religious finances. Write the authors, “We realized that religions would be the ideal way to launder money if you were engaged in an illegal enterprise.”

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?s…

However, keep calm and rest assured Atheism is gaining momentum.

Posted by ButWhoCares]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:41:12 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.terra-strategies.com/
Posted by radical centrist]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:17:24 -0500 Arkansas Times http://www.arkansas-catholic.org/article.p…
Posted by G.]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:14:29 -0500 Arkansas Times