The Trolley Song from "Meet Me In St. Louis"

Judy Garland

With my high starched collar and my high top shoes
And my hair piled high upon my head,
I went to lose a jolly hour on the trolley,
And lost my heart instead.
With his light brown derby and his bright green tie,
He was quite the handsomest of men.
I started to yen, so I counted to ten,
Then I counted to ten again.
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley,
Ding, ding, ding went the bell.
Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings,
From the moment I saw him I fell.
Chug, chug, chug went the motor,
Bump, bump bump went the brake,
Thump, thump, thump went my heart strings,
When he smiled, I could feel the car shake.
He tipped his hat and took a seat.
He said he hoped he hadn't stepped upon my feet.
He asked my name; I held my breath;
I couldn't speak because he scared me half to death.
Buzz, buzz, buzz went the buzzer,
Plop, plop, plop went the wheels,
Stop, stop, stop went my heart strings.
As he started to go, then I started to know
How it feels when the universe reels.
The day was bright, the air was sweet.
The smell of honeysuckle charmed you off your feet.
You tried to sing, but couldn't squeak.
In fact you loved him so you couldn't even speak.
Buzz, buzz, buzz went the buzzer,
Plop, plop, plop went the wheels.
Stop, stop, stop went my heart strings.
As he started to leave I took hold of his sleeve
With my hand, and as if it were planned,
He stayed on with me,
And it was grand just to stand
With his hand holding mine
To the end of the line.

words & music:Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
copyright: Unknown
recorded: 21 April '44

source: Judy Garland: The Complete Decca Masters, 1994
CD #3 (1942-45) "Meet Me In St. Louis"

"Rhythm of Life" from Sweet Charity

The Rhythm Of Life is a powerful beat,
Puts a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet,
Rhythm in your bedroom,
Rhythm in the street,
Yes, The Rhythm Of Life is a powerful beat,
To feel The Rhythm Of Life,
To feel the powerful beat,
To feel the tingle in your fingers,
To feel the tingle in your feet,
To feel The Rhythm Of Life,
To feel the powerful beat,
To feel the tingle in your fingers,
To feel the tingle in your feet,
Flip your wings and fly to Daddy,
Take a dive and swim to Daddy,
Hit the floor and crawl to Daddy,
Daddy we got The Rhythm Of Life,
Of life, of life, of life.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Man!"

Kerry Blames Bush for Job Losses in Ohio

TOLEDO, Ohio - Presidential hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites) said Wednesday he would require companies to give their employees a three-month warning before sending their jobs abroad, blaming President Bush (news - web sites) for job losses in an appeal to displaced workers in the Democratic battleground state of Ohio. "

That's a stretch! President Bush (the elder and younger) have supported NAFTA...the North American Free Trade Agreement...which has sent jobs out of the United Staes. Senator Kerry supported and voted for the implementation of NAFTA which has sent jobs out of the United States.... So how can Senator Kerry blame President bush for sending jobs out of the US? And how would it help the workers if they are being given notice of their lay off three months or one day day before the end of their jobs?

Methinks that Sen. Kerry is kinda lyin' here, dontcha?

LEAVE ME ALONE (RUBY RED DRESS) Helen Reddy
Words and music by Linda Laurie

Big ole ruby red dress wanders round the town
Talkin to herself now, sometimes sitten down
Don't you get too close now, ruby runs away
Poor ole ruby red dress born on a sorry day
I can hear her say

CHORUS:

Leave me alone, won't you leave me alone
Please leave me alone now, leave me alone
Leave me alone, please leave me alone, yes leave me
Leave me alone won't you leave me alone
Please leave me alone, no leave me alone
Leave me along, just leave me alone, oh leave me

Big ole ruby red dress, everybody laughs
Say she's got no future and never made no past
Something hurt that ruby, shomething she can't bear
Ya look at her real close now, you see a little tear
When she says now

CHORUS

Some folks say some farm boy up from Tennessee
Taught it all to Ruby, then just let her be
Her daddy tried to hide it, tried to keep things cool
But something happened to Ruby, she broke down to a fool
who just said now

CHORUS "

"I ENJOY BEING A GIRL"
From "Flower Drum Song" (Rogers/Hammerstein)

When I have a brand new hairdo
With my eyelashes all in curl
I float as the clouds on air do
I enjoy being a girl
When men say I'm cute and funny
And my teeth aren't teeth but pearl
I just lap it up like honey
I enjoy being a girl

I flip when a fella sends me flowers
I drool over dresses made of lace
I talk on the telephone for hours
With a pound and a half of cream upon my face

I'm strictly a female female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl like me."

I AM WOMAN
-
(Reddy and Burton)


I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again

CHORUS
Oh yes I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

You can bend but never break me
'cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul

CHORUS

I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh yes I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman
Oh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong

FADE
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman

I'm sorry but I don't have any love lost for the Iraqi insurgents who have attacked, maimed, and killed coalition forces in Iraq.

British soldiers kicked and punched hooded Iraqi prisoners

British soldiers in Iraq kicked and punched hooded prisoners as they screamed for mercy, a witness to an incident in which one Iraqi detainee was allegedly beaten to death was quoted as saying.
The serving British soldier, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Thursday's edition of The Sun newspaper he had been 'sick to his stomach' after witnessing the beatings in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

Britain's defence ministry said earlier this month that it was investigating the death of an Iraqi prisoner while in British custody following reports that he had been beaten to death.
According to The Sun, the dead man was among nine Iraqis held by the Queen's Lancashire Regiment on suspicion of being bandits last September, just a few weeks after the regiment lost one of its number to a roadside bomb."

There was the Paula Cole song from several years ago, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" I have to say now..."Where have all the really funny comics gone?".... Just like the strangest thought which went through my head while driving home from having a beer (yes, one beer) with friends tonight: I would have so loved to see Gilda Radner as "Emily Litella" doing something on "Kiddie Porn" vs. "Kitty Porn" and then Jane Curtin explaining the difference between the two, and then Emily Litella meekily looking at the camera saying, "Never mind."

Canada Condemns 'Racist' Conan O'Brien TV Show
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government on Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual.

Mmmmm...I always thought all Quebecois WERE homosexuals!

In an off-the-record conversation with a dozen reporters earlier this week, General Wesley Clark plainly stated: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." [Three reporters in attendance confirm Clark made the startling comments.]

When is "off the record" journalistically "on the record"?

Just possibly I'm going to have to eat my words and my opinions about Britney Spears... Her video for her great song "Toxic" is FANTASTIC....



Toxic

Baby, can't you see, I'm callin'
A guy like you should war a warnin'
You're dangerous, I'm fallin'
There's no escape, I can't wait
I need a hit, baby give me it
You're dangerous, I'm lovin' it
Too high, can't come down
Losing my head, spinning round and round
Do you feel me now

CHORUS
Oh, the taste of your lips, I'm on a ride
You're toxic, I'm slippin' under
Oh, the taste of your poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic
And I love what you do
Don't you know that you're toxic

It's getting late to give you up
I took a sip from the devil's cup
Slowly it's taking over me
Too high, can't come down
It's in the air and it's all around
Can you feel it now

CHORUS - as before

Intoxicate me now
With your lovin' now
I think I'm ready now...I think I'm ready now
Intoxicate me now
With your lovin' now
I think I'm ready now

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
-- Winnie the Pooh "

My sentiments exactly.

"TIKRIT, Iraq - For Staff Sgt. Isaac Day and many other American soldiers serving here, ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein made the war worthwhile regardless of whether anyone ever finds weapons of mass destruction.
'I'm glad we got Saddam,' said Day, of Tarpon Springs, Fla. 'When I grow old I can tell my grandchildren that we liberated this country.'
That was a sentiment expressed in dozens of interviews with U.S. soldiers stationed near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown and a center of resistance to the U.S. occupation.
'Saddam lived in splendor while the rest of his people had to fend for themselves,' Maj. Paul Lehto of Kingston, Mass., said over lunch here.
Despite widespread resistance from some of America's oldest and closest allies, President Bush (news - web sites) launched the war last March because Iraq allegedly possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. Senior administration officials also said Saddam wanted to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program which was cut short by the 1991 Gulf War .
However, no such weapons have been found. David Kay, who led the weapons search after the end of active combat, has said he doubted that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction in recent years.
'My satisfaction came when we were riding through from Kuwait and all these children were shouting 'America is number one'," said Staff Sgt. Temu Gibson from Schenectady, N.Y.
Most of the 130,000 American troops stationed in Iraq have access to the Internet and other media and are aware of the growing political storm over the failure to find any weapons.
A number of them say Saddam's brutality to his own people justified the war.
"I have a shoebox full of pictures of people who have gone missing over the last 30 years," said one soldier who asked to be identified as Mac. "And people are getting all tied up over the WMD issue. Coming here was the right thing to do."
Still, the ongoing attacks by insurgents and the continuing loss of American lives underscore the political problems facing the Bush administration over the absence of any weapons of mass destruction.
Lt. Jerry England said it appeared that Bush had "played on the fear" of weapons of mass destruction in arguing the case for war. "It was a harder case to sell without them," said England, from Overland Park, Kan.

Projects are an excuse for a mess. It's a part of creativity.

I'm very creative..... ergo.... I'm very messy.

What did I say a few days ago about my computer and how it is so much like the US Mars rover "Spirit" and "Opportunity"?

Spirit had been crippled for the past two weeks because its flash memory system — a setup similar to that used on digital cameras here on Earth — couldn't handle the size and number of files that were being stored onboard. After diagnosing the problem, engineers had to reboot the system remotely, and mission manager Jennifer Trosper said the rover now appears to be operating normally.

"I think I can say this morning with as much certainty as we can say anything here that our patient is healed — and we're very excited about that," Trosper told reporters at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. She also reported that Spirit communicated successfully with Europe's Mars Express orbiter, strengthening an "international, interplanetary communication network."

Reviewing Spirit's past failings, flight software architect Glenn Reeves said the memory glitch was a "very serious problem" that was worsened when "we managed to corrupt this file system." He said the memory management issue was not caught during the pre-launch testing process, but a review of the test data turned up hints that storing too many files might create a problem.

AxisofLogic/ Canada

In attempt to fan the fires of disagreement once again after they wer seemingly doused by the new Canadian prime minister, a Time-magazine (a pretty lousy one at that) has put out a poll saying that only 15 percent of Canadians would vote for President Bush. WHO FREAKING CARES? WHAT'S THE POINT?

I love Canada. Canadians are wonderful people. But with apologies to my many Canadian friends, the left wingers in Canada are running amok...IMHO.

Jigsaw
Written by: Clive Scott/Des Dyer

Blown Round By The Wind
Thrown Down In a Spin

I Gave You Love
I Thought That We Had Made It To The Top
I Gave You All I Had To Give
Why Did It Have To Stop

You've Blown It All Sky High
By Telling Me a Lie
Without a Reason Why
You've Blown It All Sky High

You, You've Blown It All Sky High
Our Love Had Wings To Fly
We Could Have Touched The Sky
You've Blown It All Sky High

Up Round I've Flown
Then Down Down Like a Stone

I Gave You Love .."

This past weekend I got the biggest kick listening to some great 80's disco queen songs... Then I heard the classic song "Sky High" by Jigsaw. Woohoo! Put on those dancin' shoes!

This is exactly why I think organized religion is for the birds. My relationship with God is a personal one...not requiring an "oh well" at the end.

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Nearly 250 Muslim worshipers died in a hajj stampede Sunday during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in one of the deadliest tragedies at the notoriously perilous ceremony.
The stampede, during a peak event of the annual Muslim pilgrimage, or hajj, lasted about a half-hour, Saudi officials said. There were 244 dead and hundreds of other worshippers injured, some critically, Hajj Minister Iyad Madani said.
'All precautions were taken to prevent such an incident, but this is God's will. Caution isn't stronger than fate,' Madani said.
Most of the victims were pilgrims from inside the Saudi kingdom and many were not authorized to participate, he said.
In an effort to control the crowd of about 2 million, Saudi authorities sets quotas for pilgrims from each country and required its citizens to register.
The devil-stoning is the most animated ritual of the annual pilgrimage and often the most dangerous. Many pilgrims frantically throw rocks, shout insults or hurl their shoes at the pillars - acts that are supposed to demonstrate their deep disdain for the devil. But clerics frown upon such action, saying it's un-Islamic.
Last year, 14 pilgrims were trampled to death during the ritual and 35 died in a 2001 stampede. In 1998, 180 pilgrims died.
The annual hajj, which began Thursday, climaxed Saturday as some 2 million Muslim pilgrims listened to Saudi Arabia's top cleric denounce terrorists, calling them an affront to Islam. However, he defended the kingdom's strict interpretation of the faith.
Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Sheik said in his sermon there were those who claim to be holy warriors, but were shedding Muslim blood a"