The “best” Manchester United team failed to carry the torch of the Busby Babes, despite wearing a replica of the 1958 kits. In fact, this was one of United’s worst performances in...
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"A Little Respect" (Un poco de respeto), es uno de los éxitos de Erasure, formado en 1985 por Vince Clarke en los sintetizadores (antiguo co-fundador y ex-integrante de Depeche Mode) y el cantante Andy Bell.Vince Clarke después del éxito obtenido al lado de Depeche Mode, abandonó el proyecto para pasar a formar con la cantante Alison Moyet el grupo Yazoo. Sin embargo, Vince permaneció en este nuevo grupo por un periodo efímero (por un año, igual al tiempo que estuvo en Depeche Mode). En este año, la autoría de Clarke fueron las canciones Upstair At Eric's (1982) y You And Me Both (1983), y dejó atrás éste proyecto a causa de la separación de la cantante, quien tomó un rumbo diferente.Luego de que Vince creara The Assembly, él conoció a Andy Bell a finales de 1984. Desde aquel entonces hasta hoy, Erasure ha editado once trabajos de estudio logrando conseguir más de 25 millones de copias de sus álbumes vendidos (y contando), 4 discos números 1 en Inglaterra, más de 3
Sneaking this in after I said I'd be down, I know...I just have a minute to two to note that, if someone offered to pay me to concoct drivel like this, I'd tell them to keep their money and let me do what I do here instead.(And yes, I know this has been another day of bad news for the Edwards campaign, and concerning a crucial state, but it seems that our dear corporate media cousins want him out of the picture so badly that they're willing to come up with this scenario with Gore to try and hasten his departure.)And given this new idiocy about the possibility of "Al Gore uniting the Democrats," I can hardly wait for someone to suggest that Newt Gingrich enter and unite the Republicans. However, I won't hold my breath waiting for anyone to say that.
I was reading through a thread yesterday on the excellent Slugger O’Toole web site, which developed along the lines of that old chestnut, “There has been a decline in respect for authority in recent years.” Whilst in years gone by such talk was the terrane of the elderly, these days it is something one hears often and from the young and old, not least because the media spouts it on a regular bases and it got me to thinking about whether there is any actual truth in such claims.Undoubtedly if one asks the man or woman on the Claphan Omnibus whether there has been a decline in respect for authority; they are liable to reply yes and they might even go further and claim that the lack of respect for authority is an affliction of the modern age. Of course in reality the reverse is true as we in the west today accept the diktat of those in authority without question far more than in our parents and grand parents day. So why do people seem to believe the contrary that there is a general
Greg Armstrong still remembers the cold call he received one day in the late 1980s from EnCap Investments partner Gary Petersen. Armstrong had just moved the company that would become Plains All American Pipeline from Oklahoma City to Houston. The firm was then worth about $30 million. "He said, 'I...
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Premier Wen Jiabao of China told Myanmar’s Prime Minister Thein Sein that the people of his nation must make final determinations as to their future, but the “international community should provide constructive assistance.” He urged the Burma leader to work with the UN special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari on finding a peaceful solution. The Association of [...]
I’m not going to apologies for returning to the English Left once again, for whilst it might enrage and frustrate me at times, it is a vital component of the UK’s democracy. When I write about the left in a critical manner I never lose sight of the fact that without the fractious group of comrades who make it up, there would have been no organized opposition in the UK to the invasion of Iraq and countless other vital campaigns would cease to exists, not least street level anti racism work and support for asylum seekers. It also has some wonderful militants within its ranks who are daily engaged in a multitude of struggles helping to make this world a better and more equal place. Having said all this as far as the English Left and Party building is concerned, it is becoming increasingly a case of to many chiefs and not enough Indians. In London alone at the weekend there were four sizable gatherings of left socialists. The Labour Representative Committee drew approximately 300 com
Derek Wall of the Green Party of England and Wales spoke at both conferences, Respect and Respect Renewal.
I don’t think either RESPECT is going to fly, although I would like to see Greens work with socialists, the socialists outside the Green Party are painfully divided.
I think I was invited to talk about ecosocialism and I [...]
Hilary Wainwright had an interesting piece on the Comment is Free section of yesterdays Guardian, in which she asked what could be learnt from the recent split in the Respect Party, I thought on the day the two waring factions within the Respect Party hold their inaugural conferences, I would peruse some of the points she raised, as none of us on the left should be pleased with what has happened to the Respect Party, not least because if it implodes those working class people in places like east-London, Birmingham and Preston, who Hilary mentions in her article, would be left without any decent political representation.* Despite the fact that many members of the Respect Party put their heart and soul into building it, Respect became a victim of its top down politics, whether it be the great leader syndrome as represented by George Galloway or the Vanguard politics of the SWP. Sadly a section of the non Labour Party left continues to display an almost mechanical adulation of every thing
The general consensus amongst the non Socialist Workers Party UK Left, seems to be that no matter what the two opposing factions within the Respect Party might do after their respective conferences next weekend, the Respect Party is doomed to whither away. A substantial number of these leftists also believe that the brouhaha is lacking any real political differences. I'm not so sure about this as there are clear differences between the two factions as to how the Respect Party would evolve in the future. For if one looks at the Statement from Nick Wrack, a part of which I have posted as O/R ‘Quote of the Week,’ it become pretty clear that the Galloway faction see Respect as the embryo of a new Left Party. Whereas the SWP tops do not; and I am certain never have had any intention of working to turn the Respect Party into a new Left Party, thus these are are real political differences by any ones standards.Leaving aside the personalities involved, which is not easy I agree, one gets a
In a thinly-veiled suggestion that he doesn't feel he's treated well enough in the UK, Elvis Costello has said he wouldn't be bothered if he never played Britain again:"I don't care if I ever play in England again. That [Glastonbury 2005] gig made up my mind that I wouldn't come back. I don't get along with it. We lost touch. It's 25 years since I lived there. I don't dig it, they don't dig me." But not playing a country because you stank up the festival is a little short-sighted, isn't it? After all, the audience at an expensive festival is hardly going to be your core audience, is it; to go into a big grump and wipe an entire nation - especially one which has been enthusiastically supportive of you for so long - is a little bit crabby.Costello then suggests that the real reason is the young folk don't treat him like a god:"British music fans don't have the same attitude to age as they do in America, where young people come to check out, say, Willie Nelson. They feel some connection
Respect, the primary Left party in Britain has fractured. Socialist Workers Party organized a coup and jacked the party apparatus. So, the non-SWP members of Respect, including Member of Parliament George Galloway, will be holding a Respect Renewal conference on Nov 17 to form a new party. SWP will also have a conference, no doubt [...]
Yesterday was a bittersweet day of baseball for me. I was rooting for the Rockies to beat the Red Sox and try and make a series out of things. This was obviously a disappointment. However, upon finding out that Arod had turned down the Yankees, I was ecstatic and almost proud of him. I thought it was so cool that he was turning down the evil empire to go and play somewhere else. The only problem is in the way in which he did it.The Yankees were willing to pay Rodriguez the highest salary in history and couldn't even get him to the negotiating table, after his four seasons with the team. I truly admire the fact that he could step away from the money like that, all be it he is financially secure right now (to say the least). However, I agree completely with Buster Olney, the 4th game of the world series was definitely not the appropriate time to make this announcement. This came off to me as a real headline-grabbing, arrogant move to me. The way he did this was totally classless. H
The political left is currently humming with talk about the events that led up to the UK Socialist Workers Party expelling three of its leading members. For those who are not up to speed with the minutely of UK left wing politics, in early 2004, along with the former Labour Party MP George Galloway, the SWP leadership set up what they regarded as a Front organization called the Respect Party. The main purpose of the new organization was to act as an electoral front to hover up the votes of those people who had become disillusioned with the Labour Party due to the war on Iraq. Galloway and the SWP tops calculated that this was a sizable constituency, not least because they believed it included a majority of the UK’s Muslim community.Whilst naming the new organization the Respect Party [RP] it was no such thing in reality, as it had none of the normal democratic structures that are common to most political party’s within Western democracies. From its inception Respect was a top do
Recently I have been noticing increasing divides between many members of the BT and indeed conservatives. It would appear that this all began when the topic of Faith Based Schools(FBS) and their funding came into the equation as a hot-topic.Regardless of where one sits on the FBS fence, one thing is absolutely necessary; preserving a level of conversation that demonstrates our esteem and respect for one another and our varying faiths.We may not agree on religion, but we do agree on many other fronts. There is no reason that people who have a common goal of achieving reduced government, fiscal responsible government, personal responsibility and a strong moral society can't put their differences aside in order to accomplish these goals.All too often one side or another in the religion debate reach a level of rhetoric that is not only disrespectful, but sometimes down-right childish. I see atheist conservatives clashing with christian and catholic conservatives. Sadly, some of the time th
This one always seemed to sit uneasily with These Animal Men's stance that they were right, from the get-go. We did consider inflicting Bruce Willis 'return of Bruno' era cover of Respect Yourself on you here, as some sort of warning from history, but instead, here's Erasure doing A Little Respect in the Milton Keynes Bowl in 1990, which mainly is worth it because someone posts on the YouTube page, apparently straight-faced, the question "is he gay?"[Part of TAM Commandments weekend]
I came into the office this evening to run a couple of jobs that I wasn’t able to do while I was in K-ville. This is what greeted me in the hallway:
There were a half-dozen of these signs. And, in the entrance of my cubicle, I was greeted with:
Clearly, an overload [...]
We, the undersigned, draw the attention of the International Olympic Committee to the following:
Whereas, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International community have noted increasingly deteriorating human rights conditions in China.
Whereas, the recent report from David Kilgour, former Canadian MP and Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific and human rights lawyer David Matas, expose [...]
This morning I received five visitors to my blog.Madrid, SpainNashville, TNMilpitas, CALos Angeles, CASydney, AustraliaOne of the these visitors took it upon himself (I assume it was a man since men are generally more insensitive and aggresive than women) to post a comment in response to my entry about the deaths of both of my parents last week. Of course the comment was anonymous. Of course it was hateful and designed to inflict pain. The only pain it inflicted on me was just knowing that there are people so pathetic, evil, and hateful as that person.My father's death was unexpected. He had been ill for the past five years but his condition was stable and he was on the VA hospital's waiting list for an operation. I didn't know he passed away until two days after the fact. Luckily he had a cell phone which I gave to him years ago and which I have been paying the bill ever since. He used that phone to call one of my brothers who was able to be at his bedside during his last moments of l
Lawmakers with no respect for the lawIt becomes ever more amazing to see the lengths to which proponents of the Bush/Kennedy/McCain immigration "reform" compromise bill will go in their increasingly desperate effort to gain passage. Consider Thursday's defeat of an amendment requiring that Congress certify that all current laws on the books regarding border security and immigration are being enforced before any new amnesty-like processes can begin for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. Offered by Republican Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the amendment was defeated 54-42. Some important names are found among the 54 senators who voted against the amendment, including Democratic presidential candidates Joseph Biden of Delaware, Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois. Among Republican presidential hopefuls, Sam Brownback of Kansas voted against the amendment, and John McCain of Arizona missed the vote. Senat
In a recent speech to a Mississippi civic group, Sen. Trent Lott brought up Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's role on important domestic legislation, including Kennedy's latest push to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.When Lott was finished, a man in the audience came up to him and said: "You did real good. But that part about Kennedy -- don't say that no more.""He is the number one boogeyman for conservative Republicans," Lott said later of the longtime Democratic senator from Massachusetts. But, Lott added, "he is a good legislator, and you can't take that away from him." Elizabeth Williamson, Washington Post Staff Writer, Wednesday, May 30, 2007; A11.
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