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  Miss USA Booed

Posted by: opiated
05-29-2007, 11:49 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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tough night for her..she falls down, and then gets booed by the Mexican audience

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  Gord's Best Cover song

Posted by: tragicallyphish
05-29-2007, 11:29 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Gotta givethe boys a big hand for trying so many different styles of music. Certain covers I think Gord has nailed other not so much. I think that his voice does really well on certain tones and styles.

I think every Bob Dylan song he has done really well. I also really like the version of 1979 that they do. Also the Band covers have been amazing. Probably my favorite so far, but that me have to do with my Band obsession.
I was also really impressed with Is This Love Marley Cover - don't think there would have been a better cover to play on 4/20.

I was really excited for some Beatles action, but felt Helter Skelter wasn't the best cover they have done. But I am still looking forward to hear Tax Man.

What do other people think?

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  Hip on pei september 10th !! (?)

Posted by: kleh
05-29-2007, 09:15 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I was just woken up with this fabulous news this morning, a local radio station states the shows a go ! :mrgreen: :jump :thumb:

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  "Good Riddance Attention Whore" by Cindy Sheehan

Posted by: NegPhil
05-29-2007, 02:39 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Cindy Sheehan's diary


I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning. These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The conclusions that I have slowly and very reluctantly come to are very heartbreaking to me.

The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a "tool" of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our "two-party" system?

However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left", but "right and wrong."

I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an "attention whore" then I really need to be committed. I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither. If an individual wants both, then normally he/she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march or sit behind his/her computer criticizing others. I have spent every available cent I got from the money a "grateful" country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then. I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey’s brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.

I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.

Our brave young men and women in Iraq have been abandoned there indefinitely by their cowardly leaders who move them around like pawns on a chessboard of destruction and the people of Iraq have been doomed to death and fates worse than death by people worried more about elections than people. However, in five, ten, or fifteen years, our troops will come limping home in another abject defeat and ten or twenty years from then, our children’s children will be seeing their loved ones die for no reason, because their grandparents also bought into this corrupt system. George Bush will never be impeached because if the Democrats dig too deeply, they may unearth a few skeletons in their own graves and the system will perpetuate itself in perpetuity.

I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.

Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas ? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.

This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.

Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

It’s up to you now.

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  Old Interview

Posted by: The Heron Outside
05-28-2007, 11:38 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just came across this...Thought some of you might get a kick out of it...

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Richard Beland has some cool shots and necessary props in here as well...

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  Velvet Revolver

Posted by: Lizard King
05-28-2007, 08:22 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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the new single..

She Builds Quick Machines..
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I think it rocks, anyone else diggin it?

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  misheard lyrics

Posted by: cochise
05-28-2007, 11:49 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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kinda comical

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P.S. I always loved this song

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  Toronto - places to go - things to do for kids???

Posted by: Tthip
05-28-2007, 11:20 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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My sister-in-law is a single mother of three boys (God bless her) so times are often hard.
My wife and I are taking all of them to Toronto in mid July for 3 or 4 days for a real family vacation, our treat.
My question is what to do without killing my wallet?
I am mostly wondering about entetaining her 3 boys (ages 10, 12, 13) it is mostly a vacation for them.
I am also bringing my 1 year old and I can entertain him with almost anything we would end up doing, but I am not sure if my son limits any ideas.
Thanks.

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  Hip Tracker Improvements

Posted by: chris
05-28-2007, 06:25 AM
Forum: Hipfans.com Tracker
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Hey fans,

Since the move to our new server, traffic to the site appears to have increased significantly... which is great... but the number of new shows being posted seems to have dwindled. Is this because the all the shows have already been shared? Or is it that people do not know how to post what they have?

What needs to be done to make thing easier?

I'm working on an FTP site/website where users who cannot access Bit Torrent, or do not know how to post shows through Bit Torrent can upload their shows and then one of the regular torrent posters will seed it.

As well, I've added about 40 more shows to <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/files">www.thehundredthmeridian.com/files</a><!-- w -->

This is a web-accessible download site. Almost all of the shows that are currently there are in MP3 format. As resources permit, I will start to add shows in lossless formats.

So... what else can we do?

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  What crazy luxury only convos should we have?

Posted by: sean.bonner
05-27-2007, 08:55 PM
Forum: The Luxury
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What crazy luxury only convos should we have? any thoughts?

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