Friday's Song Pic #3

Del Shannon

Del Shannon (December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a massive world wide No.1 hit, "Runaway", in 1961. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he grew up in Coopersville, a small town near Grand Rapids. He was drafted into the Army in 1954, and while in Germany played guitar in a band called The Cool Flames. In early 1959 he added keyboardist Max Crook, who played the Musitron which was heard for the first time on "Runaway" (It was Crook's own invention which was a forerunner of the synthesizer). On the 21 January 1961, in just one day, they recorded "Runaway" a Shannon/Crook composition, in New York City. The track was released on the Big Top label as a single in February 1961, reaching #1 in the Billboard chart in April. Shannon followed this with the self penned "Hats Off to Larry", which peaked at #5 (Billboard) and #2 on Cashbox in 1961. Other hit records would follow. Then in 1975 and again in 1990, he recorded with Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, and it was rumored that he would join The Traveling Wilburys after Roy Orbison's death. But suffering from depression, Shannon took his own life on February 8, 1990. Following his death, The Traveling Wilburys honored him by recording their version of "Runaway". 

(Video: (C)TheMcCartneyChannel)

Tom Petty had earlier produced Shannon and Lynne would go on to co-produced Shannon's posthumous album, Rock On, released on Silvertone in 1991. Shannon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. His contributions have also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In 2005, Shannon was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. In 2007, Shannon's recording of "Runaway" was voted the #1 Legendary Michigan Song. Shannon has had two other recordings recognized as Legendary Michigan songs: "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun)" in 2008 and "Hats Off to Larry" in 2009.

The Traveling Wilburys, 1988. L–R: Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne,
Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Tom Petty.
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Spirit Airlines? Fly Sh-t Shuttle Instead!

Spirit Airlines. Why fly with them? We in the UK have their long lost cousin Ryanair, who had a interesting idea; charge passengers to use the toilet. As the adage goes: you only get what you pay for...and if anything goes slightly wrong, boy will you pay...

Oh...you want us to fly you somewhere too? Well that'll cost
you another...

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Scrots And A Deceased Saddo...

A new trove of letters seized during the Osama bin Laden raid and posted online Thursday by the US Military Academy at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center paint an intimate picture of the inner workings and struggles of Al Qaeda, from debates on whether to use drug money to blackmail and recruit 'double agents' to practices that would make any Mafia don proud.

If I'd had to watch another,"Muslims With Talent" I'd have topped myself!

Al Qaeda honchos offered “tributes” just like the tribute money offered to Mafia dons, funds were offered to Al Qaeda out of fear. One letter in the new trove explores whether Al Qaeda leaders should accept such money. It notes, for example, that Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, “has offered us funds, purportedly to [support] Jihad. On the plus side, the author notes that “these funds would go towards the purchase and manufacture of weapons.” It also points to insider fighting, noting that these funds might be used to counter the influence of Hamas, “who fear the growth of our influence and dominion.”
(Anna Mulrine/CS Monitor).
As I've said many a time: Let the demented Islamist factions be at each others satanic scrotums; the longer they fall out and battle so much the better. Oh...but aren't they the same Fatah/Hamas who were sending love letters and promises of cash to the Deceased One; the very same Faty/Hams whom OWS, NYT's and Leftie loons are in such close harmony with? 
So let's see...the US and EU give funds to the Palestinian Plague, who offer some to the enemy of Western civilization. Are we mad?And...if you're an American tax payer, there's the not so small point of Obama's whoppin' big $1.5 billion to that slug fest of Islam, aka the Muslim Brotherhood; now defacto in control of Egypt in tandem with other like minded 7th century nutters. 
Four more friggin' years of the Illinois Idiot? Oh please do vote him back to Blagoland.

Oh, Don't Be Such A Party Popper!

The West’s ‘Rational Iran’ Fest!

Today's Parable: Do nothin' now, pay big-time later!

We’ve been treated lately to an Iran-rationality fest. In February it was U.S. chief of staff Martin Dempsey saying Iran’s government was a “rational actor.”The New York Times, (who else!) one could say, ate it up. A day after Diskin’s pronouncements, it ran a piece called “Experts Believe Iran Conflict Is Less Likely,”claiming that the “threat of tighter economic sanctions,” the “revival of direct negotiations,” had led “American officials and outside analysts” to believe that the “chances of war in the near future have significantly decreased.” 

(Meanwhile, back in the real world...) The problem with the Iran-rationality fest is that Iran refuses to join in. This week Iran’s English-language Fars News Agency website—regularly scoured by Western Iran-observers—has run a report rather brazenly titled “Iranian Navy Able to Deploy Vessels Three Miles off New York Coasts.” Then on Friday, the IRGC Aerospace Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the Islamic republic’s military is also capable of crippling or disabling US aircraft carriers. 

“First, sinking an aircraft carrier is not a complicated task,” Hajizadeh said. “Second, an aircraft carrier is equipped with so many advanced, delicate, and sensitive devices…that it could be incapacitated by even the smallest explosion.”

It's not an ELEPHANT and this is certainly NOT a room!

These are unpleasant words at a time when such nice things are being said about Iran, as the world powers gear up for the second round of nuclear talks with the mullahs in Baghdad on May 23. After the first round in Istanbul on April 14, EU foreign policy chief *Catherine Ashton glowingly foresaw “a comprehensive negotiated solution which restores international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program.” 

*(She is one especially stupid tart on a tray of peace-in-our-time delude-niks).One is essentially dealing with the same West that Hitler dealt with in the 1930s—just as weak-kneed, delusive, and eager to be duped. (C) P. David Hornik. (My Italics). (Cartoons:iranpoliticsclub)

Where Have All The Brain Cells Gone?

Peace Studies Professor: 'Two Sides' to Auschwitz

According to the so called father of the "peace studies" movement, who recently told the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper that there were two sides to every position...even the German genocide factory called Auschwitz. Yeah Prof: One side is called "the victims" but what would you call the perpetrators of mass murder? Galtung, 82-years-old, is one of the founders of the discipline called “Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution,” as well as a founder of the international Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He is considered well-respected sociological researcher, has been awarded many prizes, and is the author of over a thousand articles and over a hundred books.

Peace Studies is based on the premise that all conflicts can be resolved through peaceful, nonviolent means. It’s the height of moral relativism, holding that both sides have legitimate grievances and are rational, that both sides can and should make compromises, and that both sides have a responsibility to listen and consider each other’s arguments.

You can see what the problem is? When you're dealing with tolerant, live and let live people, perhaps his - can't we all sit down together, have a few cookies and a pot of coffee to sort things out between us philosophy - might be applied. But with the Nazi, the Pol Pot and Islamofascist creed?

A sample Pol Pot's work... 

In 82 years he's obviously learned sweet F.A. about the real world and human nature. And the Professor's spawn of "Peace Now" and their counterparts around the globe, all desiring and believing his wish-it-could-all-be-peace-love and understanding message, are equally naive and dangerously deluded. 
For when you're up against the totalitarian mentality, there's no agenda except it's either you or them; and any lions lying down with lambs won't ever come to pass in this dimension of space-time, Professor...

Wanna Be Bridge Bombers...

Occupy Activists’ Bomb Plot Foiled!

We're the future!  Leftie psychos who've
been reading too
many of their own pamphlets.

Yesterday in the midst of the OWS May Day protests taking place around the nation, the U.S. Justice Department revealed exactly how far some of those associated with such protests are willing to go. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Steven M. Dettelbach, characterized the defendants as men who “took numerous and repeated acts that demonstrated a commitment to violent, terrorist acts.” And despite efforts to distance themselves from these wannabe terrorists, Occupy Cleveland media coordinator Jacob Wagner admitted that “at least some of the five men” attended that group’s events.

An unnamed FBI official contended that, during the course of the investigation, several members of the group repeatedly complained that the Occupy Wall Street movement “wasn’t violent enough.”(C) Arnold Ahlert.

Oh you of Tribe Deluded. Spending a nano second in the company of any of the OWS should enlighten you to their scum-bag  spectrum; ranging from a goodly clutch of anti-Semites, the Sisterhood bongo brigade to your full-frontal Leltie psychos. As Georgie Soros funds many of the rag-tags' adventures through front organisations, (which are totally dedicated to the destruction of the very system that made him such a rich bastard); can't the FBI pin anything on this smug billionaire and would be world changer? Please do say you'll try. (Photo: Copyright Control)

Beyond The Grave?

Islamic ‘Death-Sex’ in Context.

Oh,oh ,oh... dear!

Aside from provoking shock, disgust, and denial, last week’s news of Egyptian parliamentarians trying to pass a “farewell intercourse” law legalizing sex with one’s wife up to six hours after she dies has yet to be fully appreciated. To start, consider the ultimate source of this practice: it’s neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor the Salafis; rather, as with most of Islam’s perversities—from adult breastfeeding to pedophilia marriage—Islamic necrophilia is traced to the fount of Islam, its prophet Muhammad, as found in a hadith (or tradition) that exists in no less than six of Islam’s classical reference texts, including Kanz al-‘Umal by Mutaqi al-Hindi and Al-Hujja fi Biyan al-Mahujja, an authoritative text on Sunni Doctrine, by Abu Qassim al-Asbahani.

According to this hadith, Muhammad took off his shirt and placed it on a dead woman and “lay” with her in the grave.  The buriers proceeded to bury the corpse and the prophet with dirt, exclaiming, “O Prophet, we see you do a thing you never did with anyone else,” to which Muhammad responded: “I have dressed her in my shirt so that she may be dressed in heavenly robes, and I have laid with her in her grave so that the pressures of the grave [also known as Islam’s “torments of the grave”] may be alleviated from her.” (C) Raymond Ibrihim

Hm...if you ask me, it's a bit of a lame excuse from their Messenger fellah. And just when you thought that Islam had nothing left in your take-home surprise party bag.

By the way...The Feast of the Barbarians will be held on the first Tuesday of every month at 7.30pm...the usual premises. A crisp fresh shirt is not obligatory for non believers...  (Photo: Copyright Control)