Saturday Song #2

Dion Francis DiMucci (left) was born July 18, 1939 to an Italian-American family in the Bronx, New York City. As a child he used to accompany his father who was a vaudeville entertainer, on tour. It was during this time that Dion developed a love of country music – particularly Hank Williams – as well as a fondness for the blues and doo-wop stars he heard in local bars and on the radio. His singing was honed on the street corners and local clubs of the Bronx, where he and other neighborhood singers created cappella licks. Better know as Dion, he's an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, pop, oldies music, rock and R&B styles, to straight blues in his recent work. He was one of the most popular American rock and roll performers of the era. After teaming up with his friends, The Belmonts (Carlo Mastrangelo, Fred Milano, and Angelo D'Aleo), a vocal group named after the nearby Belmont Avenue - the new group's breakthrough came in early 1958 before the British invasion, headed by The Beatles. Dion (sometimes with and without the Belmonts) had over a dozen Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 60s; but he is perhaps best remembered for the 1961 hit singles *"Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer". In the early 1970s with more mature, contemplative material such as "Abraham, Martin & John" he has continued making music to the present day; earning reappraisals and praise from critics who earlier dismissed him as a teen idol. In 1989, Dion had agreed to do a concert of his old hits at Radio City in New York. There he shared the stage with fans such as Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Lou Reed, all of whom cited Dion as one of their prime influences. Dion was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, the induction speech being given by Lou Reed. In that same year, he returned to rock music with the contemporary album Yo Frankie, which included guest appearances by Paul Simon, Lou Reed, k.d. lang, Patty Smith and Bryan Adams. The album was produced by Dave Edmunds, who also played guitar on the album. *(with the Del-Satins, backing vocals) (Wikipedia)

And below, here's "Runaround Sue"...from the original recording remastered in stereo.

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Alan Turin: GENIUS!

Alan Turing Educational Day!

Celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday at Bletchley Park.

Without Alan Turin, you'd be speaking
German...or dead!

In England UK, on Saturday 30 June 2012 Bletchley Park's Turing Education Day will celebrate Turing's life and legacy. A team of first rate communicators from around the globe will assemble at Bletchley Park to explain Turing's work and ideas in a series of short lectures designed to make the work of a genius accessible to all.

Israeli poster.

Alan Turing changed the world. His career moved from crescendo to crescendo as he invented the fundamentals of the modern computer, played a key role in winning the 1941 Battle of the Atlantic, invented the first systematic method for cracking high-level 'Tunny' messages between Hitler and his front line generals, designed what was at the time, the fastest and first electronic computer on earth, and pioneered the new fields of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life. (C) Bletchley Park (Photos: Copyright Control)
The word "genius" has been endlessly debased by the likes of tubes who think that receiving a hot coffee and doughnut in exchange for parting with the appropriate coinage is, "awesome". 
Alan Turin, Albert Einstein and perhaps five other people in the 20th century are entitled to the accolade of genius...the rest were just clever chaps and chapesses.
Click the link and find out more about how your unborn ass was saved: http://www.bletchleypark.org/

Not The Time To Be Sleepwalking...

The Nazi-Palestinian War on Jesus

The odious invention of a “Palestinian Jesus” is central to the multifaceted Arab campaign, supported by the radical left, that includes boycott and terrorism and diplomatic attempts to isolate Israel internationally. According to this Palestinian propaganda, Jesus was not born a Jew but a Christian, and *Bethlehem was not a Jewish town in Judea, but a Muslim-Arab one. 

Allah Akbar...

Palestinians have already been efficient in turning the global arena against the Jews. In 2010, UNESCO already decided that Rachel’s Tomb and Hevron’s Jewish tombs are officially “Muslim mosques.” To understand why the Palestinians feel they have a winning strategy about the Jewish holy sites, one has to look at the members of the “International Committee for the preservation and the promotion of the Old City of Hevron.” You will find Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Federico Mayor, former Director of UNESCO. In recent years, UNESCO also increased its collaboration with ISECO, the cultural body of the Organization of the Islamic Conference which is supporting the Palestinian efforts.

Nazi Iranians, doing their thing.

To understand the importance of the Palestinian campaign one must remember that there has been another manipulation of Jesus: the “Aryan Jesus” of Adolf Hitler. The Nazis recasted Jesus as an Aryan fighting against the Jews. According to the Hitler’s theologians, Jesus was not a Jew, but a Galilean opponent of Judaism. The Christian Bible was stripped of all “Jewish influence.” As the Aryan Jesus was the legitimization of the Nazi Holocaust, the Arabized and Islamicized Jesus under the Palestinian warfare is a tool in the Jihad against the State of Israel and its Jews. 

Nazi Palestinians doing their thing.

Under the PLO’s dictatorship, Jewish history has already become “Palestinian Arab history” and the Jewish nation (“Am Yisrael”) that ruled in the Holy Land for a thousand years and developed a world shaping culture, never existed. (C) Giulio Meotti.

*Islam hadn't yet been invented and wouldn't be until the 7th century; and where were the Arabs? Oh they were still hunkered down in Arabia...but let's not allow the facts to get in the way, eh!

The USA's Secret X-37B...But What's It For?

The Secret X-37B Mini Space Shuttle.

The first X-37B in 2010.
(Credit: Vandenberg Air Force Base).

After more than a year in orbit, the US Air Force’s clandestine mini-space shuttle will likely land at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California sometime this week. It has been in orbit since March 5, 2011, but like the first X-37B mission that flew in 2010 and spent 224 days in space, the Air Force has not issued any information of what the craft is doing or where it is orbiting. The craft looks like a miniature space shuttle, and is 8.8 meters (29 feet) long with a wing span of 4.2 meters (14 feet). It can weigh up to about 5,000 kg (11,000 pounds) fueled for launch. The reported in-space design life is 270 days, but sources say that good performance on this mission enabled ground controllers to keep it aloft significantly longer. (Universe Today)

Neanders News: Who's The Thicko Now, Eh?

Who you calling dumb?

Picasso who?

Talk about image rehab: once the poster children for nasty, brutish, short, and caveman-dumb, Neanderthals are now being hailed as contenders for the title of prehistory's first Michelangelos.

Scientists using a new dating technique reported Thursday that many of the most famous cave paintings in Spain are thousands of years older than previously thought - ancient enough to have been created not by Homo sapiens like ourselves but by Neanderthals, the species that lived in Europe long before the newcomers arrived from Africa. (Reuters)

Just as we were thinking that we were the brush an' ocher crew, the vertically challenged, barrel chesters' pee in our paint pots. Strewth! 

Egyptians: No Speaky To Foreigners!

Egyptian Xenophobia!

Watch out my Muslim Bros: for the big scary Infidel is among us.

The Egyptian government was recently running advertisements on state television and private broadcasts that warned its citizenry against speaking to Johnny Foreigner. Yeah...they just might be spies; but more than likely they were pissed and got on the wrong plane to this fast-tracking dysfunctional country. The great irony of the official campaign of xenophobia is that Egypt, more so than even France or Italy, very much depends on visitors to propel its economy. How's that for economic acumen and a taste of things to come! But just watch what happens when the REAL nutters - aka the Muslim Brotherhood et al - rev up their 7th century engines. 

Presently, the Egyptians have charged 43 democracy activists including 16 Americans, who now face being tried for receiving foreign funds without state permission. They've all been ordered to return to court in Egypt on July 4.  

From blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to 9/11 hijacker Muhammad Atta, Egyptians have helped orchestrate the murders of thousands of foreigners in terrorist attacks. If terrorism were an Olympic sport, Egypt would be gold medal winners. 

Abdel-Rahman (left) - currently residing in a US jail - (though allegedly, the current administration  would like to swope him) was accused of being the leader of Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as "The Islamic Group"), a militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorist organization by the United States government. The group is responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed. How long can a country survive that exports terrorism but dislikes and now actively discourages travelers to come to Egypt? Without all that tourist moolah rolling in, who can say. But must the continuing madness of the Obama administration, still giving $1.5 billion annually in aid to prop up these Islamist cretins; must this insane policy go on a second longer?

The pyramids, the Sphinx and the long-gone Library at Alexandria represent the achievements of great civilizations long passed. But all that greatness was achieved centuries before the Arabs arrived with their great Plague of Islam.
Up Date: (CBS/AP) CAIRO - Egypt's highest court have just made an announcement today, Thursday 14th June 2012, ordering the country's Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved and ruled that the last prime minister to serve under Hosni Mubarak could stay in the presidential race, twin blows to the Muslim Brotherhood that could sweep away its political gains since Mubarak's ouster 16 months ago!

The Big Crunch Is Coming...

For those who believe otherwise...

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