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October 18, 2004
Monday, Monday - Can't trust that day
This is awful to say, but I'm glad that Mama Cass is not around to make me mad at her and quit listening to the Mama's and the Papa's.
Lately, I've been wondering why such talented musicians can be so fucking stupid. Well, wait - I have to admit that I never thought that Mick Jagger had much in the way of a 'beautiful mind' - too many drugs, women and late nights.
But, I am so saddened that Cat Stevens turned into a supporter of Sharia and Jihad - for goodness sake, I used to play his songs at Mass - Morning is Broken was a wonderful song for early Easter morn. (yeah, I used to play guitar at Mass - back when I was a stay-at-home mom and I didn't have to travel all over the place!). He once had such a gentle, loving mind before he was turned to the dark side.
Anyway, it's Monday. I went to work today and realized that since two people moved out of our group, two people quit and another is transfering to sales that I now have three bosses. We have three bosses and three not bosses (we are not called employees - we are associates, by gum!) How silly is that? I am also attempting to leave the nest, so to speak, and get into a special program - but who, then, will the three bosses boss around? They will be down to 2 not-bosses - and they are both virtual associates - I'm the only non-virtual associate for these three bosses to boss.
Fortunately, they are all three very good guys, but still, I feel the pressure.
Pressure - that was a kinda cool song!
Posted by Beth at October 18, 2004 6:43 PM
Comments
Uh-oh, sounds like your company is suffering from "too many chiefs and not enough indians" syndrome.
I ignore the politics of any actor/singer/artist beyond what is in their "art". If I like what they produced, I like it, and their politics doesn't affect my appreciation of whatever they produced. If the politics are embedded in the art (like a "protest song") generally if I don't agree with the politics, I won't like the art either.
Billy Joel is my prime example that great art/music arises out of unhappiness and pain. His music went really, really, really downhill when he got married and started a family. Of course, if I married Christie Brinkley, *my* mind would be on other things, too...
Posted by: Jack at October 18, 2004 6:56 PM
"Morning Is Broken" is a traditional Irish hymn; Cat Steven's contribution was a newer, prettier piano arrangement. If you play it on guitar, his contribution is moot.
Posted by: B. Durbin at October 20, 2004 10:42 PM
It's too bad you can't accept a man who has the courage to believe in one God. You sound like a godless feminist, in support of Satanic Orca Winfrey, tasteless trash like Team America, linking to racist, prejudice hatemongers like allahpundit who support carpetbombing civilians and apartheid, and make ignorant claims that "iraq is in the hands of iraqi's" (why are there 100's of 1000's of foreign troops bombing the country and killing over 100,000 civilians then? --- that figure is from the lancet, the most respected medical journal in the world).
Our culture here in North America is in decay, and God and family is at the heart of it. Why do American teens have more sexual partners than anyone else anywhere in the world? Why are churches in every major city now nightclubs? Why, as Oprah suggests, should married people who discover they are gay be "congradulated" (Kerry cribed this from her)? And why is the divorce rate 60+% ?
Because of people like you who accept Satan into your life; perhaps not directly, but by tolerating Oprah and rejecting God-fearing men like Cat Stevens.
The true "dark side" is Godlessness.
Posted by: Paul Ogilvie at December 6, 2004 10:49 AM