More of the Same

We remain enamored with Pandora... if you remember yesterday's post I mentioned that we were so taken with Pandora's eclecticism that we were gonna create a Steely Dan station for the remainder of yesterday's Happy Hour.  And we did, and we continued on with that same station for the balance of last afternoon/evening and into today, as well.  Not to flog a dead horse or anything, but the music on the Steely Dan station is right dead center in my sweet spot.  Not the least of which would be this:

"Hypnotized" is from my second favorite incarnation of Fleetwood Mac... the Bob Welch years, my first being the original Peter Green blues-based Mac of yore.  But we digress.  Here's "Hypnotized" in all its wondrous glory: 

That's some damned good stuff, innit?  I remain amazed at Pandora's ability to hit me right exactly where I live; the selections on the Steely Dan station seem like they've been taken directly from my music library.  There's the Police, James Taylor, the latter-day Doobie Bros, Donald Fagen's solo work, and on and on.  Great good stuff and highly recommended.  And it's the recommendations I'm on about Gentle Reader...

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The Big Story in the political world today is The One's endorsement of the Ground Zero mosque.  Witness memeorandum at this hour:

Has The One truly lost his frickin' mind?  There were three ways he could have gone here... (1) keep his mouth shut, (2) endorse the mosque, or (3) appeal to those proposing this affront to our sensibilities to abandon the project or, at the VERY least, build it elsewhere.  I SO wish he would have exercised his prerogative as President to defuse this issue with a rational appeal for the Muslims to come to their senses and back off of this stupid-ass and needless controversy.   It's indicative of just how out of touch Obama is with the American people that he chose Option Two.  This, Gentle Reader, is his Waterloo.  That's it, it's really and truly OVER now.

This issue is a sticky wicket, to say the least.  The group proposing the mosque/Islamic cultural center is entirely within their rights to build anything they want, anywhere they want from a legal perspective, as long as they comply with zoning regulations and building codes.  But life is much more than legalities; the group proposing the mosque in this location has lost its freakin' mind.  

Forgive me, for I know it's so VERY wrong of me to suggest this or even mention it, but I fervently hope some crazy comes out of the woodwork and firebombs the mosque should it be built.  Burn it right down to the ground.  I KNOW I'm not alone in thinking this, and Obama should have damned well known it, too.  Enough, already.  

To put it another way... if some SOB called your mother a whore to your face would you smile wistfully and say "I wish you'd have chosen other words to describe my mother but I respect your First Amendment right to say any-damn-thing you please"?  No, you wouldn't.  You'd hit that sonofabitch in the mouth as hard as you possibly could, just as soon as the insult left his lips... because them's fightin' words.  It's the same thing with the mosque.