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	<title><![CDATA[OT Joke Time - Recycling pets]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A woman went to a pet shop and immediately spotted a large, beautiful
parrot.. There was a sign on the cage that said $50.00.

'Why so little,' she asked the pet store owner..

The owner looked at her and said, 'Look, I should tell you first that
this bird used to live in a house of Prostitution and sometimes it says
some pretty vulgar stuff.'

The woman thought about this, but decided she had to have the bird any 
way. She took it home and hung the bird's cage up in her living room and
waited for it to say something.

The bird looked around the room, then at her, and said, 'New house, new
madam.'

The woman was a bit shocked at the implication, but then thought 'that's
really not so bad.'

When her 3 teenage daughters returned from school the bird saw them and
said: 'New house, new madam, new girls.'

The girls and the woman were a bit offended but then began to laugh 
about the situation considering how and where the parrot had been raised.

Moments later, the woman's husband Elliot came home from work.

The bird looked at him and said: 'Hi Elliot'.

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Kind Regards,

Richard F. Sayage
Savage Classical Guitar
Bay Shore, NY 11706

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	<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:42:27 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[OT Joke Time - Advances in Medicine]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A Japanese doctor said, 'Medicine in my country is so advanced that we 
can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him 
looking for work in 6 weeks.'
A German doctor said, 'That's nothing, we can take a lung out
of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in 4 weeks.'
A British doctor said, 'In my country, medicine is so advanced that we 
can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have 
them both looking for work in 2 weeks.'

A Texas doctor, not to be outdone said, 'You guys are way behind.
We took a man with no brains out of Texas,
put him in the White House,
and now half the country is looking for work!

-- 
Kind Regards,

Richard F. Sayage
Savage Classical Guitar
Bay Shore, NY 11706

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	<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:49:24 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Do You Have What It Takes To Play The Guitar?]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://howtoplay-guitar.blogspot.com,What" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://howtoplay-guitar.blogspot.com,What</a> does it take to learn to
play guitar?

Playing the guitar is a great way to express yourself through music.
If you feel a strong urge to learn to play the guitar, here's a quick
self-test to determine if you're ready to take this giant step.

Test Mind and Body

Before signing on for guitar lessons, test your mind and body. Your
mind should be clear to learn. Learning to play the guitar is like
learning any other skill. You must have some free time to dedicate
solely to learning - even if it's only 15 minutes per day. This should
be a time of total concentration when you can block out the cares of
work and life to work on your lessons and practice.

Physical Health and Playing the Guitar

Your body's physical health is also important. Playing the guitar
requires holding a guitar in an upright position, either resting on
your legs or held upright by a shoulder strap. Consider the strength
of your back, shoulders, arms and legs. A person who suffers from
severe lower back pain may find it difficult to hold a guitar for any
length of time. If you know someone who owns a guitar, you can
practice holding theirs to test your strengths and weaknesses.

Also, consider the physical condition of your hands, fingers and
wrists. Some conditions that could hinder your playing ability include
arthritis, carpal tunnel or frequent swelling of the wrists or
fingers.

It's Still Possible

Even if you have a condition that makes it difficult to play a guitar,
this doesn't mean you will never play. You can research online or talk
with a professional instructor to find out if there are ways to work
around your disability or physical weakness. For example, if you have
back pain, you might find a lightweight guitar that's easy to hold.
Or, if you have swelling or pain in the hands, there may be exercises
to help relieve the tension. Don't give up until you've done the
research.

The Relevance of Musical Talent

If you have natural musical talent, that's great. However, if you
don't feel that you are naturally talented, don't worry. You only need
the desire to learn and the ability to listen, read and practice. You
learn to play the guitar by taking one step at a time - or one note at
a time. Without musical talent, you might have to concentrate just a
little harder at the beginning, but soon you'll find it to be similar
to learning any skill.

Questions to Ask

After considering the above, answer these questions to determine your
readiness to learn playing the guitar.

1) Do you have a strong desire to play the guitar?
2) Why do you want to learn to play the guitar?
3) Do you want to learn to read music or play the guitar by ear?
4) Is a guitar instructor available where you live?
5) If an instructor is not available, are you willing to learn using
an online guitar course?
6) Once your guitar lessons begin, are you willing to practice at
least fifteen to thirty minutes per day, five to six days a week?
7) Do you have the money to invest in a guitar?

Your answers to these questions should help you determine if you're
ready to learn how to play the guitar.

You're only lessons away from playing great guitar music!

You can view his other music articles by going to :
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	<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:44:35 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[OT Tashi's book of the month club]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[It's going to happen again!

<a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0601/S00170.htm" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0601/S00170.htm</a>

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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:21:48 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[steel or nylon for guitar class]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Hi I'm a violinist currently teaching high school orchestra. I'm starting a 
guitar class next year and I was hoping to get some advice as to what type 
of guitars to order for the class.  I need to get the purchase order in by 
this week. I'm trying to decide between a classical nylon string and a 
steel string. While I like the classical guitar and like the feeling of the 
nylon strings I'm wondering if the student's would be more interested in 
the steel string guitar. I teach at an ethnically diverse school in a lower 
income area. I would appreciate any input as to which guitar would be more 
successful in a class setting. <br>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:18:00 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Xuefei Yang Videos from new album]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Some lovely playing from her new album:

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40 Degrees North.<br>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 20:27:33 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Oh so true.]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[It is true the Democratic party has never before been this far to the left.
It is being controlled by special interest groups and far left-wing 
politicians whose politics are nothing less than socialism and all out 
communism. . . not to mention blatant and distasteful anti-Americanism.

J


Democrats and Our Enemies
By JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
May 21, 2008; Page A19

How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin 
Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign 
policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core 
of its identity and its purpose?

Beginning in the 1940s, the Democratic Party was forced to confront two of 
the most dangerous enemies our nation has ever faced: Nazi Germany and the 
Soviet Union. In response, Democrats under Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy 
forged and conducted a foreign policy that was principled, internationalist, 
strong and successful.

This was the Democratic Party that I grew up in - a party that was 
unhesitatingly and proudly pro-American, a party that was unafraid to make 
moral judgments about the world beyond our borders. It was a party that 
understood that either the American people stood united with free nations 
and freedom fighters against the forces of totalitarianism, or that we would 
fall divided.

This was the Democratic Party of Harry Truman, who pledged that "it must be 
the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting 
attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

And this was the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy, who promised in his 
inaugural address that the United States would "pay any price, bear any 
burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the 
survival and the success of freedom."

This worldview began to come apart in the late 1960s, around the war in 
Vietnam. In its place, a very different view of the world took root in the 
Democratic Party. Rather than seeing the Cold War as an ideological contest 
between the free nations of the West and the repressive regimes of the 
communist world, this rival political philosophy saw America as the 
aggressor - a morally bankrupt, imperialist power whose militarism and 
"inordinate fear of communism" represented the real threat to world peace.

It argued that the Soviets and their allies were our enemies not because 
they were inspired by a totalitarian ideology fundamentally hostile to our 
way of life, or because they nursed ambitions of global conquest. Rather, 
the Soviets were our enemy because we had provoked them, because we 
threatened them, and because we failed to sit down and accord them the 
respect they deserved. In other words, the Cold War was mostly America's 
fault.

Of course that leftward lurch by the Democrats did not go unchallenged. 
Democratic Cold Warriors like Scoop Jackson fought against the tide. But 
despite their principled efforts, the Democratic Party through the 1970s and 
1980s became prisoner to a foreign policy philosophy that was, in most 
respects, the antithesis of what Democrats had stood for under Roosevelt, 
Truman and Kennedy.

Then, beginning in the 1980s, a new effort began on the part of some of us 
in the Democratic Party to reverse these developments, and reclaim our 
party's lost tradition of principle and strength in the world. Our band of 
so-called New Democrats was successful sooner than we imagined possible 
when, in 1992, Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected. In the Balkans, for 
example, as President Clinton and his advisers slowly but surely came to 
recognize that American intervention, and only American intervention, could 
stop Slobodan Milosevic and his campaign of ethnic slaughter, Democratic 
attitudes about the use of military force in pursuit of our values and our 
security began to change.

This happy development continued into the 2000 campaign, when the Democratic 
candidate - Vice President Gore - championed a freedom-focused foreign 
policy, confident of America's moral responsibilities in the world, and 
unafraid to use our military power. He pledged to increase the defense 
budget by $50 billion more than his Republican opponent - and, to the dismay 
of the Democratic left, made sure that the party's platform endorsed a 
national missile defense.

By contrast, in 2000, Gov. George W. Bush promised a "humble foreign policy" 
and criticized our peacekeeping operations in the Balkans.

Today, less than a decade later, the parties have completely switched 
positions. The reversal began, like so much else in our time, on September 
11, 2001. The attack on America by Islamist terrorists shook President Bush 
from the foreign policy course he was on. He saw September 11 for what it 
was: a direct ideological and military attack on us and our way of life. If 
the Democratic Party had stayed where it was in 2000, America could have 
confronted the terrorists with unity and strength in the years after 9/11.

Instead a debate soon began within the Democratic Party about how to respond 
to Mr. Bush. I felt strongly that Democrats should embrace the basic 
framework the president had advanced for the war on terror as our own, 
because it was our own. But that was not the choice most Democratic leaders 
made. When total victory did not come quickly in Iraq, the old voices of 
partisanship and peace at any price saw an opportunity to reassert 
themselves. By considering centrism to be collaboration with the enemy - not 
bin Laden, but Mr. Bush - activists have successfully pulled the Democratic 
Party further to the left than it has been at any point in the last 20 
years.

Far too many Democratic leaders have kowtowed to these opinions rather than 
challenging them. That unfortunately includes Barack Obama, who, contrary to 
his rhetorical invocations of bipartisan change, has not been willing to 
stand up to his party's left wing on a single significant national security 
or international economic issue in this campaign.

In this, Sen. Obama stands in stark contrast to John McCain, who has shown 
the political courage throughout his career to do what he thinks is right - 
regardless of its popularity in his party or outside it.

John also understands something else that too many Democrats seem to have 
become confused about lately - the difference between America's friends and 
America's enemies.

There are of course times when it makes sense to engage in tough diplomacy 
with hostile governments. Yet what Mr. Obama has proposed is not selective 
engagement, but a blanket policy of meeting personally as president, without 
preconditions, in his first year in office, with the leaders of the most 
vicious, anti-American regimes on the planet.

Mr. Obama has said that in proposing this, he is following in the footsteps 
of Reagan and JFK. But Kennedy never met with Castro, and Reagan never met 
with Khomeini. And can anyone imagine Presidents Kennedy or Reagan sitting 
down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad or Chavez? I certainly cannot.

If a president ever embraced our worst enemies in this way, he would 
strengthen them and undermine our most steadfast allies.

A great Democratic secretary of state, Dean Acheson, once warned "no people 
in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom 
by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies." This is a lesson that 
today's Democratic Party leaders need to relearn.

Mr. Lieberman is an Independent Democratic senator from Connecticut. This 
article is adapted from a speech he gave May 18 at a dinner hosted by 
Commentary magazine.

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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:07:18 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Utterly stupid]]></title>
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Barack Obama: Gaffe machine
Barack Obama: Gaffe machine
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political 
establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of 
"potatoe." The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President 
Bush's questions about new scanner technology at a grocers' convention to 
brand him permanently as out of touch.

But what about Barack Obama? The guy's a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us 
count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout 
the campaign:

* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 
people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. 
Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed."
The actual death toll: 12.

*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: "Over 
the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've 
now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama 
exulted: "Thank you Sioux City.I said it wrong. I've been in Iowa for too 
long. I'm sorry."

*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama 
again botched basic geography: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, 
coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she 
would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." On what map 
is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on 
the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his 
parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:

"There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in 
Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So 
they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, 
Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was "speaking metaphorically about 
the civil rights movement as a whole."

*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his 
knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: 
"We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it's 
harder for us to use them in Afghanistan." The real reason it's "harder for 
us to use them" in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis 
speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, 
multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:

"Here's something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is 
that I'm not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don't know 
exactly what's going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise 
you I'll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the 
airport."

I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he's voted on at least 
one defense authorization bill that addressed the "costs, schedules, and 
technical issues" dealing with the nation's most contaminated nuclear waste 
site.

*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a 
fake autobiographical detail in Obama's "Dreams from My Father:"

"Then, there's the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial 
awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying 
photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by 
his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the 
photographs don't exist, say the magazine's own historians."

* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, 
Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn't "pose a 
serious threat to us"-cluelessly arguing that "tiny countries" with small 
defense budgets can't do us harm- and then promptly flip-flopped the next 
day, claiming, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is 
grave."

Barack Obama-promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, 
articulate, transcendent Messiah-is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How 
many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?

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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:03:13 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Philip Hii's right hand]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[I'm sure many of us have downloaded Philip Hii's book, secretly hoping
he can help us all became virtuosos.  I like him because so much of
what he does (or at least says) flies in the face of doctrinists who
can't do half of what he does on the guitar!

What do you make of this?

"There was a time when it was quite fashionable to teach students to
play from the knuckle joint.  This approach has been discredited, and
it's easy to see why."

Philip Hii<br>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:30:00 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Twinkle, Twinkle Little Starburst]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[
Like me, my daughter doesn't take instruction very well, and she can
be self-conscious.  She has never spent more than a few seconds
working on music.  She becomes instantly frustrated and says "No!  You
go away!"

So last week I started offering a piece of Starburst candy for
concentration, effort, and progress.  It got us a few more seconds of
effort:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQc7dlwKT2I" rel="nofollow" class="url" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQc7dlwKT2I</a><br>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 06:24:09 PDT</pubDate>
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