alphanguy74

One of my favorite Giorgio Moroder productions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHeFqgr_urY&feature=related

Time for a bit of ROLLER DISCO!!! Brought to you by Whitney's mama:

"Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein" is still considered to be one of the best German entries to the Eurovision Song Contest On the big night, it only placed 17th though.

That's what is so frustrating to me, so many wonderful songs at ESC placed so low during that period. Joy Fleming certainly had a impressive set of pipes, didn't she? For a long while, it seemed that a song had to sound like what I refer to as "carnival music" to win. Then it got better in 72.

But the year before, one of the BEST songs placed last... absolutely CRIMINAL:

You know what's amazing here.... is that on the chorus of this song, this woman sounds EXACTLY like Taylor Dane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48fjsASZtXk&feature=related

You know, as many episodes of The Doctors as I sat through as a child... not hardly any of it stuck in my memory. I DO disctinctly remember the Erich Aldrich kidnapping SL, and it was scary as HELL. The only other thing that I remember was Althea being tied to a chair and the room being on fire. I don't remember when that was. For some reason, I remember Y&R really vividly, but not The Doctors, perhaps because I just watched it occasionally and passively and wasn't really INTERESTED in it. As and adult, i'd love to watch it.

I can't decide if this is campy, funny, or scary:

AMS' Avatar got me on a Ketty Lester kick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvqYeYcWnGg&feature=fvwrel

Alphaguy... I agree with your comments on illegal alien workers, the responsibility the private sector should take for the problem, and the ethics of workers in America today.

I had a place in the mountains some years ago and I needed some work done - lots of big trees and sloping land that was just two much for me and my family to tackle. The trees needed a proper trimming very badly. I called ads in both the phone book and newspaper, left messages... nobody called back. Those that did call back didn't show up to give an estimate for the work. These were independent folks with licenses, by the way. One guy gave me an estimate (was a bit high, I thought, but what do you do when nobody else will do the work!) - and HE never showed up on the scheduled work date! Finally found a guy to come out... licensed, good references (though I didn't call them). He did the work... half-assed. Butchered the tops of the trees (they eye level from the deck of the house), then left broken branches, etc. on the ground below them. I was PISSED. Told him I wouldn't pay him in full until the mess was cleaned up. Then HE got pissed but agreed to clean up. Again, a half-assed job. I finally gave him his balance to get rid of him... then promptly spread word to anyone and everyone I could talk to in and around the town (was a small town).

LESSON: Hire two queens and an old woman. JUST KIDDING! LOL... The lesson I learned is that sometimes you just CAN'T get good help.

I can't tell you how many gardeners we've been through here at home. The current one is the best... though he best communicates through his daughter. Now, I purposely sought to hire a gardener who was NOT undocumented and I'm positive the one I'm using now is legal because he is licensed and his daughter speaks perfect English and, in conversation, has told me how long her father and his crew have been working here. I admit that I'm puzzled as to why his English is so poor... but whatever. His price for the job wasn't the cheapest... But he actually shows up and leaves notes letting me know what's going on, his schedules, etc. AND, unlike some I have dealt with in the past two years here, he SHOWED UP.

Anyways... sorry for being long-winded with these stories. Just wanted to add that, as a resident of California, I see this problem every day... every time I leave the house. No joke. It's BAD here. And you see it in stores, on the roads, and affecting daily life here. I truly believe any business hiring undocumented workers should be heavily fined or shut down. Workers found to be here illegally should be deported, no exceptions.

Now, I see the other side... many of these people may be fleeing corruption in their home countries. I get that and feel badly for them... perhaps the money and resources we are pissing off in Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq would be better spent shaping up OUR hemisphere. I say bring all troops home and protect the homeland. Leverage for regime change of corrupt governments in OUR hemisphere. Make things better for OUR neighbors and their people. I truly believe that the ineffective way the illegal immigration problem is being handled is resulting in more of these people being abused here... more laws broken, no accountability, etc.

Thanks...

So.... i'm dying to know the going rates in California, how much does your gardener charge you? The thing that pisses me off, is that I've had people every once in a while balk at my price, and tell me it's too much. All of the larger companies in this area charge 50$ a man hour, and they just send out a crew of mexicans to do the work. I charge 20$ a man hour, and I had one guy (who was a consevative republican attorney)go with illegal alien labor rather than pay my rate which was less than every other company in town. That's why nothing ever gets done about the immigration problem, the wealthy don't want to let go of any of their cheap labor. Believe it or not, I rarely work for, and actually AVOID the rich, because in my experience... they have by and large been very cheap, and try to screw you at every turn. I work almost exclusively for middle class soccer moms and their families, and never have trouble with people being cheap or not paying me. Many times they are on a budget, but we always work together for an acceptable solution, they don't try to get something for nothing.... I do my work in "stages", and people like that.

I feel that the amercian public has lost it's work ethic because of my own personal experience. When I built my house, I advertized for a worker to dig a trench for 25$ an hour (this was 15 years ago) I couldn't get anyone to do it... so me, my best friend, and my 60 year old mother did it. A 60 year old woman and two queens is what it took to do a job that these tough straight men wouldn't do. And just in everyday life.... I see people not willing to "lower themselves" and get their hands dirty, too lazy to do something by hand, if they can't use machinery to accomplish a task, they don't want to do it. Besides the cheaper wages... that's why Mexicans get hired for alot of stuff, THEIR work ethic is still intact. I come from farmers.... so I come from a long line of people with a work ethic. But there are so many nowadays who don't want to get off their butts. And as far as job growth, when an economy recovers... all past indicators show that job growth is the LAST to respond. Just give it time. I heard talk radio pundits wondering where the recovery was just 3 MONTHS after he took office. Alot of it IS thinly vieled racism, and you won't convince me otherwise. The fact reamins that all of the blame for the illegal immigration problem does NOT lie with the government, after all... the government is not the one hiring these people. Instead, we have conservatives across the country posturing and puffing up their chest, wanting to spend BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to build a wall, that would be completely uneccesary. If when people came over the border.... they would find NO WORK, and not even be able to get their foot in the door, then your problem would be SOLVED. These same conservatives and right wing talk radio hosts need to channel their energy into INVESTIGATING and EXPOSING companies who do this illegal hiring, and publicize, shame, and organize boycotts against them. But as usual, they sit behind their microphones and bump their gums instad of actually doing anything about it.

Even though we disagreed politically, Geraldine Ferraro was always a class act. She will be sorely missed.

I remember back in 2008 how viciously (and unfairly) the left attacked her as a racist simply because she brought up the fact that Obama was grossly underqualified/inexperienced to be president. Yet, based on his mediocre performance as commander in chief (especially when it comes to job creation, which is the number one issue for most Americans), it turns out that Ferraro's objections were right all along.

Well.. if we want to point the finger about lack of job creation, let's point that witchiepoo finger right square in the face of the private sector who betray their own country by hiring illegal aliens, and the lazy ass amercian public who has lost it's work ethic.

One of the most bizarre sequences EVER on a TV special:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7sJBGVOj3Y&feature=related

And while wer'e on the subject of Dionne... this just rocks my world:

I love Dionne so much. One of the most versatile vocalists of our time. I still remember hearing "I'll Never Love This Way Again" for the first time. I was standing with my mother in the drugstore on a Saturday morning, and it came over the radio, I thought I'd explode with delight right there in the store.

That scene was actually on youtube a while ago but of course was taken down . It really was a sad scene though and its interesting thst Eve Howard who was once a very psychotic character died as peacefully as she did.

IT WAS???!!! SH!T. It was a classic Y&R death scene, so heart wrenching it could make a serial killer cry.

I was going to ask but what did you guys think of Eve Howard's return and the re-introduction of Cole there in 1993?

It was BRILLIANT. And Eve Howard's deathbed scene was one of the biggest tear jerkers I've ever seen. I sobbed for FOUR HOURS after that damned scene. J. Eddie Peck was so brilliant in that I couldn't believe my eyes. I wish someone would put that on youtube! And Eve Howard was a twisted psycho bitch... but Cole's love for his mother was so real you couldn't help but cry like a baby for him.

That's the third Congressman from New York in 3 years to resign because of a sex scandal.

Damn... all this and no pics of his dick?

Judith Durham makes Streisand sound like dog dookie.