Friday Jams Fest

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  by: Colorado Pols Fri November 5, 2010 at 4:03 PM MDT

A long time coming, but the truth is plain to see.




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  1. cologeek says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 4:25 PM MDT

    It just seems appropriate.

  2. nancycronk says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM MDT

    when I was introducing Senator Bennet to a roomful of volunteers working to get out the vote, and I said I supported him from Day One because he was a strong ally to the President. He asked if there were any reporters in the room (there weren’t) before going on to talk about a personal conversation they had about fixing the problems in this country. I couldn’t help but wonder what a f*cked up country this has to be right now that a sitting Senator has to be worried about people knowing he supports the President of the United States. Up was down, and down was up.

    Thank you, volunteers across Colorado, for, at least for now, setting things right again. Viva Senator Michael Bennet. Viva President Barack Obama. Viva hope and change. Viva, AMERICA.

  4. CaninesCanines says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 5:32 PM MDT

    (URLs: a trailer for a documentary and a biopic):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

    *

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

  6. Pam Bennett says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 5:39 PM MDT

    From Gold Diggers 1933, pre-Hayes commission. A great movie, especially for the Busby Berkeley routines.

    The Forgotten Man refers to the WWI veterans who had not received their promised bonus. But, it also is a part of the Great Depression, not to be confused with the Great Bush Depression/Recession.

    • UglyAmericanUglyAmerican says:
      Fri November 5, 2010 at 6:42 PM MDT

      The forgotten is man is referenced in the great movie My Man Godfrey with William Powell. From that movie I always believed it referenced the businesspeople and entrepreneurs who got wiped out in the Great Depression.  

      • Pam Bennett says:
        Fri November 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM MDT

        The forgotten man in that movie referred to the unemployed homeless men of the Great Depression.  The Forgotten Man/Men in Gold Diggers of 1933 is about the WWI veterans who had been promised a bonus and Hoover would not pay it.

        The final few seconds of the scene show a cop busting a guy on the street until Carol, Joan Blondell, flips his collar over and shows his medal to the cop. At which time the cop lets him go rather than drag him off. The major portion of the scene has the men marching off to war, then going to and from battle and then returning home.

        • UglyAmericanUglyAmerican says:
          Fri November 5, 2010 at 7:29 PM MDT

          I’ll definitely try to watch that. My grandfather was a WWI vet for France.

          Fortunately we offer returning vets a lot more than they got in WWI. Always room for improvement.

          • Pam Bennett says:
            Fri November 5, 2010 at 8:29 PM MDT

            Here is a little more. It is not possible to write full history in diaries and replies.

            The “Bonus Army” were the vets, along with some of their families, that went to Washington D.C. to demand early payment of the bonus money promised them. The Great Depression had left them unemployed and often homeless.

            They created a Hoover tent city in D.C. to live in while trying to get the bonus paid early.  This was not good for Hoover’s re-election so he used McArthur, Patton and Eisenhower to use their troops to drive the veterans and their families out of the tent city and to destroy the shacks.

            Once dispersed, the Great Depression overwhelmed the veterans request for the bonus. When the Gold Diggers of 1933 was filmed it was still recent enough that the scene made sense then as a way of trying to get Roosevelt and Congress to pay the bonus.

            Here is a link to a very short article that is a good summary of the Bonus Army.  

            • SSG_Dan says:
              Fri November 5, 2010 at 9:26 PM MDT

              time cycles are much shorter in the digital age, and we need to deal with the tidal wave of vets due to get out after operations in AFPAK are over with – in 2011/12.

              If the Republican’t Party is allowed to chainsaw the budgets of the VA ad DoL to pay for their millionaire tax cut, these vets will be the ones out on the street, broke, unemployed, with a host of health problems.

              And unlike their 1932 counterparts, they could very quickly organize another march on DC much more quickly and effectively.

              I for one, do not want 2 million pissed-off combat veterans camped in DC waiting to storm the Capitol to make their point.

              GEN Shinseki, the VA Secretary, gets it as well:

              “Near the end of World War II, a first “G.I. Bill” was enacted by Congress primarily to preclude Post-war depression. Some recall that lawmakers passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, less out of gratitude, than out of fear — fear that at war’s end an army of unemployed ex-servicemen would, again, march on Washington, as the “Bonus Army” did in 1932.”

              http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

      • MADCO says:
        Fri November 5, 2010 at 7:31 PM MDT

        from a great era of movies.  The writing was over the top good.

        • Pam Bennett says:
          Fri November 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM MDT

          I agree. The importance of the movies to holding the U.S. together at the time is under appreciated. But, it was also the time when the Republican’s came to understand the importance of the public media. And, why they still froth at the mouth about “Hollywood” and socialists.

          Many of the most popular films ever made are of a populist theme. Just these two films are great examples of it. Gold Diggers of 1933 and the Forgotten Man scene. The entire My Man Godfrey is all about the failure of the capitalist economy.

          They came to understand, as did just about all political organizations, the power of the image and when presented en masse the effect it can have. They also saw the Republican message really did not play well. There is still the constant call for censorship of the media. Right now there is a First Amendment case in front of the SCoUS regarding “violent” games.

          At this time the American version of the Communist Party was becoming active. A lot people “joined” it only to find out that it was not what they wanted and left.

          This was to become the big battle of the McCarthy hearings a few years in the future. Although there were real Communist spies in the government, it was not the Hollywood writers who were subversive. The writers wrote popular movies which still PO’s the Republicans.

          OT: there is an image from Daugerre that may possibly be the first to show a person in 1838, I can’t find the link.

        • SSG_Dan says:
          Fri November 5, 2010 at 9:39 PM MDT

          …if Hollywood would get off their dead ass and do a remake with a decent script and actors, I’d be in line opening night.

          Aircraft Graveyard scene from The Best Years of Our Lives

          If you’ve seen the Grocery Store scene in “The Hurt Locker,” you might recognize some of the influence.

          This clip is great for two quotes –

          “Seems like you don’t care where you’re going next.”

          “You’re right – I don’t.”

          and

          “I don’t know anything about buildings but I do know one thing – I know how to learn. Just like I learned that job aboard that thing.”

          • Pam Bennett says:
            Sat November 6, 2010 at 12:00 AM MDT

            The DoD and Hollywood did some very good films to get the home citizens prepped for the results of war.  There were a lot of “good ghost” movies starting around 1944 to help with the sons and husbands who would not be returning.  Then there was The Best Years Of Our Lives getting people used to the fact that a lot of people are wounded and hurt for real, not play, in the military.

            I came across something like that very recently. I met a man with a prosthetic leg. After a while I asked about it. He told me he lost it in an auto accident when he was a teen/adult. I told him sorry too bad, that most of the people I know with missing body parts are vets. He acknowledged that. We talked about it and had a laugh about things.

            Leaving him I realized a lot about being a vet means knowing people and things most people do not know and probably do not want to know.  

            • SSG_Dan says:
              Sat November 6, 2010 at 12:59 AM MDT

              ….is Tom Waits’ “Soldier’s Things.”

              A friend of mine who’s got a Masters in English (and a uber-lefty) says it’s a commentary on the shabbiness of America.

              I can’t deny that it might be part of the song, but for someone that’s had to help a survivor’s family pack up their stuff and move out of government housing, there’s images from that song that will be in my brain for the rest of my life. And there’s no way in Hades that I will ever be able to communicate that caustic mix of sadness, empathy and anger that I felt that day selling a fallen warrior’s stuff at a garage sale.

              Does everyone need to feel it? No. Do people need to respect and listen to those people that do? HELL YES.

  8. Diogenesdemar says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 6:06 PM MDT

    In your own back yard,

    In you own home town

  9. ardy39 says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 6:27 PM MDT

    we toss the car in “R.”

    So, here is the theme song we’ll be singing next year:

  10. CaninesCanines says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM MDT

    “America’s nastiest rappers [Insane Clown Posse] in shocking revelation – they’ve been evangelical Christians all along”:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/musi…

    And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist

    Y’all motherf*ckers lying and

    getting me pissed.

  15. droll says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM MDT

    For some reason this reminds me of my favorite niece.  She knew the alphabet before school ruined her, now everything’s d-da-dawg.  Thanks a lot, Arkansas Public Schools.

  16. SSG_Dan says:
    Fri November 5, 2010 at 9:43 PM MDT

    DEVO’s Freedom of Choice. (Except the bastards won’t let me embed the Video!)

    The full video is here, with commericals….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

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