Re: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's

["Carol Green" <carolgreen>]

*Personally, I read this list for Patti specific information, notes, concert 
updates*

You must wait a long time on this list then, I admire your patience.

carol


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dok" <rock-and-roll>
To: <babel-list>
Cc: "'Carol Green'" <carolgreen>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:42 PM
Subject: RE: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's


> Personally, I read this list for Patti specific information, notes, 
> concert
> updates, the sense of community, etc. I'm aware of the thin thread of
> connection between herself and Mr. Nader, but *this thread* quickly became
> non-Patti and spiralled down the path of who was right and who was wrong,
> politically speaking, with virtually no Patti relevance. Best guess is 
> that
> there better forums to continue that dialogue.
>
> In the interim, I like your last paragraph best. =]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-babel-list
> [mailto:owner-babel-list] On Behalf Of Carol Green
> Sent: March-02-08 11:20 AM
> To: Lybbie; babel-list
> Subject: Re: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's
>
> I don't know, but I did wonder if the people who don't want to talk 
> politics
>
> here are the same people that go to Patti's gigs? If so, what do they do
> when Patti starts singing Rock N Roll Nigger? Disappear to the bathroom?
>
> While I'm here could I just clarify something I said on a previous post. 
> The
>
> thing I put in "quotes" about Nader's paperwork wasn't in quotes because 
> it
> was something Patti had said, it was in quotes as I was quoting from a
> newspaper - nothing to do with Patti. Sorry if I confused anyone.
>
> What I said about hoping Patti says whatever she wants at the Lincoln 
> Centre
>
> was because I was fed up with people on this list blaming her (indirectly,
> perhaps) for everything from Bush being elected to what happened on 9/11.
>
> Anyway, any reports from people who were at the Lincoln Centre last night?
> What was the setlist? What stories did she tell....
>
> carol
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lybbie" <lydonr>
> To: <babel-list>
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's
>
>
>> Wow I'm surprised to see this kind of message appear on this list.
>> I don't post very often at all but I always thought politics was 
>> discussed
>
>> pretty freely here.
>> When did it change?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jane Sooby" <jane>
>> To: <babel-list>
>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:19 PM
>> Subject: RE: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's
>>
>>
>>> Sorry to be a buzz kill but this thread is entirely off topic, given the
>>> topic is Patti Smith, and it's filling up my inbox with a bunch of crap.
>>> Please cease and desist. Is this list not moderated?
>>>
>>> Thank you for returning to the topic at hand, Patti Smith!
>>>
>>> Jane
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-babel-list
>>> [mailto:owner-babel-list] On Behalf Of weapons of mass
>>> destruction-related program activities
>>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:40 AM
>>> To: babel-list
>>> Subject: Re: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's
>>>
>>> Gart, Mitchell (Mitchell.Gart) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But he didn't and now he's going to
>>>> try to screw things up again.  Unforgiveable.
>>>
>>> And this year, with a deep division in the Democratic
>>> Party over the nomination running 50-50, a whole lotta
>>> progressive folks are going to be walking around this
>>> Fall after the convention feeling at least disenchanted
>>> and disenfranchised, to say nothing of bitter.
>>>
>>> So Saint Ralph has the best shot he's had since 2000 at
>>> scraping some scum off the top of the pond. Which is good
>>> for him, because even though he's had eight years to build
>>> something resembling a viable 3rd party, getting people
>>> elected, participating in debates, etc - you know, *work* -
>>> he apparently prefers to wait, like a vulture, for a
>>> bunch of disaffected quasi-liberals to be found alongside
>>> the road baking in the hot sun. Yum!