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Gimme Shelter is IMO, their best song. Good to see it reign supreme.

Well, as much as I love those groups, especially the Floyd, I think I'd have a difficult time narrowing it down to 10-12 songs.

No, a Special for The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin or The Who would be equally as hard.

Michael Phelps is the greatest swimmer in US history, if not also in Olympic history. They're going to focus on him, and rightfully so. Even if he doesn't win any golds, he has the chance to become the most decorated athlete in Olympic history this year. That's a massive, massive accomplishment. He's already got 17 medals, he needs 18 to tie, 19 to hold the record. That's entirely doable. What he has accomplished already is absurd to think about, considering most Olympic sports don't have several different disciplines that allow you to medal that many times in either one games, or one career. I'm not saying they should ignore other athletes, but it's silly to expect them to completely ignore him. They can't - every race he's in is potentially historic. I also don't think he was pouting after taking the silver in the 4x100 freestyle relay. If anything, I heard more talk on Twitter about how Ryan Lochte blew it for the US on his anchor leg than anything about Phelps. Of course, that's just what I've read on Twitter from people who have been talking about the games. I think a silver is an incredible accomplishment in and of itself, and nothing to pooh-pooh.

Jenny Take A Ride Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels Found on the group's debut album Take A Ride, it was the band's first big hit, and it peaked at #10 on the Pop Charts in 1965, also hitting #1 on the R&B charts, which was the first time that had ever happened for a rock band. It was supposed to be released as a b-side, but producer Bob Crewe changed his mind after seeing how two musicians who were also at the same studio, reacted to the song as it was being recorded. Who were they? Brian Jones and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Information taken from Wikipedia.

1. Gimme Shelter 2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3. Winter 4. Paint It Black 5. She's A Rainbow 6. Mother's Little Helper 7. 19th Nervous Breakdown 8. Get Off My Cloud 9. Start Me Up 10. Tumblin' Dice 11. Honky Tonk Women 12. Brown Sugar Very, very, very, very hard to rank these songs.

It's not the Olympics Committee, it's NBC. They own the rights to the footage. The Daily Mail had an article about the James Bond/Queen segment that contained video of it, but I'm assuming that was from the BBC feed. I watched the Opening Ceremonies and I thought it was very, very well done. That's really the only aspect of the games I care about. I'd like our athletes to do well, but I'm not watching any of the events; they really don't interest me. I got suckered into watching the swimming races in Beijing because I wanted to see if Michael Phelps could break Spitz's record, but once the swimming was over, I didn't turn them back on.

1. Cheater, The - Bob Kuban & The In-Men (1966) 2. Jenny Take A Ride - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (1966) 3. Nashville Cats - The Lovin’ Spoonful (1968) 4. You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes (1965) 5. Cream - Prince (1991) 6. Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac (1982) 7. Baby Hold On - The Grass Roots (1970) 8. Hold On - Triumph (1979) 9. Fjogur Piano - Sigur Ros (2012) 10. Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin (1960)

Shake, Rattle and Roll Bill Haley and the Comets A twelve-bar blues song, it was written by Charles E. Calhoun and originally performed by Big Joe Turner. It was released in April of 1954, and hit #1 on the Billboard R&B chart, at the same time peaking at #22 on the Billboard Pop Chart. The original incarnation was far more sexual than Bill Haley's, with the chorus "shake, rattle, and roll" meaning "boisterous intercourse", much in the same way "rock and roll" was used to mean the same thing in early blues recordings. His version of the song is at #126 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of all Time. The most famous version of the song was by Bill Haley and the Comets, released in August of 1954, and peaked at #7 on the Billboard Pop Chart. His was a more peppier version, and fit the definition of rock and roll as a merger of country and rhythm and blues. Haley's producer, Mitt Gabler, admitted to cleaning up the lyrics, because he didn't want a radio station's censors to ban the song from being played. Haley and Turner became friends, and Haley's version helped Turner quite a bit, because people would hear one version and seek out the other. They toured Australia together in 1957, and Haley acknowledged Turner's version in later years by incorporating some of the original lyrics into his performances. Both versions however, contain the double entendre, "I'm like a one-eyed cat, peepin' in a seafood store." [Ed. If you want to know what it means, look up the Wikipedia article on the song, and mouse over the phrases "one-eyed cat" and "seafood store" LOL] Both versions sold over a million copies, making Shake, Rattle and Roll the first big rock and roll hit. Information taken from Wikipedia

Nashville Cats - The Lovin’ Spoonful (1968) Jenny Take A Ride - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (1966) The Cheater - Bob Kuban & The In-Men (1966)

You wouldn't have needed to go there to see that anyway, even if it was still standing. Next time you're in Pittsburgh, go to Point State Park. Stand in front of the fountain. Bam - Ohio, Allegheny, Monongahela.

Of all the atheists I know, myself included, I'm the only one who used to belong to a Christian denomination. I was Catholic. I haven't been for well over a decade. I don't need a religion, no matter if we're talking Abrahamic or eastern, to tell me to be a good person. I do that of my own volition. So one can very much live a peaceful, do-good-to-others life, without a religious backdrop. I've read the Bible, the Torah, the Qu'ran, and the Bhagavad Gita. I read them as works of literature, not religious canon/dogma. I found them interesting. I read extensively about a lot of things. Just because I don't believe in God doesn't mean I don't think things can be gleamed from what other people choose to believe. Surely you don't mean the United States, as we have more than one religion here, no matter what some whackadoodle members of our government might lead you to think. What atheist arguments are narrow-minded, in your opinion? What arguments are you looking for or haven't seen, that apply to eastern religions?

I had something typed here, but decided they're no longer worth the effort.

As I pointed out, we lived where my parents could afford for us to live. Once we had the financial stability to move to another neighborhood, we did. There is nothing wrong with living in those neighborhoods if that's the only option available to you short of sleeping on the street. A roof over your head is better than no roof over your head. What's interesting is that some of those gang members were very nice to my sister and I, and would often watch out for us when we'd be playing in our yard or going trick-or-treating on Halloween. If they saw us outside, they always made sure no one would mess with us. I certainly didn't see them as "trash" or "filth"....and I still don't now. Looking back, they did things I don't approve of, but I was never scared or threatened by them.

I don't need a bulletproof vest to take a walk in the park. If you live your life constantly in fear of everything, you're not living. I grew up in a gang-infested neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, where drugs were regularly sold in the alley behind our apartment. I was never scared, and neither were my parents. Would they have liked to raise us somewhere else? I don't doubt that, but you live where you can afford to live, and sometimes that's not always in the nicer part of town. It's a shame you don't want to go "larger cities", all because of something that *might* happen. I *might* get hit by a car, but that doesn't stop me from crossing the street. Constantly being scared of everything....that's how criminals like this shooter victimize people long after they've pulled the trigger. Life's too short for that crap.

Everyone is entitled to believe what they want, but facts are facts, and as far as science is concerned, commonly accepted truths are just that. There was a time when it was considered heresy to say the earth revolved around the sun, rather than saying the sun revolved around the earth. Or that we evolved from apes, instead of from Adam and Eve. Or that the earth is only 6,000 years old. Science has proven all of those things false. I firmly believe that the idea of God, or whatever the deity in that faith is called, was created by humanity to explain what they didn't understand. I see no need for that anymore, now that we have ways of understanding and explaining things that we don't know. BTW, science as a concept as been around a lot longer than you think.

1. Goodbye Girl - David Gates (1977) 2. Candy Man, The - Sammy Davis, Jr. (1972) 3. Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley and the Comets (1954) 4. Smiling Faces - The Undisputed Truth (1971) 5. I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner (1984) 6. Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay And The Techniques (1967) 7. Feeling That Way - Journey (1978) 8. Cryin' - Aerosmith (1993) 9. Ready To Start - Arcade Fire (2010) 10. Walk The Dinosaur - Was (Not Was) (1988)

Sunshine - Matisyahu

The new Matisyahu album is AMAZING. OMG. So good.

Oh, I understand that Rocky....one of my closest friends is a Baptist whose father is a minister and was a chaplain in the Army. I have nothing against Christians in general, or religious people of any stripe. On the flip side, I don't like atheists/agnostics who feel the need to constantly shove THAT down peoples' throats, either. Religious belief, or the lack thereof, should be a private matter. I only mentioned what I felt here to explain in part, why I got rid of Facebook. Ordinarily, I don't mention it because I don't like calling attention to it. A lot of that has to do with what Tim said above, and also because it really isn't anyone's business.

Same here. The only time I'd say anything was when they'd get super-preachy. What's funny, is being an atheist, if I had "preached" what I thought re: religion, they'd accuse me of not respecting their beliefs. Well, what do you think YOU'RE doing?

Small sample size of course, but I've been using Macs for years, and so has nearly everyone else I know, and none of us have had any kind of virus or malware issues. I have an anti-virus program on my computer (it's for Macs), and I run it every week, but it never finds anything. I recently got my parents to give up their PC and get a Mac, and they said they wished they did it earlier. Like I said, it's a small sample size, but there's a much, much, much larger virus threat on PCs than on Macs, which is why when people complain about them, I always advocate them switching platforms.

Not just Christians, the born-again types who think that if you're not a born-again Christian too, you shouldn't have been born the first time. I'm an atheist. I have never kept that from people who've asked me. If you know someone doesn't hold your religious views, why would you continually spam them with sh!t they have no interest in? It irritated the living hell out of me.

Or just get a Mac, like I did. That said, if you spend even one penny on an anti-virus or anti-malware program, you're a fool. There are plenty of really top-notch, completely free programs out there.

It's stupid, and I got sick of it. They kept dicking around with the security/privacy settings, and I'd had enough. Also, I was getting sick to death of getting spammed on my feed by people talking about either babies, weddings, or Jesus Christ.