Afternoons Live Top 5

♥LOVE SONGS♥

The boys put together their lists of the best love songs music has to offer, and no you can take their lists and merge them into an AWESOME mix tape (or CD) for your special someone...

Dave! Diamond

1. Marry Me - Neil Diamond

    (as instructed by Mrs. Diamond)

2. You & Me - Lifehouse

3. Temptation - Billy Joel

4. Bleed to Love Her - Lindsey Buckingham

5. Find a Way - Dave Bowman (a/k/a Dave Diamond)

John Considine

1. Afterhours - We Are Scientists

2. Fatally Yours - Alkaline Trio

3. Make it with You - Queens of the Stone Age

4. Exit Music For a Film - Radiohead

5. Afterhours - The Red Elvis's

Mazzy

1. True Love Ways - Buddy Holly

2. Big Ugly Wheels - Beat Farmers

3. Peaceful easy Feeling - The Eagles

4. I Want You Too - The Beat Farmers

5. Crystal Ship - The Doors

Listener Lists

Bobby Magee, (Janice Joplin). She loves you, (Beatles) wild thing, (Trogs) Cracklin' Rosy, (Neil diamond) Don’t you want somebody to love, (Jefferson airplane)  - now don’t try to get in my head, it went south after crackling rosy

5. You’re still a young man (Tower of Power) 4. Shadow of your smile 3.Your'e so wonderful (Tower of Power) 2. I'll take Manhattan 1. Down with Love. (Blossom Dearie version-fun song, great lyrics)

Best Love Songs..... Dave.... I don’t have 5. there aren’t that many. 4. any of the 6 Bach cello suites 3. Love is a Many Splendored Thing 2. Dream....Everly Brothers 1. Dreamwalk....Santo and Johnny…

Denise 5. The Rose-Bette Midler 4. (U make me feel like)A Natural Women-Carole King 3. Cant Help Falling In Love-Elvis 2. When I Fall In Love-Nat King Cole 1.At Last-Etta James 

5-How Deep is Your Love (Bee Gees); 4-Stuck on You (Sugarland); 3-Amanda (Boston); 2-Angie (Rolling Stones); 1-Just the Way

 You Are (Billy Joel)

Students of 1980's Action films will remember the evil corporate entity, OCP, Omni Consumer Products, which in the Robocop Series basically took over Detroit because of the City's debt. Chaos ensued, because in the fictional world of Hollywood Science Fiction there are no mega-corporations that are actually capable of running a municipal Police Department, even when it is permitted to use unlimited violence unless Miss Fox decides to mess up the operational parameters with a bunch of conflicting priority directives that include being nice to children.

Anyway, I was thinking of OCP today, not because Robocop 2 (which I think is one badass movie) was on TV this week but instead I was thinking of OCP because I listened and watched as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board - which sound pretty innocent and reassuring - informed us that we - the United States -  "have to cut our debt."

On the one hand, most people will hear that and sort think to themselves that , "Yeah, we should probably do something about that, and I am sure that Ben Bernanke means us well and is looking out for our best interests when he informs us in as grave a voice as he can muster that we cannot maintain this level of expense."

I'm sure that on the surface that is what he wants us to think, but the problem is that even though Ben Bernanke and the whole Federal Reserve Board are all (I'm sure) G-d-fearing Americans who put Country first are... follow me here... just like Omni Consumer Products.

They keep telling us they are doing great things. The politicians trust them to manage things that the Politicians decided they are too stupid to handle (even though millions of Americans do it for their own selves every day) but now are starting to realize that there is a huge price to be paid for trusting OCP.

You see while Ben Bernanke tells us that our debt is a problem, what he doesn't tell you is that HE and the FED are the holders of the VAST majority of that debt. The xenophobes among us want to blame China, but in fact, the Federal reserve holds six times more US debt than the Peoples Republic of China (Communist China). Interestingly enough Japan (no surprise) and Great Britain (what?) hold parts of the rest, but all of the other debt holders combined barely come close to the US debt that the Federal Reserve holds ($6.38TRILLION). Think about that for a moment - the people in charge of PRINTING our money and who tell us what it's worth have "loaned" us more than $6Trillion.

And now, wearing a three piece suit and looking distinguished Ben Bernanke tells us in his quiet, measured, "I'm your friend but not really" voice that our debt - which he owns - is coming due.

If he gets his money back - which is really our money that he has been allowed by our Congress to have a legal claim over - then we move on and OCP keeps making appliances and gadgets. If he doesn't, then do we get Robocop 2?

Kinda of makes you think that Ron Paul is on to something about the Federal Reserve. Then you realize that putting Congress back in order is the starting point.