45 years ago today...

This album was released by these guys from Liverpool.
















And on side two...

Yes, Steve. Lennon admits that he was using drugs when he wrote this one. What's your excuse.

The FundamentalsOfTheEconomyAreStrong. Don'tLetAnybodyElseScrewYouBeforeIGetAChance edition.

Ah, Steve. It doesn't matter who wrote it. You took credit for it.

That's right, Steve, it's right there on your Rubber Soul album.

The OhMyGod!TheyFoundOutIStoleHoward'sWords. NowThey'llThinkICan'tThinkForMyself edition.



Don't worry Steve. Most of us knew it all along.

Right then: It appears something in the Blogger Unimatrix One complex something has made it tough to play videos. So here's the direct link if you're having trouble.

THIS is so you Steve.

Tell us all about this Beatles tune, Steve! What part of the drug culture is this one about?

The ConservativesAreHoggingTheTrough edition



And now for something just a little different. (This isn't for you, Steve. You get back in your hole until tomorrow's scripted, police-protected, reporter-free, sanitized photo op.)

I figure that if somebody sits through A Hard Day's Night three times non-stop and has to endure Paul Anka.... TWICE.... just to do it, well, one more time without Diana should make the drudgery of changing the kitty litter a little less so. (But perhaps messy if one starts dancing.)

Bullet-headed Saxon mother's son

The LeeRichardsonIsSpeaking that means OurHiddenAgendaIsBeingExposedAgain!! edition. Tell us what this one is about... Stevie.

The Conservative campaign

Get up, do a photo op, speak to smiling confirmed voters, answer no questions, repeat 21 times.

Where are your candidates, Steve?

The Beatles, the WhenIsTheMediaGoingToDumpThisTurkey edition:

Where did all those Conservative Candidates' blogs go Steve?

The Wow!TheyAllDisappearedSoFast edition.

Here you go Stevie. This is for one of your "late" candidates

The ChrisReidDoesn'tSpeakForUsButWeReallyLikeHisIdeas editon:

When you were still in middle school, Stevie...

The Cold War was in full throw. There was a whole group of us out there on the wall. Let me tell you about the "glory". There wasn't any. We lived day in and day out with our fingers on the trigger knowing that if we screwed up, it meant the end of civilization. It was actually a crappy job, but because it was so far from home, we relished in it. We loved it because, well, we were right out there on the edge - on the world stage.

You, Stevie, were dealing with teenage politics and I'll take good odds that you weren't one of the cool kids. That's why you're such a nasty little prick now.

Well, Stevie, take a look at what's happening while you fritter away this country's defence dollars on a wasted effort.

Russia's lower house of parliament, passed a 25 per cent increase in defence spending next year from $40 billion to $50 billion. Russia's three-year budget forecast includes further increases to $54.5 billion in 2010 and to $58 billion by 2011.

Yeah, that doesn't look like a lot compared to the US defense budget.

Russia's military budget remains barely a tenth of the $480 billion spent by the US Pentagon this year. Mr Medvedev told defence chiefs last week that the Georgian war showed that Russia had to modernise its military as "one of our top priorities".

Booming oil revenues allowed his predecessor Vladimir Putin to quadruple defence spending, with $189 billion earmarked to upgrade army and navy equipment by 2015.

Right. Except that the US government just had to bail itself out of a financial mess of its own making. Where does the money come from to fund their military adventures now?

And the big question is, who's got the money now?

Are you sure you middle school superheroes didn't just undo all of the work we did in the last half of the 20th Century?

This is for you. The OhMyGod!They'reDoingItAgain! edition. Enjoy.

Thanks to Cheryl

In honour of the Queen of Skeena-Bulkley Valley

The SharonSmithIsUs edition:



And tonight... we have a little bonus.

And tonight Stevie, you can explain this Beatles tune to... whomever.

The IreallywishCanadianswerecapitalCconservatives edition

Harper, Ritz, Clement rag time: Mean Mr. Mustard

Let's keep it Konservative, shall we? Of course. Tell your son why we played this one for you, Steve.

We love that blue seater blues. The Beatles. EVERYONE'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY MONKEY

C'mon Steve. We know what it's all about. So did The Beatles

Dear Steve....

Hey! You started it. You are the one who connected the Beatles with the drug culture and then told us how you were going to change all that.

My son is listening to my Beatles records and asking me what all these lyrics mean ... I love these records. I'm not putting them away ... But we have to change the culture.

So what if you were only six years old when the Beatles were sucking in a million dollars a minute?

Well, sport, the Beatles wrote most of their songs about people just like you. Keep your albums, tell your son lies about them. Cheryl and I will provide the truth about the Beatles. One song at a time.

For the rest of this unscheduled campaign Cheryl and I will be posting one Beatles song each day which has more to do about you than anything or anyone else. Think we can match them to your behaviour? I guess it depends on what parts you listen to, doesn't it sport.

You don't know what they were about. It was too deep for you in middle school and it's too deep for you now. But everyone else can get it! Yeah, that's like being kicked in the nuts in the schoolyard.

Get a new needle shithead.

I wanna hold your hand

It's Sunday night. Television is a reality in most North American homes. At 8 p.m. most of the television viewers from the Rio Grand to Cold Lake have "warmed up" the set to watch Ed Sullivan.

On a Sunday night, on the Ed Sullivan Show, 44 years ago tonight, this happened.



And our parents watched our reaction in horror.

Hat tip to Clarkspick.com... who's terrific music site is being added to the blogroll.