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O'Reilly Has Lost Any Credibility
I love this clip, Bill O'Reilly had David Silverman who is president of American Atheists who have been placing billboards stating that religion is a myth. Save yourself the time and just go straight to 1:51 of this clip where Bill O'Reilly tries to use the tides to make a case for God:Nevermind the debate over atheism vs. religion, everyone who has read this blog and read my posts on religion knows where I stand and either you are with me or you believe otherwise, thats all good and well, but O'Reilly lost this debate....Silverman should have stopped O'Reilly and asked him if he ever heard of the moon!!!!!! Everyday in the paper if you live along any significant body of water in the world you will find a section in the weather about the tides.....what causes the tides? THE MOON, they predict the tides and are completely accurate based on the moon.
O'Reilly should have lost any and all credibility after this segment, of course he won't and there was probably a bunch of FOX News brainwashed viewers going "Yeah man God makes the tides"....if you honestly believe that...then you need help. Lots of help.
Category: Science | Television | religion
What is Wrong With "I don't know"?
The Pope today came out and said there is no doubt, God created the universe.I have a problem with being so abolute in his assumptions based on one imperfect religious book and without being there.
There are people out there who take this stuff and follow/believe every word of it and what proof does the pope have other than a book (The Bible) that has had so many holes poked into it via fact checkers that its hardly a book of absolute truths. The pope goes and spews this stuff yet he knows no more than anyone else because not one person on this planet, nor anyone who wrote the Bible knows for sure how this planet got here or the rest of the solar system for that matter.The Many Covers of Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry at 84 collapsed last night and maybe it takes something like that toward the end of his incredible and long career (still touring at 84) to bring him back into the limelight where he belongs. This guy has influenced rock and roll from the 50's to the present from Keith Richards and the Stones to Green Day and everyone in between.
He made sounds come out of his guitar that back in the 50's no one thought possible. One of the first truly legendary guitarists ranking right up there with Hendrix, Beck, Clapton, Page, you name the guitarist and Berry is amonst the truly elite.
Last night after his collapse like the true legend he is came out and explained things to the audience and even did a little duck walk to prove he felt okay, but the show would not go on as doctors warned against:
So I wonder, how many bands/artists have covered Chuck Berry's signature work Johnny B. Goode?
It's listed as number 7 all time amonst Rolling Stone's 500 most important songs of all time and has been covered by this incredible list of bands/artists, I just had to copy and paste this from Wikipedia:
"Johnny B. Goode" is among the most widely covered rock and roll songs in history. The list of performers includes: AC/DC Aerosmith Alvin and the Chipmunks Andrés Calamaro Bad Religion BB King Beach Boys Big Tom And The Mainliners Bill Haley & His Comets Bon Jovi Bon Scott (with Cheap Trick) Brian Wilson Buck Owens Buddy Holly Burning Carlos Santana Celine Dion Cidade Negra Dion Down Low Dr. Feelgood Earthlings? Eddie Meduza Elton John Elvis Presley Five Iron Frenzy Frank Marino Freddie & the Dreamers Grateful Dead George Thorogood Green Day Hanson Jerry Lee Lewis Jim & Jesse Jimi Hendrix John Denver John Farnham John Mayer Trio Johnny Dowd Johnny Rivers Johnny Winter Jonny Lang Judas Priest Julian Lennon Led Zeppelin Living Colour LL Cool J ("Go Cut Creator Go") Los Suaves Lynyrd Skynyrd Marc Broussard Marty McFly Mark Campbell as Marty McFly Meat Loaf Men at Work MF Doom Motörhead NOFX NRBQ Off Kilter Operation Ivy Peter Tosh (1983) Phillip Magee Phish Prince Ratdog Rory Gallagher Slade Slaughter & The Dogs Stray Cats The Beatles The Carpenters The Grateful Dead The Rolling Stones The Sex Pistols The Shadows The Stimulators The Tornadoes The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain The Who Twisted Sister Uncle Tupelo Wes Paul Will Hoge
Talk about a diverse list of performers who have been influenced, I couldn't help but notice Celine Dion?
Some of my favorites include:
Brian Wilson who has covered it solo:
And done the Surfer version which we all know: The Sex Pistols did one of my personal favorites: Green Day does a decent cover live: But of course the one that is probably the most famous is from Back to the Future: of course just like most covers, nothing beats the original, at the young age of 82, Chuck Berry still doin it and shredding that guitar like no one else:
