Linda Ronstadt Booed off Stage at Vegas

4. I Will Take-Off Work or School on Election Day and Volunteer to Get Out the Vote.

First of all, Election day should be a national holiday. Everyone should automatically get the day off from school and work. Since it is not a holiday, the only answer is to treat it like one. Ditch work, skip school, and hit the streets!

Whatever else you do on election day, do not forget that you've got to have lunch with your non-voting five. It is part of ensuring that they will cast their votes.

Take your car, plaster it with signs that say, "DO NOT FORGET TO VOTE TODAY!" and drive around town. Make sure people get the message.

Or, you could rent a U-Haul truck, load up the back with sofas and drive around town offering people a ride to the polling place. You don't need to proselytize about your candidate, just do it as a service to the country and with the dream that someday, we'll have a president who was elected by more than a quarter of the eligible voting population.

Whenever you find yourself in public on election day (which should be often), talk very, very loudly about how much FUN you had casting your vote.

Go to the grocery stores, the malls - any place where people congregate - and nicely engage them in conversation. Get them talking about voting. If they didn't vote, encourage them to. Don't preach to them, just talk honestly about what voting means to you.

Whatever you do on your "day off," don't relax. It's not a vacation, it's a chance to change an election. And isn't that more fun that sitting on the couch watching game shows all day? It's certainly better than being at work. So hit the streets! And don't worry... if your boss or your teacher gets mad at you, just tell them you were fulfilling your patriotic duty.

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Near the close of her performance, Ronstadt dedicated the Eagles hit "Desperado" to Moore, producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11," and the room erupted into equal parts boos and cheers.

She said Moore "is someone who cares about this country deeply and is trying to help."

Ronstadt has been making the dedication at each of her engagements since she began a national tour earlier this summer, but it has never sparked such a reaction.

Hundreds of angry fans streamed from the theater as Ronstadt sang. Some of them reportedly defaced posters of her in the lobby, writing comments and tossing drinks on her pictures.

The article notes that half the audience walked out. It's real hard to believe that the half that stayed was uniformly happy with Ronstadt's behavior.

The rest of the article indicates that Ronstadt's singing career is pretty much over unless she manages to get her head back together.

Squyres said half the audience walked out, an estimate that might have been high. But the number was substantial, nevertheless.

Harper wrote:

McGentrix wrote:

Sadly, the malcontent trash who created a scene ruined the night for those Ronstadt fans who did attend.

I mentioned this once before and you've gone on repeating this mantra at least twice as if you never saw the explanation. There WAS a concert at Wolf Trap at which Ronstadt/Moore fans and normal people were about evenly divided and Ronstadt's comments DID create a division between the two groups at that performance. There was no mention of any noticable number of people taking Ronstadt's side at the event in Vegas.

All indications are that Ronstadt created a scene and ruined the evening for the people in attendance at that event (Vegas).

Other than that, you look at the picture of Ronstadt in her youth and, yeah it's sad that anybody would let themselves totally go like that, but there's absolutely no law of physics which says that people over fifty HAVE to look like that. For instance:



See what I mean?

I really shouldn't yeild to temptation, but my granny had a saying that applies, "beauty fades away but ugly stays the same"

revel wrote:

I have almost forgotten since no one has said anything about the anthrax, but wasn't it all democratic senators who were the targets of that, or at least their names on the addresses that had the anthrax? Just something I have always thought odd and have my own conspiracy theories about.

First it was the dixi chicks, then whoopi (slim fast commercial thing) and now Linda Ronstadt. Gee, I get the feeling we're not in America anymore.

The hotel owner and the audience was out of line.

I think she looks like she is a nice middle age lady. I wonder why men think women have to remain like they did in their early twenty's and they can look like death warmed over?

I would love to see their photos, especially swolf. On another forum I used to hang out on, the right-wing nuts were always calling people fat and ugly. Then one day, someone e-mailed me their photos! What a revelation. Funny too that people with $5 haircuts and 5 year-old TJ Maxx fashions would defend Republican ideals like doing away with the estate tax and tax breaks for the wealthy. I could never figure that one out.

As far as Linda's appearance, why is it that so many great female vocalists put on so much weight in their later years. Ella, Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee just to name three.

You have got to be the most disturbing poster that I have ever come across and I have been on message boards for a long time.

The man taking over the club in Vegas said that Linda will be welcomed back after he gains control.