After Tyler, Morgan & Ethan were convinced that Ann & I were too old and too un-cool to go to concerts, we found out that we fit in more than the kids. The crowd was mostly 40ish.

It was awesome. I was sure they wouldn’t play all of our favorites, but here’s the playlist:

Breathe
Get On Your Boots
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day / Blackbird
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / Stand By Me
Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
No Line On The Horizon
Magnificent
Elevation
Until The End Of The World
The Unforgettable Fire
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight / Thank You
Sunday Bloody Sunday / People Get Ready
MLK
Walk On

encores: One / Amazing Grace
Where The Streets Have No Name
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You,
Moment of Surrender

“Elvis Presley And America” would have been good. Wishful thinking though. I’m not aware of a live recording of this great song from the unforgettable fire album. If ya’ll know of one, LMK:

Black flash over my own love, tell me of my eyes/Black flash come though my own life, telling these things
And I believe them and I believe in you/White flash sees the sky and it turns its side from you
She won’t turn my back and I know you turn so blue/And you know and your sky is feeling blue
And your heart, so cold when I’m with you/And you feel like no one told you to
And your time is your side and your time with me

Ah, don’t talk to me/Ah, don’t talk to me/Don’t talk to me

You know like no one told you how/But you know though the king that howls has howled
But you feel like sentimental but you don’t care/If I just share it in your heart/Heart

Hopelessly, so hopelessly/I’m breaking through for you and me
And you don’t though no one told you to/And you found out where you were going
Where to/You’re through with me

But I know that you will be back for more/You know and though no one told you so
And you know, blue sky like a harder shade of blue/And you walk when you want to let go
Me, I’m the outside, tell me fade away

Drop me down but don’t break me in your sleep/In your sleep, inside it’s in your heart and mine
Whole sea is dark, it’s in your heart and mine/Sweetly, those will come
Loving is on your side walking through/So let me in your heart
Your beat is like something/They run

See say you’re sad and reach by/So say you’re sad above beside
Oh stay you’re sad over midnight/So stay sad above we said

You know I don’t, no one told you how/And you don’t and you wipe sweat off your white brow
And you care and no one told you tried/And your heart is left out from the side
And the rain beats down and the shame goes down/And this rain keeps on coming down
And this sky tonight

You know “S” “O” “N” “G”, why/You’re going go join to God
You know “S” “O” “N” “G”, why/Give away some him no lie
Give away some my de day no

You know and though no one told you sky/And you feel like you pretend you can
You say go, you live, go live outside of me/Don’t you leave, don’t leave out part of me
Then can feel like I feel before/Like I hurt now and I see the floor
If you pick me up, bits and pieces on this floor

from Michelle Malkin – Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, spoke at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN last week on the UN Climate Change treaty scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. He was hosted by the Minnesota Free Market Institute.

Minnesota Majority posted the video of his speech, entitled “Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?” He wouldn’t be the first.

Watch:

Failure to alert anyone of problem highlights need for ESC Reform

Today, Lawmakers announced that the General Assembly would convene in session under the Sine Die Resolution to correct an oversight made by the Employment Security Commission so that South Carolinians will not lose federal unemployment benefits.

The General Assembly will convene October 27th at noon to pass the necessary legislation that will allow our state’s jobless access to this Federal unemployment benefit.  Lawmakers are currently looking for the best legislative vehicle to use for this fix and expect the process to take no longer than just a few days.

House Speaker Bobby Harrell and Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell said in a joint statement:

“The General Assembly will take quick action to fix this oversight by the ESC to ensure that unemployed South Carolinians will not suffer further by being denied this Federal benefit.”

“It is unfortunate that the Legislature must return to fix this problem, this oversight was completely avoidable and further highlights the need for reforming the ESC from a reactive check writing agency into a proactive job placement agency.  Just as the ESC waited until the 11th hour to warn the General Assembly about the dwindling Unemployment Trust Fund, again the ESC has laid this problem at the feet of lawmakers at the last possible minute.”

Lawmakers will receive no additional legislative pay for these session days.