In 1992, Ronnie James Dio quit Black Sabbath rather than open for Ozzy. “I’m not supporting a clown,” he told Iommi.
So Rob Halford stepped in on almost no notice. Here he is singing “N.I.B.” with Sabbath at Costa Mesa.
One of the rarest lineups in metal.
ESPN paid Jemele Hill $6 million to literally stop talking, and now she’s lecturing us on the "ills" of capitalism? I’m just glad @Kmele set the record straight. Well done, sir.
My statement to @FoxNews following last nights CNN panel: “There is something deeply sick about a political movement that treats murdered Americans as an inconvenience."
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For today's Texas Quote of the Day, I offer a few choice quoted from Sam Houston. The last one is one of my all-time favorite Texas quotes:
"Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."
"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man."
"I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love."
"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
"For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained."
"Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration."
"Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."
"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time."
"In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her."
[Note: this is what Sam said when asked to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederate States of America]
"We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help."
"Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind."
"All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but [early] Texas was absolutely overrun by such men."