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Go ahead, make something political out of THAT!
Sigh.
I know you can and will. I just don’t know how yet.
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Taxpayer
May 8th, 2009
4:30 pm
Old friends are the best. Now, did you see that Lincoln penny in that video. A clear reference to Obama, no, wait, to the GOP, no, wait….Jay, you underestimate the capabilities of a determined political machine and its backers. There is nothing that cannot be politicized and I don’t use the word ‘nothing’ freely.
As for politicians. Most know how to talk the talk. Too bad they never learned to walk the walk. You know what I mean.
Mike
May 8th, 2009
4:34 pm
Jay –
I will say that the conversation level has improved pretty dramatically now that you have gotten rid of many of the vulgarians.
SomaliDawg
May 8th, 2009
4:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMK8hCY0HkQ
Peace.
I Report :-) / You Whine :-(
May 8th, 2009
4:36 pm
Lord, how I do hate the twangy S$#%.
See, nothing political.
Jay
May 8th, 2009
4:36 pm
I’m pleased by that as well, Mike.
TnGelding
May 8th, 2009
4:37 pm
Old friends, indeed.
Everyone have a nice weekend.
Redeployed:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iQsdQAuKzZl3hMgVzG60jVJVgRiQ
mike
May 8th, 2009
4:38 pm
Jay –
Yeah. It is making me take it up a bit too.
AmVet
May 8th, 2009
4:40 pm
I’m with Andy on this one.
But no worries, JB. I still think the forum you provide here kicks a…..
Pogo
May 8th, 2009
4:43 pm
Can’t do it. I’m a sapp when it comes to music. Doesn’t matter what political affiliation or what genre the artist has and comes from. Music is instrinsic and its in our soul, whether we like it or not. Sometimes I wonder why something as simple as music can be a such a unifier while as something like politics can be such a divider (as evidenced here on a daily and hourly basis). Jay, instead of dividing you should work more on the unifying bit. A lot more fulfilling.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 8th, 2009
4:47 pm
Jay,
This will probably scare you to death but earlier today I was actually thinking about posting this very song. I’ve been thinking about an old friend who’s gone on and this song was stuck in my mind. It’s a great song and a great choice, made all the more poignant because we don’t have Roger’s genius anymore. At least we can enjoy Ray Price and his great voice a while longer.
jt
May 8th, 2009
4:50 pm
This helps at spaghetti junction or the 85 split.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqd85y6KoGQ
Jay
May 8th, 2009
4:51 pm
If it don’t skeer you, Hillbilly, it don’t skeer me. :>)
(I never bothered to learn those yellow-faced doo-hickeys).
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 8th, 2009
5:02 pm
Jay
I ain’t got sense enough to be skeered of much.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 8th, 2009
5:12 pm
Only a poet could write this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mn8h8ZPwQw
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:12 pm
Jay, you continue to amaze me. Just knowing how to spell “skeered” makes you one of the chosen few.
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:13 pm
I found a couple of old Lewis Grizzard books at a yard sale last weekend. I had forgotten how good the man was at telling a tale.
I Report :-) / You Whine :-(
May 8th, 2009
5:19 pm
April’s net job loss total actually was somewhat misleading: Private-sector employment actually fell by 611,000 jobs, but government hiring, which added 66,000 jobs, mostly for the upcoming census, offset some of them.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha, let me guess, ACORN workers, right?
Paying them with borrowed money.
And the Urinal brags about it.
sick
Daedalus
May 8th, 2009
5:19 pm
Well, if you don’t like the twangy stuff, try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlOUI4LAU8
Thanks for the post Jay. Off to the beach now.
jt
May 8th, 2009
5:26 pm
Daedalus-
I can smell Carolina now.
Jay
May 8th, 2009
5:27 pm
I come from a long line of hillbillies, lwwmmmmmmmm
N.J,
May 8th, 2009
5:27 pm
Well, that’s the same way G.W. Bush was able to attempt to claim that unemployment was dropping during his presidency. The only two sectors that saw job growth were low paying service jobs and higher paying government jobs. And those government jobs that occured last month are at all levels of government, city, county, state and federal. Most of the jobs have nothing to do with next years census, but in preparation for this years stimulus package money. Need lots more people in the various building and zoning departments to deal with the permits to start using that money as well as for construction at for profit hospital, etc.
Jay
May 8th, 2009
5:28 pm
I was just reading up on Roger, Hillbilly. Seems he was stationed here at Fort Mac for a while, post-Korea, and played with a group on post before heading north to Nashville.
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:30 pm
My granddaddy made likker in Trion, GA for a long time. He was not partial at all to strangers but he did teach me a lot of valuable lessons. But he never would teach me to make likker.
Jay
May 8th, 2009
5:33 pm
Did he teach you how to drink it?
Or did you come by that naturally?
@@
May 8th, 2009
5:39 pm
Alrighty din, jay! I won’t bring up the name of the video production company.
Heart and soul…
I yike it!
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:39 pm
I might have snuck a few fruit jars out of the barn every now and then. Purely for medicinal purposes, you understand.
@@
May 8th, 2009
5:40 pm
Oops! Heart and soul was not the name of the video production company.
Jay
May 8th, 2009
5:41 pm
I think Roger Miller wrote a song about that too, Lwww
Northern Songs, Ltd
May 8th, 2009
5:42 pm
For the record, Star Trek rocks!!!!!!!!
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:43 pm
I’m pretty sure Roger sampled the nectar a few times. Dang me if he didn’t.
Jay
May 8th, 2009
5:45 pm
makes ya want to holler hidey ho!
I Report :-) / You Whine :-(
May 8th, 2009
5:45 pm
I think we can fairly draw at least one conclusion from this episode. The case of Nancy Pelosi provides the key to the “torture” controversy. It is a partisan charade. And it is a charade of a particularly disgusting kind. The Democrats’ “torture” charade is a case of low politics masquerading as high principle.-Scott Johnson
Gosh, I wonder where we heard that^^ before?
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:47 pm
Kinda peaceful on the old site today. I like it. Maybe we could start a Friday afternoon tradition of no hate and discontent. Plenty of time the other days.
Taxpayer
May 8th, 2009
5:47 pm
Speaking of ‘medicinal purposes’, my dad made homemade cough syrup for us in our younger years. He would ‘acquire’ some 190+ proof and add peppermint sticks and a little lemon and let it sit until the peppermint had completely dissolved. It didn’t work though. After one spoonful, we all mysteriously developed more coughs. So, he gave up on the home brew and went back to the store-bought stuff.
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:47 pm
chug-a-lug chug-a-lug
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
5:52 pm
My dad said he was given some homebrew by a neighbor once, and was asked a few days later how it was. He said, “If it was any worse I wouldn’ta drunk it, and if it was any better you wouldn’ta give it to me.”
Jay
May 8th, 2009
5:57 pm
that’s funny.
I’ve tasted moonshine twice. once it was very good.
the other time it wasn’t.
Jay
May 8th, 2009
5:58 pm
And I’m looking forward to Star Trek. All indications are good.
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
6:00 pm
Making the good stuff is a lost art form. Most of the old-timers are long gone now. Granny always said that likker was gonna be the death of granddaddy, and sure enough, it did him in at the age of 93.
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
6:02 pm
Cap’n, she canna take any more! She’s gonna blow!
SomaliDawg
May 8th, 2009
6:19 pm
هستند و باید در برابر یکدیگر Moonshineمیآیند و از دید حیثیت OBAMA با روح برادری رفتار OBAMAهمهٔ افراد بشر آزاد به دنیا میآیند و از دید حیثیت SPLIFF با روح برادری رفتار
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk882gi4I7A
Susan Myers
May 8th, 2009
6:28 pm
My favorite travelin’ home music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTgLQgpwRvQ
Dave R
May 8th, 2009
6:32 pm
I, too am looking forward to the new “Trek”. The same with “Angels and Demons”. Summer’s gonna be a good film season based on those two.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 8th, 2009
6:34 pm
Jay,
I was unaware that Roger was at Ft. Mac. There was a lot of talent in the Atlanta area in those days.
Most all my folks made corn liquor at one time or another. It was the only cash crop in these parts. My Grandpa said if you couldn’t drink it like water you ought to pour it out. He believed in the old way, no adding sugar, or “sugar liquor” as he called it. (Adding sugar increases the amount of liquor you get for your ingredients and decreases the time it takes it to make). He said along in the 20’s and 30’s everything started going down hill quality wise when people realized that “the folks in the shot houses in Atlanta and Chattanooga would drink anything”.
lwwmm7:
I agree with you on the peaceful site. I’d vote for us to all declare a truce every week for the Travelin Music blog and keep politics out of it. That’s just me talking though.
lwwmm7
May 8th, 2009
6:37 pm
Amen to that, Hillbilly. If I want a bunch of hollerin’ and grumblin’ I’ll just get married again.
RW-(the original)
May 8th, 2009
6:41 pm
This screencap is offensive!
J/K
Susan Myers
May 8th, 2009
6:45 pm
Just saw The Merry Gentleman starring Michael Keaton and Kelly MacDonald. Brilliant!
Looking forward to My Sister’s Keeper starring Cameron Diaz and Alec Baldwin.
@@
May 8th, 2009
7:08 pm
I’ll need a pillow and a blanket for the movin’ picture show.
jt
May 8th, 2009
7:13 pm
My life story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSCkAfW1Gaw&feature=related
Mrs. Godzilla
May 8th, 2009
7:52 pm
Evening All.
Great music, nice folks. Thanks.
Saw the Star Trek reviews, I’d like to see it at the IMAX. So far I have lived pretty long and propered.
My Grandad built and repaired stills in Chicago during prohibition to support his wife and seven kids. He was part leprachaun to be sure.
I always adored him. I remember clearly the popping sound of the occasional home brew bottle cap exploding off in the darkest corner of the basement.
I spent 7 hours in the ICCU with my mom in law while her sn is 9200 miles away. Not a great day. Give me more good music please.
I like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OixqPThDNE