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Go ahead, make something political out of THAT!
Sigh.
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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
Ray
May 8th, 2009
7:57 pm
Willie will not be with us much longer but he also will be missed. Same for Ray Price. Great song.
I Report :-) / You Whine :-(
May 8th, 2009
8:10 pm
How about some Obozo music (his fav artist, remember?)-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUN9giYJhew
I’m down wit it.
Can I get a……..
clyde
May 8th, 2009
8:16 pm
Great song. I’d like to think of it with Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer backing it up.
Shine’s good.Had it years ago.
jt
May 8th, 2009
8:25 pm
Ms. Godzilla- your maw-n-law is a lucky lady. Everything is gonna be alright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEUesP0eZw&feature=related
getalife
May 8th, 2009
8:31 pm
Well, my grandpappy stored liquor in lead pipes during the prohibition.
Guess how that turned out?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 8th, 2009
8:40 pm
Mrs. G:
Perhaps this will help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XezRt7-gGX0&feature=related
Mrs. Godzilla
May 8th, 2009
8:44 pm
Thanks jt…..
Hillbilly, by gumbo! that does help.
jt
May 8th, 2009
8:46 pm
Only if the kids today weren’t so damn eager to be unimpressed, they would enjoy things like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc&feature=related
TnGelding
May 8th, 2009
9:14 pm
I Report
/ You Whine 
May 8th, 2009
5:19 pm
I think government employment has been up every month since the “recession” started in November, 2007. Will they ever learn?
Wonder how many years the IRS took off of Willie’s life? And many others.
TnGelding
May 8th, 2009
9:19 pm
Your government at work:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05082009/news/nationalnews/white_house_to_release_review_of_low_fly_168274.htm
Taxpayer
May 8th, 2009
9:26 pm
Mrs. G,
I never really got into the big band music. How ’bout something like this instead. 8>)
Redneck Convert
May 8th, 2009
9:26 pm
Well, I ain’t going to say nothing bad about nobody tonight. That Roger Miller sure could sing and write. That Husbands and Wives is a dandy.
Midori
May 8th, 2009
9:26 pm
For the posters who say they are going to see Star Trek, I just got back from seeing it.
It effing ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 8th, 2009
9:29 pm
JT, anybody who ain’t impressed with Ray Charles must not have ears.
TN Gelding: I remember reading about Willie before his IRS troubles. He owned his own golf course just for him and his friends. Par was “anything you want it to be”. I’m not a golfer but I like his attitude on that.
Saw him interviewed about his IRS problems and he said, “If you let a guitar player from Abbott, TX get into you for $15 million, you ain’t too damn bright”.
getalife
May 8th, 2009
9:39 pm
A little whisky in a jar seems appropriate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZDhnRo8YvQ
godless heathen
May 8th, 2009
9:42 pm
>>Saw him interviewed about his IRS problems and he said, “If you let a guitar player from Abbott, TX get into you for $15 million, you ain’t too damn bright”.<<
Two thumbs up!!
Bud Wiser
May 8th, 2009
9:49 pm
I know that this is the looooooong version, but it is one of my all time favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEMuAnFH_lM
godless heathen
May 8th, 2009
9:50 pm
Well, I must admit that was a nice pic of AF1. Who took the pics? Someone in the F-16 escort or was there another aircraft involved?
You know what’s fun. Go on google earth and look at a major airport like ATL and find an airplane on final to the runway.
I guess that says something about how exciting life is here on the Tick Farm.
the evil rich
May 8th, 2009
9:51 pm
Willie Nelson, he of the too many wild horse dung covered mushrooms and the government was behind bringing down the World Trade Center? Enough said.
Bud Wiser
May 8th, 2009
9:53 pm
I know that this may confuse some of you, because I sure as hell AIN’T referring to Obozo, but of the love of sailing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75qOurrp4jU
godless heathen
May 8th, 2009
9:54 pm
Bud,
That is a great piece of music. But to really appreciate it you gotta twist one up and my employer gets a break on the insurance rates if we all pee in a cup now and then, so I can’t really enjoy the piece as it should be.
The 21st century sure sucks.
Bud Wiser
May 8th, 2009
9:56 pm
godless heathen, now that is really a shame.
And yes, the 21st century DOES suck.
Bud Wiser
May 8th, 2009
9:58 pm
I’m just glad I didn’t let Willie Nelson do my taxes….. or am I?
godless heathen
May 8th, 2009
9:59 pm
Taxpayer,
Re: your Youtube link, Adam Ant.
To quote my Cousin Vinny:, “Yous was serious ’bout dat?”
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 8th, 2009
10:00 pm
Thumbs up on the Moody Blues, Bud.
Taxpayer
May 8th, 2009
10:04 pm
godless heathen,
I signed it with 8>) If it brought a little smile to Mrs.G, then it served its purpose. If not, well….
RW-(the original)
May 8th, 2009
10:09 pm
Would it kill anybody to say what they’re linking to on YouTube since we can’t see from hovering?
/Thank you all in advance for your compliance.
Taxpayer
May 8th, 2009
10:14 pm
Take a chance, close your eyes and click, RW, I’m enjoying a little tune called So Far Away right now.
Susan Myers
May 8th, 2009
10:21 pm
I could hear this one a bazillion times and never, ever tire of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1zsUIosoA
Taxpayer
May 8th, 2009
10:37 pm
Susan,
I think this guy could give Journey a run for their money.
AmVet
May 8th, 2009
10:46 pm
Shatner/Folds -Has Been. For Star Trek fans
Susan Myers
May 8th, 2009
10:52 pm
I’d never heard of Adam Lambert, Taxpayer. What a voice! Kinda reminds me of this fella, who I will love forever and always.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NkLUh_zMP8
Kamchak
May 8th, 2009
10:54 pm
Okay I’ll throw my hat in the ring–but I don’t know how to do the bright blue line thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEPFH-gz3we
Supposed to be Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Apologies if it’s not.
Susan Myers
May 8th, 2009
11:03 pm
Kamchak,
That link didn’t work for me, but here’s a Miles Davis/John Coltrane I like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3evE26g4o
Taxpayer
May 8th, 2009
11:08 pm
Susan,
Your link took me back to my high school days. I dated a girl that also loved the king and I took her to two of his shows in Atlanta back in the early seventies. Adam is one of this year’s Idol contestants.
Kamchak
May 8th, 2009
11:14 pm
Susan
Yes a very fine song. Mine should have been “Kind of Blue”
Susan Myers
May 8th, 2009
11:18 pm
Taxpayer,
Friday, May 2, 1975, The Omni, I had a front row seat and managed to get up to the stage and get a kiss and a scarf from him. I was on Cloud 9 for days.
I’ve never watched American Idol. Guess I need to check it out.
Susan Myers
May 8th, 2009
11:23 pm
Kamchak,
I love Kind of Blue too.
jewcowboy
May 9th, 2009
12:12 am
Back from dinner. Jay, that’s great. One of my favorite Willy Nelson finds is Robert Earl Keen.
Feelin’ good again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV2FJG3YYyc&feature=related
You can’t but feel good listening.
jewcowboy
May 9th, 2009
12:14 am
“I will say that the conversation level has improved pretty dramatically now that you have gotten rid of many of the vulgarians.”
I agree very much. He wasn’t a vulgarian, but I do miss the Corporal. He and I didn’t agree, but he was interesting.
jewcowboy
May 9th, 2009
12:23 am
Susan,
Very nice video. This is more my style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5VaBgXzuM
farfegnugen
May 9th, 2009
12:35 am
sleepin’ music:
Denver
AmVet
May 9th, 2009
12:59 am
OK boys and girls, you’re gonna wanna crank ‘er up for this one. Jackson Browne’s Red Neck Friend
Joel Edge
May 9th, 2009
5:33 am
I would. However, I notice you have removed my comments the last two times. So what’s the point.
GOP is gone
May 9th, 2009
6:36 am
Note to self, Do not drink and bake. The consequences of choosing the wrong kind of flour due to good music and red wine are not pretty.
I Report :-) / You Whine :-(
May 9th, 2009
6:44 am
There was a time, not too long ago that stories such as these would have never appeared within the pages of the Urinal-
Unemployment hits 25-year high, One good sign: Number of job losses dropped, yay!-Urinal/Team Obozo
War Developments- The US military called “extremely over exaggerated” a report that as many as 147 civilians died in an incident involving American and Taliban forces.-Urinal/Jihad
Well, the stories would have appeared but they never would have been editorialized by the “Conservative” news editors at the AJC, before it would have been a foregone conclusion that the US sucks and much whining would have commenced.
Gee, I wonder what changed since that time?
Andy the Vulcan
May 9th, 2009
7:19 am
Don’t go see Wolverine whatever you do… Save your money for Star Trek
DB, Gwinnettian
May 9th, 2009
8:54 am
Willie’s guitar is a subtle thing of beauty. It’s a little thing, but I think it merits mention.
and I was thinking a bit about something that another elderly game-changer, Pete Seeger, said in a recent interview. He was asked about the magnitude of recent political changes, and specifically about being honored on his 90th birthday at Madison Square Garden with a bunch of rock stars.
His take, my paraphrasing: “I don’t believe so much in change from big things. I think change happens from a million little things.”
Like, say, Willie’s guitar.
TnGelding
May 9th, 2009
10:58 am
I Report
/ You Whine 
May 9th, 2009
6:44 am
The Pretender was replaced by the Defender.
Didn’t you get the word on the AJC’s makeover(s)?