A jazzy Travelin’ Music kickoff to a holiday weekend
So I was thinking that it’s been a while since we kicked off Friday’s Travelin’ Music segment with a jazz cut, and that it’d be nice to promote this weekend’s Atlanta Jazz Festival at Piedmont Park. But weather looks like it might dampen things, so to speak, with scattered thunderstorms predicted.
So jazz, storms … you see where I’m headed here, right? What I love about this duet between the great guitarist Joe Pass and Miss Ella is the sense of rhythm that they share — it’s like you can hear the two of them dancing together, finding that swing beat and meshing on it beautifully.
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stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
8:36 am
Anyway, off to take a hike. While we need the rain, I am hoping the weather doesn’t turn too stormy. Later, all.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
8:51 am
Taxpayer
Do I really ned to list the things that Obama has already done that far exceed anything that Bush ever did?
Well, for you, probably. You just need to start paying attention.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
8:53 am
stands for decibels
And I always find it bizarre to hear anyone from the right of me on the ideological spectrum complaining about a team being able to “buy a championship.”
I find it bizarre that anyone who graduated from middle school can’t tell the difference between capitalism, honest commerce and baseball.
jt
May 29th, 2010
9:05 am
OMG- The thrill is gone. This from Chrissy Mathews yesterday———–
“If I hear one more time that Secretary Chu has a Nobel Prize I’m going to barf. I don’t care. This idiotic cerebral meritocracy has got to step aside and let people who do things take over”.
Does anyone know that Haaaarvad Law School no longer requires “US constitutional law” for graduation.? Global law yes. US constitutional law no.
Anyhow, in closing, my thanks to all veterans out there. And my heartfelt sympathy to all of the innocent victims. Including the wars on drugs and poverty.
Peace.
Disgusted
May 29th, 2010
9:12 am
Not only that, he’s a klown too, just sayin. . .
We still aren’t going to let you right-wing sophomores back into the White House with the national credit card.
Mick
May 29th, 2010
9:41 am
bug – you over analyze too much and besides your opinion is not highly valued or sort after, so consider yourself a tribe of one.
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
9:44 am
bug,
I think Mick has you pegged. So, have you come up with an appropriate name for your tribe yet. I suggest something simple yet descriptive. Perhaps, Nincompoop.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
10:10 am
Taxpayer
Go out and try to put your hate an ignorance aside in honor of the men that died so you may act like a complete imbecile whenever you want.
Have a great Memorial Day. It’s people like you that make conservatives look soooooo good.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
10:20 am
Mick
Try to get that ego under control and realize that it’s not about you. It’s about opinions. And it’s about the opinions of everyone.
Pal, you support the worst president in our nation’s history. You voted for him on the basis of hope and change. And now, a year and a half later, unemployment is hovering at double digits and the White House is admitting to committing a felony in trying to manipulate a state election for a US Senator, but you STILL blindly stumble along, doing as you are told while the rest of the country has already learned what an incompetent idiot we have in the White House.
Considering this, pardon me for not relying on a positive opinion from you. In fact, when I say something that you like, please let me know. I’ll need to reconsider my position because so far, you are batting a big fat zero. So far the moron in the White House has only managed to help big banking and the health insurance companies. LOL!!, and you are still arguing for him, (Well actually, you aren’t really capable of staging a real debate, but the personal attacks sure come from you and your dim witted little liberal buddies on here. But if that’s the best you can do, then it’s the best you can do)
Mick
May 29th, 2010
10:30 am
bug – peace bug…..you don’t know me or do I know you……everything you opined, many felt the same about the previous pres, so what does that tell you? Anyway, I’m…………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffZRdPUnLw&feature=related
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
10:48 am
bug,
Go spread that stuff of yours in a field. You’re bound to get something to sprout.
Terrence
May 29th, 2010
10:49 am
When remembering the fallen, don’t forget the 1,000 who have died in Afghanistan–400 since January, 2009. Be prepared for the numbers to rise with the summer offensive.
Kamchak
May 29th, 2010
10:50 am
Hate hating haters hateifying hateology.
A hate filled post. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Grumpy Smurf
May 29th, 2010
10:57 am
I Hate Hateology!!!
Kamchak
May 29th, 2010
11:06 am
OH NOES!—-Not the PERSONAL ATTACK!
Can’t wait until he learns the phrase “ad hominem attack.”
N-GA
May 29th, 2010
11:09 am
Just finished “Matterhorn” by Karl Marlantes. A good read from the perspective of a butterbar marine dropped into combat in Viet Nam.
Close look at combat, fear, race relations, the politics of war and so much more.
Southern Comfort
May 29th, 2010
11:12 am
Seems like you guys need to laugh a little.
A CROSSWORD fan aged 89 used an internet search to solve a clue about a donkey – and was bombarded with hard-core porn.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2990390/Web-porn-But-I-was-only-after-br-wild-Asian-ass.html#ixzz0pKceNESB
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
11:19 am
A CROSSWORD fan aged 89 used an internet search to solve a clue about a donkey – and was bombarded with hard-core porn.
Were Georgia politicians at the top of the results list.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
11:22 am
Terrence
I just hope in the future that we are not remembering the Americans that died because of the lack of this administration’s ability to deal with Iran and North Korea. This president that was supposed to “heal the earth” has screwed up everything he has touched and given our worst enemies the confidence to threaten our allies like never before. The rest of the world is finally understanding the threat of radical Islam and he is treating the leader of Israel like our enemy.
He has shown his priorities with his lack of reaction to the Nashville floods and now the Deepwater Horizon disaster. God help us if he does not stop partying, playing golf and fund raising. And no matter what happens in November, we have 2 1/2 more years of this.
And finally, please pray that the Secret Service does their job well because the next two people in line for the White House are Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. My God. How did we allow this to happen?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
11:23 am
SoCo
I imagine most of us could tell a similar story of typing in a seemingly innocent phrase to search and coming back with something even worse than what that guy saw.
I guess I should confess here that I never graduated from middle school. I never even went to middle school. In my day, we went straight from elementary school to high school. The inquisitive types can verify this by checking the fossil record.
Although he’s a talented man, I’ve always found Dick Cavett to be nauseatingly self-absorbed.
I’m off to a church to eat barbeque. Good day all.
Southern Comfort
May 29th, 2010
11:30 am
bugatti
I’m not following you with the lack of reaction to the Nashville floods. From what I’ve read, FEMA and disaster aid was made available right after the floods. Are you saying that he should have personally been there cleaning up or something? Not trying to start an argument over idealogue or anything. I’m just trying to understand your viewpoint.
Southern Comfort
May 29th, 2010
11:32 am
HD
Enjoy the meal and have fun, and I’ve also done that with search engines too. That’s why I got a laugh from that guy’s story.
AmVet
May 29th, 2010
11:46 am
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; ~William Shakespeare
To Normal, Jackie, Curious Observer, theeyeshaveit, Del and others, enjoy this weekend of solemn remembrance and sacrifice.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring…
Saul Good
May 29th, 2010
12:46 pm
I’m playing at the Jazz Fest today (glad the rain is keeping away)… those there…go figure out who I am… see ya! Enjoy the weekend! -d
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
1:07 pm
Southern Comfort
Nashville was never mentioned by Obama at least in any way that made national news. 20 people died in Tennessee. He was 5 weeks getting to the Louisiana coast. Maybe if he just pretended to give a damn, it would have kept his ratings from dipping to 42%
And of course the obvious point is that Bush was four days before he personally visited New Orleans. Obama takes five weeks to visit the gulf coast as so far has yet to visit Nashville.
No, I don;t expect the man that is a millionaire and allows his aunt to live in Public Housing to lend a hand, cleaning up the mess. At this point, I expect very little from the man other than cracking jokes at fund raisers and spending as much time as possible on the golf course and on yet another vacation.
stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
1:12 pm
Who among us does not enjoy wild Asian ass?
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
1:24 pm
http://www.foxnews.com/
President Obama’s schedule ‘doesn’t allow for a meeting’ with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer as she requests to speak with him as tensions mount over immigration law.
Now that is a president that wants to resolve problems!!! LOL!!
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
1:38 pm
Be sure to tune in to FOXY “News” for your fairly biased stories. The only “news” channel that is guaranteed to air Hannity’s special cut-n-paste fabrications and Beck’s rants about Obama’s daughter, amongst other dribble. What a waste of space.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
May 29th, 2010
2:01 pm
Well, me and the missus and little Sonny Zell George are on our way to a BBQ. The missus read the riot act to me awhile ago. I got this habit of letting our little moans when I eat and the missus says I sound like a animal and she ain’t going to be shamed that way. I keep telling it I can’t help, the food tastes so good. I guess it must be like the Whiner does when he writes ummmm, ummmm, except I ain’t about to say Obama.
Anyhow, I won’t be anywhere near downtown to hear this music and all the jazz junk Saul Good talks about. If it ain’t country, it ain’t for me. And besides, there’s too many of Those People and librul Democrats that hang around Piedmont Park. Not to mention the gays and other preverts.
Have a good Saturday everybody.
josef nix
May 29th, 2010
2:16 pm
SoCo
Howdy! Hope things are going as well as can be expected on issues of more personal and direct nature with you and yours.
I’ll bite on what he should have done…he should have put in an appearance in Nashville, in my opinion, and for two reasons, one the symbolic that “your president is with you” and second, you’re right on the response in Nashville and one would think that his handlers would have seen the advantage of having him there “to take credit.”
Back in the Carter days, Doonesbury made frequent and pithy comment and allusion to The Secretary if Symbolism. Whoever is handling that post in this administration needs to be replaced. And I’m not just being snarky. The PR gaffes have been baffling from an administration which owes much of its being to brialliantly and skillfully manipulating public perception.
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
2:17 pm
Bugatti, your negative, and often hate motivated, act is getting old. Is there anything that you cannot be at least somewhat positive about in life? You even went into a diatribe on the Yankees yesterday when most of us were enjoying the Friday tradition of sharing music. You cannot seem to put your bad mouthing down for a second. We all know the old adage: one sees a glass half full; another sees it half empty. But this is absurd. In your world there is rarely even a drop in that glass.
Chill, man. We are of all manner of political stripes, mores and opinions here, but we do not need do jihad (or if you will, a crusade) on one another.
Peace. Out.
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
2:22 pm
AmVet, enjoy the Memorial Day weekend, buddy. I was not aware that the phrase “band of brothers” could be attributed to Shakespeare. Of course, when I was studying MacBeth, Hamlet and all, the woolly mammoth still roamed the earth.
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
2:28 pm
Tax Payer, Fox News is what news is like in Jerry Springer’s mind.
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
2:36 pm
josef, is this the time to talk off topic off the record about the often controversial world of Proto Indo-European language and Noam Chomsky?
No one here? I suppose I will go out to the back and watch the grass grow.
josef nix
May 29th, 2010
2:52 pm
eyes
It has been my experience that too much application of Chomksy and Proto Indo European hereabouts does not set well! This is an Engrish only blog!
Southern Comfort
May 29th, 2010
3:13 pm
bugatti
Ok, I understand your point. You and josef are both right in that he should at least make an appearance there to show concern. I’ve been outta the news loop other than the oil spill and the Arizona bill. It’s the busy time of year for me, or at least one of them.
While people are trying to compare Katrina to the oil spill, there’s one big difference for me that sums up my opinion on who is responsible. The failure that led to New Orleans flooding after Katrina was an engineering debacle by the Army Corps of Engineers. In that aspect, the government was at fault. Not Bush, Nagin, nor the governor. The failure to take care of the citizens afterwards was Nagin’s, the governor’s, and Bush in that order. Had the city done what they were supposed to, a lot of the problems could have been mitigated. Once the mayor lost control, then it fell into the lap of the governor. It should not have gotten to the point where Bush could be blamed for that.
With the oil spill, the engineering is all private industry. I don’t think the government is responsible for the cleanup other than to ensure BP and all do a damn good job of cleaning up the mess physically and financially.
The PR problem that both presidents have/had is that people expect them to be there from day 1. I can’t imagine what Bush or Obama’s schedules are like, but as a whole, this country is looking to our leaders to be the “save all” instead of just a political leader. There wasn’t much Bush could do other than go to the Gulf Coast and make a speech. There’s not much Obama can do other than go to the Gulf Coast and make a speech. Their jobs should be to make sure there is NO red tape in incidents like this. Neither has done a good job at that, and given the strains of the job, I’m not sure if I’d be any better.
I hold Obama at as much fault for drilling that well as I did Bush for building the levees. At the same time, I hold them both at fault for not removing the obstacles to swift and expedient resolution of these incidents.
Kamchak
May 29th, 2010
3:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOLXI13tnJU
Southern Comfort
May 29th, 2010
3:22 pm
Time to head out for a while. For those who have served, please accept my gratitude and appreciation for your service. For those who have lost someone who served please accept my condolences. Everyone have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.
See y’all later…
Kamchak
May 29th, 2010
3:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vtyq7YNmrY
Kamchak
May 29th, 2010
3:49 pm
RIP Dennis Hopper.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
3:50 pm
Southern Comfort
I don’t blame Obama for the oil well disaster. I do blame Obama for not streamlining the process for the corp of engineers to dredge up small barrier islands that would have kept the oil out of the marshes.
The Deepwater Horizon sank 5 weeks ago and we had a full month before the oil reached shore. The people of the gulf coast were begging for permission to act on their own, but the Federal Government ordered a lengthy environmental study of what the barrier islands would do to the local wildlife. Meanwhile, the oil washed right onto the beaches and into the marsh while the EPA is STILL running tests and haven’t offered a report.
I understand that this is the way giant bureaucracies work, but now the marshes are polluted beyond repair. Perhaps we should consider this when we are seeing our incompetent and bureaucratically government continuing to legislate more and more control over private resources and businesses.
BTW. It is very refreshing to have someone actually address what I am saying instead of getting yet another scolding for daring to speak out against this horrible administration.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
3:55 pm
theyeshaveit
“Bugatti, your negative, and often hate motivated, act is getting old”
What is getting really old is dim-witted liberals who consider a political blog as their own social network. As much as you would like, you don’t know me and believe it or not, even liberals cannot read minds, especially over Comcast Internet, so how about surprising me and everyone else and attempt to counter what I am saying instead of continuing to whine about it like a little girl.
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
4:50 pm
Kamchak
May 29th, 2010
3:49 pm
RIP Dennis Hopper.
Ditto
Pogo
May 29th, 2010
5:13 pm
The Federal government is a giant tortoise and it cannot respond to anything in a timely manner without politics coming into play. The gulf spill is proof of that what with the EPA intervention and its stalling. The government cannot solve our problems, no matter how much money of ours it spends, because it is a beuracratic/parasitic beast with an unending hunger for taxpayer money. It understands that it doesn’t have to produce, that merely has to be. Obama and his progressive ideology represents the worst of what the Federal government is really about. So do Pelosi, Reid, Frank and a miriad of other progressive bottom feeders. BP spent a lot of money on Obama and the Dems in the last three years. One hell of a lot. They (Obama and Co.) now are caught between a large campaign donor and a hard place. Meanwhile the gulf and probably those of us that live on the Atlantic coast are about to suffer for it.
AmVet
May 29th, 2010
5:50 pm
My Gawd, for those of you here who hate our government, give it a rest.
At least for a couple of days on this sacred weekend?
Come Tuesday, you can again try to convince yourselves and others how you are brilliant and valuable and everybody who doesn’t think exactly like you is stupid and worthless.
In the meantime, go put some flowers on a soldier’s, marine’s, sailor’s or airman’s grave.
Soothsayer
May 29th, 2010
6:15 pm
“Top Kill” a failure. Move to plan “B”
Del
May 29th, 2010
6:18 pm
AmVet@5:30pm
Amen
Curious Observer
May 29th, 2010
6:20 pm
“100,000 men cannot take Tarawa in a million years.”
Admiral Kaigon Shibazaki, Commander, Japanese defense forces, Tarawa
<"Casualties many. Percentage dead, unknown. We are winning."
Colonel David Shoup, USMC, Commander, Ground Forces, Tarawa, radio message to Lt. Gen. Julian Smith, Commander, Amphibious Forces
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
6:21 pm
In memory of Dennis Hopper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNjzzDNIJWw
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
6:25 pm
Bugatti said, even liberals cannot read minds, especially over Comcast Internet, so how about surprising me and everyone else and attempt to counter what I am saying instead of continuing to whine about it like a little girl.
Just as expected, you could not get the point, and continued your skewed argumentum ad hominem in lieu of any argument of substance that would invite a discussion based on, well, fair and balanced discussion.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
6:26 pm
AmVet
I completely agree. For those of you that hate our government enough to want a complete overhaul from a viable capitalistic system to some sort of unholy connection between the government, health insurance and car companies, I say give it a rest.
I honor our soldiers by supporting what they fought for: Our freedoms from an intrusive government. The freedoms from over taxation. Their pride in their country and certainly not leaders that would rather apologize to the likes of the Chinese about OUR human rights problems. They fought for our allies, the same allies that are now turned away and treated like second class countries.
But you know what would really be great? That in this great country, we could express our thoughts without this incessant string of lectures about what we should or shouldn’t say.
wet wiccan
May 29th, 2010
6:26 pm
When I heard that Dennis Hopper had died I thought of this scene . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAixFYnDh4
I know that “Cinema Saturday” has kind of fallen by the wayside, but for all the Vietnam veterans, here is a clip to get your hearts racing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek&feature=related
Soothsayer
May 29th, 2010
6:26 pm
WE’RE FOCKED!
wet wiccan
May 29th, 2010
6:30 pm
Soothsayer – Plan B? I think it’s more like plan E!
A. The tall containment tank.
B. The shorter containment tank.
C. The little pipe in the gushing pipe.
D. Top kill.
I don’t think they have a clue of how to stop it.
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
6:35 pm
theyeshaveit
“Just as expected, you could not get the point, and continued your skewed argumentum ad hominem in lieu of any argument of substance that would invite a discussion based on, well, fair and balanced discussion.”
I’ve written several posts today that outline very clearly some problems I am having with this administration. Those problems have been discussed between myself and poster interested in discussions instead of lectures. Apparently, to you, argument of substance that would invite a discussion based on, well, fair and balanced discussion, means that I must agree with you.
You know the problems I have with Obama. You rifle through every single thing I write to try and glean some sort of adolescent insult. If you disagree with my assessments, perhaps addressing those assessments would be better than this incessant lecturing.
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
6:45 pm
wet wiccan, I am a Viet Nam era vet. Although I was not sent to the war zone, a colleague who had been there told me that the most surreal scene in Apocalypse Now, the one in which there were Christmas tree lights strewn across the river, the one which was the end of the end when Martin Sheen as he disembarked from the Navy boat and spoke to the dazed soldiers who had painted zebra stripes on their weapons, the one in which the insanity was palpable and exacerbated by native grown weed and the incessant curses of the NVA troops.
Yes, that one. That one was the most realistic.
theyeshaveit
May 29th, 2010
6:50 pm
An Apocalypse Now revisited:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b26BD5KjH0
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
6:54 pm
wet wiccan
The people in Louisiana knew what they needed to do, but now, the oil is already ashore and into the swamps. The oil companies have spent millions developing these dispersants that turn the oil brown and makes it sink to the bottom. This keeps the number of birds covered in thick black crude to a minimum, but if we need to wait until August before this things stops, the entire states of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas are in deep trouble.
My favorite Dennis Hopper scene is from True Romance.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
7:15 pm
“We’re confident the job will work but obviously we can’t guarantee success,” Suttles said of the new plan.
Frankly, I just don’t have much faith in what he says. If the people down there want to build artificial barrier islands, let them have at it. It’ll probably have a negative environmental impact but not as much as the oil. Whatever unintended impact it has can be dealt with later. Time has already been wasted to protect some of the marshes. Let’s protect the ones that haven’t been affected yet as best we can. And BP needs to foot the bill, 100%.
I saw a scientest on TV the other night talking about how long this can go on. I have no idea how much he knows but he said nobody really knows how much oil is in that reservoir and the leak could go on for years, if it isn’t plugged. I fear he might very well be right.
Scout
May 29th, 2010
7:15 pm
Curious Observer:
Trivia ……. do you know who this is ?
” A genuine war hero, he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat “V” for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November, 1943, when, as the pilot of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.”
AmVet
May 29th, 2010
7:21 pm
For most of us, this special weekend, consecrated in blood, is set aside to remember the fallen. The very best of us as a people, who made the ultimate sacrifice.And in so doing, gave us everything we have – our nation, our liberty, our bounty, even our very lives.
Our American heroes, revered around the world…
http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/no.php
math geek
May 29th, 2010
7:21 pm
I did the math on how long it would take for our ocean to have an exact 1 inch layer of oil WORLD WIDE.
This happens on December 21, 2012.
Coincidence? I think not.
Scary.
Curious Observer
May 29th, 2010
7:23 pm
Scout
May 29th, 2010
7:15 pm
Curious Observer:
Trivia ……. do you know who this is ?
Eddie Albert, who later became an actor and a co-star of TV’s Green Acres.
Close? At least Albert is quoted in numerous history books as pulling numerous wounded Marines out of the water during that murderous slog through the water, a slog caused by incompetent Washington commanders who poo-pooed the assertion that the neep tide would make it impossible for landing craft to cross the reefs, leaving hundreds of Marines to wade through water under heavy machine gun fire.
wet wiccan
May 29th, 2010
7:47 pm
Eyes – I know exactly which scene you are referring to. I am not a real big fan of war movies, but Apocalypse Now is in my top 10 list. I lived through that time too, my brother served 2 tours in Vietnam around 1967 and 68 I think. What do you think of the movie Platoon?
wet wiccan
May 29th, 2010
7:55 pm
This is another war movie that I liked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UeYGS0UU6E
AmVet
May 29th, 2010
8:21 pm
War movies?
There have been a bunch of the classics on TV today – Midway, Battle of Britain, etc…
Those 60s film were really relevant in that the war was only a couple of decades past. And informed an entire generation of kids my age.
To me, the best comedic ones were the aforementioned MASH and Kelly’s Heroes.
The war films made later were much more gritty and in some ways more interesting – Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now, etc…
Then the movie to make all war movies look like kid’s play – Saving Private Ryan.
The one on right now is one of my all time favorites – The Best years of our Lives. Very trend setting and for the first time ever dealt in a real way with the aftermath – alcoholism, divorce, emotional damage, etc…
Curious Observer
May 29th, 2010
8:21 pm
The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world’s best fighting men.”
— Robert Sherrod, 1943, Time-Life Correspondent and a participant in the wading-in, regarding the battle at Tarawa
On this weekend, 67 years after the battle, my hat’s eternally off to those brave men, both the dead and the few still living.
Del
May 29th, 2010
8:28 pm
Curious Observer@8:21pm,
Amen
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
9:00 pm
Maybe BP could hire this guy to help them out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnheB_ETwfo
Scout
May 29th, 2010
9:05 pm
Curious Observer:
Correct ………. Eddie Albert
One more:
Who was the second in command of the Marine Raiders during the attack on Makin Island at the start of WWII ? Two Raider companies whet in by rubber boat from submarines at night and killed a bunch of Japanese just like Doolittle Air Raid to let them know we were coming back.
His won the Navy Cross and his name was Captain James ________________. (No cheating …………..
wet wiccan
May 29th, 2010
9:14 pm
AmVet – The Best Years of Our Lives, I remember that one I think. Didn’t one of the characters come home with no legs? or something like that? Another WWII movie in that same vein that dealt with the homefront was Since You Went Away, with Claudette Colbert.
Then there was Coming Home with Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, a very powerful movie.
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
9:16 pm
I did the math on how long it would take for our ocean to have an exact 1 inch layer of oil WORLD WIDE.
This happens on December 21, 2012.
Coincidence? I think not.
Scary.
Well done. Hat tip.
Curious Observer
May 29th, 2010
9:17 pm
Who was the second in command of the Marine Raiders during the attack on Makin Island at the start of WWII ?
Captain James Roosevelt, the President’s son.
BTW, something I didn’t know until recently: the colonel who relieved the wounded Colonel David Shoup as commander of ground forces at the Battle of Tarawa on Day 3 was none other than Colonel Merritt Edson, later the hero and Medal of Honor winner of Bloody Ridge (later Edson’s Ridge) on Guadacanal.
Scout
May 29th, 2010
9:20 pm
Very Good !
0311/0317
India Co. – 3/4
1967-68 Vietnam (DMZ)
wet wiccan
May 29th, 2010
9:21 pm
Scout – Robert Mitchum killed a whole bunch of Japanese by himself in Heaven Knows Mr. Allison!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
9:23 pm
Roy Halladay just pitched a perfect game against the Fish.
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2010
9:25 pm
That was awfully quick Hillbilly D. Did you already have that one typed?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
9:27 pm
RW
No, I was listening on the net.
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2010
9:29 pm
Hillbilly D,
Back around the 7th inning the baseball channel switched to it There may have been a few second delay on the TV feed because as soon as I saw the last out I hit refresh here and your message was already up.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
9:33 pm
RW
Must have been. I have the AtBat with Audio subscription. I’d never type it before the end. I’m a traditionalist. Don’t mention it ’til it’s done.
Scout
May 29th, 2010
9:34 pm
wet wiccan:
And Pvt. Gomer Pyle was never sent to Vietnam to kill Viet Cong.
I think it would have made a great episode …….. he and Sgt. Carter out on a night ambush and then, “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise !”
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2010
9:35 pm
I was going to say it would be safe to type it and just not hit submit but then I remembered Jay B can see what some folks type in advance.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
9:40 pm
Yeah Jay is clairvoyant. He has ESPn.
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2010
9:52 pm
Talk about your turn around of the night. Kendry Morales hit a walk off grand slam home run for the Angels and then broke his leg during the celebration.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2010
10:06 pm
RW
Oh, man. I always figured something like that was going to happen, sooner or later.
TnGelding
May 30th, 2010
8:42 pm
Play it again, Sam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Wo2Lof_5dy4&feature=related
Mission accomplished:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=BnwJ5KIcKX4&feature=fvw
TnGelding
May 30th, 2010
8:42 pm
Honeymoon is over for the Kenyan prince:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj10EzNKA2M
What a wasted opportunity, so far.