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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Rightwing Troll
May 28th, 2010
3:57 pm
first!!!
BMDPD
May 28th, 2010
4:01 pm
CNN’s ratings continue to fall; Fox News has best quarter in network history
Rightwing Troll
May 28th, 2010
4:04 pm
It’s almost like fearmongering and race baiting increase ratings…
hmmmmmmm……
jewcowboy
May 28th, 2010
4:04 pm
In honor of Ms. Horne’s passing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWWFO7GLn0
jewcowboy
May 28th, 2010
4:08 pm
And of course the Chairman of the Board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2OMqP39B0
FrankLeeDarling
May 28th, 2010
4:09 pm
Jazz? weird Music?Japan? the 80’s? it could only be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slrQ-cW7IfU&feature=related
jewcowboy
May 28th, 2010
4:11 pm
Of course this is my favorite from the Chairman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avU2aarQUiU
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
4:14 pm
Jazz in 5/4 time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNrmYRiX_o
FrankLeeDarling
May 28th, 2010
4:14 pm
talk about a bunch of anarco hippy punks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tDgzBd2hD4&feature=related
Pogo
May 28th, 2010
4:18 pm
The buzzards are circling on the Obama/Rahm/Sestak/Slick Willy deal.
Jay
May 28th, 2010
4:18 pm
That’s a great one, JewCowboy. I love Frank; he has that same swing tempo as Ella, and a great voice too. A lot of his stuff from the ’50s is too overorchestrated and heavy on the melodramatic strings, but in the cut you just posted that’s all in the background.
I had a couple of chances to see him in person in Vegas in the early ’80s and never did. Was too young and stupid to know what I was missing.
FrankLeeDarling
May 28th, 2010
4:22 pm
chairman of the bored
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGfHoPvOi3g&feature=related
Kamchak
May 28th, 2010
4:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqsfAy5uUzI
Scat
May 28th, 2010
4:25 pm
Ella Fitzgerald and scat. I remember that Mel Torme’s son, James, used to appear regularly on the “Mike Douglas Show” in the 70’s. He tried to sing scat. It was such an embarrassment that I think it ended Mel’s career too. It was such an travesty to call it scat. His dad could sing scat. Ella can sing scat.
James Torme couldn’t sing no scat.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
4:26 pm
“Was too young and stupid to know what I was missing.”
Boy, can I relate to that, turned down some hellacious shows…(I didn’t even dig Dylan by the early 70s.)
Sorry gang, I just ain’t much of a jazzhead, but I did like this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dowhfQ0Fkns
Bosch
May 28th, 2010
4:35 pm
AmVet,
Yeah me either, I’m assuming that is Ella Fitzgerald. (?)
Jay
May 28th, 2010
4:37 pm
Took me a long time to come to Dylan too, Amvet. He was too hippy for my tastes back then. I was more into Southern rock, everything from Elvin Bishop to the Allmans to Marshall Tucker, plus Pink Floyd, Zepp, Stevie Wonder, ELP.
Still like a lot of that, but have broadened considerably and hope to broaden some more.
Kamchak
May 28th, 2010
4:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYwaNJIaaxY
Logical Dude
May 28th, 2010
4:40 pm
In college I went to see Ray Charles, even though I thought I only knew one song. (”Georgia on my mind’). It turned out I knew and liked a lot more of what he sang, and he was a complete showman and entertainer. I am glad I was able to see him in the the chance I was given.
Now your weekend assignment is to go to either the Jazz festival or to a club where some unknown band is playing. Stretch your musical limits! (okay, just kidding, no homework over the holidays!)
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
4:42 pm
Jay, who was that cat you linked that did the “grunting” to his piano playing? THAT was some killer stuff. (I promise to make a note of this time)
One of my very early black musical muses…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLCGPXS1gs
Jay
May 28th, 2010
4:48 pm
that was the great Erroll Garner, who couldn’t read a lick of music but wrote Misty among many others.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
4:48 pm
And another…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBBfqWNkjs
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
4:52 pm
Thanks JB. One last “request”. I think you mentioned once that you had dinner with my main muse, TR. What was that like? (If you don’t care to elaborate, no prob…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XI
FrankLeeDarling
May 28th, 2010
4:55 pm
is this jazz or funk?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S362Wur1zMA&feature=related
Jay
May 28th, 2010
4:56 pm
It was great, Amvet. He was a nice guy. We were friends of a good friend of his, and went to his show and then backstage, then made the dash through the crowd to his van, then out to dinner. We talked politics — he was very angry with Bush, and was sure he wouldn’t be re-elected. I cautioned otherwise, but Todd was adamant.
I remember he took a call from his son, who was on the road playing minor league baseball, and talked about his place in Hawaii. A very pleasant evening all in all.
Kamchak
May 28th, 2010
4:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnZeQI76Hlg
Jay
May 28th, 2010
5:00 pm
I should add, the van was cool in its own right. The driver owned it, and her business was to drive musicians around after their gigs to restaurants, bars, hotels, etc. And she asked all the stars to sign something, so the interior was covered with signatures and notes from some great people.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
5:09 pm
Very cool, JB.
A couple of years ago, I had an extended chance to talk with him about baseball. We were in a hotel room in Buckhead and Sports Center was on, showing these insane highlights of center fielders laying out to make catches, etc.
Though, through his kids, he was relatively new to baseball, he was very knowledgeable, especially about the business aspects of it. A great time…
One day I’d love to see that limo…
With Bobby Womack…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4TSG2KcO0&feature=related
Kamchak
May 28th, 2010
5:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1lsgridvtg
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
5:18 pm
Kam, back when I was a punk (well, a smaller punk) about the only jazz I “got”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF_cqmkghPM
Mick
May 28th, 2010
5:20 pm
Some progressive jazz rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
5:23 pm
Mick, now you done it! You crossed over!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w9xXtNdKQw
Mick
May 28th, 2010
5:29 pm
Amvet – smooth stuff but let me cross back to a legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY
Kamchak
May 28th, 2010
5:30 pm
AmVet
Jeff Beck’s Wired was one of the jazz fusion albums of the 70’s. Saw him play at that time I believe at the Fox.
“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” from that LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImxM4Rj5pOQ
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
5:34 pm
A bit of a traditionalist myself in taste in jazz…here’s on I kinda like on a rainy night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmeNsmQaFw&feature=related
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
5:44 pm
Kam thanks for that Wired. I was always more of a straight ahead rock and roller, but learned to settle down and dig his stuff too… And wow, well worth the “wait”.
jnix, great to see ya here.
Speaking of punks, time to tear it up. (Turn it up to 11.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHtVaSmK38s
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
5:48 pm
Music is fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DfGHBO2omw
Kamchak
May 28th, 2010
5:48 pm
Miles Davis and John Coltrane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU
Matilda
May 28th, 2010
5:51 pm
SMOOOOVE Muppets pick!
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
5:52 pm
Incredible song: Cole Porter
Incredible Voice: The Temptations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gytmVi-Wh5w&feature=related
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
5:53 pm
Matilda
I love the coolness of the female guitar player.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
5:57 pm
Bug – can’t go wrong with the temps – here’s another-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWJRxbdb9wk
Matilda
May 28th, 2010
5:58 pm
bugatti,
Here’s one seriously cool (LOCAL!) female guitar player. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWb5514EV1s
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
6:00 pm
from the days of the 70s, one of the greatest funk bands that never made it big:
Lidia Pense and Cold blood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PMgaahziU
Matilda
May 28th, 2010
6:00 pm
Liz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7YbVDkVhWA
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:00 pm
Hiya bug!
I was just thinking about how fun it is to put the political “swords” down for awhile and pick up the axes, etc to just share some tunes. Nice call on that selection. Like josef says, if you ain’t made it on the Muppets, you ain’t made it anywhere.
bug and Matilda, speaking of great female guitarists…(She is famous for playing on MJ’s Killer CD) Kind of a new age Nancy Wilson…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKvyqG7Nc4
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
6:04 pm
and who says you can’t take it with you when you go…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z37oCs0lggg&feature=related
Mick
May 28th, 2010
6:04 pm
Man that is some serious estrogen laden axe work goin on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMPZ7BU73Q
Matilda
May 28th, 2010
6:06 pm
AmVet, Whoa… that was sweet! Not hard to notice her cuteness too. I tried to steer my female spawn in that direction, but she went all brainy, sciency and athletic instead.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:06 pm
Sweeeet Little Wing cover Matilda!
Loved that Cold Blood and Muddy Waters/Foghat/everybody else…
Speaking of kickass chicks and MJ…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xANiW9yWvGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xANiW9yWvGE
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
6:07 pm
Matilda
For local females, I like Emily Kate Boyd. There are some clips on utube but nothing that even comes close to what she can do.
I saw here at the old “My Sister’s Room” in Decatur with an older piano player. She did “you don’t know me” and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. Standing ovation for about five minutes.
Great voice and great abilities.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
6:09 pm
Mick
That Temptations tune was in the movie “What Women Want”.
I heard it and downloaded the file. It is still on my ipod. Of course I never use my ipod any more but it is also on my blackberry.
And the gadgets go on. . .
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:13 pm
“…but she went all brainy, sciency and athletic instead.”
On one hand, a bummer, Matilda. On the other, very cool. (I always loved the smart girls with athletic bods!)
(Married one.)
For me, one of the originals kickass chicks. I saw her in Decatur LONG before most people even knew about her…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mylo0piAgc
Mick
May 28th, 2010
6:14 pm
bug – the lyrics seem timeless…still relevant in 2010.
Jay
May 28th, 2010
6:17 pm
Scorching, Amvet.
And not bad on the guitar, either.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:18 pm
I can hear the thunder but so far it’s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqx28TxMiZ0
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
6:18 pm
Mick
Romance is why we are here. None of anything matters when compared to that.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
6:18 pm
Amvet – walked into a club in boston (1984) this is the unknown playing this song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnKdg_H5Z4o
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:21 pm
LOL, JB!
Here’s the bass version of some Aussie “scorch”. On some sweet Jeff Beck, no less..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RSL8Sw76k
Scout
May 28th, 2010
6:27 pm
Jay:
I have completed a review of the diploma presentation portion of the 2010 West Point Cadet graduation ceremony. Took about an hour.
http://www.westpoint.edu/
The President personally handed out diplomas to the 100 or so honor graduates and shook their hands.
The he retreated (no pun intended) to the far back of the podium while two general officers took over for the remaining 900 or so Cadets. Those names were called very quickly.
Those cadets then went toward the back of the podium where they shook hands with another officer, then the President, then a third officer standing right behind the president. From the camera angle used only about 10% of those handshakes with the President could be seen. However, as best I can tell everyone shook the President’s hand in the clips shown. I will add (and feel free to view for yourself) that many were very perfunctory without the Cadet looking at the President and immediately going on to the next officer.
That said, and without futher evidence or being able to see the other 90%, I must assume all Cadets gave the President at least a perfunctory handshake.
At this time I stand corrected and officially retract the posted information I read in the article relating to the Cadets shaking the President’s hand.
I did make one other interesting observation. About half of the Cadet women were wearing white pants and about half were wearing white skirts. Rank seemed to have nothing to do with it. Does anyone know the background on that? More “choice” ?
theyeshaveit
May 28th, 2010
6:27 pm
OK. Since we are all in the mood for some girls on guitars, try this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU7XzrlMLQI&feature=related
SOUTHERN ATL
May 28th, 2010
6:27 pm
A little traveling jazz… and a shout out to the “graduates”!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNjeUUcdSo
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:29 pm
“Romance is why we are here.” Oh yeah, baby.
Mick, only been to Beantown once, but loved it. Though a lifelong Yankee fan I did something every true baseball fan should do, I saw a game in Fenway!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaR2JeqxQDY
theyeshaveit
May 28th, 2010
6:32 pm
Scout, well, after all that research, you managed to progress from the fabrication that there were no presidential handshakes at all to “perfunctory handshakes”. Scout, the war is over, man, and this song is for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idn3mSP8-20
Mick
May 28th, 2010
6:32 pm
Scout
Unbelievable….I gotta give you credit, when you go on a mission, you complete it…thats a rare talent in this day and age. I dedicate this song to your skepticism and doubt-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKyXA_nMVQ
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
6:36 pm
AmVet
Some Carole for ya on topic…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7x_vWNRS5c
my favorite of hers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxSmsGJ1b28
Mick…
Beat me to it with Til Tuesday…had it running through my head for days now…thanks…
theyeshaveit
May 28th, 2010
6:39 pm
On the road to Woodstock with Jimi’s Memorail Day music.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3222428405488271724#
Del
May 28th, 2010
6:39 pm
For those who’ve served and mostly for those who died as well as for those who’ve appreciated their sacrifice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02LsAp8xow&feature=email
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:39 pm
eyes! Rockin’ and saxin’ chicks in tank tops. Oh hell to the yeah!
And lol at the eagles for scout! (Does that make him an eagle scout?) They always had some of the edgiest, most relevant lyrics ever….And that sweet Joe Walsh slide.
Stickin’ with that sweet, sweet peaceful chick thing…(And as jnix knows, perhaps my favorite JAP.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjdowef1oKE
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
6:45 pm
Sometimes we forget where we live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtThcStw0I&feature=fvw
Jay
May 28th, 2010
6:48 pm
Appreciate the report, Scout. Really.
Scout
May 28th, 2010
6:48 pm
Mick:
I wasn’t a federal investigator for 34 years for nothing. I call ‘em like I see ‘em and evidence is evidence (or lack thereof). I misread an article (my fault) and have corrected it to the best of my ability. I also believe that is the basic difference between liberals and conservatives (always a few exceptions). Let the chips fall where they may.
theyesehaveit:
I never said the President did not shake “any” cadet’s hand. Check the record.
Scout
May 28th, 2010
6:49 pm
Jay:
Thank you sir. Lesson learned.
Jay
May 28th, 2010
6:50 pm
Jeff Beck/Chick Corea. When I turned my jazzhead father onto those two, it was a rite of passage.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
6:50 pm
I am very honored that I heard him sing this in concert at the 1996 Olympic Games in the park:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMSQBfNVh0o&feature=related
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
6:52 pm
Scout
Thanks for taking up for me when you did…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Yakl_xIkc
Matilda
May 28th, 2010
6:53 pm
Del,
Nice tribute! HBO is running all 10 eps of The Pacific this weekend, for those who watch war movies every year at this time.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
6:53 pm
Scout – here’s a request, investigate why people insist on using labels (liberal, conservative) people are way much more than one word descriptors.
Scout
May 28th, 2010
6:53 pm
“OFF TOPIC #1 (The above was a carryover ………….
”
(The State) “Senate on Thursday approved a series of measures to tighten immigration enforcement, reflecting election-year unease over the issue in a Democratic-controlled Legislature that has spurned such crackdowns in the past. The measures, which passed 28 to 10 in an amendment to a budget bill, would require state contractors to confirm that their workers were here legally and prohibit the contractors from doing business with the state if they were found to employ illegal immigrants.
The changes would also codify into law an existing state policy that bars illegal immigrants from qualifying for resident-tuition rates at state colleges. And they would require public housing agencies to give legal residents priority for subsidized housing.
In addition, the state attorney general’s office would be required to set up a hot line for people to anonymously report businesses that hire illegal immigrants, and to investigate any such reports.
ARIZONA ?? NO ……… MASSACHUSETTS !!
I wonder what “Che” will have to say about that one ………. Hummmmmm ……………..
Scout
May 28th, 2010
6:54 pm
P.S. That should have been in quotes from the New York Times.
theyeshaveit
May 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
OK. It’s not jazz, it is not rock, nor is it pop or motown or soul, but man is this good. I have discovered what my parents used to dance to and it is so good. And Gene Krupa? Who is better than that now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko
Scout
May 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
josef:
I believe you are much like me in that you respect the truth wherever it goes.
Mick:
If you notice I said “always a few exceptions”.
Matilda
May 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
“… people are way much more than one word descriptors.”
Yeah, Scout! We’re all in this little foxhole of the universe known as Planet Earth together, ya know.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
josef, two superb “deep cuts” from her. Love them both. (Saw her at Chastain some years ago and the psylocibin only made it more wonderful.)
eyes, glad yo went “patriotic”. I’m not there yet, but will before this sacred weekend is over, I’m sure. And Scout, http://tinyurl.com/3xken6m (From a weenie USAF boy.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdpb-GSF5_s
Scout
May 28th, 2010
6:57 pm
Matilda:
The Army (and foxes) hide in “foxholes”.
Marines use “fighting holes”.
Del
May 28th, 2010
7:01 pm
Matilda,
Yes I watched the series. Some old Marine Corps salts said Vietnam was much like Guadalcanal but those who served in the WWII pacific campaign are really special. It doesn’t matter though what war you fought in, those who made the supreme sacrifice are the real hero’s.
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
7:02 pm
AmVet
and MY Jap back at cha…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR7ambpHOog
May they both rest in peace…
theyeshaveit
May 28th, 2010
7:03 pm
Well, folks. Be you liberal or conservative, veteran or not, I wish you a great Memorial Day weekend. I will be doing a backyard barbecue myself. And now, my hit the road music…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
7:04 pm
It took awhile to get here and was very abbreviated as was not red but, what the hey…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7m7Q9VwYqw
Mick
May 28th, 2010
7:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVF66GVj8zU
Scout
May 28th, 2010
7:05 pm
“OFF TOPIC #2″
SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS (NO PUN INTENDED)
Headline (N.C. Times): “The commandant of the Marine Corps has asked Congress to put off its planned vote this week on lifting the policy that forbids gays from serving openly in the military. Conway’s letter, dated Tuesday, echoed ones written by the chiefs of the Air Force, Army and Navy. In March, Conway said he would oppose forcing heterosexual Marines to share living quarters with gay troops at bases such as Camp Pendleton and Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/military/article_3a1de77d-e5c4-5d73-9121-406e3674994d.html
Matilda
May 28th, 2010
7:08 pm
Scout @ 6:57,
Well, if I’M in there, it’s a foxhole, and not for fighting! **Ba-dum-bump** Haha!
Have a great weekend!
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
7:11 pm
AmVet
Thanks for the Meat Loaf the other night…here’s one of my favorites of his for ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQGEXlesUA
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
7:12 pm
JAY to Scout
You’re a mensch…
Del
May 28th, 2010
7:14 pm
Scout,
Semper Fi…remember the fallen.
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
7:19 pm
AmVet
I know you’re not the biggest fan of country, but I think of you sometimes when I play this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUnBmDsN15c
Del
May 28th, 2010
7:26 pm
Oh Yeah,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02LsAp8xow&feature=email
Scout
May 28th, 2010
7:29 pm
josef: I know.
Matilda: Ooo Rah!
Del: I think about them everyday especiall thet two (a sgt. and pfc.) I helped carry to the medivac who had already died from heat stroke (May, 1967 – DMZ). That really haunts me.
Del
May 28th, 2010
7:29 pm
Sorry pasted the last in error.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNf-T9wBx-s
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
7:32 pm
Scout…
You think you’re a man…mister you just made a big mistake…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiIJOB0GLW4
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
7:35 pm
She really was awesome josef, as that song really showcased; but just slightly typecast with “At 17″. Thanks.
And finally, some Zappa. Doing the Koo koo ka choo. Awesome.
I discovered this from the movie As Good as it Gets…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X8Ryn82QLo
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
7:36 pm
Excuse me, For Love of the Game.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
7:41 pm
Jay
Hat tip for being astute enough to notice what Joe Pass was doing on guitar. I love the way those jazz/swing players play melodies with chords. A nd funny you should mention that Erroll Garner didn’t read music. I got into a discussion on here one night about how many great players don’t read music. I was basically told I didn’t know what I was talking about. I sort of felt like you for few minutes.
George McCorkle, the rhythm guitarist in this band, once said, “We were almost jazz”. They were known for other things but he was right. Here’s one of theirs with some jazzy riffs in a little western thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmOhBn-llbE
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
7:49 pm
Hillbilly, welcome! “specially with that SC sound.
(BTW, the BoSox won that day. An endless 10 – 9 affair over Seattle. Grand slams and countless pitching changes.)
This, from the film Hurlyburly. More cranked up fertility rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc4haaYZKv8
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:00 pm
Howdy gang–the full band is here now, I see. I got busy at work and couldn’t attend to the stock market and darn if Obama didn’t pull that thing down again. I’ll have to apply my genius to it next week and see if we can’t get it back to 11,000 again.
Jazz theme?? Not my cup of tea, but here’s a guy I saw live in Claremont, CA front row in 1978:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QjTK0pL1go
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:00 pm
AmVet
Baseball question here. Do you prefer high scoring games or low scoring. Me, I love a pitchers duel. I remember that year that Steve Avery won that 1-0 playoff game against Pittsburgh. One of the best games I’ve ever seen. No telling what kind of numbers he’d have put up, if he’d stayed healthy.
Best game I ever saw in person, was in Wrigley Field. Mark Prior had 16 K’s. Cubs lost to the Reds in extra innings. It was the game that doomed their post-season hopes that year. That ol’ ballpark was really rocking that day.
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:02 pm
Watchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?
RIP Gary Coleman
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:05 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaRjKe2Hkg
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:08 pm
AmVet
One of my friends who is NOT a Janis Ian fan said that you could judge the success of one of her cocerts by the number of suicides the next day!
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:08 pm
That MTB had an “all the good people in Tennessee are diggin’ Barefoot Jerry and CDB” feel to it, HD.
You gotta ask! I’m with you 1 – 0, baby. In enough lifetimes I could come back as Steve Avery. That post season where he was throwing bee bees? Untouchable. Wonderful(!) times for long suffering Braves fans.
And just in time for some bb talk! Lay some national past time smack on us, RW!
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:12 pm
AmVet,
Do you remember what year you were in Boston? Sometimes it’s fun to look at an old box score and find out how foggy some memories really are.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:12 pm
If we’re switching it over to a lady artist theme (okay by me), here’s a powerful ballad from the 70s that I liked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVfqgMu-tc
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:13 pm
You just gotta love a song that mentions, “The American Dream”, Dusty Rhodes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDTH7mnBJOE
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:20 pm
Am–Powerful Kim Richey tune @ 7:35.
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:21 pm
Bruno…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjC15zQ0GTo
“Well I’m not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are the things that don’t last
Well it’s just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There’s something back here that you left behind”
–Al Stewart
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:27 pm
Yeah I think you’re right, RW. It mighta been 10 – 8! I’ll have to look now.
All I know is we went out on the town after that! And when my flight the next day back ,landed here, I begged the stewardess to let me stay on the plane, but she wouldn’t. It musta taken me three hours to get home. (Instead of one.) I got some horrific flu thing! Even so, good times, I was working for Bose. (Amar Bose is a frickkin’ genius!)
I’m guessing you’ve seen lots of game at Fenway?
HD, saw Brmalett at the Dogwood Festival. For free! The night before? Dave Mason!
Bruno!
More Dan…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_DyoB4Cjs
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:28 pm
“We were almost jazz”
You might be able to say the same thing about this tune as well, HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HRrjpiM7Y
Dave R.
May 28th, 2010
8:30 pm
AmVet, Fenway is one of the best parks to watch baseball.
Ever.
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:33 pm
Here’s a site where you can find it. Just click on the year and then go to the tab that says schedules and results.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:34 pm
Bruno
Very true. The only real difference in Jazz and Western Swing is replacing horns with fiddles. That Skynyrd song has a lot of swing in it.
AmVet, RW
I’ve seen Wrigley; now my goal is to see a game at Fenway and a game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Rickwood is older than Wrigley or Fenway.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:34 pm
HD @ 8:05–I was just fixing to play that song from Sea Level! Unreal! I love the whole “Cats On The coast” album. Half the band was from the Allman Brothers, of course, while they were on official hiatus for a year or so in the late 70s.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:35 pm
The baseball fans might enjoy this.
http://www.digitalballparks.com/
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:38 pm
Great women…? Broke all kinds of barriers, she…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpDOCnjxNg&feature=related
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:39 pm
It strikes me that this place is like a free form Pandora Radio.
I agree Dave. But then I’ve only seen MLB in three places, Tampa, Atlanta and Boston. I saw the NYY and the pre-Big Red Machine in pre-season Florida. 1975. Catfish got lit up.
Thanks, RW. You rock. (Though I’m REALLY stretching my pinstripe roots here!)
A couple of boys from Akron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K12ThB088SA&a=w5df8bxvKO0&playnext_from=ML
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
8:48 pm
HD, http://www.rickwood.com/
Though, I (of course) always knew and loved this song, you brought it back into my consciousness. And I am grateful.
For all us Memorial Day patriots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYEsFQ_gt7c
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
8:50 pm
Back at u Bruno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXuCGLfcFU
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:51 pm
AmVet,
As you probably know I’m originally from the Boston area, but as a kid I was a big Yankee fan. My grandfather took me to a game in Yankee stadium back in the early sixties. I was in heaven when the game went 15 innings before the Yankees won. It was only many years later that I realized what a sport my grandfather, the diehard Red Sox fan, had been for sitting through that with me. I bet he was secretly hoping the Yanks lost, but he never let on.
Bosch
May 28th, 2010
8:53 pm
“Do you prefer high scoring games or low scoring. Me, I love a pitchers duel.”
Then you should love soccer!!!! High scoring soccer games are boring.
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:53 pm
okay, baseball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fivhQrReSFQ&feature=related
and rain…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
8:54 pm
josef–Thanks for the Al Stewart dedication.
HD–I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but this Mick Taylor number kicks some serious axe in my book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qfX9pepN6Y&feature=related
Am, you might want to take a listen as well ^^^^^^^^
josef nix
May 28th, 2010
8:57 pm
AmVet
From Unmentionable to you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w90rNBBtbfE
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
8:59 pm
Hillbilly D,
Thanks for the link, that site looks pretty interesting. I had no idea Wahconah Park dated back to 1919.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:00 pm
Bosch
Never cared much for watching soccer but I did like to play it as a youngster. I liked to play goal. Something about hurling my body at fast moving objects that I seemed to enjoy. I’ve always been a tad unconventional.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:03 pm
That is the coolest baseball story I’ve ever heard RW. And damn! I’ve heard a bunch.
After the Yanks blew that 3-0 series lead, I begrudgingly knew the gig was finally up. And in a way, kinda liked it. (Damn! I’m going to Yankee purgatory, at least!!)
Hillbilly, Burleigh Grimes. Wow! Southern baseball is about as sweet as southern music.
Oh well, hope springs eternal, every April. (Though you broke my baseball heart with your “cruelest month” remark.)
Bruno, just monsterizing it with that 9:54.
Back at ya…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOKj5XdVAE
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:06 pm
Speaking of baseball and having a bad day. Randy Wells today was hooked after throwing 16 pitches to start the game and not recording an out. He was charged with 5 earned runs.
Great Mick Taylor cut, Bruno.
StevenCee
May 28th, 2010
9:08 pm
Here’s a classic Stanley Turrentine song, & it’s called “STORM”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slns_0xNpYc&translated=1
Now, I’ve played this tune myself hundreds of times, but since my band is scheduled to play at the Jazz Festival tomorrow, I sure hope I won’t be playing it then!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:12 pm
AmVet
It’s opinion to argument of course but Ty Cobb was the best all around player in my opinion. He’s a Georgian as was Johnny Mize and Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia, although he grew up in California, I think. I don’t know if it was the same in other parts of the country, but way back when in the South, every little town had it’s own baseball team. Lot’s of those guys came off those town teams. And later when the mill economy got going, lots of mills had their own teams. Lots of those players had no real job at the mill though, they were paid to play baseball.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:14 pm
RW-(the original)
Considering the amount of money that the yankees spend on their team compared to the rest of MLB, if they ever LOSE a world series, they should be ashamed of themselves.
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
9:19 pm
bugatti,
I haven’t been a Yankee fan for a few decades now, but I disagree with your assessment. Baseball is a different kind of game and putting together the best collection of individuals doesn’t give you nearly the advantage you might think. In fact when you don’t have somebody like Joe Torre that can manage all the egos it can be a pretty big disadvantage.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:22 pm
josef, going all red, white and blue on us! You old patriot you!
Wow! 5 earned after 16 pitches?! Sounds like an MLB record.
Not so sure, HD. Howz bout Cincy’s home grown Pete Rose?
The greatest pitcher of all time? Arguably, the Jayhawk “Big Train”.
Just stirin’ it up a tad…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnSasG3P5d4
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4y9ml7VhlY&feature=related
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:25 pm
RW-(the original)
Having a line-up that can hit home run after home run makes up the difference.
I think they are a travesty to Baseball and need to be brought under control. I played baseball in high school and college and used to be a huge fan but why bother? Whoever spends the most money wins. The Marlins needed a World Series trophy so they spent the money and got one. That’s not sports.
How about if we just allow NASCAR to use as much horsepower as possible? Howe about if the NFL goes to the MLB system and whoever spends the most money wins the Superbowl?
Major League Baseball sucks because of the yankees. Period.
Scout
May 28th, 2010
9:25 pm
Semper Fi my friends ………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou7y8AyTwIY&feature=PlayList&p=23B2887F7FC10C8E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=31
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:28 pm
By the way, libs. Rohm Emanuel’s advice to Bill Clinton resulted in Clinton’s impeachment.
As long as he has the president’s ear, Obama is next in line for impeachment. can ANYONE understand that the problem is that little worm emanuel?
To tell you the truth, he is the best thing that has ever happened to the GOP.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:28 pm
Stephen, good luck! I may be there!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:30 pm
AmVet
Pete Rose was an outstanding player but I don’t really think he was even the best player of his time. I mean his time included Mays, Mantle, Clemente, Frank Robinson, and Aaron just to name 5. I think they were all better all around players than him
I love watching the old films of Walter Johnson pitching. His throwing motion makes it look so effortless. And he put up those Hall of Fame numbers pitching for what were usually poor teams. Imagine if he’d played on a powerhouse.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:32 pm
For Memorial Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWhRObVxrM
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
9:34 pm
bugatti,
Whatever problems you might have with MLB should be mitigated by the fact that whatever causes came together to determine the outcomes always managed to keep Barroid Bonds from slipping on a ring.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:35 pm
bugatti, your ire is misdirected, my friend.
Here’s the real culprit; and what even most real baseball fans don’t begin to understand.
Baseball’s antitrust exemption:
By virtue of the exemption, coupled with decades of reluctance of various courts to overrule, baseball is the only sport, or business for that matter, that has an exemption to the extent that it does.
The exemption was not considered again by the Supreme Court until 1953 in Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. George Toolson, a Yankee minor leaguer, sued over the reserve clause (which binds a player to one organization), claiming it blocked his path to the major leagues. In the decision, the Supreme Court did not deny that baseball was not interstate commerce. Instead, the court ruled that when the Sherman Act was enacted in 1890, Congress didn’t intend it to include baseball — that the Sherman Act was more closely directed to the monopolies and trusts of the robber barons like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
4 out of 15 0f the world series trophies since the Braves won it have gone to the Yankees.
It nothing but total BS. The Yankees should either come under control or be disbanded. they are ruining MLB.
The yankees spent 206 million last year. the Braves one of the highest spenders in the league spent 84 million. Frigging DUH?
They should be expelled from the game.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:43 pm
I knew I could count on you to come up with something good, HD! The best of the best. All In Cooperstown. SO many amazing exhibits there! I remember one of a color coded strike zone, baseball by baseball of Ted Williams strike zone. In the sweet spots, he hit over for .400. For his career!
When you walked into the first room there was a larger than life photo/stand of Roger Clemens. Under it said – 20! Willie “Tape measure” Stargell went in solo the year I was there.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
9:45 pm
“The greatest pitcher of all time? Arguably, the Jayhawk “Big Train”.
Being from Philly, I have to put a shout out for Steve Carlton. In 1972, the Phillies won only 59 games–Steve was 27-10 that year with meager run support.
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
9:49 pm
The yankees spent 60 million more than the Phillies and if a team doesn’t spend over 150 million, they will never get there.
Cooperstown is a monument to great baseball. Bank of America is the modern monument to baseball.
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
9:49 pm
AM–Consider the JB blog officially monsterized following your 9:03.
Here’s a smooth little jam with both John AND Mick together on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Bk6namUxg
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
9:50 pm
AmVet
I heard George Brett tell a very interesting story about Ted Williams. Brett and some other players were talking with Williams about hitting and Brett said that when he was really going good, he could actually see the bat hit the ball. Ted said that when he was going good, he could see what part of the ball he hit. Brett and the others found that hard to believe so Ted offered to demonstrate (remember this is 20-30 years after his playing days). They put pine tar on a bat so it would mark the ball when he hit it and he could tell them if he hit across the seams, with the seams, etc. According to George Brett, Ted called 5 of 7 balls that he hit, correctly.
Scout
May 28th, 2010
9:53 pm
A Mus Watch: Not Long ………. You will be Surprised !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUofV_D1-1g
(Something you probably don’t know on this one ………….. watch when John Wayne calls for First Squad to come over and get the flag. It’s only a couple of seconds but the three guys in front are Rene Gagnon, John Bradley and Ira Hayes ……….. three of the six surviving acutal flag raisers.
Semper Fi !
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
9:54 pm
4 out of 15 0f the world series trophies since the Braves won it have gone to the Yankees.
Of course one of those would be 1996 where the Braves gave up a huge lead in game 4 that would have put them up 3-1. Are we to believe the players started comparing pay stubs around the 7th inning?
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
9:55 pm
Unquestionably, the greatest slider ever I saw, B!
bug, its the deification of sports. Kind of a Greek thing.
And money is the god.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGYPIM_F1E
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:01 pm
I always thought Steve Carlton was a great pitcher but given a lot of his facial contortions between pitches, I always wondered if he wasn’t partaking of something.
I sat up over the bullpen at Atlanta Stadium one night and watched Lee Smith warm up. It was mind-boggling how hard he threw.
popeye
May 28th, 2010
10:04 pm
amvet…A small correction. Ted Williams ended his career with a 344 BA. Not too shabby! But, not 400 as you state>
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:06 pm
HD, I also heard he thought guys who chewed gum were dumb, because it made their eyes “jump”.
The greatest pitcher I ever got to see live? Unquestionably Greg Maddox. A first round HOFer… The greatest player batting against him? Ken Griffey, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHW_SdxOarM
RW-(the original)
May 28th, 2010
10:07 pm
Hillbilly D,
Lee Smith did throw hard but his bullpen sessions could be something of an illusion. He always had his bullpen catcher wear what we used to call a “popper” mitt.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:14 pm
RW
Oh yeah, I know about popper mitts but I was only about 30-40 feet away. I couldn’t have hit him.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:16 pm
I saw Bob Gibson once live. He could hum it too. And that was in 1968, which was his big year.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:19 pm
Bug – don’t diss the last world series the marlins won because they had the lowest payroll in the league and beat the yankees in game 6 at yankee stadium with josh beckett smoking it past the millionaires club. I consider myself to be lucky to have witnessed a mantle and killebrew home run in the same game.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:19 pm
For me, the dual entities of Eckersley and Smoltz are the real deal, HOF numbers in BOTH categories!
I also loved the Cardinal pitcher turned power hitting outfielder story of Rick Ankiel.
Another side of that scorching Aussie chick…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9zO7qZfWpY
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:21 pm
When everything starts getting to you this meatloaf says it all-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbi8zgvpL8Y
popeye
May 28th, 2010
10:29 pm
Many moons ago as a youngster growing up in Portland, Oregon I was called on to pinch hit in a high school game. At that time I was only a freshman, The guy pitching was a senior!
I took three and sat down…his name Mickey Lolich
http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/lolicmi01.php
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:31 pm
I wasn’t aware of Orianthi; she’s good.
This is totally off theme but I heard it the other day for the first time in ages. Always liked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nSdyHhZeM
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:32 pm
popeye
I remember Lolich. I’m sure you have plenty of company in the “taking three and sitting down”.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:33 pm
Mick, I was thinking the same thing. The Fins and the ‘yotes both beat the mighty Yanks and Riviera…
As RW said, no matter the salaries, they still gotta play ‘em.
Kasim was in that ML video, Mick…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4h3h7LN-80
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
10:34 pm
“Another side of that scorching Aussie chick…”
Am–I have to confess to having impure thoughts while watching that Orianthi video. That’s some tasty shrimp on the barbie for sure!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:39 pm
The rain has made it to the Hills.
Another “Lie To Me” song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayCrQWJXuI
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:40 pm
Micky lolich was a force, he looked scary on tv.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVlTJfj1nGU&feature=related
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
10:42 pm
guys,
Yea, all those great wins over the yankees were where? IN THE WORLD SERIES.
How many times has the yankees gotten to the world series in the last 15 tries? How about 7, almost half the years the yankees were in the world series.
So how did they get there? could it be that spending multiples of the other teams in the league just might give them an unfair advantage?
The yankees have 27 titles, the next closest is the Cardinals with 10. It is a friggen joke.
I say kick them out of the league.
If the yankees were restricted to the same salaries that the rest of the league has to endure, they wouldn’t make a single playoff.
They suck, as does MLB.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:43 pm
Bruno, oh yeah! I read where Carlos said she was the one he would hand the baton off to. Did you see that insane Tony Levin using those sticks to play the bass on Gabriel’s Red Rain, that I cued up earlier? We talked about him touring with TR a while back. BTW asked Bookman to relate his tales with Todd. Go back and check it out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5P4PAf1XM
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:48 pm
This was always one of my favorite Todd Rundgren songs. A lot of women hate it but I don’t really think they understood it. Of course, it could be me that didn’t understand it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_6gYWXsUM
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
10:50 pm
“At that time I was only a freshman, The guy pitching was a senior!”
My claim to fame sports-wise was having to wrestle against Ricky Dellagatta every week in High School since we were in the same weight classification. He made the Olympic team in 1980, but Carter pulled the plug if you remember. Here’s a match in 1981 against the Russian Olympic champion, Beloglazov. Though he lost here, Ricky pinned him 1 week earlier in Atlantic City.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n8ZJuyRpc0
@@
May 28th, 2010
10:51 pm
Well if it’s jazz, I’m going with Pat Metheny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g6nPYyIS_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSONbye6n98&feature=related
That’s it….my Friday night contribution.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
10:55 pm
@@
Us folks who are musically ADHD have usually wandered hopelessly off the theme by this time of night. (IW&SH)
Mick
May 28th, 2010
10:56 pm
bug – all those years the braves had the best pitchers and were tough to beat, the yankees represent predatory capitalism at its best. The key is the manager and joe girardi is a great manager. No matter what, the best players walk off the winners as did the marlins and the diamondbacks.
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
10:59 pm
I own that Lang CD, HD. My gawd who wouldn’t, after hearing that?
Better than most iconic characters.
As was that Runt.
@@
May 28th, 2010
11:02 pm
Hillbilly:
I can see that. Nobody ever talks about volleyball.
Alrighty din! I’m exhausted from a full day of yardwork, so I’m gonna crash.
You have a great holiday weekend, Hillbilly!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
11:05 pm
AmVet
I own that Lang CD, as well.
My opinion of the World Series goes something like this. You have to be good to get there but once you do, it’s usually the team whose pitchers get hot that wins. Good pitching always trumps good hitting. I like Whitey Herzog’s idea of playing the Series in 7 straight days. That way a team’s 4th and 5th starter come into play. You get a better idea of who really has the better team that way.
And AmVet, I haven’t mentioned that 10th player thing all night.
j/k
bugatti
May 28th, 2010
11:06 pm
Mick
Maybe you want the World Series to have one of the two teams as being a shoe in. I like real sports. In like all the teams to have a chance. Since when is MLB about who faces the yankees in the World Series?
the Yankees have ruined the game. The popularity is going south.
We are seeing the end of MLB because of the yankees and I wouldn’t give two cents for the whole damned team.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 28th, 2010
11:10 pm
The reason that “the masses” are a lot more prosperous and even civilized is that they have been participating in our free-market economy for years. It has made their lives easier, and they recognize it. As Arthur Brooks, the urbane president of the American Enterprise Institute, demonstrates in his new book, The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future, seventy percent of Americans favor free enterprise, with only a glum thirty percent turning their tremulous palms up to the nanny state.-Tyrell, AmSpec
I don’t know about “glum,” but I do know they are weak minded, just sayin…
Bruno
May 28th, 2010
11:11 pm
Later, guys.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
11:15 pm
@@ – great metheny and amvet I second that on lang
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
11:18 pm
HD, and you and I are both anti-DH.
Gotta go back to the local stuff…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRJon2EeEM
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 28th, 2010
11:19 pm
Just what I was sayin….
One question we need to ask ourselves: Why is BP drilling one mile down and a hundred miles offshore in the first place? Could it be that our extra-stringent government regulations have created the conditions for this first class environmental emergency?
If you need a really stupid idea, ask a liberal, hahahaha, you know what I mean?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 28th, 2010
11:24 pm
AmVet
That’s a tour de force from Duane. Here’s a good one from Dickey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1jpQu6qR1E&feature=related
It’s time for the Skipper to go to the bullpen; I’m outta gas. Nite all.
Mick
May 28th, 2010
11:25 pm
bug – in the great big scheme of things, I really don’t care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsvsv_N0Mo&feature=related
AmVet
May 28th, 2010
11:26 pm
Andy. I was wunderin where the hell you were earlier. Thinking about how you and getalife head bang off of each other. Musically. Very funny. I mean given the obvious differences.
Heavy metal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5bS3_BCDs
Mick
May 28th, 2010
11:36 pm
I’m running out of gas, lights out…great, great tunes tonite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWSdJeLnv0
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 29th, 2010
12:01 am
I check in when I can-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhGAsmENpA&feature=related
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 29th, 2010
12:19 am
The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen. This is a terrible thing to see in a political figure, and a startling thing in one who won so handily and shrewdly in 2008. But he has not, almost from the day he was inaugurated, been in sync with the center. The heart of the country is thinking each day about A, B and C, and he is thinking about X, Y and Z. They’re in one reality, he’s in another. -PeggyNoonan
Not only that, he’s a klown too, just sayin…
bugatti
May 29th, 2010
12:35 am
Mick
“in the great big scheme of things, I really don’t care.”
I know. And that’s why we get whet we deserve. Sort of like The White House
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
“Why is BP drilling one mile down and a hundred miles offshore in the first place? ”
I thought the same thing, but I have been looking at the NOAA site and there are almost three thousands oil wells between the site of the disaster and the shore. This was one of the deepest wells but there are thousands that are in more shallow water.
In fact, if you actually go to Grand Isle, LA, you can see a bunch of oil wells from the beach.
This was just a big screw up by BP. Yes, Obama doesn’t give a damn, anymore than he cared about the flood in Nashville. If it’s not Chicago, New York or Hollywood, the rest of the country can go to hell,
This is the worst president we have ever had by a long shot. If he was gauged by the same standard as a Republican, he would have been imprisoned by now.
TaxPayer
May 29th, 2010
7:53 am
If he was gauged by the same standard as a Republican, he would have been imprisoned by now.
So, when does George start his prison term.
stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
7:59 am
I didn’t read all of bugati’s whinges about the Yankmes, but I do feel compelled to make one comment.
With all the changes in MLB over the past century-plus, there’s been one constant: the Majors have had its haves, and its have-nots.
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.”
stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
8:00 am
1996 where the Braves gave up a huge lead in game 4 that would have put them up 3-1. Are we to believe the players started comparing pay stubs around the 7th inning?
heh.
stands for decibels
May 29th, 2010
8:35 am
Hilarious piece from Dick Cavett about how a comedy writer would go about “Linkletterizing” a joke.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/art-did-the-darndest-things-to-your-jokes/
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.