Travelin’ home with Dr. Hook and his Medicine Show
Well, Stanley McChrystal didn’t actually make the cover of Rolling Stone this week, surrendering that high honor to one Lady Gaga. But back in 1972, when this song hit the charts, McChrystal was 18 and by all accounts a party animal. So I’d say that the odds are pretty good that at one point or another, he had roared out its familiar refrain.
Little did he know the twists that life would take.
The song — a classic of the genre mocking the rock-star life — was written by the amazingly versatile Shel Silverstein, who also wrote this and this and this as well as classic children’s books such as this and this (one of my own kids’ favorites.)
And no, there’s nothing political in the title of that last one.
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Lewis
June 25th, 2010
3:49 pm
Shel Silverstein is great.
ME, Me, me
June 25th, 2010
3:49 pm
It’s always political to some folks.
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
3:51 pm
I guess that mocking the life genre lives on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
3:54 pm
Maybe we could also take to mocking politicians. Like the Democrat County Supervisor from Milwaukee that wants to boycott Arizona. She could understand the law, she says, if Arizona was a border state.
http://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/spirited-debate-in-wisconsin-about-illegal-immigration/
HG3
June 25th, 2010
3:59 pm
Great choice, JB…didn’t know that Shel Silverstein penned that one.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
3:59 pm
McChrystal is planning his coup as we speak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5Dfs7jqFI&feature=fvw
Disgusted
June 25th, 2010
4:02 pm
Shel was also a marvellous cartoonist. What an immense talent!
Matti
June 25th, 2010
4:05 pm
Wow! Flashing back to being a little kid in the car with my Daddy, singing along to the AM radio… Daddy dug the part about the little blue-eyed cuties. Silverstein’s cartoons in Playboy were hilarious! (Daddy always had a big stack.)
jt
June 25th, 2010
4:10 pm
I here tell that Bill Ayers is going to take the place of General Patreus.
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
4:11 pm
Shel also wrote this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4asAOyglCc
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
4:14 pm
RW
The video in your 3:54 has been removed, but I can imagine what she said based on your comments. That moment had to be priceless!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
4:15 pm
Shel wrote this too. Lots of people have done it but this is the original recording. It’s been a hit several times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X59GhrbUsOE
jt
June 25th, 2010
4:17 pm
Southern Comfort
I hit you downstairs sir.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
4:17 pm
sumpin’ happen last week…there’s a fool down on the corner givin’ dollar bills away???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zcLAUp5E0
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
4:18 pm
This is one of my favorite songs from Shel’s pen. There’s an important lesson in this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRWlnv0_svU
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
4:19 pm
SoCo,
I should have known that they would figure out an excuse to rabbit hole the video.
There was an odd moment during the debate when Supervisor Peggy West stood up and seemed to be confused about her geography. “If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border,” West said during debate
Later on she tried to weasel out by saying she meant Texas had a longer border, but that doesn’t really square with saying Arizona is “a ways removed” from the border.
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
4:24 pm
Arizona is a ways from the border, it’s just a mighty short ways.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
4:26 pm
Hillbilly
@ 4:11
A truly amazing songwriter, he, but I did not know he wrote that one…always been a favorite
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
4:26 pm
Another one from Shel. This could go on all night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZzehuWdM4&feature=related
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
4:27 pm
jt
Got you and responded in kind.
RW
I wish I could have been there. I would have given her a map before I left the building. I may have to see about sending her one now. hehehehe!!!
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
4:30 pm
SoCo,
I’m not sure it’s true but I heard that Senator Kyl mailed her a map.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
4:30 pm
Bobby Bare! Country lyrics at their finest…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWg0bt9kp4
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
4:36 pm
RW
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
4:36 pm
Hillbilly
If you’re in New Orleans (and haven’t yet) visit the Marie LaVeau Museum…there’s the Marie of the myth and legend and the real woman…the museum is in the house given her by the Mayor when she saved the city from a fever epidemic…her tomb is also interesting…but as we say down home, “beware of voudou for the tourists!”
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
4:37 pm
Tom T Hall wrote this one and this guy can sure play a 12-string slide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxzhzRh7hp8&feature=related
Thundering up here in the Hills; maybe we’ll get some rain. We need it.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
4:40 pm
a good read on the dr hook/shel silverstein thingie…
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/05/27/shel
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
4:46 pm
josef @ 4:30
I thought Finn was bad yesterday with the link that referenced “Touchdown Jesus”, but that one you posted I haven’t heard before. I’m not so sure Jesus would dropkick anyone, but as the good book says, “Ask and ye shall receive”!!
Jefferson
June 25th, 2010
4:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpAG_He3mI4
Gregg has a new liver.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
4:51 pm
SoCo
I always liked it myself. It sort of speaks to the spiritualism of the rowdy lot to me…
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
5:02 pm
josef
That would kinda scare the beejeezus out of me. The guy that he’s asking to get dropkicked by raised a man from the dead, fed thousands with 2 fish and some bread, and stopped what was probably a hurricane just by saying “Peace, be still”. That, to me, is a bold request for a dropkick. I think I’d rather ask Chuck Norris for a dropkick before Jesus, but that’s just me.
Normal
June 25th, 2010
5:09 pm
McCrystal?
http://sadsack.org/SStoon1.htm
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
5:09 pm
Time to spend some quality family time, so I guess I’ll drop off a piece for the thread.
After reading many of the posts this week, I think this is where some are making their drive home to. Either that, or Jay could make this the blog theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw
TaxPayer
June 25th, 2010
5:13 pm
Dear Mother Nature,
My garden thanks you for the rain. I fool you not.
Normal
June 25th, 2010
5:16 pm
SoCo, actually I think that all of us on Jay’s blog are united…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zue6riLNps
@@
June 25th, 2010
5:43 pm
Shel Silverstein, eh? I’ve always thought of Shel as a political animal (subtly so) but political just the same.
The Little Blue Engine
by Shel Silverstein
The little blue engine looked up at the hill.
His light was weak, his whistle was shrill.
He was tired and small, and the hill was tall,
And his face blushed red as he softly said,
“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.”
So he started up with a chug and a strain,
And he puffed and pulled with might and main.
And slowly he climbed, a foot at a time,
And his engine coughed as he whispered soft,
“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.”
With a squeak and a creak and a toot and a sigh,
With an extra hope and an extra try,
He would not stop — now he neared the top —
And strong and proud he cried out loud,
“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!”
He was almost there, when — CRASH! SMASH! BASH!
He slid down and mashed into engine hash
On the rocks below… which goes to show
If the track is tough and the hill is rough,
THINKING you can just ain’t enough!
Blue engine?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
June 25th, 2010
5:49 pm
850 Rabbis ‘Take No Pride’ in Kagan Nomination: ‘Flame Throwing Radical’ Would Speed US ‘Into Sodom and Gommorah’…
We already are Sodom and Gommorah, just sayin…
Any comments, yosef?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
June 25th, 2010
5:50 pm
Well, I tried to watch the soccer games everybody talks about but every time I turn on the TV to watch a bunch of bees starts buzzing and I can’t find them nowhere. I guess I got hornets someplace but I can’t find them.
Anyhow, I never heard of this Shel Silverstein. Sounds like he might could be a Jew. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just not my thing. It’s a catchy tune though.
Enjoy your beer and you’re welcome. I’m headed to Billy Bob’s for a spell but I’ll check in later to see what people are fussing about this time.
AmVet
June 25th, 2010
5:51 pm
Howdy gang,
A sweet one from Mark, Don & Mel to start off the weekend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW5IuZPtZBo
Scout
June 25th, 2010
5:53 pm
“OFF TOPIC #1″
josef:
Hummmm …………… and these guys aren’t even Southern Baptist !!
(CNSNews.com) – “Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is “not kosher”–meaning she is not fit to serve on the court–according to more than 850 Orthodox members of the Rabbinical Alliance of America.”
“It is clear from Ms. Kagan’s record on issues such as abortion-on-demand, partial-birth-abortion, the radical homosexual and lesbian agenda, the ’supremacy’ of the anti-family panoply over religious liberties of biblical adherents, et. al., that she will function as a flame-throwing radical, hastening society’s already steep decline into Sodom and Gomorrah,” the rabbis said in the statement.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/68444
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
June 25th, 2010
5:57 pm
PRINCETON, NJ — Conservatives have maintained their leading position among U.S. ideological groups in the first half of 2010. Gallup finds 42% of Americans describing themselves as either very conservative or conservative. This is up slightly from the 40% seen for all of 2009 and contrasts with the 20% calling themselves liberal or very liberal.
Just before an election, the number will go up to 55-60% with all the dummycrat kkkandidates promising to cut taxes, reduce spending and not be surrender monkeys, just sayin…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
June 25th, 2010
6:03 pm
A military source close to Gen. David Petraeus told Fox News that one of the first things the general will do when he takes over in Afghanistan is to modify the rules of engagement to make it easier for U.S. troops to engage in combat with the enemy
Look at raghead run.
See raghead cross the border.
Watch raghead get rid of his burkha.
Run, raghead, run.
See America win, just sayin…
Oopps, bad word, can’t “win” around a pinko, mmm, mmmm, mmmmm…
Normal
June 25th, 2010
6:05 pm
It’s gettin’ dark outside …you don’t suppose it’s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ZV4Mx7tw8&feature=related
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 25th, 2010
6:06 pm
Ned from the BTLS show has a nice song for BP.
Be careful – EXPLICIT but funny !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrRDcsfkyM
Normal
June 25th, 2010
6:06 pm
I guess Budweiser’s stock has gone up again…just sayin’
Finn McCool
June 25th, 2010
6:10 pm
I Report, we can always count on you for some name calling (ragheads) on a Friday and in the front row at church on Sunday.
Christians…you gotta love ‘em: Always “doing unto others”..and turning the “other cheek”..
Finn McCool
June 25th, 2010
6:13 pm
By the way, did any of you non-liberals see the movie Religulous? Bill Maher totally slams Islam – especially the part where it’s defenders say its “really a non-violent” religion. He says “Yeah, let me have some of what you’re smoking”
Good movie…you expect him to get a physical beat-down during most of the movie.
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 25th, 2010
6:14 pm
Gallup Poll :
Ideological Orientation
Conservative – 42%
Moderate – 35%
Liberal – 20%
AmVet
June 25th, 2010
6:16 pm
Put a Friday night sock in it, you sockpuppets.
Some more very fine Rundgren produced Grand Funk…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZSy8swyuY&feature=related
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 25th, 2010
6:17 pm
Non-Liberals don’t watch Religulous And Capitalism; A Love Story
Conservatives hate Marxism.
Dear Mr. McCool,
Isn’t it time for bath and beddy bye?
You can watch one more hour of Cartoon Network and then that’s it…..
Normal
June 25th, 2010
6:19 pm
AmVet,
You want funk? Try this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
6:20 pm
Talk about blatant hypocrisy. First libbats say they are opposed to torture and then they want people to watch Bill Mahr.
AmVet
June 25th, 2010
6:22 pm
Normie, love how that Walsh guitar intro slides across the channels. Righteous.
You just gotta love Rick Derringer. (I’d suggest checking out just how much volume those speakers can take…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wiYdUe36_Q
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
6:29 pm
If anybody’s interested here’s a copy of that Milwaukee Democrat
Somebody should do a mashup with that poor beauty queen and her some US Americans don’t have maps and this lady.
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
6:30 pm
….err video
geez
@@
June 25th, 2010
6:34 pm
I was sitting across the table from my minister when I noticed the shirt he was wearing. The guys a longtime rocker.
I looked at him and said (jokingly) “I’m gonna have to change churches.”
Shocked, he says, “Over my dead body, and I’m as healthy as a horse….not planning on dying anytime soon.”
I, then said “I’ve got no choice ’cause my minister wears a shirt that displays scantily clad women straddling Fender guitars.” He laughs and responds with…
“There’s women on this shirt? All I saw was the Fenders”
“So the headlights escaped your attention” I said.
‘Ya just never know about us church goers. We’re not as stuffy as you think.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
June 25th, 2010
6:36 pm
If you don’t want to be called a raghead then take rag off your head, McFool.
md
June 25th, 2010
6:52 pm
One never knows about those “far removed” States – she may be referring to the other 7 that are so far removed we can’t find them.
Normal
June 25th, 2010
7:20 pm
Sorry for the in and out, but my wife is having a “Girls Night” and I’m catering. Here is my all time favorite Liberal song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR0sFhgzXIQ
Scout
June 25th, 2010
7:36 pm
Would someone opine as to why we are funding a U.S. Border Patrol ?
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
Would someone opine as to why we are funding a U.S. Border Patrol ?
To pass out bottled water at the turnstiles?
md
June 25th, 2010
7:38 pm
“Sorry for the in and out, but my wife is having a “Girls Night” and I’m catering.”
Another of your “crisco” parties?? You sly dog you.
stands for decibels
June 25th, 2010
7:55 pm
written by the amazingly versatile Shel Silverstein
my first reaction: You’re s–ting me!
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2010
7:59 pm
You know me: the sacred always comes first. She was only 20 yrs old when this was recorded
Travelin’ home with Dr. Hook and his Medicine Show « Associated Report Online
June 25th, 2010
8:01 pm
[...] Travelin’ home with Dr. Hook and his Medicine Show There was an odd moment during the debate when Supervisor Peggy West stood up and seemed to be confused about her geography. âIf this was Texas, … Read more… [...]
Normal
June 25th, 2010
8:03 pm
Soothsayer…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMyvybOfWc
Southern Comfort (works border security)
June 25th, 2010
8:06 pm
Would someone opine as to why we are funding a U.S. Border Patrol ?
The same reason we fund the U.S. Marines. It’s for defense of this great country of ours. Any more questions.
RW
That woman needs to visit Nogales. At the port of entry, all CBP officers know not to park their cars along the fence when going to work. You’ll end up driving home with a caved in roof or hood and footprints all along your car.
Normal
June 25th, 2010
8:06 pm
..and liberals always say…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rgk3VMHzeQ&feature=related
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2010
8:12 pm
Here’s one more sacred song. This was recorded near the end of Bill’s life and features: Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, and Alison Krauss. I hope you enjoy it. Cursor down to the video and click the start button.
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
8:14 pm
Wanted to post another song, but I couldn’t choose between the two of these. Both are getting heavy airtime on my mp3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWJFmspYog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FDk7pGQAKo&feature=related
Normal
June 25th, 2010
8:18 pm
a sailor’s dream;;;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOQzzR94qM&feature=related
Normal
June 25th, 2010
8:21 pm
SoCo…and every man who has daughters…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmC3rJR7E98
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2010
8:23 pm
Normal: That’s a great song @ 8:03. At first I thought it might be mockery but I was pleasantly surprised.
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
8:25 pm
Normal
Better to be a daddy than a step-daddy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9WFq0C7GQ&feature=related
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2010
8:35 pm
Normal @ 8:21: That’s a great song Butterfly Kisses
SoCo @ 8:25 love that funk.
Southern Comfort
June 25th, 2010
8:48 pm
One more post for the night since Normal’s 8:06 had me laughing and thinking at the same time. If I were polled to come up with a theme song for the Democratic and Republican parties today, these would be my choices. ENJOY!!!
The Democratic Party Theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmsLQFqdiQE&feature=related
The Republican Party Theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otuCPqrGd0Q
I think there’s a couple of different messages conveyed there. Other than the obvious lyrics and messages, I think the energy and tempo describes the moods of the two parties as well.
See y’all later. Gotta prepare for that 3am alarm.
Midori
June 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
Dick Cheney has just been admitted to the hospital.
Normal
June 25th, 2010
9:01 pm
SoCo,
I thought the Republican theme was this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
Scout
June 25th, 2010
9:02 pm
RW-(the original) @ 7:38: “To pass out bottled water at the turnstiles?”
Thanks! I knew there must be a reason.
Southern Comfort (works border security) @ 8:06:
RW’s answer sounds more plausible because they are certainly not being allowed to defend this country.
Scout
June 25th, 2010
9:06 pm
If this doesn’t make you angry at our lack of illegal immigrant enforcement nothing will:
Headline: “Widow of Houston Officer Killed by Illegal Immigrant ‘Shocked’ at ICE Appointment”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/25/widow-houston-officer-killed-illegal-immigrant-shocked-ice-appointment/
Normal
June 25th, 2010
9:06 pm
Scout,
Semper fi…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keu_pu2TrRg
DADT much…?
Normal
June 25th, 2010
9:08 pm
Go Navy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot6yD5vEZ7g&feature=fvw
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2010
9:15 pm
Let’s see if anyone is still listening. Press play. If you like it let me know.
Del
June 25th, 2010
9:18 pm
Normal,
I think they were probably Navy and doggies playing drop the soap. Marines don’t live in such comfortable quarters.
Nothing is Free
June 25th, 2010
9:22 pm
Another midnight bill.
This one will cost the banks billions.
And some people think that will hurt the banks. Simple minded buffoons.
The banks will pass those charges on to us. Once again, the government gets more power and you and me pay the price.
There’s not many posts here tonight.
Another week of Obama’s take over of private companies. Another week of this administration openly going against the American People. Another week of watching our rights disappearing. Another week of watching more Americans killed in a war where liberals made the rules of war.
Another week with the great mistake in the White House.
Not much to celebrate with music.
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
9:23 pm
For you baseball fans the baseball channel is taking the D-Back/Rays game live when Tampa comes back up to bat.
Del
June 25th, 2010
9:26 pm
Navy recruits are now being asked as they come down the line if the would like their drawers panties opened in the front or the rear. They are now told that they aren’t being asked because now they’re able to tell.
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
9:28 pm
And compounding the idiocy that is major league baseball under Bud Selig the Toronto/Philly games that were supposed to be in Toronto this weekend are being played in Philly with Toronto calling itself the home team. Detroit’s ballpark is empty, Fenway is empty and Yankee stadium is empty, so why couldn’t they have at least played in an AL park with a semi-neutral crowd?
Del
June 25th, 2010
9:31 pm
Adm. Mike Mullen has now come out of the closet and has declared himself homosexual. He claims that Sec.Gates is even more of a flamer than himself.
Kamchak
June 25th, 2010
9:33 pm
Another post with name calling.
Another post with fear mongering.
popeye
June 25th, 2010
9:45 pm
Midori
June 25th, 2010
8:50 pm
Midori, Cheney was admitted for experiencing discomfort! Holy sh*t if I had to be admitted to the hospital everytime I experienced discomfort I would be admitted on a regular basis.
Probably needs an enema.
Midori
June 25th, 2010
9:50 pm
LOL, Popeye — perhaps he should eat more spinach?
Midori
June 25th, 2010
9:51 pm
that’s all they have, Kammie.
everyone have a good evening.
Time to put in a Columbo DVD.
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
9:57 pm
Edwin Jackson completes the no hitter.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
9:58 pm
Normal….see you caught me at St. Elsewhere!
This one comes to y’all from Younger Boy…he was just over and he was telling me about his latest recording sessions. We were talking about recent discoveries and, to our surprise, both said AT THE SAME TIME “somebody you’ve probably never heard of but…Gogol Bordello.” It was one of those magic moments since this is not a group hardly anybody would have heard of…we “discovered” them across generations and widely different music tastes…and, what would we choose to introduce those who may not know anything about gypsy punk…this was his, so,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RJD-2V0b
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
10:02 pm
Still catching up…some good music…
Granny Godzilla
June 25th, 2010
10:12 pm
I just popped in to drop of my dish for the table.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Stones in the Road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2GSVIWls4
I hadn’t seen the news about the former VP. I hope for the best for the Cheney Family.
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
10:15 pm
Brian McCann gets his 100th home run and Billy Wags gets his 400th save. Nice night for rounding out the stats.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
10:19 pm
Granny G
My currrent favorite of hers….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxCDOQfkw4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxCDOQfkw4
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
10:21 pm
The song so nice he played it twice….
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
10:22 pm
The song so nice he played it twice….
TaxPayer
June 25th, 2010
10:29 pm
Mitch,
Have a beer, get laid, get a life.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
10:34 pm
RW…
You leave me alone! Me and my boy have been in the wine! Jus’ spell it mutha…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsyXjZPvGU&feature=related
Granny Godzilla
June 25th, 2010
10:38 pm
josef
i’ll never be able to thank you enough. i had never heard that.
my pop showed me halley last time.
he can still navigate by the stars, and i navigate by my pop.
thank you
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
10:41 pm
Mitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pa1QvSD440
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
10:43 pm
GG
Glad you liked it! First time I heard it, it really did strike home…I lived in Jackson growing up and I got to see it with my own Little Princess who was three at the time…
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
10:44 pm
WTF! Let me try this again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2wutEzjy_E
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
11:01 pm
I can’t believe there’s anybody who hasn’t heard of Shel Silverstein.
The rain went around me again, so still dry here. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XaYXEPfGFs
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 25th, 2010
11:06 pm
Big Z has another meltdown.
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20100625&content_id=11567252&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&team=away&gid=2010_06_25_chnmlb_chamlb_1
godless heathen
June 25th, 2010
11:14 pm
There is a recent Shel Silverstein tribute album out called Twistable Turnable Man. Good stuff.
josef nix
June 25th, 2010
11:26 pm
sorry I didn’t get to spend a lot of time here tonight. but I DID get to spend some time with my boy talking music and sharing sadness for home…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRDwZtKcjc
Scout
June 25th, 2010
11:35 pm
Normal:
That was funny …………… but when I was in we had “barracks” with about 20 double racks (bunkbeds for you civilians) down each side of the squad bay. That double room stuff is Horse S**t and goes nowhere toward building fire-team, squad or platoon unity!
Plus the “heads” (bathrooms) were open showers and no stalls for the commodes ………. just lined up against the wall. Why you say? Because it was much easier to swab (mop) and clean each morning …….. which was done without fail (except Sunday) !
@@
June 25th, 2010
11:35 pm
Heeyyyyy, where is all the music????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEYFGKbS3XQ
Looks like Obama was odd man out at the G20.
Double dip, anyone?
Scout
June 25th, 2010
11:37 pm
Bumper Sticker:
“Illegal Immigration is Detroying America – Look What it Did to the White House”
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
11:40 pm
Hillbilly D,
Apparently the Cub GM came down with an indefinite suspension of the Z-man. Carlos might want to switch to football and see if the Raiders are interested.
Scout
June 25th, 2010
11:44 pm
To my Vet friends:
If you stay with it to the end you’ll be glad you did. Pass it on ……………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfnmDGk0KM
Scout
June 26th, 2010
12:07 am
THE BACKLASH IS COMING !
Headline: “Gallup: Conservative Numbers Head Toward Record Year”
Friday, 25 Jun 2010
“Conservatives in the United States are on track to record their highest annual statistics in the Gallup poll’s 18-year history of measuring conservative/liberal ideologies.
That nugget emerges from the results of a USA Today/Gallup analysis of eight surveys taken between January and June, which noted that 42 percent of Americans describe themselves as either very conservative or conservative. That’s up from the 40 percent figure recorded for all of 2009 and trounces the 20 percent who call themselves liberal or very liberal.
The conservative wave is resulting in part from increasing conservatism among independents, the analysis noted.”
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
6:27 am
yep… AND THEN THERE WILL BE A BACKLASH AGAINST THE BACKLASH… SO WHICH BACKLASH ARE YOU HERALDING??? THE BACKLASH THAT GIVES YOUR SIDE THE POWER IT CRAVES? OR THE BACKLASH THAT WILL RESULT FROM YOUR SIDE REGAINING POWER (with not one eeny weeny lesson learned from the past)???
stands for decibels
June 26th, 2010
6:59 am
I can’t believe there’s anybody who hasn’t heard of Shel Silverstein.
Well I had, but only (I’m a tad embarrassed to admit) as the author of The Giving Tree.
stands for decibels
June 26th, 2010
7:05 am
AND THEN THERE WILL BE A BACKLASH AGAINST THE BACKLASH…
Yeah, but Scout’s backlash is extree-profound-like.
As for self-IDing as “conservative,” I’ve covered that often enough in here. Suffice to say that the term “liberal” was never, ever, a unifying term for an American ideological spectrum the way the term “conservative” is. Moreover, the left-of-centers never attacked that term the way right-of-centers have gone after their opposite.
and since this is a music thread, consider this ditty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOXOkqVORxw
stands for decibels
June 26th, 2010
7:14 am
Someone say something about a “backlash”?
Arizona immigration law motivating youths to embrace community activism
Daniel Rodríguez was up at 5 a.m. one day in May, preparing to speak at a news conference on Arizona’s new immigration law.
The event would draw national media coverage because it featured undocumented youths arrested earlier that week while protesting at Sen. John McCain’s Tucson office.
After the conference, Rodríguez, who wasn’t one of those arrested, spent much of the day at the Arizona Capitol. He participated in an immigration rally, directed a poster-making session and arranged for live band entertainment. That evening, he met with volunteers to discuss future protest strategies. His day ended around 11 p.m.
The 24-year-old Rodríguez is part of a growing grass-roots movement of young Latino adults and high-school students who spend much of their spare time advocating for immigration reform that includes a form of amnesty. Rodríguez has a personal stake in fighting the nation’s toughest immigration law, which goes into effect July 29: He was brought to the United States as a child and is an illegal immigrant.
But there are many other youths standing beside him at protests in the Phoenix area who are U.S. citizens.
Older community activists compare what is happening now in Arizona to the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
“If there’s any positive to be gained in Arizona . . . it is the fact it has created a whole new generation of leaders,” said Danny Ortega, a Phoenix attorney and community leader.
out to put in a few miles before the heat’s extra-beastly. later.
TaxPayer
June 26th, 2010
7:17 am
What does the term “conservative” mean to our blogging Republicans such as Scout.
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
7:25 am
What happens after this BACKLASH? Or does the “conservatives” collective wet dream end with the regaining of power? What will be different? How will THE BACKLASH lead us as a country out of the wilderness after the mess of the last 10 years? What fresh ideas are there from THE BACKLASH? Or will it be more tax cuts, corporate welfare, and ending legalized abortion?
WHAT WILL THE BACKLASH CHANGE???? CONVINCE ME AND I”LL BE PART OF THE BACKLASH…
The party of “hell no” and “do as I say, not as I do” better start asking themselves these questions or thier BACKLASH will be as short lived as Obama’s BACKLASH.
TaxPayer
June 26th, 2010
7:33 am
Nearly two months after the governor requested—and the Department of Defense approved the use of 6,000 Louisiana National Guard troops—only a fraction—1,053—have actually been deployed by Jindal to fight the spill.
Doesn’t Jindal care about cleaning up this mess! What is taking him so long to DO something! Something other than photo ops, that is.
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
7:39 am
Seriously. Jindal needs to deploy whatever resources he can and build whatever berms he wants and ask for forgiveness later. Not stand around and use this as an opportunity to speechify… This is Jindals spill now. Why is Jindal destroying the gulf???
(I used “conservative” thought patterns to reach my conclusion)
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
7:39 am
heh.. I created an oxymoron… “conservative” thought patterns…
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
7:41 am
and the BACKLASH rolls on…
What were those impeachable offenses again??? If memory serves (and I know it does) there were three of them to be exact?
Did anybody ever look up seepage?
Normals
June 26th, 2010
7:47 am
Morning all…,talking about daughters with Soothsayer and SoCo…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QT8J_-pAtA&feature=related
Normals
June 26th, 2010
7:48 am
“conservative” thought patterns…
Flatliners…
SOUTHERN ATL
June 26th, 2010
7:59 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwuO2dfqrF4
Del
June 26th, 2010
8:13 am
TaxPayer,
To me conservatism means the preservation of traditional American values. It means Keeping God in our country and recognizing that his word is the foundation of our laws and social values. It means taking responsibility and accountability. It means recognition of America’s greatness and taking pride in our greatness. It means recognizing that the federal governments first and most important priority is protecting the security of this Republic and it’s people. It means many other things to me as well but it can once again be summed up in the word traditionalism.
Normals
June 26th, 2010
8:15 am
…in the spirit of equal time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8xNif53P38
Normal
June 26th, 2010
8:16 am
I wonder what is Normals? How’d that “s” get there?
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
8:17 am
I see what the BACKLASH means… It means we will LASH BACK to the 1950’s…
No big surprises there.
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
8:18 am
I think that s” was BACKLASHED in there…
jt
June 26th, 2010
8:28 am
From the “we’re just here to help” department————————
The IRS issued the guidance today to help spill victims sort through the law’s complexities. The agency has posted tax information for oil spill victims on its website and plans to hold forums in seven Gulf Coast cities on July 17 to help victims with tax troubles or questions.
“As residents of the region cope with the evolving situation, I want to assure them that the IRS will be doing everything it can to provide tax help to those who need it,” IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said. “We encourage anyone who has an issue with the IRS to contact us and explain their hardship, and we will work with them to find a solution.”
jt
June 26th, 2010
8:31 am
For Spill victims, don’t forget your previous five years worth of filing too.
AmVet
June 26th, 2010
8:45 am
SOUTHERN ATL, I’m one of a minority who never really cared much for his music. And IMHO, I found him greatly over rated, but most of course didn’t. AND, that song is sweet.
Yep, last night was pretty much a musical bust. The lunatic fringers just wouldn’t put a sock in in it. As if they don’t have six and three quarters days every week to proffer their viewpoints on matters political.
Speaking of which, this woman would fit in nicely with the masters of misinformation here:
“Well, we all know that the majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules,” Brewer said. “They’re coming across our borders in huge numbers. The drug cartels have taken control of the immigration.
“So they are criminals. They’re breaking the law when they are trespassing and they’re criminals when they pack the marijuana and the drugs on their backs.”
When pressed, Brewer explained that many are simply coming to the United States to look for work but “are accosted, and they become subjects of the drug cartels.”
T.J. Bonner of the National Border Patrol Council told CNN that Brewer’s claims were “clearly not the case.” Bonner said that some undocumented immigrants caught by border patrol agents have drugs on them, and that they sometimes blame pressure from the drug cartels.
But, he said, those claims have little credibility because drug smugglers are typically transporting much larger quantities of drugs. And besides, he said, if what Brewer said were true, there would be many more prosecutions for drug smuggling.
And I absolutely loved this comment about the goofy governor: Brewer’s comments, Bonner said, don’t “comport with reality — that’s the nicest way to put it.”
You doing a heckuva job, Jannie…
SOUTHERN ATL
June 26th, 2010
9:02 am
Normal that was cool but nobody says it better than James Brown….
…and AmVet……Been very busy lately trying to get my daughter ready for college. I took her to registration/orientation a couple of weeks ago. I never recalled a law when I was in college called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). If parents are going to foot most of the expenses, why would an 18 year old have these kinds of rights? This did not go over well with me! Anyway, hope you like this artist a little bit better….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2pmtlcohk&feature=related
Normal
June 26th, 2010
9:12 am
Rightwing Troll
June 26th, 2010
8:18 am
AmVet
June 26th, 2010
9:15 am
Del, great synopsis.
To me conservatism means the preservation of traditional American values. I completely agree and have written before that the rub is trying to keep the *best* of our traditional values, not the *worst* of them – intolerance, ignorance and backwards looking factionalism. As this hijacked GOP and misnamed movement has much too often tried to do.
It means Keeping God in our country.. And out of public schools, and to an excessive extent, out of our state houses and our White House. I like your kind of Christianity – reserved, respectful and non-braggadocio. The zealots here and elsewhere are doing more to drive people, especially young ones, away from it than us agnostics, atheists and believers of other isms could ever do.
…and recognizing that his word is the foundation of our laws and social values. Foundation is a good word, and I won’t disagree. But in the post-Renaissance, enlightened societies put more value on MAN’s laws and not God’s. (Don’t shoot the messenger.)
It means taking responsibility and accountability. Without some examples or clarification, this is just a throw away phrase to me.
It means recognition of America’s greatness and taking pride in our greatness. Without a doubt and forever. And also being brave enough to acknowledge our mistakes and failures.
It means recognizing that the federal governments first and most important priority is protecting the security of this Republic and it’s people. True. NOT chosen wars and modern day Crusades though. “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
It means many other things to me as well but it can once again be summed up in the word traditionalism.
A really great starting point and the first honest effort I’ve ever seen here at a discourse, that is much more difficult than the endless bumper stickers and slogans used a s a crutch.
AmVet
June 26th, 2010
9:20 am
Normal, same title, different song. Killer lyrics and a rocker….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzTqt5Sx-a4
SOUTHERN ATL,
LOL!
Another artist I found much less interesting than most my age and background! But again, you choose a song of his that is for me, not reflective of that feeling! And the video is heartbreaking…
OK, gotta get my act together and get some stuff done this morning.
Back at y’all later…
Scout
June 26th, 2010
10:16 am
The BACKLASH that will spell the end of cancerous liberalism !
Ooo Rah !
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2010
10:27 am
Speaking of Jan Brewer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlN7VLmXQ&feature=player_embedded
Scout
June 26th, 2010
10:32 am
THIS BACKLASH (10 million viewers and growing !!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA
Scout
June 26th, 2010
10:37 am
RW-(the original) :
That was outstanding ! It’s hard to believe what our country now calls leadership ……….. we have got to take it back !
SOUTHERN ATL
June 26th, 2010
1:23 pm
AmVet no hard feelings…this was NOT something reflective of you…This morning I was listening to the radio and heard that yesterday was the one year anniversary of MJ’s death…Just wanted to post that song because it was one of my favorites…forgive me…