A little travelin’ music that’s done some travelin’
Bluegrass, in its purest form and in various mutations, seems to be seeping its way into a lot of popular music these days. I think it’s great, both because I love the music itself and because it helps to ensure that an important strain of American culture and the instruments and players that helped create it survive for at least another generation or two.
In fact, listening to Mumford and Sons, I think its preservation is pretty much guaranteed, given that these boys are from London. No, not London, Kentucky. The one in England, with the queen and the prince about to marry his princess and all that.
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AmVet
November 19th, 2010
3:47 pm
And that across the pond connection is why I have always loved Celtic music as well.
Does anyone remember this lady?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Ritchie
Vetobama
November 19th, 2010
3:48 pm
Alison Krauss rocks.
Gandalph, the Fun
November 19th, 2010
3:50 pm
Blue Grass is so right wing! I Love it!
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
3:53 pm
Ah Jay! Great tune! I posted some of their stuff last Friday.
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
3:54 pm
Ah, which reminds me, I need to burn their CD for me kid.
Kamchak
November 19th, 2010
3:55 pm
AmVet
I’m a longtime listener of The Thistle and Shamrock.
Matti
November 19th, 2010
3:56 pm
Nice vibes, Mr. Bookman. While I am a disciple of the hard stuff, I also feel a kinship with the haunting sounds of my genetic heritage.
AmVet,
Here’s one of my favorite Celtic songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B7sH5QLyXY
This CD helped me through my ‘04 post-election suicidal urges, along with the scathing anger (and horrificly accurate perspectives) of Trent Reznor.
jm
November 19th, 2010
3:56 pm
Jay, gotta say, you’ve been on a roll today….
Among the things that make this country so fantastic.
Democracy. Not necessarily invented here, but a damn good model for all its flaws.
Work Ethic. Despite a few bad apples, most people around this country want to work hard. Sometimes they don’t know how, or where to go to do so. But they want to work smart, and work hard.
Our Military. Smartest, bravest, tough souls around. Yeah, there’s wasteful spending in the budget. But the people are fantastic.
Our Companies. Small and large. Sometimes led astray by errant managers. But innovative, creative, competitive, and helping build our prosperity.
Discourse. People will argue. But it stays mostly civil. And when tempers flare, we still remember we’re all Americans.
And damn good, I mean really good, music. Jazz, bluegrass, rock and roll.
God I love this country.
Can’t wait to hit my Thanksgiving trail through New Orleans to Austin. Weeehaaa!
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
3:57 pm
Good choice, Jay…
During troubled times we do tend to get back to our roots…
Gandalph, the Fun
November 19th, 2010
3:57 pm
LOU REED
jm
November 19th, 2010
3:59 pm
How many other countries have a holiday called Thanksgiving? Where they just give thanks with their friends and family for making it another year with the help of their fellow Americans. No commercialism, just good food and good company. Huh?! That’s right. Only the US of A baby….
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
4:01 pm
Jay,
Have you heard this CD? It’s excellent. I’ve been jamming to it for a couple weeks now.
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
4:01 pm
Kam, I kinda figured a NC boy like you would!
Back in the 80s I’d record the programs onto cassette and mail them to my dad, who shared a love of Celtic/Bluegrass with me. Lo, he has been gone for 22 years now.
So I must confess, it has bittersweet memories for me. But sometimes the pain and heartache feels good. At least it makes me feel alive.
Matti, wow, loved that. It reminds me of an Irish kaddish…
carlosgvv
November 19th, 2010
4:06 pm
jm
Well said!!! Have a nice weekend.
TaxPayer
November 19th, 2010
4:10 pm
They got Laura Bush’s book cover advertised in the spot to the right on my screen. I get the eebie geebies every time I see it. Those eyes… She probably put a spell on George. Something she learned from that Christine lady probably.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
4:11 pm
How ’bout a little real bluegrass………….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xdn6htjkx0
Mick
November 19th, 2010
4:11 pm
American pie-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olk8rZmlhY4
Joe the Plutocrat (the artist formerly known as paleo-neo-Carlinist)
November 19th, 2010
4:12 pm
sounds like these Mumford blokes came over here, headed to Kentucky for some tobacco and ended up grabbing some bluegrass instead? gotta say, I’m sure I dig the vibe – maybe ’cause I heard these guys on DaveFM a couple weeks ago and wasn’t impressed. I guess the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, et al were nurtured by American Blues, Soul, R&B and Rockabilly, but I’m just not feelin’ it.
Kamchak
November 19th, 2010
4:16 pm
A Celtic woman covering Chaka Khan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCCn3Ws9o94
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
4:19 pm
Lou Reid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdonHZ8HDAE
Joe the Plutocrat (the artist formerly known as paleo-neo-Carlinist)
November 19th, 2010
4:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekf15ICKnxI
you want to talk about some music that done some travelin’, listen to the GA Satellites play some blue-grass filtered through early 70’s Faces. that’s like across the pond twice in each direction. this song gives me goosebumps, and these cats are locals
Paulo977
November 19th, 2010
4:21 pm
Matti
I just love Celtic music
Here’s another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqQnhBtxaIone
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
4:22 pm
HD, like Please, Please Me I’ll never grow tired of that. Lightning quick and unforgettable.
Mick, outstanding!
HD, back at ya…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXNwVnOZ6BU
@@
November 19th, 2010
4:26 pm
Bluegrass!!??!!
No way….more like astro turf.
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
4:28 pm
Hillbilly
Let’s not forget how much we owe them, too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Omz5Zyquk&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
4:28 pm
The Man himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXkwthWiMFk
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
4:29 pm
Kam, saw her live a few years ago, not knowing a thing about her, and was amazed with her talent. (And I’m not easily impressed…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUASuKpNkwc
Jefferson
November 19th, 2010
4:29 pm
Get this one, and you halfway there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nitty_Gritty_Dirt_Band-Will_the_Circle_Be_Unbroken_(album_cover).jpg
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
4:31 pm
Here’s another tune from the same artist — Dust Bowl Dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaxrANJnU2E
Joe the Plutocrat (the artist formerly known as paleo-neo-Carlinist)
November 19th, 2010
4:31 pm
@@, touche’!
jm
November 19th, 2010
4:31 pm
@@
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
4:31 pm
It’s funny how iTunes lists their music as “alternative” —- weird.
Del
November 19th, 2010
4:32 pm
AmVet, Good one, so I just had to put one up for Buck Owens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIuep-pOS0U&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
4:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p952jSLddg
Mick
November 19th, 2010
4:37 pm
I want you back – pretty cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECVOi0Cqag
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
4:39 pm
Matti, AmVet (and all)– as I was sorting my music today, I came across this Peter Gabriel tune — great bagpipe intro —
Come Talk to Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAmMw1GSrtY
@@
November 19th, 2010
4:39 pm
My contributions for the night.
Sticks That Made Thunder
If this one don’t get ‘ya movin’, your feet are planted in cement.
Devil Town
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
4:40 pm
josef
Here’s another one. It’s interesting how different people hear different things in songs; most everybody I know hears this song as happy and upbeat. I hear it differently, to me it’s a very dark, fatalistic song. Maybe my roots are the reason I hear it that way. Who knows?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmQQ4RfzVE
soames
November 19th, 2010
4:41 pm
Not exactly bluegrass but it’s hard to put these guys in a box…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQRt6p8T7g
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
4:43 pm
And here’s my favorite Peter Gabriel tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho
I’d like to dedicate it to Sarah Palin.
Dusty
November 19th, 2010
4:45 pm
Well, this is not exactly bluegrass, but…who knows? You might like it. A friend sent it to me a few days ago. The real alternative!
GRAND COURT PIPE ORGAN (6 keyboards + 28,000 pipes) 650 voices..THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS… from Random Acts of Culture.
Look it up, fiddle dee dees..
Bosch
November 19th, 2010
4:48 pm
Dusty,
Do you not know how to use the googly? And copy paste a link? You know how lazy us libs are……
Dusty
November 19th, 2010
4:53 pm
Dear heart lazy Boschie,
I too am lazy. Did not want to go back and look it up. Just whistle Hallelujah! You’ll be in a Thanksgiving mode and…out of breath. .
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
4:53 pm
The master of mandolin cross-picking and as nice a man as you’ll ever meet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKEmPdkUAHU&feature=related
For anybody who’s never been to a bluegrass festival, the musicians are extremely accessible. Most all of them will take time to talk to you and some even wander out in the parking lot for jam sessions, with whoever wants to join in.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
4:55 pm
An old Bob Wills standard that’s been adopted by many of the bluegrass fiddlers. As pretty a melody as I’ve ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECaRypsk-BY
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
4:55 pm
Bosch, I saw him a few years ago at Chastain, and all I can say is WOW!!!
A consummate performer with a catalog to die for.
He was performing his new (and stellar) album Up.
One of the gems from that effort…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpHveYQyPJw
Kamchak
November 19th, 2010
4:57 pm
Bosch—Peter Gabriel back at cha.
Solsbury Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DndUuKHBZIU
Matti
November 19th, 2010
4:58 pm
Paulo977, that Celtic Woman was awesome.
Paulo977
November 19th, 2010
4:58 pm
On to Australia and remembering my cousin who just left after a short visit.
Hear the haunting didgeridoo in the background….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2IX65EPYY
Matti
November 19th, 2010
5:02 pm
Bosch,
Love me some bagpipes! (and kilts!) And PG too. I’ve got “So” on vinyl somewhere… heh. Sledgehammer is my all time fave.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
5:03 pm
Lester Flatt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Fo_75Wy-8
@@
November 19th, 2010
5:07 pm
SoCo:
Left you a response downstairs.
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
5:08 pm
Celtic music…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubSCPBkTyWY&feature=related
The Acadians are originally from the Breton region…
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
5:11 pm
One of those crazy wonderful pairings…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48TJA_vSk0&feature=related
Kamchak
November 19th, 2010
5:14 pm
Dougie MacLean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KemOcLTPk9Q
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
5:16 pm
Doc Watson, the late Merle Watson and T Michael Coleman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgoZjinEZ5A
Joe the Plutocrat (the artist formerly known as paleo-neo-Carlinist)
November 19th, 2010
5:20 pm
OK, I’m about to hit the road – to harvest red cabbage, collards and beets from my little Copperhead Road. so speaking of roads, beats, and travelin’ – a time machine back to the 80’s when MTV types and record company marketing weenies “visualized” Steve Earle’s roots/rock bootlegger anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
5:26 pm
AmVet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QuKVZZpU&feature=related
Pogo
November 19th, 2010
5:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeWn86Bcydg&feature=related
Rory is the man!
SOUTHERN ATL
November 19th, 2010
5:31 pm
Italian women deserve more…
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/15/bunga-bunga-nation-berlusconi-s-italy-hurts-women.html
SOUTHERN ATL
November 19th, 2010
5:31 pm
Bella Napoli….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrtSjxzizqM&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
5:34 pm
Sooth
If you check in, this one’s for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfsbzFXyzc
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
5:42 pm
Pogo, you are so correct…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxqdzehKT1U
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 19th, 2010
5:45 pm
Well, some of this music is a little weird, but most of it is real music. I might could change my mind about some of the bloggers on here.
Time for my Friday night at Billy Bob’s. Where there’s always alot of noise because people set about two spaces from each other and yell to talk so people won’t think they’re gay.
stands for decibels
November 19th, 2010
5:45 pm
Reg King passed away earlier this month–just heard about it this week.
Fantastic singer in a great English 60s band, the Action. Here’s their amazing cover of the Marvellettes’ “I’ll keep on holding on”
SOUTHERN ATL
November 19th, 2010
5:45 pm
AmVet@3:47 that is good info to know!!!
Pogo
November 19th, 2010
5:48 pm
Saw him in Brussels Amvet and I saw him over here and I think I saw the very best. Music is the healer and it crosses all divides.
Soothsayer
November 19th, 2010
5:48 pm
In youth’s early dawn I was happy and free
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
5:56 pm
Two Dan Fogelberg songs that had a strong Celtic/bluegrass influence…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjYSrbLTifk
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNwlthvBxk
md
November 19th, 2010
5:58 pm
Peter Gabriel???
And check out Phil on Drums……….with hair!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKIkzGGAG9s&feature=related
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
6:04 pm
sooth
@ 5:48
Good choice!
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
6:12 pm
Hillbilly
Here’s one for ya from a master…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIo3-9akMU
Soothsayer
November 19th, 2010
6:18 pm
. . . that my loved ones be ready to meet me there.
Pogo
November 19th, 2010
6:21 pm
It’s too bad that the Friday afternoon karma that is created on this blog by the music can’t overcome all the other trash that we all think is SO important in our lives that it consumes the other 166 hours of our existance on this planet. If it did, then maybe this world would be a saner place. There IS room for rational thought because none of us are right all the time but we have all come to live in a world that is so ideologically divided upon who IS right and who is wrong which is delineated upon political lines by the media that we are destroying ourselves. And our leaders and the media are letting us do it to their benefit adn our detriment. Perhaps it is naieve and utopian to think that the people (us) have the answer to our problems but one thing is for sure; our leaders andour media have failed us. It doesn’t matter which party one subscribes to, they have let us down. Can we ever come together? That answer lies within all of us. But, at least we agree upon the music.
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
6:24 pm
SOUTHERN ATL,
One of he many things I love about Friday nights (besides the tons of great music) is the variety and the fact that one never knows what exactly is gonna strike someone else’s fancy!
From the 1920s to the 2000s and from every continent, we’ve something for everybody!
Unquestionably one of the very greatest artists to ever to hail from the Peach State…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fd8_gojNXc
Soothsayer
November 19th, 2010
6:24 pm
I’ll leave you with this favorite from my favorite girl. Good night.
@@
November 19th, 2010
6:37 pm
josef:
Not to intrude on music night, but here’s the fourth installment on Friedman’s “Geopolitical Journey”.
Geopolitical Journey, Part 4: Moldova is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
Turkey is next. That’s the one I’ve been waiting for.
RW-(the original)
November 19th, 2010
6:39 pm
Just a technicality, but if you define hail from as being most associated with then JB was from the Peach State. If you define it as place of birth he’s from the Palmetto State.
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
6:40 pm
Pogo,
How can I change the world
When I can’t change myself?
Try again tomorrow…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10gEIUcK70
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
6:40 pm
@@
THANKS! I was trying to find that! The Turkey one should be interesting…keep me posted….
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
6:42 pm
True RW, after I wrote that, I thought, “Hey, I think he’s just from across the river”. I checked and shonuff, Barnwell, SC.
Thanks.
Off to the gym…
Fred
November 19th, 2010
6:45 pm
Just damn, I was too late to the party. ANd a hillbilly bluegrass party at that. How about some popular rock songs done in bluegrass style? Why that would be Hayseed Dixie. These are great:
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWl5peI8HY
Hell’s Bells (AC/DC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t7HLkldXbg&feature=related
Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyqMrsuLXw&feature=related
Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlgSo6X30d4&feature=related
And of course we have to include their version of Dueling Banjo’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBdmYRWRP8&feature=related
md
November 19th, 2010
6:49 pm
One of my 1st concerts for someone not named Pink Floyd, or Wings, or Tull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSQFewjDD0&feature=related
Annie had a mesmerizing voice and cause quite a bit of hormonal imbalance……
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:00 pm
MATTI For you, especially…
and, Mary Katherine, thinking of you, too…and, of course, you Dusty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzVJL9rGvc&feature=related
Paul
November 19th, 2010
7:00 pm
What a great evening.
AmVet, josef – the other Celtic fans -
Some of her music’s real Celtic, some New Age influence, her first group, Clannad, had jazz influences. This is a bit of a mix. I listen to her quite a bit while working – positive influence on the flow of work and the creativity.
Enjoy Enya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w48SACavHg
Jay
November 19th, 2010
7:07 pm
Fred, your post was kicked out initially because it had 3 or more links, which the system detects as spam. I freed it earlier.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
7:08 pm
josef
Bill Monroe was once asked, of all the singers he’d had in the Bluegrass Boys, who was the best. He said, without hesitating, Mac Wiseman.
Fred
November 19th, 2010
7:08 pm
Ah, ok Jay. Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind going forward. Could you kill the double post?
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
7:10 pm
Sooth’s 6:18 went straight into my favorites file. Very good song and performance.
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:10 pm
FRED
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
7:15 pm
Anybody remember this one? Featuring the late John Duffy and the late Charlie Waller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFLZfv7Vw8&feature=related
md
November 19th, 2010
7:16 pm
And for the beginning of the holiday season, the TSO hotties…………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_924414&v=wQNirj6lbGY&feature=iv
If you like rock/orchestra/vocals/xmas songs, one has to see these guys in concert….they put on a nice show. But don’t go thinking it is an orchestra…….good rock and roll .
Some may even get to see the old Cooper guitarist Al Pitrelli……………
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:16 pm
PAUL
It is a language that sings even in speech…I wish I knew it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiqmrSHitU&feature=related
Soames
November 19th, 2010
7:17 pm
How about some Trampled By Turtles…new grass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOD48_b6h-g – Texas Troubadour inspired tune if you ask me..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjdkc14-zwQ&feature=related
I grew up listening to Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Jimmy MArtin, Grandpa Jones…all that good stuff. One of my favorite genre’s.
Music seemes to be one of the few things that unite those of varying political persuasions that’s why I like the travellin music thread. The rest of the arguing on the other blog posts is just noise..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxaMoNbcQCc
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:21 pm
JAY
My 7:16 is hung up…any idea why?
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:22 pm
I see….
It’s in the link… there’s the SH*t!
Jay
November 19th, 2010
7:23 pm
Josef, the code had a four-letter word that made it impossible to post. Freed now.
Kamchak
November 19th, 2010
7:25 pm
josef
your link was hung up due to the four letters before U&feature
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:27 pm
JAY, K’CHAK
Yeah, yeah…I caught it, too!
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
7:27 pm
This guy was well-known in the bluegrass world for having a large ego and a not so likeable personality but he was a master showman and a great rhythm guitar player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7GpEzqaao
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:28 pm
SOAMES
Yep…it’s why I look forward to Friday the way that I do…
Paul
November 19th, 2010
7:34 pm
josef nix
Our Irish tour guide was incredible. Began study of Irish (none of the Irish with whom we spoke referred to it as Gaelic and corrected those who did) while a youngster in school, then took the advanced courses and regularly switched between English and Irish. At times seemed to pause while he considered a good English translation. Said revised curriculums (I refuse to do the Latin nominative plural thingie for select words) mean few kids will grow to adulthood speaking Irish. What a shame for a nation.
Anyhow, wondered about some of the words used by Enya and came across this:
On her latest album, Amarantine, Enya sings in Japanese and Loxian, a language invented by Roma Ryan. A number of Enya’s songs are sung entirely in Irish or Latin, while most of her songs are sung in English. Enya has also sung songs written entirely or partially in Welsh, Spanish, French and even languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enya has performed songs relating to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, including 1991’s “Lothlórien” (instrumental), 2001’s “May It Be” (sung in English and Quenya), and “Aníron” (in Sindarin)—the last two which she composed appearing on the soundtrack of Peter Jackson’s movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Read more: What language does enya speak? | Answerbag http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/219392#ixzz15mITJ6dE
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
7:35 pm
Three of these guys went on to big things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0iMLvCfFM
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:40 pm
Another gift from the Celts…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHoHIL2ABVQ
Paulo977
November 19th, 2010
7:49 pm
Amvet
As we move into next week this one by
Dan Fogelberg
Paulo977
November 19th, 2010
7:50 pm
Amvet
Sorry ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYbgC2vW9dk&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
7:52 pm
A later generation Bluegrass band, with a old-time type story song, that raises as many questions at the end, as it answers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN5uu-EpEho&feature=related
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
7:52 pm
PAUL
I used to have a co-worker whose mother was from the Dingle Peninsula and spoke Gaelic as the home language…she would cuss up a storm!
soames
November 19th, 2010
7:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXf-SuBbJa0&feature=related
great song and a great gathering of talent…love Old Crow
Mick
November 19th, 2010
8:07 pm
amvet & pogo
Great rory, I completely forgot about him. Anyway, here’s one from roger-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZxZUuz9HJQ&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
8:09 pm
The Monroe Brothers before Bill went on his own and started the Bluegrass Boys. Notice how different the sound is from Bill’s later stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Kx-DuvVRs
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
8:12 pm
some celt and bluegrass for your listening pleasure…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByYSkRGrMqw&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
8:24 pm
josef
It gets no better than that. I remember my Grandpa singing that in the fields.
@@
November 19th, 2010
8:24 pm
Fred’s AC/DC brought a smile to my face. I was taking care of my three-year old niece yesterday and today. She brought her little toy guitar.
I had her emulating Angus Young’s on-stage antics. She was pretty good with the foot movement, head movement, closed eyes, mouth opened. Couldn’t master the duck walk no matter how many times I showed her. She tried though.
Too cute!
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
8:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKblc4CX4_Q
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
8:31 pm
Hi guys. Back from another dose of pain!
Thanks for more sweet Dan, Paulo.
From the very beginning he has been one of my most very favorites. I heard this one on the radio and immediately went out and bought that album. And from that moment on, I was completely hooked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba807pfx-1M
And I’m not quite sure how I didn’t wear out the grooves on Souvenirs. Especially on this one, with that fabulous Joe Walsh assist…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8×38USBiM
AmVet
November 19th, 2010
8:35 pm
soames, I was never much of a Band fan, but I always just loved that song. Great cover…
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
8:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-OJlNYKZM0
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
8:40 pm
Hillbilly
Unmentionable cut loose with this one the other day and I thought of you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL1MCqZQ5dU&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
8:42 pm
josef
I had a sibling that used to sing that as a pre-schooler. We still laugh about it.
Del
November 19th, 2010
8:43 pm
Something for Scout…Eleanore Roosevelt couldn’t have said it much better. Semper Fi
Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings I have ever witnessed. They treat their service as if it was a cult, plastering their emblem on almost everything they own, making themselves up to look like insane fanatics with haircuts to ungentlemanly lengths, worshiping their Commandant almost as if he was a God, and making weird noises like a band of savages. They’ll fight like rabid dogs at the drop of a hat just for the sake of a little action, and are the cockiest SOBs I have ever known. Most have the foulest mouths and drink well beyond man’s normal limits, but their high spirits and sense of brotherhood set them apart and, generally speaking, the United States Marines I’ve come in contact with are the most professional soldiers and finest men I have had the pleasure to meet.
___ Anonymous Canadian
@@
November 19th, 2010
8:44 pm
Hillbilly:
Your 8:37, “The Rose Will Bloom Again” reminds me of a card I gave to a student’s parent. The child passed away at the tender age of 11. She was a sweetheart. I gave her parents a card with this sentiment:
http://www.bereavement-poems-articles.com/poems/faith/108-rose-beyond-wall.php
along with a pink climbing rose. The child had played a pink flower in one of our school plays.
@@
November 19th, 2010
8:51 pm
Whooaaaaa! I could’a died.
Painkillers Darvon, Darvocet withdrawn at FDA request
The widely prescribed painkillers are linked to serious heart rhythm abnormalities in a new study. Experts say patients and doctors should have little difficulty finding alternatives.
Now I’ve got 99 (have no idea why he gave me 100) Darvocet that are worthless.
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
8:59 pm
It starts when they’re young…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57sfRo26fAc&feature=related
and just keeps going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB5KeRIhlD8&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
9:04 pm
I hate painkillers.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
9:10 pm
josef
Check this one out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix4TNJvVk8M
Paulo977
November 19th, 2010
9:11 pm
Pogo
6:21pm
Isn’t it the truth
Hope this makes sense , even though we , being human, don’t quite understand it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
@@
November 19th, 2010
9:16 pm
Hillbilly:
My pain threshold is very high. As long as I’m busy, the pain can be overcome.
My body’s resistance to painkillers is NOT high, which is why I resist taking them whenever possible. The only time I DO take them is if I think the pain will keep me awake at night. I hate sleeping past 5:30 A.M..
Del
November 19th, 2010
9:18 pm
Pain is only weakness leaving the body.
@@
November 19th, 2010
9:22 pm
Democrats unhappy with Obama’s tactics plot change
Prominent party members discuss going their own way to fight back – especially on fundraising issues.–LATimes
“Democratic donors are largely ideological and need to be inspired,” Phillips said. “This compulsion to compromise is deflating people.”
So much for compromise, jay. The left-wing activists want no part of it.
Let the battles begin.
I’m outta here.
Paulo977
November 19th, 2010
9:22 pm
Hillbilly
9:10pm
That was awesome !!!
@@
November 19th, 2010
9:24 pm
Del:
Let’s talk pain. ‘Ya ever ever try squeezing a watermelon out your nostril?
(ISH)
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
9:25 pm
Hillbilly
Amazing!
PAULO
@ 9:11
On the other hand…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKEhPy_0PR8
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 19th, 2010
9:27 pm
@@
Our doctors tell us that my whole family has a high tolerance for pain. On the flip side of that, we also have a very high tolerance to pain killers. So, half the time, if I take any, I can’t even tell it, other than they mess up my system. About the only time I’ll take one is when I have a kidney stone. I’d eat a dog turd when I have one of those, if I thought it would help.
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
9:30 pm
Hillbilly
Kidney stones! Only have had two…morphine!!!
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
9:37 pm
PAUL
To answer your question earlier…Gaelic is her native language…she’s from Donegal, I think…
RW-(the original)
November 19th, 2010
9:47 pm
Now I’ve got 99 (have no idea why he gave me 100) Darvocet that are worthless.
That depends on the markets you’re willing to deal in. Things that have gone off the market might rise considerably in value.
(ISH)
Kamchak
November 19th, 2010
9:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDq0HqHXuq0
RW-(the original)
November 19th, 2010
10:23 pm
Happy 45th birthday Pop Tarts. There was a time I knew you well.
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
10:34 pm
RW
Pop tarts you say…? 308,000,000 plus can’t be wrong…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I
RW-(the original)
November 19th, 2010
10:35 pm
That’s a Pop Tart of a different flavor
Mick
November 19th, 2010
10:45 pm
I don’t know about you but this week has been a little of both-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfbzUof-h64&feature=related
RW-(the original)
November 19th, 2010
10:48 pm
Here you go Mick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QCCz4mtd0E
to stay on your subject.
josef nix
November 19th, 2010
11:00 pm
as another great Celt would say…
“…so g’night…g’night…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXG9VcBmd0E&feature=related
jaypat
November 20th, 2010
12:20 am
How about threading this blog’s comment section? It’s be a lot easier to follow the conversation…if this is what it is.
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
12:23 am
josef nix @ 7:00 p.m.
I just saw your note and song to Matti, Dusty, and myself. And even though you called me Mary Katherine instead of Mary Elizabeth, I listened with my heart (the source of all music), and I knew you meant Mary Elizabeth. Besides, I recognized the music from “Man Facing Southeast” and Rantes!
This song, if I can get it on here correctly is for you because it is another song that captures the music of the Heavens by an “innocent.” The movie was a sleeper, but excellent: “August Rush.”
Thanks much, Josef!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3lF9W0g6o
And, Paulo977, I thought you might enjoy the song, too, for I think you can feel that we are all One on Earth, and know that music helps us to “see” with our hearts.
Mick
November 20th, 2010
7:04 am
Good morning all-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGFvlnCq-ts
AmVet
November 20th, 2010
7:35 am
Good morning early birds! I was so spent last night, I went to bed at the same time as the old folks! (Well, technically…)
I’ve got a date with the leaves a little later today, but for now it’s all warm and cozy with a cup of coffee.
Mick, I absolutely wore out that Walls & Bridges cassette I had back in 1976. Simply some of his best work ever.
And that Entwhitsle was fabulous. Though I’ve owned Rigor Mortis Sets In for many years, I was not familiar with Smash Your Head Against the Wall.
From that RMSI LP…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qFjmy2Dec
And more of that ex-Beatle thing back at ya. And for the very cool Matti, this is the one that sustained me through those awful years of 2000 – 2008…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4aP2iKa16g
@@
November 20th, 2010
7:42 am
RW:
Me…..dealing in illicit drugs!!??!! It appears the FDA does it, so why NOT me.
J/K
Hillbilly:
I had a kidney stone once. I blame it on a horse named Roscoe. Only one gait, and it weren’t a smooth’n. The pain was so excruciating, I had the hospital call my mother so I could tell her goodbye.
TH
November 20th, 2010
9:13 am
Today is November 20.
BONER, WHERE ARE THE JOBS CREATED FROM THE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY?
Mick
November 20th, 2010
9:29 am
amvet
Heard that entwistle on deep tracks, never knew it was a who song; here’s some waters-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFqtqp92_Q&feature=related
Normal
November 20th, 2010
9:41 am
Good Saturday morning all…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AClW-lJGXis
md
November 20th, 2010
9:41 am
This is Pitrelli’s (Alice Cooper. Asia (Yes fans)) quite side. Coming to ATL first week of Dec. Get a chance go see them……sit further back for the full effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXVWWCGe9k&feature=related
Mick
November 20th, 2010
9:44 am
Never heard that peg leg before – thanks…I’m out have a great sat……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DbyLhVzylM
md
November 20th, 2010
9:48 am
quiet……who put that e after the t ???????? Big dumbie
Jay
November 20th, 2010
10:30 am
BTW, I just went through the election-predictions blog, and it appears we have ourselves a winner.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
10:48 am
Is it Harry? or Scout? I’d pay to see you with either one of them debating over lunch.
lol!!!!
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
11:15 am
I’m reminded of that running joke in most of the 70’s and 80’s where it was said there was a contest and the winner would be given two Braves tickets. The losers would have to take four.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
11:34 am
RW
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
12:01 pm
Looks like Buerkle is going to win NY25 putting the Republicans in the House at 241. I know somebody here said the GOP won’t have even made up the ground they lost in 2006 and 2008, but the GOP hasn’t had 241 House seats since 1949.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
12:05 pm
Meanwhile, the question of who is conducting the security screening has generated some attention. U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., ranking Republican on the House transportation committee, wrote a memo to airports earlier this month asking them to consider converting their security screening from TSA screeners to a certified private screening program.
A city councilor in Macon, Erick Erickson, said he has asked the Macon city attorney to begin looking into privatization of airport security at Macon’s Middle Georgia Regional Airport, “to get beyond the stigma of what the TSA is presently doing and frankly, in competition with Hartsfield-Jackson (International) Airport, it’s a unique selling point to be able to tell people you can bypass TSA by flying out of Macon.”
Ok, people are angry about the screening procedures, and the option offered by someone on the House Committee that oversees that kind of stuff is to opt out of TSA??
[...]TSA spokesman Allen noted that all commercial airports are regulated by TSA, “whether the actual screening is performed by TSA officers or private companies. TSA sets the security standards that must be followed, including the use of enhanced pat-downs and imaging technology, if installed at the airport.”
Even if airports opt out of having federal screeners, the private companies that replace them will still have to follow TSA protocol. What kind of solution would that be? I guess you can advertise it as a non-federal groping and the traveling public will approve. The things that pass as logical thinking nowadays.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
12:09 pm
RW
Doesn’t that leave 4 more races? I thought there were still 5 seats undecided?
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
12:11 pm
SoCo,
I think the NY25 just puts it at a minimum of 241 GOP seats, but I’ve lost track of which races are yet to be
stolendecided.stands for decibels
November 20th, 2010
12:12 pm
I guess Jay is waiting for the lucky winner to reply to an email before letting the rest of us in on the big announcement?
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
12:16 pm
stands,
I imagine anyone that cares could go look through that thread to determine who won. It’s not like there were secret rules or a random drawing. Although as SoCo pointed out the races aren’t all decided.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
12:16 pm
RW
stolendB
He was downstairs discussing unemployment w/Lil Barry.
stands for decibels
November 20th, 2010
12:29 pm
He was downstairs discussing unemployment w/Lil Barry.
Real truth-in-advertising in that poster’s name, innit?
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
12:30 pm
RW
CNN shows CA11, CA20, NY01, NY25, and TX27 as the 5 left to be decided. Dems have the lead in both Cal seats, both NY seats have Reps ahead, and the Rep candidate is in the lead in TX.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
12:30 pm
dB
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
12:42 pm
SoCo,
Thanks. It looks like my count matches CNN so it would be GOP 241 with NY-25 and if the other four leads hold up it’ll end up 243-192
Jay
November 20th, 2010
12:46 pm
I was going to wait until Monday, but by my figurin’ the winner (loser) is jt.
AmVet
November 20th, 2010
12:48 pm
He was downstairs discussing unemployment w/Lil Barry.
Lil’ BB is like the blogging version of a train wreck.
No matter how hard I try, it’s hard not to watch the disaster unfold.
Also, loved RW’s line about comparing the winner of our contest to winning those Braves tickets of yore. I just hope it is RW that won! (grin)
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
1:12 pm
Jay’s gotta do lunch with the blog anarchist!!!
That’s priceless!!!!
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
1:12 pm
“Lil’ BB is like the blogging version of a train wreck.”
If only our REAL Barry Bailout wasn’t such a train wreck . . .
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
1:13 pm
The House, where there 435 races, was much more difficult to pick so naturally when you put a lib in charge of the rules they put all the emphasis on the 37 Senate races.
Jay
November 20th, 2010
1:21 pm
Well, since there are 100 Senate seats and 435 House seats, a 4-1 ratio seemed appropriate (sorry to use actual numbers and math — I know that makes RW’s head hurt) :>(
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
1:25 pm
(sorry to use actual numbers and math — I know that makes RW’s head hurt)
Were you my Algebra teacher?
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
1:38 pm
Jay
Have you seen this site yet?
http://www.fiscalstrength.com/
We are writing to urge you to stand firm against those who would put politics ahead of their country.
For the fiscal health of our nation and the well-being of our fellow citizens, we ask that you allow tax cuts on incomes over $1,000,000 to expire at the end of this year as scheduled.
We make this request as loyal citizens who now or in the past earned an income of $1,000,000 per year or more.
We have done very well over the last several years. Now, during our nation’s moment of need, we are eager to do our fair share. We don’t need more tax cuts, and we understand that cutting our taxes will increase the deficit and the debt burden carried by other taxpayers. The country needs to meet its financial obligations in a just and responsible way.
Letting tax cuts for incomes over $1,000,000 expire, is an important step in that direction.
Sincerely,
Signed by 45 millionaires…
Mick
November 20th, 2010
1:48 pm
Southern Comfort
Those are the real patriots where the good of the country outweighs any material satisfaction. I, me mine…
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
1:48 pm
Big whoop, SoCo. As son as those pikers VOLUNTARILY start paying extra taxes, then they might mean something.
There is no law to stop them from cutting that extra check tomorrow.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
1:53 pm
Yeah, Mick, real patriots.
Urge others to force individuals to give up their money.
Doesn’t fit the definition of patriot in any dictionary.
Mick
November 20th, 2010
1:55 pm
dave r
C’mon man, you know too well that if you don’t capture everyone in that bracket it’s just pizzin the wind. Please explain your support for these fat cats, I just don’t get it?
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
1:57 pm
OH, and no surprise that 36 of the 45 come from Blue States on both coasts . . .
Mick
November 20th, 2010
1:59 pm
**Doesn’t fit the definition of patriot in any dictionary.**
So, what do you call it when wealthy people want to pay their share to lower the debt?
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
1:59 pm
Mick, my support for them is simple. They earned it, they should get to keep as much as they can.
Unlike most libs, I do not envy wealth, but rather celebrate it.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
2:02 pm
“So, what do you call it when wealthy people want to pay their share to lower the debt?”
I call it just talk, Mick. Unless you know of any of them that have sent a check into the U.S. Treasury voluntarily to pay down that debt.
Patriotism is a selfless act. Trying to get others to go along with your desires by using the force of government is not selfless,
Mick
November 20th, 2010
2:03 pm
**They earned it, they should get to keep as much as they can.**
I don’t have wealth envy. The more you make the more you can afford to pay, very simple. What you worship is the greed of those that just want more – how much is enough or rather where do you draw the line? Go ahead carry their water, someone has to do it.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
2:04 pm
And I know one other thing, Mick. You don’t ever raise taxes during a recovery/recession (depending on which side of the political persuasion you’re on).
Taxes may have to be raised eventually once appropriate measures are taken to cut spending first, but it is the last thing you do, not the first.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
2:10 pm
“What you worship is the greed of those that just want more – how much is enough or rather where do you draw the line?”
I worship nothing, Mick. I celebrate their success. There is nothing wrong with wanting more of what you have. There is nothing wrong with wanting more success, either. Do you think for one moment that most of the inventions of the past 200 years would have happened if the people inventing them didn’t think they’d be getting rich off them? Where would your precious progress be then, Mick?
When you decide what is enough for someone else, that is wealth envy. And you’re green with it.
Paulo977
November 20th, 2010
2:11 pm
Mary
Elizabeth
12:23 am
Thank you ..indeed indeed !!
It was also a great movie
Mick
November 20th, 2010
2:19 pm
**When you decide what is enough for someone else, that is wealth envy.**
Pretty simple formula here dave, the more income you make the more tax you pay, there’s still plenty left. Most inventions were born of curiosity not fortune and fame. It’s a great country, makes as much as you can but don’t tell me to lower your taxes….
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
2:26 pm
Here’s a simpler formula, Mick.
Everybody pays the same rate. No exceptions. What part of fair and equality do you not get about the founding principles of this nation? Oh, and . . .
“Most inventions were born of curiosity not fortune and fame.”
Not even close, Mick. Not even close.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
2:27 pm
Oh, and guess what? Nobody is LOWERING anybody’s taxes, Mick. The rates are in effect right now.
Any move to let them expire is RAISING taxes.
Jay
November 20th, 2010
2:41 pm
RW asks:
“Were you my Algebra teacher?”
No, RW. Preaching liberalism in Georgia is all the futility I can handle.
@@
November 20th, 2010
2:41 pm
Well, the Pope has broken the seal.
Pope approves use of condoms in fight against Aids
After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the pontiff will end the Catholic Church’s absolute ban on the use of condoms.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
2:46 pm
“Preaching liberalism is all the futility I can handle.”
There. Fixed your typo, Jay.
@@
November 20th, 2010
2:47 pm
CNN – Alan Duke – 9 hours ago
I have no idea who this publicist is, but
Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden asked journalists to keep “erroneous information, theories or speculation” out of their stories about the killing of a Hollywood publicist…
Good luck with that.
And which one of you Palin haters sent the white powder to the DWTS studio? Don’t you think that’s carrying your hatred for all things Palin a bit too far?
@@
November 20th, 2010
2:56 pm
‘Intactivists’ to San Francisco: Ban circumcision
Schofield and like-minded advocates who call themselves “intactivists” seek to make it “unlawful to circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis” of anyone 17 or younger in San Francisco.
“It’s up to the choice of the individual — not the parents, society or religion,” Schofield said. “This is a choice for body integrity. Just as females are protected from having a drop of blood drawn from their genitals, baby boys deserve the same protection.”
Intactivists also say:
– Circumcisions are not medically necessary and violate the child’s body.
– It requires a medical procedure, which carries risk of complications and pain.
– Foreskins are part of the natural body to help protect the penis.
People in Frisco have wa-a-ay too much idle time on their hands.
I wonder how he feels about abortions?
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
2:58 pm
Big whoop, SoCo. As son as those pikers VOLUNTARILY start paying extra taxes, then they might mean something.
Who’s to say that one, some or all of them don’t already do that? I don’t know them personally, so I can’t say that they do or don’t. I find it admirable that they would even go on record, publically, taking such a stance. If you look at the places where most of them reside, they represent everything from left-leaning to right-leaning states.
It makes me wonder, though, why you would refer to them as “pikers”? Why not just refer to them as millionaires, or even Americans? I see their effort as no different as the one that Gates and Buffet promote as far as giving to charity. I’m neither praising them nor castigating them. I simply asked if Jay had heard of that group. Being that Jay is the “All-Mighty Great Liberal Spinmeister” that many here accuse him of being, I thought that maybe he had heard of them and had an opinion on their effort.
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
3:01 pm
I’m glad to see that some of this nation’s wealthy appreciate the fact that they would not have that wealth without this nation in the form that it was in when they made their money and are therefore willing to pay a little to make sure it has a chance of staying that way. Of course, they could always set up shop in some place like Venezuela, etc., and have a go at it if they choose. By the way, that was also great work by our US government in getting all those crooks with their accounts at UBS to pay up. I saw that the IRS averaged about $200,000 from each of the thousands that came forward to settle up their past due tax bills. Now, I wish the FBI success in going after those on Wall Street that don’t like playing by the rules to get rich and then have the nerve to whine about paying taxes to boot. They make people like Al Capone look like honest and upright citizens.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:08 pm
“If you look at the places where most of them reside, they represent everything from left-leaning to right-leaning states.”
SoCo, you need new glasses. CA, NY, MA, DC, WA, OR. Those are NOT left leaning to right leaning states. They are as blue as blue can be. Have you ever looked at an electoral map?
And TaxCheat, I find that none of them are “willing” to pay more taxes. I find 45 urging the government to force 375,000 taxpayers to pay more. “Willing” would be if they have all cut a check for more than their existing tax bill to the U.S. Treasury.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:08 pm
First on the 5th!
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
3:15 pm
Poor Dave R. I personally cannot help but feel sorry for him.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
3:18 pm
No, RW. Preaching liberalism in Georgia is all the futility I can handle
Kind of like barking at the moon, which reminds me. We’re only one day away from the Full Beaver Moon.
@@
November 20th, 2010
3:19 pm
What’s stopping those 40 millionaires from sending the government more than the amount they’re taxed?
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
3:25 pm
What’s stopping those 40 millionaires from sending the government more than the amount they’re taxed?
The planned expiration of the Bush/Republican temporary tax cuts. Perhaps that can be resolved soon.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:26 pm
“I personally cannot help but feel sorry for him.”
As if I truly care . . .
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:28 pm
Despite the TaxCheat’s comment, @@, NOTHING is stopping them from sending any more money into the U.S. Treasury.
Their idea of equality only extends to what their peers are paying, not what they are “willing” to pay.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
3:30 pm
SoCo,
I might take that group’s letter a little more seriously if they weren’t so dishonest in the “things you should know” section. Anytime somebody spouts off those marginal tax rates without also giving you the effective tax rates it’s a deliberate effort to mislead.
Jay
November 20th, 2010
3:42 pm
I don’t know, RW. As I posted the other day, the effective tax rate for the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers — roughly those with annual incomes of 6 million or above — averaged 22 percent. And of course, most of that income — in some cases all of it — isn’t subject to payroll taxes.
I don’t know about you, but MY effective tax rate — payroll taxes included — is higher than that.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
3:49 pm
SoCo, you need new glasses. CA, NY, MA, DC, WA, OR. Those are NOT left leaning to right leaning states. They are as blue as blue can be. Have you ever looked at an electoral map?
No sir, you need to be complete in your assertion. You listed 5 states and DC, when there are 12 states and DC represented on that list. NY and CA make up the majority of that list, but you forgot OH, PA, WY, TX, and UT. That’s why I said, ” If you look at the places where most of them reside, they represent everything from left-leaning to right-leaning states.” The list is not all left leaning states, nor is it all right-leaning states. It’s a mixture of the two. And if you check the latest electoral map, it’s almost all red, as many of your conservative colleagues like to point out.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
3:52 pm
Jay B,
Then it would serve them better to post the effective tax rates, but you and I both know it wouldn’t look as drastic as those 68%, 91% and 70% numbers that they use to compare with the 35% number.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
3:53 pm
RW
I can understand your point. For someone like me, I wouldn’t know my effective tax rate from a hole in the ground.
Maybe it’s a ploy… Maybe it’s something to start a conversation… I just see it as a message different from what you hear from people who seem to know what the top 2% want or think. I’m not sure if those on the list would be top 2%, 5% or 10%, but I find it interesting.
Jay
November 20th, 2010
3:56 pm
Well, you’d have to compare today’s effective rates to the earlier effective tax rates, and I’m not sure what those were or how to find them. But looking at the tax tables, I don’t think they’re as low as you might suspect.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:56 pm
You, sir, need to understand the meaning of the term “where most of them reside”. Most of the PEOPLE on that site (36 out of 45 listed) reside in NY, CA, DC, WA, OR and MA. All true blue states. Every one of them. No exceptions.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:00 pm
Dave
Well pardon me… If you look at the ENTIRE list, they represent Left-leaning to Right-leaning states. Does that make you feel better???
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:02 pm
You could almost say most of them reside in CA as there are 19 out of 45. You could say most of the reside in CA and NY as they make up 30 out of 45…
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
4:05 pm
Either way, your implied “balance” between left and right-leaning states just isn’t there. Careful; you could be an opinion columnist with that kind of glossing over of facts.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
4:05 pm
Here’s the info for 1979 through 2006.
You’ll see that the effective overall rate barely changed even though there was some shifting to the higher brackets.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
4:09 pm
I don’t think they’re as low as you might suspect.
Jay B,
I’m not the one saying the numbers would be real low, that was you 3:42. What I’m saying is that I find it very hard to believe the effective rates would be anywhere as drastically different over time as posting the marginal rates makes them look.
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
4:18 pm
I prefer to pay what tax I am required to pay. I don’t know why anyone would suggest that people do otherwise. Why should they.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:19 pm
Dave
Can you point to where I said balanced? I was merely stating that there was not a monopoly of one side or the other. If it were not for my current job, I’d love to be an opinion writer/columnist. I see nothing wrong with their profession.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:51 pm
Dave
Reread your 4:05. There was meant to be no “implied balance” in my statement. I was trying to say that the states represented both sides of the political spectrum. For all I know, they could all be Liberal, or they could all be Conservative. If you took my statement to mean that I was implying balance, that was not my intentions.
Pogo
November 20th, 2010
5:05 pm
Tax increases would be a whole lot easier to accept if those that think that tax rates must be raised would also acknowledge that very painful spending cuts must occur. But there is never even discussion of this. Just raising taxes will not save this country and our way of life even if we modify our way of life to a much more modest level. Quite frankly we plain don’t have the tax base to support our wants anymore. The real tax base for supporting this country comes from the middle class and the middle class is dying. The trifecta of “Sacred Cows” (Medicare, SSN and Defense) must be addressed and they must be cut. The Obama Healthcare bill only increased the deficit spending and did nothing to alleviate the spending from medicare (except to make his cronies in the insurance industry richer). From my own personnal experience, we have a severe problem when a person can come into an emergency room with a medicaid card (state provided) who wants her son’s finger looked at because he is having trouble playing an electronic game (even while he is playing the game in the waiting room and his mother is talking on an I-Phone). We have lost control of the programs that we are spending trillions on and we must reign them in or we are finished. The government has proven again and again that it is not an efffective administrative organization. It is an excellent creator of programs but it cannot handle them once they are in existance and waste and abuse is rampant. If you want to see evidence of abuse of programs, go to the grocery and observe what people with foodstamps buy. It will make you sick.
@@
November 20th, 2010
5:34 pm
EV…rebody has an opinion.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 20th, 2010
5:47 pm
First saw this guy on “Top Gear”, on the BBC, which is about the best thing going, on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
6:07 pm
Tax increases would be a whole lot easier to accept if those that think that tax rates must be raised would also acknowledge that very painful spending cuts must occur. But there is never even discussion of this.
I agree with you on that. I don’t think any of the regulars here have said they wanted taxes to go up and not have any cuts in spending. I think there’s a consensus that it will take both of those to happen for us to gain solid fiscal footing. I’m just tired of the back and forth and wish congress would act now. Had they acted years ago along that path, our debt probably wouldn’t be nearly as high as it is now.
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
6:11 pm
Paulo977 @ 2:11
Glad you enjoyed the clip, Paulo. I suspected you might!
Every now and then, an exquisite “fairy tale” lifts the spirit. And, like all fairy tales, contains elemental truths.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 20th, 2010
6:48 pm
SoCo
Back in the early 70’s, Herman Talmadge used to tell us that deficits would ruin us. That was before all that money appeared in his overcoat, though.
@@
November 20th, 2010
7:01 pm
And, like all fairy tales, contains elemental truths.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales?
The Nazis loved the Brothers Grimm’s. Used them to teach racial purity, they did.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
7:09 pm
HD
I’m guessing his middle name was Deficit…
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
7:18 pm
That Glenn Beck! He’s a riot, isn’t he. I never took for a Marxist though. Til now, that is. Good show, Glenn! And those West Pointers! What were they thinking. Such shameful behavior.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 20th, 2010
7:36 pm
SoCo
It was the unexplained surplus that got him in trouble.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
7:51 pm
Mary Elizabeth…
Sorry about the wrong name earlier…have a Mary Katherine in the family!
@@
From earlier…no circumcision? How many mohels is that going to put out of work! ISH
The rest of y’all poor shmoes…just got back from a culinary trip around the world! Our International Dinner…some 400 or so folks there and everybody bringing in Mama’s kitchen’s specialties,,,talk about good eats and happy people…
@@
November 20th, 2010
8:25 pm
josef:
I don’t know, but this guy just got started.
Culinary career just didn’t cut it, so he became a mohel
Rabbi Moshe Trager was inspired to become a mohel after he witnessed an Israeli father, blade in hand, circumcising his own son. “Since that’s an actual commandment,” recalls Trager of the life-changing moment, “I thought that was the coolest thing I ever saw.”
So cool, he abandoned the restaurant career for which he had trained, apprenticed himself out to a venerated Jerusalem mohel and learned the ways of brit milah.
Fifteen years and 3,000 foreskins later, Trager, 45, has set up shop in Los Gatos, ready to perform the covenant as the Bay Area’s newest mohel.
So tell us…what did you eat at this “culinary” trip around the world…anything resembling a chewy chitlin?
(ISH)
@@
November 20th, 2010
8:31 pm
Anything that looked like THIS, josef?
Del
November 20th, 2010
8:34 pm
Doesn’t take off any inches when you’re younger. Don’t know if has anything to do when you’re old. oops, meant older.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:37 pm
@@
Not bad work if you can get it…good salary plus tips…
What did I have? No chewy chitlins! I had a taste of so many different things, I can’t recall them all. The one that stands out the most for my own taste was a side rice done by one of our Saudi parents…there was this flavor underneath that was so subtle…she didn’t know what it was called in English and said she would bring me some..I didn’t tell her how good it would go well with pork tenderloin!
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
8:38 pm
@@ 7:01 p,m,
Hi @@. Hope you are having a great weekend! “Elemental” includes evil, of course – the Robin Williams character in the movie. But – Lo and Behold – Good triumphed over Evil in the end! Same as with the Nazis, it seems!
If I may . . . Don’t analyze too much – just listen for the music all around us. It is, indeed, exquisite!
josef @ 7:51 p.m.
“A rose by any other name is still a rose” – or maybe just a thorn!
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:40 pm
@@
There was a really good purlow…so the black-eyed peas look familiar…the meat? Rule of thumb, if you can’t determine what it used to be, don’t eat it!
@@
November 20th, 2010
8:47 pm
Mary Elizabeth:
Certainly, you may.
josef:
Any hummus? That stuff is NASTY! Can’t abide the texture.
Even food has entered into the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
A student campaign at Princeton is calling for a boycott of Sabra hummus because the company that manufactures it provides Israel soldiers with care packages, the Daily Princetonian reports.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:51 pm
Mary Elizabeth…
I haven’t had the chance yet to go back an really read your most thoughtful comments. Please pardon the delay. Crepes and jambalya took precedence! As a thought, though, on the theme of music, food is right there with it. This Dinner is our annual put on a show event. To see people from all around the world sharing that most basic need and put together with such love…sappy? Perhaps, but if some of our mulligrubbers hereabouts could have shared that repast! And the music! Ah! One of the groups performing was a mariachi band made up of many of our former students including a Bengali violinist!
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:54 pm
@@
Hummus? Yep. Brought by a Lebanese Jew! I’m not very fond of it myself…but in the spirit of sharing, I had some…now her baklava? THAT I could do justice to!
Del
November 20th, 2010
8:57 pm
It seems that the only ones on the blog tonight are josef, @@, and Mary Elizabeth…far and away beyond my intellectual capabilities. Guess I’ll have to check out since the dumb crowd has taken the night off. I’m out…Taps
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
9:00 pm
DEL
Say what? It’s groceries, Man!
But, g’night anyway!
@@
November 20th, 2010
9:07 pm
Del:
…far and away beyond my intellectual capabilities.
Speaking only for myself, you’re wrong about ^^^ that.
Sleep well, Del.
@@
November 20th, 2010
9:08 pm
I am, however, a poet.
schnirt
G’nite.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
9:14 pm
g’night all…got a dirty kitchen with my name on it,,,
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
9:17 pm
Josef @ 8:51
“The Little One?” -heh? I will NEVER tell you my god awful nickname! It worked when I was a cute toddler with golden locks, but I lost it ASPS!
Yes, food is right there with music. Too bad I can’t enjoy food like I used to, unless I cared to weigh 200 lbs. Nevertheless, I remember it well! No problem with music though – thank God!
I want to recommend two movies to you – what is it with movies between us?
Anyway, one is a sleeper – a little avant garde – made in 1996 and starring Isabella Rossellini and Stanley Tucci called “Big Night.” The gist of the movie is that Louis Primer is coming to a dinner in a restaurant – to spur on business – and so an elaborate meal, of many courses, is cooked for him. The preparation itself was an act of love – not for Primer – but for the food itself and what it could be created to be – and I am sure for the communion possibilities with others through the food. (My dear Frenchborn husband exhibited a love in cooking when he sometimes created a dish at home. It was in his blood, I do believe.)
The other film is a recent Italian film starring Tilda Swinton, called “Lo sono l’amore” or “I am love.” Swinton’s character, long repressed, falls in love with the food dishes a man she is falling in love with prepares. It is an exquisitely filmed movie. Very little dialogue. Mostly images and some of pure delight. Including the food.
Well, goodbye for now – I want to watch my favorite British comedy on the telly.
And Josef – Please don’t fret about answering my earlier writings to you. If I hear from you in 6 months about them – that is fine – or never is ok, too
Carpe Diem, you know! Life is getting shorter all the time. Must prioritize!
Dusty
November 20th, 2010
9:38 pm
JOSEF, sounds like a wonderful evening. Did this event have anything to do with Villa International? I have a couple of friends who are very active over there. Just wondering. You can tell me tomorrow. Good luck on the kitchen!!
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
10:11 pm
got a dirty kitchen with my name on it,
You shoulda made all those folks cook in their own kitchens.
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
10:35 pm
Del @ 8:57 p,m.
All are worthy in their own special ways. Never shortsell yourself. Best to you.
Dusty
November 20th, 2010
10:55 pm
Come on, RW
Don’t be hard on Josef. I think he’s off in the kitchen taking Pepto Bismol. Those delicious items he mentioned are probably putting on their own international affair. Yes. Right down there .in the land of tummy turnups. But…. It WAS good (in the beginning)!!
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
9:01 am
If you’re on vacation or traveling thru Savannah, it would be wise to not get into fights with their canine officers…
For example…
http://www.ajc.com/news/man-wrestles-dog-dog-748764.html
How do you wrestle with a dog and end up with a black eye???
@@
November 21st, 2010
9:09 am
My contribution to the sports discussions:
“With Wade out, Heat fall to Grizzlies on Rudy Gay buzzer-beater”
What is a Gay buzzer-beater?
schnirt
CommonSenseisn'tveryCommon
November 21st, 2010
9:11 am
Southern Comfort
I’m guessing a mean right paw LOL.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 21st, 2010
9:16 am
@@
What is a Gay buzzer-beater?
Call the TSA maybe they can tell ya, LOL
Hope it doesn’t set off any alarms though
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
9:26 am
Well, that’s what the majority of the voters wanted. They should be happy.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
9:52 am
Common Sense
That’s what I was thinking. I would love to see training video of that dog.
jack bull
November 21st, 2010
9:53 am
well, i see that some of the peace loving left wing Democrats showed just how ‘peaceful’ they are with sending some type of ‘powder’ to the ABC studios in protest of Bristol Palin (who has so much power in the political world)… has anyone seen where any Tea-Partiers have done that?
and have we come up with the price of Obama’s last trip yet? i know he said he was going to be the most transparent President ever. that would fall into that whole ‘transparency’ thing wouldn’t it? i know he’d never lie to us…
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
9:59 am
But the idea of watching Republicans swear daily fealty to Jimmy Carter’s flag — this is something that people might pay to see.
Hey! A new source of revenue for Georgia. Thanks to Jim Galloway for pointing this one out.
@@
November 21st, 2010
10:27 am
The bodies of Tina Herrmann, 31, Stephanie Sprang, 41, and Kody Maynard, 11, were found Thursday afternoon in large plastic garbage bags, stuffed in a hollow tree.
If Hoffman is found guilty, they should stab him multiple times, then shove a tree up his bum.
Animal!!!!
Paulo977
November 21st, 2010
10:31 am
TaxPAyer @9:26am
Isn’t it what we voted for?..
Teachers suffer cuts etc etc etc!!! Fortunately for kids , in spite of all the abuse hurled at them, most teachers do their jobs diligently ; work after hours to ensure the kids needs are met, use their own money to provide resources in the classroom, endure conflict within themselves when requested by “unenlightened”bureaucrats to undertake anti-educational strategies…
Of course teachers need incomes to survive BUT it is my observation that what sustains them is the satisfaction they derive from being able to nurture and inspire the nation’s young!!
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
10:51 am
Paulo977,
I’ll agree that there exists both physical sustenance and mental sustenance however you can only have one of the two without the other, for very long, that is. Sacrifices will be made by some but not all. That is what the majority of the voters decided.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 21st, 2010
11:13 am
About a dozen of outgoing-Gov. Sonny Perdue’s staff, appointees and department heads have landed high-paying state jobs in recent months, and most received big raises to go with their new posts. AJC 11/21/2010
Well, maybe we could give the teachers 20 bucks or so to help them buy stuff for their students. That’s all I’m saying.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 21st, 2010
12:07 pm
Redneck Convert (R–and proud of it)@11:13 am
The sad thing is if you look at the jobs they are coming from and going to.
There doesn’t seem to be the same skillset needed in most. Sonny’s reward program is more like it.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
12:10 pm
There doesn’t seem to be the same skillset needed in most. Sonny’s reward program is more like it.
I saw that too. Although, I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt as it was stated in the article that they had the necessary qualifications to perform the jobs.
Paulo977
November 21st, 2010
12:22 pm
REWARD AND PUNISHMENT …… !!! Infects the whole school system!!
jt
November 21st, 2010
1:13 pm
Ha Ha.
Let us all laugh about a citizen beat up by state-costumed thugs.
Ha Ha. That is just soooo funny.
Left paw. Ha Ha.
How dare a citizen defend himself from a snarling dog. He deserved everything he got. Thank God our brave Policeman and Police dogs subdued this threat.
We really need Snarling police dogs patrolling EVERY neighborhood.
Ha Ha . toooo funny.
jt
November 21st, 2010
1:34 pm
Toooooooooo funny. Let’s get some more.———————-Left paw. Ha Ha.—————–These animals were effective in Poland and the Carribean Islands. Also the AntiBellum south———-They fit right in whereever there is a police state or warped culture………….
“Studies have shown that law enforcement dogs are disproportionately used in inner-city communities, which might also explain the high proportion of nonwhite individuals bitten by K-9 dogs. For those interested in reading more on this, there’s an excellent review in the New York Law School Journal of Human Rights by DU Rosenthal called “When K-9s Cause Chaos” (volume 11, pp. 279-310, 1994).
Besides racial concerns, the main area in which law enforcement’s use of K-9 dogs has been subject to scrutiny is allegations of excessive and unreasonable use of force. A review of the literature reveals only one suspect killed by a K-9 dog. In this case the courts concluded that because the K-9 dog was used appropriately, the incident did not constitute excessive, unreasonable, or deadly use of force.” Remember, if you are a black man getting mauled by a K-9, DO NOT fight back. You will be charged with resisting arrest or even assault upon a police officer.
@@
November 21st, 2010
3:27 pm
Police in Tallahassee, Fla., are desperately trying to unravel the horrible mystery of who killed a mother and her three young children in their home.
Autopsies were being performed today on the woman, her 6-year-old twin daughters and her 3-year-old son, who were found Saturday morning after a neighbor called the police.
“There are obvious signs of violence” in the house,…
When the person or persons, who committed this heinous act are found guilt….kill ‘em.
It’s obvious that the mother’s appeals for her children weren’t heard, so he/they aren’t entitled to one either.
@@
November 21st, 2010
3:40 pm
“Newsweek” done muthed up. Insulted Hindus.
http://www.coverjunkie.com/uploads/1289931572.jpg
GOD OF ALL THINGS
WHY THE MODERN PRESIDENCY MAY BE TOO MUCH FOR ONE PERSON TO HANDLE
Others have managed. Why not Obama?
RW-(the original)
November 21st, 2010
3:55 pm
WHY THE MODERN PRESIDENCY MAY BE TOO MUCH FOR ONE PERSON TO HANDLE
@@,
That’s what they used to say when Jimmy Carter was President too. I see a pattern.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
4:16 pm
jt
I’m guessing that your reading skills were acting up in the part of the story that said:
Matthew Tennyson Bosque, 30, was charged with obstruction, driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident Thursday night, after Savannah police with a K-9 dog chased him from a crash scene to an attic in a nearby house
Nevermind the accident that he caused while driving under the influence. Nevermind running from the police after causing the accident while under the influence. Have you stopped to think that maybe if the guy had not broken the law in the first place, he wouldn’t have had to deal with “state-costumed thugs”. It’s never about the law breaker, is it? For you, it’s always the fault of the men/women in uniform. I hope it wasn’t anyone in your family or circle of friends involved in the accident. I also hope you’re never the victim of such an incident.
Dusty
November 21st, 2010
4:25 pm
I’m thinking about those state employees getting new jobs with a raise. Would you take a new job without a raise? Well, this is not the time to ask THAT question but it was customary at one time. Besides, how have these people taken on new jobs when the governor elect is now considering what and with whom he wants to govern? He hasn’t even been sworn in.
I think Perdue was giving farewell raises. Surely some of these people will not be part of Deal”s administration. If I were to get a $ raise and then get removed (fired) in a month or two, I would not think much of that “reward”. .
Could it be that DEMOCRATS are giving Perdue his final whacks while setting up Deal for a beating? Of course not!! Never!! Wouldn’! happen!! Yeah…uh huh…Not the AJC!! oooooooooo
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
4:42 pm
Could it be that DEMOCRATS are giving Perdue his final whacks while setting up Deal for a beating? Of course not!! Never!! Wouldn’! happen!!
It is the outgoing Republicans giving one last finger to the voters that put them in office. They’re saying loud and clear that they’re not the ones that will be doing the sacrificing. But the majority of the voters are good with that and that’s the way it is. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 21st, 2010
5:13 pm
It’s sad when the majority of state employees have not had raises in a while that some of the raises amounted to a years salary for some other state employees.
RW-(the original)
November 21st, 2010
5:55 pm
Far be it from me to defend bloated government and bloated government salaries, but there’s a throwaway sentence in the middle of that “raise” story that warrants a better look.
Perdue officials said many of those who took the new jobs are making less than their predecessors
That might well mean this whole thing is a net savings to the tax payers, but I guess reporting fully on that part of the story wouldn’t serve the same purpose as portraying moves to different positions as raises.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 21st, 2010
6:14 pm
Would you take a new job without a raise?
There’ve been times when I quit a job and took another making quite a bit less, just because I hated the job I had. Admittedly, I march to the beat of a drummer that only I can hear.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
6:30 pm
There’ve been times when I quit a job and took another making quite a bit less, just because I hated the job I had. Admittedly, I march to the beat of a drummer that only I can hear.
The ONLY time I’ve started a new job without taking a pay cut is when I took my current job. It wasn’t that hard of a thing to do as TSA doesn’t pay regular screeners much of a salary to start with.
Dusty
November 21st, 2010
7:21 pm
That’s just it, HillBilly,
You don’t leave a job you like unless there is a good raise in pay for the change.. You left a job you did not like for less pay. . That’s understandable if one can afford it.
Kamchak
November 21st, 2010
7:37 pm
There’ve been times when I quit a job and took another making quite a bit less, just because I hated the job I had.
Sometimes “the devil you don’t know” is the correct choice.
Dusty
November 21st, 2010
7:43 pm
RW @ 5:55
Are you trying to upset the Demo applecart? They are just trying to give Perdue their last love pats. You know: “Perdue gave raises! Perdue gave raises!!” (Supposed to mean:…Perdue is an extravagant no-good Republcan governor!)
Then you come along and tell the world that even with raises Perdue’s people are making less than their predecessors. How about that!! Doncha know you are supposed to say something like “How sad! Barnes never did that!”
Now repent, RW. You done did big wrong to these fair minded liberals, poor thangs,,,,…
@@
November 21st, 2010
8:01 pm
HEY! Something for the left-wingers to celebrate.
Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, widely blamed as the chief cause of global warming, dropped from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, according to a study released Sunday. It was the first decline since the late 1990s.–USAToday
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 21st, 2010
8:20 pm
Sonny might get a little more benefit of the doubt, if not for Oakey Woods, the $100K personal tax break, etc.
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
9:25 pm
If someone with no experience takes over a new job that had been vacated by someone that had been in that job for say twenty years before retiring, then proclaiming that the new person is making less than the retired person is not exactly a revelation. Also, if that vacated job was proclaimed to be left vacated due to attrition and to save money for us taxpayers only to be filled by the good old boys, I don’t see that as falling in line with the Republican mantra of smaller government. Looks more like back scratching at the taxpayer’s expense to me. It also looks a little hypocritical. Or perhaps that should be a lot hypocritical given that folks like teachers have been called on over and over to bite the bullet and do without at the expense of our children’s educations. So, blah blah blah. Make more excuses for the Republicans. I’m certainly used to hearing it.
USinUK
November 22nd, 2010
6:49 am
Good morning, Jay –
Sigh No More is definitely one of the best albums I bought in 2010 – and they put on one helluva show!!
great monday morning music
Normal
November 22nd, 2010
7:11 am
Good Monday morning all y’all…
I remember…
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-assassinated
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2010
7:32 am
Mornin’.
Normal @ 7.11, some remember; some continue to advance what they believe to be the truth. See also:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1728187/North.Texas/New.Controversy.In.Dealey.Plaza
(I’ve been to the sixth floor in Dallas. I think Oswald certainly could have performed the deed from there, and likely was the only shooter. But was he part of something much bigger? Given what happened during his perp walk, we’ll never really know for certain, I guess.)
Normal
November 22nd, 2010
7:57 am
Stands,
I’ll be going to Dallas sometime after the first of the year and I’m going to check out the Plaza myself. Given that the trees have had 47 years to grow I might not be able to see much, but as an old Navy shooter, I want to check it out. I agree that Oswald could have done it, but a downhill target moving away from you is a hard target to hit and something you really couldn’t calibrate your scope for or practice shoot. Oswald was either a true Daniea Boone, or he wasn’t the only shooter.
But I will admit that with all of the theories out there, none seem to fit.
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Did you see the “Manchurian Candidate” theory about Sirhan Sirhan being brained washed to perform the assassination? Pretty good…
But again, we will never know….
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November 22nd, 2010
7:58 am
Daniea…Daniels sister and a better shot…