A little holiday travelin’ dance number

“When he gets in the ocean, the water rises”

Now we know where global warming is coming from. Dern it….

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Merry *bleeping* Christmas, y’all! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-qkL8ydEe0

(Don’t say I disrespected your whiny, victim-card-playing conservo-droid hypocritical behinds by wishing you “Happy Holidays.”)

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Thanx4ruiningXmas,bookman

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BOOKMAN!!!!

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HD, loved that. Slow and sweet…

I try to play myself off as some sort of rockin’ sophisticate, but apparently, at heart, I’m just a country cornball (of sorts) and a big time bubble gummer…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzQjoXlEh1M&feature=related

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…and another…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAoH8w_GCk

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have to admit I’m a bit of a traditionalist this time of year and have a warm feeling for the home…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWkNxn3duA

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More Christmas bubble gum…(and bells!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHsA1bMZUvM

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In honor of the troops that will spend another Christmas away from home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dlsk7tshPg&feature=related

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You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_TWNRy7SU&playnext=1&list=PL2D402390DDEA6F46&index=4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym62kKIydo8&feature=related

I’m outta here……….. gonna take the freeway down…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKKgOvf0VkY

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md@5:22pm Iknow …

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When A Child Is Born

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjWzy12xlE

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A week too early, but I won’t be around next week…………….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEgCr92LWos&feature=related

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Howdy gang–I couldn’t resist jumping in after I saw that DDR was in the house.

I can’t think of many other songs that get my feet moving more than this one. For our own “Hot Chocolate”, DDR, from the Temps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osPx7TZGmr0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnUFHMx2jgk

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One for josef:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiIBwu2mjs0&feature=related

Nice to have the whole bog band together!!

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Hey Bruno!! Happy Holidays!! Thanks for the song, you can never go wrong with the Temptations!

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md, wherever you’re headed next week, best wishes…

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Catching up from earlier, HD put up some solid numbers as usual. I didn’t catch on that the theme was Christmas songs, not dancing music. Sorry, guys.

I played this one last year for USinUK and she really liked it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6f7CZgmZ8

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B, so you think you can just show up and start killing it with some REALLY sweet Pretenders?!

Well………….you can.

Thanks, buddy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GaP6Wt57To

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Oops, wrong XTC song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz_p8344Ho8&feature=related

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Off Topic

Kerry Woods is coming back to the Cubs for 1 year, at $1.5 million. Maybe he’ll stay healthy and have a good year. Makes more sense than some of the other signings we’ve seen lately.

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“md, wherever you’re headed next week, best wishes…”

Thanks Am………just heading to the airport to pick up the kids, will be around but busy with family.

So, for those other Dad’s with “little girls” coming home for Christmas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCenNVE1ZI&feature=more_related

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When it comes to traditional Christmas songs, this one is hard to beat. I remember Grandma teaching us to sing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQr81k3TSk

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HD: She is singing in Gaelic. My Mom could speak some Gaelic but not much.

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md, even better. Make them travel! If there is a loving home, it matters not where we gather.

HD, speaking of dominant Cubs pitchers, the year that Mark Prior collided with Braves second sacker Marcus Giles, I had them both on my fantasy baseball team. And both went on the DL.

If it weren’t for bad luck…

I’m glad to see Woods back at Wrigley though.

Woo Hoo! I’m stoked. I ordered a Dan Fogelberg CD for a dear friend and thought, hey I’ve been a good boy this year (well, kinda) and dammit, Janet, I’m getting one for me too!

A must have for all DF fans – Something old, Something new, Something borrowed and Sometimes the blues

He wrote this when he was 18…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGYSXLi7rOI

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HD, I’d like one of those Celtic women for Christmas! But Lord knows, I haven’t been that good!

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Is that Granny dancing the jig about healthcare getting passed?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4mfpIM7qM&feature=related

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And, who can forget this one?

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Our own beloved Aretha from Bill Clinton’s inauguration

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HD @7:27, it figures.

The Yanks resigned Rivera, so it s looks as if he’ll be one of those baseball rarities. A HOFer who spent his entire career in one uniform…

Its sure been a cold, cold winter…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frt_f0eP_Hs

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Amvet: that (Winter) has always been one of my favorits RS songs. Along with “Waiting for a Friend.” Got that?

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Oh, I seem to recall Vanessa becoming a little loose back there in the past…

As the late Lewis Grizzard said, in this very paper, “Where I come from, 19 years old is plenty old enough to know, you don’t let people take pictures of you, with your britches off.”

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Amvet: “And a lot of loves have all burnt out.”

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Then there’s this one. Wish some of our politicians would listen to it….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPN4gXBL1JA

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Jay

Just tell them we follow the example of the BlogMaster -

“And my elder daughter demands final custody of the evidence.” Tell her she’s welcome to the box!

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Sooth

That’s NATIONS not tribes! You might like this one… the first one is significant, but

given your appreciation of gospel…go over to 4:08…be sure and check out the lil feller in the orange shirt over on the right! Our common Gr-at Sp-rit at work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAt29_BW8jM

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Sooth, I believe there is a scene in The Simpsons where Homer ponders whether 1972 or 1973 is the best year for music ever, and I was trying to find it, but stumble across this instead…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE&feature=fvw

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Jonix: How right you are! Along with the Creek, the Ocmulgee, the Sawnee (pronounced Shawnee), help me out!

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8:01
8:01

I was listening to a guy sing, thought “I wish I could sing like that.” Then the thought entered my mind, “be grateful you have ears to hear a voice like that.” As it is, I’ve a son who has a voice like that 8:01.

Kids – miracles never cease -

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josef nix 7:18

Quite amazing, that -

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Hillbilly
@ 8:11

THANKS! That lil feller’s got the Sp-rit, too, don’t he…!! That put a big ole smile on my face!

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It’s not a song, but it’s the spirit of the season.

http://tinyurl.com/2b9yre7

Some senior officers were quite upset. The killing stopped for days.

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Et joyeux noel a tous mes amis ici…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpdPDewdkE&feature=related

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A nice take on a classic. I like watching the backup singers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgGcrvApljY

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Go to church/synagogue/temple/cathedral and give generously

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AmVet

I was a kid in SoCal when they started. Did you know Carl Wilson was only 15 when the Beachboys started?

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For Christmas

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Soothsayer

Nice organ music – thanks.

josef nix

to your first post: I’ve always been partial to this group’s rendition-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BWhvIlFVE

Pleasant weekend, all -

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and for Sister Cinthia…from your neighbors here in Atlanta…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9dOl69QXE

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HD: Sonya Isaacs is an angel sent down from God to sing to us!

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Debbie@7:29, that was really powerful…if you’re not moved by that rendition of “Go Tell It On The Mountain” you have nothing. Thanks for sharing.

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I love Sonya Isaacs! Too bad she’s married!

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just wondering….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Ql4p5ikno

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Oh! Come! Angel Band. Bear me away on your snow white wings to my immortal home!A Stanley Brothers favorite!

The truth that we all must face.

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HD: I’ve never seen them in person. I would certainly like to though.

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Holy Cow!

That finale from Paul gets my vote as the best, so far.

Wishing all the best to the MIA getalife…

Crystal world with winter flowers
Turns my day to frozen hours
Lying snowblind in the sun
Will my ice age ever come?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHFxo0_pJs

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Amvet: thanks again for posting that RS song! That was the chink I needed in my armor right about now!

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Soothsayer, You’re quite welcome…thank you for yours.

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Never forget the original. A little soul food! Thanks HD, I certainly will!

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y de nuestros amigos latinos… y gracias a ti, Jose, por todo que nos has dado…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o&feature=related

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Jonix: how many languages are you fluent in?

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Amvet: Always receptive to a little rastafarian message. Now, alas! It’s time to warm the old feet by the hot woodstove! Guten naben! all! Angenehm Träumen! (Pleasant dreams)

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Amvet, I know…this is great and tears of joy have come to my eyes. Merry Christmas y’all.

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josef @ 9:51′

Great version. That song appears to be a lot older than I thought.

http://homeschoolblogger.com/hymnstudies/585533/

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Hillbilly

THANKS a million…I’ll be coming back to that link…

When it comes to who I am and how I relate. I come from many perspectives and especially in my love of music…but when it comes right down to it, my true “soul” music is now, and has been as long as I can remember, bluegrass gospel…it touches something deep inside me that goes beyond mere words…

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Josef

I understand exactly what you mean. I’ve always loved most every type of music and listen to all kinds of stuff. As much as I enjoy it all, to me it’s music, except for bluegrass and bluegrass gospel, especially. It’s why I don’t care for some of the younger bluegrass acts. As talented as they are, and as well as they play, it’s music to them. Granted they like and often love the music and playing it but they don’t truly understand where it comes from. I think you have to be born with it. It’s about more than music, it’s about where we come from and our way of life.

The other type of music, that I would say holds that same special place for a large group of people, is the blues. I think bluegrass and the blues are very similar in what they represent for the people who grew up in the life that produced them.

It’s too late at night to be gettin’ that deep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvvAIEA2C0&feature=related

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One more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDPo32DwbI

Nite all.

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Goodnight, HillBilly, you songsinger of the mountain.

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I was wondering earlier where this would go tonight. It went some interesting places…thanks, as alwas of a Friday, for sharing,,,,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEQxEJ5_5zA

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All you lucky people still in bed…I’m at work…bummer. Good day for it thpough.

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This is one of our favorites, the video is kind of bad, but it’s a great one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0akBW4BYTU

I wasn’t around last night, so I don’t know if it’s been posted, but it’s Jimmy Fallon and others doing “I Wish it was Christmas Today” on SNL

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dang. just heard about Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart.)

story link:

http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/12/17/captain-beefheart-dies/

thanks for the video, RW. Guess I’ll have to haul out my Trout Mask Replica double-lp and torture my housemates for awhile…

and I think it’s safe to say that after they made the Captain, they broke the mold.

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Josef
Was your Christmas party in school as entertaining as this one at a Japanese K?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAU1DhHH87s&feature=related

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A little something for college football fans. They should make one of these for quite a few of the different schools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Y7yjxJVlc

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Taking a lunch break and read this…

http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2010/cable-news/study-fox-news-viewers-misunderstand-issues-more-than-others/?cmpid=FCST_tvnews

Proof that AmVet knows….

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So now that the House has passed DADT as a standalone bill and the Senate has gotten cloture on a standalone it should be repealed by about 3:30 this afternoon. I hope they learned a lesson about trying to sneak things through by hiding them in other bills, but this being Congress I doubt it.

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I hope they learned a lesson about trying to sneak things through by hiding them in other bills, but this being Congress I doubt it.

Were I a betting man, I’d bet they didn’t.

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Awww I am so far behind on my Christmas “planning”. Got off a few Christmas cards and now……..where’s the tree??? the ribbons! the candles?? I need some encouragement.

Let us ALL sing together “I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS. I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Thank you. Very good. Somebody was off key but that’s OK. I feel much better. Now to get my Cavalier warmed up (that’s my car, silly). When I get back, you can come help me decorate the tree. No drunks allowed though. But the rest of you can come..Bring some mistletoe. .Bye…..

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Today is December 18.

BONER, WHERE ARE THE JOBS CREATED FROM THE BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY?

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These people have way too much free time on their hands. Then again, maybe they had too much free time.

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Fox News viewers are much more likely than others to believe false information about American politics, a new study concludes.

Wow. I’ll bet FOX is really upset that they cannot attract a higher quality viewing audience than that! I’d even suspect that their upper management is fairly unbalanced regarding these findings. In fact FOX management likely thinks that heads should roll. Perhaps the University of Maryland should hire extra security details.

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I will even go so far as to venture a WAG that select FOX viewers might post disparaging comments regarding this University of Maryland study.

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Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test

Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden

Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.

http://www.zogby.com/news/wf-dfs.pdf

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What’s a day without a liberal whining and self-defecating about FoxNews. Yawn. Streeeeetttch…{crack}.

Meanwhile back in the real world where real problems are, we have this – oh and FoxNews has reported about it:

“WASHINGTON (AP) — About 13.4 million taxpayers may be getting unexpected tax bills because they were awarded too much money under President Barack Obama’s Making Work Pay tax credit, a government audit said Thursday.”

Wow. Looks like a lot of people are going to have to eBay their Christmas gift cards to pay their Obamataxes. That sucks.

And the guest list of the Congressional signing of the tax bill had a few no-shows. This is priceless:

“While Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky were at the signing ceremony, missing from the guest list were Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The Democratic leaders were invited, but had scheduling conflicts, aides said.”

Suuuuure they had scheduling conflicts. Those are the same two liberal yahoos who didn’t even read the 2009 stimulus bill or Obamacare bill. And on to other weekend news…..

“Coldest December since records began as temperatures plummet to minus 10C bringing travel chaos across Britain”

Must be that pesky man-made global warming again…..

“Snub for Obamas as Royal sources reveal they will not be invited to Prince William’s wedding”

What, did Michelle ‘O demand lobster be served at the reception or something?

“Obama reads his children’s book to 2nd graders”

Nothing like indoctrinating future mindless government living liberals. Finally for now, I thought liberals told we idiotic FoxNews viewers that there was no war on Christmas? Yep, you guessed it, CNN and PMSNBC did not report this news:

“STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Christ is out of Christmas at the St. George Ferry Terminal. In what Catholics see as political correctness run amok, the city Department of Transportation (DOT) has removed a Nativity scene from the terminal, with an agency spokesman saying that the display was not authorized to be there.”

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Del, RW
Relative to article 126 of the UCMJ…will this be dealt with in the 60 day implementation phase?

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What’s a day without a liberal whining and self-defecating

Maybe it was a big one. And what’s this about only liberals doing that task on their own. Do others actually have someone else do it for them. That’s too weird for words.

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josef:

Article 126? Lighting a fire is against code.

Article 125 however?

Don’t ask ’cause I dunno.

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November employment numbers stank and Obama is beginning to look really, really bad. You can (and should) blame Reid and Pelosi but afterall, as the famous sign said, “The Buck Stops Here” and Obama can’t hide from the decisons he has made up to this point. It is encouraging that he has foresaken his base through his support of the Bush tax cut extension in a trade for his own political expendiency (his re-election) though. Sometime it takes an ideological “traitor” to do good for the whole. If he is smart, he will continue his move to the center because if he continues to listen to the loonies on the left his legacy will make Jimmy Carter look like Abraham Lincoln. By supporting the extension of the tax cuts, the Progressives have been sold out by their “Most Illustrious Leader” (in the words of the North Koreans) and I have no problem with that as long as he does things for the good of the country, not just for the good of his progressive ideology and his socialist base. Obama only cares about Obama and he proved it with his support of extension of the tax cuts. Unlike his dumb@$$ congressional leadership, he understood that the November elections were a dire warning against the progressive path that he, Reid and Pelosi had been on and the un-ending deficit spending that that entailed. On the other hand, he knows he will always have the mindless support of his “base” (blacks and leftists) no matter what, because he IS BLACK. Just having those two unwavering camps in his corner accounts for about 35%% of the voting public. His main problem will be convincing the other 65%, who are not progressive or liberal (inter-changeable terms), to vote for him. Judging by his conduct in the first two years of his presidency, I don’t think that will be enough in 2012. Of course, he may continue to move the center and he may have a chance at being a good leader by performing that great balancing act of “not too much this, not too much that”. I don’t hold out much hope of that though because he is a dyed in the wool progressive who I think is in-capable of change. I predicted a year ago on this blog that he would either have to move to the center or his presidency would be an unsavory footnote in American history and he would definitely be a one termer. I think he will be a one termer.

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Congratulations josef, don’t ask don’t tell is no more.

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TaxPayer, maybe you need to re-read my comment again: “What’s a day without liberals whining and self-defecating over FoxNews.” Please don’t sell your veined argument short by cutting my quote short.

Anyway, how many liberals know that their hero, Bill Clinton, was the one that signed DADT into law in the first place in 1993? Bet not many – not even those Obama voting Demwits in the video I posted at 4:25. I only say that because all they do is refer to Republicans about it (yeah that’s “cons” to you mindless Obama voters).

Geeze. Liberals are miserable. They were miserable for 8 years under Bush, they were miserable during Pelosi’s reign, and they continue to be miserable with Obama entering his 3rd year in office (hopefully his next to last year in office). It must suck to live life in such a negative mannerism.

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Oh and one other thing josef, if by chance you happen to bump into Jimmy Carter while traveling in the liberal political circles, do inform him the nation has already elected a gay President or at least a bisexual male President, correctly speaking.

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Michael…
By my reckoning, there were two…one succeeding the other at a crucial time in American history…and neither one was worth a you know what in my opinion…judging from past experience, it might not be such a good idea to elect one of us POTUS!

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common sense

First F*ggot or First D*ke?

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@Pogo

Wonder how you make the determination that blacks and leftists are mindless?
I do believe many of us that fit into that category that you made for us realize the so-called conservatives do not have a mind, eyes or ears. They do not have the ability to think, see or hear anything that is factual, or, did not come from the Repubs talking points. Care to refute?

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AmVet

“What a capricious and duplicitous lot…”

You sound like Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”!!

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josef,

The Washington Post has a pretty good story on how this will work. It’s certainly more informative than the misleading headline here at the AJC that last time I checked the link to you to internet oblivion.

However it has about 57 shades of gray.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/18/AR2010121801729.html?hpid=topnews

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to you to ?

takes you to…that’s better.

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Whoops! No comment except to say:

The WaPo piece makes it sound like they’ve put a layered-up mannequin in the window for public viewing. The nekkid truth is yet to be revealed.

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Well, according to jay’s left-wingers, all the conservatives here watch FOX News so therefore, we’re all a bunch of homophobes…says AmVet.

Well, shame on all jay’s left-wingers for saying such a thing and especially shame on AmVet! How could you, Dude. I’m aghast, I tell you. Shocked. Awed. I might have to go back through the posts and find those statements and save them for posterity’s sake. Then again, perhaps @@ would save the trouble and just provide me the links.

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one for each of the states?

Now, now, josef

There was no stopping him at 57. He had been to 57 with one to go and two that his staff wouldn’t let him go to. That’s 60 and the two were Alaska and Hawaii so if they really were boycotting Michigan and Florida we may have gotten up to 62 states at his high water mark.

I think we’re down to 51 now. The commonly recognized 50 and Afghanistan.

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@@,

Where were those posts that you described.

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RW

The commonly accepted 50 and Afghanistan…did Israel seceed?

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did Israel seceed

They did from Obama’s America, but they’ll be rejoining in a couple years.

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Taxpayer:

I’m not gonna play your silly little game.

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“grandfather clause” That was funny!!!

Great day for me and a lot of others. I love this uniform!!! Now when other people talk about relationships, I dont have to play the pronoun game.

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RW

Well, maybe…but that’s going to require us to admit we need them more than they need us in certain arenas…and I’m with you on that spelling thingie…

AmVet
Heretic that I am, I have never been much of a Williams fan. There’s just too much angst there and the self-censorship that went into his writing bespeaks a not very happy time in the gay reality…

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T

Was waiting to hear from you…just don’t go popping the bubbly cork yet…discretion is still the greater part of valor…

common sense..
Grandfathers of the world, unite! Fight back and smash the puerile oppressors!

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“Heretic that I am, I have never been much of a Williams fan.”

Like several other southern writers for me. Though there are numerous ones that I love…

A good op-ed that speaks to a topic I am interested in – how the quality of education varies widely in this country due to economic injustice…

These facets of inequity in America’s public schools have robbed students of their right to an equal, quality education. As a result, there is a disparity in academic performance that falls along economic and racial lines. For too many students in America, education is not the great equalizer, as it is purported to be.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/17/honda.education/index.html?hpt=T2

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Point. Did I make a point. Nah. I was merely asking questions, though possibly of a rhetorical nature.

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Would it be better of me to ask, with the pending repeal of DADT, will the military be asking potential recruits if they are heterosexual.

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AmVet

Southerners, Jews and the Irish…without them, what would modern English literature be? And each has its angst riddled gay greats just to make sure you want to slit your wrists after plodding through!
But, like you say…then there are those others amongst them!

I saw a quote the other day that went something like “the Jews and the Irish are not ethnics so much as a psychosis.” I think we could probably add Southerners to that club…

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the Southern accent…

Yep. That’s why I hold onto and cultivate mine with a vengence…

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Dagnabbit! Post got thrown into moderation. I’ll try again.

Taxpayer:

Alright, have it your way.

TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
9:03 am

Fortunately, I cannot become tainted by Rupert’s opinion shows since I do not watch them. Apparently, there are many right-wingers here that worship at Beck’s (Rupert’s) feet though. Good for them

Many right-wingers here that worship Rupert’s feet!!??!!

Rupert Murdoch, media mogul. Among his outlets? FOX Network.

How does THAT shoe fit? A bit tight is it?

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Testing.

If the foo sh*ts?

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Oh!!!! Asterisks are my friend.

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Josef,

I know. A battle was won, but the war might not be over.

A fun fact!!! My entire command in Afghanistan knew I am gay. Along with other soldiers. No one really cares. We are good at our jobs. Can’t wait till this is not an issue.

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With all that to choose from, and Hollywood/television still can’t get it right!

Ain’t that the truth? I’d just as soon they speak in their normal accent, as to try it and screw it up. I have several pet peeves. One is that the word y’all is ALWAYS plural, never singular. Another is when they are doing a story in an upcountry location and the actors are trying to use lowcountry accents. If you’re going to mangle it, at least mangle the right one.

I actually thought Ralph Waite on the Waltons did a pretty good job. He didn’t try to copy everything but he did get the spirit of it right, I thought. I think maybe he understood that it’s better to do it that way. Even though he didn’t really sound like somebody from the mountains of Virginia, he did get the rhythm and the feel of it fairly well.

On the bright side though, friends in other parts of the country tell me that Hollywood never gets their area right, either. That even includes New York City. Could it be that Hollywood is so self absorbed it never listens to any of the rest of us?

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Taxpayer:

I didn’t bother to read your 8:12. Go pester someone else.

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Sense, @7:35, yes, but in my lifetime, I’ve seen that change a lot. I’ve spent much of my adult life in Dixie and I know, that like everywhere else, the stereotypes aren’t usually accurate.

Do you remember that girl character in Saturday Night Fever who hated her accent and felt like the “better” people in Manhattan thought less of her?

It’s not unique to here and to some extent or another, it probably won’t ever go away.

jonix, alas, I’ve not yet made it to the Emerald Isle. But I drank my share of Guinness in the day!

I understand about indecision…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaR2JeqxQDY

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TaxPayer@8:12 pm

My Gawd – Taxpayer is one of them.

I have found a way to make the southern accent work fo rme.

In any of the interviews I get (since I am up against cheap H1b workers not as plentiful as they once were)
If I am in the south and the intervieweris from the south I start with a soft southernese. Then after I find out their interests I might drop a few harder southernism’s on them.

More interest in good ol boys in the south than the rednecks from up north. LOL

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@@

I know some people in Free Home but that’s the first I’ve ever heard of that guy. There used to be a mule barn over that way. Not sure if it’s still there or not. Ain’t been down that way in years.

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I think the one that truly sends me into orbit is the use of that ersatz Southern accent to establish the evil and or ignorant nature of the character….

I may have said it before, but Sissy Spacek won me for good when she played her character in the film “Missing” using her native accent and at no point in the film was being Southern even mentioned…

and then there’s this… Mel Blanc…a genius!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptXEVbBLPDM&feature=related

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I don’t like slanties. They’re persistent little buggers.

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I like the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons………but they did use y’all in the singular.

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And the heroes of the Moron Belt’s American Talibaptists.

And you dolts wonder why you keep getting humiliated every other November

That one was from March ‘09.

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The lefts fear of Fox News is always humorous. Let’s see…you have Shlepturd Smith with two hour slots in the pm. Geraldo Riveria (who makes me almost vomit), Greta VanSustren, Bob Bechle, Ratner and several other left wing guests and contributors. So the far-left lemmings who’ve been indoctrinated by their teachers continue this stupid rant against a news organization that doesn’t spin their party line.

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Hillbilly

Yeah, they did and it grated on my nerves…

RW
So, what ya got against a little revisionism?

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josef

How ’bout Mama’s Family on Carol Burnett? I felt like I was watching my kin folks on that one.
The way they could turn any little thing into a knock down drag out. That was us, growing up.

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My ex brother-in-law says “you-uns” and “we-uns”…no y’all. He’s from Sylva, N.C..

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRTSAG2LTQ

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Hillbilly

That was one of the funniest things ever put on tee-vee and it operated at so many different levels…Carol Burnett was born in Texas and based those characters on her real family…

Did you ever happen to catch any of “Sordid Lives…” either the movies or the series? Talk about having us down pat!

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My ex brother-in-law says “you-uns” and “we-uns”…no y’all. He’s from Sylva, N.C..

I don’t say we-uns but I say you’ns (it’s pronounced like all one word, comes out more like yuns) a whole lot more than I say y’all. That goes back to Scotland, you know.

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like all one word

Probably didn’t pick up on that. I still say “you guys”. Not to be confused with “yous guys”.

If California has a dialect, it’s undetected. Kinda bland really.

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josef

I never saw Sordid Lives but looking at a couple of clips, it looks like it was pretty funny.

I liked one exchange, where one character, tells another that she’s in therapy and he says, “Well, it ain’t a-working”. Delivered perfectly dry, just like it would be in the real world.

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Y’all have a great evening…watch a movie with my Mrs. and then Taps.

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Hillbilly
That GPS! One of my favorite things to do when I get one of those voice reading recording type thingies is to make sure I do my best drawl and then “hold on and an operator…” Some of the operators get plumb snippy when I ask them if anybody there speaks English!

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josef,

This may explain a little bit of it

During 1936, Parker Brothers marketed six different versions of the Monopoly game, ranging in price from $2 to $25 ($325 today!). This most expensive set came with a wood game board and a brass-handled chest lined with trays that held the game’s components, including Bakelite houses and hotels and metal coins for added money.25 When the Parker Brothers accountants closed the books on 1936, 1,810,000 copies of all editions had been sold and the firm had earned an unprecedented $1,000,000 profit

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Oh! When my minister first referred to “his trainers”, my response was “And here I’ve been thinking you were potty trained as a toddler.”

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What are we gonna do about this dead goat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsA-nl6tyuw

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I AM the HOSTESS with the MOSTEST!

I fall short when it comes to southern hospitality.

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@@,

You being a California girl I’d think you’d start with the wine list. Course that does defeat the nonalcoholic part of the question in most cases.

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Whomper-jawed and catty wampus are similar but not necessarily interchangeable, in our world. I can’t tell you the difference but I know it when I see it.

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Hillbilly:

I always understood catty (’scuse the misspelling) wampus to be askew…off center…out of sorts.

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Things vary from place to place but this is a pretty decent representation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iwAY4KlIU&feature=related

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Kamchak, that was funny! Self-deprecation isn’t lost on all of us.

It would be OK by me if she tried to argue any point I made in that post; but no, she just misquotes me.

I’ve tried to ignore this, and such other unfortunate “habits” of hers.

Repeatedly. For weeks on end. Hell, for years now.

Yet invariably…

And Bruno had her and RW pegged real early on.

Sorry, gang.

What a great evening. The almost full moon is fabulous. What a wonderful season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUbNYBe3Vas

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Deep Sunday Thought:

When I read AmVet and RW going at it like the old married couple they appear to have become, I start thinking about an exit strategery from these AJC blogs lest I get to be like that.

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When I read AmVet and RW going at it like the old married couple they appear to have become, I start thinking about an exit strategery from these AJC blogs lest I get to be like that.

Thats the reason I dont take anything personal from these blogs. I enjoy commenting , expressing my opinons and reading others and enjoying debates. As long as there is no name calling or anything of the sort. Everyone knows where i stand. If you agree, great!. If you disagree, great!!. I am a lifelong Georgian, born in the shadows of Kennesaw Mtn. , raised in the shadow of Blood Mtn. , currently living off of the shores of Lake Hartwell wanting to go back to the shadows of Kennesow Mtn. I want what is best for my state and what i see now, with the conflicts of interest, curruption and wanting the middle class to shoulder more of the tax burden , the current government isnt it.

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When I read AmVet and RW going at it like the old married couple they appear to have become, I start thinking about an exit strategery from these AJC blogs lest I get to be like that.

Thats the reason I dont take anything personal from these blogs. I enjoy commenting , expressing my opinons and reading others and enjoying debates. As long as there is no name calling or anything of the sort. Everyone knows where i stand. If you agree, great!. If you disagree, great!!. I am a lifelong Georgian, born in the shadows of Kennesaw Mtn. , raised in the shadow of Blood Mtn. , currently living off of the shores of Lake Hartwell wanting to go back to the shadows of Kennesow Mtn. I want what is best for my state and what i see now, with the conflicts of interest, curruption and wanting the middle class to shoulder more of the tax burden , the current government isnt it.

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wooops, sorry about the triple post !! Yikes!!

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Speech impediment this morning larry???

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The Wing Stalls:

An aircraft can stall at any speed and in any configuration. It is when drag exceeds lift [weight, G loading, speed] that the plane will stall.

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SoCo – hiding recently, gone undercover to put us down, since you are the man.

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Common

Yeah, been kinda low profile this week. It hasn’t been a week to write home to mama about.

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SoCo – It hasn’t been a great week here either.

I hope things will get better for you this week.

But there are some things that only time helps. And some things take a lot more time than others.

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Shouldn’t the right put Christ back in ChristIAN before they worry about putting it back in Christmas?

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Common Sense… That’s too long. From here on, I’ll refer to you as NoCom. Kinda like my evil twin.

Anyway, it’s gonna take a long time and a lot of beer for me to get thru everything that’s happened over the past week. I’ll be ok though.

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PAULO

What a great way to start the day! G-d! I love the Irish!

Like you I ‘ad me nuns in me life as well…I was in Catholic education when the nuns first started wearing the shorter habits…we had one, a particularly large and dour one who came in and she had the skinniest legs! When we kept looking she said, “…and what were ye expectin’, roller skates?”

Somebody asked Joyce once why the Irish were such great wordsmiths and he is supposed to have answered, “Ay, it’s because we alone of the English speaking peoples hate the mother tongue!”

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Southern Comfort@11:14 am

Common Sense… That’s too long. From here on, I’ll refer to you as NoCom. Kinda like my evil twin.

Anyway, it’s gonna take a long time and a lot of beer for me to get thru everything that’s happened over the past week. I’ll be ok though.
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Nope you can have friggin (my evil twin) LMAO

True story. When a lady who was like a mother to me passed away. I drank an entire bottle of JD and still could not get drunk enough to sleep.

From experience alcohol on numbs the body. the brain still functions

Josef

I remember when they went into the short habits and am so glad at least one of our younger nuns did

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Josef – “It’s YAWL, y’all!”

If you want a REALLY good pronunciation example try “Chalmondeley”

It’s pronounced “Chumly”

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“From experience alcohol on numbs the body. the brain still functions”

And there in lies the problem, as the vast power of the brain is released with much less control from the body………………..been there done that.

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Heck this is fun! Hollywood hill billy accents via Bugs!

http://www.jogyjogy.com/watch.php?id=19829

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RW,
Lighten up and listen…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmYLrxR0Y8

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Normal,

I’ve got no speakers on this computer. Does that creepy face on the screen ever go away?

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Normal

The boy’s so dumb he thinks the Mexican border pays rent…heh, heh…Ah, say, thass a joke, Son…

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Oh, Joosseffff,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyIMqXA_o8&feature=related

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normal
@ 12:05

Great minds!

That was one of my favorites and I’ve been looking for the full length one forever…there’s a great scene where Bugs does his Scarlet “Unhand me, ya Yankee!”

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josef

If’n I was a northerner, I might tend to be offended by that obviously biased cartoon. On one side of the MD line was green grass, on t’other it was barren and god-forsaken as a desert.

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As much as I’d love to stay for the remainder of amateur psychology hour it’s time to take my lovely bride to brunch.

Later y’all

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Much Appreciated AmV

NoCom
I know it will only numb the body, but right about now I think that’s what I need. A good beer (or two, or three, or four…) and a good football game just to take my mind off things for a few hours. I don’t need too much time away. Things will get better soon, I know it.

And there in lies the problem, as the vast power of the brain is released with much less control from the body

I don’t know if I’d describe my brain power as vast. Focused or substantially quantitive, but not too sure about vast.

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SoCo

Tune in, Turn on and Tune out eh. LOL

Ok, sometimes it is the only way. EVERYTHING IN MODERATION EVEN MODERATION.

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Josef,

your thoughts on the DADT repeal?

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“I don’t know if I’d describe my brain power as vast. Focused or substantially quantitive, but not too sure about vast.”

Don’t underestimate that muscle on top of your head………..think about all the dreams that seem so realistic and how thankful you are when you wake up………..and according to “scientists”, we only witness a fraction of the total power…………..

Don’t know about you guys, but when I numb myself with alcohol, my brain sends signals to do sh*t I would never do sober…………….

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Don’t know about you guys, but when I numb myself with alcohol, my brain sends signals to do sh*t I would never do sober

Me Too!!!!!! That’s why they call it liquid courage!!

NoCom

Always in moderation. That’s the only way I know how to do it. Can’t get sloppy drunk in front of the lil one.

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Hillbilly
Thanks for that link. We are only now beginning to deal with those from that time who did take a stand and paid the price. I have been involved with the documentation of some of their stories, particularly in the Hungarian outplay. They are a most intriguing lot and really the most interesting thing about them was that they came from such a wide range of character types and backgrounds.

midori
The opera ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings, and she’s just now tuning up…it’s way too early to break out the champagne…check back with me when it’s implemented, DOMA is repealed and we finally do have equal rights under the constitution…until then…we’ll see…

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josef

I found some of the things that Metaxas had to say, during the question and answer period, about good and evil, extremely profound.

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Josef,

I think it’s a miracle that it was repealed – especially with the GOP filibustering everything but an ingrown toenail.

your thoughts?

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“It would be fun to see a comparison of the kids of the 60’s, My group.

And the kids going to Catholic schools now.”

No comparison…….they are no longer allowed to smack one across the knuckles with their rulers like they did in my time there…………….. like taking the paddle away from the Principle…….although I do not condone the use of physical punishment, I have to admit I always thought twice before getting in trouble……………..

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any yet the Log Cabin Republicans backed John McCain.

strange world we live in.

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Southern Comfort —

Buck up dude.

You are experiencing a dangerous power vacumn in the Federalie drug/gun/money trade. It is no coincidence that the head Federalie drug/gun/money thug in Atlanta is being desposed at the same time that the Federal thugs in Washington are switching power.

It is happening in other cities too.

These Federal power vacumns can sometimes get messy. If you can’t bring yourself to quit your particular gang, then……………Keep you head down and always respect the citizens.

You should be as safe as any other gang member.

Peace and good luck.

PS(watch the man with the most bling or the nicest car…therein usually is the next Federalie thug drug/gun/money boss.(if offered part of the action…….remember……..the weakest link takes YOU ALL DOWN.)(stay away from strange women and gambling).

Remember this, the Federalies that busted this particular thug, ALWAYS leave two or three in operation. The big MONEY man is STILL in BUSINESS. He just switched sides.

Don’t get involved.

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For those who don’t appreciate mine and AmVet’s exchanges, don’t read ‘em. It’s as simple as that.

AmVet:

You are forever, precariously, perched on the head of a pin. Is it any wonder that you’re gonna get knocked off your perch in light of things you’ve said in the past.

AmVet: Now, the always enraged Faux News nuts and quasi-homophobes desperately want to keep it around! TFB.

@@: Well, according to jay’s left-wingers, all the conservatives here watch FOX News so therefore, we’re all a bunch of homophobes…says AmVet.

AmVet: …all the conservatives here watch FOX News…says AmVet.

You snipped it, dude…

No, but most of the lying idiots here say stupid sh*t like that…

and then wanna call ME the liar!!??!!

Just like Obama, you have this desire to be all things to all people. As a result, you “stand” for nothing and everything. You need to be “committed”. You’re insincere in what you offer here. Never was it more apparent than when RW offered up evidence of who you really are. You say one thing and do another…all the while claiming to stand head and shoulders above the rest.

If there are those who wanna believe the crap you write, then fine. I’ve been around too long to buy your garbage. I won’t call you a liar, AmVet. I will say you’ve misrepresented yourself far too often. You ARE a fraud of the worst magnitude.

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Using 300 words just to say, “I ain’t gonna buy your crap” goes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond obsessive.

Just sayin’.

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Today is December 19.

BONER, WHERE ARE THE JOBS CREATED FROM THE BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY?

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Dang,aint we the spirited ones today! And I don’t mean Christmas Spirit either. Whew!

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common sense

“And I thought only angels could do that. ”

And, Solomon ibn Gabirol, how many would that be?

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josef nix@4:16 pm

G0D only knows and she ain’t sayin LOL

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Sorry I missed all the music Friday night, here’s my contribution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puLybRGSAw&feature=related

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Common:

I made no mention of angels. I merely pointed to the pinhead(s).

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SoCo4:42 pm

Did somebody mention pinhead
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Looks like one of the ’shovel ready or nailgun ready’ jobs was given to an unemployed IT worker

LMAO

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NoCom @ 5:01

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SoCo? turn turn turn..darkest before the dawn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpuWOy2WRA

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Falcons look legit. Dare I get my hopes up?

wiccan, nice contribution.

And jonix, that replay is timely. Great stuff.

Paulo, and great reference to that seminal Byrds song.

Buddy Holly’s spirit still lives…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE58OUShE8

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AmVet

Somebody has finally gotten around to posting some of Dory’s other stuff…here’s one for ya…remember in “The Crooked Christmas Star” when she says, “…the Empress of China, she laughs when I laugh, we’ve both played this scene before…I stare at my fork, the Empress would grab it, stand up and stab it in his neck…” This is where it comes from…sort of appropriate for some of the exchanges hereabouts…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dALwOg0XIk

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Closing time?

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Dusty our resident poet

Is talented and doesn’t know it!

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stands,

Spare me. I don’t think your sanctimony would hold up very well in a search off the interactions Hillbilly Ragger and DB Gwinnetian have had with others. stands for decibels has had some pretty colorful exchanges as well.

sanctimony? talk about missing the point. It was more like sympathy.

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JReb dropped one with that post. That’s genuine introspect there.

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j$@ 11:06pm19th
Oh I just love this one …thank you for sharing!

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