Some New Year’s travelin’ music from right here at home
Before the year plays out, I need to correct a major injustice. One of my favorite people working the music scene today is Atlanta’s own Francine Reed, a national treasure living right here in town. For some reason, I’ve never featured her on Friday Night Travelin’ Music, so I’m taking the opportunity to do so now. Ms. Reed often tours with Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, which backs her up here as she performs the classic “Wild women Don’t Get the Blues,” written by Ida Cox, another Georgia girl and blues queen who never got her full due.
Take the time to enjoy, and if you see Francine Reed listed as playing somewhere within reach, do yourself a favor and go.
Happy New Year, y’all!
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Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
6:43 pm
Del
Comment away. You know your opinion is respected, even if it’s not agreed with. It’s all about respect.
wiccan
Non-smoker here, so I’m of no use. I don’t even know anyone who’s tried it.
everyday American
January 2nd, 2011
6:43 pm
uh oh, i think i must’ve said a bad word, for my comment is being moderated…ooops, sorry…and who exactly makes the rules on what is and isn’t a bad word…what may be bad to some, may not be to others, right?
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
6:44 pm
everyday
It’s an automated program. It might not be a bad word per se. It could be a combination of two words or a word that has a bad combination of letters within.
wet wiccan
January 2nd, 2011
6:47 pm
josef – my doctor wrote me a script, but I haven’t filled it yet. In their commercials, they say a side effect is “thoughts of suicide” if that should happen, they should just smoke a cigarette instead! My heart is in good shape, don’t think your cessation method will work for me.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
6:49 pm
Del,
Hey, Sport, chime on in! Hope your New Year is off to a good start…
everyday…
The moderator is also bilingual (Spanish-English) and oftentimes a combination of letters that’s “dirty” in Spanish will trip it…for the longest time it would moderate ridculous…the combination c-u-l-o being the trip…I think that’s been corrected now…we’ll see if this one gets through or not…a fun time can be had trying to find what tripped it, though…
everyday American
January 2nd, 2011
6:50 pm
ah, gotcha. i just was saying, if Kamchak, or anyone else, calls someone a troll, after seeing his picture, you might as well call him something else that starts with an a and has a couple of s’s in it(if you’re into name calling, which, evidently some are)
and was also letting you know i was born and raised here in Georgia, a southern Democrat. actually on the Ambassadors Circle at the Carter Center. well, was, i told Dr. Hardmann i was going to start sending my donations to the federal government, for they know what to with my money better than i do..
Doggone/GA
January 2nd, 2011
6:51 pm
wet wiccan…I don’t have any direct experience with Chantix, but one of my sister’s co-workers used it and it made him very short tempered and aggressive. I don’t actually know of it worked to stop him smoking, but when he stopped using it his aggressiveness stopped.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
6:56 pm
wiccan
The one I’ve heard most often is the wack-o dreams it brings on–grisly nightmares as well as, well a lot of things you never really thought about doing!
Are you trying to quit? If so, the thing that I had to pay the most attention to was the “triggers.” If you’re still puffing, pay attention to when and where you have the automatic response to light up (not the urge, that’s more the nicotine addiction at play.) Til this day if I’m watching an old movie and Humphrey lights up, I reach for the pack and lighter! And those triggers can be bizarre, stuff you might never suspect, a smell, a sound…as for the nicotine crave, this worked for me. You know that “tingle” you get under your tongue from the nicotine? Cranberry juice will give you the same sensation!
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
6:56 pm
…you might as well call him something else that starts with an a and has a couple of s’s in it…
I’ve been called worse.
An insult is like poison, or strong drink—it can only affect me if I accept it.
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
6:57 pm
Issa said he plans to lead bipartisan investigations on food and drug safety, as well as Medicare fraud.
“We can save $125 billion in simply not giving out money to Medicare recipients that don’t exist for procedures that didn’t happen,” Issa said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “These are real dollars. Ten percent of the deficit goes out in wasted money – money that doesn’t get one person health care in Medicare.”
I was reading this article, and I have a question I’d love to ask Issa or anyone else on that committee. If it’s that easy to uncover fraud and waste, why wait and form a commission to study and investigate those acts after the fact? Wouldn’t it be better to have adequate oversight and regulation of those programs from the start.
The GOP is constantly campaigning on loosening regulation and oversight. I understand the sentiment towards the private sector, but if there’s that much fraud going on with a government program, why in the hell would you want to cut back on regulation and oversight of it? We cut back on regulation work by the SEC, and we see what that led to. We cut back regulation and oversight by the FDA, and we’ve seen how many have gotten sick and died as a result. At some point, there has to be some accountability. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Now, don’t take that to mean that I feel we should regulate the hell out of everything, as that’s not what I believe. However, if there is little to no oversight, I wouldn’t hold my breath on the idea that everything will just take care of itself 100% of the time.
Matti
January 2nd, 2011
7:03 pm
wet wiccan,
I wouldn’t trust the Chantix. It’s too closely related to other dangerous and addictive psychotropic drugs and sleeping pills. (The devil you know vs. the one you don’t.) My friend got one of those e-cig thingies and some patches. As a chain smoker, part of her smoking is the response to stress by doing something with her hands and mouth, and stepping away (from loud crazy family members) to do it. The other part is the nicotine, of course. This way she can still carry on somewhat normally (for her), while she learns to live without toxic cigarettes. It doesn’t feel exactly like a cigarette, and there are some who warn about what it IS, but what it is NOT, I think, is more important. Who cares if you puff a vapor thingy to get a little nico-fix or calm down? At least it’s not toxic, chemical-laden, stinky smoke going into your body and the air around you. The urge will never completely go away forever. No pill is going to change that, but it’s what you do for yourself that matters. Good luck!
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
7:03 pm
SoCo
That Issa comment sounds an awful lot like a shell game to me…and if you KNOW that you can save $125B then quit talking about it and do it!
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
7:07 pm
Quitting smoking…that hand-mouth thingie is real…somebody suggested keeping a pencil in hand…I tried it…instead of two packs of cigs a day, I got up to 20 #2’s! Seriously, though, I did find myself chewing the h3ll out of ‘em…
wet wiccan
January 2nd, 2011
7:10 pm
josef – yes, I would like to quit. It’s just too expensive. But honestly, that’s the only reason. I really do like it and I live with a smoker too.
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
7:13 pm
josef
That’s sorta like the vibe I was getting when I read that. It sounded like one of those campaign points or something. If you KNOW something is bad, change it or put someone in charge to change it and make it better.
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
7:14 pm
According to FDL Darrell Issa was on CNN’s State of the Union as well as CBS’s Face the Nation today.
Maybe he’s feeling Presidential?
Del
January 2nd, 2011
7:16 pm
Hey SoCo and josef, you’re two of the good guys on here who don’t rip people just because they post something you don’t agree with. My New Year has started out good…too much food, too much football and a little too much libation but it’s the time to be happy.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
7:18 pm
wiccan
If you smoke because you like it and it’s the cost, you’ll have an easier go of it…I’m like you, I smoked because I liked it! The other things were factors, true, but the bottom line is I liked it…moral posturing on the matter just makes me want one…another of my “triggers,” and I kid you not, is an anti-smoking commercial!
Living with a smoker may not be the problem you think it is. I hang around with smokers a lot and that has not caused me to want one…
Unmentionable keeps an unopened pack around. Why? He found that one of his biggest problems was the “angst” of not having cigarettes there…he says that in the time it would take to open the pack, he can fight off the urge…
wet wiccan
January 2nd, 2011
7:19 pm
Doggone and Matti – thanks for your posts. I have read about the nightmares, not so much about the aggression, but I can see how that might happen too.
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
7:20 pm
Del
Your New Year sounds like it’s off to a GREAT start. However, there’s something I can’t agree with you on. There is no such monster as too much football.
Happy New Year bro!!!!
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
7:22 pm
Kam
I saw that. I don’t know what his agenda is, if he has one. I just want him, and everyone else including (D)’s and (R)’s, to quit the pandering and do the job they’re elected to do. If I’m standing outside my house and see flames shooting out of the windows, I don’t want a fireman to come up and tell me my house is on fire. I want him to put the fire out as quickly as possible.
Del
January 2nd, 2011
7:25 pm
SoCo, On no such thing as too much football…Amen to that. Happy New Year!
Doggone/GA
January 2nd, 2011
7:26 pm
“to quit the pandering and do the job they’re elected to do”
SoCo – I’m very much afraid that the problem is they think their job is to GET ELECTED.
@@
January 2nd, 2011
7:27 pm
Well, don’t know if she was jay’s feature, but I do recall having a discussion about Miss Francine, here.
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
7:28 pm
Southern Comfort
My first trip to California was during the recall of Gov. Davis. Issa spent a couple of million for that recall thinking that he could buy the Governor’s seat on the cheap. He was the front runner out of some 100 or so candidates until Arnold announced his intentions. Issa broke down and cried like a baby on state-wide TeeVee.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
7:32 pm
Best not mess with Issa…his name is Arabic for Jesus!
Del
January 2nd, 2011
7:34 pm
In the military I smoked my share of C-rat cig’s but never really liked them. I do enjoy an occasional cigar. The ones I like are too expensive for me to have very many just now and then. You don’t inhale cigars to enjoy them you just puff on em along with a little sipping whiskey.
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
7:35 pm
Doggone
Can’t argue with that. That’s why I’m adamant about campaign finance reform. Money is the primary corruptor in DC. Remove the money and the need to raise substantial money, and then the officials can focus on legislating. I personally have no problem with paying an extra $10, $50, or $100 dollars a year in taxes if it was solely for public financing of all campaigns with the provision that no outside money could be used at all.
Kam
I faintly remember hearing his name then. There were so many names being tossed around as candidates by the media, I pretty much tuned that election out until the results became news.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
7:38 pm
DEL
Don’t inhale, eh? Did you have sex with THAT woman? What do you mean by “is”
SoCo
I’m with you on campaign funding…the way it’s set up now is a free pass for corruption…
Del
January 2nd, 2011
7:40 pm
josef, oh oh, I left myself open for that one.
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
7:45 pm
josef
LOL!!!! I can’t imagine Del in that scenario….
wet wiccan
January 2nd, 2011
7:46 pm
SoCo – As long as we’re wishing for campaign reform, let’s limit the amount of time that they can campaign too. Cause you know they are going to crank up for 2012 in another couple of weeks. (AGGGGG!)
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
7:47 pm
You don’t inhale cigars to enjoy them…
Same with pipe tobacco.
The risk of cancer is transferred from the lungs to the mouth though.
Doggone/GA
January 2nd, 2011
7:52 pm
“Cause you know they are going to crank up for 2012 in another couple of weeks”
Couple of weeks? My sister said she’s ALREADY seen some 2012 campaign signs.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
7:53 pm
Well, nobody inhales around a cigar. Sorry, Del, but those things smell like rags burning.. Now, a pipe, that’s different. Certain tobaccoes smell wonderful. (which reminds me that I should remove my Christmas tree. But it smells SO good..spruce, balsam or something. I have a new “decorator” fixture in my living room (until the complaints get too loud)..
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
7:55 pm
wiccan
I think a 60 day period for primaries and 90 days for general elections is enough time. If you can’t express your message in that time, you don’t need to be in office. I also think that if you can not campaign on a set budget, how am I supposed to expect you to balance a budget when you’re in office. They campaign by spending more and more money. When they get in office, it’s hard to shut that spending off. We’ve seen that over the past 10 years.
We’ve gotta change it. That’s what my wish was for the Tea Party Movement. Instead of targeting specific candidates, target the entire system.
Del
January 2nd, 2011
7:58 pm
Dusty, I don’t smoke cigars in the house my wife would throw me out and lock the doors. In warm weather I’ll enjoy them out on the deck and in the winter I have a work shop with a space heater, so I don’t offed anyone.
wet wiccan
January 2nd, 2011
8:04 pm
SoCo – that sounds about right to me.
Del
January 2nd, 2011
8:07 pm
oops correction on my last. I meant so I don’t offend anyone not off anyone…my bad.
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
8:11 pm
Off anyone
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:13 pm
I don’t believe the AJC was being fair to Gov. Perdue today. (Surprise!) The front page headline was PERDUE PUSHED PET PROJECTS. What kind of projects did they expect him to push? Something he did not like? His fishing project has brought more funds to Georgia.
As to Perdue’s pet projects being in Houston County, his home county, it is one of the poorest and that is where funds are supposed to be spent. The Oaky woods deal does sound questionable but naturalists were pushing that purchase to save a certain type of woodlands (for posterity!). If it was near the property of Gov. Perdue, I doubt that it would bring a big profit to the governor. A new fruit stand down the road or something? OH well.
Way down in the last of the AJC report, they did mention that the same thing had always happened with Democratic governors. Pet projects were found in their counties. Never heard about any indictments against any of them. Governors are going to spend money somewhere in the state. It might as well be in their own poor county.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:15 pm
It is OK, Del. You did not OOFed me. Outside for cigars is fine.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 2nd, 2011
8:17 pm
The one I’ve heard most often is the wack-o dreams it brings on
I have those and I ain’t even on medication.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:21 pm
HillBilly Deluxe,
Wacho dreams,; huh? Maybe you are inhaling too much smoke from the wood stove.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 2nd, 2011
8:22 pm
Dusty
If you go and talk to the people who live in Clay County, NC (which borders Towns County, GA), they’ll tell you Zell Miller is the best Governor they’ve ever had. They say he helped them a lot more than anybody in Raleigh ever did.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 2nd, 2011
8:22 pm
And I ain’t got a wood stove.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
8:27 pm
Hillbilly
No wood stove? I would’ve thought you did…Granny never would let them take hers out…my nephew and niece who live there now still have it and still use it in the wintertime and my niece still cooks on it when it’s lighted up…they still go out and collect pine knotts (lighter knotts), too…
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:28 pm
HillBilly ,
No meds and no wood stove! hmmm Maybe an overdose of bluegrass ?
By the way, why did those tarheels like Zell Miller so much? I always liked him ’cause I thought he was honest.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 2nd, 2011
8:30 pm
josef
I’ve often wished I did have one but I’ve never gotten around to putting one in. My Grandpa wouldn’t eat a biscuit unless it was cooked on a woodstove. Granny cooked his biscuits on the wood stove and everything else on the electric stove, as long as he lived.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 2nd, 2011
8:34 pm
Dusty
They liked Zell because the money he put into his home county of Towns, when he was Governor, spilled over into North Carolina and they profitted from it. The people I know in West NC feel about their state government, a whole lot like the people in South Georgia do, that it’s hundreds of miles away and doesn’t give a rip about them.
Everybody has their own opinion, but I know quite a lot of people who have known Zell since his college days, and from what they tell me, he was Zig Zag Zell, long before he got the name from politics.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:36 pm
I was looking at new wood stoves just last week. I was in Ace Hardward for something else and there were these little black iron beauties all ready for wood and cooking and warming fires. Made my pioneer spirit rise . Or better still, a nice mountain cabin. (This from one too lazy to keep fireplace embers going.)
Del
January 2nd, 2011
8:37 pm
Give em hell Zell. More politicians should be like him. Gnite y’all gotta go, I have a 3 year old tuggin on me to read her a good night story.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
8:37 pm
Hillbilly
There some things that just aren’t the same not cooked that way…greens being one of them…Granny also cooked in the fireplace. She had a whole set of cast iron utensils just for that purpose…what Mama’s generation thought were “old fashioned” are now worth a bloody fortune…another one of my nieces has one of her Dutch ovens and still uses it…modern house in the suburbs and most folks coming in think it’s just for decoration and are surprised to find out she cooks in it…
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
8:42 pm
I got Buck Stove fireplace inserts both here and in that place in a small hamlet in the N.C. mountains. Convenient when the electricity goes out. You can’t boil water on the tops of ‘em, but you can heat a pot enough for hot tea on a cold powerless morn.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:42 pm
Goodnight, Del. Sweet dreams for your little one.
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
8:46 pm
K’Chak
That was why Granny didn’t want hers taken out…the area she lived was subject to some pretty rough ice storms in the winter and the power might be out for days…her stove had (has) a “reservoir” for keeping water hot…
Del
Good night and from the teacher THANKS for the reading…give her a hug for me…
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:50 pm
I do love a fireplace with a nice fire. When it is going good, just back up and warm the “posterior anatomy” all toasty. The furnace just doesn’t cut it for pleasure but it surely is earier to adjust the thermostat than build a fire. I confess: some folks are just plain lazy!!
Southern Comfort
January 2nd, 2011
8:53 pm
Don’t have a woodburning stove, but there’s a fair amount of cast iron cookware in the kitchen here. No Southern kitchen is complete without cast iron…
Gonna hit the sack myself. Just finished making a few cd’s to ride to work with. There’s not good music at 4-5am on the radio.
Later all!!!!
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
8:59 pm
josef
Back when I was a wee boyo, my da would take me to visit his da who lived waaaaaay out in rural east Georgia. (Grandpa and Grandma were divorced, a scandal in rural Georgia in that day. Never did get the details….) and while he had a proper gas stove for cooking, heat was provided by a pot-bellied wood burning stove and I recall a dozen or so nights listening to them talk, Dad smoking his camel no-filters, while grandpa rolled his own from Prince Albert in the can and me staring in the fire til I fell asleep.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
8:59 pm
SoCo,
I can’t think of anything very good at 4 am. Even a cup of coffee. Keep that airport straightened out tomorrow. Goodnight now..
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
9:00 pm
gotta run, too…early morning coming tomorrow…g’night
josef nix
January 2nd, 2011
9:02 pm
K’chak
Before I go…many of the same memories…one of my prize possessions is one of Granddaddy’s Prince Albert cans!
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
9:04 pm
Kamchak,
“Prince Albert in the can!” That one really went around with the old jokes. What happened with Prince Albert and his can? Did the non smoking advocates bring about his abdication?
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
9:06 pm
Goodnight, Josef. May the kiddies be kind to you tomorrow…
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
9:11 pm
I dunno, Dusty. I kinda believe that Prince Albert in the can went the way of my late grandpa. Much more convenient to buy pre-rolled cigarettes.
Billy Bob
January 2nd, 2011
9:14 pm
Goodnight John Boy.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
9:27 pm
Kamchak,
I got to thinking about what you thought might have happened to Pince Allbert. I googled Prince Albert and up came a picture as big as life, Albert still standing on his red can. Yep, a 14 oz can of Prince Albert tobacco can be ordered for $25.99 It is sold by the Smoking Spirits company, owned and operated by an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians.
How about that? I thought Prince Albert was long gone my self. But he is still available.
Kamchak
January 2nd, 2011
9:48 pm
Dusty
Well faith and begorrah ain’t that something. I get my pipe tobacco from The Tinder Box chain stores. My favorite is North Sea.
Dusty
January 2nd, 2011
9:56 pm
Kamchak,
“Faith and begorrah”?? Ye must be wearing a bit of the green for ol’ Ireland. Anyway, I am sure you will soon be ordering a can of Prince Albert. No more North Sea. The Seneca are counting on you.
Now, I ,too, am off to the land of nod so I won’t be nodding tomorrow. Pleasant dreams. Goodnight…
Scout
January 2nd, 2011
10:12 pm
For Del and the few others who may be interested:
Seven Myths About the Vietnam War :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1021097/posts
Kammys Handpuppet
January 2nd, 2011
11:03 pm
Same old same old.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
6:52 am
And a top o’ the mornin’ to all ye lads and lassies of the Day Crew, be ye kind to one another today and the blessings of the New Year…and double it for the little Micks amongst ye, ’specially the l’il fairy ones…
Thanks again for the fun during break and now it’s back to the real world and the get ready for the Return of the Snot Nosed…
Mick
January 3rd, 2011
7:49 am
josef
Good luck to you today..
usinuk
Still out there? Hope you had a great holiday, good luck this coming year…..now its back to the grind….I feel lucky that I at least have something to grind.
Bill Orvis White
January 3rd, 2011
7:52 am
@josef nix
It’s about making our fighting forces the best that they can be. The US Marines don’t want to repeal DADT and if anyone knows that this vote was wrongheaded, it’s the very fighting men who are out there on foreign soil protecting us from those who want to kill us for just being who we are. Did you know that a man of the religious cloth will have his free speech rights taken away under this bill? DID YOU KNOW THAT, JOSEF NIX? Is this America or the USSR? Did you know that a preacher cannot say certain things to the troops such as, “homosexuality is an abomination?” HOLD IT! Even if you disagree with that opinion, the man of the cloth should have the right to say it to whomever he wants to at any time he wants. It’s up to the soldier if he wants to listen to the preacher’s ideas. I beg to ask, IS THIS AMERICA OR THE USSR? Why are people like you so misguided and refuse to read the Constitution of the United States?
Amen and God Bless America and the Southern Coalition of the United States,
Bill
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
7:52 am
Some of us like our jobs TOO much, got to work and found out I don’t have to be back until tomorrow…so, what’s to complain…
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
7:55 am
“Did you know that a man of the religious cloth will have his free speech rights taken away under this bill?”
There is no unhindered right to free speech in the armed forces. If a Chaplain doesn’t feel he/she can do their job properly under the rules in force, there’s always to option to leave the military. No one is forceing them to stay.
stands for decibels
January 3rd, 2011
8:02 am
Mornin’.
DGA @ 7.55, I really wouldn’t waste my time with the likes of Bill, lest you wind up like this person.
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
8:07 am
Thanks sfd, but sometimes it’s just fun to tweak them and see if they’ll respond!
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
8:08 am
Where did the saying, “man of the cloth,” originate.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
8:09 am
Bill Orvis
Good, you’re back. Before I say anything else, let’s get this straight from the get-go as we say down in Dixie. Our boy is career military. He served in Bosnia, Kossovo, two tours in Iraq including Shock and Awe, and in Afghanistan. I got an e-mail yesterday that one of my favorite cousin’s boy was wounded in Afghanistan. My better half is from a career military family and our boy joined up to continue a family tradition that stretches pre-Columbian. You want to bring G-d and your interpretation of the Holy Scriptures into it. That is fine and good and I will be the first to go to bat for your freedom to express that belief according to your own or your sectarian doctrine. I am a man of faith, too. We are citizens of the United States of America (I assume you are a citizen). This is our land, our home, our country. But it belongs to others than just you and me as well. To say that because they may or may not share our religious sectarian beliefs or share our own taste in titilation of plumbing does not make them any less American or any less patriotic or any less willing to lay down their lives so that the likes of you and I can sit here in the cozy security of our homes and trade barbs. If you are a man of honor, you should be able to honor that.
You get all bent out of shape and want to know if we’re the USSR. Your opinions on gays and gays in the military would be right in line with those of the USSR as well as Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Saudi Arabia and a few choice others not known for being particularly tolerant of your own faith (or mine)…
Finally, you want to bring Southern into it? Not with me you don’t. I’ll put my Southern credentials up against yours any day of the week. If you don’t believe it, just ask the Bruin!
jewcowboy
January 3rd, 2011
8:12 am
Well good morning and happy new year to everyone. Why do vacations have to end?
stands for decibels
January 3rd, 2011
8:14 am
Q: Where did the saying, “man of the cloth,” originate.
A: Jerry Reed. Pretty sure. Well, it was the first time I ever heard the phrase, anyway.
@@
January 3rd, 2011
8:14 am
Great article…lengthy, but worthwhile.
In summation?
Is the overall picture a shame? Yes. Is it distorting resource distribution and productivity in the meantime? Yes. Will it again bring our economy to its knees? Probably. Maybe that’s simply the price of modern society. Income inequality will likely continue to rise and we will search in vain for the appropriate political remedies for our underlying problems.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=907
All the more reason to experience life thru the standards, set by the individual, not the standards politicians would have us envy. One man’s “Jones” is another man’s good neighbor.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
8:15 am
Had to go look up man of the cloth…
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2002/whats-the-origin-of-man-of-the-cloth
stands for decibels
January 3rd, 2011
8:16 am
raunched the linkee @ 8.14; here it is…
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jerry_reed/amos_moses.html
Mick
January 3rd, 2011
8:24 am
josef@8:09
If that ain’t a pro-american screed, I don’t know what is..
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
8:25 am
For those of y’all who may have missed it, Bill referred to the eight GOP senators who voted to repeal DADT as “traitors.” That’s where this little set-to started…
Normal
January 3rd, 2011
8:30 am
Well said, Josef
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
8:48 am
jewcowboy
Welcome back…hope the vacation was everything you wanted it to be and more…
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
8:51 am
doesn’t feel he/she can do their job properly under the rules in force, there’s always to option to leave the military. No one is forceing them to stay.
Couldn’t that be said for the Gay folks also Doggone?
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
8:52 am
“Couldn’t that be said for the Gay folks also Doggone?”
Nope. They were forced to LIE under DADT. No one is forcing Chaplains to lie.
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
8:55 am
How were they forced to lie? Water boarded maybe?
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
8:55 am
“How were they forced to lie?”
It appears you don’t really know very much about DADT. Thank heaven it’s been repealed.
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
8:56 am
Couldn’t that be said for the Gay folks also Doggone?
It could be that the gays outnumber the men of the cloth but that might be subject to interpretation. Anyway, I hear there’s strength in numbers.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
8:59 am
Real Scooter…
I’ll take you on, too, if need be! I’ve got the day off!
Let me pose to you the following…go through a whole day in which you at no point can make mention of your significant other, share a jest about your own sex-life or lack thereof, answer the question “what did you do this week-end…” I think you get the picture…just try it…you’ll see…
jewcowboy
January 3rd, 2011
9:01 am
josef nix,
“Let me pose to you the following…”
Or consciously think about the gender of your pronouns every time you do speak about something personal.
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
9:02 am
It appears you don’t really know very much about DADT
In my opinion,I know as much about DADT as you know about the military.And what does this have to do with how they were forced to lie?
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:05 am
“And what does this have to do with how they were forced to lie?”
As I said…you don’t appear to know much about DADT. By it’s very existence, it forced gay service members to lie.
But it’s all academic now. The policy has been repealed, so arguing about it is just so much wasted hot air.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:06 am
jewcowboy
That “consciously think about the gender of your pronouns.” That right there lies at the heart of it. And every time we do it, we’re consciously reminded of the inherent problems that can result in making the slightest slip up…
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:08 am
Real Scooter…
You ask how were they forced to lie…I answered that, I thought…and know about the military? Not much experience there myself, but I do take our boy’s word for it…