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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Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:08 am
“And every time we do it, we’re consciously reminded of the inherent problems that can result in making the slightest slip up”
Maybe, in the cause of equality, we need to start a movement that all significant others must be referred to as “it”!
jewcowboy
January 3rd, 2011
9:09 am
josef nix,
“hope the vacation was everything you wanted it to be and more…”
It was once I finally got there. Trying to get out of Atlanta was a lesson in patience. I had a layover in Rome, where they made everyone disembark and hand search everybody’s luggage, even those of us who were just continuing through.
It was a little colder than I thought it would be so no beach, but there was the heated pool
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
9:09 am
Good morn josef! Let me start out by saying I have no problem with Gays serving in the military.But I am still of the opinion that the military commanders should have decided what was best for the military.
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:11 am
“But I am still of the opinion that the military commanders should have decided what was best for the military.”
Like they decided what was “best” when the military was desegregated?
Bosch
January 3rd, 2011
9:14 am
Happy New Year all — back to the grind.
Doggone,
“we need to start a movement that all significant others must be referred to as “it”!”
Or…the other [insert name here]
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
9:14 am
Like they decided what was “best” when the military was desegregated
Good point Doggone. No refutiating that!
Bosch
January 3rd, 2011
9:15 am
“But I am still of the opinion that the military commanders should have decided what was best for the military.”
I was of the opinion that is exactly what happened.
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:16 am
Bosch – actually MY choice would be “my partner”
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:17 am
Doggone
Unmentionable is ahead of us on that one, he’s been calling me It for a long time!
jewcowboy
Sorry about the beach and the hassels…
Real Scooter…
Using that line of thought, however, blacks couldn’t serve either…the commanders are responsible for the conduct of battle, etc. not for who is and who is not an equal citizen…that’s why our military is under civilian control…
Normal
January 3rd, 2011
9:17 am
“we need to start a movement that all significant others must be referred to as “it”!”
The Alice’s Restaurant Massacre Movement!
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:18 am
“Good point Doggone”
Thank you. The bottom line is that the military is ultimately under civilian control and sometimes it IS necessary to force things on the military command that they don’t think they will like.
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:18 am
josef – GMTA!
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:19 am
Normal – Massacree, not Massacre!
Normal
January 3rd, 2011
9:20 am
…That’s because my “significan other’ wouldn’t allow it! Besides that’s the only movement I know of…
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
9:20 am
I was of the opinion that is exactly what happened
Are you sure about that Bosch? I was thinking otherwise.
Normal
January 3rd, 2011
9:21 am
Doggone,
Dammit, and it passed spell check too!
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:21 am
For “official” purposes I like the term “spouse” even if does sound somewhat like a vermin. For other purposes I use “Other Half” or “Better Half” since ours is a relationship of equals…
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:23 am
“Dammit, and it passed spell check too!”
No, no…you spelled Massacre correctly…but the quote is Massacree
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:23 am
Doggone
GMTA? New one for me…what is?
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:24 am
“since ours is a relationship of equals…”
That’s why I like partner – it indicates that state of equality that “husband” and “wife” don’t always have.
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:25 am
Josef – GMTA = Great Minds Think Alike, we both referred to the civilian control of the armed forces
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
9:26 am
UNCLE!!!!
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:27 am
Real Scooter
Shoot! You’re TOO easy!
Real Scooter
January 3rd, 2011
9:32 am
Shoot! You’re TOO easy
It didn’t take me long to figure out that the odds were against me!
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:35 am
Tell me, ain’t it about time somebody wakes Jay up? I want to know what he thinks is the timely first thread of the New Year…
Pennsylvanian
January 3rd, 2011
9:40 am
josef nix @ 9:35. “Tell me, ain’t it about time somebody wakes Jay up? I want to know what he thinks is the timely first thread of the New Year…”
Relax. Give him a break. The White House is late sending the official talking points memo with selected copy/paste items.
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
9:40 am
We need a GOP list of resolutions to start off the new year.
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
9:43 am
“We need a GOP list of resolutions to start off the new year”
No list needed, they’ve only got one: undo everything done in the last 2 years
Pennsylvanian
January 3rd, 2011
9:43 am
TaxPayer – That will be right after the reading of the Constitution.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
9:47 am
Penn….
Well, there is that! And then he has to find us a nice graph/chart to go with it…
Bill Orvis White
January 3rd, 2011
9:50 am
@Josef Nix
I thank your family for their service, but facts are facts. Most of the United States Marines don’t want to repeal DADT because it will damage their effectiveness on the battlefield. That part isn’t coming from me.
I’m not questioning your Southern credentials. I would ask that you be open to an idea that I have called The Southern Coalition of the United State of America. These great Southern states need to band together to fight the power grab coming out of Washington and the corrupt Hussein Obama administration.
Lastly, I ask that you be open to Tea Party Patriots who are calling out traitors and Godless Democrats alike.
If you’re not open to these pro-American ideals, then I would have to say that you’re just as much of a traitor as those eight Republicans who joined forces with Harry Reid, Hussein Obama, Wiccan Pelosi, Bawney Frank and Hussein Obama.
God Bless,
Bill
Pennsylvanian
January 3rd, 2011
9:52 am
josef nix – I think Jay has nekkid pictures of Sarah, he’s just holding out on us.
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
9:59 am
What does it mean to have “pro-American ideals.”
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
10:00 am
And, what is the definition of “traitor.”
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
10:03 am
“Most of the United States Marines don’t want to repeal DADT because it will damage their effectiveness on the battlefield.”
How?
BADA BING
January 3rd, 2011
10:04 am
Once again ATL shows why people don’t want to go downtown. A 14 year old boy went to see the Peach Drop Friday night and paid with his life. If you were there, it could have been you.
Southern Comfort
January 3rd, 2011
10:05 am
Lastly, I ask that you be open to Tea Party Patriots who are calling out traitors and Godless Democrats alike.
Paron the profanity, but what in the hell does someone’s religion or lack thereof have to do with governance of this country. Are you looking to create theocracy here like in Saudi Arabia or other countries ruled by religion?
If you indeed had Pro-American ideals, you wouldn’t give a damn about someone’s religion as we all have the freedom to express our individual religion or the lack there of. People like you are the reason this country is so damned fu*ked up to start with. There’s nothing wrong with religion and expressing it. However, religion does not belong in the government.
jewcowboy
January 3rd, 2011
10:07 am
TaxPayer,
“We need a GOP list of resolutions to start off the new year.”
Here is one from Michael Steel, enshrining bigotry into the Constitution:
NOM’s Frank Cannon asks Steel, “If the federal courts were to strike down the California law and discover a federal right to gay marriage, in essence, would you fully stand behind the Republican platform’s call for federal marriage amendment?”
Says Steele: “Oh, absolutely. Without hesitation or doubt. In fact we would partner with our leadership in the House and our governors and leadership in the state legislatures to create a very very strong front line if you will, on that issue. I can’t again stress how important that is for how we will lead as a people, and how we will see ourselves as a nation. And again, that is not to the exclusion of anyone, it’s not anti- anyone, or any group. It’s just so fundamental and foundational, I think it needs to be protected.”
Southern Comfort
January 3rd, 2011
10:11 am
And again, that is not to the exclusion of anyone, it’s not anti- anyone, or any group. It’s just so fundamental and foundational, I think it needs to be protected.”
What kind of warped logic is that? It’s not anti- anyone, yet you want to make a federal amendment that’s basically anti- gay marriage? This year needs to be the year to call the stupid to the front of the class and make them explain themselves. We should quit coddling idiots and expose them all for the jackasses they are.
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
10:13 am
“This year needs to be the year to call the stupid to the front of the class and make them explain themselves. We should quit coddling idiots and expose them all for the jackasses they are”
I’d buy a ticket to see THAT
Gale
January 3rd, 2011
10:18 am
“Most of the United States Marines don’t want to repeal DADT because it will damage their effectiveness on the battlefield.”
Complete nonsense. If a Marine was not battle-ready, I suspect he would never see action.
Southern Comfort
January 3rd, 2011
10:18 am
Doggone
I may have to start my own blog this year. The level of stupidity is almost unbearable.
Dusty
January 3rd, 2011
10:19 am
Is Prince Albert out of the can this morning?
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
10:21 am
I’m trying to plan for this new year’s expense increases so I can figure out how much I need to make in the stock market to cover the added costs. First, we use about 500 gallons of gas per year so if gas prices increase by an average of two dollar per gallon this year, I’ll need to budget another 1000 dollars. In order to acquire that 1000 dollars from investment income, I could purchase, for example, 513 shares of Verizon since it pays $1.95 per share in annual dividends but that would require tying up over $18,000 in the stock at current prices for an entire year. Nah! I need a better investment. There’s gotta be something out there with a better return. Something that will pull in at least 20% ROI annually. Oh, woe is me.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
10:24 am
Bill Orvis
First off, the Marines are not the only branch of the Armed Services and are, by tradition, the most conservative. Even there the figures from the DOD were not overwhelming…40-60% expressing some degree of opposition to serving with openly gay personnel…
I’m not asking you to respect my family’s service. I merely made that point to make it clear that mine is not a perspective drawn from a lack of contact with the military mindset.
As for the South and what it means to be a Southerner, our highest ideal and one of the pillars of our civilization is the concept of honor.
I am certainly no fan of President Obama whose two-stepping on the matter of equal rights for gays mirrors your position far more than mine. But whether or not he is to continue in office is constitutionally a matter of the ballot box. I did not vote for him in 2008 and I will not vote for him in 2012.
G-dless Democrats? Says who? There are just as many Democrats of faith as there are any other “party.” And remember that the Good Book abjures us to judge not lest we be judged.
Be careful with your use of the term traitor. That is dangerous. Failure to adhere to the Tea Party program does not per force make one a traitor. Adherence to the Tea Party program does not make one per force a traitor.
I happen to find Pelosi one of the most unpleasant persons in public service today and would cheer her exit. Barney Frank is an embarassment and I do not like him and his behavior at all. Harry Reid is a two-stepping wimp (i.e. DADT) and is another one whose exit I would crack a bottle of champagne to celebrate. But that does not make them traitors. It makes them politicians.
And if my belief in the equality of all under the Constitution of the United States of America makes me a traitor then put me in there with Patrick Henry, the greatest champion of religious freedom among the founding fathers, “if this be treason, then make the most of it!”
Jackie
January 3rd, 2011
10:24 am
@SoCo
If President Obama had called Rep. Wilson (R-SC) out at the State of the Union address in 2009 when he shouted out “liar,” this political climate that we are experiencing would not be present.
Dusty
January 3rd, 2011
10:24 am
TAXPAYER,
Gov. Perdue would like for you to open a fruit stand down in Houston County. Benefits? Fishing!!
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 3rd, 2011
10:25 am
SouCo
I may have to start my own blog this year. The level of stupidity is almost unbearable.
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Then we would have to screw with your blog filters to see what gets past them
Good morning all
Josef
I see where you were so excited to get back to the little snotters you went back a day early LOL
Doggone/GA
January 3rd, 2011
10:26 am
SoCo – can’t argue with that
Gale
January 3rd, 2011
10:26 am
FWIW, I agree with josef and Doggone; for legal papers and partner for general usage. Personally, I use partner because legally, I cannot use spouse. I admit though, I sometimes feel we should start a business because I think some people think I am referring to a business partner. It really does not have the same significance as spouse.
Mick
January 3rd, 2011
10:26 am
bill orvis
You are plainly a silly person with very foolish ideas about what this country is about. Obama was elected by the people of this country with an electoral and popular majority. If you don’t like the constitution or the people’s choice, then find another country. You won’t be missed.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
10:31 am
Penn
Either Sister Sarah or Brother Brown!
Southern Comfort
January 3rd, 2011
10:32 am
Jackie
You may have a point there, but I think it goes back even farther than that. I think this has been brewing for more than 20 years, and each subsequent event fans the flames even more. You had the whole impeachment thing with Clinton. Then, the Bush/Gore election. Add the anti-war protests against Bush/Cheney, and now the current attacks from the right on Obama. Somebody’s gotta step forward and put an end to this crap.
NoCom
I’d have to be careful with my position within the government. If I did a blog, I’d have to walk on eggshells to make sure I don’t get in trouble at work. However, I wouldn’t filter other people’s words. I want the idiots and a–holes to expose themselves for who they actually are.
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
10:33 am
My dad used to roll his own. He could hold that little paper curled in one hand and sprinkle just the right amount out of that Prince Albert can without dropping a single piece of that precious tobacco and roll that paper up one handed, lick it along the edge and finish rolling it, place it on his lip to free up his hand for use to light a strike anywhere match and light that freshly rolled cigarette while simultaneously closing that can and slipping it back in his pocket in an almost seamless motion. When they came out with those big rolling papers with the glue pre-applied to the edge, he just asked “why on earth would anyone waste their money on such nonsense.” Later, he found out about a new generation of rollers that didn’t much care for those smaller papers with no glue but that’s another story.
Bosch
January 3rd, 2011
10:34 am
Mick,
I watched the first three seasons of “Dexter” while the fam was on vacation. It made me long for the South Beach!
Mick
January 3rd, 2011
10:37 am
bosch
Yes, we are back to miami weather, 70’s and nice. Now, about those dolphins and hurricanes……terible.
Dusty
January 3rd, 2011
10:39 am
MICK,–U said: If you don’t like the constitution or the people’’s choice, then find another country.
Now let’s not get picky here. George W. Bush was the “people’s choice”. TWICE! Democrats waged a war of ugly words against him. How soon Democrats forget their own expressed disgust and insults that they produced. I did not see a single one leaving the country in rejection of Bush..
Time to stop vitriol from both sides. We would get along much better except for Bookman. He would have a hard time without a “bone of contention”. That’’s his job mellowed with a little music.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
10:39 am
SoCo
Civility is not a lost art in my opinion, but it’s certainly not much on exhibition these days, either. My own personal belief (and, okay, I’m an optimist) is that the day is coming and coming soon when the partisans of both sides will be told to shut up and go away…
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
10:41 am
DUSTY
Ah, but it’s the Bruin’s mellowing with music that does, if you participate, bring us together for at least a moment…
MICK
I saw that you’d seen an iguana…any more?
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
10:45 am
GALE
And on a bad hair day, Ball and Chain fits the bill!
Dusty
January 3rd, 2011
10:46 am
Taxpayer,
I award you a fine can of Prince Albert (from the Smoking Spirits of the Seneca Nation) for your interesting description of your father’s rolling ability. He was an expert. They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone roll a cigarette. Another lost “art”.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 3rd, 2011
10:49 am
SoCo – I see what you are saying about an open blog, but I have a tendancy when I see a screed that really is not directed at some others comments to just scroll past it. You can’t fix stupid (even with Duct Tape).
There are many others even if I disagree I will take the time to read as they have valid points
Civility (on both sides) is not dead it’s just in hibernation (like the Bruin)
Dusty
January 3rd, 2011
10:55 am
JOSEF,
Bookman does not “mellow” with my kind of music. But I can see that it brings a lot of pleasure to most of you. That’s fine. I just lay low and don’t linger long.
Did you see Lang Lang playing with the NY PHilamonic a few days ago? That man is absolutely amazing in his skill and accomplishments. He is almost miraculous. Never have I see such joy and skill at the piano.
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
10:56 am
Do people smoke their wacky tobacky with a bong these days or do people still roll their own. Those Prince Albert cans could be re-purposed too. Maybe sketch in some longer hair on the dude with a magic marker.
Farm Boy in TN
January 3rd, 2011
10:59 am
Mick
- -If you don’t like the constitution or the people’s choice, then find another country. You won’t be missed.- -
Nice lecture about what the constitution is all about.
Di you happen to read the Bill of Rights? It’s that first amendment that must drive you crazy. Imagine a person having the right to criticize the president. How dare they?
So in the eight years that you left the country while Bush was in office, did you get homesick at all?
Southern Comfort
January 3rd, 2011
11:02 am
josef
I hope you’re right.
Southern Comfort
January 3rd, 2011
11:06 am
NoCom
I’m not gonna try to fix stupid. I just want to expose it so that it can not mutate and multiply.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
11:08 am
Farm Boy
If you ask Mick he wasn’t in the country. He was in Miami! Verdad, amigo?
But as to your point, yes, you can and should criticise the President. But to call him a traitor? That’s our right under the Constitution, but it’s pushing the envelope…
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 3rd, 2011
11:09 am
SoCo – any luck finding that stupid gene yet LOL
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
11:09 am
Dollar General plans to hire 6000 people. I don’t know whether to consider that a good or not so good thing. Do they sell anything made in America.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
11:10 am
SoCo
Well, hope does spring eternal! Just ask Pandora and I’m not sure that myth has not become reality…
Jackie
January 3rd, 2011
11:10 am
@SoCo
I think it started with Newt Gingrich in 1994. He was determined to use his power to control the government and “threw bombs” at Dems or anyone who dared question him.
Mick
January 3rd, 2011
11:11 am
dusty
Remember, I’m from florida where jeb had over 60k scrubbed from the voter rolls, how much did w win by? 534 votes or something. Then he was selected by the supremes. It’s all water under the bridge as far as I’m concerned but look at the catastrophe that the US became from 2001-2008.
farm boy
You need to keep plowing, I never said anything about not being able to criticize the president, it goes with the turf..
TaxPayer
January 3rd, 2011
11:11 am
I don’t rightly care in Billy Bob from TN calls Obama a traitor or not but I would like to see the little farm boy back up his loose lips with some form of factual evidence.
josef nix
January 3rd, 2011
11:18 am
Okay, y’all, Bruin’s back on the job…surprise! It’s the GOP…!!!
Gone upstairs for a little light reading….
Dusty
January 3rd, 2011
11:23 am
MIck ,
I’m not fighting a battle that has already been won. If Jeb Bush removed illegal voters from the rolls, he should have. If the Supremes decided Bush won, it was what they considered correct. As unusual as it may be, I do not think that all people are crooked. Even Democrats!!
So..wiggle in the warmth of Miami while I must venture into the cold consortiums of Atlanta. Even an iguana would not stop long in Atlanta. Freeze his tail right off. I know the feeling!!