On tonight’s Travelin’ Music, Justin Bieber … NOT!
When I heard that some unknown jazz newcomer had beaten out the hyperpopular Justin Bieber as Best New Artist at the Grammys last weekend, I was intrigued.
When I learned that the artist in question, Esperanza Spalding, played a stand-up bass — my favorite jazz instrument — and also sang — I love female vocalists — well, it wasn’t hard to pick this week’s kickoff tune for Travelin’ Music.
Here is Miss Spalding performing in a recent tribute to Stevie Wonder at the White House. (I don’t believe I’ve ever featured Stevie, which is a terrible injustice to the man that I’ll have to correct soon.)
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jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
12:06 am
bass head,
Ted gets so dirty…
Considering the hour…I’m reminding of this in my youth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1HAkjOuL0
Now is when we would have begun to think about getting ready to go out to the clubs.
jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
12:09 am
RW-(the original),
No..it worked…haunting…and quite beautiful. It reminds me a little of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHnhMvSxOf0
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
12:15 am
I’ve got your haunting right here
/at the risk of the Jay B blog going off the grid for the night…. The 12:09 was pretty damn good though
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
12:17 am
Holy Crap!
That didn’t work at all.
One last time?
jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
12:20 am
RW-(the original),
LOL! I may have to get that.
“at the risk of the Jay B blog going off the grid for the night”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl4tWRsOxV0
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
12:27 am
Speaking of midnight
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February 19th, 2011
12:32 am
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jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
12:33 am
RW-(the original),
I just find it so interesting that throughout the week people can be at such loggerheads about politics and religion on this blog, but come Friday night most of us let that go…and just enjoy each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpvG3ZhBOUM
jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
12:37 am
RW-(the original) – what is it about midnight?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtIEkdTlnC8
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
12:42 am
jewcowboy,
It’s probably inevitable on this blog. Jay B sets up the confrontational nature throughout the week, but he stumbled on the FNMT somehow. What always amazes me is that when he’s in town the Friday thread dabbles in and out of politics, but when he leaves us with a trout we raise hell al week and then rein it in almost completely on Friday night.
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
12:47 am
Not sure about midnight, but a1/4 after 1 comes to mind. In fact I think that’s when Midori always calls me
jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
12:53 am
RW-(the original),
Most of the time I am the most cynical beast in the world…but I have to say…and this is no small statement…that what you described in @ 12.42 gives me optimism in the human animal.
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
12:59 am
jcb,
G’night you cynical beast.
jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
1:02 am
RW-(the original),
I’ve just started listening to Lady Antebellum, but I really like them. I absolutely love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7deClndzQw
When I am totally stressed in life…or work…I put this on…and it just sets things right as rain.
jewcowboy
February 19th, 2011
1:05 am
RW-(the original),
G’night.
Dudley (can the people on tv see me?)
February 19th, 2011
7:47 am
Well it’s sat morn. Getting ready for the Union meeting. Just thought I would check in. Maybe
I will see y’all later this morning
stands for decibels
February 19th, 2011
8:01 am
mornin’.
For everyone in WI fighting the good fight: there’s millions like us.
“unless you’re putting something in, you’ll get nothin’ back…”
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
8:10 am
http://parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/18/lawmaker-heckled-during-tv-interview/
If you listen closely, Ali Velshi asks the guy the same two questions I’ve been asking, and he deflects to something completely different.
1. How does stopping someone from having union dues help balance the budget?
2. How does requiring a union to recertify every year help balance the budget?
Any answers to those questions would go a long way in swaying my opinion on this law.
Dudley (can the people on tv see me?)
February 19th, 2011
8:13 am
Maybe we can get a resolution to support the wi teachers this morning. I will be sure to bring it up. Union forever!
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:19 am
SoCo
1. It doesn’t.
2. It doesn’t.
It is just conservatives trying to destroy anyone who does not follow the orders of the corporate overlords. You can’t balance a budget giving tax breaks to the corporations who gave you money to get elected.
Disgusted
February 19th, 2011
8:22 am
Maybe we can get a resolution to support the wi teachers this morning. I will be sure to bring it up. Union forever!
The saving grace of Republican control is that they’re too stupid to stay in office long. They always carry their ideology too far, with the result that voters boot them in the next election. You’ll see
the same thing happen in 2012. Voters won’t put up with extremism. The Democrats learned that in 2010, and the Republicans will re-learn it in 2012.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:25 am
Disgusted
Amen
SoCo
Grothman is such an idiot! I really hope he is mentally challenged. I can’t imagine anyone actually believing the crap coming out of his mouth!
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:29 am
How do you drown a republican?
Put a scratch n sniff sticker at the bottom of a pool.
stands for decibels
February 19th, 2011
8:30 am
Maybe we can get a resolution to support the wi teachers this morning.
According to Josh Orton, a guy whose apartment is apparently some 100 feet from the epicenter of these street protests (and who was a guest yesterday on Sam Seder’s Majority Report show), apparently every time another union issues a statement in support of their efforts, it’s announced to the crowd and it revs them up.
So yeah. do that. & let the cheese-heads know you’ve done it.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:30 am
How do you keep a tea bagger occupied?
Put em in a round room and tell em to sit in the corner.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:32 am
Santa Claus, the easter bunny, and a smart rebuclican are walking down the street and see a hundred dollar bill on the ground. Who picks it up?
None of them, they are all make believe.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:34 am
Stands
That’s the plan. Might even try to send em money to finance it. We will see.
stands for decibels
February 19th, 2011
8:35 am
Something for the powers-that-be in WI to ponder: what happened when Mubarek ordered the military to crush the protests–
Last night [Feb 10], a military officer guarding the tens of thousands celebrating in Cairo threw down his rifle and joined the demonstrators, yet another sign of the ordinary Egyptian soldier’s growing sympathy for the democracy demonstrators. We had witnessed many similar sentiments from the army over the past two weeks. But the critical moment came on the evening of 30 January when, it is now clear, Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks after flying F-16 fighter bombers at low level over the protesters.
Many of the senior tank commanders could be seen tearing off their headsets – over which they had received the fatal orders – to use their mobile phones. They were, it now transpires, calling their own military families for advice. Fathers who had spent their lives serving the Egyptian army told their sons to disobey, that they must never kill their own people.
Thus when General Hassan al-Rawani told the massive crowds yesterday evening that “everything you want will be realised – all your demands will be met”, the people cried back: “The army and the people stand together – the army and the people are united. The army and the people belong to one hand.”
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:37 am
What’s the difference between a teabagger and a bag of manure?
The manure is useful.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:38 am
Stands
That is too cool
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
8:39 am
Dudley
You and I both know that. I’m waiting on somebody from the GOP camp to either come up with a viable answer, or just own up to the fact that neither one does what they’re claiming it will do. Truth in advertising is all I’m asking for.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:40 am
Btw, I crack me up!!!
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:42 am
SoCo
Yea I know, just leaving them some jokes to think about. They might not hurt themselves trying to understand the jokes.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:45 am
If a teabagger falls in the forest and hurts themselves, Does anyone care?
jt
February 19th, 2011
8:48 am
Please….oh please…..
Let the TSA,FBI,CIA, DEA.ATF,EPA, and all local cops go own strike too.
Just a drive by wish.
You can resume your little Union party.
Thank you and may the state bless you.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:49 am
But I have to admire republicans hiring the handicapped. I mean they did elect a retard potus. Twice
Well at least once, scotus put him in once
AmVet
February 19th, 2011
8:50 am
Warning, soap box time. But I think this needs to be said.
One would think that given six and a half days a week, it is enough for the louts here to make their point.
But nope, some of the bigger sanctimonious lamebrains feel compelled do their best to foul FNM, as well. Pretty much every single Friday night.
To wit:
0311/0317 – 1811/1801
February 18th, 2011
10:54 pm
Mick:
I hate to tell you this but while their “brothers” were dying overseas, unions went on strike “DURING” World War Two for higher wages, etc.
Dispicable.
Firstly, he hates to say it? I call BS.He LOVES to say it. The fact is that he is a non-stop basher of all union men and women.
And that is not even the biggest misrepresentation.
Nearly all the unions that belonged to the CIO were fully supportive of both the war effort and of the Roosevelt administration. The CIO, in particular the United Auto Workers (UAW), supported a wartime no-strike pledge that aimed to eliminate not only major strikes for new contracts, but also the innumerable small strikes called by shop stewards and local union leadership to protest particular grievances.
The CIO did not, on the other hand, strike over wages during the war. In return for labor’s no-strike pledge, the government offered arbitration to determine the wages and other terms of new contracts. Those procedures produced modest wage increases during the first few years of the war but not enough to keep up with inflation, particularly when combined with the slowness of the arbitration machinery.
Even though the complaints from union members about the no-strike pledge became louder and more bitter, the CIO did not abandon it. The Mine Workers, by contrast, who did not belong to either the AFL or the CIO for much of the war, engaged in a successful twelve-day strike in 1943.
Maybe our paragon of truth can provide some damning details.
So who and what is dispicable here? (And for gawd sakes buy a friggin dictionary!”)
More like Dipsh*table.
BTW, next Friday night, I would *strongly* encourage you to shut your constantly yammering yap, as I for one (And I feel certain that I am not alone here), am fed up with your same dispicable cr@p that you unload here all week long.
Soap box off/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxClQ_pInzc
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:52 am
Just for info
Trying to make theme for the day——————-JOKES.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
8:55 am
Amvet
Bravo, bravissimo, fettuccini, ravioli, and all that Italian crap.
stands for decibels
February 19th, 2011
8:56 am
AmVet @ 8.50, there was also this:
Oh for the good old days when Iraq and Iran were killing each other off by the hundreds of thousands.
Yes, he prays to Jesus with that mouth.
later, all.
Mick
February 19th, 2011
9:00 am
amvet
Morning, and I see you’re still rockin in the USA, this is all they care about, unions have nothing to do with it,have a kickin day-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6NfQyNLto
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
9:03 am
Mick @ 9:00 am
Absolutely correct!
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
9:08 am
It just totally amazes me that the republicans support the organization of protests overseas, but try to bust the same type of organizations here in the US.
The hypocrisy is killing me
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
9:14 am
Well folks, gotta get ready to do my part to stop the republicans and their corporate overlords in wi and all over the country. Maybe this is the wake up call all the middle class people who vote republican need for them to see the error of their ways, and finally start to think for themselves.
Withou a working class that stands up for their rights, this country is over.
Mick
February 19th, 2011
9:21 am
Here’s the way I see it, spot on-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-republican-strategy_b_825206.html
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
9:26 am
Mick
That is spot on
But off I go to combat them. Be back in a few hours to let y’all know what my local is doing. Later all
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
9:43 am
SoCo,
Do you have a link to anybody claiming that either of those two things you’re asking about will balance the budget?
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
9:47 am
One would think that given six and a half days a week, it is enough…
I told you guys a long time ago that once you started hijacking every thread during the week with your youtubefests that you’d lose any claim on Friday nights. Go ahead and mock me some more, but I was right.
LeeH1
February 19th, 2011
9:57 am
Actually, it doesn’t take much to bump Bieber.
As to his becoming MVP in basketball? Well, it is easy to fool a kid and make him feel important. Does no harm, I suppose.
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
10:01 am
RW
@ 9:43 — That’s why I’m asking. Those two things will go a long way towards breaking up the union. I don’t argue that. However, Gov Walker is claiming his bill is necessary to balance their budget. If that is the purpose of the bill, why are those things included in there if they do not have an effect on the budget?
@ 9:47 — I remember you giving that warning several times.
Let the TSA,FBI,CIA, DEA.ATF,EPA, and all local cops go own strike too.
Too bad you are intellectually deficient in federal unions. Feds can not strike. I’ve posted that here about 10 times. Locals, yes.. Feds, no.. Therefore, wish not granted…
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
10:13 am
SoCo,
There’s a humongous difference between pointing to something extraneous in a bill and making the claim that somebody said those extraneous things were central to the intended result of the bill. Perhaps if the Democrats would do the job they were elected to do they could get those provisions stripped.
RW-(the original)
February 19th, 2011
10:26 am
Well I’ll be damned. A sleeve of Titleist Pro V1’s just showed up begging to be hit. Catch y’all in the PM.
Gotta love this global warming
0311/0317 - 1811/1801
February 19th, 2011
10:31 am
Hey guys ……… no kidding on this one ………. it’s really neat (National Geographic).
Enjoy ! I’m going out to enjoy the day !
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
10:38 am
RW
They (Democrats) don’t have the numbers to do anything besides watch those things get signed into law. Gov. Walker and the legislators have not denied that they intend to strip the unions of much of their power. Those extraneous things do exactly that. Walker has also said that the bill was needed to balance the budget.
My only thing is that if I were affected, I just want honesty. If you’re gonna take me out, then just say so. Don’t try to deceive me of your true intentions. Be a man and own up to your actions.
As I said yesterday, if Walker wanted true concessions from the union, all he has to do is offer them the same deal that fed unions have. My pension is tied to Social Security and my 401k equivalent. I pay about 40% of my medical costs, which is much higer than what Walker is asking for. My 401k equivalent has a match up to 5%, but it’s not dollar for dollar for the entire 5. I pay most of the cost for my supplimental insurance too (life, short & long term disability). If he put that on the table, I think it’s hard to counter as those numbers are already in effect for public unions, and the fed gov’t isn’t staring down the barrel at pension problems from fed workers anymore.
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
10:39 am
Well I’ll be damned. A sleeve of Titleist Pro V1’s just showed up begging to be hit. Catch y’all in the PM.
Just rub it in, dude……
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
11:34 am
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/19/AR2011021900503.html
In a rare early morning weekend vote, the House approved an aggressive plan Saturday to eliminate dozens of federal programs and offices while slashing agency budgets by as much as 40 percent, drawing out more than $60 billion in deficit savings.
Setting up a showdown early next month with President Obama and Senate Democrats, House Republicans pushed the legislation through after a marathon debate capped off by an all-night session Friday that spilled into Saturday morning. During the bleary-eyed final roll call at 4:35 a.m., 235 Republicans were joined by no Democrats in support of dramatic spending reductions that they said were needed to address a soaring annual deficit of $1.6 trillion; 189 Democrats — as well as three Republicans — opposed it, accusing Republicans of writing the bill with a “double meat ax.”
The three Republicans voting against the measure were Reps. Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Walter Jones (N.C.) and John Campbell (Calif.).
Damned RINO’s…..
If you want to see a list of the amendments that were passed, here’s a decent rundown of them.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/what-budget-cutting-amendments.html
@@
February 19th, 2011
12:02 pm
AmVet:
But nope, some of the bigger sanctimonious lamebrains feel compelled do their best to foul FNM, as well. Pretty much every single Friday night.
And it was only two weeks ago when you said this:
Friday nights at JB’s place are such fun. In no small part because it is the ONE time when the invective-filled lil bb’s of the blogging world stay away.
And via music, communion and brotherhood are allowed their rightful place among us…
Prone to mood swings, are ‘ya?
No matter how hard you try…being dicktated to ain’t somethin’ conservatives will accept. YOU, Amvet don’t get to call the shots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duns4wOSfao
Cool Reception
February 19th, 2011
12:50 pm
Gotta love this global warming
I think there is a lot of truth in that old saying, “ignorance is bliss,” all the way up to the point where that little light bulb finally starts to glow just a little. Of course it is a little too late usually at that point and it just gets treated as a WTF moment. Probably for the best that the ignorant never see it coming.
Backseat Driver
February 19th, 2011
12:56 pm
Have the cut-n-run Wisconsin Democrats been found yet? Buncha children. Hey Dems: the people voted. You lost. Now get over it and sit in the back! Note the liberal media is not upset at regressive liberal Democrats shutting down government (that only happens when Cons attempt to do it). The Gov should fire all the teachers ala Reagan. But he won’t do it. $90k in wages and benefits sounds well above “fair” to me for a teacher, especially considering that’s about 50% above the national average for a state government service employee. Anyone seen the DNC media put it that way? Get your kids out of public schools and put them in private schools. Rapidly. Better yet, just move the hell out of the state. Show them who the REAL boss is with a for sale sign in the yard…
…Like they’ve been doing in Chicago. Can we say The Community Organizer is needed again?
“CHICAGO—A larger-than-expected exodus over the past 10 years reduced the population of Chicago to a level not seen in nearly a century. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that during the decade ended in 2010, Chicago’s population fell 6.9% to 2,695,598 people, fewer than the 2.7 million reported back in 1920.”
Another Gov makes a wise choice, this time over that farce of high speed rail that liberals for whatever reason like to deep throat:
“Gov. Rick Scott, citing concerns over potential cost overruns, rejected $2.4 billion in federal dollars to pay for construction of a high-speed rail line connecting Tampa and Orlando.”
Yaaaay! The first fight against scaremongering UN Global Walarminsts. Thanks Republicans!
“The Defund IPCC ‘amendment was sponsored by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Missouri), who read aloud on the floor from the 2009 U.S. Senate Report of more than 700 dissenting scientists! (Written by Climate Depot’s Morano) — Luetkemeyer: Americans ’should not have to continue to foot the bill for an (IPPC) organization to keep producing corrupt findings’”
Maybe Jimmy Carter is just trying to remind us that he’s as clueless and incompetent now regarding the Middle East as he was in 1978, among other things……is he still whining about Fox News?
“Carter says Egyptian military likely to obey will of people”
And then you have to love this meltdown of a Dallas County Commissioner – one can only imagine the uproar had the races been reversed…….Democrat, naturally…
“DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Tuesday’s Dallas County Commissioner’s Court meeting erupted into an argument between Commissioner John Wiley Price and a citizen, ending with Price repeatedly telling several citizens to ‘go to hell.’…..As Price stood to leave, he looked at Turner and the five other citizens who addressed the court. Price said to them, “All of you are white. Go to hell!”
And Terence Jeffrey has a way to put Obama’s budget and government spending in general into perspective….
“Anyone who doubts that the trend toward socialism is pushing America toward ruin should examine the historical tables President Obama published Monday along with his $3.7 trillion budget.
In fiscal 2011, according to these tables, the Department of Health and Human Services will spend $909.7 billion. In fiscal 1965, the entire federal government spent $118.228 billion. What about inflation? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ inflation calculator, $118.228 billion in 1965 dollars equals $822.6 billion in 2010 dollars. In real terms, the $909.7 billion HHS is spending this year is about $87.1 billion more than the entire federal government spent in 1965.”
The great unwashed masses think government is the answer to everything. Maybe others are right: Costa Rica is starting to sound damn good. We’ll know for sure which way the nation is headed permanently after 2012.
Dudley (United we stand, Divided we beg)
February 19th, 2011
1:20 pm
My local will be sending a letter of support and taking up a collection for the teachers in wi
@@
February 19th, 2011
1:35 pm
Maybe our paragon of truth can provide some damning details.
Though I’m not 031, nor does the topic hold much interest for me, I (just because it’s AmVet) thought I’d offer some assistance.
schnirt
Lunch break’s over but some quick research found these little details:
Jerome Scott and George Homans of Harvard University studied wildcat strikes during WWII.
During the forty-four months from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day, there were 14,471 strikes involving 6,774,000 strikers: more than during any period of comparable length in United States history.29 In 1944 alone, 369,000 steel and iron workers, 389,000 auto workers, 363,000 other transportation equipment workers, and 278,000 miners were involved in strikes.30 In many cases, the “quickie” tactics were extremely effective in improving working conditions and easing the burden of company discipline. Workers virtually made extra holidays for themselves around Christmas and New Year’s, holding illicit plant parties and cutting production to a trickle. Workers often created free time for themselves on the job by other means. On one occasion, workers in an aircraft plant staged a necktie-cutting party in the middle of working hours, roaming through the plant snipping off ties of fellow workers, supervisors, and managers. The wildcat tradition and organization gave workers a direct counter-power over such management decisions as the speed of work, number of workers per task, assignment of foremen, and organization of work While the effects are impossible to measure, industry representatives claimed a decrease of “labor efficiency” of 20 to 50 percent during the war period.”
In many cases, the strikes were directed against decisions of the War Labor Board. For example, in October 1943, the union representing workers at the National Malleable and Steel Castings Company in Cleveland requested a wage increase from the board. After nine months, the board granted an increase of only two and one-half cents an hour; in late July, 1,100 workers struck against the decision. Similarly, maintenance workers in twenty Detroit-area auto plants struck in October 1944, idling 50,000, when their request for an eleven-cent increase in hourly wages sat before the board for nine months without action.
Indeed, most union leaders would have preferred to avoid the strikes of 1946 altogether. They led them only because the rank and file were determined to strike anyway, and only by leading the strikes could the unions retain control of them. In a widely cited Collier’s article, business analyst Peter F. Drucker pointed out that in the major strikes of 1945 and 1946, “it was on the whole not the leadership which forced the workers into a strike but worker pressure that forced a strike upon the reluctant leadership; most of the leaders knew very well that they could have gained as much by negotiations as they finally gained by striking. And again and again the rank and file of the union membership refused to go back to work.
http://libcom.org/history/world-war-ii-post-war-strike-wave#footnoteref58_4khfrpk
libcom…a leftist website where they’re proud of the workers’ strikes during WWII.
Back to the yard work. It’s a BIG’UN!
IYF!!!!
Mick
February 19th, 2011
1:38 pm
Rick scott promised to create 700k new jobs. So far he has proposed slicing of teachers, cops, fireman, prison guards, which will cost jobs. On top of that he cancelled a 2.4 billion dollar grant for high speed rail with a guarantee from the private sector to pay for cost overruns. He’s been in office for a month and his proposals will eliminate roughly 100k in jobs right now. Is that how you add jobs by subtracting? What a frickin idiot, floriduh…
Finn McCool
February 19th, 2011
1:47 pm
Stevie Wonder? “I Believe”
Paulo977
February 19th, 2011
2:20 pm
josef “I am a cat person!” Do have alook at these guys as they migrate
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/great-migrations/
stands for decibels
February 19th, 2011
2:51 pm
Why “Grand Bargains” always suck.
Villagers love the idea of a couple octogenarian senators – one conservative Republican, one conservative Democrat – hashing things out in some back room in the middle of the night, forging some “compromise” which can be quickly rushed through Congress without anyone having to put their fingerprints on it. They believe there are “tough choices” which involve additional misery for the most desperate and vulnerable, and that the voters can’t be trusted to support those choices. So we must have the grand bargain, the compromise blessed by everyone who matters without worrying the beautiful minds of voters.
jt
February 19th, 2011
2:53 pm
Unions ar cool UNTIL they use the police power of the state(taxes) to fund their desires.
Then, it is nothing more than state-sponsered extortion.
If the American people could just come up with an issue that causes Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, Cantor, and Steny Azzhat Hoyer to flee the country, then everything COULD be sublime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oKxFSpZAno
jt
February 19th, 2011
2:54 pm
And Barney Frank………..and Weiner.
stands for decibels
February 19th, 2011
2:54 pm
On top of that he cancelled a 2.4 billion dollar grant for high speed rail with a guarantee from the private sector to pay for cost overruns.
He can, and should, be recalled.
AmVet
February 19th, 2011
2:55 pm
For my nasty lil’ leghumper…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvWj18LeU1g
Testify!
February 19th, 2011
2:57 pm
As Mr. Chrisie recounted it: “You can imagine how that was received by 7,500 firefighters. As I walked into the room and was introduced. I was booed lustily. I made my way up to the stage, they booed some more. . . . So I said, ‘Come on, you can do better than that,’ and they did!”
He crumpled up his prepared remarks and threw them on the floor. He told them, “Here’s the deal: I understand you’re angry, and I understand you’re frustrated, and I understand you feel deceived and betrayed.” And, he said, they were right: “For 20 years, governors have come into this room and lied to you, promised you benefits that they had no way of paying for, making promises they knew they couldn’t keep, and just hoping that they wouldn’t be the man or women left holding the bag. I understand why you feel angry and betrayed and deceived by those people. Here’s what I don’t understand. Why are you booing the first guy who came in here and told you the truth?”
He told them there was no political advantage in being truthful: “The way we used to think about politics and, unfortunately, the way I fear they’re thinking about politics still in Washington” involves “the old playbook [which] says, ‘lie, deceive, obfuscate and make it to the next election.’” He’d seen a study that said New Jersey’s pensions may go bankrupt by 2020. A friend told him not to worry, he won’t be governor then. “That’s the way politics has been practiced in our country for too long. . . . So I said to those firefighters, ‘You may hate me now, but 15 years from now, when you have a pension to collect because of what I did, you’ll be looking for my address on the Internet so you can send me a thank-you note.’”–Peggy Noonan
Testify!
stands for decibels
February 19th, 2011
3:04 pm
whoops, for some reason I was thinking of WI’s law in my 2.54 link. FL doesn’t do recalls, apparently…
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2011/02/dem-lawmaker-files-bill-allowing-recall-of-gov-and-cabinet.html
although some are trying to change that.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
February 19th, 2011
3:18 pm
So I said to those firefighters, ‘You may hate me now, but 15 years from now, when you have a pension to collect because of what I did, you’ll be looking for my address on the Internet so you can send me a thank-you note.’”–Peggy Noonan
Well, a bunch of firemen and police and teachers ought to know the difference between a promise you intend to keep and a promise you make just so everyone will feel good. That’s what’s wrong nowadays. People go to school too much and just loose their common sense. Even a real dummy would know when a politican was just making a feel-good promise.
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
3:19 pm
If any of you see icebergs breaking thru the ground in the area, yes, hell has frozen over. We have a local politician, Republican at that, who has gone on record saying that a tax cut was the wrong thing to do when it was done. He’s probably just punted his chances for re-election, although I’m willing to bet that all will be forgotten by the time the next election comes around….
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/states-ignored-warnings-on-845625.html
States ignored warnings on unemployment insurance
WASHINGTON — State officials had plenty of warning. Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid-off workers.
[...]
In Georgia, lawmakers gave employers a four-year tax holiday from 1999-2003. Employers saved more than $1 billion, but trust fund reserves fell about 40 percent, to $700 million. The state gradually has raised its unemployment insurance taxes since then, but not nearly enough to restore the trust fund to previous levels. The state began borrowing in December 2009. Now it owes Washington about $588 million.
Republican Mark Butler, Georgia’s labor commissioner, said his state had one of the lowest unemployment insurance tax rates in the nation when the tax holiday was enacted.
“The decision to do this was not really based upon any practical reason. It was based on a political decision, which I think, by all accounts now, we can look back on and say it was the wrong decision,” Butler said. “Now we find ourselves in a situation where we’ve had to borrow money and that puts everyone in a tight situation.”
I wonder how many more tax cuts will be looked at in that manner 10+ years down the road???
Kamchak
February 19th, 2011
3:31 pm
I wonder how many more tax cuts will be looked at in that manner 10+ years down the road???
But…but…but…tax cuts have been known to cure eczema, seborrhea and the dreaded heartbreak of psoriasis. They also are an effective treatment for gout, diverticulitis and erectile dysfunction. On rare occasions, tax cuts have been known to raise the dead.
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
3:38 pm
Kam
And we have some here who refer to them as “grown ups”. If it were not for the fact that they would wreck the country and cause our demise, I’d say let the conservatives have their way for 4 years. Cut what ever they want to cut to their hearts desire. At the end of the 4 years, when the sh*t’s finished splattering over the fan and the wall, maybe we could bury the rhetoric forever and actually think and act seriously about things.
Hillbilly Deluxe
February 19th, 2011
3:42 pm
On Justin Beiber:
He ain’t my cup of tea but teenage girls need music to call their own, too. He’s there for those who are so inclined to listen to, the rest of us can just ignore him. He ain’t hurting me a bit.
Kamchak
February 19th, 2011
3:49 pm
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
I’m not sure about the demise, but wreck definitely. That is exactly what it did take in 1929 and the ensuing depression to enact safeguards and regulations protecting us from the “free market” predators and it took 70 years to forget what happened back then and roll back those regulations. Until we feel the pain that our grandparents felt, we are destined to believe that financial institutions can self regulate or act in the best interest of the country.
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
4:05 pm
Kam
I think we’re going to get a taste of that over the next 2-4 years. Imagine what will happen to our bond rating if it even appears that we won’t be able to meet our debt obligations. People are talking about Wisconsin, but the governor of Alabama pulled the same thing on the teachers right after the elections in November with barely a whisper outside the state’s boundaries. Look at how many states have GOP dominated and majority governments.
I’m not going to say it’s all the GOP’s fault. However, I do forsee a grand experiment in supply side economics, fair tax, and everything they’ve preached over the past 30 years. Some of the younger politicians have heard nothing but that rhetoric over their lifetimes, so while the older GOPers say it but don’t mean it, the young ones believe in it like Scout believes in the Bible.
I just hope they’re right, and we don’t wreck this country beyond repair. The realist in me, however, knows most of that stuff is campaign rhetoric.
Hillbilly Deluxe
February 19th, 2011
4:07 pm
Until we feel the pain that our grandparents felt, we are destined to believe that financial institutions can self regulate or act in the best interest of the country.
Speaking of which, are there any local banks left in North Georgia, that haven’t been closed or placed into a forced buy-out situation. I can’t think of one, right off hand.
http://www.ajc.com/business/two-more-small-georgia-844928.html?cxtype=rss_news
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
4:15 pm
HD
I saw that. My mom lives in Floyd Co. I think she’s gone back to burying money in the yard and stuffing it in the mattress.
Hillbilly Deluxe
February 19th, 2011
4:16 pm
SoCo
I’d recommend fruit jars.
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
4:18 pm
LOL!!!! Only if they’re Mason jars. Then again, the lid might rust on those.
Dusty
February 19th, 2011
4:18 pm
OK, let’s get rid of the word “cut”. How about “stop spending” or “bring down the deficit” or “we don’t have the money” or “pay for it with what?” or “take care of yourself” or “we can do without THAT” or “pay in the future is still debt” or “No money. No honey” or “my grandchildren are already broke”.
“Cut” is much shorter. But we can dump it and use one of the others. OK?
Dusty
February 19th, 2011
4:23 pm
HillBilly,
Aren’t United Bank and BBT still in business in north Georgia?
Hillbilly Deluxe
February 19th, 2011
4:23 pm
SoCo
Wonder if you could find one of those old ones with the glass lid? I haven’t seen one of those in years.
If you do have to use metal lids though, you can dig them up and change them every couple years. I’d recommend doing that in the wee hours of the morning. Put you an old sock in there to soak up moisture; rotten money isn’t much good, so I hear.
@@
February 19th, 2011
4:28 pm
Fook You (Me) with Lyrics?
Fook you (me), fook you (me)
very very much
cause we hate what you (I) do????
Whatsamatta, AmVet? Not the paragon you were hoping for? Details lacking?
schnirt
Hillbilly Deluxe
February 19th, 2011
4:28 pm
Dusty
I’m not sure about those two particular banks but some of the banks have been taken over and are operating under the same names and others were completely closed and taken over by out of state banks. I wasn’t speaking of chain banks like SunTrust, etc. They are still around. I prefer to deal with locally owned banks, rather than chain banks, but I can’t find one now, since all the ones anywhere near me went under.
A lot of the natives are pretty restless up here about some of things that went on in the banks. I’d like to see a few people swinging from the yardarm but I understand that’s not legal in modern society.
Dusty
February 19th, 2011
4:30 pm
Well, lotsa things still come in glass jars with plastic tops. Like mayonaise, etc. How would that work? I’ve got a few I hate to throw away. Lotsa jars. Less money……
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
4:32 pm
Dusty
Cut is ok. I agree that we need to cut back on government spending. The method of doing it is where I see the problem. We have an economy that is slowly recovering from near total collapse. With an economy that’s based on spending, if the government cuts too much too fast, who’s going to pick up the slack in spending? Do you expect businesses and corporations to suddenly start hiring, spending and expanding like crazy? I don’t. There’s not enough people employed to pick up the slack either. Anything that’s done has to be done methodically and strategically.
HD
I have a few flip top ones with glass lids. Kinda like the old five and dime candy jars. I’ll keep the info about the sock in mind. Had not heard that one before.
@@
February 19th, 2011
4:34 pm
Clayton County Commissioner Wole Ralph has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence, according to Atlanta police.
Ralph was arrested around 2:30 a.m. Saturday after Atlanta police officers observed a red Mustang “driving recklessly” out of a parking lot on the 1900 block of Metropolitan Parkway in Southwest Atlanta, according to Atlanta police spokesman Curtis Davenport.
Officers stopped the vehicle and reported the driver refused to cooperate. After a brief struggle, Ralph was arrested.
Awwwwww…whattashame. NOT!!!!
Bye bye, Wole!
Paulo977
February 19th, 2011
4:34 pm
AmVet…Dan Fogelberg ! Thank you . And now for you…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlDNvUebe7Y
Kamchak
February 19th, 2011
4:37 pm
Dusty
I read about your problems with squirrels in the bird feeder. At $150 it’s kind of expensive, but this feeder is effective and will provide you with hours of enjoyment watching squirrels being flung off the feeder.
http://www.duncraft.com/index/page/product/product_id/66/product_name/Droll+Yankees+Squirrel+Flipper
Dusty
February 19th, 2011
4:43 pm
HillBilly
SUNTRUST!!! Whooeeee…don’t even mention them to me. I drew out everything I had ever put there after the bank manager messed up an investment he haad set up there for me. . They fired him. But some “cold fish” there suggested that I should have known his recommendations were dead wrong. So I don’t need them for a bank anymore and they don’t have a cent of my money. (Yep, hanging is not good enough for some people!) I did not lose any money. Just good luck!!
Dave R.
February 19th, 2011
4:43 pm
“t just totally amazes me that the republicans support the organization of protests overseas, but try to bust the same type of organizations here in the US.
The hypocrisy is killing me”
The hyperbole is killing me, Dud-man.
Dave R.
February 19th, 2011
4:46 pm
“A sleeve of Titleist Pro V1’s just showed up begging to be hit.”
For me, that would be a waste of a good sleeve of golf balls . . .
If I can’t buy ‘em for under a buck a ball, I don’t buy ‘em.
Hillbilly Deluxe
February 19th, 2011
4:48 pm
If you’re going to get a high dollar bird feeder, you’ll need a high dollar chair to go with it.
http://www.lacksoutdoorfurniture.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66&products_id=204&zenid=4f74a68616d5509b00c4d603491b4214
Southern Comfort (E.O.I.)
February 19th, 2011
4:50 pm
The hyperbole is killing me, Dud-man
What you may see as hyperbole is another man’s opinion. Keep that in mind as you want people to respect yours.
Dave R.
February 19th, 2011
4:50 pm
“My local will be sending a letter of support and taking up a collection for the teachers in wi”
Maybe you could have a bake sale! No, wait! Maybe you kids can put on a show in the local barn like Andy Hardy!
/sarc/
@@
February 19th, 2011
4:51 pm
Whats not to love?
Rep. Christie Koem (R) of South Dakota wanted to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from modifying air quality standards on farm dust.
“Farmers have enough uncertainty,” said Ms. Koem, a rancher whose spirited campaign and unconventional style won her a place in the House Republican leadership as a liaison to the freshmen class. Freshman Rep. Rick Crawford (R) of Arkansas backed her up.
“EPA must come to realize that our food is grown in the dirt and in the process of making it, we’re going to stir up a little dust,” he said.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0219/House-Speaker-John-Boehner-unleashes-new-GOP-freshmen
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Big difference between the Egyptian protests and the WI protests. 40 million Egyptians live on .25 cents a day.
Dusty
February 19th, 2011
4:52 pm
KamChak,
Thanks for the info. It would be fun watching the squirrels take a spin. If I were not such a tightwad I’d order your squirrel-flipper right away. It may come to that. A pair were on the picnic table again this monring, still trying to get into the glass jug of birdseed. They had already cleaned out the feeder. How long does it take before the squirrels get tired of flipping?