Travelin’ music from the Land Down Under
Last Sunday, we were invited by good friends to a backyard south of Decatur for an informal potluck/concert. We had 50 or 60 people, a deep-fried turkey or two, a good supply of beer and a guitar player from Australia by the name of Geoff Achison, taking a break from his American tour to play a one-man impromptu concert for us.
Sitting in folding chairs in the heat of a Georgia afternoon, sipping cold beer and listening to live music made for a great way to wind down the weekend. The cops even showed up, which made it an official party.
Achison is a great guitarist out of the Duane Allman blues-rock tradition. If you like the cut below, he’s playing tomorrow night at the Sautee Nacoochee Center north of Helen with Randall Bramblett, and at Shorty’s Pizza in Tucker on Sunday. For a guy who talks funny, he sure has this American music down.
– Jay Bookman
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Paulo977
June 25th, 2011
1:31 pm
getalife
“freedom for ALL people inthe world”
if only…we just don’t seem to be able to figure what that means for ALL on the planet!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpS6r7h-o6A
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
1:34 pm
pen:
he is a she ? Good grief ……… then I meant “Punkess”
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
1:37 pm
pen:
I should have known better ………. trying to debate a teenaged girl.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
1:41 pm
Freedom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A
getalife
June 25th, 2011
1:43 pm
I am:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0E0ynyIUsg
Kamchak
June 25th, 2011
1:49 pm
getalife
Why do you keep going down those rabbit holes?
There is nothing but rodent poop down there.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
1:50 pm
I don’t debate with these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB8JQ1kHHbo
getalife
June 25th, 2011
1:54 pm
“Why do you keep going down those rabbit holes?”
Because it is fun going to la la land in Alice in Wonderland and crushing cons.
Uncle Jed
June 25th, 2011
1:57 pm
Are you like your traitor senate leader on Libya’s side because we have a Dem President?
Answer the question Scout and other cons.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++===
Try not to puke while swallowing that rebuke. And for the record, the premise of your question is so stupid it doesn’t merit addressing.
Uncle Jed
June 25th, 2011
2:12 pm
getalife is to Scout, as a yappy a$$ chihuahua is to a K9 service dog.
Bye-bye.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
2:14 pm
You just got:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgv08gsexfc
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
3:02 pm
Maybe we can try Obozo’s method….. Fly over and drop billions of Dollars in cash….. that seems to be his solution to all problems!
Just another one of his continuations from the previous administration. After all, Wall St. seems to be doing better after Bush flew over and dropped billions of dollars there. I just wish he would have done it for Main Street.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
3:13 pm
Uncle Jed:
LOL !
BADA BING
June 25th, 2011
3:15 pm
Things for monkeys to do in ATL
Get your tail pierced in Little 5 Points
Bananatini at Manual’s Tavern
Type editorials at the AJC
Run the ATL City Schools
Check the inmates for weapons at the ATL City Jail
Explore the Urban Jungle
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
3:15 pm
Uncle Jed:
Yep ………………. and her she is !
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008039/Shes-bit-ruff-Chinese-crested-Chihuahua-mix-wins-Worlds-Ugliest-Dog-title.html
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
3:16 pm
BADA:
Hey ……………. I’m going to Manny’s Friday for a police retirement ceremony.
I’ll try one !!!
getalife
June 25th, 2011
3:23 pm
“I just wish he would have done it for Main Street.”
Ah, adult in the room.
Facts show the banks control 63% of our gdp and can donate unlimited bribes to pols so that will not change.
The President wants innovation, manufacturing and green energy for jobs.
The gop offer more tax cuts and no regulations that have got us to this point.
Obviously, a failed ideology.
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
3:37 pm
The President wants innovation, manufacturing and green energy for jobs.
Almost too late for that. China’s about to corner the market on green energy raw material and jobs. While we’re having the most heated discussions and battles over the most insignificant sh*t ever, China’s moving like a bull on the streets of Pamplona, Spain. By the time those jackasses figure that out, we’ll react to that bull the same way this guy’s reacting…..
BADA BING
June 25th, 2011
3:41 pm
Things for monkeys to do in ATL
Part Deux
Get a red mohawk to match your butt
Get waxed at a Buckhead spa
Shoot the Hootch
Go to a Swingers’ Convention
View the wildlife at Underground ATL
Ride MARTA
GO APE!!!
getalife
June 25th, 2011
3:43 pm
Bro,
True but we have to start competing to create jobs.
The cons are on the wrong side of history too many times so it is time to end their failures this cycle.
Jobs vs more tax cuts for the rich.
I choose jobs.
Kamchak
June 25th, 2011
3:52 pm
getalife is to Scout, as a yappy a$$ chihuahua is to a K9 service dog.
Nope.
le petit caporal digs rabbit holes.
Only rodents can dig rabbit holes.
josef
June 25th, 2011
4:28 pm
What? No new thread? Oh, well…it’s still early…so what’s the beef today?
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
June 25th, 2011
4:34 pm
I see personal attack mode is still alive on the blog but then again there are really only a few who do so.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
4:35 pm
so what’s the beef today?
General Tso’s chicken delivered.
No beef.
Kamchak
June 25th, 2011
4:42 pm
…so what’s the beef today?
Not serving beef today.
Recipe du jour ………………………………. Hasenpfeffer.
josef
June 25th, 2011
5:06 pm
no beef here either…crepes stuffed with black and green olives and white cheese topped with a lemon butter mushroom sauce, hearts of palm. that blackbean-corn-tomato-onion-cilantro thingie, and homemade brownies with ice cream…
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
5:25 pm
josef
Sorry, but a meal is not a meal when there’s no meat!!!!! Except when it’s a PB&J sammich and chips.
getalife
If we can’t get Congress to quit acting like Hannah Montana fans, how in the hell are we supposed to get the private sector to create jobs?
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2011
5:27 pm
The famous “panic” of A.D. 33 illustrates the development and complex interdependence of banks and commerce in the Empire. Augustus had coined and spent money lavishly, on the theory that its increased circulation, low interest rates, and rising prices would stimulate business. They did; but as the process could not go on forever, a reaction set in as early as 10 B.C., when this flush minting ceased. Tiberius rebounded to the opposite theory that the most economical economy is the best. He severely limited the governmental expenditures, sharply restricted new issues of currency, and hoarded 2,700,000,000 sesterces in the Treasury.
The resulting dearth of circulating medium was made worse by the drain of money eastward in exchange for luxuries. Prices fell, interest rates rose, creditors foreclosed on debtors, debtors sued usurers, and money-lending almost ceased. The Senate tried to check the export of capital by requiring a high percentage of every senator’s fortune to be invested in Italian land; senators thereupon called in loans and foreclosed mortgages to raise cash, and the crisis rose. When the senator Publius Spinther notified the bank of Balbus and Ollius that he must withdraw 30,000,000 sesterces to comply with the new law, the firm announced its bankruptcy.
At the same time the failure of an Alexandrian firm, Seuthes and Son due to their loss of three ships laden with costly spices and the collapse of the great dyeing concern of Malchus at Tyre, led to rumors that the Roman banking house of Maximus and Vibo would be broken by their extensive loans to these firms. When its depositors began a “run” on this bank it shut its doors, and later on that day a larger bank, of the Brothers Pettius, also suspended payment. Almost simultaneously came news that great banking establishments had failed in Lyons, Carthage, Corinth, and Byzantium. One after another the banks of Rome closed. Money could be borrowed only at rates far above the legal limit. Tiberius finally met the crisis by suspending the land-investment act and distributing 100,000,000 sesterces to the banks, to be lent without interest for three years on the security of realty. Private lenders were thereby constrained to lower their interest rates, money came out of hiding, and confidence slowly re-turned.
Does any of this sound familiar?
josef
June 25th, 2011
5:43 pm
BROSEPHUS
You and Unmentionable! I could get by eating meat only a few times a week, but he thinks you’re supposed to have it when there’s nothing else. He’s supposed to be cutting back on it, so this meal. But I can smell a pork chop frying as we post!
SOOTH
Fascinating read! Thanks…
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
5:44 pm
An interesting read for the economically challenged. It’s plain-worded so that most anybody can understand it. Maybe somebody should write it in crayon for the jackasses in DC. I think #1, #4, and #5 would be of interest for anybody with brain activity and a pulse in DC, but somehow I think that criteria would limit the crowd that really needs to read this.
Five economic lessons from Sweden, the rock star of the recovery
This Scandinavian nation of 9 million people has accomplished what the United States, Britain and Japan can only dream of: Growing rapidly, creating jobs and gaining a competitive edge. The banks are lending, the housing market booming. The budget is balanced.
Sweden was far from immune to the global downturn of 2008-09. But unlike other countries, it is bouncing back. Its 5.5 percent growth rate last year trounces the 2.8 percent expansion in the United States and was stronger than any other developed nation in Europe. And compared with the United States, unemployment peaked lower (around 9 percent, compared with 10 percent) and has come down faster (it now stands near 7 percent, compared with 9 percent in the U.S.).
I guess there really is something there other than a fondness for tiny furniture…
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
5:46 pm
Sooth
Yep!!! I’ve read about several “panics” that all seem to revolve around the same theme. You would think that the geniuses of the financial and political realms would at least blow the dust off of history books every now and then. Hell, we’ve had a historian running part of Congress, and I don’t think that ended too well either.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
5:48 pm
“how in the hell are we supposed to get the private sector to create jobs?”
Good question.
Well, they gave away cars to come to work so I know we can do it.
Listen to the Clinton folks.
They have credibility on this issue.
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
5:49 pm
josef
I was born with the instincts of a carnivore, and I’m sure I’ll die that way. I may drift to omnivore status at some time in between.
Paulo977
June 25th, 2011
5:57 pm
Brosephus
“guess there really is something there other than a fondness for tiny furniture”
YUP …like National Health Care !!!!
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2011
6:04 pm
The health care programs for the elderly and the poor are the main targets of the deficit reduction talks. They are likely to bear the brunt of the nearly $1.4 trillion gap between what has already been accepted by the group chaired by Biden, and the figure set by Boehner. Both Social Security and the Pentagon, the two largest components of federal expenditure, have been largely taken off the table.
Press reports said the Wednesday session included discussion of a one-year payroll tax holiday for employers, another boondoggle for corporate interests to be sold to the public as a “job creation” measure. However, since Corporate America is already sitting on a cash hoard of $2.6 trillion, which it refuses to invest in hiring new workers, another $100 billion or so in “incentives” is unlikely to make any difference.
What is taking place in Washington is a bipartisan conspiracy to rob the working class, slashing trillions from Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and other social programs, under economic conditions where these social benefits are more needed than ever. No leading Democrat or Republican wants to alert working people about the immensity of the changes in social policy that are being prepared.
The Democrats advocate at least a modest increase in taxes on the wealthy so that they can present the gutting of social benefits for working people as “equal sacrifice.”
The Republicans what to dispense with any pretense of “fairness,” and make even bigger slashes in spending to finance additional tax cuts for the rich. So far, as in all previous such “showdowns” under Obama, the Republicans have prevailed, insisting that tax increases are not on the table in the Biden talks.
This week’s action focused on the $17.25 billion appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture, which includes major cuts in nutrition programs like food stamps and WIC, which provides food commodities for pregnant and nursing women and their children, as well as a cut in the number of federal food safety inspectors.
According to an analysis by the Obama administration, the cuts would mean that 1.1 million recipients of emergency food aid will go hungry.
josef
June 25th, 2011
6:19 pm
BROSEPHUS, PAULO
Ain’t Sweden one of them coddling cradle to grave Socialist Scandahoovian countries…”
BROSEPHUS
What is it Ron White says? “I didn’t climb to the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian.”
SOOTH
“According to an analysis by the Obama administration, the cuts would mean that 1.1 million recipients of emergency food aid will go hungry. The bill will also export hunger by reducing funds for the international Food for Peace program”
And again, I ask, “are there no workhouses?”
Cue DUSTY…
“There are no starving people in America…the Churches and charities will take care of them, they just have to go begging…”
Okay, okay, Lady Hyperbole sticks her head through the door. They’re NOT starving.. Just hungry…
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2011
6:30 pm
Jonix: “no debtor’s prisons?”
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
6:42 pm
What is it Ron White says? “I didn’t climb to the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian.”
And they all said…. RAMEN!!!!!
Sooth
There’s a lot of truth in that 2nd paragraph!! If you’re already sitting on huge capital, giving you more money will not make you hire. Demand will make you hire.
josef
June 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
I do have a question. Those Churches and charities which, I want to go on record as saying, do make efforts to feed the hungry, do their members go looking for the hungry or do they wait for them to come asking? I am not being snarky or passing summary judgment, I’d like to know…
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
josef:
Just in case you missed this yesterday:
0311/0317 – 1811/1801
June 24th, 2011
9:40 pm
Headline: “NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – The first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship is upright for the first time in almost 150 years, revealing a side of its hull not seen since it sank off the South Carolina coast during the Civil War.”
A couple of points:
I suppose there are those out there who think it is terrible to be spending all of that money on that “racist” submarine that murdered that Yankee ship.
Anyway, I was thinking about the Texas Confederate flag on license plates thing awhile ago and wanted to run this by you.
So many people think that is a “racist” act and that anyone who purchased such a tag would be a racist.
Here’s the question.
Why is it that those in our history who fought in that war on the side of the Union, or whose grandfather or great-grandfather fought or who lost loved ones in that war never had a problem back in the late 1800’s early 1900’s with honoring the Confederacy and those who fought for “it” ?
They held reunions together, they san “Dixie” together, they honored the Confederate Battle Flag, they put up monuments to both sides, Congressmen from the north voted in veterans benefits for Confederate Soldiers and their wives (the last Confederate widow died about 7 years ago), etc., etc., etc.
They had no problem with these things THEN so why do people today think they have “the RIGHT” to have a problem with it? Just grandstanding if you ask me.
And again I mention ……………. there are probably a lot of Native Americans who coil at the sight of Old Glory (the last thing their fathers saw before a Buffalo Soldier put a bullet between their eyes).
Are we to do something about that or do they just have to “suck it up” ? We know the answer to that one.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4972487/ns/us_news/t/last-civil-war-widow-suffers-heart-attack/ (Last Civil War Widow)
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
6:45 pm
What goes around comes around ………………
Headline: “Hugo Chávez extended stay in a Cuban hospital is because he is in critical condition, according to a report in El Nuevo Herald.
The Venezuelan president, who was last seen in public June 9 and last heard from on June 12, on a phone call with Venezuelan state television, was said to have been treated for a pelvic abscess in Cuba.”
If this knucklehead hadn’t been such an enemy to this country he could have come here to the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins or somewhere and be cured by now.
Sometimes …………. there is justice.
Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/06/25/report-hugo-chavez-in-critical-condition-in-cuba/#ixzz1QKYdLTYj
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
6:51 pm
josef:
Jesus sought out the multitudes in order to offer them spiritual food.
The multitudes came to Him looking for physical food.
That’s a pretty good example to follow if you ask me.
josef
June 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
scout
The short answer to your question is the quote I have posted here before from Milan Kundera. It’s why I call the Imam and his confreres “ticket agents for the Desert of Organized Forgetting.” In case you didn’t read it…
“In his work, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the acclaimed Czech dissident Milan Kundera, writing in exile, recalls a conversation he had with one of his former professors who was dismissed from his post following the Soviet invasion ending the Prague Spring of 1968:
“‘The first step in liquidating a people,’ said Hubl, ‘is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around them will forget even faster.’
“‘What about language?’
“‘Why would anyone bother to take it from us? It will soon be a matter of folklore and die a natural death.’
Was that hyperbole dictated by utter despair?
Or is it true that a nation cannot cross a desert of organized forgetting?
None of us knows what will be. One thing, however, is certain: in moments of clairvoyance the Czech nation can glimpse its own death at close range. Not as an accomplished fact, not as the inevitable future, but as a perfectly concrete possibility. Its death is at its side.”
There was an interesting article written at the time of the wars in the former Yugoslavia (and I unfortunately lost the citation during a computer fry) in which the commentator made the point of the destruction of the symbols connected to their enemies–minarets, church steeples, etc as the way to erase that group’s existence. This is much the same in substance to what you are referring to.
And on the second point, I would interpret it as the opposite. I would pose that the Christ abjured his followers to go and search out the hungry…
Soothsayer
June 25th, 2011
7:33 pm
Just noticed dark skies to the north and west. Will hold together long enough for another good rain tonight? Updates to follow.
josef
June 25th, 2011
7:41 pm
SOOTH
Just looked outside…we’ve got a full, perfect rainbow!
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
8:45 pm
Rain didn’t hold up. Thank goodness too since I got to finish tidying up my yard. Storms interrupted me yesterday. I thought that rhesus monkey might have been hiding out in my back yard as high as that grass was…..
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
8:46 pm
josef
” I do have a question. Those Churches and charities which, I want to go on record as saying, do make efforts to feed the hungry, do their members go looking for the hungry or do they wait for them to come asking? I am not being snarky or passing summary judgment, I’d like to know…”
Josef, They do both, however unless they have divine intervention then I think that people would have to ask.
Kamchak
June 25th, 2011
8:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZWO5ROq_aA&playnext=1&list=PL51B91E2CC17E23CF
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
8:48 pm
Bro, that was Getalife just looking for a car, sorry, couldn’t help it.
josef
June 25th, 2011
8:50 pm
BROSEPHUS
Same here. But that breeze sure is sweet. I’ve got some shrub trimming to do. But that, too, can wait! I’m just going to pretend that our gardner was deported!
josef
June 25th, 2011
8:53 pm
poison
Thanks for the answer. What type of “go looking for” does your congregation do…?
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
8:53 pm
AmVet
“pen, again with the meds thing?
Grow up.
”
If not meds, then why the hateful rants 75% of the time. You remind me of WOW.
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
8:56 pm
josef
poison
” Thanks for the answer. What type of “go looking for” does your congregation do…?
We belong to a Catholic church and we have food pantry’s, baskets for new Mothers and about 20 other things that our church gets involved in.
I don’t believe in all churches and sometimes not even what the Catholics preach, but most churches do a lot of good.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
8:58 pm
“Bro, that was Getalife just looking for a car, sorry, couldn’t help it.”
Sad.
I was thinking the cons position on Libya is the same as the dirty freaking hippies on Vietnam.
La la land.
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
9:01 pm
Getalife, While I didn’t agree with the hippies at the time, they ended up being right, and 58,000 boys in body bags proved it.
You are really clueless.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
9:02 pm
pp,
Actually, I am pretty informed.
Are you saying the dfh’s are right?
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
9:09 pm
Getalife, I personally think that you are clueless on most topice as you always say the same mantra over & over.
The hippies wanted us out of Vietnam because nobody and I mean nobody knew what in the hell we were doing over there.
If you are so wise then please tell all of us what 58,000 kids life are worth? We never should of been there.
So please show everyone on here how you justify that war ( conflict ) seeing as how you think that you are pretty informed ( mis-informed )
getalife
June 25th, 2011
9:12 pm
pp,
Good for you hippie.
cons disagree.
Josef
June 25th, 2011
9:24 pm
Poison
Thanks for the answer.
Not to butt into yours and getalife’s exchange but I don’t quite understand why we cannot give the credit due in the Libya venture that our actions there stooped a certain bloodbath.
Kamchak
June 25th, 2011
9:26 pm
…nobody and I mean nobody knew what in the hell we were doing over there.
Not intended to be a factual statement.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
9:29 pm
“I don’t quite understand why we cannot give the credit due in the Libya venture that our actions there stooped a certain bloodbath.”
I agree and we won another no fly zone mission with zero injuries.
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
9:39 pm
Josef & Geta?, After Lybia then where next. There are bloodbaths going on all over the World and many much worse than Lybia, so please tell me why we must be there.
I would like to know at what point do we stop letting our young men & women get killed for someone else’s problems.
Getalife, Did you see how fast your idol Clinton pulled out of the few conflicts that he got into.
poison pen
June 25th, 2011
9:40 pm
Have a good night.
Paulo977
June 25th, 2011
9:40 pm
josef
“I don’t quite understand why we cannot give the credit due in the Libya venture that our actions there stooped a certain bloodbath.”
…..Gops have in some befuddled way convinced their rank and file and partiers that we attacked a country that didn’t attack us !!!!! Of course it was quite okay by them when we really did that !!
getalife
June 25th, 2011
9:41 pm
“Getalife, Did you see how fast your idol Clinton pulled out of the few conflicts that he got into”
Yeah, after he won.
AmVet
June 25th, 2011
9:43 pm
No, pen, lots of people rant on this forum.
You’re obsessed with me.
Get over it.
And again, grow up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4SzEb5tog
getalife
June 25th, 2011
9:46 pm
It is bizarre to see cons suddenly anti war and isolationists.
Weak on national security.
Thomas
June 25th, 2011
9:46 pm
according to the Obama administration…….
fade any sentence beginning with the above and go watch soccer
Kamchak
June 25th, 2011
9:49 pm
fade any sentence
beginning with the aboveand go watch soccerAlways good advice as far as I’m concerned.
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
9:52 pm
pp
josef
I got in touch with my ancestors and did some shrub scalping!! I haven’t trimmed them all spring, so they kinda had the Buckwheat look going.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
9:52 pm
Perhaps cheney needs to give them a pep talk.
They did not listen to McCain.
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
9:54 pm
josef
You know my opinion on Libya and the bloodbath versus the one due South. Why one and not the other when one is obviously more of a national security issue?
Josef
June 25th, 2011
9:59 pm
Poison
The certain bloodbath was in BEnghazi had we not taken the steps we took. Then the other NATO members stepped up to the plate. This is not the same thing as an “invasion.” Who know how this will all turn out in the long run, but a certain Rwanda was avoided. How will we respond to Syria? I’m not at all plea led with what we have done so far in that situation.
Josef
June 25th, 2011
10:01 pm
Enter your comments here
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
June 25th, 2011
10:04 pm
Just checked in before checking back out. Y’all have a great weekend. Taps.
Josef
June 25th, 2011
10:10 pm
Oops…
Brosephus,
The southern border is a problem we are not addressing and “sending them back where they came from” is only going to make matters worse. I don’t see the problems there as being taken seriously and I’m not talking about the illegal immigration. The internal chaos bordering on anarchy is going to produce conditions which will make 1910 look like a day. In the park.
getalife
June 25th, 2011
10:10 pm
It depends on how many of their people will fight for freedom, they ask for our help and have a chance to win their freedom.
Syria and Iran are not there yet.
Europe stepped up on Libya.
We are their support.
Gates gives the best argument on this mission.
Josef
June 25th, 2011
10:26 pm
Gotta run…
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
10:39 pm
josef
Quick response before I close my eyes. The wholesale slaughter going on in the South is no different than what’s going on in the ME. There’s thousands of innocent people losing their lives to people who will cling to whatever power they can regardless of how they do it. It might just be me, but I think that if people had something worth going home to, there would be no need to come here illegally.
Nothing against Afghanistan, but imagine what we could do to increase our national security by having strong Northern and Southern neighbors. All the money we’ve put into Afg for their infrastructure is pretty much for naught. They don’t have the means of keeping the hospitals, schools, or power plants operational once we leave. We could help Mexico strengthen their defenses and run the cartels out. Everybody knows they’re more than capable of doing the work necessary to rebuild. We should be jumping at the chance to help them achieve the peace they need to stabilize themselves.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 25th, 2011
11:04 pm
josef:
They will come for you first …………………………
WHY THE PEACEFUL MAJORITY IS IRRELEVANT
by Paul E. Marek
“HISTORY LESSONS ARE OFTEN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE.
I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War II. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.
“Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
We are told again and again by experts and talking heads that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unquantified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, murder, or execute honor killings. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent majority,” and it is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war-mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across Southeast Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians – most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt; yet, for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because, like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many others, have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us, watching it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the fanatics who threaten our way of life.”
Mighty Righty
June 26th, 2011
7:36 am
Brosephus
June 25th, 2011
10:39 pm
I agree 100%. I have thought for years how much better off we would be if we would have assisted Mexico to build their country into an economic power. It could still be done but it will be more difficult now that we have damaged our own economy. A healthy Mexico would be a good market for our goods.
Mighty Righty
June 26th, 2011
8:40 am
It is indeed funny to watch the loony left promoting war against every little dinky country that can’t defend itself. The anti-war left have become war mongers.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
9:16 am
Headline: “Romney, Bachmann on Top in Iowa”
Hummmmm ……………. a Romney/Bachmann ticket would be big trouble for El Jeffe.
out of the blue
June 26th, 2011
9:26 am
“Hummmmm ……………. a Romney/Bachmann ticket would be big trouble for El Jeffe.”
Kinda like McCain/Palin?
jt
June 26th, 2011
9:38 am
“Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many others, have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us, watching it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the fanatics who threaten our way of life.””
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The Pagan State-worshippers pose a bigger threat than all moooooslims combined.
FBI,TSA,CIA,ATF,etc
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Here is a free movie for you simpletons who look to the FDA for protection.
Too bad that there isn’t MORE cancer survivors to complain.
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http://vimeo.com/24821365
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
9:41 am
Keep Jesus Out of Your Socialism (Part 3)
by the Rev. Michael Youssef (Church of Apostles – Atlanta, Ga.)
Posted on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 09:19AM
“TO USE THE NAME OF CHRIST TO ADVANCE A SOCIALIST IDEOLOGY IS TO ABUSE HIS NAME. JESUS IS LORD AND SAVIOUR. HIS KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD. HE LEFT THE GLOIRES OF HEAVEN TO BE CRUCIFIED, TO RISE AGAIN, TO CONQUER HELL AND THE GRAVE — NOT TO BECOME A MASCOT FOR A WORLDY POLITICAL MOVEMENT”
“Previously, I talked about the Sojourners-sponsored ad headlined “What Would Jesus Cut?” The ad, signed by Jim Wallis and more than two dozen leaders of the Religious Left, urged our leaders to ask themselves what Jesus would cut from the federal budget.
Called “the leader of the Religious Left by The New York Times, Rev. Jim Wallis has a long history of denouncing his own country. In Agenda for Biblical People (1976), Jim Wallis refers to America as a “fallen nation.” In an article in Mission Trends, Wallis approvingly predicted that “more Christians will come to view the world through Marxist eyes” and that “so-called ‘young evangelicals’ . . . [will] see the impossibility of making capitalism work for justice and peace.”
During the 1980s, Wallis defended the U.S.S.R. and blamed the U.S. for Cold War tensions, claiming, “At every turn, U.S. policy-makers have chosen to assume the very worst about their Soviet counterparts.” He denounced the U.S. government which was trying to halt the spread of communism in Latin America in the 1980s, and supported Communist factions in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
In a 2006 radio broadcast, an interviewer asked, “Are you then calling for the redistribution of wealth in society?” Wallis replied, “Absolutely, without any hesitation. That’s what the gospel is all about.” Actually, no, that’s what The Communist Manifesto is all about.
The organization Wallis heads, Sojourners, has received grants from the Open Society Institute totaling nearly a third of a million dollars. OSI is the foundation created by far-left atheist billionaire George Soros to fund his socialist, globalist agenda. Wallis first denied, then admitted, that Sojourners took the Soros money, claiming the amounts were “so small that I hadn’t remembered them.”
Another signer of the “What Would Jesus Cut?” ad is sociologist Tony Campolo, quoted by John Oliver Mason in The Progressive (August 2005) as saying, “To be a Christian in today’s world is to be opposed to America. Why? . . . America says, ‘Blessed are the rich.’ Jesus said, ‘Woe unto you who are rich, blessed are the poor.’”
As an African-born American, I worked my way to this country. I paid for my education and was glad to do so. Unlike many people who were born in America and take its blessings for granted, I know how rare those blessings are in this world.
I don’t see America as a “fallen nation.” To me, America is a lighthouse of liberty, a shining city on a hill. May God bless my adopted homeland and may He open the eyes of those who deplore and oppose what God has blessed.
What’s the best way to lift people out of poverty? America has spent trillions on anti-poverty programs—yet, as Jesus said, we still have the poor among us. These programs don’t end poverty. They just incentivize it.
The best way—in fact, the only way—to lift people out of poverty is by creating jobs. How do you do that? With stimulus spending? When Congress passed the $787 billion Stimulus Bill in February 2009, unemployment stood at 8.2 percent. Before the end of the year, unemployment topped 10 percent; today it’s at 9.1 percent. Clearly, “stimulus” spending doesn’t work.
The only way to create jobs is to set the private sector free by cutting taxes and cutting government red tape. (I don’t say that’s what Jesus would cut; it’s common sense.) The most effective anti-poverty program ever devised is a job, and most jobs in America are created by small businesses. When a businessman puts his capital at risk and hires employees, he’s fighting poverty.
Writing in The Huffington Post, Wallis said, “I don’t believe, as the Republicans keep saying, that the best way to help everybody is to keep helping the super-rich.” Who are these so-called “super-rich”? Many are small business owners, the ones who create jobs, pay taxes, and support charities that fight poverty. Wallis’s Marx-inspired policies would stifle opportunity, kill jobs, discourage donations, and increase poverty.
Shallow Marxist thinking supposes that the way to end poverty is through coercive income redistribution—confiscating wealth from the “haves” and handing it to the “have-nots.” But true compassion seeks to expand liberty and opportunity—not government.
I don’t claim that those on the Religious Left aren’t true Christians. But we must be discerning about their message. The “social gospel” is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. The supporters of the “What would Jesus cut?” message are on the wrong side of the biblical mandate. Jesus did not say, “Go and tax your neighbor and transfer his wealth to the poor.” He said, “Go and make disciples” (Matthew 28:19).
One reason Christians should not mix the gospel and the government is that true compassion for the poor should always be motivated by the love of Jesus Christ. When the poor receive help, Jesus should get the credit. How is the Great Commission fulfilled, and how is the Gospel proclaimed, by a government check from a Washington bureaucrat?
To use the name of Christ to advance a socialist ideology is to abuse His name. Jesus is Lord and Savior. His Kingdom is not of this world. He left the glories of heaven to be crucified, to rise again, to conquer hell and the grave—not to become a mascot for a worldly political movement.”
AmVet
June 26th, 2011
9:45 am
Righty, you and your neo-con (not conservative) pals sat on your asses for years on end while George of the Bungle got over four thousand three hundred American men killed and tens of thousands more maimed/wounded.
And to this day you never uttered the first peep in protest. You didn’t say zippety doo dah, did you? Not once. In spite of the the worst administration in modern history botching almost every aspect of it.
And now Barry gets ZERO Americans killed and ZERO Americans wounded in this “war” in Libya and you raise holy hell.
For me, that is by far, the most important aspect of this. I’m not at all a fan of this action, but as long as he doesn’t f&ck it up royally like your heroes did, and get ungodly numbers of flag draped coffins sent back home, it is mountains and molehills.
And even you blind Bushbots know that.
Though you faux conservatives excuse your sickening capriciousness, reasonable people are repulsed by this transparent inconsistency.
Will Republicanism ever let you neo-cons be rational?
To the point made at 9:26, Scout, are you begging for another 2008? Bachmann would ensure electoral death for Mitts as surely as Sarah did for McCain.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
9:47 am
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government
that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured…but not everyone
must prove they are a citizen.”
Mighty Righty
June 26th, 2011
10:13 am
AmVet
June 26th, 2011
9:45 am
You have no idea what you are talking about. I thought we should have left Iraq as soon as Saddam Hussien was captured. I never favored going into Afghanistan. If it were up to me I would pull out of both countries now. Involvement in Libya is insane. You can’t even pretend Libya is in anyway a threat. As far as Bush vs. Obama, you cannot cite a single statistic that will show Obama tobe a better president than Bush. All any of you can do is make up stories.
Brosephus
June 26th, 2011
10:21 am
MR
A healthy Mexico would be a good market for our goods.
That would also would be beneficial for our national security which is my primary concern.
getalife
June 26th, 2011
10:30 am
cons are lying as usual.
The only reason they are against war now is we have a Dem President.
They march lockstep if we had a gop President
The gop are weak on national security and jobs.
They will lose.
Kamchak
June 26th, 2011
10:47 am
a Romney/Bachmann ticket…
…would confirm my suspicion that Gopers really don’t want to occupy the White House this presidential election cycle. Much like they really didn’t want to occupy the White House the previous election cycle.
AmVet
June 26th, 2011
10:51 am
Righty, if that is so, I apologize for sticking my big feet in my mouth. (once again!)
I just don’t recall you ever writing about the colossal failure called the Bush Crusades.
As far as Bush vs. Obama, you cannot cite a single statistic that will show Obama tobe a better president than Bush.
Oh yes I can. There are actually several significant ones (including the one I posted earlier this morning), but I have utilized next to no time defending BHO. On the contrary, I have written consistently, since before he was elected, that he is NOT what he appeared to be. I warned my lib friends, prepare to be disappointed in this guy. And I have been proven correct – he is another pro-war corporatist pretty much interested in more of the failed status quo. Certainly he is NOT liberal, like the cons said. (BTW, that’s two presidents in a row, they have been dead wrong about.)
And every time I see somebody refer to him as a socialist, I just shake my head and laugh at how deluded people choose to be.
To date, the only grade I have given him is a C-. And said that was probably a tad generous.
Yet, even as much I have excoriated him, that does not remotely compare to George’s grade of F.
A consummate failure, by every metric and measurement. And by every ranking I have seen.
OK, out for a run, before it gets too hot…
Time marches on
I learn to crawl, I learn to walk
You couldn’t stop me from running
Stop me from running
Before I heard my name
Before I learned to talk
I knew I was running to something
Running to something
Into the arms of my god
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POUWjHLC0p0
Mighty Righty
June 26th, 2011
10:53 am
getalife
June 26th, 2011
10:30 am
So now you are in favor of the war Bush started! You are marching in lock step with the exact same Bush policies which are now being implemented by Obama. Now, you are in favor of nation building not only in Iraq and Afghanistan but in Libya as well. You are now in favor of assasination of national leaders in violation of international and U.S. law! You no longer believe that a U.S. President needs to have congressional approval to start a war! That is an amazing turn around.
getalife
June 26th, 2011
11:00 am
MR,
In the Iraq debate, Americans were called unpatriotic and traitors by you cons. Love it or leave it, blah, blah, blah
The amazing turnaround is you con’s anti war positions.
The biggest flip flops so far.
It’s bs and you know it.
getalife
June 26th, 2011
11:02 am
And then there was Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Remember?
Of course you do.
josef
June 26th, 2011
11:09 am
Brosephus
As you know, I’m in agreement with you in relation to south of our border. If we would drop the “nation building” end of all these foreign excursions we would be able to focus on that problem closer to home (not to mention the myriad of building projects here at home.)
I am hoping that the Obama doctrine will be along those lines. Yes, we should stop the certain slaughters where we can, but the occupation and reconstruction belong in other hands, paid for out of other checkbooks. The EU is the one needing on Libyan oil and it’s in their neighborhood. Their job. The same may be said of Syria…it may take a unilateral action to stop it, but the occupation and reconstruction of the society should be left to Turkey.
If we are going to put in the role, and put ourselves there, of “policeman to the world,” the do the policeman’s job and not the social worker’s. So many of our allies want to posture on the humanitarian end, then do it and stfu.
As for Mexico, the bottom line whether or not we’re willing to admit and do something about it, is that the drug cartels supply a United States and Canadian market. They buy their weapons here quite legally. Getting behind Frank and Paul could do more than just about anything to begin to reign them in. And supporter of the Second though I am, the manufacturers are trafficking in arms to a foreign country, they know it and you can bet your last Judah P, that this is factored into the board meetings and production schedules. Supply and demand.
A sidelight to the immigration thingie is that millions of Mexicans who a scant two generations ago would have put the United States and its way of doing things up there with what they knew of China or Mars. Now they have large populations educated in and with ties to the US. They want the same thing stepped to a hat dance, but the same thing. They are tired of the old way of massive corruption, rule by cliques, etc. But they’re not going to get there if we keep contributing to the problem.
We yap about foreign aid, and should. But we have here “those people” who are “sending their money back home,” meanwhile picking our peaches and swabbing our toilets and shlepping our dinner to the table. What they send “back home” goes directly to families and into their own “pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps.” That money doesn’t go through some government agency where cronies take their cut and very little gets to the people who we think we’re helping. We would help Mexico (and ourselves) far, far more by providing a functioning work visa program. But, just like drugs and guns, there’s a better deal to be made under the table.
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2011
11:19 am
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Since this is still technically a music thread we really must get the cadence right.
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
You’re welcome
getalife
June 26th, 2011
11:29 am
Nation building goes back to our legal bribery system. The mic and contractors can donate their profits to pols. Do cons want to change this fact? No.
Iraq decides if the 47,000 left there can stay and we are leaving Afghanistan.
Libya is a Nato mission.
The Atf tried helping Mexico, so that did not help.
Lift the prohibition on weed to help Mexico.
The corruption on our side with our banks does not help.
getalife
June 26th, 2011
11:31 am
RW,
Are you anti war now too?