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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Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
June 26th, 2011
8:20 pm
“The Bible Gateway has over 100 versions:”
Thank you for making my 7:35 point.
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
June 26th, 2011
8:22 pm
First to go, last to know. Not this time…Good Night y’all.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
June 26th, 2011
8:26 pm
Enter your comments here
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
June 26th, 2011
8:29 pm
Well, I logged on here expecting the know-it-alls on this blog had figured everything out. Wrong again. It’s the same old catfight after the music dies out. I’ll check again tomorrow to see if I can get some Divine Wisdom from you. Y’all sure hate a whole bunch on the Sabbath.
@@
June 26th, 2011
8:29 pm
Redneck @ 8:26:
Never have I witnessed you with so little to say.
Josef
June 26th, 2011
8:38 pm
@@
Redneck never has anything to say as far as I’m concerned. ISh
Kamchak
June 26th, 2011
8:43 pm
Redneck never has anything to say as far as I’m concerned.
Sounds like a classic case of “still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest” to me
Doggone/GA
June 26th, 2011
8:45 pm
“Thank you for making my 7:35 point.”
I know he’s gone. Typical, make what is supposed to be a zinger and then leave without giving an opportunity to discuss it.
No such point was made. All he’s done is make it perfectly clear that he doesn’t KNOW which Bible version is actually God’s Word.
The Oracle
June 26th, 2011
8:53 pm
Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
The Oracle
June 26th, 2011
8:56 pm
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Soothsayer
June 26th, 2011
9:06 pm
Well, I think Scout’s just wastin’ his time on this here blog and getting them government checks each month. No, I think he oughta go on the “sawdust trail” and bring his message to the “unwashed.” Just think about it. Hundreds, if not thousands, of souls for Christ.
Oh, well. Here’s a little something ain’t got nothin’ to do with religion!
Josef
June 26th, 2011
9:06 pm
K’chak
Did I not say “as far as I’m concerned?” Think maybe you might pull another from your bag of quips, sport? I’m sure you’ve got one that fits better than that one…
Kamchak
June 26th, 2011
9:12 pm
Did I not say “as far as I’m concerned?”
Are there any other kinds of statements on a blog?
Soothsayer
June 26th, 2011
9:13 pm
Here’s what I think. I think Ol’ Jay oughta make everbody put a M or a F by their blog handle so’s we all know who we’re dealin’ with. That way, I won’t waste no more time trying’ to make no sense to a woman!
The way it is now, there just ain’t no telling who you’re a’dealin’ with!
Josef
June 26th, 2011
9:17 pm
K’chak
Yeah. Whatever.
Soothsayer
June 26th, 2011
9:19 pm
Here’s one of those “swimming pool” songs I remember so well from when I was young. Of course, my parents wouldn’t have allowed us to listen to anything like this at home. But, that didn’t keep the kids at the (municipal) pool from playing it!
Uncle Jed
June 26th, 2011
9:19 pm
Well, let’s see if U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder finds that this may equate to a racially motivated hate crime. The Philadelphia New Black Panther voter intimidation episode didn’t rise to HIS level of unacceptable behavior, so let’s see where he goes with this one. That was a rhetorical comment.
Peorians living in fear
This eye-witness account is from Paul Wilkinson, president of the Altamont Park Neighborhood Association:
Tonight, around 11 p.m., a group of at least 60-70 African American youth marched down one of the side streets (W. Thrush) to the 4 lane main drag (Sheridan). They were yelling threats to white residents. Things such as we need to kill alll the white people around here. They were physically intimidating anyone calling for help from the police. They were surrounding cars. Cars on the main drag had to slam on their brakes to either avoid the youth blocking not only all four lanes, but a large section of the side street as well. fights were breaking out among them. They were rushing residents who looked out their doors, going on to porches, yelling threats to people calling the police for help.
Cars were doing U turns on the streets just to avoid the mob, mostly male. One youth stated his grandfather was white and several assaulted him on the spot. One police officer answered the call. The youth split into two large groups, one heading north, the other south. They were also yelling racial threats to the police officer but he was outnumbered. Another police car did not show up until after the youth finally dispersed and the patty wagon (van) also eventually showed up.
Residents are very shaken, both black and white alike. This is the fifth large mob action in about a month with smaller groups of 10-12 are out threatening children and adults a few evenings a week or later into the night. The times vary, even occuring during the day. In talking to the police officer, they are short staffed. Residents were advised to simply keep inside and to lock their doors. In other words buckle down, it’s not even safe to sit on your porch or go into your yards.
“The fifth large mob action in about a month.” Wow. This is really outrageous. Why is this neighborhood having to put up with this? “Residents were advised to simply keep inside and to lock their doors”? Seriously? That’s the best we can do for our fellow citizens’ safety?
This needs to be addressed, and quickly.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lHzJ2PFQcMEJ:peoriachronicle.com/+http://peoriachronicle.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
@@
June 26th, 2011
9:21 pm
josef:
Redneck never has anything to say as far as I’m concerned.
But they love him up North in hockey country.
Redneck Convert weighs in…
They think he’s legit.
Yankees are none too bright, are they?
(IW&SH)
getalife
June 26th, 2011
9:23 pm
All I know is I am tired of the Chitimacha Indians taking my money.
“I know nothing.” Sargent Schultz.
Soothsayer
June 26th, 2011
9:28 pm
You mean our very own Redneck Convert is famous? Even in hockey country?
getalife
June 26th, 2011
9:28 pm
RC is a Detroit hockey fan and wrote that in 2008.
“I would like to see that librul weasel getalife and others in a uniform.”
WTH?
Soothsayer
June 26th, 2011
9:31 pm
“The fifth large mob action in about a month.” Wow. This is really outrageous. Why is this neighborhood having to put up with this? “Residents were advised to simply keep inside and to lock their doors”? Seriously? That’s the best we can do for our fellow citizens’ safety?
This needs to be addressed, and quickly.
Funny what people will do when they’re hungry! Heck, they might ever come to your lily-white neighborhood.
Uncle Jed
June 26th, 2011
9:32 pm
Teenage gang charged under lynching law after ’savage attack on 18-year-old student so badly injured, his mother almost didn’t recognise him. Youngest member of gang is just 13
WARNING: Graphic images may be disturbing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008252/Teenage-gang-charged-lynching-law-savage-attack-18-year-old-student.html
getalife
June 26th, 2011
9:36 pm
Gangs have been practicing on each other and now they are ready to hit Main Street.
Boo!
Uncle Jed
June 26th, 2011
9:38 pm
Funny what people will do when they’re hungry! Heck, they might ever come to your lily-white neighborhood.
Been out in the sun too long to be lily white, although my choice for cornmeal is White Lily. I’ll feed anybody that is not able to make it and needs a meal. If they want to come and try to take a meal, or anything else for that matter, I say come and get it but only if you can stand the heat.
getalife
June 26th, 2011
9:38 pm
Wait a minute.
Detroit.
Hockey.
Yankee.
Uncle Jed
June 26th, 2011
9:41 pm
My father-in-law, God rest his soul, kept a sign posted on his barn, which read:
Smith & Weston protects this property three days a week. You try to figure out which three days.
Soothsayer
June 26th, 2011
9:43 pm
“I’ll feed anybody that is not able to make it and needs a meal.”
That’s admirable. I think these youth may be part of the 34.5% of black youth who are unemployed.
parasite + opportunity = productive citizen
Josef
June 26th, 2011
9:44 pm
Getalife
The Chitamacha!!! I can’t think of a better group to give your shekels to. Do you know any of them personally?
Soothsayer
June 26th, 2011
9:46 pm
I ran across this article the other day. I think it should be required reading for smug, self-assured people with jobs who look down on the faceless people suffering without. I challenge all to read it. It may change your mind about how you think of others.
Dave R.
June 26th, 2011
9:46 pm
“Smith & Weston protects this property three days a week. You try to figure out which three days.”
See, that’s just funny!
getalife
June 26th, 2011
9:48 pm
Josef,
Yeah, they take my money every time I go to their casino up the road.
Good steakhouse and cigar bar in that place.
Josef
June 26th, 2011
9:50 pm
@@
Doesn’t surpass me. I’m just waiting for his “outing” hereabouts. According to the Bruin he posts here under another name…
Josef
June 26th, 2011
9:55 pm
Getalife
A childhood friend is married to a Chittamcha. I don’t know if they are still living on the Rez. They went there when their son was little..haven’t. Heard from them in years….
Kamchak
June 26th, 2011
10:03 pm
Wait a minute.
Detroit.
Hockey.
Yankee.
Not necessarily.
I’m a hockey fan, though I follow The Sharks.
getalife
June 26th, 2011
10:06 pm
Cue the scene from the Godfather.
It was Kamsini all along.
@@
June 26th, 2011
10:07 pm
josef:
According to the Bruin he posts here under another name…
Par for the course, around here.
Regardless of what jay’s claims, I’ve no doubt many others do, as well.
Off to bed.
Josef
June 26th, 2011
10:09 pm
Dang….typos galore! That ought to be doesn’t SURPRISE me…still not real comfortable with my new toy….
Dave R.
June 26th, 2011
10:12 pm
Don’t know what kind of storms you folks had earlier this evening, but we had a doozy of one where I swear a funnel cloud was trying to form about 100 yards behind my house (never quite did, but came awful close). Got some great pictures of that plus a rare double rainbow where you could easily see both ends of both rainbows (maybe a half a mile wide).
Cool night for Mother Nature.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
10:13 pm
Doggone: Le’ts talk again (if we can) about .0002 seconds after you take your last breath. If it’s all oblivion as you say ……. no harm done but if not ……………………..
theeyeshavit: There is one problem with your thinking on this. Everyone who “calls” themself a Christian does not mean they are. “For many will say to Me on the last day, did not we preach ………….. in you name. And I will say unto them, “Depart from Me ………. I NEVER (emphasis added) knew you”.
Dave R.
June 26th, 2011
10:15 pm
josef, hardest thing to do when going from one keyboard you’re used to using to one you’re not.
Used to have that a lot when moving from work to home keyboards. Now that I work from home, no problem at all!
Kamchak
June 26th, 2011
10:18 pm
OH NOES! NOT THE .0002 seconds CARD!
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
10:22 pm
Doggone:
There are many “direct” versions out there if you are “truly” interestedas opposed to those that are translations, of translations or translations.
These are versions that modern scholars extracted from the earliest known transcripts in the Hebrew and Greek languages.
The Illiad:
Keep in mind, of the earliest works of antiquity, Homer’s Illiad is the 2nd most “extant” at a time frame of almost 500 years. This means the earliest known transcript we have of the Illiad is 500 years distant from what would have been the original penned by Homer.
Book of John:
You guessed it. The Book of John is the 1st most “extant” of the works of antiguity. The time distance between the earliest known fragments from the Book of John and the original “letter” is a scant 25 years. When you get out to 50 years, the entire book is there.
Now …………. with that in mind, I doubt if you think Homer’s Illiad is much off from the original.
What think ye of John? There is enought there for you to find the gift of eternal life …… if you wish.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
10:23 pm
Kammie:
I’ll give you .0003 ! LOL !
Kamchak
June 26th, 2011
10:27 pm
I’ll give you .0003 !
You ……………………..don’t …………………………..have …………………………….. the …………………………… authority ………………………………. to ……………………………… give ……………………………… me …………………………………. anything, ……………………………. sport.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
10:30 pm
Kammie
I can give you anything I want.
You just don’t have to take it.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
10:30 pm
P.S.
The hatred is truly amazing.
Dave R.
June 26th, 2011
10:31 pm
I see the consistently most humorless poster on this blog hasn’t improved one bit.
Dave R.
June 26th, 2011
10:39 pm
Good night, all.
Josef
June 26th, 2011
10:40 pm
Dave…
Got the new iPad as a present. It’s neat!!! But getting used to “the touch” is even more frustrating than being a total idiot in the modern techno world…
getalife
June 26th, 2011
10:40 pm
I can tell you about the time after your heart quits beating and you take your last breath.
Do you know what I saw ?
Kamchak
June 26th, 2011
10:42 pm
The hatred is truly amazing.
Truly, you aren’t worth that kind of passion.
Just sayin’.
RW-(the original)
June 26th, 2011
10:51 pm
But getting used to “the touch” is even more frustrating than being a total idiot in the modern techno world…
Josef,
You may think that’s frustrating but it’s heaven on earth compared to being an “expert” in the modern techno world.
/I was about to go to the TMI card over the new toy comment but you got in the iPad mention before I could get to it.
Josef
June 26th, 2011
10:54 pm
Getalife
Ssshhh..folks who haven’t been there won’t understand what you’re saying! Much less that two people who have had the experience will, just as in life, interpret it diierently.
getalife
June 26th, 2011
11:00 pm
Josef,
Yeah but the problem with most of them is they never come back to tell the story.
Ipads are the future of computing. I think they are free of viruses so far.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
11:15 pm
O.K. ……….. O.K.
I’ll lighten up a bit ………… this is for my friends ……….. even you poor, forsaken liberal ones !
Stay with it ……….. I promise you’ll be rolling in the floor !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxNgdFeWqM
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
11:16 pm
One came back Who was dead for three days !
getalife
June 26th, 2011
11:22 pm
Scout,
I have walked through the valley of death and……………………………………………………….
Josef is right.
I will let you find out what happens…………….
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
11:33 pm
getalife:
Try it for “three” whole days and then come back …….. like Lazarus.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
11:35 pm
This is why I will fight to my last breath:
“STOCKHOLM – At the “Egalia” preschool, staff avoid using words like “him” or “her” and address the 33 kids as “friends” rather than girls and boys.
From the color and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail has been carefully planned to make sure the children don’t fall into gender stereotypes.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110626/ap_on_re_eu/eu_fea_sweden_gender_neutral_tots
getalife
June 26th, 2011
11:36 pm
Scout,
Twice was enough for me.
Three strikes and you are out.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 26th, 2011
11:55 pm
LOL !
RW-(the original)
June 27th, 2011
12:00 am
WOW!
Thad McCotter might look like your everyday Republican fuddy duddy, but his guitar skillz tell another story.
G’night y’all.
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
5:50 am
“In the race for the White House, Michele Bachmann is surging.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-michele-bachmanns-surge-comes-fresh-scrutiny/2011/06/26/AG75u2lH_story.html?hpid=z2
oh pleez – oh pleez – oh pleez – oh pleez – oh pleez!!!
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
6:06 am
RW – as long as his guitar skillz are madder than Ashcroft’s singing skillz
let the eagles soooooooooaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y
Normal
June 27th, 2011
6:54 am
Happy Monday all y’all…
Newt’s kitties?
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/06/24/funny-pictures-we-havent-decided/
…this weekend…
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/06/25/funny-pictures-da-itteh-bitteh-passed-owt-committeh/
Normal
June 27th, 2011
6:55 am
…and lastly, but not leasty…
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/06/26/funny-pictures-shes-right-i-can-see-russia/
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
6:58 am
Hi Normal!!
omg – Newt’s kitties – too damn cute!
how’s tricks?
Normal
June 27th, 2011
7:03 am
USinUK,
It’s going well. Took Mom out to eat and gave her the choice of places to eat. She chose Taco Bell…she loves that food. It was good beacause she ate a decent meal. We haven’t been able to get her to eat a lot of the time. She always makes me smile though…
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:05 am
Normal – I know what you mean – “you want pizza and ice cream? coming right up!” – I’ve so been there.
how are the grandkids – you spending loads of time together now that they’re out of school?
stands for decibels
June 27th, 2011
7:15 am
mornin’.
oh pleez
Took me a while to figure out why Chris Wallace was apologizing for asking Michelle a softball question like “are you a flake?”
(seems obvious now, it’s because he’s in on the charade, and he has to pretend like it was discourteous to ask it at this point.)
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:20 am
Hi dB! sorry I missed the interview – but, hey, given some of the flat-out nutty things the woman has said, it’s a valid question. unfortunately, flakiness – like insanity – isn’t one of those things that mose people are aware of in themselves.
(or, as I said to someone the other day – every family has someone who should be locked up in the attic – if you think your family doesn’t, then it’s probably you)
Normal
June 27th, 2011
7:23 am
USinUK,
Grandkids are spread out around the country on vacation. I am having a sleep over with my eight year old grand son this weekend. Up all night playing the wii…oy
Normal
June 27th, 2011
7:24 am
USinUK,
Did you meet Paul?
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:25 am
Normal – yay! (but, don’t worry – even 8 year olds go to sleep eventually) what’s your game? there’s a fun set of game for the Wii based on carnival games!
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:25 am
Normal – indeed, I did – was going to give the report when the rest of the Bookman Irregulars arrive
Normal
June 27th, 2011
7:28 am
USinUK,
He likes the Lego games, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. I’m picking up the Harry Potter one this week for a new one to play. The kid shows no mercy and to have a chance, I need to inject a new game in…heh
stands for decibels
June 27th, 2011
7:28 am
UnU, for the record, she isn’t a “flake” as I understand the term in public/political discourse. Meaning she is very businesslike and determined, and is fully capable of mounting a conventional campaign and winning. Unlike, say, that other GOP pin-up to whom she is oftimes compared. and yes, I think it was a softball question, purposefully delivered to enable her to set herself apart from BibleSpice.
Obviously I think her ideology is flakey, but when you have tens of millions of Americans who stand with you in Batcrap Crazyland, and you appear to have the ability to lead them you’re worthy of being taken seriously you, yourself, are not a flake.
(that said, no, I don’t think she’ll win the nomination.)
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:29 am
Normal – which is why age and treachory beat youth and inexperience every time!!
stands for decibels
June 27th, 2011
7:30 am
Looking forward to the UnU / Paul meetup report.
(I don’t suppose you could find an excuse to make it an entry for your Kitchen Diary, couldja?)
Normal
June 27th, 2011
7:31 am
USinUK,
I have that very sign over my desk here at work…
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:33 am
dB – ah. to me, a flake is one who says batspit crazy things, like:
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”
“Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.”
and then there’s the “don’t participate in the census because the gummint will round you up and put you in an internment camp” nuttiness.
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:34 am
dB – 7:30 – can’t do it in the kitchen diaries – my worlds would collide – it would be like matter meeting anti-matter
stands for decibels
June 27th, 2011
7:39 am
UnU, I’d argue that those statements were pretty carefully calibrated.
I mean, the damn goalposts have moved. That WOULD’VE been batcrap crazy twenty years ago. Nowadays that’s merely right-of-Republican-center.
Doggone/GA
June 27th, 2011
7:42 am
“That WOULD’VE been batcrap crazy twenty years ago. Nowadays that’s merely right-of-Republican-center.”
I’d say it’s STILL “batcrap crazy” – they just don’t know it because it’s “merely right-of-Republican-center.”
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
7:52 am
I’m with Doggone -
stands for decibels
June 27th, 2011
7:55 am
Then again, maybe I’m just a pawn of Matt Taibbi.
(I’d heard him shooting the breeze with Sam Seder the other day, both a’ them were saying essentially what I was posting above. Didn’t realize ’til now that Matt had written a big-arse article to that effect until just now.)
Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. “It’s your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!” she gushed. “You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard.”
I said lunch, not launch! But don’t laugh. Don’t do it. And don’t look her in the eyes; don’t let her smile at you. Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her pearls and her ageless, unblemished neckline and her perfect suburban orthodontics in an attempt to reassure the unbeliever of her non-threateningness, is one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau. She’s trying to look like June Cleaver, but she actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo. You will want to laugh, but don’t, because the secret of Bachmann’s success is that every time you laugh at her, she gets stronger.
stands for decibels
June 27th, 2011
7:58 am
one other quote from that RS piece:
Bachmann seems so unduly obsessed with Shariah law that, after listening to her frequent pronouncements on the subject, one begins to wonder if her crazed antipathy isn’t born of professional jealousy.
remind you of anyone in particular, who posts here?
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
8:01 am
“emind you of anyone in particular, who posts here?”
reminds me of a LOT of people who post here … Scout just being the tip of the crazy-burg
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
8:01 am
okay, off to the gym ….
later taters!
Doggone/GA
June 27th, 2011
8:04 am
Tax cheat?
“House Speaker David Ralston last week paid about $1,300 in overdue property taxes on land his wife owns in Dawson County, after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contacted the speaker to inquire about the debt”
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/house-speaker-scrambles-to-989198.html
stands for decibels
June 27th, 2011
8:12 am
ok, just one more Taibbi quote. promise.
Snickering readers in New York or Los Angeles [or Atlanta--sfd.] might be tempted by all of this to conclude that Bachmann is uniquely crazy. But in fact, such tales by Bachmann work precisely because there are a great many people in America just like Bachmann, people who believe that God tells them what condiments to put on their hamburgers, who can’t tell the difference between Soviet Communism and a Stafford loan, but can certainly tell the difference between being mocked and being taken seriously. When you laugh at Michele Bachmann for going on MSNBC and blurting out that the moon is made of red communist cheese, these people don’t learn that she is wrong. What they learn is that you’re a dick, that they hate you more than ever, and that they’re even more determined now to support anyone who promises not to laugh at their own visions and fantasies.
Bachmann is the champion of those tens of millions of Americans who have read and enjoyed the Left Behind books, the apocalyptic works of Christian fiction that posit an elaborate fantasy in which all the true believers are whisked off to heaven with a puff of smoke at the outset of Armageddon. Here on Earth, meanwhile, the guilty are bent to the will of a marauding Satan who appears at first in the guise of a smooth-talking, handsome, educated, pro-government, superficially pacifist, internationalist politician named Nicolae Carpathia — basically, Barack Obama. Bachmann has ties to the Left Behind crowd and has even said that Beverly LaHaye, wife of LB co-author and fundamentalist godfather Tim LaHaye, was her inspiration for entering politics.
AmVet
June 27th, 2011
8:20 am
Michelles Batsh*tcrazy is this election’s Sarah BarraClueless. But not content to just hang out at Number One Observatory Circle. No sirree, she has her sights on the Big House. (When it will once again become the White House!)
And why not? The stunningly unqualified Herman Cain replaces the stunningly unqualified Alan Keyes as the lunatic fringe’s superhero – The Black Bizarro.
This slate promises to be at least as embarrassing as the last one was. Perhaps more so. And I can hardly wait for the upcoming parallel interviews, er debates, which will undoubtedly provide stand up comedians with tons of new material…
BADA BING
June 27th, 2011
8:30 am
Why is that escaped monkey at Emory anyway? American schools for Americans only!
Soothsayer
June 27th, 2011
8:33 am
House speaker scrambles to pay late taxes (AJC)
House Speaker David Ralston last week paid about $1,300 in overdue property taxes on land his wife owns in Dawson County, after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contacted the speaker to inquire about the debt.
Could this be our very own “Dave R.”? Hmmmm . . .
jt
June 27th, 2011
8:43 am
The USA is the world’s largest importer of illegal drugs and the world’s largest exporter of weapons.
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The Bachmans and the Obamas are just phlegm of what this country coughs forth due to its sickness.
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The true healing tonic is peace and the rule of law.
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Ron Paul 2012.
philospher
June 27th, 2011
8:51 am
@carlosgvv : Give it up for a few and listen to the music- you could definitely use a little mellowing out!
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
9:04 am
AmVet – were your ears burning on Saturday??
I met up with Paul – he was telling me about his vacation around the UK and made a PARTICULAR point of telling me that he went to Liverpool and did a Beatles tour, wishing he could post the pics for you!
AmVet
June 27th, 2011
9:11 am
ex-pat, outstanding!
That must have been great fun for you two. Jay Bookman – bringing the world together!
I went to Liverpool and Blackpool back in 1975. It was one heckuva crazy few days. And as this is ostensibly a family friendly forum, I can’t go into a lot of details, but I’ll just leave it with the observation that those Liverpudlian birds were some wild chicks!
THE two songs that changed my world forever…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZ17BWje1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed_2W_KO_zI
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
9:15 am
AmVet – wow – I’ll bet that was an amazing trip – what a weird time to be here! (strikes, bombs, etc) –
as for the Beatles, I’m more of a hippy, drug-taking Beatles fan … Abbey Road, Magical Mystery Tour, etc.