Look out Bruce, trouble with a big ‘T’ travelin’ north

oooh firsties for Friday Night Music!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qkn7OlbM8

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I’m from jersey and still not that into the boss (heresy), I’ll take this hard rockin jersey band, smithereens concert over his any day of the week…

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mick, I knew that there was more than just your politics to not like about you. The smithereens couldn’t even qualify to be roadies for the E Street Band.

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Smithereens rawk !!! Hell yea Mick, come on.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLLJozO1F0E

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Here’s a Jersey boy I love come rain or come shine

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Have no fear of the Cyclone.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is on it……………The NHC is a component of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).
To meet its mission, the NHC is composed of several units. The Hurricane Specialist Unit (HSU) maintains a continuous watch on tropical cyclones and provides watch and warning recommendations to other World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Region IV meteorological services.Don’t forget the…………………..
The Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB)…These guys generate analyses and forecasts over the tropical and subtropical eastern North and South Pacific and the North Atlantic basins year-round.In conjucnction with these guys………………
The Technology & Science Branch (TSB),, develops and transitions new tools and techniques into operations for tropical weather prediction.
The Hurricane Liaison Team (HLT) ,also has our back ,by supporting hurricane response operations through the rapid exchange of information between the NHC, the National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS), and the emergency management community.The team establishes and facilitates video and/or teleconferences with the NHC, FEMA and other Federal agencies, state Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC), Storm Prediction Center (SPC), and River Forecast Centers (RFCs).
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Supposingly, all of these guys have been woke up………………………..and they’re watching Irene.
……..after consulting with an old shrimper dude.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcizZebcaU&feature=related

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Great one, Jay!

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For josef,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbOBoa8vD8

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c’mon JB, … I wasn’t at this show, but I saw him do this on the same tour a few months later at the old Brendan Byrner Arena.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJ8oKToeNM

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Sorry to add to the bad news. This could be really bad and worse than a hurricane.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-25/tamiflu-resistant-flu-outbreak-reported-in-australia-s-newcastle-who-says.html

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And to commemorate 20 years of grundge rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEa6mUyJYok

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and Springsteen faithful may be familiar with the story about how while recording Born in the USA, Jon Landau was ragging Bruce about “no single” for the album (this is when artists sold LPs), so Bruce kinda re-worked a tune he had been working on for the Ramones; and Landau said something like; “…call Joey and tell him sorry, you’ll write him another song…” and the rest is history (Bruce’s first Top Ten SINGLE)

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If Irene destroys Wall Street.

There is your sign

I prefer this sign.

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Mick — “I’ll take this hard rockin jersey band, smithereens concert over his any day of the week…”

I saw them play live in 1985, before they broke big, and it was apparent that they were going places.

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Hey jersey, hope the house I used live to in stands-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZz2vLUt1Ek&feature=BFa&list=PL6BA192293976A9B0&lf=autoplay

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To Irene…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obfci1CIqq8

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Anyway, New York will be alright, they’ll just be…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7QL46cK7B8

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Granny,
I’ve been recording Mom’s records for her and she has some really early in his career stuf that knocks me out. What a voice Sinatra had before the booze and cigarettes…just wow!

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Normal,

BEST MOVIE CLIP EVER!

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I’m going off topic…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUeuAnMNDhA&feature=related

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Matti, used to be in a band, but I refer you to the (talentless) quantifier in my 4:56. in fact, it was not unusual for the drummer in our wretched bar band to turn my amp down to 0 (or unplug it).

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Oh hey, I was just walking out the door when an extremely nasty pungent odor came wafting through the screen. I think someone has stinky fingers-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ8MvnEVCqM

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I quit listening to the radio many years ago because of the crap stations they have in Atlanta….I’m no fan of these amped in guitars that totally destroy any lyrics that may be produced. It just sounds like these so-called rock & rollers hide the garage they emit, with the sound of their amps tuned to blast ones eardrums out of kilter.

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OOTB — “I quit listening to the radio many years ago because of the crap stations they have in Atlanta…”

Me, too. I think I stopped listening around ‘94 or so. I only turn on local radio now for NPR or for weather and traffic reports.

I’m out, all be safe and be well.

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matti, I was at that show as well (and the Fox show in July ‘08). I actually wept during “The Day After Tomorrow”

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man i love this song

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dedicated to Irene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssvOqyDumS0

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Well, play a sad song for me. The Braves will NOT be playing Saturday or Sunday. Mean ol’ Irene, destroyer of happiness.

Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night but but you have to draw the line somewhere. Those New Yorkers are not going to ride the subway underwater (possibly). OK OK

The BRAVES will be playing tonight. Go Braves.. Run all over ‘em tonight. Then you can rest all weekend. I’ll be waiting for you..

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More Bruce than you can shake a stick at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA

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Well, I ain’t much on Springsteen, but Willie’s always good. Somebody’s got to say something to that hurricane, so let Willie do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGd4jkaoHRg

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Redneck

I think country music is an abomination against nature, but I do love Willie and the Man in Black.

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speaking of Bruce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0R0_AwlUrM

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Forgot the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzhzCF77GDo

We often joke around that we got married in a fever! I’ve always enjoyed watching those two, you can see real love there.

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Kam…Duke and Coltrane. Now, how am I going to top that?

Eldar… he has never been on my radar screen until tonight

Thanks.

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I think I’ll just wander off for a little bit of my favorite country…………..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaBkMSC08wQ

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jt,

Looks like the Feds have the entire alphabet soup of agencies working on the Irene situation. I’m sure there is no overlap in their efforts whatsoever. It it wasn’t Friday night I would say, “And you need more of my tax money?!??!!”

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Not to get in a debate about the who’s and why’s of Katrina response or Floyd response. NC got the shaft in 1999 after the floods here

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Bosch, easy on the mullet-hating; it was the 80’s.

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Duke and Coltrane. Now, how am I going to top that?

This certainly is on par with them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU

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I see a competent response from the adults in government on Irene.

Except for the gop that promised not to help.

It’s breaking up.

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Kam … There you go again, Miles with no exception is probably the best at trumpet..No doubt!

So in return for that great piece…I’ll offer up this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w5PekfV4dY

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common sense…

Hey, don’t knock Bruce though…they loves they yellow dogs!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petey-the-famous-yellow-dog-that-runs-through-Bruce/136254289772461

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Even when they vote for the Democrats?

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Joe the Plutocrat – 6:17

Good analysis. I agree. I think he was playing guitar on an old Roy Orbison special called “Roy Orbison in Black and White”. He was very good on that.

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carlos, it was called Roy Orbison: A Black and White Night. The band also included; Jackson Brown, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jame Burton (Elvis’s picker), T-Bone Burnett and I think, Warren Zevon. Roy’s (female) “Pips” included; kd Lang, Bonnie Raitt and I think EmmyLou Harris. not a bad band

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Dear USA we will take Texas but you have to keep that Perry person

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Bruce and the Big Man (RIP) rocking my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=betZWo0gZrc

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out of the blue

Very smooth Lester Young and someone I am not too familiar with.

My favorite current day saxophonist doing one his solo works. Plays with the Acid Jazz group Down To The Bone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SufvQtFO4U

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Speaking of the radio, I’ve recently discovered and now love Pandora radio

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BOSCH

Just now discovering Pandora? Greatest thing since sliced bread, imho!

and the radio…

We know who this one’s for…repeat from nights before…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Rwu5yPUrc

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Well, there ain’t but one Springsteen song I’d listen to the rest of my life. It has everything—a waiting power car, a girl, and a night waiting to happen. It’s sort of like waiting for Matti to agree to go with you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KngiJUNdsu0

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I’m all over the place tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIOzwBKaLQ

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here is something for everyone, no matter which side you vote for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbrCJfgH8s

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Well, Kamchak, that’s sort of how I feel about this Bruno.

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BOSCH

Not to my taste in music, even if to my taste in art…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slEyPx77eF8&feature=related

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Does Mrs. RC (R–apoi) know about this crush you have on another woman?

Is that her comin’ up behind you with a 12″ Lodge cast iron frying pan?

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America, home of the free!

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For Bruno, RC and Matti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ3amVBypEk

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kenny rogers…showing my age here…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8k6fVe25k

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Smeat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9-FOLG-iA

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Looks like Irene is going to rain on MLK’s parade. Conspiracy?? …..Anyone, Anyone?

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Sooth
@ 7:04

Back atcha…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPgxay8p8TQ

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BADA

Are you channeling Unmentionable…

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for josef:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR9tF8pMERY

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If it’s too loud, you’re too effing old !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RukUetw0hAM&ob=av2n

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Back @ Smeat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPol9hD0ns&feature=related

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Josef

A Hieronymous Bosch band? Well I have to say they are no where in the realm of my taste either, but again, my name is directly connected to the artist, no the Screamo band!

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Come on tea party where is the out cry? should Govn stay away from this Hurricane? Is this going to be more spending?, this shows what a bunch of weak hypocrites the tea party stands for””

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Heard this one for the first time when my brother came back from Nam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yOffTanLNs

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gm – some (never say all) of the TPers are total hippocrits

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Don’t no about you. But right now I want to hear something by Suite Judy blue eyes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFx68BIfMiM

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man, I hope mick got some soap powder for his old lady, he was kind of rude to her earlier when he was airing her dirty laundry on the board.

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what is the recipe for a hurricane?

not flaming, don’t want to burn down the house but time to party since the lights are out LOL

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common sense…

oops… this was it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEBb5TG1Nc8

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2 many yrs in the RnR biz josef… I’ve seen and heard it all. Sometimes the good stuff still manages to break thru… Glad u liked.

Now ignore the hatin’ troll who forgot it’s friday night in this blog and click this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1UWSD-FaA

then remember one thing…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC-W0_cv85E

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For our fellow citizens in the path of Irene —

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6E7xQdfGIU

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For our fellow citizens in the path of Irene —

Just guessing, Smeat, but I think the folks in NJ and NY will be smart enough to get out of the way of the hurricane, unlike our fellow citizens a little south of here.

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One for Hillbilly of a Friday Night…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRjNrsUl_6s&feature=related

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Thanks Kam, I have the alcheehol but need to send someone to get the rest.

Rain has stopped for a few minutes so grillin by flashlight

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Kamchak left out the most important ingredient !!!!

The paper cup … !!! So’s you can stumble until you fall into The Dungeon.

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I use the shaker, save a tree

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I had a class once, I skipped it

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Up north they’re thinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvDo2JHB7o

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Would someone play “Baby won’t you light my fire?” and put it under the BRAVES. The game is now 2 to 0 Mets in the seventh. We can’t have that. Go BRAVES go!!

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Braves on my TV also.

I did a few gigs with this guy… A genuinely nice person and someone I’m proud to call a friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdItuvBxc8&ob=av2e

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Josef–Mean anything to you??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWqizV_puk

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Bruno and josef — At least Glenn Beck is ready to restore courage…

It’s like some infomercial… GBTV for $5 + Processing and handling.

But wait…. There’s more …. We’re gonna double the offer just pay separate processing and handling…

GONG !!!!!!!

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duh… sarcasm to da last post

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Do you always trust your first initial feeling??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj3vayL4buo

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best of GB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3J_QLtYqlk

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Bruno — My mentor was their monitor engineer back then. He had pneumonia more than once.

A brilliant selection — KUDOS to thee

Back at cha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApAdKVh_Oec

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Can’t do much about Mother Nature.

Sooooooo

I’m feelin’ Kinky.

Springsteen’s too old to dance. The original music video was much better.

There’s just something about his butt.

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Yea Bruno..I did know that song was from the Sterile Cuckoo.

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bruno

Some very rare vintage zep-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDiSnNOSAM

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I watched his interview with Piers Morgan the other night. Super nice guy. Funny too. Reminds me of my husband’s cousin…same outlook on life. Looks like him too.

The Dude!

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Best in Show to out of the blue for that 10:03. Transcendent.

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Seriously, though. titus andronicus are great.

and tramps like us, baby we were born to die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fqHr_KGPY

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outta here…g’night….

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2 many aholes wanna make 2 many headlines.

Irene ? Yah… I sorta remember her from Oklahoma…..

Whatever – I luv MREs and Iranian cigarettes…

Iran has the best smokes…. No SHLT !!!

Ahmawhateverhiznameiz must be the next Dikajacktater to leave the building….

Invade Iran to conquer their tobacco market !!!! …. Cuba 2 !!!

Cough…. Cough…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCOUyCWbtg&feature=related

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Here’s some classic bubblegum-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwgbfriHWt8&feature=related

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josef:

Well, i’ll be d*mned…me and you both linking Kinky! ISH

No, josef…you will NOT be d*amned. I haven’t read many comments within the last five threads. I’ve been elsewhere.

Watching this White House over these last several weeks has been like watching a time-lapse video of an apple rotting.–Michael Tomasky

And Tomasky’s a liberal!!!!

I say this with the utmost sincerty…we need to let President Obama return home to his wife and family. He’s in over his head. It ain’t gonna get no better for him.

He came, he tried, he failed.

Sorry.

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bruno

Yeah, she did, at least she has some good taste in 80’s glam-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgFh4RHgn0A&feature=related

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smeat

Some dingaling has way too much time on his hands – pathetic, low grade amateur garbage…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdRVRuLbp2w

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SWEET Yes, B!

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BTW, I like this Bruce better…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uravhL8FbY

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http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/08/26/political-pictures-friday-picspam-youre-gonna-need-it/

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Do college football games start today?

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Hey Common! Hope all is well and you got your Ark done in time! Take care and be safe!

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Bosch:

Thursday night I think.

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SoCo,
You still haven’t sent those car pics…what do I have to do, hunt you down and go all “NORMAL” on you?

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I’ll get that taken care of. I DO NOT wanna get normalized.

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I just came across some of the coolest sh*t I’ve ever seen… Check out this student housing complex in Amsterdam…

http://www.tempohousing.com/projects/keetwonen.html

It’s made entirely of stacked shipping containers. The company that does it can put up housing worldwide in almost no time flat. The containers are standard size containers, so they can be shipped worldwide. Why don’t we have innovative thinkers like that here in the US?

http://www.tempohousing.com/products/housing-solutions

Here’s the link for the different design and size options they offer. You could pop up temp housing after a disaster, and remove it when done and be mobile enough to go worldwide if necessary.

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Normal, the blondes I have aren’t dogs.

I may have to make an exception and take a few pretty kitties though

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NoCom

I’ve been reading up on them for a while. I remember a seeing group on CNN that was working on a design around the time of the Haiti earthquake. It seems that would be a damned good investment for disaster relief that would be well worth it. We, as a country, do a lot of disaster relief here and abroad. It seems like a cool idea for student housing around schools too.

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NoCom

I’ve seen that one as well as some of the other contemporary designs. I’m talking about practical uses like that second link I posted. I think it’s a sign that we’re no longer the great innovators that we were. In the days of old, we were the greatest when it came to innovation. I don’t think we’re at the top of that game anymore.

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Fred

You’re right about Bama, they suck the life out of everyone else who thinks they have a chance at the national title.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=H8rHarp1GEE

Hope this comes thru, it’s amazing.

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Did I hear football?

Always loved this one:

“At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat…….That costs money and we don’t have any.”

Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.

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**no one has ever gone downhill faster than Obama.”**

I don’t know about that, the previous guy left with a 28% approval rating, 15% of those approving were from georgia…

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Hey NORMAL

Nanana yah yah yah on your Braves “celebration”!! May the strong wave of the BRAVES hatchet rest firmly between your shoulder blades. So THERE!!! Scared ya!!

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“Perry is not the first governor to try to bill the federal government for the costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, sued the DHS in February seeking compensation for incarceration costs, among other things. And Napolitano herself, who preceded Brewer as Arizona governor, regularly sent the Justice Department invoices seeking such reimbursement before she became Homeland Security secretary.”

Interesting conundrum Ms Janet finds herself in………..hard to say no when she did it herself……..

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**That’s o.k. We understand and we know you will either stay away or won’t pull that lever for him again.**

Wrong. Who are we going to pull that lever for? Bachmann? Be serious, even you wouldn’t.
Perry? The man whose own state is a wreck with budget deficits, pollution, poor education – yes there’s your man. Romney? Now there’s a thought, have to wait and see. The rest? pretty lame. so obama may just walk in again by default and it would not bother me. I’d rather see the house be restored to the dems and the iced tea party evaporate…

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Well our quarterback and linebacker got arrested for beating some guy so our season is pretty much over.

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rw

My apologies, it was tongue in cheek, which sometimes doesn’t translate when done poorly. I was just funnin with that 15% but I do believe that he had the highest approval ratings in georgia versus the other 49. Plus, I live in miami, not palm beach.

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Brocepheus,

Those container dorms were very interesting. I had pictured those one box smaller units and couldn’t figure how that would work. But those are BIG containers. I did not read enough to know what the cost was to install bathrooms, fixtures, heat, etc. and holding units together. Must be cheaper than actually buildings and uses what must be surplus.

I can remembeer when people were converting freight cars (train) to living units. Hadn’t heard much about that lately. But making something useful out of something no longer useful is really interesting. ( I have Scottish ancestors and maintain their sense of frugality!)

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Dusty,

More rw spin silly.

He does not need coffee for that.

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For those of you out there still supporting Obama, we know it’s just too embarrassing to ever admit you were “so wrong”.

For the umpteenth time — I supported Juan McSame and Snowbilly Snooki in the previous presidential election for the simple reason that this trickle-on, Econ 101 alchemy started stinking to high heaven half way through the Bush administration thereby proving that it had a 30 year expiration date. Predictably, you silly cons started blaming Obama.

Do I blame Bush?

Yes.

And Clinton.

And Bush Sr.

And Reagan.

And all the silly phlogiston economists that have matriculated at the various Econ 101 diploma mills for the past generation.

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RW,

Your help with the BRAVES will be much appreciated. I think you can do it by Tuesday. I myself may go with a box of bandaids. Did you know that Hanson has “pulled” something and has joined the big DL party? Mercy!!! I think Fredi Gonzalez will have to start playing soon. Or maybe the bat boy..

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AWWW Kamchak.

Go kick the cat or something. MIght make you feel better. Chili dogs help too.

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Well, I feel like a idiot today. Instead of spending so much money to buy a new trailer after mine burnt down I could of got one of those containers alot cheaper. It might of cost a little to get it fixed up for living in, but it still would of been cheaper than another trailer.

Course, if I’d of checked that gasoline container to make sure there wasn’t a hole in it before I carried it toward the old trailer I wouldn’t of had to buy a new trailer. But I learned a good lesson: never burn a pile of leaves in your own yard.

Anyhow, I’m sorry I tuned in to the Braves last night. Hudson was just pitching batting practice to the Mets. They had about 10 hits before the Braves even got started. And the Braves looked like a little league team at the plate. Don’t nobody check out these people before giving them a uniform?

Have a good Saturday everybody and be glad you don’t live up North. We might have more political crooks down here, but at least we don’t get hit with hurricanes too much. Once in a while a trailer park or two gets wiped out by a tornado, but the hurricanes leave us alone in GA.

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Kam, a suggestion. Go to Hometalk.com and you can post a question about how to keep them out of the garden. I have seen some great suggestions there about different things you can do for the garden. Some of the best from HGTV and DIY are there. May even be good for your biz. Best of all, its free.

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Keep

My neighbors on either side of me have killed 13-15 of them in the past six months. These things are devastating to a garden.

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How does ground hog taste?

Anybody?

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md: It’s tastes a little gamier than spotted owl………..

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How does ground hog taste?

Well, sort of like fried squirrel. But if you’ve lived a deprived life maybe you ain’t tried fried squirrel. So just imagine fried chicken with kind of a gamey taste that sort of sticks to the roof of your mouth for three or four days. And if you ain’t ate fried chicken, well, I can’t help you. Go in ignorance and eat your tofu.

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But if you’ve lived a deprived life maybe you ain’t tried fried squirrel.

The phrase, “ignorance is bliss” immediately leaps to mind….

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Mick:

What amazes me (and I’m serious) is how someone as intelligent as you seem to be can be so misguided about sometone who is out to destroy this country as we know it.

Truly amazing.

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Ground hog tastes like sausage, not sure about groundhog though.

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scout

The difference between your views and mine are this; I fully realize that there are hard core obama dislikers out there and accept it. You on the other hand, can’t fathom anyone still supporting him. Kamchak nailed it, narrow minded people just need the current president to heap all the blame, while its been building for a generation…

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RW,

I think you should go whole hog about this thing!

I am going to make a fruit pie. Who knows but Irene might turn around and hit Atlanta. I must be ready. Must hurry……see ya later…….

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MIck,

Robert Gates is the finest !! That’s why Bush chose him to start with. Then Gates served his country under Obama. We need Gates to stay in Washington.

Now I’m really heading for the kitchen!

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Redneck
Convert
8/26
@5:46pm

Agree
Now as we send good thoughts to the folks there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7f189Z0v0Y

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Since this is still a music thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dopneKcyNXU

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Since this is still a music thread:

“College Bans ‘Too Violent’ National Anthem”

http://nation.foxnews.com/national-anthem/2011/08/26/college-bans-too-violent-national-anthem

These “weenies” like to be kept free by force of arms (and better men than themselves) but they just don’t like to sing about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK7xF1RGCQY&feature=related

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“College Bans ‘Too Violent’ National Anthem”

The rest of the story:

Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the “The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school’s president considers the National Anthem’s words to be too violent.

The 1,000-student school had already banned the words last year, but the band could still play the music for patriots in attendance. Now, the school has banned the song entirely, according to NBC Sports.

Sounds like a religious thingie.

Can’t they observe their faith as they seem fit?

Are you against their religious freedom?

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Confederate General Jo Shelby and his Iron Brigade never surrendered to Union forces. Instead they fought their way to Mexico, buried their battle flag in the Rio Grande and disbanded.

A few years later upon his return to the United States he was appointed U.S. Marshal for Missouri.

Here is an interesting viewpoint of his which as always indicates that particular war was much more complex than most want to admit.

“One of Shelby’s first acts after taking office as marshal was to name a black man as one of his deputies. Exasperated by the complaints that subsequently flooded his office, Shelby finally published a statement, saying the “young Negro” was efficient and capable, and that was all that counted. As for himself, he had “no patience with that sentiment that gropes always among the tombstones instead of coming out into the bright light of existing life and conditions.” It would be “unmanly” to deny this young fellow “the right to do for himself everything that will improve and better his condition. I trust that this is the last I shall have to say in defense of my official action. I am right in what I have done, and by that right I propose to stand.”

“General Shelby’s March” by Anthony Arthur

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2) Religious “thingies” aren’t always common sense.

Bait.

Cast.

STRIKE!

Glass house, meet stone.

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Maybe the hurricane will blow Yankee stadium into the Atlantic.

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1811/0311 – “was much more complex than most want to admit”

The Civil Was was indeed complex and had many causes and motivations. However, no amount of logic, persuasion or scholarship will persuade most “African Americans” that the war was not fought solely over slavery or that today’s whites should not feel guilty because of slavery. Professional vilctims will always stayed glued to the beliefs that feed their paranoia and hatred.

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How does a blog about Bruce Springstein/hurricane end up devolving into an argument about race and religion?

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“The last three hundred?”

There’s your sign.

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Awwwwwwww …………………………. someone has a new sock-puppet to play with.

Isn’t that special.

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AmVet….I like his wife better (huge smiley face inserted).

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By the time it gets to jersey, it’s just going to be a massive rain event…

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Let’s keep it going-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9iNVoeghI

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CARLOS
@ 2:28
“However, no amount of logic, persuasion or scholarship will persuade most “African Americans” that the war was not fought solely over slavery or that today’s whites should not feel guilty because of slavery.”

At the risk of bringing our the Imam Torquemada with a fatwah (or a new thread! J ), I’m going to respectfully disagree. It has been my experience that most African Americans are even more recalcitrant than many white Southerners in debunking the canard that the Civil War was to “free the slaves.” By and large, they don’t buy this particular interpretation which is most feverishly perpetuated by the Northerners who, heavily drawn in population and cultural world view from the immigrants of the late 19th Century, have bought the Sharia version of the story which rests on that piece of national mythmaking.

As with their white co-nationals in the South, African Americans, and particularly those still tied to their Southern homeland, are inheritors of the direct connection with the slavery period. It is more to them than a whitewashed textbook story or a party line presentation of professional academics, or as some would want to call them, “major” historians. Those who do not want to admit the complexities of that time and place are largely the deracinated who lack that personal, oral history, connection thereto.

Adam the other night put forth the contention that slavery was the “framework” of the conflict. That is true enough, in my opinion and, but our problem in discussing the epoch and what it means, is that we don’t have the capacity, as a nation, to look at the painting inside that frame. It is too complex a work for many lacking the education (or interest) to appreciate in its impressionist detail from the lives and experiences of those who went through it, oblivious to the revisionists’ efforts to broadbrush it into something more of the abstract school.

Just my opinion.

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Holy Crap Mick (@ 1:09). I left a few minutes too early. Joe Walsh? Steve Cropper? Donald “Duck” Dunn? Does it get any better than that?

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fred

Wrong one-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ0E96QlUCA&feature=related

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While not “better” I think it’s just as good to have Matt (Guitar) Murphy and Ray Charles play with Cropper and Dunn instead of Joe. Of course when you toss in the horns of Tom Malone, Alan Rubin, and Lou Maroni…………..you get some great stuff too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbrIrFxas0

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The polls are falling, the polls are falling, OK, so what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGDDsZnCag

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Ok, I recognise Billy Preston and John Entwisle, but who were the others? Here’s one of the best Entwistle ever wrote, but I can’t find a version with good audio…………

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYw0Fu7ugdU&feature=related

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I dunno Mick, both those tunes who played with the All Star Band are two of my all time favorites. Although if I had a gun to my head and had to make a choice, I’d go with the Grand Funk tune……..

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Hi Kammy

Fred — OMG!!! The visual!!!

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Fred

You have excellent taste, its all good….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U

Hi Midori

Gotta step out for awhile

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K’chak

Lacking the education:
access to the primary resources: first person letters, documents, memoirs, newspaper accounts

Lacking the interest:

Really don’t give much of a sh*t about what happened 150 years ago

You might want roll your eyes someplace else on that particular one…and no, sport, I’m not telling you what tod do…

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DEMO: to destroy CRAT: to participate

By definition, the DEMOCRATs are doing a pretty good job destroying our country.
Even their mascot indicates they are the party of jackasses!

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“did the hurricane blow in YET ANOTHER sock puppet?”

Hey look, it’s Kamchaks parrot.

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Rat words: Sock puppet, bigots, racists, nazis, flat earthers, knuckle draggers.

Can’t the rats come up with more intelligent words?

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Zap Rowsdower

That was the first KKK. They also created the second KKK at Stone Mountian, GA.

And never forget what a very wise Black Man named Walter Williams said:

What the Democrats have done to the Black Population far exceeds the wildest hopes and dreams of any KKK Grand Dragon.

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josef @ 5:31

You know the bad stuff doesn’t count.

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Regarding the transparent “new” “contributor”, a mystery meat by any other name is just as ludicrous.

Mick, those back to back LPs So What and The Smoker you Drink, the Player you Get were both spectacular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNGFsaY_JyQ&feature=related

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Brosephus

Actually the bad stuff counts a whole lot. Actions by the supreme court may count against the justices, but hardly against any politrical party, considering that no justice owes alegence to either party.

The Calvinist that settled Hawaii were there long before there was a Republican Party, as were the Russians, the French and the British.

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josef

Exactly. The whole Southern Conservatism is nothing new. A leopard never changes it’s spots. It may change political parties, but the spots always betray them.

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Brosephus

LOL!!

I’ll try to remember: If they are bad, they are Republicans, no matter what history teaches us, and if they are good they are democrats, no matter what history and common sense and a trip through any Great Society ghetto teaches us.

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Brosephus

Did Obama pay for your gas money and buy you a house?

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If they are bad, they are Republicans, no matter what history teaches us,

That’s not what I said… Conservatism is as conservatism does. It has nothing to do with political parties. Those beliefs and actions transcend party lines. Neither party, in my eyes, is good. I just don’t cop to the whole idea that one did so much good for my people, as you acknowledge, and then you refuse to acknowledge the bad. There were conservative Democrats AND conservative Republicans that achieved multiple orgasms by screwing Blacks as often as they could.

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Did Obama pay for your gas money and buy you a house?

Nope, but you did. So keep paying your taxes so that I can pay mine.

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so when another sock puppet can’t handle other opinions, it immediately launches into a 3 Stooges type “duck, dodge, hide” routine.

Brosephus

Did Obama pay for your gas money and buy you a house?

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josef

I need to learn Hawaiian History? LOL!!

The Hawaiian Kingdom made a huge part of it’s income in the 19th century from sugar sales to the US. Cuba was about to take that away and the decendants of the New England Calvinists that had settled the Islands in the late 1700s fought to have the Islands declared a US Territory. This saved the Hawaian economy.

Only native Americans should be here, by your perspective, but trying to associate the Republicans party with genocide is complete nonsense, unless you want to claim that the genocide started in 1854 at the outset of the Republican Party. You are only 400 years off. (1492)

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Southern men and women had higher rates of divorce in 2009 than their counterparts in other parts of the country: 10.2 per 1,000 for men and 11.1 per 1,000 for women, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.

Of the 14 states reporting divorce rates for men that were much higher than the U.S. average — ranging from 10.0 to 13.5 per 1,000 — most were in the South. They included Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. CNN.com

Well, there they go, slamming the South again. They don’t understand us Southreners. We love to do You Know What, just not with the same person all the time. I bet if they asked who goes to church most we’d wind up at the top of the heap.

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From what I can tell, Zap is a newcomer here.

At the risk of offending posters here, who really cares???

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Brosephus

You make the common mistake of thinking that Conservatism=racism. Racial purity was a very progressive idea. If it weren’t, Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger would have been Republicans, but they weren’t. Most people think that the Germans were the only people in Europe who believed the racial purity nonsense. It was an idea that was the foundation of the liberals around the world.

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You make the common mistake of thinking that Conservatism=racism.

I have not made that statement. I know that Conservatism is based in the belief of keeping things the way they are with little initiative to try new and experimental ways of doing things that are already being done. Racism has nothing to do with political beliefs. Racism is all about maintaing a perceived power over individuals that you feel are subordinate to you. Progressivism and/or Liberalism, as you choose to equate the two, is the belief in trying new and experimental ways of accomplishing things as opposed to ALWAYS doing things as they have been done in the past.

People who have that perceived power over others whom they feel are subordinate to them WILL NOT choose to change the way things are. They fight to keep things the same as to not lose their perceived power over others. Racism is simply about power, not political beliefs. A political stance, however, can be used to maintain that power as opposed to changing the status quo.

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“so when another sock puppet can’t handle other opinions, it immediately launches into a 3 Stooges type “duck, dodge, hide” routine.”

Awe cupcake, you don’t know the difference between opinions and cut downs.

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K’chak

And, as I said, it is proper. I use the frame of reference constantly in my work in the field of history. It should not, however, be seen as other than that which encloses the painting, the details of which we are discussing. Too many want to argue the frame without ever getting to the painting.

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josef

Frame of reference /= frame of painting.

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