Tonight, travelin’ music that is very well-traveled indeed
I posted a more traditional, sedate version of this much-traveled song earlier, in the post about the coming end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. It began its life as “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye,” an early 19th-century Irish folksong that bewails the fate of Irishmen lured into fighting on Britain’s behalf overseas.
From there it became a favorite song of the U.S. Civil War, insinuating itself into the American military tradition as “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again.” As kids, we used to sing our own playground parody of the song, in that case about ants that go “marching down, to the ground, to get out of the rain….”
And here, with their own much-different version, the great English band the Clash, from 1979:
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Mick
October 22nd, 2011
2:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_Y1kbZbJA&feature=related
Midori
October 22nd, 2011
2:24 pm
perhaps this will help Kammie
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320×320/302556_277169655650145_273879369312507_880687_1810110279_n.jpg
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
2:37 pm
Hiya, Midori!
Gonna need cases of that spray ’round here.
Midori
October 22nd, 2011
3:03 pm
Kammie —
you’ll need a ton of it just to keep Scout in check
Mick
October 22nd, 2011
3:35 pm
This is kind of interesting about women & guns-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/girls-with-guns_n_1022749.html#s423360&title=Alexandra_and_Truett
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 22nd, 2011
3:47 pm
Scouty, sorry. What should have been done and what was done are two different things. Despite your hissy fit and pout, the US was not involved in the boots on the ground capture. However US police officers, soliders and others have been involved in atrocities that you have condoned, so frankly despite your whine and denials, it really does not matter. You have absolutely no credibility to stand and whine after the “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” posts you made here and frankly your efforts to find something to “blame others” about the capture is just another wander down asshat lane.
Kam, fumigate the room with a hypocrit bomb!
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
4:03 pm
Mick
When chick are outlawed, only outlaws will have chicks.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
Geez Keep I just sat down with a cup of chai tea — and besides, I lost the launch codes
1811/0311
October 22nd, 2011
4:25 pm
JAY/Assorted Libs., et al:
A couple of points:
1) Seems like I remember you guys howling a lot when there was talk of turning “POWs/enemy combatants” over to the host country for “proper disposition”. After all, it’s their “culture” and their little “civil war” right …….. to do as they please ………. but you libs. didn’t want U.S. troops turning them over to the host country !
2) And …………… since Libya was fighting a “civil war” as they saw fit, and you libs. don’t like intervening in “civil wars”, why did we do that?
3) And …………… since there is a little “civil war” going on in Central Africa (and it’s THEIR culture good or bad) why have we sent U.S. troops there?
Sorry libs. …………….. you are inconsistent and hypocritical beyond belief.
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
Looks …………… like …………….. someone …………… just ………… got ……. their …………………. period.
1811/0311
October 22nd, 2011
4:40 pm
Ah ………………… the fresh breeze of “Arab Spring” !!!
Headline: “Egyptian Sentenced to 3 Years for Insulting Islam on Facebook”
“Cairo, Egypt – Egypt’s state media says a Cairo court has sentenced a man to three years in prison for postings on Facebook deemed to be inciting sectarianism and in contempt of Islam.
The MENA state news agency said Saturday a the misdemeanor court found Ayman Mansour had intentionally mocked Islam and used “outrageous and scurrilous” language in describing the religion’s holy book, the Quran, and its prophet and believers.
The court said freedom of belief doesn’t excuse contempt that may offend believers and “subject the regime and the country’s security to serious dangers.”
Egypt is grappling with an increasingly assertive ultraconservative Islamist trend, and recent clashes between the military police and Coptic Christians have heightened fears of increasing sectarian strife.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/22/egyptian-sentenced-to-3-years-for-insulting-islam-on-facebook/?test=latestnews#ixzz1bXrYECYA
OtQT
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
Muskrat Love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYV_7a0FQs
Mick
October 22nd, 2011
4:47 pm
Well, looky here, something to break it up-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1vZq3bTS_Y
Jm
October 22nd, 2011
4:54 pm
How’s the funny farm?
Jm
October 22nd, 2011
4:56 pm
Mick
I just toured barley Barbour swamp with some seriously old cypress
Trippy.
Bald eagle siting too. He said lower the tax rate by reducing deductions.
Mick
October 22nd, 2011
5:10 pm
jm
Just think of all those gators lurking around that saw you but you didn’t see them…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLDtNsIKOhs&feature=related
TaxPayer
October 22nd, 2011
5:24 pm
Assorted Scouts,
Your consistently hypocritical, biased, rabbit holes leave you with no room to critique. Then again, you are the typical Republican.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
5:29 pm
scout holes Taxpayer.
No jumping down scout holes.
The mad hatter is down there in that scout hole.
TaxPayer
October 22nd, 2011
5:29 pm
I see Congress is talking about cutting veteran’s and federal employee’s healthcare benefits. Poor Scout. His Republican buddies are going to show him just what health care costs others.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
5:31 pm
jm,
My house is made of cypress and is 150 years old.
Saw the biggest raccoon in my trash the other night.
Thought it was a small bear until I saw his face.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
5:38 pm
I told scout that was coming and he will still vote for them.
Stand up scout.
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2011
5:49 pm
<a href=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/lawmakers-open-to-changes-1207600.html?Lawmakers open to changes in military benefits (AJC)
WASHINGTON — The government’s promise of lifetime health care for the military’s men and women is suddenly a little less sacrosanct as Congress looks to slash trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
The numbers are daunting for a military focused on building and arming an all-volunteer force for war. The Pentagon is providing health care coverage for 3.3 million active duty personnel and their dependents and 5.5 million retirees, eligible dependents and surviving spouses. Retirees outnumber the active duty, 2.3 million to 1.4 million.
Combined with the billions in retirement pay, it’s no surprise that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently said personnel costs have put the Pentagon “on an unsustainable course.”
It’s high time this socialism came to an end!
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2011
5:54 pm
Oops! Here’s the link thingie.
Jm
October 22nd, 2011
5:56 pm
Mick
Saw a gator too
Getalife. Cypress is pretty amazing stuff.
If I were pro regulation, I’d say cypress mulch, which is literally made from chopping down trees and grinding them up unlike pine bark leftovers, should be banned.
Instead, someone needs to do some consumer education and lean on home depot.
Jm
October 22nd, 2011
5:58 pm
Getalife
Big fat raccoons lounge on my dads porch waiting for his leftovers
I tell him he’s causing trouble but he likes the coons
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
6:05 pm
We want Bama!
LSU is destroying Auburn.
Jm,
Racoons are cool.
I just tapped on the window and he left.
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
6:09 pm
Cypress is pretty amazing stuff.
Saw an episode of The New Yankee Workshop when host Norm Abram came to Ga. and did a “ride along” with guys that would scuba dive in the rivers that loggers used 50 years ago to float cypress to the mill. Naturally they lost a few on the way, and these modern day loggers would research old records to find out which rivers were used. After 50 years of being submerged, these logs are just as viable as they were when they were cut.
A lot more valuable too.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
6:09 pm
“Reed: Occupy Atlanta must leave park”
This is about to get interesting…
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
6:12 pm
bman,
Why?
bman
October 22nd, 2011
6:14 pm
Why what? Why is it about to get interesting?
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 22nd, 2011
6:16 pm
Some of the J.A’s on this blog should read Michael Yon’s dispatches and then offer up their candy A$$ opinions that the we should scale back benefits for those who’ve put their young lives on the line for this country, while left wing politicians coddle and celebrate the pi$$ complected $hit hanging out in our parks. Yes, our all volunteer military is going to fall apart. Leon Panetta is probably a nice guy but he’s not a defense secretary worthy of the title. BTW…Barack Obama isn’t worthy of the title of C-n-C.
pogo
October 22nd, 2011
6:20 pm
“our president”. Didn’t know we currently had one.
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2011
6:24 pm
Del, the days when you can “get a job” in the military and work for 20 years and expect a lifetime of benefits is coming to a close just like it has for the rest of the country. Get used to it!
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
6:26 pm
Melt-down.
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 22nd, 2011
6:27 pm
Sooth,
I’ll never get used to and this country won’t either. Get used to it.
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2011
6:29 pm
“we should scale back benefits for those who’ve put their young lives on the line for this country.”
Del, you’re perfectly all right with the government doing away with my Social Security and Medicare benefits. Why should your retirement pay and government-sponsored health care be any different?
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
6:30 pm
del,
Told ya.
Ready to stand up now?
Midori
October 22nd, 2011
6:35 pm
whoa!!
Del just went Agent Orange again
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2011
6:35 pm
“Barack Obama isn’t worthy of the title of C-n-C.”
You’re right, Del, we need a bumbling dumbass like Dubya who could even string together a coherent sentence. Not to mention the fact the he got us into to un-winnable, never-ending, disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan all based on a pack of lies!
Mick
October 22nd, 2011
6:35 pm
recon
What have our wonderful republican politicians done for us lately? Say no to our country that needs rebuilding? No to jobs for construction workers and vets? Rubbish on your shallow tirade, the hypocrisy burns..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GguFmYRryz8
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
6:36 pm
…the days when you can “get a job” in the military and work for 20 years and expect a lifetime of benefits is coming to a close just like it has for the rest of the country.
Day in and day out, cons come here and say that the government should be run like a for-profit corporation.
Here is a fine example of what for-profit corporations do to pad their bottom line.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
6:37 pm
bman,
Why does reed want them to stop standing up silly?
Seems like scout and del should join them now they want to cut their welfare er entitlements.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
6:42 pm
getalife
the story is on the ajc.com homepage.
Paulo977
October 22nd, 2011
6:44 pm
pogo
October 22nd, 2011
6:20 pm
“our president”. Didn’t know we currently had one
Did you ever have ANY schooling ?
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
6:47 pm
“I guess I would ask why he [Reed] would do something like that because it looks pretty peaceful around here,” Adams said.
Again, why does he want them to leave if they are not doing anything wrong?
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 22nd, 2011
6:48 pm
Hey whiners, you can disengage from crying in your comfy blankets because your S.S. and Medicare isn’t going to get cut. Not in your lifetimes because you’re short timing anyway but something will have to get done soon to make sure your grandchildren and your great grandchildren will have benefits. Of course you probably don’t really take the into consideration.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
6:51 pm
getalife….did you read the the REST of the article? lol….don’t pick out what ONE protestor is saying
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
6:55 pm
bman,
Yeah, reed got mad for no reason and is acting like a con.
del,
Like I said, they will cut you and you still will vote for them.
That does not pass the sanity test con.
Soothsayer
October 22nd, 2011
6:57 pm
Here’s a good one!
Del, I can’t remember your being in this bad a mood! I guess when people talk about taking away your “benefits” it kinda gets one upset!
bman
October 22nd, 2011
7:01 pm
getalife….that’s silly for you to draw that conclusion. Anyway, doesn’t bother me if they stay in the park 24/7. I don’t live there, don’t work there, and have no plans to go there.
It will be interesting to see if they leave the park.
TaxPayer
October 22nd, 2011
7:07 pm
Why would we need anyone else offering up their candy a$$ opinions. That’s what we have Republicans for.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
7:08 pm
This goes out to the occupiers…err… squaters in the ATL.
Yeah they are peaceful, until they have warn out their welcome.
just a matter of time folks…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3VCfCsX5Yo
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
7:09 pm
bman,
There is no reason to leave.
Government should be worry about jobs not protesters.
w lost 15 million jobs.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
7:15 pm
They are protesting around the world because of the w collapse.
Al the banks are involved in this collapse.
You are involved too whether you like it or not..
bman
October 22nd, 2011
7:16 pm
getalife….forget all about laws? hmmm
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
7:19 pm
bman,
What laws?
Permits?
Come on bman.
carlosgvv
October 22nd, 2011
7:22 pm
Recon(2nd&3rd)
I worked from the time I was 10 till I was 69 and paid into SS almost all of that whole time. Most of the dollars I paid in were worth much more than the dollar is now, which means I will never get back all that was paid in. So, trashing us who have put in a hard lifetime of work and are receiving SS says many things about you, none of them good.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
7:24 pm
getalife…there are laws to govern protests. You should know that forpetesakes
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
7:31 pm
bman,
They are fine.
Leave them alone.
carlosgvv ,
Well said.
Never, ever allow corrupt Congress to get their hands on our money.
They should pay back every dollar they already stole from our money.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
7:35 pm
let the weather take care of ‘em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdXbMyo1rU
bman
October 22nd, 2011
7:37 pm
getalife….
1) if permits don’t matter, meet me at the falcons game outside and we will sell hot dogs and hamburgers (we will make a lot of $$) : )
2) pretend that those people in the park are tea party people and you will start to think clearly again
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
7:43 pm
bman,
You moved the goal posts to a Falcons game and these are not tea party with corrupt pols speaking.
You lose.
Jm
October 22nd, 2011
7:47 pm
They need some psy ops
Blare a little G&R for a while
(re occupy)
bman
October 22nd, 2011
7:55 pm
getalife…i’m not here to win, or lose. Like most people and small businesses, I am struggling daily.
Jm
October 22nd, 2011
7:57 pm
Social security is a rip off
Only good for protecting the poor in old age
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
8:02 pm
Sorry to hear that bman.
Many Americans are sick of it so they protest.
drudgy is posting about another collapse and
“KARZAI: Afghanistan to back Pakistan if war with USA….”
Perfect time for protesting.
Stand up America with the rest of the world.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
8:05 pm
getalife….thanks, but I believe I will continue the course of working hard and hope, that despite the economy & the short-term outlook, I will succeed.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
8:09 pm
bman,
Good luck with that.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
8:24 pm
thanks, but I believe I will continue the course of working hard and hope, that despite the economy & the short-term outlook, I will succeed.
You will, bman.
Kudos to you.
Otherwise, you could sit around in your demise and blame the man and camp in a park of 6 months.
Keep on keepin’ on!
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
8:27 pm
or for 6 months
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
8:28 pm
Looks like Bama better start taking UT seriously…
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
8:36 pm
Geax Tennessee!
Beat Bama!
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
8:41 pm
any given saturday, bitches. /partial hat tip sfd
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 22nd, 2011
8:46 pm
carlogw,
Only trash whiners. Are you a also a whiner?
99%er
October 22nd, 2011
9:02 pm
Go getalife! Tell them idiots whats up
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:02 pm
“Reed denies ordering an end to protest
Mayor says Occupy Atlanta can stay at Woodruff Park until Nov. 7″
He listened to me
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:03 pm
I got your back 99 %.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
9:06 pm
thanks moonbat … you notice i don’t mention “Obama” – If I fail at this business, I don’t want to blame any politician. At the same rate, I don’t want to give them credit if I do well. However, under this administration, I am working twice as hard and twice as many hours …and my sales are less. Costs are higher. The healthcare and taxing is in the back of my mind etc….
I will vote for ANYONE over Obama (except Perry lol)
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:11 pm
bman,
His jobs bill lower your taxes but the gop will not vote on it.
The gop want to default silly.
I am not sure you are smart enough to run a business.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
9:12 pm
getalife….and there you were thinking that Reed was something more than a democrat : )
November 7th will be here soon. I wonder what will happen then? ..Also, why did the leader of the atlanta occupy say that Reed told them to be out by saturday? Reed said he didn’t say any such thing. Someone is being less than honest…
Anyway, they can stay there as long as they want as far as I’m concerned. : )
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:17 pm
bman,
You are the 99%.
Wake up son.
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
9:18 pm
I will vote for ANYONE over Obama (except Perry lol)
“My daughter, oh my ducats, oh my daughter!”
Too funny!
bman
October 22nd, 2011
9:19 pm
getalife….do you say things like that to people just because they disagree with you politically? I have had restaurants for more than 10 years, thanks. If you have business suggestions, I’m all ears. I listen to any and everyone’s ideas.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:29 pm
bman.
I can’t help you son.
I am retired.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
9:34 pm
“I am retired”
remember that when you are giving out advice.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:37 pm
Call Gordon Ramsey con.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
9:40 pm
lol getalife….Im not exactly a “con”. I wanted Hillary. Admitting that Obama is a complete & total failure doesn’t necessarily make you a Republican.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:43 pm
bman,
It makes you a liar.
Now if you are talking about w, you would have credibility.
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
9:50 pm
getalife
I think that you know bman under a different nom-de-blog.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:50 pm
bman.
Google “President Obama’s Accomplishments” then I will give you a chance to admit “Obama is a complete & total failure” is a lie.
Your credibility is at stake so don’t blow it and don’t believe all the con critics that are just spewing lies.
Your call son.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
9:55 pm
getalife & Kamchak ….you guys win. Obama has been a huge success. I’m sure the American public are hoping for more of the same. By the way..when my father (a life-long democrat and retired UAW worker) is considering voting republican for the very first time in his life, something is seriously wrong lol
You guys should be complaining that the democrats are not running someone against Obama. Someone like Hillary or Evan Bayh would probably beat him. Diehard Obama supporters are wayyyyy out there
: )
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
9:58 pm
You are just another lying con with zero credibility.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
9:59 pm
bman,
pay no attention to getakam,
they are wet blankets. Just like Obama and it’s ilk teh ocanami!
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
10:02 pm
getalife & Kamchak ….you guys win. Obama has been a huge success.
I never said that, “Obama has been a huge success.”
You keep trying to put words in other people’s mouth no matter which name you post under.
Grow a pair and post under one name, sport.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:02 pm
bman, these homeboys are on the public dole, so, of course, they are behind Obama.
Midori
October 22nd, 2011
10:02 pm
getalife,
pay no attention to moonbatandy.
it’s a troll looking for a bridge.
Just like all of the GOP.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
10:03 pm
moon…lol
it’s simply amazing to think that anyone in their right mind would believe that Obama has been a success.
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
10:03 pm
Don’t cry over spilled ilk.
Midori
October 22nd, 2011
10:03 pm
Kammy ,
they have no guts and no glory.
hence the cowardly name changing.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:05 pm
midori, spewing ilk- what a lovely evening.
Midori
October 22nd, 2011
10:06 pm
moonbat – vomiting nonsense.
an even better evening.