Travelin’ music? SHE’ll tell you about travelin’ music!
Bettye Lavette’s been around a while. In fact, if you were touring back in the early ’60s with the likes of Ben E. King, Otis Redding and James Brown, and you’re still at it today, you qualify as an authentic R&B veteran. That’s a marathon runner in the musical world.
And as you’ll see if you watch this remarkably emotional performance from just a couple of years ago, Bettye does not sell her audience short. To the contrary, she sells everything she’s got and then some.
Ladies and gentlemen, to kick off the weekend, I give you the fabulously soulful Miss Bettye Lavette!
– Jay Bookman
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getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:28 pm
At least Europe help unlike your failed gop party jm.
JamVet
September 30th, 2012
6:29 pm
Cons hate Uncle Sam/America and want to leave it.
To which I say, bon voyage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwNRsaEWD3M
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:31 pm
“getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:28 pm
At least Europe help unlike your failed gop party jm.
LinkReport this comment”
Anti American
getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:32 pm
I agree.
Good riddance.
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:33 pm
Jm
The guy who wants to make it big in Singapore because he like their tax structure is calling others Anti American…
bwhahahahaahahahaha
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:35 pm
Jm
Keep them coming. Jay burped you like a baby when he responded to your post earlier and now you are smiling from ear to ear………
Bet you are skipping around
getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:38 pm
Lets pay the bribe to get jm accepted so gets caned in public.
Post it on Youtube.
Viral.
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:40 pm
Getalife
Singapore is full
Very popular
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:41 pm
Tbs 6:35. Dream on
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
6:42 pm
Scootter, Common
Paris Hilton had a derogatory name for Linsay Lohan after they had a falling out — Fire Crotch.
getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:43 pm
jm,
God bless America!
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:44 pm
Jm
You are skipping like a little school girl
hahahahaha
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:45 pm
Jm
Even for awhile after you were placed on ignore
You could not help all the Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay………
“Do you see me Jay?”
hahahahahaha
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
Tbs
Your obsession is a bit silly
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
“Damn it, Jay. I’m want some feedback and attention”
You are funny
kayaker 71
September 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
JamVet, 6:29,
No, we’ll stick around. To hand this country over to a bunch of Marxists and expect everyone to like it is certainly not what we are about. BTW, you haven’t won yet. Not by a long shot.
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
Jm
You obsession for Jay’s attention was and is absurd, what is your point?
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:49 pm
kayaker
Where you going to go if you have to hand it over?
Singapore?
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:49 pm
Getalife 6:43
Better.
Including both democrats and republicans.
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:50 pm
(and most of all the independents)
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
Tbs 6:47. You’re seriously confused
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
getalife
Packers secondary isn’t too good. Brees is eating them up. Saints have a chance if O-line can give Brees time.
Jm
September 30th, 2012
6:52 pm
Tbs is lonely
Somebody help him out
I won’t
getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:53 pm
jm,
If you hate America , why are you blogging for the gop?
Do you want the gop to destroy American?
getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:54 pm
America again? opps.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
6:56 pm
… why are you blogging for the gop?
He’s a troll-for-pay.
getalife
September 30th, 2012
6:59 pm
Both,
Brees is on fire but needed a touchdown and only up by 6.
Our defense sux .
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
7:02 pm
Did god and Tebow have a falling out?
Juice-box Jesus didn’t start, went 1/1 in passing with a 9 yard completion, rushed the ball 2 times for a total of 0 yards and the Jets got crushed.
USMC
September 30th, 2012
7:03 pm
“God bless America!”–Getalife
We thought you meant “God Damn America!”
Oh wait that’s Obama’s Pastor Deacon Reverend Wright that says that!
getalife
September 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
Kam,
They should get their money back.
He does not even want to be an American.
Ahem
September 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
Video: Preview of Univision’s “bombshell” report on Fast & Furious
The Obama administration clearly hoped that the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report on Operation Fast and Furious would be the last word on the scandal.
…However, a new report from Univision to be broadcast tomorrow, previewed here by ABC News, may put the issue back on the front pages. One source called Univision’s findings the “holy grail” that Congressional investigators have been seeking:
The Univision report will air at 7 pm ET tomorrow night, with English-language subtitles
Univision’s Investigative Unit (Univision Investiga) has identified massacres committed using guns from the ATF operation, including the killing of 16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010.
…gunned down with weapons the Obama administration gave to drug cartel criminals through Fast and Furious…
Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News reminds us that the Obama administration is still hiding Kevin O’Reilly, a key figure in Operation Fast and Furious:
The Univision report will air at 7 pm ET tomorrow night, with English-language subtitles.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/29/video-univisions-bombshell-report-on-fast-furious/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
7:07 pm
Video: Preview of Univision’s “bombshell” report on Fast & Furious
drudgey spam.
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
7:09 pm
Ahem
Is Univision going to squeeze in this “bombshell” in between all the low cut blouse wearing bombshells they have on many of their shows?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
7:12 pm
Tomorrow, on the evening news, we couldn’t make anything else stick when we flung it against the wall, so now we call it the “holy grail” and hope something works.
“No thanks we already have one. Now go away or I shall taunt you another time.”
USMC
September 30th, 2012
7:14 pm
“drudgey spam”
LOL! What a Pansey!
You are definitely playing with a limp wrist there, Toots!
“drudgey spam”– LOL! too funny
getalife
September 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
The only “scandal” of his first term is over.
Desperately slinging poo is their last resort.
TaxPayer
September 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
Hotairdotcom–the internet’s hottest site for those full of… hot air. Yep, that too.
Brosephus™
September 30th, 2012
7:17 pm
…gunned down with weapons the Obama administration gave to drug cartel criminals through Fast and Furious…
Well, when you consider the fact that the ATF was only recording serial numbers of firearms that were legally purchased under Arizona law, that there is the lie of all lies. The Obama Administration did not give guns to anybody. If you want to blame somebody, then blame the Arizona Legislature for gun laws that can’t be enforced, even when there’s evidence of straw purchases.
They BOTH suck
September 30th, 2012
7:19 pm
Ahem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5zXT2_DJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtUV34mnfQ
Can’t wait.
getalife
September 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
This President is scandal free.
A keeper.
USMC
September 30th, 2012
7:21 pm
This President is honesty free.
Geaux Dawgs!
josef
September 30th, 2012
7:29 pm
USMC
“LOL! What a Pansey!
You are definitely playing with a limp wrist there, Toots!”
Watch it with that… you know I know where to come and slap you sillier than you already are!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
7:33 pm
josef must pack some slap to make USMC siller.
josef
September 30th, 2012
7:37 pm
Good Fight
“It’s all in the wrist.”
–Thomas Jefferson Capote
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
7:41 pm
You are definitely playing with a limp wrist there, Toots!
And if you can’t be with the one you drudge, drudge the one you’re with
drudge the one you’re with
drudge the one you’re with
Doo doot doot doot doot doot doodoot
Doo doot doot doot doot doot doodoot
Doo dodoot doo dodoot
JamVet
September 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
71, you reactionaries have been getting your asses kicked since the 1960s.
Get used to it because that’s not gonna change. Ever.
Besides you Uncle Sam haters would be a lot happier elsewhere.
Maybe Russia, where you could find some non-imaginary Marxists…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxyISsA0Oh0
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 30th, 2012
8:19 pm
Sniff, sniff …………….
Jealousy has a very distinct odor. You can almost smell it through the computer screen.
Some of you libs. out there need to put on some “fufu juice”.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 30th, 2012
8:21 pm
Bumper Sticker:
“Don’t Call 911 – Call .357 !”
getalife
September 30th, 2012
8:29 pm
Scout,
My Python with hallow points is my 911.
DebbieDoRight - Politics Is A Form Of Illusion And Self Delusion
September 30th, 2012
8:41 pm
Jealousy has a very distinct odor. You can almost smell it through the computer screen
Thats probably all the Jack Daniels you’ve been drinking. ‘using your gubmint checks to buy booze.
Moocher.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
8:48 pm
Hmmm, I agree with Senior Digits… calling the police can be dangerous, ask the 9 victims of the Empire State Building shooting shot by the police… But I am sure that if random civilians were armed and not just well-trained police officers, why the outcome could not have resulted in more victms.
Sorry that is a rather long bumper sticker…but then again, if you get your “intelligent arguments” from bumper stickers, you really are not thinking.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
8:51 pm
I smell drudgey poo.
bman
September 30th, 2012
8:59 pm
Wednesday is the first debate? This is a do or die for Romney. If he performs badly, it’s all but over.
paulo977
September 30th, 2012
9:10 pm
Debbie D R…”f you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth”
_________________________________________
Does it, really?
Orange12
September 30th, 2012
9:12 pm
This ones going to be sticky!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/30/demint-joins-national-effort-to-keep-feds-from-bailing-out-state-pension/
DebbieDoRight - Politics Is A Form Of Illusion And Self Delusion
September 30th, 2012
9:14 pm
yep.
WMD’s in Iraq
Greet us as liberators
Moochers
Voter Fraud
etc. etc., etc., etc.,………………….
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
9:24 pm
DDR, I have to disagree in part. Voter registration fraud is real. The Republicans have been committing it in FL….that is why they just fired the clown who has been previously accused of voter registration fraud. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/28/926521/republican-party-paid-31-million-to-firm-under-investigation-for-voter-registration-fraud
I am sure that the conned will demand defunding of the GOP just like they did ACORN.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
9:27 pm
Actual voting fraud by casting a vote in someone else’s name in person, rare. Absentee ballot fraud, more likely. Other types of voter fraud, more likely. Of course, voter ID laws only deal with the so rare as to be nonexistent alleged fraud. Now why is that? Oh right.
DebbieDoRight - Politics Is A Form Of Illusion And Self Delusion
September 30th, 2012
9:30 pm
Hiya Keep!! BTW It’s only Voter Fraud if DEMS do it. If a REPUG does it, it’s called a legitimate “mistake”.
Duh!
bman
September 30th, 2012
9:30 pm
I haven’t read up too much on it, but I fail to see how showing an ID before voting is a problem. Did some states pass a law requiring ID?
getalife
September 30th, 2012
9:30 pm
The gop use projection.
They are guilty of doing what they are accusing the other side of doing.
So, it is the gop guilty of voter fraud.
DebbieDoRight - Politics Is A Form Of Illusion And Self Delusion
September 30th, 2012
9:31 pm
Well, I’m off to bed. Ya’ll have a good one!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
9:33 pm
Did some states pass a law requiring ID?
Let me google that for you.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
9:34 pm
Gnite DDR.
Bman….well if you are that much out of the loop, try the Google… or better…. http://www.brennancenter.org
Feel free to come back when you have undertaken some education so you are not ignorant as you have indicated
bman
September 30th, 2012
9:37 pm
lol thanks!
bman
September 30th, 2012
9:38 pm
Keep .. .. That wasn’t very nice. Not at all.
paulo977
September 30th, 2012
9:40 pm
Debbie D R…”Hiya Keep!! BTW It’s only Voter Fraud if DEMS do it. If a REPUG does it, it’s called a legitimate “mistake”.
_____________________________________________________
Indeed , Indeed ……otherwise known as HYPOCRISY
getalife
September 30th, 2012
9:42 pm
When you read drudgey, listen to rushy and watch foxy, you are not informed but you think you are informed.
Nothing but gop negative, cynical and dead wrong bs.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
9:44 pm
bman…. what are you talking about? You do understand the difference between the words “ignorant” and “stupid” don’t you? They are not the same. You indicated you were ignorant and your post about a highly discussed political issue indicated that you clearly are.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
9:47 pm
http://www.freep.com/article/20120810/NEWS15/120810028/Thaddeus-McCotter-congressional-staff
More election fraud that Voter ID does not stop
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
GOP voter fraud not stopped by ID laws but IOKIYAR
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
“When photo IDs are outlawed, only outlaws will have photo IDs.”
– Thomas Jefferson
bman
September 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
Keep .. .. You could have worded it in a different way. The word “ignorant” could be used as a reply to every three postings here.
Of course, I basically asked how showing an ID to vote could possibly be a problem. Would I be correct in assuming that you’re ignorant on this issue, too?
getalife
September 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
“POLL: 43% of voters certain they will vote for Romney. 42% certain they will vote for Obama. Remaining 15% either uncommitted or open to changing mind…. MORE…”drudgey.
This is a neat trick by rasmussan to say they could be off by 15% for credibility. I think all polls will correct right before the election for our President by 10.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
9:59 pm
Nope, bman, you would be wrong, again. I kindly provided you link information as did Kam. Did you educate yourself yet? Cause you are still making statements that reflect a failure to take those steps to follow the links and read.
getalife
September 30th, 2012
10:02 pm
“Ohio Presidential Polls: Obama Leads Romney By 9 Points, Columbus Dispatch Poll Finds” Aol.
That is about right nationally.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 30th, 2012
10:06 pm
Guy at http://unskewedpolling.com has thrown out all the scoring and recalculated and it appears that the Cleveland Browns just won the Super Bowl
Heh, heh, heh.
bman
September 30th, 2012
10:07 pm
Keep .. .. I’m not sayin there should, or should not be a voting ID law. I’m saying that I don’t see how it could be a problem. Why are you pointing me to google when all you have to do is give me your .02 ?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
10:12 pm
bman, well if you are not going to educate yourself when you have the chance to assess your uninformed ignorant opinion, my opinion based on actual information is not going to change your mind. You most clearly did state that in your uninformed opinion showing an ID to vote should not be a problem. Existing court cases and facts have proven you wrong, Good luck to you. Holding opinions contrary to facts and evidence seems to be well established as one of the major failures of the GOP conned.
G Mare
September 30th, 2012
10:17 pm
Hi, everyone.
Obama/Biden 2012!!!
getalife
September 30th, 2012
10:17 pm
“Paul Ryan: ‘It Would Take Me Too Long’ To Explain Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan ”
They should stop disrespecting the American people and say they don’t have one.
Just stop lying.
G Mare
September 30th, 2012
10:18 pm
Also, I have seen one Obama/Biden 2012 sign. It is in my yard.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
10:21 pm
I saw several Obama 2012 bumper stickers this weekend…. a rare sighting here.
bman
September 30th, 2012
10:24 pm
Keep .. .. You did all of that typing without giving your “educated” opinion? That’s awesome!
Do you have your very own opinion on anything, or are you strictly a google-driven kinda guy?
barking frog
September 30th, 2012
10:24 pm
getalife
lyin ryan…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
10:26 pm
bman, i am a bing guy myself…… but hey, in my opinion, your posts still reflect your deflection and avoidance of holding an educated opinion
barking frog
September 30th, 2012
10:29 pm
getalife
mitt the twit…
getalife
September 30th, 2012
10:30 pm
frog,
They don’t need a plan.
cons don’t care how they would govern.
Just get the President is all they care about.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 30th, 2012
10:33 pm
Headline: “CHAVEZ TO OBAMA: I’D VOTE FOR YOU, AND YOU FOR ME”
Well, there you go.
G Mare
September 30th, 2012
10:34 pm
Getalife@10:30, true that!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 30th, 2012
10:34 pm
Hummmmm…………………..
“FREDERICKSBURG — A 92 percent drop in absentee-ballot requests by military personnel in Virginia is raising concerns that the Pentagon is failing to carry out a federal voting law.
With only 1,746 military voters in Virginia requesting absentee ballots so far this year — out of 126,251 service members in the state —the Military Voter Protection Project says the system has broken down.
And it’s not just in the Old Dominion. MVPP Executive Director Eric Eversole reports significant declines in absentee-ballot requests by service members across the nation.
Compiling data from Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Alaska, Colorado and Nevada, Eversole’s organization found that military families have requested 55,510 absentee ballots so far this year. That’s a sharp decline from the 166,252 sought in those states in 2008.”
barking frog
September 30th, 2012
10:35 pm
getalife
if you don’t plan to win no
plan is needed..
bman
September 30th, 2012
10:35 pm
Keep .. .. The only comment I made was that I do not see how showing an ID to vote could be a problem. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one, or even that I could never be convinced that there isn’t one.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 30th, 2012
10:38 pm
Well ……… he’s probably seen his last star.
Headline: “Examining the scourge of ‘insider attacks’ ……….”
“Top U.S. general in Afghanistan John Allen talks to “60 Minutes” about the setbacks that put the U.S. mission in jeopardy.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2012
10:39 pm
bman, well apparently the only thing keeping you from an educated position is a failure to read…. Have at it. Kam and I made it easy for you. Take some personal responsibility.
getalife
September 30th, 2012
10:41 pm
frog,
There ya go.
Around 60 million Americans will vote for no plan.
American politics at it’s worst.
bman
September 30th, 2012
10:46 pm
“in my opinion, your posts still reflect your deflection and avoidance of holding an educated opinion”
You certainlpiste able to form an pinion on some things eh
Thank you for the info, , and your opinion
bman
September 30th, 2012
10:48 pm
Yikes…lost control of iphone.
G Mare
September 30th, 2012
10:49 pm
BTW, USMC, I don’t think there is an e in pansy – just sayin’. Of course, I could be wrong.
G Mare
September 30th, 2012
10:54 pm
bman@10:48, don’t you just HATE when that happens? I don’t have an IPhone, but my iPad can sometimes be a tricky little bugger.