Some travelin’ music to get us all home safely
We just spent a magical New England Christmas with my sister Lee Ann and her family, along with a gathering of the extended Bookman/Halunen clan. It was a perfect week, complete with a snowy Christmas Day, but life and home beckon. We’re now headed back to the ATL to kick off the new year.
My brother-in-law and host, Reino, is among other things an avid amateur guitar player. In fact, one of the highlights of the holiday came when Reino presented a miniature electric guitar, complete with miniature amp, to his 5-year-old grandson, Nathan, with promises of guitar lessons to come.
Reino’s favorite blues guitar player is the late Gary Moore of Northern Ireland, best known in this country for his stint with Thin Lizzy. So in tribute to Reino and Lee Ann, and in thanks for their great hospitality, here’s Mr. Moore, performing one of his solo hits:
– Jay Bookman
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barking frog
December 31st, 2012
8:51 am
GW Bush did more for Seniors than Clinton or Obama and that is why
many remain loyal to the Republican Party.
stands for decibels
December 31st, 2012
8:52 am
mornin’.
“OBAMA SIGNS RENEWAL OF WARRANTLESS WIRETAP LAW — BEHIND CLOSED DOORS…”
ha ha ha. I had to look and yep–’tis Drudgey goodness. Numbers guy had NO IDEA, I’m fairly certain, that this despicable bill was being extended until Mattie-with-the-smelly-hattie told him about it.
Whereas I knew about this from various DFHs weeks ago.
(Not a humble brag, just fact.)
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 31st, 2012
8:54 am
Well, it sure ain’t no fun out here stocking up all the places so all the drunks New Year sellabrators can have something to wet their whistle tonight.
Anyhow, just want to wish all you
uptight people with a bug up your arsefellow bloggers a Happy New Year. Have a good New Year’s Eve everybody.TaxPayer
December 31st, 2012
8:57 am
GW Bush gave seniors more debt in exchange for their medicare advantage. What a deal.
stands for decibels
December 31st, 2012
9:03 am
Remember the Marketplace of Ideas?
Their screechy anti-incumbent “documentary”.
vs.
Our screechy anti-incumbent “documentary.”
Cherokee
December 31st, 2012
9:07 am
Thanks for putting that up Mick.
And yes, Bob, lots of us are disgusted by Obama’s signature on the extension.
Unlike Republicans, who only got all worked up by the deficit after your Dear Leader left office in 2009.
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
9:10 am
Cherokee
Now you are guilty of invoking “He who shall not be named”.
stands for decibels
December 31st, 2012
9:12 am
and any sensible person’s takeaway from the extension of warantless wiretapping ought to be that any power given to any branch of government will be clung to in perpetuity until forcibly wrested from it.
Let a President spy on people without a warrant, and he’ll keep that ace up his sleeve. Let a President torture people without criminal liability, and if you’re lucky, the next guy merely swaps out *that* privilege for a massive expansion of the last guy’s drone assassination program.
barking frog
December 31st, 2012
9:13 am
Taxpayer
GW Bush gave seniors more debt in exchange for their medicare advantage. What a deal.
…………………………………………………..
also access to otherwise unaffordable drugs. As a taxpayer how has the added debt
affected you personally ?
Brosephus™
December 31st, 2012
9:16 am
dB @ 9:03
I didn’t watch either, and if given the choice, I would bed in the buff with a family of porcupines before I watched either of those movie/documentary choices.
stands for decibels
December 31st, 2012
9:20 am
Unlike Republicans, who only got all worked up by the deficit after your Dear Leader left office in 2009.
If I may nitpick–I think it was when before GWB left. but after the House went to the dems in 11.2006. There was a massive self-delusion that, clearly, the reason Americans had soured on Bush’s party wasn’t because of thousands of dead / maimed Americans in Iraq; it wasn’t mismanagement of Katrina, nor an attempted piratization of Social Security, nor poking their collective noses in the Terri Schaivo case. Nope, it was all the gosh-darned spendin’.
Really, that’s what they thought. and the road to victory going forward was to double down on the deficit hawk rhetoric (easy to do when it’s Dems technically holding the purse strings in Congress). and once Obama took office, might as well keep riding that one–it’s not like they had any legitimate beefs the were willing to schlep back to their constituencies, save maybe for how Obama wound up botching HAMP and suchlike.
stands for decibels
December 31st, 2012
9:24 am
I’m with BF on the prescription drug plan (although it would have been reasonable to expect that it would have been paid for by phasing back in Clinton-ish-era tax rates on upper incomers to pay for it, I don’t really lose much sleep over the debt in general. I leave that to amusing little worry-warts in my midst.)
stands for decibels
December 31st, 2012
9:30 am
I would bed in the buff with a family of porcupines
NTTAWWT.
/drive-by