There’s nothing quite like an El Camino with an eight-track stereo
Elizabeth Cook, a woman with some rather odd ties to Georgia and Atlanta, opens tonight at the Variety for the very funny, witty Todd Snider.
Most of Snider’s material isn’t suitable for posting on this blog, but go look him up — you’ll enjoy the sense of humor.
But back to Cook. She grew up in Florida, the daughter of a moonshiner and welder who learned the latter craft serving time at the federal penitentiary here in Atlanta, just a few miles from where she’ll be playing tonight. She’s a graduate of Georgia Southern, with degrees in accounting and computer information systems. I’ve seen her refer to herself as a math geek who took calculus classes in college for fun, and because she thought they’d be an easy “A”.
Here she is, a hard-to-categorize musician performing her ode to another classic American eccentricity, the El Camino:
– Jay Bookman
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moonbat betty
January 6th, 2013
7:41 pm
ooops wheres the dogg?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkP8SvHvaU
barking frog
January 6th, 2013
7:42 pm
moonbet batty
thanks.
barking frog
January 6th, 2013
7:45 pm
moonbat betty
ooops wheres the dogg?
………………………………..
dogg gone Georgia….
RB from Gwinnett
January 6th, 2013
8:08 pm
Indigo, “RB from Gwinnett
Your Christian Academy education has left you woefully ignorant as to what science truly is.”
I’ll put my engineering degree up against whatever “attended classes” BS you’ve got 24/7/365. Learn the meaning of THEORY and then come back and we’ll debate.
td
January 6th, 2013
8:11 pm
Mr. President and Democratic supporters, please tell us again how we must continue to raise taxes and spend on programs for the poor because they can not do any better.
“they’re on the dole — and watching the pole.
Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.
A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.”
“State Sen. Tom Libous (R-Binghamton) passed a bill in his chamber in June that would outlaw welfare withdrawals at gambling dens, strip clubs and other venues of vice, but the measure is gathering dust in the Democratic-controlled Assembly. ”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/poor_some_ugar_on_me_0Hq1d3iPnvj2RwpsEDS7MN
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 6th, 2013
8:24 pm
Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores, X-rated shops…
Twice posted drudgey spam.
Old Retired English Professor
January 6th, 2013
8:34 pm
Where is OREP when you need her?
Still around, but still male.
moonbat betty
January 6th, 2013
8:41 pm
really?
lol
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 6th, 2013
8:43 pm
rially.
moonbat betty
January 6th, 2013
8:45 pm
You’re welcome,
barfing frog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YfYNdXZ3RY
moonbat betty
January 6th, 2013
8:54 pm
OREP,
I apologize,
I was wrong to assume you were a female, and for that, I apologize.
Could you please give Kam and Keep a rundown on how to be civil and human like?
Brosephus™
January 6th, 2013
8:57 pm
With as many people coming here to gripe about the actions of others, you would think at least one of the gruntled masses would run for office so they could write and help pass the necessary legislation to fix all that is wrong with America instead of constantly b*tching endlessly about the same stuff on a newspaper blog.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 6th, 2013
8:57 pm
Is there a “civil and human like” way to tell someone to stick their head in a toilet?
moonbat betty
January 6th, 2013
9:01 pm
Yeah, like this, Kamchak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3y5GSznNfI
Cherokee
January 6th, 2013
9:01 pm
“presumably”
If they did something illegal they should be prosecuted.
if the reporter only ‘presumes’ that they did, this is nothing more than unfounded accusation.
I recommend that someone who is a Christian such as yourself, td, go back and read about the whole ‘bearing false witness’ thing.
td
January 6th, 2013
9:13 pm
Cherokee
January 6th, 2013
9:01 pm
Where did I say they did anything illegal? It is not hence the bill in NY to make these type of spending taxpayer money illegal. I posted the article as yet another example of waste in the Federal government and another reason for major cuts in spending. Do you like the fact that you are subsidizing people to drink, watch pron and go to strip bars?
Cherokee
January 6th, 2013
9:22 pm
Oh give me a break…. you know as well as everyone else that it would be illegal to use food stamp money for alcohol.
And again, you don’t know that they were doing it anyway – we’re just ‘presuming’ it.
Again, if they did something illegal, they should be prosecuted. If this is just rabble rousing, to get cons upset, then it’s immoral.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
9:24 pm
“Do you like the fact that you are subsidizing people to drink, watch pron and go to strip bars?”
The gop ?
td
January 6th, 2013
9:39 pm
Cherokee
January 6th, 2013
9:22 pm
You really do need to read the actual article posted so that you do not look so uninformed. The article states that it was TANF benefits being used and not Food Stamp because Food Stamp benefits can only be used on food. They did nothing illegal but is liquor, porn and lap dances what we (the taxpayer) wants our hard earned money to be used for.
It looks like from your statements you have no problem with people we are supporting to use their government money for these types of reasons. I am sure you are representative of many democrats and it just shows how morally bankrupt a large part of the party really is.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 6th, 2013
9:49 pm
The Republican National Committee gave nearly $2,000 to a Southern California GOP contributor for meal expenses at Voyeur West Hollywood, a lesbian-themed California nightclub that features topless dancers wearing horse-bits and other bondage gear, according to newly filed disclosure records.
Wow, talk about a morally bankrupt party….
td
January 6th, 2013
9:53 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 6th, 2013
9:49 pm
You want to compare private money and taxpayer money and call them morally equivalent?
I shall use one of you favorite saying on that one:
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 6th, 2013
9:55 pm
You want to compare private money and taxpayer money and call them morally equivalent?
Deflekterbation.
There’s your sign.
Oscar
January 6th, 2013
9:56 pm
Josep at 6:22 Thanks. Read the piece and several more linked therein. Enjoyed reading them.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
9:59 pm
“For what the paper concludes is not just that austerity has a depressing effect on weak economies, but that the adverse effect is much stronger than previously believed. The premature turn to austerity, it turns out, was a terrible mistake.”NYT
The IMF and the EU finally admit it.
You don’t cut after a collapse or you go back to a recession.
Oscar
January 6th, 2013
10:07 pm
No easy answer for weak economies.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
10:09 pm
So, the question should be how to we return to full employment to cut and not screw it up.
The gop are just focused on cuts and we know how well they can screw up our economy.
USA Patriot
January 6th, 2013
10:18 pm
“So, the question should be how to we return to full employment to cut and not screw it up.”
Some sense of certainty from DC to the private sector w/out demonizing those in the private sector would be a start.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
10:25 pm
USA,
Taxes are set.
Profits are higher than ever.
You can stop slobbering on the private sector.
The billionaires will be fine so we focus on the workers for a change.
td
January 6th, 2013
10:38 pm
getalife
January 6th, 2013
10:25 pm
USA,
Taxes are set.
Profits are higher than ever.
You can stop slobbering on the private sector.
The billionaires will be fine so we focus on the workers for a change.
What you do not seem to understand is that the billionaires will continue to have the same amount of money no matter what the government does. The only ones that get hurt is the middle class when they do not get any raises, pay more for insurance, less benefits like employer contributions to 401K and maybe not even a job if it is going to cut into the billionaires money. Such a high regressive tax rate only hurts the middle class and the working poor.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
10:43 pm
Perhaps the trigger on small cuts should be when we return to full employment and business is good.
td,
The gop proved they don’t care about the middle class.
USA Patriot
January 6th, 2013
10:46 pm
get –
Taxes are set. – Really? The “can” just got kicked 60 days down the road.
Profits are higher than ever. – “Cash on hand” in financial investments is generating most of the profits.
You can stop slobbering on the private sector. – Yep, wouldn’t want to get back to “full employment” w/ jobs in the private sector.
The billionaires will be fine so we focus on the workers for a change. – Billionaires will weather the uncertainty, not so in the middle class.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
10:48 pm
Like Vice President Biden said.
Prove you care about the middle class.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
10:50 pm
The only uncertainty is if the gop win the austerity vote to send us back to a recession.
USA Patriot
January 6th, 2013
10:51 pm
“Like Vice President Biden said.”
There’s your sign.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
10:52 pm
He owned ryan.
Brosephus™
January 6th, 2013
10:52 pm
The only ones that get hurt is the middle class when they do not get any raises, pay more for insurance, less benefits like employer contributions to 401K and maybe not even a job if it is going to cut into the billionaires money.
#1: When the middle class gets screwed out of pay raises and such, it is not the responsibility of the government to provide those things. That is purely a private sector matter. Any government involvement is mostly due to the wealthy lobbying Congress to pass laws that benefit them and not necessarily the middle class.
#2: The love of money is the root of all evil. If some billionaire thinks it’s better for him to earn $10 billion while screwing his employees instead of making $9 billion and rewarding his employees with that other billion, then he might want to practicing how to squeeze through the eye of a needle.
//type-by//
td
January 6th, 2013
11:11 pm
Brosephus™
January 6th, 2013
10:52 pm
I agree with you on your first statement. #2 When the government raises their taxes $1 billion then they are not going to actually take the billion dollar cut. They will get their money other ways. (historical fact).
Another example: If I company that has a gross income of $500,000 per year (I file my taxes via individual income taxes) with a profit margin of 20% and now I have to pay 4 1/2 more taxes now then my profits go down from $100,000 per year to $85,000. I have two employees that I pay $30,000 each. Do you expect me to continue to run my business making $15,000 less, do I layoff one of my employees to make the around the same amount of money, do I raise my prices to cover the tax increase or do make one of my workers part time and raise my prices?
USA Patriot
January 6th, 2013
11:15 pm
td – You’re wasting your time w/ this bunch.
getalife
January 6th, 2013
11:53 pm
We get it.
Your ideology worked for the wealthy but not so much for most of the other 99%.
No trickle down if you will.
Times change.
Adapt or die.
stands for decibels
January 7th, 2013
7:49 am
mornin’.
td – You’re wasting your time w/ this bunch.
oh no, td’s post is very illuminating. He, apparently, would have us believe that a small increase on personal income at levels above 450 grand somehow affects a business whose GROSS income is 500 grand.
Illuminating inasmuch as it shows us that he, like most who cry and moan about how the poor small businessfolk are “taxed enough already” haven’t a clue as to what they’re complaining about.
Cliff Zeider
January 7th, 2013
8:03 am
Hey Jay, What is the reason the Atlanta Joujrnal hasent reported on the two black star football players that raped a girl in Stubenville Ohio, Cound it be because they were black? cz
Paul
January 7th, 2013
8:10 am
Cliff
Do the Ohio newspapers report all rapes that occur in Georgia?
sheesh…. it’s a bit early for this kind of idiocy.
stands for decibels
January 7th, 2013
8:10 am
the Atlanta Joujrnal hasent reported on the two black star football players that raped a girl
You really shouldn’t be posting while wanking.
indigo
January 7th, 2013
8:30 am
stands – 8:10
It was on the national news this morning.
I believe their lawyer wants a change of venue.
It was not actually mentioned that they are black.
Brosephus™
January 7th, 2013
8:44 am
td
I see you got the Capt. Picard goalposts with enhanced warp drive for Christmas. Your example shifted from billions to thousands faster than Usain Bolt running the anchor leg on the 4X100 relay. When you shift that quick, two things come to mind. First, you don’t even remember what your original statement was. I find that hard to believe since it’s sitting on this same page. The other thought is that you know your point was moot and you tried to make it valid by shifting the goalposts. That seems very plausible given your track record here.