Black Keys hitting the right keys to see y’all home
In hindsight, I’ve fallen into a Friday theme of featuring younger artists who are revitalizing and reinterpreting traditional American genres, from soul to bluegrass to blues. Here’s another great example, the Black Keys, from Akron, Ohio, hitting that sweet spot right between rock and roll and blues in their song “Howlin’ For You.”
– Jay Bookman
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Simple Truths
January 18th, 2013
4:36 pm
Right on cue
Yo
January 18th, 2013
4:38 pm
Jay, stick to old man music. You know NOTHING about good music like the Keys.
saywhat?
January 18th, 2013
4:41 pm
My fave of theirs is little black submarine
Jay
January 18th, 2013
4:41 pm
Yo, the Keys would laugh at your suggestion that they aren’t just the latest interpretation of musical genres going back a long, long way. You have shown yourself the fool with that kind of comment.
TBS
January 18th, 2013
4:41 pm
Good call Jay……….
Black Keys rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzGvoUMBoA
TBS
January 18th, 2013
4:42 pm
6th
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
4:42 pm
Good stuff.
Vamonos Vamonos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6FV2qR2TY
TBS
January 18th, 2013
4:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbcsUremO4
JSSN
January 18th, 2013
4:48 pm
The Black Keys kick’n out the jams! Thanks like the best Jay Bookman!!!
josef
January 18th, 2013
4:51 pm
Not to my taste…not that I have any, mind you.
getalife
January 18th, 2013
4:52 pm
Good band.
JSSN
January 18th, 2013
4:52 pm
Ha ha, “Old Man Music?” Don’t ever pickup an Howlin’ Wolf record, SMDH at such AJC blog arrogance!
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
4:53 pm
Black Keys to White Stripes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWe-7Cm1GHg
Mick
January 18th, 2013
4:54 pm
I have to be honest, listened to a lot of the black keys and they don’t do much for me; I’ll go with this gal-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYxElyo5w7M
DownInAlbany
January 18th, 2013
4:56 pm
I had given up on you finishing the week with music and jumped the gun…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQJ1k2HMoRU
josef
January 18th, 2013
4:56 pm
DDR
For you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIc8krqspIc
or was it this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Fzj_9lvX4
Mick
January 18th, 2013
4:57 pm
Part 2 to that song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHtCB4hvmUY
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 18th, 2013
4:59 pm
RC
I found one you might that goes right along with Jay’s theme this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajoI8X8Ys94
TBS
January 18th, 2013
5:02 pm
Redneck……………….. you asked for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxLtXJzo3Ew
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:03 pm
Amazing sound for just two guys. And without a few other cats to cover up the mistakes, there’s no place to hide…
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:04 pm
And yep, YoMeat is an idiot. JB knows his music…
Richard
January 18th, 2013
5:06 pm
Since Friday seems to be a free-for-all afternoon, you Falcons fans might as well save your ticket money and spare yourselves the embarrassment of a total thrashing at the hands of the Niners this Sunday. Yes, I’m from Northern California, Sacramento to be exact. We already won the baseball championship and the football trophy isn’t far behind. If you haven’t noticed, we have a secret weapon in the form of QB Colin Kaepernick that is going to run your players ragged. I predict Niners 45, Falcons 28. You heard it first here folks! Have a pleasant weekend
getalife
January 18th, 2013
5:06 pm
Alternative music :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0A71tITqe0
arnold
January 18th, 2013
5:08 pm
You don’t have to be young to like the Black Keys. I’m 72 and I like them.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
5:09 pm
Jay. I like that thanks. To itunes to purchase me some Black Keys.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
5:10 pm
Richard: Mind if I call you Dick?
Falcons are going to RISE UP!
Ben The Independent
January 18th, 2013
5:13 pm
Jay: When I saw the head line, I had to look at your column. I’m surprised ‘far out liberals’ like soul, bluegrass and blues music. I suspect I would like you if politics were left out of the discussion. Keep up the good work
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
5:15 pm
A tune for Welcome to the Occupation
http://youtu.be/2nGw_vAnqPI
indigo
January 18th, 2013
5:15 pm
Jay – “you have shown yourself the fool”
Now, now, lets not belittle.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:15 pm
Richard, you may be right, but that’s why they play ‘em!
And as Cat is fond of writing – Pats by 3…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt8uuA5Hcm0
Logical Dude
January 18th, 2013
5:16 pm
Richard: we have a secret weapon in the form of QB Colin Kaepernick
Oops, not a secret anymore! Loose Lips sink ships, my friend.
getalife
January 18th, 2013
5:16 pm
“Either Te’o is telling the truth or he’s a Lance Armstrong-caliber liar. Either he is a victim of a pitiless hoax or part architect of it.”HP
Talk about drama.
TBS
January 18th, 2013
5:18 pm
getalife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSn0u2GIjE
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:20 pm
I’m 72 and I like them.
Right on!
Do you really think I care
What you read or what you wear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ehc6GJ3R7M
david c
January 18th, 2013
5:25 pm
Been there. Done that.
david c
January 18th, 2013
5:25 pm
Been there. Done that.
david c
January 18th, 2013
5:25 pm
Been there. Done that. Perfect band for the iTunes generation.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:26 pm
Logical Dude, I always like to say Loose hips sink ships, but you know where my mind is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qWxumrIU8
TBS
January 18th, 2013
5:26 pm
Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xjr9v5ehk
indigo
January 18th, 2013
5:30 pm
This is the new Republican anthem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TDqvD34hEA
Soothsayer
January 18th, 2013
5:31 pm
Redneck, maybe they’ll play this one up at Billy Bob’s tonight. ‘Bout as good a drinkin’ song as I’ve ever heard.
Richard
January 18th, 2013
5:35 pm
Godless Heathen — Yes, call me Dick. And your Falcons might be able to “rise” to the occasion — NOT!!
Soothsayer
January 18th, 2013
5:36 pm
Not sure why, but this song’s been on my mind all day.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:38 pm
TBS, everything about that song is smokin’ – the guitar work, the vocals, the driving beat.
Simply the greatest band ever.
TBS
January 18th, 2013
5:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSfIDT0kJ7s
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 18th, 2013
5:39 pm
Well, up here at Billy Bob’s the beer is cold and the women is hot—if there was any women. For some reason they don’t come around here. Heck, we’d even welcome Debbie DoEverybody. Many thanks to TBS and Common Sense for thinking of me. Here’s one that’s been running thru my head all day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffHcGlF0xDw
Have a good Friday night and weekend everybody.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:42 pm
I don’t want to get away from the music, Brother Sooth, and it is a fantastic song, but speakin’ of dreams, I had kind of a devastating one last night.
I dreamed that one of my business colleagues told me about those first graders being murdered and I just broke down and cried.
Sometimes this is all too much for me…
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 18th, 2013
5:42 pm
Jay
I found this just for you
enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aane1ku5r7I
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDj3shXvco
Soothsayer
January 18th, 2013
5:52 pm
Jam-man: I had a dream about Britney Spears and a pair of satin panties. But, then that’s another story.
TBS
January 18th, 2013
5:55 pm
godless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRZh_ZqdbI
TBS
January 18th, 2013
5:58 pm
Jam: TURN THIS ONE UP…………. It is the only way to play it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1Sm1H7vlQ
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
5:58 pm
Dick: Need I remind you of 12/23/12? Sea Chickens hung 42 on the Niners. And I hear that Coach Smith has been on the phone with the St Louis Rams coaches.
TBS
January 18th, 2013
5:59 pm
godless
Richard will only be back if SF wins…….
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
5:59 pm
Sooth, I like your dream better!
Between the world of men and make believe
I can be found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USVYOloBRwU
TBS
January 18th, 2013
6:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_doVpa1_c
Everyone have a great FNM and an even better weekened
GO FALCONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RISE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TBS
January 18th, 2013
6:04 pm
One more for the road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUY-TCOWsS4
Peace
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
6:05 pm
Peace out, TBS.
Long live rock and roll.
And yes indeedy, Dirty Birds all the way!
josef
January 18th, 2013
6:05 pm
TOM MIDDLETON
In case you check in…another one (and probably the best) from that album we were talking about last Friday…cheesy video, but….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS5tabf01oo
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
6:08 pm
I’m not sure if I like the new kinder, gentler jonix. LOL!
Just kidding, brother. And yeah, we sometimes fight like them, but you’re aces in my book.
Just cracked my first beer of the day and things are either gonna go up or down from here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB2eRutwiEY
Jay
January 18th, 2013
6:17 pm
Yes, Common, it was a LOT like that!
josef
January 18th, 2013
6:17 pm
ZamVet
“Long live rock and roll.”
Well, as they told us when we were wee lads still….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzoQby0hJeU
josef
January 18th, 2013
6:22 pm
ZamVet
Not too sure I’m very fond of him myself…
Soothsayer
January 18th, 2013
6:24 pm
Not sure if you’ll like this. A little walk down memory lane. Heck, there’s even some acid rock in there (which gets better as the video goes along).
josef
January 18th, 2013
6:26 pm
PEACE
And coming in at 64 tonight, the t*rd in the punchbowl!
josef
January 18th, 2013
6:30 pm
ZamVet
And from the site brought to me by the Good Scout….the kinder, gentler Josef
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHOqrw3Jks
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
6:32 pm
jonix, the ugly truth be told, I often don’t like myself the way I am here.
Even the Beatles were blown away by these vocals and harmonies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kugBjlnnaA
indigo
January 18th, 2013
6:53 pm
Peace – 6:22
That is MOST UNCHRISTIAN.
But, no surprise as most of you “Christians” demonstrate you don’t even know what’s in your own Bible.
josef
January 18th, 2013
6:58 pm
FINALLY it’s on youtube…!
For the Al Stewart fans…this is my all time favorite of his…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwlNij0kx8
indigo
January 18th, 2013
6:59 pm
JamVet
Here’s something to dream about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTb5yctHvA
josef
January 18th, 2013
7:12 pm
well, actually my all time favorite is “The Ballad of Mary Foster.” which on the album ties into the above…
http://prostopleer.com/tracks/2875243xWJR
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
7:15 pm
Jam: That’s a great tune you linked at 6:32. I used to be a big BBs fan but I think now that if hear Sloop John B, Good Vibrations, or Bah bah bah, I better not be standing next to a high place.
Fred ™
January 18th, 2013
7:17 pm
Just for you godless heathen, stay low.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAoEf1Ib58
Peace
January 18th, 2013
7:19 pm
Indigo, 6:53
I agree, it is MOST UNCHRISTIAN. Had the same reaction when I saw that racist advocate the murdering of white people.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
7:25 pm
Thanks, indigo.
LOL, heathen, I know. I never knew that was a cover until just now. The Mystics did it in the late 50s. Not surprisingly, even though it is good, the BBs blow it away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QB2Ck00YZ8
josef
January 18th, 2013
7:26 pm
FRED
@ 717
Great minds! I had that one pulled up!
Fred ™
January 18th, 2013
7:26 pm
“Peace” is an angry little man I reckon. Glad I missed his first offering. But what the hell we always get at least one don’t we. So tonight’s FIRST playing of this dedication goes out to peace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_TyrEUpZ8Y
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
7:31 pm
I guess the unsophisticated think that using a supposedly great word for a moniker is supposed to be, in and of itself, interesting. Too bad the content is dreck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCEUOfiZsnA
Fred ™
January 18th, 2013
7:31 pm
Great minds think alike josef. BTW Southern Seafood said they will have fresh LIVE crawfish next week, (they said the same last week lol). Do you want a heads up if they get them in? The season started last week or so ago, I’m ready to get some of the little critters and boil away…….. would have been nice to have had some for the Falcons game Sunday……..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa7gT2V8WE4
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
7:33 pm
Thanks for looking out for me Fred.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
7:37 pm
This song doesn’t anything to do with anything. It’s just great.
You come home late and you come early,
you come home bug when you’re feeling small,
you come home straight and you come home curly.
http://youtu.be/eFvenjll1Bk
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 18th, 2013
7:38 pm
Well, I’m glad JamVet played the Beach Boys. There was something magic about this Brian Wilson. He could take a baby lullaby or a boy’s tune and turn it into gold. Here’s another favorite of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWSMdcpgJsw
Fred ™
January 18th, 2013
7:41 pm
INice pick heathen. I guess everyone is out to torment you tonight lol. i’ll stop. I don’t know if you saw this one or not but i posted it when “Dear Abby” died. I always loved this song……. and Sam Stone…… and Donald and Lydia……. and Please DOn’t Bury Me….. and……. well I reckon I should stop somewhere……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ccC4aULow
Fred ™
January 18th, 2013
7:43 pm
I’m just looking at the picture in this link and getting hungrier and hungrier…….
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Crawfish-season-begins-185498182.html
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
7:46 pm
big
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
7:47 pm
Not a song, but wth.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1490716-nfc-championship-falcons-cinderella-story-fueled-by-doubters
Orange13
January 18th, 2013
7:48 pm
First time I have ever heard of somebody being murdered this way.
http://main.aol.com/2013/01/16/donna-lange-breasts-smother-kill-boyfriend-everett-washington_n_2488747.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058?test=latestnews&ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058
Fred ™
January 18th, 2013
7:54 pm
Wow Orange, I can think of worse way to go though…….. and all this time I thought it was fat BOTTOMED girls that make the rocking world go round…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
7:54 pm
Fred @ 7:41 How apro. I didn’t think of the connection to this week’s events.
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees. Classic
josef
January 18th, 2013
7:54 pm
FRED
Heads up? You better if you know what’s good for you! Mud bugs…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi_gQM6vucQ
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
8:00 pm
I guess deep down most of us were surfer wannabes after those California girls.
heathen, I’m still not sure I ever really appreciated John Prine enough. Just kind of an odd cat to figure out, ya know? But that one was great.
Speaking of which…
OK, I think it’s time for Leonard Cohen…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVYb6pseNIA
getalife
January 18th, 2013
8:07 pm
Crawfish mini pie:
http://skilletdiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/crayfish-pie-1002.jpg
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
8:09 pm
Great choice, RC.
That band released nine (!!) albums in three years! They were, in today’s vernacular, phenoms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WP2exZurfc
josef
January 18th, 2013
8:09 pm
FRED….
Course ya gotta have ya…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehK0WhPsNUw
and speaking of….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7Dz85KGMU
Super Bowl XLVII
January 18th, 2013
8:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCo0aMsxB1s
josef
January 18th, 2013
8:15 pm
ORANGE
Ouch! Where’s DDR tonight?
josef
January 18th, 2013
8:26 pm
Superbowl…
This California?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk
Super Bowl XLVII
January 18th, 2013
8:30 pm
Josef, back at ya….this one…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wSwAJ98Zk
Fred ™
January 18th, 2013
8:30 pm
godless heathen/ Where did you get that article? I have NEVER seen the bleacher report before and that article isn’t listed in the falcons section of the sports section. Is that a paid for thing? Look at what I see…….
http://www.ajc.com/s/sports/falcons/
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
8:30 pm
Talkin’ about songs that pop into one’s head…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GHlcwlT1Y
getalife
January 18th, 2013
8:33 pm
“The 2013 New Orleans Jazz Fest will feature Fleetwood Mac, the Black Keys, Billy Joel, the Dave Matthews Band, Frank Ocean, Maroon 5, Widespread Panic, Patti Smith, B.B. King, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Hall & Oates, John Mayer, Phoenix and Willie Nelson, among many others. They’ll join hundreds of Louisiana musicians at the Fair Grounds for the 44th annual Jazz Fest, formally the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell, from April 26-28 and May 2-5.”
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
8:35 pm
Fred: Somebody linked to the Falcons article on Facebook.
Super Bowl XLVII
January 18th, 2013
8:38 pm
or this one….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yNibj8LW-Q
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
January 18th, 2013
8:38 pm
When I first saw it it didn’t have no ajc dressing on it. Don’t know where that came from, but I guess it’s because it’s linked out of this site.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
8:45 pm
get, that’s a pretty badass lineup. I LOVE that city. And though I’m not much into regrets, I wish I had spent more time there.
jonix, saw the RHCPs at Gwinnett a few years back. Horrible venue, great band.
josef
January 18th, 2013
8:49 pm
superbowl
but being the kinder, gentler josef…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3GbF9Bx6E
josef
January 18th, 2013
8:55 pm
getalife
Man, I can hardly wait to retire so’s we can be back “home” for Jazz Fest…it comes during testing season and it’s next to impossible to get time off…best of all possible times to be there…weather’s fine and folks are at their best…
Erwin's cat
January 18th, 2013
8:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
for aquagirl….
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
9:02 pm
Gold diggers are goin’ back to Cali, Cali, Cali.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdizL4on-Rc
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
9:12 pm
Might as well stick with the phenoms. Can’t go wrong…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzAHc0NrpS0
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
9:17 pm
surfin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kHFXElTVI
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
9:27 pm
betty, liked it. Sorta new age power pop with a psychedelia twinge. Good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aWPTCc2r0
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
9:34 pm
Glen Campbell on guitar and Leon Russell on piano…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzcjlKCJDnU
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
9:35 pm
Cool Jam, Jane’s rocks.
I haven’t Sweat in a while, thanks.
I don’t think anyone played Dave Matthews here, but I will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXZkdEj7YI
Peace
January 18th, 2013
9:38 pm
So much for Jay’s belief in free speech, particularly if it differs from his.
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
9:42 pm
Peace,
Please post a song if you want to protest.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
9:51 pm
I heard these two cats, older than I, down at VA this talking about this air rescue stuff in the jungle. And for Brother Mick, one of them was a badass USCG longhair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFD-rqqQhI
josef
January 18th, 2013
9:52 pm
ZamVet
@ 934
D*mn! The sh*t you learn at FNM…!!\
PEACE
Uh, are you new to FNM? Best “free speech” in the land….
Get with the program, Mec, and just to prove that even “I” can lay aside my, uh, prejudices, of a Friday just remember, from the kinder, gentler josef
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0sWJ2k8cE
josef
January 18th, 2013
10:04 pm
JamVet
Back atcha with CSNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWb8sg_VCxU
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
10:10 pm
good stuff, josef.
Check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQpUs1qNxMM
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
10:13 pm
The collective consciousness. Jesus, Buddha, nihilism; its all beautiful.
Music is the key that unlocks it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDzxn66W3uM
Peace
January 18th, 2013
10:16 pm
Okay, Betty.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=k3pltmw6cmI
CHEVY runs deep...
January 18th, 2013
10:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kH_EZF0XqM&feature=related
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
10:23 pm
I was so lonesome I took some comfort there.
One of the greatest lines ever written to that then 14 year old. And great cover, betty!
For Peace…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3pltmw6cmI
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
10:29 pm
I see everyone has Falcons Fever again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvzBOV65wR4
josef
January 18th, 2013
10:30 pm
moonbat
Thanks! Loved it. Younger Son recently turned me on to them…and that’s also one of my favorite songs. That child of ours never ceases to amaze us with the range of his taste in music…
Jm
January 18th, 2013
10:32 pm
Oh well
Libs win but truth dies
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/whoops-politifacts-lie-year-turns-out-be-true_696223.html
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
10:33 pm
Jam,
That was your random kind act for the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6a_1R3w5i4
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
10:34 pm
Yeah, jo, they mix well.
Vet
January 18th, 2013
10:35 pm
Thought you only listened to the Supreme leader sanging Al Green songs!
RW-(the original)
January 18th, 2013
10:39 pm
A song that happens to be the source of one of Hillbilly D’s enduring wisdom’s should be played in the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKjEHfHINQ
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
10:41 pm
Jm has Falcon fever.
So does Vet.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
10:42 pm
betty, LOL!
Hell to the yeah, on the Falcons! Maybe they are on the cusp on doing a righteous Braves thing! Let’s go get one! They are tough as hell at home! F SF!
WOO HOO! RW in the JB house!
I ain’t one to look back much, but I sure do miss Bruno.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PjnOdHq-T8
josef
January 18th, 2013
10:42 pm
Richard Cory
ZamVet and moonbat….
Paul Simon, imeoiuo, is the greatest poet of the 2Oth Century in the English Language….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuCiSY0qYs
RICHARD CORY
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
‘Good-morning,’ and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich – yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
—Edwin Arlington Robinson
*******
I’ve told the story here before, but that great teacher of mine, Eileen Dennison Payne. used those two together in her English Literature class. She referred to me in her introduction as Richard, and, was pleased when I recited parts of the poem for her from memory. Her comment was, “good. Somebody has already told you what you need to know,”
Jm
January 18th, 2013
10:43 pm
Oh jeez
No Obama is willing to admit the giant government loss now that he’s been re-elected
Empty suit for four more years
If you think the middle class will be better off in four more years, put the crack down
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/18/us-treasury-signals-it-will-sell-off-remaining-gm-shares/
Never underestimate N.Y.
January 18th, 2013
10:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQD5RT_MPg&feature=related
Jm
January 18th, 2013
10:49 pm
“bama officials are on record has having said that, even if the US Government ultimately loses money on the investment in GM stock – a virtual certainty according to the reports we’ve read so far – the jobs saved by the automaker bailout make this a net win for the country.”
Well sh-t by that logic bailout everyone
America: bailout broke nation
RW-(the original)
January 18th, 2013
10:51 pm
WOO HOO! RW in the JB house!
That’s just wrong on more levels than I can even comprehend. (ISH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wssByW7JQ
josef
January 18th, 2013
10:53 pm
RW
Hillbilly…ah, yes! One of the wisest, gentlest, most dignified, most truly sophisticated, and intelligent people I have ever come in contact with. My role model for my efforts to become the kinder, gentler josef….I’ll never make it, of course, but I’m trying…. -)
Mick
January 18th, 2013
10:53 pm
jm
This ones for you-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWEPu0w-7w
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
10:55 pm
Alas, Jm.
Please go to Singapore.
Anon.
Or at least before next Friday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHTTr9y9ObE
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
10:56 pm
RW!
Greetings
You old dog you! Where you been?
Jamvet/josef:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV3u6kS2mmE
Mick
January 18th, 2013
10:57 pm
josef
I dig hillbilly too but I’ve got to ask, why did he leave us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_XAPku7SgE
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
10:58 pm
take a jumbo, across the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir7-R8WdtcM
RW-(the original)
January 18th, 2013
11:00 pm
Josef,
Ditto
…and my swan song for the evening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
Hit me on St. Elsewhere some time. For some reason I miss those chats where I only understand every fourth or fifth word.
josef
January 18th, 2013
11:01 pm
AzmVet
Yep. I wish we could “reunite the band” at least for one FNM session!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-2Etc6c_0
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
11:03 pm
gee, Mick, I wonder why?
RW-(the original)
January 18th, 2013
11:04 pm
The band?….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCV2wgoxC8
Mick
January 18th, 2013
11:07 pm
moonbat
Why? Enlighten me-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PL5R25_9Ww
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
11:08 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VShpcqd3zE
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
11:10 pm
Mick, I am a bit paranoid, but I think the final straw when was I insulted him about the “secessionists being cowards”. (You know me, I’m a hopeless, helpless Grade A *ssh*le.)
And josef, he is a Cubs fan. I have no idea if that is significant or not, but I love it any way…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Dalt3h_Oo
josef
January 18th, 2013
11:10 pm
RW
Hit me…I lost your SE in a computer fry! Please!
moonbat
That Krauss is one of the best covers yet of that one….
josef
January 18th, 2013
11:11 pm
MICK
I leave it to Hillbilly to say if he so chooses…he had his reasons.
Mick
January 18th, 2013
11:19 pm
josef
Yes…I know but it’s kind of a slight against bookman – it is his blog…I dunno, hillbilly is a wise and exceptional human being..
Jamvet
I don’t think it was you or anybody in particular…HD is a man of conviction and said he wouldn’t be back – I think his word is final….he sure as hell knew his music!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI0zkakitMQ
josef
January 18th, 2013
11:23 pm
moonbat
That one says it all in mu ancestrally uppity rebel Jewboy plantation liberal delusional lickspittle opinion!
ZamVet
But, ya know, losing did give “us” a perspective that helped us get through the debacle of Vietnam a little more psychologically intact. Victory is not assured, no matter the cause.
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
11:26 pm
“Mick, I am a bit paranoid, but I think the final straw when was I insulted him about the “secessionists being cowards”.”
JamVet, geez, get over yourself. You don’t have that much power…He wasn’t a secessionists anyway.
Ease our mind, you are giving yourself way too much credit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03TgkCVDlrA
Mick
January 18th, 2013
11:30 pm
moonbat
Great pick! always loved that song…here’s a strange one-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjrgZPhuL9o
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
11:33 pm
Not trying to blow our own horns here, but damn! Do we kick it on a FNM, or what?!!!
Yes! Thanks, Mick and betty. I think you’re right.
josef
January 18th, 2013
11:33 pm
MICK, et al
You can check in with Hillbilly over at Kyle’s from time to time. Same gentleman he always was here there as well. And not just music, the man knows his history as well…
josef
January 18th, 2013
11:38 pm
ZamVet.et al
This is a great FNM….I was a bit concerned after last week, but WE’RE BAAAACK!
Peace
January 18th, 2013
11:39 pm
One more.
http://search.yahoo.com/tablet/s?p=The+weakness+in+me+video&fr=ush1-finance
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
11:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38kdbKTQ4oI
Peace
January 18th, 2013
11:47 pm
Last one, promise.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=iElty90IPiw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiElty90IPiw
josef
January 18th, 2013
11:53 pm
Okay, I’m being paged. I’ll bid one and all a bonne nuit with this one…best version ever, imeoiauo, and which I finally found a link to. Thanks for a great evening of good music…
http://www.myspace.com/jonathanedwards-45784639/music/songs/morning-train-27961557
moonbat betty
January 19th, 2013
12:09 am
Peace,
If you want to post a cool video, go into it, then copy and paste the address.
Just one more click.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8teXR8VE4
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
12:20 am
betty,
The opinions of the Talmudic rabbis are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot and those who do not question them. The latter argue that if the reason for each mitzvah could be determined, people might try to achieve what they see as the purpose of the mitzvah, without actually performing the mitzvah itself (”lishmah”), which would become self-defeating. The former believe that if people were to understand the reason and the purpose for each mitzvah, it would actually help them to observe and perform the mitzvah (some mitzvot are given reasons in the Torah).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM02WcvlKn0
moonbat betty
January 19th, 2013
12:26 am
Dear Prudence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2lMstw6qs
Obama Inauguration Tribute
January 19th, 2013
6:06 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1xDg-zngg
Electoral College Changes Eyed By Republicans In State Legislatures Following Obama Win
January 19th, 2013
6:16 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/electoral-college_n_2501887.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Redcoat
January 19th, 2013
8:02 am
Meanwhile……..Jeep WILL be producing jeeps in China instead of the US, who would have thought?……and on and on it goes
Leadership??
January 19th, 2013
8:15 am
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin indicted
…In January 2006, he apologized for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted New Orleans would be a “chocolate city” and asserted that “God was mad at America.”
Strong support from black voters helped Nagin win re-election in 2006 despite mounting criticism of his post-Katrina leadership. But the glacial pace of rebuilding, a surge in violent crime and the budding City Hall corruption investigation chipped away at Nagin’s popularity during his second term…
kayaker 71
January 19th, 2013
8:24 am
Another crooked black liberal bites the dust…… that stalwart, responsible caring and compassionate mayor of New Orleans who scammed off of the federal government while declaring the NO was a chocolate city and would remain so. Sort of makes you proud to be a liberal, ne-ces-pas?
Redcoat
January 19th, 2013
8:24 am
Didn’t our President hand picked the CEO of Jeep? Wasn’t there something about a “lie”…………?
dbm
January 19th, 2013
8:31 am
The Skeptic column of the latest Scientific American is an interesting discussion of how war on science comes from both left and right, but so does openness to science.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
8:35 am
GREAT link at 6:06.
And now, the hated D word…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J_zqxExsj4
Leadership, again??
January 19th, 2013
8:36 am
Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said that the National Rifle Association (NRA) opposed President Barack Obama’s gun control plans because the group “still cannot get over” the fact that the president is “black.”
Wot
January 19th, 2013
8:44 am
And Johnson would be right.
Wot
January 19th, 2013
8:45 am
The Jeep deal a little too complicated for you Cons to figure out?
Black Label
January 19th, 2013
9:04 am
Kayaker
People of all races and political stripes can and are crooked.
Don’t let your sheets show too much.
emz
January 19th, 2013
9:19 am
Nice.
JamVet
January 19th, 2013
9:20 am
What a great idea!
The President of the United States of America swears to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”, not the Christian Bible.
So that is the sacred document he should place his hand upon during the swearing in ceremony…
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/opinion/obeidallah-bible/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Soothsayer
January 19th, 2013
9:50 am
After witnessing the fighting of undeclared never ending wars, passage of freedom destroying legislation like the Patriot Act & NDAA, approval of pork barrel spending to the tune of hundreds of billions, rule by Executive Order, using ZIRP to extract hundreds of billions from senior citizen savers and give it to criminal Wall Street banks, forcing the American people at gunpoint to replenish the Wall Street banks with $700 billion after they had committed the greatest financial fraud in history, and a continuing trampling of the U.S. Constitution, the American people continue to remain willfully ignorant of the truth. The American Dream is dead. We’ve allowed a rich, privileged, elite few to achieve hegemony over our economic and political system with their control of the media and manipulation of our financial markets. They will collapse the country because they will never be satisfied with the amount of wealth and power they’ve accumulated. Their voracious greed will be their downfall.
A little light reading to go along with your Saturday morning coffee.
Jm
January 19th, 2013
9:50 am
Obama is likely to go down in history as the president that completely ignored the two huge long term problems
The debt and climate change
Obama is selling our country and planet down the river
And I know exactly what that phrase means
The other half of your brain.
January 19th, 2013
10:09 am
Couldn’t help but pass this on! Loved the music and brought a big smile to me face!
Scottish or not… have a listen, click Song below………
SONG
The other half of your brain.
January 19th, 2013
10:10 am
poop, didn’t work.
Jm
January 19th, 2013
10:20 am
Realism from Bloomberg
U.S. Will Leave Afghanistan to Warlords and Taliban
Afghanistan
“We wanted a clear message from Obama that the U.S. will continue to support democracy in Afghanistan,” Fawzia Koofi, a lawmaker and human-rights activist, said this month. “It’s the only alternative to Talibanization.”
Her honesty revealed the plain truth, without official pieties and doublespeak: The U.S. is quitting Afghanistan, and the morning after it does, the Taliban will begin the reconquest of that tragic land. After 11 years, and a toll of more than 2,000 Americans killed, 18,000 wounded, and the expenditure of more than $600 billion, what is perhaps the longest U.S. war is winding down.
That good war of necessity, set up as a willful contrast to the war of choice in Iraq, is in Washington’s rearview mirror. No stirring prose attends that war. When Afghan President Hamid Karzai came to Washington for an official visit on Jan. 11, the mood was sober and resigned. He could promise immunity for the U.S. forces that would stay in his country, but this would not change the course of things. A cunning warlord — a job requirement — Karzai knew it was the endgame in Kabul for the Americans.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who had made Afghanistan his just war of necessity, had won re-election and he insisted that the conflict was meant to avenge what befell the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. A year into his first term, he had doubled down in Afghanistan, ordering a surge of his own. The potential damage to his presidency from war in the Hindu Kush was contained. The Republicans couldn’t outflank him, for they, too, knew that this was an unpopular war.
Bloodless Realism
But Obama had been shrewd. Early on, he had stripped the Afghan campaign of exalted claims. Not for him was the passion of President George W. Bush about the Iraq War spreading “freedom” throughout the Arab world. Obama had spoken of a “civilian surge” of experts and technocrats from all walks of life descending on Afghanistan and tackling its overwhelming troubles. This was shelved and forgotten. A bloodless realism guided the enterprise.
We would end the war “responsibly,” Obama would repeatedly observe. He was without illusions about the man in Kabul. In Bob Woodward’s “Obama’s Wars,” the president asks and answers the central question about the local “partner” in that war. “Why should Karzai change?” The Afghan could go on with his ways, Obama said, and the “U.S. would be stuck tending to the country for him.”
American soldiers could labor and sacrifice in Afghanistan, but the flights, eight a day, from Kabul to Dubai would haul off the cash for the warlords to prepare for the time when the American centurions would be gone.
There is kitsch and legend about the country being a “graveyard for empires,” about the codes of the Pashtuns. But decades of mayhem and corruption have hardened and wrecked the culture. Plainly, the warrior bandits live off strategic rent, the subsidies that come to them from foreign donors caught up in the messiness of Afghanistan.
You would think that these proud Afghans would want the departure of the Americans, but they dread that day. Luck had come to them when al-Qaeda, Arab jihadis and financiers had nested among them. Like a magnet, the Arabs had pulled in the mighty Americans with their gear and deep pockets. A decade of this lucrative trade for the Afghans in power has been heady.
In 2009, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul at the time, Karl Eikenberry, explained the Afghan and Karzai ways in a cable he sent to Washington. “President Karzai is not an adequate strategic partner. He and much of his circle do not want the U.S. to leave and are only too happy to see us invest further. They assume we covet their territory for a never-ending war on terror and for military bases to use against surrounding powers.”
Mocking Imperialists
Say what you will about the Afghan warrior bandits: In the decade Americans spent among them, they never told us sweet things about our time, and our role, in their country. This was “imperialism” with a new twist. The clients dependent on imperial protection never wearied of second-guessing the protectors.
Karzai himself must be unique in that regard in the long line of unsavory despots the U.S. had supported over several decades in developing countries. For Karzai, the coalition forces were predators inflicting pain and ruin on the Afghans. At times, the foreign protectors ranked lower in esteem than the Taliban.
In November 2011, Karzai gave the quintessential Afghan statement about the place of the Americans and their coalition partners in his homeland. “The lion doesn’t like it if a foreigner intrudes into his house. The lion doesn’t like it if a stranger enters his house. The lion doesn’t want his children to be taken away by someone else in the night, the lion won’t let it happen.” All the lion would tolerate is for the outsiders to “just guard the four sides of the forest.”
Well, soon the lion will be on his own. No Americans will be under any compulsion to dwell on the meaning and the ways of the loya jirga, the assembly of elders. We will be spared anthropological recitations about the “Pashtunwali,” the code of the Pashtuns, for we have already seen through the pretense and the kitsch.
There remain earnest Afghan women such as Fawzia Koofi and those schoolgirls we glimpse in their uniforms when our television crews venture into that country. One shudders in fear and anxiety for them. They won’t be able to board the flights for Dubai. They will be there when the pitiless soldiers of the Taliban, like the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia, sweep in and overwhelm all that the foreign protectors had left in place.
(Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and author of “The Syrian Rebellion.” The opinions expressed are his own.)
indigo
January 19th, 2013
10:29 am
jm
So, are you saying we should stay in Afghanistan indefinitely?
indigo
January 19th, 2013
10:30 am
Soothsayer – 9:50
The phrase “let them eat cake” comes to mind.
Black Label
January 19th, 2013
10:38 am
The Soviets were not the 1st to leave the Afghanistan region without accomplishing their goals and the US will probably not be the last..
Let google be your friend and look up the history of the region
Soothsayer
January 19th, 2013
10:43 am
indigo & everyone else for that matter: you should read that article. It will open your eyes.
Fred ™
January 19th, 2013
10:44 am
Redcoat
January 19th, 2013
8:02 am
Meanwhile……..Jeep WILL be producing jeeps in China instead of the US, who would have thought?……and on and on it goes
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The dumbass is STRONG in this one………..
Fred ™
January 19th, 2013
10:45 am
Black Label
January 19th, 2013
10:38 am
The Soviets were not the 1st to leave the Afghanistan region without accomplishing their goals and the US will probably not be the last..
Let google be your friend and look up the history of the region
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He won’t. Jm is incapable of learning or expanding his mind. His purpose here is to agitate.
Soothsayer
January 19th, 2013
10:45 am
BTW, our role in Afghanistan is basically running interference so that the worldwide opium and heroin trade can continue. Not to mention that the CIA is making a pretty penny on it. I sure would hate to know that someone I know died doing the above.
Jm
January 19th, 2013
2:10 pm
Jay good tunage up top
Redcoat
January 19th, 2013
5:02 pm
Fred ………….glad you saw what I saw , you should know it……….and the lying too……..can you believe how slick and blatant they have all become?