To our traveling companions on the highway of life
I lost a close, longtime friend last fall, and this week some of us who knew the man best are gathering from around the country for the first time since he left us so suddenly. We’ve told stories, laughed a lot and handled a few moments of sadness. It’s all good, as they say.
The experience brought this cut to mind, recorded by friends of George Harrison a year after his passing. The guitarist looking uncannily like a young George is his son Dhani, who at the time of the video was probably around 24. All things must pass.
– Jay Bookman
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Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 9th, 2013
6:42 pm
Well, I’m doing my part to sacrifice for the sequester. I decided I would cut myself off at 18 PBRs for any night, just to recognize there’s some people that can’t hardly afford a 12-pack.
Have a good Saturday night everybody and don’t forget to get up for church tomorrow morning. Set your clock forward now and don’t you dare oversleep. You can always catch up on your sleep during the sermon.
Normal, plain and simple...
March 9th, 2013
6:46 pm
Redneck,
You’re just too good for words…
George P. Burdell
March 9th, 2013
7:15 pm
Jay, enjoy your weekend remembering a lost friend. I remember your article about him and glad you are celebrating his life. I always enjoy your Friday music highlights and when Clapton is involved, that is just a bonus. Maybe we can all learn something by the fact that George and Eric could remain good friends despite all the stuff that happened on the journey.
Normal, plain and simple...
March 9th, 2013
8:06 pm
Ho Hum…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i98_Lqcryp8
Brosephus™
March 9th, 2013
9:02 pm
southpaw
If you check back through, here’s what I was referring to earlier in reference to Sen. Coburn’s tirade.
http://www.senate.gov/employment/po/positions.htm
Revised: March 07, 2013 at 4:43 PM
The Senate Employment Bulletin is published as a service to Senate offices choosing to advertise staff vacancies. The listing is posted online at http://www.senate.gov/employment and revised throughout the week.
[...]
221987 ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF –
Republican Senator seeks Assistant to the Chief of Staff….
221986 FELLOW –
Moderate Democrat seeks a Fellow to assist with health care reform and deficit reduction….
221985 STAFF ASSISTANT –
Senate majority Subcommittee seeks Staff Assistant to work on health care and aging portfolio….
221984 BANKING AND TAX LA –
The office of Senator Mark R. Warner, a member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, is looking for a Legislative Assistant to handle a portfolio that includes banking and financial services, tax, and economic policy….
221983 COUNSEL –
Republican Senator seeks Counsel to handle appropriations, judiciary, justice, and homeland security issues….
221982 MEDIA ASSISTANT –
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., seeks a Media Assistant for his three person D.C. press office….
221981 SUMMER INTERNS –
Senator Tom Carper is accepting applications for Summer Interns. This paid internship provides an inside look at the legislative process as interns perform research on a wide variety of legislative issues, compose memos and attend hearings and events throughout the Capitol….
That’s just the first seven listings. Notice the time that was updated. The last one that I put in bold is actually for paid SUMMER jobs, nevermind the fact that cuts are starting in the spring.
To give an idea of how assinine his argument is, here’s a link discussing his letter he wrote questioning the Executive Branch job postings. Note the difference in time from this article vs when the Senate job postings were updated.
Posted by Eric Yoder on March 7, 2013 at 10:45 am
The top Republican on the Senate’s government oversight committee is questioning why agencies are continuing to hire when existing employees are facing unpaid furloughs, saying that “the average new hire equates to a one week furlough for 52 current government employees.”
In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said that on Monday, “the first business day after sequestration, there were 606 new federal jobs posted on usajobs.com,” the government’s central recruiting site.
BSNBC
March 9th, 2013
9:24 pm
Democrats praise dictator life at his passing and approve of Obama hurting the average American just to get at Republicans!
td
March 9th, 2013
9:30 pm
Pro-gun voters put heat on Democratic senators
By MATT GOURAS
Associated Press
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus has been here before.
Back during the Clinton era, the Democrat faced a choice: support an assault weapons ban urged by a president from his own party and risk angering constituents who cherish their gun rights, or buck his party. He chose the ban, and nearly lost his Senate seat.
Now, as he begins his campaign for a seventh term, Baucus faces the question again. For weeks, gun foes have sought assurances he would oppose the assault weapons ban. But it was only this past week he said he would oppose it.
That decision alone doesn’t settle the issue for his re-election campaign. His opponents are watching closely, eager to pounce as he navigates a series of other gun control proposals, including an expected call for universal background checks.
Baucus’ predicament is one that a group of Democrats like him in the West and South are facing. They hail from predominantly rural regions of the country where the Second Amendment is cherished and where Republicans routinely win in presidential elections.
From Montana to Louisiana, these anxious voters have made at least six Democratic senators a little uneasy heading into next year’s election season. Both sides are aware that gun-owners’ rights are taking shape as a campaign issue that could shift the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
“Make no mistake – it is a very delicate dance for rural state Democrats,” said Barrett Kaiser, a Democratic political consultant.
“I would be stunned if the Montana congressional delegation said anything but `hell no’ to gun control measures,” he added.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PRO_GUN_DEMOCRATS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-09-19-27-44
YouLibs
March 9th, 2013
9:46 pm
BSNBC
Are you familiar with vagina dentata?
It was discussed earlier on this thread. I think it’s something that deserves your attention because you’re a serious man.
My neck is red
March 9th, 2013
10:48 pm
How bout yours?
My neck is red
March 9th, 2013
10:51 pm
“Well, I’m doing my part to sacrifice for the sequester. I decided I would cut myself off at 18 PBRs for any night, just to recognize there’s some people that can’t hardly afford a 12-pack.
Have a good Saturday night everybody and don’t forget to get up for church tomorrow morning. Set your clock forward now and don’t you dare oversleep. You can always catch up on your sleep during the sermon.”
The woods don’t run on a government clock
My neck is red
March 9th, 2013
10:54 pm
Does the FDA wake up in the morning?
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Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
7:04 am
Damn, there he was all ready to troll last night with a new alt and everything. But alas, there was no one to troll………
Normal, plain and simple...
March 10th, 2013
8:01 am
Good Sunday morning Fred, and anyone else out there peekin’ in…
This time change sucks, but this morning I did see another nice sunrise and hugged my favorite god tree. My wife and I like this guy the best…
Abelard:
Breton. God of love, loyalty, and couples. He and Heloise died together and were buried in the same tomb. They were faithful in their love until the end. Two tree’s, one dark skinned and one light are said to have grown intertwined above their joint grave.
We have a tree that has become two trees from one root system. It also has a knurl that looks like a big eye. Really cool, and we get good vibes around it…. Gotta love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2yEnzVVX5s
indigo
March 10th, 2013
8:04 am
Now that we’re on Daylight Savings Time, once again lawmakers can proudly tell Americans they’re doing something about our energy problem.
Unfortunately, there’s not a shred of hard evidence this actually saves any energy at all.
Only in America.
Cherokee
March 10th, 2013
8:26 am
Probably true, Indigo, but I sure do like the extra daylight in the evening….
Thomas
March 10th, 2013
9:11 am
Heard on Fox “I am proud to be a bush”
Anyway- feel free to run with it.
barking frog
March 10th, 2013
9:49 am
an old favorite of mine that pretty well describes a lot of my Sunday mornings..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLiuPRMJy8
barking frog
March 10th, 2013
9:54 am
Thomas
Heard on Fox “I am proud to be a bush”
………………………………………………
I don’t know why, bushes have little wood…..
JamVet
March 10th, 2013
10:00 am
frog, you’re not hung over, are ya? (grin)
What a laugh, I just thought of how many people must be in church this morning, trying desperately not to show the effects, while getting this from their spouse…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowuyzxgmtg
Normal, plain and simple...
March 10th, 2013
10:14 am
Jam,
Everybody knows the “Godly” sows wild oats on Saturday night and goes to church Sunday morning to pray for a crop failure…
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
10:18 am
Normal
barking frog
March 10th, 2013
10:18 am
a bush bass player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y59uSr6whHQ
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
10:33 am
Horse Dookie Normal. If God didn’t want me to get drunk he wouldn’t have invented whiskey, wine, and spirits. If I’m hung over in church it’s because I was admiring his creation.
And now, FINALLY if I drink it all up on Saturday night I cans goes and gets some more on Sunday……….. but not until Church is over wouldn’t ya know? Well it’s better than the way it was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmcJWPYcr1I
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
10:35 am
Ya know, the so called webmaster for Cox is a bush league ROOKIE. They have so many F-ups it’s unreal. Changing to Daylight saving time is EASY. There is an option to do it AUTOMATICALLY!!!!!!!!!
You would think they could hire someone decent but NO…………
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
10:38 am
Any of ya’ll every eat at the ORIGINAL Pancake House there on (or by) Cheshire Bridge? Talk about yum……….
http://www.originalpancakehouse.com/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
10:45 am
For Positive Jobs Report, Fox Cuts Coverage In Half
Fox News spent less than 11 minutes highlighting the February jobs report that showed the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent, about half the time the network spent covering the August 2011 jobs report that indicated no net addition of jobs.
Furthermore, the majority of Fox’s coverage discussing the drop in unemployment used the news as a foil to bring up unrelated indicators or downplay its significance.
With Obama in office, good news is no news.
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
10:49 am
With Obama in office, good news is no news.
Well, they do have a core audience to cater to. They would lose their audience, ratings, and advertising revenue if they focused on something positive in relation to Obama. Look at Chris Christie for a perfect example.
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
10:53 am
The F-35 has features that make pilots drool. It is shaped to avoid detection by enemy radar. It can accelerate to supersonic speeds. One model can take off and land vertically. Onboard electronic sensors and computers provide a 360-degree view of the battlefield on flat-panel screens, allowing pilots to quickly identify targets and threats.
But its greatest strength has nothing to do with those attributes. The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin, the giant contractor hired to design and build the plane, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, have constructed what amounts to a budgetary force field around the nearly $400 billion program.
Although it is the costliest weapons system in U.S. history and the single most expensive item in the 2013 Pentagon budget, it will face only a glancing blow from the sequester this year. And as the White House and Congress contemplate future budgets, those pushing for additional cuts may find it difficult to trim more than a fraction of the Pentagon’s proposed fleet, even though the program is years behind schedule and 70 percent over its initial price tag.
But, yep, let’s sequester the pay of federal workers, cut national park service, cut Medicare, and probably threaten to shut down the government to cut entitlements instead of cutting the real “entitlement” programs such as the F-35. Defense contractors have created monopolies that make Standard Oil look like a board game.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
11:17 am
But, yep, let’s sequester the pay of federal workers…
You mooching parasites with your union wage should be ashamed. Because of you, the F-35 wasn’t finished in time to save all those killed by terrorists.
Why do you hate The United States?
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
11:28 am
Brocephus? Are you still going to be on your girly mqan leave when the NCAA tourny starts? Maybe we can get together and watch the games on the first day. See if a couple of the other meatheads can joi us as well. Maybe get a bracket thing going.
I don’t care that much about B-ball anymore EXCEPT for that tourny. To me it’s one of the most exciting events around, especially when they get a good Cinderella story going. Someone like Valpo teeing up in the big boys’ butts.
Kam: Wanna come help me plow up my back yard, fill it full of cow crap, and plant a garden lol?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 10th, 2013
11:35 am
Well, it’s a wonderful day but somebody is about to get his life ruint next week when they elect a new Pope. I mean, one day you’re tossing a few back with the guys and raising all kinda heck and the next day they tell you you’re the Pope now and you got to live in that Vatican and everybody’s watching your every move and there’s church every day of the week and you can’t even go to the john without everybody knowing about it. And gone are the days you can tell somebody to blow it out his a$$ if you don’t like him.
I don’t know about you but I’m kinda glad I’m not Catholic and ain’t in line to be named to that job. I’ll just stick to driving a beer truck and having a little fun once in a while.
Have a good Sabbath everybody.
YouLibs
March 10th, 2013
11:36 am
Fred ™
tm will probably give you a wholesale price on bull crap.
YouLibs
March 10th, 2013
11:38 am
…meant td, not tm.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
11:44 am
Fred
It time for me to call my guy to come disc up the ground. Then he’s gotta come back a month later to rotovate.
I’m kinda ambivalent about gardening this year. I think I’ll let the bigger of the two plots go to grass. I’ll plant tomatoes, but I haven’t decided what else.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
11:45 am
Youlibs: He spews toxic waste not BS lol. At least BS is useful……….
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
11:51 am
Kam: I’m not sure what all I’m going to do. I’m going to do the backyard and see how that gores this year and maybe next year see if my neighbor will let me use a lot he bought that has nothing on it. I’ll do peas, beans, corn (maybe) yeller squish, maters, okra, greens, asparagus (I think it takes two years for that) and herbs and spices out front. I’ll see what the wimmins want me to grow as well. Oh and peppers (sweet not hot). Pumpkins? Butternut? I’ll see how much room I have. I’m wanting to see how much I can freeze or can. It would be cool to grow enough to last the year.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
11:52 am
Oh crap. Them evil Red Devils have scored 2 goals in 11 minutes. Gonna be hard to come back from this ‘un.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
11:56 am
Fred
You’re gonna need a lot of sunlight, so if you got trees — they gotta go.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
12:01 pm
Kam: I just asked my other soccer buddy who he was for, ManU or Chelsea. He said neither, he wants them ALL to get hurt lol.
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
12:02 pm
Kam @ 11:17
You could have namejacked more than a few with that one, and it would have been very believable.
————–
Fred
Gotta head back into the salt mines this week. I’ll look into that though. Like you, I don’t watch too much basketball until tourney time.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
12:03 pm
I’ve had enough sun in the past with the smaller garden Kam, I’ll see this year about the larger…….
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
12:07 pm
Hey Fred, wasn’t it td that was worried about the Chinese military the other day??? Guess he doesn’t know the extent of their environmental problems. They’re gonna kill themselves off before they can wipe anybody else out.
A choking smog in Beijing in January, far above hazardous levels, has been one of the most dramatic signs of China’s environmental problems, but Dong is convinced that soil pollution is the country’s “silent killer.”
About 40 percent of China’s agricultural land is irrigated with underground water, of which 90 percent is polluted, according to Liu Xin, a food and health expert and a member of an advisory body to parliament, who was quoted in the Southern Metropolitan Daily.
http://news.yahoo.com/china-public-anger-over-secrecy-environment-033012400–business.html
Give them a few more years, and they’ll be able to use their water for a gas substitute and we’ll see a serious drop in the price of oil. Just goes to show that history repeats itself when people don’t pay attention. The US has already gone through the environmental issues with expansive growth. They could have looked at our past and avoided doing the same things. Instead, they’re gonna set one of their rivers on fire just like we did in Ohio long ago.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
12:16 pm
He said neither, he wants them ALL to get hurt lol.
Must be an Arsenal fan — or Liverpool.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
12:22 pm
Brocephus; It’s hard to tell who it REALLY was as it was an alt doing the talking. LOL I made a typo and that dumb ass doomy has been going on about it ever since. The alt very well could have been Doomy. He has to use alts because so many of us just scroll on past anything with his name on it and won’t reply to him.
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
12:47 pm
Fred
My scroll wheel doesn’t even click anymore. It’s a smooth roll now.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
12:51 pm
All the cons have cut and run on this blog so politics is over.
It is now a sports, cooking and growing blog.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
12:57 pm
China’s new leader wants to level the playing field to give all Chinese a shot at the Chinese dream.
Sound familiar?
Yeah, their system is fixed too.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
1:42 pm
Hey Jerome
2-2 tie at Old Trafford.
We get to do it again.
Real Scootter
March 10th, 2013
1:49 pm
It is now a sports, cooking and growing blog.
getalife,
Don’t worry! Jay will poke the hornet’s nest when he gets back.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
1:56 pm
Well Getalife, if they had something interesting, or even sane to say we would talk to them………..
getalife
March 10th, 2013
1:58 pm
Scooter,
Ooops I forgot music.
I think partisanship has lost it’s mojo.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
2:01 pm
It is a beautiful day in my home town for the race today.
I have to go with my homeboy and predict Kyle Busch wins today.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
2:14 pm
You are originally from Vegas getalife? Did you ever post at a NASCAR racing site called RacingOne?
getalife
March 10th, 2013
2:17 pm
Fred,
Born in Vegas but never posted at RacingOne.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
2:25 pm
There was a guy from Vegas on the site who was bragging on Kyle Busch from the time he was life 14. He talked so much about him, we hated Kyle before he was even old enough to have a regular drivers license lol. He was as obnoxious as Jm is sometimes about it. But damn was he right. Kyle and Harvick are the best drivers in NASCAR to NOT have won a Cup title IMHO.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
2:56 pm
Fred,
Harvick is my Brother’s favorite driver and most fans hate the Busch’s attitude problem.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 10th, 2013
3:22 pm
Gawd, these GOP idiots!
I accidently clicked on an ad on the Huffpost and this idiotic presentation started about Obama’s 3d term: I didn’t vote for him. I don’t admire him. I don’t care for his class warfare politics… or the way he’s lived his life. He’s never had a real job. He’s never tried to make a payroll or hit a sales goal. Instead, he constantly makes excuses for other people and himself. He tells one lie after another… and then grandstands on his “integrity.”
He’s nothing but a charlatan.” Even so… I know Obama will become the greatest president in U.S. history. Much like Kennedy, this has something to do with his charisma – which I find revolting, but others clearly love. However, that’s not the real reason… No, a simple secret lies behind Obama’s soaring power, which is still far from its peak.
It goes on to hit more of the GOP fear talking points and buzzwords..
all to sell an investment letter. The conned would have better chances of not being fleeced at a sideshow carnival.
josef
March 10th, 2013
4:14 pm
Slow day, I see. Question number one: is the posting time correct.
Second thing
GOOD FIGHT
In all of this hoop-lah with President Obama, I’ve noticed that virtually nobody seems to have a mixed opinion about him or the capacity for “judging” him based on specific actions/policies. One is either “he does no wrong” or “he does no right.”
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
4:19 pm
Question number one: is the posting time correct.
How else can Jay see what we type before we post it?
JamVet
March 10th, 2013
4:27 pm
I’ve noticed that virtually nobody seems to have a mixed opinion about him…
Hey, I’m somebody and I do! (Though some doubt whether I’m a real this, that or the other!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HavIYhoAiUE
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
4:33 pm
On my way out so the princess can get some bike riding in, but..
In all of this hoop-lah with President Obama, I’ve noticed that virtually nobody seems to have a mixed opinion about him or the capacity for “judging” him based on specific actions/policies.
And just what am I??? Chopped brother???
josef
March 10th, 2013
4:36 pm
GOOD FIGHT
Time? Imam? There is that…
ZamVET
But, do you eat quiche?
BROSEPHUS
No. You’re a virtual nobody!
josef
March 10th, 2013
4:45 pm
Stopped by Kyle’s. They’re doing culinary treats, and, of course Indigo is there with his fundamentalist homeschool line. No new recipes, and that boy needs a new shtick..
josef
March 10th, 2013
4:47 pm
Ooops…
Sorry, K’chak…that was your comment on the Imam knowing what we’re typing. He should’ve corrected that before it was posted.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
4:49 pm
He should’ve corrected that before it was posted.
No need for him to do that, as he knew that you were taking care of it.
YouLibs
March 10th, 2013
4:55 pm
getalife
Spring ball starts Thursday in B.R. I think the Cameron hire was CLM’S best lick yet. ZM’s 8th coach in nine years but he’s pretty psyched. Look for much more offensive production this year, but can they fill all those holes on defense?
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
4:59 pm
No. You’re a virtual nobody!
*writing memo to self…
josef
March 10th, 2013
4:59 pm
K’CHAK
Yeah. I forgot that…
josef
March 10th, 2013
5:01 pm
BROSEPHUS
But, you know virtually everything.
You’re nobody. Nobody knows everything…
But, then you knew I was going to say that and Big Daddy knew you knew…
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
5:06 pm
getalife
It’s not too late to get on the Joe Gibbs wagon.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
5:06 pm
Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen….
DoggoneGA
March 10th, 2013
5:09 pm
“I’ve noticed that virtually nobody seems to have a mixed opinion about him or the capacity for “judging” him based on specific actions/policies”
But not ACTUALLY nobody. I’ve had a very mixed opinion of him.
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
5:10 pm
josef
Yeah, he knows all. I’m not gonna type a witty response because he’s already laughing at what I was going to type. No need to type it now…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
5:21 pm
Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.) on Monday called for the creation of a new federal grant program that would spend half a billion dollars to educate teenagers about why they should not have sex before marriage.
I thought we were supposed to be sequesterin’.
$550 million.
I can do it for half of that.
Kids — just say no.
josef
March 10th, 2013
5:25 pm
BROSEPHUS
DOGGONE
Good to see so many (other?) virtual nobodies here tonight!
getalife
March 10th, 2013
5:29 pm
Bro,
Um, no Gibbs racing for me.
It was a good race.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
5:33 pm
“Spring ball starts Thursday in B.R. I think the Cameron hire was CLM’S best lick yet. ZM’s 8th coach in nine years but he’s pretty psyched. Look for much more offensive production this year, but can they fill all those holes on defense?”
Our quarterback sux and we lost most of our defense so it will take good coaching to be competitive.
Brosephus™
March 10th, 2013
5:49 pm
Kamchak
Sequester is for libruls and their stuff only.
————–
getalife
Missed most of it and caught it after he took the checkered.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 10th, 2013
5:56 pm
“I sequester, he sequesters, she sequesters
We sequester, wouldn’t you like to do sequester too?”
– Thomas “David Naughton” Jefferson
barking frog
March 10th, 2013
6:07 pm
Has the rapture happened ?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 10th, 2013
6:08 pm
josef, well I guess you can ignore the blog nobodies but I don’t think many on the left of singing all of his praises. But overall he’s got a tough political situation. You and I can talk about policies but he has to also factor in how he draws votes from his party (whose members have to deal with their constituency). I think he screwed up ACA but moving to the middle which forced him to settle on the right, but maybe we’ll get single payer yet and I’ll still take what we got on ACA for a start.
But hey, let’s go for some Maine justice”
josef
March 10th, 2013
6:42 pm
GOOD FIGHT
Jokes aside, my main (not Maine!) objection to his presidency has been his centricism. I am not myself a centrist. However, what I subscribe to for myself is not of necessity what I think is in the best interest of the country. The funny thing, to me at least, is that it’s generally where the left attacks him, he gets the most points from me, and where they sing his praises, where he gets the fewest. But, in the long run, it’s all political…
And his health care? Don’t get me started…nationalize it and be done with it…
BTW
THAT was an interesting video…
Soothsayer
March 10th, 2013
6:53 pm
OK, OK, now I get it. The blog is still on standard time. I thought I was in a time warp or somepin.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 10th, 2013
6:58 pm
Dang it….I was sure that video would stir josef up more than Sherman whupping Lee in mud wrassling or monster trucks.
josef, my own feeling is that a lot of that “centrist” is the result of political play but I haven’t golfed with him to know for sure.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
7:43 pm
I agree with Josef on the centrist governing but our country was center right.
I submit this government is as good as it gets.
It actually works but we are behind on health care because it is privatized and when the costs are still too high, there is only one choice left.
Canada Care.
Fred ™
March 10th, 2013
7:48 pm
In all of this hoop-lah with President Obama, I’ve noticed that virtually nobody seems to have a mixed opinion about him or the capacity for “judging” him based on specific actions/policies. One is either “he does no wrong” or “he does no right.”
Really? You never read my stuff lol? I think he’s “ok.” He’s not in my opinion great or even especially good. Given the circumstances when he was elected, he was/is, while the better of the candidates, the wrong man. We needed a leader and he’s a manager. Of course no LEADERS have run for the office in a while.
Colin Powell would have been a LEADER. He didn’t run. I think Zell Miller would have been a leader, he didn’t run either. Warren Buffet is a leader. Steve Jobs, Arthur Blank, Bill Gates. Leaders.
Nick Saban, (stay with me lol) leader, Mark Richt, manager. The list of leaders is short because in our current culture, leaders are disdained. Folks act like we don’t need them, but we do. Civilization never moved forward because of a consensus, it moved forward when a LEADER led.
DoggoneGA
March 10th, 2013
8:15 pm
“Colin Powell would have been a LEADER”
I don’t agree. You should read up on the history of the complaints about him when he was in the service…that he was too DEFERENTIAL to those above him in command. That’s not the sign of a leader…that’s a follower
getalife
March 10th, 2013
8:20 pm
I don’t think “I will duel you” is leadership or the lies Powell told about Iraq.
DoggoneGA
March 10th, 2013
8:25 pm
“I don’t think “I will duel you” is leadership or the lies Powell told about Iraq.”
Amen to that. I knew about Powerll before the UN debacle…which only confirmed for me that his detractors knew what they were talking about.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
9:12 pm
Speaking of leadership, most pols think weed should be legal but few in Washington have the guts to say it.
td
March 10th, 2013
9:34 pm
getalife
March 10th, 2013
9:12 pm
Speaking of leadership, most pols think weed should be legal but few in Washington have the guts to say it.
Most people in this country are stupid and do not know what is in their best interest.
G Mare
March 10th, 2013
11:00 pm
Zell Miller a leader? Well, maybe in his younger years, before the dementia caught up with him. And maybe Colin Powell, before he was duped by Cheney, et al. As for the business men, quite possibly.
BTW, Frog, thanks for the birthday greeting the other night – much appreciated.
And yes, pot should, indeed, be legalized! No, I was too chicken to ever try it; what with wine & regular cigs, I think I don’t need another vice, tho I do buy a lottery ticket once in a while.
G Mare
March 10th, 2013
11:04 pm
Whoever caught this, good one. My clock reads 12m & my comment posted at 11. Cue the TWILIGHT ZONE music….
getalife
March 10th, 2013
11:04 pm
td,
The majority of voters are informed around election time.
The child like bickering makes them lose interest.
getalife
March 10th, 2013
11:14 pm
The blog is on Central time.
Jerome Horwitz
March 11th, 2013
6:46 am
Kam – Great second half by the Blues. Really had us on our heels and we were lucky to get out of there tied.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 11th, 2013
7:25 am
I’m ready to start a Leave My F….. Clock Alone movement.
LMFCA
stands for decibels
March 11th, 2013
7:29 am
Mornin’. Such as it is.
I’m ready to start a Leave My F….. Clock Alone movement.
Count me in. We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our clocks, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 11th, 2013
7:32 am
I see the blog has refused to join the DST world.