Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and LOUD, LOUD music) performed by Joe Maphis & wife Rose Lee, LIVE in 1959.
Maphis. known for the flatpicking style he developed in the 1930's, sings magnificent harmony with wife Rose in this 1950's crowd-pleaser.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, And Loud Loud Music. Been There, Done That, Got The Liver To Prove It...
Great article today in the LATimes Magazine about country music in Southern California back in the day. I well remember Town Hall Party on TV on Saturday nights. To a 13-year-old kid who was already a social outcast for liking country music, this was hot shit!
Hot enough for ya?
EssEffChron
It would be unkind to say "suffer, bitchez" so I won't.
(07-23) 07:21 PDT Reno, Nev. (AP) --
Hundreds of skiers and snowboarders are expected to hit the slopes as a Sierra Nevada ski resort opens for the day Saturday.
Boreal Mountain Resort spokeswoman Jody Churich says a record seasonal snowfall is allowing the latest opening ever at her resort located atop Donner Summit near Truckee, Calif.
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Boreal reported receiving about 66 feet of snow this season, surpassing its record of 55 feet set in 1994-95.
It would be unkind to say "suffer, bitchez" so I won't.
Headline of the Day
Woman accused in penis attack may have tainted victim's tofu soup
That is just wrong on sooooo many levels...
Another turd ...
In Rick Perry's pool:
If God didn't like him before, he's in for some smiting for sure now. Heh ...
... The National Review Online reports that Texas GOP governor Rick Perry appears to be getting serious about running for president because apparently he is "brushing up on foreign policy." And who is helping Perry with the brushing? None other than Doug Feith, whom Gen. Tommy Franks famously referred to as the "stupidest guy on the face of the earth." ... [my em]
If God didn't like him before, he's in for some smiting for sure now. Heh ...
Great thanks to Athenae for the link.
Heh ...
Shouldn't lie to Parliament, you little shitbag:
And you know what I say to that:
A lawmaker referred James Murdoch to police Friday over claims of misleading parliament on the phone-hacking scandal as Prime Minister David Cameron said the media boss had "questions to answer".
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During a tense appearance with his father before parliament's media committee on Tuesday, James Murdoch, denied all knowledge of an email suggesting the problem went beyond one rogue reporter before authorising a payout to a victim.
But Colin Myler, the former editor of the News of the World, and Tom Crone, former legal manager of the News International news group, broke ranks on Thursday to say James Murdoch's recollection of events in 2008 was a "mistake".
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And you know what I say to that:
Nelson Muntz - Ha, ha
Fundies are fundies ...
Regardless of their persuasion.
Norway is a wonderful, happy place, especially Oslo. I'd even consider living there if they didn't have only 6 weeks of summer and frightfully cold winters (another one of those places that's proud of their icebreakers). The Mrs. and I loved our time there and were quite shocked, when we talked last night, they could produce their own Tim McVeigh:
Nah, can't be terrorism, he was a white Christian. They're all the same, whether Christian, Muslim, or Jew; if you're prepared to kill your own innocent countrymen to further your cause, you're a terrorist. In Europe, they know what the far right is capable of and keep their eye on them. Unfortunately, this nut fell through the cracks. Lately, it always seems to be right wing crazies doing shit like this, doesn't it? Always happens when you mix God with Politics.
Update:
Just watching the Beeb and their latest update is that the killer will be charged under Norway's terrorism law for each count against him. Good, may he rot in the deepest, darkest, coldest hole they can find in Norway.
Some pics of the area where the bombing took place in better days:
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At least 84 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a deadly bombing in the capital, Oslo, police say.
Police have charged a 32-year-old Norwegian man over both attacks.
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Norway is a wonderful, happy place, especially Oslo. I'd even consider living there if they didn't have only 6 weeks of summer and frightfully cold winters (another one of those places that's proud of their icebreakers). The Mrs. and I loved our time there and were quite shocked, when we talked last night, they could produce their own Tim McVeigh:
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"We have no more information than... what has been found on [his] own websites, which is that it goes towards the right and that it is, so to speak, Christian fundamentalist."
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Nah, can't be terrorism, he was a white Christian. They're all the same, whether Christian, Muslim, or Jew; if you're prepared to kill your own innocent countrymen to further your cause, you're a terrorist. In Europe, they know what the far right is capable of and keep their eye on them. Unfortunately, this nut fell through the cracks. Lately, it always seems to be right wing crazies doing shit like this, doesn't it? Always happens when you mix God with Politics.
Update:
Just watching the Beeb and their latest update is that the killer will be charged under Norway's terrorism law for each count against him. Good, may he rot in the deepest, darkest, coldest hole they can find in Norway.
Some pics of the area where the bombing took place in better days:
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
Emmylou Harris performs "Red Dirt Girl" live at Farm Aid 2005 at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois on September 18, 2005. Get this concert on DVD at: http://FarmAid.org/2005DVD
Thanks to farmaid.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Joe Morris Sr., Navajo Code Talker
In 2002 when I was at the VA in Prescott AZ it was my distinct honor to be a guest at a Marine Corps Birthday celebration with a Navajo Code Talker (go see) as the Guest Of Honor. I feel very sad when one of these guys passes away. There aren't many left.
LATimes
There's a helluva lot of history in that quote.
Walk in beauty, Joe. Semper Fi.
Joe Morris Sr. in 2007
LATimes
"My weapon was my language," World War II Marine veteran Joe Morris Sr. told a crowd of nearly 200 in a San Bernardino park on Veterans Day in 2004. "We saved a lot of lives."
Morris, one of the Navajo code talkers whose use of their native language in transmitting messages successfully thwarted Japanese code breakers in the Pacific during World War II, died Sunday at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center in Loma Linda of complications of a stroke, said his daughter, Colleen Anderson. He was 85.
In a 2003 interview with the Navajo Times, Morris said they were told "if you get captured by the Japanese don't you ever tell them what you learned here."
If captured, Morris said, their instructions were simple: "Just die for your country."
Morris was born April 19, 1926. As the eldest of four children, he tended his parents' sheep and horses on the Navajo reservation, which he once described as a place where there was "no electricity, no running water, no school."
At age 12, he was sent to a government boarding school 70 miles away, where he learned English. Morris returned to the reservation after the school was closed during the war and turned into an internment camp for Japanese Americans.
He was barely 17 in 1943 when he went to the local draft board and said he was 18 in order to obtain a draft registration card, which was required to be hired for a job.
He had been working in an Arizona ore mine a few months when he was drafted. He credited a Navajo medicine man with keeping him safe during the war.
"He prayed a day and a half for me," Morris recalled in a 1998 interview with the Modesto Bee. "He said, 'Grandson, you will be safe, and you will come back so you can tell me all that happened.' "
There's a helluva lot of history in that quote.
Walk in beauty, Joe. Semper Fi.
God Urges Rick Perry Not To Run For President
From America's Finest News Source:
AUSTIN, TX—Describing Texas Gov. Rick Perry as grossly unqualified for the position, God, the Creator and Ruler of the Universe, urged Perry not to run for president of the United States Wednesday. “I prayed last night and asked the Lord to support my candidacy, and He said no,” Perry told reporters outside the Texas Capitol, explaining that God had cited the governor’s rejection of federal stimulus funds to expand state jobless benefits, his irresponsible speculation about Texas seceding from the union, and his overall lack of concrete solutions to nation’s problems as reasons why He could not endorse a Perry presidential bid. “I believe God made some valid points about my lack of credentials, and He’s absolutely right. My extreme beliefs when it comes to social issues and states’ rights are not only disturbingly narrow-minded, but would also make me a horrible president.” When reached for comment, God said He would not be present at Perry’s much-talked-about Christian day of prayer on Aug. 6, calling the governor’s use of his public office to endorse a religion both “irresponsible” and a violation of the Constitution.
Headline of the Day
The GOP to the Working Class is Like Colonel Sanders Promising a Good Life to Chickens
The corollary of course is the rich get a big chicken dinner.
Signing Away the Right to Govern
NYTimes editorial:
Guess whose name comes up in the next sentence. Hint: rhymes with Grover Norquist.
Politicians' words aren't worth much, whether they sign their names or swear on a stack of bibles. Neither is ideological purity when it comes up against reality. Reality? Oh, that's the world most people in. Means nothing in politics, where 'reality' is the next election.
Someone needs to tell the pols that their signatures and rigid ideology are the problem, and tell Groober to take his goddam 'pledge' and shove it up his ass.
In theory, but short of 'rebellion' or an 'uprising' such as we are seeing the beginning of in some states, the true source of political power in America is the Koch Bros and their ilk.
¡Viva la revolucion!
It used to be that a sworn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution was the only promise required to become president. But that no longer seems to be enough for a growing number of Republican interest groups, who are demanding that presidential candidates sign pledges shackling them to the corners of conservative ideology. Many candidates are going along, and each pledge they sign undermines the basic principle of democratic government built on compromise and negotiation.
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But iron-clad promises were just what the most rigid Republican ideologues wanted. They had seen too many presidents — specifically Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush — bend when confronted by a complex national reality. Both those presidents agreed to new taxes and some Republicans said they did not fight hard enough to outlaw abortion or cut spending to the point where government was unrecognizable. In other words, they compromised a bit, to keep divided government from destroying itself. Washington, the ideologues decided, corrupted true conservatives into moderates.
More was needed to keep them in line, which gave birth to the signed pledge — no more enforceable than a spoken promise, but a politician’s actual signature was seen as more binding. [...]
Guess whose name comes up in the next sentence. Hint: rhymes with Grover Norquist.
Politicians' words aren't worth much, whether they sign their names or swear on a stack of bibles. Neither is ideological purity when it comes up against reality. Reality? Oh, that's the world most people in. Means nothing in politics, where 'reality' is the next election.
That pledge is the single biggest reason the federal government is now on the edge of default.
Someone needs to tell the pols that their signatures and rigid ideology are the problem, and tell Groober to take his goddam 'pledge' and shove it up his ass.
Only one candidate, Jon Huntsman Jr., has refused to sign any pledge, saying he owes allegiance to his flag and his wife. It is refreshing in a field of candidates who have forgotten the true source of political power in America.
In theory, but short of 'rebellion' or an 'uprising' such as we are seeing the beginning of in some states, the true source of political power in America is the Koch Bros and their ilk.
¡Viva la revolucion!
I think I remember them ...
From a party I went to once. Heh ... Gotta qualify as a "Headline of the Day":
Horde of 'gay barbarians' glitter Bachmann clinic
Hard to run for President ...
When thy name is "Santorum". Heh ...
And since I'm doing my best to keep Dan's site high in the rankings, allow me to put a link to it right here.
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[Columnist Dan] Savage says his site hasn't been updated for years, yet it remains entrenched in the Google rankings. Not even Santorum's ascent as a Fox News contributor or his early campaign swings through the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire have managed to bury it. With Google results like this, what's an aspiring presidential candidate to do?
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And since I'm doing my best to keep Dan's site high in the rankings, allow me to put a link to it right here.
Great thanks to Mr. Aravosis for the link.
Hot ...
We're a little late to the heat party that most of the country is sweltering through but we got blasted yesterday and it's gonna be worse today. It's 85 here at 7 a.m. and the government global warming conspiracy tells me it feels like 96 with the humidity. In this heat, the usually active Dingo Sisters are nothing but little blobs laying in the shade.
Good luck to all the tourists on the street in the city today. You picked a bad week to visit New York.
Update:
So it's 100 now (at 11:30) and I brought the girls in. Even though they're designed to work in the Outback, it's just too bloody hot (you know it's too damn hot for them when they didn't even bother chasing a couple of the yard rabbits). They're both parked in front of their fan (yes, my dogs have their own fan) on the cool tiles in my office, doing their best to ignore me. Heh ...
Update Zwei:
How hot is it? This hot:
Update Trois:
You know it's hot (102 as of 4 p.m.) when the weather lady on the local news is doing the "fry an egg in the car" trick.
Update Quattro:
It's so humid I can't break my reefer up to roll a joint. Where's my bong? I've officially had it with summer and am praying for snow. Go figure.
Good luck to all the tourists on the street in the city today. You picked a bad week to visit New York.
Update:
So it's 100 now (at 11:30) and I brought the girls in. Even though they're designed to work in the Outback, it's just too bloody hot (you know it's too damn hot for them when they didn't even bother chasing a couple of the yard rabbits). They're both parked in front of their fan (yes, my dogs have their own fan) on the cool tiles in my office, doing their best to ignore me. Heh ...
Update Zwei:
How hot is it? This hot:
Update Trois:
You know it's hot (102 as of 4 p.m.) when the weather lady on the local news is doing the "fry an egg in the car" trick.
Update Quattro:
It's so humid I can't break my reefer up to roll a joint. Where's my bong? I've officially had it with summer and am praying for snow. Go figure.
Another financial genius ...
Running the Republican fundraising machine:
Steele set a pretty low bar to jump over. Looks like his replacement needs a ladder.
It’s pretty surprising that the Republicans aren’t doing well raising funds, but even moreso that they did a better job under Michael Steele. Steele was a gaffetastic buffoon, but apparently knew more about raising cash – the real job of a party chairman – than Priebus does.
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Steele set a pretty low bar to jump over. Looks like his replacement needs a ladder.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
House Republicans Have Morphed Into 'A Cult'
Elise Foley
Note to right-wing cultists everywhere, and especially the Teabagger People's House: you should all follow the example set by that greatest of all cultists and a man who demonstrated the kind of leadership we would like to see from you, Jim Jones.
"The sad thing is America no longer has a two-party system," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said at a press conference Wednesday. "One of our two parties has morphed into kind of a cult driven by a singular fixation and obsession: preserving tax breaks for the wealthy at all costs."
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"Once again the radical right is more worried about protecting their next election than protecting the greatest generation or the next generation," Mikulski said at a press conference. "What a sham, what a scam. I'd be tempted to blow it off if it weren't so cruel, stupid and dangerous."
Note to right-wing cultists everywhere, and especially the Teabagger People's House: you should all follow the example set by that greatest of all cultists and a man who demonstrated the kind of leadership we would like to see from you, Jim Jones.
Headline of the Day
Alabama still collecting tax for Confederate vets
Why does this come as no surprise? Retard, thy name is Alabama.
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