Sunday Evening Crazy Hebrew Redneck Music Blogging

Kinky Friedman - They Aint Makin Jews Like Jesus Anymore - Vicar St - Dublin - Ireland - 2003

Thanks to dublin1996, Ireland.

Equal time ...

Since I put up a pic of the passed-out pup yesterday, I figured I'd give Da Chooch equal time. She's gotten a lot better with the camera.

Da Chooch watching me eat a pretzel

Officially Ready For The Ice Floe

Today is my 65th birthday, so under Repug rule they would save some government spending of my own and your money by launching me out to sea and waving "goodbye sucker".

I am now an official Olde Pharte (Thank you, Lurch), although I've been practicing for this day for years.

Headin' out now to The Auld Dubliner to hear some food and eat some music. Something like that.

Dirt bike venues being what they are, which is dirty, I had to wash the pickup so I could go to my own birthday party. Yeesh. There's no justice in this world.

More on my dirt bike adventure yesterday at Fixer & Gordon. I need to complete the post, but it's up as much as I've done. Actual video of me not screwing up!

Maybe there is justice...

Sunday Homebrew Crazy Redneck Music Video Blogging

This song has a great line in it:

There's a lotta players in this game
And they all wanta dance

Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen do "Just Tell Me Darlin'" from their 1996 album "Bakersfield Bound*". One of my favorite albums. Enjoy.

Video is southbound from Truckee on CA SR 267 through Martis Valley.

*It's real country, without the smoke, big hats and line dancers.

Taliban Dan

Raw Story

Grayson ad compares Florida religious fundamentalists to Taliban

Alan Grayson, the Democratic firebrand from Florida's 8th District, made himself a nationwide household name -- and angered conservatives -- last year with his declaration that the Republican plan for health care amounts to hoping sick people "die quickly."

Now his latest move could prove equally infuriating to his political opponents. In a new election campaign ad, Grayson compares Florida's Christian politicians to the Islamist fundamentalists of the Middle East.

And your point is...? 'Bout time that got said out loud. Elsewhere than just in Florida would be good too.

The article is much longer, but I'll cut to the chase:

The following video was posted to YouTube by the Grayson for Congress campaign team, Sept. 25, 2010.

More videos at graysonforcongress.

I guess one Democrat with stones is better than none.

There's an app for that ...

This is what we need, not some new-fangled GPS bullshit. Our good buddy 'Nucks:

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Jeeze, these fucking things can be annoying. People calling me and shit, waking my ass up and generally pissing me off.

Speaking of which, the mother fucker just went off again!
Holy Fuck!
Ok , here's the deal.
I want a great big FUCK YOU button on the front of this damn thing.
All I want is to have to push this one damn button and it automatically sends that brief message to who ever is fucking trying to call me.
Fuck you or Fuck off, either one would work.
It all ready tells me who is calling most of the time.

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You betcha, bro! I'd buy that. Heh ...

Why is it ...

That when I'm passed out under the bar it's "disgusting", but when the puppy's comatose in the same place it's "cute"?



Heh ...

Goin' Ridin'

I'm gonna go today and ride this event put on by this outfit at their property about 20 miles from here. See yas tomorrow.

Barack Obama's Facebook Feed

Just go...

Mitt Romney created the group I Love Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney likes this.

Christine O'Donnell
You know that makes you go blind, right?

For Zappatistas

Spirit of Frank Zappa returns to Baltimore

Quote of the Day

Our pal Montag:

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Every time I read a new accusation regarding Prince and his hired guns, I keep thinking that when cowboys from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood rode into town these were the gangs they cleaned up.

Mocking them ...

Several of the weasels running this country felt they were being mocked by Stephen Colbert at his testimony. Know what? They're right. And they should be mocked continuously until they straighten up and fly right.

This is another edition of What Digby Said:

Oh dear. It appears that Stephen Colbert offended the delicate sensibilities of the Beltway Quilting Bee and Ladies Pearl Clutching Society:

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Update:

Via Res Ipsa, more 'Contempt of Colbert':

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But Steve King, who, as we mentioned earlier, had never heard of Colbert until a couple of days ago and has been studying his old tapes ever since to develop an attack strategy, goes even further, calling Colbert a liar who "staged" his 10-hour workday with migrant laborers, which he can prove based on the way a corn truck was driving.

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King actually broached this subject of deception while questioning Colbert, who responded, beautifully, "I was packing corn. I was a corn packer and I know that term is offensive to some people, for corn packing is a derogatory term for a Gay Iowan."

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"Corn packer", heh ... Gotta try that one out on my niece, who's doing her Masters program at the University of Iowa.

How to wash your helicopter and wreck your career at the same time!

I've seen helos go in the drink and emerge with the crew chief wet up to his knees, but never this deep!

The naval pilots of these helicopters got in trouble for these splashdowns, but how else were they supposed to pick up chicks at Lake Tahoe?

The trouble they're in with the Navy is as nothing compared to the trouble they're in with the California Department Of Boating and Waterways for not getting their rigs inspected for Quagga and Zebra mussels before putting them in Lake Tahoe! I wouldn't wanta be in their soggy shoes!

Thanks to BreakFunnyvideos.

Saturday Emmyrou Brogging

Country Gold At ASO ASPECTA Oct 20 1991 kumamoto JAPAN

For Hear, This Concert Of Witch It Comes To Japan
Only once Is That Time

Thanks to jacksontvtv, Japan.

Quote of the Day

From El Rude-o's Random Observations About the House GOP's "Pledge to America":

[...] But, fuck it. Why bother to really try Obama's agenda when we can just go back to the one that ass-fucked us in the first place? Kudos, Tea Party.

Cheeb vs. Stupid Oil

David Sirota via The Florida Times-Union:

Here’s a fact that even drug policy reform advocates can acknowledge: California’s 2010 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana does, indeed, pose a real threat, as conservative culture warriors insist.

But not to public health, as those conservatives claim.

So this ballot measure is no public health threat. If anything, it would give the millions of citizens who want to use inebriating substances a safer alternative to alcohol. Which, of course, gets to what this ballot initiative really endangers: alcohol industry profits.

That truth is underscored by news this week that the California Beer and Beverage Distributors is financing the campaign against the legalization initiative. This is the same group that bankrolled opposition to a 2008 ballot measure, which would have reduced penalties for marijuana possession.

We are asked to believe that people drinking a daily six-pack for a quarter-century is not a lamentable sign of a health crisis, but instead a “lifestyle” triumph worthy of flag-colored celebration -- and we are expected to think that legalizing a safer alternative to this “lifestyle” is dangerous.

Likewise, as laws obstruct veterans from obtaining doctor-prescribed marijuana for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, we are asked to believe that shotgunning cans of lager is the real way to “support our troops.”

These are the delusions that a liquor-drenched culture prevents us from reconsidering.

Mr. Sirota is right about this as far as he goes, and it's understandable that since he concentrated on only this aspect, he did not discuss the even larger reasons why legalized marijuana scares the crap outta the establishment/ruling elite - marijuana prohibition is both a tool of oppression and power and a grand way of fueling the Prison Industrial Complex (see this).

The War On Some Drugs will suffer from legal weed as well. See "oppression and power".

I won't even bother with the bluenose anti-fun puritanical attitude we suffer under from people who want you to have all the freedom you can handle as long as it's the freedom they tell you you can have.

Yes On 19. Hey, California led the nation on surf music and lakes pipes, let's show 'em the way on our No. 1 cash crop too!

Susie takes it outta our ear and sticks it in Axelrod's

The Plum Line

Top Obama adviser David Axelrod got an earful of the liberal blogosphere's anger at the White House moments ago, when a blogger on a conference call directly called out Axelrod over White House criticism of the left, accusing the administration of "hippie punching."

"We're the girl you'll take under the bleachers but you won't be seen with in the light of day," (my em) the blogger, Susan Madrak of Crooks and Liars, pointedly told Axelrod on the call, which was organzied for liberal bloggers and progressive media.

And then you'll tell all your buddies, "I got what I wanted off that pig. She wanted it too! Took it in the ass and screamed for more! To hell with her. Until we need her at election time, that is."

Thanks, Susie, for giving him an earful. The White House has been stickin' it in our ear for two years. They'll keep doing it if we let 'em.

Downhill With the G.O.P.

Paul Krugman nails it in a 'recommended read':

Once upon a time, a Latin American political party promised to help motorists save money on gasoline. How? By building highways that ran only downhill.

I’ve always liked that story, but the truth is that the party received hardly any votes. And that means that the joke is really on us. For these days one of America’s two great political parties routinely makes equally nonsensical promises. Never mind the war on terror, the party’s main concern seems to be the war on arithmetic. And this party has a better than even chance of retaking at least one house of Congress this November.

Banana republic, here we come.

I hate bananas. I ate one in 1948 and was sick for days and haven't eaten one since. If the Repugs get their way I'll be lucky to get one.

On the way to the post office

Yesterday I took the scenic route to the post office, which is usually a mile from my house. A little 25-mile detour to get some footage for music videos. A bike ride in the mountains on a sunny autumn afternoon is damn dirty work, I tells ya, but someone's gotta do it. You'll be seeing some of it in dribs and drabs over time. Here's a short vid from my turn-around point. Fullscreen it for max blurry.

Martis Peak Lookout is a fire lookout in the Tahoe National Forest a little southeast of Truckee CA. Elevation is about 8650'.

Sorry I didn't have more time to spend there.

I was a little dazzled that they paved the road to it. It's been longer since I've been up there than I would have thought. The CalFire man there said they did it nine years ago. Tempus fugits!

Also, Mt. Lassen is 114 miles away, not 150 like I said in the video.

The Monsters ...

It's Friday, finally, and the pups have kept me laughing all morning. They're adjusting well, though they're both into mischief. Not many casualties over the past week, 2 plants (Chooch knocked over one on a stand and they killed the other playing King of the Hill in the big pot), and a brand new roll of paper towels that Chooch got off the kitchen counter and the two of them proceeded to shred. Don't know if it'll become a Friday habit posting pics of the varmints, but looking at a couple dogs gotta be better than dealing with all the bad news.

Da Chooch (using me for interference) taking her morning nap under my desk, hoping to get away from the crazy puppy for a while. Heh ...



Zivatude! Typical Cattle Dog puppy attitude. "What do you got, dad, and can I attack it?"



Heh ... It's fun around here to say the least.