Saturday, January 7, 2012
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West Point graduate arrested for coming to the aid of woman abused by Austin Police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVZDpGCKks…
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GOP ad attacks Huntsman's patriotism for adoption of two Asian children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/0…
Rove and Company did the very same thing to John McCain in 2000 Cato. It was a low-down smear campaign they ran against McCain in So Carolina. It was an insidious 'whisper campaign'
The GOP sees no wrong in trashing children and those who love them to get a leg up at election time.
I'm about to quit dealing with modern life. I once could handle most technology that came my way. But, this new surround sound system is getting to me. It was delivered today. Why does anyone need 7 modes of surround sound? Were their designers doing too much coke...'Look what we can do'..my den (playroom or tv room) is amass with wires.
I'm beginning to hate f*ckin wires! I have four more components to connect and I'm wondering if it's worth it but I was assured it would handle my turntable..if I can find the button on the gd remote...to enable my turntable....then it's "Lambert-Hendricks-Bavan" all evening long...Maybe some Glen Campbell on the 12-String. How's that for dating myself.
To be fair, Cato, it was a group supporting Ron Paul. It's what happens when you let anyone on board your train. It's a bunch of adolescent libertarians whose major agenda is probably legalizing pot. I hear he doesn't disavow support from neo-nazi types either.
I should add, that when McCain's family was trashed in South Carolina, there were no Bush finger prints on that and he could plead innocent. We never know what goes on behind closed doors. Someone pulls a dirty trick, the candidate denies it, but it's already out there influencing low-information voters.
Mission accomplished and your hands are clean.
eL once you get it all hooked up you will love it to death. I'm in the camp of, I'll buy the damn thing but I want no part of hooking it all up.
Poor Jon Huntsman. He's more decent, honest, and reasonable than any of the other candidates; more progressive than nine out of ten Arkansas Democrats. And he doesn't have a chance. Someone should have informed him that his party purged people like him years ago. Should you ever decide to come over to the dark side, Mr. Huntsman, we would welcome you with open arms.
Goof I never saw a piece of equipment that I couldn't hook up, well maybe mr. magic didn't get hooked up so much, but...my dad was what today would be called a technology geek..he and his crew connected entire hospitals, etc with the hi-tech of his day, teletype, radio, PBX exchanges, intercoms...but digital brings with it too many options..lightening got my last unit, a classic Curtis-Mathis, gawd I loved that one, think it was first with fiber-optic connections and a digital video processor. We now live in a neighborhood with no overhead wiring so I'm going to love the Am-Fm excursions.
CREEPING SOCIALISM:
"LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Energy Office says it is awarding nearly a half million dollars in grants to help add compressed natural gas to fueling stations in two Arkansas communities.
The office, a division of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, is giving $235,000 each to the city of Little Rock and Satterfield Oil Company."
--ADG, today.
Outlier, while I believe it's possible that W. didn't know about the McCain trashing, I am convinced that it was the handiwork of Rove. He is smart enough to know how stupid his boss was, and to keep that information on a need-to-know basis. However, my guess is that Timmy (or, as I like to call him, Rolf-a "Sound of Music" reference) was probably close enough to Turdblossom to be in on the lesson. Does not bode well for the upcoming election season should he feel vulnerable...
Elwood, join the digital age then the only wires are to a set of high quality headphones.
P.S. Glen is a great guitarist, but for twelve-sting the virtuoso is Leo Kottke, IMO.
Dott, it's nice to find another Kottke fan-he is amazing. Went to a concert in Fayetteville several years back, and am waiting for a return engagement. Not only a great musician, but his dry humor is wonderful as well.
wrong dott, for Xmas sweetie got us a pair of wireless headphones. I use them to listen to KUAF or TV/stereo
But my best present was TENS unit, a 4x4. Pill less pain relief.
http://www.tensunits.com/whatistens.htm
Don't know Kottke, but I do love Glen Campbell on the 12-string!
Saw a few libs today...so I gave them some money I earned from working. And paying taxes. They smiled and I made them swear to vote for Obama so I could continue to exploit the uninformed and lazy lib and widen the wealth gap to mine and my family's benefit.
Like Colt 45. Works every time!
We went to the Sugar Bowl last night along with over 80,000 others. It was an awesome experience. It's not anything like the old Cowboy Stadium. The game was tense the whole time. There was never a minute to relax and feel like you could breathe. The traffic back to Arkansas today was packed with hog fans, hundreds of enormous trucks from Texas and farther south, and an occasional vehicle with something other than AR tags. Arkansas needs to do some major work on Hwys. 30 and 40. There were times it was like riding on rub boards. Remember those?
Sorry Big "L" I have the wireless, but prefer the fidelity of my old plug-in's and not having to keep the wireless ones charged or supplied with batteries.
Perplexed, If you love Glen on the 12-String, you'll adore Kottke, his Louise, Bean Time, and Vaseline Machine Gun are usually recognizable to those who don't think they have ever heard him. P.S. He's even better on a studio-recorded and produced album, but these will give you and idea. One is from a cell phone recording of a live concert in fall 2008.
Vaseline Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tew_fIhz3eY
Louise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVdNgCLg0p8…
Farkleberry,
Who did you and the 80,000 see play at the 'Sugar Bowl'??
eL - it sounds like your Dad and mine were cut from the same mold. My Dad was the one who manufactured all of the Zenith tv's, radios and componets back in the 50's. He was on the forefront of shrinking components and later went into defense work. Always had alot of cool a/v around the house.
Yeah, zebedee duda!
I too await another chance to hear another performance which, as he usually says during the performance, "Starts with a lot of tuning." Or his self-described voice “geese farts on a muggy day.”
A friend in the Navy from Minnesota took me to hear him the first time in Chicago at a smaller venue, the best, reluctantly accepted, invitation I ever had. The performance was similar to seeing Simon and Garfunkle from the third row of folding seats in the Old Men's Gym in Fayetteville (in '65 or '66).
It's hard to believe now, but besides hosting registration (standing in long lines to pick up IBM punch cards), intramural basketball and volleyball, the Old Men's Gym was a venue hosting Simon and Garfunkle, Dionne Warwick, The Young Rascals and for GAEBALE Ike and Tina Turner Revue at in one school year . . , They put Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheel at the original Barnhill Fieldhouse on the basketball court for the additional seating.
I'm a couple of years behind you dott, but does anyone remember Rivercity Street Band. I have great memories of their music but not one albumn.
There is an article in Baptist Health's newsletter this month about the fact that if you take the purple pill or its cousins, and are over 50, you may encounter weakening of your bones due to the neutralization of your stomach acids that while it relieves your heartburn also keeps your body from absorbing calcium. Biggest issue is for those over age 50 who take PPIs frequently, especially the prescription form and not the OTC form (although I thought that they were the same).
Ron Paul cult members ... "adolescent libertarians whose major agenda is probably legalizing pot." A deluded bunch.
In the earlier item about racism and the GOP, I pointed out that if you dug beneath the benign Grandpa Ron facade you'd find a deceiving old grump. Yes, he's said the FEDERAL government should end the war on drugs, but he has also said that it's ok for state and local governments to impose equal or more draconian laws. There would be no federal protection from discriminatory or excessive state or local laws.
Curiously, he thinks it's ok for the federal government to interfere in reproductive rights and marriage.
His hard-core cultists should be aware that he claims there does not exist a right of privacy in the U.S. Constitution. So, don't look for help if your locals want to use an iron boot. Kinda runs counter to the whole libertarian idea.
Goof,
Try AllMusic.com. They are my source for information on the "moldy oldies" of my past.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/river-city-s…
One album on the Enterprise label, but I don't remember them other than the group name rings a chord. Also Amazon has amazing collections of old albums, vinyl, tape and cd.
Note Hood's sneaky racism with the Colt 45 crack. These haters are so transparent....hope Hood never reproduced, know what I mean, Vern?
I held off on posting this earlier, but re-electing President Obama comes with some baggage.
Our President. The man many of our ARTimes bloggers intend to support and vote for . . . no matter how many lies he has told or how many failures to ensure U.S. justice or morality or world opinion or his failures to uphold his own oath to '. . . defend and protect the U.S. Constitution . . .' read on.
Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO
". . . scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured . . .
. . . According to The Copenhagen Post, a Danish English-language daily, the July 2004 investigation by Danish Army legal adviser Maj. Kurt Borgkvist revealed that "prisoners in Iraqi prisons had been burned with cigarettes, had their molars crushed and been beaten around their genitals. Some were even missing fingers, Borgkvist reported." The resulting report included photographic evidence, which has been described as "Abu Ghraib-lignende" ("Abu Ghraib-like") by the previous Danish defense minister. . . .
. . . The Obama administration has pointedly refused to initiate any investigations into US torture, while the British government has announced formation of a government commission to look into the torture charges. . . ."
http://www.truth-out.org/iraqi-torture-sca…
You have the right to support and vote for anyone you wish, but you should be aware of the lies, failures and deficiencies of that candidate. The lesser of two evils is not enough, evil is still evil IMO.
Some comments by other writers and statesmen . . .
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me"
Commander Scott NCC-1701A Enterprise (yes, StarTrek . . . even television writers get a good pithy line, from time to time)
". . . they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.' . . ." Ian Fleming
"Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his image." Goethe
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin
“. . . when the decision is up before you - and on my desk I have a motto which says 'The Buck Stops Here' - the decision has to be made . . . “
Harry S. Truman, Thirty-third President of the United States
President Truman understood the responsibilities of his office and decisions . . . President Obama seems to believe he can pass the buck . . .
I know I am in the minority and there will be the obligatory question, "Then who will you vote for Dott?" I don't know, but maybe, when enough of us demand better we can find a more honest and trustworthy one.
I keep remembering the Presidential election of 1972 and the assistance the USC Mafia, Lee Atwater, Donald Segrettis and an intern named Karl Rove gave Richard Milhouse Nixon in appearing to be "a lesser evil." If you don't think it worked then look at the election results map at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States…
Good luck and good night! We really need it, I fear.
I was hoping we could mokusatsu Hoodblisters drivel tonight but some of you rose like hungry Bass to the bait...
Cato, Huntsman adopted two children, one from China and the other from India. Good for him.
It's really sad that the GOP enjoys eating each other alive, isn't it?
I understand what you're saying dott, just more proof of how horrible our government has become. Our government is little bits of the Nazi Party, the Fascist Party, the old USSR, the worst of Israel...you name it, the US government is as lousy as the rest of them.
So it's pretty foolhardy to think one man.....any one man or woman elected to the presidency would or could buck the system. Yes, I thought Obama was the One and he has done many good things. But as you and Eureka point out, he's also done many bad things, in some cases out-Bushing Bush. It sickens me to the core.
But this November I will have the choice of Romney or Obama or totally wasting my vote on a 3rd party candidate like I did in 2000 with my Nader vote. I didn't know it at the time but I helped elect George W. Bush as much as if I had put a mark by his sorry name. Someday a 3rd party candidate might have a chance, but not this year and if I waste my vote or just stay at home Mitt Romney might be our next president and the American game will be over forever for sure, condemning my children to suffer long after I'm gone. Just imagine President Eric Cantor in 2020, if President Romney even bothers to hold elections ever again.
My only faith is in the Occupy movement & revolution, but as wild as it's going to be starting in a few months, I doubt the Occupy movement will be large enough to stop the elections....not this time, but they will in the future and only then will we have a chance of getting a good government. But it will take a revolution, people will die, people will starve, some pets will be supper. But I'm all for it cause we can't go on the way we've been going for the last 20 years.
We're already in the nightmare, the worst is ahead and it's all because the super rich can't be satisfied with being super rich. They are so unwilling to pay a decent wage that they're moving their factories to other lands. Look at the crime in Little Rock. This is what you get when working full time at McDonalds won't feed you. The jobs Mitt Romney created were bad jobs at lower wages after his company bought out a company. There is a world of difference between a full time job at Whirlpool (time of death, June, 2012) and a full time job at Dollar General, or a chicken plant or Wal-Mart or a roofing company. You can't build a middle class out of people doing shit jobs.
Desperate people do desperate things and most of us will be desperate in the near future. It will take a revolution and great suffering to get our country back on track, I really hate to think it, much less type it. But those in power will never change course, the police will never police themselves, bad people pretending to have oversight over bad people......it will never work. Look at Arkansas's representatives to Congress.....not a damn one of them worth a shit. Think they'll ever work to make things better for us? Hell no!
So I'm voting Obama but I'm dreaming of Occupied America and I believe it's coming. When it does, I believe Barry O will side with us, if not...screw him too. It's high time we have America 2.0
I am SO with you, DBI, on so many levels. Especially now that I've more or less successfully shifted my paradigm to the Cloud. (Not that there may not be glitches: there always are when the v5 upgrade of one's life's in Beta. But my heart will go on.)
Speaking of Heart, in light of your revolutionary take on Tomorrow, DBI, one scans the horizon for years, searching vainly for even ONE adult conversation about THE leading cause of pollution, climate change, destruction of ecologies and habitats, economic disparity, national and global financial meltdowns, tribal slaughters, food shortages, famines, epidemics, pandemics and blah, blah, blah.
Nobody MENTIONS it. But didn't they USED to? What happened?
Talking about babies. Sweet, cuddly bundles of joy. Billions and billions of sweet, cuddly bundles of etc.
With ever more jobs replaced by robots and computers, what are billions and billions of sweet cuddlies supposed to DO when they grow up?
Incur lifelong debts to earn PhDs for careers behind takeout windows in Cleveland, or chatting into headsets in tech-support cubicles in Bangalore?
How many nuclear physicists, chemotherapists, neurosurgeons, high-priced attorneys, CEOs, movie stars, writers, architects, university department heads, football coaches, televangelists and pole dancers can the world support in high style?
Billions of sweet cuddlies turn to billions of angry fed-ups.
All armed, thank god and the NRA, because what's your third act without blowing up people and stuff in 3D at premium ticket prices? (Why show business is my life.)
Instead of educating everybody about sex and contraception and rational family planning, Planned Parenthood (and similar orgs) and women's rights of choice are under increasing and relentless assault. They're equated with Chairman Mao and Communist China's birth policies. Or something.
Everybody's got a right to reproduce. Welcome the stork. Experience the miracle of childbirth. Knit little booties. Post YouTubes of their infants and kittens.
But miracles, by definition, are out of the ordinary. Once commonplace, they're just business as usual. Let's not romanticize the hideous and short lives of all the disposable children around the world. Their horror stories make the news daily.
They're not warm fuzzies, sweet cuddlies, like the Duggars, for instance.
The Duggars are different from third-world couples with no educations, no resources, no health care, no options, who reproduce unwanted unneeded offspring because they know no better, losing them often and early, until the wife dies from yet another pregnancy gone wrong or too taxing.
The Duggars seem wonderful if you don't look or listen too closely. So do their wonderful 19 children, each with their own rights to bring 19 more wonderful children into the world.
If you DO look and listen closely, here's what you get with the Duggars. (No surprise, it's right there in the extreme motherhood dogma of their Quiverfull Christianity.)
GOD has told them all these years not to use birth control or family planning and to keep getting pregnant until Something Stops Them. Pregnancy is the "natural result" of making love. It's all in god's hands, all the ramifications for those 19 children and their 361 children and THEIR 130,321 children, for the Duggars. They're just following orders.
The Duggars infer that God does NOT speak to millions of other couples, or that millions of others can't or won't listen to and follow God's orders. Er, Word.
FURTHER, the Duggars infer that god has chosen them (and couples of their same "faith") over millions of other couples and speaks only to them, telling them to keep reproducing.
Is 19 children out of 21 pregnancies supposed to be the norm for ALL couples across America and around the world?
Or just Chosen Couples like the Duggars?
Unmatched arrogance in denial. The gift that keeps on giving.
When do miracles become routine byproducts of human biology, like winter colds and sneezes?
Unlimited population growth, then! Unlimited jobs with living wages for all!
NO pesky ethics or consequences or responsibilities! It's in god's hands -- not ours.
We're just following orders.
Like, uh, robots and computers.
DBI, Hoodie has advanced from dog whistles to sirens. Let's wait for the tears because people imply that he is racist.
I agree with you on Occupy. It is a PEACEFUL group practicing peaceful civil disobedience. Didn't Malcolm X warn the powers that be of his time that they could deal with Martin Luther King, or they would be dealing with him? I think this threat was before he made his pilgrimage to Mecca and underwent a transformation in his thinking. He was a man on a journey which was cut short, just like JFK, Martin, and Bobby.
I'm pinning my hopes on a peaceful transformation of the thinking of the 1%.
Thanks, dbi. It's nice to hear rational discussions and I recognize your points. However, I can not just settle for voting for evil anymore. It's too dangerous, IMO, to placidly accept the candidates offered by the R's and D's anymore.
We all have to make our decisions and live with the consequences. Unfortunately, because he has done some good . . . for me, the majority of President Obama's actions and lies have crossed my line into the "Enemy Action" area noted in Fleming's quote. As long as those who continue to support him, like you, are conscious of ALL his behavior as a mirror displaying his character and future performance, then my opinion and vote on his lack of truthfulness, integrity and character is over-ridden. However, I've seen too much automatic Pavlovian partisan responses and passive acceptance of evil as a qualification for President in the past decade or so.
I want to demand more from the major parties. Passive accept of the dreck candidates they offer is unsatisfactory to me, but it take more than one person to effect that kind of change. Maybe actual grassroots movements like Occupy will be successful, but I fear the astroturf perversion and manipulation by corporate interests we've seen of honest voter dissatisfaction on the right.
Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchy and longing for the idealistic '60's, '. . . raging against the dying of an imaginary light . . ." , but I intend to stick around and perhaps stimulate effective discussion and maybe an idea or two by taking and espousing intelligent contrarian positions. Maybe it will result in the election of an even worse evil, perhaps it will actually effect some change. If speaking the truth and demanding integrity, moral fiber and honor from a national candidate is wrong then we have much worse problems in this country than any of us have realized.
Hope you have a good day, old friend. I look forward to your next post.
I like the part about demanding more from the major parties, but obviously the major parties haven't paid any attention to us small persons in decades. Write any representative and get back a form letter...which always says I Hear You, but never ever ever ever means it. Mark Pryor doesn't scream at people like Boss Womack, but he quietly doesn't give a damn about us. Pryor's silence is as hurtful as Womack's rants.
Us will only matter when we have some millions to sweeten their pots. We only have one lousy vote in our quiver and Diebold can steal that when needed to elect another corporatist tool. We are kept barely alive because the Corporate Tank needs treads to run on, or at least that was the operational model of the past. With all the good jobs flying off our soil, it appears we've become more of a liability than an asset....hence the new talk about cutting Medicare & Pell Grants....get rid of the Middle Class and let the Mexicans do the shit work for half of the minimum wage. And who needs old people?
Anyone perceived to be a drain has a dark future ahead of them. Why educate those nasty little poor children? Foreign workers will do the job at a 10th of the cost, American only needs a limited number of jobs for ditch digging and poultry house clean up, so let us weed out those non-Duggar kids while reducing the number of old worthless Grannies...it's the Bain Capital system and look how well it's worked for Mittens!
No matter who we vote for, unless Occupy is victorious, America will evolve into the Super Rich and a few support teams for the Super Rich. The rest of us will be, increasingly are...shit out of luck. Me and my lousy one vote don't plan to go out without a fight. Alone we're truly powerless, but if we ban together we can pluck Womack from office and send him back to the Reichstag where he belongs.
I quit writing to John Paul Hammerschmidt after receiving form letter after form letter. Finally, the last form letter I received from him thanked me for taking a position completely opposite to the one I had taken. I have never written to a congressman since then. I wish I had been able to chime in here last night, but I was in bed fighting a cold. I think I won, but I am not for sure. Anyway, DBI has some good posts above.
By the way, the River City Band was a group of musicians from mainly Northwest Arkansas who became very popular regionally in the 1970s. They recorded on Stax records in Memphis. My town of Rogers had two members, Dale Marlowe, trumpet, and Tom Jones, trombone. They left the music business when the Band folded in the late 1970s. Dale Marlowe became band Director at Rogers High School for many years, retired a few years ago, and now teaches music in Texas. Tom Jones runs his family's business. The lead singer, whose name escapes me now, died a few years ago after staying in the music business for years.
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