Ah, good.
Gorebull warming was beginning to wear thin.

Very nice - thanks Charles!

Most excellent!

Capo'd at B flat? Is that what I'm seeing? Looks like an open tuning, as well.

I'm finally starting to regain the desire to play guitar. This one looks like an easy tune to learn.

Looks?

Sounds, like an open tuning, but I was going more by her chording. It was initially the sound of the strings that made me think that.

Seems a bit slow tonight, huh? Global warming must haven frozen typing fingers?

repost from the dead thread...

I bought a soldier coffee this morning. She really appreciated it.

I've been Jeeped all day at the opportunity. I love doing that.

If you're buying your wife a gift for Christmas, be careful.

re: #8 gregg

If you're buying your wife a gift for Christmas, be careful.

If?

re: #6 ArmyWife

Seems a bit slow tonight, huh? Global warming must haven frozen typing fingers?

You have to excuse me. Busy chipping the ice off my keyboard up here. Currently -13° C or 9 farenheit. About 6 to 7 degrees below normal. And snowing again.

re: #7 Noam Sayin'

Thank you so much for doing that. I can tell you how much that is appreciated by the soldiers!

re: #4 Noam Sayin'

Capo'd at B flat? Is that what I'm seeing? Looks like an open tuning, as well.

Yeah looks like an open D tuning, with capo at B^b. She plays the sheisse out of it.

re: #10 BlueCanuck

I knew it!

re: #10 BlueCanuck

You have to excuse me. Busy chipping the ice off my keyboard up here. Currently -13° C or 9 farenheit. About 6 to 7 degrees below normal. And snowing again.

As I consider you with high respect, I will not tell you the temp here.

re: #14 gettinby

As I consider you with high respect, I will not tell you the temp here.

Virtual homicide is never pretty...
/ ;-)

re: #14 gettinby

Short weather huh?

/saw some one post earlier today that it was to be in the 80's along the gulf.

I don't feel no globually warmed.

re: #14 gettinby

As I consider you with high respect, I will not tell you the temp here.

Cold and 51 here.

20° and Snow, winds are picking up.

re: #11 ArmyWife

It always shows. It's such a simple gesture, but reaps such rewards of personal satisfaction that I do it at every opportunity.

I also try to mention it on blogs as much as I can in hopes of inspiring others to do the same.

re: #10 BlueCanuck

You have to excuse me. Busy chipping the ice off my keyboard up here. Currently -13° C or 9 farenheit. About 6 to 7 degrees below normal. And snowing again.

Around 21 here. We're expecting the mother of all storms in tonight (in WA state). At least according to the media. Maybe Al Gore should do a Snow Tour of the US and see the terrible effects of Global Warming.

re: #12 Charles

Yeah, it sounds great, don't it? I love that *ring* of an open-tuned guitar.

re: #15 jcm

re: #16 BlueCanuck

re: #18 debutaunt

Low 80's today - Santa showed up at the mall in shorts and t-shirt.

Forecast.

/y'all can get back at us during our 10-month summer with hi-90's (both temp and humidity). ;)

cool

watch this cat

re: #23 gettinby

re: #16 BlueCanuck

re: #18 debutaunt

Low 80's today - Santa showed up at the mall in shorts and t-shirt.

Forecast.

/y'all can get back at us during our 10-month summer with hi-90's (both temp and humidity). ;)

I hate you. Pppphhhttt!
Saw Santa today - driving around in a red truck with tire chains. Cool.

re: #21 cygnus

Had a big snowstorm here yesterday. Got about a foot of snow. Weather channels were calling the storm "Snowmageddon". WTF? We had a worse storm in 98 that shut down the city for two days, and the Subway system for a week.

Here is a shadow several miles long and thousands of feet deep. Night falls on the San Gabriel Mountains of California. But the sun will come up in a few hours.

Good evening.

re: #23 gettinby

/I will not click the forecast, I will not click the forecast. Don't need to be further depressed.

re: #4 Noam Sayin'
And
re: #12 Charles

Whoa - thank you both - I couldn't see where she had the capo well enough to figure that out, but Charles is right, she does indeed play the sheisse out of it!
Great stuff Charles - thank you!

re: #14 gettinby

As I consider you with high respect, I will not tell you the temp here.

Pretty nice Karma you've got there... be a shame if sumptin' happened to it.

Real shame...

/30 and snowing here in the great state of NJ

re: #26 BlueCanuck

Had a big snowstorm here yesterday. Got about a foot of snow. Weather channels were calling the storm "Snowmageddon". WTF? We had a worse storm in 98 that shut down the city for two days, and the Subway system for a week.

News crews make big bucks to go out in their fancy parkas and say the sky is falling.

re: #21 cygnus

Around 21 here. We're expecting the mother of all storms in tonight (in WA state). At least according to the media. Maybe Al Gore should do a Snow Tour of the US and see the terrible effects of Global Warming.

probably be in bad taste to mention it is 70 degrees right now in Savannah? ;-)>

re: #28 BlueCanuck

/I will not click the forecast, I will not click the forecast. Don't need to be further depressed.

Santa Cruz mountains - we're about 10 deg cooler (51) than normal and mock global warming at every chance.

re: #26 BlueCanuck

Had a big snowstorm here yesterday. Got about a foot of snow. Weather channels were calling the storm "Snowmageddon". WTF? We had a worse storm in 98 that shut down the city for two days, and the Subway system for a week.

'Snowmageddon'? Ya gotta be kiddin' me. That's just a little over the top.

re: #7 Noam Sayin'

Heh-we sponsored so far 11 through Soldier;s Angels, and discovered ONE of them lives about 8 or 9 miles from us, We've since become quite good friends with the family, they have 2 of the sweetest girls you ever saw.

Love the heels and LBD. Maybe artists will start bringing some class back into the performing arts.

re: #24 winston06
How about this cat?

re: #34 cygnus

'Snowmageddon'? Ya gotta be kiddin' me. That's just a little over the top.

Wait till Snowzilla devours the city!

re: #34 cygnus

It was, and it wasn't that bad a storm either.

Kind of like Richie Havans (sp).

re: #40 Ojoe

Kind of like Richie Havans (sp).

He was Spanish?

re: #40 Ojoe

That would be Havens.

Sounds like Global Warming should be a priority.

re: #20 Noam Sayin'
HEY NOAM! That was a nice thing you did - I try to do the same, but as I don't get out to eat that often the opportunity hardly ever arises.
But you still did a good thing there!

Drummer has a 5 gallon bucket in his kit it looks like.

re: #42 irongrampa

Thanks.

re: #27 Ojoe

Dude, I wish you could see the awesome wallpaper you hooked me up with on one of those posts; a tree-lined mountain set against a foggy valley with a star-burst sunset. It remains my wallpaper to this day, from about a month ago.

And I'm inclined to put up perdy girls as my wallpaper.

re: #38 jcm

Wait till Snowzilla devours the city!

OMG! It's the Snow-pocalypse!

re: #43 Racer X

Sounds like Global Warming should be a priority.

I would love to see this posted somewhere "The Global Warming Protest is cancelled due to extreme windchill warning." :)

re: #41 debutaunt
Richie Havens: [Link: www.imeem.com...]

re: #20 Noam Sayin'

It always shows. It's such a simple gesture, but reaps such rewards of personal satisfaction that I do it at every opportunity.

I also try to mention it on blogs as much as I can in hopes of inspiring others to do the same.

It's a wonderful thing!

We've paid for breakfasts/lunches/dinners at restaurants, haircuts, gasoline, coffee, and whatever we can afford at any particular time we see military folks. They deserve so much.

It's great that you mention it on blogs - I'll start doing that also.

re: #44 realwest

Next time I do that, it will be in your honor, sir.

Next time you email me, be sure to include your unit designation. I'll be sure to memorize it.

(if that's how you call it. I'm not military)

re: #28 BlueCanuck

LOL

C'mon down!

/bring your bathing suit.

re: #47 Noam Sayin'

I have a lot of Towercam on my hard drive ...

Did you catch the fogs of 2 days ago?

There were circular rainbows.

re: #24 winston06

cool

watch this cat

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

That is adorable. love how the box says "diet".

16 seconds in and I'm reminded of the Indigo Girls (with my eyes closed).

Open my eyes and the bass player is the spitting image of an old and much missed friend. (Wherever you are Matt, I know this aint you, he just stole yer look, I remember you would never use a pick on your bass).

But I would.

VOICES FROM
THE DARKNESS,
R

re: #51 gettinby

Excellent!

re: #54 Ojoe

I came back into that thread just a little too late. Boy, do I regret missing that.

re: #52 Noam Sayin'
My pleasure - but if you're buying Active Duty troops something, and you mention my unit you'll probably just get blank stares from 'em it was soo long ago. Hell it was sooo long ago they have even "retired" or eliminated my rank which was SP/4 (Specialist 4th class, paygrade e-4 - think Corporal!)! LOL!

re: #20 Noam Sayin'

But I do have to share this - yesterday, a woman paid for my husband's lunch at a local restaurant (he was in uniform with a friend). He of course, said "oh, I appreciate this, but you don't need too" etc etc and she insisted, so he let her and thanked her kindly. As she was leaving, she came by his table and dropped off her phone number saying "You can show me how much you appreciate your lunch later". He was partly dumbfounded, and partly in hysterics. Setting aside his being married (and happily so, dammit!), as someone here stated size is a personal choice. At a good 300 pounds, she wasn't his cup of tea! He couldn't wait to come home and show me he'd gotten a phone number given to him, and then he had to tell me the whole story.

re: #30 stevieray

Pretty nice Karma you've got there... be a shame if sumptin' happened to it.

Real shame...

/30 and snowing here in the great state of NJ

You can take away my karma, but not my tan.

/Cold weather and snow are good for cuddling with a loved one in front of the fire with a nice cocktail that warms cockles (or something like that).

re: #44 realwest

Even just shaking a hand and saying "thank you" means a lot.

re: #56 Render

Render!

Patty Griffin's a total cutie, btw...

re: #56 Render

16 seconds in and I'm reminded of the Indigo Girls (with my eyes closed).

Open my eyes and the bass player is the spitting image of an old and much missed friend. (Wherever you are Matt, I know this aint you, he just stole yer look, I remember you would never use a pick on your bass).

But I would.

VOICES FROM
THE DARKNESS,
R

I like the Indigo Girls. I met them years ago after a concert in Boulder. They are very nice offstage, real... Here's my fav Hammer and a Nail

re: #63 wrenchwench

Hiya WW. Gimmie a minute to adjust my eyes to all the brightness out here in the light.

TEN
BLACK
YEARS,
R

Hi Render! I think the last time I saw you, it was before my 8 month hiatus (from the previous July to recently). How are you?

re: #66 Render

Hiya WW. Gimmie a minute to adjust my eyes to all the brightness out here in the light.

TEN
BLACK
YEARS,
R

Hey there!
Easy now.

re: #35 irongrampa
Soldier's Angels is one of the BEST groups around to get involved in - they really do help the troops!
Mom and I got two postcard "Merry Christmas" wishes from our two soldiers!

OMG...

{Blue Canuck} AND {realwest}

Good evening gentlemen!

Earlier today, was reading an sports article that used the expression, "Since the turn of the Century". Was the first time I have seen the expression meaning this century. I felt kind of old.

Patty Griffin rocks. And she's adorable.

We went to see this local band/vocal group called FACE - last night. They were awesome. They do covers and use their voices for the drums, bass etc... It was most excellent. sold out and the crowd went nuts.

They opened with a a Christmas song (Emanuel ) and melded it with a Pink Floyd song (the turning away) - it was the coolest thing I have ever heard.

re: #62 ArmyWife
Yes it does! Got to do that a lot last time we went to Charlotte Airport - I reckon altogether there must have been a dozen or so (in groups of 2 or 3)! Ya kinda get a "startle reaction" look when you approach them with your hand outstretched, but the HUGE GRINS are definitely worth it!

Kings and Wings tied @ 2, end of 1st.

re: #60 ArmyWife

LOL!

I have to admit - I checked out the soldier at the time. She had a ring on her finger. She was a total babe, too.

I never thought camo fatigues and marching boots could be sexy on a woman, but there you go.

;)

re: #67 ArmyWife

Hiya AW. Nevermind me, I'm a survivor, a specialist in last stands, no matter how pointless.

How are you and yours? AH doin ok? And the AK's?

WHERE
WAS
I?,
R

re: #76 Render

They are great, thanks. AH is at home, the oldest AK is going to college next year (not sure how she is getting older, because I am not), the youngest still plans to take over the world and I believe she will.

Yes, where were you?

re: #70 gettinby

Just thinking about heading out. Another sidewalk to shovel, then off to work. Going to have a whole bunch to do in the morning I think.

/scary thing is that the long range weather is calling for rain on Wednesday.

re: #72 FrogMarch

a Capella? That sound really cool.

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

re: #75 Noam Sayin'

Its damn sexy on a man. ;)

Wow. Render's back.

I swiped your sign-off a couple times in your absence.

MEA
CULPA,
N

re: #77 ploome hineni

When all the guns are empty, it's time for finding cover to reload.

Part of that cover included finding a place of my own for the things I feel the need to say, that shouldn't be said here.

RELOADED,
R

re: #82 ArmyWife

I'll take your word for it.

re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Earlier today, was reading an sports article that used the expression, "Since the turn of the Century". Was the first time I have seen the expression meaning this century. I felt kind of old.

When you get to my age, you have to ask..."Which century?"

/and the body confirms any theories about the effects of gravity.

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Happy birthhhdayyy (breath) to (breath) you.

Happpy birthday (breath) to you (breath)

Happy BIRTHhhhday Mr. Killgoretrout (breath, pouty face), happy birthday to (breath) you.

re: #83 ploome hineni

I'll send you mine. She can't come back 'til she graduates, though. That is the deal.

re: #85 Noam Sayin'

Noam, mabro, it's a compliment, swipe away.

FLATTERED,
R

re: #86 Render

Nice to see you here! Someone posted a link to your blog the other day. It's in my favorites.

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

Buon Compleanno!

Wizard of Oz starting on TNT right now...

re: #79 BlueCanuck

Did a brief stint of residing near Aspen - recall something about rain after a snow not being too good of a thing (especially for driving)?

Please be careful.

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

Happy Birthday! Just had mine Wednesday...wish I was only forty. LOL

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, yes I yelled it. :)

re: #72 FrogMarch
Hey y'all - if you like a "vocal group" that says it isn't really an acapella group, check out Rockapella go here and click on #7 [Link: www.imeem.com...]

re: #27 Ojoe

Thanks, that is cool. Heading that way from PHX (Mesa) on Wednesday Afternoon! I love So Cal.

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

Happy Birthday Kilgore. I always imagined you were older.

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Happy Birthday!

re: #90 ArmyWife

Thanks.

re: #84 ploome hineni

My Wasabi plants are kinda wilting in this cold weather. Luckily I have them protected under row covers so they should survive.

re: #87 ploome hineni

re: #91 ploome hineni

re: #93 ploome hineni

Hell no. (are you proposing?)

Well, of course. (empty guns are broken)

;) (missed you too)

COCACOLA
KEYBOARD,
R

re: #103 ploome hineni

What about it?

re: #99 gettinby

Always am, and I don't drive at the moment. That's what public transit is for. ;)

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

Happy birthday, {Killgore}!

re: #81 Killgore Trout
Hey Kilgore - 40? You young pup! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you and many, many more!

re: #80 Noam Sayin'

a Capella? That sound really cool.

I had no idea what to expect. I thought it might be some geeky boy-band thing. They blew everyone away. Great voices layered over their ability to create the sound of instruments with those voices. I predict they make it big.

ooo - and Alan Roach was there. (local sports broadcaster celebrity)

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Happy Birthday! May your mercury content ever diminish!

re: #100 ploome hineni

where is renders blog?

gimme a link

[Link: render64.wordpress.com...]

re: #107 sngnsgt

Heh.

The Kinks - Father Christmas

re: #56 Render

16 seconds in and I'm reminded of the Indigo Girls (with my eyes closed).

Open my eyes and the bass player is the spitting image of an old and much missed friend. (Wherever you are Matt, I know this aint you, he just stole yer look, I remember you would never use a pick on your bass).

But I would.

VOICES FROM
THE DARKNESS,
R

Closer to Fine

re: #98 Noam Sayin'

Wizard of Oz starting on TNT right now...

Thanks, sweets! I'd forgotten all about it.

re: #118 Racer X

I always thought the Kinks were underrated.

re: #119 ploome hineni

わさび,ワサビ

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

Happy birthday!

re: #121 MandyManners

Don't forget to look for the hanging guy!

Who is going to give Killgore his spanking?

re: #80 Noam Sayin' Hey Noam - try out Rockapella - as a group I mean -see my #104 above!

re: #41 debutaunt

He was Spanish?

re: #100 ploome hineni

where is renders blog?

gimme a link

Something like Render64 - dot - blogspot, etc.

Render, my friend, if you don't mind my saying, it's a little difficult reading light type on a dark background.

Other than that, I liked the content, for what time I could give it. I promise to circulate back and give it another read.

re: #127 Sharmuta

Who is going to give Killgore his spanking?

LOL Stalker Blog II will have a poll up on that in 5..4..3..2..1

re: #119 ploome hineni

They will usually grind in at the table for you so you can tell it's the real thing. It's pretty expensive so they like to make a show of it. The stuff in the tube (even in nice places) is horseradish with green food coloring. The real wasabi has an earthy lemon flavor to it.

re: #127 Sharmuta

I take care of that myself.

re: #134 Killgore Trout

I take care of that myself.

TMI

re: #132 Pvt Bin Jammin

I'm waiting for them to react to the global warming debate. That should be interesting.

Oh, here comes that wicked Elmira Gulch.

Father Christmas on MTV

re: #125 ArmyWife

Don't forget to look for the hanging guy!

Didn't that show on TVLand say that was a hoax?

Well y'all this was just a pleasant little interlude for me gotta go eat dinner now!
Hope you all have an enjoyable evening and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!

Oh and FrogMarch and Noam Sayin - y'all ought to join Imeem - it's free and you can pick out videos, "just" music or playlists for damne near anyone or group that has sung or played EVER! LOL!

See y'all later!

re: #137 Killgore Trout

I'll have to check it out a little later. Heh.

re: #122 Killgore Trout

I always thought the Kinks were underrated.

I likes the Kinks

re: #114 FrogMarch

I've heard of them. They've been doing it for a while, right? That whole Emanuel/On The Turning Away thing has me intrigued. If you find a link to something I'd love to hear it.

OMG, watching COPS, and some officer's car burst into flames. He parked on some dry grass.

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Solstice at Newgrange

re: #144 ploome hineni

I love that. Can I use it?

Happy Birtday, KT!

re: #141 MandyManners

It is, but its still fun!

re: #34 cygnus

'Snowmageddon'? Ya gotta be kiddin' me. That's just a little over the top.

In 1982 when Texas had a foot of snow cover for over a week with temperatures in the teens, when in mid-Texas Yanks were playing hockey on our lakes and people were skiing and sledding on our hills—that might qualify for "Snowmageddon". The blizzards up north I've been through were nothing by comparison.

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

40
Youth Part II.

re: #133 Killgore Trout

They will usually grind in at the table for you so you can tell it's the real thing. It's pretty expensive so they like to make a show of it. The stuff in the tube (even in nice places) is horseradish with green food coloring. The real wasabi has an earthy lemon flavor to it.

I had no idea? In honor of your birthday I think you should send us all a little taste.

re: #134 Killgore Trout

You will go blind or have hairy palms. Consider this.

re: #155 ploome hineni

Good. It's nicer than what I call him! (Shucksterbee in public)

re: #134 Killgore Trout

I take care of that myself.

You built a machine that does that, didn't you?

How much you getting for it on eBay?

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Lordy, lordy look who's 40. Today is Troutmas!

I was 40 two years, 14 days ago—yawn...

Kidding. Happy birthday.

re: #104 realwest

Hey y'all - if you like a "vocal group" that says it isn't really an acapella group, check out Rockapella go here and click on #7 [Link: www.imeem.com...]

ack - the pop-up wont let me get by.

Karma Police

re: #154 ArmyWife

I think it grows ear hair too.

re: #161 Sharmuta

Love that song!

re: #149 MandyManners

Thanks.

re: #163 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Love that song!

Glad you liked it.

[finger]

Pretty good graphics for 1939.

Krugman, posterboy for BDS and Nobel economist, gets this right:

The revelation that Bernard Madoff - brilliant investor (or so almost
everyone thought), philanthropist, pillar of the community - was a phony has
shocked the world, and understandably so. The scale of his alleged $50
billion Ponzi scheme is hard to comprehend.

Yet surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How
different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment
industry as a whole?
...
Now, as we survey the wreckage and try to understand how things can have
gone so wrong, so fast, the answer is actually quite simple: What we're
looking at now are the consequences of a world gone Madoff.

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

re: #146 Noam Sayin'

I've heard of them. They've been doing it for a while, right? That whole Emanuel/On The Turning Away thing has me intrigued. If you find a link to something I'd love to hear it.

OMG, watching COPS, and some officer's car burst into flames. He parked on some dry grass.

If I can find it, I certainly will! They are a new experience for me so I'm not sure how long they have been around. I know they are all from Boulder.

I hope the cop is ok.

re: #142 realwest

Well y'all this was just a pleasant little interlude for me gotta go eat dinner now!
Hope you all have an enjoyable evening and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!

Oh and FrogMarch and Noam Sayin - y'all ought to join Imeem - it's free and you can pick out videos, "just" music or playlists for damne near anyone or group that has sung or played EVER! LOL!

See y'all later!

Following along behind Realwest in hope of C-Rat Ham and Lima Beans...:)

re: #167 itellu3times

Krugman, posterboy for BDS and Nobel economist, gets this right:

He still misses the $650B Ponzi scheme called social security.

Okay, still on COPS, the guy they have pulled over now has a COPS shirt.

Not a good deflection.

Back to the Wiz...

re: #151 David IV of Georgia

In 1982 when Texas had a foot of snow cover for over a week with temperatures in the teens, when in mid-Texas Yanks were playing hockey on our lakes and people were skiing and sledding on our hills—that might qualify for "Snowmageddon". The blizzards up north I've been through were nothing by comparison.

Skiing in Texas? That would be something to see. That must have quite a storm.

some one should feed the girl too boney to look at

re: #171 Noam Sayin'

Okay, still on COPS, the guy they have pulled over now has a COPS shirt.

Not a good deflection.

Back to the Wiz...

Has he pulled the Get Out Of Jail Free Card yet?

re: #169 Dustyvet

Enjoy!

re: #156 ploome hineni

damn rght

/along ith some hamachi

yes. We must experience the joy of real Troutmas delicacies.

I want cake really bad right now. But, am having a bit of a "gout" thang going on. My wife won't go out and get cake for me.

I think that she is mean. I am cake deprived

You Really Got Me by Ray Davies (The Kinks) - live at Higher Ground

re: #161 Sharmuta

Karma Police

You want I should punish you?

re: #170 jcm

He still misses the $650B Ponzi scheme called social security.

Yeah, but I'll bet you $700b that that ends under the Obamanation, will merge social security and the general fund.

re: #178 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I want cake really bad right now. But, am having a bit of a "gout" thang going on. My wife won't go out and get cake for me.

I think that she is mean. I am cake deprived

Cake

re: #178 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Mr. ArmyWife is going out to get ice cream, want him to pick something up for you?

re: #178 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I want cake really bad right now. But, am having a bit of a "gout" thang going on. My wife won't go out and get cake for me.

I think that she is mean. I am cake deprived

Tell her there are no purines in cake -- its practically a health food for gout!

Chemical Party

re: #184 stevieray

Tell her there are no purines in cake -- its practically a health food for gout!

That's not why she is not going. She is not going because she is mean.

re: #187 Iron Fist

We must kill the old people. It's the only way.

(I am really trying to be featured on one of the anti-blogs)

re: #188 ArmyWife

We must kill the old people. It's the only way.

(I am really trying to be featured on one of the anti-blogs)

Killgore is 40 today.
/

I love Glinda's voice.

re: #180 Spare O'Lake

You want I should punish you?

Ah- Killgore is getting the spankings tonight, but thanks for caring.

re: #187 Iron Fist

Some big company and union retirement plans were the same. Most men were shown to live about an average of two years after retiring. Now that has changed hard core.

re: #187 Iron Fist

Wait - didn't all those old people smoke cigs and drink like fish?

re: #188 ArmyWife

We must kill the old people. It's the only way.

(I am really trying to be featured on one of the anti-blogs)

Carousel!

re: #174 Dustyvet

Has he pulled the Get Out Of Jail Free Card yet?

Some meth-head, stealing copper; totally denying everything that's going on. I doubt he ever played Monopoly in his life.

I have a cousin who lost nearly everything to meth, including most of his teeth. He's like a little brother to me, since we grew up so close to each other.

He saw the darkness; thankfully turned away, and is now rebuilding his life again.

I think if I had kids, I'd make a deal with them. Stay away from all alcohol and drugs until you're done with your education, and when you graduate college, I'll share a f*ckin' spliff with you in the parking lot of your alma mater on graduation day - my treat.

re: #185 Killgore Trout

*hands KT a cane and a package of prunes*

Happy Birthday old man!

re: #178 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I want cake really bad right now. But, am having a bit of a "gout" thang going on. My wife won't go out and get cake for me.

I think that she is mean. I am cake deprived

FBV -
Here ya go,
Red Velvet Cake

re: #197 Racer X

Heh.

re: #172 Cygnus

Skiing in Texas? That would be something to see. That must have quite a storm.

The weathermen were calling it the worst winter storm ever known for Texas, and undoubtedly a storm that won't be repeated in anyone's grandchildren's lifetime who saw it. With no salt trucks or snowplows, the state closed for a week. I think people playing hockey and driving three-wheelers on our lakes was odder than the skiing. Luckily I lived about a quarter mile from some old fault line that left a 500 foot hill. My dad made a sled from some old lumber. Waxed HotWheels™ tracks make pretty good runners. The kids in my neighborhood wore that hill out.

Just logged in to say happy 40th to my favorite pain in the a$$, the troutman. I am at Moma, gigging.

re: #199 reine.de.tout

My wife told you to post that. Didn't she.

re: #187 Iron Fist

The big problem with Social Security is that people are living too fucking long these days. When they dreamed up the idea of Social Security, the retirement age was pegged at, IIRC, 62. The average man lived to be something like 58. The average woman lived to be 62. So Social Security was ment to ease the last days of a dying widow (OK, it was really more of a way to raise revenue while acting like the Government was giving people money for nothing).

Now the average age is something like 75. And now the Baby Boomers are getting ready to retire. The whole ponzi scheme is going to come apart at the seams...

If they'd done individual accounts, if they'd left it alone, if they done even conservative investments. It would have worked.

But that pot of money was too tempting for those whores in DC.

re: #179 Racer X

You Really Got Me by Ray Davies (The Kinks) - live at Higher Ground

This is a MUCH better version, one I hadn't heard before, but you have to wait through 3 minutes of Regis and Kathie Lee to get to it.

re: #188 ArmyWife

We must kill the old people. It's the only way.

(I am really trying to be featured on one of the anti-blogs)

You'll never take me alive...wait a frigging minute let me get back to you on that one...

re: #188 ArmyWife

We must kill the old people. It's the only way.

(I am really trying to be featured on one of the anti-blogs)

Logan's run the age was 35...
No wait, I'm past 35!

And for Killgore,

Birthday Cake!

re: #188 ArmyWife

We must kill the old people. It's the only way.
(I am really trying to be featured on one of the anti-blogs)

That should be a last resort, only to be implemented if they refuse to volunteer to be on call 24-7 to perform menial chores for free.
/

re: #207 jcm

Logan's run the age was 35...
No wait, I'm past 35!

I thought it was 30, either way I would be in deep doodoo. ;)

re: #189 VegasRick

Is he first in line?

re: #209 Spare O'Lake

That should be a last resort, only to be implemented if they refuse to volunteer to be on call 24-7 to perform menial chores for free.
/

I'll be in the rest room dying my white hair and beard...

Anti-Jewish commentary is flooding the Internet in the wake of Bernard Madoff's arrest on charges of masterminding one of the biggest Wall Street frauds in history, campaigners said Friday.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said there had been "an outpouring of anti-Semitic comments on mainstream and extremist Web sites."

Madoff, 70, is Jewish and a prominent member of the powerful US Jewish community. He is alleged to have defrauded investors, including a number of Jewish-related charities, of some 50 billion dollars.

"Site users have posted comments ranging from deeply offensive stereotypical statements about Jews and money -- with some suggesting that only Jews could perpetrate a fraud on such a scale -- to conspiracy theories about Jews stealing money to benefit Israel," the ADL said in a statement.

"Jews are always a convenient scapegoat in times of crisis, but the Madoff scandal and the fact that so many of the defrauded investors are Jewish has created a perfect storm for the anti-Semites," said Abraham Foxman, ADL national director.

"Nowadays, the first place Jew-haters will go is to the Internet, where they can give voice to their hateful ideas without fear of repercussions."

re: #204 jcm

If they'd done individual accounts, if they'd left it alone, if they done even conservative investments. It would have worked.

But that pot of money was too tempting for those whores in DC.

I dunno, what can you do, when you're the government, and have billions of dollars a year to put into a lockbox? Buy your own treasury bonds? Does that even make sense? Is it any different from what they did do?

re: #213 yochanan

So where might the anti-Democrat comments be for the shizzle they pulled with this housing crisis, I ask you?

re: #191 Sharmuta

Ah- Killgore is getting the spankings tonight, but thanks for caring.

So you're not into masochistic downdinging? Oh well...

re: #215 ArmyWife

are you expecting donks to admit anything in 2012 it will still be the bush econ

re: #214 itellu3times

I dunno, what can you do, when you're the government, and have billions of dollars a year to put into a lockbox? Buy your own treasury bonds? Does that even make sense? Is it any different from what they did do?

Galveston, TX IIRC did it. They opted out for cit employees. A well diversified portofolio, pensions don't touch the principal. Pensions last I read about were more than salary there was so much money.

re: #218 jcm

Galveston, TX IIRC did it. They opted out for cit employees. A well diversified portofolio, pensions don't touch the principal. Pensions last I read about were more than salary there was so much money.

You can do it on a small scale, but when "the buck stops here", it's unclear what you can do with it, but build actual revenue-producing, real-world facilities with it. But that's not quite what we allow our governent to do. I see it as a real technical problem.

re: #219 itellu3times

You can do it on a small scale, but when "the buck stops here", it's unclear what you can do with it, but build actual revenue-producing, real-world facilities with it. But that's not quite what we allow our governent to do. I see it as a real technical problem.

Can't argue with that.

It comes down to us re-electing the same crowd over and over.

Here in my little corner of Husker Nation the temp is hovering around zero and the wind chill is about -21. I can't think of anything to do but go to bed.

Well, that was weird. Two percussion guys? I hear harmonies nobody appears to be playing. And who's playing the fretless bass? It can't be that guy at stage left because he's scrubbing the strings like Stevie Ray Vaughn (or that Kenny Wayne Shepherd dufus).

The pancake makeup and brown lipstick just makes it more weird!

Charlie

Big ups to Nashville. Livin the dream.

Very good, Charles...nice tune to wake up to

Late to the thread, and as usual, likely a thread killer.

At first I liked the Patty Griffin song, but in reading the lyrics and listening again I am less impressed.

The song reads like a typical anti-war (read: anti-victory, anti-BusHitler) rant.

Love and kindness until there are no strangers and the bird of peace will land.

Hallelujah!

Whatever.

Still it sounds good.

But it's mostly moonbat cant.

Just sayin'.

Charles,

You turned be on to her a while back and I am very grateful. Similar artists that you may appreciate (if you don't already) are Dar Williams and Jeffrey Foucault.

Incredible songwriters and singers.

Sounds like a Joni Mitchell wanna be, even uses the same chord & strumming patterns...

I don't mean this question to be arch or prurient, like the way people make jokes about Karen Carpenter, but out of concern, she looks very thin. Does anyone know if she struggles with an eating disorder, or has she always been so petite? I've always loved her music and hope that she enjoys the same happiness that she gives her fans.