Memorial Day - Thank You All

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It is going to be a most enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend in Cincinnati, OH. The Grill is ready to go, the pool is clean and chemically balanced and Webster's life jacket is ready. More importantly, this is Still America. Thank You and Thank You. We can't possibly Thank You enough...

Now You go out and have a great Memorial Day Weekend !  You Got That !?

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Rand Paul Zeroes In

So, on my usual 10 minute  listen to Hannity radio, which I switch off when the endless commercials start, Rand Paul expressed that the Tea Party is a big problem and will split the vote.  He suggests people need to shun the Tea Party and restore our government to Republicans.

I have a number of problems with Rand Paul but this is the biggest one so I won’t bother with the rest, but he is both wrong abut what America needs and is wrong that voting for the Tea Party will leave us with a Democrat government.

First off the “Republicans” are worthless.  Outside of Ronald Reagan, who I view as an American, and not a Republican or even a politician (Can we say Reagan exemplifies Tea Party?) the Republicans haven’t accomplished anything.

They simply maintain the status quo, keeping all the failed liberal policies and departments in place so that when the Democrats regain power they simply start right back up where the left off.  That would be start right back up on the march to Socialism and Soft Communism and with Oblabber, we’ve even got a healthy sprinkling of Fascism.

Really Ron Paul?  Really?  What are “the Republicans” going to do for us?  Give is a bunch of useless lip service about fiscal responsibility?  We don’t care about fiscal responsibility.  At least I don’t.  If we end up in some socialist hell hole, who Gives a F if you’ve maintained some fiscal responsibility for 4 or 8, or at most 12 years until the Dems take over again ?

The Republicans are a Dead Party to anyone with half a brain.

Finally, I guess you somehow missed the part where the Tea Party Was Responsible for Giving Us a Non-Democrat Majority in The House !  Dipstick.

Too bad the Speaker of the House is a Useless Republican at best and more likely a RINO who yucks it up with Hairy Reid most evenings after sessions.

Please remember these kinds of comments folks, they are by the Republican Politic that are no better than the Dems outside of pretending to be pro-America and Capitalism.  In fact, they’re crony-capitalists, enriching themselves and their lobbyist owners and this, along with same old same old is their only interest.  They don’t give a rats ass about you.

Cordially Yours,

 

Lover... Come Back to Me.

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I don't see anything in the news or in American or world society or even the universe I feel like talking about tonight, so let's do some more Chet.


Another older version of Chet from his instructional video "The Guitar of Chet Atkins" playing Lover Come Back. He keeps all the strings humming in this one.
(By the way, he's not smiling at his own playing, he is smiling at how the composer put this tune together for him to play, which he mentions in the video as he describes how to play it, also noting the nice lick he got from Jerry Reed that he plays around the 1:33 mark)



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When You Wish Upon a Star

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By an older Chet Atkins, from his instructional video titled 'The Guitar of Chet Atkins' from 1986.


He plays a ton of harmonics in the tune. A harmonic on a guitar is payed by just touching the string above the 12th fret (octave) with a finger on the left hand and plucking the string with the right hand. To play a harmonic on a different note, you press the string down on the note you want, say the 2nd fret, then using two fingers on your playing hand, touch the string at the 14th fret (12 above the note you are playing in this example) and pluck the string with another finger. In this tune, Chet uses his thumb and third finger to pluck strings with and his index and second finger to touch the string above the proper position. In the video, as he describes playing it he says it's simple, just needs a little practice.




And he played the heck out of it earlier as in this recording.
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Go Here For a Fantastic Video

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Grab the kids and Do It Now
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Career DAY !

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How would You like to make $100k or more looking at hot babes all day ?


High pay and benefits for lifeguards in Newport Beach is the latest example of frustrating levels of compensation for public employees. More than half the city’s full-time lifeguards are paid a salary of over $100,000 and all but one of them collect more than $100,000 in total compensation including benefits.
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GOLD !

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19 Things You Didn't Know About Gold, Including Where to Find More of It.

Some very entertaining facts about Gold that I'll bet few are aware.
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Finally Getting Warm in Cincinnati.

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Hot actually. Couple days ago? 60 degrees. Today? 87. Which is typical of an extremely Short Spring season. So, a cool pristine Lagoon sounds attractive right now.


Here's one. A piece of the Lagoon Nebula.

This image is 20 light years wide. 20 times 6 trillion miles wide.


Click on it for a description and click again and again to explore a high resolution image.


And this image comes from this one:

And it would be a good idea to listen to the Chet and Ravi Shankar tune on the right sidebar while exploring. Good to be relaxed when perusing art.
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John Boehner is a Politician

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And that's not a good thing. I was wondering how he was going to maneuver this and as it turns out, he's going to kill two birds with one stone. He's not going to default on the debt And he's going to hold republican voters hostage through the 2012 elections. 

Excerpt from this article:


In laying down his marker, Boehner signals to the White House that Republicans will exact a high price to raise the debt ceiling, to be paid off in spending cuts, not tax increases. With Democrats rejecting cuts to Social Security and Medicare, there's little left that could deliver the trillions in cuts. One alternative is to pass short-term debt-limit deals, each accompanied by spending cuts, until Americans weigh in on the issue in 2012 elections.

These people, starting with John Boehner because of his position Must go and be replaced with Tea Party conservatives if there is to be any hope of breaking the same old same old that we've had since LBJ.

If I had to slap down a $100 bill, it would be to bet that Boehner and Hairy Reid get along just fine when they're not blowing smoke up our butts. 

As an aside, I hear that Allen West is going to do an hour long segment on the Glen Beck show (to be scheduled).  I'm no fan of Glen Beck, (long before the media demonized him) but I have to wonder why a congressman is doing a long segment like that on a conservative friendly national show.  I think it is to really introduce himself to America, and suggests he might want to play a larger part in America's escape from Communism.  (The Progressive agenda is the Communist agenda.  No sense mincing words.)
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The President

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As I have observed and like to point out - "It is very hard to make things better in the country as a president, but it is really easy to fuck things up beyond recognition".
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