Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

The lights are all blinking red.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

T R E 4 5 O N

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Second rate reporter says what?

This fight is for everything.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

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Rusty Zinn, “The Chill” (2000)
Here’s the reason I use shuffle. I’ve got a handful of those great Alligator collections but somehow never quite get around to giving them a proper listen. (What’s the appropriate occasion? Maybe Labor Day weekend?) But when the right song pops up at the right moment and bops you on the head with itself, as this one did to me this week, it’s all kinds of the right kismet you want to hope for. I don’t know much more about Rusty Zinn other than that he’s from somewhere around the Sacramento environs of northern California. But I do know that, once started, he’s a slick, fine guitar player and that he’s got a great band too.

Another nice one from Alligator: Charlie Musselwhite, “Leaving Your Town”
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  3. 3.

    General Stuck

    Just got in and scanned the threads today. Looks like about all of them have been thoroughly trashed by Obama hater trolls. So let’s see if they will trash a music thread.

  4. 4.

    gogol's wife

    @General Stuck:

    After the initial great coffee thread, it’s been extremely depressing all day. I hate these people. I don’t usually use that word, but I really hate them. Time to take a break.

  6. 6.

    Chat Noir

    Was listening to Tumbleweed Connection earlier. What a great album. “Talking Old Soldiers” is a masterpiece.

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    When I was in HS I did a blues show on the local community radio station. Bruce, the founder of Alligator, happened to be in town, came by the station and wade a note of every record in the blues section of our library and sent us all of his stuff we were missing. Really, really nice guy.

  10. 10.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    Del McCoury is here tonight and it is 100 goddamn degrees out and I’m not up for an outdoor show in an oven!

  16. 16.

    Dennis SGMM

    I am very disheartened that I managed to miss Dick Dale’s show at UC Fullerton. I thought it was this weekend and it turned out to be yesterday. Aw shit. He played with the University orchestra and the highlighted song was “Misirlou.” Those who have dropped into a double-overhead wave and then made a knee-bending bottom turn away from the curl understand exactly how well Dale captured the essence of that rapturous experience.

  17. 17.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):
    Blue Canoe, ahhhhhh. “I took myself a bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue canoe, and I floated like a leaf…”

    I am old enough now to not give a shit how disturbing it is to passers by as I sing along with Elton on that one.

  18. 18.

    SteveinSC

    @General Stuck:

    That was me calling you and idiot.

    Jesus, we have a backwards educational system here, but, to quote John Wayne, “that don’t hold a candle to yours.” What form of English grammar is that? You drinking and posting?

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @SteveinSC:
    @Dennis SGMM:

    Seriously, have people been reduced to mocking typos? If you want to fight with Stuck, have fun. There is plenty to work with and I am sure he’ll have fun too, but going after typos is a bit sad.

  21. 21.

    General Stuck

    @Dennis SGMM:

    I see you found you a soul mate blog buddy, Dennis. Cracker love.

    @SteveinSC:

    First you claim I was inciting violence, that made no sense from anything I wrote. Then you can’t understand a simple notion of me calling you a fucking idiot. And you want to know want I am drinking? I am drinking your milkshake, mister previously banned for being a racist asswipe.

  22. 22.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Stuck has had the stones to call this particular four-decade Democratic GOTV foot soldier a firebagger more than once. I’ll mock his sorry ass every chance I get.

  24. 24.

    General Stuck

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I don’t see a typo, but that is not surprising having won no grammar prizes. But then I’m still trying to figure out how I was inciting violence in my first comment on this thread.

    Otherwise, I can deal with these chickenshits, but thanks for the assist

  26. 26.

    General Stuck

    @Dennis SGMM:

    I’ll mock his sorry ass every chance I get.

    You might want to do it with at least a semblance of making sense, and not hiding behind some shit for brains cracker asses lame nonsensical posts. But then I guess maybe he’s your people.

  27. 27.

    Dennis SGMM

    @General Stuck:

    Well, Stucky, I was born on Kwajelein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. I grew up just about anywhere that had a WESPAC Navy base so it’s difficult to see how I became a cracker. I’ve also been happily married for thirty-three years to a wonderful woman whose birthplace happens to be Juarez.

    Good to see that you’ve enlarged your vocabulary of pejoratives. Keep up the good work.I’m flattered to have you as an enemy even though you seem to make up what you lack in wit with vitriol.

  29. 29.

    General Stuck

    @Dennis SGMM:

    Stuck has had the stones to call this particular four-decade Democratic GOTV foot soldier a firebagger more than once

    You called yourself a firebagger, and have been doing it regularly for the past two years. And continue now with every other comment, it seems, bleating out some smugly superior rank pulling, or what ever it is to try and put your lame ass above reproach. weak performance for such a tough guy.

  34. 34.

    General Stuck

    Shit, this is a pretty weak troll surge. I must be losing my mojo for drawing them out of the woodwork. And now my spelling done gone to shit. Fuck it, I’m just going to have myself a good cry and hug my personal unicorn. The Horror

  39. 39.

    eemom

    so let’s see — Friday evening and we are debating the pros and cons of typo-based flaming.

    Any day now we’ll get one of those popup ads from some internet entrepreneur selling lives.

  40. 40.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Okay, that was a low blow. I think that what annoys me about Stuck is the way he denigrates any criticism of the Prez and attributes it to racism or ignorance. It also annoys me that Stuck belittles years of Democratic GOTV work on my part because I’m critical of some of Obama’s decisions and very skeptical about his chances for re-election.

    The Obama administration has significantly failed to reduce our economic decline and the high unemployment that is a piece of it. That’s a simple fact and, although there are many reason for it, Obama would have been among the first to step up and take the credit had the modest step that he took with the stimulus bill turned things around. As it is he has to take the heat The political reality that Americans often vote their pocketbooks seems to drive Stuck, et al into a frenzy of name calling.

    Me? I’ll be out knocking on doors and phone banking on behalf of Obama in ’12. If I get one more person to vote Democratic then I’ll have accomplished more for our party than all of Stuck’s name calling.

  44. 44.

    General Stuck

    @Dennis SGMM:

    I didn’t mean literally you typed, My name is Dennis, and I am a firebagger, I meant by general commentary and my impression of it. My grammar ain’t so good, you might have heard. But I think you understood what I was talking about, didn’t you?

    It was and is my opinion. I get called all kinds of things, but don’t whine about it with the butthurt like you, with some high brow, high ranking more pure democrat than others.

  45. 45.

    Jewish Steel

    I like shuffle too.

    I like Captain Beefheart, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit through all of Trout Mask Replica. That some wearisome sledding. When he pops up and does his thing on shuffle though, he is a delight

    I also like to surprise myself by downloading something and forgetting all about it until it pops up on shuffle. This week it was “Hawaiian War Chant” By Spike Jones. Probably racist and certainly disrespectful to Hawaiian culture, this crazy song also kind of rocks. I often think of how difficult some of these old novelty songs were (Also Looney Tunes scores. They must’ve been a bitch to play)

    And then when you consider that there was no tracking, that you had to nail it in one take, it’s kind of mind-blowing.

    youtube.com/watch?v=guYiWts0SRc

  46. 46.

    General Stuck

    @Anya:

    This lame discussion is more excruciating painful than my current grade 2 ankle sprain.

    As the election nears, it is going to get much much worse. This is footsie, so to speak.

  47. 47.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Elizabelle:
    His version of “Hava Negila” is a foot stomping masterpiece. I went to a Dick Dale and the Deltones concert back in the heyday of the surfing craze. You know; back in the early Sixties when young folks in Kansas had longboards strapped to the roofs of their cars.

    Bonus: Dale is 74 and he now lives on a ranch near Joshua Tree, California. That’s deliciously ironic because only Death Valley surpasses the area around JT for being hot, dry, and unforgiving most of the year.

  48. 48.

    JPK

    @Jewish Steel: Yes, I think you’ve got it right about both Captain Beefheart and Spike Jones. Beefheart’s later albums like Ice Cream for Crow or Doc at the Radar Station are more listenable as a whole, but TMR is just amazing a song or two at a time. And I’m still trying to figure out how Spike Jones did all he did without the option of tracking.

  49. 49.

    Jewish Steel

    @JPK: Yeah, I like both of those later albums. I remember him doing Ice Cream For Crow on Letterman. Blew me away. I’d never heard him before.

    Tom Waits doing Time on Letterman was my introduction to him. He had some ass-kicking acts back then. I had no older siblings so I guess he was kind of the older brother who went away to college and brought back cool stuff.

  51. 51.

    licensed to kill time

    @eemom:

    so let’s see—Friday evening and we are debating the pros and cons of typo-based flaming.
    __
    Any day now we’ll get one of those popup ads from some internet entrepreneur selling lives.

    Take me out of this life and put me into another, O lord. internet entrepreneur. This one is growing faint and I do not believe it goes all the way.

    w/apologies to W.S. Merwin

  53. 53.

    General Stuck

    I think that what annoys me about Stuck is the way he denigrates any criticism of the Prez and attributes it to racism or ignorance.

    Sometimes, with some people. As a general thing, you are as usual full of shit.

    As it is he has to take the heat The political reality that Americans often vote their pocketbooks seems to drive Stuck, et al into a frenzy of name calling.

    More anal retentive bullshit. I and many others are saying that the economy will not be the only driver of votes in this election. There are all sorts of poll evidence to support this notion, this time around. And I never said economic conditions were not a big part or it, even the most important, but there are some profound unique characteristics, that complicate things for this election. That could trump the economy.

    People like you don’t want to hear those, because it upsets you Obama fail narrative.

    That’s a simple fact and, although there are many reason for it, Obama would have been among the first to step up and take the credit had the modest step that he took with the stimulus bill turned things around.

    More false firebagging talking points. There has been a number of extra spending measures Obama has tacked onto various bills as econ stimulus. And characterizing the largest (by far) domestic discretionary spending bill in the history of this country, as “modest” is just more cherry picking history to support firebagger memes.

    The reason I don’t like you, is because most of the idiots around here are idiots and don’t have the capacity to think in more than one dimension. You are smart enough to know better, but you do it anyways.

    I am working on a thorough blog post on my blog on the overall history of the Stimulus and other spending bills Obama has gotten through for stimulus. But I have to study me grammar some moar.

  55. 55.

    Dennis SGMM

    @General Stuck:
    I am a white hat in the Navy of life. I suited up and showed up for Hubert Humphrey, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis. That doesn’t make me a smarter Democrat or a superior Democrat. This isn’t the Army. What it does do is make me an experienced Democrat who talks with real voters every other year.

    You’re grammar is irrelevant although it’s fun to poke at you. When you resort to race-based name calling in the face of legitimate criticisms of Obama you relegate yourself to the realm of unthinking purity trolls.

  57. 57.

    Dennis SGMM

    @JPK:
    “Trout Mask Replica” was an ear-opening experience. Like the contemporaneous albums by Sun Ra and the Solar Arkestra I have to be in the right mood to listen to it these days.
    On the other hand, I can listen to Quicksilver Messenger Service or John McLaughlin until the cows come home.

  60. 60.

    JPK

    @Dennis SGMM: Happy Trails and Devotion, any time any place! Sun Ra, I agree, is hard to take unless the time is right, which is unpredictable, but he can be amazing. Also too, his “Nuclear War” is pretty special.

  61. 61.

    General Stuck

    @Dennis SGMM:

    You sure are a pompous one. It’s kind of cute, the smug superiority, sort of like a blog version of Major Winchester with his haughty airs and nose to the sky.

    It will gain you no safe harbor from my replies to your Obama bashing nonsense, and if it drops into the racial framing of Obama the “wimp”, or any other coded shit, then I will call that as it is, for the “inadequate black man” racist meme. you or anybody else, including myself. And I don’t give a shit how many doors you’ve knocked on.

    But you don’t have to be racist to be a firebagger. This is written. You have a nice day. Yer such a bad ass, teehee.

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @eemom:

    and lo! Even as Omnes sayeth, so it cameth to pass.

    Sure, with something like this…. What I want to know is when that is going to work with the hot, leggy French chicks?

  64. 64.

    Dennis SGMM

    So you’re now castigating me in advance for what I might comment? Pompous? Yeah right. I attempt to write clear prose. It’s a bad habit I picked up long ago. If that’s a point of criticism for you then you just might be the cracker that you accuse me of being.
    My comments regarding Obama’s performance are based on my opinion of his handling of the office to which we elected him. Nothing more, nothing less. If you feel like clapping harder for an administration that has failed to effectively address the primary woes afflicting our nation then clap on.

  65. 65.

    Anya

    @Skepticat: November? That’s a long time for a recovery. I can live with the pain now, as long as I am able to wear high heels for my wedding in November. I have to be really careful and stay away from any activity that might put pressure on it for a while.

  66. 66.

    licensed to kill time

    Love to eat them typos; typos what I love to eat
    Bite they little heads off, nibble on they tiny feet

  67. 67.

    eemom

    Move along, folks. DougJ’s latest masterpiece of troll-bait just blew this sad little thread to smithereens.

  69. 69.

    General Stuck

    @Dennis SGMM:

    On politics, I think you are near completely full of shit. But that is okay, and is my opinion. That will continue to unfold and be expressed as time goes on here in the land of hot air. Mr Clear Prose.

    meantime, I got some archives to study.

  70. 70.

    General Stuck

    @eemom:

    It wasn’t really Dougj with the troll bait, this time. It was me that chummed the thread, from reading most all the other threads that were brain dead from viral firebaggering. Sorta worked. Got myself lectured by a political legend in his own mind.

  72. 72.

    SteveinSC

    @General Stuck:Mutatis

    Just got in and scanned the threads today. Looks like about all of them have been thoroughly trashed by Obama hater trolls.

    Mutandi

    It wasn’t really Dougj with the troll bait, this time. It was me that chummed the thread,

    General Stuck: Self indicted and self convicted asshole, which calls for a well deserved and loud “Fuck You to Omnes, Big Baby DougJ” for their support as mindless tools.

  73. 73.

    General Stuck

    @SteveinSC:

    Well yea, I admitted I tossed out the troll bait. But it was the trolls that took it and ran with it. That is how trolling works, that is a time honored internet tradition around here. Trolls being trolls, are in control of their own behavior and don’t have to take the bait. now don’t you have a Friday night Klan meeting to git to?

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