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So I drove to the St. Clairsville Mall in Ohio today to hit a couple stores, and I drove across a crowd of very, very, angry white people:

I couldn’t get better pictures because when I saw all the War on Coal signs, saw the Romney/Ryan bus (which you can barely make out on the far left there), something in me made me drive by honking my horn yelling “FOUR MORE YEARS” and “OBAMA/BIDEN 2012.” After the third trip by being belligerent, I couldn’t even hear the speaker ranting about the 14th amendment (was Rush talking about that this week?) I was getting booed so much. Pro-tip: Driving with multiple Obama stickers as well as a WV Public Radio sticker and stickers that say “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one” on a Subaru honking it’s horns and terrorist fist jabbing while yelling FOUR MORE YEARS will make you persona non grata at a Romney rally. I had fun, anyway.

Turns out the teahadists were doing this all over the state of Ohio:

Tea party members geared up for the upcoming election with rallies Saturday in Harrison and Belmont counties.

Crowds of people listened to discussion about the top issues candidates will face come November.

An Ohio Congressman and candidates on the campaign trail sent out a bold message about the so-called “war on coal” and mandates from the Affordable Care Act.

One tea party member said he believes certain liberties are being threatened.

“It’s not necessarily a freedom of religion or freedom of speech that we can fight that, or at least voice our opinion of that,” said Barry Momyer, a rally organizer in Harrison County, in reference to the contraception mandate. “But also that they are going to force them to do it.”

So I guess we now know that the Romney campaign is coordinating with what ever PAC is supplying the war on coal posters. On the upside, I really actually prefer all my angry white people out in public screaming than sitting at home cutting holes in their pillow cases for the Klan rally. So I guess we got that going for us.

Plus, if I gave one of these 70 year old fascists a heart attack, my work is done.

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  2. 2.

    Violet

    Your description of driving around the teabaggers in your Subaru made me actually laugh out loud. I can just see you doing that. Good for you. Did you make sure to tell them you’re a veteran?

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    Made me smile too. Doesn’t look like a real big turnout, which is good. When I first loaded this page, there was an ad from Americans for Prosperity with an angry-looking picture of Obama on it that asked “Does this man deserve another four years?” I clicked yes, and it changed to an ad for Horizon organic milk. Big Brother is watching us.

  9. 9.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Careful out there. The last thing you might hear could be someone screaming “SELF-DEFENSE!” BLAM!

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    Jayzus, this made my night. Good on ya, Cole!

    I can see the cloud of Hoverrounds chasing you, wondering how long the batteries are going to last.

    Also, too, fuck’s sake, after this summer who isn’t at war with coal?

  11. 11.

    muddy

    I always like to honk if I need to flip someone off, because you have to make sure they see it. Good job! My cup runneth over, that was sweeet, want video!

    I was at a cookout today with a group that ranged from superwinger to dunnodon’tcare. And then there I was, the liberal they were all whining about. I did not even end up yelling at anyone, altho probably there was a lot of side-eye on my part, combined with sardonic eyebrow.. However I did slide some info into conversation. One guy was complaining that liberal suck because they steal money from Social Security all the time for budget items. I said, Not so, and anyway, Lockbox. Huh, what, duh? I explained this, and mentioned about the scorn Gore got for that. Don’t know if he believed me, but he didn’t go on blathering about it at least. “Al Gore?” Yeah, bud, google that shit up, it’s easy.

  14. 14.

    Wag

    I drove across a crowd of very, very, angry white people:

    John, any crowd would be angry if you drove over them. That hurts.

  15. 15.

    Joey Maloney

    Here’s a fun little snippet of election news from Hawaii where I’m vacationing. The Republican former governor, Linda Lingle, is running against Democrat Maisie Hirono for the open Senate seat. Today Hirono picked up the endorsement (and a chaste kiss on the cheek) from the Repub that Lingle beat in the primary. He said voting for her is not just a bad idea, but “dangerous”.

  16. 16.

    kay

    Today was Ohio OFA state Party Day of Action (house parties, door to door canvass) so I guess this was the planned Tea Party Romney/Ryan response to that.

    I love knowing what they’re doing while we’re doing our thing.

    They canvassed my precinct. I live in the most GOP precinct in the city proper, and they were getting “undecided” which is BS, they’re Romney voters, but I’m curious about why they’re saying they’re “undecided”.

  18. 18.

    Alison

    The one thing that would have made it even better was if ABL was already out there and was in the car with you. Can you imagine the heads asplodin’ in that group…

  20. 20.

    Shabbazz

    I growed up in that neck of the woods and I know the personality you described very well.

    While they’re all screaming about “the war on coal”, I’m betting dollars to doughnuts that 80% or more of them signed over fracking rights to their land. But, somehow, they don’t see any connection between the invasion of the gas companies and the retreat of the coal companies.

  21. 21.

    suzanne

    I spit on a car with a Romney bumper sticker a couple of weeks ago. My husband was displeased with me. Whatever.

    In a more productive capacity, I spent half the day canvassing for my candidate of choice for Congresscritter of my new district, AZ-9. Talked to a guy who said he was a lifelong Republican, but would be voting for Dems this time. (The “Proud to be a Teamster” bumper stickers were an indication why.) And we laughed our asses off at the house with the “David Schweikert for Congress” sign in front, because, due to the redistricting, Schweikert’s not even running in this district. Dumbasses don’t even knw who’s running, but DAMN IF THEY DON’T SUPPORT ‘EM. I feel good about it, though. Talked to lots of people who are not buying what the Republicans are selling.

  25. 25.

    suzanne

    Cole, I hope you continue to nourish your inner eleven-year-old. Never let him die. Civility is overrated. And pissing off right-wingers is SO. MUCH. FUN.

  30. 30.

    Yutsano

    @amk:

    Look no further than the inclusion of the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims.

    That right there, my good gentlefolk, is called a shiv. And a beautifully executed one at that.

  31. 31.

    Dennis SGMM

    I note the sign reading “Save Eastern Ohio.” If it’s anything like it was when I’d drive over from Huntington to shop at the Costco on the Ohio side, all they need to save it from is speed traps.

  32. 32.

    JGabriel

    Tea party members geared up for the upcoming election with rallies Saturday in Harrison and Belmont counties.

    So the Klan finally got rid of the white hoods? I’d guess they’d become a social liability and fashion faux pas.

    .

  34. 34.

    Jewish Steel

    Ah, to be a big ex-LaX player and not a wee, slight chap who couldn’t fight the young Elvis Costello to a draw…

  36. 36.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    I really actually prefer all my angry white people out in public screaming

    Hell yeah. We need something to wake up the registered voters that support Obama that are also unlikely to vote.

  37. 37.

    JGabriel

    John Cole @ Top:

    On the upside, I really actually prefer all my angry white people out in public screaming than sitting at home cutting holes in their pillow cases for the Klan rally.

    Damn it. I should have finished reading the post first. John already beat me to the Klan joke. I hate it when that happens.

    .

  41. 41.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    Boy, when you decided to come out of your shell I didn’t know you’d come out thumbing your nose and blowing raspberries.
    Well played, Sir. Well played.

  44. 44.

    BruinKid

    Powerline is freaking out over the “Republican Women for Obama” ad, trying to expose some of the women in the ad as… gasp… registered Democrats now!

    Of course, the women they cite didn’t say in the ad when they left the GOP. Yeah, whaddaya know, one of them now aligns herself with progressives!

  45. 45.

    max

    I really actually prefer all my angry white people out in public screaming than sitting at home cutting holes in their pillow cases for the Klan rally.

    I figure they left the sheets at home because they were still trying to get the coal dust out.

    max
    [‘Otherwise, people would get all confused. Er, KLONFUZED!’]

  47. 47.

    mai naem

    @suzanne: Who are you supporting? I can’t decide between the three. Schapira’s my state senator right now and I am leaning towards him. Cherny’s got a lot of good endorsements but he’s supposed to be center left/blue dawg. I would have voted for Kyrsten Sinema but I hate the ad. I think it makes look like a bimbo. I think its a very winnable district and I don’t want somebody to lose it just because they don’t know how to project themselves.

  48. 48.

    kay

    @Yutsano:

    Crist restored voting rights to felons in FL. Scott came in and undid Crist’s order, and disenfranchised felons.

    Oddly, felon franchise restoration was once fashionable in the GOP, as late as like 2005. Both Dewine (OH) and Santorum (PA) supported it at the federal level.

    Romney (sleazebag that he is) attacked Santorum on it in the 2012 GOP primary, which is why Dewine withdrew his Romney endorsement and backed Santorum.

    I think Charlie Crist genuinely feels strongly about voting rights. He was the last man standing backing voting rights in the GOP.

    You have to admire that.

  50. 50.

    mai naem

    Hey, John I love what you did, but jeezus, just be careful. I would be too chickenshit to do that where I live because I’m pretty sure I would get followed home and have my car keyed and my house vandalized.

  51. 51.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    To be fair, young EC had a lot of anger going on.

    OMG, he was positively snarling in his early work.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  54. 54.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    @kay: “Oddly, felon franchise restoration was once fashionable in the GOP, as late as like 2005. Both Dewine (OH) and Santorum (PA) supported it at the federal level.”

    They were hedging, and wanted to make sure that Bush Jr., Cheney, and Yoo would still be permitted to cast a ballot.

  55. 55.

    Yutsano

    @BruinKid: Uhh…wow. Whoever did that put up a whole bunch of very visible pro-Obama material thinking it would make their point. We should write a thank-you note thanking them for the free publicity.

  56. 56.

    suzanne

    @mai naem: I’m supporting Schapira. I’m in his district right now, and I dig him. I used to live in Sinema’s, and I like her, but I like Schapira better. I don’t like that she resigned from the State Senate in order to run for this race, and she moved into this district (she lived in Quayle’s) but thought this one would be better for her career, which I find slightly shady. Cherny’s an a-hole. Schapira’s been a good Senate Minority Leader and is very progressive.

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: Everyone and everything ages. If I am able to go, EC and JAMC are my must sees, but Iggy, the Murphys, and Gogol Bordello would be cool too.

  60. 60.

    kay

    @danah gaz (fka gaz):

    No, I think it was during their “we minister to prisoners because we’re like Jesus” period.

    You probably missed it because it was so brief. Week, week and a half, tops. Sort of a fad.

    Anyway, Charlie’s felon voting order was all about forgiveness, but by then they had dropped that Bedrock Conservative Forgiveness Principle and moved on to voter suppression.

  61. 61.

    specialed

    That was The Mall when I was a kid in Wheeling 30 years ago. I haven’t been for 15 yrs.

  63. 63.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It’s been one of mine since…..oh, way back in the day… I LOVE the Angry Elvis C.

    I can remember blasting My Aim Is True out of my windows (big speakers, old farm, no neighbors to speak of) whilst sunbathing naked in the front yard and waving in a friendly fashion to passing helicopters and aircraft. They seemed enthusiastic, though I don’t know if they could hear the music.

    It was prolly just the boobies.

  66. 66.

    RadioOne

    Regardless of whether this actually happened or was some bizarre drunken fever dream, I appreciate you for telling us this story.

  68. 68.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @dance around in your bones: You have been cracking me up for the past week or so. You really seem to have stopped giving a fuck and are now letting your freak flag fly. I think that is awesome. This is a great version of one of my favorites form the album.

  69. 69.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    I volunteer at a local public access TV station, and sometimes work on a “legal” show. Here’s one of the “issues” they’ve decided to cover on their next episode:

    Assanage granted Asylum in Ecuador. If Australian Assange is given a diplomatic passport by Ecuador, could this trigger Article 29 of the Vienna Convention, where Assange would not be liable to any form of arrest or detention? Is this passport confusion just so much smoke, like whether Barry Soetoro had an Indonesian passport?

  70. 70.

    kay

    @rikyrah:

    He did. He also wrote a very shrill editorial a coupla weeks ago about the GOP suppressing minority votes.

    I had a Women For Zimmann house Party today for Day of Action (US House) and the OFA organizer was canvassing my neighborhood.

    So we let him in and gave him ice tea although he is, IN FACT, a man so technically breaking the house party raging-against-male-Republicans gender barrier:)

  72. 72.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Major props John, that’s just cool. :)

    I wish there was video of it, I’d pay to see that and the looks on the teahadists faces.

  74. 74.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It’s true, I used to be much more circumspect on the ‘ol tubes (still don’t do the “social media” crap) but since my husband died I just don’t seem to give much of a shit anymore.

    Hence, I seem to be more forthcoming, shall we say, in my comments.

    I hope it doesn’t bite me in the ass some day.

    (BTW, great Elvis clip. I love that guy :)

  75. 75.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    DAIYB has been reminding me of my friend Betty, who was a WWII vet getting her MSW at USC while I was there. Betty once gave me the sage advice that you should never have dates with two different men in the same day, because you’ll inevitably call one of them by the wrong name while you’re having sex. This was advice from experience — Betty was apparently quite the enthusiastic participant in the Sexual Revolution back in the day, though she was a grandmother in her 70s when I met her.

  76. 76.

    Jennifer

    You may have already heard, but I just saw on the NPR site that the Republicans have cancelled the first day of the convention.

    Now if they’ll just cancel the other 3 or 4.

  77. 77.

    dance around in your bones

    @Mnemosyne:

    Holy shit, you don’t even want to know about the time when I was sleeping with three different guys in Af/Pak at the same time.

    It was a hella lotta fun.I got into trouble with one of the hotels I was staying at because guy one had removed the mirror from the wall so we – well, you know, see ourselves – well, you know.

    I pretended to have no knowledge of what they were complaining about! Wha??

    I still see one on the TV machine once in a while.

    Jeez, I am really revealing too much.

  79. 79.

    Ash Can

    Read this post and went straight to the end of the thread to say that the proprietor of this dump is the goddamned shizzle, yo. And Imma get another libation so’s I can drink to you, Cole. :)

    Ash can +3 margaritas and a Sierra Nevada Torpedo. Ka-blam.

  82. 82.

    Allan

    A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says the “Holocaust never happened.”

    Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler’s birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District.

    “As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Jones said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.

    “The more survivors, the more lies that are told.”

    A member of the Nationalist Socialist Party in his younger days, Jones took part in the Nazis’ march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978. While he doesn’t deny nor repudiate his “past affiliations,” he says he votes Republican “90 percent of the time.”

  83. 83.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @dance around in your bones: Graham Parker?

    @Mnemosyne: I had a friend who always renamed girls. He could never remember names, so he would give them a name that “fit” them. If he forgot and used a different name he would then just say that the new name fit better. From the same time frame, another friend found remarkable success with his “ask every girl in the bar to sleep with him” strategy. The keys were that you must being willing to leave with the first girl who said yes, that if one girl slapped you you must immediately ask each of her friends, and one must accept the risk that that the girl who says yes is completely insane.

  85. 85.

    Mnemosyne

    @dance around in your bones:

    Just to be clear, Betty’s advice was not to sleep with both of them on the same day. I couldn’t tell from your story if you broke Betty’s rule in Af/Pak, or if you just made sure to call them all “honey.”
    :-)

  88. 88.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @Yutsano: Yeah, based on personal experience, I never would have thought of these guys as birthers, so I was kind of surprised to see that, which prompted my comment. I’m debating in my head whether to volunteer for that episode, or not.

  89. 89.

    Mnemosyne

    @Allan:

    If it’s any consolation, the guy doesn’t have a chance in hell since a big part of that district is in Democrat-majority Cook County, where the November election is just a formality since the winner is chosen during the Democratic primary. He’s pretty much trolling the election.

  90. 90.

    Yutsano

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: @Omnes Omnibus: Juicy birfer goodness makes a great disguise for when you don’t want to admit that the real reason you oppose Obama has to do with his melanin concentration. To wit: our resident conservatroll Caz. Who is such a fucking Republican he’ll get a stiffy when he pulls that lever for Willard.

  91. 91.

    dance around in your bones

    @Mnemosyne:

    Oh no, I knew very well what each one’s name was – I just kinda stayed with/traveled with each one sequentially.

    Ok, maybe not ALWAYS sequentially – I DO remember bawling my eyes out in a taxi (with my suitcase) in the middle of the night in Peshawar whilst switching between guy one and guy two.

    The sweetest thing? was the taxi driver asking me if I was ok, Madaam??

    I swear I am NOT Thomas Friedman, either.

  92. 92.

    bemused

    @meyerman:

    Yes.

    John, seeing a former Republican evolve as you have gives me so much hope. Keep on working from your heart and you can’t go wrong. Bless you.

  93. 93.

    piratedan

    @Omnes Omnibus: good pick, imho he really had a talent for masking his pain and vitriol in a riff… Red Shoes still has by words to live by that lyric has become something of a coda for me…

    “I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused…”

    but hard to argue about the poignancy of young love when you’re spouting lines like…. I said I was so happy that I could die, so she said ‘drop dead’ and left with another guy…

    I thank the FSM that he arrived when he did because his passion and spite and disdain served as an oracle for me in my youth.

  94. 94.

    Narcissus

    Here’s the question I have about the whole Friends of Coal thing.

    If people stop bending over for the coal companies, what are the coal companies going to do? Pick up and take the coal somewhere else?

  95. 95.

    SmallAxe

    In No VA saw one of my first Rmoney stickers at the grocery store on an SUV with a fat white dude with a freshly starched dress shirt on a saturday waiting for his wife in the no parking zone in front of the store. Gave him a loud boo with a big thumbs down as I walked by, he was pissed. Tough tamales bro, he glared at me as I drove by later with my Veterans & Military families for O sticker and “KARMAPD” plate. F him and all the dancing horses these fuckers ride in on.

  97. 97.

    SmallAxe

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Ya seriously in NoVA swing state land, seen that friggin welfare ad once an hour every hour but that’s one of the first Rmoney stickers I’ve seen. Ton’s of Allen for Senate stickers though it’s strange. Macaca everywhere but not much Romney. And go figure it’s on SUV too. Rafalca bitches.

  99. 99.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve seen quite a few, but more Obama ones. Romney’s logo is shitty, and as a graphic designer back in the day, it offends my sensibilities.

  100. 100.

    dance around in your bones

    @piratedan:

    Oh gawd, what about “Watching The Detectives”? (Too many lyrics to quote) but:

    “She’s filing her nails while they’re draggin’ the lake – she is watching the detectives, they’re so cute”

    Jeez, I used to play that album over and ah over and ah over again (hahahah).

  102. 102.

    Yutsano

    @Omnes Omnibus: I did finally see one here, on the back of an Audi. I didn’t get the best look at the driver, but they were speeding.

    @suzanne: Willard’s logo is a toothpaste commercial.

  104. 104.

    piratedan

    @dance around in your bones: As much as I loved Aim (and I do), both Armed Forces and This Year’s Model are packed with like minded stuff… I mean Lip Service… is all you ever give to me…. and while you’re see yourself rolling on the carpet with This Year’s Girl, just wicked wicked stuff, his lyrical imagery during this time was second to none imho…

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @piratedan: This Year’s Girl was the first EC song I ever heard. Late night radio in central WI. My step-cousin said, “Fucking punks;” I went “Wow.”

  106. 106.

    piratedan

    @Omnes Omnibus: hey man, you and I are both in the EC admiration club… for me it was Mystery Dance, which led to Aim and getting my doors blown off…. maybe because this guy understood the anger and self loathing that are mixed into being in love and out of love…

  110. 110.

    dance around in your bones

    @Ash Can:

    Really? I thought a conversation with a taxi driver would automatically mark me as a Mustache of Understanding.

    Only, no mustache – maybe a Bush of Understanding.

    A BOU, if you will.

    OMG, I have gone over the cliff.

  112. 112.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @SmallAxe:

    I haven’t seen a single Rmoney sticker on a car so far, which is a good thing in this small southern Oregon coastal town of retirees. There are tons of Art Robinson stickers and posters all over but Rmoney is non-existent so far. I like the Robinson stickers and signs because it makes it easy to note who the crazy fuckers are here. With all of the anti-Obama and “Piss off a liberal, buy a gun” stickers around here I’m surprised that there aren’t more Rmoney stickers.

    I think the anti-Obama stickers are the new Republican presidential candidate support stickers.

  114. 114.

    dance around in your bones

    @piratedan:

    You know, you just can’t praise the early EC enough. His lyrics are increible, fucking incredible. I love heem.

    Never slept with him, though, dammit.

    Such a loveable geek.

  115. 115.

    piratedan

    @Omnes Omnibus: well I have to admit during that time frame I bounced from femme to femme feeling like I was in a series of auditions, going from distraction to disaster in a mater of moments, wondering if there was some survey that I wasn’t passing muster for. There was a sense of feeling like you had to conform somehow, someway in order to be allowed through the monitored doorways of happiness. Then again, this was North Carolina 1980, it was like the 60’s had never arrived, but the ripple effects from it were still lapping up against the shores of our local lake.

  118. 118.

    GregB

    @Allan:

    I fucking hate Illinois Nazis.

    http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqICMyDlQQGgAO2n7w8QF;_ylu=X3oDMTBrc3VyamVwBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQD?p=blues+brothers+illinois+nazis+clip&vid=033C0BB05B792EB01312033C0BB05B792EB01312&l=&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts4.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D4981561442107411%26id%3Db135a8b0d6947904624714042046b284%26bid%3DEhOwLnlbsAs8Aw%26bn%3DLargeThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253d-ukFAvYP3UU&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-ukFAvYP3UU&tit=I+Hate+Illinois+Nazis&c=1&sigr=11a4m79qo&

  120. 120.

    SmallAxe

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    It is strange, used to see a ton of W & McPalin stickers. I hope it bodes well for our side in Nov. They can’t even bring themselves to put the douches sticker on the car I’m hoping that translates to them not being as enthused to GOTV.

  121. 121.

    piratedan

    @dance around in your bones: the only time I was disappointed in the man himself is when he dissed Ray Charles… I chalk that up to too much booze and a motivation to take the piss out of someone by saying something sure to elicit the reaction he got.

  123. 123.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @piratedan: A couple of years late than that, I went to a semi-posh college and this kind of thing was all the rage. Weirdly, all these upper middle class kids from the upper Midwest all listened to this. We looked like extras from a Preppy Handbook photo shoot, but our soundtrack was CBGBs or Aragon Ballroom. Or funk. Funk was big.

  124. 124.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @piratedan: That was in the Holiday Inn bar in Columbus, Ohio. He now admits being drunk and looking to piss off some people who were fucking with him. Wrong way to do it, of course.

  125. 125.

    GG

    Waves from the left coast. I’m a quick reader, but this late, if I post something after going through all the posts (because I just do that, sorry – it usually means I’m ridiculously late and irrelevant.

    If I bog down in comments before I get back, here’s the

    Shorter: Go get ’em, Cole! Just don’t get shot. (Hey, I endured some decades in Kentucky, and not all of them in our lovely blue island in Lex.)

  126. 126.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Darlin’, I did, I like the ‘So shake the dust out of your wings and the sleep out of your eyes’.

    Thanks, nice song. Who the hell is named Townes, though? Were his parents hippies or what?

    Ok, just read his bio in the Wiki, born in 1944 so NOT hippie parents – oil peeps – where am I going with this? I have no fucking idea.

    again – nice song

    ETA:Not that there’s anything wrong with hippies – I happen to be an old one myself. o_O

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @piratedan: Absolutely. He behaved shittily there. I have had drinks in that Holiday Inn and I saw EC’s first concert in Columbus after that.

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    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I love both a them songs – I just have a bone to pick with Lefty, though – how can one no longer be able to sing the blues?

    Seems like a natural condition to me.

    ‘Specially if he’s living in cheap hotels.

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    aussie sheila

    I am a regular reader of this entertaining blog who lives in the land of Oz and may I say how thoroughly I approve of Cole’s style? Not that it helps any, but I can safely say that if Australians had the vote it would be BO 80/20. Even our conservatives (most of whom would hold positions slightly to the left of most blue dog Dems) are crossing their fingers this year. Matter of fact a lot of ossians believe we should have a vote in the US elections since both major parties outsource our foreign policy to the US. Go Dems-go Obama. (I’ve got good money on BO-I won lots in 2008 and I expect to win lots more 2012)! Love and xxx to y’all, esp. JC. Cheers

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @dance around in your bones: Lefty did what he had to do and sold out Pancho, but it broke him. He no longer was living and capable of singing the blues, but merely existing. This is why one needs to save a prayer for Lefty too; he has been dead since he gave up Pancho. The fact that he is still breathing doesn’t matter.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @dance around in your bones: Exactly. Pancho dies. Lefty lives. How did it happen? Can one live with one’s choices? If Lefty hadn’t talked, would the Federales have done anything? Some say they would not have. Christ, it is a sad song of betrayal and regret. To Live is to Fly is much more uplifting.

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    JoyceH

    (scanning photo enlargement) Ya know, where your protest looks that much like a community yard sale, you just might be too old to be protesting.

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    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus: Seems like a great theme for a blues song:

    Sold out my friend and I feel so bad, feel so bad
    Worst feeling I ever had, ever had
    Now I’m living in cheap hotels and Pancho is buried in a dust motel
    Worst feeling I ever had, ever had
    Ay Mexico, Federales, too
    Left me feeling so blue so blue
    So blue I can’t sing the blues, sing the blues sing the blues
    Now I just drink the whole night long can’t even get out a song
    Need a prayer wontcha pray for me
    Not that it’ll do anything for me, thing for me
    Cain’t sing the blues cain’t sing the blues
    All night long, all night long

    All night, all night, all night, all night long

    Lost my song, lost my song, Pancho’s gone

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    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @piratedan:

    Regarding Elvis C.:

    the only time I was disappointed in the man himself is when he dissed Ray Charles…

    I have to step in here and defend the man. He claims that he was taken out of context in the heat of the drunken moment. He says he was reacting to the music industry treating Ray Charles like a “F****ng Ni-CLANG” and they took that as his own opinion. EC claims to have nothing but reverence and respect for Ray and other black musicians and I think his own treatment of their music bears that out.

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    BruinKid

    @Allan: Old story. The primaries were held back in March, and Jones got 11% of the GOP primary vote.

    Now, we could ask who were the 3,861 people who voted FOR Jones in the primary, and if they knew about his Holocaust-denying stance.

    FYI, Richard Grabowski easily got the GOP nomination with 59% of the vote to face Dan Lipinski in November.

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    WaterGirl

    @Wag: See, that’s what’s so great about balloon juice.

    You can come to a thread 12 hours late, but you can pretty much count on someone else having said what you wanted to say.

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    Mart

    @Shabbazz: What I was thinking. The war on coal is lowered natural gas prices through fracking (for better or worse). At big factories I tour they have shut-down their coal fired steam boilers and fired up their natural gas boilers. Between the rail freight and cost of coal, one plant is paying about 50% less per therm. Plus there is no ash collectors, crushing limestone to de-sulphurize etc. Read many coal fired utilities are switching out to gas as well. They really do a good job of prying on and twisting the under-informed.

    Oh and Cole, don’t get shot.

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    Older

    Your work is not done, John. There are a bunch more 70-year-olds who need heart attacks. (Disclaimer: I’m way past 70 myself. Some of my co-agers embarrass me.)

    But he needs help. We better all pitch in.

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    valdemar

    Sorry if anyone’s mentioned this already, but in his Sunday Times op-ed piece today Andrew Sullivan refers to the Romney-Ryan ticket’s ‘racialism’. Can’t work out if he meant ‘radicalism’ and someone goofed, or if he’s decided that, since he’s writing for Brits and most Americans won’t go past the pay-wall, he can be honest.

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    Mark B.

    Just looking at that crowd, it’s really a piss-poor turnout for that kind of investment in signs and booths. The actual attendees look like they’re almost outnumbered by the vendors and paid shills.

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    4jkb4ia

    “I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused” would be an outstanding rotating sig line, whatever that is called, and description of the post here.

    Checked thread in question. Soonergrunt showed me that, as m_c suspected, I actually cannot read and that it is a matter of covering their rear ends when they count the collateral damage, not about targeting people. But you would probably have to have been reading bmaz or powwow all this time to have in the front of your mind that you shouldn’t trust the kinds of arguments they are making internally if you can extrapolate by what DOJ is expecting a district judge to buy. IOW what is an absolutely amoral loser at EW’s is a very different thing here.

  152. 152.

    4jkb4ia

    Let’s try this again. John, you are very lucky you never have to see any of those people again in your life, and you can tell them exactly how you feel.

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