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PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:58 pm 
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As Norman Mailer once said, "Once your mother is gone, noone cares what you do!"

Motherless Ch*ldren have a hard time once the Mother is gone.

Isn't that an Eric Clapton song?


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Clapton did it among many others. I like the Steve Miller cover.


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It's been three+ weeks from HELL since Janurary 22. Camus is oh so correct. I simply cannot be sure..... but happen it did......NOW I am the bluesmans' infamous Motherless Chilld....

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16


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Richie Havens kicked it in gear at Woodstock!


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....and for the cost of a single, dinky Snicker's bar.......; this little school girl and I are having fun..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSCS_hl0iA

....and here she is with Buddy Guy, Johnny Laing....and errrr.......... me up in there somewhere...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX6TsRcJD5U YEEHAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rosa's in Chicago...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxny8z17_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbbbJbB_wKY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjYRdYOGhI Lord have mercy........ :!:

(PS: Those who know me.....notice baby girl ain't playin' on nothing but a tele?! Influence man....influence...... :!:)

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We men are wretched things. There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

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There can be no true despair without hope.....

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:46 pm 
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Yeah, take a look in the mirror now tell me what you see
Another satisfied customer in the front of the line for the American dream
I remember when we was both out on the boulevard
Talkin' revolution and singin' the blues
Nowadays it's letters to the editor and cheatin' on our taxes
Is the best that we can do
Come on

Look around
There's doctors down on Wall Street
Sharpenin' their scalpels and tryin' to cut a deal
Meanwhile, back at the hospital
We got accountants playin' God and countin' out the pills
Yeah, I know, that sucks – that your HMO
Ain't doin' what you thought it would do
But everybody's gotta die sometime and we can't save everybody
It's the best that we can do

Four score and a hundred and fifty years ago
Our forefathers made us equal as long as we can pay
Yeah, well maybe that wasn't exactly what they was thinkin'
Version six-point-oh of the American way
But hey we can just build a great wall around the country club
To keep the riff-raff out until the slump is through
Yeah, I realize that ain't exactly democratic, but it's either them or us and
And it's the best we can do

Yeah, passionely conservative
It's the best we can do

Conservatively passionate
It's the best we can do

Meanwhile, still thinkin'
Hey, let's wage a war on drugs
It's the best we can do
Well, I don't know about you, but I kinda dig this global warming thing...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:26 pm 
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Russell Senate Office Building
Room 354
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-6521
Fax: (202) 228-6966

Over time, the United States has expected less and less of its elite, even as society has oriented itself in a way that is most likely to maximize their income. The top income-tax rate was 91 percent in 1960, 70 percent in 1980, 50 percent in 1986, and 39.6 percent in 2000, and is now 35 percent. Income from investments is taxed at a rate of 15 percent. The estate tax has been gutted.

High earners should pay considerably more in taxes than they do now. Top tax rates of even 50 percent for incomes in the seven-figure range would still be considerably lower than their level throughout the boom years of the post-war era, and should not be out of the question—nor should an estate-tax rate of similar size, for large estates.

As a society, we should be far more concerned about whether most Americans are getting ahead than about the size of the gains at the top. Yet extreme income inequality causes a cultural separation that is unhealthy on its face and corrosive over time. And the most-powerful economic forces of our times will likely continue to concentrate wealth at the top of society and to put more pressure on the middle. It is hard to imagine an adequate answer to the problems we face that doesn’t involve greater redistribution of wealth.

Hatred of the poor is fueled by the middle class's fear of falling during hard times. Americans don't understand how the poor are victimized by a lack of jobs, inefficient schools, and unsafe neighborhoods People ignore the structural issues - jobs leaving, industry becoming more mechanized. Then they point to the poor and ask, 'Why aren't you making it?' "

In hard times, Americans blame the poor. :!: :arrow:

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:31 pm 
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A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular iPhone 5s® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.

Within seconds, he receives an email that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.

"Now give me back my dog." :wink:

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:25 pm 
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TO: Honorable Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D.C

Dear Sir,

I have been evacuated from (insert calamity location) because the flood (insert correct calamity) took my old trailer and beat up car. I thought I might go into business to supplement my welfare check.

My friend over at Wells, Iowa received a check for $1,000 from the Government for not raising hogs. Right now I'm getting extra help from the government and Red Cross while I'm displaced but when that stops I want to go into the "not-raising-hogs" business.

What I want to know is, in your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to raise hogs on, and what is the best breed of hogs not to raise? I want to be sure that I approach this endeavor in keeping with all governmental policies. I would prefer not to raise razorbacks, but if that is not a good breed not to raise, then I will just as gladly not raise Yorkshires or Durocs. As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be in keeping an accurate inventory of how many hogs I haven't raised.

My friend, Peterson, is very joyful about the future of the business. He has been raising hogs for twenty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was $422 in 1968, until this year when he got your check for $1000 for not raising hogs. If I get $1000 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2000 for not raising 100 hogs? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4000 hogs not raised, which will mean about $80,000 the first year. Then I can afford an airplane.

Now another thing, these hogs I will not raise will not eat 100,000 bushels of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers for not raising corn and wheat. Will I qualify for payments for not raising wheat and corn not to feed the 4000 hogs I am not going to raise?

Also, I am considering the "not milking cows" business, so send me any information you have on that too. In view of these circumstances, you understand that I will be totally unemployed and plan to file for unemployment and food stamps.

Be assured you will have my vote in the coming election.

Patriotically Yours,

Ima Taker

PS. please notify me when you are giving out more free cheese. I like that stuff.
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Right on for the continued welfare payments to phatcat farmers and their crews, none of whom are mandated to pass a means test or are subjected to random drug screens. :?: :idea: :arrow:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:07 am 
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Thank you Mr. Taker for sharing!!


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So much for "no politics on the Board". But this is just intellectual incest so I guess it's permissible.
http://campusbrownie.wordpress.com/2010 ... grow-food/

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:32 pm 
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So much for "no personal attacks on the board".

His posts in this thread are in the proper forum. Like you say Jazz, you don't want to read Jazz' stuff, don't click on it. Same for Steve1's stuff. He can be "out there" on some posts, but not as bad as some others, and he can also be very informative.

And as I said this is in the Smack & Fun Talk allowed forum. Here's how CRT describes this section: Have a good joke To share? Want to to have some fun with your fellow members? DO IT HERE!

Not for me to decide if Steve's satire was funny. But, I see some certain guys' names on a post and I won't open them, knowing from experience it is going to be uninteresting to me. Others might find them informative or fun. Go for it.

It's an internet board with many long timers who know who's posts to by-pass as a waste of their time, a list that grows very, very slowly, but surely for me. Like for me adding the guy that makes up a bullshit fact pattern on his 6th post but later admits he did it "to get a rise"; or the other nube who posted every 5-8 minutes for a week or sooner if something really significant happened, like a chica rubbed his balls or a whore taking a pee in his bathroom while he watched. Some guys like posts like that. Once I decide I can do without reading their posts, I put them on my blocked list. To each his own. Everybody's happy.

But Steve, not sure if you are aware that the new farm bill is on the President's desk, all 1,000 pages, which he will sign into law tomorrow at Michigan State. It passed in the Republican controlled House 251-166, and in the Democrat Senate, 72-22. So your satirical letter made it by 2 days. :lol: :lol:

Not being political about this, I am not taking sides, just reporting what's going on in our government. This statute was three years in the legislature, and one of the most important game-changing laws that will have a personal impact upon as many many people that has become the law of the land in the last 10 years?

It eliminates most subsidies to farmers aka "Direct Payments" (the heart of Steve's satirical correspondence above) which were in the billions of dollars, though there is a new subsidy for rice and peanut growers when prices drop. In the same bill which will become law tomorrow, food stamps get cut $8 billion over ten years. Farmers got expanded "crop insurance" by $7 billion over 10 years.

Obviously in a thousand pages of new law, many other oxes got gored and many other special interests groups are as happy as a newbie in the gulch who thinks she's interested in him.

To say which party or which wing of either got the better end would be a political statement and I'm not going there. The story is all over Fox and the NY Times. Choose your flavor and go there for a polarized political interpretation of which did the best, if any.


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