TIME

I found this in a Northwest Earth Insitute publication. Found it interesting. Y'all might too.

"The analog clock, with its hour and minute hands spinning around the clock face, at least preserves the sense of time as a natural, organic cycle. Once around with the second hand constitutes a minute; one revolution of the minute hand marks an hour, and the two revolutions of the hour hand completes a day.
But in our electronic economy, we increasingly measure time by the digital clock, a clock in which the symbolic link to time as either a flow or a cycle is lost entirely. With the digital clock--the computer's clock--time is reduced to a succession of numbered units, and each unit pinpoints an exact spot in time just a surely as longitude and latitude pinpoint a spot on the globe."

I'm Just as Tough as a Hickory Brier & I Can Dive Deeper & Come Up Drier.

Mark Was Against It Pryor To Being For It.

"One of our readers pointed out this vote change yesterday, but it didn't get the attention it deserved. A Washington Post columnist made up for it today by highlighting how U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor voted first against the NRA flavor-of-the-day legislation yesterday (on forcing recriprocity on states for other states' concealed carry permits), then voted for it when it was clear the measure was going down." Pryor on guns: Both ways in the Arkansas Times Blog
"How do you outgun the NRA? Very, very carefully. Mark Pryor knows all about that. The Democratic senator from pro-gun Arkansas was nowhere to be seen on the Senate floor during Wednesday's showdown over a proposal, championed by the National Rifle Association, that would have gutted state gun-control laws across the nation. After a morning of angry speeches, a vote was called at high noon. Toward the end of the vote, Pryor entered the chamber through the back door, took a few steps inside, flashed a thumbs-down to the clerk, and retreated as fast and furtively as somebody dodging gunfire. Several minutes later, the Democrats had racked up more than enough votes to block the proposal. "Are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote?" the presiding officer inquired.Pryor burst back in, this time through a side door. "Mr. President!" he called out. "Mr. President!" He stopped in the well to consult with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a gun-control advocate who was keeping the whip sheet. Schumer gave Pryor a nod, and the Arkansan -- reassured that his vote was not needed to defeat the proposal -- changed his vote to an "aye." Gun-Shy by Dana Milbank
"You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate."--Senator Mark Pryor, in Religulous

"Some Will Rob You With A Six Gun & Some With a Fountain Pen." Woody Guthrie

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Mary, one the finest Christian women I ever knew, lived her beliefs. One day, I realized that she, a fundamentalist, was less judgmental than I, who condemned fundamentalists for being judgmental. Mary grew up in Oklahoma and her family revered Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd. If Mary’s family loved him and Woody Guthrie wrote & sang the ballad below about him, he’s OK in my book. As many who did great things, Charles Author had been dead for 33 years by the time that he was my age. Take it away Ramblin Jack:

Jim's Stage Carrer

Jim & Georgia Ann Ford were supposed to do a duet of Lookin Back to See in front of the whole town. Georgia Ann got cold feet at stage time. Jim, knowing that the show must go on, though he did not like the limelight, offered to do both parts. He nailed it. The Collins Kids did a pretty fair version too, but who knows if they'da made it to the show if Tex had been in that Ozark audience & discovered Jim.

Will They Have Respect for the Hobo in The Land That Lies Hidden Up There?

The Original

Dang Good Version By Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, & Dolly Parton.

Fox Hunting.

Hard Not To Like Gail Davies Singing About Anything

Do ya Ken John Peel-Traditional Version

Do ya Ken John Peel-More Realistic & Graphic Version

Ritta Awakened & Nailed It.

"I will not sacrifice today regretting an unchangeable past, or pining for an unforeseen future. Today is precious. I'll treat it as such." Ritta Martin Basu

Too Old To Cut the Mustard-Happy Birthday to Cousin Jim from Cousin Sue.

Ed Sanders's Visions of Vampires

 The ABM Machine.

Johnny Pissoff is in the video below.

Orve's Cousin Tom Brumley On Steel Guitar. Tom Died Earlier This Year At Age 73.

For more about Tom, see,
http://www.tombrumley.com/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brumley

Why Aren’t the Right Wing Christians Using this Papal Letter to Judge and Scold American Businessmen as Sinners and Not Worthy of Our Acceptance?

Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of a global economic summit, lashed out at modern capitalism for being shortsighted and short on ethics.
"Today's international economic scene, marked by grave deviations and failures, requires a profoundly new way of understanding business enterprise," the pontiff said in his third encyclical letter, "Charity in Truth," which was released Tuesday.
The papal letter was released as the heads of leading industrialized nations started gathering in central Italy for the Group of Eight economic summit, which begins Wednesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to speak about the economic outlook. The leaders of the other G-8 nations -- Japan, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Russia -- also are scheduled to speak.
Pope Benedict will meet Obama on Friday at the close of the three-day summit, which is being held near the central Italian city of L'Aquila. A magnitude-6.3 earthquake hit the city on April 6, killing about 300 people and leaving some 45,000 homeless.
In his letter, Benedict challenged bankers to turn away from the practices blamed for bringing about the global economic crisis and instead use their power to help the world create wealth and economic development.
"Above all, the intention to do good must not be considered incompatible with the effective capacity to produce goods," Benedict said. "Financiers must rediscover the genuinely ethical foundation of their activity, so as not to abuse the sophisticated instruments which can serve to betray the interests of savers."
The world financial crisis and the downturn in markets took a big chunk out of the retirement savings of millions of people.
Eileen, who provided this information, also said, “This isn’t all the pope said: he endorsed Unions, and said that businessmen are ruining the environment because of their greed---my question is this, why aren’t the right wing Christians using this papal letter to judge and scold American businessmen as sinners and not worthy of our acceptance....as the right wing loves to point out, you can’t just pick what you like about Christian beliefs and leave the rest behind.”
Thanks Eileen

O'Sullivan Quits Hurling over Helmet Rule-Thanks for Standing Up for Manly Traditions Diarmuid.

"Recently-retired Cork full back Diarmuid O'Sullivan has quit hurling completely over a new rule which makes the wearing of a hurling helmet compulsory from 1 January, 2010. The news comes as a major blow to his club Cloyne, and 'The Rock' will now concentrate his sporting efforts on playing rugby for Highfield.Speaking to the Sunday Independent, O'Sullivan said: 'At 30 years of age, a man should be able to make up his own mind whether or not he should have to wear a helmet, blasted the three-time All-Ireland winner, who never wore a hurling helmet."
Diarmuid probably fears that Hurling will turn into a game like American football as described by Seamus O’Lingle if he doesn't make a stand. See, Augusta, the Masters, and Golf In General - What Happened To Your Noble Roots?

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" Samuel Johnson April 7, 1775

Those "patriots" who are blind, narrow, and jinjoistic are scoundrels. The real patriots are dedicated to the principles of this fine land and liberty for all, like Johnny & Woody.

Happy Fourth From Virg, Jay, & the Americans.

Aunt Claudie & Cousin Bill Graduate Together

Fixin It Right for the Lord.

Thanks to JR

No Tellin Who Will Be There. Sing It Jesse

I'd Like To Meet His Tailor.