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Hear hear. I am walking around on two steel hips, and have had one kidney removed ('It was all black and nasty inside'). I take enough pills that I should rattle when walking fast, and it hasn't cost me a penny.

P.

Well, it's been awhile since I posted anything here in hell's half acre.
Looking at the latest news, and British Petroleum's (or is it Beyond Petroleum, now?) BLOWOUT! I guess there won't be any offshore "Drill Baby Drill!"
oil rigs off the East Coast, or any where near Florida. The Californians warned US about this.
We should have kept Cuba, we could be drilling off their Coast!

Then the State of Arizona, getting tired of the Big Bad U.S. Government to deal with the "Mexican Problem"
gave us up a wake-up-call! about uncontrolled borders.
Let's see what the Supreme Court decides about this... later. I miss that cow girl from Arizona (or is she a New Mexican) Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.
A Reagan appointee, and she disappointed the neo Nazis by standing by the evolutionary Constitution of the People. The Privileged be damned! I love and miss her.

Anyway, it's been an interesting week. Pretty soon it will be Hurricane Season again. Tornado season winding down
Lucky I live Hawai'i. The locals call me haole, which is like calling a Mexican a greaser wet-back!
Sure as Hell, I really do not belong here, but who is going to stop me from living where I want to?
Ach! Cristo! I think I lost my Birth Certificate! Does a US Navy DD-214, with Honorable Discharge count?

Got tired of listening to my Ilocano wife's crappy "The Filipino Channel" on TV. That and Life Time is the only channels she watches!
Put a Dwight Yokum CD into my stereo. Turned it up.. Sure way to make my wife, room renters, and neighbors curse my lily white ass!

Have always been a big fan of Buck Owens. God Rest His Dear Soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17pRDb0H ... re=related

Now I understand that Dwight Yokum's grandfather was an under ground coal miner in Kentucky.
Considering the lack of Big Bad Federal Government regulation of Mining Companies, oil Companies, and "Too big To Fail!!" Banks,
he wisely did not follow in his grandfather's foot steps. Why does the 1916 Somme River come to mind?

Whatever he did, like me:
"You can take the boy out of the Country, but you can't take the Country out of the boy!"
Yokum often uses a lot of Mexican spice in his music.
This is from Austin City Limits, which is that Red Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyite (oh dear! he was assassinated in Mexico!) Stalinist, Maoist Commie PBS telly station
that puts up American music weekly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkx68VTJ ... re=related

I did not know you were a country music fan. Most Texans love Country Music as I do as well.

I am very interested to know the total cost BP will pay for the spill. They have cut out fishing along most of the Gulf Coast (not Texas) so the impact on fisherman is now part of the cost to BP. Let's hope BP has deep pockets.

Hell, Buddye I grew up in a small town in Northern Montana. 200 miles from the nearest city.
Back then Malta had a small AM radio station. Winter wheat prices, Cattle futures broadcast-ed daily, as well as Nashville's Top 40.
At night, us town boys, and some of the cowboys out on the prairie, would tune into KOMA, a high powered transmitter from Oklahoma City, which sent out Rock & Roll.
In my opinion, Patsy Cline was the best female singer that the USA ever produced.
My mother hated country music and Top 40's R & R. She had a lot of Classical albums. Beethoven, Chopin, Vivaldi, Mozart, and even Gregorian Chants.
She also liked Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, and Nat King Cole (the best male singer the USA ever produced).
My father listened to whatever Mom was listening to. Didn't much care, but for his 1988 Funeral song he requested "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas.

My (born in the Philippines) wife likes old classical country music, too. She brings home CD's from the swap meet,
like Ray Price and even Hank Williams.

Buddye, my latest love is Norah Roberts. Daughter of Ravi Shankar and a white USA mother. Norah was born in New York City.
Mom and Pop divorced sooner than later, and Norah was raised in West Texas! Lubbock if I recall correctly.
Listening to her earlier songs I see that she is a big fan of Billie Holiday. I have a CD of Billie's songs, too.
Norah's last album is all new writings tho. The Fall which I recommend. If you don't like these songs, yer children will:

Tell Your Mama This one shows that she was raised In Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAcjC2go ... re=related

I Wouldn't Need You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0npsER1 ... re=related

Light As A Feather:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IrWoKOL ... re=related

My current favorite song,
You've Ruined Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPFW4NDp ... re=related

This song "The Dream's Lost On Me" by Deborah Harry, I like. Live and all instrumental.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kt-9i_ksdA

Not BoB period music, but seems like it fits into the Battle for Britain to me.