December 31, 2006
I meant to post this yesterday but reflecting on the lesons discussed in Snow Related Note Part Two I became distracted. The title is translated from German as "A Little Night Music" & is one of Mozart's most recognizable pieces...
A long time ago I was playing in a band at a private party. One of the guests was a ormer vocalist of some local renown. We got him up to sing some old beahc tune & he stopped us...
Here's a perfect example of what I was refuting in my post The Root Of Homeland is Home. It's a statement from a retiring Republican congressman in an article from Pantagraph.com. "And Hyde said that although he supports a person’s...
From The Herald News' article. This is an excerpt which was taken from a letter written by Richard Pearson, president of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA): "The following are the Brady Campaign's agenda for the 2007-2008 legislative session. 1....
I was thinking just the other day that it'd been a long time since I was Instalanched. I guess I should have thought that it'd been a long time since I won the lottery. :) Here's Instapundit's very brief post...
You may have seen the Vermont T-shirt over at Alphecca's place (Vermont; what happens here, stays here. But nothing ever really happens). Now Mary Katherine Ham has a NC video blog version of that dealing with the Duke LaCrosse case....
Kevin beat me to it. The CMP has announced they have a "significant quantity" of M1 Carbines. They'll have "some" ready for sale by or before March. No word on prices or quantity limits yet. I did some looking over...
December 30, 2006
(Here is the previous Snow Related Note.) I noticed a few other things while out & about tonight in this winter wonderland: A hypothetical person who has led a fairly active lifestyle in their youth (martial arts, football, baseball, soccer,...
I'm not surprised that a communist state would enact restrictions on choice, but I was hoping Hong Kong would remain a bit more resistant to such intrusions. "The year 2006 will end in a puff of smoke across Hong Kong...
I can't imagine it's a particularly pleasant endeavor, but it's necessary. "Holocaust historians are only now piecing together the scattered research in many languages to understand the vast scope of the camps, prisons and punishment centers that scarred German-ruled Europe,...
How many times have we heard, as a justification for an "assault weapons" ban that certain semi-automatic firearms had no use as a sporting or defensive tool? Well it won't change much for those who scream that BS the loudest...
December 29, 2006
I realized two things while just digging out my car (yes I'm fool enough to drive in this mess we have out here - a front wheel drive stick shift will make a person brave): Happiness is having a pair...
The anti-smoking movement is moving in on the South. I've heard from friends that they're starting to raise their voices in NC & now I see at Say Uncle's they have their sights on Tennessee. & some smoking ban supporters...
The War On Guns has a letter posted from Wayne Fincher. There's also a link to some background on Mr. Fincher. & here's Kim du Toit's post on Mr. Fincher's situation. the gist is that Mr. Fincher is fighting the...
The Four Tops. I did a show with them (on the same bill) a few months before Laurence Payton passed. They were a great band especially considering their mileage. Here's the vid. I'm not quite sure how to lead into...
"Dixie Oxendine said when her ex-boyfriend, Ertle Ray Bell Jr., approached her carrying a rifle she knew that he planned to make good on his threat to kill her." That'd have been my impression. There'd been a history of threats...
That'd be applicable to criminals & toy guns alike. "Customers at a Topeka convenience store were suspicious all along about the gun a would-be robber was waving around. But when the man struck a clerk and the weapon shattered, those...
Ever read a blogger who's a vixen, a jam cookie, a gingerbread house & stewie griffin all rolled into one? Neither had I until tonight when I waltzed in & noticed miss Bitter is a might quiz happy for some...
December 28, 2006
Not enough time to really comment on it but it seems interesting enough to pass on as is. "Seven police officers were indicted Thursday on murder or attempted murder charges in a pair of shootings on a bridge that left...
The Anarchangel has a nice little post up about recoil. Go check it out....
A cool little TLC tune. Here's the vid. The forecast is full of good news if you like digging. "Today's forecast is about as clear as it gets: snow. The National Weather Service is expecting 10 to 18 inches in...
or they'll start pushing for primer-lock laws or granule-of-gunpowder-lock laws. Scientists Create Molecule-Size Keypad Lock The bright side is maybe we could use this to keep the scientists from tampering with our food at the molecular level. After all us...
December 27, 2006
Reader DM clued me in to this (I knew I should check my mail this week for some reason). NPR did a segment on the .30-06 on account of its centennial. It's actually not a half bad piece especially considering...
December 26, 2006
Via Tam comes this hearty (& humorously expressed) recommendation for the best Christmas movie ever. It'll surely please us gun nuts w/o having anything to do with wishes for a BB gun (though I dig that flick as well)....
Say Uncle has been keeping tabs on things. I offer you the following posts of his which cover ATFU activities: Akins Accelerator Update So, what next? (which lists a few ATFU problems) Who needs lawsuits? (which discusses a bankrupting strategy...
Just a last minute Christmas bonus. I'm not partial to musicals in general but there are a few I really dig. The Nightmare Before Chrsitmas is one of them. Danny Elfman does a magnificant job with the score. While not...
December 25, 2006
originally posted 12-21-06 00:25. Bumped to the top for obvious reasons. Scroll down for newer posts I'm not a christian any more & even when I was I didn't celebrate Christmas. The reasons for that are sundry & complex &...
Gloria Gaynor. Here's the vid. In keeping with the topic of preparedness (see the post called Let It Snow) Instapundit linked to a page with 5 neat tricks for survival in less than civilized locations. He made mention of Macgyver...
I found this funny for some reason: "A Christmas card that bore a three-cent stamp on its first trip through the mail is still going strong, thanks to a little tape and a lasting friendship. The card has been exchanged...
It looks like one did. "...DeBakey, 98, is the oldest survivor of the operation he developed to repair a damaged aorta, the main artery from the heart. He is back to working nearly full days and walks increasingly longer distances,...
I wrote a post a while back about a furry friend who was ill. I'll be quick to claim that I'm just making sure I've got the hang of the work-around to the upload problems I've been having, but odds...
It was done by Temple of the Dog on their debut (& only) album. Chris Cornell sung the tune & his current band Audioslave has added it to their live set. Here's Cornell doing the tune by himself (as part...
The song is sung by Murray Head (whom you might recall as playing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar) & was part of a musical called Chess. If I recall it was supposed to be about the Cold War using the...
James Brown has died. The cause of death hasn't been determined yet but he had been hospitalized for pneumonia the day before. I've seen video clips of him performing as recently as last June so his decline seems kind of...
Merkel has a new bolt action rifle on the market. Here's Craig Boddington's review of the Merkel KR-1. It has quite a few nifty features but the most noticable is it's a switch barrel rifle. It takes only a few...
December 24, 2006
Chris Byrne & I have a mild but perhaps noticable disagreement in regards to Vai. It really boils down to a matter of perception & I won't say that Chris is wrong or that I'm empirically right. Music can be...
"David Allen Rodgers, 42, was arrested Dec. 3 for driving while intoxicated — at the wheel of a float during the annual Christmas parade in Anderson, S.C. According to witnesses, Rodgers sped down Main Street in the Steppin' Out Dance...
Quiet Riot. Ya can't have the 80's without Quiet Riot. Here's the vid. A UK study warns of danger to a kid's hearing from toys that are too loud. & they have a point - some toys are loud enough...
If you've ever seen the movie "Crossroads" (not the Britney Spears one) you might recall that question. It's how the devil's servant announces a call for anyone who wants to play against Jack Butler (played by Steve Vai) in a...
December 23, 2006
Madonna. It's one of her earliest singles & for early 80's pop it's not too bad. besides, it's title appropraite which is all I can really hope for these days. Here's the vid. Mexican Soldiers Freelancing for Drug Cartels on...
Freedomsight discusses Romney's lack of Republican street cred in a recent post of his called Mitt Romney - RINO Socialist. In that post he links to a story about Romney signing & praising a Massachusetts "assault weapons" ban. But it...
December 22, 2006
An elderly lady held two burglars at gunpoint until the cops could arrive to take them away (scroll down). They took them away, but they also absconded with the lady's pistol. Seems fräulein's paperverk vas not in oar-der it wasn't...
Target got the message it seems. They've removed the Guevara CD cases from their shelves. "Target Corp said on Friday it had pulled a CD carrying case bearing Ernesto "Che" Guevara's image after an outcry by critics who label the...
December 21, 2006
Originally posted 12-20-06 05:30 - Date of post altered to keep it at the top of the page. One of my favorite Bill Withers tunes. It's also the tune where I learned (through mild chastisement by a friend) not too...
December 20, 2006
I was going to attempt to write an emergency preparedness kit post but in doing a little digging I'd forgotten that I'd done that already (ah senility – the gift that keeps on giving). Check out Needful Things & please...
After spending an hour trying to get back into my driveway (including digging my car out 3 times), exchanging harsh words with a snow-plowman & realizing that waterproof boots only work when the snow is below the highest point of...
Aerosmith. Nuff said? Here's the vid. & here's the tune with pirates. So I was taking a break from sweeping off the car (cause the wimpy victims with cash on wheels pizza joints around here all seem closed because of...
If it's good enough for them it should be good enough for us. Now how do we get our government to give that a try? Government quits in strategic Kyrgyzstan Anarcho-capitalistic snark aside it's a potentially troublesome development because of...
Grayson Hugh had one moderately successful tune. It was called Talk It Over & the vid is here. The song was a decent little R&B tune but Hugh's delivery made it what it was. Some folks will say he sounds...
December 19, 2006
& I'd make it very clear that I'd only stop the invasion when & if my citizens had been returned alive & unharmed. But I'm not president of the country in question. What I'm talking about is the situation in...
Here's the vid from the Bond flick. Miss Bitter has an idea: call the ATFU snitchline & turn in Bloomberg, with writing the MSM thrown in to make sure the calls don't go unanswered. I'm kinda torn. There'd certainly be...
Another John Mayer tune. Here's the vid. From the chorus: "I wanna run through the halls of my high school I wanna scream at the top of my lungs I just found out there's no such thing as the real...
December 18, 2006
Kim du Toit has details of another home invasion. This time it was an unstable ex-boyfriend who was breaking in & the lady's new boyfriend who stopped the threat. & as Kim says a shotgun is a very good basis...
December 17, 2006
No Doubt has always been a favorite band of mine. This isn't my favorite tune of theirs but it's cute & catchy & most importantly title-appropriate for this post. Plus it was the first single to really get any attention...
TFS Magnum as well as Clayton Cramer covered the story about a month ago. I'm mentioning it now just because I am only now stumbling on to it. A reporter (& I use the term oh-so-loosely) by the name of...
December 16, 2006
It's a Grand Funk Railroad tune talking about how cool a man's lady is. Here's a vid of a band called The GroanUps doing the tune. Here are the lyrics. But speaking of a lady who treats her man right......
I know I've already pointed out the tune once but it seemed so fitting here. Besides it is a solid little rock tune (& no; even I can't use that same lame-as-hell joke again. For now at least). But the...
There's more info about the two ATFU agents who were shot while invading a Georgia man's home in the middle of the night. Details Emerging in ATF Shooting "Police say it all started when ATF agents tried to serve Durden...
Sting yet again. & a pretty little tune it is (despite the harmonica). It's from Ten Summoner's Tales which is imho one of his best works to date. Politically I'm not on the same page as Sting - hell i'm...
Two ATFU agents were shot in a 4 a.m. raid in or around Atlanta, Ga. (h/t Of Arms & the Law) To paraphrase something attributed to Mark Twain & Clarence Darrow, I have never shot a person who makes a...
December 15, 2006
It's a Van Halen tune. Or to appease certain factions of Van Halen fans a Van Hagar tune. I never was a big Van Halen fan (though I do appreciate his playing more than when I was a kid) but...
Fuz, I really do appreciate both the sentiment & the motivation behind it cause I really understand where you're coming from, but I fear you're just throwing a pack of matches into the bonfire (so to speak type). Ditto for...
December 14, 2006
ZZ Top. I try to stay away from the "classic rock" bands because I presume most folks who come here are very familiar with that genre. But this is much more of a blues tune than a rock tune (yet...
The title is a paraphrase of an alleged old Iraqi saying. The complete version is, "Give everything to your friend, except your car, your wife, and your gun." I found it at this piece called Second Amendment Lessons From Iraq...
It's a tune from a Garth Brooks album but it's not country. In fact nothing on the album was; it was R&B/Soul. Poppish yes but R&B/Soul nonetheless. (I played a few tracks off the album to some guys in an...
December 13, 2006
This is one of my favorite funk tunes. It's got a groove & it's real fun to play, especially if you're working with a decent bass player & drummer. It's by The Red Hot Chile Peppers. I couldn't find The...
Here's the vid by Weird Al Yankovich. & of course here are the lyrics. The song Amish Paradise is a parody of Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio who based in on the Stevie Wonder tune Pastime Paradise from his Songs in...
If you haven’t heard this tune yet you must not have been near a radio for any length of time this year. It's by The Fray & it's loosely about a person trying unsuccessfully to counsel a troubled kid, offering...
December 12, 2006
Sade. I could go on for days about how smooth Miss Adu's voice is. Here's the vid of the studio version. Here's a vid of a nice live rendition complete with a decent guitar solo. & here are the lyrics....
It's an old tune, written in 1932. Here's a page with the composers listed, the presumably first artist to take it up the charts, the lyrics & if you're enterprising it has the chords listed for you. Here's a vid...
December 11, 2006
A nice little funk'n'roll tune from Extreme. Here's the vid (though the sound quality isn't great) & here are the lyrics. Via Triticale comes this story about a thwarted home invasion. It was thwarted by a 4 year old in...
Maroon 5. It's another solid little rock tune (but again not that kind of rock). As far as I can tell it's about a romance that's going through some trouble but honestly I'm not sure if the guy has given...
Here's Etta James, Gladys Knight & Chaka Kahn doing the old blues standard (with B.B. King playing along with them. Here are the lyrics. & here's the song's history. Remember that war I discussed in a previous post (amidst the...
I always dug the standards, even when I was young. The entitled song was written in 1953 & sung by Julie London in the 1956 movie The Girl Can't Help It. It's been recorded by a whole mess of artists...
December 10, 2006
The Eric Clapton tune. Here's the vid (though the sound quality isn't great). & here are the lyrics. James Kim walked 16 miles before succumbing to exposure. I first read about it over at Hell in a Handbasket but Mr....
December 09, 2006
It's a piece by Gustav Holst from his suite The Planets. I admit I prefer works from the Classical & Baroque periods with an occassional fondness for the Romantic but there are a few 20th Century pieces that I enjoy....
I must be in some sort of Scottish mood today. Suddenly I See is a KT Tunstall tune released in late august of 2005 but it didn't get a lot of airplay over here till this past summer. It's a...
It's a Mark Knopfler tune which can be found on the album Screenplaying (which is a compilation of some of his work from films as of 1993). But you might recall it from the movie The Princess Bride which Knopfler...
December 08, 2006
Usher. He's a pop R&B singer who has done some nice stuff. A few of his tunes are staples in heavy dance clubs & you can't listen to pop radio for long without coming across some of his tunes. Can...
It's a gospel tune. The version I have for you was sung by Mahalia Jackson with Nat King Cole lending a hand. Mahalia is widely regarded as the best gospel singer ever & when you hear her you'll understand why....
It's a tune by Gordon Mathew Thomas Summer, & it's no wonder he prefers to go by Sting. I used to do it with a very hot little 4 piece band back in the mid-90's. It went over just as...
Warrant was one of those all too numerous big hair metal bands that didn't have anything in particular going for them (well aside from a bunch of teen age girls thinking they were too cute). But every now & then...
December 07, 2006
An Alecia Moore tune. But you probably know her as Pink. Babygirl got a helluva voice. & ya have to appreciate an artist who wears a t-shirt that says "Die Napster Scum". But it's a solid little rock tune (no;...
A John Mayer tune. He's a good guitar player, a decent singer & I do dig the way he writes. The song in question is cute, sad, just about bittersweet but still catchy. The subject is nothing new but the...
December 03, 2006
Mariah Carey doing a beautifully soulful little number. It's from her 1990 debut album & was co-written by her & Ben Margulies. Piano & voice seem to be all that's needed as it works rather well on this track. I...
December 02, 2006
The second most perfect & complete sad song I've ever heard. It's by Queen & was part of the soundtrack to the movie Highlander (the soundtrack by Queen is called A Kind of Magic). It's interesting also because Brian May...
