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Hey! Thanks!
Now that tune ... Back when that came out, I was riding bulls and listening to nothing but country. So, while I have heard it, it just doesn't have a lot of memories or anything. Now if you posted a Billy Crash Craddock song, or Merle Haggard ... well, I'd have probably have at least a couple of drunken memories then! LOL
From around 72 until 75 or 76, it was rednecks, cowboy hats, and Coors beer ... or whatever the liquid refreshment of the moment might have been.... LOL
Thanks.
'scuse me sir?
That is the damn game that caused me to go back to drinking! No, just kidding. I have saved it to my favorites - don't know why, I am terrible at it though.
Here's one you can try.
http://us.akinator.com/#
actually, here's another:
http://www.bassfiles.net/parachute.swf
Have fun!
Thanks!
Did ya hear the latest?
The drummer from the Doobie Brothers just died.
And we all heard about losing Davy Jones from the Monkees ..
The remaining members of both bands are joining up for a big nationwide tour this fall. They're planning on hitting some 30 cities or so.
The biggest problem was what to call the tour, but after some discussion, and some arguing back and forth they finally decided they had to have something that would give both separate bands their due recognition.
So, the tour will be called ...............
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THE DOO-KEES !!!!
You and I both, my friend. It's getting close to my bedtime anyway!
LOL
Couldn't have been .. he had a US birth certificate!
I just discovered this new foreign country where they tell me Americans are welcome, and the $$ is still pretty strong ... Housing maybe a bit hard to come by, but many live in log cabins... It was called .... Arkansas, I think...
Thanks for the encouragement Walk!
Yep three times a week in the 'office' and probably 10 times a week here at home on my own. Did some light yard work over the weekend and almost felt 'normal' again. Hopefully won't be long now. Thanks
How appropriate!
Hey gang - heard from ONEBGG and he says all is going well, and he is evidently doing wonderfully in his therapy/rehab. He hopes to be back on the boards real soon, and says "HI" to all.
Hey gang - heard from ONEBGG and he says all is going well, and he is evidently doing wonderfully in his therapy/rehab. He hopes to be back on the boards real soon, and says "HI" to all.
This is why investigations are done, Soxfan -
to get to the bottom of what really did go down. ..
Orlando Watch Shooting Probe Reveals Questionable Police Conduct
By MATT GUTMAN and SENI TIENABESO | Good Morning America – 16 hours ago...
ABC News has uncovered questionable police conduct in the investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighborhood watch captain in Florida, including the alleged "correction" of at least one eyewitness' account.
Sanford Police Chief Billy Lee said there is no evidence to dispute self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman's assertion that he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin out of self-defense.
"Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don't have the grounds to arrest him," Lee said.
Martin had been staying at his father's girlfriend's house during the night of the NBA All-Star game Feb. 26.
The teenager went out to get some Skittles and a can of ice tea. On his way back into the gated suburban Orlando community, Martin, wearing a hood, was spotted by Zimmerman, 26.
According to law enforcement sources who heard Zimmerman's call to a non-emergency police number, he told a dispatcher "these a..holes always get away."
Zimmerman described Martin as suspicious because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and walking slowly in the rain, police later told residents at a town hall.
A dispatcher told him to wait for a police cruiser, and not leave his vehicle.
But about a minute later, Zimmerman left his car wearing a red sweatshirt and pursued Martin on foot between two rows of townhouses, about 70 yards from where the teen was going.
Lee said Zimmerman's pursuit of Martin did not of itself constitute a crime.
Witnesses told ABC News a fist fight broke out and at one point Zimmerman, who outweighed Martin by more than 100 pounds, was on the ground and that Martin was on top.
Austin Brown, 13, was walking his dog during the time of the altercation and saw both men on the ground but separated.
Brown along with several other residents heard someone cry for help, just before hearing a gunshot. Police arrived 60 seconds later and the teen was quickly pronounced dead.
According to the police report, Zimmerman, who was armed with a handgun, was found bleeding from the nose and the back of the head, standing over Martin, who was unresponsive after being shot.
An officer at the scene overheard Zimmerman saying, "I was yelling for someone to help me but no one would help me," the report said.
Witnesses told ABC News they heard Zimmerman pronounce aloud to the breathless residents watching the violence unfold "it was self-defense," and place the gun on the ground.
But after the shooting, a source inside the police department told ABC News that a narcotics detective and not a homicide detective first approached Zimmerman. The detective pepppered Zimmerman with questions, the source said, rather than allow Zimmerman to tell his story. Questions can lead a witness, the source said.
Another officer corrected a witness after she told him that she heard the teen cry for help.
The officer told the witness, a long-time teacher, it was Zimmerman who cried for help, said the witness. ABC News has spoken to the teacher and she confirmed that the officer corrected her when she said she heard the teenager shout for help.
The Sanford Police Department refused to release 911 calls by witnesses and neighbors.
Several of the calls, ABC News has learned, contain the sound of the single gunshot.
Lee publically admitted that officers accepted Zimmerman's word at the scene that he had no police record.
Two days later during a meeting with Trayvon's father Tracy Martin, an officer told the father that Zimmerman's record was "squeaky clean."
Yet public records showed that Zimmerman was charged with battery against on officer and resisting arrest in 2005, a charge which was later expunged.
Zimmerman has not responded to requests for a comment.
"I asked [the police] well did you check out my son's record?" Tracy Martin told ABC News in an interview Sunday. "What about his?...Trayvon was innocent."
Trayvon Martin had no arrest record or disciplinary action for violence as a student in North Miami's Krop High School.
On Monday Lee, seeking to head off racial unrest, tried to reassure the public that his department was doing all it could to reach a fair conclusion, as some in the crowd heckled him saying "a little black boy is dead."
Lee's department said it plans on passing its investigation over to the state's attorney office to determine whether or not to press charges against Zimmerman.
Trayvon Martin's parents described him as the kind of son who even at 17, allowed his parents to kiss him publicly.
"That was my baby, my youngest son," mother Sybrina Fulton told ABC News in an interview in Miami. "He meant a lot to me, I don't think the police department really understands that…I need justice for my family, I just want justice for my son."
Fulton is incensed that Zimmerman left his car despite being urged against it by dispatchers to stay put.
"My son didn't do anything he was walking home from the store. Why would the neighborhood watch guy would have a weapon?...It's just crazy.You are supposed to watch the neighborhood, not take the law into your own hands."
http://gma.yahoo.com/orlando-watch-shooting-probe-reveals-questionable-police-conduct-032002155--abc-news.html
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So things don't seem nearly as 'clear cut' as you were imagining. Seems to be some more 'facts' in the mix, and they're still searching for more. Don't hang anyone yet.
I believe it's all part of 'due process' ....
Oh me ... Poor little baby ....
Just giving back what I have been receiving.
Why does it stink so much worse when you get it returned?
Isn't that what I've asked you for on several occasions? A simple answer?
My my, how quickly we forget, eh?
And guess what ... it NEVER happened.
So .. wait as long as you want.
Oh my! Do you feel picked on? I'm so sorry. I never realized you have such an inferiority complex. I'll try to go easier on you from here on.....
Apparently your delusions are part of your condition.
That's exactly what it is ... You 'imagine'. Just like you 'imagine' it has been a month since the event that resulted in that young man being shot.
If only you lived up to the standards you try to hold for others.
Tell me, had you rather they do a true investigation, and get things as correct as possible, or just hang this guy now on the word of the media, an attention seeking lawyer, and the great Al Sharpton?
Sounds like you would prefer to hang him now and ask questions later.
Tell me, would you think it proper, at 17, to be called or referred to as a 'child'? I wasn't a child at 17, Were you?
If this Zimmerman guy is charged and tried, and convicted, then let's all go to Florida and demand the death sentence, because that would be appropriate, it seems, if this went down like the media says.
At least, I will congratulate you for holding the man, rather than the firearm he used, responsible. That's much better than blaming an inanimate object.
'scuse me? You, the one who always slithers away from facts, are daring to accuse someone else of diss'ing facts, when all you posted was an article from an extreme left wing blog site that has a reputation of greatly exagerating 'facts', in order to call attention to their web site?
It's a lot easier to do that than to support your so-called 'facts' isn't it?
I would say that one might need to wait for the investigation to be completed before convicting anyone.
Sharpton is coming down to straighten things out. That ought to get things moving. He does have a reputation for stirring things up, doesn't he? I mean, like the Tawana Brawley case back a few years ago? Remember?
If Zimmerman is found to have possibly committed an offense, that is if he is deemed to have possibly broken the law, I am fairly confident he will be charged and tried, according to the law, and the constitution. Until then I don't see where it does any good to try to stir things up over something about which we have no direct knowledge.
An attorney seeking to call attention to himself and the case, by playing the race card before the investigation is even done, is only clouding the waters, and possibly even hurting the investigtion of the actual facts. Media doing the same thing merely to sensationalize the coverage is deplorable, at best.
You weren't there that day, were you? Neither was I. That's why the law enforcement community does these things called 'investigations'.
Convicting someone prematurely through media reports is treading on that person's rights, and not the way things should work. . Are you suggesting that would be the approprite way to handle this matter? How lovely, indeed.
Belize is looking better and better!
You actually read this extreme leftist propaganda?
And believe it too?
You read and swallow this crap while arrogantly and aggressively belittling anyone who might disagree with you.
That's sad indeed.
Morning LH ....
You're right .... just another thing to be thankful for.
I'll probably have a pair though, if things don't go right this November!
morning th -
There are many points on both sides of the argument.
After seeing some of the things in which the government engages, though, such as "Fast and Furious", I question their ability to apply common sense to anything. That is what leads me to wonder how this whole thing will eventually shake out.
On another note, how's your shoulder coming along? I hope you have no more troubles with it than I have had with mine. After some two months post-op, I am having times when I almost feel 'normal' again, and have begun to get back out and do some light work around the house and some light yard work. I hope to be released from physical therapy at the end of the month, and cleared to go back to work, even if in a 'light duty' status.
Plus, I just got a new rifle, and can't wait to get it out and shoot it a bit. That may be a while down the road, but at least now I can see it happening. Prior to getting my surgery, I wasn't at all sure I would be able to ever do any more shooting or serious fishing. It is unreal how much pain those little ol' bone spurs had caused me, and how much they were beginning to affect my 'normal' activities.
Have a good day my friend.
Morning K2 - Hope you're having a good one!
Yep, I need me one of them 'golden parachue' jobs. Every job I ever had tossed me out without a chute at all! LOL
Eric Holder Tortures the Constitution
Wed, 03/07/2012 - 00:05 — Glen Ford
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made the Constitution scream, in an effort to justify his president’s claim to “the power of life and death over any inhabitant of the planet, including citizens of the United States.” Discovering presidential powers never before revealed, Holder severed citizens’ rights to “due process” from the “judicial process.” Access to the courts is not required, when the president is judge, jury and executioner.
Eric Holder Tortures the Constitution
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
“The rule of law has been eviscerated, abolished by presidential decree and congressional acquiescence.”
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder this week attempted to explainhow the U.S. Constitution allows the American president to be a law unto himself – to be judge, jury and executioner. Those are the powers that President Obama claims are inherent in his office: the right to kill at will, based on evidence only he is fit to examine and assess. This is a system of law without courts, without evidence that either the public or the condemned person has a right to see, or to contest. One man, with the power of life and death over any inhabitant of the planet, including citizens of the United States.
They used to call such people kings. But even the English kings of old – at least since the signing of the Magna Carta 800 years ago – were compelled to recognize the principle that free men could only be punished based on the law of the land. The United States Constitution is rooted in the principle of due process of law, with the courts as final arbiters of whether the law has been served.
With the passage of preventive detention without trail or charge, and President Obama’s claim to have sole power to target any human being for death, the rule of law has been eviscerated, abolished by presidential decree and congressional acquiescence. A pillar of civilization has been toppled, but most people in the United States appear not to have noticed.
“Holder acted as if he’d found a previously undetected loophole in the Constitution.”
It turns out that due process of law is not what we thought it was, these last two centuries. Attorney General Holder defended the president’s authority to summarily execute, without sanction of the courts, or formal charges, or even evidence of crime, persons designated by him as enemies of the United States. You can’t get more king-like than that. Holder acted as if he’d found a previously undetected loophole in the Constitution. “‘Due process’ and ‘judicial process,’” he said, “are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.”
According to Holder, “The Constitution guarantees due process,” but it does not guarantee judicial process. In other words, the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee people access to the courts, even if they are targeted for execution. If that were true, it would be a worthless Constitution, but the U.S. Supreme Court has convincingly ruled, in a 2004 case, that citizens who are detained as enemy combatants have a right to confront the government on the facts of the matter “before a neutral decision maker” – that is, before a court of some kind. Certainly, such rights would apply to someone the president wants killed.
Ah, but this is war, says Eric Holder, and different rules apply. We could ask the rhetorical question: When does this war end? But Obama is clearly claiming to have rights that are inherent in the president’s national security powers. War is…whatever he says it is. Or, whatever President Romney or President Santorum say it is.
The Attorney General ultimately justifies the trashing of the Constitution on national security grounds. We have reached our national “ hour of danger,” he says.
Holder is right about that. The danger is upon us, and it emanates from the White House. There’s a name for the danger: it's called fascism, which happens when militarists and the worst capitalists get together and abolish due process and the rule of law – which the First Black President of the United States has already done. For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/eric-holder-tortures-constitution
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We are supposed to ensure a fair trial to captured foreign terrorists .... but we are now killing Americans with NO trial ... at the whims of the administration.
Eric Holder Tortures the Constitution
Wed, 03/07/2012 - 00:05 — Glen Ford
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made the Constitution scream, in an effort to justify his president’s claim to “the power of life and death over any inhabitant of the planet, including citizens of the United States.” Discovering presidential powers never before revealed, Holder severed citizens’ rights to “due process” from the “judicial process.” Access to the courts is not required, when the president is judge, jury and executioner.
Eric Holder Tortures the Constitution
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
“The rule of law has been eviscerated, abolished by presidential decree and congressional acquiescence.”
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder this week attempted to explainhow the U.S. Constitution allows the American president to be a law unto himself – to be judge, jury and executioner. Those are the powers that President Obama claims are inherent in his office: the right to kill at will, based on evidence only he is fit to examine and assess. This is a system of law without courts, without evidence that either the public or the condemned person has a right to see, or to contest. One man, with the power of life and death over any inhabitant of the planet, including citizens of the United States.
They used to call such people kings. But even the English kings of old – at least since the signing of the Magna Carta 800 years ago – were compelled to recognize the principle that free men could only be punished based on the law of the land. The United States Constitution is rooted in the principle of due process of law, with the courts as final arbiters of whether the law has been served.
With the passage of preventive detention without trail or charge, and President Obama’s claim to have sole power to target any human being for death, the rule of law has been eviscerated, abolished by presidential decree and congressional acquiescence. A pillar of civilization has been toppled, but most people in the United States appear not to have noticed.
“Holder acted as if he’d found a previously undetected loophole in the Constitution.”
It turns out that due process of law is not what we thought it was, these last two centuries. Attorney General Holder defended the president’s authority to summarily execute, without sanction of the courts, or formal charges, or even evidence of crime, persons designated by him as enemies of the United States. You can’t get more king-like than that. Holder acted as if he’d found a previously undetected loophole in the Constitution. “‘Due process’ and ‘judicial process,’” he said, “are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.”
According to Holder, “The Constitution guarantees due process,” but it does not guarantee judicial process. In other words, the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee people access to the courts, even if they are targeted for execution. If that were true, it would be a worthless Constitution, but the U.S. Supreme Court has convincingly ruled, in a 2004 case, that citizens who are detained as enemy combatants have a right to confront the government on the facts of the matter “before a neutral decision maker” – that is, before a court of some kind. Certainly, such rights would apply to someone the president wants killed.
Ah, but this is war, says Eric Holder, and different rules apply. We could ask the rhetorical question: When does this war end? But Obama is clearly claiming to have rights that are inherent in the president’s national security powers. War is…whatever he says it is. Or, whatever President Romney or President Santorum say it is.
The Attorney General ultimately justifies the trashing of the Constitution on national security grounds. We have reached our national “ hour of danger,” he says.
Holder is right about that. The danger is upon us, and it emanates from the White House. There’s a name for the danger: it's called fascism, which happens when militarists and the worst capitalists get together and abolish due process and the rule of law – which the First Black President of the United States has already done. For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/eric-holder-tortures-constitution
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We are supposed to ensure a fair trial to captured foreign terrorists .... but we are now killing Americans with NO trial ... at the whims of the administration.
Holy Cow ... they're everywhere, like a bunch of fleas!
Now on the Supreme Court - for life!
What has the "great pretender' really done to this country right under our noses?
It couldn't matter any less, what you say about me, to me, around me or behind me. Liberals' opinions just plain suck anyway, and everyone knows it.
I don't know anything actually .... but we've some guys that come around here occasionally who do. So stick around. Let us know how the trip to the range comes out!
And I do like my Taurus Judge!
Sorry, but I don't play your liberal bullshit games, I told you.
You're avoiding the issue. Know wonder this administration is so screwed up. All the liberal games.
This isn't grade school, my friend ....
And I won't play 'tag' with ya ...
Back to the issues, please.
'Good' precedent or 'bad' precedent ....??
I'm nearly 60, and retired from the Army and Probation/Parole work, both professions which allowed me to be involved with firearms on a pretty regular basis..... and I learned a few things, that are 'for sure'.
1. Never pass up an opportunity to learn from someone else.
2. Years of experience is not always proof of competence, and vice versa.
3. One never knows it "all".
4. Practice .. does not make perfect ---- Perfect practice makes perfect.
Pick their brain ....... It may only be one burglar who arrives on foot ... but you still have to do something.
Let's see, wasn't that a Democrat also?
At any rate, just because someone else might have done it in another, previous case, doesn't make it permissable today.
Especially when they are totally wasted on such an obviously brilliant talent as yourself, right?
If they saw you, they probably just smiled and thought to themselves .... "She thinks Obama is # 1" ... LOL
Either that, or you'll get your summons to court next week where you're being sued for defamation of character ....
Never trust a Liberal (either over or under 30!)
Have fun. Should be a blast!
gp
Thanks - will check it out!
The true "Obama-ites" will vote for him this year, no matter what. They can't translate what is going on around them into taking any intentional, intelligent action to control it. They just blame everything on the right, and stay the course, no matter how many times their 'chosen one' rams the country into icebergs and brick walls. These folks are beyond reason, and incapable of logical reasoning.
The vast majority of the country, hopefully, will realize what is happening, and see that it really IS because of the present administration that the country is sinking lower and lower in many aspects, and will be ready for some real 'change' this time around.
ABO
OMG
Good article. Glad you posted it.
They sure were .... different, to say the least.