Thanksgiving

Family, friends, a warm house, a good job, and health.
Yep, I've got it pretty darn good.

Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and get to spend it with those you love.

VHfest

Hadn't seen these videos yet.
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Nice performance

Recovering Berkley liberal nutbag sees the light. Kind of interesting.

XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL

If you go to this web site,

www.LetsSayThanks.com

you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services. How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! It is FREE and it only takes a second. Go do it. Now. :)

We watched the AMA's last night (don't know why--guess it was the only thing on). A couple of things are apparent:
--Alicia Keys can do no wrong. Absolutely. She can take a stupid song by talent-less Jay Z and make it sound like something. That girl can sing. And play.
--Whitney can't hit the high notes anymore. I guess a severly disfigured nasal cavity will change your pitch.
--Green Day looked tired.
--Adam Lambert is an idiot. Don't care that he's gay, but does he really have to do the gay S&M routine in his live performance? The picture of him shoving some guys face in his crotch won't go away no matter how often I wash out my brain. Bleah. Tacky. Tasteless.

Well, the new amp got broke in over the weekend. We were down in our new home-away-from-home in Richland (where they were serving up some good gumbo, btw). Yep, I think I'll keep it. It sounded just swell. I took both the Les Paul and the Strat down and used them both for 2 sets. The Les Paul sounded, well, Les Paulish. Great sound. Definite difference in the sound from that guitar versus the non-tube amp. The Strat cut thru like a razor-sharp knife. The humbucker on that sucker is so hot you don't even need a to strum the strings to play it when the amp was in boost mode. Nice.
So, I took both amps home with me after the gig. Yesterday, I had the house to myself for a few minutes and I hooked both amps up at the same time.

: )

A couple dozen power chords later and I'm sure the neighbors were wondering what the hell was going on. My gosh that was a wonderful sound. The 2 amps mixed together just beautifully. The Valvestat has that compression distortion that you get with transistors, and the Haze has that gutsy, ballsy edge that Class A amps are known for. Nice mix. It'd be great to take both amps with me when we play, but I'm not into hauling 2 around. Plus, the Haze does everything I need. But, it was fun getting really loud.

Theresa's bro Andy and his family are around. We went out to Mondo's yesterday for a meal. It was nice to see all the nieces and Sam again.

Looks like Hard Barney will be celebrating New Year's Eve in Shellsburg this year, at the Open Throttle bar. Make yer plans now!

Bad week for the 'O' team....

Chairman Zero returned from Asia having accomplished nothing except looking like a jackass for bowing to the Emperor of Japan.

Chairman Zero''s Attorney General was revealed to be an idiot when he couldn't name a single case where an enemy combatant captured on a battlefield had been given a trial in a civilian court.

Chairman Zero promised the world that Khalid Sheik Mohammed would receive a fair trial, while promising Americans there could be no other outcome to that trial but conviction and execution. Even though the case could/should get kicked out of court on a Miranda violation. (Ponder the Stalinist quality of that statement for a moment.)

The "hockey stick" chart was revealed to be a fake when emails between Global Warming scienticians revealed they were deliberately manipulating the data to "prove" global warming; one scientician instructing another to fudge the data in order to "hide the decline" in global temperatures.

A probably-soon-to-be-fired Inspector General revealed that Chairman Zero's Tax Cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner used TARP money as a private slush fund to bail out his old buddies at AIG, Wachovia, and Goldman Sachs.

It was also revealed that $6.4 Billion in Stimulus money was sent to congressional districts that don't exist.

"The greatest scientific scam in the modern world"

Well, I knew this moment was coming.

The UK-based Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU), at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, is reported to have sufferered a security breach which has resulted in many confidential emails and files being uploaded to the internet.
A 61MB zip file containing information stolen from one of the world's leading climate research centres, was posted onto an anonymous FTP server in Russia, accompanied by a note saying:
"We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents"

It appears that Gorebal Warming alarmist have been 'cooking the books'. You know...placing of official U.S. government thermometers – even movement of them —near asphalt pads, Arizona parking lots, next to hot air vents, above barbecue grills, and so on with the convenient result of a warming bias and that's just the beginning of the lies, manipulation and omission of data and other crap all designed to get you to believe their fairy tale. Emails and other correspondence with details of skewing data and eliminating 'unsatisfactory results' are now posted on the Internet. While the hacking is a crime and shouldn't be encouraged, the outright lying and manipulation on a world-wide scale certainly rises to the level of being heinous. Here and here and a really good explanation here. It'll be interesting to see if the larger media picks it up. They certainly have an investment in making sure it doesn't get widely reported since they bought into the crap from the beginning.

This has all been designed to seperate you from your money and guilt the US into accepting draconian laws that will curtail productivity and prosperity. Can you say scam? Will AlGore give all his money back? Stay tuned. This is being reported quite widely on the net today.

OK. It's Friday. We all made it. Good deal.

If it's entertainment you're looking for, Hard Barney will be in Richland at The Outfield tomorrow night. Stop on down.

I'm looking forward to giving the new Marshall a spin. I turned it up loud enough in the basement this week to rearrange the furniture in the kitchen. Sounded absolutely great. We'll see if that translates to working out in a live situation.

How much does it cost to buy one vote for health care reform? Evidently $100 million. Here's the scoop.

By the early 80's, this band was pretty much wimped out. In the 70's however....

Folks, this is how you belt out a song.

Went down to Keota last night. Hadn't been there for a while. There was a Knights of Columbus mass for the 4th Degree members who passed away in the last year, including Dad. It was nice. They gave each family a chalice and top for it that was ingraved with his name on it. Very pretty. I knew the KC's were a good bunch, but hadn't realized just how far they go when one of their own dies. They were at the visitation as well as the funeral, dressed up in their tuxes and swords, standing guard over Dad. Really cool.

Ran into my aunt and uncle there and stopped over at their place for a bowl of ice cream before I headed back and had a nice chat with them. Uncle Wilbert (Adam) is over 90 now and still looking and sounding good. Amazing.

Felt kinda like crap yesterday--thought maybe I was coming down with the dreaded flu, but feeling better today. Hopefully it was just something I ate.

Stop the presses

There is an Eggo shortage!!!
Here.

Quote of the day

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

Other members of the CBC found no fault in Jackson's words. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) was in the audience. He called Jackson's criticism of Davis "accurate," but said he did not hear Jackson say "You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man."

Got to love it. The Rev. Jesse pulls out a racist statement, his buddy endorses it at the same time as denying it. That's talent. --L


BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Well, they look like a white crowd to me, I think there is a tribal aspect to this thing, in other words, white vs. other people."
--Tim Russert, referring to a crowd of people lined up to see Sarah Palin at a book signing.

Why is it that only dimbats see race everywhere?--L

So, the economy sucks. Unemployment is at least 10.2% and, yes, if you include part-time workers who would rather have full-time jobs it may be over 17%. The government is showering our cash on Wall Street and burning through piles of our children and grandchildren’s money “saving” phantom jobs in Congressional Districts that don’t exist. And our Prez is proposing the biggest entitlement program ever, even though they have never ran a program that didn't threaten to bankrupt the country before.

So what's he do? Obama warned that the US economy could head into a double-dip recession unless urgent steps were taken to rein in mounting public debt. What he means is 'raise taxes'. Stand by.

Matty B. pointed out that Chickenfoot was on Jimmy Kimmel. Yep, they sure were. Went like this:

THE FACES TO TOUR WITHOUT ROD STEWART
This news is brought to you by VH1 Radio's Dave Basner

The Faces seem to be planning a tour with or without singer Rod Stewart. Keyboardist Ian McLagan told Billboard.com, “If we don’t do it very soon, one of us is gonna check out. I’m 64, for chrissakes!” Ian added that they’ve been waiting for Rod but Stewart said no because he’s too busy, so McLagan, guitarist Ron Wood and drummer Kenney Jones are going to do it themselves. While the band would prefer to have Rod on board, Ian stated, “I just want to play.” No word yet on who will replace late bassist Ronnie Lane but if Ian gets his wish, it would be original Sex Pistol Glenn Matlock. A possible vocalist could be Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall but nothing has been set up yet.

Guarantee you'll laugh...just watch it.

70's lost song

If the backup singers sound familiar, it because they are Stevie and Christie from Fleetwood Mac. Not on the video, though.

Biggest idiot contender

Conan: Now, what about ... you talk in the book about geothermal energy ...

Al: Yeah, yeah.

Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth ...

Al: Yeah.

Conan: ... to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?

Al: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy -- when they think about it at all -- in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot ...

Several million degrees? Really Al? Million? And people take you seriously?

??? This is supposed to be a good idea?

You would think that with several decades to contemplate, leftists would maybe realize that Mao wasn't such a great guy---but no. I guess to them, the ends justify the means, even if 65-70 million people have to die along the way.

Making pumpkin pies

An idiots work is never done....

In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown, PA park.

Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.

Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.

"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.

Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path.

Little Jimmy Page---1957

Cool.

Saw this on Fark this morning. Luckily, it had nothing to do with where I work.

"An Iowa City woman said she has suffered physical and mental pain for the last two years after a shampoo bottle was dropped on her head."

LaJames is the culprit.

I've got it...

Here it is. A shining example of lunacy from liberals that defines who they are just perfectly.

The Ohio legislature passed a law last year that requires utility companies to curb their customers energy usage by something like 22% in the next 12 years. Oh, they have to convert to a certain percentage of 'green energy' production, too. Didn't tell them how.

So, First Energy, the utility that serves the Cleveland area came up with this great idea. They are going to deliver 2 new compact fluorescent bulbs to your house. They are worth about $3. But First Energy is going to charge you $23 for them (60 cents a month for the next 3 years). Why so much? Well, First Energy is also charging you for the cost of the electricity that you'll not be using.

Get it? The gov't mandates that you will use less energy. The utility, which is gov't controlled, is going to charge you anyway for the revenue that they will lose because you are using less energy.

Like that? Wait till you get a load of the proposed 'Cap and Trade' bullshit that is being proposed.