Miss Her MUCH

The most wonderful, beautiful person I ever knew personally...my Mom. She would have been eighty-nine today. Miss you much, Mom. I love you!

The Vault and the Clubhouse

The picture is actually of me a couple Tuesday nights ago at Locked & Loaded Grille.

In late 2003, when I tended to stay home with the "woe is me" syndrome, a neighbor of mine from Alabama used to come over and we'd exchange war stories about playing in rock bands. I saw a video of his and he heard a cassette tape of one of mine, saying, "Is that really you?" Come to thinki of it, when I saw the hair on the drummer, I said the same to HIM. He is now bald.
My OTHER neighbor and I frequented a restaurant at the time called O'Brian's. There was this delightful little waitress there who said she was starting up a band.
One night they showed up at this little dive called Loop Road Bar, which was the very first place I ever sang karaoke. It was this little waitress and an older guy who looked as though he'd found her and said, "Stick with me, Kid, and I'll make you a star." He was a legend at least in his own mind and she could sing and was learning bass, but hadn't quite synchronized them yet. She looked way younger than him, let me tell ya.
So last night, wanting some nourishment, I slipped over to Locked & Loaded and they had the thirty-five cent wings. That and a salad is a MEAL!. So I'm socializing and munching and doing a little flirting when I notice with woman with camo pants lugging in a lot of equipment...I mean a lot. Even more than the room would ever need. I commented that all I ever got from my wife at the time was, "Is that band playing AGAIN!?" when we had Parusia.
A band called "The Vault" was scheduled to play and I really didn't want my ear drums blown away, so the plan was to eat and skeedoo on home. Then I got a call from a friend to come to some place where there was karaoke, so I changed my plans. On my way to the men's room I asked the woman setting up, "Didn't you used to work at a restaurant on 64?" It was, indeed her, so I stayed around long enough to catch part of the first song, which was a cover of the Black Crowe's "Hard to Handle." Needless to say, the synchronisity has kicked in and the gal has learned to chew gum and walk er uh, play and sing at the same time and quite well, I might add.
But as it will always be, when faced with either singing or being sung at, I'll take the chance to sing EVERY TIME!
So off I go to the 40/42 area of "Garner" near the Cleveland School area to find this place "behind the Food Lion." I made one sweep through quite literally, behind it and swung around, fired up the cell phone and called Tim and Lisa back. Again, he said,"Behind the Food Lion." As I was about to ask which way to turn on this little road that runs behind there, Tim said he'd be in the parking lot waving his hands. I looked straight forward and there he was.
The place is called "The Clubhouse" and karaoke was set up at the front door. There was a short list and I put in a song, starting with Elvis' "Kentucky Rain," then the Doors' "Roadhouse Blues" a duet with Lisa from Kenny Rogers and Dottie West called "Every Time Two Fools Collide" then, back to Elvis with "In the Ghetto" and I closed out the show with "Break on Through to the Other Side" by the Doors.
It was good to hang out with Tim and Lisa and turned out that national whoops day, which WOULD have been my thirty third anniversary, was Tim and Lisa's fifth anniversary.
Today, which would have been my Mom's eighty-nineth birthday, their little Grandson will be Christened.
So now, I've found a Saturday night karaoke venue! Yay!
On the way home, I ducked into Locked & Loaded and the band was still rockin' their final song.

Assasination Attempt

If you have a tolerance for it, listen to dinosaur media and hear the leftists attempting an assassination. The assassination of the Character of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. It is, as is so much of the left, despicable! That is bad enough, but what's even worse, is the scrutiny a private citizen endured for asking "messiah" Obama a simple question that they didn't have the intestinal fortitude to ask themselves.
Now we know more about "Joe the Plumber" than we do (except for the few of us who dug for the TRUTH) about Obama.
They attempt to assassinate Palin's character because they are "sore afraid." And they need to be.
Because once the public takes that inevitable look at the man behind the curtain, they'll find that Oz is just a wimpy little pitiful man.
And a straight thinking, common sense hero will arrive on the scene to clean up the Obamanable MESS!

I Wanted to Hug Her

I purposely didn't stay home and watch the returns on election night and in a sense, didn't fully witness the travesty that took place. Yes, enough people were hoodwinked that bought into the empty rhetoric of Obama. Now, those who hated George W Bush from the beginning and fought him tooth and nail for the last eight years are saying that now is a time for unity and that Obama will be OUR President. You cannot have it both ways. One yo yo asserted that we are governed best, when we have different political parties in different branches of government, and in true, Wrong Wing hypocrisy, still voted for Obama, helping to put one party in charge of all branches. Typical speak one way, act in another.
Obama spoke of bipartisanship, just as he promised to take public funds. He, like those who fell for his horse dung, is a specialist of saying one thing and doing another. Promises, pledges are but a joke to these Marxists who will do anything and say anything to further their hollow agenda.
Friday night, shortly after Obama was declared the winner, someone requested "In the Ghetto." I sang the song, but made real sure that people knew it was NOT dedicated to the so called "President Elect."
Okay, you guys, you refused to accept W's legitimacy. Don't be surprised when we, the non-Marxists refuse to accept the legitimacy of Obama. He is quite simply a Charlatan as Lawrence Eagleton said, and a fraud!
One Dem recently spoke of things that only someone who was actually in the Oval Office would know for sure about as though they were a fact at how, it was not Bush, but Chaney who called the shots. I bit my tongue to refrain from saying, "Oh, and I suppose you were there?"
Until we can secure polling places from the terrorism of Black Panther thugs and the counting of votes from illegal aliens and other non-citizens, all claims of legitimacy in elections remains doubtful at best.
If ignorance was bliss, there'd be a large percentage of blistered people.
I've never seen Fox News on a screen at karaoke, but THAT night, two showed the play by play, drowned out by the singers and the host's attempts at humor.
When I looked over and saw Governor Sarah Palin fighting back tears, I never wanted to hug someone so much in my life!
The USA survived James Earl Carter, who has proved himself to be the anti-Semite he is with the coming of Ronald Reagan.
We didn't have a Reagan after Carter II, otherwise known as Slick Willie, Bill Clinton,(the only reason why things were as good as they WERE during the Clinton years was Clinton's co-oping of Republican principals) but many of Mr Reagan's policies gave us six years of improvement.
Then, along came Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and in less than two years, the economy went in the toilet!
John McCain warned them, but dispite their approval rating below that of the much publicized George Bush, the hard-headedly, caused the problems that we're now faced with.
Sarah Palin was described by one of my friends as "Ronald Reagan in a Skirt." It's going to take that IF we don't become a larger, less friendly version of Castro's Cuba!
In a sense, the United States of America perished in a bloodless coup this past Tuesday.
If there weren't so many Christians honoring God with their lips but not with their lives, perhaps God's wrath wouldn't have fallen on our Nation. For years, it's been the prayers of little grannies in non-urban areas who have preserved what freedom we've had. Let us, then, join them and beginning in 2010, turn back the tide of Marxism that Tuesday night's fiasco represents!

United States of America: 1776-2008

REST IN PEACE!

I TOLD YOU SO!

Punk Black Panthers are trying to intimidate voters at polling places across the country! We cannot tolerate this! One voter threatened with a night stick by a Panther as he attempted to vote. This voter called the police and the Obama Nazi was removed. This is just the beginning. Buy ammo while you still can. This may get ugly! We're dealing with low-life Marxists!

Doling it Out

There's a big stink going on in North Carolina politics because of an Elizabeth Dole ad that points out that her opponent, Kay Hagan, attended a SECRET meeting to receive a contribution from a group that refers to itself as "Godless." It wouldn't be the first time a politician received money from a Godless person or entity. It probably wasn't the wisest tactic for Dole, because now the focus is not on what Hagan promised the people who would remove God from public discourse, from our currency and from the Pledge of Allegiance, but with the aid of a biased, and largely Godless media, Hagan claims to be insulted.
Apparently, Hagan is a Presbyterian and says she has taught Sunday School and admonished Dole not to "bear false witness on a fellow Christian." But more importantly, she is suing Dole over this matter. So Hagan, missed the part in the Bible where a believer is not supposed to take another believer to court. Selective Scripture. The cafeteria approach to doctrine.
The Dems have perfected the art of calling others, "mean spirited," etc, but it is they who after having supported "Ted Agnew" when he ran for office in Maryland and then referred to him with their left-leaning media as "Spiro T," a subtle way of pointing out Agnew's Greek heritage and very racist. True to form, knowing that Senator Dole goes by Elizabeth and does not like to be called "Libby" the Democrat commercials use the despised knick name. It's all very childish.