I believe that sums it up nicely.

You forgot the bit about Obama seducing your sister.

Also left out: because it’s what McCain wants.

“W” is for the whining they do daily,
“I” is for their ignorance alooooonnneee,
“N” is for the nutbags they let lead them,
“G” is for the way they make me groan!
“N” is for the word they imply often,
“U” is the ugly snarl in their tone,
“T” is the tin ear they have for prose!

Put them all together they spell “Wiiiiinnnnnggggnut”…..

The fact is, that was a bit of a circus show.

I think it’s mostly because Obama has been so effective in suppressing these “tapes” I keep hearing about.

Where de white wimmen at?

Also, because Glenn Reynolds made a specific prediction about the race.

Also also, because unlike Mitt Romney – who said ‘Reagan’ at least one standard deviation more than his nearest competitor during the primary – John McCain is not a real true American conservative, having only voted with Despicable Liberal Antipope Bush 90% of the time.

Also also also, because Americans are socialist traitors living in a fake America, concerned about “women” and “children” and their “fellow man” and “America”.

Also also also also, because the Iranians are just that good at photoshop.

Also also also also also, because Obama is too popular, experienced, and presidential to be President of Real America.

Also also also also also also, because we ignored Quiverfull’s desperate Weissvolkgeborn-Achtung – until it was too late!!!!11

Voter fraud? Any discussion about the Virginia flyers telling Democrats to vote on the 5th?

K-Lo saying “pinged” brings up horrible, horrible images.

I thought “S” stood for “socialism’s appeal to the Chardonnay-sipping elites?”

According to my calculations, it is also because Ashley Todd is the bizarro-Goerring of Bizzarro-Liberal-Fascism, which means, by extrapolation that real Ashley Todd is the Bizarro-Palin of real Liberal Fascism. Following so far?

O.K. So if Bizarro-Palin represents the standard deviation from the mean of nonwhite voters supporting McCain, and if her Backwards (Bizarro) “B” represents the new trendline (following revelations about Obama’s socialist connections) then by reversing the polarity of the polls and the vocation of the voters, we see that McCain is actually winning. Of course you won’t hear about this from the mainstream liberal media.

Fans of extreme wingnut sporting action would do well to bookmark SOLOpassion.com, a splinter group of Chicken Little-like Ayn Rand afficionados. There the Principal of the Nuttery, Lindsay Perigo (a once-bright star on New Zealand television, now a brown dwarf of libertarian idiocy) has just called for the “Mussolini Solution.” to the Obama problem.

I am the sole Gadfly on the site, there to poke fun at the wilder and more demented of the Randian Objectivishists.

Here is Perigo in full, foam-speckled flight:

Obama is a special brand of evil. He is Pol Pot in benevolent guise. I hope he meets the fate of his soulmate Mussolini, only before he ever wins power.

Link: Perigo Effusion

Read and shriek with laughter — or alternately, weep for reason.

Obama is a special brand of evil. He is Pol Pot in benevolent guise. I hope he meets the fate of his soulmate Mussolini, only before he ever wins power.

Pol Pot killed a fifth of the Khmer population and emptied a two-million-person city under the belief that Maoism – the true strain of Marxism spurned by our enemies in North Vietnam – called for a peasant utopia free of city-living oppressors.

Pol Pot is indistinguishable in rhetoric from John McCain these days.

Comparing him to Obama only works if you live in the crazy moon-world the Libertarians inhabit in which there’s a giant Masonic-Socialist conspiracy to steal all the gold, and in which Pol Pot’s primary crime was not killing Asians but keeping Ron Paul out of office.

I still say – what’s going to happen to these assclowns when Beloved Comrade Obama doesn’t aanounce the Glorious People’s Revolution and the U.S. doesn’t become another North Korea in his first 100 days?

Dubya!
I say Dubya!
Dubya-I
Dubya-I-N
Dubya-I-N-G-N-U-T-T

Wingnut!

We need to get the word out that Ayn Rand, St Ron Reagan, and Milton Friedman are all still dead. And so are their ideologies.

I still say – what’s going to happen to these assclowns when Beloved Comrade Obama doesn’t aanounce the Glorious People’s Revolution and the U.S. doesn’t become another North Korea in his first 100 days?

They’ll claim victory. WOLVERINES!!!11!

I still say – what’s going to happen to these assclowns when Beloved Comrade Obama doesn’t aanounce the Glorious People’s Revolution and the U.S. doesn’t become another North Korea in his first 100 days?

They’ll do what they did during Clinton’s time when he never invited a Russian-U.N. invasion force to occupy our nation using black helicopters and specially marked street signs — they kept saying they saw all the preparations being made, it was coming, it was coming, please buy our gold and our colloidal silver and our herbal remedies and our terrific water purification tablets.

Good lord, check out Atrios. Palin’s conceding and at the same time preparing to drive her party further into the ground.

GO PALIN GO!

Concede, baby, concede.

“I’m not doin’ this fer naught!”

Yeah you are.

I’ve been hoping for a couple of weeks that the reports on Palin getting frustrated with Grandpa loser would lead to some public roguery. This may be it. GO PALIN!!! JOETHEPLUMMER!!! GOGOGOGOGOGO!

Daily Express
Friday October 12,2007
Winchester Crown Court was told that Frith had a “rampant ego and delusions of randeur” and had turned to drug dealing to pay off debts and then invest in property abroad.

I was rather chuffed with “delusions of Randeur” when it popped into my head yesterday. Imagine my disappointment when teh Gazoogle informed me that someone at SOLOpassion.com was already using it.

they kept saying they saw all the preparations being made, it was coming, it was coming

So all that practice waiting for the Rapture was not for naught.

Dare I troll various right-wing sites trumpeting Sarah’s bold move?

I am amused.

Dana Bash: I just got off of the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it is fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a “huh” on the other end of the phone.

Oh Schadenfreude, oh Schadenfreude, your gay internecine bloodletting delights us…

mikey

I was rather chuffed with “delusions of Randeur” when it popped into my head yesterday. Imagine my disappointment when teh Gazoogle informed me that someone at SOLOpassion.com was already using it.

Happens to the best of us. “Führer I’d Like To Fuck” didn’t turn up any hits, but I have a feeling I’m not the first to describe Palin with it.

#

Righteous Bubba said,

October 30, 2008 at 1:04

Good lord, check out Atrios. Palin’s conceding and at the same time preparing to drive her party further into the ground.

GO PALIN GO!

Did somebody say G.W.Bush in a skirt?

Anybody know where McCain is right now? Has he perhaps gone assplodey? I’m thinking this might be the very spark we’ve been anticipating.

If McCain’s battling for Arizona now maybe he CAN fire Palin and pick up Lieberman. Or the Mittster.

This has been an amazing election.

Is this what you were referring to?

If not, you should have been.

Has he perhaps gone assplodey?

The deck of campaign headquarters is aflame.

Righteous Bubba said,

October 30, 2008 at 1:33

If McCain’s battling for Arizona now maybe he CAN fire Palin and pick up Lieberman. Or the Mittster.

This has been an amazing election.

Why the H8 for Huckleberry, RB?

And with your handle, and all.

“Wet-starts”, done either deliberately or accidentally, shoot a large flame from the mouth of the candidate.

Why the H8 for Huckleberry, RB?

Duh, I’m a communist.

I am quivering in anticipation of an Obama vs. Palin debate in 2012. Quivering.

I’m thinking Michelle Bachman would be the perfect running mate: “Witch doctor–Witch hunt ’12: Bring back burning at the stake!”

What are the reasons McCain is doing so poorly in the polls?

Hmm, lets see. Does it have something to do with the fact that the American people have suddenly turned liberal overnight? No, that can’t be it.

Could it be because Obama is so politically saavy, and all of his talk about hope and change is really resonating with the voters? No, thats not it either.

Or, could it be that the pollsters are leftwing ideologues on working for ACORN and oversampling blacks and registered democrats, and possibly even lying about their own results? Ding ding ding, we have a wiener.

Lets face it liberals, come election night when John McCain wins by the biggest landslide since Ronald Reagan beat Walter Mondale in 1984, the media and the pollsters will be exposed as the leftwing frauds that they are, and will lose all credibility with the American people.

And I’ll be the first one here to rub it in your faces on November 5th. Sorry The Truth.

Wow !!!

D. Aristophanes !!!

Perfect.

Possibly the best Sadly post ever done.

W is for Wars, Wars, Wars.
I is for Intelligent Design.
N is for No Freaking Clue.
G is George F’ing Bush.
N is for Nome Drilling Plans.
U is for Usury.
T is for Time To Leave.
Z is for ZOMG!!1!! B. Hussein Nat X Is Going To Kill Whitey And Take Away All The Children’s Precious Pencil Boxes!!11!!!

Wingnutz. Making the world a funnier place since 2000.

Ding ding ding, we have a wiener.

I thought your settlement terms required you to not show your wiener to anyone ever again.

I’m thinking Michelle Bachman would be the perfect running mate

Welcome back Alan Keyes.

Can I change that that to U is for Uppity Muslim African, Assessment Rejected?

Ken A IS A Lowery said,

October 29, 2008 at 23:51

Voter fraud? Any discussion about the Virginia flyers telling Democrats to vote on the 5th?

I didn’t even know the Virginia Flyers were still in the Series.

The things you learn at Sadly, No!

I’m thinking Michelle Bachman would be the perfect running mate

I’m pretty sue she’s touring with Bachman Turner Overdrive.

And I’ll be the first one here to rub it in your faces on November 5th.

Alright Bruce, just don’t stay up TOO late, you’ve got an appointment to do Mrs. Feldenheimer’s hair the first thing in the morning.

Ohmanohmanohman, “Joe” “the” “Plumber” has signed a deal for country music album.

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

Turd Blossom Special.

Loneoak said,

October 30, 2008 at 2:00

Ohmanohmanohman, “Joe” “the” “Plumber” has signed a deal for country music album.

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

D00d may have some excellent pipes, ya know.

Another question. How low can NRO go?

Example A:

Maybe Voting Present Was a Real Accomplishment [Lisa Schiffren]

Ace of Spades has this astonishing video of Obama’s consistent tardiness at Senate Foreign Relations hearings. It suggests that: a — showing up on time was for mere mortals; b — getting to “present” took some effort; and c — respect for the time of others is not of much importance to the One — even in his first few months in the U.S. Senate. What if he’s late for the 3 a.m. phone call?

On the eve of a Presidential election, and WFB’s pride and joy features a “news” item written by Lisa Schiffren referencing an Ace of Spades “scoop” about a video of a Senator showing up late to a meeting.

Oh, Wait. Confederate Yankee is e-mailing Levin about Obama’s dining habits. Film at 11.

Jesus, Lindsay Perigo really went downhill after those Seely Posturepedic ads.

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

“What the Snake Found…”

Sara is obviously under the delusion that power in the GOP flows up from the base. Reality has a hard lesson in store for her.

I would have advised him to put together a Birthday Party tribute band and do a cover version of Nick the Stripper, but I do not represent a large demographic.

Not Release the Bats?

Smut Clyde, your demographic here at S,N! is substantial.

OTOH, Harry Hutton’s house is in disrepair.

Tax Evasion Blues

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

Buttocks.

Ya know, if I were a high muckymuck in the GOP I think I might be tempted to let Sara off the leash so to speak. Let her speak her mind and give nice long interviews. Let her bury herself. Then on Nov 5th blame everything on her. That is, if I were thinking only for myself and not my party.

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

Though not a plumber, he is actually a certified Surrealist: Ceci n’est pas une pipe – c’est une trappe!

And the cover features a picture of a tubulure avec siphon.

Ohmanohmanohman, “Joe” “the” “Plumber” has signed a deal for country music album.

“She Got The Tax Cuts, I Got The Shaft”

I dunno Noen, I think letting Palin sink herself and blaming it all on her is probably the best route for the entire party. Without a doubt, if she’s back in 2012 they will probably lose another 6 or 7 Senate seats and a couple dozen spots in the House. If they can scapegoat her big time and send her back to AK on a dog sled then they can go back to at least pretending to have reasonable ideas about governance.

Ohmanohmanohman, “Joe” “the” “Plumber” has signed a deal for country music album.

Oh, man. As a erudite, philosophical and very left-wing country music fan, it was hard enough dealing with the unmittigated craposity of post-1994 country music, plus the general boneheadedness of folks like Bocephus and DAC (not to mention the fans of the two aforementioned gentlemen *shiver*). This is just…pathetic.

The funniest part is he’s signed up with Aaron Tippin. One of Tippin’s early hits was called “You’ve Got To Stand For Something (Or You’ll Fall For Anything).” Dude.

noen-
that might actually be a pretty good strategy for the republicans if they want to win any more elections before Mahalia Obama reaches the senate.

Hey Matt T., throw me a few album recommendations for some quality country.

I do hate watching big sporting occasions on tape delay, but that’s the price of living in California. So did anyone watch the Obama show? I’ll get to see it in a couple of hours, but feel free to spoil the suspense. It was lions vs Christians, right? Who won?

“Joe” “the” “Plumber” has signed a deal for country music album.

Guess he’s not going to buy that plumbing business after all.

Ceci n’est pas une pipe – c’est une trappe!
Tigrismus wins the bathtub full of brightly-painted machine tools.

Obama Show just now starting up in Denver.

Not bad so far.

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

Palins Ripped My Flesh (rizzz!)

Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Campaign

Wang Dang Sweet Buttcrack

Dumbass Fucking Republican Sings the Hits

I Swear, You Cretinous Schmucks Will Buy Anything

Moving Goalposts

I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with My Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat-on-my-seat-o Hirohito Blues (oh, wait…)

I don’t like infomercials, not even infobamamercials.

Hey Matt T., throw me a few album recommendations for some quality country.

Off the top of my head…

Willie Nelson – Phases & Stages, Red-Headed Stranger, Shotgun Willie, Willie Nelson & Family Live…all good stuff.

Waylon Jennings – pretty much anything from Honky-Tonk Heroes to, oh, let’s say I’ve Always Been Crazy (most of the ’70s, in other words)

Either of Johnny Cash’s prison records

I’m fond of Merle Haggard’s MCA years, most of which is damn near impossible to find, but Rainbow Stew: Live At Anaheim Stadium is a good bet.

Almost anything George Jones, Johnny Paycheck and David Allan Coe did with Billy Sherrill (the earlier the association, the better). Also, Johnny Paycheck’s Little Darlin’ is pure honky-tonk awesome.

Now, I like Hank Williams Jr., though he be a knucklehead, and most of his output from Hank Williams Jr. & Friends up until 1986 or so (when he started taking himself and the whole uber-good ol’ boy thing too seriously) is some damn fine country music.

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Mercury stuff. There’s a comp called Killer Country that’s just bad-ass.

Bobby Bare’s Lullabys, Legends & Lies, Tom T. Hall’s Ballad of 40 Dollars & Other Songs, and Tompall Glaser’s Charlie have a certain appeal to the intellectual domestic beer drinker, if that makes any sense.

Back in the ’90s, RCA put out a mess of compilations under the Essential banner. Everyone from Earl Thomas Conley to Charley Pride to Dolly Parton (with and without Porter Waggoner), and RCA was the go-to label for mainstream country from the ’50s to the early ’70s. Any of these are recommended. The flipside is Columbia’s Legacy series, which take up almost the bulk of non-RCA country classics. Most recommended is a five-disc collection that starts with The Carter Family and ends up in the early ’90s. Plus, the label’s reissued a mess of classic country records, including many I’ve already listed, plus some nifty obscure stuff like Joe Maphis.

Dwight Yoakam has never made a bad record. Any live Buck Owens (and most of his studio stuff). I smoke a lot of weed and really dig accordians, so I’m partial to Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornados, but one’s mileage may vary.

I think John McCain really fucked up giving this Larry King interview.

Matt T., goddamn: you, sir, are legitimate. A Johnny Paycheck endorsement? Doug Sahm? Charley Pride? Earl Thomas Conley?

My late lamented East Texas grandma would have swapped me for you, that’s for damn sure.

To borrow the phrase, Sarah really is suffering from delusions of competence if she thinks she’s going to be running in 2012. Everyone else on the planet seems to know that she was picked for her golly you betcha mooseburgers hockey mom wink wink novelty, as a crazy gamble to make the GOP ticket interesting.

It’ll be Mittens, unless it’s not. The emergence of a Gingrichy leader in Congress also seems fairly likely.

Matt T.

What about Rusty Weir? Ray Wylie Hubbard?

Guy freakin CLARK??

mikey

I have to say most modern country is Teh Suxxors, but I do admit to a deep affection for the oldies – I have a urge every so often to listen to “Your Cheatin’ Heart”.

Modern country wimmins is something to look at though. Back when I could afford cable I liked to turn on CMT, turn off the sound and enjoy the sights. 🙂 (yes, I’m a chauvanist philistine… oh the humility….)

BTW – if you aren’t familiar with it, check out the song “Skip-A-Rope” by Henson Cargill. They play it on the local C&W oldies station, and imagine my surprise at the lyrics, viz:

Cheat on your taxes don’t be a fool
Now what was that they said about the golden rule
Never mind the rule just play to win
And hate your neighbor for the shade of his skin

(BTW, even though I dislike modern C&W I have to admit my affection for Josh Turner’s song “Long Black Train”. It’s Christian, sure, but it’s a damn fine song neverthless.)

To borrow the phrase, Sarah really is suffering from delusions of competence if she thinks she’s going to be running in 2012.

First comes the Fox TV talk show. If that’s a hit, then the presidency in 2012. And God help us, with a star vehicle like that, who’s to say she can’t win?

The emergence of a Gingrichy leader in Congress also seems fairly likely.

I initially misread that as “Givenchy leader.” I’m sure the RNC would have loved to have him bedizen Caribou Barbie but, he being dead and all, the cost would have been prohibitive.

She’s Got an Adjustable-Rate Mortgage on My Body And a Lien on My Soul

Gonna Shave That Gal Right Outta My Hair

Someone Stole the Police Station Toilet (the Cops Have Nothing to Go on)

I Got Dope in My Pipe And I’m Lightin’ Up a Joint

That Ain’t What I Meant by Ballcock, But O.K.

I’ve Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (cover)

Eric,
Yes. Yes, I am. Furthermore, I enjoy “Hee Haw”. I’ve been rurnt for years.

mikey,
Not country. On the fringes, especially Ray Wylie (interviewed and hung out with him; very, very cool guy), but not so much country as that weird Texas hard-drinkin’ poet thing they and Townes and Lyle and Steve Earle before he started taking himself too seriously and Terry Allen and Mickey Newbury all got goin’ in the ’70s. Sure, there was some crossovers and smart covers, but there’s a big difference between them and Texas country like Willie, Waylon and them. Cerebral but not neccessarily always what you’d want to hear playing from the old Wurlitzer at the County Line Beer Joint on payday, ya dig?

Good country music has commercial appeal and tries to get on the radio and be hummable and make people dance (when applicable, and it’s pronounced “daintz” anyway). Furthermore, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with folk music, though admittedly, it ain’t as cool to bomb in a coffee house as is in a beer joint. Or terrifying, one, I forget.

Willie Nelson – Phases & Stages

I never figured Willie Nelson out, and this album in particular baffles me. What makes you like it?

I never figured Willie Nelson out, and this album in particular baffles me. What makes you like it?

Well, mostly it’s the songs. “Bloody Mary Morning”, “It’s Not Supposed To Be That Way”, “Pretend I Never Happened”…awesome nuggets of good broken-hearted country all. Part of it’s the playing. The band features Johnny Gimble – who played with friggin’ Bob Wills – and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section – who played with Wilson Pickett. And some of it’s just that weird attempt in the early ’70s to make country hip to the hippies and young people. It’s a Jerry Wexler idea that also gave us Doug Sahm’s two awesome solo records and Dr. John’s stuff. Being a pot-smoking, free-loving country boy, it sort of appeals.

Plus, it’s a concept album. A country concept album, and one of the few (country or not) that comes close to working. It’s a break-up, Side One is her story and Side Two is his. I dunno. It’s actually one of the few country records that works better as an album than as seperate tracks.

If any of that makes any sense.

Goddam!! Mickey Newbury!

Gonna fire up the P2Ps tonight.

And I just gotta say, ’cause you gotta appreciate the nuggets where you turn ’em over:

Furthermore, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with folk music, though admittedly, it ain’t as cool to bomb in a coffee house as is in a beer joint. Or terrifying, one, I forget.

Sometimes, you find a single thought, a bit of reflection, an statement of understanding that is nothing short of perfect. That stands, all by itself, to represent something large and important, an “Uber Thought”, if you will, or simply something macro about something very small and deep.

Once again, Matt, thank you.

If we were cult-type folks, I’m pretty sure you’d be my prophet…

mikey

Second try, hoping that the weasels that ate my previous attempt are now sated … For real old country (and blues and other stuff), check out http://brokedownengine.blogspot.com/ — lotsa good stuff, including 10 volumes of very early country music.

If we were cult-type folks, I’m pretty sure you’d be my prophet…

Well, years ago I joined the Universal Church of Life and sent ’em $10 to become an Offical Prophet in the Church. I thought about sending another $10 to become a rabbi or iman, but I thought that was tacky. Anyhow, you just give a holler and I’ll hit the streets. It would be an honor, and I imagine it’d beat workin’.

The Ayn Rand shit is really amusing. As literature, it’s on about an 8th grade level; as far as political philosophy, just imagine how paralyzed the U. S. would be if all the CEOs of Enron, Lehman, Wachovia, GM, and yes, even Apple and Cisco, went out to some mountain in Wyoming and refused to work. Ooooooh, now that’s scary!!!!

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

All My Friends Are Gonna Be Wingers

…

To add to Matt T.’s esteemed recommendations:

Ol’ T’s In Town – Tom T. Hall
The Instrumental Hits of Buck Owens and The Buckaroos
A guy named John Conlee, who came and went.
Loretta Lynn’s comeback effort with Jack White.
Infamous Angel – Iris Dement
Blue Ridge Rangers – John Fogerty
Early Emmylou Harris.
Pre-Copperhead Road Steve Earle.
A Johnny Horton greatest hits album can’t hurt.

There was a mini-golden era in Country between about 1978 and 1982 if this can be researched.

Just a few personal choices that I can quickly remember.

just imagine how paralyzed the U. S. would be if all the CEOs of Enron, Lehman, Wachovia, GM, and yes, even Apple and Cisco, went out to some mountain in Wyoming and refused to work. Ooooooh, now that’s scary!!!!

A shame they didn’t think the idea up a few years ago.

Henry lewis,
ditto on that John Conlee. I’d forgot all about him, but he had it. John Anderson, too.

John Anderson, too.

There ya go!

What happened to him?

You realize in 5 days or so we’ll be heading into Christmas season and all hell will be breaking out in the wingnut blogs about Obama being anti-Christmas. I’m betting someone will invent a tape of Obama saying the words “happy holiday” as proof.

The Renderers.
NZ gothic / alt-country. That’s all I got.

Here’s a funny thing: the internets seem to be somewhat broken all over, yet Sadly, No! is ticking like a fine watch.

John Anderson

That guy was awesome on Hee Haw.

The funny thing about Palin is this: she’s got an obsessive enough fan club that she’s going to win the race or smash Huckabee or whoever’s shit up trying; and she’s so completely unwilling to accept open criticism that she will never be even close to mainstream popular.

It’s not even a matter of being too radical, too mean, or too vapid. She’ll be a loser with ridiculous ideas prone to making racist remarks and incapable of stringing two sentences together unless they’re mostly slander. She isn’t gonna be the bad girl America wants to love, but the pathetic, vindictive jumped-up dork that America wants to get the fuck out.

If she runs, she’s a lock for the GOP in 2012, and if so, stick a fork in them – they’re done. The right from there on out will be a Democratic institution.

Twenty years down the line Pravda’s dozen-chromozomed spawn will be sneering about how we Social Progressive-rats are too faggy to be real ivy-tower Democratic ubermenschen. The names are gonna change a lot before the game gets familiar.

You realize in 5 days or so we’ll be heading into Christmas season and all hell will be breaking out in the wingnut blogs about Obama being anti-Christmas. I’m betting someone will invent a tape of Obama saying the words “happy holiday” as proof.

Pfft. Here in the real North America, Christmas starts in July, you shiftless iceback.

Palin/Nader in ’12!

Dwight Yoakam has never made a bad record.

Frozen macaroni bites, on the other hand…

Obama/Victorino ’08
It’s the Hawaiian Power Party.

The fact is, democrats are all negro loving terrorist lovers, who will only love terrorist homos if they are the same sex as they are because they love homosexuality almost as much as they hate Christianity and God and Christians because we disagree with them on their love of Mulsimism and mexicans and the mexican language as well as Europe and France in specific, mostly because they are all commie bastards over there, which is exactly what the dumbass democrats seem to love these days, so long as they they are getting it up the butt from some muslum terrorist who hates Jesus and isn’t going to stand up for the 2nd amendment, which gives me a constitutional right to own a 50 caliber machine gun that I mounted to the top of my house to defend it against the dark skinned people who are going to be coming after my stuff if Barack Osama wins, which I know won’t happen because God is on the side of good, just, white, christian republicans and Satan is on the side of those dark skinned homosexual deviants who he has marked with dark skin so that all would know that he has placed his hold on their souls, which will go straight to hell when they die for hating Jesus and for killing millions of babies and for speaking ill of President Bush who was picked by God to lead our country into a great war against the arabs which will result in the end of days as the earth is cooked in hell fire from a hundred thousand nucular bombs!

And Al Franken is a fag.

Freeper headline tomorrow:

“ZOMG!!! B Hussein Obama costs Rays the Series!11!!1oneeleventyone!!”

No doubt about it – one of the elephants has definitely gone rogue.

(creds to RB @ 01:04)

The GOP China-Shop will be closing indefinitely for inventory as of Tuesday.

“Huh.”

throw me a few album recommendations for some quality country.

So far, all the reccs’ are of men.

Men can’t sing country music for shit.

Kathy Mattea – Coal
Patsy Cline
Tammy Wynette
Loretta Lynn
Also be sure to check out Robert Altman’s fine, fine film – Nashville, which has the added bonus of being set in an election year.

Ooops – Emmylou Harris

Is there any reason why Dwight or Dwayne are acceptable first names for male country singers, but the name Dwang seldom appears in the genre?

hmmm…
My favorite female country singer is Hazel Dickens, but she’s definitely not for everybody.

I would nominate Dwight Yoakum’s solo acoustic album of all his old songs as a possible bad album. He has such a sweet band, and I don’t really think he’s a great singer although I love his songs, his taste and pretty much everything else about him. (except that he helped push the Biscuit Boys off the map)

I may be the only person in the world who thinks that Van Leer Rose is not as good as the older Loretta Lynn records. But I do.

Snarkle, you left out Maria McKee.

And you simply can’t do that.

Voice as pure as a bell, and just a beat off of mainstreet.

mikey

Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. Sadly, Dave has moved on to his eternal reward, but he left us with a crapload of good music.

Start with the album “Tanglewood Tree” and move on from there.

John Anderson’s still kickin’ around and is apparently still making hit records. He played here in Athens last year, year before last, and all the under-30 sons of good ol’ boys were out like he was Robert Earl Keen. Guy’s a survivor, as this makes the third time he’s had a hit-making run in country music.

throw me a few album recommendations for some quality country.

So far, all the reccs’ are of men.

This is just my own opinion, but that’s because, up until very, very recently, there weren’t that many more-than-remarkable albums by country women. Singles, sure, and I’ll say Kitty Wells’ “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” might just be the perfect country song, male or female. The music business is, of course, horrifically sexist, but country music…well, again sometimes it’s hard to reconcile one’s liberal beliefs with one’s love of country songs, considering the environment and the targeted audience. Hell, Barbara Fairchild had hits singing about much she liked the traditional roles and disliked all feminism had to offer, and they’re still cranking out that today. Remember, once country music was for poor-to-lower-middle-class blue collar folk, either rural in fact or rural in background. Now, it’s for white people who wish they had all the gravitas that comes with being country without all the being poor part of it. Which is why it sucks nowadays.

Men can’t sing country music for shit.

My brother’s of the opinion that men start singing good country music at 35, because by that age, you’ve had some misery somewhere, no matter how easy you’ve had it otherwise. Women, because they get the short end of the stick from the get-go, therefore can sing it for real from the get-go. Witness: Tanya Tucker.

She’s a little hard to find:
Lynn Miles
sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL5cWnfTrdQ
Her album Night in a Strange Town is a fav.

Lucinda Williams
Album: West
Track: Are you alright:

I like DeMent. I like Nanci Griffith too.

Old Ian and Sylvia were divine. But those days are long past.

Early Morning Rain is my favourite album of theirs.

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

I think it’ll never get released – they’ll say they have a tape, but that Obama’s campaign is trying to bribe them to buy it up.

Whoa, thanks, Mikey. She makes me think of Liz Phair.

RB, that Iris Dement link was awesome.

This lady was more folk and blues than country but divine.

Eva Cassidy
Live at Blues Alley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqtdNxOs00

Sadly she is no longer with us.

Gillian Welch is pretty damn amazing

*** SPOILER ALERT *** SPOILER ALERT ***
10 minutes before the election, it emerges that Joe the Plumber has been recording songs for years, and placing links to them on S,N!, under the name “Dr BLT”.

Emmylou does a sweet Pancho & Lefty;)

Once again, the accordion, when played appropriately, is the bedrock of American civilization.

Tim O’Brien

under the name “Dr BLT”.

I heh a mighty heh.

Ah, the country-music chanteuses.

How about K.D. Lang?
Or Susan Aglukark?
Or Sylvia Tyson?
Or (going way back) Mary Ford?
Not too many people know about Oh Susanna (Suzie Ungerleider) – I own & cherish her first EP … & I’m not even a C&W Music type, at all. But a sweet vox has a way with me.

Tim O’Brien.

..mind you, we’re drifting into bluegrass here.

Marty Robbins, Freddy Fender, Jimmie Rodgers

I heh a mighty heh.

I’ll see your heh and raise you a bwaaa-ha-ha.

Hank Snow (Hellooo, Canada!)

(bows to Lesley’s Ian & Sylvia reference, having been distracted by songs like this one)

And even better.

Drinkin in my Sunday Dress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivIYJuKBMY&feature=related

Gawd help me, I love that woman…

mikey

Eddy Arnold was mostly dull but this is a spine-tingling yodel.

a little country from neil young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_oZpDYdvDk

steve earl

One of the most sincere dead dog songs ever:

“I aimed it at Shep’s faithful head.”

Oh man.

“I aimed it at Shep’s faithful head.”

…now if you’re just going to mock (given the target), that’s not much of a challenge!

…maybe we should pick on the minimalists – how ’bout Arvo Part!

A heap more on Oh Susanna’s MySpace page.

LOL – a good memory from bad times: a scary party-house I lived in back in the early 80s, previously owned by bikers, had a drawing of a badass metal-dude on the wall, holding some sort of suitably lethal weapon & wearing a T-Shirt proclaiming “ANNE MURRAY RULES!”

That is all.

I’m only partially mocking. Wilf Carter is such a sincere guy.

Listen to this and tell me he could ever tell a lie:
http://ia311228.us.archive.org/3/items/WilfCarter-aka-montanaSlim-201-210/WilfCartermontanaSlim-SleepLittleOneSleepyodel.mp3

other worthy canucks, Jim:
Dave Essig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGffySaUfaI

(first saw him at Mariposa folk festival in the early 70s)

Ellen McIlwaine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLD48n-gtQ
(phenomenal on slide guitar, was close to Jimi Hendrix)

I see her now and then in Vancouver.

another taste of early Ellen McIlwaine
song she wrote for Jimi Hendrix

We’s preferrin’ bluegrass, not country – Bill Monroe

Kim Barlow’s a sweetie.
She’s got some freebies on her site
http://www.kimbarlow.ca

http://kimbarlow.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/04-But%20He%20Dont.mp3

How could I forget Martha Wainwright
Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX-bIr8dr6U

She inherited her talent from Kate and Anna McGarrigle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3u_XzLx8ck
http://www.latribu.ca/mcgarrigle/news/default.asp

Ohmanohmanohman, “Joe” “the” “Plumber” has signed a deal for country music album.

Alright Sadly Naughts, what’s the title gonna be?

“Raisin’ on a Busted Flush”

Rightwingsnarkle said,
October 30, 2008 at 4:12

So far, all the reccs’ are of men.

henry lewis said,
October 30, 2008 at 3:46

???

Drunk balls, high balls, tripping balls, hallucinating balls, Asshole Surfer cartoon balls….they’re all inconsequential.

The Phucking Phillies Won The Phucking World Series.

Palin’s conceding and at the same time preparing to drive her party further into the ground.
Your running mate just ran off to be a ‘Rajneeshee’ cultist.

The deck of campaign headquarters is aflame.

And just when they’d gotten the deck chairs just the way they wanted them…

Clearly, Joetheplummer’s album will be titled “Take This Small Business and Shove It.”

Emmylou does a sweet Pancho & Lefty;)

That’s the version I first heard. My parents used to play it. The record is still somewhere at their house.

Me too J. My Mom used to play a version of that one when I was a kid. MIne’s more based off of Townes’ though. Never Willie though. I do like Emmylou better now, even if I was drowned in her as a kid.

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