Random ramblings from an amateur rock-n-roll historian and critic,self-professed bourbon aficionado, blackberry growin', jam makin', sometime tie-die shirt makin', ex hippie wannabe, turned punk rock lovein', blues festival going, middle aged pudgy bald white guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summertime and happens to be more Stax than Motown, more Alman Brothers than Skynard, more Stones than Beatles, more NASCAR than Baseball, more freeware than license keys...
"The Center for Strategic and International Studies
CSIS l
ists major funding from defense contractors such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and General Atomics."
Just so hard to believe right?
An American think tank funded in part by defense contractors (and Japan as well I might add) doesn't see Taiwan winning unless the US is involved...Who would have ever thunk something like that would have been possible? Thats sarcasm BTW)
"If America goes to war its allies will likely follow and Japan will be the first one..."
"Tokyo is preparing for this scenario...Japan has been going back on it's post (WWII) pacifism..."
"Threaten Japanese islands and important sea routes..." 3:08 mark.
(Just threatening those alone will have catastrophic consequences for millions...)
"From a country (Japan) with a pacifist constitution? To the country with the worlds third largest military spender"
(In the blink of an eye basically.
I mean you cant see this one coming?
You dont see war on two fronts that we just will not win?
That nobody will emerge from in any way stronger?
This is what the US was always afraid of and now it's here.
Russia in that direction
China in that one
and we cant beat them both.
Somebody please tell me the last time we raised up and army?
Trained it
Equipped it?
And it went on to fight and accomplish the task that was set out for it?
I dont mean our armed forces, I mean a force we trained and equipped?
Our record for success in these endeavors is pretty lopsided TBH.
It just not going to happen.)
"The CSIS says that Japan will suffer large losses in the Taiwan war but Japan will not be the only one bleeding."
"China will destroy the US bases in Japan even as far away as Guam."
(Thats why it's called the Guam killer, they didn't make 'em just to make 'em...and I told you that's why we moved the fighters out of there (Okinawa)...protecting assets, getting ready...)
"This think tank (CSIS) says China will sink 2 US aircraft carriers and 20 destroyers and cruisers."
(That is way to rosy a scenario...the end result is going to be nothing short of horrific...
China will just keep fielding ships...three to our one and we dont have the infrastructure to build the sub fleet we need right now today to counter it. They will not care about losses. It's a win now once and forever mentality, them and the Russians both. Like I said this is THE moment they have both been waiting for since we've come on the scene.)
"They (CSIS) see the invading force (China) destroyed before securing any significant part of Taiwan."
(It's just way to rosy a scenario the entire (CSIS)report. It does paint it as a battle of the next war which is entirely correct but to me? All 24 scenarios they envisioned were an Amphibious landing force. They said the same tactics and results would be in play during a blockade. I disagree with that because not the same factors would be in play most of all the shipping lanes are about to get all jacked up, you can starve em out so to speak and having a defensive perimeter would seem to me to be able to add to the Chinese capability/resources to track down our subs and they already have sensors on the ocean floor as far away as Guam, so it kinda changes things in a manner the CSIS didn't address as well as the taking out of the base where our subs get their signal to go to antenna depth to get their orders being taken out by a Hypersonic we dont have a defense for before things even get started. So yeah, problems big time with the CSIS report.)
"That it will be Taiwan's victory and At the end of the day it is Taiwan who remains Autonomous. Or so believe these American experts. Sounds like a dream on paper."
(Because it is. It's a delusion.
This is the military industrial complex speaking.
They were gonna have parades and throw roses on the ground when we went to Iraq too.
Anybody remember that?
Didn't quite go that way did it?)
If we dont rush to fight with Taiwan?
Three months...
Or less.
So the experts say.
From 7:30 on she's kinda in her own lil dream world lol...
"Never trust a cheeseburger you can't take the bun off of."
"Never trust a rock-n-roll band that can't play at least five Chuck Berry songs."
"Satisfying more desperate housewives than the spin cycle."
"she's not drunk, she's just mean!"
"swampadelic!!!"
"We self medicate the depression that is a direct result of the obsessive compulsiveness"
"what's crackalackin?"
"Your curse is my blessing"
Quotes from the 09 WC Handy Blues Fest
"We're an army and we're growing"
"Thats award winnin strutin' right there"
"That's shakin' it like the pros do"
"It's just Jimi passin' by"
"I walked in the door and saw hubert and my old lady doing the funky chicken right down in the middle of the floor"
"I spent $500 to save you $300, thats almost half off"
"I hate loud music, blues music and Heat"
"I don't know, that might be Jimi and Stevie"
"I don't buy enough shit to try and talk people down to start with"
"as long as you don't have that 38 it's all cool!"
People Of The WC Handy Blues fest
Ol' Dancin' Couple
Freaky Lookin' Dude
Mother and Daughter
Purple Hat Lady
Old Soldier
Got Grey Hair Now Duse
Subnet.com People
T- Shirt Guy
Quotes from "Porch Night Out"
"...are there any ding dongs left?..."
"...are those the Cheetos?...
"...can a brother get a lil ananimity?..."
"What was I supposed to be writing?..."
"YEAH!!......I'm sorry what?..."
"...there aint no dope on Bowling Green..."
"...somebodys got to drive my fat ass to Philpot..."
"...snapper shit..."
"...18 to 80, blind, crippled, or crazy..."
"...higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride..."
"...Whiskey Dicked..."
Quotes from Bowling Green Trip
Andrew, "Look a trailer with Christmas lights on it". "Thats not a trailer, thats a school bus!, and it doesn't have Christmas lights on it", Dave
Andrew, "Is the computer on?". "No you have to turn it on for it to be on", NA
"Well, it is getting toward wintertime", NA on Big breasted women.
"She wont get horny, she'll just get pissed off", BC
"Now do you want to smoke paper or do you want to smoke...", NA
"I'm squinting, everything s blurry..."Andrew
"I might just gateway across the spectrum", Dave
Overheard in Hancocok County
Criminal Girl, "oh shit, that wasn't the ash can!, that was my purse!!, Preacher Man, "If you go messing around with a skunk, you ought naught be surprised when you end up a little smelly.""If your clean, you aint eating it right", guy eating barbq.Country Boy, "I think those jerks on first shift were trying to poison us."Country Boys' Date, "Well, you didn't have to eat it now did you?"Country Boy, "But it was pizza". Big Guy to Clerk: "look at me, does it look like I want cheese sauce?"Overheard from phone: "Why the hell are you watching that?" Reply "Because it's on." Country Boy, "She got fired for doing some guy in the parking lot. Typical Tell City Chick..." Country Boy, "It done dried!"
Overheard at Work
"Has anybody seen the hemostats?"
"How are you?" "I'm doing well. It's early."
"I aint in any hurry."
"I am the queen of 8:15"
"I don't care if she takes over a Russian satalite with it..."
"I don't know anything, I'm just a suit"
"I plan on being reasonably functional for most of the day"
"I tried to reformat it, but it takes a frigin' act of congress or somethin'..."
"I'm like a brownie at a weight watchers meeting, I'm gone..."
"I'm not their boss, and I'm not their moma..."
"It would help to have your mouse over the link, yes..."
"It's a vortex of evil down there"
"It's not that I'm not listening to you, it's that I am having trouble comprehending you"
"Just click it with your mouth."
"Man, it's fried", "Like chicken..."
"The only thing I'm handy with is a doughnut"
"Why don't you go troubleshoot a Network Printer or something?"
"You are starting to scare me with your new found caffinefreeness..."
"You might not want to mess with me, I have a bladder infection"
Great Music Quotes
"If they wanted to name rock-n-roll something else, they could have called it Chuck Berry", John Lennon."Tune low and play hard", Stevie Ray Vaughn "What do I want a pick for, I got five of them on my hand." Gatemouth Brown "The Grateful Dead should be sponsored by the government -- a public service." Jerry Garcia "Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over." Elvis Presley "Free your mind and your ass will follow." George Clinton
Great Guitarists
Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Tab Benoit, SRV, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen, Pete Anderson, Steve Cropper, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, James Burton, Ron Wood, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Freddie King, Albert King, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Prince, The Edge, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Slash, Joe Walsh, Joe Lewis Walker, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Kim Thayil, Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Rait, "Gatemouth" Brown, Johnny Winter, Tinsley Ellis, Lightnin Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Castro, Hubert Sumlin, Tom Morello, Elmore James, Brian Jones, Jeff Beck, Mike Campbell, Steve Via...
Great Keyboardists
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard,
Johnie Johnson,
Booker T. Jones,
Ray charles,
Billy Preston,
Fats Domino,
Roy Bittan,
Pinetop Perkins,
Bernie Worrell,
Benmont Tench,
Sly Stone
Great Bass Players
Duck Dunn, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Bill Wyman, Jack Bruce, Robbie Shakespear,
Bootsy Collins, Tony Levine, Willie Dixon, Les Claypool, Noel Redding, Flea, Adam Clayton
2 Turtles, (1 released, I think it was a she and she was preggers) 4 Frogs (1 of them a Tree Frog, 1 of them about as big as thr tip of my index finger), 2 salamanders, countless worms and lightning bugs, 1 big ugly lookin' thing with wings on it...
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