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Posted on October 11 at 6:05 a.m.
Do you thing Todd Snider had Coe in mind?
"Old-timer, old-timer, it's too late to die young now.
Old-timer. Five-and-dimer tryin' to find a way
to age like wine somehow.
I've met every fool that ever signed their name upon these walls
in the backs of all these beer joints and concert halls.
I've been through seven managers, five labels,
a thousand picks and patch cables,
three vans, a band, a bunch of guitar stands
and cans and cans and cans of beer
and bottles of booze and bags of pot
and a thousand other things that I've forgot
I thought that I'd be dead by now.
But I'm not."
And for what it's worth, the Perfect Country Song Coe is known for was written by a peace-loving, Vietnam war-hating hippie named Steve Goodman.
Who is dead.
On Country legend David Allan Coe to headline Collier County Bike Night next week
Posted on October 10 at 1:30 a.m.
RE #5:
This pays better.
Posted on October 9 at 8:57 p.m.
"Attorney generals is plural, his grammer is correct."
Swamp, you've committed the cardinal sin of exposition by writing what is known as a "comma splice," two sentences joined by a comma.
And you topped it off by misspelling grammar.
On State senator Saunders on board of company called a pyramid scheme
Posted on October 9 at 8:12 p.m.
Comes Kelly Farrell, a modern-day professional journamalist, with an abject and utter inability to fathom the intricacies of subject-verb agreement:
1) "About 100 lots totalling 200 acres is owned by various private land owners . . . "
No, the acres ARE owned.
2) "The City of Naples efforts to annex the island came after Collier County abandoned their plans for a public ferry."
No, Collier County abandoned ITS plans.
3) "Lytton said he sees potential for the annexation to help Rookery Bay reach their management goals."
No, Rookery Bay wants to reach ITS management goals.
4) "Collier County seems to have disengaged temporarily to allow a cooling down period from their controversial ferry proposal."
Once again, ITS, not theirs.
There's also this gem of construction:
"Someone else’s loud music is no more enjoyable to a nearby (human) visitor as it is to the nesting birds."
Whatever that means.
And finally . . .
"The state owns about 85 percent of Keewaydin which is managed by Rookery Bay Estuarine Research Reserve."
The writer's lack of familiarity with the conventions surrounding the use of restrictive and non-restrictive clauses renders this sentence ambiguous. Does the state own 85 percent of the island, which is all managed by RBNERR? Or does RBNERR manage 85 percent of the land the state owns?
Grammar counts. Except among the professional reporters and editors employed at the NDN.
The old-timers said that taking care of the small stuff ensured that the big stuff would be right. It's a shame no one at the NDN bothered to learn that truism of the craft.
Posted on October 9 at 7:18 p.m.
Did Burt really say "attorney generals?"
Say it's not so. Surely he knows the correct term is attorneys general.
On State senator Saunders on board of company called a pyramid scheme
Posted on October 9 at 6:18 a.m.
Good points, Vole.
I had no basis for injecting the Christian thoughts, although since you bring it up, I agree that Christ taught independence, not entitlement.
I disagree, though, that the trend toward subsidizing the shiftless is solely the work of bleeding heart liberal politicians. If you "follow the money" you'll usually find powerful economic interests behind most government initiatives. Food stamps, for instance, were promoted heavily by the grocery industry, which didn't make a cent when the government distributed excess commodities to help feed the poor.
And I stand by my point that Roosevelt's New Deal was aimed at rebuilding the country from the ground up. Because of that, FDR was widely derided and hated by, among others, the ancestors of today's president, whose policies toward the poor range from indifference to malign neglect.
Remember "My base. . . the haves and the have-mores."?
It's very hard to "find your way" and break the cycle of poverty when the culture is shifiting toward a small-government model that favors cronyism, separation by demographics and the end to public financing of infrastructure, including education.
Grover Norquist bragged of drowning government in the bathtub. George Bush has helped him do that, in terms of social programs. But what we find when the water is drained, too often, are the bodies of children. We should, as a nation and as a culture, have higher goals for our self-determined selves.
On Woman charged with attacking sixth grade student in school
Posted on October 8 at 10:42 p.m.
Some of the Chinese, BTV. But certainly not all of them.
China has blended the best parts of capitalism and totalitarianism and arrived at a system that should induce cringes in anyone who understands the American concept of liberty. Entire regions are evacuated for nothing more than the profit motives of the politically connected. The execution rate is horrendous, and kept secret. The widescale corruption and tampering of food and medicine has given consumers across the world toxic toys and unsafe food and medicine. Remember the bad dog food, the bad heparin, and the bad milk?
Not taking a thing away from your grandfather, Vole, but I'm assuming that in addition to being diligent and self-disciplined, he also had the benefit of living under a government that placed a higher premium on helping Americans get ahead than the present one does.
And without defending the sorry individual in the story above, I think a look at the statistics and the present economic climate with its litter of Enrons and Bear Stearns and subprime bandits and predatory lenders should persuade us that we're living under an administration today that is tragically indifferent to the plight of anyone not born well off.
That's not an excuse for the sorry creature above. I see plenty of them in my own work and despise their lack of values.
But I also recognize that once they were the tiny babies you did pity, and that obviously our system failed to rescue them from the hell their accident of birth occasioned, or to care about them at all until they became another pest to control.
We can't have it two ways. We practice Christ's teachings about the poor and the weak without regard to coincidental benefits to the unworthy, or we pick a less demanding aspect of "Christianity" and thereby worship the false god that such a selfish choice constitutes.
On Woman charged with attacking sixth grade student in school
Posted on October 7 at 6:10 a.m.
rickyd2000:
Those weren't the words I heard. I heard her call Obama a terrorist and preside calmly over a crowd in which at least one miscreant was yelling "kill him."
I know that's Ann Coulter's version of an American value. Is it yours?
Posted on October 7 at 5:52 a.m.
Post 22: Nice way with words.
Post 23: The powers behind the Cheney administation have been manufacturing what you call "liberals" for nearly eight years now.
Post 24: Not just someone, an actor named Frances McDormand.
Post 25: Maybe we are but you're too dependent on regimentation to recognize it.
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Posted on October 11 at 12:41 p.m.
HarleyHog:
In the words of the immortal Jesse Coulter:
I'm Not Eco
Yours,
elnuestros
On Country legend David Allan Coe to headline Collier County Bike Night next week