What is this fluid descending from the skies? I've seen similar, but thought it available only from faucets.
Don't get it
I just don't get it. Why do so many Republicans want government out of our lives when it comes to taxes and regulations that provide for the general welfare and yet are eager to have government intrude on our most personal concerns of marriage and childbearing?
MARGARET SUPPLEE SMITH
Winston-Salem
More qualified
MARY LOU WILSON
Winston-Salem
Not by a vote
Marriage is a legal contract between two individuals. The legality of a contract should be determined by the courts and not by a vote of the people.
Let us imagine that in 1950, members of the General Assembly of North Carolina realized that there was a growing sentiment in the country against segregated schools. Therefore, in order to protect Southern traditions, the state legislature enacted legislation allowing the voters to vote on a constitutional amendment prohibiting black students from attending school with white students. Unfortunately, I believe that the majority of the voters of our state would have approved such an amendment. Legislators would be proud that they afforded the citizens the right to have their voices heard on such an important issue.
This elation, of course, would not be long-lasting. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education would have nullified the "separate but equal" amendment.
I can foresee the same scenario being played out today. Only this time it is not a hypothetical example. The General Assembly voted to allow the voters to vote on the "marriage amendment." The voters will likely approve it. The discriminatory amendment will be added to the state constitution. And years later, with hope, in my lifetime, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that depriving marriage to same-sex couples is unconstitutional.
The tide is turning against discrimination. Too bad our Republican legislators do not realize that love will always triumph over hate.
RUDY DIAMOND
Lewisville
In his own image
This letter is in regard to the outcry of lesbians and gays to have their unions made legal.
Our Bible tells us that God made every being, animals, birds, etc., including man, in his own image, male and female.
He made man in his own image and breathed life into him. He took a rib from man's side and formed a woman as a help-meet for him and brought her to him. He also said, "Go forth and replenish the earth." Gays and lesbians cannot do this.
Our Bible also says in the last days, such as this would be happening: Men leaving the natural use of a woman, burning in their own lusts one toward the other, men with men working that which is unseemly.
We all need to stand up and fight for our country and pray for it.
CARLENE F. HEDRICK
Kernersville
Agreement is harmful to U.S.
Well-negotiated Free Trade Agreements (FTA) can provide export opportunities and growth for U.S. companies. Unfortunately, the proposed U.S./Korea FTA (KORUS) provides little of either, especially for the U.S. textile industry. Our textile sector provides good-paying jobs to nearly 425,000 people. If KORUS is enacted in its current form, many of those jobs will shift to Korea and China. Our industry estimates that roughly 40,000 textile and related industry jobs could be lost if KORUS passes.
The National Council of Textile Organizations and its member companies are asking Congress to vote "No" when KORUS is introduced in the coming weeks because of two major flaws to the textile section: weak customs enforcement rules that encourage illegal transshipments of Chinese goods through Korea and one-sided duty phase-outs on many textile products that put U.S. textile companies at a disadvantage.
If KORUS is enacted as written, Chinese companies could avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in duties paid to the U.S. by labeling garments as "Made in Korea." Additionally, U.S. duties on many textiles drop to zero on day one of KORUS, while Korean duties on the same products stay in place.
FTAs are not inherently bad, and our industry has supported more than it has opposed. We offered simple and fair corrections that could have saved textile jobs in the U.S. But the president decided textile jobs were not worth the fight. Now the decision is up to Congress. We hope it votes to keep textile jobs here.
BILL JASPER
CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF UNIFI
GREENSBORO
Unifi's largest manufacturing facility is in Yadkinville. — The editor
I just don't get it. Why do so many Republicans want government out of our lives when it comes to taxes and regulations that provide for the general welfare and yet are eager to have government intrude on our most personal concerns of marriage and childbearing?
MARGARET SUPPLEE SMITH
Winston-Salem
More qualified
The past week has provided a wonderful opportunity for voters to compare the plans and philosophy of President Obama with those of the Republican candidates. Before a joint session of Congress in prime time, Obama called for yet again more spending as a way to create jobs — and this while our debt spirals out of control and stifles economic growth.
In watching the last two Republican debates, I found it abundantly clear that any one of these candidates is infinitely more qualified and prepared to deal with the huge problems this nation faces than our current administrator/community organizer.
MARY LOU WILSON
Winston-Salem
Not by a vote
Marriage is a legal contract between two individuals. The legality of a contract should be determined by the courts and not by a vote of the people.
Let us imagine that in 1950, members of the General Assembly of North Carolina realized that there was a growing sentiment in the country against segregated schools. Therefore, in order to protect Southern traditions, the state legislature enacted legislation allowing the voters to vote on a constitutional amendment prohibiting black students from attending school with white students. Unfortunately, I believe that the majority of the voters of our state would have approved such an amendment. Legislators would be proud that they afforded the citizens the right to have their voices heard on such an important issue.
This elation, of course, would not be long-lasting. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education would have nullified the "separate but equal" amendment.
I can foresee the same scenario being played out today. Only this time it is not a hypothetical example. The General Assembly voted to allow the voters to vote on the "marriage amendment." The voters will likely approve it. The discriminatory amendment will be added to the state constitution. And years later, with hope, in my lifetime, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that depriving marriage to same-sex couples is unconstitutional.
The tide is turning against discrimination. Too bad our Republican legislators do not realize that love will always triumph over hate.
RUDY DIAMOND
Lewisville
In his own image
This letter is in regard to the outcry of lesbians and gays to have their unions made legal.
Our Bible tells us that God made every being, animals, birds, etc., including man, in his own image, male and female.
He made man in his own image and breathed life into him. He took a rib from man's side and formed a woman as a help-meet for him and brought her to him. He also said, "Go forth and replenish the earth." Gays and lesbians cannot do this.
Our Bible also says in the last days, such as this would be happening: Men leaving the natural use of a woman, burning in their own lusts one toward the other, men with men working that which is unseemly.
We all need to stand up and fight for our country and pray for it.
CARLENE F. HEDRICK
Kernersville
Agreement is harmful to U.S.
Well-negotiated Free Trade Agreements (FTA) can provide export opportunities and growth for U.S. companies. Unfortunately, the proposed U.S./Korea FTA (KORUS) provides little of either, especially for the U.S. textile industry. Our textile sector provides good-paying jobs to nearly 425,000 people. If KORUS is enacted in its current form, many of those jobs will shift to Korea and China. Our industry estimates that roughly 40,000 textile and related industry jobs could be lost if KORUS passes.
The National Council of Textile Organizations and its member companies are asking Congress to vote "No" when KORUS is introduced in the coming weeks because of two major flaws to the textile section: weak customs enforcement rules that encourage illegal transshipments of Chinese goods through Korea and one-sided duty phase-outs on many textile products that put U.S. textile companies at a disadvantage.
If KORUS is enacted as written, Chinese companies could avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in duties paid to the U.S. by labeling garments as "Made in Korea." Additionally, U.S. duties on many textiles drop to zero on day one of KORUS, while Korean duties on the same products stay in place.
FTAs are not inherently bad, and our industry has supported more than it has opposed. We offered simple and fair corrections that could have saved textile jobs in the U.S. But the president decided textile jobs were not worth the fight. Now the decision is up to Congress. We hope it votes to keep textile jobs here.
BILL JASPER
CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF UNIFI
GREENSBORO
Unifi's largest manufacturing facility is in Yadkinville. — The editor
LTE1: This is more a Word watch comment, but I just don't get why "just don't it" has persisted in our lexicon as long as it has. With that nit picked, I agree with the LTE.
ReplyDeleteLTE2: This frequent LTE authoress is correct in a way. All the candidates are more qualified than was the one-time community organizer at the time of his election. That is irrelevant, as being more qualified than candidate Obama doesn't mean sufficiently qualified for the Presidency. Two shining examples of this are Perry and Bachmann. Perry certainly has the executive experience, and Bachmann has been a more reliable office holder, yes. But, both popularize wallowing in ignorance. Other candidates, Romney and Huntsman, IMO, show more promise.
LTE3: This LTE writer understands that we have a republican form of government to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. The Republicans do not understand that.
LTE4: This cafeteria biblical literalist should take note that the Bible also also proscribes the consumption of pork or shellfish, among other things. I doubt she adheres to that. It also says "an eye for an eye" in one place, and "turn the other cheek" in another, thus compelling a bit contortionism to abide by all its teachings. It also instructs, "Judge not that you be judged not," advice to be commended to self-righteous busybodies.
LTE5: This LTE writer is apparently a member of a KORUS of naysayers. I actually don't know enough re this issue to comment, past enjoying the opportunity to emit a silly play on words :)
He made man in his own image and breathed life into him. He took a rib from man's side and formed a woman as a help-meet for him and brought her to him. He also said, "Go forth and replenish the earth." Gays and lesbians cannot do this. ---Charlene Hedrick
ReplyDeleteDon't believe in the Bible, people will just call you a bigot, even though they are bigots also for their condemnation of your religious beliefs.
Please notice that a devote church goer is throwing rocks at your letter, and quoting the Bible at the same time. You gotta love it.
Lte1...you don't get it? Well, you are not going to get it. There is "good government intrusion" and there is bad "government intrusion" in our lives. All depends on who is intruding, what is being intruded upon and where on the social political scale of political correctness it falls. What happens will make some mad and others happy. Nothing will change in the long run. Where ever our society lands and in what ever condition it is in, society will proclaim itself good and normal. From G K Chesterton,"In its final days, Roman sculptors were left with creating works of their barbarian masters. All the most vulnerable in societies throughout time have been threatened with new "barbarism". Not necessarily by sword or gun but by books and pen, dripping with the ink of bad ideas."
ReplyDeleteLte2...qualification to be President are few. The candidates standing on that stage are no threat to me and what I believe. So I pay them no attention for now. The clear and present threat to our nation's well being and our standing in the world is the man living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Him I watch like a hawk. The most fully qualified person to be president will be the person who has the guts and leadership to tell America of just how dire our current fiscal situation really is in no uncertain terms. That candidate will have to withstand the rage from a populace that senses the truth already but may not yet be ready to hear it spoken aloud. Denial is comfortable only so long. That person will be most qualified to be President.
ReplyDeleteLte4...maybe that is why the Bible has been around so long. Anything can be justified by using it. Anything can be condemned by using it.
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone had the chance to see the video of a sniffling 100 lb female U.S. Marine that declared that she was a lesbian yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI tried to find it in order to attach it, but according to 'You Tube', it has been pulled because it contained images from AFP.
It's not exactly the image that the U.S. Marines wants to project around the world as the image of its fighting force.
There will be more such images......sadly.
Bucky, re throwing rocks. Please explain to me where I am in error in my comments and quotes.
ReplyDeleteWell, bucky, you have denied the Lord thrice, do you or do you not believe that God created man in his own image? As for a marine crying, the third man in line to be president of the United States and commander in Chief cries all the time. Not the image we want in our leaders?
ReplyDelete2nd in line, actually, Daniel Inouye is 3rd in Line
ReplyDeleteBobby...I'm probably a bigot in your eyes no matter what I say. At this point, I think I'd rather be called a bigot in this forum than be in Club Nitwit.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd seen the video of the sniffling little girl Marine, you'd know what I mean. You're probably the most reasoned person in here besides Whitewall.
I saw it on the news. I don't need to see the video, Cute little marine she is. I have never called you a bigot, but you have called me a nitwit.
ReplyDeletebut who's the bigger nitwit, the nitwits or the fool that spends all day arguing with nitwits?
ReplyDeleteSorry...Bob. I retract that statement and/or word. I certainly don't consider you a member of Club Nitwit or a nitwit.
ReplyDeleteI must have consumed too many diet sodas. I have no other excuse.
Good point Bob.
ReplyDeleteI like a good debate. It's too bad there's really on you and whitewall than can objectively debate an issue on the facts. Everybody else in here goes into their own emotional and politically correct world when things get heated.
diet sodas? say it's not so!!! I'm glad to be a member of club nitwit. It's the only club I would join that would have me as a member.
ReplyDeleteObama is doing what he does best today-making people mad.
ReplyDeleteHe just announced that he supported the Palestinian state. That oughta be good for a few more lost elections around the country in the coming months and next year. Hee Hee..you gotta love it.
Ha, ha..."diet sodas" triggered an image:
ReplyDeleteBuckwheat pounding down the street naked except for his Brooks Beast running shoes, sipping a diet soda...belly flopping...gurgle, gurgle.
Hope nobody is eating lunch right now...I know that's pretty gross.
that's odd, Bebe Netanyahu just praised President Obama for his middle east stance live on TV.
ReplyDeleteThere will be a palestinian state, just a matter of when and how.
ReplyDeleteI demand that the above post be removed at once.
ReplyDeleteQuit making fun of my daddy. he's a good daddy because he takes me to see the bucks with tatoos and antlers.
Knothead, Jr.
Bob and Whitewall are a pair of dangerous intellectuals. They are unique among their peers. Rarified air up here.
ReplyDeleteCome on Bob, you know Israeli leaders can't get in a tussel with U.S. leaders right now. However, it's no doubt the Jewish Community in the U.S. is up in arms over Obama's support.
ReplyDeleteWW, is that what that is, air? lol
ReplyDeleteHey Whitewall....I'll just settle for sane given the 'other' people that frequent this forum.
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: I don't get it either. The D's want to control your professional life and the R's want to control your personal life. That's why I wish there was an alternative.
LTE 2: In order to judge the qualifications, it helps to understand the issues. Public debt is not stifling the economy. People paying down personal debt instead of spending along with a high UR has slowed consumer spending (70% of GDP) and that's what is stifling the economy. The debt is just a byproduct. Romney and Huntsman are the only 2 R candidates that remotely seem to have a clue.
LTE 3: A SC decision did away with bans against mixed race marriages and I do see a day when there will be a similar decision regarding same sex marriage.
LTE 4: Theological argument...which incidentally has no place when it comes to making a constitutional change since all govt actions are to have a secular purpose according to the SC. Btw, aren't gay folks part of "our country" also?
LTE 5: I have no knowledge of the proposed FTA, but an entrenched global economy and American demand for every day low prices doesn't mesh with having American textile jobs.
Here comes the daily sawdust soup. I just push it away.
ReplyDeleteBucky, membership in Club Nitwit is automatically granted upon posting, cannot be rescinded.
ReplyDeleteStab
Head Nitwit/Membership Coordinator
Bob....well, it had better be!!
ReplyDeleteBucky...sane is over rated. It can be fleeting.
Actually Carlene is wrong. Gay and lesbian couples can replenish the earth. I know one lesbian couple that has 4 children, 2 adopted and 2 by artificial ensemination and a gay couple that has 4 children by a lesbian surrogate mom.
ReplyDeleteRush/KittyKat/Anonymous...I'll bet you're too busy buying up street quantities of 'ketamine' to get ready for your virgin dates to get any real exercise. So, I'd hate to see your fat ass. I'll bet your 'dates' hate to see it too.
ReplyDeleteBobby.....and how did those couples conceive? Not in a badend, I'll bet.
ReplyDeleteYes, “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
ReplyDeleteBucky - "how did those couples conceive?" - ever hear of artificial insemination?
ReplyDeleteartificial insemination, bucky, it's right there in my post
ReplyDeleteIn his thesis on Adam and eve, Buckwheat forgot to mention that Adam was alone in Eden for awhile and that during that time his job was naming the species. There are about 10 million species of life on earth today, and about 1 billion which have gone extinct, so if Adam named one species per second, it would have only taken him 31.7 years working 24/7/52. If he preferred the 40 hour work week, plus 2 weeks vacation per year, then it would have taken about 130 years.
ReplyDeleteBobby...come on, you know that comment was made for rhetorical reasons. I would expect dotnet to make such a ...comment, but not you.
ReplyDeleteI like Bobby and Buffy better than Bob. Bob sounds too formal to me.
ReplyDeleteKinda like I like to call Rush/Kitty Kat/Anonymous-nitwit. It just seems to fit.
My name is Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, and I am a 20 year aviator with the U.S. Air Force.
ReplyDeleteI’ve flown over 88 combat missions – including the longest combat sortie in my squadron’s history.
I was hand-picked as one of the initial alert crews to defend D.C.’s airspace in the hours and days after 9/11. I’ve received the Meritorious Service Medal, nine Air Medals - including one for Heroism, one Navy and five Air Force Commendation Medals.
Normally, I wouldn’t feel the need to highlight my record. But I also happen to be gay.
so Bucky, do you believe that God made man in his own image?
ReplyDeleteStab....where did you get that truck signage? That's pretty good. Hee Hee...I bet you love it.
ReplyDeleteI believe in a lot of things Bobby, I'm hedging my bets. How about you?
ReplyDeleteStab...I get to throw nitwits into Club Nitwit. You get to decide whether to keep them, or throw them out. That was the deal remember?
ReplyDeleteWhitewall, Bob, and I are not in Club Nitwit as of this writing. Bob, however, has indicated he wants to join.
The rest of the regular members like Arthur, La Sombra, and Sharon etc...are all independents right now as far as I'm concerned.
You're the Head Nitwit so naturally you're in. And of course, your 'special assistant nitwit-Rush/Kitty/Anonymous is obviously in based on his mental state and his intellectual deficiencies.
Bucky, everyone is in the club. This site is an authoritarian and egalitarian: everyone suffers.
ReplyDelete:D
Since Buckwheat is such an expert on biblical matters, maybe he can help me with a lifelong question . There are two stories in Genesis about how Adam and Eve got made. Which one is true? Is it this one:
ReplyDelete1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Or is it this one:
2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Blah,blah,blah
2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Until some gays started peeping at them...that's why they invented clothes.
Sorry Stab...you don't get to decide.
ReplyDeleteHey could you also put on the truck that I report homosexuals that use public bathrooms for sex? After all, that's how the banging buck story got started. And it is illegal.
My highest goal at the moment has to do with a squirrel that has found my back deck and my lettuce beds. I hope to use my pellet rifle and shoot him in the butt. The other club will have to wait.
ReplyDeleteDaddy, you just told another lie and I'm gonna tell mommy.
ReplyDeleteYou never did report any of those guys in the restroom, but you did go home with them. If you don't stop telling lies, you are going to end up at the bad end of the bad place.
Knothead, Jr.
Hey Rush/Kitty Kat/Anonymous...why don't you just use your regular name? Everybody knows it's you. Nobody else in the forum is that big of a nitwit to post such dumb nonsense. It's not clever or funny, it's nitwitted.
ReplyDeleteBucky, that photo was sent to me sometime back by one of your fellow posters (Readers' Forum). I don't remember who sent it, or where he shot that pic. I suggest you contact a sign company.
ReplyDeleteDang it! I wanted it to say: 'We'll bust you bucks' on the side too.
ReplyDelete'We'll bust your bucks'....I was laughing too hard.
ReplyDeleteBucky, great news, the Harry Tata has Schweddy Balls on sale, buy one get one free. Stock up.
ReplyDeleteBetter hurry, Buckup. i just drove by there and the line is halfway across the parking lot.
ReplyDeleteMichele Bachmann poses with dead meat in Iowa
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/michele-bachmann-poses-dead-meat-iowa-195726075.html
Birds of a feather. Ok, I give up, which one is Michelle?
You've lost me Bobby. You know I'm not in the gay culture. I was dragged into it by the banging gay bucks I encountered some years ago.
ReplyDeleteSince then, I've learned a little, but I'm not fluent.
so very little indeed.
ReplyDeleteI might be a nitwit, but I'm pretty sure Harry Tata = Harris Teeter.
ReplyDeleteAnd Schweddy Balls is a Ben & Jerry's flavor. The name comes from an old SNL skit...which is very funny, by the way.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/116203/saturday-night-live-schweddy-balls-with-alec-intro
:), Arthur, you are spot on as always.
ReplyDeleteBuckbart's favorite flavor was Vanilla with Kit Kat, long since discontinued. He does love those Schweddy Balls though.
ReplyDeleteArthur...you don't want me to go into a my 'you might be a nitwit' routine do you? Hee Hee...
ReplyDeleteBTW, there is an actual person named Harry Tata, a craftsman who lives in Massachusetts. Know him through his daughter. Interesting guy.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.facebook.com/harry.tata
Oh, tremble in your boots, Arthur. He's gonna do his "you might be a nitwit" routine.
ReplyDeleteHere's a philosophical question: If you are called a nitwit by a nitwit, does that count? Are you a nitwit, or is the only nitwit the nitwit who called you a nitwit? Please ponder.
How many wits would a nitwit knit if a nitwit could knit wits?
ReplyDeleteSort of like a double negative...
ReplyDeleteI really like that truck. I think it needs two nude gay bucks in the rodeo position though. Just to jazz things up some. What do you guys think?
ReplyDeleteI love jazz, but I'm more of a classical aficionado myself.
ReplyDeletefor some reason that reminded me of the amoeba joke that someone, I think a regular poster here, posted on the Journal website today. I don't remember it exactly, so have rewritten it:
ReplyDeleteTwo amoebae drinking in a bar. They get into an argument about evolution. Finally, the fundamentalist amoeba says"You can natter on about Darwin all you want, but you're wrong. God made us in His image."
Oh Jeez...give up the joke telling Rush/Kitty Kat. You oughta give up a lot others things too. Like your use of ketamine on your virgins.
ReplyDeleteI know, Winton Marsalis playing Purcell.
ReplyDeleteKetamine was first used on Soldiers during the vietnam war.
ReplyDeleteGood evening, folks!
ReplyDeleteArthur, thank you for the Harry Tata/Schweddy Balls explanation. I was mystified. I did see a long line extending across Whitaker Square. That must be some ice cream.
OT, JD posted the amoeba joke.
Bucky, some years back, I told a coworker the joke about rodeo sex, where the husband and wife assume the rodeo position, with the hubby being the, um, rider. He embraces his wife firmly, then whispers tenderly in her ear, "My girlfriend likes this." Thus the name "rodeo sex."
This genius took his wife to Myrtle Beach, and actually tried it out. Worked as advertised. I understand his sex life is now the best it's ever been. Of course, it's with another woman. He and his astonished wife parted ways sometime after that vacation.
Back in the good old days when Street Scene was drawing huge crowds downtown every fall, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers played an extraordinary set under the pedestrian bridge on Third Street on Sunday night to close the festival.
ReplyDeleteBefore the set, Art was holding court for some of his fans and said "I got me a hot young trumpet player." Nobody had ever heard of him. "Is he any good?" somebody asked. "You're about to find out," Art said.
Then he went on stage and began introducing his band. The trumpet player was some unknown guy named Winton Marsalis, and we did indeed find out.
The International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA), founded in 1985, is the sanctioning body for gay rodeos held throughout the United States and Canada.
ReplyDeleteCool story, O.T.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Purcell and Marsalis are a match made in paradise.
ReplyDeleteThat Blakey set was extraordinary for another reason. There had to be at least 5,000 people packed into the space between the bridge and Liberty Street and on the bridge itself. It was close to 50-50 black and white, easily the largest mixed race crowd ever in this town up to then. And everybody was smiling...smiling at Art and his band...smiling at the sky...smiling at each other. Just the way Dr. King envisioned it.
ReplyDeleteMarsalis played Street Scene...who knew?
ReplyDelete☺ ☻ ☺ ☻ ☺ ☻ ☺ ☻
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/Wynton-Marsalis-Baroque-Music-Trumpet/dp/B0000025XP/ref=pd_sim_m1
ReplyDeleteHe has made several albums with Raymond Leppard and the english chamber orchestra
Marsalis has performed in Winston-Salem in 93, 05, and 09
ReplyDeleteStreet Scene drew as many as 150,000 people from Friday night through Sunday night, year after year. And the question is more like who DIDN'T play there.
ReplyDeleteThere were many great performances. On that same stage, Herbie Mann played the Pied Piper to a huge crowd. And another year on that stage, Doug Kershaw, the Louisiana Man himself, nearly blew the roof off the Reynolds Building, frayed bowstrings flying in the wind.
When he struck up "Cajun Dixie" the crowd went into a frenzy and wouldn't let him stop. Every time he'd start winding it down, the crowd would roar "ONE MORE TIME" and Doug would grin and start sawing. It lasted about 20 minutes.
The Kingston Trio did a set on the Trade Street stage one year. Of course, they closed with "Tom Dula", maybe their biggest hit, a song from Wilkes County. After they finished, I asked Bob Shane why they didn't do "Poor Ellen Smith", a big hit from the 1960s.
"Well we can't do them all," he said. Somehow he didn't know that Poor Ellen was murdered on Glade Street and two years later her killer was hanged before the biggest crowd ever to attend a public execution in Forsyth County. When I told him, he said "Oh, shit, we blew it, didn't we." That's OK, Bob, just sing "Scotch 'n' Soda" for us one more time.
I like Bob's little graphic...white face, black face, white face, black face. That's just the way it was. And people were doing more than smiling...they were talking to each other as well.
ReplyDeleteIf we could just have Art Blakey playing live around the clock everywhere, many of the world's problems would disappear.
:) it's alt 1 and alt 2 on my computer
ReplyDelete♥♦♣♠ alt345and 6 lol. it's how I learned to use a computer, just press some keys and see what happens. ♂♂
The best way to learn anything. That's how almost all kids do it.
ReplyDeleteI once taught some courses in PhotoShop. I walked the class through every menu item so they could see all the endless possibilities. Then I told them, that's it, now you go home and play with all that and see what you come up with. Class dismissed.
Bob, I see that LaSombra can embolden text in her comments on this site. How does she do that?
ReplyDeleteI had PhotoShop on a work computer that I inherited when the company eliminated my department, me, and my staff. They neglected to ask me to return it. I was able to once attach Osama Bin Laden's head on to an enrobed person shaking Bill Clinton's hand in a receiving line. I don't remember how I did it, wish I had PhotoShop once again.
I put the doctored pic online, never have been able to find it in a Google searach. The drive on the inherited computer crashed, so it is lost.
Well, Stab, you can have PhotoShop, on steroids, again for free.
ReplyDeleteJust visit this website: http://www.gimpshop.com/
Read all about it, then download the FREE program.
Learning all the ins and outs should keep you busy in any free time that Mrs Stab allows you in the foreseeable future.
But who knows, you might be the one who manages to paste my brain into Ricky Perry's head, thus creating the worst monster since Godzilla.
Thank you, OT. I will work on vivifying King Gidorah as soon as Mrs. Stab looks the other way, while I'm bagging my limit out of the fridge.
ReplyDeleteStab, there are 2 ways to embed text effects on sites like blogspot.
ReplyDeleteBob is using one of them, which involves using the alt/keyboard combination that is built into Windoze. As we have seen, that sometimes produces unexpected results. There are similar keyboard combos available to Mac users. There are built-in help guides on both computer systems to let you know what you MIGHT expect from using such combinations.
La Sombra may be using the other method, which is to type HTML codes directly into the "Comment" box. That will usually work more consistently.
As the owner of the blog, you have much more control than posters. For example, you can easily post pictures, as you have done several times. Posters can do that too, if they are willing to take the time to figure out the appropriate HTML codes for it.
More than one of my undergraduate professors said "When you leave here, any day that you do not learn something new is a wasted day." Couldn't agree more. Maybe I will post a picture here soon. Maybe not. It's all about time and motivation.
Stab, I found a table on another site I post on with instructions on HTML and tags. You might ask dotnet for more information. I've tried it here, but not all of them work in one post. I also tried to C&P the instructions FYI, but it didn't paste well so I'll try to email you the instructions.
ReplyDeleteHello, LaSombra! And thanks to both you and OT. I agree with OT's undergrad prof. Feel free to post pix as you wish. I would like to arrange more autonomy for users, but that means moving to a different hosted site, which I have but haven't had the time to service it to making it more friendly than this one. Perhaps in the interim between jobs I can get it going.
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