You can hear the English ballads in the background of this cowboy song, especially when you compare this early version with later ones by The Sons of the Pioneers or Johnny Cash which modernize the song with familiar harmonies and intervals.
Recorded at Kilrush Fleadh Cheoil,County Clare in the Summer of 1966.
December 19, 2015
HISTORY: Hitler really did have just one ball: historian. ” After Hitler’s arrest in 1923 following his failed Beer Hall Putsch, the future Führer underwent a medical exam, according to documents found in a Bavarian archive by University of Erlangen history Professor Peter Fleischmann. At the Landsberg prison, Hitler was examined by Dr Josef Brinsteiner, who found that he suffered from ‘right-side chryptorchidism’, or an undescended right testicle, Fleischmann told Bild.”
From Ricochet.com on the comments to a list of gloomy predictions for 2016 comes some good news from a shrewd member.
Other good news, in a fashion, is that it will be possible to make big money on the stock market if you invest for a major downturn by “shorting” the market. I won’t get into the details because if you don’t know the techniques for doing that, you should probably not try it. Just go to cash and wait for the chance to buy stocks “on the cheap.”
If I had to add a leading Good News story for 2016 it would be that concealed carry of all those pistols being purchased for Christmas will become fashionable. It will also be a good year to own an indoor range. (Chicago, DC, LA and the States of CT, NJ and NY being the exception for both.)
Recently John Bachelor interviewed a historian who spoke of the Vietnam War and how we lost it because the Vietcong set out to show more willingness to die for their cause than we for ours. The American public was led (misled?) into believing our effort was hopeless and too costly. We finally agreed. Let the North gobble the South. I watched in shame as we abandoned our former friends.
I believe we are in grave danger unless and until we see to it that ISIS ceases to hold territory. I also believe that we cannot negotiate with ISIS.
Now, ISIS loves killing and dying. We do not. This poses a problem for my belief that we must deprive Isis of its base, almost certainly by use of ground troops.
If we wage a military campaign we will inevitably need to recall it for political reasons. It seems futile to enter Mesopotamia since in short order we will lose heart for the fight.
Will we have the heart for what is coming, I wonder.
Will we stand up to these barbarians who massacre the innocent and desecrate the classical heritage of antiquity, too?
Then I recall that
Will we stand up to these barbarians who massacre the innocent and desecrate the classical heritage of antiquity, too?
Then I recall that
A committee of teachers and administrators agreed this week that the "community costs" outweighed the "literary benefit" of keeping Huckleberry Finn in in the high school curriculum.
Nevermind that no one ever asks the majority of the parents what THEY might want in the way of decent education for their children.
Nevermind that Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn the "best book we have"--partly because it is realistic.
Nevermind that Jim is the most decent father figure in the book, especially compared with white trash Pap.
Nevermind that Jim is no Uncle Tom (pace Richard Ellison): he is righteously angry and reproves Huck for the practical joke Huck has played upon him in the fog.
Nevermind that Huck takes the lesson to heart and apologizes to the him
Nevermind that Huck decides he would rather lose his soul and suffer in Hell forever than betray his friend Jim: "Very well, then, I will GO to hell" he decides, instinctively knowing that Jim cannot be stolen "property."
Nevermind all that. These elitists have now declared that the author is racist or offensive or insensitive and that an illiterate reading of a classic text deserves respect and honor and even the force of school law to enforce the little bit of their Sharia.
And we are the people who must stand up to ISIS and show them that we will fight and die for our principles MORE than they will for theirs?
Are we kidding? Should we just order our prayer mats now?
This description of conditions during the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) by Thucydides seems eerily apt for the political scene these days.
"Revolution thus ran its course from city to city, and the places where it arrived at last, from
having heard what had been done before, carried to a still greater excess the refinement of their
inventions, as manifested in the cunning of their enterprises and the atrocity of their reprisals.
Words had to change their ordinary meanings and to take those which were now given them. Reckless
audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal supporter; prudent hesitation, specious
cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question
incapacity to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting a
justifiable means of self defense. The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his
opponent a man to he suspected. To succeed in a plot was to have a shrewd head, to divine a plot a
still shrewder; but to try to provide against having to do either was to break up your party and to be
afraid of your adversaries" (3.82.3-5).
But probably we would assign the roles to different actors. The reference to language control screams PC, but who gets to play "Reckless Audacity" in your version?
Sir or Madam,
I was shocked to read in The Daily Mail
that someone is claiming to control Yoga (just as the Chinese
claim ownership of Tibetan Buddhism). Who in the name of Ying and Yang can claim
to own a philosophy? Some Person? Some Tribe? Some cult leaders? Some interest
groups? Someone looking to create a power base for further extortion of the
kind that has already turned the university into a “diversity” with results
disastrous to learning and liberty. If individual liberty means
anything it means the right to blaspheme in public. And here, you won’t even
let a certain word be used. And if you think the robust freedom I advocate is
just another word for oppression, you just get rid of it or fool with it. What
you hoped would lead to good outcomes might end up surprising you in a nasty
way when the power to control you seek is used by someone for some hateful goal.
It is time to re-read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The Ricochet Daily Blast reports
Forces may be gathering to actually hit back at Trump. John Kasich’s SuperPAC, New Day for America, is said to be preparing ads to attack Trump. But a newer SuperPAC, Trump Card LLC, plans to produce anti-Trump ads comparing the billionaire to his arch nemesis.
That’s right, they plan to sink Trump by linking him to Rosie O’Donnell.
Who are these geniuses? Maybe they should go after ISIS.