All Time Great Koko Taylor Has Passed At Age 80

For those that do not listen to the Blues Koko Taylor was a musical giant among the players because, first and foremost, she was a player, not a poser. Tough with a heart of gold and a voice of gravelly silk, Taylor stayed to her roots and matched the boys toe-to-toe with a passion for life and music that could be exhausting just to see and hear, much as it must have been to watch Mozart conduct.



Just wow. Absolutely wow. I got me some Blues to listen to to give my respect to the passing of this great singer.

Some history:

Born Cora Walton on a sharecropper’s farm just outside Memphis, TN, on September 28, 1928, Koko, nicknamed for her love of chocolate, fell in love with music at an early age. Inspired by gospel music and WDIA blues disc jockeys B.B. King and Rufus Thomas, Taylor began belting the blues with her five brothers and sisters, accompanying themselves on their homemade instruments. In 1952, Taylor and her soon-to-be-husband, the late Robert “Pops” Taylor, traveled to Chicago with nothing but, in Koko’s words, “thirty-five cents and a box of Ritz Crackers.”

In Chicago, “Pops” worked for a packing company, and Koko cleaned houses. Together they frequented the city’s blues clubs nightly. Encouraged by her husband, Koko began to sit in with the city’s top blues bands, and soon she was in demand as a guest artist. One evening in 1962 Koko was approached by arranger/composer Willie Dixon. Overwhelmed by Koko’s performance, Dixon landed Koko a Chess Records recording contract, where he produced her several singles, two albums and penned her million-selling 1965 hit “Wang Dang Doodle,” which would become Taylor’s signature song.

Koko Taylor was one of very few women who found success in the male-dominated blues world. She took her music from the tiny clubs of Chicago’s South Side to concert halls and major festivals all over the world. She shared stages with every major blues star, including Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy as well as rock icons Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.

Taylor’s final performance was on May 7, 2009 in Memphis at the Blues Music Awards, where she sang “Wang Dang Doodle” after receiving her award for Traditional Blues Female Artist Of The Year.

One World Nuclear Weapons

In the Czech Republic in early April Obama said this;
The president said that the solutions will include preventing the production of more nuclear weapons, negotiating a new international treaty and strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

He warned that countries that break the rules will face immediate consequences, including automatic referral to the U.N. Security Council.

A few days ago our government 'accidentally' released the locations of our nuclear sites:
The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.

Now, Obama in a speech in Cairo stated:
No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.

Who should choose? If no one nation holds nuclear weapons, who will? What is Obama describing here, possibly a super government that will have the right to pick and choose, IE govern, all nations? Who will rule this super government? Who will decide who will be this ruler? Who will fund the super bureaucracy which will own no soil, but rule all soil? How will there be recompense or opposition to such a super government?

Where, on this planet, will we find the Solomon wise enough and impartial enough to make decisions concerning life and death of nations or will it be a council of Solomons? How will this super government enforce its decrees? Will there be a council or congress given such power under Chapter MXCCVIII after endless sanctions fail or will there be swift and deadly action against transgressors of the peace?

Will the 'peace keepers' wear uniforms with a double thunder bolt, skull and cross bones or a rainbow insignia as they wield their nuclear weapons over the 'nations' of the world?

China, Russia, Korea and the countries of the Middle East and Africa have not earned the right to be part of such a super government.

Thank you for your international "I have a dream" speech Mr Obama, but I think we should retain our nuclear weapons and the decision whether to use them or not. You offer the world and our country good theater, but in the end it is just that, theater.

Homeless Risotto & Blackberrys

Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen.


Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter: $0.00

Michelle Obama serving you soup: $0.00

Snapping a picture of a homeless person who is receiving government funded meal while taking a picture of the first lady using his $500 Black Berry cell phone: Priceless

Brian Williams Bows To Obama

Makes sense to them, not to me, but to them. Obama bows to Kings and such, so Williams bows to Obama. Obama is our new "king."



All this bowing make makes me sick.

FUGLY

Wow, this is so wrong.

House In A Box

One could order a house from a Sears & Roebuck catlogue and it would arrive in two railroad cars ready to be put together by "a man of average abilities."

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The guy that wrote that line was probably the grandfather of the guy that promised me that I could easily put the toys together on Christmas eve in "under an hour."

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June 2, 455

Vandals sack Rome.

Look familiar?

CHANGE: Chinese Hummer-HOPE:They Don't Ship The Jobs There

Obama's outsourcing overseas plan. Think those customer service operators are hard to understand now, just wait until you have to complain about seats put in backwards. You'll probably be told, "yaw wuo." Get used to it.

GM to sell Hummer to Chinese company
General Motors Corp. took a key step toward its downsizing on Tuesday, striking a tentative deal to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese manufacturer, while also revealing that it has potential buyers for its Saturn and Saab brands.

Obama's economic plan is strengthing the economy everyday. In China.

Dems Sew Up 2010 & 2012 Election Today!

They don't need no stinkin' papers.

Feds spike voter citizenship checks in Georgia
"This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote," Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said. King's letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Friday.

Why is it so onerous to produce an ID? Whatever, we already have 110% of eligible voters making their mark in places around the country so why stop here.

Why are these rulings being made? It cannot be because of racism, because if it is then the Justice Department is stating that these groups aren't intelligent and responsible enough to provide proof. Now that is racism.

Presidents Abedinejad & Obama Will Just Have A Nice Chat

As usual The Washington Post poses Iran's plans for nuclear weapons as a domestic concern that can be rationally chatted about by the big O and Chairman Short.

Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate
President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.

Obama then went on to caution us that our values are different from Iran's values. Who knew?

Obama added that there is a danger "when the United States, or any country, thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture."

Different? I'd say so. We don't reward murders wielding long knives for the decapitation of infidels and rapists plying their trade with family, friends and neighbors with a promise of 72 virgins for eternity. Mix in nuclear weapons and their intended use by Iran and those differences become more clear. To us. Not so much with the Obama Administration.

Pravda Calls US Marxist

Pot calling kettle black and all that, but Pravda is right on this one.

American capitalism gone with a whimper
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

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We might have sold the rope with which the Soviet buyer would hang us, but we are giving the rope away for free to our own government to do the same thing.

Ironic it takes a Russian to point this out, eh?

'Climate Change': Women, Children & Minorities Hit Hardest

Kofi is back! He's got his scare on big and he's going straight for your walllet. Kyoto? Forget that cub scout crap, now we have a more poetic sounding treaty to transfer even more wealth from those that do to those that don't, Copenhagen.


Climate change causes 315,000 deaths a year-report

Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.

The study, commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), estimates that climate change seriously affects 325 million people every year, a number that will more than double in 20 years to 10 percent of the world's population (now about 6.7 billion).

Economic losses due to global warming amount to over $125 billion annually -- more than the flow of aid from rich to poor nations -- and are expected to rise to $340 billion each year by 2030, according to the report.

"Climate change is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time, causing suffering to hundreds of millions of people worldwide," Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary-general and GHF president, said in a statement.

"The first hit and worst affected are the world's poorest groups, and yet they have done least to cause the problem."

The report says developing countries bear more than nine-tenths of the human and economic burden of climate change, while the 50 poorest countries contribute less than 1 percent of the carbon emissions that are heating up the planet.

Annan urged governments due to meet at U.N. talks in Copenhagen in December to agree on an effective, fair and binding global pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the world's main mechanism for tackling global warming.

"Copenhagen needs to be the most ambitious international agreement ever negotiated," he wrote in an introduction to the report. "The alternative is mass starvation, mass migration and mass sickness."

The study warns that the true human impact of global warming is likely to be far more severe than it predicts, because it uses conservative U.N. scenarios. New scientific evidence points to greater and more rapid climate change.

The report calls for a particular focus on the 500 million people it identifies as extremely vulnerable because they live in poor countries most prone to droughts, floods, storms, sea-level rise and creeping deserts.

Africa is the region most at risk from climate change, home to 15 of the 20 most vulnerable countries, the report says. Other areas also facing the highest level of threat include South Asia and small island developing states.

To avoid the worst outcomes, the report says efforts to adapt to the effects of climate change must be scaled up 100 times in developing countries. International funds pledged for this purpose amount to only $400 million, compared with an average estimated cost of $32 billion annually, it notes.

"Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed," said Barbara Stocking, chief executive of Oxfam in Britain and a GHF board member.

"This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December." (Reporting by Megan Rowling, editing by Tim Pearce) emphasis mine


This glaring injustice is always discussed and debated in lavish buildings over sumptuous meals and sustained by the best wines, liqueurs and liquors, just as the poorest of the poor would expect. It is hard work stealing.

Obama's 'No New Tax' Lie Goes National?

Obama's tax pledge now is going national in a regressive form unheard of.

From the Washington Post
Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look
"Everybody who understands our long-term budget problems understands we're going to need a new source of revenue, and a VAT is an obvious candidate," said Leonard Burman, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, who testified on Capitol Hill this month about his own VAT plan. "It's common to the rest of the world, and we don't have it."

One possibility for new revenue is a combination of large tax cuts, getting the government out of the business of business and cutting the federal bureaucracy dramatically, but nah, that's not the liberal way let alone the way of socialism.

Earlier post:
Obama's 'No New Tax' Lie Moves To Detroit

May 27

The Chrysler Building opened to the public on this day in 1930

The Golden Gate Bridge opened on this date in 1937

Abandoned GNR Station

Tynan, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Poofing Cows & Now Belching Sheep

From across the pond come words of insanity from Gore's evil twin

Burping of the lambs blows roast off menu
The problem is because sheep burp so much methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Cows are only slightly better behaved. The production of 2.2lb of beef releases methane equivalent to 35lb of CO2 Tomatoes, most of which are grown in heated glasshouses, are the most “carbon-intensive” vegetable, each 2.2lb generating more than 20lb of CO2 Potatoes, in contrast, release only about 1lb of CO2 for each 2.2lb of food. The figures are similar for most other native fruit and vegetables.

“We are not saying that everyone should become vegetarian or give up drinking but moving towards less carbon intensive foods will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve health,” said Kennedy.

The climate committee is analysing emissions from farming and will suggest measures to reduce them. However, it has concluded that people will have to change their habits.

I think it now safe to assume dinasaurs were actually made extinct by bureaucratic decree from Stonehenge because of their carbon footprint. Plus, they didn't vote liberal.

Memorial Day

For those that have died in service, those that have served, are serving and those that support them.

I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land. In this observance no form or ceremony is prescribed, but Posts and comrades will, in their own way, arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.

We are organized, Comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers sailors and Marines, who united to suppress the late rebellion." What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead? We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security, is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us.

Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains, and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledge to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon the Nation's gratitude—the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan.

II. It is the purpose of the Commander in Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to call attention to this Order, and lend its friendly aid in bringing it to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.

III. Department commanders will use every effort to make this Order effective.

—General Orders No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic Headquarters

"We're Out Of Money" Because Of Health Care?

No way you can make this stuff up. We are in a financial crisis, not because of the match called Fannie & Freddie that lit the fuse, but because we did not, "make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades."

Huh?

How far down Alice's hole will Obama take us?

C-SPAN
SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?

OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we've made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we've seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades.

So we've got a short-term problem, which is we had to spend a lot of money to salvage our financial system, we had to deal with the auto companies, a huge recession which drains tax revenue at the same time it's putting more pressure on governments to provide unemployment insurance or make sure that food stamps are available for people who have been laid off.

So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don't reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can't get control of the deficit.

So, one option is just to do nothing. We say, well, it's too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care. We can't afford it. We've got this big deficit. Let's just keep the health care system that we've got now.

Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything...

It may be the mental health of Frank, Dodd, Pelosi, Reid, etc., but health care caused this financial mess? Besides out and out corruption in Congress the problem is big government and making it bigger will not improve one damned thing.

Dems Open Mouth, Insert Foot, Go Abroad - Fast

Let's see, Jabbering Joe is in a secure place, but it isn't in his super secret bunker at the Naval Observatory house, our Nanny is in search of some truth all of a sudden, in Shanghai and our glorious leader is still out in left field, somewhere.

SPEAKER SURPRISE IN SHANGHAI!

Jabbering Joe brought his unity, hope and change sudden whirlwind tour to Kosovo.

Biden visit to Kosovo monastery splits Serbian Orthodox Church

Then JJ was off to Lebanon to spread some more love.

Biden's election support irks Hezbollah

Of course, they are just two, actually numbers 2 & 3 in the ascension ladder to the presidency, of the liars that make up the leadership of the Democrat Party.

The Liars Club

Of course, JJ has a long history of lying and the media has always looked the other way.

Why Is Media Allowing Joe Biden to Lie About Drunk Driver Killing His First Wife?
Joe Biden - His Lies and Exaggerations
Noted Liar Joe Biden Caught Lying About Bush
Joe Biden Plagiarism Scandal Surfaces » Right Pundits
The Legend Grows: Joe Biden Lying About Bosnia?

You get the idea. Pelosi is normally more adroit in covering her lies.
Both love to travel at a moments notice. Obviously.

Obama Doesn't Know History-Makes Same Mistakes

I got this from a friend at Majority America and it is absolutely relevant today. It also illustrates that some people are not capable of learning from the past.