I'll leave ya all to your discussion ....

Peace, have a great trip! see you on the flip side!

jbalze, it's a joke. Bullshit Mountain contains just that - a lot of bullshit. This entire conversation started with a video of Romney saying he doesn't care about almost half of the American population, and somehow that's okay with a lot of people, and that's really sad. Imagine how much he'll care about our foreign relations if he doesn't give a rats ass about his own people. When politicians running for v.p. and president give speeches at the RNC, and even the conservative reporters are nervously saying the fact checkers are going to have a field day with all the erroneous information in it - well that pretty much says it all. It is what it is. Bullshit Mountain.

Let's dance!

Never said you hated all rich people.

But for those who despise Romney because he looks down his nose on those who have less...

His tax info came out today for 2011:

approx. 14M income approx. 2M taxes paid/13-14% approx. 4M given to charity-almost 30%

Gave away 4 Million dollars!!! What a creep. Just doesn't give a damn about anybody, does he?

And yes, you liberals, he still has 8M left. It's HIS MONEY. Good for him. Whatever goods and services or investments he might make with it, creates work for someone,...duh.

I don't agree with all of his stuff, but I don't agree with my wife either all the time, but overall...

What is less well understood is which organizations Mitt Romney has given money to.

And in the last two years, at least, the answer appears to be primarily one organization: The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon church.

Led Zeppelin tout concert film, but stay mum on future plans

That's a "must have" when it comes out in November!

Bring It On Home

Do you see what I see?

Whoa, gave his money to a church!!!

What a horrible man. Those darn churches, always helping people that are hungry, homeless, sick.

Thanks for not responding. lol

Oopsie!

So much for helping out small businesses.

WOOOO!

My Classic Rock Magazine tribute to Deep Purple and the re-recording of Machine Head finally arrived today...did anyone else order this? Any thoughts?

Chickenfoot's cover of Highway Star is taken from the Fillmore Road Test show in 2009 that I was at with a few other T2Jers (my brother, Tracie, Chris, Brian, and Debbie...I think that's everyone?). It's great to hear a recording from this night...this gig was one of my top Joe shows for sure, and I haven't ever been able to find a bootleg of it.

I don't have time to listen to the rest of the album now, but it should be interesting...

Give it to me. I'll listen to it while you're busy ;-)

Austin - I was delighted to see that our own Jimmy Barnes contributed a song to the Deep Purple tribute album, with Joe Bonamassa. It's a fantastic version of "Lazy".

I'm seeing Joe Bonamassa here on Oct 11.

Don't anybody read this. It's a secret.

wub

Wait for it....

There's a drum cover for everything. lol!

If you are offended by young men in bathing suits, dancing near a pool, this video might not be for you.

LOL!

Conservative and Liberal Communist and capitalist The two ends of the pendulum's swing.

What has worked in the past? What has never worked?

Republics only last as long as the population does not figure out how to use the power of government to take from one segment of the population and give to the other - Frederick Bastiat calls it "Legal Plunder" in his famous essay entitled "The Law" (written in the 1860's - a beautiful piece of work albeit a bit dated but universal truths withstand the test of time)

Once politicians successfully polarize the electorate to the degree illustrated by the posts on this bulletin board, it is only a matter of time before one of the two extremes of totalitarian government are put into power by the teeming masses.

Right now, the pendulum is at near zero velocity all the way to the left almost to the very top of it's swing - it will hover a while before it starts it non-linear acceleration toward the center and if the final blow to freedom occurs, we may see what our friends in Russia saw in 1917 - the complete arrest of movement for about 70 years with the pendulum stuck at the top left position, allowing the fractal image of history to repeat itself. The useful idiots will be eliminated by the government ensuring that they will never be able to repeat the very actions that gave victory to the despot in the first place and the scramble for bureaucratic power at the expense of the common citizen will ensue. The Oligarchy will do whatever is necessary to preserve their special status even if it means starving over 25 million human beings as Stalin did during his reign. I

If the pendulum is dislodged at the lofty position so far to the left, I fear it may swing down with a vengeance to the right and swing rapidly through the middle position until it hovers dangerously to the top right position where, if we are lucky, it will result in the NAZI style of socialism that is so egregious that the rest of the world will come to it's senses and do whatever is necessary eradicate the scourge.

Both extremes of the pendulum result in socialism - they only differ in their personality. Both are totalitarian, both result in immense human misery and both will eventually fail.

Peace and stability are present only when the pendulum swings in a short range around the middle point. It's the only time when there is any balance in the powers that drive society.

At that point, the golden goose is allowed to live by the lefties and there are still cows around to give milk. At the ends of the pendulum travel, foolish zealots kill the golden goose and then wonder where the golden eggs will come from - they kill the cow and wonder why there is no more milk to drink.

Please remember that this is just an opinion. Please do not get a posse together and try to find me or my family to torture - I have a very low tolerance for physical pain and if anything I have said offends you, I will immediately recant and swear allegiance to your side to avoid any discomfort.

But I digress...

On to the real purpose of a BB like this:

Anyone know what the outcome of that Whooznxt contest was?

Thanks!

So far I've found 2 winners, not sure about the other 8.

1

2

Thanks!

Both of them are good!

Sami Rae is one of the fastest girl guitarists I've senn in a long time!

I guess it takes a while to evaluate all of the top 96.

Joe: I recently got married on 8/11/12 & I chose "A Love Eternal" to walk down the aisle to. It was amazing!! I'm looking for the sheet music for the song, as I'm planning on getting a tattoo with a portion of the song on my back. Can you help point me in the direction of where I can find it?

Digyatons!!

Tarie