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by Jethro2007
Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:49 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
Replies: 3372
Views: 1565550

Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V

Hey Y'all,

Sad that the book ended, describes how I felt about;

Kearnys March by Winston Groom; Wholly crap, I enjoyed this book, Why didn't they teach history like this in School???

Makes me want to read his Vicksburg 1863, hmmmmmm...
by Jethro2007
Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:26 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V
Replies: 3372
Views: 1565550

Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part V

Hey Y'all,

Been reading sum...

Carrie Fishers' Wishful Drinking...
Viet Nam memoir; When we walked above the clouds
American Sniper; auto bio of a Navy seal...

There are probably a few I am missing...be good...
by Jethro2007
Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:01 am
Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
Topic: Economics of eating out
Replies: 75
Views: 9448

Re: Economics of eating out

Hey Y'all, Hmmmm, haven't done this in a while...be patient... I don't think you really want to find Hamburger for under $2 a pound... See the thing about McDonald meat no one is talking about is they copy righted the phrase "100 % pure beef" which in reality means not 100% pure beef, its very orwellian, if you think about it... Nice one corporate geniuses... So you really can't compare a McDouble with a real beef hamburger its just not the same thing... Because you can't buy the same meat McDonalds uses to make their burgers...Its not the same as ground beef at the grocery store...Its been modified... Plus, I don't really view eating a McDouble as a food experience like dining out somewhere that might even remotely resemble cuisi...
by Jethro2007
Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:42 am
Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
Topic: Economics of eating out
Replies: 75
Views: 9448

Re: Economics of eating out

Hey Y'all,

Whose payin' $1 for a McDouble!!!

Cost $1.40 plus tax in my hood...What gives???

What about yer hood???
by Jethro2007
Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:42 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
Replies: 1507
Views: 403069

Re: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/201

Hey Y'all,

Just finished 'Hemingways' boat'...wow, I really haven't read any hemingway aside from 'The sun also rises', along time ago...
In some ways, it makes me want to read his other stuff...

Also finished a short 'Confederate War' by Gary Gallagher...He puzzles out some interesting thoughts on Confederate side of Civil War, leaves some unanswered...Includes some pictures of the conflict, I hadn't previously seen...

Happy Holidays
by Jethro2007
Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:39 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Do you drink milk?
Replies: 96
Views: 7172

Re: Do you drink milk?

Hey Y'all, I have switched to Vitamin D milk, because it has the most calcium enriched nutrients of all milk types, aside from whole milk... You see folks; Calcium is fat soluble, meaning it is dissolved in the fat, take away the fat, Skim milk, you take away the calcium...Then you need to take calcium supplements cause there is no calcium that can be absorbed from your Skim milk... Also;Dairy has no impact on the Glycemic index, people...People with diabetes, are very susceptile to spikes in blood sugar...The Glycemic index will show you that not all carbs are the same... Get with the program, look at the Mediterranean Diet, it has the most fat of all diets...Fat is not evil...Get real...My mom had this thing about not using butter and adv...
by Jethro2007
Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:15 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What's the most overrated book you've read?
Replies: 193
Views: 14761

Re: What's the most overrated book you've read?

Hey Y'all,

I forgot to mention, Women in Love, D.H. Lawerence...

It was on a list of novels to read, maybe its not suited for the 21st century, but it wasn't as awesome as I expected...
I read Ulysses, by Joyce, it was difficult to get the book, firstly, then it was written in dialect that made it difficult to stay with...
Maybe I should read again, hmmmmmm...or not...

Toodles, Jethro2007
by Jethro2007
Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:06 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What's the most overrated book you've read?
Replies: 193
Views: 14761

Re: What's the most overrated book you've read?

Hey Y'all,

Wow, look at all the haters!!!
Ahhahahahahahahahahahahahahha...

Sorry, I am one of you...
Catcher in the Rye, most of Ayn Rands work, just didn't do it for me...
Wondered what I was missing and still do...

Glad, I am not alone in this mystery...

Happy Holidays, Jethro2007

P.S. Catch -22, I think I deferred to the Movie..sorry...
by Jethro2007
Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:30 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Cheapest practice you've "heard" of......
Replies: 38
Views: 4708

Re: Cheapest practice you've "heard" of......

Hey Y'all,

What a bunch of cheapskates!!! Yesh!!!

I was toying with the fact that Diet Juice is only 50% juice and the other is water, filtered water...

So, I thought why not just buy the 100% juice, instead of the diet juice and water it down myself...

It would end up being 50% juice and I am not paying for their water, filtered water...

I haven't started this practice, yet, but I have been considering it...Any thoughts???
by Jethro2007
Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:56 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
Replies: 1507
Views: 403069

Re: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/201

Hey Y'all,

I was desperate for something to read and came across a Kurt Vonnegut compilation in the library...

It was more profane than I remember, but good...
by Jethro2007
Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:16 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Gettysburg visit
Replies: 24
Views: 3175

Rebel yell...

Hey Y'all,

I found a Tony Scott/Ridley Scott version of Gettysburg at my local library...Done fer the History Channel...

It is an interesting re-telling of the great battle that leaves out the Maine troopers, but tells it from 8 other points of view...
Much better beards in this one than the movie with Martin Sheen...
And it only took 90 minutes...
by Jethro2007
Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:02 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
Replies: 1507
Views: 403069

Hey Y'all,

Been hankering for short stories...Did Louis Lamours' collected short stories, vol.?? not sure, it was mostly seafaring stories, was pretty good...

Next volume is about Westerns, also shorts...Liking them...

Enjoy yer fall, Jethro2007
by Jethro2007
Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:48 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: True Grit (2010)
Replies: 46
Views: 9997

My heroes have always been cowboys...

Hey Y'all,

I saw the original with John Wayne, to give me some background, before watching the new one...

I like both of them for their own merits...I like that Matt Damon stepped up and totally owned his character...Glen Campbell did his best, not being an actor, but an awesome guitar player and singer...

I would recommend it...

Be well, Jethro2007
by Jethro2007
Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:05 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
Replies: 1507
Views: 403069

Its only RnR, but I like it...

Hey Y'all,

I think that getting Keith Richards' take on the whole Altamont debacle was worth the cyclic nature of his other vices, book-wise...

It really opened my mind to see it(A) another way...

Maybe not your cup 'o' tea...

Read on, Jethro2007
by Jethro2007
Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:32 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: tryin to get the most alcohol for the buck for college party
Replies: 99
Views: 12020

We're havin' a party...

Hey Y'all,

Now, its not Altamont, but then anything can get out of hand...

So, maybe just a neighborly heads up and an open invite...

Party on, garth!!!
by Jethro2007
Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:16 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Fix old refrigerator or buy new one?
Replies: 55
Views: 19796

Will this depression last for long???

Hey Y'all,

You would be boosting the economy by buying new, anything new;
Hopefully its made somewhere where they employ american workers...

You and I can beat this depression(recession, its all the same thing)...One purchase at a time!!!
by Jethro2007
Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:11 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Cost of eating a healthful diet
Replies: 174
Views: 19589

RocknRoll Stew...

Hey Y'all,

Food is Medicine...

Don't try to copyright my food...

Be well, Jethro2007
by Jethro2007
Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:16 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: tryin to get the most alcohol for the buck for college party
Replies: 99
Views: 12020

Whisky drinkin' woman, is making a poor man out of me...

Hey Y'all,

Not that I am affiliated with this product, but have you tried the alcohol boosted malt beverage called Joose???

Its 12% and comes in a 24oz can...Its like getting Four beers in one can...
You really need to hydrate during and after its consumption...

Enjoy!!
by Jethro2007
Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:46 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: 12 Hour Plane Ride - Help me Find a Book!
Replies: 52
Views: 7737

Hey Y'all,

Non-fiction;

Keith Richards book or the Storm of War, both are probably around 600 pages, but lots of good stuff...Enjoy...
by Jethro2007
Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
Replies: 1507
Views: 403069

Its a war...B.Marley

Hey Y'all,

Just finished Storm of War;

Aside from his overuse of the word "hitherto" (who even uses this word anymore???, Really!!!) and some lengthy combination sentences, this book was enlightening and readable...Lots of book references for future reading...

92 Russians died for every American death in WW2...The stuff they never taught us in High School World History...and more...
by Jethro2007
Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:10 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Better Abs
Replies: 51
Views: 6104

Tales of the Rumrunner...

Hey Y'all,

When I was younger man... I trained for long distance racing...
Running 60-80 miles a week and I never had a 6 pack...

One year we checked our body fat and I think I was around 5%, then...
And guess what? No six pack, still...

Physical fitness is important, but I have seen it taken to the extreme and ridiculous for vanity...

Hava great summer y'all...
by Jethro2007
Fri Apr 29, 2011 6:21 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
Replies: 1507
Views: 403069

Never the Twain, shall meet...

Hey Y'all,

I just started Mark Twain; Autobiography...

Its a trip...He really wanted it published 100 years after his death, so he could really write about himself...its a big book...yikes...680pages...

Its awesome..I dig me some Twain...I luv his lyrical writing and descriptions...

"Upon us all, oh, A little rain must fall..." R.Plant and J. Page
by Jethro2007
Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:17 am
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Did anyone actually like the 1970s?
Replies: 111
Views: 14313

Hey hey , my my...Rock n Roll will never die...

Hey Y'all,

70's...yup, I wuz dere...

I recently picked up an acoustic guitar made in 1971, sounds nice and mellow...its a yamaha and made my fingers raw, but only for the first few days...

I saw some of the best movies ever, and most were on TV...

I remember seeing Easy Rider and they showed the part at the end where the Hippie biker flips off the Redneck holding the shotgun and his deja vu nightmare comes to life...for a 10 year old it was pretty powerful stuff...

Say is that freedom rock, man?? Well, turn it up!!!
by Jethro2007
Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:11 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? Part IV. (07/04/2010)
Replies: 1507
Views: 403069

Reading is Fun damental...

Hey Y'all,

I searched out a revised version of Herodotus: The Histories...
Its a newer translation..
and although its almost 800 hundred pages( I swear my dad had this in paper back) lots of anotating and such...its a real trip, but getting tired of all the dysfunction...Amazing stories...Sadly, I am still not up to Alexander the Great, yet...geez....
by Jethro2007
Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:38 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Snowpocalypse 2011
Replies: 58
Views: 7470

In the sunshine of your love...

Hey all,

So, how about that winter event, Y'all???

In my hood, they had only 10 inches of snow and the locals( flatlanders) milked it for three days off from school...

Where I wuz growed up; That wuz one days' shoveling and no school off...
by Jethro2007
Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:12 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Vermont,NewHampshire, Maine..what, where, when
Replies: 26
Views: 4359

I wish the all could be _ _ girls...

Hey all,

I enjoyed escaping a hot Vermont summer at Lake Champlain...
Its a very nice lake, deep, cool and reminded me of parts of Upper michigan...It was refreshingly nice...

Didn't get to explore outside the compound much...I wuz trying to find that one beverage distilled from that root, local to New England only...
caint remember the name...
by Jethro2007
Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:06 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: TV series to recommend?
Replies: 139
Views: 19885

Pictures of Lilly...

Hey all,

I know this has been mentioned before, but I am still liking Burn Notice..

I liked Band of Brothers, which I don't think was mentioned; Its a bit older series, but I was surprised to see many actors in other shows I liked..
by Jethro2007
Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:00 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Shaving Cream
Replies: 69
Views: 12874

Cream: Tales of Brave Ulysses...

Hey all,

Barbasol Rules!

I am also liking the 3 razor in one technology, too...pricey, but closer than the 2 razor thingy...

Yes, we live in great times, my state has only 21 % under/un employed...
by Jethro2007
Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:39 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Noise in my attic
Replies: 307
Views: 95674

Angels we have heard on high...

Hey there,

Hmmmm, very interesting... I was going to suggest adjusting your medication...or even changing to your other meds...just until it passes...

I remember an ex-grlfrnd having a noisy attic and setting a live trap, but never caught anything, which turned out to be mice...so small they would eat the bait and crawl out through the cage...so she set up mouse traps...
Ending the noise in the attic, but she still has mice...and it was built in the 80's, I think...must have a small opening some wheres...

Saw an episode of Ask TOH; where the vent stack was not secured and everytime water was used in house, there was a rapping sound of the vent stack vibrating against the framing...

I am still intrigued...
by Jethro2007
Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:39 am
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: Best Investment Advice For 2011?
Replies: 49
Views: 8861

Lucy in the sky with diamonds...

Hey Y'all,

Nispy I like yer idea; But, I was thinking that the theme for the story would be more along the lines of Rocking Horse Winner, but more modernised, see...ya remember that ole chestnut???
by Jethro2007
Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:08 pm
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: PCRIX/PCRDX - source for large dividend distributions?
Replies: 11
Views: 4965

Hey all,

Beg pardon...I mixed that price up with a different fund in Taxable account...my bad...

Did I sell at 20??? No, I bailed before oil peaked, but I did get some sold in the 19s...and have probably only broken even with this fund...

YMMV...best of luck to all...
by Jethro2007
Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:34 pm
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: PCRIX/PCRDX - source for large dividend distributions?
Replies: 11
Views: 4965

Hey all,

I am glad I joined this board to have other people alert me to bad investing decisions...

Thanks for yer help...

If you were in this critter a coupla years ago, when gas was going to $4/gal and this thing was like 12, I think, you would have sold and taken the money...I did...this is just gravy...

I think it was pointed out earlier that this thing does not correlate with other happenings in the market...
by Jethro2007
Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:08 pm
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: We are one great invention away from a roaring bull market
Replies: 33
Views: 4393

Hmmmm, eva here of Peter Tosh???

Hey all,


Hmmm, I like the OP...What if its not a new drug , but an old drug...One that has been around forever??? I believe California is going to vote on it soon...

What say ye???
by Jethro2007
Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:55 am
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: PCRIX/PCRDX - source for large dividend distributions?
Replies: 11
Views: 4965

Yer angst over goot newz???

Hey all,

Opened my quarterly statements this morning...

The big winner was PCRIX...Freakously high dividend...Considering the amount the NAV has dipped in past 3 months, hmmmm, its about 11% by my rough calcs....Sure, I'll take it in cash to buy cheaper shares...

What's not to like???
by Jethro2007
Mon May 24, 2010 5:26 pm
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: Dare to be Boring....
Replies: 31
Views: 5581

Where eagles dare...

Hey all,

Thank you, Valuethinker, for posting some investing suggestions..

I was gonna try to dredge up that post you did years ago where you likened (at the time) the markets to WW2 and the eastern front war that we ( the investing public) had just made it through Stalingrad...and ask you where you thought things were sitting right now...

Boy, the mods are snippy these days...sheez...
by Jethro2007
Mon May 24, 2010 10:07 am
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Docs: How often do you think "First do no harm?"
Replies: 26
Views: 3832

Doctor No...

Hey all,

No, I am not a doctor...

I am seriously concerned about the large number of Psycho-therapists( see Social Workers) that can and do recommend vast arrays of anti-depressants and other drugs vainly in search of the "silver bullet" for PTSD and depression...

This culture of "take two, they're small" or "have some meds" they will get you feel fine; Has short term benefits and long term hazards...

Nuff said...
Y'all hava Happy Memorial Day Weekend...
by Jethro2007
Fri May 21, 2010 11:34 am
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What Book Are YOU Currently Reading? PART III (12/11/2009)
Replies: 424
Views: 84604

Warchild...

Hey all, In the past I have commented on not seeing a book about the Iraq/Afganistan Wars similar to Dispatches for Viet Nam... I was listening to a radio program last night called Boots on the Ground; http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/151115 And then it happened...I heard some poetry that raised the hair on the back of my neck... Its called; Here, Bullet... http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/images/hb_press_kit.pdf Considering the array of media outlets available today as opposed to 33 years ago; I am coming to the conclusion that there may not be just one place, a summation of all the events written/woven into a single tragic/hip/profane/violent book... I have read several books on serving and reporting in Iraq, but somehow they lacked the po...
by Jethro2007
Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:28 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Shoveling snow and diehard philospohy/logic
Replies: 54
Views: 8901

Shovel snow; Yer talking about sweeping snow...

Hey all,

Hmmmmm, any thing less than 6 inches is sweeping snow, up here in the land of lake effect snow...

Snow blowers or plows work well, but for those that feel the need for physical exercise use a Scoop...Its not shoveling as much as it is relocating... Check this out; http://www.silverbear.biz/products/scoops/index.html

Fer you flatlanders, not accustomed to snow, its all about the technique...
Enjoy yer winter wonderlands...Happy Holidays Y'all...
by Jethro2007
Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:44 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Hats off to the Phillies
Replies: 32
Views: 4691

Where there is smoke...Fire!!!

Hey all,

Wow, nice responses...Thanks for coming out of the woodwork...

I don't think I have seen much baseball this year; Not a cable subscriber and don't get Fox on the new digital box...

Still not certain what this years' team theme song is gonna be...But, there are certainly fans to cheer them on...Goot Luck!!!!
by Jethro2007
Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:59 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Hats off to the Phillies
Replies: 32
Views: 4691

Sounds like team spirit???

Hey all,

Yah, all you Phillies Phans; Where ya at, Rock???

Same thing as last year; Didn't hear squat from anybody until the deed was done...

Hoping to find out what this year's Phillies spirit song is???

Come on now; I know yer out there lurking...
by Jethro2007
Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:36 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Wine Tasting
Replies: 24
Views: 3911

This wine has a nice nose...

Hey all,

I happened to find myself in the Finger Lakes area of New York, this summer, but couldn't break away from my group to take the Wine tasting bus trip that was offered at the Tollway rest area...Lots of wineries in this region, amazed...It was the one near Cayuga Lake...Nice lake access...Stayed at the State Park...

G'luck y'all...
by Jethro2007
Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:41 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Recession indicator: inverted wing curve!
Replies: 31
Views: 4751

Looney tunes...

Hey all,

I like that one cartoon episode where Bugs finds the home(zoo)less/circus less penguin and he starts on a transcontinental journey to take the critter home..and whislt traveling across the US via train they encounter a Hobo, circa depression era, and he says, " Penguins is practically chicken"...Classic...

I agree with above posters and am pessimistic about 10K market...
by Jethro2007
Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:02 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Learning to play guitar
Replies: 54
Views: 9655

We have no need for ancient ways, Our world is doing fine...

Hey all,

Easy Rush tunes???

Hmmmm...Fly by Night; was the first tune some one showed me at a bus station outside of Oshkosh, WI...

Finding My Way...
Closer to the Heart...

Alex Lifeson has a real chordal style...Not really very bluesy leads, but he rocks jist the same...I like it...grins...

Now -a-days; There is the internet and guitarnotes.com, that has all the tabbed music you could ever want to learn and more...just put your fingers on the dots and strum...

Goot luck and Rock on!!!
by Jethro2007
Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:47 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: What dead rock stars did you see before they died?
Replies: 102
Views: 13701

What a long strange trip its been...

Hey all,

I was lucky enough to hang with some people that were adventuresome enough to check out the Grateful Dead in 1989...fer 3 days...

I saw them again in 1991 and 1993...

I was watching Letterman, bout 6 weeks or so ago, and they had The Dead on there with Warren Haynes playing fer Jerry Garcia...They did Sugar Magnolia...it was awesome...grins...
by Jethro2007
Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:38 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Learning to play guitar
Replies: 54
Views: 9655

Play guitar??? Play Guitar!!!! Oh yeah... Bryan Adams

Hey all, I wanted to play guitar so bad, as a youth...I thought it was just the coolest thing there was; I scoured our local music store for the cheapest guitar and came away with a 3/4 size classical acoustic guitar that was strung with steel strings, no case fer about $50... I was able to come to the realization that it wouldn't tune with steel strings before the tail piece was physically torn from the body by the force of the steel strings...Talk about learning first hand... Once I had it strung with the correct strings(Nylon), I practiced till I got callouses on each of my fingers...I was enamoured with chording; However, the extra wide neck of the Classical style guitar didn't lend itself to barre chords easily...I wonder if the extra ...
by Jethro2007
Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:12 am
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Any musicians?
Replies: 44
Views: 7589

Is that Freedom Rock?!!! Well, turn it UP!!!

Hey all, Hmmmm, I picked up the strat, tonight, and started channeling Keith Richards; jamming on Brown Sugar from my Booze Rock band days... So its 2:00 am, I'm sure the neighbors are Keef fans, by now...ahahhahahahahha...I probably haven't jammed that tune for almost 25 years... Yup, played in a bar band, back in the bad ole days of over driven solid state amps and the girls with no regrets(No weight limits either)...We played an eclectic mix of boozy stumbler songs and tunes you should never dance to, unless you have been drinkin' like; Mony Mony, Jenny Jenny, Rock n Roll all night ,Feel Like Makin Love and Brown Sugar...I feel like we invented the Booze Rock Genre; I can't believe people actually danced to these tunes, but I bear witnes...
by Jethro2007
Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:45 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Any World War I Veterans?
Replies: 33
Views: 5359

The Great War...

Hey all, I read the book, The First Day on the Somme; It was thoroughly researched and I thought a good read; I can't remember how long the entire frontal attack was 16-25 miles?; But it was only successful over short sections where the attackers were already waiting in No Mans Land, had effective artillery fire or rushed across...A few units were given soccer balls to kick as they strolled across No Mans Land, I think they reside in the British War museum, today...Lack of Heavy Artillery, and lack of effective artillery/mortars to cut the barbed wire and damage front units was just one of the failing points to the strategy...Once the British infantry units had smashed through the German lines; Cavalry was supposed to charge through and mak...
by Jethro2007
Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:22 am
Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
Topic: Madoff's new home
Replies: 26
Views: 4153

I've created my own prison...

Hey all,

Just putting this thought out there; Not condoning his behavior...

He lived like a billionaire, for twenty years...maybe more...
Did all the things, bought all the things, enjoyed all the things that vast wealth could buy... He is an old man, now...What more could he be wanting after living at such a level???

He can't buy immortality;Maybe he realized this:
We all die; Its pretty final...Rich on other peoples money or in prison...
by Jethro2007
Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:59 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Favorite guitarist...
Replies: 207
Views: 29839

Re: On the cover of the Rolling Stone...

Hey all, Hmmmm, beg pardon, but Robert Johnson never played an electric guitar, ever...and while I have never heard BB King acousticly, I believe all those listed have some work, somewhere, displaying their abilities on acoustic instruments... "If it sounds good, it is Good..." - Duke Ellington Tell you what. Go to youtube and do a search for Variations on a Theme of Mozart. Click on the black and white video of Segovia performing this piece. Then tell me if you see anyone on the above list who demonstrates the phrasing, articulation, nuance, and subtlety -- all with seeming effortlessness -- of Segovia. No histrionics and no grating amplification -- just sheer mastery and genius. I do enjoy music besides classical, but nobody on...
by Jethro2007
Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:52 pm
Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
Topic: Favorite guitarist...
Replies: 207
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On the cover of the Rolling Stone...

Hey all, Hmmmm, beg pardon, but Robert Johnson never played an electric guitar, ever...and while I have never heard BB King acousticly, I believe all those listed have some work, somewhere, displaying their abilities on acoustic instruments... Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the mainstream music magazine called Rolling Stone??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone and a quote from this link; One major criticism of Rolling Stone Magazine involves its apparent generational bias toward the 1960s and 1970s. Not trying to be divisive or snaky, ergo, my attempts to hip fellow enthusiasts to those who shaped the sounds found on the list by Rolling Stone... Much respect for music in all shapes and forms... "If it sounds good, it is Good....