Oklahoma, Alley Oop and Stone Age archaeology

Dallas Frazier was born in Spiro, Okla. His parents moved to Bakersfield, Calif. Lots of Okie offspring in Bakersfield – Buck Owens, Merle Haggard – and a genre of music known as “the Bakersfield sound.” Frazier wrote “Alley Oop,” one of the best rock-era songs of pre-Beatles times. “Alley Oop” was recorded by studio musicians. Here is a link, if you are in the mood for silly, yet somehow meaningful, music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6IpmmYSXA

Spiro is also near Spiro Mounds, one of North America’s most important archaeological sites, so Wikipedia says. It is the westernmost border of the Mississippian Culture.

Hmm. Boy born near Stone Age community later writes song about a Stone Age dude. Coincidence?

He shore is hip, ain’t he.

Things I would do if I lived 150 or 200 years ago

Run a freight business, with wagons and mules, maybe oxen.

Run a water-powered grist mill.

Own a few hundred acres with grass and run cattle.

Own and operate a small-town weekly newspaper.

Own and operate a general store.

Ride from town to town and see what was going on.

Stuff I’m getting tired of

I don’t know when it started. The earliest I remember was on Law and Order, when mean old Arthur Branch fired Serena Southerlyn, and Southerlyn’s first remark was: “Is it because I’m lesbian?”

What? What? Where did this come from?

See, the LGBQT-backers just drop that kind of thing on you. There is no previous indication of sodomite activity; just a sudden announcement.

And on Wheel of Fortune – yes, America’s game – when a woman contestant says she has been married for (__) years “to my lovely wife,” or a man contestant says he is married to “my wonderful husband.”

Last week on America’s Game, a contestant gave her job description as “erotic poet” and said she and her “wife” performed at women’s meetings and conventions.

Then, on NCIS New Orleans, two women FBI agents were in conversation, and one said, “Isn’t that why we broke up?”

What? Where did that come from? Again, no previous indication of sodomite activity, but writers/producers suddenly decide: “Hey – Let’s make a character lesbian! We don’t have one on the show. Everybody else has one.”

I guess I’ll just shuffle off to that Old Man Room, the one in my mind, where everybody is straight.

An amazing piece of stupid

Matthew Continetti, establishment conservative: “Many of the conservatives in Washington, D.C., myself included, arrived at their politics through study or experience at university, by encountering a great text, the coherence of natural law, the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, or the economics of Smith, Ricardo, Friedman, and Tullock.” – The Company Men

http://thezman.com/wordpress/

Few things are jaw-dropping stupid, but that conclusion certainly is. Calluses on hands? Not for him. A shovel handle? Ditto. Marching through dust, rain and snow? Oh, no! His take is scripted liberal/progressive – You street corner people are too dumb to know what is good for you.

Is Baghdad Bob working for Palestinian Authority?

2003 – Saddam Hussein’s press rep tells news there were no U.S. forces in Baghdad, but video shows tanks a few blocks away. A day later, he said U.S. forces were “dying by the thousands” on the walls of Baghdad.

2016 – A “confidant of PA President Mahmoud Abbas” says the PA is collecting names and photographs of “’hundreds’ of Israel Defense Forces” and will take names and pictures to the International Criminal Court in 2017.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-confidant-we-will-take-hundreds-of-idf-soldiers-to-icc-this-year/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=b3eb157a86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-b3eb157a86-55395173

“In 2017, we are going to The Hague,” said Nasser Laham, according to Channel 2.

“We have hundreds of pages of names of IDF officers. Every pilot and every officer and every soldier — we have his photo, we have his name, and we are waiting for him at The Hague.”

(Every pilot and every officer and every soldier. Hundreds of them. Yes, yes, yes. Hundreds, I tell you.)

A real Tasmanian devil

‘Runaway seal’ sounds funny, unless it’s your windshield the 500-pound animal is sitting on.

“Dubbed ‘Mr Lou-Seal’ the animal made its way into the suburb of Newstead earlier today, sitting on cars causing thousands of dollars of damage and nonchalantly lumbering through the leafy streets.”

http://www.news.com.au/national/tasmanian-police-are-hunting-down-a-seal-in-the-launceston-suburb-of-newstead/news-story/fa96c1a883e23c14c8b9c8fd9363c67b?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Link at http://www.fark.com/

So this ex-employee tries to rob his former boss in Mountain Pine, Ark.

The store owner had a shotgun; the robber fired a pistol.

"I told him 'Get down, drop the gun, everything,'" said Singh. "I gave him fair warning."

Singh took cover behind an aisle, after seeing the gunman was ignoring his commands. He said the two fired at each other. The suspects bullet hit the ceiling, but Singh's ...

"I shot him in his face," said Singh.
…
"It was pretty bad,' said Singh. "I couldn't believe somebody that I tried to help and they do me like this. It doesn't make sense."

He said Willis has a newborn and he would have helped him had he asked.

http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/suspect-shot-in-face-while-trying-to-rob-garland-co-store/630200156

Link at http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=69534