"I Yam What I Yam"

Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2011, at 10:34 AM
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  • Hear. Hear.

    -- Posted by lilmissmelmo on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 10:54 AM
  • Zook I don't know why you don't join the American Legion Honor Guard? They can always use another to do the gun salute at veterans funerals.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 11:16 AM
  • Their usually done in the mornings... Some early afternoons. They do them not just in Mtn Home. Sometimes Glens Ferry, up in the mtns, (not very often) and at the veterans cemetery in Boise. Pat keeps pretty busy with them. He did one yesterday and last week.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 12:37 PM
  • YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE AND THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM,OR SHOULDNT BE FOR ANYONE....HEAR HEAR.......AT LEAST YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE.....EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD STAND AS PROUDLY........MOST LIKE YOU CAN SEE CLEARLY RIGHT FROM WRONG AND THAT IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT........

    .HEY WE NEED TO WRITE THESE JERKS IN DC I HAVE MADE 4 CALLS ALREADY ON THIS TRICARE BUSSINESS.WE HAVE BORN THE BURDEN ALL ALONG, ENOUGH ALREADY.I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.......LIES FOLLOWED BY MORE LIES.PARTY IS NOT THE ISSUE HERE,JUSTICE FOR THOSE OF US WHO DID IT WITHOUT QUESTION IS.OR THEY COULD ADD 5 GRAND TO MY CHECK EACH MONTH......

    MAYBE IF WE WERE NOT AT WAR FOR THE LAST 20YRS WE WOULDNT BE SUCH A BURDEN......FUNNY WE ARE NOT A BURDEN WHEN WE ARE FIGHTING AND DYEING.......

    I DONT THINK THEY WANT TO PROTEST IN A TOWN LIKE OURS....BUT THEN AGAIN STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES....I THINK THATS HOW IT GOES......

    LATTER......HAVE A GOOD GIG

    -- Posted by lamont on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 1:25 PM
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    Bazooka and CJW, you guys are not alone wanting to stand up against any protestor at a Vets Funeral. Gots no time for that kind of nonsense, if they try it here I will be there and surely alot more Vets also.

    -- Posted by Eagle_eye on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 1:29 PM
  • Zook If you join and they call you and you can't make it they understand. You don't have to attend everyone.

    Also if any protesters were to show up before you guys even got there, the Veterans that are there along with the honor guard, as well with those that are stationed at the base will already have it under control. Then there is law enforcement that are already ready and they will come in numbers. So there is no worry Relax !

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 3:26 PM
  • cjw they use blanks for a 21 gun salute. I don't know why you would think that is funny?

    Enlighten me?

    If you are thinking they can't do anything about the protesters think again Zook ain't the only one that holds a CWP Permit in this town. You would be surprised........... theres are a lot

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 3:52 PM
  • Might be better if lawyers couldn't be in an elected position in Washington or be a lobbyist?

    -- Posted by skeeter on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 4:46 PM
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    I am not worried about protestors showing up for a Vet's Funeral here, as can already be seen wouldn't be a smart move. Between the Freedom Riders, Retired Vets, Active duty that show for the Funerals wouldn't take long to find out this town respects its fallen Vets and the force that would show, not a smart move. I have No Problem standing there showing my respect armed and loaded and it would not be blanks eithers. I take being armed and someone protestors again Vets I take seriouly. Like I was taught from the day I was allowed to care a firearm, don't point it unless you are going to use it. Same goes for trying to break into my home, try it and see if you walk out, just not going to happen, what would greet a crime dummie, they wouldn't like, makes a pretty big hole LOL.

    -- Posted by Eagle_eye on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 5:12 PM
  • DONE A FEW OF THOSE MYSELF.....KINDA GETS TO YOU......people park there parents there and forget about them.....out of sight out of mind.......they do the same with the kids.....years back we use to take all the kids on the block to black sands,every sunday. IT was great to see them just play.Parents never said thanks or here is some hotdogs nothing. We didnt care, but how do people do that???????? Anyhow hope you had a good one .....

    -- Posted by lamont on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 5:14 PM
  • Heres the lyrics to the rap song "A Letter to the Law"

    Dem boy wanna talk [indistinguishable] Ed note: Let me translate for you, ook eek oook scree ook eek.

    Whatcha gon do if ya got one gun?

    I sing a song for the hero unsung

    with faces on the mural of the revolution

    No looking back cos in back is whats done

    Tell the preacher, god got more than one son

    Tell the law, my Uzi weighs a ton

    I walk like a warrior,

    from them I wont run

    On the streets, they try to beat us like a drum

    In Cincinnati, another brother hung

    A guinea wont see the sun

    with his family stung

    They want us to hold justice

    but you handed me none

    The same they did to Kobe and Michael Jackson

    make them the main attraction

    Turn around and attack them

    Black gem in the rough

    Youre rugged enough

    Use your mind and nine-power, get the government touch

    Them boys chat-chat on how him pop gun

    I got the black strap to make the cops run

    They watching me, Im watching them

    Them dick boys got a lock of cock in them

    My people on the block got a lot of pok* in them

    and when we roll together

    we be rocking them to sleep

    No time for that, because theres things to be done

    Stay true to what I do so the youth dream come

    from project building

    Seeing a fiend being hung

    With that happening, why they messing with Saddam?

    Burn a Bush cos for peace he no push no button

    Killing over oil and grease

    no weapons of destruction

    How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one

    The governments a g-unit and they might buck young black people

    Black people In the urban area one

    I hold up a peace sign, but I carry a gun.

    Peace, yall.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 6:46 PM
  • AND THE POINT IS???????????????

    -- Posted by lamont on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 9:11 PM
  • This just came out at huffington post "A Letter To The Law" It's pretty long but worth the read

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/10/outrage-common-white-house-poetry-miche...

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 9:54 PM
  • HewBet Watch for my next blog. I've been wanting to write it but am delayed in doing so because of a health problem.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, May 10, 2011, at 10:18 PM
  • MtnHomer, If they can get Emily canceled what's next? I wonder what she ever did to upset the leftists?

    -- Posted by skeeter on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 5:47 AM
  • I PERSONALLY DONT CONDONE .......ANY ACT OR THREAT TO A PRESIDENT........WITH THAT SAID IF THE NOT EVEN A SENTENCE OFFENDED SO BAD WHY WASNT IT ATTACKED WHEN THE SONG CAME OUT????????WHY NOW????????????? and we dont seem to have a problem when this president is verbally,visually,and any other way attacked to include cartoons.It would seem to me that if you are offended by one you should be offended by all.

    Im sure someone can tell me why it is not the same???????? so i am awaiting that rationale,ENLIGHTNEN ME..............AND BEAR IN MIND I do not like rap music.......period.

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 9:02 AM
  • Read the lyrics again

    it doesn't say to "burn Bush" it says to "burn a bush"

    There is a bush called the burning bush because the color is red

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 9:03 AM
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    Substitute "burn" with "Prosecute"....I think he's making his views of the war known.

    -- Posted by DaveThompson on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 9:26 AM
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    http://www.curriculum.org/csc/library/profiles/10/html/ENG2PP3.htm

    A few "nine-power" references in here,see para. 8 of Teaching/Learning Strategies

    -- Posted by DaveThompson on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 9:49 AM
  • I think what he was saying here

    Killing over oil and grease

    no weapons of destruction

    Meaning they didn't find any weapons of mass destruction

    What is great about poems is they can be interpreted in many different ways.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 10:04 AM
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    No, I don't know the guy. I'm pretty sure you don't either.

    If our discussion can only be based on whether we know the guy, I guess your interpretation is as invalid as mine.

    And "if the shoe was on the other foot" discussions are simply conjecture.

    -- Posted by DaveThompson on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 10:12 AM
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    And any more, country music is just generally offensive....

    -- Posted by DaveThompson on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 10:17 AM
  • QUESTION?????? I KEEP HEARING ABOUT THE SHOE THROWING.wAS THAT AND AMERICAN OR A FORIGIENER????? LETS PUT THAT STRAIGHT WHILE WERE AT IT.

    YOU KNOW I AM NOT GOING TO ARGUE PRES BUSH BEING SLANDERED......QUESTION PLEASE POINT ME IN THE DIRECTION OF THE TYPE OF SLANDER THAT HAS BEEN LEVELED AT THIS PRESIDENT????.SORRY ZOOK THIS IS A VERY DIFFERENT TYPE OF SLANDER.;fROM THE USE OF THE N WORD TO THE USE OF DEEPLY RACIST CARTOONS. THE OUTRAGE IN THAT AREA BY THE RIGHT HAS BEEN DEAFENING.

    AND NO. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, YOU WANT TO SLANDER BASED ON POLICY FINE,BUT THIS IS BEYOND THAT AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT.THE CHILDREN,THE WIFE,WHATS NEXT?????.......THIS IS A BLANTANT ATTEMPT TO RIDICULE AND TO ALIBI IT IS CONTEMPTOUS.IS this acceptable in AMERICA AGAIN.?

    WHAT is said in a church rises to a national level but what is said by a poletician is ignored as he's just spouting off.A member of our national government circulates racist cartoons and it is ok.WHY DO i feel that the condemnation from the right was deafening.I SAY AGAIN YOU WANT TO CONDEMN BASED ON POLICY.....FINE......BUT YOU CANNOT DENY THE RACE BASED SLANDER........THE PROBLEM IS..........WE THINK IT IS OK.......AFTER ALL HE'S JUST A ............???????????

    DO I NEED TO SAY MORE???????????????

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 11:26 AM
  • GET OFF IT CJW YOU KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THE REFERNCE WAS AND YOU CAN PLAY DUMB FROM NOW TILL TOMORROW.THE TYPE OF INSULTS LEVELED AT THIS PRESIDENT HAVE RACIAL OVERTONES LIKE IT OR NOT.i STATED VERY PLAINLY MY FEELINGS ABOUT SLANDER IT IS UNACCEPTABLE PERIOD........NOW YOU WANT TO SLANDER GO RIGHT AHEAD BASED ON POLICY,BASED ON DISLIKE FOR WHATEVER BEING DONE..........,BUT THE INFERIANCE IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID....AND THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO STOP........GET UPSET AT ALL OF IT NO MATTER WERE IT COMES FROM OR HOW........ME I DONT TOLERATE RACIAL SLANDER FROM,BLACKS,WHITES,GREENS,ORANGE OR WHATEVER AND TO SAY THAT WAS NOT THE INTENT HERE IS TO CONDONE........i DONT CONDONE NOR TOLERATE THE N WORD BY ANYONE.......YOU USE IT TO ME AT YOUR OWN PERIL,BELIEVE ME.

    WHAT I AM SAYING IS WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT SOME RAPPER THAT IN THE WHOLE SCHEME OF THINGS DOESNT COUNT.WHEN YOU LOOK FOR TRASH YOU WILL FIND IT CHECK OUT YOUR HEAVY METAL BLOGS AND MUSIC,THEN TELL ME HOW SURPRISED YOU ARE????????

    IF you think I enjoy pointing this garbage out to you, I DONT.you know why????????? I shouldnt have too...........i should also be able to get on a blog without dealing with this at ALL.

    HAVE A GOOD DAY

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 12:56 PM
  • WASNT DIRECTED AT YOU ZOOK......!!!!!!!!! WHAT YOU JUST POSTED IS GREAT....... YOUR OPINION.....HATE TO SAY IT BUT I AGREE WITH MOST OF IT...........NOTHING SLANDEROUS THERE..........way to go........see ya

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 1:01 PM
  • NO THREAT INTENDED IF YOU TOOK IT THAT WAY THAT IS THE SAME WAY I TAKE SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS.SO CLARIFY FOR YOU

    IF ANYONE USES THAT WORD TO ME THEY DO AT THERE OWN PERIL. IS THAT CLEAR.......,.I DONT WANT YOU TO THINK IT WAS AIMED AT YOU.

    DONT THINK IM SOME FRAIL PERSON EITHER...MOST PEOPLE CANT EVEN GUESS MY AGE......I AM NOT TRYING TO STEER THE DEBATE ANYWHERE THE OBVIOUS IS THE OBVIOUS.

    LETS LOOK AT THIS ANOTHER WAY.........wHY would anyone take the time to critque and invitation list and then take the time to ck everyones work out?????????? Why would you then make and issue of a word in a sentence that could have a DOUBLE meaning ......pointed out by mrs M AND THEN EVERYONE INSIST THAT HE MEANT OR IMPLIED PRES BUSH??????????? YOUR TELLING ME THATS WHAT HE MEANT AND IM TELLING YOU I DONT THINK SO. is YOUR OPINION ANY BETTER THAN MINE????????????

    I do not use race as and excuse for bad behavior.........i do get tired of the fact that the only behavior called to task is that of certain people.......i didnt hear one word about mr palidinos behavior,remember him...... FOUR LETTER WORD .....the pres.

    or our congressman and his "you lie" moment at the state of the union......why does that type of behavior elude your scrunity????????? or is it that it is ok if certain people do it to certain people but how dare them do it to us.

    All im saying is if you are going to insist that a certain standard be maintained then that should be across the board.........CJW i will tell you something i refused to have a lot of minoritys work for me and they tried to give me everyone they could.......you want to guess why i refused them??????????? I WAS HARDER ON THEM THAN YOU COULD EVER BE....I EXPECTED MORE......NOT GOOD,SO RATHER THAN BE UNFAIR I SAID SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD BE THERE BOSS.I AM SAYING TO YOU LOOK AT BOTH SIDES OF WHAT YOU PERCIEVE I AM SAYING....IF YOUR NOT SURE ASK.......SOME OF THE THINGS THROWN OUT HERE ARE NOT VIELED......THEY ARE JUST NOT AS DIRECT...........CALL WHAT YOU WISH.....I WILL ALSO......I DONT INSULT YOU EITHER ,NOR DO I BELITTLE... IT REALLY ISNT PART OF ME AND DOESNT NEED TO BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION,I CAN RESPECT YOUR FEELINGS........I DONT HAVE TO LIKE IT.....SEE YA

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 2:22 PM
  • My view is they can invite anyone they want to recite at the WH. decency would say don't invite someone who is saying burn Bush in his rants. after all he was president just before you got there. think maybe they should spent a little more time figuring out how to cut spending. we are borrowing 40 percent of what we spend? gas prices are going through the roof. foods prices are sky high. housing prices are crashing. spending billions and killing our young in a never ending war.i bet they are trying to figure out a new way to tax those of us who still work. bet they are. and Mtn Homer I hope they fail miserably in getting these illegals documented legal so they can vote.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 3:10 PM
  • ALL THE THINGS YOU SAY ARE TRUE SKEETER ........ SO INSTEAD OF PLAYING THE BLAME GAME LET THEM SIT DOWN THROW THE IDEAOLOGY OUT THE WINDOW AND GET TO WORK......I FEEL THE PAIN, YOU FEEL THE PAIN WE ALL FEEL THE PAIN SO WHY IS SOME RAPPER THE FOCAL POINT OF ATTENTION????????????

    THIS PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED BUT YOU CANT SOLVE IT WITH, THAT IS NOT ON THE TABLE........SAY WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S ALL ON THE TABLE FROM RAISING TAXES TO CUTTING SSI.......YOU WANT TO SOLVE IT, THAT WOULD BE A STARTING POINT.ITS not about what you cut it is about how you do it...and nobodys exempt.....we didnt make housing crash,we didnt raise food prices,we didnt raise gas prices etc......but our congress and senate are busy protecting there butts rather than looking out for us.....so tell me again why are they there??????????? I dislike this war footing we are not on because the only people on it are us,

    the rich kid doesnt serve.....doesnt even think about it......the recruiter had it right economic conscription .........so who thinks they have our best intrest at heart??????????? the only intrest they have is what kinda boat there going to buy this year!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SAY IT EVERY TIME I CAN......

    BRING OUR KIDS HOME.......NOW !!!!!!!!!!!

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, May 11, 2011, at 5:27 PM
  • -- Posted by DaveThompson on Thu, May 12, 2011, at 10:55 AM
  • DAVE .....THANKYOU.....BUT THEY WILL NOT WATCH IT THE TRUTH HURTS......... BUT THANKS

    THE DOUBLE STANDARD RULE APPLIES HERE

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, May 12, 2011, at 12:34 PM
  • That was great Dave. Thanks for the link.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Thu, May 12, 2011, at 12:58 PM
  • CJW DID YOU WATCH THE LIK???????????

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, May 12, 2011, at 4:45 PM
  • ZOOK AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT AT LENGHT......that is why you nor I can read a bill from anyone,they dont want us to.the references alone require a staff to research.And i agree it is all about our money and how to take it.

    you go to congress poor and come away a multi millionaire and you only get paid 160.000 thou.......how does that work????????

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, May 12, 2011, at 5:30 PM
  • Do we really know he was dumped off the ship? I've been hearing lots of theories

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, May 13, 2011, at 8:00 AM
  • RETALIATION WAS IN THE CARDS NO MATTER WHAT WE DID.......WE DIDNT DO THE RESPECT THING FOR HIS FOLLOWERS. We did it for the rest of the world to include ourselves.....THAT IS WHO WE ARE.

    I would say if we as people didnt think he was dead the retaliation is saying he is.Funny thing we havnt heard to much from those who just had to see the photos ,whats up with that?????? I guess they just needed feathers in there cap.

    Notice that the arab world is not sheding any tears about this death,to me that says a lot.so maybe people can stop painting them with a broad brush,could be they didnt like him either,could be that the taliban.al quida's time has come and gone ,we shall see.

    So let us now turn inward and take care of our own,BRING OUR KIDS HOME..........

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, May 13, 2011, at 8:51 AM
  • ZOOK.......i was talking about a moral compass that I hope we still have,one that we need to keep in our focus,the one you were raised with.

    HEWBET......I dont know wether you noticed but zook znd i have been saying that for months........there seems to be a thing going on were they are trying to get all they can thru deception before we lower the boom......the proposal's they put forth usually dont do anything for anyone and definetly not for the nation.When you get past the sound bites there is nothing there,and the lobbyist are having a field day.

    SO what are you saying ZOOK......YOU DIDNT LEAVE THE COUNTRY IT LEFT YOU ????????????

    BROTHER I FELT THAT WAY SINCE NAMM......WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, May 13, 2011, at 11:23 AM
  • I SAID IT BEFORE .....BASED ON THE DEBATE ON THIS BLOG WE COULD DO A BETTER JOB........ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS PUT US THERE.........SMILE

    WE CERTAINLY HAVE AS GOOD OR BETTER IDEAS

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, May 13, 2011, at 8:38 PM
  • -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sat, May 14, 2011, at 9:12 AM
  • -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sat, May 14, 2011, at 9:14 AM
  • Huckabee announced on his show he's not going to run

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sat, May 14, 2011, at 7:51 PM
  • I have listened to him and I like him.....

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sat, May 14, 2011, at 10:22 PM
  • The Republicans backed down on the Obama care, except for the part all Americans have to have insurance. Boehner put in place a mandate against that part.

    Zook

    I'm not a whole lot better, but I am going to try and get out of the house today for a little bit maybe take a trip up to walmart.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, May 15, 2011, at 8:42 AM
  • -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, May 15, 2011, at 4:51 PM
  • POINT.......I HATE TO ADMITE IT BUT I DON'T THINK THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TOOK HIS CANDIDACY SERIOUS UNTIL THEY REALIZED HE WAS SERIOUS.......THAT IS NOT AND EXSCUSE.THAT COMMENT IS BASED ON KEY DEMS COMMENTS ABOUT HIM.....THEY WERE NOT VERY NICE AND IN SOME CASES VERY BIGOTED......I THINK HE KNEW,I DONT THINK HE KNEW TO WHAT EXTENT.......Hes a teacher by trade. We never stop doing that,it's a curse in some respects believe me,my wife reminds me all the time.......so i get it, but a lot of people resent it.He is not doing anything any other president hasnt done.........

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, May 16, 2011, at 7:47 PM
  • YES...... Hillary during one of the debates.dont remember which one but i am almost positive that is were.

    I read on the security and prosperity thing he can be asked about it, but it is a simple answer.WAS A PERSON REPRESENTING HIS COMPANY,HE WASNT ALONE SEEMS LIKE THERE WERE QUITE A FEW FORTUNE 500 CO INVOLVED....WE SHALL SEE

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, May 16, 2011, at 9:00 PM
  • I am assuming the Phillip Berg is a nut case. He has filed lawsuits against President Bush and also had questions for McCain about where he was born

    Here's a link about the lawsuit he filed against Bush

    http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2007/01/philip-j-berg-nutbar-supreme.html

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Mon, May 16, 2011, at 9:57 PM
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