And here's a pain song by Jerry Jeff Walker that catches the spirit of Ol' Hank pretty well.
I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight
V1 Well I could live my whole life without a phone call The likes of which I got today It was only my wife, "hello" and "goodbye" To tell me she was goin' away
V2 Well I didn't cry, it was all cut and dry She hung up before I realized I turned on the stereo and stood by the window To stare at the storm clouds outside
ref 1 When I'm happy I play Rock and Roll I play country when I'm losing control Well I won't play Chuck Berry The mood's just not right I feel like Hank Williams tonight
V3 There was no explanation not even a reason no talk about the good times we had Was it me was it her, I'm really not sure and that's why I'm hurting so bad
ref 2 I play classical music when it rains I play country when I am in pain Well I won't play Beethoven It wouldn't seem right Well I feel like Hank Williams tonight
I suspect that in fact, illegality is precisely a backdoor way to tax marijuana.
Not for the benefit of the government of course, but for the benefit of the powers that be.
Entire truckloads and planeloads of pot cross the border every day with no risk whatsoever of being intercepted, because the fix is in, the "tax" has been paid into the pocket of some high official of government, law enforcement, border control, mafia, CIA, FBI,...etc.
The only pot that is intercepted is the "competition".
It was the same for liquor during the prohibition. The gangsters loved it, and in every city officials were on the take.
There is a big difference between taking a girlfriend and adopting a family.
Once my wife took my kids and left without warning and I didn't see them for 7 years.
A year after they left, I married a woman who had a 9 year old son.
My heartache over the loss of my own kids made it hard to bond with my new wife's son.
Plus, the boy himself was resisting such bonding because he had come to think of himself as the man of the family and resented my intrusion.
What's more, my new wife did not make it easy, because she aligned herself with the boy against me in matters of discipline. (and no I was never harsh or cruel). She had issues stemming from her former marriage that made her overprotective of her exclusive control over her son.
It took years to reach a real peace with the boy. In fact it only happened when he was an adult and his mother couldn't get in the way anymore.
All that to say that there can be a lot of factors in the equation and it's really nobody's right to blame a guy for his decision in such a case. It's his life and his choice.
Yeah that's happening to me too. I change threads and I get a message that there is a problem and the window has to close for some reason. Fortunately I found a shortcut way to get back in but it's a real drag and didn't happen before the new site changes.
Yep, and then there's those who think the glory lies in doing the slaughtering. Those who think that the world would be a better place without those "other people" around. Some people are actually deluded to the point that they think they are doing something good by making war.
No, I don't know anything about the "shaking towers".
Yoghurt drink??? I like kifir. Is that what you mean??
I've never been to Iran, but I lived in Indonesia for over a year and I've been to other countries where most of the people are Muslims, and I find them just as normal as anybody else.
I don't buy into the Islamophobia created by those who have a vested interest in establishing western military control in the mideast.
Well the media evangelists certainly don't. So it balances out.
In every country, the religious sources of the media are really just political shills spreading fear and hatred. And often as not, the antagonists promoting both sides of the conflict are working for the same global interests.
The rabid mullahs and the rabid tele-evangelists want the same thing: "War".
And they are both paid by the same global interests.
There's money to be made in a war. There are natural resources to be stolen in a war. There are human rights abuses to be justified by a war.
War is good for some people. As long as it doesn't happen right in their own backyard.
As a matter of fact, that often cited "quote" about "wiping Israel off the face of the map" never existed.
That idiom doesn't exist in the Persian language.
What Ahmadinejad actually said was:
"The regime that ocupies Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."
It's a call for a regime change(we've seen enough of those on the part of the west now haven't we?). And it doesn't even involve a threat of violence. It is in no way a call for the extermination of a nation.
Yellow journalism has long been used to enflame war fever and justify the invasion of innocent countries.
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Just wait.The wheels of providential justice grind exceedingly slow.
But they also grind exceedingly fine.
When the cup is full, judgement will occur swiftly.