"Our two-year-old makes us feel so bad when we scold him."
"He stops what he’s doing and gets very still."
"Then he looks down."
"Then he tears up."
"Then his lower lip pokes out."
Posted on 08/21/2008 10:51:36 AM PDT by weegee
I know Marty is a series Christian ..his new gospel CD I own is remarkably composed and engineered
not sure if he’s a lefty or not
he’s a fellow Mississippian originally so that further reduces the chance but who knows?
Marty Stuart? He’s a brilliant musician! He used to be pretty wild, but maybe he’s had a conversion ... and Mississippi does incline one to a gut-level conservatism :-).
My husband had a job offer from Peavey Electronics once, but he turned it down on (among other things) fears that he’d end up out of work in Meridian. It would have been interesting, though ... hometown of Jimmie Rodgers!
Irony is that my favorite Country CD is the lesser known "Heroes" with both of them. I'm not a huge fan of country music, but I do like the outlaw stuff which goes next to my Skynyrd, Kid Rock, Motorhead, and AC/DC collections.
out of work in Meridian might have hurt.
sad to say but Meridian has seen better days
used to be the state’s largest city till after WWII
best parts of Mississippi to live in would be the northern burbs of Jackson though the city itself is like the bad part of Durham
southern Memphis burbs are ok
Hattiesburg is liked by folks I know who live there.
The coast was great but really really got whacked by Katrina....devastation ...for 20 miles of beach you have anywhere from 2-1000 yards of serious wipeout
what was once beautiful Spanish Oaks with moss and old stately Antebellum and Victorian home , motels, commerical districts...all gone.....just sand, dirt and maybe 35% of the trees...seriously pruned.
best parts of Mississippi today are rural....I would opt Madison county were I to move back...I have 100s of kin there.
Oxford is great but run by the Left.
But the biggest demographic in the state vote even more conservative than Mormons I think...
Davis Allen Coe is in my truck’s CD player now....with Wanda Jackson, Nickelback and Marty’s Gospel CD Soul’s Chapel which is incredible...the musical work sounds like Daniel Lanois meets T-Bone Burnett
been huge LS fan too since 1973 when “Pronounced” came out
one of my closest friends books their dates...Rossington, Powell, Medlock and little Van Zandt can really do it justice.
Wilco? What the in the world are they doing at the Ryman...must be that new country sound I can’t stand
Love that Skynyrd sound - I got to see Leon play a couple of times before he passed on. The boys did some great stuff with the Rossington-Collins band a while back too.
It's time for a Wardaddy All-Star Southern Jam: Blackfoot, LS, Outlaws, Hatchet, Widespread Panic, Marshall Tucker Band.
Can your people line that up - what a show that would be.
Why would he think that?
Does he know something I don't?
Lordy!
It’s good to see you! ;o)
Peavey is still there.
Sorry to read your thoughts on Meridian.
I’d say Jackson has seen much better days.
I have family in Madison.
They love it.
You’re right about most folks voting more conservative than Utah.
My husband is a computer network architect, and he didn’t get the impression that Peavey was really looking for someone like him. He was concerned that we might move to Meridian, and then he’d find that he hated the job or the company couldn’t actually use him.
Nothing personal against the company or the location, but he was already unemployed in Tulsa, where we knew people.
Much of Jackson is ravaged by black blight and yet they plan to spend over 100 million downtown on yet another renewal project.
Granted the suburbs to the northeast and far east are much better.
Meridian may be the same. I am not familiar with it beyond the interstate and downtown which have declined. It is true that Meridian was larger than Jackson till I think around WWII. Something I did not know till reading a Jackson history.
Sorry to have offended. I don't blame responsible folks for the decline in Mississippi cities.
If it's any consequence I hear if you really want to see something sad go see Greenville...that the decline there is precipitous
*I swatted the baby last nite..now 22 months on his diapered rump once last nite when he got out of his crib for the umpteenth time...i will never forget the crushed look on his face, he's seen his brothers whupped but it's never been anything but hugs and kisses or maybe some stern admonishment tween he and I......it made me very sad...him being the last and all......the worm turns...maybe I took it out on Meridian.
;>)
Oh you terrible person! Our two-year-old makes us feel so bad when we scold him. He stops what he’s doing and gets very still. Then he looks down. Then he tears up. Then his lower lip pokes out. It’s crushing to him and us. :)
The worst thing is when our oldest son scolds the two-year-old. They are the bestest of buddies. When we get after the 2-year-old, he goes to big brother for comfort. When big brother gets after him, he is left all to himself. It’s so sad. Of course, he gets over it pretty quickly. And thankfully, he catches on and amends his behavior. Except when it comes to writing on the wall. We have a serial scribbler on our hands . . .
yep...the old drama queen move
stare down at the hands and tear up
or fall on the floor and put hands over head and not look up
or lean against the refrigerator and covered one’s head like those Cracker barrel doll kids standing in the corner
he seems back to normal again this morning
I can pretty much recall when I started to swat the boys ...the first boy got it earlier and more frequent....he wouldn’t get in his high chair or car seat etc....defiant
number two lad and both girls could almost have never experienced corporal punishment
the baby won’t need much I can tell
My dad lit my arse up frequently...hell, they all did back then. No warnings like now....just whap or grab you up and take you to the room for a serious one. Not many kids back then who did not fear dad and often mom too. I got whupped for not saying sir or maam or using the N-word.
Nowadays with many younger parents, it’s all touchy feely being friends and all.
When I go to PTA/PTO meetings I feel (aside from feeling like grandpa) I feel like a virgin at a pagan funeral. Today’s young parents where I live are much much more liberal and PC about everything and they are raising tier kids to be little PC nazis. The dads mostly act like little mice-men....not all but most. I see a dad like me and we know...we are an endangered species.
My sons talk about a go-cart they get admonished they are wasting oil. They talk about hunting, then they are mudering animals. They talk about us clearing land and it’s about did we kill any trees.
It’s scary.
My father was 53 when I was born. Talk about feelin’ like a granddaddy! He wasn’t into spanking or whuppin’. My mother pretty much handled that with my brothers. I was the spoiled rotten, never got spanked child. Not that I needed spanking. I was crushed if you looked at me like I did something wrong. Of course, my brothers have a different view . . .
He was a singer and song writer. His daughter is the same.
Who cares what his political positions were and what her’s are. She is just another person. No more, no less.
The more we jump ugly on these “stars” for spouting their views, the “greater” we make them.
Let them talk. And if they make sense, take their opinion under consideration. If they talk like fools, take that under consideration as well. But place no more weight on that consideration than you would on my opinion.
And remember, you don’t know them any more than you know me.
Nashville treated Johnny Cash like trash for 30 years. If he’d meant so much to the Left when he was alive, they would’ve been championing him.
It is “safe” to like Johnny Cash now.
Just like when Bruuuuce Springsteen and others got on stage to sing some Clash songs at the Grammys AFTER Joe Strummer had died and the Clash had been disbanded for 20 years. The industry only like to make money off your corpse.
I didn’t vote for McCain in 2000 and none of his policies have gotten me “on board” but I will be voting for him in the 2008 election.
"Our two-year-old makes us feel so bad when we scold him."
"He stops what he’s doing and gets very still."
"Then he looks down."
"Then he tears up."
"Then his lower lip pokes out."
That's child abuse for someone to deliberately lay a guilt trip on your kids like that.
Psychological abuse.
Tell the PC crowd they need to start by silencing the yard crews with worthless leaf blowers. All it does is burn fuel, make noise, and put the debris in the street or the neighbor's yard (make it someone else's problem).
A rake or broom and a bag would get the debris OUT of there and the scratching noise is more rhythmic and soothing than the leaf blower chorus.
But the unskilled labor crowd would not be happy. They'd have to do work.
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