I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Paula-you can smoke it legally here in Washington State now. You can't buy it or sell it but you can HAVE it. Not sure how that's going to play out. You can get it medicinally, however, if you have a "green" card. My SIL and I joke that we can probably get "green" cards now, if we want, since we're cancer survivors. 

Mary

hahaha - never smoked it myself, but still people call me an old hippy.  Probably because I (used to) have long hair and still love to tie dye stuff...

what about Country Joe and the Fish?

Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand singing, " You Don't Bring Me Flowers."



Did y'all know that Carol King used to babysit for Little Eva who sang " Locomotion?" I learned that from my 24 year old son who loves Carol King.



Mary~I know its legal in Wa, and Colo. The mother of my DIL lives near Denver. She's fighting stage IV ovarian cancer, so she get has the card.

I've always believed it should be legalized, even though, I abstain now. Imagine how it could surge our economy. Farmers, harvesters, truckers, factory workers, tobacco tax!



Peace

The Old Hippy

Love Country Joe. A couple of "downer" songs:

In the Year 25 25

Eve of Destruction

Total Eclilpse of the Heart

Off to bed. More tomorrow.

Peter, Paul, & Mary...Puff, the Magic Dragon!



Juliaanna~I could listen to Don Williams all day without getting tired of him.



Mary~Why can't our guys in DC, both parties put their heads together and come up with some fixes for our economy? Legalize pot, get our own oil out of the ground, and penalize American companies that take their jobs out of the country.



My DH is a forklift operator. Right now he's working through a temp service. He brought home $283 this week. Next weeks pay will be minus 2 days for Christmas, and 1 day for snow emergency. Next week they're off 2 days again for New Years. These are jobs he used to make $14 hourly with lots of benefits and OT.



I blame HUGE Capitol Hill EGOS.



This old hippy's going to bed.



Goodnight

Paula

Love that the music discussion is still continuing! 

Good snowy Saturday morning.....hmmmm, Les Paul & Mary Ford.....drastically dating myself.  "How High The Moon".  I guess in reality.....I have liked many different kinds of music at different times in my life.  Several that were done by the Dixie Chicks. 

Hoping things progress in Washington today.

Jackie

My political prediction for today: More talks of almost kinda reaching something that could be termed an agreement, followed by temper tantrums and demands to stay up past their bedtime (I'm not naming names or parties, but you know who you are, baggers).



Looking forward, some agreement will happen by 2pm NYE though it won't be anything sane or good. More a ....let's drive parallel to the cliff for a while so we can par-tay like the Mayans! And then this will all come up again when we hit the debt ceiling. Again.



I call buffoonery. Oh yes, this is way beyond shenanigans.

Chicago....awesome!

"Never have the priorities for survival and success of a major party’s Washington politicians been so utterly at odds with the priorities required for the country’s survival and success."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/28/the-republicans-moment-of-truth.html

"So the American people are watching what we do here," the president said. "Obviously, their patience is already thin. This is deja vu all over again. America wonders why it is in this town ... everything always has to wait for the last minute. Well, we're now at the last minute."........

....."Ordinary folks, they do their jobs," he said. "They meet deadlines. They sit down and they discuss things and then things happen; if there are disagreements, they sort through the disagreements. The notion that our elected leadership can't do the same thing is mind-boggling to them."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/12/29/168245148/obama-the-american-people-are-watching-what-we-do-here

Glad you are feeling ok so far, Old Hippie! :-)

Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zant, John Prine

One-offs - "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest and "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck.



Love the Dixie Chicks - "Goodbye Earl" is hilarious and "Taking the Long Way" is one of my personal anthems, as is Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down."



Van Morrison, "Brown-eyed Girl," "Moondance," "Into the Mystic" (although Lowen and Navarro's version is much better, IMO, with Dan Navarro's wonderful baritone).



For standards, nothing can beat the velvet baritone of Ed Ames - not only his famous "My Cup Runneth Over," but other ones like "Mary in the Morning" and "Time, Time." I met him at a record-signing event at a local department store when I was 10 - my mom gave me money and sent me to buy his "My Cup Runneth Over" album (he was giving a concert in town but we didn't have enough money to go - we only had enough money for the album). He was so kind - when I got up to the table, I was paralyzed by his good looks and just stood there staring, with big huge eyes. He asked my name and I whispered it - and he half-stood, leaned over and put his hand on my fingers where they clutched the table edge, smiled and asked softly, "Can you say it a little louder, sweetheart?" I was in LOOOOOVE! I had to spell it, too, because it is unusual. I still have that signed album ... In fact, I have all my vinyl, some vinyl from friends who got rid of theirs, and some vinyl from when I lived in my condo and someone put several hundred albums in one of the trash rooms for people to pick through. Digitizing it all is one of my retirement projects.



Oooh, Rickie Lee Jones' "It Must Be Love."



Love traditional Irish music, too. Planxty was one of my favorite bands - love "Little Musgrave." You can find it on You Tube. Also Altan - have seen them in concert a couple of times.



The Rankin Family from Nova Scotia (?) - great Celtic trad music. The Chieftains (we have Kennedy Center tix to see them this March).



Really, just about anything except rap or heavy metal/headbanger music (the kind that sounds like people falling down concrete stairs accompanied by metal trash cans). Not a fan of opera, either, although I won't turn it off if it comes on our local classical music station. There aren't enough hours in the day to listen to everything I want to hear!



L



P.S. Too angry about the fiscal debacle (more like a curb than a cliff, but a debacle by any definition of the word) to venture any comment here. I can't do it without swear words.