Here's a little something to get you in the mood for a Tea Party protest... Two Trillion Tons - Sung by the Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford Hat Tip Steve Carter The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition will hold its Independence Day Tea Party in Rennick Park, Washington, MO. Situated on the banks of the Missouri River in Washington, Rennick Park and Pavilion offers us an all-day location to celebrate the greatest...
Pimco (really big bond manager) managing director Bill Gross says we are at risk of total federal government debt rising to 100% of GDP. To zero in on the U.S. of A., its annual deficit of nearly $1.5 trillion is 10% of GDP alone, a number never approached since the 1930s Depression. While policymakers, including the President and Treasury Secretary...
Today’s sermon is from the Canada Free Press (bless their pea-pickin’ hearts*): Obama and his Marxist minions thought that the 2008 election gave them an unfettered mandate to dismantle our Constitutional Republic by establishing a One World secular socialist powerhouse in Washington DC, forever running roughshod over the people and the states without any worry of revolt or reprisal. They...
Tennessee Ernie Ford was most famous for his song "Sixteen Tons" that was released in early 1956. Now his ghost has come back to update the song. It's now called "Two Trillion Tons." Well that's inflation for ya. Hat tip: ARRA News Service
On the Ranch Radio this morning is the Ol' Pea Picker himself, Tennessee Ernie Ford singing Anticipation Blues . You can find this song and much more of his early work on the 30 track CD Rock City Boogie .
At one time, several members of my extended family were involved in coal mining at some level, and that’s probably true of many of us with rural roots. Along with farming (something my family also knew a little about), mining was one of the most common jobs around in those days. In some cases — [...]
Bond guru Bill Gross of Pimco has been making the media rounds lately, issuing pronouncements on the state of U.S. government finances. In his latest, he channeled the 1955 number one hit "Sixteen Tons."
(…) Readers who are interested in such things as the Forbes annual list of hoity-toities will have noticed that more and more of them are global, not U.S. citizens. The U.S., in other words, is not producing as much wealth in proportion to the rest of the world. Its fortune-producing capabilities seem to be declining, which might suggest that its relative standard of living is doing so as
As a young teenager with eclectic music tastes, one of my favorite records was Tennessee Ernie Ford’s tribute to coal miners, “Sixteen Tons.” (Video below.) Of course, I wasn’t the only one who found a lot to like about that song — after all, it rocketed to the top of both country and pop charts [...]
Performed by Dick Ford, son of Tennessee Ernie Ford (hat tip to Midnight Rider of Infidel Bloggers Alliance ): A toe tapper and political satire, all rolled into one.
By David Lambert - This past February we reported that MPI Home Video is preparing a DVD release of Here's Lucy - Season 1 for this summer. Today retailers such as Amazon.com and DVDEmpire.com began... (more)
I left Virginia in 1972 for San Francisco, but returned after 30 years with 21 native Californians (husband, 11 children (my first was born in DC), 2 sons-in-law and 8 grandchildren). I now live in the shadow of the Blue Ridge mountains and five minutes from the Shenandoah River. Got...
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