Neanderpundit

No, nobody new died, but I just caught the Willie Nelson video “you don’t know me”, the Cindy Walker song made most popular here by Ray Charles- at least that’s the version I remember most.

I was never a huge country western fan, but I remember the Outlaws. Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Merle Haggard, David Allan Coe, Willie Nelson,Kris Kristofferson, Billy Joe Shaver…

If you watch the video, you see an old, old Willie. His hands look like my grandfather’s before he died. He’s not going to be around much longer.

His politics and dope smoking and income tax evasion aside, he’s had some real talent. He’s done some good work over the years,and his musicianship is damned good.

Watching that video seeing that guitar, the signatures on it, the pictures on the mirrors of his tour van… it’s an image of the artist as an old man. Go and watch, if you were ever a fan of the man or the song, and maybe while he’s still alive, sit down and write him a letter, thank him for the entertainment.

Steve H keeps talking about Man Camp, and I keep thinking how much I want to build one.

Now, being the building nerd that I am, it occurs to me to build a place lke Maurice J. Minnifield’s little cabin in Alaska, but that defies the purpose of Man Camp. No, i think it should be a place where it’s almost impossible to get without four wheel drive, and it should be four or five old airstream campers in a circle. The center of the circle sold have an iron roofed pavillion with a couple of old oil-drum BBQ grills and smokers. the trailers should have crappers but only so you can piss in the night without going outside. There should be deer, and you should be able to hunt them in season. There should be gun racks in all the campers, and everyone at Man Camp should be armed, and there should be a target where all members can shoot from a seated position. While eating dinner. With their hands. Gun cleaning suplies should be in the same cabinet as the spices. Salt should be kept in quart mason jars with nail holes in the top.
In fact, if you want to see what a PERFECT Man Camp looks like, go see “Hatari”. One of John Wayne’s best movies, because it includes lots of dangerous animal wrangling (actually done by Wayne and the other actors) target shooting, driving fast in 4wd vehicles, and a bigass house with lots of sleeping rooms and manly furniture. oh, and Elsa Martinelli- who tries to force her way into the ultimate Man Camp and is forced to take the men just as they are, and live with it.

What would you have at your man camp?

This is but one story of the type.

Now, if you don’t belive this, or you pooh-pooh it, you clearly have no understanding of islam, nor the war, nor of the enemy we fight.

On the other hand, if you would be likely to vote democrat to begin with, you aren’t likely to get it anyway- becuase Nancy Pelosi wants you to vote Democrat. Bill Bastard Clinton and his cankled basilisk want you to vote democrat. Ted Kennedy wants you to vote democrat. If that doesn’t change your mind; if it doesn’t give you pause to think that the very worst of people that call themselves Americans want you to vote democrat, then the idea that murdering thugs around the world want you to vote democrat isn’t ging to sway you. And it makes you no different than those murdering thugs, in my eyes.