The Countertop Chronicles

Its World No Tobacco Day!!!!

I think I’ll have a stogie when I get home.

Have A Cigar
Music and Lyrics By Roger Waters

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You’re gonna go far, fly high,
You’re never gonna die,
You’re gonna make it if you try;
They’re gonna love you.
Well I’ve always had a deep respect,
And I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one’s Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.

We’re just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out.
You owe it to the people.
We’re so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green,
Have you seen the chart?
It’s a helluva start,
It could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the birthday party bash Guns N Roses put on for Rosario Dawson.

Some readers wondered who she was . . . . well she’s super hot..

’nuff said.

Perhaps thats the solution to the non problem of children being naturally curious about guns.

My four year old knows where my guns are and he knows where my ammo is (though he can’t really access either, except for some older guns ammo for which I do not have). I take him to gun shows. He knows I use my guns to hunt and he knows I would use my guns to save mommy and him from bad people or bad animals.

He is not curious about them in the least, in fact, he is bored by them. Unlike his toy guns, he knows he’s not allowed to play with Daddy’s. Even worse, he knows that when Daddy takes his guns out, it usually means Daddy is going to be sitting at the workbench for two hours cleaning them.

And let me tell you, nothing says “I want nothing to do with THOSE things” more than normalizing them in his existence, removing their allure, and turning them into a chore along the lines of cleaning his room or washing the dishes.

Of course, that pusillanimous sycophant Mathew Miller apparantly doesn’t even consider that parents might want to educate their children about the responsibilities of owning a firearm, assuming instead that they are simply just evil items to be feared and ignored and lectured against.

A new study involving 201 parents and an equal number of their children has found that 39 percent of kids knew the location of their parents’ firearms, while 22 percent said they had handled the weapons, despite their parents’ assertions to the contrary. Parents who had talked to their children about gun safety were just as likely to be misinformed about their children’s actions as those who said they never had discussed the matter.

Guns on the National Mall????

Norton, a race walker who strides across the Mall when the sun goes down, was angry that the U.S. Park Police did not double up patrols on the Mall after what happened Thursday. Twice that night, bandits brandishing a semiautomatic handgun robbed a man and a woman, assaulted the woman and fled. A similar attack happened early Sunday.

How did that happen?? I thought they were illegal in DC????

“Anyone who thinks the South in 2006 is the same as the South in 2004 is mistaken,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

And that, is the biggest hurdle Harold Ford, Jr is going to have to overcome if he expects to win Tennessee.

Who in their right mind ever thought allowing Chuck “The Bigoted Gun Banner” Schumer to weigh in as an authority on southern voters was a good idea?

Something that you could take the family to Taco Bell in and the second they got out to go eat their bean burritos, you drop the clutch and take some hills with a cigarette hanging out your mouth acting like you were the bad guy in “Bullit,” cranking the stereo, thinking this car was made for a stud like you when really you were racing to the porn store to get that cock ring..Cause Karl Malden is dead. And so is Steve McQueen. Someone has to take their place. And it is gonna be god damn you.

Hot Damn!

Punk Rock and Fast Cars, is there anything better?

We rented the 30th Anniversary DVD of Schoolhouse Rock this weekend.

Excellent, and each short was as good or better than I remembered from my childhood. My son, all of 4 now, probably knows more about what he needs to know to go through life than most high schoolers.

Plus, even though it was produced by hippy advertisers in the 70s - and inspired by the ability of one of their children to remember Rolling Stone and Grateful Dead lyrics but not multiplication tables, its worth pointing out these shorts were serious and stuck to the facts - not the usual one sided rewriting of history and literature and facts and science that we usually get from ABC.

In that spirit, and in the honor of all who have served this country, here is one of the best songs from a series of great songs.

Shot Heard ‘Round the World
Music & Lyrics by Bob Dorough

“The British are coming! The British are coming!”

Now, the ride of Paul Revere
Set the nation on its ear,
And the shot at Lexington heard ’round the world,
When the British fired in the early dawn
The War of Independence had begun,
The die was cast, the rebel flag unfurled.

And on to Concord marched the foe
To seize the arsenal there you know,
Waking folks searching all around
Till our militia stopped them in their tracks,
At the old North Bridge we turned them back
And chased those Redcoats back to Boston town.

And the shot heard ’round the world
Was the start of the Revolution.
The Minute Men were ready, on the move.
Take your powder, and take your gun.
Report to General Washington.
Hurry men, there’s not an hour to lose!

Now, at famous Bunker Hill,
Even though we lost, it was quite a thrill,
The rebel Colonel Prescott proved he was wise;
Outnumbered and low on ammunition
As the British stormed his position
He said, “Hold your fire till you see the whites of their eyes!”

Though the next few years were rough,
General Washington’s men proved they were tough,
Those hungry, ragged boys would not be beat.
One night they crossed the Delaware,
Surprised the Hessians in their lair,
And at Valley Forge they just bundled up their feet!

And the shot heard ’round the world
Was the start of the Revolution.
The Minute Men were ready, on the move.
Take your blanket, and take your son.
Report to General Washington.
We’ve got our rights and now it’s time to prove.

Well, they showed such determination
That they won the admiration
Of countries across the sea like France and Spain,
Who loaned the colonies ships and guns
And put the British on the run
And the Continental Army on its feet again.

And though they lost some battles too,
The Americans swore they’d see it through,
Their raiding parties kept up, hit and run.
At Yorktown the British could not retreat,
Bottled up by Washington and the French Fleet,
Cornwallis surrendered and finally we had won!

The winner!

Hurray!

From the shot heard ’round the world
To the end of the Revolution
The continental rabble took the day
And the father of our country
Beat the British there at Yorktown
And brought freedom to you and me and the U.S.A.!

God bless America, Let Freedom Ring!

Heh!

William G. McMahon, special agent in charge of the ATF’s New York field division, announced Friday that the agency would review the intelligence gathered by the city and target any federally licensed firearms dealers who broke the law.

In a twist, ATF’s inquiry will also include a review of whether the city acted legally in setting up the sting.

Several gun-rights advocates have questioned whether the city itself broke firearms rules or committed fraud by attempting to simulate straw sales in other state

Double Heh!!

Among the issues being explored: Did the investigators provide accurate information on ATF forms at the time of purchase and did they comply with laws requiring them to be residents of the states where they acquired the weapons?

This is from The Connection, our local community paper.

To the Editor:

Re: Remove ‘Gun Lobby’ From Office.

If Ms. Fischer would prefer to live in a fantasy land with no guns, perhaps she should consider a move across the river to Washington, D.C., where they’ve had a nearly complete ban in place since 1977. Instead of worrying about the elected officials who are standing up for our freedoms, she can always vote herself “off the island.”

Philip Levy
Oriole Avenue
Springfield

WOW!.

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB . . . .

h/t The Texican Tattler

Heh, a blast from the past.

if you know, you know.

If you don’t, I ain’t posting it here . . . though feel free to email me if your so inclined.

I’ll return, it might just be a few more weeks, but in the meantime these are my sentiments exactly.

mines actually slightly larger