Monday, November 30, 2009
Grandma Ann got a neat note today from.....
Grandma received a note through my email from a dear friend of hers from days gone by, but as many know... she is a military brat... so here is a piece of the note...
"Stan,
We have never met, but I went to school with Ann, David, and Ward and knew Mike in Germany. I hope you will say hi to her and them all from me. I just wanted to tell everyone Happy Thanksgiving.
Best Wishes,
Darian Sutton Daries"
How great it is to find out friends from the days of yore... still remember... and how sad memories sometime fade when not intended... but thank God for the fresh start that comes with each day...
and to Darian, thank you for getting in touch, we hope your holiday of Thanksgiving was very wonderful with many great memories created, and tummies full.... and now the excitement of the most joyous season of all, Christmas, is fast arriving... so Merry Christmas to you all... may your Christmas be full of cheer and wonderment in celebrating the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Stan and Ann
If you received a music cd from Great Grandma with songs of Bob Duke...
Great Grandma asks you to please send a note thanking Bob for recording those songs for us. It is an honor to have those songs in his voice... He has sang with most of the famous quartets and in most southern gospel and gospel acts of the day and is still singing his praises to God... He was a personal friend of Albert Brumley and his son... "I'll Fly Away", "Turn Your Radio On", "I'll Meet You In The Morning", "He Set Me Free" are among a host of favorites written by Albert E. Brumley. He wrote over 800 songs.
His address is
Mr. Bob Duke
1423 Cedar Drive
Stillwater, OK 74074
Great Grandma thanks you very much for doing this..
His address is
Mr. Bob Duke
1423 Cedar Drive
Stillwater, OK 74074
Great Grandma thanks you very much for doing this..
7 stories Obama doesn't want told | |
| Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds. No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on. A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering. As Washington returns to work from the Thanksgiving holiday, there are several anti-Obama storylines gaining momentum. The Obama White House argues that all of these storylines are inaccurate or unfair. In some cases these anti-Obama narratives are fanned by Republicans, in some cases by reporters and commentators. But they all are serious threats to Obama, if they gain enough currency to become the dominant frame through which people interpret the president’s actions and motives. Here are seven storylines Obama needs to worry about: He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money Economists and business leaders from across the ideological spectrum were urging the new president on last winter when he signed onto more than a trillion in stimulus spending and bank and auto bailouts during his first weeks in office. Many, though far from all, of these same people now agree that these actions helped avert an even worse financial catastrophe. Along the way, however, it is clear Obama underestimated the political consequences that flow from the perception that he is a profligate spender. He also misjudged the anger in middle America about bailouts with weak and sporadic public explanations of why he believed they were necessary. The flight of independents away from Democrats last summer — the trend that recently hammered Democrats in off-year elections in Virginia — coincided with what polls show was alarm among these voters about undisciplined big government and runaway spending. The likely passage of a health care reform package criticized as weak on cost-control will compound the problem. Obama understands the political peril, and his team is signaling that he will use the 2010 State of the Union address to emphasize fiscal discipline. The political challenge, however, is an even bigger substantive challenge—since the most convincing way to project fiscal discipline would be actually to impose spending reductions that would cramp his own agenda and that of congressional Democrats. People used to make fun of Bill Clinton’s misty-eyed, raspy-voiced claims that, “I feel your pain.” The reality, however, is that Clinton’s dozen years as governor before becoming president really did leave him with a vivid sense of the concrete human dimensions of policy. He did not view programs as abstractions — he viewed them in terms of actual people he knew by name. Obama, a legislator and law professor, is fluent in describing the nuances of problems. But his intellectuality has contributed to a growing critique that decisions are detached from rock-bottom principles. Both Maureen Dowd in The New York Times and Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post have likened him to Star Trek’s Mr. Spock. The Spock imagery has been especially strong during the extended review Obama has undertaken of Afghanistan policy. He’ll announce the results on Tuesday. The speech’s success will be judged not only on the logic of the presentation but on whether Obama communicates in a more visceral way what progress looks like and why it is worth achieving. No soldier wants to take a bullet in the name of nuance. That’s the Chicago Way This is a storyline that’s likely taken root more firmly in Washington than around the country. The rap is that his West Wing is dominated by brass-knuckled pols. It does not help that many West Wing aides seem to relish an image of themselves as shrewd, brass-knuckled political types. In a Washington Post story this month, White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, referring to most of Obama’s team, said, “We are all campaign hacks.” The problem is that many voters took Obama seriously in 2008 when he talked about wanting to create a more reasoned, non-partisan style of governance in Washington. When Republicans showed scant interest in cooperating with Obama at the start, the Obama West Wing gladly reverted to campaign hack mode. The examples of Chicago-style politics include their delight in public battles with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (There was also a semi-public campaign of leaks aimed at Greg Craig, the White House counsel who fell out of favor.) In private, the Obama team cut an early deal — to the distaste of many congressional Democrats — that gave favorable terms to the pharmaceutical lobby in exchange for their backing his health care plans. The lesson that many Washington insiders have drawn is that Obama wants to buy off the people he can and bowl over those he can’t. If that perception spreads beyond Washington this will scuff Obama’s brand as a new style of political leader. If you are going to be known as a fighter, you might as well reap the benefits. But some of the same insider circles that are starting to view Obama as a bully are also starting to whisper that he’s a patsy. It seems a bit contradictory, to be sure. But it’s a perception that began when Obama several times laid down lines — then let people cross them with seeming impunity. Last summer he told Democrats they better not go home for recess until a critical health care vote but they blew him off. He told the Israeli government he wanted a freeze in settlements but no one took him seriously. Even Fox News — which his aides prominently said should not be treated like a real news organization — then got interview time for its White House correspondent. In truth, most of these episodes do not amount to much. But this unflattering storyline would take a more serious turn if Obama is seen as unable to deliver on his stern warnings in the escalating conflict with Iran over its nuclear program. He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe That line belonged to George H.W. Bush, excoriating Democrat Michael Dukakis in 1988. But it highlights a continuing reality: In presidential politics the safe ground has always been to be an American exceptionalist. Politicians of both parties have embraced the idea that this country — because of its power and/or the hand of Providence — should be a singular force in the world. It would be hugely unwelcome for Obama if the perception took root that he is comfortable with a relative decline in U.S. influence or position in the world. On this score, the reviews of Obama’s recent Asia trip were harsh. His peculiar bow to the emperor of Japan was symbolic. But his lots-of-velvet, not-much-iron approach to China had substantive implications. On the left, the budding storyline is that Obama has retreated from human rights in the name of cynical realism. On the right, it is that he is more interested in being President of the World than President of the United States, a critique that will be heard more in December as he stops in Oslo to pick up his Nobel Prize and then in Copenhagen for an international summit on curbing greenhouse gases. No figure in Barack Obama’s Washington, including Obama, has had more success in advancing his will than the speaker of the House, despite public approval ratings that hover in the range of Dick Cheney’s. With a mix of tough party discipline and shrewd vote-counting, she passed a version of the stimulus bill largely written by congressional Democrats, passed climate legislation, and passed her chamber’s version of health care reform. She and anti-war liberals in her caucus are clearly affecting the White House’s Afghanistan calculations. The great hazard for Obama is if Republicans or journalists conclude — as some already have — that Pelosi’s achievements are more impressive than Obama’s or come at his expense. This conclusion seems premature, especially with the final chapter of the health care drama yet to be written. But it is clear that Obama has allowed the speaker to become more nearly an equal — and far from a subordinate — than many of his predecessors of both parties would have thought wise. He’s in love with the man in the mirror No one becomes president without a fair share of what the French call amour propre. Does Obama have more than his share of self-regard? It’s a common theme of Washington buzz that Obama is over-exposed. He gives interviews on his sports obsessions to ESPN, cracks wise with Leno and Letterman, discusses his fitness with Men’s Health, discusses his marriage in a joint interview with first lady Michelle Obama for The New York Times. A photo the other day caught him leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ featuring himself. White House aides say making Obama widely available is the right strategy for communicating with Americans in an era of highly fragmented media. But, as the novelty of a new president wears off, the Obama cult of personality risks coming off as mere vanity unless it is harnessed to tangible achievements. That is why the next couple of months — with health care and Afghanistan jostling at center stage — will likely carry a long echo. Obama’s best hope of nipping bad storylines is to replace them with good ones rooted in public perceptions of his effectiveness. | |
| © 2009 Capitol News Company, LLC | |
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Happy Birthday Dylan Scott Moffat....
A short three years ago, you were held entirely in the hands of Mom and Dad... now you are sitting on your Dad's lap.
The world is yours for the taking... My how you have grown!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN AND MANY MANY MORE...
WE LOVE YOU....
GRANDMA AND GRANDPA MOFFAT
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
what an amazing night...
Tammy made some awesome bread and some wonderful lasagna ummmmm good....
Thank you Tammy
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Renters...
humm.......
outside of the skips in the field... bunches, and the volunteer wheat and tons of Cheat coming up.....
I think there is a weee bit of Wheat coming up too...
but come harvest time.. there will be a field full of cheat that no one will want to buy... and it will be yet another year wasted...
Shame they don't slow down and do it right. I bet Dad is having a fit right now looking down from on high at how bad these boys farm!!
oh well, another day ....
if you see the pretty green in this picture all over the field, you see all the problems.. should be a brown field trying light colored with dirt in-between the rows and easily see the wheat in the ROW... that's all.... and no skips in between rows...
outside of the skips in the field... bunches, and the volunteer wheat and tons of Cheat coming up.....
I think there is a weee bit of Wheat coming up too...
but come harvest time.. there will be a field full of cheat that no one will want to buy... and it will be yet another year wasted...
Shame they don't slow down and do it right. I bet Dad is having a fit right now looking down from on high at how bad these boys farm!!
oh well, another day ....
if you see the pretty green in this picture all over the field, you see all the problems.. should be a brown field trying light colored with dirt in-between the rows and easily see the wheat in the ROW... that's all.... and no skips in between rows...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
this man we call President shows zero respect for even those he commands.. no salute from commander in chief???
can't even remember who he is President of ... wow...
now if we can just throw him out of office in a couple of years.. if we are still a country...
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Brenda Dale services...
Brenda Dale Funeral will be at Mehan Union Church at 2pm on Wednesday afternoon under the direction of Palmer Funeral Home, Cushing, OK. More later..
She was wife of Jim Dale and mother of Justin Dale.
The Dale's were customers of ours at our feed store and Brenda worked with Ann for many years, hiring our daughter Heather to work there.
Brenda died of a heart attack Saturday night.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Obama
Fratto: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Obama
Tony Fratto | November 14, 2009 | 11:00 am
As published for The Roosevelt Room:
"[T]he absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant." — Milan Kundera
As someone who in the Bush Administration traveled to Hanoi, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul more often than Chicago, Los Angeles or Seattle, was I surprised to hear President Obama proclaim that an era of disengagement with Asia was over?
No, not really.
This is a president absolutely unburdened by what came before. "Being Obama" means to fly high and lightly above the evidence of the past.
"Being Obama", for the purposes of this White House, is more than sufficient — it is all.
On his inaugural visit to Asia, President Obama announced a "new" orientation toward Asia, leaving an impression that prior White House maps merely employed pictures of sea monsters to depict the strange lands beyond the Hawaiian Islands.
If you were looking for a new initiative, a new program, some new evidence breaking with the past to mark the end of the old era, you would be disappointed. Understand that "Being Obama" is the difference.
"Being Obama" is the self-proclamation of "America's first Pacific president".
Never mind the previous presidents who hailed from the Pacific rim state of California. Never mind that a prior president served as an ambassador to China. Never mind that prior presidents served in battle in Asia, negotiated peace in the region, opened China, initiated historic diplomatic, security and economic initiatives with Asian nations and guaranteed the region's safety.
"Being Obama" is to lightly, and without shame, disregard the irony that the nation he visits today, Singapore, was the first Asian nation to sign (during the era of disengagement!) a free trade agreement with the U.S. It is to ignore the irony that the country he will soon visit, South Korea, awaits his leadership in passing its own free trade agreement with the U.S.
It would be unbearable to acknowledge that the key initiative cited to highlight a "new" engagement with Asia in the Obama era — the Trans-Pacific Partnership — was actually agreed to and announced by President Obama's predecessor after years of careful work and engagement.
The President spoke of a "new" engagement with China, one that recognized that nation as important to the U.S. economy, welcoming its economic rise — not a competitor, but as an engine of growth and opportunity in the global economy. An enterprising reporter with access to Google might find these very same words, almost verbatim, used by President Bush and a succession of Bush Administration Treasury and Commerce secretaries.
Never mind that.
Never mind that the hallmark forum for engagement with China in the "new" era of engagement — the Strategic and Economic Dialogue — is a continuation of the Bush Administration's Strategic Economic Dialogue. (A new era accomplished by the mere addition of a conjunction.)
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on the priority strategic regional security concern — the Six-Party Talks to deal with a nuclear North Korea — is a continuation of a Bush Administration initiative.
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on climate change — the Major Economies Forum — is, once again, a continuation of President Bush's initiative.
Never mind all that. Shed the heavy burden of the work and sacrifice of history that preceded and fly lightly above it.
"Being Obama" is enough, and it is all.
Tony Fratto | November 14, 2009 | 11:00 am
As published for The Roosevelt Room:
"[T]he absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant." — Milan Kundera
As someone who in the Bush Administration traveled to Hanoi, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul more often than Chicago, Los Angeles or Seattle, was I surprised to hear President Obama proclaim that an era of disengagement with Asia was over?
No, not really.
This is a president absolutely unburdened by what came before. "Being Obama" means to fly high and lightly above the evidence of the past.
"Being Obama", for the purposes of this White House, is more than sufficient — it is all.
On his inaugural visit to Asia, President Obama announced a "new" orientation toward Asia, leaving an impression that prior White House maps merely employed pictures of sea monsters to depict the strange lands beyond the Hawaiian Islands.
If you were looking for a new initiative, a new program, some new evidence breaking with the past to mark the end of the old era, you would be disappointed. Understand that "Being Obama" is the difference.
"Being Obama" is the self-proclamation of "America's first Pacific president".
Never mind the previous presidents who hailed from the Pacific rim state of California. Never mind that a prior president served as an ambassador to China. Never mind that prior presidents served in battle in Asia, negotiated peace in the region, opened China, initiated historic diplomatic, security and economic initiatives with Asian nations and guaranteed the region's safety.
"Being Obama" is to lightly, and without shame, disregard the irony that the nation he visits today, Singapore, was the first Asian nation to sign (during the era of disengagement!) a free trade agreement with the U.S. It is to ignore the irony that the country he will soon visit, South Korea, awaits his leadership in passing its own free trade agreement with the U.S.
It would be unbearable to acknowledge that the key initiative cited to highlight a "new" engagement with Asia in the Obama era — the Trans-Pacific Partnership — was actually agreed to and announced by President Obama's predecessor after years of careful work and engagement.
The President spoke of a "new" engagement with China, one that recognized that nation as important to the U.S. economy, welcoming its economic rise — not a competitor, but as an engine of growth and opportunity in the global economy. An enterprising reporter with access to Google might find these very same words, almost verbatim, used by President Bush and a succession of Bush Administration Treasury and Commerce secretaries.
Never mind that.
Never mind that the hallmark forum for engagement with China in the "new" era of engagement — the Strategic and Economic Dialogue — is a continuation of the Bush Administration's Strategic Economic Dialogue. (A new era accomplished by the mere addition of a conjunction.)
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on the priority strategic regional security concern — the Six-Party Talks to deal with a nuclear North Korea — is a continuation of a Bush Administration initiative.
Never mind that the hallmark multilateral forum for engagement with China on climate change — the Major Economies Forum — is, once again, a continuation of President Bush's initiative.
Never mind all that. Shed the heavy burden of the work and sacrifice of history that preceded and fly lightly above it.
"Being Obama" is enough, and it is all.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Fidel Castro one of obama's biggest buddies... wow.. not sure what that tells us, but it cannot be good!
HAVANA – Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad?
Well, you're not alone.
Fidel Castro appears to have a fascination with the American leader that would make Obama Girl jealous, writing obsessively not only about his politics, but of his youth and vigor.
And unlike with past American heads-of-state — he slammed President George W. Bush as a genocidal drunk — Castro seems to genuinely like the fresh face in Washington.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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May God continue to bless America and always keep the Altar of Freedom lit by Liberty's brightest light
Andrew explains it the way it was.. way to go Andrew Griffin...
Oklahoma delegation sends a resounding ‘no’ to Pelosi
By Andrew Griffin on November 9, 2009
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org
OKLAHOMA CITY – It was refreshing to see Oklahoma’s congressional delegation – Republican Reps. John Sullivan, Frank Lucas, Mary Fallin and Tom Cole along with Democrat Rep. Dan Boren – vote “no” against the Pelosi-Obama health care bill.
The House bill, sneakily passed late Saturday night and approved with a vote of 220-215 – with lone Republican Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of a New Orleans district voting in favor of it – faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
Rep. Fallin, who is also running for governor of Oklahoma, said in an email dispatch to voters, soon after the vote, that she voted “no” on the health care bill, saying that “a government-run health care system is not the answer.”
Continuing, Fallin said, “Speaker Pelosi and President Obama have produced a 2000-page bureaucratic nightmare that will increase taxes, spend more, and do nothing to alleviate the high cost of health care that is threatening family budgets and hurting small businesses.”
While Fallin was not available to speak with Oklahoma Watchdog on Monday, her message was clear.
The other House members echoed Fallin’s sentiments and the bill’s serious problems.
Talking to The Oklahoman, Sullivan said: “Let’s be very clear about what this bill does: It writes the American people a prescription for disaster by spending more, taxing more and letting Washington bureaucrats make health care decisions that are better left to you and your families.”
Lucas noted that Pelosi and her leadership team “have once again ignored the will of the people and forced this trillion dollar government taxkevoer of our health care system on them.”
Cole called the bill a “giant step backwards” while Boren said he has told his constituents that he “could not vote for health care legislation that included a public option, burdensome mandates on businesses or the possibility of taxpayer funded abortion.”
It is good to the Oklahoma delegation – Republican and Democrat alike – standing firm for Oklahomans. We expect when the bill goes to the Senate, Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe will cast a “no” vote as well.
Copyright 2009 Oklahoma Watchdog
By Andrew Griffin on November 9, 2009
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org
OKLAHOMA CITY – It was refreshing to see Oklahoma’s congressional delegation – Republican Reps. John Sullivan, Frank Lucas, Mary Fallin and Tom Cole along with Democrat Rep. Dan Boren – vote “no” against the Pelosi-Obama health care bill.
The House bill, sneakily passed late Saturday night and approved with a vote of 220-215 – with lone Republican Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao of a New Orleans district voting in favor of it – faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
Rep. Fallin, who is also running for governor of Oklahoma, said in an email dispatch to voters, soon after the vote, that she voted “no” on the health care bill, saying that “a government-run health care system is not the answer.”
Continuing, Fallin said, “Speaker Pelosi and President Obama have produced a 2000-page bureaucratic nightmare that will increase taxes, spend more, and do nothing to alleviate the high cost of health care that is threatening family budgets and hurting small businesses.”
While Fallin was not available to speak with Oklahoma Watchdog on Monday, her message was clear.
The other House members echoed Fallin’s sentiments and the bill’s serious problems.
Talking to The Oklahoman, Sullivan said: “Let’s be very clear about what this bill does: It writes the American people a prescription for disaster by spending more, taxing more and letting Washington bureaucrats make health care decisions that are better left to you and your families.”
Lucas noted that Pelosi and her leadership team “have once again ignored the will of the people and forced this trillion dollar government taxkevoer of our health care system on them.”
Cole called the bill a “giant step backwards” while Boren said he has told his constituents that he “could not vote for health care legislation that included a public option, burdensome mandates on businesses or the possibility of taxpayer funded abortion.”
It is good to the Oklahoma delegation – Republican and Democrat alike – standing firm for Oklahomans. We expect when the bill goes to the Senate, Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe will cast a “no” vote as well.
Copyright 2009 Oklahoma Watchdog
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Dear Stan and Ann,
Today, our nation will honor the men and women who have worn the uniforms of our Armed Forces with ceremonies across the United States. This Veterans Day, please join me and Oklahomans from across the state in honoring those who have bravely served our nation.
For generations, men and women have given their lives at home and in lands across the globe in defense of our freedom. Our military serves as an example of the values upon which our country was founded: service to a cause greater than self.
The blessings of freedom and liberty that we hold dear are secured each day by the military men and women who protect us at home and abroad. Each of us owes a debt of gratitude to the generations of veterans who have kept this country free and safe and I ask that you join me in honoring their service.
This Veterans Day, let us also pay respect to the memories of those who have given their lives in service to our country. We can never repay that debt, but can promise to honor them through remembering their ultimate sacrifice.
Again, I hope you will join me in sending encouragement and support to our veterans and military families for all their service and sacrifice.
God bless America!
Mary Fallin
Today, our nation will honor the men and women who have worn the uniforms of our Armed Forces with ceremonies across the United States. This Veterans Day, please join me and Oklahomans from across the state in honoring those who have bravely served our nation.For generations, men and women have given their lives at home and in lands across the globe in defense of our freedom. Our military serves as an example of the values upon which our country was founded: service to a cause greater than self.
The blessings of freedom and liberty that we hold dear are secured each day by the military men and women who protect us at home and abroad. Each of us owes a debt of gratitude to the generations of veterans who have kept this country free and safe and I ask that you join me in honoring their service.
This Veterans Day, let us also pay respect to the memories of those who have given their lives in service to our country. We can never repay that debt, but can promise to honor them through remembering their ultimate sacrifice.
Again, I hope you will join me in sending encouragement and support to our veterans and military families for all their service and sacrifice.
God bless America!
Mary Fallin
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
wondering where Al Gore got his stupid science for noble peace prize.. I'd sure like to get mine...
The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest ever recorded in history... based on preliminary data.
from noaa.org
Monday, November 09, 2009
TV Star in the making???
Tammy Moffat
Highland Park Elementary
Pre-Kindergarten Teacher
Brodie Meyers
It is that time again....
To vote for Brodie, please go to www.todayshow.com <http://www.todayshow.com/> and vote for #2. You may also send a text to 622-639 and then press 2. The voting ends tomorrow at 5:00 est!
Jill Metzger, Principal
Westwood Elementary
502 S Kings
Stillwater, OK 74074
405-533-6370
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Monica Taylor
Monica Taylor releases new CD
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Contributing Writer
Local Red Dirt songster Monica Taylor once again brings her distinctive sweet voice and home style songs to a growing audience with the release of her new CD, “Cotton Shirt.”
Cotton Shirt, released Thursday, Nov. 5, features 11 tracks penned and performed by Taylor and other Red Dirt artists, including Randy Pease, Greg Jacobs, and former partner Patrick Williams.
Taylor said she was thrilled to be able to include “The Price of Love” on the CD. Taylor performs the song as a duet with Stillwater favorite Jimmy LaFave, who wrote it.
“It’s one of my all-time favorite Jimmy songs,” Taylor said. “He hadn’t played it for years, and he re-wrote the last verse so I could sing it. It’s the one song on the CD that was unrehearsed.
“[The CD] is a fine recording done in Tulsa with the best musicians and dear friends, and down in Austin at Jimmy LaFave’s studio, Cedar Creek. This is where The Dixie Chicks recorded‘ Home,’ where Shawn Colvin has recorded just about everything. The list is pretty amazing.”
Taylor said Cotton Shirt includes a couple other songs that audiences outside of Oklahoma will recognize – “Young Mother” and “Hello, Goodbye, I’m Gone.”
She performed those two melodies on “A Prairie Home Companion’s” Oct. 25 show last year. Garrison Keillor’s well-known NPR radio show visited Tulsa for a performance at the Performing Arts Center.
Taylor said she got an exciting telephone call from Keillor, who told her he had listened to her last CD, “Cimarron Valley Girl.” He asked her, “Can you come to Tulsa tonight for a little practice with me for the show at the PAC that airs live tomorrow?”
And that was how she found herself performing in The Prairie Home Companion show before a seated audience of 2,500 and a much larger radio audience.
“I sang ‘Young Mother,’ which I wrote about the famous Dorothea Lange Dust Bowl-era photo titled, “The Migrant Mother.’
Taylor said she was rehearsing some of her other songs prior to the show, trying to decide what she’d like to perform.
“Garrison said, ‘You know, I just get the feeling there’s something new you’d been wanting to play for me.’”
She then played “Hello, Goodbye, I’m Gone.”
“He loved it,” she said. “He told the audience, ‘This is a sweet, sad song that Monica just played for me backstage.’”
“I sold so many CDs – hundreds – after that show... made so many new fans,” Taylor recalls. “I have now presold many Cotton Shirt CDs because of his listeners... and my own good fans.
“I’m so thankful for that opportunity.”
Though she had already planned to record a new CD, Cotton Shirt came about much sooner, primarily because of interest derived from Prairie Home Companion.
Keillor also included two more of Taylor’s performances in Prairie Home’s “Favorites of 2008” show.
Taylor is now busily sending out Cotton Shirt CDs by the bushel. She said she has already had orders from across the nation, and is intrigued by all those far-reaching addresses.
She also has several release parties planned. They’ll begin in December after she returns from a musical tour of the Pacific Northwest, where she’ll help Stillwater native Craig Dermer and his wife celebrate their birthdays with a concert on Nov. 15.
“There’s a lot of Okies who have moved out there,” she said. “Craig Dermer’s band, the Dust Bowl Refugees, will back me up on Saturday. Isn’t that a great name for a band out in Oregon that includes at least two or three transplanted Okies?”
Taylor has a series of release parties and performances lined up when she returns to Oklahoma, but this Saturday, Nov. 7, at 10 a.m. you can catch her at the Garden Diva Sculpture Co. Annual Open House in Tulsa, and on Sunday, Nov. 8, she’ll perform for the Woody Guthrie Tribute, at the Blue Door in Oklahoma City.
You can buy Taylor’s CDs locally at Sasser Antiques in Perkins, and Hastings, Daddy O’s, and Hideaway in Stillwater. And online at www.monic ataylormusic.com
This is part of the November 5, 2009 online edition of The Journal.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
liars beget liars... more of the same.. just like Obama... they just keep electing liars....
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GOUVERNEUR, NY - Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today.
Obama Gives Shout Out to 'Congressional Medal of Honor Winner' Who Isn't
The Washington Post this afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins:SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAAh, the dangers of giving shout outs without a teleprompter. Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient. As noted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society:
[*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.
I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you.
The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor.Crow's name is not included on the Society's Medal of Honor recipient list. He was, however, awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in August.
Obama, often described as "cerebral" by the mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded the latter to Crow. Don't expect his blunder to receive wide coverage. It's not something he can blame George Bush for.
Pray Pray Pray.... That those nuts in DC get some wisdom...
might be time to get on our knees and as God to provide some wisdom and backbone to vote NO on this stupid spending health care vote....
Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama.
By ROBERT A. GEORGE
Updated 2:56 PM CST, Fri, Nov 6, 2009
President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?
Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That's the least that should occur.
Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.
Did the president's team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on -- and the initial words coming out of their president's mouth was jolting, if not disturbing.
It must have been disappointing for many politically aware Democrats, still reeling from the election two days before. The New Jersey gubernatorial vote had already demonstrated that the president and his political team couldn't produce a winning outcome in a state very friendly to Democrats (and where the president won by 15 points one year ago). And now this? Congressional Democrats must wonder if a White House that has burdened them with a too-heavy policy agenda over the last year has a strong enough political operation to help push that agenda through.
If the president's communications apparatus can't inform -- and protect -- their boss during tense moments when the country needs to see a focused commander-in-chief and a compassionate head of state, it has disastrous consequences for that president's party and supporters.
All the president's men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday. And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots.
A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama.
By ROBERT A. GEORGE
Updated 2:56 PM CST, Fri, Nov 6, 2009
President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?
Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That's the least that should occur.
Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.
Did the president's team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on -- and the initial words coming out of their president's mouth was jolting, if not disturbing.
It must have been disappointing for many politically aware Democrats, still reeling from the election two days before. The New Jersey gubernatorial vote had already demonstrated that the president and his political team couldn't produce a winning outcome in a state very friendly to Democrats (and where the president won by 15 points one year ago). And now this? Congressional Democrats must wonder if a White House that has burdened them with a too-heavy policy agenda over the last year has a strong enough political operation to help push that agenda through.
If the president's communications apparatus can't inform -- and protect -- their boss during tense moments when the country needs to see a focused commander-in-chief and a compassionate head of state, it has disastrous consequences for that president's party and supporters.
All the president's men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday. And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots.
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