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What are you guys the Grammar Police? Everyone under the sun bastardizes the "English" language. Besides what is deemed "proper" English, American's speak isn't even English. I do believe it is commonly known as American English which isn't what the Brit's speak, which is proper English

When you get a chance read H.L. Mencken's take on "The American Language". In a nut shell he writes "I am eager to attempt a more scientific examination of the grammar of the American vulgar speech..."

So y'all need to get over ya'self

"Ya'selves".

Lmao. No comment on this one.

This entire blog, and my initial rebuttal, have gotten completely off the subject. IM and GA, you know who you are, I was merely making a statement. If you are so interested in the "music" stick to it. Insofar as you lambasted me excuusseeee me. In all actuallity I will match degrees with either of you. If I so greatly offended you please accept my sincerest apology. I just felt that GA's complaint about people blasting him , that by the way he quoted, soundede like the proverbial pot calliong the kettle black.. nuff said apology accepted. Yes Iminsulted, a mild play on words BA Mathematics OSU1968 Mstr (same) OSU 1975 (little thing called vietnam and 20 yrs in the USMC)mstrs appld PHYSICsUCLA I dont want to give my name on this blog but if you check and email ill give it to you including a copy NUMBERS DELETED from my valid TX DL.

Okay, this has nothing to do with degrees or anything. I have no problems with you Musicbyd, but I must say your writing confuses me. All I ask is that people write in a lucid manner. I have a lot of trouble interpreting things that are grammatically incorrect, as do others.

Once more though, I have no issues with you. Nor did I mean any offense, so if I offended you, I apologize for that.

Peace out, GuitarAnatomy.

Simply put, I don't believe you. No one with an academic pedigree you just boasted could possibly regurgitate the unintelligible gibberish you do on this forum. It just does not follow. Non sequitur.

But back to the music, good luck to you.

GA, yep.
My figers look like that about twice a week. 2 days later - the look normal again.
I have another, even more graphic photo on my myspace page.
Go to my Myspace page.
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http://www.myspace.com/alanbradleygroup
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Go to my pics.
Choose "Misc Guitar."
You'll see it.
Caution: Not for the faint of heart . . .

GA, yep.
My figers look like that about twice a week. 2 days later - the look normal again.
I have another, even more graphic photo on my myspace page.
Go to my Myspace page.
.
http://www.myspace.com/alanbradleygroup
.
Go to my pics.
Choose "Misc Guitar."
You'll see it.
Caution: Not for the faint of heart . . .

Ow! Yeah, my hands have looked battered at times, but not like that. That has to bloody hurt man. By the way, you look like a blues/folk guitarist, lol. I am not sure I can explain it, but your face and the whole hat thing. *Shrug*

Peace out, GuitarAnatomy.

GA, yeah sometimes they hurt.
But, even when they look like that, the pain factor, on a scale of 1 - 10, is only about a 2, though . . .
It's not the fraying skin that stops me . . . it feels like the tip of my finger bone is trying to pierce my fingertip . . .
And, the flesh under the calluse gets all mushy - throws off my rhythm . . .
And the hat was just a shot I took for a CD case. I don't often wear it . . .
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On the other hand, I do, indeed, wear my face all the time . . .
I look like that because I live the blues . . . but, not by choice . . .
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. . . no, definitely not by choice . . .
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Listen to the lyrics in 'Molasses Blues' and 'Folks I Knew (If You Catch Me Crying" . . .
I guess I like playing the blues, but I hate LIVING the blues . . .
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I'll probably explain my life more, sometime; but I'll probably do so with the lyrics of one of my songs.

GA, yeah sometimes they hurt.
But, even when they look like that, the pain factor, on a scale of 1 - 10, is only about a 2, though . . .
It's not the fraying skin that stops me . . . it feels like the tip of my finger bone is trying to pierce my fingertip . . .
And, the flesh under the calluse gets all mushy - throws off my rhythm . . .
And the hat was just a shot I took for a CD case. I don't often wear it . . .
.
On the other hand, I do, indeed, wear my face all the time . . .
I look like that because I live the blues . . . but, not by choice . . .
.
. . . no, definitely not by choice . . .
.
Listen to the lyrics in 'Molasses Blues' and 'Folks I Knew (If You Catch Me Crying" . . .
I guess I like playing the blues, but I hate LIVING the blues . . .
.
I'll probably explain my life more, sometime; but I'll probably do so with the lyrics of one of my songs.

The thing that stops me from playing is when my fingers begin stinging as the callases tear apart and when my carpal tunnel kicks in. But when it comes to playing the guitar, it is hard to stop no matter what you feel.

I will listen to those songs when I get the chance. But I get what you mean. I think there are many things that come with the turf of choosing a genre. But yeah, you should explain your life in a song. Those songs are usually the best, the ones where a story is told. Hey, that is what made almost every song of the 60's, 70's, and part of the 80's. Now I do not know what they are talking about. Something to do with laying on their mothers couch, with a rug on their body, and the house falls on them and wakes them up. Lmao. Basically, nothing they say makes sense anymore.

When you write that song about yourself I want you to upload it. I would love to hear it.

Peace out man, GuitarAnatomy.

I promise. (Yeah, we need to stick with music issues). Three years ago I would play disc golf at a park and not see ANY ILLEGAL immigrants. On Labor Day this year there were HUNDREDS of them all over the park. I tried in vain to explain to them that a golf disc is dangerous (they have beveled edges and are thrown over 80mph) and they need to move off the course. None of them could understand what I was saying. I had to demonstrate it. This Summer I was fishing at a state park and there were HUNDREDS of them there, many fishing without licenses keeping fish under the legal length limit. I tried to explain to them that the fish were too small, they need to throw them back or they would be fined if they got caught. One of them spoke rudimentary English and said "the fish are good for me." On my way out of the park I spoke with a park attendant and told them of the POACHING going on ILLEGALLY and he told me there's so many of them doing it they have no way of dealing with the problem. At a different state fishing lake a number of LEGAL fisherman were attacked by a bunch of Mexicans. They came out of nowhere. Thank God the nearest town was able to muster enough policeman to round all of them up. Crap like this is happening all over the United States. We owe these people NOTHING, we are not responsible in any way for their economic plight. It is up to their governments to help them so they aren't driven to ILLEGALLY invade this country. I consider the huge number of ILLEGAL immigrants an actual INVASION. I have nothing against anybody who LEGALLY comes into this country. If somebody is here ILLEGALLY they need to become a documented citizen or GET OUT. WE DON'T OWE THEM A DAMN THING. Voluntering to help them learn English is a wonderful thing and I'm happy that a few of them are pursuing a path toward citizenship. I don't feel like being attacked while I'm minding my own business fishing in waters that I paid taxes and license fees to maintain, or seeing a park that I volunteer to maintain and run turned into a garbage heap by people who are ILLEGALLY here. THEY NEED TO GO HOME NOW. Later...

Aint gonna happen, Bob. They aren't going home, they aren't going away. As long as American business owners are anxious to hire them and pay them under the table, they'll keep growing. See, you got yourself in a bind here. You laud the free market capitalist system, which is powered by greed - but then you are shocked and angered when that greed acts out in hiring illegal labor.

You cannot have it both ways. Mexicans and others will continue to stream into this nation illegaly as long as there are jobs here, as long as this government keeps helping their home countries repress the poor (Mexico) and as long as we kow tow to the super-rich and the captains of industry instead of the working person.

Take your pick.

"powered by greed." True, there is a percentage of participants in the capitalist system who are greedy to a point of hiring illegal workers. I would bet the majority of people participating in the capitalist system are reputable, honest individuals, like myself, who have the freedom to create and promote their business in an honest and ethical fashion. We can get into a whole other argument about capitalism versus socialism. Both systems have proven to have their weaknesses. Both systems are wrought with greedy. slimy humans who take advantage of people. Have you studied the horrors of the old Soviet empire? What about the thousands of Cuban boat people who have perished trying to leave Cuba on whatever could float in water? What about the thousands of people who were shot trying to flee the old East Germany into West Germany? Anyway, I don't want to get into a whole other argument. The fact is WE HAVE LAWS WHICH ARE BEING IGNORED. It is truly sad when those greedy individuals are powerful enough to influence the people in political power to IGNORE THE EXISTING LAWS. It is all too sad and true that big business (pharmaceutical, oil companies, etc.) can lobby our elected officials to IGNORE the law. I believe we both agree that THERE'S SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY. We may have different views on certain subjects, but I'm sure we have common ground that something needs to be done in a RADICAL way to change this country. What that something is I don't know. I hope change comes peacefully. At this point it almost doesn't matter what that change is, whether it's classified as liberal or conservative or whatever doesn't even matter at this point. We need wholesale change. We definitely need a viable third or even fourth political party to steal the thunder of the two party monopoly that exists. This country needs to WAKE UP, GET INVOLVED, and open their eyes BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. Later...

Well, that I must agree with Fisherman Bob. This country needs a change, even if it means impeaching the entire Congress and Presidential Administration. This country is under tremendous turmoil. Apparently if this unremitting injustice continues to wrap its ugly tentacles around our society we are going to crash. If you look around you at the world these days, you see something, things are spiraling out of control. Sooner or later something drastic is going to take place if this is not put a stop to.

Apparently our leadership has failed us for many years. At this point I declare us damned. I am not so worried about the whole immigrant issue, in fact, I could care the Hell less. I am worried about modern medicine. My family has ailments that can be repaired with those outlawed stem cells. It pisses me off I cannot change these f**king laws to help them. Excuse my language, I know intelligent conversations need not require expletives, but I am very upset. I have always understood why people do not like abortions, I may not concur with it, but I understand. Despite all of the controversy, I want the medical community to wake up, and for those dictatorial war mongers, we call congress, to wake the up and fund the research necessary to save us.

They may have slipped through the fingers of many people and got into office, but they are not slipping through mine. I am not one of these unaware young people of my generation. Actually, I am very aware, and I am definitely not an idiot (Not trying to be conceded, but I just am not stupid). Now I do not know how to stop these people, there is no way to rally up enough people to take them out of office at this moment. So, I suppose we are in for a Hell of a ride so to speak. No matter what your religion may be, God help us all, or whatever is out there.

Right now we are on the verge of going to war with the largest supporter of terrorism. They fund them, train them, and use them. How many more people are we going to lose to these useless, superfluous, insidious wars? I will not fight this war for this government, they are on their own.

Well, that is all I am going to say for now.

Peace out, GuitarAnatomy.

Bob the reason those laws are being ignored is because they infringe on the super-rich elite and their business exploits. Again, back to the greed thing. It's a two edged sword. On one hand, "greed is good" as ol' Gordon Gekko liked to say (the film 'Wallstreet') On the other, it can cause huge social problems. Where I differ with you is the degree that illegal immigration is a real problem. I think it's being grotesquely overhyped for political advantage.

Take the illegalization of pot, for instance. Scientifically, there is no serious argument favoring the continuing illegalization of that weed. It is no more dangerous than many things that are already legal, and in fact less dangerous than alcohol on many fronts. But the reason it became illegal to begin with in this nation can go all the way back to the fabulously wealthy William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate. Pot's cousin, hemp, has always been a valuable textile in this nation. It's strong, durable, easily grown and harvested, and processed. But it was also a market threat to WRH's business exploits, among them a threat to his wood pulp paper mills. WRH had a huge base of congressfolks in his pocket, and he used them. Baddabing, next thing you know, pot is illegal by association. Why? Because some super rich asshole had the money to buy the laws that best suited his business.

Illegal immigration is one of the king red herrings in our political scuffles today. Hyped, twisted, spun into some horrid problem when in fact its always been with us and for reasons that FOX NEWS doesn't like to broadcast.

Don't drink the koolaid. Lay off the Mexicans, and take that energy instead to check the greed that goes over the line in this nation.

That's all well & fine, but I resent that I might not get the Social Security I paid into, and they are, withOUT paying into it . . .

That's all well & fine, but I resent that I might not get the Social Security I paid into, and they are, withOUT paying into it . . .

I do not blame you, RhythmMan. Our society is completely messed up.