Monday Music "Once in a lifetime" by Talking Heads

Well Here I go doing another "Monday Music" on a Tuesday,  But I can't call it "Tuesday Music"...it don't sing.  I will try to get better on the Monday posting of the Monday Music.  Well the 3rd thing happened, the bad things come in 3's, well there was the accident, then the water heater, then the 3rd thing hit....We installed the new water heater, pressurized the lines and *boom*, the water line behind my sons shower literally burst.  We had water coming into my kitchen via the ceiling before we got the water stopped.  that is either the 3rd thing, or if pattern holds true...Wednesday will be interesting.  On another note,  I decided to go with the band "Talking Heads".  I first heard of them on MTV, watching their video's along with all the other British new wave that was part of the 2nd British invasion or New Wave" that hit heavy on MTV.

    
"Once in a Lifetime" is a song by New Wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their fourth studio album Remain in Light. The song was written by David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth, and produced by Eno. It received critical acclaim, and was named one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century by National Public Radio.
At the time of its original release, the song gained modest chart success, peaking at #14 on the UK Singles Chart and at #31 in the Dutch singles chart. While the song failed to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, various American 80s format radio stations have come to programming it in their playlists over the years. It was also an early MTV staple and was one of the most heavily played videos upon MTV's debut in August 1981.
A live version of the song taken from Talking Heads' concert film Stop Making Sense was released as a single in 1984, peaking at #91 on the Billboard Hot 100. The studio version is widely regarded as their signature song, along with "Burning Down the House".^{[citation needed]}
Kermit the Frog performed the song on a 1996 episode of Muppets Tonight. The song is featured in the films Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Rock Star, and Hot Tub Time Machine, and in trailers for the films The Family Man, W., Wreck-It Ralph and Reagan.

    
Brian Eno introduced Fela Kuti's multiple rhythm music style to the band, and during production Eno used a different rhythm count for some members of the group than others, starting on the "3" instead of the "1." It gave the song what Eno called "a funny balance within it. It has really two centers of gravity: their "1" and my "1."" This rhythm imbalance was exaggerated in the studio, and is present throughout the song.^[ Jerry Harrison developed the synthesizer line and added the Hammond organ climax, taken from Velvet Underground's "What Goes On". Eno sang nonsense verb sound blocks, which Byrne then converted into lyrics in the call and response style of American radio evangelists on the theme of moving through life with little awareness or questioning. Eno wasn't particularly fond of the song, and it was almost dropped from the album before Eno came up with the vocal melody for the chorus which "saved" the song.
As the song essentially consisted of a repetitive two-bar groove (with the pattern reversed between the verse and the chorus) Brian Eno decided to approach the production by allowing each of the band members to record overdubs of different rhythmic and musical ideas independently of each other, with each member being kept blind to what the others had recorded on tape. In the final mix Eno faded between these different independent ideas at different parts of the song. This is very much in keeping with his production technique of Oblique Strategies.

The verses of the song consist of David Byrne speaking rather than singing. With the lyrics "Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down," the song has an existential mood to it, although it is usually interpreted to be a song dealing with the midlife crisis and the inevitable sacrifice of youthful ideals and dreams for conventional success.^{[citation needed]}

Music video

The music video features a bespectacled David Byrne dancing much like a marionette. Byrne is shown making sudden flings of his arm, tapping his head, and getting on his hands and knees to pat the floor, much like simple tricks which can be done with actual marionettes. In the background, clones of Byrne dance in perfect synchronization; in the foreground, a larger Byrne is getting further and further out of synchrony.
The video is exhibited in the New York Museum of Modern Art. Some of Byrne's mannerisms (such as physical spasms, unfocused eye movements, and sharp intakes of breath) were inspired by his choreographer, Toni Basil, showing him footage of epilepsy sufferers.^[5]
The video also made an appearance on an episode of the 90s Beavis and Butthead.

    Here is the Kermit the Frog version:

Relearning the lessons of History..

On a personal note, I have been again super busy, spend Friday running around and cleaning out the  wife's car including removal of all personal effects and license plate.  She has started banding around vehicles choices and she seriously likes the Ford Edge.  Not a new one, but a 2010 model or newer car and doing other stuff before heading to an "Order of the Arrow" banquet. The Order of the Arrow (OA) is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).  Then spent all day Saturday doing a "looporee" a cub scout event where I was the Archery instructor.  This event was cold, it hovered around 45 degrees, cloudy, overcast and some drizzle.  As I told some of the other people that were there..".If it ain't raining...it ain't training".  Those that are veterans understood the reference...the regular civilians didn't get it...at first.  I came home Saturday evening and ate something and crawled into bed.  I was beat.
    

       Then the wife wakes me up later on...There was a problem with the hot water heater...and so I got up, crawled my tired butt up into the attic, and sitting in a pile of water in the overflow tub...was the hot water heater.....Sheesh.  I shouldn't complain...the hot water heater was 17 years old.....but what timing.......   So we spent time over at the in-laws house running laundry and taking hot showers.   They say bad things happen in 3...If I had a fallout shelter, I would hide for a week or so until the spate of bad luck passes.  Or if nothing else..I don't fly for a few weeks.
     I ran across this picture from a non-peoplescube source and thought it would tie in with my earlier post I did on the 2nd amendment.
    

    "When we have a leader that ignores the rule of law...except when it is politically convenient for him.  We have a legislative branch that is spineless and divided, and the charismatic leader that has control of the media, the security apparatus and the mob.  This is where tyranny comes from.  I wonder how this will play out for the future....".
    I wonder if this is what a German dissident believed before being sent to a work camp for "Crimes against the state"

Underhanded Liberal Anti-gunners tactics

I would have posted this earlier, but I had to handle an accident.  On the way home, my wife got into an accident and her 2006 Freestyle got totaled.

   I have a good insurance company that caters to the Military community so I am not worried about that, but I am grateful that she is ok except for the bruising from the seat-belt and the airbag deployment.  She is glad that she is ok, but she is annoyed, that car had 160,000 miles on it and she loved that car, it took the family cub scout and boy scout camping( lots of times)  many road trips and the daily driver uses.  That car was her 2nd new car that she ever got and she was perfectly content with it.  The car was paid for and ran well.  Now she has to look for another car and she absolutely hates car shopping.  But I digress.

Now to my blog post.
I am a hardcore proponent of the 2nd amendment.  I became a believer after visiting Dachau concentration camp in southern  Germany in Bavaria.  That the state was able to shove all those people into a cattle car and ship them off to their death and these people meekly went because they didn't have the means to resist and the social conditioning that made them susceptible to this.  I and many others have sworn that when the time comes to go into that long goodnight, we will not go meekly and await either the executioners bullet, blade,gas, drone strike or other means that they will use to dispatch people that disagree with the ideals of the elitist Liberal and other power hungry socialist.  We in the United States are lucky that there is the 2nd amendment to protect our ability to resist tyranny.

   Now we have a small very vocal anti-gunners that run around and try to cause problems for people who believe in the 2nd amendment.  Many of us also do concealed carry and sometimes open carry and we try to be very understanding of establishments that don't want firearms in their establishment.  We understand that, we are believers of "free Choice" whereas the anti-gunners not only want to not own guns, they want to make sure that you don't either.   There is a logical disconnect here.  Now I get emails and alerts from JPFO.org on the latest things the collectivist are up to.  I consider this especially devious, not only they trying to reattach the social stigma about firearms they are interfering with the transactions about a buyer and seller.

    
Apparently the gun haters have decided that since they can't convince business owners to post anti-gun signs, maybe they should post the signs themselves.

After Oct 1st I started to look for posted signs at my favorite establishments. I frequently go to a local chicken wing place in Greensboro and last week I noticed a simple sicker that pictured a pistol with red circle and line through it. I took it as no firearms allowed.

I was grabbing a to go order so I had already called it in. I was sad as this was going to be my last order as I wasn't going to support them anymore. I REALLY like their wings. The manager is the one who brought me my order and gave me the customary "come again soon." To which I replied "not likely as long as you have that" pointing at the sticker.

She was shocked and asked the hostess if she knew who put that there. She asked me to wait and went to the back. She came back with the chef who is the owner and he said he had no idea how that got there. He removed it and wished me a good day.

The story has a happy ending, but the follow up is even better.

Yesterday, I went back and the manager said she looked at the surveillance video and said late one night a customer put the sticker there just before closing on their way out. They confronted them as they are also a frequent customer. She stated that she does that all over town where ever she goes. The manager asked them not to come back anymore.

There's a lesson here. If you see a gun ban sign, make sure to question it. It might be some anti-gun jerk posting the sign.
If you are the victim of some gun hater posting a sign like this, please let me know. I can put you in touch with the Grass Roots North Carolina leadership and we can publicly humiliate the person posting the sign. It might not be worth the effort to sue them for Tortious Interference with Business Relationships

Tortious interference with business relationships occurs where the tortfeasor acts to prevent the plaintiff from successfully establishing or maintaining business relationships. This tort may occur when a first party's conduct intentionally causes a second party not to enter into a business relationship with a third party that otherwise would probably have occurred. Such conduct is termed tortious interference with prospective business relations, expectations, or advantage or with prospective economic advantage.

    Basically if you see an anti-gun sticker on your choice of business, politely ask the manager about this, it could be sticker ed without their knowledge, and if they agree with it, you can then decide if you want to continue to frequent their establishment.

Monday Music AC/DC "Thunderstruck"

Well my schedule is back to being chaotic so my "Monday Music" is again posted on Tuesday.  I am hopeful that after Christmas my schedule will slow down and I will have time to take a breath...and post more.

    I decided to go with AC/DC "thunderstruck"   This song hit in 1990 while I was in Germany and it was very popular, this was one song that every would play LOUD.  Something about good crunching Heavy Metal Rock and Roll.    When we were in the Gulf, we had dedicated this song to Saddam Hussain and his Republican Guard as they were "Thunderstruck" by the United States Military.

"Thunderstruck" is the first song on the 1990 album The Razors Edge by the hard rock group AC/DC.
The song was released as a single in Germany, Australia, and Japan, and peaked at No. 5 on U.S. the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. In 2010, "Thunderstruck" topped Triple M's Ultimate 500 Rock Countdown in Melbourne, Australia. The top five were all AC/DC songs.
With the exception of new material from an album they are touring behind, this is one of only two songs released after Back in Black that the band still regularly performs live in concert, the other being "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)".

MRE's.......Meals rejected by everyone...."

I am an Army veteran and I still have an interest in the service,  One thing I like are cartoons....There is a cartoon, that you can find in Army Times and other places.  The cartoon is "DBS" and this weeks cartoon asked about MRE's, and the worst one we ever had....

Well the first time I had MRE's was in Basic Training in Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, we called it "Fort Lost in the wood"  or "Little Korea".  It was not a fun experience, I didn't really enjoy my time in the service until I got to Permanent Party which was where I went after all my training.  I spent a lot of time in the field while I was in Germany,  When we weren't on maneuvers, I spent time inside the 1K zone( The zone between East Germany West Germany and Czechoslovakia) There was a test I had to take to enter the zone under the auspices of 2nd ACR, to be border qualified.
    The following 2 photo's I took while doing a border tour.

 I was Border basic...My squad leader had a different exam as did the senior NCO's and Officers.  Well it was an eyeopening experience to see the "151" loaded with ammo and LAWS rockets.  We always made jokes that if the Soviets came through the Fulda Gap, we would be Speedbumps for"8th Guards Army". 

Well one of the things we got were 2 cases of MRE's.  When they first came out...they weren't that great, I used Tobasco Sauce to spice the dull selection along with Mrs. Dash.  The MRE I dreaded the most was the infamous "Ham and Chickenloaf", that pink glop was just vile.

  When we were in the field, we would try to make runs into town to pick up fresh food from the market to supplant our rations.  When they could, they would provide T rations that were opened up and brought to us in mermite containers.  The food was bland but filling.  Again my tobasco sauce and mrs dash would come to the rescue and Make bland food tasty...well better than before.  We also would trade with the German civilians for "real" food and they would take the MRE's.  
     When we got deployed to Saudi Arabia in Desert Shield in 1990 we ate MRE's for a long period of time, the rations had improved, one of my favorites believe it or not was the tuna and noodles and we had started getting M&M candies in the MRE's along with a little bottle of Tobasco sauce.  Between the cheese sauce and peanut butter we were pretty regular.
     Here is some information on MRE's
    
 

MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat)

MREs are the main operational food ration for the United States Armed Forces. You can check out the MRE History page for more a more in-depth history of how MREs came to be but the short version is that the c-rations and k-rations from World War II developed into the MCI (Meal, Combat, Individual) rations used in Korea and Vietnam. Then in 1980, the MRE was developed and became the primary ration for the US.

What is an MRE?

The MRE is a totally self-contained complete meal. One MRE = one meal. The packaging of an MRE is designed to withstand rough conditions and exposure to the elements. Inside each MRE bag is an entree and a variety of other food and drink items. MREs come packaged in cases with 12 MREs per case. There are currently 24 different "menus" or varieties of MREs. Menus 1-12 are packaged in a case designated Case A and menus 13-24 are packaged in Case B.

What's in an MRE?

You can find a listing of the exact components of each MRE on the MRE Menus page . The military makes a few changes to the menus every year so you will find a different menu listing for each year. In general, though, each MRE contains the following:

• Entree - the main course, such as Spaghetti or Beef Stew
• Side dish - rice, corn, fruit, or mashed potatoes, etc.
• Cracker or Bread
• Spread - peanut butter, jelly, or cheese spread
• Dessert - cookies or pound cakes
• Candy - M&Ms, Skittles, or Tootsie Rolls
• Beverages - Gatorade-like drink mixes, cocoa, dairy shakes, coffee, tea
• Hot sauce or seasoning - in some MREs
• Flameless Ration Heater - to heat up the entree
• Accessories - spoon, matches, creamer, sugar, salt, chewing gum, toilet paper, etc.

Each MRE provides an average of 1,250 calories (13% protein, 36% fat, and 51% carbohydrates) and 1/3 of the Military Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamins and minerals. A full day's worth of meals would consist of three MREs.
Here are some pictures of an MRE (2009 Menu #20) and its contents

MRE Bag and contents

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Entrée

Chipotle Snack Bread and Cheese Spread

Baked Snack Crackers (Hot & Spicy Flavor) - Cheez-Its

Cherry Blueberry Cobbler

Spoon, Drink Mix, and Accessory Pack Contents

How do you eat an MRE?

True to its name, the MRE is "ready to eat" and everything can be consumed without cooking or heating (but the beverages are much better when water is added to the drink mixes). While the entrees and sides are fine to eat cold, they usually taste much better when heated up with the included Flameless Ration Heater or by boiling in water.

How long do MREs last?

Officially, MREs are designed to have a shelf life of three years when stored at 80 degree F. These times can be lengthened or shortened depending on their storage temperatures. Higher temperatures = shorter MRE lifespans. I've tried many MREs that were 10 or 15 years old and with the exception of a few parts that had darkened in color over time, they still tasted fine.
Please see this page for more information on MRE Shelf Life.

Where can I buy MREs?

The U.S. Government does not allow the manufacturers of military MREs to sell them to the general public. Please see the page on Buying MREs and also the page on Civilian MREs for a commercial alternative to military MREs.

Official Military MRE Page

This is the link to the official military page on MREs:
http://www.dscp.dla.mil/subs/rations/programs/mre/mreabt.asp

RANGE!!!

I hope everybody had a good thanksgiving, All I did was watch football  (Yay go Cowboys, I am a Falcon fan and I will not discuss this year....I quit watching the games, too depressing.) and avoid politics...I didn't want the negative Obama waves to interfere with the happiness of the holiday spending it with family.  Speaking of Obama, nothing like telling his myrmidons and other sycophants to discuss healthcare and how good Obamacare is for the country, Yeah wreck the festive holiday with family discussing that train-wreck.   Well in the interest of health, it is a possibility of causing soo much indigestion that they will not overeat and overload the health system.....perhaps that is the plan after all?

A while back, I had upgraded my AR-pattern rifle, the story is here.  Well I finally had time to go to the range, My son and I had to run some errands before we could go to the range.  I was excited to see how well the modifications went and my son was really pushing to go to the range so today was a good excuse to go.   I also took my Mosin Nagant to exercise it also.  A good friend had given me some 7.62X54R to shoot for him since he needed the brass to make his 45-70 loads for his rifle.  Buying Nagant ammo is a lot cheaper than buying the brass for the 45-70.

And since I am a good friend, I will dislocate and relocate my shoulder for him every time I fire.

 Here we are getting ready to shoot for the first time, I have been looking forward to this since I started the modifications.  Its is all academic until little(Well it is a .22 caliber round)holes start appearing on the paper and plot the progress.

   The first time I fired, it was at the 15 yard line, the target shuttle was having issues so that is as far as it would go.  Since the range was really crowded I was happy to get a lane without having to wait.  There were a lot of new shooters in there and that did make me glad, for there is more people in the sport and more guns out there will make it harder for the democrat,liberal,nannystate assclowns anti-gunners to use the apparatus of the state to seize firearms. 
     I turned on the vortex sight,( I should have taken a pic through the sight with my camera but I didn't do it...perhaps next time.)  and sighted it in on the right hand upper target.  My first 5 shots were grouped close together but they were southwest of the target, at the 7:oclock location.

     My second group was closer to the center but still a bit low and to the right of my target.  I made some more adjustments and brought it closer to the centerpoint.  My third groupings were pretty much spot on so I was pleased.  My son also had an opportunity to shoot my AR, I took the .22LR adaptor out and reinstalled the regular bolt carrier group and fired some regular ammo through it then let him shoot some rounds through it.

He commented that it does shoot differently with regular ammo vs the .22 LR.   I agreed but the cost of the regular ammo is still much more expensive than the .22LR so the adaptor I use is well worth the money.

He also fired his old bolt action Marlin, who shot great as usual, his semi auto 22LR with the scope was more finicky with ammo.  I am considering sending it off to get it looked at.  it shouldn't have the feeding issues that it has.
     All in all it was a good day to go to the range, I got my *EBR sighted in and it shot great!
    I wanted again to tell AM thanks for the advice and it was real good advice and I am very happy with the mods to my rifle.

Here the rifle is at home waiting her turn at the cleaning table.

          *EBR=EVIL BLACK RIFLE

New additions to my Blogroll and another "hitler loses his Dr to OBAMACARE video" video"

I have added a few new people to my blogroll, I have the "Golden Geese News" and "Conservative Wife".  Both are good blogs with a lot of information.    Go check them out:)

    I also ran across another "Hitler loses his Dr to Obamacare video"