The Brass Monkey

This track is classic Pink Floyd. It took up all of side 2 of the vinyl that was titled Meddle. It can be found in our When Music Moved A Generation…album:Meddle

The Oldest Living Scout The Detroit Free Press reports a Detroit resident Edward Whitehead is the oldest living Scouter in the nation at 101 years old. He turns 102 on May 9th Australian Navy Intercepts Another Boat The eighth boatload of asylum seekers to arrive in Australian waters this year was intercepted near Ashmore Reef, [...]

You might remember that not long ago the Pakistani government made a deal with the Taliban that basically gave them control over a part of north west Pakistan. This deal brought forth one fact, you can not make a deal with the devil. The Pakistani government should have known better because these Taliban thugs treated [...]

Here we go again people! There are rumblings from Washington that allowing Mexican Trucks full access to Americas highways might be resurfacing again. You will recall that congress stopped funding for that issue last year. Are the folks supporting this totally bonkers! Lets look at issues that would pop up real fast if this were [...]

Where were all of the tea partiers when dictator Bush was throwing money away into that bottomless pit Iraq and borrowing all that cash from China and making remarks like when asked how are we going to pay for this and that? His answer we will just borrow it. Phhhht! Oh yeah do not forget [...]

Homes being rebuilt in New Orleans are using defective Chinese made drywall. Guess what folks the same thing happened in Florida as early as 2005. There is NO excuse for that crap to be installed now (as this thread is being written} in New Orleans. Miami-based homebuilder Lennar Corp. said it has identified about 80 [...]

That is right folks. Plain and simple you can not trust anyone in big business because if you do not regulate certain businesses like utilities (remember Enron and the California blackouts) banks, the stock market etc Greed will take over and the crooks will screw us. Bush was a big promoter of letting companies regulate [...]

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says that wind turbines placed off the east coast could replace most of the coal fired power plants in the USA. Ocean winds could generate 1 million megawatts which is about equal to 3,000 medium sized coal fired power plants. We already have the technology to build the wind turbines and [...]

Okay you say, but who is Sallie Mae? Sallie Mae is the nation’s leading provider of student loans, helping millions of Americans achieve their dream of a higher education. Sallie Mae has been around for awhile it was originally created in 1972 as a government-sponsored entity (GSE). The company began privatizing its operations in 1997, [...]

General Electric and its CEO Jeff Immelt have outsourced American jobs to cheap overseas labor markets and GEs focus on financial services over manufacturing and technology has not helped the American job market at all, in fact it hurt it big time.Immelt said recently the U.S. manufacturing base is hollowed out, the country has a [...]

The TV made me do it A 31-year-old Albuquerque woman is jailed after a fight breaks out while a group is watching cage fighting on TV. The Albuquerque Journal Reports a city police officer responding to the disturbance call in the 300 block of Charleston NW on Thursday reported that, upon arriving, he heard yelling [...]

During the Bush administration it was stall stall stall on protecting the environment. You would here statements like if we try to get cleaner air it would be bad for the economy. Guess what he did nothing to help clean up our act and look what happened to the economy! With Dictator Bush it was [...]