It's our ball now, bitches....

....and we are takin' it back to our yard. If you wanna play you're gonna hafta act right.

As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking.
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But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in deliberations, as promised after the Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, Democrats now say they will use House rules to prevent the opposition from offering alternative measures, assuring speedy passage of the bills and allowing their party to trumpet early victories.

But you won't act right will you. You'll piss and you'll moan. You might even take a bill introduced by Democrats in 04 that you summarily rejected and make it your own.

Republicans aren't yet an official minority in the House, but they're already beginning a campaign to portray themselves as victims of a heartless Democratic majority.

In a "Dear Colleague" letter circulated to fellow Republicans, three House GOPers are trying to push a "Minority Bill of Rights" -- based on a two-year-old proposal by then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). You can read the letter here.

Wuh, wuh waaahhhh. Nobody likes you..... But a lot of people like us AND our ideas:

WASHINGTON - People overwhelmingly support two of the Democrats' top goals — increasing the minimum wage and making it easier to buy prescription drugs from other countries — as the party takes control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years. By a smaller margin, the public also favors relaxing restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a third issue Democrats have promised to tackle during their first 100 hours in charge.

All this Demo love doesn't make for a pretty 2008 for you guys, does it? Especially when we take a look at who you'll be serving up as a hot steaming pile for president.

Despite WALNUTS!’ recent conversion to a pious, pompous, big-government totalitarian psychotic Jesus Freak, he’s not exactly on the Straight Morality Express. A notorious drunk with a pill-addicted second wife, probably the only time McCain wasn’t sinning against God was when the Viet Cong had him locked in a little cage.

Yes, he was tortured and you gotta love him because of it, but we’ve learned from many movies about the Vietnam War that all those guys come back absolutely crazy. Remember Rambo? Totally true. He’s a maverick all right … just like Caligula!

Let’s do a little Republican 2008 Morality Watch:

• Rudy Giuliani: Twice-divorced opera-loving gay-roommate-having cross-dressing show-tune-dancing Manhattan dandy.
• John McCain: Dangerous would-be totalitarian psychopath Jesus Freak S&L crook who can’t stay married or sober or control the terrible voices in his head.
• Mitt Romney: Mormon, which either means terrific personal morals or scary cult magic-underwear polygamist.
• Duncan Hunter: Toupee-wearing tax cheat who may or may not be wiped out by his buddy Duke Cunningham’s Hookergate.
• Michael Bloomberg: Actually a New York Jewish Democrat who runs the Main Stream Media.
• Newt Gingrich: Sociopathic pornographer and serial adulterer who divorces his many wives the moment they get the cancer.
• Sam “Brokeback” Brownback: Enjoys sexytime sleepovers at men’s prisons.
• Mike Huckabee: Committed to living out the movie “Old School.”

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The next two years are going to be a lot of fun!

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Neatest toy ever. Check ou the link for some really cool photos of the toy.

It looks like something from a James Bond film. Shaped exactly like a dolphin, this boat is the latest toy for millionaire adrenaline junkies. The Seabreacher can jump 10 feet in the air and even perform acrobatic tricks.

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A New Year

Yeah I'm amazed at the way the days just keep on slipping by
And I got plans and dreams and hopeful schemes, enough to make you cry
I'm just waiting for that single perfect point in time to give 'em all a try
-Slobberbone's 'Lazy Guy'

Yes, folks, we've survived the bloody holiday season. Time for me to put all bitterness aside and to look forward to what 2007 has to offer. Whatta we got....

A Democratic Congress coming into session on Thursday. Big 'Hooray' for that.

"San Francisco Values" spreading across this fair land.

Here is a great example of those values and what they have in store for you. Mmmmm beer tasting!

Another trip to Palau, perhaps?

An excellent opportunity to dump my boss and all bosses for that matter. Total self sufficiency is the goal for 2007. To hell with health care.

More music and concerts from the Drive-by Truckers, The Drams, Centro-matic and other musical masters.

Mucho possibilities to look forward to in '07. I'm still clearing the cobwebs of '06 from the skull making blogging anything worth while a difficult task at the moment.

What are you folks looking forward to?

Maybe this is the year that I'll find "that single perfect point in time to give 'em all a try"......

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DBT WIR 12/30

Check out the cool xmas present I got. This is the poster that will be on sale at the NYE shows. Buy one! They look tres cool hanging on the wall:

Check out the some other Wes Freed artwork my buddy Rich purchased. If you like southern gothic then you definitely should have some Wes Freed art on your wall.

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Alablwag uses DBT lyrics in a political post. My two favorite things in the word. Check it out here.

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Mr. Phillips:

Like most sons whose fathers have died, Jerry Phillips wants to keep the memory of his dad alive. And when your father is the man who single-handedly changed the face of music in America -- even the world -- a weeklong musical party seems like the best idea.

The second annual Sam Phillips Music Celebration honors the Florence native who owned Sun Records in Memphis, Tenn., and launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and others.

The week's events coincide with Sam Phillips' birthday -- Jan. 5, 1923. He died in July 2003.

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To those lucky ones that will be in attendance for the DBT shows tonight and tomorrow night, have much fun!!! I wish I was going to be there.

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Shitty Corps.

Today we take a look at shitty organizations with shitty products:

First up, perennially topping shit lists: Wal-Mart. These fuckers won't even evacuate customers from a store under a bomb threat. Welcome to Wal-Mart, indeed!

It was the police looking for a bomb. Up front, police officers, the SWAT team and others were busy searching the store next to customers who were browsing for gifts. The police looked in jewelry counters, wrapping paper rolls, freezers, the back room where trucks unload and closets at Tire Lube Express.

During the nearly two-hour search, Wal-Mart officials opted not to evacuate the busy discount store even though police recommended they do so. Wal-Mart officials said the call was a hoax and not a threat.

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Next up, Microsoft. Need I say more:

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24 — Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.

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And the shittiest of the shitty.... The Bush Administration.

Thank god Bush is tackling this Iraq problem trying to find a solution. Hell, the guy who started this war didn't do shit for 3+ years.... Wait.....

It is always 'unclear' with this jackass:

It's unclear whether Bush will signal his desires or just seek further consultation when he meets at his Texas ranch on Thursday with Vice President Dick Cheney and other members of the National Security Council.

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Want a little sex?

Top 10 Sex Stories of 2006

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Role Play

Bush-Fucking America..... Literally. NSFW. Via Americablog.

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Only in America.

James Brown will be returned Thursday to the site of his debut — the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem — so the public that saw and heard him leave a lasting impression on music can see him one last time, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Tuesday.

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It's the fart game son! You'll play one day (2nd day in a row with an Eddie Murphy reference)

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - Brian Bruggeman caused a stink at the Lincoln County Jail earlier this month and will now have to answer for it in court. Another inmate, Jesse Dorris, alleges that Bruggeman's flatulence, passed in close proximity to Dorris, sparked a Dec. 14 fight between the two at the jail.

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Oh, and Gerald Ford died. (I didn't know he was still alive)

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Rub-a-dub with me....

'Are we gonna get wet in the hot-tub'? 'YEAH' 'Are we gonna sweat in the hot-tub'? 'YEAH'

ATLANTA (AP) - "Godfather of Soul" James Brown remained the hardest-working man in show business to the end, telling friends from his hospital bed that he'd be in Times Square on New Year's Eve, even though he had pneumonia. His heart gave out a few hours later, on Christmas morning.

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I got hopes and dreams and plans and schemes enough to make you cry.....

Few places are less festive than a supermarket checkout in December, with overworked staff scanning frozen hams and bags of mixed nuts as fast as they can. Not all of us find it easy to spare a smile for these hardworking people at Christmas. But there is now one more reason to give checkout staff our sympathy: Not only do they labor for low rewards, but they are also being spied upon by economists.

For the Rest of Us

The sooner today is over the better. Bah-fucking-humbug!!!

For the Rest of Us:

MILWAUKEE - Kevin Campanella hates buying and receiving Christmas presents that he says inevitably disappoint. This year, no such worries.

Campanella plans to seek "serenity now" by celebrating Festivus, a wacky holiday popularized in a 1997 "Seinfeld" episode. Billed as "Festivus for the rest of us," the holiday celebrated by the Costanza clan on Dec. 23 features an airing of grievances and feats of strength in which a guest must pin the host before the party ends.

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Christams Filter:

We all know the holiday routine. Dashing through the traffic in a four-door SUV to celebrate the season as a family. There's one snag -- often we aren't laughing all the way.

As San Francisco marriage and family therapist Tracey Gersten says, "Everybody is hoping for this Norman Rockwell holiday. But it can turn into Roseanne Barr very quickly."

In fact, let's admit it, bickering on the holidays is nearly as much a holiday tradition as trimming the tree. In theory, we look forward to getting together because we share a bond of family. But in reality, we also share a long and sometimes touchy history.

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Maybe there is a god. The only thing that has given me the warm and fuzzies this holiday season:

Authorities arrested a man on Tuesday who, they said, was caught on camera throwing rocks at the Republican Headquarters building in Columbus.

Officials said windows at the headquarters on South 5th Street have been broken nearly a dozen times, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported.

They also said staff members have nearly been pelted with thrown objects.

Republicans said they thought the vandalism would die down after the recent elections, but that wasn’t the case.

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Talk about being fucking stubborn:

Teen Fights Removal of Bullet in Head

In the middle of Joshua Bush's forehead, two inches above his eyes, lies the evidence that prosecutors say could send the teenager to prison for attempted murder: a 9 mm bullet, lodged just under the skin.

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I love the youth with too much time on their hands.

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I'm a sinister elf with a sinister plan......

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DBT WIR - 12/22/06

Simply Sabina

A Note From Jenn:

Hey you guys, while we're on the subject of cool little kids, I have a request.

We're having an art auction for Sabina (the lil' girl with the brain tumor) that will feature some of her work - she's a pretty good artist for 7 years old!

Unfortunately, because Sabina's vision has been impeded by the tumor, she isn't able to put out very much art these days.

We've begun looking for art from other kids to be auctioned off as well. So if you have or know a kid that likes to draw, color or paint, and who would like to send in some art to be auctioned off for the Sabina fund, let me know offlist (or at jenn@...) and I'll give you the lowdown on where to send it.

Thanks so much to everyone who has donated to Sabina's fund and helped out. She's a sweet little girl to whom fate has dealt a horrible blow, and every little bit you've done has helped her and her family immensely.

-Jenn

Check out the Adams Housecat! benefit show for Sabina by Patterson, Cooley and the EZB a few weeks ago on Southern Shelter. Some great tunes on this one. My favorite is Airplane Screams. Would love to hear a studio version of that song.

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Speaking of PHood, his new website is up and looking fine. He seems to be pumping out new songs all the time. You can check out some of the newer lyrics here and if you want to hear a couple of the songs click here. I dig and relate very well to 'Thanksgiving Filter'.

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Let us not forget out troops stuck in that hell hole which is Irag. Hopefully, once the new Congress convenes, we'll have a solid plan on getting them the hell out soon (and also a solid impeachment plan to take Bush's dangerous ass out of office).

Watch Jason's 'Dress Blues'.

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I want to give a loud 'GET WELL' to our DBT Lister Row!

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I compiled the Top Ten Album posts from the Yahoo list and only one of you ranked DBT #1. Bunch of damn Judaseseses. (Just when I get use to the group think that has pervaded the U.S. over the past 6 years, the Dems have to win and bring back respect for varied points of view).

BUT, DBT did receive the most mentions and there were 72 albums listed by you folks. Thanks for the carpal tunnel!

I'm listing below those albums that received 5 or more mentions but the entire list can be read in Excel or PDF formats on the DBT Yahoo List Files. Shoot me an email if you have any problems downloading and I'll send it to you via email.

Here we go:

Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse - 11 mentions - Average Rank: 3.8
The Drams - Jubilee Dive - 9 mentions - Average Rank: 4
Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery - 6 mentions - Average Rank: 3
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood- 6 mentions - Average Rank: 6
Bob Dylan - Modern Times - 5 mentions - Average Rank: 4
Lucero - Rebels Rogues & Sworn Brothers - 5 mentions - Average Rank: 3

Check out the remaining list. Lots of varied music and a great

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Check out Teen Appeal.

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DBT has a month in The JamBase 2007 Wall Calendar

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'I'm a sinister elf with a sinister plan....."

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People from all over are discovering DBT

Pure Volume

Purevolume.com, hardcore, emo, eyeliner metal portal. The myspace of punk. Also, THE NEWEST DBT FANS!

Drive-By Truckers are track #3 on the 'We Were Here First' online sampler, which highlights the fringe of music on purevolume.com. "

More peoples:

Via elnorte72:

dbts : Message: some dbt: cma blog:

This guy is hilarious in his appraisal of music row. Seems to have a pretty good handle on 'real' country too: Check out Cooley on his list of 100 greatest country songs of all time. (I think in fairness he should've included one from each of the boys, but there you are)

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Here's some news of other bands that ranked highly on the DBT Yahoo List Top 10 Albums of the Year:

slackercountry.com The Drams “Jubilee Dive” (Finally gets reviewed…):

""Des Moines” proves Brent still has the songwriting chops- for those of you who think he’s gone soft - a song about trying to connect with a significant other on a cell phone that drops the call:

“What a fool I was to trust
Words so critical to say
To a wireless phone call
From 800 miles away”

He then takes the familiar (and oh-so-annoying) marketing slogan “Can you hear me now?” and turns it into a desperate and frustrated plea

Speaking of the Drams, they'll be touring the West Coast in early 2007. I'm very excited about seeing them again. Should be good fun. I'll take many pictures.

Check out their tour dates.

Jenn hooked us with a Brent Best Joke yesterday. Click to listen.

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KellyD informs us on the Matic of Centro:

dbts : Message: Centro-Matic....:

Good read about the fine Centro-Matic men and their show in Nashville...where it looks like they were joined by Jason...

Kelly D"

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The Hold Steady made a major showing on the Top 10 list and they've been influenced by DBT apparently

Jay Steele via Yahoo Group

Pitchfork Feature: Interview: The Hold Steady:

"Craig Finn: Yeah, I have to say we probably played that up a little bit early just to get an angle. But one of the things when we started playing was that it sounded really sweet because we were going out to the bars and hearing 'House of Jealous Lovers' every night. It's a great song; I don't dislike that music as much as I may have said I did at the time. But what happened at that time in New York is what always happens. You had a couple of great bands: Liars, Rapture, whatever. And then they started to get co-opted. You'd go out to see a band at Mercury Lounge, and then the two bands before that would be disco-punk. I think taking a contrarian position is kind of like selling short in the stock market; you're like, 'I bet people are going to really like this, if we play some loose rock'n'roll.' I think if it's a reaction against anything, it's a reaction against everything in indie rock that just isn't fun. I've said this in other interviews, but this kid said that he went to all these shows that year and us and the Drive-By Truckers were the only two bands that smiled. I thought that's a bad thing. It's a sad state of affairs if that's true."

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In other music news:

Aging rockers set to lose rights on early hits:

"LONDON (Reuters) - When finance minister Gordon Brown stands up to make his pre-budget speech next week, aging rockers Cliff Richard, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones might do well to tune in.

Not normally the stuff of rock'n'roll, Wednesday's address looks set to reject music industry calls for an extension of copyright on sound recordings to 95 years from 50, meaning veteran acts' early hits could soon be free for all to use."

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Joyeux Noel, y'all. That's French for "Merry Fucking Christmas".

Here's to an excellent 2007 with much great music coming from our favorite artist!

Y'all have fun at the New Year's Shows in Atlanta. I'm sorely upset that I ain't gonna be there so I best be seeing plenty of pictures and stories!

Cheers!

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Holy Foreskin... in a box

Jesus H. Christ!

This wasn't just the residuum of any holy human—nor was it just any body part. It was the foreskin of Jesus Christ, the snipped-off tip of the savior's penis, the only piece of his body he supposedly left on earth.

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Too Much Sex... To Little Jesus....'s foreskin.

NEW YORK (AP) -- More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.

"This is reality-check research," said the study's author, Lawrence Finer. "Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades."

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'Preacher's nuts roasting on an open fire....'

A church whose former pastor was president of the Southern Baptist Convention has been rocked by allegations of child abuse, PageOneQ has learned.

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Mary Mother of God!

(AP) A woman mistakenly put her 1-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

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Xmas Wreath....fer

LAZARO CARDENAS, Mexico - Soldiers trying to seize control of one Mexico's top drug-producing regions found the countryside teeming with a new hybrid marijuana plant that can be cultivated year-round and cannot be killed with pesticides.

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The Greatest Gift of All

Shitty Way to Die

Save the Tubes!



"Conventional" wisdom from the D.C. beltway pundocracy (read: dipshits who have no clue but have all the air time to influence the conversation) should be constantly ridiculed then perpetually ignored.

Keepin' it real:

It wasn't all that long ago that Democrats and liberals were said to be out of touch with "the real America," which was defined as encompassing the states that voted for President Bush in 2004, including the entire South. Democrats seemed to accept this definition of reality, and they struggled -- often looking ridiculous in the process -- to become fluent in NASCAR talk and to discuss religion with the inflections of a white Southern evangelicalism foreign to so many of them.

Now the conventional wisdom sees Republicans in danger of becoming merely a Southern regional party. Isn't it amazing how quickly the supposedly "real America" was transformed into a besieged conservative enclave out of touch with the rest of the country? Now religious moderates and liberals are speaking in their own tongues, and the free-thinking, down-to-earth citizens in the Rocky Mountain states are, in large numbers, fed up with right-wing ideology.

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A big Southern *Sigh*..... *double sigh*

Now, before everyone gets upset and thinks that we are saying all southerners are racists: the data does not say that. But when it comes to conservative white southerners, I'm sorry to say that the evidence is clear. When all is said and done, the thing that separates them from the rest of the nation is racism. All the racial codes, the slick misdirection, even the appeals to homophobia and religion are in some sense directed at this one simple characteristic. And that characteristic is the thing that trumps all the other concerns about economic justice that Democrats persist in believing they can use to persuade white southern males to vote for them. Democrats simply cannot thread that needle.

Schaller does not "write off the south" as so many assume. Indeed, he explicitly endorses Howard Dean's 50 state strategy to build for the future and ensure that Democrats are prepared to step in where opportunities present themselves. What he is saying is it is impossible for Democrats to currently win nationally by trying to appeal to the southern conservative majority, which seems to me to be an obvious point. You can't be all things to all people.

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Talk about 'nailing' it.

So why, despite all appearances of actually having a national debate right now, do people keep insisting that we mount one?

Perhaps it's because the mainstream media are too timid to declare the difference between right and wrong. Imagine if journalism consisted of more than a collage of conflicting talking points. Imagine the difference it would make if more brand-name reporters broke from the bizarre straitjacket of "balance," which equates fairness with putting all disputants on equal epistemological footing, no matter how deceitful or moronic they may be.

There's a market for news that weighs counterclaims and assesses truth value. It just hasn't kept up with demand. No wonder Jon Stewart has such a loyal audience: He has a point of view, and it's rooted in the reality-based — not the ideology-based — world.

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Going from 'bad' to 'worse. A shitty way to die:

A small airplane apparently took a nose-dive into a tank of raw sewage near Gilroy on Monday afternoon.