Mercy Street

Just an update! Mercy Street is with High Fidelity Studios right now being final mastered for release! This album has been in the works for a while and many of the songs that were scheduled for it, have changed. It's an awesome release that I enjoy listening too myself (even though I hate the sound of my own voice :-) Check out bradirons.com, www.myspace.com/bradirons, www.myspace.com/bradsings or my facebook profile to hear some cuts. (BTW - The picture to the left is not the album cover. But It's one of the photos for the inside.)

It's Not Over

So where are we now?

It's no secret that I did not vote for Obama. As happy as I am to see the first black president, I would have preferred a conservative. But Ok. I've voted. I've fulfilled my civil responsibility. I didn't win so now I go back to my average everyday life. Better luck next time.

Don't think so!!!!! Three things I plan on doing...

1. Pray! - If any one needs prayer, it's this man. The first black president of America? Come on! I don't care how much you think this country has advanced. This man will need prayer. Those of you who may smirk or smile or anything close to that when mentioning the fact that he may "not make it for four years", should be ashamed of yourselves. Do you really want to see the results of such a horrible situation? Rodney King? OJ? We don't want Obama assassinated.

2. Get involved! - Many of the things promised during the election were good. But they were probably just to salve the conservatives who jumped the fence. Fine. Now let's hold his feet to the fire on them. The sleeping giant is not planning on going back to sleep. We're here and you're going to have to deal with it!

3. Stand! - I am not ashamed of being a conservative. I know I am a registered independent, but I am a conservative. If statistics can be believed, so are the majority of Americans. So let's be conservatives and let's remind our government that it's what we are. Despite the press and millions of dollars pumped into the state of California, Prop 8 passed. Give up trying to play to the sympathies of the Left. It simply causes us to be seen as hypocrites. Gracefully and consistently stand by your beliefs in conversations with friends or at work. Don't be a jerk. But refuse to slink off in a corner either. This election was not a referendum on conservatism. It may, however, have been a referendum on moderates. You want to know how, ask me. There's not quite enough space to address that in this particular blog entry.

We have a new president. We will watch, we will pray. We will not be silenced by him and we will not demonize him. We will support the decisions that are right and protest the ones that are not. We have earned the right to do so because...

We voted!

Couldn't Have Said it Better Myself

Hey you open-minded people, open your minds to this.



And a reminder of how the illustrious Margaret Sanger suggested to get black people to go along with the extermination of their own race....

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

Humor: A Review of LOST (by someone who's never watched an episode...)

Put Down The Duckie!

I think this song is really really deep! (See, I didn't say anything about how it "quacks me up".) Click on the title below to go to the youtube video of this excellent song.

PUT DOWN THE DUCKIE
Ernie: Excuse me, Mr. Hoots
I hate to bug a busy bird
But I want to learn the sax
And I need a helpful word
I always get a silly squeak
When I play the blues

Hoots: Ernie, keep your cool
I'll teach ya how to blow the sax
I think I dig your problem
It's rubber, and it quacks
You'll never find the skill you seek
Till you pay your dues

You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Yeah, you gotta leave the duck alone
You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
If you wanna play the saxophone!

You didn't hear a word I said
You gotta get it through your head
Don't be a stubborn cluck
Ernie, lay aside the duck!
I've learned a thing or two
From years of playing in a band
It's hard to play a saxophone
With something in your hand
To be a fine musician
You're gonna have to face the facts

Though you're blessed with flying fingers
When you wanna wail, you're stuck
What good are flying fingers
If they're wrapped around a duck?
Change the toy's position
If you wanna ace the sax!

You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Yeah, you gotta leave the duck alone
You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
If you wanna play the saxophone!

Don't have to put it on a train
Don't have to wash it down the drain
Don't have to lock it in a drawer
Don't have to shove it out the door
Don't have to stuff it in your pocket
Or send it flyin' in a rocket!
Don't have to get it out of town!
Ernie, put the quacker down!

You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Yeah, you gotta leave the duck alone
You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
If you wanna play the saxophone!

You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Yeah, you gotta leave the duck alone
You gotta put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
If you wanna play the saxophone!

Oh yeah!!!!!!!!