Love Doc Watson. Love bluegrass. I’m a big fan of the old Stanley Brothers bluegrass but I watched an old TNN documentary on Keith Whitley (R.I.P. a true classic country musician) a few months ago and, when he was just 17 he got the opportunity to go overseas and perform on a tour with the Stanley Brothers and they encouraged and facilitated him drinking. It’s basically the onset of alcoholism that would eventually be his demise. The morning he died his wife Lori Morgan left to start a tour, which he had begged her not to. He was supposed to play golf with a friend or in-law at 9:00. The person called him at 7am to just confirm the outing and he said Keith sounded perfectly sober. I think Lori confirmed he had not drank anything before she left for her tour just a bit earlier than the phone call. So it’s 7am and Whitley was alone and presumably 100% sober and, by the the time the buddy or in-law arrived, just 2 short ours later, Whitley was dead from alcohol poisoning. When they did his toxicology he had a 0.38 blood alcohol level. He must have slammed a half gallon of liquor or more to go from stone cold sober to dead from alcohol poisoning in ~2 hrs. Sad man with mega talent but big issues upstairs. Damn good singer though.
I voted for George W Bush twice and never realized there wasn’t much difference between him an Obama until probably 2017. I also voted for McCain and Romney (I could tell what Obama was), but, in hindsight, neither of them were much less of a lesser evil and, perhaps, may have actually been worse. I vote Republican but I changed my drivers license to unaffiliated to send a very small message. I am with Pastor Greg Locke who recently said you can’t be a Christian and vote Democrat. It’s true. Abortion has always been the primary dividing issue between good and evil in my humble but accurate opinion. We know who the (D)eath party is.
I’ve had an account for a bit now but it’s honestly annoying. Every other post is about getting on a train to get followers. Then there’s the “Retruth if you support Trump” or “if you support the second amendment” and other meaningless platitudes and inanities. There’s very little quality substance.
Upset because maybe I called you out? Maybe you’re all about trains and getting followers? Seems I hit a nerve.
I posted a little while ago to TS, posing the question of how did the 18yo Uvalde shooter have such nice expensive rifles and, could it be that they might possibly be traceable back toFast & Furious? I posted that in the hopes it might get some exposure and, ya never know, the right person could see it and do some sleuth work and be able to find out this sort of information.
100%. There’s plenty of noise here too, but this is my favorite spot on the entire internet by far. There’s not even a close second. I get most of my news here.