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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Janette and Joe Carter, the children of A.P. and Sara of the original Carter family, gather at the homestead in Virginia to reprise one of their parents’ early songs with the same modest, unadorned, natural musicality, simultaneously corporeal and otherworldly, that flows like a river from the Virginia hills to the heart.
The footage, filmed by Alan Lomax in 1983, is a remarkable document of Americana; if you heard it without seeing it, and maybe added a few pops and crackles, you’d swear you were listening to a mountain recording from the 1920s. Without further ado, here’s Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?
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  1. Good god, could this be true?

    Wildrose insiders have seen a disturbing trend with (Danielle) Smith. She’s been having closed door meetings with PC and Alberta Party stalwarts like Stephen Carter in order to facilitate Smith becoming a PC. Her floor crossing plans are the worst kept secret in the Legislature.

    Now, she’s finally come out and openly asked her caucus to cross with her…

    If it is true, she’s on her way to becoming the most despised person in the province.

  9. Uh …. very nice selection EBD – who are these people, and are you related to them? Just curious.

  10. I know that everybody has heard ‘way too much about the accusations against Bill Cosby, but I want to go on record as firmly believing that a person REALLY IS “innocent until proven guilty”.
    It just doesn’t make sense to me – when the alleged offenses took place, he was young, good looking, intelligent, funny and rich! Oh yeah, married too. That doesn’t sound like the type that has to drug a woman (or girl) and rape her, just to get laid.
    I think it sucks big time that he will never be proven guilty or innocent or ANYTHING because of the statute of limitations.
    So his reputation is ruined and the rest of his life will be miserable. Maybe he deserves it. But maybe not.
    I wish I could tell him that I still believe him, and I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

  11. Wow, Danielle not being a real conservative but a Conservative?
    Well, that would explain her throwing in with the AGW crowd, wouldn’t it? Maybe there is hope for us Alberta conservatives yet.

  12. The people in the video are the son and daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter, two-thirds of the original Carter Family (Mother Maybelle, A.P’s sister-in-law, was the other third), who are considered by many to be the originators/founders of what we know as country music.
    No, I’m not related to them, I don’t think. My folks came from across the great ocean..

  13. Air pollution is the largest environmental health hazard in the U.S. according to the authors, leading to increased rates of heart attacks, strokes and respiratory diseases, with as many as a 100,000 deaths annually…
    electric vehicles that use electricity generated from coal, can make the quality of the air we breathe much worse…
    Each gallon of gasoline you burn in your car causes, on average, about 50 cents in damage to the health of others. If you burn ethanol from corn, it’s about twice that – almost a dollar. If you drive the same distance in a car powered by electricity from coal, it’s about $2…
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/the-coal-quandary-electric-car-health-benefits-205606820.html

  14. The discussion should be about why the actions Cosby is accused of are unacceptable in today’s society. Instead it’s turned into a feminist witch-hunt to find someone to focus all their misandrist beliefs on. They’re no better than the people who burned witches. 20 women all jump on the same bandwagon because it’s fashionable now to claim to be raped, especially by Cosby.
    He-said she-said allegations are meaningless unless backed up with solid evidence. The lawyers should know the difference between corroborate and collaborate. Any evidence is too old to have any validity, except for those who are using it to further their agenda.

  15. Don’t you just love the way they can pull numbers out of their ass. Activists always come up with any number they want. Always impressive.

  16. Germany (Reuters) – A new grass-roots movement that assails the German government for ignoring its fears of being overrun by Muslims and other immigrants attracted a record 15,000 marchers on Monday in the eastern city of Dresden.
    The fast-growing movement that calls itself PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, has drawn support from the far-right as well as some ordinary Germans alarmed by a sharp rise in refugees, many fleeing conflict in the Middle East.
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/anti-immigration-protests-grow-germany-232441591.html

  18. Miss the point much?
    Objectivity is the concept that scientists, in attempting to uncover truths about the natural world, must aspire to eliminate personal biases, a priori commitments, emotional involvement, etc. Try it sometime.
    Someone objectively assessing the article would see the greewashed folly of electric cars, and how they actually make things worse, unless they’re charged by an owner’s home-based solar or wind power. Which of course hardly ever happens.

  19. “Objectivity is the concept that scientists, in attempting to uncover truths about the natural world, must aspire to eliminate personal biases, a priori commitments, emotional involvement, etc. Try it sometime.”
    And here we have some people that dont think you know how to make a joke. Hah… 95% of all readers think that’s funny as hell.

  22. Mohammed is confused about liberals, Media Party, and murder.
    …-
    “Sydney’s ‘sheik’ gunman described as ‘damaged’ and confused about Islam
    Washington Post”
    …-
    “More than 80 schoolchildren killed in Taliban attack on Peshawar school: official”
    “Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city, killing and wounding scores, officials said, in the worst attack to hit the country in over a year.”
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/more-than-80-schoolchildren-killed-in-taliban-attack-on-peshawar-school-official-1.2149551

  23. Latest report is the Pakistani school death toll is up to 126 per Reuters.
    Mostly Children and Teens.

  27. All very true except the bit about air pollution killing people. This is EPA lies to enable them to fight the evil CO2 and dust.

  28. Liberalism Today.
    …-
    “Five lifestyle rules for keeping away dementia
    Canada News”
    “Court upholds injunction that allows medical marijuana patients to grow at home
    Winnipeg Free Press”
    “Should there be a fine for being unfocused on foot?
    CTV News”

  29. In regards to Danielle Smith crossing the floor to the PCs, the name Quisling comes to mind. It appears that she has been a Trojan horse all along.

  33. Robert of Ottawa at 8:02
    When I was a kid the expression was “sharp as a sack of hammer handles” – nicely ironic, i.e. hammer handles are “dull” as opposed to sharp like a blade but “dull” also meant “dumb” in comparison to “sharp” meaning “smart”.
    Dunno when it got screwed up.

  34. What I find interesting… is that NONE of the “victims” went to the police and had BC charged. If BC did commit rape(even once), he is a criminal and a threat to society. That said, and I’ll blame the victims if I want; if any of these women are telling the truth, then they are complicit in the rapes that happened to other women after the fact. I am the father of daughters and empathetic to their experiences; but I will not alleviate women of the responsibility to come forward with evidence of such a horrid crime. The excuses I hear for these women not coming forward is truly pathetic!

  37. Sorry to reply to myself but:
    The biggest of all dangers for conservatives is a candidate that runs right but votes RINO.
    The problem for establishment candidates of conservative parties is they do not understand that the guys on the ground want right and will not turn out for a RINO, or CINO in Canada. They are generally well-funded and think they do not need the schmoes on the ground. Of course, they loose 15=15% of their vote by doing so.

  38. Something I’ve suspected all along; educated people think they are smart about everything, not just their academic discipline. My experience is that highly educated people are quite illiterate about other issues or are simply blithering idiots in real life, many lacking even a modicum of common sense and healthy skepticism. Some exhibit a laughable, though somewhat frustrating combination of arrogance and ignorance and are perfect fodder for con artists like Al Gore and his merry band of rent seeking sycophants:
    MIT climate scientist (and now apparently oil shill) Dr Richard Lindzen: “Ordinary people see through man-made climate fears — but educated people are very vulnerable.”
    http://www.climatedepot.com/2009/07/06/mit-climate-scientist-ordinary-people-see-through-manmade-climate-fears-but-educated-people-are-very-vulnerable/

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