(second block, fourth letter of the prisoners' quadratic tap code...)

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...am here to tap through the walls.


Wed Jul, 15 2009

DeathCare On Wheels

"House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president's goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy."
Associated Press

That's what they really think, kids: they can just make up "rights" with the stroke of a pen. They never even stop to consider the basic fallacy of instituting a "right" that someone else has to pay for. You are looking at the monstrous lie of a claim of rights even while the concept is being completely destroyed right in front of you.

Get this straight: you have no right to anything that was produced by others and taken from them by force or its threat.

That's what these people have in mind. They will make you complicit in this omni-lateral and national institution of theft. Just wait until you see what happens to morals in this country. We will now raise generations of monsters absolutely alien to the concept of private property. Their viciousness at demanding their sustenance from their neighbors' expense will be unmatched in American experience, and if you think civic decline in this country is a problem now, you haven't seen anything yet.

They're going to do this to us. By the next time they let you anywhere near elections polls -- the ostensible answer to this kind of problem -- this thing will be in the bag, and so will you.

Why aren't you looking out and acting for your freedom?

Jul 15, 09 | 11:55 am

AxeBites

Various guitars I see floating by, mostly Gibson and mostly eBay.

Early Norlin ES-335 -- 1970, in Walnut ("ES-335TDW"). This is a period-piece look and feel, and arguably the sound as well but that's to cut things very finely. A "classic" 335 would be the original of 1958 in the Sunburst or Natural finish, or the Cherry Red of 1959; the Walnut of 1970 (second year of that finish offering) is not really a "classic" 335. In the history of the Gibson aesthetic, this is analogous to, say, vertically-striped polyester bell-bottoms or Bahama Blue shag carpeting. None of this is to say that they're not cool guitars, and this is a nice one. Excellent photographs.

Chrome hardware, featuring the trapeze tailpiece (like my L-47 and I've always liked it) and ABR-1 bridge with period-typical nylon saddles. Bound rosewood fretboard, with small block markers, and then the crown inlay at the machine head. These would be the T-top Humbuckers. Vintage Nazis would moan that the upper bouts are pointy (the body templates were wearing-out in the factory) and the fourteen-degree machine head with the volute signals a sometimes not-fun era of the line, but these things really do rock or moan or whatever you want a 335-type semi-hollow to do. ...which, of course, is because it really is a 335.


In the months since I've let AxeBites languish all to bleedin' hell, Gibson's Robot Guitar technology has sifted out to other models than the original Les Paul application. I don't know how it's going: I still haven't even seen one of these self-tuners. I don't see piles of them burning on the sides of the highway, nor reverent hangings in display cases over bars, so who knows? This 2008 Robot SG is ready to rock in the Metallic Red. Nickel hardware; it's the stoptail wired for data to send to the tuners, with dual Humbuckers. It's a bound rosewood fretboard, but I really like the single-bound machine head with the crown inlay. That's a real cool old-school look, right there, to set off that crazy-ass color. {nod}