Ketch always cheers me up.

And unfortunately it’s a genre of music that’s been co-opted by a very specific socio-political movement.

Ketch Secor: You went to Hank Williams shows so you could dance, drink in the parking lot and feel up girls, and that sounds like rock ‘n’ roll. That’s counter-culture. Now you go to country music to take a loyalty oath, buy skull products and sign your kid up for the armed services. Country music has been co-opted, reformed and sold back to us, but it’s a f*cking impostor. But country music was always for the peckerwoods. Those right-wingers, they’ve got a place in country music, and they’re entitled to it. Now politics aside, if you grew up in horse culture, if you grew up knowing how to handle a team of mules, country music belongs to you. Even if you hate Obama, even if you’re scared as hell of California. If you grew up working with your hands, country music belongs to you, no matter where you stand, what you stand for, or what you’re afraid of. But there’s a lot of deception because the commodification of our art means power and money for a lot of people. If country music filled you with hope the way they say it does, rather than dumb you down, this would be a different kind of American south we’re living in.

Can somebody translate that for me? Ketch lost me.

Here, let me translate,

ketch: "i voted for barack, and i HOPE obama can CHANGE country music back to what it used to be, and if YOU didnt vote for obama then you are racist..."

I have no patience for that attitude, but I didn't get the feeling that that's what Ketch meant. I don't quite like the EVEN if you hate Obama part, but I don't think he's trying to say that.

also i dont hate obama because he is equal parts black and white. i hate what he and his are doing. and perhaps if you voted for him because he is 50% black & believing that if you made under 250,000 bux a year that he wouldn't tax you one dime more, then you might be the ignorant ones.

the industry is a sham. but the sham they have on a lot of southeners pales in comparison to how this administration shammed the resta ya.

how would not listening to country music change any of this:

"Washington residents will begin paying ObamaCare taxes this year, while most benefits don’t start until 2014. The law includes some 19 new taxes. Here’s a rundown of what Washingtonians can expect in the coming years.

Penalties on individuals. Individuals will pay a yearly penalty of $695, or up to 2.5 percent of their annual income, if they cannot show they have purchased a government-approved health policy.

Penalties on families. Families will pay a yearly penalty of $347 per child, up to $2,250 per family, if parents cannot show they have purchased a government- approved policy.

Penalties on employers. Business owners with more than 50 employees must buy government- acceptable health coverage or pay a yearly penalty of $2,000 per employee if at least one employee receives a tax credit.

Tax on investment income. ObamaCare imposes a 3.8 percent annual tax on investment income of individuals making $200,000 or more and on families making $250,000 or more. The new tax is not indexed to inflation, so more people will fall under it each year. Seniors on fixed incomes and people with IRAs and 401(k) plans will be hit particularly hard.

Tax on “Cadillac” health plans. Starting in 2018, imposes a 40 percent annual tax on health care plans valued at $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families.

Medicare tax increase. Requires single people earning $200,000 or more and couples earning $250,000 or more to pay an additional 0.9 percent in Medicare taxes.

Tax on Home Sales. Imposes a 3.8 percent tax on home sales and other real estate transactions. Middle-income people must pay the full tax even if they are “rich” for only one day – the day they sell their house and buy a new one.

Tax on medical aid devices. Creates a new 2.9 percent tax on medical aid devices. Certain items intended for personal use are exempt.

Tax on tanning. Imposes a 10 percent tax on services at tanning salons. Business owners will collect the tax from customers and send it to the federal government. This appears to be the first federal sales tax in the United States.

ObamaCare will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service. The tax agency plans to hire 16,500 new auditors, agents and investigators, and to increase enforcement audits. The IRS can confiscate tax refunds, place liens on property and seek jail time if health-related penalties and taxes are not paid.

President Obama had said people could keep their coverage if they want, yet the Congressional Budget Office estimates that under ObamaCare 8 million to 9 million people will lose their employer-provided coverage."

check it out

also, yeah im scared of california. it IS BROKE!

the people that worship woodstock but despise the tea parties need to take a personal inventory. a nation of street performers wouldnt last very long. the people that went to college and now get up and go to work every day are the people that go out and support the freedom hippie dope smokin song writers/players, provide them a place to play, serve them food, and tote their junk. but somehow the artists are the geniuses that know everything and we are the peons that need their blessing. well, im just sayin i dont need your blessing, thanks. shove it up there where obamas stickin that hope and change he suckered you with. if there's any room left.

I have no patience for that attitude, but I didn't get the feeling that that's what Ketch meant. I don't quite like the EVEN if you hate Obama part, but I don't think he's trying to say that.
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and aren't taxes on tanning beds a little bit racist.

i didnt misunderstand it but, yeah, i too thought ok dookey misunderstood her comment.

What IS a peckerwood?

+1

cool - it's not defined yet

thanks -i didn't notice the spelling there Okie!