Savory Eggs and the Observer
69Strumming My Guitar
Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Thursday, September 22, 2011. Scotty, our alien friend from outer space, takes his role as Observer quite seriously. He is completely unnerved by the recent attack by the federal government upon the Gibson Guitar Corp. Scotty is quite a talented musician and he is very fond of the Gibson guitar. He believes the recent raids conducted by the federal government are over the top and insane and he respectfully has requested the pleasure of our company at breakfast.
Let's prepare some Savory Eggs this morning for Scotty. You will need 2 tablespoons chopped onion, 1 teaspoon butter, 1 pint canned tomatoes, salt, 3 tablespoons finely cut cheese, cayenne pepper and 3 eggs.
Fry onion in butter and add tomatoes and salt. Break yolks of the eggs but do not beat them. Drop eggs on top of tomato mixture and cook covered for 1 minute. Now stir and cook until eggs are done and serve with some hot buttered toast. Pack up your eggs and head for my place. Scotty and I will greet you with a smile and a Bloody Mary. Who could ask for anything more?
Hello, my beloved earthling friends. I believe your nation may be on the verge of collective insanity. The federal government saw fit to raid the Gibson Guitar Corp. not once but twice in recent weeks. We are not talking about drug dealers or gun traffickers, we are talking about guitars and the wood that is used to construct them. If we were talking about gun trafficking the government probably wouldn't have a problem since they recently dabbled in that line of work themselves. Your government actually confiscated one million dollars worth of product from a private company because they were suspicious of wood imports.
Don't you think a simple phone call or e-mail would have sufficed? Was a full blown raid with gun toting agents really necessary? The government shut down production in the name of a law referred to as the Lacey Act which prohibits companies from under-cutting U.S. wood-product companies by trading in inexpensive raw materials that have been harvested illegally.
The company insists that the purchase was above board and so do a lot of other people. Here comes the fun part, the Lacey Act also makes it illegal to purchase, own or resell a Gibson product. Nashville better open up safe houses for all the fabulous musicians who love Gibson guitars. For that matter the First Lady may want to hide under the president's desk in the Oval Office. In 2009 she gave Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a Gibson guitar as a gift. Mmmmm.....
At a time when our economy is foundering and jobs are scarce it is really wise to start attacking a solid American business? The federal government is being very closed mouth about the whole episode, leaving workers in the dark about their future. I ask you my friends, do you agree that this action was out of the range of normal or necessary? Do you think that that there may be a political undertone to the raids? Why was Gibson targeted and not other companies who use the same wood? Lots of questions my earthling friends, but very few answers. If I were you, I would try and stay on top of the story. It smacks of something unsavory, don't you think. NA, NU, NA, NU...SCOTTY...NU, NA, NU, NA... POP...
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Good morning Tom,
Wow, you're up early and I'm glad. I have to leave the house in about 1/2 hour and I wanted to see you at the breakfast table before I left. Watch over the table for me while I'm out. As for the IRS going after the greedy millionaires, I can picture it and they will be armed! See you at the Inn.
I thought this was one of the more disgusting things our government has done recently. It is totally uncalled for and a ridiculous. I fully agree with Scotty.
See you at the inn.
POP: The Story goes on: If Gibson had altered the wood in any way, it would be OK to inmport. So, if Gibson had a plant outside the US, the wood would be ok to import. What about our US employees? The owner of Gibson Guitars has a letter from the Indian Government stating that this wood is OK to export to the US. OK for them, not for us.
Do you think that because Gibson gave to the Republican Party there is a conspiracy to shut them down?
And what did Mrs. Sarcozy do with the guitar that Michelle gave her?
I'm off to the bar - someone, please save me a seat....
can you spell Gestapo, boys and girls? This is in line with your fascist blog the other day. This a--hole in the white house is really trying to ruin this country. How does Scotty know so much about Gibson guitars? Does he play the guitar? Does he have fingers to play the guitar? Inquiring minds want to know. Have Scotty meet us at the bar. I'll buy him a beer, if he can hold the bottle! BARTENDER...........
Pop, never heard a word on this, it's too ridiculous to report, think? The dumb bastards sell guns to the cartel and they want to know where the wood in my sound board on my guitar came from? I don't get it. I'll see you at the in with a Gibson guitar and mandolin in tow, 50
Morning POP...Nice segue from yesterdays hub on fascism...
Obama wasn't talking to just Hispanics when he said "We're going to punish our enemies and we're going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us."...Gibson, a non-union company, supported Republicans, while Martin, a unionized guitar company in Pennsylvania, supported Democrats in the last two elections...Obama is sending a not so subtle message the Chicago Way: 20 flak-jacketed, sub-machine gun toting federal goons scaring the crap out of working Americans...WTF is going on ?...Did they think the workers would attack them with guitars..?...
Why didn't they raid Martin, a company that uses the exact same wood fibres imported from India and Brazil..?
The CEO of Gibson was told by letter from an official at DOJ that if they moved their " manufacturing base to Madagascar, the problem would go away "...Unbelievable!!
See you at the tavern, Pop...50 is bringing his Gibson and Pino will be singing the Blues...Larry
Now that this type "Gestapo" action has clearly started, will it ever stop? Who can stop it other than the voters at the polls. The problem as I see it is no single person is responsible for these type actions by our government. It is a well planned effort by a group of people with the power to make this happen, and will continue until they are all ousted and replaced. Our job would be to identify all of the people involved, and that will be a difficult task.
This was a great hub, and should scare the pants off anyone who has read it. Where is the news media when we need them?
Good morning Pamela,
Just when you think you've heard everything something worse pops up. See you at the Inn. I'll be there early.
Good morning Pino,
I do think this is a political revenge type of thing. As for Ms. Sarkozy, she is probably enjoy the guitar. She's a singer songwriter. See you at the Inn.
Good morning taxlarry,
This is Scotty. Yes I play the guitar and I am a singer songwriter musician. As for your government, it is headed in a dangerous direction. You may have to jump ship. See you at the Inn. I will be arriving with POP.
Pop and Scotty! All I can say is WOW! And Scotty, I know you can decipher, using your advanced intelligence, what I mean by that.
Dear 50,
This has to be some political payback revenge deal. Imagine how incredible it is to imagine federal agents showing up at Gibson with guns? Completely psycho. See you at the inn.
Good morning maven,
You nailed the heart of the matter and if it isn't time throw Holder out of office when will it be? Of course the same is true for Obama who is using this country mercilessly to get what he wants, our demise. See you at the Inn. I may join Pino is a rousing rendition of "Only The Lonely".
Scotty
Wood imports is just the ruse under which Holder’s G. Men ran sacked the company. Follow me here; Holder and his boss are both Chicago Gangsters, right? What do you find in front of all Italian Restaurants frequented by gangsters; a big Guumba with a guitar or violin case inside which is hidden his modern day tommy gun. Well shazaaaaammmmmmmmm, they weren’t after the guitars, they were after the cases in order to equip the Black Panthers they plan on stationing outside the 2012 polling places. What an ingenious ruse!
What are you kidding, a simple phone call or e-mail; what are they going to say; we need all your guitar cases so send them in? No just like Fast and Furious, the Solendra money laundering scheme, Obama Care, Card Check and all the rest associated with this Mob; they do it under the cloak of darkness!
Bust in your door while you are sleeping
While your guitar gently weeps
Throw you to the floor that needs sweeping
Still your guitar gently weeps
By design nobody told you
Cause our G Men are here to control you
This Regime has bought and sold you
While your Guitar gently weeps
Oh, oh, oh
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
Good Morning Dexter,
I get it! See you at the Inn, my earthling friend.
Good morning Old Poolman,
If you love this nation and value your freedoms, yes you should be scared. But if you approve of Gestapo tactics on American soil than this President and this DOJ make you comfortable. Now that's scary. See you at the Inn.
Good morning Patriot,
We all should be weeping. We are living in a nation that is a shadow of its former self. See you at the Inn. I'm off to by a guitar!
We have illegals swarming over the border every day, trashing our pristine deserts, committing countless crimes, depleting our aid programs, and waving their Mexican flags on main street, and who does Obama go after?
A classic American guitar company? Are you kidding me?
Obama and Biden should submit a joint resignation, and let America get back on her feet!
ahhh .. my old Gibson Mockingbird is going insane where ever she is. :(
jim
What is going on with our government??? All I can say is BOO OBAMA. Get out and stay out, PULLEASE!!!
And now they attack the Gibson, Guitar...I say, "Who Let the Dogs Out"! INSANITY fills the Air...But soon, we all will be singing a different tune when we go to the Polls in 2012.
Just strum an old sitar
while you woo your hot mama.
Not a Gibson guitar,
Which irks Prez Obama.
Good Morning WillStarr,
I guess they are obsessed with wood being "dead wood" themselves and puppets!
Dear Big Bro,
I hope your old Gibson is spared the chopping block at the hands of these lunatics.
Good Morning Suzie,
What's going on is that Obama and his cronies are taking over our nation through regulation and harsh insane tactics born of political motivations!
Dear b.Malin,
The dogs are rabid and frothing at the mouth. They are desperate to tear our nation down. This government reminds of the the movie Cujo!
Dear drbj,
A nice ditty that tells the whole insane story in a few well chosen words. I wish I could vote it up!
I've said it already & I'll say it again: When our ship comes in (I see the sails on the horizon!), the first "Toy Budget" major purchase I'm making is a new Gibson. My little Ibanez is getting lonely, got the hots for them bad boys!
Love the image of the First Lady hiding under the President's desk, though.
Good morning Ghost,
I hope your ship comes in real soon. First I think you deserve a new guitar and second Gibson may go under if the president and his pals have anything to say about it.
Tom Whitworth Level 5 Commenter 8 months ago
Pop and Scotty,
Great observations on the heavy hand of this administration. Can you imagine the IRS agents tackling million dollar earners if the president's class warfare tax would be inacted? Lord save us!!!!!