I'm not the only one in a time warp!

For a few weeks, SOUL TRAIN is running "The Best of Soul Train" which is complete CLASSIC episodes of the longest running syndicated television show in history.




I discovered this by accident and confirmed it online.

Then I looked up the program guide and discovered it was on very early Sunday morning and so I woke up early to watch The Sugar Hill Gang and Patrice Rushen on an episode that originally aired in 1981.











Like many, I grew up watching Soul Train every Saturday and yes, I did watch this very episode pictured. Back then it was the first time I saw The Sugar Hill Gang on Soul Train but it was at least a year after I first heard their song "Rappers Delight". This was the early stages of popular RAP music when it was all about just having fun with music and words.

I hate to sound like the "stick in the mud" or the old fogie (sp) that I am turning into but, I prefer the more gentlemen like presence of RAP music from "back in the day". When rappers spoke in an interview and you could understand what they said. Their pants were pulled all the way up covering their butts and you did not have to bleep or blur anything audible or visual out. There was no violence back then, no calling people Bitches or Ho's either. Rappers actually called women LADIES although that term could have been questioned on an indvidual basis but still, there was some respect back in the day.

Rapping was a way to have a party and a good time. Or to showcase your vocal style, DJ mixing or dance moves. But on "Soul Train" it was purely LIP SYNC. (silently mouthing while the actual record was playing) And we enjoyed the hell out of it.



And tonight, the classic Soul Train episode will air on my local NBC station at 11:00. My DVR is set to record and to quote Don Cornelius, "you can bet you last cash, It's gonna be a stone blast honey"! I think thats what he used to say.




Anyway in parting from this blog I quote Don Cornelius again in wishing you.....
Love, peace and SOUL!

Fellow speeders: Sonny does it too!

Anyone in Georgia may remember the 2006 political campaign commercials for Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue with the slogan "Sonny did" as in Sonny Perdue "did" so much for the state.

Well, Sonny is doing it again. Wasting time in some laim bad ass idea of "cracking down on speeding drivers". And I just heard the governor himself say in a news conference that he is one of the average Georgia drivers that exceeds the speed limit.

Yes, Sonny does that too!

I drive a lot for work and I drive within the flow of traffic. If everyone is going 80 on a rural stretch of an interstate, I am not the slow poke to break the flow! If I were, then I am creating a safety hazard.

SPEED LIMITS ARE REVENUE SOURCES!

In my business I drive hundreds of miles a day traveling throuout the state. I frequent long stretches of I-75, I-16, US 341, Georgia 300 and Georgia 96. And I can tell you that the speed limits are a JOKE in many areas. They only exist to create revenue for local governments. Why else would the town of Byron Georgia police give tickets on an interstate hwy that has one exit on the edge of their town?

Why is there a 45 mph speed limit through the town of Warwick GA (home of the national GRITS festival!) on a 4 lane GA-300? So their lone police officer could raise revenue to make up for the meager income the tiny town gets from its Dollar General store? This highway has a 65 speed limit and a 55 speed limit as you enter Albany. But Warwick is special and you must slow down as you BYPASS the actual town (which is off the highway)

Georgia hwy 96 between Ft. Valley and Columbus is a newly widened open 4 lane highway with a short one mile section that runs through the town of Reynolds. Appropiately, the speed limit through Renynolds is reduced. But 10 miles west, this highway BYPASSES the town of Butler. And this open road remains at 55 mph while clearly designed for 65 mph or higher.

How much revenue does the Taylor county Sheriff's dept and Butler police raise from HWY 96 in a county that still has segregated high school proms? (I had to throw that in!)

ARE POLITICIANS EXEMPT FROM SPEED LIMITS?

I challenge anyone driving along a Georgia interstate to look at the license plates of the vehicle that just passed you like you were standing still. Does that vehicle have one of those special license plates with a CAPITAL symbol on it? It could be a "State representive" or other state or US political office identified on the bottom of the license plate.

Find a license plate like I just described on an unmarked Crown Victoria or on some large SUV or European Luxury car and notice that person is not only exceeding the speed limit but yapping on their cell phone at the same time. And one of those politicians just had a press conference announcing his plan to crack down on speeding and unsafe drivers.

What @#$%#$ hyprocracy!


Im keeping my cruise control set! I never had a speeding ticket before and I want to keep it that way! They want to double the fines!

News article below!

Crackdown on 'Super Speeders'
(WSB Radio) -- Saying speed is responsible for 20 percent of Georgia's fatal automobile accidents, the rising cost of trauma care and traffic congestion, Governor Sonny Perdue is proposing increasing the fines paid by drivers who violate the state's speed limit.

Perdue wants "hundreds of dollars" tacked on to the punishment handed out to motorists who get pulled over going more than 85 miles an hour on interstate and four lane highways and 75 miles an hour on two lane roads.

Perdue says "Georgia's drivers are among the fastest in the nation, and we've got to stop the excessive speeding."

The money collected through the fines would help offset costs at the state's fifteen trauma care centers.

Law enforcement also backs Perdue's proposal. Georgia State Patrol spokesman Larry Schnall says "we support anything to get people's attention and slow them down."

Statistics show the average Georgia motorist drives 20 miles an hour over the posted speed limit.