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According to Steve Cropper facebook, "Today I lost my best friend, the World has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live. Duck Dunn died in his sleep Sunday morning May 13 in Tokyo Japan after finishing 2 shows at the Blue Note Night Club." Booker T and MGs, Blues Bros

Port St. Lucie, Fla. -- Whether or not he wins Florida, Newt Gingrich says, "I will go all the way to the convention. I expect to win the nomination." Mitt Romney's surrogates have been appearing at every one of Newt Gingrich's rallies in the Sunshine State, but the tactic hasn't seemed to draw much reaction from the former House speaker, who on Saturday turned most of his attention to President Obama on the stump. He focused on three things "that matter to Florida ... jobs, housing, and space." (snip) "People ask me what can we do about getting more jobs...

Have noticed some Marxists I know agitating for Ann McLane Kuster. Anyone know about her chances at knocking down a seated Republican. I'm not from NH.

CHART OF THE DAY: KYLE BASS: This Is What The End Of The Global Debt Super-Cycle Looks Like Joe Weisenthal Dec. 1, 2011, 10:39 AM In his latest investor letter (via Gurufocus), Kyle Bass lays out his case that a wave of hard defaults is coming. His basic argument: The world is just saddled with too much debt. Throughout history, he says, total debt-to-GDP only ever breached 200% when nations were spending on war. Today we're at 310%. Says Bass: "There is no savior large enough with a magical pool of capital to stafe off this unfortunate conclusion to the...

Contrary to recent media reports, the malicious prosecution of Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan has not ended. Authorities have also charged her with having unlicensed dogs, though they never escaped or threatened anyone. Here’s the unedited scoop straight from her own blog, Oak Park Hates Veggies: Home-grown: Julie Bass has fallen foul of local authorities by growing vegetables in her front yardHome-grown: Julie Bass has fallen foul of local authorities by growing vegetables in her front yard 1- the charges against us were not actually “dropped”. they were dismissed by some judge we have never heard of or seen....

Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2009 California Republican Party Joins Working Californians And Taxpayer Advocates To Demand Action From Democrat Leaders On The State Budget SACRAMENTO - Citing the continued inaction by Democrat legislative leaders in adopting budget solutions without more taxes - punctuated this week by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass' "boycott" of budget negotiations - the California Republican Party announced it will join with working Californians and taxpayer advocates, including Lew Uhler of the National Tax Limitation Committee and radio personality Mark Williams, at the capitol today to demand action from Speaker Bass and Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. Taxpayers will gather...

The Obama administration has made it a point to refrain from using the term terrorism when discussing those who wish to kill Americans in large numbers. Acts of terrorism are now described by the White House as “man-caused disasters” in order to move away from the politics of fear, according to Obama’s Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Apparently, the politics of fear are being held in reserve for use against the conservative movement. First, Napolitano’s office released its assessment of “right-wing extremism.” Now, the Speaker of the California Assembly, Karen Bass, rolls out the T-word to describe talk radio....

interview exerpt: QUESTION: How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature's work? BASS: "The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: "You vote for revenue and your career is over." I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it's about free speech, but it's extremely unfair." QUESTION: Do you get especially exasperated when your own people -- Democrats -- don't agree with you? You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in...

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass said Thursday that she "could not imagine" that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would veto the Democrats' budget plan.

What happens when you cross Karen Bass, the L.A. Democrat who leads the Assembly? Nicole Parra, the lone Assembly Democrat to refuse to vote for her party's spending plan, on Sunday shared the answer as her staff packed for a sudden banishment move to a small office across the street from the state Capitol, Nancy Vogel reports. (That's Parra in the photo at right.) Bass ordered Assemblywoman Nicole Parra of Hanford out of her fifth-floor Capitol office and into an office building across the street where legislative staffers work. “They wanted us to have everything packed up by 4 p.m.,”...

The One That Got Away World-record class Dixon Lake bass "Dottie" dies and ends era for three old friends By Kyle Carter ESPNOutdoors.com Jed Dickerson holds world-record class bass Dottie after she was found dead on Dixon Lake Friday. Jed Dickerson had just left Dixon Lake exhausted and was about to sit down for lunch when he got the call from Jim Dayberry, one of the Ranger supervisors with the park's lake division. "You might want to come back down here," Dayberry told Dickerson at around 11:45 a.m. PT on Friday. "We just found Dottie floating on the north side...

The last time angler Mac Weakley saw Dottie, the 25-pound big bass that gained worldwide attention for its size, she was on the end of his hook. The legendary big bass, which was released after its 2006 capture, was found belly-up this week in Escondido's Dixon Lake. The Florida-strain largemouth bass had been dead about a day. Nicknamed Dottie for a distinctive birthmark spot below her jawline, the dead fish measured 29 1/2 inch long and weighed about 19-pounds. When Weakley caught Dottie two years earlier, she was bulging with eggs that significantly added to her weight. Weakly never officially...

From time to time, Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News,” is going to stop by and bring us a story that captures his attention. This time, he has a fish tale that will likely hit you right where your taste buds are, and might have you looking twice at the menu. For his report for “Today,” Tom talks to G. Bruce Knecht author of “Hooked: A True Story of Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish,” about how this popular fish has been so overfished that it is now disappearing from the world’s oceans.

DURHAM, NH – Republican incumbent Jeb Bradley holds a solid lead over newcomer Carol Shea-Porter in the race for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District. Charlie Bass is facing a tougher fight with his Democratic challenger Paul Hodes in the 2nd Congressional District. These findings are based on the latest Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. The Granite State Poll is sponsored by WMUR-TV, Manchester. Five hundred fifteen (515) randomly selected New Hampshire adults were interviewed by telephone between September 15 and September 24, 2006. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/-4.3...

A federal judge on Wednesday denied a former Republican congressional candidate’s request for a restraining order barring President Bush or Vice President Richard Cheney from bombing Iran or Syria. Mary Maxwell, 59, of 179 Loudon Road, Apt. 10, Concord, filed a lawsuit Monday against Bush, Cheney and other “unnamed defendants actively engaging in acts of war against Iran and Syria in the guise of the war against terrorism.” Maxwell’s suit seeks a ruling that the administration lacks legal authority to pre-emptively attack either Iran or Syria without a Congressional declaration of war, and that radioactive fallout from the use of...

DURHAM, N.H. --Republican incumbents Jeb Bradley and Charles Bass are holding solid leads over their Democratic challengers in races for New Hampshire's 1st and 2nd congressional districts, according to a poll released Tuesday. In the 1st District, 51 percent of residents said they have a favorable opinion of Bradley; 15 percent have an unfavorable opinion, 13 percent are neutral and 22 percent don't know enough about him to say. When likely voters are asked who they plan to vote for in November, Bradley holds comfortable leads over the two best-funded Democratic challengers, Jim Craig and Carol Shea-Porter, the poll said....

A fish kill involving more than 580 dead bass that coincides with a recently completed FLW Tour event in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area, has Department of Natural Resources Officials at a loss to explain. Especially since it's the second consecutive year there's been a higher-than-normal incident of dead bass following the area's largest and most lucrative tournament. Last year, the fish autopsied following the die-off were found to have been suffering from largemouth bass virus. That disease causes death in bass, especially if they're stressed. According to sources in Wisconsin, more than 98 percent of the bass collected from...

Early in the second hour of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' mammoth new double album, the guy who once yelped, "I want to party on your pussy!" whisper-sings a gentler, though not unrelated, proposition: "All I want is for you to be happy/And take this woman and make you my family." The delicate "Hard to Concentrate" is the most vulnerable Peppers tune ever -- a full-on marriage proposal from Anthony Kiedis, with Flea's muted bass and John Frusciante's layered guitars slow-dancing over Afrobeat hand drums. The twenty-eight-song, box-set-length Stadium Arcadium isn't a middle-aged concept album about trading in your tube...

SAN DIEGO – Mac Weakley of Carlsbad caught what could be the world-record largemouth bass early today at Dixon Lake in Escondido. The bass weighed 25 pounds, 1 ounce on a hand-held scale, which – if approved – would shatter the world record, the 22-pound, 4-ounce bass caught by George W. Perry at Montgomery Lake in Georgia in 1932. The catch will have to be approved by the International Game Fish Association. That may be a problem, however, because Weakley said he foul-hooked the fish – meaning the hook lodged below the dorsal fin on the fish's side, not in...

Jim Leach of Iowa and Chuck Bass of New Hampshire (2 RINOs who, I believe, voted to keep us dependent on Middle East oil by voting against ANWR) are on right now discussing what the future of the Republican party is and/or should be.Typical comment by Leach: He just said he is concerned when (paraphrase here) "one part of one party" is in charge of the budget. Praise for the "moderate Republicans" all around. If any of Bass's and Leach's constituents are able to get hold of these lamebrains, please do so. Political junkies who like to listen to these...

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- A Missouri fisherman is accused of cheating in a professional bass tournament. Paul Tormanen, 39, of Lee's Summit, faces a felony charge of contest fraud. He's suspected of catching bass before the competition and tying them to a stump, then submitting them during a competition in Louisiana last week, reported KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Mo. Another competitor found tethered bass and informed authorities, who marked the fish, the television station reported. Tormanen was then questioned when he allegedly turned one of the marked fish in to be weighed at the Bassmaster Tournament on the Red River....

New Hampshire Republican Rep. Charles Bass says GOP leaders in the House are ignoring the party’s "fundamental principles” and he’s calling for new elections to replace them next year. The five-term congressman, co-chair of a group of about 35 moderate House Republicans called the "Tuesday Group,” aired his opinions in interviews with the New Hampshire Union Leader and Boston radio station WBUR. He said the House Republican conference "would be healthier and more unified if we had real elections and if [former House Majority Leader] Tom DeLay would step aside for the good of the conference.” DeLay has kept his...

Concord — Five-term Republican Rep. Charles Bass said this week his party’s leaders in the House of Representatives are more concerned about their own pet projects than the GOP’s "fundamental principles." Bass, co-chair of a group of about 35 moderate House Republicans called the "Tuesday Group," is calling for new elections in leadership next year "so we have a fresh slate of officers outside of the speaker for the next session of the Congress." His comments came in interviews yesterday with the New Hampshire Union Leader and on Monday with Boston radio station WBUR-FM. He said he is not interested...

WEEKEND UPDATE: SKUNKED! By Michelle Malkin   ·   June 19, 2005 11:03 PM The fishing report: Me: 0. Zip. Nada. My five-year-old daughter: 10 bluegill and crappie. No keepers. Me: A very unlucky Texas rig (lizards and pumpkin plastic worms). Daughter: Nightcrawlers under a Winnie-the-Pooh bobber (can't beat it). The fish that got away: An at least 6 lb. largemouth bass that I will be sobbing about for the next 5 days. A few photos of my daughter's catches at Flickr. Back to work in the morning. Sniff... Update: Blogger Kevin Sinclair had much better luck than I did. Wowee.

If you wanted to see the perfect example of the ethical and moral collapse of the Mainstream Media, you could not do better than a long article in the New Yorker of May 23, 2005. The article is entitled, "The Spy Who Loved Us." Written by a teacher at the University of Albany, named Thomas Bass, it's about a man named Pham Xuan An. Now very old, An was -- among many other things -- a correspondent in Saigon during the Vietnam War for Time magazine. He was apparently considered a particularly brilliant and well-informed correspondent and very well liked...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

I found only one other thread from July which even referenced Kerry's old band. Jack Radcliffe, former piano player for the 60's band "The Electras", was interviewed this morning by WCOL's Woody, a popular DJ at a country music station in Columbus, OH. The interview was very intertaining. A few interesting points were brought up during the interview. 1. When Jack was asked if he'd be voting for Kerry, the answer was, "I'm kind of on the fence. I haven't made up my mind yet." 2. When Jack was asked about Kerry's bass playing ability, "Kerry wasn't a bass player,...

The guy flip-flops more than the bass I used to catch as a boy and toss into the floorboard of my rowboat. I, and many here, could list HUNDREDS of times in Kerry's very unglamorous Senate career and life where he has done precisely that. Now he is using the same tired, divisive rhetoric that the left-wing of his party (people like the loser Al Gore) wants -- in order to divide America even further. On top of that, he lies about all his so-called "plans." Everyone knows what he has said so far is mathematically impossible to achieve, yet...

In case you haven't heard, the Marriage amendment got shot down in the house: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134134,00.htmlHere's the Republicans voting Nay: Bass Biggert Bono Castle Cox Dreier Foley Frelinghuysen Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest Greenwood Hobson Hostettler Houghton Johnson (CT) Kirk Knollenberg Kolbe Leach McInnis Ose Paul Pryce (OH) Sanders Shays Simmons Here's the republicans not voting: Boehlert Cannon Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dunn Hunter Nethercutt Ros-Lehtinen Tauzin Be sure to contact these people & show your appreciation. Here's the list of Dems voting FOR: Berry Bishop (GA) Boucher Boyd Carson (OK) Chandler Cooper Costello Cramer Davis (AL) Davis (TN) Edwards Etheridge Ford Gordon...

I know NYC GOP Girl posted the VH-1 link about John Kerrys' 60s Band the Electras back in March. I didn't see the link for the newly reissued CD. Check this out. http://www.theelectrasrockandrollband.com/ This is almost as good as the Bunny suit pictures.

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush (news - web sites) skipped a scheduled fishing outing Saturday morning to deal with the Iraq (news - web sites) crisis, but his catch the day before was something to brag about. "He took the biggest one of the day," a bass nearly four pounds, said Roland Martin, host of the Outdoor Life Network program, "Fishing with Roland Martin."

G.H. Bass closings add to worries By MATT WICKENHEISER, Portland Press Herald Writer Copyright © 2003 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. The great-grandson of G.H. Bass & Co. founder George Henry Bass said Friday that he worries about manufacturing in the United States, a day after company officials announced that they would close Bass headquarters in South Portland and a distribution center in Wilton. The company Peter Bass' great-grandfather founded 127 years ago in Maine announced Thursday it would eliminate 290 jobs with the closures next year. "I'm saddened, but more in a concern for the manufacturing atmosphere of Maine and...

October 17, 2002 Republicans Continue to Hold Leads in New Hampshire as US Senate Race Tightens Republicans John Sununu, Craig Benson, Jeb Bradley, and Charles Bass continue to hold their respective leads over Democrats Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Fernald, Martha Fuller Clark, and Katrina Swett with only the race for US Senate tightening according to the latest New Hampshire Poll. The results presented here are based on 600 completed telephone interviews among a statewide random sample of likely voters in New Hampshire (300 interviews were completed in each Congressional District). The interviews were conducted from October 14 through October 16, 2002....

<p>CONCORD, N.H. (AP) A poll published Saturday said New Hampshire's U.S. Senate race is much closer than a different poll two days earlier indicated.</p> <p>The new Research 2000 poll had Republican John E. Sununu up by 4 percentage points over Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. An American Research Group poll released Thursday had Sununu ahead by 21 points.</p>

John Harrigan: Stirring pot with simple fishing column By JOHN HARRIGAN Woods, Water and Wildlife IF YOU really want to stir the pot, write something about smallmouth bass invading a trout pond, and the moral aspects of "reclamation," i.e., poisoning. That was the theme of last week's column, the discovery of smallmouth bass in Pittsburg's famed Back Lake being the example. A longtime reader from Exeter posted the column in the New England Sportsman Network's Web site chat room. By the time I looked at the site Wednesday, 41 highly opinionated people had chimed in, in addition to the 29...

John Harrigan: ‘Reclaiming’ ponds is dirty word to some You’re fishing your favorite trout pond, one you’ve fished for 50 years, and suddenly something hits your fly trolling back there 70 feet or so, and you drift while you strip your line in. And there on the hook is not a trout, but a smallmouth bass, about as welcome in this scenario as a skunk at a picnic. There is a great dichotomy among people who love to fish. On one side are people who think warm-water species — pickerel, bass, perch — are the greatest thing since sliced bread....

NASHUA – Competition is a way to raise educational standards in the nation’s schools, but it should only be competition between public schools, said congressional hopeful Katrina Swett. While opposing the use of public tax dollars to pay for private religious schools, Swett acknowledged that the push for vouchers is a reflection of parents’ dissatisfaction with how their children are educated. “The voucher movement has grown in response to a bona fide crisis,” Swett said in an interview. But she praised public schools for creating an “egalitarian” spirit in the country and said vouchers could “further weaken public schools.” Last...