Corruption In Big Sky Country – the COPP

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Tom Balek Aside 4

Only in Montana could the incumbent ruling party be judge, jury and executioner of any candidate from the other side who dares to run against them.

The Montana Commission of Political Practices – COPP (or as I call them, the Corrupt Office of Partisan Politics) must be blown up and redesigned. The first step is to approve House Bill HJ1, which calls for “an interim study of the structure and duties of the office of the Commission Of Political Practices.” Failing a reorganization, the legislature must refuse to re-confirm political hack Jim Murry as commissioner.

The COPP is charged with administering Montana’s laws and regulations pertaining to ethics, lobbying, and campaign finance. That sounds like a noble and necessary function. The problem is, the commissioner is appointed by, and serves at the behest of, the incumbent governor. Current commissioner Jim Murry was appointed by Governor Brian Schweitzer. Murry, the former head of the Montana AFL/CIO, Schweitzer campaign finance chairman, and a long-time leading Democrat apparatchik, was touted by Schweitzer as having “years of labor management and bipartisan experience”.

AFL/CIO head and Schweitzer money man – that’s about as bipartisan as you can get. What do you think are the chances any Republican accused of any transgression will get a fair shake before the COPP?

The sponsor of HJ1, JoAnne Blyton (R-HD59), expressed concern that the small COPP staff is overworked, citing the “lengthy backlogs of complaints that don’t get resolved.”

One of those many backlogged complaints was the trumped-up case against Ken Miller, 2012 Republican candidate for governor – a case study of the grotesque and transparently political antics of the COPP.

Miller is a no-nonsense guy who ran a no-frills campaign. Unlike most candidates for the governor’s chair, Miller did not have deep-pocket political connections, or much in the way of financial support from his party. He invested his family’s savings and put 100,000 miles on the family sedan, criss-crossing the state, shaking hands, and picking up small contributions from working-class Montanans who shared his conservative values. His grass-roots message resonated and if he won the nomination, he would have been a serious threat to the Democrats’ gubernatorial hopes.

Early in Miller’s campaign, an ambitious political wannabe, Kelly Bishop, sought to be his running mate. Unqualified for that position, she accepted a commissioned fund-raising job, but that, too, was beyond her ability, and she was released. Her parting shot at Miller was a call to the COPP office to see if there was any way she could squeeze some money from the campaign on her way out. Commissioner Murry smelled blood and invited Bishop to “file a complaint”, even though she had no specific allegations.

Murry then launched his attack on Miller, alleging violations that were all either disproved or corrected. All were inconsequential and would serve no purpose to Miller, even if true.

Four days before the primary election the COPP released its “findings” of unreported contributions to the press only hours after e-mailing them to Miller, who was on the road campaigning. Before Miller even knew what happened, news outlets all over the state had reported that he was found guilty of a number of violations.

The Miller camp compared their records with the COPP’s and were shocked to find that the “missing” records were clearly displayed on the COPP’s own website. The charges were blatantly false.

Miller held a press conference at the state Capitol, refuting every charge,and pointing to the COPP’s own website data as proof that the allegedly missing contributions were clearly reported. The media was largely disinterested, and only one correspondent mentioned the event. Murry’s tactic had succeeded – the damage was done.

The next day Murry said that if the Miller campaign could prove their defense, he would retract the charges. Miller threatened legal action, but nothing could restore the voters’ confidence only one day before the primary. It was the old “October surprise” trick.

In the aftermath, Murry retracted all of his first findings, and issued a new set of allegations, equally untrue and/or insignificant. He did not question or sanction any other candidates, although their reports contained errors and violations, according to the COPP’s website. Murry made a half-hearted offer of settlement, but the amount of the fine was so unaffordable, and the stench of the corruption so pungent, that Miller found no alternative to filing suit against the COPP and Murry.

41 states currently have political practices commissions which are operated in non-partisan fashion. Let’s hope 2013 is the year that Montana joins them.

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

Liar, Liar
Pants on fire!
Your nose is longer than
A telephone wire!

Garage band classic – Liar, Liar by the Castaways

The End of Football – and Hillary?

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard 2

nfl-collision I played high school football in small-town Montana. I wasn’t particularly good at it, but I loved the sport. To this day I and my family, like most Americans, spend a good chunk of our time and money following the monsters of the midway. Football has become more than a pastime – it is a juggernaut industry, and until recently its meteoric growth in popularity seemed limitless. But I digress . . .

It was a kickoff play, and I was the “contain” guy on the end. My job was to make sure the kick returner did not get outside of me and have a clear path down the sideline. He caught the kick near the sideline, on my side of the field. I was barreling down the sideline, full speed, and the returner motored straight toward me. Yep, it was a full-speed, head-on train wreck.

We were both seeing stars and, with assistance, wobbled off to our respective benches. But the cobwebs cleared in a few minutes, and we were soon right back in the game.

And that is what will be the end of football.

A four-year study was recently completed on the effects of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). Scientists studied the brains of 85 deceased athletes and soldiers, mostly football players. They discovered that serious brain damage was not always the result of one or more major concussions; it is just as likely caused by repeated, smaller jolts to the noggin.

While professional boxers were commonly “punch drunk” after their careers, most of us were not aware of the devastating effects of CTE until we saw Muhammad Ali reduced to a mumbling zombie at a relatively young age. There were sad stories in professional football, like Mike Webster, who suffered, among other injuries, amnesia, dementia, and depression from his later football years until his death at the age of 50.

As players get bigger and faster (largely thanks to steroids) the hits become progressively more devastating. Many successful players have had their careers shortened by concussions, and the inevitable lawsuit barrage has begun. Junior Seau, star linebacker with the Chargers, committed suicide in May, and CTE was implicated.

The “concussion crisis” is threatening the game itself, at every level. Two Pop Warner kids’ coaches were suspended when five boys reportedly suffered concussions in the early minutes of one game.

While there is little doubt that CTE exists and has wreaked havoc on the lives of many sufferers, there is also the likelihood that it will serve as a handy excuse for a variety of bad decisions. When Jovan Belcher of the Chiefs shot his girlfriend and then himself earlier this month, some were quick to blame CTE.

hillary And when Hillary Clinton was called to testify before Congress about her baffling failure to prevent, mitigate, or correctly report the murder of our Libyan ambassador and those who attempted to protect him at Benghazi, she declined to appear, invoking the “concussion” defense. She reportedly fainted from dehydration and hit her head, although she did not seek medical attention.

I’m going to miss football, but there’s a silver lining. Next time I forget my wedding anniversary, or throw my socks in the laundry hamper inside out, I’ll just explain, “Honey, remember that football game when I was a sophomore . . . ?”

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

Don’t you know it hit me like a hammer
Hit me like a ton of lead
You know it hit me like a hammer
You know it hit me, baby

Hit Me Like A Hammer – Huey Lewis

Huh?

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard 12

Why do Detroit parents allow their teachers to take instruction days off to protest union matters when only 4% of their students are proficient in math and 7% in language arts?
Why does my small Montana town have “Essential Air Service” taxpayer subsidies costing thousands of dollars per airline ticket when we average only one passenger per day? (Lewistown News Argus 12/8/2012)
Why doesn’t the number of administrative employees decrease in government offices, due to improved technology and communication, as it does in the private sector?
How can our nation afford all the countless grants our cities and counties are receiving every day for frivolous projects in light our staggering debt?
Why is military pay so pathetic?
How can we expect citizens to make good financial and voting decisions, and contribute to our national standard of living, when our K-12 schools provide no economic education?
Why aren’t airplanes boarded in order by window seat, middle seat, and then aisle seat?
Why do liberals think it is abusive to expect women to buy their own birth control, but are okay with genital mutilation, oppression, and murder of women by Muslims?
Why don’t senators let our military close and sell base properties that they don’t need or want?
Why does the Obama administration consider a couple who makes $250k per year “rich”, yet an individual is not rich until he or she earns $200k per year? (Fewer couples are married now anyway – shouldn’t single “rich” be “$125k? Or shouldn’t married “rich” be $400k?)
Why does the federal reserve think that keeping interest rates near zero is a good thing? Should people be punished for saving money?
Why are we concerned about minor skirmishes in the Middle East but we ignore deaths by the thousands in neighboring Mexico?
Why do liberals have no problem with actors and athletes making millions of dollars, but are indignant when a business owner or executive does?
If liberal rich guys think they should pay more taxes, why don’t they just write a check?
After labeling the Bush tax cuts as “only for the rich” for all these years, why do liberals now insist on keeping the Bush tax cuts mostly in place? Are they admitting that the evil tax cuts helped everybody?
What is the benefit to the United States of giving more F-16 fighter jets to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?

Just askin’.

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

I’d like to know,
Can you tell me — please don’t tell me
It really doesn’t matter anyhow

Questions 67 and 68 – Chicago

We Were Takin’ Care of Business

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard Reply

beatrice_memorial I spent a good part of my early career working for one of America’s greatest businesses – Beatrice Companies. For most of us in Montana and the western U.S., the face of Beatrice was Meadow Gold Dairies. While the Meadow Gold brand still exists in some areas, Beatrice is long gone.

The Beatrice story is classic, from its birth in 1894 as a small creamery in Beatrice, Nebraska, to its zenith in the 1980s as a huge multinational corporation encompassing companies and brands such as Avis, Playtex, Culligan, Tropicana, Airstream, Peter Pan, and many other household names. The company’s ultimate demise was rapid, and the cause has always been pretty much a secret.

A Beatrice manager with a stellar record became CEO in 1980. According to my very reliable sources at the corporate office in Chicago, he became mentally unstable shortly after taking the reins, and the rock-solid management corp at the top crumbled rapidly. His actions were erratic, his decisions bizarre – certainly not consistent with the buttoned-down, well-disciplined playbook that had worked so well for almost a century, or with his own management record. The company’s consistent growth and profits began to wane, and in 1986 Beatrice was acquired in a hostile takeover. In a leveraged buyout funded by the sale of “junk bonds”, it was split up and sold, and the over-funded defined benefit plans were plundered. I left the company just as the final axe fell.

There are many life lessons to be learned from the Beatrice saga. The Beatrice business methods and philosophy were “old school” and tremendously effective. Every Beatrice manager learned:

Hire good people, and treat them well. Allow them to share in the success. They will be loyal, responsible, and productive.
Promote and move your managers between locations. They will take the best attributes of their previous company and add them to the strengths of their new company.
There are no short cuts. The details of the business are where the money is made.
Accounting and controls are vital. Count everything. Never allow an opportunity for someone to get in trouble.
Quality is never sacrificed, but the path to profitability is to be the low-cost producer.
Competition is a good thing – it allows those who work the hardest to succeed. And profit is the result of planning and hard work, not luck.

Using these guiding principles, the company grew and thrived. We were always challenged to improve performance, and were rewarded when we did. The lessons I learned from Beatrice served me well for the rest of my business career.

In today’s dismal economic environment, when we all question whether our nation’s best days are behind us, I take comfort in my memories of Beatrice Companies. Profit is not evil, it is the life blood of our economy, and the source of wealth. The “old school” business formula worked – for employees, for employers, and for the nation. It will still work, if we don’t screw it up by throwing roadblocks in the way.

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

And we’ve been takin’ care of business, every day!
Takin’ care of business, every way.
We’ve been takin’ care of business – it’s all mine!
Takin’ care of business, workin’ overtime.

Takin’ Care of Business – Bachman Turner Overdrive

Profit! What a Concept!

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard 3

GoodJob I recently visited with a high school “job coach”. This instructor works with local businesses who provide part-time jobs for students to give them an introduction to the working world. Many years ago as a high school business teacher I had a similar program – back then it was called “distributive education.” I found it to be a great learning experience for my students, and some moved right into good jobs with their sponsor employers upon graduation.

I asked the job coach what kind of preparation the student receives before embarking on the job. It was not a trick question, but the teacher was caught by surprise, and really didn’t have an answer. I admitted that my recent experience with school jobs programs as an employer had not been very enjoyable. The student-workers I was assigned were arrogant, lazy, and not really interested in learning anything. It may have just been the luck of the draw. I did my best to get them on track.

At the end of our visit, I offered a suggestion to the instructor. Having been on both ends of the equation – as an employer and a job coach – I think the most important wisdom one can impart to a student, or any job seeker, is an understanding of why a business exists. Most students (and adults for that matter) when asked “why is that grocery store there?” will answer “because we need food.”

And there lies the problem.

I gave my new job coach friend the correct answer: that grocery store exists to make a profit for its owner or investors, who seek to feed their families and improve their standards of living.

It’s a subtle, but important distinction. Yes, we need food. But that doesn’t mean someone else is required to give it to us. Free markets only work when each of us offers something of value to someone else. We must all be producers of wealth or added value. Those who succeed understand this concept clearly. Want to make $5 million a year throwing a baseball? You had better be good enough that people will fork over big bucks to watch you. Do you want to own a business? You’ll do great as long as you offer what a customer wants to buy, at the right price.

Do you want to have a job? Then you had better understand that the only reason someone else will pay you is if you help them make a profit.

And that was my suggestion to the job coach. “Make sure your student goes to the job with the knowledge that his or her purpose is to make money for the employer. And that employers share their profit with their employees – the more you contribute to profit, the more you will be rewarded. The employer owes you nothing, but he is always looking for somebody who will help him make money. When you both are making more money, and spending it, the economy grows and everybody does well.”

A light bulb lit above the job coach’s head. “Why, I never thought of that! What a great idea!”

Yes, it’s a great idea. It used to be what made the world go around. Some may think it’s “old school”, but I’ll put my money on free enterprise, supply and demand any day of the week.

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

Big Time, I’m on my way, I’m making it,
Big Time, I’ve got to make it show yeah!
Big Time, so much larger than life,
Big Time, I’m gonna watch it growing!
Big Time, my car is getting bigger!
Big Time, my house is getting bigger!

Big Time – Peter Gabriel

One of the quirkiest, and most popular, videos ever!

EPA Puts Bicyclists On Endangered Species List

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard 5

I pulled out of the Costco parking lot in Helena and stopped at the stoplight.

“Geez,” I exclaimed to my wife. “Look at all the painted lines through this intersection.” Cars whizzed by left and right as we waited out the light, blinking and screeching and zooming through at the last second, or even a little late. It was barely-organized chaos. I looked to my left, and there was a narrow lane with a bicycle icon – RUNNING RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF A SIX-BY-SIX LANE BUSY INTERSECTION.

I was startled. I tried to picture riding a bike through that mess. Heck, driving a car through there is practically suicidal. What kind of moron would take that chance on a bike? For that matter, what kind of moron designed the bike lane? And how many days of the year can you ride a bike in Helena, anyway?

Welcome to the crazy world of AGENDA 21, under the innocuous title “Complete Streets”. It has taken root in most cities in Montana and across the country.

While you were asleep, or watching football, or shopping, your city leaders were feverishly studying the Agenda 21 and ICLEI guidelines set out by the United Nations and a worldwide network of socialists. They don’t really know why they are doing this, but they have to keep the promises they made in exchange for a couple thousand bucks from George Soros.

Agenda 21 is a very ambitious and complicated plan. Think “We Can Change the World”. The main goal is “social justice”, where rich nations give their money to poor nations:

All states and all people shall cooperate in the essential task of eradicating poverty as an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, in order to decrease the disparities in standards of living and better meet the needs of the majority of the people of the world. – (Agenda 21 – Principle 5)

In order to make more of our wealth available to transfer to the poor nations, we rich nations need to cut back on extravagances, like driving around in cars. That’s where “Complete Streets” comes in. If we ride bikes instead of driving cars, then we will have left-over money to send to the Congo so they can drive cars. Plus, we will create less pollution, so that all the new cars in China won’t need expensive smog controls.

As a Montanan, it’s hard for me to understand the merits of these crazy bike lanes. So I put on my Socialist Cap and tried thinking “globally.”

I considered that if more bike riders are killed, it reduces the pressure humans are putting on Mother Earth. Yeah, that’s it! That’s why we need bike lanes!

But wait, that would reduce the number of Democrat voters. Hmmm.

I’ll have to think about this some more.

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

There’s too many ahead of me
They’re all tryin’ to get in front of me
I thought I could find a clear road ahead
But I found stoplights instead

Expressway To Your Heart – the Soul Survivors

Sick of the USA? Let’s Move to Guernsey!

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard 2

Ah, the digital age. From the middle of nowhere, with a few strokes of my keyboard, I can reach and influence people from . . . well, another middle of nowhere.

Today I glanced at the hit statistics for my blog site. As always, most of my hits are from the United States. A few from Canada, Australia, and the UK. And the usual smattering of others from assorted spots around the globe.

Today, I got a hit from the nation of Guernsey!

What, you never heard of Guernsey? Well I have. There was a little news item about Guernsey a month or so back, and somehow I saw it, and it registered about 18k of information in a deep, dark crevice of my ever-shrinking grey matter.

I remembered reading that there is this little island off the coast of England, where the main industry is selling business and shipping licenses to people who don’t want to be under the thumb of any other recognized government. They have a radio station, some cows, a few pubs of course, and I remembered they have a really neat sovereign gold coin. They act like Brits, but are really an independent nation.

That’s about all the info you can fit in 18k.

So when I saw that I actually got a hit from Guernsey, I did a web search and discovered their really cool little website. I found that their government is mainly by committees of the states, and they choose a Chief Executive of the States.

Now I think I have about 21k of knowledge in there.

Anyway, if – after the election – you have had it with the United States, and can’t think of any place you want to move to, give some thought to Guernsey.

Or, alternatively, if we Montanans decide to secede from the United States, maybe we could go to Guernsey and take notes.

Anybody know how to milk a cow?

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

We gotta get out of this place
If it’s the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
Girl, there’s a better life for me and you

We Gotta Get Out Of This Place – the Animals

Life In The Banana Republic

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard Reply

Back in the day we watched action adventure movies about Americans traveling in exotic far-flung countries. It was so very foreign to our small-town Montana sensibilities – the drugs, the shady intrigue, the beautiful women. There was poverty and danger around every corner, and it seemed that nothing could be accomplished in these mysterious places without paying off some government official.

We called them “banana republics” – countries where life was tough, the government was corrupt, and only those with connections, wit, and maybe weapons avoided an unhappy fate.

We were enthralled with tense scenes from places where the government was all about secrets and raw, cold power; where ordinary citizens hid behind gray walls and doors, afraid of making some political “hit” list. Everyone was poor – except those who worked for the government or had connections. Personal success was just a distant dream, as winners and losers were chosen by the powerful.

It could never happen here. We have checks and balances, and a president couldn’t just make laws, seize property and control businesses without the consent of the legislature. This is America. There’s no corruption here. Our government leaders would never lie to us, or hide the truth. Besides, our news people will always tell us what’s really going on, right? And we have fair elections, where legal citizens get to choose how the government will affect their lives.

Drugs are illegal here. Aren’t they? I mean, I think they used to be.

And we don’t have to worry about people here being dirt poor, relying on scraps and handouts from the government. Most of our people have jobs, and own their own homes, right? We still manufacture stuff, and have plenty of our own cheap energy for our cars and houses, and everybody has a bright future here. We still go to church on Sunday and take care of our neighbors and families. Don’t we?

I’m sure glad we live in America, and not in one of those banana republics. We have nothing to worry about here, let’s just party on. Let’s have another joint. Wanna dance?

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

They’re pickin’ up the prisoners
And puttin em in a pen
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
Rebels been rebels
Since I don’t know when
And all she wants to do is dance

All She Wants To Do Is Dance – Don Henley

I Marked Dozens of Ballots

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard 4

On election night, I worked at the vote tabulator machine in our county courthouse for ten hours. The machine was a total disaster.

I was supposed to be an election “watcher”, keeping an eye on how things were working as part of our voter integrity project. But our county’s ES&S 650 tabulator machine was so dysfunctional that I, and two other election “judges” (one Democrat, one Republican), ended up manhandling the machine and the ballots until 2 am just to get the vote count for our county done.

Our tabulator machine jammed and rejected ballots continually. Our election official had to mark hundreds of ballots with a sharpie just to get the machine to recognize them as ballots. For a while we had bipartisan remediation teams who negotiated and fixed ballots that were poorly marked or had overvotes. When they left, we had to fix them at the machine on the fly. I personally marked dozens of ballots to make them acceptable to our tabulating machine – darkening circles, fixing cross-outs, whiting-out overvotes, etc.

Phones were ringing – our secretary of state and news media wanted final counts. Pressure mounted. Ballots flew all over. Scans and re-scans and more re-scans. By the time we finished at 2 am, we were exhausted.

We unpaid volunteers worked our butts off, and without us the count would never have been completed. Did I see any corruption? Absolutely not. Was there opportunity for corruption? Hell yes! Do I have confidence in the quality of the count? Not much. Who knows how many ballots were not counted, or were duplicate counted?

Earlier in the week, we ran a test batch of ballots through our tabulator in which nearly half the candidates and issues on the ballots were miscounted by the machine, according to triple-checked manual audits.

This year there was much attention paid to voter integrity before the election, and competing claims about whether or how much chicanery was happening at the polls. What many of us learned is that the problems are not in the front of the house. They are in the back, where the ballots are counted.

While I did not see any evidence of intentional fraud at our county, in our small town, where friends and neighbors treat each other with respect and honesty, I can’t vouch for the many other counties nationwide using the same dysfunctional ES&S 650 tabulator system. And with or without intentional vote fraud, the integrity of the process and count results is not good.

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

If you need someone to count on, count me in
Someone you can rely on through thick and thin
When you start to count the ones that you might ever doubt
If you think of counting me, count me out

Count Me In – Gary Lewis and the Playboys

If Obama Wins – Then What, Montana?

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Tom Balek Standard Reply

courtesy ConsumerBoomer.com

No fracking, drilling, or pipelines – guess what that does to our Montana and US economies – and our future?
No coal plants in the US – if we are allowed to mine coal at all, we will probably not be allowed to ship it to the coast by train to meet the huge demand for Asian coal. Coal dust blows off the train cars, you see.
Energy prices will double within a year – (see above). We will continue to subsidize wind and solar energy companies, electric car manufacturers, and other chosen “winners”, many of whom will not survive economically.
$8 per gallon gasoline within two years. Remember, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said he wants our gas price to be the same as Europe.
At least two more far-left Supreme Court Justices take the bench.
Severe restrictions on gun ownership and use (see above – Sotomayor says “the right to possess a gun is clearly not a fundamental right.”) Hunting on government land is forbidden, and is severely restricted on private land.
Health care will be expensive and rare.
Government employee unions will rule with impugnity.
Inflation will skyrocket as national debt soars and the Fed continues to print funny money.
Conservative talk radio, free speech, free internet, and Fox News are toast. The first amendment fades in our memories, like most Constitutional freedoms.
Our government will never again write a budget – as Harry Reid said, “There’s no need to have a Democratic budget in my opinion.” Budget, schmudget. They can always print more money and spend it however they want.
Obama and his administration will make life hell for everyone who opposed them. Listen to Valerie Jarrett:

…Valerie Jarrett is letting it be known that if Barack Obama secures election victory next week, there may be, quite literally, hell to pay for those who opposed him…

…Jarrett told (staff members) ‘After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time.

Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve.

There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.’

She was talking directly to about three of them. Sr. staff. And she wasn’t trying to be quiet about it at all. And they were all listening and shaking their heads and smiling while she said it…

Obama has promised revenge too. If you ever spoke out against the left, watch your back.

I could go on, but it’s more than I can bear on the night before the most important, and the closest, political race of the modern political era. There is so much at stake. We can only pray for God’s mercy at this point. It may be our last chance before prayer is outlawed.

Tom Balek – Rockin’ On the Right Side

So let’s bow our heads and pray –
with the unbelievable ZZ TOP

Have Mercy – and – Jesus Has Left Chicago