Gibson Musical Instrument Corp. CEO Henry Juszkiewicz will be at President Obama’s “Jobs” speech tonight, to remind His Excellency and the assembled, adoring media that the Administration’s politicized, idiotic policies – enforcing an arcane Indian law – are going to cost the company millions of dollars, and if followed through will cost the Nashville area 40 skilled, high-paying manufacturing jobs.
Close-up of the new re-issue "Eric Clapton 1960 Les Paul". Hint, Santa.
In solidarity with Gibson, I’ll supply them some free advertising.
Indian Freaking Rosewood, Administration Byatches!
I do endorse Gibson guitars (although, to be fair, most guitar players do – even lifelong Fender guys like me; I finally took the plunge on a Gibson product last year, and yeah, it’s niiiice).
Oooh - Gibson provides jobs all over the world!
Gateway Pundit writes:
Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz told reporters today that the federal raid on the popular American guitar maker will cost the company $10,000,000. Juszkiewicz also said that he will attend Obama’s big spending jobs speech tomorrow in Washington DC.
Is that a gorgeous piece of work or what? It sounds even better than it looks. And guess what? Yep - made in the USA. One of those "American Manufacturing Jobs" that lefties are constantly barbering about. Outsource this? Why not outsource guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns to the Pakistani military, while you're at it?
Attorney General Eric Holder said the raid on the Gibson was not political.
And if you believe Holder you are an idiot here’s an excellent Fox News clip summing up the entire story so far.
Remember – the CEO of Martin guitars (sorry – while they make gorgeous guitars, and I also own a Martin product, they get no free ads from me), which builds guitars out of exactly the same Indian-grown, American-finished rosewood as Gibson, which is not illegal under US law and only vaguely-sanctioned under Indian law, is a big Democrat contributor.
A Gibson ES335. A favorite of both jazz musicians and loud rockers who like the ES' excellent feedback characteristics.
Of course, Gibson is just one of many such stories – companies being harried, money being confiscated, jobs being destroyed by our rapacious, power-mad bureaucracy.
Yep, there's parts, too. This is a Gibspon "Soap Bar". I have one sunk into the middle position of my Fender Jazz, wired out of phase with the bridge pickup; when they play together, it sounds more like Mark Knopfler's Strat (think "Sultans of Swing") than Mark Knopfler's Strat does.
I’m working to get Mr. Juskiewicz on the Northern Alliance one of these next few weekends. Keep your fingers crossed; if you’re a fan of limited government or music, it’ll be a great chat.
I thought Clapton only played a Strat. Huh.
A blind man could have realized that Holder was lying! These morons are so transparent and are repeating the same tactics that they used to determine which Chrysler and GM dealers to eliminate! Fury Motors in St. Paul, whose owners said that they have supported both sides over the years, was one of those slated for closure. They must have won their battle, because they are still operating.
Foot,
Since the late ’70s, he’s been mostly associated with Strats, and has built most of his sound around ’em.
But from his Cream years through probably Delaney and Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos and much of his pre-Slowhand solo stuff, he was big into Les Pauls.
And apparently SGs too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqh54rSzheg
And here he is in 1969 playing what appears to be a Tele:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUW1SGF7bR8&feature=related
Bonus: Hippies dancing arhythmically.
I thought that only happened at Grateful Dead concerts.
For a moment I envisioned hippies dancing arithmetically and wondered if that’s how The Wave got started at sports stadiums.
The Wave is an obvious example of either group think or mass hysteria. I’m not sure which.
This is the administration in which the Waves began to recede.
You need a picture of Emmy Lou’s Gibson. Beautiful, though not quite as beautiful as she.
Earlier I was listening to WLS Chicago and the host Roe Conn(?), was interviewing a Chicagoland businessman who will be a guest of Speaker Boehner at the speech tonight. This man came to the attention of Boehner when he wrote a letter complaining that his $25Million in sales metals business is currently paying $700K/year in health insurance costs and his insurance agent has told him to expect a 10% increase each year as Obamacare is fully implemented. He is there to represent the victims of The One and the Democratic Congress that passed this business/job killing legislation last year.
Why is it I doubt he will get the sympathetic coverage that a 10th year grad school student who saw her grant to study the mating habits of homosexual dung beetle get cut would have received during a Bush speech?
Forcing corporations to obey the law makes wingnuts sad. 🙁
Not enforcing the law equally makes Bozo happy.
They let Angry Clown out of his cage so he could cheer the president’s speech.
He wants to be an engineer on one of those bullet trains that will soon be speeding across America — if those mean ol’ Republicans will borrow Obama the money he needs to build them!
Forcing corporations to obey the law makes wingnuts sad.
I did not realize USA is responsible for enforcing Indian (dot not feather – for AC only) laws.