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Serious computer issues going at home. (Glad the library still works).

Good morning everyone.
Overcast and a cool 60 degrees this morning. Bracing for our first big rain tomorrow, and then a couple of days with showers. It should help with the wildfires around the PNW and start greening things up a bit.

I'll admit I was a bit irritated when the American Flag and the eagle were appropriated to glorify Trump. And I can see how the religious would have been incensed the way he blasphemed Jesus with artwork showing him to be a healing "doctor."
I never bothered with criticizing him because so many other people have that covered. But full stop right here, folks.

Tower of Lies

Seems like everything that comes out of the Donald's mouth is a lie these days. Add to that his cabinet lying time after time... whether it is Bessent saying he doesn't understand why fuel prices are rising, to Hogsbreath saying Ukraine has Russia on the run, to Lutnick saying he doesn't remember his trip to Epstein Island. It isn't just the administration. Seems most of the beltway class is addicted to lying. The media compliance facilitating the falsehoods point to the Zionist control of the MSM. None the less it seems most folks understand they are being lied to, but it is so common it has become accepted. Eventually the tower of lies will collapse under it own weight like a house of cards.

螢雪之功 (Yíng xuě zhī gōng) ( 형설지공 in Korean ). An interpretation of the four character idiom is achievement by firefly and snow. It is a reference to two Chinese classical stories in which poor children without the means for candles or lamps of some kind, study diligently in their absence. The stories are said to have originated in the Jin Dynasty. One story is that a prominent scholar Che Yin as a poor child gathered fireflies in a cloth bag and studied by their light.

Afternoon folks!

We've got a heaping helping of blues for you this week, starting off with a great album from Piano Red as Dr. Feelgood with the Interns. After that it's some harmonica fun from Charlie Musselwhite and then some soul-blues from Johnny Rawls and Otis Clay performing a tribute album of O.V. Wright tunes. Then it's on to an early Bo Diddley album followed by a folk-blues revival era album from blues piano player and guitarist Henry Townsend with Backwards Sam Firk. We finish up with a live ep from Richard Thompson.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!