Today I am going to be traveling so I will not be able to respond to comments on this thread until late today. This will be a truly Open Thread. But while you are contemplating what you want to post, I am going to post a little music courtesy of one of my favorite song writers/musicians, Darrell Scott. While many of you may have never heard of Darrell Scott, I suspect some of you are familiar with his songs.

This evening's music features Texas blues and boogie-woogie piano player Dave Alexander aka Omar Sharriff.

This evening's music features soul singer Laura Lee.

I have been underground for the winter blues and have not been around helping to build the site. Sorry, just too much on my plate. It was with great pleasure to see that Pluto had joined us. I want to use this diary to respond in some ways to Pluto's Republic's (that's a hard spelling nut) two essays:

http://www.caucus99percent.com/content/americas-mein-kampf-%E2%80%94-20-years-later

Folks, Please make sure the images you use are not copyrighted. I just received this email and promptly deleted the image in question:

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Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Arlo Guthrie.

20,000+ Police March In Force Against G7 Protests in Germany
Though more than 20,000 police officers were deployed to keep voice of the people away from powerful leaders, the critiques offered by demonstrators appear highlighted by the enormous efforts made to silence them

here I am. just back from a long bike ride and tired but wanted to say hello and thanks for the invite . . . and hello to you and all the gang.

the place looks great, friendly. will stay longer next time.

xxoo... peef