Riding Donkeys!

I started reading a new book (published in 2024) a couple of days ago. It's called Hoof Beats - How Horses Shaped Human History by William T. Taylor. It's about the relationship between humans and horses as discovered recently by archaeologists and historians. It's very good. I'm only a little under half way through it, and am looking forward to the rest of the book. But it's already taught me some new and interesting things which I thought I'd share.

Da Book! From bookshop.org, link above

Federal questionnaire with 5 bullet points for last week:
1) I came in late for work to test my boss to see if he would dock me. He hadn't got there yet. I made a note in my log.
2) I spent an hour in the bathroom playing games on my phone and he didn't know I was even gone. Then I noticed he come out behind me. I made another note in my log.

...doesn't seem to be easing.

Earlier, I posted a link concerning the large allied task force that had been operating in the Philippine Sea within the last two weeks.

USS Carl Vinson To Drill with French Carrier, Japanese Destroyer Carrier

The European elite and US neocons are in panic mode over ways to keep the Ukraine proxy war going. They were in literal tears as they closed down the Munich Security Council. Macron and Starmer are headed to DC to beg their master for more war. Pepe calls them Chihuahuas, and Putin predicted they would come to heel at the foot of their master. The summit in Riyadh was a good first step at normalizing US/Russian relations. Let's hope we continue down that path. D.O.G.E. is looking dodgy to me suggesting rebating taxpayers rather than applying it to our massive debt. Perhaps they see it as a stimulus package? Kash Patel made it through the senate to be appointed head of the FBI. Let's hope he follows through on his promised transparency and document releases. Plus lots more below the fold!
European warmongers try to develop a plan to keep the war going this week...but fail to do so.

Afternoon folks!

It's a blue, blue week. Starting off we have an album from harmonica ace Little Sonny, followed by a double album delta blues compilation of Charley Patton recordings from the days of noisy 78's - there are a couple of cuts that were blocked by some German company that bought up the rights to a couple of 90+ year old tunes that should by all rights be in the public domain but for our bought-off, coin-op congress. After that there's an album of Chicago blues from multi-instrumentalist Maurice John Vaughn and a Robert Cray album. Following that we've got some John Hammond and we finish up with some reggae from Bob Marley.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!