The Evening Blues - 3-18-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 03/18/2016 - 3:53pmHey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features The King of the Blues, B.B. King. Enjoy!
BB King - Why I Sing The Blues
This evening's music features The King of the Blues, B.B. King. Enjoy!
BB King - Why I Sing The Blues
“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms."
- Philip K. Dick
As an Admin. for Street Prophets and Shamrock American Kossacks I have ties over at Daily Kos that I really can't break. I must say however all of us at Street Prophets really miss having our own space on the web and not being tied to Daily Kos. We were shut down when DK4 took place. A lot of promises were made but none kept. Ojibwa made sure I stayed by making me an Admin.
So, what do I do besides bodysurfing? (Perhaps I will do a diary on b-surfing, "The Anti-Capitalist Wave-riding (tm)," if anyone is interested.
Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Foundation has named four transgender women who should be declared International Heroes for Women's History Month.
Just as we can’t limit the celebration of women across the world to just a single day, we can’t limit the great potential of women to boxes. Today, we do more than just celebrate the great women trailblazers who fulfilled roles historically dominated by men. Today, we also celebrate the women who created their own roles and bettered life for their own communities from the inside out.
Wow, I wrote a yuge diary yesterday about why Clinton would lose the general election (see below)
http://caucus99percent.com/content/why-hillary-clinton-will-lose-general...
I’ve been on Team Gandalf ever since he first visited the Shire. It was so nice to see a wizard who was truly a wizard of the people. The kind of wizard who wouldn’t even throw you in a dungeon for smoking a little Longbottom Leaf or Old Toby. Here was a wizard who didn’t have a big fancy tower. His staff and cloak were rather plain and grey. And he had quite a dream, didn’t he?
I attended my precinct caucus in Minnesota on Super Tuesday. In fact, I was a Bernie Sanders Caucus Captain. Bernie took my county, Hubbard, with 55% of the vote, compared to Clinton's 45%. At our caucus, delegates to the county convention were chosen. Last Saturday was the county convention.
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Saturday December 18, 1916
From The Masses: "Do You Believe in Patriotism?" Part II
In the March issue of The Masses, various Socialist writers responded to the question, "Do you believe in Patriotism?" Yesterday Hellraisers featured the answers to that question from two prominent Socialists women, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Sara Bard Field. Today's edition features the responses of John Sloan and Charles Erskine Scott Wood:
From John Sloan
If I had to love a country I could love no country but this, nor could I find a fitter one to hate.
I put Patriotism with the other isms,-Militarism, Anarchism, Capitalism, Individualism, Socialism, Dogmatism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Rheumatism (I had almost written Catechism), but I am answering your question. I hope that social progress will eliminate all isms-though in the case of Futurism we have a hard one to catch.
Patriotism licks the boot of capitalism and until the earth-worms get the latter's carcass, he will need patriots. As the wage system will never enable the people of any country to consume all their products with a profit to the owning class, foreign markets are a necessity to be fought for. Patriotism is a potent means of providing the fighters. Conscription is another powerful persuader and Our Country has both (see Dick military law passed by congress in 1903 and 1908).
Just experimenting with the "open thread" concept.
This one is meant to post the odd thing... it can be fun, insane, puzzling. It can be "what the fuck" that's fabulous! or terrible enough to make you cry. or funny even though we shouldn't be laughing. it can be anything that's . . . just a bit off.
Like this wonderful WTF, a story of a 5-year-old girl and her duck. Enjoy: