The Evening Blues - 1-13-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 1:36pmHey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features jazz and blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon. Enjoy!
Jimmy Witherspoon - Going'to Kansas City
This evening's music features jazz and blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon. Enjoy!
Jimmy Witherspoon - Going'to Kansas City
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell
Remember when VP Biden made the "gaffe" of telling the truth about Turkey and Saudi Arabia aiding terrorists?
It's the unwritten rule of diplomacy to never speak the truth.
The Department of Health and Human Services has added a new page to HealthCare.gov directly addressing issues facing transgender people accessing health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Thursday January 13, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: The Life of the Tenant Farmer
In this month's edition of the Review, W. W. Pannell describes the life of the tenant farmer, how tenant farmers are manufactured, and the deep pit of debt in which they and their families struggle to survive:
Tenant Farming in the United States
By W. W. PANNELL
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Tenant Farmers Levi and Beulah Stewart with children,
CIR Hearings at Dallas, March 1915
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Really, it's time. Even Bernie Sanders is talkin' 'bout a revolution. It's legal and not at all scary, though the government's though control police have been splitting skulls and worse for longer than anybody can remember in an attempt to keep the lid on. But, hell, they shoot and kill people just for being uppity, or insufficiently subservient, so there is no extra penalty involved in being out there.
Good Morning 99%'ers. I have been struggling with what direction this series would head as I waded deeper and deeper into the issues and potential causes of police brutality and the rising number of people being killed by the police.
Obama is an Open Failure, as a president and as a human being. In the 8 years of his Administration he has delivered on hardly a single promise he has made during his campaigns and in his State of the Union addresses.
Wanting a conversation beyond politics; I do. Vignettes.
You probably didn't know that you had a threat rating, but you probably do. It's just like a credit score, but instead of determining whether you get a car loan, it may determine whether the cops will shoot you or not.
This evening's music features soul singer Joe Tex. Enjoy!
Joe Tex - Show Me/Green, Green Grass of Home/Papa Was Too