CPAC speaker sparks alarm with call for trans people to be ‘eradicated’

Honestly, this is the sort of thinking that brings the Church Lady to mind:

Afternoon folks!

Well, there's a bunch of good stuff this week. Surprise! Blues harmonica player Junior Parker leads off, followed by Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal album that I posted last week was a double album package and I got around to posting the second album "De Old Folks At Home" this week, it's acoustic guitar and banjo blues for the most part. If you listened to the first album (Giant Step) last week, you can click through the first 9 tunes to get to the new album.

After that there's a bunch of 50's Chicago blues from John Brim and Little Hudson who recorded back then for the JOB label - I'll be loading some more cuts from this album later Saturday evening. Following that is a mid-70's Roy Buchanan album, a David Lindley album, a kind of proggish/avant garde album from Adrian Belew, a decidedly proggy Return To Forever album and we finish up with a late 60's album by Fat Mattress - a kind of folk-rock band formed by the Jimi Hendrix Experience's bass player Noel Redding.

Enjoy!

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Flexibility is the key to working in the garden this time of year. It has been a week of moderately warm days and cold nights. This side of the mountains has not received the volumes of snow reported in the news. The beds by the house are waking up, a few weeds are sprouting and found a yellow crocus in bloom while weeding. Became a little to enthusiastic and dug up the irises which were scheduled to move last summer to a drier location. Their future bed just on the other side of the driveway was frozen solid. To create a hole would need the rock hammer and chisel. New plan required. Snow started just as the last rhizome was going into the soil. Only 6 weeks until irrigation season starts.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Remember that? I had to memorize the Declaration of Independence back in grade school. Then I had to recite it in full in front of the class. We all did, I bet you did too. I wonder if that is still taught in school today? Or has the Declaration of Independence been censored too.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were meant to be unalienable rights, I used the word "were" because I don't know if they are still tenable or not. As far as that goes I'm not sure that "rights" are a thing anymore either. Unalienable rights are kind of a quaint notion in light of how quickly the world has changed in just a few short years don't you think?

Unalienable rights are rights that, no matter what happens, may never be taken away from an individual. As long as you toe the line, an arbitrary line at that.

Daniel Ellsberg diagnosed with cancer.

So far as I can find out, this scientific near-consensus has had virtually no effect on the Pentagon’s nuclear war plans or US/NATO (or Russian) nuclear threats.

Ask any Republican and they'll say that they are losing the culture war in practically every battle.
Are they right?

According to Republicans it's liberals who are on the offensive, and the things they are pushing are unpopular and will alienate working class America.