I have a walk of windows around my bedroom. 7 facing S then W. No curtains, I live in the woods. And I do not tolerate much light when sleeping, even my clock is push-to-illuminate. So before 6, moon to the W. Thus, dancing, I got up.

I do hope that is digitally remastered. And cleaned up. Mr. Moog lived across the Lake from me. I have or had this LP, some have been sold, the music died with my husband. AH, Trumpet Voluntary! Sweet!

my niece and my friend's grandson are born this day. My niece in 1962, the grandson in 2011. Big day for them!

Hard to believe 2016 is almost done. What a wild ride it has been - from the get-go! What will 2017 have in store? Hmm....

Have a beautiful day, everyone!

She was married to Stan Fike, Stu Symington's AA the entire time that Symington was in the Senate.

The Fikes were nothing like modern Washington players even though Symington was a powerful Senator. They lived in a modest little house in Silver Spring in which several of her brother's paintings hung. Stan was a Latter Day Saint (not Mormon, exactly), so there was no drinking or smoking in the household. Retiring when Symington retired, he never made the fabulous sums people in his position make now when they pass through the revolving door. Having had the privilege to get to know Fike pretty well, he would never have dreamed of profiting off his public service.

HenryWallace's essay re: Harry Truman has me thinking about Missourians from a different era who had a very different understanding of what it meant to be a public servant.

Won in a landslide, total surveillance of all cannabis everywhere in California. Meh.
http://www.thecannifornian.com/cannabis-news/pilot-pot-tracking-project-eyed-model-state/

With this weeks passage of Proposition 64, all marijuana products hoping to hit shelves and display cases in California will eventually be tracked and traced by the state government, but the test so far has been whether the system will work for a well-established cultivation industry.

In that regard, Humboldt County is acting as the state’s first guinea pig after it began the first track-and-trace pilot program in August. The county’s tracking system is now being eyed as a model for the state and even other countries. So far, the participating cannabis businesses and government officials are finding it to be working in their favor.

LOL just what the world needs, happy oligarchy happy investors. Medicated populace, it could be worse I guess. Maybe my neighbors addicted to opioids will find relief with cannabis. Hope springs eternal.

Peace

I haven't been online for a bit as it's way too painful and makes me mad, literally. Partisan politics are nothing but internecine infighting among the party factions who lost with good reason. With all this Chicken Little'ing about The Hairball and the R's being the end of the world the fact that The Mad Bomber and the Demorat's winning would have been better is delusional. Democratic 11th dimensional chess is once again the mode the so called left see's as a way forward. Rehashing the same old partisan Red vs. Blue ground over and over only empowers the entrenched ruling class. Our revolution my ass.

When Chuck Schumer starts endorsing a 'progressive' like Ellison you just know that it's a big waste of time to try to take back the party, either one. I realize it's too early after such a stunningly bizarre display of thugs vs. thugs that they had the nerve to call an election to grasp the fact that the Democratic Party is not a viable vehicle or democratic and means us all harm. So does the lunatic RW. What's so hard to grasp about a duopoly? A lot of people did not vote because they knew so why are so many Caucus99percent'ers touting the Bern and the lame progressives as the next 11th dimensional Democratic savior?

I look at the world and see people outside the gates of USA, USA,USA partisan politics standing up to the horrific 1% global rule. Where where all these current Trump protestors during BLM, Occupy or NoDAPL or any of the movements globally that are trying to stop this shit? Such misplaced fear. I'm not going to participate in the blame game or the game of pretend that tries to fix the Democratic party from within. It has no redeeming value and is a sham regardless of what level city, state or federal the so called progressive Democrat's run as candidates in.

Who cares when it get's to a point where all sides including the so called Dem. progressives refuse to stand up and actually fight tptb? War is peace and ignorance is strength. Calls for civility coming from the criminal political perpetrators including the 4th estate is absurd. Acquiescence to this 'inevitable' world as we find it seems pathetic in the light of what is being done. I mean who cares which asshole the Davos crowd and their chest thumping war/ death monkeys decide is going to be the leader of us. 'Were So Screwed- 2016' We've been screwed for a long long time and Bernie and the so called progressives are not going to put this Humpty back together again. Why would they they broke it and called it victories for compromise. The 'esteemed colleagues' who caucus with the devil and call it Yankee Doodle Dandy.

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Thanks EL I always enjoy your Monday number riffs.