Mm, cake they are still there. One stop I remember was The Trident where my friend washed dishes.

The ceiling mural was original to the Trident and painted by Dave Richards, creator of Janis Joplin’s infamous 1965 Porsche Cabriolet.

Working class in the 70s wasn't as bad as it is today, sorry about that. What happens when your politics stay the same as everything falls apart? This. Is why I exited:

"Our California budget is perilously balanced," said Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, the ranking Republican on the Senate budget committee. "The governor has, along with the Republicans, opted to hold the line on our spending. We cannot be getting loose with the purse in California."

In order to maintain current spending, Brown proposes cutting $3.2 billion, about half by giving schools and community colleges less than expected. He wants to stop enrolling new college students in the Middle Class Scholarships program, saving more than $30 million, cancel $300 million in previously approved upgrades to state buildings and drop a $400 million proposal for affordable housing that the Legislature rejected last year.

Dumb de dumb dumb, and if that's not enough

Brown also proposed cancelling higher payments for state-funded child care providers.

Which explains how I ended up becoming a socialist I guess, if you have to put a label on it.

The Democratic Party bases its opposition to Trump not on the social character of the new administration as a government of the oligarchs, but on disputes over foreign policy, in which the Democrats happily embrace the opportunity to adopt a neo-McCarthyite anti-Russian stance and align themselves closely with the military-intelligence apparatus.

This is because the Democratic Party too is a political instrument of the billionaires, a different variant on the same theme. Indeed, everything that Trump will implement has been prepared by the Obama administration.

There is deep and growing anger among workers and youth. According to the latest poll figures, Trump—the most unpopular president-elect in history—now has a favorable rating of only 37 percent, with the majority of the population viewing him unfavorably. This is before he even takes a single action as president of the United States. Masses of people are in for a shock beyond anything they are prepared for.

bohica OR

There must and will be mass opposition. It will come from the working class, the vast majority of the population that is completely excluded from official political life. To prepare for these struggles, the working class must be politically organized and mobilized, and armed with a revolutionary and socialist perspective.

go bernie?

Listened to the Holley's on my AM transistor radio while grooming the gelded Shetland pony, he would close his eyes and sway. Saw 10 cc in upstate NY at an outdoor concert, burning incense while strolling thru the crowd, trying to get reactions. Seems so long ago, its hard to find a time line from there to now. Thanks for the memories.

I love those songs - I grew up with them - so I take my hat off to Gouldman because he enhanced my teen years with his songs!

Have a beautiful day!

I have never heard of Graham Gouldman, but I sure have heard and loved his music. Thank you for introducing him to me.

I have not walked since last Friday due to the weather conditions (ie, snow and then ice). After having low morning temps in the teens and twenties for the last several days, I awoke to 51 degrees outside and most of the snow and ice melted. My walking partner is now out of town, so I did six miles solo. It is easier walking with someone, but I managed to get in a good long walk this morning.

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Today the low is going to be 16 degrees, the high 29. Yesterday and the day before we had a snowstorm, 15 inches fell. There is no way it's going to melt anytime soon. We don't drive in snow. Yesterday morning I walked down to the 7/11 and got a bag of ground coffee. It's the worst coffee ever. All the cars driving on Hawthorne Blvd. had chains. The 7/11 was packed with walking people some wore ski's and snowshoes. We all talked about how there were no snow chains left in the city all sold out. Today it's sunny and freezing but I'm determined to walk. Gulfgal walking is inspiring me and not moving other then chattering your teeth makes one kind of crazy.

Obomber is really creepy. Trump is really creepy. The pols we get to vote for are all beyond creepy. Who cares about the Russians freeping the election when it's obvious to most people that we have no choice literally. The owners of the place pick out the corrupt thugs we get to vote for, on every level local, city, state and national. Any decent representative who somehow manages to get elected is marginalized or decides to not get killed and goes along with the duopolies agenda. No one who isn't willing to compromise for victory stays in office.

Why do otherwise intelligent people go gaga for the creepy pols like Obomber? He's so classy they say and Trump is so vulgar. To me Obama's legacy is about as vulgar as humans can get. The Mad bomber and Big Dog are not classy they like Trump are sleazy. I'm sure Trump's administration will follow the same sick agenda. Do you want Pence and a vagina probe along with your bloody wars and austerity? This is extortion, they have we the people cornered to the point where we are compliant and sing the praises of the classier psycho con man or woman.

Seems to me a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome. Could be worse and if you don't go along with our rule by global gangsters your world will be torched. Actually it matters little which criminal lunatic is elected they all mean us and the planet harm. I did not listen to or even read his goodbye. Like with Bush I could not stomach listening to him starting in about 2010. He just pissed me off. His fake folksy condescension and lecturing of loser liberals is nothing I want to hear. Too bad I didn't hear his 2006 speech at the Hamilton Projects launch until 2010. It would have saved me a lot of time spent baiting the people in my district by selling his hope and change, not to mention I want the money I donated back, you fraud. Buyer beware.

Now onto music. I love 10cc. I did not know about Graham Gouldman until I married Shah. He is a walking musical encyclopedia when it come to Brit music from the 50's through the early 70's. Here's two of my favorites.

Money for god sake.

30 Million People Lost Their Healthcare in the Dead of Night...And odds are, no one will remember how it happened.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52234/senate-obamaca...

Why didn't the weasel Democrat's in the senate do a real filibuster? Looks to me like the Demorat's in congress are not going to even begin to obstruct the worst evil ever R's. Somehow this whole debacle reminds me of ISIS wherein the USA! USA! USA! creates, empowers and arms to the teeth the terrifying enemy they need to get their dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

No heart attack, just gall stones and low blood Na. Helo flying overhead now, back at home. Eat more Sodium! Daughter suggests savory Chex mixes. Just drink more soy sauce? Still shaky and freezing. Massive headache, too. Tiresome.

In celebration of the full moon...