@Arrow
It's always nice to wakr up to stevie, great earworm. Guernica fits nicely these days; any day and eveery day, it seems,

Gypey...nice!

Warm sunny day here in Fla.

Two little things:

This song just popped into my head(earworm):

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRx3tUEzdp4]

This needs no comment as to it's importance in humanist and political terms:

Have a great day all.

@Lookout
It is very warm and soon will be very hot, but yet I''m having coffee. Have a good one.

1820 -- The Venus de Milo was found on the island of Milos.
...and she was armless to all.

Mid 30's this AM as the last of cold weather hangs on. It is dogwood winter as they say around here. We have another typical cold spell coming in early May...blackberry winter.

Here's hoping you all have a good day!

@HenryAWallace
than any other president, Funny how things work.

1952 -- Truman calls for the seizure of all US steel mills to prevent a strike.

So, Truman vetoed Taft Hartley in 1947 (although Congress overrode his veto), but pulled a dramatic, union-busting move like this a few years later. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=12675

sigh.

@eyo
birthday to the late Richmond Young.

Just noticed jordantimes has the same blog voting setup as c99, only thumbs up available. Huh. I have learned a lot about Jordan lately, thanks whoever made me go look over there. I have a ten year old Lands End vest Made in Jordan OAZ, never noticed the tag until last week. meh

Dozens reported killed in suspected Syria gas attack; Damascus denies

Washington said the reports - if confirmed - would demand an immediate international response.
...
The Russian-backed Syrian state denied government forces had launched any chemical attack as reports began circulating on Saturday night. The government said rebels in the eastern Ghouta town of Douma were collapsing and spreading false news.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports.

The lifeless bodies of around a dozen children, women and men, some of them with foam at the mouth, were shown in one video circulated by activists. "Douma city, April 7 ... there is a strong smell here," a voice can be heard saying.

PU.
--- outgoing memory hole
My brother was a Clinton tool, an apparatchik. He is the reason I met Donna Brazil one night at a meeting in the Castro. She was for one PAC, and he was for another. He lost that vote and she won and I never liked her since. Heh. I was a twenty-something. YOLO

Happy Birthday Richie.

OBITUARIES
Richmond Young
AIDS activist
EXAMINER STAFF REPORT
Civic leader Richmond Young, a longtime San Francisco political and AIDS activist, died of complications due to AIDS Saturday at his Castro District home on his 43rd birthday.
Richmond Young was active in both local gay and lesbian politics and
Democratic politics on the local and state levels. Mr. Young's interest in politics was inherited from his mother and began when he served as Northern California coordinator for the Eugene McCarthy for President campaign in 1968.
Since that time he worked tirelessly for both gay and lesbian and Democratic Party candidates. Most recently he was a member of President Clinton's San Francisco Steering Committee; he was a founding member of the Clinton-Gore Democratic Club. Mr. Young was a Clinton delegate to the 1992 Democratic Convention and also served a s a delegate to the California Democratic Council.
He was a member of the California State Democratic Party and earlier this year was District Attorney Arlo Smith's appointee to the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee.
Mr. Young served for three years as an officer of the Alice B. Toklas
Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club and was president of the Stonewall Gay Democratic Club for three years. He served as a Board of Supervisors' Commission on Elections and in 1993 Supervisor Angela Alioto appointed him to the HIV Youth Advisory Committee.
"We have lost a spirited leader, a fighter for the underdog and a friend; he made our city a very special place," Alioto said.
Mr. Young was a longtime member and office of Dignity, an organization composed of and devoted to the needs of gay and lesbian Roman Catholics. Members of Dignity played an important role in his life and he was preceded in death by his godfather and close friend Kevin J. Calegari.
Mr. Young was born in San Francisco and raised and educated in Marin County. He worked for many years as a legal editor at Commerce Clearing House Inc. in San Rafael.
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peace

Silence = Death