The Evening Blues - 4-26-21



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No news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Lovie Lee

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This evening's music features Chicago blues piano player Lovie Lee. Enjoy!

Lovie Lee - Mind To Ramble


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Lovie Lee - Tell Me That You Love Me

Lovie Lee - My Baby Left Me

Lovie Lee - Good Candy

Lovie Lee - Sweet Little Girl

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/550306-california-councilmember...

A city official in Southern California is facing criticism after she compared her refusal to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic with Rosa Parks’s historic fight against racial segregation.

Jessica Alexander, a member of the Temecula City Council, made the remarks last week during a council meeting in response to debate about how long the body should continue hosting virtual meetings in compliance with state COVID-19 safety measures, The Press-Enterprise reported on Friday.

Alexander pointed to the 1955 arrest of Parks, a Black woman who became a civil rights icon after she refused to give up her Montgomery, Ala., bus seat for a white man.

“Look at Rosa Parks … She finally took a stand and moved to the front, because she knew that that wasn’t lawful,” she said, according to video obtained by the outlet. "It wasn’t true, so she took a stand. At what point in time do we?"

“I’m getting pushed to the back of the bus,” Alexander continued. “This is what I’m telling you I feel like.”

Now with regards to covering the bases showing right wing infiltration.

The former New York Police Department officer and Marine Corps veteran went on say that she “cannot” and “will not” wear a face covering during the pandemic.

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enhydra lutris's picture

@humphrey

when there was nothing out there but a couple of gas stations, a motel, an RV park and a couple of "Ranchos". Things were sooooo much better back then.

Temecula isn't a place, it is a culture, a weltanschauung, a state of mind and none of the above, where they consider Callaway(tm) Chardonnay to be the epitome of fine wines. Once it was at least a turn off from Hwy 395, but now 395 is long gone and it's just a turn off plain and simple.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

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@Pluto's Republic

wouldn't have known. Would not be surprising, out of the way, just "you know, up past Escondido". S-22 and Hwy 78 both had places that would give 40s and 50s cars fits (also old Hwy 80 further south) so the safe route back up outta the desert was 79, which took you up to 395 or its predecessor at, you guessed it, that place up past Escondido. High country chaparral, scrub, oak and manzanita, etc. It was said that Earl Stanley Gardner had a "Rancho" up there, if you cared; I didn't. There was a 3 way fork up there somewhere, SE to Borrego/Salton Sea, NE to Indio/Mecca and SW-ish to Pendleton, Carlsbad, Escondido, Del Mar and all that. Like I said, I ws a kid, but the family made periodic runs to Indio and more frequent ones out to Borrego, Little Borrego Springs, Ocotillo Wells, and all that.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@humphrey

heh, the rosa parks of the "personal responsibility for thee, but not for me," crowd.

thanks!

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mimi's picture

no vaccination side effects anymore.
Sending you well wishes. Stay strong.

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@mimi

i was fine for several hours after my shot. i had to go down to a place near dc to get the shot as soon as i did, so afterwards i stopped by my favorite dc record store and picked up a few things, including a long-out-of-print cd that i've been looking for a while. when i got it home and opened it up, i found out that it had once belonged to another local deejay that passed away a few years ago. from the notes he wrote on it, several of the cuts got played on wpfw.

a few hours after i got home, fever and muscle aches came to visit and i spent sunday mostly sleeping.

i am doing way better than yesterday. my fever has pretty much gone away and i am down to some distributed muscle aches, a sore shoulder and a little general fuzziness.

i am going to take it easy tonight and we'll see what tomorrow brings.

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@joe shikspack
Needle burned like fire while injecting. I had a red rash like a birthmark, No pain once the needle was out. My wife had no mark and no pain. Ethnic difference). Both well beyond childbearing years (we hope for great-gandchildren on the immediate horizon). Not fearing any clots.
I did put on my CPAP and dozed for an hour when we finally got home. What got to me was wearing the mask for an hour at a home improvement store. It always gets me. Nose fills up and I get hypoxia symptoms. I have asthma and COPD as well as sleep apnea.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

@The Voice In the Wilderness
Slight soreness in the bicep. Very slight. No mark anymore. No fever. No anything.
Is it working?

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@joe shikspack
may be that's naive, but that's the only thing that gets me to go on.

Take it slow and easy. Who would not be able to live without the news ... ?

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@humphrey

so, i guess the u.s. government's (speaking for/as big pharma) first response to india, "screw off and die," was a non-starter?

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Pluto's Republic's picture

@joe shikspack

China to New Delhi, India — 800 oxygen generators have been airlifted from Hong Kong,. China will ship to India another 10,000 oxygen generators this week. China is ready to send vaccines to India, if the US Poodle will accept them.

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Okay Joe, I buy the no news, but no opinion?
You know what they're like and everyone has them.

Hope you and yours are doing well and had as nice a day as we had down here.

The world keeps spinning round and round news or not. Thanks for the music!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout

heh, maybe tomorrow, call it the opinion and attitude section. Smile

i didn't get outside today, but it felt pleasant when i opened the door for the granddog. as near as i can tell it was sunny and in the low 60's.

have a great evening!

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@humphrey @humphrey 80 supporters, moderate (D) is a hefty start.

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NYCVG

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@humphrey

not their first rodeo?

The Post reports that this was Kramer's first substantial sale of Emergent stock since 2016. That sale in 2016, along with the sales made by other executives, was the subject of a lawsuit by investors who alleged that company leaders sold their shares shortly after making misleading claims about a government order for an anthrax vaccine, it noted.

Though the company denied the allegations, it reportedly agreed to a settlement paying investors $6.5 million.

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So, now you know where all the seats went, south and west. Where else should they go, right?

Six states will see their congressional delegations grow in the next Congress, according to the first results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial survey of America’s population, in what the Bureau’s director said was the smallest shift in any decade in almost a century.

Texas is set to add two U.S. House seats to its delegation after a decade in which the state added more than 4 million new residents.

[video:https://youtu.be/EmrGn_nM0n4]

Have fun with it.

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@mimi very important info.

First impression is that polluted portions of our country are seen as unattractive.

Second impression is WTF? The hot South with its temps going up every year are increasing?!?

Do people not understand what will happen if drought patterns continue? Or the grid is brought down.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

not necessarily. for example, a lot of californians have been moving to texas. while california has its share of right-wing whackos, it also has a lot of blue voters, there is the possibility that the influx of people might dilute the red vote.

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@joe shikspack
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Tut1nY74E&t=205s width:500 height:300]

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

choke on their sushi? Smile

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A message from Tulsi Gabbard:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRKtDsXZmDg width:500 height:300]
And a tune:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9PjUscNOJM width:400 height:240]

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

joe shikspack's picture

@Azazello

i think that tulsi kind of has the emphasis on the wrong syllahble there. she's barking up the right tree on an individual level, but she's way off her target when addressing the broader social milieu.

while individually it is best to treat each other with aloha, socially we are in a situation of racially division and extreme racial inequality. you can't fix this by getting individuals to stop complaining about the racial division and extreme racial inequality.

that said, i don't doubt tulsi's sincerity, i just think that she's barking up the wrong tree.

heh, that ian whitcomb has a kinda early stones vibe. thanks!

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Azazello's picture

@joe shikspack
Since the George Floyd murder, and the protests it caused, the corporate media has been all race all the time but it's merely symbolic. No policies that would actually address racial inequality are being discussed. I don't trust Wall Street or their media. I think they're racializing everything because they know it increases racial division rather than healing it.
It's starting to remind me of prison "politics" where the inmates are encouraged to separate themselves into strict racial groupings because it makes the guard's job easier.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

i see your point and appreciate it. but on the other hand, if you look at the composition of a lot of the protests, there are plenty of white people at many of them. i think of that as a good thing - a trend that i hope will expand until there is a movement like mlk envisioned.

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@Azazello There has to be an explanation for this intense focus. Helping people certainly is not what's happening.

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@Azazello

That's some low-hanging fruit, IMO.

Have you read Hate, Inc.? While the media certainly do have a vested interest in stoking tribal divisions, it is much more broad that making "everything" about race. I think that is a focus right now because ... hum... well, maybe because police are still regularly murdering black people with impunity? And many people are not being as blindly accepting of that as they once were. Protests, and what not. I dunno, that could have something to do with the media coverage. Possibly.

But she's also way off base in claiming this is a factor in "everything" -- in fact, that wording shows that she is either really out of it, or she's being quite disingenuous. Like, maybe she just wants a regular spot chatting with Tucker Carlson and his ilk about how awful it is that people are actively complaining about the police murdering people. Terrible! I mean come on, she appears on Tucker Carlson and then complains about the media stoking divisions?!? Oh and her comments about 'aloha' and 'respect' ring rather hollow after her final acts in congress like introducing a law to exclude transgender girls and women from being able to compete in sports. A law which had no chance of passing, but she just wanted to make a point, I guess. Whatever, she is entitled to her opinions but claiming now to believe that "everything" is falsely racial and also that she is about 'aloha' and respect... way too much hypocrisy, IMO.

Unlike Joe, I do doubt her sincerity. I realize she is extremely popular here, and everyone will hate me for not feeling the same, but it is so hard to watch her and not speak my mind. She really makes me angry. She has been making more and more obvious moves toward the right wing for some time now. This statement from her however, takes the cake. She comes across as very dishonest and manipulative to me. She is singing the exact song the right-wingers want to hear: that racism is not a real problem, and those who are protesting and want it to stop are the ones creating the problem. This is actually a pretty disgusting thing to be putting out there, IMO. But I'm sure Tucker will love it.

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@CS in AZ

i agree with much of what you wrote. i have been casually watching tulsi and noting that she has been signalling right for a while. she has always had a conservative streak, some of her past positions have resulted in apologies and disavowals. i guess that she is in a place where she wants to reinvent herself and like any politician wants to broaden her appeal, so i guess we'll see what tulsi 3.0 looks like eventually.

heh, i hope nobody here would hate you for having an opinion variance on a politician. parenthetically, i'd say that you are likely expressing something that other participants or lurkers are thinking. that said, i have a really high bar for doubting people's sincerity and a much lower bar for doubting their horse-sense and intentions.

have a great evening!

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@joe shikspack

Whew!

Smile

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@CS in AZ @CS in AZ
I think you give the corporate media way too much credit.
They aren't about social justice, not at all.
And yes, I've read Hate Inc.
Have you ?
Here's its subtitle: How Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

they are about social justice. And I certainly didn't say they are!

They do cover actual events that take place, however, such as protests.

Yes, I read the book, of course, that's why I brought it up. Because Matt wrote a whole book about it and nowhere in it does he say that EVERYTHING is about race. If you read it then you know that.

Let's see... there's a lot of Covid 19 coverage, vaccine rates and who is getting their shots or not, the crisis in India, Joe Biden's proposed tax increases, Dr. Fauci says today that the CDC has finally noticed that we don't need to wear masks when we are outside. Gavin Newsome is facing a recall and Caitlyn Jenner is going to run against him. ...

So is EVERYTHING really about race? Really? "Everyone and everything? Or was maybe Tulsi exaggerating a bit?

No, I do not give her a 'sympathetic' reading. Why should we? I prefer an honest look at what she is up to. Appearing on Tucker Carlson of all bomb-throwers, and then complaining about divisiveness of the media, is absurd.

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@CS in AZ
You don't trust her and you think she's a right-winger because she went on the wrong TV show ?
Is that not an example of how the media make us despise one another ?

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

I think -- hope -- that after all this time you know you are being dishonest about my position. I do not like Tulsi Gabbard and I don't trust her for many reasons. Many reasons, that go back a long way, for a long time, that I have written about before. Way back when, and as I said I knew it would not be welcome by everyone, for me to not get on board the Tulsi Love Train. But I'm not going to go into all of it again now. It is too late at night, I am too tired. You can paint me as a shallow fool who makes such a decision based on nothing. And you also ignore my actual points in the discussion and wave away her obvious hypocrisy.

Buenas noches.

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@Azazello

is pandering nefarious?

i don't care what teevee show tulsi appears on. i don't watch any of them.

i do think that tulsi is pandering in the clip. it may reflect her true feelings, i don't know.

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@joe shikspack
Remember this ?

“If we broke up the big banks tomorrow,” Clinton asked, “would that end racism?”

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The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello
and tulsi's pandering represents her conservative spiritual values. Nothing nefarious about that. There are people who remember her from the Iraq ear. I think she pandered back then for saving soldier's lives. Of course that's very nefarious .. . /bitter sarcasm here.

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@mimi
aka The Pander Express. link

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello
all of it is/was beyond my meager pay grade. Actually I don't get paid the harder I work. Being a lazy mf really pays well, I learned during the last six years, time to become a lazy mf.

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@Azazello

i think that she has a point, too. i find it much more palatable in krystal ball's articulation of it.

i would push back against both articulations somewhat, however, with the fact that we cannot at this point in history ignore the extremity of black and brown people's oppression, with regular executions of unarmed black men by racist blue armies, a stacked "justice" system that incarcerates poc at a world record-breaking rate and grinding poverty exacerbated by covid.

i think that we have to stop some significant amount of the bleeding before we can say, ok, now we are going to focus on raising all of the boats, which incidentally will disproportionately benefit poc.

my $.02, ymmv.

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I wasn't aware that the Persian Gulf was part of the United States.

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@humphrey
WAY forward!

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@humphrey

the u.s. coast guard is in the persian gulf. talk about a name not reflecting its purpose. unless, of course, the u.s. coasts moved.

jeez, that makes about as much sense as the u.s. postal service being a spy agency.

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@humphrey

what profits are there in saving humanity if you already have all the money and the power?

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CNN, MSNBC, and FOX with devotion and believe everything that they see and hear.

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@humphrey of cnn & msnbc have been dropping. not enough until we get to zero.

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@humphrey
all so-called mainstream TV media from all over the world. I end up watching almost only documentaries. Otherwise they all pander to get the clicks. Then I turn off the TV and go to sleep.

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The Perfect
Clueless
Liberal

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@Pluto's Republic

thanks for the tweets! i really enjoy varoufakis. america needs a guy like him to explain economics to the people.

have a great evening!

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On a lark, I just searched for "Doctors Without Boudoirs", was not entirely disappointed:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dictatorship-of-sex-frances-lee-bernste...

I figure this may interest some of you enough to check it out (and might well prove relevant to the political climate of the last 5-7 years, despite any number of superficial contraries).

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!