The Evening Blues - 7-5-21

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 2:01pm


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No news roundup + tonight's musical feature: 4th of July music

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features 4th of July music. Enjoy!

Los Lobos/Grateful Dead - This Land is Your Land

No News or Opinion

Happy Holiday!!!

A Little Night Music

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez - Chimes of Freedom

Phil Ochs - The Power and The Glory

The Grateful Dead - U.S. Blues

Steve Miller Band - Living In The U.S.A.

The Impressions - This is My Country

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - This Land Is Your Land

James Brown - Living in America

Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

X - 4th of July

Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World

Chuck Berry - Back In The USA

Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner

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Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 2:40pm
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Hope you're enjoying your well deserved break!

We went to a party on Sat nite, and ate well yesterday. Today I've been mowing and getting back to my chores.
I like playing this one...the constitution march
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4yzH_Km28]
Even Norman doesn't play it quite so fast these days. I like a slower march pace rather than a run. Great tune though.

Thanks for all the music!

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:00pm
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@Lookout

thanks for the tune!

i managed to avoid my regular chores enough this weekend to build some new shelves, but otherwise it has been a pretty relaxing weekend. the garden is going pretty well now and ms shikspacks flowers (the ones the deer, squirrels and other varmints eschew) are going great guns.

have a good one!

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Submitted by mimi on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 5:12pm
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and love of country ?

Very cute to see Joan Baez and Bob Dylan being in love. Thanks for the music.

My sister asked me: Wasn't the 4rth of July something something special ? And I said yes, The Americans declared their Independence from Great Britain. Aha, she said, that is quite reasonable. Well, it sounded so weird I laughed out loud. I am not sure in which time frame her mind was operating.

Hope you enjoyed the good and happy meals and got rest.

Keep on going on. Wink

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:11pm
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@mimi

Where are the youngsters singing about freedom and love of country?

i think that they're on the country music stations.

heh, well, separating from the colonial powers wasn't such a bad idea. it's a shame that the authorities who took over from the crown were really not much better people as a group.

i had a nice break from the usual, thanks. have a great evening!

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Submitted by mimi on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 1:09am
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@joe shikspack @joe shikspack
at least I can try to do so. Thanks for ever.

If I had had an American partner to live with, I would have understood much more. But helas, that wasn't the case and I stood like a dummy for the whole time I lived in the US in the eighties and nineties.

Sad

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Submitted by jakkalbessie on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 5:35pm

Brought back some old memories and a little different perspective on the celebration that just was. Glad you are having a break from all the news and hope you are enjoying yourself.

Am starting to go through things and organize for my trip back to Santa Fe and see what happens next.

Have a good evening!

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:25pm
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@jakkalbessie

thanks for the well wishes! i had a pretty mellow fourth of july weekend and got a bunch of stuff done around the house that i had been meaning to do for a while.

i hope everything goes well with your santa fe trip and things get worked out the way you want them.

take care and have a great evening!

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 5:45pm
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...without informing Afghanistan Army.

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.

Afghanistan’s army showed off the sprawling air base Monday, providing a rare first glimpse of what had been the epicenter of America’s war to unseat the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on America.

“We (heard) some rumor that the Americans had left Bagram ... and finally by seven o’clock in the morning, we understood that it was confirmed that they had already left Bagram,” Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, Bagram’s new commander said.

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The U.S. left behind 3.5 million items, all itemized by the departing U.S. military. They include tens of thousands of bottles of water, energy drinks and military ready made meals, known as MRE’s.

The big ticket items left behind include thousands of civilian vehicles, many of them without keys to start them, and hundreds of armored vehicles. The U.S. left behind small weapons and the ammunition for them, but the departing troops took heavy weapons with them.

Afghan soldiers who wandered Monday throughout the base that had once seen as many as 100,000 U.S. troops were deeply critical of how the U.S. left Bagram, leaving in the night without telling the Afghan soldiers tasked with patrolling the perimeter.

Within 20 minutes of the U.S.’s silent departure on Friday, the electricity was shut down and the base was plunged into darkness...

The sudden darkness was like a signal to the small army of looters, he said. They entered from the north smashing through the first barrier, ransacking buildings, loading anything that was not nailed down into trucks.

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:00pm

@Pluto's Republic
But pretty much the same feeling.

This will bite Harris in the butt in 2024.

Reminiscent of (die, der? das?) Dolchstoßlegende

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

Submitted by mimi on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 12:59am
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@The Voice In the Wilderness

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 10:34am

@mimi

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

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:30pm
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@Pluto's Republic

good, now they can turn bagram into a museum and show people where the cia tortured their people. perhaps they can honor some of the great americans responsible for the war crimes and name some rooms after them. i think that "the rumsfeld room" has quite a ring to it.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:53pm
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@joe shikspack

...out there, just waiting until the People are ready to see it:

DD-opium.jpg

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Submitted by humphrey on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:44pm

@Pluto's Republic @Pluto's Republic

And this.

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Submitted by QMS on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 6:00pm

sorta

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:34pm
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@QMS

thanks for the tune!

i hope that you had a good holiday.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 7:31pm

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:32pm

@on the cusp
We were getting the tour along with an australian couple. The docent recounted how the British were massacred then told the Aussies, "I'm sorry if you are offended."
The man said (in an accent I can't reproduce) "Not at all! Bloody british probably deserved it."

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:38pm
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@on the cusp

heh, that's one i haven't heard for a long, long time. thanks for the tune!

have a great evening!

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Submitted by on the cusp on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 9:11pm

@joe shikspack loved it, and I still think of him on soldier related holidays.
It is always fun to razz the losers.
TLOML, now officially and ceremoniously Husband, said his Dad bought the album, and he now has it, as well. His Dad was Korea.
I think I want to listen to John Reb. It may just be it was not pro-South, but more pro po' boy who fought for the South. And died, probably. For the plantation oligarchs.
We had a holiday today. Tomorrow is serious work. A trial, in fact. husband will be mowing.
We discussed the possibility of me taking on a nationally sensationalized serial rapist sort of case. It went multiple counties, but will be tried here. The alleged perp's family is contacting me, wants to hire me to defend him. The ghost hunt case. The guy is
former cop.
If I take that case, local cops will follow us everywhere we go. (Which is mostly to the grocery store and post office. We might like an escort.) They may even surveil my home. (They will enjoy the music.)
I think it would be interesting, and am willing to give the guy all I got, if the family can hire me.
GOOD TIMES!

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 9:43pm
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@on the cusp

sounds like you've got interesting times ahead of you. take care!

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Submitted by on the cusp on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 9:51pm

@joe shikspack Maybe it will hasten my retirement, and be a swell Last Hurrah to the legal profession.
I don't advertise. They find me.

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Submitted by humphrey on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:38pm

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:46pm
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@humphrey

yeah, this brewhaha doesn't make any of the parties look good, but it (imo) certainly is making cenk and ana kasparian look terrible. they really shouldn't have made it personal and they shouldn't have tried to blackmail jimmy dore. it really hasn't worked out for them.

you kinda have to wonder if cenk enjoys rolling around in the gutter, because he doesn't seem to have an instinct to stand up and get out of it.

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Submitted by humphrey on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 9:46pm

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Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 07/05/2021 - 10:31pm
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@humphrey

on the contrary, it is the next step in prolonging the hostilities.

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