The Evening Blues - 6-22-23
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This evening's music features blues and funk guitarist Jimmy Nolen. Enjoy!
Jimmy Nolen - Strollin' with Nolen
"Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity."
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
News and Opinion
Ukraine Stays with the West But Russia Is Winning and Has the Receipts
The war in Ukraine grinds on and the Ukrainian army is being destroyed by Russia with great loss of life. One would think that Ukraine would be grateful for any and all peace efforts, but it is being used as a proxy by the United States and its NATO allies, the collective west. The seeds of this catastrophe began long before Russia’s special military operation. The European Union and NATO nations brought anti-Russian right-wing forces to power in 2014 in a coup against the elected Ukrainian president. If not for them there would be no war at all.
Their degree of culpability became clear recently when a delegation of African leaders traveled to Ukraine and Russia as part of a peacemaking initiative. The party included heads of state of Senegal, Egypt, Zambia, Comoros, Uganda, Republic of Congo, and South Africa. Comoros President Azali Assoumani is the current chair of the African Union. The group was greeted in Kiev by air raid sirens used to create the appearance that a Russian missile attack was underway. President Zelensky was barely polite, thanking South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and others for coming but letting them know that everything was Russia’s fault and that he had no interest whatsoever in peace talks. ...
Media and security staff accompanying the presidents were delayed there and the delegation had to travel without them. When the manufactured drama was no longer needed the delegation arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia and met with president Vladimir Putin who had a surprise of his own. Putin listened politely to the 10-point plan and then interrupted with a surprise of his own. He not only reminded them the conflict began in 2014 but pointed out that Russia has been ready for peace ever since Turkey brokered negotiations with Ukraine in April 2022. Ukraine was on the verge of signing an agreement until its collective west friends, the US and UK in particular, scuttled the plan.
The Treaty on Permanent Neutrality and Guarantees of Security of Ukraine offered security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for a commitment to remain neutral, meaning that NATO membership would be off the table. Putin pointed out that as soon as Russian forces left Kiev the agreement was thrown into “the dustbin.” Just as in the case of the Minsk Agreements, the collective west offered treachery instead of peace. ...
Russia is not just winning on the battlefield. Nation after nation has declared an intention to use currencies other than the dollar for trade or to join the BRICS. But the collective west cannot accept defeat. The threat they represent to the world cannot be underestimated.
Putin, Ukr Stuck; Rus Advance Kupyansk, Liman; Biden Undermines Blinken China Visit, Xi Dictator
Zelenskiy admits counteroffensive may be going ‘slower than desired’
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has conceded that Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be going “slower than desired” but has insisted that he will not needlessly risk soldiers’ lives to meet international expectations.
The comments from Ukraine’s president came as Vladimir Putin suggested that there appeared to have been a break in the intensity of Kyiv’s long-anticipated counteroffensive. “Oddly enough, at the moment we are seeing a certain lull,” Putin said. “This is due to the fact that the enemy is suffering serious losses, both in personnel and equipment.” ...
Ukraine has announced the liberation of only eight villages as a result of its two weeks of offensive operations with heavy mining and Russian air superiority proving to be a major obstacle to progress.
Ukrainian forces are also having to face down Russian assaults around Kreminna, in the eastern Luhansk region, and in the Serebryansky forest, north of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. The attacks directed by Moscow, at a time when Ukraine is seeking to make progress further south, has forced Ukrainian generals to move their own troops to fill the gaps, according to military sources.
China May Open Military Base IN CUBA
How To Buy Politicians – Undercover Video Of BlackRock Exposes!
The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can
Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.
Until 2010, Boeing charged an average of $300 for a trash container used in the E-3 Sentry, a surveillance and radar plane based on the 707 civilian airliner. When the 707 fell out of use in the United States, the trash can was no longer a “commercial” item, meaning that Boeing was not obligated to keep its price at previous levels, according to a weapons industry source who spoke to RS.
In 2020, the Pentagon paid Boeing over $200,000 for four of the trash cans, translating to roughly $51,606 per unit. In a 2021 contract, the company charged $36,640 each for 11 trash containers, resulting in a total cost of more than $400,000. The apparent overcharge cost taxpayers an extra $600,000 between the two contracts.
Biden Calls Xi a Dictator a Day After Blinken’s Beijing Talks
President Biden on Tuesday called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator” just one day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Chinese leader in Beijing. ...
Blinken canceled an earlier planned trip to China over the errant balloon, reversing progress on dialogue that the US and China had been making following the Biden-Xi meeting in Bali that took place in November 2022. Biden said Blinken did a “good job” on his recent trip to China, but the president’s comments appear to have set relations back again as they drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing.
“The relevant remarks by the US side are extremely ridiculous and irresponsible, they seriously violate basic facts, diplomatic protocol, and China’s political dignity,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
Literally took 24 hours for insults to start again
What's the point of sending Blinken to Beijing to cool things down if you're going to insult Xi literally the day after? That's frankly beyond me... https://t.co/bLCsK8qt5D
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 21, 2023
Pentagon leaks suspect Jack Teixeira pleads not guilty to six charges
Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts air national guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to federal felony charges.
Teixeira, 21, entered the pleas during a hearing in Worcester’s federal court days after he was indicted by a grand jury on six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. Each count is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Handcuffed and wearing orange jail garb, Teixeira smiled at family seated in the gallery at the start of the hearing. He stood at the defense table next to his lawyers and leaned over to say “not guilty, your honor” into the microphone after the judge read each count. The judge also denied a defense request to reconsider his detention order.
Teixeira, of North Dighton, has been behind bars since his April arrest on charges stemming from the most consequential intelligence leak in years. A magistrate judge ruled last month that Teixeira must remain in jail while the case plays out, saying that releasing him would pose a risk that he would attempt to flee the country or obstruct justice.
Armed Israeli settlers rampage through Palestinian town in revenge attack
A large group of Israeli settlers have attacked a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to homes, cars and fields in a revenge rampage that left one Palestinian dead from gunfire and 10 others injured, according to Palestinian witnesses and officials. Many of the hundreds of settlers who raided the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, on Wednesday were armed.
But the dead man, Omar Abu Katan, 27, was shot by Israeli soldiers who entered after the settlers, Palestinian medics said. According to a Palestinian Authority official, Ghassan Daghlas, the 10 wounded were struck by live shots, some fired by soldiers and others by settlers. About 30 houses and over 40 cars were torched, he said.
Later on Wednesday, three Palestinians were killed when an Israeli drone targeted a car in the northern West Bank. The late-night attack marked an escalation in Israel’s campaign against alleged militants in the area. The identities of the people inside the car were not immediately known, but the army said it had “identified a terrorist cell inside a suspicious vehicle” that had been responsible for a number of recent shooting attacks on Jewish settlements.
The settler attack reinforced questions from rights groups, who accuse the military of enjoying a cosy relationship with settlers to the point of doing little to fulfil its international legal obligation of protecting civilians. ...
The Turmus Ayya onslaught was part of a day of settler attacks in the northern West Bank in reprisal for the killing by Hamas gunmen on Tuesday of four settlers at a restaurant and petrol station outside the Eli settlement.
The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster
As states have begun clearing out their Medicaid rolls for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three quarters of the Americans who’ve lost coverage have been terminated not because they’re ineligible for the low-income health insurance program, but due to administrative reasons, such as failing to quickly respond to a piece of mail.
In February, President Joe Biden bragged in his State of the Union speech that “more Americans have health insurance now than ever in history.” Biden made that comment six weeks after he set the stage to massively increase the United States’ uninsured population, when he signed legislation from Congress ending the pandemic-era requirement that states maintain Medicaid beneficiaries’ coverage in exchange for extra federal funding.
The measure, passed as part of a year-end spending bill, allowed states to begin mass disenrollments starting in April — a policy decision that is naturally a boon for government contractors that states pay to identify beneficiaries they could potentially remove from the program.
Now that states have resumed annual Medicaid eligibility reviews, an estimated 17 million people, and potentially up to 24 million, could lose Medicaid coverage. According to early data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than 1.3 million Americans have already lost coverage, and nearly one million have lost their health insurance for arbitrary reasons, not because they aren’t eligible.
Amazon SUED Over Prime Cancellation Tricks
Amazon duped millions into enrolling in Prime, US regulator says in lawsuit
The US Federal Trade Commission has sued Amazon for what it called a years-long effort to enroll consumers without consent into its paid subscription program, Amazon Prime, and making it hard for them to cancel.
The FTC, the US agency charged with consumer protection, filed a federal lawsuit in Seattle, where Amazon is headquartered, alleging that the tech behemoth “ knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime” through a secret project internally called “Iliad”.
The lawsuit marks the first time the agency has brought Amazon to court since its chair, Lina Khan, took the helm in 2021. Khan, a former antitrust scholar, has been widely expected to take a harder line on tech firms that have for years enjoyed unabated growth and little regulation.
In its complaint, the FTC said Amazon used “manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns’ to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions”.
It said the option to purchase items on Amazon without subscribing to Prime was more difficult in many cases. It also said that consumers were sometimes presented with a button to complete their transactions – which did not clearly state it would also enroll them into Prime.
SCOTUS Justice CAUGHT On Billionaire Lavish Vacation
Samuel Alito did not declare gifts from billionaire with case before US supreme court
The US supreme court justice Samuel Alito accepted a seat on a private plane owned by the conservative billionaire Paul Singer, flying to Alaska for a luxury fishing trip hosted by another rightwing businessman, then did not declare such gifts or recuse himself when Singer had business before the court.
The latest blockbuster report on the tangled subject of supreme court ethics came, again, from ProPublica. The non-profit newsroom has already detailed the close relationship between another hardline justice, Clarence Thomas, and the conservative billionaire Harlan Crow. ...
On Tuesday, Alito published a controversial “prebuttal” to the new ProPublica report, using a Wall Street Journal column to say the piece was coming and to deny wrongdoing.
Alito said justices “commonly interpreted” ethics laws “to mean that accommodations and transportation for social events were not reportable gifts”. The seat on Singer’s plane, the justice wrote, “would have otherwise been vacant”.
Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer now with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said a private plane trip was not an acceptable gift. “The exception only covers food, lodging and entertainment,” Canter told ProPublica. “He’s trying to move away from the plain language of the statute and the regulation.” ...
ProPublica detailed how Singer took Alito to Alaska in summer 2008, while engaged in a high-stakes case between his hedge fund and the government of Argentina. The case eventually reached the supreme court, Alito joining a 7-1 decision against Argentina.
Workplace sins: US restaurant used fake priest in ‘shameless’ wage theft scheme
A northern California restaurant chain will have to pay more than $140,000 in back pay after it ran a “shameless” wage theft scheme that involved a fake priest who had workers confess to any sins they committed while on the clock.
The owners and operators of Taqueria Garibaldi, a Sacramento-based restaurant chain, are also accused of threatening workers and fabricating timesheets as part of an effort to obstruct an investigation into the business. The US Department of Labor previously found that the company illegally denied workers overtime pay.
The labor department launched an investigation into Taqueria Garibaldi in 2021, at which point the business owners instructed employees to tell investigators that they worked 40 hours a week, were provided two days off and 30-minute breaks, and were paid only in checks, court records show.
Workers were also prohibited from using their usual digital attendance tracker and were instead told to write that they were only working 40-hour weeks on paper timesheets that were then processed by a third-party payroll company.
Employees did as they were told under threat of retaliatory actions such as firing and holding immigration statuses over their heads, according to the labor department.
Durham DESTROYS Steele Dossier, Adam Schiff In BOMBSHELL Testimony
House censures Burbank democrat Rep. Adam Schiff
Senate examines role of ‘dark money’ in delaying climate action
The Senate budget committee held a hearing on Wednesday morning to scrutinize the role of oil- and gas-linked “dark money” in delaying climate action – and tearing through local and federal budgets. The hearing was led by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who has held 10 climate crisis-focused hearings since he took the helm of the budget committee this past February.
It follows an inquiry launched by House Democrats in 2021, which focused on big oil’s alleged efforts to mislead the public about the climate crisis. ...
Committee Democrats invited three witnesses. First to the stand was the Harvard history of science professor Naomi Oreskes. “Climate change is a market failure, and market failures require government action to address,” she testified. Fossil fuel interests’ efforts to disrupt climate policy had come at great expense to the US, including not only financial costs, but also human suffering and lives lost, said Oreskes, who has written several books on oil industry misinformation.
Christine Arena, former public relations executive at the firm Edelman who now works in social impact film-making, and who was also invited by Senate Democrats, drew comparisons between the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long misinformation campaign and how the tobacco industry tried to cover up the harms of smoking. ...
Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota Law School who was chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush, was third to testify. A political independent, Painter said Americans should get on board with the push to end climate misinformation no matter where they fall on the political spectrum.
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns
Half of Americans have faced ‘extreme’ weather in the last six weeks
Half of the US population has faced an extreme weather alert since 1 May and many more are likely to face risks from wildfires, flooding, tropical storms and extreme heat as summer begins.
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been tracking the alerts sent by the National Weather Service (NWS) warning about dangerous weather.
The UCS also finds that more than 51 million people in the US were facing extreme weather alerts on Wednesday, with about a third of them living in areas designated as disadvantaged by the federal government.
The period between May and November is a period the UCS is calling “Danger Season”, when increasingly intense storms, heatwaves and wildfires are expected to besiege the country. Fifty per cent “is a very troubling sort of threshold that we’ve crossed”, said Juan Declet-Barreto, a senior social scientist for climate vulnerability at UCS. “And we are one month and a half into danger season.” ...
About 10% of the extreme heat alerts this year have a clear “climate signal” linking them to the climate crisis, said Declet-Barreto. That figure is based on the non-profit Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index, which estimates the influence of climate change on extreme temperatures around the world.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Scott Ritter: On Horseradish & Nuclear War
Biden Undoes Blinken China Visit and Then Some by Calling Xi a Dictator
Biden Would Need His Pound of Flesh From Assange
Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
Zionist role in 1950s attacks on Iraqi Jews 'confirmed' by operative and police report
Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’
Bolsonaro on trial: What are the charges facing ex Brazil president?
A Little Night Music
Jimmy Nolen - It Hurts Me Too
Jimmy Nolen - After Hours
Jimmy Nolen - The Way You Do
Jimmy Nolen - Wipe Your Tears
Jimmy Nolen - Jimmy's Jive
Jimmy Nolen - Slow Freight Train Back Home
Jimmy Nolen - I Can't Stand You No More
Jimmy Nolen - Swingin' Peter Gunn - I
Jimmy Nolen - Movin' On Down The Line
Jimmy Nolen - You've Been Goofing
Jimmy Nolen - Swingin' Peter Gunn - Pt. 2
Comments
What a horrible way to die
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I could never go in a sub or fly in space because I’m horribly claustrophobic just thinking of doing either. I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve experienced it, but just seeing the pictures of how small the space is in the sub or space ship triggers it in my brain. Plus my fear of drowning. Watching movies of people holding their breath under water also bugs me. They stretch it out longer than what is normally possible….and I run out of breath.
There were rumors of people saying that the ceo cut corners on safety and one guy got fired for bringing it up.
I sure hope that the others in the sub saw this…
You can almost see how small the space is in it. 5 people sitting in an area as big as a small tent. No EFFING way!
It was quick.
Hot, and quick. The pressure at that depth is basically 400 atmospheres. So, using the ideal gas law PV=nRT, and making a few linearizing assumptions: taking that say 2 cubic meters of 27degC air at 1bar at the start of the dive, and compressing it to 0.01M3 volume at 400bar, results in a temperature of em, er, 328degC, give or take a few. So they flash-fried as they were getting pancaked.
Must have been one hell of a ride, brief though it would have been. It was all over in microseconds. It was truly a pity.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Titan
Trying to understand how the participants felt comfortable with the safety of this vessel.
I did see that this particular submersible had made a few previous trips to the Titanic. Does anyone know if that is true? That would have given them confidence that the submersible could withstand the pressure which is what critics were concerned about.
Previous trips may have gradually weakened it, and then this time luck ran out.
Yes it made 2 and possibly 3 trips before
and in hindsight it looks like the people who took the trip were very lucky. The article I linked is about what the whistleblower was concerned about and after he brought them up he was fired.
I posted a link a few weeks ago that showed the titanic and how it looks now after a hundred years lying on the bottom of the ocean. I’ll look for it if anyone’s interested. My curiosity about the ship was quite satisfied and there’s no amount of money offered that would get me to go look at it.
Thanks, snoopy
Guess they had some reason to think it was safe. Very sad.
The pressure at that depth is about 6,000 psi. I'm pretty
sure death would be instantaneous and you would not be conscious.
be well and have a good one
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 --
Maybe
No one knows for certain what happened or if there were any warnings that something would be soon. The death part might have been quick, but they might have known that there was a big problem for who knows how long and knew that time was running out and I can imagine the fear on top of the claustrophobia…ugh.
implosion
The implosion likely occurred before OceansGate notified anyone of a problem. When they lost contact, that was it.
From Sky News live blog of the events
US Navy heard Titan implosion hours after mission started - reports
Sounds like they knew all hope was lost before search and rescue even began. What? Did they not want to say anything so as not to compromise enemy detection secrets? Well, they told now.
well...
i guess if nothing else mr. oceangate was an inspirational figure. i bet he's inspired a lot of other people to appreciate "50 year-old white guys."
pretty sad.
It's a tragedy however you look at it
There's also this perspective I found interesting ...
Assange
Thank you, joe.
Reasons to cling to hope:
From the Also of Interest section of TEB
Biden Would Need His Pound of Flesh From Assange
By Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News
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evening olinda...
yep, one hopes that reason prevails despite the culture of irrational hatred that has gripped a fair portion of the powers that be.
have a great evening!
the second superceding indictment
June 24, 2020
https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/inchoate-crimes/#:~:text=Aiding....
Assange is charged with all the inchoate accessory offenses- aiding, abetting, soliciting, conspiracy, to obtain the records unlawfully. I think some of the aiding, abetting, and soliciting allegations are pretty thin factually, but they are definitely trying to make the case that Assange was actually involved in unlawfully agreeing to assist in unlawful efforts to obtain classified information and actually taking an affirmative step or steps in a few instances. So some maybe most of the charges may be subject to dismissal. There may be problems of proof there, but I think the new allegations in a few counts could survive a motion a dismiss. I'm pretty sure that's why the indictment was amended a second time to stand up to that kind of legal challenge.
Of course the case has other vulnerabilities, on a constitutional basis like the outrageous violations of his constitutional rights, (and the freedom of the press issue obviously) but he is charged as a conspirator or accessory trying to obtain classified information unlawfully. Luria just makes a conclusory statement in this regard.
語必忠信 行必正直
Thanks for the EB's Joe
and damn, nothing has changed.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/06/debt-rattle-june-22-2023/
Going outside everyday you can smell the smoke from the Canadian
wildfires. It's like you have a firepit right outside of the house.
Add onto that that we've had but one day of rain 1/2 an inch at
that since May 1st. So the question is am I living in hell already
or is this just but a taste, fucking hell
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
evening ggersh...
it works, but they might amend it slightly to "spend! spend! spend! under the guise of promoting democracy abroad ... blame the russians for failure ... "
we had rain and drizzle most of last night and today, it has cooled down a great deal and the smoke smell is mostly gone for now.
given that the pit of fire is to the north of you, perhaps you could say that you are currently living next door to hell.
It's really this simple
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/06/debt-rattle-june-22-2023/
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Cash, or other money, isn't for us hoi polloi,
it is for the banksters, they wish to control it, and via it, us, your convenience is not their concern.
be well and have a good one
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 --
extreme weather alerts
I signed up for alerts via email, and it's working. I expect my power to be out during many storms, so it won't always be helpful.
LookoutAlert:
I went outside to storm watch, and hail sure can cool down a heat wave. It was chilly!
hope everything turned out ok
be well and have a good one
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 --
quarter size hail?
wow, that's pretty impressive. i hope all is well and you stay high and dry.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the evening blues.
So, horseradish fer Biden, I guess. Heh. And everybody's talking about inspections for submersibles now. Sure, why not, but iirc, they inspected the hell out of the Thresher.
Gotta go build an overnight dough for tomorrow's pizza, so
be well and have a good one
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 --
evening el...
brandon deserves lots of horseradish, here's hoping that he gets it.
happy pizza-making (to be followed by happy pizza eating) and have a good one!
Good evening Joe, thanks for the evening blues. Again
A dupe here, sorry about that.
be well and have a good one
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 --
Here’s the hail storm username mentioned
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Yup I bet that hurt.
hail
That was last night. We have had 2 serious hail storms in 2 days! What will tomorrow bring?
9 people went to hospital
and 90 others were treated for cuts, bruises and broken bones. I’ve seen nickel sized hail before, but never bigger than that and yes it hurts getting hammered by it. Another tweet showed people holding boxes over their heads, but their bodies still got hit with it. Lots of windows broken and cars dented. Hail of a storm!
wow...
In the replies to the tweet
people are mocking global warming…how many times does that need to be explained? The Midwest is in a drought and the crops are on the verge of dying which of course means that prices for them are rising. And just because inflation is going down doesn’t mean that prices will too. Of course not when companies are raising prices just because they can. Or shrinking their packages.
yep...
and when the monkey-boy mockers finally have their own face-to-face with climate change conditions, one wonders whom they will blame for it - god, russia or leftists?
Hi bluesters
Hi all, Hey Joe!
Hope it's all good out there...
Jimmy Nolen was outstanding, eh? What a great player. Strollin' with Nolen is awesome, for the time, it is rad man. I love that Swingin' Peter Gunn too, most excellent.
About that restaurant with the fake priest... shoulda tipped them off when the dude was named Father Guido Sarducci?
So the congress cretin named Adam is a piece of Schiff.
Half of USAians have experienced severe weather IN the last six weeks?
Half of Texans have experienced severe weather FOR the last six weeks!
Would be good to see Iceland stop the Fin Whale killin'. They were way more common than Blues when I was doin' offshore in socal. We saw them all the time. Second biggest whale. And fastest at over 20 KNOTS! They simply outran most boats in the olden days. Once we saw one catch a 15' swell and ride it like a giant body surfer, it sped past the 10 knot boat! This was like 50 miles offshore over 2 mile deep water. We were crackin' up it was so amazing to see... it's fluke (a whale tail) was protruding from the back of the swell! So it was not under power and strickly being propelled by the wave, truly ssurfing. Over 50 feet and tons! Clearly under the right conditions it could travel great distances using very little energy.
Hey I got a few trash cans I'm tryin' to sell, do you have the Pentagons phone#?
Wasn't there a saying to the effect of 'the wisdom of old age and treachery will overcome youth and inexperience every time. Or something like that...
Hope all are well, have good ones!
Thanks for the great guitar playin' Joe!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
evening dystopian...
jimmy nolen is among my favorite guitarists. i usually feature his early stuff, prior to being recruited by james brown because so few people have ever heard it. his contributions to the jb sound were pretty amazing though and a real foundation for the evolution of funk guitar playing.
yep, if we can get iceland to stop killing whales, that will just leave 2 countries in the world that allow it. i hope they're feeling lonely tonight...
heh, i have some spare trash cans that if the pentagon is willing to sport 60k for, i'll be happy to throw in free delivery.
have a great evening!
Hella good advice from Kamala
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"Don’t be that first frog!"
I’ve never heard of this story with 2 frogs, but I think she doesn’t understand what she’s talking about. If we switched her with Biden would we even be able to tell the difference?
I think there might be some wisdom somewhere there,
but I think she's too out of it to recognise what it might be. I did try to find a clue, but it escapes me.
It appears as if the Hunter Biden situation is not going away.
Southfront is not my favorite site but this indeed is an interesting read.
https://southfront.org/irs-whistleblowers-release-new-bombshell-evidence...
There is very much more at the link!
Yup
This news dropped while the world was focused on the missing sub after an American sub heard a huge explosion on Sunday which in retrospect people think was the sub imploding and that the Biden administration kept hidden so people wouldn’t learn about the news from the whistleblowers.
If a sub implodes in the depths of the ocean and those that heard it kept silent did it make any noise? If this is true then damn those who kept silent about while giving the world hope that people could be rescued just so they didn’t hear the news of the rotten Biden family!
evening humphrey...
if those allegations prove to be true, it sounds like both bidens and merrick garland are in deep doo-doo.
Defense attorney days comes up with this:
Joe was in the room, but asleep after overeating ice cream. Biden didn't know. Truthfully. He doesn't lie. And Hunter was telling the truth. Always.
Ok, I am having way too much fun with this.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Evening joe and bluesters
Thanks for the news and blues joe, I really appreciate them. I really enjoyed Nolan, some funky saxophone there too.
The discovery of an ancient ‘religious' sight in the Netherlands was fascinating. People highly respected the dead from the beginning. We hardly respect the dying today.
How low can you go. Who in the word would come up with the strategy of employing a fake priest to betray employees? That employer should have at least lost their licence after paying what was owed to the employees.
Cheers all you humans here!
Some funky sax from Maceo Parker
evening janis...
thanks for the tune!
i wonder if fake priests are cheaper than real ones.
i wonder why anybody would eat at a restaurant so eager to cut costs that it would rob its employees - if they will stoop that low to cut costs, wouldn't it make you wonder at the quality of the ingredients in their food?
Who knows
the value of authentic or imposter priests, but's what's clear from this episode is how little humanity is worth.
Keep an eye all on the ingredients ; ).
People need to figure out something to eat
besides whales. And bugs.
The Blackrock vid by JD was great.
Thanks for all you do, my friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
LOL It is supposed to be satire. Maybe it isn't?