The Evening Blues - 12-25-23



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Xmas music

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features Xmas music. Enjoy!

Roy Milton - Christmas Time Blues


No News or Opinion

Merry Xmas!!!


A Little Night Music

Bonnie Raitt & Charles Brown - Merry Christmas, Baby

The Voices - Santa Claus Boogie

Albert King - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'

Bobby Parker - Sandy Claw Stole My Woman

Eddie C. Campbell - Santa's Messin' With The Kid

William Bell - Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday

C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band - Zydeco Christmas

Freddy King - I Hear Jingle Bells

Louis Armstrong & the Commanders - 'Zat You Santa Claus?

The Moonglows - Hey Santa Claus

The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy's Christmas vs. The Red Baron

Leon Redbone - Christmas Ball Blues

The Maytals - Christmas Feeling Ska

Richard Stoute - Rocksteady Christmas

The Ethiopians - Ding Dong (Christmas Bell)

Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus

Marquees - Santa's Done Got Hip

Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - I'm Your Santa

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Rock And Roll Christmas

Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run

Bob Seger and The Last Heard - Sock It To Me Santa

Buchanan & Goodman - Santa and the Satellite

Sheb Wooley - Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater

Nathaniel Mayer - Mr. Santa Claus

The Trashmen - Dancin' with Santa

The Hepsters - Rockin' n' Rollin' with Santa Claus

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Funky Little Drummer Boy

Keb' Mo' - Jingle Bell Jamboree

Bill Evans - Peace Piece


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snoopydawg's picture

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He wants them to tell the truth about how well he has been doing for it. I too would like them to cover Biden’s real economy. Especially how there are more homeless people than ever during Biden. It’s gone up 12% while more billionaires are being created daily. No one should realistically be able to make a billion dollars almost overnight unless they are getting help.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/23/byli-d23.html

Of course Biden isn’t solely responsible for this because many republican administrations before him cut taxes on the rich whilst democrats made noise about it. But in the 3 times that they have held all branches of government not once have they tried to raise taxes on them again. And of course there was Obama bailing out the banks while letting homeowners sink or he let the banks steal people’s homes. And then his bailout allowed the rich to buy up foreclosed homes for pennies on the dollar…and now they are buying up whole neighborhoods.

Yeah so you media stenographers you should start asking Biden if his economy is so great why is this happening?

And let’s not forget how eager democrats were to dismantle all the increases in social programs that Trump gave them.

Happy Day and I hope that it’s peaceful.

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@snoopydawg

Biden's poll numbers. They knew damn well why people voted for Trump after Obama’s 2 terms. And why they are ready to vote for him again after just 2 years of Biden’s. I did better during Trump too.

There is an element of desperation in the response of the Democrats. They see no way to defeat Trump in 2024 other than to keep him off the ballot. They are staggered by the deep popular hostility to the Biden administration, the response among working people to its agenda of austerity and wage-cutting at home and massive war spending abroad.

A recent profile in the Washington Post was headlined “Biden said to be increasingly frustrated by dismal poll numbers.” The president is concerned not merely over his poor electoral standing but over the widespread popular rejection of the central policy of his administration—to expand and intensify the US intervention in Ukraine, now supplemented by the US embrace of Israeli genocide in Gaza. He is apparently befuddled that his enthusiasm for world war is not shared by the American people.

How many years did democrats run on issues that would help the working class and once they got in they just didn’t even bother to try. Abortion could have been settled under Clinton, Obama and now Biden, but as Obama said, it wasn’t a big concern. And now we have Powell who Biden appointed raising interest rates so high that regular folks can’t buy a home…I could go on, but y’all know my bitch by heart.

This guy thinks that Trump came this ",." close to overthrowing Biden and installing himself as president forever. Utter BS. What republicans did during the election certification was totally legal and democrats had done the same thing 5 times since Bush the lesser’s election. Remember how democrats told us that he would not leave the WH and yet he did on the day his term ended. To have an insurrection you have to have the military behind you and the media too. We know from 4 years that the media hated Trump (except for all the money they made because of him) and the military didn’t seem too fond of him either.

This too has something to with his numbers.

People are livid with Biden for continuing to arm and support Israel’s genocide and for throwing more billions into the Ukraine fiasco and just now signing the biggest military budget in history just after kicking poor people off the social programs and restarting student loan payments. But sure let’s hear from Biden wondering why the media isn’t covering his great economy.

Yeah I’m in a mood today. I think I have a good reason.

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joe shikspack's picture

@snoopydawg

i hope your christmas was better than the news is. Smile

i think it's funny that biden can't seem to figure out why people don't want to vote for him. i don't suppose that it will lead to any reflection on his part, though.

have a good one!

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TheOtherMaven's picture

@joe shikspack

which is another damn good reason to vote the bum out, since it's impossible to oust him any other way.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

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snoopydawg's picture

@humphrey

The Zionists have totally embraced what the Nazis did to their ancestors. I’d love to hear Biden and Blinken and everyone in congress defend their actions. Meanwhile Europe is cracking down on pro Palestinian rhetoric. People who support their right to defend themselves from the Zionists are being arrested and told that they can no longer post anything that supports the Palestinians. Free speech be damned if it goes against Israel. I’m stopping here because I feel another rant coming on…

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joe shikspack's picture

@humphrey

i hope i see the day when netanyahu goes to the hague in chains.

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QMS's picture

most are way off my radar which is good
if I hear one more 'classic' crooner in less
than a year, it will be too soon. Bah.

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joe shikspack's picture

@QMS

yeah, i am tired of hearing the same 10 songs everywhere i go at zmastime, too.

glad to put up some better music.

have a good one!

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snoopydawg's picture

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being open to a ceasefire to freeze of the Ukraine war.

Mr. Putin has been signaling through intermediaries since at least September that he is open to a cease-fire that freezes the fighting along the current lines, far short of his ambitions to dominate Ukraine, two former senior Russian officials close to the Kremlin and American and international officials who have received the message from Mr. Putin’s envoys say.

The adults who are 'back in charge' are dumb as rocks and they have no idea how to do diplomacy. Heh…maybe once Trump is president again things will calm down. We didn’t have this problem when he was president. But it’s too bad that he let democrats and the pentagon bully him into sending weapons to Ukraine.

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joe shikspack's picture

@snoopydawg

that's a pretty big maybe. the deep state and the military were not so good at following trump's orders.

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@snoopydawg Of course, Putin does not in fact have any interest in negotiating anything at this time. The West can't be trusted, and nobody is offering any terms that are remotely close to what he wants.

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“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon

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Thanks for all you do.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

joe shikspack's picture

@on the cusp

thanks! merry christmas (or whatever you celebrate) to you and tloyl. thanks for all you do.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4376890-biden-orders-strikes...

President Biden ordered strikes on three locations in Iraq after three U.S. service members were wounded, one critically, in an attack on Erbil Air Base early Christmas morning credited to a militia group backed by Iran.

In a statement Monday, National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said Biden directed the strikes against three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, which claimed credit for the initial attack against U.S. personnel.

The groups, the U.S. said, are all connected to Iran.

The attack was carried out by a one-way attack drone, according to the statement, which said the three locations were “focused specifically on unmanned aerial drone activities.”

The statement said Biden ordered the retaliatory strikes after learning of the attack that wounded the U.S. service members.

“President Biden was immediately briefed on the attack this morning, and he ordered the Department of Defense to prepare response options against those responsible. Those options were then presented to the President during a call this afternoon with Secretary of Defense Austin and members of the President’s national security team,” the statement read.

“During that call, the President directed strikes against three locations utilized by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups focused specifically on unmanned aerial drone activities,” the statement continued.

I doubt that he ever considered simply removing the troops so that they would be safe.

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@humphrey in harm's way, but still put them in harm's way.
sigh...

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

dystopian's picture

Hi Joe,

Happy Boxing Day!

Thanks for the great Christmas soundscape! Bunch of gems there! Thanks!

have a good one!

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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

joe shikspack's picture

@dystopian

i hope that you had a great holiday. happy day after food coma day!

have a good one!

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