Open Thread - 1/12/24 - TGIF Stuff 'n' Things

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 8:06am

As of the time of this writin' and composin', WWIII has not been declared. Now, I am happy about that, but then, I am not investing in Raytheon, and the like. I do not think I would enjoy the smell of radiation in the morning. I also like people, butterflies, and non-poisonous air and water.

I have not, at time of publishing this OT, read or heard about Israel's response to S. Africa's presentation this morning in the World Court. I hope someone can get us some links to their presentation. Suggestion: I figure MSM will not ignore/bury it, as they did the S.A. 84 page genocide
allegation.

Therefore, easy peasy.

One of my thrills on my trip to South Africa, besides spotting the male lion the guides missed, was an early morning rain, totally unexpected in the dry season.

And now, we turn our attention to politics, which sort of drifts into "I like the grifters who accept bribes in the Blue camp", or "I like the grifters who accept bribes in the Red camp".

Once upon a time, criminals were the heroes of the Little People, criminals who actually made a tiny difference in the lives of the 99%.

My grandparents adored these two "heroes", wished them well, were crushed when there spree ended. The song below is the Rich Man's version, not at ALL what they meant to us. Still, a fun song. The movie was actually good. Remember it? I do.

Other bad asses:

I sent my secretary home today with something for her kids to do to earn a reward.

Instructions: Define the following 10 words. Write a sentence using each word.

All words started with the letter "a". I should get the results from the 9 and 12 yr olds Monday. We shall see. Not sure why I did this, but it brought out the inner teacher in me from days long past. Public ed is just so horrible, it makes me want to do something, for some kid, somewhere. It is always the little things, isn't it?

I have to start pulling together my tax prep stuff for my preparer, and this weekend will be gathering documents, adding up monthly expenses, and feeling like I am being threatened with a whip that didn't remotely show itself to Hunter Biden. Sigh... I am not in the right crowd.

Obviously, this is stuff 'n' things at my acreage in East Texas, by the Sam Houston National Forest, don't get me started on Sam Houston, please. I will give him credit for this:

Now, after gagging on that, how about this?

A song that inspires cooking in my house, like barbecue, like grilled steaks with Mesquite charcoals:

And now you know why, ah haa, even the Rolling Stones knew who was King.

Ok. My brain drivel is not your brain drivel. Yours is likely completely your way, and way more interesting to the c99 crowd than mine, so let 'er rip!

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Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 8:20am

Good morning, good people!

I hope everyone is doing great.
It is windy here, ahead of ridiculously cold weather next week.
I believe it is Trump's fault!
What's going on in your neck of the woods?

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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

Submitted by Lookout on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 8:29am

Live ICJ case here...

The ruling will be interesting.

Cold weather due here next week too. Not looking forward to it, but it will pass. Will have to mulch and cover winter crops to survive the 11F predicted Wed. AM. Managed to get them through 5F last year so hopefully not wasted effort.

Well, onward through the fog. Thanks for the OT, and hope everyone has a great MLK weekend!

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

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 10:33am

Good morning, LO!

@Lookout Let's see if anyone will accuse the Israelis at court of being racist.
I hope there will be some good commentary of the proceedings this evening.
Well, everybody is closed Monday in observance of MLK day. A 3 day weekend, and I can't come up with anywhere to go, or anything to do, except to stay warm.
Take care of the garden, friend.
And thanks for the live stream.

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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

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 9:25am

Hey, good morning

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Is Friday a religious rite? Maybe for the 9 to 5'ers in the world.
Per Texas Bush: "Is our children learning?" Therefore all
students left behind laws. Priorities.

Went to the cookbook club last night. It was soup themed.
Several good ones. I made a cornbread from scratch instead.

Thanks for the tunes and OT OtC!

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 10:48am

Fridays are on the cusp of

@QMS fun and frolic for we working stiffs.
Ah, soup. Growing up, we ate almost no soup. Dad just couldn't choke it down. It brought back horrible memories of his childhood when "soup" was some vegetable and some little clump of meat in a pot of boiling water. It was never enough. He spent his first 15 years of life not knowing what it felt like to be full. When I eat soup, it is like eating exotic cuisine.
I called Dear One Wednesday afternoon to see if he had decided to make my cornbread from scratch or a package. I reminded him it was in the vows, on page 7. He said page 7 was missing. I reminded him I have a copy. He declared he was on strike, although he could not cite what page gave him that right.
Have some fun this weekend, friend!

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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

Submitted by MrWebster on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 12:41pm

Soup was a measure of good or hard times.

@on the cusp My mother made a number of soups. In particular I remember beet soup (not borsch per se) and cabbage soup. If times were good, meat on the side. But always lots of buttered "black bread" for dipping into the broth. If hamburger was available stuffed cabbage with rice stuffing and meat spread in. My mother was a genius of simplicity in cooking. I used to buy a lot of spices for my own cooking. Eventually, got rid of them and just now use only salt and pepper. That is all my mother used.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 10:06am

Good morning otc. Helluva multitopical concert you

posted, will keep my day rolling. Serious storm may be rolling in here, nobody's certain yet.

Team zion says S.A.'s case took everything out of context. How does one take bombs and bullets out of context? Sure beats mer.

Meanwhile, in keeping with the "theme" of things, I present:

Info Bits:

Vivek Ramasmarmy's R.I. nomination papers contain the signatures of deceased people and a large number other invalid signatures in some areas:
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/11/ramaswamys-nomination-papers-signed-by... quotes Boston Globe:

The Warwick Board of Canvassers reported finding the names of "several deceased voters" on Ramaswamy's nomination papers, and the Coventry Board of Canvassers reported that it has invalidated "an unusually high number" of signatures on Ramaswamy's nomination papers, said Ben Smit

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Goopers are threatening to revolt against the Revolting speaker: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/11/here-we-go-again-republicans-threaten-...
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Alabama prisoners' bodies missing hearts and other organs, say their families

(https://boingboing.net/2024/01/11/alabama-prisoners-bodies-missing-heart...) which leads one, at first, to suspect organ harvesting, but, upon reflection upon the difficulties and time frames, I tend to suspect gouls or pig farmers.
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Definitely worth a read is

Lost city found in Amazon may have housed 100,000 before being abandoned and reclaimed by rainforest

which has a great photo and information as to a complex urbanized civilization: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/11/lost-city-found-in-amazon-may-have-hou... I have elsewhere read of other discoveries of similar lost city networks discovered by LIDAR, but can't recall where, perhaps in the Yucatan.
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So far, most of these somehow involve the dead, but not this, also well worth reading: seeming dark-primordial galaxy discovered; https://www.space.com/dark-primordial-galaxy-no-stars-green-bank-observa... ------

Now cue the Dead:

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 --

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 12:21pm

Ramasnoodle

@enhydra lutris is such a weirdo, who's to say he isn't holding seances and getting those deceased to sign their names? If he was respectful to anyone, it would be a ghost.
Wouldn't you love to go exploring in the rain forest and check out that discovered city? Too bad Ecuador has become so dangerous. The laser technology used to find it is simply fascinating!
Well, the new dark galaxy is fascinating, too, except the scientists should be embarrassed to have to admit they put in erroneous info that resulted in the accidental discovery.
I dread the upcoming freeze. I hope your heat pump works as well as mine.
I think I know where my thermal undies are stored. I hope they still fit.
Thanks for dropping in with stuff 'n' things.
Oh, my friend, your top priority is not to fall, ok?

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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

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 1:30pm

Noodle ramen

@on the cusp
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fits me like a cheap soup.
Like Mr. Webster, soup was always reflected in the relative wealth of
the time. During periods of poverty, thin soup was like mana from heaven.
Whenever there was spare change, a sausage or an apple would show-up.

The librarian made a taco soup. With chips, cheese and hot sauce on the side.
Chicken based, good for a cold. Favorite was the split pea with ham.
Lots of salt and peppa!

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 4:29pm

My secretary makes taco soup.

@QMS One of these days I will try it.
I do not remember Mom making any soup other than chicken and vegetables, or chicken and rice, or chicken and noodles. I like chicken and veggie in a heavy cream base. Seems if it isn't fattening, I don't make it!
During the hard times, I have eaten a can of pork and beans with a piece of toast, feeling thrilled to have it on hand. I hope I and all of us here never reach that level of food insecurity. When we were young, we could handle it. It would be very difficult now.

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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

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 1:34pm

Heh. Would love to get back to the rainforests and

@on the cusp the Andes, especially to explore such a place. We took a side trip to the dig at Caracol when we were in Belize; even in steady rain it was pretty fantastic. Somehow the dig was more fantastic that some of the established fully excavates sites that we saw. Not as cool as some of the birds, though.

Don't know whether to answer that last line with I've just seen a face, I fall to pieces or this

be well and have a great weekend friend

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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 --

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 3:00pm

Your song pick

@enhydra lutris was the best.
I saw both Mayan pyramids and sophisticated abandoned ancient cities, but all I saw in the jungle was the villages where people were still living a very primitive lifestyle.
Wish I could get back.

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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

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 12:23pm

The teaching project is moving along.

So far, both kids have found the definitions. The girl is way more excited about it than the boy, but 12 yr olds will be 12 year olds.

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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

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 2:19pm

According to his family

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Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison.

"I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son. The responsibility of this tragedy is the dictator Zelensky with the concurrence of a senile American President, Joe Biden,” his father Gonzalo Lira Sr. wrote in a note published by The Grayzone.

https://www.rt.com/news/590559-gonzalo-lira-dead/

Another journalist killed to maintain somambulace in the media.

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 3:05pm

I just watched a video with

@QMS Lira, Sr. trying to get his son out of prison before he died from medical neglect and torture.
I remember wondering if Lira was the real deal. How did he last as long as he did speaking out against the Ukraine government? How is it he disappeared for several days, then was allowed to continue his criticisms? Well, I was mistaken. His death proves me wrong.
He apparently died a horrid, painful death.
May he rest in peace.
The US bears as much responsibility as the Ukie bastards.

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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

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 3:11pm

This video?

@on the cusp

Ep. 47 Gonzalo Lira is an American citizen who’s been tortured in a Ukrainian prison since July, for the crime of criticizing Zelensky. Biden officials approve of this, because they’d like to apply the same standard here. The media agree. Here’s a statement from Gonzalo Lira’s… pic.twitter.com/4H2otHhYHi

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 9, 2023

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 3:30pm

I hadn't seen Carlson's video.

@snoopydawg Last night, I watched a video at The Duran. They taped the video yesterday!
Nobody in our government gave Mr. Lira any help. They ignored him.
Unbelievable.
I will watch the Carlson video. Thanks for dropping it in for us.

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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

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 9:46pm

Unbelievable? After the active Assange persecution?

@on the cusp

Not unbelievable, just inconceivably evil. We are ruled by monsters, and are passively complicit in their abusive rule. Yes it can happen here, is happening here.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 10:12pm

He was a US citizen.

@TheOtherMaven It is, to me, unbelievable we did not give protection to a US citizen.
We went to extraordinary lengths to get the female athlete out of a Russian prison.
I suppose our government doesn't give a shit about getting caught with drugs where such an act legitimately results in prison, but our fine government will let us be tortured to death if we criticizes an ally.
It is similar to Assange, but he is not a US citizen.
How you can be accused of treason when you are a non-citizen is a discussion for another day.
Hope you have a great weekend!

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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

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 3:09pm

RIP

@QMS

BREAKING: It is with great sadness I must announce that Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968, passed away in a hospital according to his father, who has been fighting to get his son much-needed medical attention for the past weeks.

Here is a hand-written note from Gonzalo which I… pic.twitter.com/jY8Mh0xQV3

— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) January 12, 2024

BREAKING: It is with great sadness I must announce that Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
, passed away in a hospital according to his father, who has been fighting to get his son much-needed medical attention for the past weeks.

Here is a hand-written note from Gonzalo which I received on January 4: "I have had double pneumonia (both lungs) as well as pneumothorax and a very severe case of edema (swelling of the body). All this started in mid-October, but was ignored by the prison. They only admitted I had pneumonia at a Dec. 22 hearing. I am about to have a procedure to reduce the edema pressure in my lungs, which is causing me extreme shortness of breath, to the point of passing out after minimal activity, or even just talking for 2 minutes."

"I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son. The responsibility of this tragedy is the dictator Zelensky with the concurrence of a senile American President, Joe Biden," Gonzalo's father wrote.

I can find no words.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 10:57am

About RFK Jr. as a real-life version of Star Wars' Maul

In a previous post, I suggested that RFK Jr. was like a character in Star Wars named "Maul." Here's what I said:

He sounds educated and convincing and he's certainly capable of expressing some truths ignored by others, but he's gone over to the Dark Side. The end-result is that he will cause a lot of chaos. That is what he, like "Maul," is good for. The real question about RFK Jr.'s candidacy is one of whether anything of value will arise out of the chaos he causes.

So, anyway, here's the RFK Jr. skinny, from Max Blumenthal:

The clip below is from the amazing Season 7 of the cartoon series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Star Wars was a lot of fun before Disney ruined it. Anyway, here's Maul, the villain, trying unsuccessfully to cure Ahsoka Tano of her naivete by telling her the real story. He's like RFK Jr. in this regard -- tells important truths but is generally wedded to evil:

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"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 10:13pm

Just too bad,

@Cassiodorus but the money got to him.
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

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 12:53am

The fact that he HAS money, however --

@on the cusp -- means that we will see him on ballots. This is, indeed, Cornel West's problem. I'd be surprised if I saw him on my Oregon November ballot.

As I've also said before, RFK Jr. is a chaos agent. The Democrats are deluded fools to think that campaigning for Joe Biden's re-election is any sort of move toward "normalcy." It's in line with their Trump Derangement Syndrome, their falling in line with the Blinken/ Nuland/ Sullivan/ Austin delusions about Ukraine and/or China, and (going back) their belief in Russiagate and their belief that nothing could be done about the obstinacy of Manchin/ Synema in blocking Build Back Better. Like I showed in 2020, their mythology is easy to expose. I'm surprised I haven't seen it yet in this election cycle. The godlike Left, you see, will singlehandedly re-elect Joe Biden to save the world from Hitler Two, who is Trump.

The big difference this year is that large chunks of the electorate are losing their faith in this mythology. And RFK Jr. is running. So we will have chaos.

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"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate

Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 11:02am

I am not convinced

@Cassiodorus RFK Jr. is capable of causing much chaos. His views are shifting toward status quo with each passing day. As an example, his initial idea to disband the CIA has shaped up as a plan to break it up and compartmentalize it.
Some political analyst I watched this week, and I have no idea who it was now, suggested he was more likely to peel off Republican voters from Trump, than Dem voters from Biden.
West does not have the capital or the organization to get his name on ballots. He is a brilliant man, I take nothing away from his exemplary accomplishments as an intellectual, but when it comes to politics, he is very uniformed or ill informed. He needed help, and he got none.

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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

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 01/14/2024 - 7:33am

I guess I am not understanding

@on the cusp why anyone would vote for Genocide Joe at this point unless they had a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome or were so old they received their information from TV news or print newspapers. So while RFK Jr. "takes votes away" from Trump, Biden "takes votes away" from Biden. And then you have Trump's impending prosecution.

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"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate

Submitted by on the cusp on Sun, 01/14/2024 - 10:48am

I think the TDS

@Cassiodorus is the easy explanation, but digging deeper for real reasons to vote blue no matter who is very difficult, with machinations hidden from the voters, everything done behind closed doors and kept hush hush.
When I was young, Rs were a minority. Consequently, primaries were chock full of candidates, Ds fought it out, and voters had the chance to present the best D on the ballot.
Nowadays, a person challenging the DNC choice is considered to be some agent or plant trying to get a nomination for the single purpose of disuniting the D party. It shows weakness and dissension in the ranks, so let's just make it easy and normal for a committee to do the selecting for the party.
The prosecution of Trump is a display of prosecutorial corruption. It is going to backfire, and tends to encourage some people to give him support for that reason, only.

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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

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 4:15pm

And about my comment that libertarians don't like Nikki Haley

Watch this:

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"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 10:15pm

Good for Rand!

@Cassiodorus Nikki is the End of the US. Dangerously crazy.
Enjoy your weekend, Cass!

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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

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 12:55am

Thanks OTC!

@on the cusp I am not, to reiterate, a believer that Nikki Haley will be the eventual nominee.

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"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate

Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 11:09am

Me, either!

@Cassiodorus Not sure what purpose she is serving for her funders, but what she has accomplished as far as I am concerned, is making damn wars the world over seem her top priority.
I am not a fan girl, fer shure.

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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

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 5:18pm

Thanks for the OT, otc

I like the way you meander down the road.

I've always enjoyed 'road' songs. Here are a few ...

Stay warm

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 5:41pm

It is cold, janis b,

@janis b and the cold front isn't here yet! I get called a cold weather wimp.
Well, that is justified.
Ordinarily, I find some concert to attend fairly locally over this holiday, but the only ones I could locate are open air venues. No way I could endure the cold and enjoy the performance.
Here is a crazy road song for ya, chica!

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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

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 5:56pm

Definitely justified

@on the cusp @on the cusp

I spent almost half my life in cold winter climates, and I'm sure I couldn't tolerate them anymore.

If there's a concert you have to see, that would warm your heart bring a hot water bottle with you ; )

Thanks for the music, it was enjoyed.

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 6:31pm

There can never be too much music,

@janis b can there?
It is normal for this area to have 7 to 10 days of freezing temperatures. We are going to have 6, maybe 7 this next week. We still have the rest of January and all of February to get through, so this might be a record setting winter.
I have visited Europe during winter several times. All my extreme cold weather clothing and boots were bought for those trips. I never dreamed I would wear them at home!

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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

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 6:52pm

Nice to know you are prepared

@on the cusp

Do you have fireplace or woodturning stove?

Music!

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 6:58pm

Tami Neilson, a Canadian-born New Zealand

@janis b

country & soul singer/songwriter.

She had a really interesting talk about the history and contributors to c&w music on the radio yesterday.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/search/results?q=tami+neilson&commit=Search

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 7:22pm

It's all about music on national radio these summer days,

@janis b

when most of the population is on a long vacation. I spent a two-hour round trip in the car yesterday when I heard the Tami Neilson interview. The wild west coast beach I drove to was hardly worth going to, as the sand was burning hot, and a good distance from the parking lot to the water in the relentless sun, but the car ride was comfortable ; ).

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 8:58pm

Sadly, country-western is dead, over, fini;

@janis b

One can't improve on perfection, so everybody will have to move on:

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 --

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 9:38pm

Hi el

@enhydra lutris

What makes you say c&w is dead? According to Tami Nelson it’s still alive thanks to those before and the power of current audiences.

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 9:45pm

...

@janis b

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 9:56am

Well, you know, you can't ...

@janis b

Heh.

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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 --

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 9:49am

If, as alleged in the song, "You Never Called Me

@janis b

By My Name" is THE perfect Country-Western song, then there is nothing else for anybody to do, no place else to go, etc. The claim was pretty much just an excuse to play that song.

Thanks for the additional videos.

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 --

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 01/13/2024 - 6:30pm

I understand now, el

@enhydra lutris

I can be a little thick at times.

Some more Marlon ...

The best concert I’ve ever been to was a Marlon Williams performance almost 3 years ago at a fairly intimate venue, The Hollywood Theatre in Auckland.