The Evening Blues - 8-17-26
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 08/17/2026 - 3:00pm
No news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Robert Johnson
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features delta bluesman Robert Johnson. Enjoy!
Robert Johnson - Traveling Riverside Blues
No News or Opinion
Evening folks! I am taking a vacation this week, so please enjoy the tunes!
A Little Night Music
Robert Johnson - Preachin Blues
Robert Johnson - Love In Vain
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues
Robert Johnson - Drunken Hearted Man (Take 1)
Robert Johnson - I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
Robert Johnson - From Four Until Late
Robert Johnson - They're Red Hot
Robert Johnson - Dead Shrimp Blues
Robert Johnson - Ramblin' on My Mind
Robert Johnson - Kind Hearted Woman Blues
Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Comments
Good report from BP
Enjoy, your vacation, JS!
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Good evening Soryang. Thanks for that item, but I have a
wee quibble. The problem isn't that we chose to rely on messypac, it's not that we weren't sufficiently prepared, it's that we were overextended because we are out there meddling in everybody else's affairs. We don't need a 7 ocean fleet, we just need to mind our own goddam business.
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 --
messypac?
don't know that one. I agree with your point though. They shouldn't be there in the first place.
Here's another one-
USS Benfold Was Stalled in the South China Sea for Four Days After Engineering Casualty
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Military Sealift Command Pacific - MSCPAC, pronounced
Messypac by those who worked there or worked with them. At least some were headquartered in Oakland, CA, civilian owned and operated Navy Grey cargo and support ships replacing the Navy support ships that were used during WWII and the first part of the cold war. They were some sort of military-private joint venture.
be well and have a good one
edited MSCPAC to complete it
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 --
Enjoy your vakay joe
.
and thanks for the Robert Johnson!
Zionism is a social disease
Have fun!
We will pitch in with some news!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Interesting...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Watching this clip from Due Dissidence was fun
You get a picture here of what an especially sly character this Ta-Nehisi Coates is. He spent a fair amount of time building political capital with the creatures of money (certifiably, Obama, and his adoring fans), and then, when he'd finally made it clear that the spotlight was on him, he said, "genocide is bad." And all of the creatures of money, all of the Nice Liberals With Big Egos, are like: "Omigod someone who believes in something!" When in doubt, scream and shout, run around in circles, panic.
This individual Full Slack, whom Keaton quotes, is of interest.
Or here's an alternative speculation: maybe Ta-Nehisi Coates knew what he was doing all along?
"Progress is not possible without deviation" -- Frank Zappa
Good evening Joe, have a great vacay.
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 --
And in the
“Is our children learning?” Shrubya school of schooling, we have this jewel:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/kentucky-middle-school-ai
The jokes, as they say, just write themselves. Now, there’s a teacher who should probably be pursuing a career change, soonest. Perhaps as a proofreader for Fox News…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Some Judge
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Let's see what the Hawaiian shirts guys say
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Some MOATS
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Impatient wizardry: prequel explaining current choice of leaders
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chosen-2
Robert Johnson IS the Blues! Even an amateur
fan (me) of the genre knows it!
Just finished reading a review/comment thread of Paul Simon, Graceland, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The comments got into a big argument about appropriation and stealing. Speaking of artists ripping each other off, big deal. Robert Johnson has been ripped off for decades! It's called influencing, and every creative human does it. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery! There is a line somewhere separating it from outright thievery, but that is a tough trick finding that line. JMO. As far as current events go, I'm on permanent vacation. I'm not learning anything new, so what's the point? Rec'd as always for the tunes. 
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
It is that whole lawsuit mentality
.
Maybe a sense of entitlement. Sure, performer X made a song
into a hit, so what gives you the right to their proceeds? Free
money is what it sounds like to me. Yeah, I had that idea 20 years
before anybody commercialized it. But I didn't bother to patent it.
I don't own the idea, so maybe a thousand people came up with the
same idea at the same time (funny how awareness spreads). What are
we going to do, go to court and pay lawyers all sorts of fees to prove
something? Sue me sue you blues.
Zionism is a social disease
George Harrison had mixed opinions on
money and taxing it. The other Beatles, not quite so much.
Hope you are staying cool, Q, and everyone else.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
having a great time...
thanks everybody for pitching in!