@Shahryar

i have been a huge fan of chuck berry's since i was a kid. i put together this playlist (and one that will follow) by avoiding his big hits. all of the versions are chess versions rather than later re-recordings that were done for other labels. there's some amazing stuff that failed to get near the top of the charts.

have great weekend with the crows!

my favorite of his

"Deep Feeling" is on the "After School Session" LP, an album we often play when we're hanging out in the backyard with the crows. They walk like Chuck!

@gjohnsit

sadly, they are probably just clearing the decks so that they can get down to business with the adversary that they want to fight: china.

Yemen

A new proposal from Democratic lawmakers would bar U.S. firms from providing maintenance support to Saudi Arabia’s air force, an attempt to impose new limits on American involvement in the Gulf kingdom’s long war in Yemen.

The bill from Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) and Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Rules Committee, would prohibit the State Department for a period of two years from granting licenses to American companies that maintain aircraft “belonging to military units that carried out offensive airstrikes inside Yemen over the last year,” according to a copy of the measure obtained by The Washington Post. The bill would also suspend current licenses during that time.

Iraq

US combat forces to leave Iraq by end of year 2022 – US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday sealed an agreement formally ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after US troops were sent to the country.

Coupled with Biden’s withdrawal of the last American forces in Afghanistan by the end of August, the Democratic president is completing US combat missions in the two wars that then-President George W Bush began under his watch.