video of the acceptance speech by Alex Lifeson of Rush when they were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Justly deserved. His speech was epic and reminds me of everything.
@Big Al
now and I've never been a democrat. The only reason I ever went there was because at the time it was a good place to oppose the Bush wars, which didn't last long at that conservative fucking quagmire. I'm out of place, man. That's the way it is.
video of the acceptance speech by Alex Lifeson of Rush when they were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Justly deserved. His speech was epic and reminds me of everything.
video of the acceptance speech by Alex Lifeson of Rush when they were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Justly deserved. His speech was epic and reminds me of everything.
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How can I measure up to anyone now
After such a love as this?
Thanks Big Al, I wasn't sure where to put this comment, it could fit in a bunch of recent essays I think. Unfortunately. In fact yesterday I think I said something like "flushing sound". lol
This is kind of local CA-05, I posted in the EB when the glory hole overfloweth, now this: Millions of gallons of sewage water poured into streams near Lake Berryessa
Two of the state’s four biggest sewage spills this winter came from an unlikely source – a tiny wastewater district near the rolling green hills and vineyards of Napa County.
The Lake Berryessa Resort Improvement District sent 6 million gallons of wastewater into streams, according to a state database. Only one utility district had a bigger spill than Berryessa, and that was the result of a PG&E power failure. The largest Berryessa spill was caused by a failure of its own system.
The wastewater went into tributaries of Lake Berryessa, which provides drinking water for Vallejo, Vacaville and other cities and flows into Putah Creek along the southern boundary of Yolo County. The lake is also a popular recreation spot whose surrounding area was designated in 2015 as the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
Dianne Feinstein
Senior Senator from California
Since Nov 10, 1992 (Next Election in 2018) Democrat
Kamala Harris
Junior Senator from California
Since Jan 3, 2017 (Next Election in 2022) Democrat
Mike Thompson
Representative for California's 5th congressional district
Since Jan 3, 2013 (Next Election in 2018) Democrat
All I have to do is go outside and see the place is falling down around us, I think they should get out more, and not on some damned listening tour! Try living without shelter or access to clean water and sanitation for at least a couple days, then let's talk. I am beginning to despise millionaires like never before. Who the fuck are you? I'd really like to know. Kinda NOT the ones who are maintaining infrastructure, that would be NOBODY.
P.S. How'd they get so rich? Real Estate? Law? "Wise investments?" Hard work, yeah right. oof Thanks for Working Man by the way, that was healing to listen to. Rush, rock geniuses, love.
And another thing! heh I want to tell the story of the person I met who used to take the water samples at the boat ramp in Cloverdale, but I'm too pissed off at the moment. Let me just say she had a B.S. and new how to take samples, her replacement not so much. http://www.sonoma-county.org/health/services/freshwater.asp Scroll down and click for the State Guidelines pdf, it's dead I think. I can't even find the original document anymore, but gave up real quick. It used to be a draft from 2011, not very substantial. Perhaps is updated somewhere else now. I hope so. Thanks.
You got it. Lawyers working in (working over is more like it!) finance, insurance, and real estate.
The last people regular working folks want "representing" them in government.
How can I measure up to anyone now
After such a love as this?
Thanks Big Al, I wasn't sure where to put this comment, it could fit in a bunch of recent essays I think. Unfortunately. In fact yesterday I think I said something like "flushing sound". lol
This is kind of local CA-05, I posted in the EB when the glory hole overfloweth, now this: Millions of gallons of sewage water poured into streams near Lake Berryessa
Two of the state’s four biggest sewage spills this winter came from an unlikely source – a tiny wastewater district near the rolling green hills and vineyards of Napa County.
The Lake Berryessa Resort Improvement District sent 6 million gallons of wastewater into streams, according to a state database. Only one utility district had a bigger spill than Berryessa, and that was the result of a PG&E power failure. The largest Berryessa spill was caused by a failure of its own system.
The wastewater went into tributaries of Lake Berryessa, which provides drinking water for Vallejo, Vacaville and other cities and flows into Putah Creek along the southern boundary of Yolo County. The lake is also a popular recreation spot whose surrounding area was designated in 2015 as the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
Dianne Feinstein
Senior Senator from California
Since Nov 10, 1992 (Next Election in 2018) Democrat
Kamala Harris
Junior Senator from California
Since Jan 3, 2017 (Next Election in 2022) Democrat
Mike Thompson
Representative for California's 5th congressional district
Since Jan 3, 2013 (Next Election in 2018) Democrat
All I have to do is go outside and see the place is falling down around us, I think they should get out more, and not on some damned listening tour! Try living without shelter or access to clean water and sanitation for at least a couple days, then let's talk. I am beginning to despise millionaires like never before. Who the fuck are you? I'd really like to know. Kinda NOT the ones who are maintaining infrastructure, that would be NOBODY.
P.S. How'd they get so rich? Real Estate? Law? "Wise investments?" Hard work, yeah right. oof Thanks for Working Man by the way, that was healing to listen to. Rush, rock geniuses, love.
And another thing! heh I want to tell the story of the person I met who used to take the water samples at the boat ramp in Cloverdale, but I'm too pissed off at the moment. Let me just say she had a B.S. and new how to take samples, her replacement not so much. http://www.sonoma-county.org/health/services/freshwater.asp Scroll down and click for the State Guidelines pdf, it's dead I think. I can't even find the original document anymore, but gave up real quick. It used to be a draft from 2011, not very substantial. Perhaps is updated somewhere else now. I hope so. Thanks.
The PlumpJack Group, whose ownership includes Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, announced on Thursday it purchased the Ladera Vineyards winemaking facility and 82-acre vineyard atop Howell Mountain in Napa County.
Are they farmers now? Did you see Juan Browne's latest Oroville Update? It is chock full of information again, and the report before it was astonishing to me. Data security is a thing, it's important. Knowing how to redact a memo properly is important, if only just to not look incompetent when you are presenting to the public. At least they are trying, transparency is what people want. It's a bummer farmers downstream are paying the price for high volumes of water now though, never forget downstream. Thanks
After all those years of being snubbed by Jan Wenner's personal classic rock club, his colorful stream of gibberish summed up not only the disgust he probably felt but by all those who are sick of the bullshit prestige, overblown importance and insider pettiness of these types of events/decorum, which could be applied toward any industry and especially politics.
Rush is also a glaring example of fans vs. critics. Never embraced by the Rock intelligentsia and the Gatekeepers, but worshipped by the fans. Few critical accolades and lots of gratuitous shots taken, but they were consistently selling out 17k arenas all over the country, for damn near 40 years now! During much of that stretch they would release an album every year or two and then hit the road, be out on long tours, playing such intensely complex music. Name another band who was that consistent.
Just like the divide between the majority 99% and the media pundit/politician class in DC. We know the truth and are living it, while they prevaricate lies and pander promises. As Lifeson chose to illustrate the venality of those in power everywhere, our politicians may as well be speaking in gibberish all the time. But we know their gibberish is code language to their donors, that they will be protected while we give the unwashed minions false hope and dreams.
Soooo many memories of Rush...
First saw them on the Hemispheres Tour in 1979. From then on I didn't miss a tour until the early 90's. Every tour as an event for we teenagers. Packed cars driving to the Coliseum, and once taking the railroad in with a railroad car full of suburban Rush freaks (mostly young, male, aspiring musician or geek) sparring trivia and drinking Molson. I've got a couple of signed tour programs.
Funny, they came up on my iPod shuffle yesterday and I marveled again at how amazing they were. A amazing live bootleg of them live in 1980 doing "Natural Science," from the album that first made them a presence on AOR, "Permanent Waves." I remember that summer well. All of a sudden it seemed my favorite little, secret, obscure Canadian Trio were all over the radio. Unfortunately I don't really remember that show so well, because someone offered my friend and I a hit from a bowl of weed at the Nassau Coliseum and I was still stoned (slightly) until the day after.
Yes, Rush. Funny, just having written that. Was looking on YouTube for this clip and up came Geddy Lee with Yes at the R&R Hall of Fame, just a few weeks ago (guess he filled in for the late Chris Squire). Man, that's another band, for and from another time...
Dig this too:
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FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
now but the best was in Portland, Me. at the civic center. Start of a US tour and they were working the bugs out. They ended up re-doing half a dozen songs and it turned into a three and a half hour marathon! When they came out for The Encore, they told us that since we had been so patient with them(HA!) that they were gonna jam for a bit.
Boy! Did they ever!
If you want to see something of their legend, check out the video from their first performance Ever in Brazil(I believe). Virtuosity, stamina and absolute CRAZY adulation from More than 300,000 fans!
Insanity.
On another note, registered Dem here in Cali to vote for the Bern and promptly got purged After the primary so, no Ballot for Me in the general election! Fucking vote nazis.
peace
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"We could have—and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right."
Also:
"There's no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There's no contractual obligation here...it's not a situation where a promise has been made that is an enforceable promise."
Also:
"You have a charter that says you have to be -- where the party has adopted a principle of evenhandedness, and just to get the language exactly right, that they would be evenhanded and impartial, I believe, is the exact language. And, you know, that's not self-defining, your Honor. I mean that's kind of like, you know, saying, Who's a Baptist?
You know, I mean, for your Honor to wade into that, you would really have to -- whether the party was evenhanded or not, whether they gave each side equal debate time, and whether their hiring decisions reflected in some measure a bias towards Secretary Clinton, these are all issues that courts -- really would drag this Court right into the political squabbles, and really there'd be no way constitutionally to offer redress for -- even for what they are claiming."
"We could have—and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right."
Also:
"There's no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There's no contractual obligation here...it's not a situation where a promise has been made that is an enforceable promise."
Also:
"You have a charter that says you have to be -- where the party has adopted a principle of evenhandedness, and just to get the language exactly right, that they would be evenhanded and impartial, I believe, is the exact language. And, you know, that's not self-defining, your Honor. I mean that's kind of like, you know, saying, Who's a Baptist?
You know, I mean, for your Honor to wade into that, you would really have to -- whether the party was evenhanded or not, whether they gave each side equal debate time, and whether their hiring decisions reflected in some measure a bias towards Secretary Clinton, these are all issues that courts -- really would drag this Court right into the political squabbles, and really there'd be no way constitutionally to offer redress for -- even for what they are claiming."
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It's Saturday night and I had to find a way to share this
video of the acceptance speech by Alex Lifeson of Rush when they were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Justly deserved. His speech was epic and reminds me of everything.
[video:https://youtu.be/sI5VuBzo-Qc]
But that's not all. I left Daily Kos about four years ago
now and I've never been a democrat. The only reason I ever went there was because at the time it was a good place to oppose the Bush wars, which didn't last long at that conservative fucking quagmire. I'm out of place, man. That's the way it is.
I saw them just
once. In Rottenchester. And glad I did.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Well, here we are n/t
No words
Fighting for democratic principles,... well, since forever
I think you're right.
Just let it ride.
The Rush video in my comment above is awesome btw. Anyone that wants to see the real Rush, there it is.
Like the teacher’s voice in Charlie Brown cartoon specials
“Wa wa wa, wa wa waanh?”
There is nothing that can be added to this essay.
It says it all.
Blah!
Hope you're enjoying your Saturday night!
I enjoyed Lifeson's response. It was refreshing, and complimented the "off-kilter charmer" of a film I just watched. …
[video:https://youtu.be/n8Xvsjy57X0]
More Rush ...
[video:https://youtu.be/yqHTql0XJow]
I spit out like a sewer hole Yet still recieve your kiss
Thanks Big Al, I wasn't sure where to put this comment, it could fit in a bunch of recent essays I think. Unfortunately. In fact yesterday I think I said something like "flushing sound". lol
This is kind of local CA-05, I posted in the EB when the glory hole overfloweth, now this:
Millions of gallons of sewage water poured into streams near Lake Berryessa
Ha! "That's the system." A failure of its own.
Here are the corporate tools representing CA-05: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/CA/5
All I have to do is go outside and see the place is falling down around us, I think they should get out more, and not on some damned listening tour! Try living without shelter or access to clean water and sanitation for at least a couple days, then let's talk. I am beginning to despise millionaires like never before. Who the fuck are you? I'd really like to know. Kinda NOT the ones who are maintaining infrastructure, that would be NOBODY.
P.S. How'd they get so rich? Real Estate? Law? "Wise investments?" Hard work, yeah right. oof Thanks for Working Man by the way, that was healing to listen to. Rush, rock geniuses, love.
And another thing! heh I want to tell the story of the person I met who used to take the water samples at the boat ramp in Cloverdale, but I'm too pissed off at the moment. Let me just say she had a B.S. and new how to take samples, her replacement not so much. http://www.sonoma-county.org/health/services/freshwater.asp Scroll down and click for the State Guidelines pdf, it's dead I think. I can't even find the original document anymore, but gave up real quick. It used to be a draft from 2011, not very substantial. Perhaps is updated somewhere else now. I hope so. Thanks.
NP: The Who - Who Are You
FIRE
You got it. Lawyers working in (working over is more like it!) finance, insurance, and real estate.
The last people regular working folks want "representing" them in government.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Collateral damage downstream, farmers
thanks, haha should have linked the "rolling green hills and vineyards of Napa County" part to either this:
Nancy Pelosi's vineyard makes her fourth-richest Californian in Congress
or this, lower down the foodchain:
PlumpJack Group buys Napa mountain vineyard
Are they farmers now? Did you see Juan Browne's latest Oroville Update? It is chock full of information again, and the report before it was astonishing to me. Data security is a thing, it's important. Knowing how to redact a memo properly is important, if only just to not look incompetent when you are presenting to the public. At least they are trying, transparency is what people want. It's a bummer farmers downstream are paying the price for high volumes of water now though, never forget downstream. Thanks
Waking with the baby and see you've got Rush up here. Rush!
First off, Lifeson's "speech" was so perfect.
After all those years of being snubbed by Jan Wenner's personal classic rock club, his colorful stream of gibberish summed up not only the disgust he probably felt but by all those who are sick of the bullshit prestige, overblown importance and insider pettiness of these types of events/decorum, which could be applied toward any industry and especially politics.
Rush is also a glaring example of fans vs. critics. Never embraced by the Rock intelligentsia and the Gatekeepers, but worshipped by the fans. Few critical accolades and lots of gratuitous shots taken, but they were consistently selling out 17k arenas all over the country, for damn near 40 years now! During much of that stretch they would release an album every year or two and then hit the road, be out on long tours, playing such intensely complex music. Name another band who was that consistent.
Just like the divide between the majority 99% and the media pundit/politician class in DC. We know the truth and are living it, while they prevaricate lies and pander promises. As Lifeson chose to illustrate the venality of those in power everywhere, our politicians may as well be speaking in gibberish all the time. But we know their gibberish is code language to their donors, that they will be protected while we give the unwashed minions false hope and dreams.
Soooo many memories of Rush...
First saw them on the Hemispheres Tour in 1979. From then on I didn't miss a tour until the early 90's. Every tour as an event for we teenagers. Packed cars driving to the Coliseum, and once taking the railroad in with a railroad car full of suburban Rush freaks (mostly young, male, aspiring musician or geek) sparring trivia and drinking Molson. I've got a couple of signed tour programs.
Funny, they came up on my iPod shuffle yesterday and I marveled again at how amazing they were. A amazing live bootleg of them live in 1980 doing "Natural Science," from the album that first made them a presence on AOR, "Permanent Waves." I remember that summer well. All of a sudden it seemed my favorite little, secret, obscure Canadian Trio were all over the radio. Unfortunately I don't really remember that show so well, because someone offered my friend and I a hit from a bowl of weed at the Nassau Coliseum and I was still stoned (slightly) until the day after.
Yes, Rush. Funny, just having written that. Was looking on YouTube for this clip and up came Geddy Lee with Yes at the R&R Hall of Fame, just a few weeks ago (guess he filled in for the late Chris Squire). Man, that's another band, for and from another time...
Dig this too:
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Ha.
Perfect speech! Thanks, Al!
I've seen Rush several times
now but the best was in Portland, Me. at the civic center. Start of a US tour and they were working the bugs out. They ended up re-doing half a dozen songs and it turned into a three and a half hour marathon! When they came out for The Encore, they told us that since we had been so patient with them(HA!) that they were gonna jam for a bit.
Boy! Did they ever!
If you want to see something of their legend, check out the video from their first performance Ever in Brazil(I believe). Virtuosity, stamina and absolute CRAZY adulation from More than 300,000 fans!
Insanity.
On another note, registered Dem here in Cali to vote for the Bern and promptly got purged After the primary so, no Ballot for Me in the general election! Fucking vote nazis.
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
DNC Lawyers
cigars in back rooms
Oh, that really sounds like an organization that
you or I are going to believe the next time it claims the moral high ground about anything. <\snarque>