The Evening Blues - 3-28-19



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Lil' Son Jackson

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features Texas blues singer Lil' Son Jackson. Enjoy!

Lil' Son Jackson - Rockin' and Rollin' (Rock Me Baby)

"What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city."

-- Walter Karp


News and Opinion

Trump wants to give 62 cents of every dollar to the military. That's immoral

Donald Trump recently unleashed his dark vision for our nation and our world, in the form of his budget request to Congress. A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech or political slogan. It’s what marries detailed, dollar-and-cents policy decisions to deeper political – and moral – priorities. One set of moral priorities – a different one – would end our endless wars and use the vast wealth of this nation to end poverty and lead to true security for all of us. It would invest in healthcare, well-paying jobs, affordable higher education, safe drinking water and clean air for all of us.

The proposed Trump budget drops bombs on that vision – almost literally.

With this budget, Trump takes more than $1tn in taxpayer money and disperses fully $750bn to the military. Out of every taxpayer dollar, in other words, 62 cents go to the military and our militarized Department of Homeland Security. (Veterans’ benefits take another seven cents.) That leaves just 31 cents for all the rest: education, job training, community economic development, housing, safe drinking water and clean air, health and science research, and the prevention of war through diplomacy and humanitarian aid.

The budget also cuts billions from non-discretionary anti-poverty programs outside of this $1tn. Medicaid and food stamps would be cut and disfigured beyond recognition. At every turn, the Trump budget finds vast billions for militarization, while it cuts much smaller poverty and other programs, claiming the goal is to save money.

It includes $164bn in war funding, but it cuts $4.7bn in economic development and food assistance to other nations. It finds $14bn for a vanity project military branch called the space force, while it cuts $1.2bn for a program that’s built and preserved more than 1m affordable homes. It includes $11bn for contractor Lockheed Martin to build more F-35 jet fighters, but it cuts $3.7bn in heating and cooling assistance for 6m poor households. And it includes more than $12bn for a wall at our border, while it cuts $1bn for Job Corps, the program that provides yearly training and work experience to 50,000 poor (and mostly black) youths.

Saving money is apparently only the goal when it’s spending on the poor, on justice and equity, and on saving the Earth.

US-Backed Coalition Bombs Yemen Hospital, Killing at Least Seven Including Four Children

An airstrike on a hospital in Yemen Tuesday killed seven people including four children, said a humanitarian group. The global charity Save the Children, which supports the medical facility, is calling for a swift investigation into the incident and a suspension of arms sales to all parties to the conflict—including American arms-recipent Saudi Arabia.

“We are shocked and appalled by this outrageous attack," said Carolyn Miles, President & CEO of Save the Children, in a statement. "Innocent children and health workers have lost their lives in what appears to been an indiscriminate attack on a hospital in a densely populated civilian area. Attacks like these are a breach of international law."

"The Saudi-led coalition, which is backed by the United States, is the only party in the war using warplanes, mostly American and British-made fighter jets," as the Washington Post noted. Moreover, "the United States helps the Saudi coalition warmakers choose their targets," wrote peace activist and author Kathy Kelly.


According to Save the Children, the missile hit a gas station less than 50 yards from the Kitaf Hospital's main entrance. Open for just 30 minutes when the bombing took place, the hospital was busy with staff and patients entering, said the aid group. Miles said her agency is providing urgent aid to children who "have the right to be safe in their hospitals, schools, and homes. But time after time, we see a complete disregard by all warring parties in Yemen for the basic rules of war."

Democrats Urged to Stay Unified Against GOP Effort to Sabotage Yemen War Powers Vote

A coalition of more than 40 progressive advocacy groups Wednesday warned Democrats to block any Republican attempts to sabotage the effort to end U.S. complicity in Yemen's humanitarian crisis.

"We urge you to vote against any motion to recommit (MTR) presented by Republicans," the groups wrote in a letter (pdf) to House Democrats. "A vote in favor of the MTR is a vote to destroy the viability of the bill, prevent it from reaching the president's desk, and prolong the conflict." An MTR is the final opportunity for the minority party to amend legislation before it reaches the floor for a final vote.

Progressives have good reason to worry about Democrats voting for Republican MTRs. In February, House Democrats unanimously approved a Republican MTR that inserted language condemning anti-Semitism into the Yemen War Powers resolution. The Yemen resolution passed the House, but the language denouncing anti-Semitism was deemed "non-germane" to the legislation—which is why the House must re-vote on the resolution before it reaches President Donald Trump's desk.

The Senate passed the Yemen War Powers resolution earlier this month. The second House vote is expected as early as next week. "Republicans will seek to defeat this critical bill to end U.S. support for the coalition's military campaign, likely by using the procedural vote as an opportunity to introduce non-germane language," the groups warned. "The Republicans' weaponization of accusations of anti-Semitism is wrong. Doing so to prolong one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world is unconscionable. Democrats must not abet such a cynical effort."

India just shot down a satellite, declaring itself a ‘space power’

India said Wednesday it had successfully shot down a low-orbiting satellite, becoming only the fourth nation—behind Russia, China and the U.S.—to carry out the military feat, Reuters reported.

The test comes just weeks before India's general election, and it marks the latest advance in the growing weaponization of space.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the mission had made “India a much stronger nation."

“India has made an unprecedented achievement today,” Modi said in a live television address. “India registered its name as a space power."

Russia rejects Trump call to pull military personnel out of Venezuela

Trump tells Russia to get its troops out of Venezuela

US President Donald Trump has called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and warned "all options" were open to making that happen.

The arrival of two Russian air force planes carrying nearly 100 Russian troops outside Caracas on Saturday has escalated the political crisis in Venezuela. ... The US government says the Russian troops include special forces and cybersecurity personnel. ...

Russia has bilateral relations and agreements with Venezuela, which it plans to honour, Russian Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said, in response to Trump's comments. "It's not up to US to decide actions and fate of other countries. It's only up to the people of Venezuela and its only legitimate President Nicolas Maduro," Polyanskiy said on Twitter.

Pompeo says Venezuela 'rebuilding' estimates of between $6 billion-$12 billion

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he had seen estimates of between $6 billion (£4.5 billion) to $12 billion (£9.1 billion) for “rebuilding” Venezuela.

“The day and week after is going to be a long process,” Pompeo said of Venezuela’s rebuilding.

Fury as Bolsonaro orders Brazil army to mark 55th anniversary of military coup

Victims of Brazil’s dictatorship have responded with fury after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro ordered the country’s armed forces to commemorate the anniversary of a 1964 coup which unleashed 21 years of military rule. Bolsonaro, a former army captain, has frequently praised the regime under which hundreds of people were killed or forcibly disappeared. But his instructions that the military should mark the coup’s 55th anniversary this Sunday has prompted widespread fury.

“Brazil celebrating the anniversary of the ‘64 coup is like Germany instituting Hitler Day,” tweeted journalist Hildegard Angel, whose brother Stuart was tortured and killed in custody, and whose mother Zuzu died in a traffic accident staged by military agents. “This makes me enormously sad,” Angel told the Guardian. “It makes me want to leave Brazil.” She noted that the coup actually took place in the early hours of April 1 – known as ‘Liar’s Day’ in Brazil – and said Bolsonaro’s supporters want to rewrite history. “They want to sell a lie to the children of Brazil,” she said.

James Green, a professor of Brazilian history at Brown University in the US, Bolsonaro’s position on the dictatorship made him “the equivalent of a Holocaust denier”. ...

Bolsonaro’s order coincides with a growing campaign to present the coup as a “democratic revolution” that saved Brazil from communism – rather than the start of a far-right regime that suspended elections, censored the media, executed hundreds of opponents and tortured thousands more.

Brunei is about to start stoning people to death for being gay

Starting next week, the small island kingdom of Brunei will start punishing people found guilty of homosexuality and adultery by stoning them to death, drawing horrified outrage from human rights groups around the globe.

Starting April 3, the sultanate on the island of Borneo in southeast Asia — which adopted Shariah law in 2014, according to CNN — is scheduled to begin fully enforcing the strict penal code it announced in 2014. Besides stoning individuals found guilty of homosexuality, which is already illegal in the country, the laws also call for amputating thieves. The death penalty punishment will apply only to Muslims, according to the South China Morning Post.

Muslims comprise about two-thirds of the country’s population of 450,000, according to Sky News. Brunei was the first East Asian country to adopt Shariah law, which drew condemnation at the time. ...

It’s unclear whether Brunei will backtrack plans for the harsh punishment, since a spokesman for the kingdom’s religious affairs ministry told the Morning Post only that Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah would make an announcement on April 3, when the full details of the law’s implementation would become clear.

MPs reject all alternative Brexit options

A first attempt by MPs to find a consensus route forward for Brexit has ended in deadlock and confusion after the Commons rejected every option put forward, albeit with a near-even split on the idea of joining a customs union.

Oliver Letwin, the veteran Conservative MP who led the process which allowed backbenchers to seize control of the order paper to hold a series of indicative votes, said the results were “disappointing” but he hoped a new round of votes would be held on Monday.

The Speaker, John Bercow, said he would allow this to take place, prompting shouts of protests from many MPs. The Brexit secretary, Stephen Barclay, said the results strengthened the government’s view that Theresa May’s Brexit deal was the best and only way forward. On the lack of a majority for any of the eight alternatives put to the vote on Wednesday, he said: “It demonstrates that there is not easy option here, that there is no easy way forward.”

The closest result was a commitment for the government to negotiate a “permanent and comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU” in any Brexit deal. Put forward by the pro-EU Tory veteran Ken Clarke and others, it was voted down by 272 votes to 264. The only other relatively close vote was on a plan drawn up by the Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson, and tabled by the former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett, to require a referendum to confirm any Brexit deal. This was lost by 268 votes to 295.

Rachel Maddow’s Ratings Tank After Mueller Report

The scandal that refuses to die. It must be the greatest distraction that the Beltway Bigtop has ever come up with.

Democrats to Trump: Get ready for a world of hurt after we see the Mueller report

It’s not over. That’s the message from congressional Democrats this week as they urge members to sit tight and wait to see the full Mueller report on Trump-Russia collusion and Russian influence in the 2016 election. But Sen. Lindsey Graham is warning it’s not over for Republicans, either.

Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary of the nearly two-year investigation dropped like a bomb on Congressional Democrats Sunday just as they were preparing witness lists for their own investigations. Now six Democratic committee chairs have given Barr until next Tuesday to produce the report in its entirety — including the underlying evidence— and the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill demanding to see the details of the DOJ’s obstruction of justice inquiry into Trump. ...

On the other side of the aisle, Republicans are mostly unified in using Barr’s flimsy summation of the Mueller report to double down on their goal of re-litigating Hillary Clinton. That’s why Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is already planning to hold hearings on the FBI and the Department of Justice – the entities that many in the GOP believe are behind the Mueller investigation in the first place.

“The people in charge of the investigation clearly were in the tank for her,” Graham told VICE News while walking alongside the train that runs underneath the Capitol. Graham says he wants to hear from Barr but he also wants his powerful committee to investigate why those agencies never alerted then-candidate and now-president Donald Trump that they believed his campaign staff was compromised.

“To set a counterintelligence investigation against a presidential campaign is a big deal. What are the rules? Are there any rules? What led to the investigation and why didn’t you brief Trump?” Graham told VICE News. “The goal of a counterintelligence investigation is to protect the entity that’s being targeted, and I just don’t know why they didn’t do that with the Trump campaign.”

Mueller report: Barr won't commit to sharing full findings, Democrat says

The battle over releasing the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report intensified Wednesday as Democrats in Congress insisted the attorney general, William Barr, must quickly release its full findings. The House judiciary committee chairman, Jerry Nadler, said Barr “wouldn’t commit” to releasing the report to Congress without redactions.

Barr has said he will release at least a partial version in April. But it is clear he will miss the Tuesday deadline set by six House committee chairmen to see the full confidential report and its underlying documents. They have suggested they may eventually need to subpoena it.

Nadler, who placed a call to Barr on Wednesday, said he was “very concerned” Barr would not provide the material by the time set. Over 10 minutes, the chairman asked whether Barr would accede to Congress’ demand for the full report by 2 April. Barr said no, according to Nadler.

Skepticism mounted over Barr’s four-page synopsis, which was released Sunday and found no evidence Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. The longer it takes to release the full findings from Mueller, the more Democrats, in particular, warn they will question the legitimacy of Barr’s actions.

The rubes still love the narrative!

Almost half in new poll still say Trump, Russia colluded

Almost half the Americans surveyed in a new poll still say they believe that President Trump's campaign colluded with Russia, despite a summary of the special counsel's investigation that said there was no evidence to support that finding.

A Reuters/Ipsos survey released early Wednesday found that 48 percent of respondents said they believe that the president "or someone from his campaign worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election," down 6 points over the last week.

Roughly 1 in 5 voters in a new Politico/Morning Consult poll — 21 percent — said Robert Mueller's team "found evidence that President Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the results of the 2016 election," despite Attorney General William Barr's summary indicating that it did not.

Voters are also still split on the issue of obstruction of justice, a crime for which Mueller's team could not "exonerate" the president, according to Barr. Nearly half — 47 percent — of respondents in the Politico/Morning Consult poll said that Trump “tried to impede or obstruct the investigation," while 53 percent said the same to Reuters/Ipsos pollsters.

Americans still believe Trump colluded with Russia even after Mueller’s report – poll

'You're Damn Right': Sanders Doesn't Cower From Call to Get Rid of Private Insurance Companies

Arguing that piecemeal reforms to America's for-profit healthcare system will not be sufficient to address the needs of millions who are suffering due to lack of insurance and soaring drug costs, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that the U.S. must "get rid of the insurance companies" and move to Medicare for All.

Asked by MSNBC's Chris Hayes why he favors single-payer over the incremental Medicare buy-in plans introduced by congressional Democrats in recent weeks—such as the so-called "Medicare for America" bill—Sanders said, "Because ultimately we have to recognize that the current system is incredibly dysfunctional and wasteful."

"Its goal is to make profits for the insurance companies and the drug companies," said the independent senator from Vermont. "You are not going to be able, in the long run, to have cost-effective, universal healthcare unless you change the system, unless you get rid of the insurance companies, unless you stand up to the greed of the drug companies and lower prescription drug costs."

"That's the only way that you can provide quality care to all people," Sanders continued. "All people people get it, regardless of their income. It is publicly funded. That is the most cost-effective way to provide healthcare to all."


After the Republican National Committee's (RNC) research team posted a clip of Sanders' interview on Twitter, apparently believing it would somehow harm him, the senator didn't back down from his remarks.

"You're damn right," Sanders tweeted.

“People Are Going to Die”: The Cost of Industry Deregulation by Lobbyists Under Trump

US-Mexico border at 'breaking point' amid immigration surge, official says

Images emerged on Wednesday of hundreds of families packed into a grim open air space beneath an underpass, behind razor wire and fencing, their faces – some weary and bewildered, some hopeful – turned toward America. They are migrants trying to make their way to the United States from Central America and found themselves being held at the US-Mexico border in a parking lot of a border patrol station at the international crossing point in El Paso, in western Texas.

Nearby, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commissioner, Kevin McAleenan, declared an “operational crisis” because of a recent surge in the number of people arriving at the border, many hoping to seek asylum, and either crossing into the US unlawfully or waiting in gathering numbers on the Mexican side to be processed. He said the immigration system on the southern border was at “breaking point” and called on Congress to bring solutions.


McAleenan warned on Wednesday of even longer waits as spring gets under way, and the Trump administration announced it would temporarily reassign 750 border inspectors to address the surge in people arriving in the El Paso area. Most are seeking refuge from violence and poverty, particularly in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, and a new start or a connection with relatives in the US.

Charlottesville car attacker James Alex Fields pleads guilty to 29 federal hate crimes

The young neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters during the violent, white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally two years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges on Wednesday.

James Alex Fields Jr., 21, was hit with both state and federal charges for his actions during Unite the Right, which left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead and dozens more injured. In December, a Virginia jury found Fields guilty on the state charges, which included first-degree murder, and recommended that he spend life, plus 419 years, in state prison.

Fields, who drove from Maumee, Ohio, to attend the August 2017 rally, was indicted on 30 federal civil rights charges last June — 29 of which were for hate crimes. He initially pleaded not guilty to all charges. On Wednesday, he switched his plea to "guilty” for all 29 hate crime charges. ...

According to NBC 29, Fields and his lawyers struck a deal: He would plead guilty to hate crime charges on the condition that prosecutors took the death penalty off the table.



the horse race



Progressive Caucus Slams DCCC Head Cheri Bustos for Her Assault on Primary Challengers

The leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus has met with the top brass at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and pushed back hard against a new party policy to blacklist consultants who work with primary challengers. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., vice chair of the caucus, was also in the meeting with Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., and said that the turn the DCCC has taken in the 2020 cycle under her reign is worse on a small-d democratic level than previous cycles, when the party was not exactly kind to challengers.

“Pramila Jayapal, Mark Pocan, and I met with Cheri Bustos to make it clear that we strongly oppose her new policy that stifles competition and blackballs any consultant who works for a challenger. ... Khanna said that it is such an egregious assault against the progressive wing of the party that even Rahm Emanuel, the hard-knuckled, hippie-punching DCCC chair from 2006, wouldn’t have countenanced it. “This unprecedented grab of power is a slap in the face of Democratic voters across the nation. It’s something even Rahm Emanuel would not have done and is totally tone-deaf to the grassroots activists across our nation. Voters are sick of the status quo holding on to power and stifling new voices. They are sick of D.C. politicians who care more about holding on to power than a true competition of ideas,” said Khanna.

Beto O’Rourke’s Free Ride on Charter Schools Won’t Last for Long

When Beto O’Rourke ran for Senate in 2018, he highlighted the importance of public education and consistently said that he stood squarely in support of teachers. Given that his opponent was Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, that was more than enough to secure endorsements from both the Texas State Teachers Association and its parent union, the National Education Association. Teachers across the country helped fuel his small-dollar donor machine. There was little reason, then, to probe Beto O’Rourke on charter schools. In the Democratic presidential primary, he is unlikely to get the same gentle treatment — particularly given his wife Amy O’Rourke’s deep ties to the charter community.

Education in general was not a top priority for O’Rourke on the Texas campaign trail, nor did he have a robust record of tackling education issues during his three terms in Congress. Voters had a general sense of where he stood on K-12 education issues: He supported a rollback of standardized testing; he opposed the advent of private school vouchers and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos; he believed teachers should be paid more and that the federal government should fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Act. But O’Rourke stayed conspicuously silent on the topic of charter schooling during his Senate campaign, and his backers in the education establishment decided not to press him on it. ... Amy O’Rourke is a former charter school leader and currently sits on the board of a local education reform group that supports expanding charter schools in El Paso. ...

Amy O’Rourke began her education career as a kindergarten teacher in Guatemala, where she worked for one year after graduating college. When she returned to El Paso in 2004, she connected with a local community organization, Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe, and helped them launch a dual-language charter. She served as superintendent of the school, La Fe Preparatory School, from 2007 to 2012. In her application to open the school, she wrote that the local school district “failed to create an educational system that can generate true success for all students in the community” and promised to offer “a drastically different educational experience” for Segundo Barrio children. She also noted that “innovation and creativity are the backbone of charter schools” and praised other Texas charters for their commitment to “seeing the underprivileged succeed through hard work.”

Now, Amy O’Rourke serves on the board of the Council on Regional Economic Expansion and Educational Development, or CREEED, a business-backed organization that launched in 2014 to help push education reform initiatives in El Paso. Amy O’Rourke also directs CREEED’s “Choose to Excel” initiative, aimed at boosting college-readiness and which focuses, in part, on expanding charter schools in El Paso. ... The Intercept contacted CREEED to speak with Amy O’Rourke about public education and charter schools, and a spokesperson said they forwarded the request to the Beto O’Rourke campaign, which did not return request for comment. Beto O’Rourke’s spokesperson, Chris Evans, also did not return multiple requests for clarification on the candidate’s position on charter schools.



the evening greens


Monsanto found liable for California man's cancer and ordered to pay $80m in damages

A federal jury ruled that Monsanto was liable for a California man’s cancer and ordered the Roundup manufacturer to pay $80m in damages. The ruling on Wednesday, which holds the company responsible for the cancer risks of its popular weedkiller, is the first of its kind in US federal court and a major blow to Monsanto and its parent company, Bayer. A spokesperson said Bayer would appeal.

In a verdict during an earlier phase of the trial, the jury in San Francisco unanimously ruled that the herbicide was a “substantial factor” in causing the cancer of Edwin Hardeman. Hardeman, a 70-year-old Santa Rosa man, was the first person to challenge Monsanto’s herbicide in a federal trial, alleging that his exposure to the glyphosate weedkiller caused him to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), a cancer that affects the immune system.

The case has attracted international attention and raised new questions about the potential health hazards of Roundup. It also challenged the conduct of Monsanto, now owned by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer. The corporation is facing more than 9,000 similar lawsuits across the US that allege Roundup has caused cancer.

The jury ruled that Roundup’s design was “defective”, that the product lacked sufficient cancer warnings, and that Monsanto was negligent in its failure to warn Hardeman of the NHL risk. The jurors ordered the company to pay Hardeman $75m in punitive damages, $200,000 for past economic losses and $5.6m in non-economic losses.

“As demonstrated throughout trial, since Roundup’s inception over 40 years ago, Monsanto refuses to act responsibly,” Hardeman’s lawyers said in a statement. “It is clear from Monsanto’s actions that it does not care whether Roundup causes cancer, focusing instead on manipulating public opinion and undermining anyone who raises genuine and legitimate concerns about Roundup.”

Senate Vote Against Climate Plan Was Attempt to Stifle Growing Momentum

Cull invasive mammals to save island species, experts urge

Nearly 10% of the world’s bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile species currently on the brink of extinction could be saved by killing invasive mammals such as cats and rats on 169 islands, according to a new study.

Islands comprise just 5.3% of the Earth’s landmass yet have experienced 75% of known bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile extinctions since 1500. More than a third of species currently classified as “critically endangered” on the IUCN Red List are found on islands, with many particularly vulnerable to just eight species – including feral pigs, dogs, goats and mongooses – introduced by humans.

Research published in the journal Plos One identifies the disproportionate impact programmes to remove non-native species from islands can have in slowing the global rate of extinction. ...

While locals are sometimes at first sceptical about the feasibility of removing hundreds of thousands of rodents from their islands, scientists said techniques were now proven: there have now been more than 1,200 invasive mammal eradication attempts, with a success rate of 85%. The researchers identified 169 islands where eradication programmes were politically feasible before 2030 and could save 9.4% of the world’s critically endangered bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile species, ranking them in order of their priority for restoration.

Animal Matters: Episode 1

An interesting piece. Here's the intro, there's lots more at the link.

New Jersey Is Making Companies Pay for Toxic Contamination

New Jersey laid financial responsibility for dealing with PFAS contamination squarely at the feet of the chemical companies responsible for it. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection issued a directive on Monday ordering five companies to pay the costs of dealing with the toxic chemicals that have been associated with numerous health problems, including cancer. The companies include 3M, which created both PFOA and PFOS; DuPont, the chemical giant that used PFOA to make Teflon since the 1950s at the now massively contaminated plant Chambers Works; and DuPont’s spinoff, Chemours.

Monitoring, research, and cleanup of the chemicals, which the state has already begun, is likely to ultimately total “hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to the order. The hefty price tag reflects the state’s serious PFAS problem. New Jersey is thought to be one of the states most contaminated with these chemicals. Seventy percent of drinking water samples taken from 20 of New Jersey’s 21 counties contained at least one compound from the class of chemicals, according to research done in 2009 and 2010. And, last year, another state study showed that all surface water samples taken from 11 waterways and ecosystems around New Jersey contained PFAS. All the fish found there contained the chemicals as well. The state is also home to military bases that have been contaminated by firefighting foam, as well as several industrially polluted sites.

The order also announced the state’s intention to propose the lowest drinking water limits in the country for both PFOS and PFOA on April 1.

New Jersey, which has led the country in setting stringent safety levels for PFAS chemicals, is the first state in the U.S. to use these numbers to force cleanup costs onto the two mammoth companies.


Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

War and Peace and the 2020 Presidential Candidates

Your Plans For Revolution Don’t Work. Nothing We’ve Tried Works.

Intercepted podcast: The Day After Mueller

Taibbi: As the Mueller Probe Ends, New Russiagate Myths Begin

A Very Incomplete List of Sinister Things Vladimir Putin/Russia/“the Russians” Have Been Accused of Doing

Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for NK Embassy Intruders

Judge Identifies CIA Related Man Who Led The Raid On North Korea's Embassy In Spain

Deconstructed podcast: The Case Against AIPAC

Rule of Law, American Style: John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court


A Little Night Music

Lil' Son Jackson - Cairo Blues

Lil' Son Jackson - Little Girl

Lil Son Jackson - Louise Blues

Lil' Son Jackson - Red River Blues

Lil Son Jackson - Sugar Mama

Lil' Son Jackson - Ticket Agent

Lil´ Son Jackson - Roberta Blues

Lil' Son Jackson - Blues Come To Texas

Lil' Son Jackson - Everybody's Blues


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awes me and makes me realize--but not in a shaming way--how little I know. I would love a post from you about your time as a disk jockey, but no pressure. All I knew about Cairo before today was that Huck Finn and Jim were headed there. But, since Twain's preface warned me not to read anything into that book, I didn't. (Truth to tell, I did, until I found out my lit. prof had taken Twain's warning much more literally than I had.)

And now, for politics:

I will say it again: the purpose of polls this far out from voting day is shaping public opinion, not measuring it.

Well, JFK broke the record as to WASP Presidents, at least as far as we know. Obama broke the record as to white Presidents, also as far as we know. (Some Presidents had been rumored to be black under the "one drop" rule and one President was rumored to have been a "natural born" Canadian, but those were only rumors.) AFAIK, Grover Cleveland broke the record as to Presidents who both fathered a child while single and and was accused of rape before being elected POTUS (though he was not the last!)

Trump broke the record as to divorced Presidents, didn't he? I think a President or two before him had married a woman who had been divorced from another man, but the President himself had not been divorced.

Will Beto break the record as to admitted felons? Charged with breaking and entering and burglary, but charges against Beto and his friends were dropped. I'm sure this was the typical nolle prosse for lack of evidence or some such, having nothing at all to do with the fact that Beto's now late Daddy was a judge/ pol and mommy had the good sense to become the step-daughter of a very well-connected man and to make good money herself. /sarcasm

His mother owned a high-end furniture store and is the stepdaughter of Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy.[10][11][12][13] His father served in public office in El Paso as County Commissioner and County Judge.[a][14] Pat O'Rourke was an associate of Texas Governor Mark White[15] and served as the state chairman of Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns[16] before switching parties in the early 1990s and running several unsuccessful bids for office as a Republican.

Beto was also arrested for DUI "after a car crash." Charges were dismissed after he agreed to take classes.

Admitted to insider trading while a member of the US House, an event that seems to have been been purged from his wikipedia article after he lost to Cruz. https://www.denverpost.com/2013/11/26/congressman-may-have-broken-ethics...

As we all know, insider trading is a violation of federal statute, not merely a violation of House ethics rules. However, Beto's only "punishment" for insider trading was giving back the money he'd gotten illegally. This is like claiming justice has been done when a thief gives back what he or she stole, then continues merrily along his or her way.

Gee, why in the hell did Martha Stewart refuse that deal? I'm sure it was offered to her, just as it was offered to Beto. Because we're all equal in the eyes of the law, amirite? (Obviously, John Edwards was wrong to claim there are only two Americas: Even being rich and famous wasn't enough to spare Ms. Martha.)

Beto's not short on the sleaze factor, either: Didn't run for office in Texas until after he married the daughter of a very wealthy Texas developer on whose behalf Beto is said to have abused his office. Tried to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, but was refused on the ground that--wait for it--he's not Hispanic, even if his nickname sounds something like "Berto." So, he could belong only to the rightist Democratic caucus, the New Democrat(sic) Coalition. Resigned from that group after losing to Cruz and shortly before announcing for the Democratic Presidential Primary. Just a coincidence, no doubt. /sarcasm

I got all the above from his wiki while he was running against Cruz. As mentioned, it seems to have been revised some since then, though I did not fine tooth comb it. (No surprise: Palin's wiki got revised so many times and so quickly after McCain named her as his running mate that my head spun, just trying to keep up with the changes.)

Isn't Beto a dainty dish for the Democratic Party to set before US voters for the exalted office of POTUS? Almost a worthy successor to nominee crooked Hillary! Then again, he's much younger now than she was then.

But, at this point, rank and file Democrats are as eager to see Trump defeated as most Americans were to in 2006 and 2008 to ensure Democrats electoral victories. So, Democrats may well go for sleazy Biden, whom many see as the most electable of the current field. Even though they were not of that view during his prior stabs at the nom.

Have I mentioned that I don't believe the polls whose results have been made public thus far?

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@HenryAWallace

heh, not sure what to say about my time as a disc jockey. it's not a terribly glamorous thing. you sit in a little booth surrounded by audio equipment and play records (and later cd's). when i went to college, i thought being a deejay would be really cool, because back then there were a lot of underground music stations on fm playing really great music. heh. then i found out about the business end of it which is not so very pretty and it's not a great way to make a living.

so, i found some other ways to make a living and volunteered as a radio host for public radio as long as i could play the music that i wanted to. i happpened to be in the right place at the right time with the right skill set - i was available just at the time that the late-80's increase in interest in the blues came along and the program director at a local public radio station knew me and asked if i was interested. that led to a 13 year stint hosting a blues show.

it was a cool experience. i met a lot of interesting people and musicians and had a pretty good time doing it.

back to politics...

that beto fella leads a charmed life, doesn't he?

i think your suspicions about polling are well placed. i find it hard to believe that biden is as popular as the polls allegedly indicate.

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@HenryAWallace

Amazing how people forget that his first wife divorced him. (There used to be bumper stickers that said "Jane Wyman was right", but who now remembers what that means?)

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@TheOtherMaven

did break the record on multiple divorces and relatively public extra-marital affairs. So, he's still "the most" of something or other, which is what he seems to love to be.

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When they start making estimates about "rebuilding" a country, that means that the corporate slime have already made their decision about what is going to happen. Same shit happened right before Iraq. They dragged the companies in and talked about how the country was going to be divided among them, and how there was going to be SOOO much money coming in...

A war budget and threats against Russia TOO? Yep, same shit, different decade. Of course there's no point in marching, because it won't be featured on the news, and the Pigs are on standby with the water cannons, tear gas, and "Less than Lethal" bullets. I don't know about you, but I have found that when you shoot people they tend to die.

I wish I had a solution but the only one that I can cope is just to take things one day at a time and remember that I've got two kids and close friends who depend on me. Looks like I might be getting ahold of a Railroad Tie anvil... which is the best I can get these days, apparently, so there's another thing to look forward to. One step at a time, and remember that the goal is not to win today. Just be better than I was yesterday and remember...

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you. Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.
Miyamoto Musashi

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@detroitmechworks

yeah, when i saw that bit about "rebuilding" the hair on the back of my neck stood up. putin certainly picked an excellent time to put some troops in venezuela. i hope that it forces the u.s. to back down rather than encouraging the neocons to get their war on and damn the consequences.

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The war on the 99% keeps getting more obvious with each new congressional year. Congress allocates billions for supporting the countries that do our bidding while not doing a damn thing for the ever increasing problems we have to just survive. Trump's administration has taken the mask off this issue and people act surprised by it. The article you posted yesterday on the Blackstone group showed how much protection the financial dudes got for crashing the global economy. But it took every administration before Obama to get to where we are today. Gutting social programs will lead to more deaths and if anyone thinks that congress isn't aware of it...

I woke up this morning thinking about how we are bombing once prosperous countries without any pushback from we the people. Libya was one of the best countries in the Middle East just 6 short years ago and now it has been destroyed. Do people ever think what it'd be like for their city to have that happen just out of the blue! You're driving to work one day and boom! The bridge you're driving on was just blown up. Or the hospital you work at. Bam! Gone. And for what? Can there be any reason for why that is allowed to happen? But hey, don't kneel during the anthem to protest police brutality because you are disrespecting the men and women who are overseas doing what they have been trained to do. SMDH.

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@snoopydawg

you're right on target. this is the best answer that i've got tonight:

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@joe shikspack

The eviction crisis

This goes well with the piece you posted on the Blackstone article. After reading more about how people can't find houses to buy or places to rent I'm understanding better why people are buying high rise apartments or condos where people are living in buildings that look like the stacks from Ready Player One. I'm seeing this type of building everywhere in my area. From here in Ogden to cities between here and SLC to even Park City where they are being built at an incredibly fast rate. These buildings have little teeny decks off them where you might be able to squeeze in two small chairs. No idea the prices for them.

Thanks Obama. Just one more piece of your legacy.

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Azazello's picture

Evening all,
Maria Zakharova does her Russiagate victory lap:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjGiYAxVI8M width:500 height:300]
Panic in Ukraine over gas transit fees:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POw5ZpM8Hvs&t=301s width:500 height:300]

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

heh, i liked zackharova's description of the mueller report as a "nutrient medium" for the growth of conspiracy theories. hey, i've got one - the russkies got to mueller and made him an asset. Smile

gosh, the imf wants to jack up the prices of gas to the point that ukrainians can't afford basic existential utilities. seems like the russians were more generous than the imf.

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@joe shikspack
Poroshenko is polling at 9%.

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The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

who knew that hungry people without heat in the cold would be upset? i mean, russia, dammit!

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@Azazello

He was groomed in Virginia just like Guaido to be the president after we've overthrown the elected one.

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Thanks for the Blues as usual Joe, but 62cents on every dollar?! That is one of the most depressing things I have read. Lot of the news you read today is not very hopeful for the future.

After reading through the Deconstructed Podcast: The Case against AIPAC my respect and admiration of Ilhan Omar grows with everything that is being hurled against her. Thanks for posting that.

Taking every day step by step. Still dealing with the Social Security Administration. I cannot get the survivor's benefit of $255 without an appointment or telephone appointment. The earliest they can see me is April 30th! Did get a unexpected letter from Teacher Retirement. DO had signed up for Option one which gives me 1/2 of his benefit and a survivor benefit of a sizeable amount!

Have headed back to our place up outside of Austin and have spent a few nights there and think will be OK. It does pay to keep busy and try cooking new and unusual recipes. Did love Zoebear's OP and will be trying some of them out. Also doing yoga, and meditation and even went kayaking with friends this weekend. Still do have those dark moments but work through them best I can. Always glad to have C99 to drop in for an update on the world around us.

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Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.

This ain't no dress rehearsal!

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@jakkalbessie

great to see you! i'm glad to hear that despite social security's tardiness in providing its paltry survivor's benefit that do's thoughtful advance planning will be helpful in keeping you comfortable going forward. also glad to hear that you are surrounded by friends and family who are helping you to transition to a new life.

while 62 cents on the dollar is what trump asked for, it's probably not what the pentagon will get at the end of the process - though it seems likely that they will get far too much since war mania is bipartisan.

ilhan omar is doing a remarkable job of standing up to the bigots and haters, i certainly wish her well.

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@jakkalbessie

Glad to hear from you.

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@jakkalbessie

mention that from personal experience, phone appointments (with Social Security) aren't too bad of a process. Now, if it works the same way in your neck-of-the-woods, as in ours, the agent will be from your local office. An automated phone call comes thru minutes prior to the appointment time, to give you a heads-up, and/or time to get ready to take the call. (Or, delay the call for a few minutes, if needed.) We were surprised that appointments were booked for close to a month out, too. Anyhoo, hope everything goes smoothly for you.

Sounds like your teacher's annuities are similar to our federal retirement annuities. For Federal retirees, a survivor benefit is an option, and, we've both made the same choice that DO apparently made.

Glad you're staying busy, and taking one day at a time. Agree that zoebear's Foodie OT was cool. (and I'm a lousy cook!)

Take good care . . .

Blue Onyx

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
~~Gilda Radner, Comedienne

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https://www.sott.net/article/410015-FBI-now-investigating-sudden-dismiss...

Without detailing why, [Cook County State’s Attorney Kim] Foxx recused herself from the case, turning over the matter to her top aide, First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats. Her recusal came after reports that, after receiving calls on Smollett’s behalf from former top Barack and Michelle Obama aide Tina Tchen, Foxx called Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and urged him to turn over the case to the FBI.

That’s basically where things stood until today, when in an unexpected and nearly unreported court appearance — the press was tipped by a publicist — Foxx’s office dropped the charges and agreed to seal all of the evidence from public view.

What did Foxx’s office get in return?

Not a confession or even grudging admission of guilt or regret.

But we will give the final word to Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett who asks the question everyone is considering: “None of this is normal — even for Crook County where I was an Assistant State’s Attorney. Educated guess: this hoax implicated someone very important who had pull with the State’s Attorney, and who very badly did not want to be implicated.”

(via Zero Hedge)

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@lotlizard

i haven't been paying any attention to the smollett story as it looked like just another celebrity scandal. i guess now it has real potential as a distraction with an intersection with the obamas and political string-pulling.

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Lil' Son is great... love that original organic sound and feel.

You'd think after Viet Nam, or Iraq, maybe Lybia or Syria, folks would recognize when they see a Yemen or Venezuela happening. And stop it ffs. I hate what we have become, the ignorant arrogant pompous bully, that needs its ass kicked.

I'm afraid there won't be any convincing the Dem-Bot/Hillbot Russiagate dead-enders of anything but the lies they've been told. They just keep pluggin' in for more gas... hit me again...

Hows come... I am not seeing any MSM reporting about how the laws regarding special counsel reports and the A.G., and what can or will be reported or made public, were changed, being rewritten by the Democrats after Slick Willie's adventures in impeachment with Ken Starr.

Theresa May has F'd up all she can, so she is good to go now? The U.K. is in shambles, there is nothing else she can do.

Gotta say the Americans at Monsanto pulled off a sale of the century, getting the German Bayer to take liability for Roundup, right before it blew up. They milked it long as they could, cashed out, and now it is someone else's problem. I was really very surprised when
Bayer bought it as I thought the handwriting was on the wall, and Bayer of all should know the science of that shat.

Nice to see some attention to island biogeography regarding endemics. Island endemism is amazing and few things show adaptive evolution like some island groups and their species.
One anole and one skink in the Caribbean became about 30 of each. In socal getting rid of rats on Anacapa Island made it explode in success for the nesting seabirds. As everywhere it has been done. The rats, cats, and pigs, are three of the worst, and man seems to have put them on almost every spot of land they could find, no matter how remote. Seabirds in
particular have long taken a beating from them. More than one has been thought extinct until a group was found on an offshore islet where the last few were nesting on the only rat or cat free outcrop. As in Bermuda Petrel (Cahow) and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_petrel

I actually ran tours for L.A. Audubon in the 90's taking a boat out to Santa Cruz Island to see the Island Scrub-Jay, endemic to only that island, no other Scrub-Jays on any other of the socal channel islands. Lots of island endemic subspecies we'd look for. There
is a real small Island Gray Fox. Folks if you are in Ventura, Oxnard, Sta. Barbara, there are reasonable boat trips you can take, whales are usually seen, and the islands up close are amazing.

thanks for the great blues!

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

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@dystopian

yep, lil' son is the real deal. listen to his style side-by-side with blind lemon jefferson and you can hear the texas blues lineage very clearly.

bullies just don't seem to have any sort of internal locus of control that would make them stop if they feel confident that they can dish out overwhelming force. it's going to take something really dramatic to stop the u.s. from bullying smaller nations.

Hows come... I am not seeing any MSM reporting about how the laws regarding special counsel reports and the A.G., and what can or will be reported or made public, were changed, being rewritten by the Democrats after Slick Willie's adventures in impeachment with Ken Starr.

well, i found that one report in vice news (nearly mainstream) that i posted last night. i don't have access to lexis-nexis so i can't search to see if there are other reports in the mainstream media.

my guess is that none of the partisan media sources wants to dig this one up. the democrat-supporting media doesn't want to undermine the demands for the full report and the republican-supporting media doesn't want to highlight their and ken "porn" starr's bad behavior.

Theresa May has F'd up all she can, so she is good to go now? The U.K. is in shambles, there is nothing else she can do.

she can leave, but she was only part of the problem. the system was broken before may, it just wasn't facing a crisis that hinged on it being able to act like a functioning state.

i'd say that it doesn't matter if she stays or goes, there is nobody in the uk government that has the talent, gravitas and popularity to put humpty dumpty back together again.

The rats, cats, and pigs, are three of the worst, and man seems to have put them on almost every spot of land they could find, no matter how remote.

well, rats are pretty sneaky and they seem to be adept hitchhikers on boats, as are cats. the pigs, well, europeans have always liked to spread them around.

Pigs were first introduced in the 1500’s to what is now the southeastern U.S. by Spanish Explorer, Hernando DeSoto.

Kept as pets, the piglets and pigs faithfully followed explorers, breeding along the way and scouring the virgin forests for food. When the need arose, the explorers would kill one of the pigs, prepare it as food and continue on their journey… with the other pigs in tow.

Due to the thick vegetation, difficult landscape and stubburn nature of the animals, not all pigs stayed with the search parties and it was not uncommon for pigs to be separated from the group. Other pigs would be intentionally left in an area of rich food, with the explorers planning to return and hunt the animals when food became scarce.

In the years that followed, these “lost pigs” grew into a sizable feral population with very few predators to stop them.

This proved as both a blessing and a curse to Americans on the western frontier, as the wild animals were available for food if one could successfully hunt it, but on the flipside, gardens and fields could quickly become destroyed by the animals.

Eventually, many of these wild pigs were either domesticated or extinguished and in the years ahead, razorbacks ceased being the nuisance they once were to farmers in the Southeast.

In the late-1800s wealthy landowners began restocking their properties with wild boar and in no time at all, the animals had escaped and were intermixing with already established feral pig populations throughout the nation

have a great evening!

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@joe shikspack  

Now numbering in the millions, these shockingly destructive and invasive wild hogs wreak havoc across the southern United States

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pigs-in-texas-...

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posting the Animal Matters video with Greenwald--will swing back by to finish watching it. (Hope it doesn't have a lot of scenes like the one slaughtering the piglet--can't bear to watch that stuff.) I've always been a vegetarian, but, it was after I showed Mr M an article--with pretty graphic undercover photos--that he decided to become one. Wish I could remember the source/author. All the cruelty these animals suffer makes me sick. From what I've read, pigs are very intelligent; so, their mental suffering is probably even greater (than that of other farm animals). Anyhoo, greatly admire Glenn for all that he does for dogs, and, for all animals.

Regarding the Common Dreams piece, I'm curious if Bernie intends to give up his OAP (Office of Assisting Physician) medical care, since that office refers lawmakers to 'for profit' providers/specialists, as needed. Personally, I'm not concerned with the Federal government's health care expenditures/budget crunching. It's a matter of priorities. In other words, if needed, take money from the MIC budget--don't impose 'managed care' on Medicare beneficiaries (or, those in any government health care program, for that matter).

(I plan to post the physician letters of the main Dem Presidential Candidates, as I see them. Curious to see how many others use the OAP.)

The weather was gorgeous, today. Won't have rain for 3-5 more days. Yeah!

Biggrin

In flux, at this time--regarding whether we travel tomorrow, or not. If we don't, I'll catch up with you Guys, relatively early. If we do, hope you Guys have a nice weekend. (Fingers crossed that we'll get Miss K's other tests back by tomorrow--no news, is beginning to make us imagine the worst. Sad )

Hey, Everyone have a nice evening, and enjoy the beautiful weather!

Pleasantry Bye

Blue Onyx

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
~~Gilda Radner, Comedienne

Dem Budget Committee Chair Yarmuth, December 13, 2018, "Newsmakers" -
"Ultimately, we are going to have to 'deal with' programs like Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security, and, ah, it's one of those things that's going to have to be done on a bipartisan basis, because "nobody wants to walk the plank on those."

Bad

Beware! Yarmuth wants to strike a so-called "Grand Bargain" with Republicans. See C-Span video, above.

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@Unabashed Liberal

fsm preserve us from managed care. i sure hope that isn't what the "greatest american socialist since eugene debs" has in mind.

good luck with the lab tests, i hope everything turns out well. take care and safe travels if that's what winds up happening.

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just popping in to say hi. Watching the tournament, but won’t last much longer. Smile I am glad Gonzaga won.

Thanks for the tunes, too. Liked the story of your entry to the blues show. Ours is on Wednesday evening. I enjoy it. A retired co-worker has the Tuesday night show - “The Home of Happy Feet,” which plays old, old, old, and some old, old tunes. Wink you get the picture. Anyway, my son also had a sports radio show in his small town. Five years and he loved it even though it didn’t pay much. Thanks for the memories!

Nice to hear from jackalbessie. Good

Enjoy your evening! Pleasantry

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@Raggedy Ann

have a great evening!

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