The Evening Blues - 7-15-26
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Earl Bostic - Hot Sauce! Boss
"There never was a good war or a bad revolution."
-- Edward Abbey
News and Opinion
The middle east continues to burn under the administration of the self-proclaimed “President of Peace”. Donald Trump says he’s “reinstating” the US blockade on Iranian ports after reportedly green lighting Saudi Arabia to reignite its war on Yemen.
Trump and his handlers built a whole political platform out of “no more endless wars” and then immediately changed the Defense Department to the Department of War and started launching never ending wars.
He promised to end the wars, and instead he started a new war.
He promised the Iran war would be over in a few weeks, and months later it shows no sign of stopping.
He promised to put America first, and instead he’s putting Israel first.
He promised to cut government waste, and he’s pouring unfathomable amounts of treasure into the military-industrial complex.
He promised to drain the swamp, and he became the single most corrupt president in US history.
He promised to fight the deep state, and went on to promote the longstanding agendas of the most evil people in Washington and Langley which even his terrible predecessors had resisted.
These are all objective, indisputable facts.
Col Doug Macgregor: Iran Wil Never Give Up
Trump again threatens to strike Iran’s power plants amid impasse over strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump has threatened to expand US strikes on Iran next week to target power plants and bridges if Tehran does not agree to a deal amid a continuing dispute over the strait of Hormuz. “Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges,” Trump said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday. “We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
The US president made similar comments in March, when he threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power stations and fresh water plants if Tehran did not agree to peace terms “shortly”. Destroying civilian infrastructure such as power and water facilities would be illegal under international humanitarian law and would probably constitute a war crime.
Trump’s comments came as US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day in a row and reimposed a naval blockade on the country’s ports in the strait of Hormuz. US Central Command (Centcom) said the latest strikes were aimed at “degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping” in the strait, the key shipping channel for Gulf oil and gas where Tehran has repeatedly carried out attacks on civilian vessels.
Asked how long the US strikes would carry on, Trump replied: “They’ll continue until I say it’s enough.”
Robert Pape REACTS: Trump GROUND TROOPS In Iran Threat
POTUS is absolutely right. Whoever provides secure and safe passage of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz should be compensated for this service.
Iran has always been the GUARDIAN of the Strait and will remain so FOREVER.
20% is of course too much. We will be fair
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) July 13, 2026
Trump withdraws Hormuz tolls threat but says US will continue to blockade Iran
Donald Trump has backed down from a threat that ships would have to pay a 20% fee to the US for “security” in the strait of Hormuz, replacing it with what he described as investment and trade deals with Gulf Arab states as US and Iranian airstrikes resumed for a third day. The US president said he had decided to scrap the toll “based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership”, and touted “massive” investments, just five hours before the toll was due to come into effect. He said the US would continue to blockade Iranian ports.
He said in remarks as he met the Iraqi prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, in the White House that he did not believe anybody should charge a fee “but at the same time, it’s not fair that we’re protecting this strait for the entire world”. The abrupt U-turn came after three days of US strikes and Iranian retaliation on US allies in the Middle East, in the fiercest exchanges in weeks which threatened to pull the region back into all-out war. It further dimmed prospects for negotiations meant to lead to a permanent truce.
The Israeli prime minster, Benjamin Netanyahu, also warned Iran against striking it, threatening a powerful counterstrike. “I will say it to the leaders of Iran: do not count on things remaining quiet if you attack us,” Netanyahu said at a conference in Dimona, southern Israel. “The days are over when someone strikes us and we don’t hit back with a decisive blow.”
The US military launched strikes on Iran starting early on Tuesday morning and continuing until midday. The US military said its five-hour operation early on Tuesday hit targets across Iran, including in the port cities of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas. It shared videos of strikes that it said were meant to “degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping”. More explosions were heard around noon on Tuesday west of Bandar Abbas, as well as in Bushehr and Choghadak, according to Iranian state TV. Blasts were also heard later on Tuesday on the Iranian island of Qeshm near the strait of Hormuz.
Iran targeted Bahrain, which houses the US Navy’s fifth fleet; Jordan, which hosts US air force assets; and two tankers associated with the United Arab Emirates in the strait of Hormuz. Kuwait’s army also reported intercepting “hostile” projectiles on Tuesday evening. Bahrain said it had intercepted several of the attacks and accused Iran of targeting civilians after explosions were heard in its capital, Manama. Jordan said it intercepted four missiles from Iran.
Matthew Hoh: Power Grids Under Fire: Iran and U.S. Escalate as Gulf Erupts
Iran DESTROYS US F-18s as Trump Hints NUCLEAR STRIKE | Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
CENTCOM Reimposes Blockade of Iranian Ports, Bombs Iran for Fourth Straight Day
CENTCOM said that at 3 pm EST, it began “launching an additional round of strikes against Iran to continue degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” and Iranian media has reported strikes and blasts across southern Iran.
An hour later, CENTCOM said the blockade was back in effect. “US forces resumed the naval blockade against vessels transiting to and from Iranian ports and coastal areas today at 4 pm ET,” the command said.
The IRGC warned that its retaliation would continue in the face of further US attacks and that “as long as US mischief continues in the region, not a single drop of oil or gas will be exported from the region,” and that US strikes “will only delay the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Larry Johnson: $200 Oil? How a Hormuz Blockade Crashes the Global Economy
Trump’s Renewed Assault on Iran Means More Pain Incoming for Working Families
President Donald Trump’s decision to restart his illegal war with Iran has sent oil prices back upward, and experts are warning that means more economic pain for working families in the coming months.
The price of Brent crude, which had fallen under $71 per barrel in late June after the US and Iran reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to wind down the conflict, has since surged back above $85 per barrel as of Tuesday, days after Trump declared the ceasefire between the two countries to be over.
Rising oil costs mean that the price of gasoline, which has similarly been dropping over the last month, will again start to rise. Petroleum industry analyst Patrick De Haan on Tuesday projected that, based on the current surge in oil prices, the US is “days away” from seeing the average price of gas go back over $4 per gallon.
The renewed hostilities with Iran came amid signs of inflationary pressures in the US easing. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Tuesday showed consumer prices in June rose by less than expected, with lower energy prices delivering relief.
University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers argued that while Tuesday’s inflation data was positive news, the recent fighting between the US and Iran means it could be short-lived.
“Inflation remains high, is well above the Fed’s target, and the ceasefire with Iran is over,” Wolfers cautioned, referring to the Federal Reserve.
Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the Groundwork Collaborative, said the resumption of the illegal war would “continue hammering Americans’ budgets at home.”
“Gas prices have already started to rise again and last month’s inflation data is stale,” said Jacquez. “Trump’s debacle in the Middle East will have lasting, layered effects on our economy for months to come. Working families struggling to make ends meet should lay blame squarely on the president.”
Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, said the latest consumer price data show “it’s still tough for middle-class and moderate-income Americans,” as “inflation is wiping out wage gains for many.”
More ominously, Long added, “The question is whether this relief is only temporary as the war in Iran restarts.”
Project management professional Larry Boorstein warned Trump against spiking the football over the relatively tame inflation data from last month.
“Prices are down because oil prices dropped after the US-Iran MOU,” Boorstein wrote. “Prices for food, both at home and away from home, increased, as did prices for shelter. Energy prices fell enough to more than offset increases in food and shelter prices. What’s not so good is Trump declared the MOU dead July 8. Oil prices are ticking up again.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) put the economic damage caused by the Iran war into perspective by noting that it has cost US consumers over $56 billion so far in the form of higher gas prices, or just under $500 per household.
“Families shouldn’t be paying the price for Trump’s reckless decisions,” wrote Lofgren.
Iran UNLEASHES on US Navy Fifth Fleet in Bahrain + Bab El-Mandeb Closure is NEXT | Laith Marouf
This could've been a real opportunity for Jeffries to show he's listening to the base — as they elect a new class of Congressmembers skeptical of his leadership — and that he is willing to buck powerful lobbies like AIPAC, but alas... https://t.co/i3VTzvuYT8
— usamah andrabi (@usamahandrabi) July 14, 2026
Top House Democrats vow to oppose bid to cut US military aid to Israel
Top House Democrats split on Tuesday over a proposal to block aid for Israel’s military, with two of the party’s highest-ranking lawmakers saying they will oppose the effort while the chair of the progressive caucus encouraged his colleagues to back the defunding.
The debate over an amendment introduced by Republican congressman Thomas Massie to halt $3.3bn in aid for Israel – the majority of which would go to its military – comes as Democrats grapple with a rebellion among their voters over the party’s support for the Middle Eastern ally, which has fueled the defeats of a series of congressional incumbents in recent primaries.
The proposed amendment would affect legislation funding the state department and related agencies for the coming fiscal year, which the House of Representatives is expected to vote on this week. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries circulated a letter among Democrats saying he would vote against Massie’s provision, the New York Times reported, calling it “overly broad”. He warned the amendment could cut off funds for humanitarian aid programs and complicate efforts to counter militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. The minority leader’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
“In my view, there are more decisive ways to achieve the urgent change necessary when it comes to the far-right Netanyahu government,” Jeffries wrote. He also accused the House’s Republican leaders of “trying to weaponize an amendment they do not support for nakedly partisan reasons”. However, he said, he would not launch a formal effort to sway his party’s vote, citing “the strongly held views throughout the caucus in this important area of foreign policy”.
In a letter to members of the congressional progressive caucus obtained by the Guardian, its chair, Greg Casar, said he would vote yes on the amendment, and encouraged his colleagues to join him. “The American people are crying out for an end to US tax dollars subsidizing Israel’s military,” he wrote. Nodding to the losses of three Democratic incumbents in recent primaries to candidates who vowed to take a hard line on Israel and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, Casar said: “The Democratic party needs a new approach to Israel and Palestine.
Senate Democrats block advancement of defense bill to protest Trump’s hostilities with Iran
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the advancement of a must-pass defense bill in protest of Donald Trump’s resumption of hostilities with Iran. The hold up of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) comes amid the fiercest exchange in fire between the countries in weeks, which has amplified frustration among Democrats that the US remains involved in the conflict despite the passage last month of a war powers resolution intended to force a ceasefire.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, said that his party could not support advancing the NDAA, a comprehensive measure that Congress typically approves every year with bipartisan margins, as long as the fighting continues. “Republicans want the Senate to take up the NDAA, the defense bill, as though none of this is happening – as though Congress can debate the nation’s central national security bill while ignoring the nation’s most urgent national security crisis,” Schumer said. “We cannot.”
All Democrats in attendance voted against the measure, denying it the 60 votes needed to clear the Senate’s bar for advancement.
Republicans are incensed at the blockade of the NDAA, which will authorize $1.15tn in defense spending for the upcoming fiscal year, in line with Trump’s proposed budget. It also contains pay increases for service members, and funds for new unmanned weapons and counter-drone technology that military leaders say will be necessary for future conflicts with rivals.
Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin, Pro-Israel Groups for Conspiracy to Suppress Speech
Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees
At least 12 people detained at a federal immigration jail in Colorado have contracted tuberculosis in recent days, according to testimony from inside the facility where dozens of others have reportedly been placed in quarantine. Those affected by the outbreak are also being made to endure their isolation without air conditioning, one detainee who has been at the facility in Aurora since December told the Guardian, through his partner, in a telephone call on Monday afternoon.
The Mexican detainee in his 30s, whose name the Guardian is not publishing for fear of possible retribution by guards, gave a detailed account of developments inside the troubled center over the past few days, which have included the mass testing of everyone within one of the center’s so-called pods. The person said that all 88 people he is detained with received testing on Saturday, with 12 positive cases coming back, up from a single case three days earlier. Instead of separating those infected, he said, guards kept them together with those who were not sick, and the entire group was told they must stay in quarantine for at least a week.
To make matters worse, the detainee said, the air conditioning in the pod broke down on Sunday, and staff distributed electric fans. On Monday afternoon, Aurora was under a heat advisory with the outside air temperature at 96F (36C). It is not known how many people are incarcerated at the center, which has a published capacity of 1,532, and the person said he was unaware if any of the other pods of detainees had been tested or returned any positive results.
The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the Colorado immigration jail. There was another apparent TB outbreak in April last year, according to a lawsuit filed by a number of Democratic politicians seeking greater transparency from the Trump administration over deaths and disease in federal detention facilities.
ICE identifies Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero as man agents fatally shot in Maine
The man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, an ICE spokesperson said in a statement. An immigration agent shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine, after reportedly ramming into his car.
Immigrant rights activists said Durán Guerrero, who was married and had a young child, had a social security number and was authorized to work in the United States. Asked about his immigration status, DHS, which oversees ICE, issued a statement that referred to Durán Guerrero as “a Colombian national” but did not explicitly address his immigration status.
Colombia’s US embassy said in a statement on Monday that it “deeply regrets the death of a Colombian national in Biddeford, Maine” and had requested “information and clarification” from DHS “regarding the circumstances around this lamentable death”.
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, issued a statement on X on Tuesday afternoon, writing in Spanish: “What happened in Maine is the assassination of a Colombian, a Latin American, at the hands of the US government. They killed him because they thought he was inferior and without rights, and as a person, he had all the rights that every human being is given just for being born, and he was a citizen with rights in the US. I await on the exterior Colombian services in the US to take quick judicial and human action so that the assassins can pay for their homicide. I hope President Donald Trump he can deliver a message to Colombia about what happened.
“Johan Sebastián Durán rest in peace, victim of the government due to the persecution and exclusion against a population for ethnic and cultural reasons, which has been prohibited since the time of the Nuremberg trials around the world.”
ICE pauses vehicle stops after deadly shootings in Texas and Maine
Federal immigration officials have been instructed to stop pulling over vehicles until further notice, according to a homeland security source, following two recent deadly shootings in Texas and Maine during which officials shot and killed immigrants in vehicles. Other news outlets, including Fox News and CNN, confirmed that officials nationwide received the instructions, with the former reporting some vehicle stops would be allowed to target “the most egregious criminal aliens”.
The homeland security source told the Guardian the email did not include much explanation as to why immigration officials were told to stop pulling vehicles over, but the high-profile shootings in the past week have renewed calls for accountability for immigration enforcement related deaths, amid the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigrant arrests and deportations.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in an email to the Guardian: “We are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets. We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics.”
Fox News reported on Tuesday that the suspension of vehicle stops would be temporary until ICE officers receive “new training” on vehicle stops.
New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters
New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday. Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products, which she signed at a mid-morning press conference. “As datacenter development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it’s my responsibility to take action and lead,” Hochul, a Democrat, said in a statement.
The order will pause the state permitting process for proposed “hyperscale” datacenters, defined as having electrical capacity of more than 50 megawatts, and direct state regulators to create standards focused on environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the governor’s office said. “This pause will remain in place for up to one year while New York establishes the strongest possible framework to protect our community’s guardrails to reduce the risk to our energy grid, minimize land disruption, noise pollution and protect our national resources, especially our water supply,” Hochul said.
The appetite for datacenter moratoriums is growing nationally as anger grows over the facilities’ effects on energy prices and local environments. Almost three-quarters of Americans oppose a datacenter project being built near their homes, according to a new Heatmap poll.
More than a dozen states have considered moratoria in response to residents’ fears about the potential costs of living next to datacenters, especially higher utility bills and negative environmental effects. Maine is the only other state which approved a moratorium through its legislature, but its governor vetoed the measure in April. A small city in southern California became the first municipality to enact a moratorium on construction via a ballot measure last month. Seattle approved a one-year ban on datacenter development in June, becoming the largest city to do so.
New York BANS DATA CENTERS Amid HISTORIC BACKLASH
California faces highest shark numbers in years as great whites head north
California is set to see one of its sharkiest summers in a decade, with large numbers of juvenile great whites already on a reverse vacation from the warm waters of Mexico to cooler pastures along the western United States. The marine predator has become more common along the west coast in recent years, with stories of surfers seeing underwater behemoths closer to shore and scientists saying swimmers and ocean-lovers alike are probably already sharing their favorite beaches with great whites, whether they know it or not.
“We’re already seeing a high number of white sharks,” said Dr Chris Lowe, the director of the Shark Lab at California State University Long Beach. “We started seeing baby white sharks in February, which we’ve never seen before. Usually that happens in April.”
There’s one major reason why: El Niño. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) confirmed the formation of the climate phenomenon in the Pacific in early June. El Niño can cause worldwide impacts, including heatwaves, drought, heavy rainfall and extreme weather, and science agencies have said this year’s could be incredibly strong For fish and ocean life, sharks included, warmer oceans can cause mass migrations with cold water species moving from their usual ranges further north, or into deeper waters.
White sharks are born as live young at about 5ft in length. A juvenile is classified as any shark between 6ft and 9ft from snout to tail. The younger sharks spend much of their time closer to shore migrating between areas with shallower waters, where ample food is available. Stingrays, fish and squid are all on the menu. Lowe says California waters will probably host a few more visitors than just white sharks while the water’s warm, too.
In 2015, a big influx of smooth hammerhead sharks came up from Baja California, following schools of mahi mahi. Whole suites of subtropical species – the food source for great whites – replaced the usual populations of squid, anchovies and sardines and provided an El Niño buffet just off the coast of southern California. “I expect any day we’re going to start seeing hammerheads,” Lowe said, adding he wouldn’t be surprised to also see some bull sharks and tiger sharks in the fray.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some of which defied fair-use abstraction.
Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump officials and pro-Israel groups over ‘conspiracy’ to target him
Patrick Lawrence: The Imperial Court
War On Iran: Oil Supplies Will Again Be In Trouble – This Time For Real
Everyone Misses Second Largest Drive Of Core Inflation—Memory Chips
Craig Murray: The Ditching of Nigel Farage
Young Germans opt out of military service as Berlin strives to boost army
Caribbean calls for return of British Virgin Islands – and for King Charles to back decolonisation
Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource
A Little Night Music
Earl Bostic - Rockin' And Reelin'
Earl Bostic - I Got Loaded
Earl Bostic - Up There In Orbit
Earl Bostic - Flamingo
Earl Bostic - Who Snuck The Wine In The Gravy
Earl Bostic - Special Delivery Stomp
Earl Bostic - Pink Panther
Earl Bostic - Night Train
Earl Bostic - Earl's Blues
Earl Bostic - Choppin' It Down
Comments
It is almost like Trump likes to hear himself talk even though
his actions contradict his words.
evening humphrey...
that trumpster is working up to quite a legacy. he's not going to be remembered well.
The Neocons have developed mad skillz...
....in using the mentally defective US Presidents as their Hand Puppet. Those bold, know-nothing, mediocre 'Fools-on-the-Hill,' who were elected by the heavily propagandized, gullible USians. Reagan, Bush the Lesser, Biden, and Trump. Their faces should be carved into a wall of the Grand Canyon so future generations (if there are any) never forget the look of Dumb.
I shouldn't rag on Robert Page (second interview from the top). He's an academic on his "I Told You So" tour who is getting attention from the press since very few politicians want to be interviewed deflecting legitimate concerns about continuing war policies that lead directly to catastrophe economic failure in the US. Politicians don't want to be seen as culpable in enabling the pain that is about to envelop the United States. Pape all the while touting his irrelevant "theory" of the "Escalation Trap." And consistently pandering the Zionist chant that Iran has always been seeking Nuclear Weapons.
If Iran wanted Nuclear weapons, they would have had them 40 years ago. Iran has produced had some of the best nuclear scientists in the world. Enriched uranium is fundamental to Iran's economy. Without enriched Uranium, Iran would have no oil to sell. Iran could have reached out to their friendly nuclear neighbor, Pakistan, to acquire weapons. But, of course, they didn't. People who repeat this False Flag refrain.... ugh! Although the US did just collaborate in the murder of the one Iranian Leader who spent his life reinforcing the fatwa against weapons of mass destruction in Iran. That certainly went over USian heads. The shame.
evening pluto...
the government is captive. it really doesn't matter who becomes president, they will always either be idiots or lackeys or dead quickly. it seems to me that it is more charitable to elect dotards or corrupt morons to the presidency as a decent and honorable person would quickly be put out of our misery.
pape may have consumed the zionist kool aid, but he does seem to have his finger on the sort of idiocies that trumpster will engage in.
while i believe that iran truly does not want (and has not wanted) nuclear weapons in the last 47 years, i hope that they will get them soon so that other nations will have to develop manners and diplomacy.
I love the idea Pluto,
that their images are carved into the Grand Canyon, to forever reflect the 'Look of the Dumb’.
Thanks for weighing in
The Grand Canyon was a sudden pop-up in my mind, looking as if it already existed.
Future historians are going to have some hard questions about the time when sharply profound truths were so easily concealed from common knowledge. There will be questions about the obvious human fantasies and fictional collaborations that were forcefully imposed on human mind as if they were hard truths. There are many psychological contortions in societies that will not make intuitive sense. At this moment, AI's are gathering every bit and byte of information that has been collected and recorded by all the human who ever bothered to write things down. Recorded history, recorded observations, recorded contemplations about the lives that were lived communally or in relative isolation.
Perhaps future humans who are armed with instant access to the sum total of human factual knowledge and historical observations will not make so many dumb decisions that harm others. In the near future our standards are likely to reset, and we will think about how human beings deserve to be treated and how their needs should be, respected. So as to reduce the levels of brain damage that we inflict upon our own species.
Perhaps the weight of the dumbness will lift. Perhaps accountability will become more obvious, to the benefit of civilization.
Thanks for your response Pluto
I hope there will still exist an 'intuitive sense’ in the future, to overcome all the damage inflicted.
AIPAC wins again but at least it is a step in the right
direction.
yep...
i found a list of the traitorous scum democrats who voted against cutting off military aid to israel that i will post in tomorrow's eb.
Good evening Jot, thanks for the EBs. Been having your temps
(or at lest today's) for several days now and busy like there's no tomorrow. Meanwhile the crazy goes on and on and on. At least we've got the music.
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 --
evening el...
yep, there have been a lot of triple digit days around here, probably a little more humid than you've been having. the good news is that the tomatoes like it, the bad news is that the raccoons like the tomatoes - but i beat the varmints to one today. it was great with salt and pepper.
have a good one!
This image sums up Trump quite well.
heh...
why it's the emperor trump, playing y-m-c-a as the nation burns.
; )))
Thanks humphrey
The only change I’d make to the image, is to make his hands grubbier ; ).
Evening joe and bluesters
Earl Bostic! What an amazing saxophone player and composer. Thanks.
I really hope more states can impose a moratorium, and that it becomes a lasting thing.
evening janis...
yep, he was an interesting and influential player.
heh, if we can't ban them or nationalize them, then moratoriums are the next best thing.
Hey, joe!
Loved the music tonight! Cool version of The Pink Panther!
I learned lots and lots from the videos tonight. Whereas others may not appreciate Pape, I do, because he talks like an educator, breaking things down for better understanding. No talking over our heads. I have been seeing him for a few weeks here and there. Plain-speak makes it easier to agree or disagree.
Thanks for all you do, joe! Hope your weather is tolerable!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981