The Evening Blues - 9-3-18

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 12:22pm

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No news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Labor Day

Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features Labor Day music. Enjoy!

^{Blind Alfred Reed - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?}

No News or Opinion

Happy Labor Day!

A Little Night Music

Ry Cooder - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?

The Travelin’ McCourys - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms

Merle Haggard - Working Man Blues

Paul Black and the Flip Kings- Factory Girl

Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues

Jimmy Witherspoon & Groove Holmes - Take This Hammer

Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons

John Prine & Steve Goodman - Nine Pound Hammer

Solomon Burke - Maggie's Farm

Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Working Man

Joe Louis Walker - Workin' Blues

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Submitted by Azazello on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 1:58pm

Hey joe, you forgot this one.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3Royf9_zM width:500 height:300]

Your tax dollars at work. Every time I drive by this place I hear Carl Sagan in my head, "Billions and billions ...".
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtX2M_-v6nA 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.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 9:09pm

evening azazello...

@Azazello

thanks for the tune!

heh, does uncle sam allow regular mortals to drive in and visit their tax dollars in repose?

Submitted by Azazello on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 10:23pm

@joe shikspack
Pima Air and Space museum gives tours, for a price, but you can see some of these planes as you drive by on public roads. A much better use of government funds than schools or clean water, don't you agree ?

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

Submitted by mimi on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 4:25pm

The Slave Rebel

The only way to end slavery is to stop being a slave. Hundreds of men and women in prisons in some 17 states are refusing to carry out prison labor, conducting hunger strikes or boycotting for-profit commissaries in an effort to abolish the last redoubt of legalized slavery in America. The strikers are demanding to be paid the minimum wage, the right to vote, decent living conditions, educational and vocational training and an end to the death penalty and life imprisonment.

Happy Prison Labor Day....

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https://www.euronews.com/live

Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 5:10pm

Great article

@mimi

Thanks for posting it here. I especially liked the part where he talks about the profit motives for black and brown persons who make up the majority of people in prison. And how after they get out most doors are closed for them to start living again.

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The Washington Generals should probably sue the Democrats for copyright infringement.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 9:13pm

evening mimi...

@mimi

thanks for the link. i hope that the slave rebellion is going well; i've been away from any sort of news for several blissful(ly ignorant) days now.

Submitted by mimi on Tue, 09/04/2018 - 1:37am

that's good, I want to be away too from any news

@joe shikspack
and be blissfully ignorant too. So I decide to go.

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https://www.euronews.com/live

Submitted by smiley7 on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 4:48pm

Good day, joe, rare headline in local news: "Man caught stealing

ginseng."

Happened about 3 miles as crow flies near a small rural community. Article stated the property owner called the Sheriff and after a foot chase in which the thief dropped the roots, they lost track of him, but spotted him later in a car and gave chase again. Apparently, he abandoned the car for another footrace which he lost.

Considering the reputation of the mountain community and the value of ginseng, the thief is lucky to have avoided buckshot or worse.

Just like northern Humboldt, ginseng farmers have traps and cameras and dogs protecting their woodland crop.

Anyways, i got a chuckle from the story.

Cheers for the news and blues.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 9:17pm

evening smiley...

@smiley7

heh, glad they caught him; there's little worse than stealing somebody's means of sustenance.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 5:37pm

Some good reads

Why would Russia even need to interfere in our country? Our government does enough damage that I can't think of what more Russia could do.
https://ghionjournal.com/remember-when-russians/

https://whatifitoldyouthis.blogspot.com/2018/07/lets-take-brief-look-at-...

Related video
[video:https://youtube.com/watch?v=KAhAuZ5_Zhc.]
Related article

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-belt-and-road-china-infrastructu...

This is excellent and has some great tweets in it

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/437454-mccain-funeral-historical-revisionism/

A missed opportunity