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“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.”
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Woody is one of my faves
Hope you're feeling better and your crowd is doing well.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Me too. Great talent, great man.
My Google skills aren't very good, so I can't find the quotation from Arlo Guthrie about how Woody Guthrie was too much of a freethinker to let anybody else do his thinking for him.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
We're fine, but I'm a bit uneasy.
I feel we should take some sensible precautions. I think Kate is unlikely to agree.
It bothers me that the disease is particularly problematic for those with kidney problems.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good morning CSTMS. Thanks for the Woody. Heh. Great
hero, songter and song writer.
Hope all is well there.
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 --
I liked your essay today. :-)
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Thanks.
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 --
Hey, guys!
I'm sorry I'm so late! Somehow I entirely missed that it was the twice-yearly Stupid Fool Around With Clocks Day.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
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We don't seem to have a fresh Covid-19 thread today
so I'll put this here.
Twitter user Liz Specht
The whole thing is worth a read, I'll just quote a few lines.
I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math.
And of course things go downhill from there. She also talks about availability of masks. Of course everything will be in short support.
Once beds are filled, then what? Tents in the parking lots? That might get you beds, but not supplies, equipment, and health care workers. Nurses only stretch so far.
Without dwelling on it too much, the death rate for people being properly treated in a well-stocked hospital is not the same as for people largely left to fend for themselves.
From 3/3:
Nearly 10% of Iranian lawmakers infected with coronavirus
Viruses don't give a damn about your social status, though it probably gets you access to better care.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
So...it just keeps increasing ad infinitum?
I'm not a medical professional, but don't populations begin to build up immunity? Or is the idea that the virus mutates so fast we can't keep up?
I thought these things tend to go in waves.
That's not to downplay the gravity of the situation, and the aspect you're pointing out in particular.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
My professional certification is
"Some Guy on the Internet".
A population can't build immunity, individuals do, by being exposed/infected and recovering. The point of quarantine is to slow the rate of infection, preferably below 1. We're still just going about our business, gathering in public places, so it's still progressing exponentially. How much is that going to change in the next eight weeks?
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
The thing about the Iranians makes me think
things I have been refraining from saying aloud in public space. And I'll continue refraining. I think all of y'all know what I mean.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Oh, you mean
the stuff I wrote but reconsidered and deleted before posting? Yeah, that.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Yeah, that. :-(
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Joke:
How do you cure Coronavirus?
Lyme disease.
Too soon?
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Cute
Not too soon either.
BTW have y'all heard about that bio weapons lab that got shut down not too long ago because they couldn't contain the viruses coming from it? I'm seeing a few articles about how this might have been created in a lab designed to hit just certain races. Like the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans etc.
Global research has an article on how it didn't actually start in China. And politico has one about the trial run on what would happen here if a coronal virus happened. Time will tell if any of it is true or not.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Anything is possible and it’s impossible to know
what is true in this crazy world. With wealthy oligarchs roaming around like super-villains out of a James Bond film, who knows? We just had a billionaire use his wealth to try to buy an election. Who would have imagined such a thing was possible 40 years ago?
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Same here with self-censorship.
The coincidences just lead me down a path which I will not describe on this board.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981