@jbob
time, but have found and enjoyed many a you tube snipped from those shows, including the ones you posted of Dylan and Derek and the Dominos while browsing around looking for material for my OTs and just browsing. A lot of good stuff there, maybe some day I need to take the time to just search on Johnny Cash Show.

Thanks for reading and for adding those videos.

Have a great day.

Here is a link to an interesting bio on him.
Johnny Cash Bio link
I've been watching re-runs of his late 60's TV show on Sunday nights.
He had an impressive array of musical guests on every show.
Here are a couple of examples:

@eyo
as well as plenty to think about.

Over the years the Jackson group gobbled up a lot of small wineries that I liked, mostly they left the operations alone, so maybe it was good as it kept them going when they arguably might have failed, I dunno. It did always drive me crazy because it changed availability.

I've never owned any apple products, never will. Increasing the carbon in the soils is good for the soils and the crops as well as the atmosphere and climate, but not sure how easy it is to do with vineyards. There should be something there. Every year they burn that year's prunings, which should be pyrolized and used as biochar, but how to get it into the soil at the right depth and all that where you have permanent plantings?

Ah well.

Thanks again.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8726468-181/growers-try-carbon-farmin...

The world’s farmers must feed a human population that will reach 10 billion in the next three decades, but they also may be asked to help combat climate change by putting more carbon into the soil than they take out of it.

As an example, Jackson Family Wines is running a five-year experiment to try to increase the carbon held in its soils at a Russian River vineyard and a group of advocates of climate-smart farming toured the area on Tuesday. The Jackson winery, the county’s largest vintner, and the Sonoma Resource Conservation District received a $100,000 state grant to conduct the research on a 22-acre section of vineyard, said Julien Gervreau, the company’s director of sustainability.

Jackson Family Wines are big donors around here. It could be worse, but not much.

The invitation-only gathering here was one of many smaller events held in conjunction with the global summit, which runs through Friday at the Moscone Center. With the governor as a co-chair, the summit’s 4,000 attendees are expected to include former Vice President Al Gore, astronaut Mae Jemison, actor Alex Baldwin, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson.

Bam! "gathering" sounds so innocuous. Tell me how much wealth that big club has accrued since The PowerPoint(TM) Presentation paralyzed every brain? Apple products are still made in Chinese factories as far as I know, wassup with that Albert Gore? Who pumped all that CO2 in to the atmosphere for twenty years after you gave up? Are you still dragging around a MacBook and chatting on your iDevice? Made with slave labor, slave hours, slave wages. U.S. customers can't even replace a battery in some products, they must upgrade the whole assembly. wtf are you still on their board? PU

do or do not - there is no try

San Francisco hosts global climate summit — will it make a difference?

The event at Moscone Center, dubbed the “Global Climate Action Summit,” is something of a swan song for outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown. He leaves office in January, having led California to major gains in renewable energy and cuts in greenhouse gas emissions — all amid a backdrop of record drought, floods and massive wildfires that brought the issue into stark focus.

Alviso Canyon methane leak cancelled a whole year of "cuts" in other areas. California is stall fracking crazy.
Thousands of New Oil Wells Placed Next to Homes and Schools

Most Oil Wells Approved Under Jerry Brown in Low Income Areas, Communities of Color
Thousands of New Oil Wells Placed Next to Homes and Schools

Despite California’s image as a “green” and “progressive” leader, there has been a massive expansion of oil and gas drilling in the state under Governor Jerry Brown. The state’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources approved 21,397 new wells between Jan. 1, 2011 and April 14, 2018, according to a new analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). The total number of wells includes the hundreds of offshore wells approved under the Brown administration.

“Of the 16,554 of those wells with available geographic information, 76 percent are located in communities with above-average poverty rates for California, while 67 percent are located in communities of color,” said CBD in a press release. Thousands of wells operate dangerously close to homes and schools in vulnerable communities.

http://globalclimateactionsummit.org/

good luck

@PhilK
quotation. My only quibble would be with the single word "experts". It should, imho, be in scare quotes, especially as to economists, banksters and the like.

Thanks a ton and have a great day.

This morning at NC: If You Read This Book, It’ll Make You a Radical: A Conversation with Thomas Frank

His answer to the final question:

The answer is understanding experts not as individual geniuses but as members of a class. This is the great missing link in all of our talk about expertise. Experts aren’t just experts: They are members of a class. And they act like a class. They have loyalty to one another; they have a disdain for others, people who aren’t like them, who they perceive as being lower than them, and there’s this whole hierarchy of status that they are at the pinnacle of.

And once you understand this, then everything falls into place! So why did they let the Wall Street bankers off the hook? Because these people were them. These people are their peers. Why did they refuse to do what obviously needed to be done with the health care system? Because they didn’t want to do that to their friends in Big Pharma. Why didn’t Obama get tough with Google and Facebook? They obviously have this kind of scary monopoly power that we haven’t seen in a long time. Instead, he brought them into the White House, he identified with them. Again, it’s the same thing. Once you understand this, you say: Wait a minute — so the Democratic Party is a vehicle of this particular social class! It all makes sense. And all of a sudden all of these screw-ups [sic] make sense. And, you know, all of their rhetoric makes sense. And the way they treat working class people makes sense. And they way they treat so many other demographic groups makes sense — all of the old-time elements of the Democratic Party: unions, minorities, et cetera. They all get to ride in back. It’s the professionals — you know, the professional class — that sits up front and has its hands on the steering wheel.

@Azazello
might guess, I am fully in agreement and accord with all you say. My first sympathies are with the indios, all of them. It is not that I think the Spanish/Mexicans were so wonderful, but the US so totally out of hand (ab initio, from all that I can see). OTOH, people are people, as opposed to governments.

An old, close friend of me, of "mexican descent" and raised in the fields of SoCal and the central valley used to bristle and get argumentative upon hearing the word "hispanic". He argued that, no matter how much his compadres hated and despised the term, all but a very few Mexicans and other Central and South Americans were essentially nothing other than indios. Has every conqustadore spent all of his waking hours procreating, the percentage of Spanish DNA in the average Mexican would still be negligible.

In that sense, the dust-ups between the indians and the Mexicans, especially the peasantry, was quasi inter-familial, just like the dust-ups between the Comanches and the Sioux. The gringos, however, were another matter, the latest arrivals with no connection to the land at all, nor to the original inhabitants, which most Mexicans could claim.

The Spanish claims were ludicrous, though those of all invaders, of course, were, it was all a matter of degree. We tend to forget that legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed, or occupied, as the case may be, especially as to long established states. But from that perspective, I think that Mexico had the edge in the southwest vis-a-vis the US, excluding California, which, as you pointed out, was getting restless and uppity, and if not to be returned to the indians, surely should have belonged to the Californios and some of the splinter governments in formation, not the US.

Thanks again for a fabulous post and have a great day.

Good Morning e.l.
Contested Ground is the title of an essay I've been meaning to write for years and just never got around to it. My understanding of the Mexican War has evolved. Did the big, bad US imperialists steal innocent Mexico's land ? That's the common understanding and, certainly, every Mexican kid is taught that in school. If they learn nothing else, they learn that "the US stole our land". But it ain't that simple. We might wonder, how was it Mexico's land ? Can a country claim land that it does not occupy ? What about the Native Americans, wasn't it actually their land ? They usually get left out of the story.
So some explorers "discover" the Western Hemisphere. The exploration was financed by the King of Spain in return for the "Royal Fifth", i.e. 20% of everything the conquistadors could loot. The King claims the land for his own and convinces the other crowned heads of Europe and the Pope that his claim is valid. Here is what Spain claimed:

Now just a damned minute, we might say, how could all that possibly be a legitimate claim ?
What about all the people who already lived there, did they all agree that their land actually belonged to the King of Spain ?
So they conquered the Aztec Empire and occupied Mexico City. They began moving north and south from there, conquering the native inhabitants and occupying the territory.
These claims are a little more valid since they had a physical presence and a colonial government. Possession, as they say, is 9/10 of the law.
Fast forward to 1821. After a 10-year struggle, Mexico achieves its independence. The Spanish had already taken all the gold and silver they could and maintaining overseas possessions was getting expensive. They had conquered as far north as Santa Fe in New Mexico. In the Sonoran Desert, Tucson was as far north as they got. They had the chain of missions and presidios on the California coast but the Californios, so far from Mexico City, had evolved their own culture and some of them were clamoring for independence.
The new Mexican government, bankrupt after its long struggle, would now try to defend the land claims that they had inherited from their colonial masters.
Enter the Native Americans. Here's where it gets interesting. The Comanches, who had been driven south into Tejas by the Sioux, were raiding northern Mexico with impunity. Mexican settlers were actually being driven off "their" land by the Comanches and Apaches during the 1830s and 40s. The Mexican government was having great difficulty holding on to their claims in the north. So by the time we get to the Mexican War there were actually three claimants involved, not just the Mexicans and the Gringos. The Manifest Destiny folks, seeing that the Mexicans were vulnerable, were emboldened to grab those lands that were so weakly defended. If the Mexicans couldn't conquer the "savages" of North America, maybe the US could.
We still argue about this stuff in the Southwest, as I'm sure you know, and I find myself saying, it ain't that simple. Don't look for heroes and villains in history because there are no good guys and there are no bad guys. It was contested ground.

@smiley7
secondary effects.

free-flowing thoughts of yours as they are music to our ears.

Been on phone and email all morning with friends dealing with hurricane; with it's latest turn, not expecting much impact here in the High Country except rain; but, i've family and friends with homes on the coast in NC, and down to Charelston, SC.

All i've talked with have boarded up, removed valuables and headed inland; doesn't look good for Wilmington and the Myrtle beach area of my youth. Mom sold our beach place several years ago, so I've no property to worry about.

I do worry about those not able to vacate the coastal area and the damage this storm will do to an inland area of mostly poor people in Eastern NC. And the hog farms will flood spreading it's detriments all over that area.

And it is important to note that our misguided NC general assembly voted to outlaw beach communities from using climate change, sea-level-rise science in planning and development; greedy idiots.

Back to your OT, a mixed pup here: Irish, Welsh, Scottish, French and Cherokee.

Have enjoyed and written extensively for and about our Grandfather Mountain annual Scottish Games; a pleasure to be there in early morning or at sunset when the pipes catch the high mountain breezes in majestic grandeur.

Very enjoyable OT; looking forward to more. Cheers to having a good day.