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Eyo, a site member stricken with Multiple Myeloma passed away on Tuesday evening, June 4, 2024.

I received the following email Monday before her last day:

"I am a friend of Liz Young’s. She wanted me to tell you when she has died. She is very close. She sends her very very best regards to “everyone @ C99”.

She told me how supportive so many at C99 had been to her when she was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma.

She is actively dying now and I imagine she will pass away today/tomorrow.

In solidarity~

Tina"

Lose, Lose, Lose

We're losing on so many levels...Losing dollar dominance, Losing elections, Losing wars, Losing credibility (as we steal Russian assets), Losing our rights as citizens, and much more. Joe Biden is emblematic of our decline, as he wanders around at the G7 and apparently craps in his pants at the D-day celebration.

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Afternoon folks!

This week we've got 3 blues albums, 2 Chicago style albums from Fenton Robinson and Mighty Joe Young and one traditional blues album from Arthur Crudup. After that there are albums from Procol Harum and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (a late 80's version of the Bluesbreakers) - and then you can chill out with an album from Leon Redbone (ably assisted by Dr. John and David Bromberg). Finishing off in the diversity department there's an album of early prog rock from The Nice.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning! I hope everyone is having a good start on a great weekend! Don't know about you, but my work week was very busy, and I worked into the evening a couple of times. Oh, well, it cut into my critter sightings, except for the deer family of 3 that comes up in my back pasture every evening at dusk to graze. The fawn is big now.

My affinity for deer and rabbits traces back to my very early childhood, thanks Mr. Disney. (As I sort of bitched about missing my critters, a rabbit just ran acroos the front yard!)

I read an abridged version of the Peloponnesian War in a history class early in college. Analogies come to mind naturally as one is reading it.

I confess to getting slightly annoyed by the implication of Caitlin Johntone's series of articles on the Israeli terror campaign in Gaza. I agree with her point -- genocide is what Israel and its backers are doing, and by the way, this murderous campaign is loony toons crazy. But she implicitly condemns us all for not doing anything about this loony toons crazy genocide. I can't fault her logic as the mass murder continues as we go on with our daily lives.

Man oh man, this whole end-of-empire show is sure getting suspenseful, wouldn't you say? Every day, it seems, another layer of FUD is unveiled. So many things are thrown at us from so many directions, repeatedly, it's mind boggling. Where does one begin to sort it all out?

Is it all by design? Yeah, probably.

What are the odds that so many world changing events could be stacked up at the same time, back to back, from let's say, about 2019 to 2024 or so, in just five short years?

I will concede that many, if not most, of the existential threats before us are man made, but what are the odds that the convergence of these events are organic? Oh, I guess it could happen, but with so much power and wealth at play, my hunch is human intervention is helping to compress a millennium's worth of cataclysm into just a few short years.

For the benefit of whom? The sponsors of these events, of course. It's pretty obvious.

But, just when things seem like they can't get any more fudistic, something like this, from Harvard University, pops up: