The Evening Blues - 9-19-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 09/19/2023 - 3:14pm
Growing families
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 09/19/2023 - 9:48am
Well, our first grandchild got married Saturday with many tears of joy and copious amounts of booze afterwards.
A great time had by all and two families melded together.
The groom's family turned out to be wonderful people with one of them bringing a mason jar of genuine moonshine. It's been awhile since I indulged in that.
In honor of talk like a pirate day
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 09/19/2023 - 8:58amthanks lotilizard for the reminder
seems the US has adopted pirate techniques to enforce their
illegal sanctions policies - arrg
US seizes millions of dollars of Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela
The Evening Blues - 9-18-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 4:45pm
The Democratic Party social imaginary
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 1:52pmOver at RBN they posted this short, six minute video:
Some thoughts about the present state of some of the presidential campaigns.
Submitted by Nastarana on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 11:44ama response to Cassiodorus' article about the West campaign.
West has hired one Peter Daou (PD) as his campaign manager. I wonder who is paying PDs salary. His lengthy interview with Sabrina did not convince me that he has seen the light. I think he is still an operative who wants to be important. I rather suspect that he has found that his status as exotic immigrant does not carry quite the clout that it once did.
9/18 is World Water Monitoring Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 5:00am
Republicans sure do love their terrorists
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 2:14pmYou may remember this moment, when Senator McCain made a surprise visit to Syrian rebels.
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 6:51amSanction Insanity
A study finds that the sanction regime often prolongs conflicts, collectively punishes whole populations and hinders third-party humanitarian efforts. Sanctions imposed by the US are nothing but war by other means. Ironically US sanctions are backfiring as nations dump the dollar and trade in their own currency...$114,500,000,000 in US Treasuries Dumped By China and New BRICS Member Saudi Arabia. All as US debt soars to the point that just interest payments are a trillion dollars a year and going higher.
Album of the Week 9-16-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 09/16/2023 - 3:00pmAfternoon folks!
There's a plethora of blues this week, there are albums from Junior Wells, Lil Ed & The Imperials, delta slide player Mississippi Fred McDowell and Charlie Musselwhite.
In the rock vein, there's another Spirit album and then you can get all folked up with albums from The International Submarine Band (Gram Parsons - Byrds, Flying Burrito Bros) first successful band, the Grateful Dead (acoustic) and serious folkie, Jody Stecher.
Have a great weekend and enjoy!
