By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
Something a little different today. Carmen for guitars. The video is a bit distracting but the music is superb
Enjoy the music and as always your day!
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ahhh, nothing quite so nice to hear on a sunday morn as an acoustical classic wooden guitar…. well, maybe four of them.
thanks, jace.
Love classical guitar. Thanks Jace.
pogo, congrats on the game… uh massacre. injuries on both sides. as the beach boys would sing:
Wah wah wah
Wipin’ out wipe out
Wipin’ out wipe out
Hey watch out
Here we go here go
Wah wah wah
Wipin’ out wipe out
meanwhile back in the mean world of meanies
wapo: In latest test, North Korea detonates its most powerful nuclear device yet
TOKYO — North Korea sharply raised the stakes in its stand-off with the rest of the world Sunday, detonating a powerful nuclear device that it claimed was hydrogen bomb that could be attached to a missile capable of reaching the mainland United States.
Even if Kim Jong Un’s regime is exaggerating its feats, scientific evidence showed that North Korea had crossed an important threshold and had detonated a nuclear device that was exponentially more powerful than its last — and almost seven times the size of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Tensions had already been running high, with Kim repeatedly defying international condemnation and increasingly blunt warnings by President Trump and continuing to launch ballistic missiles.
But Sunday’s blast — North Korea’s sixth nuclear test but the first since Trump took office — could escalate those tensions to a new level.
China on Sunday said it “resolutely opposes and strongly condemns” the launch, adding to denunciations from South Korea and Japan.
[…story continues….]
Count me among the classical guitar fans. Thanks Jace.
No worries about North Korea Pat. Our president fired back this morning with two tweets. We’re fine.
“North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States. …
North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success.”
SF is talking about withdrawal from the SK free trade agreement. WTF is he thinking? Obviously his shit ties and Ivankas clothes and shoes aren’t made in SK.
Patd, not a pretty game. Happy to get the win, but I’m hoping the process moves the team forward. And I hope FSU’s QB is ok
So SF in one statement antagonizes NK and insults China. Stoopid fucgh.
craig, are those tweets real twit tweets? don’t have his usual cussedness, cadence & CAPs in them. Kelly/McMaster/mattis have either confiscated his cell phone or done something to his early morning coffee
pogo, those insults pale to previous output
example below… does he even know or ever used before the word “appeasement”? it has 2 more syllables than he’s use to using and it was spelled correctly.
“South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!”
🙁
Mr Allen’s list of potential 2020 runners is interesting reading, kind of like that favorite book you pull off the shelf now & then. Safe harbor 😉
I adore Katherine Graham Cracker’s passion. Just wish I had it where the sane opposition is concerned. This blog is pretty skewed one way politically (honest) but the rest of the country doesn’t exist within this blog. Looking at the big picture, same old/new editions of the same old tome haven’t done well lately. 2008 was a breakthrough; there was something truly different, inspired. Haven’t seen that since. What I remember from 2010 was Pelosi hawking her book. Not a good memory: Oops. Doesn’t help now that the DNC “new” head is the living embodiment of the before picture in a Charles Atlas ad.
I should have noted yesterday that my coworkers mentioned are 60 & 65, highly paid professionals, socially active. I know their opinions matter & they aren’t alone – this was my point, if anyone cares. It’s a big world out there.
The Pissant of the United States has tweeted. I feel so much safer now.
with Trump in the White House and Rick Perry at the DOE, keeping track of the world’s supply of weapons grade materials, what’s to worry? Right?
Jace,
Thanks so much for presenting the very talented group doing Carmen; it was a real treat. I wonder if any of those musicians got their inspiration from my favorite, the late Andres Segovia, who passed in 1987. I was fortunate in being able to hear him in a solo recital in Cleveland ca 1960; he was magnificent. I think the following selection is one of the pieces he played:
Flatus,
Thank you for the clip. Glad you joyed the music. To have heard Segovia in person must have been very special.?
sjwny, there are many out there that are capable of being that breakthrough as was obama. it’s a big country with many facets, many different folks. while twit & co twist in the wind, we should give them some attention. if for no other reason than to learn something. like for instance winona laduke, Harvard and Antioch grad, environmentalist, economist, and writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.
more from wiki:
In 1996 and 2000, LaDuke ran as the vice-presidential candidate with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket. She was not endorsed by any tribal council or other tribal government. LaDuke endorsed the Democratic Party ticket for the president and vice-president in 2004, 2008, and 2012.
In 2016, Robert Satiacum, Jr., a faithless elector from Washington cast a vote for her for Vice President, and she thus became the first Native American woman to receive an electoral vote for Vice President.
here winona gives a TEDx talk in 2012 worthy of hearing even if some of what she says is not your cup of tea
Could someone please remind me again just when it is that we the people will grow tired of winning? This goat fuck administration is 0 for eight months currently. That’s not a slump, that’s standard operating procedure. In the real world he wouldn’t be sent down to the minors, he would be cut entirely for possessing no talent.
solar, you might really like what winona (above vid) has to say about food “our relatives” starting at 36 seconds in. don’t get turned off too early cause she really makes good points re anti-gmo problem and pushes pro-environment food growth.
Jace
Add another classical guitar fan to admirers of your weekly selection. This one is amazing. Thank you.
I really could see Al Franken catching on in Iowa, that’s all it takes to propel a candidacy. I see him in the Simon, Tsongas tradition — honest, blunt and smart, but in his case more wit and celebrity that could take him further.
All hail President Zuckerberg, First of His Name, Builder of Networks, Writer on Windows and Lord of the Ignorant Empire.
You’ll have to say that every morning into your phone to unlock it.
bink, no need to say anything. just one’s presence and wave of hand since the tech titans will have insisted on chip implants at birth.
Me too! Me too! Love classical guitar. Thanks Jace.
Yeah…. Al Franken for prez! Tina Fey for vice prez!
SFB for dog shit collector!
ny times: After North Korea Nuclear Test, Trump Saves Harshest Words for South Korea
Rule of Trump Tweets either as @realdonaldtrump or @POTUS. If it is grammatically correct with accurate spelling and any word of more than two syllables: It was written by someone else.
Berkeley Breathed did a gift for his own recent graduate whose motto applies to all those just starting out: “Life – Write your own great ending”
absolutely great Doonesbury today!
the best one above was the roland hedley tweet
to kick off “made in America week” Ivanka trump collection announces all “made in China” tags be printed in america
Jamie, loved your new rule. might be a good time to compile a collection of such rules for a mao-sayings-type book… trailmixers’ little red book of rules “massaging the messenger” or “MAGA: messaging a major asshole”
2020 Watch
Boston Globe front pages Warren’s religiosity: “religious leaders who have known her since her first run for public office say her Christian faith is a constant, if quiet, presence in her life, that it is deep and authentic, and informs her work as a senator.”
And for the Wild Card list, George Clooney: “A lot of us are angry — angry at ourselves, angry at the way that the country is going, angry at the way the world is going. … Would I like to be the next president? Oh, that sounds like fun.” (Variety: “Clooney, whose father ran for Congress in 2004, repping Kentucky’s fourth district — he lost by a 10 percent margin — has been fielding that question for years. And in the past his answer has been a more clear-cut ‘no.'”
Franken votes the right way 96% of the time, or thereabouts. He is abrasive. He’s lousy in small groups, and not so hot with the impromptu – so far. But, Franken could sell wholesale very well, ala trump. I don’t see him as a Wall Street Dem. On a Populist/Wall Street scale between 1 for Sanders and 100 for Schumer, I’d rate Franken at 35.
Klobuchar has a better legal mind, but after at first enthusiastically and loudly supporting public option in 2009, she quickly caved in to support the baroque ACA.
On the other side let’s not write off Jeff Flake. Recent book – attacking Trump – he’s positioning himself.
Lovely Jace thanks..
it’s only going to be ninety today. People here are thinking if this is global warming — thinking about moving north
Again Alex Witless is droning on about how much good PG did for himself yesterday….
yay you stupid moron all he did was walk around and tell everyone to have a good time Alex Witt might be dumbest person on tv
gee Alex do you think he will tell Lil’ Kim to have a good time?
Having now met global warming up close and personal I am terrified. This is a big area totally unprepared to deal with temperatures 40 degrees above historic monthly averages.
Did Trump calling out China for not having any control (or having no real will to act) with regard to the NorK Porkball do anything to persuade them to step up?
Obama never shoulda given Iran money before he left office? Funding them probably helped prop up porkball.
He’s only 32? Hopefully, his gluttony will take him out soon. Who do we deal with after his heart finally gives out?
The Repugz have a deeper bench.
You know, if we’re still around.
Thx, Jace. Loved the guitaristas today, as I love your music selections every Sunday. Hope all is well with you.
If Sanders, Warren, and others try to get Medicare buy-in at an earlier age pushed through, that will help them with the left-behind demographic that Dems refused to acknowledge in 2016. Pushing toward any goals on Bernie’s platform will help Dem candidates. The corporate shills on both sides of the aisle are an embarrassment to their seats.
it’s a beautiful radioactive day in the neighborhood…?
from daily news india:
China started emergency monitoring for radiation along its border with North Korea in response to the country’s largest nuclear test so far today.
The environment ministry announced on its social media account that it began “emergency radiation monitoring” along its northeastern border shortly before noon.
The emergency response was set at “level 2”, the second- highest grade on a four-tier system.
It did not indicate whether any radiation had been detected.
and from financial times:
The tremor was stronger than those created by the regime’s five previous tests. South Korea’s parliamentary defence committee estimated that the device had a yield of up to 100 kilotons.
South Korea condemned the test and put its nuclear crisis team into operation while Japan and China said they were monitoring radiation levels.
part of Obama letter to trump on inauguration day that’s particularly important for the twit to heed right now:
Second, American leadership in this world really is indispensable. It’s up to us, through action and example, to sustain the international order that’s expanded steadily since the end of the Cold War, and upon which our own wealth and safety depend.
Third, we are just temporary occupants of this office. That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions — like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties — that our forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull of daily politics, it’s up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them
BID, Kamela Harris hears ya – she endorsed Medicare for all this week, will be co-sponsoring Bernie’s single payer bill.
mattis: “we are not looking to the total annihilation of north korea…”
is he hinting at a partial one?
bbc: North Korea nuclear test: Mattis warns of ‘massive military response’
For fun I read my first Harry Potter book, The Sorcerer’s Stone. Enjoyable and a treat to escape the world for a few days.
Next up a few pages of Plato or Lord Byron or Keats. Perhaps a reread of the Art of War, Sunzi.
and after the annihilation language came what is to my ears Mattis’ most ominous statement: “but we have many options to do so”
I think a Medicare buy-in will not be as off-putting as other “entitlements” are to Repugz. We are working & paying in. If they are stoopid enuf to block it, that will be something Dems can run on.
So far, it doesn’t seem that the old guard Dems have learned a stinkin’ thing from 2016.
Roy Blunt’s forehead didn’t move once during Meet The Press. Did the healthcare we paid for cover his Botox?
I really want to see Congress on the same plan as the rest of us…then try to maneuver through the system.
Docs bill more than insurance will pay so they can get a tax write off. BigPharma is out of control. Insurance companies are price-gouging for policies that are increasingly worthless.
Congress needs to get off of the corporate gravy train! That’s the only reason they won’t deal with the problem. It’s not THEIR problem. There are two Americas.
I learned a new term or phrase today. Many objects, which for me are what I grew up with in the 1950’s to 1970’s, are no longer referred to as “antiques”, but now are “mid-century”. That makes me feel much better. There is nothing like going into an “antiques for sale” store and seeing your typical grade school or even high school desk for sale as antique. Okay, I will give that the ink wells are a give away that those are not from the 2010 era. So what if they were manufactured in the 1930’s, they are still what I used in my grad school days.
I’ve seen my high school and even college time (68-72) books for sale as antiques. Geez.
Sometimes people are really brutal about age.
BB – “Reelin’ In The Years”
Looking more and more as if Irma is going to pick on Florida
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/3/1695682/-Hurricane-Irma-Posing-Increasing-Threat-to-Leeward-Islands-and-Points-Beyond
To c-bob and pretzel logic…sorry to see Walter pass. One of my finest musical memories of the seventies, the magic of Steely Dan.
My dad had an 8-track player & I bought Aja at a rummage sale in the 80s. Wore it out.