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Unless you’re vaccinated, Shoppers,
suggested sign which should be hung above all store doors, particularly those retailers who have discontinued their mask mandate protecting all who work and shop within
… due to its roots to the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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The song was written by James Ryder Randall as a poem in 1861. The poem’s opening line is “The despot’s heel is on thy shore,” a reference to President Abraham Lincoln.
The lyrics include “Avenge the patriotic gore. That flecked the streets of Baltimore,” and later refers to the Union as “Northern scum!”
“It’s extremely offensive” Jones told The Baltimore Sun. “People just hear the words, ‘Maryland, My Maryland.’ But if you look at the words, it’s not something you want to hail as the song for the state.”
Patd, I don’t agree about those 2 LP vids being contradictory. One is talking about the two parties working together collegially for the benefit of the country rather than what has been wrought from 1994 forward. The other is talking about intraparty Republican warfare under Dumbass and the danger of the cultish approach that has arisen in it.
The grocery store has removed all signage, including the arrows on the floor. Cashiers are masked but the guys in produce were not. Most customers were still wearing masks.
On the way home, I stopped to get gasoline. As I was filling the tank, I wondered how those rocket scientists put it in a garbage bag, because any liquid in a bag would be tricky, but also handling the pump handle…
Jamie… thanks for the Preakness info. It does seems tainted allowing Baffert and Medina Spirit there. It’s also weird that only MedinaS and Midnight Bourbon are the only horses that also ran the Derby. I’ll watch…. but I don’t really care who wins.
CBob… your rant last night about the media and what it concentrates on was spot on!
pogo, the contradiction i meant was about promoting “civility” (which i interpret as speaking civilly to and about one’s opposition) on one hand and profanely putting down those same folk on the other hand. i don’t disagree with either what they are promoting or what he said. it just struck me as funny they published 2 dissonant messages almost simultaneous on youtube on same day.
Yep, OM. That’s what crypto is showing folks. As long as you think it’s worth whatever and can get others to agree, you’ve really got something…until you don’t.
OM & BID
I tried too explain this concept ages ago to my kids by pulling a bill from my wallet and burning it. Of course I used a one not a twenty.
These days almost all of it is funny money but rather an agreement that the numbers on their books that a bank honors are the same as the numbers on another bank and it all just flies through the air from one place to another as there is less and less physical cash being used.
Washington (CNN)Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, whose criticism of former President Donald Trump led to her ouster from House Republican leadership, said Friday that several Republican members of Congress had voted against impeaching Trump out of fear for their own lives.
Telling CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” that there are “more members who believe in substance and policy and ideals than are willing to say so,” Cheney cited the impeachment vote earlier this year, in which she was one of only 10 House Republicans who voted to hold Trump accountable for the Capitol riot.
“If you look at the vote to impeach, for example, there were members who told me that they were afraid for their own security — afraid, in some instances, for their lives,” she said. “And that tells you something about where we are as a country, that members of Congress aren’t able to cast votes, or feel that they can’t, because of their own security.”
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i just don’t understand why some Americans are so eager to breathe in other people’s germs, coronavirus or otherwise. i’ll never again not imagine the invisible cloud of pathogens emitted from everyone’s face, please stay away
(i’ll just do my business in the odd-hours when everyone is watching TV or sleeping)
“The reality is, in Texas, we are cooking people in prisons…”
“Currently, 70% of the state’s nearly 100 prison facilities do not have air conditioning in living areas. Some areas, like administrative offices and infirmaries, are air conditioned at all units.“
“In the last decade, at least 13 men have died of heat stroke while incarcerated in Texas prisons, according to court records and autopsy reports. Many more prisoners and guards are sickened each year in temperatures that often soar past 100 degrees, requiring intravenous fluids after reporting dizziness, nausea, heat rashes and muscle cramps.“
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that “taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to pay for expensive prison air conditioning systems.”
“Dozens of other lawsuits against TDCJ over heat-related deaths and illnesses have cost the state millions more since the summer of 2011, when a heat wave in Texas killed at least 10 imprisoned men.“
“These people are being tortured,” she said. “We don’t treat animals like this, why on earth would we treat human beings like this?”
There’s a Soulshine cruise in November. I don’t wanna hear live music badly enough to ever get on a cruise ship. I’ve had friends try to get me to go on different cruises over the years. I’ve had no trouble saying no. I just can’t think of a worse vacation.
My last concert was Prince long long ago. Pretty sure I’ll never go to another concert. Well, I might go see “LUCIUS” if they came to Levon’s Barn again. And wasn’t that long ago that Debbie Harry played the Cafe Carlyle, I would have gone to that. That Prince was one sharp cookie. Tickets were $90 apiece, but you got a free CD. Turns out each CD given away was counted as sold CD’s. Sky-high record sales.
thank goodness, so far none of these have made un-masking mandatory. we who wish to remain masked, even though fully vaccinated, may continue to do so. when masks are no longer allowed, I’ll be one of the first in line to exclusively shop online.
jamie, same here, especially when they insist on singing and drowning out the artist, unless it’s a crowd huge like this
A number of elephants and their mahout out for a walk in the mountains passed by the place I’d put a piano. When I saw the elephants coming I walked over to the piano and played “Greensleeves”. The elephants stopped walking of their own accord and trumpeted along with the music.
bink, it’s out there for this 80 yr old grand lady. am sure the poor guy who had to lug it out there, was happy to do it
Debussy “Clair de Lune” for a gentle female elephant called Ampan. Ampan is 80 years old and lives with us as Elephants World in Thailand. She is blind in one eye and can barely see with the other. 80 years old is very old indeed for an elephant, it’s about 10 years past the natural life span of an elephant in the wild.
Lam Duan is the name of an old blind elephant, her name means “Tree with Yellow Flowers”. Lam Duan has been blind most of her life. Lamduan lives at Elephants World, Thailand. http://www.elephantsworld.org
even some of you who are, a ‘toon for you
on another subject, lincoln project’s latest
hey, LP, your below actions kinda conflict with your above aspirations
Today is the Preakness
2021 Preakness Stakes contenders, odds
jamie, please put me down for midnight bourbon (even though medina spirit most likely will be the winner)
Walmart didn’t take long to reverse its mask policy. Fricking Republicans. I’ll be wearing mine, thank you very much.
state song “maryland my maryland” is no longer sung at preakness so will rep. raskin’s in vid below become the new one?
according to espn last fall there wasn’t to be any song sung at the race scheduled in oct
Preakness ends playing of ‘extremely offensive’ state song (espn.com)
my suggestion for the preakness song – just needs a little tweaking of lyrics
Patd, I don’t agree about those 2 LP vids being contradictory. One is talking about the two parties working together collegially for the benefit of the country rather than what has been wrought from 1994 forward. The other is talking about intraparty Republican warfare under Dumbass and the danger of the cultish approach that has arisen in it.
Once upon a Time before they discovered racism, the GOP was sane.
CDC used to be a very good agency. I wonder who makes these bone-headed decisions? My body, my mask.
Patd
I’ll keep track of the bets, or you can all see your bookies. Pimlico is Puccini
The grocery store has removed all signage, including the arrows on the floor. Cashiers are masked but the guys in produce were not. Most customers were still wearing masks.
On the way home, I stopped to get gasoline. As I was filling the tank, I wondered how those rocket scientists put it in a garbage bag, because any liquid in a bag would be tricky, but also handling the pump handle…
Jamie… thanks for the Preakness info. It does seems tainted allowing Baffert and Medina Spirit there. It’s also weird that only MedinaS and Midnight Bourbon are the only horses that also ran the Derby. I’ll watch…. but I don’t really care who wins.
CBob… your rant last night about the media and what it concentrates on was spot on!
RR
Medina Spirit has now passed three drug tests this week. Had to in order for Pimlico allowed him to run in the Preakness.
pogo, the contradiction i meant was about promoting “civility” (which i interpret as speaking civilly to and about one’s opposition) on one hand and profanely putting down those same folk on the other hand. i don’t disagree with either what they are promoting or what he said. it just struck me as funny they published 2 dissonant messages almost simultaneous on youtube on same day.
Jamie…. ok… then he’s my horse.
BTW… forgot to mention that I own and have actually read (not always the case) Jared Diamond’s “Collapse”…. it’s an eye opener!
OM & BID
I tried too explain this concept ages ago to my kids by pulling a bill from my wallet and burning it. Of course I used a one not a twenty.
These days almost all of it is funny money but rather an agreement that the numbers on their books that a bank honors are the same as the numbers on another bank and it all just flies through the air from one place to another as there is less and less physical cash being used.
Midnight Bourbon for me
speaking of things media love to concentrate on
New allegations about Gaetz use of campaign funds after a GOP fundraiser (msnbc.com)
hope FBI is looking in to this. threatening gov’t officials is a no no, a felony type no no
Liz Cheney says some GOP members voted against impeachment out of fear for their lives – CNNPolitics
bbronc, welcome aboard midnight bourbon. you can take the reins while i enjoy the view.
BTW, plenty room for more
i just don’t understand why some Americans are so eager to breathe in other people’s germs, coronavirus or otherwise. i’ll never again not imagine the invisible cloud of pathogens emitted from everyone’s face, please stay away
(i’ll just do my business in the odd-hours when everyone is watching TV or sleeping)
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/14/texas-prison-air-conditioning-legislature/
“The reality is, in Texas, we are cooking people in prisons…”
“Currently, 70% of the state’s nearly 100 prison facilities do not have air conditioning in living areas. Some areas, like administrative offices and infirmaries, are air conditioned at all units.“
“In the last decade, at least 13 men have died of heat stroke while incarcerated in Texas prisons, according to court records and autopsy reports. Many more prisoners and guards are sickened each year in temperatures that often soar past 100 degrees, requiring intravenous fluids after reporting dizziness, nausea, heat rashes and muscle cramps.“
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that “taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to pay for expensive prison air conditioning systems.”
“Dozens of other lawsuits against TDCJ over heat-related deaths and illnesses have cost the state millions more since the summer of 2011, when a heat wave in Texas killed at least 10 imprisoned men.“
“These people are being tortured,” she said. “We don’t treat animals like this, why on earth would we treat human beings like this?”
That’s three of us on this one poor horse. There’s only room for one more clown….
if you don’t like “Middle Kids” yet, what are you waiting for?
Concert Tour
Music touring for everyone fully-booked and sold-out going past this fall already
Real-world vaccine efficacy trial, whether you like or not!
There’s a Soulshine cruise in November. I don’t wanna hear live music badly enough to ever get on a cruise ship. I’ve had friends try to get me to go on different cruises over the years. I’ve had no trouble saying no. I just can’t think of a worse vacation.
Got it Sturgeone
Jacob Collier is starting to tour. He’ll be in Texas next spring.
…last time i ordered concert tix a pandemic happened😒
My last concert was Prince long long ago. Pretty sure I’ll never go to another concert. Well, I might go see “LUCIUS” if they came to Levon’s Barn again. And wasn’t that long ago that Debbie Harry played the Cafe Carlyle, I would have gone to that. That Prince was one sharp cookie. Tickets were $90 apiece, but you got a free CD. Turns out each CD given away was counted as sold CD’s. Sky-high record sales.
Last thing approaching a “concert” was Gordon Lightfoot. He was great in performance but it was more a theater than a usual concert venue.
I don’t do huge crowds
thank goodness, so far none of these have made un-masking mandatory. we who wish to remain masked, even though fully vaccinated, may continue to do so. when masks are no longer allowed, I’ll be one of the first in line to exclusively shop online.
Here are the major retailers that have updated their mask policy | TheHill
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/14/politics/kfile-marjorie-taylor-greene-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/index.html
MGT acts like a ‘roided up bully.
So, Liz Cheney thinks some of her colleagues feared for their safety. What happened to Mitch McConnell’s hands?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/mitch-mcconnell-hands-health
Did he need a little convincing about something before the election?
jamie, same here, especially when they insist on singing and drowning out the artist, unless it’s a crowd huge like this
A number of elephants and their mahout out for a walk in the mountains passed by the place I’d put a piano. When I saw the elephants coming I walked over to the piano and played “Greensleeves”. The elephants stopped walking of their own accord and trumpeted along with the music.
Riders Up
Rambauer wins Preakness
Midnight Bourbon
Medina Spirit
Elephants have a special place in my heart: Buying The Elephant
I regularly contribute to the Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee
Some poor schmuck had to lug that piano out into the elephant field😆
Rombauer, now who saw that coming?
The Belmont could be interesting.
bink, it’s out there for this 80 yr old grand lady. am sure the poor guy who had to lug it out there, was happy to do it
Debussy “Clair de Lune” for a gentle female elephant called Ampan. Ampan is 80 years old and lives with us as Elephants World in Thailand. She is blind in one eye and can barely see with the other. 80 years old is very old indeed for an elephant, it’s about 10 years past the natural life span of an elephant in the wild.
more of the herd who heard music in the wild
Lam Duan is the name of an old blind elephant, her name means “Tree with Yellow Flowers”. Lam Duan has been blind most of her life. Lamduan lives at Elephants World, Thailand. http://www.elephantsworld.org
elephants are pretty damn smart. no telling what they think about that crazy guy who keeps playing on a piano in desperate need of tuning.
That’s irrelevant!
lol, piano guy is obviously a “Far Side” fan
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