Julian Bream, the English musician who pushed the guitar beyond its Spanish roots and expanded its range by commissioning dozens of works from major composers, and who also played a crucial role in reviving the lute as a modern concert instrument, died on Friday at his home in Wiltshire, England. He was 87.
His representatives at James Brown Management announced his death in a statement but did not give a cause.
Mr. Bream was the most eloquent guitarist of the generation that came of age soon after Andrés Segovia carved out a place for the guitar in the mainstream concert world.
It could be argued, in fact, that Mr. Bream, even more than Segovia, established the guitar’s credibility as a serious solo instrument. He updated the technical standard of classical guitar playing and replaced the Romantic, rubato-heavy phrasing that Segovia preferred with a more modern style. And he undertook a significant renovation of the repertory.
[…]
Mr. Bream was fussy about sound, preferring to record late at night in an empty chapel near his home. He said, however, that modern recording techniques could not match the sound he heard on the old shellac discs of his childhood, played on a windup gramophone with a large horn and thorn needles.
“What do I think of digital recording?’’ he once mused at a cocktail party in New York. “Well, it’s all right. But those old thorn needles, now, that was a sound.”
found this description from taizeinfo about sturge’s thread pic:
The name of a children’s hymn, with such delicious rhymes in it as “hold your nose and wash those toes” – all intended to engage children in the story and symbology of the Last Supper, where Jesus washed his disciples’ feet. Jesus’ intention was to show that neither he, nor anyone else, is above such lowly tasks and so the Christian church, around the world, conducts feet washing services on Maundy Thursday to remember.
Veronika sent a photo of hymn number 736 in Anglican Hymns Old and New, Revised and Enlarged (Great Britain: Kevin Mayhew, 2008). The hymn is titled “The Wolrd Is Full of Smelly Feet.” Of course I thought it was a faked photo, but a little bit of Web searching reveals that it is, in fact, a real hymn with text by by Michael Forster, and music by Christopher Tambling.
I suppose if one is in a Christian church with a liturgical heritage, and one is looking for a contemporary praise-song-type hymn to sing during footwashing, one might consider having the congregation sing this; although it’s hard to imagine.
But then my Web searching revealed that this hymn is included in a collection for junior choirs, and that boggled my mind. If the junior choir I was in sang this song — which we wouldn’t have, since it was a Unitarian Universalist church — but if we had been told to sing that song, my buddy Barry and I would have been laughing so hard we probably would have been unable to sing. Maybe some of the serious older girls would have sung it, but I can’t even imagine them getting through the lyrics with a straight face.
Found her in my towels which were in the dryer with the door closed. She was released into the wilds of my yard.
This weekend will be news free (for the most part). I do not need much more of SFB and Putin’s destruction of these United States.
Wet days and nights. I like sitting on the sun deck of my big boat and watch it rain. This is from two years ago, but it is good today too.
“I don’t know of any evidence that voting by mail would increase voter fraud,” Romney responded. “My biggest concern, frankly, with regards to voting fraud has been that there would be some kind of hacking of our voting electronic systems, and that voting machines or tabulating equipment would be hacked.”
Romney added it was “essential” that people who want to vote are able to vote.
“That’s more important than even the outcome of the vote. We have got to preserve the principle of democracy or the trend we’re on is going to continue to get worse,” he said.
“When politicians attack a judicial system, attack a voting system … attack a free press, these things threaten the foundation upon which not only our own democracy rests but democracies around the world rest,” he added.
If anyone wants to karaoke “smelly feet,” here’s your backing track.
It sounds like Willard is single-handedly trying to save the Republican brand. Unfortunately, Moscow Mitch and the rest have completely soiled it. There is nothing left to save. If Repugz wanted a chance in this election, they would dump tRUMPence for Romney/Hayley. They are all too beholden to Poo-tin.
It’s a Smelly world, after all.
BB – I would just put a cot on the deck and sleep when it was raining. We could use some rain here. Several 100-degree days; the heat index was 111 yesterday. Glad your little friend made it through the dryer.
Some wise-acre signed my annual once:
Way down yonder in the land of cotton
My feet stink and yours are rotten
Julian Bream – one of the only lite players I ever heard. The modern gap bridging musician.
Bink, I agree with you about Soulshine as one of the Allman’s better songs post 1980. Warren Haynes has written some good songs, and if Soulshine appeals to you go listen to some Government Mule recordings. Good stuff with Haynes as frontman.
Wicked and Duane…..when I heard this I had to go and find out about the guitarist.
It was much harder to find out about things like that back in those ancient times.
You weren’t likely to find out about the name of Wilson’s guitarist by looking in the Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia.
It wasn’t that it was astoundingly great or anything, it just didn’t “fit”. It was different. You knew it wasn’t Steve Cropper or Matt Guitar Murphy.
There seem to be no recordings of Hendrix’s time with the Isley Bros. Or from all his time on the Chitlin Circuit, living from The Green Book.
When sitting outside, is it your objective to use a can of raid to eliminate all flies which enter the perimeter, or do you prefer to burn a goofy candle and give them a sporting chance by wielding the flyswatter?
I admit that there’s more of a Thrill factor with the swatter; you have to have a keen eye, and your aim must be true.
En boca cerrado, no entran moscas.
If I found a live bug in my dryer I’d head outside to check the one-way airflow door on the vent hose.
There may be swatters on some of you yachters, but there ain’t no swatters on me.
This is a No-Fly zone.
who knows, it might have been yo momma in another lifetime
August 14th, 2020 – The Lincoln Project today released a new video, “Unprecedented,” taking aim at President Trump using the words of his own advisors and appointees.
“The ad speaks for itself,” said Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project. President Trump has cycled through numerous cabinet officials who have left the administration disappointed by his crushing ineptitude. From his cabinet to his campaign and even in the Trump Organization itself, one thing has rung true time and again: Donald Trump is utterly unfit and unable to lead.
Cloudy and cool this morning but it’s warming up now. Don’t matter, if yer gonna cause smoke it has to be outside.
In my search of people actually singing about Smelly Feet, I found this hour long dissertation on Great Hymns We No Longer Sing. The speaker is quite good and the history of the songs interesting if you have the time, but the humor and sing along begins around the 35 minute point with such ditties as
The Bells of Hell Go Ting A Ling A Ling
Crap On The Door
He’s More Than Just a Swear Word
Blest Is The Man Whose Bowels Move
He finally gets around to Smelly Feet around minute 51 but still not sung and fortunately followed by “This Land Is Your Land”
One song mentioned buy not played or sung at the end of the above has definite echoes for right now. We should probable sit some of the Evangelicals for a good talking too with the words:
O God, We Grieve the Hatred
AURELIA 7.6.7.6 D (“The Church’s One Foundation”)
O God, we grieve the hatred, the ugly, racist fear that hurts our common living and harms those you hold dear. For Muslims who were gathered to worship and to pray soon found their lives were shattered as violence filled their day.
We pray for those now grieving for loved ones who are lost; we pray for people suffering because of hatred’s cost. For all of us, now frightened by what extremists do, we pray: O God of mercy! May we find strength in you!
We grieve our lack of courage: we tolerate the wrong of people who are racist; we simply go along. We let the fear continue; we’re slow to challenge hate. We say, “It’s not our issue,” until it is too late.
O God of love and mercy, you teach us how to be a loving, caring people, a kind community. May we reach out to neighbors and welcome others here for love is what is needed to cast out pride and fear.
That’s why I’m going to higher ground where there ain’t no damn hurricanes; where there are fewer air conditioners and better heaters. Going where my clothes suit the weather and I can go down the road a piece and see Big Pink or Daryll’s House.
Haha, I quit my job, ain’t got no money…..up until 88 or so, that sentence about summed it all up. Once I learned how to make a better box, it’s been the one job I could never seem to get shet of.
a Biden ad
Donald Trump has had a lot of failures in his career, but he knows how to do one thing well: inherit something great and squander it. And never take any responsibility. pic.twitter.com/mDTSFogeUW
Sturge, living in Bama when I got just old enough to drive In the late 60s my other rock loving buds and me would go to the oporto armory whenever this group called the Hour Glass, a little later the Allman Brothers Band, would play there. They stood out above the other regional bands – the Tams, Swinging Medallions, etc. – when it came to playing – especially Duane, then Duane and Dickey, and Gregg had that voice. I think we only caught them as the Allmans once or twice, then Live at the Fillmore hit and no more armory gigs for the Brothers. Magic I tell ya.
CBob… I’m leaving in a few minutes to go to the local bookstore. They emailed me this morning to say that that book I ordered by Stuart Stevens is in. Won’t get to read it until next week… but he was very interesting on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show this past week.
Didn’t catch the pre-allmans any but I backed the Tams so often they let me keep my Tam.
If you played Birmingham I prolly saw ya.
There is more to the world than Trump and his latest tweet.
Belarus held an election soviet style and the people are pissed, Thousands being jailed, protestors being killed, guess the Belarus security people never heard of rubber bullets. For a good article explaining the USA, Belarus , Russian triangle dance aka the Eurasian shuffle.
The “Eurasian shuffle”—whose most adept practitioner was the late President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov—is the ongoing dance by post-Soviet leaders “between Moscow and Washington to secure maximum advantage.”
Traditionaly, leaders “shuffle West” in search of economic aid and political support by stressing their independence from Russia but stagger back east in order to avoid Western pressure for genuine democratization and reform. The most adept practitioners of the shuffle are those authoritarian rulers who can admit certain transgressions to their Western (particularly American) interlocutors, offer a few concessions, but then hint strongly that they can act as a bulwark against Russian aggression and expansion—while seeking to extract benefits from a Moscow anxious to purchase their loyalty, if not neutrality. And whenever the exploratory romance with Europe or the United States cooled, Moscow could always be counted on to receive the prodigal back into the common Eurasian home.
Jack
No, never played in B’ham, I backed them when they came to the pavilion where we had the house gig. They were regulars. The mountains had to come to Mohammad.
Joe Pope was a mighty man.
It bugs me that people still have to crawl down into those dangerous holes and dig that crap out just to get enough to eat.
“Crap on the Door“
That must be a tune about that time Martin Luther nailed his 99 Feces up on the church door.
And blacksmiths on every corner!
I’d much rather need a blacksmith than a technical assistant in India named “Carl”.
So, a tRUMP surrogate makes fun of another woman’s voice, because Harris is intelligent and truthful; there’s no way to go after the content of Harris’ words. Meanwhile, tRUMP seems to be illiterate, misreading and mispronouncing words. Then there is the matter of the slurred words (not the veiled, racial slurs) which seem to point to a neurological problem. Donald J. tRUMP is not fit for office, ethically, intellectually, nor physiologically. His views are anti-democracy and anti-American. He should be removed from office.
Since the Republicans seem to be controlled by tRUMPoo-Tin, we will have to do it at the ballot box. If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.
Fifty-nine days until early voting starts in Texas. Old Man, are you ready?
More news that’s not about Trump
If I wasn’t following Iowa news service on twitter I would realize how bad it was
5 days later and the roads still aren’t passable. But no big deal, not like it happen in an important part of the country. Iowa must be feeling rather lonely.
What a drive down a Cedar Rapids road looks like 5 days after the derecho. Stay for the roadblock at the end: pic.twitter.com/blbRUw2xtt
Iowa shouldn’t have any problem. Pence promised he and Trump would take care of them …
Federal criminal law (18 USC 1701):
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
More than 1,000 tonnes of fuel has leaked into the pristine waters of the island from the MV Wakashio, with fears more could spill as the ship begins to split in half, spilling a further 1,800 left in the ship
Yep, mail tampering is a no-no. tRUMP and his Republican/Russian backers continue to take a crap on the US Constitution (see Article 1) to keep Poo-tin in power in America. Traitors!
PHOENIX — Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is asking Mark Brnovich to investigate whether President Trump’s words or the U.S. Postal Service’s actions are attempts to tamper with Arizona’s voting by mail. In an email to Brnovich, Hobbs wrote, “I write today to ask that the Election Integrity Unit investigate whether President Trump, and others at his direction, has conspired to violate ARS 16-1003.”
[…]
“I think the President has been for a while directly attacking the Postal Service. I don’t think that’s been a coincidence and at the same time he is attacking vote by mail, he made it real clear yesterday that if the Postal Service doesn’t have funding the people can’t have vote by mail and that’s problematic.”
Mailer featuring Donald Trump urges Arizona Republicans to vote by mail … wait, what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ut5tHfbaJA“Blind” What Justice is supposed to be, but what humans are on an as-needed basis. We try to legislate it (fair housing, etc.) with varying degrees of success, depending who you are and who wrote the law.
Deceit is probably an inherent, human survival skill; let me hide my food and take yours if I’m starving. Of course, it’s much more complicated than day-to-day survival. We always have what we think are our best interests at heart. We continue to try to legislate our way out of it (transparent banking, truth in advertising, etc.). Occasionally, after a generation or two, some things “just aren’t done” anymore. Occasionally. If the risk of getting caught, and, if there being consequences are high enough.
Ah, but then we get a socio-evolutionary throwback named tRUMP. An entitled, willfully blind (to anything but his own self-interest) and fork-tongued (say anything). snake. Apologies to snakes, everywhere.
patD – That’s a great ad! That is what my friend, Gloria, always said to her kids. Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) sent a criminal referral to the New Jersey attorney general on Friday night asking him to convene a grand jury to investigate the president, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and others in the Trump administration for “election subversion.”
“I call upon you to open a wide-ranging investigation of Trump’s actions to interfere in our elections and to empanel a grand jury for the purpose of considering criminal indictments for Donald Trump, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, members of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors, and any other officials in the Trump government that are participating in or have participated in the subversion of New Jersey state elections,” Pascrell wrote in a letter to the New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
In his letter, Pascrell notes that New Jersey just became one of a handful of states to automatically send ballots to every voter (as opposed to making them apply for one) and so the election’s integrity will depend on an efficient postal system.
“Amid this ongoing pandemic, the USPS will be the electoral heart and engine or New Jersey’s and America’s electoral machinery,” Pascrell wrote.
He urged the attorney general that if an investigation determines there is a violation of the state’s electoral subversion laws that he “pursue criminal and civil charges against Donald Trump, Louis DeJoy, and any other high-ranking officials involved.”
We have a friend whose son grows popcorn. We ordered a grain bin full. Now, to clean out St Paul’s supply of 3buckchuck.
We have the best and brightest. I can’t wait to hear these GREAT speeches from so many of my hero’s!
https://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.24957/?r=0.021,-0.413,1.111,1.354,0
My great-grandfather was a postal carrier, as was his father who became a postal carrier when he returned from fighting in the Union Army.
I’ve never really thought of them this way before. This is really beautiful.
AOC needs to cool her jets and check her ego about only being given one minute to speak at the convention. We don’t need to give Repugz more ammo, which she will do in 60 seconds, and…it’s NOT her time to crow.
In the light of day! In Wisconsin .Voter suppression on a massive scale. To the people who just couldn’t vote for Hillary, have you no shame. You made this happen.
Fun fact: Kamala’s father is Jamaican. 2010 census recorded 246,478 Jamaicans living in Florida.
Trump: "If I win, which I hope to win — how can you not, when you see numbers like this? Both on the virus and on the economy. We should win. We should all be — keep this incredible thing going."
Bob, pretty easy. Just be on the video on youtube, click share. Copt the link and come back to the comment box but add a @ or # and paste it. You should then see the video display after Post Comment. You can experiment till you get it right by just deleting the comment and start over.
Old Man – There’s a copy button at the bottom of the screen on YouTube, but sometimes it just copies as a link (like the “Blind” video I posted today) and sometimes I get the full picture to display.
What a great Saturday afternoon thread. Sorry, but I was busy getting started on installing a different backsplash behind our stove, and living in an old house that ain’t exactly (ok, not even nearly) square and level, well you get the idea. Finally decided to settle down, catch up whi’ what the fucks going on in the world today, and of course here’s where I start. Bob, no it ain’t too far. As the old saying goes, joke them if they can’t take a fuck.
jamie, you might enjoy this story and share it with your nesting cam buddies,
A squabble in the sky over Lake Michigan left one bald eagle victorious and one government drone mangled and sunken.
Hunter King, a drone pilot at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, was surveying an area of the lake near the state’s Upper Peninsula last month when the drone started “twirling furiously” after it indicated that a propeller had been torn off.
A couple who regularly spends time watching eagles go after sea gulls in the area witnessed the battle but were surprised when they learned that it was a drone that had been downed in the fight, the department said.
[…]
The department speculated that the eagle could have attacked because of a territorial dispute, because it was hungry “or maybe it did not like its name being misspelled.”
[continues]
Mr Man,
Certain of us old men, like you, helped manage to keep things going until the women could come to the rescue of our country & planet. I did a tiny bit, too.
– Old male mutt
I go to the YouTube vid, click “copy” on the link at top, then go to trail mix comment box click “paste” to put in the link…….after you paste it in, a box will pop up over or under the link……click on the last icon on the right, the little box will disappear. then post the comment.
Tony, interesting, I have never put @ or # a when I post a YouTube link.
Touch the link and the black “copy“ box pops up
Sturge
this is a great post
Go to You Tube
Hit “Share”
A box with the video address pops up
To the right of the address is the word Copy. Click on that
Come here click in the comment box and hit paste. Since I’m watching Guys and Dolls, my favorite song from the Broadway show left out of the movie.
Under the video you want to copy
There is a thumbs up for like and thumb down for don’t like and then the word Share
“Season of the Witch” in honor of the many witch hunts? Cuz there be witches.
Pogo
For some reason you are getting an embedable link, Your link looks as if you copied it out of the browser window after you came from some play list. Much like the link you would see if I clicked on the go to youtube link to watch the rest of the video, as I just did in the video above, see what happens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSmA0gf14A
See, “Watch” in the above link isn’t in an embedable link In fact embedable links are really simple looking As you are using a phone I don’t know how you correct it.
BTW the video above is one Bob posted earlier today.
Jack
i have my methods
bink, you must be the only male alive who reads the manual first 🙂
speaking of music
NYTimes:
https://youtu.be/yDCdVtaLLeQ
and
found this description from taizeinfo about sturge’s thread pic:
and this from danielharperorg:
Found her in my towels which were in the dryer with the door closed. She was released into the wilds of my yard.
This weekend will be news free (for the most part). I do not need much more of SFB and Putin’s destruction of these United States.
Wet days and nights. I like sitting on the sun deck of my big boat and watch it rain. This is from two years ago, but it is good today too.
the hill:
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+world+is+full+of+smelly+feet+song&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
I have a new, second-favorite hymn! (“In The Garden” still gets the win for me.)
If anyone wants to karaoke “smelly feet,” here’s your backing track.
It sounds like Willard is single-handedly trying to save the Republican brand. Unfortunately, Moscow Mitch and the rest have completely soiled it. There is nothing left to save. If Repugz wanted a chance in this election, they would dump tRUMPence for Romney/Hayley. They are all too beholden to Poo-tin.
It’s a Smelly world, after all.
BB – I would just put a cot on the deck and sleep when it was raining. We could use some rain here. Several 100-degree days; the heat index was 111 yesterday. Glad your little friend made it through the dryer.
Some wise-acre signed my annual once:
Way down yonder in the land of cotton
My feet stink and yours are rotten
Julian Bream – one of the only lite players I ever heard. The modern gap bridging musician.
Bink, I agree with you about Soulshine as one of the Allman’s better songs post 1980. Warren Haynes has written some good songs, and if Soulshine appeals to you go listen to some Government Mule recordings. Good stuff with Haynes as frontman.
Wicked and Duane…..when I heard this I had to go and find out about the guitarist.
This one, too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdxpnGK2o4
It was much harder to find out about things like that back in those ancient times.
You weren’t likely to find out about the name of Wilson’s guitarist by looking in the Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia.
It wasn’t that it was astoundingly great or anything, it just didn’t “fit”. It was different. You knew it wasn’t Steve Cropper or Matt Guitar Murphy.
There seem to be no recordings of Hendrix’s time with the Isley Bros. Or from all his time on the Chitlin Circuit, living from The Green Book.
When sitting outside, is it your objective to use a can of raid to eliminate all flies which enter the perimeter, or do you prefer to burn a goofy candle and give them a sporting chance by wielding the flyswatter?
I admit that there’s more of a Thrill factor with the swatter; you have to have a keen eye, and your aim must be true.
En boca cerrado, no entran moscas.
If I found a live bug in my dryer I’d head outside to check the one-way airflow door on the vent hose.
There may be swatters on some of you yachters, but there ain’t no swatters on me.
This is a No-Fly zone.
who knows, it might have been yo momma in another lifetime
https://lincolnproject.us/news/unprecedented/
August 14th, 2020 – The Lincoln Project today released a new video, “Unprecedented,” taking aim at President Trump using the words of his own advisors and appointees.
“The ad speaks for itself,” said Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project. President Trump has cycled through numerous cabinet officials who have left the administration disappointed by his crushing ineptitude. From his cabinet to his campaign and even in the Trump Organization itself, one thing has rung true time and again: Donald Trump is utterly unfit and unable to lead.
Cloudy and cool this morning but it’s warming up now. Don’t matter, if yer gonna cause smoke it has to be outside.
In my search of people actually singing about Smelly Feet, I found this hour long dissertation on Great Hymns We No Longer Sing. The speaker is quite good and the history of the songs interesting if you have the time, but the humor and sing along begins around the 35 minute point with such ditties as
The Bells of Hell Go Ting A Ling A Ling
Crap On The Door
He’s More Than Just a Swear Word
Blest Is The Man Whose Bowels Move
He finally gets around to Smelly Feet around minute 51 but still not sung and fortunately followed by “This Land Is Your Land”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsDrfENb9ow
One song mentioned buy not played or sung at the end of the above has definite echoes for right now. We should probable sit some of the Evangelicals for a good talking too with the words:
O God, we grieve the hatred, the ugly, racist fear
that hurts our common living and harms those you hold dear.
For Muslims who were gathered to worship and to pray
soon found their lives were shattered as violence filled their day.
We pray for those now grieving for loved ones who are lost;
we pray for people suffering because of hatred’s cost.
For all of us, now frightened by what extremists do,
we pray: O God of mercy! May we find strength in you!
We grieve our lack of courage: we tolerate the wrong
of people who are racist; we simply go along.
We let the fear continue; we’re slow to challenge hate.
We say, “It’s not our issue,” until it is too late.
O God of love and mercy, you teach us how to be
a loving, caring people, a kind community.
May we reach out to neighbors and welcome others here
for love is what is needed to cast out pride and fear.
That’s why I’m going to higher ground where there ain’t no damn hurricanes; where there are fewer air conditioners and better heaters. Going where my clothes suit the weather and I can go down the road a piece and see Big Pink or Daryll’s House.
I can see it now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzrABouyeE
Haha, I quit my job, ain’t got no money…..up until 88 or so, that sentence about summed it all up. Once I learned how to make a better box, it’s been the one job I could never seem to get shet of.
a Biden ad
Sturge, living in Bama when I got just old enough to drive In the late 60s my other rock loving buds and me would go to the oporto armory whenever this group called the Hour Glass, a little later the Allman Brothers Band, would play there. They stood out above the other regional bands – the Tams, Swinging Medallions, etc. – when it came to playing – especially Duane, then Duane and Dickey, and Gregg had that voice. I think we only caught them as the Allmans once or twice, then Live at the Fillmore hit and no more armory gigs for the Brothers. Magic I tell ya.
CBob… I’m leaving in a few minutes to go to the local bookstore. They emailed me this morning to say that that book I ordered by Stuart Stevens is in. Won’t get to read it until next week… but he was very interesting on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show this past week.
Didn’t catch the pre-allmans any but I backed the Tams so often they let me keep my Tam.
If you played Birmingham I prolly saw ya.
There is more to the world than Trump and his latest tweet.
Belarus held an election soviet style and the people are pissed, Thousands being jailed, protestors being killed, guess the Belarus security people never heard of rubber bullets.
For a good article explaining the USA, Belarus , Russian triangle dance aka the Eurasian shuffle.
Jack
No, never played in B’ham, I backed them when they came to the pavilion where we had the house gig. They were regulars. The mountains had to come to Mohammad.
Joe Pope was a mighty man.
It bugs me that people still have to crawl down into those dangerous holes and dig that crap out just to get enough to eat.
“Crap on the Door“
That must be a tune about that time Martin Luther nailed his 99 Feces up on the church door.
And blacksmiths on every corner!
I’d much rather need a blacksmith than a technical assistant in India named “Carl”.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/donald-trump-father-mother-ancestry
So, we got stuck with Cadet Bone Spurs on our shores because his grandfather was a draft dodger who wasn’t allowed back into Bavaria.
So, a tRUMP surrogate makes fun of another woman’s voice, because Harris is intelligent and truthful; there’s no way to go after the content of Harris’ words. Meanwhile, tRUMP seems to be illiterate, misreading and mispronouncing words. Then there is the matter of the slurred words (not the veiled, racial slurs) which seem to point to a neurological problem. Donald J. tRUMP is not fit for office, ethically, intellectually, nor physiologically. His views are anti-democracy and anti-American. He should be removed from office.
Since the Republicans seem to be controlled by tRUMPoo-Tin, we will have to do it at the ballot box. If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.
Fifty-nine days until early voting starts in Texas. Old Man, are you ready?
More news that’s not about Trump
If I wasn’t following Iowa news service on twitter I would realize how bad it was
5 days later and the roads still aren’t passable. But no big deal, not like it happen in an important part of the country. Iowa must be feeling rather lonely.
Whiskey Jack
Iowa shouldn’t have any problem. Pence promised he and Trump would take care of them …
Federal criminal law (18 USC 1701):
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Oil Tanker that ran aground off Mauritius breaks in Half
More great things from fossil fuels.
More than 1,000 tonnes of fuel has leaked into the pristine waters of the island from the MV Wakashio, with fears more could spill as the ship begins to split in half, spilling a further 1,800 left in the ship
Yep, mail tampering is a no-no. tRUMP and his Republican/Russian backers continue to take a crap on the US Constitution (see Article 1) to keep Poo-tin in power in America. Traitors!
ABC15:
PHOENIX — Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is asking Mark Brnovich to investigate whether President Trump’s words or the U.S. Postal Service’s actions are attempts to tamper with Arizona’s voting by mail. In an email to Brnovich, Hobbs wrote, “I write today to ask that the Election Integrity Unit investigate whether President Trump, and others at his direction, has conspired to violate ARS 16-1003.”
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“I think the President has been for a while directly attacking the Postal Service. I don’t think that’s been a coincidence and at the same time he is attacking vote by mail, he made it real clear yesterday that if the Postal Service doesn’t have funding the people can’t have vote by mail and that’s problematic.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/mcconnells-wifes-family-business-appears-trump-admins-list-companies-that-received-most-ppp-1515788%3famp=1
So much for draining the swamp.
AZcentral:
Mailer featuring Donald Trump urges Arizona Republicans to vote by mail … wait, what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ut5tHfbaJA“Blind” What Justice is supposed to be, but what humans are on an as-needed basis. We try to legislate it (fair housing, etc.) with varying degrees of success, depending who you are and who wrote the law.
Deceit is probably an inherent, human survival skill; let me hide my food and take yours if I’m starving. Of course, it’s much more complicated than day-to-day survival. We always have what we think are our best interests at heart. We continue to try to legislate our way out of it (transparent banking, truth in advertising, etc.). Occasionally, after a generation or two, some things “just aren’t done” anymore. Occasionally. If the risk of getting caught, and, if there being consequences are high enough.
Ah, but then we get a socio-evolutionary throwback named tRUMP. An entitled, willfully blind (to anything but his own self-interest) and fork-tongued (say anything). snake. Apologies to snakes, everywhere.
patD – That’s a great ad! That is what my friend, Gloria, always said to her kids. Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.
wapo:
We have a friend whose son grows popcorn. We ordered a grain bin full. Now, to clean out St Paul’s supply of 3buckchuck.
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1294666717248081922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1294666717248081922%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FRexChapman2Fstatus2F1294666717248081922widget%3DTweet
Dolly, so smart and wonderful!
We have the best and brightest. I can’t wait to hear these GREAT speeches from so many of my hero’s!
https://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.24957/?r=0.021,-0.413,1.111,1.354,0
My great-grandfather was a postal carrier, as was his father who became a postal carrier when he returned from fighting in the Union Army.
I’ve never really thought of them this way before. This is really beautiful.
AOC needs to cool her jets and check her ego about only being given one minute to speak at the convention. We don’t need to give Repugz more ammo, which she will do in 60 seconds, and…it’s NOT her time to crow.
In the light of day! In Wisconsin .Voter suppression on a massive scale. To the people who just couldn’t vote for Hillary, have you no shame. You made this happen.
Fun fact: Kamala’s father is Jamaican. 2010 census recorded 246,478 Jamaicans living in Florida.
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To go along with Picture This.
Bob, pretty easy. Just be on the video on youtube, click share. Copt the link and come back to the comment box but add a @ or # and paste it. You should then see the video display after Post Comment. You can experiment till you get it right by just deleting the comment and start over.
Old Man – There’s a copy button at the bottom of the screen on YouTube, but sometimes it just copies as a link (like the “Blind” video I posted today) and sometimes I get the full picture to display.
What a great Saturday afternoon thread. Sorry, but I was busy getting started on installing a different backsplash behind our stove, and living in an old house that ain’t exactly (ok, not even nearly) square and level, well you get the idea. Finally decided to settle down, catch up whi’ what the fucks going on in the world today, and of course here’s where I start. Bob, no it ain’t too far. As the old saying goes, joke them if they can’t take a fuck.
jamie, you might enjoy this story and share it with your nesting cam buddies,
NYTimes:
Mr Man,
Certain of us old men, like you, helped manage to keep things going until the women could come to the rescue of our country & planet. I did a tiny bit, too.
– Old male mutt
I go to the YouTube vid, click “copy” on the link at top, then go to trail mix comment box click “paste” to put in the link…….after you paste it in, a box will pop up over or under the link……click on the last icon on the right, the little box will disappear. then post the comment.
Tony, interesting, I have never put @ or # a when I post a YouTube link.
Touch the link and the black “copy“ box pops up
Sturge
this is a great post
Go to You Tube
Hit “Share”
A box with the video address pops up
To the right of the address is the word Copy. Click on that
Come here click in the comment box and hit paste. Since I’m watching Guys and Dolls, my favorite song from the Broadway show left out of the movie.
Under the video you want to copy
There is a thumbs up for like and thumb down for don’t like and then the word Share
“Season of the Witch” in honor of the many witch hunts? Cuz there be witches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBfK-vGygvk
“Crying of Earth”
OM – It still works if just the link shows up and not the full picture. It takes us right to your videos.
#https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDeY2qtxU0nUc&feature=share&playnext=1
I’m like Bob. Just posts links from YouTube. Demmit.
https://youtu.be/YCSmA0gf14A
Pogo
For some reason you are getting an embedable link, Your link looks as if you copied it out of the browser window after you came from some play list. Much like the link you would see if I clicked on the go to youtube link to watch the rest of the video, as I just did in the video above, see what happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSmA0gf14A
See, “Watch” in the above link isn’t in an embedable link In fact embedable links are really simple looking As you are using a phone I don’t know how you correct it.
BTW the video above is one Bob posted earlier today.
Jack
i have my methods
bink, you must be the only male alive who reads the manual first 🙂
thanks for the above on the ‘tube
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