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Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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MAR-A-LAGO VAMPIRES – Donald Trump drinks with the Billionaires – Halloween Political Parody Song
Step inside the haunted halls of Mar-a-Lago for the ultimate billionaire vampire ball! 🦇🩸 This satirical Halloween song brings together Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt, Pete Hegseth, Melania Trump, JD Vance, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Barrack Obama, Sleepy Joe Biden, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and even Epstein’s ghost for a gothic, blood-soaked party of greed, secrets, and power.
🎶 Expect spooky organ, pounding drums, and a campy, creepy anthem that feels like a mix of Thriller and Dead Man’s Party. This track is satire — a darkly funny Halloween parody about billionaires, politics, and the undead dancing under the blood moon.
👻 Lyrics feature:
• Trump hosting the vampire ball at Mar-a-Lago.
• Zuckerberg, Gates, Cook, Thiel, Bezos sipping “red wine.”
• Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Dan Bongino joining the feast.
• Joe Rogan podcasting in the candlelight.
• Elon Musk tweeting from his tower.
• Stephen Miller plotting in the shadows.
• Epstein’s ghost haunting the gilded halls.
⚠️ Disclaimer: This is a work of satire and Halloween parody. It is not factual and is for entertainment purposes only. Made with AI not real people 🙂
President Donald Trump’s sudden and immediate teardown of the White House’s East Wing last week was “just the tip of Trump’s iceberg,” according to John Oliver, who claimed that the government’s ramp-up of preemptive bombings on suspected drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela was the “most shocking” of all Trump’s latest moves.
In recent months, the Trump administration has carried out at least 10 airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, killing at least 43, all of whom it has described as “narco-terrorists.”
That’s “even though the administration has not provided public evidence for its claims,” Oliver said on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. “But even if they have some, I’ve watched enough JAG to know the typical approach to drug boats is to intercept them and arrest the suspects, not murder them with no due process.”
Oliver said that’s “distressing enough” until we learned that Trump has proposed striking suspected drug smugglers on land as well, without asking or getting approval from Congress, telling reporters, “I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country.”
Trump said it even more plainly and bluntly: “We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead.”
“You know, the kind of chilling statement you expect to hear from a serial killer or the mastermind behind Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonades, but not ideally the president of the United States,” Oliver observed.
But this all comes after seeing Trump respond to the “No Kings” rallies last weekend with an AI video of himself wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet dumping feces on protesters, hearing Trump call for a $230 million payout from the Department of Justice, dangling a potential $20 billion to influence Argentina’s upcoming elections, and then seeing the East Wing torn down on top of all of that.
“Obviously, those images are distressing, especially when you know it’s all to build a giant ballroom in the style best described as MedSpa Versailles,” he said. “And yet, the demolition of the White House, a metaphor that if anything, is too on the nose.”
“Between tearing down the White House, trying to use the Justice Department to pay himself, and proudly sharing AI footage of him literally s–tting on Americans, the president now also appointed himself judge, jury and executioner of foreign citizens,” Oliver ultimately concluded. “And it is infuriating that neither Congress nor the courts seem to be interested in putting a stop to any of this, because we are supposed to live in a country of checks and balances.”
The Trump administration’s military airstrikes against boats off Venezuela’s coast that the White House claims were being used for drug trafficking are “extrajudicial killings”, said Rand Paul, the president’s fellow Republican and US senator from Kentucky.
Paul’s strong comments on the topic came on Sunday during an interview on Republican-friendly Fox News, three days after Donald Trump publicly claimed he “can’t imagine” federal lawmakers would have “any problem” with the strikes when asked about seeking congressional approval for them.
US forces in recent weeks have carried out at least eight strikes against boats in the Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast, killing about 40 people that the Trump administration has insisted were involved in smuggling drugs.
Speaking with Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream, Paul asserted that Congress has “gotten no information” on the campaign of strikes from Trump’s administration – despite the president claiming the White House would be open to briefing the federal lawmakers about the offensive.
“No one said their name, no one said what evidence, no one said whether they’re armed, and we’ve had no evidence presented,” Paul said of the targeted boats or those on board. He argued that the Trump administration’s actions bring to mind the way China and Iran’s repressive governments have previously executed drug smugglers.
“They summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public,” Paul contended in his conversation with Bream. “So it’s wrong.
[continues]
Halloween Horror Decoration
Now I’d a good time for a strike. Air traffic controllers taking the lead.
Rolling strikes from others, even if it’s using a sick day or vacation day, and slow down if you think you’re underpaid.
Everyone else just boycott everything except local stores/small businesses & use cash to starve big banks of fees.
Next protest is November 5th in DC, but you can protest every day by calling Congress, especially Republicans. They have voicemail.
🇺🇸 NEW in the series — *The Colonies Clap Back*
When King George III declared the colonies “in open and avowed rebellion,” Congress answered with an army, a navy, and a nation.
▶️ Watch the Echoes of America playlist (leading up to July 4, 2026):
Rick and I are on Cape Cod. I’m not bothering with politics while here.
The sun is shining and the world is spinning…. May it continue to do so.
It’s the EPSTEIN bunker under the PEDOPHILE’s ballroom. It’s all about the bunker.
RR, you and Rick could celebrate the Cape Cod “privateers” authorized 250 years ago this week by the Continental Congress to raid British ships in response to the King’s proclamation of rebellion. They were very good at it, captured more British vessels than the Continental Navy. Surely Cape Cod has at least put up a plaque or maybe even a statue honoring those patriots.
The Erie Canal, dug by human muscle, aided by improvised cleverness, helped build a nation.
October 22, 2025
Americans’ pockets hold digital devices delivering oceans of information and distractions. But another technology that dramatically shaped the nation’s life, and had revolutionary consequences abroad, was a ditch. Raise a glass as the 200th birthday of the Erie Canal is celebrated on Sunday… More at link.
The eerie canal might be the space between Stephen Nazi’s ears.
Murder is murder
The Ameri-Christo-fascists sure put a lot of asterisks on those Ten Commandments they claim to espouse themselves to
The 50’s moo-Jicians who started recording Post-Elvis’s Ed Sullivan debut were copying those who were recording in the 50’s pre-Elvis, and Elvis.
Together they recorded the “music of our time.”
Dylan has credited Hank Williams, Little Richard and Elvis for kicking him off down the road of music. Me too Hank and Elvis, Little Richard, Fats Antoine
The contemporary musician St. Vincent has an expressed goal of avoiding blues scales and rock chord arrangements
Varying degrees of success to that end for her in my opinion, she’s got a few bangers
All my favorite musicians now are women because they’re taking guitar-led music to new places, I think young men only care about getting rich and video games now
ill call your older monotone crooner with a younger one
A. Guilty little secret: I am no fan of “the blues” except for Lightnin’ and a couple of those guys.
(I wouldn’t really call Muddy Waters a blues player, even though he did play a lot of blues. )
While I don’t actually hate the blues, it gets to be kinda something like that.
i do love all that Chess-era blues, not gonna lie, holds up
well, if you’re not calling Muddy a blues act then we’re splitting hairs here 😊
see you’re falling into the subgenre categorization wormhole, you’d fit in well with the nouveau post-hipster set
i’m fine with calling Muddy “proto-rock”
full disclosure, I did basically see the equivalent of the Beatles in a Rotterdam basement circa 1962 or whatever, still riding the high
It’s about time I fit in SOMEwhere.
😎
I’m just batting around things which occur to me which if they hold up might actually become real live opinions.
these are discussions I’ve had before with other music-oriented people, you are attuned 🧘♂️
I can’t call this “blues”….
This is something else.
transcends nomenclature
In honor of all those bars and speakeasies
That’s a thing about the Beatles….they were a DAMN good performance band. They honed that craft playing weeks at a time in Hamburg, 8 hours a day, hour on hour off, 7 days a week. (They got a few phrase from that time 8 days a week and hard days night.)
To me, the Beatles were 2 entirely separate groups, Lennon being the driving force of the first iteration (the performance band) and then McCartney becoming the driving force of the “recording” group.
not for nothing if you’ve played any of the YouTubes I’ve posted here over the years you’ve been the hippest boomer you know, cause i catch tomorrow’s stars on the come-up 😉
i decided ill stop listening to new music when im dead, not before 🫡
such practice doesn’t help me relate to my own aging generation, but my generation sucks, always largely did 😃
look what they’ve done 😒
OK, I have to go act like my whole body doesn’t hurt but I needed the break. Thank you. ❤️
Slava Ukraine
To me, the Beatles were 2 entirely separate groups, Lennon being the driving force of the first iteration (the performance band) and then McCartney becoming the driving force of the “recording” group.
good take
MSNBC becomes MS NOW.
Starting Nov. 15, the progressive-leaning cable news channel will be called MS NOW — an acronym for My Source, News, Opinion and World. The famous NBC peacock will no longer be part of the channel’s logo.
The rebranding coincides with parent company Comcast’s spinoff of its NBCUniversal cable channels into Versant, a new company. CNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, SyFy and E! are also part of the entity.
Comcast is unloading the channels because it believes the mature outlets face a bleak future due to pay TV cord-cutting and are an albatross weighing down its stock price.
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
The Talmud
Again cutting off their nose to spite their face. If you don’t stream any of the live outlets listed below, your minimal cost to stream the Versant channels will be $45 through Sling.
To Stream Versant
The following is a list of some digital provider partners that would enable access to locked or live content on USANetwork.com and within our apps.
AT&T TV Now
Fubo
Hulu Live
SlingTV (Check with Sling about your location!)
YouTubeTV
McCartney went on as a mainly recording group with Wings and now mainly with guest appearances totally enjoying the performance side of the equation.
Anon, I mix it up with the old and new by joining in on some of the challenges and prompts on Blue Sky. I put up oldies they never knew existed and the youngsters introduce me to things I’ve never heard.
Below are flights taken by Jeffrey Epstein on April 6th 1998 with 90 year old banking scion Paul Mellon and two unidentified females:
~ Source
On April 5th Epstein flew from palm beach to Teterboro airport, accompanied by Senator George Mitchell’s wife, one of Sen. George’s infant children, an unidentified female, and a likely relative of Republican communications operator Frank Luntz.
According to a high profile victim Virginia Giuffre, “’My body was put on the banquet menu … for a powerful senator, George Mitchell, and another prominent Nobel Prize winning scientist,’ Giuffre wrote in an account of the years she allegedly spent as a self-described teen sex slave for Epstein and his powerful friends.”. ~ source
On April 6th Epstein and two unidentified females flew from Teterboro airport to Paul Mellon’s private airstrip located on the grounds of Rokeby Stables, number 1776 Loughborough Lane in Upperville Virginia. ~ source
Epstein picked up Paul Mellon, and from here they made a short trip south to Richmond International Airport, before returning to the Mellon estate later that day. Epstein and the two unidentified females then returned to Teterboro airport and made no further trips together.
It would appear given certain furnishings within the Lolita Express, a jet registered as N908JE and used to facilitate the aforementioned trip, that perhaps Epstein provided a mile high service. That he picked up and dropped off certain clients. Clients who committed certain acts right above our heads.
The late Paul Mellon was a member of a family who controls the largest custodian bank in the world, BNY Mellon, which these days commands over $40 trillion in assets under custody. Mellon was 90 years old when he made this trip. It hardly seemed to be about blackmail or business, but likely leisure. Perhaps, the facilitation of a dying last wish for a member of that certain sect of oligarchy Epstein worked for.
*Tim Mellon ~donated~ $130 million to pay US military during the Republican-EPSTEIN shutdown, which amounts to $100/per member yo buy/influence our military.
Two new lawsuits filed against Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) by an anonymous plaintiff allege that the financial institutions “illicitly enabled Epstein’s sex trafficking,” The Guardian reports Monday. The suits are led by Sigrid S. McCawley, of Boies Schiller Flexner, and Brad Edwards of Edwards Henderson, both longtime representatives of Epstein victims.
*NY Mellon Bank. Hmm
“I got to get my rest, ‘cause Monday is a mess.”
Fighting kings still draws a crowd. Today’s Echoes video.
The story I heard was Paul asking a cab driver if he’d been working hard and the cab driver replied, “Oh…8 days a week!”
FAKE NEWS !
AI !!
Wonder if the cabbie gets royalties
Think what a difference Mac coulda made in that cabbie’s life by throwing him a point or two
lol
Oh well….it’s easy to be hard.
But anyway, the way I heard it was the cabbie said, “Scrambled Eggs” and the rest was history
Same thing happened to Sam the Sham.
Scrambled Eggs by any other name would taste as sweet.
Sturgeonimous, I heard that cabbie quote long before AI was a thing. It’s one of 2 explanations Paul gave – 1 was to the cabbie, the other was to Ringo. I like the 2nd one – keeps it in the band. That Scrambled Eggs thing – I’m not convinced. What would the blank be in “… all my troubles seemed so ____”? “…oh my baby how i love your legs..” seems far fetched. I want to hear the tapes.
I wouldn’t put too much credit to any story from a member of the Beatles. They have a reputation of messing with reporter’s minds. Plus they are really good self promoters.
Jack
Blues?
Which kind?
Then there is Texas blues
I wait until new music becomes classics, It saves a lot of listening to bad music. It is not that the “sixties” had such good music, it is that we have forgot all the bad shit, nobody remembers Pat Boone covering the Beatles.
Jack
Early Beatles – I wanna hold your hand. “Enlightened” Beatles – Yellow Submarine.
I am from Detroit. Motown, similar to Motown, British invasion, Beatles, Elvis, LA (Wrecking Crew), Sinatra, NY, Chicago. That is a rough rank of the mid 60’s. Many of us quit listening to top 40 stations because it was repetition overload. Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra, repeat three times per hour. Just about this time is when the FM stations started gaining popularity. Later 60’s came Cream, Doors, and a lot of great groups.
I prefer the Kinks over the Beatles anyhoo.
I’m not convinced. What would the blank be in “… all my troubles seemed so ____”? “…oh my baby how i love your legs..” seems far fetched. I want to hear the tapes.
you would believe it if you saw the documentary on Disney of the “let it be” sessions, it’s also a common technique to use gibberish as placeholder for lyrics during songwriting
You’ll have a lot less respect for Beatles lyrics after you watch the documentary, their lyrics didn’t mean much to them at the time. You can watch Paul deliberately try to write a protest song and ending up with “Get Back” which ain’t much of a protest song
Elton John says he wrote the music AFTER Taupin wrote the lyrics which is insane if you’ve ever tried to write a song
Beatles set list was heavily Motown before the deluge.
Check out the reverb lol
oh another fun thing about the Beatles documentary is getting to watch Ringo roll his eyes at John and Paul bickering constantly, he’s like “get me out of here”
Jack – due to a lot of stuff during the first sixty years of my life, I never picked up albums of songs I liked. Then I picked up for enjoyment which is very different from those who collect albums. Mine is for listening enjoyment, the others are not.
I enjoy research into animal behaviour. I would have gone there except there was a draft notice in my life. I ended up in computer world. It took a while before I understood that computers in real time processing were very similar to animal behaviour. If I was fifty years younger I would probably cover that for a PhD.
i had a feeling that “A House Full of Dynamite” would piss-off the trumpers:
“Not sure you can get more
Marie Antoinette than taking away food stamps right before Thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring you bribes over a badly cooked (Argentinian) steak.”
@elleisanisland.bsky.social
GOV. WALZ:
“This is not both sides. This is owned by Republicans. Dems are willing to come back and protect what passed, not let an authoritarian president do whatever he wants… people will be lined up to get food and we’re talking about a damn ballroom? DON’T LOSE THE PLOT.”
like I said, I agree with Walz, but what resonates resonates
Don’t lose the plot, but don’t throw away an opportunity either
like Maga can’t complain about bringing down Confederate statues anymore because we have the intuitive reply
it’s a culture war whether you like it or not, Tim
The era of liberal influencers being able to shame Americans into being decent human beings is over, they don’t give a shit
and you could add the demolition to the laundry list of running lies from Trumpco, they lied through their teeth about what they were doing right up until the minute they did it
Why do Republicans want to starve the children❓
I realize you’re crafting messaging, but it’s because they only care about their own children
the proliferation of for-profit private primary schools is evidence of the phenomenon
they can’t build them fast enough for parents who want their kids to have an edge over everyone else
They have already re-segregated them with the aforementioned private schools
Monied liberals helped, they have their own versions
The liberal orthodoxy is 30 years out of date
That’s what state voucher programs are all about; keeping rich, white kids away from the poors.
Most of the Senators and Reps still don’t like being directly called “Nazi,” though. They may admire the world view, but some are still squeamish about the label they have earned.
That’s what state voucher programs are all about; keeping rich, white kids away from the poors.
Most of the Senators and Reps still don’t like being directly called “Nazi,” though. They may admire the worldview, but some are still squeamish about the label they have earned.
“The commandant of Auschwitz and his wife strive to build a dream life for their family in a house next to the camp.”
*That is what those who go on about their lives as normal are like, never so much as a single call to Congress nor a boycott of a company bending the knee to Orange Adolf. They say those who protest ICE are over-reacting, as are those calling those aligned with Orange Adolf “Nazis.”
I can’t fault liberals for whatever public schools are or aren’t in whatever region because Republicans fought every effort to
improve them every step of the way in my entire lifetime in a deliberate effort to undermine the entire concept
they weren’t even secretive about it
That is what those who go on about their lives as normal are like
you’re going to have to find some grace in your heart for some of them at least, because some of them are needed long-term, maybe not the ones you’re thinking of specifically
The risk reward calculation you are compelling such people to consider doesn’t favor them, in their estimation
“We’ve got a lot of document requests,” Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said in a brief interview Monday. “We’ve got to have all the information, because I’ll tell you Jack Smith and the other people we’re going to invite, they have all the answers. We got to make sure that their answers are correct.”
But, the Iowa Republican added, “we won’t be prepared for this for quite a few weeks.” The timeline quickly could stretch into early next year, given the upcoming holidays and the continued government shutdown.
*Chuck is 92 (and 4th in line to the presidency). How many weeks does he think he’s got?
MAR-A-LAGO VAMPIRES – Donald Trump drinks with the Billionaires – Halloween Political Parody Song
Step inside the haunted halls of Mar-a-Lago for the ultimate billionaire vampire ball! 🦇🩸 This satirical Halloween song brings together Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt, Pete Hegseth, Melania Trump, JD Vance, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Barrack Obama, Sleepy Joe Biden, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and even Epstein’s ghost for a gothic, blood-soaked party of greed, secrets, and power.
🎶 Expect spooky organ, pounding drums, and a campy, creepy anthem that feels like a mix of Thriller and Dead Man’s Party. This track is satire — a darkly funny Halloween parody about billionaires, politics, and the undead dancing under the blood moon.
👻 Lyrics feature:
• Trump hosting the vampire ball at Mar-a-Lago.
• Zuckerberg, Gates, Cook, Thiel, Bezos sipping “red wine.”
• Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Dan Bongino joining the feast.
• Joe Rogan podcasting in the candlelight.
• Elon Musk tweeting from his tower.
• Stephen Miller plotting in the shadows.
• Epstein’s ghost haunting the gilded halls.
⚠️ Disclaimer: This is a work of satire and Halloween parody. It is not factual and is for entertainment purposes only. Made with AI not real people 🙂
https://www.thedailybeast.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/27/rand-paul-trump-military-airstrikes-venezuela
Halloween Horror Decoration
Now I’d a good time for a strike. Air traffic controllers taking the lead.
Rolling strikes from others, even if it’s using a sick day or vacation day, and slow down if you think you’re underpaid.
Everyone else just boycott everything except local stores/small businesses & use cash to starve big banks of fees.
Next protest is November 5th in DC, but you can protest every day by calling Congress, especially Republicans. They have voicemail.
🇺🇸 NEW in the series — *The Colonies Clap Back*
When King George III declared the colonies “in open and avowed rebellion,” Congress answered with an army, a navy, and a nation.
▶️ Watch the Echoes of America playlist (leading up to July 4, 2026):
Rick and I are on Cape Cod. I’m not bothering with politics while here.
The sun is shining and the world is spinning…. May it continue to do so.
It’s the EPSTEIN bunker under the PEDOPHILE’s ballroom. It’s all about the bunker.
RR, you and Rick could celebrate the Cape Cod “privateers” authorized 250 years ago this week by the Continental Congress to raid British ships in response to the King’s proclamation of rebellion. They were very good at it, captured more British vessels than the Continental Navy. Surely Cape Cod has at least put up a plaque or maybe even a statue honoring those patriots.
353 Miles that Transformed America
George F. Will
The Erie Canal, dug by human muscle, aided by improvised cleverness, helped build a nation.
October 22, 2025
Americans’ pockets hold digital devices delivering oceans of information and distractions. But another technology that dramatically shaped the nation’s life, and had revolutionary consequences abroad, was a ditch. Raise a glass as the 200th birthday of the Erie Canal is celebrated on Sunday… More at link.
The eerie canal might be the space between Stephen Nazi’s ears.
Murder is murder
The Ameri-Christo-fascists sure put a lot of asterisks on those Ten Commandments they claim to espouse themselves to
The 50’s moo-Jicians who started recording Post-Elvis’s Ed Sullivan debut were copying those who were recording in the 50’s pre-Elvis, and Elvis.
Together they recorded the “music of our time.”
Dylan has credited Hank Williams, Little Richard and Elvis for kicking him off down the road of music. Me too Hank and Elvis, Little Richard, Fats Antoine
The contemporary musician St. Vincent has an expressed goal of avoiding blues scales and rock chord arrangements
Varying degrees of success to that end for her in my opinion, she’s got a few bangers
All my favorite musicians now are women because they’re taking guitar-led music to new places, I think young men only care about getting rich and video games now
ill call your older monotone crooner with a younger one
A. Guilty little secret: I am no fan of “the blues” except for Lightnin’ and a couple of those guys.
(I wouldn’t really call Muddy Waters a blues player, even though he did play a lot of blues. )
While I don’t actually hate the blues, it gets to be kinda something like that.
i do love all that Chess-era blues, not gonna lie, holds up
well, if you’re not calling Muddy a blues act then we’re splitting hairs here 😊
see you’re falling into the subgenre categorization wormhole, you’d fit in well with the nouveau post-hipster set
i’m fine with calling Muddy “proto-rock”
full disclosure, I did basically see the equivalent of the Beatles in a Rotterdam basement circa 1962 or whatever, still riding the high
It’s about time I fit in SOMEwhere.
😎
I’m just batting around things which occur to me which if they hold up might actually become real live opinions.
these are discussions I’ve had before with other music-oriented people, you are attuned 🧘♂️
I can’t call this “blues”….
This is something else.
transcends nomenclature
In honor of all those bars and speakeasies
That’s a thing about the Beatles….they were a DAMN good performance band. They honed that craft playing weeks at a time in Hamburg, 8 hours a day, hour on hour off, 7 days a week. (They got a few phrase from that time 8 days a week and hard days night.)
To me, the Beatles were 2 entirely separate groups, Lennon being the driving force of the first iteration (the performance band) and then McCartney becoming the driving force of the “recording” group.
not for nothing if you’ve played any of the YouTubes I’ve posted here over the years you’ve been the hippest boomer you know, cause i catch tomorrow’s stars on the come-up 😉
i decided ill stop listening to new music when im dead, not before 🫡
such practice doesn’t help me relate to my own aging generation, but my generation sucks, always largely did 😃
look what they’ve done 😒
OK, I have to go act like my whole body doesn’t hurt but I needed the break. Thank you. ❤️
Slava Ukraine
good take
MSNBC becomes MS NOW.
Starting Nov. 15, the progressive-leaning cable news channel will be called MS NOW — an acronym for My Source, News, Opinion and World. The famous NBC peacock will no longer be part of the channel’s logo.
The rebranding coincides with parent company Comcast’s spinoff of its NBCUniversal cable channels into Versant, a new company. CNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, SyFy and E! are also part of the entity.
Comcast is unloading the channels because it believes the mature outlets face a bleak future due to pay TV cord-cutting and are an albatross weighing down its stock price.
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
The Talmud
Again cutting off their nose to spite their face. If you don’t stream any of the live outlets listed below, your minimal cost to stream the Versant channels will be $45 through Sling.
To Stream Versant
The following is a list of some digital provider partners that would enable access to locked or live content on USANetwork.com and within our apps.
AT&T TV Now
Fubo
Hulu Live
SlingTV (Check with Sling about your location!)
YouTubeTV
McCartney went on as a mainly recording group with Wings and now mainly with guest appearances totally enjoying the performance side of the equation.
Anon, I mix it up with the old and new by joining in on some of the challenges and prompts on Blue Sky. I put up oldies they never knew existed and the youngsters introduce me to things I’ve never heard.
https://thehotstar.net/epstein-mellon.html
Below are flights taken by Jeffrey Epstein on April 6th 1998 with 90 year old banking scion Paul Mellon and two unidentified females:
~ Source
On April 5th Epstein flew from palm beach to Teterboro airport, accompanied by Senator George Mitchell’s wife, one of Sen. George’s infant children, an unidentified female, and a likely relative of Republican communications operator Frank Luntz.
According to a high profile victim Virginia Giuffre, “’My body was put on the banquet menu … for a powerful senator, George Mitchell, and another prominent Nobel Prize winning scientist,’ Giuffre wrote in an account of the years she allegedly spent as a self-described teen sex slave for Epstein and his powerful friends.”. ~ source
On April 6th Epstein and two unidentified females flew from Teterboro airport to Paul Mellon’s private airstrip located on the grounds of Rokeby Stables, number 1776 Loughborough Lane in Upperville Virginia. ~ source
Epstein picked up Paul Mellon, and from here they made a short trip south to Richmond International Airport, before returning to the Mellon estate later that day. Epstein and the two unidentified females then returned to Teterboro airport and made no further trips together.
It would appear given certain furnishings within the Lolita Express, a jet registered as N908JE and used to facilitate the aforementioned trip, that perhaps Epstein provided a mile high service. That he picked up and dropped off certain clients. Clients who committed certain acts right above our heads.
The late Paul Mellon was a member of a family who controls the largest custodian bank in the world, BNY Mellon, which these days commands over $40 trillion in assets under custody. Mellon was 90 years old when he made this trip. It hardly seemed to be about blackmail or business, but likely leisure. Perhaps, the facilitation of a dying last wish for a member of that certain sect of oligarchy Epstein worked for.
*Tim Mellon ~donated~ $130 million to pay US military during the Republican-EPSTEIN shutdown, which amounts to $100/per member yo buy/influence our military.
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674236599/
Two new lawsuits filed against Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) by an anonymous plaintiff allege that the financial institutions “illicitly enabled Epstein’s sex trafficking,” The Guardian reports Monday. The suits are led by Sigrid S. McCawley, of Boies Schiller Flexner, and Brad Edwards of Edwards Henderson, both longtime representatives of Epstein victims.
*NY Mellon Bank. Hmm
“I got to get my rest, ‘cause Monday is a mess.”
Fighting kings still draws a crowd. Today’s Echoes video.
The story I heard was Paul asking a cab driver if he’d been working hard and the cab driver replied, “Oh…8 days a week!”
FAKE NEWS !
AI !!
Wonder if the cabbie gets royalties
Think what a difference Mac coulda made in that cabbie’s life by throwing him a point or two
lol
Oh well….it’s easy to be hard.
But anyway, the way I heard it was the cabbie said, “Scrambled Eggs” and the rest was history
Same thing happened to Sam the Sham.
Scrambled Eggs by any other name would taste as sweet.
Sturgeonimous, I heard that cabbie quote long before AI was a thing. It’s one of 2 explanations Paul gave – 1 was to the cabbie, the other was to Ringo. I like the 2nd one – keeps it in the band. That Scrambled Eggs thing – I’m not convinced. What would the blank be in “… all my troubles seemed so ____”? “…oh my baby how i love your legs..” seems far fetched. I want to hear the tapes.
I wouldn’t put too much credit to any story from a member of the Beatles. They have a reputation of messing with reporter’s minds. Plus they are really good self promoters.
Jack
Blues?
Which kind?
Then there is Texas blues
I wait until new music becomes classics, It saves a lot of listening to bad music. It is not that the “sixties” had such good music, it is that we have forgot all the bad shit, nobody remembers Pat Boone covering the Beatles.
Jack
Early Beatles – I wanna hold your hand. “Enlightened” Beatles – Yellow Submarine.
I am from Detroit. Motown, similar to Motown, British invasion, Beatles, Elvis, LA (Wrecking Crew), Sinatra, NY, Chicago. That is a rough rank of the mid 60’s. Many of us quit listening to top 40 stations because it was repetition overload. Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra, repeat three times per hour. Just about this time is when the FM stations started gaining popularity. Later 60’s came Cream, Doors, and a lot of great groups.
I prefer the Kinks over the Beatles anyhoo.
you would believe it if you saw the documentary on Disney of the “let it be” sessions, it’s also a common technique to use gibberish as placeholder for lyrics during songwriting
You’ll have a lot less respect for Beatles lyrics after you watch the documentary, their lyrics didn’t mean much to them at the time. You can watch Paul deliberately try to write a protest song and ending up with “Get Back” which ain’t much of a protest song
Elton John says he wrote the music AFTER Taupin wrote the lyrics which is insane if you’ve ever tried to write a song
Beatles set list was heavily Motown before the deluge.
Check out the reverb lol
oh another fun thing about the Beatles documentary is getting to watch Ringo roll his eyes at John and Paul bickering constantly, he’s like “get me out of here”
Jack – due to a lot of stuff during the first sixty years of my life, I never picked up albums of songs I liked. Then I picked up for enjoyment which is very different from those who collect albums. Mine is for listening enjoyment, the others are not.
I enjoy research into animal behaviour. I would have gone there except there was a draft notice in my life. I ended up in computer world. It took a while before I understood that computers in real time processing were very similar to animal behaviour. If I was fifty years younger I would probably cover that for a PhD.
i had a feeling that “A House Full of Dynamite” would piss-off the trumpers:
…mainly because everything pisses them off
Saw that on Joe this am. Will be streaming in.
Sorry to hear this. Would go a different network but there isn’t one. No place is safe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/27/dickerson-cbs-news-paramount/
*Blues w/a beat
🐻🐻🐻
“Not sure you can get more
Marie Antoinette than taking away food stamps right before Thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring you bribes over a badly cooked (Argentinian) steak.”
@elleisanisland.bsky.social
GOV. WALZ:
“This is not both sides. This is owned by Republicans. Dems are willing to come back and protect what passed, not let an authoritarian president do whatever he wants… people will be lined up to get food and we’re talking about a damn ballroom? DON’T LOSE THE PLOT.”
like I said, I agree with Walz, but what resonates resonates
Don’t lose the plot, but don’t throw away an opportunity either
like Maga can’t complain about bringing down Confederate statues anymore because we have the intuitive reply
it’s a culture war whether you like it or not, Tim
The era of liberal influencers being able to shame Americans into being decent human beings is over, they don’t give a shit
and you could add the demolition to the laundry list of running lies from Trumpco, they lied through their teeth about what they were doing right up until the minute they did it
Why do Republicans want to starve the children❓
I realize you’re crafting messaging, but it’s because they only care about their own children
the proliferation of for-profit private primary schools is evidence of the phenomenon
they can’t build them fast enough for parents who want their kids to have an edge over everyone else
Dive into the crazy and short-out their brains:
https://www.mediaite.com/media/sports/ufc-fighter-who-said-hed-take-a-bullet-for-trump-a-year-ago-now-calls-him-the-antichrist-in-scorching-rant/amp/
They preferred when the schools were segregated.
They have already re-segregated them with the aforementioned private schools
Monied liberals helped, they have their own versions
The liberal orthodoxy is 30 years out of date
That’s what state voucher programs are all about; keeping rich, white kids away from the poors.
Most of the Senators and Reps still don’t like being directly called “Nazi,” though. They may admire the world view, but some are still squeamish about the label they have earned.
That’s what state voucher programs are all about; keeping rich, white kids away from the poors.
Most of the Senators and Reps still don’t like being directly called “Nazi,” though. They may admire the worldview, but some are still squeamish about the label they have earned.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7160372/
“The commandant of Auschwitz and his wife strive to build a dream life for their family in a house next to the camp.”
*That is what those who go on about their lives as normal are like, never so much as a single call to Congress nor a boycott of a company bending the knee to Orange Adolf. They say those who protest ICE are over-reacting, as are those calling those aligned with Orange Adolf “Nazis.”
I can’t fault liberals for whatever public schools are or aren’t in whatever region because Republicans fought every effort to
improve them every step of the way in my entire lifetime in a deliberate effort to undermine the entire concept
they weren’t even secretive about it
you’re going to have to find some grace in your heart for some of them at least, because some of them are needed long-term, maybe not the ones you’re thinking of specifically
The risk reward calculation you are compelling such people to consider doesn’t favor them, in their estimation
if they’re all damned, we’re all damned with them
https://www.newsweek.com/read-jack-smith-donald-trump-jan-6-document-full-election-interference-2014418
*Reminder
While we foolishly continue to support the Constitution with faith the bend toward justice continues, the ugly gets passed around …
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=28714acd11&u=99a396202eef94ed9edbe94dd&id=a1a69a71b6
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/27/congress/grassley-prepping-for-jack-smith-hearing-00623966
“We’ve got a lot of document requests,” Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said in a brief interview Monday. “We’ve got to have all the information, because I’ll tell you Jack Smith and the other people we’re going to invite, they have all the answers. We got to make sure that their answers are correct.”
But, the Iowa Republican added, “we won’t be prepared for this for quite a few weeks.” The timeline quickly could stretch into early next year, given the upcoming holidays and the continued government shutdown.
*Chuck is 92 (and 4th in line to the presidency). How many weeks does he think he’s got?
From the above source
NEW THREAD
https://x.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1985433356864020584