X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin collecting biometric data and information on users’ employment and education history starting next month, according to the site’s updated privacy policy.
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” X said in the new privacy policy, set to go into effect on Sept. 29.
The social media platform told Bloomberg Law that the biometric data collection is for X Premium users, or those who pay for the platform’s subscription service, to allow for an additional layer of verification.
X did not specify what biometric data it plans to collect. However, such data can include facial images, fingerprints and iris patterns.
The new addition to X’s privacy policy comes as the company faces a proposed class action lawsuit in Illinois over allegations that it collected biometric information on users without providing advance notice or obtaining their consent.
X also noted in its updated privacy policy that it may collect information about users’ employment and education history in order to “recommend potential jobs for you, to share with potential employers when you apply for a job, to enable employers to find potential candidates, and to show you more relevant advertising.”
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PumpkinHead had a bad night, ranting and raving in a 16-post meltdown on his web site until 4am.
.Psychiatrists call this a “narcissistic collapse” when someone with his disorder finally cannot deny or evade the truth. “Narcissistic collapse occurs when a narcissist’s ability to uphold their grandiose, confident image is threatened. As a result, they often become enraged, resulting in impulsivity, intense lashing out, or harm to others. While most narcissistic collapses tend to be a temporary thing, there are some that can last for years — even to the end of one’s life.” – choosingtherapy.com
“I am being ‘railroaded’ by a highly partisan and corrupt system of INJUSTICE, headed up by an opponent who is losing in the polls and, simultaneously with all of this, destroying our once Great Country!”
“Keep Indicting your Political Opponent, it makes no difference for what, or why. Keep him off the ‘campaign trail’ and in the courthouse instead. Don’t think of his Rights, the Constitution, or Liberty. Sit back and WATCH AMERICA CRUMBLE!”
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump‘s former chief of staff, may have created a new legal issue for himself while testifying in an attempt to get his Georgia election interference case moved to a federal court, according to legal experts.
Pentagon special counsel Ryan Goodman suggested that Meadows has a “potential perjury problem” after he initially denied having a role in the fake electors’ scheme to falsely declare Trump had beaten Joe Biden in Georgia and other states at the 2020 election, but later acknowledged a part in the plot while under oath.
[…]
Meadows testified on August 28 as part of his bid to have his Georgia case moved to a federal court. Meadows says that his actions in and around the 2020 election were under his capacity as a federal officer and wants the case switched to federal court, where he would argue that he is entitled to immunity from prosecution.
While sharing extracts of Willis’ brief on Meadows’ testimony on X, formerly Twitter, Goodman suggested Meadows may have incriminated himself while discussing his role in arranging the January 2021 phone call between Trump and Brad Raffensperger, in which the former president asked the Georgia secretary of state to “find” the 11,870 votes needed to beat Biden in the state at the last election, which triggered Willis’ criminal inquiry.
“Earlier, the defendant contacted another Secretary of State official and inquired whether the Trump campaign could ‘speed up’ a signature audit by providing funding directly to the State,” Willis wrote.
“And after insisting that he did not play ‘any role’ in the coordination of slates of ‘fake electors’ throughout several states, the defendant was forced to acknowledge under cross-examination that he had in fact given direction to a campaign official in this regard.
“Specifically, the defendant wrote an email, State’s Exhibit 1, in which he said, ‘We just need to have someone coordinating the electors for the states’ and attached a memorandum written by co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro recommending the organization of slates of presidential electors to meet and cast votes for Mr. Trump in states Mr. Trump had lost.”
Discussing the details in Willis’ brief, Goodman wrote: “Mark Meadows has a potential perjury problem.
“Fulton County DA puts it in understated terms in new brief. (DA uses it just for credibility.) Meadows’ testimony included false statement—his lack of ‘any role’ in coordinating false electors. Was then forced to acknowledge it,” Goodman added.
Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann posted on X: “Meadows perjury in the removal hearing can be both separately prosecuted and be additional proof against him in the 1/6 case. Note: it can be used for both ends by Jack Smith.”
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Joe Biden: “The difference between talking and delivering”
September 1 and the Labor Day holiday is almost here. Thank the unions for a weekend and a holiday.
I am so tired of media types casting the age and mental issues of Sen. Feinstein and Sen. McConnell on to President Biden. One of the media types was so dense as to ponder what would happen if Biden picked up or began to stutter. JFC, he stutters already. He has worked very hard to speak without stuttering and it shows up as carefully speaking. Every now and then there is something, but it is not a mental defect or old age. I still have a speech impediment show up that I have spent my life controlling. It is why I occasionally speak carefully and slowly. Our president is only a few years older than me and I can feel the effects of aging. But, I am far from going off the cliff like mitchie and Diane.
Rant over for now.
Seems he didn’t get much sleep last night, if any. Posted until 4:00 a.m. and just now starting up again, whining about the civil fraud case set for October trial…
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
IN THE NYS A.G. LETITIA JAMES CASE, I WAS TARGETED, GIVEN NO JURY, NO EXTENSIONS, NO COMMERCIAL DIVISION, NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, NO ANYTHING! THE DEMOCRAT JUDGE HATES TRUMP WITH A PASSION. THE THING I HAVE IS A GREAT CASE BASED ON PHENOMENAL NUMBERS THAT SHOW A NET WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE THAN SHE VICIOUSLY & FALSELY CLAIMED, VERY LITTLE DEBT, BIG CASH, A POWERFUL DISCLAIMER CLAUSE, PAID OFF LOANS, NO DEFAULTS, “HAPPY” BANKS, GREAT ASSETS. I WAS DEFAMED BY NYS – ELECTION INTERFERENCE!
$100,000 per plate!!!
Globally, the aquifers are getting empty. Some may have passed the point of no return where even the water coming in is polluted and unusable of agriculture and drinking.
Stressors that can deplete aquifers include changes in precipitation and snowmelt patterns; withdrawal of ground water for drinking, irrigation, and other human uses; and impervious paved surfaces that prevent precipitation from recharging ground water. Some deep aquifers may take thousands of years to replenish.
September is one of my favorite parts of the year!!! Rain makes everything green and beautiful!!!
September and October are my two favorite months…. I’m so not a summer person.
watching the meltdown is so much fun!
🎶 Bah dee yah
former-guy’s a nutjob
Bah dee yah
Narcissistic breakdown
Bah dee yah
Aneurysm any dayyyyyyyy 🎵
‘Trump isn’t funding any of us’: Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills”
May I suggest that y’all flip on the SOB.
BREAKING: A federal judge sentenced Proud Boy member Dominic Pezzola to 10 years behind bars, four months after he was found guilty on obstruction and other charges relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. First rioter to smash through windows.
BBC World Service doing a good job of keeping the human tragedy of Putin’s war against Ukraine a part of the story ✌️🇺🇦
The American economy is chugging along very nicely. Added a lot of jobs in August. Inflation is under control. The only sour spot is Non-American oil companies are holding prices high.
A couple evenings ago, during the Boat Ladies Wine Club meeting, several magats joined us. They are welcome as long as they do not spout garbage. Yup, they tried, this time with how bad the economy is, job losses, outrageous inflation, etc. “Wrong, the economy is in great shape.” Told them to stop because they are wrong. Businesses are closing but not because of the president. A change is taking place and they refuse to see it. Oh, they left shortly after that.
The D.C. Appeals Court ruled Friday that former President Trump can be deposed in suits against the FBI brought by former agentsPeter Strzok and Lisa Page.
[…]
Strzok is suing the bureau for wrongful termination and Page is suing for invasion of privacy after the pair were embroiled in a political scandal due to work on the bureau’s investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia in 2018.
[…]
The appeals court ruled that District Judge Amy Berman Jacksonproperly considered the DOJ’s concerns about a former president being deposed and came to her conclusion justly.
“Having employed particular ‘deference and restraint’ considering the separation-of-powers concerns at issue, the district court ultimately concluded that ‘extraordinary circumstances’ warranted the deposition of the former President,” according to the ruling.
“Under these circumstances, petitioners have not shown that the district court’s conclusion was a clear abuse of discretion warranting mandamus relief,” it continued.
Kelly said in his testimony that Trump “wanted to see Mr. Strzok fired” and considered other retaliation.
“President Trump questioned whether investigations by the Internal Revenue Service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into Mr. Strzok and/or Ms. Page. I do not know of President Trump ordering such an investigation. It appeared, however, that he wanted to see Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page investigated,” Kelly said.
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could it be loser deadbeat guy is withholding paying lawyers of co-defendants and others until he’s sure they won’t flip? a touch of bribery/extortion/possible witness tampering thingy on the order of: “I’ll pay your legal bills if you come thru for me, otherwise if you flip or rat during testimony not a dime.”
“A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence”
“In July, Buma sent the Senate Judiciary Committee a 22-page statement full of eye-popping allegations, and the document leaked and was first reported last month by Insider (after a conservative blogger had posted it online). According to Buma’s account, Giuliani was used as an asset by a Ukrainian oligarch tied to Russian intelligence and other Russian operatives for a disinformation operation that aimed to discredit Joe Biden and boost Trump in the 2020 presidential race. Moreover, Buma says he was the target of retaliation within the bureau for digging into this. The FBI declined to comment on Buma’s claims.”
“Buma’s statement highlights Giuliani’s relationship with Pavel Fuks, a wealthy Ukrainian developer, who in 2017 hired Giuliani and paid him $300,000.”
“Fuks once told the New York Times that he had retained Giuliani to lobby in the United States for the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Fuks then lived. Giuliani has denied that he was paid to lobby for Kharkiv, insisting he only provided advice regarding security to the city. And Fuks has changed his tune. Through a spokesperson, he told Mother Jones that Giuliani’s work was limited to advising the city.”
“In his statement, Buma says that the FBI assessed Fuks to be a “co-opted asset” of Russian intelligence services, meaning a person who Russian intelligence used to advance its goals. Buma’s complaint does not name a specific Russian intelligence agency, but a person who spoke to agents involved in this investigation says that the FBI believes Fuks worked for the FSB…”
“Buma maintains that his investigative work led to Customs and Border Patrol in 2017 revoking Fuks visa for travel to the United States and that the FBI assessed that Fuks constituted “a national security threat,” a finding that caused Fuks to be placed on an organized crime watch list. Buma also says that he sent the Treasury Department a recommendation that the United States sanction Fuks. To date, the US government has not done so.”
“Ukraine has sanctioned Fuks, and it is reportedly investigating him for fraud and tax evasion. Fuks now lives in London, according to recent media reports.”
“But Buma suggests that Fuks may have maintained an indirect connection to Giuliani by hiring in 2019 Andriy Telizhenko, a former low-level Ukrainian diplomatic official, to mount a public relations effort for him in the United States. Buma says that a source told him that Fuks retained Telizhenko to help him “establish contacts with US politicians.” Telizhenko went on to work with Giuliani, feeding him information on the Bidens.”
“But Telizhenko’s interactions with Giuliani raise serious questions about whether this Trump adviser, wittingly or not, played. a part in a covert Russian operation to discredit Biden. In 2021, the Treasury Department sanctioned Telizhenko for promoting Russian “disinformation narratives that U.S. government officials have engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.”
“Cornyn has said that he will continue to support McConnell as party leader, calling him “extraordinarily effective” during the 2021 Texas Tribune Festival.”
“But should he decide to step down and no longer serve as a leader, I’ve made it no secret that I would like to succeed him,” Cornyn added.
“Cornyn isn’t the only potential successor. The current Republican whip, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, is also considered a likely candidate. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, is another potential contender.”
“Collectively, they’ve been dubbed the “three Johns.”
“Targeting “rogue” district attorneys: House Bill 17 allows the courts to remove district attorneys for official misconduct if they choose not to pursue certain types of crimes. The Republican priority legislation was pushed as a way to rein in progressive prosecutors who had spoken out against pursuing abortion-related or election crimes. The law will also likely restart marijuana prosecutions in several counties.”
“Banning COVID-19 mandates: Senate Bill 29 bans the state from enacting mask mandates, vaccine mandates or business and school closures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”
And, of course, the woke water bill.
“Limiting the power of big cities: House Bill 2127 prevents cities and counties from enacting local laws that go further than what’s allowed under broad areas of state law. The Republican-backed law is the culmination of a yearslong effort to rein in progressive policies in the state’s bluer urban areas. Supporters say the law is needed to provide businesses with relief from a growing patchwork of local regulations. Critics say it kneecaps local officials’ ability to govern and does away with much-needed local ordinances like mandatory water breaks for construction workers. Cities have already sued to block it, and a Travis County judge has found it to be unconstitutional. But the law was still allowed to go into effect.”
Xing at 4 in the morning? What’s the big deal? Xing crazy all caps delusional shit is the problem.
Shit. Jimmy Buffet died. Smoked a doobie with him in 1974 in my best friend ‘s next door neighbor’s house when he was in Tuscaloosa on his Living and Dying in 3/4 Time tour. Have been to see him a handful of times and have enjoyed his music for 50 years. Bought all of his 70s albums and absolutely love Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitude and Son of a Son of a Sailor, and A Pirate Looks at Forty may be my favorite song of his.
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
And in your belly, you hold the treasures few have ever seen
Most of ’em dream, most of ’em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothin’ to plunder
I’m an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
I’ve done a bit of smugglin’, and I’ve run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last
And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
But I got to stop wishin’, got to go fishin’
Down to rock bottom again
Just a few friends, just a few friends
I go for younger women, lived with several a while
Though I ran ’em away, they’d come back one day
Still could manage to smile
Just takes a while, just takes a while
Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I’ve found
My occupational hazard being my occupation’s just not around
I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown
I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown
RIP, and thanks for the tunes.
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Attribution: Laboring All Day by Frank Hansen, PoliticalCartoons.com
X-ers (formerly known as tweeters or twits as the case may be) beware:
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4181120-x-formerly-known-as-twitter-will-collect-user-biometric-data-job-and-education-history/
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also see https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/fall-foliage-map-2023/ for active leaf color progression throughout fall.
PumpkinHead had a bad night, ranting and raving in a 16-post meltdown on his web site until 4am.
.Psychiatrists call this a “narcissistic collapse” when someone with his disorder finally cannot deny or evade the truth. “Narcissistic collapse occurs when a narcissist’s ability to uphold their grandiose, confident image is threatened. As a result, they often become enraged, resulting in impulsivity, intense lashing out, or harm to others. While most narcissistic collapses tend to be a temporary thing, there are some that can last for years — even to the end of one’s life.” – choosingtherapy.com
Trump goes on 16 post meltdown on his Truth Social site, starting at approximately 1 am ET and continuing until 4 am. — https://www.rawstory.com/trump-meltdown-2664742960/
“I am being ‘railroaded’ by a highly partisan and corrupt system of INJUSTICE, headed up by an opponent who is losing in the polls and, simultaneously with all of this, destroying our once Great Country!”
“Keep Indicting your Political Opponent, it makes no difference for what, or why. Keep him off the ‘campaign trail’ and in the courthouse instead. Don’t think of his Rights, the Constitution, or Liberty. Sit back and WATCH AMERICA CRUMBLE!”
Dr Sebagh says no hope for that pumpkin
more problems for meadows
Mark Meadows Might Have Just Perjured Himself (msn.com)
Joe Biden: “The difference between talking and delivering”
September 1 and the Labor Day holiday is almost here. Thank the unions for a weekend and a holiday.
I am so tired of media types casting the age and mental issues of Sen. Feinstein and Sen. McConnell on to President Biden. One of the media types was so dense as to ponder what would happen if Biden picked up or began to stutter. JFC, he stutters already. He has worked very hard to speak without stuttering and it shows up as carefully speaking. Every now and then there is something, but it is not a mental defect or old age. I still have a speech impediment show up that I have spent my life controlling. It is why I occasionally speak carefully and slowly. Our president is only a few years older than me and I can feel the effects of aging. But, I am far from going off the cliff like mitchie and Diane.
Rant over for now.
$100,000 per plate!!!
Globally, the aquifers are getting empty. Some may have passed the point of no return where even the water coming in is polluted and unusable of agriculture and drinking.
Stressors that can deplete aquifers include changes in precipitation and snowmelt patterns; withdrawal of ground water for drinking, irrigation, and other human uses; and impervious paved surfaces that prevent precipitation from recharging ground water. Some deep aquifers may take thousands of years to replenish.
September is one of my favorite parts of the year!!! Rain makes everything green and beautiful!!!
September and October are my two favorite months…. I’m so not a summer person.
watching the meltdown is so much fun!
🎶 Bah dee yah
former-guy’s a nutjob
Bah dee yah
Narcissistic breakdown
Bah dee yah
Aneurysm any dayyyyyyyy 🎵
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/politics/cash-crunch-trump-georgia-co-defendants-legal-bills/index.html
‘Trump isn’t funding any of us’: Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills”
May I suggest that y’all flip on the SOB.
BREAKING: A federal judge sentenced Proud Boy member Dominic Pezzola to 10 years behind bars, four months after he was found guilty on obstruction and other charges relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. First rioter to smash through windows.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dominic-pezzola-proud-boy-capitol-riot_n_64f0ea9de4b02f61505e785c?d_id=6302251&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000067&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_main&s=01
BBC World Service doing a good job of keeping the human tragedy of Putin’s war against Ukraine a part of the story ✌️🇺🇦
The American economy is chugging along very nicely. Added a lot of jobs in August. Inflation is under control. The only sour spot is Non-American oil companies are holding prices high.
A couple evenings ago, during the Boat Ladies Wine Club meeting, several magats joined us. They are welcome as long as they do not spout garbage. Yup, they tried, this time with how bad the economy is, job losses, outrageous inflation, etc. “Wrong, the economy is in great shape.” Told them to stop because they are wrong. Businesses are closing but not because of the president. A change is taking place and they refuse to see it. Oh, they left shortly after that.
the hill:
could it be loser deadbeat guy is withholding paying lawyers of co-defendants and others until he’s sure they won’t flip? a touch of bribery/extortion/possible witness tampering thingy on the order of: “I’ll pay your legal bills if you come thru for me, otherwise if you flip or rat during testimony not a dime.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/
“A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence”
“In July, Buma sent the Senate Judiciary Committee a 22-page statement full of eye-popping allegations, and the document leaked and was first reported last month by Insider (after a conservative blogger had posted it online). According to Buma’s account, Giuliani was used as an asset by a Ukrainian oligarch tied to Russian intelligence and other Russian operatives for a disinformation operation that aimed to discredit Joe Biden and boost Trump in the 2020 presidential race. Moreover, Buma says he was the target of retaliation within the bureau for digging into this. The FBI declined to comment on Buma’s claims.”
“Buma’s statement highlights Giuliani’s relationship with Pavel Fuks, a wealthy Ukrainian developer, who in 2017 hired Giuliani and paid him $300,000.”
“Fuks once told the New York Times that he had retained Giuliani to lobby in the United States for the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Fuks then lived. Giuliani has denied that he was paid to lobby for Kharkiv, insisting he only provided advice regarding security to the city. And Fuks has changed his tune. Through a spokesperson, he told Mother Jones that Giuliani’s work was limited to advising the city.”
“In his statement, Buma says that the FBI assessed Fuks to be a “co-opted asset” of Russian intelligence services, meaning a person who Russian intelligence used to advance its goals. Buma’s complaint does not name a specific Russian intelligence agency, but a person who spoke to agents involved in this investigation says that the FBI believes Fuks worked for the FSB…”
“Buma maintains that his investigative work led to Customs and Border Patrol in 2017 revoking Fuks visa for travel to the United States and that the FBI assessed that Fuks constituted “a national security threat,” a finding that caused Fuks to be placed on an organized crime watch list. Buma also says that he sent the Treasury Department a recommendation that the United States sanction Fuks. To date, the US government has not done so.”
“Ukraine has sanctioned Fuks, and it is reportedly investigating him for fraud and tax evasion. Fuks now lives in London, according to recent media reports.”
“But Buma suggests that Fuks may have maintained an indirect connection to Giuliani by hiring in 2019 Andriy Telizhenko, a former low-level Ukrainian diplomatic official, to mount a public relations effort for him in the United States. Buma says that a source told him that Fuks retained Telizhenko to help him “establish contacts with US politicians.” Telizhenko went on to work with Giuliani, feeding him information on the Bidens.”
“But Telizhenko’s interactions with Giuliani raise serious questions about whether this Trump adviser, wittingly or not, played. a part in a covert Russian operation to discredit Biden. In 2021, the Treasury Department sanctioned Telizhenko for promoting Russian “disinformation narratives that U.S. government officials have engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.”
Who paid for Rudy’s plane to Georgia, anyway?
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/01/john-cornyn-leader-mitch-mcconnell/
“Cornyn has said that he will continue to support McConnell as party leader, calling him “extraordinarily effective” during the 2021 Texas Tribune Festival.”
“But should he decide to step down and no longer serve as a leader, I’ve made it no secret that I would like to succeed him,” Cornyn added.
“Cornyn isn’t the only potential successor. The current Republican whip, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, is also considered a likely candidate. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, is another potential contender.”
“Collectively, they’ve been dubbed the “three Johns.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/31/new-texas-laws-september-2023/
“774 new Texas laws go into effect Friday.”
“Targeting “rogue” district attorneys: House Bill 17 allows the courts to remove district attorneys for official misconduct if they choose not to pursue certain types of crimes. The Republican priority legislation was pushed as a way to rein in progressive prosecutors who had spoken out against pursuing abortion-related or election crimes. The law will also likely restart marijuana prosecutions in several counties.”
“Banning COVID-19 mandates: Senate Bill 29 bans the state from enacting mask mandates, vaccine mandates or business and school closures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”
And, of course, the woke water bill.
“Limiting the power of big cities: House Bill 2127 prevents cities and counties from enacting local laws that go further than what’s allowed under broad areas of state law. The Republican-backed law is the culmination of a yearslong effort to rein in progressive policies in the state’s bluer urban areas. Supporters say the law is needed to provide businesses with relief from a growing patchwork of local regulations. Critics say it kneecaps local officials’ ability to govern and does away with much-needed local ordinances like mandatory water breaks for construction workers. Cities have already sued to block it, and a Travis County judge has found it to be unconstitutional. But the law was still allowed to go into effect.”
Xing at 4 in the morning? What’s the big deal? Xing crazy all caps delusional shit is the problem.
Shit. Jimmy Buffet died. Smoked a doobie with him in 1974 in my best friend ‘s next door neighbor’s house when he was in Tuscaloosa on his Living and Dying in 3/4 Time tour. Have been to see him a handful of times and have enjoyed his music for 50 years. Bought all of his 70s albums and absolutely love Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitude and Son of a Son of a Sailor, and A Pirate Looks at Forty may be my favorite song of his.
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
And in your belly, you hold the treasures few have ever seen
Most of ’em dream, most of ’em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothin’ to plunder
I’m an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
I’ve done a bit of smugglin’, and I’ve run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last
And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
But I got to stop wishin’, got to go fishin’
Down to rock bottom again
Just a few friends, just a few friends
I go for younger women, lived with several a while
Though I ran ’em away, they’d come back one day
Still could manage to smile
Just takes a while, just takes a while
Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I’ve found
My occupational hazard being my occupation’s just not around
I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown
I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown
RIP, and thanks for the tunes.
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