Not that they are taking nominations from here, but I'd like to hear StringKatz take on White Bird . First time I remember hearing an electric violin. Who knew?

Actually, if you contact them on their facebook page, you'll be surprised at how accommodating StringKatz can be!

Michael Cohen
@MichaelCohen212

@POTUS @realDonaldTrump, I have a message for you that will be hitting the airwaves shortly. Good luck tonight at the @GOPconvention! @American_Bridge

5:33 PM · Aug 24, 2020

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Hell hath no fury like a fixer scorned. :)

All's well that ends Falwell.

Heh! :)

When contacted, Jerry Jr. said he would like to comment, but he's not at Liberty to say. ;)

I did. I listened to Hey You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzyOYQqIXlc

https://youtu.be/tgbNymZ7vqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6DumXkzD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNzc32H9Vc

Enjoy ... take care and stay safe, everyone!

They're caught in a glance by a gossamer trance, woven by his lies ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNzc32H9Vc

They wouldn't if you lived in Canada. Heh.

Okay, go ahead, embarrass me. I can take it. :)

Your links didn't work for me but I found some that did.

Though, I couldn't find one for Love Can Be Bad Luck that wasn't just the music.

My radio station play only classic HITS from the 70s/80s/90s, not just Classic Rock hits as they corrected me. So, is there any reason why they couldn't play a little Was Not Was?

Not completely and not always, but too much and too often.

I think it's because of disagreement about who should be helped by economic policy, and who should be harmed. There's a large swath of the US electorate who sees any help for those below them as ipso facto harm to them, and any harm to those below them (so long as it harms them even slightly less) as help to them. The best model for an economy, according to most people in the US, is a ladder with not enough rungs for everyone, hanging over a lake of molten sulfur. Our idea of the afterlife is that the saved in Heaven get to watch the damned suffer in Hell for all eternity, and our idea of a righteous economy is built on that model.

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Spy in the House of Love

There's a little something to raise the temperature ... point me in the direction of the dance floor!10

I've always wondered why Democrats seem resigned to letting Republicans own the economic message without fighting back in a muscular way despite the ever present Republican cult of economic failure.

A presidential election is always a referendum on the incumbent president (or should be). Any amount of time spent explaining anything beyond the economy and how the incumbent screwed it up is therefore a waste of time. Biden needs to relate Trump's shitty COVID-19 response with the current lousy economy because they are inexorably tied together: Trump owns the wrecked economy caused by his failed response to the coronavirus and can't fix it because he isn't capable. Obama/Biden and Democrats have made a career of cleaning up Republican tax cuts for the rich and inevitable recession that follows, and Biden will do it again. We can't get the economy fixed until the pandemic issue is fixed. In the meantime, Trump is trying to end your health care in the Supreme Court. If you like your health care, you'd better elect the guy that helped it birth it because he has no intention whatsoever of doing away with it. Anything beyond that is a waste of time.

Perhaps the reason why Democrats have conceded the economic issue in presidential elections has something to do with the thinking that their base, in particular and, American voters, in general, wouldn't understand a wonky economic message.

They haven't conceded it.

Don Was was interviewed in Totally Stripped. He produced the album Stripped.

No one's going to vote for Trump just because he showed up to their state -- I think more voters than usual are firmly in one camp or the other.

You are correct. As I've said many times throughout the years, I will pack his orange makeup, shoes with lifts, and tiny little gloves and pay for his trip myself because Trump's physical presence in an area definitely does increase turnout... for Democratic candidates. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O64qzxoSkQk

Gowan came up with this song idea while making the annual Canadians' trek to the Canadian National Exhibition. In one of the buildings there was an exact replica of a prison cell from one of our penitentiaries.

None of the sprawling crowds seemed at all interested. Which, of course, sparked the interest of Larry (Gowan, now the vocalist and keyboardist for STYX) ... he talked to the former guard who was manning the exhibit and actually went inside the cell as the doors closed shut.

He got to talking with the guard about what kind of prisoners he would run into - their personalities and such. He went home and wrote the Criminal Mind lyrics to the music he had been kicking around for a while without any words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ceiyHuW-JQ

Do you think people who have been suffering - I mean actually struggling and suffering - through the income inequality everyone likes to talk about while not actually living through it care about the Trump antics and the criminality of his associates?

I know they do.

I mean, really?

Yes, Elizabeth. Americans care if their leaders are grifters and con artists and want them held equally accountable for violating the law. The rule of law in this country applies equally to the "struggling man" all the way up to the President of the United States.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

~ United States Declaration of Independence

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We the People hold our leaders accountable in this country via multiple avenues; it is that very foundation that this country was founded on. The day the "struggling man" ceases to care about the "antics" of their President and the criminal company he keeps is the day democracy dies out of ignorance or complacency... or both.

Do you think people who have been suffering - I mean actually struggling and suffering - through the income inequality everyone likes to talk about while not actually living through it care about the Trump antics and the criminality of his associates? I mean, really?

Allow me to butt in... Does it matter to someone who cannot pay their bills and is always broke (because life keeps kicking them back down the second that they start to rise up out of the muck) that the rich can break the law and the rules to rig the game in their favor and never have to pay the consequences??? No... and YES!

No - if it doesn’t help put food on the table or keep the lights on then they really do not have the time to waste on focusing on such things.

YES — because they are sick of watching the wealthy get away with crimes so horrible but they screw up one time when they were 17 and they are still paying for their crime! It gives them hope when the powerful aren’t able to buy their way out of trouble.

You'll have to listen to StringKatz do Bohemian Rhapsody!

Check out the link above ...

They are an all female string quartet, 2 violinists, 1 cellist, and one keyboardist.

They do classic rock and just classic. I first saw them on Gowan's virtual concert - he likes their version of his incredible Criminal Mind.

Here is a taste of StringKatz,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMmaaC1M9RI&list=PLuUj5-uSdZRWqH01oEltJCSymJNH4OLkg

This is what I love about Sunday nights - we get to hear music we would never hear, otherwise!

Was (not Was) - love their sound! I really liked 'Anything Can Happen' and I'll definitely check out more of their stuff!

I've got something new to share and, as will be the case until the big UNZIPPED event next November, there will be Stones!

He could have made a short trip during the convention, say on the Monday morning, to give a heartfelt speech about how Democrats own the economy, what Democrats have done wrong in the past and have learned from their mistakes, how Democrats actually care about the economic struggle so many Americans have been suffering, through Democratic and Republican administrations and to harp on the fact that Trump is the new spokesman for the Republican cult of economic failure, etc. etc.

Elizabeth Miller wrote:

And do what, exactly?

You weren't on Hillary's campaign team, were you, MtnCaddy 'cause it sounds like you were. Heh.

Again, show up and do what? Joe can't do his retail politics as usual for the same reason the Dems had to put on a "virtual convention."

Naw, I wasn't on Hillary's campaign team. In fact, I had to hold my nose just to vote for her. It was political malpractice when Hillary didn't show up in those "blue wall states." But that was then and this is now. No one's going to vote for Trump just because he showed up to their state -- I think more voters than usual are firmly in one camp or the other.

I may be beginning to understand why as a result of Biden becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.

Perhaps the reason why Democrats have conceded the economic issue in presidential elections has something to do with the thinking that their base, in particular and, American voters, in general, wouldn't understand a wonky economic message.

Enter Biden. Of all the people who have run or thought of running for POTUS, Biden may be the one who has sincerely placed the most confidence in the intelligence of the American people, whether that confidence is misplaced or warranted.

In any event, the Republican convention next week should be a real eyeopener for all those who think Democrats can win this election without making a strong case as to why they are the competent stewards of the economy and why their tax and fiscal policies point the way to a more prosperous middle class and to a pathway for more Americans to enter the middle class.

Kamala Harris is Black. This place hasn't changed much.

President Clinton has his own fair share of that blame acceptance - can we all say, as we do in Canada, FINANCIAL REGULATION! - but, again, other Dems will have to account for that, too much personal baggage in the Clinton closet, to mix metaphors. Ahem.

Do you think people who have been suffering - I mean actually struggling and suffering - through the income inequality everyone likes to talk about while not actually living through it care about the Trump antics and the criminality of his associates? I mean, really?

Seriously?

It'll come to you on the bus home, as they like to say.

Eastern Ohio (and western PA) should see a tsunami of ads about the boycott. Anything less would be malpractice.

Wow! Sorry to learn that is how you construed the two, honestly. Not sure who would have been a better choice to highlight Biden’s support of the LGBTQ community than the first openly gay man to run for President.

Smart as a whip and only 38 years old; Buttigieg is the future of the Democratic Party. :)

Florida Man in clown make-up and bizarre wig organizes boycott against large Ohio employer, steps on rake.

Not very bright, is he? Heh.

Trump is not America's biggest problem. Americans are America's biggest problem.

Trump and the pandemic have sure brought that fact to the forefront. Have you ever in your life seen a group of people as gullible as the Trump cult zombies? How many grifters and cons being arrested, pleading guilty, or being convicted is it going to take before the rubes figure it out?

Can you imagine being a QAnon sycophant or a right-wingnut conspiracy theorist who buys into the ridiculous bullshit that permeates the "getting crazier every day" utter asinine propaganda that flows freely from the Orange Blowhole and his cult of crazies waiting patiently for the arrest of the Clintons and Obamas and all the while the Trump associates are being arrested, convicted, locked up, etc., while you're still buying into the Trump spew and waiting for a single arrest that never comes? Wake up morons, the arrests are occurring all around you. Have you figured it out yet?

I think casting and accurately counting votes should actually be the least of your worries in this presidential election.

I know you're correct. :)

going to get reelected? Joe showed that he's a way more competent as a potential Commander-in-Chief than "word salad" Donnie and "that's a wrap."

I can!

You can? Please elaborate.

Trump's popularity is NOT any better than it's always been -- 38% to 45%. And that 38-45% would vote "Satan and All His Works" so long as Satan had an "R" in front of his name.

Relax, SF Bear. Any upward blip in Cheetogod's popularity is simply an "upward blip."

Yeah, sure, Trump exceeded expectations in 2016. But he needed (1) Rooskie help, (2) Comey help, and (3) Hillary's lameness to squeek out an Electoral College victory. Ain't gonna happen again, People.

It's still (and always) Joe's election to lose.

every time rasmussen conducts a poll the average ticks upward. it's a consistent outlier from other polling, so its influence makes the average fluctuate.

I don't think that is true.

I saw them in Buffalo, NY on the Tattoo You tour. Did you get your albums?

Sounds like you don't get it.

Relax, Elizabeth, this is so much still Joe's election to lose!

Sounds like you do get it.

Are you always so schizophrenic?

Just show up.

You weren't on Hillary's campaign team, were you, MtnCaddy 'cause it sounds like you were. Heh.

Elizabeth wrote,

And, by the way, Biden needs to go to Milwaukee and any number of other cities up there where people are ripe for the picking by Team Trump.

And do what, exactly? He can't campaign due to Covid. Do you really think the people up there "are ripe for the picking" just because Joe doesn't fly in and fly out? Or has Covid and the 2nd Great Depression somehow leave these states unaffected?

Relax, Elizabeth, this is so much still Joe's election to lose!

I see Mick changed up the lyrics a bit on Brown Sugar. Heh.

Well, that's what I was talkin' about the other night! :)

That's just a silly little question. :)

What is wrong with Clyburn’s response?

You mean when he told the millions of American voters who were watching the convention to go look at the Democratic platform website?

Well, first off, the Democrats should NEVER, EVER miss an opportunity to take a few minutes out of a busy schedule to talk about the Republican Cult of Economic Failure and why Democrats support the kind of fiscal and tax policy that will narrow the economic inequities that favour the top income earners and that goes especially for all those times when they have a captive audience in the tens of millions. Goes without saying, really.

The progressives and Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic party have a solid point when they say there should have been more talk of Democratic economic policy and how those policies support the middle class while Republicans continue to wallow in their never-ending cult of economic failure. (They should recruit Tim Geithner and David Fiderer if they can't come up with an explanation by themselves - and don't get Bill Clinton because while he could probably explain this better than anyone, his negative baggage far outweighs any positive explanatory impact).

Just you watch the Republican convention - they'll try to convince people that if the Democrats get elected, say good-bye to another booming economy. And, if the Democrats don't fight back on that, everyday and in a muscular way from now until election day, don't count out another four more years of Trump.

And, by the way, Biden needs to go to Milwaukee and any number of other cities up there where people are ripe for the picking by Team Trump.

Whattup with the fire situation in your neck of the woods? And do you live to the East of Highway 17?

Wow! Sorry to learn that is how you construed the two, honestly. Not sure who would have been a better choice to highlight Biden’s support of the LGBTQ community than the first openly gay man to run for President.

Looking forwards to your next Yellow Card. [Note to Chris: in football (what the rest of the galaxy calls "soccer") a second yellow card gets the offenders tossed out of the game. Just sayin'.]

Really. If you head any answers to the numerous issues that many of us brought up I trust you would have shared them with us by now.

The troll formerly known as Michale was a lot more toxic to Weigantia than you'll probably ever be. But at least he had the sense to bug out of here once the writing on the wall became too much to ignore.

One Demand has absolutely struck out in this Comment section. Why don't you have enough sense to give it a rest?

What is wrong with Clyburn’s response? That issue is thoroughly discussed on the website — there is not time to discuss every single issue that our country faces in the time allotted at the convention...we’d be subjected to month-long conventions if not worse!

I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic with this one or what:

Watch the Republican convention, Biden and Democrats, and understand how to, ah, win the future!

I caught the first night only so I appreciate the evening by evening review.

I'd agree that the Democrats splendidly pulled off this journey where "no political convention has gone before."

I can't wait to see what the Repugs come up with. I mean, what can they say about the mess Trump got us into. Maybe there's some inspiration to be had from the 1932 Republican convention. You know, Herbert Hoover's Tour de Force.

Of the many things about you that are offensive, do you know what I find the most offensive? The fact that just about every person here tried at one time or another to help give your “movement” some momentum by offering our expertise in areas which you admitted you had absolutely no experience in. Hell, I know that I spent a full afternoon reviewing your entire website - page by page - taking notes throughout.

When we tried to share with you the areas that were concerning to us (oh, I don’t know...maybe like how your whole plan boils down to getting people to willingly share their personal data with anyone who wants it), you responded with insults and telling us that we did not know what we were talking about. When we asked simple questions regarding the logic behind the claims you were insinuating would somehow occur if people signed up, you could not give us direct answers; choosing instead to offer rhetoric and believing that asking us, “But COULD it happen?” was a legitimate reply.

Sure, anything “COULD” happen, but the odds are about the same as you surviving the 747 you are flying in crashing into the ocean, then losing your legs to sharks as you swim to shore, only to be struck and killed by lightning when you reach land! You have no plan for how to get people who do not vote to suddenly choose to not only vote, but to also start giving their own money to politicians...but it will only happen through One Demand.

And tell me, you attack Biden, Pelosi, and Harris as being horrible politicians who act against our best interests, yet they only need to agree to do what you demand and then they will be great politicians who we can trust to always look out for our best interests? It is that simple to earn your support? You do not care about what they stand for as long as they run a campaign that only accepts small money donations? That’s OneDemand based on your own words.

“I never said that!” Sure you did! Every time you’ve attacked a politician as being untrustworthy based SOLELY and ENTIRELY on NOT meeting your single criteria by which all politicians are to be judged. One Damn Man pushing One Dumb Plan.

We do do no agree. Either party can declare disageement and that is the end of the story. You are dumber than a box of rocks. Do we agree?

As opposed to what? One Demand: a political front for online gambling scams? How trumpian of you...

Jim Clyburn was asked today why there was no talk at the convention, with millions of voters a captive audience, about the pain and suffering of people who have been economically depressed for such a long time, why Democrats don't focus on that pain and explain why they are the competent economic stewards ...

His answer? Go to the website and read the Democratic economic platform if you want economic policy.

Well, keep those sorts of answers up and Trump will be re-elected without lifting a finger. HELLO!?

i know it's more of a last week thing, but this one's definitely apropos:

https://youtu.be/LXvG0SMP7tw

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-simple-arithmetic-of_b_97655

The Republican Cult of Economic Failure

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-bush-tax-cuts-and-the_b_781419

one can only hope that the votes will be accurately cast and counted.

Do you know what I hope for? I hope that Democrats actually get it.

That they actually get how to demonstrate that THEY are the competent stewards of the ECONOMY, stupid. Trump can still win on the economy if Biden doesn't fight back on this critically important issue and finally, at long last, obliterate the Republican economic fantasy.

I just heard that Biden didn't even go to Milwaukee this week. HELLO? Do Democrats know how to fight competently on the economy!? Why would he not go to Milwaukee? Have no lessons from 2016 been learned!!??

And, do you know what scares me? The fact that Trump - TRUMP, of ALL people on the planet - can question Biden's cognitive ability and people who should know better start focusing on Biden's cognitive ability.

Trump is not America's biggest problem. Americans are America's biggest problem.

I think casting and accurately counting votes should actually be the least of your worries in this presidential election.

One had better hope for a damn sight more than that!

Watch the Republican convention, Biden and Democrats, and understand how to, ah, win the future!

https://www.c-span.org/video/?283385-2/senator-biden-farewell-address