How hard it must be to figure out you were duped. Harder to publicly admit so.

Well, maybe I spoke too soon about the right-wingnut crowd catching on. I guess it just takes awhile to come to grips with the ignorance and to admit the "stupid" that is so glaringly obvious to the majority of Americans.

No, he isn't. One need only watch the spinning of Russian disinformation on Fox News for the answer. The Trump cult learned nothing from 2018; they still believe all the con artistry bullshit spin and spew. It's like they're incapable of learning that what outrages them is manufactured conspiracy fantasy that only they're all invested in because they're gullible and have bought "all in" to the right=wingnut conspiracy cult.

This! Awesome. :)

I was never a fan of AC/DC, not really. But, the last many years I've been liking their stuff more and more and I don't really distinguish between the two lead singers. Not like Prism, anyway.

I really like Shot in the Dark. After all the decades they've been playing, it deserves at least a listen, no?

yeah, it matters a lot which state she lives in. the national popular vote does matter as well, but comparatively speaking it's peanuts.

JL

I loved Bon Scott era AC/DC. Highway To Hell was a nearly perfect album. I stuck with them for Back In Black, but that was it.

A vote for anyone other than Biden is a vote for Trump

What state does your friend live in? While I would prefer that she vote for Biden, unless she lives in a purple state, her vote is unlikely to benefit the orange one.

How about we post new songs by our favourite classic artists ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb26D8bBZB8

Meretzky, the author, said in an interview that his intent with the game was to convey a negative view of Reagan's policies.[1] In another interview, he said that he had hoped for AMFV to cause controversy with its political content, expressing disappointment at the lack of hate mail.[2]

I hope you and JFC and Kick will keep this show on the road tonight, including our very own tribute to EVH!

But, but... I was so busy today, EM! I'm a flippin' some Texas.

Here's Eddie Van Halen on grand piano... where he started. This one is a super short 18 seconds. EVH played as a child and didn't play piano all too often as an adult in public. He was a musical prodigy who couldn't even read sheet music; I think he was so awesome on guitar because he invented his own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIbG9wGx1c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg&list=RDSwYN7mTi6HM&index=40

Eruption guitar solo from 2015 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpM3AI46VX0&list=RDSwYN7mTi6HM&index=37

whenever you mention prism, my mind goes here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging

*although obviously my reference point is a bit later, it was a really interesting game for a ten year old...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-LfsVysU8&list=RDSwYN7mTi6HM&index=16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM

https://youtu.be/6M4_Ommfvv0

;)

JL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDw2pCqQJf8&list=RDVDw2pCqQJf8&start_radio=1&t=170

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4eZWEG_KVs

Your Story about VH is a little bit like mine with PRiSM, except I only saw them once, in 1977, their first year together, opening for Styx. I didn't keep my ticket stub, though. :( I went to see Styx that night but, came home with Prism, er, a lifelong fan of a new, up and coming Canadian rock band!

I lost interest in them when they booted Tabak out of the band at the end of 1980 in one the most idiotic and destructive self-inflicted wounds in Canadian rock history.

Around the same time, they found out that they were the winners of the Juno (the Canadian Grammy) award for Group of the Year for 1980. And, they were just about to hit it really big in the US.

Then, I lost track so completely that I didn't even hear about Tabak's tragic death in an ostensibly minor cycling accident at the end of 1984, just before the band was to be reunited.

I rediscovered them during the early days of Pandemic I and have reconstituted my Prism collection in CD form. If this fine Canadian rock band hadn't suffered two devastating tragedies, one entirely by their own hands, they may have gone on to be a next big thing, too.

But, enough about Prism - sorry for rambling on ...

We are here tonight to pay tribute to a great rockin' guitar player ...

Taken from my Facebook thingy, with my obvious consent.

"Just mailed my vote, I voted for Bernie"

I know this individual, she's real, I went to her first wedding and catered her second.

I'm flabbergasted, and somewhat annoyed.

I lit her up, naturally, but got to thinking, how pervasive is this idiocy within the Democratic Party?

Have they not considered the alternative?

A vote for anyone other than Biden is a vote for Trump, is really is that simple.

I'd prefer to think I have a cretin for a friend, but by the likes she seems to have provoked, I suspect she's not alone in her cretiny.

Appalling.

LL&P

In 1979, VH was touring as headliners. They came to the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh on May 7, 1979. It was a small place that held less than 3,000 people. A girl I knew from my neighborhood had a friend who worked in the Stanley box office and she got me tickets in the orchestra pit for the VH show. It was awesome. Eddie threw me one of his guitar picks and I still have it. The pick says Van Halen on it. I also still have a T-shirt from that show and it still fits. I wore it on Wednesday.

I saw them one more time in 1984 when they played a two night stand in Maryland, just outside the District. I lost interest in them when they replaced David Lee Roth with Sammy Hagar.

I’ve kept ticket stubs from all the shows I’ve attended in my life and that’s how I can tell you about these shows despite my memories getting a little lost in the fog.

And The Cradle Will Rock

I hope you and JFC and Kick will keep this show on the road tonight, including our very own tribute to EVH!

I'll be enjoying your selections later on ...

cue jewel singing karaoke

https://youtu.be/rmv1VhrtYRo

Just one, I can think of a dozen without working up sweat.

The entire thing needs an overhaul to drag it into here and now. Central to it's dysfunction is it's failure to be precise. It tries too hard to please all the people all the time, which it was designed to do at the time in it's post-revolutionary vision. The US constitution was created by men who had democracy and equality on the tips of there tongues, but not in their hearts. They built in trap doors and exits for all contingencies that arise for people in power, in the same way they put in a system of checks and balances betwix the (now redundant and obviously archaic) various federal, state and municipal levels, e.g. the US senate keeps its most important federal decisions jealously unto itself because the senate at the time was for wealthy, well turned-out gentry, and not for rabble elected into the house of representatives by the other rabble, the common people. Why have two deliberative elected federal bodies of government? it makes zero sense until you look at what they do, the powers they have, and the contemporary mindset of those who created it. The house can impeach any person in power, but only the senate can show them the door! The founders went out of their way to create a system that was fair for all, but way fairer for the few, like themselves, landed gentry. In this day and age, there's no need for the US senate, I would amalgamate the two houses into a parliamentary-style single body or reduce them to the vestigial role of rubber stamping for the sake appearances.

Obviously, it's too late to fix the problems built into the US constitution without tearing down the entire system and rebooting it, and no guarantee that it wouldn't go back to its default settings, which would be repellant. The only way forward is to slowly close all the doors that allow for political lobbying, if America has shown the world one thing its, money and cronyism is the arch enemy of representative government. It's a waste of time electing Joe or Jane Blow because they advocate one way, only to watch them be corrupted another way by a special interest once they arrive in Washington. Polling proves this when 75% of the population want something other than what the elected officials try to push down their throats. Election cycles don't rectify the problem, despite what delusional view you may be operating under regarding "American Democracy", it just goes on and on. Take away the crumbs, and the rats will leave.

LL&P

how about jim carrey going 'full goldblum'

https://youtu.be/xI_lxFv203I

JL

The Walk of Shame

Funny!

The President, all members of the US Congress, civilian Federal employees and Military Officers take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. If a President issues unconstitutional orders, they obliged to not obey these orders. There is no ambiguity here.

Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, enlisted ranks must obey lawful commands going down the chain of command, but not unlawful commands. In a well ordered military (which I firmly believe:hope we still have), military discipline takes care of any confusions among the ranks.

If the Congressional, Judicial, and Military don't have the will or the guts to throttle a rogue President, than more laws that will be ignored aren't going to help.

Ultimately, everything boils to the Soul of a Nation. If rotten, we might be Trumped.

Shocking. Positively shocking.

Still, this wasn't a relationship buried in the dim and distant past -- this happened as recently as July. During the current campaign, in other words. That's pretty bad.

If Democrats blow this pickup opportunity because of Cunningham's wandering eye, it could mean they fail to gain control of the Senate.

Seriously? Count me in with the crowd who wouldn't let this deter us from casing a vote for Cunningham (if we could vote, that is) or even from mobilizing us to get out and vote for him even if we were planning not to vote at all (for whatever reason we weren't planning to vote and if we could vote). Ahem.

And, who/what is NationalFile.com, anyways?

Get over it! These elections mean too much! Keep focused!

On a conference call Saturday morning with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, multiple GOP senators denounced the proposal, attacking the price tag as too big, questioning the overall direction and criticizing individual proposals, according to several people who participated in the call or were briefed on its contents. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail the private discussion.

Who is trying harder not to be re-elected at this point?

According to your definition, reckless endangerment could be applied to someone that pretends that there are no alternatives to the two party good cop/ bad cop show and withholds/ignores information about other options.

No. No, it could not be applied to that. That is ridiculous.

Is it just me, or does anyone else get this vibe? My Gaydar just goes off big time anytime I hear and see the Surgeon General speak.

Honestly, I couldn’t remember who our Surgeon General was when I read the story. I just knew that anytime someone is cited for “being in a public park after the park has closed”, it is almost always “code” for the police were called to break up a “public gathering” in the Men’s Restrooms. If you are caught in a closed park after hours, the police will just ask you to leave in most cases. Citations don’t get issued unless you knew you were not supposed to be doing what you were doing in the park!

But after pulling up video of the man.... YEPPERS! Your Gaydar is working just fine!

ActBlue is a nonprofit technology organization established in June 2004

Well, perhaps this will be their year ...

Elizabeth Miller wrote:

I guess I have MtnCaddy on my mind...

I knew it! I KNEW it!

She loves me,
She loves me not...

John From Censornati wrote:

I doubt that PG-rated texts will doom Cunningham or the Dem takeover of the senate. How does it even register in the age of the pussygrabber?

When your a Repug candidate and you have nothing to run on ("another tax break for the rich, anyone?") you grasp at any (whataboutism) straw that you can.

Divide.
Distract.
Dominate.

"Was the Surgeon General really visiting a whole park, or just one of the men’s restrooms in the park? Terrible that my mind immediately goes there... but he is a member of an Republican Administration, so it is more likely than not that I am right!"

Is it just me, or does anyone else get this vibe? My Gaydar just goes off big time anytime I hear and see the Surgeon General speak.

"The Democrats had better up their game ... and, fast. Or, they may find that they are just one stupid, least-popular thing away from ensuring that Trump is re-elected. Ahem."

Have you hear of Act Blue? They have become a fund raising juggernaut for Democrats, from the top all the way down ballot to local school board elections! People who never got money for campaigns before are now being showered and supported with cash.

ActBlue is a nonprofit technology organization established in June 2004 that enables left-leaning nonprofits, Democratic candidates, and progressive groups to raise money from individual donors on the Internet by providing them with online fundraising software. Its stated mission is to "empower small-dollar donors".

There are too many things of critical importance to worry about for Democrats to be the least bit unhappy about the sex lives of politicians or of anyone else. Cunningham's wife could always leave him. But, again, none of our concern.

Really?

Speaking only for myself, this has nothing to do with love between consenting adults. That's fine for singles - love away, and more power to you both.

Cunningham deserves criticism because he cheated on his wife. Unless they have an open marriage, with Mrs. Cunningham speaking out in support of her husband's affair(s), he strikes me as a thoroughly dishonest man in at least one area of his life - with marginal points, I guess, for being able to come clean to his constituents once he was caught. If I lived in N.C. I would be a very unhappy Democrat right now.

Putin, Xi, Maduros, etc couldn't have impacted America's "military readiness" more effectively.

(And no surprise at all that the 'personalities' at Faux News are deafeningly silent.)
'The official said almost the entirety of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including Gen. James C. McConville, the Army chief of staff, are quarantining after Adm. Charles Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard, tested positive for coronavirus.

“We are aware that Vice Commandant Ray has tested positive for Covid-19 and that he was at the Pentagon last week for meetings with other senior military leaders,” Jonathan Hoffman, the Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement released by his office.

“Out of an abundance of caution, all potential close contacts from these meetings are self-quarantining and have been tested this morning,” he added. “No Pentagon contacts have exhibited symptoms and we have no additional positive tests to report at this time.”

The announcement represents an alarming development — as the virus extends its reach from the highest levels of civilian government to the operational heart of the country’s national security apparatus.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/pentagon-leaders-are-quarantining-after-being-exposed-to-the-virus.html

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/10/01/polis-pardons-coloradans-convicted-marijuana-possession/

P.S. Could this also have fueled Trump's hatred for TikTok?

This sentence in particular was a masterpiece: 'To put it another way, Trump's Justice Department told Congress to "stand back and stand by" on any legislation to combat right-wing domestic terrorism. Just when a plot to kidnap a governor was uncovered.'

Karma isn't just a bitch anymore, it's now also a rascal of the polls.

Cunningham, lol... What world is this when a guy lands in the 'Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week' bin for telling the truth about his extra-marital horizontal jogging and expresses, albeit half-heartedly, a pang of remorse? Apparently, it's a world in which very few in the ranks the GOP and the Trump orbit could aspire to get into 'a Dem sin-bin'... You can't beat the truth out that mob, let alone have them admit it publically...

And Trump is all in for his re-election, every ounce of his being is working to that end, to the exclusion of all else... We know this because he's failing so spectacularly, a sure sign that a self-professed genius is on the tiller.

Weed harvesting this weekend, I love Canada. I can't buy or sell more than pound of pot at any given time, I can however grow four plants which I'll wager this year weigh three or four pounds.

A commonly overlooked loophole I'm comfortable exploiting.

Happy Thankswhatits, folks. I thought I would offer that sentiment for all here on this the Canadian Thanksthingy weekend. For the US contingent, I offer it up as a vicarious event until such time as you find any reason to give thanks generally.

Vote and do it well.

LL&P

No cup of jo?

This'll wake you up.

Bad Horsie Steve Vai

Gold Dust Woman by Government Mile featuring Grace Potter. Absolutely effing haunting. Enjoy with yer cup of jo.

Ya effed up my thread haha

True that, about the Repugs

The Society for the Prevention of the Gratuitous Use of "Heh"

Heh.

andygaus wrote:

Talking Point 8) After a group of white supremacists tried to kidnap and possibly execute the governor of Michigan, Trump strongly condemned the governor but said not a word about the kidnapers. He didn't even tell them to stand by.

Wow. Just wow, Dawg.

"That's... gotta hurt!"

-The Mask

Jamie Raskin's website doesn't want my email if I'm out of his district. *smh* Tried ta thank him.

You have no values. Your whole life: it's nihilism, it's cynicism, it's sarcasm and orgasm.

You know, in France, I could run on that slogan and win.
~deconstructing harry

JL

Biden committed the biggest political crime in American history.

Yeah, I could feel that one comeing.

Please speak for yourself.

But, I'm way too biased to be making any predictions. And, way too invested to be anything less than wholly shattered if he loses.

Intriguing play. It could work.

I'm just gonna go ahead and let that (last bit) slide. Because, we all know who is the one with more integrity in the little finger than the other two in their wholeness, combined. Ahem.

Remains to be seen.

The Democrats had better up their game ... and, fast. Or, they may find that they are just one stupid, least-popular thing away from ensuring that Trump is re-elected. Ahem.

I wonder why so many Republican 'elites' are coming out against Trump. Could it be because they are afraid that Trump is, ah, going to win?

Remains to be seen.

The Democrats had better up their game ... and, fast. Or, they may find that they are just one stupid, least-popular thing away from ensuring that Trump is re-elected. Ahem.