Hey, Kick - what do you think of the idea of Biden sending Obama to Texas for a big speech this week?

This week, next week... on or before November 3. Bloomberg is sending multiple millions, and I hear Biden is sending Kamala on Friday. Send them all.

Flipping Texas from Red to Blue at the presidential level in 2020 would definitely be a bit sooner than anticipated, but what could it hurt to be early!? ;)

Here's some poor sod trying to cover a 'Stone's tune.

Heh. :)

"After 9-11, America was paid in full by NATO, whether you like to believe it or not."

This American appreciates it and won't forget. I just wish that more of my fellow Americans were aware of it also.

The only time in history that NATO as whole came to a member's defense was to support the USA after 9/11, and not the other way around, with America having to rescue a NATO member. It was our NATO friends and allies who came to OUR defense by invoking the mutual defense clause on their own in support of America!

"If Texas can get a turnout of ~11,000,000, that turnout combined with the GOP voters for Biden might be enough to get it done. If we could get that turnout closer to ~12,000,000, the odds are better still. :)"

Looks like you are on track! As of yesterday, the total number of early votes cast in Texas so far was 7.4 million. Texas currently has the highest voter turn out in the nation so far, I do believe.

If the current pace keeps up nationwide, total U.S. turn out for a presidential election will hit 150 million voters, 65 percent of all registered voters, a level not seen in more than a century, not since the election of 1908!

That sounds like a job for Bernie unless the boney ass is actually essential.

Heh. Texas is winnable for Democrats, JFC... send them all!

Full Disclosure: Can Texas flip? Fact is, in every election for multiple decades, pieces of Texas have flipped toward the Democratic Party. Is this the year the Democratic Party gets it done at the federal level? If it isn't, it's on to the next one where more pieces will flip. Nine more seats to flip the statehouse because 2018 was a seismic shift/flip on the state level.

Now then, let's revisit why I insisted that those Republicans voting for Biden are important: Texas (also close states like Georgia, Florida, etc.); they could make the difference in a win or loss in 2020 in close states. My repetitive number crunching across multiple polls in Texas reveals Republicans voting for Biden to be in the range of 6% to 7% and Democrats voting for Trump at 1% to 2%, and that statistic combined with the GOTV effort could make the difference in 2020. If Texas can get a turnout of ~11,000,000, that turnout combined with the GOP voters for Biden might be enough to get it done. If we could get that turnout closer to ~12,000,000, the odds are better still. :)

I love this town, I couldn't live anywhere else, my life would unravel.

Kingston is a real hot bed for music. It took a while but, the Hip finally grew on me ... love their stuff, now!

What do you say we do a tribute to Gordie and the band next week!?

HA!

That was a lot of fun with Colbert and Simon.

Here is one just for you, my friend ...

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

That is a great Guess Who tune. One day I'll have to tell you all about how I got front row center seats for a Burton Cummings concert. It was pure heaven. :)

:)

https://youtu.be/4qsPBLCf6EM

I love this town, I couldn't live anywhere else, my life would unravel.

I miss Gordie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6QDjDPRF5c&list=RDo6QDjDPRF5c&start_radio=1

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*Back Nov 2-3 ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b0OYxdtyM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG7XKhay8KE

link helps

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RWV's

"Bridge Over The River Ash"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRmQc4IjNE

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Here's a 45-R.P.M. I bought of his, back in the day. It's called "Sour Suite."

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

Take care everyone and stay safe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFuDS5jQVKE

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If you're like me, then your craving live music. Well, one of my very favourite musicians/songwriter/singer, Gowan, will be performing live at the Empire Theatre in Belleville Ontarion this coming Thursday night, Oct 29th and he'll be live streaming it.

Gowan is an entertainer extraordinaire - he sure livened up STYX when he joined them in 1999 as keyboardist and vocalist after an illustrious solo career.

The concert on Thursday will be free but donations are being accepted in support of the live event community and venues.

You can watch here,

https://vimeo.com/471123888?fbclid=IwAR3IFi2rQmZUIcjPbSSNgcS6eB-OKeDdGkmUQYeL8JPf6EXzv_hqxJKBuY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvnvoe-jVQ4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti9QHNvk2AY

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It's Sunday night. So how about a little Village People meets SNL?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-CC_rsIs28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrom1EmrQ4

First, a Burton Cummings cover of When a Man Loves a Woman ... one of the best voices in rock'n roll, to be sure ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUv6GGY5S80&list=RDoUv6GGY5S80&index=1

"Brandy, you're a fine girl; what a good wife you would be. But, my life, my love and my lady is the sea."

Heh.

Oh, that Mick Jagger skit was a lot of fun! :)

Anyone remember Looking Glass?

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) is my favourite tune from 1972 ...

Great. I didn't even have to hit the link -- Brandy will now dominate my mind for the foreseeable future.

Cain't ignore that 24/7 jukebox in my noggin.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTs-OKOFdAU

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) is my favourite tune from 1972 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbvJ1H3ZRI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BYoQiI71jc

April Wine first,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAzlNe4j40&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1xTDZ1g6D7Deqkpf4faQNnyGNzU0PgJcL0r8V2KxASbPnMoeZgsTm0xHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0HUm8f56A&list=RDecCdYIEAYwU&index=19

Are you talking to ME?

ARE you talking to me?

-- Taxi Driver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZ1A8CY5B4&fbclid=IwAR2f3P78eGk33zjEwngIfJHRHBJG5xOLVT_tYScSmwrn9UvZfI-VRQrauQE

And, then, just as a reunion of original members was in the works by the end of 1984, Ron Tabak - the irreplaceable front man and lead vocalist for the band - was tragically killed in a cycling accident at Christmastime.

Anyway, we are so lucky to have so many talented Canadian musicians who love our old classic rock bands as much as we do and who we will be able to see perform live again when that becomes possible post-Pandemic ... fingers crossed!

So here is my current favourite cover band, Parallel 49 (United We Rock), from Thunder Bay, close to the Minnesota border, doing a early PRiSM hit and climate apocalypse tune, Take Me to the Kaptin ... even for a true blue Prism fan, this cover is beyond amazing.

In fact, why not listen to the original first ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv24gN27kRM

You hit the nail on the head.

Pretending to "do good" is always worse than actually "doing good."

On a personal note, I printed up that reply and I sleep with it under my pillow every night! Okay, that's an exaggeration. But, I took it to heart.

C'mon, Daddy! I can do this! I can do this!

Wanna take Halloween off and I'll cover it for you?

I strongly vote for, "Joe wins equals Dems loses/Trump wins equals the GOP loses."

The opposite fairly writes itself and isn't worthy of your efforts, Sir. This would be more in keeping with your credo, "To go...where other pundits haven't thought to go."

Jes' sayin'.

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

Ron wins, hands down on the high notes!

Here they are doing a cover of PRiSM RTE (Ron Tabak Era) Armageddon and it is perfection,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRwsGB8HrX8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3Irk3ohhJZypKc3j6gZwHZStV0xmVu1MrLvbqDBY1nA13o8oBkk5rtI-s

Looking For A Love

Peanut Butter

Trying To Live My Life Without You

First I Look At The Purse

I’m Not Rough

Where Did Our Love Go

Hold Your Loving

I Do

House Party

Do you have a favourite cover band?

Spin it up at the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party!

Congrats and thanks: on the whole youse Canucks are sooo much more aware of the outside world than are us insuler Yanks.

Just ONE more Saturday Night Live clip.

The trouble with Steve Vai is that he seems to be so good on electric guitar...SO good (IMO) that there's no point in me even trying. Nor anyone else.*sigh*
I love jazz meistro Joe Pass, Steve Howe (Yes), Stevie Ray Vaughn, the two Jimmies, Page (Led Zep) & Hendrix. I used to count Steve Howe as my fave axman. But no more.

At any rate, an early entry to this afternoon's Dance Party, For the Love of God.

We wouldn't be here contributing to the debate if we'd abdicated our moral imperative to help a close friend and ally. While I fall toward the 'if your next-door neighbour's house is on fire the least you can do is call 911' side of the conversation, both are a means to an end...

Biden's no friend to Canada (Alberta Tar sands), but at least he won't treat us like an enemy. Wartime tariffs have to be an aberration. After 9-11, America was paid in full by NATO, whether you like to believe it or not.

Also, if the world is to accept American leadership, it has to be its own movement and ultimately has to pony up the lions share of the imposition of its values on a global scale...

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if Joe Biden or somebody from the Biden campaign will get their boney asses into Texas and visit the Rio Grande Valley and a few 'burbs like San Antonio, Texas just might impeach the SOB on behalf of the entire nation on November 3.

That sounds like a job for Bernie unless the boney ass is actually essential.

I think he looks like he fell down a set of stairs. I've seen him walk down stairs and he has difficulty with them.

Sounds like an episode of "The Sopranos." I'm not kidding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omNgeDME-cQ

Maybe Fat Donny had somebody pay him a visit.

There are a couple senators I can’t really get involved in. I just can’t do it. You lose your soul if you do. I can’t help some of them. I don’t want to help some of them.

~ Donald Trump, 10/23/2020

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Or maybe Mitch survived the wheels of the bus...

*musical segue way*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My God
In God we trust
But we'll never really know what got discussed
Click-boom then it happened
And no one else was in the room where it happened.

~ Hamilton
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People’s politics tend to determine their policy preferences, and not the other way around. In one example from the 1960s, as Christopher Achens and Larry Bartels write in Democracy for Realists, even southerners who supported racial integration left the Democratic Party. Once they became Republican, they then adjusted their views on race and affirmative action to fit more comfortably with their new partisan identity. Put another way, if a person with no prior partisan attachments decides to become a Republican, he is likely to become pro-life. If that same person, with the same genetics and life experience, decides to become a Democrat, he is likely to become pro-choice.

“One thing that [Ocasio-Cortez] has shown is that political leadership matters. Just proposing a 70 percent marginal tax rate has restructured a debate over taxes. Obama’s presidency was defined by self-imposed limits.”

Yeah, well, impeachment doesn't really count unless you boot him out of office. Ahem.

I'll take "Things a Clinton Would Say" for $500, Alex. *grins*

If you weren't trying to imitate a Clinton or a Trump with that nugget, you failed. Yes, I am infinitely tricky with words like Pete Buttigieg, the future of the Democratic Party, but I digress.

If you'd like to discuss what are serious impeachable offenses, let's talk about how Trump knew just how serious and insidious SARS-COV-2 really was from the beginning of this crisis yet minimized the importance of proven public health measures and repeatedly downplayed the serious nature of COVID-19, knowingly putting American lives in danger - many of whom actually died!

Herman Cain would agree... if he were alive to do it. I also agree, and I'm very much alive despite living in a state full of a lot of dipshits and redneck shits who won't keep their dumb asses out of my personal recreational space.

Now, THAT was and is worthy of a serious impeachment proceeding.

That is worthy of a criminal trial for reckless endangerment. Pause for definition:

Reckless endangerment is a crime consisting of acts that create a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. The accused person isn't required to intend the resulting or potential harm, but must have acted in a way that showed a disregard for the foreseeable consequences of the actions.

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As my other favourite political analyst wrote recently, "too bad the impeachment shot was wasted on an over-hyped issue even its promoters don’t talk about now."

This "favourite political analyst" of yours sounds blissfully unaware that its promoters do talk about it now because the person who was impeached in perpetuity for said issue is quite literally still using hacked emails by a foreign entity in an attempt to force an announcement of an investigation into his political opponent, Your Worship Joe Biden. Also, there's no "u" in favorite, but again, I digress.

But, wait, can a president be impeached twice? Heh.

You bet your ass he could, but if Joe Biden or somebody from the Biden campaign will get their boney asses into Texas and visit the Rio Grande Valley and a few 'burbs like San Antonio, Texas just might impeach the SOB on behalf of the entire nation on November 3.

Full Disclosure: I adore you, Canada. My posts in your direction are never meant to insult but to inform, but I think you already know that. :)

'The prisoner will be hanged in the courtyard, and then hung in the prison until his burial.'

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New poll in Texas showing Biden with a +3 lead, within the margin of error (you know the drill). Crunching the numbers shows it's suburban women and specifically Hispanic women that are giving Joe the edge. If Biden wants to give his campaign a fighting chance to win the election on November 3, I'm just saying a visit to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas might be enough to boost turnout to shut this whole thing down for Trump.

So to recap: Joe Biden, please spend some time in Texas to boost your turnout, and it could be lights out on election night. Might I suggest you get your boney asses down to Brownsville, McAllen -- or send Obama's -- and it couldn't hurt to visit San Antonio and a couple big cities while you're here. Is this microphone on? (props to MC for that one). :)

Sigh. I just knew this was going to happen. Believe it or not, I asked two sources (one a grammar policeperson herself) about this while editing, and both preferred "gaslit." I kinda thought "gaslighted" was right, but thought about "light." "I light the fire... there -- I lit the fire!" Somehow "I lighted the fire" doesn't sound better.

Since gaslight was verbized due to a movie, it is (as you pointed out) recent. Irregular past tenses always are tricky for me. (I know "hanged" is only for people" while "hung" is right for objects, but the one I come across most is "plea." Is it "he pled guilty" or "he pleaded guilty"? Still foggy on that one.)

Anyway, I do ask those with more grammar sense than I (points for that "I," right?) when I get to the ones that are tricky, because I know I'll get called on it if I get it wrong...

:-)

-CW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTA8-0odWxI

Projection, projection
I won't be fooled by projection.

Projection, projection
You thought you put something over me-e-e-e-e ...

All of this of course assumes that the DOJ or Lindsey or somebody doesn't expose his extensive life of corruption tomorrow.

He need to provoke a sea change in what makes voters tick.

I do not.

I think the only thing Biden wants to do with SCOTUS is make sure Republicans never again have the opportunity to nominate another justice.

If so, he doesn't need 180 days or a bipartisan commission to figure out how to get there.

Who's your favourite cover band?

Have you ever heard a band cover one of your favourite songs and say, Damn! ... that sounds as good or better than the original!!!

Well, I have discovered one such band and I will highlight their stuff tonight. Later ...

Then why is he talking about a 180 day bipartisan commission to decide what to do about the supreme court?

Do you imagine 'bipartisan' to be synonymous only with 'congressional'?

The Comey 'October surprise' didn't change many votes, if any. But it dominated the news cycle - not just Faux News- and had a negative impact on voter turnout in the critical swing states. (Ironically, Comey closed the 'inquiry' after only three days, but the story circulated until election day.)

For some perspective, here's a fascinating article from Politico. It compares Biden's current standing in the polling of the "swing states" with Hillary's standing in those same states immediately BEFORE Comey's announcement.

At least one of the self-proclaimed Brahmans has repeated the lament "If only Hillary had campaigned more in Michigan!". It's easier to rewrite history than learn from it.
'Michigan (16 electoral votes):

FiveThirtyEight average: Biden +8.1
FiveThirtyEight “polls-only” forecast on Oct. 27, 2016: Clinton +6.6
2016 result: Trump +0.2'
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/22/biden-swing-state-polls-431287

Sacha Baron Cohen Donald—I appreciate the free publicity for Borat! I admit, I don’t find you funny either. But yet the whole world laughs at you. I’m always looking for people to play racist buffoons and you’ll need a job after Jan. 20. Let’s talk!

There's no upside to warring with a comedian, but Donald is too dim-witted to ever learn that lesson.

Yes, sir, and speaking of Moscow Mitch, WTF is up with his hands and face?

I think he looks like he fell down a set of stairs. I've seen him walk down stairs and he has difficulty with them.

No one knows better than Obama and Biden that the congressional bipartisan ship has sailed.

Then why is he talking about a 180 day bipartisan commission to decide what to do about the supreme court?