https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3uH-vamqJg&list=RDLsjxqGo4v5Y&index=4

First up, Prism with Ron Tabak from 1979, off their Armageddon and third studio album ... Virginia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuoC3lRKiys&list=RDLsjxqGo4v5Y&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsjxqGo4v5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhrGPFaQoQ&list=RDJyIGlUoTh9I&index=9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyIGlUoTh9I&list=RDJyIGlUoTh9I&index=1

We're Here For A Good Time, don'tcha know!? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_d79xN45U&list=RD7BYoQiI71jc&index=8

Yes we can! Absolutely, positively, unequivocally!

I heard this song one day on my favourite radio station - I didn't know who or what it was but I had to find out. Been enjoying his music ever since.

He's been performing since the late seventies and as Gowan since about 1981. In 1999, Styx needed a keyboardist who could do lead vocals, too. They asked Gowan and lucky for them, and him and us, he said yes!

So, A Criminal Mind was first a Gowan song, then a Styx (with Lawrence Gowan) song and now it's a Gowan song again as he splits his touring time between Styx and Gowan, with emphasis on Styx.

Anyway, here is one of the very best live performances of this song with his 16-year-old son at the time, Dylan, on drums...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ceiyHuW-JQ&list=RD7BYoQiI71jc&index=2

Enjoy!

Because, God knows, most of us could use a little open soul surgery ... somebody help me, now!

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

His daughter is a doctor in her second year of residency and working in the US and so she is living the pandemic and won't be home for Christmas.

Anyway, I love the subtle hints in the lyrics to a little political sarcasm aimed at our American friends, all in good humour! :)

It's a collaboration with yet another power trio from Toronto, Stuck On Planet Earth ...

You gotta give Gowan an A++ for effort, trying to make the end of this year a little less pandemicky ... and, he succeeds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tpmRe2U5Oc&feature=emb_logo

Here’s The Rebel Jesus

Please forgive me if I seem to take the tone of judgement
For I've no wish to come between this day and your enjoyment
In this life of hardship and of earthly toil we have a need for anything that frees us
So I bid you pleasure and I bid you cheer from a heathen and a pagan on the side of the rebel Jesus

He says that Trump can do unpublicized pocket pardons which would have the same effect as a regular pardon once revealed, say, as the result of a Grand Jury returning an indictment (for Federal crimes only, of course.) Yep, Trump can do this left and right and we'll never know who got a pardon until we indict them. Yuk!

***Dept. Of
Snark***

Quotes lifted from a paywall article in Medium called, Quotes from My Law Professor That I Use on Trump Supporters

"There’s so much wrong with what you just said, I can’t make you right."

"Saying a lot of different things does not mean that any one of them is any good.”

"You’re rambling in the hope that you’ll eventually fall into an answer that makes sense. Take my advice: Give up.”

“Stop talking. You’re making the rest of us stupid.”

You have a point nypoet22.

Running again would guarantee up to four more years of Trump rallies. Not quite the "Four more years! Four more years!" the Trumpanzies were wishing for but hey, it's the next best damn thing.

This is exactly the point of Trump's post-election machinations. Sure, it'd be nice if one or more of his Hail Marys actually succeeded, but they are succeeding:

Trump has pulled in a quarter of a billion dollars since the election and kept an iron grip on the Republican Party. I'd call that "wildly successful" rather than "abysmal failure," amirite?

Yer probably at work, Elizabeth, but I'd like to vote against the Christmas and Holiday music theme for Sunday Night Dance Party.

I may have undiscovered Klingon ancestry in me because I effing hate Christmas. Always have.

(thinking)

Unless...we change the date from 25 Dec to, say, 20 January. Yeah, I could see myself being joyful and stuff. For once.

Oh, and Trump ain't gone yet. I just can't foresee Trump just fading away even after Monday 14 December and 6 January.

Trump's insanities have been easier to process because I look at his "audience of one" as being Vladimir Putin. As in, "What can Trump do to make Vlad happy? What would hurt America the most?" Does Vlad really own Trump? We do not (yet) know but looking at Trump's actions make more sense when examined through this prism.

Bottom line: Trump has a lot more hell raising in him in the next 37d 23 hrs and we need to keep and eye on him until we're truly out of the woods.

that question may have been intended to be rhetorical, but the answer is january 20.

Anyways, I'm thinking ahead to the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party ... maybe for the next two editions we can focus on Christmas and Holiday songs, classic and modern?

Of course, I'll throw in a Canadian classic rock tune or two or three ...

And, if it's Sunday, I'll be working, it seems. So, I won't get to the party much before 7pm. Really do have to speak to the person making these schedules! Oh, right ... yeah, that would be me. Heh.

Hopefully, MtnCaddy and JFC can get things rolling earlier...

Entirely possible, Bruh. But this assumes Trump won't be in jail when it comes time to run.

Sorry, but I guess I was just feeling a bit sorry for Senator Feinstein and thinking that her actions might be a little out of her control in terms of not stepping down when everyone thinks she should. Whatever.

Maybe she will yet resign her seat - not sure where she is in her term right now. Would that get her a MIDOTW award?

although i tend to agree with the first half of your statement, i wouldn't put it past donald to run again in '24 just out of anger and malice at losing. i.e. he hates having been beaten for the office significantly more than he hates the job of being in office.

JL

The nomination of Sen Feinstein seems to be merely a case of "See, I was right!" There are so many things wrong with your argument, Chris, but I'll just give you a pat on the head.

I instead nominate for MDDOW my two U S Senators. Unlike Rep Gabbard's no-chance-in-hell bill and Sen Feinstein's (purported) decline, the votes of Sen Synema and Sen Kelly MAY have tragic consequences (granted, to non-Americans, so "who cares? right?).

'Two influential Democrats, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona, were crucial to the deal’s survival. Both voted in favor of one part of it, armed drones for the UAE, and Sinema also approved the second aspect, selling a batch of F-35 fighter jets to the country.'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-uae-senate-weapons-sale_n_5fd1417dc5b61d81b33ba36c

Well put.

I thank her for her service, especially pushing so hard to reveal the torture we did under Dubya. She did great things, which not all senators manage.

But her time has passed.

Like I said, very well put. Just had to say that.

-CW

I suspect she's not the only legislator who should have gone years ago, and that some of those have less to their credit.

You may be right, but this is a bugaboo of mine. I castigated Teddy Kennedy, right before he died, for exactly the same reason.

If you can't do the job, step down. It's as simple as that. The Senate is not a retirement home, or it shouldn't be, at any rate.

I can look it up ('18? '16? I forget), I STRONGLY urged Feinstein to retire with dignity back then. I believe she was already over 85 at the time...

-CW

Halfway already! Woo hoo!

:-)

-CW

I hope they're taking names and won't vote for any senate candidate who doesn't pledge to vote for a real stimulus package to see people through what will be a very, very long and cold winter.

If Democrats don't win both of these seats, then you are all going to need a lot of luck. And, I for one, will wish you all the best!

How can anybody in a position of power be that obtuse?

I would go so far to say that you won't get your epidemic under control and take the pressure off your health system and reduce the outrageous number of avoidable deaths until you lockdown for two to four weeks and get transmission down to a manageable level and keep working to bring the numbers down.

Of course, people and businesses need to be supported through the lockdown which means cheques sent to people and businesses on a weekly or biweekly basis.

This ain't rocket science - in fact, it's the opposite of rocket science. There are very simple measures that individuals and communities and governments can take to bring this pandemic to an end.

Hasn't DiFi given California many, many good years of good work in the senate? Would it be so hard to give her some time to step down on her own terms?

Say WHAT!? Biden and Harris ... persons of the year! Wow! I mean, WOW!

That's really going to set Trump off. Heh.

Heh.