B&P is Tommy Stinson from the Replacements and that's an angry post-breakup song directed at Paul Westerberg. They eventually got over their hostilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBTCX_U8nVM

Yeah, that documentary was just premiered a few days ago. I ordered the Live At Blues Alley after watching it.

I wonder if Chris knows that club ...

Good night!

... turn out the light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcGT9wTpCn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPaqi7Dpdg

... turn out the light.

I'll end my portion of our little soiree with a fun tune from the Rolling Stones.

You can't always get what you want ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMl5CRoFdk

Just 'cause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbQst5HZj6E

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

Can't wait for my Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley cd to arrive ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c

The two pieces I'm going to highlight this evening are from a performance in 1996 in Washington, DC at Blues Alley. Just months after this performance, she was diagnosed with cancer and died later that year.

Here is Eva Cassidy, a native of Washington DC, with her exquisite version of Over the Rainbow, live from Blues Alley,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY

That's musical genius. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2hvkPyiAFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0QATz8aEAc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6i5NY7iZ8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQ9-CfELNo

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--AvCsh48bk

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

Shine A Light - the Stones live in Amsterdam

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

Feel free to join in on the fun and dance around your living room!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSmiIne-4k

First off, a special thank-you goes out to JFC who helped me create my Rolling Stones collection, recommending certain essential albums over others - seven in all! Though I've always liked their music I had never purchased any of their albums until very recently and so JFC's advice was invaluable.

So, why the sudden urge for Rolling Stones albums? That's simple, really. On August 5, 2019 it was announced on my favourite radio station by the CEO of TheMuseum in downtown Kitchener, my home town and where I still reside, that the Rollings Stones exhibition, UNZIPPED, which has been touring world capitals, would be making its Canadian premiere in November 2021 and would run for about three months. Kitchener would, indeed, be the only Canadian stop for this phenomenal, closing in on sixty-year retrospective of all things Stones, from their music to their impact in the realms of art, design, fashion and film.

Anyway, tonight let's have a listen to the Stones performing Paint it, Black from 1966,

First off, a special thank-you goes out to JFC who helped me create my Rolling Stones collection, recommending certain essential albums over others - seven in all! Though I've always liked their music I had never purchased any of their albums until very recently and so JFC's advice was invaluable.

So, why the sudden urge for Rolling Stones albums? That's simple, really. On August 5, 2019 it was announced on my favourite radio station by the CEO of TheMuseum in downtown Kitchener, my home town and where I still reside, that the Rollings Stones exhibition, UNZIPPED, which has been touring world capitals, would be making its Canadian premiere in November 2021 and would run for about three months. Kitchener would, indeed, be the only Canadian stop for this phenomenal, closing in on sixty-year retrospective of all things Stones, from their music to their vast impact on the realms of art, fashion, design and film. See http://www.unzippedkw.ca for more!

Anyway, tonight let's have a listen to the Stones performing Paint it, Black from 1966,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSmiIne-4k

What we have here is the potential for a whole lot of good and it could go a long way toward setting the record straight, everywhere ... or, at least in some places where it needs being set straight ... or is that asking for too much?

Is everybody ready for tonight? I'll get things going in a while unless someone beats me to the punch. Ahem.

In a 124-page complaint, Dominion sues Powell for $1.3 billion. This is not a pardonable event; perhaps Powell should find a good lawyer.

Rather than carry zip tags for prisoners, they should have packed Nazi's Little Helpers - by which I mean Cyanide Vials. There will be a vast game of Prisoner's Dilemma which the Prosecution knows how to play and the Dress Up Revolutionaries don't. Lawyers are expensive. Good lawyers are more expensive still.

"Dont't go running to a shelter, take a Nazi's li'l helper.

Play some Stones tonight.

Rather than carry ziptags for prisoners, they should have packed Nazi's

We are in for a long siege.

"McKay Coppins had an interesting take on what that debate might look like:

1. Do we acknowledge reality?
2. Do we concede elections that we've clearly lost?"

I would add:

3.) Do we stop believing in dangerous myths that cannot ever be refuted?

What we are seeing is a visceral reaction to the ultimate culmination of:

1) The New Deal 2) The Civil Rights movement 3) The Women's movement and 4) The Gay Rights movement

Also consider: Republicans have now lost the popular vote in 7 out of 8 of the last Presidential elections and in 4 Presidential elections in a row, something only exceeded by FDR and Truman winning 5 popular votes in a
row.

Republicans can only increasingly rely on non democratic means to hold onto power: Packing the courts with conservative judges, the electoral college, holding onto the Senate at all costs, gerrymandring, etc.

What galvanizes the Republican party base is: Taking Back America, which to them means: beating up anti-racism protestors, smashing the left, sending security forces after immigrants, black people and Muslims, while protecting and glorifying Trump and his supporters as mythic American heroes. America is only for people who look like themselves, the "true" "patriotic" Americans.

It's also why QAnon now and the John Birch Society before them, imagine a secret cabal of communist Satan worshipping cannibalistic liberal pedophiles that they need to go to war against.

The only way to stop the advance of the new multiracial more liberal democracy that America is becoming is for them to lock up all the liberals without apology. Trump came to save "THEM" so his losing could never possibly be TRUE, it shatters their myth of salvation.

We could all use a little break from this insanity known as US presidential elections, right?

So, let's have a few hours of fun, inspiration and our very own brand of humour at the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party. I propose an open theme for tonight ...

Before the horrific events of Wednesday, I had planned to play the music of someone many of you may know but who I just recently learned about. She is from Washington, DC and is a songbird like no other. After the insurrection on the Capitol, I have decided not to postpone playing her music here tonight because it is actually the perfect time for it!

So, I hope to see everyone here tonight and I look forward to listening to all of your selections!

This is an outstanding FTP!

Since Pearl Harbor has a lock on Day of Infamy I propose that Day of Ignominy be assigned to The Sacking of the Capital Building.

After 5 years of 24/7 divisiveness dialed up to 11, this level of hypocrisy should be stunning, but it's about as surprising as Fat Donny inciting nazis to attack the Capitol to overturn his election loss.

McKay Coppins had an interesting take on what that debate might look like:

1. Do we acknowledge reality?
2. Do we concede elections that we've clearly lost?

Feel free to offer your own agenda items for them to consider (ignore).

Thanks for posting that report. So sad.

I hope there will be pubic hearings on what happened.These heroic officers need to be thanked for what they did that day and know that they are loved and not alone.

Joshua is right - any member or former member of the the US military or law enforcement who participated and spread their hate should not be in uniform any longer and they should be arrested and face all manner of repercussions.

yikes, that account you linked to is absolutely scary. i think any active police or military officer who participated as part of the capitol mob should not be a police or military officer any longer.

JL

On the other hand, this entire election has not been without it's moments of humor and irony: The woman who got trampled was waving a "Don't tread on me" flag...

While I have been described as “5’8”...6’3” with the afro”, if you were playing Scrabble and had the tiles: R,G,G,I,N,E...you would be correct to call me a GINGER.

I believe that LWYH is Black, so ask any AA about the difference is the wrong approach. Replace any with many.

Granted all that you say, but still:

Ask any African American about the difference in police response, see what answer you get....

If it had been a Black Lives Matter rally instead of a Trump rally...

If it had been Obama exhorting the crowd instead of Trump....

What you saw was white privilege on fill display. Karen entitlement on maximum steroids.

These white people walked around the Capitol like they did, without masks, faces on camera, taking selfies with police, because they KNEW that being white, they had nothing to fear from the police. In their minds, they owned the place, and the police were not just their friends but their allies. They didn't just believe that they would not be shot, but that they would not even be arrested. Anything otherwise was not even remotely conceivable to them.

Contrast that with every black person who says they fear for their life the moment a police office pulls them over for a broken tail light.

Then tell me again how there is not a difference in response based on race, even if it is an unconscious one.

It is NOT a contradiction in terms to either point that out, or to ask the the response be toned down on the one hand and escalated up on the other.

The GOAL is EVENEHANDEDNESS, that the response be the SAME and EQUAL, not disproportionate.

When BLM protested at the Lincoln Memorial, the police showed up for war to protect a stone statue from a peaceful protest.

When MAGA supporters ransack the Capitol as a riot mob, the police are nowhere to be seen, even though everyone knew what was being planned DAYS in advance.

One was black and peaceful, the other was a white riot.

Please, give me another explanation for the police difference other than race.... PLEASE

If nothing else, the Saudi Arabian golf course will have 'world-class' sand traps!

"Just had a thought - will there be a Trump presidential Library?"

I bet Moscow and Saudi Arabia are available locations. Maybe right even next to a Trump Arabian golf course and resort.

It does seem like an oxymoron - a library for the illiterati.

I'm not a fan of term limits.

And, most decisions by SCOTUS that people don't like can be rectifed by Congress, no?

I see.

Well, it seems there are a lot of vestiges of the Trump admnistration that will have to be tolerated.

I would take some solace, though, in the fact that the SC justices and some of the federal judges he has appointed have recently acted in ways that uphold the independence of the judiciary. Which can't have gone unnoticed by Trump. :)

It was the single worst personal decision of my life

Chris, I am very disappointed that you've allowed Trump to once again hijack the agenda.

Seriously?

Yeah, I know you weren't addressing me at the bottom of your rant - no need for apologies. :)

I question what would have happened had the police put up a greater fight... would those Molotov cocktails been used?

I just question why law enforcement didn't prepare for this event - and by that I mean the White House Rally - they way they have prepared for other protest events like the BLM protest in DC during the summer.

Did they think that Trump supporters weren't going to be a problem? I guess we'll find out eventually what entered their thinking around this.

Trump should face negligent homicide charges at least!

Agreed! I think this would be better than trying to impeach him again without assurances that he will be convicted in the senate.

Whether Trump is impeached on 19 January or not, America and the Democrats in power face many challenges - and with the elections of Warnock and Ossoff, many opportunities.

A drubbing so complete, I was agog.

The Trumpian era is going to be analyzed to pieces in the post-Trumpian era, as I'm glad it will. This shit can't be allowed again, and those involved need outing and shouting down for their part.

The GOP needs to have their part in this sorry tale exposed to the hilt. They are down now, keep them down, hit again and again until they cry, uncle.

You know damn well they wouldn't hesitate to do the same were the roles reversed.

LL&P

I think Trump himself deserves the coward of the day award, Pence still struggled to fulfill his constitutional task, despite having hooligans wondering the hallways a few hours earlier demanding his execution.

no no no...

Forget Pence, Trump is, was, and will be the reason this went down. whether Trump was the brains of this brainless operation, time will tell. I doubt it though, Trump is like a child with a book of spells he can't read but can employ, eventually, he opens a nasty one and it wreaks havoc.

LL&P

I want to be clear that I am not saying that institutional racism is not a real problem in our justice system. It is.

Do I think that more people would have been shot by the police had the rioters been black? Most definitely. But notice I am not saying the white woman being shot was not justified. It was justified. I do find it strange that the media is not so upset that the police killed another rioter. Race is not the factor that determines my support or disapproval of the police’s actions.

The Capitol Hill police did not use deadly force when they were legally authorized to do so in many, many of the videos that I have seen.

Am I really? I was describing a conversation that I had had where I was told that the person was upset that the police did not abuse the crowds with excessive force! When I pointed out that a rioter had been shot and killed, they replied “Good!” If you believe that is me turning their complaint on its head, then I will have to agree to disagree with you. I do not support excessive force ever being tolerated regardless of the victim’s race. Someone upset that the police did not use excessive force based on the race of those they were engaging seems to fit the “racist” definition to me.

No, I was not addressing you towards the bottom of my rant...sorry, I should have made that clear. And I am not forgetting the events of what happened in DC. I question what would have happened had the police put up a greater fight... would those Molotov cocktails been used? There were too many armed people in that crowd to believe the crowd would not have used them. Why were so many people walking around with zip flexcuffs? Who were they planning on restraining? The officer who was killed died from his injuries after being struck in the head by a fire extinguisher. Trump should face negligent homicide charges at least!

i'm usually right there with you defending law enforcement. and maybe you're right that the officers in the field felt de-escalation was a better move, given their own numbers and the numbers they faced. but an appeal to hypocrisy on the part of BLM supporters ignores the whole point of their complaint. you're turning reality on its head just like michale does - perhaps in more measured rhetoric, but essentially the same argument. observing racial disparity makes the observer racist? the individual cops in the field don't have to be bigots for the system to be inequitable.

JL

And, I hope and pray we don't see a repeat or worse on Jan 17th all across your country and on Inauguration Day.

And, I hope that last bit wasn't addressed to me.

If this horror had developed spontaneously, even after an inciteful warm-up at the instigating of the White House, then your analysis of police simply being overwhelmed and afraid to climb the ladder to deadly force without regard to race or political persuasion would make more sense.

I do not disagree with you on the fact that those in charge of the police failed to be properly prepared for what was coming. The officers in the field had no say in that matter — they did the best that they could with the numbers that they had to work with. The use of federal police forces from other agencies to patrol the crowds rioting was universally attacked as being “excessive” during the BLM marches even though their numbers were necessary to keep the rioters/protesters back.

I literally had someone argue that the police used excessive force against black protesters and failed to deescalate when the crowd pushed forward just months ago...and they were upset that the police did not use “excessive force” (not actually excessive, but citizens cannot handle being yelled at without bruising these days) with this crowd and actually did choose to deescalate this time!!! WTF!

People screamed when the police brought out the heavy crowd control equipment — claiming that militarization of the police is a horrible thing! Now when the police chose not to use the equipment meant to deter the violence that we witnessed in the Capitol because of the public’s demands, maybe we should have realized that when we restrict the police from doing what is necessary to protect us because it makes us “uncomfortable” to view; we cannot be surprised when they cannot protect us properly!

When you scream to strip the budgets of police departments that simply follow the proper procedures to handle crowds because your uneducated opinion is that they are going too far, do not bitch when you actually get your way!