How about movie scores and songs as our theme for next Sunday night?

Not that we have ever needed a theme.

So, d'ya have a tune to go along with that?

It's Over

If you missed their live streamed performance from the Empire Theatre in Bellville, Ontario (with limited physically distanced seating in the theatre) of The Joshua Tree by U2 with Nick Walsh on lead vocals, then you missed a special treat.

Enjoy the actual full album here.

Elizabeth Miller wrote:

Caddy,

I trust that you are duly impressed with my lovely link etiquette ... :)

All I can say is, Marry me! And bear me strong sons!

Don't be shy - share your favourite albums and songs!

Bryan Adams - Lonely Nights

Heh.

Meanwhile, here's another great album and favourite of mine. Enjoy!

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Full Album)

I trust that you are duly impressed with my lovely link etiquette ... :)

/Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling

What are your favourite albums/songs?

One of my favourites has to be the Eagles' self-titled debut album released in 1972 - 50th anniversary next May!!!

Eagles - Take It Easy

... how about favourite albums?

I have a few. :-)

The Canadian equivalent of the IRS, the CRA or Canada Revenue Agency did something very nice for me.

I received a letter the other day Re. penalties and late fees I had to pay on my late filed 2019 tax return which added up to about $2,000. I paid it but I sent in an appeal for reimbursment due to circumstances I won't get into here. But, they took a close look at my case - it took them almost two years - and they sent me a letter saying they approved my request for full cancelation of late fees and penalties!

So, there are a couple of good news stories about the tax collectors ...

I am disabled but could not afford to retire or go on SSDI because of health insurance, so I still work part-time. I do not earn $75K, but in 2019, my employer paid me 4 years worth of back pay that they owed me, so my 2019 tax return showed income that was significantly higher than my annual salary.

Then the IRS delayed work on 2020 tax returns. This resulted in me getting a $20 stimulus payment last month because they used my 2019 tax return.

Today, I got a check in the mail for the other $1,380. This means that, unprompted by me, the IRS actually revisited my eligibility for the entire stimulus payment once they finished with my 2020 tax return.

I had heard on TV that I would be able to get my payment via my 2121 tax return, but I like this result a lot better.

Thanks Joe.

That's mine too!

Dynamic soaring with respect to a pressure gradient ( dynamic or static) is a real thing. Albatrosses do it by exploiting water wave wind shielding and the Germans proposed to do it with altitude based pressure gradients. They were overly optimistic about how easy this was to do, but the concept is sound. The USA came very close to demonstrating this concept with the DynaSoar project, but the project was cancelled....probably because there was no good military rationale for doing it...and G loading on the pilot would have been very high. Modern fly by wire tech might well solve the g loading problem for military pilots- but passengers might not accept an expensive vomit comet ride across the Atlantic or Pacific.

Personally, I Biden believe just mis-spoke...but he mis-spoke correctly. Some days the Devil gets you....etc.

...for a venal, over-the-hill, mediocrity.

Really? What has Joe gotten right this two months? Plenty, and plenty ambitious by any measure. And plenty politically astutely, to boot.

What has has Joe gotten wrong? Adding a zero here and otherwise a gaffe there? That's waaay more than a c-hair's difference, don't you think?

Could be, guess it depends on the criterion.

at least so far, biden doesn't seem so mediocre.

We probably came out ahead, but by the width of a pubic hair, at best.

i thought i read somewhere that gaetz himself made that joke.

JL

i also thought that 'commission' thing was less an actual plan to change the court than a shot across SCOTUS' bow, in case they try invalidating his legislative achievements.

JL

Ditto for the story (behind a paywall, but would have loved to read it) about the Trump alumni being locked out of the cushy post-administration jobs they have been accustomed to expect.

But I was surprised that in a column full of admiration for various clever Democratic pols thinking three or four moves ahead in the game of progressive politics, you more or less put down the 36-man commission to blow up the Supreme Court. Surely, just as when it was first announced during the Biden campaign last fall, this is a foil to prep the ground for a significant legislative and executive attack on the High Court, next year, after it's declared the entire 2021 legislative portfolio of the Biden administration unconstitutional.

Heh. Yeah, I thought all of that sounded just a bit ahead of its time. :)