He was fully vaccinated but he had blood cancer affecting his immune system.

I love it!

Not in my time zone. Heh.

But, I see your point. :)

Harvest Moon

Because, there is no such thing as too much Neil Young.

Well, no matter, we'll be here next week ... same time, same bat channel as they say, mostly rockin' out, with or without'cha. That's what we do and we love it!

This is a classic video from 1971 as Neil fumbles around in his pockets for the right harmonica ...

Heart of Gold (259)

259? Wait, what!? Did this one lose some ground, too, Joshua?

Spaceship Superstaaaaaaaaaaar

Bottom line, too many good tunes, not enough time to enjoy them all!

Until next Sunday night ...

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (13)

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (9)

Aretha Franklin - RESPECT (1)

(I can't get no) Satisfaction (31)

John Lennon - Imagine (19)

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (18)

Guns 'n Roses - Sweet Child 'O Mine (88)

The Band - The Weight (58)

The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice (86)

Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (134)

Journey - Don't Stop Believing (133)

The Who - Baba O'riley (159)

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (163)

Van Halen - Jump (177)

Aerosmith - Dream On (199)

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (243)

The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (213)

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (287)

Neil Young - Heart of Gold (259)

and, this one goes out to Mrs. Chris Weigant ...
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town (272)

Hotel California (311)

The Doors - Light My Fire (310)

Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Sweet Dreams (353)

Prince - Little Red Corvette (360)

The Cars - Just What I Needed (369)

Metallica - Enter Sandman (390)

California Dreaming

and

Rock and Roll All Nite

Here they are with a stellar cover of PRiSM's Take Me To The Kaptin!

More from Parallel 49

From the first ninety-year-old in space to the release of the first climate apocalypse song by a classic rock band from a debut album - the first debut album by a Canadian artist, I hasten to add, to achieve platinum status in Canada and which also went on to double platinum status plus.

With any luck, this phenomenal out of print debut album may be available again next year!!!

Anyway, without further delay, have a listen to Take Me To The Kaptin

"Remarkably", so says the songwriter, Jim Vallance (aka Rodney Higgs), "this single managed to chart in the US."

The climatologists, if they existed in the US in 1977, should have taken this up as their theme song. Heh.

How about starting the festivities off on a humourous, double 'ou' note, eh? Well, we have Bashi to thank for this so, don't shoot the messenger! Seriously, this wasn't painful at all, very funny it was, in fact ...

I am a Rocket Man

They will be supporting moderate Democrats as well as brave and principled Republicans such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Their stated goal is to deny control of either house of Congress to Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell. Democrats should welcome their help with open arms.

And Democrats should be especially supportive if this group comes (in a Political Happy Meal combo) with the brutal Lincoln Project folks.

Long live Lincoln Project! So the Democrats can learn how it's done, yea verily.

right -- Trump is literally telling Republican voters to stay home unless both the midterm and presidential elections are solely about his Big Lie.

More specifically, Trump is telling GOP politicians that Repug voter's won't vote for them in '22 and '24 unless they campaign on his Big Lie.

My main concern is that we will define "the rich" to mean corporations.. Corporations are an easy target for the economic ignorant (damn near everybody but me). Raising corporate taxes makes U.S. corps unable to compete with foreign corps, whose gov'ts are too smart to handicap their domestic corps in global trade, resulting in U.S. job losses, and distorting the entire economy when the corps pass along their tax burden to consumers, who ultimately pay all taxes.

What are the side effects of tax collection that you refer to? The only one I can think of is the vast business of tax avoidance that has built up to help the rich evade their taxes. Presumably a better functioning IRS will put a dent in that business as well.

I understand your fears of deficit spending, I disagree with them but I do understand them. However I do not get your concerns about taxes.

Yeah, I get that "fully paid for" part, or at least the theory of it (even though in reality, that almost never turns out to be true), but for this discussion, it really doesn't matter whether it's true or not.

You have answered the key question (who pays), but we'll discover it ain't that simple. First, you've got to define "the rich", and that often turns out to be contentious/problematic. And then you've got to actually collect the tax, which itself is never that simple. And then, you've got to deal with the 'by-products' (side effects) which that level of tax collection (confiscation) inevitably exerts on the economy.

Good luck on all that.

Yeah, but these "freebies" are going to be FULLY PAID for by raising taxes on the rich. As in, it's entirely "deficit neutral." It doesn't matter where you live, CRS, the majority of folks in your state supports starting to undo four decades of the rich not paying what they should.

Chris, same as most Dems/libs, doesn't live in the real world (the world of limited resources) when it comes to 'free goodies" distribution.

Not a single person of any party or political philosophy would ever object to a single one of Biden's 'goodies' in the abstract. Who doesn't want every single person to have every single benefit available to make life easier and more pleasant?

The differences of opinion on the distribution of 'freebies' only enters the discussion when you get down to the level of 'Who gets what?", and "Who pays?"

Yes, I try to give people some leeway with spelling, especially given the irregularities of English.

However, I'm saying we - Chris and the national media and the rest of us - should give no leeway whatever to our national leaders, including Green. I believe good writing, like speaking truthfully and understanding the fundamentals of history, math, art and science, must be expected of and demanded of anyone who occupies a prominent position in our public life and who thereby sets an example for the rest of us, particularly the young and upcoming.

If spelling is something she struggles with, as you note that many people do, her duty as a U.S. Representative is to work extra hard to be sure her spelling is impeccable in her public writing. She should know she has a problem, and hire some good spellers as staff to review all work before it is published. Do not, ever, simply rely on spellcheckers, as their flaws are comically treacherous: a spellcheck app might well confuse Columbia with Colombia, as per your example.

there's a fair amount of evidence that spelling as a skill is independent of other cognitive abilities and writing skills. it's the sort of thing some folks are naturally good at and other just flat aren't. therefore, i think it's perfectly acceptable for the spelling-impaired to make regular use of spell checkers rather than banging their head against their own lack of ability.

even MTG, nutjob that she is, can probably be forgiven for misspelling columbus with one too many o's and one too few u's. i'm always noticing that people have issues with columbia the university and colombia the country...

We should calculate how long are the Amtrak, Greyhound, and bicycle options.

Democrats should add that to their Talking Points IMMEDIATELY, but tie it directly to Trump's campaign to undermine America's democracy. And every member of the January 6th commission MUST include that in their mission statement. THAT will ensure that Trumpsters stay home in November 2022. :)

Bernie Sanders has been in Washington for quite a while, making lots of noise but accomplishing what? What changed in our nation's Capital was the arrival in 2019 of several progressives in the House of Representatives - "The Squad", AND that Rep. Pelosi once more took the gavel as Speaker of the House.

But they're all women, so perhaps that's why Chris ignores them?

Time - Pink Floyd

Thanks, by the way, for the clear and concise instructions on how to do these fancy links. Do they work on any website?

No.

No.

NO, NO, NO.

What you meant to say was, "...wouldn't it be nice if all these MAGA Republicans in Congress could actually spell?"

Spell, as in know how to spell words in the English language. These are United States Representatives in Congress - the elite of the elite in the governing classes. Columbus is not a hard name to spell, since we are exposed to it from kindergarten on.

Why concede? Why assume that using an automated "spell check" app is some skill our leaders - the elites - should be better at? Why not simply demand that they BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY SPELL WORDS FROM MEMORY THANKS TO THEIR INTELLIGENCE AND A LIFETIME OF EDUCATION AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE?

This isn't hard. I know some people need spellcheck apps for back up. But I refuse to admit that any of our national leadership should be forgiven an apparent ignorance of the English language.