It's been kinda busy and I needed a bit of a break from all of the news and analyses Re. Ukraine. But, I really appreciate all the research and time you put in to your responses here - you remind me of me! :) - and I will get to them!

I waited a very long time - and, patiently, I hasten to add - for your researched response to my Ukraine stuff.

You can damn well do the same.

Indeed.

So do, Mister 30-40% the nukes will fly give us a heads up out here.

We're three hours behind, you know?

These facts are WELL DOCUMENTED...

So well documented that...Biden is President, Tovarisch. Yup.

Vladimir Putin Trump does not operate in the world that we operate in and everything else sort of follows. The Generals GOP still speak of victory [in 2020!] and the Diplomats GOP speak as though they are still part of a civilized patriotic conversation.

This is why I'm not so sure that Muricans are going to put the cray-cray back in power come November. Crow all you want, Michale, but I rather that you didn't do so much of it that you disappear for months like you did after 2020...right when us Libtards needed you the most!

Step away...from the premature crowing... and no Libtard will get left behind. ;D

So...you're a Southern White Christian churchgoer? What's your point?

back during my miami days i used to attend florida democratic events. florida democrats have some smart individuals among them, but as a collective they're dumber than rocks.

So, because Democrats in FL don't think like you, they are dumber than rocks.. :D

I am sure they say the same thing about Democrats who hysterically and IGNORANTLY oppose this parental rights law..

I am still betting that if teachers were, on the whole, rabid President Trump supporters, you would LOVE the Parental Rights law.. :D

K sara sara...

Me, too. And I heard that Southern Christian Churches were okay with slavery for hundreds of years.*shrug back*

I'm not particularly religious either, Michale. But how do you choose Republicans as the Party that is more likely to achieve this?

Or do you oppose this?

Here's the thing, nypoet22. Democrats somehow get stuck with the Defund the Police! Man-bun crowd but Republicans don't get stuck with the Jews! Will not! Replace us! Fashi crowd.

Go figure.

F- Vixtory in the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis is 9 May 2022.

Three days later Finland is going to formally apply to add 830 miles of NATO to Russia's borders.

So much winning for #TrumpsMaster, eh, Tovarishch Mikhail?

That is all that needs to be said on that issue..

Anyone who DOESN'T support the law is simply ignorant of what the law is all about...

Actually, there is TONS of evidence..

The Hunter Biden Laptop alone would have put President Trump back in the office if Democrats didn't cheat and hide it from the general public..

Democrats buying entire election boards and stocking them ONLY with Democrats is another factor that, had it not been done would have ensured President Trump re-election...

These facts are WELL DOCUMENTED...

I only have to point to everyone's reaction here on election night to prove there was cheating..

But it's aww right...

Cheaters Never Prosper..

Which is why Democrats are having such a tough time now and why there will be a MAJOR correction in November.. :D

Do you mean to say this so-called problem only became a problem when Biden took office?

And for the record, where would you put Kiddie Grooming on your Top 10 problems facing America? In other words, how afraid should I be?

You mean you haven't!!! Most definitely you should watch it..

And it's sequel EVAN ALMIGHTY..

Both hilarious movies. :D

Apparently NOT, since the majority of Democrats in FL support the law..

But even if you are correct, then there is no reason NOT to have the law if it doesn't address any problem..

Because buying in to fixing an imaginary wedge issue "problem" is giving in to the cray-cray.

So you are calling the majority of Democrats in Florida cray cray????

OK... :D

All because Trump said?

That'll shut her up! :D

"Yea.. Well, good luck with that.."
-Jim Carrey, BRUCE ALMIGHTY

:D

As always, I urge you to emphasize your own commentary over posting the extra couple of paragraphs of text. You are far more useful when I hear how you interpret the right-wing universe.

I regularly surf Fox, OAN and Newsmax so it's not that I'm not exposed to it. For the record I don't do any trolling as others are doing a fine job of it.

Since this is fact, the only question remains..

Why do you and Russ have a problem with the law??

Because this law attempts to fix an imaginary problem. Please respond to my [125]-[127.]

Because buying in to fixing an imaginary wedge issue "problem" is giving in to the cray-cray.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln...

Ya'all are AGAINST the Fl Parent's Rights Law which the majority of Florida Democrats support.

And ya'all are AGAINST making corporations pay their fair share..

Which ALL Democrats support..

In other words, you just hate that it's DeSantis who is doing all this.. :D

It's HILARIOUS... :D

That'll shut her up! :D

Here are my condensed Ukraine points:

1- Russia is long and flat and has been invaded, like, forever. The Mongols were an especially memorable low light.

2- Russians understandably hate being invaded and the Romanovs were installed to stabilize Russia to protect Europe's eastern flank.

3- Starting with Catherine the Great, Russia has sought to establish compliant buffer states (think Warsaw Pact) all around it to give it strategic depth. This is a big deal in geopolitics.

4- This certainly worked vis a vis Napoleon, Hitler and from the Soviet/Russian view, NATO.

5- Russian demography and future economic prospects (read: Green energy) are dismal. Putin is old, has his billions and has always lamented the fall of the USSR so this was his last chance to do something about it.

6- This had nothing to do with Biden. Obama was a pussy and Trump acted like #PutinsBitch so Putin was getting most of what he wanted out of those two clowns. But old hand Joe wasn't going to do likewise, so Putin rolled the dice.

Trouble is that the Warsaw Pact weapons showed up without the Warsaw Pact military dominance. Whoda thunk? I didn't think Ukraine would last, either.

7- But let's say Putin conquered ALL of Ukraine back in 2014. That was probably his last opportunity, it now seems…

8- Putin would now be fighting in Poland and Moldova (having presumably conquered the Baltic states.) He has to nestle up against the Carpathians and wester Poland to shorten Russia's front against NATO.

9- Putin has already lost no matter what happens in Ukraine, to wit:

A- Ukraine has essentially fought Russia to a standstill. Western arms will preserve the Ukrainian war effort and Ukraine’s political will to completely liberate all (read: Crimea and Donbass) Ukraine is effing indomitable.

Please trust me on this, I'm Ukrainian-Murican. I recall accompanying my grandfather Ivan Wasyl Diachun to Ukrainian Nationalists meeting in Detroit in the late 60s.

I could understand a damned Ukrainian word exclusively spoken there, but there was no mistaking the sentiment in that auditorium.

B- War sucks butbetter we fight them over there than over HERE, right, Conservatives? Al Queda and ISIS were not existential threats to America but Putin is!

C- NATO is more united than mid-Cold War. Even the Germans, kinda sort of.

D- The West gets to test out all kinds of latest generation military toys, killing the bad guys and ultimately killing Vladimir. Payback for 22 years of doesn't work and play well with others. What's not to like?

E- Even if every last sanction against the Rooskies was lifted today their economy will suffer for years.

So, it's too bad Putin fucked up. All we gotta do is keep financing Ukraine and IMO its just a matter of time before somebody puts a bullet in Putin's brain.

It's a Rooskie thang, you wouldn't understand.

Anyways, Elizabeth, I fully grok your antiwar sentiment. You are Canadian, after all. But Putin screwed the pooch and it makes no sense to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Which is what you advocate in the name of peace.

Besides, in 1991 6 of 7 Ukrainians showed up to their Independence Referendum and voted 10 to 1 for Independence. You wouldn't want to deny 81 million, er, 44 million votes just to keep Vladimir happy, would you?

I rest my case, Darling.

Disney pays those billions to themselves..

NOW Disney will pay those billions to the county..

It's obvious that you are ignorant of how things are here in FL...

Learn some facts before you whine and complain..

I am surprised there is opposition to this action here.. I mean, aren't ya'all ALL ABOUT making corporations pay their fair share..

You must take great pleasure when you speak about things without having any idea of how they work! I mean, you just enter post after post showing off your ignorance and a general stupidity that would embarrass most people so badly that they’d stop adding fuel to the fire — but not you! Nope, with you I sometimes wonder if you aren’t trying to out-stupid yourself with some of the garbage you spew.

Special purpose districts aren’t a way to avoid taxes. In Disney’s case, what they pay in taxes is far more than what the two counties they are located in and that would have to absorb them currently pay. The special purpose district didn’t keep Disney from having to pay state taxes, either. But again, I get it…when you have to lie to get people to support you as much as Republicans have to, it gets to the point where you just cannot stop lying anytime you say speak. Heck, there is hardly a single post from you on here that you haven’t included a glaringly dishonest statement! And even in ones that you don’t lie, they are still suspect thanks to the frequency of your lies!

You DO realize that the majority of Democrats in FL support the Parent Rights Anti Groomer law, right??

Since this is fact, the only question remains..

Why do you and Russ have a problem with the law??

You are obviously not comprehending what's happening here in Florida..

Disney will have to pay BILLIONS in taxes and fees per year that they didn't have to pay before..

That will more than off set any obligations FL tax payers would normally incur..

You can spin it all you like.. But the facts are the facts.. And Disney got took to school by DeSantis.. :D

As far as the Fl Parent Rights AntiGrooming law, since you refuse to accept the FACT that the majority of DEMOCRATS in Florida accept and support the law, I accept your concession.. :D

Which would mean that the special purpose district won’t be shut down until 2029 at the earliest (when the bonds are set to be paid off). If Florida wants to violate their state constitution and shut the district down to punish a corporation for exercising its First Amendment right to free speech, then the state will have to pay off what is owed.

If you define "inclusiveness" as forcing gender bending psychological abnormalities on impressionable toddlers??

I don’t, but it is obvious that you do. Of course, that is not what is happening, but in your imagination, can you explain how that would occur?

Michale, the more you have to bullshit and lie about it, the quicker that people will start to support trans people out of not wanting to be associated with asshats such as yourself!

I’m curious, since both DeSantis and Trump will each want to be the Republican Presidential nominee in 2024, at whose feet will your knee pads drop in front of? You can take solace in the fact that which ever one you choose to service, you’ll be blowing a narcissistic sociopath that will say anything he believes will gain him power. YOU just have to be as dumb as they both are counting on you being for their grift to work!

What's the big deal?

I've been reading your about Florida at length. Please get me up to speed:

Do you mean to say this so-called problem only became a problem when Biden took office?

That it wasn't a simmering pro-pedophile evil lurking in the background of the so much winning Trump administration?

That, thank God, DeSantis stopped -- just in the nick of time?

I'd hate to think this was simply part of the Fear, Firearms and Facism Republican Party platform.

And, if it wasn't for well documented and factual Democrat cheating and disinformation pre and post election, I would have been dead on ballz accurate... :D

If only!

DID YOU MISS the part where Trump and his co-Insurrectionists lost over sixty court cases, largely because lawyers must have proof to file court actions?

IT SEEMS THAT lawyers can't just make stuff up and automatically be regarded as anything but waiting judicial resources. So they didn't, and Trump lost.

Couple minutes, tops. And priceless.

Great Job Democrats :^/

'It’s not your fault for having white privilege, but it is your fault if you choose to ignore it,' a presentation told kids in Pre-K through 3rd grade
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-elementary-anti-racism-fistbook-racist-family-members

Completely and unequivocally inappropriate Democrat indoctrination

Absolutely..

I am just curious if the Weigantian Administration still holds the view that Russia's win is inevitable..

For the record you sure were wrong about Trump NOT losing the House, the Senate and then the Presidency so it can happen to the best of us.

And, if it wasn't for well documented and factual Democrat cheating and disinformation pre and post election, I would have been dead on ballz accurate.. :D

I am curious..

Inquiring minds want to know.. :D

Yeah, this is what CW write as the invasion began:

Russia is redrawing the geopolitical lines in Eastern Europe and the rest of the world is going to have to adjust to the new reality. This is all very grim to contemplate, obviously. We are going back in time to the 20th century, when wars of aggression were a reality that killed untold millions. So it behooves us to look ahead to what this new order will mean, especially what it will mean militarily.

This is forgivable, because on paper Russia should have just rolled over Ukraine, right?

BUT wars are not fought on paper.

A week later CW wrote,

It is hard to admit, but the world should really not get its hopes up too high for any sort of outcome in Ukraine other than the one Vladimir Putin initially set out to achieve. Putin wants to completely subdue and occupy Ukraine, which he sees as nothing more than a part of Russia. He will do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. And although not inevitable, the most likely outcome by far is that Russia will completely crush the Ukrainian military and eventually conquer every city in the entire country.

HEY, EVERYONE should have the right to be incorrect, no?

For the record you sure were wrong about Trump NOT losing the House, the Senate and then the Presidency so it can happen to the best of us.

January Littlejohn is suing her daughter's school after it held secret gender talks without parental knowledge or consent
https://www.foxnews.com/media/florida-mom-january-littlejohn-lawsuit-transgender-school

The fact that Democrats support this kind of thing is abhorrent..

DeSantis: Legislature Will Pass 'Constitutional Carry' Gun Law

Gov. Ron DeSantis reaffirmed his support for an open carry law for firearms, which supporters call “constitutional carry,” and predicted the Florida Legislature "will get it done."

"I can’t tell you if it’s going to be next week, six months, but I can tell you before I am done as governor, we will have a signature on that bill,” said the Republican governor during a press conference in Friday in rural Levy County to talk about a separate issue— local infrastructure funding.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/01/desantis-constitutional-carry-become-florida-law/9602819002/

Well, aww right!!! :D

"An armed society is a polite society"
-Robert A. Heinlein

Who knows how many lives would have been saved if one of the Pulse nightclub goers had been carrying at the time..

Governor DeSantis proved once again, his patriotic American bona fides..

In 2020, 61% of hispanic Americans supported Biden with their vote..

In the here and now, only 26% of hispanic Americans support Biden..

The political environment is terrible for Democrats -- and it may get worse

Joe Biden's term has become a punchline -- even to the President.

Biden might have been a good sport in poking fun at himself, his dented approval ratings and his failure to fully enact his domestic agenda at the White House Correspondents' Association annual gala dinner on Saturday night.

But his jokes were rooted in the painful reality of a presidency hostage to economic and global forces beyond his control and compounded by some of the tactical errors of his White House.
The result is that a year after his approval rating was comfortably over 50%, the President and his party are facing the most treacherous political backdrop in years in the run-up to midterm elections in November.

It's possible that high gas prices, the worst inflation in 40 years, the war in Ukraine and a persistent pandemic could all ease by November. But the trajectory of those crises -- and the impact they exert on issues that matter to and can hurt Americans, like the price of groceries -- could also get worse.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/election-2022-biden-democrats-political-environment/index.html

About the only way that Biden could stave off a Democrat uber nuclear biblical shellacking is if he suddenly got patriotic and started channeling President Trump..

Of course, Biden's handlers will have none of that.. So they will continue to double down on stoopid and enact more Hate America policies..

You’d think that the Trump phenomenon and Biden’s catastrophic presidency would have awakened the corporate world to the existence of a vast Silent Majority of parents of all races. They are looking for someone to champion their values with actions, not just words.
Going after children is the bridge too far for many previously disengaged citizens. There is a fast-growing Mama Bear movement and Disney got between them and their cubs.

Disney’s tone-deaf response to parents desperately fighting to preserve their children’s innocence is evidence that the suits still don’t get it, but soon will.

Meanwhile, God willing, Mr. DeSantis’ example may stiffen other backbones across the land.

When you start to harm America's children, the gloves come off..

Disney has poked the bear one too many times... And now Disney will pay the price...

It's that simple..

Pressed by LGBTQ activists inside and outside, the Walt Disney Company management denounced the bill and promised to double down on pushing homosexuality and transgenderism in every Disney product and venue. A Disney executive was caught on tape promising to make up to 50% of characters reflect LGBTQ identities.

Where is the logic in catering to 1% of the target audience that would turn off 99% of the target audience??

Shouldn't the diversity of Disney match the diversity of the target audience??

It should be when you take being WOKE out of the equation...

DeSantis delivers a roundhouse blow to Disney

Until now.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just hit the Disney empire with a roundhouse blow, signing a law depriving them of their longtime special tax district status in Orlando. Ouch. Right on the chin.

Many “conservative” leaders talk a good game but often later explain that, darn it, they just couldn’t do much about the left’s latest attack on the moral order. They are too polite to engage in the kind of smash-mouth politics that Democrats routinely deploy. And here’s Mr. DeSantis doing it with a smile.

Here’s a recap: Florida schools were caught aggressively corrupting children sexually, even in the youngest grades. Prodded by Mr. DeSantis, the Republican-dominated legislature passed the Parental Rights in Education Act, which bars schools from introducing kids in kindergarten through third grade to “gender identity” and “sexual orientation.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/1/desantis-delivers-a-roundhouse-blow-to-disney/

And the ONE fact that NO ONE here has addressed is that the majority of Democrats SUPPORT the FL Parental Rights Anti-Groomer law...

:D

And, as far as the tax issue.. Disney has gotten away with avoiding BILLIONS in taxes...

Now that their special status is revoked, Disney will now pay BILLIONS in state and county taxes.. Impact fees ALONE will cover any taxes that normally would be paid by citizens for the next several years..

I am surprised there is opposition to this action here.. I mean, aren't ya'all ALL ABOUT making corporations pay their fair share..

Now that Disney is going to be forced to pay their fair share, NOW ya'all are on the big bad corporation's side...

Is WOKE so important to ya'all that you would give Disney a break from paying their fair share???

DeSantis has definitely won this round and Disney is suffering..

Disney decided to pick up a weapon and become a combatant..

And got slapped down by Governor DeSantis...

What's the beef??

DHS secretary says the board tackles 'disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-better-job-disinformation-board

How would Biden's MINISTRY OF TRUTH handle the following disinformation:

Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist..

AntiFa is a myth and doesn't really exist..

And so on and so on and so forth..

Since yer the only other Oculus aficionado here in Weigantia, I have some questions..

I have to admit I am somewhat disappointed in my Oculus... I am hoping such disappointment is borne of ignorance and high expectations rather than the anything on the part of the Oculus..

For one, I was hoping for some more PC integration.. I have a nearly top of the line gamer PC but there doesn't seem to be much I can do with the PC in Oculus...

Especially in the sense of being able to create accounts and such on new apps.. I load up an app on the Oculus that looks promising but then it prompts me to create an account for the new app, but there is no way to do that THRU Oculus.. And I don't want to have to go back and forth from PC to Oculus signing up for an account..

One thing I might be limited by is I don't really want to pay for anything yet.. Times are tight and I can't afford a bunch of purchases and such...

What's your PC integration like with your Oculus?

Any help would be most appreciated..

The Biden administration has been making moves and statements of late to achieve a victory for Ukraine against Russia...

How does this current effort to WIN compare to the Weigantian Administrations claim that such actions merely postpone the inevitable Russia victory?? That it's inevitable that Russia will win..

Inquiring minds want to know.. :D

Let's say your child's teacher is a QANON fanatic instead of a calm and rational President Trump supporter...

Still OK with your child going to THAT teacher for gender-bending questions??

I mean, you are fine when the teacher is a rabble rousing molotov throwing BLM and AntiFa supporter...

But what if the teacher is a rabble rousing molotov throwing QANON supporter..

ALL OF THE SUDDEN, you DON'T want your child to go to their teacher with gender bending questions..

AMIRIGHT??

Of course I am.. No sane parent on the face of the planet WANTS their kids to be instructed on such personal questions by a fanatic..

NOW you know how patriotic Americans feel about Democrat teachers teaching THEIR children about very personal questions of gender and such...

Question for you...

Before you mentioned that if your 4 year old had questions about their gender identity, you would want them to be able to talk to their teacher about it..

Suppose your 4 yr old's teacher was a dyed in the wool President Trump supporter.

How would you feel about your 4 yr old talking to their teacher NOW??

You see my point??

You are fine with having your 4 yr old talking to their teacher as long as their teacher pushes the same BS ideology that you believe in..

But suppose their teacher is a rabid President Trump supporter..

ALL of the sudden, you are not too keen about your 4 yr old talking to their teacher about stuff, right??

NOW you want to SHIELD your child from their teacher's teachings...

Now you know how the vast majority of American parents feel.. Patriotic American parents want to SHIELD their kids from this BS gender bending ideology that believes the NON SCIENCE position that gender is a state of mind and not actual biology..

It's not so cut and dried when the shoe is on the other foot, eh?? :D

I guess today it's fashionable to be considered a different gender than the gender one really is.. :^/

I like my day better..

A mental health disorder.. A disease.. A sickness.. That must be treated...

And here Russ is, advocating that we should CREATE this mental health disorder in 99.999% of toddlers, because it might possibly HELP the .001% of toddlers who might have this mental health disorder..

where is the logic in that???

Never mind the totally irrational idea that one should cater to a mental health disorder..

No matter which way you want to spin it, Russ.. Your argument is completely and utterly whacked and ignores the mental health of toddlers..

WHY would Democrats want to cater to and CREATE a mental sickness??

But the fact is, the majority of Democrats in FLORIDA support the law..

So, obviously your argument is not factually accurate..

Why do you ignore that fact, Russ??

Because it totally and completely decimates your argument..

EXCEPT...

Except for the FACT that Disney will be the one PAYING those taxes.. :D

So, nice try, Russ.. But no facts.. :D

But since there is no real reason to talk about this in imaginary terms, you still have failed to say how inclusiveness is VERY harmful to 99.999 percent of the population???

If you define "inclusiveness" as forcing gender bending psychological abnormalities on impressionable toddlers??

Yes.. Your definition of inclusiveness is harmful..

What you propose is like giving active COVID virus to healthy toddlers..

It's utterly and completely moronic...

And YOU want to applaud Disney for being "inclusive" by catering to the .001 percent of the population, even though they are greatly harming 99.999 percent of the population.

Inclusiveness is NOT a medical condition, which further demonstrates how Republican’s hatred of education is harmful for everyone! “Do no harm” would prevent the imaginary injection from being given to the public.

But since there is no real reason to talk about this in imaginary terms, you still have failed to say how inclusiveness is VERY harmful to 99.999 percent of the population???

Fragile, little thin-skinned snowflakes! So afraid of everything that you don’t understand.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took substantial legal action to punish Disney for stepping into the state’s political arena by moving to dissolve Reedy Creek, a special district that’s given the company enormous self-governing powers for over half a century. But rather than put the dispute to bed, his decision opened up a Pandora's box of new problems for the state.

The law dissolving Reedy Creek does not include language to answer what will happen with that debt. It also doesn’t outline how Orange and Osceola counties, which Reedy Creek straddles, will take on the land’s maintenance once the district no longer exists to do so. Reedy Creek currently operates on an annual budget of over $150 million.

When we only knew that the two counties would have to absorb Disney’s (Reedy Creek’s) budget, it was projected that to cover the $150 million per year budget, property taxes in the two counties would have to be raised by 20% to 25%. But now the state will have to cover the over $1 billion in bond debts before it can close down Reedy Creek in 2023.

In one attempt to make Republicans think he was kicking liberal ass and taking names, DeSantis stuck Florida with the largest tax increase ever signed into law! WAY to GO! Guess ya’ll got WOKE’d UP!

Yes, I remember Richard Shindell ... you've hightlighted him before. Good stuff!

northbound 35

Oh, those Russians ...

Like An Animal

Okay! Now, THAT got me dancin' around the living room!!!

"this is absurd, i refuse to jungle boogie"

good selection!

@m,

hard science doesn't apply to gender; it's a sociological phenomenon and has been since the dawn of civilization, circa six thousand years ago.

however, even in terms of genetics and sex organs, more than one out of every hundred humans does not have a typical set of DNA and/or plumbing. to cite one of your favorite movie lines, did you actually WANT to talk about science, or were you just making chit-chat?

Have a great rest of the evening, everyone and stay safe!

I'll end my part of tonight's festivities with my new theme song ... not a cover, sorry.

Any Montrose fans out there this evening?

Parallel 49 - Rock Candy (Montrose cover)

kd lang - Crying (Roy Orbison cover)

Toque - Armageddon (PRiSM cover)

(I haven't forgotten about you, Caddy!)

Streetheart - Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones cover)

Is there anyone alive out there?

(1)A close-fitting knitted or crocheted cap having no brim or a brim that is folded up to create an extra layer of fabric for warmth for extra cold Canadian winters, and

(2)A rock band consisting of 4 brilliant Canadian musicians destined to celebrate the best in Canadian music.

It is the latter Toque that I'd like to celebrate here with a cover they did of an old Sheriff song that didn't become a hit for Sheriff until after that band had long disbanded, thanks to an American dj (out of Las Vegas, I think) who played it one day and got a ton of great feeback from his listeners and the rest, as they say, is history.

It's a great song sung beautifully by Sheriff lead vocalist Freddy Curci and, here, by Toque's Todd Kerns (Todd might actually hold that high note even longer than Freddy!!!!) ...

Toque - When I'm With You (Sheriff cover)

Their most recent release is a PRiSM tune written by Mr PRiSM himself, Al Harlow, featuring the majestic vocals of Rod Raslack (Georgia, US), the extraordinary musicianship of Chris Knowles (Thunder Bay, CA) and their wonderful bandmates on both sides of the best border in the world.

What makes this track extra special is that current PRiSM keyboardist, Marc Gladstone (also of Doug and the Slugs fame) plays on it! And, Marc's cousin, John Hall, was the original master of the keys for PRiSM during their heyday, the Ron Tabak Era (1977-1980).

Speaking of Ron Tabak, as Al tells it, this tune was Ron's favourite to sing.

As usual, Parallel 49 walk the fine line of being true to the original song while making it all their own ...

Parallel 49 - Take Me Away (PRiSM cover)

Ahem. So, thanks to Caddy for suggesting the theme for tonight - favourite covers of songs. Hopefully, we will get a huge turnout tonight so we can learn about some cover versions of songs we may never have heard of before. Sorry in advance if we've played some of these favourites before on some other Sunday night but, well, they are favourites, after all, so ...

Okay, first, I'd like to get to something I stumbled upon by sheer accident the other day and it made me laugh out loud. As a special dedication, I'd like to send this one out to our host here at CW.com and namesake for our Sunday Night shindigs, Chris Weigant, himself! I don't think I have ever thanked him for his grand indulgence in letting us really hang loose in this wonderful space, put on our dancin' shoes and kick up our heels. So, from one music lover to another, THANK-YOU CHRIS for letting us turn it up loud all these Sunday Nights!!! :-)

And, speaking of Kick, I think she'll like this one, too!

Bohemian Catsody

Freedom of speech is the ‘dread of tyrants’. That’s how Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist, statesman and former slave, put it in his seminal 1860 speech, ‘A Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston’ – taking aim at a racist mob who had shut down an abolitionist meeting and the authorities that had refused to protect it.

The battle lines in America’s free-speech wars are very different today, as of course are the stakes. ‘Slavery cannot tolerate free speech’, thundered Douglass. He saw open discussion as the means to liberation. Today, those who might consider themselves his heirs think you can censor your way to utopia. But one thing at least remains stubbornly the same: more than 160 years later, free speech still fills the American elites with dread.

What else could we conclude from the week-long meltdown over Elon Musk buying Twitter? The political and cultural elites have been gripped by panic. Human-rights groups are up in arms. Woke celebrities are threatening to flounce off the platform. All because Musk – a self-touting ‘free-speech absolutist’ – says he wants to pare back Twitter’s content-moderation policies, to ensure that Twitter functions as a freer ‘digital town square’.

Those who are so hysterically against Elon buying and running Twitter are those who are the biggest censor bullies in this country...

AKA The Democrat Party...

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has revealed how terrified the elites are of freedom of speech.https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/30/the-great-american-free-speech-panic/

Democrats are hysterically petrified with fear that they will no longer be able to censor and bully their critics into silence..

Democrats are hysterically petrified with fear that actual facts will get out into the wild that show their ideology is based solely on hatred and bigotry..

Democrats are finally being exposed for they hateful and bigoted liars that they are..

And I, for one, am ECSTATIC!! :D It's about frakin' time!!!!

Joe Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’

No, really.

A government agency creating a “ministry of truth” to combat what it deems misinformation? And it’s going to fall under the leadership of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas? The guy presiding over the worst border crisis of our lifetimes, who publicly denies it is a crisis at all, while privately admitting it is? Who better to give more

responsibility — in a democracy that largely rejects government intervention over free speech? What could possibly go wrong?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3472878-joe-bidens-ministry-of-truth/

Again, it's remarkable that Democrats seem to be going OUT OF THEIR WAY to create the impression that they are as Anti America as the FACTS indicate they are in order to lose in November of 2022...

CNN's Zurawik: Elon Musk Buying Twitter Is "Dangerous," We "Need Regulation" Of Social Media

"You need regulation. You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell. We are there. Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/05/01/cnns_zurawik_elon_musk_buying_twitter_is_dangeorus_we_need_regulation_of_social_media.html

When DEMOCRATS are in control of the Social Media, they are FINE with how things are going..

But when a Free Speech advocate gets control, an advocate who WON'T censor ideologically inconvenient FACTS, all of the sudden Democrats are HYSTERICALLY calling for more regulation and more control...

Hegemonic control of the narrative is so vital to Democrat Party power that losing even a small piece of their propaganda apparatus results in endless apocalyptic and hysterical rhetoric..

It's hilarious!!

This is fact that no amount of Democrat activism or wishful thinking will change..

The sooner Levine realizes that, the faster he will be on the road to mental recovery from his psychological abnormality..

'Gender-affirming care' includes irreversible surgery for adolescents on a 'case-by-case basis,' according to HHS
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rachel-levine-no-argument-pediatricians-gender-care-adolescents

It's simply IMPOSSIBLE to accept the words about REAL Science from a cross-dresser who doesn't even know what gender he is..

I mean, honestly...

Once again.. Proof positive that Democrat "science" is nothing but very poorly disguised Democrat activism..

Why is Canada euthanising the poor?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor-

Avalanche of leaks risks Jan. 6 committee delivering on blockbuster hearings

The source of the leaks has become the subject of Washington speculation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/avalanche-leaks-risks-jan-6-committee-delivering-blockbuster-hearings-rcna26549

It's going to be the Russia Collusion Delusion con all over again..

Hyped to unheard of heights and then...????

A Mueller-esque announcement, "Nope... Nothing to see here... Move along... "

:D

And once again, I will have the last laugh.. :D